The Year Without An ONT

I'll have a blue evening,
without you
There's no content streaming,
It's so true

A complete empty thread,
For the overnight hours
Posts don't appear
And the whole Horde is dour

I'll have a blue evening
On Thursday
The lack of links and jokes
Should go away

We'll be doing alright
With memes tomorrow night
But tonight it's a blue
Blue ONT

What, you want more?

I'm Mister COB David
I'm Mister Weird
I'm Mister Meme Poster
I'm Mister He-Who-Is-Feared

I never want to see a thread less that 500 replies
I'd rather have a lot more even a thousand replies

I'm Mister COB David
I'm Mister Weird
I'm Mister Meme Poster
I'm Mister He-Who-Is-Feared

I'm Mister...oh, enough already. I need a writer. MULDOON! HEY, SOMEBODY CALL MULDOON!

So, uh, anyway. I had a browser explode tonight and lost every bit of content I had for the ONT. All of it. Poof. Firefox decided to open a 2500 line CSV file with every cell opening in its own tab (I think. It just started opening thousands of new tabs. I had to kill the entire browser to make it stop). Our surgeons did all that they could, but it took them two hours just to get the smile off of it's face.

In any event, I did what all top flight journalists do when they are facing a deadline and they need to produce a story. I went desperately to Twitter to steal content from other people.

Tyre Nichols’ Deaths Doesn’t Prove White Supremacy, It Proves A Need To Inflame Fear Of White Supremacy

Messaging is the catalyst for the cultural divide. There’s an ongoing battle for the distribution and suppression of factual information. Buzzwords have usurped facts in influence. And the fear of white supremacy has served among the Left’s most valued forms of messaging.
Dividing Americans into groups of victims and oppressors causes rage, confusion, desperation, and sometimes violence. The idea weakens society by convincing them to feel guilty for their whiteness or resentful of their blackness.

Just the ticket if your goal is to destroy the existing order so it can be replaced with a Marxist Utopia.

Second Republican New Jersey Lawmaker Shot Dead Within a Week

This one at least seems personal, but the killer from last week is still at large. Weird how these murders aren't getting more play in the media, isn't it? After all we're in a world that has to be concerned with wave after wave of “right-wing violence”, right?

OK, tonight's game. Would you have been drafted to fight in Vietnam? Find out here:

Vietnam War Draft Lottery

I would not have been. Neither would my wife or Big. Little on the other hand, well, he ain't no fortunate son. Goodbye my darling, hello Vietnam. How about you, are you headed to the Land Of Bad Things?

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by dad jokes:

Dad joke pic.twitter.com/8GXONTyi7K
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) February 9, 2023

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Spoon!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 10:01 PM (Dc2NZ)

2

Whoomp!

There it is...

Posted by: Zettai at February 09, 2023 10:01 PM (6mSUd)

3 No Ont???

Posted by: lin-duh at February 09, 2023 10:01 PM (UUBmN)

4 Fist

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 09, 2023 10:01 PM (sJHOI)

5 pick a number between 1 and 500

Posted by: Theodore at February 09, 2023 10:01 PM (pGonq)

6 this meat blender can achieve 360° rapid and uniform blending, to chop, blend, mince, grind or puree in seconds. It can makes your life easier and comvenient

Posted by: Braenyard at February 09, 2023 10:02 PM (+N0R/)

7 This joint ain't jumping.

Posted by: o at February 09, 2023 10:02 PM (Angsy)

8 327
Am I close?

Posted by: Cowboyneal at February 09, 2023 10:02 PM (DzsA0)

9 499

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 09, 2023 10:02 PM (sJHOI)

10 Yay ONT

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at February 09, 2023 10:02 PM (L9NLB)

11 Good on Dad for making a coupon too!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 10:03 PM (Dc2NZ)

12 FIRST!!!

Posted by: Dr. T at February 09, 2023 10:03 PM (tp+tP)

13 Sudden, and spastic content.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 09, 2023 10:04 PM (Q4IgG)

14 WD, some of us are enough 29s that we were eligible BEFORE the lottery! Me included. Thanks for the ONT, regardless of browser theatrics!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2023 10:04 PM (wzHPd)

15 You want content? Here's some great content:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9evaru

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 09, 2023 10:04 PM (Angsy)

16 So I would have been #60

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 09, 2023 10:04 PM (r46W7)

17 Even the girls thought it was funny, thought they'd never admit it. Good for Dad.

At Boy Scout camp, they sent us in search of a left-handed wind switcher.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:05 PM (eOEVl)

18 Evenin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 09, 2023 10:05 PM (ifUkZ)

19 Ooh, I would have been drafted in 1970.

*CCR drowns out whine of patrol boat engine*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 10:05 PM (Dc2NZ)

20

I'm not really in the mood for content any way...

Posted by: Zettai at February 09, 2023 10:05 PM (EamJl)

21 I think this is something we're going to see a lot of music set to AI images in the near future. Here's a nice example.

https://tinyurl.com/murz86jj

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:06 PM (eOEVl)

22 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:07 PM (DXrUa)

23 Thanks for the ONT WD.

Wind is howling here over 40mph gusts.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:07 PM (xjjIz)

24 Exploding browsers be damned!

Still a fine ONT!

The poetry rivals…

that of ChatGPT!

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at February 09, 2023 10:07 PM (4zxRq)

25 Not called for the draft.

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

26 I think ~~this is something~~ we're going to see a lot of music set to AI images in the near future.

Nice grammar.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:07 PM (eOEVl)

27 I would not have been drafted. Would have missed it by 3 days.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 09, 2023 10:07 PM (ifUkZ)

28 Hola, Tonypete!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:07 PM (ZdaMQ)

29 I think I would have volunteered for the navy rather than take a chance on jungle duty. I like boats anyways.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 09, 2023 10:08 PM (r46W7)

30 Nice grammar.
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For an AI bot!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 10:08 PM (Dc2NZ)

31 If I remember correctly, my draft number was 99. I wasn't drafted because I didn't weigh enough. Also, the draft was starting to wind down about that time.

Posted by: Theodore at February 09, 2023 10:08 PM (pGonq)

32 I openly admit I dodged the draft, by enlisting. No recruiters were required, I did 6 active including a year long vacation in sunny Southeast Vietnam.

I regret none of it and would repeat the experience with no qualms.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 09, 2023 10:08 PM (KATBx)

33 FTSB - Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94

Another grim milestone for the Biden Administration.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 09, 2023 10:08 PM (NKKjZ)

34 Eligible for the draft in 68. Went for the medical and my eyesight was so bad that they advised me to join the VC so we'd win the war sooner.
Great sense of humor they had s/

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at February 09, 2023 10:09 PM (M4gnG)

35 I would not have been drafted. Would have missed it by 3 days.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Hold it...does that mean you have a birthday this month?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2023 10:09 PM (sewR1)

36 I called Nood for the first time. I feel so important!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

37 I knew a woman who said that when she was working in her dad's service station back in the 1950s, a woman came in to get the air in her tires changed and would not take no for an answer. So, my friend checked the tires with a pressure gauge and told her her air was still good for at least 1000 miles. Another satisfied customer.

Posted by: huerfano at February 09, 2023 10:09 PM (dTFZY)

38 What service/rating, IronGrampa?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 10:09 PM (Dc2NZ)

39 Yup, glad I enlisted in the USN when my number was 75. The draft took through #75 that year.

In 1950 I would have been in the same boat, #35.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (xjjIz)

40 Awesome Dad prank! Lolling over here!

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (iKBwy)

41 Vietnam War Draft Lottery

Draft number 170. Called in 1970.

Good thing I was only 2.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (roH4R)

42 Good evening horde! Spent a nice evening with my youngest and some friends at Union Station where they have big Chiefs displays everywhere. Got lots of pictures. Dinner afterwards was a disaster. I seriously don't want to eat out ever again.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (wagHN)

43 Would have been drafted in 1970. Fortunately, that was still a few years before I was alive.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (BpYfr)

44 Vietnam War Draft Lottery

Well, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (DXrUa)

45 pick a number between 1 and 500

Posted by: Theodore at February 09, 2023 10:01 PM (pGonq)

300

Not called.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (Angsy)

46 In 1970, my birthday would have earned me #5 in the draft... Good morning, Vietnam. Fortunately, I didn't turn 18 until 1976.

Posted by: Cowboyneal at February 09, 2023 10:10 PM (DzsA0)

47 Dad is vindicated!

Posted by: Quarter Twrnyi at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (DhOHl)

48 I could not have been drafted during Vietnam. I was a toddler.

Boo-yeah!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (UQUAY)

49 So my number would have been called. I would hell on wheels as a six year old in 'Nam.

Posted by: Moki at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (JrN/x)

50 Heh.
I still have my draft card.
I may yet burn it if say, perhaps, US troops go to Ukraine.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (anj39)

51 For those who are interested, since I've mentioned it a couple times before, Mark Steyn aired the first of his shows since leaving GB News yesterday. It's at his website, steynonline.com, and free of charge as far as I can tell.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (tp+tP)

52 42 oh no! What happened?

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

53 I would have been drafted in 1970. Huh.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (CsVWE)

54 29
'I think I would have volunteered for the navy rather than take a chance on jungle duty.'

Me too!

Posted by: John Kerry (war hero) at February 09, 2023 10:11 PM (roH4R)

55 Would not have been drafted.

Would have been swimming in 'tang.

Yeah, right.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 09, 2023 10:12 PM (iKBwy)

56 If not an 'ette--my number was 12.

Posted by: Lirio100 at February 09, 2023 10:12 PM (w/VHS)

57 Hello all.

My thought for the thread -
The SS lottery caused a lot of survivor's guilt and led to a lot of kids who had high numbers protesting the war because of it. Likewise many who got deferments channeled guilt into sit-ins and protests. They were rationalizing their luck or cowardice by asserting that the war was a mistake, and those who did not go were the real heroes.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (jZmoD)

58 Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) says, "Hello!" and that she would also have been drafted in 1970. Good thing she wasn't born until 2014 then.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (BpYfr)

59 The draft lottery paid off for me. About 30 of us (already in the Army) pooled $5 each, with the pot going to the first birthday drawn. As fate would have it, myself and two other guys were sitting at a bar watching the drawing on TV. One of the other two guys won while we were sitting there. He bought beer the rest of the night

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (sewR1)

60 The answer is always 42.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (U2p+3)

61 I did my time in Iraq.

I was a baby in 1970.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (xYawB)

62 Piper! In your jammies?

Hey - you brought it up last thread. I ain't no creeper!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (DXrUa)

63 My next older brother got #199.

His friend got #4.

Neither were called up. It was 1972.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (TXFi7)

64 Whatever happened is still the fault of microsquish.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2023 10:14 PM (llON8)

65 Here's more content, if you want it:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8mev24

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 09, 2023 10:14 PM (Angsy)

66 My cousin was drafted in 1969 and spent a year in Vietnam.

Posted by: huerfano at February 09, 2023 10:14 PM (dTFZY)

67 You notice how they frame it. It is like a lottery for certain death. That seems retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2023 10:14 PM (CsVWE)

68 60... Called... Not quite old enough... Whew.

Posted by: davidt at February 09, 2023 10:14 PM (SYTee)

69 63 ha! Yes. With a cup of chamomile lavender tea. Relaxing, unfortunately, is being interrupted by crazy cat hour.

