Lazy Rainy Tuesday Cafe

The Adirondacks, Upstate NY

Good dad.

Dog can't get the hang of the hula-hoop. I love how game he is, though.

Lions play fraternity hazing games. Teabag more like a fleabag amirite

Furry dog makes an outstanding rain-shield.

Dog winds up being a "personality hire" at the gas station.

Kitten love ambush.

Finding where you fit in.

The Ultimate Battle: Ducks vs. Dachshund.

The Penultimate Battle: Baby Goat vs. Capybara.

Mom needs a vacation.

Some monster put a dog in a bag and threw it in a river but there are more good people than bad ones.

Mommy donkey and her baby.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/mj9uew4KWO
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 23, 2024

Beavers pause while chewing trees to listen for movements so that the tree doesn’t fall on them.. pic.twitter.com/zy2MWXsHSJ
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 23, 2024

Bird collects fur from a sleeping fox to build a nest.. pic.twitter.com/ZK9x7yispR
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 24, 2024

When the boss suddenly appears behind you.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/Jix0rctTSZ
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 24, 2024

Posted by: Ace at 07:15 PM

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1 Cafe

Posted by: Beartooth at September 24, 2024 07:16 PM (WuJwx)

2 Awwww
What a cute little ass!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:16 PM (W/lyH)

3 Wow, that top picture is gorgeous.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:18 PM (bS+DD)

4 Got to admit I do miss the New England Fall foliage. Yes, I know the Adirondacks are in New York and not New England.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 24, 2024 07:18 PM (WuJwx)

5 Watched a beaver work on a tree once outside my office. Took him a couple days and then, Ta Da! Tree down!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:19 PM (W/lyH)

6 Diogenes, I was out your way over the weekend. My nephew got married in Chelan. What a beautiful area. And on our way back to Seattle we detoured and drove through N Cascades NP. What a beautiful park! It reminded me of Glacier and Yellowstone.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:19 PM (bS+DD)

7 How can Christopher Cross, Sailing not be a perfect 100 yacht rock? It's in the name of the song!!!

All Cross songs should probably fill the top actually. #11??? Whoever JD, Steve and Dave are they're high, and not in a cool lines of cocaine on your yacht kind of high either.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 24, 2024 07:20 PM (Y6IkP)

8 Beaver, the national animal of Canada.....

Posted by: Stateless at September 24, 2024 07:20 PM (jvJvP)

9
*bows deeply*

Good Café, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:20 PM (BkEzK)

10
Got to admit I do miss the New England Fall foliage.

___________

The problem is you have to go to New England to see it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:21 PM (BkEzK)

11 *curtsies to Hadrian*

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:21 PM (bS+DD)

12 Bluebell,
Thats awesome!!! And I think the weather was cooperating at least over on the east side. Yes, Chelan is a beautiful area.
Did you try any Applets and Cottlets?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:21 PM (W/lyH)

13 Diogenes, the weather was perfect. The wedding was at a winery which was lovely. I did not try any applets or cottlets, nor do I know what they are. But we did see tons and tons of beautiful trees laden with apples.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:24 PM (bS+DD)

14 banana Dream, I agree that that yacht or nyacht list is not going to stop any fistfights, as ace had hoped. It may start a few though.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:25 PM (bS+DD)

15 I appear to be alone here. I will now sing an aria.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:27 PM (bS+DD)

16 *sits down politely to listen to Bluebell sing*

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 07:28 PM (Eng1Z)

17 15 Queen of the Night’s Aria from The Magic Flute, please, Bluebell.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:28 PM (v6JzV)

18 Wait, let me clean up in here a little first. When's the last time anyone dusted?

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:28 PM (bS+DD)

19
I appear to be alone here. I will now sing an aria.
Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:27 PM (bS+DD)

__________

Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:28 PM (BkEzK)

20 Good evening everyone on way home from Biden County

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 07:29 PM (2LcDi)

21 Madam Butterfly!!!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 24, 2024 07:29 PM (MeG8a)

22 Bulgar, how did you know that's the one I was going to do?

I've never been a soprano but I won't let that stop me.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:29 PM (bS+DD)

23 A hush falls over the HQ opera house...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 24, 2024 07:29 PM (mH6SG)

24
A knife is involved.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:30 PM (BkEzK)

25 grabs the seasons last watermelon margaritas and waits for bluebell to begin

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:30 PM (I1GXe)

26 I missed the filibuster discussion, but that is hilarious.

The most freedom they could possibly imagine, and as in-line with the Constitution as it's possible to get. If gun owners had a similar 10th Amendment ruling about Class III weapons (and guns in general) it would be viewed as the biggest victory for freedom in 100 years.

And the chicks want to set it up so that people like me can ban abortion in all scenarios including rape and incest in order to protect the innocent child.

Too funny.

Posted by: Haiti Has No Home Here at September 24, 2024 07:30 PM (yiiaB)

27 18 Dusted? I thought that was only for the Barrel, by its latest incarcerant.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:30 PM (v6JzV)

28 *grabs bongos*

Posted by: fd at September 24, 2024 07:30 PM (vFG9F)

29
I've never been a soprano but I won't let that stop me.
Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:29 PM (bS+DD)

________

The Florence Foster Jenkins of the Horde.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:31 PM (BkEzK)

30 Diogenes, the weather was perfect. The wedding was at a winery which was lovely. I did not try any applets or cottlets, nor do I know what they are. But we did see tons and tons of beautiful trees laden with apples.
Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:24 PM (bS+DD)

Glad you saw it at it's best. I used to go camping in the Chelan area when I was a kid and when it is sunny, it is great. My folks always bought Applets and Cottlets, an apple candy thing, and they loved them. I thought they were vile. I think I'm the only one who dislikes them.
Now that I am older, I find the over 300 wineries, stretching from Chelan down to Hanford, much more to my liking.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:31 PM (W/lyH)

31 Oh dear. The audience has gotten too big, and I must demur.

At least it worked to get you all over here!

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:31 PM (bS+DD)

32 22 Bluebell, trust me. I know how to cast operas.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:31 PM (v6JzV)

33 The Florence Foster Jenkins of the Horde.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:31 PM (BkEzK)
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You are perilously close to the truth.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:32 PM (bS+DD)

34 >>> banana Dream, I agree that that yacht or nyacht list is not going to stop any fistfights, as ace had hoped. It may start a few though.
Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:25 PM (bS+DD)

I agree with most of their choices I just always felt Cross's Sailing was the pinnacle of the genre.

But I'm from Kansas where there is very little yachting so I might not be the best authority.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 24, 2024 07:32 PM (Y6IkP)

35 If you're in new media, an anti-Israel stance is pretty much a requirement.

But even all the bien pensant podcast tools seem to grudgingly admit that the Mossad dick-and-face-bombings were a finesse move.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 24, 2024 07:32 PM (0FoWg)

36
Oh dear. The audience has gotten too big, and I must demur.

__________

*boos rain down from the balconies*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:32 PM (BkEzK)

37 Oh well. Shall I play a solo?

*proceeds to play "The Black Page" on the bongos*

Posted by: fd at September 24, 2024 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

38 and I must demur.

--

(notices how that's nearly an anagram for something else)

Posted by: Haiti Has No Home Here at September 24, 2024 07:32 PM (yiiaB)

39 bluebell, we would follow you anywhere.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:33 PM (I1GXe)

40 Diogenes, it's true. You positively trip over wineries everywhere you turn there.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:33 PM (bS+DD)

41 I wonder? Can a aria have a mosh pit?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:34 PM (W/lyH)

42 boos rain down from the balconies*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:32 PM (BkEzK)
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Could you throw down some fruits and vegetables instead? I've been away and the larder is lean.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:34 PM (bS+DD)

43 ***Lazy Rainy Tuesday Cafe

It's raining cats and dogs in Jamaica and western Cuba.

https://tinyurl.com/yhn5zwex

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 07:35 PM (Mr3X0)

44 Lisa: Mom it's pronounced foal-ee-idge
Marge: That's what I said, foil-idge

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (NMT5x)

45 I use ta could belt out a pretty entertaining and dynamic caro mio ben.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (Y6IkP)

46 So, I’m upgrading AOSHq: The Musical to an opera. Who among the Horde can sing opera?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (v6JzV)

47
The weather boys are talking really dirty about Helene. We're now in the 6-8" potential rainfall zone, the mountains above one notch higher.

Gust potentials up to 50 - 60 mph (that's gusts, of course, sustained winds maybe 25 mph give or take).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 24, 2024 07:37 PM (w6EFb)

48 Beaver, the national animal of Canada...
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Educational time-fillers for early morning cartoons of myour youth.

