Mid-Morning Art Thread

A Northern Silver Mine
Franklin Carmichael

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Incredibly cartoonish.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Strange......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Comments appear, disappear...time machine in full force......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Tailings pond doesn't look polluted enough.

Posted by: huerfano at December 06, 2023 09:32 AM (Q4KYm)

6 No boobs.

Sad sad day

Posted by: 18-1 at December 06, 2023 09:32 AM (XqcwY)

7 I did noodlum....so I'll take my grand slam and gloat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Early 20th century, I bet.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 06, 2023 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

9 I keep waiting for it to zoom in and have Tom chasing Jerry around the village.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

10 I like this. Would hang in my mine shaft.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (45fpk)

11 Tower of the day calender

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (wukIh)

12 Tailings pond doesn't look polluted enough.

Posted by: huerfano at December 06, 2023 09:32 AM (Q4KYm)

Put the EPA in charge....presto chango!

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (AwYPR)

13 Was he employed by the Franklin Mint??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (krqg6)

14 Boring.

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (88xKn)

15 looks like Settlers of Catan

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (CIS44)

16 I like the colors, but it sort of has a paint by numbers vibe to it.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

17 Different.

Posted by: Mpfs at December 06, 2023 09:34 AM (EWEqw)

18 The sky, while being bright, still gives the impression of the communist propaganda paintings of yesteryear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

19 needs more sky

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (V13WU)

20 Morning.

Are those hills silvery because they're loaded with silver?

Overall this piece is bland. I can't really say much more than that.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (DDMNw)

21 I like this. Looks like a Carlos Castaneda paperback cover.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (pohLc)

22 Not well done

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (9tRoa)

23 ...communist propaganda paintings...

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

Interesting take. I see what you mean, even though you are obviously wrong.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (3Gtis)

24 Not well done

Posted by: Skip at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (9tRoa)

Medium rare.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (45fpk)

25 Hmmm. Cartoonish.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (JrojV)

26 Incredibly cartoonish.

But weirdly enough, I don't hate it. The particular scene doesn't do much for me though. I'll have to look up other stuff by the same artist.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (nfrXX)

27 Hmmm. . . seems pretty simplistic to me.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (qoGsy)

28 The sky, while being bright, still gives the impression of the communist propaganda paintings of yesteryear.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

Just needs a guy standing on a tractor looking heroic.

Posted by: Robert at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (DDMNw)

29 At least not working in a coal mine own g your soul to the company store.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (fhv+V)

30
Interesting take. I see what you mean.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (3Gtis)

???

Someone check Hell for frost......something's happening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

31 The clouds are... odd.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 06, 2023 09:37 AM (+Z8I2)

32 I'd like it more if it didn't include the bottom 1/3 of it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:37 AM (izj35)

33 6 No boobs.

Fear not. Mannix will come.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:38 AM (JrojV)

34 At least not working in a coal mine own g your soul to the company store.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (fhv+V)

16 tons

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2023 09:38 AM (AwYPR)

35 Sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2023 09:38 AM (pohLc)

36 Didn't the Hunt Brothers try to corner the silver market years ago to no avail?

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 06, 2023 09:38 AM (mQ8ar)

37 Fear not. Mannix will come.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:38 AM (JrojV)

*Glares in German*

Posted by: Steiner at December 06, 2023 09:39 AM (uoOqB)

38 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

Check again...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:39 AM (3Gtis)

39 What are the white things? Tarps?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:39 AM (JrojV)

40 Member of the Group of Seven who tried to create a distinct Canadian art movement. It included several WW1 war artists.

Wiki:
https://is.gd/pr4yce

And even 'impressionists' can sketch, these from his 'industrial phase':
https://is.gd/YONfYT

https://is.gd/lLNQ39

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 09:40 AM (krqg6)

41 Wikipedia says Carmichael was a Canadian.

In both style and subject, his work reminds me of the American artist Rockwell Kent, who was born a few years earlier but died much later.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 06, 2023 09:40 AM (BHrzb)

42 I'd like it more if it didn't include the bottom 1/3 of it.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:37 AM (izj35)

That's what caught my eye. It's discordant...those structures at the bottom are at odds with the rest of the painting.

That may be the point, but it still isn't pleasing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:41 AM (3Gtis)

43 Oh, I like his other paintings - very cool, CBD!

https://tinyurl.com/48tn46ht

https://tinyurl.com/5mk54ykw

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:42 AM (izj35)

44 Didn't the Hunt Brothers try to corner the silver market years ago to no avail?

Would Not Hang.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

It made them the wealthiest men on earth for a time.

This painting doesn't depict how filthy mining, of any sort, is.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2023 09:42 AM (qoGsy)

45 Someone check Hell for frost......something's happening.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Check again...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

And now for your weather report. Although there was some indication of cooler temps earlier in the week, today is shaping up to be another scorcher. No need to pull out those fur lined harnesses after all. Back to you Luc.

Posted by: Weather man in Hell at December 06, 2023 09:42 AM (+Z8I2)

46 42 Wow, CBD’s dissing his own art selection?

Can his putting maple syrup on French toast be far behind?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:43 AM (JrojV)

47 Painting kinda reminds me of the Balkans...specifically Montenegro. Mountains, lakes, little villages...very picturesque.
https://tinyurl.com/42pvp9ya

Posted by: Military Moron at December 06, 2023 09:43 AM (JCZqz)

48 https://tinyurl.com/48tn46ht

https://tinyurl.com/5mk54ykw
Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:42 AM (izj35)

The first one is nice.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 09:43 AM (OyyDO)

49 >>This painting doesn't depict how filthy mining, of any sort, is.

"I know, right?"

-- Unknown Denver EPA employee responsible for Gold King mine disaster

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:44 AM (izj35)

50 Stylized, but I like it. Wasn't a silver mine the main industry in the town of Personville ("Poisonville"), in Hammett's Red Harvest?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

51 I live in a silver mine and I call it beggar's tomb
I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune

Posted by: mr tmz at December 06, 2023 09:44 AM (rJ48h)

52 It made them the wealthiest men on earth for a time.

This painting doesn't depict how filthy mining, of any sort, is.
Posted by: Tonypete

Not BitCoin mining!!!

Posted by: That Guy at December 06, 2023 09:44 AM (JCZqz)

53 "There's silver in them thar mines!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2023 09:44 AM (7fElN)

54 >>The first one is nice.

Reminds me of New England coast, which makes sense, since he was Canadian.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:44 AM (izj35)

55 Sometimes a mine is just a mine.

Posted by: Sigmund Freud at December 06, 2023 09:45 AM (w9Wax)

56 Wow, CBD’s dissing his own art selection?

Can his putting maple syrup on French toast be far behind?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I get the impression that he doesn't always post art the he likes. Rather he tries to spur the conversation, and sometimes it's something he likes.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 06, 2023 09:45 AM (+Z8I2)

57 "You're not allowed in the mine, because it's MINE!"

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 09:45 AM (sm6Pk)

58 This is begging to be converted into a pop-up book.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 09:45 AM (d04cU)

59 Silver mimes are the worst.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:45 AM (JrojV)

60

Reminds me of Friday night for some reason, not sure why...

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (HRQvT)

61 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (RHGPo)

62
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (9mNHV)

63 SPOILER: There's actually $40 billion of rare earth minerals in the mine. The silver is just icing on the cake.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (7fElN)

64 Looks like commie art.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (R4t5M)

65 This Northern Silver Mine is in Spain, and is the source of Brandy's locket.

And now you know the rest of the story.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (a3Q+t)

66 Oddly, enough, the NYT loved him.

"From 1957 to 1971, Kent was president of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.[25] After a well-received exhibition of his work in Moscow at the Pushkin Museum in 1957–58, he donated several hundred of his paintings and drawings to the Soviet peoples in 1960. He subsequently became an honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Fine Arts and in 1967 the recipient of the International Lenin Peace Prize. Kent specified that his prize money be given to the women and children of Vietnam, both North and South. (The nature of Kent's gift is clarified by his wife Sally in the 2005 documentary Rockwell Kent, produced and written by Fred Lewis.) "

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (krqg6)

67 This painting does not evoke any feeling in me, like most of the others do - it's elementary in its style and presentation.

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2023 09:47 AM (gmo/4)

68 Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:42 AM (izj35)

I posted another one of his works about three years ago (January 7, '21), but that one was a better piece.

I will revisit some of the lesser known artists I have posted, and sometimes I find gems, but sometimes I find stuff like today. Interesting...sort of...but ultimately not particularly good.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:47 AM (3Gtis)

69 63 SPOILER: There's actually $40 billion of rare earth minerals in the mine. The silver is just icing on the cake.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 06, 2023 09:46 AM (7fElN)

The Left has already sold the rights to China.

