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Alex Dawson, Turkey

Happy Tuesday evening. The debate is on at 9pm Eastern, on Disney-owned ABC. CBS says it will also be simulcasting the debate, and Pluto will show it on their CBS News channel (In the News + Opinion menu).

I'll put up a debate thread at 8:45 Eastern.

Aw, poor old lizard is crusty.

Staged video, but cute enough. I like the bridge. Or what would you call that?

Dog doing his best to empty the pool for winter.

A triple-glitch in the Matrix.

Cute dog is a little clingy.

Family photo.

ICYMI: Real life Bambi and Thumper play date.

A big smile for you.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:07 PM




Comments

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1 First?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (zdLoL)

2
'Sup?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (xG4kz)

3 Did we see this thread before?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (WXNFJ)

4 I won't be watching the debate. These always make me nervous, and I doubt we can be so lucky as to have the Democrat self-destruct a second time.

Then again, I wasn't watching the June debate either, and that worked out pretty well. So maybe if I don't watch, we'll get a similar result?

Posted by: Dr. T at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (lHPJf)

5 I had a choice between being a baller and a gangsta, but settled for OFWG.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (cZPb7)

6
*bounds in*

I'm here!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (1Nxff)

7 That puppy in the bridge and ducks video is scary looking as hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (PDf99)

8 What is wrong with his FAAAAAACE!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (PDf99)

9 I like the deep sea diver dude at the bottom of the fish tank.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (Aqu9a)

10 I like the bridge. Or what would you call that?

Viaduct?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (PDf99)

11
Where will Red Kammie's emotional support Timpon be this evening? Crouching under her lectern?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (xG4kz)

12 Squirrel soccer: the next jai-alai. I've seen them play with branches like that too.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at September 10, 2024 07:11 PM (cZPb7)

13 As all wait for the showdown in Philly. Werner offers a brief vista into his past that may prove diverting

One asked who was John Galt. Who indeed. Werner could actually tell you the answer, but it would be violating the confidence shared with him by the pistoleer God-Empress Ayn Rand. Some here might remember my first meeting with the Objectivist scribe, but I have not yet related our second encounter. Unfortunately, she remembered Werner's phone number, and so was I contacted in the early morning hours at one of those times it is said nothing good can happen. This is foreshadowing, ja?

Groggy, I answered - Werner here, this had better be important or you shall answer to my aluminum bat. That familiar voice spoke up, with clicking noises in the background that I immediately recognized as the game of Russian Roulette that she regularly played against herself. Yo, blood, said Ayn, we goin' ridin', Word, I inquired. You think I'm stuttering, bitch? was the rejoinder. Be on the curb out front or Ayn may have to pop a cap. You feelin' me? Foh shizzle, I immediately siad, One does not refuse Frau Rand, especially if she knows where you live.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 07:12 PM (tmPIh)

14 Not watching the debate tonight. Don’t want to get all pissed off and punchy before bed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 10, 2024 07:12 PM (kq6q1)

15 Timeline for your timeline.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 10, 2024 07:12 PM (63Dwl)

16 That pic looks familiar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 10, 2024 07:12 PM (W/1m5)

17 The Columbo ep Bye bye Sky High IQ Club Murder is on Pluto now.

Posted by: Delta Pilot at September 10, 2024 07:12 PM (KRtlO)

18 a, okay. Soon I was gripping the God Bar in Ayn's Bentley as we roared through the streets of New York. By dint of long-term familiarity, most cops and civilians knew to avoid her. Two NYPD cruisers briefly attempted to chase her down, and her evasive driving left them crashed and scattered like something out of Grand Theft Auto. Ayn, I finally asked, what is our mission?

Light me, Playa, she said with her familiar menacing grin. Werner can only say that the tip of her cigarette holder did not hold a tobacco product. I complied, and she took a deep drag and said, Looters and Wreckers got to pay, and the Rand ain't gonna miss out on gettin' her Benjamins. It soon became apparent that we had launched upon a crime spree across the American Midwest. How this comported with her philosophy, just as the question of why we used the idiom reported here must, I fear, remain mysteries.

With the early morning Sun marking our way, Ayn's Bentley crashed through the foyer window of an otherwise peaceful Ohio Savings and Loan. Frau Rand climbed out and let off a burst of her Thompson submachine gun, shouting What up, bitches, gives Ayn her greenbacks. One more post, ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 07:12 PM (tmPIh)

19
Did we see this thread before?
Posted by: Tonypete

Do not make Ace angry.
You wouldn't like him when he's angry.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Axiosoothsayer now at September 10, 2024 07:12 PM (w6BAA)

20 Where will Red Kammie's emotional support Timpon be this evening? Crouching under her lectern?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (xG4kz)

What do you think this is? A Police Academy graduation with Steve Guttenberg?

Posted by: Tim Walz at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (Aqu9a)

21 >>>16 That pic looks familiar.

it's highly possible I already posted it then forgot I posted it.

Posted by: ace at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (KRtlO)

22 I like the bridge. Or what would you call that?

That's a "Haitian Smorgasbord."

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (zdLoL)

23 >>>Did we see this thread before?
Posted by: Tonypete
Do not make Ace angry.

I go hunting for these pics and save them, then I forget if I ever posted them or not.

Posted by: ace at September 10, 2024 07:14 PM (KRtlO)

24 That pic looks familiar.

it's highly possible I already posted it then forgot I posted it.
Posted by: ace

Just messing with you, boss.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 10, 2024 07:14 PM (W/1m5)

25 My function was to collect the proceeds of Ayn's strong-arm robberies, and I acted as required. One day bled into the next, and the great American Midwest became the domains of Empress Rand. I am not being poetic, she literally required she be addressed in that fashion. For reasons unclear to Werner, at many points I heard the rousing blue grass strains of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. The police were hapless as well as helpless, and an attempt to lure us into an ambush similar to that in the Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway movie whose title and subject escapes Werner resulted in a high-speed ramming and a laughing Eat my dust, Fuzz!

It was memorable, and Ayn demanded that we get a second set of matching tattoos. Finally, when virtually no bank retained any of its currency, the tour came to an end. Because it was Frau Rand, there were no BOLOs, and the FBI noped out of things. She dropped me outside my humble home in NYC and tossed me a few sheafs of dollars, saying Yo, Playa, buy youself sumpin' pretty. Don't say Ayn never give you nuttin, Shorty/ Why am I talking like this? Like I know? I told her. Anyways Ayn, you got the juice now. Bye, fool, said she and she was gone.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 07:14 PM (tmPIh)

26 "I like the bridge. Or what would you call that?"

Deathtrap.

Love the dog videos!

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at September 10, 2024 07:15 PM (cZPb7)

27 I like the bridge. Or what would you call that?

That's a "Haitian Smorgasbord."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (zdLoL)


Hold the duck and you could also call it an Obama Appetizer.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 10, 2024 07:16 PM (lHPJf)

28 >>> Then again, I wasn't watching the June debate either, and that worked out pretty well. So maybe if I don't watch, we'll get a similar result?
Posted by: Dr. T at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (lHPJf)

I'm doing the fan superstition thing too, ha. I wasn't able to watch the Biden debate when it started, checked in later, saw he had some big gaffes, got optimistic, and THEN watched it. Going to do the same tonight.

If her handlers can't keep her away from the box wine and weed tonight before it happens, it's gonna hopefully be hilarious. And I still want him to come out holding a cat!

Posted by: LizLem at September 10, 2024 07:16 PM (Eng1Z)

29 Kamala Finally Chokes

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at September 10, 2024 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

30 So is it that Werner has the odd bit of PTSD, and for the sake of prudence, does not visit the Midwest. The nightmares continue still. If only Werner could say that this was his last interaction with Ayn Rand, but that was not to be. On the film set for Fitzcarraldo, I had lapsed into slumber, partly due to the heat and partly from the litany of Kinski bitching about someone needing to free him from the anaconda. A few forceful nudges and a slap to the face roused me to see her familiar visage looming above me. "Sup, Empress, I asked. With that smile that all sensible beings knew was a signal to make a run for it (even Klaus's anaconda was frightened away), she answered Shorty, there's this Mengele bastard in Argentina that has a date with Ayn's Gurkha Kukri, and then we gon' to Bolivia cos the Pinkertons lookin' for us Stateside. This was followed by another ringing pimp slap and a brief kiss on the nose. In a state of near-complete terror, I followed after her. Kinski wept and demanded that I remain. Be of good cheer, stripling, I told him. Papa got to go to work. Two months later would find us holed up in a cantina, facing the Bolivian Army. Ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 07:18 PM (tmPIh)

31 Why watch the debate? All the articles about how great Kamala was are already written.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 10, 2024 07:18 PM (kq6q1)

32 I'm going to listen to it on the radio.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2024 07:18 PM (I1GXe)

33 Anybody got a spare $100 million they can let me hold for them?

Posted by: P. Diddy at September 10, 2024 07:20 PM (Aqu9a)

34 it's highly possible I already posted it then forgot I posted it.
Posted by: ace at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (KRtlO)

It is a really big turkey, though

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 07:20 PM (D7oie)

35 Saw a bag of frozen organic, non-GMO peas today. It's marketing slogan was "Taste the Peaness".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 10, 2024 07:20 PM (a3Q+t)

36 Border collies are so darn smart. I hope nobody ever teaches them to start fires.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at September 10, 2024 07:21 PM (cZPb7)

37 Apparently, dogs on one wheels is a thing.

https://is.gd/kCM155

https://is.gd/dokLL8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 10, 2024 07:21 PM (L/fGl)

38 So, Werner, how was Ayn? Does she go? Wink wink, nudge nudge?

Posted by: fd at September 10, 2024 07:21 PM (vFG9F)

39 Trump should walk out and stand behind Kamala's teeny-tiny lectern and say Oops and go on to his own.

Posted by: Wenda at September 10, 2024 07:21 PM (zPvK7)

40 it's highly possible I already posted it then forgot I posted it.
Posted by: ace at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM

Doesn't matter. It's a nice picture, and we luv ya, Ace, even if your fur is patchy right now.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 10, 2024 07:22 PM (a3Q+t)

41 @32 Aha, the old Nixon ploy!

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:22 PM (zdLoL)

42 That's some nice dark fur on that squirrel.

I saw a squirrel the other day that had white patches on its feet and legs. Not a usual sight.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 10, 2024 07:23 PM (hB7mE)

43 Baby walrus needs a lot of attention.

https://is.gd/FWAbyy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 10, 2024 07:23 PM (L/fGl)

44 >>Why watch the debate? All the articles about how great Kamala was are already written.