Hinterland Who's Who Beaver [early version]
https://tinyurl.com/y5m92bef
1:07 minutes

Hinterland Who's Who - Beaver [later version]
https://tinyurl.com/ye27fdv3
1 minute

1978 - NFB Canada Vignette - Home of the Beaver
https://tinyurl.com/yv7wrwjw
3:10 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 07:37 PM (CEzQx)

49 Its Sea Otter Awareness Week!

Beware the otter.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:38 PM (BT7V7)

50 So, I’m upgrading AOSHq: The Musical to an opera. Who among the Horde can sing opera?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (v6JzV)
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Years ago we had a cob who occasionally posted who sang opera. Tk3 something or other, I think. If I remember correctly, sometimes he would sing the National anthem at professional sports games.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:38 PM (bS+DD)

51
Who among the Horde can sing opera?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (v6JzV)

__________

Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso,
notte e giorno d'intorno girando;
delle belle turbando il riposo
Narcisetto, Adoncino d'amor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:38 PM (BkEzK)

52 Beaver knew which way the tree was going to fall. I never do.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 24, 2024 07:38 PM (Mr3X0)

53 Re: Ambush kittens

Now I'm wondering if they just stole all of their neighbors' young cats.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 24, 2024 07:39 PM (hB7mE)

54 Weasel can do a killer Nessun Dorma, by the way.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:39 PM (bS+DD)

55 51 Hadrian, you’re hired. Expect a contract coming your way soon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:40 PM (v6JzV)

56 Who among the Horde can sing opera?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (v6JzV)

Not I.
Alas, when the preacher in my church would put out the call for more men in the choir, he'd raise his hand and say, "Not so fast Diogenes. We need men to help with parking."
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:40 PM (W/lyH)

57
Stupido, stupidissimo, tenore.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:40 PM (BkEzK)

58
Q: What's the difference between a soprano and a terrorist?

A: You can negotiate with a terrorist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:42 PM (BkEzK)

59 Eris could do a rock opera to knock your socks off.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:42 PM (I1GXe)

60 Diogenes, I’m sure you’ll do fine in the chorus. I’ll pencil you in for the part of third troll from the left.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:43 PM (v6JzV)

61 Bluebell, it's Moron Robbie. You're going to want to make this while it's apple season:

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Pie

https://tinyurl.com/3pkukj9j

Her salted caramel is a tad too salted, though, and I'd suggest 75% of whatever she recommended for salt (IIRC a teaspoon)

Really great and looks much more difficult than it is.

Posted by: Haiti Has No Home Here at September 24, 2024 07:43 PM (yiiaB)

62 Hi friends!

So many kitties on the cafe! Yay!

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 07:44 PM (QzINz)

63 And Piper will be the choreographer!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:44 PM (v6JzV)

64 Piper, I'm still chuckling over you cueing 17.2 hand horse.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:46 PM (I1GXe)

65 That must be a Black Crested Titmouse collecting fur from the fox. They live in Texas, Oklahoma and northern Mexico. The fox is very sleepy.

Posted by: Faux News at September 24, 2024 07:46 PM (nvKZ7)

66 bluebell!

I'm so please you were here this last weekend! It was spectacular. Chelan is gorgeous this time of year (unless it's on fire).

Applets and Cottlets are indeed vile.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:46 PM (K2pew)

67 Moron Robbie, that sounds absolutely decadent. I will take a look, thank you!

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:47 PM (bS+DD)

68 Who among the Horde can sing opera?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (v6JzV)

Second tenor in high school choir. I was so bad, that I sat in the second to last seat in the second tenor row. Hard to believe there was one guy worse than me. He was practically sitting in the choir director's office he was so far down the row.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 24, 2024 07:47 PM (WuJwx)

69 " My folks always bought Applets and Cottlets, an apple candy thing, and they loved them. I thought they were vile. I think I'm the only one who dislikes them."

Diogenes-- You are not alone.

Posted by: JQ at September 24, 2024 07:47 PM (njWTi)

70 bluebell, thank you so very much for the Gun Thread birthday cakes you provide every year, and especially for the *two* that you provided this year, since the first one didn't get served due to the Gun Thread not being published two weeks ago, and you provided a second, so the commenters didn't have to eat stale cake.

You're the best!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 24, 2024 07:48 PM (a3Q+t)

71 46 So, I’m upgrading AOSHq: The Musical to an opera. Who among the Horde can sing opera?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September

Do you mean well?

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 07:48 PM (QzINz)

72 Hello nurse! I was thinking of you and Diogenes and our dear Rat while I was out there. And Jordan too, since I was halfway to her too.

It really was lovely.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:48 PM (bS+DD)

73 Diogenes, I’m sure you’ll do fine in the chorus. I’ll pencil you in for the part of third troll from the left.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:43 PM (v6JzV)

Oooooo!!!!
I can do that!
Look everyone!!!! I'm in the opera!!!
I'm gonna be cultured!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:48 PM (W/lyH)

74 too late to post in the prior thread, but not too late to say +100 to Ace's conclusion in that thread:

I have a preference that Ukraine not be politically interfered with by foreigners, but my much, much, stronger insistence is that the US not be politically interfered with by foreigners.

F*** Ukraine.

Posted by: Ex GOP at September 24, 2024 07:48 PM (GpUII)

75 Klingon opera is best opera.

Posted by: Worf, son of Mogh at September 24, 2024 07:49 PM (a3Q+t)

76 I appear to be alone here. I will now sing an aria.
Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:27 PM

No interpretive dance?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (Wnv9h)

77 pouts because bluebell doesn't have Texas on her map anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (I1GXe)

78 I try my best, Dunc. If Weasel didn't keep asking for unicorns, I could really do something spectacular. But he's the boss.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (bS+DD)

79 I got to see a symphony play Saturday night. I'm cultured up for at least half a year.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (Ud7de)

80 Applets and Cottlets are indeed vile.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:46 PM (K2pew)

Nurse, JQ...fistbump!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (W/lyH)

81 Kitten ambush.

Lived it.

Posted by: Stateless at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (jvJvP)

82 64

@ben had

https://tinyurl.com/2p3b4sst

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (QzINz)

83 Moron Robbie, that sounds absolutely decadent. I will take a look, thank you!
Posted by: bluebell

-

It presents itself really well. If you're taking it somewhere I suggest making whipped cream and adding some instant pudding mix (I bet you already know that trick) to extend the life of it so it doesn't wilt or "weep".

Random grab:

https://tinyurl.com/24wx4lcb

It's the next best thing to having ice cream available.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 07:51 PM (7Dy6w)

84 Ben Had, i was there in March visiting family! But we have another October wedding to attend this year. It's a gorgeous time of year here and very popular for weddings.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:51 PM (bS+DD)

85 71
Do you mean well?

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 07:48 PM (QzINz)
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I think he means well so we may have to suffer through it, .... wait .... well as in professionally!

Posted by: Ciampino - imagine having a president that shat his pants at September 24, 2024 07:51 PM (qfLjt)

86 Oooooo!!!!
I can do that!
Look everyone!!!! I'm in the opera!!!
I'm gonna be cultured!
Posted by: Diogenes

*record screeches*

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:51 PM (K2pew)

87 Its Sea Otter Awareness Week!

Beware the otter.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:38 PM

Are there that many people who are unaware of sea otters?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:52 PM (Wnv9h)

88 Eris couldn't carry a tune in a carpetbag.

Hey, I saw the bonkers body horror movie "The Substance" today. Holy crap. See it if you have a strong stomach.

Coppola's "Megalopolis" got zero stars from the NY Post but I'm kind of intrigued by a flick that seems to piss off the critics.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at September 24, 2024 07:52 PM (kpS4V)

89 No interpretive dance?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM (Wnv9h)
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That's your gig, I thought.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:52 PM (bS+DD)

90
Her salted caramel is a tad too salted, though, and I'd suggest 75% of whatever she recommended for salt (IIRC a teaspoon)

Really great and looks much more difficult than it is.
Posted by: Haiti Has No Home Here at September

This sounds so good. But I am eating super greens soup, so it’s relative right now!

Kidding the soup is good. I swear.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 07:52 PM (QzINz)

91 Bird's going to have a cozy nest!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 24, 2024 07:52 PM (OX9vb)

92 68 Beartooth, as a singer myself, I am of the opinion that anyone can become a better singer with enough practice. Maybe not a Pavarotti, but good enough to blend in with a choir and be listenable. It’s like any other physical activity in that it’s just a matter of training and strengthening the relevant tissues.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:52 PM (v6JzV)

93 Okay, that video of that poor dog in the bag being pulled out the river made things pretty dusty in here.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 24, 2024 07:53 PM (iODuv)

94 Buying myself a beaver hat this winter. And sea otter gloves.

Posted by: Furry Frank at September 24, 2024 07:54 PM (CV8a5)

95 Baby goats are hilarious! Good thing that big assed rodent had a low center of gravity.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 24, 2024 07:54 PM (uBb4f)

96 Klingon opera is best opera.
Posted by: Worf, son of Mogh
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Do they still sing songs of the Great Tribble War, Worf??

Posted by: Lt. Cmdr. Jadzia Dax at September 24, 2024 07:54 PM (CEzQx)

97
I have a very good voice that I never trained. Now that I'm partially deaf, I never can.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 07:54 PM (BkEzK)

98 I try my best, Dunc. If Weasel didn't keep asking for unicorns, I could really do something spectacular. But he's the boss.
Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:50 PM

Well, I pointed out that he owed you, and he agreed he needed to buy you lunch. I said he owed you two lunches, at restaurants that have dessert carts, and he should buy you anything you wanted off of them.

(I specified the dessert carts so you'd be at a more hoity-toity establishment than Weasel, Mr.-Two-Minutes-From-Prep-To-Eating, might otherwise select.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 24, 2024 07:54 PM (a3Q+t)

99 Piper, hahahaha, I love it..

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:54 PM (I1GXe)

100 That's your gig, I thought.
Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:52 PM

Trust me...if I tried to dance, *no one* would be able to interpret it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:55 PM (Wnv9h)

101 73. Plus, Diogenes, you get to carry a golf club.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:55 PM (v6JzV)

102 This sounds so good. But I am eating super greens soup, so it’s relative right now!

Kidding the soup is good. I swear.
Posted by: Piper
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I know you'll be expected to take something somewhere for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

It's no-joke easy enough that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to someone as a first cheesecake attempt. I think the most important thing is to allow everything to reach room temperature except for the streusel butter (which you have to cut in).

