Labor Day Cafe

More dogs taking the day trip to the country (IG).

Parachute/airpad backpack to escape burning buildings. (IG)

Wingsuit guy flying through keyhole in mountain rock. (IG)

Flabbergasted.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/r5xhjRg8A1
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 2, 2024

Meeting the newest member of the family for the first time.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/CD7CeKrfFN
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 2, 2024

Puppies having fun together.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Lb8nrtsKkW
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 1, 2024

Good boy.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/tG0dlmei5z
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 1, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2024 07:32 PM (uOS9K)

2 Hello

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 02, 2024 07:32 PM (4Med0)

3 zwei

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 02, 2024 07:32 PM (uOS9K)

4 Crikey, the blog is coming at us fast today.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 07:33 PM (WbH4L)

5 Good doggies!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 02, 2024 07:34 PM (PiwSw)

6 th

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 07:34 PM (NMT5x)

7 Fast reflexes, Anna Puma.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 02, 2024 07:34 PM (u82oZ)

8 Thanks for the threads today Ace, it being a holiday and all. It was a pretty good turnout in the comments today.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 07:35 PM (NMT5x)

9 I rescued a turtle at the lake last week. Second time. The first one was this larger ancient looking one that I helped nudge across the road towards the lake. Used the shelallegh to help push her. This one was smaller. I had to go back to it and got there in time to let a guy know about it. Once he got past it, it headed right on off the road. I don't think anyone really wants to run over a turtle.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 07:36 PM (MpVUb)

10 {{{Ben Had}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 02, 2024 07:36 PM (u82oZ)

11 That was quick...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at September 02, 2024 07:37 PM (XMwZJ)

12 Leave it to the Golden to find the mudhole!

Posted by: IrishEi at September 02, 2024 07:37 PM (3ImbR)

13 NaCly, dearest. countdown to hugs has begun!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 07:38 PM (WbH4L)

14 Evening.

Posted by: Robert, fingers crossed behind his back at September 02, 2024 07:39 PM (qtZvE)

15 Love the photo up top!
I can't say I ever imagined Death Valley to be so colorful.
I hope everyone had a good Labor Day holiday.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 02, 2024 07:39 PM (MeG8a)

16 Willowed:
Country roads:
https://tinyurl.com/y24sju4x

Posted by: sal at September 02, 2024 07:40 PM (bx3Km)

17 Just got back from an early dinner at mom's. Saturday and Sunday were mostly spent doing necessary tasks. There are approximately 5 hours left in this holiday weekend before I go to sleep - I'm trying to view that from a "glass half full" perspective.

Posted by: PabloD at September 02, 2024 07:40 PM (ZiRUh)

18 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 07:42 PM (fwDg9)

19 Happy-ish wrap up of Labor Day Weekend …

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at September 02, 2024 07:43 PM (TX4bP)

20 My neighbor cooked eight racks of ribs yesterday and gave us two. What a guy!

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 07:44 PM (LHPAg)

21 Love the photo up top!
I can't say I ever imagined Death Valley to be so colorful.

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That's after the EPA accidentally dumped a few million cubic feet of colorful toxic chemicals in it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 07:46 PM (jdHxK)

22 Country Roads by Goose House

https://tinyurl.com/56mmn5mv

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 07:46 PM (MpVUb)

23 From a glass half full perspective, one could say that Labor Day means doing labor, i.e. necessary tasks, so that's a good thing! Especially for Mom!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 07:48 PM (NMT5x)

24 My neighbor cooked eight racks of ribs yesterday and gave us two. What a guy! you are one lucky man I miss my neighbor

Posted by: doug at September 02, 2024 07:49 PM (8/lc0)

25 Never really celebrate Labor Day. When we had a cottage you were typically packing up for the winter, dock out, etc, cause MI. Today was a slow day, too smoky to be outside. Hope we get rain to help with the forest fire. Closest one since we moved here, 8 to 10 miles away. Had to wsh ash and other debris off the patio. Rain, God, send rain.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 02, 2024 07:49 PM (2NHgQ)

26 Good doggie videos

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 07:50 PM (fwDg9)

27 It’s been non stop college football this weekend. I never did make it into the pool, darn it!

Tomorrow we start our biggest fitness challenge of the year, 30 classes in 60 days, so it’s going to be busier than normal. We do all kinds of fun things during it to keep people motivated and going. Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 07:51 PM (BgmlQ)

28
Wingsuit keyhole guy must have a death wish. A tiny miscalculation and he's jelly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 07:52 PM (FLlbx)

29 Labor Day: look for the union label.

What ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 02, 2024 07:52 PM (jUN6x)

30
That's after the EPA accidentally dumped a few million cubic feet of colorful toxic chemicals in it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 07:46 PM (jdHxK)

___________

If they had sufficient funding it wouldn't have happened.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 07:53 PM (FLlbx)

31 I had to go to a new laptop a little while ago. Well, new in the sense that I bought it years ago but didn't use it until now because my old laptop kept hanging on. Went from Windows 7 to 10. I really miss 7.

So with 10 there are little messages on the task bar. Sometimes it's the temp, sometimes it says humid tomorrow or something like that. Right now it says 'sunset coming'. Really? Ugh, right next to that message is the time, and most people don't live in windowless boxes.

I know Bill Gates hasn't had anything to do with windows in a long time, but there's never a reason not to say fuck Bill Gates.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 07:54 PM (NMT5x)

32 Feeding time for the cats, I talk to each one as I put the wet food down. I must sound demented.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 07:54 PM (D7oie)

33 Yes, you have heard this story before. Business partner and wife are off to a swank party. There is a turtle in the road. Wife says just get out and move it off the road. Turtle proceeds to piss all over business partner's suit. End of story.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 07:54 PM (WbH4L)

34 I didn't, nor ever have put flag out for labour day

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 07:55 PM (fwDg9)

35 I must sound demented.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 07:54 PM (D7oie)

This guy knows we don't understand English, right?

Posted by: The Cats at September 02, 2024 07:56 PM (+iuRl)

36 Kindltot, do they each know which dish is theirs? My kitties know their dish and don't swap.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 07:57 PM (WbH4L)

37 Good evening good people. Both of my boys made it back to their places safely. Man, the grow up fast.

The former Navy son is weighing a job offer at a hypersonic craft research lab and is completely jazzed about it.

The only kid I ever knew that flunked HS math as it bored him to death but then crushed his ASVAB and ended up working with shipborne missiles.

Amazing what one will do if you are interested in the subject.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 02, 2024 07:57 PM (WXNFJ)

38 Just 15 miles from downtown LV:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/N7s6uYrDgrD1XmDUA

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 02, 2024 07:58 PM (gbOdA)

39 Yeah, the big turtle peed all over the roads. I didn't want to try and pick it up. But I did finally get it off the road.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 07:59 PM (MpVUb)

40 Tucker Carlson yet again giving air to crackpots. "Winston Churchill was the main villain in WW2" and then his guest goes on to totally distort that history. Hitler wanted peace, you see.

Really lame, Tucker.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 07:59 PM (RIvkX)

41 SanFranpsycho, Smotrich for PM of Israel after Netanyahu.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:02 PM (WbH4L)

42 Fire looks bad. Hope they get it under control soon

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 08:02 PM (MpVUb)

43
Labor Day: look for the union label.

_________

It's Labor Day, not Labor Union Day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:02 PM (FLlbx)

44 Wingsuit keyhole guy must have a death wish. A tiny miscalculation and he's jelly.

Nah, he's wearing a helmet. For safety.

