Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Sisters
Abbott Handerson Thayer

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:30 AM (9yWhg)

2 Yesss! Hey, CBD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

3 Meow!

*Siamese twins

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 13, 2024 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:31 AM (vf0Uk)

5 They both seem cut off at the knees.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:31 AM (vf0Uk)

6 Somebody die?

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

7 Identical Lesbians!

Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 09:32 AM (IlL6s)

8 Menface.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:32 AM (vf0Uk)

9 This is a nice portrait. Plain background and dark clothing allows the viewer to focus on the faces and hands -- the most individual and expressive body parts.

Posted by: Kris at February 13, 2024 09:32 AM (OyyDO)

10 Siamese twins?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

11 Neither one of those chicks looks remotely bangable.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

12 What the hell are they looking at?

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (88xKn)

13 Black paint must have been on sale at the Art Store.

Posted by: The Guy at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (4NYIl)

14 Nicely done

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (Akjoo)

15 Somebody nicked the plaster. Someone is playing dumb.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (DyHJQ)

16 Meow!

*Siamese twins
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 13, 2024 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

They are syameeze if you please.

They are syameeze if you DON'T please.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (vf0Uk)

17 Sister in the background signaling that she is a White Supremacist!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

18 They're dressed for a funeral.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

19 Bah

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 09:34 AM (R4t5M)

20 Have them washed and brought to my tent.

Posted by: Don Black at February 13, 2024 09:34 AM (geLO8)

21 The one in back must be Epstein's mom since she looks like him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:34 AM (vf0Uk)

22 11 Neither one of those chicks looks remotely bangable.
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They both have vaginas, so they are both bangable. This is the tautology of vagina.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 09:34 AM (DyHJQ)

23 The one on the left looks like the Mom.

Posted by: JT at February 13, 2024 09:34 AM (T4tVD)

24 expressive body parts

Bouncing boobs are the most expressive body parts.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:35 AM (9yWhg)

25 Threesome? Throuple?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

26 You're throwing Pearls Before Swine again, CBD.

Posted by: Beverly at February 13, 2024 09:35 AM (Epeb0)

27 Is that a book in the lower left corner?

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2024 09:35 AM (88xKn)

28 @12 dantesed-they're looking at their Subaru's parked outside. One drives a Forrester the other an Impreza.

Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 09:35 AM (IlL6s)

29 Many years before they take in Babbette as their cook.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2024 09:36 AM (RXyKO)

30 Not bad. SAHBANLOAO.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 13, 2024 09:36 AM (pohLc)

31 The sisters are noble in comportment and remote in expression. Also appear to be discussing the banker buddy of their brother's who they just pulled a threesome with. Now, is that hand gesture length, or girth? Left to the viewer as an exercise.

Posted by: You Were All Thinking It at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (zdLoL)

32 Sister in front is showing needle marks on her arms, so probable heroin addict.

*Sister in back has Narcan ready

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (w9Wax)

33 Not what I was expecting for Fat Tuesday.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

34 Hey, CBD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

Good morning!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (gSZYf)

35 11 Neither one of those chicks looks remotely bangable.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

I swear everyone here is banging nothing but pre-woke Sports Illustrated models, lol.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (bWsRe)

36 Not quite like Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.

Posted by: spindrift at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (MqhXY)

37 Such boney fingers.

They should get into proctology.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:38 AM (vf0Uk)

38 I like this painting and can't stop looking at it. There's something interesting about their facial expressions, especially the girl in front.

Posted by: Kris at February 13, 2024 09:38 AM (OyyDO)

39 It's pleasant but not very interesting.

I mean, it's no Wyeth.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2024 09:38 AM (XV/Pl)

40 Yes, there's a story there. . .

Posted by: Isak Dinesen at February 13, 2024 09:39 AM (RXyKO)

41 You asked for it:

http://tinyurl.com/357yhnfd

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 09:39 AM (Q0kLU)

42 "I swear everyone here is banging nothing but pre-woke Sports Illustrated models, lol."

'...internet, nobody knows you are a dog'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 09:39 AM (a1415)

43 Not what I was expecting for Fat Tuesday.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

They are watching their mother leave for the night so they can change into risque clothing and show their racks from the second floor balcony.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 09:39 AM (gSZYf)

44 Neither one of those chicks looks remotely bangable.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

Inspiration for the Eurythmics song "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves"??

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2024 09:40 AM (MtueO)

45
They are watching their mother leave for the night so they can change into risque clothing and show their racks from the second floor balcony.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 09:39 AM (gSZYf)

Racks?

They must be wearing the best of the sports bra, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:40 AM (vf0Uk)

46 They look very Victorian.

Posted by: runner at February 13, 2024 09:40 AM (V13WU)

47 Statuesque. Not quite sure what's so interesting about the gray wall that has captivated their attention, though.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

48 dantesed-they're looking at their Subaru's parked outside. One drives a Forrester the other an Impreza.
Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 09:35 AM (IlL6s)

___

I've always found the Subaru lesbian thing funny. I grew up in a very snowy climate and every other car on the road in winter seemed to be a Subaru. At the time it was one of the very few AWD options (along with Audis but much cheaper). Having a beater Subaru for winter was kind of SOP for every family.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 09:41 AM (bWsRe)

49 33 Not what I was expecting for Fat Tuesday.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

Be grateful. It could have been a fat chick with massive bingo wings raging and yelling at her oppressors. Or a fat dude on an ottaman.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2024 09:41 AM (N39Ws)

50 They are watching their mother leave for the night so they can change into risque clothing and show their racks from the second floor balcony.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 09:39 AM (gSZYf)
****
Lol.
Now it all makes sense.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2024 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

51 Have we counted the fingers?

I have often threatened to make everyone who's waiting for my holiday dinner cooking watch Babette's Feast. MIL's greatest praise of any meal is "That should hold me 'til morning."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 09:41 AM (zdLoL)

52 Neither one of those chicks looks remotely bangable.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024

***
The one on the right might be nice, if she let her hair down and wore some makeup. But generally, you're right; they're "handsome" women rather than "hot."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (omVj0)

53 Very somber painting. You can sense the quiet restraint that exists between the two of them. The hands on the sister in the forefront are unusual, but I learned here that hands are difficult to paint. I wouldn’t hang this painting, but I do like it.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (MjXxC)

54 Neither one of those chicks looks remotely bangable.

In my experience, 'bangable' equates to 'is she desperate enough to do me?'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (Q0kLU)

55 Ah yes, the Norwegian Wallpaper. Beautiful texture.

Posted by: Shopkeeper at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (vLkBj)

56 Are they playing that game where if you get the other to look at the circle made by your hand, you get to punch them? Classic.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (0Id0S)

57 There is skill in the painting. The background is too deab however.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (xT7BI)

58
Be grateful. It could have been a fat chick with massive bingo wings raging and yelling at her oppressors. Or a fat dude on an ottaman.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2024 09:41 AM (N39Ws)

What's your point?

Posted by: Trigglypuff at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (vf0Uk)

59 Hey, Abbott!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (2yu8s)

60 >>I have often threatened to make everyone who's waiting for my holiday dinner cooking watch Babette's Feast. MIL's greatest praise of any meal is "That should hold me 'til morning."

Posted by: Isak Dinesen at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (RXyKO)

61 Worst set of Siamese twins ever.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:43 AM (IaTa3)

62 Doof!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:43 AM (9yWhg)

63 They certainly inherited the same nose.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 09:43 AM (2yu8s)

64 Dayummm! Shoulda checked #3!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:43 AM (IaTa3)

65 Or a fat dude on an ottaman.

As Lawrence should have said, it depends on
The Ottoman in Question.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 09:43 AM (zdLoL)

66 Deab should read as drab.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 09:44 AM (xT7BI)

67 "Made you look!"

*punches sister*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 09:44 AM (9UlRk)

68 Homely.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 13, 2024 09:45 AM (r9ulo)

69 The Man-Handsome Sisters

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 09:45 AM (nSDU/)

70 @57

>>There is skill in the painting. The background is too deab however.

The rendering of the flesh is quite nice as well as the detail of the hands, although he kind of tuckered out when he was painting the hand around the waist as it's more of suggested form and definition than anything.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2024 09:45 AM (XV/Pl)

71 This is the tautology of vagina.
Posted by: Pudinhead

On the Art Thread?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:45 AM (IaTa3)

72 55 Ah yes, the Norwegian Wallpaper. Beautiful texture.
Posted by: Shopkeeper

You should see their wood. Isn't it good?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (r9ulo)

73 Ah yes, the Norwegian Wallpaper. Beautiful texture.
Posted by: Shopkeeper
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Don't you just love arsenic green. It's so cheery.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (2yu8s)

74 Tying to work around the 100 comment rule by suggesting that this article might somehow be related to the two sisters that are the subjects of this art thread.

http://tinyurl.com/3eatcdte

* Fingers crossed*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (a1415)

75 They sew their own clothing. They also share a hairbrush, but couldn't find it today.

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (z+ik4)

76 This is the tautology of vagina.
Posted by: Pudinhead

On the Art Thread?
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:45 AM (IaTa3)

During black history month?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (vf0Uk)

77 Ah yes, the Norwegian Wallpaper. Beautiful texture.
Posted by: Shopkeeper at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM
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The sisters look lost in thought. Possibly pinning for the fjords.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (xT7BI)

78 this is a nice painting, well done but gloomy. It looks like the sisters are in mourning. The black here isn’t,t being used as an artistic device the way James Whistler did

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (sFq/2)

79 76 This is the tautology of vagina.
Posted by: Pudinhead

On the Art Thread?
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:45 AM (IaTa3)

During black history month?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (vf0Uk)

On Fat Tuesday??

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2024 09:47 AM (z+ik4)

80 Would you want it not taut?

Illogical.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 09:47 AM (9UlRk)

81 That's my name.

Don't wear it out!

Posted by: Olive Deab at February 13, 2024 09:47 AM (2yu8s)

82 A couple of happy little bushes?

CBD presents, you decide.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at February 13, 2024 09:47 AM (I05xP)

83 >>What the hell are they looking at?

Ellen Degeneres

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 09:47 AM (nSDU/)

84 Alternate title:

"I am the oldest and I say that you are only this much taller than me!"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 09:47 AM (nFnyb)

85 Looks like Greta Gerwig.

Posted by: gp On 12m at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (MvF+J)

86 These two look like they have been verbally abused by their good-for-nothing father for the entirety of their lives.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (IaTa3)

87 @48 Montec-same here. I grew up in the Reno/Tahoe area. Lot of Subaru's, especially the Brat back in the day with the pickup type bed and rearward facing seats.

