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K-Tel Cafe

ketelstarflight.jpg
K-Tel's Starflight compilation, 1979

I've been noticing that a lot of the "Forgotten 80s" songs I want to put in the sidebar are akshually from 1979.

Here are some 1979 Mystery Clicks, with clues:

#1 Billboard song of 1979. Such a huge song it incurred a disco-like backlash. Here's them playing it live, maybe sometime in the early 90s? The vocals are ragged but they kill the guitar solos.

This Noted Queen had a lot of hits this year, but this location-based anthem about baking and meteorology is the oddest.

Sounds like Kansas but you're all wet, Mate, they're Australian! And singing about a loveless luckless man.

Speaking of Australians, this hot little blonde scored a hit in the US when she released this in 1979. (It was released in other countries in 1978.) Where, where did my innocence go?/How, how was a young girl to know?/I'm trapped, trapped in the spell of your eyes/In the warmth of your arms/In the web of your lies. It's only the chorus that is memorable but I can't give you those lyrics because they contain the song title. It's not "Physical", which was 1981. Sorry I don't really have good clue.

Another Australian band released this hard-driving rock hit: No stop sign, speed limit/nothin's gonna slow me down.

You get a shiver in the dark/It's raining in the park, but meantime/South of the river, you stop, and you hold everything/A band is blowing Dixie, double-four time. Actually released in 1978 but it stiffed, so they re-released it in 1979 and it became a hit. First time I ever heard of this band, which would become Medium-Level Iconic in the 80s.

Funky bunch that scored a few hits including You Sexy Thing but really rocked with this killer guitar-and-synth hook. Never could believe the things you do to me/Never could believe the way you are/Every day I bless the day that you got through to me/'Cause baby, I believe that you're a star

This loping ballad reaches the heavens with a wide specter of emotions. Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their shirts all soaked with sweat/He's ridin' hard to catch that herd, but he ain't caught 'em yet.

Disco was on its way out but that didn't stop this huge rock band, who are even huger money whores, from trying to score a hit with a disco-tempo love song. Or sex song, really. This song was written when the group's label wanted them to put out a "more commercial sound," and the band's lead singer said something like "It's so easy to write a disco hit, I bet I could write one in a day." He got together with a disco songwriter and wrote this in a single session.

A big British Invasion rock band got inspired by late-1978 science fantasy blockbuster and also decided to put out a disco song, which I'm pretty sure they instantly regretted. The song failed to soar in the skies like they'd hoped.

Another British prog rock band (I guess) that really centered the synthesizer also went full disco with this blazing single. Can you understand (yes, I understand)/
Can you feel it's right (I know it is)/Will you be the same (I'll do it all again)/
Hu, hu, hu-ha, hu-ha, hu-ha, hu-ha, hu.


Something must have been in the air, because this British prog/psychadelic rock band also gave the lead single for their massive concept album a disco beat and scored one of the biggest singles ever, and their only UK and US number one. All in all, the disco beat was a sound choice.

Country crossover smash that a lot of radio stations played without bleeping out the mid-level curse near the song's end. Maybe there was some special FCC rule that you're allowed to curse on the radio if the person you're cursing is Satan.

Sad song about love of a lost family member, released on the last studio album released before this mega arena rock band disbanded: The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again.

One of the biggest rock bands of the 70s that disintegrated on contact with the 80s. Kind of softdicked overall, but this song rebels from their usual style: Hangman is comin' down from the gallows.

Easy strummin', feel-good ballad about gang-r@pe and murder. And there were three of them. This song has been the subject of extensive analysis by Noted Experts.

This song was originally offered to Karen Carpenter, but she turned it down. A young Motown singer took it and turned it into a major hit, though he would have much bigger hits in a few years. Relax your mind/lay back and groove with mine.

Okay so this single was actually released in 1978, but the live version, from one of the world's only live albums that launched a band from nobodies into stars, is from 1979, so this counts: Father says, "Your mother's right/She's really up on things/Before we married, Mommy served/In the WACS in the Philippines".

This very soft rock song, sung by a female singer, was actually on the Starflight K-Tel compilation. I'd rather be a fool with a broken heart/Than someone who never had a part of you.

This song was also on the Starflight compilation: New York Paris London Munich.


Men are dumb:


Women are pretty stupid too:

Kids ain't no geniuses, either:

No but seriously men are stupidest:


Obligatory goat:


From SMH, but for Duncanthrax:

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Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at 07:20 PM




Comments

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1 I don't know anything anymore

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 07:22 PM (BXxcV)

2 Donna Summer had an amazing voice. Primo.

Posted by: Flyover at February 03, 2023 07:24 PM (Rbu5d)

3 Father says, "Your mother's right/She's really up on things/Before we married, Mommy served/In the WACS in the Philippines".

Mommy's all right
Daddy's all right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:24 PM (0hOvj)

4 The rat seems cool with the little girl, too. Its odd how animals are so gentle and patient with children, usually.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:25 PM (0hOvj)

5 Damn!
Mountain goat be fast!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 03, 2023 07:25 PM (anj39)

6 I'm having problems loading up the site.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 07:26 PM (NpAcC)

7 M m m Macarona!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 07:26 PM (FVME7)

8 Oh my! Memories. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:26 PM (mqu1M)

9 >>>6 I'm having problems loading up the site.

someone else was complaining. I'll ask pixy but I don't expect an answer.

Posted by: ace at February 03, 2023 07:27 PM (C1Zwz)

10
Everything on the internet is fake and gay.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at February 03, 2023 07:27 PM (W78CL)

11 You can talk about 1979 without mentioning the greatest moment of that year, Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park.
https://youtu.be/a1zN-oLCKo4

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:27 PM (xPl2J)

12 That album cover looks gay as heck.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 07:27 PM (Emu9a)

13 Evening.

Needs more metal.

Queensryche - Eyes Of A Stranger

https://youtu.be/MX-LXyIkcas

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 07:27 PM (2Gn42)

14 The men flirting with death video feels a lot like early silent comedies, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:27 PM (0hOvj)

15 Hot Chocolate's "Every 1’s A Winner" opening was used a lot, on the radio, I think, as bumper music. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:28 PM (mqu1M)

16 someone else was complaining. I'll ask pixy but I don't expect an answer.
Posted by: ace
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I love this post so much.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 07:28 PM (Emu9a)

17 Oh, god. Macarthur Park.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:28 PM (zZu0s)

18 Ghost rider in the sky.

I can't hold the note like Johnny.

Posted by: huerfano at February 03, 2023 07:29 PM (dTFZY)

19 You can talk about 1979 without mentioning the greatest moment of that year, Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park.

Best moment of the decade. Same owner gave away free beer and um, it didn't end well, He had the players wear shorts on a hot day too. And put a midget up at the plate to bat since his strike zone was like 6". He didn't get a lot of wins but it was fun stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:29 PM (0hOvj)

20 A Portland radio station replays a Casey Kasem's America's Top 40 show every Saturday. They are usually from the 70s.

The vast majority of the songs are dreck. The odd thing is I don't remember quite a few of the songs that made it to the top 10. Even some of the songs I liked back then seem to be awful now.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 03, 2023 07:29 PM (N52dd)

21 Queensryche - Promised Land

https://youtu.be/_4xLAeWBZtI

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 07:30 PM (2Gn42)

22 My mother as a kid used to have rats in a cage inside as pets. I don't see how it's all that much different from having gerbils. I can understand the parents being upset with the girl picking one up outside but it didn't seem threatened.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 07:30 PM (D+F6R)

23 but this song rebels from their usual style: Hangman is comin' down from the gallows.
Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy

Other than Cheap Trick, that's the only one I knew just from the text here.

Posted by: mikeski at February 03, 2023 07:30 PM (P1f+c)

24 I remember being very disappointed when Kiss released that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 07:30 PM (u73oe)

25 Oh, god. Macarthur Park.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:28 PM (zZu0s)

I grew up with Richard Harris' version, but the SCTV parody of that was even better. The backup singers sitting down for a relaxing 5 minutes during the musical interlude was hilarious.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 03, 2023 07:31 PM (eoQWY)

26 @2

>>Donna Summer had an amazing voice. Primo.

She was one tight, foxy cooz, that's for sure.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 03, 2023 07:31 PM (up/3i)

27 You get a shiver in the dark/It's raining in the park, but meantime/South of the river, you stop, and you hold everything/A band is blowing Dixie, double-four time.

-
The last two times I've gone to the grocery store, this song has played on the muzack now it show up here. Coincidence or conspiracy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 07:31 PM (FVME7)

28 I be pruod of myself and you shoulds too. I just gots my 5th COVID Booster today and I be knows it is woorking. I gots COVID only 3 times and it is becuase I be gots the boosters. What has you done to helps stop the COVID eperdemic ???

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 03, 2023 07:31 PM (IOY84)

29 Elon Musk @elonmusk · 54m
Thank goodness, the wisdom of the people has prevailed!

I am deeply appreciative of the jury’s unanimous finding of innocence in the Tesla 420 take-private case.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:31 PM (Vwz3I)

30 >>>This song was written when the group's label wanted them to put out a "more commercial sound," and the band's lead singer said something like "It's so easy to write a disco hit, I bet I could write one in a day." He got together with a disco songwriter and wrote this in a single session.

Link is incomplete.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (gv7Yb)

31 Lamont!
It is so good to see you!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (4jROe)

32 Everything with the site seems fine on the laptop. My home PC too the last couple of days.


I sometimes wonder if people say they have problems just to fuck with ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (zZu0s)

33 1979 was the last time the Pittsburgh Pirates won a World Series. They'll never win another. Doomed they are.

https://youtu.be/N_hIIfm2OI4

https://youtu.be/1tK_9gHVlU4
Sorry Orioles fans. Probably should not click link.

https://youtu.be/CcLlGdr6V7Y
KDKA's reaction after the Pirates won the WS. (1979 era commercials too.)

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (sAmhv)

34 Something too late for the Gainzzz, and not me personally. But this past month, I've seen two restaurants open in our town. There had been one opening, and many closings over previous three years.

Hopeful sign? This is in NC.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (TgBWG)

35 My mother as a kid used to have rats in a cage

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 07:30 PM (D+F6R)

Despite all her rage?

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (BXxcV)

36 This very soft rock song, sung by a female singer, was actually on the Starflight K-Tel compilation. I'd rather be a fool with a broken heart/Than someone who never had a part of you.
___

Maxine Nightingale's Lead Me On.

Mom played that often.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (yRnl6)

37 At the time my objection to Disco was cultural. In retrospect the Disco that stayed close to the Gamble-Huff Philly sound can be good (Evelyn King's Shame).

Drum machines were a Disco evil. And some mixes were only made for cociane dancing.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (SJsWC)

38
Sad song about love of a lost family member, released on the last studio album released before this mega arena rock band disbanded: The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again.

Link goes to AC/DC Highway to Hell

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2023 07:34 PM (63Dwl)

39 The National League had co-MVP's in 1979, Willie Stargell and Kieth Hernandez.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:34 PM (xPl2J)

40 At one time ebonics would get ace quite peeved. Not really sure that has changed.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 07:34 PM (BXxcV)

41 40 At one time ebonics would get ace quite peeved. Not really sure that has changed.
Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 07:34 PM (BXxcV)

Lamont is one cool cat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

42 Weird Al - Jurassic Park

https://youtu.be/4QDHcDtMp5w

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 07:35 PM (iua15)

43 >>someone else was complaining. I'll ask pixy but I don't expect an answer.

Huh, imagine that. Emails that go unanswered.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 07:35 PM (ZLI7S)

44 why men live less video-
Male side boob wow


s/

Posted by: Johnny Paycheck at February 03, 2023 07:35 PM (M3hSG)

45 1979 is the year the Clash released London Calling.

Everything else can piss off. Including you Declan, you pretentious little wanker.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 07:35 PM (QBaJw)

46 i fixed the "disco rock song" second link

Posted by: ace at February 03, 2023 07:36 PM (C1Zwz)

47 Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (zZu0s

I'm sure Ace must be a delightful person to fuck with, but I am really am having problems loading up this site on my I-phone in this thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 07:36 PM (D+F6R)

48 Disco was on its way out but that didn't stop this huge rock band, who are even huger money whores, from trying to score a hit with a disco-tempo love song.

-
Could've sworn you were talking about this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hic-dnps6MU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 07:36 PM (FVME7)

49 Declan is one of those names that you would get really tired of. Parents. The Kid. Yep.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:36 PM (zZu0s)

50 >>>Sad song about love of a lost family member, released on the last studio album released before this mega arena rock band disbanded: The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again.

Link goes to AC/DC's Highway to Hell.

I gotta challenge you on that one.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (gv7Yb)

51 I'm sure Ace must be a delightful person to fuck with, but I am really am having problems loading up this site on my I-phone in this thread.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 07:36 PM (D+F6R)

It is kind of fun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (zZu0s)

52 19 Best moment of the decade. Same owner gave away free beer and um, it didn't end well, He had the players wear shorts on a hot day too. And put a midget up at the plate to bat since his strike zone was like 6". He didn't get a lot of wins but it was fun stuff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:29 PM (0hOvj)

His son, who was largely responsible for the event, got banned from the big leagues and wound up running the St. Paul Saints. They're famous for doing silly stuff, and Bill Murray is a part owner. Apparently they joined the dark side and got a minor-league affiliation at some point but when I lived there they were independent and could do basically whatever they wanted to so long as the bills got paid.

