Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Little Street
Johannes Vermeer

Posted by: CBD at 09:20 AM

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1 Yeesh. He made a painting of that?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:21 AM (jbnUc)

2 This is very nice. Thanks, CBD. Would hang.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:22 AM (v6JzV)

3 Oh this is nice! Thank you CBD.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 18, 2024 09:22 AM (SfhV1)

4 The town of Babushka.

Posted by: Roy at November 18, 2024 09:23 AM (qbwJk)

5 I wonder if this was done with a camera obscura.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 09:23 AM (gbOdA)

6 I like this!

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

7 Good detail and contrast.

What are the notches at the top of the house for? Function, or fashion?

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (jgdZo)

8
That's an alleyway, thank you very much.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (xG4kz)

9 This is a Vermeer I don't remember seeing before. I'm glad you posted it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (SfhV1)

10 The Little Street
c. 1657–1661
Oil on canvas
54.3 x 44 cm. (21 3/8 x 17 3/8 in.)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (gbOdA)

11 Vermeer rocks. Also, Dutch couldn't lay footers for buildings worth a shit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (jFCkp)

12 Yeesh. He made a painting of that?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Watch it, or you'll be in Dutch.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (Dm8we)

13 When you see a couple people hunched over by the side of the road playing dice...you know you're in the hood.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 18, 2024 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

14
What are the notches at the top of the house for? Function, or fashion?

Posted by: Doof

The houses doubled as miter boxes for really, really big logs an lumber. True story!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:25 AM (xG4kz)

15 The century-old question has been recently addressed by Dr. Frans Grijzenhout, professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam. Grijzenhout argues that the setting for painting is on Vlamingstraat (fig. 1) in Delft, where houses 40–42 now stand. Grijzenhout's conclusion is based on measurements he has found in the Legger van het diepen der wateren binnen de stadt Delft (Ledger of the dredging of canals in the town of Delft), a document compiled from 1666 onward recording the widths of house frontages for tax purposes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

16 Watch it, or you'll be in Dutch.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

My people!

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:25 AM (v6JzV)

17 I paint this!

Posted by: Dutch Boy at November 18, 2024 09:26 AM (Aqu9a)

18 What are the notches at the top of the house for? Function, or fashion?

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (jgdZo)

Snipers of course!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (d9fT1)

19 Good morning!

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (GIpMA)

20 What are the notches at the top of the house for? Function, or fashion?

Posted by: Doof

It's called crenellation, and allows snipers to fire from cover. That's why you can't see him.

Posted by: Military Moron at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

21 Are the 2 people on the ground playing a game or administering CPR?

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

22 I thot the chillrens were dogs at first.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (gbOdA)

23 Painting reminds me of the $$$masonry work$$$ my house needs. Downer.

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (GIpMA)

24
Little streets ... and big dikes

Get your minds out of the gutter!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (xG4kz)

25 Good morning. I quite like this painting.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 18, 2024 09:28 AM (DJ7uY)

26 12
‘ Watch it, or you'll be in Dutch.’

As long as they don’t give me the Dutch oven treatment.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:28 AM (jbnUc)

27 Quite nice. No one mastered the use of light like VerMeer ...

Posted by: Dr_No at November 18, 2024 09:28 AM (ayRl+)

28 The houses doubled as miter boxes for really, really big logs an lumber. True story!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:25 AM (xG4kz)
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Wood hang.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:28 AM (js3aQ)

29 Thought it was a log in front of the house, but it's ladybutt.

Posted by: gp Declines 2028 Nomination at November 18, 2024 09:29 AM (GIpMA)

30 ‘ Watch it, or you'll be in Dutch.’

As long as they don’t give me the Dutch oven treatment.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:28 AM (jbnUc)
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I need that like a Holland the head!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:29 AM (js3aQ)

31 What are the notches at the top of the house for? Function, or fashion?

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (jgdZo)

Snipers of course!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2024 09:27 AM (d9fT1)

Duh. How could I be so obtuse?

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:29 AM (jgdZo)

32 Good at painting, and top-notch wood chippers. Vermeer was a true Renaissance man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2024 09:29 AM (hY4dx)

33 Aargh!! Got Vermeer all down me shirt!

Posted by: The Monty Python Art Critic at November 18, 2024 09:30 AM (LxER7)

34 Oh! I like this very much. Would definitely hang.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 18, 2024 09:30 AM (g8Ew8)

35
Are the 2 people on the ground playing a game or administering CPR?

Posted by: redridinghood

The young man is named Naathan Dejtrojt. That is enough info for you to suss out what they are doing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:30 AM (xG4kz)

36 Morning.

And behold, there was an art!

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (1Yy3c)

37 IIRC they have even located where this was painted. It still exists though a bit changed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (iU/IZ)

38 ‘ I need that like a Holland the head!’
Haha😄

Windmills…
Tulips…

I got nothing. You win.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (jbnUc)

39 Duh. How could I be so obtuse?
Posted by: Doof

Your new ONT duties are wearing you out.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (v6JzV)

40 Vermeer?

Where's his ghost (whose leg can be used as a table)?

Posted by: XTC at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (UnA8+)

41 Quite nice. No one mastered the use of light like VerMeer ...
Posted by: Dr_No at November 18, 2024 09:28 AM (ayRl+)

*glares*

Posted by: Zombie Thomas Kinkade at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (Aqu9a)

42 Watteau, dear?

Posted by: The Monty Python Art Critic's Wife at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (LxER7)

43 Big buildings on little street.

Posted by: dantesed at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

44 Are the 2 people on the ground playing a game or administering CPR?

Posted by: redridinghood

The young man is named Naathan Dejtrojt. That is enough info for you to suss out what they are doing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:30 AM (xG4kz)

City planning?

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM (1Yy3c)

45 ‘ I need that like a Holland the head!’
Haha😄

Windmills…
Tulips…

I got nothing. You win.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:31 AM (jbnUc)
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You need to unclog your mind.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM (js3aQ)

46 I need that like a Holland the head!
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Dutch women are quite busty they need very strong bra bants.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

47
There is a visitor from the spirit world in that door on the left.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM (xG4kz)

48 Darn it!

Before I checked out the expanded version, I thought the one maid was a big yellow lab with its back to us!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:33 AM (hovnC)

49 What a terrible, terrible joke!

Posted by: The Monty Python Art Critic at November 18, 2024 09:33 AM (LxER7)

50 But it's my only line!

Posted by: The Monty Python Art Critic's Wife at November 18, 2024 09:33 AM (LxER7)

51 No dyke comments. They bother muldoon as I recall.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:33 AM (hovnC)

52 On a positive note, nice rear views of some voluptuous Dutch women.

Unfortunately, none of them are Eva Vlandingerbroek.

Posted by: Can Pick'em at November 18, 2024 09:34 AM (nS6qG)

53 Okay, okay....enough.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 18, 2024 09:34 AM (LxER7)

54 would not hang
WOULD SELL it's a Vermeer, worth millions

that said, it doesn't really return my winter willie to its summer splendor

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 09:34 AM (/7KEl)

55 Old woman #2 had her ass immortalized by Vermeer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2024 09:34 AM (hY4dx)

56 Before I checked out the expanded version, I thought the one maid was a big yellow lab with its back to us!
Posted by: andycanuck

*snort

I wouldn't have seen that if you hadn't said that. LOL. Because it des look like that. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 09:34 AM (tY81A)

57 Me like. Very real life. Would hang. Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2024 09:34 AM (/y7Fe)

58
City planning?

Posted by: Robert

You'll find the answer in Runyon.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 18, 2024 09:34 AM (xG4kz)

59 Grandma Moses
Sittin in her rockin chair
Chewing on her underwear
What color
Was
It?

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 18, 2024 09:35 AM (1DWAs)

60 What’s going on in the alley? Looks suspicious.

Posted by: FINGERS at November 18, 2024 09:35 AM (C8ve7)

61 ‘ Watch it, or you'll be in Dutch.’

As long as they don’t give me the Dutch oven treatment.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:28 AM (jbnUc)

I imagine "Dutch Oven" is going to take on a different meaning now that the Palis are hunting Jews in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at November 18, 2024 09:36 AM (aYubz)

62 What’s going on in the alley? Looks suspicious.

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Black market pearl earring sale, probably.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2024 09:36 AM (hY4dx)

63 Vermeer is one of my top three Old Masters. The others are Velásquez and Titian. I can appreciate Leonardo and Michelangelo, and won't argue when you say they're greater, but the others are my top three. The order in my head always changes, though.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 18, 2024 09:36 AM (BHrzb)

64 What's going on under the table there?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2024 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

65 Two maids washing the sidewalk....

A David French dreamscape

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 09:37 AM (XE8Rx)

66 I perceive that the Dutch didn't have a windows-tax like the English. Very good.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM (hovnC)

67 It's like an Advent calendar, except instead of chocolates, you get a little old lady.

Posted by: red speck at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM (0Id0S)

68 I like how the top window has one of those davit thingies that lets you crank your load of groceries up to the top floor without using the stairs. A boon for the Costco customer.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM (hY4dx)

69 Sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM (kzHlT)

70 Dutch women are quite busty they need very strong bra bants.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

The big bosomed lady with the Dutch accent will try to change your point of view.

