Foreground Miniature Cafe

Chianalea, Scilla-Calabria
via Italia on IG

This is a good tip if you ever find yourself in this situation. I don't know how often it would come up, though.

How to solve a Rubik's cube in four steps (repeated). Is that really all there is to it?

Traditional African dance looks a bit like shuffle dancing.

Kind of amusing-- two women making fun of YouTube Finance/Wealth Gurus.

Will you feed my monkey?

Workers on the Chrysler Building, 1929.

Old time special effects.

Another cool practical in-camera special effect. This kind of special effect, the foreground miniature, is my favorite. I think this reveal in The Shadow is done with a foreground miniature. Or maybe it's just a miniature on a table with forced perspective. I don't know. Looks pretty good, though, even though you can tell it's fake.

Camelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was just a ten foot tall model placed on a hill (down the page a bit), and made to look like it was very far away. Now that I know the trick I can see the fakery, but before I knew the trick, it looked genuine enough to me.

I think most "Castle Draculas" are faked this way.

This guy made a short video about decent special effects he did on a zero budget. At 5:20, he dresses his one-bedroom apartment to look like the interior of a space ship, including a never-ending hallway made with two sliding-door mirrors taken down from his closet. At 6:52, he uses a foreground miniature to fake a UFO.

I think many people are in this boat: When I can tell CGI is fake, which is almost always, I don't like it, and it takes me out of the movie. When I can tell a more traditional or practical special effect is fake, I often like it anyway, if it's still a pretty good try. I admire the craft and trickery of it, and it doesn't really take me out of the movie, except just to think "That was a cool shot" for a second.

I wish I had one-tenth of this guy's charisma and confidence.

Wrestling for beginners😊 pic.twitter.com/SuIEB5t7mv
— Tansu YEĞEN (@TansuYegen) March 13, 2023

So cute! Sound on.

That sound.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/7q9R4Np2j6
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) March 14, 2023

Is this real, or am I being punked like Lamont again?

Anti-theft security suitcase, 1961 pic.twitter.com/apOjPuf4T9
— History Page (@DailyVideosOnly) March 14, 2023

Am I being punked?

Expressions of the human body.pic.twitter.com/6XlAYiyK12
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) March 14, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 07:50 PM

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1 st?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2023 07:53 PM (Wnv9h)

2 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2023 07:54 PM (Wnv9h)

3 Wow!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 14, 2023 07:54 PM (u82oZ)

4 rd?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2023 07:54 PM (Wnv9h)

5 Damn it, Salty!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2023 07:54 PM (Wnv9h)

6 TradWife made it into this thread too. I totally recognize her in the expressions video.

Posted by: JROD at March 14, 2023 07:55 PM (krWyk)

7 A hobo-lifting aroma of frying sausages made me go and investigate what my TradWife was cooking. Apparently we will have breakfast for dinner. It's like going to Waffle House and never leaving home!

BBL.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 14, 2023 07:56 PM (yQpMk)

8 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 14, 2023 07:56 PM (u82oZ)

9 Top 10!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 14, 2023 07:57 PM (gryET)

10 Pretty good wrasslin' match.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 14, 2023 07:57 PM (4I/2K)

11 Wind is absolutely howling here.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 14, 2023 07:57 PM (gryET)

12 Camelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was just a ten foot tall model placed on a hill (down the page a bit), and made to look like it was very far away.

Castle Anthrax was real, I tell ya!

Posted by: Sir Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table at March 14, 2023 07:59 PM (a3Q+t)

13 th

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 07:59 PM (BRHaw)

14 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 07:59 PM (qoGsy)

15 Holy Carp! She is in there making sausage gravy for the biscuits that are in the oven.

Water is coming from my mouth.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 14, 2023 08:00 PM (yQpMk)

16 Castle Anthrax was real, I tell ya!
Posted by: Sir Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table at March 14, 2023 07:59 PM (a3Q+t)

I would not send a knight out in a dogma like this.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:00 PM (BRHaw)

17 That makes my back hurt just looking at it.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 14, 2023 08:01 PM (ZLI7S)

18 Googled it and several sources say that zero workers died while constructing the Chrysler Building.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2023 08:01 PM (xPl2J)

19 Well,
Still home sick with Covid. I can't get cleared to go back to work until at least Thursday. Feeling a little better, but still super tired.

I hate burning up pto for this shit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2023 08:01 PM (U2p+3)

20 Leopards are just big kitties

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2023 08:02 PM (xhxe8)

21 Biscuits and Chocolate Gravy WTF

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:02 PM (BRHaw)

22 OK that human body expressions video is kinda creepy....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 14, 2023 08:03 PM (+2RzF)

23 Am I being punked?

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I think it's for real. Creepy , but real hoooman.

Posted by: runner at March 14, 2023 08:03 PM (V13WU)

24 pic

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wgGwRySCCcMrV3Sj7

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:04 PM (BRHaw)

25 That meowing, along with the inability to roar, is what distinguishes the lesser cats from the greater cats. This is why cheetahs and cougars are considered the largest of the lesser cats.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:04 PM (trdmm)

26 Holy Carp! She is in there making sausage gravy for the biscuits that are in the oven.

Water is coming from my mouth.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 14, 2023 08:00 PM (yQpMk)

*takes notes* Interestingk

Posted by: Pavlov at March 14, 2023 08:04 PM (4I/2K)

27 Not to get political at the Café but here's video of the cops telling the invited-in J6 protesters that it's "Time to go" etc., and they leave peaceably and thank the cops, and bless them, including Buffalo Shaman guy.

Chuck Callesto @ChuckCallesto · 9h
JUST IN: Body cam footage emerges from inside the senate chamber, rebuking the narrative created by the J6 committee..

