Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (11/19/24) [Doof]

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Howdy Hordelings! I didn’t expect to be back behind the wheel of the ONT again so soon, but based on the reaction to my recent debut post, I’m giving it another go. Glad you stopped by!

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The People’s President
Check out this video clip from 1992. Trump was already a pop culture legend back then. 30-some years later, NFL players who weren’t even born at that time are proudly imitating his goofy dance during games. The guy is an enigma!

Legend! https://t.co/hrLERaDFuC
— AoS_Doof (@doof2112) November 19, 2024

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While it’s great to see Trump enjoying wins among the people, this is important to keep in mind:

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Random Historical Trivia Nugget of the Night

How many of you can name all 50 State Capitals? I get mixed up on a few,
but for the most part, I can. But over the years, some states have relocated
their capital to a different city for various reasons. Do you know that last
time this occurred? If you said Oklahoma in 1910, give yourself a high-five!
Admitted to the United States in 1907, Oklahoma’s first capital was Guthrie.
Then in 1910, voters approved a ballot measure to move the capital 30-ish
miles south to Oklahoma City.

25 states have relocated their capital at least once – here’s a lighthearted judgment of each of those states.

For our Oklahoma Hordelings:

“There’s no perfect state.”

Oklahoma: “Hold my beer.” pic.twitter.com/bOBzvQVrKr
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) November 7, 2024

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Gen X Callback

Many of you reacted favorably to my recent trip down memory lane, Gen X style. This will likely resonate with a lot of you.

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D.J. Doof -' 90s Alt-rock (non-grunge) Edition

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by distractions.

That's all for tonight. Thanks for having me back!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:58 PM

Comments

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1 Dooof!

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 09:59 PM (p4NUW)

2 2nd

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 19, 2024 09:59 PM (KJ3hR)

3 turd?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at November 19, 2024 10:00 PM (hftn9)

4 Ship ahoy, get over.

Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2024 10:00 PM (LHPAg)

5 Doof!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 19, 2024 10:00 PM (mH6SG)

6 That's what I like - an on-time ONT.....

Thank you Doof...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2024 10:02 PM (QGaXH)

7 Doof!

Thanks for the Material Issue, haven't listened to them in an age.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 19, 2024 10:02 PM (kpS4V)

8 M. Douf!

How nice to see you!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 19, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

9 Two minutes early? Totally messed up my plan.

Posted by: MSM at November 19, 2024 10:03 PM (ppfCG)

10 Good evening Horde. Thanks Doof!

Posted by: TRex at November 19, 2024 10:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

11 Fifty nifty United States from 13 original colonies!

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 10:03 PM (p4NUW)

12 Good job, Doof.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 19, 2024 10:03 PM (u82oZ)

13 I'm not really the MSM...

Posted by: Half Dozen at November 19, 2024 10:03 PM (ppfCG)

14 Welcome to the elite ranks of COBs!

Have you been issued your official ONT membership card yet?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 19, 2024 10:03 PM (BpYfr)

15 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:04 PM (TSQkU)

16 Doof!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:05 PM (rJ7Hd)

17 Have you been issued your official ONT membership card yet?

Uh...it's in the mail.

Posted by: The HQ Hamsters at November 19, 2024 10:05 PM (mH6SG)

18 I read the content... I should know better, I've been around long enough!

Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:05 PM (VCgbV)

19 'Sup, Okies?

Posted by: West by God Virginia at November 19, 2024 10:05 PM (lHPJf)

20 My memory is sketchy, but I think Oklahoma was 100% counties for Trump before, once. The weirdness factor is that OKC, Tulsa and Lawton went his way. Those are the left-side strongholds in the state.

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:05 PM (TSQkU)

21 Doof with the encore. Thanks for another dandy ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (41CYW)

22 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (sAmhv)

23 Eddie Money Mystery Click!

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

24 I cleaned out and reorganized my dad's workshop which almost resembled the above. He was amazed, but then he developed bad macular degeneration, so no more woodworking for him.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (DsA2n)

25 I'm astonished that my county went for Trump.

Every other issue it's 2/3 left and 1/3 right. But the place actually broke 50-50 on the presidential question.

And the elections secretary could save herself a hell of a lot of headache if she would forbid same-day voter registrations.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (cSS7r)

26 For our Oklahoma Hordelings:
“There’s no perfect state.”

Oklahoma: “Hold my beer.” pic.twitter.com/bOBzvQVrKr

— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) November 7, 2024

*taps feet*

Posted by: West Virginia at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (KcwUg)

27 I was just thinking, how many people are searching, yearning, longing, pining for Corsicanian Citizenship?

Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (LHPAg)

28 I didn't see Wisconsin on that list. IIRC, Milwaukee was the first capitol, but partisans from Madison stole the seal. The state (territory?) capitol changed as a result; they couldn't do business without the seal.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 19, 2024 10:07 PM (VNX3d)

29 Thanks for the Material Issue, haven't listened to them in an age.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 19, 2024 10:02 PM (kpS4V)

Under-appreciated band. They got bumped by the grunge wave.

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:07 PM (RFPHU)

30 Good evening good people!

The hits keep coming! Today a Italian Cheese and Grocery opened in central Tennessee. In Sparta of all places. I don't have to drive out of state any more for decent supplies.

How Trump is making shit like this happen is beyond me. His power is unmeasurable!!

*Cue YMCA - Trump dance!*

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

31 My Grandma and your Grandma, sitting by the fire...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:07 PM (aPY1X)

32 Sweet. Top 3 baby!

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at November 19, 2024 10:07 PM (hftn9)

33 *taps feet*
Posted by: West Virginia

Always the brides-maid, never the bride~

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 19, 2024 10:07 PM (cSS7r)

34 Yeah, I hear ya, W.Va. Good job.

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (TSQkU)

35 >>>How many of you can name all 50 State Capitals?

I used to know which ones were not part of the Interstate Highway System. But that's been a while ago.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (lHPJf)

36 HI! Kid with the rifle looks like my hubby at that age...

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (t8a1K)

37 Thanks Doof for another ONT. Chock full of stuff to distract me from finishing my pot roast dinner. I'd better finish it off before I get too involved here.

Last step I have to clean the taters I grew and toss them in, those little ones, should be tasty. There really is a difference between store potatoes and fresh home grown.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (55Qr6)

38 Yay, International Men's Day ONT!

Good job, Doof!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (lUFok)

39 M. Douf!

How nice to see you!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

If he had been on Hogan's Heroes, the name would have been Le Douf.

Posted by: Miklos is certain for sure at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (+w4kg)

40 I'm sleepy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (OTdqV)

41 You know who else made the qualifying throw For The Million Dollar Toss at StarGaze in 1992?

Posted by: eleven at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (fV+MH)

42 Great ONT Doof. It looks like the horde lucks out again on talent picking up the mantle.

Returning to lurk mode.

Posted by: I still can't think of anything at November 19, 2024 10:08 PM (s1kvu)

43 they couldn't do business without the seal.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

We have friends in high places.

Posted by: Big Penguin at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (DsA2n)

44 Welcome to the elite ranks of COBs!

Have you been issued your official ONT membership card yet?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 19, 2024 10:03 PM (BpYfr)

I think I'm an "OB" at this point -- Open Blogger. That C takes some earning!!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (RFPHU)

45 Yawn Yawn Another Doofy ONT. So formulaic. So predictable.

Just helping you develop that thick skin an ONT creator has to have, D.😁

Howdy, y'all.

Guess I'll go peruse the post a little more closely now.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (y8fSl)

46 ]i]27
I was just thinking, how many people are searching, yearning, longing, pining for Corsicanian Citizenship?
Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (LHPAg)

The fjords are lovely this time of year, I am told!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT Year In Corsicana - again! ~ at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

47 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Doof!

Great walk down memory lane...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (rxCpr)

48 40 I'm sleepy
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Same.

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (p4NUW)

49 My Grandma and your Grandma, sitting by the fire...
Posted by: AlaBAMA

hey now
hey now
Iko-Iko anney

Posted by: Miklos liked the Dixie Cups at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (+w4kg)

50 I think the percentages are off on the guy cleaning the garage item.

Playing with stuff he found should be in the upper 90's.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (QGaXH)

51 Erica: You American?
Col. Andy Tanner: Red-blooded.
Erica: What's the capital of Texas?
Col. Andy Tanner: Austin.
Erica: Wrong, commie! It's Houston.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 19, 2024 10:10 PM (Aqu9a)

52 I made chili. Even my kids said it came out really good.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:10 PM (VCgbV)

53 Just remember Doof, no one reads the content.

That'll keep you humble.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:10 PM (aPY1X)

54 Nice ONT, Doof!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 10:12 PM (g3qJN)

55 Many of you reacted favorably to my recent trip down memory lane, Gen X style. This will likely resonate with a lot of you.

No rattlesnakes where I grew up. Otherwise, spot on.

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2024 10:13 PM (DgGvY)

56
Look at my king all dressed in red
Iko, iko, un-day

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 10:13 PM (p4NUW)

57 51 Erica: You American?
Col. Andy Tanner: Red-blooded.
Erica: What's the capital of Texas?
Col. Andy Tanner: Austin.
Erica: Wrong, commie! It's Houston.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 19, 2024 10:10 PM (Aqu9a
WOLVERINES!

Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2024 10:13 PM (LHPAg)

58 The fjords are lovely this time of year, I am told!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

I'm pining for them.

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at November 19, 2024 10:13 PM (+w4kg)

59 Ah yes, the thrice-striped tube socks.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 19, 2024 10:14 PM (NMT5x)

60 >>>How many of you can name all 50 State Capitals?
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Yes, but have you visited 57 states?

Posted by: SCFOAMT at November 19, 2024 10:14 PM (41CYW)

61 How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky.

Looiville orLoovill?

I pronounce it Frankfort.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at November 19, 2024 10:15 PM (Ad8y9)

62 I think the percentages are off on the guy cleaning the garage item.

Playing with stuff he found should be in the upper 90's.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 19, 2024 10:09 PM (QGaXH)

That's what happens every time I clean the basement. Or the front porch.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 19, 2024 10:15 PM (lHPJf)

63 Evening, all......

Posted by: caf at November 19, 2024 10:15 PM (/+mVZ)

64 DOOF!!! It's YOU!!!

Well done!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:15 PM (D6+4s)

65 That'll do, Doof. That'll do.

Posted by: Count de Hoggett at November 19, 2024 10:15 PM (Aqu9a)

66 Not an exact representation, we had a bigger bay, but that top picture reminds me of the view I had a couple days a week in the Spring, Summer and Fall for years when my buddy and I would go fishing before work.

Good times.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 10:16 PM (LkLld)

67 See that man all dressed in green?

Iko iko un day

He's not a man he's a loving machine!

Jock a mo fiend un day

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:16 PM (aPY1X)

68 Am I an old crotch-y Gen X? I know Eddie Money. The last song Live something something I remember. The rest can get off my lawn.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:16 PM (t8a1K)

69 WV! Wth?

Posted by: Jeff E at November 19, 2024 10:16 PM (z59Cb)

70

Boobs!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at November 19, 2024 10:16 PM (3rf1Q)

71 Thank you all for the nice words. I guess that'll change when I do one that's not Rush-free

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (RFPHU)

72 My memory is sketchy, but I think Oklahoma was 100% counties for Trump before, once. The weirdness factor is that OKC, Tulsa and Lawton went his way. Those are the left-side strongholds in the state.
Posted by: LRob in OK

2016, 2020, and 2024, LRob. The only state, each time.

If my memory's not sketchy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (y8fSl)

73 27 I was just thinking, how many people are searching, yearning, longing, pining for Corsicanian Citizenship?
Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2024 10:06 PM (LHPAg)

I'm longing...

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (D6+4s)

74 Ah yes, the thrice-striped tube socks.
Posted by: haffhowershower

And matching racing stripes on the shorts. My childhood.

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

75 One of the girls at work just found out she's having twins. First babies, she's still in denial. She'll be fine, she's only 25. We're excited for her!

Then I found out my friend's nephew and his wife just lost their baby boy. She was due in 5 days. They are devastated as you can imagine. He would have been their 2nd boy.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

76 Not me. 105% throwing shit out. Which is why I don't get to get clean it. I talk about it a lot. But my wife would never countenance me getting rid of her enormous payload of precious garbage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (7oYYI)

77 Kudos Doof!

Possible band name?

Posted by: Zeera The people are coming at November 19, 2024 10:18 PM (lMEUd)

78 Just remember Doof, no one reads the content.

That'll keep you humble.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:10 PM (aPY1X)

I can't even SPELL content

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:18 PM (RFPHU)

79 Thanks, mw. I was moving around the country in the first two episodes, so wasn't clear.

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:18 PM (TSQkU)

80 I think the percentages are off on the guy cleaning the garage item.

Playing with stuff he found should be in the upper 90's.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

But then it wouldn't be "69," Beavis.

Posted by: Butthead at November 19, 2024 10:18 PM (DgGvY)

81 *taps feet*
Posted by: West Virginia

Are you sure? (checks map above) Don't we have to count the Virginias as one state?

(Ducks, runs)

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:19 PM (y8fSl)

82 DOOF!

thank you for another lovely
ONT!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 19, 2024 10:19 PM (H+3Km)

83 DOOF!!! It's YOU!!!

Well done!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:15 PM (D6+4s)

Thank you, my friend! Did you see Sunday's?

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:19 PM (RFPHU)

84 >>> 80 I think the percentages are off on the guy cleaning the garage item.

Playing with stuff he found should be in the upper 90's.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

But then it wouldn't be "69," Beavis.
Posted by: Butthead at November 19, 2024 10:18 PM (DgGvY)

"almost 70"

Posted by: missing the point, or trying to ignore it at November 19, 2024 10:20 PM (KcwUg)

85 Then I found out my friend's nephew and his wife just lost their baby boy. She was due in 5 days. They are devastated as you can imagine. He would have been their 2nd boy.
Posted by: lin-duh

Ugh. My prayers are with them. What a terrible loss.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:20 PM (WXNFJ)

86 'Sup, Horde? Snow tonight, bleh. Guess we'll see if my new winter tires are any good tomorrow.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 19, 2024 10:20 PM (xOnCy)

87 Sorry I'm late, a neighbor's kid gave me twenty bucks to pretend to be his dad for a parent teacher conference.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 19, 2024 10:20 PM (m2gk6)

88 83 DOOF!!! It's YOU!!!

Well done!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:15 PM (D6+4s)

Thank you, my friend! Did you see Sunday's?
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:19 PM (RFPHU)

Well shit,

No I didn't. I need to stop by more often...

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:20 PM (D6+4s)

89 Forget the garage. I want to clean everything. I wish I could throw out everything except food, clothes, art, books, tools and guns. But everyone wants their precious junk. It's all over the place. Who needs it? Nobody, that's who!!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (7oYYI)

90 Are you sure? (checks map above) Don't we have to count the Virginias as one state?

I've always thought of them as conjoined twins that were surgically separated.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (lUFok)

91 Thanks for the ONT, Doof.

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (t+VLa)

92 a neighbor's kid gave me twenty bucks

Same as in town . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (TSQkU)

93 Power flickering. I've been blasting the heat so it's uncomfortably warm.

Will be ok until morning.

Got my camping stove set up for coffee before work.

Whoot!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (H+3Km)

94 Kudos Doof!

Possible band name?
Posted by: Zeera The people are coming at November 19, 2024 10:18 PM (lMEUd)

Sounds German. Maybe they opened for Die Toten Hosen?

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:22 PM (RFPHU)

95 Sorry I'm late, a neighbor's kid gave me twenty bucks to pretend to be his dad for a parent teacher conference.

Good on you for showing up and earning that $20.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 10:22 PM (lUFok)

96 Then I found out my friend's nephew and his wife just lost their baby boy. She was due in 5 days. They are devastated as you can imagine. He would have been their 2nd boy.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

God brought him home early. Probably too good for this world.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:22 PM (aPY1X)

97 Then I found out my friend's nephew and his wife just lost their baby boy. She was due in 5 days. They are devastated as you can imagine. He would have been their 2nd boy.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

=====

Oh my gosh, that's awful.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 19, 2024 10:23 PM (xOnCy)

98 Having some weather up your way, Nurse? Camping stove is different.

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:23 PM (TSQkU)

99 Lady L!
Hi love!

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 19, 2024 10:23 PM (H+3Km)

100 That football throw. One of the most disturbing things of the Trump era is the gaslighting. Remember when he was cool and Hollywood swooned over him? They've memory-holed it but I remember.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:23 PM (t8a1K)

101 First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

>>@EricLDaugh
🚨 NEW approval poll of President-elect Donald Trump

🔴 Approve: 54% (+14)
🔵 Disapprove: 40%

Harvard-Harris

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 10:23 PM (LkLld)

102 Forget the garage. I want to clean everything. I wish I could throw out everything except food, clothes, art, books, tools and guns. But everyone wants their precious junk. It's all over the place. Who needs it? Nobody, that's who!!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (7oYYI)

Do they save broken stuff too?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:23 PM (0eaVi)

103 96
God brought him home early. Probably too good for this world.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024

💕

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 10:23 PM (p4NUW)

104 Power flickering. I've been blasting the heat so it's uncomfortably warm.

Will be ok until morning.

Got my camping stove set up for coffee before work.

Whoot!
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (H+3Km)

Coffee is a priority. Well done!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:24 PM (RFPHU)

105 Sorry I'm late, a neighbor's kid gave me twenty bucks to pretend to be his dad for a parent teacher conference.
Posted by: tankdemon

Pretend not to speak English. In and out in 2 minutes, everything signed.

Quick 20 bucks.

Posted by: Miklos comprende bien at November 19, 2024 10:24 PM (+w4kg)

106 Gen x meme is pretty close but we knee better than to throw an mfer into conversation with adults. Soap tastes nasty.

Posted by: Chuck at November 19, 2024 10:24 PM (7SSK1)

107 Wow, very nice *again* Doof! Thank you for the ONT!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2024 10:25 PM (njWTi)

108 Love the Cleaning The Garage meme.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 19, 2024 10:25 PM (dg+HA)

109 Darling nurse! I miss you!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:25 PM (D6+4s)

110 I learned the 50 capitals in the 6th grade and never forgot.

I also learned all 64 parishes and parish seats of Louisiana. I only remember a few .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:25 PM (D6PGr)

111 Then I found out my friend's nephew and his wife just lost their baby boy. She was due in 5 days. They are devastated as you can imagine. He would have been their 2nd boy.
Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

My heart is breaking for them. I will definitely pray for them to find comfort.