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 09:47 AM (sm6Pk)

70 Run up the flag for Free Silver! You shall not crucify humanity on a cross of gold!

Posted by: William Jennings Bryan at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (d04cU)

71 Painting kinda reminds me of the Balkans...specifically Montenegro. Mountains, lakes, little villages...very picturesque.
https://tinyurl.com/42pvp9ya
Posted by: Military Moron at December 06, 2023

***
And "Montenegro" makes me think of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin's epic journey to that country (Wolfe's boyhood home) in the mid-1950s, in The Black Mountain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

72
Missing: starving zeks struggling to make norms.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (9mNHV)

73 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

The squeeing of teenage girls from coast to coast is going to be deafening.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (JrojV)

74 Looks like commie art.

Too many colors. BTW, Kris or whoever else, what is that generally recognized "commie art" style actually called?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (nfrXX)

75 CBD’s dissing his own art selection?

Can his putting maple syrup on French toast be far behind?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:43 AM (JrojV)

CBD has always been a trouble maker.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (3Gtis)

76 Why are most buildings associated with mining at least fifty thousand feet tall? Is that to compensate for mining the minerals fifty thousand feet underground? Is part of the mineral extraction process bringing it out of the ground and hauling it up fifty thousand feet inside a wooden building in the middle of Podunk and, I dunno, dropping it to the first floor? Enquiring minds want to know!

Posted by: look whats not at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (nakGR)

77 Painting kinda reminds me of the Balkans...specifically Montenegro. Mountains, lakes, little villages...very picturesque.
----
Very nice.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (krqg6)

78 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Obligatory: Hi Ho Silver!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2023 09:49 AM (uSHSS)

79 The squeeing of teenage girls from coast to coast is going to be deafening.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (JrojV)

And a ton of hits and a few million magazines sold for Time...because why the f*ck else would they choose her?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:49 AM (3Gtis)

80
My silver mine is really neato
Found an artist in front of Home Depot
That might not have been smart
Cuz my sweet mine in his art
Is a background from Tennessee Tuxedo!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2023 09:50 AM (QzZeQ)

81 Painting kinda reminds me of the Balkans...specifically Montenegro. Mountains, lakes, little villages...very picturesque.

Moldova sucks!

Posted by: Frank Moses at December 06, 2023 09:50 AM (gmo/4)

82 74 Looks like commie art.

Too many colors. BTW, Kris or whoever else, what is that generally recognized "commie art" style actually called?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (nfrXX)

Socialist Realism

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 09:50 AM (OyyDO)

83 Too many colors. BTW, Kris or whoever else, what is that generally recognized "commie art" style actually called?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (nfrXX)

government art?

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2023 09:50 AM (AwYPR)

84 >>I will revisit some of the lesser known artists I have posted, and sometimes I find gems, but sometimes I find stuff like today. Interesting...sort of...but ultimately not particularly good.

It has pleasing colors and is of intentionally ugly people, so not bad.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 06, 2023 09:50 AM (izj35)

85 It is my understanding (and I may be wrong) that silver deposits, (at least around Silverton and Ouray in Colorado) are oriented in vertical veins, and the mines were more vertically oriented shafts rather than the horizontal mines depicted in movies.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (991eG)

86 Again, what are the white mounds? To me, they look like structures covered with tarps.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (JrojV)

87 Why are most buildings associated with mining at least fifty thousand feet tall? . . .
Posted by: look whats not at December 06, 2023

***
Surely you jest. They're no more than 5000 feet tall at the most.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

88 Socialist Realism
Posted by: Kris

There must be a story behind that name, the style doesn't seem realistic to me.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (+Z8I2)

89
Check again...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

And now for your weather report. Although there was some indication of cooler temps earlier in the week, today is shaping up to be another scorcher. No need to pull out those fur lined harnesses after all. Back to you Luc.
Posted by: Weather man in Hell at December 06, 2023 09:42 AM (+Z8I2)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

90 I will revisit some of the lesser known artists I have posted, and sometimes I find gems, but sometimes I find stuff like today. Interesting...sort of...but ultimately not particularly good.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:47 AM (3Gtis)
++++
Well, silver is *not* a gem, so this is to be expected...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (d04cU)

91 73 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

The squeeing of teenage girls from coast to coast is going to be deafening.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:48 AM (JrojV)

Oh Lord. And my Bills are playing the Chiefs this week. It's going to be a 3 hour long Swiftie convention with a football game attached.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 09:52 AM (OyyDO)

92 There are bits of Socialist Realism in the painting. But true, commies didn't use quite this many colors.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 09:52 AM (R4t5M)

93 I will revisit some of the lesser known artists I have posted, and sometimes I find gems, but sometimes I find stuff like today. Interesting...sort of...but ultimately not particularly good.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:47 AM

And then ... there is that one painting that stands (or in this instance sits) above all others in Hordian lore and legend.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2023 09:52 AM (a3Q+t)

94 I absolutely love this. I like landscapes in general but this has notes naive and real, beautiful colors and dimensions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2023 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

95
And a ton of hits and a few million magazines sold for Time...because why the f*ck else would they choose her?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:49 AM (3Gtis)

This. All while violating the 100 comment rule.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

96 Socialist Realism
Posted by: Kris
*
There must be a story behind that name, the style doesn't seem realistic to me.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 06, 2023

***
Sort of like Magical Realism in fiction. There's something fantastical in the story, so not *real* realism, but it pretends to be realism.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

97 That mine sure was getting a lot of tail.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (w9Wax)

98 Well, silver is *not* a gem, so this is to be expected...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (d04cU)

Stick to nice racks!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (3Gtis)

99 Some people can do Thomas Hart Benton. Some can't. Total absence of humans is noticeable.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (iDpzk)

100 88 There must be a story behind that name, the style doesn't seem realistic to me.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (+Z8I2)

Everything is so angular and rectangular in the "Commie Propaganda" style, I can't take any "realism" from it.

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (sm6Pk)

101 Montenegro was a pretty badass place once. The only country in the Balkans never directly conquered by the Turks. Though the Ottomans did I think exercise a theoretical sovereignty over it, they were never able to occupy it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (JrojV)

102 And then ... there is that one painting that stands (or in this instance sits) above all others in Hordian lore and legend.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2023

***
The Nicole Kidman-looking girl astride a pig?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

103 Again, what are the white mounds?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM

The ones in this painting, or the ones often discussed?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 06, 2023 09:54 AM (a3Q+t)

104
***
The Nicole Kidman-looking girl astride a pig?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

Is the pig wearing lipstick?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

105 The Nicole Kidman-looking girl astride a pig?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023
*
Is the pig wearing lipstick?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023

***
No, but I think she was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

106 Could be a Support Your Local Gunfighter set.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2023 09:55 AM (4I/2K)

107 Not a favourite although I said "Group of Seven" immediately as they did create a distinct style that you'll see prints of [and paint-by-numbers!] in all sorts of cottages, camps, cabins in the woods here.

An IMAGE search will show the style pretty effectively.

And landscapists not Communist industry-worshippers that CBD has featured before.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 09:55 AM (krqg6)

108 Could be a Support Your Local Gunfighter set.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2023 09:55 AM (4I/2K)

THAT'S the James Garner movie I was searching for......

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

109 There must be a story behind that name, the style doesn't seem realistic to me.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at December 06, 2023 09:51 AM (+Z8I2)

It's "Realist" in that it's not abstract.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 09:56 AM (OyyDO)

110
Terms of Enrichment - a limerick

The silver miner Oliver Taft
Was an expert at his silver mining craft
Brut it turns out his bankers
Were a scheming bunch of wankers
They got the silver mine. He got the shaft

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2023 09:56 AM (991eG)

111 Socialist Realism

Thank you. So basically "commie art" really is pretty much spot-on. Also, like almost everything else from the commies, it's intentionally misleading.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 09:56 AM (nfrXX)

112 I rarely second-guess myself. If I choose something for the art thread I will use it unless on closer inspection it is unnecessarily offensive, or whatever had caught my eye originally isn't obvious.

Because sometimes I look for art after a few adult beverages...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:56 AM (3Gtis)

113 I like Franklin Carmichael art for several reasons: the scenes he depicts are interesting, he uses watercolors and the way he applies them. There is an almost quilt-like appearance to his paintings in the way he applies the paint that emphasizes the texture of the landscape. I would love to see a selection of his preliminary sketches.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2023 09:56 AM (7EjX1)

114
Stick to nice racks!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM (3Gtis)

I'd prefer to be stuck to nice racks, actually. Seems like a fun way to go.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

115 Final trailer for Masters of the Air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-1JCRguZ0

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 09:57 AM (CIS44)

116 97 That mine sure was getting a lot of tail.
-----
It just loved the shaft.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 09:57 AM (krqg6)

117 It was called Alex on Pig, by Bryten Goss. It was a pretty recent painting; the artist died in 2006 at thirty, and he started exhibiting his work at age sixteen.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:57 AM (J2vNu)

118 Tower in the foreground holds the sniper!

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at December 06, 2023 09:57 AM (xDMjB)

119 I came back from the USSR and festooned my apartment with Soviet propaganda art I had purchased for pennies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2023 09:58 AM (RIvkX)

120 It's "Realist" in that it's not abstract.

Ah. OK, that helps.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 09:58 AM (nfrXX)

121 I can't relate to this painting, as the river is not some strange shade of baby-shit orange-brown from a EPA-botched mine containment effort.