Posted by: CppThis at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (PZvjL)

53 someone else was complaining. I'll ask pixy but I don't expect an answer.
Posted by: ace

It's usually one of the ad scripts messing with things, which is why it's intermittent and tough to debug.

The only other thing I've noticed that's "new" here over the last couple days were the Instagram embeds. Pixy has said the site loads everything, even the "below the fold" parts of posts, when you hit the front page.

So it's probably one or the other. I'd guess it's the ad server.

Posted by: mikeski at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (P1f+c)

54 Dire Straits, The Cars, Molly Hatchet, Prince, Devo, Van Halen, and Toto all had debut albums in 1978. Its one of the best years in rock of all time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (0hOvj)

55
but the SCTV parody of that was even better.

A man called Horace?

Posted by: Mel Slirrup at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (63Dwl)

56
Site is running fine. It's your device.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (W78CL)

57 The site is jumping around when trying to reload the comments like it has St. Vitus' Dance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (D+F6R)

58 I am disappointed with you Mary. You need some more boosters so Dr. Fauci will be proud of you. Het your fat ass in gear babes.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 03, 2023 07:38 PM (+ml0G)

59 Styx!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:38 PM (zZu0s)

60 Link goes to AC/DC's Highway to Hell.

Supposed to be All Of My Love, one of my favorite Zep songs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:38 PM (0hOvj)

61 Who recorded MacArthur Park first and had a bigger hit?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 07:38 PM (ZLI7S)

62 1979 was the first year of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:39 PM (xPl2J)

63 One of the biggest rock bands of the 70s that disintegrated on contact with the 80s. Kind of softdicked overall, but this song rebels from their usual style:
--------

Ooh, don't let Weasel see you dissing Styx.

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:39 PM (pTb/Z)

64 I love this thread

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:39 PM (xcxpd)

65 ace, I'll bet you can catch Pixy
in the tech thread on your site about 4:00 am.EST


Posted by: Ben Had at February 03, 2023 07:40 PM (Zdz79)

66 @48

The Stones were hanging in NYC a lot in 77/78, which had a dynamic music scene. There was disco, punk. Hip hop rap started at parties on Sedgwick Ave in The Bronx.

The Stones put this in a blender and we got Some Girls (the title track is a hoot), their last great album.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 07:41 PM (SJsWC)

67 1979 was the last time the Pittsburgh Pirates won a World Series.

They came really close in the late 80s and early 90s, but the Braves won out. Damn good team with Bonds and Bonilla.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:41 PM (0hOvj)

68 Dire Straits has become one of my favorite bands for musicianship.

I 'heard' Sultans of Swing so often in the 80's that I didn't really 'listen' to it. When I did, as an old, I was awestruck. It's an amazing, amazing song that happens to be or was overplayed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (xcxpd)

69 Disco…It was 79, not 78, but we cannot forget that classic 🎶🎶🎵🎵 You can ring my bellllllllllllellllelll, you can ring my bell! 🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵

Oh my word,how was that even listened to?

Posted by: Piper at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

70 Lamont? More like Lancelot Link!

Some great old songs in them thar links.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (MusmU)

71 Skyrockets in flight, afternoon delight

That's probably from around 1973

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (xhxe8)

72 Declan is one of those names that you would get really tired of. Parents. The Kid. Yep.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:36 PM (zZu0s)

Best story ever is the time Bonnie Raitt kicked his arse, because he said something pretentious and wankerish to her.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (QBaJw)

73 I love Styx but Mr Roboto was a pretty lame failure with a couple okay songs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (0hOvj)

74 >>Easy strummin', feel-good ballad about gang-r@pe and murder. And there were three of them. This song has been the subject of extensive analysis by noted experts. . .

Oh yeah, Kenny Rogers could record any song and it would be #1.
A similar song - Hoodoo Gurus "Hayride to Hell"

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (mqu1M)

75 Reliving childhood memories with these songs.

BTW, am I the only one relieved to find that the queen referenced is actually a woman?

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:43 PM (KrLd+)

76 but the SCTV parody of that was even better.

A man called Horace?
Posted by: Mel Slirrup at February 03, 2023 07:37 PM (63Dwl)

He did blast out that name, but the parody was on Mel's Rock Pile.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 03, 2023 07:43 PM (eoQWY)

77
Link goes to AC/DC's Highway to Hell with Chrome.
With Firefox it goes to the correct link.
My Chrome has played tricks before.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2023 07:43 PM (63Dwl)

78 Lenny Zakatek FTW!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2023 07:43 PM (R/m4+)

79 >>You can ring my bellllllllllllellllelll, you can ring my bell!


That song was THE WORST

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:43 PM (mqu1M)

80 ELO was best ELO when they had live strings in their songs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (xcxpd)

81 Damn. I must have posted on an old thread without realizing it.
My Starlink IP is banned.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (KrLd+)

82 MacArthur Park is an excellent song verified by the number of times it was covered and by artists of many disparate styles.

I can't stand it.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (2r3kq)

83 How men flirting with death!

-
That's another few the Great Leslie can try!

- Professor Fate

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (FVME7)

84 It's an amazing, amazing song that happens to be or was overplayed.

Dire Straits is just absolutely one of my favorite bands, so much talent. Knopfler is one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

Journey did that to me. The radio stations played it way way too much and I was just sick of them but now I am in deep respect for the band. Huge talent, amazing singer, great songs.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (0hOvj)

85 I can tell 1979 and 80 music well I think as was in England those years. But some songs were there before here.

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (xhxe8)

86 Who recorded MacArthur Park first and had a bigger hit?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 07:38 PM (ZLI7S)

Harris' was in 1968.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (eoQWY)

87 I bought, like ELO's first 7 albums and took them on my last Montana road trip. In the end...they're a very silly band with a few monster singles that shall ride forever, shiny and chrome.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:45 PM (xcxpd)

88 Google evidently has an AC/DC preference.

Typical.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:45 PM (zZu0s)

89 Richard Harris had an improbable #1 hit with MacArthur Park.

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

Tonight Show version with the composer Jimmy Webb led by Will Lee.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 07:45 PM (SJsWC)

90 https://youtu.be/dRU1SyxtFjI

Michael Stanley Band in 1979.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 03, 2023 07:45 PM (sAmhv)

91 1979 was the first year of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:39 PM (xPl2J)

Diamondhead - Am I Evil?

https://youtu.be/WlfS-oakUxM

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 07:45 PM (7KRpx)

92 That song was THE WORST
Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:43 PM (mqu1M)
---------

Oh boy, am I finally out of last place?

Posted by: Muskrat Love at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (pTb/Z)

93 Dire Straits has become one of my favorite bands for musicianship.

I 'heard' Sultans of Swing so often in the 80's that I didn't really 'listen' to it. When I did, as an old, I was awestruck. It's an amazing, amazing song that happens to be or was overplayed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:42 PM (xcxpd)

Agreed. That song is tight.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (AiZBA)

94 Best video of the disco hit, Staying Alive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ar3wkC8U6LA

Posted by: Beartooth at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (N52dd)

95 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 2h
Biden Announces U.S. Surrender To Chinese Balloon

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (Vwz3I)

96 they're a very silly band with a few monster singles that shall ride forever, shiny and chrome.

They got way disco for a little while but yeah their best of double disc is full of amazing stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (0hOvj)

97 Fenelon- my iPad was doing that with a lot of sites, I did the update and it fixed it. No issues at all any more.

Posted by: Piper at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (ZdaMQ)

98 You know one day ace is going to do Toto's Africa.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

99 >>Damn. I must have posted on an old thread without realizing it.
My Starlink IP is banned.


Good luck getting unbanned
It took months for me

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (mqu1M)

100 1979 was the first year of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:39 PM (xPl2J)


yes it was.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (VwHCD)

101
1979 was my first year in grad school, taking courses that I hoped to pass. It basically sucked big time.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 03, 2023 07:47 PM (MoZTd)

102 Led Zeppelin was way overrated. There, I said it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 07:47 PM (u73oe)

103 I bought, like ELO's first 7 albums and took them on my last Montana road trip. In the end...they're a very silly band with a few monster singles that shall ride forever, shiny and chrome.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:45 PM (xcxpd)

I had no special animus with ELO though they weren't my favorite, but then in college I went to a concert of theirs and they played a medley - all medleys. Like cutting up the songs and playing about a quarter of each one. I was so mad.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 03, 2023 07:47 PM (eoQWY)

104 >>Oh boy, am I finally out of last place?
Posted by: Muskrat Love


Definitely

Posted by: 4 non-blonds at February 03, 2023 07:48 PM (mqu1M)

105 #99
Lizzy, don't tell me the truth.
Lie to me, darn it.
It's Friday!

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:48 PM (KrLd+)

106 Led Zeppelin was way overrated. There, I said it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 07:47 PM (u73oe)

Overrated and over played. Except for "When The Levee Breaks".

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 03, 2023 07:48 PM (AiZBA)

107 98 maybe a compare and contrast with Weezers!

Posted by: Piper at February 03, 2023 07:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

108 You know one day ace is going to do Toto's Africa.

I bless the rains

Led Zeppelin was way overrated.

Maybe a little bit. They were godawful live, but the albums were great even if the boys were, um, forgetful about who originally wrote and sang the songs they covered.

Zep was way over played too and it is easy to get sick of them but they put out some really great stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (0hOvj)

109
1979 was the last season of Eugene Ormandy's tenure as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which stretched back to 1936.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (MoZTd)

110 You know one day ace is going to do Toto's Africa.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (zZu0s)


Shoot me now.

That is #1 on my overplayed list. Driving to and from college with just AM radio it was on every 5 minutes the whole way.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (eoQWY)

111 https://youtu.be/UhuVwVpr3WY

Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights

Ok, came out in 1978 but got a ton of airplay for the next 2-3 decades. 'Stranger in Town' was a great album.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (sAmhv)

112 Some Moron posted the following earlier today. It is the worst so g ever and has been firmly stuck in my head since:

Up, up and awayyyy
in my beautiful balloon

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (MusmU)

113 Collin Rugg @CollinRugg · 6h
BREAKING: Joe Biden takes out $250k line of credit against home in the midst of the Hunter and classified doc scandals.

Looks like someone is getting worried.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (Vwz3I)

114 111 https://youtu.be/UhuVwVpr3WY

Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights

Ok, came out in 1978 but got a ton of airplay for the next 2-3 decades. 'Stranger in Town' was a great album.
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (sAmhv)

Endorsed. Almost everything Bob did was good rock n roll.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (xcxpd)

115 You know one day ace is going to do Toto's Africa.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (zZu0s)
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Millennials love that song. And Zoomers like disco, at least skateboarders do. I'll hear Disco music coming from my son's phone and he'll be watching a skating video. Kind of fun.

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:50 PM (pTb/Z)

116 Put that radio on CMS !

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at February 03, 2023 07:50 PM (9X60i)

117 102 Led Zeppelin was way overrated. There, I said it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 07:47 PM (u73oe)

Eh, probably true, but they did have some great ones. The REALLY overplayed ones. Immigrant Song. Black Dog.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

118 >>Lie to me, darn it.
It's Friday!

Ugh, sorry. Probably easier to fix it on your end with a new IP address?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:50 PM (mqu1M)

119 Damn. I must have posted on an old thread without realizing it.
My Starlink IP is banned.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM (KrLd+)

Speaking of old threads, I tried going back to Dec 2020/Jan 2021, to find the name of the poster who said she was going to the Jan 6 romp.

Can't access the comments. It just won't load.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 07:50 PM (QBaJw)

120 Where, where did my innocence go?/How, how was a young girl to know?/I'm trapped, trapped in the spell of your eyes/In the warmth of your arms/In the web of your lies.

You have just described my Junior year of high school.
But I was not the girl
And I may have had my way with a few gals
I would prolly be in jail today

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (BRHaw)

121 Disco is the work of Satan.
Disco is evil.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (KrLd+)

122 Introduces myself to Piper. My lousy connectivity keeps me from speaking to you.
.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (Zdz79)

123 "How men flirting with death" vs "Women"....lol

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (OX9vb)

124 Lamont, since you're subbing for Ace as the Café Maitre d, do you think you could drop in a little content for the many dedicated chiroptophiles that patronize le Café?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (a3Q+t)

125 102 Led Zeppelin was way overrated. There, I said it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 07:47 PM (u73oe)

I guess it depends on the rating. I'd put them in the, oh, top 3 bands of all time. Dunno who wins between them, The Who and The Rolling Stones for biggest and best.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (xcxpd)

126 Led Zeppelin was way overrated. There, I said it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 07:47 PM (u73oe)

Concur. Most of the folks who loved them were high all the time so what ya gonna do?

Other than "Immigrant Song" they sucked the old donkey member.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (R/m4+)

127 Speaking of old threads, I tried going back to Dec 2020/Jan 2021, to find the name of the poster who said she was going to the Jan 6 romp.

Can't access the comments. It just won't load.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 07:50 PM (QBaJw)

I wonder if the cobs are looking out for people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (zZu0s)

128 Bob Seger put out like 57 amazingly great songs then.... nothing. Like he ran out of ideas or got sick of it or something. I mean he's still putting out albums but they don't have that something he had in his prime.

But when he was in that groove, he could do no wrong, just solid rock.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:52 PM (0hOvj)

129 >>BREAKING: Joe Biden takes out $250k line of credit against home in the midst of the Hunter and classified doc scandals.