Now here in the Bay Area every Subie is a purple or blue hair driving it with leftwing bumper stickers pasted all over the back. Always with the rainbow sticker.

Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (IlL6s)

88 Especially on The Art Thread.

This work was well-shown but highly criticized for its technique, and then, as these things will go, the artist suddenly became Great.

It would be interesting to see a portrait of the brother, who commissioned it. Just for the nose, if nothing else.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (zdLoL)

89 I'm pretty confident the hand around the waist was a last minute addition to give the paining more dramatic weight.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (XV/Pl)

90 77 Ah yes, the Norwegian Wallpaper. Beautiful texture.
Posted by: Shopkeeper at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM
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The sisters look lost in thought. Possibly pinning for the fjords.
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 09:46 AM (xT7BI)

Nope, I know that look: Dad's about to get hit up for something wicked expensive.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (T+Iwg)

91 Isn't that the Taintology of Vagina?

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (z+ik4)

92 ‘And this is where you will be buried. Isn’t it nice?’

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2024 09:48 AM (NxC5+)

93
Dodecatuplets - a limerick

You'll experience the sum of all fears
After having a couple of beers
The trouble truly begins
When you look cross-eyed at twins
In a carnival show's House of Mirrors

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 09:49 AM (991eG)

94 " Isn't that the Taintology of Vagina?"

How does one taunt a vagina?

Wait, what..

Nevermind

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 09:49 AM (a1415)

95 What is it with artists who paint "women" who look like they get their estrogen prescribed? The one is especially mannish, looking somewhat like a very young Martin Short in a dress. Don't these artists know any women who look like women?

Posted by: This Morning's Art if Fake and Gay, but Mostly Gay at February 13, 2024 09:49 AM (pjs7m)

96 -- the most individual and expressive body parts.
Posted by: Kris at February 13, 2024 09:32 AM (OyyDO)

Expressive body parts!!!

Are their tits dancing?

Cause if they are I missed that!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 09:50 AM (nFnyb)

97 ‘I told you I don’t want to dance any more. I want to go out.’

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2024 09:50 AM (NxC5+)

98 Are they playing that game where if you get the other to look at the circle made by your hand, you get to punch them? Classic.
Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (0Id0S)

I noticed that, too! Never gets old.

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2024 09:50 AM (MtueO)

99 Same as it ever was... The more attractive woman stands in front of the less attractive woman. Gotta have that spotlight saying look at me.

Anyhoo I like this one. Interesting expressions.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2024 09:50 AM (cRrcX)

100 The Sisters
Abbott Handerson Thayer
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Are you thaying I'm a puthy??

Posted by: mike tyson at February 13, 2024 09:50 AM (2yu8s)

101 Quick get to a hundred so we can stop talking about these poor Sisters

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 09:50 AM (Akjoo)

102 ‘Yep, it’s termites.’

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2024 09:51 AM (NxC5+)

103 Same as it ever was... The more attractive woman stands in front of the less attractive woman. Gotta have that spotlight saying look at me.
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Woof! Woof!

Posted by: Jay Peterman at February 13, 2024 09:51 AM (2yu8s)

104 Doof!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:43 AM (9yWhg)

Howdy, brother!

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2024 09:51 AM (MtueO)

105 "Sis, look over there to the widow's place. Wow, every hour there seems to be a new visitor. Strange."

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:51 AM (IaTa3)

106 Twelve meter band en fuego right now.

Posted by: gp On 12m at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (MvF+J)

107 "Are they playing that game where if you get the other to look at the circle made by your hand, you get to punch them? Classic.
Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 09:42 AM (0Id0S)

I noticed that, too! Never gets old."

I genuinely do not understand the purpose, nor the rules of that game.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (a1415)

108 Good news everyone. Inflation is down to 3.1%!!!

Hooray.

On and also your chocolate rations are increasing from 12g to 10g a day. All praise great leader Biden.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

109 Okay past 100 WTF happened to the Stock Market ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (Akjoo)

110
Waffle House 5s

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (MoZTd)

111 "All those bunnies are buried right over there."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (R4t5M)

112 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. They look...practical.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (W/lyH)

113 The Snoop Sisters, the Early Years

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (9yWhg)

114 Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 09:41 AM (zdLoL)

With you and Lizzy both mentioning that movie, maybe I should put in a real effort to watch it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (nC+QA)

115 106 Twelve meter band en fuego right now.
Posted by: gp On 12m at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (MvF+J)

Solar flares. gotta love em.

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (z+ik4)

116 "You see Marjory, the paint is dry. Now we can go sit down and watch it peel."

"Okay Susan. Can we have a cup of tea today?

Posted by: Outside of Life at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (89Sog)

117 This is a good painting. These women appear serious and not to be trifled with.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (0FoWg)

118 Alternate title:

"And here you thought a menage a trois with two sisters would be awesome....Sadly no."

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (nFnyb)

119 An interesting portrait on several levels. The young women are handsome but not idealized. There is a sense of comfortable intimacy (I'm not talking about lesbians) between the two which is furthered by the way Thayer merges parts of their figures. And there is a protectiveness from the shorter, older sister in the way she holds the younger one's waist. The background is bland but not disruptive which allows the figures to stand out. And their skin tones, while natural, almost seem to glow against the background and the dark clothing, another way to focus the viewer's attention on the sisters.

Their facial expressions catch my attention. Both are composed but looking at something with mild anticipation. Perhaps they are meeting young men in the next room or wondering what they will encounter through the doorway.

Posted by: JTB at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (zudum)

120 109 Okay past 100 WTF happened to the Stock Market ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (Akjoo)

It's down 1.2%.
Stop looking at the number, look at the %. Up or down 500 when the index is at 38K is a blip. It's not like in the 80s where 500 was a crash.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 09:54 AM (bWsRe)

121 Waffle House 5s
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If she can cook your eggs and hash browns correctly that's good enough.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 09:54 AM (IaTa3)

122 In high school I dated a girl with a twin sister.

Interesting dynamics that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 09:54 AM (Q4IgG)

123 Brought a King cake to work today. Hope nobody chokes on the plastic baby Jesus!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 13, 2024 09:54 AM (w9Wax)

124 "...and, believe me Emily, it was only this long."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 09:54 AM (tkR6S)

125 Counting heavily on the intervening post numbers:

The Subaru "lesbian" campaign was 30 years ago, and one must wonder if everyone here knows where Henry Ford stood on The Jewish Question. Of special note, back when part of Hollywood was known as "Boys' Town," the percentage of male homos owning Jeeps was higher than that of female homos owning Subarus, but the gheymobile jokes on Jeep faded by the millennium. This says a lot about how up to date and hep we are here. Every lesbaru quip deserves a Gay Wrangler for balance.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 09:55 AM (zdLoL)

126 @95: I guess it,s escaped your attention that the male subjects on the art thread are also usually fugly, except for the rare occasion where they are barely dressed and ripped. Very rare in fact

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2024 09:55 AM (sFq/2)

127 Okay past 100 WTF happened to the Stock Market ?

Inflation report higher than expected -> less chance of a Fed rate reduction next month.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 13, 2024 09:55 AM (sNc8Y)

128 Jeepers guys.

Just because they aren't dressed like hookers and have their faces pancakes with makeup does not make them lesbos or trannies.

I think they are beautiful women. They certainly wouldn't bang any of you heathens.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 09:55 AM (WQvQz)

129 There is a word AND a code for that.

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Q89.4
Thoracopagus, Conjoined twins fused at the chest wall.

cf craniopagus, craniopagus

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 09:56 AM (991eG)

130 In high school I dated a girl with a twin sister.

Interesting dynamics that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

"Hey, Sis, I have a headache. Can you take care of my Mr. Farmer tonight? It'll only take a few seconds. Thanks."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:56 AM (9yWhg)

131 This is a good painting. These women appear serious and not to be trifled with.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (0FoWg)

They're both wearing black because they've murdered their husbands. They are not to be trifled with.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 09:56 AM (GYIa4)

132 Lovely picture.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 09:56 AM (yjAVs)

133 Urp

craniopagus (head) & pygopagus (pelvis)

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (991eG)

134 Jeep was a gay thing? I had no idea. Nor do I really care. Buying a car or not buying one because some group drives or doesn't drive it is about the silliest thing ever.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (bWsRe)

135 >>when the index is at 38K

That bubble is going to hurt when it goes.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (nSDU/)

136 The dresses are blue!

Posted by: Half the Internet at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (w9Wax)

137 I didn't know the artist was American when I first saw it, but I suspected he was. That was correct, he was an American.

I dunno how I guessed that, but I did.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (yjAVs)

138 @126 kallisto-I can fix that! I'll send CBD a selfie of myself. Titled; Ruggedly Handsome Asshole

Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (IlL6s)

139 rumpopagus is not actually a thing.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (991eG)

140 @114 I'm sure you'd enjoy it. There's almost no drunkenness.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (zdLoL)

141 Hope nobody chokes on the plastic baby Jesus!
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

Just leave it on the dashboard and it'll be fine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)

142 This is a good painting. These women appear serious and not to be trifled with.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 09:53 AM (0FoWg)
++++
Yup. They're somewhat severe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 09:58 AM (yjAVs)

143 They aren't ugly women. The one the left has kind of a big head. But that's no big deal. I'm rolling around with a gigantic gourd myself.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 09:58 AM (0FoWg)

144 That bubble is going to hurt when it goes.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (nSDU/)

It already went. And then bounced back. It basically kept up with inflation over the past 3 years. I don't foresee a crash again any time soon.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 09:58 AM (bWsRe)

145 Gotta' be a cat near by.

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 09:58 AM (AwYPR)

146 I genuinely do not understand the purpose, nor the rules of that game.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM (a1415)

The purpose is merely to allow guys to be guys - doing pointless stuff that makes us laugh and makes women roll their eyes.
Make a circle with your thumb and index finger (what used to mean OK, but now supposedly is a secret WP symbol). If your buddy looks at it, you get to punch him. If you can somehow hook your finger through it, you get to punch him. Hilarity ensues. Or eyerolling, if you're a woman.

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2024 09:59 AM (MtueO)

147 >>I think they are beautiful women.

You should get your glasses checked out. Prescription is probably old.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 09:59 AM (nSDU/)

148 There is a word AND a code for that.

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Q89.4
Thoracopagus, Conjoined twins fused at the chest wall.

cf craniopagus, craniopagus
Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 09:56 AM (991eG)

Okay, I guess I can see having a specific word but are conjoined twins so common that you need to differentiate the point of connection?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 09:59 AM (GYIa4)

149 One for $300 or Both For $500...Don't Forget To Tip!

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 13, 2024 09:59 AM (JF/W5)

150 110
Waffle House 5s
---------------
You can never go wrong with a Waffle House 5.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 09:59 AM (DyHJQ)

151 rumpopagus is not actually a thing.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM

Wait...whut?