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 10:26 PM (p4NUW)

112 "20 My memory is sketchy, but I think Oklahoma was 100% counties for Trump before, once. The weirdness factor is that OKC, Tulsa and Lawton went his way. Those are the left-side strongholds in the state.
Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:05 PM (TSQkU)"

My county and another next to us (we are Lawton adjacent) went over 80% for Trump.

Posted by: BonniebBue at November 19, 2024 10:26 PM (N6mFf)

113 I know the prayers for baby "Tex" are appreciated.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:26 PM (VCgbV)

114 $20. Same as Back To School night.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 19, 2024 10:26 PM (dg+HA)

115 Soap tastes nasty.

Posted by: Chuck at November 19, 2024 10:24 PM (7SSK1)

Far worse than I expected.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 19, 2024 10:26 PM (d9fT1)

116 I just keep looking at King Harv's chainsaw polar bear, thinking, what a great image!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 19, 2024 10:26 PM (Qt+Tv)

117 Off to bed, great job, Doof!

Posted by: Piper at November 19, 2024 10:27 PM (p4NUW)

118 So... I go out to the garage today to look for some wire my wife used for tying Christmas ornaments onto various things... like a wreath.

Instead I get into a box of various fasteners, and spend the next hour organizing them into various styles, sizes and colors.

No clue what I originally was out there for at the time.

But I did have a beer.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 19, 2024 10:27 PM (Q4IgG)

119 89 Forget the garage. I want to clean everything. I wish I could throw out everything except food, clothes, art, books, tools and guns. But everyone wants their precious junk. It's all over the place. Who needs it? Nobody, that's who!!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 10:21 PM (7oYYI)

Are you for hire? I need to shoot for somewhere between your philosophy and mine.

Although this fall I did get some stuff cleaned out. Had a bunch of different metal crap piling up, so I took it to the scrapyard. Steel, copper and aluminum. About $400. Far less than what was spent on crap over the years, but better than nothing.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 19, 2024 10:27 PM (NMT5x)

120 Am I an old crotch-y Gen X? I know Eddie Money. The last song Live something something I remember. The rest can get off my lawn.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:16 PM (t8a1K)

Sunday you delurked and had great things to say about the content. Two days later you're clearing your lawn. You assimilated quickly!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:27 PM (RFPHU)

121 Do they save broken stuff too?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Don't we call that stuff - repair parts?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:28 PM (WXNFJ)

122 If you watch The First 48 you have to wonder how Tulsa didn’t pull their county for Harris.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:28 PM (D6PGr)

123 Then I found out my friend's nephew and his wife just lost their baby boy. She was due in 5 days. They are devastated as you can imagine. He would have been their 2nd boy.

Heartbreaking. Prayers up, for sure.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 19, 2024 10:28 PM (mH6SG)

124 1.
Then in 1910, voters approved a ballot measure to move the capital 30-ish miles south to Oklahoma City.

I seem to recall they had to smuggle the capital goods out in the middle of the night.

2. Don't know about yours, but in my yout', that MF word would get you whupped & possibly mouth washed out with soap, but most likely wasn't said. Especially to Ma.

3. Several decades back, family Thanksgiving at my younger sister's house, we sat around the table one evening naming all the state capitols. My young nephew looked at us all like we were from another planet: why would anyone care about such trivia?

He grew up.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:28 PM (y8fSl)

125 Good evening Doof. You're doing great😃!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 19, 2024 10:28 PM (Z25uN)

126 78 Just remember Doof, no one reads the content.

That'll keep you humble.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:10 PM (aPY1X)

I can't even SPELL content

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:18 PM (RFPHU)
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They are all lying. They pretend not to read the content but then when they miss out on making First! they use the excuse they stopped to read content.

Posted by: Ciampino - C O N T E N T at November 19, 2024 10:29 PM (i0xsb)

127
"Saddam Hussein was famous for shooting his teacher. He sure had his problems, but nobody's all bad.

Anyway, I'm sure this kid of mine - what's his name? - yeah, Jimmy. I'm sure little Jimmy's fine. Give him an A. We've got to go. Its bourbon o'clock, and we have a Ba'ath Party meeting to attend. Watch yourself, lady."

Posted by: YD, Paid Parent Teacher Conference Ringer at November 19, 2024 10:29 PM (7oYYI)

128 Then I found out my friend's nephew and his wife just lost their baby boy. She was due in 5 days. They are devastated as you can imagine. He would have been their 2nd boy.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

Bless them, that is horrible. I am sorry for their loss.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:29 PM (t8a1K)

129 101

And Harvard-Harris never did Trump in any favors, either.

Bad, pollster! No Milk Bone for you!

That portends a yuuge honeymoon.

Posted by: mnw at November 19, 2024 10:30 PM (NLIak)

130 West Virginia went back and forth a few times finally landing on Charleston.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:30 PM (D6PGr)

131 a neighbor's kid gave me twenty bucks to pretend to be his dad for a parent teacher conference.
Posted by: tankdemon

Good one. We chuckled.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:31 PM (y8fSl)

132
Cue up Nelson Munz, "Ha-ha!". Joe and Mika's ratings took a nosedive after they announced their Mar-a-Lago meeting with Hitler:
https://tinyurl.com/25zqzxre

Their audience just turned them off the very hour they mentioned that. -17% overall and -38% in the "demo".

They've now shut of their social media.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2024 10:31 PM (w6EFb)

133 Capitol of Arizona when it was a Territory was Prescott. Has it always been Phoenix since Statehood?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 10:31 PM (g3qJN)

134 I have a grandoffspring who has memorized all the state birds.
Kid is a bird nerd.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 19, 2024 10:31 PM (dg+HA)

135 But my wife would never countenance me getting rid of her enormous payload of precious garbage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 10:17 PM (7oYYI)
---------
My wife is the same. We even have off-site storage where she has even more garbage. She asked me the other day to go through it and I said "why?" , lets just call the junk man and thats that.

She is still upset about that plan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 19, 2024 10:32 PM (FZnf6)

136 They are all lying. They pretend not to read the content but then when they miss out on making First! they use the excuse they stopped to read content.

Posted by: Ciampino - C O N T E N T at November 19, 2024 10:29 PM (i0xsb)

Don't tell him that! He can't know our secrets. He's a COB now!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:32 PM (aPY1X)

137 West Virginia went back and forth a few times finally landing on Charleston.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

They didn't get that 'Wheeling Feeling'?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:32 PM (WXNFJ)

138 Sunday you delurked and had great things to say about the content. Two days later you're clearing your lawn. You assimilated quickly!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:27 PM (RFPHU)

HAHA! You remembered! Love ya!

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:32 PM (t8a1K)

139 Their audience just turned them off the very hour they mentioned that. -17% overall and -38% in the "demo".

They've now shut of their social media.
Posted by: publius

PDJT has the Midas touch!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:33 PM (WXNFJ)

140 They are all lying. They pretend not to read the content but then when they miss out on making First! they use the excuse they stopped to read content.

Posted by: Ciampino - C O N T E N T at November 19, 2024 10:29 PM (i0xsb)

That is an astute observation. Quite true!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:33 PM (RFPHU)

141 "Let me show you something that will make you feel young." - Dr. Carol Marcus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOZFny7F50

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 10:34 PM (gnoNE)

142 Montana territory capital was Virginia City.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at November 19, 2024 10:34 PM (Ad8y9)

143 Jay Leno, 74, shows heavily bruised face and eye patch from fall down a hill

https://mol.im/a/14102473

His wife beat him up?

Posted by: Ciampino - a better excuse than Reid? at November 19, 2024 10:34 PM (i0xsb)

144 My wife is the same. We even have off-site storage where she has even more garbage.

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Oh, I'm familiar with that. That's how we were in CO. Fortunately, we have more room here, so I don't have to pay rent on garbage anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 10:34 PM (7oYYI)

145 Kid is a bird nerd.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

"Everybody heard, about the Word!
Bird! Bird! Bird! Nerd Bird is the Word!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:34 PM (WXNFJ)

146 Don't tell him that! He can't know our secrets. He's a COB now!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:32 PM (aPY1X)

My sweet little Doofy grew up and became a cob. I couldn't be prouder!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:34 PM (D6+4s)

147 Prescott was Goldwater's hometown, IIRC. I'm pretty sure he announced his candidacy there in '64.

Posted by: mnw at November 19, 2024 10:35 PM (NLIak)

148 An ONT! Thanks!

Trump was HOT in his prime. Of course, so was I. Long ago and far away, I once had it.

Read today in the UK DM that the screaming harpies of Dimland are saying they cannot wear red. It is a pity that I was already wearing something else to the in-law Thanksgiving nightmare. However, if there is music I am doing The Trump Dance with my grands!

I remember my brothers dressed in those long socks and gym shorts.

I am a fan of gym shorts because the guy I married wore them when he ran long distance in our early 20's. I vote to bring them back along with freedom! College basketball used to be more fun for me to watch as well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:35 PM (gi+MR)

149 I have a grandoffspring who has memorized all the state birds.
Kid is a bird nerd.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I only know my own, but what could be more on-target than Tim Walz's state having the Common Loon as its bird?

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2024 10:35 PM (DgGvY)

150 I remember once hearing someone (Rush?) say that B.O. had the Midas touch:
Everything he touched turned to mufflers.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 19, 2024 10:36 PM (dg+HA)

151 Do they save broken stuff too?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Don't we call that stuff - repair parts?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:28 PM (WXNFJ)

It's broken stuff from broken stuff. Not useful at all. But, it's always "wait! I want that!"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:36 PM (0eaVi)

152 West Virginia went back and forth a few times finally landing on Charleston.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:30 PM (D6PGr)

Having driven through West Virginia quite a few times, I never get over some of the town names I've seen.
Frametown. Scott Depot. Big Chimney. Jane Lew. And my favorite -- Big Otter.

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:36 PM (RFPHU)

153 Capitol of Arizona when it was a Territory was Prescott. Has it always been Phoenix since Statehood?

Yes. When AZ was a territory it had several capitols, and Prescott was two of them. First up was Fort Whipple, then Prescott, then Tucson, then Prescott again, and then finally Phoenix.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 10:37 PM (lUFok)

154 Its amazing that an average child's life in the 60s would be a crime now.

Walking unattended...through the woods?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 19, 2024 10:37 PM (oZhjI)

155 have a grandoffspring who has memorized all the state birds.
Kid is a bird nerd.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I do remember Louisiana state bird and flower

Brown Pelican and Magnolia.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:37 PM (D6PGr)

156 Don't we call that stuff - repair parts?
Posted by: Tonypete

It's broken stuff from broken stuff. Not useful at all. But, it's always "wait! I want that!"
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Shirley there's a nail or two than can be backed out, straightened and saved into a old coffee can. Right?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:38 PM (WXNFJ)

157 First up was Fort Whipple
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Is that where we keep the strategic toilet paper reserve?

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2024 10:39 PM (DgGvY)

158
Their audience just turned them off the very hour they mentioned that. -17% overall and -38% in the "demo".

They've now shut of their social media.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2024 10:31 PM (w6EFb)

Dearest Publius!

Joe and Mika aren't even getting a fraction of what they richly deserve.

Good grief it's been a glorious couple of weeks!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:39 PM (D6+4s)

159 I just remembered, couple of decades back, Mom must've been in her 80's, she's walking past us on the way to the kitchen and says she heard a cussword she'd never heard before (and she grew up in rural Oklahoma, so she was hardly sheltered). She said, motherf____r.

I was stunned to silence, but I thought, "MAAA!"

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:39 PM (y8fSl)

160 Mystery as hurricane relief volunteer, 21, vanishes after traveling to Florida with his boss

https://mol.im/a/14102743

It must have been those MAGA people or was he his boss' chef?

Posted by: Ciampino - a better excuse at November 19, 2024 10:40 PM (i0xsb)

161 Don't tell him that! He can't know our secrets. He's a COB now!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 19, 2024 10:32 PM (aPY1X)

My sweet little Doofy grew up and became a cob. I couldn't be prouder!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:34 PM (D6+4s)

I appreciate your excitement and encouragement, but I am not among the COB ranks. In Star Wars parlance, I am a Padawan

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:40 PM (RFPHU)

162 I'm so pissed at them going to Mar-A-Lago, I'll never watch their show again!

Of course... I've never watched them before. Not even for 5 minutes.

I heard Rosie O'Donnell (transformed by Ozempic) frothing at the mouth with rage about them kissing T's ring.

Posted by: mnw at November 19, 2024 10:40 PM (NLIak)

163 Is that where we keep the strategic toilet paper reserve?

Used to be. Got wiped out under Biden.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 10:40 PM (lUFok)

164 Shirley there's a nail or two than can be backed out, straightened and saved into a old coffee can. Right?
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:38 PM (WXNFJ)

I threw out two coffee cans of left over screws, brackets, nails and other junk. Then needed some of them two weeks later.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (0eaVi)

165 154 Its amazing that an average child's life in the 60s would be a crime now.

Walking unattended...through the woods?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 19, 2024 10:37 PM (oZhjI)

Back before most of you were born, my parents would say on a Saturday morning--outside or in the basement! We roamed freely outside at a very young age!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (D6+4s)

166
Joe and Mika are probably getting a kick from the shame.

Posted by: Auspex at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (j4U/Z)

167 Read today in the UK DM that the screaming harpies of Dimland are saying they cannot wear red. It is a pity that I was already wearing something else to the in-law Thanksgiving nightmare. However, if there is music I am doing The Trump Dance with my grands!

I remember my brothers dressed in those long socks and gym shorts.

I am a fan of gym shorts because the guy I married wore them when he ran long distance in our early 20's. I vote to bring them back along with freedom! College basketball used to be more fun for me to watch as well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:35 PM (gi+MR)

I read this also. How stupid. I am not a leftist but wear blue because it is more flattering.

I dig gym shorts on guys. Hubby doesn't do those but thinking Magnum PI circa 1983-ish. His legs went on for miles.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (t8a1K)

168 Hubby & I also have, um, disagreements (yeah, "disagreements") about what to keep/toss...

He had a garage full of stuff. I had a garage full of stuff. Then we got married. Took several years to sift thru & hadn't yet gotten rid of all we should've...

Then, my dad died-- another garage full, plus another house full... of stuff. Still waiting for siblings to grab what they want!

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2024 10:42 PM (njWTi)

169 They are all lying. They pretend not to read the content but then when they miss out on making First! they use the excuse they stopped to read content.

Posted by: Ciampino - C O N T E N T at November 19, 2024 10:29 PM (i0xsb)

=====

YOU DON'T KNOW ME

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 19, 2024 10:42 PM (xOnCy)

170 Ciampino

Not the first time workers after a disaster 'vanished' to turn up murdered.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 10:42 PM (gnoNE)

171 Lin-duh - prayers for their loss. So sad!

Posted by: Iris at November 19, 2024 10:42 PM (bOJ2I)

172 Its amazing that an average child's life in the 60s would be a crime now.

Walking unattended...through the woods?!?
Posted by: 18-1

Crawling through a 24" storm sewer pipeline for a 1/4 mile? Running those old kerosene traffic pots up the school's flagpole while lit?

That kind of stuff?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 10:43 PM (WXNFJ)

173 I threw out two coffee cans of left over screws, brackets, nails and other junk. Then needed some of them two weeks later.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (0eaVi)

Isnt that the universal cleaning get out of jail card? 'I cant toss this..I'll just have to go buy more!'

Posted by: a dude in MI at November 19, 2024 10:43 PM (+I6Y/)

174 I dig gym shorts on guys. Hubby doesn't do those but thinking Magnum PI circa 1983-ish. His legs went on for miles.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (t8a1K)

I wonder if Morons here know real girls look at their legs. My dude's were gorgeous...we married in '79 or before y'all were probably born. My legs were very good. We produced sons with good legs. ha. Gene pool shopping.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:44 PM (gi+MR)

175 60s, 70s, 80s, all decades where kids wandered free range.

Posted by: CA Token at November 19, 2024 10:44 PM (2+yws)

176
Isnt that the universal cleaning get out of jail card? 'I cant toss this..I'll just have to go buy more!'
Posted by: a dude in MI at November 19, 2024 10:43 PM (+I6Y/)

True, but those things were all forty years old at least. New is better.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:44 PM (0eaVi)

177 Thank you for the ONT Doof!
Late but we had a great excuse, dinner with number 3 son and his wife.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 19, 2024 10:44 PM (fav3v)

178 Then, my dad died-- another garage full, plus another house full... of stuff. Still waiting for siblings to grab what they want!

Sorry about your dad. Give the sibs a deadline to get thier shit and stick to it. If it ain't out by the deadline, it gets estate saled or donated to charity.

Had to deal with a family wanting to use their Mom's house as a storage facility/hotel for themselves. As long as they didn't have to pay the bills to keep the place livable they didn't see a problem with it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 10:45 PM (lUFok)

179 173 I threw out two coffee cans of left over screws, brackets, nails and other junk. Then needed some of them two weeks later.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (0eaVi)

When we moved cross country in 1984 (the first big move), the movers packed each screw or whatever in the junk drawer like they were diamonds.

With a newborn and a toddler unpacking in FL I am sure I cussed.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:46 PM (gi+MR)

180 DOOF ONT! Okay, that's just fun.

Posted by: CA Token at November 19, 2024 10:46 PM (2+yws)

181 159 I just remembered, couple of decades back, Mom must've been in her 80's, she's walking past us on the way to the kitchen and says she heard a cussword she'd never heard before (and she grew up in rural Oklahoma, so she was hardly sheltered). She said, motherf____r.

I was stunned to silence, but I thought, "MAAA!"
Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:39 PM (y8fSl)

Took in the Saturday matinee of Pulp Fiction, did she? What did she think of the gimp?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 19, 2024 10:46 PM (Cbio9)

182 I wonder if Morons here know real girls look at their legs. My dude's were gorgeous...we married in '79 or before y'all were probably born. My legs were very good. We produced sons with good legs. ha. Gene pool shopping.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:44 PM (gi+MR)

You wouldn't today. People wearing floodwaters and calling them shorts. Ridiculous. I hate ghetto wear.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:46 PM (0eaVi)

183
I appreciate your excitement and encouragement, but I am not among the COB ranks. In Star Wars parlance, I am a Padawan
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:40 PM (RFPHU)

Well you're King Tut in my book!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:47 PM (D6+4s)

184 Thank you Doof and welcome.

Cleanest garage?!? Might be me.