That strategy didn't work out very well for Joe.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 10, 2024 07:23 PM (LkLld)

45 I don't see any way that this "debate" doesn't put PDT a few points further up, lol.
looking forward to hearing it reported here

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 10, 2024 07:24 PM (UWgy2)

46 Heya Ben Had.

Sent you an email.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at September 10, 2024 07:24 PM (RU4sa)

47 Not watching the debate tonight. Don’t want to get all pissed off and punchy before bed.

I'm just gonna observe the smart military blog commentary here.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 10, 2024 07:24 PM (mH6SG)

48 You notice the collie didn’t turn his head. He knew the ball is still over by the guy.

Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 07:24 PM (QzINz)

49 4 I won't be watching the debate. These always make me nervous, and I doubt we can be so lucky as to have the Democrat self-destruct a second time.

Then again, I wasn't watching the June debate either, and that worked out pretty well. So maybe if I don't watch, we'll get a similar result?

Posted by: Dr. T at September 10, 2024 07:09 PM (lHPJf)
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You sound like Skip and Falcon 9 launches. If he doesn't watch then they go off without a glitch. BTW there's one tomorrow.

Posted by: Ciampino - L'uccello del mal'augurio at September 10, 2024 07:25 PM (qfLjt)

50 I'm watching for the spectacle.

You want a circus
You'd settle for bread
You get a "debate"

Posted by: fd at September 10, 2024 07:26 PM (vFG9F)

51 Im surprised we didn't get a post on the revelation of how Kamala got Chenny's support, by getting Biden to admit he did 9/11

Posted by: Rbastid at September 10, 2024 07:26 PM (7s5Sb)

52 Thus it is for this and other hijinks that Werner is known as "The Boy Who Lived." That Radcliffe gnome ain't got nothing on the Werner. Of Ayn's vendetta with Howard Cosell and her assault on the Federal Reserve system, her epic fist-fight with Gene Simmons, all these recommend their accounting, but that, as Mako said at the end of the Conan movie, is a story for another time. Ja, that.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 07:26 PM (tmPIh)

53 Pigs in space > Dogs on wheels

Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2024 07:26 PM (KAi1n)

54 There’s still time for a covid diagnosis for Kammy.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 10, 2024 07:26 PM (u73oe)

55 34 it's highly possible I already posted it then forgot I posted it.
Posted by: ace at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (KRtlO)

It is a really big turkey, though
Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 07:20 PM (D7oie)

Think of the size of the baster.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:27 PM (PDf99)

56 SMH, Hugs to you both. I received it and will answer in just a bit.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2024 07:27 PM (I1GXe)

57 53 Pigs in space > Dogs on wheels
Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2024 07:26 PM (KAi1n)

Dogs playing poker >> Pigs in Space > Dogs on wheels

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:27 PM (PDf99)

58 it's highly possible I already posted it then forgot I posted it.
Posted by: ace

That's the spirit! Be unburdened by what was.

Posted by: Que mala Harris at September 10, 2024 07:27 PM (gf6mn)

59
The president is even posting the cats & ducks meme on his instagram. Really.

https://is.gd/svBj26

Posted by: Soothsayer is Axiosoothsayer now at September 10, 2024 07:28 PM (w6BAA)

60 We have cats that hunt flies and moths that get into the house.

Unsurprisingly, it is the rescues (that have lived rough) that are by far the most deadly! I am perfectly happy to have them do a little work around the house.

Daughter #2 currently has seven rescue cats. She gets one or two cicadas in the house every year. She says the same cat is the one to capture it EVERY time!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:28 PM (Q4Dc6)

61 It looks like a bridge Ace, you can see water under it near the end. Looks like rocky soil and they built up the two fields up and made the stone footbridge between them to go back and forth. I've seen similar bridges in the US, but there you use wood most of the time for it. at least the top part.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:28 PM (n7h9X)

62 58 Ha!

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at September 10, 2024 07:28 PM (cZPb7)

63 We interrupt this Cafe Thread for an important Sunday Morning Book Thread update:

I'm now just over 50% of the way through my current doorstopper. Only 608 pages to go!

What am I reading? Well, you'll have to wait until Sunday to find out...

Now back to your usual Cafe and pre-debate Thread shenanigan....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 10, 2024 07:29 PM (BpYfr)

64 58 it's highly possible I already posted it then forgot I posted it.
Posted by: ace

That's the spirit! Be unburdened by what was.
Posted by: Que mala Harris at September 10, 2024 07:27 PM (gf6mn)

Forget the past- kill it if you have to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:29 PM (PDf99)

65 That's a "Haitian Smorgasbord."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (zdLoL)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 07:29 PM (OX9vb)

66 The tennis ball guy does have smart dogs.

After the ball did not land where it was supposed to, several of the dogs started searching for the ball. Good doggies!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (Q4Dc6)

67 The president is even posting the cats & ducks meme on his instagram. Really.

https://is.gd/svBj26


==


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (V13WU)

68 I'm now just over 50% of the way through my current doorstopper. Only 608 pages to go!

What am I reading? Well, you'll have to wait until Sunday to find out...

Now back to your usual Cafe and pre-debate Thread shenanigan....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 10, 2024 07:29 PM (BpYfr)

Mirror of Her Dreams by Donaldson (in hardcover) is probably the physically largest book I ever read.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (PDf99)

69 We have cats that hunt flies and moths that get into the house.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:28 PM (Q4Dc6)
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My cats are useless for chasing and catching houseflies. Oh, they sort of try, but not that hard.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (BpYfr)

70 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (V13WU)

71 Aetius, hahahaha.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (I1GXe)

72 Daughter #2 currently has seven rescue cats. She gets one or two cicadas in the house every year. She says the same cat is the one to capture it EVERY time!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:28 PM (Q4Dc6)

yes, I have had only one hunter at a time in housecat households. These tend to be very quick when they get a chance and the milder ones just watch and help. Cicadas are a macho kill -- they are so noisy a lot of cats let them go.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:31 PM (n7h9X)

73 Or wait, it was the sequel. A Man Rides Through.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:31 PM (PDf99)

74 😂😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2024 07:31 PM (V13WU)

75 *wipes tears away

Posted by: runner at September 10, 2024 07:32 PM (V13WU)

76 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 07:32 PM (fwDg9)

77 It's official.
The Geezer Golf guys are 82% in favor of President Trump and 97% in favor of alcohol on the front nine.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:33 PM (W/lyH)

78 I could swear that the three cats blinked at the same instant.

Posted by: javems at September 10, 2024 07:33 PM (8I4hW)

79 Hi, Skip.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2024 07:33 PM (I1GXe)

80 Kamala will have a miniature podium — to make her look bigger.

Stonehenge Spinal Tap Elevs WTF

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 10, 2024 07:33 PM (gbOdA)

81 78 I could swear that the three cats blinked at the same instant.
Posted by: javems at September 10, 2024 07:33 PM (8I4hW)

They did. I am not sure this video was not altered.

ace got taken- like that boiling sugar(?) vid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:34 PM (PDf99)

82 Franco: And now my ace friend, the first-a rule of Italian blogging.
[Franco rips off his rear-view mirror and list of previous pics posted and throws them out of the car]
Franco: What's-a behind me is not important.

Posted by: The Gumball Rally at September 10, 2024 07:34 PM (Aqu9a)

83 I started wondering what some people that purport to be for animals, nominally their ethical treatment, have to say about all the animal munching by our invaders in Ohio.

Have the People for Electing Trotskyite Aholes chimed in about this, or no? This seems kinda right up their alley. They seem awfully quiet though. hmmmm.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2024 07:34 PM (Y6IkP)

84 36 Border collies are so darn smart. I hope nobody ever teaches them to start fires.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at September 10, 2024 07:21 PM

If it was possible to herd a forest fire into submission, I am pretty sure they could be trained to do it.

I really liked the collie video a while back where all of the lambs came racing around the corner of the barn, only to encounter the dog just sitting there.

The lambs all stopped, and then ran back the other way. The dog never moved. That is TRUE power.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (Q4Dc6)

85 Harris spokesman Michael Tyler REFUSES to walk back Kamala's support for decriminalizing fentanyl and taxpayer-funded transition surgeries of illegal immigrants

How can you cut off their balls
If you dont have any illegal drugs

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (gbOdA)

86 That's a "Haitian Smorgasbord."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (zdLoL)

You know ... I feel the same way about this as I do about Cops shooting Dogs.

I'll shoot somebody over one of my dogs, in the right circumstance. I like those two dogs more than most people. They stay in my fence or on a leash. Neither of them are a threat to anyone, either by size or temper.

Shoot them or try to eat them. Watch what happens next.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (9e9CS)

87 Now back to your usual Cafe and pre-debate Thread shenanigan....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 10, 2024 07:29 PM (BpYfr)

I expect to see a picture of the kitties in the library with Trump hair (didn't have a chance to say it in the last thread).

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (OX9vb)

88 I thought squirrels played with their nuts??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (CEzQx)

89 Mirror of Her Dreams by Donaldson (in hardcover) is probably the physically largest book I ever read.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (PDf99)

I have the single volume version of LOTR in hardback. That's a thick one. Probably not the longest, I have a bunch of detailed WWII histories by Glantz in there that are pretty thick.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM (n7h9X)

90 I want to find old test patterns to watch instead of the ****ing debate. The last one I wanted to watch had Reagan in it.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM (1bNHn)

91 Pillage Idiot, did you ever find a dog for your wife?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM (I1GXe)

92 [Rafiki hits Simba-ace on the head with his stick]
Simba-ace: Ow! Jeez! What was that for?
Rafiki: It doesn't matter. It's in the past. [laughs]

Posted by: The Lion King at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM (Aqu9a)

93 Mirror of Her Dreams by Donaldson (in hardcover) is probably the physically largest book I ever read.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

That's a pamphlet compared to Billy Jeff Clinton's Stage Bible.

Posted by: Beacon of Hope at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM (CV8a5)

94 I saw a squirrel the other day that had white patches on its feet and legs. Not a usual sight.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 10, 2024 07:23 PM

I have squirrels like that on my farm. They also have white stripes along their back.