Geez. Someone at work today was speculating that Biden would be selling out (more) to China to get money to defend Hunter - him doing nothing about that d@mn balloon was China rubbing his nose in it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:52 PM (mqu1M)

130 OMG baby girl has picked up a rat and she seems fond of it!

Golden Teddy Bear Hamsters

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 07:52 PM (BRHaw)

131 I got this one for Christmas that one year:

preview.tinyurl.com/bdf8ayd7

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 07:52 PM (o0Fxd)

132 Disco is the work of Satan.
Disco is evil.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (KrLd+)

Counterpoint...

https://youtu.be/JJzp1jx9WRk

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 03, 2023 07:53 PM (wmDcS)

133 I would expect that we got a bit spicy election night 2020 and on J5/6.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:53 PM (zZu0s)

134 I'd put them in the, oh, top 3 bands of all time. Dunno who wins between them, The Who and The Rolling Stones for biggest and best.

Maybe the Kinks, although they didn't have the longevity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:53 PM (0hOvj)

135 J Geils Band - Where Did Our Love Go

Paris 1979

https://tinyurl.com/2ehftyj4

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 07:53 PM (ZLI7S)

136 No London Boys?

Clearly this isn't ace.

Posted by: McLurkerson at February 03, 2023 07:53 PM (wNDOJ)

137 I wonder if the cobs are looking out for people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:51 PM (zZu0s)
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Aw, your faith in them is touching. As far as I know KT is the only one who closes comments on old threads.

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:53 PM (pTb/Z)

138 #118
Lizzy, I just switched to my Verizon internet and it worked.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (KrLd+)

139 128 Bob Seger put out like 57 amazingly great songs then.... nothing. Like he ran out of ideas or got sick of it or something. I mean he's still putting out albums but they don't have that something he had in his prime.

But when he was in that groove, he could do no wrong, just solid rock.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:52 PM (0hOvj)

Wolke last night to the sound of thunder

Moving 8 miles a minute for months at a time

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (BRHaw)

140 Brothers in Arms is a excellent album

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (xhxe8)

141 Aw, your faith in them is touching. As far as I know KT is the only one who closes comments on old threads.
Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:53 PM (pTb/Z)

They may also be protecting themselves and ace. We have all gotten spicy over the last 4-5 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (zZu0s)

142 Seem to recall this was popular... once upon a time.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9y6e3p

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (Q4IgG)

143 >>I just switched to my Verizon internet and it worked.


Oh good!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (mqu1M)

144 Despite all her rage?
Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 07:32 PM (BXxcV)

LOL I'm willing to bet Fen doesn't listen to that genre.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 03, 2023 07:55 PM (OX9vb)

145 Up, up and awayyyy
in my beautiful balloon
Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 07:49 PM (MusmU)

—————

I hate you

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 07:55 PM (u73oe)

146 Also *golfclap* for the sarcasm, Bluebell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:55 PM (zZu0s)

147 But when he was in that groove, he could do no wrong, just solid rock.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I guess you'll have to take those old records off the shelf.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 07:55 PM (FVME7)

148 Something just exploded in the sky over Billings, Montana according to Jesse Watters.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (NpAcC)

149 140 Brothers in Arms is a excellent album
Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (xhxe

Telegraph Road

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (BRHaw)

150 They may also be protecting themselves and ace. We have all gotten spicy over the last 4-5 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (zZu0s)
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Speak for yourself, buster!!!

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (pTb/Z)

151 "The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again."

Bad link.

Posted by: aelfheld at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (Zy9Yy)

152 148 Something just exploded in the sky over Billings, Montana according to Jesse Watters.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (NpAcC)

I thought the balloon was over missouri?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

153 If you don't like "Magic" or looking at ONJ this is not for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6FBpTnxFM

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (2r3kq)

154 LMAO at the vac flamethrower

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (/6GbT)

155 Van Morrison - Bright Side of the Road

https://youtu.be/pN06X_IEIVA

His album 'Into the Music' came out in 1979

And with that, off to bed. 12 hour days are long and tiring. Got another one tomorrow. I'll be back around 0300.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (sAmhv)

156 Speak for yourself, buster!!!
Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (pTb/Z)

You just hide the bodies well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

157 Something just exploded in the sky over Billings, Montana according to Jesse Watters.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (NpAcC)

The balloon shot down our fighters?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (eoQWY)

158 Another Chinese spy balloon is passing through South America.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 07:57 PM (NpAcC)

159 Like Seger but hated Turn the Page.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2023 07:57 PM (63Dwl)

160 Seem to recall this was popular... once upon a time.

Foghat is in my hall of fame Rock Band collection, just great stuff. That slide guitar!

https://youtu.be/Xwy4FQRRh2w

He loves another woman, and I love you
But you love him and stick to him like glue
When things go wrong, go wrong with you
It hurts me too

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:57 PM (0hOvj)

161
Something just exploded in the sky over Billings, Montana according to Jesse Watters.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (NpAcC)

I thought the balloon was over missouri?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

___________

Missed by thaaaaat much.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 03, 2023 07:57 PM (MoZTd)

162 Night Puddleglum.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

163 You just hide the bodies well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
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Be that as it may, at least I'm usually polite.

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:57 PM (pTb/Z)

164 The balloon shot down our fighters?
Posted by: Oldcat at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (eoQWY)
******
Waiting for updates.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (NpAcC)

165 I loved the K-Tel ads. They were always so excited about the music.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (EXyHK)

166 Tunnel Of Love rules all Dire Straits songs.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (xPl2J)

167 One guy can't get pants on fire off fast enough, other with gas can runs into house

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (xhxe8)

168 The last two times I've gone to the grocery store, this song has played on the muzack now it show up here. Coincidence or conspiracy?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 07:31 PM (FVME7)

Short loop

Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (xhaym)

169 Tsk, tsk, tsk. If you want to see Dire Straits play Sultans of Swing, the version you want is 10 minutes long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY

Posted by: deadrody at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (/jrmI)

170 #132
Colorado Alex, that is absolutely proof.
Trying to seduce men (and some women) over to the dark side with a beautiful woman.

Besides, being lord of the dark realm (next door to Hades) I can assure you, he invented Disco.
He uses it to torture his inmates.
Sounds good you say?
Not at 200 decibels it doesn't.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 07:59 PM (KrLd+)

171 ABBA?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 03, 2023 07:59 PM (BtmcP)

172 Like Seger but hated Turn the Page.

Overplayed, yeah. Like Jackson Brown's The Loadout/Stay. Some of those songs they must have worn out the grooves on the record. Not real fond of Old Time Rock and Roll for that reason as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 07:59 PM (0hOvj)

173 79 was the Long Run

1. "Heartache Tonight"
HenleyFreyBob SegerJ.D. Souther
Frey 4:27
2. "Those Shoes"
HenleyFreyFelder
Henley 4:57
3. "Teenage Jail"
HenleyFreySouther
Henley and Frey 3:44
4. "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"
HenleyFrey
Henley 2:21
5. "The Sad Café"
HenleyFreyWalshSouther
Henley 5:35

We say say right out loud the things we could not say

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 07:59 PM (BRHaw)

174 I loved the K-Tel ads. They were always so excited about the music.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (EXyHK)
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Even now, if I hear a song that was in one of those ads, I'll immediately think of the next song clip from that ad. And the next.

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:59 PM (pTb/Z)

175 171 ABBA?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 03, 2023 07:59 PM (BtmcP)

Are we talking Fernando or Dancing Queen or Waterloo?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:59 PM (zZu0s)

176 I thought the balloon was over missouri?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
*****
Could be related or not. Very suspicious.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (NpAcC)

177 1979, sophomore year in college. These songs are the soundtrack to my life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (YHZy+)

178 Tunnel Of Love rules all Dire Straits songs.

Private Investigations, Telegraph Road, Romeo and Juliet as well. All of the first two albums, really.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (0hOvj)

179 Sounds like Kansas but you're all wet, Mate, they're Australian! And singing about a loveless luckless man.

-------

My personal high school anthem.

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (ZDsBk)

180 Brothers in Arms is a excellent album

There is not a bad song on that album.

So Far Away
Money For Nothing
Walk of Life
Your Latest Trick
Why Worry
Ride Across the River
The Man’s Too Strong
One World
Brothers in Arms

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (EXyHK)

181 166 Tunnel Of Love rules all Dire Straits songs.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (xPl2J)

I want my MTV

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (BRHaw)

182 I had that Starflight record. Am I old?

Posted by: Greybeard Represent at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (jgRaQ)

183
One guy can't get pants on fire off fast enough

Liar liar

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2023 08:01 PM (63Dwl)

184 Chinese spy balloons: The river shark spottings of 2023.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 08:01 PM (QBaJw)

185 166 Tunnel Of Love rules all Dire Straits songs.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 07:58 PM (xPl2J)

Bruce Springsteen fan, eh

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 08:01 PM (xcxpd)

186 I had that Starflight record. Am I old?
Posted by: Greybeard Represent at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM (jgRaQ)
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Of course not. You're 29, same as the rest of us.

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (pTb/Z)

187 i added some bat content

Posted by: ace at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (C1Zwz)

188 There is not a bad song on that album.

Money for Nothing and the Walk of Life are a bit too poppy for me. But they are good. Knopfler's solo stuff is great too, not quite as good as the Dire Straits stuff but good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (0hOvj)

189 Endorsed. Almost everything Bob did was good rock n roll.

Till it shines. 1978 but still.

https://tinyurl.com/2x4stk2z

Bob became a big boat sailboat racer and a pretty successful one. That's how you know he was a good guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (ZLI7S)

190 Jan 1979
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Barbra Streisand

fuck me running

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (BRHaw)

191 I thought Lamont had retired.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (eGTCV)

192 190 Jan 1979
Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Barbra Streisand

fuck me running
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (BRHaw)

She would if you were hung like a horse.

Allegedly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 08:03 PM (zZu0s)

193 Bat butt cheeks....I take back my love for this thread.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 08:03 PM (xcxpd)

194 79

MJ Off The Wall

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:04 PM (BRHaw)

195 I actually did like the Springsteen Tunnel of Love album. He has some good stuff even if he's an ass personally.

Not sure about bat butt content, though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:04 PM (0hOvj)

196 "29, same as the rest of us"
Ok. Whew, thanks!

Posted by: Greybeard Represent at February 03, 2023 08:04 PM (jgRaQ)

197 I didn't like 70's music when I went through it in real time.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 03, 2023 08:04 PM (rzqeS)

198 Blue Oyster Cult released their 2nd live album in 1978. Great cover of We Gotta Get Outta This Place. Also contains what is considered their best performance of Astronomy.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 03, 2023 08:04 PM (KAi1n)

199 193 Bat butt cheeks....I take back my love for this thread.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 03, 2023 08:03 PM (xcxpd)

ace throws a Rod from God to hit one commenter. I think you got him, Tex.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

200 Money for Nothing and the Walk of Life are a bit too poppy for me. But they are good. Knopfler's solo stuff is great too, not quite as good as the Dire Straits stuff but good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (0hOvj)

MFN is the greatest rock n roll anthem about rock n rock EVA

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:05 PM (BRHaw)

201 I dunno, the three blindfolded women knocking themselves with that frying pan was pretty funny.


[bonk] Ow!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2023 08:06 PM (xhaym)

202 I go to a swing dance most Saturday nights, and a couple weeks ago I requested that the guy who runs it play Bob Seger's live version of "Get out of Denver." The crowd at the dance is mostly HS and college kids, and they had never heard the guy, but they loved the song.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 03, 2023 08:06 PM (wmDcS)

203 In Boy Scouts, either for First Class or Swimming Merit Badge (I can't remember which), you had to be able to get your clothes off (except for shorts/swim suit) and in the water in under 30 seconds, as a prelude to rescuing someone.

At the time, I had no idea how useful this skill would be later in life.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:06 PM (a3Q+t)

204 Money for Nothing and the Walk of Life are a bit too poppy for me.

I like most of their stuff, but I do really like the poppy stuff, too. Just about everything on Communiqué could probably be called that. Portobello Belle, Angel of Mercy, Lady Writer. That album may be my favorite if a band like Dire Straits can have a single album as a favorite.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 08:07 PM (EXyHK)

205 Breakfast In America and Candy-o both came out in 1979, great stuff. Joe Jackson is thought of as an 80s guy but Look Sharp came out in 79 as well. And Tusk by Fleetwood Mac is my second favorite album by them. I have to repost this, the live version with the marching band from USC:

https://youtu.be/NKCucBUWx5o

That drum line Mick lays down is unmistakable

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:07 PM (0hOvj)

206 Daily Mail has the explosion over Billings. Video of something smoking falling. Voice over said they heard jets then the explosion and smoking debris

Posted by: Beartooth at February 03, 2023 08:07 PM (N52dd)

207 It's not "Physical", which was 1981.

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I only know this because my best friends from high school (in Las Vegas) were Mormons, but one of them who I played football with was attending BYU in '81 informed me that Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" had been banned by several radio stations in Utah.

The suggestive line that apparently did it was "There's nothin' left to talk about / Unless it's horizontally."

Best part? My friend jokingly yells: "Hey, I thought it was a song about football!"

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:07 PM (ZDsBk)

208 youtu.be/u_HH_jher3c

Can't hear this without visualizing that one movie scene LOL

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 08:08 PM (o0Fxd)

209 you had to be able to get your clothes off (except for shorts/swim suit) and in the water in under 30 seconds, as a prelude to rescuing someone.

At the time, I had no idea how useful this skill would be later in life.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:06 PM (a3Q+t)

Ah yes, I remember my wedding night.....

Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 08:08 PM (QBaJw)

210 I didn't like 70's music when I went through it in real time.
Posted by: Muad'dib at February 03, 2023 08:04 PM (rzqeS)
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Except Dan Fogelberg.

Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 08:08 PM (pTb/Z)

211 BATS!!! WE HAVE BATS!!!! O FRABJOUS DAY!!!

Lamont really does love us!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:08 PM (a3Q+t)

212 LOL ace!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 08:09 PM (yRnl6)

213 Since 79 is the year I (possibly) graduated H.S., I could guess most of these without looking at the link.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 03, 2023 08:09 PM (fv27Y)

214
I dunno, the three blindfolded women knocking themselves with that frying pan was pretty funny.

[bonk] Ow!
Posted by: Kindltot

You'd expect that kind of thing from men.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2023 08:10 PM (63Dwl)

215 And of course, The Wall came out, one of Pink Floyd's best. And Armed Forces from Elvis Costello, back when he could not be beat. B-52s put out their first album and Talking Heads put out Fear of Music. Damn the Torpedos with Tom Petty came out as well, one of his best

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:10 PM (0hOvj)

216 I thought the balloon was over missouri?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
*****
Could be related or not. Very suspicious.
Posted by: redridinghood

I'm not saying it's aliens but . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 03, 2023 08:10 PM (FVME7)

217 Wolke last night to the sound of thunder

Moving 8 miles a minute for months at a time

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 07:54 PM (BRHaw)

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I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:10 PM (Z7NJq)

218 How ABBA gets their sound
https://tinyurl.com/2p83nszj

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:10 PM (KrLd+)

219 Sorry, ace, I thought Lamont added the bat content.

To be honest, I like you way more than that Lamont fellow. Thank you for the bat content!!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:11 PM (a3Q+t)

220 You know one day ace is going to do Toto's Africa.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

Https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw

Obligatory.

Leo Morracchioli.

Hannah chick is cute.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 03, 2023 08:11 PM (ufFY8)

221 The Backstreet Boys were originally The Bat Butt Boys...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at February 03, 2023 08:11 PM (Q7oqN)

222 dude, I'll stitch a bitch at the gym if she's around the weights in her undies.

That's zoomer cool slang, right?

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 03, 2023 08:11 PM (MLrvz)

223 Except Dan Fogelberg.
Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 08:08 PM (pTb/Z)

Back in my sensitive years, I used to think he was great. Now I can't remember anything he did other than that stupid New Years Eve song.

I hate that stupid New Years Eve song.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 08:12 PM (QBaJw)

224 Here's a weird thing: continuous AI generated Seinfeld

https://amz.run/6Mbl

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 03, 2023 08:12 PM (yQpMk)

225 Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street

12/26/79

https://tinyurl.com/4fac3ych

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:12 PM (ZLI7S)

226 So Far Away
Money For Nothing
Walk of Life
Your Latest Trick
Why Worry
Ride Across the River
The Man’s Too Strong
One World
Brothers in Arms
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM

Brothers in Arms ftw!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 03, 2023 08:12 PM (Wnv9h)

227 In Boy Scouts, either for First Class or Swimming Merit Badge (I can't remember which), you had to be able to get your clothes off (except for shorts/swim suit) and in the water in under 30 seconds, as a prelude to rescuing someone.

At the time, I had no idea how useful this skill would be later in life.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:06 PM (a3Q+t)

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If only there was a One-Handed Bra Clasp Merit Badge, I could have shaved several seconds off my times ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:13 PM (ZDsBk)

228 Here's the Daily Mail story about the "aircraft explosion" thing.

https://tinyurl.com/myfp34nm

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 08:13 PM (Nxkcl)

229 156 Speak for yourself, buster!!!
Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (pTb/Z)

You just hide the bodies well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

I suspect a bit of "Sweeny Todd cooking" from the Deplorable Gourmet

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 03, 2023 08:13 PM (CCSxw)

230 You know one day ace is going to do Toto's Africa.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 03, 2023 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

Https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw

Obligatory.

Leo Morracchioli.

Hannah chick is cute.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 03, 2023 08:11 PM (ufFY

That's badass.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 03, 2023 08:14 PM (yQpMk)

231 Holy bat butt cheeks Batman!

Posted by: Robinx at February 03, 2023 08:14 PM (iayUP)

232 You'd expect that kind of thing from men.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2023 08:10 PM (63Dwl)


Nah. If it were men, there would be higher speed, and fire, and possibly, internal combustion engines or power tools.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 03, 2023 08:14 PM (OX9vb)

233 I can't stand it.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 07:44 PM

I don't think anyone prefers soggy cake.

But I'll bet you'd go recover it even today if Cake Girl asked you to.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:15 PM (a3Q+t)

234 How are these open borders working out for California?

https://tinyurl.com/484r4tfa

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 08:15 PM (Nxkcl)

235 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 03, 2023 08:11 PM (ufFY

That's badass.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 03, 2023 08:14 PM (yQpMk)

His Sultans of Swing is really good too
Different cute chick.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 03, 2023 08:16 PM (ufFY8)

236 Nah. If it were men, there would be higher speed, and fire, and possibly, internal combustion engines or power tools.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 03, 2023 08:14 PM

She is a particularly keen observer of us, gentlemen.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:16 PM (a3Q+t)

237 #222
Yes, and it sounds dumb no matter who says it.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:17 PM (KrLd+)

238 So Far Away
Money For Nothing
Walk of Life
Your Latest Trick
Why Worry
Ride Across the River
The Man’s Too Strong
One World
Brothers in Arms
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 03, 2023 08:00 PM

Brothers in Arms ftw!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

On Every Street

Gets me in the feelz every time. She was the one that got away.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 08:17 PM (bJxw1)

239 Chinese spy balloons: The river shark spottings of 2023.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 08:01 PM (QBaJw)

99 Gukballoons.

Posted by: Nena Zhang at February 03, 2023 08:17 PM (ufFY8)

240 Except Dan Fogelberg.
Posted by: bluebell at February 03, 2023 08:08 PM (pTb/Z)

Back in my sensitive years, I used to think he was great. Now I can't remember anything he did other than that stupid New Years Eve song.

I hate that stupid New Years Eve song.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 08:12 PM (QBaJw)
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I liked Auld Lang Syne because it was a sentimental fantasy with which I could (at the time) relate. The other favorite songs by him: "Run For The Roses" and (because my father was a genius musician, but whom I hated more than admired) "Leader Of The Band."

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:17 PM (ZDsBk)

241 This is a fucking legendary thread, ace. Thanks for the musical memories.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 03, 2023 08:17 PM (q7agv)

242 And, released *almost* in 79, was Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits. Played the heck out of that one.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at February 03, 2023 08:17 PM (fv27Y)

243 I don't think anyone prefers soggy cake.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:15 PM (a3Q+t)

Tres leches is the best. Especially with rum.

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (Nxkcl)

244 You'd expect that kind of thing from men.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 03, 2023 08:10 PM (63Dwl)

Men would have used cast iron, not aluminum.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (xhaym)

245 Bob Dylan's first Christian album, Slow Train Comig, was released in 1979. "Gotta Serve Somebody". Mark Knopfler on guitar.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (4fYsM)

246 #236
Now I feel a little dirty.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (KrLd+)

247 The Balloon is traveling at quite a clip, 75mph. So was over St Louis 2 -3 pm its a few hundred miles past now.

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (xhxe8)

248 187 i added some bat content
Posted by: ace at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM (C1Zwz)

You're giver for sure.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (SVjt8)

249 Ceiling fan fry pan beotches remind me of that guy clocking antifa thugs with a skillet - what music!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (7oI5w)

250 You'd expect that kind of thing from men.

That's what I thought when I watched it. Are these guys in drag?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:19 PM (0hOvj)

251 My thread contribution.

James Brown - My Thang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu8FhdgzaNo

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:20 PM (PyOKD)

252 If only there was a One-Handed Bra Clasp Merit Badge, I could have shaved several seconds off my times ...
Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:13 PM

Women must have some interesting tales they share amongst themselves at the fumbling attempts they endured without laughing.

In days of yore, I discovered the number of clasps equated to cup size, 1 for A through 4 for D.

At some point, however this no longer was true.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:20 PM (a3Q+t)

253 Bats have butt cheeks?

Posted by: Surprising Otters at February 03, 2023 08:20 PM (7oI5w)

254 Ex-Pentagon officials say defense systems should have stopped it [the balloon] - and claim Beijing sent it as a test before talks with Blinken
================

Really?


What was all that electronic equipment?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 08:20 PM (2r3kq)

255 Can't access the comments. It just won't load.

If you're trying to access archives from minx.cc, I think that domain never came back after the big crash a two or three years ago. Replace minx.cc with acecomments.mu.nu.

Posted by: One Heartbeat Away From the Presidency at February 03, 2023 08:20 PM (nfrXX)

256 Chuy is way out there, on the naked, raw edge. Somebody needs to pull him back. K-Tel was the fentanyl of its generation.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 03, 2023 08:21 PM (Jg7EG)

257 /Kamalalala sock

Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2023 08:21 PM (nfrXX)

258 https://youtu.be/F93ywiGMDnQ

There's something about you girl, that makes me SWEAT.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 03, 2023 08:22 PM (ufFY8)

259 I have butt cheeks. What's the big deal?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:22 PM (5xURv)

260 Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins
Neck and Neck
Interesting collaboration

Posted by: kactus at February 03, 2023 08:22 PM (ohsIg)

261 I remember at the end of KTel ads you could buy them on vinyl or 8-track

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:23 PM (KJvKU)

262 i added some bat content
Posted by: ace at February 03, 2023 08:02 PM

===

You're giver for sure.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM

He is, for sure. It just proves that no matter how many times we disappoint him, he will do his best.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:24 PM (a3Q+t)

263 If you're trying to access archives from minx.cc, I think that domain never came back after the big crash a two or three years ago. Replace minx.cc with acecomments.mu.nu.
Posted by: One Heartbeat Away From the Presidency at February 03, 2023 08:20 PM (nfrXX)

All I get is an error message saying "This site can't provide a secure connection." And that's after trying the replacement.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (M2qSa)

264 I have to admit out of all the horrible things I’m expecting for 2023 Chinese spy balloon wasnt on my bingo card

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (VTu1l)

265 Also 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (2tUFv)

266 236 Nah. If it were men, there would be higher speed, and fire, and possibly, internal combustion engines or power tools.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 03, 2023 08:14 PM

She is a particularly keen observer of us, gentlemen.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:16 PM (a3Q+t)

Imma gonna go out on this limb right here..

*takes sip of newly cracked bottle of gentlemen jack*

...wimminz figured out men right about the time we got kicked out of the garden.

Five esses. Sammiches. Sex. Snoring. Spit. Snot.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (5xURv)

267 At some point, however this no longer was true.

I'd like to believe that bra tech has gotten better with time but I dunno.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (0hOvj)

268 I have butt cheeks. What's the big deal?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:22 PM

Might have something to do with that tattoo you have there commemorating your induction into the Intragalactic Yoko Ono Artistries Appreciation Association Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:26 PM (a3Q+t)

269 Also 1979:

Was that 1979? Great song. I bet Sugarhill Gang has some other great stuff, but I've not heard any other music by them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:27 PM (0hOvj)

270 This is a bit odd. One of my favorite versions of "Highway to Hell". It's not what it seems at first. Be patient if you want to watch.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8f6f6w

Posted by: Javems at February 03, 2023 08:27 PM (AmoqO)

271 Flying pan women is the funny.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:27 PM (PyOKD)

272 I'm not surprised that Budokan is what launched Cheap Trick to stardom. They are one of the best live bands I've ever seen. First time I saw them was in 1989 and it was incredible, decades later and they're still incredible. They just bring a stage to life. Good (long) clip from the old Don Kirschner's Rock Concert show:

https://tinyurl.com/bp5nhbrt

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at February 03, 2023 08:27 PM (1iEVj)

273 Elon Musk did NOT violate federal securities law when he tweeted about potentially taking Tesla private, jury finds
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Tesla will hit 400 before the end of the year.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 08:27 PM (2r3kq)

274 >>He is, for sure. It just proves that no matter how many times we disappoint him, he will do his best.

Bat brown noser.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:28 PM (ZLI7S)

275 268 I have butt cheeks. What's the big deal?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:22 PM

Might have something to do with that tattoo you have there commemorating your induction into the Intragalactic Yoko Ono Artistries Appreciation Association Hall of Fame.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:26 PM (a3Q+t)

Don't judge. I was drunk.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:28 PM (5xURv)

276 My fave Dire Straits album is either Making Movies or Love over Gold. Or maybe Brothers in Arms.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2023 08:28 PM (q3gwH)

277 Men would have used a running chainsaw on that ceiling fan.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:28 PM (KrLd+)

278 247 The Balloon is traveling at quite a clip, 75mph. So was over St Louis 2 -3 pm its a few hundred miles past now.

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 08:18 PM (xhxe


The hole (pun intended) in the Pentagon's claim they aren't shooting down the Chink balloon due to debris risk to people and structures on the ground is: The Chinks could command deflate or explode the balloon anytime they choose. Or it could be hit by a meteoroid, deflate, and land anywhere.

But instead of destroying the balloon over sparsely populated Montana, Biden and the the generals are letting the Chinks fly to balloon over high population density areas like the St. Louis metro area. Insane.