Posted by: Rocky Mountain High at December 06, 2023 09:58 AM (UcaIc)

122 Because sometimes I look for art after a few adult beverages...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Seems like we should have more boob art in that case...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:58 AM (JrojV)

123 What are those spikes or timbers sticking up from the hill on the right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

124
No sniper, but a whole Red Army regiment in town.

Posted by: Auspex at December 06, 2023 09:59 AM (j4U/Z)

125 Reminds me of Thomas hart Benton though I guess this guy is Canadian

Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM (n2vyf)

126 23 ...communist propaganda paintings...

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

Interesting take. I see what you mean, even though you are obviously wrong.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (3Gtis)

I like the style a lot - it actually began in America, then known as the "Regionalist Style" as practiced by John Steuart Curry, Thomas Hart Benton, and Grant Wood. A generation later, the style became used by Canadian artists know as "The Group of Seven", of which Carmichael was one.

Sadly, Lenin and Stalin and the Russian avant garde (before they were all liquidated) noticed the style and adopted it - and then the Soviets stuck with it for decades. And that's why so many now think of it as Communist Art.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM (S6gqv)

127 The Nicole Kidman-looking girl astride a pig?

********

A great way for her to bring home the bacon...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM (991eG)

128 BTW, Carmichael did some excellent wood engraving and linocuts as well as paintings.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM (7EjX1)

129 Because sometimes I look for art after a few adult beverages...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Seems like we should have more boob art in that case...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 09:58 AM (JrojV)

There is tremendous validity to this statement.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

130 Sadly, Lenin and Stalin and the Russian avant garde (before they were all liquidated) noticed the style and adopted it - and then the Soviets stuck with it for decades. And that's why so many now think of it as Communist Art.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM (S6gqv)
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Better than liquefied, I guess...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM (d04cU)

131 120 It's "Realist" in that it's not abstract.

Ah. OK, that helps.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 09:58 AM (nfrXX)

Not to be confused with Realism, Social Realism, or Naturalism. These are also different from each other.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 10:01 AM (OyyDO)

132
Interesting take. I see what you mean, even though you are obviously wrong.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 06, 2023 09:36 AM (3Gtis)

LMFAO.

Touche, sir. Touche.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

133 I would love to see a selection of his preliminary sketches.
Posted by: JTB
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Not for this exactly but here are a pair of sketches of buildings from him [from #40].

https://is.gd/YONfYT

https://is.gd/lLNQ39

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:01 AM (krqg6)

134 A great way for her to bring home the bacon...
Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2023 10:00 AM

I already did.

Posted by: Kyra Sedgwick at December 06, 2023 10:02 AM (a3Q+t)

135 Oh Lord. And my Bills are playing the Chiefs this week. It's going to be a 3 hour long Swiftie convention with a football game attached.
Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 09:52 AM (OyyDO)

it was either her , or Putin, or Zi. uncharacteristically Time went with neither a dictator, nor some other perversion

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 10:03 AM (V13WU)

136 >>Some people can do Thomas Hart Benton. Some can't. Total absence of humans is noticeable.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2023 09:53 AM

I saw a bunch of his paintings at a gallery on the U of Texas campus in Austin. I loved them and I usually don't like that kind of art.

Posted by: huerfano at December 06, 2023 10:03 AM (Q4KYm)

137 I'm something of a painter myself.

Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at December 06, 2023 10:03 AM (4I/2K)

138 I came back from the USSR and festooned my apartment with Soviet propaganda art I had purchased for pennies.
-----
If you still have them/any, you might consider selling them as there's a market for them. I saw some featured on the UK Antiques Roadshow.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:03 AM (krqg6)

139 101 Montenegro was a pretty badass place once. The only country in the Balkans never directly conquered by the Turks. Though the Ottomans did I think exercise a theoretical sovereignty over it, they were never able to occupy it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Montenegro and Albania for a time. Gjergj Kastrioti was an ethnic Albanian noble's son who was held as ransom by the Ottomans and trained as a janissary. Great soldier and general, loyal, rose through the ranks and was given land and power in the Balkans.

Then, he united several Albanian fiefdoms and clans, betrayed the sultan, and drove the Ottomans out. Fought them for the rest of his life, and supposedly never lost a battle. Went under the name/title Skanderbeg in his later days, and is kind of a Balkans hero....even to the Serbs, who hate Albanians, but hate the Ottomans more lol

Posted by: Military Moron at December 06, 2023 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

140 it was either her , or Putin, or Zi. uncharacteristically Time went with neither a dictator, nor some other perversion
Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 10:03 AM (V13WU)
++++
And they couldn't cop out and make it everybody like in 2006, because the American people have been bad this year and didn't sweep Democrats into congress.

That was such a stupid thing. I am still tempted, however, to put "Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2006" on my resume in the "other accomplishments" section.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:05 AM (d04cU)

141 it was either her , or Putin, or Zi. uncharacteristically Time went with neither a dictator, nor some other perversion
Posted by: runner a

apparently the finalists were: Swift, Barbie, Putin, Xi, Hollywood Strikers, Sam Altman, King Charles, Jerome Powell and the one I cant believe didnt win Trump Prosecutors.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:05 AM (CIS44)

142 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2023 10:05 AM (RHGPo)

143 apparently the finalists were: Swift, Barbie, Putin, Xi, Hollywood Strikers, Sam Altman, King Charles, Jerome Powell and the one I cant believe didnt win Trump Prosecutors.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:05 AM (CIS44)
++++
They should have gone with "Hollywood Strikers." They accomplished a lot, and Hollywood might never recover.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:06 AM (d04cU)

144 No relation

Posted by: Stokely Carmichael at December 06, 2023 10:08 AM (d04cU)

145 I saw a bunch of his paintings at a gallery on the U of Texas campus in Austin. I loved them and I usually don't like that kind of art.
----------------
He is unique. Yes, I like him, too. But I can't take a full load of him for long.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2023 10:08 AM (Or2u9)

146 What a day. First we find out ace and JJS are selling out to moneyed interests, now CBD is in the pocket of Big Silver! My world is crashing all at once! Say it ain't so!

Posted by: Henny Penny at December 06, 2023 10:08 AM (83IzV)

147 But I can't take a full load of him for long.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Amateur.
-Sandra Fluke

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:08 AM (CIS44)

148 Of all of those painters, my personal favorite is John Steuart Curry. Probably because he provided an album cover for Kansas, I'll admit it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:08 AM (S6gqv)

149 Posted by: Military Moron at December 06, 2023 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

Yeah, Skanderbeg was another Balkan badass.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:09 AM (JrojV)

150 147 But I can't take a full load of him for long.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Amateur.
-Sandra Fluke
Posted by: BruceWayne

Skank.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 06, 2023 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

151 Wait, then what's the commie style where every person is rectangular shaped with square faces and shouting?

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:10 AM (sm6Pk)

152 oh yeah ? how many tiktok, insta, and fb follower do "Hollywood Strikers" have???

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 10:11 AM (V13WU)

153 This painting doesn't look like Commie art. Commies use flat lifeless colors, to reflect their fatalist outlook.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2023 10:11 AM (pohLc)

154 I'm something of a painter myself.
Posted by: A. Schicklgruber

Yeah, I've seen your stuff. It stinks compared to mine.

Posted by: W. Churchill at December 06, 2023 10:11 AM (JrojV)

155 200 comment rule. [SMOD]

Posted by: SMOD at December 06, 2023 10:12 AM (RHGPo)

156 What a day. First we find out ace and JJS are selling out to moneyed interests, now CBD is in the pocket of Big Silver! My world is crashing all at once! Say it ain't so!
Posted by: Henny Penny at December 06, 2023 10:08 AM (83IzV)

sold out to the Zionist cabal

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 10:12 AM (V13WU)

157 I'm something of a painter myself.
Posted by: A. Schicklgruber

No, thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at December 06, 2023 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

158 133 ...Andycanuck,

Thanks for those links. Exactly what I was talking about. Interesting to see how he develops perspective and blocking.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2023 10:15 AM (7EjX1)

159 200 comment rule. [SMOD]
Posted by: SMOD

What's that?

Posted by: W. Churchill at December 06, 2023 10:15 AM (JrojV)

160 Off sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:15 AM (JrojV)

161 Israel Defense Forces @IDF 13h
🔴Four battalion commanders were eliminated in the Gaza Brigade—the largest brigade in the Hamas terrorist organization.

Gaza City is a prominent example of military posts, weapons manufacturing and storage facilities embedded in the heart of civilian areas, presenting a clear example of Hamas’ use of civilian population as human shields.

🔴The Tsabra Battalion was significantly damaged and the battalion headquarters were put out of use.

🔴In the sector of the Shati Battalion, the IDF forces took control of central strongholds.

Our forces continue to operate against Hamas’ leadership in Gaza:

🔴IDF forces eliminated several Hamas commanders and operatives of the Northern Gaza Strip Brigade—the second largest brigade of Hamas—who were hiding in a tunnel located near the Indonesian Hospital during the strike.

