Monday Is the New Humpday Cafe

Lavertezzo, Switzerland
by @michaelphotographych

Monday mood.

A pair of boobies.

Domo arigato, Mr. Reindeer.

Furring Line.

Flock of Seagulls Cat.

Seems set-up, but... I think the dog actually did this, so.

You've lost that lovin' feeling, Duck.

Mr. Helpy Helperton.

Cute little cow.

Shelter dog with a huge smile after being adopted.. 🥹 pic.twitter.com/xJ9xWnLowi
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 18, 2023

When you’re teaching a trick to the little one that the older one already knows.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/NY00s2kzO7
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 19, 2023

This dog breaks up a fight between... a tiger and a lion.

Dog stops fight between tiger and lion!

I guess the fight turned into falling in love! 😂pic.twitter.com/5O2yTwn31h
— Figen (@TheFigen_) November 19, 2023

Rejected concept design from The Dark Crystal:

Shoebill walking down the stairs.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/4SnNBnOXrU
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 20, 2023

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:33 PM

Comments

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1 first

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at November 20, 2023 07:32 PM (sMkAM)

2 muhaha

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at November 20, 2023 07:33 PM (sMkAM)

3 third

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at November 20, 2023 07:33 PM (sMkAM)

4 fourth

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at November 20, 2023 07:33 PM (sMkAM)

5 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2023 07:35 PM (fwDg9)

6 Weird shoebill

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 20, 2023 07:37 PM (DKF3A)

7 NEW humpday?????????????

Posted by: teh chicken at November 20, 2023 07:37 PM (E63nu)

8 That little kid with the vacuum has the right idea!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 20, 2023 07:38 PM (ou9hh)

9 That shoebill walks kind of like Pedo Joe, but isn't as ugly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 07:38 PM (4/0v9)

10 Flock of Seagulls Cat is adorable

Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2023 07:38 PM (fwDg9)

11 I heard there was nood yaks.

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2023 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

12 We need to know all of the dogs' names.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 07:39 PM (VzVXA)

13 I'm getting pretty fed up with Switzerland and all of its precious little rural tableaus.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:39 PM (guGkK)

14 Shoebills can deliver a nasty bite.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 20, 2023 07:41 PM (a3Q+t)

15 So I was really 2nd

Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2023 07:41 PM (fwDg9)

16 Shoebills are the Pontiac Aztek of birds.

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (guGkK)

17 Bird knees look backward to me.

Posted by: huerfano at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (Q4KYm)

18 "Shoebills can deliver a nasty bite."

If they are not loafers.

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (vFG9F)

19 You know.

If my knees bent backwards, I'm be jinky going down stairs too!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (VJZCa)

20 Shoebills are the Pontiac Aztek of birds.

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (guGkK)

They look like they were cobbled up by a committee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 07:44 PM (4/0v9)

21 K-30 minutes

Let's go Chefs!

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at November 20, 2023 07:44 PM (NLIak)

22 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 07:45 PM (IaTa3)

23 Weird shoebill
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 20, 2023 07:37 PM (DKF3A)

Noah: "Oh hell, just get in."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:45 PM (guGkK)

24 Shoebills are the Pontiac Aztek of birds.

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (guGkK)

They look like they were cobbled up by a committee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 07:44 PM

I'm right here, assholes.

Posted by: A Platypus at November 20, 2023 07:46 PM (aQy7p)

25 One good swipe and that dog is shredded meat

Posted by: Jamaica at November 20, 2023 07:46 PM (Eeb9P)

26 Texas AG Ken Paxton opens investigation of media matters for fraudulent activities.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 20, 2023 07:47 PM (u73oe)

27 Blue footed boobies always make me smile. Silly birds. They're actually quite large, too

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 20, 2023 07:47 PM (VJZCa)

28 That shoe bill looks me going down stairs after I tore my quad...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 20, 2023 07:48 PM (MeG8a)

29 Someone said boobies?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 20, 2023 07:48 PM (u73oe)

30 Watched Lions beat the Bears again. Now, for Zack's last game.
Are the Royals in Asia or something? I didn't know KC was playing today.

Posted by: Jamaica at November 20, 2023 07:49 PM (Eeb9P)

31 Domo arigato, Mr. Reindeer.
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What they don't show you is the reindeer jumping the fence and attacking the little girl after the reindeer gave her its business card and she put it in her short's ass pocket!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 20, 2023 07:49 PM (krqg6)

32 -
Weird shoebill?
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Your wife buys her shoes from a lesbian, and there's a charge for "extra tongues"?

Posted by: irright at November 20, 2023 07:49 PM (E63nu)

33 Texas AG Ken Paxton opens investigation of media matters for fraudulent activities.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 20, 2023 07:47 PM (u73oe)

Why can't there be more of this by red state AGs?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:49 PM (guGkK)

34 if I had the several(?) million required as "visible means of support" (as it were) I would immigrate to Switzerland in a new york second.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 07:49 PM (hXr4C)

35 No idea what part of the planet Shoebills come from but glad I don't see them here.

Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2023 07:50 PM (fwDg9)

36 If my knees bent backwards, I'm be jinky going down stairs too!
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But what would a chair made for it look like?!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 20, 2023 07:50 PM (krqg6)

37 Someone said boobies?
Posted by: Duke Lowell

With blue feet no less.

