Mid-Morning Art Thread

In the Woods
Asher Brown Durand

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

3 Sniper behind the low business on right

Very nicely done

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (+4ZNE)

4 Not first.

*shakes fist at rhennigantx*

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (9yWhg)

5 Racist! White supremacist!

- some woke English idiots

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (Wnv9h)

6 Looks safe enough to me.

Posted by: Little Bunny FooFoo at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (dg+HA)

7 Very nice art, though. Would hang.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

8 Dark!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 09:32 AM (hOUT3)

9 Painting: very nice.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:32 AM (MvF+J)

10 Sniper count -- 10+

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (7fElN)

11 “Landscape paintings were also always entangled with national identity.

“The countryside was seen as a direct link to the past, and therefore a true reflection of the essence of a nation.

“Paintings showing rolling English hills or lush French fields reinforced loyalty and pride towards a homeland.

“The darker side of evoking this nationalist feeling is the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong.”

Posted by: DEI Art Critic at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

12 They had a sale on 'green' at the art supply store

Posted by: Don Black at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (oCjPU)

13 I see the forest for the trees.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

14 Beautiful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (di6C2)

15 Three 'very nices' in the first nine comments. Record?

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)

16 I think I found where Waldo's dismembered body was dumped.

This one goes back to the museum.

Posted by: Outside of Life at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (89Sog)

17 I like this!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

18 The MET

Title: In the Woods

Artist: Asher Brown Durand (American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796–1886 Maplewood, New Jersey)

Date: 1855

Culture: American

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 60 3/4 x 48 in. (154.3 x 121.9 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (ENQN6)

19 It looks like *something* crashed through the woods leaving a trail of destruction in its wake...

Did someone waken the Tarrasque?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)

20 Uh oh. A pastoral landscape. Suddenly, I'm feeling a bit xenophobic.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (NgqoH)

21 Racist.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (0FoWg)

22 I like it.

Looks like a place I'd much rather be.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (JCLJi)

23 Bob Ross has a hard on now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

24 needs more pink

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 21, 2024 09:35 AM (SfhV1)

25 15 Three 'very nices' in the first nine comments. Record?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)

Its nice to be nice to the nice.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:35 AM (ENQN6)

26 This gives me an idea.

Posted by: Robert Frost at March 21, 2024 09:35 AM (dg+HA)

27 "...only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong.”

Posted by: DEI Art Critic at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

Absolutely!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 21, 2024 09:35 AM (NfbzZ)

28 15 Three 'very nices' in the first nine comments. Record?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)/i]

The horde is slipping, I did not fin one fish pun so far.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 09:35 AM (hOUT3)

29 Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Posted by: Random Travelers at March 21, 2024 09:35 AM (SYTee)

30 >23 Bob Ross has a hard on now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

Let's paint happy little boner...

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at March 21, 2024 09:35 AM (NgqoH)

31 This gives me an idea.
Posted by: Robert Frost

Me too.

Posted by: Stephen Sondheim at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

32 People's Temple, The First Days...

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (MHhQj)

33 So many places for snipers or wild dogs to be hiding.

I can't be certain that it is art, but I also can't be certain that it is not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (HnUIn)

34 I see a squirrel on the log.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

35 The horde is slipping, I did not fin one fish pun so far.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

We know our plaice.

Posted by: Stephen Sondheim at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)

36 This is incredible. I might need a print of this. Would look great in my entryway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (HnUIn)

37 Dark. Nationalistic. Pro-Israel.

Would slash.

Posted by: The idiot woman who destroyed the Balfour portrait at Cambridge at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (PiwSw)

38 I see a squirrel on the log.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)
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Good eye! Now I see it too...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (7fElN)

39 Sigh. I've really got to stop using socks.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (9yWhg)

40 Morning Wood>In the Woods

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (ENQN6)

41 19 It looks like *something* crashed through the woods leaving a trail of destruction in its wake...

Did someone waken the Tarrasque?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (7fElN)

Access to water (stream) could be a natural animal path.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:38 AM (di6C2)

42 Posted by: DEI Art Critic at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)
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Ugh. Thanks for the reminder.

Sometimes I think I'm mildly clever with my "your kid's professor" shtick, but I cannot even approach the insanity of academic reality.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:38 AM (HnUIn)

43 This is incredible. I might need a print of this. Would look great in my entryway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (HnUIn)
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It would look pretty cool as wallpaper at the end of a long hallway...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:38 AM (7fElN)

44 Let's all jump in a monster gas-powered 4-wheeler and smoke that trail!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 21, 2024 09:38 AM (4MAmd)

45 I see a squirrel on the log.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)
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Good eye! Now I see it too...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

It's hard to spot since it's not wearing its pimp hat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (9yWhg)

46 It's no Constable homage.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (2yu8s)

47
Tunnel Vision - a limerick

Once again it's the same old refrain
It keeps rattling around in my brain
I'm telling you friend
That light at the end
Is the light of an oncoming train!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (991eG)

48 This is incredible. I might need a print of this. Would look great in my entryway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (HnUIn)

What do you like about it Joe? Serious question, as this one is meh to me. Maybe I'm not catching something.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (SfhV1)

49 Is that Bigfoot or a fresh water mermaid? Would hang though

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (skYk4)

50 38 I see a squirrel on the log.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)
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Good eye! Now I see it too...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:37 AM (7fElN)

Had to give em up, high Cholesterol.

Posted by: Cuzzin Eddie at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (ENQN6)

51 I dunno about y'all, but this painting is disturbing because it makes the ethnonationalist part of me surface!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

52 That moss sure took a lichen to that tree.

Posted by: MST3K Random Comment at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (V5BDR)

53 Squirrel!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:40 AM (2yu8s)

54 The Scarecrow: [disparagingly] Come along, Dorothy. You don't want any of *those* apples! Hmph!
Angry Apple Tree: Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?
The Scarecrow: [sarcastically] Oh no! It's just that she doesn't like little green worms!

Posted by: Wizard of Oz at March 21, 2024 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

55 Whoa.

Nice Asher, CBD.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:40 AM (2yu8s)

56

We would like to remind you that the outdoors are only for White Christian Nationalist Racists, and encourage you to purchase all of our suburban karen preppy workout clothing instead!

Posted by: The North Face at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (GlkBW)

57 What do you like about it Joe? Serious question, as this one is meh to me. Maybe I'm not catching something.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (SfhV1)
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The depth and the intensity of the color of detail. It really looks real (not always a requirement) and makes me want to be standing right where the artist was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

58 Down with the oaks! More sunlight for our people!

Posted by: The Maples at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (1CS3p)

59 42 Posted by: DEI Art Critic at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)
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Ugh. Thanks for the reminder.

Sometimes I think I'm mildly clever with my "your kid's professor" shtick, but I cannot even approach the insanity of academic reality.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:38 AM (HnUIn)

I think it is important to quote exactly what these fucking idiots say.

Posted by: Cuzzin Eddie at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (ENQN6)

60 I do like this and would hang it on the big white wall in the living room.

Posted by: huerfano at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (qeiBW)

61 What do you like about it Joe? Serious question, as this one is meh to me. Maybe I'm not catching something.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (SfhV1)

It looks real, but also one of those times when you would be hiking through the woods and find a perfect scene like this. Somewhat dim because of the foliage. Light coming through the trees on the right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (di6C2)

62 makes me want to be standing right where the artist was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (HnUIn)

Yes, I can understand where you're coming from. It would be cool to be there.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 21, 2024 09:42 AM (SfhV1)

63 52 That moss sure took a lichen to that tree.
Posted by: MST3K Random Comment at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (V5BDR)

From dust we came and to dust we return.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:42 AM (di6C2)

64 Artist: 'What do you think of my painting?'
Every Single Viewer: 'It's very nice!'
Artist: *goes home and cuts off ear*

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:42 AM (MvF+J)

65 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (ENQN6)

66 If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

67 It's hard to spot since it's not wearing its pimp hat.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM

The squirrel is the sniper!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (Wnv9h)

68 It looks like *something* crashed through the woods leaving a trail of destruction in its wake...

The Ardennes counteroffensive was not as simple as it looked.

This is not unlike the lots we had cleared over the winter. Neighbors on the next road said they never realized there'd been a house in there (on less than a half acre). I wanted to save more trees, but Tree Guy quickly ID'ed most of them as junk that should never have been allowed to grow up. And wouldn't you know, the four black walnuts were all right on top of adjoining foundations. So, three trees left, out of three dozen, and I have some prime lumber coming.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (zdLoL)

69 "makes me want to be standing right where the artist was."

