The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Happy Summer and all that BS Morons. Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Potosi, WI)

1. This is an open thread, please feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2. Be nice to one another. It's troll month somewhere.
3. No running with sharp objects. No is there any glassware near the Barel.
4. Have a nice weekend.

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Regular commenter and all around good Moron Seamus Muldoon submitted the following for your entertainment. And nostalgia.

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A Big Thank You to Annie for the Weekly Prayer Request.

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
5/22 – Vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby asked for prayers. She has been in the hospital since Monday with sudden dizziness and emesis. They’ve ruled out stroke. They have noticed nystagmus and it might be BPPV. She is scared she won’t be able to function anymore.
6/1 Update – Vmom sends thanks for the prayers while she was in the hospital last week. She is so grateful to be home, back at work, and going to vestibular rehab therapy for her inner ear woes.
5/23 – Olddog in mo could use some prayers. He is going in for surgery again at 10 am. Squamous cell carcinoma under the tongue. It is not a good location due to the proximity to a salivary gland.
5/24 Update – Olddog sent his thanks for the prayers. Surgery went better than expected. No skin graft and so no overnight stay. Flash biopsy was negative.
5/25 – Matthew Kant Cipher requested prayers for his older brother, who was admitted to the hospital with a bowel blockage. It doesn’t sound too serious, but one never knows. He also sends prayers of gratitude for each reader, and for all His incredible blessings which surround us. May our eyes and hearts be opened to clearly recognize His love for us.
6/1 Update – His brother’s hospital stay was brief and his bowel blockage resolved itself naturally. The Horde prayers were answered and are most sincerely appreciated!
5/25 – Tonypete asked for prayers for an elderly neighborhood couple. They are in failing health and abilities. They insist on living independently, yet they can’t do it. Tonypete and his wife are torn between respecting their wishes and privacy, but there are numerous LEO wellness checks each week.
6/8 – Tonypete and R have been subpoenaed to give testimony at the competency hearing in a few weeks, called by the elderly couple’s children. The elderly couple is still fighting against going to an assisted living facility. It’s just a very sad situation.
5/25 – Mindful webworker sent a prayer of thanks for the prayers of the Horde. He is alive and 90% well and 100% grateful for that. He will have more surgery ahead. He also sends thanks for MiladyJo’s hip fixes seem to have worked very well with no complications. She is getting around fine, which is such a blessing after her long time of pain and mobility limitations.
5/25 – Cybersmythe sent word that he got a job! It pays well, but it’s by the Space Center (100+ miles round trip and the traffic sucks). It should be interesting work.
5/25 – Neverenoughcaffiene asked for prayers for all people affected by the barbarity of Hamas.
5/25 – NaCly Dog sent an update, that his wife (who we prayed for last month) is almost back to where she was before she broke 4 ribs.
6/8 – NacLy Dog sent thanks to the Horde for their prayers.
5/25 – Martini Farmer asked for prayers for his grandson, who will probably not graduate from high school due to poor grades. His family is (to put it nicely) “dysfunctional”. He will be here for about a month before summer school, and will be at a non-woke YMCA camp for 3 weeks. Hopefully his perspective will change.
5/25 – Tecumseh Tea gave an update on Pastor Joe, who we prayed for when he had brain surgery in February. He recently had an MRI, and his doctor is very concerned. He has to go for more tests. Please pray for him and his family. His answer to how he felt about this new development was: “In the words of King David, May I dwell in the house of the Lord forever”.
6/5 – Tecumseh Tea sent praise to God that Pastor Joe’s recent concerning test results turned out to be an infection, which is being treated.
5/25 – R posted that he got a call from his doctor’s office that recent tests found blood …. uh…. where it shouldn’t be found. Now he has more tests coming.
5/25 – Nurse Ratched sent thanks for the prayers from a couple of weeks ago. She is healing nicely.
6/1 – Polliwog the ‘Ette requested prayers for her sister C, who has surgery to remove some ovarian cysts and anything else in there that looked suspicious. Now she has to wait for the pathology report, and recover, which is complicated by her being extremely allergic to “all” opioids. Also, she is the family’s main earner, and her disability will only cover about 40% of what she brings in.
6/1 – Tonypete asked for prayers for his BIL, who is cognitively disabled. He lives alone and normally does pretty well, but recently quit his job, which has led to issues: namely money. Social services are involved, but it isn’t going well.
6/1 – G asked for prayers for healing and strength for Uncle Joe. Joe’s wife of 50 years passed earlier this year, and now Joe is having painful back problems. He is in pain and lost without Sally.
6/5 - Teresa in Fort Worth requested prayers for friends, Chris and Debby, whose 22 year-old son (Jeremy) passed away this week. Jeremy choked on food at his daytime facility. He had Down Syndrome and autism, and was non-verbal. His parents know he is in a better place and finally free of his health issues, but they still could use comfort.
6/7 – Village Idiot’s Apprentice posted that his radiation oncology follow-up went well, and he is cancer free. He will have to do surveillance bloodwork for the rest of his life, but that’s okay!
6/8 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for her friend and running mate, P. She has been in the hospital in WI with bleeding ulcers. She is doing better now, but still needs additional healing. Thanks so much.
6/11 – Sponge clarified the prayers needed for his wife, “The First Lady”. She has breast cancer, and the initial prognosis is good, as it is Stage 1 and caught early. It is an aggressive form of cancer, and but it is the most common, so they’re feeling good about her full recovery. They meet with the surgeon next week and will know more after that.
6/20 Update – The meeting with the surgeon was moderately frightening, as she ‘s been declared Stage 1B ,which means it’s a relatively aggressive form and can spread quickly. Her surgery has been scheduled for the end of July, but they don’t know the severity of that surgery yet. There are more tests to do and will meet with the oncologist. Thanks for all the prayers.
6/14 – Perfessor Squirrel requests prayers for his friend from church. Jimmy has been suffering some issues with his lungs and could use prayers for healing.
6/15 – Jewells posted that she has decided to end her cancer treatments. She had 6 months to go on her 2 year palliative care program, but the chemo drug is ruining her quality of life.
6/15 – Grumpy and Recalcitrant asked for continued prayers for J.J. Sefton of the Morning Report. He is about to begin chemo and radiation therapy.
6/19 – DangerGirl lost the SanityProd requests prayers for her father, who was admitted to the hospital with respiratory issues. He’s been struggling for the past year, on and off, with shortness of breath and could use prayers for both healing and a proper diagnosis. (The doctors can’t figure out what is causing it.) Thank you!
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:10 AM

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1 BRCC ak47

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 08:13 AM (ENQN6)

2 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 08:16 AM (fwDg9)

3 Good morning, fuckos.

Who is going to be the first AI Joe; AI Joe Biden or AI Joe Bonamassa?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 22, 2024 08:16 AM (dmXQN)

4 Roomy!

Posted by: fluffy at June 22, 2024 08:17 AM (86W+h)

5 Prayers up for JT. Don't know what that story is.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 08:17 AM (dg+HA)

6 Actually only made the small pot of coffee rather than the big pot I usually do on weekends, somehow lots of hot coffee won't go over on a hot day to come

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 08:17 AM (fwDg9)

7 Hiya all

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #098 at June 22, 2024 08:17 AM (qfLjt)

8 AI Joe Cartwright?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2024 08:17 AM (QXQ4l)

9 AI Joe mama?

Posted by: fd at June 22, 2024 08:19 AM (vFG9F)

10 Good morning again dear morons and thank you for your prayers

Special prayers for Vic and JT who have been absent

For FenSon who lost his internship yesterday

For JJ and jewells and Mrs. Sponge fighting big C

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

11 We were going over some old coffee commercials this morning, besides Maxwell House have Chock full of Nuts in cannister

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 08:19 AM (fwDg9)

12 Morning all.

Walked my 2 mile R/T to get coffee.

Darn hot and humid here in the DC metro area this a.m.

Phew.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 22, 2024 08:20 AM (ntk8v)

13 Thanks annie and mh for the prayer list

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

14 Mornin', Horde.

Prayers ascending for all those in need of them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2024 08:22 AM (ZJU8k)

15 6/19 – DangerGirl

For what it's worth, my late wife had shortness of breath and wheezing for a few years, to the point we took her to the hospital. It was a pulmonary thrombosis. They put her on a load of blood thinners which caused hemorrhaging somewhere and she died.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #09 at June 22, 2024 08:23 AM (qfLjt)

16 > Darn hot and humid here in the DC metro area this a.m.
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Kentucky Bluegrass/Bourbon Country snorts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2024 08:24 AM (Q4IgG)

17 thanks Mis Hum.

I see she went with the 45 cc cup for her coffee.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:24 AM (uCfKO)

18 I remember mom and dad's electric percolator. They drank varnish.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 08:26 AM (RIvkX)

19 The Maxwell House audio of the percolator sound was marketing genius because it was catchy and went on to become iconic, almost like Woody Woodpecker's laugh.

I wonder what instrument was used to create it?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 08:26 AM (dg+HA)

20 Varnish remover?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 08:26 AM (RIvkX)

21
I have an outdoor 'solar shower' so the heat doesn't bother me much. I don't count, but I could be rinsing and cooling off 20 times a day.

Current outdoor project is weed killing. It's an invasion of invasive junk like I've never seen before at this level.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 22, 2024 08:27 AM (RKVpM)

22 Morning Horde. Back from vacation and came close to kissing the ground once outside the terminal in Missoula. Have come to the conclusion that any trip that exceeds 10 days away from home and involves another continent is just too much.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 22, 2024 08:27 AM (2NHgQ)

23 We bought a "camp percolator" last year. It's an end-of-the-world thing. Tried it out on the grill last fall. Horrible coffee.

Not sure what was wrong. Might have been the metal pot not being seasoned enough.

Wonder how many pots have to be made to get rid of that taste.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2024 08:29 AM (Q4IgG)

24 Mmm...Chock Full Of Valspar.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 08:29 AM (dg+HA)

25 Good Saturday morning, horde.

Ditto @10 Posted by: San Franpsycho

These are all troublesome, and we ask for healing and providence for our friends.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 22, 2024 08:30 AM (OX9vb)

26 23 We bought a "camp percolator" last year. It's an end-of-the-world thing. Tried it out on the grill last fall. Horrible coffee.

Not sure what was wrong. Might have been the metal pot not being seasoned enough.

Wonder how many pots have to be made to get rid of that taste.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2024 08:29 AM (Q4IgG)

I cannot speak of electric perk coffee makers.
But stove top, here goes......

Coarse ground coffee.