WON’T SEE THIS ON CNN..
https://tinyurl.com/3t6zdz89
2:13 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:05 PM (Vwz3I)

28 viking wife > trad wife

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:05 PM (BRHaw)

29 Hey all you criminals out there.... Slow Joe just signed a Executive Order Mandating Background Checks on all Gun Purchases. So when you steal or buy a gun on the black market don't forget to get your background check !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 14, 2023 08:05 PM (p3lya)

30 Top pic is nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2023 08:06 PM (kGtj5)

31 This is why cheetahs and cougars are considered the largest of the lesser cats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:04 PM (trdmm)

That would be a great name for a king ruler that lil bro was king but he was bigger!

Larger of the Lessor

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:06 PM (BRHaw)

32 I stayed home sick today. My voice sounded awful and I promised myself I'd call in if it was as bad today. I may even call in sick tomorrow. Supposed to be 70. Temps drop the next day and we get a chance of snow.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2023 08:06 PM (6lj/r)

33 "Bison" I should say.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:06 PM (Vwz3I)

34
I hate burning up pto for this shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2023 08:01 PM (U2p+3)

nurse, I'm so sorry you are going through that. It kicked our behinds for three weeks, with a couple of months severe fatigue afterwards. I'll pray you don't have to deal with that!

Posted by: Moki at March 14, 2023 08:07 PM (JrN/x)

35 29 Hey all you criminals out there.... Slow Joe just signed a Executive Order Mandating Background Checks on all Gun Purchases. So when you steal or buy a gun on the black market don't forget to get your background check !!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 14, 2023 08:05 PM (p3lya)

Doesn't every purchase require a bgc anyway?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 14, 2023 08:07 PM (kGtj5)

36 29 Hey all you criminals out there.... Slow Joe just signed a Executive Order Mandating Background Checks on all Gun Purchases. So when you steal or buy a gun on the black market don't forget to get your background check !!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 14, 2023 08:05 PM (p3lya)

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!".

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:08 PM (BRHaw)

37 Body thing is a bit creepy

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2023 08:08 PM (xhxe8)

38 Contortionist was creepy, but impressive...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:09 PM (BpYfr)

39 That meowing, along with the inability to roar, is what distinguishes the lesser cats from the greater cats. This is why cheetahs and cougars are considered the largest of the lesser cats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:04 PM (trdmm)
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It sounded a lot like Kaylee, the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:10 PM (BpYfr)

40 The thing about cheetahs and mountain lions is that although they are large cats, they are not actually big cats. Cheetahs and Pumas are of the Felinae sub family like housecats, and not Pantherinae sub famly like lions and leopards (the actual big cats)

It is of course important to not try to give any of them chin noogies unless you know them well. They might eat you.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:10 PM (xhaym)

41 * reads nurse's comment and looks over at Ivermec supply*

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2023 08:11 PM (X5Cn3)

42 On Tuesday, Biden will announce an executive order intended to control the availability of guns as much as he can without going through Congress.

He'll make the announcement in Monterey Park, California, where 72-year-old Huu Can Tran shot and killed eleven people with a semi-automatic pistol in January, during Lunar New Year celebrations.

Sure, blowing up the Moon is a big fuckin deal, but we have to deal with the Lunar New Year.

When asked about the Sun, Biden retorted, bigger fucking deal!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:12 PM (BRHaw)

43 From last thread: There are sound inversion layers where the sound of ACW battles could not be heard in a zone while being audible farther off. This would only explain if there were trumpeters somewhere playing which seems unlikely.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 07:51 PM (eoQWY)

You can find video of some of these events on the web. Very creepy; doesn't sound like human trumpets, but it's closer to the sound of that than anything else we have a word for.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:12 PM (trdmm)

44 Rukics cube thang ... he starts with it solved, so not a good test case. And one guy responds "if you do the same algs repeatedly, you be always return the cube to the original state (in the case of this video, it wil be solved cause that's where the algs started).

So he is not solving, he is doing an action that will return it to the current state ... just revolving some things.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2023 08:12 PM (Cus5s)

45 I want a suitcase like that and do a TV show called "Bait Bag" like they did with "Bait Car".

The feral utes won't be able to resist it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 14, 2023 08:12 PM (R/m4+)

46 lovely pic up top, love to dine w/Mrs Eez at the Ristorante ... but too bad about the people in masks; when I see that in a pic anywhere my brain goes straight to foad land, worse than body-piercings and too many tats.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 14, 2023 08:13 PM (VohFI)

47 That meowing, along with the inability to roar, is what distinguishes the lesser cats from the greater cats. This is why cheetahs and cougars are considered the largest of the lesser cats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 14, 2023 08:04 PM (trdmm)
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It sounded a lot like Kaylee, the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 14, 2023 08:10 PM (BpYfr)

Saw a documentary years ago about sabre tooth cats, which has been evolved and died out several times in the cats lineage that was pretty interesting. They said one species alive now might be on the verge of re-re-re developing it, but its pretty small now but oversized. Now that would be a good target for a new cat breed rather than the crushed faces/eyes or bad legs that are the newest trends.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:13 PM (eoQWY)

48 Still home sick with Covid. I can't get cleared to go back to work until at least Thursday. Feeling a little better, but still super tired.