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 07:55 PM (7Dy6w)

103 I specified the dessert carts so you'd be at a more hoity-toity establishment than Weasel, Mr.-Two-Minutes-From-Prep-To-Eating, might otherwise select.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 24, 2024 07:54 PM (a3Q+t)
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We eat at the same diner every single time and I wouldn't have it any other way!

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 07:55 PM (bS+DD)

104 Of course, I have this "thing" [bad] about apricots.

As a young adult, splitting rent with several roommates, I was still *so broke* I often couldn't afford much, if any, groceries.

But there was this apricot tree in our backyard... lucky me!

I cannot stand apricots, and haven't eaten them since.

Posted by: JQ at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM (njWTi)

105 And since no one has gone there yet...

Obligatory:

Nice beaver!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM (Wnv9h)

106 Are there that many people who are unaware of sea otters?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Not on this blog! And most of y'all even know the difference between sweet, cuddly sea otters and mean, aggressive river otters.

You know they hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift away from each other

You know they have pockets under their armpits where they keep their favorite rocks.

You know they are some of the very few mammals
Who use tools

All kinds of great sea otter stuff!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM (owYFg)

107 92 68 Beartooth, as a singer myself, I am of the opinion that anyone can become a better singer with enough practice. Maybe not a Pavarotti, but good enough to blend in with a choir and be listenable. It’s like any other physical activity in that it’s just a matter of training and strengthening the relevant tissues.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Some people are dead tone deaf and can never sing on key. It's no shame, but it am what it is.

Posted by: Nightingale at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM (CV8a5)

108 Obligatory:

Nice beaver!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Oh, you say that to all the gals!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (WXNFJ)

109 bluebell. Wish I could have invited you for a dinner.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (I1GXe)

110 Well, Ubisoft has managed to shoot itself in the dick. Again. It wasn't bad enough that the protagonist in their long awaited Samurai game is black in 17th century Japan nor that his Ninja sidekick is a lezbo nor that the architecture is more Chinese than Japanese. No, they have to release a commemorative statutette featuring a broken torii gate, like the famous one broken during the nuking of Nagasaki seeming to trivialize what was a disaster for the Japanese.

https://is.gd/t42KIP

Now, apparently because of the aforementioned, they pulled put of the big Japanese Game Show originally intended to showcase this game. And they've lied repeatedly about all of this. Ubisoft desperately needs a win but this is looking like another highly public humiliating loss.

Assassin's Creed is one of my favorite IPs but now I'm getting to be like a battered wife. It's my fault that their hitting me! If only I hadn't wanted a quality game. Even now I'm hoping that their pulling out of game may mean they're going back to the drawing board, delaying release (set in about two months), and revamping the game to ditch the black Samurai and the lezbo Ninja and fix the other problems.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (L/fGl)

111 105 And since no one has gone there yet...
Obligatory:
Nice beaver!
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Wouldn't be AOSHQ without it!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (W+kMI)

112 Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (Wnv9h)

113 DC and NYC pro-pali demos LIVE

https://www.twitch.tv/humandilemma

Posted by: Ciampino - water cannon at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (qfLjt)

114 Sea Otters murder other otters and sleep with their dead corpses.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 07:58 PM (Ud7de)

115 Saw the video of the dog rescued from the river. I feel the need to pet the dog and then go punch someone.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 24, 2024 07:58 PM (W+kMI)

116 Sea Otters murder other otters and sleep with their dead corpses.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 07:58 PM

Can I have your stuff?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:59 PM (Wnv9h)

117 Nice beaver!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM

Thank you!

Posted by: Winona at September 24, 2024 07:59 PM (a3Q+t)

118 All kinds of great sea otter stuff!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM (owYFg)

Damn! Cool stuff.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 24, 2024 07:59 PM (uBb4f)

119 Bulg, I am loving the culture of an opera, but if we stuck with a musical, the dance numbers could be far more interesting and fun. We could have snapping fingers and clapping hands, and of course the part where I come out as a ballerina ducky in homage to my first ballet and Garret’s Princess Tutu story.

Maybe just a section of opera staring Werner?

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 07:59 PM (QzINz)

120 107 I suspect that that’s a matter of training as well. Most people don’t have perfect pitch, but make fine singers nonetheless.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:00 PM (v6JzV)

121 Wotan, gemahl, erwache!

Sorry, that's all I remember auf Deutch.
Maybe we can sing in english?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 24, 2024 08:00 PM (Rbu5d)

122 116 Sea Otters murder other otters and sleep with their dead corpses.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 07:58 PM

Can I have your stuff?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 07:59 PM (Wnv9h)

If she ever gets me, yes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:00 PM (Ud7de)

123 Thank you!
Posted by: Winona
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Did you just have it great sea otter stuffed??

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 08:01 PM (CEzQx)

124 What's that noise?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:01 PM (LkLld)

125 bluebell. Wish I could have invited you for a dinner.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (I1GXe)
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I didn't get down to your area. You know I would call you if I did!!

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 08:01 PM (bS+DD)

126 Who among the Horde can sing opera?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (v6JzV)

Was a time, I could sing a range from alto to soprano. Funny thing, now, I sing so seldom that I just sort of croak now. I don't even have a commute to work where I can belt it out and practice.

I should probably join a church choir, but then I'd have to go to church.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 24, 2024 08:01 PM (OX9vb)

127 Southern IL -- poor car

https://tinyurl.com/ynk36yxa

Posted by: Ciampino - poor internal partition at September 24, 2024 08:02 PM (qfLjt)

128 We also need really great set construction for the dance number with our restored cruise ship we turned into our own country.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:02 PM (QzINz)

129 Filling station mascot doggo is also good.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 24, 2024 08:02 PM (W+kMI)

130 128 We also need really great set construction for the dance number with our restored cruise ship we turned into our own country.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:02 PM (QzINz)

Will we have a cat room so we can go in and pet cats?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:03 PM (Ud7de)

131 124 What's that noise?
Posted by: JackStraw at September

You didn’t pull anyone’s finger, did you?

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:03 PM (QzINz)

132 119 The choreography is entirely in your hands, Piper. Just make sure that the dancers are all comely, shapely young women who can execute a perfect pirouette while sporting a DD bust.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:03 PM (v6JzV)

133 We also need really great set construction for the dance number with our restored cruise ship we turned into our own country.
Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:02 PM

In the ballroom, right? The Lido Deck is Cap'n Bill Country!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 24, 2024 08:04 PM (a3Q+t)

134 127 Southern IL -- poor car

https://tinyurl.com/ynk36yxa
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Damn, that patrol car was trashed worse thtn Sheriff Roscoe's car ever was!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 24, 2024 08:04 PM (W+kMI)

135 130 Will we have a cat room so we can go in and pet cats?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September

I could bring the crazy boys so they can destroy everything.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:04 PM (QzINz)

136
The latest track has that bitch Helene hitting about the middle of the Florida panhandle, south of Tallahassee then going up through the middle of Georgia, going right over Atlanta, then hitting Tennessee and turning west over Nashville.

Looks like a 20-30% chance of tropical force winds over Atlanta when it rips through, and they're in the 8 -12" rain zone as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 24, 2024 08:05 PM (w6EFb)

137 Just make sure that the dancers are all comely, shapely young women who can execute a perfect pirouette while sporting a DD bust.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:03 PM

Do ye not unnerstan the laws of physics?

Posted by: Montgomery Scott at September 24, 2024 08:05 PM (a3Q+t)

138 46 So, I’m upgrading AOSHq: The Musical to an opera. Who among the Horde can sing opera?
========
My Bass range is good enough for church choir, but I won't claim the ability to do opera.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 24, 2024 08:06 PM (W+kMI)

139 136 Looks like a 20-30% chance of tropical force winds over Atlanta when it rips through, and they're in the 8 -12" rain zone as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

J is supposed to be flying home from Boston Friday. Not holding my breath. Even if he leaves Thursday, it’s sketchy.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:06 PM (QzINz)

140 Do ye not unnerstan the laws of physics?

Posted by: Montgomery Scott at September 24, 2024 08:05 PM (a3Q+t)

Objects in motion tend to stay in motion.

That's how you end up with a black eye.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:07 PM (Ud7de)

141
Wotan, gemahl, erwache!

_________

Wagner as music is a master, whereas Verdi is a bandmaster. But as dramas, we cry and bleed with Verdi, while Wagner's characters are all interchangeable gasbags spewing his bong-hit dorm-room philosophy. It's just as well that everyone is dead the end of the Ring.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 08:07 PM (BkEzK)

142 Re: the sidebar - Looks legit to me. Trudeau finally said the quiet parts out loud is all.

Posted by: 496 at September 24, 2024 08:08 PM (4FcII)

143 Plus, Diogenes, you get to carry a golf club.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:55 PM (v6JzV)

Sweet!
And I shall practice drinking from my golf flask with the pinkie extended.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 08:08 PM (W/lyH)

144 138 Same here. But I would just belt out the opera anyway.