Bring to perk.........turn down as low as you can go while it perks for 10 minutes.
Take off stove after 10 minutes of perking.
Let settle for 5 minutes.
Voila, great coffee.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2024 08:35 AM (QXQ4l)

27 Percolator sound is a made with a xylophone.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 22, 2024 08:36 AM (OX9vb)

28 In really hot weather I like to drink hot beverages. Small sips for hydration. Cold beverages get sucked down to quick. Control issues I expect.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 08:37 AM (4780s)

29 Remember how I always say that waiting is the hardest part?

Well Monday morning I can stop saying that. The C.U.E. Center experts are on the road from various locales, descending on the SLV to do a thorough search including dogs, digging and diagnosing, assisted by CBI. Multi-day process with 5-7 K9s and forensics team on three different properties.

Thanks to all y'all for all the previous prayers and words of support

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:37 AM (uCfKO)

30
We have workmen coming to weed and mulch the garden this morning. I have to reconfigure Diana's pen off the porch. Plus the usual stuff around here.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2024 08:37 AM (MoZTd)

31 27 Percolator sound is a made with a xylophone.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 22, 2024 08:36

Oh.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 08:39 AM (dg+HA)

32 Telegraph newspaper ranks the Bond films this morning, and they think number 1 is "From Russia With Love" from 1963. TJM thinks its "Goldfinger".

Time for the Octagon!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2024 08:40 AM (H3NCT)

33 Both my mother and grandmother used those heavy Pyrex glass percolators. Made early, lest over pilot or low flame until consumed. Repeat. Thick and tasty(?)' Drunk black.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 08:41 AM (4780s)

34 Muldoon, we are with you through this. I hope you can get answers this time.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 22, 2024 08:41 AM (OX9vb)

35 Kinda good news from my little neck of the woods. One of the kidlets found a new 'mini chainsaw' and bought it. Nice case, two batteries, extra chain, etc. for $20. If we can keep it going for this season, it will have paid for itself 10x over. I have some kind of vicious tree-like weed that has taken over my yard and that little thing went right through it. Maybe I can avoid the stern letter from my city this year for high 'weeds'. Although to their credit they laughed at my 'think Midsomer Murders rather than Better Homes & Gardens.'

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 22, 2024 08:41 AM (MIKMs)

36 Muldoon, you haven't been waiting alone. Hope this is resolved soon.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 08:42 AM (4780s)

37 Yet that's what I use daily as did today, a small camp percolator

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 08:44 AM (fwDg9)

38
Stupid coffee maker keeps shutting off in the middle of a brew.

I guess it's time to take it out back and give it the Old Yeller Treatment.

But, I wouldn't do it today cuz too much to do.

Use this time wisely Coffee maker and shape up!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2024 08:44 AM (eDfFs)

39 Thanks for the update, Muldoon. Many of us are looking forward to hearing the next chapter of the story.

BTW, if you're not familiar with what3words it may be useful to you.

https://what3words.com

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 08:44 AM (dg+HA)

40 Coffee is a compromise for us. Hubby nec likes his to taste and smell like varnish and I prefer a milder brew. We have two electric coffee makers, a cheap Amazon pod style for him and my Delonghi. I do occasionally use his for flavored coffee.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 22, 2024 08:45 AM (2NHgQ)

41 G'morn, y'all.

MiladyJo just started the coffee brewing when I started the classic coffee video. Caffeinated synchronicity.

The video had a link to Mrs Olson. "Mountain grown! It'z de reeechest kind!" She says in her fake-oh accent. Had the griping husband who in real life would get a rolling pin across the noggin.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perky at June 22, 2024 08:45 AM (vYVbx)

42 MOrning, coffee folken,

Telegraph newspaper ranks the Bond films this morning, and they think number 1 is "From Russia With Love" from 1963. TJM thinks its "Goldfinger".

Time for the Octagon!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2024

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I have to agree with the Telegraph. Goldfinger set the form for the Bond movies that followed. But the best adaptation and the closest to Fleming's vision (out of the Connery films anyway) is FRWL.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 08:45 AM (omVj0)

43 I'm back from washing the car (didn't sweat much, oddly enough), shaving, and cleaning up. Got about half an hour before I have to pack up and head out, so I'm sipping a last half-cup of black juice.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 08:46 AM (omVj0)

44 ...new 'mini chainsaw' and bought it.

*******

Those are handy. I use mine a lot for trimming, pruning etc. Works okay up to forearm sized thicknesses or so.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:47 AM (uCfKO)

45 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

This is one of those rare Saturdays when I have to go in to work.

We are collaborating with the campus IT department to put on a song-and-dance for incoming freshman and their parents.

No one told IT just how bad my singing voice is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 22, 2024 08:47 AM (BpYfr)

46 From Tech thread:
229 I'll need to copy the boot 256GB SSD to it. Any recommended free software for this job?
Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #03 at June 22, 2024 07:15

I used Macrium Reflect when I cloned my boot HDD to a new SSD. Worked fine, and easy.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 22, 2024 08:16 AM (iRX3h)
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Thanks. I actually have that.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #10 at June 22, 2024 08:47 AM (qfLjt)

47 THIS IS MY COFFEE. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE. MY COFFEE IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER MY COFFEE AS I MUST MASTER MY LIFE. WITHOUT ME MY COFFEE IS USELESS. WITHOUT MY COFFEE I AM USELESS.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 22, 2024 08:47 AM (JKPiI)

48 Telegraph newspaper ranks the Bond films this morning, and they think number 1 is "From Russia With Love" from 1963. TJM thinks its "Goldfinger".

==

Dr. No is no 1. From Russia with love , no 2. Diamonds are Forever, no 3.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 08:47 AM (V13WU)

49 From the Tech Thread I just now 'got' the joke about BirdNet. There's an awesome Dad Joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 22, 2024 08:48 AM (43xH1)

50 Thanks to all y'all for all the previous prayers and words of support
Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:37 AM (uCfKO)

Losing a sibling is TOUGH. Not knowing what happened...

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 08:48 AM (ENQN6)

51 Mrs. Olson was married to Fritz Feld, the "Pop!" guy.

Posted by: Mountain Grown Mel at June 22, 2024 08:49 AM (V5BDR)

52
My favorite Bond was 'Dr. No' because I've actually been to many of the locations in the movie. Shaw Park and Dunn's River Falls were two places.

Also, Ursula Andress in her prime.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 22, 2024 08:49 AM (RKVpM)

53 Is there a reason there's a marble tile sitting on top of your tablet in that picture?

Posted by: GWB at June 22, 2024 08:49 AM (AWrpC)

54 Fleming did his best work in Operation Mincemeat.
The Bond stuff was just showing off.

https://youtu.be/Iipsxj3hRpE

18 minutes. A great telling of the real life story.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 08:50 AM (dg+HA)

55 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 22, 2024 08:50 AM (m0KMP)

56 48 Telegraph newspaper ranks the Bond films this morning, and they think number 1 is "From Russia With Love" from 1963. TJM thinks its "Goldfinger".

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Dr. No is no 1. From Russia with love , no 2. Diamonds are Forever, no 3.
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 08:47 AM (V13WU)

Live and Let Die
Goldfinger
Casino
View to a Kill
Skyfall

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 08:50 AM (ENQN6)

57 Prayers offered for those on the prayer list this morning. Thank you Annie for keeping this list going.

Prayers also for JJ Sefton who starts treatment tomorrow, for Jewells, and Vic and JT who we haven't seen a while. Hope all is well for them.

Would also like to offer huge prayers of thanksgiving. My daughter, who is battling breast cancer at 27, has her last chemo tomorrow. She has tolerated it very well. While she is still facing surgery in August, we will take this as a big win. She surprised us by coming home for a few days for a visit. God is good - all the time. And all the time, God is good.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 22, 2024 08:51 AM (UcAQV)

58 Coffee wise, I'm doing Walmart Mild pods in the office Keurig machine. I have a plain old cheap $15 coffee maker I use at night, but it's Saturday and people come in, and I don't like setting up in the annex kitchen with people trying to use the counter and sink.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 22, 2024 08:51 AM (43xH1)

59 Live and Let Die
Goldfinger
Casino
View to a Kill
Skyfall
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 08:50 AM (ENQN6)

those are good too. I forgot about Casino and Skyfall. Skyfall is definitely in the top 5.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 08:52 AM (V13WU)

60
Despite it being a Roger moore Bond flick, i'd put "The Spy Who loved Me" near the top.

Not at it but probably somewhere Top 5 or 6.

though old hat now, that parachute stunt at the opening drew a complete gasp then a cheer and laughter from the whole audience. A great action film moment.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2024 08:52 AM (eDfFs)

61 Telegraph newspaper ranks the Bond films this morning, and they think number 1 is "From Russia With Love" from 1963. TJM thinks its "Goldfinger".

Time for the Octagon!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2024 08:40 AM (H3NCT)
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Moonraker. This is known.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 08:52 AM (RIvkX)

62 Sucks about JJS, he escapes NYC, comes to an at least marginally more livable state, then this.
Hope it goes well, or well enough.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 22, 2024 08:53 AM (43xH1)

63 Just got to the lake. Gonna be a hot one today.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 22, 2024 08:53 AM (m0KMP)

64 I definitely thing Bond movies get worse through the decades, yet do like again the ones with Craig

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 08:53 AM (fwDg9)

65 https://what3words.com
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

*******

I looked at that, couldn't figure out what it was meant to do...

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:53 AM (uCfKO)

66 Something is wrong with that picture at the top of this thread...It doesn't feel right.

Is it because a white chick is drinking black coffee? Isn't there supposed to be several dollars worth of syrup, sweeteners, exotic "milk" additives and froth?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 22, 2024 08:54 AM (iruKY)

67 We were going over some old coffee commercials this morning, besides Maxwell House have Chock full of Nuts in cannister

Where might a brother find this “chock full of nuts”? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 22, 2024 08:54 AM (FD5dr)

68 Good morning Horde, showered and had my one cup of coffee and now I am out the door to the join the folks on the bridge. Prayers and good wishes for all of you.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 22, 2024 08:54 AM (Sgq8y)

69 Doctor No is my favorite Bond novel, and the film is very very good. It captures that flavor of Bond the professional security officer who is also licensed to kill on assignment. The truly great scene where he coldly shoots the Doctor's henchman who has tried to kill him, a scene not in the book, just sums up Bond for the audience. And there is the peculiar "Dr. Fu Manchu meets science fiction" element of the film and book, a strong and exotic contrast to the first half of both.

