The ONT Heard 'Round The World

Hello Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea!

One great big CHONK of a train

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Fido Friday: Frens!

I love how Mark Twain ended "A Medieval Romance"

Watching you

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This needs to be a real thing

Tough crowd

Musical interlude

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Appreciate the sentiment, hate the optics

Infograph

Some of y'all have asked what it takes to become a COB. There are a series of tests looking for some very specific skills

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He's got a point

Justin

How to mount a bull

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Friend operation

I am suspicious of the fact that he asks about the navy.

Greetings from Texas

Wheeee!

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Truth

We used to be a proper country

Magic trick

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Cat or printer?

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by epic trolls:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 09:51 PM

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Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 19, 2024 10:00 PM (duT0u)

2 Yo WD

Yo ONT

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at April 19, 2024 10:01 PM (YoS4M)

3 4th

Posted by: Rex B at April 19, 2024 10:01 PM (5h/8D)

4 Good evening horde! Have a good ONT. Thanks WD.

Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2024 10:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

5 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:01 PM (JAhdn)

6 Looks like this one (1) goes to eleven (1 1)

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 19, 2024 10:02 PM (duT0u)

7 Hey, WD. LOL at the meme up top.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:03 PM (9yWhg)

8 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 19, 2024 10:06 PM (Wnv9h)

9 Fido Friday: Frens!

I've been nuzzled and licked by calves but not by a cow. Bucket list item!

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 10:06 PM (5fDan)

10 Those are some handsome women.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 10:06 PM (XV/Pl)

11 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

12 Nice content tonight. The guy with the pistol is Ian of the EweTube channel "Forgotten Weapons"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2024 10:07 PM (uqx1e)

13 Hey, Tonypete.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:07 PM (9yWhg)

14 Yo B!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)

15 Magic trick

Reminds me of Art Metrano's magic performances. Anyone else remember Art?

Dah-da-da-dah, dah-da-da-dah....

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 10:09 PM (5fDan)

16 >One great big CHONK of a train

gotta admit, those giant steam locomotives are pretty cool

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:11 PM (oCjPU)

17 Ren is a litigious piece of shit commie fuck. Fuck her and all that.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 10:11 PM (IG4Id)

18 I just saw a Taylor Swift video advertised where she has a bunch of (I assume fake) prison-style face tattoos.

Expect lovely young women to have prison-style face tattoos soon.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 19, 2024 10:12 PM (JuA5P)

19 The fake airfield story is awesome.

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 19, 2024 10:12 PM (eHovo)

20 Great ONT, WeirdDave!

What is that Brrrrrp pistol? I kinda want one.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 19, 2024 10:12 PM (3e3hy)

21 Rock Sand -- Excellent.

Thank you Weird Dave. Lots of smiles tonight.

Cat / Inkjet printer -- so true.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:12 PM (u82oZ)

22 Tonypete, where do you live?

I am in Hell’s suburb, otherwise known as Northern Virginia.

Any chance we could meet up over a coffee or drinks?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:12 PM (9yWhg)

23 Don Black

Where do we find all those boiler tech technicians?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:13 PM (u82oZ)

24 Noodling with the new to me VCV Rack 2 modular synth plugin.

First impression, this is going to be a tremendous time suck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 19, 2024 10:14 PM (XV/Pl)

25 The winning CoB is the one on the left at the end.

Wait, has Garret been a CoB?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:14 PM (u82oZ)

26 >Where do we find all those boiler tech technicians?

Posted by: NaCly Dog

it's probably a forgotten art

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:14 PM (oCjPU)

27 The dark haired woman had excellent popsicle technique... Very enthusiastic.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 19, 2024 10:14 PM (duT0u)

28 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 19, 2024 10:15 PM (SRRAx)

29 The kid's trigger discipline is wanting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 10:15 PM (j7aNt)

30 That top picture wouldn't pass muster today. In current media you can't have anymore than two white people in any social setting without blacks or other poc.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 10:16 PM (m3jEV)

31 One can only imagine how exhausting it would be to produce an entire jar of nut butter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 10:16 PM (j7aNt)

32 Good evening, friends! The wooden bomb story is spectacular. We used to have such a cool country. Damn hippies ruined it for all of us.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

33 Fingers crossed this is the first comment!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 10:16 PM (vJiyU)

34 Worthless superstition.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 10:17 PM (vJiyU)

35 Evenin', y'all

Big Boy no. 4004 sits in a park in Cheyenne. It's yuge. I've got an awesome pic of J standing by it.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 19, 2024 10:17 PM (wQXfi)

36 22 Tonypete, where do you live?

I am in Hell’s suburb, otherwise known as Northern Virginia.

Any chance we could meet up over a coffee or drinks?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Don't think I ever heard NoVA called Hell's suburb. I generally refer to it as Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 10:17 PM (gllTv)

37 32 Darn! I meant darn hippies. I will go put myself in the naughty chair for forgetting I am a lady.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

38 Great meme!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 10:17 PM (W/lyH)

39 Moron Robbie

Perhaps because the National Police have become goons. Like all the pretty women raped by Beria led to their disappearance from Moscow until his death.

Although I would expect trannies to be taken off the street first.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:18 PM (u82oZ)

40 One of the weirder headlines you'll see:

White House defends Biden's claim his uncle was eaten by cannibals

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:18 PM (oCjPU)

41 Howdy Arabia?

HOWDY ARABIA?!?!?!?!

*Breathes heavily*

*Thinks*

Goddammit, it actually kinda fits.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:18 PM (JAhdn)

42 Good evening morons and thanks for all the memes wd

Free speech is hate speech. Especially when hating the French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2024 10:18 PM (RIvkX)

43 Well. I know that I’m headed in a wrong direction if I’m here this late at night.

Posted by: RI Red at April 19, 2024 10:19 PM (T9WMp)

44 The fake airfield story is awesome.

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I'm having a hard time deciding between that and Roxanne.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 19, 2024 10:19 PM (JuA5P)

45 One can only imagine how exhausting it would be to produce an entire jar of nut butter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

No problem.

Posted by: The Elephants, what's grey and comes in quarts at April 19, 2024 10:19 PM (vJiyU)

46 32 Good evening, friends! The wooden bomb story is spectacular. We used to have such a cool country. Damn hippies ruined it for all of us.
Posted by: Piper

Technically, those were the Brits when they were still British.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 10:19 PM (gllTv)

47 {{{ Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas }}}

Did you get your needed supply of (legal and prescribed) drugs?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:19 PM (u82oZ)

48 Justin's Peanut Butter is pretty good too. Expensive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 19, 2024 10:19 PM (RIvkX)

49 Ren is a litigious piece of shit commie fuck. Fuck her and all that.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 10:11 PM (IG4Id)

I thought that name seemed familiar.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:20 PM (JAhdn)

50 I assume the cannibals got dumber after eating a Biden

Posted by: Wally at April 19, 2024 10:20 PM (EyElY)

51 >>>> it actually kinda fits.

Posted by: Robert
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Texas is full of Arabs? Who knew?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 10:20 PM (Y09kC)

52 Okay, the kids and the magic trick is pretty durned cute.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:21 PM (JAhdn)

53 Guess I'll be watching Back To The Future tonight.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 10:21 PM (W/lyH)

54 >>> Technically, those were the Brits when they were still British.

Posted by: Puddleglum
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They were better people when they were mean.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 10:22 PM (Y09kC)

55 36 I just made that up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:23 PM (9yWhg)

56 Robert

Older sister trains younger brother. A story as old as time.

And I agree with Texas Arabia. It's the all-American attitude to the fourth power. Except Austin. Austin is weird.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:23 PM (u82oZ)

57 46. I should know that with the neon clue of ROYAL Air Force.

I blame the hippies again.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

58 I am suspicious of the fact that he asks about the navy.

If a Japanese dude asks about your navy, the zeroes are already on their way.

Posted by: Do not trust these motherfuckers at April 19, 2024 10:23 PM (zSKU3)

59 Hi, Piper.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:24 PM (9yWhg)

60 36 Don't think I ever heard NoVA called Hell's suburb. I generally refer to it as Babylon DC.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 10:17 PM
***
We're in NoVa. When we first moved here, we met a young neighbor who affirmatively distanced herself from VA. She clearly thought of NoVa as west suburban DC. Can't say it was a surprise but it was memorable. We haven't spoken to her since.

Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2024 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

61 Older sister trains younger brother. A story as old as time.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:23 PM (u82oZ)

I have an older sister. I wasn't trained so much as enslaved.

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:24 PM (JAhdn)

62 I see Mark Twain adopted the "George R. R. Martin Strategy."

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:24 PM (g0Y4p)

63 Piper

Did your (home)school get the needed IT equipment? Hopefully with a grant from the DOE.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:25 PM (u82oZ)

64 53 There are much worse movies you could watch, Diogenes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:25 PM (9yWhg)

65 {{{Piper}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM (u82oZ)

66 *Looks at the Marine Report*

Would marrying an exotic dancer really be all that bad?

Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM (JAhdn)

67 59 Hi, Piper.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Hello there, sir!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

68 I'm a NoVA-nista too. It's overrated.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM (gllTv)

69 > We used to be a proper country

Some parts of West Virginia still are.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 10:27 PM (Q4IgG)

70 58 I am suspicious of the fact that he asks about the navy.

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The surprise arrival of two extra carriers at Midway still burns deeply in the Japanese psyche.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 10:28 PM (j7aNt)

71 *Looks at the Marine Report*

Would marrying an exotic dancer really be all that bad?
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM (JAhd

Well, when you're the fifth guy she's married in a week, . . .

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 10:28 PM (emlEe)

72 I'm a NoVA-nista too. It's overrated.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM (gllTv)

Only been to NoVA twice. Except for Mount Vernon, didn't really care for it.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:28 PM (g0Y4p)

73 Robert

The Marine Gunny Sargents say so. Lots of experience in that failure pattern.

Saw some of that in the Service in my day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:28 PM (u82oZ)

74 May I offer an AOSHQ ending to the Twain story?

I am almost certain some onion may be involved?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2024 10:28 PM (pDQ/8)

75 B - I am in the hills of Central/Eastern TN. Perhaps we can meet at the NoVaMoMe sometime. I have been lax in attending any of the MoMes the past few years.

But you never know, my schedule might free up.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 10:28 PM (WXNFJ)

76 66 *Looks at the Marine Report*

Would marrying an exotic dancer really be all that bad?
Posted by: Robert at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM (JAhdn)

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On one hand you got your dangers, then over here you got your concerns.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 10:29 PM (j7aNt)

77 60 I am a born and bread Yankee, but even I find it disgusting that the noble Commonwealth of Virginia should be so closely associated with DC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:30 PM (9yWhg)

78 I knew a Marine who married a stripper who worked outside of Camp LeJeune. He was ok. Nothing crazy or weird. Just normal. Nice dude. His wife was, well, nice. Normal even. If she had 'issues' I sure didn't notice. She had stopped stripping when she got married. Had a bout of cancer and that would sober a person up quick too. I liked them. Nice couple.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 10:30 PM (gllTv)

79 I will go put myself in the naughty chair for forgetting I am a lady.
Posted by: Piper

If it happens again, a spanking may be in order!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 10:31 PM (WXNFJ)

80 Puddleglum at work

20 years in Control Central of Reston, VA. Got lots of stories.

Left before the Silver Line and the Toll Road raising funding for it. I could see the problems starting. Plus, the control freak issues got out of hand.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:31 PM (u82oZ)

81 If waking up to find both your ice chest and your kidney missing doesn't concern you, then by all means marry an exotic dancer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 10:31 PM (j7aNt)

82 47 {{{ Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas }}}

Did you get your needed supply of (legal and prescribed) drugs?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:19 PM (u82oZ)

NO!!!!!

Now they're saying it may be the end of June before they get it back in stock 😠😠😠

Tell you what, you hear about trucks getting hijacked and everything being stolen and sold on the black market - some enterprising criminals could make a killing boosting the trucks coming out of the Eli Lilly manufacturing plants.

And I must be an addict, because I would actually sell Mr. TIFW to get my hands on some 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 19, 2024 10:31 PM (SRRAx)

83 > We used to be a proper country

Some parts of West Virginia still are.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 10:27 PM (Q4IgG)

Those West By God schoolgirls competing in the shot put and the javelin throw who walked off rather than compete against a trans prove West By God is doing some things right.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 10:31 PM (emlEe)

84 Hi Salty!

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:32 PM (g0Y4p)

85 63 Piper

Did your (home)school get the needed IT equipment? Hopefully with a grant from the DOE.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at

Hi!
Yes, I folded and bought another, just 1 model behind the latest to save money. But it is turned over to me, the head school marm, at the end of the day. She has an iPod to text me on when I have to go to work and J isn’t home, which is about all it can do. The poor abused child was drawing when I got home this evening “because there was nothing else to do”. Like that was a bad thing!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

86 75 OK, TonyP. Let me know if you’re ever round this way. Would love to meet you in person.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:33 PM (9yWhg)

87 68 I'm a NoVA-nista too. It's overrated.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 10:26 PM
***
Its all relative. Our little part of NoVa has worked out well but NoVa varies widely and some parts are...um...less compelling. Lots of good day trips and weekend trips further west and south.

Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2024 10:34 PM (IQ6Gq)

88

WeirdDave, I am surprised the mystery click was not this gem from the Barbarettes.

https://tinyurl.com/3bzj45h9

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 10:34 PM (D7oie)

89 I am suspicious of the fact that he asks about the navy.

How many battleships are at anchor, sailor?

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 19, 2024 10:34 PM (MsrgL)

90 Dr. T!

Less than a month to go, right?

Are your students getting a clue, and finding mechanisms underlying all of history?

The Collapse of Complex Societies and The Rise and Fall of Great Powers have entered the chat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:35 PM (u82oZ)

91 50 I assume the cannibals got dumber after eating a Biden
Posted by: Wally at April 19, 2024 10:20 PM (EyElY)

Did they get dumber, or just hungry again in an hour?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2024 10:35 PM (VNX3d)

92 Sorry I'm late Tim Hortons didn't have any beignets.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 19, 2024 10:36 PM (Hw43F)

93 'They wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky': Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden's 'unacceptable' suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle

Analysts branded Biden's comments as 'unsubstantiated and poorly judged'
Other academics said his categorization of the cannibalism was 'very offensive'
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Not the Bee, but the Daily Mail

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:36 PM (oCjPU)

94 Finnegan was a sucker and a loser.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at April 19, 2024 10:36 PM (63Dwl)

95 Did they get dumber, or just hungry again in an hour?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Really too bad bidens aren't like potato chips.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 10:38 PM (vJiyU)

96 92 Sorry I'm late Tim Hortons didn't have any beignets.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 19, 2024 10:36 PM
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I read that too quickly and was puzzled. I didn't recall that bidets were ever available at Tim Hortons.

Posted by: TRex at April 19, 2024 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

97 Are your students getting a clue, and finding mechanisms underlying all of history?

The Collapse of Complex Societies and The Rise and Fall of Great Powers have entered the chat.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:35 PM (u82oZ)

Finding mechanisms? No. But they have shown flashes of intelligence here and there.

We discussed the '60s this week, and one student said he thought all the big events were a CIA conspiracy. A few years ago I would have told him that was a bit silly.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:38 PM (g0Y4p)

98 Analysts branded Biden's comments as 'unsubstantiated and poorly judged'
Other academics said his categorization of the cannibalism was 'very offensive'

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Even cannibals have standards.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 10:38 PM (j7aNt)

99 Piper

You are doing it right, then. Not that I was concerned at all.

Homeschooling is a killer ap for success in the burning times. I see what is told to the kids in even a "good" public school these days. I'd be fired so fast if I taught real science again.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:39 PM (u82oZ)

100 Sorry I'm late Tim Hortons didn't have any beignets.
Posted by: tankdemon

This is getting out of hand. Mom carry you for 12 mos.?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 10:39 PM (vJiyU)

101 The New Guinea cannibals thought that Finnegan tasted ambrosial.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:40 PM (9yWhg)

102 92 Sorry I'm late Tim Hortons didn't have any beignets.
Posted by: tankdemon at April

Those Canadian beignets!

For those not from LA or AL, if you blow out while you eat a beignet, you won’t get powdered sugar all over you.

You are welcome.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

103 Dr. T

Students finding intelligence from your teachings is sooo awesome. Wahoo!!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:41 PM (u82oZ)

104 I am suspicious of the fact that he asks about the navy.

Yu sirpirse I speek your ranguage!
I studie tree year U See Rell Aaa!

Posted by: William Dawes at April 19, 2024 10:41 PM (W/lyH)

105 For those not from LA or AL, if you blow out while you eat a beignet, you won’t get powdered sugar all over you.

You are welcome.
Posted by: Piper

hunter should take notes.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 10:41 PM (vJiyU)

106 Would marrying an exotic dancer really be all that bad?
Posted by: Robert
*********
I knew two Merchant mariners, both engineers, who did that. Both ended up dead before their time.

Posted by: Cosda at April 19, 2024 10:42 PM (OitHo)

107 93 'They wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky': Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden's 'unacceptable' suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle

Analysts branded Biden's comments as 'unsubstantiated and poorly judged'
Other academics said his categorization of the cannibalism was 'very offensive'
---

Not the Bee, but the Daily Mail

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:36 PM (oCjPU)

Joe manages to piss off people in a nation the Junta is working hard at making defense and economic ties with, before the Chinese do. Joe, everyone knows you're an idiot. Stop trying to convince us by doing idiotic stuff every day!

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 10:42 PM (5fDan)

108 >>>'They wouldn't just eat any white men that fell from the sky': Outraged Papua New Guinea academics lash out at Biden's 'unacceptable' suggestion that cannibals ate his WW2 pilot uncle

I love the New Guineans' implication that it's offensive not because of the suggestion they're cannibals, but because Biden family members are below their dietary standards.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:42 PM (g0Y4p)

109 I am suspicious of the fact that he asks about the navy.

How many battleships are at anchor, sailor?
Posted by: BifBewalski

Even a blind man could tell when a carrier was due to arrive at Naval Base Subic Bay because all the strip clubs and tittie bars in Olongapo would staff up.

The Mama-sans probably had those old WWII style CIC glass position boards in the backroom.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 10:42 PM (WXNFJ)

110 Kindltot

Very nice musical interlude. Now I'm sleepy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:43 PM (u82oZ)

111 When I see/hear NoVa I think Alexandria, Pentagon, Crystal City, Arlington... points inside the Beltway.

None of that is remotely appealing.

I used to live there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 19, 2024 10:43 PM (Q4IgG)

112 Omaha is UP's headquarters. Every year, UP trundles "Big Boy" up for the College World Series baseball tounament. They have a special spot for it just outside the stadium and park it for the entire ten days. Oh, yeah, you can hear it pulling into Omaha and when it leaves. (Or, at least, I could hear it when we were still living in the house. The apartment is a good twenty miles south of where the house was.)

According to the late Mr. John Kennefick, Chairman of the board when I knew him, those big engines were built during WW II to make it easier and faster to move men and supplies from one end of the country to the other. UP kept them in action during a good portion of the Cold War -- just in case.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 19, 2024 10:44 PM (ET1Q8)

113 You want an Earhart
You'd settle for a Yamamoto
You'll get a Biden

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 10:44 PM (j7aNt)

114 The Japanese and the locals ate each other in Papua New Guinea. It was a terror campaign on each side.
I had an Anthro prof who did a study on calories available in cannibalism, and he determined that strictly from calorie demands, cannibalism only made economic sense in the middle altitudes, since the highlands had better gardening and pig raising options, and the lower sea level areas had marine diet options.
I wish I could know if he ever published, it would have been lit.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 10:44 PM (D7oie)

115 Just because they're cannibals doesn't mean they can't be picky

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:45 PM (oCjPU)

116 Tonypete

The Mama-sans and helpers in Olongapo had a better idea of ship's movements than Operations in CINCPACFLT.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:45 PM (u82oZ)

117 Friday night gun thread...went to a intro pistol class tonight with the wife. Good time. 4 and 7 yard shooting. RIP future paychecks

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 19, 2024 10:47 PM (+I6Y/)

118 For military guys more times than not marrying a stripper isn't going to go well. They're usually whores who will fvck other dudes.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 10:48 PM (m3jEV)

119 Captain Josepha Sabin

Hope you and the XO are thriving.

Status update for my wife is down to two opioid pills a day. She is recovering, albeit slowly.

I'll send you a separate message on planning.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:48 PM (u82oZ)

120 that is cannibalism in New Guinea, since cannibalism in Africa and among the Polynesians tended to be a social element of culture instead of a mostly economic decisions

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 10:48 PM (D7oie)

121 There are much worse movies you could watch, Diogenes.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:25 PM (9yWhg)

True.
If I could ever chloroform Mrs D and gain control of the remote, I'd be binging Foyle's War.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 10:49 PM (W/lyH)

122 99
You are doing it right, then

Thank you. I am far from perfect, but I am doing my best. It was pretty cute, she had all her colored pencils out and was trying to look forlorn but clearly she had been busy and the face was for dramatic effect.

We watched a few Lemony Snicket episodes with dinner instead of eating at the table. Rebels, I tell ya!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:49 PM (ZdaMQ)

123 I had an Anthro prof who did a study on calories available in cannibalism, and he determined that strictly from calorie demands, cannibalism only made economic sense in the middle altitudes, since the highlands had better gardening and pig raising options, and the lower sea level areas had marine diet options.
I wish I could know if he ever published, it would have been lit.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 10:44 PM (D7oie)

The first volume of Will Durant's "Story of Civilization" has a few pages on cannibalism among the ancient peoples, based on what we know of it in the modern era. Bottom line: it was way more common than any of us would like to think, and a lot of them did it not for economic reasons but because they liked the taste. Ick.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:50 PM (g0Y4p)

124 Piper, I think you mentioned on a thread a while ago that you had a studio in South Bend that you had successfully worked with Mayor Pete on regarding a labor dispute?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:51 PM (9yWhg)

125 People: The other red meat.

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 10:52 PM (oCjPU)

126 We watched a few Lemony Snicket episodes with dinner instead of eating at the table. Rebels, I tell ya!
Posted by: Piper

That was one of the more "disturbing" series I have ever watched.
Enjoyed it, but man was it different.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 10:52 PM (vJiyU)

127 Teresa,
Sorry you're having issues getting your medications, I'm probably in the same boat shortly. I hope you're recovered from your surgical ordeals at least.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 19, 2024 10:52 PM (PZo5T)

128 Dr. T

Yes. How common cannibalism was is carefully suppressed, but does pop out of detailed histories like Plagues and People.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 10:53 PM (u82oZ)

129 77 I am a born and bread Yankee
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:30 PM (9yWhg)

A crusty Northerner, then.

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 19, 2024 10:53 PM (eHovo)

130 I don't get the Howdy Arabia thing. Oh yeah because Christians are just friendly backwards Muslims. Now I get it.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 10:54 PM (lX8VI)

131 You don't eat other human beings because it makes economic sense, you eat them because they are delicious.

Posted by: G. Astro Gnome at April 19, 2024 10:54 PM (hpb+5)

132 Salty, I must have missed something - is your wife okay?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 19, 2024 10:56 PM (SRRAx)

133 I f I hear one more Taylor Swift song I’m fucking lighting myself on fire.

Posted by: Max Azzarello at April 19, 2024 10:56 PM (u73oe)

134 The first vid reminded me of the movie The Station Agent.

Excellent story telling movie .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 10:56 PM (MNhXM)

135 The first volume of Will Durant's "Story of Civilization" has a few pages on cannibalism among the ancient peoples, based on what we know of it in the modern era. Bottom line: it was way more common than any of us would like to think, and a lot of them did it not for economic reasons but because they liked the taste. Ick.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:50 PM (g0Y4p)

This was in the 80s when there was a push to claim that cannibalism didn't really exist except for minor ritualistic cultural practices, and claiming that it was common or done for economic reasons was a horribly bigoted point of view of benighted natives with a giant kettles, eating missionaries.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 10:57 PM (D7oie)

136 Hitler appropriated the swastik and just rotated it an 1/8 and claimed it as his own .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 10:59 PM (MNhXM)

137 129 A Michigan guy. So slightly less crusty than a New Englander.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 10:59 PM (9yWhg)

138 124 Piper, I think you mentioned on a thread a while ago that you had a studio in South Bend that you had successfully worked with Mayor Pete on regarding a labor dispute?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19

That was before I became the Barre Instructor to the Stars. In those days, I was a Labor and Employee Relations guru for a large company who had a site in South Bend. I worked with Mayor Pete and the site’s local leadership team on a few community things before negotiations. Which was good, because I ended up locking our employees out, which is never a fun labor move. It got political, as those things do, so I got to spend some time with him in his efforts to support the union and keep well paying jobs in his town.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

139 RockSand, hahaha!

Whenever I hear that song, I remember my cat Kenny. I picked him up when he was 8 weeks old (I'd picked him out when he was 3 weeks). He cried ceaselessly as I drove home, EXCEPT when "Roxanne" came on the radio. He hushed up through the entire song. When it was over, he resumed his yowling.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 10:59 PM (w6EFb)

140 Excellent time for some cannibalism chat.
I told Mrs D to eat me.

It's times like these I'm glad I bought a good couch.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 11:00 PM (W/lyH)

141 > I f I hear one more Taylor Swift song I’m fucking lighting myself on fire.

