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There's been such a shift in minority voting preference (towards Trump) that Democrats are now arguing against "blindly" trying to turn out all voters, warning that Democrats may wind up gifting Trump with more votes than Biden.

Things have changed so dramatically that it's likely to affect how Democrats campaign. We're already seeing it happen. Last week, we learned that an influential data scientist had warned major Democratic donors in a confidential memo not to register young and black voters ahead of the 2024 election because they're likely going to vote for Donald Trump.
"Indeed, if we were to blindly register nonvoters and get them on the rolls, we would be distinctly aiding Trump's quest for a personal dictatorship," Aaron Strauss warned in the memo, citing recent polling showing Trump's strength with unregistered voters.

LOL, it's a "dictatorship" when more people vote for Republicans.

Democracy is always in crisis every single election Democrats lose, or even just might lose.

Sounds like the Democrat Party is the organization interested in dictatorship.

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"The left's challenge with non-white voters is much deeper than it first appears," Adam Carlson, a data analyst with the Brunswick Group, explained. "A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. This is a big challenge for Dems."

How terrible!

Biden might not only miss the ballot in Ohio, because Ohio's deadline for naming a nominee comes before Biden will actually be named the nominee at the DNC on August 15th, but he may miss the Alabama ballot for the same reason.

First, we learned that President Joe Biden's spot on the Ohio ballot was in danger and analyzed how that might play out. We still don't even have a definitive answer to that question, but an almost identical situation has now cropped up in Alabama. The Alabama Secretary of State, a Republican, has informed the Alabama Democratic Party Chairman, letting him know that the deadline for certification of candidate names on the ballot for November falls four days before the DNC is set to begin in Chicago. The rules in Alabama appear to allow for some provisional options to avoid this issue, but Wes Allen, the Secretary of State, appears to be taking a hard line on the question for now.

As Jazz Shaw says, this is down to the DNC's own incompetence. The laws and deadlines of these states have been a literal open book for years, but the Democrat Party decided to hold a convention later than usual so as to give Biden a boost nearer to the election. No one, and certainly not any Republican, should bend the rules for them.

David Hogg's political career with the Democrat Party is off to a perfect start.

Gun control activist David Hogg has been hit with allegations over the spending practices of his group Leaders We Deserve PAC. Conservative outlets are reporting that the group spent comparably little on actual candidates as opposed to travel and expenses. His prior counsel is a familiar name in such controversies in Washington: former Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias.

Hogg created a group in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections to elect Generation Z politicians to offices throughout the country. The group was given favorable national coverage in major media outlets. He explained that contributions would be used to elect young Democrat candidates...
Federal filings reportedly show that year-end 2023, Leaders We Deserve raised over $3 million. That is impressive for its first year in operation.
The conservative sites allege that the group spent "only about $263,000 on its stated mission of electing candidates from Generation Z to office combined with donations to other Democrat Party committees and groups--and instead spent more than $1.4 million on disbursements to themselves for payroll and to political consulting firms and legal fees, in addition to travel and entertainment expenses like hotels, flights, and meals."
However, it reportedly spent more than $1,314,000 on travel and related expenses while giving $80,000 to the Elias Law Group.
Previously, when allegations of self-dealing and accounting improprieties were raised with regard to Black Lives Matter, the group's attorney, Elias, immediately stood out for many. Elias resigned from his "key role" with BLM as the scandal exploded.
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The group is only the latest political or business effort launched by Hogg, who previously tried to start a "progressive pillow company" before stepping away from the enterprise.

Biden's former chief of staff Ron Klain was caught on tape blasting Biden's frequent babbling about bridges.

Wait 'til he hears abojut Biden's obsession with choo-choo trains! And the ever-mutating circumstances of Beau Biden's death!

"I think the president is out there too much talking about bridges," Klain said. "He does two or three events a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge. And here's a bridge. Like I tell you, if you go into the grocery store, you go to the grocery store and, you know, eggs and milk are expensive, the fact that there's a f***ing bridge is not [inaudible]."
"He's not a congressman. He's not running for Congress," Klain said. "I think it's kind of a fool's errand. I think that [it] also doesn't get covered that much because, look, it's a f***ing bridge. Like it's a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It's a little interesting, but it's not a lot interesting."

He also says Biden should focus more on his "economic message" and "proposals" instead of his "achievements."

Why?

Well, obviously: Because Biden's economy is a disaster. He has no achievements. Every time he claims that inflation isn't real or has been "tamed," people think he sounds even more senile and out-of-touch with the actual world.

So instead, Klain advises him to say things about the future which haven't been proven to be lies yet.

Good advice, really, if cynical.

Because our country has maleducated three generations of kids in a row,
the makers of Scrabble are changing the rules so that morons can play it and feel "included."

This is a game-changer.
For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble -- and touting a "No More Scoring" gameplay option.
The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game -- one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a "less competitive" version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.
The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.
Mattel is to launch a new version of Scrabble which is designed to be more collaborative and accessible for those who find word games intimidating.
"The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble," Gyles Brandreth, who co-hosts the language podcast Something Rhymes With Purple, told BBC Radio 4 Today. "They want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words."

Creating words?

So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?

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Scrabble Together is marketed for those who find the classic game to be intimidating or for people who have ever thought "word games aren't for me."
However, some naysayers objected to the changes, calling it "Scrabble for Snowflakes" and "Woke Scrabble" on X.
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So what's new exactly? In addition to a dual-sided board, there are helper cards, which provide assistance, prompts and clues and can be selected to match the player's challenge level of their choice.
In the new version, scoring is a thing of the past -- now all one has to do is finish a goal and collect the goal card.
Goal cards include challenges such as: "Play a horizontal word," "play a three-letter word" or "play a word that touches the edge of the board."
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Scrabble Together is marketed for those who find the classic game to be intimidating or for people who have ever thought "word games aren't for me."

Despite having a strong vocabulary, I'm absolute crap at Scrabble. So I don't play it.

Not all games need to be "inclusive" for everybody.

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The helper cards -- which provide help, prompts and clues -- can be selected to match the player's challenge level of their choice.

Amazingly, this game isn't being made for America, because Hasbro, not Mattel, owns the Scrabble license in America.

I bet Hasbro will in fact license Mattel's new "Scrabble for Morons" rules.

Via David Strom.

Fact Check: True.

Video of Shelia Jackson Lee declaiming about the solar system, with commentary by Megyn Kelly and Victor Davis "Cruelty is my nectar" Hanson.

The sun is made up "mostly of gases," she meant to say? She thinks the sun has a rocky core?

(Actually the sun is made up of plasma but let's approach this literal retard from a third-grade level.)

She also distinguishes, in her speech, between the sun and moon. If she was talking about the sun when she mentioned the moon, then she's distinguishing... the sun from the sun?

Oh she also says the moon is a "planet."

From David Strom, a lefty makes a failed anti-Trump ad that is so pro-Trump it reads as deliberate parody.

Truth is, personally I dislike Trump. However, listening to this makes me like him.

Except for more qualified immunity, I love it all. https://t.co/T8CU3u8e4J
— Conservs of TikTok (@TheGoodJack2) April 8, 2024

Biden: I hope my legacy will be... "reduce the prospect of war, because of Vietnam."

It sounds like he's actually claiming to have ended Vietnam.

BIDEN: "I hope the legacy is that I kept my word that I said the reason I was running was to ... reduce the prospect of war because of Vietnam" 😬 pic.twitter.com/sJgIiodtN2
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 10, 2024

It was a terrible war. It took Beau Biden from us!

David Strom comments:

It is pretty normal for dementia patients to relive their past--visiting their golden age from their golden years--and the Vietnam war dominated the news during Biden's rise to power. Drifting back from the reality of 2024 to the 1970s should, I suppose, not be unexpected.

The media is trying to push a new "George Floyd" movement after a police sh00ting in Chicago.

The reality shows the individual fired nonstop at the police.

Do not fall for their propaganda! pic.twitter.com/QKFeBbfwTo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:17 PM

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1 Making cheat codes for a board game part of normal play.

What a world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 06:18 PM (di6C2)

2 Hellooooo

Posted by: Ciampino - I like Marie biscuits . at April 10, 2024 06:19 PM (qfLjt)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 10, 2024 06:20 PM (T4tVD)

4 joe biden is a dementia riddled old man with rotten oat meal for a brain. It is abuse to make him keep running.

There is no way his team is going to agree for him to debate Trump....that ain't happening.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM (QNSds)

5 RE: FJB campaign missing deadlines...

Most likely, they already know they are going to lose those states--possibly by huge margins far outside the margin of cheat--so why even bother to be on the ballot?

Though I would not dismiss their incompetence in the matter....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM (BpYfr)

6
A dictatorship is when the Democrats don't run everything the way they want forever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM (MoZTd)

7 Reality: Some insane shit has been brewing at State about a showdown between a Vietnam-led coalition of ASEAN countries and China, and shitpants just blurted out something he overheard during pudding-cup-and-price-is-right time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:22 PM (GkFGh)

8 >>> So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?

Sometimes, yes.

Posted by: Shakespeare at April 10, 2024 06:22 PM (Y6IkP)

9
Though I would not dismiss their incompetence in the matter....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM (BpYfr)

They're not incompetent. Surprised by events occasionally, perhaps.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:23 PM (MoZTd)

10 "Scrabble is hard."
- Barbie-Americans

Posted by: PG at April 10, 2024 06:23 PM (gQbO4)

11 Those NeverTrump bastards must be working on a death-ray to take out PDT!!!

Disclose.tv @disclosetv
NOW - ULA launches classified payload for the NRO into space aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

https://tinyurl.com/mryankeb
30 seconds; loud

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:23 PM (vtyCZ)

12 Because our country has maleducated three generations of kids in a row,
the makers of Scrabble are changing the rules so that morons can play it and feel "included."

Spelling, like your gender, should be fluid. ~Purple-haired Grade School "Teacher" somewhere (definitely)

Posted by: Flyguy at April 10, 2024 06:23 PM (OYxA4)

13 Though I would not dismiss their incompetence in the matter....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM (BpYfr)

Whine-space prep?

"How could Biden possibly have won? You filthy Trumptards kicked him off the ballot!"

I'm seriously starting to think their Play is to "let" Trump win and then make life unlivable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:24 PM (GkFGh)

14 "I've seen lots of downturns, lots of job losses but I've never seen anything like this," one veteran top TV executive said. "This is a full-scale depression for the entertainment industry."

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Learn to code, a**hole.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2024 06:24 PM (RIvkX)

15 We play scrabble, the hard part is agreeing on which version of the dictionary is used for challenges. This should be agreed to in advance. In our house we have a hard bound Webster's 1996 version. Not much woke stuff in that.
But it does have qat (the intoxicating plant chewed by Somalis).