Shortest story. Bad rain. Small damage

Holy crap. Nbc in the background.

Ariana Grande and a pretty cute black chick with no hair.

I'll bitch about cats later....

Posted by: Stateless at November 19, 2024 10:47 PM (jvJvP)

185 I had a Chevy Corsica. It was a lemon.

Posted by: Mark of Excellence at November 19, 2024 10:47 PM (nS6qG)

186 Hey, Tonypete. One year at Halloween, we pulled a tractor tire up and over the school flagpole. Thought that would show 'em. Nope. Guy cut it off with a torch in about 5 minutes. The next year, we hauled it to the top and left it there. That took some time, as I recall about three days, for them to figure it out.

Posted by: LRob in OK at November 19, 2024 10:47 PM (TSQkU)

187 I’m cleaning out my house right now preparing to put it on the market. Giving away stuff to my friends first . What they don’t want I’ll give to acquaintances including my garbage men. I’ll bring the rest to Goodwill.

Gave away my 20 ft aluminum ladder to my neighbor today. I have so much useful things that I will never use again.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:48 PM (D6PGr)

188 Rosie O'Donnell is a lunatic. Everyone knew that, of course. But listen to her talking about her poor daughter she's trans-ing. Totally gross.

I look at my daughter, and we're not rich people in a beach mansion, and she's been dealt a shitty hand health wise, but damn if she isn't a hundred times better off than that poor kid.

Always smiling, happy to come home on her school bus, and not being tormented by a demented lesbian who's waiting for her to grow boobs so she can cut them off to spite her dad and Donald Trump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 10:48 PM (7oYYI)

189 Gave away my 20 ft aluminum ladder to my neighbor today. I have so much useful things that I will never use again.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:48 PM (D6PGr)

Where do you live? Moron yard sale?

Posted by: a dude in MI at November 19, 2024 10:48 PM (+I6Y/)

190 Not the first time workers after a disaster 'vanished' to turn up murdered.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 10:42 PM (gnoNE)

His "boss" was a sex offender in Texas. Pretty easy to guess what happened.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 10:49 PM (g3qJN)

191
Ladyl! Long time, no see!

Joe and Mika may be done at MSNBC. We'll see. Their audience may just be in a temporary snit and will come back once they cool off.

I mean, Trump was literal Hitler going to be executing and putting people in camps. Literally. And now, they have tea with Hitler.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2024 10:49 PM (w6EFb)

192 Thank you for the ONT Doof!
Late but we had a great excuse, dinner with number 3 son and his wife.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 19, 2024 10:44 PM (fav3v)

No such thing as late to an ONT. Hope you and Mrs. Deplorable are doing well!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:49 PM (RFPHU)

193 There's been some fresh faces in the AoSHQ blog-o-sphere lately. And some old timers missing.

Winds of change?

And, how does one get tapped to produce content for the blog? The interview process must be... interesting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 19, 2024 10:50 PM (Q4IgG)

194 I dig gym shorts on guys. Hubby doesn't do those but thinking Magnum PI circa 1983-ish. His legs went on for miles.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:41 PM (t8a1K)

I wonder if Morons here know real girls look at their legs. My dude's were gorgeous...we married in '79 or before y'all were probably born. My legs were very good. We produced sons with good legs. ha. Gene pool shopping.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:44 PM (gi+MR)

Yeah. We look at the whole package. Many years ago I dated a guy, baseball player with great legs. Hubby has cute legs. We've been together almost 30 years lol.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:50 PM (t8a1K)

195
I mean, Trump was literal Hitler going to be executing and putting people in camps. Literally. And now, they have tea with Hitler.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2024 10:49 PM (w6EFb)

It's hysterical! I'm enjoying every minute of all of this since the election. I can't stop watching all the Trump dances.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:51 PM (D6+4s)

196 You wouldn't today. People wearing floodwaters and calling them shorts. Ridiculous. I hate ghetto wear.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:46 PM (0eaVi)

Maybe it will change now and everyone will wear blue suits and red ties everywhere!

My grandmother used to wear a dress, hat and gloves to the grocery store with me in her buggy (I am Southern and that's what they are called).

While I am not up for this I don't leave the house looking like crap on toast. In the event of a car crash my underwear started out clean and I will be wearing pearl earrings and have class.

I nearly go berserk when I see people on planes in flannel pj pants. But I control myself.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:51 PM (gi+MR)

197 I thought people were congratulating Doof on his ONT just to be nice. Like telling a kid his third grade recorder recital was great. No idea he'd be back.

Posted by: The Ad Council at November 19, 2024 10:51 PM (nS6qG)

198 Not the first time workers after a disaster 'vanished' to turn up murdered.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 10:42 PM (gnoNE)

Naw, older is better, especially Morons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 10:52 PM (g3qJN)

199 Cause of the Louisville explosion that killed two and injured 11 revealed - pressure vessel

https://mol.im/a/14102669

Why are FBI and ATF always Special Agents? No ordinary agents? Their shit doesn't smell? Are CIA Special Spies?

Johnson, Germaine Johnson, Special Agent
Pollock, Peter Pollock, Special Spy
Bond, James Bond, by Royal Appointment

Posted by: Ciampino - a better title? at November 19, 2024 10:52 PM (i0xsb)

200 Yeah. We look at the whole package. Many years ago I dated a guy, baseball player with great legs. Hubby has cute legs. We've been together almost 30 years lol.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:50 PM (t8a1K)

Fo'ty fi years on St. Patrick's Day for us. A lifetime ago. We are still best friends. Worth it. He's a good man in all ways. I am lucky.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (gi+MR)

201 Well you're King Tut in my book!
Posted by: Ladyl

Lived in Baltimoria
Went to Corsicana

King Tut

Posted by: anthropological Miklos at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (+w4kg)

202 Might be a Crosman 760 pump in the Super 70s pic. Whoever had one of those was the envy of the neighborhood.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (41CYW)

203 And, how does one get tapped to produce content for the blog? The interview process must be... interesting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 19, 2024 10:50 PM (Q4IgG)

I even get e-mails asking me if I can get things posted on the site. I'm not a content creator.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (0eaVi)

204 Had to deal with a family wanting to use their Mom's house as a storage facility/hotel for themselves. As long as they didn't have to pay the bills to keep the place livable they didn't see a problem with it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
-------

THIS!

I have *one* sibling, that's doing this. He has no place to put all the things he wants, and comes to visit for weeks at a time each summer-- staying at Dad's of course. The money is running out & estate already owes me back 5k... shit's gonna happen next Spring. I can't do any more without some help, and will have it in a few months' time.

Already issued The Warning. Next: the wailing and gnashing of teeth....

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (njWTi)

205 >> appreciate your excitement and encouragement, but I am not among the COB ranks. In Star Wars parlance, I am a Padawan

I remember someone once said Maetenloch could put up a dog turd and a birthday cake or something like that and we would get 400 comments out of it.

I think the final comment was over 1000. The action is down here in the trenches. We will literally talk about anything.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (LkLld)

206 188

Rosie has lost so much weight, I wouldn't be able to pick her out of a lineup. Hollywood Ozempic Quick Weight Loss Diet, I'm sure.

She still sounds exactly the same. I saw a clip of her tonight, venting about Mika & Joe's betrayal.

Posted by: mnw at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (NLIak)

207 There's been some fresh faces in the AoSHQ blog-o-sphere lately. And some old timers missing.

Winds of change?

And, how does one get tapped to produce content for the blog? The interview process must be... interesting.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 19, 2024 10:50 PM (Q4IgG)

You've met me. My face ain't all that fresh.

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:54 PM (RFPHU)

208 Oops, wrong reference in 198. Was replying to OE at 176.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 10:54 PM (g3qJN)

209 Lived in Baltimoria
Went to Corsicana

King Tut
Posted by: anthropological Miklos at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (+w4kg)

I can't stop laughing.

But Doof is a cutie-patootie.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:54 PM (D6+4s)

210 Good evening morons and bedankt doof

No Zappa. So is it really an ont?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 10:54 PM (RIvkX)

211 It's hysterical! I'm enjoying every minute of all of this since the election. I can't stop watching all the Trump dances.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:51 PM (D6+4s)

My little brother texted me Dims screaming in time to the guitar and I lost it. Some need padded cells.

I am here for this karma surprise of 2024.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:55 PM (gi+MR)

212 Knee-high tube socks ftw!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

213 Joe and Mika didn't exactly make a pilgrimage to see Trump. They live in West Palm and do their show from there. Everyone just thinks they are in DC.

Posted by: Wonders of Technology at November 19, 2024 10:55 PM (nS6qG)

214 180 DOOF ONT! Okay, that's just fun.
Posted by: CA Token at November 19, 2024 10:46 PM (2+yws)

The Doofont hairdo was quite popular back in the day.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 19, 2024 10:55 PM (NMT5x)

215 Converse tennis shoes .

If you had a pair of Pumas you were probably rich.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 10:56 PM (D6PGr)

216 That tweet of 70s fun took me back.

My boyhood was the 50s. No Atari, more time for weapons. We had Ben Pearson fiberglass bows, made our own arrows, and hunted in the woods along the main line of the B&O, a short hike from home.

The neighbor lady had it in for me and my buddies, and after seeing me carrying home a rabbit bristling with arrows, told the cops I was shooting animals, not saying which or with what.

A knock on my 7th grade classroom door, the sister called me to the door, let me out into the hall, where a detective asked me where I got the gun. I said no gun just bows arrows and varmints. Dad got pissed at the cops, called them up and told them to get fucked for hauling me out of a classroom at St Joe elementary for tagging a goddamn bunny.

Posted by: M. Gaga at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (ZtgZZ)

217 I thought people were congratulating Doof on his ONT just to be nice. Like telling a kid his third grade recorder recital was great. No idea he'd be back.
Posted by: The Ad Council at November 19, 2024 10:51 PM (nS6qG)

That certainly crossed my mind. That's why tonight was the real test. Y'all haven't booed me off the stage yet!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (RFPHU)

218 Yeah. We look at the whole package. Many years ago I dated a guy, baseball player with great legs. Hubby has cute legs. We've been together almost 30 years lol.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:50 PM (t8a1K)

Fo'ty fi years on St. Patrick's Day for us. A lifetime ago. We are still best friends. Worth it. He's a good man in all ways. I am lucky.

Congrats! That is an amazing accomplishment! Hubby and I met in high school, 1986. Reconnected years later. Sometimes he makes me nuts and vice versa but we get each other.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (t8a1K)

219 Montana territory capital was Virginia City.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at November

Before that it was Bannack, which is now a state park. The mysterious 3-7-77 vigilante group arose here. The 3-7-77 is on the Montana Highway Patrol arm patch.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (WuJwx)

220 For the vets in the crowd, Google (yeah, yeah, I know) launched a program for vets to get one of their certs for free. I was in the first group of 4000 people. Two days of "webinar" at 8 hours each, then some free web based training over the weekend and passed the test tonight. It's very much an overview that doesn't dive into anything technical, but hey, free cert.

It also comes with (if you express an interest) a free AI course that I haven't got to just yet.

I'll let you all know when I see anything for later offerings along these lines. Or check the VA News email that goes out once a week, that's how I found out about it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (lUFok)

221 We will literally talk about anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (LkLld)
====

Never O/T at AoS:
1. Boobs
2. Ketchup and where it does not go
3. Any comment by Paolo, Mary Cloggenstein, or BEN ROETHLISBERGER

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 10:58 PM (RIvkX)

222 Oops, wrong reference in 198. Was replying to OE at 176.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 10:54 PM (g3qJN)

NOS for classic car parts is one thing, rusty old nails and screws is another.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:58 PM (0eaVi)

223
My little brother texted me Dims screaming in time to the guitar and I lost it. Some need padded cells.

I am here for this karma surprise of 2024.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 10:55 PM (gi+MR)

Oh please give us the link!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:58 PM (D6+4s)

224 ***25 states have relocated their capital at least once –
---

Hey, they left out Tex... oh, wait, that was when it was a Republic.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:00 PM (bxYeq)

225
That certainly crossed my mind. That's why tonight was the real test. Y'all haven't booed me off the stage yet!
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (RFPHU)

You're doing a damned fine job, Doof!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 11:00 PM (D6+4s)

226 Congrats! That is an amazing accomplishment! Hubby and I met in high school, 1986. Reconnected years later. Sometimes he makes me nuts and vice versa but we get each other.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (t8a1K)

You are a lucky lady as well! We met in college. Long story short he was freaked out to meet me after about 30 girls. He was not ready. I was not ready and no pressure for this at all from me. So he broke up with me, for no reason, every season of a year til I told him to leave me alone. That cured him. No trouble since.

Never chased a guy in my life and I didn't start with him, either. A whatevah attitude is a good thing!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:00 PM (gi+MR)

227 Already issued The Warning. Next: the wailing and gnashing of teeth....

Yes, this is the way! You go, JQ!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 19, 2024 11:00 PM (lUFok)

228 Good thing Doof is good at ONTing. Nobody would want an OE ONT.

I'm glad MisHum wasn't asking around.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:01 PM (0eaVi)

229 I remember someone once said Maetenloch could put up a dog turd and a birthday cake or something like that and we would get 400 comments out of it.

I think the final comment was over 1000. The action is down here in the trenches. We will literally talk about anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 10:53 PM (LkLld)

Exactly. Many hours of an active thread and insomniacs across multiple time zones. Always a mixed bag of crosstalk. What's not to love!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:01 PM (RFPHU)

230 Y'all haven't booed me off the stage yet!
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:57 PM (RFPHU)
===

https://youtube.com/shorts/Itn5ZMbCAdE

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

231 You're doing a damned fine job, Doof!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 11:00 PM (D6+4s)

I think all Morons are great. I was MIA for six years, but lurked. The pure excitement of Trump/Vance beating the tar out of Kamkook and Weirdo brought me back.

I am an aging supermodel sarcastic Nana.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:02 PM (gi+MR)

232 I appreciate your excitement and encouragement, but I am not among the COB ranks. In Star Wars parlance, I am a Padawan
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 10:40 PM (RFPHU)

Hey, that's not so bad, sir. Ahsoka got her own series, after all.

Evening, Horde!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at November 19, 2024 11:02 PM (v23vE)

233 You're doing a damned fine job, Doof!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 11:00 PM (D6+4s)

Thanks, mom!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:02 PM (RFPHU)

234 I think Jaguar needs to hire me to create ads

https://tinyurl.com/mr2r54uw

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:02 PM (gnoNE)

235 I nearly go berserk when I see people on planes in flannel pj pants. But I control myself.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Adults wearing pjs down at the breakfast buffet at the Hampton Inn must drive you batty.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 11:02 PM (WXNFJ)

236 You've met me. My face ain't all that fresh.
Posted by: Doof

To THIS I'll testify!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 19, 2024 11:03 PM (fav3v)

237 NOS for classic car parts is one thing, rusty old nails and screws is another.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 10:58 PM (0eaVi)

I probably have close to a ton of sorted fasteners, nuts, bolts and washers, sorted by size and thread pitch, etc. Mostly washed and degreased. Have you priced nuts and bolts at the hardware store lately? And most hardware store fasteners are low-grade steel, to boot. And I am going to burn a dollar's worth of gas just get to the hardware store.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (g3qJN)

238 Diddy's 'to do list' asking family member to 'find dirt' on victim was seized during cell raid

https://mol.im/a/14102353

Posted by: Ciampino - a roundit? at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (i0xsb)

239 > Cause of the Louisville explosion that killed two and injured 11 revealed - pressure vessel
---------
This the one at the food coloring joint? It was pretty sporty for being "food coloring."

Big "boom" and all that. But a pressure vessel going bad, is bad. And local discussions about previous complaints are going to complicate the whole situation. IIRC it's the second "accident" there... but like, in a decade or two.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (Q4IgG)

240 I am an aging supermodel sarcastic Nana.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:02 PM (gi+MR)
====

Go on...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (RIvkX)

241 >>Exactly. Many hours of an active thread and insomniacs across multiple time zones. Always a mixed bag of crosstalk. What's not to love!

That being said you've done a great job. Love the top picture and all around good stuff.

Congratulations.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (LkLld)

242 Good thing Doof is good at ONTing. Nobody would want an OE ONT.

I'm glad MisHum wasn't asking around.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:01 PM (0eaVi)

Let us be the judge of that!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (RFPHU)

243 Why are FBI and ATF always Special Agents? No ordinary agents? Their shit doesn't smell? Are CIA Special Spies?

Well at some point they decided on "special" because "retarded" was mean...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 19, 2024 11:05 PM (Cbio9)

244 Oh please give us the link!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:58 PM (D6+4s)

https://tinyurl.com/356auhcv

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:05 PM (gi+MR)

245 Definitely info that Morons need:

Just watched a PBS Eons episode
How Animals Got Butts (14:19)
https://youtu.be/re1RKgaVhdw

Narrator gal seemed to be enjoying too much being able to say "butthole" repeatedly.

Spoiler, how did we get buttholes? Like most things in biological development, we really don't know.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 11:05 PM (y8fSl)

246 Inside Diddy's wild birthday party for Meek Mill, where guests ate sushi off a naked girl's body

https://mol.im/a/14096709

Posted by: Ciampino - a round tit? at November 19, 2024 11:05 PM (i0xsb)

247 "If everyone is special then no one is." - Dash

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:06 PM (gnoNE)

248 > You've met me. My face ain't all that fresh.
Posted by: Doof
----
Didn't stink... so there's that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 19, 2024 11:06 PM (Q4IgG)

249 What I want to know is; How did Doof get a picture of my garage?

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:06 PM (bxYeq)

250 Adults wearing pjs down at the breakfast buffet at the Hampton Inn must drive you batty.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 11:02 PM (WXNFJ)

I would upend the cereal dispenser while doing The Trump

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:07 PM (gi+MR)

251 Arizona territory trivia - Tucson should have been the Capital, it was the oldest and most established city. But the Feds never forgave Tucson for going with the Confederacy all the way, and they ended up building a brand new city from scratch up on the Salt River rather than let Tucson ever be a Capital again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2024 11:07 PM (W6hoT)

252 Definitely not enough Zappa. Definitely. 0/2

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:07 PM (RIvkX)

253 Exactly. Many hours of an active thread and insomniacs across multiple time zones. Always a mixed bag of crosstalk. What's not to love!
Posted by: Doof

And no specific threads under a commenter like Insty. I simply cannot read that format.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 11:07 PM (WXNFJ)

254 That being said you've done a great job. Love the top picture and all around good stuff.

Congratulations.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (LkLld)

Thank you, brother. And since you brought it up - the top photo is from an area not too far from you. Cape Cod. Old Silver Beach in Falmouth. March 2023. Some lovely sunsets up there.