Posted by: Sir Rod Stewart at November 18, 2024 09:39 AM (Aqu9a)

71 What's going on under the table there?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2024 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

I'm thinking it's a couple of girls playing Jax.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 18, 2024 09:39 AM (g8Ew8)

72 I know her! She'll sweep with anybody!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:39 AM (hovnC)

73 It's like an Advent calendar, except instead of chocolates, you get a little old lady.

Posted by: red speck at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM (0Id0S)

Charmingly put.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at November 18, 2024 09:39 AM (SfhV1)

74 67 It's like an Advent calendar, except instead of chocolates, you get a little old lady.
Posted by: red speck at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM (0Id0S)

*Snort*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (LxER7)

75 Dutch?

I like Dutch Bros. coffee! I get the Annihilator. It's really good. Caramel, not chocolate though. Yuck

Posted by: jmel at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (RWHIh)

76 Looks quite modern, for the era.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (s72ew)

77 5>> I wonder if this was done with a camera obscura.

If you haven't watched Tim's Vermeer, Id' recommend it. A little deflating if you're a Vermeer fan, but an interesting process to discover how he achieved such photorealism in he's era.

Posted by: red speck at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (0Id0S)

78 Yeesh. He made a painting of that?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:21 AM

I dunno...looks like a scene of typical Holland days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (ZANHd)

79 Nicely detailed
He painted it because the sniper is in the top open window 15 feet back

Posted by: Skip at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (o2o8e)

80 Vermeer is one of my top three Old Masters. The others are Velásquez and Titian. I can appreciate Leonardo and Michelangelo, and won't argue when you say they're greater, but the others are my top three. The order in my head always changes, though.
Posted by: Pete in Texas

El Greco is definitely up there for me.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

81 Didn't he also paint a scene of a maid working in the back courtyard, sort of the rear view of this house? I realize he only did 30-or so paintings in his career but he obviously loved both his house and his maids.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (B+gJG)

82 Vermeer is one of my top three Old Masters. The others are Velásquez and Titian. I can appreciate Leonardo and Michelangelo, and won't argue when you say they're greater, but the others are my top three. The order in my head always changes, though.
Posted by: Pete in Texas

Nice list. For me it's Titian, Rembrandt, and Michelangelo. Vermeer is solid gold. He would probably be in my top 5.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (4XwPj)

83 They can't wear their wooden shoes due to sabotage.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (hY4dx)

84 I bet the bathrooms in those dwellings are really nasty.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (g8Ew8)

85 I dunno...looks like a scene of typical Holland days.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (ZANHd)
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I sauced what you zee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:42 AM (js3aQ)

86 Looks like an academic exercise done to test one's skills than being painted for 'art' to hang on a wall. Jjust open your window and see the same thing.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 18, 2024 09:42 AM (/lPRQ)

87 I perceive that the Dutch didn't have a windows-tax like the English. Very good.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM

No, but they did tax on frontage, which is why their buildings are typically narrow, tall, and deep.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:42 AM (ZANHd)

88
I dunno...looks like a scene of typical Holland days.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (ZANHd)

Love the saucy commentary round here!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 18, 2024 09:42 AM (LxER7)

89 Didn't he also paint a scene of a maid working in the back courtyard, sort of the rear view of this house? I realize he only did 30-or so paintings in his career but he obviously loved both his house and his maids.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (B+gJG)

I can relate.

Posted by: Ahnold S. at November 18, 2024 09:42 AM (Aqu9a)

90 Why can't I just scroll right or left to see the rest of it ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at November 18, 2024 09:42 AM (ayRl+)

91 I bet the bathrooms in those dwellings are really nasty.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (g8Ew

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Clogs - but I'm repeating myself.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:43 AM (js3aQ)

92 They can't wear their wooden shoes due to sabotage.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:43 AM (ZANHd)

93 A Vermeer that's not "Girl with a Pearl Earring" -- nice

Posted by: brak at November 18, 2024 09:43 AM (NGHTx)

94 Nederlanders zijn flikkers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2024 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

95 Just Singin' in the Drain - a limerick

Early morning streets filled with dread
(At least that's what the street sweeper said)
But there's no need to tremble
As long as you're nimble
Avoiding chamberpots dumped on your head

Posted by: muldoon at November 18, 2024 09:43 AM (991eG)

96 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM (RHGPo)

97 Yeesh. He made a painting of that?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 18, 2024 09:21 AM (jbnUc)

I'd rather see this than some foppish king or prince in tights.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM (lH8E4)

98 I dunno...looks like a scene of typical Holland days.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (ZANHd)
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I sauced what you zee.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

RMBS is very adelft at wordplay.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

99 I dunno...looks like a scene of typical Holland days.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:40 AM (ZANHd)

Well played, RMBS!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM (jgdZo)

100 Clouds are well done!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM (gfztU)

101 They can't wear their wooden shoes due to sabotage.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM
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Wow! Good one!

I gouda hand it to you!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:45 AM (js3aQ)

102 Well played, RMBS!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM

*fistbump*

Great ONT, last night!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:45 AM (ZANHd)

103 There really are Masters at Dutch Masters.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2024 09:45 AM (WXNFJ)

104 The Tulip Exchange -- After.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 18, 2024 09:45 AM (wzAuc)

105 RMBS is very adelft at wordplay.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)
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Blue my mind, too!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (js3aQ)

106 I like it, and would never have guessed it was by Vermeer.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (u1uWe)

107
to tax the wealth of government officials making more than the median wealth of their countrymen.

It would be interesting to pass a rule that the average salary of government workers (excluding the DoD) cannot exceed the average salary of workers in the country.

It would focus them on the need to improve the economy if they want more money as opposed to now where they benefit from damaging the economy.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (oZhjI)

108 No, but they did tax on frontage, which is why their buildings are typically narrow, tall, and deep.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:42 AM (ZANHd)

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The IRS today would likely consider cleavage to be frontage.

Posted by: ShainS -- Dems Haven't Been This Angry Since We Took Their Slaves Away! at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (WJrmd)

109 and here it is today, per wiki:

https://t.ly/Fjrwq

Posted by: brak at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (NGHTx)

110
"If you're not Dutch you're not much"

-Said by mom's Hollander relatives constantly in the 60's.

Posted by: Auspex at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (j4U/Z)

111 RMBS is very adelft at wordplay.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)
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Blue my mind, too!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM

Hague eyes, stop, I'm blushing here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:47 AM (ZANHd)

112 I bet the bathrooms in those dwellings are really nasty.
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Mrs. Pants: But what about the privies?
Blackadder: Um, well, what we are talking about in privy terms is the latest in front-wall, fresh air orifices combined with a wide capacity gutter installation below.
Mrs. Pants: You mean you crap out the window?
Blackadder: Yes.
Mrs. Pants: Well in that case we'll definitely take it. I can't stand those dirty indoor things.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:47 AM (hovnC)

113 El Greco is definitely up there for me.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:41 AM (v6JzV)

Jimmy? Made some rayciss comment at some point though, I think.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2024 09:47 AM (lH8E4)

114
Cat Video!

This cat video should be included in every Pet Thread.

I don't know what's worse, what these two randy cats are doing, or the cat-lady's reaction:

https://is.gd/pSWOxk

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 18, 2024 09:47 AM (ixJ6n)

115 Well played, RMBS!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:44 AM

*fistbump*

Great ONT, last night!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:45 AM (ZANHd)

Thank you, brother! And thanks to CBD for letting me have a go at it!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:47 AM (jgdZo)

116 Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:47 AM

First place my mind went!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (ZANHd)

117 It would be interesting to pass a rule that the average salary of government workers (excluding the DoD) cannot exceed the average salary of workers in the country.

It would focus them on the need to improve the economy if they want more money as opposed to now where they benefit from damaging the economy.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (oZhjI)

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You'd also need to consider the value of other benefits included in compensation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Dems Haven't Been This Angry Since We Took Their Slaves Away! at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (WJrmd)

118 "If you're not Dutch you're not much"

-Said by mom's Hollander relatives constantly in the 60's.
Posted by: Auspex

We heard it all the time from Grammi Fenstermacher and others in Pennsylvania Dutch areas of PA.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (WXNFJ)

119 Too early for a dutch lunch?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (AwPFb)

120 So someone I know told me to read a specific letter Marx had written to Engles. And...wow. He's starts off complaining he needs more money but quickly gets into his issues with people whom he calls that word we aren't supposed to say.

And Marx really, really liked that word. https://tinyurl.com/3twvhwa8

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

121 No, but they did tax on frontage, which is why their buildings are typically narrow, tall, and deep.
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Very good.

Thanks for the new tax fact.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (hovnC)

122 "If you're not Dutch you're not much"

-Said by mom's Hollander relatives constantly in the 60's.
Posted by: Auspex

And still said by me and my relatives today!

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

123 For vmom (and anyone else)

Here's the protocol for ivermectin and fedenzabole and cancr. It also has links to all the medical studies

https://tinyurl.com/yc35aexy

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (gfViB)

124 I saw a piece on Marquee TV the other day about this piece. Vermeer tried different variations, such as the red shutter. At first it wasn't there. Then Vermeer added it as green like the others at left. Then he painted it red. The idea drew the viewer's eye to the woman in doorway and framed contrast.. The viewer is left wondering why red and not green?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 18, 2024 09:49 AM (yxhux)

125 Too early for a dutch lunch?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM

That's one of those things we really don't want to Google, isn't it?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:49 AM (ZANHd)

126 100 comments i and no mention of the thin Vermeer of civilization?

Who are you people?