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

70 irongrampa, I also evaded the draft by enlisting for 23 years in the AF. I fooled their government asses! They wanted to draft me for a coupla years and I gave them more than half my life by the time I retired.

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2023 10:15 PM (wzHPd)

71 Letter complaing about James O'Keefe leaked.

https://bit.ly/3XpUozM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 09, 2023 10:15 PM (FVME7)

72 67 You notice how they frame it. It is like a lottery for certain death. That seems retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2023 10:14 PM (CsVWE)

Perhaps they consulted Shirley Jackson on how to set it up.

Posted by: Moki at February 09, 2023 10:15 PM (JrN/x)

73 'I think I would have volunteered for the navy rather than take a chance on jungle duty.'

Me too!
Posted by: John Kerry

I am personally aware of a few that went that route and were routed into a FMF Corpsman rate to sleep in the mud.

*But Chief, there must be some mistake!!*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:15 PM (DXrUa)

74 @38

My service rating (MOS) was 12Bravo Combat Engineer.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 09, 2023 10:16 PM (KATBx)

75 Well, we were out of the country at the time.

Posted by: 10,000 draft dodgers pardoned by Carter at February 09, 2023 10:16 PM (EvGP3)

76 Sepultura. Amen. Live. Metal.

These words might mean something to someone.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:16 PM (UQUAY)

77 Here's another one, and the images go very well with the ambiance of the song.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4h4jtw

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:16 PM (eOEVl)

78 Letter complaing about James O'Keefe leaked.
__

I wonder how much money Pfizer dished out...

Also, I pray O'Keefe is still among the living.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:16 PM (Xed1k)

79 I wasn't of age to "enjoy" the Vietnam Experience, but given that I did do the Delayed Enlistment thing in 1975, I received the "old" G.I. Bill, and my DD-214 considers me a Vietnam ERA Vet.

I have never, nor would, lay claim to being a Vietnam Vet. Wasn't within 8,000 miles of the place.

And Blumenthal needs to be kicked so hard in the balls that he's gargling himself for the next ninety days.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (e6UQI)

80 What! No muffler barrings?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (TXFi7)

81 Willowed:
I don't know. Is it suspicious? Absolutely. But anyone who denies the shortcomings of data that are based on self-reporting is a fool. We have far more access to medical information now than we did just a few years ago. Until we can correct for that, it will remain simply suspicious.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2023 10:13 PM (XIJ/X)

I would agree CBD, except for groups where we DO have better data for- the airforce pilot info someone else mentioned.

Now, that could also be augmented by them relaxing standards for admission and physical fitness standards, but among that kind of age group...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (CsVWE)

82 Weirddave, if you're using Chrome or Brave, install the OneTab extension. It closes all your tabs except for OneTab, which shows all the tabs you had open.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (v23vE)

83 Hey, Moki. : )

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (Xed1k)

84
My service rating (MOS) was 12Bravo Combat Engineer.
Posted by: irongrampa
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[puts down a $20 bill]

I'll bet you remember your service number too.

Posted by: 10,000 draft dodgers pardoned by Carter at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (EvGP3)

85 60 The answer is always 42.

Hence the name of a great YouTube channel:
Thoughty2. Check it out.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (DhOHl)

86 I turned 18 in November, 1973. So I had that going for me, which was nice.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:18 PM (eOEVl)

87 *waves to Jim*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:18 PM (Xed1k)

88 >>> 67 You notice how they frame it. It is like a lottery for certain death. That seems retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2023 10:14 PM (CsVWE)

OMG MORE COVID CASES REEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at February 09, 2023 10:18 PM (llON8)

89 83 Hey, Moki. : )
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (Xed1k)

Hey SMH!!!

Hugs to you and yours!!

Posted by: Moki at February 09, 2023 10:18 PM (JrN/x)

90 Kinder, gentler smiting.

Church of England Considers Making Language in Scripture Gender-Neutral

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 09, 2023 10:19 PM (FVME7)

91 Piper, crappy service. We waited over an hour for our food. When mine finally arrived I asked for shrimp cocktail sauce for my shrimp. They were out. Manager came over and apologized for the wait and said they would take 10% off. Got the bill, no 10% off. By then were all so cranky and tired I didn't want to argue and spend another half hour waiting for the correct ticket.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:19 PM (wagHN)

92 I typo'd... 35 in 1970.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:19 PM (xjjIz)

93
I'll bet you remember your service number too.
Posted by: 10,000 draft dodgers pardoned by Carter at February 09, 2023 10:17 PM (EvGP3)

My parents voted for Carter because they thought he was a good Christian. When he did that and gave back the Panama Canal, my dad said some unChristian things about his parentage.

Posted by: Moki at February 09, 2023 10:20 PM (JrN/x)

94 16 So I would have been #60
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 09, 2023 10:04 PM (r46W7)

I would have been 100...

My middle brother left college at winter break '69 and joined the Marines.

I thought my mother was going to lose her mind when he came home and said he enlisted. My dad was secretly very proud.

TBH so was I...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 09, 2023 10:20 PM (CCSxw)

95 Church of England Considers Making Language in Scripture Gender-Neutral
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Cool! Oh, wait...

Posted by: Sodom at February 09, 2023 10:20 PM (+M3be)

96 The link also has a ton of stories about... Kent State shootings!

I am surprised they did not have the sack of shit Viet cong deathsquad murderer asshole getting executed by the SVA guy as a background picture.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2023 10:21 PM (CsVWE)

97 Lottery number was 17. Enlisted before the draft board got me. Spent 4 years defending the basement of the Pentagon. No Viet Cong attacks on my watch. A drafted friend spent 2 years as a life guard at an officer's club pool.

Posted by: oldgeezer at February 09, 2023 10:21 PM (Wb5vb)

98 I would not have been drafted in 1970, or any time really.

Posted by: Javems at February 09, 2023 10:21 PM (AmoqO)

99 I was in Germany when Desert Shield/Storm was gearing up. I really and truly hated not deploying. it still bothers me.

This not some kind of false bravado thing. I trained, and trained, and trained to play in the Big Game. But I rode the pine because I was a medic in a Lance missile unit. Nukes in the sandbox was bad optics. I actually looked into a PCS to a grunt unit. No dice.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:21 PM (UQUAY)

100 I called Nood for the first time. I feel so important!
Posted by: Piper

And all the corgis followed you. Living up to your name!

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (P1f+c)

101 Church of England Considers Making Language in Scripture Gender-Neutral
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 09, 2023 10:19 PM (FVME7)

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Moses (they/them)

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (Qzn2/)

102 71, we’ll name calling isn’t exactly fabulous leadership material and should be reigned in, and if he wants to expand into the arts, he should consider another entity to do that. There is a void for conservative arts. The term bullying is so millennial and overused, I just struggle with it. If you are an executive, you have standing to speak your opinion. You are, afterward, obligated to march to the drum the CEO is beating, assuming it’s ethical and laws aren’t being broken. This doesn’t scream send James packing to me.

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

103 My draft number story. So I started college in the fall of 1974. The draft was still going on, I had to register for it in 1974, but the draft callups were winding down.

So in the spring of '75, they posted somewhere on campus the draft numbers for 1974. My roommate and I had a bet: Whoever had the better (i.e., higher) number would be owed a 6-pack (of Old Milwaukee @ $1.29 a six).

So he comes back to the room telling me I owe him a 6-pack because his number is around 310. I told him I haven't checked yet. Turns out my number was 348. I won a 6-pack. I'd say winning the draft lottery, even though the war was essentially over, was the biggest and best win I could ever hope to have.

Kids today have no clue how one's fate was determined by two spinning caged drums with capsules containing year dates in one and numbers 1 to 365 (6) in the other. All I know is, for young males, the drawing was 'must see tv'.

There's also a story how a person with # 20 in '70 became an Elmer Gantry-type Methodist minister, thanks to a religious exemption.

Posted by: RickZ at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (emlEe)

104 I'll bet you remember your service number too.
Posted by: 10,000 draft dodgers
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Mis-socked on that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (+M3be)

105 Good evening morons and thanks always wd

You don't need Muldoon, you write good doggerel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (EZebt)

106

If you want to see a better detailed draft lottery go to this link:

https://tinyurl.com/y4zzuahd

My number was 087

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (63Dwl)

107 LOL. Yup, half of my Hospital Corpsman classmates went FMF.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (xjjIz)

108 Here's the thing. I would not have been drafted, but we would have won the war if I had. I'm just not a joiner.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (0Qrr3)

109 Fire the FPF!
We got explodin' browsers and dinks in the USB port!
Get Spooky on call and roll in some MEME support.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:23 PM (anj39)

110 Had an older first cousin drafted, infantry. He made the tour to Viet Nam and has been a very different man ever since. I know what PTSD looks like in him. When he came home to San Fran, his parents were going to surprise him by meeting him at the airport. He spotted them first, went the other way and we didn't see him for about 5 years.

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2023 10:23 PM (wzHPd)

111 ..*waves to Jim* Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:18 PM (Xed1k)

SMH !

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 09, 2023 10:23 PM (e6UQI)

112 I have a link to WWII memorabilia that has nothing to do with the war in general...

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 10:24 PM (J00IM)

113 96
I would've chuckled at both.

Posted by: John Kerry (war hero) at February 09, 2023 10:24 PM (roH4R)

114 When I went to register at my local draft board, I had just finished my shift at the mill. I was filthy dirty and didn't have one bit of ID on me.

No matter! Welcome Son, here's your Draft Card!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:24 PM (DXrUa)

115 @60 if the question is about life, the universe and everything

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2023 10:24 PM (StQQf)

116 71, also, James if you lurk here, you really need a solid CHRO. Not a DEI specialist, the opposite of that. Someone you trust, who is a business person who happens to also be good at HR and you need to listen to that person. Whether at PV or whatever comes next.

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

117 May older 9,10,and 11 years old joined the Navy. 2 years active, 2 years active reserve, 2 years inactive reserve.

Sweet gig.

Plus the GI Bill.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 10:26 PM (TXFi7)

118 108 Here's the thing. I would not have been drafted, but we would have won the war if I had. I'm just not a joiner.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (0Qrr3)

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That's easy to say from your armchair Chief, if you've never been down in the shit.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 09, 2023 10:26 PM (Qzn2/)

119 238, but that doesn't mean I didn't get drafted.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 09, 2023 10:26 PM (3CCua)

120 "I turned 18 in November, 1973. So I had that going for me, which was nice.
Posted by: Archimedes"
*********
I turned 18 in Sept 1973. On my birthday I was told to report to the administration building to register for selective service. I though that was weird since I was already wearing a navy uniform.

Posted by: Cosda at February 09, 2023 10:27 PM (CZu/I)

121 >>> 118 108 Here's the thing. I would not have been drafted, but we would have won the war if I had. I'm just not a joiner.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 09, 2023 10:22 PM (0Qrr3)

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That's easy to say from your armchair Chief, if you've never been down in the shit.
Posted by: Brian Williams at February 09, 2023 10:26 PM (Qzn2/)

Oh yeah? Well lemme see YOU throw this football over those mountains!!

Posted by: Uncle Rick at February 09, 2023 10:27 PM (llON8)

122 Sure I remember my serial number. Also the serial of the M1 Garand I carried until the USAEUR deployment.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 09, 2023 10:28 PM (KATBx)

123 You're right these assassinations in New Jersey are being suppressed.

What about New Jersey's spotless reputation?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:28 PM (EZebt)

124 I though that was weird since I was already wearing a navy uniform.
Posted by: Cosda at February 09, 2023 10:27 PM (CZu/I)

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You get used to it.