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 06:24 PM (MeG8a)

16 The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game -- one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a "less competitive" version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.
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Wait until you see Risk.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 10, 2024 06:24 PM (Gakra)

17 Though I would not dismiss their incompetence in the matter....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM (BpYfr)

They're not incompetent. Surprised by events occasionally, perhaps.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:23 PM (MoZTd)

You shouldn't be surprised by something that happens every 4 years since forever.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:24 PM (eoQWY)

18 Usually, if you don't shoot at the police, they won't shoot at you. Sometimes they do, though. See: Robert Dotson, a middle aged white guy killed by police when they went to the wrong house. No riots expected.

Posted by: huerfano at April 10, 2024 06:24 PM (VGOMa)

19
I'd like to see the Woke version of Monopoly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (MoZTd)

20 Scrabble Together is for those players that struggle to read Dr. Seuss....

Though a Dr. Seuss-themed Scrabble version with letters "On Beyond Zebra" might be kind of cool, now that I think about it.

That would be the super-duper Nintendo-Hard version.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (BpYfr)

21 "I've seen lots of downturns, lots of job losses but I've never seen anything like this," one veteran top TV executive said. "This is a full-scale depression for the entertainment industry."

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But only the entertainment industry. It's totes not happening any or everywhere else. Just that one industry. It's an anomaly.

Best economy ever jack.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (Gakra)

22 RE: FJB campaign missing deadlines...

Most likely, they already know they are going to lose those states--possibly by huge margins far outside the margin of cheat--so why even bother to be on the ballot?

Though I would not dismiss their incompetence in the matter....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM

That was my take earlier in the week. They knew the deadlines for filing long before they scheduled their convention. They don't care because they know he has no chance in Ohio. And they are most certainly not going to waste money there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (QNSds)

23 The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game -- one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a "less competitive" version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.
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Wait until you see Risk.
Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 10, 2024 06:24 PM (Gakra)

No fistfuls of dice, you just talk out you problems with the other side every turn.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:26 PM (eoQWY)

24 I'd like to see the Woke version of Monopoly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (MoZTd)

All little tin barrels to burn your $100s in for warmth

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:26 PM (GkFGh)

25 My grandma was a hardcore Scrabble player. If you could read, you could sit at the board. If you were at the board, you played by the same rules as everyone else. I come from a family of good spellers.

Thanks, Grandma!

Posted by: huerfano at April 10, 2024 06:27 PM (VGOMa)

26 Don't know if this has been covered or not, but members of the Religion of Peace got shooty with each other in the City of Brotherly Love:

https://is.gd/9x1tAm

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 06:27 PM (PiwSw)

27 That was my take earlier in the week. They knew the deadlines for filing long before they scheduled their convention. They don't care because they know he has no chance in Ohio. And they are most certainly not going to waste money there.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (QNSds)
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Doesn't he also have enough delegates already secured? So the convention is just a formality, recognizing him as the candidate at this point...Unless something happens between now and then.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:28 PM (BpYfr)

28 I'd like to see the Woke version of Monopoly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (MoZTd)

Its set in a university. Each player is Trans, Feminist, or some other excluded group. You fight to march through the institutions. Rename the squares to faculty departments and such.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:28 PM (eoQWY)

29 "So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?"

What an uncromulent thing to say...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 06:28 PM (PiwSw)

30 My grandma was a hardcore Scrabble player. If you could read, you could sit at the board. If you were at the board, you played by the same rules as everyone else. I come from a family of good spellers.

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Board games, cards, etc. are cheap.

People don't spend time with their kids / family because they choose not to. And that's a shame.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 10, 2024 06:28 PM (Gakra)

31 No fistfuls of dice, you just talk out you problems with the other side every turn.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:26 PM (eoQWY)
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I thought that was Diplomacy...(Admittedly, I've never played it, but I've heard it's great fun.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (BpYfr)

32 My grandma was a hardcore Scrabble player. If you could read, you could sit at the board. If you were at the board, you played by the same rules as everyone else. I come from a family of good spellers.

Thanks, Grandma!
Posted by: huerfano at April 10, 2024 06:27 PM (VGOMa)

Yeah, we played when Grandma was over too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (eoQWY)

33 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 10h
BREAKING:
The First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf’s Palestinian brother-in-law Ramsay El-Nakla was taken to court today.

He is charged with abduction and extortion in connection with an investigation of a man falling out of a flat in Dundee.

The man died from his injuries.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 5h
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf reacts to the information that the police have received hundreds of complaints against him in the first days after his draconic hate speech law came into force

He says that all the critics of the law are racist

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (vtyCZ)

34 I'd like to see the Woke version of Monopoly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (MoZTd)

All little tin barrels to burn your $100s in for warmth
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:26 PM (GkFGh)

Chance: Your Gender Reassignment Surgery Check came in! Collect $500, lose all property to pay for therapy!

Posted by: Flyguy at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (OYxA4)

35
My sainted mother regularly beat my ass at Scrabble.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (MoZTd)

36 Gooood Morning Vietnam!!!!!!

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (PCK5/)

37 The band name Foghat came from a made up Scrabble word that Dave Peverett used when he was a child.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 10, 2024 06:30 PM (xPl2J)

38 I suck at scrabble as a game.

If I can't use up all my tiles on one great stonking mamma-jamma of a word with two q's, an x, and a 7, then i'm just like "meh, fukkit" and I plorp down "cat" on someone else's "at".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:30 PM (GkFGh)

39 Elias: "Like it's a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It's a little interesting, but it's not a lot interesting."

Oh, I dunno. Francis Scott Key Bridge seems kinda important in retrospect. Bridges, when they work, are assumed to be perfunctory and bland; when they don't, like most infrastructure, there's chaos and pain.

But you're the genius.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 06:30 PM (aXxgO)

40 Since everyone in my family are excellent readers (and spellers--three of us are English majors), we also tend to be pretty cutthroat when it comes to Scrabble.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:31 PM (BpYfr)

41 Speaking of bridges...seems not. Media has forgotten already and has no interest on who blew up what.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 10, 2024 06:31 PM (R/m4+)

42 The First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf….
Snort. Dumbasses.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:31 PM (PCK5/)

43 Scrabble? It's a perfectly cromulent game.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 06:32 PM (aXxgO)

44 If I can't use up all my tiles on one great stonking mamma-jamma of a word with two q's, an x, and a 7, then i'm just like "meh, fukkit" and I plorp down "cat" on someone else's "at".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:30 PM (GkFGh)
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I see your "cat" and play "quizzes" at the end of "cat" on a triple-word score.

Your turn.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:32 PM (BpYfr)

45 I hate spelling games because I've had this thing my whole life where I'll just randomly forget how to spell common words like "the", well not normally "the" but real simple words like that. And it seems to be anxiety based so the more I try to remember the farther away it gets from me until I don't care and POP! the word comes back. So in a game where you win by spelling my brain starts shutting down all the spelling parts. In a spelling bee you might as well just shoot me.

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 06:33 PM (Y6IkP)

46 Chance: Your Gender Reassignment Surgery Check came in! Collect $500, lose all property to pay for therapy!
Posted by: Flyguy at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (OYxA4)

Chess: Your Queen is a King now. Mate in three.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:33 PM (GkFGh)

47 >>Truth is, personally I dislike Trump. However, listening to this makes me like him.

ConservsOfTikTok is a f**king clown.

"I personally dislike Trump..."

Get over your self jackass.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2024 06:33 PM (XV/Pl)

48 No fistfuls of dice, you just talk out you problems with the other side every turn.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:26 PM (eoQWY)
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I thought that was Diplomacy...(Admittedly, I've never played it, but I've heard it's great fun.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (BpYfr)

Diplomacy does have combat resolution, just no randomness. Each side has their units available, then everyone else on the board can 'support' one side or the other. The discussions usually were to get non-involved players to change sides. Not sure if there is any "nearness" rule or if everyone at the table gets to decide.

Wonder if the game would be even more nasty with a secret ballot. Then you wouldn't even know who backstabbed you.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:33 PM (eoQWY)

49 "crucial DEI departments in colleges and universities"

I do not think she understands the meaning of "crucial", at least not as most of us understand it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:33 PM (ynpvh)

50 Playing board games can sharpen the mind, reinforce healthy societal norms ( no cheatin' allowed!), help families & friends create and form social bonds, and it is downright entertaining.

No wonder the left needs to destroy it.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J Trump is our duly elected president at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (l0Cy4)

51 That Beau guy sure has died in a lot of places.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (v0R5T)

52 Play a horizontal word.

How fucking stupid do you have to be for that to be an entertaining game? Children would get bored.

I assume there'll be a picture showing what horizontal means so that these daft pricks can understand.

The thing is that you can't really dumb down a word/spelling game for functional illiterates to sign up. If you build it they will come isn't gonna work in this case.

Posted by: Scrabble, Helmet Sold Separately at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (Ao3fE)

53 banana Dream: "...In a spelling bee you might as well just shoot me."

I guess you could take up math instead. But not here, of course.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (aXxgO)

54 Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" @Sultanknish Apr 7
the poll of British Muslims is worse than people realize when you break down the numbers

1. 1 in 5 Younger Muslims 18-24, believed making Islam "our national religion" was “very desirable”, and a total of 43% supported redefining the UK as an Islamic state.

Only 16% opposed it.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 Apr 9
The Muslim population in the UK has increased from 2.7M and 4.9% of the pop. in 2011 to 3.9M and 6.5% in of the pop. in 2021

Take a look at these numbers in the new survey about what role British Muslims think Islam should play in the governing of the UK.

Huge challenges ahead.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:35 PM (vtyCZ)

55 51 That Beau guy sure has died in a lot of places.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (v0R5T)

He's the Biden White House version of South Park's Kenny. The bastards!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:35 PM (ynpvh)

56 I'd like to see the Woke version of Monopoly.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:25 PM (MoZTd)

It's going to be released in time for Christmas this year. The game is named, "Communism!" I hear it will not be very exciting. To begin the game, all players roll a special set of dice to determine who will be Party Chairman. The Party Chairman then confiscates the pieces and money of all the other players, and the game ends.

Posted by: Gref at April 10, 2024 06:35 PM (5fDan)

57 Wait until you see Risk.
Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight

No fistfuls of dice, you just talk out you problems with the other side every turn.
Posted by: Oldcat

Whoever gives Ukraine the most money wins.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 10, 2024 06:35 PM (x+yFS)

58 "Let's say random unrelated words at each other" is already basically the squishy-left woke mid-wit's passtime.

Might as well make them pretend they can spell them and call it a game.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:35 PM (GkFGh)

59 "Indeed, if we were to blindly register nonvoters and get them on the rolls --" a person with conscience would pause for a moment to reflect on the way he started this sentence and the direction he ought to go with it. Might even rub his chin and go "hmm."