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at February 13, 2024 09:59 AM (Wnv9h)

152 The taller one very beautiful. Some of you have ridiculously high standards.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (bWsRe)

153 139 rumpopagus is not actually a thing.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (991eG)

That was Big Bird's other imaginary "friend" but he was very discrete about it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (T+Iwg)

154 147 >>I think they are beautiful women.

You should get your glasses checked out. Prescription is probably old.
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They are wearing wasp waists and garters. That's hawt.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (DyHJQ)

155 That bubble is going to hurt when it goes.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 09:57 AM (nSDU/)

Is is a bubble or does it reflect the value, or lack thereof, of the dollar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (GYIa4)

156 This has got to be one of those paintings you need to see in person to really appreciate because it's just not coming across over the intertubes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (XV/Pl)

157 I think they are beautiful women. They certainly wouldn't bang any of you heathens.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 09:55 AM (WQvQz)
++++
The one on the right (in the foreground) is definitely severe but pretty. The other woman is by no means a bridge troll, but her sister is prettier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (yjAVs)

158 Republicans in the senate are dogshit.

Not a dime or honest effort to stop the border invasion.

Millions for foreign countries, then they try to insult us with an open borders bill that encourages illegal immigration and makes these lawbreakers citizens.

But Ukraine is existential. The border? Meh, peasants.

Every single of those 22 fuckers need to be primaries out.

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (gPomr)

159 JROD youLl have to put a filter on it to make it look like a painting tho
I don,t think CBD posts photographs

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (sFq/2)

160 So much for Bidenomics

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:01 AM (Akjoo)

161 Urp

craniopagus (head) & pygopagus (pelvis)
Posted by: Muldoon
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It's okay. Every now and then we get all shook up.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:01 AM (2yu8s)

162 I don,t think CBD posts photographs
Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (sFq/2)
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He doesn't post buildings, either. There is lots of beautiful and lots of hideously soul-crushing architecture. It's an untapped well!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:02 AM (yjAVs)

163

Hot lesbian incest! Film at 11:00!

Posted by: The MFM at February 13, 2024 10:02 AM (EhnMH)

164 >>It already went. And then bounced back. It basically kept up with inflation over the past 3 years. I don't foresee a crash again any time soon.

I am sure Jim Kramer agrees.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:02 AM (nSDU/)

165 The sister in the back is showing the sister in the front how big her suiter's peepee is.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 13, 2024 10:02 AM (gsAX+)

166 Buying a car or not buying one because some group drives or doesn't drive it is precisely what we do here, and there's no way in hell you'd let a Subaru reference go by without bringing up lesbians.

Mainly of course, we just don't buy cars, and keep looking for excuses not to.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 10:02 AM (zdLoL)

167 Same artist a couple of years after this piece:
http://tiny.cc/fs7uwz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (yjAVs)

168 Some people here thought Jen Psaki was hawt. She's hideous compared to either of these chicks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (0FoWg)

169 Tony Bobulinski is in the House. Literally.

http://tinyurl.com/44jna3k5

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (LkLld)

170 164 >>It already went. And then bounced back. It basically kept up with inflation over the past 3 years. I don't foresee a crash again any time soon.

I am sure Jim Kramer agrees.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:02 AM (nSDU/)

You as an investor can go short bigly. Let's see how that works out.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (bWsRe)

171 I should learn more about this artist. Looking at some of his other works shows a sense of whimsy, not silliness, and his landscapes make me think of Scandi folklore illustrations. His choice of colors is also interesting. Some of them have a Maxfield Parrish glow that is entrancing.

Posted by: JTB at February 13, 2024 10:04 AM (zudum)

172 TRAITOR LIST

- John Boozman
– Shelley Moore Capito
– Bill Cassidy
– Susan Collins
– John Cornyn
– Kevin Cramer
– Mike Crapo
– Joni Ernst
– Chuck Grassley
– John Hoeven
– John Kennedy
– Mitch McConnell
– Jerry Moran
– Lisa Murkowski
– James Risch
– Mitt Romney
– Mike Rounds
– Dan Sullivan
– John Thune
– Thom Tillis
– Roger Wicker
– Todd Young

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 13, 2024 10:04 AM (gPomr)

173 Some people here thought Jen Psaki was hawt. She's hideous compared to either of these chicks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (0FoWg)

Who the hell ever said Peppermint Flatty was hot? I call shenanigans.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:04 AM (9UlRk)

174 I think they are beautiful women. They certainly wouldn't bang any of you heathens.

I should hope not. We would find their penises off-putting.

Posted by: This Morning's Art if Fake and Gay, but Mostly Gay at February 13, 2024 10:04 AM (pjs7m)

175 169 Tony Bobulinski is in the House. Literally.

http://tinyurl.com/44jna3k5
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (LkLld)

Hope he has good security

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:04 AM (Akjoo)

176 I saw Waffle House Five open for the Ramsey Lewis Trio at the Lighthouse in '66

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:04 AM (Q0kLU)

177 172 What is the "TRAITOR LIST" in reference to?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (9yWhg)

178 Mainly of course, we just don't buy cars, and keep looking for excuses not to.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 10:02 AM (zdLoL)

You have to pay way over full retail to get a good Studebaker these days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (tkR6S)

179 These sisters are plain with handsome features and read French novels.

Posted by: dantesed at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (88xKn)

180 They aren't ugly women. The one the left has kind of a big head. But that's no big deal. I'm rolling around with a gigantic gourd myself.
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He flew right into your head. Like he couldn't avoid it.

Never seen that before. Bird into a woman's head.

Posted by: older black gentleman sitting on a park bench at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (2yu8s)

181 I don,t think CBD posts photographs

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (sFq/2)

I might have used an Ansel Adams photo, but I think that might be it. Even sculpture is difficult because of the constraints of the small screen.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (gSZYf)

182 Well, they are most likely smart and able to manage a household because they aren't counting on their ability to suck a baseball through a garden hose to make their way in life. I bet they are well schooled in the classics and can have an intelligent conversation. I bet they are funny and can insult
You with a smile.

Y'all are showing your shallowness. Be better.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (HU4DS)

183 Same artist a couple of years after this piece:
http://tiny.cc/fs7uwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (yjAVs)

I assume she's supposed to be an angel. The pursed lips don't seem to portend well for the artist's future.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (GYIa4)

184 I think they are pleasing looking

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:06 AM (Akjoo)

185 They certainly wouldn't bang any of you heathens.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 09:55 AM (WQvQz)

Ouch!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 10:06 AM (gSZYf)

186 Does Wall Street cheat? Of course they do. A previous poster mentioned the 1987 crash and what’s going on. Today is nothing like that not even close. For one the market would have to be down at least 2500 points and I’m talking to Dow to compare to 1987.

In theory the markets reflect what everyone thinks about the economy, but if people think there’s going to be a huge crash right before this election coming up, that will hurt Biden, I am extremely skeptical. Used to see the market was weighing machine over the long-term. His point was you can’t ignore reality forever, but in my estimation, Wall Street is so sold on Biden, and the hard left that they will do anything including build up their own losses just to give Biden and even chance.

Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:06 AM (cESVi)

187
I'd hit 'em...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 13, 2024 10:06 AM (X4yCj)

188 Who the hell ever said Peppermint Flatty was hot? I call shenanigans.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:04 AM (9UlRk)
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"Peppermint Flatty" is great.

I usually went with "Discount Pippi Longstocking," but yours is much quicker and funnier.

#missedOpportunities

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:07 AM (yjAVs)

189 More good news today:

Paramount is laying off 800 people.

Lrn 2 Kode

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:07 AM (bWsRe)

190 His point was you can’t ignore reality forever, but in my estimation, Wall Street is so sold on Biden, and the hard left that they will do anything including build up their own losses just to give Biden and even chance.
Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:06 AM (cESVi)

I agree

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:07 AM (Akjoo)

191 Actually, I think it would have to be more than 2500 points. In 1987 they were severely worried as in a panic. Today you don’t see that at all and what’s going on today won’t change anything about it.

Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:07 AM (cESVi)

192 Some people here thought Jen Psaki was hawt. She's hideous compared to either of these chicks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 10:03 AM (0FoWg)

Shucks, you turn them all upside down and they're all the same. Am I right?!

Woo Boy! I need to get my rape on!

Posted by: Billy Jeff The Rapist, Elected Twice at February 13, 2024 10:07 AM (JF/W5)

193 What is the "TRAITOR LIST" in reference to?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That bunch? Take your pick.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at February 13, 2024 10:07 AM (OUMaO)

194 Either one of these women would clean up real nice, and both have more animation in their faces than does Taylor Swift.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 10:08 AM (tkR6S)

195
Art threads are usually funny
With comments both rude and punny
But comments on these sisters
Gave the prudish mind blisters
And now this thread's sappy and runny

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 10:08 AM (nFnyb)

196 Just leave it on the dashboard and it'll be fine.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Why do we have Jesus facing inward? The way I drive He should be looking out into traffic.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:08 AM (IaTa3)

197 Y'all are showing your shallowness. Be better.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (HU4DS)

feature...not bug

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:09 AM (AwYPR)

198 @182 nurse ratched-you say suck a baseball through a garden hose like its a bad thing.

Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 10:09 AM (IlL6s)

199 >>I might have used an Ansel Adams photo, but I think that might be it. Even sculpture is difficult because of the constraints of the small screen.

Years ago there was an Ansel Adams studio at the Grand Canyon. Really amazing photos.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:09 AM (LkLld)

200 This is a nice portrait. Plain background and dark clothing allows the viewer to focus on the faces and hands -- the most individual and expressive body parts.

I figured the initial comments would be about lesbians and man hands, and I was not disappointed. I still like the painting.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:10 AM (CsUN+)

201 In theory the markets reflect what everyone thinks about the economy, but if people think there’s going to be a huge crash right before this election coming up, that will hurt Biden, I am extremely skeptical. Used to see the market was weighing machine over the long-term. His point was you can’t ignore reality forever, but in my estimation, Wall Street is so sold on Biden, and the hard left that they will do anything including build up their own losses just to give Biden and even chance.
Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:06 AM (cESVi)
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"No crashes in election years" doesn't match reality. As much as the Fed or the Street might not want one, they are not omnipotent.

They couldn't stop a downturn in 2000 (the one that would become the 2001 dotcom crash) during an election year.
They couldn't stop the financial crisis in 2007-2009, with the major crash happening during an election year.
They couldn't generate a downturn in 2016 during an election year.
They couldn't engineer the COVID losses back in during 2020, which was an election year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:10 AM (yjAVs)

202 So! The vagaries of the calendar decree that my most recent iteration of my 29th birthday falls on Mardi Gras this year. Got a king cake to do double duty as my birthday cake and all. The rest of my life may be a disaster but, hey, gotta focus on the things that matter.