Maybe I'd be inclined to say it ties with FRWL for No. 1.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 08:55 AM (omVj0)

70 Live and Let Die was my first movie to see alone. Parents had business and dropped my off.

Plus I like Sir Paul.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 08:55 AM (ENQN6)

71 Black and Decker makes a mini chainsaw that is so much fun to use it's almost addictive.

https://www.blackanddecker.com/products/lp1000

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 08:55 AM (dg+HA)

72 I have a small percolator that I used to use when I was single. One of those old octagonal metal Italian ones. It's been descaled and is now utilized as a carafe for olive oil.

I only ever really used it because I love pretty European stuff, and it's just for one guy, so it's decently quick. Aside from the need for electricity, drip coffeemakers are totally better. Faster, easier, better coffee, and the fancier ones even come with a robo-function so your bleary-eyed self doesn't have to try thinking before you get the sauce in you.

But I'm one of the only people under 50 who's familiar with these things. Once the drip coffeemaker came on the market 50 years ago, it annihilated demand for percolators in about the time one takes to brew a pot of coffee.

This is why I always say: if you can't remember your mom brewing coffee in a percolator, you can't remember a time when Joseph Robinette Biden didn't occupy a federal office. I think that little factoid underlines a big problem with our political system.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 22, 2024 08:56 AM (0FoWg)

73 53 Is there a reason there's a marble tile sitting on top of your tablet in that picture?
Posted by: GWB at June 22, 2024 08:49 AM (AWrpC)

Well, ackshually...it has stitching along its edge, so it's a placemat. The question remains, though, why it is on top of the tablet.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 22, 2024 08:56 AM (OX9vb)

74 Good morning, Horde! Prayers up for all intentions- asked and unasked. If y'all could spare a prayer or two for my youngest son who is taking the MCAT today, I'd be muchly obliged.

Heading up to SD for my xxth class reunion... have a great weekend!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 22, 2024 08:57 AM (mXeoX)

75 We were discussing this just the other day about Bond theme songs. Live and Let Die really got inside my brain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

76 @19 Joking right?

The first one-piece Moog synthesizer was ordered by Robert Siday, the composer of the Maxwell House percolator jingle.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 22, 2024 08:57 AM (zdLoL)

77 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service isn’t too bad once you get over the fact that George Lazenby is not Sean Connery.

Plus, Telly Savalas as Blofeld.

I like it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 08:57 AM (6ydKt)

78 Solitaire is my fav Bond Girl.
I also played blackjack with her at the Hard Rock for about a hours years ago.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 08:58 AM (ENQN6)

79 I definitely thing Bond movies get worse through the decades, yet do like again the ones with Craig
Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024

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Yes. The Roger Moore era is mostly forgettable. Living Daylights with Dalton is very good, though. And the Craig Casino Royale and the inestimable Skyfall are great. CR has that wonderful flashback at the start which shows us Bond at his toughest, earning his 00 number. That fight scene in the washroom --! And Skyfall would be a fantastic adventure even if it were not about a guy called James Bond.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 08:58 AM (omVj0)

80
WAIt WAIT WAIT!!!!

My favorite. Probably same as Dr. NO. On Her Majesty's Secret Service!!

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 08:58 AM (V13WU)

81 77 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service isn’t too bad once you get over the fact that George Lazenby is not Sean Connery.

Plus, Telly Savalas as Blofeld.

I like it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 08:57 AM (6ydKt)

Tracy Bond
Diana Rigg
Emma Peel

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 08:59 AM (ENQN6)

82 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2024 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

83 The first one-piece Moog synthesizer was ordered by Robert Siday, the composer of the Maxwell House percolator jingle.

One piece as in not a modular, like the Minimoog?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 22, 2024 09:00 AM (FD5dr)

84 75 We were discussing this just the other day about Bond theme songs. Live and Let Die really got inside my brain.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

View and Spy are great songs too.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 09:00 AM (ENQN6)

85 So I was reading an Epoch Times article on how the DEA has arbitrarily side-stepped Congress and unilaterally decided to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III drug. That means that marijuana is no longer eligible for mandatory drug testing.... which is causing distress to the Trucking Association because they are seriously worried about driver safety so they are asking not the DEA (who made the change) but the DOT as to how this will effect operations going forward.

I thought as a society we pretty much accepted that changes in the law happened at the political level where people allegedly had he ability to vote the perp out of office. We also understand that no law is passed without some level of graft, bribes, extortion or violence being involved, just for as long as it remained in a relatively transparent Congress and not in the dark recesses of some faceless bureaucracy.

I'm just not comfortable at all with one department making law changes that effect other departments. Whatever happened to "Stay In You Lane"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 22, 2024 09:00 AM (iruKY)

86 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service isn’t too bad once you get over the fact that George Lazenby is not Sean Connery.

Plus, Telly Savalas as Blofeld.

I like it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024

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There's a wonderful Fleming-like bit in that film. Bond has been trapped in the ski-lift housing. The only way out is along the greased cable. He has no gloves. So he turns his pockets out, rips them off, and uses them as gloves.

Lazenby might well have grown into the role, but we'll never know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:00 AM (omVj0)

87 MiladyJo just asked if we (my house growing up) had one of those glass stovetop percolators. I had to remind her that we (she and I) had one of those when we first got together. Sheesh, lady, it's only been fifty years.

I was not a coffee drinker pre-Milady, so I think that glass perc must've brewed my first cup.

*She's usually the one who remembers everything not me.

**And she reminds me she's still only 29.

Posted by: mindful webworker - good to the last drop at June 22, 2024 09:00 AM (vYVbx)

88 Tracy Bond
Diana Rigg
Emma Peel

Added bonus.

I also have a crush on Domino, and the sexy little Italian baddie that gets killed in Thunderball, can’t remember her name.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:01 AM (6ydKt)

89 From Tech thread:
229 I'll need to copy the boot 256GB SSD to it. Any recommended free software for this job?
Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #03 at June 22, 2024 07:15

I used Macrium Reflect when I cloned my boot HDD to a new SSD. Worked fine, and easy.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 22, 2024 08:16 AM (iRX3h)
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Thanks. I actually have that.
Posted by: Ciampino - Sat Update #10 at June 22, 2024 08:47 AM (qfLjt)

When I purchased my Samsung SSD, it came with a link to Samsung which installed the Samsung software used to clone the internal drive via the USB 3.0 ports. Worked perfectly.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 22, 2024 09:01 AM (iODuv)

90 Solitaire is my fav Bond Girl.
I also played blackjack with her at the Hard Rock for about a hours years ago.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024

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Did she read your mind?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:01 AM (omVj0)

91 I'm just not comfortable at all with one department making law changes that effect other departments. Whatever happened to "Stay In You Lane"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at June 22, 2024 09:00 AM (iruKY)

Now do FDA, CFC, et al.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 09:01 AM (ENQN6)

92 Tomorrow Never Dies. hat one was entertaining.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:02 AM (V13WU)

93 Yes. The Roger Moore era is mostly forgettable. Living Daylights with Dalton is very good, though. And the Craig Casino Royale and the inestimable Skyfall are great. CR has that wonderful flashback at the start which shows us Bond at his toughest, earning his 00 number. That fight scene in the washroom --! And Skyfall would be a fantastic adventure even if it were not about a guy called James Bond.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 08:58 AM (omVj0)

Blasphemy. Roger Moore had his fair share of good Bond movies, chief among them was the best one with him in the role: The Spy Who Loved Me. And yes, Casino Royale and Skyfall were good but this doesn't change the fact that Daniel Craig was a whiny little bitch as Bond.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 22, 2024 09:02 AM (8sMut)

94 I also have a crush on Domino, and the sexy little Italian baddie that gets killed in Thunderball, can’t remember her name.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024

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Luciana Paluzzi! She was also in a similar role in the Man From U.N.C.L.E. film made from the pilot, To Trap a Spy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:03 AM (omVj0)

95 Did she read your mind?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:01 AM (omVj0)

Is that a handful of 25 dollar chips in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 09:03 AM (ENQN6)

96 Good morning, 'rons and 'ettes!

Waiting on a delivery. I couldn't stand the stench of yesterday's work clothes, so I put on a cotton dress. The house is a mess, but I feel I should sit on the porch and drink iced tea.

When the delivery is done, maybe I will until the wash is done. Don't know if I should bother drying work clothes. It's that humid!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 22, 2024 09:03 AM (gJBkE)

97 The Bond movies, I think like all extended series of movies, end up being more an assemblage of awesome moments and set-pieces within each movie than about any one of the self-contained movies alone.
Thinking about Bond movies, it seems a lot of people don't really discuss any given movie exactly, but certain scenes within the entire oeuvre...

Posted by: LenNeal at June 22, 2024 09:03 AM (43xH1)

98 Sterp merkin' cherp ferks ov der Persidernt!

Posted by: Kern Jern Perer Ermagerd at June 22, 2024 09:04 AM (TgPLI)

99 Had one of those small percolators in college. Never really got the hang of it. The coffee came out in one of two ways -- 1) pale brownish vaguely coffee-tasting water, or 2) battery acid. There was no happy middle point where it yielded actual coffee. Wound up using it to get water hot for tea.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 22, 2024 09:05 AM (q3u5l)

100 The best Bond Movie is Austin Powers.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 22, 2024 09:05 AM (pIfcn)

101 I vaguely remember as a young kid going to I drive-in to see 60s Bond films

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 09:05 AM (fwDg9)

102 Blasphemy. Roger Moore had his fair share of good Bond movies, chief among them was the best one with him in the role: The Spy Who Loved Me. And yes, Casino Royale and Skyfall were good but this doesn't change the fact that Daniel Craig was a whiny little bitch as Bond.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 22, 2024

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The only truly "Bond" moment I can recall in the Moore movies is in A View to a Kill, when -- after extracting the information he needs from an opposition killer teetering in a car on the edge of a cliff -- he slams his boot into the car and sends the guy crashing down into the sea (or onto rocks, or both, I don't recall). Moore makes you believe in Bond's toughness there as well as Connery would have.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:05 AM (omVj0)

103 Moore was not very athletic. But he had great delivery! Funny Bond.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:05 AM (V13WU)

104 Luciana Paluzzi! She was also in a similar role in the Man From U.N.C.L.E. film made from the pilot, To Trap a Spy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Absolutely stunning woman.
Isn't that the one where he bangs her, then tells her he was faking it? Yeah, sure you were, Jimmy.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 22, 2024 09:05 AM (43xH1)

105 65 https://what3words.com
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

*******

I looked at that, couldn't figure out what it was meant to do...
Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:53

+++++
It's a gridwork of 3 meter squares each with a unique three word identfier. It's a great way to identify the location of your campsite or a gravestone or tell someone where you are at a music festival.