I hate burning up pto for this shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2023 08:01 PM (U2p+3)

Well, the weather should be nice this next week, so get some good books, a sun hat and get as much sun as you can. Seriously, the first real nice stretch should be coming up and you have an excuse

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:14 PM (xhaym)

49 I actually like Steve Perry/Journey. Thanks for the sidebar music, Ace

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at March 14, 2023 08:14 PM (xcxpd)

50 Going to try and get some sleep, wind probably going to howl all night.
Hope everyone has a great quiet evening

Posted by: Skip at March 14, 2023 08:15 PM (xhxe8)

51 So there were about 700 mammals of over 50 kgs before the last ice age.

Now maybe 70. Maybe another ice age would lead to more mega mammals, but grandma is gnna be fodder.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:15 PM (BRHaw)

52 That dance, definitely more complicated than shuffling. It’s impressive!

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2023 08:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

53 How does one discover she is a contortionist? A terrible accident that should really hurt but doesn't?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

54 g'night Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 14, 2023 08:17 PM (VohFI)

55 53 How does one discover she is a contortionist? A terrible accident that should really hurt but doesn't?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

I was going with parking in a pinto!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:17 PM (BRHaw)

56 12 Camelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail was just a ten foot tall model placed on a hill (down the page a bit), and made to look like it was very far away.

Castle Anthrax was real, I tell ya!
Posted by: Sir Lancelot, Knight of the Round Table at March 14, 2023 07:59 PM (a3Q+t)

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Of course Camelot was a model. Patsy says as much in the movie.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:18 PM (uPgE/)

57 According to the comments, that Twitter video of the Rubik's cube is a little misleading. Those four motions will eventually get the cube back to its starting point, which is great: if it was in its "solved" state when you began. If you get one and it's already jumbled, I don't think it will work.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 14, 2023 08:19 PM (tp+tP)

58 SO the first time I saw Camelot I realized that the Monty crew got fucked up and did that show.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:20 PM (BRHaw)

59 My Granddad worked on the Chrysler Building. He survived that but was killed by a hit and run driver not long after and left behind a wife and five young daughters in the middle of the depression.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 14, 2023 08:20 PM (3ImbR)

60 Of course Camelot was a model. Patsy says as much in the movie.
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Serendipity; just saw this picture today:
https://tinyurl.com/48m23e4u

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:21 PM (Vwz3I)

61 well, that finished off my widemouth quart canning-jar full of everclear + gatorade; g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 14, 2023 08:21 PM (VohFI)

62 Cheetahs are "cute" until you see them bring down a large mammal that runs ALMOST as fast as it does.

Then has to eat quickly before the hyenas and leopards and lions show up.

Badass.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:21 PM (M2qSa)

63 If you get one and it's already jumbled, I don't think it will work.
Posted by: Dr. T at March 14, 2023 08:19 PM (tp+tP)

9 sqaures 6 side would not it take 36 moves to fix

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:21 PM (BRHaw)

64 My son's rheumatologist told us she was hyperflexible, and her sister was actually a contortionist.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:21 PM (uPgE/)

65 >>>Not to get political at the Café but here's video of the cops telling the invited-in J6 protesters that it's "Time to go" etc., and they leave peaceably and thank the cops, and bless them, including Buffalo Shaman guy.

Chuck Callesto @ChuckCallesto · 9h
JUST IN: Body cam footage emerges from inside the senate chamber, rebuking the narrative created by the J6 committee..

WON’T SEE THIS ON CNN..
https://tinyurl.com/3t6zdz89
2:13 minutes

...

thanks, I meant to post that today. I'll post it tomorrow.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2023 08:22 PM (BvUNN)

66 >>>Of course Camelot was a model. Patsy says as much in the movie.

oh right, I forgot that.

Posted by: ace at March 14, 2023 08:22 PM (BvUNN)

67 Journey is in full of drama right now. Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain can't stand each other and lawsuits are flying back and forth. But they're still performing on the same stage together. Don't know how they do it.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 14, 2023 08:23 PM (xPl2J)

68 So there were about 700 mammals of over 50 kgs before the last ice age.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:15 PM (BRHaw)

What's 50 kgs in real numbers?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:23 PM (M2qSa)

69 How does one discover she is a contortionist? A terrible accident that should really hurt but doesn't?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

My little brother could snap his thumbs back another 40 degrees from normal, I imagine it just happened once and he knew he could after that. it was just a two state thing, all broken looking to regular and back.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:23 PM (eoQWY)

70 Still home sick with Covid. I can't get cleared to go back to work until at least Thursday. Feeling a little better, but still super tired.

I hate burning up pto for this shit.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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*pushes chicken soup into USB*

and I also have pony paste should anyone need it.

At UW we had 80 hours of special "covid leave" - otherwise I'd have had to do LWOP.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 14, 2023 08:23 PM (aBJcM)

71 So there were about 700 mammals of over 50 kgs before the last ice age.

Now maybe 70. Maybe another ice age would lead to more mega mammals, but grandma is gnna be fodder.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 14, 2023 08:15 PM (BRHaw)

The loss of the megafauna in the Americas is correlated with the beginning of the Younger Dryas, which was a rapid onset ice age reversing the previous trend towards warming and is one of the reasons for suspecting another asteroid strike, this time on the North American ice sheet.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:24 PM (xhaym)

72 My son's rheumatologist told us she was hyperflexible, and her sister was actually a contortionist.
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:21 PM (uPgE/)

I'm not sure what you said, but my response to that would be "what are the two of you doing Saturday night?"

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:25 PM (M2qSa)

73 @68

>>What's 50 kgs in real numbers?

It's about 7.5 stone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2023 08:26 PM (up/3i)

74 According to the comments, that Twitter video of the Rubik's cube is a little misleading. Those four motions will eventually get the cube back to its starting point, which is great: if it was in its "solved" state when you began. If you get one and it's already jumbled, I don't think it will work.
Posted by: Dr. T at March 14, 2023 08:19 PM (tp+tP)

I have a book that describes it - there are combinations that move a color on a corner to another face without disturbing anything else, ones to flip the two on the side so if you know them all you can solve even a random cube pretty fast.