Posted by: Adm. Richard Rachel Levine at February 09, 2023 10:28 PM (Qzn2/)

125 I was sitting pretty with a lottery number of 252.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 09, 2023 10:29 PM (FVME7)

126 Hold it...does that mean you have a birthday this month?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Next month. According to that site, I would have missed the draft by 3 days.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 09, 2023 10:29 PM (4eKPg)

127 Evening, all.

Job interview in the morning. Would appreciate your prayers for success.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:29 PM (4I/2K)

128 There is the StreetSide Abalone pancakes of Wilshire and 4th every Monday and Thursday in 1942...HUGE crowds

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 10:29 PM (J00IM)

129 He spotted them first, went the other way and we didn't see him for about 5 years.
Posted by: LRob in OK

I used to think about doing that. Hasn't crossed my mind in a while, thank goodness.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 09, 2023 10:29 PM (3CCua)

130 91 ugh. I am sorry! Cocktail sauce is kind of key for shrimp cocktail!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:29 PM (ZdaMQ)

131 127

Hands out with the prayer...

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 10:30 PM (J00IM)

132 Job interview in the morning. Would appreciate your prayers for success.
Posted by: Count de Monet
___

Prayers up.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:31 PM (Xed1k)

133 Cocktail sauce is kind of key for shrimp cocktail!

I know right??

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:31 PM (wagHN)

134 Posted by: Count de Monet

Yup, you got them.
I hope you get a great offer too!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:31 PM (xjjIz)

135 Hi Jewells.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:31 PM (Xed1k)

136 Count de Monet - you got them!

Remember, no picking of the nose.

Don't roll your eyes when the interviewer says "So, where do you see yourself in five years."

Farting is right out.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:31 PM (DXrUa)

137 You got this Count de M!
Best of luck!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:31 PM (anj39)

138 Older brothers. Yeah. One was a gunners mate on the Bon Homme Richard. One spend the time on Guam swapping out vacuum tubes, and the other was on the USS Opportune, a salvage and rescue ship. They went on a around the world cruise. He went through the Suez Canal just before the Egypt/Israel war which closed it for a while.

He went to Singapore, Hong Kong, etc. and used the Off Limits list as a tour guild.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (TXFi7)

139 Spent 4 years defending the basement of the Pentagon.

Howdy
(waves from the basement of the Pentagon)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (4eKPg)

140 127. You got this! Be you. Remember STAR for all behavior based questions - situation, task, action, result. And it really is ok to give a result that wasn’t stellar, what you learned and what you would do differently. Prayers sent for back up.

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

141 Speaking of prayers, have my fifth treatment tomorrow but more importantly he will have the results of my CT scan from last week to see how I'm responding to treatment. Prayers please that it's a good report!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (wagHN)

142 Hey, you guys! You guys!!

Tomorrow I'll be 57.

by which I mean 29.

*looks at gem in palm*

So glad it's a dud.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (UQUAY)

143 and Count I will be praying it goes well for you

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:33 PM (wagHN)

144 141 so many prayers, Jewells!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

145 103 My draft number story. So I started college in the fall of 1974. The draft was still going on, I had to register for it in 1974, but the draft callups were winding down.

The draft was still going on, but nobody was being called up. The last draft call was on December 7, 1972, and the authority to induct expired on June 30, 1973.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:33 PM (eOEVl)

146 Job interview in the morning. Would appreciate your prayers for success.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:29 PM (4I/2K)

-----------

Extravagant salary
Profit sharing
Tony private office
Busty administrative assistant
Covered reserved parking
Generous expense account

Anything else before I switch on the transmitter?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2023 10:33 PM (Qzn2/)

147 Prayers please that it's a good report!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (wagHN)

You got it. Kick cancer's ass.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:33 PM (4I/2K)

148 Prayers please that it's a good report!
Posted by: jewells45
*******
Prayers and good luck.

Posted by: Cosda at February 09, 2023 10:34 PM (CZu/I)

149 Greetings:

My M-16 and I were in Tay Ninh Province when my draft lottery number (in the 300s) came out.

"Nice things happen to deserving people," as Mother mentioned a time or two.

Posted by: 11B40 at February 09, 2023 10:34 PM (uuklp)

150 I am surprised they did not have the sack of shit Viet cong deathsquad murderer asshole getting executed by the SVA guy as a background picture.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 09, 2023 10:21 PM (CsVWE)

The photo that confirmed for me what I already suspected: the media are a bunch of fucking liars.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:34 PM (anj39)

151 Prayers please that it's a good report!
Posted by: jewells45

You've got them in spades!

(Are you going to make it to AZ this year?)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:34 PM (xjjIz)

152 Prayers jewells.

Posted by: Javems at February 09, 2023 10:34 PM (AmoqO)

153 Prayers for you too Jewells. Good luck 🤞

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (Qzn2/)

154 Thanks, y'all. I'm grinning ear to ear from the suggestions.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (4I/2K)

155 Nervous Man. Armored Saint.

Debbil Hornz!!

Dave Pritchard. RIP.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (UQUAY)

156 Prayers up for everyone.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (TXFi7)

157 142:
*looks at gem in palm*

So glad it's a dud.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

The Carousal is down due to maintenance.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (4eKPg)

158 Hey, you guys! You guys!!
Tomorrow I'll be [...] 29.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Don't read this comment until after midnight.

Happy birthday!

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (P1f+c)

159 Prayers up for you and all your "team" of medics and family, Jewells!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (wzHPd)

160 Extravagant salary
Profit sharing
Tony private office
Busty administrative assistant
Covered reserved parking
Generous expense account

Anything else before I switch on the transmitter?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2023 10:33 PM (Qzn2/)

Better throw in parking.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (anj39)

161 One two three what are we fightin' for
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is Vietnam

Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at February 09, 2023 10:35 PM (Zs294)

162 Drafted in Sept 1967. No lottery. Just your local draft board pulling out your 3 X 5 and sending you the infamous letter..."Greetings from the President Of The United States. You are hereby ordered to report for immediate induction into the United States military......"
Yeah, fun times. I did luck out however. Went through Bacsic at Fort Dix and after Basic was awarded my new MOS. Was assigned to Fort Gordon, GA as a Radio and Television Specialist. Assigned to the Television Division. Guess my electronics background and graduation from the RCA School of TV Production And Studio operation came up in their records. Many of the other guys from my Basic company, "Charlie Company" wound up in 'Nam". Received orders for 'Nam once during my stay at Fort Gordon, but they were rescinded 24 hours later. Served my two years and came back home. Never was called up for reserve duty either afterwards.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 09, 2023 10:36 PM (Zvtjl)

163 Dad was drafted as a married 23 year old and he and mom could have easily disappeared to Montreal.

A year later the FBI was knocking on mom's door because she had sent him ammo for his sidearm in Saigon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:36 PM (EZebt)

164 Dad was never called up. My grandma spent a lot of sleepless nights over it, because her brothers had been in the thick of it in WWII. Dad was a freshman in college, though, and had met this professor's daughter who was better at Western Civ than he was....

Posted by: pookysgirl has heard this story a few times at February 09, 2023 10:36 PM (XKZwp)

165 Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at February 09, 2023 10:36 PM (qAR6u)

166 Posted by: 11B40

Glad you're here; but, I laughed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:36 PM (xjjIz)

167 141

Oh yes jewells45...Cancer sucks...My prayers for you...BIGGUMS!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 10:37 PM (J00IM)

168 Received orders for 'Nam once during my stay at Fort Gordon, but they were rescinded 24 hours later.

Pucker factor: intense.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:37 PM (eOEVl)

169 Would appreciate your prayers for success.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Prayers please that it's a good report!
Posted by: jewells45

Done and done.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2023 10:37 PM (P1f+c)

170 Best of luck Jewells - praying for good news.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:37 PM (DXrUa)

171 AZ Deplorable.. don't know yet. If it happens it will be late in the year. Maybe November but that's a big if.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:37 PM (wagHN)

172 Draft number 98 in 1970.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 09, 2023 10:37 PM (TXFi7)

173 Farting is right out.
Posted by: Tonypete at February

And if you do, make a funny face at someone else in the room thereby creating question as to the source.

Or scream HOLY BARKING SPIDER! It’s okay, I got it. Now what were you asking?

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

174 My Country tis of they...now follow

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 10:38 PM (J00IM)

175 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (wagHN)

fervent prayers.

"fervent" is a weird word. Kind of like "put."

Still, wholehearted prayers, dear lady. With all my heart.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:38 PM (UQUAY)

176 Praying Jewells!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:40 PM (anj39)

177 *looks at gem in palm*
So glad it's a dud.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
-----
The Carousal is down due to maintenance.
Posted by: Puddleglum

All the wrong thought camps are getting one!

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 09, 2023 10:40 PM (3CCua)

178 AZ Deplorable.. don't know yet. If it happens it will be late in the year. Maybe November but that's a big if.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer

I'll continue the prayers and plan on seeing you late in the year!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:40 PM (xjjIz)

179 Tried to send him ammo. In the mail.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:40 PM (EZebt)

180 I would have fought in Vietnam but I was only ten.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2023 10:40 PM (Qzn2/)

181 tonypete, I've conducted or been in several hundred interviews trying to hire engineers and, as far as I know - no farting happened. That's funny! I probably would have laughed out loud!

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2023 10:40 PM (wzHPd)

182 At Boy Scout camp, they sent us in search of a left-handed wind switcher.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:05 PM (eOEVl)

At my first job I almost got sent in to mop the walk in freezer, but the chef said they didn't have time for me to chip the mop out too.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2023 10:41 PM (xhaym)

183 Goodnight, y'all.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at February 09, 2023 10:41 PM (Xed1k)

184 Tried to send him ammo. In the mail.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

More laughter!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:41 PM (xjjIz)

185 Remote work is definitely in the cards. Had first interview on Tuesday and the one tomorrow is with the boss, the head man, top dog, nameplate partner, big cheese, head honcho, number one . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:42 PM (4I/2K)

186 Received orders for 'Nam once during my stay at Fort Gordon, but they were rescinded 24 hours later.

Pucker factor: intense.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2023 10:37 PM (eOEVl)

Understatement, for sure.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 09, 2023 10:42 PM (Zvtjl)

187 Good night SMH.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:42 PM (xjjIz)

188 Thank you everyone! It's very much appreciated. I'm off to bed hopefully can get some sleep. Much love to you. Stay safe.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 09, 2023 10:42 PM (wagHN)

189 At Boy Scout camp, they sent us in search of a left-handed wind switcher.
Posted by: Archimedes

During my time in the mill we'd send the new guys to the storeroom asking for fresh jackhammer sparkplugs.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:42 PM (DXrUa)

190 Prayers up for Horde members for success in tomorrow's endeavors

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2023 10:43 PM (StQQf)

191 Ah yes, the classic Fool's Errand prank.

The food and beverage industry is rife with them, and it's a bit of an initiation ritual.

My own was to be sent across the street to ask the other restaurant if we could borrow a "shelf-stretcher".