Posted by: t-bird at September 02, 2024 08:02 PM (sZIeh)

45 Tucker is really begin to look hapless to me.

He is always hides behind "just asking questions." But You never ask the right questions, Tucker.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 08:02 PM (RIvkX)

46 Wingsuit guy: death wish.

Giant puppy/tiny puppy: overload of cuteness

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 02, 2024 08:03 PM (ufFY8)

47 @haffowershower, remember the paperclip?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 02, 2024 08:04 PM (r5tfK)

48 SanFranpsycho, Smotrich for PM of Israel after Netanyahu.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:02 PM (WbH4L)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (RIvkX)

49 I never got into watching Tucker

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (fwDg9)

50 Hitler wanted peace, you see.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 07:59 PM (RIvkX)

Vell you zee vhen ve conquer Europe und exterminate all ze Jewz und ze other undesirables zen peace vill break out all over ze continent. Peace und luv und rainbows.

Posted by: Adolf H. from Austria at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (+iuRl)

51 Feeding time for the cats, I talk to each one as I put the wet food down. I must sound demented.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 07:54 PM (D7oie)
---
I do the same thing.

They'll have to lock us up in the same ward of the Psychiatric Hospital for Insane Felinophiles.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (BpYfr)

52 Very worst thing about getting old is no more puppies or kittens or foals.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (WbH4L)

53 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

Clippy! I think he was the genesis of AI

I think he should come back as Clippai

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 08:06 PM (NMT5x)

54 Will there be a Phas3 status report tomorrow?

Are the shelves still standing? The Commentariat awaits with an-tic-i-pa-tion!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 02, 2024 08:06 PM (a3Q+t)

55 16 Willowed:
Country roads:
https://tinyurl.com/y24sju4x

Posted by: sal

Oh, that wasn't awful. I even recognized some of them. Should have stuck with 'Country Roads'. Kind of added some other songs to it. Unnecessary. It's a great song that can hold up on it's own.

https://youtu.be/qap9Qm-Q894?si=VmZXDQT98UYat_hE

The Petersens do a lovely job.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2024 08:06 PM (sAmhv)

56 What I REALLY miss is 3.1 on six floppies.

I'm not a techie by any means, but reformatting a hard drive and reinstalling that wasn't too bad.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 08:07 PM (NMT5x)

57 Love the photo up top!
I can't say I ever imagined Death Valley to be so colorful.

-------------

That's after the EPA accidentally dumped a few million cubic feet of colorful toxic chemicals in it.

I assumed the photo was "enhanced". I'm not sure what the cause of the bright blue is. Perhaps copper?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:08 PM (xCA6C)

58 Labor Day: look for the union label.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 02, 2024 07:52 PM

So on Mattress Day, look for the tag?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 02, 2024 08:08 PM (a3Q+t)

59 I rescued a turtle at the lake last week. Second time. The first one was this larger ancient looking one that I helped nudge across the road towards the lake. Used the shelallegh to help push her. This one was smaller. I had to go back to it and got there in time to let a guy know about it. Once he got past it, it headed right on off the road. I don't think anyone really wants to run over a turtle.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

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Carry a sharpie with you and the next time write "PROPERTY OF (state park in neighboring state) IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 08:09 PM (ChwNg)

60 They'll have to lock us up in the same ward of the Psychiatric Hospital for Insane Felinophiles.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (BpYfr)

Mine demands to be petted while she eats.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 02, 2024 08:09 PM (OX9vb)

61
Oh, and public-sector unions should have no - repeat, no - collective bargaining power. They're playing with house money.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:09 PM (FLlbx)

62 I'm going to tie this thread all together right here:

That FSU college football team has a beautiful horse.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 08:10 PM (ChwNg)

63 I assumed the photo was "enhanced". I'm not sure what the cause of the bright blue is. Perhaps copper?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:08 PM (xCA6C)

Shitter was full.

Posted by: The Honeydipper at September 02, 2024 08:10 PM (4Med0)

64 This might be better suited for the book thread, but if you dig around the intertubes you can find the JSC Oral History project, and they interviewed all the astronauts and big administrators and all the NASA guys and the rest of it, back room fido and trajectory guys.

What's really cool, is there was this huge need for engineers, when it spooled up. The whole field was brand new, so they made it up as they went along. Basically you graduated with an aeronautics or physics degree, bada bing - you got hired on the spot, pretty much sight unseen.

Then they started dropping these guys into really super high important jobs, because there wasn't anybody else. Besides, you've been doing that kind of thing for 3 or 4 years, or you were a range safety officer for some Army missile. Well now you're a RSO for a Saturn V, that kind of thing. Just about everyone they interviewed couldn't believe what they were doing, and were very grateful, thought it was the best job in the world and say "I doubt anything like that will ever happen again"

And go on to talk about how fracked up everything is now, and why. Too much regulation, bureaucratic oversight. Way too much.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 08:10 PM (GfEyD)

65 38 Just 15 miles from downtown LV:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/N7s6uYrDgrD1XmDUA

Posted by: rhennigantx

Spot the alien?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2024 08:11 PM (sAmhv)

66 People such as Tucker's guest, who opined that Churchill was a bad guy & Hitler really wanted peace?

There's a word for that: "neo-Nazi."

I have similar feelings toward the posters here, who seem to be in the majority, that UKR provoked the war (i.e., the Russian aggression), & that Putin is really the aggrieved party.

I abandoned all interest in Tucker shortly before he left FOX.

Posted by: mnw at September 02, 2024 08:12 PM (NLIak)

67 Some of my best artwork got copied onto to floppys never to be seen again. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:13 PM (WbH4L)

68
Mattresses come with a warning: Do not remove Kamala under penalty of law.

The Global Mouth sucking for the Global South.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 08:13 PM (NMT5x)

69 Guys! Guys! GUYS!

Salma Hayek bikini pics.

https://tinyurl.com/Salmahayekdump

Posted by: Adolf H. from Austria at September 02, 2024 08:13 PM (+iuRl)

70
"I doubt anything like that will ever happen again"

_________

It won't. Back then we were out to beat the commies. Now the commies are in charge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:13 PM (FLlbx)

71 Evenin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 02, 2024 08:13 PM (7BV1v)

72 Off Adolf sock!

Posted by: Robert at September 02, 2024 08:13 PM (+iuRl)

73 I assumed the photo was "enhanced". I'm not sure what the cause of the bright blue is. Perhaps copper?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:08 PM (xCA6C)

I’ve been to Death Valley, and it sure didn’t look like that. Painted Desert in northern Az is a little bit more like it, but nowhere near that bright.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 02, 2024 08:14 PM (S6gqv)

74 Labor Day: look for the union label.

When you are buying a coat, dress, or blouse......

My Aunt was "or blouse".

Posted by: Fran Fine 1998 at September 02, 2024 08:14 PM (CV8a5)

75 To be clear, the Nazis actually putting Nazi insignias on U.S. planes in Ukraine didn't provoke the war alone. They had help from Biden and NATO.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 08:14 PM (ChwNg)

76 52 Very worst thing about getting old is no more puppies or kittens or foals.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (WbH4L)
...........

I've thought about this a lot. I've always wanted big active dogs, dogs who want to walk with me 4-5 miles a day. I am getting older and know I can't do this forever. (maybe 10 yrs tops) It makes me sad, but I think I have decided I am going to have to become the old lady with a little fluffy ankle biter . I just can't imagine my life without a dog.

Posted by: Molly k. at September 02, 2024 08:15 PM (j/yko)

77
Salma Hayek bikini pics.

https://tinyurl.com/Salmahayekdump
Posted by: Adolf H. from Austria at September 02, 2024 08:13 PM (+iuRl)

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Get back to work. And it better be two coats!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 08:16 PM (jdHxK)

78 Damn.

Posted by: The Honeydipper at September 02, 2024 08:17 PM (4Med0)

79 Like to see all the turtle love here.

Makes my live and let live policy with the outdoor spiders seem alright.....alrightish...