I picked up the book since it had info for patterns of the old 'game of life' i wanted to program into a computer but it was neat. This was some time after the craze first started.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:26 PM (eoQWY)

75 Chrysler building guys - no safety lines, hard hats, or any special gear at all - they are in street clothes and shoes?! And I bet every one smoked as much as they liked all day long too.

Posted by: Goldilocks at March 14, 2023 08:26 PM (p0qJo)

76 > What's 50 kgs in real numbers?

It's about 7.5 stone.
___________

How many alligators is that?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 14, 2023 08:27 PM (Q4IgG)

77 What's 50 kgs in real numbers?
Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:23 PM (M2qSa)

2.2+ lbs to a kilo, about 110 to 120 lbs

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

78 72 My son's rheumatologist told us she was hyperflexible, and her sister was actually a contortionist.
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:21 PM (uPgE/)

I'm not sure what you said, but my response to that would be "what are the two of you doing Saturday night?"
Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:25 PM (M2qSa)

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Well, my wife was there, too, so I had to keep my thoughts to myself.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:27 PM (uPgE/)

79 thanks, I meant to post that today. I'll post it tomorrow.
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Cheers.

[No hat-tip required.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (Vwz3I)

80 With Sam Brinton on the loose, 1961 suitcase is going to make a comeback.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (NpAcC)

81 The loss of the megafauna in the Americas is correlated with the beginning of the Younger Dryas, which was a rapid onset ice age reversing the previous trend towards warming and is one of the reasons for suspecting another asteroid strike, this time on the North American ice sheet.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:24 PM (xhaym)

Since the 80s I have gotten a bit tired of every damn thing being a meteor strike. Did they find a KT layer there? Remember a conference where they had like 26 events all demanding their own meteor.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (eoQWY)

82 @76

>>How many alligators is that?

It's about a 20th of an Alligator.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (up/3i)

83 How many alligators is that?
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0.25 camels

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (Vwz3I)

84 Chrysler building guys - no safety lines, hard hats, or any special gear at all - they are in street clothes and shoes?! And I bet every one smoked as much as they liked all day long too.
Posted by: Goldilocks at March 14, 2023 08:26 PM (p0qJo)

It's a free country ain't it?

Posted by: Chrysler Building Construction Guy at March 14, 2023 08:29 PM (AiZBA)

85 2.2+ lbs to a kilo, about 110 to 120 lbs

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

More or less.

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (AwYPR)

86 "What's 50 kgs in real numbers?"

ha, right ... give some units that make sense. How many alligators would that be?

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (Cus5s)

87 Is this real, or am I being punked like Lamont again?

Once a Lamont, always a Lamont.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (Xrfse)

88 I have a book that describes it - there are combinations that move a color on a corner to another face without disturbing anything else, ones to flip the two on the side so if you know them all you can solve even a random cube pretty fast.

I picked up the book since it had info for patterns of the old 'game of life' i wanted to program into a computer but it was neat. This was some time after the craze first started.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:26 PM (eoQWY)

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There are, not surprisingly, youtube videos that walk you through solving a rubik's cube. It really is just the application of multiple different algorithms.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (uPgE/)

89 How does one discover she is a contortionist? A terrible accident that should really hurt but doesn't?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 14, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)
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Coming into the late but I know for a fact that Nurse R was a world class athlete and gymnast. Don't know much about her floor exercise but her lane with the .45 is friggin' unreal!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (anj39)

90 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (Q/6pY)

91 all women want to be double jointed

Posted by: REDACTED at March 14, 2023 08:31 PM (us2H3)

92 oh sheesh, my alligator clever comment was very late. ha

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2023 08:31 PM (Cus5s)

93 What's 50 kgs in real numbers?

20 to life in a Red State.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2023 08:32 PM (anj39)

94 >91 all women want to be double jointed

Posted by: REDACTED at March 14, 2023 08:31 PM (us2H3)

All men want women to be double jointed...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 14, 2023 08:32 PM (gryET)

95 Chuck Callesto @ChuckCallesto · 9h
JUST IN: Body cam footage emerges from inside the senate chamber, rebuking the narrative created by the J6 committee..

WON’T SEE THIS ON CNN..
https://tinyurl.com/3t6zdz89
2:13 minutes

...

thanks, I meant to post that today. I'll post it tomorrow.
Posted by: ace at March 14, 2023 08:22 PM (BvUNN)

"God bless you, officers," the new "I can't breathe?"

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:32 PM (M2qSa)

96 Nurse having her temperature taken...

https://tinyurl.com/53wpysf5

Yes, safe for work, you pigs!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:33 PM (Vwz3I)

97 Since the 80s I have gotten a bit tired of every damn thing being a meteor strike. Did they find a KT layer there? Remember a conference where they had like 26 events all demanding their own meteor.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (eoQWY)

Well, what else are they going to do? Acknowledge that sometimes the climate changes on its own without outside interference? Do you *want* them to commit science heresy?!

Posted by: Dr. T at March 14, 2023 08:34 PM (tp+tP)

98 There are, not surprisingly, youtube videos that walk you through solving a rubik's cube. It really is just the application of multiple different algorithms.
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (uPgE/)

My little brother had his own technique. I came in to see him with half the stickers peeled off and putting one back on.

