Mid-Morning Art Thread

Old Barn, Connecticut
John Atherton

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:31 AM (v6JzV)

2 Good morning everyone. A quick coat of paint and that barn will be just fine.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:31 AM (blmVn)

3 Yesss!!

Feeling very centered this morning.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

4 Bet the sniper is wondering how he's going to get down off that tower without breaking his neck.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 09:32 AM (T+Iwg)

5 Is he the Atherton the road in State College is named for?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2024 09:32 AM (XjtdB)

6 Stuck in the middle with this painting.

Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2024 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

7 Love the art, by the way. Would hang.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

8 That is a prime childhood playground.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2024 09:34 AM (EwaUh)

9 Why is there a platform on top of the barn?

Posted by: huerfano at May 24, 2024 09:34 AM (VGOMa)

10 I see the prisoner hiding in the barn.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:34 AM (vFG9F)

11 Is a tornado coming?

TTTTTTTTT
OOOOOO
RRRRR
NNN
AA
D
OOO

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 09:34 AM (cf/0E)

12 Barn has the sadzzz.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 24, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

13 9 Why is there a platform on top of the barn?

Posted by: huerfano at May 24, 2024 09:34 AM (VGOMa)

Used to be a windmill there.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM (AwYPR)

14 And we, the Benevolent Homeowners Association, will fine you $1000 a day until that eyesore is removed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM (L/fGl)

15 9 Why is there a platform on top of the barn?
Posted by: huerfano at May 24, 2024 09:34 AM (VGOMa)

For the sniper with the super soaker.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM (EwaUh)

16 Looks more like the West or Midwest than Connecticut.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM (v6JzV)

17 Is there a desert in Connecticut?

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM (vFG9F)

18 8 That is a prime childhood playground.
Posted by: Kris

Amen to that with all the attendant splinters and leaps into some piles of straw.

Watch out! There have to be a few rusty old pitchforks laying around.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM (blmVn)

19 Yup. Old barn.

Next.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:36 AM (Q4IgG)

20 Drab

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2024 09:36 AM (t/2Uw)

21 I've been to Connecticut and don't remember it looking like the surface of the moon. This art is crap!

Posted by: Down With Shitty Art! at May 24, 2024 09:36 AM (V5BDR)

22
Wilma!!!!!! - a limerick

My granddad's old farm is in trouble
Destroyed in the rural building bubble
It's sure not looking good
Missing shingles. Rotten wood.
It's nothing but a pile of Barn-y rubble!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 09:36 AM (991eG)

23 5 Is he the Atherton the road in State College is named for?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2024 09:32 AM (XjtdB)

Nope, it's named after Atherton Wing from the "Shindig" episode of Firefly.

True.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 09:36 AM (T+Iwg)

24 Just read the Sefton update in the sidebar. What a relief. God Bless!

Posted by: Defenestratus at May 24, 2024 09:37 AM (WvO/i)

25 This painting is actually a metaphor for Jane Fonda's hoo-ha.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:37 AM (v6JzV)

26 This scene invokes feelings of indifference.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:37 AM (vFG9F)

27 evokes too.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:37 AM (vFG9F)

28 I can imagine the listing...."Handyman Special".

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 09:37 AM (AwYPR)

29 You'd be sure to step on a rusty nail if you went there, get lockjaw, and die. Hardly worth the visit.

Posted by: Copperheads, too! at May 24, 2024 09:38 AM (V5BDR)

30 Looks like what lawyers call an "attractive nuisance." Kids will want to play there, and one of them will get a splinter in his foot or a nail in his hand, and . . .

Still, I like it. To me the location looks more like Kansas or Nebraska with a dust storm coming up; but CT it is if the artist says it is. What's that tower in the background? It appears to be a shorter version of the tower at Chalmette Battlefield (you know, Jackson vs. "the bloody British").

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

31 Looks like a tobacco barn.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:38 AM (LkLld)

32 8 I can imagine the listing...."Handyman Special".
Posted by: BignJames

"What. A. Dump!"
-- Bette Davis

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:38 AM (blmVn)

33 28 I can imagine the listing...."Handyman Special".
Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024

***
"Fixer-upper." "Lots of potential."

Uh, no.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

34 I see the artist was also an illustrator and avid fly fisherman. Lots of Saturday Evening Post covers. Also a good friend of Norman Rockwell. Drowned in a fly fishing accident.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2024 09:39 AM (oaGWv)

35 Alternate title:

"New FBI Building, Frog's Ass, Kansas"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2024 09:39 AM (eDfFs)

36 Watch out! There have to be a few rusty old pitchforks laying around.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM (blmVn)

If you're not risking your life and health everyday as a kid, are you really living? We also had this massive grandmother of all weeping willows right next to our run-down barn. We would grab a handful of branches and swing down off the roof like Tarzan. Good times.

Posted by: Kris at May 24, 2024 09:39 AM (EwaUh)

37 It's a fixer upper. I happen to have some nice curtains on my truck too.

Posted by: Mr Haney at May 24, 2024 09:39 AM (vFG9F)

38 Looks like a tobacco barn.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:38 AM (LkLld)

No

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 09:39 AM (AwYPR)

39 Stuck in the middle with this painting.
Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2024 09:32 AM

Morning Reports to the left of me, Daily Rants to the right.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2024 09:40 AM (814cm)

40 It's time to tear it down.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 24, 2024 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

41 I love this. Man. I might get a print. I can think of three walls where it could go, right now.

Thanks, CBD. This is spectacular.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 09:40 AM (d04cU)

42 >>Used to be a windmill there.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 09:35 AM

I thought maybe, but I grew up in the Texas Panhandle where windmills used to look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/bde4fjxs

Posted by: huerfano at May 24, 2024 09:40 AM (VGOMa)

43 ♫ ♫ ♫ ♪

The old gray barn she ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
Ain't what she used to be
The old gray barn she ain't what she used to be
Many long years ago.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 09:41 AM (991eG)

44 I've been to Connecticut and don't remember it looking like the surface of the moon. This art is crap!
Posted by: Down With Shitty Art! at May 24, 2024

***
To be fair, this was painted 82 years ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

45 There's actually a "Desert of Maine" tourist trap, but I've never heard of one in Connecticut.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 09:41 AM (T+Iwg)

46 That is a prime childhood playground.
Posted by: Kris

Amen to that with all the attendant splinters and leaps into some piles of straw.

Watch out! There have to be a few rusty old pitchforks laying around.
Posted by: Tonypete

Get those tetanus shots ready.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2024 09:41 AM (oaGWv)

47 The structure in the background looks like a lighthouse.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

48 28 I can imagine the listing...."Handyman Special".
Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 09:37 AM (AwYPR)

Yeah, with the always smiling real estate lady with a cheerful-"Bring your hammer and paint brush!"

Posted by: Coldwell Bonkers at May 24, 2024 09:41 AM (V5BDR)

49 It's time to tear it down.
Posted by: redridinghood

Joanna Gaines will scarf up all the siding and beams and sell them at an immense markup.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:42 AM (blmVn)

50 " The structure in the background looks like a lighthouse.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

Or a prison guard tower.

Posted by: Mr Haney at May 24, 2024 09:42 AM (vFG9F)

51 Alternate title:

"Secret Rickhouse for Val-U-Rite Gold"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2024 09:42 AM (eDfFs)

52 I'll take it!

Posted by: Mr. Blandings at May 24, 2024 09:42 AM (6gW4D)

53 Cows got a little bit rowdy last night, did they?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (si1C0)

54 Somebody went to the Wyeth Art School but wanted a different pallette hi

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (s2Gsy)

55 I thought southern PA was as far north to successfully grow tobacco.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (2QA3G)

56 I thought maybe, but I grew up in the Texas Panhandle where windmills used to look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/bde4fjxs
Posted by: huerfano

What a great photo.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (v6JzV)

57 Life was tough out on the prairies of Connecticut...

Posted by: t-bird at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (Ez0wT)

58 Old Barn, Connecticut

Looks more like Iowa or Nebraska.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (8F31h)

59 I thought southern PA was as far north to successfully grow tobacco.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy

They grow it in Ontario.

Sock fail, by the way.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (v6JzV)

60 >>No

Yes. Connecticut used to have lots of them with that vertical siding.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (LkLld)

61 off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (2QA3G)

62 JJS in the sidebar reporting he is in good shape and wants better drugs!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (s2Gsy)

63 Life was tough out on the prairies of Connecticut...
Posted by: t-bird at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM (Ez0wT)

Always work to do.

Posted by: Tumbleweed Wrangler at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (6gW4D)

64 " Life was tough out on the prairies of Connecticut...
Posted by: t-bird "

Once they wiped out all the crabs, people moved on.

Posted by: Mr Haney at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (vFG9F)

65 Yeah, with the always smiling real estate lady with a cheerful-"Bring your hammer and paint brush!"
Posted by: Coldwell Bonkers

What is it with the realtor pictures that show damn near everyone with the half turned torso, folded arms, and bouffant hairdos? And that's just the men.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (blmVn)

66 Alternate Title:

"Ace Branches Out From Shelves to Barns"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (eDfFs)

67 JJS in the sidebar reporting he is in good shape and wants better drugs!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Did he ever get his martini?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

68 Old Barn, Connecticut

Looks more like Iowa or Nebraska.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 09:43 AM

Well...it is an old barn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (814cm)

69 Fixer upper with country charm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 24, 2024 09:45 AM (bo7UB)

70 Where's the tumbleweed and mesquite?

Posted by: Don't Know Nuthin' 'Bout Geography at May 24, 2024 09:45 AM (V5BDR)

71 60 >>No

Yes. Connecticut used to have lots of them with that vertical siding.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (LkLld)

Think we're going to go on the word of a guy who thinks Rhode Island is real?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 09:45 AM (T+Iwg)

72 Nicely done but he could have waited until daytime to paint it

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 09:45 AM (CTREE)

73 "Well...it is an old barn.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState "

Are you sure?