It evokes the smell of a high-quality car air freshener.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (MvF+J)

70 Is today the day the teddy bears have their picnic??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (2yu8s)

71 63 52 That moss sure took a lichen to that tree.
Posted by: MST3K Random Comment at March 21, 2024 09:39 AM (V5BDR)

From dust we came and to dust we return.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:42 AM (di6C2)

I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Dust in the wind

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (ENQN6)

72 It evokes the smell of a high-quality car air freshener.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (MvF+J)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (HnUIn)

73 Is this where the big bad wolf from little red riding hood lives?

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (bWsRe)

74 38, thanks for the squirrel tip, easy to find in the embiggened version

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (hOUT3)

75 Is this where the big bad wolf from little red riding hood lives?
Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (bWsRe)
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Seems very, very likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (HnUIn)

76 Is that bear shit up there on the right?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (ENQN6)

77 What squirrel sni

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (2yu8s)

78 This is actually art. Unlike that video ace posted yesterday at the bottom of the thread below, showing various "artists" creating nothing of value:

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=408888

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (7fElN)

79 I'm now thinking of El Rushbo's "Environmental Update" with The Lumberjack Song as the intro.

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 09:45 AM (JunzL)

80 Dark.
Muddy.
Hmmm.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:45 AM (6IDWi)

81 Those trees need harvesting before they go to waste. They're dying of old age.

Posted by: Logger at March 21, 2024 09:45 AM (SYTee)

82 What squirrel sni
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (2yu8s)
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The squirrel is just a decoy so that you will stop and watch it while the sniper lines up his shot...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:45 AM (7fElN)

83 My kitchen cries out for cabinets of lumber from this forest.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:45 AM (HnUIn)

84 And for lunch today, squirrel tips in red wine sauce, monsieur.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:45 AM (2yu8s)

85 And for lunch today, squirrel tips in red wine sauce, monsieur.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:45 AM (2yu8s)
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Just the tips?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (HnUIn)

86 72 It evokes the smell of a high-quality car air freshener.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (MvF+J)
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LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (HnUIn)

scratch and sniff

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (ENQN6)

87 75 Is this where the big bad wolf from little red riding hood lives?
Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (bWsRe)
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Seems very, very likely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:44 AM (HnUIn)
******
My grandmother's house is right around the corner.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (NpAcC)

88 Hansel and Gretel just out of frame.

Posted by: Very Grimm tale at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (dg+HA)

89 I'm now thinking of El Rushbo's "Environmental Update" with The Lumberjack Song as the intro.
Posted by: Doof

It kinda pissed me off when Chrissy Hine made him stop doing Animal Rights Updates in return for letting him use her song for his intro music.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (9yWhg)

90 This painting is making me nervous. I'm getting very strong nationalist feelings. It may sprout into some level of patriotism. Please help!

Posted by: red speck at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (0Id0S)

91 My grandmother's house is right around the corner.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (NpAcC)
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She lives in a beautiful place. Visits there as a child must have been nice!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (HnUIn)

92 After you clear a stand of woods like that, there is a mat of roots growing over each other just below the surface. You hear a lot about colonial era farmers taking over large tracts and just girdling the trees to kill them, but the ox-and-beam process of root removal doesn't get the coverage. It is thick down there.

Running deep tines and mid-busters behind a Cat is pretty hard on the equipment -- especially the operator's.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:47 AM (zdLoL)

93 scratch and sniff
Posted by: rhennigantx

Hustler. 1978.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 09:47 AM (IB/6k)

94 Get... off... my... lawn...

Posted by: Treebeard at March 21, 2024 09:47 AM (SYTee)

95 Something something Pope Catholic...

Posted by: And bear scat at March 21, 2024 09:48 AM (dg+HA)

96 Does shit stick to your fur??

Posted by: a bear talking to a rabbit at March 21, 2024 09:49 AM (2yu8s)

97 OrangeEnt should be here...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (PiwSw)

98 She lives in a beautiful place. Visits there as a child must have been nice!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (HnUIn)
******
It was wonderful. The wolf ruined everything.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (NpAcC)

99 I hate this group. Just when I think I've said something clever and unique, I read up the thread and find I'm 6th or 7th to say it. Curse you.

Posted by: red speck at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (0Id0S)

100 You don't come here for the filming, do you?

Posted by: a bear talking to leonard dicaprio at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (2yu8s)

101 100

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (ENQN6)

102 That reminds me - the weeds await.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (WXNFJ)

103 People in the lower left searching for the car keys that Fred dropped.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (MvF+J)

104 When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead.

Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.

--James Thurber (THEE Ohio State University)

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:50 AM (zdLoL)

105 After you clear a stand of woods like that, there is a mat of roots growing over each other just below the surface. You hear a lot about colonial era farmers taking over large tracts and just girdling the trees to kill them, but the ox-and-beam process of root removal doesn't get the coverage. It is thick down there.

Yeah. Clearing land was a big job. Which is why oak openings were so desirable.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:51 AM (9yWhg)

106 After you clear a stand of woods like that, there is a mat of roots growing over each other just below the surface. You hear a lot about colonial era farmers taking over large tracts and just girdling the trees to kill them, but the ox-and-beam process of root removal doesn't get the coverage. It is thick down there.

Running deep tines and mid-busters behind a Cat is pretty hard on the equipment -- especially the operator's.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:47 AM (zdLoL)
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What about the judicious application of highly energetic compounds?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:51 AM (7fElN)

107 It's hard to go wrong with Hudson River School art. It uses all the skills of a painter to find the glorious and sublime in nature. The scenes may be a bit idealized but the colors, details and proportions are true and emphasize nature's beauty and power. Such a celebration is so different from the inchoate mess and nihilism of the 20th century.

Why yes, I am a fan. Why do you ask?

Posted by: JTB at March 21, 2024 09:51 AM (zudum)

108 But it was Gaines’s follow-up question that left Barr speechless and the panel in shock with Barr’s response.

“If you’re saying that we should get rid of sporting categories altogether, do you support the idea of eliminating the Paralympics versus the Olympics?”

Barr could only muster, “I think that’s a really great question, and I need to look into that…,” leading to a collective gasp from Morgan, Krakue, Tatum, and Gaines, who couldn’t believe what they had just heard.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2024 09:51 AM (RHGPo)

109 99 Yes. Usually I do a Ctrl-F to see if somebody beat me to my riff, before posting it.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:51 AM (MvF+J)

110 These woods are lovely, dark and deep.

And I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 09:52 AM (iHpv6)

111 Apple despite their leftism, takes privacy seriously. And they’ve told the govt to fuck of multiple times when they demanded Apple turn over user data.
In response, of course, Biden is suing Apple on some bullshit anti trust charge.

This is how you save democracy, I guess.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 09:52 AM (bWsRe)

112 "It's okay Dierdre. We CAN't get lost. My cell phone has GPS capability."

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:52 AM (991eG)

113 Natty Bumppo approves

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 09:52 AM (J2vNu)

114 "Hey Dierdre! Are you getting any bars over there?"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (991eG)

115 Uh oh. A pastoral landscape. Suddenly, I'm feeling a bit xenophobic.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

Me too!
-- Zombie Lionel Hampton

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (WXNFJ)

116 You don't come here for the filming, do you?

test

Posted by: a bear talking to leonard dicaprio at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (2yu8s)

117 This painting is making me nervous. I'm getting very strong nationalist feelings. It may sprout into some level of patriotism. Please help!
Posted by: red speck at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (0Id0S)
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Okay. First, take a deep breath.

Consider your reaction and attempt to contextualize it.

You describe it as a "strong nationalist feeling." Is that all it is? Is that all you feel? Do you also feel a sense of proprietorship - or even ownership - of the land depicted because of how it represents your culture? Do your feelings also relate to cultural pride, past or present? Does it perhaps also raise feelings of spiritual connection to the work and the lands you recognize as your own? Does it go so far as to put you in a prayerful mood?

These are all things we can work on. Rising nationalist feelings are good, but are low-resolution. You can get better, and contextualize those feelings with greater understanding and development of wider cultural pride and subsequently, a desire to defend your land and culture from those who wish destroy it.

You'll get there. You've already taken the first step.

