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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - December 22, 2024 [Doof]
Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the fourth week of December and the first day of winter! Thanks for stopping by this Sunday’s ONT. Hope you are cozy and warm wherever you are! Let's see what fell out of the ONT bag of stuff tonight.
Shutdown Theater Mini-Rant So the latest version of shutdown theater is over. Congress once again fails to do it's job during the spring and summer, and we live through two more instances (thus far) of the all too familiar pearl clutching and doomsday blame-gaming. This rant is not about that, instead it is about the in-fighting on the Republican side. 38 of the most fiscally conservative members of the House voted against the first version of the Continuing Resolution (CR) because it contained the usual massive amounts of pork and also because there was a provision for raising the debt ceiling. This ignited a firestorm between factions on the right. President-elect Trump apparently wants the debt increase and pushed Republican House members to approve the CR. He called out no-voters such as Chip Roy of TX and threatened to help primary them. Right-leaning pundits who reflexively support whatever Trump says or does jumped to his defense. It's baffling that Trump attacked some of the most fiscally conservative members of the House. They are the ones most likely to help carry his agenda through Congress. And he slung arrows at them over the CR. Bold strategy.
R.I.P. Rickey Henderson
Rickey Henderson, 'greatest of all time,' dies at 65
Rickey Henderson, the greatest leadoff hitter and base stealer in Major League Baseball history whose blazing speed, discerning eye and unusual home run power complemented an irrepressible swagger that led him from the sandlots of Oakland, California, to the Baseball Hall of Fame, died Friday. He was 65. The Henderson family released a statement Saturday evening confirming the Hall of Famer's death. "A legend on and off the field, Rickey was a devoted son, dad, friend, grandfather, brother, uncle, and a truly humble soul," the statement from his wife Pamela and his three daughters read. "Rickey lived his life with integrity, and his love for baseball was paramount. Now, Rickey is at peace with the Lord, cherishing the extraordinary moments and achievements he leaves behind." The family did not announce a cause of death but did thank the doctors and nurses at UCSF hospital, which they said cared for Henderson with "dedication and compassion." With a fearless, flamboyant style of play, which thrilled some players and fans thirsting for theatrical energy from a sport known for its staidness and irritated others who believed the iconoclastic approach disrespected old traditions, Henderson broke boundaries alongside reams of records during a 25-year career spent with nine teams. In a sport that relies on the historical consistency of its numbers, Henderson obliterated the record book, owning the all-time stolen-base record with 1,406, an astounding 468 more than St. Louis Cardinals great Lou Brock, who held the record of 938 for a dozen years before Henderson surpassed him in 1991. Henderson holds the records for the most stolen bases in a single season with 130 in 1982, the most times leading the league in steals with 12 and most consecutive years leading the league in steals with seven. As a 39-year-old in 1998 with Oakland, Henderson became the oldest player in history to lead the American League in steals with 66.More about Rickey here. Why no leadoff hitter will ever top Rickey Henderson.
Wholesome Content
So heartwarming 🥰 pic.twitter.com/i5DkCHknH7
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) December 22, 2024
This guy has a heart of gold ❤️ pic.twitter.com/pY6zxiiwrr
— Restoring Your Faith in Humanity (@HumanityChad) December 21, 2024
Turning Back the Christmas Clock
"CHRISTMAS GIFTS 40 Years Ago | Toys & Action Figures FROM 1984: What We Got Under the Tree in 1984"
DJ Doof – Sounds of the Season (Part 7)
Another fun one from Bob Rivers. The Chimney Song. One for my fellow Balti-morons. Essex Wonderland.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Ciampino - you jinxed it? at December 22, 2024 10:00 PM (i0xsb)
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 22, 2024 10:01 PM (hOUT3)
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Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 10:04 PM (scSKG)
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Posted by: mikeski
Here I am, stuck in the middle of you.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 10:06 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:06 PM (RFPHU)
138 Please. Let in not forget the folks who, for whatever reason, will be alone this next week.
Please pray they (we) feel the loving arms of the community around them and are not lonely or sad.
It's a hard time for a lot of people. A lot of people feel unloved and unseen.