Posted by: Max Azzarello
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so hit the EJECT ⏏️ button on your CD player already

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 11:00 PM (oCjPU)

142 G. Astro Gnome

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a very funny SF short story about that called: "The Food of the Gods" in The Wind from the Sun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 11:00 PM (u82oZ)

143 {{{NaCly}}}

UP has its main main maintence facilities in North Platte. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they kept one crew specifically to keep Big Boy in tip top condition.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 19, 2024 11:01 PM (ET1Q8)

144 The first volume of Will Durant's "Story of Civilization" has a few pages on cannibalism among the ancient peoples, based on what we know of it in the modern era. Bottom line: it was way more common than any of us would like to think, and a lot of them did it not for economic reasons but because they liked the taste. Ick.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 10:50 PM (g0Y4p)

Besides the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash in the Andes, the last real episode of cannibalism I remember reading about was with the populace of Leningrad during the 900-day siege. The Eastern Front was brutal.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:01 PM (emlEe)

145 Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 10:57 PM (D7oie)

I grew up in Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana. The Calcasieu were a cannibal tribe of Indians according to my sixth grade teacher.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:01 PM (MNhXM)

146 Those cannibals went on to rule the world. Bigger cocks, massive libido, every woman in the civilized world of free nations has had a little Biden in their vaginas after WWII, because they couldn't resist, couldn't resist the growing force of Biden man-meat and world dominance and unequaled intellect.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2024 11:02 PM (pDQ/8)

147 I'm kind of surprised Mayor Pete ever did anything useful besides lactating.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:02 PM (j7aNt)

148 Sidney, one bomb, one bomb only; wood.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 11:02 PM (Y09kC)

149 Hitler appropriated the swastik and just rotated it an 1/8 and claimed it as his own .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 10:59 PM (MNhXM)

All that and cultural appropriation too? The man wasn't fit to live.

Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 11:02 PM (lX8VI)

150 a horribly bigoted point of view of benighted natives with a giant kettles, eating missionaries.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 10:57 PM (D7oie)

Where did they get those giant kettles? There was no Amazon in the Amazon.

I'm trying to remember which book I read that told of the Iroquois roasting settlers and eating their buttocks. Grim.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

151 138 So, dealing with South Bend, did you hear of a town in southern Michigan called Cassopolis?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:03 PM (9yWhg)

152 > I f I hear one more Taylor Swift song I’m fucking lighting myself on fire.

Posted by: Max Azzarello

----

It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me
At tea time, everybody agrees
I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 11:04 PM (g0Y4p)

153 I'm trying to remember which book I read that told of the Iroquois roasting settlers and eating their buttocks. Grim.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

Literal long pork butt

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 19, 2024 11:04 PM (+I6Y/)

154 The Andrew Sisters, they did their part - in a good way.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 11:04 PM (Y09kC)

155 I'm trying to remember which book I read that told of the Iroquois roasting settlers and eating their buttocks. Grim.
Posted by: Miley

Butt, no worries - we've been told they were noble savages.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 11:04 PM (WXNFJ)

156 Just walked out to the beach to see the sun dick behind Mt Jupiter. The sun is tracking further and further north along the Olympic Mountain range.

Still chilly, not quite 60 degrees. There's a bit of a breeze blowing in off the water. The salty air smells wonderful.

I love it here.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (8ZrHX)

157 I'm trying to remember which book I read that told of the Iroquois roasting settlers and eating their buttocks. Grim.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

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Funny, but I always heard the Iroquois used the entire settler, leaving nothing to waste.

Not true?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (j7aNt)

158 I'm trying to remember which book I read that told of the Iroquois roasting settlers and eating their buttocks. Grim.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

Smoked Boston butt.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (emlEe)

159 Good trivia question is how many total people have lived on earth since it’s creation.

There is a slight range since there is no consensus from the ‘experts’

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (MNhXM)

160 131 You don't eat other human beings because it makes economic sense, you eat them because they are delicious.
Posted by: G. Astro Gnome at April 19, 2024 10:54 PM (hpb+5)

You eat people to gain their magic and add it to your own. You shrink their heads to capture their souls so they cannot curse you from the spirit world.

old ways are best

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 19, 2024 11:06 PM (z+89e)

161 Top pic... Such lovely ladies.
Also I my earworm for when I wake up at 0300.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 19, 2024 11:06 PM (MvA9C)

162 Good trivia question is how many total people have lived on earth since it’s creation.

All of them?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 11:06 PM (WXNFJ)

163 Besides the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash in the Andes, the last real episode of cannibalism I remember reading about was with the populace of Leningrad during the 900-day siege. The Eastern Front was brutal.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:01 PM (emlEe)

Reading anything about the Eastern Front makes you wish both sides could have lost. Their help was necessary, but the average Red Army soldier was just a bastard.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 11:07 PM (g0Y4p)

164 Good trivia question is how many total people have lived on earth since it’s creation.

All of them?
Posted by: Tonypete

If Starship is successful, and we put colonies on the Moon and Mars,that answer could change.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2024 11:07 PM (VNX3d)

165 The Brits forgot to write “Nuts” on the side of the bomb.

Posted by: Anthony McAuliffe at April 19, 2024 11:08 PM (5h/8D)

166 146 Those cannibals went on to rule the world. Bigger cocks, massive libido, every woman in the civilized world of free nations has had a little Biden in their vaginas after WWII, because they couldn't resist, couldn't resist the growing force of Biden man-meat and world dominance and unequaled intellect.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Confirmed truth!! I will now touch myself vigorously!

Posted by: Chris Hayes, reel newzpxrson at April 19, 2024 11:08 PM (gllTv)

167 156 Just walked out to the beach to see the sun dick

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (8ZrHX)

Sounds hawt!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

168 Teresa in Fort Worth, Howdy Texas

She fell almost three weeks ago and broke 4 ribs and a dishwasher.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 11:08 PM (u82oZ)

169 I love it here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (8ZrHX)

On days like this I do too.
Just had a great couple of hours with my neighbor, the retired sailor, and his buddy, the retired Air Force guy, sitting in the sun and sipping really good beer.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 11:08 PM (W/lyH)

170 Me no type good no more. Me blame iPad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 19, 2024 11:08 PM (MvA9C)

171 >>>There is a slight range since there is no consensus from the ‘experts’
Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (MNhXM)

My wag would put it around a trillion.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 11:09 PM (m3jEV)

172 Reading anything about the Eastern Front makes you wish both sides could have lost. Their help was necessary, but the average Red Army soldier was just a bastard.
Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 11:07 PM (g0Y4p)

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The Red Army soldiers had a pretty good reason for being bastards.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:09 PM (j7aNt)

173 There's usually (at least) one of WD's memes I don't get.

Rock Sand -- Excellent...
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Thanks, NaCly, for saving me from asking! 🙂
_____

Howdy. Y'all. Great post, WD.

Locomotive was awesome

Population chart small countries were a bit hard to read.

Posted by: mindful webworker - back again... what's left of me at April 19, 2024 11:09 PM (L6R40)

174 The Red Army soldiers had a pretty good reason for being bastards.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:09 PM (j7aNt)

Against the Poles? I don’t think so.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:10 PM (MNhXM)

175 159 Good trivia question is how many total people have lived on earth since it’s creation.

There is a slight range since there is no consensus from the ‘experts’

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (MNhXM)

14 Billion

Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 11:11 PM (5fDan)

176 >>>I f I hear one more Taylor Swift song I’m fucking lighting myself on fire.

Posted by: Max Azzarello

>I can honestly say I haven't heard one Tay-Tay song that I could recognize.

If I was to give her the bone, she'd have no career in the world of social insanity and would be raising babies and making sammiches for daddy.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2024 11:11 PM (pDQ/8)

177 It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me
At tea time, everybody agrees
I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 11:04 PM (g0Y4p)

She's the reincarnation of Jim Morrison.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:11 PM (w6EFb)

178 She fell almost three weeks ago and broke 4 ribs and a dishwasher.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

As dishwasher, how badly were you hurt?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 19, 2024 11:12 PM (VNX3d)

179 126 That was one of the more "disturbing" series I have ever watched.
Enjoyed it, but man was it different.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 19

Just like the books. But, there are some gems in there in terms of learning new (not bad) words in an entertaining way. Plus my daughter is autistic, so subtle humor is not something she gets easily. Not subtle humor is hard for her. She has gotten quite a bit of the word play, even if it’s a little dark. It’s a big thing for her. She is turning 13 in June (holy smokes!), so it’s not inappropriate for her age and for me it’s fun to watch the lightbulb go off when she gets the jokes. It makes up for the rest.

She is finishing up The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe for a school reading assignment. Hopefully they cancel each other out! 😂

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:12 PM (ZdaMQ)

180 Still chilly, not quite 60 degrees. There's a bit of a breeze blowing in off the water. The salty air smells wonderful.

I love it here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (8ZrHX)

It got up to 75 here today, it was a glorious morning that turned into a glorious day.
I planted potatoes yesterday, I think the last frost of the season has passed

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 11:12 PM (D7oie)

181 170 Me no type good no more. Me blame iPad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon,
----------------------

There is nothing about an iPad that is blog friendly.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 11:12 PM (Y09kC)

182 The Red Army soldiers had a pretty good reason for being bastards.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:09 PM (j7aNt)

They did, but they also treated their own people horribly, and that goes for the common grunts as well as the generals and commissars. Were they worse than the SS? No, but that's not saying much.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 11:12 PM (g0Y4p)

183 14 Billion
Posted by: Gref at April 19, 2024 11:11 PM (5fDan)

You forgot to put a one in the front .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:13 PM (MNhXM)

184 Good trivia question is how many total people have lived on earth since it’s creation.
Posted by: polynikes

Are we counting Neanderthals?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 11:13 PM (IG4Id)

185 Just walked out to the beach to see the sun dick

Whoa...
That's a bit kinky, but I'm not judging.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 11:13 PM (W/lyH)

186 Thanks for the ONT, WD.
Good evening fine folks and the rest of you.

Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2024 11:14 PM (41CYW)

187 Hour of the Wolf

I am the new dishwasher. And it was all my fault.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 11:14 PM (u82oZ)

188 Are we counting Neanderthals?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 11:13 PM (IG4Id)

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GFY

Posted by: A Neanderthal at April 19, 2024 11:15 PM (j7aNt)

189 Still chilly, not quite 60 degrees. There's a bit of a breeze blowing in off the water. The salty air smells wonderful.

I love it here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:05 PM (8ZrHX

My mom and dad were from Washington. So, lots of vacations in the area. Wife and I took the kids on several road trip vacations to the Pacific Northwest. Love it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 19, 2024 11:15 PM (MvA9C)

190 Good trivia question is how many total people have lived on earth since it’s creation.
Posted by: polynikes

Are we counting Neanderthals?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 11:13 PM (IG4Id)

I’m sure that’s just a rounding number .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:15 PM (MNhXM)

191 >>>Just walked out to the beach to see the sun dick

I have questions.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 11:15 PM (g0Y4p)

192 How many assholes have lived on Earth since its creation?

Far too many.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:16 PM (9yWhg)

193 My personal theory for the reason the Neanderthals disappeared is because Cro-Magnons found out they were delicious.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2024 11:16 PM (uqx1e)

194 I like how the official reactions to Joe's claiming cannibals ate his uncle are about the cannibalism, not about Joe lying.

Posted by: davidt at April 19, 2024 11:17 PM (SYTee)

195 151 138 So, dealing with South Bend, did you hear of a town in southern Michigan called Cassopolis?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Yes! I visited Stone Lake on one of the weekends it was just easier for me to stay there!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

196 You people lighten up on your diets a little you won't be fantasizing about eating people so much.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 11:18 PM (Y09kC)

197 Dr. T and nurse ratched

The answer is a dive bar with Rokko and Thor drinking an Australian beer. While showing off their barbed wire tattoos on their large biceps.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 11:18 PM (u82oZ)

198 You have to count apes if you're A Darwinist.

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 11:18 PM (m3jEV)

199 The "Howdy America" thing, breaks down as follows:

"Howdy, Dammit!" is a very common phrase, bumper sticker and adornment on many a car, coffee mug, tee shirt and other such, with it's origins in the Texas A&M University System and Culture.

And, TEXAS is the Saudi Arabia of Petroleum Production and Reserves in the Continental U.S. A HUGE percentage of the world's available Natural Gas awaits extraction and capture from Texas lands.

Given that "Howdy" rhymes with "Saudi", the loquacious lad coined the term:

"Howdy America". Catchy, for about 0.5 microseconds.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 11:19 PM (e6UQI)

200 195 Piper, that is so cool! That is the town I grew up in!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:19 PM (9yWhg)

201 198 You have to count apes if you're A Darwinist.
Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 11:18 PM (m3jEV)

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I draw the line at Pottos. They're not one of us.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:20 PM (j7aNt)

202 176 >>>I f I hear one more Taylor Swift song I’m fucking lighting myself on fire.