I've done weirder things. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 07:50 PM (IaTa3)

38 if I had the several(?) million required as "visible means of support" (as it were) I would immigrate to Switzerland in a new york second.

I don't think I could live in a land bereft of big box electronics stores.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:51 PM (guGkK)

39 No idea what part of the planet Shoebills come from but glad I don't see them here.
Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2023 07:50 PM (fwDg9)

Doesn't their call sound like a machinegun?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 07:51 PM (4/0v9)

40 Does Switzerland have Prime delivery?

Posted by: Jamaica at November 20, 2023 07:52 PM (Eeb9P)

41 We need to know all of the dogs' names.
Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 07:39 PM

Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian.

How do you like them apples?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 20, 2023 07:52 PM (aQy7p)

42 meh, since Fry's folded up, no stores have the kind of electronic parts I use, anymore ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 07:53 PM (hXr4C)

43 Doesn't their call sound like a machinegun?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I thought that was the pileated woodpecker.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 07:53 PM (IaTa3)

44
MNF weather
40s, 80% chance rain, winds to 22mph

Posted by: DB - at November 20, 2023 07:53 PM (geLO8)

45 We need to know all of the dogs' names.
Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 07:39 PM

Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian.

How do you like them apples?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at

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This needs to be notarized.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 07:54 PM (VzVXA)

46 Shoebills are African.

I'm not going to worry about them going down stairs. Until they have hands they can't work a door knob.

Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2023 07:54 PM (FhXTo)

47 34 if I had the several(?) million required as "visible means of support" (as it were) I would immigrate to Switzerland in a new york second.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 07:49 PM (hXr4C)

I had no idea
I have an old Army buddy that just managed to swing it.
Married to a Doctor, I would guess, is how.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 07:54 PM (ZZR/f)

48 meh, since Fry's folded up, no stores have the kind of electronic parts I use, anymore ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 07:53 PM (hXr4C)

Active Components in Calgary is gone, too. Leastwise, there's a boot shop in their location, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 07:54 PM (4/0v9)

49 Shoebills are the Pontiac Aztek of birds.

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (guGkK)

They look like they were cobbled up by a committee.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 07:44 PM (4/0v9)

So,

AMC Pacer, then?

Posted by: Outside of Life at November 20, 2023 07:55 PM (89Sog)

50 FUN FACT: Far back in the mists of time, the Habsburg family of then-minor nobility took its name from a castle in Switzerland.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:55 PM (guGkK)

51 -

With blue feet no less.

I've done weirder things. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 07:50 PM -
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I'm good with blue feet.

Posted by: Necrophiliac Dick Morris at November 20, 2023 07:55 PM (E63nu)

52 Shoebill's name is Joe.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2023 07:55 PM (ZLI7S)

53 It's neat that our betters want our IDs to exercise our 1st amendment rights, but it's not possible to implement with voting rights.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 07:55 PM (VzVXA)

54 Blue footed boobies

alexthechick may be back commenting but we'll see if this lures HeatherRadish.

Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2023 07:56 PM (FhXTo)

55 meh, since Fry's folded up, no stores have the kind of electronic parts I use, anymore ...
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Can I interest you in a cell phone or remote control car?
- radio shack

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 07:56 PM (VzVXA)

56 Wow- that doggeh getting involved in a tiger vs. lion dispute must have really eaten all his Kaboom this morning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 20, 2023 07:56 PM (F01pQ)

57 My dad had a thing for AMC. We had a Hornet, Gremlin and Pacer.

Posted by: Jamaica at November 20, 2023 07:56 PM (Eeb9P)

58 Damn it!
There is no way the idiot is that rich.

Tell me this isn't true sock rat.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 07:57 PM (ZZR/f)

59 Well hard day tomorrow, only going to work a few hours to get credit for day then bailing out asap.
Hope everyone has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at November 20, 2023 07:57 PM (fwDg9)

60 we'll see if this lures HeatherRadish.
Posted by: DaveA at November 20, 2023 07:56 PM

Wow...there's a name from the Before Times.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 20, 2023 07:57 PM (aQy7p)

61 "since Fry's folded up, no stores have the kind of electronic parts I use, anymore ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"

That's why we horde everything with usable parts on it. A time may come when no one can make those pieces.

Posted by: fd at November 20, 2023 07:58 PM (vFG9F)

62 Shoebills are the face-sized spiders of the bird world.

Really creepy, but better than their prey.

Among other things, they eat hatchling crocodiles.

Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2023 07:58 PM (DgGvY)

63 I finished putting up my Christmas lights today. No, I won't turn them on until after Thanksgiving. I'm not a monster.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 20, 2023 07:59 PM (I/Qkd)

64 I don't think I could live in a land bereft of big box electronics stores.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:51 PM (guGkK)
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Or Waffle House.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 20, 2023 07:59 PM (QRgMb)

65 I once shot a really big shoebill in my pajamas.

Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan at November 20, 2023 08:00 PM (vFG9F)

66 got that right, fd

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 08:00 PM (hXr4C)

67 20 Shoebills are the Pontiac Aztek of birds.

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:43 PM (guGkK)

They look like they were cobbled up by a committee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 07:44 PM (4/0v9)
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The same committee that cobbled up the duck-billed platypus and the gnu (wildebeest)?