Big storm the other night. Spidey had a huge web across a large porch arch but sadly that seems gone. Dude's a huge spider, they must have killed all the daddy long legs, I think he's starting to rebuild.

The spider's are getting so much love because they have been making massive webs this year. Some strings are 4 to 8 feet long. Impressive!

And built in North America....

Posted by: Stateless at September 02, 2024 08:17 PM (jvJvP)

80 I never got into watching Tucker
Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (fwDg9)

Not having a TV, there is metric fuckton of retarded talking heads I don't watch, and I am a better person for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:18 PM (ztIZS)

81 Molly K, I desperately tried to buy a Scottish Deerhound puppy because they don't have a long life span. My two current guys are now 12 so they will probably be my last dogs.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:18 PM (WbH4L)

82 Kindltot, do they each know which dish is theirs? My kitties know their dish and don't swap.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 07:57 PM (WbH4L)

when I had three cats, they had been together since they were kittens and they would switch depending on who got there first. I adopted another old cat and she wants to be fed in a particular place or she will walk off in a huff.
Then my old tortie started going blind and could be scared off her dish easy so I started feeding her in the kitchen by herself, and then when one of the other older cats died we got a young one who was a bit shy so he got fed in the kitchen as well.
depending on how they feel they will decide to bolt their food and push another cat of his or her dish, which I keep an eye on, but generally don't interfere, except for the tortie.
The cat that died would be pretty pushy about taking over other cats' food as he was the alpha, so I took to holding back the empty can, and sliding it out to him as a treat to distract him.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 08:18 PM (D7oie)

83 That's how Death Valley looks using X-ray specs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 08:19 PM (jdHxK)

84 Oh, and back when I'd run to neighboring towns and villages, one area does signs up alerting motorists...

"Turtle Crossing"

Seriously....

Posted by: Stateless at September 02, 2024 08:19 PM (jvJvP)

85 >>> 66 People such as Tucker's guest, who opined that Churchill was a bad guy & Hitler really wanted peace?

There's a word for that: "neo-Nazi."

I have similar feelings toward the posters here, who seem to be in the majority, that UKR provoked the war (i.e., the Russian aggression), & that Putin is really the aggrieved party.

I abandoned all interest in Tucker shortly before he left FOX.

Posted by: mnw at September 02, 2024 08:12 PM (NLIak)

While Poo Tin the ex KGB agent isn't the most trustworthy fellow, calling anyone who suggests KEEEV may not be 100% innocent either a "neo-Nazi" is rather a dick move (especially when you consider our so-called elites such as Soros and Starmer! etc who are shrieking about supporting Ukraine).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 02, 2024 08:19 PM (FnneF)

86
Her Majesty tells me we're getting a boy puppy from the Felix-Dot litter in California. His name, it seems, is Fitz.

HM sought my input as to a registered name. Since Fitz is Irish for "son of", I was thinking Soyara's Favorite Son or Soyara's Fortunate Son.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:19 PM (FLlbx)

87 I assumed the photo was "enhanced". I'm not sure what the cause of the bright blue is. Perhaps copper?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:08 PM (xCA6C)

Yeah that's one of the key colors of copper carbonate minerals, like azurite. But I don't think that's Death Valley, and I assume the pic is manipulated out the ying yang.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:20 PM (ztIZS)

88 >>> 75 To be clear, the Nazis actually putting Nazi insignias on U.S. planes in Ukraine didn't provoke the war alone. They had help from Biden and NATO.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 08:14 PM (ChwNg)

Lots of help. And wasn't it the D concgresscritters only a few years ago who wanted to label the Azov guys a terrorist org or some such?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 02, 2024 08:21 PM (FnneF)

89
Makes my live and let live policy with the outdoor spiders seem alright.....alrightish...

_________

It is disagreeable, to say the least, to walk out to the kennel past a tree near the well and get a faceful of spider web.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:22 PM (FLlbx)

90 Well I think it could be argued that "Isolationists" were considered just short of Hitlerites back in the day, as that was the intent, right? Nobody wanted nothin' to do with another War In Europe. Nobody wants nothin' to do with the Ukraine and Russia knocking each other out either, and people are considered "Putin lovers" if they don't have a hard-on for war.

I had a lot of fun with my hippy uncle. I mean, a real kind of 60s hippy pretty much. He was all sorts of apocolyptic about this when it kicked off. I was "War is Not Healthy For Children and other Living Things" and "Give Peace A Chance" and I thought he was going to stroke out. LOL

It was so worth it.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 08:22 PM (GfEyD)

91 I have similar feelings toward the posters here, who seem to be in the majority

Well, you can always go somewhere else, right?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 08:22 PM (mH6SG)

92 >>> 76 52 Very worst thing about getting old is no more puppies or kittens or foals.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:05 PM (WbH4L)
...........

I've thought about this a lot. I've always wanted big active dogs, dogs who want to walk with me 4-5 miles a day. I am getting older and know I can't do this forever. (maybe 10 yrs tops) It makes me sad, but I think I have decided I am going to have to become the old lady with a little fluffy ankle biter . I just can't imagine my life without a dog.
Posted by: Molly k. at September 02, 2024 08:15 PM (j/yko)

Maybe consider volunteering at an animal shelter or something, as Jewells does?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 02, 2024 08:23 PM (FnneF)

93 Peel back Soros's shell and he has a lightning bolt SS branded on his chest.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:23 PM (WbH4L)

94 @Ben Had - c'mon you sound too modest. There are USB floppy readers ya know?

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 08:23 PM (NMT5x)

95 For people keeping up at home

NATO.int, Sept 2023:

"Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the joint meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs ...

The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that...

This is this is good for the Nordic countries. It's good for Finland and Sweden. And it's also good for NATO. And it demonstrates that when President Putin invaded a European country to prevent more NATO, he's getting the exact opposite. "

https://tinyurl.com/2aw427mn

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 08:23 PM (ChwNg)

96 Yeah that's one of the key colors of copper carbonate minerals, like azurite. But I don't think that's Death Valley, and I assume the pic is manipulated out the ying yang.

There's a so-called Rainbow Mountain in China that has bright colors similar to the photo here, but most of the on-line photos are obviously photoshopped. It's a big Chinese practice to "enhance" the looks of places in China to build up tourism.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:24 PM (xCA6C)

97 Mine demands to be petted while she eats.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Such is also the case with Werner. Commander Star Sprinkles requires scritches while she dines, and I must also sing the Merry Kitten song. Not to do so would be anathema and an affront to the order of the Universe itself. In the context of feline understanding, of course.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 02, 2024 08:24 PM (tmPIh)

98 Did they ever figure out who bombed the pipeline?

Heck, did NATO even call a meeting?

No? Weird.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 08:24 PM (ChwNg)

99 I’m saying 100.

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 08:24 PM (LHPAg)

100 100

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 08:25 PM (LHPAg)

101
Well I think it could be argued that "Isolationists" were considered just short of Hitlerites back in the day, as that was the intent, right?

_________

Well, no.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:25 PM (FLlbx)

102 “I have similar feelings toward the posters here, who seem to be in the majority, that UKR provoked the war (i.e., the Russian aggression), & that Putin is really the aggrieved party.”

Just for the record, my position from the beginning has been that this is a turf war between two big organized crime families, and I don’t see why I should support or cheerlead for either side. I sure don’t need to pay for them whacking each other.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 02, 2024 08:25 PM (S6gqv)

103 haffhowershower, I do need to look into that.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:25 PM (WbH4L)

104 RMBS! Are you back on dry land?

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:27 PM (iZbyp)

105 Death Valley

Nice photo but I'm pretty sure I've been up that path and the colors are not that vivid, except after I get done in Photoshop.