Five commanders from those photographed in the photo were eliminated:
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Five outta twelve ain't bad.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:15 AM (krqg6)

162 If this had a communist message it would either:

1. Show happy, clean miners filing into work proud of the fact that they are contributing to the socialist collective.

OR

2. Be a dark image of an oppressive mine manager and his minions severely abusing the workers.

This is neither. I see a positive image of industry and nature in harmony.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 10:16 AM (OyyDO)

163 Israel Defense Forces @IDF 13h
🔴Four battalion commanders were eliminated in the Gaza Brigade—the largest brigade in the Hamas terrorist organization.

Gaza City is a prominent example of military posts, weapons manufacturing and storage facilities embedded in the heart of civilian areas, presenting a clear example of Hamas’ use of civilian population as human shields.

"They're lying. We will wait to hear from Hamas on what their evaluation is as we believe all muslhams."

-- -- -- The Biden Administration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 06, 2023 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

164
From the river to the sea ...
These colors (and Israelis) will be free."

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:17 AM (UYkEY)

165 You're welcome, JTB.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:17 AM (krqg6)

166 This painting doesn't depict how filthy mining, of any sort, is.
Posted by: Tonypete

Not strip mining. Those strippers come out of the ground clean as a whistle.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:19 AM (JrojV)

167 UNRWA @UNRWA 4h
Several challenges are pushing @UNRWA operations to the brink:
🔺Heavy bombardment & resumption of military operation
🔺Lack of regular deliveries of humanitarian aid & fuel
🔺Dependency on 1 crossing point
🔺Overwhelming needs in #Gaza - including in overflowing @UNRWA shelters

Jonathan Schanzer @JSchanzer 3h
Here’s what else is pushing @UNRWA to the brink: mounting evidence that the UN agency partnered with Hamas in Gaza, with UNRWA facilities providing Hamas infrastructure to conduct military/terror operations.

Let’s find another agency to help Gazans.

Shut this one down.
===
As President Trump had; refunded by Biden.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:19 AM (krqg6)

168 ... 🔴IDF forces eliminated several Hamas commanders and operatives of the Northern Gaza Strip Brigade—the second largest brigade of Hamas—who were hiding in a tunnel located near the Indonesian Hospital during the strike.

Five commanders from those photographed in the photo were eliminated: ...
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:15 AM (krqg6)
+++++
This partially successful assassination effort cost the lives of 250,000 Palestinian children in that hospital!

Posted by: Hamas Press Liason at December 06, 2023 10:19 AM (d04cU)

169 French Toast?

May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live is an Irish toast.
Bread, cinnamon, eggs and maple syrup is a French toast.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2023 10:19 AM (uSHSS)

170
TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

_________

A woman of 33 who looks 23 and sings like she's 13.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 10:20 AM (9mNHV)

171 @JSchanzer 3h
Here’s what else is pushing @UNRWA to the brink: mounting evidence that the UN agency partnered with Hamas in Gaza, with UNRWA facilities providing Hamas infrastructure to conduct military/terror operations.

Let’s find another agency to help Gazans.

Shut this one down. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:19 AM (krqg6)
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No. Just cut it off and let it die. Let the Gazans' Arab brothers help them out. Why should the west - through whatever cutout agency - be supporting a people who want to destroy Israel and the west?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:20 AM (d04cU)

172
This partially successful assassination effort cost the lives of 250,000 Palestinian children in that hospital!
Posted by: Hamas Press Liason at December 06, 2023 10:19 AM (d04cU)

Sounds legit.
- NYT

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:21 AM (8d3/4)

173 That was a real shrewd piece of detective work, and it really takes serious brain cells to deduce the real levers behind this blog. It was all there right in the open ! there is only one reason to talk about antisemitism, and Israel, and that is money. yes, cold hard cash. there is no other reason to talk about these filthy Jews. especially in the context of all these other important things going on, that never get coverage on this blog ! like FBI malfeasance and Christopher Wray! or modern culture dominated by perversion and Disney! or Bidenomics ! or the presidential race 2024! it's all Jews, Jews, Jews all the time. Seriously, just come clean, will you ?!

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 10:21 AM (V13WU)

174 Tonypete, bitcoin would disagree. Their dirt comes from a different source

Posted by: Ben Had at December 06, 2023 10:21 AM (XABvF)

175 Study reveals how snot facilitates infection:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9p99pf

Posted by: gp's Science News at December 06, 2023 10:21 AM (MvF+J)

176 Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig 3h
17-year-old Mia Leimberg is home.

Mia and her beloved dog Bella were taken hostage together with her mother and aunt by Hamas on October 7th.

After 53 days, during which Mia shared whatever food she had with Bella, the two are finally home again.

My heart can’t help but feel just a little more whole❤️‍🩹
https://is.gd/NU2N2J
===
God help her in her recovery.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:22 AM (krqg6)

177 171
Shut this one down. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:19 AM (krqg6)
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No. Just cut it off and let it die. Let the Gazans' Arab brothers help them out. Why should the west - through whatever cutout agency - be supporting a people who want to destroy Israel and the west?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:20 AM (d04cU)

And if there was any justice, Congress would revisit any funding to the UN, UNRWA or any other NGO tied to it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2023 10:23 AM (N39Ws)

178 I like the painting. It's sort of manly.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 06, 2023 10:23 AM (GshMh)

179
This partially successful assassination effort cost the lives of 250,000 Palestinian children in that hospital!
Posted by: Hamas Press Liason

__________

"Experts are troubled that as many as 250,000 Palestinian children may have died as a result of this Israeli action." - the New York Times, later

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (9mNHV)

180 OT: My order of pipe tobacco might get here today. The estate pipe I bought myself for Christmas is still delayed. The stuff from Duluth Trading is still being "containerized." And the license plate frame for the Buick is on schedule, but who knows if Amz. will deliver it to my office, or to my mail room a quarter mile and more away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

181 And if there was any justice, Congress would revisit any funding to the UN, UNRWA or any other NGO tied to it.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Let's put the NG back in NGO.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (CIS44)

182 I was shocked that NBC nightly news had a 5 minute segment on the Hamas rapes. And slapped the UN as well for ignoring it.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (8d3/4)

183 176 I'm surprised the canine-hating Muzzies let that dog live.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (JrojV)

184 176
God help her in her recovery.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:22 AM (krqg6)

Amen

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (N39Ws)

185 This partially successful assassination effort cost the lives of 250,000 Palestinian children in that hospital!
Posted by: Hamas Press Liason

And will only succeed in producing MORE militant Palestinians than before. The only real option for peace is an immediate ceasefire, followed by a return to the 1945 boundaries, overseen by a unified Palestinian government.

Posted by: Democracy Now! and other Hamas Lefty apologist press organs at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

186 Looks like the town in High Plains Drifter.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023 10:25 AM (VwHCD)

187 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

That just shows how unserious it is

Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2023 10:25 AM (n2vyf)

188 180 Wolfus, what's an "estate pipe" (other than $20 same as in town)?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:25 AM (JrojV)

189 So many things need defunded.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:26 AM (R4t5M)

190 151 Wait, then what's the commie style where every person is rectangular shaped with square faces and shouting?
Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:10 AM (sm6Pk)

20th century art is the history of artists getting weirder and weirder until finally some just started flinging paint randomly at a canvas and critics would call it "good".

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:26 AM (i9ffA)

191 Like her or not, TAYTAY was the dominating story for much of the year. When her show came to town it was THE local story that week.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:26 AM (8d3/4)

192 The fake rally in NASDAQ just went south.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2023 10:26 AM (Ist0o)

193 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

That just shows how unserious it is
Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2023

***
I can recall the flap when Time selected the Ayatollah Khomeini, he of the Carter-era hostage situation, as "Man [or Person?] of the Year 1979."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

194 My order of pipe tobacco might get here today. The estate pipe I bought myself for Christmas is still delayed. The stuff from Duluth Trading is still being "containerized." And the license plate frame for the Buick is on schedule, but who knows if Amz. will deliver it to my office, or to my mail room a quarter mile and more away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

WTF is an estate pipe?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023 10:27 AM (VwHCD)

195 Study reveals how snot facilitates infection:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9p99pf
Posted by: gp's Science News

Just in time for Pfizer's new anti-snot vaccine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:27 AM (JrojV)

196 Israel Defense Forces @IDF 3h
🔴 The launch of a surface-to-surface missile toward Israeli territory was identified and successfully intercepted in the area of the Red Sea by the Arrow Aerial Defense System.

The target did not cross into Israeli territory and sirens sounded according to protocol.

Eli Kowaz @elikowaz 2h
Watch the Arrow Air Defense system intercepting an incoming missile headed toward Eilat today. The rocket was fired by Houthis in Yemen

https://is.gd/73w7dA
45 seconds; loud; I don't know if Hebrew or Arabic but "boom" is universal.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:27 AM (krqg6)

197 Here’s what else is pushing @UNRWA to the brink: mounting evidence that the UN agency partnered with Hamas in Gaza, with UNRWA facilities providing Hamas infrastructure to conduct military/terror operations.