Very stinky for just an acorn diet!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:37 PM (Q4Dc6)

95 Border collies are so darn smart. I hope nobody ever teaches them to start fires.


Pppfffftttt!
*looks at hand*
Ha! Opposable thumbs!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:37 PM (W/lyH)

96 Pillage Idiot, did you ever find a dog for your wife?
Posted by: Ben Had

That would be a hell of a trade.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 10, 2024 07:37 PM (WXNFJ)

97 Now back to your usual Cafe and pre-debate Thread shenanigan....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 10, 2024 07:29 PM (BpYfr)

I expect to see a picture of the kitties in the library with Trump hair (didn't have a chance to say it in the last thread).
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (OX9vb)

Google "Donald Trump Hair Cat" select images and theres a lot of them

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:38 PM (n7h9X)

98 I expect to see a picture of the kitties in the library with Trump hair (didn't have a chance to say it in the last thread).
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (OX9vb)
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Hmmm...There's an interesting idea...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 10, 2024 07:39 PM (BpYfr)

99 I have the single volume version of LOTR in hardback. That's a thick one. Probably not the longest, I have a bunch of detailed WWII histories by Glantz in there that are pretty thick.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM (n7h9X)

I had the Centenary Version of LotR (beautiful book, heavy, nice paper, beautiful dust cover.) Got damaged in the apartment fire 20 some odd years ago. Still kept it. Of all the books that got damaged, that is the one I regret the most.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:39 PM (PDf99)

100 Kamala Harris' new climate director said she is hesitant to have children because of climate change threats

Pale white girl prolly could not handle real mams sperm.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 10, 2024 07:39 PM (gbOdA)

101 Don't have to get up early but not staying up for tje debate.

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 07:39 PM (fwDg9)

102 I thought squirrels played with their nuts??
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM (CEzQx)


Sigh...
It's been a long time since I got Mrs.D.to play squirrel...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:40 PM (W/lyH)

103 Wait, I have an old school Webster's Dictionary that is gigantic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:40 PM (PDf99)

104 I am always intrigued by events that go viral. This cat/duck thing in Ohio couldn't have come at a better time.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 10, 2024 07:40 PM (WXNFJ)

105 65 That's a "Haitian Smorgasbord."
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Breaking911 @Breaking911 20h
😻 Does anyone know what this woman is cooking on a NYC street?

https://tinyurl.com/mr836xnb
16 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:41 PM (CEzQx)

106 Why am I watching Nebraska beat Colorado? Because my dad rooted for New Braska and I find it pleasing to see Prime Time lose.

Posted by: Accomack at September 10, 2024 07:41 PM (JY+81)

107 Mirror of Her Dreams by Donaldson (in hardcover) is probably the physically largest book I ever read.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (PDf99)

I did not like this book. I could credit the protagonist's hangups in Lord Foul's Bane et al, Donaldson sold it to me but I could not accept the Mirror gal's "thing".

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:41 PM (n7h9X)

108 Breaking911 @Breaking911 6m
MSNBC: Kamala didn’t do any debate prep today and is “chilling.”
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Of course you chill wine-coolers!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:42 PM (CEzQx)

109 Cicadas are a macho kill -- they are so noisy a lot of cats let them go.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:31 PM

My daughter said the exact same thing. She didn't even know the last one was in the house until she heard the death creeeeee and got startled.

Her "hunter" was undeterred. Well earned extra skritches!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:42 PM (Q4Dc6)

110 I did not like this book. I could credit the protagonist's hangups in Lord Foul's Bane et al, Donaldson sold it to me but I could not accept the Mirror gal's "thing".
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:41 PM (n7h9X)

His protagonists are almost always... weird/seriously fucked up. It was the Gap series that finally drove me off the Donaldson fan bus though. Dear Lord, the only book I could not even skim through. I HATED it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:42 PM (PDf99)

111 I have the single volume version of LOTR in hardback.

Mine broke ... along the spine ... upon the Nth reading when I used it to get Boy to start really reading. It was worth it ... but I'd like to get another if I could.

I've got a little bookshelf in my basement of my own canon. That one is on it.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:42 PM (9e9CS)

112 91 Pillage Idiot, did you ever find a dog for your wife?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM (I1GXe)

Obama steps of Marine 1 with pig from state fair
Marine Nice pig Mr President
I got him for Michelle
Good Trade Sire

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (gbOdA)

113 9 I like the deep sea diver dude at the bottom of the fish tank.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (Aqu9a)
----
My usual 'observant self' missed that - where are you looking?

Posted by: Ciampino -If it isn't in a RB flask it didn't happen at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (qfLjt)

114 Wait, I have an old school Webster's Dictionary that is gigantic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:40 PM (PDf99)

I have a who's who book on Greece and Rome that's pretty thick too. My Civil War Day by Day is smaller, thin paper.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (n7h9X)

115 That top picture is beautiful, although it reminds me of underwater statuary, which is oddly terrifying.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (efuu+)

116 Have the People for Electing Trotskyite Aholes chimed in about this, or no? This seems kinda right up their alley. They seem awfully quiet though. hmmmm.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 10, 2024 07:34 PM (Y6IkP)

They are all going with "this is a racist lie, racist haterz!!!!"

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (OX9vb)

117 66 The tennis ball guy does have smart dogs.

After the ball did not land where it was supposed to, several of the dogs started searching for the ball. Good doggies!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (Q4Dc6)

Golden in the back wasn't fooled.

Posted by: javems at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (8I4hW)

118 So, Werner, how was Ayn? Does she go? Wink wink, nudge nudge?
Posted by: fd

Is she a goer, do you ask? A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat, ja? Ach, Ayn Rand is a force of nature, like a tsunami or an EF 7 tornado. Flowers wilt and die in her presence, and she considers Russian Roulette a parlor game. Once Ayn has set her mind on something, all gives way to her. Kim Il Sung's death was at her hands, and at least one Pope met his demise from an encounter with Frau Rand. If you ask if she and I ever...well, Werner is a gentleman, and, more significantly, he has only recently become free from the PTSD and the crying jags are not something he should wise to revisit.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (tmPIh)

119 Does anyone know what this woman is cooking on a NYC street?

https://tinyurl.com/mr836xnb
16 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:41 PM (CEzQx)


Fluffy! Fluffy!!!
Here Fluffy!
Has anyone seen Fluffy?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (W/lyH)

120 There was a news story about a Karen complaining that her Chinese neighbor was drying salted fish on a clothes line.

Posted by: Accomack at September 10, 2024 07:44 PM (JY+81)

121 I have a who's who book on Greece and Rome that's pretty thick too. My Civil War Day by Day is smaller, thin paper.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (n7h9X)

I have 1400 days(?) came out about the same time as the first gulf war for the Civil War. Largish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:44 PM (PDf99)

122 I was waiting for the ducklings to launch into the creek... I really wanted to see that puppy fly!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 10, 2024 07:44 PM (jP4Fm)

123
Trump has the cat and goose vote locked up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (1Nxff)

124 I have the single volume version of LOTR in hardback.

Mine broke ... along the spine ... upon the Nth reading when I used it to get Boy to start really reading. It was worth it ... but I'd like to get another if I could.

I've got a little bookshelf in my basement of my own canon. That one is on it.
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:42 PM (9e9CS)

well there's a paperback version for 15 bucks on EBay

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (n7h9X)

125 Breaking911 @Breaking911
MAGA TROLLING! Trump posted this on his Truth Social before.

https://tinyurl.com/ykau67m8
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (CEzQx)

126 If Trump brings up Haitians eating cats tonight, I expect the Corrupt Media Moderators will promptly "fact check" him and say there is "no evidence" of that and "we have to move on."

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (qUkBO)

127 Some of the Erikson books are also quite thick in paperback.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (PDf99)

128 How can you cut off their balls
If you dont have any illegal drugs

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 10, 2024 07:35 PM

I am perfectly fine to have government funding used for the purpose of cutting off the balls of illegal immigrants carrying drugs.

Of course, my funding is only for NON transgenders.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (Q4Dc6)

129 119
Fluffy! Fluffy!!!
Here Fluffy!
Has anyone seen Fluffy?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (W/lyH)

I will not look. If that is a cat, I will cry. Not even remotely kidding. And then yall should feel ashamed for making me cry.

Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (QzINz)

130 Once Ayn has set her mind on something, all gives way to her. Kim Il Sung's death was at her hands, and at least one Pope met his demise from an encounter with Frau Rand. If you ask if she and I ever...well, Werner is a gentleman, and, more significantly, he has only recently become free from the PTSD and the crying jags are not something he should wise to revisit.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (tmPIh)


So...as this is Oktoberfest season, how many biers can Ayn hoist at one time?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:46 PM (W/lyH)

131 Mirror of Her Dreams by Donaldson (in hardcover) is probably the physically largest book I ever read.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:30 PM (PDf99)

Hugh Cook wrote some truly thick books.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 07:46 PM (D7oie)

132 There was a news story about a Karen complaining that her Chinese neighbor was drying salted fish on a clothes line.

They're really big on diversity. They really are. As long as it's restricted to restaurants and well-behaved cheap personal staff.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:46 PM (9e9CS)

133 I will not look. If that is a cat, I will cry. Not even remotely kidding. And then yall should feel ashamed for making me cry.
Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (QzINz)

I sense a woman trap. Back away guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:46 PM (PDf99)

134 That bulldog video reminded me:

5 ant rent an apartment and share it with another 5 ants.
Now there are tenants.

Posted by: Ciampino -If it isn't in a RB flask it didn't happen! at September 10, 2024 07:46 PM (qfLjt)

135 Does anyone know what this woman is cooking on a NYC street?

https://tinyurl.com/mr836xnb
16 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:41 PM (CEzQx)

Not sure, but not cats. Legs are too short. Probably rats, or hamsters. Hampsters. Can you get cuy in NYC?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 07:46 PM (OX9vb)

136 I suspect that woman is 'spitting' guinea pigs. They're well-liked in parts of South America. Anyone?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:47 PM (zdLoL)

137 Cat or guinea pig, cook looked mamasita gigante

Posted by: Accomack at September 10, 2024 07:47 PM (JY+81)

138 >> In a state of near-complete terror, I followed after her. Kinski wept and demanded that I remain. Be of good cheer, stripling, I told him. Papa got to go to work. Two months later would find us holed up in a cantina, facing the Bolivian Army. Ach.
——-
I always wondered how the script for Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid originated.

Posted by: electronic means at September 10, 2024 07:47 PM (yAL3Q)

139 134
5 ants rent ......

Posted by: Ciampino -If it isn't in a Quickfit RB flask it didn't happen! at September 10, 2024 07:47 PM (qfLjt)

140 I have the single volume version of LOTR in hardback.

Mine broke ... along the spine ... upon the Nth reading when I used it to get Boy to start really reading. It was worth it ... but I'd like to get another if I could.

I've got a little bookshelf in my basement of my own canon. That one is on it.
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:42 PM (9e9CS)

well there's a paperback version for 15 bucks on EBay
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (n7h9X)

There's the red one from 1974 I have on Amazon for 80 dollars.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:47 PM (n7h9X)

141 125 Breaking911 @Breaking911
MAGA TROLLING! Trump posted this on his Truth Social before.

https://tinyurl.com/ykau67m8
________

How long before someone on MSNBC states that owning a cat is now "white supremacy"?

