Cell Phone Sympony Cafe

Is that real? Do dogs fly now? I don't want to be punked again.

LIFEHACKS! YOUR LIFE JUST GOT HACKED! But seriously, a few of these are cool.

ICYMI: Driving to the 7-Eleven in Egypt.

I always enjoy this viral marketing stunt for the Carrie remake. Never saw the movie, but the viral marketing I give four stars! Highest rating!

A little outdoor painting.

Is this real? I don't want to be Lamonted again.

Saving a tiny baby dolphin from a stray net.

Doggie being adopted from a shelter.

Birds want to race a speedboat.

Friends.

Co-parenting.

Oh he did NOT!

Cellphone alert signals: An Interpretive Dance Demonstration:

lol pic.twitter.com/Dl3A72XySA
— Enezator (@Enezator) April 25, 2023

So beautiful duet. pic.twitter.com/ReFNoVlXP5
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 25, 2023

So, little brag, I understood most of that. He said "Suoniamo mi amici, vi faccio ascoltare una bellisima tarantella, tu suona una tarantella? Ma va bene?" I think. Which is "Let's sing, my friends, I'm going to play (literally: I'm going to make you listen to) a very beautiful tarantella, [to bird] you sing a tarantella, okay is that good?" Later I think he says Dai, Roma. "Dai" means "go!" or "do it." I think Roma might be the name of the bird.

Weirdest thing, I was watching Sherlock last night, and they used the word "ta" several times. I've never heard this before, but apparently it's a common British interjection. It means "thank you" or "thanks."

Like when Watson paid for a map, the guy said "Ta" and then when he gave Watson his change Watson said "Ta" back to him.

I watch a lot of British stuff and I've never, ever heard this. I've even seen this Sherlock four times and never noticed it.

Ivory Hill, Chinapic.twitter.com/Ff58Tcpnlr
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 25, 2023

Moraine Lake, Canada.
Even the clarity of the water is soothing.pic.twitter.com/WZuWy0OOho
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 25, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 07:27 PM

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1 Doggy!!

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 25, 2023 07:27 PM (DTX3h)

2 Ola !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:29 PM (V13WU)

3 or is it Hola ! ?

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:29 PM (V13WU)

4 singing crow is awesome...

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:29 PM (V13WU)

5 looks like my pups

Bichons are the greatest doggies

Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 07:31 PM (us2H3)

6 Breaking News: Tucker was fired from Fox

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2023 07:32 PM (0R9Xx)

7 Flying doggos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:32 PM (/xaUq)

8 You know, life would be better if canines were airbourne.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:33 PM (/xaUq)

9 >>>Breaking News: Tucker was fired from Fox
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

cite?

Posted by: Jake Tapper at April 25, 2023 07:33 PM (iHBZj)

10 Breaking News: Tucker was fired from Fox
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2023 07:32 PM (0R9Xx)

Again?

Man, this guy is like Dracula, he keeps coming back.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:33 PM (tp+tP)

11 No idea what that is. But I never want to encounter it.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2023 07:33 PM (wj0wG)

12 Did you guys hear Tucker was fired?

Posted by: Amy Shumer at April 25, 2023 07:34 PM (wj0wG)

13 There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2023 07:34 PM (DgGvY)

14 Evening all

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2023 07:34 PM (gryET)

15 Wow, Tucker may be a T1000.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:35 PM (/xaUq)

16 ...and I nooded...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2023 07:35 PM (gryET)

17 That crow messes up and he gets stuffed and baked at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Baste every 5 minutes or so….

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2023 07:35 PM (R/m4+)

18 Quoth the raven...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:35 PM (/xaUq)

19 What the hell is this ?

Looks like a Nudibranch

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2023 07:35 PM (NtVYv)

20
Now do "Ta da!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:36 PM (pNxlR)

21 Ta, Ace! The cell phone dancers made my day.

Posted by: Iris at April 25, 2023 07:36 PM (NaH5I)

22 Wow, Tucker may be a T1000.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:35 PM (/xaUq)

—————

Listen and understand. Tucker is out there. He doesn’t feel pity or remorse and he absolutely will not stop until you hear the truth.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2023 07:36 PM (u73oe)

23 I watch a lot of British stuff and I've never, ever heard this. I've even seen this Sherlock four times and never noticed it.

Which Sherlock episode. I still like Scandal, but the rest of the eps.... kind of wear the more distance from release.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:36 PM (/xaUq)

24
Okay, here's a real poser -- "Ta! Ta!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:37 PM (pNxlR)

25 That crow messes up and he gets stuffed and baked at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Baste every 5 minutes or so….
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2023 07:35 PM (R/m4+)
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Along with three-and-twenty siblings...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 07:37 PM (BpYfr)

26 >>>21 Ta, Ace! The cell phone dancers made my day.

good. I almost didn't post them because I was worried that garrett would get too excited

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:38 PM (iHBZj)

27 Okay, here's a real poser -- "Ta! Ta!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:37 PM (pNxlR)

————-

Ask Mannix.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2023 07:38 PM (u73oe)

28 Evenin' Horde. Just popping in to say many thanks to whoever linked the Brooklyn Duo the other night. My mom LOVES them! (#metoo)

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2023 07:38 PM (aBJcM)

29 da ho aint rowin

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2023 07:38 PM (BRHaw)

30 "Weirdest thing, I was watching Sherlock last night, and they used the word "ta" several times. I've never heard this before, but apparently it's a common British interjection."

I heard that used often when I lived in the UK, mostly in places like Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 07:38 PM (T9WMp)

31 " Do dogs fly now? I don't want to be punked again."

It's pouncing.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2023 07:38 PM (iayUP)

32 What the hell is this ?

Breakfast.

Posted by: Don LeMon at April 25, 2023 07:38 PM (Xrfse)

33 Peck peck on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 25, 2023 07:39 PM (X+Ku8)

34
You know, life would be better if canines were airbourne.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

In flying cars!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:39 PM (pNxlR)

35 >>>Which Sherlock episode. I still like Scandal, but the rest of the eps.... kind of wear the more distance from release.

The Hounds of Baskerville

Have you watched the HBomberguy "Sherlock is Garbage and here's why"? It's pretty good, even if he's usually an annoying leftist, but I was just watching a couple of them and they're not bad. It's really season 3 where the quality drops, and then it really drops badly in season 4.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:39 PM (iHBZj)

36 Which Sherlock episode. I still like Scandal, but the rest of the eps.... kind of wear the more distance from release.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:36 PM (/xaUq)

I still really like all of Season 1. Season 2 is pretty good as well, 3 is just barely watchable, and 4...well, the less said about that the better.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:39 PM (tp+tP)

37 Please don't toss my pizza past the bug infested lights.
I don't want to eat bugs until I absolutely have to.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (s3vs/)

38 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (OX9vb)

39 Okay, here's a real poser -- "Ta! Ta!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Usually found in pairs. Especially when posing.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (DgGvY)

40 Watson says it when they get to the setting (not Baskerville, like Dartmoor or someplace) and he buys something from the bartender at the pub. I forget if it's a map or whatever.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (iHBZj)

41 "a tapping at my door"
https://youtu.be/dVLUeXkzUjM

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (mLeXI)

42
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (ENBF0)

43 Is that a giant doggie balloon?

Posted by: NL at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (eGTCV)

44 Weirdest thing, I was watching Sherlock last night, and they used the word "ta" several times. I've never heard this before, but apparently it's a common British interjection. It means "thank you" or "thanks."

Like when Watson paid for a map, the guy said "Ta" and then when he gave Watson his change Watson said "Ta" back to him.

Morons say it a lot, Ace, they just always say it using contrastive focus reduplication and pluralize it, i.e. ta-tas.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2023 07:40 PM (a3Q+t)

45 To continue from last thread, another Cherryh I have is The Tree of Swords and Jewels. Need to reread that too.

Amazing cover art. Hot cloaked woman with a giant honking sword. In front of a tree with swords and jewels hanging from it. I vaguely remember the story is that she is a spirit of this important tree and there is a mortal dude that she falls in love with and he is killed by some assholes and she kills everyone.

Mom always dates her books. 12/25/1983. I am betting it was a Christmas gift from Dad or to Dad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:41 PM (/xaUq)

46 I watched The Great Game (season 1, episode 3, the one with Moriarity) and it was pretty decent.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:41 PM (iHBZj)

47 Pretty close Italian translation Ace. Sentences like Ma va bene? Can also more literally be "But is that good? (Or okay)

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 07:41 PM (T9WMp)

48 Willowed:

Oh, who is the one who did the terraforming of Mars books? A lady. She managed to make that both boring and soap opera at the same time. Jennifer?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:31 PM (/xaUq)

Kim Stanley Robinson (a man) wrote the Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. I'm not familiar with anyone else. Brian Aldiss wrote a rebuttal to Robinson's Trilogy called "White Mars" but it was a hot mess.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 07:42 PM (PiwSw)

49 Having trouble evaluating the rack on the female in the cell alert video.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 25, 2023 07:42 PM (HDObm)

50 Have you watched the HBomberguy "Sherlock is Garbage and here's why"? It's pretty good, even if he's usually an annoying leftist, but I was just watching a couple of them and they're not bad. It's really season 3 where the quality drops, and then it really drops badly in season 4.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:39 PM (iHBZj)

Without having seen those videos, my take is that at least part of the problem is Watson's wife. The actress playing her was dating Martin Freeman at the time, and so I guess the writers thought they had to put her into as much of the show as possible, and it didn't work.

There were other problems too, but that was a big one.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:42 PM (tp+tP)

51 >>>
Morons say it a lot, Ace, they just always say it using contrastive focus reduplication and pluralize it, i.e. ta-tas.

well it means "thank you" in an exchange so maybe that's where tit-for-tat comes from

just speculating about a hypothesis

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:42 PM (iHBZj)

52
Ola!

"Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners. One by one, our old friends are gone. Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:42 PM (pNxlR)

53 I still really like all of Season 1. Season 2 is pretty good as well, 3 is just barely watchable, and 4...well, the less said about that the better.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:39 PM (tp+tP)

That is about my review score too by season. I could not really be bothered with four. Seemed stupid by that point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (/xaUq)

54 I hate the term "life hack" but those are some pretty good ideas

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (0hOvj)

55 Doggie is too cute

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (xhxe8)

56 >>>Without having seen those videos, my take is that at least part of the problem is Watson's wife. The actress playing her was dating Martin Freeman at the time, and so I guess the writers thought they had to put her into as much of the show as possible, and it didn't work.

well he's a leftist so he loves that the show added a Stronk Empowered Woman, but I agree with you, what a bore. And even after they killed her they had her appear in an episode as a ghost. She had more lines than the villain!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (iHBZj)

57 1983?