Gotta admire lateral thinking.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:34 PM (eoQWY)

99 What's 50 kgs in real numbers?
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20 to life in a Red State.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 14, 2023 08:32 PM (anj39)

But I have a prescription from my Life Coach.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:34 PM (M2qSa)

100 Another brief sea otter video:
https://tinyurl.com/4dr7bdps

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:34 PM (Vwz3I)

101 Well, what else are they going to do? Acknowledge that sometimes the climate changes on its own without outside interference? Do you *want* them to commit science heresy?!
Posted by: Dr. T at March 14, 2023 08:34 PM (tp+tP)

I remember when KT *was* the heresy....along with drifting continents although that was just the library books being a little behind.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:35 PM (eoQWY)

102 Nurse having her temperature taken...

https://tinyurl.com/53wpysf5

Yes, safe for work, you pigs!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:33 PM (Vwz3I)

L'Otters are unafraid.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 14, 2023 08:35 PM (AiZBA)

103 >>98 There are, not surprisingly, youtube videos that walk you through solving a rubik's cube. It really is just the application of multiple different algorithms.
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM (uPgE/)

Rubik's cube = chimp-tasker

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:36 PM (Q/6pY)

104 Since the 80s I have gotten a bit tired of every damn thing being a meteor strike. Did they find a KT layer there? Remember a conference where they had like 26 events all demanding their own meteor.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (eoQWY

This is a theory that makes mainstream paleoarchologist fume, throw things and swear.

The answer is "go search Pilauco younger dryas evidence" since it is a carbon layer about the right time, and look a the Saginaw Bay impact evidence and make up your own mind. It might be ropes spun from sand . . . But so is fiberglass.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:37 PM (xhaym)

105 Rubik's cube = chimp-tasker
Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:36 PM (Q/6pY)

I just define the 'desired' state to be the one showing.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:37 PM (eoQWY)

106 all women want to be double jointed
Posted by: REDACTED at March 14, 2023 08:31 PM (us2H3)

Jeez, this is how I get started...

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:38 PM (M2qSa)

107 Coin pusher machines = chimp-tasker

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:38 PM (Q/6pY)

108 Since the 80s I have gotten a bit tired of every damn thing being a meteor strike. Did they find a KT layer there? Remember a conference where they had like 26 events all demanding their own meteor.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:28 PM (eoQWY)

Actually the cool kids say KPg boundary, and no, that was the end of the Cretaceous. What you are looking for is the Younger Dryas layer.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:39 PM (xhaym)

109 The thing about a practical effect is it's still something real and the mind knows that and accepts it.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:39 PM (BXxcV)

110 Bendy person has a backup career in a magic show to fall back on if the woke studies degree doesn't pan out.

Posted by: micky at March 14, 2023 08:39 PM (3byMq)

111 The answer is "go search Pilauco younger dryas evidence" since it is a carbon layer about the right time, and look a the Saginaw Bay impact evidence and make up your own mind. It might be ropes spun from sand . . . But so is fiberglass.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:37 PM (xhaym)

Well carbon could just be fires or volcanism setting fires. What made KT interesting was the iridium in isotope proportions *not* common in earth deposits but similar to meteors.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:39 PM (eoQWY)

112 [ fill in the blank ] reminds me of the bridge at Selma. - said every Democrat politician for the last 40 years.

I have always supported gay marriage. - said every Democrat politician for the last 4 weeks.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at March 14, 2023 08:40 PM (6cB8e)

113 1961 suitcase: "...of course his hand would be crushed".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions at March 14, 2023 08:41 PM (UuqUV)

114 >>What you are looking for is the Younger Dryas layer. Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:39 PM (xhaym)

What Zod is looking through is the subconjunctival hemorrhage.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:41 PM (Q/6pY)

115 That last one is downright creepy.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at March 14, 2023 08:42 PM (+ldAm)

116 Actually the cool kids say KPg boundary, and no, that was the end of the Cretaceous. What you are looking for is the Younger Dryas layer.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:39 PM (xhaym)

You know who else said KPg boundary....

Posted by: Dr. T at March 14, 2023 08:42 PM (tp+tP)

117 If you mashup the African traditional shuffle dance and the Chrysler Building workers, then you've got something.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 14, 2023 08:42 PM (FVME7)

118 Aww thanks, andycanuck.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 14, 2023 08:43 PM (U2p+3)

119 O/T if not already known (just informed by the wifey):

[Headline @ The Federalist:] "Silicon Valley Bank Pledged Nearly $74 Million To Black Lives Matter Causes"

SubHead: "Silicon Valley Bank might have been able to make good on $74 million promised to customers had it not pledged the money to leftist causes."

https://tinyurl.com/2we3284r

Whoops! Whoopsie!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 14, 2023 08:43 PM (wsx8x)

120 ZOD.
Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:30 PM

*considers comment*

*considers nic*

*nods*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 14, 2023 08:43 PM (Wnv9h)

121 >>>That sound..

People who have been in the presence of a lion roaring for real say that you can actually feel the sound waves and vibrations going through your body.

I guess there is a reason they don't say that about cheetahs.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 14, 2023 08:45 PM (gv7Yb)

122 I don't think I'd want to be on the same airplane as that suitcase.

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2023 08:45 PM (iayUP)

123 >>[Headline @ The Federalist:] "Silicon Valley Bank Pledged Nearly $74 Million To Black Lives Matter Causes"

(Tents fingers, goes long vice stocks)

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:45 PM (Q/6pY)

124 1961 suitcase: "...of course his hand would be crushed".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko solutions at March 14, 2023 08:41 PM (UuqUV)

If you carried your gold bars in it, it'd be too heavy to steal.

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2023 08:45 PM (AwYPR)

125 Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 14, 2023 08:43 PM (wsx8x)

So all BLM has to do if give their mansions back and they can save all these investors.

Super easy barely an inconvenience. That's going to happen, right?

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:46 PM (BXxcV)

126 "I think many people are in this boat: When I can tell CGI is fake, which is almost always, I don't like it, and it takes me out of the movie. When I can tell a more traditional or practical special effect is fake, I often like it anyway, if it's still a pretty good try. I admire the craft and trickery of it, and it doesn't really take me out of the movie, except just to think "That was a cool shot" for a second."