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:08 PM (RFPHU)

255 Tonight on Different Strokes a very "special" episode where Arnold is being groomed by the owner of the neighborhood bike shop.....

Posted by: Special Ed at November 19, 2024 11:08 PM (nS6qG)

256 I have so many pieces of lumber, molding , metal bar, pvc piping, insulation, etc. i can’t seem to throw anything away after a project .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 11:08 PM (D6PGr)

257 Nobody would want an OE ONT.

Hard to get OEM parts for a busted ONT.

Posted by: Aftermarket Miklos at November 19, 2024 11:08 PM (+w4kg)

258 Arizona territory trivia - Tucson should have been the Capital, it was the oldest and most established city. But the Feds never forgave Tucson for going with the Confederacy all the way, and they ended up building a brand new city from scratch up on the Salt River rather than let Tucson ever be a Capital again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2024 11:07 PM (W6hoT)

And Tucson has been infested with Democrats ever since.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:08 PM (g3qJN)

259 You are a lucky lady as well! We met in college. Long story short he was freaked out to meet me after about 30 girls. He was not ready. I was not ready and no pressure for this at all from me. So he broke up with me, for no reason, every season of a year til I told him to leave me alone. That cured him. No trouble since.

Never chased a guy in my life and I didn't start with him, either. A whatevah attitude is a good thing!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:00 PM (gi+MR)

Sweet! Hubby and I were lab partners in 10th grade biology class. We had to discect a pig's heart together. We were pals, nothing more. He moved away Junior year, and we ended up reconnecting because of a job he had in Germany years later in college. I guess it was fate.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:08 PM (t8a1K)

260 Definitely not enough Zappa. Definitely. 0/2

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:07 PM (RIvkX)

Not enough Rush either

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:09 PM (RFPHU)

261 27 I was just thinking, how many people are searching, yearning, longing, pining for Corsicanian Citizenship?
Posted by: Eromero
---

They're all bellyaches.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (bxYeq)

262 I'm enjoying the happy Trump people. I like Trump, and I feel good for his supporters (and myself).

But I am not having schadenfreude over the others. It's a sense of foreboding. It's not like last time. The media are handling it much better, but the rank and file are handling it much worse.

The shrieking, crying NPCs on social media disowning their friends and family are bad enough. And the lovely ladies going "4B." But there have also been a couple of horrific election-related family massacres, and now these "MATGA" chicks as locating for women to poison their husbands and lovers, as well.

I don't think these people will ever stabilize. I think things are going to get worse at the street level in the coming years, not better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (7oYYI)

263 Adults wearing pjs down at the breakfast buffet at the Hampton Inn must drive you batty.
Posted by: Tonypete

Hampton Inn?

Pfft

Posted by: Miklos checks Best Western Reward Point at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (+w4kg)

264 who told you that ?
Posted by: runner at November 19, 2024 09:15 PM (V13WU)

I am from Russia. Originally. Back in 1989.

Posted by: alexander bell at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (355Q6)

265 I don't think these people will ever stabilize. I think things are going to get worse at the street level in the coming years, not better.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (7oYYI)

At some point, it will become socially acceptable to shoot them. We have that to look forward to.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:11 PM (g3qJN)

266 At AOSHQ, it is common idiom to say "An ewok has been pilfering the meringues" when making an assertion unsupported by a link.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 19, 2024 09:18 PM (xCA6C)

I am Russian. The phrases I cited were spoken in my hearing personally. I do not have a weblink for my conversations.

Posted by: alexander bell at November 19, 2024 11:12 PM (355Q6)

267 Not enough Rush either
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:09 PM (RFPHU)
====

*sighs*
/ there will be yoko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

268 I am from Russia. Originally. Back in 1989.
Posted by: alexander bell

In America, Russian come to you!

Posted by: Miklosov Smirnov at November 19, 2024 11:12 PM (+w4kg)

269 https://tinyurl.com/589n8rbb

Rock on, y'all

Play it loud! Do The Trump!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:13 PM (gi+MR)

270 Inside Diddy's wild birthday party for Meek Mill, where guests ate sushi off a naked girl's body

https://mol.im/a/14096709
Posted by: Ciampino

Hey! This sushi smells like fish!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (WXNFJ)

271 Let us be the judge of that!
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:04 PM (RFPHU)

Eh, I think the stuff I like wouldn't be liked by many. Not too interested in music. I mean, I know what I like but I never buy anything. A lot of the classic stuff I remember from AM radio, but we weren't concert goers or music buyers.

Nobody wants to read links to obscure things I might find interesting. It'd be too much like the Book Thread.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (0eaVi)

272 One of two cats inside.

I miss sleep schedules.

Posted by: Stateless at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (jvJvP)

273 Great ONT, Doof!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (J5RCE)

274 я был в ссср в 1984 и 1985 годах

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

275 Geez, did 12 image posts on Tensor today.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (gnoNE)

276 'm enjoying the happy Trump people. I like Trump, and I feel good for his supporters (and myself).

But I am not having schadenfreude over the others. It's a sense of foreboding. It's not like last time. The media are handling it much better, but the rank and file are handling it much worse.

The shrieking, crying NPCs on social media disowning their friends and family are bad enough. And the lovely ladies going "4B." But there have also been a couple of horrific election-related family massacres, and now these "MATGA" chicks as locating for women to poison their husbands and lovers, as well.

I don't think these people will ever stabilize. I think things are going to get worse at the street level in the coming years, not better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (7oYYI)

Yeah. I'm sorry but not sorry. I'm Shadenfreuding all over the place. These sick sisters can go fuck themselves.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:15 PM (t8a1K)

277 Hard to get OEM parts for a busted ONT.
Posted by: Aftermarket Miklos at November 19, 2024 11:08 PM (+w4kg)

True. Just have to repair until it gets taken to the burial grounds.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (0eaVi)

278 244 Oh please give us the link!
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 10:58 PM (D6+4s)

https://tinyurl.com/356auhcv
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:05 PM (gi+MR)

OMG

I'm laughing like a hyena.

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (D6+4s)

279 Inside Diddy's wild birthday party for Meek Mill, where guests ate sushi off a naked girl's body
https://mol.im/a/14096709
Posted by: Ciampino

Hey! This sushi smells like fish!!
Posted by: Tonypete

"Have you tried the Susie?"

"The 'sushi?'"

"Have you tried that, too?"

Posted by: Diddy at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (DgGvY)

280 >>Thank you, brother. And since you brought it up - the top photo is from an area not too far from you. Cape Cod. Old Silver Beach in Falmouth. March 2023. Some lovely sunsets up there.

Thought it looked familiar.

Next time you're in the area let me know.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (LkLld)

281 I have a copy of Gosplan's Five Year Plan for the USSR from the year of my birth.

I think they are still working on it.

Posted by: Miklos from Karl Marx U (really) at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (+w4kg)

282 I am from Russia. Originally. Back in 1989.
Posted by: alexander bell at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (355Q6)

You know a guy named Watson?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:17 PM (g3qJN)

283 On this date in 1493, Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second voyage. It was full of garbage then, too.

Posted by: There Goes The Neighborhood at November 19, 2024 11:17 PM (nS6qG)

284 I also have about 300-400 golf balls, hockey equipment I haven’t used in 20 years , baseball gloves , six sets of dumbbells, inline skates , old sets of golf clubs and old tennis racquets.

Should have given it all away when I bought updated equipment or quit playing. Now it’s basically useless and bound for the dump.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 11:17 PM (D6PGr)

285 Inside Diddy's wild birthday party for Meek Mill, where guests ate sushi off a naked girl's body

https://mol.im/a/14096709
Posted by: Ciampino - a round tit? at November 19, 2024 11:05 PM (i0xsb)

First started in Japan, I think. Those guys can be weird there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:17 PM (0eaVi)

286 First started in Japan, I think. Those guys can be weird there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:17 PM (0eaVi)

Pro tip: avoid the fondue.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:18 PM (g3qJN)

287 I find that there is a disturbing lack of thematic cohesion in this comment thread. I would like to speak to the manager.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (dDmld)

288 I'm laughing like a hyena.
Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (D6+4s)

The guy after the WUT woman did me in.

I live in a red state and stayed off the streets for a week for people to calm down

I still don't know why eithe closets are cars are where they film themselves. A mystery.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (gi+MR)

289 274 я был в ссср в 1984 и 1985 годах
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

Nice! I was ~10 at the time.

281 I have a copy of Gosplan's Five Year Plan for the USSR from the year of my birth.

Posted by: Miklos from Karl Marx U (really) at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (+w4kg)

It is so nice to meet old friends. Even in USA I sometimes run into foreign nationals who studied at USSR... before immigrating to USA.

Posted by: alexander bell at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (355Q6)

290 First started in Japan, I think. Those guys can be weird there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Don't buy from vending machines unless you are really good at Japanese.

Posted by: Hints from Heloise and Miklos at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (+w4kg)

291 I don't think these people will ever stabilize. I think things are going to get worse at the street level in the coming years, not better.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (7oYYI)

Good points. The media is forced to react differently this time. They're facing extinction otherwise. But the damage they've done to the average lefty is beyond repair. The avg lefty has been riled up over Trump for 9 years. The media did that to them. And they can't react differently because then they'd have to admit and accept that they have been wrong and they've been lied to.
This is how a cold civil war becomes hot.

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (RFPHU)

292 I'm Shadenfreuding all over the place. These sick sisters can go fuck themselves.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:15 PM (t8a1K)

Sure. I hate 'em. Wish 'em the worst all you like.

But this is them in shock. That'll fade, and then they'll just be simmering in that rage, and they have no command of it. It will simmer over and burn others around them.

They're going to be trouble once they calm down enough to plan revenge on this world they hate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (7oYYI)

293 Geez, did 12 image posts on Tensor today.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:14 PM (gnoNE)

I've been doing a few.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:20 PM (0eaVi)

294 You know a guy named Watson?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:17 PM (g3qJN)

No. And I do not get the reference either. Clue me in?

Posted by: alexander bell at November 19, 2024 11:20 PM (355Q6)

295 I have a copy of Gosplan's Five Year Plan for the USSR from the year of my birth. ...
Posted by: Miklos from Karl Marx U (really) at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (+w4kg)
====

That's cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:20 PM (RIvkX)

296 If you find a drink already dispensed at a Japanese vending machine, do NOT drink.

They never did catch the poisoner.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:21 PM (gnoNE)

297 Thought it looked familiar.

Next time you're in the area let me know.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:16 PM (LkLld)

Will do. I think browndog has your contact info, correct?

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:21 PM (RFPHU)

298 Good night all. Fun ONT!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at November 19, 2024 11:21 PM (D6+4s)

299 Also on this day, in 1863 Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.

Posted by: It Was 1542 South Main St. at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (nS6qG)

300 Don't buy from vending machines unless you are really good at Japanese.
Posted by: Hints from Heloise and Miklos at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (+w4kg)

Well, don't need to visit Japan now, I'm married....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (0eaVi)

301 >>But I am not having schadenfreude over the others. It's a sense of foreboding. It's not like last time. The media are handling it much better, but the rank and file are handling it much worse.

Where are you seeing the media handle this better? All I see they doing is either capitulating or imploding.

I couldn't disagree more. The last time the media kicked off the Russia hoax before Trump was even sworn in. This time they have an approval rating lower than dogshit on the bottom of your shoe and seem completely beaten.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (LkLld)

302 Other than cantaloupe, sushi is the one thing I find detestable. I cannot imagine eating it off some buck naked skank ho.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (t8a1K)

303 Yeah I "ran into" plenty of students from Patrice Lumumba U. in the bars.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (RIvkX)

304 But this is them in shock. That'll fade, and then they'll just be simmering in that rage, and they have no command of it. It will simmer over and burn others around them.

They're going to be trouble once they calm down enough to plan revenge on this world they hate.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You're confusing the real anarchists with the lib keyboard warriors.
Most of them will pull the same thing when they try to march through areas of norms.
Tuck their tails and walk softly, just like last time in Portland(?).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 19, 2024 11:23 PM (fav3v)

305 Will do. I think browndog has your contact info, correct?
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:21 PM (RFPHU)

I do not …

But a Hockey themed MoMe might be in order

Posted by: browndog remembers at November 19, 2024 11:23 PM (TTAGa)

306 Posted by: San Franpsycho,

You don't look like a Beetle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:23 PM (bxYeq)

307 I find that there is a disturbing lack of thematic cohesion in this comment thread. I would like to speak to the manager.
Posted by: Cicero

https://tinyurl.com/5c6rjxzu

Posted by: Miklos in best Frank Nelson voice at November 19, 2024 11:24 PM (+w4kg)

308 296 If you find a drink already dispensed at a Japanese vending machine, do NOT drink.

They never did catch the poisoner.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:21 PM (gnoNE)

Good advice for any drink not poured in your presence...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 19, 2024 11:24 PM (Cbio9)

309 Inside Diddy's wild birthday party for Meek Mill, where guests ate sushi off a naked girl's body

https://mol.im/a/14096709
Posted by: Ciampino - a round tit? at November 19, 2024 11:05 PM (i0xsb)

I bet she didn't wear a hair net either.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 19, 2024 11:25 PM (NMT5x)

310 I couldn't disagree more. The last time the media kicked off the Russia hoax before Trump was even sworn in. This time they have an approval rating lower than dogshit on the bottom of your shoe and seem completely beaten.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (LkLld)
====

I have not seen much reflection, reckoning, repentance, or revision.

I have seen continuing deflection and blame shifting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (RIvkX)

311 >>Will do. I think browndog has your contact info, correct?

Or CBD and bluebell.

I'm not hard to find. There's only like 12 of us in RI.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (LkLld)

312 Drunk posting.
Picked up my brother's ashes today.
Forgive my typos

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (elaR+)

313 302 Other than cantaloupe, sushi is the one thing I find detestable. I cannot imagine eating it off some buck naked skank ho.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (t8a1K)

Our son lets my precious grandchildren eat sushi. I keep telling him about brain worms (I know, RFK junyuh).

I won't eat it. I choose life. Salmonella once was enough to turn me into Sheldon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (gi+MR)

314 No. And I do not get the reference either. Clue me in?
Posted by: alexander bell at November 19, 2024 11:20 PM (355Q6)

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. His first words over the device, directed at his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (g3qJN)

315 But a Hockey themed MoMe might be in order
Posted by: browndog remembers at November 19, 2024 11:23 PM (TTAGa)

Love it! I recently went to a Stars game with Sponge. And a year or 2 ago, a South Carolina (Charleston) Stingrays game with VIA and Mrs. VIA.
Let's make it happen!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (RFPHU)

316 They never did catch the poisoner.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:21 PM (gnoNE)

Good advice for any drink not poured in your presence...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

I peed in the punch!

Posted by: Newbomb Turk at November 19, 2024 11:27 PM (nS6qG)

317 The last time the media kicked off the Russia hoax before Trump was even sworn in. This time they have an approval rating lower than dogshit on the bottom of your shoe and seem completely beaten.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:22 PM (LkLld)

That's my point. They just seem dejected and beaten down, while the everyday jerk offs are totally losing it and hacking people up and openly fantasizing about killing anyone who voted Trump. It's like a mirror image of 2016, in that regard.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:27 PM (7oYYI)

318 302 Other than cantaloupe, sushi is the one thing I find detestable. I cannot imagine eating it off some buck naked skank ho.
Posted by: Scarymary
---

Well, as long as she bathed and. you know, you don't have to eat from the scaryparts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:27 PM (bxYeq)

319 I burned through a lot of credits trying to have Tensor generate a centaur, got one good one and others that well I even posted one of the misfires along with an image series where Tensor generated brunettes but no brunette centaur.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:27 PM (gnoNE)

320 Drunk posting.
Picked up my brother's ashes today.
Forgive my typos
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (elaR+)

Once more, condolences.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:27 PM (g3qJN)

321 Or CBD and bluebell.

I'm not hard to find. There's only like 12 of us in RI.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (LkLld)

I'll track you down!

Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:28 PM (RFPHU)

322 Well, as long as she bathed and. you know, you don't have to eat from the scaryparts.
Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:27 PM (bxYeq)

But you have to know somebody else licked the whipped cream off, and the chef replaced it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:29 PM (g3qJN)

323 Also on this day, in 1863 Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.
Posted by: It Was 1542 South Main St.
---------------
Yes. I reread it today.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 11:29 PM (41CYW)

324
I won't eat it. I choose life. Salmonella once was enough to turn me into Sheldon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
---

I keep saying, God didn't give us fire to keep us warm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:29 PM (bxYeq)

325 If you find a drink already dispensed at a Japanese vending machine, do NOT drink.

They never did catch the poisoner.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:21 PM (gnoNE)
***

Why would the Japanese put a vending machine in Puyallup?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2024 11:30 PM (W/lyH)

326 I'm Shadenfreuding all over the place. These sick sisters can go fuck themselves.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:15 PM (t8a1K)

Sure. I hate 'em. Wish 'em the worst all you like.

But this is them in shock. That'll fade, and then they'll just be simmering in that rage, and they have no command of it. It will simmer over and burn others around them.

They're going to be trouble once they calm down enough to plan revenge on this world they hate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:19 PM (7oYYI)

Yeah, I know. But at for now they are weak sauce, and I am ultimately not afraid of them.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:30 PM (t8a1K)

327 Love it! I recently went to a Stars game with Sponge. And a year or 2 ago, a South Carolina (Charleston) Stingrays game with VIA and Mrs. VIA.
Let's make it happen!
Posted by: Doof at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (RFPHU)

I’d say a March / April date in the METRO area

Just as Stanley Cup seedings are being decided

Though a Buffalo MoMe might bring in some of our friends from the Frozen North … not to mention cheaper tickets

Posted by: browndog remembers at November 19, 2024 11:31 PM (TTAGa)

328 property manager Jason Haight told DailyMail.com, 'There were broken bottles of alcohol, used condoms, blood on the beddings, powder, razor blades by the hundreds, lubricant on the dressers and marble floors.'