Posted by: muldoon at November 18, 2024 09:49 AM (991eG)

127 Here's an Interesting article about the only Vermeer painting in a private collection:

https://tinyurl.com/3mp4br6r

Posted by: Sassy Fred at November 18, 2024 09:49 AM (RMjVS)

128 Sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 18, 2024 09:38 AM (kzHlT)

That's because you have no taste in fine art!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2024 09:50 AM (d9fT1)

129 It would be interesting to pass a rule that the average salary of government workers (excluding the DoD) cannot exceed the average salary of workers in the country.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2024 09:46 AM (oZhjI)

Why exclude DoD? Maybe it's changed but back when I was in enlisted got paid shit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2024 09:50 AM (ExV1e)

130 I see the little street walker.

Posted by: Frosty The Snowman at November 18, 2024 09:50 AM (vFG9F)

131 I love the way Vermeer captures the details in his work. The brickwork and wooden textures are superb as is the realistic color. His placement of the two women working quietly in the doorways and the children playing emphasizes the 'little street' title. Without being overly sweet, it is a pleasant, quiet scene that is enjoyable to look at. It makes me want to study it longer to note all the details and imagine the sounds in the image.

Posted by: JTB at November 18, 2024 09:50 AM (yTvNw)

132 >>will tell attendees Monday the time has come for a global taxation impost on ultra wealthy individuals.

You know what?
Go for it.

What have billionaires done for us except force terrible, woke Democrat politicians on us and meet in Davos to decide amongst themselves how best to micromanage our lives (e.g. Gates deciding we should not eat meat).

*I know, Musk is an exception

Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2024 09:50 AM (u1uWe)

133 Dear Doof,

I did not see
Your ONT
Until morning light.
It made me think of the song
I've hummed all morning long
"Sausalito Summer Night"!

Thus endeth my excursion in poetry!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 09:51 AM (4XwPj)

134 Missed this earlier -
111 Can someone point me to links of the dosage regimen for fenbendazole & ivermectin for cancer ?

It's for my sister and I am kinda too frazzled to search effectively
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 18, 2024 07:46 AM (OTdqV)

vmom -

mycancerstory[dot]rocks, click the protocol link for fenben protocol.

Posted by: Inogame at November 18, 2024 09:51 AM (53oGX)

135 100 comments i and no mention of the thin Vermeer of civilization?

Who are you people?
Posted by: muldoon at November 18, 2024 09:49 AM (991eG)

I was also waiting for mention of HOF coach Dick Vermeer

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:51 AM (jgdZo)

136 It is essentially a photograph before cameras.

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 09:52 AM (fV+MH)

137 CBD is kinda the Dutch Uncle of the site, so this painting fits.

Posted by: Previously Banned 2X at November 18, 2024 09:52 AM (nS6qG)

138 First place my mind went!

----
I thought it was from "Beer" at first but it was from, more obviously, "Money".

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 09:52 AM (hovnC)

139
Why exclude DoD? Maybe it's changed but back when I was in enlisted got paid shit.

That's the point. If you include the DoD, the bureaucrats in the rest of the government will make sure all raises go to them.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2024 09:53 AM (oZhjI)

140 Dutch women are quite busty they need very strong bra bants.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM (v6JzV)

The big bosomed lady with the Dutch accent will try to change your point of view.
Posted by: Sir Rod Stewart

Fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go 'round.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 09:53 AM (tY81A)

141 Dinky little country has had a lot of influence, all things considered.

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:54 AM (PCK5/)

142 Dear Doof,

I did not see
Your ONT
Until morning light.
It made me think of the song
I've hummed all morning long
"Sausalito Summer Night"!

Thus endeth my excursion in poetry!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 09:51 AM (4XwPj)

Why, thank you! Until now, I've never had anyone write a poem for me.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:54 AM (jgdZo)

143 Were the artist's feline pets Vermeerkats?

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:54 AM (v6JzV)

144 Thinking about how tedious it would be to paint all those bricks and mortar lines makes me tired.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 18, 2024 09:55 AM (lzTsk)

145 Mmmmmmmm, coffee!

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 09:55 AM (1Yy3c)

146 This style of art is right up my alley! I avenue appreciation for Vermeer.

Posted by: muldoon at November 18, 2024 09:55 AM (991eG)

147 It's funny, but there is a little dead-end street that looks like this in the middle of town, near where many of the cemeteries are. Bricks make up the roadway. The houses face toward one small graveyard, a Jewish one I think, and in the back they give on a road that skirts a larger cemetery. Must be odd to live sandwiched between two boneyards.

The title of this painting makes me think of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

148 Was it really that clean and tidy? I'm dubious.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM (LxER7)

149 Were the artist's feline pets Vermeerkats?
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:54 AM (v6JzV)

Posted by: Sassy Fred at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM (RMjVS)

150 Vermeer also did some other, lesser well known, beautiful pieces.

Take this,

Otter with a Pearl Earring
https://tinyurl.com/32cmpn3x

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM (GMlj0)

151 141 Dinky little country has had a lot of influence, all things considered.
----------------
They taught the world how to do navy, discovery and world trade. Not bad for a dinky country.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM (jFCkp)

152 144 Thinking about how tedious it would be to paint all those bricks and mortar lines makes me tired.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 18, 2024 09:55 AM (lzTsk)

Consider the fact that the bricks do not line up… and each brick is mottled differently…

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM (PCK5/)

153 Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2024 09:48 AM (oZhjI)
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Wow- thanks for that

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (C11Vt)

154 151 141 Dinky little country has had a lot of influence, all things considered.
----------------
They taught the world how to do navy, discovery and world trade. Not bad for a dinky country.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM (jFCkp)

Yep… as well as inventing tulips…

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)

155 Dinky little country has had a lot of influence, all things considered.
Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:54 AM (PCK5/)

I bet all them dykes got something to do with it.

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (1Yy3c)

156 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (RHGPo)

157 CBD is kinda the Dutch Uncle of the site, so this painting fits.

Posted by: Previously Banned 2X at November 18, 2024 09:52 AM (nS6qG)

There's a term I haven't heard in a long time!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (d9fT1)

158 This style of art is right up my alley! I avenue appreciation for Vermeer.
Posted by: muldoon at November 18, 2024 09:55 AM (991eG)

Not a lot of room for cars, though. They probably have to parkway up the road.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (jgdZo)

159 Consider the fact that the bricks do not line up… and each brick is mottled differently…
Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM (PCK5/)

Consistent Originality is the motto of the Dutch Brick-Mottlers' Guild.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2024 09:58 AM (s72ew)

160 All these hot Dutch women and all we get are dreary bricks...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 09:58 AM (TGPs7)

161 Must be odd to live sandwiched between two boneyards.

The title of this painting makes me think of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Quiet neighbors who don't complain are a big blessing!

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd. at November 18, 2024 09:58 AM (nS6qG)

162 Not a lot of room for cars, though. They probably have to parkway up the road.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (jgdZo)

It takes a toll on them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2024 09:58 AM (d9fT1)

163 Otter with a Pearl Earring
https://tinyurl.com/32cmpn3x
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 18, 2024 09:56 AM

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 18, 2024 09:59 AM (ZCej3)

164 Dutch Milk Maids make me hawt!

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 09:59 AM (jFCkp)

165 Painted about 350 years ago? So much to unpack in the picture.
I do wonder what people will say about how we lived (house type, construction, daily living, etc.) in 350 years. Will they care?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 18, 2024 09:59 AM (Kdi1r)

166 To tell a family secret, my grandmother was Dutch.

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at November 18, 2024 09:59 AM (Aqu9a)

167 146 This style of art is right up my alley! I avenue appreciation for Vermeer.
---------
He sure was a Delft hand with the brush.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:00 AM (hovnC)

168 Why, thank you! Until now, I've never had anyone write a poem for me.
Posted by: Doof

There once was a Moron named Doof,
Who once said to himself, "Oh, Forsooth,
A Gen-X ONT
Is the right way for me
To show I'm not really obtoof!"

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:00 AM (v6JzV)

169 I do wonder what people will say about how we lived (house type, construction, daily living, etc.) in 350 years. Will they care?
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 18, 2024 09:59 AM

Gaze upon my architecture, ye mighty, and despair.

Posted by: Boston City Hall] at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (ZCej3)

170 The Girl with the Pearl Earring… Scarlett Johannson’s career peak…

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (PCK5/)

171 I looked on Gorgle Maps for the little local street I mentioned in 147. It's there, and I last wandered down it a couple of years before the Sniffle Scare. But Maps won't let me proceed down it online. Odd.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (J2vNu)

172 Boneyard? Downtown Ventura is one big old graveyard.
A city park still has grave stones.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (AwPFb)

173 Hey, babe! How about planting your tulips here?!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (hovnC)

174 524 >>BREAKING: Former VP Mike Pence Says He’s “Literally Praying” Trump Won’t Pardon January 6 Prisoners

That's an interesting prayer. Weird, actually.

Think he's become more politician than Christian.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (u1uWe)

Maybe Biden will reach across the aisle and pardon them all as one last fu to the dem machine. Say something like yeah the riots were bad but the dems really cocked it up with imprisoning them in solitary for years.