Posted by: Max Azzarello

>I can honestly say I haven't heard one Tay-Tay song that I could recognize.

If I was to give her the bone, she'd have no career in the world of social insanity and would be raising babies and making sammiches for daddy.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

And she'd still be rich. She came from a pretty well monied family.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 11:20 PM (gllTv)

203 A Cro Magnon walks into a bar and orders a bottle beer. The bartender asks if he wants a glass with it. The Cro Magnon looks at the bartender and says ‘ of course I want a glass. What do think I am a Neandrathal?

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:20 PM (MNhXM)

204 200; it is a small world at the end of the day. It was very pretty, but cold.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

205 The "Howdy America" thing, breaks down as follows:

"Howdy, Dammit!" is a very common phrase, bumper sticker and adornment on many a car, coffee mug, tee shirt and other such, with it's origins in the Texas A&M University System and Culture.

And, TEXAS is the Saudi Arabia of Petroleum Production and Reserves in the Continental U.S. A HUGE percentage of the world's available Natural Gas awaits extraction and capture from Texas lands.

Given that "Howdy" rhymes with "Saudi", the loquacious lad coined the term:

"Howdy America". Catchy, for about 0.5 microseconds.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim

See?
If one stays on the ONT long enough, all lifes questions are answered.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 11:21 PM (vJiyU)

206 One great big CHONK of a train

Man, that is a beast. Wow. Thanks for another great ONT, WD.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2024 11:21 PM (V8he0)

207 >>>My personal theory for the reason the Neanderthals disappeared is because Cro-Magnons found out they were delicious.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

>Surprise! Neanderthals never disappeared, just look at King Charles and his retarded son, Harry, and his offspring.

Problem is only now, those fucking savages will be running around in America like a bunch of South American border jumpers.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2024 11:22 PM (pDQ/8)

208 WeirdDave, thank you for an entertaining ONT.

Good night, all you good people. And nurse ratched with her new outdoor kinks.

May you and yours thrive.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2024 11:22 PM (u82oZ)

209 Is Lennon Sisters, no?

I'd happily trade all of the pop tarts for them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 11:23 PM (XeU6L)

210 A Cro Magnon walks into a bar and orders a bottle beer. The bartender asks if he wants a glass with it. The Cro Magnon looks at the bartender and says ‘ of course I want a glass. What do think I am a Neandrathal?
Posted by: polynikes
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The Neandrathal is down the street, clubbing.

Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2024 11:23 PM (41CYW)

211 Supposedly the French are direct descendants of Neanderthals. Everyone knew not to breed with them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:24 PM (j7aNt)

212 Arthur C. Clarke (I think) did a story about what happens when the population of the Earth exceeds the total number of people who had ever lived prior to that time. Turns out there suddenly aren't enough souls to go around.

Which, now that I think about it, could explain a lot about the world today.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2024 11:24 PM (uqx1e)

213 Good night, Salty.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 19, 2024 11:25 PM (g0Y4p)

214 A Cro Magnon walks into a bar and orders a bottle beer. The bartender asks if he wants a glass with it. The Cro Magnon looks at the bartender and says ‘ of course I want a glass. What do think I am a Neandrathal?
Posted by: polynikes
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The Neandrathal is down the street, clubbing.
Posted by: scampydog

"So easy, even a caveman can do it."

Posted by: Some Rat at April 19, 2024 11:25 PM (vJiyU)

215 Else. Everyone else.

Oh fukit

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:25 PM (j7aNt)

216 I hear The Thing in the woods.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (w6EFb)

217 Supposedly the French are direct descendants of Neanderthals. Everyone knew not to breed with them.
Posted by: Cicero

Which French? The Celts? The Gauls? The Franks? The Normans?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (IG4Id)

218 You know you've scored big-time when your Princess goes from suitcase presenter to jam/jelly presenter in two decades time.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (pDQ/8)

219 Granted I haven’t spent a great deal of time in West Texas but in my 30 years in Texas I’ve not ever been greeted by a Howdy.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (MNhXM)

220 204 Yep, that sounds like Cass.

Glad you got to experience my hometown, at least a little bit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (9yWhg)

221 My personal theory for the reason the Neanderthals disappeared is because Cro-Magnons found out they were delicious.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2024 11:16 PM (uqx1e)

I don't know if they ate the males, I doubt it as they'd probably be a bit stringy plus they fought back and there was easier game, but they most certainly kept the females. (How else do we get Neanderthal DNA in modern humans?) Killing the males and keeping the females is an old tradition; some of our own Indian tribes did that.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (emlEe)

222 Biden and his canni-bullshit statement is the exact thing libs were saying Trump was going to do in his first term and it would get us into war. “Oh, that’s just Joe”

Posted by: Rex B at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (5h/8D)

223 >Surprise! Neanderthals never disappeared, just look at King Charles and his retarded son, Harry, and his offspring.

Problem is only now, those fucking savages will be running around in America like a bunch of South American border jumpers.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2024 11:22 PM (pDQ/

Yes, *his* retarded son, Harry....

Posted by: James Hewitt at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (g0Y4p)

224 "Howdy Arabia" Damn fingers.

Reminds me of ME trying to play golf. Only broke 100, once. And then they wouldn't let me play the 2nd Nine.

Damn windmill.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 11:27 PM (e6UQI)

225 Howdy America is a good one.

Posted by: Montec at April 19, 2024 11:27 PM (WkQke)

226 The magic trick gave me a good chuckle.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 19, 2024 11:27 PM (V8he0)

227 Hitler appropriated the swastik and just rotated it an 1/8 and claimed it as his own .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 10:59 PM (MNhXM)

All that and cultural appropriation too? The man wasn't fit to live.
Posted by: ... at April 19, 2024 11:02 PM (lX8VI)

He wasn't all bad. After all, he killed Hitler.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 19, 2024 11:27 PM (FCbAQ)

228 Y’all. It is sudden chaos in my house. The cats are running around like maniacs and Kovu keeps opening the shades. Sabi just stuck his furry head into my freeze dried strawberries and sent them flying. If any of you ever think having a Savannah may be a good idea, ask me for a few videos before you commit to those thoughts.

Thank you for allowing me to vent.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

229 One of the British anthropology museums took a skull and body modelling of a Neanderthal and put it in a suit. He looked sort of Scottish.

https://tinyurl.com/38tjyn7s

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 11:28 PM (D7oie)

230 A Cro Magnon walks into a bar and orders a bottle beer. The bartender asks if he wants a glass with it. The Cro Magnon looks at the bartender and says ‘ of course I want a glass. What do think I am a Neandrathal?
Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:20 PM (MNhXM)

I for one am not keen on Neanderthal humor.
It's very low brow.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 11:28 PM (W/lyH)

231 "Boy, bring my .38 - there's a salesman at the door. And my pipe, too. This is gonna take awhile."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 11:29 PM (0FoWg)

232 >>>I'd happily trade all of the pop tarts for them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 11:23 PM (XeU6L)

Even prime Brittany? (I denounce myself.)

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 11:29 PM (SGfHY)

233 'Night, Salty!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:29 PM (w6EFb)

234 All hominoids

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 11:31 PM (Y09kC)

235 I for one am not keen on Neanderthal humor.
It's very low brow.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Can be tough to erect a good joke.

Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2024 11:31 PM (41CYW)

236 I am off to bed, should wild animal kingdom slow down. Nightsie noodles!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

237 228 Sounds like you could incorporate the cats into your workout routines.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:32 PM (9yWhg)

238 I watched the sun DUCK DUCK DUCK behind the mountains.

Posting from my phone is difficult.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:33 PM (2ZBXn)

239 Y’all. It is sudden chaos in my house. The cats are running around like maniacs and Kovu keeps opening the shades. Sabi just stuck his furry head into my freeze dried strawberries and sent them flying. If any of you ever think having a Savannah may be a good idea, ask me for a few videos before you commit to those thoughts.

Thank you for allowing me to vent.
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

According to The Cat Daddy, a Savannah is extremely high energy and often indoor play is not enough to cool their jets. He recommends getting them used to a leash and walking them outside. They are more of a hunter than a typical house cat. They just don't need the outdoor exercise, they practically require it. That said, good luck.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:34 PM (emlEe)

240 237 228 Sounds like you could incorporate the cats into your workout routines.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April

I love them so much but they are so bad.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

241 Is Lennon Sisters, no?

I'd happily trade all of the pop tarts for them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 11:23 PM (XeU6L)

The pic above is not of the Lennon Sisters. The Chordettes sang Mr. Sandman but not sure that photo is of them.

Posted by: Tuna at April 19, 2024 11:35 PM (oaGWv)

242 Here comes the Sun Duck
Here comes the Sun Duck
Everybody's laughing
Everybody's happy
Here comes the Sun Duck

Posted by: Lennon/McCartney at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (j7aNt)

243 I for one am not keen on Neanderthal humor.
It's very low brow.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Can be tough to erect a good joke.
Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2024 11:31 PM (41CYW)
***
Some just can't get up for it.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (W/lyH)

244 This was a good week.

https://tinyurl.com/5t5d4arw

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (LkLld)

245 Posting from my phone is difficult.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Agree. Things that I dislike about phones and the youthful set: Small fonts.

Posted by: scampydog at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (41CYW)

246 219 Granted I haven’t spent a great deal of time in West Texas but in my 30 years in Texas I’ve not ever been greeted by a Howdy.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (MNhXM)

It's my standard greeting.
No one ever seems surprised to hear it.

Posted by: Beats "How Do" at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (hpb+5)

247 I'm trying to remember which book I read that told of the Iroquois roasting settlers and eating their buttocks. Grim.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

Now ass-eating is a thing again.
grim

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (FCbAQ)

248 Bring that cat over here, I've a yard full of squirrels that need to go.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (Y09kC)

249 Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:34 PM (emlEe)

It’s lizard hunting season for my kittehs . I take them out twice a day to hunt.

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:37 PM (MNhXM)

250 Thank you for allowing me to vent.
Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

My new rescue, I think he is a Bombay, went and caught a bird today. He then played hacky-mouse with it for a while.
At least it wasn't "snake no. 11" It was quite dead by the time I saw what he was doing.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 11:37 PM (D7oie)

251 One of the British anthropology museums took a skull and body modelling of a Neanderthal and put it in a suit. He looked sort of Scottish.
https://tinyurl.com/38tjyn7s
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 11:28 PM

Looks more like a retired NFL coach doing commentary for a small-market team's game.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2024 11:37 PM (uqx1e)

252 The Cro-Magnons could never understand those earlier hominids when they spoke. They could never follow their train of thought. Because they neandered too much.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:37 PM (9yWhg)

253 "I can't breathe!" said the Iranian bomb researcher to the security watchman as their facility was hit by a bunker buster.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 19, 2024 11:38 PM (pDQ/8)

254 I was hoping "sun dick" was a meteorological phenomenon seen only in the Pacific Northwest.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2024 11:41 PM (uqx1e)

255 Kindltot!

Howdy there! How are you? I owe you an email
Hugs to your wife.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:42 PM (KIvoi)

256 Goodnight, All. The first lawn-mowing of the year awaits me on the morrow.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:43 PM (9yWhg)

257 That Neanderthal just said "wait, what? You gave Oog Biden how many hides? For what? He's higher than the shaman, and he can't even read a cave painting, let alone make one worth fifty hides!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 19, 2024 11:43 PM (0FoWg)

258 >One of the British anthropology museums took a skull and body modelling of a Neanderthal and put it in a suit. He looked sort of Scottish.

He looks like a lawyer

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 11:43 PM (oCjPU)

259 "I watched the sun DUCK DUCK DUCK behind the mountains."

And here I thought you weren't a fan of the Ducks.

*Ducks and runs*

Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 11:43 PM (m0FOZ)

260 Biden and his canni-bullshit statement is the exact thing libs were saying Trump was going to do in his first term and it would get us into war. “Oh, that’s just Joe”
Posted by: Rex B at April 19, 2024 11:26 PM (5h/8D)

I remember an Obama quote after some verbal diarrhea fuckup by the V.P.: "That's just Joe being Joe."

Biden was forced out of the '88 campaign for good reason. But since we no longer have news reporters anymore, Biden has received the blowiest of blow jobs from the Fellatio Media since 2019. Not bad for a corrupt pedo dementia patient.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:44 PM (emlEe)

261 Keerok, Attorney At Law

Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 11:44 PM (oCjPU)

262 He looks like a lawyer
Posted by: Don Black at April 19, 2024 11:43 PM (oCjPU)

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That's because he does a lot of work pro-bonobo.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:44 PM (j7aNt)

263 Oh, I got another great hash (moFOZ).

All you moFOZ have a great evening!