Posted by: Ciampino - Just some leftover parts at November 20, 2023 08:00 PM (qfLjt)

68 My 86 year old parents are hosting 42 people for Thanksgiving.

I'll be in the bar.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 20, 2023 08:00 PM (QRgMb)

69 The same committee that cobbled up the duck-billed platypus and the gnu (wildebeest)?
Posted by: Ciampino - Just some leftover parts at November 20, 2023 08:00 PM (qfLjt)

Geeze. Nobody has yet got the "shoe" : "cobbled" connection yet. Be better, Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 08:01 PM (4/0v9)

70 Each year, my neighbors visit their daughter who lives in Switzerland . I am rewarded each time with Swiss chocolate bars. Normally I can't tell the difference between high quality products no matter where it's from but in the case of this chocolate it is definitely better than anything I've tasted here.

Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 08:03 PM (MNhXM)

71 I once shot a really big shoebill in my pajamas.
Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan at November 20, 2023 08:00 PM

What was it doing in your pajamas?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 20, 2023 08:04 PM (aQy7p)

72 "Can I interest you in a cell phone or remote control car?
- radio shack
Posted by: Nikki Haley "

Who is this imposter? I'm Nikki Haley! Can I see some ID?

Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan at November 20, 2023 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

73 I've got almost every remote control car I ever bought for my kid.
Had a radio shack go out of buisness right around the corner so I skarfed up everyting they had left. Which wans't a lot.
Weird I used to build really good speakers out of there as a kid and not one component I would have bought was in the lot.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 08:04 PM (ZZR/f)

74 I'll go lie back down now.

Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan at November 20, 2023 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

75 Delightful dog vids, thanx!

Posted by: gp's Pretense Of Detachment at November 20, 2023 08:06 PM (MvF+J)

76 >>Each year, my neighbors visit their daughter who lives in Switzerland . I am rewarded each time with Swiss chocolate bars. Normally I can't tell the difference between high quality products no matter where it's from but in the case of this chocolate it is definitely better than anything I've tasted here.

They make some excellent beer too. And don't get me started on fondue!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2023 08:06 PM (ZLI7S)

77 I need 1 or 2 zener diodes...oh for a radio shack

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM (/6GbT)

78 A Thanksgiving suggestion: if anyone shows up wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh, pull out a Klan hood and put it on.

Posted by: windbag at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM (/8o5E)

79 Isn't HeatherRadish living in Austria or something?

Posted by: lin-duh at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM (cDvOu)

80 You bubble-headed blue-footed boobie!

Posted by: Dr. Zachary Smith at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM (63Dwl)

81 Someone earlier had the great idea of everyone posting as Nikki. Imagine if it took hold and millions of people were posting as Nikki Haley to draw attention to her 50 in 5 plan.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at November 20, 2023 08:08 PM (TKMtt)

82 Gonna be a good redneck and leave the Christmas lights up all year.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 20, 2023 08:09 PM (kLnfX)

83 to fit in the cute animals theme, my old toothless half-blind calico cat cane sauntering up to me with a giant rat she had caught. First I closed the back door to keep her taking it indoors, and then when she put it down I saw it was still twitching so I hit the rat with a 2x4.

She likes to bring me dead things. I think it is a form of intimidation. "Feed me, monkey, or you are next, muahahahah"

Such a good girl.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 20, 2023 08:09 PM (D7oie)

84 Thank you Ed. For my next act, I'll spin some plates while grabbing cash that the audience throws at me.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

85 I need 1 or 2 zener diodes...oh for a radio shack

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM (/6GbT)

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I can't believe how frequently I've uttered the phrase lo' these past 10 years: "Where's a Radio Shack when you need one?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 20, 2023 08:10 PM (4fSQf)

86 The Shoebill looks like a Tim Burton creation.

Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 08:11 PM (MNhXM)

87 77 I need 1 or 2 zener diodes...oh for a radio shack
Posted by: A dude in MI at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM (/6GbT)

Let me find my bucket. We may be able to work something out.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 08:11 PM (ZZR/f)

88 Isn't HeatherRadish living in Austria or something?
Posted by: lin-duh at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM

Deutschland, iirc.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 20, 2023 08:11 PM (aQy7p)

89 I'll go lie back down now.
Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan

Bring back the guy spinning plates, the seals with the horns, Jackie Mason and Shecky Greene and you got something.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 08:12 PM (IaTa3)

90 50 FUN FACT: Far back in the mists of time, the Habsburg family of then-minor nobility took its name from a castle in Switzerland.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 20, 2023 07:55 PM (guGkK)

I'm old enough to remember when that family was called the Hapsburgs.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 20, 2023 08:12 PM (8sMut)

91 Oh, I forgot Jackie Vernon.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 08:14 PM (IaTa3)

92 There's not many feelings like going in a Radio Shack not too long before they closed for good and not being able to find the electronics components at all, and asking the people working there and they don't know what you're talking about.

To the point where you have to say something like "there's going to be a little maybe black or red or yellow thing with two stiff wires sticking out of it" and they go OH! and point you to a stack of small drawers that's about the size of nightstand.