Laissez les bons temps rouler, Horde!

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (OUMaO)

203 The Sisters is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by Abbott Handerson Thayer. It depicts Bessie and Clara Stillman, and was commissioned from Thayer by their brother, the banker James Stillman. It has been cited as one of Thayer's best works, a composition of grandeur.[1][2]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (2yu8s)

204 168 Some people here thought Jen Psaki was hawt. She's hideous compared to either of these chicks.
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Psaki always reminds me of Tree Man in the Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. She's just a female version of Tree Man. Both are empty inside.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (Ist0o)

205 I am wondering about that growth on one sister's wrist. Or is that a cobweb because they held the pose so long a spider took up residence?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (Mi8Re)

206 189 More good news today:

Paramount is laying off 800 people.

Lrn 2 Kode
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:07 AM (bWsRe)

Layoffs seem to be announced more and more. I'm sure some of it could be getting rid of dead weight. But I view that as a sign of companies getting into a defensive position for tougher economic times.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (N39Ws)

207 Psaki hot? No, but by D.C.'s standards, vaguely normalish looking, and also recognizably female. Psaki's problem is her politics, not her looks.* Ifshe had a Fox News show, morons would regularly praise her looks, much like that elderly Skeletorette that Ace always posts clips from, eliciting sighs from morons whose spectacles need a refresh.

*Well, one of her problems. She looks like she smells of menthol cigarettes and cheap gin, and if you took her home for a little frolic and detour, you'd probably find a used condom in her panties.

Posted by: This Morning's Art if Fake and Gay, but Mostly Gay at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (pjs7m)

208 >>Years ago there was an Ansel Adams studio at the Grand Canyon. Really amazing photos.

My ex did the Catalog and restoration of the collection from the Adams Estate.

Getting to see ALL of those photos in person was amazing.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (nSDU/)

209 Does Muldoon know??

"After studying in New York City and Paris, Thayer took a studio in Brooklyn in 1880. He traveled often, summering for the next few years in Nantucket or Pittsfield, Massachusetts; in 1881, he went to Hartford, Connecticut to paint Mark Twain, and in 1882 he spent the winter in a cottage owned by Henry Ward Beecher in Peekskill, New York.[3]"

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (2yu8s)

210 "For one the market would have to be down at least 2500 points and I’m talking to Dow to compare to 1987."

___

Much more than that. The 1987 crash was about 30%. At a 38K index today that would mean about 11K downturn.

Today's 500 point swing is nothing. It's a typical day. Way too many people still have a Dow 5-10K mindset where a few hundred points is a big deal.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:12 AM (bWsRe)

211 They couldn't stop the financial crisis in 2007-2009, with the major crash happening during an election year.
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That was the Clinton Mortgage Ponzi Scheme to rope Hispanic voters.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:12 AM (Ist0o)

212 " I don,t think CBD posts photographs
Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2024 10:00 AM (sFq/2)
++++ "

No photo of a rusty gate?

Not even a calendar?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 10:12 AM (a1415)

213 The Snoop Sisters, the Early Years
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 09:52 AM
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I have the Snoop Sisters on dvd.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 10:13 AM (xT7BI)

214 "No crashes in election years" doesn't match reality. As much as the Fed or the Street might not want one, they are not omnipotent.

It's the same mindset as "what's the point in voting, it's all hopelessly rigged".

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:13 AM (CsUN+)

215 Artist: Abbott Handerson Thayer
Year: 1884
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 138 cm × 92.1 cm (54 in × 36.3 in)
Location: Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 10:13 AM (QxBqL)

216 To be fair, the relevant skill is not degree of suction, unless you get hot and bothered over vascular damage. One ought to say "she could hold a Marketmore cucumber in her mouth for a week without leaving a mark", or something to that effect.

And let's not even consider the metal plating on towing accessories...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:13 AM (9UlRk)

217 200 This is a nice portrait. Plain background and dark clothing allows the viewer to focus on the faces and hands -- the most individual and expressive body parts.
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You've never been to a Peso Show have you?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:14 AM (Ist0o)

218 PSaki Hack as hawt?

The 3am beer goggles are on, only explanation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2024 10:14 AM (Mi8Re)

219 My ex did the Catalog and restoration of the collection from the Adams Estate.
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Snap-snap shots!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:14 AM (2yu8s)

220 Layoffs seem to be announced more and more. I'm sure some of it could be getting rid of dead weight. But I view that as a sign of companies getting into a defensive position for tougher economic times.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2024 10:11 AM (N39Ws)
++++
Power of and. I dunno about entertainment, but high tech took on massive workforce expansions during the COVID stupids, and a lot of that is being unwound now. And the market is tightening. Not stocks - not yet, anyway - but the real market where commerce happens. In my sector - business-to-business technology products - we're seeing our customers (that is, other enterprises) tightening their budgets and reducing spending. It feel like the start of a retrenchment, at least in my industry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:14 AM (yjAVs)

221 *Well, one of her problems. She looks like she smells of menthol cigarettes and cheap gin

Wait, are saying that's a BAD thing?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:14 AM (CsUN+)

222 They are wearing wasp waists and garters. That's hawt.

Yes it is. I wish I had a woman like that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:14 AM (Q0kLU)

223 President Joe Biden’s jobs record is built on the record hiring of 2.9 million job-seeking migrants — and a persistent 183,000 deficit in the number of Americans with jobs compared to 2019, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Biden’s “Immigrant employment … has exploded,” said a statement by Steven Camarota, who wrote the report, titled “All Employment Growth Has Gone to Immigrants, Compared to 2019.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 10:14 AM (QxBqL)

224 The one on the right (in the foreground) is definitely severe but pretty. The other woman is by no means a bridge troll, but her sister is prettier.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024

***
The kind of ladies who would be portrayed as homely by Hollywood, and then in the last twenty minutes of the film they get a makeover, new hairstyle, discreet but effective makeup and lipstick, and the male lead goes, "Wow . . . I never knew . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:15 AM (omVj0)

225 No photo of a rusty gate?

Not even a calendar?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Bicycle chains or seats??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:15 AM (2yu8s)

226 90 percent of Wall Street supports Biden. Not the individual traders but the actual companies that do the trading and investing. if you think there’s going to be a huge crash right before this election in November, I don’t see it.

Was inflation this high and unemployment is low. They can certainly keep it going through the election. Pretty much all of this is based on sentiment, and not a tiny bit on how Wall Street traders tell people to believe. I guarantee you, Trump is not betting on a stock market crash to help him.

Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:15 AM (cESVi)

227 No crashes in election years. **

** Not applicable to election years with a Republican incumbent

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:15 AM (bWsRe)

228 Y'all are showing your shallowness. Be better.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (HU4DS)

You're not exactly a newbie around here. You know full well - this is who we are.

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2024 10:15 AM (MtueO)

229 No photo of a rusty gate?

Not even a calendar?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 10:12 AM (a1415)

tanker on the horizon?

volleyball net?

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:16 AM (AwYPR)

230 That was the Clinton Mortgage Ponzi Scheme to rope Hispanic voters.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:12 AM (Ist0o)
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In part, but only in part. Blaming the financial crisis on the CRA and similar is like blaming a train wreck on fitting lubrication. That poorly lubricated fitting definitely contributed and underscores the failure of the culture of maintenance at the railroad, but it was only a small part of the catastrophe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:16 AM (yjAVs)

231 >>. if you think there’s going to be a huge crash right before this election in November, I don’t see it.

The crash will occur when Trump wins.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:16 AM (nSDU/)

232 O. Winston Link did some awesome railroad photography.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:16 AM (9yWhg)

233 Psaki has 24/7 bitch face as her main problem.

Proper clothing, make-up, and most of all an attitude change, she'd be in the girl next door pretty range.

Not spectacular but okay.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 10:16 AM (nFnyb)

234 Disney to animators who created Wish - "You won't get fired."

Disney a little while later - "We are moving our animation to Vancouver."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (Mi8Re)

235 >>My ex did the Catalog and restoration of the collection from the Adams Estate.

>>Getting to see ALL of those photos in person was amazing.

I bet.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (LkLld)

236 The kind of ladies who would be portrayed as homely by Hollywood, and then in the last twenty minutes of the film they get a makeover, new hairstyle, discreet but effective makeup and lipstick, and the male lead goes, "Wow . . . I never knew . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:15 AM (omVj0)
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LOL. Once upon a time. Now that's all Male Gazey and bad and stuff.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (yjAVs)

237 222 They are wearing wasp waists and garters. That's hawt.

Yes it is. I wish I had a woman like that.
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They are both sturdy gals. Good times.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (Ist0o)

238 Psaki looked better with blond hair. Still bangable with red.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (bWsRe)

239 The crash will occur when Trump wins.

I'd expect exactly the opposite.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (CsUN+)

240 They are both sturdy gals. Good times.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (Ist0o)
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Really?

The one in the background is occluded by her sister, but the woman in the foreground doesn't look like she's what I'd call "sturdy." She's not a waif, but she looks like a slender woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:18 AM (yjAVs)

241 ainly of course, we just don't buy cars, and keep looking for excuses not to.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024
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You have to pay way over full retail to get a good Studebaker these days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024

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1924 was a great year for Essex!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:18 AM (omVj0)

242 "the" stock market - and I put the in quotes because there isn't just one, there are hundreds around the world - is too big to be manipulated. We're talking trillions of dollars traded around the world every day. It's too big and involves too many people for someone to say "OK we're crashing it today".

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:19 AM (bWsRe)

243 The Favorite Kitten
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Style: Realism
Genre: portrait
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Unfortunately, the setting is a Chinese restaurant.
http://tinyurl.com/58pbj6kj

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:19 AM (2yu8s)

244 @228 Doof-(raises hand) yep, shallow as a spring puddle right here!

Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (IlL6s)

245
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1924 was a great year for Essex!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:18 AM (omVj0)

The pron recording company?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

246 She's not a waif, but she looks like a slender woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:18 AM (yjAVs)

embiggen...check her hands

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (AwYPR)

247 226 90 percent of Wall Street supports Biden. Not the individual traders but the actual companies that do the trading and investing. if you think there’s going to be a huge crash right before this election in November, I don’t see it.
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They spent the last three years erasing Trump's economy. I am not so sure they can resurrect a real rally without going deeper in price. I could see a deep spike down to create a simulacrum of a rally peaking in Oct/Nov timeframe.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (Ist0o)

248 I assume she's supposed to be an angel. The pursed lips don't seem to portend well for the artist's future.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:05 AM (GYIa4)

The pursed lips were "a thing" at one point. Young ladies practiced it by saying "prunes and prisms". When the look fell out of favor it began to be thought of as denoting an annoyingly precise and scolding temperament.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (nC+QA)

249 The crash will occur when Trump wins.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:16 AM (nSDU/)

That's obviously the plan.