Posted by: PabloD at April 19, 2024 11:45 PM (m0FOZ)

264 Howdy there! How are you? I owe you an email
Hugs to your wife.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:42 PM (KIvoi)

Dad's house is cleaned out, and ready for the renters. It has been a hard month so far.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 11:46 PM (D7oie)

265 It's my standard greeting.
No one ever seems surprised to hear it.
Posted by: Beats "How Do" at April 19, 2024 11:36 PM (hpb+5)

It wouldn’t surprise me. I’ve just never had people say howdy when meeting them.

I do hear ‘ I’ll tell you what’ frequently and use it myself occasionally. I did realize how many regionalisms I used when I moved to NY from Louisiana though .

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:46 PM (MNhXM)

266 When I was a kid I won a FARTing Contest with Angelo while riding Amtrak to Miami. No Shit.... Just ask Angelo..

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 19, 2024 11:46 PM (Wb+1f)

267 When I was a kid I won a FARTing Contest with Angelo while riding Amtrak to Miami. No Shit.... Just ask Angelo..
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 19, 2024 11:46 PM (Wb+1f)

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Did all the riders give you a standing ovation?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:47 PM (j7aNt)

268 252 The Cro-Magnons could never understand those earlier hominids when they spoke. They could never follow their train of thought. Because they neandered too much.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 19, 2024 11:37 PM (9yWhg)

Sir, homonid to see some identification

Posted by: Pun Police at April 19, 2024 11:48 PM (z+89e)

269 It’s lizard hunting season for my kittehs . I take them out twice a day to hunt.
Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:37 PM (MNhXM)

They must absolutely love that. It would be fun to watch.

"And now on Animal Planet, we have Fluffy stalking the Geico gecko."

The General says, 'Go for it, Fluffy!'

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:50 PM (emlEe)

270 According to The Cat Daddy, a Savannah is extremely high energy and often indoor play is not enough to cool their jets. He recommends getting them used to a leash and walking them outside. They are more of a hunter than a typical house cat. They just don't need the outdoor exercise, they practically require it. That said, good luck.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19,

If you put a harness on Sabi, he falls over sideways and won’t move. It paralyzes him. It’s hysterical. We do have cat trees that look like furniture all over, they have toys galore (dog ones, because cat ones would last 2 seconds). We get the Savannah 500 daily.

Poor J. He told me he didn’t like cats. He inherited Kovu with me and had no idea he had to outfit his home to accommodate them. He loves them now, because they are really cool, when they aren’t turning water faucets on or destroying something. Kovu is 11 and hasn’t slowed down a bit. Sabi is only 4, he bought him for my birthday so it’s his fault we have 2!

They are now laying down on the bed so I am hoping they got it all out and we can go to sleep. The Cat Daddy should also note they are incredible bed hogs. Good night for real this time!

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

271 Rick, to say he was "forced out" would imply he was taken seriously then. Which is why it's amazing that he is the president now and will probably be "re-elected."

Posted by: leb at April 19, 2024 11:51 PM (SGfHY)

272 Patsy Cline: She's got you

https://tinyurl.com/3wzmzypj

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 11:52 PM (D7oie)

273 The ex-Mrs. Spudboy once brought a new cat home. Our other cats had given up chasing the squirrels in the backyard, due to their lack of success catching them. This had allowed the squirrels to become lazy and inattentive.
New cat spots the squirrels, goes dashing across the yard, and sends squirrels flying in all directions. The cat didn't catch any, but it was quite the spectacle.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 19, 2024 11:53 PM (uqx1e)

274 Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 11:50 PM (ZdaMQ)

Have seen the.huge cat wheel ?

Posted by: polynikes at April 19, 2024 11:54 PM (MNhXM)

275 Did all the riders give you a standing ovation?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 11:47 PM (j7aNt)

They all farted in his general direction.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:56 PM (emlEe)

276 Hello to the greatest people on the planet. Greetings and salutations. Let's hope we can find a better planet, together, and turn Isaac Asimov's dream--that Earth would be forgotten in the glory of the empire--into reality.

Because we all know that Earth is already sliding into that garbage can.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2024 11:57 PM (CHHv1)

277 Ducks and runs*
Posted by: PabloD

You're in so much trouble.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 19, 2024 11:57 PM (UoF3w)

278 I ate my first five kids, but when I went for Hunty, Dr. Jill changed him out for a big crack rock that I swallowed instead. True story.

Posted by: Joe-nus at April 19, 2024 11:59 PM (aO9fl)

279 Biden was forced out of the '88 campaign for good reason. But since we no longer have news reporters anymore, Biden has received the blowiest of blow jobs from the Fellatio Media since 2019. Not bad for a corrupt pedo dementia patient.
Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 11:44 PM (emlEe)

I keep meaning to remind a few younger in-laws about Joe the Plagiarizer’s bowing out in disgrace from his ‘88 Presidential run.

Posted by: Rex B at April 20, 2024 12:02 AM (MVrLh)

280 Ren is a litigious piece of shit commie fuck. Fuck her and all that.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2024 10:11 PM (IG4Id)

so she's not Faire?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:04 AM (tkR6S)

281 Ducks and runs*
Posted by: PabloD

See how some punctuation additions turn that into a fear of mallards: "Ducks!" And runs.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:05 AM (emlEe)

282 Plagarizin' Joe was run out of the '88 race on a rail made of shame and humiliation. Neither of which affected him much past the next day.

Hell, he even copied his sniffin' little girl's hair from the "Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" ads from the '70s. Got hooked, and he ain't shook that habit, since.

His LYING though. Well, that's been there since he first formed words.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 12:08 AM (e6UQI)

283 Guess what? We're winning.

https://tinyurl.com/29rwd27j

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2024 12:10 AM (LkLld)

284 oddly enough, i was sitting here arguing with my inkjet printer while scrolling through the memes.

after much argument with the print head and soapy water last weekend and buying all new ink cartridges for it, i finally have it printing again. not perfect (there seem to be some places where the red doesn't print), but it puts ink on paper once more.

Posted by: anachronda at April 20, 2024 12:10 AM (edU/H)

285 Salty, I hope your Mrs. gets better soon! How does one break a dishwasher, though?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 20, 2024 12:11 AM (SRRAx)

286 The wooden bomb story has been around for years, literally since the wartime period itself.

There is a lot of anecdotal evidence, and it appears that the story spread on both the Axis and the Allied sides. Historians can't sort out whether it did or didn't happen - for example, the wooden bomb featured above strikingly resembles a Mark IV Aircraft Float Light, which worked as a smoke flare dropped over a sea surface to indicate drift, and which also floated emitting a light signal, which could aid in locating downed pilots.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 12:12 AM (9Uomk)

287 Joe's piggy little eyes are deeply disturbing.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 20, 2024 12:12 AM (w6EFb)

288 Hey Horde, Happy Friday, well, just past Friday here.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 20, 2024 12:14 AM (Sgq8y)

289 Patsy Cline- Mama Cass- Karen Carpenter- Linda Ronstadt- Ann Wilson. Nothing like them today.

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 12:16 AM (SGfHY)

290 If you search www.forces.net for "did allied pilots really drop fake wooden bombs fake wooden decoy airfields" you can find a pretty good overview on the story. If the odd corners of World War II appeal to you, check out The Why Files' episode on "The Plane That Landed Itself."

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 12:16 AM (9Uomk)

291 Lovely wife just got home from the Footloose play. Just got the debrief. Two trannies in the production (one of which played Ren).

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 12:18 AM (41CYW)

292 On The Why Files reference in my previous post, I really think Rod Serling may have cribbed from that one for two Twilight Zones episodes.

And if you aren't watching The Why Files, you definitely should be. It's endless diverting, and features an even-handed examination of unusual topics without being condescending or dismissive, while maintaining a rational, balanced skepticism. Every episode features great writing and fantastic humor, and the host is someone who would likely feel at home here on AOSHQ.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 12:23 AM (9Uomk)

293 Damn! Even the steam locomotives are infected with transgender nonsense. It’s called ‘Big Boy’ and the guy doing the video calls it a ‘she’.

Posted by: profligatewaste at April 20, 2024 12:24 AM (g5hrm)

294 You're in so much trouble.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Duck and Cover, PabloD

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 12:24 AM (41CYW)

295 Well I fell asleep during the cafe and just woke up so I'm late to the ONT. Of the memes, I particularly liked the magic trick, and the venn diagram. The latter is missing 'never satisfied with the litter' (paper quality).

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #39 at April 20, 2024 12:24 AM (qfLjt)

296 The last tranny I recall seeing was in a convenience store off I-287 in Jersey. That would have been 20 years ago. I had no issue, seeing him as a big goofball who wanted to look weird, and I figured he knew he wasn't fooling anyone.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 20, 2024 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

297 Damn! Even the steam locomotives are infected with transgender nonsense. It’s called ‘Big Boy’ and the guy doing the video calls it a ‘she’.
Posted by: profligatewaste at April 20, 2024 12:24 AM (g5hrm)

Well, it has more choos than Imelda Marcos.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:27 AM (tkR6S)

298 Patsy Cline- Mama Cass- Karen Carpenter- Linda Ronstadt- Ann Wilson. Nothing like them today.
Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 12:16 AM (SGfHY)

Watching reaction videos, mostly from younger blacks, of Janis Joplin is fun. Now that women could belt out a song. And most are shocked by her soulful, bluesy voice that had such power. And they never heard of her.

The other fun thing, well two things, about the reaction videos are there are some pretty good tunes reacted to and they often mention the musicianship and showmanship in the old rock videos. That and the oft-mentioned, "No autotune!" Watching reactions of Roy Clark on 'The Odd Couple' playing 'Malaguena' put a smile on my face. 'Who is this guy?' Some of them are really funny in what they pick out from the songs of my youth. They try too often to read meaning into rock songs. Some songs are just songs, especially Top 40 ones. Good songs, mind you, just not heavy on meaning. Maybe double entendres, though.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:29 AM (emlEe)

299 If you search www.forces.net for "did allied pilots really drop fake wooden bombs fake wooden decoy airfields" you can find a pretty good overview on the story. If the odd corners of World War II appeal to you, check out The Why Files' episode on "The Plane That Landed Itself."
Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 12:16 AM (9Uomk)

The Allies built decoy airfields, too. Even made it into mass-circulation magazines.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:30 AM (tkR6S)

300
I for one am not keen on Neanderthal humor.
It's very low brow.
Posted by: Diogenes

Tell me about it!

Posted by: GEICO caveman at April 20, 2024 12:30 AM (63Dwl)

301 Whatever happened to Lorde? At one time I thought she might become one of the great singers.

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 12:31 AM (SGfHY)

302 In case you missed this, for a good laugh

https://tinyurl.com/yck6fvrf

Good likeness.

Posted by: Ciampino - He eats cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:33 AM (qfLjt)

303 Whatever happened to Lorde? At one time I thought she might become one of the great singers.
Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 12:31 AM (SGfHY)

Never heard of her. Honest Injun.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:34 AM (emlEe)

304 Damn! Even the steam locomotives are infected with transgender nonsense. It’s called ‘Big Boy’ and the guy doing the video calls it a ‘she’.
Posted by: profligatewaste
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They *made* me wear this crosshead!

Posted by: Big Boy at April 20, 2024 12:34 AM (XeU6L)

305 I think there's a market for bringing back those Big Boy Steam Engines.

Fine tune the fireboxes, to ideally combust the chopped up, pelletized solids derived from "retired" wind turbine blades and pylons.

Bit of extra Forced Air Draft to increase the oxygen pumped into the firebox, ought to do it.

Oh, and be sure to have the DOE and DOT SUBSIDIZE it. Gotta go Full Circle with the Grift, dontchaknow!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 12:34 AM (e6UQI)

306 Whatever happened to Lorde? At one time I thought she might become one of the great singers.
Posted by: leb
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Craved a different kind of buzz.

Posted by: Royals at April 20, 2024 12:35 AM (41CYW)

307 You know, that Neanderthaler in a suit, linked above, is really not all that far off from your bog-standard generic Caucasian.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:37 AM (tkR6S)

308 Young people are now identifying as 'gender season' - meaning their gender changes with time of year: 'I feel more masculine in the summer!'

https://mol.im/a/13323887

Posted by: Ciampino - skin only in Summer at April 20, 2024 12:40 AM (qfLjt)

309 Fine tune the fireboxes, to ideally combust the chopped up, pelletized solids derived from "retired" wind turbine blades and pylons.

Bit of extra Forced Air Draft to increase the oxygen pumped into the firebox, ought to do it.