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 10, 2024 06:36 PM (wzAuc)

60 52 Play a horizontal word.

How fucking stupid do you have to be for that to be an entertaining game? Children would get bored.

I assume there'll be a picture showing what horizontal means so that these daft pricks can understand.

The thing is that you can't really dumb down a word/spelling game for functional illiterates to sign up. If you build it they will come isn't gonna work in this case.

Posted by: Scrabble, Helmet Sold Separately at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (Ao3fE)

"Horizontal? You just made that up. Extra points?"--Gen Zer

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:36 PM (ynpvh)

61 Actually the sun is made up of plasma
.......

I though it was made out of Sterno.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 06:36 PM (v0R5T)

62 No!!!! Scrabble is the only game I can consistently win.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 10, 2024 06:36 PM (x+yFS)

63 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 5h
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf reacts to the information that the police have received hundreds of complaints against him in the first days after his draconic hate speech law came into force

He says that all the critics of the law are racist
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (vtyCZ)

The first incident used for complaints was an anti-white screed from some years ago....but with this response, that's another violation!

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:36 PM (eoQWY)

64
Though I would not dismiss their incompetence in the matter....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:21 PM (BpYfr)

"A Biden dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." - Big Bill Shakespeare

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:36 PM (MoZTd)

65 51 That Beau guy sure has died in a lot of places.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (v0R5T)

He's the Biden White House version of South Park's Kenny. The bastards!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:35 PM (ynpvh)

A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man only one, but Beau Biden, don't get me started on that guy. ~Shakespeare (probably)

Posted by: Flyguy at April 10, 2024 06:37 PM (OYxA4)

66
Lays down ...

Z Y X Q U K J

... it's the 58th gender.

Smoked you mofos!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:37 PM (4zrly)

67 I'll agree with someone else, the qualifying turn of phrase has officially gotten fucking old.

Of course we do not think you are saying you are a racist.

Of course we do not think you are saying you hate women or jews.

At least as part of an argument.

On the other hand, this goes out the window when talking about libs, who I guess can be racist, misogynistic and so forth and openly say so.

For the soft elite con side of things, it takes the form of 'I personally hate Trump, but...'

See: I personally oppose abortion but...

I am so fucking tired of it all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 06:37 PM (di6C2)

68
Dammit!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:37 PM (MoZTd)

69 >>> BREAKING:
The First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf’s Palestinian brother-in-law Ramsay El-Nakla was taken to court today. He is charged with abduction and extortion in connection with an investigation of a man falling out of a flat in Dundee.

The man died from his injuries.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (vtyCZ)

He needs a counsel with really good Dundee defenestration defense.

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 06:37 PM (Y6IkP)

70 Oh dear, John Bolton says he won't vote for Trump.
Anyway...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)

71 I thought that was Diplomacy

Diplomacy is a fight in a box. A lot of fun with the right crowd, but it it takes a weird mix of people who are competitive enough to want to win but capable of not taking it personally that people are purposely fucking them, laying to their face repeatedly, not because they must or because mechanics made it necessary, but just by choice, for fun.

Posted by: Good Times at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (Ao3fE)

72 "Creating words?

So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?"

Sounds cromulent to me.

*shrugs*

**bonus: my spellcheck has "cromulent" in the lexicon**

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (MvA9C)

73 RE: FJB campaign missing deadlines...

Most likely, they already know they are going to lose those states--possibly by huge margins far outside the margin of cheat--so why even bother to be on the ballot?

Though I would not dismiss their incompetence in the matter....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Not be on a ballot in two states they had no chance of winning in the first place, yes.

Have the talking point of "evil rethuglican fascists keeping the opposition off the ballot" to run in other states, also.

Crazy like a blind fox that finds a henhouse once in a while.

Posted by: mikeski mangles metaphors at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (DgGvY)

74 “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
-Bill Shakespeare

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (di6C2)

75 Krebs wins!

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (R7l+6)

76
H A M P S T E R

"That's not a word!"

* and away ... we ... go! *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:39 PM (4zrly)

77 I've died everywhere, man
I've died everywhere!
Cancer in the deserts bare, man
I've last breathed mountain air, man
Of travel I've a-had my share, man
I've died everywhere!

Posted by: zombie Beau at April 10, 2024 06:39 PM (vtyCZ)

78 The board game "Risk" has been replaced with a non-triggering one named "Safety."

Posted by: fly gal at April 10, 2024 06:39 PM (ABONH)

79 "Horizontal? You just made that up. Extra points?"--Gen Zer
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:36 PM (ynpvh)
---
It's not only a real word, I played it so it would cover TWO triple-word scores and complete two other words attached to those triple-word scores.

I just scored 243 points.

Your move, Gen Zer!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:39 PM (BpYfr)

80 Humza tune to Yousaf

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 06:39 PM (NtVYv)

81 "Creating words?
So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?"
Sounds cromulent to me.
*shrugs*
**bonus: my spellcheck has "cromulent" in the lexicon**
Posted by: Pug Mahon

You can grok the meaning from the context.

Posted by: mikeski at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (DgGvY)

82 He needs a counsel with really good Dundee defenestration defense.
Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 06:37 PM (Y6IkP)

Get the guy Edward the Longshanks used in Braveheart.

*pause*

Oh, you're saying Longshanks just killed the fruit and dared anyone to say anything. Well...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (di6C2)

83 Humza go fuck Yousaf

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (NtVYv)

84 Biden missing the deadlines in the Ohio & Alabama (it ain't a railroad) cases, are not for any Primary elections.

Nope, they're for the General Election, November 5th, and those will be delegates just plain flat outta the reach of ol' Gropin' Joe.

IOW, guaranteed wins for Team Trump.

I'd still have Trump make a campaign appearance or two in each State. Just to show Good Faith, and two-way Loyalty.

Otherwise though? All those campaign dollars and a lot of volunteers can go to the State Next Door, and be better used, there.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (e6UQI)

85 70 Oh dear, John Bolton says he won't vote for Trump.
Anyway...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)

Once again proving what a deep-state tool he is.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (ynpvh)

86 51 That Beau guy sure has died in a lot of places.

Posted by: wth at April 10, 2024 06:34 PM (v0R5T)
--
Is he seeking the Highlander?

From what I hear there can be only one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (MvA9C)

87 gourmand du jour: "Oh dear, John Bolton says he won't vote for Trump.
Anyway..."

Because America isn't America if we're not on the verge of existential war at all times, everywhere.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (aXxgO)

88 That Tic Tak black chick sounds awfully white.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 10, 2024 06:41 PM (IG7T0)

89
The board game "Risk" has been replaced with a non-triggering one named "Safety."
Posted by: fly gal

The "armies" are represented by condoms in their packet and birth control pills

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:41 PM (4zrly)

90 Before we throw him in Leavenworth, how about we shave off that mustache?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 06:41 PM (di6C2)

91 In basic Scrabble strategery it's less about what words you play, and more about where you play them.

Posted by: davidt at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (SYTee)

92 Then we pass a law, you have to be worthy of the Sam Elliot 'stache.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (di6C2)

93 banana Dream: "...In a spelling bee you might as well just shoot me."

One of my favorite Far Sides was "Primitive Spelling Bees" where one caveman is spelling "C A V E", and the other one standing beside him is thinking "Oh, sure, I'll probably get "Australopithecus."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (PiwSw)

94
Cookulating a lamb rack for dinner. It smells super-excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (MoZTd)

95 Police sources say the do not believe the suspects were connected to the peaceful celebration.

===
They also have no idea about motive. Or a description of the suspects.
/obligatory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (RIvkX)

96 In basic Scrabble strategery it's less about what words you play, and more about where you play them.
Posted by: davidt at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (SYTee)

JOEBIDENSUCKSREALLYBADALLTHETIME

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (NtVYv)

97 >>> Oh dear, John Bolton says he won't vote for Trump.
Anyway...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)

I'm a fan. For my money I don't think it gets any better than when he sings, "When a man loves a woman".

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (Y6IkP)

98 94
Cookulating a lamb rack for dinner. It smells super-excellent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (MoZTd)

No spatchcocking?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (ynpvh)

99 No fistfuls of dice, you just talk out you problems with the other side every turn.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:26 PM (eoQWY)
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I thought that was Diplomacy...(Admittedly, I've never played it, but I've heard it's great fun.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:29 PM (BpYfr)
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It is, but it requires the right mix of players. People who get really offended by being betrayed by a former ally tend not to a) do well at the game and b) not get invited to play again.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (Be/+i)

100 13
'I'm seriously starting to think their Play is to "let" Trump win and then make life unlivable.'

Me too. It plays to their strength.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (roH4R)

101 One of my favorite Far Sides was "Primitive Spelling Bees" where one caveman is spelling "C A V E", and the other one standing beside him is thinking "Oh, sure, I'll probably get "Australopithecus."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 06:42 PM (PiwSw)
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Yep. That's a classic!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (BpYfr)

102 gourmand du jour: "Oh dear, John Bolton says he won't vote for Trump.
Anyway..."

Because America isn't America if we're not on the verge of existential war at all times, everywhere.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 06:40 PM (aXxgO)

Someone should have explained to Bolton is that you are supposed to WIN some of those wars.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (eoQWY)

103 Knowing a lot of big words is good for writing, useless for Scrabble.

You need to know every 2- to 4-letter word in the English language, and how not to shoot your wad when you have an S. And to ditch the Q.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 10, 2024 06:44 PM (wzAuc)

104
In basic Scrabble strategery it's less about what words you play, and more about where you play them.
Posted by: davidt

That sounds kind of "pedo adjacent" to me

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:44 PM (4zrly)

105 I checked, and the Democratic Convention for 2020 was held from August 17th through the 20th. So, 17th at the earliest, and 20th at the latest.

This year (2024), Vote Tuesday would fall on Nov. 5th. In 2020, it was on Nov. 3rd; two less days by happenstance of Tuesday. Which means they also failed to properly schedule back in 2020; were Joe and Kamala wrongly on the ballot back then?

Going back to 2016, the convention was in July (25th to 28th), so no issues there. Just seems odd that they would foul up in 2020 but not get dinged, and only get dinged now.

I understand the maxim of "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake", but I'm sure PMSNBC et al will be screaming bloody hell without putting in any context. Was the law ignored last time, and why/by whom?

Posted by: Another Anon at April 10, 2024 06:44 PM (QNMaY)

106 The Ohio Alabama stuff is our beloved GOPe setting up rigged game next time around. Imagine if 270 EC votes run by D's decide to nominate someone long before any opposition could organize a primary?
Over before it begins.
Never laugh, they know what they are doing.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (IG7T0)

107 You know, I'd be willing to bet if we took some of these ban semi auto gun people and let them shoot some targets they'd really like it and have fun. Maybe change some minds.