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at September 10, 2024 07:48 PM (qUkBO)

142 All the debate rules. Harris won’t get a box.

Wait wut

She has a half black box

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 10, 2024 07:48 PM (gbOdA)

143 For the #33 curious:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 38m
BREAKING: Diddy ordered to pay Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, a 51-year-old inmate in Michigan, $100 Million after he claimed the music mogul drugged and sexually assaulted him at a party in 1997

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:48 PM (CEzQx)

144 9 I like the deep sea diver dude at the bottom of the fish tank.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 10, 2024 07:10 PM (Aqu9a)
----
My usual 'observant self' missed that - where are you looking?
Posted by: Ciampino -If it isn't in a RB flask it didn't happen at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (qfLjt)

That top picture.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 10, 2024 07:49 PM (Aqu9a)

145 91 Pillage Idiot, did you ever find a dog for your wife?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 10, 2024 07:36 PM

No, that was a "future" project.

We had a pair of litter mates for 15 years and finally lost the female. My male was depressed(?) for about 3 weeks. I thought we would lose him soon.

He is doing better lately. Has he finally realized his sister is never coming back?

Youngest daughter is also taking him for a walk in the park every single evening. That is helping both of them be healthier and happier!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:50 PM (Q4Dc6)

146 well there's a paperback version for 15 bucks on EBay

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM (n7h9X)

I'll probably hold out for another hardback ... just because of how big that book is.

But there are "paperbacks" in my canon. At least, the ones with the thicker plastic covers. Sklansky - On Poker is one. As well as a Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. And a copy of Capitalism and Freedom. Starship Troopers ? Just a paperback.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:50 PM (9e9CS)

147 I have the single volume version of LOTR in hardback.


I have tried three times over the years to read.LOTR.
Never got past page 107.
Just can't do it.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:50 PM (W/lyH)

148 >> BTW there's one tomorrow.

The Rooskies are gonna launch a Soyuz to the ISS around noon EDT tomorrow. A NASA astronaut will be on board.

I'm wondering how this works. Russia is the enemy, and yet we're still colluding with them for ISS operations. The Falcon Crew Dragon launching on the 24th will be carrying a Rooskie as well.

NASA is colluding with the Evil Russia!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 07:51 PM (w6EFb)

149 96 Pillage Idiot, did you ever find a dog for your wife?
Posted by: Ben Had

That would be a hell of a trade.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 10, 2024 07:37 PM

Good one! I am going to tell her you said that when I go in for dinner.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:51 PM (Q4Dc6)

150 Sorry, I didn't mean to trigger you Vern, but take heart, your teutonic trauma is what makes the muse hawk tuah on that thang.

Posted by: fd at September 10, 2024 07:52 PM (vFG9F)

151 I have a who's who book on Greece and Rome that's pretty thick too. My Civil War Day by Day is smaller, thin paper.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (n7h9X)

I have 1400 days(?) came out about the same time as the first gulf war for the Civil War. Largish.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:44 PM (PDf99)

Mine is the EB Long book, probably came out for the Centennial.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:52 PM (n7h9X)

152 That would be a hell of a trade.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 10, 2024 07:37 PM

Good one! I am going to tell her you said that when I go in for dinner.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:51 PM (Q4Dc6)

ROFL!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 07:52 PM (aPY1X)

153 I have tried three times over the years to read.LOTR.
Never got past page 107.
Just can't do it.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:50 PM (W/lyH)

If it helps the early bits are drier than the later stuff. Pretty much until they get to Rivendell is a bit of a slog in print. Why the movies cut out so much of Tom Bombadil and Barrow Downs and so forth.

Jordan recreated it a bit in Eye of the World and even said that was what he was doing. Yep, still boring.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:52 PM (PDf99)

154 Pillage Idiot, did you ever find a dog for your wife?
Posted by: Ben Had

That would be a hell of a trade.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 10, 2024 07:37 PM
***

Agreed
What kind of dog?
Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:53 PM (W/lyH)

155 I have a who's who book on Greece and Rome that's pretty thick too. My Civil War Day by Day is smaller, thin paper.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:43 PM (n7h9X)

I have 1400 days(?) came out about the same time as the first gulf war for the Civil War. Largish.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:44 PM (PDf99)

Mine is the EB Long book, probably came out for the Centennial.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:52 PM (n7h9X)

This might be close - I have the hardback of the Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party. That's a bigun.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:54 PM (n7h9X)

156 >>in the Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway movie whose title and subject escapes Werner resulted in a high-speed ramming
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What remains more remarkable is the plot of a film starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal wherein the deliberate demolition of a housing project becomes a romantic gesture between the two protagonists. Yes, Aguirre, the Wrath of God has its moments of bombast, but has Herzog even approached the surreal intensity of this twist?

Posted by: electronic means at September 10, 2024 07:54 PM (yAL3Q)

157 Agreed
What kind of dog?
Asking for a friend...
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:53 PM (W/lyH)

What kind of wife?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 07:54 PM (aPY1X)

158 I have tried three times over the years to read.LOTR.
Never got past page 107.
Just can't do it.
-

If it helps the early bits are drier than the later stuff. Pretty much until they get to Rivendell is a bit of a slog in print...

-

That could be a good way to get into it. I assume everyone has seen the movie, so jumping in after 150 pages or so could probably easy to catch up / blend into.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 07:54 PM (7h9jE)

159 This might be close - I have the hardback of the Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party. That's a bigun.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ... Shirer ... is in my canon. As is a Bible. And I'm not religious. But I figure they'll be illegal sooner rather than later.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:55 PM (9e9CS)

160 I have tried three times over the years to read.LOTR.
Never got past page 107.
Just can't do it.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:50 PM (W/lyH)


Try an audio book, they are almost free. Then you can listen as you hike or something. I've done 30 hour books that way.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:56 PM (n7h9X)

161 Agreed
What kind of dog?
Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:53 PM

I think "What kind of wife?" is the more relevant question.

A lot more variance there than on dogs!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 07:56 PM (Q4Dc6)

162 Someone wants Adams out of the way:
https://tinyurl.com/4dcbz2ws

Posted by: Accomack at September 10, 2024 07:56 PM (oERdd)

163 158 I have tried three times over the years to read.LOTR.
Never got past page 107.
Just can't do it.
-

If it helps the early bits are drier than the later stuff. Pretty much until they get to Rivendell is a bit of a slog in print...

-

That could be a good way to get into it. I assume everyone has seen the movie, so jumping in after 150 pages or so could probably easy to catch up / blend into.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 07:54 PM (7h9jE)
I took up your slack, friend. Probably read it 4 times, it’s a fast read.

Posted by: Eromero at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (Nq2KV)

164 This might be close - I have the hardback of the Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party. That's a bigun.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:54 PM (n7h9X)

I'll have to check when I get home. The Webster's for the non-fiction and I would still say A Man Rides Through for the Fiction.

The problem is type size and Cosby margins can muddy the waters a bit. Conquest's The Great Terror is big, but he also has smallish type and restrained margins.

THAT is one I have been trying to slog through for about 20 years. I try again every five years or so, but feel like I have to start over at the beginning. Plus, the names make you really want flash cards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (PDf99)

165 I will not look. If that is a cat, I will cry. Not even remotely kidding. And then yall should feel ashamed for making me cry.
Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 07:45 PM

You are stronk and empowered! Instead of crying, give them The Look.

Posted by: Brie Larson at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (a3Q+t)

166 How long before someone on MSNBC states that owning a cat is now "white supremacy"?
----------
Near enough??

Breaking911 @Breaking911 3h
CNN: Cat memes have “racist overtones”

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (CEzQx)

167 Agreed
What kind of dog?
Asking for a friend...
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:53 PM (W/lyH)

What kind of wife?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 07:54 PM (aPY1X)
***

Tall.
Good cook.
Strong like bull.
Plough many field.
Bear many sons.
Good teeth.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (W/lyH)

168 If it helps the early bits are drier than the later stuff. Pretty much until they get to Rivendell is a bit of a slog in print. Why the movies cut out so much of Tom Bombadil and Barrow Downs and so forth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:52 PM (PDf99)

You might be a little surprised at how long Frodo took to actually get going after Bilbo's party...

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (n7h9X)

169 I like the deep sea diver dude at the bottom of the fish tank.

Posted by: Count de Monet

-

I *just* saw a life-size Halloween yard ornament of that guy with a light-up greenish glow skull in the diving helmet. I think it was motion activated to turn on when you get close.

I don't generally go for that kind of stuff but that was pretty awesome.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (7h9jE)

170 @Breaking911 6m
MSNBC: Kamala didn’t do any debate prep today and is “chilling.”

Relax, Kammie! Trump's last debate lost the President his job. ...but you're not President!

Posted by: The Green Room at September 10, 2024 07:58 PM (3fFru)

171 That could be a good way to get into it. I assume everyone has seen the movie, so jumping in after 150 pages or so could probably easy to catch up / blend into.

For me ... the beginning was key. It showed the Hobbits for what they were. It gave weight to just about everything that came later.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:58 PM (9e9CS)

172 You might be a little surprised at how long Frodo took to actually get going after Bilbo's party...
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (n7h9X)

Yeah. 'Sense of urgency' is not something in a hobbit's lexicon, evidently.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:59 PM (PDf99)

173 170 @Breaking911 6m
MSNBC: Kamala didn’t do any debate prep today and is “chilling.”


Which is probably a lie

Posted by: It's me donna at September 10, 2024 07:59 PM (IyPmt)

174 165
You are stronk and empowered! Instead of crying, give them The Look.
Posted by: Brie Larson at September

I am good at The Look!

Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 07:59 PM (QzINz)

175 The problem is type size and Cosby margins can muddy the waters a bit. Conquest's The Great Terror is big, but he also has smallish type and restrained margins.

THAT is one I have been trying to slog through for about 20 years. I try again every five years or so, but feel like I have to start over at the beginning. Plus, the names make you really want flash cards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (PDf99)

I remember that one. The number of dudes who cooperate with their killers is a wonder. Socialists are strange ducks.

If you want similar cheerful reading The Black Book of Communism is a world wide survey of massacre and mayhem world wide up to 2010 or so?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:01 PM (n7h9X)

176 Good teeth.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (W/lyH)
===

My Uncle Tony was always telling me and my cousins, "If you like a girl, make sure she has good teeth. You want a girl with good teeth." He was obsessed with it.

His eldest son's first wife cost him tens of thousands in dental work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 10, 2024 08:01 PM (RIvkX)

177 For me ... the beginning was key. It showed the Hobbits for what they were. It gave weight to just about everything that came later.
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:58 PM (9e9CS)

BUT. Sometimes you have to get into something to get context and enjoyment out of some bits.