I know.. not likely, but hey he voted for pdt, so maybe some scorched earth on those that ended his career.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (OA79/)

175 Everybody in that painting is paying for their own lunch. It's a Dutch street.

Posted by: muldoon at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (991eG)

176 Yep… as well as inventing tulips…
Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)

Vermeer made a lovely painting of tulips in a vase, set on an antique organ. He entitled it, "Kamala, The Early Years".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2024 10:01 AM (s72ew)

177 Thanks inogame!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 18, 2024 10:02 AM (PHCb/)

178 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2024 10:02 AM (RHGPo)

179 They taught the world how to do navy, discovery and world trade. Not bad for a dinky country.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Yep. They showed Peter the Great how to do a navy.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:02 AM (v6JzV)

180 9 I do wonder what people will say about how we lived (house type, construction, daily living, etc.) in 350 years. Will they care?
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at November 18, 2024

***
They'll conclude we were weird for not having windows that would open in business offices, and that the big block of machinery (the air conditioning) had something to do with food preparation, religious rites, or human sacrifice. Maybe all three.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:03 AM (J2vNu)

181 Testikels is Testicles in Dutch. Even the Dutch have Gladiator names, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:03 AM (jFCkp)

182 Pearl necklace >>>> pearl earring

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:03 AM (jgdZo)

183 Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:00 AM (v6JzV)

*nods head*

Solid work, Glub!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:04 AM (jgdZo)

184 Yep. They showed Peter the Great how to do a navy.
----------------
Same deal with Britain. Also, Hanseatic League.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:04 AM (jFCkp)

185 https://tinyurl.com/yc35aexy
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Thanks notsothoreau

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 18, 2024 10:04 AM (PHCb/)

186 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2024 10:04 AM (RHGPo)

187 I love vermeer. Except for the clothing, this could be turn of the century America by the building.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (zZu0s)

188 "Painted about 350 years ago? So much to unpack in the picture.
I do wonder what people will say about how we lived (house type, construction, daily living, etc.) in 350 years. Will they care?
Posted by: actually inside the beltway"

Contemporary architecture is hyper-bland.

So no, they won't think anything of us.

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (fV+MH)

189 Fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go 'round.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 09:53 AM (tY81A)

Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?

Posted by: David St. Hubbins at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (PiwSw)

190 A view of the same street from a few years ago:

https://tinyurl.com/3n34w8rp

Posted by: Sassy Fred at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (RMjVS)

191 178 Morning Joe hosts, Joe and Mika, 'bend the knee' to President-Elect Trump
Posted by: SMOD

I'll bend BOTH knees for a job, IYKWIM...

Posted by: Kamala Harris at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

192 Yep… as well as inventing tulips…
Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)
-

If you believe what the Dutch are petalling.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (js3aQ)

193 Russia takes aim at US nuclear power by throttling uranium

Thanx Hillary
Posted by: SMOD at November 18, 2024 10:04 AM (RHGPo)

Saskatchewan says, "thank you".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (s72ew)

194 This is Scarlett Johansson in the movie version

https://tinyurl.com/4y8m9kuy

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (/7KEl)

195 Bizet's The Pear Fishers >>>> pearl necklace >>>>>> pearl earring

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (v6JzV)

196 With the water table so high one wonders about their shit holes. Same deal in Ukraine.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:06 AM (jFCkp)

197 @165

>>Will they care?

If the world still exists, it will be a vastly different place, the world could be in a scramble and struggle to merely exist, think of how different the world was 350 years ago, for an analogue.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2024 10:06 AM (XV/Pl)

198 Vermeer makes industrial grade wood chippers.

Posted by: Coincidence? at November 18, 2024 10:06 AM (DobEs)

199 Why, thank you! Until now, I've never had anyone write a poem for me.
Posted by: Doof

Well.... I have a nasty cold. Headache, fever..... I'm probably delirious.
It could make some poor soul think I'm A nice person! The horror!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 10:06 AM (4XwPj)

200 192 Yep… as well as inventing tulips…
Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 09:57 AM (PCK5/)
-

If you believe what the Dutch are petalling.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (js3aQ)

It’s all in the marketing… Dutch stores abound.

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2024 10:06 AM (PCK5/)

201 I was just a skinny lad,
Never knew no good from bad...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 18, 2024 10:07 AM (zZu0s)

202 it amazes me that more people didn't get cholera or other water-borne diseases back then

I don't think there was a lot of separation between sewage and canal water

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:08 AM (/7KEl)

203 Solid work, Glub!
Posted by: Doof

Thanks, Food!

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:08 AM (v6JzV)

204 Speaking of Holland and MAGA, here's something else for Trump's admin to reorganize, from the top down:

https://tinyurl.com/33zk84aa

It's obvious that the progressives have landed there, too.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:08 AM (js3aQ)

205 I don't think there was a lot of separation between sewage and canal water
-----------------
So Philippines, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:09 AM (jFCkp)

206 Waß ist das 100 comment rule?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 18, 2024 10:09 AM (vd6bO)

207 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Looks like an ally to me but what do I know? Smaller is easier I guess. Easy Street.
Goes looking for coffee

Posted by: Diogenes at November 18, 2024 10:09 AM (W/lyH)

208 Pearl necklace >>>> pearl earring
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:03 AM (jgdZo)

Sometimes, you get both.

Posted by: ZZ Top at November 18, 2024 10:09 AM (Aqu9a)

209 Well.... I have a nasty cold. Headache, fever..... I'm probably delirious.
It could make some poor soul think I'm A nice person! The horror!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 10:06 AM (4XwPj)

Sorry to hear about your cold. Taking anything for it? I've always had good results with Alka Seltzer Plus cold medicine. Just seems to have the right combo of stuff to ease most cold symptoms.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:09 AM (jgdZo)

210
140 Dutch women are quite busty they need very strong bra bants.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 09:32 AM

You know about the cup sizes?

https://youtu.be/oP2SLjBTZ6w

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at November 18, 2024 10:09 AM (DobEs)

211 Zinc is good for a cold

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 18, 2024 10:10 AM (dE3DB)

212 Boneyard? Downtown Ventura is one big old graveyard.
A city park still has grave stones.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024

***
It's been forgotten, but Noo Awlins' very first graveyard was within what's now the French Quarter, near where I used to catch the bus for junior high school. It's long since been built over with houses. I seem to recall a story that when one resident put in a swimming pool or a fish pond, the dig found bones 200+ years old.

There is also the legend that the Saints football team was cursed because the Superdome is built over an ancient Indian burial ground. And midtown has a small potters' field that has very few headstones, but lots of headboards -- plywood whitewashed and lettered by hand, as that was all the relatives could afford. A chilly and sad site to see even in daylight.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

213 A very nice art opening to the week! Yes, I'd hang this painting.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - (Cell phone) at November 18, 2024 10:10 AM (NFX2v)

214 Can anyone here explain what 'Dutching' chocolate does to chocolate?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:10 AM (jFCkp)

215 Is there any talk of VDH getting an appointment?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 18, 2024 10:11 AM (Dm8we)

216 Bizet's The Pear Fishers

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:05 AM (v6JzV)

Pleasant, but it is missing the grandiosity of Verdi's work.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 18, 2024 10:11 AM (d9fT1)

217 it amazes me that more people didn't get cholera or other water-borne diseases back then

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:08 AM (/7KEl)

They did, though, hence the need for larger families. More kids = better chance at least one would survive the bad water, rampant diseases, and poor diets.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at November 18, 2024 10:11 AM (RMjVS)

218
'Dutching' chocolate

Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at November 18, 2024 10:12 AM (DobEs)

219 217 it amazes me that more people didn't get cholera or other water-borne diseases back then

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:08 AM (/7KEl)
---------------
They drank Gin.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:13 AM (jFCkp)

220 oh the huge manatee

https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/
1858234632652669233

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 18, 2024 10:13 AM (gbOdA)

221 Can anyone here explain what 'Dutching' chocolate does to chocolate?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 1

***
It makes you want to don wooden shoes and stick a finger in a dike?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

222 524 >>BREAKING: Former VP Mike Pence Says He’s “Literally Praying” Trump Won’t Pardon January 6 Prisoners

The sentient houseplant speaks! He'll certainly maintain his commitment. He never had any, and he still won't have any going forward.

Mike! Mike! Mike! Guess what day it's going to be? TRUMP DAY!!! YAY!! He's going to pardon the Jan 6th insurrectionists and break his oath whether Pence likes it or not.

Go ahead and pray, that's bound to work. Shouldn’t they be held accountable for threatening to take your life Mr. former vice president?

Pence is 100% to blame for all of this. Look at his adoring ass kissing looks at Trump during all these meetings. We knew Trump was bad from the beginning. We didn't need an Indiana Airhead to tell us that

Pence needs to stop trying to prepare for a 2028 run.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 18, 2024 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

223 The Dutch live in the Netherlands
Nether region is a euphemism for genitals or crotch
Therefore the Dutch live in Crotchland

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2024 10:13 AM (/y7Fe)

224 "Sausalito Summer Night"!

Thus endeth my excursion in poetry!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 09:51 AM (4XwPj)

Diesel. You asked for it.....and I appreciate it.......

https://youtu.be/H_Mgc_9f23s

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

225 I knew one Israeli gubbernmint employee like this. It made me sick! Obviously, there are more here and everywhere else - especially after the corona years.

But these stats are something else!

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
Did you know that 85% of the federal workforce works from home and only have to come in one day a month? On any given day, only 17% of the federal workforce is in a federal office building working. Many hold other jobs. It's one giant looting operation and US taxpayers are their mark.