Same here, Chief. When I see operational airplanes and tanks in movies that now exist only in museums, and dozens of them in a shot, I immediately lose the movie and start examining how accurate and detailed the CGI models are.

I always groan when WW2 movies use footage of real American planes for German or Jap planes, but I give them credit for not using 1/32-scale radio-controlled models that always look hokey to me. The best fake vintage planes effort was in "Tora, Tora, Tora!"

I loved the effort made in 1969 or 1970 for "Kelly's Heroes," adding false superstructures to T-34's to make them into a decent representation of German Tiger I tanks. Instead of using obsolete US tanks and painting crosses on them.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2023 08:46 PM (AMIL/)

127 I guess there is a reason they don't say that about cheetahs.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 14, 2023 08:45 PM (gv7Yb)

Cheetahs never win.

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:47 PM (BXxcV)

128 Aww thanks, andycanuck.
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Get better soon.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:47 PM (Vwz3I)

129 Heard an interesting interview with 2 fighter pilots flying in formation and have a square black object wrapped in a clear bubble flying at Mach 1 fly between them and come to a complete stop.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 14, 2023 08:47 PM (X5Cn3)

130 * searches interwebz for obscure "1961 suitcase" reference and finds: *

"Girl With a Suitcase" (1961), directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Claudia Cardinale and Jacques Perrin, is an unsettled post-neorealist film that captures Cardinale’s child-like innocence and Perrin’s gentleness as a 16-year-old boy who falls for her."

Mmmmmmmm ... Claudia Cardinal. [It is any wonder that the first three loves of my life were Italian?]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 14, 2023 08:47 PM (wsx8x)

131 Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:47 PM (Vwz3I)

Who are you and what have you done with andycanuck?

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (BXxcV)

132 Of course, cheetahs are quiet -- they don't want to get caught.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (Vwz3I)

133 People who have been in the presence of a lion roaring for real say that you can actually feel the sound waves and vibrations going through your body.

I guess there is a reason they don't say that about cheetahs.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 14, 2023 08:45 PM (gv7Yb)

There's a wildlife sanctuary northeast of Denver. I've been inside the partial enclosure when multiple lions start to roar. It feels like it shakes the whole structure.

Gloriously deafening is the only way I can describe it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (M2qSa)

134 Well carbon could just be fires or volcanism setting fires. What made KT interesting was the iridium in isotope proportions *not* common in earth deposits but similar to meteors.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:39 PM (eoQWY)

It could also be a bolide turning itself into plasma and torching the countryside.

as it is, the current theories on animal extinction is that all the megafauna larger than a buffalo or a tapir were killed off by a combination of Clovis culture paleoindians and the stress of a new ice age. As for the one, I don't think the Clovis culture was so broad to sweep through two continents, and for the second, the mega fauna was evolved for ice ages.
All the other evidence for and against is being winnowed.

I want to ask the most vocal critics "what evidence would you expect to find in this scenario that would give you a reason to re-examine this theory" but I suspect the answer would be "nothing would prove it, it is a fantasy, no evidence will be found, I am too busy to teach you basic Archeology" (which is odd, most of them teach Archeology and hey, ARCH 101 is where they all started)

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (xhaym)

135 >>Instead of using obsolete US tanks and painting crosses on them. Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2023 08:46 PM (AMIL/)

Or using pouting, obsolete British actors to play Nazi officers.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (Q/6pY)

136 Who are you and what have you done with andycanuck?
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Bite me!

[Feel better, ellipsis??]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:50 PM (Vwz3I)

137 ZOD, I hate to hear that your eye is not doing well.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:50 PM (xhaym)

138 "There are, not surprisingly, youtube videos that walk you through solving a rubik's cube. It really is just the application of multiple different algorithms."

iirc one video came up here at AoS recently ... it seemed complicated, but certain series of turns/motions (algs?) will rotate certain segments. The competition then becomes to do it in the fewest steps, I guess.

A friend of mine and I each got one for some Christmas event, we toyed with them for ten minutes, I then threw mine in the trash with "time waster" comment. He agreed, threw his in the trash. ha.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 14, 2023 08:50 PM (Cus5s)

139 I thinks we be all should be pruod of Presdent biden because he be has to fix all these problims created by thats Loser Trump !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 14, 2023 08:51 PM (66jxp)

140 Of course, cheetahs are quiet -- they don't want to get caught.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (Vwz3I)

Heh, that's actually true. They share space and prey with lions, leopards and hyenas. And manage to survive. It ain't just because they're fast.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:51 PM (M2qSa)

141 So all BLM has to do if give their mansions back and they can save all these investors.

Super easy barely an inconvenience. That's going to happen, right?

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:46 PM (BXxcV)

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Heh. Jackson & Sharpton, previously the kinds of racialist industry shakedown grift, must wonder where they went wrong after witnessing the haul taken in by BLM in a mere few years.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 14, 2023 08:51 PM (wsx8x)

142 the stress of a new ice age
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Worried that their not farting enough had affected the weather.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:52 PM (Vwz3I)

143 >>137 ZOD, I hate to hear that your eye is not doing well. Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:50 PM (xhaym)

(Pauses dinner of soft-boiled eggs, employs spoon, removes eye, grows new eye)

Beautiful. Mutated.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:52 PM (Q/6pY)

144 I thinks we be all should be pruod of Presdent biden because he be has to fix all these problims created by thats Loser Trump !!!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 14, 2023 08:51 PM (66jxp)

A perfectly reasonable explanation for why he sticks his fingers inside the vaginas of staffers. He tells them "I'm fixing problems created by Trump."