Let’s find another agency to help Gazans.

Shut this one down. ...

-------------

The U.S. Department of State, Al Sharpton, and Farrakhan's Nation of Islam are tanned, not arrested, and ready!

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:28 AM (T6TND)

198 187 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

That just shows how unserious it is
Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2023 10:25 AM (n2vyf)

It's as if only high school girls are being asked what's important.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:28 AM (i9ffA)

199 Great painting! It’s a little bit like the old WPA and national parks posters as well as Hokusai.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 06, 2023 10:28 AM (ogTiX)

200 WTF is an estate pipe?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023

***
A euphemism for "used." Like how a car can be "previously owned" but is still "used." Yes, the pipes are cleaned and disinfected before they're sold, and I wipe the stem and bowl with some alcohol-based cleaner myself before I first use them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:29 AM (J2vNu)

201 It's as if only high school girls are being asked what's important.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:28 AM (i9ffA)
++++
Are HS girls even into Taylor Swift anymore? I thought her fanbase was more in their 20s and 30s.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:29 AM (d04cU)

202 Not to be confused with Realism, Social Realism, or Naturalism. These are also different from each other.

If it were anyone else saying that, I'd think you were yanking my chain but I know you're being sincere. So let's suppose some geek (no names, please) wanted to visit a museum and not feel totally like a fish out of water. What's the one book he (or, I suppose "she") should read first?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 10:29 AM (nfrXX)

203 11 yo is not a Swiftee. She went outta her way to explain this to the wife some months ago.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:31 AM (R4t5M)

204 194 WTF is an estate pipe?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023 10:27 AM (VwHCD)

I assume one that belonged to a dead person.

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:31 AM (sm6Pk)

205
I thought her fanbase was more in their 20s and 30s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

__________

Wine-sodden women still pissed at their ex or boyfriend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (9mNHV)

206 200 A euphemism for "used." Like how a car can be "previously owned" but is still "used." Yes, the pipes are cleaned and disinfected before they're sold, and I wipe the stem and bowl with some alcohol-based cleaner myself before I first use them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:29 AM (J2vNu)

In other words, "Taken from a dead person"?

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (sm6Pk)

207 A euphemism for "used." Like how a car can be "previously owned" but is still "used." Yes, the pipes are cleaned and disinfected before they're sold, and I wipe the stem and bowl with some alcohol-based cleaner myself before I first use them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:29 AM (J2vNu)

Ah...I would imagine some interesting specimens come up for sale. A few hundred year old "church warden" would be pretty cool.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (VwHCD)

208 180 ... "My order of pipe tobacco might get here today."

Wolfus,
Out of curiosity, which tobaccos did you order?

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (7EjX1)

209 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

That just shows how unserious it is
Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2023 10:25 AM (n2vyf)

It's as if only high school girls are being asked what's important.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Thing is, none of the girls I went to high school with back in the day would have liked Taylor Swift.

Well, I can think of one featherbrained chick who might have. The rest had too much common sense, even accounting for the fact that they were teenage girls.

They aren't making teenage girls like they used to.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (JrojV)

210 Back in '38 I was Time's Person of the Year.

Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (4I/2K)

211 Two things I don’t get in music. The love for Drake and the hate for TAYTAY.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:33 AM (8d3/4)

212 WTF is an estate pipe?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023
*
I assume one that belonged to a dead person.
Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023

***
Or to someone who simply sold it, or traded it for another pipe. The word "estate" suggests the owner has gone on to The Big Cigar Bar in the Sky, but it doesn't have to mean that.

I prefer the word "vintage" myself.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (J2vNu)

213 I'm reasonably sure that this painting is of Hedley, British Columbia.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (VxbvY)

214 Back in '38 I was Time's Person of the Year.
Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (4I/2K)

That's because they loved your speeches.

Posted by: dantesed at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (88xKn)

215 211 Two things I don’t get in music. The love for Drake and the hate for TAYTAY.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:33 AM (8d3/4)

I didn't know the Horde listened to anything made after 1968.

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (sm6Pk)

216 Two things I don’t get in music. The love for Drake and the hate for TAYTAY.
Posted by: Montec

I hear TAYTAY is actually a secret Nickelback groupie.

That's all you need to know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (JrojV)

217 "Just in time for Pfizer's new anti-snot vaccine."

Pfizer has OTC products for the War On Snot, including Dimetapp and Robitussin. Not intended for injection, but somebody's probably tried that by now.

Posted by: gp's Science News at December 06, 2023 10:35 AM (MvF+J)

218 Wolfus,
Out of curiosity, which tobaccos did you order?
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2023

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A pouch of St. Bruno, which may prove too strong for me and will be used in blending, and a tin of Peterson's Early Morning Pipe. I liked the Match version of it I tried earlier this year, so I'm going all in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:35 AM (J2vNu)

219
Okay,, so according to the last thread. Vic joined Buzzion in the great beyond and he was killed by someone's dead laptop. Correct?

Posted by: Do I have that right? at December 06, 2023 10:35 AM (X4yCj)

220 Study reveals how snot facilitates infection:

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Isn't it time for some common-sense assault snot control laws?

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:35 AM (T6TND)

221 FUN FACT: Fame eluded Michael Carmichael while his brother Hoagie won worldwide acclaim for the invention of a sandwich.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 06, 2023 10:35 AM (eaI2m)

222 211 Two things I don’t get in music. The love for Drake and the hate for TAYTAY.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:33 AM (8d3/4)

I didn't know the Horde listened to anything made after 1968.
Posted by: XTC

Vic tuned Mozart's harpsicord.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (R4t5M)

223 205
I thought her fanbase was more in their 20s and 30s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

__________

Wine-sodden women still pissed at their ex or boyfriend.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (9mNHV)

So if you are a male, in your 30s to 40s - go pick up the ladies after a swiftie concert.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (N39Ws)

224 "That just shows how unserious it is"

Unserious populace in an unserious nation.

Posted by: gp's Science News at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (MvF+J)

225 Back in '38 I was Time's Person of the Year.
Posted by: A. Schicklgruber at December 06, 2023 10:32 AM (4I/2K)

Person of the year 1993 ! Give me five ! better yet, let's french !

Posted by: Yasser Arafat at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (V13WU)

226 222
Vic tuned Mozart's harpsicord.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (R4t5M)

Anybody hear from Vic any more?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (N39Ws)

227 @elikowaz 2h
Watch the Arrow Air Defense system intercepting an incoming missile headed toward Eilat today. The rocket was fired by Houthis in Yemen ...
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:27 AM (krqg6)
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While this system is surely a technical marvel, it is important to note that it is clear from this footage that Arrow interceptors launch - or at least *can* launch - from what appear to be civilian areas. Israel embeds military capability in civilian residential areas.

This matters because this is the same thing that Israel alleges Hamas does, and then uses that allegation to justify Israeli retribution against Palestinian civilians. Israel embedding military capability in civilian areas and then alleging that Palestine does the same as a justification for merciless slaughter of civilians is the worst kind of hypocrisy.

Faux outrage over Palestinian rockets near a Gazan apartment building is particularly galling when Israel launches sophisticated missiles from what appears to be a residential block.

Posted by: Your Kid's Ivy League Professor at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (d04cU)

228 1968? Straight Shooter didn’t come out until 1975.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (ogTiX)

229 /off terrorist

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (V13WU)

230 Hysterical footnote: Thomas Benton and Grant Wood both worked as Navy "dazzle designers" in WWI. Both were noted for their above-average (for modern painters) drafting skills, so I probed a couple of historians for evidence that their military experience contributed to their artistic output, but apparently they both had extensive classical art training before they zigged their first zag.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2023 10:37 AM (FCs/J)

231 Okay,, so according to the last thread. Vic joined Buzzion in the great beyond and he was killed by someone's dead laptop. Correct?

Posted by: Do I have that right? at December 06, 2023 10:35 AM (X4yCj)

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I heard that his consciousness was uploaded into an AI ChatBot named VicGPT.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:37 AM (T6TND)

232 Anybody hear from Vic any more?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Yes. Yesterday. His computer was down for a while and he is battling a new round of cancer. Prayers for him.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:38 AM (R4t5M)

233 Was Elvis ever person of the year? The Beatles? Seems like if any songsters would be worthy of Person of the Year, it would be them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:38 AM (JrojV)

234 If it were anyone else saying that, I'd think you were yanking my chain but I know you're being sincere. So let's suppose some geek (no names, please) wanted to visit a museum and not feel totally like a fish out of water. What's the one book he (or, I suppose "she") should read first?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 10:29 AM (nfrXX)

Pick up a copy of Gardner's Art Through the Ages. It's a collage-level textbook that is a basic survey of art and easy to understand. The introduction has a tutorial on how to read art and what to look for. You should be able to get old editions for cheap.

Posted by: Kris at December 06, 2023 10:38 AM (OyyDO)

235 I heard that his consciousness was uploaded into an AI ChatBot named VicGPT.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:37 AM (T6TND)
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No, we can rule that one out. All big AIs have the mind virus.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:38 AM (d04cU)

236

We heard here that Vic passed away quite a few months ago.