But some of the more classic ones I have witnessed (and perhaps taken part in) was sending a new dishwasher across to another restaurant with a 5 gallon bucket sealed with Saran Wrap to ask them if we could borrow some steam since our steamer was down.

Another was to tell the dishwasher that the machine was down on detergent, to go next door and ask if we could borrow a quart of A.I.R.

One of my personal favorites was to tell the new server their closing duty was to empty out the hot water dispenser on the coffee machine (which is plumbed in and never stops). Every server would pass by the server who was frustrated by how long it was taking and say "Oh man, you got the dispenser duty. It takes a while, it's a big tank."

Posted by: Full-On Retarded Conservative at February 09, 2023 10:43 PM (Zqeqr)

192 On my birthday I was told to report to the administration building to register for selective service. I though that was weird since I was already wearing a navy uniform.
Posted by: Cosda

Would that have been double-secret service?

Posted by: dean mikeski at February 09, 2023 10:43 PM (P1f+c)

193 I would not have been drafted in 1970 which is good as I was only three.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 09, 2023 10:43 PM (u73oe)

194 and the one tomorrow is with the boss, the head man, top dog, nameplate partner, big cheese, head honcho, number one . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet

Grand Poobah?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:43 PM (DXrUa)

195 Damn it, off retarded GOP sock!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 10:44 PM (Zqeqr)

196 Received orders for 'Nam once during my stay at Fort Gordon, but they were rescinded 24 hours later.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

24 hours of hell.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:44 PM (xjjIz)

197 with the boss, the head man, top dog, nameplate partner, big cheese, head honcho, number one . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet

Head Mo Fo?

Posted by: LRob in OK at February 09, 2023 10:44 PM (wzHPd)

198 Prior to 1969 local draft boards chose those called to service. You can imagine how that went.

Posted by: Javems at February 09, 2023 10:45 PM (AmoqO)

199 with the boss, the head man, top dog, nameplate partner, big cheese, head honcho, number one . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet

El Supremeo

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:45 PM (anj39)

200 Grand Poobah?
Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:43 PM (DXrUa)

yes, chief water buffalo

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:46 PM (4I/2K)

201 In under 250!

Posted by: GWB at February 09, 2023 10:46 PM (PkFyV)

202 I remember the guy down the street getting drafted into the army (artillery) . I was all of six. He came back with hearing damage. Couple of years later found out I couldn't serve due to horrible eyesight. Funny what you remember

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2023 10:46 PM (StQQf)

203 Prior to 1969 local draft boards chose those called to service. You can imagine how that went.
Posted by: Javems

Why it's as if there's always been 'The Club' and we weren't ever part of it.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:46 PM (DXrUa)

204 I hope the interviewer pronounces Count de Monet correctly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:47 PM (EZebt)

205 I vaguely recall going to the Post Office to register for the Selective Service. Didn't amount to much. Was post-draft. 1984. I ended up enlisting anyway.

Not sure if any of my buddies did. Marine Dad, and all.

(love you, Pop.)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:47 PM (UQUAY)

206 Wind gusts now ~49mph

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:47 PM (xjjIz)

207
with the boss, the head man, top dog, nameplate partner, big cheese, head honcho, number one . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet

Robert Stack in Airplane!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (63Dwl)

208 Good night, y’all. Early start to the day!

Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

209 Received orders for 'Nam once during my stay at Fort Gordon, but they were rescinded 24 hours later.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy

So did I oddly enough, in 1970. I was expecting them though.

Posted by: Javems at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (AmoqO)

210 Hi, Weird Dave. Love the takeoff on the Miser Brothers.

Those two were the best characters Rankin-Bass ever created, after Yukon Cornelius.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (ffbyg)

211 I hope the interviewer pronounces Count de Monet correctly.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:47 PM (EZebt)

LOL. Any ways he likes as long as it's spelled correctly on the paycheck.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (4I/2K)

212 Those two were the best characters Rankin-Bass ever created, after Yukon Cornelius.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

"It's not a night fit for man nor beast! Here's the Man, and here's the Beast!"

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:49 PM (DXrUa)

213 Robert Stack in Airplane!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (63Dwl)

+1

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:49 PM (4I/2K)

214 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Everyone: Hey Disney, can you just make good stuff again and stop constantly trying to shove woke bullshit down everyone's throats?

Disney: Luke Skywalker is gay now.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8k3aze

Posted by: Cave Johnson at February 09, 2023 10:50 PM (9bp5t)

215 1 Spoon!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 10:01 PM

I think you mean "Not in the face! Not in the face!"

Posted by: Cybersmythe at February 09, 2023 10:50 PM (iZEhM)

216
LOL. Any ways he likes as long as it's spelled correctly on the paycheck.
Posted by: Count de Monet

12 letter last name here. I don't care of they can't spell it or pronounce it, I just want the auto deposit to be right and on time!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 09, 2023 10:50 PM (xjjIz)

217 Count de Monet, good luck with the job interview!

Posted by: Theodore at February 09, 2023 10:51 PM (pGonq)

218 Can we start calling California the Cancer State ?

Posted by: Lord Percy at February 09, 2023 10:51 PM (iSbhf)

219 Hey, Tonypete.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (ffbyg)

220 Disney: Luke Skywalker is gay now.

Didn't the original Luke Skywalker make out with his sister?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (Zqeqr)

221 Nightwatch, post the link. Use tinyurl if it's lengthy. WWII SoCal stuff is always of interest to me.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (OTzUX)

222 By 1970 there were only ~24k service members in Vietnam, mostly Air Force.
And being drawn down rapidly. Not exactly certain death...

Posted by: FriscoYoda at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (S7une)

223 Disney: Luke Skywalker is gay now.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8k3aze
Posted by: Cave Johnson at February 09, 2023 10:50 PM (9bp5t)

Not sure if he hasn't always been that.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (anj39)

224 You got this! Be you. Remember STAR for all behavior based questions - situation, task, action, result. And it really is ok to give a result that wasn’t stellar, what you learned and what you would do differently. Prayers sent for back up. Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2023 10:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

Well, we had this account that was behind, and it was really too far behind for an amount we couldn't write off. My job was to be a reminder and start payments back up, and advise the account it was accruing interest as it wasn't being paid. So I got a couple of the boys and we got in my car and went down, I got one of the boys to go watch the back door and we kicked in the front doors and frog marched the account into the stock room where we convinced him to rake the till for us for the down payment and that next time we would be bringing a pair of bolt-cutters for his nose. About then, as a benefit, the boy I put in the alley came in with the account's son in a half nelon and we told them both the kid didn't want us to see us back neither.
As a result, we got regular installments on the account and if there was going to be a late pay, we were able to schedule it. Easy.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2023 10:53 PM (xhaym)

225 I was born in 1952, so I was in the first draft lottery, held in 1971. I remember going out to buy the afternoon newspaper to find out what my number was; and my feeling of joy and relief when I saw that it was 352. One of the better days of my life.

Posted by: Nemo at February 09, 2023 10:53 PM (S6ArX)

226 Disney: Luke Skywalker is gay now.

Didn't the original Luke Skywalker make out with his sister?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (Zqeqr)

that's different.

Somehow.

I dunno. It just is.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 09, 2023 10:54 PM (UQUAY)

227 I always thought that C3PO was the gay one in Star Wars.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 10:55 PM (ffbyg)

228
Sure Dave, I'll pitch in. since you asked so nicely in ALL CAPS.

Can You Use Any of This?

Weird Dave is sure in a fix
And he wants to get 500 clicks
Let. me check my open tabs
Toe fungus, six pack abs
Random booBs, a kitty and dick pix

If those suggestions fall flat
There's Rich Levine to laugh at
Fake sign language guy
Or I'll give a try
To "There's an ICD code for that!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 10:55 PM (ykeLU)

229 Sweet land of Liberty

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 10:55 PM (J00IM)

230 Didn't the original Luke Skywalker make out with his sister?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

But he didn't know it was his sister. Only someone strong in the Force would have felt the familial connection between them.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2023 10:55 PM (P1f+c)

231 227 I always thought that C3PO was the gay one in Star Wars.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 10:55 PM (ffbyg)

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He was just fussy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 09, 2023 10:56 PM (Qzn2/)

232 LOL. Any ways he likes as long as it's spelled correctly on the paycheck.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (4I/2K)
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I would certainly hire you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:56 PM (EZebt)

233 When did Luke make out? I missed that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 10:57 PM (ffbyg)

234 I always thought that C3PO was the gay one in Star Wars.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

The only droid who really enjoyed having that restraining bolt inserted.

Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2023 10:57 PM (P1f+c)

235 I don't know if this has been mentioned earlier today:

“NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of Tennessee’s most influential Republican lawmakers says the state should stop accepting the nearly $1.8 billion of federal K-12 education dollars that help provide support for low-income students, English learners and students with disabilities.
. . . .
Basically, we’ll be able to educate the kids how Tennessee sees fit,’ Sexton said, pointing that rejecting the money would mean that Tennessee would no longer have ‘federal government interference.

https://is.gd/5hTrYZ

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:57 PM (DXrUa)

236 What's the ICD for Pun Perseveration Syndrome?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 10:57 PM (EZebt)

237 222 By 1970 there were only ~24k service members in Vietnam, mostly Air Force.
And being drawn down rapidly. Not exactly certain death...

Posted by: FriscoYoda at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (S7une)

And Army advisors.

Posted by: Javems at February 09, 2023 10:58 PM (AmoqO)

238 231 227 I always thought that C3PO was the gay one in Star Wars.

I don't think he seemed gay.

More like Asperger's.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 10:58 PM (Zqeqr)

239 Happy Stray Balloons, ONTers.

Vietnam War Draft Lottery was … limited. I shucked my 2S dodge and I was then 1A for the last two or three (I forget) Nam era lotteries. Some other guys "won" instead of me, God bless 'em all. Seems like half a century ago.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I was so much older then at February 09, 2023 10:58 PM (xOuvq)

240 I meant, when did Luke and Leia make out?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 10:58 PM (ffbyg)

241 ..Didn't the original Luke Skywalker make out with his sister? Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 10:52 PM (Zqeqr)

Han shot there first, too.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 09, 2023 10:58 PM (e6UQI)

242 Back in the late 70's I had an Intel clerk who could perfectly mimic the sound of a huey starting up. Then he would move the drawers on his desk in a certain way and would then rap the top like a drum. Sounded like an M-60 firing.
Drove the senior NCO nuts.
"You fuckers in S2 knock that shit off!"

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 10:58 PM (anj39)

243 I meant, when did Luke and Leia make out?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 10:58 PM (ffbyg)
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Empire Strikes Back. Leia was trying to make Han jealous.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2023 10:59 PM (BpYfr)

244 Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 10:57 PM (DXrUa)

.....

I saw that.

Matt Walsh is also down testifying in front of the state legislature on banning tranny treatments on kids under 18.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 10:59 PM (Zqeqr)

245
I always thought that C3PO was the gay one in Star Wars.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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He was just fussy.
Posted by: Cicero

Felix Unger in space.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 11:00 PM (63Dwl)

246 Kamala Harris

Uh...no

Uh HELL NO!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 11:00 PM (J00IM)

247 Thanks for the good wishes. The Horde is the best!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 09, 2023 11:02 PM (4I/2K)

248 Troop strength in Vietnam by year.

https://tinyurl.com/yckrnyun

Posted by: Javems at February 09, 2023 11:02 PM (AmoqO)

249 I though that was weird since I was already wearing a navy uniform.

Posted by: Cosda at February 09, 2023 10:27 PM (CZu/I)

Is the U.S. Navy considered part of the military?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2023 11:02 PM (XIJ/X)

250 243 Eh. In college football, back when they still had ties, they used to say that a tie was like kissing your sister.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:03 PM (ffbyg)

251 "March 11. Target was marhsalling yards in city of Kothen, Germany. No flak. Mission #52. Duration 3:50."