Probably a Michael Whelan cover.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (mLeXI)

58 35 Have you watched the HBomberguy "Sherlock is Garbage and here's why"? It's pretty good, even if he's usually an annoying leftist

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:39 PM (iHBZj)

Too it isn't him dying of coof-cancer-lupus-AIDS rather than Jim.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (DTX3h)

59 Sweet doggie getting adopted.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (gLRfa)

60 "that's where tit-for-tat comes from"

Isn't that just "this for that" before they invented aspirated consonants?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (ou9hh)

61 It's really season 3 where the quality drops, and then it really drops badly in season 4.

Season 1 ends badly with fruity fay Moriarty introduced way too early, and Season 2 is weaker, but yeah it gets terrible in 3. I just stopped watching and I loved the first season.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:44 PM (0hOvj)

62 Season 1 episode 2, the thing about the Bankers or something, is a pretty boring episode, honestly.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:44 PM (iHBZj)

63 Kim Stanley Robinson (a man) wrote the Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. I'm not familiar with anyone else. Brian Aldiss wrote a rebuttal to Robinson's Trilogy called "White Mars" but it was a hot mess.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 07:42 PM (PiwSw)

Dammit. Completely off. Thanks. I have the books around here somewhere, I think. They seem to breed when I am not watching them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:44 PM (/xaUq)

64 Too BAD it isn't him dying...

Once of these days I'll figure out why I frequently drop words in my sentences. Maybe it's pixy fucking with me.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at April 25, 2023 07:44 PM (DTX3h)

65
i.e. ta-tas

AoSHQ -- sooner or later, every thread reduces to boobies

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:45 PM (pNxlR)

66 Does anyone think CNN jettisoning LeMon on the same day Fox cut ties with Carlson is a coincidence?

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 07:45 PM (IAF9Q)

67 Beautiful afternoon here in SeaTown. The sun is shining. It's 59 degrees and the Mountain is out!!!!

Cheers, mates!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (aJVMf)

68 Well, instead of Tucker being on in 15 minutes, uhh, Tim Pool will be on in 15 minutes.

Not quite the same but will have to do for now.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (up/3i)

69 >>>Isn't that just "this for that" before they invented aspirated consonants?

neat idea but we've had "thorn" (th) for a good long time. But it probably does come from this-for-that, now that you say it. But it's probably evolution in the other direction, dropping the h's. Probably scottish. Every weird thing in language is scottish or northern english.

(Ta might be a northern englandism, I think they went up to the north)

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (iHBZj)

70 Well I've used Ta practically all my life. It's very short for Thanks or Thank You in an informal way.

Posted by: Ciampino - hot and spicy samoosas are delicious at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (qfLjt)

71 Hiya

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (T4tVD)

72 well it means "thank you" in an exchange so maybe that's where tit-for-tat comes from

just speculating about a hypothesis
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:42 PM

There was a young girl who begat
Three babies named Nat, Pat and Tat.
T'was fun in the breeding
But hell in the feeding
When she found there was no tit for Tat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (a3Q+t)

73 The thing I like about Cherryh's SF is that people are just people like us, same motivations and drives, she just posits one or two changes in the universe, like what if regular people suddenly had faster than light travel. How would our societies change. And what happens when we find out that there are intelligent aliens out there and we encounter them? Lots of aliens.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (i5lJm)

74 57 1983?

Probably a Michael Whelan cover.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (mLeXI)

Indeed. I just checked and they name him just inside the cover. It is a DAW yellow spine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (/xaUq)

75 I could use that laser tree destroyer, not sure if real or fake

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2023 07:47 PM (xhxe8)

76 I believe "ta" has Nordic or Scandinavian origins. I seem to remember that when I first heard it years ago. Some clown friend of mine from Oxford threw out that factoid when I asked.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 07:47 PM (T9WMp)

77 Hold on , what's the name of the actress who is playing Mary Watson ?

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:47 PM (V13WU)

78 Season 1 ends badly with fruity fay Moriarty introduced way too early, and Season 2 is weaker, but yeah it gets terrible in 3. I just stopped watching and I loved the first season.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:44 PM (0hOvj)

Moriarty's the other big problem. I actually liked his character alright while he was around, but the show had literally no idea what to do without him, and so (like Mrs. Watson) they kept bringing him back even after he was dead. The way they did it in Season 4 (especially the last episode) was just beyond pathetic.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:47 PM (tp+tP)

79 ta da

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:48 PM (V13WU)

80 Apparently bleeding out the ass is a sign of a dying liver. Internet ads are weird.

Posted by: Call me jaundiced if you must at April 25, 2023 07:48 PM (N2NOk)

81 Sherlock is a perfect example of how that writer works, though. He starts out with a great idea, then runs it into the ground forgetting what the show is supposed to be about and focusing more on clever twists than telling a story or characterization. And he made Holmes into a shockingly horrible human being. Doyle made him eccentric and sometimes forgetful of others, arrogant, but likable and interesting.

And while he started well with Watson, by the final episode of the fourth season Watson was just another dolt surprised at everything Holmes did.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:48 PM (0hOvj)

82 Okay, here's a real poser -- "Ta! Ta!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:37 PM (pNxlR)

Yes, if you say that in the US you are a poser

Now, on the other hand I used to say Chau, pues, and Mexicans thought I was too weird, but it was merely self defense against the idiots that would say "andale"

Walk on, my foot.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 07:48 PM (xhaym)

83 i.e. ta-tas

AoSHQ -- sooner or later, every thread reduces to boobies
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:45 PM (pNxlR)

This is the cover, in case anyone is interested.

https://is.gd/EMd1Bd

Tree spirit is stacked.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:48 PM (/xaUq)

84 anyway, the HBomberguy video does make a good point: As the seasons progress, the ep's are less and less about the myseries and crimes, and more just written to show Sherlock showing off or being rude or being brilliant or being "The Most Special Boy Ever!" And that part is true, as it grinds on it becomes more and more about the "mythology" of the character, John's wife, Sherlock's girlfriend, their relationship, the relationship with Moriarity, and of course Sherlock always being the Most Special Boy ever.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (iHBZj)

85 Need another Mars story?

John Varley's Red Thunder. Misifit teens in Florida plan to build a spaceship to rescue Ares Seven and beat the Chinese to Mars.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (mLeXI)

86 24
Okay, here's a real poser -- "Ta! Ta!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:37 PM (pNxlR)
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Goodbye

Posted by: Ciampino - hot and spicy samoosas are delicious at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (qfLjt)

87 (Ta might be a northern englandism, I think they went up to the north)
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (iHBZj)

Unless they radically changed the setting from the book, "Baskerville" was set in Devonshire, in southwest England.

And in the book, they even talk about how people in Devonshire have a very strong local identity, so it might in fact be part of the regional dialect, rather than standard British.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (tp+tP)

88 i.e. ta-tas

AoSHQ -- sooner or later, every thread reduces to boobies
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:45 PM

Sooner or later,
ta-tas gonna get ya
Sooner or later,
ta-tas gonna win,
ta-tas gonna win!

Posted by: Grassroots at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (a3Q+t)

89 oh and Mycroft. I could have used 70% less Mycroft.

He was in almost every episode!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (iHBZj)

90 Did that guy do the Xanth covers?

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (HDObm)

91 I have read only a few Cherryh stories, short story stuff I think. Honestly I'm not a big sci fi fan, although I do like some of it. Mostly I like stuff like Laumer's Retief series.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (0hOvj)

92 The interesting thing in the Faded Sun is how humans are able to adapt to each of the alien races. It's our survival mechanism and something the alien races can't do.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (u7leW)

93 This is the Cumbersnatch Sherlock Holmes, right?

I only watched one episode. I think it was the wedding episode, and it was so fey and self-indulgent that I felt a burning hatred for the entire series, sight unseen.

Jeremy Brett is Holmes for me.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (Dc2NZ)

94 Well I've used Ta practically all my life. It's very short for Thanks or Thank You in an informal way.

Interesting. Must be a regional thing. I've always just said "thanks".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (Xrfse)

95 And while he started well with Watson, by the final episode of the fourth season Watson was just another dolt surprised at everything Holmes did.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:48 PM (0hOvj)

Watson first season was outstanding. Badass. Which was closer to say... Hardwicke's version of Watson from the Brett series.

'I was a soldier in India, sir.

I've slain FAR nobler creatures than you.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:50 PM (/xaUq)

96 I'm just here to learn about orbital mechanics

Posted by: DB - completing the maneuver at April 25, 2023 07:50 PM (geLO8)

97 Ta might be a northern englandism, I think they went up to the north

I think it is, yeah. And yes, too much Mycroft. I liked how Doyle handled the other characters better, he brought them in to add interest and more drama to the books when just Holmes and Watson was getting stale. Not right at first.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:51 PM (0hOvj)

98
Apparently bleeding out the ass is a sign of a dying liver. Internet ads are weird.
Posted by: Call me jaundiced if you must

Strange, I took that to be a representation of having farts so fierce they make your ass feel like it is burning -- thanks, expiring liver!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:51 PM (pNxlR)

99 Probably scottish. Every weird thing in language is scottish or northern english.

(Ta might be a northern englandism, I think they went up to the north)
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:46 PM (iHBZj)

Interesting. At one point in the Rob Roy movie, the bad guy says to the guy he's planning on robbing 'It's not easy to kill a man' and the doomed fellow shoots at him and misses and he spreads his hands and says 'Ta'.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 07:51 PM (i5lJm)

100 Mycroft was init so much because the actor was actually the writer/producer.

Another fun fact, Sherlock’s mother and father were played by Ben Cumberbach’s real parents.

Posted by: Sassy at April 25, 2023 07:52 PM (xSICi)

101 Me dear old Mum was from the UK. She said "Ta, luv" all the time

Posted by: DB - completing the maneuver at April 25, 2023 07:52 PM (geLO8)

102 Probably a Michael Whelan cover.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 07:43 PM (mLeXI)
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Quite likely. I know Whelan did the cover art for a number of Cherryh's novels...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 07:52 PM (BpYfr)

103 You just know that one and probably both of the people in the first embedded tweet owe six figures on an interpretive dance degree.

Posted by: ARLDN at April 25, 2023 07:53 PM (tKg6H)

104 >>>3 This is the Cumbersnatch Sherlock Holmes, right?

I only watched one episode. I think it was the wedding episode, and it was so fey and self-indulgent that I felt a burning hatred for the entire series, sight unseen.

...

yeah they got very precious about themselves

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (iHBZj)

105 As the seasons progress, the ep's are less and less about the mysteries and crimes, and more just written to show Sherlock showing off or being rude or being brilliant

That was my primary complaint. This is supposed to be about mysteries and deduction with Holmes defeating criminals not bizarre, random events that Holmes implausibly figures out.

But Watson is the key. A good Sherlock story has to handle Watson right. You can tell how good or crappy its going to be by how Watson is handled.

I think it was the wedding episode, and it was so fey and self-indulgent that I felt a burning hatred for the entire series, sight unseen.

One of the worst episodes, the one I decided I didn't really care if I watched any more. Just awful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (0hOvj)

106 oh and Mycroft. I could have used 70% less Mycroft.

He was in almost every episode!
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (iHBZj)

Well, he was one of the co-writers. Guess he was very impressed with himself. Though I did like the twist in the pilot episode where the audience was led to believe he was Moriarty and then surprise! Actually, Sherlock's brother.