Posted by: Just Sayin at December 06, 2023 10:38 AM (HRQvT)

237 Ooops. correction: PFE does not make Dimetapp or Robitussin. I got snookered by a disinfo site. Mea culpa.

Posted by: gp's Science News at December 06, 2023 10:39 AM (MvF+J)

238

and Khomeini was tpoty in 1979
put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (V13WU)

239 We heard here that Vic passed away quite a few months ago.
Posted by: Just Sayin at December 06, 2023 10:38 AM (HRQvT)

That was misdisinformation

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (4I/2K)

240 I heard that his consciousness was uploaded into an AI ChatBot named VicGPT.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:37 AM (T6TND)

"VicGPT, make me a picture of Taylor Swift riding a unicorn and eating a pastrami sandwich"

"No. Jackass. Read a book."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (9UlRk)

241 Faux outrage over Palestinian rockets near a Gazan apartment building is particularly galling when Israel launches sophisticated missiles from what appears to be a residential block.
Posted by: Your Kid's Ivy League Professor at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (d04cU)
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Dumb as f**k are you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (zutzM)

242
I didn't know the Horde listened to anything made after 1968.
Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (sm6Pk)

Or saw a movie in a theater past 1993.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (8d3/4)

243 Tobacco pipes can be refurbished and restored. The stem get its oxidation removed, the bowl and airway are cleaned, and the whole pipe is polished and waxed. I have a small Dr. Grabow from eBay that probably dates from the Thirties yet looks nearly new, for example.

I've refreshed the stems on a few of my older, 1980s pipes, and I hate doing it (Oxyclean, fine sandpaper, stem polish). My preference is for acrylic stems.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

244 In the footage of that Arrow launch, the interception happened pretty far away - sound but no flash. Can it go over the horizon, or was it just a resolution limitation of the camera?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:41 AM (d04cU)

245 I didn't know the Horde listened to anything made after 1968.
Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (sm6Pk)

Hall and Oates.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (45fpk)

246 I didn't know the Horde listened to anything made after 1968.
Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:34 AM (sm6Pk)

Freebird was released in 1974.

Little Feat's Waiting on Columbus was released in 1978.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (4I/2K)

247 A longish Nitter thread analyzing Hamas' casualties' lies

https://is.gd/RhaSUV

Aizenberg @Aizenberg55 Dec 4
🧵Critical Thread. Close review of Gaza casualty figures reported by UN OCHA based on daily Hamas “Ministry of Health” numbers proves they are FALSIFIED. Women & children are grossly inflated. This is easily proven but media ignores. See detailed expose below: 1/
Dec 4, 2023 · 7:11 PM UTC

UN OCHA publishes a daily “flash update” since Oct 8 and cites detailed Gaza casualty figures provided by Hamas. The website and data is available to the public here: ochaopt.org/crisis Sometime in October the UN provided the data in graphic form, here is the latest. 2/

It is immediately obvious that Hamas does not report ANY combatant deaths & the numbers amazingly seem to indicate that IDF bombs & bullets disproportionately hit women, children & elderly. They IDF CANNOT seem to hit too many fighting age men. But the numbers are faked. 3/

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (krqg6)

248 I thought her fanbase was more in their 20s and 30s.

We're at that awkward stage of life, caught between hating our kids and hating our grandkids.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (FCs/J)

249 Faux outrage over Palestinian rockets near a Gazan apartment building is particularly galling when Israel launches sophisticated missiles from what appears to be a residential block.

Posted by: Your Kid's Ivy League Professor at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (d04cU)

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And if you look closely, professor, you'll see that that missile is hiding behind numerous Gazan children strapped to it.

Outrageous, salacious, preposterous!"

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (T6TND)

250 If my kids and their friends are any indication, her fan base is bigly strong in the under 20 crowd as well. I like her stuff too. It’s silly and poppy but sometimes silly and poppy is fun. Everything doesn’t have to be super serious all the time.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (8d3/4)

251 In AndyCanuck's accurate repost of a UNRWA tweet at 167 above, note how the Red Triangle is used for a point marker. This is starting to be noticed by many; it is NOT an "innocent" choice of graphic. The Red Triangle, online, has become the digital symbol of Hamas, and of those who support Death to the Jews. Once you notice it, you notice where it has begun showing up. Israeli posters online have also noticed this, and have started using it themselves to mock Hamas.

for example check out this post:
https://tinyurl.com/2h9ez7kb

in online videos clips, it is a marker indicating those you have killed, or those you are about to kill.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:43 AM (i9ffA)

252 Hall and Oates.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (45fpk)

I can't go for that, John.

Posted by: Darryl Hall with a Restraining Order at December 06, 2023 10:43 AM (4I/2K)

253 There is a contingent of Anti-Taytay amongst the youngers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:44 AM (R4t5M)

254 Yay! Great news!

Posted by: Just Sayin at December 06, 2023 10:44 AM (HRQvT)

255 In AndyCanuck's accurate repost of a UNRWA tweet at 167 above, note how the Red Triangle is used for a point marker. This is starting to be noticed by many; it is NOT an "innocent" choice of graphic. The Red Triangle, online, has become the digital symbol of Hamas, and of those who support Death to the Jews. Once you notice it, you notice where it has begun showing up. Israeli posters online have also noticed this, and have started using it themselves to mock Hamas.

for example check out this post:
https://tinyurl.com/2h9ez7kb

in online videos clips, it is a marker indicating those you have killed, or those you are about to kill.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:43 AM (i9ffA)
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Huh. I'll have to keep an eye open for that one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:44 AM (d04cU)

256
cue the Prince Albert in a can comments...

Posted by: Auspex at December 06, 2023 10:45 AM (j4U/Z)

257 If my kids and their friends are any indication, her fan base is bigly strong in the under 20 crowd as well. I like her stuff too. It’s silly and poppy but sometimes silly and poppy is fun. Everything doesn’t have to be super serious all the time.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023

***
I liked her first couple of singles, which got airplay on country music stations. Since then I have not heard any of her stuff. If most of what she does is complain, however entertainingly or cleverly, about the shortcomings of men, I'll pass.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

258 Well we finally did it - leaving MN after 33 years in March for NC. Can't believe it's actually happening for real.

Posted by: jhawk90 at December 06, 2023 10:46 AM (WQtL9)

259 250 Everything doesn’t have to be super serious all the time.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:42 AM (8d3/4)

Yes it does.

So my father and grandfather constantly remind me...

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:46 AM (sm6Pk)

260 Or saw a movie in a theater past 1993.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (8d3/4)

I made an exception for the 3 Lord of the Rings movies. That was about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:47 AM (i9ffA)

261 If most of what she does is complain, however entertainingly or cleverly, about the shortcomings of men, I'll pass.

Isn't that what Adele does, too?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:47 AM (JrojV)

262 Any chance someone has Vic's email address or contact info, mind sharing it with me? My email is in the link.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2023 10:47 AM (N39Ws)

263 258 Well we finally did it - leaving MN after 33 years in March for NC. Can't believe it's actually happening for real.
Posted by: jhawk90 at December 06, 2023 10:46 AM (WQtL9)

Where in NC?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2023 10:47 AM (N39Ws)

264 It is immediately obvious that Hamas does not report ANY combatant deaths & the numbers amazingly seem to indicate that IDF bombs & bullets disproportionately hit women, children & elderly. They IDF CANNOT seem to hit too many fighting age men. But the numbers are faked.

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Gazan Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:48 AM (T6TND)

265 230 Hysterical footnote: Thomas Benton and Grant Wood both worked as Navy "dazzle designers" in WWI. Both were noted for their above-average (for modern painters) drafting skills, so I probed a couple of historians for evidence that their military experience contributed to their artistic output, but apparently they both had extensive classical art training before they zigged their first zag.
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Group of Seven artist, Arthur Lismer, painting of RMS Olympic returning to Halifax with soldiers.
https://is.gd/JSItEK

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:48 AM (krqg6)

266 Or saw a movie in a theater past 1993.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (8d3/4)

You got me there.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 06, 2023 10:49 AM (4I/2K)

267 261 If most of what she does is complain, however entertainingly or cleverly, about the shortcomings of men, I'll pass.

Isn't that what Adele does, too?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:47 AM (JrojV)

Insta that what every singer does? Most songs are about the one that got away, breaking up, how shitty the ex is, etc.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:49 AM (8d3/4)

268 The amount of money frittered way by the UN on everything from vanity projects to outright evil to just plain old skimming off the top, sides and most of the bottom.... it's mind boggling.