Posted by: Based Therapist at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (HnUIn)

118 test

Posted by: a bear talking to leonard dicaprio at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (2yu8s)

119 I am alone.

Posted by: Last of the Mohicans at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

120 It kinda pissed me off when Chrissy Hine made him stop doing Animal Rights Updates in return for letting him use her song for his intro music.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (9yWhg)

The best were Rush' "Homeless Updates".

Clarence "Frogman" Henry singing "Ain't Got No Home".

Priceless.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (MHhQj)

121 In the summer of 1854, Durand had made plein-air studies in the Catskill Mountains in preparation for this work, and while it was on view at the National Academy of Design, the artist published his acclaimed “Letters on Landscape Painting.”

En plein air (pronounced [ɑ̃ plɛ.n‿ɛʁ]; French for 'outdoors'), or plein-air [1] painting, is the act of painting outdoors.

dayum I learned something.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (ENQN6)

122 I love the name Dierdre.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (9yWhg)

123 After you clear a stand of woods like that, there is a mat of roots growing over each other just below the surface. You hear a lot about colonial era farmers taking over large tracts and just girdling the trees to kill them, but the ox-and-beam process of root removal doesn't get the coverage. It is thick down there.

Running deep tines and mid-busters behind a Cat is pretty hard on the equipment -- especially the operator's.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Paint the roots with whale oil and burn them out.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (eTC67)

124 This painting is sort of like the terrestrial version of the "marine life" painting several days ago.

*I don't recall it's actual title.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 09:53 AM (Q4IgG)

125 CBD,
Thanks for including this one. Of course, I will spend several hours over the next few days looking at other Hudson River School art. Oh well.

Posted by: JTB at March 21, 2024 09:54 AM (zudum)

126 I hate this group. Just when I think I've said something clever and unique, I read up the thread and find I'm 6th or 7th to say it. Curse you.

Posted by: red speck

Horde Mind is a wonder to behold.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 21, 2024 09:54 AM (OUMaO)

127 These woods are lovely, dark and deep.

And I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024

***
Something there is that doesn't love a wall

Posted by: Democrat Nat'l at March 21, 2024 09:54 AM (J2vNu)

128 My grandmother's house is right around the corner.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (NpAcC)
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Is that before or after passing the shrine dedicated to The Black Goat of a Thousand Young?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:54 AM (7fElN)

129 I hate this group. Just when I think I've said something clever and unique, I read up the thread and find I'm 6th or 7th to say it. Curse you.

Posted by: red speck

You said the painting was very nice?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:55 AM (9yWhg)

130 Frack, Pixy.

The HQ won't let me post "You don't co-me here for the film-ing, do you?" socking 'a bear talking to leonard dicaprio'.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:55 AM (2yu8s)

131 99 Yes. Usually I do a Ctrl-F to see if somebody beat me to my riff, before posting it.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:51 AM

Yup...gotta be fast around here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:56 AM (Wnv9h)

132 These woods are lovely, dark and deep.

And I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep.

Posted by: nurse ratched

Insufficient snow.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 21, 2024 09:56 AM (OUMaO)

133 110 These woods are lovely, dark and deep.

And I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 09:52 AM (iHpv6)

*walks out to garage and gets 5 jerry cans of gas and a box f road flares*

BBL I am headed to the old armory.

Posted by: rhennigantxski at March 21, 2024 09:56 AM (ENQN6)

134 130 It's for your own good.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 09:56 AM (MvF+J)

135 Horde Mind is a wonder to behold.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 21, 2024 09:54 AM

Beautiful and terrible.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:56 AM (Wnv9h)

136 Robert Frost is quite possibly the most overrated poet in American literature.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)

137 She lives in a beautiful place. Visits there as a child must have been nice!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

This was where Snow White was dropped off. Wasn't the Woodsman supposed to kill her (after he showed her his ax)?

IFKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 09:57 AM (WXNFJ)

138 #130 That's weird. The one at #116 did get through.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:58 AM (2yu8s)

139 Yup...gotta be fast around here.

Posted by: amy schumer at March 21, 2024 09:58 AM (2yu8s)

140 How come we never hear anything about the Penultimate Mohican?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

141 After you clear a stand of woods like that, there is a mat of roots growing over each other just below the surface. You hear a lot about colonial era farmers taking over large tracts and just girdling the trees to kill them, but the ox-and-beam process of root removal doesn't get the coverage. It is thick down there. ...
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:47 AM (zdLoL)
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Reminds me of a tale - possibly apocryphal - from the War. When planning the invasion of France, the Allies used mostly British maps, which had lots of areas marked "Hedgerows." The US war planners chose routes that cut through a lot of them.

When we got there, we learned that "hedgerow" means something quite different to the British. These weren't topiaried shrubbery, they were ultra-dense, damn near primeval hedgerows. It took chainsaws and flamethrowers to cut through them.

Apparently, the Americans assumed they could just drive tanks over them, and the British assumed that Americans had some good way to cut through hedgerows.

If true, of course. I like the story even if it isn't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (HnUIn)

142 My grandmother's house is right around the corner.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024
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Is that before or after passing the shrine dedicated to The Black Goat of a Thousand Young?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024

***
Ah, so these are the Miskatonic Woods!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (J2vNu)

143 135 Horde Mind is a wonder to behold.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at March 21, 2024 09:54 AM

Beautiful and terrible.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:56 AM (Wnv9h)

Very nice.

Posted by: Zombie Carl Jung at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (PiwSw)

144 DuckDuckGo's definition:
bloodbath /blŭd′băth″, -bäth″/ noun
1. Savage, indiscriminate killing; a massacre.
2. Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.
Similar: bloodletting bloodshed battue
3. Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass termination of employment or widespread financial loss.
"the sudden market drop created a bloodbath among overoptimistic investors"
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (2yu8s)

145 Many stretches of the Appalachian Trail are referred to as "green tunnels."

Posted by: Not that I've ever hiked it at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (dg+HA)

146 140 How come we never hear anything about the Penultimate Mohican?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (991eG)

Those cost way more than 25 bucks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (ENQN6)

147 That's weird. The one at #116 did get through.
Posted by: andycanuck

********

Yeah. The comments are glitchy.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 10:00 AM (991eG)

148 To each their own.

I like Robert Frost.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 10:00 AM (iHpv6)

149 Apparently, the Americans assumed they could just drive tanks over them, and the British assumed that Americans had some good way to cut through hedgerows.

If true, of course. I like the story even if it isn't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Some of the sea stories I tell I've told so often that I have no idea anymore if they are true or not.

"There I was. . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:00 AM (4UhNi)

150 4. A saying Trump used to describe killing millions of Latinos and Transgender people were he to lose an election.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:00 AM (bWsRe)

151 Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy 20h
Yesterday, former Trump WH Advisor Peter Navarro began his prison sentence for being held in contempt of Congress - breaking 250 years of precedent. Today, Hunter Biden flagrantly defies his Congressional subpoena because he knows he won’t face the same consequences. We have two tiers of justice in this country & it needs to end.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:01 AM (2yu8s)

152 Many stretches of the Appalachian Trail are referred to as "green tunnels."
Posted by: Not that I've ever hiked it at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM (dg+HA)
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The term I know for it is "tree tunnel," but same thing.

Some of the roads I drive on turn into tree tunnels by late July or August, as the foliage approaches its full and stupendous density. Stunning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:01 AM (HnUIn)

153 147 I'm getting 'cannot handle your request' errors occasionally from the site, but I have to admit, they are BIG asks.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2024 10:01 AM (MvF+J)

154 @VivekGRamaswamy
Yesterday, former Trump WH Advisor Peter Navarro began his prison sentence for being held in contempt of Congress - breaking 250 years of precedent. Today, Hunter Biden flagrantly defies his Congressional subpoena because he knows he won’t face the same consequences. We have two tiers of justice in this country & it needs to end.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:01 AM (2yu8s)
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Succinct. He put it nicely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:02 AM (HnUIn)

155 Yeah. The comments are glitchy.
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Glitchy-gloomy or is that a Native-American thing?