It is like the Farscape primer I use to get people into the show:

Season 1
Pilot
PK Tech Girl
Human Reaction (probably the most pivotal episode in the series)
Last three episodes of season 1

Season 2
Just jump to Crackers Don't Matter, then go to Look at the Princess.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 08:01 PM (PDf99)

178 That's a "Haitian Smorgasbord."
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 07:13 PM (zdLoL)


Haitians speak French, oui? Charcuterie board.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 10, 2024 08:01 PM (NMT5x)

179 Not watching it as said, but bet Harris brings up , or ' moderator ' will the 2025 Project

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 08:01 PM (fwDg9)

180 Tall.
Good cook.
Strong like bull.
Plough many field.
Bear many sons.
Good teeth.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM

Add "excellent shot" and "also likes to eat bacon", and you have described literally every 'ette at the TXMoMe!

(One or two did not quite make the "tall" requirement. But that just makes them more capable in the "handy hugging size" category!)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 08:01 PM (Q4Dc6)

181 Breaking911 @Breaking911 41m
👀 Former Clinton adviser Doug Schoen says he can not commit to voting for Kamala.

https://tinyurl.com/2wm5hwb4
26 seconds; "undecided at this point" over Mideast/Israel not fighting anti-Semitism and having changed her positions... on the issues... I think.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 08:02 PM (CEzQx)

182 For me ... the beginning was key. It showed the Hobbits for what they were. It gave weight to just about everything that came later.
Posted by: Eyes Open

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This is a good point. They're plain and common and very much anti-heroes, although I think that term is usually used in morally questionable characters. But yeah, that's probably a good reason to not skip it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:02 PM (7h9jE)

183 Evening, Cafe-goers. Evening, Ace!

I have my flip-flops on. I seem to be developing hammer toe on my right foot, and my right toes were urting when I put my usual slippers on. Tried the flipflops. Quick relief!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 10, 2024 08:02 PM (E23dO)

184 Breaking911 6m
MSNBC: Kamala didn’t do any debate prep today and is “chilling.”
___

Vodka on ice with a joint.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2024 08:02 PM (Q4IgG)

185 That could be a good way to get into it. I assume everyone has seen the movie, so jumping in after 150 pages or so could probably easy to catch up / blend into.

For me ... the beginning was key. It showed the Hobbits for what they were. It gave weight to just about everything that came later.
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:58 PM (9e9CS)

Well "Concerning Hobbits" is a good thing to read - is it an Appendix in the Book or out front where Jackson put it?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:02 PM (n7h9X)

186 147 I have the single volume version of LOTR in hardback.


I have tried three times over the years to read.LOTR.
Never got past page 107.
Just can't do it.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 07:50 PM (W/lyH)
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I'e never even bothered to start. Haven't seen the movie(s) either although family has. Never could get into fantasy even as a youngster so I only read Science Fiction of 'Fantasy & Science Fiction' and skipped the F.

Posted by: Ciampino - If it isn't in a Quickfit RB flask it didn't happen! at September 10, 2024 08:03 PM (qfLjt)

187 Kamala Harris at a little over 5’4 has “tall energy” per the NYT. Are they saying short people are defective?

I swear I would not have asked for a mini podium.

Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 08:03 PM (QzINz)

188 Vodka on ice with a joint.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 10, 2024 08:02 PM (Q4IgG)

breakfast of Champions!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:04 PM (D7oie)

189 BUT. Sometimes you have to get into something to get context and enjoyment out of some bits.

There is no arguing taste ... for sure. I'm just saying for me. But I'm the guy that liked Glengary Glen Ross. And the slow build to Death Wish.

I really, really liked the pace of the LOTR trilogy. And hated all of the others.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:04 PM (9e9CS)

190 You are stronk and empowered! Instead of crying, give them The Look.
Posted by: Brie Larson at September

I am good at The Look!
Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 07:59 PM (QzINz)

I remember when my oldest sister first used the Mom Voice at a Thanksgiving. My younger brother even snapped to attention, much less her kids.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:05 PM (n7h9X)

191 So...as this is Oktoberfest season, how many biers can Ayn hoist at one time?
Posted by: Diogenes

Ja, the Bavarian fun-fest. With Ayn, it is how many can she not hoist, and Werner has yet to see that. She finds Lederhosen a joke, and is not above shattering her Bier stein and squaring off against any who wear such. Honestly, Werner does not blame her for this. The Dirndl-clad Jungfraus hide rather than approach her table. Ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:05 PM (tmPIh)

192 BREAKING: Diddy ordered to pay Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, a 51-year-old inmate in Michigan, $100 Million after he claimed the music mogul drugged and sexually assaulted him at a party in 1997
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:48 PM (CEzQx)

Good! Wonder what he's going to do with it in prison, though? What's he in for, I wonder? Maybe he'll be out before he's much older, and can enjoy that payout.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 08:05 PM (OX9vb)

193 Kamala Harris at a little over 5’4 has “tall energy” per the NYT. Are they saying short people are defective?

I swear I would not have asked for a mini podium.
Posted by: Piper at September

She MIGHT be 5-4 in heels.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 10, 2024 08:05 PM (MGB5H)

194
Reclaiming History, by Vincent Bugliosi, weighs in at 1,632 pages of small print. Good book.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2024 08:06 PM (1Nxff)

195 I always wondered how the script for Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid originated.
Posted by: electronic means

There was a movie about this?

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:06 PM (tmPIh)

196
Kamala wants to be the shortest president since James Madison.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2024 08:07 PM (1Nxff)

197 I skipped all of the "songs" while reading the LOTR books after the first five or so never tied (importantly) to the story elements.

Am I (or others) missing anything to do that?

I need to read them again. One daughter has started a plot arc for a fantasy book, so we will probably both read the books to help her do her "crafting".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 08:07 PM (Q4Dc6)

198 How long before someone on MSNBC states that owning a cat is now "white supremacy"?
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Near enough??

Breaking911 @Breaking911 3h
CNN: Cat memes have “racist overtones”
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 07:57 PM (CEzQx)

I remember when the MSM tried to float that Cats could give you COVID for a while there. The Pet killers were making a move.

I remember when Australia shut down they went to the pounds and shot the dogs in at least one place, despite offers from people to take in the dogs. Nope, they wanted to kill them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:08 PM (n7h9X)

199 Sorry, I didn't mean to trigger you Vern, but take heart, your teutonic trauma is what makes the muse hawk tuah on that thang.
Posted by: fd

Ach, there is no apology needed. And ja, the Muse is a wayward creature.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:08 PM (tmPIh)

200 I'e never even bothered to start. Haven't seen the movie(s) either although family has. Never could get into fantasy even as a youngster so I only read Science Fiction of 'Fantasy & Science Fiction' and skipped the F.

Its not ... at least for me ... a Fantasy book. Its got it all. Greedy and vain fucks, nominally in charge of the "good guys". All the shitty human motivations. This distrust of all the races against each other ... even when confronted with a bigger threat.

And those moments - redemptive, at some moments - when certain folks say "fuck it, right is right and wrong is wrong".

I think its an awesome work of literature.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:09 PM (9e9CS)

201 Breaking911 @Breaking911 3h
CNN: Cat memes have “racist overtones”

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Yes, it's our fault that the people hunting and killing pets for food all look similar.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:09 PM (7h9jE)

202 >> It was memorable, and Ayn demanded that we get a second set of matching tattoos. Finally, when virtually no bank retained any of its currency, the tour came to an end.
———
Little known is the story behind the film Love Letters. Ayn seduced and abandoned Joseph Cotten, leaving the man in such a state he was actually drunk on the set during the shooting of the London party scene. Rand’s smoldering and domineering personality alone so altered Jennifer Jones that she became thereafter an icon for homosexuals. Don’t even ask in what state she left King Vidor after script rehearsals. Let’s just say Atlas shrugged but the burden lingered.

Posted by: electronic means at September 10, 2024 08:10 PM (yAL3Q)

203 I skipped all of the "songs" while reading the LOTR books after the first five or so never tied (importantly) to the story elements.

Am I (or others) missing anything to do that?

I need to read them again. One daughter has started a plot arc for a fantasy book, so we will probably both read the books to help her do her "crafting".
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 08:07 PM (Q4Dc6)

The funny songs, sure. There might be a bit of lore in some of the others, but the regular text should cue you in if there is much relevance.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:10 PM (n7h9X)

204 And those moments - redemptive, at some moments - when certain folks say "fuck it, right is right and wrong is wrong".

I think its an awesome work of literature.
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:09 PM (9e9CS)

The best fantasy or sci-fi (also literature) can be. I am trying to remember, but I think it was CRT (Christopher R Taylor, commenter who I have not seen in a good long while) who said that sword and sorcery fantasy was like romance novels for boys. And romance in the Three Musketeers sense. Good. Evil. Actual romance. Give them that thrill that Florence King described as a specifically male thing when they hear or read some Man take a stand against impossible odds.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 08:14 PM (PDf99)

205 What remains more remarkable is the plot of a film starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal wherein the deliberate demolition of a housing project becomes a romantic gesture between the two protagonists. Yes, Aguirre, the Wrath of God has its moments of bombast, but has Herzog even approached the surreal intensity of this twist?
Posted by: electronic means

This is a good question. Werner has considered Magical Realism as a technique, but his Teutonic soul is stubborn. Also, the Magical Realism schtick is so thick on the ground in Latin America, that Werner feels he must flee it. It is not unlike the literarydevice of the labyrinth. If Werner comes across one further employment of that metaphor, it shall be answered by his aluminum bat. I have already put Borges and Gabriel Garci Marques on notice.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:15 PM (tmPIh)

206 Thanks Oldcat. That is pretty much what I would do while reading.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 08:15 PM (Q4Dc6)

207 Re: doorstop books. Mr. Dmlw! just got a new copy of Noble House. And he's watching the movie on tv, again, right now.

I tried reading this once, and I've always been bored by the movie. He's watched it a hundred times--loves it. I guess it's full of intrigue and stuff, but I just can't.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 08:15 PM (OX9vb)

208 OMG! What have Vance and Trump wrought??

They just made cats republicans. lol

All the liberal cat ladies are gonna cry themselves to sleep.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 08:16 PM (aPY1X)

209 There was a news story about a Karen complaining that her Chinese neighbor was drying salted fish on a clothes line.

They're really big on diversity. They really are. As long as it's restricted to restaurants and well-behaved cheap personal staff.
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 07:46 PM (9e9CS)

The Left: Please, come in! And then you can mow our lawns, wash our clothes, clean our houses, cook our food, but please, please, I beg you, never move near us, go to our schools, or make us know you in any way.

Posted by: LASue at September 10, 2024 08:16 PM (VPuca)

210 I'e never even bothered to start. Haven't seen the movie(s) either although family has. Never could get into fantasy even as a youngster so I only read Science Fiction of 'Fantasy & Science Fiction' and skipped the F.

Its not ... at least for me ... a Fantasy book. Its got it all. Greedy and vain fucks, nominally in charge of the "good guys". All the shitty human motivations. This distrust of all the races against each other ... even when confronted with a bigger threat.

And those moments - redemptive, at some moments - when certain folks say "fuck it, right is right and wrong is wrong".