Toreador Song, here I come!

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

145 What's that noise?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:01 PM (LkLld)
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I WASN'T SINGING YET.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 08:09 PM (bS+DD)

146 Some people are dead tone deaf and can never sing on key. It's no shame, but it am what it is.
Posted by: Nightingale at September 24, 2024 07:56 PM (CV8a5)

A lot of people are partially deaf and don’t realize it. When they sing it’s like listening to Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 24, 2024 08:09 PM (S6gqv)

147 Applets and Cottlets are indeed vile.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:46 PM (K2pew)

They are just Turkish Delight in apple and apricot, they are not terrible, I always thought they were too expensive and small for the hype.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 08:10 PM (D7oie)

148 Ahhh Beavers! I love them!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 24, 2024 08:10 PM (fs1hN)

149 Bluebell, I bet you have a lovely singing voice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:12 PM (v6JzV)

150 148 Ahhh Beavers! I love them!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 24, 2024 08:10 PM (fs1hN)

They eat you out of house and home!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:12 PM (Ud7de)

151 Ah, baby goat vs capybara. The ultimate demonstration of the irresistible force colliding with the immovable object.

Posted by: Paco at September 24, 2024 08:13 PM (njExo)

152 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 24, 2024 07:57 PM (L/fGl)
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I like Assassin's creed games but am less and less enchanted. I just finished Valhalla a wwk ago - pretty gay and lame, if you ask me.

Posted by: 496 at September 24, 2024 08:13 PM (SwGba)

153 I wonder if Bob laughs when we have threads like this or if he is sizing us all up for straight jackets.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:15 PM (QzINz)

154 That fox is going to be mighty angry when he wakes up and sees that bald spot.

Posted by: Paco at September 24, 2024 08:15 PM (njExo)

155 My problem with the sea otters is that they live on the West Coast, but have thus far avoided one day of merciless labor on the GNADC. It's a systemwide failure.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024 08:16 PM (0FoWg)

156 nurse, that blaze of pink I am seeing to the west tells me your sunset is spectacular.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:16 PM (I1GXe)

157 151 Yeah, I liked the goat v. capybara video, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:16 PM (v6JzV)

158 I wonder if Bob laughs when we have threads like this or if he is sizing us all up for straight jackets.
Posted by: Piper

Are you kidding?! He's getting into his leotard and warming up his voice right now.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 08:17 PM (ftFVW)

159 whoa

https://tinyurl.com/5t4b28rs

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:19 PM (LkLld)

160 155 YD, what is GNADC?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:19 PM (v6JzV)

161 What's all of this malarkey about singing and opera at the HQ?

Soap opera, yes.

This is not the Barber of Seville. More like Jimbo's Chop Shop and Tattoo Parlor.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 24, 2024 08:19 PM (fY84s)

162 Finally home from 5:30 am

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 08:20 PM (fwDg9)

163 Bluebell, I bet you have a lovely singing voice.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:12 PM (v6JzV)
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C'mon, you've met me! Very kind of you to say so but you know it would sound like gravel.

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 08:20 PM (bS+DD)

164 162 Good grief, Skip, get some sleep.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:21 PM (v6JzV)

165 Toreador Song, here I come!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:08 PM (v6JzV)
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Toreador-a
Don't spit on the floor-a
Use the cuspidor-a
That's what it's for-a

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 24, 2024 08:21 PM (VdhcA)

166 I used to know an old guy that, if he caught you singing at work, would tell you "You got a great voice, but you ruin it getting it out."

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 08:22 PM (7Dy6w)

167 Anybody that lives in Norman Oklahoma is a masochist. Talk about peak tornado alley.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:22 PM (I1GXe)

168 Who among the Horde can sing opera?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 07:36 PM (v6JzV)

I'm the barber of Seville!

Posted by: Alfalfa at September 24, 2024 08:22 PM (Aqu9a)

169 156 nurse, that blaze of pink I am seeing to the west tells me your sunset is spectacular.
Posted by: Ben Had

It should be in another couple hours! Cold
Front blowing in tomorrow, Supposed to be windy and raining. I'm loving it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 08:22 PM (2Jq0F)

170 49 Its Sea Otter Awareness Week!

Beware the otter.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 07:38 PM (BT7V7)

We otter remember that!

Song of the week: Don't Fear the Otter - BOC (Blue Otter Cult)

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 08:22 PM (NMT5x)

171 164 162 Good grief, Skip, get some sleep.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September

After some food! Get some food in that tummy. Then sleep.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:23 PM (QzINz)

172 Anybody that lives in Norman Oklahoma is a masochist. Talk about peak tornado alley.
Posted by: Ben Had

Eh, Norman is mostly okay. Stay out of Moore, OK (just north of Norman) unless you enjoy rebuilding.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 08:23 PM (ftFVW)

173 And everyone know Bugs Bunny did the best Barber of Seville. I can see the horde doing it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 08:24 PM (2Jq0F)

174 Had Chick- Fil-A on way home

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

175 And everyone know Bugs Bunny did the best Barber of Seville. I can see the horde doing it!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 08:24 PM (2Jq0F)
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I'll make the fruit salad on Elmer Fudd's head!

Posted by: bluebell at September 24, 2024 08:25 PM (bS+DD)

176 Ladies Love a Crooner.

*slicks down cowlick*

Posted by: Alfalfa at September 24, 2024 08:25 PM (Aqu9a)

177 And everyone know Bugs Bunny did the best Barber of Seville. I can see the horde doing it!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Kill the rabbit,
Kill the raaaabit,

Kill the rabbit!

Posted by: Elmer Fudd at September 24, 2024 08:26 PM (ftFVW)

178 As my older sings: "Oklahoma, where the wind comes ripping through the plain"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024 08:26 PM (0FoWg)

179
On the bright side, my little weather station I put up in early May is going to set some records. It will see the lowest pressures and highest wind speed it's seen yet.

So...yay...not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 24, 2024 08:26 PM (w6EFb)

180 >>>Dog can't get the hang of the hula-hoop.

He probably has a defective one.
https://youtu.be/mnLMAT5UCt0

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 24, 2024 08:27 PM (klJTj)

181 153 I wonder if Bob laughs when we have threads like this or if he is sizing us all up for straight jackets.
Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:15 PM (QzINz)

When SHTF, Bob is gonna join us, I can tell.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:27 PM (Ud7de)

182 On the bright side, my little weather station I put up in early May is going to set some records. It will see the lowest pressures and highest wind speed it's seen yet.

So...yay...not.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

-

(looks at rock on string)

(rock is wet)

(rock is moving)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 08:27 PM (7Dy6w)

183 >>C'mon, you've met me! Very kind of you to say so but you know it would sound like gravel.

I remember in grammar school we were doing some Christmas performance for the parents and we were all supposed to sing Christmas carols. There were a handful of us the music teacher told to just mouth the words. I will carry those scars to my grave.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:27 PM (LkLld)

184 163 No, I don’t know that, Bluebell.

We have many gym rats on this blog increase body muscular strength through exercise in some sort of enclosed area on stationery gadgets.

There’s no reason that singing ability should be immune to the same kind of exercise, in the midst of a choir.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:27 PM (v6JzV)

185 Tomorrow's Fake News story:
Breaking911 @Breaking911 6h
JUST IN: Haitian nonprofit files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance for saying residents are eating pets

alexandriabrown @alexthechick 5h
No, it did not. It filed an affidavit charging the offenses under Ohio Code 2935.09(D) seeking that charges be filed. An affidavit charging the offense is not the filing of criminal charges.

codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-…

EconGiggles @Delightinstuff 4h Replying to @alexthechick
No charges were filed. "Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost posted skeptically about the Haitian Bridges Alliance affidavit on Tuesday.
"It won’t survive a cursory probable cause analysis, let alone scrutiny under the First Amendment," Yost said on X.

https://tinyurl.com/258rjfrd
===
BTW, the Soros-funded Bridge nonprofit is a recent invention and the lawyer they're using is a personal and professional friend of Kamala.
https://tinyurl.com/ytxvc7xs

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 08:29 PM (CEzQx)

186 You know what would break up the horrible wind in Oklahoma?

A double-PANAMAX canal connecting Anchorage to New Orleans, that's what.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024 08:30 PM (0FoWg)

187
Ladies Love a Crooner.

__________

*breaks out jar of Brilliantine*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 08:30 PM (BkEzK)

188 Breaking911 @Breaking911 6h
JUST IN: Haitian nonprofit files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance for saying residents are eating pets

-

Discovery prior to the election? Yes, please.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 08:30 PM (7Dy6w)

189 Derrick Anderson @DerrickforVA 1h
🚨🚨🚨 ABC7 moderator says it all about @yvindman dodging tonight’s #VA07 debate:

“Democratic candidate Eugene Vindman declined to participate this evening despite a month of working to find a date that worked for both campaigns.

We provided multiple offers for him to change his mind but so far no response.”

Yevgeny Vindman can’t defend his record of lying about his military service and lying about Derrick’s positions and beliefs.

