Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

Richard the Lionheart Receives Communion in Hagia Sophia
Gaspare Fossati

In 1837, Gaspare Fossati, by command of the Russian Czar, moved to Istanbul to design and construct a new Russian Embassy. While there, he was hired by the Ottoman sultan to restore the Hagia Sophia. During Ottoman rule, the interior mosaics of the great Byzantine church were covered over in plaster. Fossati and his team removed the plaster, repaired the church’s structure, and restored its mosaics. He also produced a series of lithographs that documented the building’s interior and exterior. When everything was complete, the mosaics were covered up again. Fossati’s personal experience with Hagia Sophia can be seen in this work painted while he was still in Istanbul. The detail is exquisite.

This work is primarily about scale. Most of the canvas is taken up by the vast nave of Hagia Sophia which dwarfs a group of people at the bottom. There has to be close to a hundred figures here, but they are puny. Since I have never visited the building, I thought Fossati exaggerated the proportions some to enhance the viewer’s awe (not unheard of in art), so I googled some photographs. From what I can tell, this depiction seems pretty accurate. If anything, he might have reduced the scale somewhat!

Fossati wants us to feel the enormity of the space. I also think he wants us to marvel at how open and light it feels. That is one of the great paradoxes of this building. Hagia Sophia is massive but feels light. The height of the building, from floor to the center of the main dome is 182 feet! I cannot imagine the awe of walking into such a space. So, imagine the awe of the first people to enter the newly finished building.

Hagia Sophia was (is) an architectural wonder. When it was completed in the Sixth Century AD, it was the largest Christian church, and the largest interior space of any kind, in the world. The dome itself was a particular problem that took several tries to get right. Around its base, a row of arched windows, which on a sunny day, creates a ring of light round the bottom of the dome. The effect was so mind-blowing, one ancient writer thought it looked like the dome was actually suspended from Heaven. An explosion of other architectural innovations spread the immense space out further.

This is a mysterious painting. It doesn’t depict history. Richard I never visited Constantinople and so could never have visited the church or had communion there. So why did Fossati paint this? What was his point? He was a Swiss working for the Muslim Ottomans. When Fossati painted this, Ayasofia was used as a mosque. I wonder how his work on the Hagia Sophia and the censored art affected him. Here is a depiction of Richard Lionheart, one of the leaders of the Third Crusade participating in a Christian sacrament in the greatest church in Christendom. Is this painting a fantasy? Does it carry a subtle message of defiance or Western/Christian pride? Possibly a desire for Christian unity in the depiction of a Western Christian leader taking the sacrament in the home church of Eastern Orthodoxy?

Probably not. However interesting that all might be, I think the primary message of this work is the magnificence of the Hagia Sophia itself. It dominates. It dwarfs. The arches, domes, half-domes, vaults, and galleries; the mosaics and marble paneling are all rendered in minute detail to amaze. While the mystery in this work’s title persists, there is an irony that I found more interesting. For a painting about vastness and monumentality, it’s pretty small — only about two by one-and-a-half feet.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:30 AM

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1 Doctor Firstus

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 24, 2024 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 Howdy Kris!

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:30 AM (RhGG0)

3 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 09:30 AM (kgE5c)

4 Nice chandelier. Seems to be a recurring theme.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 24, 2024 09:31 AM (w9Wax)

5 Wow. Beautiful. Thanks, Kris.

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

6 Who names their kid Gaspare?

Posted by: Not me at September 24, 2024 09:32 AM (DobEs)

7 You could put on quite a show there....maybe a UFC match.

Posted by: BignJames at September 24, 2024 09:32 AM (AwYPR)

8 Gaspare???

Burps and farts????

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:32 AM (RhGG0)

9 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. That is some art! Probably not a good fit for my den.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (W/lyH)

10 Looks like a giant version of the Saenger Theatre here in town. There's no real comparison, but this *reminds* me of the movie theatre/now pro stage theatre. Yes, it looks truly huge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

11 Who names their kid Gaspare?
Posted by: Not me at September 24, 2024 09:32 AM

Obligatory:

Mr. and Mrs. Fossati.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (kgE5c)

12 Incredibly elaborate painting!

Although now I'm humming the theme song to Game of Thrones

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (RhGG0)

13 Kamala the Pussyhearted!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (L/fGl)

14 What's Richard got that I ain't got?

Posted by: Bert Lahr at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (DobEs)

15 The dome of the HS is 182 feet high? That's about eighteen stories. You could fit a small office building in there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

16 Glorious.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at September 24, 2024 09:34 AM (SfhV1)

17 Wow, that’s gorgeous. Nice writeup, too, Kris.

Posted by: Caiwyn at September 24, 2024 09:34 AM (llS7k)

18 Never trust the muz!
Don't think infidels can access this anymore?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 24, 2024 09:35 AM (hOUT3)

19 What's Richard got that I ain't got?
Posted by: Bert Lahr at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (DobEs)
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"We can say that again?" - Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Toto, too

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:35 AM (B/XoF)

20 Go big, or go home...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 09:35 AM (Q4IgG)

21 I've been inside Hagia Sophia. It's a wonderful place.

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

22 thx kris

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

23 We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

24 What's Richard got that I ain't got?
Posted by: Bert Lahr at September 24, 2024

***
Parents who were king and queen of an entire country?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 09:36 AM (J2vNu)

25 Kamala the Pussyhearted!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 09:33 AM (L/fGl)
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I'm Jewish so I don't know: does one kneel during communion?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:37 AM (B/XoF)

26 Gorgeous painting. Would love to see it in person. Never had I heard of the "Swiss National Museum" either, until looking this painting up on the internet. I had always imagined the entirety of "Swiss art" was stolen art hidden in bank vaults..

Thanks!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 24, 2024 09:37 AM (0dpQU)

27 10 Looks like a giant version of the Saenger Theatre here in town. There's no real comparison, but this *reminds* me of the movie theatre/now pro stage theatre. Yes, it looks truly huge.
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Downtown Detroit had a theater that was amazing. Don't know if it survived. I saw Peter O'Toole' Goodbye Mr. Chips there in 1969/70.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 24, 2024 09:37 AM (c711F)

28 I like this one. It goes up on wall. probably stay there cuz
Im a lazy bones.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 24, 2024 09:37 AM (89Sog)

29 We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

Nice job -- An outstanding Steely Dan deep cut!!!

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (RhGG0)

30 I've been inside Hagia Sophia. It's a wonderful place.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:35 AM (v6JzV)

The closest I've ever been has been watching From Russia With Love, but I've always wanted to visit it, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (Q0kLU)

31 This work reminds me a lot of JL David's "Coronation of Napoleon". The David is about Napoleon tho, while Fossati focuses on the building.

https://tinyurl.com/4wbmn33d

Posted by: Kris at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (EwaUh)

32 and the Muslims desecrated it, vandalized it, covered up the artwork, tossed up some minarets and took it for their own

the Byzantines held them off for centuries though

Posted by: brak at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (NGHTx)

33 Then he went back to England and re-named all the outhouses as "johns".

Posted by: spindrift at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (OguvZ)

34 It comes across as political to me. Russia + the West driving out the Turks. Taking Constantinople was an enduring aim of Russia's.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (eYoxG)

35 Richard the Faint of Heart once received a Manhattan at Studio 54... but no one painted a picture of that scenario.

Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (Ss9xt)

36 Wow. The details are simply amazing. The architecture, the individual people's clothes and poses, the light, people in the balconies.

First rate art here; thanks, Kris!

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 24, 2024 09:39 AM (fzDUI)

37 Too much going on for me. It's fussy and detailed and busy. I don't argue the magnificence of the piece, it just gives me eyestrain and a headache.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:39 AM (HMS1n)

38 Who names their kid Gaspare?
Posted by: Not me at September 24, 2024 09:32 AM

You got a problem, pal?

Posted by: Melchior and Balthasar at September 24, 2024 09:39 AM (Q0kLU)

39 Help me find my keys and we'll drive out of here.

Posted by: Just the punchline at September 24, 2024 09:39 AM (DobEs)

40 Can we use Constantinople instead of Istanbul?

Posted by: dantesed at September 24, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

41 Does Gaspare mean very gassy or not so gassy? Imma confused.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 24, 2024 09:40 AM (c711F)

42 Wow, what a scene this is. Makes me want to see the place in real life.

Posted by: t-bird at September 24, 2024 09:40 AM (QrkKu)

43 Looking for British gold sovereigns for his next project!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 09:40 AM (CEzQx)

44 I think I see an American flag on the right ! No really, embiggen it !

Posted by: runner at September 24, 2024 09:41 AM (V13WU)

45 I love this!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 24, 2024 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

46 I'm Jewish so I don't know: does one kneel during communion?

It depends on the church. Generally, an Ovus Nordo parish will have you walk to the priest and take communion either by mouth or in the hand.

In a Tridentine parish, you kneel at the communion rail in front of the altar.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 09:41 AM (Q0kLU)

47 and now it is defiled....

Posted by: runner at September 24, 2024 09:41 AM (V13WU)

48 It'll always be Burma to me.

Posted by: J. Peterman at September 24, 2024 09:42 AM (DobEs)

49 Can we use Constantinople instead of Istanbul?
Posted by: dantesed

I like the old Russian name for it: Tsargrad, "Emperor City."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)

50 Can we use Constantinople instead of Istanbul?
Posted by: dantesed at September 24, 2024 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

That's nobody's business but the Turks'.