Entire agencies with budgets the size of a small country's GDP, some of which no one has ever even heard of, set up to do literally nothing but move money from the fiscs of various publics into the bank accounts of faceless connected cultish non-entities, while shitting out a press release every now and again so that chestless chin-rubbing idiots can hum and haw over them....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2023 10:49 AM (9UlRk)

269 We've had happy fun playtime for numerous decades. And those days are drawing to a close.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:49 AM (R4t5M)

270 Vic tuned Mozart's harpsicord.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (R4t5M)
===

So glad we can return to busting Vic on his age.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2023 10:50 AM (RIvkX)

271 cue the Prince Albert in a can comments...
Posted by: Auspex at December 06, 2023 1

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They discontinued the small flat tin of revered memory a couple of years ago, and the pouches too. The only way to get PA, I understand, is to buy a small tub, either 7 oz. or 14, I forget. So now it would be "Doy ou have Prince
Albert in a tub? Well, make sure he stays warm so he doesn't catch cold!"

Blenders make "match" versions of PA, Carter Hall, and other tobaccos that are no longer produced, and the matches are very good in their own right and usually cheaper. My palate is usually not good enough to tell the difference between an original and a match anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:50 AM (J2vNu)

272 198 187 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

That just shows how unserious it is
Posted by: It's me donna

She motivated tens of thousands of young people to get our and vote, saving abortion, Democrat seats, and Democracy! She's a hero and inspiration to everyone, but especially all female identifying and presenting persyns!!!

Posted by: Totally Serious (and unbiased!) Leftwing mainstream media at December 06, 2023 10:50 AM (JCZqz)

273 We've had happy fun playtime for numerous decades. And those days are drawing to a close.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Yep. We've been taunting Happy Fun Ball for too long.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:50 AM (JrojV)

274 #251 Thanks for the red triangle info, Tom.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 10:51 AM (krqg6)

275 Speaking of “those damn kids today”, the Oxford University Press named its word of the year. Any 29 year olds care to take a guess?

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:51 AM (8d3/4)

276 I love the Group of Seven's and Tom Thompson's artwork. That Carmichael is superb! Our home in Wisconsin has many good prints of them adorning the walls. I wish we had that one.

Posted by: leber at December 06, 2023 10:51 AM (rovGg)

277
Gazan Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security

__________

You forgot BIPOC and Furries. H8r!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 10:51 AM (9mNHV)

278 Speaking of “those damn kids today”, the Oxford University Press named its word of the year. Any 29 year olds care to take a guess?
Posted by: Montec at

Rizz. no gd clue what it means

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:51 AM (CIS44)

279 275 thot?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:52 AM (JrojV)

280 Pick up a copy of Gardner's Art Through the Ages. [ ... ] You should be able to get old editions for cheap.

Sweet. Seven bucks on Thriftbooks. Thank you again.

BTW, for the other socially awkward geeks out there, I have found it a good tactic when conversing with someone with whom I don't have a known common interest to ask "If I only have time to read one book about [whatever he knows about] what should it be?"

Posted by: Oddbob at December 06, 2023 10:52 AM (nfrXX)

281 266 Or saw a movie in a theater past 1993.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (8d3/4)

You got me there.
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I've got some AMC stock I can sell you.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 06, 2023 10:52 AM (iDpzk)

282 This reminds me of a Hallmark Christmas movie, where they drape cotton batting to mimic snow.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 06, 2023 10:52 AM (Mzdiz)

283 Tobacco pipes can be refurbished and restored. The stem get its oxidation removed, the bowl and airway are cleaned, and the whole pipe is polished and waxed. I have a small Dr. Grabow from eBay that probably dates from the Thirties yet looks nearly new, for example.

I've refreshed the stems on a few of my older, 1980s pipes, and I hate doing it (Oxyclean, fine sandpaper, stem polish). My preference is for acrylic stems.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

A friend of mine used to collect pipes. He had an old one that I think he said was from Germany. I can't even describe it. The stem would come out of your mouth, then head straight down parallel to your neck, then hooked forward to a 3 inch tall bowl that was parallel to the stem. The bowl had a bottom that screwed off for cleaning, had some metal coat of arms looking thing riveted to the front of the bowl, and had a metal cap that hinged open on top of the bowl with air holes. He called it "the radical bowl" lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023 10:53 AM (VwHCD)

284 If most of what she does is complain, however entertainingly or cleverly, about the shortcomings of men, I'll pass.
*
Isn't that what Adele does, too?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023

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Probably. It would be nice to hear some songs about something else, though. Dan Fogelberg's "Same Auld Lang Syne," Steve Goodman's "The City of New Orleans," Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" and "Fancy" all come to mind as startlingly different.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

285
269 We've had happy fun playtime for numerous decades. And those days are drawing to a close.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 06, 2023 10:49 AM (R4t5M)

cue Billy Joel, "I've loved these days"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQkkiD-x8k&t=5s

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 10:53 AM (i9ffA)

286 Rizz is correct!! Means game as in that guy has rizz he gets a lot of women. The Paolo has how you say a lot of rizz.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:53 AM (8d3/4)

287 This reminds me of a Hallmark Christmas movie, where they drape cotton batting to mimic snow.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

I thought they used soap flakes for that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:53 AM (JrojV)

288 cue the Prince Albert in a can comments...
Posted by: Auspex at December 06, 2023 1

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They discontinued the small flat tin of revered memory a couple of years ago, and the pouches too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:50 AM (J2vNu)

I think the tins came w/rolling papers, too.

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (AwYPR)

289 Rizz is correct!! Means game as in that guy has rizz he gets a lot of women. The Paolo has how you say a lot of rizz.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:53 AM (8d3/4)
++++
What's the etymology?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (d04cU)

290 "VicGPT, make me a picture of Taylor Swift riding a unicorn and eating a pastrami sandwich"

"No. Jackass. Read a book."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2023 10:40 AM (9UlRk)

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" snort *

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (rCkUZ)

291 Rizz is correct!! Means game as in that guy has rizz he gets a lot of women. The Paolo has how you say a lot of rizz.
Posted by: Montec at

kids are idiots.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (CIS44)

292 If I only have time to read one book about [whatever he knows about] what should it be?"

Well, it has 8 pages and is illustrated.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (Zmeii)

293 Speaking of “those damn kids today”, the Oxford University Press named its word of the year. Any 29 year olds care to take a guess?
Posted by: Montec at
*
Rizz. no gd clue what it means
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023

***
Reduced to shorthand from "charisma," I think I've heard.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (J2vNu)

294 What's the etymology?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (d04cU)

from that description I would guess Charisma.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (CIS44)

295 218 ... "A pouch of St. Bruno, which may prove too strong for me and will be used in blending, and a tin of Peterson's Early Morning Pipe."

St. Bruno is a bit strong as you said although I like it as it is flavorful and not harsh. IIRC, it benefits from slow puffing. I wonder what blending it with a black cavendish would do. Early Morning Pipe is just a classic for milder English blends. Let me know at some point how the Peterson version compares with the Match for you. Haven't had St. Bruno or EMP for a long time. Now I'm tempted to get a tin of them to see how accurate my memory of them is.

Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2023 10:55 AM (7EjX1)

296 289 What's the etymology?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (d04cU)

Charisma.

Posted by: XTC at December 06, 2023 10:55 AM (sm6Pk)

297 Spring has sprung,
The grass is riz,
I wonder where the flowers is?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (JrojV)

298 It's short for Rizzazz, which is two better than Pizzazz.

Qizzazz is so 2022. Only old people say that shit anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (9UlRk)

299 294 What's the etymology?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (d04cU)

from that description I would guess Charisma.
Posted by: BruceWayne

A guy who has game and gets ladies, described with a word that rhymes with jizz? Hmmm...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (JCZqz)

300 ***
They discontinued the small flat tin of revered memory a couple of years ago, and the pouches too.
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023
*
I think the tins came w/rolling papers, too.
Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2023

***
Yes; the company marketed PA as good for RYO (roll your own) cigarettes, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

301 We've had happy fun playtime for numerous decades. And those days are drawing to a close.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.....

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (gmo/4)

302 Faux outrage over Palestinian rockets near a Gazan apartment building is particularly galling when Israel launches sophisticated missiles from what appears to be a residential block.
Posted by: Your Kid's Ivy League Professor at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (d04cU)

I suspect Israeli military compounds, big and small are just like those we have in America. There is the military side. A fence. And the civilian community that grew up around the military site.
Go look at a National Guard facility in your town. Around Joint Base Lewis-McChord, there are over 50,000 homes.
None of those homes house or hide munitions or weapons.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (uSHSS)

303
Means game as in that guy has rizz he gets a lot of women. The Paolo has how you say a lot of rizz.
Posted by: Montec

___________

"Why can't I find a nice guy? Time for some Taylor and Chardonnay."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (9mNHV)

304 This reminds me of a Hallmark Christmas movie, where they drape cotton batting to mimic snow.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 06, 2023 10:52 AM (Mzdiz)

Ah yes, the hallmark channel, where coffee cups never seem to have coffee in them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (VwHCD)

305 kids are idiots.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (CIS44)

Dude come on. Like rizz is any more idiotic than rad or dope or bad (meaning good). Every generation has its stupid slang.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:57 AM (8d3/4)

306 Rizz is correct!! Means game as in that guy has rizz he gets a lot of women. The Paolo has how you say a lot of rizz.
Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:53 AM (8d3/4)
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What's the etymology?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (d04cU)

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Portmanteau of "righteous jizz?"