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:53 PM (M2qSa)

145 I thinks we be all should be pruod of Presdent biden because he be has to fix all these problims created by thats Loser Trump !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 14, 2023 08:51 PM (66jxp)

Who?....never heard of him.

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2023 08:53 PM (AwYPR)

146 Old and busted: New ice age stress.
New hotness: The stress of a new fart age.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:53 PM (Q/6pY)

147 Newsom/Harris 2024

Gay is the new black.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:55 PM (Q/6pY)

148 "No, I'm not feeling up your 13 year old daughter. I'm fixing problems created by Trump."

-- Alzheimer Joe

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:55 PM (M2qSa)

149 Bite me!

[Feel better, ellipsis??]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:50 PM (Vwz3I)

Better. 🫡

Posted by: ... at March 14, 2023 08:56 PM (BXxcV)

150 Better. 🫡
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I aim to please.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:57 PM (Vwz3I)

151 So now Cow farts a good thing ? AOC will be devastated !

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 14, 2023 08:57 PM (/Qz4j)

152 Huh, took a quick look at work email. One of our netadmins just sent out a good bye email, leaving in 5 days. Will be interesting to see how many more of us will be leaving soon

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 14, 2023 08:58 PM (6lj/r)

153 "If Trump can grab pussy, ice-cream volcano. For the people. Like me, of Allentown. Manna-facturing, and Amtrak analog goat-chewing to make a new renewable newable fuel. Thing."

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:58 PM (Q/6pY)

154 Scroll down in the first link. It's a great "Why women live longer than men."

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 14, 2023 08:58 PM (lS6co)

155 as it is, the current theories on animal extinction is that all the megafauna larger than a buffalo or a tapir were killed off by a combination of Clovis culture paleoindians and the stress of a new ice age. As for the one, I don't think the Clovis culture was so broad to sweep through two continents, and for the second, the mega fauna was evolved for ice ages.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (xhaym)

I did find it odd that the climate effects are different in the South America to other regions - hot and dry vs cold and wet, but supposedly equally bad deaths from climate change. Havent yet seen the Michigan strike, everyone seems to prefer Greenland and one in Chile. The glass microbeads do seem to show impacts

Posted by: Oldcat at March 14, 2023 08:59 PM (eoQWY)

156 Well, see you all tomorrow.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 14, 2023 08:59 PM (Vwz3I)

157 ZOD, I hate to hear that your eye is not doing well.

Ditto.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2023 08:59 PM (Xrfse)

158 Chocolate sauce on vanilla ice-cream: known.

Butterscotch sauce on strawberry: R&D phase.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:00 PM (Q/6pY)

159 158 chocolate on strawberry sounds very yummy. Caramel on chocolate sounds very yummy. Strawberry and butterscotch? Not so sure.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2023 09:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

160 >>157 ZOD, I hate to hear that your eye is not doing well.
Ditto. Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2023 08:59 PM (Xrfse)

Thanks. If it goes south, I'll at least get a pirate eyepatch...painted to look like a grotesquely overlarge paisley eyeball.

It's not supposed to go far left, though, so just regular eyeball, standard-issue brown.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:05 PM (Q/6pY)

161 *burp*

I am obscenely full.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 14, 2023 09:05 PM (yQpMk)

162 What is that fruit the baby monkey is eating?

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2023 09:05 PM (AwYPR)

163 >>Strawberry and butterscotch? Not so sure.
Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2023 09:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

(Engages eggyolk/eye-goo-covered small spoon)

For science.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:06 PM (Q/6pY)

164 If it goes south, I'll at least get a pirate eyepatch

I trust that Zod is already proficient in pirate lingo?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2023 09:07 PM (Xrfse)

165 >>I trust that Zod is already proficient in pirate lingo?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2023 09:07 PM (Xrfse)

R.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:08 PM (Q/6pY)

166 Chocolate sauce on vanilla ice-cream: known.

Butterscotch sauce on strawberry: R&D phase.
Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:00 PM (Q/6pY)

I have the stubborn belief that if I put two sweet things together, it'll be fine.

It's not always.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 09:09 PM (M2qSa)

167 Lindsey Graham says we need to hold Russia and Putin "a cannibal."

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 14, 2023 09:09 PM (Jg7EG)

168 R.

Not bad. Could use a little work. Seriously, wish for you the best possible outcome.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 14, 2023 09:09 PM (Xrfse)

169 Ben Had - more on the ufo, please

Posted by: free tibet at March 14, 2023 09:10 PM (iNp3L)

170 >> the vaginas of staffers.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:53 PM (M2qSa)

A murder of crows. A pod of dolphins. A vagina of staffers.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:10 PM (Q/6pY)

171 Bacon-butterscotch: Positive.
Bacon-strawberry: Negative.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:12 PM (Q/6pY)

172 Did you hear Biden in that interview say that he is going to stay focused on staying focused?

Posted by: fd at March 14, 2023 09:12 PM (iayUP)

173 I have a book that describes it - there are combinations that move a color on a corner to another face without disturbing anything else, ones to flip the two on the side so if you know them all you can solve even a random cube pretty fast.
Posted by: Oldcat

I think I had that book. 7 steps, not 4. I still remember how to do it, and still have an old cube as an office toy, because I'm a huge nerd. You don't solve a side at a time, you start at the "north pole" and work your way to the "south pole."

123
456
789

The "5" can only rotate and not move to a different place. So you start with one side, place 2468, then place 1379 (without disturbing 246

. Then place the "equator" cubes directly under 1379. Then switch to the "bottom" side now that 2/3 of the cube is done. Get the 1379 on the bottom side in the right locations, then in the right orientations, which is two steps now that you can't change 2/3 of the cube. Then there's 2 steps that you switch between to get the 2468 cubes on the "bottom" side into place.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2023 09:13 PM (P1f+c)

174 The best "solve" of a Rubik's Cube is a well-aimed .220 Swift, right at about 4,000 ft/sec muzzle velocity.

It'll "solve" that thing into pieces, bits and individual molecules like it transforms a prairie dawg into pink mist shining and shimmering in the West Texas sun.