But they've run out of knobs to twiddle and levers to throw. The May want to paper over the impending disaster until next year, but it won't work. Every tool they have at their disposal is tapped out. They can't keep throwing funny money at the banks anymore. The economy needs real value, and it needs it now, but nothing the junta would find politically acceptable can create real value.

Their only play they have left is to limp along as best they can, and gradually pivot to "Trump is inevitable that's why the economy is tanking".

That's my hunch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (9UlRk)

250 embiggen...check her hands
Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (AwYPR)
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Hands do not "sturdiness" make!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:20 AM (yjAVs)

251 >>I'd expect exactly the opposite.

I would to...

If I thought that the Market was in any way an indicator of the Financial Health of the Economy and its future prospects, that is.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:21 AM (nSDU/)

252 Asking Uber eats or DoorDash driver if illegal immigration has hurt his business. That entire business model is based on the lowest common denominator. People are paying huge gas prices, huge insurance prices, and risking their own lives doing a very dangerous job just to get tips that would shame people in the 1970s. I remember Domino drivers that said the minimum they would get was three dollars plus the change for a delivery and that was in the mid 80s. Today you have tipping gig economy people a dollar or two dollars..

You might ask why this is the case why this is going on the reason is they have no way to distinguish themselves they don’t get business just because they do a better job. The entire business model is and you never know who’s going to do your delivery. For for every person who takes it seriously and does it well there are other guys who don’t give a crap who are stoned to the hell mark, or recent illegals. I only mentioned this is one example, but when you have hundreds of thousands of illegals pouring in of courses going to happen.

But just because so many people can’t make meat that doesn’t mean the stock markets going to go down. As has been

Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:21 AM (cESVi)

253 The one in the background is occluded by her sister, but the woman in the foreground doesn't look like she's what I'd call "sturdy." She's not a waif, but she looks like a slender woman.
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Trust me, she has solid birth bearing hips. She's an athlete.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:21 AM (Ist0o)

254 They are both sturdy gals. Good times.

Posted by: Pudinhead

So they can be harnessed to my poppy field plow? I am all in.

- Achmed the goat phucker

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 13, 2024 10:22 AM (gsAX+)

255 Stock prices do reflect reality. We've had double digit inflation for 3 years. Stocks accurately reflect that. This is in part why the powers that be don't really mind inflation. They at best break even. It's the working class which doesn't own many assets, who gets fucked by it.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:22 AM (bWsRe)

256 Ya baby.

>>@JonathanTurley
From today's opening statement from Tony Bobulinski before his sworn House interview:
"[Joe Biden] family’s foreign influence peddling operation – from China to Ukraine and elsewhere – sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government. Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability."

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:22 AM (LkLld)

257 The crash will occur when Trump wins.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:16 AM (nSDU/)

Absolutely not.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 10:22 AM (gSZYf)

258 They at WORST break even.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:23 AM (bWsRe)

259 All I'm saying is that if the sister in the foreground was interested, I'd more than happily get to know her. Probably the background sister, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:23 AM (yjAVs)

260 I saw Birth Bearing Hips open for The Flaming Lips at The Hole in the Wall Hamburger Stand in '89.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

261 122 In high school I dated a girl with a twin sister.

Interesting dynamics that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 09:54 AM (Q4IgG)

My high school girlfriend had twin step sisters. They were identical and yet, and I kid you not, I found one to be oddly more attractive than the other.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:23 AM (KbCG3)

262 The crash will occur when Trump wins.

I'd expect exactly the opposite.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:17 AM (CsUN+)

Normally, I would too.

But, between uncontrolled spending/inflation and most of all,

the expected emergent "new" economy of things like EVs and bug-burgers clashing with reality and consumer preference,

I could see a big drop this summer (sell in May/go away) as several industries foolishly invested in this stupid, wis-casting "new" economy and dragging the whole market down.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 10:23 AM (nFnyb)

263 They at best break even. It's the working class which doesn't own many assets, who gets fucked by it.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:22 AM (bWsRe)

Wow, i can retire a millionaire! Never in my wildest dreams....

Rent is $100k a month, but... hey! Millionaire!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:24 AM (9UlRk)

264 Mentioned above inflation is actually positive for the stock market over the short term. The value of the dollar goes down in stock prices rise because the dollar value of the stocks has less meaning. no one could predict the future and I hope Joe Biden gets his comeuppance. But I’ve seen enough of this world so I don’t think there’s going to be some crazy stock market crash right before the election.

We are in a malaise in the thing about a malaise is many will deny it, and many will not experience it. It takes a lot to make someone go from a hard-core leftist to voting Trump, Many will suffer through it, and still vote for the dimwhitty. What I hope for is free elections and no cheating.

Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:24 AM (cESVi)

265
>>@JonathanTurley
From today's opening statement from Tony Bobulinski before his sworn House interview:
"[Joe Biden] family’s foreign influence peddling operation – from China to Ukraine and elsewhere – sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government. Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability."
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:22 AM (LkLld)

"No standing."

- - - - - THE Supreme Court

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

266 "That one on the left is making an 'okay' sign white supremacist hand gesture! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 10:24 AM (eDtuE)

267 Oil prices would certainly come down if Trump were to regain office. That would be some reprieve to current inflation.

Posted by: JROD at February 13, 2024 10:24 AM (IlL6s)

268 My high school girlfriend had twin step sisters. They were identical and yet, and I kid you not, I found one to be oddly more attractive than the other.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:23 AM (KbCG3)
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I went to Hebrew school with a pair of identical twin sisters. They were indistinguishable until they hit puberty. By 16, one was lithe and of modest bust, the other was slender with enormous cans. Faces were still identical, but they were by no means indistinguishable anymore. Some environmental factor was definitely at play.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:25 AM (yjAVs)

269 Okay, I guess I can see having a specific word but are conjoined twins so common that you need to differentiate the point of connection?

*****'

When it comes to surgically separating conjoined twins yes, it is very useful. Thoracopagus twins usually share portions of the internal thoracic organs, such as shared heart chambers or shared central blood vessels and successful separation and reconstruction can be hugely difficult. Craniopagus involves some degree of fused brain tissue and blood supply, severe neurologic deficits are hard to avoid. Pygopagus is generally less complex or at least less life threatening.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 10:26 AM (991eG)

270 Beautiful velvet painting:
http://tinyurl.com/2s3c7z9w

Dog ergo art.
Chadwick’s Dog
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Date: 1874
Style: Realism
Genre: animal painting
http://tinyurl.com/y2afmxxe

Moron-worthy, very:
Half Draped Figure
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Date: 1885
Style: Realism
Genre: nude painting (nu)
http://tinyurl.com/59u2v3xa

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:26 AM (2yu8s)

271 263 They at best break even. It's the working class which doesn't own many assets, who gets fucked by it.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:22 AM (bWsRe)

Wow, i can retire a millionaire! Never in my wildest dreams....

Rent is $100k a month, but... hey! Millionaire!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:24 AM (9UlRk)

If you're a landlord, yes, it's a good thing. That's my point. The asset owning class shrugs at inflation because their assets keep up with inflation. It's the non-asset owning class that suffers.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:26 AM (bWsRe)

272 Aaaah! Covfefe! Life is good, for now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 10:26 AM (tkR6S)

273 If you think we're facing economic problems, consider the Chinese stock market. It has recently lost the combined GDP of Japan and France, some $7T. You haven't heard about it because the ChiComs don't want you to.

http://tinyurl.com/6uu3v3y7

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:26 AM (CsUN+)

274 267 Oil prices would certainly come down if Trump were to regain office. That would be some reprieve to current inflation.
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Oddly, the administration has been turning up petroleum production this year. I wonder if the payoff was to allow the big petro companies to buy up the shale oil operations on the cheap? There are four City States - NYC, SF, Chicago and Houston. When you hear Houston the name Bush should be an obvious tell.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:28 AM (Ist0o)

275 If you think we're facing economic problems, consider the Chinese stock market. It has recently lost the combined GDP of Japan and France, some $7T. You haven't heard about it because the ChiComs don't want you to.

http://tinyurl.com/6uu3v3y7
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:26 AM (CsUN+)
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The Red Chinese capital markets are a disaster and will only get worse as the debt crisis continues to rise. Red Chinese government finance is an interesting animal. Tons of capital is tied up there, especially at the provincial level and the funding sources are drying up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:28 AM (yjAVs)

276 When it comes to surgically separating conjoined twins yes, it is very useful. Thoracopagus twins usually share portions of the internal thoracic organs, such as shared heart chambers or shared central blood vessels and successful separation and reconstruction can be hugely difficult. Craniopagus involves some degree of fused brain tissue and blood supply, severe neurologic deficits are hard to avoid. Pygopagus is generally less complex or at least less life threatening.
Posted by: Muldoon

I've read that Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese twins," who were joined at the stomach, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century. But they were making too much money touring with Barnum, so they never had it done.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:28 AM (9yWhg)

277 259 >>>All I'm saying is that if the sister in the foreground was interested, I'd more than happily get to know her. Probably the background sister, too.