A brewery in Virginia decided to name an IPA after a location in their building:
https://tinyurl.com/59vc8z6t

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 09:06 AM (dg+HA)

106 "The Spy Who Loved Me" is my favorite Moore Bond. Loved the Egyptian locales.

I loved all the Connery Bond movies but my favorites are Thunderball and FRWL. The one liners in Thunderball fly fast and furious.

Posted by: Tuna at June 22, 2024 09:06 AM (oaGWv)

107 Bond info

The James Bond movies have always been controlled by EON Productions, with Danjaq LCC acting as the holding company, but the actual management of these businesses has changed dramatically over the years. EON was originally founded by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1961, shortly before the James Bond franchise really kicked off with Dr. No. The pair continued to run EON for several years toward the beginning of the series, until Broccoli eventually passed leadership down to his daughter, Barbara, and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson. The rights to James Bond’s character were passed down with them, and they’ve been overseeing EON (and working with Danjaq) ever since.

MGM Studios got involved with James Bond way back in 1981.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 22, 2024 09:06 AM (ENQN6)

108 Connery is Bond. I’m so old I started reading Bond when Kennedy was reading Bond.

Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2024 09:06 AM (LHPAg)

109 The Bond movies, I think like all extended series of movies, end up being more an assemblage of awesome moments and set-pieces within each movie than about any one of the self-contained movies alone.
Thinking about Bond movies, it seems a lot of people don't really discuss any given movie exactly, but certain scenes within the entire oeuvre...
Posted by: LenNeal at June 22, 2024

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True. I would put Doctor No, From Russia, and Skyfall up as fine movies overall, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:07 AM (omVj0)

110 Mrs. Olson (Virginia Christine) was of Swedish descent, though born in Iowa. She and Fritz Feld were married for 53 years.

Posted by: Caffiend at June 22, 2024 09:07 AM (V5BDR)

111 Halfway through just about any later Roger Moore as Bond flick, I would start daydreaming. In the theater. That said, The Spy Who Loved Me was great on TV. That was the first Bond book I read, too, and it's in the first person POV.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 22, 2024 09:07 AM (gJBkE)

112 LenNeal

Bond would need a lot of counseling after each movie ends. And by the odds of combat, he does not survive lots of submachine gun bullets shot his way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2024 09:08 AM (u82oZ)

113 Lazenby might well have grown into the role, but we'll never know.

He was not terrible in OHMSS, but never got the chance. Of all the Bond’s going undercover, his as the nerdy, Scottish, Heraldry expert was perhaps the best played of them all. Connery & Moore just basically played themselves but Lazenby really got into it and became a different character.

It’s too bad he basically said ‘F- it!” and walked away.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:08 AM (6ydKt)

114 Moore was not very athletic. But he had great delivery! Funny Bond.
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024

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Ten years before he made a superb Saint, and not long before that he charmed us as one of the Maverick family in that TV series.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:08 AM (omVj0)

115 experts are on the road from various locales...
Posted by: Muldoon

I feel as if I just exhaled after a very long time holding my breath. Can't imagine how you're doing.

Decipher some code, wouldja? C.U.E. Center? SLV? CBI is, I presume C(olo?) Bureau of Investigation?

(Brain kept trying to turn SLV into Stevie Ray Vaughn. As that one commenter would say, moar coffee...!)

Posted by: mindful webworker - good to the last drop at June 22, 2024 09:09 AM (vYVbx)

116 That means that marijuana is no longer eligible for mandatory drug testing.... which is causing distress to the Trucking Association because they are seriously worried about driver safety so they are asking not the DEA (who made the change) but the DOT as to how this will effect operations going forward.
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms could enter here. Heaven above knows they are the weirdest group of bureaucrats looking for a purpose, so let them worry about various state laws vs feds regulating legal substances.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 22, 2024 09:10 AM (MIKMs)

117 While it wasn't an 'official' Bond movie, Never Say Never Again is kinda nifty too. It was a lot of fun watching them play around with the Bond's-getting-a-bit-old-for-this in the first half of the flick, plus you get Lani Hall doing the theme. Joy.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 22, 2024 09:10 AM (q3u5l)

118 If rumors are true , their next pick is pretty good. But it all has to do with the script, and director even more so, doesn't it.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:11 AM (V13WU)

119 name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - 3rd world cultures are vastly inferior to Western Civ's at June 22, 2024 09:12 AM (b9jZi)

120 In Never Say Never, Connery is too old and his faux hair is too obvious.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:12 AM (V13WU)

121 I also have a crush on Domino, and the sexy little Italian baddie that gets killed in Thunderball, can’t remember her name.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024

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Luciana Paluzzi! She was also in a similar role in the Man From U.N.C.L.E. film made from the pilot, To Trap a Spy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Domino was Claudine Auger. She doesn't get killed. The bad girl, Luciana Paluzzi is shot in the back while dancing with Bond. He uses her a as body shield and then drops her in a chair next to another couple with the line; "She's just dead.".

Posted by: Tuna at June 22, 2024 09:12 AM (oaGWv)

122 Blasphemy. Roger Moore had his fair share of good Bond movies, chief among them was the best one with him in the role: The Spy Who Loved Me. And yes, Casino Royale and Skyfall were good but this doesn't change the fact that Daniel Craig was a whiny little bitch as Bond.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 22, 2024 09:02 AM (8sMut)
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For Your Eyes Only is one of the best Bond films, period. It turned away from the excesses of 1970s Bond and got back to the basics. It also gave Moore some of his best scenes as bond, such as ascending the cliff while knowing someone is cutting his rope. The quiet determination he shows is subtle but brilliant.

The scene where he literally kicks a car off a cliff to kill the occupant is Bond at his most savage.

I also liked the nod to his age when the nypho teen ice skater came on to him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:12 AM (llXky)

123 Saint was so before my time, it wasn't even in the reruns when I was a kid....

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:14 AM (V13WU)

124 Luciana Paluzzi, ahhhhh,

I can picture her in my head with the long red hair and that blue dress she died in.

Always thought she was wonderful.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:14 AM (6ydKt)

125 Diamonds are Forever with Jill St. John and Jimmy Dean is also quite fun.

Posted by: Tuna at June 22, 2024 09:14 AM (oaGWv)

126 Thunderbolt was the one my youthful self liked.

Even at the time, I knew it made no real sense. But it had hydrofoils, Vulcan bombers, and scuba fights.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2024 09:15 AM (u82oZ)

127 While it wasn't an 'official' Bond movie, Never Say Never Again is kinda nifty too. It was a lot of fun watching them play around with the Bond's-getting-a-bit-old-for-this in the first half of the flick, plus you get Lani Hall doing the theme. Joy.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 22, 2024

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It was fun . . . and Klaus Maria Brandauer gave a drama class example of how you play a villain and yet make him human.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:17 AM (omVj0)

128 The best Bond Movie is Austin Powers.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 22, 2024 09:05 AM (pIfcn)
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Austin Powers is based on Jason King, played by Peter Wyngarde.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:18 AM (llXky)

129 Diamonds are Forever is good, because of the pair of villains - Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint. There is something classical about them, two demon executioners. They take up as much space as Bond.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:18 AM (V13WU)

130 Jewells i do hope for a good life for you and so sorry it is so hard for you.

Posted by: Judith miley at June 22, 2024 09:18 AM (tp9fO)

131 Bond movies were one of the things I recall going to the movies to see when I was old enough to drive. Prior to that my dad would take my brother and I to see them. Not much foul language, minimal T&A, action, etc. Back in the late 60's and 70's it was a cheap afternoon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 22, 2024 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

132 you are not supposed to have sympathetic, human villains!

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:19 AM (V13WU)

133 @108 I’m so old I started reading Bond when ~~Kennedy was~~ The Rusk Brothers were reading Bond.

In the books, mind you, Moonraker is the only one where Bond doesn't get the girl. His partner is a no-nonsense female intel professional who's having none of his blarney. Unlike movie Bonds, he does not immediately dismiss her as a lesbian.

There are a couple of other points in which the plots diverge.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 22, 2024 09:19 AM (zdLoL)

134 Thunderbolt was the one my youthful self liked.

Even at the time, I knew it made no real sense. But it had hydrofoils, Vulcan bombers, and scuba fights.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2024

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My problem with Thunderball, both book and movie, is that to me Bond is at his best when he's alone, or has one or two helpers -- Felix Leiter and/or the current girl of the story. Bond, all alone except for Honeychile Rider (after the death of heroic ally Quarrel), vs. Doctor No . . . now that's the great stuff. Bond surrounded by Leiter and the US Navy is not quite the same.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:19 AM (omVj0)

135 30
We have workmen coming to weed and mulch the garden this morning. I have to reconfigure Diana's pen off the porch. Plus the usual stuff around here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2024 08:37 AM (MoZTd)

The doggeh world must be paying off. Workmen, must be nice.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2024 09:20 AM (QXQ4l)

136 Lavazza Perfetto

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 22, 2024 09:20 AM (qZEuM)

137 Despite it being a Roger moore Bond flick, i'd put "The Spy Who loved Me" near the top.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 22, 2024 08:52 AM (eDfFs)

I have always put the book near the top of Fleming's Bond work. The book is NOTHING like the movie (literally a whole different story, set on a different continent). It's the only book told from a point of view outside Bond (Bond is actually the spy in the title). It is a little slice of 1950-60s Americana, when the backroad highways were studded with little motel lodges and gangsters were more suit and tie and fewer tattoos.

Posted by: GWB at June 22, 2024 09:21 AM (AWrpC)

138 Mornin' Horde. Prayers for all y'all and your loved ones. I'm in north GA today for the memorial for my best friend's dad.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 22, 2024 09:21 AM (f0gaw)

139 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 22, 2024 09:21 AM (SHAib)

140 I always took it that Mr. Kidd and Mr, Wint were gay. I mean they didn’t make it subtle between them in a few scenes.

They definitely win for the best way Bond kills a villain.

My fav villain is Jaws, though.

And thanks, Tuna, for reminding me of Jill St. John, who I’ve never seen in anything else, but she’s another gorgeous redhead.

The world needs more beautiful redhead women.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:21 AM (6ydKt)

141 My mother started reading the Bond paperbacks when I was in grammar school, around the time of the first movie. One night she handed me Doctor No, open to the "centipede in Bond's bed," and said, "Read that." I did and was hooked.

I wasn't supposed to read the novels, but I sneaked them -- read mostly the action scenes, wasn't ready for the sexy moments yet. But I remained hooked.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:21 AM (omVj0)

142 Dr. No is missing from both top five, which I think is a mistake, since so many Bond themes were established in that move. And, Ursula Andress.