Posted by: Gref at February 03, 2023 08:29 PM (AMIL/)

279 264 I have to admit out of all the horrible things I’m expecting for 2023 Chinese spy balloon wasnt on my bingo card
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (VTu1l)

I know, right? This one seems really weird, especially the way MSM is reporting on it and virtually all of the details of the stuff it supposedly is spying on.

Posted by: Moki at February 03, 2023 08:29 PM (JrN/x)

280 Was that 1979? Great song. I bet Sugarhill Gang has some other great stuff, but I've not heard any other music by them.

Released September 16, 1979.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 08:29 PM (2tUFv)

281 Also 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (2tUFv)

Fun facts:

My brother's first cassette. Mrs. Flounder can rap that.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:30 PM (PyOKD)

282 My fave Dire Straits album is either Making Movies or Love over Gold. Or maybe Brothers in Arms.

Communique has some of their best work, but its often overlooked.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:30 PM (0hOvj)

283 Best music came out of the seventies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:30 PM (5xURv)

284 1979 was the first time we heard this classic song about ungovernables:

https://tinyurl.com/2uuy9jmc

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (FbuqU)

285 Tunnel of Love had me as soon as they started with that Carousel Waltz.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (q3gwH)

286 I have butt cheeks. What's the big deal?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:22 PM

No kidding. Be better, batbutts.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (PyOKD)

287 28 I be pruod of myself and you shoulds too. I just gots my 5th COVID Booster today and I be knows it is woorking. I gots COVID only 3 times and it is becuase I be gots the boosters. What has you done to helps stop the COVID eperdemic ???
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 03, 2023 07:31 PM

OMG- this is hilarious because it's true. My downstairs neighbor, who has gotten all of the vaccines and boosters, most recently in October, now has COVID for the third time!

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (rbKZ6)

288 Flying pan women is the funny.

At first I thought it was just stupid but it got funny after the first one got conked and they kept standing there.

And the idiots blowing gasoline around with a shop vac. WTF did they think was going to happen? But I liked the guy at the end thinking he was going to hide the evidence.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (nfrXX)

289 Wonder what the next Chinese "weather balloon" will be carrying?

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (KrLd+)

290 1979--

Alan Parsons Project Eve

Toto Hydra

B.O.C. Mirrors

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 08:32 PM (o0Fxd)

291 Dire Straits 'Sultans of Swing' Alchemy album version is the best ever. The guitar riff at about 8 minutes is just 1°K cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY
Just the riff is here (a later recording though):
https://youtu.be/cJwJ11-pmxg

Posted by: Ciampino - best guitarist? at February 03, 2023 08:32 PM (qfLjt)

292 ...wimminz figured out men right about the time we got kicked out of the garden.
Five esses. Sammiches. Sex. Snoring. Spit. Snot.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM

If she had us figured out 100%, the word possibly wouldn't be there, and the last or would be an and.

And what about the sixth ess, Smell?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:32 PM (a3Q+t)

293 289 Wonder what the next Chinese "weather balloon" will be carrying?
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (KrLd+)

Dunno who posted this earlier but I chortled.

Bad thing about shooting down the balloon is you just want to shoot another one down an hour later.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:32 PM (5xURv)

294 But I liked the guy at the end thinking he was going to hide the evidence.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 03, 2023 08:31 PM (nfrXX)

Yeah, let's take the potentially on fire can of gasoline inside the house, was another in a long string of questionable decisions.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:33 PM (PyOKD)

295 Alan Parsons Project Eve

Not their best work, sadly. A let down after the previous albums.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:33 PM (0hOvj)

296 281 Also 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM

I was in college in 1979, I had that long-play and all of my friends in the dorm would sing it in my room. We knew every word.

The thing I loved most about music during that time is that it was danceable. We went dancing all the time. No one was overweight! Besides twerking, do kids dance anymore?

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 03, 2023 08:35 PM (rbKZ6)

297 Alan Parsons Project Eve

Not their best work, sadly. A let down after the Chinese.

Are you thinking of Eye in the Sky? Oh wait, that's by the Chinese.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 08:35 PM (eOEVl)

298
Yeah, let's take the potentially on fire can of gasoline inside the house, was another in a long string of questionable decisions.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:33 PM (PyOKD


*nods

Friday nights. Been there.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:36 PM (5xURv)

299 The Red Baloon is exposing that we have no one in charge on what matters. We have no POTUS defending our borders. Klain isn't a wartime consigliere. Now even he's gone. This will invite Chi-Com adventurism.

Meanwhile the Deep State won't stop until they press Putin to use nukes.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 08:36 PM (SJsWC)

300 My older brother David had a bright idea of how to deal with dandelions in the yard. He poured gas on each one (this, during the 70's gas crisis, I should add) and then put the can aside and lit the dandelion.

The gas can was open. The flame arced over like a cartoon into the gas can and ignited it into a flame from the nozzle. All four of us brothers ran, fearing a movie-like gigantic explosion. After a while we realized that the gas was just going to slowly burn off, and David had a brainstorm!

Pour water from the hose into the gas to put it out. It... worked, but then we forgot to dump it anywhere and dad later used the watery gas in the car to fill it up and yeah.

We were dumbasses.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:37 PM (0hOvj)

301 Bad Company tore up the 70s.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:37 PM (5xURv)

302 Still one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes. It's not a rocker but I love the guitar work.

https://tinyurl.com/ycytcfya

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 03, 2023 08:37 PM (Xrfse)

303 Meanwhile the Deep State won't stop until they press Putin to use nukes.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 08:36 PM (SJsWC)

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Agreed. We sat there and accepted it when the COVID lockdowns came. Now we're sitting here and accepting a foreign balloon flying over our country like there's nothing we can do and why worry about it anyway?

Pretty sad.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:37 PM (FbuqU)

304 Arc of the Diver by Steve Winwood got a lot of play. That was 1980.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 03, 2023 08:38 PM (4IUUf)

305 Pour water from the hose into the gas to put it out. It... worked, but then we forgot to dump it anywhere and dad later used the watery gas in the car to fill it up and yeah.

We were dumbasses.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:37 PM (0hOvj

Sorry about those pistons, pops. Can I borrow ten bucks?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:38 PM (5xURv)

306 Arc of the Diver by Steve Winwood got a lot of play.

His best album I think. Spanish Dancer on it too. And Night Train

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:39 PM (0hOvj)

307 Today is my 1st time inside the Capitol since Jan 6. Everything looks the same but it doesn't feel the same.
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That's because Trump isn't there anymore.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 08:40 PM (EZjf+)

308 Agreed. We sat there and accepted it when the COVID lockdowns came. Now we're sitting here and accepting a foreign balloon flying over our country like there's nothing we can do and why worry about it anyway?

Pretty sad.
Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:37 PM (FbuqU

Bupkis. That's what we can do about it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:40 PM (5xURv)

309 Can I get a $250,00 line of credit on my house? Could use it this month.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 03, 2023 08:40 PM (4IUUf)

310 Monte Montgomery
Did a great Romeo and Juliet

Posted by: kactus at February 03, 2023 08:40 PM (ohsIg)

311 "Just the riff is here (a later recording though):
https://youtu.be/cJwJ11-pmxg "

You beat me to it. I've watched that many times.

Posted by: Tuna at February 03, 2023 08:41 PM (gLRfa)

312 UPDATE - Balloon over Montana was not shot down and has not exploded, Defense officials tell Fox News.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 03, 2023 08:41 PM (xPl2J)

313 Still one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes. It's not a rocker but I love the guitar work.

Well you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything
You promised me thick and thin, yeah
Now you just say, "Oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:41 PM (0hOvj)

314 Yeah, my comment from this morning: "LMAO. That's gotta be some unbelievable Deep Fake video & audio shit there ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 07:52 PM (ZDsBk)

You're the reason I never bothered clicking. Not that it takes much to convince me. I mean I've heard Obama say about 11 words in the last dozen years. I don't listen to this shitstain either.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 08:41 PM (EZjf+)

315 Bupkis. That's what we can do about it.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:40 PM (5xURv)

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You'd do something for Randolph Scott!

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:42 PM (FbuqU)

316 302 Still one of my favorite Dire Straits tunes. It's not a rocker but I love the guitar work.

https://tinyurl.com/ycytcfya
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 03, 2023 08:37 PM (Xrfse)

I love this song. Bittersweet memories of old romance. And Mark Knopfler is amazing with a guitar.

Posted by: Moki at February 03, 2023 08:42 PM (JrN/x)

317 The Red Baloon is exposing that we have no one in charge on what matters. We have no POTUS defending our borders. Klain isn't a wartime consigliere. Now even he's gone. This will invite Chi-Com adventurism.

Meanwhile the Deep State won't stop until they press Putin to use nukes.
Posted by: Ignoramus
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Pretty much sums it all up:

https://tinyurl.com/9c6zzmnj

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 08:42 PM (yRnl6)

318 I like Skateaway by Dire Straits.

https://tinyurl.com/5x99fryt

Posted by: Archimedes at February 03, 2023 08:42 PM (eOEVl)

319 Now we're sitting here and accepting a foreign balloon flying over our country like there's nothing we can do and why worry about it anyway?

Hang on, I'll put on my Iron Man armor and fly up there to take care of it.

What exactly do you expect us to do??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:42 PM (0hOvj)

320 Chinese weather balloon? Or the Wizard of Oz finally getting back to Kansas?

Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 08:42 PM (SYTee)

321 Dire Straits was one of my brother Joel's favorite bands. He introduced me to them when we were young and he had just bought a really nice stereo with his first paycheck. Its sad and sweet to listen to them now. It was one of our shared things, like the special handshake we used to have. The fantasy gaming world we created together.

God, I miss him so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:44 PM (0hOvj)

322 >>Fun facts:

>>My brother's first cassette. Mrs. Flounder can rap that.

I was living in PR when that came out and it was played endlessly. The dive shop I worked in was in the biggest resort hotel in the Caribbean and one of the guys in the shop would constantly look out on the beach and sing Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn while surveying the new "guests".

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:44 PM (ZLI7S)

323 I love this song. Bittersweet memories of old romance. And Mark Knopfler is amazing with a guitar.

Glad I thought to post it. And yes, he's amazing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 03, 2023 08:45 PM (Xrfse)

324 Pretty sad.

Posted by: 496 at 

It's much worse than that.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at February 03, 2023 08:45 PM (gvdX3)

325 260 Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins
Neck and Neck
Interesting collaboration
Posted by: kactus at February 03, 2023 08:22 PM

I was never a fan of Dire Straits but I like Mark Knopfler's solo work. Sailing to Philadelphia is a good CD. Van Morrison and James Taylor, among others, appear on a couple of tracks.

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 03, 2023 08:45 PM (rbKZ6)

326
God, I miss him so much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:44 PM (0hOvj)

Hugs, Christopher. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Posted by: Moki at February 03, 2023 08:45 PM (JrN/x)

327 "Bats have butt cheeks"

And they'd like them kissed regularly. You wouldn't believe the ego on the guy.

Posted by: Commissioner Gordon at February 03, 2023 08:46 PM (cupoy)

328 Dire Straits favorite:
Once upon a time in the West [Alchemy Live]
https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=LG9RQS76zGc

Guitar work is awesome.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 03, 2023 08:46 PM (gv7Yb)

329 If she had us figured out 100%, the word possibly wouldn't be there, and the last or would be an and.

And what about the sixth ess, Smell?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:32 PM (a3Q+t)

Smile...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 03, 2023 08:46 PM (CCSxw)

330 The hole (pun intended) in the Pentagon's claim they aren't shooting down the Chink balloon due to debris risk to people and structures on the ground is: The Chinks could command deflate or explode the balloon anytime they choose. Or it could be hit by a meteoroid, deflate, and land anywhere.
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There's another hole - which is that anyone who doesn't believe we have a close eye on every inch of airspace within a roughly 3000 mile radius of us is on super delusional drugs and I really would like some.

I will grant you that incompetence looms large these days, especially in our Most Precious Agencies, but that sort of incompetence I am not fucking buying.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 08:47 PM (EZjf+)

331 Pretty sure they can calculate where the wreckage would fall and put some rounds in it at any time.

They don't want to because they want to wait for it to get out over the water so they can recover it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:47 PM (5xURv)

332 What exactly do you expect us to do??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:42 PM (0hOvj)
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I've not made it a secret that, unlike many here, I'm not ex-military. Beyond what I've seen on TV news and a couple of airshows, I have no idea what else we have. I will say this: Of all the things I figured we'd do, doing nothing and shrugging our shoulders wasn't one of them.

And as I've said numerous times before: Thank you all letting this non-military fellow hang out. It's much appreciated.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:47 PM (FbuqU)

333 What exactly do you expect us to do??

Send more tanks to Ukraine, obviously.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey! at February 03, 2023 08:47 PM (2tUFv)

334 Yeah, let's take the potentially on fire can of gasoline inside the house, was another in a long string of questionable decisions.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:33 PM (PyOKD

Friend bought some flares that you twist the base on, and then strike that end with your palm to ignite them, and they would burn for a while, and he didn't know how long.
We took it to the back yard one rainy night to figure it out before it was an emergency [hehe], and apparently you were supposed to hit it on the ground to ignite because when wet, it would ignite and pop out of your hand and fall into the bushes.
Quick one of us said, get the hose! and the hose was got, turned on and was five feet too short, it was wonderful, just like a mean dog hitting the end of his chain.
I got it, I yelled as I went and got the jerry can: NO screamed my friend, THAT'S GAS

About that time his wife pulled the blinds and stopped watching.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2023 08:48 PM (xhaym)

335 SMH - That was a great meme!

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:48 PM (FbuqU)

336 Agreed. We sat there and accepted it when the COVID lockdowns came. Now we're sitting here and accepting a foreign balloon flying over our country like there's nothing we can do and why worry about it anyway?