And then ask about your cell phone plan while you try to check out with one of the three things you found that you needed.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at November 20, 2023 08:16 PM (TKMtt)

93 Tonypete, Red Skelton too.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 20, 2023 08:16 PM (kdclT)

94 87 77 I need 1 or 2 zener diodes...oh for a radio shack
Posted by: A dude in MI at November 20, 2023 08:07 PM (/6GbT)

Let me find my bucket. We may be able to work something out.
Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 08:11 PM (ZZR/f)

I have a package of 2.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 08:17 PM (ZZR/f)

95 And Jack E. Leonard

Posted by: Dr. Zachary Smith at November 20, 2023 08:18 PM (63Dwl)

96 Another Fun Fact: at the outbreak of The Great War, the British Royal Family took its (new) name from a castle located just to the southwest of London.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2023 08:18 PM (S6gqv)

97 I asked a Radio Shack employee for a 500k linear pot and he sold me some weed.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 08:19 PM (vFG9F)

98 I have a full stock of low-wattage zeners, but fat lot of good that does you.

Posted by: gp's Pretense Of Detachment at November 20, 2023 08:20 PM (MvF+J)

99 WaPo Whopper of the Day!

WaPo Says Israel Has Yet to Provide 'Significant Evidence' That Hamas Operates at Hospital

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 20, 2023 08:21 PM (FVME7)

100 Stork put hurt on fella.

Posted by: Eromero at November 20, 2023 08:21 PM (NxC5+)

101 I've never seen a shoebill before and had no idea such a creature even existed. Amazing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:21 PM (RIvkX)

102 I’ll take Windsor for 200. Alex

Posted by: Ben Had at November 20, 2023 08:21 PM (kdclT)

103 It is kind of amazing that Hitler didn't attempt to invade German speaking Switzerland. It was the one time he didn't let his ego overrule the necessity. The natural mountain defense also played a role .

Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 08:21 PM (MNhXM)

104 lol, nikki!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 08:23 PM (hXr4C)

105 ...and he sold me some weed.

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hahaha

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at November 20, 2023 08:23 PM (TKMtt)

106 I've been gifted a 4'X8' wall map of the world. It gose back to a time when there was a Rhodesia, Belgian Congo, Trans-Jordan. You get the picture. It's priceless to people like us Eromero tribe.

Posted by: Eromero at November 20, 2023 08:26 PM (NxC5+)

107 Shoebills are very, very strange birds. Almost look like they were put together with left over parts. Poor shoebills.

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at November 20, 2023 08:27 PM (3ImbR)

108 It I ever become royalty, I'm taking my new name from a pizzeria.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 20, 2023 08:27 PM (FVME7)

109 WaPo Whopper of the Day!

WaPo Says Israel Has Yet to Provide 'Significant Evidence' That Hamas Operates at Hospital"

Beware!

We have insufficient evidence that wapo is a real newspaper.

Posted by: Israel at November 20, 2023 08:28 PM (89Sog)

110 I saved a world map with the Soviet Union on it. Just in case.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

111 63 I finished putting up my Christmas lights today. No, I won't turn them on until after Thanksgiving. I'm not a monster.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 20, 2023 07:59 PM (I/Qkd)

Not sure If I'll put mine up this year... had the Eaves sanded and painted, and they took down all my permanent Light hooks... major pain to put em back in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 20, 2023 08:29 PM (xaFKb)

112 "It I ever become royalty, I'm taking my new name from a pizzeria.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here"

That's a great idea!

Posted by: Pizza The Hutt at November 20, 2023 08:29 PM (vFG9F)

113 110 I saved a world map with the Soviet Union on it. Just in case.
Posted by: Nikki Haley at November 20, 2023 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

I've still got a USSR World Book Encyclopedia... from back when they had a separate book for each country.,

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 20, 2023 08:30 PM (xaFKb)

114 I have a couple RPi 3B+'s. All along I've been reliably running the original Raspbian OS (armhf), but this weekend I tried the newer 64 bit Raspios (arm64) on them. First impressions: Raspios runs slower than Raspbian, and wsjtx crashes a lot on it. Oh, well.

Posted by: gp's Pretense Of Detachment at November 20, 2023 08:30 PM (MvF+J)

115 112 "It I ever become royalty, I'm taking my new name from a pizzeria.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here"

That's a great idea!
Posted by: Pizza The Hutt at November 20, 2023 08:29 PM (vFG9F)

Wasn't one of the Bond Girls named Domino?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 20, 2023 08:30 PM (xaFKb)

116 It is kind of amazing that Hitler didn't attempt to invade German speaking Switzerland. It was the one time he didn't let his ego overrule the necessity. The natural mountain defense also played a role .
Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 08:21 PM (MNhXM)
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Not amazing in the slightest. They were incredibly valuable and totally compliant. There was no need to invade them at all.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:31 PM (RIvkX)

117 >>>The natural mountain defense also played a role .

Posted by: Drive by
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The native concept of every man a rifleman may have entered his thought process.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 20, 2023 08:32 PM (5aQ9M)

118 I saw The Dark Crystal too young. I had nightmares for a while!

Posted by: Mainah at November 20, 2023 08:32 PM (7KEgI)

119 It I ever become royalty, I'm taking my new name from a pizzeria.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Blaze Pizza is a real place.

Blaze. .. Hmmmm, probably been taken by a stripper.

Same thing happened to Pizza Slut.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 08:33 PM (IaTa3)

120 I've still got a USSR World Book Encyclopedia... from back when they had a separate book for each country.,
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 20, 2023 08:30 PM (xaFKb)
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The library in which I work (but do not work for) has a Soviet dictionary in the bowels of the basement...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 20, 2023 08:34 PM (BpYfr)

121 I sort of hope there's an obese stripper or porn star somewhere named Jabba the Slut

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at November 20, 2023 08:35 PM (TKMtt)

122 My Soviet-era Russian language texts have mostly come unglued and fallen apart.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:35 PM (RIvkX)

123 The native concept of every man a rifleman may have entered his thought process.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 20, 2023 08:32 PM (5aQ9M)

He went up against the biggest military in the world at the time without a second thought. I think his Generals probably convinced him that Switzerland would fall without a shot at the end of the war when they conquered all the surrounding countries .

Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 08:36 PM (MNhXM)

124 122 My Soviet-era Russian language texts have mostly come unglued and fallen apart.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:35 PM (RIvkX)

Wow, just like the Soviet Union! What a coincidence!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 20, 2023 08:36 PM (xaFKb)

125 Top 20 from Bad Blue
https://tinyurl.com/4pbsrae2

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:37 PM (RIvkX)

126 Switzerland has been a fortress since like 900. Probably way before that.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 08:39 PM (ZZR/f)

127 The Dark Crystal

I wonder if I'd still like that movie. I haven't seen it in decades.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2023 08:39 PM (sAmhv)

128 Not amazing in the slightest. They were incredibly valuable and totally compliant. There was no need to invade them at all.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:31 PM (RIvkX)

Though there was some cooperation by a few with Nazi Germany , Switzerland for the most part was critical of Hitler. We had our OSS office in Bern. Switzerland shot down or attempted to shoot down German aircraft that violated their airspace. They also hid a lot of Jewish money when they allowed anonymous accounts.

Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 08:40 PM (MNhXM)

129 I won a CMP-style shoot with a 1950 Swiss K31. Fine rifle. Stock was beat to shit, but the bore was beautiful.

Posted by: gp's Pretense Of Detachment at November 20, 2023 08:41 PM (MvF+J)

130 heh. Trump's Truth Social just filled a defamation lawsuit against 20 media companies for printing false information about Truth Social and not correcting it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2023 08:41 PM (ZLI7S)

131 Scientists Have Simulated What It Might Be Like to Plunge Into Uranus

https://tinyurl.com/4zw28cp6

Posted by: Archimedes at November 20, 2023 08:43 PM (I/Qkd)

132
I highly recommend looking at the hilarious antics of Mr. FAFO, that Hamas crisis actor (if you can call him that) that appears in all these videos. The MSM will publish his shit as though its real.

Funniest one was him walking through, "screaming in horror" at the "carnage" around him. They had a young girl playing a role, covered in fake blood, screaming.

Scrolling through, they apparently did two takes of that one, and they had both takes side by side. Same girl, with blood on her face and neck.

And then a another man, supposedly dead covered in blood, which is so obviously fake it's a joke.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 20, 2023 08:43 PM (Mzdiz)

133 Shoebills are very, very strange birds. Almost look like they were put together with left over parts. Poor shoebills.
Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at November 20, 2023 08:27 PM (3ImbR)

Sheesh. Tell me about it. And I got ink coming out my ass!

Posted by: Mr Octopus at November 20, 2023 08:43 PM (uSHSS)

134
My house has begun to make creaking noises.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 20, 2023 08:45 PM (MoZTd)

135
Uranus was at opposition on Nov. 13. Still pretty close, so if you normally can't find Uranus with both hands, just go out about (local solar) midnight, and there it will be, near the meridian. You can't see it, but you'll know where it is.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 20, 2023 08:46 PM (Mzdiz)

136 My Soviet-era Russian language texts have mostly come unglued and fallen apart.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:35 PM (RIvkX)

I have a Russian flag I picked up in Afghanistan back in the 80's. It's really poorly made. Typical Russian crap.

Posted by: Mr Octopus at November 20, 2023 08:47 PM (uSHSS)

137 Watched "Golda" today. I need to do some reading on Dayan.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 20, 2023 08:48 PM (kdclT)

138 Big dog wants a treat too.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 20, 2023 08:48 PM (NpAcC)

139 Stoopid octopus sock.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 20, 2023 08:49 PM (uSHSS)

140 My Soviet-era Russian language texts have mostly come unglued and fallen apart.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:35 PM (RIvkX)

Wow, just like the Soviet Union! What a coincidence!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 20, 2023 08:36 PM (xaFKb)

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* Imagines Reagan holding up Russian copies of "The Gulag Archipelago" and "Doctor Zhivago" *

"Mr. Gorbachav ... TEAR DOWN THIS SCRAWL!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 20, 2023 08:50 PM (4fSQf)

141 My house has begun to make creaking noises.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Dang!

I thought they had already evacuated everyone from Grindavik.

Posted by: Adriane the Geologically Challenged Critic . . . at November 20, 2023 08:55 PM (4Winp)

142 Go out at solar midnight to not see Uranus? That sounds like a total pain in the ass.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2023 08:55 PM (S6gqv)

143 I need 1 or 2 zener diodes...oh for a radio shack
Posted by: A dude
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What voltage?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 20, 2023 08:57 PM (XeU6L)

144 Recall o' rama:

Wilcox ice cream and yogurt, and Leonardo's Gelato
Sept. through Nov.
https://tinyurl.com/4pu3bfds

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2023 08:57 PM (IG4Id)

145 Shoebills are the Pontiac Aztek of birds.

I worked at a Pontiac dealer when they were released. The ONLY car where customers I didn't know would come all the way to the back counter and tell me it was ugly. Sadly though, it was the future. Overtall, bulky, smallish engine and FWD, and sold on interior gimmicks. Nothing classy or muscle or cool luxury about it. Bright colors and lots of plastic. The future.