Oh, and be sure to have the DOE and DOT SUBSIDIZE it. Gotta go Full Circle with the Grift, dontchaknow!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 12:34 AM (e6UQI)

I recall reading somewhere that one of the big drawbacks of steam locos was the fact their traction force on the rails was cyclical, and tended to jerk the rails to and fro on the ties, necessitating more frequent track maintenance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:40 AM (tkR6S)

310 Never heard of her. Honest Injun.
Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:34 AM (emlEe)

Likewise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:42 AM (tkR6S)

311 Jim,

One big problem with bringing back steam engines is the lack of manufacturing, especially the steel. To replace the current engines would be well-nigh impossible. Right now, we can't even properly repair our own Navy ships!

That bridge collapse in Baltimore is just the beginning. Wait until more and more infrastructure collapses from neglect/accidents/terrorism. Things are gonna be lit.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:43 AM (emlEe)

312 The Chordettes, in the top picture were from my hometown. Sheboygan, WI. I knew one of them quite well. Lovely lady. Just passed away not that long ago

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 20, 2024 12:45 AM (1hzSB)

313 Please tell me they dropped that wooden bomb out of a Mosquito.

Posted by: Running Gag at April 20, 2024 12:47 AM (IN7dc)

314 I recall reading somewhere that one of the big drawbacks of steam locos was the fact their traction force on the rails was cyclical, and tended to jerk the rails to and fro on the ties, necessitating more frequent track maintenance. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:40 AM (tkR6S)

Hybridize 'em. Stay with the boiler, but drive a multi-stage steam turbine, returning the used water to the water tank. Spin that turbine through a reduction box, pretty much same as a ship, but with some transmission speed ranges.

Torque to the wheels would be smooooth.

And they could still burn windmill scrap. lol

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 12:48 AM (e6UQI)

315 299 If you search www.forces.net for "did allied pilots really drop fake wooden bombs fake wooden decoy airfields" you can find a pretty good overview on the story. If the odd corners of World War II appeal to you, check out The Why Files' episode on "The Plane That Landed Itself."
Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 12:16 AM (9Uomk)

The Allies built decoy airfields, too. Even made it into mass-circulation magazines.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The months leading up to D-Day had lots of decoys and deceptions to fool the Germans as to where the Allies would land.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 12:48 AM (gllTv)

316 Not 25c difference between Commies and Nazis and Hitler and Stalin in my book. If Russia was west of Germany WW2 would have gone exactly the same more or less except we would have been allies with Germany during the war and then had a Cold War with them immediately after

Posted by: azjaeger at April 20, 2024 12:49 AM (3/XaG)

317 The months leading up to D-Day had lots of decoys and deceptions to fool the Germans as to where the Allies would land.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 12:48 AM (gllTv)

Yep, including Patton as head of FUSAG.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:50 AM (emlEe)

318 According to the impeccably accurate documentary South Park, Lorde is actually Randy Marsh, filtered through a special computer program, given to him by a cynical music producer who was later killed by the holograms of Tupac and Michael Jackson.

Randy now alternates between his career in the field of Hydrogeology and his passion project growing cannabis at Tegrity Farms. In South Park canon, he was also inadvertently the cause of the Covid pandemic.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 12:51 AM (9Uomk)

319 Emperor of the North was a great train movie,

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 12:52 AM (MNhXM)

320 I love how Mark Twain ended "A Medieval Romance"

1601

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3190/3190-h/3190-h.htm

Posted by: Miklos O'Miklos at April 20, 2024 12:55 AM (oGyF9)

321 Not 25c difference between Commies and Nazis and Hitler and Stalin in my book. If Russia was west of Germany WW2 would have gone exactly the same more or less except we would have been allies with Germany during the war and then had a Cold War with them immediately after
Posted by: azjaeger at April 20, 2024 12:49 AM (3/XaG)

Yep , Stalin attack Poland basically at the same time as Hitler . The one difference though is of course the holocaust. Stalin had his own purges but he didn’t have the Jew obsession.

Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 12:57 AM (MNhXM)

322 If you search www.forces.net for "did allied pilots really drop fake wooden bombs fake wooden decoy airfields" you can find a pretty good overview on the story. If the odd corners of World War II appeal to you, check out The Why Files' episode on "The Plane That Landed Itself."
Posted by: John Drake

The Allies built decoy airfields, too. Even made it into mass-circulation magazines.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And then some Pacific islanders built them after WWII was over, hoping that the Japanese or the Americans would come back with all the gifts of modernity. Thus the term "cargo cult."

Posted by: probably not John Frum at April 20, 2024 12:57 AM (DgGvY)

323 The Allies built decoy airfields, too. Even made it into mass-circulation magazines.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

PROFFT!!??

Posted by: John :Miklos" Frum at April 20, 2024 12:59 AM (oGyF9)

324 Hybridize 'em. Stay with the boiler, but drive a multi-stage steam turbine, returning the used water to the water tank. Spin that turbine through a reduction box, pretty much same as a ship, but with some transmission speed ranges.

Torque to the wheels would be smooooth.

And they could still burn windmill scrap. lol

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 12:48 AM (e6UQI)

Or use the steam turbine to run a big-ass alternator, and feed it to inverter-powered brushless DC motors on the trucks. You could even incorporate a battery for a little extra oomph on startup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 01:00 AM (tkR6S)

325 >>>Stalin had his own purges but he didn’t have the Jew obsession.
Posted by: polynikes at April 20, 2024 12:57 AM (MNhXM)

The doctors might digress.

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 01:01 AM (SGfHY)

326 See how some punctuation additions turn that into a fear of mallards: "Ducks!" And runs.
Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:05 AM (emlEe)

"Darnold, Duck!"
"Wait, are you calling my name or warning me I need to du..."
"WHAP"

Posted by: Mad Magazine Parody c. 1958 at April 20, 2024 01:01 AM (46Cfy)

327 ...Or use the steam turbine to run a big-ass alternator, and feed it to inverter-powered brushless DC motors on the trucks. You could even incorporate a battery for a little extra oomph on startup. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 01:00 AM (tkR6S)

That battery fire would be LIT! (and for a very long time, too!)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 01:04 AM (e6UQI)

328 If you search www.forces.net for "did allied pilots really drop fake wooden bombs fake wooden decoy airfields" you can find a pretty good overview on the story. If the odd corners of World War II appeal to you, check out The Why Files' episode on "The Plane That Landed Itself."
Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 12:16 AM (9Uomk)

The Allies built decoy airfields, too. Even made it into mass-circulation magazines.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The months leading up to D-Day had lots of decoys and deceptions to fool the Germans as to where the Allies would land.
Posted by: Puddleglum

All very true, and this merits mention of the XX Committee, which manipulated captured German agents into sending misleading intelligence back to Deutschland in a most effective way.

Which they could do so well because they could monitor the reception those messages were getting because the Allies had cracked the Enigma coding system.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 01:05 AM (9Uomk)

329 Just sayin'
Jefferson Starship Miracles is an awesome remembrance song. I'd sit on a hill in the 70's overlooking the West German/Czech border and wonder...do they get this music?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 01:05 AM (W/lyH)

330 "Darnold, Duck!"
"Wait, are you calling my name or warning me I need to du..."
"WHAP"
Posted by: Mad Magazine Parody
--------
It's the law of life.

Posted by: Duck Variations, David Mamet at April 20, 2024 01:06 AM (41CYW)

331 That battery fire would be LIT! (and for a very long time, too!)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 01:04 AM (e6UQI)

But fires would be less likely, hopefully, because the trains would be operated by skilled workers, and not by people who got their driver's license in a Cracker Jack box.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 01:08 AM (tkR6S)

332
the wooden bomb featured above strikingly resembles a Mark IV Aircraft Float Light, which worked as a smoke flare dropped over a sea surface to indicate drift, and which also floated emitting a light signal, which could aid in locating downed pilots.
Posted by: John Drake

==============

So maybe they decided to use a float light.
So maybe they decided to use the Float LIght

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 20, 2024 01:08 AM (ny95y)

333
If you don't know Samuel Clemens' 1601, you don't knwoe (sic) fart jokes.

Posted by: Ye Olde Miklos at April 20, 2024 01:08 AM (oGyF9)

334 Woops. Doubled.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 20, 2024 01:09 AM (ny95y)

335 All very true, and this merits mention of the XX Committee, which manipulated captured German agents into sending misleading intelligence back to Deutschland in a most effective way.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 01:05 AM (9Uomk)

Well, it was either work with the XX Committee or be hanged. So there's that.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 01:11 AM (emlEe)

336 Damn! Even the steam locomotives are infected with transgender nonsense. It’s called ‘Big Boy’ and the guy doing the video calls it a ‘she’.
Posted by: profligatewaste

Well, it has more choos than Imelda Marcos.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The rare heavy-machinery/haute-couture crossover pun.

Respect.

Posted by: probably not Jimmy Choo, either at April 20, 2024 01:13 AM (DgGvY)

337
the Allies had cracked the Enigma coding system.
Posted by: John Drake

============

I wonder if the Germans shake their heads and fume to this day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 20, 2024 01:14 AM (ny95y)

338 102
For those not from LA or AL, if you blow out while you eat a beignet, you won’t get powdered sugar all over you.

You are welcome.

Posted by: Piper at April 19, 2024 10:40 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Otherwise you look like the penguin that blew a seal, right?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sealant sealion at April 20, 2024 01:16 AM (qfLjt)

339 OFFICIAL ANNOUNMCEMENT

Miklos is steadily losing the ability to type.

Prepare to amuse yourselfs.

(this took about 20 minutes)

Posted by: Ye Olde Miklos at April 20, 2024 01:16 AM (oGyF9)

340 ...But fires would be less likely, hopefully, because the trains would be operated by skilled workers, and not by people who got their driver's license in a Cracker Jack box. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 01:08 AM (tkR6S)

Worse, they could be United DEI Boeing 737 pilots.

When her ATP ticket was 600 hours of simulator time, vs. 2500 hrs of IFR, multi, building time as a CFI, and Commercial Pilot, working up commuter props through commuter jets, to the Boeings and Airbuses.

But her tattoos are JUST RIGHT for the job!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 01:16 AM (e6UQI)

341 Remember those old films with artillery shooting like eight shells at a time? Do we have anything like that now?

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 01:17 AM (SGfHY)

342 The rare heavy-machinery/haute-couture crossover pun.

Respect.
Posted by: probably not Jimmy Choo, either at April 20, 2024 01:13 AM (DgGvY)

Gobsmacked I am!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 01:18 AM (W/lyH)

343 Damn Milkos, hang in there brother.

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 01:20 AM (SGfHY)

344 It’s called ‘Big Boy’ and the guy doing the video calls it a ‘she’.

There was a whole go-'round about the Bismarck.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 20, 2024 01:21 AM (zdLoL)

345 The doctors might digress.
Posted by: leb

Exactly! Stalin was definitely heading in that anti-semitic direction when his brain heroically sacrificed itself to induce an aneurysm. It was hardly surprising that he harbored such prejudices - Russia didn't give the world the word "pogrom" by mere chance.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 01:21 AM (9Uomk)

346 Just sayin'
Jefferson Starship Miracles is an awesome remembrance song. I'd sit on a hill in the 70's overlooking the West German/Czech border and wonder...do they get this music?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 01:05 AM (W/lyH)

Funniest thing I remember about that song was Starship was getting an award on some TV show (Grammies?) for 'Miracles'. They had on a screen a live shot of Starship playing a concert. Grace Slick announced to the crowd they won for 'Miracles' then the band promptly started playing 'Fast Buck Freddie' before they could cut away.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 01:22 AM (emlEe)

347 Germans shake their heads and fume to this day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Fun with East Germans. Have pics of my uncle at Checkpoint Charlie with his buds. They stacked picnic tables up to look over the other side. Which pissed the East German guards off. So of course they flipped the guards off. Probably my favorite pic of my unc....flying the bird.