Posted by: AI Barn Creator at May 24, 2024 09:45 AM (vFG9F)

74 I would have never guessed this was Connecticut.
It gives me more of a Dust Bowl vibe.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 24, 2024 09:45 AM (NpAcC)

75 I just want my own sink in the bathroom for shaving.

Posted by: Mr. Blandings at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (6gW4D)

76 Hey, is that thing for sale?

Posted by: Cary Grant at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (s2Gsy)

77 Neighbors are raising a huge barn. Must be close to 3 stories tall. Can't imagine what they'll put in there that is so tall.

Maybe they'll store hay for the cattle or something else that is typically stacked.

Or possibly some farm equipment that needs high ceilings.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)

78 We're not in Connecticut anymore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

79 "Well...it is an old barn.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState "

Are you sure?
Posted by: AI Barn Creator at May 24, 2024 09:45 AM

Mind Status:

[X] Blown

[ ] Other Than Blown

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (814cm)

80 That thing is going to take a lot of primer before you can paint it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 09:47 AM (s2Gsy)

81 75 I just want my own sink in the bathroom for shaving.
Posted by: Mr. Blandings at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (6gW4D)

I can haz Myrna Loy?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 09:47 AM (T+Iwg)

82 Although the natives constructed an entire terminal complete with an air traffic control tower, for some reason the airliners never came.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 24, 2024 09:47 AM (bo7UB)

83 "I just want my own sink in the bathroom for shaving.
Posted by: Mr. Blandings"

My MIL gets those. I don't know how they get in there but they get trapped and I have to go fetch them out.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:47 AM (vFG9F)

84 Oh. "Sink". I thought you said "skink".

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:47 AM (vFG9F)

85 Or possibly some farm equipment that needs high ceilings.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)
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Probably to stash their space ship

Posted by: X Files Barn Co. at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (s2Gsy)

86 76 Hey, is that thing for sale?
Posted by: Cary Grant at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (s2Gsy)

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I saw it first, plow boy.

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (bo7UB)

87 I can haz Myrna Loy?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 09:47 AM (T+Iwg)

No. Besides, she's still picking out paint colors for the painting contractor.

Posted by: Mr. Blandings at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (6gW4D)

88 I just want my own sink in the bathroom for shaving.
Posted by: Mr. Blandings

In the kitchen of the farmhouse at the family homestead there was a bathroom sink in the kitchen. Along with a normal kitchen sink. Every morning Grampa would shave at the little sink while we all sat and had breakfast.

A great memory.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (blmVn)

89 Even the rats have left.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (NpAcC)

90 Fixer-upper. Great potential. Top school district. Close to everything. $1.25 million.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (seACy)

91 Location. Location. Location.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM (ZdexC)

92 I just want my own sink in the bathroom for shaving.
Posted by: Mr. Blandings at May 24, 2024
*
I can haz Myrna Loy?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024

***
"You, you, you'll have to compete with me!"

Posted by: Zombie James Stewart at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

93 The House that ~~Jack~~ Joe Built.

Posted by: Art Moron at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

94 Oh. "Sink". I thought you said "skink".
Posted by: fd

I was guana ask you what you mean by that comment.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM (v6JzV)

95 Fitting choice. Two days ago I was talking with my brother who lives in my parents' old house. He just hired a contractor to demolish my parent's ancient barn (probably built a hundred years ago). It's pretty decrepit. He's going to replace it with a garage/workshop.

We used to have an uneven dirt surface beneath the hay loft door which had a basketball hoop mounted, probably between 11 and 12 feet off the ground.* It's no wonder I could never play basketball on a level gym floor with a regulation hoop height.

(*I spent much of my childhood dribbling. Mom had a tough time keeeping me supplied with Klenex!)

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM (991eG)

96 Or possibly some farm equipment that needs high ceilings.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)
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Probably to stash their space ship
Posted by: X Files Barn Co. at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (s2Gsy)

Shhh!

Posted by: Uncle Martin at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM (6gW4D)

97 4 Mexicans, 3 Peruvians, 5 Gazans and 3 Chinese live there.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM (BDD21)

98 Needs shiplap

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (Q4IgG)

99 Maybe they'll store hay for the cattle or something else that is typically stacked.

Or possibly some farm equipment that needs high ceilings.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I'd guess equipment. Do many folks still put up hay/straw in the barns now that ag bags are so prevalent?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (blmVn)

100 Is he the Atherton the road in State College is named for?

No, Atherton St was named for George Atherton, one of PSU's early presidents. There's an Atherton Hall, too. South Halls, I think, it was considered very nice.

https://shorturl.at/ae5pj

Posted by: t-bird at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (2fIGV)

101 I like it, CT a barren wasteland.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (sivlk)

102 >>Think we're going to go on the word of a guy who thinks Rhode Island is real?

Go ahead and make fun. When we drop the calamari ban on you haters we'll see who gets the last laugh.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (LkLld)

103 Fixer-upper. Great potential. Top school district. Close to everything. $1.25 million.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024

***
By "close to everything," I take it, you mean within forty miles!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

104 Qiut making fun of my house.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (rCzZx)

105 "You, you, you'll have to compete with me!"
Posted by: Zombie James Stewart at May 24, 2024 09:49 AM

That's adorable...kid thinks he has a chance.

Posted by: William Powell at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (Wnv9h)

106 The chores....the stores.....
Clean air...Times Square.....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM (2QA3G)

107
Nice. Would hang.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 09:51 AM (RKVpM)

108 Ha, ha. I thought that 'skink' was a GI nickname for Vietcong or Vietminh regulars and when I searched for 'vietnam skink' to confirm or deny, the this was the first hit:

New species of skink with eyelid 'window' found in Vietnam | Miami Herald
Mar 21, 2024Researches discovered the "smooth" animal in a forest of Vietnam. ... Ouboter's smooth skinks are considered "medium"-sized, reaching about 4.8 inches in length, the study said.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 09:51 AM (ZdexC)

109 Or possibly some farm equipment that needs high ceilings.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)
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Probably to stash their space ship
Posted by: X Files Barn Co. at May 24, 2024 09:48 AM (s2Gsy)
----

Laugha while you can, monkey boy!

Posted by: Dr. Emilio Lizardo, soon to get this thing off the ground at May 24, 2024 09:52 AM (T+Iwg)

110 Go ahead and make fun. When we drop the calamari ban on you haters we'll see who gets the last laugh.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM

The way they douse it with marinara instead of serving it with hot cherry peppers as God intended, they deserve no better.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

111 >>Needs shiplap

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:50 AM

That IS shiplap, or will be soon.

Posted by: Joanna Gaines at May 24, 2024 09:52 AM (VGOMa)

112 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Well, I've lived in worse, if you consider a tent worse.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 09:52 AM (L14eD)

113 Nice. Would hang.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

If you had socked "Ebrahim Raisi", you'd have won the internet for the day.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:52 AM (blmVn)

114 Yes. Connecticut used to have lots of them with that vertical siding.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (LkLld)

I guess they could be any design as long as they had certain features...this is what I'm used to seeing.

https://tinyurl.com/45n66hbb

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 09:52 AM (AwYPR)

115 Primitive. There's not even a telephone on a pole.

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at May 24, 2024 09:52 AM (6gW4D)

116 I hope Muldoon's girlfriends didn't complain about him dribbling before he shot too!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 09:53 AM (ZdexC)

117 Morning.

I'd say that barn has seen better days.

Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 09:53 AM (1Yy3c)

118 I like Atherton's ability to portray the barn but this image would be more fitting for a no man's land landscape in WW I. The drab muddy colors, empty and blighted looking land and overall air of abandonment is rather depressing. (Maybe that was his point.) All that's missing are some bomb craters and dead bodies. Some of his other paintings are almost as depressing. It is such a far cry from Eric Sloane's "Reverence For Wood" that starts with dismantling an old barn in Connecticut that will be treasured for the uses of the wood.

A much more pleasant image is the one on his Wiki page showing a scene of a fishing shack. Same talent but it denotes a treasured past and is still to be enjoyed.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2024 09:54 AM (zudum)

119 "Good solid foundation."

Posted by: 21st Century Realtors at May 24, 2024 09:54 AM (bo7UB)

120 I hope Muldoon's girlfriends didn't complain about him dribbling before he shot too!
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 09:53 AM (ZdexC)
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Why I love basketball

Posted by: President For Life, Barack I at May 24, 2024 09:55 AM (s2Gsy)

121 Ouboter's smooth skinks are considered "medium"-sized, reaching about 4.8 inches in length, the study said.
Posted by: andycanuck

Piker!!
Giant Vietnamese centipedes

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:55 AM (blmVn)

122 Needs an Amish barn raising.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 24, 2024 09:55 AM (NpAcC)

123 Schadenfreude alert! CNN covers the Flatbush Trump rally.

https://shorturl.at/0Ac72

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

124
I'd say that barn has seen better days.
Posted by: Robert

"barn"

for some values of "barn", yes

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 09:55 AM (xG4kz)

125 I'd say that barn has seen better days.
Posted by: Robert

He never should've broken up with Thelma Lou and moved to Raleigh.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:55 AM (v6JzV)

126 "Good solid foundation."
Posted by: 21st Century Realtors at May 24, 2024 09:54 AM

"Great bones."