In general though, the series did present far too much of Sherlock's family and personal background. Another reason Season 4 sucked ass.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (tp+tP)

107 77 Hold on , what's the name of the actress who is playing Mary Watson ?
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:47 PM (V13WU)

Amanda something or other - the actress who plays Mary Watson in the Robert Downey "Sherlock Holmes" movies is played by none other than Kelly Reilly, aka Beth Dutton in "Yellowstone".

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (SRRAx)

108 103 You just know that one and probably both of the people in the first embedded tweet owe six figures on an interpretive dance degree.
Posted by: ARLDN at April 25, 2023 07:53 PM (tKg6H)

You could probably apply this comment (with minor adjustment for BullShit degree) to virtually every comment on twitter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (/xaUq)

109 >>>101 Me dear old Mum was from the UK. She said "Ta, luv" all the time

that sounds like the "goodbye" use of it that i've heard before, like in ta-tah

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (iHBZj)

110 Did that guy do the Xanth covers?
Posted by: Thesokorus at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (HDObm)
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Those were Darrell K. Sweet, another iconic 1980s fantasy cover artist.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (BpYfr)

111 The interesting thing in the Faded Sun is how humans are able to adapt to each of the alien races. It's our survival mechanism and something the alien races can't do.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2023 07:49 PM (u7leW)

I might look at it then, I figured it was a retelling of Burrough's Mars series, or Leigh Bracket's Skaith trilogy

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (xhaym)

112 I thought US version (Elementary) staring Bernard Lee's grandson and Lucy Liu was more imaginative. And watchable. Brit version became too convoluted and strayed too far from your basic murder mystery.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (V13WU)

113 or maybe I just always assumed "Ta" meant goodbye when really it meant thanks.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (iHBZj)

114 I really enjoyed Sherlock.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (aJVMf)

115 The Robert Downy jr Sherlock, I didn't like much. He was okay as the character some of the time, but his entire plot to ruin Watson's marriage because he lurves Watson so much and is jealous was... just terrible and completely out of character.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (0hOvj)

116 For the 80s and 90s might as well ask what series Michael Whelan didn't create art for.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (mLeXI)

117 >>>112 I thought US version (Elementary) staring Bernard Lee's

whoa, Johnnny Miller was Bernard Lee's grandson? I didn't know that and I watched the show, AND used to be a big bond fan (until they went woke)

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (iHBZj)

118 Check out some Cars of the Future!!!

(scroll down)

https://twitter.com/pulplibrarian

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (Dc2NZ)

119 114 I really enjoyed Sherlock.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (aJVMf)

The first two seasons were gold.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (/xaUq)

120
John Varley's Red Thunder. Misifit teens in Florida plan to build a spaceship to rescue Ares Seven and beat the Chinese to Mars.
Posted by: Anna Puma

How come Congresscritter ~~Mahalia~~ Shiela Jackson Lee has never asked NASA officials why they never dispatched one of its rovers to recover memorabilia from the Capricorn One mission?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (pNxlR)

121 thanks Teresa. I recalled that one of them was in Yellowstone. So I guess it's the movie version one.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (V13WU)

122 >that sounds like the "goodbye" use of it that i've heard before, like in ta-tah

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (iHBZj)

no, that was her 'thank you'

Posted by: DB - completing the maneuver at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (geLO8)

123
Beautiful afternoon here in SeaTown. The sun is shining. It's 59 degrees and the Mountain is out!!!!

Cheers, mates!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Is it a retractable mountain?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (63Dwl)

124 >>>Is this real?

I would guess not. Two reasons. First, tree trimmers tie off the branches they are cutting, especially if they are around any thing that they can fall on. Like that truck in one shot. The branches are oddly shaped and can fall in an unpredictable manner.

Second, there is that building in the background of a later shot. If there is any kind of malfunction, looks pretty dangerous.

I don't think it would even be safe in uninhabited areas because of the fire danger.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (gv7Yb)

125 >>>he Robert Downy jr Sherlock, I didn't like much. He was okay as the character some of the time, but his entire plot to ruin Watson's marriage because he lurves Watson so much and is jealous was... just terrible and completely out of character.

i just watched Game of Shadows. I liked it better this time. Once you get over how annoying sherlock is and just accept it, it's pretty okay

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (iHBZj)

126 My brainless tv go to these days is early seasons of Letterkenny.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (aJVMf)

127 I thought US version (Elementary) staring Bernard Lee's grandson and Lucy Liu was more imaginative

It was well written and acted, but they made Sherlock WAY too much of a completely debauched horrible scumbag drug addict. He practically was losing teeth from meth use, he looked like a bum in the street. Sherlock was nothing but a gentleman at all times.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (0hOvj)

128 thanks, DB.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (iHBZj)

129 whoa, Johnnny Miller was Bernard Lee's grandson? I didn't know that and I watched the show, AND used to be a big bond fan (until they went woke)
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (iHBZj)

yep. and if you squint just right , you can see the resemblance.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (V13WU)

130 I thought US version (Elementary) staring Bernard Lee's grandson and Lucy Liu was more imaginative. And watchable. Brit version became too convoluted and strayed too far from your basic murder mystery.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (V13WU)
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I think that version of Sherlock was more sympathetic, as he was portrayed as a severely damaged, barely functional drug addict. It's clear he needed Joan Watson to keep him on the straight and narrow. Though it seemed like a co-dependent relationship at times.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (BpYfr)

131 Speaking of saying thank you (in Northern Europe)

Danish: Tak
Swedish: Tak
Norwegian: Tak
Finnish....
..... Kiitos !!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (PiwSw)

132 i just watched Game of Shadows. I liked it better this time. Once you get over how annoying sherlock is and just accept it, it's pretty okay

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (iHBZj)

The secret to some modern entertaintment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (/xaUq)

133 >>>I would guess not. Two reasons.

thanks. It seems dumb now that I think about it, with the reasons you give

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:58 PM (iHBZj)

134 I liked all those elaborate shock stunts. The Carrie Remake stunt was probably the most imaginative. But I can't see how it'd be possible to have even one actual mark in the room, liability-wise. So, they'd all have to be actors, every one, which kinda kills the buzz to think about.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 25, 2023 07:58 PM (wzAuc)

135 I might look at it then, I figured it was a retelling of Burrough's Mars series, or Leigh Bracket's Skaith trilogy
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (xhaym)

Chanur's Venture series has better alien-human interaction.

The 3rd book of the Faded Sun series can be read by itself and the backstory that you gather in your head is probably better than the first two books of the series.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 07:58 PM (i5lJm)

136 >>>Saving a tiny baby dolphin from a stray net.

Yeah, but he had his way with her before he let her go.

#metoo

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2023 07:58 PM (gv7Yb)

137 but they made Sherlock WAY too much of a completely debauched horrible scumbag drug addict

==

he became better !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:58 PM (V13WU)

138 I liked Elementary for the first few seasons too.

I remember a cool photo of the 3 simultaneous Sherlocks: Robert Downey Jr, Benedict Cumberbach, and Johnny Lee Miller.

Posted by: Sassy at April 25, 2023 07:58 PM (xSICi)

139 >>>131 Speaking of saying thank you (in Northern Europe)

Danish: Tak
Swedish: Tak
Norwegian: Tak
Finnish....

interesting! So I bet this is a Northern thing -- and the northern englanders retained the Viking word for thanks

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:58 PM (iHBZj)

140 I thought US version (Elementary) staring Bernard Lee's grandson and Lucy Liu was more imaginative. And watchable. Brit version became too convoluted and strayed too far from your basic murder mystery.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (V13WU)

I never watched it. Probably 90% because they gender-swapped Watson, but I also felt like the market was just getting saturated with Holmes-based media around that time. Guess it couldn't have been much worse than the ending of "Sherlock," though.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:59 PM (tp+tP)

141 The Faded Sun trilogy starts with Humanity finally winning the war against the R'gul. The R'gul intend to commit genocide and wipe out their Mri mercenaries. One human decides to save the Mri.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 08:00 PM (mLeXI)

142 The Robert Downy jr Sherlock, I didn't like much. He was okay as the character some of the time, but his entire plot to ruin Watson's marriage because he lurves Watson so much and is jealous was... just terrible and completely out of character.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (0hOvj)

sherlock as a self isolated but incredibly needy and manipulative coke head was interesting, but they should have toned it down a bit with the "thinking the whole thing out" schtick

Also, the C-96 did not have a removeable magazine, I think the Astra 900 did, finally

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 08:00 PM (xhaym)

143 For the 80s and 90s might as well ask what series Michael Whelan didn't create art for.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (mLeXI)
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My favorite cover artists from that time are, in no particular order:

Michael Whelan
Darrell K. Sweet
Larry Elmore
Keith Parkinson
Clyde Caldwell
Jeff Easley

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 08:00 PM (BpYfr)

144 Kilmeade again

Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 08:00 PM (us2H3)

145 Speaking of saying thank you (in Northern Europe)

You're like Charles Grodin's character in Midnight Run; knows how to say hello in 45 languages.

That was literally the only thing I've ever seen where I actually liked Grodin. He's played so many incredibly annoying characters I just despised him.

Like James Spader who is so good at playing an obnoxious ahole that I just hated him until his character in Stargate. I still spent the whole movie waiting for him to betray everyone.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 08:01 PM (0hOvj)

146 i just watched Game of Shadows. I liked it better this time. Once you get over how annoying sherlock is and just accept it, it's pretty okay

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (iHBZj)

I watched it once. I thought that Jared Harris, who I really like, was miscast as Moriarty. But it has been a while.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 08:01 PM (tp+tP)

147 The Faded Sun trilogy starts with Humanity finally winning the war against the R'gul. The R'gul intend to commit genocide and wipe out their Mri mercenaries. One human decides to save the Mri.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 08:00 PM (mLeXI)

The pacing of the first two books is so slow, and I don't think that you really learn anything that isn't expositioned in the 3rd book.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 08:01 PM (i5lJm)

148 "Ta" is indeed thanks. Common in a lot of Canada too. "Ta ta" is Bye bye.

Posted by: Dagny Taggart at April 25, 2023 08:02 PM (4OXRw)

149 My favorite cover artists from that time are, in no particular order

Most of them Dragon Magazine alums. They really had a hell of an in-house staff for a while there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 08:02 PM (0hOvj)

150 I never watched it. Probably 90% because they gender-swapped Watson, but I also felt like the market was just getting saturated with Holmes-based media around that time. Guess it couldn't have been much worse than the ending of "Sherlock," though.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:59 PM (tp+tP)
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Part of the challenge with Elementary is coming up with 20+ Sherlock-style mysteries per season. That may be why there is quite a bit of focus on the relationship between Holmes and Watson in some episodes, where the mystery of the week is a bit of an afterthought.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 08:03 PM (BpYfr)

151 GAWDDDD>>>It's hard to watch and Old Dog Die.
He's 18yo, been a great dog. I could have , and likely should have taken him into the Vet today to end it, but it's my 92yo Dads birthday, and HIS favorite dog of all time died on his Birthday about 10 years ago.
It would be easier if he was just laying down and not getting up, instead he won't lie down, just staggers around a little with his head down, wobbling. Mostly just standing in place..
Steaks just coming of the grill(final sear), hopefully he'll try a bite, if for no other reason than It MIGHT make me feel better.

Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 08:03 PM (uAI4S)

152 Tal fellow morons.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at April 25, 2023 08:04 PM (VMFAF)

153 oh, Game of Shadows kills a major character off-screen just for impact, and it kind of makes you not like the movie. Puts a sour taste in the mouth.

But this time I knew that was coming so I was like, eh, whatever, it's just a movie

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:04 PM (iHBZj)

154 I never watched it. Probably 90% because they gender-swapped Watson, but I also felt like the market was just getting saturated with Holmes-based media around that time. Guess it couldn't have been much worse than the ending of "Sherlock," though.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:59 PM (tp+tP)

I think there it worked well. Maybe because Liu is just an interesting individual IRL plus not a bad actress. Lots of humor too. Both of them. Try watching it. First season was kinda clunky but it hit its stride in later seasons.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (V13WU)

155 Tal fellow morons.
Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at April 25, 2023 08:04 PM (VMFAF)

Ha! How many books did you get through in that series before you dropped it to start dating real girls? I think I read five.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (i5lJm)

156 Tschuss

Things to do like feed the kittehs and myself.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (mLeXI)

157 I liked the interaction between Watson and Holmes in the Elementary TV show. There was no sexual tension, there was no will they/won't they. And Watson learns a lot from Holmes, he teaches her how to analyze, deduce, and study clues.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (0hOvj)

158 Steaks just coming of the grill(final sear), hopefully he'll try a bite, if for no other reason than It MIGHT make me feel better.
Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 08:03 PM (uAI4S)

He's a good boy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (/xaUq)

159 https://twitter.com/pulplibrarian
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 07:55 PM (Dc2NZ)

I scrolled farther than that--what a great account!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (OX9vb)

160 109 >>>101 Me dear old Mum was from the UK. She said "Ta, luv" all the time

that sounds like the "goodbye" use of it that i've heard before, like in ta-tah

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 07:54 PM (iHBZj)
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No. With 'luv' it's definitely Thanks. Ta ta is goodbye. Often it's "Ta ta for now".

Posted by: Ciampino -- hot and spicy samoosas are delicious at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (qfLjt)

161 156 Tschuss

Things to do like feed the kittehs and myself.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (mLeXI)

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (PiwSw)

162 Like James Spader who is so good at playing an obnoxious ahole that I just hated him until his character in Stargate. I still spent the whole movie waiting for him to betray everyone.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 08:01 PM (0hOvj)

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He was at his most Spaderesque in his stint on "The Office."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (wzAuc)

163 "What the Actual is this?"
According to one commenter it's a California black sea hare. The largest sea slug species.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (NpAcC)

164
It's 59 degrees and the Mountain is out!!!!

Don't keep us waiting -- queer of gender non-binary?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (pNxlR)

165 Spader is an icon of over acting. Blacklist is his opus.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (IAF9Q)

166 Sounds to me like Tucker Carlson has, intentionally or not, been Positioned For Success(tm) by the Fox News crew to pull a Howard Stern.

Posted by: CppThis at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (PZvjL)

167 Tablet froze up, then updated cutting my time short.
Have a great evening everyone

And baby dolphin was cute.

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2023 08:07 PM (xhxe8)

168 Steaks just coming of the grill(final sear), hopefully he'll try a bite, if for no other reason than It MIGHT make me feel better.
Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 08:03 PM (uAI4S)

I am sorry, it hurts to watch.

I was told once what a guy did for his dog in the final months was to put half a chicken in the crock pot every morning and let the pooch eat all he wanted for dinner. Made the dog perkier and gave him something to stick around for.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 08:07 PM (xhaym)

169 I liked the interaction between Watson and Holmes in the Elementary TV show. There was no sexual tension, there was no will they/won't they. And Watson learns a lot from Holmes, he teaches her how to analyze, deduce, and study clues.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (0hOvj)

Oh good. I wouldn't have minded the gender-swapping so much, except I was certain of that happening. Maybe I'll give it a shot, then.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 08:07 PM (tp+tP)

170 I still like the old Sherlock series the best
Have the Brett one and Downey ones but the oldies are still the best.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2023 08:08 PM (maXvD)

171 I like Elementary. And one episode, with Lucy Liu interacting with a baby, reminded me how seldom we see that on tv these days.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2023 08:08 PM (u7leW)

172 >>>>It's hard to watch and Old Dog Die.
He's 18yo, been a great dog. I could have , and likely should have taken him into the Vet today to end it, but it's my 92yo Dads birthday, and HIS favorite dog of all time died on his Birthday about 10 years ago.

sorry to hear that. It's hard to lose a furry friend. I lost one last year. I had trouble taking him to the vet. You have my sympathies.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:08 PM (iHBZj)

173 Is this real? I don't want to be Lamonted again.

The angle of cut doesn't seem to match the footage they're showing. If it is real, they have no control over all the falling pieces.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2023 08:09 PM (Sv58p)

174 I gotta say, the UK side of my family is (or was, most everybody is dead now) more interesting than the US side.

There was a distant cousin who was a fashion model in swinging London, and somebody's great uncle who fought with the British 8th Army in Africa.

Posted by: DB - completing the maneuver at April 25, 2023 08:09 PM (geLO8)

175 Often it's "Ta ta for now".
Posted by: Ciampino -- hot and spicy samoosas are delicious at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (qfLjt)

Tigger's sign-off line!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 25, 2023 08:10 PM (SRRAx)

176 "What the Actual is this?"
According to one commenter it's a California black sea hare. The largest sea slug species.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 08:06 PM (NpAcC)
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Sorry, but no. That's a baby shoggoth if ever I've seen one!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 08:10 PM (BpYfr)

177 Aidan Quinn as Gregson. Interesting take on that character. Not a bumbling idiot, but a hard working NY cop , full of good will toward Sherlock whom he gives a second chance. Rhys Ifans (now of House of the Dragon) as Mycroft. And Natalie Dormer (also GoT alum) as Moriarty.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:10 PM (V13WU)

178 Precious golden retriever being adopted.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 08:10 PM (NpAcC)

179 124 >>>Is this real?

I would guess not. Two reasons.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 25, 2023 07:56 PM (gv7Yb)

Are you sure? There are men with hard hats! Looks legit to me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2023 08:11 PM (OX9vb)

180 Tigger's sign-off line!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 25, 2023 08:10 PM (SRRAx)

TTFN!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 08:12 PM (PiwSw)

181 I'll give Spader his due. He made a career out of being a smug ahole. Culminating with Blacklist. Pretty good good for an actor.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 08:13 PM (IAF9Q)

182 Day two of having nothing to watch at 7PM. We haven’t resorted to cannibalism...yet.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2023 08:14 PM (u73oe)

183 181 I'll give Spader his due. He made a career out of being a smug ahole. Culminating with Blacklist. Pretty good good for an actor.
Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 08:13 PM (IAF9Q)

He was decentish in Stargate.

Of course, Kurt Russell was better. So good, I could never get used to MacGuyver in the role.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2023 08:15 PM (/xaUq)

184 what a guy did for his dog in the final months was to put half a chicken in the crock pot every morning and let the pooch eat all he wanted for dinner.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 08:07 PM (xhaym)

That is heart-achingly sweet.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2023 08:15 PM (OX9vb)

185 Sorry, but no. That's a baby shoggoth if ever I've seen one!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 08:10 PM (BpYfr)

Where is the terrible iridescence? WHERE ARE THE EYES?

Posted by: Kindltot - blowing his SAN roll at April 25, 2023 08:15 PM (xhaym)

186 My two guys are rescues number 19 and 20.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2023 08:16 PM (maXvD)

187
"Blacklist" is his opus.
Posted by: JmT

Garbage, pure garbage. Bailed early on it without regrets.

Put "Ray Donovan" on that same fetid pile. Same fate.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 25, 2023 08:17 PM (pNxlR)

188 Of course, Kurt Russell was better. So good, I could never get used to MacGuyver in the role.

Yeah it was a pretty poor replacement but it would cost a gajillion dollars to get Kurt Russel to regularly star in a TV show and I doubt he'd do it for any amount.

For some reason I get Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russel confused in my head. Maybe I'm just old and dumb.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 08:17 PM (0hOvj)

189 Aidan Quinn as Gregson. Interesting take on that character. Not a bumbling idiot, but a hard working NY cop , full of good will toward Sherlock whom he gives a second chance. Rhys Ifans (now of House of the Dragon) as Mycroft. And Natalie Dormer (also GoT alum) as Moriarty.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:10 PM (V13WU

I gave Quinn a tennis lesson long ago. Nice guy.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2023 08:19 PM (ZB6WQ)

190 The canoeing needs some big foot State Park thugs to get all up in their shit. Where's your life jackets? Where's the loicense for this canoe? ME, LA, TX Animal planet has them all.

Posted by: micky at April 25, 2023 08:19 PM (3byMq)

191 @144

>>Kilmeade again

Pretty much what we could have expected from the crew of retards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 08:20 PM (up/3i)

192 Ay yi yi. I just read an entry on the "dirtbag Left." I'm familiar with all these people - Red Scare, Chapo Trap House, etc. They act like they're breaking some new ground by being Marxist shock jocks. It's cringey AF - these kinds of "entertainers" have been around my whole life.

Same old "I'm a foul-mouthed Communist" routine that was in vogue in the '70s, boring by the '90s and absolutely fucking stultifying by the '00s, but this time... it's on YouTube! Spare me.

Especially now that, in the '20s, Marxism is the unquestioned 800-lb. Gorilla in the room of American culture and politics. It's hegemonic. This shtick is as hot and edgy as a block of dry ice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 08:21 PM (oINRc)

193 Lost my girl 26 months ago almost to the day. We went through so much together I'll probably never get over it. I miss that dog greatly.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 08:21 PM (T9WMp)

194 Spader overacts? Balderdash. Under my tutelage he grew as an actor, supporting me.

Posted by: William Shatner at April 25, 2023 08:22 PM (4I/2K)

195 I don't know why but people having the crap scared out of them is hilarious to me. Must be a character fault of some kind. The Carrie movie stunt has me in tears. The expressions on the unaware is classic fear.

Posted by: Javems at April 25, 2023 08:22 PM (AmoqO)

196 The last time Ace shared that doggie adoption clip, I was a blubbering mess.

And here we go again . . .

Sniffle sniffle

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 25, 2023 08:23 PM (NeBPk)

197 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at

I think I made it to 10 or 12.
I was an avid reader as an early teen and this series
was way different than any thing I'd read before.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at April 25, 2023 08:23 PM (VMFAF)

198 People always argue about who was the best Sherlock. Now , who was the best Moriarty ? That creepy one in Cumberbatch version was good. I suspect he is that creepy in real life.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:23 PM (V13WU)

199 Kreb it's all garbage. We start from there. We're just rating the first from the worst.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 08:25 PM (IAF9Q)

200 188 Of course, Kurt Russell was better. So good, I could never get used to MacGuyver in the role.