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:02 AM (2yu8s)

156 I'm getting 'cannot handle your request' errors occasionally from the site, but I have to admit, they are BIG asks.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird

The Paolo, he, how you say, has heard the same phrase.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 21, 2024 10:03 AM (4UhNi)

157 Jim Jordan will roll up his sleeves and give a speech about Hunter. That’ll show him!

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:03 AM (bWsRe)

158 One old Mohican on the wall
One old Mohican
You take one down and pass him around
No more old Mohicans on the wall

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 10:03 AM (991eG)

159 I'm now thinking of El Rushbo's "Environmental Update" with The Lumberjack Song as the intro.
Posted by: Doof

It kinda pissed me off when Chrissy Hine made him stop doing Animal Rights Updates in return for letting him use her song for his intro music.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:46 AM (9yWhg)

I wasn't aware of that.

Along those lines, one of my favorite memories of Rush was when Mary Tyler Moore wanted to buy some enormous lobster so she could return it to the ocean, but Rush kept trying to outbid her with the stated intention of cooking and eating said lobster.

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)

160 To each their own.

I like Robert Frost.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024

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Frost has the advantage of being non-wordy and endlessly quotable. Probably his work displays too much nationalistic pride for (some) Americans to handle nowadays.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

161 Glitchy gloomy?

You asked for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi9J03fe31o

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (iHpv6)

162 Along those lines, one of my favorite memories of Rush was when Mary Tyler Moore wanted to buy some enormous lobster so she could return it to the ocean, but Rush kept trying to outbid her with the stated intention of cooking and eating said lobster.
Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 10:03 AM (JunzL)
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What's the point of having the money if you can't enjoy spending it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (HnUIn)

163 68 This is not unlike the lots we had cleared over the winter. Neighbors on the next road said they never realized there'd been a house in there (on less than a half acre). I wanted to save more trees, but Tree Guy quickly ID'ed most of them as junk that should never have been allowed to grow up. And wouldn't you know, the four black walnuts were all right on top of adjoining foundations. So, three trees left, out of three dozen, and I have some prime lumber coming.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:43 AM (zdLoL)

This brings to mind the story of the pulpit in the LDS Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City. At the dedication of the building in April 2000, Gordon B. Hinckley told how the pulpit had been fashioned from a tree from his own yard, that he had planted decades earlier. Quite a moving story:

https://tinyurl.com/3s436vsv

Posted by: Half Dozen at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (eHovo)

164 That looks like a great forest that younger me would have loved to play around in.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (YwyqV)

165 Kyle Becker @kylenabecker 21h
RICO charges should be brought against the entire Democratic Party. This is not hyperbole and I am not joking.

Democrats are the most effective and powerful mafia in world history. They have looted taxpayers for trillions, money laundering at every level of government for kickbacks and personal gain. We have dozens upon dozens of instant millionaires in Congress (both parties, to be fair). They have violated their oaths of office, abused power against those who opposed them, trampled the rights of American citizens, signed off on an invasion of our country through the southern border, and conspired with foreign powers like China against our security interests. And their Uniparty co-conspirators should be charged as well.
----
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 13h
Is it true Leticia James can break the law in front of the entire nation (targeting Trump under color of law) and have no legal risk because no one would dare prosecute their own boss?

And obviously there is no chance of her getting impeached or fired.

Is it the perfect crime?

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (2yu8s)

166 One old Mohican on the wall
One old Mohican
You take one down and pass him around
No more old Mohicans on the wall
Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024

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Mohicans? Pffft.

Posted by: Lone Watie at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

167 Yeah. The comments are glitchy.
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Glitchy-gloomy or is that a Native-American thing?
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:02 AM (2yu8s)

Keep trying, you'll Chippewa at it

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (JunzL)

168 I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request.

Posted by: Barbossa Web Server at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (PiwSw)

169 >The Scarecrow: [disparagingly] Come along, Dorothy. You don't want any of *those* apples! Hmph!
Angry Apple Tree: Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?
The Scarecrow: [sarcastically] Oh no! It's just that she doesn't like little green worms!

Later on:
The Scarecrow: [even louder] Come on, Dorothy! You don't want that scraggly old broom. It will probably break in a thousand pieces while you're flying around.
Wicked Witch: [Fireball, damage 9999]

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 21, 2024 10:05 AM (cf/0E)

170 ib @Indian_Bronson Mar 20
“House Bill 621 authorizes property owners to request action by the sheriff's office to immediately remove squatters from your home.

The bill passed overwhelmingly in the Florida senate last week.

The sheriff is required to serve the notice and remove unwanted occupants without delay.”

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:05 AM (2yu8s)

171 I'm getting a "this page isn't working method' sometimes when I post, and sometimes when I just refresh the page.

Pixy's hamsters must be angry again.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:05 AM (9yWhg)

172 Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray 19h
This is how ABC News is covering Daniel Penny's trial. Instead of describing him as a Good Samaritan who helped other train passengers by detaining an out of control maniac, the media scribes Penny as a "former Marine who choked a homeless man to death." You can't hate these people enough.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:06 AM (2yu8s)

173 the British assumed that Americans had some good way to cut through hedgerows.

The British assumptions proved out, but it took awhile.
As a result, generations have had to learn to pronounce "Armorer-Artificer," and it's a bitch to say fast.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 10:06 AM (zdLoL)

174 How come we never hear anything about the Penultimate Mohican?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM

He was a bad dude, but he never would have beaten Beau.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 21, 2024 10:06 AM (a3Q+t)

175 171 I'm getting a "this page isn't working method' sometimes when I post, and sometimes when I just refresh the page.

Pixy's hamsters must be angry again.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:05 AM (9yWhg)

I just did.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (di6C2)

176 I'm guarding the penultimate bastion.

Posted by: The penultimate Mohican at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (dg+HA)

177 This was where Snow White was dropped off. Wasn't the Woodsman supposed to kill her (after he showed her his ax)?

IFKWIMAITYD
Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 09:57 AM (WXNFJ)
*****
Not my fairytale.
The hunter did save my life.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (NpAcC)

178 There's a pool of water in the foreground, with a small gray duck on the lip.

(Get him! That's good eatin'!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

179 Where's the bear ?

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (T4tVD)

180 Morn' all.. The stock market is happy with the phony numbers... Must elect Biden at all costs...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (Akjoo)

181 174 How come we never hear anything about the Penultimate Mohican?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM

He was a bad dude, but he never would have beaten Beau.
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 21, 2024 10:06 AM (a3Q+t)

Huh. I just had an image of a blue club-thing beating a guy to death.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (di6C2)

182 why I got involved in politics...

https://tinyurl.com/nffv5smt

- joebama

Posted by: Outside of Life at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (89Sog)

183 I'm getting a "this page isn't working method' sometimes when I post, and sometimes when I just refresh the page.
*
Pixy's hamsters must be angry again.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024

***
Hamsters on Aussie meth. That's something you hope you never see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

184 Christie Haynes made Rush pay a bunch of money to PETA in exchange for using her song.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (bWsRe)

185 Frost has the advantage of being non-wordy and endlessly quotable. Probably his work displays too much nationalistic pride for (some) Americans to handle nowadays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

No, that's not the case with me. I dunno. Just don't care for his stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (9yWhg)

186 You asked for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi9J03fe31o
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 10:04 AM (iHpv6)
++++
Neil Diamond played in Denver on New Year's Eve in 1999. There was a lot of speculation that he'd fail to sell out the Pepsi Center (now apparently called the "Ball Arena") because of Y2K fears, since those fears muted a lot of major NYE events and caused a lot of them to scale down.

He did sell it out, or came very close. Apparently it was a very good show.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (HnUIn)

187 Muldoon: "Hey Bob! Any more of those Mohican Amber Ales in that cooler out on the deck?"

Bob (he's my uncle): "Nope. I think that's the la..."

Muldoon: "Don't say it!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (991eG)

188 the British assumed that Americans had some good way to cut through hedgerows.

***
I guess that was the bustle we heard about.

Posted by: Led Zeppelin at March 21, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

189 176 I'm guarding the penultimate bastion.
Posted by: The penultimate Mohican at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (dg+HA)

I got you covered, fam.

Posted by: The antepenultimate Mohican at March 21, 2024 10:10 AM (PiwSw)

190 Looks like the woods behind my house after hurricane Sandy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 21, 2024 10:10 AM (VwHCD)

191 I have heard Rush was allowed to use the song because Chrissy's mother liked to listen to Rush.

Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2024 10:10 AM (SYTee)

192 186 You asked for it
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I've literally never heard that before; I was referencing Wreck/Edmund Fitzgerald

as in #167.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:11 AM (2yu8s)

193 Dow jones within spitting distance of 40k.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:11 AM (bWsRe)

194 Frost has the advantage of being non-wordy and endlessly quotable. Probably his work displays too much nationalistic pride for (some) Americans to handle nowadays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
No, that's not the case with me. I dunno. Just don't care for his stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024

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Nah, B., I was just riffing on yesterday's Ace post about the British Museum warning people that art displaying nationalistic pride = "white supremacy."