Pretty sad.
Posted by: 496
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What do you suggest we do?

Contact our congresscritter?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 08:49 PM (yRnl6)

337 I will grant you that incompetence looms large these days, especially in our Most Precious Agencies, but that sort of incompetence I am not fucking buying.

Yeah I'm in the same boat. These people are idiots and lost in wokeness but they aren't THAT incompetent. We're not so totally dependent on electronics that every jet pilot flying around is blinded. The cameras on drones and satellites aren't unable to perceive a balloon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:49 PM (0hOvj)

338 Send more tanks to Ukraine, obviously.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey

And moar billions.

Don't forget the billions.

Posted by: Zelensky at February 03, 2023 08:49 PM (gvdX3)

339
And as I've said numerous times before: Thank you all letting this non-military fellow hang out. It's much appreciated.
Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:47 PM (FbuqU)

You're good bro. You made a valid point. We should be doing something. Our country's airspace has been invaded and the response is picking off the nose. It's mind boggling.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:50 PM (5xURv)

340 Sorry Christopher. I do believe things like this give God a perfect way to send you memories... signs if you will... to let you know everything is okay.

And they arrive at the weirdest strangest most opportune times.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 08:50 PM (EZjf+)

341 *nods

Friday nights. Been there.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:36 PM (5xURv)

Everyone who has lived a life well-lived knows that WOMP! sound a long-vaporizing pool of gasoline makes when the air-fuel meets the ill-advised sparkbearer.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:50 PM (PyOKD)

342 God, I miss him so much.

Sometimes music that takes us back to people or places can be really tough to revisit. Hope the DS stuff hasn't been too painful. Hang in there CRT and know that your bro is where he's supposed to be.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 03, 2023 08:51 PM (Xrfse)

343 God, I miss him so much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:44 PM

{{Bro hug}}

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 03, 2023 08:51 PM (Wnv9h)

344 335 SMH - That was a great meme!
Posted by: 496
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Thanks...I can't do much, but I can share memes.

As a vet, I'm not happy, at all, about all this.

We're being punked, and there is little any of us can do about it, except prep and pray.

And share memes.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 08:51 PM (yRnl6)

345
Everyone who has lived a life well-lived knows that WOMP! sound a long-vaporizing pool of gasoline makes when the air-fuel meets the ill-advised sparkbearer.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:50 PM (PyOKD

Is it a WOMP! or more of a WHOOFFFP?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:51 PM (5xURv)

346 There's another hole - which is that anyone who doesn't believe we have a close eye on every inch of airspace within a roughly 3000 mile radius of us is on super delusional drugs and I really would like some.

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That's the part bothers me that is getting lost in the noise.

It was either allowed into our airspace, or no one noticed.

Tell us which.

Posted by: Hunter Biden to Hallie - do you think I had children burned alive in DONETSK (Ukraine)? at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (XTk1T)

347 Why, exactly, has Xi decided to humiliate Biden and the United States now?

Interesting question.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey! at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (2tUFv)

348 I can't stop laughing at the bat butt cheeks. Thanks Ace & SHM!

Posted by: Iris with her selfsame badge of honor at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (foa6+)

349 God, I miss him so much.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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{{{ChrisT}}}

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (yRnl6)

350 Is it a WOMP! or more of a WHOOFFFP?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:51 PM (5xURv)

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I've heard it many times. I do think there's an M in it somewhere towards the end.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (FbuqU)

351 And they arrive at the weirdest strangest most opportune times./i]

Its like there are snipers out there and every once in a while I get hit again in the heart, without warning or pattern. Just something stupid I pick up or smell or see or hear. Once I'm hit, I am okay next time but there are so many things and it just ruins me for a little while.

There are people here who lost their spouse and I cannot even imagine what they go through. I know what I feel is nothing compared to someone so close to you and part of your life. I cannot understand how you keep going on. God be with you all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (0hOvj)

352 I've not made it a secret that, unlike many here, I'm not ex-military. Beyond what I've seen on TV news and a couple of airshows, I have no idea what else we have. I will say this: Of all the things I figured we'd do, doing nothing and shrugging our shoulders wasn't one of them.
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Unless the desire of those in charge is to embarrass us, make fools of us, demoralize, us and collect as much for themselves and their friends as possible without regard to anything or anyone else.

Then it all starts to make pitch perfect sense. And it shocks/upsets you less.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (EZjf+)

353 Breaking news: William Shatner has shut down production of his line of women's underwear.

Apparently "Shatner Panties" wasn't the best name.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:53 PM (a3Q+t)

354 Is it a WOMP! or more of a WHOOFFFP?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:51 PM (5xURv)

You know the sound.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:53 PM (PyOKD)

355 They don't want to because they want to wait for it to get out over the water so they can recover it.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:47 PM (5xURv)

I hope you are right about this.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 03, 2023 08:53 PM (OX9vb)

356 348 I can't stop laughing at the bat butt cheeks.

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*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Robin at February 03, 2023 08:53 PM (Qzn2/)

357 >>>This Noted Queen had a lot of hits this year, but this location-based anthem about baking and meteorology is the oddest.

Strangely enough, this hint is not about Freddie Mercury.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 03, 2023 08:53 PM (gv7Yb)

358 I've heard it many times. I do think there's an M in it somewhere towards the end.
Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (FbuqU)

Likely that the quantity of M's is directly proportional to the amount of consumed alcoholic beverages.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:54 PM (5xURv)

359 The Red Balloon follows Covid and Fentanyl. We should have sent the Chi-Coms a $3 trillion bill for intentional negligence over Covid. Huge trade sanctions until fentanyl was stopped.

We're leading the Chi-Coms to think they can get away with anything.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 08:55 PM (SJsWC)

360 Apparently "Shatner Panties" wasn't the best name.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at 

Oh I get it!

Posted by: Biden at February 03, 2023 08:55 PM (gvdX3)

361 #293
(Snort)

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:55 PM (KrLd+)

362 They don't want to because they want to wait for it to get out over the water so they can recover it.

--

Which is why they needed to allow it to complete its mission over the United States instead of dropping it in the Pacific.

Posted by: Hunter Biden to Hallie - do you think I had children burned alive in DONETSK (Ukraine)? at February 03, 2023 08:55 PM (XTk1T)

363 >>You're good bro. You made a valid point. We should be doing something. Our country's airspace has been invaded and the response is picking off the nose. It's mind boggling.

Is it though? We've been talking about the Biden's corruption with China for years. They've taken over $30 million from the CCP alone and it's documented they tried to sell the Chinese access to our oil and gas industry among other things.

I'm not saying it's ok but is anyone really surprised the CCP is getting a pass from Biden to abuse our country? They own him.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:56 PM (ZLI7S)

364 Breaking news: William Shatner has shut down production of his line of women's underwear.

Apparently "Shatner Panties" wasn't the best name.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 03, 2023 08:53 PM (a3Q+t)

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Whew! I can Chekov that from my list ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:56 PM (ZDsBk)

365 351 And they arrive at the weirdest strangest most opportune times./i]

Its like there are snipers out there and every once in a while I get hit again in the heart, without warning or pattern. Just something stupid I pick up or smell or see or hear. Once I'm hit, I am okay next time but there are so many things and it just ruins me for a little while.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM

Blessings to you, CRT.

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 03, 2023 08:57 PM (rbKZ6)

366 I'm not saying it's ok but is anyone really surprised the CCP is getting a pass from Biden to abuse our country? They own him.

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I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn this was a "You will let this occur in order to prove your loyalty" operation.

Posted by: Hunter Biden to Hallie - do you think I had children burned alive in DONETSK (Ukraine)? at February 03, 2023 08:57 PM (XTk1T)

367 MacArthur Park? Imagine a fifth through eighth grade school band playing an arrangement of that song for competitions. Then imagine them playing it not just once, but year after year. Good times! Kinda fun as a young first chair trumpeter, but less so for the adult judges.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 03, 2023 08:57 PM (k+C2q)

368 Christopher,

What I know is this. You don't just lose the person. You lose the relationship, all those shared memories. It's a double whammy. But by talking about your brother, you keep him alive.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 03, 2023 08:59 PM (4IUUf)

369 361 #293
(Snort)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:55 PM (KrLd+)

I know, right?!?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 03, 2023 08:59 PM (5xURv)

370 Is it though? We've been talking about the Biden's corruption with China for years. They've taken over $30 million from the CCP alone and it's documented they tried to sell the Chinese access to our oil and gas industry among other things.

I'm not saying it's ok but is anyone really surprised the CCP is getting a pass from Biden to abuse our country? They own him.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:56 PM (ZLI7S)
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The Clintons & Gore were also owned by the ChiComms, and I never understood why they didn't just take Taiwan back then -- and doubly now.

Only reason? Help contribute to (and wait for) the USA to self-implode, then they can walk in unmolested ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:59 PM (ZDsBk)

371 Its like there are snipers out there and every once in a while I get hit again in the heart, without warning or pattern. Just something stupid I pick up or smell or see or hear.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I get this. I"ve lost both a sister and a brother, and, for someone who was close with her siblings, it's just a giant empty hole where they used to be. And it never fills back up. And a song, an image, the smallest thing can bring them right to the front of your mind.

I think you'll reach a point where that feels like a blessing, a good memory, or a cosmic hug, rather than a blow.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 03, 2023 08:59 PM (OX9vb)

372 Looks like I need to speed up my 16" .308 AR10 build

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 08:59 PM (KrLd+)

373 I can see Joe's house from up here.

Posted by: China at February 03, 2023 09:00 PM (SYTee)

374 Big Balloon:

https://tinyurl.com/yn3pzmkc

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 09:00 PM (yRnl6)

375 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtU0ss9Zki4

Listening to The Doors. For a band without a bass player Roadhouse Blues has one of the bass lines ever, contributed by R&B legend Lonnie Mack.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 09:03 PM (SJsWC)

376 Sorry for your loss Christopher.

And Dash.

Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2023 09:03 PM (t4fCu)

377 Why, exactly, has Xi decided to humiliate Biden and the United States now?

Interesting question.
Posted by: Miss Lindsey! at February 03, 2023 08:52 PM (2tUFv)

It sends the message that they can act with impunity anytime and anywhere and they know our leaders are too fucking chickenshit to do anything about it. "Rook, round eyes! We're viorating your territory and you ain't gonna do shit!"

By the way, no one...no one that I've seen...has asked the question just where the hell did they launch this thing from? This shit didn't just wander in from fucking China.

Posted by: Robert at February 03, 2023 09:03 PM (KtKvI)

378 The Chinese didn't take Taiwan during Clinton's time because they didn't have the military strength to defeat Taiwan or us.

They are trying to wait until they do or have a reasonable chance at victory.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:04 PM (KrLd+)

379 Also 1979:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCK99wHrk0

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 03, 2023 08:25 PM (2tUFv)

Fun facts:

My brother's first cassette. Mrs. Flounder can rap that.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 08:30 PM (PyOKD)
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Great song. Rap should have been born & then strangled in its crib right there ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 09:04 PM (ZDsBk)

380 363- I'm not saying it's ok but is anyone really surprised the CCP is getting a pass from Biden to abuse our country? They own him.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:56 PM

I just find the timing really interesting, what with the government suddenly talking about UFOs. Were the people of Montana supposed to see the balloon and just say "Welp, there goes another one"?

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 03, 2023 09:05 PM (rbKZ6)

381 Rockin' Mel Slurp was the dreamiest!

Posted by: Gal at the Mall at February 03, 2023 09:05 PM (wrJpE)

382 look, fat, it's just a balloon. drop it.

Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:05 PM (V13WU)

383 >>The Clintons & Gore were also owned by the ChiComms, and I never understood why they didn't just take Taiwan back then -- and doubly now.

>>Only reason? Help contribute to (and wait for) the USA to self-implode, then they can walk in unmolested ...

I think that's exactly right. They've been chipping away at us for years save for the 4 years of Trump which is a big reason he had to go. And now the foot is on the accelerator.

We're in the middle of a war. Maybe not a bullets flying one but a war nonetheless and far too many are either oblivious or are on the other side.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:05 PM (ZLI7S)

384 Posted by: Moonbeam at February 03, 2023 09:05 PM (rbKZ6)
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I do wish the balloon had lingered over Area 51 for a while.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:06 PM (FbuqU)

385 I fear we have woken a sreeping giant. Oh no nevermind it's nap time.

-China

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 09:06 PM (EZjf+)

386 Epic post, Ace!

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:07 PM (rj6Yv)

387 The Chinese didn't take Taiwan during Clinton's time because they didn't have the military strength to defeat Taiwan or us.

They are trying to wait until they do or have a reasonable chance at victory.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:04 PM (KrLd+)
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My point was, that having owned the Clintons and now F. Joe -- there would be a half-assed (or little) response and minimal cost to them taking Taiwan.

Oh well, the Chinese (and most Asian cultures) tend to think very long-term vs. we in the MTV short-attention-span West ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 09:07 PM (ZDsBk)

388
the balloon ! the balloon !!


---Tattoo

Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:08 PM (V13WU)

389 The Clintons & Gore were also owned by the ChiComms, and I never understood why they didn't just take Taiwan back then -- and doubly now.