Posted by: Azjaeger at November 20, 2023 08:58 PM (3/XaG)

146
Uranus was at opposition on Nov. 13.

What was it protesting against?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 20, 2023 08:58 PM (63Dwl)

147 Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 08:40 PM (MNhXM)

You're really soft-selling their complicity, treachery, and greed, but whatevs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2023 08:59 PM (RIvkX)

148 >> What was it protesting against?

The earth-sun axis.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 20, 2023 09:00 PM (Mzdiz)

149 I have maps of W. Germany, with warnings printed on them that they are not to be transported to E. Germany.

Also, a pre-war atlas, with countries as named above, Ceylon, Siam, etc.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 20, 2023 09:01 PM (XeU6L)

150 Watched "Golda" today. I need to do some reading on Dayan.
Posted by: Ben Had

Back in undergrad, a roommate was Persian. This was in the days of the Shah, years before thenweird beards took over. (In fact, he told me that Iran is not an Arab country and that he was glad because they weren't burdened by anti-Jewish bigotry.) Anyway, Moshe Dyan came to school to make a speech. My Iranian roommate, who was wealthy and owned a Jaguar, made an eye patch to put over one headlight to celebrate the event.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 20, 2023 09:03 PM (FVME7)

151 Mr. Fafo is darkly hilarious, one day he's a victim, the next he's a doctor.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2023 09:04 PM (S6gqv)

152 My Soviet-era Russian language texts have mostly come unglued and fallen apart.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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My copy of Russian for Everybody, purchased in fall 1991 for my freshman year, is still in good shape.

Posted by: screaming in digital at November 20, 2023 09:06 PM (aBJcM)

153
Mr. Fafo also sings, a Pali Idol, you might say.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 20, 2023 09:06 PM (Mzdiz)

154
My Iranian roommate, who was wealthy and owned a Jaguar, made an eye patch to put over one headlight to celebrate the event.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Wear a Hathaway shirt.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 20, 2023 09:06 PM (63Dwl)

155
Wear a Hathaway shirt.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Huh? I don't get it.

Posted by: Gen Z at November 20, 2023 09:08 PM (XeU6L)

156 Sheesh. Tell me about it. And I got ink coming out my ass!
Posted by: Mr Octopus at November 20, 2023 08:43 PM (uSHSS)
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None of us is perfect, my eight-tentacled friend, and we all have some positive attribute. You are cute and very, very smart!

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at November 20, 2023 09:08 PM (3ImbR)

157 Tim Ballard, the guy Sound of Freedom was aboit - did he get Me-Too'd?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 20, 2023 09:10 PM (DKF3A)

158 New York Post
@nypost
Gen Z workers say they should be hired for their ‘personality,’ not productivity: We ‘set the vibes’

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I did not know that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 20, 2023 09:12 PM (FVME7)

159 @KanekoaTheGreat
NEW: A U.S. Navy P8-A Poseidon plane overshoots runway, landing in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

The incident happened at 2 p.m. Hawaii Time, and the military aircraft is currently floating in the ocean.

All nine people on board the aircraft survived and swam to the shore.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2023 09:14 PM (IG4Id)

160 In the late days of traditional British motor cycle engines, they adopted the Zener diode as a voltage regulator, solving a problem of Lucas never being able to weather-proof otherwise sound units. The diode was written up in sales literature as being virtually a UFO component -- and in fact it was one of the few practical applications (Bell Labs!) of post-modern theoretical physics. We trainees presumed Doktor Zener must have been a cat-killer at the Max-Planck-Institut.

Years later, I looked him up. Born Indianapolis, died Pittsburgh, and the most hands-on physicist of the century. Just hated "theoretical constructs."

Clarence Zener wasn't the kind of guy who'd spend 30 years looking for the next Dedekind Number.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2023 09:14 PM (4PZHB)

161 A.
65 I once shot a really big shoebill in my pajamas.
Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan

Heh. Good one.

B.

71 What was it doing in your pajamas?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I like how the Horde always obliges!

Posted by: mindful webworker - culturally deprived at November 20, 2023 09:16 PM (+uIqQ)

162 Apparently Kavanuagh and Barrett think sexually explicit drag shows are just peachy keen for minors.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 20, 2023 09:17 PM (z9Xy7)

163 Damn. It's 21 degrees here, and the dog wanted out. She was just out a few minutes ago when I got back from a trip to the store. Whatever. Guess I had better go let her in the house.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 09:20 PM (ud3Ck)

164 159 @KanekoaTheGreat
NEW: A U.S. Navy P8-A Poseidon plane overshoots runway, landing in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

The incident happened at 2 p.m. Hawaii Time, and the military aircraft is currently floating in the ocean.

I would think all the flying boat pilots would be retired by now

Posted by: Azjaeger at November 20, 2023 09:21 PM (3/XaG)

165 We ‘set the vibes’

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I did not know that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Neither did I.