That’s why he’s hiding from TV debates.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 08:31 PM (CEzQx)

190 Now, if it's a rock opera, I might be able to do that.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 24, 2024 08:31 PM (W+kMI)

191 When SHTF, Bob is gonna join us, I can tell.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:27 PM

You know Bob wants to be us.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 08:31 PM (Wnv9h)

192 Had Chick- Fil-A on way home
Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 08:24 PM (fwDg9)
~~~~~

Did you have the Honey Pepper Pimento sandwich? It's great!

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 08:31 PM (3ImbR)

193 183 If the gym rats can increase muscle mass by working out, there’s no reason that people can’t improve their singing ability by working out their voices. They both involve muscles, after all.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:32 PM (v6JzV)

194 In a thigh to thigh embrace listening to Bonnie Rait and singing along, my hot date tells me " you sing like a Jewish grandmother ".. Well, no sex for you, dude.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:32 PM (I1GXe)

195 There were a handful of us the music teacher told to just mouth the words. I will carry those scars to my grave.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:27 PM (LkLld)

Aw, sad!

When I was growing up, the preacher at our church was a notoriously bad singer. Couldn't carry a tune, at all. He made up for it with enthusiasm.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 24, 2024 08:32 PM (OX9vb)

196 Kill the rabbit,
Kill the raaaabit,

Kill the rabbit!
Posted by: Elmer Fudd at September 24, 2024 08:26 PM

Kill da wabbit?

Posted by: Bugs at September 24, 2024 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)

197 Marc Zell
@GOPIsrael
Haifa’s northern suburbs (Kiryat Bialik and Kiryat Yam) are now under massive Hezbollah attack as is Akko (Acre).

Me: I asked a senior IDF commander today whether to push back Hezbollah to the Litani River Israel needs to send in ground troops. He said no. Israel needs to start hitting Beirut and Lebanese major cities and destroying the country’s power grid and other key infrastructure targets. I imagine that’s coming next.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 08:33 PM (TGPs7)

198 I hate people who throw animals in water and I love people who find herds of wild kitties looking for love (and food).

Posted by: SFGoth at September 24, 2024 08:34 PM (KAi1n)

199 I can't sing but I can hum like a mutha.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:34 PM (Ud7de)

200 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee
'共产主义是最好的! 好好好!' Says Tim Walz In Eloquent Rebuttal Of Alleged Ties To China
buff.ly/3XW7EzN

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 08:34 PM (CEzQx)

201 Chicken nuggets and the waffle fry, easy to eat while driving

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 08:34 PM (fwDg9)

202 Apparently there was a rumor the feds wanted to drop 1000 Haitians here in Fairhope. City meeting was so crowded last night chairs were put in the hallway. Mayor said rumors only. Some council person sent a letter saying we are welcoming. I think he may be worried about being run out on a rail.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:35 PM (QzINz)

203 whoa
https://tinyurl.com/5t4b28rs
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:19 PM (LkLld)
~~~~~

Here's the hail that went along with the supercell. Yikes!

https://tinyurl.com/bd343dv9

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 08:35 PM (3ImbR)

204 >>Aw, sad!

But justified. I can't sing at all.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:35 PM (LkLld)

205 In a thigh to thigh embrace listening to Bonnie Rait and singing along, my hot date tells me " you sing like a Jewish grandmother ".. Well, no sex for you, dude.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:32 PM (I1GXe)

Golda Meir was a Jewish grandmother

Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 08:35 PM (D7oie)

206 >>>Chicken nuggets and the waffle fry, easy to eat while driving.
~~~~~

True. But try the Pimento when you get a chance!

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 08:36 PM (3ImbR)

207 July 4th karaoke always concludes with my version of Neil Diamond's "America". The challenge is getting through the "My Country Tis of Thee" part without cracking...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 24, 2024 08:36 PM (Cbio9)

208 #185 UPDATE:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 6h
JUST IN: Haitian nonprofit files criminal charges against Donald Trump, JD Vance for saying residents are eating pets

Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC 6h
They’re asking for $300 million in damages and a litter of 10 beagle puppies.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 08:37 PM (CEzQx)

209 True. But try the Pimento when you get a chance!
Posted by: IrishEi

+1

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 08:37 PM (ftFVW)

210 Somebody in this choir is singing off key, so I'll move around amongst 'em and see if I can pick out who it is.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 08:38 PM (7Dy6w)

211 People always say "you can't build a canal from Anchorage to New Orleans," and "you can't train Belgian Malinois dogs for search-and-rape missions against shirkers who don't respond to canal draft notices."

Well, I say "can't" is a four letter word!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024 08:38 PM (0FoWg)

212 204 Yes, you can, Jack Straw. Everybody can, if they put their mind to it. It’s a natural ability of human beings.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:38 PM (v6JzV)

213 One video and lights out

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 08:39 PM (fwDg9)

214 Why haven't we invaded Canada and just taken it over?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:39 PM (Ud7de)

215 194 In a thigh to thigh embrace listening to Bonnie Rait and singing along, my hot date tells me " you sing like a Jewish grandmother "..
Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:32 PM (I1GXe)

Ouch. That's cold. What a bastige.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 24, 2024 08:40 PM (OX9vb)

216 >>Here's the hail that went along with the supercell. Yikes!

That's nuts.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:40 PM (LkLld)

217 The beaver stopping to listen every so often?

Every guy that's ever rubbed one out while looking at porn in the middle of the night, with the sound off, checking to see if his wife is waking up.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 08:40 PM (NMT5x)

218 214 I know, right?
— Zombie Benedict Arnold

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:40 PM (v6JzV)

219 216 >>Here's the hail that went along with the supercell. Yikes!

That's nuts.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:40 PM (LkLld

No, it's hail.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:40 PM (Ud7de)

220 I think the beavers pause to make sure no inspector is around. Notice they are doing this overnight?

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 08:41 PM (fwDg9)

221 Ok, lights out
Hope everyone has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at September 24, 2024 08:42 PM (fwDg9)

222 Why haven't we invaded Canada and just taken it over?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:39 PM (Ud7de)
~~~~~

Greenland!

Greenland is first. I've been waiting since 2016.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 08:42 PM (3ImbR)

223 Dash, I should have gone with my Dinah Washington voice

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:42 PM (I1GXe)

224 214 Why haven't we invaded Canada and just taken it over?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September

Why do we want it? It’s cold and they don’t even speak French properly. We could give them Vermont, however.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (QzINz)

225 AlaBAMA

The US of A is 0 and 2 in invading Canada. But we are 3 & 0 in defending the US from Canadian invasions.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (u82oZ)

226 >>> In a thigh to thigh embrace listening to Bonnie Rait and singing along, my hot date tells me " you sing like a Jewish grandmother ".. Well, no sex for you, dude.

Posted by: Ben Had

>This is very disturbing. I don't know many singing Jewish grandmothers, but if I did, I'd break out my Manischewitz Wine and trusty fiddle.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (fY84s)

227 222 Why haven't we invaded Canada and just taken it over?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:39 PM (Ud7de)
~~~~~

Greenland!

Greenland is first. I've been waiting since 2016.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 08:42 PM (3ImbR)

Fine. Greenland first, THEN Canada.

Trump can expand our tax base substantially.

Do we want Mexico or nah?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (Ud7de)

228
Why haven't we invaded Canada and just taken it over?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:39 PM (Ud7de)

_________

We'd have to take Quebec as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (BkEzK)

229 225 AlaBAMA

The US of A is 0 and 2 in invading Canada. But we are 3 & 0 in defending the US from Canadian invasions.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (u82oZ

But that was with Muskets and no shoes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:44 PM (Ud7de)

230 My kids have heard me sing a number of times. They now beg me to not sing.

However I owe Piper a Happy Birthday song.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 24, 2024 08:44 PM (u82oZ)

231 A double-PANAMAX canal connecting Anchorage to New Orleans, that's what.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024

The Dignity Canal. Dug by the teaspoon. Where the living envy the dead.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 24, 2024 08:44 PM (4Med0)

232 Anybody that lives in Norman Oklahoma is a masochist. Talk about peak tornado alley.
Posted by: Ben Had

I spent a lifetime one summer in Lawton.
Gawd!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 08:44 PM (W/lyH)

233 Greenland was actually the first part of North America known to, and colonized by, Europeans. Way before Columbus.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:45 PM (v6JzV)

234
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

NEW: Man eats 720 eggs in a single month and his cholesterol drops by 20%.

Nick Norwitz (@nicknorwitz) ate one egg per hour for a month.

"Even though my dietary intake of cholesterol more than quintupled, my LDL cholesterol actually dropped."

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 08:45 PM (TGPs7)

235 223 Dash, I should have gone with my Dinah Washington voice
Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:42 PM (I1GXe)

Nah, he wasn't worth your Dinah Washington voice, clearly.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 24, 2024 08:45 PM (OX9vb)

236 Why do we want it? It’s cold and they don’t even speak French properly. We could give them Vermont, however.
Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (QzINz)
~~~~~

I think we should keep Vermont. It's very pretty. Let's just send them all the Bernie Bros that infest it instead.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 08:46 PM (3ImbR)

237 The US of A is 0 and 2 in invading Canada. But we are 3 & 0 in defending the US from Canadian invasions.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (u82oZ

But that was with Muskets and no shoes.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:44 PM (Ud7de)

So you're saying we got to give 'em muskets and
shoes?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 08:47 PM (W/lyH)

238 Have a great night, everyone.

May you have enough Biden Bucks to buy eggs and lower your cholesterol levels.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 24, 2024 08:47 PM (u82oZ)

239 There's no need to take over Canada. They have plenty of malcontents and miscreants they can assign to dig the King's Sluiceway, and their dreadful toil will secure rapid transport for the country's softwood lumber and oil exports.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024 08:47 PM (0FoWg)