They don't have the capability to do so. Even if the US abandoned Taiwan, the Chinese don't have the sealift capability to support an invasion, nor the naval and air assets to blockade the island.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 03, 2023 09:08 PM (wmDcS)

390 With the not-shooting-down-the-Chiner balloon I go with the anti-Occam's razor. Some things are just so stupid at face value that you know there must be more than one stupid going on.

Sp I think the reality is layers of stupid, such as US NORAD etc having been caught with their pants down for much of the flight. So, enter bureaucrat stupid: everyone responsible takes a "whoah let's wait a minute" attitude to avoid anyone thinking they'd blown some kind of critical time window.

Then JFB gets on the horn with Ping and says something stupid and gives some kind of "assurance" we won't shoot it down, but "Mister I don't ever want to see you do this again!" bullshit to make himself feel better.

Then wiser heads tell JFB maybe not such a hot idea. But now JFB's boxed in and doesn't want to immediately reverse himself. Then DOD says we don't want to advertise that we didn't know about it's entry, so act like we were tracking it all along. And we can learn more about it by observing so we know their capabilities. And we'd reveal too much of our own capability by shooting it down...etc. I'm going with layers of stupid.

Posted by: Zek at February 03, 2023 09:09 PM (GVdNr)

391 @383

We're already in a Cold War with the Chi-Coms.
We're in a hot war with Russia by proxy.
We're in a civil war at home - by lawfare.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 09:09 PM (SJsWC)

392 I, for one, am already missing our balloon overseers.

Posted by: torabora at February 03, 2023 09:09 PM (MkFn4)

393 Chinese are not perfect. But who is ? So they release a little bit of virus. what's the big deal ?

Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:09 PM (V13WU)

394 382 look, fat, it's just a balloon. drop it.
Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:05 PM (V13WU)

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One jet pack and a knitting needle and...KABOOOM!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:11 PM (Qzn2/)

395 I hope the Chinese included a duplicate of Hunter's laptop in the balloon's electronic gear.

It'd be a spectacular troll.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 03, 2023 09:12 PM (k+C2q)

396 I'm going with layers of stupid.

That's definitely part of it.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 03, 2023 09:12 PM (Xrfse)

397 I miss the balloon already.

Posted by: torabora at February 03, 2023 09:13 PM (MkFn4)

398 "Look! Up in the sky!" "It's a bird!" "It's a plane!"

Posted by: Bystander at February 03, 2023 09:14 PM (SYTee)

399 Where’s the Jews with their weather controlling machine? Can’t they make it cloudy so the CCPs can’t spy on us?

Posted by: Rex B at February 03, 2023 09:15 PM (PComA)

400 @390 Spot on. Layers of ineptitude.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 09:15 PM (SJsWC)

401 Dreaming by Blondie is one of my favorite 1979 songs.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 03, 2023 09:15 PM (Qy9+6)

402 #387

You aren't wrong.
We play checkers while they play chess.
A few decades ago I read a book written by a retired Chinese General about how to defeat America.
He advocated pretty much every style of "warfare" against the U.S. but going head to head until it was a foregone conclusion in their favor.

For example, in addition to buying off American politicians and ex-military leaders, I understand they have also funneled money to BLM.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:16 PM (KrLd+)

403 Layers of stupid combined with layers of corrupt.

Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 09:16 PM (SYTee)

404 Baby, you got them buttcheeks like a bat.
you squeee squeee too and I like it like that.
- P. Boogiebag

Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2023 09:17 PM (MF3yS)

405 Pentagon confirms a second Chinese balloon is/was sauntering over Central and South America.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:17 PM (rj6Yv)

406 One jet pack and a knitting needle and...KABOOOM!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:11 PM

Jetpack, muthafuckah!

https://youtu.be/62UjvbkZOuI

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 03, 2023 09:17 PM (Wnv9h)

407 405 Pentagon confirms a second Chinese balloon is/was sauntering over Central and South America.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:17 PM (rj6Yv)

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It's just like Independence Day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:18 PM (Qzn2/)

408 391 @383

We're already in a Cold War with the Chi-Coms.
We're in a hot war with Russia by proxy.
We're in a civil war at home - by lawfare.
Posted by: Ignoramus
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Weren't there some Russian pilots in Vietnam?



Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 09:18 PM (2r3kq)

409 You aren't wrong.
We play checkers while they play chess.
A few decades ago I read a book written by a retired Chinese General about how to defeat America.
He advocated pretty much every style of "warfare" against the U.S. but going head to head until it was a foregone conclusion in their favor.

For example, in addition to buying off American politicians and ex-military leaders, I understand they have also funneled money to BLM.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:16 PM (KrLd+)

Not Chess, Go. There's a book called, "The Protracted Game" by Scott Boorman, which is an interesting discussion of Maoist strategy as it relates to the game of Go. Boorman discusses how Chinese strategy is shaped by Go, while western strategy is shaped by Chess.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 03, 2023 09:19 PM (wmDcS)

410 latest Fox News poll finds that 62% of registered voters have positive feelings about balloons.

Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:20 PM (V13WU)

411 That rat being held by the little girl seemed pretty chill.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 03, 2023 09:20 PM (3AR13)

412 So what exploded over Billings?

Posted by: CN at February 03, 2023 09:20 PM (Zzbjj)

413 401 Dreaming by Blondie is one of my favorite 1979 songs.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 03, 2023 09:15 PM

Since a lot of 1979 songs have already been mentioned, this is my chance to once again express my sincere belief that Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall", released that year, was a far superior album to "Thriller".

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 03, 2023 09:21 PM (rbKZ6)

414 "Look! Up in the sky!" "It's a bird!" "It's a plane!"
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"It's a frog!"

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 09:21 PM (o0Fxd)

415 Chinese are so refreshingly unpredictable. Balloons...can't wait to see what they float next !

Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:22 PM (V13WU)

416 Bats with frickin' lasers on their heads could take down that balloon.

Posted by: Dr Evil at February 03, 2023 09:22 PM (SYTee)

417 This whole balloon invasion would never have happened if only Ukraine had another $50 billion.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:23 PM (Qzn2/)

418 Chinese mandarins >> US mandarins

During the Korean War the Chi-Com spies in Japan took specific inventory of what we were shipping, added it to a profile of MacArthur's vainglory, and gave Kim's grandfather the prediction that we'd try an amphibious landing at Inchon, the logical place. The advice was ignored.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 03, 2023 09:23 PM (SJsWC)

419 It's not a bird, nor plane, nor even frog...

It's just little old me--

Posted by: Under Dog!!! at February 03, 2023 09:24 PM (o0Fxd)

420 >>Sp I think the reality is layers of stupid, such as US NORAD etc having been caught with their pants down for much of the flight. So, enter bureaucrat stupid: everyone responsible takes a "whoah let's wait a minute" attitude to avoid anyone thinking they'd blown some kind of critical time window.

Balloons move kind of slow. This thing flew over the Aleutian Islands, over Alaska and over Canada before hitting the lower 48. Our current government might be corrupt and inept but we and even the Canucks have a shitload of satellites watching our airspace and despite how woke our military has become there is no way they didn't see this thing for a long time.

There isn't a chance in hell nobody saw this balloon until it popped up in Montana. They allowed it to come into the US airspace and they've allowed it to fly over some of our most sensitive missile sites.

They might be stupid but that was a choice not an oopsie.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:24 PM (ZLI7S)

421 Bats with frickin' lasers on their heads could take down that balloon.
Posted by: Dr Evil
___

Wearing chaps, so they can show off their bat butts.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 09:24 PM (yRnl6)

422 Pentagon confirms a second Chinese balloon is/was sauntering over Central and South America.

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That's pretty neat for two identical privately-owned Chinese-origin weather barroons to breach airspace of multiple nations at essentially the same time. Seems like the odds of that should be a lot lower.

Posted by: Hunter Biden to Hallie - do you think I had children burned alive in DONETSK (Ukraine)? at February 03, 2023 09:25 PM (XTk1T)

423 It's not a bird, nor plane, nor even frog...

It's just little old me--
Posted by: Under Dog!!! at February 03, 2023 09:24 PM

Speed of lightning, power of thunder....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 03, 2023 09:25 PM (Wnv9h)

424 I want $100 billions, or you vill zee anozer Chinese balloons !

Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:25 PM (V13WU)

425 Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" wasn't too bad.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:25 PM (rj6Yv)

426 416 Bats with frickin' lasers on their heads could take down that balloon.
Posted by: Dr Evil at February 03, 2023 09:22 PM (SYTee)


Or their buttcheeks.

Posted by: Moki at February 03, 2023 09:25 PM (JrN/x)

427 Won't somebody save us from the balloons?!?! *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at February 03, 2023 09:26 PM (Xrfse)

428 Dire Straits, Skateaway:

https://youtu.be/W16Szy__gBY

Posted by: Sharkman at February 03, 2023 09:26 PM (q7agv)

429 This is all very suspicious. Balloons don't normally saunter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (Qzn2/)

430 @420: "... despite how woke our military has become ..."

Putting your faith in a non-woke Canadian military and government will end in disappointment.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (k+C2q)

431 They might be stupid but that was a choice not an oopsie.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:24 PM

Maybe our government feels that the outrage they could generate over it had more value than anything China could learn with it, which is why they let it reach the lower 48.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (3AR13)

432 The most perplexing thing about the Red Zeppelin is it's ability to change course at will, hover in certain spots and then move on.

I'd want to know how it does this. Regardless if I have the tech to do it myself.

I'd also want to feed it's ChiCom masters a boatload of intel bullshit for them to have to sift through over the next several months.

But letting into our controlled airspace is negligence bordering on treason. Someone made the decision to allow it. It wasn't *biden... he's too stupid to understand the situation. Was it one of his handlers? Maybe one without clearance?

Yet the GOP sits on their collective hands and sniffs.

What would be the reaction if this balloon drifted over the White House, or the Capitol?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (Q4IgG)

433 Fen, since you mentioned iphone you probably need to turn javascript off.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (llON8)

434 Does anyone have a link to what exploded over Montana?

Posted by: CN at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (Zzbjj)

435 434 Does anyone have a link to what exploded over Montana?
Posted by: CN at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (Zzbjj)

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My round American woman.

Posted by: Vasili Borodin at February 03, 2023 09:29 PM (Qzn2/)

436 Then there's "Bad Case of Loving You" by Robert Palmer.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:29 PM (rj6Yv)

437 My first concert, evah. The Knack 1979 in Kansas City. I was 14. Took a boy. My stepdad drove us. Ironically, I googled former stepdad yesterday. He passed in 2010 and I had no idea since my Mom did him dirty and they divorced in'85.

Posted by: Hazchic at February 03, 2023 09:29 PM (dP+0N)

438 Dire Straits, Skateaway

Another favorite of mine.

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at February 03, 2023 09:30 PM (Xrfse)

439 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at February 03, 2023 09:30 PM (V13WU)

440 Much love poured out for Dire Straits tonight - all of it deserved. Their first few albums are incredible. Romeo and Juliet still gives me goosebumps.

My quibble is Les Boys. I can't stand it and I can't figure out why the hell they included it on an otherwise amazing album.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:31 PM (3meCg)

441 This is all very suspicious. Balloons don't normally saunter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (Qzn2/)

Balloons go where the wind blows them, although the Pentagon spoxes report that the gas bags are under some sort of guidance.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:31 PM (rj6Yv)

442 Oops, Archimedes beat me to it.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 03, 2023 09:32 PM (q7agv)

443 Thanks for all those music links. It's nice to know I didn't miss much not following poplar music back then. Or since.

Posted by: JTB at February 03, 2023 09:32 PM (7EjX1)

444 Dire Strait's entire first album really is perfect in every way.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:32 PM (3meCg)

445 >>> 422 Pentagon confirms a second Chinese balloon is/was sauntering over Central and South America.

--

That's pretty neat for two identical privately-owned Chinese-origin weather barroons to breach airspace of multiple nations at essentially the same time. Seems like the odds of that should be a lot lower.
Posted by: Hunter Biden to Hallie - do you think I had children burned alive in DONETSK (Ukraine)? at February 03, 2023 09:25 PM (XTk1T)

Well, now I'm disappointed the CCP didn't float one over the EU, maybe passing over Davos.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 03, 2023 09:32 PM (llON8)

446 The Chinese would have shot down a US balloon before you could say 10% to the big guy.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 03, 2023 09:33 PM (Qy9+6)

447 Balloons go where the wind blows them, although the Pentagon spoxes report that the gas bags are under some sort of guidance.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:31 PM (rj6Yv)

You'll need to be more specific as to whom your talking about: the Pentagon Brass or The Balloon

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 03, 2023 09:34 PM (CCSxw)

448 Privateering is my favorite Knopfler album. It has some great quiet songs. Yon Two Crows, Kingdom of Gold and Seattle never get old.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:34 PM (Qzn2/)

449 >>> 441 This is all very suspicious. Balloons don't normally saunter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:27 PM (Qzn2/)

Balloons go where the wind blows them, although the Pentagon spoxes report that the gas bags are under some sort of guidance.
Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:31 PM (rj6Yv)

Did someone say 'blow'?

Posted by: Kamala Harris at February 03, 2023 09:35 PM (llON8)

450 One thing I remember from the late '70s was a pop tune called "Hot Child in the City." I thought it was sung by a chick. Then I heard it was sung by Nick Gilder. Then I saw a picture of Nick Gilder. And I was still not convinced that it was not sung by a chick.