I think its an awesome work of literature.
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:09 PM (9e9CS)

To me there's isn't a huge difference. SF builds a different world based on tech growth and cultures based on them, Modern Fantasy is similar, new cultures based on a tech of magic. If they build a world that makes sense, and have characters working out a good story then it works.

For what it is worth LOTR has hardly any magicy stuff relative to DnD or computer game stuff. Its built into the world and the races.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:17 PM (n7h9X)

211 I have already put Borges and Gabriel Garci Marques on notice.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:15 PM (tmPIh)

I keep hoping that Gabriel would take another boat trip, personally.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:17 PM (D7oie)

212 Dogs are republican. I mean, this is just like saying the sky is blue, water is wet, puppies are cute.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 10, 2024 08:17 PM (PDf99)

213 Busy day tomorrow.

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR SEPTEMBER 11

Roscosmos - Soyuz 2.1a - Soyuz MS-26
LS 31/6 Baikonur Cosmodrome, KAZ - Space Affairs Live
Scheduled for Sep 11, 2024
Launch Date: September 11, 2024
Launch Time: 12:22EST, 21:22 QYZT, 18:22 CEST, 1622 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/live/VYwcygrRklg
_______

Coverage of the Rendezvous and Docking of the Soyuz MS-26 Crew to the International Space Station
(Docking scheduled at 3:33 p.m. EDT, 1933 UTC, 21:33 CEST); Pettit, Ovchinin, Vagner).

https://www.youtube.com/live/5rVOpWsLNo0
________

Coverage of the Hatch Opening and Welcoming Remarks by the Soyuz MS-26 Crew at the International Space Station
(Hatch opening scheduled at approximately. 5:50 p.m.EDT, 2150 UTC, 23:50 CEST).

https://www.youtube.com/live/7xXngYpdr8M

Posted by: Ciampino - The puppy with duckie is sweet at September 10, 2024 08:17 PM (qfLjt)

214 The determination the NYT and WaPo have shown in their attempts to derail the immigrant animal abusers stories is likely a sign that they are worried that it is working. Harris's career is a lazily selected, unflattering wardrobe of failure from which the border czar role is the most embarrassingly revealing. The Trump team should continue to voice their support for our pets and the beloved animals inhabiting our recreational areas.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 10, 2024 08:17 PM (7fVdQ)

215 Are they saying short people are defective?
Posted by: Piper at September 10, 2024 08:03 PM

They got no reason to live.

Posted by: Randy Newman at September 10, 2024 08:18 PM (a3Q+t)

216 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR SEPTEMBER 11.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 9-6
SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 11
Launch Time: 7:45 p.m. PDT - (September 12, 00245 UTC, 04:45 CEST )
Launch Window: Open til 9:30 p.m. PDT, September 11

https://www.youtube.com/live/d1s13TgnWIk
__________

Posted by: Ciampino - The 3 dog portrait is hilarious at September 10, 2024 08:18 PM (qfLjt)

217 Just checking,

I have 4, 24.0079 US fl. Ounces of 6.1% Carling Black Ice beer.

Because of the stress of jab genocide and house renovations, I said screw it, went to one of our 2 stop lights town with 3 legal pot shops, told them I never wanted to smoke but would love something to test for my nerves. Still an experiment. I'm working on my athletic build which means skinny which means the munchies are bad.

Anyways, by my 3rd, 10mg thc capsule, I pretty much collapse in a joyful peaceful slumber.

So, what I'm wondering is are my 4 strong boy beers where I've just started the 3rd, and my thc capsules which I know from experimentation......man....the world misses actual experimentation.....are enough to deaden me inside after 2 to 4 of them.....are the strong beers and pills actually enough to get me to sit through a rigged debate listening to Kamala.

I mean we have clipshows for a reason.

I'll open my third beer and see if that gives me clarity. Other options are slasher and horror flicks, my just bought classic 'Zork' text game where I'm going to figure out the maze after the troll or groups of Japanese biologically female adult pornstars in sexy uniforms....

Choices...

Posted by: Stateless at September 10, 2024 08:19 PM (jvJvP)

218 I skipped all of the "songs" while reading the LOTR books after the first five or so never tied (importantly) to the story elements.

Am I (or others) missing anything to do that?

I need to read them again. One daughter has started a plot arc for a fantasy book, so we will probably both read the books to help her do her "crafting".
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 10, 2024 08:07 PM (Q4Dc6)

The funny songs, sure. There might be a bit of lore in some of the others, but the regular text should cue you in if there is much relevance.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:10 PM (

As I've shared, ad nauseam, I read LOTR this summer and just finished it on Monday. I knew if I read all the songs and poems, I would NEVER finish, so I admit I skipped them all. Maybe I'll read them on the next go round...

Posted by: LASue at September 10, 2024 08:19 PM (VPuca)

219 OMG! What have Vance and Trump wrought??

They just made cats republicans. lol

All the liberal cat ladies are gonna cry themselves to sleep.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 08:16 PM (aPY1X)

Cats are already the kind of animal liberal women should hate. They go out all night, they hunt and bring home dead things for cleaning. They lounge around all day sleeping and won't take out the garbage, they dig into it and spread it around the kitchen. They have 18 concealed weapons.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:19 PM (n7h9X)

220 OMG! What have Vance and Trump wrought??

They just made cats republicans. lol

All the liberal cat ladies are gonna cry themselves to sleep.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 08:16 PM (aPY1X)
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Both Trump and Vance can laugh at themselves.

The Dems can't.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 10, 2024 08:19 PM (BpYfr)

221 Still time left to get a Mega Million ticket for tonight's $800 million jackpot annuity.

P.S. Will Joey stay up to watch the debate?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 10, 2024 08:20 PM (HkAx+)

222 I read somewhere that Haitians are now catching seagulls for food at the beach.

Posted by: Ciampino - If you shoot a Haitian can you wall-mount? at September 10, 2024 08:21 PM (qfLjt)

223 Just to clarify...

Kind of moron choices.....

Soberish scenarios vary.....

Posted by: Stateless at September 10, 2024 08:21 PM (jvJvP)

224 Is Trump going to walk on stage carrying a kitten and having a golden on a leash at his heel?

Oh, and he places a duck on the podium.

And pulls a Guinea pig out of his pocket.

And several parrots fly to his shoulders.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 10, 2024 08:21 PM (uc5g7)

225 cats have class. cats have style.

Democrats?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 10, 2024 08:22 PM (HkAx+)

226 If it helps the early bits are drier than the later stuff. Pretty much until they get to Rivendell is a bit of a slog in print...

I don't really mind because this is just Tolkien's way of saying, "Welcome to my world".

You have to remember when it was originally written.

The popular reading public wouldn't have the same almost constant saturation in fantasy and SF. So, A bit of an intro to convince his readers of the solid reality of Middle Earth made since.

Nowadays, Ol' JRR could say "Okay once there were some Hairy Footed Midgets and we're off!"

And the readers would tag along.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 10, 2024 08:22 PM (eDfFs)

227 Opps.

>>@Heminator

>>12m
A lot of journalists blew past trying to actually confirm that Hatitians were killing geese and went straight to assuming it was "debunked."

>>EXCLUSIVE: Police Audio, Report Confirm Haitian Goose-Hunting In Ohio: ‘They All Had Geese In Their Hands’

Posted by: JackStraw at September 10, 2024 08:22 PM (LkLld)

228
I read somewhere that Haitians are now catching seagulls for food at the beach.
Posted by: Ciampino - If you shoot a Haitian can you wall-mount?

__________

Them they can have.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 10, 2024 08:22 PM (1Nxff)

229 My wife's plane is on its final taxi for leaving to Korea.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:22 PM (D7oie)

230 As I've shared, ad nauseam, I read LOTR this summer and just finished it on Monday. I knew if I read all the songs and poems, I would NEVER finish, so I admit I skipped them all. Maybe I'll read them on the next go round...
Posted by: LASue at September 10, 2024 08:19 PM (VPuca)

but did you read all the appendices?

But seriously somewhere there is the lines that inspired the scenes in LOTR Elrond tells Arwen "And you shall go on, in darkness and in doubt.." Even in a fairy tale life isn't like a fairy tale. Worth digging up in the Appendices.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:23 PM (n7h9X)

231 >>>She MIGHT be 5-4 in heels.
Posted by: BruceWayne
--------------------------

That clip ace posted of her with Willie Brown in 1995 is very revealing.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 10, 2024 08:23 PM (sSaYo)

232 Is Trump going to walk on stage carrying a kitten and having a golden on a leash at his heel?

Oh, and he places a duck on the podium.

And pulls a Guinea pig out of his pocket.

And several parrots fly to his shoulders.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 10, 2024 08:21 PM (uc5g7)

Kamala: "Good Evening, Mr. Trump."

Trump: "meow".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 10, 2024 08:23 PM (E23dO)

233 Dogs are republican.

My two have no business ever at the levers of power. They're friendly toward folks ... once they see I'm ok with those folks.

But they'd instigate a pogrom toward squirrels. possums. rabbits. They'd nuke the planet to eliminate certain threats.

Dogs are kinda' socialist / fascist / communist. But I'd still trust their vote more than my wife's.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:23 PM (9e9CS)

234 >>12m
A lot of journalists blew past trying to actually confirm that Hatitians were killing geese and went straight to assuming it was "debunked."

>>EXCLUSIVE: Police Audio, Report Confirm Haitian Goose-Hunting In Ohio: ‘They All Had Geese In Their Hands’
Posted by: JackStraw

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Ha. I was just showing my wife that stuff and all of the search results were THIS ISN'T TRUE!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:23 PM (7h9jE)

235 Haitians?

A Flock of Seagulls, "I ran so far away."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 10, 2024 08:24 PM (HkAx+)

236 I laughed way harder than I should have at the Trump cat memes on Twitchy.

That it is making the left incandescent with rage is just The Best.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 10, 2024 08:24 PM (6rpE9)

237 Cats, Lions to House are supposed to taste terrible

Have a great evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 08:24 PM (fwDg9)

238 219
Cats are already the kind of animal liberal women should hate. They go out all night, they hunt and bring home dead things for cleaning. They lounge around all day sleeping and won't take out the garbage, they dig into it and spread it around the kitchen. They have 18 concealed weapons.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:19 PM (n7h9X)
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^^^^^^
THIS
Liberal women are more likely to have dogs. 'nough said.

Posted by: Ciampino - Dogs don't need batteries at September 10, 2024 08:24 PM (qfLjt)

239 I read somewhere that Haitians are now catching seagulls for food at the beach.
Posted by: Ciampino - If you shoot a Haitian can you wall-mount? at September 10, 2024 08:21 PM (qfLjt)

Ok I'm sold. Lets exchange them for the faculty of 20 liberal arts colleges and deport them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:25 PM (n7h9X)

240 I laughed way harder than I should have at the Trump cat memes on Twitchy.

That it is making the left incandescent with rage is just The Best.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

-

It's part of why Karmella is trying hard to pretend there is some sort of "joy" in her campaign.