DOGE is coming.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:14 AM (js3aQ)

226 223 The Dutch live in the Netherlands
Nether region is a euphemism for genitals or crotch
Therefore the Dutch live in Crotchland
---------------
So, Florida, America's penis, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:14 AM (jFCkp)

227 It makes you want to don wooden shoes and stick a finger in a dike?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

Only if she consents.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at November 18, 2024 10:15 AM (RMjVS)

228 The Dutch also raided Wales and stole all their vowels.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:15 AM (v6JzV)

229 Speaking of Holland and MAGA, here's something else for Trump's admin to reorganize, from the top down:

https://tinyurl.com/33zk84aa

It's obvious that the progressives have landed there, too.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:08 AM (js3aQ)

Better yet, we could withdraw. NATO can be, effectively, the EU's military and that doesn't require the US.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2024 10:15 AM (ExV1e)

230 So, Florida, America's penis, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:14 AM (jFCkp)

Does it shrink in winter, too?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 18, 2024 10:15 AM (Aqu9a)

231 @226 Florida produces Florida man so yeah America's penis

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2024 10:15 AM (/y7Fe)

232
Italians hate Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!

Posted by: The Merry Minuet at November 18, 2024 10:16 AM (DobEs)

233 220 oh the huge manatee

https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/
1858234632652669233
Posted by: rhennigantx

That's very green. Only needed about a cup of water, and she filled up the rest.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 18, 2024 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

234 Therefore the Dutch live in Crotchland
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 18, 2024 10:13 AM (/y7Fe)
-

Explains the name of Holland's major liqueur manufacturer:

https://bols.com/

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:16 AM (js3aQ)

235 There's a little town up in the mountains here called Nederland

the town hosts an annual winterfest called "Frozen Dead Guy Days"

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:16 AM (/7KEl)

236 230 So, Florida, America's penis, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:14 AM (jFCkp)

Does it shrink in winter, too?
---------------
No. It is covered with a lot of deadly creepy crawlers, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:17 AM (jFCkp)

237 Is the Vermeer's signature on the white bench to the left? I can read "Meer," but that's all.

And are those two dogs under the green shutters at the center?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

238 Just seems to have the right combo of stuff to ease most cold symptoms.
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:09 AM (jgdZo

Just generic cold and flu stuff from Wal-Mart.
Pro tip!.... If your nose is getting sore from the sniffles get one of those small pots of medicated Carmex lip balm and rubber some of the stuff under the nose. Scent can help open nasal passages and the balm protects the skin!!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 10:17 AM (4XwPj)

239 Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy
When I went to police about my abuse, I remember being asked if I had “consented”.

I was five years old.

Girls as young as 10 or 11 were branded white slags, p*ki shaggers and child prostitutes by those in power.

The message was clear: this is your fault.

https://tinyurl.com/5a4f3zc9
1:13 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:18 AM (hovnC)

240
What is Holland?

https://youtu.be/fL4QfvIrUf4

Posted by: Another obligatory Seinfeld reference at November 18, 2024 10:18 AM (DobEs)

241 There's a little town up in the mountains here called Nederland

the town hosts an annual winterfest called "Frozen Dead Guy Days"
Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 1

***
I used to drive up there all the time when I lived in Denver and Aurora.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

242 Is the Vermeer's signature on the white bench to the left? I can read "Meer," but that's all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
_______

The vermeer is wearing off.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 18, 2024 10:18 AM (Dm8we)

243 There's a little town up in the mountains here called Nederland
Posted by: Don Black

You really wanna stay away from the town called Nadlerland.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:19 AM (v6JzV)

244 So someone I know told me to read a specific letter Marx had written to Engles. And...wow. He's starts off complaining he needs more money but quickly gets into his issues with people whom he calls that word we aren't supposed to say.

And Marx really, really liked that word. https://tinyurl.com/3twvhwa8

One of the big fans of Marxism websites deleted that letter because of the wrecker capitalists taking it out of context.

I’d love to see the context where the N word is OK, outside of a rap video.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2024 10:19 AM (3cXfB)

245 There seems to be a gutter built into the sidewalk

it comes out of the alley and crosses the street at lower left

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (/7KEl)

246 So, Florida, America's penis, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 10:14 AM (jFCkp)
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Now I can never look again at a map of the US without recalling this image.

You are a great American!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (js3aQ)

247 Did you know that 85% of the federal workforce works from home and only have to come in one day a month? On any given day, only 17% of the federal workforce is in a federal office building working. Many hold other jobs. It's one giant looting operation and US taxpayers are their mark.
=================
I personally know one woman in trouble with her agency for taking an extra two years of unauthorized vacation, which they determined by looking at her network sign-ins (or lack thereof), since she works entirely from home (she has a disability, in that she cannot turn left when she drives, so she works from home). Anyway, she just never even bothered signing in over her employment at HHS for a collectively very long period of days, which they interpret as unauthorized vacation and her union is fighting, saying she "worked" off network.

Two whole years.

BTW, after a short post-election respite, the Propaganda Press is back in full Trump-hate mode today. He is everything they despise, and they are collectively not going to let anyone forget that fact.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (Ry0uK)

248 222 524 >>BREAKING: Former VP Mike Pence Says He’s “Literally Praying” Trump Won’t Pardon January 6 Prisoners
______

Lord, pardon me of all my sins. But I pray don't let Trump pardon the people invited to walk around the Capitol building for a few minutes on Jan 6, they are the worst!
-MP

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (fs1hN)

249 There's a little town up in the mountains here called Nederland
Posted by: Don Black

That's actually kinda funny considering the Netherlands is a Low Country.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

250 245 There seems to be a gutter built into the sidewalk

it comes out of the alley and crosses the street at lower left
Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (/7KEl
The old lady empties the washwater in that gutter. And the chamberpot.

Posted by: Eromero at November 18, 2024 10:22 AM (K9PNw)

251 If you have a cold...NyQuil.
It fucking works.

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:22 AM (fV+MH)

252 Willowed - just because it's going to be interesting what the final Ukraine - Russian border will look like when Trump installs a peace agreement.
==
I don't think history began in 2014. And I don't think Russia is going to come out the loser in this war. And I'm pretty sure I'm reading it correctly.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2024 10:02 AM (LkLld)
==
Trick question - they are both going to come out the loser. No winners here. Both populations are in freefall and you just killed a bunch of young men, for those who didn't get out before the fighting started. Unless you go back to tribal polygamy - which I am sure the eastern churches would be all for - you can't begin to repopulate in strength. Their only advantage - the rest of eastern Europe sucks demographically as well. The winner is probably Turkey.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 18, 2024 10:17 AM (GZYu7)

Posted by: Black JEM at November 18, 2024 10:22 AM (GZYu7)

253 68. I like how the top window has one of those davit thingies that lets you crank your load of groceries up to the top floor without using the stairs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Good eye! And also how the little dog was put out to romp in the movie Rear Window.

Posted by: L - (Cell phone) at November 18, 2024 10:23 AM (NFX2v)

254 Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
BOMBSHELL: MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, announced they had a "personal" meeting with President Trump in Florida to "restart communications." This marked their first meeting in seven years.

Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
More on the Joe and Mika visit to Mar a Lago where they met President-elect Trump, who just two weeks ago were calling him Hitler.

Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann 2h
Look, this isn't complex. Joe Scarborough has always been a political whore.

Breaking911 @Breaking911 12m
These leftists are slaughtering each other. So fun.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:23 AM (hovnC)

255
That's actually kinda funny considering the Netherlands is a Low Country.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (v6JzV)

Portions of it are below sea level.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

256 >The old lady empties the washwater in that gutter. And the chamberpot.

Posted by: Eromero

into the canal
from which they drew water for cooking and washing

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:24 AM (/7KEl)

257 @Breaking911 1h
BOMBSHELL: MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, announced they had a "personal" meeting with President Trump in Florida to "restart communications." This marked their first meeting in seven years.

He should've slapped them in the face with his cock while yelling SCHLONGED!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

258 193 Russia takes aim at US nuclear power by throttling uranium

Thanx Hillary

She never should have given away America's natural resources located in Russia.

Posted by: Who could they be? at November 18, 2024 10:24 AM (cGEut)

259 Two whole years.

BTW, after a short post-election respite, the Propaganda Press is back in full Trump-hate mode today. He is everything they despise, and they are collectively not going to let anyone forget that fact.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (Ry0uK)
==
I guess they want to lose even more influence.

Getting tough to lose much more of what you barely have anyway.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 18, 2024 10:24 AM (GZYu7)

260 Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann 2h
Look, this isn't complex. Joe Scarborough has always been a political whore.

When you've lost Keith Olbermann.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

261
into the canal
from which they drew water for cooking and washing
Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024

***
No wonder they drank gin -- in self-defense.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

262 Good eye! And also how the little dog was put out to romp in the movie Rear Window.
Posted by: L

By Sam Drucker.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:25 AM (v6JzV)

263 vmom- look up Dr. William Makis, MD

https://twitter.com/MakisMD

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at November 18, 2024 10:25 AM (iNp3L)

264 It's been forgotten, but Noo Awlins' very first graveyard was within what's now the French Quarter, near where I used to catch the bus for junior high school. It's long since been built over with houses. I seem to recall a story that when one resident put in a swimming pool or a fish pond, the dig found bones 200+ years old.

There is also the legend that the Saints football team was cursed because the Superdome is built over an ancient Indian burial ground. And midtown has a small potters' field that has very few headstones, but lots of headboards -- plywood whitewashed and lettered by hand, as that was all the relatives could afford. A chilly and sad site to see even in daylight.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:10 AM (J2vNu)

Gotta say, I have really enjoyed my 2 brief visits to Nawlins after recent TxMoMes. Got some great recommendations from Javems a couple years ago and Piper this year. Will need to pick your brain before my next trip -- and there WILL be a next trip!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:26 AM (jgdZo)

265 what would Olbermann and Stephen King talk about at lunch?

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:26 AM (/7KEl)

266 Good eye! And also how the little dog was put out to romp in the movie Rear Window.
Posted by: L
*
By Sam Drucker.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024

***
"Oh, for the love of --!"

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at November 18, 2024 10:27 AM (J2vNu)

267 There appears to be some sort of corporeal phantasm in the doorway on the left.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 10:27 AM (4XwPj)

268 248 222 524 >>BREAKING: Former VP Mike Pence Says He’s “Literally Praying” Trump Won’t Pardon January 6 Prisoners
______

Lord, pardon me of all my sins. But I pray don't let Trump pardon the people invited to walk around the Capitol building for a few minutes on Jan 6, they are the worst!
-MP
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 18, 2024 10:20 AM (fs1hN)

Can one pray to have someone else's prayers ignored?

"O Lord,

Fuck that guy in particular.