Maybe not that David Hog dude, he looks like a total pu**y.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (N+f71)

108 Oh dear, John Bolton says he won't vote for Trump.
Anyway...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 06:38 PM (MeG8a)

I'm a fan. For my money I don't think it gets any better than when he sings, "When a man loves a woman".
Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (Y6IkP)
--
I SO wish I could paste a pic of David Herman from Office Space with his disgusted face!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (MvA9C)

109 A Q is useless without a U.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)

110 Maybe not that David Hog dude, he looks like a total pu**y.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (N+f71)

There are literal vulvas that can lift more than he can.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:46 PM (GkFGh)

111 The first incident used for complaints was an anti-white screed from some years ago....but with this response, that's another violation!
Posted by: Oldcat

The speech was given by that fucker Humza. He's the shit that was being reported.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 10, 2024 06:46 PM (IG4Id)

112 It was a terrible war. It took Beau Biden when the bridge he was defending got bombed by the North Vietnamese Air Force.

Posted by: Ciampino - The River Kwai Bridge ... or was it Koi? at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (qfLjt)

113 You need to know every 2- to 4-letter word in the English language, and how not to shoot your wad when you have an S. And to ditch the Q.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 10, 2024 06:44 PM (wzAuc)
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Q's are always a bit of a gamble. On the one hand, you don't want to have one unless you can play it, but you also don't want anyone else to play it....It can be a game-changer when played at the right moment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (BpYfr)

114 "The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble,"

Nobody gets a fucking trophy

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (FMTLw)

115 It is, but it requires the right mix of players. People who get really offended by being betrayed by a former ally tend not to a) do well at the game and b) not get invited to play again.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (Be/+i)

I have Diplomacy around but never found a gang to play it. Kingmaker is similar (War of the Roses, each side grabs candidates for the thone and tries to get theirs crowned as sole king/queen for fun and profit. We played that a lot one year when Carter put the spring break into winter after ice storms. It was funny having all the neighborhood kids knowing heraldry and castles and nobles in England. Because your counter just had the heraldry on it and you had to recognize it.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (eoQWY)

116 How many points foe "Shijizzle"?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 10, 2024 06:48 PM (r5tfK)

117
A Q is useless ~~without a U.~~
Posted by: tubal

"Alphabet Mafia" rules

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:48 PM (4zrly)

118 114 "The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble,"

Nobody gets a fucking trophy
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (FMTLw)

Not Dodge Ball players then?

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:48 PM (PCK5/)

119 A Q is useless without a U.
Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)

Iraq

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:48 PM (eoQWY)

120 It was a terrible war. It took Beau Biden when the bridge he was defending got bombed by the North Vietnamese Air Force.
Posted by: Ciampino - The River Kwai Bridge ... or was it Koi? at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (qfLjt)
--
Was he the dude hauling an RV to some REMF general in Hamburger Hill?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at April 10, 2024 06:49 PM (MvA9C)

121 Krebs v Carnot: "H A M P S T E R..."

Someone tries that one, they should get qwoned.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 06:49 PM (aXxgO)

122
Iraq
Posted by: Oldcat

Proper noun / name

Not allowed

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:49 PM (4zrly)

123 I have Diplomacy around but never found a gang to play it. Kingmaker is similar (War of the Roses, each side grabs candidates for the thone and tries to get theirs crowned as sole king/queen for fun and profit. We played that a lot one year when Carter put the spring break into winter after ice storms. It was funny having all the neighborhood kids knowing heraldry and castles and nobles in England. Because your counter just had the heraldry on it and you had to recognize it.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (eoQWY)
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I still have my OM version of Diplomacy (in the big purple box) and the Avalon Hill edition of Kingmaker.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 10, 2024 06:50 PM (Be/+i)

124 If I can't use up all my tiles on one great stonking mamma-jamma of a word with two q's, an x, and a 7, then i'm just like "meh, fukkit" and I plorp down "cat" on someone else's "at".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:30 PM (GkFGh)

Don't give up on Scrabble because of that! Rumor is a new Scrabble-approved dictionary will be released this fall. It will be called "Dictionary of Words Used by Joe Biden in his Speeches."

Posted by: Gref at April 10, 2024 06:50 PM (5fDan)

125 For Scrabble, all I need to know:

Is "Kwyjibo" still allowed under the old rules?

Posted by: Another Anon at April 10, 2024 06:50 PM (QNMaY)

126 118 114 "The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble,"

Nobody gets a fucking trophy
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (FMTLw)

Not Dodge Ball players then?
Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:48 PM

Nothing teaches you like a red rubber ball knocking your legs out from under you on a cold winter's morning. I learned I did not like playing dodge ball co-ed.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 06:50 PM (N+f71)

127 Qwerty is in the Scrabble dictionary.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 10, 2024 06:51 PM (xPl2J)

128 A Q is useless without a U.
Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)
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There are a handful of acceptable words that use Q with no U in the official Scrabble dictionary (e.g., "qwerty")

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:51 PM (BpYfr)

129 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
NEW - Hamas leader Haniyeh tells Al Jazeera three sons killed in Gaza strike

Hamas leader Haniyeh tells Al Jazeera three sons killed in Gaza strike
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday three of his sons and four grandchildren were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, where war has raged for more ... [more bullshit from AFP]

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:51 PM (vtyCZ)

130 Dang, Moops is a proper name.

Posted by: George at April 10, 2024 06:51 PM (SYTee)

131 I still have my OM version of Diplomacy (in the big purple box) and the Avalon Hill edition of Kingmaker.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 10, 2024 06:50 PM (Be/+i)

My Diplomacy is also in a AH style box, along with Kingmaker. I had heard of the game before but couldn't get a game from England back then.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (eoQWY)

132 In case we have Gen Z lurkers waiting to pounce on something they deem offensive, let’s have a word about skirts. And shirts. And undergarments. When you have a body shape such as the teacher in the Ted talk, a big, cupcake skirt does not camouflage your shape. It does the opposite. Stop wearing them, or pleated ones, for that matter. Instead, find a clean A line that hits either right above the knee or a maxi length. Wear an undergarment that lifts and supports, versus having your stomach and your chest becoming one. If you are trying to hide a tummy, skip the wide belt at your waist, don’t do a voluminous top with a voluminous skirt topped with a voluminous jacket. Clean A line maxi, fitted shirt, and the jacket over it would be great. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

133
Nothing teaches you like a red rubber ball knocking your legs out from under you on a cold winter's morning. I learned I did not like playing dodge ball co-ed.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Head shots were the worst. That bastard red rubber ball could really ring your bell.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (4zrly)

134 ...we would be distinctly aiding Trump's quest for a personal dictatorship...

Isn't there.anyone among the dems who, upon reading this, wonder if they are really getting good advice from such a partisan?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (W/lyH)

135 In an earlier thread someone asked when happened to David Savage and I looked it up.

Apparently he got in some trouble for telling a 16 year old girl who was infatuated with another teenaged girl to get the target drunk out of her mind and take her somewhere isolated to take advantage of her.

Which makes you wonder how many 16 year olds he'd done the same thing to...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (ibTVg)

136 109 A Q is useless without a U.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)
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Qaddafi and Qatar have entered the chat.

Posted by: Ciampino - Yes, both Arabic but English Arabic at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (qfLjt)

137 I wanna play scrabble using a cookbook as the dictionary.

So, you know, "inveterate" might no longer be a word... but "tsp" totally is now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (GkFGh)

138 Don't give up on Scrabble because of that! Rumor is a new Scrabble-approved dictionary will be released this fall. It will be called "Dictionary of Words Used by Joe Biden in his Speeches."
Posted by: Gref at April 10, 2024 06:50 PM (5fDan)
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For extra challenge/fun, you can toss in the official Kamala Harris Scrabble Dictionary.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:53 PM (BpYfr)

139 "There's been such a shift in minority voting preference (towards Trump) ..."

Sounds like "Red Wave" Spin IMHO. Fool me once ...

Posted by: Let gp Sink In at April 10, 2024 06:53 PM (MvF+J)

140 Lol
Ace it has be een a while since you riported anyting on Bideen/Trump poles
Any particuler reason for this lapese?

Posted by: Paul banned because he eats his own poop at April 10, 2024 06:53 PM (EF56l)

141 109 A Q is useless without a U.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)

Faqir:
noun
1) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
2) A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:53 PM (ynpvh)

142 Qat or "khat" are the leaves of an Arabian shrub that are chewed as a stimulant.

Some dictionaries include the word. No u in it.

You're welcome!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (MeG8a)

143 Hamas leader Haniyeh tells Al Jazeera three sons killed in Gaza strike
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday three of his sons and four grandchildren were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, where war has raged for more ... [more bullshit from AFP]
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:51 PM (vtyCZ)

Normally this would lead to some self reflection about kicking off a mass atrocity and keeping it going. But these days even Hamas has to play the victim.

Looks like Mossad has an opportunity to sneak in a team pretending to be an interviewer and ....

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (eoQWY)

144
Thanks for the Megyn clip. She played more of the dingbat's expositions on solar system and planetary physics.

More absolute dumbfuckery.

By the time I was in 3rd grade I had decent understanding of this stuff. Granted I was really interested in it and read about it, but damn.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (w6EFb)

145
Gun control activist David Hogg has been hit with allegations over the spending practices of his group Leaders We Deserve PAC.

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For some people, those actually are the leaders they deserve.

Has Twigboy Trianglehead ever had a real job? It's like his working future was hijacked during puberty, like he was groomed by pedophiles.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (4Aqsh)

146 Hamas leader Haniyeh tells Al Jazeera three sons killed in Gaza strike
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday three of his sons and four grandchildren were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, where war has raged for more ... [more bullshit from AFP]
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:51 PM (vtyCZ)
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He only wishes he had more children/grandchildren to give to the cause. He is only using this to drum up sympathy for Hamas. Evil scum.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (BpYfr)

147 Apparently Paul hasn't been trolling the threads enough here or he would've seen them. Dumbass.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (ynpvh)

148 Nobody gets a fucking trophy
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (FMTLw)

Not Dodge Ball players then?
Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:48 PM

Nothing teaches you like a red rubber ball knocking your legs out from under you on a cold winter's morning. I learned I did not like playing dodge ball co-ed.
Posted by: CaliGirl

If they are not keeping score, then there are no winners.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (FMTLw)

149 @132 Piper-do you do fashion advice for men too? : )

Posted by: JROD at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (IlL6s)

150 So, you know, "inveterate" might no longer be a word... but "tsp" totally is now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (GkFGh)

that's an abbrev

not allowed.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (eoQWY)

151 Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (MeG8a)

::: fistbump :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (ynpvh)

152 147 Apparently Paul hasn't been trolling the threads enough here or he would've seen them. Dumbass.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (ynpvh)

Pretty sure his swipe at JJ the other day finally got the retard non-grata'd.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (GkFGh)

153 Gen Z can't even play Scrabble without being bubble wrapped.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (mupln)

154 Jeez… an offhand “ Q” statement… I am chastened by the Horde.. again..

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (PCK5/)

155 Qi works.

Especially if you can get it in a double or triple letter box and score it both horizontally and vertically by playing it off an existing i.