Posted by: Duck Variations, David Mamet at April 20, 2024 01:22 AM (41CYW)

348 Whatever happened to Lorde? At one time I thought she might become one of the great singers.
Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 12:31 AM (SGfHY)

Never heard of her. Honest Injun.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 12:34 AM (emlEe)

She was featured in a South Park episode; other than that I've never heard of her.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 20, 2024 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

349 You know, of all our current modes of transportation, railroads would be the easiest to convert to fully electric with battery power. One, they are already very efficient at moving vast tonnages of freight with a small volume of fuel. Two, they are on tracks, so their routes are constrained to fixed distances. Three, their motive power is already, at the axle level, electric, so you'd simply be replacing Diesel and generators with storage batteries. Put just enough battery on each loco that it can move itself around the yard for half an hour. Remaining batteries are in boxcar-sized modules. Each battery would be good for X miles in flat country, and less in the mountains, but those amounts would be known to a high degree. At stops, depleted batteries would be swapped out for fresh ones, and the train sent on its way. A big train with remote locos in the middle would have remote batteries, too, of course. Battery charging stations could be built where rail lines pass under or near major power lines. I'm not saying this should be done, as there is no need for it, but it certainly could be done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 01:26 AM (tkR6S)

350 @333 At the very end of 1601, there is yet another variant ending for a "Medieval Romance." IYGWIM.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 20, 2024 01:27 AM (zdLoL)

351 https://youtu.be/1ToMMcQ3O3Q?si=GlmYxwIp2UQCkDYL

RIP Dickey Betts.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 01:30 AM (gllTv)

352 Damn Milkos, hang in there brother.
Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 01:20 AM (SGfHY)

345 The doctors might digress.
Posted by: leb

Now see>

Wiccancs have nice things

PROBALY NOT

Posted by: Ye Olde Miklos, Ols School Predesditarian at April 20, 2024 01:33 AM (oGyF9)

353 Miklos, I hope that all is well.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 20, 2024 01:34 AM (Sgq8y)

354 XEhwQOxTBRoc

Posted by: TJiCjEogtNu at April 20, 2024 01:38 AM (jWThR)

355 Emperor of the North was a great train movie,
Posted by: polynikes
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'The Train', Burt Lancaster. He did all of his own stunts, and was injured in the bridge shot in this clip. Stay with it for the wreck. For obvious reasons, they only had *one* shot at the filming...no CGI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1IEtzj23ws

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 01:39 AM (XeU6L)

356 Miklos. I, too, have been Terminally Drunk.

Typed like a futhermuckingbunofasitch.

*hic!*

But, I got butter. Bedder. Baahhddd...*BURRRRP!*

I got well.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 01:40 AM (e6UQI)

357 Well, I am off to the rack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 01:41 AM (tkR6S)

358 Funniest thing I remember about that song was Starship was getting an award on some TV show (Grammies?) for 'Miracles'. They had on a screen a live shot of Starship playing a concert. Grace Slick announced to the crowd they won for 'Miracles' then the band promptly started playing 'Fast Buck Freddie' before they could cut away.
Posted by: RickZ
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Hahaha!

I was watching the teevee when Patti Smith was being inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.

She intro'd the first song as "The Song My Mom Liked To Vacuum To" (RnR n****r). Oh, the censors had a time with THAT one! More bleeps than music got aired. Such a waste because it was never about skin color but, rather, the music industry.

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 01:43 AM (njWTi)

359 I'm not saying this should be done, as there is no need for it, but it certainly could be done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 01:26 AM (tkR6S)

Hours to recharge vs minutes to refuel. But in the age of DEI YOLO.

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 01:43 AM (SGfHY)

360 I'm surprised nobody called the dog and steer picture a cowlick...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 20, 2024 01:45 AM (ynpvh)

361 Stay with it for the wreck. For obvious reasons, they only had *one* shot at the filming...no CGI.
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Same was true of the derailment in 'The Fugitive'. Just one take allowed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LF4I1S9rOo
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The wrecked bits are still there...down near Sylva, NC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 01:47 AM (XeU6L)

362 han that Ace with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every 'Ron and "ette in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Sefon eek with his swete Magyar breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The the never Treumppers, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Mornin' his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles are o called,

Baere ye Jewish o nay
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem the Iron Dome in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
But hellefen non our Own Boarders
Of Engelond, to to Brussles they wende,

To unknown end.

Posted by: Jeff. at April 20, 2024 01:47 AM (oGyF9)

363 "Howdy" is actually a shortened form of "HowdyDo"*, which is also a shortened form of "How Do You Do" (The ultimate short form is "How", mostly used in B-Westerns/TV shows)

* It was commonly used as a greeting by/with the Indians on the American frontier

(read that in a history book somewhere...)

Posted by: As not seen on TV at April 20, 2024 01:47 AM (2MveC)

364 I'm surprised nobody called the dog and steer picture a cowlick...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I was a bit surprised that there was no 'dropping wood' reference on the bomb. Off color, I suppose.

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 01:48 AM (41CYW)

365 I thought that Neanderthals were the engineers and mathematicians? Read that somewhere. Maybe why Scotty was the engineer?
/LOL

Posted by: Ciampino - Modern Man, they just appeared? at April 20, 2024 01:48 AM (qfLjt)

366 Night, AOP.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 20, 2024 01:48 AM (Sgq8y)

367 I wonder if the Germans shake their heads and fume to this day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

To this day? I hope not, but I can definitely say that you don't have to go back more than a couple of generations to see a lot of the German population who were, let's put it diplomatically, sore losers. Even if they make you as an Ami, if you're directly or even indirectly related, they did sometimes let their guard slip. One innocent phrase, die guten alten Zeiten (literally "the good old times") is one of the most sinister and hair-raising ever in that context. Because, as you can guess, they weren't looking fondly back to the days of Kaiser Wilhelm I or the Weimar Republic.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 01:49 AM (9Uomk)

368 The bizarre mating ritual of octopuses: Watch as a male gets DRAGGED around the ocean floor mid-sex by an impatient female

https://mol.im/a/13328179

Women are all the same? What's wrong, Honey?

Posted by: Ciampino - Not doing it right? at April 20, 2024 01:51 AM (qfLjt)

369 Some of y'all have asked what it takes to become a COB. There are a series of tests looking for some very specific skills

Wut? Did that guy just Kumala the popsickle?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 20, 2024 01:53 AM (ynpvh)

370 John, melding the nastiness of the Germans and the Irish and others is what made America great. Sadly that is now a bygone time.

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 01:55 AM (SGfHY)

371 Wut? Did that guy just Kumala the popsickle?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I noticed that too.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at April 20, 2024 01:56 AM (41CYW)

372 Wut? Did that guy just Kumala the popsickle?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 20, 2024 01:53 AM (ynpvh)

Worse. He Mayor Pete'd it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 20, 2024 01:57 AM (uqx1e)

373 Emperor of the North. Free at archive.org the legal hack website.

https://archive.org/details/emperor-of-the-north

Posted by: 13times at April 20, 2024 01:57 AM (S7Q9G)

374 "Howdy" is actually a shortened form of "HowdyDo"*, which is also a shortened form of "How Do You Do"
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And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said, "My name is Sue! How do you do?

Posted by: Johnny Cash at April 20, 2024 01:59 AM (XeU6L)

375 Fun with East Germans. Have pics of my uncle at Checkpoint Charlie with his buds. They stacked picnic tables up to look over the other side. Which pissed the East German guards off. So of course they flipped the guards off. Probably my favorite pic of my unc....flying the bird.
Posted by: Duck Variations, David Mammet

More fun with East Germans - met a fellow by the name of Ingo in grad school, who grew up in West Berlin. He constantly talked about how they would mess with the East Germans on the other side of the Wall, since on their side they could often drive right up to it.

They harassed them constantly - called it "bordering." The stunt he was most proud of was when he and his teenage friends were able to mount a ladder in a flatbed truck and get close enough to the top of the Berlin Wall to toss several concrete blocks over. When they made impact, one or more of the blocks set off a landmine, and that whole sector of East Berlin came alive. Searchlights everywhere, dogs barking, Stasi all over the place! He said it took them several hours before things calmed down. And then Ingo and company drove a few miles further down, and did it again!

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 01:59 AM (9Uomk)

376 The bizarre mating ritual of octopuses: Watch as a male gets DRAGGED around the ocean floor mid-sex by an impatient female
https://mol.im/a/13328179
Women are all the same? What's wrong, Honey?
Posted by: Ciampino - Not doing it right?

You humans just have to figure out bra hooks.

We've gotta figure out how to get panties off a girl with 8 legs and radial symmetry.

Posted by: a henpecked octopus at April 20, 2024 02:00 AM (DgGvY)

377 I have done an Ace version of the Canterbury tales for years , every April.

It is in the
Archives..

Posted by: Imklos at April 20, 2024 02:02 AM (oGyF9)

378 I have no comment on the COBs and their capacity to satisfy the boss's proclivities.

Gosh darned it, you all keep on being you!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2024 02:03 AM (pDQ/8)

379 364 I'm surprised nobody called the dog and steer picture a cowlick...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I was a bit surprised that there was no 'dropping wood' reference on the bomb. Off color, I suppose.

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 01:48 AM (41CYW)
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"..... no 'drooping wood' reference ...."

I fixed your typo. You're welcome.

Posted by: Ciampino - Not doing it right Mabel? at April 20, 2024 02:03 AM (qfLjt)

380 Also, the women in the top pic look like the girls my WW II vet uncles married.

Posted by: Imklos ixnay on the imklos-may at April 20, 2024 02:04 AM (oGyF9)

381 Just look at those women at top. Won't see any music group like that today. Would be exclusionary.

Posted by: leb at April 20, 2024 02:04 AM (SGfHY)

382 373 Emperor of the North. Free at archive.org the legal hack website.

https://archive.org/details/emperor-of-the-north

Posted by: 13times at April 20, 2024 01:57 AM (S7Q9G)

Had a work acquaintance that said her G-grandpa was barred from entering New York state because he "threw" hobos off trains...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 20, 2024 02:04 AM (ynpvh)

383 And then Ingo and company drove a few miles further down, and did it again!
Posted by: John Drake
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Stories like that make a feller a bit jealous and nostalgic.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at April 20, 2024 02:05 AM (41CYW)

384 I have no comment on the COBs and their capacity to satisfy the boss's proclivities.

Gosh darned it, you all keep on being you!
Posted by: Dr. Bone

"Proclivities"

Cool legal term, Dude.

Posted by: Imklos ixnay in at April 20, 2024 02:06 AM (oGyF9)

385 Off Mayor Pete sock.

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 02:06 AM (41CYW)

386 Regarding the Berlin Wall, I finally grasped how remote that part of lived experience had come when I mentioned how astonished we all were when the Wall came down in 1989, and a Gen-Zeer, visibly concerned, asked me with a serious expression on her face, "Did anybody get hurt?"

I immediately had an image of Stasi Grunts Dieter and Karl cursing the cold, stamping their feet, and dragging on those horrible cigarettes they had in the German Democratic Republic, when they hear a creaking noise. Karl says "What is that?" and Dieter screams "Mein Gott, run!" as the whole thing tumbles on top of them.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 02:07 AM (9Uomk)

387 Had a work acquaintance that said her G-grandpa was barred from entering New York state because he "threw" hobos off trains...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Welcome to Sakkerliner, Sir

Posted by: Miklos a rare example of a Hungarian Red as hell neck at April 20, 2024 02:10 AM (oGyF9)

388 "..... no 'drooping wood' reference ...."

I fixed your typo. You're welcome.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Ah yes, the old Highlander 2.5 reference. The Droopening right after the Quickening.

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 02:13 AM (41CYW)

389 They are trying to prime us for both a new quarantine/lock-down and a start on getting rid of cows.

H5N1 strain of bird flu is found in MILK for first time in 'very high concentrations,' World Health Organization warns https://mol.im/a/13328291

As if one should listen to WHO after all the lies from covid. Go back to First Base won't you!

Posted by: Ciampino - WHO bastards. Not doing it. at April 20, 2024 02:15 AM (qfLjt)

390 “threw" hobos off trains...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 20, 2024 02:04 AM (ynpvh)

NYC outlawed single shot ball peen hammers.

Posted by: 13times at April 20, 2024 02:16 AM (zXnVx)

391
They harassed them constantly - called it "bordering."

==========

Bordering. That's good! They should have thrown Playboy magazines and chocolate bars over, too, with notes attached saying "We can get this any time, sucker."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 20, 2024 02:19 AM (ny95y)

392 As if one should listen to WHO after all the lies
Posted by: Ciampino - WHO bastards. Not doing it
---------
Redlined a contract this week from a Fortune 100 company. Specific language in there about complying with both CDC and WHO directives. These ppl take their preening quite seriously.

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 02:20 AM (41CYW)

393 And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said, "My name is Sue! How do you do?
Posted by: Johnny Cash

I 'member that.

Gave you Three steps toward the door.

Posted by: Miklos is not lazy, just Slow at April 20, 2024 02:21 AM (oGyF9)

394 Besides the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash in the Andes, the last real episode of cannibalism I remember reading about was with the populace of Leningrad during the 900-day siege. The Eastern Front was brutal.
Posted by: RickZ

China’s Great Leap Forward.

So many dead being trucked out to the desert to prevent disease in the city, the Allies thought China was getting ready to invade India …

Posted by: Adriane the Green Tea Ice Cream Critic . . . at April 20, 2024 02:24 AM (4Winp)

395 Posted by: Miklos is not lazy, just Slow at April 20, 2024 02:21 AM (oGyF9)

Joe Biden slow? Or is there some other mentally incapacitated idiot we're talking about? It's a wide open field.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 02:26 AM (emlEe)

396 Volleyball player who had both legs amputated after being pinned between cars comes face to face with driver who caused horrendous injuries as he's sentenced

https://mol.im/a/13329131

The judge who let him loose should also be sued.