In my defense, that cabinet was really cute though.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2024 11:31 PM (gKWVE)

329 Intellivision > Atari

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2024 11:31 PM (KAi1n)

330
That's my point. They just seem dejected and beaten down, while the everyday jerk offs are totally losing it and hacking people up and openly fantasizing about killing anyone who voted Trump. It's like a mirror image of 2016, in that regard.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
---

It's the media what ginned that up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:31 PM (bxYeq)

331 Once more, condolences.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not necessary, but thank you.
Wish we'd had had more time to talk in person.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:31 PM (elaR+)

332 I'm not hard to find. There's only like 12 of us in RI.
Posted by: JackStraw

I had a roommate in law school at BU from RI. His last name was Volpe. Was he one of the 12?

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2024 11:32 PM (KAi1n)

333 FBI sends urgent warning of Chinese spies roaming southern state looking for victims to 'intimidate'

https://mol.im/a/14101563

Posted by: Ciampino - can anyone trust the fiebies? at November 19, 2024 11:33 PM (i0xsb)

334 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. His first words over the device, directed at his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The first people to communicate in the workshop were some Hungarian technicians, including Tivadar Puskas, who went on to invent the switchboard and set up the phone systems in Paris, Budapest, etc.

The first word was "Hallom!" or "I hear!"

From this came the modern use of hallo (as Brits still say) and hello.

Posted by: Miklos walked past Tivadar Puskas street many times at November 19, 2024 11:33 PM (+w4kg)

335 I keep saying, God didn't give us fire to keep us warm.
Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:29 PM (bxYeq)

This son travels all over the world for business. I figure if a parasite from Guam did not stop him from eating stuff, his mother won't, either. He's bigger than me and I lost control of him about 20yrs ago after college. No longer can I hold our financial bat over his head.

He better not make them sick, or there will be hellfire from Nana.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:33 PM (gi+MR)

336 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale

Prayers for you and your family.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 19, 2024 11:34 PM (fav3v)

337 Intellivision > Atari
Posted by: SFGoth
------------
*Looks around* I still have Intellivision and bust it out occasionally.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 11:34 PM (41CYW)

338 Our son lets my precious grandchildren eat sushi. I keep telling him about brain worms (I know, RFK junyuh).

I won't eat it. I choose life. Salmonella once was enough to turn me into Sheldon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (gi+MR)

I just can't do sushi. Gag me with spoon! I'm mostly pescetarian for health reasons, but can't do the raw fish stuff!

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:34 PM (t8a1K)

339 LOL@ Japan's vending machines!

Was there '82-'85... small town. Hooray for the Coke machine by our apartment building! 100yen for a liter bottle! Cheaper than on-base, and open 24/7. Never ran out of mixer.

Didn't see any truly weird stuff, but there were vendos for naughty magazines, batteries, all kinds of canned/bottled beverages... probably didn't notice the *other stuff* LOL

It was strangely enchanting to see a fully-lit-up vending machine at night, in the middle of nowhere.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2024 11:34 PM (njWTi)

340 Trump ran the Chinese spies out once he'll do it again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:35 PM (bxYeq)

341 Other than cantaloupe, sushi is the one thing I find detestable. I cannot imagine eating it off some buck naked skank ho.
Posted by: Scarymary

GHB is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2024 11:35 PM (WXNFJ)

342 Sushi oishii nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:35 PM (gnoNE)

343 >>I have not seen much reflection, reckoning, repentance, or revision.

>>I have seen continuing deflection and blame shifting.

2 of the most prominent leftist whack jobs, Joe and Mika, have publicly castrated themselves within a week and begged for forgiveness. To paraphrase the Golden Scalp Weasel, nobody has ever seen anything like it.

Here's what leftist Chris Cillizza has to say about the complete repudiation of the entire leftist agenda.

>>@ChrisCillizza
·
>>8h
The evidence is absolutely everywhere -- the mainstream media's decline is accelerating. Rapidly.

Even some of the less dense Democrats in Congress, including Eric The Fart Swalwell, are making mewling sounds about trying to cooperate with Trump.

There are still a few Japanese soldiers hiding in caves on remote islands but the few ringleaders with somewhat functions brains know this was a Hiroshima type event. They will still run guerrilla actions to try and fight back but this is not 2016 and they know it.

We get the prom queens after this one.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:35 PM (LkLld)

344 'Every black blog site enhanced that post to make me seem gay,' Mill wrote on February 28. 'I change laws for our people I donate millions... they are designed to destroy the image of black leaders!

Mill is literally this guy
youtu.be/aDdqV_rIaDw

Posted by: gKWVE at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (gKWVE)

345 Time got open season, weapons hot?
Violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua expands to take foothold in 16 US states

https://mol.im/a/14100643

Posted by: Ciampino - see, we're hard players at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (i0xsb)

346 Drunk posting.
Picked up my brother's ashes today.
Forgive my typos
================
First, my condolences. Losing family is painful.

Second, I hope you got a really nice box for his remains. My suggestion is to put it on the mantle. That's what I did with my mom's remains.

About a year after she died, we had somebody come to the door demanding to speak to her.
I said "Hey wait a minute, I'll get her. " I went and grabbed the box and presented it to him. "Here she is!"
He gave me a really weird look and just walked away.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (99t1i)

347 *Looks around* I still have Intellivision and bust it out occasionally.
Posted by: scampydog

Pong

20 cents a point

Posted by: Miklos may be a bit rusty at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (+w4kg)

348 There are still a few Japanese soldiers hiding in caves on remote islands but the few ringleaders with somewhat functions brains know this was a Hiroshima type event.

--

Hah!
Great analogy.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (OTdqV)

349 Closest I come to eating sushi is a can of tuna fish.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (D6PGr)

350 Sushi oishii nyah
Posted by: Anna Puma

It would be weird if the resident catgirl didn't like it.

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (DgGvY)

351 The last Japanese holdout on Iwo Jima surrendered in 1949, in the Philippines I think it was 1979.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:37 PM (gnoNE)

352 Mikeski knows me too well, kowai.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:38 PM (gnoNE)

353 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. His first words over the device, directed at his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (g3qJN)

Okay. I actually knew that one. Just did not grok on.

Posted by: alexander bell at November 19, 2024 11:39 PM (355Q6)

354 Pong

20 cents a point
Posted by: Miklos may be a bit rusty
--------------
100 points gets a trip to town.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 11:39 PM (41CYW)

355 Intellivision > Atari
Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2024 11:31 PM (KAi1n)

Both before my time.
Checkers, deck of cards, bb gun, fishing pole

Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2024 11:40 PM (W/lyH)

356 Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale

Prayers for you and your family.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Thank you. My family will soon have their own individual urns.

Really, not looking for sympathy.
Just forgive any stupidity I may display tonight.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:40 PM (elaR+)

357 I burned through a lot of credits trying to have Tensor generate a centaur, got one good one and others that well I even posted one of the misfires along with an image series where Tensor generated brunettes but no brunette centaur.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:27 PM (gnoNE)

I've made very specific prompts and get nothing close.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 19, 2024 11:40 PM (0eaVi)

358 Waiting for cats.

Ahh...Stephen Colbeet has the sadzzz.

And wants to cut off the balls of anyone with more testosterone than Tim Walz

Posted by: Stateless at November 19, 2024 11:41 PM (jvJvP)

359 We get the prom queens after this one.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:35 PM (LkLld)

The silent majority spoke loudly at the polls. I noted a huge lack of Trump signs this year anywhere I went. We were simply waiting to strike.

They were not ready. They will never learn. They can bark at the moon. They can go extinct like the wooly mammoths with their Plan B pills (this is the new thing, go stockpile), fallopian tube tying, fugly incels.

I honestly watch some of the videos thinking they will have a stroke of some kind while filming. A need for aerosl xanax all over the land...

I'm not worried, as my father always said worry gets you no where. I was stressed a bit, but no more. I sure as heck am not afraid of these strange humaniods with rage issues and nose rings.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:41 PM (gi+MR)

360 Drunk posting.
Picked up my brother's ashes today.
Forgive my typos

Nothing to forgive. I'm with ya. We have the same task on Monday. Gonna be tough.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 19, 2024 11:42 PM (mH6SG)

361 100 points gets a trip to town.
Posted by: scampydog

I always had a thing for Ms. Pac Man

Posted by: Miklos actually played asteroids and some game with birds at November 19, 2024 11:42 PM (+w4kg)

362 Sushi? Clams on the half shell was practically all I ate in the summer back in the day. Guess you could call it the gateway to my sushi habit, which was getting expensive at its peak. Nowadays a couple pieces of saba, and I can call it good..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 19, 2024 11:42 PM (Cbio9)

363 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. His first words over the device, directed at his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Historians rarely report Watson's reply: "New phone. Who dis?"

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 19, 2024 11:42 PM (tmPIh)

364 And wants to cut off the balls of anyone with more testosterone than Tim Walz
Posted by: Stateless
-------------
Dang, David Hogg is safe.

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 11:42 PM (41CYW)

365 >>I had a roommate in law school at BU from RI. His last name was Volpe. Was he one of the 12?

Ok, I exaggerated. Maybe there are 20 of us.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:43 PM (LkLld)

366 Why would the Japanese put a vending machine in Puyallup?
Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2024 11:30 PM (W/lyH)

Who the Hell is going to go all the way to Tenino?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2024 11:43 PM (D7oie)

367 *Looks around* I still have Intellivision and bust it out occasionally.
Posted by: scampydog

Oh yeah! I was a big Astrosmash guy, loved most of the sports games, but Utopia was my favorite. My brother and I would game it out to cause genocide. Hurricanes and pollution would wipe everyone out. Oh, B-17 bomber was pretty rad. "Target close" "Bandits at 6 o'clock". Sub Hunt, the list goes on.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2024 11:43 PM (KAi1n)

368 Sushi oishii nyah

Hai! But I'm too far inland, to enjoy it very often. "California Roll" is about all we can get here. It's just a tease.

Posted by: JQ at November 19, 2024 11:44 PM (njWTi)

369 Oh kami-sama, now want a dragon roll.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2024 11:44 PM (gnoNE)

370 Really, not looking for sympathy.
Just forgive any stupidity I may display tonight.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:40 PM (elaR+)

Empathy, dear man.

If this continues to haunt you for a long time, please get some help. I lost my brother a decade ago, but from a stroke.

It was hard enough vs what you are going through. I worked in a trauma unit and you may need this. I pray you find peace soon.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:44 PM (gi+MR)

371 We get the prom queens after this one.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2024 11:35 PM (LkLld)
====
Inshallah my friend.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:45 PM (RIvkX)

372 Drunk posting.
Picked up my brother's ashes today.
Forgive my typos

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:26 PM (elaR+)

My condolences. Peace to you and your family.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:45 PM (t8a1K)

373 Historians rarely report Watson's reply: "New phone. Who dis?"
Posted by: Cardinal Biggles

* golf clap *

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2024 11:45 PM (DgGvY)

374 I don't think these people will ever stabilize. I think things are going to get worse at the street level in the coming years, not better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 19, 2024 11:10 PM (7oYYI)

There are many things to lament about this point in time, but we do have one incredibly great advantage going forward - for enemies, we face a generation of the whiniest pathetic noodle armed emo crybabies that this country has ever seen. Even a crowd of the most militant in Kenosha crumbled when one 17 year old with a gun stood up to them.

Do you remember what made the 60’s riots so scary? It was because there was a lot of pissed off vets back from shooting Charlie out there in those mobs; now those were dudes who could fuck shit up and think nothing about it. This bunch today would rather run and take selfies of themselves crying because some one used the wrong pronouns. Cowards through and through.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2024 11:46 PM (W6hoT)

375 Who the Hell is going to go all the way to Tenino?
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2024 11:43 PM (D7oie)

Valid point.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2024 11:46 PM (W/lyH)

376 364 And wants to cut off the balls of anyone with more testosterone than Tim Walz
Posted by: Stateless
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Dang, David Hogg is safe.
Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 11:42 PM (41CYW)

I personally don't think the words testosterone and Walz should be in the same sentence. He gives me the creeps and I have never heard him speak.

And I am thankful not to have seen David Hogg's rodent face.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 19, 2024 11:46 PM (gi+MR)

377 Time to log off. It's been a doofy night.

Life is full of choices. Most don't allow do-overs.

https://youtu.be/AP0oQCh_teg

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 11:46 PM (y8fSl)

378 Oh, B-17 bomber was pretty rad. "Target close" "Bandits at 6 o'clock". Sub Hunt, the list goes on.
Posted by: SFGoth
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*Fistbump*

Posted by: scampydog at November 19, 2024 11:46 PM (41CYW)

379 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. His first words over the device, directed at his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Those were his first words through the device. His first words over the device were: "Aww shit. Goddamnit! Fuckin'-A!" Then after a moment of fiddling around came the words that launched a revolution in communication: "Watson, get the fuck in here. I spilled a plate of spaghetti on my trousers."

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2024 11:47 PM (KAi1n)

380 I've lived here more than 35 years and when people learn I grew up in NY they invariably say, "New York? You know Joe So-and-So? I think he lives in Brooklyn."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

381 317
I'm pretty sure they were more than certain of the win, with the extensive cheat and all, that they can't believe they lost and can't believe the extent of the loss considering what they had been told about the cheat.
Because of that confidence, it appears as there was no contingency in the event of a loss.

Posted by: Ciampino - see a loss wasn't possible at November 19, 2024 11:48 PM (i0xsb)

382 Cowards through and through.
Posted by: Tom Servo

BAKE THE CAKE, BIGOT.

Pretty please?

Oh, sorry

Posted by: Miklos at the masterpiece cake and Gun Shop at November 19, 2024 11:49 PM (+w4kg)

383 380 I've lived here more than 35 years and when people learn I grew up in NY they invariably say, "New York? You know Joe So-and-So? I think he lives in Brooklyn."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

That's a joke for a lot of Canadians talking to Americans. "Hey, do you know...?"

Posted by: Stateless at November 19, 2024 11:50 PM (jvJvP)

384 I've lived here more than 35 years and when people learn I grew up in NY they invariably say, "New York? You know Joe So-and-So? I think he lives in Brooklyn."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

"ooh, my wife has a friend who lives in Westchester, her name is Elizabeth, Do you know her? She is Korean, yes? She owned a couple of dry-cleaners, have you heard of her?"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2024 11:51 PM (D7oie)

385 This bunch today would rather run and take selfies of themselves crying because some one used the wrong pronouns. Cowards through and through.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2024 11:46 PM (W6hoT)

Spot on.
And...they know we aren't going away.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2024 11:51 PM (W/lyH)

386 Shirley there's a nail or two than can be backed out, straightened and saved into a old coffee can. Right?
Posted by: Tonypete
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Trade goods when the SHTF.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 19, 2024 11:51 PM (tcoNa)

387 I've lived here more than 35 years and when people learn I grew up in NY they invariably say, "New York? You know Joe So-and-So? I think he lives in Brooklyn."
Posted by: San Franpsycho

A few years ago in line to board a flight from Orlando (or maybe it was another Florida city not Miami, this was a mileage run) to SF, I struck up a convo with a woman behind me. By and by she asks me if I know a guy with a certain last name. "He lives in your neighborhood." He sure did. He was my upstairs neighbor in our duplex. She was his step-sister. It happens.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2024 11:52 PM (KAi1n)

388 First, my condolences. Losing family is painful.

Second, I hope you got a really nice box for his remains. My suggestion is to put it on the mantle. That's what I did with my mom's remains.

About a year after she died, we had somebody come to the door demanding to speak to her.
I said "Hey wait a minute, I'll get her. " I went and grabbed the box and presented it to him. "Here she is!"
He gave me a really weird look and just walked away.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate

I have a beautiful purple urn with a hummingbird on it.
She loved hummingbirds.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:52 PM (elaR+)

389 Estefania Primera, she seems nice.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 19, 2024 11:54 PM (bxYeq)

390 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. His first words over the device, directed at his assistant, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The first words Bell heard, however, were "The number you have dialed is a party on your line....."

To which he replied "no shit, Sherlock, we haven't invented the switchboard yet."

Posted by: mikeski at November 19, 2024 11:54 PM (DgGvY)

391 Not necessary, but thank you.
Wish we'd had had more time to talk in person.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:31 PM (elaR+)

We will have to do an AZ mini MoMee this Winter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:55 PM (+u0WJ)

392 I've lived here more than 35 years and when people learn I grew up in NY they invariably say, "New York? You know Joe So-and-So? I think he lives in Brooklyn."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 19, 2024 11:47 PM (RIvkX)

Every time...every time I flew somewhere in uniform, my seatmates would ask if I knew someone who was also in the Army.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 19, 2024 11:55 PM (W/lyH)

393 374
Even a crowd of the most militant in Kenosha crumbled when one 17 year old with a gun stood up to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 19, 2024 11:46 PM (W6hoT)
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That's not quite what happened. Rittenhouse was chased by 3+ people, at least one with a handgun and he was both lucky and had excellent reflexes and firearm muscle memory.

Posted by: Ciampino - watched that Kenosha live at November 19, 2024 11:57 PM (i0xsb)

394 Nothing to forgive. I'm with ya. We have the same task on Monday. Gonna be tough.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Sorry you have to go thru it too.
Wish I could take that pain away for you.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 19, 2024 11:58 PM (elaR+)

395 That's a joke for a lot of Canadians talking to Americans. "Hey, do you know...?"
Posted by: Stateless

My girlfriend lives in Canada. You wouldn't know her, even if you live in Canada.

Posted by: David Hogg at November 19, 2024 11:58 PM (+w4kg)

396 >>I'm pretty sure they were more than certain of the win, with the extensive cheat and all, that they can't believe they lost and can't believe the extent of the loss considering what they had been told about the cheat.
Because of that confidence, it appears as there was no contingency in the event of a loss.

That's what I don't get. I'm not exactly splitting atoms with my brain but it was obvious to anyone who actually followed the race Trump was going to win. It was only by how much.

Trump had an army of red hat wearing white supremacist Nazis, including a large number of whom were Hispanic and black, who were constantly at his rallies and very publicly supporting him. Harris had paid twerkers and bussed in paid "supporters".

And Trump had taken over the RNC and their primary focus was election integrity including thousands of paid lawyers and poll watchers in swing states. They announced what they were going to do for months. Actually make elections as secure as possible for the first time in years. And they did.