Posted by: No U Necessary at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (Ao3fE)

156 that's an abbrev

not allowed.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (eoQWY)

FUCK YOU I DECIDE THE RULES OF COOKBOOK SCRABBLE!

(rawr.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (GkFGh)

157 #129 Non-bullshit version:

Israel Defense Forces @IDF 4h
IAF aircraft struck Amir Haniyeh, a cell commander in the Hamas military wing, and Mohammad and Hazem Haniyeh, both Hamas military operatives, in central Gaza today.

The IDF confirms that the 3 operatives are the sons of Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas' political bureau.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (vtyCZ)

158 139 "There's been such a shift in minority voting preference (towards Trump) ..."

Sounds like "Red Wave" Spin IMHO. Fool me once ...

Posted by: Let gp Sink In at April 10, 2024 06:53 PM (MvF+J)

Yep. If Dems are leaking bad news to their Media Pals, it's not bad news it's an op.

Posted by: Gref at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (5fDan)

159 The Dems are not just dumb, but getting steadily dumber. That is because they are filled with self-rightlessness, and hence, can't change, or learn, or grow.

To a Dem, being wrong on the facts doesn't matter in the slightest.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (nLFEI)

160 So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?

Why not? Idiots are now allowed to just make up fake genders.

Posted by: Socratease at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (t8Egx)

161 rickb223: "Nobody gets a fucking trophy"

Of course not. You're playing Scrabble. You get a Scrabble trophy. The other game is a lot more fun, and who needs a trophy?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 06:57 PM (aXxgO)

162 If you like the general idea of a TED talk - a subject matter expert talking about whatever thing they are an expert on I'd suggest listening to Chris Williamson or Joe Rogan.

It is an interview format instead of a lecture format, but Williamson and Rogan are real interviewers, not like the people in the FNM that just come to make whatever point the Junta wants made for that day.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 06:57 PM (ibTVg)

163 Has Twigboy Trianglehead ever had a real job?

--

I saw somebody on another blog describe Hogg's head as a guitar pick. It cracked me up.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 10, 2024 06:57 PM (mupln)

164 141 109 A Q is useless without a U.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)

Faqir:
noun
1) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
2) A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:53 PM

Is it pronounced like f u c k e r ?

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 06:57 PM (N+f71)

165 The IDF confirms that the 3 operatives are the sons of Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas' political bureau.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (vtyCZ)

Also nephews, 2nd cousins, 3rd cousins, and brothers-in-law.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2024 06:58 PM (GkFGh)

166 Nothing teaches you like a red rubber ball knocking your legs out from under you on a cold winter's morning. I learned I did not like playing dodge ball co-ed.
Posted by: CaliGirl

If they are not keeping score, then there are no winners.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2024 06:55 PM (FMTLw)

Good lord someone tried that? It was bad enough if you were a decent dodger but couldn't get velocity on the return throw.

In our HS, the variation was after a while the PE guy said 3/4th! and you could go three quarters down the gym. If one side had all the balls it was hell with them so close.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:58 PM (eoQWY)

167 https://word.tips/words-with/q/without/u/

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:58 PM (ynpvh)

168 I still have my OM version of Diplomacy (in the big purple box) and the Avalon Hill edition of Kingmaker.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 10, 2024 06:50 PM (Be/+i)

I believe AH did both as computer games back for the PC's, the early 90s or there abouts. Kingmaker was just like the board game and quite fun trying to get all the titles and accoutrements to place your guy on the throne.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (R/m4+)

169 Is it pronounced like f u c k e r ?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 06:57 PM (N+f71)

More like faker, but with a long e

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (eoQWY)

170

Biden Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
Biden Bridge is falling down,
My fair tranny

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (63Dwl)

171 Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 06:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

Heh!
Nice Piper!
One of the best classes I attended when retiring from the army was "Dress for Success.". The lady running the class was a wizard at helping us learn our color and how to pick the right clothes for the civilian world.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (W/lyH)

172
David Hogg is the Claudine Gay of business startups.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (4zrly)

173 Thanks for the Megyn clip. She played more of the dingbat's expositions on solar system and planetary physics.

More absolute dumbfuckery.

By the time I was in 3rd grade I had decent understanding of this stuff. Granted I was really interested in it and read about it, but damn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah, it's a shame they don't teach this stuff in school anymore. Met a young college freshman who was surprised to learn about the real reason for the seasons of the earth (axial tilt). He's a smart kid, but had never heard it before.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (BpYfr)

174 Perfessor, Haniyeh does. He has 13 children

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (R7l+6)

175 164 141 109 A Q is useless without a U.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)

Faqir:
noun
1) A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
2) A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:53 PM

Is it pronounced like f u c k e r ?

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 06:57 PM (N+f71)

Like Focker, the airplane...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

176 Leading Report @LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Former President Trump says “any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined.”

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (vtyCZ)

177 Boss Hogg moving right into the elite lifestyle

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 07:00 PM (fwDg9)

178 Dog turds look just like chocolate ice cream. But taste completely different unfortunately.

Posted by: Paul banned at April 10, 2024 07:00 PM (roH4R)

179 176 Leading Report @LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Former President Trump says “any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined.”

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (vtyCZ)

Well, any dem that votes for more of what Biden has been giving them. Unless they enjoy it. There are always some people...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:01 PM (ynpvh)

180
Pretty sure his swipe at JJ the other day finally got the retard non-grata'd.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I've seen him since then.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 10, 2024 07:01 PM (63Dwl)

181 andycanuck: "The IDF confirms that the 3 operatives are the sons of Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas' political bureau."

Incredible. The news chyrons I've seen have only said, "sons". Like they're children. I think the context that these were also military operatives might be prejudicial and relevant.

But then I remember that we're talking US media and it all makes perfect sense. There's more gaslighting here than the Middle Eastern oil fields.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 07:01 PM (aXxgO)

182 Well I guess I should move on to opining about Risk! then…

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 07:02 PM (PCK5/)

183 “any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined.”

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (vtyCZ)

And? What's the problem?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 07:02 PM (gSZYf)

184 For SJL:

Why Does the Sun Shine - TMBG

https://tinyurl.com/46jhzjdh

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 10, 2024 07:02 PM (ppeNC)

185 I'm grate at scruble.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 10, 2024 07:02 PM (sAmhv)

186 Is it pronounced like f u c k e r ?
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More like 'faker', from which we get the word courtesy of the Brits in India, knowing the magicians weren't really magical!

I usually see it as fakir but I could see a Q spelling too.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:02 PM (vtyCZ)

187 178 Dog turds look just like chocolate ice cream. But taste completely different unfortunately.

Posted by: Paul banned at April 10, 2024 07:00 PM (roH4R)

But some have a feel more like tootsie rolls.

Posted by: Paul banned at April 10, 2024 07:02 PM (ynpvh)

188 169 Is it pronounced like f u c k e r ?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 06:57 PM (N+f71)

More like faker, but with a long e
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (eoQWY)

I found a video that pronounces that. They wrote it was an Indian word. I'm so childish, sorry.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:02 PM (N+f71)

189
I know this doesn't mean anything, but Sheila Jackson Lee rambling, trying to explain the eclipse said this is the closest the Moon has been in "20 years" and that's why it "blocks out the light".

I looked up the long term cycles of lunar perigee and apogee. Over about a 400 year period starting in the mid 1700, the closest perigee was in 1912, and the farthest apogee will be in 2125.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:03 PM (w6EFb)

190 But then I remember that we're talking US media and it all makes perfect sense. There's more gaslighting here than the Middle Eastern oil fields.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 07:01 PM (aXxgO)

No matter how much you hate the media, you don't hate them enough.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 07:03 PM (PiwSw)

191 173 Thanks for the Megyn clip. She played more of the dingbat's expositions on solar system and planetary physics.

More absolute dumbfuckery.

By the time I was in 3rd grade I had decent understanding of this stuff. Granted I was really interested in it and read about it, but damn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah, it's a shame they don't teach this stuff in school anymore. Met a young college freshman who was surprised to learn about the real reason for the seasons of the earth (axial tilt). He's a smart kid, but had never heard it before.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (BpYfr)

"Axial Tilt" is probably a banned term in the LGBTQetc Universe.

Posted by: Gref at April 10, 2024 07:03 PM (5fDan)

192 By the time I was in 3rd grade I had decent understanding of this stuff. Granted I was really interested in it and read about it, but damn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah, it's a shame they don't teach this stuff in school anymore. Met a young college freshman who was surprised to learn about the real reason for the seasons of the earth (axial tilt). He's a smart kid, but had never heard it before.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (BpYfr)

I learned all that long before that, read all the Science books in the library branch starting on one shelf going down the line. When I was very small I worked through a set of 50 books, one for each state in the union.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:03 PM (eoQWY)

193 >>> The Dems are not just dumb, but getting steadily dumber. That is because they are filled with self-rightlessness, and hence, can't change, or learn, or grow.

To a Dem, being wrong on the facts doesn't matter in the slightest.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 10, 2024 06:56 PM (nLFEI)

Also there are no immediate consequences as a result of their lazy stupidity. Being smart requires effort and the possibility of critical assessment. Since the left controls nearly everything and their actions are mostly consequence free they default to the easiest thing which is being dumb, because they can.

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 07:04 PM (Y6IkP)

194 Diogenes: "The lady running the class was a wizard at helping us learn our color and how to pick the right clothes for the civilian world."

Wear either pants or assless chaps. Always appropriate choices.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 07:04 PM (aXxgO)

195 The left wants dumb figureheads. The smart ones could basically take over the whole graft operation for themselves.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 07:05 PM (ibTVg)

196 192

I learned all that long before that, read all the Science books in the library branch starting on one shelf going down the line. When I was very small I worked through a set of 50 books, one for each state in the union.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:03 PM (eoQWY)

I bet you knew all of the state capitols…

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 07:05 PM (PCK5/)

197 off stupid sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:05 PM (ynpvh)

198 Do not play Scrabble with Mrs D.
Most innovative cheater I've ever met.

You've been warned.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 07:05 PM (W/lyH)

199 The moon is ever so slightly moving away from the earth. I suppose at some point it will escape the orbit altogether. Or so I've read.
I doubt any of us will be around for that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (MeG8a)

200 Like Focker, the airplane...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Be that as it may, jim (in Kalifornia), but these fuckers were in Messerschmitts.