Telegraph
FRWL
Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Living Daylights
The Spy Who Loved Me
https://shorturl.at/X5kLZ

TJM
Goldfinger
Skyfall
Goldeneye
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Russia With Love

https://shorturl.at/b7fUk

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2024 09:22 AM (KmQB0)

143 I always took it that Mr. Kidd and Mr, Wint were gay. I mean they didn’t make it subtle between them in a few scenes. . . .
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024

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I think Fleming hinted at it in the novel. Not sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:22 AM (omVj0)

144 I have always put the book near the top of Fleming's Bond work. The book is NOTHING like the movie (literally a whole different story, set on a different continent). It's the only book told from a point of view outside Bond (Bond is actually the spy in the title). It is a little slice of 1950-60s Americana, when the backroad highways were studded with little motel lodges and gangsters were more suit and tie and fewer tattoos.
Posted by: GWB at June 22, 2024

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It is very well done -- a male writer doing a female point-of-view. Maybe he missed the mark, but the fun was in seeing Bond from outside, so to speak.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:24 AM (omVj0)

145 Saturday morning.

https://tinyurl.com/5apebxux

Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2024 09:24 AM (LkLld)

146 This being the prayer thread, just a reminder to find a stable, regular time for prayer in your daily life. If times are good, offer gratitude, When times get hard, you have something to fall back on and a comforting way to make your requests to God.

The pandemic helped me solidify my prayer life, and I continue to tweak and improve it, such as adding Glory Be to my daily prayers and a Rosary each week. If you can, fit in a daily Mass. I like going to the ones during the school year because the parish kids are a hoot to watch.

The point is to keep God close to you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:24 AM (llXky)

147

@142 It is all very personal.

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:24 AM (V13WU)

148 Former Congresswoman, Jackie ? who survived being shot at the airport in Guyana after the Jim Jones group suicide and murder says that Trump has all the making of another Jim Jones. Seems more than a trifle overwrought, eh?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2024 09:25 AM (XkYcA)

149 earnest prayers for Jewells and JJ and all the horde today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2024 09:25 AM (oYi/W)

150 Cracked all windows and running whole house fan last three hours, but now time to shut down and rely on ac.
Much prefer real air to conditioned.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 09:27 AM (4780s)

151 Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:37 AM

Prayers up, Muldoon. Keep us posted.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 22, 2024 09:27 AM (ZJU8k)

152 Too good to check, but appropriate for this thread: Fleming chose Secret Agent 007's name from the first sentence of the Book of James in the New Testament.

"James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 09:27 AM (dg+HA)

153 Diamonds are Forever is good, because of the pair of villains - Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint. There is something classical about them, two demon executioners. They take up as much space as Bond.
Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024

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"There flashed into Bond's mind that most sinister line in all poetry, 'They reckon ill who leave me out, when me they fly, I am the wings.'

"Wint and Kidd. The killers from Detroit."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:28 AM (omVj0)

154 I loved the Bond books. My grandfather had a thriller collection in his basement when I was a kid, and I all all the Flemings I could find. Also, all the colorful Travis McGee books (John MacDonald). Loved those as well, and wonder how McGee escaped the Tom Cruise movie-making cycle.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 22, 2024 09:28 AM (KmQB0)

155
Jackie Speier, Fen

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 22, 2024 09:28 AM (xG4kz)

156 The maxwell house ad is great. My favorite parts are when the coffee is poured too quickly and splashes out of the cup and when the coffee can is tilted to far and some spills. When it’s perfect it’s probably fake.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 22, 2024 09:28 AM (7fVdQ)

157 Time to dash off, all. Back later for the Pet Thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 22, 2024 09:28 AM (omVj0)

158 140 I always took it that Mr. Kidd and Mr, Wint were gay. I mean they didn’t make it subtle between them in a few scenes.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:21 AM (6ydKt)
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That was back when hinting at homosexuality made a villain even more sinister and evil.

Now it's a signal of being Stunning and Brave.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:29 AM (llXky)

159 osted by: mindful webworker

**********

SLV = San Luis Valley of southern Colorado

CBI = you got that one right

C.U.E. Center = Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons. They are a self-funded volunteer group with assets available for all fifty states to assist families and law enforcement agencies with K9 and other search modalities. They divide the country into several regions. The team leader for our search iss based north of Houston and the other four dog handlers come from various places. They are driving in this weekend and will commence operations on Monday. Their website is:

https://ncmissingpersons.org

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 09:30 AM (uCfKO)

160 Too good to check, but appropriate for this thread: Fleming chose Secret Agent 007's name from the first sentence of the Book of James in the New Testament.

"James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 09:27 AM (dg+HA)
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I thought it came from a bird-watching guide by a dude named James Bond. I think some of the films have shown it in the background as an Easter egg.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:31 AM (llXky)

161 Wolfus Aurelius

I get that the roots of Bond were in single warrior combat, and maybe Buchan books, but most WWII and forward espionage efforts were teams.

For a couple of hydrogen bombs with evil people in control of them, I expect the Armed Forces to make a power play.

These days, who knows, but I grew up with a strong, ethical, and warlike US Navy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 22, 2024 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

162 There’s an interesting Mandela Effect in a Bond movie, concerning Jaws.

If you remember the final scenes in Moonraker where Jaws and his blonde girl are helping Bond and Goodnight escape Jaws smiles at his girl revealing all the metal.

Well, as I remember it, and so do most people, the girl had braces when she smiles back at him. Which works perfectly between them.

But, as it turns out, the girl had no braces but big, pearly, whites only.

I saw this recently on. YouTube video about the Mandela effect and couldn’t believe it as I was 100% sure she had braces because the scene worked so well that way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:32 AM (6ydKt)

163 For Your Eyes Only is one of the best Bond films, period. It turned away from the excesses of 1970s Bond and got back to the basics. It also gave Moore some of his best scenes as bond, such as ascending the cliff while knowing someone is cutting his rope. The quiet determination he shows is subtle but brilliant.

The scene where he literally kicks a car off a cliff to kill the occupant is Bond at his most savage.

I also liked the nod to his age when the nypho teen ice skater came on to him.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:12 AM (llXky)

That teeny bopper ice skater bit was cringe as the kids say today. But I enjoyed For Your Eyes Only and yes, it was more grounded, especially following Moonraker. I give it a solid #2 behind The Spy Who Loved Me among the Moore era Bond flicks.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 22, 2024 09:33 AM (8sMut)

164 Much prefer real air to conditioned.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 09:27 AM (4780s)

Me, too. I prefer to sit on the porch in the heat rather than be inside in the AC most of the time. Plus, I like the outside sounds better than the inside sounds (TV, always on, such an irritant).

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 22, 2024 09:33 AM (OX9vb)

165 "Fleming once explained why he honed in on the seemingly random source of inspiration as the name for his fiction spy series protagonist (via Esquire):

“I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ‘James Bond’ was much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers.’ Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure – an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.”"

Posted by: runner at June 22, 2024 09:33 AM (V13WU)

166 Wanted to mention, Dad was just released and cleared for normal activity after his heart attack and surgery earlier this year. Thanks for the prayers and thank you God.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 22, 2024 09:33 AM (0afeZ)

167 148 Former Congresswoman, Jackie ? who survived being shot at the airport in Guyana after the Jim Jones group suicide and murder says that Trump has all the making of another Jim Jones. Seems more than a trifle overwrought, eh?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2024 09:25 AM (XkYcA)

Leftists don't have cults of personality?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 22, 2024 09:34 AM (8sMut)

168 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Prayers up for all those in need, and all those who love 'em. The Good Lord wants us to help one another, and that includes praying for and with each other.

May God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 22, 2024 09:34 AM (U3L4U)

169 But, as it turns out, the girl had no braces but big, pearly, whites only.

I saw this recently on. YouTube video about the Mandela effect and couldn’t believe it as I was 100% sure she had braces because the scene worked so well that way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:32 AM (6ydKt)
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Films can and have been recut post-release, so I take these things with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:35 AM (llXky)

170 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 22, 2024 09:34 AM (8sMut)

Well, yes, they do. Jim Jones was a progressive and supported by Democrat politicians of that area. That doesn't mean they were religious; They just liked the fact that Jones supposedly emphasized helping people and he served a diverse church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2024 09:37 AM (XkYcA)

171 "Our Country is Screwed" - Thank you for mentioning J.J. Sefton's update about chemo and radiation therapy beginning tomorrow.

Annie: Thank you for maintaining the prayer list.

Everyone: Thank you for the prayers for everyone on the list.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2024 09:37 AM (O7YUW)

172 MisHum: Thank you for all the work you put into the multiple threads you put up!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2024 09:38 AM (O7YUW)

173 "Of that area"-Means that part of California where his church originally was.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 22, 2024 09:38 AM (XkYcA)

174 I’m off work today, so clearing and dragging for me. Gotta get at it May GOD Bless you all. And be happy as NaCly says.

Posted by: Eromero at June 22, 2024 09:39 AM (LHPAg)

175 Good morning everyone. Prayers for all intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2024 09:41 AM (WXNFJ)

176 Good morning MisHum, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 22, 2024 09:42 AM (7avXF)

177 Mmmm....Jane Seymour.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 22, 2024 09:43 AM (qZEuM)

178 I like the 007 movie where he lassoes the villain and secures him with rope...

...best be the Bond that ties.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 09:43 AM (uCfKO)

179 Leftists always use projection. They accuse their opponents of being cultish slaves while producing imitation icons and votive candles for their political leaders.

This idolatry has been noticed, and our collapsing nation is how God calls us to repent. In many areas it is working. Vocations are up sharply and the young people taking holy orders are the polar opposite of the pantsuit-wearing religious "sisters" hanging on from the 1970s or the gay Jesuits.

The next pope needs to put Germany under an interdict (again) until we figure out what the heck is going on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:45 AM (llXky)

180 Special prayers also are requested for Sandy - A friend of ours from church who passed suddenly at home this week. She was a very private and quiet person so we didn't really go looking for her until after she had been deceased for a number of days.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2024 09:45 AM (WXNFJ)

181 Muldoon, Your family is in our prayers. May good weather and successful searches be in your near future. BTW, what is the new pup's name?

Posted by: Mrs JTB at June 22, 2024 09:45 AM (zudum)

182 It is a little slice of 1950-60s Americana, when the backroad highways were studded with little motel lodges

There's a history documentary about the true back story of Who Loved Me. A Barney Fife-ish NY Statie got his teeth into a routine stakeout assignment, and recognized a whole slew of big city high rollers arriving at a little motel lodge for a high-level conference. Some of them were extremely wanted men. A good little movie tale in its own right, even without a superspy.