Posted by: The Four Lads at September 24, 2024 09:42 AM (OguvZ)

51 It used to be common to kneel to receive the Euchrist. Not so much these days.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 24, 2024 09:42 AM (MpVUb)

52 So when is Richard gonna go fight for Ukraine?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)

53 Can we use Constantinople instead of Istanbul?
Posted by: dantesed at September 24, 2024

***
That's nobody's business but the Turks'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 09:42 AM (J2vNu)

54 42 Wow, what a scene this is. Makes me want to see the place in real life.
Posted by: t-bird at September 24, 2024 09:40 AM (QrkKu)
No allowed for infidels.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:43 AM (LHPAg)

55 Lovely art, but can't help thinking about the cumulative body odor of the congregants.

Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at September 24, 2024 09:43 AM (CV8a5)

56 I've been inside Hagia Sophia. It's a wonderful place.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:35 AM (v6JzV)

The closest I've ever been has been watching From Russia With Love, but I've always wanted to visit it, too.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM

I'd love to see it, after the minarets are removed and it's in use as a church again. So, probably never.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 09:44 AM (kgE5c)

57 No allowed for infidels.
Posted by: Eromero

I don't know about that. I went into a few mosques when I was stationed in Turkey.

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

58 Lovely art, but can't help thinking about the cumulative body odor of the congregants.
Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at September 24, 2024

***
I guess, if nobody bathed very often in those days, you'd soon forget to notice the stench.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

59 Can we use Constantinople instead of Istanbul?
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RRRIIITTTZZZ!

Posted by: sen. john fetterman at September 24, 2024 09:45 AM (CEzQx)

60 The Muslim conquest of Constantinople happened only a little before the European colonization of the Americas started.

Yet note the left is always talking about modern America/Canada's obligations to the "Native Americans" but never Turkey's obligations to the "Native Greeks"?

I would love a President Trump to use the UN/NATO to start discussing the return of Constantinople and western Asia Minor to Greece just for the LULZ.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 24, 2024 09:45 AM (oZhjI)

61 Sad the Hagia Sophia was taken.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 24, 2024 09:46 AM (Pijte)

62 Like a Baptist church, you gotta get there early if you want a back row seat.

Posted by: As every one knows at September 24, 2024 09:47 AM (DobEs)

63 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

64 During Ottoman rule, the interior mosaics of the great Byzantine church were covered over in plaster.

Saw similar (and worse) the Ottomans did to churches in the Balkans. They'd frequently scrape off the faces of saints and such, but leave other decorations.

Posted by: Military Moron at September 24, 2024 09:47 AM (JCZqz)

65 In before the "no dog, not art" guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

66 1453 never forget

Posted by: Make Instanbul Constantinople again at September 24, 2024 09:48 AM (NGHTx)

67 Who names their kid Gaspare?
Posted by: Not me at September 24, 2024 09:32 AM

Vee vill name your children, Comrade.

Posted by: PJSC Gazprom at September 24, 2024 09:48 AM (w9Wax)

68 55 Lovely art, but can't help thinking about the cumulative body odor of the congregants.
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We'll set up a concession on the mezzanine.

Posted by: Lume marketing department at September 24, 2024 09:48 AM (DobEs)

69 I saw a Netflix series on the war between the Ottomans and Vlad in Wallachia - remember as soon as the Muslims got into Europe they started expanding dramatically.

The series presents Vlad as the villain, of course (so much for anti-colonialism!) but I was interested in his brother Radu.

I knew that Radu, historically, sided with the Ottomans instead of the Christians but I wasn't clear why and the miniseries doesn't make it clear either.

I did a little research and apparently the Ottoman Sultan had turned Radu into his sex slave (even writing "poetry" about it) and destroyed the man's mind. And...I see why Netflix did NOT cover this aspect.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 24, 2024 09:48 AM (oZhjI)

70 Gaspare

Similar to the naming of American blacks in the 90's, they combined 2 words for the name: Aghast and Despair, with artistic license, of course.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

71 There is a dig in that crowd somewhere
Of course doubt dogs are allowed in now

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 09:49 AM (NTwXV)

72 44 I think I see an American flag on the right ! No really, embiggen it !
Posted by: runner

You have to max embiggen and look a little to the left of the lower edge, but darn if it doesn't look like Old Glory!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 24, 2024 09:50 AM (hOUT3)

73 I like the old Russian name for it: Tsargrad, "Emperor City."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:42 AM (v6JzV)

Oooo
Take me down to the Emperor City
Where the marble's clean, and the courtiers witty

Posted by: Axl Rose first draft at September 24, 2024 09:50 AM (OguvZ)

74 Absolutely fascinating explication thank you Kris.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 24, 2024 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

75 I see the Stars & Stripes flag on the right side of the painting below the midpoint, against the right-side wall.

Interesting!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:50 AM (B/XoF)

76

Shall make a fine mosque after we bake a few babies in the event hall kitchen!

Posted by: Muhammad al Camala at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (7aWnP)

77 Who names their kid Gaspare?
Posted by: Not me at September 24, 2024

***
Asthmatics?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

78 Wish that king would hurry up and get back to Nottingham Forest.

Posted by: Erroll Flynn at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (w9Wax)

79 My church is bigger

Posted by: Joel Osteen at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (ZfaYl)

80 Nice job -- An outstanding Steely Dan deep cut!!!
Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (RhGG0)

Never did much Zep or the like but did a whole bunch of Steely Dan

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (gbOdA)

81 The Ottomans even made it to the outskirts of Rome at one point.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)

82 And...I see why Netflix did NOT cover this aspect.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 24, 2024 09:48 AM (oZhjI)

Netflix being judgmental, well I never...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (hOUT3)

83 I guess, if nobody bathed very often in those days, you'd soon forget to notice the stench.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Not this guy. Was born in Brooklyn, lived there to age 12. The "N" train got the system's oldest equipment. Wicker seats, no A/C, of course, trains from 1917. Can't forget the wet armpits and smell of the riders.

Posted by: B.O. Plenty at September 24, 2024 09:52 AM (CV8a5)

84 The History Channel (when it was still good) did a series called "Engineering an Empire". The episode on Byzantium has a section on the construction of Hagia Sophia that talks about the domes, vaults, etc. and what's going on.

https://tinyurl.com/2p468myu

Posted by: Kris at September 24, 2024 09:52 AM (EwaUh)

85 I think I see an American flag on the right ! No really, embiggen it !
Posted by: runner at September 24, 2024 09:41 AM (V13WU)
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Embiggeted Morons think alike!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:52 AM (B/XoF)

86 79 My church is bigger
Posted by: Joel Osteen at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (ZfaYl)

I saw Jimmy Buffet open for the Eagles at that church in 1979.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:52 AM (gbOdA)

87 Lovely art, but can't help thinking about the cumulative body odor of the congregants.
Posted by: Dr. Shannon Klingman at September 24, 2024 09:43 AM (CV8a5)

*fistbump*

- Zombie (Dingy) Harry Reid

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:52 AM (RhGG0)

88 57 No allowed for infidels.
Posted by: Eromero

I don't know about that. I went into a few mosques when I was stationed in Turkey.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)
There's one about 5 miles from here. No desire.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:53 AM (LHPAg)

89 81 The Ottomans even made it to the outskirts of Rome at one point.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (v6JzV)

Hell I seen the Ottoman dude show up here several times.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:53 AM (gbOdA)

90 That must have been a long ladder in order to hang that object in the middle of the church.

Posted by: dantesed at September 24, 2024 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)

91 *Similar to the naming of American blacks in the 90's, they combined 2 words for the name*

Is this about us?

Posted by: La'Quishraniqua and Sha'quonda at September 24, 2024 09:53 AM (DobEs)

92 Is this a set-up for another kind of Ottoman picture tomorrow?

Posted by: Suspicious Minds at September 24, 2024 09:54 AM (CV8a5)

93 Hell I seen the Ottoman dude show up here several times.

The Christian were too disunited to stop Ottoman expansion for a long time.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 24, 2024 09:54 AM (oZhjI)

94 Very nice painting. Thanks, Kris, and thanks so much for your commentary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 09:54 AM (dTTBf)

95 Nice job -- An outstanding Steely Dan deep cut!!!
Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:38 AM (RhGG0)

Never did much Zep or the like but did a whole bunch of Steely Dan
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:51 AM (gbOdA)

I offer this as possibly my favorite deep cut of theirs...

https://youtu.be/DwOzwFUjg5U

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:55 AM (RhGG0)

96 the painting is of Richard the Lionheart receiving the Lord's Supper in Hagia Sophia, it was painted by Gaspare Fossati in 1849, and it is currently held in the Swiss National Museum.