I hate that one.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 24, 2024 09:56 AM (Wnv9h)

127 >>The way they douse it with marinara instead of serving it with hot cherry peppers as God intended, they deserve no better.

Yea, some are better than others. You can get some great stuff down in Point Judith.

I mean, it is our official state appetizer. Does any other state have an official appetizer?

See what I mean. A magical land.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:56 AM (LkLld)

128 Just down the block is a old barn sadly done now from neglect. This year the front is collapsing.
Another like this in picture was taken apart and collected either to put it back together or saved the beams and siding

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 09:56 AM (CTREE)

129 Three words. Wheel. Of. Fortune!

https://shorturl.at/CJ5hJ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

130 Sorry American citizen. You will hear no Deep State cog ever say. Up to 2.7 Million Noncitizens Could Vote Illegally in November, Study Warns

UP TO?

There are ~50M or so illegals in the US and most states are sending them voter registration cards and have no way interest in differentiating them from citizens

Past studies have found about 1/5 illegals vote. One should expect those numbers are low for obvious reasons.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 09:56 AM (ibTVg)

131 Thelma Lou was a babe, by the way.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:57 AM (v6JzV)

132 I'll add quick healing to my prayers of thanks for JJ's operation.
(and for good news in 10 days to 2 weeks as well)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 09:57 AM (sivlk)

133 I had a computer with an Atherton CPU but it would not run Lisp.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:57 AM (vFG9F)

134
Why I love basketball
Posted by: President For Life, Barack I

Still picking splinters out of your ass from all the time you rode the bench, "Brick"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 09:57 AM (xG4kz)

135 Fucking shiplap.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2024 09:57 AM (QqfS2)

136 Joe Mannix hardest hit.

"The View" Host Sunny Hostin Says Caitlin Clark's Popularity Connected To "White Privilege" And "Pretty Privilege"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (L/fGl)

137 Well, it does already have a raised gun platform. +1

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (Q4IgG)

138 I'd say that barn has seen better days.

The roof, though, is in mint condition.

Posted by: t-bird at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (2fIGV)

139 Attended the graduation of granddaughter #2 od Diogenes last night. Pure Texas graduation. Big. Flags everywhere. Balloons dropping from the ceiling of Moody Hall. Pledge of Allegiance and then the Texas pledge.
Awesome!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (L14eD)

140 That's no ordinary barn; that thar is the finest meth lab in all of Gopher County!

Posted by: PabloD at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (f7a6n)

141 Ha, ha. I thought that 'skink' was a GI nickname for Vietcong or Vietminh regulars and when I searched for 'vietnam skink' to confirm or deny, the this was the first hit:

New species of skink with eyelid 'window' found in Vietnam | Miami Herald
Mar 21, 2024Researches discovered the "smooth" animal in a forest of Vietnam. ... Ouboter's smooth skinks are considered "medium"-sized, reaching about 4.8 inches in length, the study said.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024

***
Skink, skank, skunk
Stink, stank, stunk

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

142 131 Thelma Lou was a babe, by the way.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:57 AM (v6JzV)

---------

But Juanita down at the diner knew things.

Posted by: Barney Fife at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (bo7UB)

143 We have plenty of skinks around here. Mole skinks, even.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (vFG9F)

144 Attended the graduation of granddaughter #2 od Diogenes last night. Pure Texas graduation. Big. Flags everywhere. Balloons dropping from the ceiling of Moody Hall. Pledge of Allegiance and then the Texas pledge.
Awesome!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

When does she enter 2nd grade?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (sivlk)

145 I just want my own sink in the bathroom for shaving.
Posted by: Mr. Blandings at May 24, 2024 09:46 AM (6gW4D)

I can haz Myrna Loy?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 09:47 AM

You want to shave Myrna Loy?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (a3Q+t)

146 If Biden was a barn...

Posted by: TC at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (cHOHf)

147 Attended the graduation of granddaughter #2 od Diogenes last night. Pure Texas graduation. Big. Flags everywhere. Balloons dropping from the ceiling of Moody Hall. Pledge of Allegiance and then the Texas pledge.
Awesome!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (L14eD)

Texas. It's like a whole 'nother country!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (6gW4D)

148 The Whitney

Date
1942

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 28 1/8 × 40 1/8in. (71.4 × 101.9 cm)

NOT ON VIEW

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (ENQN6)

149 Texas has its own Pledge of Alliegience?

Why does that not surprise me at all?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (v6JzV)

150 Morning.

I'd say that barn has seen better days.
Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 09:53 AM (1Yy3c)
++++
:: borrows Sponge's shtick ::

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/DKxXHEx-XnU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:00 AM (d04cU)

151 Stink, stank, stunk
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

No one said this better than Thurl Ravenscroft.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:00 AM (blmVn)

152
Skink, skank, skunk
Stink, stank, stunk

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024

I wonder if once the musician know as Sting dies we should refer to him as Stung.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 10:00 AM (RKVpM)

153 I thought maybe, but I grew up in the Texas Panhandle where windmills used to look like this:

https://tinyurl.com/bde4fjxs
Posted by: huerfano
------
What a great photo.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I didn't follow the link at first because, well, I knew what a windmill looked like. But yeah, that's a great photo and I would have missed it if not for B's comment.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 10:00 AM (/y8xj)

154 Barn-y rubble...

Heh, I crack myself up!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:00 AM (991eG)

155 JOHN ATHERTON
1900–1952

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (ENQN6)

156 >>I guess they could be any design as long as they had certain features...this is what I'm used to seeing.

They were probably built a bit different up north to account for the weather mostly. Possibly the type of tobacco as well. They grew a lot of cigar wrapper tobacco up this way for years.

Here are some examples of CT tobacco barns from that era.

https://tinyurl.com/3x2u7p2t

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (LkLld)

157 136 Joe Mannix hardest hit.

"The View" Host Sunny Hostin Says Caitlin Clark's Popularity Connected To "White Privilege" And "Pretty Privilege"

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Well, she's got the "white" part down.

Posted by: Sam at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (ji3Wy)

158 "Good solid foundation."
Posted by: 21st Century Realtors

"Enjoy the fresh air!"

Posted by: t-bird at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (2fIGV)

159 I guess the horses have already left the barn.

Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (Oy/m2)

160 Thurl Ravenscroft

One of the coolest names in show business. Right up there with Malachi Throne.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

161 I think it is too late to shut the barn door

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (ENQN6)

162 I don't know if I should trust some wild ass, radical theory like that.

NCAA Star D.J. Burns Jr. Shares Weight-Loss Advice After Dropping 45 Pounds Ahead Of NBA Draft: “Eat Less”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

163 "The View" Host Sunny Hostin Says Caitlin Clark's Popularity Connected To "White Privilege" And "Pretty Privilege"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (L/fGl)

That gal may have invented "homely".

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 10:02 AM (AwYPR)

164 Open Culture: Hear the Song Written on a Sinner’s Buttock in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights

https://tinyurl.com/2ads9njb

Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 10:02 AM (1Yy3c)

165 159 I guess the horses have already left the barn.
Posted by: dantesed at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (Oy/m2)

They were eaten last winter.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2024 10:02 AM (ENQN6)

166
If Biden was a barn...
Posted by: TC

There is a barn in Sussex County at the side of DE 1 with a large "BIDEN" sign painted on it. I shit you not.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 10:03 AM (xG4kz)

167 I wonder if they ever painted the Mail Pouch Tobacco ad on a tobacco barn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:03 AM (v6JzV)

168 Why is there a platform on top of the barn?

*******

I wondered if it might have been for a water holding tank (cistern)...

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:03 AM (991eG)

169 I like this painting. I like paintings depicting abandoned houses, farms and even fields in various states of disrepair and dilapidation. This is well done and would be nice to hang.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2024 10:03 AM (LolQL)

170 Clark is a WNBA "6".

Give me the Brazilian beach volleyball team.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at May 24, 2024 10:03 AM (ji3Wy)

171 That gal may have invented "homely".
Posted by: BignJames

Compared to most other gal BB players, she's Ingrid Bergman.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:04 AM (v6JzV)

172 I mean, it is our official state appetizer. Does any other state have an official appetizer?

See what I mean. A magical land.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 09:56 AM

Not official, but Texas does feature some great appetizers:

https://discover.texasrealfood.com/texas-mom-blog/ the-best-of-texas-appetizers -tasty-treats-for-your-next-gathering (remove spaces)

More importantly, Texas has an Official State Handgun, the 1847 Colt Walker. Does your state have an Official Handgun?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 10:04 AM (a3Q+t)

173 I see the artist was also an illustrator and avid fly fisherman. Lots of Saturday Evening Post covers. Also a good friend of Norman Rockwell. Drowned in a fly fishing accident.
Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2024 09:39 AM (oaGWv)

Okay....I'll bite....what's a fly fishing accident ?