Maybe consider getting a handful of ten dollar
McDonald's gift cards to hand to your bus driver. Or your fireman. Or a homeless person. And look them in the eye and mean it. "merry Christmas."
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 22, 2024 01:44 PM (cZQmn)
Posted by: Moki at December 22, 2024 10:07 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 22, 2024 10:07 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2024 10:07 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2024 10:07 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2024 10:07 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 10:08 PM (X3Ct6)
I assume if Hollywood made another Flintstones movies around Christmas time they'd make fun of the holiday
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:08 PM (oZhjI)
Please pray they (we) feel the loving arms of the community around them and are not lonely or sad.
It's a hard time for a lot of people. A lot of people feel unloved and unseen.
Maybe consider getting a handful of ten dollar
McDonald's gift cards to hand to your bus driver. Or your fireman. Or a homeless person. And look them in the eye and mean it. "merry Christmas."
Amen.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:08 PM (mH6SG)
Rainbow Brite would not be possible today. At least as an innocent, non-groomer toy.
Yes, I had to watch the youtube thing to remember what that rainbow-colored doll in the snapshot was called.
I mean, "learn." Not "remember." We're all only 29, after all.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:09 PM (DgGvY)
Fine, you can be insulted with someone else's money
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:09 PM (oZhjI)
Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
And a cup of good cheer
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
We won't go until we get some
So bring it right here
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 10:09 PM (63Dwl)
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In the spirit of ONT's aspersion to Congress...
Term Limits
https://tinyurl.com/3vxz67kw
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (scSKG)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:02 PM (mH6SG)
Rickey would say "Rickey doesn't consider anything about Rickey to be OT".
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (dDmld)
McDonald's gift cards to hand to your bus driver. Or your fireman. Or a homeless person. And look them in the eye and mean it. "merry Christmas."
Posted by: nurse ratched
A great idea Nurse. Thanks for the reminder. Many of us have been manifestly blessed. Through the grace of God, my blessings have far outweighed my trials. I will take your suggestion and do it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (scSKG)
Posted by: TRex at December 22, 2024 10:11 PM (9tvFd)
Term Limits
https://tinyurl.com/3vxz67kw
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (scSKG)
That is the subject of a future Doof mini-rant. Or maybe I'll get a shot at a real daytime rant one day. Stay tuned!
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:11 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 22, 2024 10:12 PM (RsS92)
Posted by: Cicero
Right! They were, after all, 'a modern, stone-age family'.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2024 10:07 PM (/7KEl)
Go on
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:12 PM (RFPHU)
If you are interested in such "Before the Dawn" and "War Before Civilization" are fascinating reads.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:12 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (dDmld)
Are you insinuating that Stone Age families did not, in fact, keep dinosaurs as pets?! How dare you, sir!!
Posted by: Dr. T at December 22, 2024 10:13 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 10:13 PM (63Dwl)
So bring it right here
I am so happy to share my sugar free, gluten free, plant based meat, Vegan friendly figgy pu …
Wait!!! Where are you going???
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 22, 2024 10:13 PM (qz+gL)
Please pray they (we) feel the loving arms of the community around them and are not lonely or sad.
It's a hard time for a lot of people. A lot of people feel unloved and unseen.
Maybe consider getting a handful of ten dollar
McDonald's gift cards to hand to your bus driver. Or your fireman. Or a homeless person. And look them in the eye and mean it. "merry Christmas."
Amen.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:08 PM (mH6SG)
Please accept the prayers of an 'ette who isn't all that. God Bless You, and you are loved.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 10:14 PM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2024 10:14 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: TRex at December 22, 2024 10:11 PM (9tvFd)
You would know because you were there!
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:14 PM (RFPHU)
hmmmmmmm.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 10:14 PM (WXNFJ)
Are you insinuating that Stone Age families did not, in fact, keep dinosaurs as pets?! How dare you, sir!!