Keep moving that saturation slider . . .

Posted by: Next2Nothing at September 02, 2024 08:27 PM (tA1/w)

106 I haven't seen the latest Tucker. I still enjoy the interviews.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 08:28 PM (MpVUb)

107 Yes it was, that word was specifically coined as a slur. Fact. "Isolationist"

It is still used today, in exactly the same way. A savvy politico might use "Non interventionist" as a way around this.

As a matter of fact "America First" has a history in the lead up to World War II as well. Lindbergh provided valuable intelligence on Nazi airpower by taking a tour, and admittedly he was not a fan of going to war in Europe. But that was the sentiment. I'm not passing judgment, just pointing out there was not a lot of sentiment for war, and this was how they "nudged" people back then. Just like today.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 08:28 PM (GfEyD)

108 Round these parts, spiders will be large and in charge for the next month, then they will suddenly disappear, not to show up until next August. I have loads of golden meadow spiders. They are quite large. I like them. I'll even throw grasshoppers into their web as a favor to them.

Posted by: Coexist! at September 02, 2024 08:28 PM (CV8a5)

109 RMBS, how was the food?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:28 PM (WbH4L)

110 https://tinyurl.com/ycbu8yvt

Oh dear heavens! He is off the beach and making stuff up again!

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 08:28 PM (pZEOD)

111 It is disagreeable, to say the least, to walk out to the kennel past a tree near the well and get a faceful of spider web.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:22 PM (FLlbx)

First world problems.....

It happened to me a few weeks ago but I felt bad because I noticed the impressive web and wanted to keep it going, even mowing around it. Ran into it. Damn....

But I'm a bastard the rest of the time.
In training..

Posted by: Stateless at September 02, 2024 08:29 PM (jvJvP)

112 I took Mom up to the Blue Ridge Parkway today. Stunningly beautiful and a fun day. Been way too long since I've been up there. We are both worn out and she has already forgot where we went. But I have photographic evidence!

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:29 PM (iZbyp)

113 101
Well I think it could be argued that "Isolationists" were considered just short of Hitlerites back in the day, as that was the intent, right?

_________

Well, no.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Those were Communists and that lasted right up to Operation Barbarossa, then they were the loudest of warmongers. Must rescue the Glorius Soviet Union!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2024 08:30 PM (sAmhv)

114
Well I think it could be argued that between August, 1939 and July, 1941 the CPUSA was considered just short of Hitlerites back in the day, as that was the intent, right?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:31 PM (FLlbx)

115 I took Mom up to the Blue Ridge Parkway today. Stunningly beautiful and a fun day. Been way too long since I've been up there. We are both worn out and she has already forgot where we went. But I have photographic evidence!

Sounds like a perfect day for you and Mom, SiD. Glad to hear it.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 08:31 PM (mH6SG)

116 screaming in digital, you are a treasure, hon.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:31 PM (WbH4L)

117 Tucker Carlson yet again giving air to crackpots. "Winston Churchill was the main villain in WW2" and then his guest goes on to totally distort that history. Hitler wanted peace, you see.

Really lame, Tucker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 07:59 PM (RIvkX)

the main pretext for the UK entry into the war was to protect the Poles' independence from the Germans, and after saber rattling and building up in France, then 8 years of warfare spanning the globe, the British gave Poland and all the Polish fighters to Stalin, who shot them and all the Polish nationalist Hitler missed. It would have been cheaper to just admit the UK couldn't do anything and let it go in the first place.
But this is not an acceptable take because reasons.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 08:31 PM (D7oie)

118 108 Round these parts, spiders will be large and in charge for the next month, then they will suddenly disappear, not to show up until next August. I have loads of golden meadow spiders. They are quite large. I like them. I'll even throw grasshoppers into their web as a favor to them.
Posted by: Coexist! at September 02, 2024 08:28 PM (CV8a5
‘Hey, guy! What the hell are you doing? Don’t throw me in there! That’s a damn spider web!’
- a grasshopper

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 08:31 PM (LHPAg)

119 It's worth remembering that the premiere folk band of the WWII era (and dedicated Commies), The Almanac Singers, featuring Pete Seeger, were singing the praises of Hitler right up to the start of Operation Barbarossa. At that time they had just released an album (boxed set of 78's, I guess) with songs praising the Nazis, and urging America to stay out of the war. When the Nazis marched into Russia, they sent out an appeal to their fans to return all those box sets in exchange for new ones that condemned American isolationism. Oopsie!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:31 PM (ztIZS)

120 I took Mom up to the Blue Ridge Parkway today. Stunningly beautiful and a fun day. Been way too long since I've been up there. We are both worn out and she has already forgot where we went. But I have photographic evidence!
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Whereabouts?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2024 08:32 PM (XeU6L)

121 Oh dear heavens! He is off the beach and making stuff up again!

I can't even gin up any outrage at this lying old fool anymore. He'll soon be gone, but sadly, the damage he's done to the country will be with us for generations.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:33 PM (xCA6C)

122 The problem is having someone lined up tomtake care of your animals if you die or get stuck in the hospital. My animals are getting up there in years (except Mr Trouble) and I'm hoping I outlive them. But I would so love to have a kitten or puppy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 08:33 PM (MpVUb)

123 Lots of help. And wasn't it the D concgresscritters only a few years ago who wanted to label the Azov guys a terrorist org or some such?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 02, 2024 08:21 PM (FnneF)

It would be embarrassing for the neocons to label them terrorists since the US has been funding them for more than a decade

Posted by: Kindltot at September 02, 2024 08:33 PM (D7oie)

124 Then, I think Roosevelt may have kind of left Lindbergh out to dry. I don't believe he was a Nazi, but that was the kind of rhetoric employed, I think. Implied.

The left of course has this kind of passive-aggressive stuff perfected. "Your Silence Is Violence". In other words, you have to pick a side. You will be made to care. I think that's why some people are so compliant. They know it's bullshit, but they want their life to be easier. Go along to get along. Go native. Even the FBI could grow their hair long, smoke dope, and talk shit about the government. Maybe they forgot what they were trying to do, man! Like Wow

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 08:33 PM (GfEyD)

125 Pete Seeger was a true POS.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 08:34 PM (mH6SG)

126 Did you stop at Peak Of The Pikeway?

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 08:34 PM (LHPAg)

127 Lots of help. And wasn't it the D concgresscritters only a few years ago who wanted to label the Azov guys a terrorist org or some such?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 02, 2024 08:21 PM (FnneF)

It would be embarrassing for the neocons to label them terrorists since the US has been funding them for more than a decade
Posted by: Kindltot

-

And training them on U.S. soil.

They were a big part of J6. I would bet decent money they were involved in the Trump shooting.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 08:34 PM (ChwNg)

128
15 Love the photo up top!
I can't say I ever imagined Death Valley to be so colorful.
I hope everyone had a good Labor Day holiday.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 02, 2024 07:39 PM (MeG8a)

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If I recall correctly, the Park Service brochure says the colors are from melted tourists.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 02, 2024 08:34 PM (iTNuP)

129 Spiders are on an 8 hour notice around here. Move it or lose it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:34 PM (WbH4L)

130 Anyone who doesn't sing the "Eat a Better Breakfast Every Day" song to their cats first thing in the morning is a heathen.

Posted by: Start the Day Right at September 02, 2024 08:35 PM (CV8a5)

131 I'll even throw grasshoppers into their web as a favor to them.

Posted by: Coexist! at September 02, 2024 08:28 PM

My aim with flies has been crappy.

Nice to know I'm not the only one.