Posted by: Lionsl Hampton at November 20, 2023 09:23 PM (XeU6L)

166 Who is going to pay to give their business a ignorant-twit vibe?

Posted by: irright at November 20, 2023 09:23 PM (E63nu)

167 Sheesh. Tell me about it. And I got ink coming out my ass!
Posted by: Mr Octopus at November 20, 2023 08:43 PM (uSHSS)
~~~~~

None of us is perfect, my eight-tentacled friend, and we all have some positive attribute. You are cute and very, very smart!

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at November 20, 2023 09:08 PM (3ImbR)

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* Kurt Eichenwald has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 20, 2023 09:25 PM (4fSQf)

168 Who is going to pay to give their business a ignorant-twit vibe?
Posted by: irright at November 20, 2023 09:23 PM (E63nu)

Starbucks? Budweiser? Target? Nike? Disney?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 09:25 PM (ud3Ck)

169

And, looking very relaxed,
Adolf Hitler, on vibes. Nnnice!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 20, 2023 09:27 PM (63Dwl)

170 Clarence Zener wasn't the kind of guy who'd spend 30 years looking for the next Dedekind Number.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 20, 2023 09:14 PM (4PZHB)

No idea what you are talking about but cool as heck anyway. Amazing the experiences shared here.

Posted by: Javems at November 20, 2023 09:27 PM (8I4hW)

171 Apparently Kavanuagh and Barrett think sexually explicit drag shows are just peachy keen for minors.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 20, 2023 09:17 PM (z9Xy7)

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"Consider that Schumer's tranny genocide assassins have six ways from Sunday of getting at you, especially when given carte blanche by Garland's & Wray's goons."

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 20, 2023 09:28 PM (4fSQf)

172 Years later, I looked him up. Born Indianapolis, died Pittsburgh, and the most hands-on physicist of the century. Just hated "theoretical constructs."
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard P. Feynman

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 20, 2023 09:29 PM (XeU6L)

173 131 Scientists Have Simulated What It Might Be Like to Plunge Into Uranus

https://tinyurl.com/4zw28cp6

Posted by: Archimedes
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Thank goodness it was only a simulation.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 20, 2023 09:29 PM (5aQ9M)

174 Thank goodness it was only a simulation.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 20, 2023 09:29 PM (5aQ9M)

They could get real-time data from the Secretary of Transportation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 09:34 PM (ud3Ck)

175 ...Scientists Have Simulated What It Might Be Like to Plunge Into Uranus. https://tinyurl.com/4zw28cp6 Posted by: Archimedes

All they needed to do is to ask Bootyjudge to bend over and give them a guided tour.

Probably had so many "tourists" in there, that there's graffiti all over the walls. Raw Sewage Tunnel, the rave attraction at the Bootyjudge Bathhouse?

*shudders*

queues up Sam Kinison's rant about not finding love in another man's hairy ass.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 20, 2023 09:35 PM (e6UQI)

176 I could be Chief Vibes Officer. All I'd need is a bong and a lava lamp.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 20, 2023 09:35 PM (FVME7)

177 It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard P. Feynman

Yeah but is it wrong, wrong?

Posted by: Whoopi G. at November 20, 2023 09:35 PM (4Winp)

178 Thank goodness it was only a simulation.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 20, 2023 09:29 PM (5aQ9M)

I like to see the proposal for the experiment.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 09:36 PM (ZZR/f)

179 -
Scientists Have Simulated What It Might Be Like to Plunge Into Uranus-
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Most people don't know I was the ghost-writer for Fantastic Voyage. The director completely changed the opening.

Posted by: Liberace at November 20, 2023 09:36 PM (E63nu)

180 So did Bill Burr got Kapernicked or was he always a Leftist asshoe. I know he was always a self hating white guy from his act but I thought he was more like a typical 'libertarian' LIV.

Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 09:38 PM (MNhXM)

181 My Soviet-era Russian language texts have mostly come unglued and fallen apart.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Just like our nation.

Posted by: Elmer at November 20, 2023 09:38 PM (ko8ct)

182 Most people don't know I was the ghost-writer for Fantastic Voyage. The director completely changed the opening.
Posted by: Liberace at November 20, 2023 09:36 PM (E63nu)

The world is thankfull you were not special effects.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 09:40 PM (ZZR/f)

183 Seems to me, that if you wanted to explore the atmosphere of any planet with a deep, dense atmosphere, the answer would be a probe that goes into orbit around the planet, and then fires retro-rockets to enter the denser levels of the atmosphere at essentially zero velocity, and then deploys a balloon. Then the balloon could make a controlled descent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 09:41 PM (ud3Ck)

184 >> next Dedekind Number.

See Pixy's early morning Tech thread.

It's a very arcane mathematical curiosity. But who knows, after a while, that work may actually be useful. History is full of examples some arcane, advanced math that became useful long after disocovery.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 20, 2023 09:41 PM (Mzdiz)

185 Biden plans a "low-key" celebration with just family and "friends"

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FACT CHECK: the event will be low-key. There's no other way to have a party for an invalid. It will not be a celebration - these are politicians, who have no capacity for joy or thankfulness. It will be a grim, unconvincing simulacrum of Thanksgiving. Cronies will be present, but not friends. These are politicians, who have no capacity for friendship. It will be a horse trading exercise, cheaply decorated with chilling rictus grins.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 20, 2023 09:44 PM (0FoWg)

186 >> then fires retro-rockets to enter the denser levels of the atmosphere at essentially zero velocity, and then deploys a balloon.

The fuel required for that would be way too much. It would have to carried with the probe from launch on earth.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 20, 2023 09:44 PM (Mzdiz)