Posted by: SMOD at September 24, 2024 09:55 AM (RHGPo)

97 What is a "deep cut?"

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

98 62 Like a Baptist church, you gotta get there early if you want a back row seat.
Posted by: As every one knows at September 24, 2024 09:47 AM (DobEs)

Small Southern Baptist churches seating rules make the Islamic Republic of Iran seem lawless.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 24, 2024 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

99 So the Hagia Sofa was taken over by the ottomans?

By ottoman foot soldiers?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:56 AM (B/XoF)

100 Posted by: 18-1 at September 24, 2024 09:48 AM (oZhjI)

I think you're talking about the series "Rise of Empires"? There's two seasons. That's the second. The first deals with Mehmed's capture of Constantinople. It's pretty good.

Posted by: Kris at September 24, 2024 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

101 62 Like a Baptist church, you gotta get there early if you want a back row seat.
Posted by: As every one knows at September 24, 2024 09:47 AM (DobEs)
And hit the dessert table first.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:56 AM (LHPAg)

102 Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a mosque and former church ...
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Take it back.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 09:56 AM (Mr3X0)

103 Brothers Gaspare (1809-1883) and Guiseppe (1822-1891) Fossati, were born in Switzerland and trained as architects in Italy. In 1833 Gaspare moved to St. Petersburg, and in 1836 he became the official court architect. In 1837 he moved to Istanbul to plan the new Russian embassy; he stayed to work on other projects including restoration work and original architecture, often collaborating with Giuseppe.

In 1847 Sultan Abdülmecid (1823-1861) commissioned the Fossati brothers to restore Hagia Sophia, a project which included removing the plaster covering the Byzantine mosaics. Approximately 800 workers were employed for about 2 years; they repaired cracks, strengthened foundations, renovated mosaics, and renovated the mihrab and the minbar.

In 1849 the restored building was revealed. 22 lithographs of Hagia Sophia were made. After the restoration, the mosaics were covered up again with plaster. The brothers continued their career as architects in Istanbul, finally returning to Switzerland in 1858.

Posted by: SMOD at September 24, 2024 09:56 AM (RHGPo)

104 What is a "deep cut?"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:55 AM (v6JzV)
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You gash is as good as mine!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:56 AM (B/XoF)

105 What is a "deep cut?"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 09:55 AM (v6JzV)

Also sometimes called an "album track". A song that isn't likely to be played on the radio. You're only gonna know it if you listen to a whole album.

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:57 AM (RhGG0)

106 So the Hagia Sofa was taken over by the ottomans?

By ottoman foot soldiers?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

They were actually freebooters from the frontier. The Hassocks.

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

107 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

And it's also Sea Otter Awareness Week! Go to your local aquarium and say hi to the sea otters for me! The Monterey Bay Aquarium has stuff going on all week. Gosh, I'd love to go there someday.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:57 AM (mbnkV)

108 Not that I had any hopes of either of them being sane, but Fran Descher and Ann Hampton Callaway have convinced me not to watch or listen to them again:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wjsjp

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 09:58 AM (Q0kLU)

109 Kris,
Thanks so much for today's choice and analysis. Like you, I have no idea what the motivation for the painting might have been. It certainly isn't about an historical event as Richard didn't get farther from England than France and didn't take part in the actual third crusade.

The artistry revealed in the painting is amazing. He really captures the overwhelmingly huge effect of the place. (I had to look up what it looks like.) For such a small painting the level of detail is startling. His ability to depict so much specific detail in the altar (?) area and the many individuals is also amazing. Did he paint with a one hair brush? The bright but muddy browns of most of the structure is such a contrast with the sunlight streaming in, the gold of the ceremonial area and the bright clothing of the people. The effect for the viewer is quite strong and effective.

Wow!

Posted by: JTB at September 24, 2024 09:58 AM (yTvNw)

110 OT: Somebody did something to someone:

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian
@manniefabian
31m
The commander of Hezbollah's rocket and missile division, Ibrahim Qubaisi, was killed in the IDF airstrike in Beirut, security sources tell Reuters.

Let's cut to the video:

https://tinyurl.com/3jd9x5kd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:58 AM (B/XoF)

111 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

And it's also Sea Otter Awareness Week! Go to your local aquarium and say hi to the sea otters for me! The Monterey Bay Aquarium has stuff going on all week. Gosh, I'd love to go there someday.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:57 AM (mbnkV)
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I gave my kitties their morning tummy rubs.

Not sure if they'll let me give the sea otters tummy rubs...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 24, 2024 09:59 AM (7fElN)

112 The Monterey Bay Aquarium has stuff going on all week. Gosh, I'd love to go there someday.
Posted by: nurse ratched

It's an awesome place. You should really make the trip someday.

It's where Otter 841 was raised.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:00 AM (v6JzV)

113 This is an amazing piece of art... about another amazing piece of art.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 24, 2024 10:00 AM (N1DT3)

114 I used to collect furniture.
But then all my ottomans turned into turkeys.

Posted by: Puns after 100 at September 24, 2024 10:00 AM (DobEs)

115 Not sure if they'll let me give the sea otters tummy rubs...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 24, 2024 09:59 AM (7fElN)

You otter be careful if you try

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:00 AM (RhGG0)

116 I offer this as possibly my favorite deep cut of theirs...

https://youtu.be/DwOzwFUjg5U

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:55 AM (RhGG0)

great saxophone...Klemmer?

Posted by: BignJames at September 24, 2024 10:00 AM (AwYPR)

117
Also sometimes called an "album track". A song that isn't likely to be played on the radio. You're only gonna know it if you listen to a whole album.
Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:57 AM (RhGG0)

But there's no such thing as 'pay to play' they said.

So much music never gets heard because of the record companies and the music stations.......a travesty.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

118 Hmm... so every Leonard Cohen record is a deep cut.

Posted by: Guy Lombardo at September 24, 2024 10:02 AM (Ss9xt)

119 I offer this as possibly my favorite deep cut of theirs...

https://youtu.be/DwOzwFUjg5U

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:55 AM (RhGG0)

great saxophone...Klemmer?
Posted by: BignJames at September 24, 2024 10:00 AM (AwYPR)

Klemmer?? I barely know 'er!

Sorry -- yes, it was John Klemmer

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:02 AM (RhGG0)

120 I think you're talking about the series "Rise of Empires"? There's two seasons. That's the second. The first deals with Mehmed's capture of Constantinople. It's pretty good.

I think you are correct.

But this season just painted Vlad as a psychopath and Mehmed as generally a good but stern ruler - not a pedo Muslim warmonger...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (oZhjI)

121 Did Klemmer play klezmer?

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

122 Embiggeted Morons think alike!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:52 AM (B/XoF)

you too ! so I am not imagining it !

Posted by: runner at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (V13WU)

123 This is an amazing piece of art... about another amazing piece of art.

It's an amazing piece of art...about another amazing piece of art...about another amazing piece of art. There's a picture of dogs playing poker behind the altar.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (xCA6C)

124 Not that I had any hopes of either of them being sane, but Fran Descher and Ann Hampton Callaway have convinced me not to watch or listen to them again:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wjsjp
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 09:58 AM (Q0kLU)

"The one to save democracy."

They're STILL calling to murder Trump.

We're so totally and royally f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

125 Secret Service Approval Plummets to Record Low.

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Where's James West now that we need him?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

126 Seen on the internet ...

I want Harris to explain crypto and block chain
It'll be epic

Posted by: SMOD at September 24, 2024 10:04 AM (RHGPo)

127 Oh one other "fun" note about the Ottomans. Since they were Muslims the Sultan would take a number of wives and concubines, which meant he might have many living sons from different wives on his death leading to an unclear succession.

All were nominally just as eligible to rule as each other so often the winning son had all his half brothers killed when the previous Sultan died.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 24, 2024 10:06 AM (oZhjI)

128 I think I see an American flag on the right ! No really, embiggen it !
Posted by: runner at September 24, 2024

***
Y clemn' eesta!

Posted by: Cloud William at September 24, 2024 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

129 Let's work with this for a second, why would an artist, after visiting a church defiled by the Ottomans, on retainer by czar Nicolas I wanted to create an imaginary assembly with an attendee holding an American flag ?

Posted by: runner at September 24, 2024 10:06 AM (V13WU)

130 Not that I had any hopes of either of them being sane, but Fran Descher and Ann Hampton Callaway have convinced me not to watch or listen to them again:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wjsjp
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 09:58 AM (Q0kLU)
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They couldn't dumb it down any lower. And it's not menat to be parody but it winds up being just that!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 10:06 AM (B/XoF)

131 Naked Slob on an ottoman > The Ottomans

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

132 31 ... "This work reminds me a lot of JL David's "Coronation of Napoleon". The David is about Napoleon tho, while Fossati focuses on the building."

That's what immediately came to my mind. Unexpectedly, it reminded me of the detail and gravitas of some of the big Sunday panels for the Prince Valiant strip. Those were damn impressive, especially considering the medium.

Posted by: JTB at September 24, 2024 10:07 AM (yTvNw)

133 Where's James West now that we need him?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Artemus Gordon's got to get him out of jam with another goofy costume.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:08 AM (v6JzV)

134 Tropical Weather Update for the haters and non-believers:

Franklin County, FL has ordered a mandatory evacuation for its coastal communities (St. George Island, Dog Island, Bald Point, and Alligator Point) effective at noon today.