Yeah it was a pretty poor replacement but it would cost a gajillion dollars to get Kurt Russell to regularly star in a TV show and I doubt he'd do it for any amount.

For some reason I get Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russel confused in my head. Maybe I'm just old and dumb.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 25, 2023 08:17 PM (0hOvj)
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Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in Overboard. Great acting by everybody. My favorite acting scene is when her husband finds the shack and then she arrives with Kurt. She was perfect.
Did Russell and Hawn ever marry? No, I looked it up.

Posted by: Ciampino --- hot and spicy samoosas are delicious at April 25, 2023 08:25 PM (qfLjt)

201 GAWDDDD>>>It's hard to watch and Old Dog Die.
He's 18yo, been a great dog. I could have , and likely should have taken him into the Vet today to end it, but it's my 92yo Dads birthday, and HIS favorite dog of all time died on his Birthday about 10 years ago.
It would be easier if he was just laying down and not getting up, instead he won't lie down, just staggers around a little with his head down, wobbling. Mostly just standing in place..
Steaks just coming of the grill(final sear), hopefully he'll try a bite, if for no other reason than It MIGHT make me feel better.
Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 08:03 PM (uAI4S)

Im so sorry. It's so hard - I hope he enjoys a bite of steak. Im sure he knows how much you love him.

Posted by: LASue at April 25, 2023 08:26 PM (Ed8Zd)

202 The Brett versions were most faithful to the written characters. The best detectives are on the spectrum like Holmes was - Goran, Monk, Columbo.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 25, 2023 08:27 PM (oWBc3)

203 Marcus T, I hope you find another special one to share all you have to offer.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2023 08:27 PM (maXvD)

204 It is amazing how quickly you can go through 750ml of Gin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2023 08:27 PM (up/3i)

205 Cumberbatch is related to Richard III. Second cousin. many times removed. And he played Richard III - Hollow Crown.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:27 PM (V13WU)

206 Kurt Russel and Kim Cattrall in Big Trouble in Little China.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 08:28 PM (PiwSw)

207 When I was younger, I used to put my own pets down. I'm not sure if I have the heart for it anymore.

That's not true. I do. But it's gonna be much sadder for me now. It's been maybe 12? years since the last one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 08:29 PM (oINRc)

208 "Thanks!" in Welsh is "Diolch!"

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2023 08:30 PM (a3Q+t)

209 Continued from previous thread:

2010 is 2001 if you add dialogue.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 25, 2023 08:30 PM (AbL8c)

210 Speaking of saying thank you (in Northern Europe)

Danish: Tak
Swedish: Tak
Norwegian: Tak
Finnish....
..... Kiitos !!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (PiwSw)

When I was a kid, my brother and I would not be excused from the dinner table until we said "Tak for Mal" and dad would say "Velbekomme” and then we'd garble some "May I Go ou e lai" which was our version of the Danish for "may I go out and play."

Posted by: LASue at April 25, 2023 08:31 PM (Ed8Zd)

211 The gal and guy doing interpretive dance to the various ringtones/signals was hilarious and creative.

And "ta" has been a part of British slang for quite some time.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:32 PM (2hlEI)

212 micky

The guy in the rear of the canoe does not know what a J-Stroke is. Amateur.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 25, 2023 08:32 PM (u82oZ)

213 Ben Had

♩ Good evening! ♬

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 25, 2023 08:33 PM (u82oZ)

214 When I was a kid, my brother and I would not be excused from the dinner table until we said "Tak for Mal" and dad would say "Velbekomme” and then we'd garble some "May I Go ou e lai" which was our version of the Danish for "may I go out and play."
Posted by: LASue at April 25, 2023 08:31 PM (Ed8Zd)
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Have you watched "9.April"? And could you understand it without subtitling?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:33 PM (2hlEI)

215 "Marcus T, I hope you find another special one to share all you have to offer.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2023 08:27 PM (maXvD)"

Thank you. You are far too kind. I'm waiting for her to give me the sign.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2023 08:33 PM (T9WMp)

216 My first husband was able to put them down. Just broke my heart for him to do it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2023 08:33 PM (u7leW)

217
Norwegian might be the most annoying spoken language on earth. Sorry Norsk Morons.

But Afrikaans is a strong contender. Both languages make me want to rip my ears off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 08:33 PM (oINRc)

218 Cumberbatch is related to Richard III. Second cousin. many times removed. And he played Richard III - Hollow Crown.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:27 PM (V13WU)
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Much as I like him, he was much to "yelly" in that.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:35 PM (2hlEI)

219 And, wrt "The Hollow Crown", I really, really disliked the way they cut the Henry IV plays. They made Falstaff into a sad old drunk instead of the dynamic wit that Shakespeare wrote.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:36 PM (2hlEI)

220 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 08:37 PM (qoGsy)

221 Finnish is closer to Hungarian than the Scandi tongues. Finno-Ugric group.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 08:37 PM (oINRc)

222 131 Speaking of saying thank you (in Northern Europe)

Danish: Tak
Swedish: Tak
Norwegian: Tak
Finnish....
..... Kiitos !!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 07:57 PM (PiwSw)
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What is it in Dutch? Flemish?

Posted by: Ciampino --- hot and spicy samoosas are scrumptious at April 25, 2023 08:38 PM (qfLjt)

223 Finnish is closer to Hungarian than the Scandi tongues. Finno-Ugric group.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 08:37 PM (oINRc)
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They are all strange Eastern peoples.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:38 PM (2hlEI)

224 What is it in Dutch? Flemish?
Posted by: Ciampino --- hot and spicy samoosas are scrumptious at April 25, 2023 08:38 PM (qfLjt)
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Probably something close to "danke".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:39 PM (2hlEI)

225 Good evening all. Was there any conclusion to what the F' that thing is?

Posted by: CA Token at April 25, 2023 08:40 PM (LCLVv)

226 Yud, I find the European languages pleasing to my ear. The others sound foreign.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 08:40 PM (IAF9Q)

227 Norwegian might be the most annoying spoken language on earth. Sorry Norsk Morons.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 08:33 PM

Norwegian women are some of the prettiest on Earth, perhaps second only to Texas women.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2023 08:40 PM (a3Q+t)

228 Norwegian women are some of the prettiest on Earth, perhaps second only to Texas women.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2023 08:40 PM (a3Q+t)
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The most drop-dead gorgeous woman who I ever knew personally was Persian.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:41 PM (2hlEI)

229 The most drop-dead gorgeous woman who I ever knew personally was Persian.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:41 PM (2hlEI)

Thank you.

Posted by: Kim K. at April 25, 2023 08:43 PM (4I/2K)

230 What is it in Dutch? Flemish?
Posted by: Ciampino --- hot and spicy samoosas are scrumptious at April 25, 2023 08:38 PM (qfLjt)

I would have to cheat.

My favorite is teşekkür ederim (Turkish)

My tour guide was suitably impressed (because I suppose not many people make the effort)

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2023 08:43 PM (PiwSw)

231 The most drop-dead gorgeous woman who I ever knew personally was Persian.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

And the men. He was some distant relative of the Shah. Women threw themselves at him. But, a hell of a good guy.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 08:44 PM (qoGsy)

232 China Swedes

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 25, 2023 08:44 PM (PgS9k)

233
A Kardassian? They're Armenian.

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2023 08:44 PM (j4U/Z)

234 The prettiest women are Northern European.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 08:45 PM (IAF9Q)

235 A Kardassian? They're Armenian.

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2023 08:44 PM (j4U/Z)

....and plastic.

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2023 08:46 PM (AwYPR)

236 Dinner calls. Later, all.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:47 PM (2hlEI)

237 I find women from India to be either spectacularly beautiful or just not. They have no center to the bell curve. Just the book ends.

Posted by: CA Token at April 25, 2023 08:48 PM (LCLVv)

238 Why does the New Zealand accent sound like a cross between an Australian accent and a South African accent? What's the derivation?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 08:48 PM (Dc2NZ)

239 China Swedes
Posted by: Thesokorus at April 25, 2023 08:44 PM (PgS9k)

Mixes sometimes the prettiest.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 08:49 PM (IAF9Q)

240 Been reading this blog daily since the mid 2000s, but I’m going to stop visiting if Trump contempt becomes a daily thing. I can get that anywhere. DeSantis has some issues too, btw.

I know you don’t care.

Posted by: Mozam at April 25, 2023 08:49 PM (ea+OK)

241 *ahem*

Posted by: Sandra Flook at April 25, 2023 08:50 PM (Xrfse)

242 Been reading this blog daily since the mid 2000s, but I’m going to stop visiting if Trump contempt becomes a daily thing. I can get that anywhere. DeSantis has some issues too, btw.

I know you don’t care.

Posted by: Mozam at April 25, 2023 08:49 PM (ea+OK)

I care...because I enjoy a good flounce like most everybody else.

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2023 08:51 PM (AwYPR)

243 Good evening all. Was there any conclusion to what the F' that thing is?
Posted by: CA Token at April 25, 2023 08:40 PM (LCLVv)
*********
It's a California black sea hare.

https://tinyurl.com/5emcf4wt

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 08:51 PM (NpAcC)

244 >>>240 Been reading this blog daily since the mid 2000s, but I’m going to stop visiting if Trump contempt becomes a daily thing. I can get that anywhere. DeSantis has some issues too, btw.

I know you don’t care.

Posted by: Mozam

I'm not going to be told that the sun is the moon and that blue is red. You people have been telling me for MONTHS that I should just accept Trump's attacks on DeSantis, and not be such a baby about it.

I PREDICTED that when the hits started coming back at trump, you'd cry about it.

Well now you're crying. Who could have predicted.

Get lost.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:52 PM (iHBZj)

245 The best Moriarty is the one that bested Picard and Data
in TNG.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 08:53 PM (S6gqv)

246 As a lifelong Republican...

Posted by: That guy who always says... at April 25, 2023 08:53 PM (Xrfse)

247 OT Listened to VDH on Megyn's show - very good - I recommend it to understand the Tucker firing thing.

He says what I said last night - this was a complete vanity project play made by Fox board members and owners - they knew it was going to tank viewership, hugely cost them advert market share, tank reviews and profits, kill Hannity and Laura who, as I tried to explain last night, are FOLLOW INS for Tucker's audience - to do this is not to care about any of that - profits don't matter in media plays.

The Murdochs and the other media board members use these media vehicles like they're paying for fun rides on the Pirates of the Caribbean - it's peanuts out of their pockets paid out for the thrills, spills and fun of it all, ie a sunk cost for having lots of fun and showing out to your ultra-wealthy connected friends who likewise have so much filthy lucre they could give a flying shit-less about America, nationalities or other some such rube patriotic tripe. When they all have over $100 billion each spread out over 60 banks in 100 countries, they laugh at your concern about sovereignty and boundaries.