Lol. I don't know if I have lower standards or a broader definition of beauty, but -- apart from her unfortunate nose -- the foreground sister is kinda hot, in a demure, elegant, non-stuck-up kind of way.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 10:28 AM (0Id0S)

278 Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Grampa Simpson at February 13, 2024 10:29 AM (NBVIP)

279 Lol. I don't know if I have lower standards or a broader definition of beauty, but -- apart from her unfortunate nose -- the foreground sister is kinda hot, in a demure, elegant, non-stuck-up kind of way.
Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 10:28 AM (0Id0S)
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I think she's quite pretty.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:29 AM (yjAVs)

280 I went to Hebrew school with a pair of identical twin sisters. They were indistinguishable until they hit puberty. By 16, one was lithe and of modest bust, the other was slender with enormous cans. Faces were still identical, but they were by no means indistinguishable anymore. Some environmental factor was definitely at play.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:25 AM (yjAVs)

You had me at lithe.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:29 AM (KbCG3)

281 Nikki: Vote for me. The left likes me better.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 13, 2024 10:29 AM (r9ulo)

282 Muldoon, Last night you alluded to Plan B. Is there any info you can share at this time?

Posted by: Mrs JTB at February 13, 2024 10:30 AM (zudum)

283 BREAKING: FOIA Documents Reveal Secret 2020 Election Day Meeting With CISA, Dominion, ES&S, ERIC, FBI, Leftist Organizations, State Officials, and Others

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 10:30 AM (QxBqL)

284 Chinas real problem is demographics. They’re losing millions of people a year. One child policy has come home to roost.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:30 AM (bWsRe)

285 Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 10:26 AM (991eG)

Thanks for the answer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:30 AM (GYIa4)

286 In 2020, 17 million Americans lost their job, and the stock market went =UP=.

It's not your market.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (cf/0E)

287 What does one learn in Hebrew school, besides Hebrew? Is it just religious instruction, or is it basically the Jewish equivalent of a Catholic school, where secular subjects are taught as well?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)

288 The Favorite Kitten
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Style: Realism
Genre: portrait
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Unfortunately, the setting is a Chinese restaurant.
http://tinyurl.com/58pbj6kj
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024

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That I like. (No surprise, seeing as how I have been owned by cats for decades.) The two cats below might well be longhairs -- the white-and-grey looks like she has a fluffy tail, at least -- and the kitten being cradled looks much like my late Oreo the part-Persian.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (omVj0)

289 The tall one is pretty because her nose matches her size.

Basically, the short/smaller one has the same nose but on her it looks like a big ole honker.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (nFnyb)

290 >>If you think we're facing economic problems, consider the Chinese stock market. It has recently lost the combined GDP of Japan and France, some $7T. You haven't heard about it because the ChiComs don't want you to.

Share

Big troubles in China have been brewing for a while.

>>Chinese investors and their creditors are putting up “For Sale” signs on real estate holdings across the globe as the need to raise cash amid a deepening property crisis at home trumps the risks of offloading into a falling market. The prices they get will help finally put hard numbers on just how much trouble the wider industry is in

http://tinyurl.com/5n6zdds5

The commercial real estate market around the world is in for some big problems.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (LkLld)

291 I've read that Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese twins," who were joined at the stomach, . . . .
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Weren't each of them married and had children?

The mind - it wobbles. I've done some sketchy **** back in the olden times but still - wow.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (IaTa3)

292 So this was an early Doublemint commercial?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (ibTVg)

293 Nicely done, I like it

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 10:32 AM (fwDg9)

294 I've read that Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese twins," who were joined at the stomach, could have been easily separated, even in the 19th century. But they were making too much money touring with Barnum, so they never had it done.
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They were from NC and each married nice Carolina girls. Life is good. No talk about tag team wrestling.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:32 AM (Ist0o)

295 286 In 2020, 17 million Americans lost their job, and the stock market went =UP=.

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And many of the 17m were making more not working than working. And spending. Which is the real driver of the economy.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:32 AM (bWsRe)

296 268 >>...By 16, one was lithe and of modest bust, the other was slender with enormous cans. Faces were still identical, but they were by no means indistinguishable anymore.

I love the commingling of high-dollar, SAT sentence structure with "cans" as a descriptor. The mental whiplash is fantastic.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 10:32 AM (0Id0S)

297 They’re losing millions of people a year.

They're always in the last place you look.

Posted by: helpful advice at February 13, 2024 10:33 AM (MqhXY)

298 In relation to the painting:

"You ever hear dad introduce us? 'This is our daughter Dottie, and this is our other daughter, Dottie's sister.' Should've just had you and bought a dog."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:33 AM (KbCG3)

299 Weren't each of them married and had children?

The mind - it wobbles. I've done some sketchy **** back in the olden times but still - wow.
Posted by: Tonypete

Yep. As I recall, the old Guiness Book of World Records noted, in regard to their fathering children, "Speculations as to methodology are left to the reader."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:33 AM (9yWhg)

300 261 ... "My high school girlfriend had twin step sisters. They were identical and yet, and I kid you not, I found one to be oddly more attractive than the other."

It's not just looks. As Heinlein described one of his characters, "He wouldn't sleep with Helen of Troy if he didn't like her attitude."

Posted by: JTB at February 13, 2024 10:33 AM (zudum)

301 What does one learn in Hebrew school, besides Hebrew? Is it just religious instruction, or is it basically the Jewish equivalent of a Catholic school, where secular subjects are taught as well?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (9yWhg)
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It was not a private school, it was once-weekly instruction in Hebrew and religious instruction. Around Bar Mitzvah time, it was twice a week - the regular religious school and a special Bar Mitzvah class as well.

More like "Sunday School." There are Jewish private schools more like Catholic schools, but I didn't attend one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:33 AM (yjAVs)

302 Nikki: Vote for me. The left likes me better.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 13, 2024 10:29 AM (r9ulo)

Haley's campaign keeps texting me... Trump did this, Trump said that, reminds me of the comments here sometimes.

Occasionally I consider texting back "but he never pesters me" but that would only encourage them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:34 AM (GYIa4)

303 The Sisters, lithesome and handsome ones at that.

Posted by: javems at February 13, 2024 10:34 AM (f4tcA)

304 I went to Hebrew school with a pair of identical twin sisters. They were indistinguishable until they hit puberty. By 16, one was lithe and of modest bust, the other was slender with enormous cans. Faces were still identical, but they were by no means indistinguishable anymore. Some environmental factor was definitely at play.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:25 AM (yjAVs)

That was when he dedicated his life to science, for the busterment of society.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 13, 2024 10:34 AM (cf/0E)

305 In high school I dated a girl with a twin sister.

Interesting dynamics that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 09:54 AM (Q4IgG)

I married a twin....and I have a twin.

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:34 AM (AwYPR)

306 I am sure the major vote machine manufacturers, voter registry verification agency, and multiple government agencies routinely meet on election day to discuss yoga routines.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 13, 2024 10:34 AM (r9ulo)

307 —

And many of the 17m were making more not working than working. And spending. Which is the real driver of the economy.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 10:32 AM (bWsRe)

You WILL Keynesian and LIKE IT!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

308 Thayer? I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (NBVIP)

309 Occasionally I consider texting back "but he never pesters me" but that would only encourage them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:34 AM (GYIa4)

"He did? Lol. Awesome."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (9UlRk)

310 Chinas real problem is demographics. They’re losing millions of people a year. One child policy has come home to roost.

True, and the amazing thing is that current projections put Nigeria as more populous than China by 2100. Of course, that assumes things stay as they are, which they won't.

http://tinyurl.com/4wv8v3wk

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (CsUN+)

311 287 What does one learn in Hebrew school, besides Hebrew? Is it just religious instruction, or is it basically the Jewish equivalent of a Catholic school, where secular subjects are taught as well?
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Ask Joe Biden -- honorary rabbi.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (2yu8s)

312 The Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is formally endorsing Kari Lake in the Arizona Senate race, putting an end to speculation over whether GOP leadership in the upper chamber would get behind the Republican front-runner. “Kari Lake is one of the most talented candidates in the country. Kari is building out an effective campaign operation that has what it takes to flip Arizona’s Senate seat in November,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). “I’m proud to endorse Kari Lake for United States Senate.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (QxBqL)

313 >>BREAKING: FOIA Documents Reveal Secret 2020 Election Day Meeting With CISA, Dominion, ES&S, ERIC, FBI, Leftist Organizations, State Officials, and Others

Gee, how did those 6 swing states all know to stop counting at the same time on election night?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (LkLld)

314 More like "Sunday School." There are Jewish private schools more like Catholic schools, but I didn't attend one.
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Honest question, did you envy your Christian friends come Christmas?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (Ist0o)

315 And more snow out there than I expected

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (fwDg9)

316 All the women I've been seriously involved with were either only children or had no sisters. Strange.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:36 AM (omVj0)

317 296 268 >>...By 16, one was lithe and of modest bust, the other was slender with enormous cans. Faces were still identical, but they were by no means indistinguishable anymore.

I love the commingling of high-dollar, SAT sentence structure with "cans" as a descriptor. The mental whiplash is fantastic.
Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 10:32 AM (0Id0S)

It was almost like someone was writing a letter in the 1800s that was finished by someone in 2024.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:36 AM (KbCG3)

318 Whistler's Sistlers.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2024 10:36 AM (wzAuc)

319 302, they are desperate. Trump never sends me anything because he knows he doesn’t have to. Haley sends me letters all the time because what else is she gonna do?

Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:36 AM (cESVi)

320 Honest question, did you envy your Christian friends come Christmas?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (Ist0o)
++++
Nope, not really. We often did a little Christmas observance as well because my dad's side of the family are nominally Christians. When we didn't, we didn't. It never bothered me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:36 AM (yjAVs)

321 168 Some people here thought Jen Psaki was hawt. She's hideous compared to either of these chicks.

Psaki, more than most women, can really swing on the hotness scale from day to day. Don't know if it's clothes, hair, makeup, or what:
http://tinyurl.com/mwsr6ecs

It's like a superpower with many women, that they can completely change their appearance with a little effort. Ultimately, she's slightly above average for an American woman, which isn't saying as much as it used to, as the average is more overweight, pierced and dyed than she used to be.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 13, 2024 10:36 AM (JCZqz)

322 *They're losing millions of people a year.*

We'll make it up in volume.

Posted by: Chy-na at February 13, 2024 10:37 AM (NBVIP)

323 I've read that Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese twins," who were joined at the stomach, . . . .
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Weren't each of them married and had children?

The mind - it wobbles. I've done some sketchy **** back in the olden times but still - wow.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:31 AM (IaTa3)

Indeed they were married. And had kids.

For the opposite gender, look up the Hilton sisters, Daisy and Violet.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:37 AM (Q0kLU)

324 It has a sort of Helen Keller / Anne Sullivan feel to it.

Posted by: m at February 13, 2024 10:37 AM (npwPn)

325 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

I didn't check the nic before I clicked...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (9yWhg)

326 BREAKING: FOIA Documents Reveal Secret 2020 Election Day Meeting With CISA, Dominion, ES&S, ERIC, FBI, Leftist Organizations, State Officials, and Others

Gee, how did those 6 swing states all know to stop counting at the same time on election night?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (LkLld)

"Trump lost, cultist. Get over it."