Amen"

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:27 AM (1Yy3c)

269 what would Olbermann and Stephen King talk about at lunch?
Posted by: Don Black

Their periods?

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:27 AM (v6JzV)

270 There is also the legend that the Saints football team was cursed because the Superdome is built over an ancient Indian burial ground.

The Saints are cursed because they were eating babies in the Superdome after George W. Bush blew up the levees because he hates black people.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)

271 @Breaking911 1h
BOMBSHELL: MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, announced they had a "personal" meeting with President Trump in Florida to "restart communications." This marked their first meeting in seven years.

He should've slapped them in the face with his cock while yelling SCHLONGED!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

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

Joe & Mika were last seen with blood coming out of their whatevers ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Dems Haven't Been This Angry Since We Took Their Slaves Away! at November 18, 2024 10:28 AM (jW/QK)

272 Diesel. You asked for it.....and I appreciate it.......

https://youtu.be/H_Mgc_9f23s
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

Bonus points for the 45rpm vinyl!!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:28 AM (jgdZo)

273 Anyway, she just never even bothered signing in over her employment at HHS for a collectively very long period of days, which they interpret as unauthorized vacation and her union is fighting, saying she "worked" off network.

I don't know the specifics of her situation but I work primarily off network. I'm connected to the primary work sites I need via a web browser but I don't connect over VPN since it isn't required and they frequently whine about how the network is overburdened.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2024 10:28 AM (ExV1e)

274 Pence should just join a monastery and take a vow of silence. The tone deafness natural to his being would be fixed in an instant.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 18, 2024 10:28 AM (GZYu7)

275 also what is going on under that bench at bottom center

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (/7KEl)

276 Mike Pence
What a twat.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (AwPFb)

277 Bonus points for the 45rpm vinyl!!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:28 AM (jgdZo)

My brother and I were visiting family in Cali when that song came out. It took another 6 months for it to reach the Midwest when we got back home.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

278 Joe Scarbonnnnn is the most political whore of all time.

I can't be bothered to spell his name.

It boggles my mind that PDJT would meet with him.

Why???

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (fV+MH)

279 also what is going on under that bench at bottom center
Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (/7KEl)

"I wish I knew......"

- - - - - Chief TwoDogsF*cking

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

280 248. I met one of the J6ers who was sentenced to 26? months this weekend. His stories were pretty interesting. Pointed me here:
americanpatriotrelief.org

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 18, 2024 10:30 AM (vd6bO)

281 Gotta say, I have really enjoyed my 2 brief visits to Nawlins after recent TxMoMes. Got some great recommendations from Javems a couple years ago and Piper this year. Will need to pick your brain before my next trip -- and there WILL be a next trip!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024

***
You need to watch where you step, as in neighborhoods and areas. And also on the cracked and tilted sidewalks. In 2016 I cracked a bone in my foot going out to walk on the wide street right behind my apartment block -- a path I've trod innumerable times since 1991.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

282
It boggles my mind that PDJT would meet with him.

Why???
Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (fV+MH)

He really is the great unifier.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:30 AM (Zz0t1)

283 >>BREAKING: Former VP Mike Pence Says He’s “Literally Praying” Trump Won’t Pardon January 6 Prisoners

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

After pardoning the J6 prisoners, I'd like to see him throw Pence into that same gulag.

Posted by: ShainS -- Dems Haven't Been This Angry Since We Took Their Slaves Away! at November 18, 2024 10:30 AM (jW/QK)

284 Once again, the fascist Trump meets with...an adversary.

Is there anything this crazy bastard won't do?!?!?!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 18, 2024 10:32 AM (KbCG3)

285 Pence, Buttgieg -- WTF, Indiana?

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:32 AM (v6JzV)

286 Hay Mike Pence, please remind me: What is the first rule of holes?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 10:32 AM (1GZZ1)

287 Mike Pence
What a twat.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (AwPFb)
-

Pence isn't even good for pumping ~~gas~~ electricity.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 10:32 AM (js3aQ)

288 My brother and I were visiting family in Cali when that song came out. It took another 6 months for it to reach the Midwest when we got back home.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:29 AM (Zz0t1)

I had forgotten it - but it has been added to multiple Spotify playlists this morning!!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:32 AM (jgdZo)

289 >It boggles my mind that PDJT would meet with him.

Why???
---

to prove ScarBro wrong
to show that he is NOT 'literally Hitler'
not a madman
not the caricature the media has created

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:33 AM (/7KEl)

290 I don't see anything wrong with Trump meeting with them, as long as he makes them come to him (which he did).

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:34 AM (v6JzV)

291 >Mike Pence
What a twat.

---

this sullies the good name of twats everywhere

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:34 AM (/7KEl)

292 I learned that it would take 30,000 wind turbines to replace one coal fired boiler power plant.

Only 10% of the energy produced by a wind turbine makes it to the grid because it's so incredibly inconsistent.

Also, it's cheaper to build a new one than fix an old one that breaks, so we're going to have landscapes covered with dead turbines just sitting there in the next 10 - 20 years.

They're garbage. All because of the money laundering farce called 'climage change.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

293 Pence, Buttgieg -- WTF, Indiana?
Posted by: Bulg

Don't blame their shit on us. Trump won our state three times!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 18, 2024 10:35 AM (4XwPj)

294
I had forgotten it - but it has been added to multiple Spotify playlists this morning!!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:32 AM (jgdZo)

I too had to dig for it to get it in my rotation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

295 I had forgotten it - but it has been added to multiple Spotify playlists this morning!!
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 1

***
Doof, though I am a late Boomer, I enjoyed your nostalgic stroll thorugh the '80s and '90s on the ONT. My first car was optioned much like your parents' Chevy; my friends' parents had console TVs like that; and King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight" was part of the soundtrack to the early '70s for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:36 AM (J2vNu)

296 247. Posted by: Huck Follywood

I've pointed it out for ages.

But even prior to C19, I knew a woman on an agency approved 'contract' to sit home for 10 years. Eventually, as administrations changed, she was forgotten about. She 'worked from home" with a rare assignment (the first decade). She was paid at a decent mid-level managerial level plus D.C. locality pay.

Opened another business from home, got in great shape and enjoyed the arts...all while otherwise 'employed.' And then retired with an excellent amount of $ in Thrift Savings and other savings & stock.

Not unusual at all for the managerial level problem children to be hidden for very long periods of time, often in other agencies including state, municipal, and in universities, etc.

Posted by: L - (Cell phone) at November 18, 2024 10:36 AM (NFX2v)

297 Pence, Buttgieg -- WTF, Indiana?
Posted by: Bulg

Don't blame their shit on us. Trump won our state three times!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

Fair point. And my native state gave us Granholm and Whitmer, so I guess I can't throw stones.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:36 AM (v6JzV)

298 You need to watch where you step, as in neighborhoods and areas. And also on the cracked and tilted sidewalks. In 2016 I cracked a bone in my foot going out to walk on the wide street right behind my apartment block -- a path I've trod innumerable times since 1991.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

Yikes! We need common sense sidewalk control.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:37 AM (jgdZo)

299 Anyway, she just never even bothered signing in over her employment at HHS for a collectively very long period of days, which they interpret as unauthorized vacation and her union is fighting, saying she "worked" off network.

I don't know the specifics of her situation but I work primarily off network. I'm connected to the primary work sites I need via a web browser but I don't connect over VPN since it isn't required and they frequently whine about how the network is overburdened.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Even if you don't connect via VPN, can't they tell if you were doing any work?

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 10:37 AM (tY81A)

300 I would like to visit the parts of New Orleans referenced in A Confederacy of Dunces.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:38 AM (v6JzV)

301 Poor First Lady overdid it a bit this weekend and isn't feeling well today........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

302 I gotta say, the action in this piece really draws you in!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2024 10:38 AM (g6VD5)

303 Disclose.tv @disclosetv Nov 15
NEW - German pensioner's house raided by police for calling Green minister Robert Habeck a #Schwachkopf (imbecile) in a meme. Habeck himself had filed the criminal complaint.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:39 AM (hovnC)

304 @disclosetv Nov 15
NEW - German pensioner's house raided by police for calling Green minister Robert Habeck a #Schwachkopf (imbecile) in a meme. Habeck himself had filed the criminal complaint.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:39 AM (hovnC)

Geez. Talk about butthurt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

305 286 Hey Mike Pence, please remind me: What is the first rule of holes?
--------
Wipe with your left hand, infidel!!!

Posted by: a moslem with rabies at November 18, 2024 10:40 AM (hovnC)

306 Wipe with your left hand, infidel!!!
Posted by: a moslem with rabies at November 18, 2024 10:40 AM (hovnC)

It's just so much easier to shit on the koran.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

307 Doof, though I am a late Boomer, I enjoyed your nostalgic stroll thorugh the '80s and '90s on the ONT. My first car was optioned much like your parents' Chevy; my friends' parents had console TVs like that; and King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight" was part of the soundtrack to the early '70s for me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:36 AM (J2vNu)

Glad you enjoyed it!
Coincidentally, this clip from Dutch public TV came up in the comments last night. It's the story behind the song. Horrible circumstances that somehow inspired the song.
https://youtu.be/bFVUU3R1aSQ

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:41 AM (jgdZo)

308 Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon
Come, Armageddon, come

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey...

The Smiths - Everyday Is Like Sunday

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 10:41 AM (TGPs7)

309 Not unusual at all for the managerial level problem children to be hidden

Never wise up a mark.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 10:41 AM (AwPFb)

310 >>BREAKING: Former VP Mike Pence Says He’s “Literally Praying” Trump Won’t Pardon January 6 Prisoners

==

I'm really beginning to despise that horrible man. Calling him a milquetoast years ago was the best quality he had, it turns out.