This was 1945. He flew 55 missions total, so this was near the end. B-26. He was in the 394th Bomb Group - Medium.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:04 PM (OTzUX)

252 Tyre Nichols death proves nothing about "white supremacy," which doesn't fucking exist. What it shows is a need to keep thugs, psychos, savages, and sociopaths out of police departments.

Posted by: Law enforcement needs major reform and this bullshit ain't helping at February 09, 2023 11:04 PM (UKe2c)

253 Vietnam War Draft Lottery was … limited. I shucked my 2S dodge and I was then 1A for the last two or three (I forget) Nam era lotteries. Some other guys "won" instead of me, God bless 'em all. Seems like half a century ago.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I was so much older then at February 09, 2023 10:58

Indeed mindful, half a century ago, that blows my mind. I was born in 1955, that was the last yr numbers were drawn. Mine was high, IIRC over 200. but that didn't matter, no one born in 55 was drafted. I think a few were drafted born in 1954.

Posted by: Farmer at February 09, 2023 11:04 PM (55Qr6)

254 The seeming ease by which WeirdDave can whip up such a hearty post from scratch — it's like how Great-Gramma could find a full meal in a kitchen that didn't seem to have food.

And he's so casual about it. "Oh, this old ONT? I only post it when I don't care how it looks."
https://youtu.be/Qj5ou9z0H4g

Posted by: mindful webworker - I was so much older then at February 09, 2023 11:04 PM (xOuvq)

255 Is the U.S. Navy considered part of the military?

If the Village People are to be believed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 11:05 PM (Zqeqr)

256 Is the U.S. Navy considered part of the military?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2023 11:02 PM (XIJ/X)

————

I was in the Corps as is my youngest son. My oldest two are and were Navy. We have fun conversations.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 09, 2023 11:05 PM (u73oe)

257 I would not have been drafted in 1970 which is good as I was only three.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 09, 2023 10:43 PM (u73oe)

Still...you might have been a great rifleman!

I was also too young for Vietnam, but I remember registering when I turned 18. I wonder when they stopped requiring it...or did they?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2023 11:06 PM (XIJ/X)

258 250 243 Eh. In college football, back when they still had ties, they used to say that a tie was like kissing your sister.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:03 PM (ffbyg)

What if your sister was really really hot though? Like Adriana Lima in her prime hot?

Posted by: Just sayin at February 09, 2023 11:06 PM (UKe2c)

259 I was also too young for Vietnam, but I remember registering when I turned 18. I wonder when they stopped requiring it...or did they?

Selective Service registration is still required for all chromosonally male persons 18 and over in the US. I never did register, but I joined the Army so they considered that good enough.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 09, 2023 11:08 PM (Bd6X8)

260 His mission notes are very spare, usually include references to level of flak, and often to (what he thought) accuracy of their bomb drops were. The photos with the stuff are few but amazing. Had to be the squadron photographer or other Army Air Corps photographer, or ComCam. Beautiful b/w pics.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:09 PM (OTzUX)

261 Muldoon, I remember you posting some your dad's wartime diaries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 11:09 PM (EZebt)

262 223 Disney: Luke Skywalker is gay now.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8k3aze
Posted by: Cave Johnson at February 09, 2023 10:50 PM (9bp5t)

Not sure if he hasn't always been that.

Traumatized by almost scoring with his sister

Posted by: azjaeger at February 09, 2023 11:09 PM (3/XaG)

263 Missed the draft by five days. My brother was born the previous month, so his number would have come up. I recall mom swearing to pack us both up to Canada if the war was still going when we turned 18...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 09, 2023 11:09 PM (bUGMk)

264 The Navy is definitely part of the military. We were part of the Ministry of Silly Hats.

Then the Army joined us with those damn berets.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:10 PM (ffbyg)

265
Is the U.S. Navy considered part of the military?

I was about to be drafted in 1970 so I joined the Navy. They put me on a minesweeper which went to Cam Ranh Bay and Da Nang. Never did see Dick Blumenthal.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 11:10 PM (63Dwl)

266 But he didn't know it was his sister. Only someone strong in the Force would have felt the familial connection between them.

Insert picture of "Darth Vader restraining Princess Leia by grabbing her shoulder as Alderon explodes" here

Posted by: Chuck C at February 09, 2023 11:10 PM (r5AdH)

267 221

Lacking proficiency tonight...my keyboard is in battle

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 11:10 PM (J00IM)

268 Here's some content. My Dad landed at Anzio this week in 1944. From his diary:

Feb 6.
Nearing Anzio at 0900. Should dock soon. About 8 or 10 shells came into harbor as we came in.

Feb 6
Docked about 1030. Moved down to Nettuno, VI Corps HQ. Shells dropping in town all day Put up for night in a pink house in Nettuno. Quiet night.

Feb 7.
General decided to set up Hq in Nettuno so we started cleaning a house for it. Bombing raid across port and VI Corps Hq blew in our house. Luckily only one of the Sgts was there and he was only scratched.

Welcome to the beachhead EZDog
Bad news: They bombed your new HQ building the first day out.
Good news: No one was home at the time (except the one Sgt.)

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:11 PM (ykeLU)

269

Army Reservists still have to register with Selective Service, but not National Guardsmen...

Posted by: Zettai at February 09, 2023 11:11 PM (UNjbG)

270 My number would not have been called, which is a good thing, because I was -3 years old. 'Nam was bad enough without an unnecessary time crisis.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 09, 2023 11:11 PM (KFhLj)

271 Robert Stack in Airplane!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 10:48 PM (63Dwl)

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As a young girl in the 70's my ex had a crush on Robert Stack. She went so far as to write him a letter inviting him to dinner with her family. Sadly, he never accepted.

Posted by: 496 at February 09, 2023 11:12 PM (8I+9Y)

272 One of the many things that made it so that I never really got into Star Wars is that in the whole humongous galaxy, all the really important people are related like the galaxy is a small town. The whole fighting with light sabers is profoundly silly too.

Posted by: azjaeger at February 09, 2023 11:12 PM (3/XaG)

273 OF THEY I SING...

Posted by: Nightwatch at February 09, 2023 11:12 PM (J00IM)

274 Franpsycho, Muldoon's dad's diary is pretty extensive and includes lots of color on other things going on, or at least the entries I've seen have that. This guy was a B-26 pilot, pretty sure he wasn't supposed to be taking notes. He put them in his little student pilot log book that he got when doing basic flight training at "Morton Air Academy, Gary Field, Blythe, California".

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:12 PM (OTzUX)

275 . I recall mom swearing to pack us both up to Canada if the war was still going when we turned 18...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
*********
My mom said the opposite. She'd rather I went and got kia than run to Canada.

Posted by: Cosda at February 09, 2023 11:13 PM (CZu/I)

276 In my head I heard this:

Weird Dave is sure in a fix
And he wants to get 500 clicks
Let. me check my open tabs
Toe fungus, six pack abs.

And it's one two three
What are we blogging for?
Don't ask me ask another dude
Damn sure he's gonna call a nood.

And its five six seven
open up the Mannix pics,
Ain't no time to wonder why
Ottoman day is nie!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 11:13 PM (anj39)

277 Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:11 PM (ykeLU)
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These posts are incredible. Thanks for putting them up here.

Posted by: 496 at February 09, 2023 11:14 PM (8I+9Y)

278 I tortured my parents about registering because I was a communist when I was 18. Carter introduced it but Reagan made federal student aid contingent on registering.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 11:14 PM (EZebt)

279 One of the many things that made it so that I never really got into Star Wars is that in the whole humongous galaxy, all the really important people are related like the galaxy is a small town.

Kind of like how it is in DC.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 09, 2023 11:15 PM (Bd6X8)

280 Boy, some of you Horde members are really old.

But, then, some of you are really young.

I would guess that I’m about in the middle regarding Horde age.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:16 PM (ffbyg)

281 Thanks Muldoon! Always great stuff. I need to peruse the history video takes on Anzio. Have done some of the reading, but I believe opinions vary violently on the big question (whether not moving quickly to cut the north-south roads was a major blunder that sort of vitiated the whole purpose of the operation).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:16 PM (OTzUX)

282 Hold the phone - brother would have missed the draft by one day....wait - was he born on the 21st or 22nd...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at February 09, 2023 11:17 PM (bUGMk)

283
all the really important people are related like the galaxy is a small town

Well, I was born in a small town
And I live in a small town
Probably die in a small town

Posted by: Darth Mellonhead at February 09, 2023 11:17 PM (63Dwl)

284 Boy, some of you Horde members are really old.

But, then, some of you are really young.

I would guess that I’m about in the middle regarding Horde age.

There's tales of Hordians so old they remember watching the TV show "Space:1999" when it was science fiction, not alternate history.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 09, 2023 11:18 PM (Bd6X8)

285 more:

Feb 7 (cont.)
Shelling continued during morning so we moved to area about a mile out of town. Feels safer. Sunny weather so far.

Feb 8.
Wakened up early with shells dropping into area. One within 100 yds of tent we were sleeping in. Looks like we really hit a “hot-spot”. Btry came up today.
Landed about 1230. They spent the night in staging area near Anzio. Wind came up and rain poured. Brigade SOP [standard operating procedure].

Dad was a junior staff officer (24 years old at the time) with VI Corps artillery section, spent most of his time at Anzio in counter battery ssection.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:18 PM (ykeLU)

286 Tyre Nichols death proves nothing about "white supremacy," which doesn't fucking exist. What it shows is a need to keep thugs, psychos, savages, and sociopaths out of police departments.

Posted by: Law enforcement needs major reform and this bullshit ain't helping at February 09, 2023 11:04 PM (UKe2c)

Problem is all the successful affirmative action lawsuits over the years which forced lower standards for police department recruits country-wide, the results of which are constantly in the news. Getting 'thugs, psychos, savages, and sociopaths' into the police rank and file was the goal of lowered standards. So here we are, black cops (okay I'll say it) murder a black suspect and it's white supremacy/racism.

These are not interesting times. These are crazy times.

Posted by: RickZ at February 09, 2023 11:18 PM (emlEe)

287 If Luke is gay then there is no doubt he and C-3PO are an item

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2023 11:19 PM (StQQf)

288 I turned 18 in a brief window when the draft was over and before Jimmy Carter started registration up again, so I was already on active duty when draft registration started back up. Years later, for student loans I had to certify that I had registered for the draft. I wrote a paragraph explaining the situation and apparently that was good enough. But for good measure I sent in the card anyway. Several months later I got a letter from the SSS thanking me for my patriotism but turning me down because I was too old.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 09, 2023 11:19 PM (7B5FA)

289 265
Is the U.S. Navy considered part of the military?

I was about to be drafted in 1970 so I joined the Navy. They put me on a minesweeper which went to Cam Ranh Bay and Da Nang. Never did see Dick Blumenthal.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Dick was working for Air America then. Flyin' deep in the jungle, lookin' for Col. Kurtz. I was there, saw it all.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 09, 2023 11:19 PM (uia9V)

290
Boy, some of you Horde members are really old.

But, then, some of you are really young.