240 Do we want Mexico or nah?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (Ud7de)

No, its not like they can speak Spanish right, even.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 08:48 PM (D7oie)

241 Dash, I should have gone with my Dinah Washington voice
Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 08:42 PM (I1GXe)

Nah, he wasn't worth your Dinah Washington voice, clearly.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 24, 2024 08:45 PM (OX9vb)

Who was the dude in the kitchen with Dinah?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 08:49 PM (W/lyH)

242 We should just take over Mexico, and then we don’t need to worry about jobs over seas. We can relocate the cartels to Chicago, and give THAT to Canada instead of Vermont.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:49 PM (QzINz)

243 239 There's no need to take over Canada. They have plenty of malcontents and miscreants they can assign to dig the King's Sluiceway, and their dreadful toil will secure rapid transport for the country's softwood lumber and oil exports.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024 08:47 PM (0FoWg)

I haven't been this excited for American Expansionism since we invaded Panama!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:49 PM (Ud7de)

244 @PhilipWegmann
·
21m
Trump briefed by Director of National Intelligence on “heightened” assassination threat from Iranians, per spokesman @TheStevenCheung.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:49 PM (LkLld)

245 We had to force the Mexicans to keep what is now considered Mexico.

Why should we take it all back? That would be tacky I think.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 08:51 PM (9Ya/8)

246 Trump briefed by Director of National Intelligence on “heightened” assassination threat from Iranians, per spokesman @TheStevenCheung.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:49 PM (LkLld)

Iranians.
Thats an odd spelling for democrats.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 08:52 PM (W/lyH)

247 245 We had to force the Mexicans to keep what is now considered Mexico.

Why should we take it all back? That would be tacky I think.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 08:51 PM (9Ya/8

We could take the coastal areas. That's where the Margaritas are.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:52 PM (Ud7de)

248 >>>Why haven't we invaded Canada and just taken it over?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September

Why do we want it? It’s cold and they don’t even speak French properly. We could give them Vermont, however.

Posted by: Piper

>They haven't won a Stanley Cup in over 30 years. Can we give them the Cleveland Indians as a token of good will?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 24, 2024 08:53 PM (fY84s)

249 245 We had to force the Mexicans to keep what is now considered Mexico.

Why should we take it all back? That would be tacky I think.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September

Some of them get to be Canadians, under my plan. Free healthcare! 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:53 PM (QzINz)

250 Now that I am older, I find the over 300 wineries, stretching from Chelan down to Hanford, much more to my liking.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 07:31 PM (W/lyH)

The Hanford wine has a very long half-life in the bottle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 24, 2024 08:53 PM (OwAOz)

251 Trump briefed by Director of National Intelligence on “heightened” assassination threat from Iranians, per spokesman @TheStevenCheung.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 08:49 PM (LkLld)

I hope one of his questions was "so what are you doing about this?"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 08:54 PM (D7oie)

252 Do we want Mexico or nah?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Only if we can get rid of the cartels. Or pay the cartels to take care of the Haitians and the Somalis.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 08:55 PM (8o8AK)

253 >>>They haven't won a Stanley Cup in over 30 years. Can we give them the Cleveland Indians as a token of good will?
-----
Indian giver!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 08:55 PM (CEzQx)

254 Do we want Mexico or nah?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (Ud7de)

Sure, they're taking some US stuff.

Link goes to MSN
https://tinyurl.com/5xc8frad

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 08:55 PM (NMT5x)

255 1978 - NFB Canada Vignette - Home of the Beaver
https://tinyurl.com/yv7wrwjw
3:10 minutes
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 07:37 PM (CEzQx)

For the sake of completeness, one should add the video for Vampire Beavers from Joe Hall and the Continental Drift. Vintage Canadiana bizarre.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 24, 2024 08:56 PM (OwAOz)

256

*War Plan Red*

I'm looking you, Canada.

At least two Panamax widths of you, anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal at September 24, 2024 08:56 PM (0FoWg)

257 241. Someone

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 24, 2024 08:56 PM (v6JzV)

258 The photo is of Indian Head, the lookout over the Upper Ausable Lake, in the high peaks region of the Adirondacks. The land below is all a private reserve, but the Ausable Club which owns it all permits the public, with some restrictions, to hike the trails that traverse it.

I have been on that rock in all seasons, the most memorable an October day when my B.I.L. and his friend Bob and I walked up wearing blue jeans, unaware we would be caught in a snowstorm. There are ladders up the upper rock faces on the trails up and down it, and it got dangerous. Almost chest deep on the top, fluff quickly turning to wet heavy snow.

It is about five miles out via the club road, once you get down to the boathouse at the lake. We took turns leading, the one up front post-holing, the others following in the holes. We were dead tired after getting to the car.

We laughed at how easy it would have been to get back if we had skis. But all we had was the birch sticks we had cut as hiking poles.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at September 24, 2024 08:57 PM (BQnNk)

259 256 *War Plan Red*

I'm looking you, Canada.

At least two Panamax widths of you, anyway.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Is the MX invasion War Plan Green or Biue? I forget.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:58 PM (e8mjv)

260 . But all we had was the birch sticks we had cut as hiking poles.

-

LUXURY

(just kidding, that's a neat story and almost certainly an often-referenced memory)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 08:59 PM (7Dy6w)

261 259 256 *War Plan Red*

I'm looking you, Canada.

At least two Panamax widths of you, anyway.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Is the MX invasion War Plan Green or Biue? I forget.
Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 08:58 PM (e8mjv)

What if someone is color blind?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:59 PM (Ud7de)

262
What if someone is color blind?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at

Then is biue. Whatever color that is.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 09:00 PM (e8mjv)

263 250

The Hanford wine has a very long half-life in the bottle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 24, 2024 08:53 PM (OwAOz
----
A scintillating wine?

Posted by: Ciampino - poor internal partition in that car at September 24, 2024 09:02 PM (qfLjt)

264 The Hanford wine has a very long half-life in the bottle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 24, 2024 08:53 PM (OwAOz)

And it glows!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 09:02 PM (W/lyH)

265 Bonnie Raitt? A swift upper cut with the knee and it would be "Let's give him something to *cough* about..."

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 09:02 PM (NMT5x)

266 "Let's give him something to *cough* about..."
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 09:02 PM (NMT5x)

Good one!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! Catz for Trump! at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (OX9vb)

267 I noted earlier today an Atlantic article that Mitt Romney fears "retribution" against him and his family from Trump, should Trump win.

Now I saw a thing about Michael Cohen planning to flee the country AND change his name, if Trump wins, fearing "retribution."

Both stories used that specific word. Just how bad will the dem's planned "retribution" be against conservatives, should they win, that their paranoia is spilling over to thinking Trump would do the same?

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (tEzzN)

268 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR SEPTEMBER 24

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 9-8
SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base -
Space Affairs Live
The launch is scheduled for September 24, 9:01 p.m. PDT - September 25 0401 UTC, 06:01 CEST.

https://www.youtube.com/live/WRklRPky5tQ

Posted by: Ciampino - California launch at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (qfLjt)

269 haffhowershower, well done.Hopefully

Posted by: Ben Had at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (I1GXe)

270 What I don't know about Ausable would fill a chasm.

Posted by: Adiron Dick at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (CV8a5)

271 In case no one noticed, 20 Sept this year the US Navy decommissioned one of its 21 Tico class missile cruisers - USS Leyte Gulf.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:06 PM (9Ya/8)

272 >>> The photo is of Indian Head, the lookout over the Upper Ausable Lake, in the high peaks region of the Adirondacks. The land below is all a private reserve, but the Ausable Club which owns it all permits the public, with some restrictions, to hike the trails that traverse it.

It's gorgeous!!

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 09:07 PM (tEzzN)

273 267 I noted earlier today an Atlantic article that Mitt Romney fears "retribution" against him and his family from Trump, should Trump win.

Now I saw a thing about Michael Cohen planning to flee the country AND change his name, if Trump wins, fearing "retribution."

Both stories used that specific word. Just how bad will the dem's planned "retribution" be against conservatives, should they win, that their paranoia is spilling over to thinking Trump would do the same?

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (tEzzN)

Stories like this express just how much arrogance assholes like this have.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 09:07 PM (Ud7de)

274 Handford red? Thought it was very Gray.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:08 PM (9Ya/8)

275 LizLem, I see it as two things. The first is projection, and the second is that it's a psyop. The NPCs are amping up to scare the public about Trump.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 09:08 PM (NMT5x)

276 They got to keep 'othering' their boogeyman

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:10 PM (9Ya/8)

277 267 I noted earlier today an Atlantic article that Mitt Romney fears "retribution" against him and his family from Trump, should Trump win.

Now I saw a thing about Michael Cohen planning to flee the country AND change his name, if Trump wins, fearing "retribution."

Both stories used that specific word. Just how bad will the dem's planned "retribution" be against conservatives, should they win, that their paranoia is spilling over to thinking Trump would do the same?

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (tEzzN)
It's not paranoia, it's godless leftists. They know President Trump, or any of us don't want retribution. What we want is justice and that's what worries the sonsofbitches.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:10 PM (LHPAg)

278 > The launch is scheduled for September 24, 9:01 p.m. PDT
--------
I was just outside, having a cigar and some Scotch. Clear sky around me, but storms brewing to the south. Flashes of lightning. And what do I see up above me, in the clear sky...