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (T4tVD)

174 Thurl Ravenscroft
*
One of the coolest names in show business. Right up there with Malachi Throne.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024

***
The photo atop the Wiki page has him looking a lot like Zachary Scott (Joan Crawford's lover in the 1945 Mildred Pierce).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (J2vNu)

175 Being Connecticut, is that a silo or a lighthouse in the left background?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (991eG)

176 Pretty privilege?

Is the argument that men are now going to watch the WNBA or that women are more likely to watch if the players are pretty?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (ibTVg)

177 JJS in the sidebar reporting he is in good shape and wants better drugs!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Did he ever get his martini?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)
---
Maybe they installed a port so he can just pour them directly into his brain...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (si1C0)

178 157 136 Joe Mannix hardest hit.

"The View" Host Sunny Hostin Says Caitlin Clark's Popularity Connected To "White Privilege" And "Pretty Privilege"

-----

Well, she's got the "white" part down.
Posted by: Sam at May 24, 2024 10:01 AM (ji3Wy)

Privilege means you have more and expected to do more with it. The way we use it now is that those with socalled privilege are expected to step aside and let someone without those same skills and learning take of the task.
See UCLA MEd School test scores.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (ENQN6)

179 "The View" Host Sunny Hostin Says Caitlin Clark's Popularity Connected To "White Privilege" And "Pretty Privilege"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 09:58 AM (L/fGl)
++++
LOL. A woman bitching about "pretty privilege" is perhaps the most hilarious and absurd thing I've heard all week, and it's been a hell of a week.

I have very little knowledge of this person or the WNBA because, like most people, I don't care in the slightest. The sum total knowledge of my knowledge about any of this comes from tangential exposure to press about it. Nonetheless, I've seen enough to offer a free - free as in "gratis" - clue to Sunny. It ain't 'cause she's white, and it ain't 'cause she's pretty (though she seems to be both, and is a WNBA 9 or 10) - it appears to be because, from what little I've seen, she's relatively pleasant.

You, Sunny, are not. You get nastiness demerits. Pleasantness Points, on the flip side, are force multipliers. Give it a thought, toots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (d04cU)

180 Laura Hollis: “Diversity” Without Virtue and Shared Values Is Chaos

-
Feature, not a bug.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (L/fGl)

181
What a great photo.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Agreed.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (xG4kz)

182 If you zoom in closely you can make out a pair of legs with striped socks and red shoes protruding from the foundation.

Posted by: Frank L. Baum at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (bo7UB)

183 I hear it porns down in Africa
They praise the porn down in Africa

VP Kamala Harris announces plan to help double internet access in Africa to 80% by 2030.

Posted by: Toto at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (ZdexC)

184 Gov. Mike DeWine said he is calling a special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring President Joe Biden is on the state's 2024 ballot. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting President of the United States, on the ballot this fall. Failing to do so is simply unacceptable. This is ridiculous. This is (an) absurd situation,” DeWine said.

I suspect he knows that such legislation can't pass the heavily-gerrymandered GOP general assembly. Typical Repug two-step.

Is this going to be a little shit show? Obviously, the Assembly has to vote to pass this, will they pass it or will the Dems have to hold a quick nominating convention before the deadline? DeWine is up to something (he is a rightwinger after all) but what?

This is all just theater. Biden will absolutely be on the Ohio ballot.

DeWine knows this is a disaster for the GOP if he doesn't insure Joe is on the ballot. It would happen anyhow thru the courts, but this way he deflects any possible damage to the party in Ohio.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (JCZqz)

185 Okay....I'll bite....what's a fly fishing accident ?
Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (T4tVD)

He was caught with his fly down fishing in another mans hole.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (ENQN6)

186 Texas. It's like a whole 'nother country!
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (6gW4D)

And so far, everyone has been so nice. And no allergies. Loving it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (L14eD)

187
Compared to most other gal BB players, she's Ingrid Bergman

Also prior to her the most famous WNBA player was Brittney Griner - so at least the most famous WNBA player now will be a woman...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (ibTVg)

188 NCAA Star D.J. Burns Jr. Shares Weight-Loss Advice After Dropping 45 Pounds Ahead Of NBA Draft: “Eat Less”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024

***
"And Move Around More"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

189 Okay....I'll bite....what's a fly fishing accident ?
Posted by: JT

*******

For me it was when I made a poor back cast and landed a #10 Royal Coachman in my earlobe.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:07 AM (991eG)

190 Clark is a WNBA "6".

Give me the Brazilian beach volleyball team.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler

Where would you even put a brazillian teams?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:08 AM (8F31h)

191 NCAA Star D.J. Burns Jr. Shares Weight-Loss Advice After Dropping 45 Pounds Ahead Of NBA Draft: “Eat Less”

Ahem...Dear Leader invent this health method. Evil capitalist pig dog steal it!

Posted by: North Korean Spokesperson at May 24, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)

192 I like this painting. I like paintings depicting abandoned houses, farms and even fields in various states of disrepair and dilapidation.

Why limit yourself to farms and fields?
https://tinyurl.com/4267rewa

Posted by: Piranesi at May 24, 2024 10:08 AM (CsUN+)

193 If you zoom in closely you can make out a pair of legs with striped socks and red shoes protruding from the foundation.
Posted by: Frank L. Baum at May 24, 2024

***
Patient: "How's your ex-wife?"

Dr. Becker: "I don't know. Haven't seen her since a house landed on her sister."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:08 AM (J2vNu)

194 Okay....I'll bite....what's a fly fishing accident ?
Posted by: JT

*******

For me it was when I made a poor back cast and landed a #10 Royal Coachman in my earlobe.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:07 AM (991eG)

OW !

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:09 AM (T4tVD)

195 184 DeWine knows this is a disaster for the GOP if he doesn't insure Joe is on the ballot. It would happen anyhow thru the courts, but this way he deflects any possible damage to the party in Ohio.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (JCZqz)

========

Why?

Republicans didn't actively work to keep Biden off the ballot. Democrats simply didn't follow the rules.

They act like Republicans letting Democrats fumble is worse that Democrats actively undermining Trump from getting on ballots.

I suspect it'll pass because Republicans are stupid, but they shouldn't do it. "The rules have been in place for years. Why are Democrats so bad at governing?" should be the message.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:09 AM (GBKbO)

196 For me it was when I made a poor back cast and landed a #10 Royal Coachman in my earlobe.
Posted by: Muldoon

Pierced ear like Pirates of the Caribbean.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:09 AM (8F31h)

197 Okay....I'll bite....what's a fly fishing accident ?

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (T4tVD)

Hooking a Grizzly Trout.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 10:09 AM (AwYPR)

198 I don't know if I should trust some wild ass, radical theory like that.

NCAA Star D.J. Burns Jr. Shares Weight-Loss Advice After Dropping 45 Pounds Ahead Of NBA Draft: “Eat Less”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:02 AM (L/fGl)
++++
Yeah, essentially. There is more to it than that if you want strong efficiency and progress, but essentially just this. The iron law of weight loss is, "Calories Out Must Exceed Calories In." Look up your basal metabolic calorie requirements to maintain your weight, then consume a significantly smaller number than that and keep doing that for months or years. There. You're 80% of your way to your goal.

To amplify, eat better (not just less) and get exercise. Those aren't really optional, but they are subordinate to the basic iron law.

It's amazing watching all of this ancient knowledge presented as amazing new discovery.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (d04cU)

199 You, Sunny, are not. You get nastiness demerits. Pleasantness Points, on the flip side, are force multipliers. Give it a thought, toots.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (d04cU)
---
It's always amazing how a woman who might be a 6-7 on the physical attractiveness scale can turn into an 8-10 when she smiles because her inner beauty radiates outward.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (si1C0)

200 122 Needs an ~~Amish~~ antifa barn ~~raising~~ razing.
Posted by: redridinghood

Suggested edit. For equity!!!

Posted by: Antifa at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

201 Gov. Mike DeWine said he is calling a special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring President Joe Biden is on the state's 2024 ballot. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting President of the United States, on the ballot this fall. Failing to do so is simply unacceptable. This is ridiculous. This is (an) absurd situation,” DeWine said.
***

What's unacceptable is authorizing lethal force for the FBI panty raid on Mar-el-Largo. That was pure bullshit.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (L14eD)

202 Open Culture: Hear the Song Written on a Sinner’s Buttock in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights

https://tinyurl.com/2ads9njb
Posted by: Robert

Lousy beat. Can't dance to it. I can't give it more than a 45.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (L/fGl)

203 Biden and the Democrats have had 4 years to nominate their person...and they still have time.

Up to them if they want to be bothered to do so or not.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (ibTVg)

204 "Swirly" DeWine is a feckless douchebag.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at May 24, 2024 10:11 AM (2QA3G)

205 NCAA Star D.J. Burns Jr. Shares Weight-Loss Advice After Dropping 45 Pounds Ahead Of NBA Draft: “Eat Less”

Ozempic: shit yourself silly.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:11 AM (8F31h)

206
Okay....I'll bite....what's a fly fishing accident ?

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM

Diogenes mentioned yesterday of someone who slipped, waders filled up, and he drowned. The pair I bought I imagine would fill with about 10 gallons of water, or 80 pounds. That might be a little tough for someone to get up with in less then great shape.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 10:11 AM (RKVpM)

207 It's always amazing how a woman who might be a 6-7 on the physical attractiveness scale can turn into an 8-10 when she smiles because her inner beauty radiates outward.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Yes. A great smile is a beauty enhancer.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:11 AM (v6JzV)

208 The OH legislature should vote note they are all going to be in NYC supporting Trump at his trial and unfortunately are not available to bail Biden out from his own stupidity but helpfully give Biden and DeWine a link to the free version of Zoom.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:12 AM (ibTVg)

209 198 To amplify, eat better (not just less) and get exercise. Those aren't really optional, but they are subordinate to the basic iron law.