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 10:57 AM (py92g)

307 Reduced to shorthand from "charisma," I think I've heard.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (J2vNu)
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Workers' English
h/t Anthony Burgess

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 06, 2023 10:57 AM (RIvkX)

308 Dude come on. Like rizz is any more idiotic than rad or dope or bad (meaning good). Every generation has its stupid slang.
Posted by: Montec at D

Yes and those kids were idiots too.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:57 AM (CIS44)

309 We've had happy fun playtime for numerous decades. And those days are drawing to a close.
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Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.....

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The shocking part is realizing that they didn't come to an end. They were ended. Coordinated, and on purpose.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 06, 2023 10:58 AM (sIl7T)

310 None of those homes house or hide munitions or weapons.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (uSHSS)

True enough, but don't forget that the most important facet of the argument to hammer home when debating the issue is Fuck You That's Why.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 06, 2023 10:58 AM (9UlRk)

311 St. Bruno is a bit strong as you said although I like it as it is flavorful and not harsh. IIRC, it benefits from slow puffing. I wonder what blending it with a black cavendish would do. Early Morning Pipe is just a classic for milder English blends. Let me know at some point how the Peterson version compares with the Match for you. Haven't had St. Bruno or EMP for a long time. Now I'm tempted to get a tin of them to see how accurate my memory of them is.
Posted by: JTB at December 06, 2023

***
I may try St. Bruno with some Capstan Blue Virginia, or maybe the Match Carter Hall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:58 AM (J2vNu)

312 Reduced to shorthand from "charisma," I think I've heard.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (J2vNu)
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from that description I would guess Charisma.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 10:54 AM (CIS44)
++++
I'll buy it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2023 10:58 AM (d04cU)

313 Every generation has its stupid slang.

Totally tubular

Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2023 10:58 AM (gmo/4)

314 (tries to think of the last time I've heard "rad" or "dope" used in conversation)

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 06, 2023 10:58 AM (sIl7T)

315
Totally tubular
Posted by: Archer at December 06, 2023 10:58 AM (gmo/4)

‘Fo Shizzle

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 10:59 AM (8d3/4)

316 Dude come on. Like rizz is any more idiotic than rad or dope or bad (meaning good). Every generation has its stupid slang.
Posted by: Montec at D

Yes and those kids were idiots too.
Posted by: BruceWayne

What a jive turkey thing to say.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 10:59 AM (JrojV)

317 "Why can't I find a nice guy? Time for some Taylor and Chardonnay."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 06, 2023

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"Because, dear, you don't want a nice guy. You want the young Sean Connery with 15 mil in the bank."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 06, 2023 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

318 Haven't had St. Bruno or EMP for a long time. Now I'm tempted to get a tin of them to see how accurate my memory of them is.
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Thank you for this. I've been wanting to try something new for a while, and this will be a path to travel.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 06, 2023 10:59 AM (sIl7T)

319 Was "jive turkey" added to the Oxford English Dictionary?

Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 06, 2023 11:00 AM (sIl7T)

320 Why can't I find a nice guy? Time for some Taylor and Chardonnay."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*While chasing after her best friend's ex who cheated on her and the 'nice guy' sits at the end of the bar alone*

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 11:00 AM (CIS44)

321 War Mapper @War_Mapper Dec 4
#Gaza map update:
The #IDF has advanced into southern Gaza, taking up positions on the central road into Khan Yunis. The coast road remains passable for the time being.

#Israel has also resumed attacks in the North, in the vicinity of Jabalia.
https://is.gd/d8uYCq
two maps

Israel Defense Forces @IDF 22h
The IDF has been operating in Hamas strongholds in the areas of Jabaliya, Shuja'iyya and Khan Yunis, destroying terrorist infrastructure and eliminating Hamas terrorists.

In addition, our forces gained control of central Hamas positions in Jabaliya over the past day, as well as located weapons and terrorist infrastructure, some of which was found in civilian buildings, including a school.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 11:00 AM (krqg6)

322 I suspect Israeli military compounds, big and small are just like those we have in America. There is the military side. A fence. And the civilian community that grew up around the military site.
Go look at a National Guard facility in your town. Around Joint Base Lewis-McChord, there are over 50,000 homes.
None of those homes house or hide munitions or weapons.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (uSHSS)

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* Nellis AFB, just outside of which I was raised and got to watch The Thunderbirds practice, has entered the chat *

Make Sonic Booms Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (py92g)

323 nood rant

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (CIS44)

324 NNNOOOOOOODDDD!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (JrojV)

325 California Gov. Gavin Newsom Cancels Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony over Pro-"Palestinian" Protests

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Islamophobia!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (FVME7)

326 #Gaza map update:
The #IDF has advanced into southern Gaza, taking up positions on the central road into Khan Yunis. The coast road remains passable for the time being.

#Israel has also resumed attacks in the North, in the vicinity of Jabalia.
https://is.gd/d8uYCq

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It's funny how this brings us back to yesterdays question:

Is it illegal to shoot a flare in your own home?

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (sIl7T)

327 Munkey nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (pRoEc)

328 I suspect Israeli military compounds, big and small are just like those we have in America. There is the military side. A fence. And the civilian community that grew up around the military site.
Go look at a National Guard facility in your town. Around Joint Base Lewis-McChord, there are over 50,000 homes.
None of those homes house or hide munitions or weapons.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 06, 2023 10:56 AM (uSHSS)

And unlike America, Israel does not have miles and miles of vast, empty spaces to build in. But yeah, Barksdale AFB is right in the middle of Bossier City. Lots like that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (i9ffA)

329 Look up (UN) peacekeepers and rape. Its been rampant for years upon years, including during Ebola outbreaks with the UN occasionally paying victims $50, perhaps $100 for child born of Officer rape, or simply nothing ignoring the complaints and pleas of the victims. No, the UN needs to start having public executions of its aggressors.

NBC & the rest of msm is well aware. The f'ing UN and Hamas get a little public slap for 'rape.' Oh, but that's how 'soldiers' can be! Just look at the UN peacekeepers & also other nations at the time of war.

What of the dead; the tortured also during rape and including male victims; the hostages - dead or alive; the many thousands of displaced Israelis, destroyed farms?

If they cared one iota, they'd help find the leaders of the Oct 7th attack & the participants including those operating outside of Hamas' control & all hostage holders and bring them forward for judgment.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 06, 2023 11:02 AM (GshMh)

330 There was a TikTok going around of a 20something tatted up body builder chick with a nose ring who realized mid-stream why no guy wanted her. It’s because - get this - guys are turned off by tats and masculine looking women. It was both funny and sad to watch.

She is cute though so she can self correct.

Posted by: Montec at December 06, 2023 11:02 AM (8d3/4)

331 charizzma, yo!

Posted by: runner at December 06, 2023 11:02 AM (V13WU)

332 None of those homes house or hide munitions or weapons.

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(the South has entered the chat)

Oh, *HIDE*

Nevermind.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 06, 2023 11:02 AM (sIl7T)

333 It's funny how this brings us back to yesterdays question:

Is it illegal to shoot a flare in your own home?
Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 06, 2023 11:01 AM (sIl7T)

probably falls under the definition of arson.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2023 11:03 AM (i9ffA)

334 nood
ape

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 06, 2023 11:03 AM (krqg6)

335 Faux outrage over Palestinian rockets near a Gazan apartment building is particularly galling when Israel launches sophisticated missiles from what appears to be a residential block.
Posted by: Your Kid's Ivy League Professor at December 06, 2023 10:36 AM (d04cU)
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Is this sarcasm? It has to be. Air defense systems are always located near the expected target of aerial bombardment be it aircraft or missiles. Hamas targets Israeli civilian areas, ergo those areas have anti-air missiles stationed there.

To equate missiles launched in defense of civilians with missiles launched attacking civilians means either a sarcastic post, emulating Hamas logic or it means the original poster is a total idiot.

Posted by: George V at December 06, 2023 11:05 AM (ugbqN)

336 TIME Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

That just shows how unserious it is
Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2023 10:25 AM (n2vyf)

Dating Taylor Swift is a problem
When you break-up, she'll sing you're a goblin
But, never you fear
Cuz in a few years
She'll look and sing just like Janis Joplin!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 06, 2023 11:09 AM (QzZeQ)

337 Stop insulting Ms. Joplin

Posted by: sidney at December 06, 2023 11:42 AM (Uy/WF)

338 Carmichael was one of the Group of Seven Canadian landscape painters. Cobalt, Ontario, the silver capital of the world (dpicted in this painting), was a favourite painting spot of theirs, and the rugged pre-Cambrian landscape of Cobalt, with its iconic mine headframes sticking up from the pines, along with Lake Superior's north shore, were among their favourite locations, especially for the more impressionistically inclined members of the group.. The McMichael Gallery, in Kleineburg, Ontario (not far from Toronto) has a big exhibit on now of all the Group of 7's Cobalt paintings. The G7 were big on nature, and one of their dictums was that blackflies that got stuck in the paint were all part of the natural process, and should be ignored rather than picked off the canvas.

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