- - - - - Some Famous Milblogger

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

327 I didn't check the nic before I clicked...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (9yWhg)
++++
Me neither. He got me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (yjAVs)

328 It was almost like someone was writing a letter in the 1800s that was finished by someone in 2024.

LOL, indubitably.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (CsUN+)

329
And more snow out there than I expected

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM

To shovel, or not to shovel. That is the question. Rising temps might make it unnecessary. Maybe.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (nIvob)

330 They look like they are in an elevator. Would not hang.

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (vFG9F)

331 And more snow out there than I expected
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (fwDg9)
~~~~~

I tried to tell you yesterday! Remember the map I linked for you? Joe Bastardi is better than any of the usual weather reporters, including NOAA

Posted by: IrishEi at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (BTgIn)

332 Would bang.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (cw9q7)

333 Moron-worthy, very:
Half Draped Figure

You sir are a Great Canuckian. Wiiiiiide valley between pouts, lotta junk in the trunk, but
The Nose. Omigod The Nose. It's Her!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (zdLoL)

334 Anyone talking about the economy without recognizing that the federal institutions -- that are charged with providing us with unadulterated data by which we can form predictions -- are thoroughly corrupted and lying their asses off to protect politicians, is missing the point entirely. We are in our third year of recession, and still arguing over the most basic functions of the economy as if the unemployment and inflation numbers reflect reality.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 10:39 AM (0Id0S)

335 *checks the SPR*

As of Feb 9, 2024:
143.8 million barrels of sweet crude
215 million barrels of sour crude.

Total SPR capacity is over 731 million barrels. So we are at roughly 49% capacity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2024 10:39 AM (Mi8Re)

336 For the opposite gender, look up the Hilton sisters, Daisy and Violet.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

They were the ones in Freaks, right?

That is a seriously underrated film.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:39 AM (9yWhg)

337 168 Some people here thought Jen Psaki was hawt.

It's the gasoline colored hair.

Posted by: Butthead at February 13, 2024 10:39 AM (NBVIP)

338 I got the "Pennsylvania Independent" """"newspaper""""" in my mailbox. All glowing dear leader propaganda for Biden, doom and gloom for Trump with a full- page ad for Dolly Pardon's broadway show on the back.

It is "independent" journalists writing news from a liberal perspective to advocate progressive values.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 13, 2024 10:39 AM (r9ulo)

339 320 Honest question, did you envy your Christian friends come Christmas?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:35 AM (Ist0o)
++++
Nope, not really. We often did a little Christmas observance as well because my dad's side of the family are nominally Christians. When we didn't, we didn't. It never bothered me.
------------
So you were happy with a dreidel instead of a slot car, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:39 AM (Ist0o)

340 So you were happy with a dreidel instead of a slot car, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:39 AM (Ist0o)
++++
Hey, what's not to like about low-stakes gambling and potato pancakes?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:40 AM (yjAVs)

341 Does Muldoon know??
"After studying in New York City and Paris, Thayer took a studio in Brooklyn in 1880. He traveled often, summering for the next few years in Nantucket
Posted by: andycanuck

********

Settling in Nantucket With a Real Job

The artist was a noted game player
An incurable fine lady slayer
'Til he reformed. Fundamental.
His career then went dental
He's now known as the venerable "Tooth" Thayer

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 10:40 AM (991eG)

342 I guess the lady in the foreground is OK-looking. The black dress makes it hard to see her bust, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:40 AM (9yWhg)

343 Someone might have brought this up, but which one is Rosie Grier and which is Ray Milland?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 10:40 AM (DgSZ/)

344 I didn't check the nic before I clicked...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (9yWhg)
++++
Me neither. He got me.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM (yjAVs)

A couple of wily veteran Hordelings got tricked. I find your lack of nic-checking to be disappointing.

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2024 10:41 AM (MtueO)

345 I have to Tru and go to work. It can be mostly highway but still then 45 miles

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 10:41 AM (fwDg9)

346 I always thought psaki Was like that PR girl from Michael Clayton. Of course, the PR girl in real life was better looking and much more talented at her job.

Posted by: Quint at February 13, 2024 10:42 AM (cESVi)

347 Whistler's Sistlers.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 13, 2024 10:36 AM (wzAuc)

Perfect.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 13, 2024 10:42 AM (cw9q7)

348 I could go for some potato pancakes right now.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (Q0kLU)

349 I've always viewed Psaki like Flo from Progressive. Not hideous, but only worth a grudgef*ck, if presented the opportunity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

350 I always thought psaki Was like that PR girl from Michael Clayton

She wasn't quite as stupid as Karine, sideshow Bob

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (Akjoo)

351 >>All the women I've been seriously involved with were either only children or had no sisters. Strange.

Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

352 Artist really like the ladies. I looked through his works and the only male portrayed was his self.

Posted by: javems at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (f4tcA)

353 Romney saying it's the most important vote he ever cast is the most Romniest of Romney things ever. That pygmy can't leave soon enough

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (DgSZ/)

354
Last night the lovely and musically-inclined Mrs naturalfake and i saw-

David Sanborn in concert. (for the first time since 86-87 in Hong Kong with Pat Metheny and Miles Davis)

Wholley Kau!!!! Was that a great show!!!

His playing was exceptional and the band was red-hot great solos all through the night, I strongly urge you to go if he's in your area.

If you're unfamiliar with David Sanborn, he basically played with every single major rock and jazz star in the 70s-90s and on their biggest albums. His saxophone playing/style is immediately recognizable.

I honestly hope they put out an album of these live tour cuz I'd snap it up immediately.

On the sad side, this may be his last hurrah because he had to0 be helped to walk on stage and sat in a chair the whole time.

Regardless, his playing was great and so was the band. You will have a good time.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (nFnyb)

355
Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

Were they all named Noel?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

356 Were they all named Noel?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
I've only ever known one Noel. She had a summertime birthday...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:45 AM (yjAVs)

357 I've never seen The Sisters painting before now and it didn't especially grab my attention at first glance. After studying it, it can have some personal meaning to me and so I would hang it.

As I 'confess' here on occasion, I lost my (younger & only) sister February 2015. When I got that 0630 am call, I already had airline tickets to Florida for the following AM because I had originally planned to fly down as our mom had been placed on hospice. Only registering the 386 prefix of the phone number calling & it flashed in my mind I had screwed up badly and missed the opportunity. So, yeah, it was a shocker the call was about Sis.

In Florida, despite the arrangements I had to make concerning my sister's passing, I was with our mom in the afternoons & into the nights until she passed less than a week later, February 14th.

It's not as bad as it might seem for I had opportunities to say goodbye to both. And, after sometime thereafter, came to believe it was probably destiny for the three of us.

Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: L - And now the King of BS can't remember last evening so let it go at February 13, 2024 10:45 AM (GshMh)

358 348 I could go for some potato pancakes right now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (Q0kLU)

Some Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing potato pancakes?

Posted by: m at February 13, 2024 10:45 AM (npwPn)

359 Romney saying it's the most important vote he ever cast is the most Romniest of Romney things ever. That pygmy can't leave soon enough
Posted by: Smell the Glove

What vote is this? Is it the same one implied in the "TRAITOR LIST" upthread?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)

360 was this painted before or after they had sex?

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (dMVfh)

361 Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

Were they all named Noel?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

It's garrett. I'm guessing they were all named imaginary.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (GYIa4)

362 Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

Were they all named Noel?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

Or Holly

Posted by: Doof at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (MtueO)

363 I've always viewed Psaki like Flo from Progressive. Not hideous, but only worth a grudgef*ck, if presented the opportunity.

That bright red lipstick of hers is what attracts me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

364 I'll bet Chang and Eng were unbeatable at Twister™

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (991eG)

365 >>Were they all named Noel?

No. Only met one Noel and never dated her.

But I think I only got one or two birthdays right through all of them.

Always a day or two off in one direction or the other.

It was a real problem.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (nSDU/)

366 ++++
I've only ever known one Noel. She had a summertime birthday...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 10:45 AM (yjAVs)

My uncle dated a chick named Noel and an ex-girlfriend of mine had a hair stylist dude named Noel. She dated him and it wasn't till later she told me he sexually assaulted (I called it rape, but she didn't) her, but liked how he did her hair.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

367 Psaki is a world-class dumbfuck. If KJP is dumber than her, it's a negligible difference.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 10:47 AM (0FoWg)

368 "I once knew two sisters, their name it was Christmas -
And one was named Dawn, of course,
The other one was named Eve. . ."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:47 AM (Q0kLU)

369
Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024

***
Miss Linda's b'day is 12/1, so it invariably gets lost in the glare, so to speak, between Thanksgiving and the approaching Christmas season.

My mother's was 9/22. All her life, she said, people had trouble remembering the exact date, because the equinox then can shift one or two days. I blush to admit it . . . but it was not until I read [i[Lord of the Rings and learned that Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays were 9/22 that I had a marker to ensure I remembered it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:48 AM (omVj0)

370 >>he sexually assaulted (I called it rape, but she didn't) her, but liked how he did her hair.......

I bet it was the Leave-In Conditioner he used.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:48 AM (nSDU/)

371 The sister in front looks like Princess Diana with her hair back.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2024 10:48 AM (lf83v)

372 She dated him and it wasn't till later she told me he sexually assaulted (I called it rape, but she didn't) her, but liked how he did her hair.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

not rape-rape then?

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:49 AM (AwYPR)

373 361 Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

Were they all named Noel?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

It's garrett. I'm guessing they were all named imaginary.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (GYIa4)

omigosh

Posted by: m at February 13, 2024 10:49 AM (npwPn)

374 've always viewed Psaki like Flo from Progressive. Not hideous, but only worth a grudgef*ck, if presented the opportunity.

i am as big a fan of the grudge fuck as the next guy but i would not even grudge fuck her with that stupid gecko thingy.

shes a shovel to the back of the head thingy

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:49 AM (dMVfh)

375
I bet it was the Leave-In Conditioner he used.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:48 AM (nSDU/)

There's a possibility......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

376 349 I've always viewed Psaki like Flo from Progressive. Not hideous, but only worth a grudgef*ck, if presented the opportunity.
--------------
No way Imma fucking Flo. Maybe with Ace's dick but not with mine.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:49 AM (dGES5)

377 That bright red lipstick of hers is what attracts me.
_________

Herpes primer paint.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2024 10:49 AM (lf83v)

378 blush to admit it . . . but it was not until I read [i[Lord of the Rings and learned that Bilbo and Frodo's birthdays were 9/22 that I had a marker to ensure I remembered it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:48 AM (omVj0)

I actually got our Anniversary wrong most years... Thought it was the 5th... It's the 6th... of January ... Now I never forget it

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:50 AM (Akjoo)

379 that is funny, nearly every girl i dated was a libras,

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:50 AM (dMVfh)

380 Mitt Romney is the Mitt Romney of Mitt Romneys.

Posted by: Half the Internet at February 13, 2024 10:50 AM (w9Wax)

381
not rape-rape then?
Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:49 AM (AwYPR)

Not to her......not sure why.

She said no, he did it anyway, she cried.....seems rapey to me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

382 373 361 Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