It's amazing watching all of this ancient knowledge presented as amazing new discovery.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (d04cU)

=======

Eh. You can lose weight by eating nothing but Sweet Tarts.

Just, keep it at 1200 calories worth of Sweet Tarts. Is it the best strategy? Not really, but you'll lose weight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

210 It's always amazing how a woman who might be a 6-7 on the physical attractiveness scale can turn into an 8-10 when she smiles because her inner beauty radiates outward.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (si1C0)
++++
Pleasantness. Helpfulness. Peacefulness. Respect (self-respect *and* respect for her mate).

Each one of those is worth at least a full point. Six becomes 10, easily.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:12 AM (d04cU)

211 Give me the Brazilian beach volleyball team.

*******

With those beach volleyball uniforms, a brazilian is a requirement. Wouldn't want to look like you had Harpo Marx in a leg lock.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:13 AM (991eG)

212 201 What's unacceptable is authorizing lethal force for the FBI panty raid on Mar-el-Largo. That was pure bullshit.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (L14eD)

=======

"But it's normal. Trust us."
-The FBI

"Why do you think this makes it better?"
-Everyone

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

213 I bet Rick Ankiel could hit that.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 10:13 AM (U6Usv)

214 Gov. Mike DeWine said he is calling a special session of the General Assembly next week to pass legislation ensuring President Joe Biden is on the state's 2024 ballot. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting President of the United States, on the ballot this fall. Failing to do so is simply unacceptable. This is ridiculous. This is (an) absurd situation,” DeWine said.
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Don't take it up with the state legislature. The blame rests entirely with the DNC who didn't do their homework.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 10:13 AM (si1C0)

215 Re: Thurl Ravenscroft: "One of Ravenscroft's best-known uncredited works is as the vocalist for the song 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.' His name was accidentally omitted from the credits, leading many to believe that the cartoon's narrator, Boris Karloff, sang the song, while others cited Tennessee Ernie Ford as the song's signature voice."

***
It does sound like Ford -- though TR had a "bigger" sound to his pipes, at least in that instance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

216 Pleasantness. Helpfulness. Peacefulness. Respect (self-respect *and* respect for her mate).

One thing a lot of women don't get about men is just how important that peacefulness factor is.

I spend most of my day fighting battles at work...why would I want to come home to fight more battles over even dumber things then the fights at work?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:14 AM (ibTVg)

217 >>More importantly, Texas has an Official State Handgun, the 1847 Colt Walker. Does your state have an Official Handgun?

Used to. Used them to help kill injuns and the Brits back in the before times.

I mean somebody had to create the country so places like Texas could join.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024 10:14 AM (LkLld)

218 NCAA Star D.J. Burns Jr. Shares Weight-Loss Advice After Dropping 45 Pounds Ahead Of NBA Draft: “Eat Less”
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That's not weight loss advice thats the Democrat slogan for 2024.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 10:15 AM (U6Usv)

219 2 Good morning everyone. A quick coat of paint and that barn will be just fine.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 09:31 AM (blmVn)
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Yeah, but it won't fix the green sky.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 24, 2024 10:15 AM (vlXMQ)

220 Ozempic: shit yourself silly.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:11 AM (8F31h)
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I saw on the morning newscast this morning (I watch 2-3x a week as a form of penance and in case something truly important is happening locally) that weight-loss drugs have their fastest-growing market in persons under the age of 25, with the majority of that growth happening for women between 16 and 25.

Astounding. What the hell are these doctors thinking? This is the age at which it is *easiest* to fix things without drugs. Young people are strong and have a natural bias toward health and recovery (generally). There's a reason that young people (especially young men) think they're invulnerable, and it's because they basically *are.* That's their "lived experienced."

What kind of reckless and lazy doctor looks at an obese young person - a person who can (comparatively) easily fix it and build excellent life-long habits through the process - and prescribes a drug instead?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:15 AM (d04cU)

221 It's always amazing how a woman who might be a 6-7 on the physical attractiveness scale can turn into an 8-10 when she smiles because her inner beauty radiates outward.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (si1C0)

Helps too if she has all her teeth.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:15 AM (L14eD)

222 215 When I was a kid I always thought it was Karloff singing, too.

IIRC, Ravenscroft also did the voice of Toney the Tiger and the "Ho ho ho" of the Jolly Green Giant.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:16 AM (v6JzV)

223 Nephew was reading a list of "historical events that didn't happen like you think"

One of the items - Paul Revere didn't say "The British are coming". And...I thought everyone knew this. The colonists thought of themselves as British at the time (this is before the DoI) - just suffering under an oppressive government.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)

224 He was caught with his fly down fishing in another mans hole.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The wife was using the wrong rod?

HeyOhhhh!!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:16 AM (blmVn)

225 Bodies of three more hostages killed on October 7 recovered overnight from Gaza, says IDF.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:16 AM (ZdexC)

226 She's a House of Representatives 2.

Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett Files Application to Trademark “Bleach Blonde Bad-Build Butch Body”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

227 More importantly, Texas has an Official State Handgun, the 1847 Colt Walker. Does your state have an Official Handgun?
*
Used to. Used them to help kill injuns and the Brits back in the before times.

I mean somebody had to create the country so places like Texas could join.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2024

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Wasn't Gus McCrae's sidearm in the original Lonesome Dove a Walker Colt? It certainly seemed big enough to be. Though by LD's time a lot of them might have been converted to firing cartridges?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:16 AM (J2vNu)

228 Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett Files Application to Trademark “Bleach Blonde Bad-Build Butch Body”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:16 AM (L/fGl)
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We are a profoundly serious country.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:17 AM (d04cU)

229 "Open Culture: Hear the Song Written on a Sinner’s Buttock in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights

https://tinyurl.com/2ads9njb
Posted by: Robert"

I love it!

Posted by: Guy who likes painting of demons with heads like a fish at May 24, 2024 10:17 AM (vFG9F)

230 Astounding. What the hell are these doctors thinking?

Have you seen the local suburban youth out and about recently?

I mean you might not have because a lot of them spend all day in front of a screen eating hot pockets...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:17 AM (ibTVg)

231 Would hang that art. Barn Dance is out of the question, however. Kid fort on the other hand.

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 10:17 AM (2bFN5)

232 More importantly, Texas has an Official State Handgun, the 1847 Colt Walker. Does your state have an Official Handgun?

I am embarrassed that I did not know that.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 10:18 AM (/y8xj)

233 BiL's company is designing and building a Pharma plant dedicated to Ozempic. I don't know the completion date.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at May 24, 2024 10:18 AM (2QA3G)

234 When painting a picture, turn off flux.

Posted by: look whats not at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (nakGR)

235 Texas. It's like a whole 'nother country!
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 24, 2024 09:59 AM (6gW4D)

And so far, everyone has been so nice. And no allergies. Loving it.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:06 AM (L14eD)

*Atomic wedgie*

Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (1Yy3c)

236 Would hang that art. Barn Dance is out of the question, however. Kid fort on the other hand.
Posted by: scampydog

In my hometown, an old barn got turned into a theater. Theater in the round. I even performed there a few times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

237 The wife was using the wrong rod?

********

That'll get someone in reel trouble!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (991eG)

238 I'm old enough to remember the Swedish Bikini Team commercials.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

239 199 You, Sunny, are not. You get nastiness demerits. Pleasantness Points, on the flip side, are force multipliers. Give it a thought, toots.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:05 AM (d04cU)
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It's always amazing how a woman who might be a 6-7 on the physical attractiveness scale can turn into an 8-10 when she smiles because her inner beauty radiates outward.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 10:10 AM (si1C0)
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Think I read where Clark is very religious, too.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (T+Iwg)

240 I ran across a SinFest comic about the Gaza war recently.

And...that guy has gone off the rails.

But he shows the same sort of issue that a lot of Israel haters show namely - Oct 7 didn't happen. Just suddenly Israel decided to start bombing Muslim babies for no reason. But only in Gaza...again...for no reason.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

241 The wife was using the wrong rod?

*******

Now you're just casting aspersions!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (991eG)

242 The wife was using the wrong rod?

********

That'll get someone in reel trouble!
Posted by: Muldoon

Well, she was a spinner after all.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (blmVn)

243 Yeah, yeah, the old fly fishing excuse. Charles Kuralt used that one for decades. Left his wife in Manhattan in the summer supposedly to go "fly fishing" out west for 3 weeks or so. Turned out, he had a woman stashed out there and was living with her. Good, old, Homey, Charles Kuralt. His dalliances only became known after his demise. Ashamed that he is was from my state.

Posted by: The Old North State. at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (V5BDR)

244 "The regulars are coming!" if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (ZdexC)

245 Have you seen the local suburban youth out and about recently?

I mean you might not have because a lot of them spend all day in front of a screen eating hot pockets...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 1

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Cops too, at least locally. Yesterday there were three shootings, all the same incident, on what used to be the great shopping street of the city some fifty years ago. My local Fox outlet had footage of the investigation. In one scene we see three cops *waddling* toward the TV camera. All three short and way overweight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (J2vNu)

246 And she lured him in.

(how did we miss that one at the beginning?)