Posted by: Led Zeppelin at March 21, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

195 191 I have heard Rush was allowed to use the song because Chrissy's mother liked to listen to Rush.
Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2024 10:10 AM (SYTee)

Father. But yeah that’s what she said. And also the PETa money.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:12 AM (bWsRe)

196 How come we never hear anything about the Penultimate Mohican?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:59 AM

Gary Larson would like a word...
tiny.cc/5r4kxz

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 10:12 AM (JunzL)

197 I like nature paintings, even of less than idyllic scenes. Would hang.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:12 AM (z99Zw)

198 Gary Larson would like a word...
tiny.cc/5r4kxz
Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 10:12 AM (JunzL)
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He usually would. I loved The Far Side.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:13 AM (HnUIn)

199 Looks like the woods behind my house after hurricane Sandy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You mean SUPERSTORM Sandy.

Always pissed me off. When those storms hit those hicks in the South, they're just "hurricanes." But one has the audacity to hit the Northeast elites, and it suddenly becomes a "superstorm."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

200 You mean SuperStorm Sandy?

Posted by: Al Gore at March 21, 2024 10:13 AM (dg+HA)

201 I like nature paintings, even of less than idyllic scenes. Would hang.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:12 AM (z99Zw)
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I don't see an idyll deficit here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:13 AM (HnUIn)

202 I like this painting. It really does look like the woods behind my old house. Same looking stream, the broken trees, yeah me like.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 21, 2024 10:13 AM (VwHCD)

203 How come we never hear anything about the Penultimate Mohican?

Actually, he's in the movie too. And depending on how you take it, it is either the son that dies fighting the bad guy, or the father that survives

Posted by: 18-1 putting on his pendant hat at March 21, 2024 10:14 AM (ibTVg)

204 You can stabilize how idyllic something is by adjusting and tuning the idyller pulley.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:15 AM (HnUIn)

205 Is that a dog or a goat in the center of the pic, just in front of the fallen tree trunk? I see a head, and what looks like a stubby tail sticking up. And there's what looks like a turtle balancing on the dead tree just to the right of the duck.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

206 12:06 pm Eastern time... hearing that familiar bass riff...

Posted by: Good times, good times at March 21, 2024 10:16 AM (dg+HA)

207 You mean SUPERSTORM Sandy.

Always pissed me off. When those storms hit those hicks in the South, they're just "hurricanes." But one has the audacity to hit the Northeast elites, and it suddenly becomes a "superstorm."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

Yeah the shore towns look like they were erased by the hand of god, but those of us a little bit inland it was mostly just wind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 21, 2024 10:16 AM (VwHCD)

208 205 Is that a dog or a goat in the center of the pic, just in front of the fallen tree trunk? I see a head, and what looks like a stubby tail sticking up. And there's what looks like a turtle balancing on the dead tree just to the right of the duck.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu)
*****
Thought it was a cocker spaniel at first... which would have been awesome.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 10:17 AM (NpAcC)

209 I was reliably informed last night that every AoSHQ thread turns into a guns, movies, and/or boobs Thread.

So far, y'all are disappointing me.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 21, 2024 10:17 AM (a3Q+t)

210 second to last
next to last

WTF

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 10:17 AM (ENQN6)

211 I like nature paintings, even of less than idyllic scenes. Would hang.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:12 AM (z99Zw)
++++
I don't see an idyll deficit here.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

The dense undergrowth has covered up an old Buddhist shrine with a statue of Buddha in the middle that no one visits anymore.

And idle idol in an idyll.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:18 AM (9yWhg)

212 You mean SUPERSTORM Sandy.

Always pissed me off. When those storms hit those hicks in the South, they're just "hurricanes." But one has the audacity to hit the Northeast elites, and it suddenly becomes a "superstorm."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:13 AM (9yWhg)

It’s NYC based media talking about NYC weather. It’s like when it snows 6 inches anywhere in the Midwest it’s called winter. When it snows 6 inches in NYC it’s a 24/7 news story full of hyperventilating.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:18 AM (bWsRe)

213 I see wood nymphs.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 10:18 AM (Zd0xi)

214 Apple despite their leftism, takes privacy seriously. And they’ve told the govt to fuck of multiple times when they demanded Apple turn over user data.

They've also cooperated more than once. I suspect it has more to do with who the government is planning on fucking over - and which government is planning on doing the fucking - than any overriding concern for privacy, regardless of what their marketing people would claim.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:18 AM (z99Zw)

215 Naked wood nymphs.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 10:18 AM (Zd0xi)

216 I see the National Socialists in Germany have arrested a writer for writing a book on COVID that compared the efforts of the German government now to the German government back in the 30s.

So of course they arrested him. The charge? Disseminating NAZI propaganda. Which is literally the opposite of his point.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

217 180 Morn' all.. The stock market is happy with the phony numbers... Must elect Biden at all costs...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2024 10:07 AM (Akjoo)

And if Trump triumphs, ve vill teach you investing peasants a lesson, ja!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:19 AM (hOUT3)

218 Naked wood nymphs.
Posted by: Braenyard

Ah, here comes the boob thread.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:19 AM (9yWhg)

219 I was reliably informed last night that every AoSHQ thread turns into a guns, movies, and/or boobs Thread.

So far, y'all are disappointing me.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I watched a movie on Netflix last night where a guy shot some chick in the bewb.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 10:19 AM (eTC67)

220 Is that a dog or a goat in the center of the pic, just in front of the fallen tree trunk? I see a head, and what looks like a stubby tail sticking up. And there's what looks like a turtle balancing on the dead tree just to the right of the duck.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:15 AM (J2vNu)
++++
You're in a forest, walking along in the loam when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise, Woflus. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Wolfus. The tortoise lays on its back, belly exposed to the dank air of the pond, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Wolfus?

Posted by: Voight-Kampff Test at March 21, 2024 10:20 AM (HnUIn)

221 I am sorry, I cannot except that minority voters have swung almost 20% from Biden to Trump. I saw an NY Times article today that non white voters have gone from 75% for Biden in 2020, to 57% in 2024. Either there has been a giant social shift in 4 years and non white voters now embrace a racist despot. Or the polling is seriously flawed.

We win regardless of polls. It is hard for wealth owned media to tell the truth.It is a shame they don't come over to the winning side.

it's hard to see what would drive anyone to support Trump now who didn't already support him in 2020.

The issue is that many minority (non-college educated) voters don't vote based on "racism". The vote based on the same concerns that white non-college educated voters have: the price of eggs, the interest rate on their mortgage, the quality of their kid's schools, etc.

Eggs are down from the bird sickness prices. mortgage is not set by the President in any way. (it's the Fed), and the only people destroying schools is the GOP. But good for them for voting for someone who will ruin their lives.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 21, 2024 10:20 AM (JCZqz)

222 Greetings, conversationalists all across the fruited plain...

Posted by: I miss Rush at March 21, 2024 10:20 AM (dg+HA)

223 Apple previews your images but it doesn't log them or anything like that.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 10:21 AM (Zd0xi)

224 The Larch.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 21, 2024 10:21 AM (xfG0H)

225 And idle idol in an idyll.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:18 AM (9yWhg)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:21 AM (HnUIn)

226 So of course they arrested him. The charge? Disseminating NAZI propaganda. Which is literally the opposite of his point.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

Ze rulez are very flexible for ze National Socialists!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:21 AM (hOUT3)

227 I was reliably informed last night that every AoSHQ thread turns into a guns, movies, and/or boobs Thread.

So far, y'all are disappointing me.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 21, 2024

***
After doing some target shooting and plinking in these woods, John McClane stopped off at a Major Video to rent a flick to watch that night with Holly to watch that night . . . and later on, boobs were indeed on display.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:21 AM (J2vNu)

228 It’s NYC based media talking about NYC weather. It’s like when it snows 6 inches anywhere in the Midwest it’s called winter. When it snows 6 inches in NYC it’s a 24/7 news story full of hyperventilating.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:18 AM (bWsRe)

Exactly. Bunch of dickless wonders they are. Even in jersey 6 inches is just snow.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 21, 2024 10:21 AM (VwHCD)

229 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Pretty picture today. I could walk down that path.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 21, 2024 10:21 AM (W/lyH)

230 I am sorry, I cannot except that minority voters have swung almost 20% from Biden to Trump. I saw an NY Times article today that non white voters have gone from 75% for Biden in 2020, to 57% in 2024. Either there has been a giant social shift in 4 years and non white voters now embrace a racist despot. Or the polling is seriously flawed.

IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 10:22 AM (eTC67)

231 You're in a forest, walking along in the loam when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise, Woflus. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Wolfus. The tortoise lays on its back, belly exposed to the dank air of the pond, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Wolfus?
Posted by: Voight-Kampff Test at March 21, 2024

***
I hate tortoises.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

232 ... The issue is that many minority (non-college educated) voters don't vote based on "racism". The vote based on the same concerns that white non-college educated voters have: the price of eggs, the interest rate on their mortgage, the quality of their kid's schools, etc. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 21, 2024 10:20 AM (JCZqz)
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Amazing. I doubt this person gets it, but all he or she did here was assert - likely accurately - that "racism is a problem observed only by the college-indoctrinated."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:22 AM (HnUIn)

233 I hate tortoises.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)
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Frickin' replicants, man. They're everywhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:23 AM (HnUIn)

234 Pixy needs to fix the site.
Comments page is doing weird things.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 10:23 AM (NpAcC)

235 *...an old Buddhist shrine with a statue of Buddha in the middle that no one visits anymore.*

It's too crowded.

Posted by: Yogi Berra at March 21, 2024 10:23 AM (dg+HA)

236 >>> I watched a movie on Netflix last night where a guy shot some chick in the bewb.
Posted by: rickb223 at March
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Did silicone fly everywhere?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 10:23 AM (Zd0xi)

237 "Dang. Pretty picture today. I could walk down that path."

It's very nice.

Posted by: gp Is Unable To Handle Your Request at March 21, 2024 10:24 AM (MvF+J)

238 A close-up of the M5 Rhino artifice, that bustled hedgerows:
https://tinyurl.com/3ju94m9v

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 10:24 AM (zdLoL)

239 It's too crowded.
Posted by: Yogi Berra at March 21, 2024 10:23 AM (dg+HA)
++++
https://youtu.be/KIrlZSYB6tE

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:24 AM (HnUIn)

240 How dare those dumb brown and black not vote for racism?

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:25 AM (bWsRe)

241 Name of the painting should be "Find the ghillie suit"

Posted by: Roy at March 21, 2024 10:25 AM (z+ik4)

242 Amazing. I doubt this person gets it, but all he or she did here was assert - likely accurately - that "racism is a problem observed only by the college-indoctrinated."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:22 AM (HnUIn)

Which is why we need free college for everyone, in case the public schools didn't do their job properly!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:25 AM (hOUT3)

243 A close-up of the M5 Rhino artifice, that bustled hedgerows:
https://tinyurl.com/3ju94m9v
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 10:24 AM (zdLoL)
++++
Now *that* is how it's done. Too bad the pussies running this show won't allow us to use equipment like that!

Posted by: Train engineer with serious cowcatcher envy at March 21, 2024 10:26 AM (HnUIn)

244 From my daily morning report:

The country’s health agency warned doctors Monday about an increase in measles cases that in a little more than three months
has equaled all of the U.S. cases last year. There had been 58 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year as of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, compared to 58 in all of 2023. In the cases this year, 93% were linked to international travel, the agency said. Most of the cases involved children a year old or older who haven’t yet gotten measles-mumps-rubella, or MMR, vaccinations. It can also be fatal. In 2021, an estimated 128,000 people, most of whom were children, died from the disease, the World Health Organization says.

Joe Biden's dreamers. Thanks POS.

Posted by: Cheri at March 21, 2024 10:27 AM (oiNtH)

245 Nice art. Does make me think of the Fire Swamp. Hope no Rats of Unusual Size lurking about.

Posted by: Princess Bride at March 21, 2024 10:28 AM (2bFN5)

246 240 How dare those dumb brown and black not vote for racism?
Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:25 AM (bWsRe)

The Democrat solution is
"We'll vote for them because we know what they really want!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:28 AM (hOUT3)

247 236 >>> I watched a movie on Netflix last night where a guy shot some chick in the bewb.
Posted by: rickb223 at March
---------
Did silicone fly everywhere?
Posted by: Braenyard

I'm reminded of this event from a few years ago.
Mia Khalifa needs surgery after puck smashed into her breast. Porn star-turned-sports presenter Mia Khalifa is undergoing surgery after her left boob was left “deflated” after being struck by a hockey puck.

The 25-year-old was watching a Capitals playoff game when the 6-ounce puck smashed into her chest. The American-Lebanese babe told the Daily Star: “I was sitting behind the glass during a game, and it came shooting over the glass and it caught me so off guard and I had no idea it was coming.

The American-Lebanese babe told the Daily Star: “I grabbed my chest and I didn’t want to let go, because I felt like if I did let go, blood was going to be everywhere."

“I got to take it home, it was the single greatest souvenir any hockey fan can get: a game-used puck that comes at you and hits you."

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2024 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

248 Christie Haynes made Rush pay a bunch of money to PETA in exchange for using her song.
Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (bWsRe)

Pretty sure if her song was licensed, and it was, and he paid the fee for it's use, and he did, that she couldn't say shit about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:29 AM (z99Zw)

249 Looks like if an apostrophe is in the comments it blows up. At least for me.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (bWsRe)

250 Morning.

This movie came out just a few years ago, didn't it? Never saw it.

Would hang.

Posted by: Robert, hacking his goddamn head off at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (f7EsW)

251 246 240 How dare those dumb brown and black not vote for racism?
Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:25 AM (bWsRe)

The Democrat solution is
"We'll vote for them because we know what they really want!"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Close. "We know what's in their best interest", or "we need to stop them from voting against their best interests".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

252 “I got to take it home, it was the single greatest souvenir any hockey fan can get: a game-used puck that comes at you and hits you."
Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2024

***
If only I'd been there --!

Posted by: Zombie Don Rickles at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

253 > I suspect it has more to do with who the government is planning on fucking over - and which government is planning on doing the fucking - than any overriding concern for privacy, regardless of what their marketing people would claim.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
____________

Bingo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (Q4IgG)

254 The American-Lebanese babe told the Daily Star
___________

Why do they have to identify her ethnicity? Is it relevant to getting hit in the tit with a puck?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 21, 2024 10:31 AM (lf83v)

255 "That moss sure took a lichen to that tree."

I did a weeklong field biology workshop in Maine. We'd get to a remote location, a bunch of guys would pile out of the van and go running to identify all the lichens they saw. We had topflight sphagnum experts too. Contrary to popular opinion, bogs smell like heaven.

Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 10:32 AM (MvF+J)

256 mortgage is not set by the President in any way. (it's the Fed)

—-

It was a total coincidence that mortgages were 3% between 2017 and 2020 and then jumped to 7% in 2021. The president had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Poor Biden always so much bad luck.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:32 AM (bWsRe)

257 I was reliably informed last night that every AoSHQ thread turns into a guns, movies, and/or boobs Thread.

So far, y'all are disappointing me.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 21, 2024 10:17 AM (a3Q+t)

In the original "A Christmas Story", Ralphie was trans and when asking for a BB gun would be told "No, you'll shoot your boob off." True story. -- Joe Biden

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:33 AM (z99Zw)

258 The American-Lebanese babe told the Daily Star
___________

Why do they have to identify her ethnicity? Is it relevant to getting hit in the tit with a puck?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 21, 2024

***
Hey, my ethnicity got mentioned all the time. But we had *fun* with it!

Posted by: Zombie Danny Thomas at March 21, 2024 10:33 AM (J2vNu)

259 Christie Haynes made Rush pay a bunch of money to PETA in exchange for using her song.
Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:08 AM (bWsRe)

Pretty sure if her song was licensed, and it was, and he paid the fee for it's use, and he did, that she couldn't say shit about it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:29 AM (z99Zw)

I don't think Hyndes *made* Rush pay PETA but I think she donated the proceeds to them anyway.

She never asked him to stop using the song either because I think her dad might have been a fan? I dunno. Anyway, everyone was cool with each other, that's all I know.