I would guess that I’m about in the middle regarding Horde age.

Vibrant diversity

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 11:19 PM (63Dwl)

291 So, if the cops had put shackles on that Nichols guy, would the shackles have been Tyre irons?

Too soon?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:21 PM (ffbyg)

292 Boy, some of you Horde members are really old.

But, then, some of you are really young.

The old ones will steal your blood for their rejuvenation bathes if you fall asleep during the ONT.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 09, 2023 11:21 PM (KFhLj)

293 Melinda Dillon, mother of Barry in Close Encounters, dead at 84

Posted by: RTC at February 09, 2023 11:22 PM (RovqD)

294 If Luke is gay then there is no doubt he and C-3PO are an item
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2023 11:19 PM (StQQf)
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Luke did give C-3PO a hot oil bath in the first movie, but I'm sure that doesn't mean anything...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2023 11:22 PM (BpYfr)

295 Kind of like how it is in DC.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 09, 2023 11:15 PM (Bd6X

To be fair, though, Chewbacca is only related to Obama by marriage.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2023 11:22 PM (tkR6S)

296 Boy, some of you Horde members are really old.

But, then, some of you are really young.

I would guess that I’m about in the middle regarding Horde age.

Vibrant diversity
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 11:19 PM (63Dwl)
***

Yeah. Whatever.
Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 11:22 PM (anj39)

297 ..If Luke is gay then there is no doubt he and C-3PO are an item. Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 09, 2023 11:19 PM (StQQf)

Haz Bro sold it as an accessory "plug in"?

/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 09, 2023 11:22 PM (e6UQI)

298 My Dad landed at Oran, Algeria in November 1942. He was fought across North Africa and went into Italy at Salerno. They sent him home when he was at Mt. Cassino. I have some letters he sent to Mom that I haven't read yet. He escaped from reform school when he was in the 8th grade so he was barely literate. Wonderful Dad. Thirty year vet.

Posted by: Javems at February 09, 2023 11:23 PM (AmoqO)

299 Another one, this his first combat mission.

"Aug. 10 '44. Railroad junction at Mantes-Gassicourt. No flak. P-38 escort. Fair hits on targets. Raid No. 1. Duration 3:25."

Mantes-Gassicourt is a town in northwest France now called Mantes-la-Jolie.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:23 PM (OTzUX)

300 I believe opinions vary violently on the big question (whether not moving quickly to cut the north-south roads was a major blunder that sort of vitiated the whole purpose of the operation).

*****

My own thought is that pivoting to Rome, was politically shrewd, on the eve of Normandy landings and th Allies needing a visible victory. But militarily dumb as it allowed Kesselring to move several divisions north that would have been trapped if the major roads had been blocked.

After the breakout my dad flew an observation flight inland toward HwY 6 & 7, and the Germans were pretty much in full flight. But the US troops took that hard left to Rome.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:25 PM (ykeLU)

301 Is the U.S. Navy considered part of the military?

Let's face it. No little kid ever wants to get with his buddies and play Navy.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 11:26 PM (anj39)

302 That USA Today article can't helo themselves. Talking about "inequities" in the Draft.

It was not perfect, but all the myths they push are implied. The follow on articles about Kent State. I'm tired if hearing only one fucking side of this media fairy tale shit. The stupid fuckers had been rioting for a week and burnt down the ROTC building in campus.

That's why the National Guard was deployed there in the first place.

In hindsight it's obvious they should have invaded Berkely, not Bien Hoa. Madison, Ann Arbor, Iowa City, Columbia, etc.

What good does it do to fight communists on the other side of the world when they are setting up shop at the universities at home? Maybe we can call in a favor from the South Vietnamese and get an urban pacification program going.

"We had to destroy Portland in order to save it"

Posted by: Common Tater at February 09, 2023 11:26 PM (F1s4K)

303 I was about to be drafted in 1970 so I joined the Navy. They put me on a minesweeper which went to Cam Ranh Bay and Da Nang. Never did see Dick Blumenthal.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 11:10

LMAO, TY BCJ for the best chuckle of my day so far.

And that lying mfer is sitting in the Senate today, while Joe "Serial Plagiarist" is in the WH. What a world we live in. Sad.

Posted by: Farmer at February 09, 2023 11:26 PM (55Qr6)

304 Melinda Dillon, mother of Barry in Close Encounters, dead at 84

Posted by: RTC at February 09, 2023 11:22 PM (RovqD)

She was in Slap Shot. Topless. Rather well endowed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 09, 2023 11:26 PM (Angsy)

305 Boy, some of you Horde members are really old.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. - David Mamet

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2023 11:27 PM (tf17a)

306 rhomboid- I bet you could get an interesting time lapse view of the progress of things during those months by mapping the locations mission by mission.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:27 PM (ykeLU)

307 Melinda Dillon, mother of Barry in Close Encounters, dead at 84
Posted by: RTC

Ralphie's Mom!!?

Oh no.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2023 11:28 PM (DXrUa)

308 I agree with Bridget Phetasy -- our current reality isn't (just) a dystopia, it's a parody of a dystopia.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 11:28 PM (Dc2NZ)

309 My dad got a 6-month deferment because he was working at Oak Ridge (it wasn't called that yet). When he came up to the draft board the next time, he told them he might as well go because everyone else was. Served 1942 to 1946, made it all the way to the exalted rank of PFC. Got shot in France, had an unusual collection of jobs over his 4 years. Ranger, ship's carpenter, cargo checker, air crew member, POW guard.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 09, 2023 11:28 PM (7B5FA)

310 Javems, great stuff. I recall some of your other comments about your dad's long, and colorful, career. Read those letters!

If you're interested in Torch, "Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory" is a decent book. Actually some of the wild diplomatic aspects of Torch, and the Naval Battle of Casa Blanca (biggest surface engagement of the war in the Atlantic) were a highlight and new territory for me.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:29 PM (OTzUX)

311 I traced all of the place names mentioned in my dad journal as a tour on Google Earth. Fun to "fly" from place to place, even up into the Rhone Valley, near Strasbourg and into southern Germany.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:29 PM (ykeLU)

312 Boobs
( . ) ( . )

There, I helped

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 09, 2023 11:29 PM (xcxpd)

313 It seems that Melinda Dillon was also the mother in A Christmas Story.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:30 PM (ffbyg)

314 My own thought is that pivoting to Rome, was politically shrewd, on the eve of Normandy landings and th Allies needing a visible victory. But militarily dumb as it allowed Kesselring to move several divisions north that would have been trapped if the major roads had been blocked.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:25 PM (ykeLU)

IIRC didn't one of the generals and his driver just drive to Rome on a recon and find it undefended?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 09, 2023 11:31 PM (7B5FA)

315 The old ones will steal your blood for their rejuvenation bathes if you fall asleep during the ONT

Actually just your plasma.

Though it appears they are working in a pill format to extend your life, instead of transfusing youthful plasma at $1000 a liter.

ZH link:

https://tinyurl.com/t6a4uacu

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 09, 2023 11:31 PM (Zqeqr)

316 Viet Nam.
Hey, let's go kill commies 6000 miles away!
But, wait a second. We have commies 90 or 100 miles south of Florida! The supply lines would be shorter.
Shut up, commie simp pinko! REEE!

Posted by: gourman du jour remembers at February 09, 2023 11:32 PM (jTmQV)

317 Draft number 223.
Heh.

But apparently, it wouldn't have been called up.

Also the National Guard did nothing wrong at Kent State except to cease fire too soon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at February 09, 2023 11:33 PM (xcxpd)

318 Muldoon, I think that's the crux of the debate - Rome or east/cut the roads. I have read some accounts that the eastward movement was not a done deal, the Germans could and partially did put a stop to that operational direction, and were increasingly in a position to do so as their forces retreated north. Which would make the "debate" sort of moot.

And - absolutely, about the map idea. I'm trying to come up with a package of info and framing so this guy's war experience insofar as these items record/reflect it are preserved and put in context for the family. Thinking of asking his oldest son to request his DD-214 to fill in the gaps. His missions spanned August 1944 - April 1945, so just after D-Day and just before the surrender.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:35 PM (OTzUX)

319 Well, I am going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2023 11:35 PM (tkR6S)

320 The Left has always been about destroying America. Nothing less.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:36 PM (ffbyg)

321 Muldoon,
Do you recall where in southern Germany?
I did two tours in Bavaria. Loved it there.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 11:36 PM (anj39)

322 Muldoon love that - will use Goolag Earth to map out all the targets. I'm assuming I will be able to find info on the 394th. He was based in the UK for about half his missions, then northern France, I think.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:37 PM (OTzUX)

323 Currently reading, 'At First Light', Larimore. Larimore went ashore at Anzio in '44, and then later, southern France.

https://tinyurl.com/2ytsjpcg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2023 11:38 PM (g3gMh)

324 Dad was a jarhead on Guam in 1944. My minesweeper was homeported there in 1971.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 11:38 PM (63Dwl)

325 IIRC didn't one of the generals and his driver just drive to Rome on a recon and find it undefended?
Posted by: Caesar North

*******

That may have been Kelly's Heroes.

(Just kidding), the story of a general and his driver finding Rome undefended is probably apocryphal, but the Germans (not a huge number) had definitely bugged out of Rome in the days between the breakout and the Allies entering Rome.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:39 PM (ykeLU)

326 332 That opera singer, Ms. Sills, could do a great Bev aria.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:39 PM (ffbyg)

327 304 Melinda Dillon, mother of Barry in Close Encounters, dead at 84

Posted by: RTC at February 09, 2023 11:22 PM (RovqD)

She was in Slap Shot. Topless. Rather well endowed.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Boffing Paul Newman and then telling him about an affair she had with one of the wives of a team the Chiefs played.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 09, 2023 11:40 PM (2graF)

328 Do you recall where in southern Germany?
I did two tours in Bavaria. Loved it there.

******

That was near the tail end of his journal entries, which were becoming much more sparse and less detailed, only to end abruptly in ~Feb 1945.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:42 PM (ykeLU)

329 Thinking of asking his oldest son to request his DD-214 to fill in the gaps. His missions spanned August 1944 - April 1945, so just after D-Day and just before the surrender.
Posted by: rhomboid
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I would take a shot at the DA 201 file. I forget the request form, SF-180?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2023 11:44 PM (sewR1)

330 off lying msm sock

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 09, 2023 11:44 PM (2graF)

331 That was near the tail end of his journal entries, which were becoming much more sparse and less detailed, only to end abruptly in ~Feb 1945.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:42 PM (ykeLU)

Ahhh.
The end was in sight.

My dad was on subs all through the war so no journal and very few letters survived the years. The one place I was able to connect with his history was at the Royal Hawaiian in Honolulu, which became the unofficial hangout for sub crews between patrols. I was able to call him from the lobby. He was pleased.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 11:47 PM (anj39)

332 . I was able to call him from the lobby. He was pleased.
Posted by: Diogenes

********

Wait, what??????

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:49 PM (ykeLU)

333 My university wouldn't let me use my scholarship without proof that I had registered for selective service. I am a girl. It took a whole semester to get that straightened out.