Otherwise known as the Weasel Gambit, it's a proven one-move solution to the puzzle.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 14, 2023 09:14 PM (e6UQI)

175 >>172 Did you hear Biden in that interview say that he is going to stay focused on staying focused?
Posted by: fd at March 14, 2023 09:12 PM (iayUP)

He's robbing Paul to pay Paul. His left hand doesn't know what his left hand is doing. Fool him once, shame on him; fool him twice, shame on him. A penny saved is a penny.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:15 PM (Q/6pY)

176 135 >>Instead of using obsolete US tanks and painting crosses on them. Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2023 08:46 PM (AMIL/)

Or using pouting, obsolete British actors to play Nazi officers.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 08:48 PM (Q/6pY)

Michael Caine used pretty-much his normal voice while playing a German officer in "The Eagle Has Landed" and a British tank unit commander of Irish descent in "A Bridge Too Far."

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2023 09:16 PM (AMIL/)

177 172 Did you hear Biden in that interview say that he is going to stay focused on staying focused?
Posted by: fd at March 14, 2023 09:12 PM (iayUP)

The only thing Biden focuses on is lying.

Posted by: Gref at March 14, 2023 09:18 PM (AMIL/)

178 R.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:08 PM (Q/6pY)

eye.....aye

Posted by: BignJames at March 14, 2023 09:19 PM (AwYPR)

179 the vaginas of staffers.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 08:53 PM (M2qSa)

A murder of crows. A pod of dolphins. A vagina of staffers.
Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:10 PM (Q/6pY)

Oddly tied to death. Crows show up after the murder, dolphins cause the murder, and staffers end up the victims of murder (ruled a suicide, of course).

Posted by: BurtTC at March 14, 2023 09:20 PM (M2qSa)

180 Zhao Bai-Den. Bought and paid for in ice cweam.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:20 PM (Q/6pY)

181 I just spent the afternoon in the pub drinking with a former rodeo cowboy.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 14, 2023 09:23 PM (eGTCV)

182 Nurse, I pray for your swift and complete recovery!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 14, 2023 09:26 PM (jTmQV)

183 I just spent the afternoon in the pub drinking with a former rodeo cowboy.
Posted by: N. Lurker

That must have been sad. A cowboy who lost his rodeo.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2023 09:27 PM (P1f+c)

184 That must have been sad. A cowboy who lost his rodeo.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2023 09:27 PM (P1f+c)

His favourite song is something called Dear Rodeo by I don't know who.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 14, 2023 09:31 PM (eGTCV)

185 Huh. 130 calories in one of those little "Fun Size" Snickers peanut butter squares. And I have 5 left. One quarter of my DRA of calories. 3900 calories in 50 eggs. 6500 in 50 peanut butter squares (need to buy another bag).

Five days of food.

Posted by: ZOD at March 14, 2023 09:34 PM (Q/6pY)

186 161 same, except my burp was lady like. I ate enough roasted green beans for 12 people.

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2023 09:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

187 Awww, Nurse! The tired is the worst part of Covid. I hope you aren’t down long!

Posted by: Piper at March 14, 2023 09:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

188 >184 That must have been sad. A cowboy who lost his rodeo.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2023 09:27 PM (P1f+c)

His favourite song is something called Dear Rodeo by I don't know who.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 14, 2023 09:31 PM (eGTCV)

You asked for it:

https://tinyurl.com/bdhrxau4

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 14, 2023 09:38 PM (gryET)

189 Apparently Dear Rodeo makes me cowboy friend cry,

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 14, 2023 09:39 PM (eGTCV)

190 >>> That must have been sad. A cowboy who lost his rodeo.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2023 09:27 PM (P1f+c)

His favourite song is something called Dear Rodeo by I don't know who.

Posted by: N. Lurker

https://youtu.be/fMdmjoAB-5Q?t=1

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 14, 2023 09:43 PM (Jg7EG)

191 Apparently he was a pretty good saddle bronc rider.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 14, 2023 09:46 PM (eGTCV)

192 This guy one of the organizers of a freedom ride of horses through my town just short of a year ago. That event made me cry.

The truckers convoy was a little more than a year ago.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 14, 2023 09:53 PM (eGTCV)

193 Where did everybody go? This is like the ONT at 0200.

Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2023 09:54 PM (P1f+c)

194 Yeah- where is everyone??

Posted by: free tibet at March 14, 2023 09:55 PM (iNp3L)

195 just because I showed up you all don't have to leave.

Posted by: free tibet at March 14, 2023 09:56 PM (iNp3L)

196 I had a full beer more than usual plus I flirted with women half my age. Jeez.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 14, 2023 09:56 PM (eGTCV)

197 >>>Where did everybody go? This is like the ONT at 0200.

>Everybody is sitting around the kitchen table wondering if they can put food on the table and pay for gas in the World's Greatest ~~Democracy~~ Kleptocracy led by the Joe Biden Administration.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 14, 2023 09:56 PM (Jg7EG)

198

We're leaving to free tibet.

Posted by: four seasons at March 14, 2023 09:57 PM (ichPI)

199 193 Where did everybody go? This is like the ONT at 0200.
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2023 09:54 PM (P1f+c)

Everyone's still in disarray over the DST switch.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 14, 2023 09:58 PM (DTX3h)

200 Aaaaand, ONT is nood

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 14, 2023 09:59 PM (DTX3h)

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