Posted by: Stateless at September 02, 2024 08:35 PM (jvJvP)

132 If I recall correctly, the Park Service brochure says the colors are from melted tourists.

They must all have been carrying Skittles in their pockets.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:36 PM (xCA6C)

133 Spiders are on an 8 hour notice around here. Move it or lose it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:34 PM (WbH4L)

It would nice to have a high-power IR laser, with an optic on it. Get a bead on the spider, push a button, and Pffft! Nothing left but a smoke ring.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:36 PM (ztIZS)

134 Pete Seeger? No way! Never did care for him for some reason. Some inner alarm keeps pinging. Did they ever check his crawlspace for little boys?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 08:36 PM (GfEyD)

135 Naples, FL, as solidly R as you can get, has a woman mayor, former executive for Lancome and another cosmetic company, quite attractive 61 year old blonde, she's tooling home from a party in her 911 late last Wednesday, gets arrested a couple blocks from home in a neighborhood of $25M homes, tagged for DUI, claims to have been hit by another car at a roundabout a block back.

The cops said later it was a roadrage incident, she the rager.

The story written in the Naples Daily News by some guy named Rodriguez, goes on and on, paragraph after paragraph, giving every single detail of the stop, her various tests (walk this line, bend over and pick up the penny, etc.) and reports about everything she said to the officers.

Naples Daily News is a leftist rag that runs a few local stories, reports heavily on all things real estate, and anything statewide or national comes from the Associated Press.

Now imagine a reporter for any city rag anywhere, reporting a DUI stop done on a democrat mayor.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at September 02, 2024 08:37 PM (FpUx/)

136 My memory ain't what it used to be. Was it Memorial Day or Labor Day one year when all mayhem broke lose here at the HQ?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 08:38 PM (mH6SG)

137 Clippy! I think he was the genesis of AI

I think he should come back as Clippai
Posted by: haffhowershower

The Japanese could take that name in an interesting direction.

"Oppai" means "big boobs."

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 08:38 PM (DgGvY)

138 AOP, have you not seen the asSalt rifle? A must for you at the MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:39 PM (WbH4L)

139 Sounds like a perfect day for you and Mom, SiD. Glad to hear it.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Usually I'm the one who drags her to medical appointments, and family or friends take her to do fun stuff to give me a break. So a nice change for both.

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:39 PM (iZbyp)

140
Folk music is a cultural appropriation of the sort the Left always decry. The comfort of poor people was twisted by commies to serve a sinister purpose they never imagined.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:39 PM (FLlbx)

141 Notorious BFD, Memorial Day I believe.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:39 PM (WbH4L)

142 AOP, have you not seen the asSalt rifle? A must for you at the MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:39 PM (WbH4L)

Ah. The Bug-A-Salt rifle. I have seen it. Too pricey for the toy value, in my mind.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:40 PM (ztIZS)

143
Was it Memorial Day or Labor Day one year when all mayhem broke lose here at the HQ?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 08:38 PM (mH6SG)

_________

Arbor Day is an occasion for all mayhem to break loose here at the HQ.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (FLlbx)

144 Whereabouts?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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We got on from NC 215 at the Courthouse Valley overlook and rode up to US 276 and then to Etowah to eat. So not a long drive on the parkway. It takes us about an hour and a half to get up there.

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (iZbyp)

145 Somehow in my x feed I got a post that says 98% of straight males refuse to give a bj to a female penis. The tag line is your sexual orientation may be transphobic.

I am going to go out on a limb and say 100% of straight males would refuse. The 2% from this survey weren’t straight.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (pZEOD)

146 I'd say the colors could like that in some places in the Mojave, sure. Maybe they amped 'em up a little for the photo. Plenty of that going around. But I bet they are mine tailings. Lots and lots of mine tailings. Dangerous shafts all over, and toxic chemicals. Mercury was the way to create an amalgam of gold and silver, or dore bars for shipment to Carson city or maybe San Francisco.

There's a shitload of mineral wealth out there, it's all locked up now. No can touch.

Supposebly, one of the more interesting historical mines was sniffed out on Air Force bombing range or somesuch. Chocolate mountains maybe?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (GfEyD)

147 There's a rescue org here called Muttville that specializes in placing older doggehs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (RIvkX)

148 Arbor Day is an occasion for all mayhem to break loose here at the HQ.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (FLlbx)

The Memorial Day Open Thread is the stuff of Legend. Not sure if I was here then, or not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:42 PM (ztIZS)

149 Pete Seeger was always a Commie, but he was an excellent singer/songwriter and had a lot to do with the cleanup and rebound of the Hudson River. And was married to the same lady for 70 years.

Posted by: Turn, Turn, Turn... at September 02, 2024 08:42 PM (CV8a5)

150 AOP, you will have a chance to try it out! I have never laughed so hard at a bunch of Morons shooting flies.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:42 PM (WbH4L)

151 Notorious BFD, Memorial Day I believe.

Thanks, BH. That was one for the HQ Archives of Infamy. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 08:42 PM (mH6SG)

152 Ja, it is the kittens' world, and we do but live in it. On an unrelated note, has anyone else noticed that Scandinavian autist scold Greta Thunberg and the "Cash Me Outside" child are never seen together? No one has issued a statement denying the two are the same, so we must believe it to be the case. Then it is trivial to draw the obvious inference, that one determined creature is on a quest to achieve full spectrum annoyance across all domains. Yet we are left wondering what motivation would lead to this blasphemy, and what ends it would serve. Is this a herald of the Eschaton? Or, mayhap, the effort of a Mephistopheles racked by boredom and just phoning it in to annoy Man's soul into despair? These matters are somewhat beyond us at the moment, or at least beyond Werner, who considers hitting the absinthe again after Commander Star Sprinkles has finished her current meal and then retired to the sleep that is twenty-three-and-a-half hours of each feline's day. Ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 02, 2024 08:43 PM (tmPIh)

153
The Japanese could take that name in an interesting direction.

"Oppai" means "big boobs."
Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 08:38 PM (DgGvY)

I like where this is going...

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 08:43 PM (NMT5x)

154 Pete Seeger was always a Commie

'Nuff said.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 08:44 PM (mH6SG)

155 Did you stop at Peak Of The Pikeway?
Posted by: Eromero
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No, but we were not too far from it when we got off.

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:44 PM (iZbyp)

156 Death Valley?

I thought it was ice cream land.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 02, 2024 08:44 PM (L/fGl)

157 Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (pZEOD)

Cue up Ice T

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 08:45 PM (NMT5x)

158 Imperial Dunes were used for quite a few movies. That's Tatooine in that pic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 02, 2024 08:45 PM (ynpvh)

159 I am going to go out on a limb and say 100% of straight males would refuse. The 2% from this survey weren’t straight.
Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (pZEOD)

Seeing as the presence of a penis means, without exception, "not female", I concur.

There is no such thing as a "chick with dick", Thai ladyboys notwithstanding.

There are "guys with tiddies", but the key word is "guys". Women, they ain't.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:45 PM (ztIZS)

160
There's a rescue org here called Muttville that specializes in placing older doggehs.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (RIvkX)

__________

We've fostered seniors for their remaining days. They're never a problem. They ask for nothing. There's a puzzled gratitude for what they get.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:45 PM (FLlbx)

161 Was hearing dod barking and thought it was a video on tablet, it was outside

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 08:45 PM (fwDg9)

162 Arbor Day is an occasion for all mayhem to break loose here at the HQ.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (FLlbx)

Arbor Day does usually lead to Shelf Day.

Unless you're a heathen who uses metal shelving.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 08:45 PM (NMT5x)

163 If you don't take your dog to run around loose in the country, you are missing a treat and your dog is a prisoner.

Of course, there's more country up here, so maybe my dogs are spoiled.