I imagine Pinellas County won't be far behind issuing their own order.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 24, 2024 10:08 AM (Y1sOo)

135 When absolutely everything has been politicized.

Who knew the f*cking Secret Service had an approval rating.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:08 AM (Zz0t1)

136 So much music never gets heard because of the record companies and the music stations.......a travesty.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

That is a sad truth

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:08 AM (RhGG0)

137 Did Klemmer play klezmer?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (v6JzV)
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With Klemperer.

In Kelemezoo.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 10:08 AM (B/XoF)

138 Nicolas I was an exemplary autocrat, is there a message ?

Posted by: runner at September 24, 2024 10:09 AM (V13WU)

139 Israel Reveals Hezbollah Missile in Civilian Home;

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It's an emotional support missile.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:09 AM (L/fGl)

140 Not that I had any hopes of either of them being sane, but Fran Descher and Ann Hampton Callaway have convinced me not to watch or listen to them again:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wjsjp

Gee, too bad for them that junior high school girls aren't the majority voting bloc or that would wrap it up for sure.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 24, 2024 10:09 AM (/y8xj)

141 Not that I had any hopes of either of them being sane, but Fran Descher and Ann Hampton Callaway have convinced me not to watch or listen to them again:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wjsjp
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024

***
Who is this Callaway creature?

Posted by: Cloud William at September 24, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

142 126 Seen on the internet ...

I want Harris to explain crypto and block chain
It'll be epic
Posted by: SMOD at September 24, 2024 10:04 AM (RHGPo

Countries have money. And money makes things appear on your doorstep. You get money from working but mostly from social security nets the government provides.

Money makes the world go round, am I right? Cackle cackle cackle. So money is made by countries and those countries buy stuff from other countries. Stuff they need. Like orange juice and blenders. So money is important.

So money does make the world go round and therefore I fully believe in money and what it can do for you, to lift you up....and unburden yourself from the past. So yes, I like orange juice.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 24, 2024 10:10 AM (Ud7de)

143 What the fuck do you mean, 'The bowman you hired is staked out at a golf course'?!!

Posted by: Prince John at September 24, 2024 10:11 AM (CEzQx)

144
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 10:11 AM (MqX8R)

145 Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 24, 2024 10:10 AM (Ud7de)
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That was too unbourboned for something Kamala would misspeak.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 10:12 AM (B/XoF)

146 I used to collect furniture.
But then all my ottomans turned into turkeys.
Posted by: Puns after 100

Did anyone warn you beforehand, and then when it happened say, "An I tolia so?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:13 AM (v6JzV)

147
65 In before the "no dog, not art" guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

144 No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 10:11 AM (MqX8R)

Prophecy confirmed

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:13 AM (RhGG0)

148
Hmmm... Meh

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at September 24, 2024 10:13 AM (5hfjS)

149 No dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 10:11 AM (MqX8R)
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In the painting see that Haitian guy in the rear left with the gravy stains all over his cloak?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 10:13 AM (B/XoF)

150 It's always the Italians.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 10:14 AM (Ud7de)

151

Prophecy confirmed
Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:13 AM (RhGG0)

#Winning

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

152 Posted by: JTB at September 24, 2024 10:07 AM (yTvNw)

This painting is so interesting because of how small it is. It feels like it should be huge but it's not. Not really. David's Napoleon is massive, and the figures are all life-size. This painting is a charming paradox.

Posted by: Kris at September 24, 2024 10:15 AM (EwaUh)

153 Cartels Cache RPGs and IEDs Near Arizona Border

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I didn't even know Arizona was in Lebanon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

154 Not that I had any hopes of either of them being sane, but Fran Descher and Ann Hampton Callaway have convinced me not to watch or listen to them again:

Hollywood, so whores that will do anything for a buck OR attention.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

155 One of the more interesting places I have visited is the castle where Richard I was imprisoned while England was relieved of every speck of silver and gold in order to pay his ransom, for a king that had seldom set foot in England.
Of course, the castle is a ruin now, and I recall it as being on the small side (the proprietor was a mere prince, after all). I recall it was a sturdy hike to get there.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 24, 2024 10:16 AM (MeG8a)

156 153 Cartels Cache RPGs and IEDs Near Arizona Border

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I didn't even know Arizona was in Lebanon.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:15 AM (L/fGl

So either Mexico is planning to attack America or our wide open fucking border is allowing Alah Snackbar to come across.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 10:16 AM (Ud7de)

157 Who is this Callaway creature?

Ann Hampton Callaway is a cabaret / jazz singer with some decent pipes. She wrote and sang The Nanny's theme song, which she just prostituted for nothing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 10:16 AM (Q0kLU)

158 121 Did Klemmer play klezmer?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (v6JzV)
Klezmer, polka, and jazz. Brothers from another Mothers.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 10:17 AM (LHPAg)

159 *waves*

Sorry for non participation the last week or so. I'm stuck in a office where I can read the main page, but the comments are blocked. Also can't carry my phone. 😡

I just posted some thoughts on the Senate races. This is my opinion on where things stand now, obviously things could change. Who knows what Robinson scandal they have waiting to drop on a candidate.

https://tinyurl.com/5bsdb8zy

Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 24, 2024 10:17 AM (4TS7s)

160 Alexandra Lavoie @ThevoiceAlexa 9h
MONTREAL TODAY:
A massive fire erupted at the Port of Montreal in a refrigerated container holding over 15,000 kg of lithium batteries.

Residents have either been evacuated or placed under lockdown for health and safety reasons.

https://tinyurl.com/49jtxfpp
32 seconds

https://tinyurl.com/yc3fu5ys
update screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 10:17 AM (CEzQx)

161
Taking Fitz and Dot to the vet. That's why I didn't beat Sponge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 10:17 AM (MqX8R)

162 Side note:

After seeing the video of all the creepy shit they did to Justin Bieber in public when he was a minor, I have one piece of advice for him.

You want to be free? TELL YOUR STORY. Name names. Tell the world what they did to you. Make it so they can't do it to others. Be a hero.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

163 "Not sure if they'll let me give the sea otters tummy rubs..."

I read that as sea ottomans. ...

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 24, 2024 10:18 AM (89Sog)

164 Wow. That kammy campaign ad.

Holy fook. Is that supposed to be a real ad? Just. No.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 10:18 AM (CO2jt)

165 REPORT: Iceland Police Shoot Polar Bear Dead After Animal Gets Near Woman’s Cottage

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I'll bet they wouldn't have shot it if it had been a black bear.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

166 Hell I seen the Ottoman dude show up here several times.
Posted by: rhennigantx

That image was created before the Geneva Convention and other treaties prohibiting such terrifying, cruel weapons.

Posted by: Military Moron at September 24, 2024 10:19 AM (JCZqz)

167 No Vigo painting...

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 10:19 AM (Gy/o9)

168 Iceland Police Shoot Polar Bear Dead After Animal Gets Near Woman’s Cottage

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:18 AM (L/fGl)
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Thank goodness the bear didn't try going for the cream cheese!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 10:20 AM (B/XoF)

169 I read that as sea ottomans. ...

You otter be careful what you read.

Posted by: dantesed at September 24, 2024 10:20 AM (Oy/m2)

170 -
I'll bet they wouldn't have shot it if it had been a black bear.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:18 AM (L/fGl)

The rioting in the black bear community would cost millions of lives.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

171 Where's James West now that we need him?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

Getting laid?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 24, 2024 10:21 AM (U7wke)

172 Was the polar bear bi?

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

173 The rioting in the black bear community would cost millions of lives.

BBLM?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 10:21 AM (Gy/o9)

174 117
Also sometimes called an "album track". A song that isn't likely to be played on the radio. You're only gonna know it if you listen to a whole album.
Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 09:57 AM (RhGG0)

But there's no such thing as 'pay to play' they said.

So much music never gets heard because of the record companies and the music stations.......a travesty.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

Having been born in 1982, I was too young for this phenomenon, but was watching a Rick Beato video wherein he talked about how some songs started as regional hits due to radio program managers constantly searching to be the person who discovered and broke a big song.

As those stations became consolidated, radio hits went from a collective effort to essentially one or two national program directors deciding what aired and what didn't.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:22 AM (KbCG3)

175 Was the polar bear bi?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:21 AM (v6JzV)

You asked for it........

https://youtu.be/EMprpu0et9M

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

176 REPORT: Iceland Police Shoot Polar Bear Dead After Animal Gets Near Woman’s Cottage

Reports say it's very rare, and polar bears aren't native there. So, will the narrative be climate change drove the bear away from its native range, or bear populations are doing so well, they need to keep expanding their range?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 24, 2024 10:23 AM (JCZqz)

177 Ann Hampton Callaway is a cabaret / jazz singer with some decent pipes. She wrote and sang The Nanny's theme song, which she just prostituted for nothing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024

***
I never knew that!

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

178 Having been born in 1982
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

My lawn status: Gotten off of.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:23 AM (v6JzV)

179 "Was the polar bear bi?"

bipolarbear would a great nick. Damn. Wish I would of thought of that.

6 days late and a million dubloons short.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 24, 2024 10:23 AM (89Sog)

180 The Bipolar Bears versus the Bad News Bears?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 10:24 AM (Gy/o9)

181 As those stations became consolidated, radio hits went from a collective effort to essentially one or two national program directors deciding what aired and what didn't.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Andy Travis held out as long as he could.