Posted by: Boswell at April 25, 2023 08:54 PM (+Cgut)

248 Have you watched "9.April"? And could you understand it without subtitling?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:33 PM (2hlEI)

No and no, but I'll give it a shot!

Posted by: LASue at April 25, 2023 08:54 PM (Ed8Zd)

249 I kinda hate hearing Dutch too... Though not as much. I think I hate listening to these northern Euro languages because, like English, they are mongrelized Germanic tongues, but they sound *too* close to English for comfort. Like an "uncanny valley" sort of thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 08:54 PM (oINRc)

250 It's a California black sea hare.

https://tinyurl.com/5emcf4wt
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 08:51 PM (NpAcC)

Kalleyforney, huh?...figgers.

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2023 08:55 PM (AwYPR)

251 i've never seen a movement that is so invested in contempt and insults as a political tactic simultaneously claim "it's no fair when you attack Trump back, that's mean and low."

Good God!

What was I told for months when Trump threatened to tell DeSantis' wife about all the things the old fat gossip Trump thought he knew about DeSantis' sexual history? I was told "If DeSantis can't take this, he has no right to be on the stage."

Well if trump is such a fucking pussy that he can't take this, then we need to know that.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:55 PM (iHBZj)

252 Sorry birddog, Marcus T and ace.
I know what y'all are going through and have gone through.
It's very hard and heartbreaking.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 08:55 PM (NpAcC)

253 by the way I am making almost ZERO Money from this blog now so honestly I don't care if everyone stops reading. I'm making no money from it anyway. And as I'm making no money, i'l damn well have my say. and my say is not "everything trump says is right"

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:56 PM (iHBZj)

254 Cumberbatch is related to Richard III. Second cousin. many times removed. And he played Richard III - Hollow Crown.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:27 PM (V13WU)
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Much as I like him, he was much to "yelly" in that.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2023 08:35 PM

WHAT?!!!

Posted by: Brian Blessed at April 25, 2023 08:57 PM (Wnv9h)

255 Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:56 PM (iHBZ

Sarah can help you double your income !!

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2023 08:57 PM (ZB6WQ)

256 THIS IS THE PRIMARY *TRUMP* WANTED, NOT THE REST OF US. Trump is the pig that loves being in the shit. no one wanted this BUT him.

Well now he's getting the shit flung back at him. Boo hoo fucking hoo.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:57 PM (iHBZj)

257 by the way I am making almost ZERO Money from this blog

We gotta fix that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2023 08:58 PM (Xrfse)

258 Not sure how I managed it, but my Twitter feed is full of ag tweets, cow and calf photos and cattle auctions. Really nice to see. I don't know how they learn to do this stuff, but modern agriculture is amazing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2023 08:59 PM (u7leW)

259 It's a California black sea hare.

https://tinyurl.com/5emcf4wt
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 08:51 PM (NpAcC)

I was expecting it to be more curly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2023 08:59 PM (tkR6S)

260 thanks Notorious. part of the problem is that i have to find a replacement for paypal, that's on me

but there's also a general crash in advertising and of course THE FUCKING WOKE CORPORATION TRUMP DEFENDS won't advertise on conservative sites, so i'm fucked on that front

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 09:00 PM (iHBZj)

261 On looks - strangely enough, what people from all over the world rate as most attractive (in general) are those who appear to have a mixed race appearance. For example, the Persian people's have dark hair, dark eyes, a bit duskier skin than most European's; but thats combined with finely chiseled Indo-European facial features. That's the recipe.

And what every Armenian women I've ever see has is donk donk baDONK adonk.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:01 PM (S6gqv)

262 Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:56 PM (iHBZ

Sarah can help you double your income !!
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2023 08:57 PM (ZB6WQ)

*stage whisper*
Psssssttt!
Sarah is double-jointed.
Pass it on.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:02 PM (hWqE/)

263 We gotta figure out how to make this thing pay for itself. Other than contributions, is there a possible revenue stream other than advertising?

I know nothing about the business of running a blog.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:02 PM (qoGsy)

264 We gotta fix that.

HQ t-shirts.

And attractive vests made from American hobo pelts.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 09:02 PM (KFhLj)

265 Thank you ace for all you do to make this the best blog on the internet.

I never realized you weren't making ANY money doing it.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 09:02 PM (NpAcC)

266 the trump thing about being nice to woke corporations is my rubicon. if trump is now sucking up to the corporate establishment -- then what, the fuck, would I be voting for him for, exactly? Just so he can feel "respected"?

That is my ONLY interest in politics, fighting the woke corporate-government fusion state. If trump now opposes that, not only will I Not vote for him in the primary, I will also campaign for his defeat in the general.

i'm not supporting any cocksucker who is going to kiss up to corporations that want me dead just because he wants their sweet sweet millions in donations. That's GOPe shit! I am not pro-GOPe, even if it's Trump leading the GOPe!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 09:02 PM (iHBZj)

267 but there's also a general crash in advertising and of course THE FUCKING WOKE CORPORATION TRUMP DEFENDS won't advertise on conservative sites, so i'm fucked on that front
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 09:00 PM (iHBZj)

Serious question: have you tried selling ad space to some of the online firearms and ammo sellers? Quite often, mention gets made in the comments of sales and special offers from them. And the woke can't hate them any more than they do already.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2023 09:03 PM (tkR6S)

268 That sucks Ace. I had to kill my PayPal so as soon as you have a replacement, please let me know. I want to hit the tip jar. This site is the best entertainment money can buy.

Posted by: CA Token at April 25, 2023 09:03 PM (LCLVv)

269 "...by the way I am making almost ZERO Money from this blog..."

That is such a shame.
I'll be hitting the tip jar.

Nice cafe selections, too!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 09:03 PM (jTmQV)

270 Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but at Moonbattery there is a story about a white male republican counsel man in Indiana who's identifying as a woman of color who is also a lesbian. LGBTMOUSE people have made death threats. How very accepting of them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 09:03 PM (1Ohlm)

271 Okay. this is weird. I had Nighttime at the Switching Yard (Warren Zevon) playing whilst watching that couple dancing video (muted).

It was weirdly perfect.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at April 25, 2023 09:03 PM (T/Lqj)

272 So you're just doing this for the fuck of it? Damn, dude. That's a lot of work. I kick in from time to time, and just figured you're earning money on it... But if you're getting no scratch from this... Fuck it. Roll it up. American politics is a dead letter, anyway.

Maybe strike out and do an entertainment blog/ YT channel. Those are profitable, and you have an aptitude for that content, and seem to follow it closely.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:04 PM (oINRc)

273 But seriously, you should sell anything this motley crew of riff-raff will buy. Shamelessly monetize the hell out of it. Sell HQ coffins the way KISS did.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 25, 2023 09:04 PM (KFhLj)

274 This site is the best entertainment money can buy.
Posted by: CA Token

Agreed!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:04 PM (qoGsy)

275 Doesn't work as well with F*ck You, by Damageplan.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at April 25, 2023 09:05 PM (T/Lqj)

276 I know you don’t care.
Posted by: Mozam at April 25, 2023 08:49 PM (ea+OK)

He's not wrong.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 09:05 PM (i5lJm)

277 Start a pay blue check system for verified commenters. They would be exempt from the 100 comment rule.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2023 09:05 PM (ZB6WQ)

278 Absolutely nobody:

Trump: I'm going to shed the tough street brawler facade I put on for the last two elections, soften my stance on social issues, and embrace my wealthy corporate mega-donor friends who aren't conservative in the least!

Posted by: ballistic at April 25, 2023 09:05 PM (oXNqT)

279 by the way I am making almost ZERO Money from this blog

We gotta fix that.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2023 08:58 PM (Xrfse)

Two words: Merchandising

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 09:06 PM (i5lJm)

280 Did paypal kick the blog off? Assholes. I know Musk is trying to solve the same problem on a much bigger scale, the ad supported revenue model for online activities is breaking down everywhere.

Some of that is ideology driven by partisans in those companies, but its also a bad business model that can not be relied on. (For everybody)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:06 PM (S6gqv)

281 If it turns out that AoS HQ is owned by Disney I am going to dedicate my life to wearing a dunce hat.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 25, 2023 09:06 PM (vtNLy)

282 Well if trump is such a fucking pussy that he can't take this, then we need to know that.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:55 PM (iHBZj)

I get you have an audience here - but there is no need to sugar coat Trump - he's a vain buffoon - its not like everyone here who has run any business doesn't know it.

Real Estate, nay Real Estate in NY, doesn't take huge brains if you're gifted by your family with a decent starting portfolio to build upon and a gigantic NY-sized media ego to pump it up, but you do need that NYC sized ego and the NY in your face insistence thjat goes with it if you are to get past all the NY City construction mob interests to get anything done - Donald Trump had that in spades.

He also loved being in the media, even if it was negative media - it's a type of NYC sickness I've seen plenty that infects most of the personalities here - fame to Trump (unlike his kids actually) is like a lamp is to a moth. He's what he is - he's going to do whatever makes Don Trump get in the news - he's also going to be a businessman that wants to get his name in the news - improvement over Dems and the GOPe? Yup.

Posted by: Boswell at April 25, 2023 09:06 PM (+Cgut)

283 Merchandising - but Lucas will probably get all pissy if we try to push the Ewok dolls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:08 PM (S6gqv)

284 ace, just sent a few bucks your way. I would encourage the horde to do the same You aren't unappreciated.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 09:08 PM (IAF9Q)

285 Damn Ace.
I'm on Oregon this week. I'll go roll some more homeless drug addled antifa freaks for their weed money.
Count on me.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:10 PM (hWqE/)

286 ace, just sent a few bucks your way. I would encourage the horde to do the same You aren't unappreciated.
Posted by: JmT

How does one do that without going through PP? I won't use them for anything.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:10 PM (qoGsy)

287 Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 09:00 PM

Well, I'm sincerely hoping that there's a workable solution. This is the very best place on the interwebz to hang out.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2023 09:11 PM (Xrfse)

288 272. No, no, no, my friend YD! The thought of that is sending me right to the donation button. No changes to this crazy, amazing place- please, Ace!

Posted by: LadyS at April 25, 2023 09:11 PM (VGiJY)

289 238 Why does the New Zealand accent sound like a cross between an Australian accent and a South African accent? What's the derivation?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 08:48 PM (Dc2NZ)
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I have a South African/English accent.

Posted by: Ciampino -- hot and spicy samoosas are scrumptious at April 25, 2023 09:11 PM (qfLjt)

290 274 This site is the best entertainment money can buy.
Posted by: CA Token

Agreed!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:04 PM (qoGsy)

Also agreed. And, frankly, I kept Paypal ONLY because it's the only way I can pay Ace. Hope you find some other way soon.