Posted by: zombie Sir Douglas Bader at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (vtyCZ)

201 149 @132 Piper-do you do fashion advice for men too? : )
Posted by: JROD at April 10, 2024

Ha! It’s not so much fashion advice as dressing for what you have. For men: your tailor is your friend. Don’t wear an ill fitting suit. You can choose a lot of breaks in your pants to fit who you are, but I would avoid the cropped trend in you are over 20 and weigh more than 165 pounds. Also, wear your size. Tight things don’t make you look slimmer.

Also, don’t wear cargo shorts. They flatter absolutely no one. No socks with sandals. Wear no show socks when in shorts.

Go bold with your shirts, don’t fear pastels. And don’t forget an undershirt for the love of all that is good. How was that?

Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

202 I still think it is hilarious how much of a bureaucracy Hamas has.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (di6C2)

203 "Axial Tilt" is probably a banned term in the LGBTQetc Universe.
Posted by: Gref at April 10, 2024 07:03 PM (5fDan)
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On the plus side "axial" is worth a good two or three dozen points when played on a double- or triple-word-score...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (BpYfr)

204 Chaps leave more than your ass hanging out.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2024 07:07 PM (R7l+6)

205 I finally got an answer from Social Security! And it only took just over 3 hours!
I think I need a drink...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

206 We'd be sooooo much better off with President Commacho right now

Posted by: derp early derp often at April 10, 2024 07:07 PM (DFED1)

207 Yeah, it's a shame they don't teach this stuff in school anymore. Met a young college freshman who was surprised to learn about the real reason for the seasons of the earth (axial tilt). He's a smart kid, but had never heard it before.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (BpYfr)

The best use for procession of the equinoxes is for making Astrology be even dumber. Because of it when your birth sign is Taurus, the sun was NOT in the constellation of Taurus.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:07 PM (eoQWY)

208 205 I finally got an answer from Social Security! And it only took just over 3 hours!
I think I need a drink...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

But if 6 Jaegermeisters don't get the taste out of my mouth, a 7th won't help...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

209 And don’t forget an undershirt for the love of all that is good.

Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

Good for when you are wearing a tuckable IWB holster.

Yeah...I'm learning all this shit now, but better late than never.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 07:07 PM (gSZYf)

210 I found a video that pronounces that. They wrote it was an Indian word. I'm so childish, sorry.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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No. It was a perfectly reasonable pronunciation question, CG.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (vtyCZ)

211 We're very scrabbly today.

I am discomfited.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (di6C2)

212 I still think it is hilarious how much of a bureaucracy Hamas has.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (di6C2)

They do have 2 million people to misgovern.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (eoQWY)

213 Brawndo! It's what plants crave!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (PiwSw)

214 Women don't like cargo shorts?

Whenever we go somewhere in the summer my GF leans on me to carry her wallet, phone, comb, water bottle, etc etc etc...

Try to do that in a pair of chaps!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (ibTVg)

215 I still think it is hilarious how much of a bureaucracy Hamas has.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (di6C2)

Jobs programs for their supporters.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (gSZYf)

216 Do not play Scrabble with Mrs D.
Most innovative cheater I've ever met.

You've been warned.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 07:05 PM (W/lyH)
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There was an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry is playing Scrabble with his girlfriend, who liked to walk around naked. She was kicking his ass in the game (she's naked, he's not), leading to this comment:

"I'd accuse you of cheating, but I don't know where you'd hide the tiles."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (BpYfr)

217 No. It was a perfectly reasonable pronunciation question, CG.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (vtyCZ)

Don't listen to him Caligirl. REAL men learn to pronounce words by reading them in a book and coming up with their own pronunciations and only learning it was wrong 30 years later!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (di6C2)

218 "Also, don’t wear cargo shorts."

You can have my cargo shorts when you take them off my warm nekkid butt.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (89Sog)

219 210 I found a video that pronounces that. They wrote it was an Indian word. I'm so childish, sorry.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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No. It was a perfectly reasonable pronunciation question, CG.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (vtyCZ)

This one?

https://youtu.be/8o-oQCb3ZAY

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (ynpvh)

220 Brawndo! It's what plants crave!

I had a conversation over lunch about how a new drink one friend was having was good because it had Electrolytes. And yes...I did play the Idiocracy clip...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (ibTVg)

221 I am deeply disappoint that no mention of crocs have been mentioned. How can we advise garrett?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (PiwSw)

222 Leading Report @LeadingReport 18m
BREAKING: Obama’s former long-time political strategist and senior advisor, David Axelrod, has confessed that it drives him “crazy” when Biden starts bragging about the economy, as working-class Americans continue to struggle.

“I wouldn’t go out there and extol the miracle of the Biden economy. It just drives me crazy when he does that.”

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (vtyCZ)

223 Jobs programs for their supporters.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (gSZYf)

Just like antifa and the book deals all the deep staters get...

Why, it is almost like this is all the same, oligarchical hydra...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (di6C2)

224 One would think that the word 'Scrapple' would be an automatic Scrabble game winner.

But no.

The world is so unfair.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (WXNFJ)

225 >> I suppose at some point it will escape the orbit altogether. Or so I've read.

Tidal interaction. The Moon's tidal gradient is slowing the earth down. That throws the Moon into a higher orbit. It will stop when the earth gets tidally locked itself with the Moon.

But the Sun will be a red giant long, long before that happens.

The Moon will get far enough that eclipses won't be possible before that though.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (w6EFb)

226 218 "Also, don’t wear cargo shorts."

You can have my cargo shorts when you take them off my warm nekkid butt.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (89Sog)

Pockets are always good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (di6C2)

227 211 We're very scrabbly today.

I am discomfited.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (di6C2)

Hardscrabble...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:11 PM (ynpvh)

228 Men should not have 6 to 8 inches of your socks showing when sitting in a chair. Bribe'em is a serial offender of this

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2024 07:11 PM (R7l+6)

229 No socks with sandals. Wear no show socks when in shorts.

Go bold with your shirts, don’t fear pastels. And don’t forget an undershirt for the love of all that is good. How was that?
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (ZdaMQ)
***

No socks with sandals!!!
No socks with sandals!!!???
This won't do in Seattle.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 07:11 PM (W/lyH)

230 The moon is ever so slightly moving away from the earth. I suppose at some point it will escape the orbit altogether. Or so I've read.
I doubt any of us will be around for that.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (MeG8a)

I've heard that the tidal forces now pushing it out will reverse as the day gets longer (conservation of momentum requires something to provide the angular momentum. It would then come back in again.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:11 PM (eoQWY)

231 Leading Report @LeadingReport 3h
BREAKING: A federal judge has rejected pleas from Joe Biden’s administration to drop a legal case seeking to release documents related to the Russia hoax probe.

The lawsuit was brought by Just the News against the DOJ and the NARA concerning the release of FBI investigation records, shining a light on the complexities surrounding the Presidential Records Act and the alleged “Russian collusion” with President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:11 PM (vtyCZ)

232 Men should not have 6 to 8 inches of your socks showing when sitting in a chair. Bribe'em is a serial offender of this

That's not the only 6 inches he has hanging out for dinners at home unfortunately.

Posted by: Ashley Biden at April 10, 2024 07:11 PM (ibTVg)

233 218
'when you take them off my warm nekkid butt.'

Pretty sure that I'll never want cargo shorts that bad.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 10, 2024 07:12 PM (roH4R)

234 214 Women don't like cargo shorts?

Whenever we go somewhere in the summer my GF leans on me to carry her wallet, phone, comb, water bottle, etc etc etc...

Try to do that in a pair of chaps!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (ibTVg)

I use my natural "pockets"...

Posted by: Petey Bootyjuice at April 10, 2024 07:12 PM (ynpvh)

235 218 "Also, don’t wear cargo shorts."

You can have my cargo shorts when you take them off my warm nekkid butt.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (89Sog)

Pockets are always good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (di6C2)

I have a vest thing that also has cargo pants pockets all over it. I can have a million pockets when hiking.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (eoQWY)

236 Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis told donors and supporters at a private retreat over the weekend that he plans to help raise money for former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to a source.

"He's committed to helping Trump in any and every way," said Texas businessman Roy Bailey, who attended the retreat.

"We are going to follow his lead, and we're excited to do everything we can to get Trump elected."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (vtyCZ)

237 192 By the time I was in 3rd grade I had decent understanding of this stuff. Granted I was really interested in it and read about it, but damn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 06:54 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah, it's a shame they don't teach this stuff in school anymore. Met a young college freshman who was surprised to learn about the real reason for the seasons of the earth (axial tilt). He's a smart kid, but had never heard it before.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 06:59 PM (BpYfr)

I learned all that long before that, read all the Science books in the library branch starting on one shelf going down the line. When I was very small I worked through a set of 50 books, one for each state in the union.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:03 PM (eoQWY)
Agree, I'm so glad my parents encouraged me to read everything I could get my hands on. Probably would not liked Playboy or Karl Marx, but both were 'educational'.

Posted by: Eromero at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (NxC5+)

238 I have a vest thing that also has cargo pants pockets all over it. I can have a million pockets when hiking.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (eoQWY)

It is very much an older guy thing. Like being obsessed with maps and fishing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:14 PM (di6C2)

239 Capri pants!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:14 PM (vtyCZ)

240 199 The moon is ever so slightly moving away from the earth. I suppose at some point it will escape the orbit altogether. Or so I've read.
I doubt any of us will be around for that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (MeG8a)

Long, long after humans have gone extinct the radius of the Moon's orbit will increase to a distance such that total solar eclipses will no longer occur. I've forgotten if that is in tens or hundreds of millions of years.

Posted by: Gref at April 10, 2024 07:14 PM (5fDan)

241 I suppose clothes fit better when one has a waist… I am waist challenged.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2024 07:14 PM (PCK5/)

242 Don't listen to him Caligirl. REAL men learn to pronounce words by reading them in a book and coming up with their own pronunciations and only learning it was wrong 30 years later!
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There are other ways to pronounce heterogenious the Het-er o genious?
Who knew!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (DfCet)

243 "We are going to follow his lead, and we're excited to do everything we can to get Trump elected."
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (vtyCZ)

This is good. I still like Desantis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (di6C2)

244
Looked it up. It would take about 50 billion years for the earth to get tidally locked with the Moon. Distance between earth and moon would increase by about 44%.

At that the time, the day, and hence the month would be about 47 current days long.