Trump is a happy warrior. His voters are happy warriors. We're enjoying this, same as 2020. They have to tell their supporters that they're joyful and to have joy to counter this authenticity.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:26 PM (7h9jE)

241 >>Ha. I was just showing my wife that stuff and all of the search results were THIS ISN'T TRUE!!!

People are posting the police audio on X. It's true.

It's also not real surprising to anyone who has been to a 3rd world country. All cultures are not equal.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 10, 2024 08:26 PM (LkLld)

242 Yeah. No loss in losing a few garbage hawks. Can't throw a rock at the dump here without hitting two. AND they are "protected" for some stupido reason.
They stay off the pistol and rifle range for some reason.

Posted by: Reforger at September 10, 2024 08:27 PM (xcIvR)

243 "Ok I'm sold. Lets exchange them for the faculty of 20 liberal arts colleges and deport them.
Posted by: Oldcat"

We may have just stumbled on the way to deal with the rat problem in NYC.

Posted by: fd at September 10, 2024 08:27 PM (vFG9F)

244 YOU DO NOT HAVE A BOTTLE OPENER.

Posted by: Zork at September 10, 2024 08:27 PM (CEzQx)

245 LOL:

https://tinyurl.com/y27phmse

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 10, 2024 08:28 PM (E23dO)

246 229 My wife's plane is on its final taxi for leaving to Korea.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:22 PM (D7oie)
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Buon voiaggio e in bocca al lupo.

Posted by: Ciampino - bocca al lupo is similar to break a leg at September 10, 2024 08:28 PM (qfLjt)

247 There is a serious concern in the wildlife community that seagulls are getting depleted, and as in all things, a concern this could seriously affect shoreline ecologies since they have a large role there.

Imagine trying to chart the stack privileges of Haitian illegals and seagulls, and make it stick across the whole Left coalition.
this sort of thing will cause huge cognative dissonance, forced compliance, or rifts. Piss on them all.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:28 PM (D7oie)

248 Anna. Question. If you would.
What was the first fighter to have the guns mounted IN the wings?

Posted by: Reforger at September 10, 2024 08:28 PM (xcIvR)

249 Little known is the story behind the film Love Letters. Ayn seduced and abandoned Joseph Cotten, leaving the man in such a state he was actually drunk on the set during the shooting of the London party scene. Rand’s smoldering and domineering personality alone so altered Jennifer Jones that she became thereafter an icon for homosexuals. Don’t even ask in what state she left King Vidor after script rehearsals. Let’s just say Atlas shrugged but the burden lingered.
Posted by: electronic means

Ayn left a mark, usually bloody, on all that she encountered. She throttled Tiny Tim, for example. Werner refers to the fey Sixties entertainer here, although Frau Rand would not be above doing the same to the Dickensian character, as she considered him a Looter, and complained often about A Christmas Carol, feeling that the hero Ebenezer Scrooge was violated for his Objectivist pursuits. I remember with some amusement that the much-vaunted Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, got her start and her distinctive attire from cos-playing Ayn Rand. It was a big thing back then, and Werner is relieved that it is in the past.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:29 PM (tmPIh)

250 Buon voiaggio e in bocca al lupo.
Posted by: Ciampino - bocca al lupo is similar to break a leg at September 10, 2024 08:28 PM (qfLjt)p/i]

Seoul is 90F today, but it looks like the torrential downpours will cool it off tomorrow and the next couple of weeks.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:29 PM (D7oie)

251 Ja, the Bavarian fun-fest. With Ayn, it is how many can she not hoist, and Werner has yet to see that. She finds Lederhosen a joke, and is not above shattering her Bier stein and squaring off against any who wear such. Honestly, Werner does not blame her for this. The Dirndl-clad Jungfraus hide rather than approach her table. Ach.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:05 PM (tmPIh)


Ahhh
Ayn, that crazy minx!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 08:29 PM (BrJjn)

252 222 I read somewhere that Haitians are now catching seagulls for food at the beach.
Posted by: Ciampino - If you shoot a Haitian can you wall-mount? at September 10, 2024 08:21 PM (qfLjt)

If you're hungry, unskilled, homeless...there are lots of things you'll eat. Did they get a better life coming here? Looks like not.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 10, 2024 08:30 PM (OX9vb)

253 It's also not real surprising to anyone who has been to a 3rd world country. All cultures are not equal.
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The left thinks the rest of the world is Europe.

Not the ones who eat snails, maggot cheese, rotten fish or horse. The ones that are like Americans but with accents.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 10, 2024 08:30 PM (6rpE9)

254 229 My wife's plane is on its final taxi for leaving to Korea.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:2

My first time on a plane, non-skydiving was to Korea. Landed in Japan. Different plane. On to Korea.

I went to a help desk where a guy heard my conversation and told me there is no tipping in South Korea. Sweet. Good tipper. Got used to that fast.

Anyways, the guy from the hotel comes for my luggage. Grabs everything. Leaves quickly and I follow him.

Step outside. Look up. Wow! Asia! A different country! A different continent!

And fast guy was gone with my bags since I'm a guy from a town with 2 stoplights......

Have her watch her bags.......lol....30 minutes

Posted by: Stateless at September 10, 2024 08:30 PM (jvJvP)

255 "Ok I'm sold. Lets exchange them for the faculty of 20 liberal arts colleges and deport them.
Posted by: Oldcat"

We may have just stumbled on the way to deal with the rat problem in NYC.
Posted by: fd at September 10, 2024 08:27 PM (vFG9F)

20 more college faculties for Haitian Rats.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:30 PM (n7h9X)

256 Yeah. No loss in losing a few garbage hawks. Can't throw a rock at the dump here without hitting two. AND they are "protected" for some stupido reason.
They stay off the pistol and rifle range for some reason.
Posted by: Reforger

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There are very, very few birds that aren't protected by the feds. People think about eagles and birds of prey, but it's almost everything.

I bet the total number of not federally protected birds could be counted on one hand with fingers left over.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:31 PM (7h9jE)

257 I went to a help desk where a guy heard my conversation and told me there is no tipping in South Korea. Sweet. Good tipper. Got used to that fast.

Anyways, the guy from the hotel comes for my luggage. Grabs everything. Leaves quickly and I follow him.

Step outside. Look up. Wow! Asia! A different country! A different continent!

And fast guy was gone with my bags since I'm a guy from a town with 2 stoplights......

Have her watch her bags.......lol....30 minutes
Posted by: Stateless at September 10, 2024 08:30 PM (jvJvP)

See, if the dude was expecting a tip at the end he wouldn't run off.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:31 PM (n7h9X)

258 I hope someone convinced Trump to rush the stage and take Kamala's mini-podium so that he looks gigantic.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 10, 2024 08:32 PM (7s5Sb)

259 LOL:

https://tinyurl.com/y27phmse

That can't be real. Because we can't possibly have anything that awesome in this timeline.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 10, 2024 08:32 PM (/y8xj)

260 Ayn, that crazy minx!

We're talking Ayn Rand, right ?

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:32 PM (9e9CS)

261 >>EXCLUSIVE: Police Audio, Report Confirm Haitian Goose-Hunting In Ohio: ‘They All Had Geese In Their Hands’
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Kill the honkies!!!

Posted by: Zork at September 10, 2024 08:33 PM (CEzQx)

262 There are very, very few birds that aren't protected by the feds. People think about eagles and birds of prey, but it's almost everything.

I bet the total number of not federally protected birds could be counted on one hand with fingers left over.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:31 PM (7h9jE)

That's just bloat, tear most of them up and only act when a real problem is happening. Since we can fly all over we only need maybe 1000 dudes and some airline tickets to cover the whole nation.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:33 PM (n7h9X)

263 Damn I miss scuba diving.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'hello all you groovy cats'. at September 10, 2024 08:34 PM (GTCVo)

264 Ha. I was just showing my wife that stuff and all of the search results were THIS ISN'T TRUE!!!
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:23 PM (7h9jE)

it isn't true on Google/Bing first pages, as well as Qwant
It is about half and half on Brave search and Yandex.com





Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 08:34 PM (D7oie)

265 Off, ancient computer game sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 08:35 PM (CEzQx)

266 Kill the honkies!!!

Posted by: Zork at September 10, 2024 08:33 PM (CEzQx)


gooseist!!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'hello all you groovy cats'. at September 10, 2024 08:35 PM (GTCVo)

267 Wish we’d have a gains thread, I’ve got great news. 12 weeks in my “window” of between 175-185, still under 5% body fat at 181 this morning. Cleared for all exercise and flying post hernia surgery 2 weeks ago tomorrow and back to even heavier lifting. Ran 6 k in 29 minutes today and then another 5k after work, consistent sub9 minute miles. Taking a beautiful young woman on our third date to Army/Navy on December 14 in DC (a lifelong dream for me). God is great, all glory to Him, every breath is a bonus gift from Him! Worry not!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 10, 2024 08:35 PM (fiUiH)

268 10 minutes to Ace launch.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 08:35 PM (CEzQx)

269 There are very, very few birds that aren't protected by the feds. People think about eagles and birds of prey, but it's almost everything.

I bet the total number of not federally protected birds could be counted on one hand with fingers left over.
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That's just bloat, tear most of them up and only act when a real problem is happening. Since we can fly all over we only need maybe 1000 dudes and some airline tickets to cover the whole nation.
Posted by: Oldcat

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Sure, but it's a useful tool for an authoritarian state masquerading as America. We commit an average of three felonies a day. The feds don't care until they need them, and then it's the foot in the door.

"Sir, we have been informed that you have a crow feather your grandfather gave you in the family bible in your safe. You'll need to come with us while we sort this out."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:36 PM (7h9jE)

270 See, if the dude was expecting a tip at the end he wouldn't run off.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:31 

Technically, he may have run faster to give better service.

Crap, these beers and pills aren't working for the debate.
To much logic.

Hey, impaired motor functions. More spelling mistakes.

I may be ready for this debate in 24 minutes 03 seconds afterall...

Posted by: Stateless at September 10, 2024 08:36 PM (jvJvP)

271 It's also not real surprising to anyone who has been to a 3rd world country. All cultures are not equal.
---
The left thinks the rest of the world is Europe.