Posted by: MammaB at February 09, 2023 11:49 PM (M+DHC)

334 308 I agree with Bridget Phetasy -- our current reality isn't (just) a dystopia, it's a parody of a dystopia.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 11:28 PM (Dc2NZ)
===

Yes. Sleeper

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 11:52 PM (EZebt)

335 Yes. Sleeper
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2023 11:52 PM (EZebt)
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They're going to clone Biden's nose!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 09, 2023 11:53 PM (Dc2NZ)

336 I was able to call him from the lobby. He was pleased.
Posted by: Diogenes

********

Wait, what??????
Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:49 PM (ykeLU)
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Yeah. Hell of a phone system!

Heh. What I meant was on my first TDY to Hawaii, I was able to go to the Royal Hawaiian and call him at his home in Portland. He was along in years and was very pleased to know I was able yo go there.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2023 11:55 PM (anj39)

337 They're going to clone Biden's nose!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

And it's now twice as dangerous to be a tweenage girl!

Posted by: * sniff * at February 09, 2023 11:55 PM (P1f+c)

338
I agree with Bridget Phetasy -- our current reality isn't (just) a dystopia, it's a parody of a dystopia.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Looking at it through a mirror. Upside down.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2023 11:56 PM (63Dwl)

339 , I was able to go to the Royal Hawaiian and call him at his home in Portland.

*******

Oj. I totally misinterpreted the original comment. Whew!!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 09, 2023 11:57 PM (ykeLU)

340 Thanks Mike H., will look into that.

And Diogenes that's awesome. Have you read "Silent Victory" by Clay Blair? Pretty comprehensive history of the Pacific sub campaign.

And speaking of that. The pilot whose log entries I've related above had an older BIL who was a sub skipper. One of the few who went into the Sea of Japan later in the war, and survived. I was living in DC when he passed and his funeral and interment at Arlington were kind of a big deal.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:57 PM (OTzUX)

341 We have commies 90 or 100 miles south of Florida!

We have commies 1,000 miles north of Florida too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 09, 2023 11:58 PM (PmqP5)

342 338
I agree with Bridget Phetasy -- our current reality isn't (just) a dystopia, it's a parody of a dystopia.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Looking at it through a mirror. Upside down.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

With Yakkety Sax as it's soundtrack

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 09, 2023 11:58 PM (2graF)

343 What was the punishment in Sleeper?

Being forced to watch hours of Nixon's addresses? Something like that.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 09, 2023 11:58 PM (OTzUX)

344 "We have commies 1,000 miles north of Florida too."

And they are large and in charge, yo.

Posted by: gourman du jour remembers at February 09, 2023 11:59 PM (jTmQV)

345 Thanks for the conversation y'all. I'm for bed.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 10, 2023 12:00 AM (ykeLU)

346 Lost meaningful contact w my daughter from age 13 to 18 after a horrible divorce to a spiteful ex. I'll forever regret not having the chance to dad-joke her like that video. She'll never know what she avoided unknowingly. She was such a happy, gullible kid too. We had a blast for the time we did share tho, that's what angered her mother most. Love to see those videos tho. Maybe in the next life....

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 10, 2023 12:01 AM (8JB5s)

347 Now I'm wondering if IG and I are the only ones here with actual Service Numbers? I do not recall when they stopped issuing those.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:02 AM (3aqKC)

348 Boy, some of you Horde members are really old.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. - David Mamet
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 09, 2023 11:27

I might resemble that remark. so MH, what was you draft lottery number, I know you're old enough to have one.

Posted by: Farmer at February 10, 2023 12:03 AM (55Qr6)

349 I agree with Bridget Phetasy -- our current reality isn't (just) a dystopia, it's a parody of a dystopia.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Looking at it through a mirror. Upside down.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

With Yakkety Sax as it's soundtrack
Posted by: Puddleglum

Too fun. More like Cage's "As Slow As Possible."

Wikipedia: https://tinyurl.com/2fjyxvth

"An organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt in 2001 began a performance that is due to end in 2640. The next note will be played on February 5, 2024."

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2023 12:03 AM (P1f+c)

350
Now I'm wondering if IG and I are the only ones here with actual Service Numbers? I do not recall when they stopped issuing those.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

It was in the early 70's because I had a service number in 1971 but when I got out in 75 it was the SSN.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2023 12:04 AM (63Dwl)

351 No, we have a coupon!
🤣😂🤣😂

Posted by: Flyover at February 10, 2023 12:04 AM (Rbu5d)

352 Now I'm wondering if IG and I are the only ones here with actual Service Numbers? I do not recall when they stopped issuing those.

Depends on the branch of service. Army and Air Force switched in 1969, Navy and Marines in 1972, and the Coast Guard in 1974.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 10, 2023 12:04 AM (Bd6X8)

353
RIP, lil' browser...

Posted by: Flyover at February 10, 2023 12:05 AM (Rbu5d)

354
I might resemble that remark. so MH, what was you draft lottery number, I know you're old enough to have one.
Posted by: Farmer
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Uh, no. I was getting short by then. Also, I enlisted, had an RA service number.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:06 AM (SbsCg)

355 Depends on the branch of service. Army and Air Force switched in 1969, Navy and Marines in 1972, and the Coast Guard in 1974.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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heh. The Coasties were too busy tending buoys to get with the program.

;-)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:10 AM (59Ws+)

356 heh. The Coasties were too busy tending buoys to get with the program.

;-)

They were DoT at the time, not DoD, so probably nobody remembered to send them the memo and they only found out later.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 10, 2023 12:11 AM (Bd6X8)

357 Blinker fluid? Thats a new one. I gotta remember that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2023 12:14 AM (VwHCD)

358 For WWII-inclined, so far this short movie is great. Naval aviators recall their war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfMhcK9gcqM

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2023 12:14 AM (OTzUX)

359 They were DoT at the time, not DoD, so probably nobody remembered to send them the memo and they only found out later.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

They had the internet, barely, in 1974. But nobody to taunt them with dank memes on Twitter.

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2023 12:15 AM (P1f+c)

360 They were DoT at the time, not DoD, so probably nobody remembered to send them the memo and they only found out later.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
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Treasury, right, not Transportation?
Aren't they Commerce now? Homeland Security?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:16 AM (d9q+b)

361 346 Lost meaningful contact w my daughter from age 13 to 18 after a horrible divorce to a spiteful ex. I'll forever regret not having the chance to dad-joke her like that video. She'll never know what she avoided unknowingly. She was such a happy, gullible kid too. We had a blast for the time we did share tho, that's what angered her mother most. Love to see those videos tho. Maybe in the next life....
Posted by: Son of Dad at February 10, 2023 12:01 AM (8JB5s)

Dreadfully sorry to hear that. Went through something similar. Rotten, spiteful ex wife engaged in an alienation campaign for several years, talking shit about me to the kids and making up outright lies. Lucky for me they figured her out eventually but there were some pretty hard times because of it.

Posted by: Been there too at February 10, 2023 12:18 AM (UKe2c)

362 Blinker fluid? Thats a new one. I gotta remember that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You can still get it. And muffler bearings.

But since car manufacturers stopped using whip antennas, they've stopped making frequency grease. If your classic Chevy has trouble tuning the radio, you're out of luck.

Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2023 12:18 AM (P1f+c)

363 Treasury, right, not Transportation?
Aren't they Commerce now? Homeland Security?
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Homeland Security.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 10, 2023 12:20 AM (2graF)

364 Treasury, right, not Transportation?
Aren't they Commerce now? Homeland Security?

Treasury was up until 1967, then over to Transportation. I'd have to do a bit more research to find out when they went from Transportation over to DHS, and if there were other stops along the way. There's still talk of moving them formally into the DoD, but it keeps not happening.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 10, 2023 12:21 AM (Bd6X8)

365 @346

That hurts my heart to hear. Do you have a relationship with your daughter now?

I lost my oldest stepson to a Leftist wife who played victim when I called her out for shitting on most of the family she married into over her shitty politics. That's been hard enough, but he's an adult and made an adult choice.

I've got a daughter about to turn seven, and she's so happy and innocent that it would break my heart if she were taken from me like yours was. Thankfully my wife isn't inclined to go that route.

Posted by: McLurkerson at February 10, 2023 12:22 AM (wNDOJ)

366 362 Blinker fluid? Thats a new one. I gotta remember that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You can still get it. And muffler bearings.

But since car manufacturers stopped using whip antennas, they've stopped making frequency grease. If your classic Chevy has trouble tuning the radio, you're out of luck.
Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2023 12:18 AM (P1f+c)

Gallon of prop wash.

Posted by: For the novice pilots at February 10, 2023 12:22 AM (UKe2c)

367 I turned 18 in November, 1973. So I had that going for me, which was nice.
Posted by: Archimedes

I turned 18 in December of 1973.

My lottery number for my birthday was 256.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 10, 2023 12:22 AM (tjZg/)

368 Hazing pranks? We had them.

Private! Get yer ass down to supply and get me 200 yards of gun line and a hundred pounds of gama goat feed. And don’t let them laugh you off. Last guy I sent failed, but you look like a Marine who ain’t taking shit from S4. You up to it? Ok, go!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 12:23 AM (u73oe)

369 But since car manufacturers stopped using whip antennas, they've stopped making frequency grease. If your classic Chevy has trouble tuning the radio, you're out of luck.

You can still use the stuff Ham Radio operators use. It's not ideal, since it's not intended for the AM broadcast band, but it's better than nothing.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 10, 2023 12:23 AM (Bd6X8)

370 Blinker fluid? Thats a new one. I gotta remember that.
Posted by: Berserker
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Have you seen this? Scroll down to the photos. Hard to believe that one guy did this:
https://www.bistella.cz/bistella-500-motorcycle/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:24 AM (HsC66)

371 I always go for the synthetic blinker fluid, not the organic.

Posted by: gourman du jour remembers at February 10, 2023 12:24 AM (jTmQV)

372 FYI, there is a Coast Guard section at the Pentagon. I've walked through it a few times. The Pentagon is divided up by military branches, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 10, 2023 12:24 AM (2graF)

373 Shore line. Get down to supply and get 15' of shore line.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:26 AM (MbWzp)

374 Have you seen this? Scroll down to the photos. Hard to believe that one guy did this:
https://www.bistella.cz/bistella-500-motorcycle/

Radial engine? Bet that thing flies!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 10, 2023 12:27 AM (Bd6X8)

375 Hi Horde, I have been lurking and multi-tasking for about an hour or so.
Count, good luck on the job interview.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2023 12:29 AM (a4EWo)

376 A can of relative bearing grease.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2023 12:32 AM (63Dwl)

377 One of the many things that made it so that I never really got into Star Wars is that in the whole humongous galaxy, all the really important people are related like the galaxy is a small town. The whole fighting with light sabers is profoundly silly too.
Posted by: azjaeger

Yeah, I never really "got it". I saw Star Wars in 1977 when it first came out, in a big, 1000 seat theater. I was all of 21.
It was entertaining, but seemed to me pretty much like a comic book movie. Like all the silly superhero movies made in the last couple of decades.
I think I saw "Taxi Driver" in the same time period, and that was a lot more intense to watch.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 10, 2023 12:33 AM (tjZg/)

378 Have you seen this? Scroll down to the photos. Hard to believe that one guy did this:
https://www.bistella.cz/bistella-500-motorcycle/

Radial engine? Bet that thing flies!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 10, 2023 12:27 AM (Bd6X

There are some serious radial engine harley style motorcycles out there. They are frigging insane. Structurally they wouldn't be that hard to build, especially since most harleys are pre-unit and the trans is separate, but be prepared to open your ass large enough to drive a bus through. These things are sick-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VU-ULRps4Y

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 10, 2023 12:36 AM (VwHCD)

379 PFC, go ask gunny if you can check out a PRC E7.

Posted by: McLurkerson at February 10, 2023 12:37 AM (wNDOJ)

380 PFC, go ask gunny if you can check out a PRC E7.
Posted by: McLurkerson at February 10, 2023 12:37 AM (wNDOJ)

—————

Forgot that one. Bwahaha!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 12:41 AM (u73oe)

381 I went to the draft lottery site. I had #54, which was called in 1972. I ain't no fortunate son. But when I was 20 I was at university. I might have spent my year as a REMF processing paper for an officer. A guy with my eyesight wouldn't have been first choice for playing hide & seek with Charlie.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 10, 2023 12:44 AM (W+kMI)

382 Pug, It is after midnight here, Happy Birthday to you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2023 12:46 AM (a4EWo)

383 Tis time. We're starting a run of above seasonal temps next week so there might not be any snow left for March. Only have about 8", it's been another open winter thanks to La Nina but she's moving out.