Were they all named Noel?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

It's garrett. I'm guessing they were all named imaginary.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:46 AM (GYIa4)

omigosh
------------
Garrett has an erect stocking.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (dGES5)

383 Mitt Romney is the Mitt Romney of Mitt Romneys.
Posted by: Half the Internet at February 13, 2024 10:50 AM (w9Wax)

Mitt Romney is the Rona Romney of Mitt Romney's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

384 The E is silent, dear, like the T in Harlow.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (2yu8s)

385 nothing as unsexy as getting noggin from some girl that is crying

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (dMVfh)

386 A couple of wily veteran Hordelings got tricked. I find your lack of nic-checking to be disappointing.
Posted by: Doof

Yeah, I'm too trusting. I always get tricked by that guy who always talks about pickleball, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (9yWhg)

387 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

I didn't check the nic before I clicked...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

Posted by: Vizzini at February 13, 2024 10:52 AM (Wnv9h)

388 Garrett has an erect stocking.
--------
The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:52 AM (2yu8s)

389 Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

You knew their birthdays?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:52 AM (KbCG3)

390 384 The E is silent, dear, like the T in Harlow.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (2yu8s)

Where?

Posted by: m at February 13, 2024 10:53 AM (npwPn)

391 Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Were their mom's all 18-23 years older?

Spring break babies?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (GYIa4)

392 386 A couple of wily veteran Hordelings got tricked. I find your lack of nic-checking to be disappointing.
Posted by: Doof

Yeah, I'm too trusting. I always get tricked by that guy who always talks about pickleball, too.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (9yWhg)

Trusting? That's an interesting way of saying eager.

C'mon, we all get excited when someone seems to tread into Mannix girl territory. But the big head has to chime in with the warning: Always. Check. The. Nic.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (KbCG3)

393 It's the 6th... of January ... Now I never forget it
Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:50 AM (Akjoo)

*nods*

The day of Beau Biden's tragic death fighting a gang of Nazi slavers in Iraq.

Posted by: spindrift at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (MqhXY)

394 Every woman I have ever dated seriously was born between the 20th and 27th of December.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 10:43 AM (nSDU/)

You knew their birthdays?
Posted by: The

it was an age of consent thingy

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (dMVfh)

395 Where?
Posted by: m at February 13, 2024 10:53 AM (npwPn)

Tharlow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (9UlRk)

396 The E is silent, dear, like the T in Harlow.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (2yu8s)

Harleaux

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (AwYPR)

397 I have a cousin whose birthday is on Christmas Day. That must be really weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (9yWhg)

398 387 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

I didn't check the nic before I clicked...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:38 AM

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Posted by: Vizzini at February 13, 2024 10:52 AM (Wnv9h)

Outstanding.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (KbCG3)

399 The E is silent, dear, like the T in Harlow.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (2yu8s)

Where?
Posted by: m at February 13, 2024 10:53 AM (npwPn)

"What's your name?"

"Jenoffski."

"How do you spell it?"

"S M I T H."

"Huh?"

"They're all silent. Never mind."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

400 I have a cousin whose birthday is on Christmas Day. That must be really weird.
Posted by: B

what, having cousins?

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:55 AM (dMVfh)

401 Is she showing her where the glory hole is?

Posted by: m at February 13, 2024 10:55 AM (npwPn)

402 Good:

@kyledcheney
BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts gives Jack Smith until Tuesday 2/20 at 4 pm to respond to Trump's call to stay the immunity ruling that would restart his D.C. trial.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 13, 2024 10:55 AM (BTgIn)

403 397 I have a cousin whose birthday is on Christmas Day. That must be really weird.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM (9yWhg)

======

Dolley's young cousin's birthday is on Christmas Eve.

For his birthday a couple of years ago, his dad got him a Ford F-150.

That's the rich side of the family.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 13, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

404 You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
Posted by: Vizzini at February 13, 2024 10:52 AM (Wnv9h)

Outstanding.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:54 AM

Sometimes they write themselves.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (Wnv9h)

405 400 I have a cousin whose birthday is on Christmas Day. That must be really weird.
Posted by: B

what, having cousins?
------------
Having a cousin named Jesus can make you a little uncomfortable.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (dGES5)

406 Dolley's young cousin's birthday is on Christmas Eve.

For his birthday a couple of years ago, his dad got him a Ford F-150.

That's the rich side of the family.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wow. I got a stick.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (IaTa3)

407 Damnit nurse!
You're woodpeckers are back!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (W/lyH)

408 I have a cousin whose birthday is on Christmas Day. That must be really weird.
Posted by: B
*
what, having cousins?
Posted by: N at February 13, 2024

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I have one I've never met (if she's even still alive). Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 had one, a hot girl who looked like a blonde, un-tatted Joan Jett.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (omVj0)

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@kyledcheney
BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts gives Jack Smith until Tuesday 2/20 at 4 pm to respond to Trump's call to stay the immunity ruling that would restart his D.C. trial.
Posted by: IrishEi at February 13, 2024 10:55 AM (BTgIn)

Not sure how good that is....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (Akjoo)

410

Wow. I got a stick.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (IaTa3)

I got a rock.

Posted by: Charlie Brown at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

411 I have one I've never met (if she's even still alive). Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 had one, a hot girl who looked like a blonde, un-tatted Joan Jett.
Posted by: W

I had a hot cousin, my friends used to say I should move to wi and marry her

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (dMVfh)

412 410

Wow. I got a stick.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (IaTa3)

I got a rock.
Posted by: Charlie Brown at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Sure it wasn't a dildo?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (KbCG3)

413 Yeah, I'm too trusting. I always get tricked by that guy who always talks about pickleball, too.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:51 AM (9yWhg)

Speaking of pickleball...

I tried it yesterday. It was fun and reasonably vigorousish.

Sort of like retard tennis for those approaching 29.

And unsurprisingly, there was some over 29 ex-tennis pros there who have dropped tennis but taken up pickleball.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 10:58 AM (nFnyb)

414 I got a rock.
Posted by: Charlie Brown

Which house gave you the dildo?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 10:58 AM (9yWhg)

415 411 I have one I've never met (if she's even still alive). Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 had one, a hot girl who looked like a blonde, un-tatted Joan Jett.
Posted by: W

I had a hot cousin, my friends used to say I should move to wi and marry her
Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (dMVfh)

Too far of a move?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:58 AM (KbCG3)

416 @359 yes , same vote. There's a thread at Twitchy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 10:58 AM (DgSZ/)

417 Dolley's young cousin's birthday is on Christmas Eve.

For his birthday a couple of years ago, his dad got him a Ford F-150.

That's the rich side of the family.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wow. I got a stick.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (IaTa3)

I got a rock.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 10:58 AM (Q0kLU)

418 Wow. I got a stick.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 10:56 AM (IaTa3)

I got a rock.
Posted by: Charlie Brown at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Sure it wasn't a dildo?
Posted by:

in the yesteryear the dildos did not have the bark sanded off

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:59 AM (dMVfh)

419 Anyone talking about the economy without recognizing that the federal institutions -- that are charged with providing us with unadulterated data by which we can form predictions -- are thoroughly corrupted and lying their asses off to protect politicians, is missing the point entirely.

People here understand the Covid books are cooked, but then turn the page and dissect financial data like kt isn't. Same kind of disconnect that occurs when people state all our institutions are corrupt but then take everything at face value regarding the ones they favor (law enforcement, defense). There's nothing to discuss in a country that announces counting has stopped in the middle of the night, doesn't stop counting, and has new results to announce in the morning. You are always being lied to. About everything.

Posted by: Turtles All the Way Down at February 13, 2024 10:59 AM (pjs7m)

420
Sure it wasn't a dildo?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (KbCG3)

I lost that after a kegger I threw a while back. Peppermint Patty and Marcie left early........

Posted by: Charlie Brown at February 13, 2024 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

421 I have one I've never met (if she's even still alive). Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 had one, a hot girl who looked like a blonde, un-tatted Joan Jett.
Posted by: W

I had a hot cousin, my friends used to say I should move to wi and marry her
Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (dMVfh)

Too far of a move?
Posted by: Th

hated wi

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:59 AM (dMVfh)

422 I had a hot cousin, my friends used to say I should move to wi and marry her
Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (dMVfh)

Too far of a move?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024

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"The fortune-teller said I was either going to die in the next five years, unless I move to Kansas and sell insurance."

"You don't wanna die!"

"Yeah, but then I'd have to move to Kansas."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 11:00 AM (omVj0)

423
Dolley's young cousin's birthday is on Christmas Eve.

For his birthday a couple of years ago, his dad got him a Ford F-150.

That's the rich side of the family.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 13, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

In my case, the rich side of the family was still poor.

So...

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 11:00 AM (nFnyb)

424 I had a hot cousin, my friends used to say I should move to wi and marry her

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 10:57 AM (dMVfh)

Don't have some closer cousins?

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

425 Apparently matrilineal cousin marriage was the norm for just about every culture for just about all of human history. But most cultures have always thought patrilineal cousin marriage was weird and wrong. Something to do with how genetics works or something, i don't know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:00 AM (9UlRk)

426 "Yeah, but then I'd have to move to Kansas."
Posted by: W

theres java everywhere

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 11:01 AM (dMVfh)

427 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2024 11:01 AM (omVj0)

428 foxnews.com
Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, White House says
President Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, the White House stated on Monday.
3:49 PM · Feb 12, 2024

Wendy Kortepeter @WKortepeter
Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, White House says
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A really good look. It would be one thing to deny taking it publicly [we'd still know why of course] but at least it' somewhat defensible; but to not take one at all...

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 11:01 AM (2yu8s)

429 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

430 Speaking of pickleball...

I tried it yesterday. It was fun and reasonably vigorousish.

Sort of like retard tennis for those approaching 29.

And unsurprisingly, there was some over 29 ex-tennis pros there who have dropped tennis but taken up pickleball.
Posted by: naturalfake

Our neighborhood has a near 30 pickleball courts that are always busy.

My wife's Chiropractor (main office 50 miles away) has opened a new clinic here to deal solely to deal with pickleball related injuries. Shoulders, knees, ankles and overestimation of one's abilities are a dangerous combo.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 11:02 AM (IaTa3)

431 John the Baptist was a cousin to Jesus.

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2024 11:03 AM (NxC5+)

432 343 Someone might have brought this up, but which one is Rosie Grier and which is Ray Milland?

Lol

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (g1qsf)

433 Afternoon.

I really like this, but why are they staring at and touching a bare wall?

Would hang for the hint of weird incestuous lesbian action plus also I like realism in my paintings.

Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2024 01:09 PM (1Yy3c)

434 Oh, maybe they're considering where to hang a painting.

A painting about hanging paintings.

Nice.

Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2024 01:10 PM (1Yy3c)

435 Can they talk in unison like those two twin Girls from those Mothera movies

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 13, 2024 04:16 PM (wGqjj)

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