There were always more of us than them. That's why they cheat. Stop the cheat, win elections. It's not a hard equation.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2024 12:00 AM (LkLld)

397 Just say when.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 20, 2024 12:01 AM (elaR+)

398 We will have to do an AZ mini MoMee this Winter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Just say when

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 20, 2024 12:01 AM (elaR+)

399 I just can't do sushi. Gag me with spoon! I'm mostly pescetarian for health reasons, but can't do the raw fish stuff!
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:34 PM (t8a1K)

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There's a restaurant here that has cooked sushi. They have one dish that has shrimp tempura. It's called a pirate roll.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 20, 2024 12:02 AM (xOnCy)

400 It happens.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2024 11:52 PM (KAi1n)
==-=

Yeah it does. It happened in Jerusalem. Our tour guide was related to a guy in our synagogue.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 20, 2024 12:03 AM (RIvkX)

401 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

I was told that the Historical Documents state that the first call received was "Your extended vehicle warrantee ......"

Posted by: Ciampino - wai till Medicare season at November 20, 2024 12:03 AM (i0xsb)

402 Just say when.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 20, 2024 12:01 AM (elaR+)

Maybe January-February sometime? Inauguration Day would be cool!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 12:03 AM (+u0WJ)

403 Material Issue (Jim Ellison) was a great band. Unfortunately right when they started to get traction the fashion changed to the grungier tone and MI was power pop all the way. Even too power pop to fill the niche that Green Day and their successors did.

Posted by: azjaeger at November 20, 2024 12:04 AM (3/XaG)

404 We will have to do an AZ mini MoMee this Winter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2024 11:55 PM (+u0WJ)

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I'll fly down for that! I'm due for a visit with my sister anyway.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 20, 2024 12:04 AM (xOnCy)

405 My cat has a case of the zoomies.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 20, 2024 12:06 AM (lhenN)

406 131 a neighbor's kid gave me twenty bucks to pretend to be his dad for a parent teacher conference.
Posted by: tankdemon

Good one. We chuckled.
Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:31 PM (y8fSl)

Thanks

Posted by: tankdemon at November 20, 2024 12:07 AM (m2gk6)

407 Heh. I just took apart 4 TPMS sensors taken from the wheels on my 2008 Suburban. Bought from Amazon, cheap, installed them when I put the last set of tires on, maybe 5 years ago? They failed last Winter. Well, their little batteries were all stone dead. Maxell CR2032's, all test zero volts. Makes me wonder if the devices were on the shelf for a long time before they were sold to me. The OEM sensors lasted a lot longer than that. Doing without, for now. Stupid useless system, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 12:08 AM (+u0WJ)

408 That garage in that pic looks disturbingly familiar.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 20, 2024 12:08 AM (XeU6L)

409

I just can't do sushi. Gag me with spoon! I'm mostly pescetarian for health reasons, but can't do the raw fish stuff!
Posted by: Scarymary at November 19, 2024 11:34 PM (t8a1K)

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There's a restaurant here that has cooked sushi. They have one dish that has shrimp tempura. It's called a pirate roll.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 20, 2024 12:02 AM (xOnCy)

I could do that. It's funny. I can do tuna fish, sardines, or anchovies (in a recipe). But raw fish is just grody.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:09 AM (t8a1K)

410 a neighbor's kid gave me twenty bucks to pretend to be his dad for a parent teacher conference.
Posted by: tankdemon

Good one. We chuckled.
Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:31 PM (y8fSl)

Thanks
Posted by: tankdemon

How much to pretend to be his Mom?

Posted by: Miklos figures more at November 20, 2024 12:09 AM (+w4kg)

411 396
It seems that Lefties believe their own lies, in particular the skewed polls. And poor at Math. (minority math doesn't do means, medians, etc.)

Posted by: Ciampino - wait till Medicare season at November 20, 2024 12:09 AM (i0xsb)

412 That's not quite what happened. Rittenhouse was chased by 3+ people, at least one with a handgun and he was both lucky and had excellent reflexes and firearm muscle memory.
Posted by: Ciampino - watched that Kenosha live at November 19, 2024 11:57 PM

Aw c’mon, it was a rhetorical flourish, go with it man, go with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2024 12:09 AM (W6hoT)

413 That garage in that pic looks disturbingly familiar.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

No top secret documents in old cardboard boxes?

Posted by: The Biden Archives at November 20, 2024 12:10 AM (+w4kg)

414 >>There's a restaurant here that has cooked sushi.

Cooked sushi is like a guy in a dress. It's either sushi or a cooked fish.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2024 12:12 AM (LkLld)

415 I could do that. It's funny. I can do tuna fish, sardines, or anchovies (in a recipe). But raw fish is just grody.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:09 AM (t8a1K)

I have had sushi in a classy Japanese restaurant, and it was fine, but not so wonderful that I would Jones for it. What I do love, and wish I could get more often, is ceviche, which is white sea fish marinated in lemon juice until it goes from translucent to white. Basically pickled or cold-cooked. Very yummy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 12:12 AM (+u0WJ)

416 Cooked sushi is like a guy in a dress. It's either sushi or a cooked fish.
Posted by: JackStraw

But not all sushi is fish. Shrimp really shouldn't be served raw.

Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2024 12:13 AM (DgGvY)

417 That's not quite what happened. Rittenhouse was chased by 3+ people, at least one with a handgun and he was both lucky and had excellent reflexes and firearm muscle memory.
Posted by: Ciampino - watched that Kenosha live at November 19, 2024 11:57 PM

Aw c’mon, it was a rhetorical flourish, go with it man, go with it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Forget it man, he's rolling

Posted by: Miklos, ready for stupid and pointless gestures at November 20, 2024 12:13 AM (+w4kg)

418 That's not quite what happened. Rittenhouse was chased by 3+ people, at least one with a handgun and he was both lucky and had excellent reflexes and firearm muscle memory.
Posted by: Ciampino - watched that Kenosha live at November 19, 2024 11:57 PM

Aw c’mon, it was a rhetorical flourish, go with it man, go with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 20, 2024 12:09 AM (W6hoT)

I know he was acquitted but whatever happened to this kid? I had life stuff and didn't keep up.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:13 AM (t8a1K)

419
No top secret documents in old cardboard boxes?
Posted by: The Biden Archives
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No, but worse, no '67 Corvette roadster. Just a dormant '78 Cutlass project.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 20, 2024 12:13 AM (XeU6L)

420 133 Capitol of Arizona when it was a Territory was Prescott. Has it always been Phoenix since Statehood?

Earlier days of AZ, most of the action was north. Not many people could stand long hot desert summers before AC got commonplace.
If you like "Iko Iko" try the Dr. John version. That man KNEW his traditional NO music.

Posted by: azjaeger at November 20, 2024 12:13 AM (3/XaG)

421 But not all sushi is fish. Shrimp really shouldn't be served raw.
Posted by: mikeski

Especially not JUMBO.....shrimp

Posted by: Miklos, who has a hot water heater but why? at November 20, 2024 12:15 AM (+w4kg)

422 I knew Trump was going to win the election but didn't know if he was going to win the count.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 20, 2024 12:16 AM (bxYeq)

423 NHL Bruins head coach is fired after team's awful start to the season

https://mol.im/a/14102875

Posted by: Ciampino - somebody has to be at the bottom at November 20, 2024 12:16 AM (i0xsb)

424 Shrimp

raw shrimp

or plate

or plate of raw shrimp

Posted by: a Miklos Man is always intense (harry Dean Stanton voice helps) at November 20, 2024 12:17 AM (+w4kg)

425 I have had sushi in a classy Japanese restaurant, and it was fine, but not so wonderful that I would Jones for it. What I do love, and wish I could get more often, is ceviche, which is white sea fish marinated in lemon juice until it goes from translucent to white. Basically pickled or cold-cooked. Very yummy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 12:12 AM (+u0WJ)

Ceviche! It's not unheard of around here but more popular on the TX coast, especially as you get closer to Mexico. I have had and liked, lol. I think the lemon juice cooks it enough to not be icky!

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:18 AM (t8a1K)

426 Jaguar hits back at critics of new DEI rebrand ad that doesn't feature any cars

https://mol.im/a/14102135

Posted by: Ciampino - need a modern 12 cylinder E-Type at November 20, 2024 12:19 AM (i0xsb)

427 >>But not all sushi is fish. Shrimp really shouldn't be served raw.

Did a business trip to Japan. Got served raw baby octopus.

Wanted the deal, didn't want to offend the customer. Most definitely didn't want to eat the octopus.

Still coming to grips with that one.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2024 12:19 AM (LkLld)

428 I knew Trump was going to win the election but didn't know if he was going to win the count.
Posted by: Braenyard

Some reports are that he didn't.

California apparently hired lazy illegals to count ballots.

Posted by: Miklos suspects at November 20, 2024 12:19 AM (+w4kg)

429 Ceviche! It's not unheard of around here but more popular on the TX coast, especially as you get closer to Mexico. I have had and liked, lol. I think the lemon juice cooks it enough to not be icky!
Posted by: Scarymary

In Yucatan, they use lime juice.

Posted by: Miklos so notes at November 20, 2024 12:20 AM (+w4kg)

430 426 Jaguar hits back at critics of new DEI rebrand ad that doesn't feature any cars

https://mol.im/a/14102135
Posted by: Ciampino - need a modern 12 cylinder E-Type
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Only thing missing from that Jag ad was one of the dancers holding a Bud Light.

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 20, 2024 12:22 AM (bxYeq)

431 Jaguar hits back at critics of new DEI rebrand ad that doesn't feature any cars

https://mol.im/a/14102135
Posted by: Ciampino - need a modern 12 cylinder E-Type at November 20, 2024 12:19 AM (i0xsb)

=====

They have ditched its teeth-baring big cat logo as part of a radical electric rebrand that it concedes won't appeal to the majority of its traditional customers.

Sound business plan, right there.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 20, 2024 12:22 AM (xOnCy)

432 The OEM sensors lasted a lot longer than that. Doing without, for now. Stupid useless system, anyway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yeah, it's a PITA. I got snow tires right after I bought my car, on their own rims... freaking 60 bucks apiece for the "required" TPMS, which began failing at 5 years. Unnerving, to see that idiot light 'on' all the time.

I'm not equipped to bust-over my own tires, so took them in & had shop replace all the sensors. (For the price of a used set of snow tires from another car which we no longer own...)

Yay, regained some space in the barn!

Factory sensors still good.

Not sure I'll ever replace any more sensors, though. I know how to check tire pressure, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:23 AM (njWTi)

433 Ciampino

#234 is my answer to Jaguar

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 20, 2024 12:23 AM (gnoNE)

434 I'm starting this Dune series. Nothing but Bene Geserit so far. My fear that "shows that cater to women are crap" is at a 7/10 right now.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 20, 2024 12:23 AM (lhenN)

435 Liberal women make style change after Trump's election win

https://mol.im/a/14097313

Posted by: Ciampino - so LOL at November 20, 2024 12:23 AM (i0xsb)

436 I enjoy sushi. Let the goid times roll.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 12:24 AM (41CYW)

437 Only thing missing from that Jag ad was one of the dancers holding a Bud Light.
Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others

In their butthole

Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at November 20, 2024 12:25 AM (elaR+)

438 Got served raw baby octopus.

Still coming to grips with that one.
Posted by: JackStraw

* golf clap *

* second round of golf clap if unintentional *

Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2024 12:25 AM (DgGvY)

439 In the known universe, the only man to say the word "Harkonnen" without annoying me is Kyle MacLachlan.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 20, 2024 12:25 AM (lhenN)

440 Once again into the breach, for Doof, nice job, keep it up kiddo and you might have a new job with unenviable benefits.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 20, 2024 12:25 AM (Sgq8y)

441 Maybe January-February sometime? Inauguration Day would be cool!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Muwhahahahahaha!

Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at November 20, 2024 12:26 AM (elaR+)

442 Have this "Bomb Cyclone" event in the PNW and there are now 72,000 without power here served by Puget Sound Energy. None of those outages are anywhere Alki, where Nurse lives. IT is afraid...

Posted by: ChrisP at November 20, 2024 12:26 AM (WbGL/)

443 Liberal women make style change after Trump's election win

https://mol.im/a/14097313
Posted by: Ciampino

My color palette remains the same, including nails.

Posted by: Retro Miklos at November 20, 2024 12:26 AM (+w4kg)

444 Walmart issues dire warning to customers about prices

https://mol.im/a/14101281

Posted by: Ciampino - no surprise at November 20, 2024 12:27 AM (i0xsb)

445 sushi ≠ sashimi

Sushi just means vinegar rice. The topping varies. Tamago sushi is sweet omelet on top. Cooked. Unagi sushi is cooked. Etc, etc, etc.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2024 12:28 AM (IG4Id)

446 But not all sushi is fish. Shrimp really shouldn't be served raw.
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I was at a formal Japanese luncheon, sat on the tatami mats & all.. Multi-course meal.. and was served all kinds of *interesting* dishes.

Among them, a lovely large prawn! Head-on and pink-red, just made me drool. Took a huge bite.

IT. WAS. RAW.!

They had steamed it long enough to Make Pretty. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:28 AM (njWTi)

447 Jaguar hits back at critics of new DEI rebrand ad that doesn't feature any cars

Mosquito bites elephant.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 20, 2024 12:28 AM (mH6SG)

448 Once again into the breach, for Doof, nice job, keep it up kiddo and you might have a new job with unenviable benefits.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

The Dental Plan does include free extractions (anesthesia for a slight additional fee).

Posted by: Sunny Side Miklos at November 20, 2024 12:28 AM (+w4kg)

449 My condolences. Peace to you and your family.
Posted by: Scarymary

Thank you.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at November 20, 2024 12:28 AM (elaR+)

450 In Yucatan, they use lime juice.

Posted by: Miklos so notes at November 20, 2024 12:20 AM (+w4kg)

I do not doubt that at all. I am drunk posting and am likely mistaken. LOL
However, i use lemons often to make guacamole. I find it stays greener for longer.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:29 AM (t8a1K)

451 Braenyard

Earlier thread on this, my first comment was:

The Dylanmobile with Lucas electrics. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 20, 2024 12:30 AM (gnoNE)

452 >That's not quite what happened. Rittenhouse was chased by 3+ people, at least one with a handgun and he was both lucky and had excellent reflexes and firearm muscle memory.

Yeah one of the three had attempted suicide the previous day. But more important they weren't afraid of someone because they outnumbered him >10 to 1. "Nobody needs a 30rd mag" yeah yeah fuck you.

This Dune show is dumb.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 20, 2024 12:30 AM (lhenN)

453 Memphis wedding florist says she 'won't do business' with Trump voters... and the backlash is swift

https://mol.im/a/14101423

Posted by: Ciampino - surprise! at November 20, 2024 12:34 AM (i0xsb)

454 124

2. Don't know about yours, but in my yout', that MF word would get you whupped & possibly mouth washed out with soap, but most likely wasn't said. Especially to Ma.

Posted by: mindful webworker - perfect stater by birth and choice at November 19, 2024 10:28 PM (y8fSl)

Just read JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy book. Apparently it was pretty common vernacular in rural Kentucky

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 20, 2024 12:35 AM (QGaXH)

455 The Dylanmobile with Lucas electrics. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Probably short out the OBD tester

Posted by: Miklos reasonably guesses at November 20, 2024 12:36 AM (+w4kg)

456 Not sure if I posted this today.
Student-built rocket breaks space altitude record as it hits hypersonic speeds

https://mol.im/a/14098071

Posted by: Ciampino - Good job but Musk needn't worry at November 20, 2024 12:36 AM (i0xsb)

457 Give me a plate of raw salmon and tuna, some soy sauce, and seaweed salad, and i can eat all day, or until I fall over drunk from the sake.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2024 12:36 AM (KAi1n)

458 >>* second round of golf clap if unintentional *

Ha. No, unintentional. True.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2024 12:37 AM (LkLld)

459 Memphis wedding florist says she 'won't do business' with Trump voters... and the backlash is swift

https://mol.im/a/14101423

Posted by: Ciampino - surprise! at November 20, 2024 12:34 AM (i0xsb)

I read that earlier. She says she wants a safe place. Has she looked around? Putting it politely, Memphis is a scary Fustercluck run by Democrats. Last time I was there, a homeless dude tried selling me trash bags in a Corky's BBQ. I like Corky's, but not enough to be irritated by the indigent.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:41 AM (t8a1K)

460 They have ditched its teeth-baring big cat logo as part of a radical electric rebrand that it concedes won't appeal to the majority of its traditional customers.

Sound business plan, right there.
Posted by: Jordan61

Their business plan is becoming more selective?

"Who's our target audience?"

"A trans man in Sheboygan who has tattooed his entire body safety orange and changed his name to * plays a recording of 56K modem handshake tones *"

Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2024 12:41 AM (DgGvY)

461 Give me a plate of raw salmon and tuna, some soy sauce, and seaweed salad, and i can eat all day, or until I fall over drunk from the sake.
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Now yer talkin! The raw prawn would've been ok, if I'd known it was raw... but it *appeared* to be cooked. Tricky tricksters.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:41 AM (njWTi)

462 One of my favorites is the sushi topped with sour plum paste ( ume boshi ) , cucumber slices, a fried sweet basil leaf ( shiso ) , and wrapped with the nori band. Perfect and no fish.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2024 12:42 AM (IG4Id)

463 Memphis wedding florist says she 'won't do business' with Trump voters...
Posted by: Ciampino

Because "weddings" are a big thing among the primal-screaming 4B crowd?

Speaking of sound business plans.....

Posted by: mikeski at November 20, 2024 12:43 AM (DgGvY)

464 Perfect and no fish.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2024 12:42 AM (IG4Id)

Not impressed.

Posted by: The Dolphins at November 20, 2024 12:44 AM (m7e0/)

465 All I can say is you people complaining about raw sushi, y'all need to know about the Japanese snack of seaweed covered rice balls stuffed with jellyfish. It's a delicacy! And really gross.

But boy do I love the unagi, the smoked eel. Never had eel before but, damn, was it good. Incredibly buttery, if that's possible.

Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2024 12:45 AM (gKDq2)

466 433 Ciampino

#234 is my answer to Jaguar

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 20, 2024 12:23 AM (gnoNE)
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very nice

Posted by: Ciampino - Good job but not ghey at November 20, 2024 12:46 AM (i0xsb)

467 Is sushi without fish sushi?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 20, 2024 12:46 AM (mH6SG)

468 I thought Bell dropped acid. On his pants.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 20, 2024 12:46 AM (63Dwl)

469 Give me a plate of raw salmon and tuna, some soy sauce, and seaweed salad, and i can eat all day, or until I fall over drunk from the sake.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 20, 2024 12:36 AM (KAi1n)

I so wish this sounded delicious. I'm trying to come up with more fish recipes.....