... a trail of StarLink satellites.

How cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 09:11 PM (Q4IgG)

279 Do we want Mexico or nah?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:43 PM (Ud7de)
~~~~~

Might as well take Mexico too. It's got some important archeological sites and some pretty areas too. But we'll have to clean it out of all the cartels, banditos and corruptocrats first. That's gonna take some doing, so we might consider making them pay us to take them.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:12 PM (3ImbR)

280 Do we want Mexico or nah?
-

It's bound to be mostly empty by now.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism has failed you and your kids, patriarchy is the only thing that works at September 24, 2024 09:12 PM (7Dy6w)

281 Iranians.
Thats an odd spelling for democrats.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 08:52 PM (W/lyH)
~~~~~

Heh.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:13 PM (3ImbR)

282 But we'll have to clean it out of all the cartels, banditos and corruptocrats first.

But enough about the U.S.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 24, 2024 09:13 PM (NMT5x)

283 I'd rather have Canada than Mexico.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:13 PM (Zq25q)

284 278 > The launch is scheduled for September 24, 9:01 p.m. PDT
--------
I was just outside, having a cigar and some Scotch. Clear sky around me, but storms brewing to the south. Flashes of lightning. And what do I see up above me, in the clear sky...

... a trail of StarLink satellites.

How cool.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 09:11 PM (Q4IgG)
May GOD bless Elon Musk, President Trump, America, and Texas.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:15 PM (LHPAg)

285 Why don't we take California first.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 09:15 PM (LkLld)

286 I'd rather have Canada than Mexico.
Posted by: nurse ratched

America's hat > America's diaper

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 09:15 PM (ftFVW)

287 283 I'd rather have Canada than Mexico.
Posted by: nurse ratched

They don't have fake beer or bacon in Mexico.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 24, 2024 09:16 PM (/U5Yz)

288 fake bacon

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 24, 2024 09:16 PM (/U5Yz)

289 Assimilate Canada first. At least most of them do speak English.

And truthfully, I would offer statehood to the Philippines before I would to the Mexican states.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:17 PM (9Ya/8)

290 They don't have fake beer or bacon in Mexico.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 24, 2024 09:16 PM (/U5Yz)

Canadian bacon is bad ham.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 24, 2024 09:17 PM (uBb4f)

291 Canada has those little cookies shaped like maple leafs though.

And ketchup flavored potato chips!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:18 PM (Zq25q)

292 And Tim-Bits

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:19 PM (9Ya/8)

293 Canadian bacon is bad ham.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob

Posing as proper bacon. Don't get me started on the cheese curds on fries thing.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 24, 2024 09:19 PM (/U5Yz)

294 Mexican weather girls.

Posted by: davidt at September 24, 2024 09:19 PM (i0F8b)

295 And Canada has trees and water and mountains. And natural gas. And gold.

Mexico has Mexicans. And Montezuma's Revenge.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:20 PM (Zq25q)

296 And ketchup flavored potato chips!
Posted by: nurse ratched

This intrigues me.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 24, 2024 09:20 PM (/U5Yz)

297 289 Assimilate Canada first. At least most of them do speak English.

And truthfully, I would offer statehood to the Philippines before I would to the Mexican states.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:17 PM (9Ya/

The P.I. may be assimilated by the Chinee Borg before that can happen.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:20 PM (LHPAg)

298 I'd rather have Cuba before Mexico.

Better cigars. Probably less corrupt than Mexico too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 09:20 PM (Q4IgG)

299 And truthfully, I would offer statehood to the Philippines before I would to the Mexican states.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:17 PM (9Ya/

~~~~~

Take the Lumpia, leave the Filipinos.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:20 PM (3ImbR)

300 292 And Tim-Bits
Posted by: Anna Puma

Omg. Yea

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:21 PM (Zq25q)

301 We're abandoning our allies quicker that a duck takes a squat.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:21 PM (LHPAg)

302 I'd rather have Cuba before Mexico.

Better cigars. Probably less corrupt than Mexico too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

And all those sweet classic cars. Or do they still have those?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 09:22 PM (ftFVW)

303 And Cuban Rum.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:22 PM (Zq25q)

304 Mexico has Mexicans. And Montezuma's Revenge.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:20 PM (Zq25q)
~~~~~

Nurse has a point here, people.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:22 PM (3ImbR)

305 292 And Tim-Bits
Posted by: Anna Puma

Omg. Yea

Posted by: nurse ratched

=======

Knowing that a stop to get Tim-bits was not guaranteed, our kiddos knew that they better behave at Mass.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 24, 2024 09:24 PM (8AONa)

306 I have Traffic's Dear Mr Fantasy stuck in my head.

But for some reason, Green Day is trying to worm it's way in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:24 PM (PDf99)

307 Mexico has Mexicans. And Montezuma's Revenge.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:20 PM (Zq25q)
~~~~~

Nurse has a point here, people.
Posted by: IrishEi

-

Well, she's half right.

Posted by: North Carolina at September 24, 2024 09:25 PM (7Dy6w)

308 Canada has those little cookies shaped like maple leafs though.

And ketchup flavored potato chips!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:18 PM (Zq25q)

My wife was telling me a couple of days ago about the delight of finding instant Kimchi rice in the buffet of her hotel. Apparently they also have kimchi flavored burnt rice that you eat dry out of the package, too. It sounds like a puffed rice snack.
Korean snacks are odder than Canadian snacks

Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 09:25 PM (D7oie)

309 Why don't we take California first.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 09:15 PM (LkLld)
~~~~~

Hello...because it's not going to be around for long. Andreas Fault. Duh.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:25 PM (3ImbR)

310 Korean snacks are odder than Canadian snacks
Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 09:25 PM (D7oie)

Japanese snacks are odd. Flavored dried squid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:26 PM (PDf99)

311 And green tea Kit-Kat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:26 PM (PDf99)

312 FBI
Heh Heh Heh...

Historic Vids
@historyinmemes
FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked to find a mole within the FBI. Robert Hanssen was the mole and had been working with KGB since 1979. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 09:27 PM (TGPs7)

313 Where'd my San go?

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:27 PM (3ImbR)

314 And all of a sudden here comes Chicago.

To hell with you, Peter Cetera!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (PDf99)

315 But for some reason, Green Day is trying to worm it's way in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Cause you're a basket case?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (ftFVW)

316 And all those sweet classic cars. Or do they still have those?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 09:22 PM (ftFVW)

Oh, they still have them. But they are now comprised mostly of Bondo and Russian tractor engines.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (OwAOz)

317 And Tim-Bits
Posted by: Anna Puma

Omg. Yea
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:21 PM

Speaking as a New Englander, Munchkins > Tim-Bits.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (Wnv9h)

318 Historic Vids
@historyinmemes
FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked to find a mole within the FBI. Robert Hanssen was the mole and had been working with KGB since 1979. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.
Posted by: Mister Ghos

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At least he didn't shake a fence.

Posted by: North Carolina at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (7Dy6w)

319 Aetius

Speaking of Japan, have you seen Ubislop's latest gaffes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (9Ya/8)

320 Cause you're a basket case?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (ftFVW)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:29 PM (PDf99)

321
I noted earlier today an Atlantic article that Mitt Romney fears "retribution" against him and his family from Trump, should Trump win.

__________

The guilty flee when none pursueth - Proverbs 28:1

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 09:29 PM (BkEzK)

322 319 Aetius

Speaking of Japan, have you seen Ubislop's latest gaffes?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (9Ya/

Oh, the black samurai in feudal Japan?

Have not paid much attention to it aside from rolling my eyes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:30 PM (PDf99)

323 The wicked flee, maybe?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 09:30 PM (D7oie)

324 Speaking as a New Englander, Munchkins > Tim-Bits.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

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"And that's when the brawl started, Officer."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 24, 2024 09:30 PM (8AONa)

325 I noted earlier today an Atlantic article that Mitt Romney fears "retribution" against him and his family from Trump, should Trump win.

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Seriously, you can stop selling Trump to me.

Posted by: North Carolina at September 24, 2024 09:31 PM (7Dy6w)

326 But for some reason, Green Day is trying to worm it's way in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Cause you're a basket case?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM

You were just having a blast with that comment, weren't you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 09:31 PM (Wnv9h)

327 The simple fact that the loudest and pushiest people about the importance of Ukraine are all the factions of Deep State DC, the EU and globalists automatically makes me know I am not for a "Ukrainian" win. The others supporting Ukraine seem to me to be people that are consciously or unconsciously viewing the world thru the USA vs USSR lens. It really makes no difference to our security, the only thing that would change there if Putin won would be that the Deep State puppets would be replaced by Putin puppets. The worst thing for the average Ukrainian is if this goes on and on.

Posted by: azjaeger at September 24, 2024 09:31 PM (3/XaG)

328 Off sock

Also I just remembered that I was thinking of a Romney staffer that was his hook-up for Ukraine cash, not his son. I think it was maybe Kerry's son that was in bed with Hunter. Figuratively, at least. I don't know about the other but I wouldn't rule it out.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 24, 2024 09:32 PM (7Dy6w)

329
Sorry, Mexico, Philippines and Cuba. No statehood for bunghole countries.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 24, 2024 09:32 PM (BkEzK)

330 Canadian Bacon?

That's one reason to go to war.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 09:32 PM (Ud7de)

331 > I noted earlier today an Atlantic article that Mitt Romney fears "retribution" against him and his family from Trump, should Trump win.
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Him, Mz. Lindsey and McConnell might just be my first 3 to be hanged on Penn Ave.