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

182 “ Richard the Lionheart Receives Communion in Hagia Sophia”

Which Turkey has now turned into an abomination by making it a muslim monument to evil.

Posted by: Vengeance. at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (j3d9V)

183 178 Having been born in 1982
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

My lawn status: Gotten off of.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:23 AM (v6JzV)

My friend, you do realize we can bond over all the things that are wrong with kids these days, right?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (KbCG3)

184 Biden on the radio blathering at the UN. Angry, bitter Biden today. The world and America has let him down.

Posted by: Ripley at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (GUOwU)

185 > Israel Reveals Hezbollah Missile in Civilian Home
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What's in your garage?

Posted by: Capital One at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (Q4IgG)

186 Was the polar bear bi?"

bipolarbear would a great nick. Damn. Wish I would of thought of that.

6 days late and a million dubloons short.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later

I will happily sell the rights for a million doubloons.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (v6JzV)

187 "Was the polar bear bi?"

bipolarbear would a great nick. Damn. Wish I would of thought of that.

6 days late and a million dubloons short.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 24, 2024

***
Doesn't mean I won't steal it for use elsewhere!

Posted by: Alexander "It Takes a Nic Thief" Mundy at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

188 Having been born in 1982
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Man I'm older than you?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

189 184 Biden on the radio blathering at the UN. Angry, bitter Biden today. The world and America has let him down.

Posted by: Ripley at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (GUOwU)

Won't someone listen to the foreign policy expert?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (KbCG3)

190 En fuego!

Posted by: refrigerated container full of lithium batteries at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (OguvZ)

191 Having been born in 1982, I was too young for this phenomenon, but was watching a Rick Beato video wherein he talked about how some songs started as regional hits due to radio program managers constantly searching to be the person who discovered and broke a big song.

As those stations became consolidated, radio hits went from a collective effort to essentially one or two national program directors deciding what aired and what didn't.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:22 AM (KbCG3)

Beato, who's name escapes me every time I look in my brain for it, did a video describing why today's music mostly sucks.

You USED to earn your music. Sure you heard a tune or two on the airwaves, but if you wanted it or wanted to hear what else they had, you had to work, earn money, travel to a store, and BUY it. Now, you can get all the music you can handle for $5 a month for a streaming service. It's disposable. Add that to the fact that anyone and their dog can download an app and use autotune to produce whatever, and music sucks balls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

192 There once was a biploar bear
Who hadn't a singular care
It wandered too far
Now its brain's in a jar
And they made a nice rug with its hair
Burma Shave

Posted by: Henauder Kloseoff at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (dzZCL)

193 My friend, you do realize we can bond over all the things that are wrong with kids these days, right?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer a

Turn down your music, get off my lawn, and cut your damn hair!

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

194 188 Having been born in 1982
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Man I'm older than you?!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

Do I come across as old? I don't know how to take this.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (KbCG3)

195 Israel Reveals Hezbollah Missile in Civilian Home
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What's in your garage?

Achmed, "A SCUD with a moon roof and two cupholders."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 10:27 AM (Gy/o9)

196 193 My friend, you do realize we can bond over all the things that are wrong with kids these days, right?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer a

Turn down your music, get off my lawn, and cut your damn hair!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

I'm bald. Does that help?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:27 AM (KbCG3)

197 Having been born in 1982, I was too young for this phenomenon, but was watching a Rick Beato video wherein he talked about how some songs started as regional hits due to radio program managers constantly searching to be the person who discovered and broke a big song.

As those stations became consolidated, radio hits went from a collective effort to essentially one or two national program directors deciding what aired and what didn't.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:22 AM (KbCG3)

Rick Beato has done wonders to introduce music and musicians to people of multiple generations which was previously otherwise unknown to them for various reasons. Would absolutely love to hang out with him for a few hours and just shoot the breeze.

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:27 AM (RhGG0)

198 148
Hmmm... Meh

hi

Posted by: meh at September 24, 2024 10:27 AM (iZ1Vx)

199 Because we all want kammy as our nanny.

JFC these people are stupid.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 10:27 AM (CO2jt)

200 Do I come across as old? I don't know how to take this.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Hahahah, I just assume as an 81 I'm among the 99th percentile of youth round these parts.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

201 You USED to earn your music. Sure you heard a tune or two on the airwaves, but if you wanted it or wanted to hear what else they had, you had to work, earn money, travel to a store, and BUY it. Now, you can get all the music you can handle for $5 a month for a streaming service. It's disposable. Add that to the fact that anyone and their dog can download an app and use autotune to produce whatever, and music sucks balls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

Miss the days of buying a disc, hearing the non-singles, and praying they put the lyrics in the booklet.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:28 AM (KbCG3)

202 'm bald. Does that help?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

I have very long hair.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

203 Having been born in 1982

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

same age as my beard

Posted by: BignJames at September 24, 2024 10:29 AM (AwYPR)

204 Miss the days of buying a disc, hearing the non-singles, and praying they put the lyrics in the booklet.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer a

I've been shifting to buying more things on vinyl lately, just a better experience all around.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:29 AM (CIS44)

205 2y5...I'm Jewish so I don't know: does one kneel during communion?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 09:37 AM (B/XoF)

The Orthodox do not.
However, due Divin Liturgies on regular days (not Sunday, not Feast Days), we prostrate when the Priest brings out the Chalice.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 24, 2024 10:29 AM (nI5Eu)

206 The Hagia Sophia really is that impressive. I took a photo from the balcony, looking across the space under the dome. Everyone on seeing it pauses a second and then, "Oh! Those are people!" about the tiny figures down on the main floor.

10/10; should be returned to Christian authority

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (UJJWg)

207 Having been born in 1982
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Man I'm older than you?!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

Do we actually know who the youngest Hordeling is? At least among the regular commenters. TJM perhaps? I don't know if he's even old enough to legally rent a car.

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (RhGG0)

208 Rick Beato has done wonders to introduce music and musicians to people of multiple generations which was previously otherwise unknown to them for various reasons. Would absolutely love to hang out with him for a few hours and just shoot the breeze.

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:27 AM (RhGG0)

I've seen his interviews with Billy Corgan and Robert Deleo (bassist for STP) and I love how Beato's music intelligence allows for great interviews that a rando like me can understand.

It's cool to see how complex some of the simpler sounding stuff actually is, and Beato has a great way of getting to that.

It actually shows how little most "journalists" know about the subjects they're covering.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (KbCG3)

209 Biden on the radio blathering at the UN. Angry, bitter Biden today. The world and America has let him down.
Posted by: Ripley at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (GUOwU)

Wait'll he sees what's waiting for him on the other side.

Posted by: Lady Who Could Give a... at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (JCLJi)

210 I've been shifting to buying more things on vinyl lately, just a better experience all around.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:29 AM (CIS44)

Analog recording pressed to analog vinyl >>>>>>> Digital recording pressed to analog vinyl

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

211 I will happily sell the rights for a million doubloons.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:25 AM (v6JzV)

I had a million doubloons 6 days ago.

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (89Sog)

212 202 'm bald. Does that help?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

I have very long hair.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

Spare some?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (KbCG3)

213 On the boat. Pea soup fog in the bay. All the boats are Toot toot rooting at each other.

And going slow. Going to be a couple minutes tardy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (CO2jt)

214 203 Having been born in 1982

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

same age as my beard
Posted by: BignJames at September 24, 2024 10:29 AM (AwYPR)

I'm sure she doesn't appreciate you giving away her age.

HEYO!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (KbCG3)

215 188 Having been born in 1982
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Man I'm older than you?!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)
Harry S Truman was in the WH when I was born.
My lawn.
Depart.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (LHPAg)

216 Do we actually know who the youngest Hordeling is? At least among the regular commenters. TJM perhaps? I don't know if he's even old enough to legally rent a car.
Posted by: Doof

He would def be my guess.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (CIS44)

217
I have very long hair.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:28 AM (CIS44)

This is SOOOO much better when you read it in Rain Man's voice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

218 207 Having been born in 1982
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Man I'm older than you?!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

Do we actually know who the youngest Hordeling is? At least among the regular commenters. TJM perhaps? I don't know if he's even old enough to legally rent a car.
Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:30 AM (RhGG0)

I would guess either TJM or Mannix.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (KbCG3)

219 174
Having been born in 1982, I was too young for this phenomenon, but was watching a Rick Beato video wherein he talked about how some songs started as regional hits due to radio program managers constantly searching to be the person who discovered and broke a big song.

----

Any idea which Beato video this was? I like the guy's stuff overall.

Posted by: sharksauce at September 24, 2024 10:32 AM (cFF0a)

220 216 Do we actually know who the youngest Hordeling is? At least among the regular commenters. TJM perhaps? I don't know if he's even old enough to legally rent a car.
Posted by: Doof

He would def be my guess.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (CIS44)

======

I thought there were some younger. I'm 39.

What's a Seawolf was younger, I think, but he doesn't come around much anymore.

Joe Mannix is about the same age. Not sure who's the elder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 24, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

221 The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Malice toward none; charity for all.

Ask not what your country can do for you . . .