Posted by: Dr. T
They used them for can openers, vacuum cleaners and record players.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 10:15 PM (63Dwl)
Babe Ruth has over twice as many triples lifetime than Rickey. Rickey was a right handed pull hitter. If you peruse the triples list, you will see it dominated by left handed batters. The right field corner is much further from third than the left field corner. The list has a lot of old-time players on it, when some of the outfields resembled prairies, rather than a proper stadium.
Stan Musial-177
Babe Ruth-136
Rickey Henderson-66
Posted by: Your Shell Answer Man at December 22, 2024 10:15 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2024 10:16 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 22, 2024 10:13 PM
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In stone age Russian times, dinosaurs kept you as pets.
Posted by: TRex at December 22, 2024 10:16 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 10:03 PM (X3Ct6)
Merry Christmas to you and yours, as well!
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:16 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:17 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2024 10:17 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 10:10 PM (dDmld)
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I never understood the wooden cars, Woodies?
.... and no pedals?
Posted by: Ciampino - Not the WeSaySo Company! at December 22, 2024 10:18 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 22, 2024 10:18 PM (qz+gL)
Posted by: Safety Patrol at December 22, 2024 10:18 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 10:18 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Dr. T
The Sabertooth tigers were also pets. And some goofy kangaroo.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2024 10:19 PM (p4NUW)
Gonna have to disagree with you there
Posted by: Some villager fleeing the Sea Peoples at December 22, 2024 10:19 PM (oZhjI)
Rickey was on a lot of teams, including the Seattle Mariners near the end of his career.
The last game of the season, Oakland visited T-Mobile Park for their last visit ever, in fact their last game ever as Oakland.
Rickey was the guest of honor and walked out in a uniform that was half white Seattle Mariners, half green Oakland Athletics.
He was cheered by all, including the few thousand A's fans that made the final trip to Seattle to root for their team the final time.
It was quite the moment.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 22, 2024 10:19 PM (2ds6i)
Posted by: Dr. T
They used them for can openers, vacuum cleaners and record players.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Except for plumbing, which was done with mammoths and not dinos.
Which is brilliant in retrospect; cold-blooded dinosaurs wouldn't spray warm water in your shower.
The mammoth snot in your hair might not have been a good trade-off, though.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:19 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2024 10:19 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2024 10:20 PM (RCueb)
61 The toughest part of living in the BC era is that all the calendars went backwards.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 10:18 PM (dDmld)
And don't get me started on BC Daylight Savings Time...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 22, 2024 10:20 PM (hOUT3)
Rickey was on a lot of teams, including the Seattle Mariners near the end of his career.
The last game of the season, Oakland visited T-Mobile Park for their last visit ever, in fact their last game ever as Oakland.
Rickey was the guest of honor and walked out in a uniform that was half white Seattle Mariners, half green Oakland Athletics.
He was cheered by all, including the few thousand A's fans that made the final trip to Seattle to root for their team the final time.
It was quite the moment.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 22, 2024 10:19 PM (2ds6i)
Howdy LCD! Long time no see, brother. Hope you are well.
That's a great Rickey moment there. He was one of a kind. Got to see him play a lot at old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore in the 80s.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:21 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 22, 2024 10:22 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2024 10:22 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 22, 2024 10:22 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 10:18 PM (dDmld)
And don't get me started on BC Daylight Savings Time...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 22, 2024 10:20 PM (hOUT3)
It must have been exhausting to set all those sundials an hour forward.
Posted by: Dr. T at December 22, 2024 10:23 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Don't care. My favorite cartoon character is Daffy Duck. Bugs Bunny is a close second. Cavemen riding dinosaurs is just ridiculous.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 22, 2024 10:23 PM (0Htd1)
The mammoth snot in your hair might not have been a good trade-off, though.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:19 PM (DgGvY)
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Hair gel.