Not the ones who eat snails, maggot cheese, rotten fish or horse. The ones that are like Americans but with accents.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 10, 2024 08:30 PM (6rpE9)

I read too many stories of Euros slaughtering each other in cartloads over nothing, not even as important as football, to believe their affectation of superior culture and wisdom.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:36 PM (n7h9X)

272 At Thais rate I'll probably be just toasty enough to watch the debate.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'hello all you groovy cats'. at September 10, 2024 08:37 PM (GTCVo)

273 I'm soooo nervous but he everclear is goin' down smooth. *hic*

Posted by: Kammi at September 10, 2024 08:37 PM (mH6SG)

274 Trump enters stage.
Sniffs.
bourbon?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 10, 2024 08:38 PM (BrJjn)

275 Sure, but it's a useful tool for an authoritarian state masquerading as America. We commit an average of three felonies a day. The feds don't care until they need them, and then it's the foot in the door.

"Sir, we have been informed that you have a crow feather your grandfather gave you in the family bible in your safe. You'll need to come with us while we sort this out."
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 10, 2024 08:36 PM (7h9jE)

You can be just as authoritarian on a lean budget of men. You just don't have as many worthless jerks on the payroll, they will have to go out and dig ditches to earn their money and will be too tired to cause trouble.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:38 PM (n7h9X)

276 The left thinks the rest of the world is Europe.

No. On this I am certain.

The Left doesn't "think" about the rest of the world at all. "All diversity is good" is the mantra. Pure and simple. All races are equal, except white. All sexual orientations are equal, except straight hetero.

But look ... this is just an inversion of "all religion is good". And come on - how many of you grew up with the idea that, regardless of the rule of law, their was always a "religious exemption" ?

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:38 PM (9e9CS)

277 One a scale of 1 to Jimmy Page, how drunk is Kamala right now?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 08:39 PM (aPY1X)

278 Taking a beautiful young woman on our third date to Army/Navy on December 14 in DC (a lifelong dream for me). God is great, all glory to Him, every breath is a bonus gift from Him! Worry not!
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 10, 2024 08:35 PM (fiUiH)

Great News Farmer Bob!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:40 PM (n7h9X)

279 >>Damn I miss scuba diving.

Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 10, 2024 08:41 PM (LkLld)

280 277 One a scale of 1 to Jimmy Page, how drunk is Kamala right now?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 08:39 PM (aPY1X)

Buckethead.

Posted by: Reforger at September 10, 2024 08:41 PM (xcIvR)

281 Damn I miss scuba diving.
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Me too.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Try kayaking.

Posted by: Obama's chef at September 10, 2024 08:41 PM (7h9jE)

282 I was just notified by CNN that Ozzie Osbourne will be answering all the questions for me at the debate because he makes more sense then I do...

Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 10, 2024 08:41 PM (BSF0H)

283 Watch me pull a rabbit out of my MAGA hat!

Posted by: President Trump at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (Aqu9a)

284 But look ... this is just an inversion of "all religion is good". And come on - how many of you grew up with the idea that, regardless of the rule of law, their was always a "religious exemption" ?
Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:38 PM (9e9CS)

You need to read about the Aztecs if you think all religions are good. There are also plenty of bad things in surviving religions, all organizations run by men can go astray, as all men can.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (n7h9X)

285 "Anyways, by my 3rd, 10mg thc capsule, I pretty much collapse in a joyful peaceful slumber."

I long for the days 30mg had any effect on me. I think that as i age, i just don't absorb it well and my liver doesn't produce as much enzyme to process it.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (KAi1n)

286 >>(Rand) complained often about A Christmas Carol, feeling that the hero Ebenezer Scrooge was violated for his Objectivist pursuits.
——-
There is an apocryphal remark by Nathaniel Brandon that Rand’s character Francisco d’Anconia was originally named Coregos, by way of an anagrammatic homage to Scrooge, but Rand later considered such use of another writer’s character as looting. She punished herself by leading a four hour dominatrix session with Brandon.

Posted by: electronic means at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (yAL3Q)

287 I’m not gonna watch the debate, will scroll through the thread after virtual pinochle with the old men (my father and uncles) as usual. It’s more fun and less stressful.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (fiUiH)

288 EXCLUSIVE: Police Audio, Report Confirm Haitian Goose-Hunting In Ohio: ‘They All Had Geese In Their Hands’
Posted by: JackStraw

And the Haitians are thrilled about it. There probably aren't any "tame" wild animals back home. They come here, and they can hunt "city geese" with a baseball bat. Or bare-handed. Tasty birds who would fly away from them back home.....

Posted by: mikeski at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (DgGvY)

289 Lol...nbc has their undecided voters..

The loved one hostages of the undecided voters may be in back....

Posted by: Stateless at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (jvJvP)

290 That photo up top looks familiar -- like one from a couple weeks ago?

As I said then: looks like an Underwater Easter Island featuring John Brennan's visage.

Posted by: ShainS -- If Your Independence Lasts Over 4 Hours, You May Have Been Red-Pilled at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (10Lv1)

291 That clip ace posted of her with Willie Brown in 1995 is very revealing.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 10, 2024 08:23 PM (sSaYo)

Try this picture....
https://tinyurl.com/54x8ksm3

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (iODuv)

292 Sigh

I remember when The New Republic was Neo-Con, back in the Eighties. If not Neo-Con, at least adjacent. Does anyone else remember?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (7pFwY)

293
"Spark of the Divine!"

-- Nanzi

"Corpses of fowl!"

-- Springfield, OH police reports

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 10, 2024 08:43 PM (xG4kz)

294 I hope Trump works cat into everything he says.

"The open border has been CATaclysmic for our country"

"You have no border policy. You must be CATatonic if you haven't seen the CATastrophe this is causing."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'hello all you groovy cats'. at September 10, 2024 08:43 PM (GTCVo)

295 Gary Jennings's book "Aztec" is one of the most compelling fiction reads ever (and i don't much like fiction).

Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2024 08:43 PM (KAi1n)

296 We're talking Ayn Rand, right ?
Posted by: Eyes Open

Ja, we speak of Ayn, the indomitable force that the fabric of Space-Time itself cannot prevail against. When Oppenheimer made his noted quote, "I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds," he was in truth thinking of Ayn. Thinking, and likely soiling himself. The savage goddess Kali regularly checks under her bed to make sure that Ayn is not lurking there, knowing that it is only a question of time before her fears become true. As an avatar of Objectivism, her influence carries backward as well as forward. The madness of Nietzsche came from his realization that she would step onto the world stage; the prophet Zaratustra took his own life when an epiphany revealed to him that she would erase the distinction between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, and all should weep and despair.

Ja, that Rand.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:43 PM (tmPIh)

297 History club:

On this date in 1813 occurred one of the greatest victories of the US Navy, The Battle of Lake Erie. O.H. Perry, commanding.

We have met the enemy, and they are ours.

Dont Give Up The Ship

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 10, 2024 08:44 PM (zdLoL)

298 287 I’m not gonna watch the debate, will scroll through the thread after virtual pinochle with the old men (my father and uncles) as usual. It’s more fun and less stressful.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 10, 2024 08:42 PM (fiUiH)



Have a happy fun good night.

Check out my beer and pills experiment for stress!!

Or maybe not....
Have fun!

Posted by: Stateless at September 10, 2024 08:44 PM (jvJvP)

299 I knew a German guy who was a kid in WWII. His family lived in the Sudetenland, I think. After the war they had to go back to Germany. He said they were not well liked by the other Germans, who called them potato bugs as an insult.

He didn't talk about that time much, but he did say that they were very lean times. He said they would catch cats and eat them.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 10, 2024 08:45 PM (NMT5x)

300 I'm available for cave diving, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Stacey at September 10, 2024 08:45 PM (a3Q+t)

301 Noodebate.

Posted by: mikeski at September 10, 2024 08:46 PM (DgGvY)

302 You need to read about the Aztecs if you think all religions are good. There are also plenty of bad things in surviving religions, all organizations run by men can go astray, as all men can.

I used to try to persuade people ... after 9/11 ... that this whole "
Freedom of Religion" thing had run its course. Because we just got slapped by the second Religion / Social union. The first was Japan.

I lost. We lost. Religion of Peace my ass.

And now we're listening to Freedom of Speech as to why certain races and sexes ... White and Male ... have had it too good for too long.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:46 PM (9e9CS)

303 Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 10, 2024 08:41 PM (LkLld)

I wish we could spearfish in lakes.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'hello all you groovy cats'. at September 10, 2024 08:46 PM (GTCVo)

304 >> an epiphany revealed to him that she would erase the distinction between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman
———
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a billion Manicheans had been snuffed out.

Posted by: electronic means at September 10, 2024 08:46 PM (yAL3Q)

305 yes indeed the debate thread is open for comment and verbal abuse

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 10, 2024 08:47 PM (CWTWj)

306 debate nood

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 10, 2024 08:47 PM (CEzQx)

307 I'm available for cave diving, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Stacey at September 10, 2024 08:45 PM (a3Q+t)

Cast off fore and aft lines and we'll sail on out!

Posted by: Captain de Monet at September 10, 2024 08:47 PM (Aqu9a)

308 Ja, that Rand.

Oh ... then you mean Ayn ... the chick that wrote an entire book about how she screwed great men. And hence, she was great by the screwing.

I'm not an Ayn Rand fan. Of her or her writing.

Posted by: Eyes Open at September 10, 2024 08:48 PM (9e9CS)

309 "Ran 6 k"

Ugh. God is gonna punish your joints for that blasphemy.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 10, 2024 08:49 PM (KAi1n)

310
I'm not an Ayn Rand fan. Of her or her writing.
Posted by: Eyes Open

Werner speaks of Ayn as a warning. As is said regarding war, one may not be interested in Ayn, but she is interested in you. If she approaches, one should flee. Werner came to this realization at great cost and much suffering.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 10, 2024 08:56 PM (tmPIh)

311 Let's get ready to rumble!

Posted by: Ring Announcer Guy at September 10, 2024 09:01 PM (Aqu9a)

312 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I CAN ALREADY SMELL KAMALA'S FLOP SWEAT!!!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 10, 2024 09:05 PM (Pijte)

313 277 One a scale of 1 to Jimmy Page, how drunk is Kamala right now?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 08:39 PM (aPY1X)
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14 CCRs?

Posted by: Ciampino - Not sure of the Yoko Scale at September 10, 2024 09:16 PM (qfLjt)

314 One a scale of 1 to Jimmy Page, how drunk is Kamala right now?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 10, 2024 08:39 PM (aPY1X)
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14 CCRs?
Posted by: Ciampino -

Who?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 10, 2024 09:21 PM (4Med0)

315 Got back from Bible Study, forgot the debate was even on. Peaked at the debate thread. Hard to tell how it's going from it. It's all over the place, opinion wise. I'm watching a replay of the NASCAR race in Atlanta on Sunday. The debate won't change how I vote anyway. Trump could have walked out in a speedo, holding a crackpipe, screaming 'I AM THE LIZARD KING', and I'd still vote for him.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 10, 2024 09:39 PM (sAmhv)

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