But the Sun will go red giant and turn into a white dwarf and destroy most of the inner planets then. Well, whether the earth gets swallowed up is debatable, but Mercury and Venus will be gone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (w6EFb)

245 off sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (ynpvh)

246 The Moon will get far enough that eclipses won't be possible before that though.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:10 PM (w6EFb)

Its already too far for the average eclipse opportunity to be total. The moon has to be on the closer side of its orbit to get a full total eclipse. Otherwise you get an annular eclipse.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (eoQWY)

247 Oh that reminds me...what the hell are capri pants for? Shorts keep your legs cool, pants keep them warm.

Is there really a reason where you want the part of your leg above the calf warm and the rest cold?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (ibTVg)

248 >>> but I would avoid the cropped trend in you are over 20 and weigh more than 165 pounds.
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

I had to look up what that is. We called that "highwaters" in grade school and it was a signifier that you were poor and your family couldn't afford to keep buying pants as you were quickly shooting up to tall, which was my case growing up. Caught a lot of hell for that.

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (Y6IkP)

249 Go bold with your shirts, don’t fear pastels. And don’t forget an undershirt for the love of all that is good. How was that?
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

No Slayer shirts with cargo shorts ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (NtVYv)

250 There are other ways to pronounce heterogenious the Het-er o genious?
Who knew!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (DfCet)

One of mine was acrid. A girl asked me when it came up a few years ago 'Why did you think it was pronounced like that?' I said 'It does not come up in general conversation that often, xxx- even for me.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (di6C2)

251 Yoga pants > capri pants

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (W/lyH)

252 Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie 23h
🚨 Congress gives itself a carve out in the reauthorization of FISA 702 warrantless spying on Americans.

The bill requires the FBI to notify and seek consent from Congress before violating the privacy of Congressmen.

This will persuade many members of Congress to vote yes.

Catturd ™ @catturd2 Just so you're clear ... The uniparty in Washington DC are giving the FBI power to spy on you, for any reason, without a warrant ... but they exempted themselves from the same law.

These people are lowlife scumbags.

Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: House has blocked FISA reauthorization bill.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (vtyCZ)

253 I have a vest thing that also has cargo pants pockets all over it. I can have a million pockets when hiking.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (eoQWY)

You never have enough pockets. The more pockets you have the more you want to carry. It's a never ending quest to pack yer pockets full of stuff you might need.

The only problem with this philosophy is that you never know what pocket you put the one thing that you do need in.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (89Sog)

254 >> On the plus side "axial" is worth a good two or three dozen points when played on

How many points is "apsidal"?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (w6EFb)

255 There are other ways to pronounce heterogenious the Het-er o genious?
Who knew!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (DfCet)

Hetter ogenous has fewer long vowels and is faster.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (eoQWY)

256 I had to look up what that is. We called that "highwaters" in grade school and it was a signifier that you were poor and your family couldn't afford to keep buying pants as you were quickly shooting up to tall, which was my case growing up. Caught a lot of hell for that.
Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (Y6IkP)

My Mom sewed shit on to the bottom to make them longer ( hides head in shame )

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (NtVYv)

257 But the Sun will go red giant and turn into a white dwarf and destroy most of the inner planets then. Well, whether the earth gets swallowed up is debatable, but Mercury and Venus will be gone.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (w6EFb)

And the California High Speed Rail project will be almost done!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Houskeeper at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (PiwSw)

258 18-1: "Whenever we go somewhere in the summer my GF leans on me to carry her wallet, phone, comb, water bottle, etc etc etc..."

The European Carryall is the answer. Goes well with fur coats, too.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 07:18 PM (aXxgO)

259

254 >> On the plus side "axial" is worth a good two or three dozen points when played on

How many points is "apsidal"?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (w6EFb)

https://www.unscramblerer.com/scrabble-calculator/

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:18 PM (eoQWY)

260 >>> Looked it up. It would take about 50 billion years for the earth to get tidally locked with the Moon. Distance between earth and moon would increase by about 44%.

At that the time, the day, and hence the month would be about 47 current days long.

But the Sun will go red giant and turn into a white dwarf and destroy most of the inner planets then. Well, whether the earth gets swallowed up is debatable, but Mercury and Venus will be gone.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:15 PM (w6EFb)

They'll need to reschedule that out a few billion because I'll still be working to save for retirement.

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 07:19 PM (Y6IkP)

261 I had to look up what that is. We called that "highwaters" in grade school and it was a signifier that you were poor and your family couldn't afford to keep buying pants as you were quickly shooting up to tall, which was my case growing up. Caught a lot of hell for that.
Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (Y6IkP)

My Mom sewed shit on to the bottom to make them longer ( hides head in shame )
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (NtVYv)

Mine too, especially when you wore em out faster than hand me downs could kick in.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:20 PM (eoQWY)

262 I started playing Scrabble at 5. The WW2 generation were pretty hard core into it. I remember getting in trouble for doing like 3 and 4 letter words. They would make me come up with something better.
All of my family played quite a bit, at least weekly. One of my most prized possessions is the spin around version I inherited from an uncle.
Now I'm thinking Grandson #1 might really enjoy it. Think I will break it out this weekend.

Posted by: Reforger at April 10, 2024 07:20 PM (B705c)

263 249

No Slayer shirts with cargo shorts ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

If this is how you want to present, you rock it. If, however, you want a more modern silhouette, there other choices to be made. 😀

Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

264 115 It is, but it requires the right mix of players. People who get really offended by being betrayed by a former ally tend not to a) do well at the game and b) not get invited to play again.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 10, 2024 06:43 PM (Be/+i)

I have Diplomacy around but never found a gang to play it. Kingmaker is similar (War of the Roses, each side grabs candidates for the thone and tries to get theirs crowned as sole king/queen for fun and profit. We played that a lot one year when Carter put the spring break into winter after ice storms. It was funny having all the neighborhood kids knowing heraldry and castles and nobles in England. Because your counter just had the heraldry on it and you had to recognize it.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 06:47 PM (eoQWY)

Ahhhhh...memories. I agree with the comment that Diplomacy was a fight in a box. And Kingmaker was my favorite game for much of the 80s. I still have a copy in my Gaming Closet.

Posted by: goozer at April 10, 2024 07:21 PM (5aMWQ)

265 andycanuck: "Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: House has blocked FISA reauthorization bill."

Thank God. On the other hand, this is likely a delay to make it even worse. So I'll put my prayer on pause.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 07:21 PM (aXxgO)

266 Hatari, growing boys is not a question. Guys wearing $1,000 suits it's gauche.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2024 07:22 PM (R7l+6)

267 Kiss me, it's National Farm Animal day!

Posted by: Man who lives as a pig at April 10, 2024 07:22 PM (vFG9F)

268 I have a vest thing that also has cargo pants pockets all over it. I can have a million pockets when hiking.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (eoQWY)

You never have enough pockets. The more pockets you have the more you want to carry. It's a never ending quest to pack yer pockets full of stuff you might need.

The only problem with this philosophy is that you never know what pocket you put the one thing that you do need in.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (89Sog)

You keep a list of what is in each pocket in a special pocket.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:22 PM (eoQWY)

269 251 Yoga pants > capri pants
Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2024 07:16 PM (W/lyH)

Depends on the lady.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:23 PM (di6C2)

270 228 Men should not have 6 to 8 inches of your socks showing when sitting in a chair. Bribe'em is a serial offender of this
Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2024 07:11 PM (R7l+6)
Word. I want my boots (and my legs) unscratched as possible, and my white legs don't need to be seen by strangers. This is why I wear Wranglers 4" longer than my size. Even with flipflops.

Posted by: Eromero at April 10, 2024 07:23 PM (NxC5+)

271 No cargo pants? Sacrilege!
Please no fashion cops in Corsicana!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2024 07:23 PM (DfCet)

272 How many points is "apsidal"?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (w6EFb)
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Depends. P and D are only worth 2-3 points each, I think. The others are only worth 1 point.

However, if you can play all seven letters from your tray, you do get a 50-point bonus.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 07:23 PM (BpYfr)

273 David Hogg... "Leaders We Deserve PAC"

I quit.

Posted by: the jokewriter at April 10, 2024 07:24 PM (hSwza)

274 Those iron on patches on the knees.
My brother didn't get hand me downs as I destroyed every pair in about 3 months.

Posted by: Reforger at April 10, 2024 07:24 PM (B705c)

275 You keep a list of what is in each pocket in a special pocket.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:22 PM (eoQWY)

You win.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 10, 2024 07:24 PM (89Sog)

276
247 Oh that reminds me...what the hell are capri pants for? Shorts keep your legs cool, pants keep them warm.

Is there really a reason where you want the part of your leg above the calf warm and the rest cold?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024

I think women wear them because they feel they may be more flattering than shorts. It’s the rare person that can pull off pants hitting right where capris hit. Even worse if you happen to be short, like me. If shorts aren’t your thing, then skirts are great options over capris.

That said, if you love your capris, wear ‘em.

Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

277 My brother didn't get hand me downs as I destroyed every pair in about 3 months.
Posted by: Reforger

And he didn't mind at all; but your parents sure did!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (DfCet)

278
Scrabble calculator Old Cat linked says "apsidal" is worth 10 points.

"Precession" is worth 15. "Perihelion" is worth 15 as well.

Whoah. "Pericynthion" is worth 22 points.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (w6EFb)

279 I was first-born and still had to wear hand me downs. Too many male older cousins.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (WXNFJ)

280 "We are going to follow his lead, and we're excited to do everything we can to get Trump elected."
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:13 PM (vtyCZ)

Times have changed. It's not like the Old Days, when we can do anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. If The Meatball has all the judges, and the politicians and their money in Florida, then he must share them, or let us others use them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all... we are not Communists.

Posted by: President Donald J. Trump at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (R/m4+)

281 However, if you can play all seven letters from your tray, you do get a 50-point bonus.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2024 07:23 PM (BpYfr)

Unless this is turn 1, that couldn't take 7 letters off the tray if you ban putting an s on the end of some other word in the process. Normally a 7 letter word only pulls 6 out.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (eoQWY)

282 You keep a list of what is in each pocket in a special pocket.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:22 PM (eoQWY)

You win.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 10, 2024 07:24 PM (89Sog)

Dewey Decimal system

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 07:27 PM (NtVYv)

283 @13

>>I'm seriously starting to think their Play is to "let" Trump win and then make life unlivable.

There is no scenario where they want Trump to win, even with the full Panopticon arrayed against him, he was able to accomplish much, and if he were to get a shot at sitting behind The Resolute Desk again, he will undo a lot of the things The Junta has put into place and into action.

So, sh*t is going to start getting real bad, real soon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2024 07:27 PM (XV/Pl)

284 Scrabble Together

After their breakthrough #1 hit "Happy Together", The Turtles finished their world tour and retreated to the Sunset Sound studio to work on their long anticipated concept album. Unfortunately, it was a critical and financial failure although it has recently being reappraised by an new audience.