“Keep fucking trying,” Biden reportedly told his national security officials

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

222 Spare some?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

hahahah it's on its way out, I'm just to the point I refuse to cut it now because I don't think it will come back.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:32 AM (CIS44)

223 204 Miss the days of buying a disc, hearing the non-singles, and praying they put the lyrics in the booklet.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer a

I've been shifting to buying more things on vinyl lately, just a better experience all around.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:29 AM (CIS44)

I looked into this. I wanted to build a table to hold a record player but then I saw the price of records and that pretty much ended that project before it started.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:32 AM (KbCG3)

224 1982? Fifteen years younger than my mustache.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 10:33 AM (LHPAg)

225 Miss the days of buying a disc, hearing the non-singles, and praying they put the lyrics in the booklet.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer a

I've been shifting to buying more things on vinyl lately, just a better experience all around.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:29 AM (CIS44)

Vinyl is cool for nostalgia. I've been slowly reacquiring a vinyl collection. But for me, nothing beats the sound quality of a CD and old school over-the-ear headphones. The kind that allow you to crank it to eleven and not even the person sitting next to you can hear anything.

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:33 AM (RhGG0)

226 Look if her name is pronounced "commala", when the shorten it to the cutesy version in the "nanny" video, wouldn't that make her "commie" not kammie?

Get so tired of being lectured by people's whose grievances are so situational.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 24, 2024 10:33 AM (uBBbP)

227 During Ottoman rule, the interior mosaics of the great Byzantine church were covered over in plaster.

And it didn't always stick, for some reason. To this day.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 24, 2024 10:34 AM (nI5Eu)

228 193 My friend, you do realize we can bond over all the things that are wrong with kids these days, right?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer a

Turn down your music, get off my lawn, and cut your damn hair!
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:26 AM (CIS44)

Consider having them mow your lawn first. Then kick them off it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 24, 2024 10:34 AM (N39Ws)

229 I looked into this. I wanted to build a table to hold a record player but then I saw the price of records and that pretty much ended that project before it started.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer a

Ive just been picky, picking up old favorite albums.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:34 AM (CIS44)

230 216 Do we actually know who the youngest Hordeling is? At least among the regular commenters. TJM perhaps? I don't know if he's even old enough to legally rent a car.
Posted by: Doof

He would def be my guess.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:31 AM (CIS44)
Spawn of Lin-duh.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 10:34 AM (LHPAg)

231 When did this turn into a Methuselah thread. Next it will be reverse mortgages and Metamucil.

Humans. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 10:34 AM (Gy/o9)

232 Get so tired of being lectured by people's whose grievances are so situational.

And whose brains are just notional.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 24, 2024 10:34 AM (xCA6C)

233 I watched that Kamala cartoon, yeah, and it made me so gay, yeah, that I'm jacking it while thinking of Tim Walz on my balz, yeah! The cream always rises to the top, yeah, and Kamala’s coconut cream is the best, yeah!

Posted by: Zombie Macho Man Randy Savage at September 24, 2024 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

234 Consider having them mow your lawn first. Then kick them off it.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

But I enjoy mowing the lawn.

*kicks rocks*

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:35 AM (CIS44)

235 .I'm Jewish so I don't know: does one kneel during communion?

Depends on the denomination and church. If it's very large they may take in their seats (It's passed to them by ushers) or some up and get cup and wafer or bread Our folks kneel-if they are able to- or stand at the altar to receive communion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 10:35 AM (dTTBf)

236 I thought it was Baptists with a Divin' Liturgy??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 10:35 AM (CEzQx)

237 My pic of the Hagia Sophia:

https://tinyurl.com/4899d9us

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 24, 2024 10:35 AM (UJJWg)

238 Spawn of Lin-duh.
Posted by: Eromero

She hasn't quite gotten into the commenting phase yet.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (CIS44)

239 Having been born in 1982, I was too young for this phenomenon, but was watching a Rick Beato video wherein he talked about how some songs started as regional hits due to radio program managers constantly searching to be the person who discovered and broke a big song.

----

Any idea which Beato video this was? I like the guy's stuff overall.
Posted by: sharksauce at September 24, 2024 10:32 AM (cFF0a)

Don't remember the name but it's a more recent one.

He kind of tapped into this when he was doing a one-hit wonders video and he talked about how Dancing in the Moonlight was a massive hit where he grew up, but one of his friends in a different part of the country hadn't heard it before.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (KbCG3)

240 Joe Mannix is about the same age. Not sure who's the elder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 24, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

Vic held that title, but haven't seen him around in a long time. Too bad. He was a great curmudgeon.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (N39Ws)

241 I do think we settled that I was the first Legacy commenter.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (CIS44)

242 Surprise.

>@BasedMikeLee

>Soros buys 200 radio stations weeks before the election.

>FCC bypasses review process to approve the purchase.

>What could go wrong?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (LkLld)

243 157 ... "Ann Hampton Callaway is a cabaret / jazz singer with some decent pipes. She wrote and sang The Nanny's theme song, which she just prostituted for nothing."

She is a decent singer especially if she can get a hold of a good arrangement. Apparently, she is also a ditzy airhead. Do Bette Midler and Streisand come to mind?

Jane Monheit and Nancy LaMott (who died much too early) are much better.

Posted by: JTB at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (yTvNw)

244 Spawn of Lin-duh.
Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 10:34 AM (LHPAg)

I thought of her but that's why I added the regular commenter part.

And now I'm reminded of how much better a shooter she is than me. I'm equally impressed and sad

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:37 AM (RhGG0)

245 242 Surprise.

>@BasedMikeLee

>Soros buys 200 radio stations weeks before the election.

>FCC bypasses review process to approve the purchase.

>What could go wrong?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (LkLld)

He plays a lot of smooth jazz?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:37 AM (KbCG3)

246 Screaming Joe is addressing the UN 'for the final time' at this moment!

I don't think I can bear to watch.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 10:37 AM (CEzQx)

247 242 Surprise.

>@BasedMikeLee

>Soros buys 200 radio stations weeks before the election.

>FCC bypasses review process to approve the purchase.

>What could go wrong?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (LkLld

In a sane world, our leaders would consider this country under attack by a foreign power.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 10:38 AM (Ud7de)

248 Depends on the denomination and church. If it's very large they may take in their seats (It's passed to them by ushers) or some up and get cup and wafer or bread Our folks kneel-if they are able to- or stand at the altar to receive communion.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 10:35 AM (dTTBf)

Catholic churches don't use kneelers for communion anymore, people cue up in a line, like they're in a mental institution, walking up to get their medications.

Some take it in their hands, some let the dispenser drop it on their tongue.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 24, 2024 10:38 AM (pQXhu)

249 Speaking of Rick Beato and discussions last week about yacht rock... he has an video on YT of the isolated solo Christopher Cross plays on "Ride Like The Wind."

It cooks. But on the album you can't hear it.

https://tinyurl.com/bd8wwyxp

Posted by: Capital One at September 24, 2024 10:38 AM (Q4IgG)

250
He kind of tapped into this when he was doing a one-hit wonders video and he talked about how Dancing in the Moonlight was a massive hit where he grew up, but one of his friends in a different part of the country hadn't heard it before.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (KbCG3)

I had family in San Diego when I was a yute and my brother and I stayed out there a couple weeks. There were quite a few songs we heard and liked that took a couple months to reach Northern Illinois.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

251 Does the UN smell of Sulphur with Joey there?

Will he stroke out?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 10:38 AM (Gy/o9)

252 When everyone is 29, how do we determine who's the eldest/youngest?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 24, 2024 10:39 AM (7fElN)

253 >Soros buys 200 radio stations weeks before the election.

>FCC bypasses review process to approve the purchase.

>What could go wrong?
Posted by: JackStraw

Remember, right-wing AM hate radio has single-handedly outperformed all other leftwing media and slowed the "progress" of the nation, according to the Left.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 24, 2024 10:40 AM (JCZqz)

254 Remember, right-wing AM hate radio has single-handedly outperformed all other leftwing media and slowed the "progress" of the nation, according to the Left.
Posted by: Intercepted DU

And must be banned from all new cars.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:42 AM (CIS44)

255 >What could go wrong?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (LkLld)

He plays a lot of smooth jazz?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:37 AM (KbCG3)

He converts the stations to all-yacht-rock.

Posted by: spindrift at September 24, 2024 10:42 AM (OguvZ)

256 When everyone is 29, how do we determine who's the eldest/youngest?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 24, 2024 10:39 AM (7fElN)

Find who hasn't reached 29 yet and let them fight in a cage match to the death.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

257 He kind of tapped into this when he was doing a one-hit wonders video and he talked about how Dancing in the Moonlight was a massive hit where he grew up, but one of his friends in a different part of the country hadn't heard it before.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 24, 2024 10:36 AM (KbCG3)

The story behind Dancing in the Moonlight (by King Harvest). Incredibly disturbing events which somehow led to the song. Check it out (just over 6 mins):

https://youtu.be/bFVUU3R1aSQ

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:42 AM (RhGG0)

258 When everyone is 29, how do we determine who's the eldest/youngest?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Well, with all his birthdays, there's no question Sefton is the eldest. I think he's passed Methuselah now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:43 AM (v6JzV)

259 Just GTFO, Joe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 24, 2024 10:43 AM (+o2mc)

260 Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee 33m
Soros buys 200 radio stations weeks before the election.