But if they don't run, we all suffer.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 02, 2024 08:46 PM (sRfrW)

164 I am going to go out on a limb and say 100% of straight males would refuse. The 2% from this survey weren’t straight.

Maybe the 2% were in prison.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:46 PM (xCA6C)

165 Pete Seeger was always a Commie, but he was an excellent singer/songwriter and had a lot to do with the cleanup and rebound of the Hudson River. And was married to the same lady for 70 years.
Posted by: Turn, Turn, Turn... at September 02, 2024 08:42 PM (CV8a5)

He developed constipation, and stopped shitting in it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 08:47 PM (ztIZS)

166 I 144 Whereabouts?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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We got on from NC 215 at the Courthouse Valley overlook and rode up to US 276 and then to Etowah to eat. So not a long drive on the parkway. It takes us about an hour and a half to get up there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (iZbyp) have driven that in a 64 Valiant, a 70 Camarp, a72 Bonneville, an 86 Dodge pickup, and a Suzuki Samurai. The Samurai took the longest time, seemed like.

Posted by: Eromero at September 02, 2024 08:47 PM (LHPAg)

167 Ja, it is the kittens' world, and we do but live in it. On an unrelated note, has anyone else noticed that Scandinavian autist scold Greta Thunberg and the "Cash Me Outside" child are never seen together? No one has issued a statement denying the two are the same, so we must believe it to be the case. Then it is trivial to draw the obvious inference, that one determined creature is on a quest to achieve full spectrum annoyance across all domains. ...
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 02, 2024 08:43 PM (tmPIh)
====

ISWYDT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 02, 2024 08:47 PM (RIvkX)

168 If you don't take your dog to run around loose in the country, you are missing a treat and your dog is a prisoner.

I have a nice yard and woods for my dog to run in, but as soon as he's done his business he goes inside the garage and waits to be let back in the house. Comfort and leisure are his primary motivations.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 08:48 PM (xCA6C)

169 My hug to Ben Had must have been a duplicate post so I'm trying again...

{{{Ben Had}}}

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:48 PM (iZbyp)

170 My dogs have 60 acres to run on but they are on their own for that.
Run left my vocabulary at 65.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:48 PM (WbH4L)

171 There is no such thing as a "chick with dick", Thai ladyboys notwithstanding.

There are "guys with tiddies", but the key word is "guys". Women, they ain't.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September

I refuse to click on it to read the comments. I don’t want the x algorithm to keep sending me that stuff.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 08:49 PM (pZEOD)

172 have driven that in a 64 Valiant, a 70 Camarp, a72 Bonneville, an 86 Dodge pickup, and a Suzuki Samurai. The Samurai took the longest time, seemed like.
Posted by: Eromero
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I bet the Camaro was fun. I chitchatted with a couple from Minnesota today, they were in a nice 'vette.

Back in the day I would have been riding up there with the parents in a '73 Impala or '73 Buick Electra...

I think it was in West Virginia that I barfed in one of those cars.

But I like mountain driving. If I'm driving...

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 02, 2024 08:52 PM (iZbyp)

173
Another nut flying through a tunnel in mountain rock

https://youtu.be/yUYVd3bgGp4?feature=shared

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 02, 2024 08:53 PM (F7ri7)

174 I feel like such an amateur cat owner. I have two cats. I have three bowls of food throughout the house and I fill them when they're empty, but I have no idea who's eating when or where.

Posted by: Wenda at September 02, 2024 08:53 PM (VG+ie)

175 Thank you for the Instagram tags, Ace. It helps if you can't hover your cursor, as on tablets and such.

Posted by: GWB at September 02, 2024 08:54 PM (CrXxA)

176 They'll work it out, Wenda. I've had multiple cats before and done the same.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 02, 2024 08:55 PM (OX9vb)

177 Was it Memorial Day or Labor Day one year when all mayhem broke lose here at the HQ?
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Arbor Day is an occasion for all mayhem to break loose here at the HQ.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The tree punning gets so bad you'll want to drill a hole in your head.

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 08:57 PM (DgGvY)

178 149 Pete Seeger was always a Commie, but he was an excellent singer/songwriter and had a lot to do with the cleanup and rebound of the Hudson River. And was married to the same lady for 70 years.
Posted by: Turn, Turn, Turn...

And would have cheerfully sung a happy tune while his political enemies were marched off to their doom. His wife would make cookies to celebrate.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2024 08:59 PM (sAmhv)

179 Somehow in my x feed I got a post that says 98% of straight males refuse to give a bj to a female penis. The tag line is your sexual orientation may be transphobic.

I am going to go out on a limb and say 100% of straight males would refuse. The 2% from this survey weren’t straight.
Posted by: Piper

* nods *

I got news for them.

Posted by: Ice T. at September 02, 2024 08:59 PM (DgGvY)

180 I take mine to the lake almost every day. He doesn't swim but likes to sniff things. I let him go with the long lead attached. When he gets on a scent, he tends to keep going. He is getting a bit better at listening for me and coming back. But if it's hot out, I can't run him down, so he gets a shorter trip.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 09:01 PM (MpVUb)

181
The tree punning gets so bad you'll want to drill a hole in your head.
Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 08:57 PM (DgGvY)

_________

We need to eliminate tree punning root and branch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 09:01 PM (FLlbx)

182 For those running Win 10 or 11.

Download Win7 Classic Shell.

Will render your menus and graphics to about 98.5% of the look, feel and user knowledge of Win 7.

'Cause computer screens have no need to "look like" cel fone apps, which suck.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 02, 2024 09:03 PM (kQgoX)

183 MAGA Elvis @BenStanton77 4:09 PM · Sep 2, 2024
Lmfao the Wisconsin governor don't even know tampon Tim's real name. He keeps calling Tom 🤣💀

https://tinyurl.com/56xcanb9
10 seconds; does it twice without correcting himself.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:04 PM (CEzQx)

184
There's a shitload of mineral wealth out there, it's all locked up now. No can touch.

Supposebly, one of the more interesting historical mines was sniffed out on Air Force bombing range or somesuch. Chocolate mountains maybe?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 08:41 PM (GfEyD)

Estimates vary but the tailings in Virginia City/Gold Hill/Silver city contain as much if not more gold and silver than was mined in VC during the Comstock Load time. As little as 20% of the available ore was ever touched. There are 15,000 prospects around me.
That being said it now sits under a mountain of red tape by the Clinton designation as a "Nation Historic Site".
There are still old school mines active up there but only for tourists to be able to say they own some of the Comstock Load, which I do.
I was buying ounces in ingot form a lot for a while. There is also Comstock Mining but I'm not sure how they are doing these days.
VC is a weird place I would recommend everyone visit once. Once the richest place in the world. Now a barely functioning tourist destination. Old VC is gone, lot's of Calfagtardians reside there now. But you'll "get it" just walking around. I still love it.

Posted by: Reforger at September 02, 2024 09:04 PM (xcIvR)

185 Cat food is on the table at one end. There's water, a small bowl of dry food and a small bowl of wetfood. This is when Fanny likes to eat, and whatever she doesn't eat will get cleaned up by Troubles. He has dry food outside, which is feeding any other cat that stops by.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 02, 2024 09:05 PM (MpVUb)

186 86
Soyara's Fortunate Son.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 02, 2024 08:19 PM (FLlbx)

H7: This sounds like a winner to me!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 02, 2024 09:05 PM (hOUT3)

187 The same people who worked with China to engineer a manmade virus to kill millions of Americans, who prevented you from visiting your family in nursing homes, who permanently shuttered half of all small businesses while allowed international corporations to remain open, all for political gain on their way to stealing a federal election prior to jailing political prisoners indefinitely and then relentlessly pursuing the removed opposition candidate via lawfare and shooting him in the head

want to assure you that they're telling you the truth about Ukraine.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 09:07 PM (ChwNg)

188 187 The same people who worked with China to engineer a manmade virus to kill millions of Americans, who prevented you from visiting your family in nursing homes, who permanently shuttered half of all small businesses while allowed international corporations to remain open, all for political gain on their way to stealing a federal election prior to jailing political prisoners indefinitely and then relentlessly pursuing the removed opposition candidate via lawfare and shooting him in the head

want to assure you that they're telling you the truth about Ukraine.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Yes. (creepy smile)

Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood Globalist at September 02, 2024 09:08 PM (sAmhv)

189 JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974 1h
The guy who shot Ricky Pearsall was a 17-year-old Norteno gang member from Tracy, CA who was caught with a gun just three days ago and subsequently released...