Posted by: Rolling Stone at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (yOPBE)

285 219 210 I found a video that pronounces that. They wrote it was an Indian word. I'm so childish, sorry.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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No. It was a perfectly reasonable pronunciation question, CG.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:08 PM (vtyCZ)

This one?

https://youtu.be/8o-oQCb3ZAY
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 10, 2024 07:09 PM (ynpvh)

Yup, that's the one I found and it sounds like the f word to me a little. I would laugh if I ever heard anyone said this word out loud.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (3Ohu0)

286 Scrabble calculator Old Cat linked says "apsidal" is worth 10 points.

"Precession" is worth 15. "Perihelion" is worth 15 as well.

Whoah. "Pericynthion" is worth 22 points.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (w6EFb)

You only have 7 letters in the tray. So unless part of those were already on the table, you can't make them.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (eoQWY)

287 Unless this is turn 1, that couldn't take 7 letters off the tray if you ban putting an s on the end of some other word in the process. Normally a 7 letter word only pulls 6 out.
Posted by: Oldcat

Sheesh. I thought the point of games was to have fun.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (WXNFJ)

288 We had a Scrabble set but it was missing all the vowels.

Posted by: Man who lives as a pig at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

289 The moon is ever so slightly moving away from the earth. I suppose at some point it will escape the orbit altogether. Or so I've read.
I doubt any of us will be around for that.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

An Ancient Aliens episode I saw once claimed aliens created the moon and parked it in the Earth's orbit as a base to spy on us. One of the items of proof was the moon was the perfect size in the perfect orbit to exactly block out the sun during eclipses. So Monday, I'm looking at the full eclipse and I remembered that ep and went...Hmmm

Posted by: Biergood at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (PwgSL)

290 >>> Unless this is turn 1, that couldn't take 7 letters off the tray if you ban putting an s on the end of some other word in the process. Normally a 7 letter word only pulls 6 out.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (eoQWY)

... and that officer, is when everyone drew their weapon.

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 07:29 PM (Y6IkP)

291 Man who, Welsh are you ?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 10, 2024 07:29 PM (R7l+6)

292 "Like it's a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It's a little interesting, but it's not a lot interesting."

===

Sounds like Kamaltoe and not Klein but there is that common thread of stupidity in the Biden's junta.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 10, 2024 07:29 PM (17s+e)

293 Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway: "Dewey Decimal system"

You're either dangerously close to 29 or past it. Congratulations on your survival skills.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 07:29 PM (aXxgO)

294 Will this news about Señor Hogg impact the possibility of Thunberg-Hogg nuptials?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 10, 2024 07:30 PM (a3Q+t)

295 So, sh*t is going to start getting real bad, real soon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2024 07:27 PM (XV/Pl)

No coup can allow a counter coup. They have actually tried to play the Machiavellian handbook here and purge all of their enemies, but in a fairly medium way.

I think we are going to see them start to go hard core.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:30 PM (di6C2)

296 café nood

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (vtyCZ)

297 My Mom sewed shit on to the bottom to make them longer ( hides head in shame )
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2024 07:17 PM (NtVYv)
It wont' lace, was it?

Posted by: Eromero at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (NxC5+)

298 Will this news about Señor Hogg impact the possibility of Thunberg-Hogg nuptials?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

If I were to be forced to view Thunberg's nuptials I'd claw my own eyes out.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (WXNFJ)

299 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (fwDg9)

300 I bought a kit for helping you write books from ikea: it was a bag of scrabble tiles.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (DfCet)

301 Welshie!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (di6C2)

302 Sheesh. I thought the point of games was to have fun.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (WXNFJ)

We play Mahjongg. Bring your checkbook.

Posted by: Minh Souphanousinphone at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (PiwSw)

303 I think women wear them because they feel they may be more flattering than shorts. It’s the rare person that can pull off pants hitting right where capris hit. Even worse if you happen to be short, like me. If shorts aren’t your thing, then skirts are great options over capris.

That said, if you love your capris, wear ‘em.
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

Mary Tyler Moore in the Dick Van Dyke show was the queen of Capris.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (eoQWY)

304 Nood. The Café is open.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (a3Q+t)

305 288 We had a Scrabble set but it was missing all the vowels.

Only way to play, cymrawd

Posted by: the welsh at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (hSwza)

306
I know this doesn't mean anything, but Sheila Jackson Lee rambling, trying to explain the eclipse said this is the closest the Moon has been in "20 years" and that's why it "blocks out the light".

She also said it was a ball of gases.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (4zrly)

307 Heh. I remember the "highwaters" hall of shame. It's to this day why I insist that my trousers break at the bottom of the heel with maybe an 8th of an inch to spare. Ah, the things that traumatized us when we were young.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 10, 2024 07:31 PM (V8he0)

308 Speaking of socks...Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting.

https://tinyurl.com/mr6bfj6v

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 10, 2024 07:32 PM (R/m4+)

309 We called that "highwaters" in grade school

In the Chicago area, these were called "floods".

Posted by: Chuck C at April 10, 2024 07:32 PM (yOPBE)

310 "Will this news about Señor Hogg impact the possibility of Thunberg-Hogg nuptials?
Posted by: Duncanthrax "

That guy is a poser. I bet he doesn't own a weed whacker either.

Posted by: Man who lives as a pig at April 10, 2024 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

311 Aetius451AD: "I think we are going to see them start to go hard core."

Trump's going to need a Super Secret Service to backstop the Secret Service. Or maybe even in front of them.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at April 10, 2024 07:33 PM (aXxgO)

312 In the Chicago area, these were called "floods".

Yep!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 10, 2024 07:34 PM (V8he0)

313
I think women wear them because they feel they may be more flattering than shorts. It’s the rare person that can pull off pants hitting right where capris hit. Even worse if you happen to be short, like me. If shorts aren’t your thing, then skirts are great options over capris.

That said, if you love your capris, wear ‘em.
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:25 PM

I like capri pants, I wear them with oxfords and no show socks.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:34 PM (3Ohu0)

314 >>> "Like it's a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It's a little interesting, but it's not a lot interesting."
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Sounds like Kamaltoe and not Klein but there is that common thread of stupidity in the Biden's junta.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 10, 2024 07:29 PM (17s+e)

When I hear the left's various organizers talk like that I think about this old Millennium (X-Files spinoff tv show) episode that touched on the lives of demons and how miserable their jobs were.
When

Posted by: banana Dream is mostly made up of gases at April 10, 2024 07:34 PM (Y6IkP)

315 Creating fake words?

Like that one that has, as a root word, “influence”?

Or the word people like to use instead of “expensive” because saying/using it is just TOO HARD?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 10, 2024 07:36 PM (WLul0)

316 An Ancient Aliens episode I saw once claimed aliens created the moon and parked it in the Earth's orbit as a base to spy on us. One of the items of proof was the moon was the perfect size in the perfect orbit to exactly block out the sun during eclipses. So Monday, I'm looking at the full eclipse and I remembered that ep and went...Hmmm
Posted by: Biergood at April 10, 2024 07:28 PM (PwgSL)

There's a pretty decent SF story called Mutineer's Moon where the Moon was a battle station who's crew had mutinied and the mutineers had won and were running things on Earth for 50000 years. It grabs an astronaut and names him captain for a counter attack on them.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:36 PM (eoQWY)

317
That said, if you love your capris, wear ‘em.
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:25 PM

I like capri pants, I wear them with oxfords and no show socks.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:34 PM (3Ohu0)

*correction, maybe I call the length of pants I like more cropped than capri, ankle length and not flared.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:36 PM (3Ohu0)

318 And he didn't mind at all; but your parents sure did!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2024 07:26 PM (DfCet)

And through it all he became the expensive one to raise. He marked in his mind every desperate attempt my parents made to bribe me into taking school seriously. His best one was when I was 15 1/2 he heard them tell me if I would just get all B's they would buy me a new Ford Ranger. I of course failed but he didn't.
I remember him walking in after he got his straight A report card after he got his permit and saying "When are we going to get my new truck. I was looking at the red one." My dad shit but did it.
Then 3 days after he got his license he got an 11 demerit ticket coming home from Tahoe and I got it as he lost his license for a year when the juvie judge got done with him

Posted by: Reforger at April 10, 2024 07:37 PM (B705c)

319 That said, if you love your capris, wear ‘em.
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:25 PM

I like capri pants, I wear them with oxfords and no show socks.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:34 PM (3Ohu0)

*correction, maybe I call the length of pants I like more cropped than capri, ankle length and not flared.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:36 PM

Danger! Danger! Danger, Morons! Fashion Thread outbreak!!!

Posted by: The AoSHQ Robot at April 10, 2024 07:38 PM (a3Q+t)

320 Creating fake words?

Like that one that has, as a root word, “influence”?

Or the word people like to use instead of “expensive” because saying/using it is just TOO HARD?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 10, 2024 07:36 PM (WLul0)

English is the acme of new wordism and has for hundreds of years. Nouning verbs and adjectives and Verbing nouns is a hallowed rite.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:39 PM (eoQWY)

321 *correction, maybe I call the length of pants I like more cropped than capri, ankle length and not flared.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 10, 2024 07:36 PM

Danger! Danger! Danger, Morons! Fashion Thread outbreak!!!
Posted by: The AoSHQ Robot at April 10, 2024 07:38 PM (a3Q+t)

Maybe those are named after a smaller Italian Island, like Pantellaria.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2024 07:41 PM (eoQWY)

322 I like Capri pants/clamdiggers and the lovely and stylish Mrs naturalfake rocks them.

Unless you've got cankles or a mega-ass or some such thing, I've rarely seen a woman that doesn't look good in them.

Though......the weirdest fashion trend I've seen was Capri pants for men which was popular in Japan last time we visited there.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 10, 2024 07:50 PM (eDfFs)

323 247 Oh that reminds me...what the hell are capri pants for? Shorts keep your legs cool, pants keep them warm.

Is there really a reason where you want the part of your leg above the calf warm and the rest cold?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2024

I think women wear them because they feel they may be more flattering than shorts. It’s the rare person that can pull off pants hitting right where capris hit. Even worse if you happen to be short, like me. If shorts aren’t your thing, then skirts are great options over capris.

That said, if you love your capris, wear ‘em.
Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2024 07:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

Mrs. Cop is vertically-challenged. She tried on a pair of pants were supposed to be capris ... they ended up looking like the aforementioned "highwaters."

I just tried to keep from laughing.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 10, 2024 08:04 PM (pJWtt)

324 CAPRIs ... Is there any difference between these and what was called "Pedal Pushers" back in the day?

Posted by: Kathy at April 10, 2024 08:10 PM (yG7uN)

325 >So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?

BalderScrabble - bluffing like hell in the hopes your opponent won't risk challenging you - is a fine tradition in Scrabble.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at April 10, 2024 09:38 PM (0Go0g)

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