Posted by: Ciampino - WHO bastards. Not doing it. at April 20, 2024 02:28 AM (qfLjt)

397 Posted by: Adriane the Green Tea Ice

Yea wends Adriane!

All the World's a Critic

Do so wend

Come again.

Posted by: Miklos A. E. Housman at April 20, 2024 02:30 AM (oGyF9)

398 G'night Horde. It's always amusing and educational on the ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at April 20, 2024 02:34 AM (41CYW)

399 PORTLAND: I walked through the sketchiest pedestrian underpass I have ever seen. Every inch of the ground was covered in broken tile or trash. In the middle was a man talking to himself.

https://tinyurl.com/45srtukt

Posted by: Ciampino - even Africa is cleaner at April 20, 2024 02:38 AM (qfLjt)

400 Gettin' a fax machine only a few years old to operate over a brand new VOIP-only fiber optic line could make a feller chuck it off a bridge somewheres in Arkansas. I reckon. Mmm hmmm.

Posted by: Karl Childers at April 20, 2024 02:38 AM (UCSAm)

401 Gettin' a fax machine only a few years old to operate over a brand new VOIP-only fiber optic line could make a feller chuck it off a bridge somewheres in Arkansas. I reckon. Mmm hmmm.
Posted by: Karl Childers

So

You met Billy Joe

Posted by: the Talahatchee Bridge at April 20, 2024 02:42 AM (oGyF9)

402 Every inch of the ground was covered in broken tile or trash. In the middle was a man talking to himself.
Posted by: Ciampino - even Africa is cleaner at April 20, 2024 02:38 AM (qfLjt

Motel Underbridge. A Nancy Pelosi Corp franchise.

Posted by: 13times at April 20, 2024 02:43 AM (uB2D/)

403 the last real episode of cannibalism I remember reading about was with the populace of Leningrad during the 900-day siege. The Eastern Front was brutal.
Posted by: RickZ

It was horrific, and the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht not only knew about and gloried in the cannibalism that took place, but also did what they could to ramp it up. There were earnest efforts made by the Red Cross and others to get food into Leningrad, and the German besiegers did whatever it took to block that.

Posted by: John Drake at April 20, 2024 02:44 AM (9Uomk)

404 PORTLAND: I walked through the sketchiest pedestrian underpass I have ever seen. Every inch of the ground was covered in broken tile or trash. In the middle was a man talking to himself.

https://tinyurl.com/45srtukt
Posted by: Ciampino

Sounds like Budapest in the Good old Days.

Posted by: the panhandlers knew me by name at April 20, 2024 02:45 AM (oGyF9)

405
Besides the Uruguayan rugby team plane crash in the Andes, the last real episode of cannibalism I remember reading about was with the populace of Leningrad during the 900-day siege. The Eastern Front was brutal.
Posted by: RickZ

China’s Great Leap Forward.

Posted by: Adriane the Green Tea Ice Cream Critic

============

Nazino Island. Stalin's.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 20, 2024 02:50 AM (ny95y)

406 I call this bullshit -
Adderall could become the next opioid epidemic, DEA warns

https://mol.im/a/13328969

Posted by: Ciampino - Just stop drugging children at April 20, 2024 02:52 AM (qfLjt)

407 Have I eaten today?

No

Freezer is full, pantry is full, no appetite. Down from 6'1 170 to 155 now.

Old Mama and the dog get fed though.

Posted by: unfun Facts at April 20, 2024 02:52 AM (oGyF9)

408 Illinoisans can now get documents notarized without leaving home:

https://tinyurl.com/59c3882z

Posted by: Ciampino - One more job gone digital at April 20, 2024 02:54 AM (qfLjt)

409 Illinoisans can now get documents notarized without leaving home:

https://tinyurl.com/59c3882z
Posted by: Ciampino

If there's money, sign me up

oh wait

It's automatic

Posted by: soon to be Illinois beneficiary at April 20, 2024 03:03 AM (oGyF9)

410

Adderall is literally methamphetamine and adult ADHD is a complete bullshit diagnosis.

Posted by: Ped Xing at April 20, 2024 03:03 AM (qtv5g)

411 Posted by: unfun Facts at April 20, 2024 02:52 AM (oGyF9)
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Aww... What's bugging you, Miklos? Something's up.

I have no appetite either, just feeding hubby & going thru the motions every day. (I know I'm burned out from caregiving, but there's no relief here.) I'm not losing any weight though, darn it.

Hope you're ok, dude!

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 03:07 AM (njWTi)

412 Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says that he will direct COVID relief funds to go to non-White art organizations:

https://tinyurl.com/yvnaxk6b

Discrimination? USSC ruling?

Posted by: Ciampino - Try that but Whites Only at April 20, 2024 03:08 AM (qfLjt)

413 "COVID relief funds" LOL

Ya mean: "demoncrat slush funds"

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 03:11 AM (njWTi)

414 USC's 'silenced' valedictorian refuses to say if she wants to abolish Israel and reveals she wanted to use commencement speech to teach 'students about the world' before being canceled for liking antisemitic page

https://mol.im/a/13327651

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Yeah yeah! Lying to 'infidels' comes naturally to you lot, it's written in that ever-changing rules book.

Posted by: Ciampino - Lier Lier Pants On Fire at April 20, 2024 03:13 AM (qfLjt)

415 412 Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says that he will direct COVID relief funds to go to non-White art organizations:

https://tinyurl.com/yvnaxk6b

Discrimination? USSC ruling?
Posted by: Ciampino

Graphiti artists.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 20, 2024 03:14 AM (gllTv)

416 I have no appetite either, just feeding hubby & going thru the motions every day. (I know I'm burned out from caregiving, but there's no relief here.) I'm not losing any weight though, darn it.

Hope you're ok, dude!
Posted by: JQ

Well you know. 24/7/365 non-stop.

Old Mama ain't right in the head, and I ain't feelin' so good neither.

Posted by: Just prayed on his knees for you and yours at April 20, 2024 03:15 AM (oGyF9)

417 I have no appetite either, just feeding hubby & going thru the motions every day. (I know I'm burned out from caregiving, but there's no relief here.) I'm not losing any weight though, darn it.

Hope you're ok, dude!
Posted by: JQ

Is Hungarian a minority? I see $$$

Posted by: Moiklos is a minority of a minority of a minority at April 20, 2024 03:17 AM (oGyF9)

418 I watch a lot of police traffic stops and other police interactions with the public. I love the sovereign citizens episodes. Often a supervisor/sergeant/superior is called for and it soon becomes obvious that this person of rank is often a Black and often female. It eventually leads one to say 'AA promotions'.

Posted by: Ciampino - AA EOE NAACP - love all the discrimination at April 20, 2024 03:20 AM (qfLjt)

419 California's first transgender mayor Raul Ureña is kicked out of office after opponents mount 'transphobic' recall campaign

https://mol.im/a/13329393

(in my rules book you may call yourself a trans-woman only if you've chopped off dick and balls; wearing a dress doesn't cut it {LOL} - I still call you a guy though, as well as an imbecile)

Posted by: Ciampino - CA's 1st pretend woman at April 20, 2024 03:29 AM (qfLjt)

420 I did do some boiled peanuts.

As Bobby Lee's boys sang-

Goobers, goobers
Eatin' ' goober peas
Goodness how delicious!
Eatin goober peas!

Posted by: Miklos actulally learnt that as a child , being True Son and all at April 20, 2024 03:30 AM (oGyF9)

421 in my rules book you may call yourself a trans-woman only if you've chopped off dick and balls; wearing a dress doesn't cut it
Posted by: Ciampino

Whatever happened to the term "transvestite?"

It sounds too much like "playing dress-up," and they want to be treated like adults?

Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 03:37 AM (DgGvY)

422 Well you know. 24/7/365 non-stop
----------

Oh, yeah!

Blessings, Miklos. Thank you for prayers, I am praying for you & yours also.

Ain't we got fun?

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 03:44 AM (njWTi)

423 I grew up in the Tidewater area of eastern Virginia. Lots of peanut farms around when I was a kid, stretching up towards Petersburg on U.S. 460. Boiling peanuts was definitely NOT something a civilized person did. It wasn't just a heresy, it was a shunning offense.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 03:46 AM (emlEe)

424 Dudes in dresses.
Broads in suits.
Furries, bronies, weirdo-kin of all types....

Sodom. Gomorrah.

No wonder I have nightmares!

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 03:49 AM (njWTi)

425 Boiled peanuts are okay, I guess. Never heard of them, or tried them, until my 20s.

They're not readily available here.

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 03:52 AM (njWTi)

426 Good night, horde.

Must continue my battle with insomnia.

Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 03:53 AM (njWTi)

427 Dudes in dresses.
Broads in suits.
Furries, bronies, weirdo-kin of all types....

Sodom. Gomorrah.

No wonder I have nightmares!
Posted by: JQ at April 20, 2024 03:49 AM (njWTi)

What gets me are kids being permanently mutilated, either with drugs or with 'surgeons' scalpels. All in the name of what? Lies? It's abhorrent. There was a recent Brit report (Cass Report?) slamming child gender transitioning. More and more countries are seeing the ramifications of this crazed, perverted 'Heinz 57 genders' ideology. But ol' Dementia Joe will stand up for them. Maybe. Because he thinks everyone's talking about the trans in his corvette.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 03:56 AM (emlEe)

428 Whatever happened to the term "transvestite?"

It sounds too much like "playing dress-up," and they want to be treated like adults?
Posted by: mikeski

Two friends an we won the Big Prize at on the biggest Mardi Gras Ballles, in Nawlins, organized by the Tulane Kolidge of Architecture. The Beaux Arts Ball.

We went as Diana Ross and the Supremes.

I got to be Diana because I was the tallest.

Call Tulane and ax em

Dey got dey archives, and even Muldoon might
be a witness.

Posted by: Miklos finally stating for the rocord at April 20, 2024 03:57 AM (oGyF9)

429 JQ, you can't make peanut soup with boiled peanuts. Peanut soup is a Tidewater, Virginia hidden and delicious specialty.

Posted by: RickZ at April 20, 2024 03:58 AM (emlEe)

430 Ain't we got fun?
Posted by: JQ

Now see?

We can have nice impossible things.

I Learned this in Noo Awlins

like this

https://tinyurl.com/3mezkvub

Posted by: Miklos like the gospel at Jazz aafest the Besyt at April 20, 2024 04:09 AM (oGyF9)

431 Dudes in dresses.
Broads in suits.
Furries, bronies, weirdo-kin of all types....

No

No cannot work work this

Posted by: Miklos, th at April 20, 2024 04:19 AM (oGyF9)

432 No cannot work work this

Posted by: Miklos, the last of the

Gods of the Paperbook Headings

Posted by: Miklos, th at April 20, 2024 04:23 AM (oGyF9)

433 I do not like whiners or complainers.

NO WHINING OR COMPLAINING

MUST FOR HUMORS

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Cickoainka WDamnka at April 20, 2024 04:31 AM (oGyF9)

434 Well

I haven not eaten in 24 hours.

The Waffle Hut is open, and despite all, my gift card is still valid.

Marleen is over here crying, they want me back, Darleen thinks she own this place, but legally she don't even that other other side of the Double Wide (Darleen has some questions to answer, as in "double wide" refers to your own self, or the Trailer House in question?

Posted by: Miklos, just paying taxes at April 20, 2024 04:49 AM (oGyF9)

435 Who killed this thread?

We should sue the weedkiller big Killers

Posted by: Miklos, just paying taxes at April 20, 2024 04:54 AM (oGyF9)

436 Hybridize 'em. Stay with the boiler, but drive a multi-stage steam turbine, returning the used water to the water tank. Spin that turbine through a reduction box, pretty much same as a ship, but with some transmission speed ranges.

Torque to the wheels would be smooooth.

And they could still burn windmill scrap. lol

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 20, 2024 12:48 AM (e6UQI)

Pennsy RR tried that with their turbine steam engine, the 6200, back in the 40's. Very inefficient at low speeds. Lionel made a gazillon of their version back in the 50's. I have two running on my layout.

Link to Wiki on the S2 steam turbine engine.

https://tinyurl.com/2pdeak2u

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 20, 2024 08:31 AM (iODuv)

437 WeirdDave!

Posted by: Candidus at April 20, 2024 08:47 AM (hbkSB)

438 Churchill allowed the Germans to run "minor" bombing missions on non-essential British towns and places to hide the fact that they had cracked the Enigma Code. If the Brits defended every single bombing mission the Germans would have discovered this.

Posted by: The Doctor at April 20, 2024 08:48 AM (qNzP3)

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