FCC bypasses review process to approve the purchase.

What could go wrong?

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 10:45 AM (CEzQx)

261
It cooks. But on the album you can't hear it.

https://tinyurl.com/bd8wwyxp
Posted by: Capital One at September 24, 2024 10:38 AM (Q4IgG)

I didn't even know Cross played guitar. That ridiculous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

262 I had family in San Diego when I was a yute and my brother and I stayed out there a couple weeks. There were quite a few songs we heard and liked that took a couple months to reach Northern Illinois.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024

***
In about 1972, I discovered my AM radio would pick up distant stations at night. I remember hearing the Eagles' "Take It Easy" and Johnny Nash's "Stir It Up" from an Illinois station a couple of weeks before my local Top 40 AM outlet began to play them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

263 >FCC bypasses review process to approve the purchase.

And yet another Deep State institution marks itself for elimination in a new Trump admin.

Teh Donald had better be keeping score.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

264 The Monterey Bay Aquarium has stuff going on all week. Gosh, I'd love to go there someday.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I used to volunteer there as a guide *mumble mumble* years ago.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 24, 2024 10:47 AM (dLTri)

265 Would hang.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 24, 2024 10:47 AM (d2bW3)

266 He converts the stations to all-yacht-rock.
Posted by: spindrift at September 24, 2024 10:42 AM (OguvZ)

Channel 311 on SiriusXM -- Yacht Rock Radio. One of my favorites.

Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:47 AM (RhGG0)

267
Teh Donald had better be keeping score.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 10:46 AM (Q0kLU)

Not a chance. He's a stupid doodyhead that knows nothing, learns nothing and has no clue what he's doing from one minute to the next.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

268
And must be banned from all new cars.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:42 AM

Okay so EV's with a couple thousand pounds of battery beneath them emit so much radio frequency static that AM is pretty much useless.

I'm sure that's healthy for a guys swimmers.

"Conspiracy theory, shut up," they'll explain.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 24, 2024 10:47 AM (RKVpM)

269 I've been to the Hagia. This painting captures the feeling very well.

Posted by: crabgrass farmer at September 24, 2024 10:47 AM (d4YmY)

270 Pastor Felt God's Presence With Her as She Chose to Have Two Abortions

-
I felt God's presence when I bought that box of doughnuts. He said, "Get the cream filled ones. Lots of cream filled ones. With sprinkles!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

271 Not this guy. Was born in Brooklyn, lived there to age 12. The "N" train got the system's oldest equipment. Wicker seats, no A/C, of course, trains from 1917. Can't forget the wet armpits and smell of the riders.
Posted by: B.O. Plenty at September 24, 2024 09:52 AM (CV8a5)
====
Seats?
-A train riders

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 24, 2024 10:48 AM (RIvkX)

272 We have a lawless government in power now, don’t we?? Who can control them??

Posted by: tubal at September 24, 2024 10:48 AM (PCK5/)

273 We have a lawless government in power now, don’t we?? Who can control them??
Posted by: tubal

Thanos?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 10:49 AM (CIS44)

274 I felt God's presence when I bought that box of doughnuts. He said, "Get the cream filled ones. Lots of cream filled ones. With sprinkles!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I've felt it, too! Hallelujah!!!

Posted by: LTC "Bearclaw" Vindman at September 24, 2024 10:49 AM (JCZqz)

275 And now I'm reminded of how much better a shooter she is than me. I'm equally impressed and sad
Posted by: Doof at September 24, 2024 10:37 AM

I remember when I was her age and shooting competitively. We forget how great our eyesight was back then.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 10:49 AM (kgE5c)

276
Would hang.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 24, 2024 10:47 AM

Hello there. Was wondering how well things are going with the new administration. At least we're getting some entertaining videos.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 24, 2024 10:49 AM (RKVpM)

277 I felt God's presence when I bought that box of doughnuts. He said, "Get the cream filled ones. Lots of cream filled ones. With sprinkles!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So you're Chris Christie?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:49 AM (v6JzV)

278 270 Pastor Felt God's Presence With Her as She Chose to Have Two Abortions
--------------------

That warm feeling wasn't God's presence.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 10:49 AM (Mr3X0)

279 We have a lawless government in power now, don’t we?? Who can control them??

Zuul

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 10:50 AM (Gy/o9)

280 > The Monterey Bay Aquarium has stuff going on all week. Gosh, I'd love to go there someday.
Posted by: nurse ratched
---------
We used to live there (Monterey) and were aquarium members for a number of years. It's probably one of the coolest (or was) aquariums I've been to.

The Great White Shark that was caught and put in their huge tank was a hit. But even back then the wokeness was oozing out of that place.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 10:50 AM (Q4IgG)

281 141 Not that I had any hopes of either of them being sane, but Fran Descher and Ann Hampton Callaway have convinced me not to watch or listen to them again:
------------------------------

Again?

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 10:50 AM (Mr3X0)

282 278 270 Pastor Felt God's Presence With Her as She Chose to Have Two Abortions
--------------------

That warm feeling wasn't God's presence.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 10:49 AM (Mr3X0)

======

I wonder what she would say to a Crusader's description of feeling the warmth of God while killing Muslim invaders to the Holy Land...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 24, 2024 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

283 "The rioting in the black bear community would cost millions of lives."

It would mostly peaceful, non-flesh eating rioting

Posted by: Ripley at September 24, 2024 10:51 AM (GUOwU)

284 Daniel Greenfield:
There is no legitimate way for Israel (or any non-Muslim country) to take out an Islamic terrorist. No amount of warnings, phone calls and dropped leaflets and roof knocking warning bombs were enough of a precaution. Even hostage rescue operations were condemned for killing terrorists who in the usual Hamas medical department parlance turned into innocent children.

And there’s also no such thing as an illegitimate Muslim way to kill Jews. Oct 7 proved that. Nearly a year later, Islamic groups are celebrating the orgy of butchery, kidnapping and rape. The Democratic Socialists of America, which boasts 5 allied members of Congress including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, has taken to arguing in favor of “armed resistance” and Hamas.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 24, 2024 10:51 AM (RIvkX)

285 280 We used to live there (Monterey) and were aquarium members for a number of years. It's probably one of the coolest (or was) aquariums I've been to.

The Great White Shark that was caught and put in their huge tank was a hit. But even back then the wokeness was oozing out of that place.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 10:50 AM (Q4IgG)

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Hasn't been the same since they sent George and Gracie to the North Atlantic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 24, 2024 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

286 > I didn't even know Cross played guitar. That ridiculous.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
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Apparently he's got quite a history.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 10:51 AM (Q4IgG)

287 Blessed are they who murder their child

For they shall be unencumbered and "me time" shall rain down upon them

Posted by: Beatitudes at September 24, 2024 10:52 AM (+o2mc)

288 I wonder what she would say to a Crusader's description of feeling the warmth of God while killing Muslim invaders to the Holy Land...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What would Pope Francis say. About the Crusaders OR the abortion.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 24, 2024 10:52 AM (JCZqz)

289 "The rioting in the black bear community would cost millions of lives."

But the portion sizes at the diner are good value for the money. And their pie selection is excellent.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 24, 2024 10:53 AM (dLTri)

290 Man, that's a high ceiling. A flying buttress!

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 24, 2024 10:53 AM (ewjUl)

291 34 It comes across as political to me. Russia + the West driving out the Turks. Taking Constantinople was an enduring aim of Russia's.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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A lot better idea than what they are working on today.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 10:53 AM (Mr3X0)

292 Posted by: BurtTC at September 24, 2024 10:38 AM (pQXhu)

I've never felt that way-that it was like and institution giving outs medications in a large church, although having communion in your seat rather feels like getting a snack in your seat while watchng the show. I guess people do what they have to do to accomodate lots of people and if God forbid you go over an hour and ten minutes people will complain. I meant to say in our church people kneel to take it at the altar rail, but because we are so small we can do that. I like kneeling, although I haven't been able to do that as a pastor. I need to get on to the next part of the service because to me it shows dependence on God in a visible way. We have been having Holy Communion every week for several months-which is not the tradition in my church unless a church has two services -. That is because when the denomination started they didn't have enough ordained clergy to get around in the US. Our dear patriarch complained because he's getting kind of crotchety and said "What are we Catholic now?" Some people have this idea that it's not special if we do it every week.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 10:54 AM (dTTBf)

293 288 What would Pope Francis say. About the Crusaders OR the abortion.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 24, 2024 10:52 AM (JCZqz)

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If I remember correctly, Francis has been consistently against abortion rhetorically.

It's almost every other thing in the modern world that he's been...less than ideal as leader of the Catholic Church.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 24, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

294 Meant "kneeling" shows to me dependence on God.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 10:54 AM (dTTBf)

295 Pastor Felt God's Presence With Her as She Chose to Have Two Abortions
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That's not how this works. That's not how ANY of this works.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

296 -
I felt God's presence when I bought that box of doughnuts. He said, "Get the cream filled ones. Lots of cream filled ones. With sprinkles!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 10:48 AM (L/fGl)

Just finished teaching morning classes and making a breakfast smoothie! 😊🤣

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 10:55 AM (p4NUW)

297 >>We used to live there (Monterey) and were aquarium members for a number of years. It's probably one of the coolest (or was) aquariums I've been to.