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (blmVn)

247 Have you seen the local suburban youth out and about recently?

I mean you might not have because a lot of them spend all day in front of a screen eating hot pockets...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:17 AM (ibTVg)
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Yes. And I have direct experience here, because I was fat in my 20s, too (not as bad as came later, but I'm not deceiving myself). What I never considered was going to the doctor and begging for drugs. I knew the problem, and it was me - I just didn't deal with it.

If I *didn't* have that attitude and did go begging for drugs, the doctor should have told me, "no. Here's what you should do instead. You can fix this. I'll help you" - and that's what these doctors should probably be telling these young people, too.

I dunno. Maybe the risks and costs of Ozempic are lower than the risks and costs of obesity and the doctors assume for good reasons that the person will *never* self-improve, but handing out weight-control drugs to young adults strikes me as madness.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:21 AM (d04cU)

248 Democrats: "What MTG said was offensive and totally beyond the pale."

Also Democrats: "It's OK for Spider Eyebrow Woman to fundraise off her more offensive comments."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2024 10:21 AM (PiwSw)

249 Now you're just casting aspersions!
Posted by: Muldoon

It's because of that syndrome he has.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:21 AM (v6JzV)

250 I'm old enough to remember the Swedish Bikini Team commercials.
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And an appearance on Married With Children!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:21 AM (ZdexC)

251 I dunno. Maybe the risks and costs of Ozempic are lower than the risks and costs of obesity

I think it is partially this and unfortunately also a lot easier to tell someone to take a pill then to tell them to get off their asses and get exercise.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:22 AM (ibTVg)

252 Eh. You can lose weight by eating nothing but Sweet Tarts.

Just, keep it at 1200 calories worth of Sweet Tarts. Is it the best strategy? Not really, but you'll lose weight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

After reading this my inner eight year old just did cartwheels.

Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 10:23 AM (1Yy3c)

253 In my hometown, an old barn got turned into a theater. Theater in the round. I even performed there a few times.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024

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Theatre in the round, aka "arena" theatre, was pioneered (if not invented) by Norman Felton, the head producer of the Man From U.N.C.L.E. series. That was why he named his production company "Arena Productions."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:23 AM (J2vNu)

254 Really happy about the J.J.Sefton surgery going well

Posted by: SamIam at May 24, 2024 10:23 AM (oasF3)

255 240 I ran across a SinFest comic about the Gaza war recently.

And...that guy has gone off the rails.

But he shows the same sort of issue that a lot of Israel haters show namely - Oct 7 didn't happen. Just suddenly Israel decided to start bombing Muslim babies for no reason. But only in Gaza...again...for no reason.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

========

Forgetting that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor would be a weird thing for people to do, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

256 For me it was when I made a poor back cast and landed a #10 Royal Coachman in my earlobe.
Posted by: Muldoon
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Father did that but through the cartilage in upper ear. His reaction was less than calm. Don't believe it was a Royal Coachman, however.

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 10:23 AM (2bFN5)

257 Eh. You can lose weight by eating nothing but Sweet Tarts.

Just, keep it at 1200 calories worth of Sweet Tarts. Is it the best strategy? Not really, but you'll lose weight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:12 AM (GBKbO)
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LOL. You might starve to death before hitting your goal, but yes. Even this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:24 AM (d04cU)

258 What the hell are these doctors thinking? This is the age at which it is *easiest* to fix things without drugs.

$$$$$$$$$

Start them young, and you've got a life long income stream! That's a new vacation house!

Posted by: Mental Health, Gender Reassignment, And other Healthcare professionals at May 24, 2024 10:24 AM (JCZqz)

259 And so far, everyone has been so nice. And no allergies. Loving it.
Posted by: Diogenes

Been trying to tell you for years.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:25 AM (8F31h)

260 242 The wife was using the wrong rod?

The Paolo, how you say, has no comment.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 24, 2024 10:25 AM (PiwSw)

261 Celine Dion sobs over struggle with Stiff Person Syndrome in documentary trailer...

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Uhh. What?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:25 AM (L/fGl)

262 Like 99.999 percent of the country, I couldn't care less about the WNBA. The hype about Caitlin Clark is reaching Taylor Swift-levels of ubiquitous annoyance. But having seen the jealousy, utter racism and outright hatred of Clark that's emanating from segments of "black Twitter" and other social media, I hope she ends up as the GOAT.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at May 24, 2024 10:25 AM (ji3Wy)

263 261 Celine Dion sobs over struggle with Stiff Person Syndrome in documentary trailer...

-
Uhh. What?
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Isn't Stiff Person Syndrome Rigor Mortis?

Posted by: pudinhead at May 24, 2024 10:26 AM (/UtnQ)

264 Calories are calories BUT some calories make you feel fuller and take longer to digest.

Amusingly most of the better calories to consume here are things the FNM/Government don't want to discuss.

1200 calories of say beef vs 1200 calories of sweet tarts is going to make you less likely to then immediately eat another 1200 calories of something else...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:26 AM (ibTVg)

265 For me it was when I made a poor back cast and landed a #10 Royal Coachman in my earlobe.
Posted by: Muldoon
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Father did that but through the cartilage in upper ear. His reaction was less than calm. Don't believe it was a Royal Coachman, however.

I've been thinking it would be fun to learn to fly cast but I think y'all have just talked me out of it.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 10:26 AM (/y8xj)

266 In my hometown, an old barn got turned into a theater. Theater in the round. I even performed there a few times.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024
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There's a small town south of my town where an old barn was converted into a restaurant. I don't know if it's still there, though. It had a very, very tasty burger (topped with ham, onion rings, pulled pork, and bacon)...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 10:26 AM (si1C0)

267 The walls are closing in on Bibi...

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And the wheels are coming off.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

268 1200 calories of say beef vs 1200 calories of sweet tarts is going to make you less likely to then immediately eat another 1200 calories of something else...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:26 AM (ibTVg)
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Yup. The "USDA Food Guide Pyramid" is one of the greatest pieces of junk science ever perpetrated on a people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:27 AM (d04cU)

269 The wife was using the wrong rod?

Probably using an ultra light instead of a big assed surf rod.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:27 AM (8F31h)

270 Are you folks in Montana still getting snow?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:27 AM (v6JzV)

271 I saw Buddy Miles open for Steppenwolf at the Nanuet Theater-Go-Round in 1978. Not a joke. It was pretty cool with the revolving stage. I think it's a church of some kind now.

Posted by: Will It Go 'round In Circles at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (V5BDR)

272 Isn't Stiff Person Syndrome Rigor Mortis?
Posted by: pudinhead at May 24, 2024 10:26 AM (/UtnQ)

This syndrome can, how you say, describe other things.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (PiwSw)

273 The wife was using the wrong rod?

********

That'll get someone in reel trouble!
Posted by: Muldoon

Well, she was a spinner after all.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (blmVn
***

You guys are just trolling for the puns now.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (L14eD)

274 I was fishing along a river in Alaska with a friend. We were wearing chest waders. He stumbled and fell, the waders instantly filled with water. Fortunately he was able to shuck the straps off his shoulders and peel off the waders before he was pulled under.

The bad news, the river was ice cold and he began shivering immediately, threatening hypothermia.
.
The good news: I was able to get him back to the truck, and get the heater going.

The other bad news: He had dropped his fishing poole in the water when he fell.

The other good news: I was able to rig a treble hook and weight, cast out where he had been fishing and snag his line, retrieving his pole.

The really good news: His rig was still intact so I resumed fishing and caught a coouple moroe nice salmon before we headed hoome.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (991eG)

275 Isn't Stiff Person Syndrome Rigor Mortis?
Posted by: pudinhead at May 24, 2024

***
If you're still breathing, they give it a different name.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (J2vNu)

276 265 For me it was when I made a poor back cast and landed a #10 Royal Coachman in my earlobe.
Posted by: Muldoon
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Weighted flies are how you pierce you right ear lobe. Everyone knows that.

Posted by: pudinhead at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (/UtnQ)

277 Yup. The "USDA Food Guide Pyramid" is one of the greatest pieces of junk science ever perpetrated on a people.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Covid #1.
Food pyramid #2.
You could choose not to follow the Food Pyramid.
Lot of people didn't have a choice with Covid & the Jab.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:29 AM (8F31h)

278 Just, keep it at 1200 calories worth of Sweet Tarts. Is it the best strategy? Not really, but you'll lose weight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

With this strategy you will eventually die of malnutrition, at which point weight loss will increase substantially.

(stolen from Bloom County)

Posted by: spindrift at May 24, 2024 10:29 AM (OguvZ)

279 I ran across a SinFest comic about the Gaza war recently.

And...that guy has gone off the rails.

But he shows the same sort of issue that a lot of Israel haters show namely - Oct 7 didn't happen. Just suddenly Israel decided to start bombing Muslim babies for no reason. But only in Gaza...again...for no reason.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (ibTVg)

Ishida has never been "on the rails." He's a super talented nutjob. Alas, the super talented are often nut jobs. Anyway, I know he was popular around here because he was going hard against the tranny insanity but that was just an example of a lefty feminist having converging interests with the right. Otherwise he's just a reflexive leftist.

Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 10:29 AM (1Yy3c)

280 Karen Gillan suffers from Stiff Person Syndrome. Everywhere she goes.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 10:30 AM (U6Usv)

281 271 I saw Buddy Miles open for Steppenwolf at the Nanuet Theater-Go-Round in 1978. Not a joke. It was pretty cool with the revolving stage. I think it's a church of some kind now.
Posted by: Will It Go 'round In Circles at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (V5BDR)

Geh. My church is "in-the-round". I've learned to tune it out but if I had a lot of money I'd dynamite the building and start over.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 10:30 AM (T+Iwg)

282 The wife was using the wrong rod?

********

That'll get someone in reel trouble!
Posted by: Muldoon

Well, she was a spinner after all.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (blmVn
***

You guys are just trolling for the puns now.
Posted by: Diogenes

They're trolling for the halibut.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:30 AM (8F31h)

283 What kind of reckless and lazy doctor looks at an obese young person - a person who can (comparatively) easily fix it and build excellent life-long habits through the process - and prescribes a drug instead?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:15 AM (d04cU)
====

Modern medicine is 90% the prescription pad. It makes doctors, patients, big pharma, and insurance companies happy. Everybody's happy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2024 10:30 AM (RIvkX)

284 The "USDA Food Guide Pyramid" is one of the greatest pieces of junk science ever perpetrated on a people.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I'd put anthropogenic climate change at the top of the list.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:31 AM (v6JzV)

285 What the hell are these doctors thinking? This is the age at which it is *easiest* to fix things without drugs.
$$$$$$$$$
Start them young, and you've got a life long income stream! That's a new vacation house!
Posted by: Mental Health, Gender Reassignment, And other Healthcare professionals at May 24, 2024 10:24 AM (JCZqz)
+++++++++++
You’re spot on, we’re no longer patients, we’re profit centers.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2024 10:31 AM (LolQL)

286 And now, the news from Cloud Cuckoo Land . . .

Are Russia and NKorea planning 'October surprise' that aids Trump?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:31 AM (L/fGl)

287 The gallows tower is a nice touch in the painting.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 24, 2024 10:31 AM (aFNOf)

288 Good news on JJ. Amazing that he's home already, modern medicine can be exceptional. Prayers his way for a negative biopsy.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 24, 2024 10:32 AM (eYdiI)

289 You guys are just trolling for the puns now.
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

Nah. I'm just angling for a promotion...

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:32 AM (991eG)

290 What kind of reckless and lazy doctor looks at an obese young person - a person who can (comparatively) easily fix it and build excellent life-long habits through the process - and prescribes a drug instead?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:15 AM (d04cU)

If Scrubs is correct, it's because all the pharmaceutical reps are nympho Heather Locklear types.

Posted by: spindrift at May 24, 2024 10:32 AM (OguvZ)

291 You guys are just trolling for the puns now.
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

Nah. I'm just angling for a promotion...
Posted by: Muldoon

A tough chore to tackle.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:33 AM (blmVn)

292 Modern medicine is 90% the prescription pad. It makes doctors, patients, big pharma, and insurance companies happy. Everybody's happy!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2024 10:30 AM (RIvkX)
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This is one of the reasons I am so distrustful of the mental health/therapy business. So often, from what I have seen (I've never been to a shrink myself, even when I've thought it might help, because of this reason), they appear to be very expensive auto-pens with prescription pads that hand out psychoactive drugs instead of pursuing results.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:33 AM (d04cU)

293 OT but someone brought up Nick Rikieta on last night's ONT and I looked it up and holy fuck that dude didn't just fall hard but when he hit the ground he started digging.

Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 10:33 AM (1Yy3c)

294 Yup. The "USDA Food Guide Pyramid" is one of the greatest pieces of junk science ever perpetrated on a people.
______

Low Fat diet
Eggs give you high cholesterol
Margerine is better than butter for you
Seed oils are better than cooking with lard
Low salt is best for everyone

They haven't covered themselves in glory.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 10:34 AM (VXRhG)

295 285 You’re spot on, we’re no longer patients, we’re profit centers.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2024 10:31 AM (LolQL)

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I'm not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

296 In my hometown, an old barn got turned into a theater. Theater in the round. I even performed there a few times.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

What didja do ?
Sing ?
Dance?
Play the accordian ?

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:35 AM (T4tVD)

297 I assume this was at the Saint Jerry Springer Cathedral.

Priest arrested after BITING woman in fight over communion...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

298 OT but someone brought up Nick Rikieta on last night's ONT and I looked it up and holy fuck that dude didn't just fall hard but when he hit the ground he started digging.

Who is that?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:36 AM (ibTVg)

299 I'm not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:35 AM (GBKbO)
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The vast majority of your lifetime health expenditure is yet to come b"h.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2024 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

300 Nah. I'm just angling for a promotion...
Posted by: Muldoon

A tough chore to tackle.
Posted by: Tonypete

I've had abait enough of this.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)

301 This is one of the reasons I am so distrustful of the mental health/therapy business. So often, from what I have seen (I've never been to a shrink myself, even when I've thought it might help, because of this reason), they appear to be very expensive auto-pens with prescription pads that hand out psychoactive drugs instead of pursuing results.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:33 AM (d04cU)
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I used to work with a PhD Psychologist. He no longer practiced and had some interesting opinions about the field; none were complimentary.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2024 10:37 AM (LolQL)

302 Muldoon, Thank you for the great limericks and fun stories.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at May 24, 2024 10:37 AM (zudum)

303 If Scrubs is correct, it's because all the pharmaceutical reps are nympho Heather Locklear types.
Posted by: spindrift
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That and incentives. Which is why there are stories about pediatricians practically yelling at young parents that they need to get all the familiar vaccines plus a host of new ones that came on the market in the last 5-10 years all jabbed in the kids in a very short window.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 10:37 AM (VXRhG)

304 300 Nah. I'm just angling for a promotion...
Posted by: Muldoon

A tough chore to tackle.
Posted by: Tonypete

I've had abait enough of this.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)

Sh*t's gettin' reel, man!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (T+Iwg)

305 What didja do ?
Sing ?
Dance?
Play the accordian ?
Posted by: JT

Act. I was an amateur actor in my youth.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (v6JzV)

306 The International Court of Justice (spit) has just "ordered" Israel to cease military operations in Rafah.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (PiwSw)

307 Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's family says he has died from complications of cancer.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (ZdexC)

308 282 The wife was using the wrong rod?

********

That'll get someone in reel trouble!
Posted by: Muldoon

Well, she was a spinner after all.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 10:20 AM (blmVn
***

You guys are just trolling for the puns now.
Posted by: Diogenes

They're trolling for the halibut.

There's bound to be some backlash

Posted by: Taggart at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (og5mY)

309 The International Court of Justice (spit) has just "ordered" Israel to cease military operations in Rafah.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (PiwSw)
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All of these organizations seem to think that not-treaty nations are within their scope.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (d04cU)

310 290 What kind of reckless and lazy doctor looks at an obese young person - a person who can (comparatively) easily fix it and build excellent life-long habits through the process - and prescribes a drug instead?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:15 AM (d04cU)

A doctor who cuts a 10% cut on every pill sold.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (i9ffA)

311 Yup. The "USDA Food Guide Pyramid" is one of the greatest pieces of junk science ever perpetrated on a people.
______

Low Fat diet
Eggs give you high cholesterol
Margerine is better than butter for you
Seed oils are better than cooking with lard
Low salt is best for everyone

They haven't covered themselves in glory.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

6 ft distancing
Deadliest virus known to man - mask made from t-shirt ok
No off label therapeutics allowed
Take this untested vaccine or you're fired.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (8F31h)

312 303 If Scrubs is correct, it's because all the pharmaceutical reps are nympho Heather Locklear types.
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Penny c0ckteased but she never put-out!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (ZdexC)

313 299 I'm not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:35 AM (GBKbO)
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The vast majority of your lifetime health expenditure is yet to come b"h.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2024 10:36 AM (RIvkX)

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I'm sure there's an element of choice in that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

314 Nah. I'm just angling for a promotion...
Posted by: Muldoon

A tough chore to tackle.
Posted by: Tonypete

I've had abait enough of this.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)

You can't worm your way out of this.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (L14eD)

315 Modern medicine is 90% the prescription pad.

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I would say it's more likely to be 90% the Radiology (Ultrasound) Suite. Unnecessary and redundant imaging studies are an incredible moneymaker.

The cardiologist who put in my new heart valve requested an echocardiogram at one year post-procedure. My local cardiologist wanted to do an echo every three months in the interim.

(I politely declined)

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (991eG)

316 306 The International Court of Justice (spit) has just "ordered" Israel to cease military operations in Rafah.
____

You gotta respect the court for all its efforts to protect lucrative revenue streams for some very important people that flow through the UN sponsored tunnels in Rafah.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (VXRhG)

317 Act. I was an amateur actor in my youth.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024

***
Me too, B. What was your favorite role?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

318 Rodney - "My Psychiatrist sad "You're CRAZY !"

I said I want a second opinion.

He said "All right, you're ugly TOO !"

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (T4tVD)

319 307 Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's family says he has died from complications of cancer.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (ZdexC)

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And it's McDonald's fault! And the American healthcare system!