Anyway, y'all remember that we are Americans so that head is held HIGH and PROUD. It's part of our heritage.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 10, 2023 12:49 AM (KATBx)

384 Job interview in the morning. Would appreciate your prayers for success.
Posted by: Count de Monet

okay

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2023 12:52 AM (T4tVD)

385 Speaking of prayers, have my fifth treatment tomorrow but more importantly he will have the results of my CT scan from last week to see how I'm responding to treatment. Prayers please that it's a good report!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer

okay

Posted by: JT at February 10, 2023 12:54 AM (T4tVD)

386 Job interview in the morning. Would appreciate your prayers for success.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Speaking of prayers, have my fifth treatment tomorrow but more importantly he will have the results of my CT scan from last week to see how I'm responding to treatment. Prayers please that it's a good report!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer
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Thoughts and prayers with both of you.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:56 AM (CiQ6a)

387 Prayers up for both of you!

Posted by: Floridachick at February 10, 2023 12:57 AM (qyTEG)

388 "49 So my number would have been called. I would hell on wheels as a six year old in 'Nam."

Heh, I was 5 1/2 on Okinawa when I was made an honorary member of First Special Forces Group Airborne. I was baaad-asss (but my mom wouldn't allow me to get the tattoo...)

Posted by: Junior Parachutist during 'Nam at February 10, 2023 01:14 AM (8VEwM)

389 Vietnam War Draft Lottery

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Interesting. Didn't know much about that. Did some research on how the Selective Service does that (they have a lottery ball machine that first selects a Date, and then a sequence from 1-365 or 366 if 20 years after a Leap Year) -- and proceed until all are matched.

Had I been born on August 26, 1950, I would NOT have been drafted in 1970 ... but those born two days earlier that year would have been. Jeebus.

Had the war been still going in 1981, and had I been drafted (as a patriotic young gung-ho conservative warrior), I certainly would have went (or likely enlisted). And I probably would have died early on -- since the first time I played paintball, I went crazy at the start and charged the enemy flag all alone -- only to be shot several times by the numerous flag defenders.

[During the third game, I'd learned enough to adapt & survive, and captured the enemy flag -- returning it to our base to win. I was so excited, I started hyperventilating for the first time and wondered what the hell was happening to me ... ah, to be young again.]

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 10, 2023 01:14 AM (VV/gG)

390 My draft # was 75. If my birthday was a day earlier my draft # would not have been called. Story of my life.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 10, 2023 01:14 AM (bZMpx)

391 Job interview in the morning. Would appreciate your prayers for success.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Speaking of prayers, have my fifth treatment tomorrow but more importantly he will have the results of my CT scan from last week to see how I'm responding to treatment. Prayers please that it's a good report!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer
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Thoughts and prayers with both of you.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 12:56 AM (CiQ6a)
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Ditto! Off to be as we speak ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 10, 2023 01:15 AM (VV/gG)

392 I didn't go to Vietnam but I did ride in a Cobra helicopter . My father worked for Lockheed supervising the repair Cobras.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 10, 2023 01:20 AM (bZMpx)

393 Did someone lace this ONT with fentanyl?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 10, 2023 01:33 AM (Mzdiz)

394 Raimondo, you do realize you're mixing up the sides there, don't you?

Posted by: Weirddave at February 10, 2023 01:35 AM (kWLfT)

395 ..I didn't go to Vietnam but I did ride in a Cobra helicopter . My father worked for Lockheed supervising the repair Cobras. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 10, 2023 01:20 AM (bZMpx)

My one and only "helicopter ride" was on the seat of a Jungle Penetrator, back in '85 or so. San Antonio.

Very long story, made short as I can. Heavy local flooding. Radio sends out "needs boat". I take mine to nearby flooded (26' deep!) road crossing. Driving victim & fireman stranded in tree. Volunteer boat, Chief says "You Drive!", and so I did. Successfully reach tree. Stranded fireman STEPS ON gunwale of boat, flipping it. We're all in different trees now. Weather too heavy, have to wait 2 hrs for Huey.

Rode up with their Rescueman. I was rappelling tall buildings for a living then, not a care in the world. I was calming HIM down, lol.

That's my only helicopter ride. (awarded "Hildago" award by Bexar County Commissioners, we can look it up if you doubt.)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 10, 2023 01:38 AM (e6UQI)

396 394 Raimondo, you do realize you're mixing up the sides there, don't you?
Posted by: Weirddave

Its software has missed a few updates.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 10, 2023 01:41 AM (g/54t)

397
This sides mixing up is a thing. Watching Tucker tonight, it's now clear that actual self-defense will be charged as murder, and actual murder will be treated as self-defense.

If your skin is the right color, and you have the right politics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at February 10, 2023 01:48 AM (Mzdiz)

398 Posted by: Jim at February 10, 2023 01:38 AM (e6UQI)

No doubt. Did you get to give the fireman a sarcastic ' next time ....' after you were rescued?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 10, 2023 01:51 AM (bZMpx)

399 Damn! Went to take a shower, and missed rainmandodo.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2023 01:54 AM (HsC66)

400 400

Posted by: m at February 10, 2023 01:55 AM (dvbwR)

401 >>>I never want to see a thread less that 500 replies
I'd rather have a lot more even a thousand replies

We've got our work cut out for us here.

Posted by: m at February 10, 2023 01:56 AM (dvbwR)

402 ..No doubt. Did you get to give the fireman a sarcastic ' next time ....' after you were rescued? Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 10, 2023 01:51 AM (bZMpx)

No, but his buddies sure gave me a bit of a rally at the ceremony, kind of miffed him, I think?

Related. Leon Valley VFD Fire Chief saved HUNDREDS months later, when he drove Suburban Code 3 into grounds where Pope was going to appear in San Antonio. Massive thunderstorms DID roll in, toppling 100s of ft. tall ceremonial towers. Would've been Fresh Squeezed Pope, otherwise.

Later that year or next, LVFD Chief succumbed to major heart attack. He was a HOSS of a man; I was honored to know him.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 10, 2023 01:56 AM (e6UQI)

403 In before 500

Posted by: Pussy Galore at February 10, 2023 01:58 AM (aoFfE)

404 Miley, I read a good book a while back that stuck with me, it was beautifully written by Thomas Moran, entitled The World I Made For Her. Fentanyl addiction played a part in it. I think that you would like it, but what do I know, people's taste in literature certainly varies.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2023 01:58 AM (a4EWo)

405 This is what freedom looks like.

Forcibly conscripting 16 year olds.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxvxyau

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 10, 2023 02:08 AM (Zqeqr)

406 Turd >Rainmondo

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2023 02:09 AM (WF/xn)

407 People will look back one day and ask why.

Why did you hate Putin so bad that you wanted this.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8dpa92

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 10, 2023 02:11 AM (Zqeqr)

408 My pop enlisted for Vietnam, filled out papers and said he wanted to go to Germany. Army core dozen operator with his own 18 wheeler, dedicated to reconstruction, never saw any combat only german farmers daughters, lucky. He passes 8 years ago. Wonderful man. 67 years old.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2023 02:13 AM (WF/xn)

409 Hey! Hee! Fuck Joe B
How many kids did you kill today?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 10, 2023 02:20 AM (KAi1n)

410 Hatari.

67 weren't ain't no way near OLD enough. He was still Tx Mo Meet eligible, even for Year One eight years ago.

My Mom went at age 54. I was 19. Dad went in 2010, he was 78.

They're always too young, and we're always wanting them more. Fuck Death with Pelosi's Hammer.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 10, 2023 02:24 AM (e6UQI)

411 320 The Left has always been about destroying America. Nothing less.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 09, 2023 11:36 PM (ffbyg)

I can't figure out why.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at February 10, 2023 02:32 AM (LOVUx)

412 Jim, The story of your helicopter ride sounds amazing.

Mike Hammer, I bet Raimondo will be back if you wish hard enough.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2023 02:34 AM (a4EWo)

413 I have apparently suffocated the thread, sorry WeirdDave, it wasn't intentional. I am off to bed, morning will be here way too soon.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 10, 2023 02:47 AM (a4EWo)

414 Jim...what have we done? Its dead.

Posted by: a dude in MI at February 10, 2023 03:14 AM (+I6Y/)

415 + 85 = 500

Posted by: m at February 10, 2023 03:15 AM (Kr+3r)

416 Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery, I got this message

"YOUR DRAFT NUMBER
230
WAS NOT CALLED IN 1970.
If your birthday was just 1 day earlier, your draft number would have been called."

The practical consequence was that when I graduated that spring, the likelihood I would be drafted meant no company wanted to employ me just to have me sent to "The 'Nam" before I would have settled in and done some useful work for the money they had paid me.

Excluding young white males from the civilan work force is not a new thing.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at February 10, 2023 03:25 AM (EMi53)

417 https://youtu.be/iIIuR-HjFho

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 10, 2023 03:45 AM (C7jzY)

418 Hmm.

youtu.be/enuOArEfqGo

Posted by: JQ at February 10, 2023 03:53 AM (o0Fxd)

419 Morning, folken,

That draft lottery thing, brrrr. I was old enough, though 3 years younger than the website postulates, and my birthday had a high number. I never had to go. Good thing, as I'd have probably gotten myself killed doing something stupid over there. (Or doing something smart, or nothing at all.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2023 03:59 AM (omVj0)

420 My pop enlisted for Vietnam, filled out papers and said he wanted to go to Germany. Army core dozen operator with his own 18 wheeler, dedicated to reconstruction, never saw any combat only german farmers daughters, lucky. He passes 8 years ago. Wonderful man. 67 years old.
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2023

***
Well, sure, if I could have gotten sent to Germany, if they'd stuck me in an office or warehouse, no problem. Though I said at the time that if it looked like I had to go, I was going to th Navy recruiter and I'd see if I could get into submarines.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2023 04:02 AM (omVj0)

421 Noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 10, 2023 04:02 AM (omVj0)

422 Late bf's draft number *did* get called but he was in hospital. SS showed up at his room "why didn't you report?" #140

Uh, he was in a body cast, had broken neck and was partially paralyzed at the time.

Still had to show up, many months later, for physical. Got 4F

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