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:46 AM (t8a1K)

470 Yes, RickZ! Unagi... mmmmm!

Loved it before I even knew what it was. After that, didn't care, still loved it!

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:46 AM (njWTi)

471 While rigging up a lighting system for my trailer I managed to short out something causing Ford to have no turn or brake lights. The owners manual is not completely correct or is, so far, indecipherable. I did find a blown 10 amp fuse which, when replaced, affected nothing discernible.

I've got four tabs, relating to the problem, open in another window. So, returning to my chore I bid everyone a good evening. 'night

Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 20, 2024 12:46 AM (bxYeq)

472 463 Memphis wedding florist says she 'won't do business' with Trump voters

Does she interview people when they come in as to their voting preferences? What a loon, aside from the fact that announcing it in public turns other potential customers off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2024 12:47 AM (kUvvs)

473 Is sushi without fish sushi?
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Yes. It's the seasoned rice that is "sushi"

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:48 AM (njWTi)

474 Exciting late night text exchange with junior. He is investigating getting his PhD in accounting.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 12:48 AM (41CYW)

475 I was messing with those LED units again tonight. Tested every one of them with my little "24 volt power supply" and a #67 bulb as ballast resistor. They all lit up fine. Left the last one connected, and unplugged the transformer, maybe ten minutes ago. Still a few diodes glimming dimly on the juice stored in the 3300 uF filter cap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 12:48 AM (m7e0/)

476 Good luck, Braenyard!

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:49 AM (njWTi)

477 All I can say is you people complaining about raw sushi, y'all need to know about the Japanese snack of seaweed covered rice balls stuffed with jellyfish. It's a delicacy! And really gross.

But boy do I love the unagi, the smoked eel. Never had eel before but, damn, was it good. Incredibly buttery, if that's possible.

Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2024 12:45 AM (gKDq2)

Again, I'm trying to find the idea delicious. I'm in Central TX, so the fish is not so fresh maybe...

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:49 AM (t8a1K)

478 Is sushi without fish sushi?
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Just explained it at #445.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2024 12:49 AM (IG4Id)

479 Good luck, Braenyard!
Posted by: JQ
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+1. No fun chasing that stuff.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 12:51 AM (41CYW)

480 Here's a First World Problem:
Cable car crash leaves at least six injured at up-market French ski resort

https://mol.im/a/14100819

Posted by: Ciampino - not something to worry in Soweto at November 20, 2024 12:51 AM (i0xsb)

481 Old Fords have something froggy about the headlight switch sometimes, iirc. Can't remember what all it may affect, though.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:52 AM (njWTi)

482 Cable car crash leaves at least six injured at up-market French ski resort

Have they surrendered yet?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 20, 2024 12:53 AM (mH6SG)

483 Here's a First World Problem:
Cable car crash leaves at least six injured at up-market French ski resort

https://mol.im/a/14100819
Posted by: Ciampino - not something to worry in Soweto at November 20, 2024 12:51 AM (i0xsb)

"..where little cable cars climb half way to the...oh, shit!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 12:53 AM (m7e0/)

484 Again, I'm trying to find the idea delicious. I'm in Central TX, so the fish is not so fresh maybe...
Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:49 AM (t8a1K)

Well, they do use freshwater eels in sushi, not the saltwater type.

Try finding a decent Italian food store and go around Christmas. You'll find fresh eel (for the Feast of the 7 Fishes).

Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2024 12:55 AM (gKDq2)

485 Again, I'm trying to find the idea delicious. I'm in Central TX, so the fish is not so fresh maybe...
Posted by: Scarymary

Um, Texas has a coastline, yes? Also, the supposed origins of sushi is kind of funny. Paraphrased/ condensed: the merchants that hiked up into the hinterlands of Japan with supplies would carry rice, fish, kelp, and vinegar with them. Accidents happened but the merchants wouldn't throw away the cargo and sold it as a mix. Your mileage may vary.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 20, 2024 12:55 AM (IG4Id)

486 >>>Memphis wedding florist says she 'won't do business' with Trump voters... and the backlash is swift

Arrange the flowers, lib.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 20, 2024 12:56 AM (FC8SQ)

487 Old Fords have something froggy about the headlight switch sometimes, iirc. Can't remember what all it may affect, though.
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 12:52 AM (njWTi)

Most North American cars and pickups use the same bulbs, and the same filaments in them for both stop and turn functions. The turn signal switch connects both bulbs to the stop light switch when no turn is selected. When a turn is selected, the bulb for that side is disconnected from the stop light switch, and connected to the signal flasher.

Turn signals get their power normally from the accessory terminal of the ignition switch, and won't work if the key is off. Stop lights get their power from the battery side of the ignition switch, and will work if the key is off. Four-way flashers are powered the same way. First thing to check in this case? Try the 4-way flashers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:01 AM (m7e0/)

488 191 I mean, Trump was literal Hitler going to be executing and putting people in camps. Literally. And now, they have tea with Hitler.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 19, 2024 10:49 PM (w6EFb)

So...Springtime For Hitler?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 20, 2024 01:01 AM (QGaXH)

489 Arrange the flowers, lib.
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Nope.

"Suit yourself and starve, libtard. We'll spend our money elsewhere."

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:01 AM (njWTi)

490 Tom Homan interviews have been amazing.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 01:02 AM (41CYW)

491 Again, I'm trying to find the idea delicious. I'm in Central TX, so the fish is not so fresh maybe...
Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 12:49 AM (t8a1K)

Well, they do use freshwater eels in sushi, not the saltwater type.

Try finding a decent Italian food store and go around Christmas. You'll find fresh eel (for the Feast of the 7 Fishes).

Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2024 12:55 AM (gKDq2)

Thanks, I think I know of one Italian store. Mostly it is Mexican Supermercados in my area. They usually have tilapia and shrimp. Eel I kind of doubt.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:03 AM (t8a1K)

492 Freed Hamas hostage confronts UCLA student behind campus protests

https://mol.im/a/14099399

Posted by: Ciampino - cowards all at November 20, 2024 01:04 AM (i0xsb)

493 Has Trump nominated someone for head of FEMA, because that agency definitely needs someone with a take no prisoners approach ,if not gutted completely. That story about the elderly couple in GA with a Trump sign who were scared and intimidated by FEMA workers was both infuriating and heartbreaking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2024 01:06 AM (VDt/A)

494 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:01 AM
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Thanks for that. I don't know what's up with Braenyard's rig, though. Or even what model he's got.

I remember now, that when I inherited my old Ford, late BF had purchased a new turn signal switch but had not installed it. Brake lights & turn signals didn't work until I put new switch in... what a PITA to do that! But I managed. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:07 AM (njWTi)

495 I do love flowers, buy them for myself almost every week, I kind of like arranging them, this is a service that I will not pay for.

I am trying to figure out how to pay for and arrange my own funeral flowers. I have no idea when my funeral might be, nothing pending on the horizon. I just kind of want to do it my way when the time comes.

Meanwhile, I would like to head to St. Augustine in search of the Fountain of Youth.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 20, 2024 01:08 AM (Sgq8y)

496 Has Trump nominated someone for head of FEMA, because that agency definitely needs someone with a take no prisoners approach ,if not gutted completely. That story about the elderly couple in GA with a Trump sign who were scared and intimidated by FEMA workers was both infuriating and heartbreaking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2024 01:06 AM (VDt/A)

I haven't heard but hope it will be someone with decency. Grew up in the Carolinas....the people in the Southeast are good people They deserve better.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:10 AM (t8a1K)

497 I knew Trump was going to win the election but didn't know if he was going to win the count.
Posted by: Braenyard - some animals are more equal than others at November 20, 2024 12:16

I was agreeing w/ Tyrus, I thought it would be a big win for Trump. But then I thought he would win big in 2020.

Know it's verboten to say, but how many voters are missing this year? I think they decided Kamala was a mess and didn't employ the big cheat like they did in 2020.

6 swing states stopped counting in the middle of the night when Trump was leading. Then resumed and miraculously Biden was ahead.

What is odd is that 15.9 million more people voted in 2024. Go figure.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 20, 2024 01:11 AM (55Qr6)

498 Hi, Debby!

Why waste $$ on a funeral? Hubby & I will go with cremation and DIY whatever for anyone who cares to attend...

But we do not have as much family as you do, I suspect.

Speak with your family, while you can, about it!

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:12 AM (njWTi)

499 I read that earlier. She says she wants a safe place. Has she looked around? Putting it politely, Memphis is a scary Fustercluck run by Democrats. Last time I was there, a homeless dude tried selling me trash bags in a Corky's BBQ. I like Corky's, but not enough to be irritated by the indigent.
Posted by: Scarymary

Extremely accurate picture of Memphis at the moment. It's been gentrified to a degree, so that Beale Street no longer features scores of hookers and junkies like it did in the Seventies. But it's still a crime-ridden, dangerous locale. Jackson, Mississippi is on track to become its smaller-scale replica, and Nashville has become a new target of that Venezuelan gang (tren de something) that's making such a name for itself elsewhere. The South ain't doing too good at the moment.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 20, 2024 01:12 AM (tmPIh)

500 Thanks for that. I don't know what's up with Braenyard's rig, though. Or even what model he's got.

I remember now, that when I inherited my old Ford, late BF had purchased a new turn signal switch but had not installed it. Brake lights & turn signals didn't work until I put new switch in... what a PITA to do that! But I managed. LOL.
Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:07 AM (njWTi)

I don't know what model, either. If there are amber turn signals at the rear, then the turn signals don't have parts in common with the brake lights. I think my Suburbans have three bulbs in each tail light assembly. One is reverse lamp only, one is tail lamp only, and one is tail plus stop/turn.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:13 AM (m7e0/)

501 Meanwhile, I would like to head to St. Augustine in search of the Fountain of Youth.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Shanghai Nobby's is a good bar there.

There is also a cigar bar with drinks and live music.

Posted by: Miklos likes St. Aug at November 20, 2024 01:13 AM (+w4kg)

502 And O'Steens is great for seafood.

Posted by: Miklos likes St. Aug at November 20, 2024 01:15 AM (+w4kg)

503 Thanks, I think I know of one Italian store. Mostly it is Mexican Supermercados in my area. They usually have tilapia and shrimp. Eel I kind of doubt.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:03 AM (t8a1K)

Yep. I'm in an area that turned Hispanic. Lot of tilapia (which I do not like);. Lost pretty much everything here not Hispanic, the Italian deli, the Russian deli, 3 pizza joints, 2 fresh fish stores, etc. Now it's different food, some quite good. If you like a fried breaded steak, try the Peruvian bifstek empanizado. Yum. But it's not 'American' food, not yet, though the Mexican is the closest to 'American' there is and it's not really American but more Mexican. Tacos aren't crispy and the meat isn't flavored ground paste, for example.

But I do miss good Italian food/ingredients.

Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2024 01:16 AM (gKDq2)

504 And O'Steens is great for seafood.
Posted by: Miklos likes St. Aug at November 20, 2024 01:15 AM (+w4kg)

Ach, du lieber!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:16 AM (m7e0/)

505 Best info I've found, for older Fords, is:

fordification.com

Lots of articles, schemos, old sales lit., and a Q&A forum

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:17 AM (njWTi)

506 Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:10 AM (t8a1K)

Yes, they are good people. I just meant that the agency head needs to clean out the folks who would abandon people who didn't share their political views. I think as head of a agency you can be tough and still be a decent person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2024 01:18 AM (VDt/A)

507 I regard tilapia as warm-water trash fish, like carp. I avoid buying it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:18 AM (m7e0/)

508 Illinois' war on crows. Haha.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxj8wjm

Posted by: Ciampino - Caw Caw at November 20, 2024 01:18 AM (i0xsb)

509 Best info I've found, for older Fords, is:

fordification.com

Lots of articles, schemos, old sales lit., and a Q&A forum
Posted by: JQ

Strongly second that

Posted by: Erebus- ex-Killer Whale at November 20, 2024 01:19 AM (elaR+)

510 Freed Hamas hostage confronts UCLA student behind campus protests

https://mol.im/a/14099399
Posted by: Ciampino
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Thanks for that link.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 01:19 AM (41CYW)

511 Extremely accurate picture of Memphis at the moment. It's been gentrified to a degree, so that Beale Street no longer features scores of hookers and junkies like it did in the Seventies. But it's still a crime-ridden, dangerous locale. Jackson, Mississippi is on track to become its smaller-scale replica, and Nashville has become a new target of that Venezuelan gang (tren de something) that's making such a name for itself elsewhere. The South ain't doing too good at the moment.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 20, 2024 01:12 AM (tmPIh)

I don't enjoy Memphis at all.
My husband grew up in the Mississippi Delta. it is like another world. People who haven't been there would never understand. It is spooky and third world and heartbreaking.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:20 AM (t8a1K)

512 Yes, they are good people. I just meant that the agency head needs to clean out the folks who would abandon people who didn't share their political views. I think as head of a agency you can be tough and still be a decent person.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2024 01:18 AM (VDt/A)

FEMA was, IIRC, created by Executive Order, and it should be possible to end it the same way. It doesn't serve any useful purpose anymore; just gets in the way, and is a sinecure for drones. The Army Corps of Engineers could be tasked with the heavy lifting.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:20 AM (m7e0/)

513 507 I regard tilapia as warm-water trash fish, like carp. I avoid buying it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:18 AM (m7e0/)
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Well we like it. It is the most common fish in East Africa, except for coastal regions. Lake Victoria's most common fish.

Posted by: Ciampino - Fish is great at November 20, 2024 01:21 AM (i0xsb)

514 I regard tilapia as warm-water trash fish, like carp. I avoid buying it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Tilapia is best prepared by double breading and frying until there is no tilapia left.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 01:22 AM (41CYW)

515 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:20 AM (m7e0/)

Yes; that would be fine as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2024 01:23 AM (VDt/A)

516 Well we like it. It is the most common fish in East Africa, except for coastal regions. Lake Victoria's most common fish.
Posted by: Ciampino - Fish is great at November 20, 2024 01:21 AM (i0xsb)

I think most of the tilapia found in the markets here is farm-raised, not wild-caught.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:23 AM (m7e0/)

517 The Army Corps of Engineers could be tasked with the heavy lifting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for flood protection around New Orleans before Katrina.

Posted by: Miklos reminds at November 20, 2024 01:23 AM (+w4kg)

518 Heh, I wrote a post on fordification about a decade? ago-- on drum brakes... got a BUNCH of views... lemme check...

over 20,600 views now.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:23 AM (njWTi)

519 Tilapia is best prepared by double breading and frying until there is no tilapia left.
Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 01:22 AM (41CYW)

Sounds like the recipe for seagull: pluck the seagull, place in a pot of water with one teaspoon of salt and a rock. Boil until the rock is tender. Eat the rock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:25 AM (m7e0/)

520 FEMA was, IIRC, created by Executive Order

"initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979."

Posted by: Miklos actually checked Wikipedia at November 20, 2024 01:25 AM (+w4kg)

521 I haven't heard but hope it will be someone with decency. Grew up in the Carolinas....the people in the Southeast are good people They deserve better.
Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:10 AM (t8a1K)

They'd give humanitarian aid to anybody in the world at the drop of a hat but not their own countrymen who vote a different party. I do believe it's that kind of deliberate discrimination from the woke Adminitration/Democrats that turned off a lot of normie voters right there at the end.

People need to be on trial and, if convicted, in prison for years for this. It is government by political retribution and we simply cannot afford that. A House divided, blah, blah, blah.

Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2024 01:25 AM (gKDq2)

522 The Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for flood protection around New Orleans before Katrina.
Posted by: Miklos reminds at November 20, 2024 01:23 AM (+w4kg)

Weren't they blocked from doing some of the needed maintenance on the levees?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:26 AM (m7e0/)

523 Yes, they are good people. I just meant that the agency head needs to clean out the folks who would abandon people who didn't share their political views. I think as head of a agency you can be tough and still be a decent person.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 20, 2024 01:18 AM (VDt/A)

Bless you, and I understood what you were saying. Heads should roll in DC. And yes, these are good people who deserve better....

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:26 AM (t8a1K)

524 512 FEMA was, IIRC, created by Executive Order, and it should be possible to end it the same way.
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This is my leat favorite EO. Executive Order 10988.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 01:27 AM (41CYW)

525 Swai is to be avoided. Most comes from the Mekong Delta, one of the most polluted waterways in the world.

Posted by: Miklos goes ick at November 20, 2024 01:28 AM (+w4kg)

526 Swai is to be avoided. Most comes from the Mekong Delta, one of the most polluted waterways in the world.
Posted by: Miklos goes ick at November 20, 2024 01:28 AM (+w4kg)

I had ick. But I got better.

Posted by: Goldfish swimming upsidedown at the top of the bowl at November 20, 2024 01:29 AM (m7e0/)

527 Weren't they blocked from doing some of the needed maintenance on the levees?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yes

Some environmental groups sued in the interest of "wetlands preservation".

Hope they were happy when much of New Orleans became a wetland.

Posted by: Miklos, former Noo Awleenian at November 20, 2024 01:30 AM (+w4kg)

528 Swai is to be avoided. Most comes from the Mekong Delta, one of the most polluted waterways in the world.
Posted by: Miklos goes ick
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Not found on sushi menu.

Posted by: scampydog is thankful at November 20, 2024 01:31 AM (41CYW)

529 This is my leat favorite EO. Executive Order 10988.
Posted by: scampydog

>>>THIS GUY GETS IT<<<<

Posted by: Miklos, applying for job with DOGE at November 20, 2024 01:31 AM (+w4kg)

530 >>>THIS GUY GETS IT
Posted by: Miklos, applying for job with DOGE
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But he cannot type on his phone with spelling accuracy.

Posted by: scampydog will try harder at November 20, 2024 01:36 AM (41CYW)

531 Weren't they blocked from doing some of the needed maintenance on the levees?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:26 AM (m7e0/)

Why yes, yes we were. That didn’t stop anyone from bitching about us, though.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2024 01:36 AM (wbIUs)

532 I want to thank Jesse Waters for having Peggy Noonan on and reminding me why I don’t watch Fox News anymore. She’s a (#~+.