The real hook of Fleming tales is that they're not BS. His family's bank had operated a worldwide private finance intel net, about whose exploits he'd have heard at his mother's knee. Dr No is based on the very real Navassa Island Affair, and you can sail there in a day from his writer's resort at Goldeneye.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 22, 2024 09:47 AM (zdLoL)

183 BTW, what is the new pup's name?

********

We are trying to choose between " You little stinker!" and "What the heck were we thinking?"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 09:50 AM (uCfKO)

184 Backstage 125
Would not load. Searchable description?

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 09:51 AM (4780s)

185 The pandemic helped me solidify my prayer life, and I continue to tweak and improve it, such as adding Glory Be to my daily prayers and a Rosary each week. If you can, fit in a daily Mass. I like going to the ones during the school year because the parish kids are a hoot to watch.

The point is to keep God close to you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Great advice!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2024 09:52 AM (WXNFJ)

186 At Breitbart Sundowner's pipeline is importing 1 illegal for every 3 American births.

Wonder how many of the births are anchor babies

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 09:53 AM (fwDg9)

187 That's great news Muldoon.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is 100% certain that 3rd world cultures are vastly inferior to Western Civ's at June 22, 2024 09:53 AM (b9jZi)

188 Films can and have been recut post-release, so I take these things with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 09:35 AM (llXky)

Perhaps, but I don’t see why they’d change that. Especially since this was made in the late-70s and they’d have to go back in and digitally erase the braces from her teeth to get a new cut.

The YouTube video clearly shows her bare teeth (zoomed in) but the area where her mouth is is extremely dark in the film so maybe that’s why people thought they saw braces. I know I did.

But I also didn’t realize C3PO had one silver leg in the Star Wars movies until a few years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:54 AM (6ydKt)

189 Prayers for all the horde

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 09:55 AM (MXs8Q)

190 172 MisHum: Thank you for all the work you put into the multiple threads you put up!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 22, 2024 09:38 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2024 09:55 AM (QXQ4l)

191 I knew a droid with a silver leg named C3PO...

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 09:56 AM (uCfKO)

192 All together now: "Yeah? What was the other leg named?"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 09:59 AM (uCfKO)

193 Ooh, backstage for jackstraw. Autocorrect outdid itself.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 09:59 AM (4780s)

194 I'd like a cite on the Jackie Speier quote because if that is true, that would be an extremely vile thing for her to say.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 22, 2024 10:00 AM (RIvkX)

195 Thanks to all y'all for all the previous prayers and words of support
Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 08:37 AM (uCfKO)

Welcome.
*types deletes
*types deletes

Everything I try to type in sounds lame.
Need more coffee. Yeah that's what's wrong.

Posted by: Reforger at June 22, 2024 10:01 AM (xcIvR)

196 Update, finally loaded. Pure Prairie League great band. Aimee a fine earworm.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 10:03 AM (4780s)

197 Also please pray for President Trump.
The madman is having a rally in Philly today!
Cœur-de-Lion

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 10:04 AM (MXs8Q)

198 Where in Philly? Suspect suburbs

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 10:05 AM (fwDg9)

199 I don't know how the droid got into my pajamas.

Posted by: Groucho punchline at June 22, 2024 10:05 AM (dg+HA)

200 Muldoon, that's good to hear

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 10:05 AM (MXs8Q)

201 183 BTW, what is the new pup's name?

********

We are trying to choose between " You little stinker!" and "What the heck were we thinking?"
Posted by: Muldoon at June 22, 2024 09:50 AM (uCfKO)

May I suggest Dammit.

Dammit come here.
Dammit sit down.
Dammit shut up.

It works. For me. YMMV.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2024 10:06 AM (QXQ4l)

202
Philadelphia and Temple police will work together on security for the Donald Trump rally at the Liacouras Center on Saturday, with city police taking the lead, given that it isn’t a Temple sponsored event, said Jennifer Griffin, Temple’s vice president for public safety.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (RKVpM)

203 Skip, at Temple University!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (MXs8Q)

204 My husband's body was found in the river. He had been missing for 6 months since Dec 8. The coroner is ruling it suicide. I am in need of prayers. For his soul, and for my recovery .

Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (M9/R7)

205 Perhaps, but I don’t see why they’d change that. Especially since this was made in the late-70s and they’d have to go back in and digitally erase the braces from her teeth to get a new cut.

The YouTube video clearly shows her bare teeth (zoomed in) but the area where her mouth is is extremely dark in the film so maybe that’s why people thought they saw braces. I know I did.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 09:54 AM (6ydKt)
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When a film changes media different takes can be inserted. It is not uncommon to have one take with braces, one without it.

I'm also going to say that I wouldn't put it beyond youtubers to create fake narratives, especially in the present environment.

We literally have almost the entire American journalistic establishment trying to convince people that Biden is healthy and intellectually sharp and Trump is the one in deep cognitive decline. A video "proving" that your memory of a classic movie is fake fits neatly into this.

I would want to see the scene on physical media to believe it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (llXky)

206 Saturday, June 22, 2024

[SPEECH] Trump Speaks at Faith and Freedom Coalition in Washington, DC
When: Saturday, June 22, 2024
Time: 1:30 pm ET
Where: The Washington Hilton in Washington, DC

[RALLY] Trump Rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
When: Saturday, June 22, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm ET
Where: The Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, PA

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 10:09 AM (dg+HA)

207
Morning, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 22, 2024 10:09 AM (lCaJd)

208 Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (M9/R7)

Prayers....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2024 10:10 AM (Akjoo)

209 Do I feel lucky?

Yes.

https://tinyurl.com/2kk3wkzm

Posted by: JackStraw at June 22, 2024 10:11 AM (LkLld)

210 The next time Biden starts wandering off he needs to be set free. If you love someone let him go.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 22, 2024 10:12 AM (JLq/1)

211
The doggeh world must be paying off. Workmen, must be nice.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2024 09:20 AM (QXQ4l)

It's $375 for them to weed and mulch our little bee-bird-butterfly garden. I keep meaning to spend two hours a day on lawn work to do things like weed it myself, but other things (like sloth) intervene.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2024 10:13 AM (MoZTd)

212 Gushka, prayers of course for you and your family.

My 9 yr old found my wife in a similar state and situation. It's hard but taking one day at a time can be helpful.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2024 10:13 AM (WXNFJ)

213 {{{{Gushka}}}}
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

May the Blessed Virgin, Mater Dolorosa, intercede for you with our Lord Jesus Christ. May His love comfort and heal your spirit.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 10:13 AM (MXs8Q)

214
If you love someone let him go.

That movie was about Tipper and me.

Posted by: Al Gore at June 22, 2024 10:13 AM (RKVpM)

215 "Are you SURE you saw Biden stumble and not Trump? You got this iconic scene from a classic film completely wrong."

There was a similar situation with Johnny Carson. Supposedly he had one of the Gabor sisters on and she had a cat on her lap. She asked him if he'd like to pet her pussy and he said: "Sure, if you get that damn cat out of the way."

I recall seeing it on a highlight, talked with kids in the 1980s about it, but we're told it never happened.

However, everyone on the set is long dead, and giving the fleeting nature of the show, it wouldn't be hard for the Carson estate to just have deleted that scene because it made Carson look like a cad. People did tape TV shows, but usually just to watch them later. My father did that, never retaining them, just taping, erasing, taping until the cassette wore out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:14 AM (llXky)

216 Mornin'.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:14 AM (ynpvh)

217 Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (M9/R7)

Prayers....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 22, 2024 10:10 AM (Akjoo)

Thanks his family and I are griefstricken but at least it's an answer and he can be laid to rest now.. his life was messy and it looks like his passing will be as well. But he was kind, and gentle, and animals loved him.

Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:16 AM (jhAhX)

218 214
If you love someone let him go.

That movie was about Tipper and me.

Posted by: Al Gore at June 22, 2024 10:13 AM (RKVpM)

Not what I would do to a man.

Posted by: Trans Sec Petey at June 22, 2024 10:16 AM (ynpvh)

219 Good morning everyone! Happy Saturday! Talking things over with hubby we decided to see a different doctor at KU Medical Center for a second opinion. I still refuse to do any more chemo but maybe this lady can come up with something. If not that's okay. I have made my decision and am at peace with it. For the sake of my husband and kids I thought I should at least try.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at June 22, 2024 10:17 AM (iF0sF)

220 James Bond was allegedly the name of an actual intelligence operation.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 22, 2024 10:17 AM (7avXF)

221 My husband's body was found in the river. He had been missing for 6 months since Dec 8. The coroner is ruling it suicide. I am in need of prayers. For his soul, and for my recovery .
Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (M9/R7)

My heart breaks for you.

Posted by: Northernlurker at June 22, 2024 10:17 AM (JLq/1)

222 Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (M9/R7)

Condolences and prayers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:18 AM (ynpvh)

223
Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (M9/R7)

Dear heavens, Gushka, how awful. Prayers for his soul and for you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 22, 2024 10:18 AM (MoZTd)

224 220 James Bond was allegedly the name of an actual intelligence operation.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 22, 2024 10:17 AM (7avXF)

So was Ian Fleming.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:18 AM (ynpvh)

225 Gushka, my condolences

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 22, 2024 10:19 AM (7avXF)

226 We are trying to choose between " You little stinker!" and "What the heck were we thinking?"
Posted by: Muldoon

Our dog's nickname includes Dumdum, Badooba, MISTER dog, a sighed "all right"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 10:19 AM (MXs8Q)

227 Gushka my God I'm so sorry. There just aren't any words. You will be in my prayers.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at June 22, 2024 10:19 AM (iF0sF)

228 220 James Bond was allegedly the name of an actual intelligence operation.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 22, 2024 10:17 AM (7avXF)

Harry Potter died in the Levant.
https://tinyurl.com/v9vewu46

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:20 AM (ynpvh)

229 Not what I would do to a man.

Posted by: Trans Sec Petey at June 22, 2024 10:16 AM (ynpvh)
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This is a great example of how we're going out of our way to provoke God's wrath. This man has no accomplishments to speak of, his entire career is based on his very public, open denigration of Divine Law and to top it all off, he actually does interviews highlighting how he purchased another human being for his pleasure.

And this is portrayed as a good thing! How wonderful that he could buy an infant to share his degenerate lifestyle!

The chastisement shall continue until repentance occurs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:20 AM (llXky)

230 Belly of the beast, wonder what protesters will be out

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 10:20 AM (fwDg9)

231 Jewells!

Good to see you, love. Peace be with you.