Made Boy George sound butch.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 09:35 PM (UQUAY)

451 The most perplexing thing about the Red Zeppelin is it's ability to change course at will, hover in certain spots and then move on.
I'd want to know how it does this. Regardless if I have the tech to do it myself.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Those big assed solar arrays are keeping some batteries charged up, to power some axial thrusters for station keeping.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 03, 2023 09:35 PM (3CCua)

452 Saw the MT governor on Tucker earlier. Thinking he may want to have his guard units on alert. If the feds won’t do anything, he should.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 03, 2023 09:36 PM (u73oe)

453 >>Maybe our government feels that the outrage they could generate over it had more value than anything China could learn with it, which is why they let it reach the lower 48.

I'm not seeing a lot of outrage. We had a general give a Pentagon briefing today say that the balloon could be in US airspace for another 60 hours as if that was normal. And not to be redundant but the balloon is flying over some of our most sensitive missile sites and contrary to earlier reports the balloon does have the ability to move directionally, it's not just being carried by the wind.

Under Bush 2, the Chinese shot down a US spy plane that got too close to Chinese air space. They imprisoned the crew and looted the plane before giving both back after humiliating the US for a while.

Our government and 90% of our media is yawning.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:36 PM (ZLI7S)

454 Well, now I'm disappointed the CCP didn't float one over the EU, maybe passing over Davos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 03, 2023 09:32 PM (llON

Too close to Russian-controlled airspace.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:37 PM (rj6Yv)

455 If only the barroon had thought that the 2020 election had some discrepancies that needed closer examination.

Posted by: Hunter Biden to Hallie - do you think I had children burned alive in DONETSK (Ukraine)? at February 03, 2023 09:37 PM (XTk1T)

456 I had my first ever lap dance when I was 18 to Donna Summer's 1979 Hot Stuff.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 03, 2023 09:38 PM (Qy9+6)

457 Our government and 90% of our media is yawning.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:36 PM (ZLI7S)

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Exactly. As a nation we looked up, saw a Chinese balloon, and then went back to looking our phones like 'ho hum'. WTF?

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:38 PM (3meCg)

458 Medium level iconic in the 80’s is relative. I saw them at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, that was after the fire, I think. Knopfler played Romeo and Juliet, my gf was deep into music and his solo brought her to tears. That was a night. Years later i married a girl who owns a Resonator. Seventeen years later we’re still trying to find the right place to hang it. For me Dire Straits is half of the 80’s. Of course Highway to Hell was the HS soundtrack.

Posted by: Longwing at February 03, 2023 09:38 PM (xlP2v)

459 Where is the balloon now? Someone said St Louis?

Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 09:38 PM (SYTee)

460 So what exploded over Billings?
Posted by: CN at February 03, 2023 09:20 PM (Zzbjj)

Some stupid coyote, I guess

https://tinyurl.com/touchthefaceofgod

Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2023 09:39 PM (xhaym)

461 This is all just a cheap stunt meant to sell crap made Nike shoes from Chynah!

Posted by: Heavens Gate Cult Survivor at February 03, 2023 09:40 PM (UodRc)

462 Okay, not from 1979 but from 1982, from The Waitresses (who did the perennial Christmas fave Christmas Wrapping), the song "Pussy Strut":

https://youtu.be/acXU9bWNQKg

It's actually a very clever song about maths. One of my all time favorite songs.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 03, 2023 09:40 PM (q7agv)

463 Exactly. As a nation we looked up, saw a Chinese balloon, and then went back to looking our phones like 'ho hum'. WTF?

--

I think for most people who were paying attention it was just confirmation of what they already knew.

There are probably more, but "those representatives don't represent you or anyone in the U.S." is one, and "good luck because you're on your own, sucker" is another.

Posted by: Hunter Biden to Hallie - do you think I had children burned alive in DONETSK (Ukraine)? at February 03, 2023 09:40 PM (XTk1T)

464 #459
St.Louis?
They'll think it's in Ukraine.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:40 PM (KrLd+)

465 Going to foreign news for explosion:

https://tinyurl.com/vt55vv4x

Posted by: Piper at February 03, 2023 09:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

466 459
St.Louis?
They'll think it's in Ukraine.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:40 PM (KrLd+)

Lot of Ukrainian flags?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 03, 2023 09:41 PM (Qy9+6)

467 If Trump were in office this would be a national scandal that we're allowing a balloon into our airspace. Proof that DJT is crooked and dirty and literally you-know-who. The MSM would be screaming that this is an emergency and putting every republican on the spot asking "Do you agree with the way the White House is handling this?" "Will you distance yourself from the Trump administration's stance on this?"

But now... crickets

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:41 PM (3meCg)

468 1979-- NSFW

youtu.be/XYmK3PYQnGg

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 09:41 PM (o0Fxd)

469 459 Where is the balloon now? Someone said St Louis?
Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 09:38 PM (SYTee)

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It had better maintain altitude.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 03, 2023 09:41 PM (Qzn2/)

470 What exploded over Billings?
Flying sheep.
They finally figured out how to fly.
(Monty Python reference)

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:42 PM (KrLd+)

471 I been to Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma
I've been everwhere man
I've been everywhere...

Posted by: Big Ass Chinese Balloon at February 03, 2023 09:42 PM (GVdNr)

472 Need to put Ace in charge of Saturday Night music thread.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 03, 2023 09:42 PM (76Foq)

473 Hmmm...

https://tinyurl.com/4swnfv6x

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 09:42 PM (yRnl6)

474 Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:41 PM (3meCg)

And needless to say, would not have happened

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 09:44 PM (EZjf+)

475 #466
All the shooting and killing.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:44 PM (KrLd+)

476 Don't know exactly what the Chinese are up to, or how many of these are out there. But I do know that whatever my government tells me about is a lie wrapped in an agenda wrapped in a F*ck You For Asking.

Posted by: Zek at February 03, 2023 09:44 PM (GVdNr)

477 Strongest military in the world:

https://tinyurl.com/bddujtw6

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 09:45 PM (yRnl6)

478 >>> 473 Hmmm...

https://tinyurl.com/4swnfv6x
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 03, 2023 09:42 PM (yRnl6)

I would laugh my ass off if some bubba with a green laser brought that thing down in his back yard and claimed salvage rights.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 03, 2023 09:45 PM (llON8)

479 They might be stupid but that was a choice not an oopsie.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:24 PM (ZLI7S)
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Yeah, we still have operational PAVE PAWS arrays that watch those sectors, I think. No chance this thing didn't get through undetected.

Our governing idiots were just assuming no random airline pax would see it over CONUS.

Fuck's sake.

Posted by: ballistic at February 03, 2023 09:45 PM (oXNqT)

480 465 Going to foreign news for explosion:
https://tinyurl.com/vt55vv4x
Posted by: Piper

According to the map at that site, the balloon flew over Russian airspace.

Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 09:46 PM (SYTee)

481 #466
All the shooting and killing.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at February 03, 2023 09:44 PM (KrLd+)

Speaking of which, I just got my 8# of Varget delivered today. Happy day.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 03, 2023 09:46 PM (PyOKD)

482 The most perplexing thing about the Red Zeppelin is it's ability to change course at will
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The commie specialty

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 09:46 PM (EZjf+)

483 Made Boy George sound butch.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 09:35 PM (UQUAY)
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My brother loved that song back in the day. Lots.

His taste in music has improved since then!

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:47 PM (3meCg)

484 "Don't know exactly what the Chinese are up to, or how many of these are out there. But I do know that whatever my government tells me about is a lie wrapped in an agenda wrapped in a F*ck You For Asking.

Posted by: Zek"


yep

Posted by: eleven at February 03, 2023 09:47 PM (t4fCu)

485 Durham will uncover the wrongdoings surrounding the balloon in 2026.

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 09:48 PM (EZjf+)

486 The Chinese have a thousand year technologic advance over us in balloons.
Also bottle rockets and noodles.

Posted by: Zek at February 03, 2023 09:48 PM (GVdNr)

487 Was the balloon foretold in the Book of Armaments?

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:49 PM (3meCg)

488 I've been noticing that a lot of the "Forgotten 80s" songs I want to put in the sidebar are akshually from 1979.

You should've put up K-Tel's "Rock 80" album cover instead, Lamont. Despite the title and year of release, many of the songs on it were from 1979. It was one of the very first albums I ever bought and I still enjoy it to this day.

https://youtu.be/6fqnhmtsi38

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 03, 2023 09:49 PM (DTX3h)

489 The Chinese have a thousand year technologic advance over us in balloons.
Also bottle rockets and noodles.
Posted by: Zek at February 03, 2023 09:48 PM (GVdNr)

And dim sum.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:50 PM (rj6Yv)

490 @486: "Also bottle rockets and noodles."

Thankfully, the global dumpling arms race has given us a multipolar world.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 03, 2023 09:51 PM (k+C2q)

491
Balloons go where the wind blows them, although the Pentagon spoxes report that the gas bags are under some sort of guidance.
Posted by: mrp
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[recollects Gogi Grant #1 tune, 'The Wayward Wind]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 03, 2023 09:52 PM (59Ws+)

492 Made Boy George sound butch.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 09:35 PM (UQUAY)
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My brother loved that song back in the day. Lots.

His taste in music has improved since then!
Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:47 PM (3meCg)

We made fun of that song:
"Li'l fagg*t in the city
Poppin' zits and lookin' shitty."

We had other lines that were even worse.

Was fun being a teenager back then.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 09:52 PM (UQUAY)

493 According to the map at that site, the balloon flew over Russian airspace.
Posted by: davidt
--------------

Russian and Chinese as co-conspirators?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 09:53 PM (2r3kq)

494 ~~~WWABD~~~

What
Would
Andrew
Breitbart
Do?

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 09:54 PM (o0Fxd)

495 "Don't know exactly what the Chinese are up to, or how many of these are out there. But I do know that whatever my government tells me about is a lie wrapped in an agenda wrapped in a F*ck You For Asking.

And there is the big difference between "then" and "now". And frankly, now is better. Because the US Public, and in particular those of us that have always either volunteered or not dodged a draft for whatever reasons - self included, have been far too trusting for entirely too long.

Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket" way back in 1935.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 03, 2023 09:54 PM (U/8Mz)

496 According to the map at that site, the balloon flew over Russian airspace.
Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 09:46 PM (SYTee)

Per Nullschool Earth Winds, that map does not match current high altitude winds

Posted by: Kindltot at February 03, 2023 09:56 PM (xhaym)

497 We had other lines that were even worse.

Was fun being a teenager back then.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 09:52 PM (UQUAY)

The cars were better before the first Oil Crisis.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 09:56 PM (rj6Yv)

498 @JustTheNews

Pentagon says it's spotted second Chinese balloon over Latin America

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:56 PM (ZLI7S)

499 We had other lines that were even worse.

Was fun being a teenager back then.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

We did that too.

"It's a hard-on. Just about a yard long..."
(Bonnie Tyler's Heartache)

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 09:56 PM (o0Fxd)

500 What
Would
Andrew
Breitbart
Do?
Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 09:54 PM

We're sure he'd kick an ass or two, that's what Andrew Breitbart'd do.

Posted by: The Kids from South Park at February 03, 2023 09:57 PM (Wnv9h)

501 Apparently that fucking balloon is everywhere.

Eh. It's almost 2000 hours. time to get the hell off of the interwebs and read a book.

BTW, I love the weekend threads. Such a balm for the soul.

See y'all tomorrow.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 09:57 PM (UQUAY)

502 (I'd Like to Change The World - Ten Years After)


I'd like to change my shorts
'cause I filled them up with poo
But I don't know what to do,
So I'll leave it up to you.

Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:58 PM (OjJHj)

503 Everybody's mashin' their F5s on the main page now, no doubt...

Bleh. Who GAF about firsts?

Posted by: JQ at February 03, 2023 09:59 PM (o0Fxd)

504 Speaking of books, I'm 2/3 through "The Last Hill". The 2nd Ranger Battalion has just arrived at the Huertgen Forest.

Posted by: mrp at February 03, 2023 10:00 PM (rj6Yv)

505 ONT is up

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at February 03, 2023 10:02 PM (J8OCH)

506 Posted by: 496 at February 03, 2023 09:58 PM (OjJHj)

Heh. Now I have my earworm for when I can't sleep tonight. Gracias, amigo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 10:02 PM (UQUAY)

507 Behold. I am Willow.

I miss Willow.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 03, 2023 10:03 PM (UQUAY)

508 498 @JustTheNews

Pentagon says it's spotted second Chinese balloon over Latin America
Posted by: JackStraw
------------------------

They're surrounding us.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 10:04 PM (2r3kq)

509 505 ONT is up
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris
------------------------------------

Up up and a way ah a

o, wait

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at February 03, 2023 10:05 PM (2r3kq)

510 IMHO ... these "spy balloons" are not being shot down for fear they've got something far, far worse than COVID in them. Which China wouldn't have - if our nutty ass government didn't outsource bio-weapons research.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 03, 2023 10:31 PM (U/8Mz)

511 Fantastic! Thank you. ❤

Posted by: Lola at February 03, 2023 11:07 PM (Wxlzw)

512 What to call combination of North and South Dakota?


Average Dakota!!!!

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515 You must have missed it, because ELO was DEEP into disco at that point. After a very solid Out of the Blue album the put out Discovery which was derided by fans as Disco? Very! because more than half the songs were disco. They got some hits but overall lost a lot of fans.

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