No, let's not pardon prisoners who have been locked up for four years for "parading."

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 18, 2024 10:41 AM (qBdHI)

311 Mika and Joe just want to be invited to Trump's next UFC outing.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 18, 2024 10:42 AM (DJ7uY)

312 You need to watch where you step, as in neighborhoods and areas. And also on the cracked and tilted sidewalks. In 2016 I cracked a bone in my foot going out to walk on the wide street right behind my apartment block -- a path I've trod innumerable times since 1991.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024
*
Yikes! We need common sense sidewalk control.
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024

***
It's the damn oak trees. They put out roots as they grow and disrupt the sidewalk sections.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

313 This is how you get more Trump.

>>@bonchieredstate
This morning Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy.

>>Eight months ago, the Biden DOJ bragged about "protecting consumers" by nuking Spirit's merger with JetBlue.

>>Everything government touches dies.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2024 10:42 AM (LkLld)

314 The Saints are cursed because they were eating babies in the Superdome after George W. Bush blew up the levees because he hates black people.

The same people who claimed Bush had FEMA slow-walk helping black people claim it's fake news that FEMA was slow-walking helping Trump supporters.

Then again, that's the same Bush/Cheney/Halliburrton=Hitler crowd that now is sucking Dick Cheney's dick.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2024 10:42 AM (2ocoG)

315 Mika and Joe just want to be invited to Trump's next UFC outing.
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 18, 2024 10:42 AM (DJ7uY)

I just want the investigation into Joe's murdered intern opened back up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

316 They're garbage. All because of the money laundering farce called 'climage change.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

The blades are some kind of fiberglass that can’t be recycled into anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2024 10:43 AM (g6VD5)

317 Poor First Lady overdid it a bit this weekend and isn't feeling well today........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Hugs for her!! And might I suggest you change "Joe Biden" to "cancer" in your nic's appendage?

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:43 AM (jgdZo)

318 "Also, it's cheaper to build a new one than fix an old one that breaks, so we're going to have landscapes covered with dead turbines just sitting there in the next 10 - 20 years."

Think of them as monuments to Stupidity.

Posted by: pawn at November 18, 2024 10:43 AM (QB+5g)

319 Hugs for her!! And might I suggest you change "Joe Biden" to "cancer" in your nic's appendage?
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:43 AM (jgdZo)

Yeah, I should.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

320 Can we really call Germany an ally when they outlaw the second biggest political party?

How can they be any kind of ally?

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:44 AM (fV+MH)

321 R A W S G L 🌎 B A L @RawsGlobal Nov 16
🚨#BREAKING: Eight people were killed with 17 others injured after stabbing attack at a vocational school in Yixing in the Jiangsu Province of China.

Police say the suspect, a 21 year-old man who was taken into custody, was angry after failing to graduate. - BNO

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:44 AM (hovnC)

322
Guess that hard pitch to CNN for the Liz Cheney / Mike Pence show didn't go so well...

Posted by: Auspex at November 18, 2024 10:44 AM (j4U/Z)

323 Enjoyed your ONT last night, Doof!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 18, 2024 10:44 AM (Sgq8y)

324 Tangental to Doof's music threading: on Inauguration Day at noon Eastern time everyone should play the Pretenders' "My City Was Gone". In honor of the man who would've been having an even better time than Trump these past two weeks.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2024 10:45 AM (2ocoG)

325 @disclosetv Nov 15
NEW - German pensioner's house raided by police for calling Green minister Robert Habeck a #Schwachkopf (imbecile) in a meme. Habeck himself had filed the criminal complaint.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:39 AM (hovnC)

Geez. Talk about butthurt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

Scratch a leftist, find a fascist.

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:45 AM (1Yy3c)

326 Enjoyed your ONT last night, Doof!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 18, 2024 10:44 AM (Sgq8y)

Now he gets to live the joys of trying to outdo himself again next week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

327 Never thought I’d agree with the DU on anything - well they sure got Pence figured out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2024 10:46 AM (g6VD5)

328 I would like to visit the parts of New Orleans referenced in A Confederacy of Dunces.
Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 1

***
I grew up there in the time period when JKT was writing the novel, early Sixties and beyond. A *lot* has changed around downtown, where the novel opens; there no longer is a Woolworth's, for instance. The Uptown area where Ignatius and his mother lived is still there with houses like those Toole described. A lot of neighborhoods, though, you take your life in your hands to go there. This weekend two shootings happened in an area near where I used to play and we used to buy ice cream when I was a kid.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:46 AM (J2vNu)

329 Even if you don't connect via VPN, can't they tell if you were doing any work?
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 10:37 AM (tY81A)

Considering what I do, yeah, they'd know if I wasn't doing it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 18, 2024 10:46 AM (ExV1e)

330 Now he gets to live the joys of trying to outdo himself again next week.
Posted by: Sponge

Since we no longer have the weekly chess thread, maybe he could do a weekly pickleball thread?

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:46 AM (v6JzV)

331 Enjoyed your ONT last night, Doof!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 18, 2024 10:44 AM (Sgq8y)

Now he gets to live the joys of trying to outdo himself again next week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

Thank you, DDS!

Sponge - you are presuming facts not in evidence.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:47 AM (jgdZo)

332 The blades are some kind of fiberglass that can’t be recycled into anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2024

***
Maybe into Corvette bodies?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 18, 2024 10:47 AM (J2vNu)

333 I hope they can live up to the high standards of other Black Democratic female politicians like Kamala Harris and Maxene Waters...

The Democrats
@TheDemocrats
For the first time ever, two Black women will serve in the United States Senate simultaneously.

Senators-elect Angela Alsobrooks (MD) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) are making history.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 10:48 AM (TGPs7)

334 "🚨#BREAKING: Eight people were killed with 17 others injured after stabbing attack at a vocational school in Yixing in the Jiangsu Province of China."

That's awful. But I mean...China.

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:49 AM (fV+MH)

335 Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante 15h
Kristen Welker calls out Jen Psaki for her condescending 'adults in the room' comment:
Eugene Daniels: "Everytime they want to be the adults in the room."
Kristen Welker: "Jen, that tonal issue, being the 'adults in the room' I've heard some Democrats privately say that came off as condescending. That's part of what needs to be addressed as well."
Jen Psaki: "Adults in the room has many meanings."

After watching the Afghanistan debacle, incentivizing illegals to destroy our country, and watching inflation continually increase as we were led into a recession, trust me no one thought the Democrats were the 'Adults in the room'.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 1h
I'm still entertained by Democrats not being able to figure out what went wrong.
====
BTW, Psaki went on to double-down on the Dims' tranny agenda.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 18, 2024 10:49 AM (hovnC)

336 >Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:38 AM (Zz0t1)

----

yeah Joe is on the way out
who are you going to f*ck next

I kid of course!

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:50 AM (/7KEl)

337 I like this! It’s a peek into the past….or maybe the future. Mwahahahahah

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 10:50 AM (pZEOD)

338 Tangental to Doof's music threading: on Inauguration Day at noon Eastern time everyone should play the Pretenders' "My City Was Gone". In honor of the man who would've been having an even better time than Trump these past two weeks.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2024 10:45 AM (2ocoG)

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

+1

And award him another Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously, just for the splodey heads and grins ... but mostly grins.

Posted by: ShainS -- Dems Haven't Been This Angry Since We Took Their Slaves Away! at November 18, 2024 10:51 AM (DUiyl)

339 hes a Green, who wrecked the German economy

Posted by: miguel cervantes at November 18, 2024 10:51 AM (pGTZo)

340 Adults in the room means people in on the fix.

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:52 AM (fV+MH)

341 331
Sponge - you are presuming facts not in evidence.
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024

Exactly. Because it’s every day that MisHum did it, not just Sundays.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 10:52 AM (pZEOD)

342 338. Can you imagine the guy behind the golden eib microphone laughing over Carville's profane rant? Priceless.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 18, 2024 10:52 AM (vd6bO)

343 >And award him another Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously

----

good on Trump for doing that
I guess he knew Rush didn't have much time left

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (/7KEl)

344 And now on KTLA, remarkable women!
She has a vajayjay!
ISN'T THAT REMARKABLE!!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (AwPFb)

345 As a result of people talk about how young Trump's press secretary nominee is -- apparently Baby Groot KGP is 50 (born in '74).

Damn, how do you get to be that age and be so stupid still ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Dems Haven't Been This Angry Since We Took Their Slaves Away! at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (DUiyl)

346 #BREAKING: Eight people were killed with 17 others injured after stabbing attack at a vocational school in Yixing in the Jiangsu Province of China."

That's awful. But I mean...China.
Posted by: eleven

#ButNoGuns

So, anyway...

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (tY81A)

347 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - GSAT-20
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 18, 2024
Launch Time: 1:31 p.m. ET, 1831 UTC, 19:31 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/AMwbJidG4BA

Posted by: Ciampino - rocketry is thrust at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (i0xsb)

348 Also my daughter is making me a cappuccino. I am trying to explain what a dry one is and…we shall see. I am sure it will be great.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (pZEOD)

349 Exactly. Because it’s every day that MisHum did it, not just Sundays.
Posted by: Piper

Except for Thursdays and Fridays. Then it's Weird Dave.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (v6JzV)

350 Sponge - you are presuming facts not in evidence.
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024

You are getting complemented. People are responding.

Your ego is getting stroked. You're hooked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

351 >>And award him another Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously, just for the splodey heads and grins ... but mostly grins.

Trump already gave him the Medal of Freedom.