As you can, check those bucket list items! And be a little bit silly.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 22, 2024 10:20 AM (xwHjv)

232 Gushka, prayers of course for you and your family.

My 9 yr old found my wife in a similar state and situation. It's hard but taking one day at a time can be helpful.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 22, 2024 10:13 AM (WXNFJ)

I'm so so sorry. I go from shock to grief to horror, back to numb grim shock again. I still can't believe such a kind loving person would do this to those who loved and depended on him. But I also know he had issues and probably though he was protecting us and it would be better this way. But I was in torment until he was found, now I'm in despair.

Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:21 AM (lkWvj)

233 Jewells, good to hear from you!
Fingers crossed for the new dr to have some useful ideas.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 10:21 AM (MXs8Q)

234 I'm so sorry, Gushka. Praying for closure for you and the family.

{{{Jewells}}}

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at June 22, 2024 10:21 AM (R3yzU)

235 Preferred PPL to Crying Games for fit this morning, but nice.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 10:21 AM (4780s)

236 226 We are trying to choose between " You little stinker!" and "What the heck were we thinking?"
Posted by: Muldoon

Our dog's nickname includes Dumdum, Badooba, MISTER dog, a sighed "all right"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 22, 2024 10:19 AM (MXs8Q)

Younger one named one of the red sliders; because she's probably near-sighted, always very careful, so I was feeding the turtles and saying, "Come on, stupid, get up and eat your food." So my son started calling her Stupid and it stuck. Did one of those $1 things at the bank once for the turtles; they covered the name a bit with another one so it said "Stu"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:23 AM (ynpvh)

237 {{{Jewells}}}

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:24 AM (ynpvh)

238 Gushka, he was somewhat considerate, in his mind. My SIL had to cut down my brother, something she'll never get out of her mind.
Plus he lived 500 yards from the ocean, should have used that like several other relatives.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 10:25 AM (4780s)

239 Ah Jewells. I can’t fuss over your decision. Only you know what you are going through. Wish there were something I could do to or say to comfort you. My feeble prayer is all I have

Posted by: javems at June 22, 2024 10:27 AM (mvvEm)

240 Gushka my God I'm so sorry. There just aren't any words. You will be in my prayers.
Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at June 22, 20

You have my prayers too. Look into alternative treatments and new protocols. Also look into bolstering your mental state with visualization, guided meditation and hypnosis. Mindframe is everything.

At least all his legal affairs were in order with my husband, so the way forward is clear. Do get second and third opinions. There lots of options nowadays.

Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:27 AM (chFFn)

241 228 That's cool. Thank you for that, jim.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 22, 2024 10:28 AM (7avXF)

242 Gushka, he was somewhat considerate, in his mind. My SIL had to cut down my brother, something she'll never get out of her mind.
Plus he lived 500 yards from the ocean, should have used that like several other relatives.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 10:25 AM (4780s)

Yeah. He knew about my grandmother who found grandfather and went nuts. I think he made sure I wouldn't see it. It was dumb luck he was found by kyakers, three miles from where the car was found.

I'm sorry for your family, having to see that.

Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:30 AM (chFFn)

243 Nurse first one my bucket list is a trip to see my brother in Florida and see the ocean again. I feel so at peace when I'm near the ocean. Trip is planned for September.

Thanks vmom. Javems my dear your prayers are all I need.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at June 22, 2024 10:31 AM (iF0sF)

244 A video "proving" that your memory of a classic movie is fake fits neatly into this.

I would want to see the scene on physical media to believe it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:08 AM (llXky)

I’ve got an old VHS copy of Moonraker but it’d be a pain to hook up an old VCR and try it, the tape is probably degraded as well.

I’ve got the James Bond Collection on Blu-Ray that has every film from Dr. No to Skyfall.
Now that you’ve got me thinking about it, I’ll watch Moonraker later and see if she has braces in 1080p.

Thanks to you fine people I’m watching Thundeball at the moment, gotta get through that first.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 22, 2024 10:32 AM (6ydKt)

245 But I also know he had issues and probably though he was protecting us and it would be better this way. But I was in torment until he was found, now I'm in despair.
Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:21 AM (lkWvj)
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There is a powerful current in our culture that pushes suicide as a viable solution to problems in life. Heck, Canada has made it state policy to kill people in despair.

I pray that you will find healing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:32 AM (llXky)

246 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:24 AM (ynpvh)

Back at you dear friend!

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at June 22, 2024 10:33 AM (iF0sF)

247 AI Joe Cartwright?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 22, 2024 08:17 AM (QXQ4l)

That's Little Joe. Who was Big Joe?

Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 10:36 AM (AwYPR)

248 There is a powerful current in our culture that pushes suicide as a viable solution to problems in life. Heck, Canada has made it state policy to kill people in despair.

I pray that you will find healing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:32 AM (llXky)

You're not kidding. It also strips our faith and destroys our spirituality and that's our backstop against the nihilism that causes this. When the man who helped me find faith again told me the universe and life was meaningless, I got a chill. He disappeared a few weeks after that. Depression is a stone cold bitch

Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:37 AM (chFFn)

249 245
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:32 AM (llXky)

I have...stories...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:37 AM (ynpvh)

250 248
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Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:37 AM (chFFn)

It can also be desperation, feeling that there is no out left.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:38 AM (ynpvh)

251 I feel so at peace when I'm near the ocean.

Same here. Prayers continue for you, dear.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 22, 2024 10:40 AM (mH6SG)

252 Good morning Hordemates.
BRCC Fit Fuel.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 22, 2024 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

253 Prayers for all the Hordes needs.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 22, 2024 10:41 AM (UC3nL)

254
Crop report: First zucchini and cucumbers are about a week from harvest. Corn has tassels. Tomatoes are flowering. First runs of lettuce and spinach sadly already at an end. Should have started second batch a couple of weeks ago.

Experts will not mention there is an upside to Climate Change. I planted three weeks sooner then suggested and will have a longer growing season.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 22, 2024 10:42 AM (RKVpM)

255 It can also be desperation, feeling that there is no out left.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:38 AM (ynpvh)

Yes. He was overwhelmed and I won't go into his problems, but they were legitimate, all his and I can imagine he felt there was no escape. I imagine he likely feared it would destroy everyone he loved too.

Posted by: Gushka can has kittehs what plays fetch at June 22, 2024 10:43 AM (3ksun)

256 Wouldn't it be weird if Troll Month and Pride Month both came in the same month?

And then there's the big full moon.

Portents, people.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 22, 2024 10:43 AM (jdHxK)

257 I see nothing getting close to harvesting, lots of peppers but my firsts never seem to ripen

Posted by: Skip at June 22, 2024 10:44 AM (fwDg9)

258 Prayers for all requested, and prayers and answers for all in need.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 22, 2024 10:44 AM (NFX2v)

259 Days are getting shorter now...it'll be fall...in about 13 weeks.

Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 10:45 AM (AwYPR)

260 *there is an upside to Climate Change*

>>polite cough

Um... we're past the summer solstice so now the proper term is "Global Warming."

Please make a note of it.

Posted by: Enviro Gestapo at June 22, 2024 10:45 AM (dg+HA)

261 Screaming headlines today about the national debt and skyrocketing interest payments.

No one will stop it.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at June 22, 2024 10:47 AM (gdkEP)

262 Made you look.

Posted by: Screaming headlines at June 22, 2024 10:48 AM (dg+HA)

263
First attempt at growing bush lima beans looks like a winner. They'll be all to myself as my wife can't stand beans of any sort.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 22, 2024 10:48 AM (RKVpM)

264 This is a three-hankie morning.

Thanks be to Ace for creating a space where so much can be shared.

Posted by: Wenda at June 22, 2024 10:50 AM (4GhzG)

265 The most $ made per note in a jingle.
Mennen. It had male vocalists the lyrics were "By Mennen".
3 notes. So, do, do (the final note goes down the octave).
Untold millions of dollars.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 22, 2024 10:52 AM (MeG8a)

266 Good morning
I'm in CT staying with my sister in order to attend a HS reunion.
My only complaint is that my sister, who drinks tea has no idea how to make coffee.
Actually not complaining because my sister picked me up at the airport, made a delicious dinner last night and have a lovely guest room.
Hope flight back on Monday goes as smooth as travel day yesterday.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 22, 2024 10:54 AM (ucoMn)

267 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at June 22, 2024 10:55 AM (KOTG6)

268 Good for you, Jewells!

Eat all the good food you can. Watch the movies. Take a rod win a hot air balloon. Go put your tootsies in the warm ocean water. Smell the flowers. Play with the doggies. And tell your loved ones you love them. Spend your time being happy and joyful.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 22, 2024 10:55 AM (E/NfX)

269 259. it'll be fall...in about 13 weeks.
Posted by: BignJames

How are you doing?

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 22, 2024 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

270 I don't see climate changing so much as I see the seasons moving forward by a little bit. Probably due to changes in the magnetic field, earth's core, ocean and atmosphere currents, and a bunch of other interrelated things. Probably cycles repeatedly over a few centuries, immaterial over Geological and even human time frames.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 10:55 AM (4780s)

271 Who among you has experienced nicotine withdrawal

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2024 10:56 AM (/7KEl)

272 270 I don't see climate changing so much as I see the seasons moving forward by a little bit. Probably due to changes in the magnetic field, earth's core, ocean and atmosphere currents, and a bunch of other interrelated things. Probably cycles repeatedly over a few centuries, immaterial over Geological and even human time frames.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 10:55 AM (4780s)

Depends where you are. The summer has been very mild here in San Diego. Only this week are we seeing temps in the 80s.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:56 AM (ynpvh)

273 271 Who among you has experienced nicotine withdrawal

Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2024 10:56 AM (/7KEl)

Never smoked, but had weird experience after my MIL died; she was a smoker who tried to quit...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:57 AM (ynpvh)

274
Experts will not mention there is an upside to Climate Change. I planted three weeks sooner then suggested and will have a longer growing season.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 22, 2024 10:42 AM (RKVpM)
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Not only is the science garbage, but it ignores the reality that a global rise in temperatures would result in longer growing seasons. It's funny, but the books on dinosaurs I had as a kid noted that the world in which they flourished was free of icecaps and much better than ours.

Then the memo went out and we're not to talk about geologic periods or actual changes in climate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:57 AM (llXky)

275 Re: the Mennen jingle.

https://youtu.be/c9oyVVTO9uo

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at June 22, 2024 10:58 AM (dg+HA)

276 274
Experts will not mention there is an upside to Climate Change. I planted three weeks sooner then suggested and will have a longer growing season.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 22, 2024 10:42 AM (RKVpM)
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Not only is the science garbage, but it ignores the reality that a global rise in temperatures would result in longer growing seasons. It's funny, but the books on dinosaurs I had as a kid noted that the world in which they flourished was free of icecaps and much better than ours.