Posted by: Unkaren at November 20, 2024 01:38 AM (0V2Q7)

533 Swai is to be avoided. Most comes from the Mekong Delta, one of the most polluted waterways in the world.

Posted by: Miklos goes ick at November 20, 2024 01:28 AM (+w4kg)

Is this like Pangasius? My former landlady (originally from North Vietnam) would screech at the H.E.B. seafood counter for selling it, as she knew the fish ate poop. I've never eaten Pangasius, or any fish since from Asia.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:39 AM (t8a1K)

534 I regard tilapia as warm-water trash fish, like carp. I avoid buying it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:18 AM (m7e0/)

Yep. Trash fish, won't buy it.

I miss the old days when monkfish was considered a trash fish. Decades ago, bought some as I never had it before. Butter and lemon, steamed. Delicious. Best description I've ever read was 'tastes like lobster' and they're not far wrong. That's a good 'trash' fish. But it's a trash fish no more no more. Expensive. Very expensive.

I still laugh at lobster being a trash fish in Colonial New England as it was considered beneath the rich people of the day and food fit only for servants.

Posted by: RickZ at November 20, 2024 01:39 AM (gKDq2)

535 The Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for flood protection around New Orleans before Katrina.
Posted by: Miklos reminds at November 20, 2024 01:23 AM (+w4kg)

Also responsible for cleaning up Baltimore Harbor, running all the locks and dams, providing all the electricity in the PNW, etc. We do good shit but always get blamed. It’s our particular charism.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2024 01:40 AM (wbIUs)

536 A request to the Cobs: Will one of you please put Vic in the Absent Friends sidebar? After all the news links he supplied, he deserves to be remembered on the site.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 20, 2024 01:41 AM (p/isN)

537 Just so you know, the Army Corps gets no appropriations. We actually work for a living.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 20, 2024 01:42 AM (wbIUs)

538 A request to the Cobs: Will one of you please put Vic in the Absent Friends sidebar? After all the news links he supplied, he deserves to be remembered on the site.
Posted by: Weak Geek at November 20, 2024 01:41 AM (p/isN)

Seconded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 01:42 AM (m7e0/)

539 A request to the Cobs: Will one of you please put Vic in the Absent Friends sidebar? After all the news links he supplied, he deserves to be remembered on the site.
Posted by: Weak Geek at November 20, 2024 01:41 AM (p/isN)

Seconded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Third. He was a treasure. Made me question a lot of things/views/thoughts. Ultimate respect.

Posted by: scampydog will try harder at November 20, 2024 01:44 AM (41CYW)

540 There is quite a story behind the relocation of Oklahoma's capital to Oklahoma City. It involves the surreptitious transfer of the state seal under cover of darkness. Look it up.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 20, 2024 01:45 AM (p/isN)

541 One of my grandfathers retired from ACoE & had worked at several dams along the Columbia River.

He took us through The Dalles Dam (I think) when I was little. Got to see the turbines --loud!

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:45 AM (njWTi)

542 I don't enjoy Memphis at all.
My husband grew up in the Mississippi Delta. it is like another world. People who haven't been there would never understand. It is spooky and third world and heartbreaking.
Posted by: Scarymary

I'll give them credit for Memphis style BBQ, a personal favorite of our family, but that's about all. Been to the Delta a couple of times, and it's definitely just as you describe. Especially around Clarksdale, near where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the Devil to gain the talents of a Blues legend. I'm obviously rather skeptical of the idea, but in the part of the Delta, it's eerie enough that you can envision something like that taking place. Add in some bottle trees and overhearing comments about Hoodoo and High John the Conqueror, and the eerie quotient goes up to X Files/Twilight Zone levels. An academic friend of mine theorizes that the Robert Johnson legend might arise from folk belief in the Loa, specifically Papa Legba, the Voodoo deity who is associated with doorways and crossroads - and of course, Johnson was said to have made his famous bargain at the crossroad just outside Clarksdale.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 20, 2024 01:46 AM (tmPIh)

543 A request to the Cobs: Will one of you please put Vic in the Absent Friends sidebar? After all the news links he supplied, he deserves to be remembered on the site.
Posted by: Weak Geek at November 20, 2024 01:41 AM (p/isN)

Seconded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Third. He was a treasure. Made me question a lot of things/views/thoughts. Ultimate respect.

Posted by: scampydog will try harder at November 20, 2024 01:44 AM (41CYW)

Fourth. I'm mostly a lurker but it's been years and Vic was a solid dude.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:48 AM (t8a1K)

544 Remember that Oklahoma was the only state to vote against Obama.

How we got such a milquetoast as Lankford is beyond my comprehension.

(And, yes, I voted for him the first time. He fooled me.)

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 20, 2024 01:49 AM (p/isN)

545 396 There were always more of us than them. That's why they cheat. Stop the cheat, win elections. It's not a hard equation.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 20, 2024 12:00 AM (LkLld)

I honestly believe if we could do that here in Cali, we'd start winning here, again also.

How come the legislative seats (assembly, senate, US congress) seem to go blue, but the state initiatives (min wage, stronger penalties for crime, etc) seem to trend red?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 20, 2024 01:49 AM (QGaXH)

546 He took us through The Dalles Dam (I think) when I was little. Got to see the turbines --loud!
Posted by: JQ
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Those dams are cool. As a youngin', dad took me through Grand Coulee, McNary, Bonneville, John Day, and The Dalles.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 01:50 AM (41CYW)

547 398 We will have to do an AZ mini MoMee this Winter.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Just say when
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at November 20, 2024 12:01 AM (elaR+)

I could be convinced.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 20, 2024 01:50 AM (QGaXH)

548 The Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for flood protection around New Orleans before Katrina.

I was going to school in New Orleans in 1977-78, and I remember the news report about what the city did with the money appropriated for the levees. The Army Corps warned the politicians then, and no one listened. It was no surprise to me what happened during Katrina. and anyone telling you otherwise is a liar.

Posted by: Unkaren at November 20, 2024 01:50 AM (0V2Q7)

549 Is this like Pangasius? My former landlady (originally from North Vietnam) would screech at the H.E.B. seafood counter for selling it, as she knew the fish ate poop. I've never eaten Pangasius, or any fish since from Asia.
Posted by: Scarymary

Pangasius is another name for swai.

Posted by: Miklos, clarifying at November 20, 2024 01:51 AM (+w4kg)

550 Dang, I just heard a semi-shocking story that reminds me that Trump's victory may bring change to Washington DC, but the leftist totalitarian mindset is still deeply embedded in many states and at the local level, and not only would it "take a long time to roll back" the leftist takeover, any roll-back hasn't even begun, as blue states/sanctuary cities/leftist enclaves continue to spiral into madness at an ever-accelerating rate.

Anyway, here's the story -- just got off the phone with a friend, who told me this:

Her husband is a schoolteacher at a K-6 elementary school in California. Last week a second-grader in one of his classes was being disruptive and refusing to pay attention, playing a game on an electronic toy (some sort of Gameboy-type device for little kids) that made a beeping noise and distracted the class and made teaching impossible. No matter what the husband/teacher said, the kid wouldn't stop.

(The kid is a known "problem student" and troublemaker, so this wasn't much of a surprise.)

So the teacher eventually just calmly lifted the device out of the kid's hand and put it on a side table, saying that the kid would get it back after class... (con't)...

Posted by: zombie at November 20, 2024 01:51 AM (pMi6S)

551 Those dams are cool. As a youngin', dad took me through Grand Coulee, McNary, Bonneville, John Day, and The Dalles.
Posted by: scampydog
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And just think-- there's a whole bunch of stoopid MFers what want to destroy them. "Breach" them... for the fking FISH. Fish what can be (and ARE) raised in hatcheries...

All while their precious green-energy boondoggles can't keep up with current demand.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:54 AM (njWTi)

552 Just so you know, the Army Corps gets no appropriations. We actually work for a living.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Well, there was local politics involved. The Levee Board was more interested in casino boats on Lake Pontchartrain than levees.

Posted by: Miklos, seeing $$$ at November 20, 2024 01:54 AM (+w4kg)

553 How come the legislative seats (assembly, senate, US congress) seem to go blue, but the state initiatives (min wage, stronger penalties for crime, etc) seem to trend red?

***

Because ballot initiatives can safely be ignored.

Posted by: Propositions 8 & 187 at November 20, 2024 01:54 AM (FC8SQ)

554 I'll give them credit for Memphis style BBQ, a personal favorite of our family, but that's about all. Been to the Delta a couple of times, and it's definitely just as you describe. Especially around Clarksdale, near where Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the Devil to gain the talents of a Blues legend. I'm obviously rather skeptical of the idea, but in the part of the Delta, it's eerie enough that you can envision something like that taking place. Add in some bottle trees and overhearing comments about Hoodoo and High John the Conqueror, and the eerie quotient goes up to X Files/Twilight Zone levels. An academic friend of mine theorizes that the Robert Johnson legend might arise from folk belief in the Loa, specifically Papa Legba, the Voodoo deity who is associated with doorways and crossroads - and of course, Johnson was said to have made his famous bargain at the crossroad just outside Clarksdale.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 20, 2024 01:46 AM (tmPIh)

My husband grew up close to Rosedale. Cream sang about it. It's a blues thing but a not a nice place.
https://tinyurl.com/3uhfk9ub

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:56 AM (t8a1K)

555 (con't)...but now was the time for learning.

Well, the kid went home and told his mother what happened, and the mother blew a fuse and called the school district, accusing my friend's husband of child abuse and if being (wait for it) RACIST, because the teacher is white and the kid is black.

Immediately the school district's hate-crime machinery sprung into actions, subjecting the husband to a kangaroo court where he was reprimanded with no opportunity to defend himself, struggle sessions where he is being pressured to confess his racism, etc. etc. All of this even after the other kids in the class defended him, saying he was a good teacher who did nothing wrong.

...(con't)

Posted by: zombie at November 20, 2024 01:56 AM (pMi6S)

556 But he cannot type on his phone with spelling accuracy.
Posted by: scampydog will try harder

Accurate speling is a sign of White Patriarchal Supremacy

Posted by: Miklos has own keyboard to do with as he pleases at November 20, 2024 01:57 AM (+w4kg)

557 Those dams are cool. As a youngin', dad took me through Grand Coulee, McNary, Bonneville, John Day, and The Dalles.
Posted by: scampydog

I'd wager that your dad and my granddad may have worked together somewhere along the way! GDad retired from the Corps. in the mid-60s

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 01:57 AM (njWTi)

558 And just think-- there's a whole bunch of stoopid MFers what want to destroy them. "Breach" them... for the fking FISH. Fish what can be (and ARE) raised in hatcheries...

All while their precious green-energy boondoggles can't keep up with current demand.
Posted by: JQ
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Many moons ago but I recall the effort of the fish ladders and the onsite (I think) hatcheries. The tour guides spent a lot of time talking about the fish and what they were doing to keep things viable. And the greenies can suck a bag.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 01:58 AM (41CYW)

559 Is this like Pangasius? My former landlady (originally from North Vietnam) would screech at the H.E.B. seafood counter for selling it, as she knew the fish ate poop. I've never eaten Pangasius, or any fish since from Asia.
Posted by: Scarymary

Pangasius is another name for swai.

Posted by: Miklos, clarifying at November 20, 2024 01:51 AM (+w4kg)

Thanks! Another fish off the list....

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 01:59 AM (t8a1K)

560 A request to the Cobs: Will one of you please put Vic in the Absent Friends sidebar? After all the news links he supplied, he deserves to be remembered on the site.
Posted by: Weak Geek at November 20, 2024 01:41

Seconded, Vic was truly an institution here with the VNN. And the "older than Vic" was a meme for years. A great sense of humor, he will be long remembered.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at November 20, 2024 02:02 AM (55Qr6)

561 I got an email today from an almost entirely taxpayer funded large research organization *cough RTI cough* indicating trouble ahead.

Posted by: Miklos has long proposed raiding the monasteries at November 20, 2024 02:03 AM (+w4kg)

562 The irony? Both my friend and her husband are total moonbats, died-in-the-wool naive white liberals. I've been to their house and heck, they don't have a mere "Black Lives Matter" sign in the window, they actually permanently painted it on their fence.

When she tearfully recounted that he would NEVER do anything racist, I believe her. He's been teaching there for 8 years and until this moment never had a complaint.

Anyway, the upshot is, they didn't fire him, but he has to take anti-racism brainwashing classes, and now's he's basically a marked man. People avpid him in the halls. Kids openly disrespect him, etc. He feels his life is ruined.

Side note: This is NOT some disadvantaged inner-city school, nor an upper-class suburban school, but a typical/random/average American public school with all races and predominantly average family income.

I doubt this will him wake up from his leftist worldview, but it probably caused some cracks in it.

Posted by: zombie at November 20, 2024 02:04 AM (pMi6S)

563 Unrelated to any of my few comments earlier, but there is this amazingly insane WWII film scheduled for release that many might enjoy - "Dick Dynamite-1944." The trailer is making the rounds now, and it looks awesome. Imagine a combination of "The Dirty Dozen," "Where Eagles Dare," and the popular pulp novels of the Thirties and Forties. It may turn up in one of Ace's "Is This Something" threads. People are trying to label it as a Grindhouse-style production, but I think a better description would be WWII Jack Reacher with a lack of impulse control and anger management issues. One scene in the trailer has the hero, undercover, about to attend an elegant dinner party. 'What kind of party is this, he asks the doorman, who replies that "It's a Nazi party." The hero smiles and says "My favorite kind." Things for the Nazis do not go well after that. I can't guarantee that it will be to everybody's liking, but it's worth having a look at it.

Posted by: Cardinal Biggles at November 20, 2024 02:06 AM (tmPIh)

564 Hey!

We just got another $500 million from the Biden administration!

It was only going to be $200 million, but we added "Diversity" and "Justice" and BOOM!

Posted by: Solyndra 2.0 at November 20, 2024 02:06 AM (+w4kg)

565 I doubt this will him wake up from his leftist worldview, but it probably caused some cracks in it.

Posted by: zombie at November 20, 2024 02:04 AM (pMi6S)

I find it hard to believe that Commiefornia would ever have a male teacher for Grade 2 children.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 02:06 AM (m7e0/)

566 Accurate speling is a sign of White Patriarchal Supremacy
Posted by: Miklos
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*checks mirror* , well I'll be damned. I am white. And ISWYDT.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 02:06 AM (41CYW)

567 I'd wager that your dad and my granddad may have worked together somewhere along the way! GDad retired from the Corps. in the mid-60s
Posted by: JQ
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Likely crossed paths. My dad was not in the Corps, but was on several fish specific boards, groups, etc., and seemed to know everyone involved in anthing/everything outdoirs, fishing, waterways, and impassable mountain roads in WA, OR, and North Idaho.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 02:12 AM (41CYW)

568 I find it hard to believe that Commiefornia would ever have a male teacher for Grade 2 children.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If you met this guy, you'd believe. Very soft-spoken, very dorky, a classic "beta" type. That kind of man is acceptable.

And yes, this is on an insanely woke school district in California (but I repeat myself), so it's not that surprising. I've heard reports of many similar incident in the past -- just never happened to anyone I knew personally.

Posted by: zombie at November 20, 2024 02:13 AM (pMi6S)

569 Many moons ago but I recall the effort of the fish ladders and the onsite (I think) hatcheries. The tour guides spent a lot of time talking about the fish and what they were doing to keep things viable. And the greenies can suck a bag.
Posted by: scampydog
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Yeah, I think the latest horsecrap plan for the Columbia dams has been delayed... but far from over. Fkers.

Posted by: JQ at November 20, 2024 02:14 AM (njWTi)

570 And another typo. Damnit.

Posted by: scampydog at November 20, 2024 02:15 AM (41CYW)

571 The irony? Both my friend and her husband are total moonbats, died-in-the-wool naive white liberals. I've been to their house and heck, they don't have a mere "Black Lives Matter" sign in the window, they actually permanently painted it on their fence.

When she tearfully recounted that he would NEVER do anything racist, I believe her. He's been teaching there for 8 years and until this moment never had a complaint.

Anyway, the upshot is, they didn't fire him, but he has to take anti-racism brainwashing classes, and now's he's basically a marked man. People avpid him in the halls. Kids openly disrespect him, etc. He feels his life is ruined.

Side note: This is NOT some disadvantaged inner-city school, nor an upper-class suburban school, but a typical/random/average American public school with all races and predominantly average family income.

I doubt this will him wake up from his leftist worldview, but it probably caused some cracks in it.

Posted by: zombie at November 20, 2024 02:04 AM (pMi6S)

I'm in TX so sorry but not sorry for this dude. I have a limited experience in working with kids--helped with the local school book fair. I would not do more. The liability issues.

Posted by: Scarymary at November 20, 2024 02:15 AM (t8a1K)

572 >>>Anyway, the upshot is, they didn't fire him, but he has to take anti-racism brainwashing classes, and now's he's basically a marked man. People avpid him in the halls. Kids openly disrespect him, etc. He feels his life is ruined.

I knew how this was going to go from the second you mentioned a disruptive student.

>>>When she tearfully recounted that he would NEVER do anything racist, I believe her. He's been teaching there for 8 years and until this moment never had a complaint.

I believe it, too. Struggle sessions aren’t actually effective against real racists. And a real racist never would have made the mistake of taking a game from a non-white kid.

>>>I doubt this will him wake up from his leftist worldview, but it probably caused some cracks in it.

Personally, I doubt it. People are very good at rationalizing being abused, especially when they are devout believers in the worldview that is abusing them.

He’ll go to his grave saying “If only Comrade Stalin knew..”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director and Pfizer Board Member at November 20, 2024 02:17 AM (FC8SQ)

573 If you met this guy, you'd believe. Very soft-spoken, very dorky, a classic "beta" type. That kind of man is acceptable.

And yes, this is on an insanely woke school district in California (but I repeat myself), so it's not that surprising. I've heard reports of many similar incident in the past -- just never happened to anyone I knew personally.
Posted by: zombie at November 20, 2024 02:13 AM (pMi6S)

The guy should quit teaching, and rent himself out as a sideshow attraction: "Last Male Second-Grade Teacher in Captivity". Sort of like Little Egypt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 20, 2024 02:17 AM (m7e0/)

574 And another typo. Damnit.
Posted by: scampydog

Typo

Typo

Typo typo anney

Jocomo fi na na nay

Typo fi na nay

Posted by: Miklos knows what Jocomo fi na nay means at November 20, 2024 02:18 AM (+w4kg)

575 Good on ya, doof! Or is it Mr. Doof?

Posted by: m at November 20, 2024 02:18 AM (VnUSN)

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