And, yeah...Ace merch, can't go wrong.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2023 09:12 PM (OX9vb)

291 Jeez. Leave for an hour and all hell breaks loose.

I chipped in a few bucks, for what that's worth.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 09:12 PM (tp+tP)

292 The gun thread had a couple of shooters with some moron horde t-shirts.
I'd definitely buy several.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 09:14 PM (jTmQV)

293 I have a South African/English accent.
Posted by: Ciampino

I speak Midwestern American, Drunken Sailor, Biting Sarcasm, and Insult fluently.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:14 PM (qoGsy)

294 Think of the T-shirts alone...
But first, you will...
Horde mind
What? No boobs?

Hoodies...
Get this Fetterman off me!

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2023 09:15 PM (cPGH3)

295 Ace a small contribution has been sent. Thx for a great site

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2023 09:15 PM (1Ohlm)

296 By the way - just trotting out dry humor about sugar coating Trump - I know that as fellow NY-ers, its not lost on either of us what this guy is all about.

Other AOS commenters may or may not know this, but his Coney Island carnival showman style is actually pretty common here. You can't get out in front of all the outsized personalities in a town comprised of over 8M and a whole entertainment location without that.

Posted by: Boswell at April 25, 2023 09:16 PM (+Cgut)

297 I speak Midwestern American, Drunken Sailor, Biting Sarcasm, and Insult fluently.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:14 PM (qoGsy)

Ok.
So what about after work?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:16 PM (hWqE/)

298 How does one do that without going through PP? I won't use them for anything.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:10 PM (qoGsy)

I was able to use my credit card. You can get around PP. It takes some work.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 09:16 PM (IAF9Q)

299 Two words

Government grant .

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2023 09:17 PM (ZB6WQ)

300 261
And what every Armenian women I've ever see has is donk donk baDONK adonk.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:01 PM (S6gqv)
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Eurasian women are often gorgeous.

Posted by: Ciampino - hot and spicy samoosas are scrumptious at April 25, 2023 09:17 PM (qfLjt)

301 Well, steak was perhaps the best I've ever made, Old Blue, sniffed but wouldn't even nibble it. 1/2 hour later I hear a dog stumble on the stairs, thinking it was Frankie, it was Blue trying to come down, hasn't in 6 months or so, I carried him down, lifted him up on the bed, he staggered a couple of circles and collapsed, is sleeping now. Methinks that will be where he'll die.

Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 09:17 PM (uAI4S)

302 Merchandise
I want a coffee cup that when you put in hot coffee, a flaming skull appears on the side.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:17 PM (hWqE/)

303 We need to brainstorm as to how ace can make money on this site.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 09:18 PM (NpAcC)

304 Is there a Horde member that would accept checks/cash and knows the secret handshake to get those $$$ to Ace?

I have no problem handing cash over to certain Morons and 'Ettes for various services.

I've done it before but that not important right now.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:18 PM (qoGsy)

305 I speak New Yorkiana. Raised by two parents from NYC while growing up in Louisiana.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2023 09:18 PM (ZB6WQ)

306 birddog, I’m sorry.

Posted by: LadyS at April 25, 2023 09:18 PM (VGiJY)

307 You know, we gots a little program here, geared toward folks just like you, Ace.
You might find it profitable.

Posted by: Mike (Bob's pal) NSA at April 25, 2023 09:19 PM (cPGH3)

308 Ok.
So what about after work?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:16 PM (hWqE/)

Indian Call Center

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2023 09:19 PM (AwYPR)

309
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but at Moonbattery there is a story about a white male republican counsel man in Indiana who's identifying as a woman of color who is also a lesbian. LGBTMOUSE people have made death threats. How very accepting of them
Posted by: Smell the Glove

MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — In a recent Facebook post, Delaware County Councilman Ryan Webb announced he now identifies as a Black woman. He clarified with I-Team 8 he identifies as an American Indian woman.

While Webb has received some support, he says he’s been facing backlash, including violent threats.

https://tinyurl.com/4wkfsu4a

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2023 09:20 PM (63Dwl)

310 I carried him down, lifted him up on the bed, he staggered a couple of circles and collapsed, is sleeping now. Methinks that will be where he'll die.

No words, other than so very sorry. He's with his best bud right now. That's what's most important.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2023 09:21 PM (Xrfse)

311 Most beautiful woman I ever met was in my Poly Sci 201 class. Sigh. Drop dead friggin' beautiful.
Smart too.
Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:21 PM (hWqE/)

312 Why does the New Zealand accent sound like a cross between an Australian accent and a South African accent? What's the derivation?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 08:48 PM (Dc2NZ)

It's all the sheep. It drives them mad.

Yes, I left the sock on for a reason.

Posted by: Kindltot - blowing his SAN roll at April 25, 2023 09:22 PM (xhaym)

313 I have designed AoS mugs, beer steins, t-shirts even a board game. It might be that my work is trash, though I don't think so. They are fairly standard items. I just think it's of no interest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:22 PM (oINRc)

314 You shouldn't be able to just "identify" as a Native American.
If it were possible I'd have done it by now and be running my own casino.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 09:22 PM (jTmQV)

315 If every Moron gave up just ONE streaming service and used that money for AoSHQ instead, he'd be rolling in Scrooge McDuck money...

Think about it. We get WAY more entertainment from this website than we do from just about every other streaming platform out there.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 09:23 PM (BpYfr)

316 I've done it before but that not important right now.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:18 PM (qoGsy)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2023 09:24 PM (OX9vb)

317 We need to brainstorm as to how ace can make money on this site.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2023 09:18 PM (NpAcC)

Some have tried. Maybe ace is raking in big bucks and playing us all for chumps.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 09:24 PM (IAF9Q)

318 Most beautiful woman I ever met was in my Poly Sci 201 class. Sigh. Drop dead friggin' beautiful.
Diogenes

I do sales at folk's houses. I've met maybe 3? women in some 40 years that I could not do business with. Too beautiful, or attractive, or just messed with my libido too much.
I couldn't be rational.
That's beauty.

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2023 09:24 PM (cPGH3)

319 If every Moron gave up just ONE streaming service and used that money for AoSHQ instead, he'd be rolling in Scrooge McDuck money...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

So, $20. Same as in town?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:24 PM (qoGsy)

320 I guess I've watched a lot of BBC, cuz I know all about "ta". I get the feeling it's more of a working class, colloquial thing. The Queen never said "ta".

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:25 PM (S6gqv)

321 You shouldn't be able to just "identify" as a Native American.
If it were possible I'd have done it by now and be running my own casino.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 09:22 PM (jTmQV)

I'm establishing a new tribe here in Washington State. The HawtToTrots.
Where be the teepees?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:25 PM (hWqE/)

322 Well now he's getting the shit flung back at him. Boo hoo fucking hoo.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:57 PM (iHBZj)

At the moment it is Trump, Biden, Maryanne Williamson, RFKJr, Pence, and the Indian guy that got Don Lemon fired.

Posted by: Kindltot - blowing his SAN roll at April 25, 2023 09:25 PM (xhaym)

323 Why does the New Zealand accent sound like a cross between an Australian accent and a South African accent? What's the derivation?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 08:48 PM (Dc2NZ)

I am pretty good with accents, but I do admit that Aussie, Kiwi and SA kind of trip me up.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at April 25, 2023 09:27 PM (T/Lqj)

324 The Original "U.S.S. DISCOVERY ONE" Spacecraft Filming Model which was 12 ft. long sold at auction for $45K.

https://tinyurl.com/49dwvb24

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2023 09:27 PM (wsHtO)

325 If every Moron gave up just ONE streaming service and used that money for AoSHQ instead, he'd be rolling in Scrooge McDuck money...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Absolutely. I don't think anyone should have to subscribe to read and comment here, but I would certainly subscribe if there were an option. I already do, essentially, but a subscription set-up would prevent me from forgetting a month.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 25, 2023 09:28 PM (OX9vb)

326 If every Moron gave up just ONE streaming service and used that money for AoSHQ instead, he'd be rolling in Scrooge McDuck money...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

So, $20. Same as in town?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2023 09:24 PM (qoGsy)
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Yeah, pretty much. Think about it...There are A LOT more Morons lurking here than post in the comments. If just a fraction of them were willing to donate $10-$20 a month (the cost of a streaming service), that's more than enough to keep the lights on, I'm sure.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 09:28 PM (BpYfr)

327 154 I never watched it. Probably 90% because they gender-swapped Watson, but I also felt like the market was just getting saturated with Holmes-based media around that time. Guess it couldn't have been much worse than the ending of "Sherlock," though.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2023 07:59 PM (tp+tP)

I think there it worked well. Maybe because Liu is just an interesting individual IRL plus not a bad actress. Lots of humor too. Both of them. Try watching it. First season was kinda clunky but it hit its stride in later seasons.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2023 08:05 PM (V13WU)

Agree. Elementary > Sherlock. Both in overall quality and satisfaction. Sherlock over many seasons better than an intermittent effort, even though Elementary worked as a basic police procedural.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2023 09:29 PM (rSYRA)

328 Shit, that was poorly worded... It's of plenty of interest to the Horde. I got many requests for that stuff. But management, not so much... And I wouldn't sell items with Ace's brand w/o permission even if 100% of proceeds went to him. Not cool.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:29 PM (oINRc)

329 I have designed AoS mugs, beer steins, t-shirts even a board game. It might be that my work is trash, though I don't think so. They are fairly standard items. I just think it's of no interest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:22 PM (oINRc)

A nice moderately engraved revolver/pistol?

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2023 09:29 PM (AwYPR)

330 Think about it. We get WAY more entertainment from this website than we do from just about every other streaming platform out there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 09:23 PM (BpYfr)

Only catch is that I do not pay for any streaming service, we get only free ones like PlutoTV.

That said, your point is very valid. We need to help a brother out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at April 25, 2023 09:29 PM (T/Lqj)

331 Been here since 06. Just kicked in, ace, get some good food and rest.

Posted by: Infidel at April 25, 2023 09:30 PM (/0+YE)

332 but there's also a general crash in advertising and of course THE FUCKING WOKE CORPORATION TRUMP DEFENDS won't advertise on conservative sites, so i'm fucked on that front
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 09:00 PM (iHBZj)

Ace, consider getting a page on Locals.com for payments. I set up a payment for $5 a month for two years to Michael Malice until my finances changed. I'd do the same for you.

Sarah Hoyt has a Substack page, she doesn't post there, but you can arrange it to be strictly subscription only and post cat pictures if you like.

I looooooooove ace.mu.nu, but those are alternate payment options. I don't think the companies would care much, they probably really prefer the money without the internet load.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 09:30 PM (xhaym)

333 Good evening roonz and roonettez, what's shakin'?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 25, 2023 09:31 PM (CcOog)

334 At the moment it is Trump, Biden, Maryanne Williamson, RFKJr, Pence, and the Indian guy that got Don Lemon fired.
Posted by: Kindltot - blowing his SAN roll at April 25, 2023 09:25 PM (xhaym)

Tim Scott?