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:09 PM (CEzQx)

190 If you don't take your dog to run around loose in the country, you are missing a treat and your dog is a prisoner.

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Never owned a beagle, eh?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie is a no-spat bullsh*tter who loves everyone at September 02, 2024 09:09 PM (ChwNg)

191 have driven that in a 64 Valiant, a 70 Camarp, a72 Bonneville, an 86 Dodge pickup, and a Suzuki Samurai. The Samurai took the longest time, seemed like.
Posted by: Eromero
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Yup, over the years I've ridden it on '72 CB750, '82 GPZ750, '85 GS750es, 2001 Sprint RS.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2024 09:10 PM (XeU6L)

192 The cats get wet food and the dogs wash the dishes for them.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:11 PM (WbH4L)

193 My dogs have 60 acres to run on but they are on their own for that.

Run left my vocabulary at 65.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 08:48 PM (WbH4L)

What breeds Ben? Heidi question.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 02, 2024 09:11 PM (SpgZO)

194 NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers 4h
Happy 60th birthday to Keanu Reeves.

He's 148 days younger than Tim Walz.

For real. Not kidding.

Catturd ™ @catturd2 4h
Wow. Tampon Tim looks 80.

Rational Pundit @Amaz1ngly 3h Replying to @NotKennyRogers
Tom Cruise is 2 yrs older than Tim Walz

Bailey @realsnoopbailey 2h Replying to @NotKennyRogers
I'm 8 years older than Tim Walz.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzezc2h
comparative photos

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:13 PM (CEzQx)

195 189 JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974 1h
The guy who shot Ricky Pearsall was a 17-year-old Norteno gang member from Tracy, CA who was caught with a gun just three days ago and subsequently released...
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:09 PM (CEzQx)

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Sometimes the Spark of the Divine can bite you in the ass.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 02, 2024 09:14 PM (jdHxK)

196 Oprah Winfrey is pushing sone bullshit interview about AI on ABC.

Haven't seen that commie bitch in a long time, and now she ruined my television viewing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 02, 2024 09:14 PM (ufFY8)

197 Cannibal Bob, an Ibizan Hound and a German Shepard. The most perfectly match dogs in size, temperament and play.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:14 PM (WbH4L)

198 dang. There's like 25 fires in Idaho.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 02, 2024 09:19 PM (IG4Id)

199 Haven't seen that commie bitch in a long time, and now she ruined my television viewing.
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Whenever my TV provider removes a channel from their listings even if it's not one I subscribed to in the first place, it appears in my Customized channel listing with its note that this channel is no longer being offered.

So I know Bell TV just killed the Oprah Winfrey Network channel!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:20 PM (CEzQx)

200 Cannibal Bob, an Ibizan Hound and a German Shepard. The most perfectly match dogs in size, temperament and play.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:14 PM (WbH4L)

Awesome. Looked up the Hound. Beautiful. They sound like characters! Smooth or wire haired?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 02, 2024 09:20 PM (SpgZO)

201 JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974 1h
The guy who shot Ricky Pearsall was a 17-year-old Norteno gang member from Tracy, CA who was caught with a gun just three days ago and subsequently released...
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:09 PM (CEzQx)

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Sometimes the Spark of the Divine can bite you in the ass.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

The hammer of the divine strikes the primer of the divine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at September 02, 2024 09:21 PM (L/fGl)

202 Feeding time for the cats, I talk to each one as I put the wet food down. I must sound demented.

Posted by: Kindltot

Not even a little bit. MegaRoy has now been so spoiled, that he won't eat unless Smash or I hold his plate of tuna broth laced with Metamucil ( don't judge me, he's old and is constipated like the rest of us 29 year old Morons ). He's developed a routine where he strolls around deciding where he want his food hand delivered now.

It's either that, or he doesn't get enough water and fiber which shuts his asshole down, then he cries because he's stopped up.

Sheesh. A post about my cat's bowels. I've stooped so low. I'm a trained monkey cat servant.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 09:22 PM (MsrgL)

203 The cats get wet food and the dogs wash the dishes for them.
Posted by: Ben Had

This is wisdom. Werner remembers fondly his Deutscher Schäferhund, Inspector Furry MacBarksalot. Ja, Deutscher Schäferhund. What, do you think we call them German Shepherds? This would provoke confusion and consternation, especially among Deutsch pastoralists. Werner needs not a shepherd's crook introduced to his cranium by an enraged herder of livestock. They are militant and prone to anger at the slightest of offenses, not unlike Spin City's Michael J. Fox. Do not get on that guy's radar, for there is no relenting until he has discharged his wrath.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 02, 2024 09:23 PM (tmPIh)

204 We did not have fences for dog till my lil sis got a dog in 75.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 02, 2024 09:25 PM (gbOdA)

205 Funny Facebook short

https://tinyurl.com/5a8954k8

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 02, 2024 09:25 PM (elaR+)

206 Cannibal Bob, Brody, the Ibizan Hound came out of the animal shelter here. I honestly think he was stolen and escaped. He has a tattoo that I have never been able to trace. The German Shepard is a 3 time re-homed guy until he got there. Both of these dogs were given to me by my dear friends. Brody is smooth coated.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:26 PM (WbH4L)

207 The tree punning gets so bad you'll want to drill a hole in your head.
Posted by: mikeski
_________
We need to eliminate tree punning root and branch.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That'll leaf a hole in the blog comments

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 09:26 PM (MsrgL)

208 Allie @Cluffalo 23h
The man who ran literal bikini competitions is not about to put women in hijabs please be serious right now

The Rebellious Mrs. G. 🇺🇲 💙 @13thchime1984 Sep 1
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Ladies, meet your new reality if Trump wins.
[photoshop of the Handmaid's Tale women in red dresses with the funny hats as Trump walks by and a Trump 2028 banner, above. No link to deny traffic.]

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:27 PM (CEzQx)

209 206 Cannibal Bob, Brody, the Ibizan Hound came out of the animal shelter here. I honestly think he was stolen and escaped. He has a tattoo that I have never been able to trace. The German Shepard is a 3 time re-homed guy until he got there. Both of these dogs were given to me by my dear friends. Brody is smooth coated.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:26 PM (WbH4L)

Bless you dear Ben. They must love you to death, as we do. Great story.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 02, 2024 09:28 PM (SpgZO)

210 https://tinyurl.com/yc336dwk
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 09:28 PM (fwDg9)

211 The shelter tagged the name Brody on this dog. He had no idea Brody meant him. Took him months to figure out I was calling him.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:30 PM (WbH4L)

212 Heh. Went to get a beer and the store clerk asked if I had quit smoking.
Asked her how she knew and she pointed to the big stack of my old brand behind the counter.
I consider that a victory.
Grand kids today noticed I cough less and don't smell like cigarettes too.

Damn, I might live to retirement.