>“Here tonight is a special man, someone beloved by millions of Americans who just received a Stage 4 advanced cancer diagnosis. This is not good news, but what is good news is that he is the greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet,” the President said during his speech, thanking the radio host for his “decades of tireless devotion to our country.”

https://tinyurl.com/246xpy56

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2024 10:54 AM (LkLld)

352 BREAKING: Eight people were killed with 17 others injured after stabbing attack at a vocational school in Yixing in the Jiangsu Province of China.

Police say the suspect, a 21 year-old man who was taken into custody, was angry after failing to graduate. - BNO

Posted by: andycanuck

I have a feeling that this is not going to improve his chances.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 18, 2024 10:54 AM (lTGtQ)

353 Ok.

Nick change.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Saw the golden eib jetliner at VNY when Rush escaped Florida storm.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 18, 2024 10:55 AM (AwPFb)

355 Enjoyed your ONT last night, Doof!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 18, 2024 10:44 AM (Sgq8y)

Now he gets to live the joys of trying to outdo himself again next week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

Was that Doof's first ONT?

Did me and him both get our ONT cherries popped one after the other?

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:55 AM (1Yy3c)

356 Also my daughter is making me a cappuccino. I am trying to explain what a dry one is and…we shall see. I am sure it will be great.
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 10:53 AM (pZEOD)

Add dry vermouth?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

357 Was that Doof's first ONT?

Did me and him both get our ONT cherries popped one after the other?
Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:55 AM (1Yy3c)

I believe so.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2024 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)

358 Tangental to Doof's music threading: on Inauguration Day at noon Eastern time everyone should play the Pretenders' "My City Was Gone". In honor of the man who would've been having an even better time than Trump these past two weeks.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 18, 2024 10:45 AM (2ocoG)

Love this idea!

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:56 AM (jgdZo)

359 356 Add dry vermouth?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

More foam than milk.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 10:56 AM (pZEOD)

360 You are getting complemented. People are responding.

Your ego is getting stroked. You're hooked.
Posted by: Sponge

He's gonna hafta fight off all the crowds of Pickleball MILFs.

"Ladies, one at a time!"

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:57 AM (v6JzV)

361 Was that Doof's first ONT?

Did me and him both get our ONT cherries popped one after the other?
Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:55 AM (1Yy3c)

It was indeed. Do you still feel violated, too?

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:57 AM (jgdZo)

362 Bungee jumping?

Fuggadaboutit. I came into this world because of a broken rubber. I'm not leaving because of one.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 10:57 AM (tY81A)

363 what is a dry cappuccino

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (/7KEl)

364 You are getting complemented. People are responding.

Your ego is getting stroked. You're hooked.
Posted by: Sponge

He's gonna hafta fight off all the crowds of Pickleball MILFs.

"Ladies, one at a time!"
Posted by: Bulg

Oh hell. Three! Three at a time!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (tY81A)

365
No, let's not pardon prisoners who have been locked up for four years for "parading."

Trump won't even have to pardon him. Just get the DOJ to vacate their convictions or drop charges if not convicted yet.
If they won't do that, then he'll pardon them.

Posted by: kallisto at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (dCxaZ)

366 I saw this in Amsterdam last summer. The mortar between the bricks glistens like it has morning dew that hasn't dried yet. It's unreal how good he was.

Posted by: skinbad at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (x9Fhw)

367 How do you explain a dry Cappuccino to your daughter?

that is the most first world problem ever.

Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (fV+MH)

368 You are getting complemented. People are responding.

Your ego is getting stroked. You're hooked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 18, 2024 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

Being a one-hit wonder wouldn't be horrible, either.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (jgdZo)

369 Do you still feel violated, too?
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:57 AM (jgdZo)

I feel a terrible sense of dirtiness and guilt and a strange desire to do it again.

Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (1Yy3c)

370 The blades are some kind of fiberglass that can’t be recycled into anything.
***
Maybe into Corvette bodies?

Nope. The whole utility of glass/carbon fiber is from having long fibers encased in resin. The higher the fiber/resin ration the better as long as it all sticks together. Shredding an existing part makes short, useless fibers.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (/y8xj)

371 what is a dry cappuccino
Posted by: Don Black

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 18, 2024 10:59 AM (tY81A)

372 Pardoning the J6ers is not enough. They must be paid reparations, too.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 10:59 AM (v6JzV)

373 >Fuggadaboutit. I came into this world because of a broken rubber. I'm not leaving because of one.

Posted by: rickb223

---

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE BUNGEE CORDS HAVE RUBBER IN THEM

( did I do that right?)

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:59 AM (/7KEl)

374 Ok.

Nick change.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

Wow -- I coin the term First! Lady AND inspire you to update your nic?? Humbled, I am.

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 11:00 AM (jgdZo)

375 Do you still feel violated, too?
Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 10:57 AM (jgdZo)

I feel a terrible sense of dirtiness and guilt and a strange desire to do it again.
Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (1Yy3c)
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Eh. You get used to it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 18, 2024 11:00 AM (7fElN)

376 The adults are finally back.

>>@EricLDaugh
NEW: Joe Scarborough met with Donald Trump and said he now believes the president can unify Republicans and Democrats

>>"A lot of Democratic leaders we've talked to [said] it's time for a new approach [...] They said - we're open to working with the incoming president."

Posted by: JackStraw at November 18, 2024 11:00 AM (LkLld)

377 I feel a terrible sense of dirtiness and guilt and a strange desire to do it again.
Posted by: Robert at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (1Yy3c)

Same

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 11:00 AM (jgdZo)

378 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 18, 2024 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

379 7
What are the notches at the top of the house for? Function, or fashion?

Posted by: Doof at November 18, 2024 09:24 AM (jgdZo)
----
So that the wind can whistle through the gaps? Some people can whistle through their teeth, just saying.

Posted by: Ciampino - rocketry is thrusting at November 18, 2024 11:01 AM (i0xsb)

380 Drumpf is going declare Martial Law and arrest all his political opponents!!!!!

reeeeeeeeeee

Liberals are ridiculous.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 18, 2024 11:01 AM (RUMEY)

381 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at November 18, 2024 11:01 AM (v6JzV)

382 363 what is a dry cappuccino

Posted by: Don Black at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (/7KEl)

I'm Italian, the only dry capuccino I ever heard of was a Capuchin monk who was on the wagon

Posted by: kallisto at November 18, 2024 11:01 AM (dCxaZ)

383 367 How do you explain a dry Cappuccino to your daughter?

that is the most first world problem ever.
Posted by: eleven at November 18, 2024 10:58 AM (fV+MH)

It really is! 🤣

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 11:01 AM (pZEOD)

384 382
I'm Italian, the only dry capuccino I ever heard of was a Capuchin monk who was on the wagon

Posted by: kallisto at November 18, 2024 11:01 AM (dCxaZ)

It’s more like you would get in Italy than in America. Way more foam than milk.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 11:02 AM (pZEOD)

385 It’s more like you would get in Italy than in America. Way more foam than milk.
Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 11:02 AM (pZEOD)
-

So by "dry" you mean more water-based and less milk per cup?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 18, 2024 11:03 AM (js3aQ)

386 Mike Pence should write out and publish everything he knows about Jan6 that went on behind the scenes, what was behind the elbow-bump with Pelosi, the medallion he received, etc. The sunlight he would shed would be helpful. Otherwise, shut-up. The truth will eventually get out despite him.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 18, 2024 11:04 AM (fs1hN)

387 Babylon Bee has not forgotten Kumala! Several good headlines over there today, including the announcement she has signed to fight Jake Paul, in hopes of retiring her campaign debt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 18, 2024 11:05 AM (zWzhu)

388 Okay, so a regular cappuccino has equal parts steamed milk, espresso and foam. Dry is less milk, more foam.

Posted by: Piper at November 18, 2024 11:05 AM (pZEOD)

389 >>"A lot of Democratic leaders we've talked to [said] it's time for a new approach [...] They said - we're open to working with the incoming president."
_____

Alt headline - Dems announce plans to work with literally worse than Hitler.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 18, 2024 11:06 AM (fs1hN)

390 348 Also my daughter is making me a cappuccino. I am trying to explain what a dry one is and…we shall see. I am sure it will be great.
----------------------
Piper, may I suggest you try a Spiced Chai Latte? They are very, very good.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 18, 2024 11:08 AM (jFCkp)

391 there is a place nearby that sells VERY cheap produce, most of it is bulk quantity, but some individual packages. I got organic blueberries there for $2/pint, that's an example of their value.

It's staffed mainly by illegals.

One particular worker has tried to chisel me out of fiddy cent twice. I'm talking about a 3.00 purchase, she tells me it's 3.50

I knew what she was doing but I thought wtf it's 50 cent, let her have her fun.

But she did it with me again yesterday except this time it was an 8.00 purchase and she wanted 8.50
I told her the total was wrong so she took everything out the bag and made a show of recalculating and whaddaya know, I was right!!

So she is a habitual chiseler. I went home and asked my friend who is fluent in 6 languages how to say: "The new president it going to send La Migra after you to deport you"

and I am now practicing that little line

Posted by: kallisto at November 18, 2024 11:12 AM (dCxaZ)

392 wrong thread @391

Posted by: kallisto at November 18, 2024 11:14 AM (dCxaZ)

393 They do it bigger in Texas...

internet hall of fame

@InternetH0F
Texas mom sets a Guinness World Record by donating over 2,600 liters of breast milk, feeding over 350,000 babies 👏 ❤️

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 18, 2024 11:14 AM (TGPs7)

394 Helⅼo there! Do you know if they make any plսցins to prоtect
against hackers? I'm kinda paranoid about losing eѵerything I've wօrked hard on. Any ѕuggestions?

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