Posted by: Robert, hacking his goddamn head off at March 21, 2024 10:33 AM (f7EsW)

260 Greetings, conversationalists all across the fruited plain...
Posted by: I miss Rush at March 21, 2024 10:20 AM (dg+HA)

Fistbump with my formerly nicotine-stained fingers

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 10:33 AM (JunzL)

261 So it was a Lebanese-American boob...

Posted by: Duly noted at March 21, 2024 10:34 AM (dg+HA)

262 The American-Lebanese babe told the Daily Star: “I grabbed my chest and I didn’t want to let go, because I felt like if I did let go, blood was going to be everywhere."

“I got to take it home, it was the single greatest souvenir any hockey fan can get: a game-used puck that comes at you and hits you."
Posted by: Moron Analyst

After all the balls to the chin she's had a puck in the chest would be quite the novel experience.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:34 AM (4UhNi)

263 The American-Lebanese babe told the Daily Star
___________
Why do they have to identify her ethnicity? Is it relevant to getting hit in the tit with a puck?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Well...to racist Lefties, racial identity is everything. And, it's part of why she's well known. Plenty of women do porn. Not many Lebenese women do, and it makes her a super-victim, because of all the death threats she gets (inexplicably) from her otherwise tolerant and peaceful Muslim kin.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2024 10:34 AM (JCZqz)

264 I did a weeklong field biology workshop in Maine. We'd get to a remote location, a bunch of guys would pile out of the van and go running to identify all the lichens they saw. We had topflight sphagnum experts too. Contrary to popular opinion, bogs smell like heaven.
Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024

***
Clearly Maine had a high caliber of lichen. Maybe .357 sphagnum.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 21, 2024 10:34 AM (J2vNu)

265 Comments from Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner about about the "valuable" real estate potential of “Gaza’s waterfront” has surfaced after a talk he gave at Harvard University in February. Kushner, Trump’s former Middle East adviser, also suggested Israel should remove Gazans to the Negev desert or Egypt while it “clears up” the area. He also said: “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2024 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

266 Uhm yeah Gaza could be valuable as a beach area. Duh.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:35 AM (bWsRe)

267 238 A close-up of the M5 Rhino artifice, that bustled hedgerows:
---------
Or you could have listened to Hobart in the first place?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies

Interesting history BTW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_tank

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 10:36 AM (2yu8s)

268 Let's put windmills off the beach in Gaza.

Posted by: Environmentalist Whack-Os at March 21, 2024 10:37 AM (dg+HA)

269 264 Wish I could have got paid to do that. Beats cubicle hell all to hell.

Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 10:37 AM (MvF+J)

270 Comments from Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner about about the "valuable" real estate potential of “Gaza’s waterfront” has surfaced after a talk he gave at Harvard University in February. Kushner, Trump’s former Middle East adviser, also suggested Israel should remove Gazans to the Negev desert or Egypt while it “clears up” the area. He also said: “Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods.”
Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2024 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

Key phrase. Murdering Jews doesn't count as a livelihood.

Posted by: Robert, hacking his goddamn head off at March 21, 2024 10:38 AM (f7EsW)

271 It was a total coincidence that mortgages were 3% between 2017 and 2020 and then jumped to 7% in 2021. The president had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Poor Biden always so much bad luck.
Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 10:32 AM (bWsRe)
++++
Mortgage rates are set neither by the Fed nor the president, but by the primary dealers and US Treasury auction participants and, if you want to go further upstream, by the US Congress.

Mortgages are priced, like everything else, in the face of alternatives. The baseline alternative for a mortgage is a 10-year US Treasury note. The Treasury is the "risk-free" return baseline and like all Treasuries, it is considered a "cash equivalent."

If you're going to lend money to anyone else, it will have to beat the Treasury return. The 10-year is the closest match for how long mortgages tend to last in the real world (people move, refinance, etc. - a 30-year mortgage rarely lasts more than 10 years).

And the 10-year has been shooting up along with most of the rest of the Treasury yields since the government can't stop spending money we don't have like drunken sailors. It's also what's driving inflation, which contributes to a feedback cycle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:39 AM (HnUIn)

272 Close. "We know what's in their best interest", or "we need to stop them from voting against their best interests".
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

Also acceptable "For the common good, we need to correct their votes!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:39 AM (hOUT3)

273 Let's put windmills off the beach in Gaza.

Israel should announce that they're going to install a huge solar farm in Gaza. Leftoids would be so conflicted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:39 AM (z99Zw)

274 Chrissy also made Rush stop doing Animal-Rights Updates as part of her settlement with him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:40 AM (9yWhg)

275 I'm not sure that's true.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 21, 2024 10:40 AM (a3Q+t)

276 Why do they have to identify her ethnicity?

TBF, she has stressed ethnicity as a prime factor in her...persona.
Also it's less provocative than "Muslima pornstar."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 10:41 AM (zdLoL)

277 275 I'm not sure that's true.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 21, 2024 10:40 AM (a3Q+t)

A most cromulent statement!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 10:41 AM (hOUT3)

278 Close. "We know what's in their best interest", or "we need to stop them from voting against their best interests".
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (JCZqz)
++++
Like state media drones.

"'Programming in the public interest' is not necessarily the same as 'programming in which the public is interested,' so we need subsidies to cram it down their throats."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:41 AM (HnUIn)

279 So we should be looking out for the Jersey Devil

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 10:41 AM (+4ZNE)

280 Chrissy also made Rush stop doing Animal-Rights Updates as part of her settlement with him.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

275 I'm not sure that's true.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Additionally, How could she separate out the proceeds from that song from all the other uses it had? All she sees is a monthly check from ASCAP or BMI.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:43 AM (4UhNi)

281 Why do they have to identify her ethnicity?

TBF, she has stressed ethnicity as a prime factor in her...persona.
Also it's less provocative than "Muslima pornstar."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 10:41 AM (zdLoL)
++++
Two reasons.

Political answer: because being a minority - especially descended from a largely Muslim country - is worth a lot in our insane Maoist environment.

Practical answer: it's comparatively exotic and porn is a crowded field, so leaning into the exoticism can differentiate and provide a higher return.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:43 AM (HnUIn)

282 Here's a glorious two minutes and twenty six seconds worth:

https://youtu.be/GfDqcKOh1hg

Posted by: I miss Rush at March 21, 2024 10:44 AM (dg+HA)

283 Clearly Maine had a high caliber of lichen. Maybe .357 sphagnum.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 21, 2024 10:34 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 10:44 AM (Wnv9h)

284 Wow - my refreshes are fubared this morning.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2024 10:45 AM (4UhNi)

285 Chrissy also made Rush stop doing Animal-Rights Updates as part of her settlement with him.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

275 I'm not sure that's true.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Rush himself said so. That is how I found out about it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:45 AM (9yWhg)

286 Also it's less provocative than "Muslima pornstar."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 10:41 AM (zdLoL)

Mia Khalifa is not, and has never been, muslim. While she will "act" in traditional muslim dress at times, her family is Catholic and she is a Dickatariun.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:45 AM (z99Zw)

287 Greetings, conversationalists all across the fruited plain...
Posted by: I miss Rush

But enough about college campuses.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 10:46 AM (eTC67)

288 This article, albeit from a leftist origin, has some of the Chrissy/Rush relationship regarding the song including a note Hines wrote to President Trump about it.
https://tinyurl.com/2fukvcsf

Also, if you search the Rush archives he has a long segment on his use of the song.

Posted by: old chick at March 21, 2024 10:46 AM (sOete)

289 Mia Khalifa is not, and has never been, muslim. While she will "act" in traditional muslim dress at times, her family is Catholic and she is a Dickatariun.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Dickens Cider fan?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 10:46 AM (eTC67)

290 Hey Siri, look up "Dickatarian."

Posted by: Robert, hacking his goddamn head off at March 21, 2024 10:46 AM (f7EsW)

291 True Muldoon Fact: Morganna the kissing bandit had a short stint as a goalie in the American Hockey League.

Scouting report:

"Not very mobile, but good net coverage."

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 10:47 AM (991eG)

292 Ooooooh. My YouTube sidebar informs me that Vice Media put out a 45-minute piece called "Putin's Russia: A Country at War with Itself"

I'll queue it right up. I am sure it will be just splendid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:47 AM (HnUIn)

293 I always wait until well into spring before de-winterizing my car (removing shovels, blankets, sandbags, etc.) Sure enuf, here comes snow tonite. Can't blame it on me this time.

Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 10:47 AM (MvF+J)

294 290 Hey Siri, look up "Dickatarian."
Posted by: Robert, hacking his goddamn head off at March 21, 2024 10:46 AM (f7EsW)

Gemini, draw a picture of a "Dickatarian."

Posted by: Don't do this at March 21, 2024 10:48 AM (PiwSw)

295 Well, it's official. The definition of "bloodbath" has changed.

https://tinyurl.com/cb746kb3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2024 10:48 AM (FVME7)

296 292 Ooooooh. My YouTube sidebar informs me that Vice Media put out a 45-minute piece called "Putin's Russia: A Country at War with Itself"

I'll queue it right up. I am sure it will be just splendid.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:47 AM (HnUIn)

What no sort of sexual angle? I guess it could still be in there.

I also thought Vice went tits up?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 10:49 AM (di6C2)

297 Jefferson, of all people, wrote that right-and-wrong was a sixth sense, and felt that blacks, even though they might be best employed hewing wood and carrying water, had a better natural affinity for morality than the white race. So if instead of "what's the matter with Kansas" arguments, you put it to the DU contingent that black Americans were starting to vote their souls and morals over race, they would soil themselves extra hard.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 10:49 AM (zdLoL)

298 1 True Muldoon Fact: Morganna the kissing bandit had a short stint as a goalie in the American Hockey League.

Scouting report:

"Not very mobile, but good net coverage."
Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024

***
I caught her show at a club in '84 or so. She seemed like she was having a *lot* of fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 21, 2024 10:49 AM (J2vNu)

299 295 Well, it's official. The definition of "bloodbath" has changed.

https://tinyurl.com/cb746kb3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2024 10:48 AM (FVME7)

Fuck. This is the world they want. Would make Orwell blush.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 10:50 AM (di6C2)

300 Per Urban Dictionary:

Dickatarian: A hot vegetarian who rejects the consumption of all meats, except the penis. She likes that very much. It is her guilty pleasure.

Dead Eye Dick wrote a song about her.
https://youtu.be/TL5ofVC0EDQ

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:50 AM (HnUIn)

301 Bloodbaths are rather extravagant, but there ought to at least be a blood bidet in every home.

Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 10:50 AM (MvF+J)

302 My YouTube sidebar informs me that Vice Media put out a 45-minute piece called "Putin's Russia: A Country at War with Itself"

It would be hilarious if their take was that THE Ukraine was basically Russia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:51 AM (z99Zw)

303 Bloodbaths are rather extravagant,
Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 10:50 AM (MvF+J)

And they do wonders for your skin.

Posted by: Elizabeth Bathory at March 21, 2024 10:52 AM (f7EsW)

304 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:50 AM (HnUIn)

Wow. I thought I had just made that up. Guess there's nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:53 AM (z99Zw)

305 How about a blood sauna?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

306 https://tinyurl.com/a37ea7tw

From the Rush archives, the transcript of his discussion regarding Chrissy Hines/My City Was Gone.

Posted by: old chick at March 21, 2024 10:54 AM (sOete)

307 Why is almond milk called almond milk?

Liquid from pressed apples = apple juice
Liquid from pressed oranges = orange juice
Liquid pressed from almonds = almond milk

Because no one can say nut juice with a straight face.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 10:54 AM (eTC67)

308 Interesting poll results.

Robert Satloff
@robsatloff
These #Palestinian poll results (from March 2024) tell a depressing story:
- 71% say 10/7 attacks were "correct"
- 91% say #Hamas committed no war crimes in this conflict
- 59% say Hamas should control #Gaza after the war is over
- Hamas has double the popular support of #Fatah, the main party of the #PalestinianAuthority (34% to 17%)
- "Armed struggle," not negotiations or non-violent resistance, is the most popular strategy to end #Israeli occupation (46%)

-
Schumer's buddies don't seem all that interested in peace.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2024 10:55 AM (FVME7)

309 How about a blood sauna?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 10:53 AM (9yWhg)

Eww. You're grossin' me out, man!

Posted by: Lady Who Could Never Be a Nurse, but RESPECT for Those Who Can at March 21, 2024 10:55 AM (JCLJi)

310 Why is almond milk called almond milk?

Liquid from pressed apples = apple juice
Liquid from pressed oranges = orange juice
Liquid pressed from almonds = almond milk

Because no one can say nut juice with a straight face.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 10:54 AM (eTC67)

Ackshully, almonds aren't technically nuts. -- pedantic botanist

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:56 AM (z99Zw)

311 Speaking of boobs stopping hockey pucks I'm a little surprised that Semyon Varlamov is still in the NHL. He seemed a little loosely wrapped back in the day.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 10:56 AM (991eG)

312 Ackshully, almonds aren't technically nuts. -- pedantic botanist

*********

Sometimes they feel like one.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 10:57 AM (991eG)

313 Schumer's buddies don't seem all that interested in peace.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 21, 2024 10:55 AM (FVME7)
++++
Why should today be different from every day in the many preceding centuries?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 10:57 AM (HnUIn)

314 231 You're in a forest, walking along in the loam when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise, Woflus. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Wolfus. The tortoise lays on its back, belly exposed to the dank air of the pond, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Wolfus?
Posted by: Voight-Kampff Test at March 21, 2024

***
I hate tortoises.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2024 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

my answer - because it's Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 21, 2024 10:57 AM (i9ffA)

315 From the Rush archives, the transcript of his discussion regarding Chrissy Hines/My City Was Gone.

A very nice read. Seems like Chrissy Hines was a Classical Liberal. The best kind.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 10:58 AM (O17x6)

316 These #Palestinian poll results (from March 2024) tell a depressing story

Polls are for strippers. Strippers are haram. Anyone who answered the poll should be stoned. -- Imam Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 10:58 AM (z99Zw)

317 German commander surrounding the 101st: "It is best jf you surrender."

American General: "Juice!"

Naaaa...just doesn't work.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 21, 2024 10:58 AM (W/lyH)

318 'Bye kids. Have fun storming the castle!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 10:58 AM (991eG)

319 Polls are for strippers. Strippers are haram. Anyone who answered the poll should be stoned. -- Imam Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed

They probably were stoned.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 10:59 AM (eTC67)

320 310 Well I'll be ... Almonds are in genus Prunus, along with plums and cherries etc. I had no clue! It's going to take me a while to adjust.

Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 10:59 AM (MvF+J)

321 nood

Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 11:00 AM (MvF+J)

322 307 Why is almond milk called almond milk?

Liquid from pressed apples = apple juice
Liquid from pressed oranges = orange juice
Liquid pressed from almonds = almond milk

Because no one can say nut juice with a straight face.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024

That and it looks more milk like than juice like. Plus it is used in the same applications as milk.

Was this rhetorical?

Posted by: Piper at March 21, 2024 11:00 AM (ZdaMQ)

323 Well I'll be ... Almonds are in genus Prunus, along with plums and cherries etc. I had no clue! It's going to take me a while to adjust.
Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 10:59 AM (MvF+J)
++++
Don't bother. Taxonomy is white supremacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 11:00 AM (HnUIn)

324 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

325 >>>> IDead Eye Dick wrote a song about her.
https://youtu.be/TL5ofVC0EDQ
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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2 minutes non negotiable commercial b4 what I assumed would be interesting.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 11:02 AM (Zd0xi)

326 "Plus it is used in the same applications as milk."

Can I make hot cocoa with it?

Posted by: gp Is Currently Unable To Handle This Request at March 21, 2024 11:02 AM (MvF+J)

327 These #Palestinian poll results (from March 2024) tell a depressing story:

Seems like a great wedge issue for an opposition party that depends on exactly zero of the Palestinian vote. Alas, no, it won't happen. Not who they are, or something.

Going all the way back to "W" - the refusal of the GOP to always scapegoat the majority of practicing Islamics in America as the danger they really are has been an incredible mistake. Another example of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 11:05 AM (O17x6)

328 something wrong with the new thread. I can post on this one but not that one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 21, 2024 11:09 AM (i9ffA)

329 Another example of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 11:05 AM (O17x6)

That's who "we" are!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at March 21, 2024 11:45 AM (hOUT3)

330 Fabulous. Would definitely hang.

Much appreciated.

Posted by: L - Ever defining their rope-a-dope tactics & evil at March 21, 2024 12:04 PM (GshMh)

331 Lookout for the Big Bad Wolf

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 21, 2024 04:56 PM (wGqjj)

332 First I would dig a deep grave...

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 21, 2024 07:22 PM (qboHG)

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