Posted by: Reforger at September 02, 2024 09:30 PM (xcIvR)

213 I do need to look into that.
Posted by: Ben Had

It acts like a thumb drive, but a LOTTTTT slower. Still get the cool sounds as it's accessing the floppy. (I miss the old modem sounds btw).

You should still be able to get documents and pictures off of the old disks. If they are programs however, all bets are off because they might not be compatible with the newer windows. JPGs and docs, spreadsheets, text, etc...should be readable/salvagable.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 09:32 PM (NMT5x)

214 #20 remember, in space no one can hear you scream

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 09:32 PM (fwDg9)

215 Damn, I might live to retirement.

Posted by: Reforger at September 02, 2024 09:30 PM (xcIvR)

Good for you amigo. Not easy. Grand kids are a good reason to live...so is retirement. ;-)

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 02, 2024 09:32 PM (SpgZO)

216 haffhowershower, I still have dial-up!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:33 PM (WbH4L)

217 Heh. Went to get a beer and the store clerk asked if I had quit smoking.
Asked her how she knew and she pointed to the big stack of my old brand behind the counter.
I consider that a victory.
Grand kids today noticed I cough less and don't smell like cigarettes too.

Damn, I might live to retirement.

Posted by: Reforger

Congrats, bro!

Wanna help me do pmcs of hhc 5th corps' motor pool? Smash sez none of the duce and a halfs will run and some dumbass put diesel in hhc 6's jeep last night while on guard duty.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 09:33 PM (MsrgL)

218 Sheesh. A post about my cat's bowels. I've stooped so low. I'm a trained monkey cat servant.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Werner maintains that felines do not just require servants - they demand an entourage, and thus are we all enlisted. Ah, but their whimsy and antic japeries are irresistible cute, even to those of us who feel the Void always somewhere near us. If Werner is to be honest, however, the Void can be confused with sinus congestion. Or Wednesdays. Hump Day confronts us with the realization that the lingering Doom that holds us in thrall is but at a midpoint, and the full weight of the disaster is yet to unfold. That said, Werner is not immune to the TGIF sentiment. That, and the celebrated blooming onions of Outback Steakhouse.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 02, 2024 09:34 PM (tmPIh)

219 James Darren is mort. Gidget hardest hit.

https://tinyurl.com/ye9a3abx

Posted by: Archimedes at September 02, 2024 09:34 PM (xCA6C)

220 The guy who shot Ricky Pearsall was a 17-year-old Norteno gang member from Tracy, CA who was caught with a gun just three days ago and subsequently released...

There seems to be a pattern here, huh? Nah.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 09:34 PM (mH6SG)

221 Good evening, good people.May the day have been of great benefit to you and enormous consternation to the leftwits.

This weekend will feature the simplicity of cooking, as in burgers, hot dogs,and watermelon, potato and mac salads consumed in the company of great friends and family.

With a pause in the midst of the fun to reflect on our great good fortune to live in this place, the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary people governed by the most unique political system in history. It should be further noted that throughout our history we've met and prevailed over issues even more serious than the current one, with an unbroken record of success.

Remember that.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 02, 2024 09:35 PM (hKoQL)

222 Oprah Winfrey is pushing some bullshit interview about AI on ABC.
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It's her only hope.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2024 09:36 PM (XeU6L)

223 Wanna help me do pmcs of hhc 5th corps' motor pool? Smash sez none of the duce and a halfs will run and some dumbass put diesel in hhc 6's jeep last night while on guard duty.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 09:33 PM (MsrgL)

Umm.. Top says I have to be.. errr.. over there for a map reading class.

Posted by: Reforger at September 02, 2024 09:37 PM (xcIvR)

224 I want to thank you all for the laughs and wisdom shared on this very special site.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:39 PM (WbH4L)

225 Dialup! I did not know that was still an option! So you don't miss that sound, you still have it lol!

I had the slowest DSL a couple years ago and was happy with it for what I do, but when the damn lockdowns happened it was too much for a house full of people so I had to upgrade.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 09:39 PM (NMT5x)

226 Umm.. Top says I have to be.. errr.. over there for a map reading class.

Posted by: Reforger

For God's sake, don't let the 2nd LT have the map or the compass. Come on over to my office (the bowling alley) and let me give you the low down on which of the unit's warrant officers are untrustworthy fucks.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 02, 2024 09:39 PM (MsrgL)

227 Oprah has always been a BS pusher as far as I see.

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2024 09:40 PM (fwDg9)

228 James Darren is mort. Gidget hardest hit.

Posted by: Archimedes

Think he'll make a comeback as Vic Fontane?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 02, 2024 09:40 PM (WXNFJ)

229 Ahhh, kitties. Kovu, the monster sized Savannah just took the scenic route to his spot on the bed, climbing over J’s stomach and in front of his iPad with the dumb Italian movie, stopping to remind J he does not speak Italian, with all 20 pounds on J. Then up and around my head on my pillow, stopping to let me know my hair is wet, finally a big leap over my legs to his spot.

Posted by: Piper at September 02, 2024 09:41 PM (pZEOD)

230 https://tinyurl.com/bdzezc2h

comparative photos
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 09:13 PM (CEzQx)

There are some great comments in there!

"Sure… if you want to believe Waltz on his age.
It’d be the first thing on his resume that would be true"

"Horse semen is apparently not good for the skin"

"And Keanu has seen more combat than Walz"

hahahahahaha!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 09:42 PM (NMT5x)

231 Ha!

I remember a couple of the guys got into trouble at the motor pool. They had to take oil samples, about 25 of them or whatever. They decided, that it would do just as well to fill 25 little bottles or whatever it was, all from one crankcase. More convenient, you know.

Guess what? They really do test the oil, and apparently they were Not Amused.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 09:42 PM (VKqe+)

232 (I miss the old modem sounds btw).
Posted by: haffhowershower

https://youtu.be/Mq39mQXoGZc

And the song is pretty good, too.

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2024 09:43 PM (DgGvY)

233 *purchasing gallon milk jug of beer at the bowling alley.

You're late.

Posted by: Reforger at September 02, 2024 09:43 PM (xcIvR)

234 Oprah Winfrey is pushing some bullshit interview about AI on ABC.

Even Golden Corral is now onboard with AI.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 02, 2024 09:43 PM (mH6SG)

235 Clouds are gathering here. Getting right gloomy, and down here at ground level, not a breath of wind. Figure there will be an evening T-storm. Car windows are all rolled up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 09:45 PM (VJzi3)

236 This is a very special site. And a big thank you right back to you Ben Had.

From what I can see, it would be both an honor and a privilege to meet you. Maybe TxMoMe for the 10th anniversary.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 02, 2024 09:46 PM (NMT5x)

237 My room mate moonlit as a strip club bouncer. He was pretty rough looking, but could pull some tail, if you like that sort of thing. Proximity, as one learns, helps greatly.

Of course he was always dead tired during the day. He worked at the motor pool, and would go get a creeper crawler thing, and act like he was working on a truck, if anybody was walking by or whatever. Kind of wedge your arms up into something so they would hang there, and go to sleep. He said it worked pretty good, for quite a while. I think eventually they made him quit.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 02, 2024 09:47 PM (VKqe+)

238 I really did have a lot of fun in the Army.

Posted by: Reforger at September 02, 2024 09:48 PM (xcIvR)

239 Nooooooooood!

Posted by: tankdemon at September 02, 2024 09:49 PM (FpZ7Q)

240 haffhowershower, Deal!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 02, 2024 09:49 PM (WbH4L)

241 239 is a spammer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2024 09:51 PM (VJzi3)

242 The most dangerous person in the Army is a butterbar with a map and compass.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 02, 2024 09:53 PM (hKoQL)

243 #239 Thanks for the hit, MisHum or whoever.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 02, 2024 10:44 PM (CEzQx)

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