Then the memo went out and we're not to talk about geologic periods or actual changes in climate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:57 AM (llXky)

But the deserts will be HOT!

From reading I've done, mostly warmer LOW temps. Granted the book was "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and I read it the better part of 20 years ago...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:59 AM (ynpvh)

277 Who among you has experienced nicotine withdrawal
Posted by: Don Black at June 22, 2024 10:56 AM (/7KEl)

I used chewing tobacco for almost 20 years. I've been quit almost that long.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 10:59 AM (MCbzQ)

278 Good morning, Sharon,
That's why I always travel with a couple Starbucks Vias (instant coffee) in my purse. It's not the best, but all you need is boiling water in a cup and you have coffee that is pretty darn good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 22, 2024 10:59 AM (sW5jf)

279 JackStraw posted this a couple of nights ago:

"Listen carefully, very carefully. This is the most important climate change clip you will ever watch - and only 4mins long. Watch and judge yourself. ABSORB the graph shown. THINK on it. USE your brain.

Everything else I will explain over the coming months."

https://tinyurl.com/2y99brfg

Posted by: Moron Robbie is 100% certain that 3rd world cultures are vastly inferior to Western Civ's at June 22, 2024 11:00 AM (b9jZi)

280 Jim, most parts it's only been summer for a coupla days or so.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 11:00 AM (4780s)

281 Another name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie believes violent cultures celebrating ignorance are inferior to the West at June 22, 2024 11:01 AM (b9jZi)

282 How are you doing?

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 22, 2024 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

Just being my usual silly self....you?

Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

283 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 22, 2024 11:02 AM (jq9Yb)

284
I don't see climate changing so much as I see the seasons moving forward by a little bit. Probably due to changes in the magnetic field, earth's core, ocean and atmosphere currents, and a bunch of other interrelated things. Probably cycles repeatedly over a few centuries, immaterial over Geological and even human time frames.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 10:55 AM

Experts agree that only one variable is necessary for a definitive diagnosis. Peddle your disinformation and multiple variables, which has the earmarks of Russia stamped all over it, somewhere else.

Posted by: Your Betters at June 22, 2024 11:02 AM (RKVpM)

285 Days are getting shorter now...it'll be fall...in about 13 weeks.
Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 10:45 AM (AwYPR)

Jeepers man, do you go to the hospital, go to the baby room, and tell all the newborns they're dying?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:02 AM (MCbzQ)

286 Late to the party... I was doing some chores and I made breakfast.

I rewatched a couple of older Bond movies in the past year or two. As someone above pointed out, they're more like montages of cool scenes tacked together with the thinnest of plots.

The first four seasons of Archer were the best homage to the Bond series ever.

Posted by: PabloD at June 22, 2024 11:03 AM (OS34I)

287 {{{Nurse}}}
What a great idea!!
Thanks.
Hope all is well with you. I can't wait for Texas!

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 22, 2024 11:04 AM (ucoMn)

288 Experts agree that only one variable is necessary for a definitive diagnosis. Peddle your disinformation and multiple variables, which has the earmarks of Russia stamped all over it, somewhere else.

-

It's interesting because, without the constant barrage of Global Warming propaganda, people would simply remember how seasons worked and that almost nothing has changed in the last hundred years.

Gosh, it's hot. It must be summertime!

Posted by: Moron Robbie believes violent cultures celebrating ignorance are inferior to the West at June 22, 2024 11:05 AM (b9jZi)

289 *do you go to the hospital, go to the baby room, and tell all the newborns they're dying?*

You mean you don't?

Posted by: Looking confused at June 22, 2024 11:05 AM (dg+HA)

290 It can also be desperation, feeling that there is no out left.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 10:38 AM (ynpvh)
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Indeed, and our society fuels this by emphasizing that happiness is only found in material things or inside ourselves, not through relationships, communities and families.

Suicide used to be seen as a great evil, a mortal sin that sent you straight to hell. I think we should get back to that - pointing out that it doesn't actually solve anything and makes everything worse for everyone else.

Where there is life there is hope, and our evil governments want to extinguish both. Humans are vermin, harming Mother Earth who is better off without us.

"Your family wants you dead, here, sign this form. They see you as a burden. Sign the form, it's better for everyone."

Death with dignity my ass.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 11:05 AM (llXky)

291 Jim, most parts it's only been summer for a coupla days or so.
Posted by: From about That Time at June 22, 2024 11:00 AM (4780s)

Anyone who complains about the weather around here should go jump in a cesspool... as it started warming, the mornings would still be quite chilly. Like 40s/50s chilly, and then suddenly about a month ago, mornings were 60s/70s. It just sorta happened.

To me, that's when summer started.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:06 AM (MCbzQ)

292 Then the memo went out and we're not to talk about geologic periods or actual changes in climate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:57 AM (llXky)

A blurb for some PBS climate show informed me the earth has 3 poles.

Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

293 Gushka, it is very good to see your nic! I'm so sorry for your loss, and my heart hurts for you. The faith he helped you find is his gift to you, or he wouldn't have shared it.

God bless and keep you, and may He hear the prayers sent to Him for those spoken and unspoken needs. We ask for His comfort, healing, provision, protection and His continued blessing of salvation in Christ Jesus.

Posted by: Moki at June 22, 2024 11:06 AM (wLjpr)

294 "... but the thief comes steal, kill and destroy."

Posted by: John 10:10 at June 22, 2024 11:08 AM (dg+HA)

295 Jeepers man, do you go to the hospital, go to the baby room, and tell all the newborns they're dying?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:02 AM (MCbzQ)

Newborns?..You mean escapees?

Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 11:09 AM (AwYPR)

296 292 Then the memo went out and we're not to talk about geologic periods or actual changes in climate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 10:57 AM (llXky)

A blurb for some PBS climate show informed me the earth has 3 poles.

Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

Gaia is transgender?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 11:10 AM (ynpvh)

297 I rewatched a couple of older Bond movies in the past year or two. As someone above pointed out, they're more like montages of cool scenes tacked together with the thinnest of plots.

The first four seasons of Archer were the best homage to the Bond series ever.
Posted by: PabloD at June 22, 2024 11:03 AM (OS34I)

I bought a dvd with the two Flint movies on it. Watched the first one. It's ok. Very cheesy, and frankly, Mr. Coburn is gangly and ugly, and really doesn't come close to being realistic.

I guess it's not supposed to be, but it was probably a lot more fun when it was made. Now it just looks old.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:10 AM (MCbzQ)

298 **some PBS climate show**

I think I've found your problem.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 22, 2024 11:10 AM (dg+HA)

299 jim (in Kalifornia) — I do miss a few things about my former home in California (LA County): the weather and the beach. As I took a very hot and steamy jog here in Texas this morning I wished I were on a SoCal beach!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2024 11:10 AM (xT8gx)

300 *do you go to the hospital, go to the baby room, and tell all the newborns they're dying?*
--------
You mean you don't?
Posted by: Looking confused at June 22, 2024 11:05 AM (dg+HA)

I've been banned.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:11 AM (MCbzQ)

301 299 jim (in Kalifornia) — I do miss a few things about my former home in California (LA County): the weather and the beach. As I took a very hot and steamy jog here in Texas this morning I wished I were on a SoCal beach!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 22, 2024 11:10 AM (xT8gx)

Yeah, but the downside is you're in Kommie Kalifornia.
This morning, a little bit humid, about 65°F right now. High will be around 85°F. Warmest day in the last month or two.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 11:12 AM (ynpvh)

302 And NOOD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 22, 2024 11:13 AM (ynpvh)

303 A blurb for some PBS climate show informed me the earth has 3 poles.

Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

Gaia is transgender?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

-

No, you misunderstand. Poles as in Polacks. They got stuck there when their helicopter crashed.

(see if anyone remembers this one)

Posted by: Moron Robbie believes violent cultures celebrating ignorance are inferior to the West at June 22, 2024 11:13 AM (b9jZi)

304 Don Black,
I gave up smoking many years ago, and this is what worked for me.

I did it in two parts: first I gave it up at work.

After several months, when that part of the day was craving-free, I gave it up altogether. Then I only had to fight myself in the evenings.

I could never have done all at once, but this worked.

Posted by: Wenda at June 22, 2024 11:13 AM (4GhzG)

305 I bought a dvd with the two Flint movies on it. Watched the first one. It's ok. Very cheesy, and frankly, Mr. Coburn is gangly and ugly, and really doesn't come close to being realistic.

I guess it's not supposed to be, but it was probably a lot more fun when it was made. Now it just looks old.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:10 AM (MCbzQ)
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Send-ups seldom do. What was original and edgy often becomes rather dull and plodding.

Airplane! is remarkable because has actually gotten funnier over time. It's more transgressive now than when it was made.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 22, 2024 11:14 AM (llXky)

306 Jeepers man, do you go to the hospital, go to the baby room, and tell all the newborns they're dying?

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:02 AM (MCbzQ)

Newborns?..You mean escapees?
Posted by: BignJames at June 22, 2024 11:09 AM (AwYPR)

Maybe parolees? I mean, the prisoners have already committed the crime, they did the time, they're now being released into society. If they mess up along the way, they get put back in for another stretch, and eventually they'll mess up enough that they'll get the death penalty.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 22, 2024 11:15 AM (MCbzQ)

307
"Listen carefully, very carefully. This is the most important climate change clip you will ever watch - and only 4mins long. Watch and judge yourself. ABSORB the graph shown. THINK on it. USE your brain.

Some reporter asked the High Priest of Global Warming (Al Gore) about ice core measurements and he blew smoke up his ass and left the podium in a huff.

When they won't answer a serious question with a serious answer you know they're full of shit.

Posted by: Your Betters at June 22, 2024 11:17 AM (RKVpM)

308 271 Who among you has experienced nicotine withdrawal
Posted by: Don Black

Quit Kools 'cold-turkey' 20 years ago after falling down the back concrete steps on the way to work, breaking a leg.

I didn't smoke indoors so the leg fx was actually a bit of a blessing because it was tough to be house- &/or office-bound and be able to get easily outside for a smoke.

Found I had to have cold water for sipping all the time and something to occupy my hands - a pencil, pen, keyboard, hammer - and my mind - if not work, a crossword puzzle or bills to write or file - to also occupy my mind as much as possible.

Within weeks, couldn't tolerate the smell of smoking & had no desire to go back, but dreamed for years that I still had my former 2 pm daily cigarette.

A week at a time.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 22, 2024 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

309 Fill it to the rim-with Brim.

Posted by: Decaf at June 22, 2024 11:32 AM (V5BDR)

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