Posted by: Ciampino - Not the WeSaySo Company!? at December 22, 2024 10:24 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: DJT at December 22, 2024 10:24 PM (9tvFd)
Both were wrong. Still haven't bought a brand new car.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 22, 2024 10:24 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Obviously, someone from the future told them the Good News during that "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" time-travel episode.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:24 PM (DgGvY)
Thus it would be possible for them to celebrate Christmas.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2024 10:25 PM (wNu9z)
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 22, 2024 10:25 PM (qz+gL)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 10:25 PM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
I enjoy several types of bread, but I wouldn't date any of them.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:26 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2024 10:26 PM (RCueb)
Posted by: Dr. T at December 22, 2024
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Sun comes out in the evening. yuk
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 10:26 PM (scSKG)
Fred: "Scientists say it's going to be a big thing one day."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 10:26 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2024 10:27 PM (RIvkX)
Sounds pretty Industrial Revolution era if you ask me.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 10:29 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2024 10:26 PM (RCueb)
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"Nobody goes to those places anymore. They're too crowded."
Posted by: Yogi Berra at December 22, 2024 10:29 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at December 22, 2024 10:31 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: DaveA at December 22, 2024 10:31 PM (FhXTo)
Mis Hum, did you notice your post "could" be pronounced "thirst"? I'm just thinking out loud here . . . . .
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 22, 2024 10:31 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 22, 2024 10:27 PM (RIvkX)
Hola. Es un placer.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:31 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
I am genetically opposed to buying new vehicles BUT, the last time I was in the market, the price differential between a 2-3 year old Camry and that of a new one was such that I went for the new car. Add in to that deal the warrantee and free service for a couple of years and there you go.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 10:32 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2024 10:26 PM (RCueb)
Yes. I had a panic attack in a mall circa 1992. Mothers Day. I tried to make Mom happy. It was not fun at all.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 10:32 PM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:33 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:01 PM
Based on the law of supply and demand, that may be cheaper than the $20 it costs in town!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at December 22, 2024 10:33 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at December 22, 2024 10:31 PM (9tvFd)
Glad you like it! Tomorrow's might elicit a different reaction.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:33 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2024 10:33 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2024 10:34 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 22, 2024 10:34 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 22, 2024 10:34 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: Ciampino - Not the WeSaySo Company at December 22, 2024 10:35 PM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2024 10:35 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2024 10:35 PM (wNu9z)
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2024 10:34 PM (p4NUW)
Good night. Glad you appreciated tonight's content!
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:36 PM (RFPHU)
Love ya darlin'....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2024 10:36 PM (L83z3)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 22, 2024 10:34 PM (ha1wR)
I'll admit to 30, closing in on 31.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 22, 2024 10:36 PM (W/lyH)
I hate crowds but I love video arcades. Isn’t it ironic?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2024 10:37 PM (EXyHK)
Oh, my memories are slightly different. I would have all my shopping done and wrapped by Nov !. Then I would return to my parent's home, only for my beloved father to inform me he hadn't done any shopping and had no ideas, but that we needed to go to the mall now...after a couple of years of this nonsense, I asked him for money in Sept and did all his shopping for him, wrapped everything, and just brought it when I went home. He was a very happy man to see precisely what he "bought."
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at December 22, 2024 10:38 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Betty, Wilma seemed to be always up in Freds grill about something.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 22, 2024 10:38 PM (+VovS)
Thinking about a dash cam also.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:38 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 10:38 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Cicero
Right! They were, after all, 'a modern, stone-age family'.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
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Maybe the Flintstones are meant to be our future, not our past.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 10:39 PM (OGOaV)
Saw Rickey play many times with the Yankees during the eighties. Always exciting when he was at bat or on base. Favorite Rickey story. Late in his career he was with the Mets. He was talking with his teammate John Olerud who wore a batting helmet in field while playing defense. Rickey said "I played with a guy in Toronto who did that" . Olerud replied "that was me Rickey"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2024 10:39 PM (DopAq)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2024 10:39 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Ciampino - Not the WeSaySo Company at December 22, 2024 10:35 PM (i0xsb)
It was after Al Gorerock said they only had 10 years to save the then-flat earth from linear warming.