187 >>> Nothing classy or muscle or cool luxury about it. Bright colors and lots of plastic. The future.
Posted by: Azjaeger

But today you did get the plastic, but no bright colors. Dull earth tone pastels with high gloss overcoat.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 20, 2023 09:44 PM (cOq4q)

188 -
It's a very arcane mathematical curiosity. But who knows, after a while, that work may actually be useful. History is full of examples some arcane, advanced math that became useful long after disocovery.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at November 20, 2023 09:41 PM -
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That, to me, seems to hint that mathematics are integral (heh) to the construct of the universe.

Posted by: irright at November 20, 2023 09:45 PM (E63nu)

189 That, to me, seems to hint that mathematics are integral (heh) to the construct of the universe.
Posted by: irright

I'm following the arc of this comment.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 20, 2023 09:47 PM (IaTa3)

190 History is full of examples some arcane, advanced math that became useful long after disocovery.
Posted by: publius,
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*cough* *cough*

Posted by: Bernhard Riemann at November 20, 2023 09:49 PM (XeU6L)

191 149 I have maps of W. Germany, with warnings printed on them that they are not to be transported to E. Germany.

Also, a pre-war atlas, with countries as named above, Ceylon, Siam, etc.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 20, 2023 09:01 PM (XeU6L)

Somewhere in my archives is a road map of West and East Germany, which my father used to get to Checkpoint Alpha in 1984. It had no warnings like that; in fact, it has a section on customs requirements for entering East Germany in English, French, and German.

One thing I like to do is to try and figure out how old the map I am looking at is. It's always fun to run into old maps with old countries like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 20, 2023 09:49 PM (8sMut)

192 Mathematicians Have Found The Ninth Dedekind Number, After 32 Years of Searching

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Geez! And I thought I had no life!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 20, 2023 09:50 PM (FVME7)

193 * Kurt Eichenwald has entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 20, 2023 09:25 PM (4fSQf)
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Yikes!

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at November 20, 2023 09:50 PM (3ImbR)

194 >>> The fuel required for that would be way too much. It would have to carried with the probe from launch on earth.
Posted by: publius,

Enter Elon Musk with his orbital rocket fueling stations.
Just one of his planned uses of Big Bertha rockets.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 20, 2023 09:51 PM (cOq4q)

195 chilling rictus grins.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 20, 2023 09:44 PM (0FoWg)

I saw Rictus Grin open for....

No wait. I was in Rictus Grin. We sucked. But it was a blast for about 4 months.

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 09:51 PM (ZZR/f)

196 Bill Burr is from Boston, right? I have yet to meet a native Bostonian who I didn't want to punch in the face, at some point. Even the ones I liked. My boss is from Boston. He's slightly too the right of Stalin and is loud and obnoxious. Can't stand him.

No offense to Boston Hordlings.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2023 09:52 PM (sAmhv)

197 Mathematicians Have Found The Ninth Dedekind Number, After 32 Years of Searching

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Geez! And I thought I had no life!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at November 20, 2023 09:50 PM (FVME7)

They shouldn't have been so clumsy, and they never would have lost it in the first place.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 09:52 PM (ud3Ck)

198 "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard P. Feynman"

- might have been last of the actual, real scientists.

his takedown of the Rogers Commission was epic, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 09:52 PM (hXr4C)

199 >> *cough* *cough*
Posted by: Bernhard Riemann

Bingo!

Posted by: Uncle Al Einstein at November 20, 2023 09:54 PM (Mzdiz)

200 It's a very arcane mathematical curiosity. But who knows, after a while, that work may actually be useful. History is full of examples some arcane, advanced math that became useful long after disocovery.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz)

There is a Veritasium episode on knot theory which did just that: transition from the arcane to the practical.

Posted by: Adriane Watches Way 2 Much YouTube to Criticize Anybody Else . . . at November 20, 2023 09:54 PM (4Winp)

201 My only experience with Boston people was when the megabank I worked for acquired a Boston firm, and relocated their people to Denver.

Eventually, the top brass caved to popular demand, and segregated them on their own floor, where they couldn't pester the normies so much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 20, 2023 09:55 PM (0FoWg)

202 190
'*cough* *cough*'

Did you know Riemann died of tuberculosis?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 20, 2023 09:56 PM (roH4R)

203 Did ya notice the lion only had 3 legs? Missing hind leg.

Posted by: t-dubya-d at November 20, 2023 09:56 PM (w+7qh)

204 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 20, 2023 09:52 PM (sAmhv)

I thought that's what they say about Philly.

Posted by: Drive by at November 20, 2023 09:57 PM (MNhXM)

205 -
'*cough* *cough*'

Did you know Riemann died of tuberculosis?
Posted by: Dr. Claw-
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You've a Rie sense of humor.

Posted by: irright at November 20, 2023 09:57 PM (E63nu)

206 Isn't Ace from Boston?

Posted by: Reforger at November 20, 2023 09:58 PM (ZZR/f)

207 did an actual IRL experiment, in the hearing room on live camera, that demolished a bs narrative in mid-process of fabrication ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at November 20, 2023 09:58 PM (hXr4C)

208 >> Did you know Riemann died of tuberculosis?

That's what They say. We all know he died from poison gas.

Posted by: Kurt Godel at November 20, 2023 09:58 PM (Mzdiz)

209 ONT is nood.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2023 09:58 PM (ud3Ck)

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