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2023 09:31 PM (AwYPR)

335 The India guys name is Vijayjay or something like that

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:32 PM (S6gqv)

336 If just a fraction of them were willing to donate $10-$20 a month (the cost of a streaming service), that's more than enough to keep the lights on, I'm sure.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2023 09:28 PM (BpYfr)

Five for the Jive!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 25, 2023 09:34 PM (i5lJm)

337 333 Good evening roonz and roonettez, what's shakin'?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 25, 2023 09:31 PM (CcOog)
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GGE! Nice to "see" you.

Well, entropy is happ'nin', basically.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 25, 2023 09:34 PM (Dc2NZ)

338 Good evening roonz and roonettez, what's shakin'?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter

We've become Ace.mu.nu marketing managers. We're all very good, just like that InBev gal.

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2023 09:34 PM (cPGH3)

339 . If just a fraction of them were willing to donate $10-$20 a month (the cost of a streaming service), that's more than enough to keep the lights on, I'm sure.

--------

Maybe to comment. Make it a $1-2/mo to read. Last I checked (it was about three years ago) this site had a couple million uniques a month. Regular jagoffs get the cobs, and if you chip in your nickel, you get the Ace content.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:34 PM (oINRc)

340 256 THIS IS THE PRIMARY *TRUMP* WANTED, NOT THE REST OF US. Trump is the pig that loves being in the shit. no one wanted this BUT him.

Well now he's getting the shit flung back at him. Boo hoo fucking hoo.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2023 08:57 PM (iHBZj)

I have a different take from most other Trump supporters on this.

TL;DR: Trump shouldn't even have to have a primary. He should have no challengers, and the GOP needs to be united on telling the country that the election was STOLEN, and Trump needs to have the second term that was cheated away from him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2023 09:35 PM (rSYRA)

341 I'm on Oregon this week. I'll go roll some more homeless drug addled antifa freaks for their weed money.
Count on me.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:10 PM (hWqE/)

Did you wind up in Cannon Beach? It is going to be lovely the rest of the week.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 09:35 PM (xhaym)

342 I have a South African/English accent.
Posted by: Ciampino

I have a Colombian accent, but only in Spanish

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 09:36 PM (xhaym)

343 Having a nice, flavorful, full bodied, water...on ice.

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2023 09:37 PM (AwYPR)

344 It's funny how Lemon tried pulling his line "Only BLACK people born here are allowed to talk about race, not any of you damned dirty third world immigrants!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:37 PM (S6gqv)

345 I want a coffee cup that when you put in hot coffee, a flaming skull appears on the side.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:17 PM (hWqE/)

I am filled with a deep feeling of wantingness...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 25, 2023 09:37 PM (CcOog)

346 I have that peculiar vocal affliction Mark Twain complained of... a Missouri drawl.

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2023 09:38 PM (cPGH3)

347 I am filled with a deep feeling of wantingness...

No shit! That's not one of those cheap-ass $20 cups... that's a"premium" cup!
3 easy payments of ....

Posted by: MkY at April 25, 2023 09:40 PM (cPGH3)

348 I think it might be that a lot of NYers see Trump from a different perspective than folks from other regions. A subliminal bias because he's a local. Maybe the regular animosity that NYers have for each other kind of bleads through. Everyone I've met from NYC since he became pres has pretty much hated him.

Just a theory. I don't know, just throwing this out there.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2023 09:42 PM (wsHtO)

349 Way to kill AoS is make it a pay site. The freewheeling is what makes it unique in political sites.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 09:42 PM (IAF9Q)

350 The India guys name is Vijayjay or something like that
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2023 09:32 PM (S6gqv)

Mebbe I should call him "Kevin" to make it seem more authentic.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 09:43 PM (xhaym)

351 Ace
When are you and Ann Coulter get together?!
We all remember how you dissed her for no longer supporting Trump

Posted by: Paul at April 25, 2023 09:43 PM (QOxm/)

352 The Purge happening on the day before Jello Head announces "his" bid to be Fake Elected again kind of says it all. Non?

It's all there to be seen right now if you want to see it. It will involve anticipating some bad stuff ahead.

Including an "election" that will be about as on the level as Ahmadinejad and his 100% of the vote.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 09:45 PM (BXxcV)

353 I don't think the name is Vijay. I'd hate to hear people state they are "all in for Vijay" and know they probably aren't

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 09:47 PM (xhaym)

354 BTW, Vivek was born in Cincinnati.

Ohio.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2023 09:47 PM (wsHtO)

355 Would Pixy blow a 50 amp fuse if there was a Bitcoin/Etherium tip jar? I'd probably be willing to pony up if it was pseudonymous donation, but for reasons that should be obvious I'm disinclined to get my True Name attached to much of anything right now.

Posted by: CppThis at April 25, 2023 09:47 PM (PZvjL)

356 Way to kill AoS is make it a pay site. The freewheeling is what makes it unique in political sites.

There's a hobby site I frequent that removes ads if you pony up a few bucks. Of course, you have have an account to log into to make that work. But if I could do that here and not have to see toe fungus, worth it to me.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2023 09:49 PM (Bd6X8)

357 Way to kill AoS is make it a pay site. The freewheeling is what makes it unique in political sites.
Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 09:42 PM (IAF9Q)

True dat. But freewheeling doesn't pay the bills. And I think the political news format in all media is over soon. Squeeze it for what it's worth while you can.

Hell, if I were him, I'd sell the thing outright at a ridiculous markup to some credulous Leftist, the Malkin way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:49 PM (oINRc)

358 Cpp, they all know who you are.

Posted by: JmT at April 25, 2023 09:50 PM (IAF9Q)

359 Of all the years you could’ve taken us with that time machine you totally don’t have, you picked 2016? Not cool, man, not cool!

(Smiley wink thingy goes here)

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2023 09:51 PM (u73oe)

360 Only DeSantis supporters seem to think watching Trump eat crap is something Trump supporters "can't handle" or some shit.

It's astonishing. As if you have no idea what it was like to support Trump from the beginning. Oh yeah you don't. Because being a fair weather shirt changer who chases Shiny New Conservatives and then get bit like they were actually born yesterday.

Hint: Trump people already ate more crap in six months in 2016 than your new fling will ever be able to pump out. And just wait until the heat on Shiny Guy gets turned up past a cool simmer. Wish you luck.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 09:52 PM (BXxcV)

361 Did you wind up in Cannon Beach? It is going to be lovely the rest of the week.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2023 09:35 PM (xhaym)

That's where I am now. I even sent CBD a picture of where I stopped for a beer. It is a moron worthy place.
I'll let him decide if it's worth posting.
Beautiful today.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2023 09:56 PM (hWqE/)

362 Ah yes, entropy...nothing stops it...

I will vote for Trump if he wins the primary, but not because I think he's super great. I think he's a whiny man-child who needs to take a civics class to see how the electoral college works.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 25, 2023 09:56 PM (CcOog)

363 And just wait until the heat on Shiny Guy gets turned up past a cool simmer. Wish you luck.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 09:52 PM (BXxcV)

I don't doubt DeSantis can take some heat from the media. He already has, and hasn't folded. At least very much.

It's Party heat that matters. They can always correct the media problems if they want. If they don't, you're cooked. It's the problem with any candidate who comes out of that narrowest point of the Party funnel. They got there for a reason.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:58 PM (oINRc)

364 my bichons will jump from 4 ft high but that's about it

not bad for a dog that is 12 inches tall

Posted by: REDACTED at April 25, 2023 09:58 PM (us2H3)

365 Well, steak was perhaps the best I've ever made, Old Blue, sniffed but wouldn't even nibble it. 1/2 hour later I hear a dog stumble on the stairs, thinking it was Frankie, it was Blue trying to come down, hasn't in 6 months or so, I carried him down, lifted him up on the bed, he staggered a couple of circles and collapsed, is sleeping now. Methinks that will be where he'll die.
Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 09:17 PM (uAI4S)

Go sit with your buddy and tell him how much you love him. Im so sad for you.

Posted by: LASue at April 25, 2023 09:59 PM (Ed8Zd)

366 Any GOP candidate will be the worst thing since Hitler to the media, regardless of who it is. JC hisownself could come down out of heaven and run for president on the GOP ticket and the media would hate him.

Not that they don't already, but...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 25, 2023 10:00 PM (CcOog)

367 "When I was younger, I used to put my own pets down. I'm not sure if I have the heart for it anymore."
I used to as well, could easily do one for a friend, just not THIS dog, or His Mother before him.
I have had a lot of bird dogs, our family has bred, raised, trained, hunted, and field trialed them for generations, these two were special.

RE: Black C Hair..."I thought it would be curlier"
HA! SNORT!
Though noticeably "Thicker" than a Red One.
Smallest unit of measurement on a Drill site.
'nuther common technical oil patch measurement...
ANSI Tight= 165lb man on the end of a 48" pipe wrench.

Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 10:03 PM (uAI4S)

368 It's funny how Lemon tried pulling his line "Only BLACK people born here are allowed to talk about race, not any of you damned dirty third world immigrants!"

Particularly funny in that he didn't pull that on Kam-lalala...and he HATES women, has a track record of pushing them around, but he wants to go all Butch at THIS GUY??

Posted by: birddog at April 25, 2023 10:10 PM (uAI4S)

369 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2023 09:58 PM (oINRc

The heat will be global. This is not your father's "media".

Ron has already shown signs of wilting. I just call it like I see it brother.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 10:16 PM (BXxcV)

370 I'm all in the Native American casino movement.
Set up your own hotel, casino, restaurants, parking lot with attendants, valets, dealers, RV park, concert venue, maybe even a holistic healing center with sweat lodges and so on.
Oh yeah, your own sheriff, police, security staff, medical.
Sounds OK to me.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 10:18 PM (jTmQV)

371 … just proved ace’s point.

Posted by: No one of importance at April 25, 2023 10:24 PM (MNhXM)

372 370 I'm all in the Native American casino movement.
Set up your own hotel, casino, restaurants, parking lot with attendants, valets, dealers, RV park, concert venue, maybe even a holistic healing center with sweat lodges and so on.
Oh yeah, your own sheriff, police, security staff, medical.
Sounds OK to me.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mmm diesel chicken at April 25, 2023 10:18 PM (jTmQV)

I'm surprised there aren't any Native American whorehouses. If they can build casinos in states where gambling isn't legal, why not brothels?

Posted by: a.moron at April 25, 2023 10:29 PM (F6Xpw)

373 Of course Sanders is endorsing Biden. There's no way Sander's could f*ck over America as much as a second term of Biden will f*ck up America.

Posted by: Steven Fletcher at April 25, 2023 10:35 PM (+eUEt)

374 Posted by: No one of importance at April 25, 2023 10:24 PM (MNhXM)

Just wait until DeSantis proves my point. That's when things get good.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2023 11:04 PM (BXxcV)

375 196 The last time Ace shared that doggie adoption clip, I was a blubbering mess.

And here we go again . . .

Sniffle sniffle
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 25, 2023 08:23 PM (NeBPk)

Oof. Me, too.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2023 01:03 AM (n9Px7)

376 I used to spend a fair amount of time in London and in Northumberland. "Ta" for thanks is pretty common usage.

Posted by: ChupaMe at April 26, 2023 08:39 AM (nsosd)

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