After all the Democrats.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 24, 2024 09:33 PM (Q4IgG)

332 Ubislop has pulled out of a big Tokyo gaming convention.

And they now have a bit of new 'exclusive' merchandise of Yasuke and their female shinobi secondary character. The shinobi is perched atop a half-destroyed Torii gate.

The Japanese are naturally triggered over the Torii gate since the most famous one marks the atomic bombing at Nagasaki.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:33 PM (9Ya/8)

333 323 The wicked flee, maybe?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 24, 2024 09:30 PM (D7oie)

LOL. 'Wicked' is pretty much universal in the translations. My favorite:

KJB: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

My 'other' favorite: Wicked people run away when no one chases them, but those who live right are as brave as lions. (Contemporary English Version)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:34 PM (PDf99)

334 >>Hello...because it's not going to be around for long. Andreas Fault. Duh.

If earthquakes are your worry I've got bad news about your Mexico ambitions. The whole west coast of North and South America is gonna fall into a burning ring of fire someday. Not if, when.

I'll miss Chile.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 09:34 PM (LkLld)

335 George
@BehizyTweets

BREAKING: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele just gave a BRILLIANT speech at the UN, slamming Western nations that claim to stand for freedom while censoring, jailing, and shooting their political opponents

HINT: He's referring to Democrats in the United States

"We do not imprison our opposition. We do not censor opinions. We do not censor opinions from those who think differently."

In El Salvador, we prioritize the safety of our honest citizens over the comfort of criminals."

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 09:34 PM (TGPs7)

336 His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 09:27 PM (TGPs7)

Until 9/11

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 24, 2024 09:35 PM (i514R)

337 332 Ubislop has pulled out of a big Tokyo gaming convention.

And they now have a bit of new 'exclusive' merchandise of Yasuke and their female shinobi secondary character. The shinobi is perched atop a half-destroyed Torii gate.

The Japanese are naturally triggered over the Torii gate since the most famous one marks the atomic bombing at Nagasaki.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:33 PM (9Ya/

Did you play 'Ghost of Tsushima'? I thought the game beautiful, but completely lacking in any sort of feeling whatsoever. 'Nioh' at least understood that human beings actually 'like' romance (even the hint of it.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:35 PM (PDf99)

338 Also, Ubisoft can eat the dick they keep stepping on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 24, 2024 09:36 PM (PDf99)

339 Imagine traveling back in time and telling your 1985 self that in a few short years El Salvador would be lecturing your POTUS and Congress about not shooting opposition candidates and jailing political prisoners.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Christians are the most persecuted, oppressed, and murdered religious group at September 24, 2024 09:36 PM (7Dy6w)

340 Tsushima is a masterpiece.

The sequel is said to be in the works and will feature a female samurai.

Of course.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 09:36 PM (Ud7de)

341 Speaking as a New Englander, Munchkins > Tim-Bits.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 24, 2024 09:28 PM (Wnv9h)

I'll happily eat either, but if I have a choice, it's Munchkins.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 24, 2024 09:37 PM (OX9vb)

342 >>> 335 George
@BehizyTweets

BREAKING: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele just gave a BRILLIANT speech at the UN, slamming Western nations that claim to stand for freedom while censoring, jailing, and shooting their political opponents

HINT: He's referring to Democrats in the United States

"We do not imprison our opposition. We do not censor opinions. We do not censor opinions from those who think differently."

In El Salvador, we prioritize the safety of our honest citizens over the comfort of criminals."
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 09:34 PM (TGPs7)

How long until the commies start squealing about foreign election interference?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 24, 2024 09:37 PM (FnneF)

343 >>>The whole west coast of North and South America is gonna fall into a burning ring of fire someday.
~~~~~

Johnny Cash has entered the chat.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:38 PM (3ImbR)

344 I grew up in the foothills of the Adirondacks ---
Leather stockings country. I miss the area but not the politics of New York.

Posted by: Archer at September 24, 2024 09:40 PM (IDphi)

345 Both stories used that specific word. Just how bad will the dem's planned "retribution" be against conservatives, should they win, that their paranoia is spilling over to thinking Trump would do the same?

Posted by: LizLem at September 24, 2024 09:04 PM (tEzzN)

Makes me wonder what they have done to be so nervous about? But as said above, it is a testimony to their arrogance.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 24, 2024 09:41 PM (W/lyH)

346 Aetius

I am pretty much out of the gaming scene, but I still pay attention to things.

I am laughing at how the proud at Ubislop and elsewhere are being humbled. At this point they are Wylie Coyote befuddled at why their brilliant schemes keep failing - Concord, Dustborn, Star Wars: Outlaws.

"See that man wise in his own eyes? There's more hope for a fool than him." Psalms

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 24, 2024 09:42 PM (9Ya/8)

347 I got a collection of Japanese snacks off amazon one year as stocking stuffers for my boys.

They loved it. All kinds of weird stuff.

And the KitKat flavors are outstanding.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 24, 2024 09:43 PM (9+tzW)

348 335 George
@BehizyTweets

BREAKING: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele just gave a BRILLIANT speech at the UN, slamming Western nations that claim to stand for freedom while censoring, jailing, and shooting their political opponents

HINT: He's referring to Democrats in the United States

"We do not imprison our opposition. We do not censor opinions. We do not censor opinions from those who think differently."

In El Salvador, we prioritize the safety of our honest citizens over the comfort of criminals."

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 09:34 PM (TGPs7)

Freedom's just another word
to fool all of the rubes...

Posted by: Leftists Around the World at September 24, 2024 09:43 PM (aBgBM)

349 >>Johnny Cash has entered the chat.

Did you see that a statue of Johnny Cash was unveiled in the Capitol today?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 09:45 PM (LkLld)

350 I worked in Albany for a year. I liked it a lot though I wasn't there long enough to see all the negatives.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at September 24, 2024 09:45 PM (i514R)

351 Freedom's just another word
to fool all of the rubes...
Posted by: Leftists Around the World at September 24, 2024 09:43 PM (aBgBM)
We may just be fixin' to find out what's worth dyin'.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:46 PM (LHPAg)

352 Objects in motion tend to stay in motion.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 24, 2024 08:07 PM (Ud7de)

Unless acted upon by a capybara.

Posted by: Gref at September 24, 2024 09:47 PM (aBgBM)

353 Okay' showered, choreo down for to low. What countries have we settled on for invasion?

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 09:47 PM (CM7zZ)

354 353 wow. Choreo down for tomorrow.

Posted by: Piper at September 24, 2024 09:48 PM (CM7zZ)

355 >>I grew up in the foothills of the Adirondacks ---

When I was a kid friends of my parents had a cabin on a lake in the Adirondacks. Beautiful place.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 09:48 PM (LkLld)

356 Everyone hitting Refresh on the front page?

You might not be First. But you can be next.

MisHum, where y'at?

Posted by: mindful webworker - F5 addict at September 24, 2024 09:48 PM (OIPBq)

357 349 >>Johnny Cash has entered the chat.

Did you see that a statue of Johnny Cash was unveiled in the Capitol today?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 09:45 PM (LkLld)

Carved from a block of obsidian, I hope.

Posted by: Gref at September 24, 2024 09:49 PM (aBgBM)

358 I've settled on tomorrow's breakfast. It's coffee, beans, bacon, eggs, and maybe a shot of whiskey.

Posted by: Eromero at September 24, 2024 09:49 PM (LHPAg)

359 Johnny Cash has entered the chat.
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Just last week I watched the Columbo with Johnny Cash as the guest murderer of the week.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071351/

A gospel singer wants to be rid of his zealous wife. But a murder made to look like an airplane accident does not fool the wily Lt. Columbo.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 24, 2024 09:49 PM (CEzQx)

360 Capybro says "Butt my butt, Billy!"

Posted by: GWB at September 24, 2024 09:50 PM (doQhm)

361 Did you see that a statue of Johnny Cash was unveiled in the Capitol today?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 24, 2024 09:45 PM (LkLld)
~~~~~

Yes. I thought it was weird. Only other statue there that I remember being of an entertainer was Will Rogers. There could be more. But apparently Arkansas changed both of their statues this year. Don't know who the other one was.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:57 PM (3ImbR)

362 Watching a commercial: Pat Boone is FINALLY starting to age!

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 09:58 PM (3ImbR)

363 Sure. Just leave me here.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 24, 2024 10:02 PM (3ImbR)

364 That NOOD ONT you've been waiting for, it is here.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=411616

Posted by: mindful webworker - F5 addict at September 24, 2024 10:05 PM (OIPBq)

365 Well...

Had to do a major road trip this morning to see a Mental Health Client out from the San Fernando Valley up and over the hill on the 14 into the Lancaster Valley...

Ill save the rest for the ONT.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 24, 2024 10:07 PM (TDvv2)

366 Congratulations to the People's Republic!

Massachusetts drivers were just named the rudest in the US,
according to Casino.ca.

Also, Boston drivers according to US News & World Report are the Worst in the Nation.

Thank You, very much. Very proud to hold this distinction...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 24, 2024 11:53 PM (TGPs7)

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