Visited a long time ago and at least then It was a great place. Really enjoyable.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 10:55 AM (LkLld)

298 295 Pastor Felt God's Presence With Her as She Chose to Have Two Abortions
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That's not how this works. That's not how ANY of this works.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

Help me out here, Sponge. What denominational flavor was this pastor…

Posted by: tubal at September 24, 2024 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

299 284 Daniel Greenfield:
There is no legitimate way for Israel (or any non-Muslim country) to take out an Islamic terrorist. No amount of warnings, phone calls and dropped leaflets and roof knocking warning bombs were enough of a precaution. Even hostage rescue operations were condemned for killing terrorists who in the usual Hamas medical department parlance turned into innocent children.

And there’s also no such thing as an illegitimate Muslim way to kill Jews. Oct 7 proved that. Nearly a year later, Islamic groups are celebrating the orgy of butchery, kidnapping and rape. The Democratic Socialists of America, which boasts 5 allied members of Congress including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, has taken to arguing in favor of “armed resistance” and Hamas.
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We live in disgusting times.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 10:56 AM (Mr3X0)

300 In about 1972, I discovered my AM radio would pick up distant stations at night. I remember hearing the Eagles' "Take It Easy" and Johnny Nash's "Stir It Up" from an Illinois station a couple of weeks before my local Top 40 AM outlet began to play them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 24, 2024 10:46 AM

I used to get stations out of Canada and would sometimes pick up a French speaking station. It was kind of cool.

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 24, 2024 10:56 AM (ewjUl)

301 That Nanny parody, yikes...

First off, it only appeals as nostalgia bait for white women already voting for Kamala. And I can't believe the threw the coconut tree line in there.

Second, I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't strung Fran Drescher up yet for overseeing the strike that killed their industry.

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 10:57 AM (bVKJd)

302 Just finished teaching morning classes and making a breakfast smoothie! 😊🤣
Posted by: Piper

Go easy on the vodka in the vodka-kale smoothie. It's still morning.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:57 AM (v6JzV)

303 .I'm Jewish so I don't know: does one kneel during communion?

Depends on the denomination and church....

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 10:35 AM (dTTBf)
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Argh!!!! Everyone missed my comment's (#25) reference context.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 10:57 AM (B/XoF)

304 That was interesting. I didn't realize how large the Hagia Sophia is. Impressive.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 24, 2024 10:58 AM (hKoQL)

305 Oversight Project @OversightPR 19h
🚨BREAKING - Voter Registration Form Mailed To Illegal Alien In Los Angeles🚨

A Chinese illegal alien sent us a picture of a voter registration form that was sent to his home in Los Angeles, California.

Shockingly, the form was dual language, consisting of English and Chinese.

This is an incredibly suspicious development, especially when considering the undeniable links between CCP members, Governor Newsom, the Biden-Harris administration, and Governor Walz.

The form appears to have been mailed by Covered California, a state run health insurance marketplace that also acts as a voter registration agency.

It is unclear how many other illegal aliens that California is attempting to register to vote.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 10:58 AM (CEzQx)

306 Pastor Felt God's Presence With Her as She Chose to Have Two Abortions

I have no doubt she did.

He was there to welcome the innocents to His presence, safe from their murdering, demonic 'mother.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 24, 2024 10:58 AM (Q0kLU)

307 Posted by: tubal at September 24, 2024 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

I wouldn't say its the "flavor" You can and do have more conservative pastors within progressive denominations. They just ignore whatever the hierarchy says, as some RC's do about some of what the Pope says if he's not speaking ex cathedra.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 10:58 AM (dTTBf)

308 FWIW we sit for communion… deacons go through the aisles and pass plates with bread and wine…

Posted by: tubal at September 24, 2024 10:59 AM (PCK5/)

309 Meant "kneeling" shows to me dependence on God.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The penitent man shall pass.

Posted by: Indiana Jones at September 24, 2024 10:59 AM (dLTri)

310 It was the Packard family, as in Hewlett-Packard, that bankrolled the MB Aquarium, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:59 AM (v6JzV)

311 We were informed that fuchsia is today's 'Ette Fashion color. I'm not detecting any fuchsia in the artist's palette. What's up with that? Didn't the artist get the word?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 24, 2024 10:59 AM (a3Q+t)

312
Help me out here, Sponge. What denominational flavor was this pastor…
Posted by: tubal at September 24, 2024 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

Over all, Satanic. Absolutely, unequivocally Satanic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

313 Argh!!!! Everyone missed my comment's (#25) reference context.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 24, 2024 10:57 AM (B/XoF)

Sorry; I arrived to this thread late and didn't see the initial post.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 24, 2024 11:00 AM (dTTBf)

314 The form appears to have been mailed by Covered California, a state run health insurance marketplace that also acts as a voter registration agency.

It is unclear how many other illegal aliens that California is attempting to register to vote.
Posted by: andycanuck (

This all goes back to day 1 in the Biden "administration" when he tasked every govt agy to work on GOTV efforts

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 24, 2024 11:00 AM (CIS44)

315 312
Help me out here, Sponge. What denominational flavor was this pastor…
Posted by: tubal at September 24, 2024 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

Over all, Satanic. Absolutely, unequivocally Satanic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

Ah. So Unitarian Universalist, got it. Might have known…

Posted by: tubal at September 24, 2024 11:00 AM (PCK5/)

316 Go easy on the vodka in the vodka-kale smoothie. It's still morning.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 10:57 AM

But since you're going easy, make sure to use a premium vodka, such as Val-U-Rite.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 24, 2024 11:01 AM (a3Q+t)

317 It is unclear how many other illegal aliens that California is attempting to register to vote.
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Shocked face "0"v"0"

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 11:01 AM (Mr3X0)

318 MONKEY TIME

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 11:01 AM (2LcDi)

319 nood monkey
pox

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 11:01 AM (CEzQx)

320
It is unclear how many other illegal aliens that California is attempting to register to vote.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 10:58 AM (CEzQx)

All. Of. Them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 24, 2024 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

321 >>> Meant "kneeling" shows to me dependence on God.

The penitent man kneels before god...

That booby trap was misleading, because yes he kneels to beat it, but then he has to leap away to avoid a buzz saw in the floor. The instructions lied a little!

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 11:05 AM (3ca8V)

322 Sorry; I arrived to this thread late and didn't see the initial post.
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Tracing an interesting reference back can be frustrating. - Something with "he, she, or it", Who/what was it? Trace it back five comments and one may still not know the answer.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 11:05 AM (Mr3X0)

323 Newsom would jail the artist for the deepfake.

Posted by: torabora at September 24, 2024 11:06 AM (0Gnoc)

324 It was the Packard family, as in Hewlett-Packard, that bankrolled the MB Aquarium, IIRC.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Correct. David Packard funded it for his daughter Julie. I attended a gala at the aquarium and he quipped that his daughter asked for an aquarium for her birthday one year.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at September 24, 2024 11:07 AM (dLTri)

325 When I visited Hagia Sophia in 2010, I was told that the mosaics were covered with mud and straw at the time the Ottomans made the church a mosque. That would have been around 1453. Your account of the covering changes that and was very interesting.

Posted by: Michael K at September 24, 2024 11:09 AM (wPC1E)

326 wouldn't covering up the ceiling without any anchoring rain crap down 18 stories

Posted by: torabora at September 24, 2024 11:16 AM (0Gnoc)

327 I liked it "enormity" better when it referred only to profound monumental evil rather than size.

One talked about "the enormity of the Holocaust" but not the "enormity of the universe".

But I'm an outdated vocab Nazi.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 24, 2024 12:41 PM (GD2xa)

328 I had a boss that visited Istanbul and the Hagia Sophia a few years ago. He said the whole place smells like feet because it's used as a mosque. Gross.

Posted by: John Juan at September 24, 2024 12:42 PM (GINp7)

329 The old school music radio hit making was pretty organic. The Police would have never made it without coming around in that age. Their first album was panned by the critics and they were pretty much dismissed but some regional radio station started playing "Roxanne" and after that caught on like wildfire in a week or so.

Back then DJs could make or break you.

Now it's totally corporate. And this is why music sucks now.

Posted by: pawn at September 24, 2024 12:50 PM (QB+5g)

330 A lovely painting, and a magnificent, enduring structure to God.

Republic of Turkiye, Minister of Foreign Affairs -

"In the aftermath of the Second World War, Turkey made the historic choice of siding with the free world and the Western Bloc. This policy was led Turkey to become member of NATO on 18 February 1952. Since then, NATO has been the cornerstone of Turkey's defense and security policy.

Protocol regarding Turkey’s membership to NATO was signed on 17 October 1951. Law on the accession of Turkey to the North Atlantic Treaty was endorsed on 18 February 1952 and Turkey became a NATO member together with Greece."

I apologize for such late posting. Another fine selection and welcome lesson, Kris. Thank you.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at September 24, 2024 12:50 PM (NFX2v)

331 Turks OUT of Europe and Anatolia

Posted by: Ddad at September 24, 2024 04:08 PM (6bE9C)

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