Fulfill Spurlock's final wishes by voting for Biden!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

320 309 The International Court of Justice (spit) has just "ordered" Israel to cease military operations in Rafah.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (PiwSw)
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All of these organizations seem to think that not-treaty nations are within their scope.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (d04cU)

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It's like NYC's city council ordering Israel to stop. Don't they have better things to do?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

321 If Scrubs is correct, it's because all the pharmaceutical reps are nympho Heather Locklear types.

Posted by: spindrift at May 24, 2024 10:32 AM (OguvZ)

They usually come in on Thursday mid morning.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 10:41 AM (AwYPR)

322 Me too, B. What was your favorite role?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Either Grandpa Vanderhof in You Can't Take It with You or Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Yours?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:42 AM (v6JzV)

323 Pinch-hitting for Seamus Muldoon, Manny Moto... oto... to... ooo...

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:42 AM (ZdexC)

324 I use Concur so infrequently.

Still, it's nice to see that millage is $0.67 per mile. That doesn't seem terrible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

325 317 Act. I was an amateur actor in my youth.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024

***
Me too, B. What was your favorite role?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

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My wife was a theatre major at a girls' school. In those days, they had open auditions for the male parts so I got into a couple of plays. Yuge amounts of fun.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 10:43 AM (T+Iwg)

326 OT but someone brought up Nick Rikieta on last night's ONT and I looked it up and holy fuck that dude didn't just fall hard but when he hit the ground he started digging.

That's a shame. He did good work during the Rittenhouse trial.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 10:43 AM (/y8xj)

327 >>>>A doctor who cuts a 10% cut on every pill sold.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2024 10:39 AM (i9ffA)
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A while back, when I lost over 60lbs, my GP, who I respected and liked, would not reassess my use of 2 statins: 1 for cholesterol the other for high BP. It started to open my eyes about modern medicine.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2024 10:44 AM (LolQL)

328 Me too, B. What was your favorite role?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Either Grandpa Vanderhof in You Can't Take It with You or Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Yours?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:42 AM (v6JzV)
***

*looks at old playbill*
*sees names listed as Man in Elevator*
Sighs...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:44 AM (L14eD)

329
Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's family says he has died from complications of cancer.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 24, 2024 10:38 AM (ZdexC)

I've read an account of someone who did something similar. Only ate at fast food places for a month or so. But what he did - in the case of something like a 'Whopper' - is he ate the meat, the lettuce, the onion, the tomato and never ate the bread. Always chucked the bread wherever he went.

He lost weight and his biomarkers improved. You can take the story with a grain of salt or two.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 10:45 AM (RKVpM)

330 I played Macbeth in middle school.

I killed.

The guy who played Duncan was never seen again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

331 "Morgan Spurlock" always sounded like the name of a character from a Dickens novel.

Posted by: spindrift at May 24, 2024 10:46 AM (OguvZ)

332 I was fishing along a river in Alaska with a friend. We were wearing chest waders. He stumbled and fell, the waders instantly filled with water.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (991eG)

They should put drain holes in them.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 24, 2024 10:46 AM (VGRuw)

333 I was fishing along a river in Alaska with a friend. We were wearing chest waders. He stumbled and fell, the waders instantly filled with water.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 10:28 AM (991eG)

Whereabouts? Many years ago I got to fish the Brooks River in Katmai Park.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 10:47 AM (T+Iwg)

334 https://www.12thblog.com/ the-hottest-karen-gillan-photos-around-the-net/

Posted by: scottst at May 24, 2024 10:47 AM (qcvs8)

335 Who is that?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:36 AM (ibTVg)

LawTuber what got popular during the whole Depp/Heard courtroom drama.

Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 10:47 AM (1Yy3c)

336 335 Who is that?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 10:36 AM (ibTVg)

LawTuber what got popular during the whole Depp/Heard courtroom drama.
Posted by: Robert at May 24, 2024 10:47 AM (1Yy3c)

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And no one has said why he's suddenly so terrible, either...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

337 https://www.12thblog.com/ the-hottest-karen-gillan-photos-around-the-net/
Posted by: scottst

I got a "Page not found."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)

338 Me too, B. What was your favorite role?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Either Grandpa Vanderhof in You Can't Take It with You or Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Yours?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024

***
Prob. Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. Since I can't carry a tune, it was fortunate that ND has only one solo song, and he talks his way through it. (The original Nathan, Sam Levene, apparently also couldn't sing.)

Though I have a strong affection for a featured role I had in a graduate student-written and -directed one-act called Gof. There's this Prophet, see, who believes that Gof is the one true God, and on Judgment Day He will "turn the world into a giant pimple, and the sinners will be at the bottom where it's hot and sore." My role was as his monk, known as Monk. I had a great line late in the play: The lights go out, the characters thinking it's the end of the world (though the audience knows it's not). Out of the darkness comes my trembling voice:

"Prophet? Is this what the inside of a pimple looks like?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:48 AM (J2vNu)

339 Man, Ed Morrissey is living in a different reality wrt to Ukraine and Russia. It's like reading an alternative history novel.

"And even if they managed a conquest of Ukraine, the last two-plus years have made it clear that holding that territory will turn into a bloody mess for years, if not decades. The Ukrainians outside of the Donbas will not be digested, ".

Pretty sure everyone, including Putin, knew that on day 1. Putin will be happy with Crimea and Donbas and the CIA out of Ukraine.

I'd be happy with that last part, anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 10:49 AM (VXRhG)

340 Nah. I'm just angling for a promotion...
Posted by: Muldoon

A tough chore to tackle.
Posted by: Tonypete

I've had abait enough of this.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:37 AM (v6JzV)

You can't worm your way out of this.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 10:40 AM (L14eD)

They're just playing Follow the Leader.

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 10:50 AM (T4tVD)

341
Justice Sotomayor is 69 years of age and has Type 1 diabetes which has a Prognosis of 10-12 years shorter life expectancy.

Rollin' the dice Joe, rollin' the dice.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 10:51 AM (RKVpM)

342 In Connecticut? For sure racist.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at May 24, 2024 10:51 AM (ytSiK)

343 This article sheds some light on Spurlock's health before SuperSize Me.

https://is.gd/UlXLhU

TLDR; he was already an alcoholic.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2024 10:52 AM (PiwSw)

344 I got a "Page not found."

Delete the space.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 10:53 AM (/y8xj)

345 In Connecticut? For sure racist.
Posted by: Plainoldtoast at May 24, 2024

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When we learned about New England in fifth-grade geography, I referred to that state as "Connect Then Cut." (Seems illogical to me now, but it was funny then.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

346
Would Merrick Garland do less damage on the Supreme Court?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 10:53 AM (RKVpM)

347 Delete the space.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 10:53 AM (/y8xj)

Snaps finger

Posted by: Thanos at May 24, 2024 10:54 AM (1Yy3c)

348 I got a "Page not found."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)

I got a rock.

Posted by: Charlie Brown at May 24, 2024 10:54 AM (OguvZ)

349 No doubt that barn's wood has been repurposed to create a fabulous, "rustic" kitchen in his 5000 sf home in Wilton, CT for a NYC business executive. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 10:55 AM (cCVOS)

350 ‘So, Prudence, this where we will raise our family.’
- Clarence Odbody

Posted by: Eromero at May 24, 2024 10:55 AM (o2ZRX)

351 Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's family says he has died from complications of cancer.

100% protected from COVID though

Posted by: Pfizer at May 24, 2024 10:57 AM (ibTVg)

352 Chechens at Ft Bragg (Liberty now)....anyone hear any more about this?

https://tinyurl.com/4yd5fmma

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 10:57 AM (AwYPR)

353 I got a rock.
Posted by: Charlie Brown

I thought you got a dildo.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 10:58 AM (v6JzV)

354 Spurlock's health before SuperSize Me. ... was already an alcoholic.

Oddly it wasn't that which blew up his career; it was his weird confession (virtue-signal?) that he might have raped someone in college. Except that no woman showed up to say "yeah that was me". Just completely bizarre.
(Compare SC Justice Kavanagh; 1400 women accused that guy.)
As to the cancer, nobody's telling us what it was, but I assume liver. Early 50s is when the cancer fairy visits boozers, based on fundraisers I see here and there.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 24, 2024 10:58 AM (gKWVE)

355 >>It's like NYC's city council ordering Israel to stop. Don't they have better things to do?

Berkley City Council has entered the chat. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 10:59 AM (cCVOS)

356 The Clark/WNBA bitching amuses me...
As if the holder of pretty much every NCAA record, keeping in mind she could have played another year, wouldn't get press going Pro.
I mean, I know it's super common for woman's sports to forgo the final year of eligibility...
I mean, maybe it is, but somehow I don't think that's super common.

Posted by: Inogame at May 24, 2024 10:59 AM (53oGX)

357 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)

358 There's some good therapists Joe but they are very few and far between. It is also a shockingly leftist industry and 99% of them are communists.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 11:01 AM (U6Usv)

359 "And even if they managed a conquest of Ukraine, the last two-plus years have made it clear that holding that territory will turn into a bloody mess for years, if not decades. The Ukrainians outside of the Donbas will not be digested, ".

Somebody inform Ed that UKR is conscripting 60 year olds.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at May 24, 2024 11:01 AM (2QA3G)

360 356 The Clark/WNBA bitching amuses me...
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Well, women can be catty.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 11:04 AM (VXRhG)

361 Is this Biden’s Build Back Better 2024 campaign art?

Posted by: red speck at May 24, 2024 03:31 PM (t20Fg)

362 Along comes sparrow a lands on the roof the whole thing comes crashing down the is Bird unharmed

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 24, 2024 04:59 PM (wGqjj)

363 Hi there, after reading this amazing article i am as well
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Posted by: celinetoto at May 24, 2024 08:26 PM (awDb9)

364 Looks like my house lately.

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