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:39 PM (RFPHU)
On the other hand, he is now before the Great Umpire,
and will have to give all those stolen bases back. Tough call.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 22, 2024 10:39 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 10:40 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: nerdygirl
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That's the great thing about 'A Christmas Story', flashback to the 50's, for them as remember it...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:40 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2024 10:40 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: mikeski
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you Yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you And I'm wondering what it is I should do It's so hard to keep this smile from my face Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place
- Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan and performed by their band Stealers Wheel
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 22, 2024 10:41 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Doof
This is why I keep renewing my ONT membership.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 22, 2024 10:41 PM (+VovS)
Love ya darlin'....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 22, 2024 10:36 PM (L83z3)
Thank you COMM! Merry Christmas to you too!🎄 ♥️
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:41 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2024 10:39 PM (Dm8we)
I'm holding up my BIC lighter for you...
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 10:41 PM (X3Ct6)
Our oldest three were 7, 5 and 1 in '84. We were awash in Star Wars and He-Man. She was a little young for Barbie, but we had the full panoply of Strawberry Shortcake and friends. I made her a baby sling and a carry bed for her Cabbage Patch Preemie. The baby was easy- she would play with anything.
Sweet memories...
Posted by: sal at December 22, 2024 10:42 PM (f+FmA)
Suspect arrested after woman was set on fire and burned to death
https://mol.im/a/14219921
Daily News: "Woman caught fire."
must. not. mention. illegal. POS.
Posted by: Ciampino - must not mention you know at December 22, 2024 10:42 PM (i0xsb)
Thinking about a dash cam also.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:38 PM (XeU6L)
Never had a back up cam until I bought my new truck a couple of months ago. Haven't got used to it yet . Lot of beeping going on.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 10:42 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 10:43 PM (phIjg)
In "A Pillar of Iron," Taylor Caldwell more-or-less brands Cicero as a Christian, and he died in 43 BC.
It may just be the historical sensibilities of the mid-1960's.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 22, 2024 10:44 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 22, 2024 10:01 PM (QXQ4l)
Thirst? What, run out of eggnog?
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2024 10:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at December 22, 2024 10:34 PM (ha1wR)
I'll admit to 30, closing in on 31.
Posted by: Diogenes
Bruh? You said you were 8" FA crew. And here you are admitting being trebuchet FA crew. Shame. Be better Diogenes.
At least we both weren't Atlatl FA crew.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 22, 2024 10:46 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: nerdygirl
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That's the great thing about 'A Christmas Story', flashback to the 50's, for them as remember it...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:40 PM (XeU6L)
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I can't go that far back, but A Christmas Story still makes me nostalgic. I feel like changes came more slowly back in the day, such that there was a solid connection between generations. Things seemed to speed up around the Aughts.
Or maybe I'm just getting old.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 10:46 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at December 22, 2024 10:46 PM (Ad8y9)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
Today's word is anemoia.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
Thinking about a dash cam also.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:38 PM (XeU6L)
I had good results with one from Amazon. Easy install in my 2006 Toyota Highlander. Under 40 bucks.
Search for
"NATIKA Backup/Front View Camera,IP69K Waterproof".
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:48 PM (RFPHU)
Thinking about a dash cam also.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:38 PM (XeU6L)
Never had a back up cam until I bought my new truck a couple of months ago. Haven't got used to it yet . Lot of beeping going on.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 10:42 PM (D6PGr)
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Bought a cheap backup cam for my car about a year ago. Haven't installed it yet, so I can't really comment on it. I did go with a wired one, though I guess you can get them wireless.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 10:48 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Ciampino - goosed at December 22, 2024 10:49 PM (i0xsb)
Thanks Doof for the ONT! Nice mix - especially the mall memories!!!
Posted by: Iris at December 22, 2024 10:49 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 10:43 PM (phIjg)
One pill makes you larger, and the other pill makes you small...
Posted by: Grace Slick at December 22, 2024 10:49 PM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 22, 2024 10:41 PM (+VovS)
I cracked myself up with that one
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:50 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
I really need a 2024 midnight hour CR For Dummies broken down for me. Part of me wanted to burn it all down with a six month shutdown, and part of me want some (less than three) single page character limted paragraph at 500 characters bills passed for specific shiz.
Confused and kinda out to lunch, not sure what to think yet.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 22, 2024 10:50 PM (MsrgL)
I had to look it up.
Anemoia is a concept coined by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, meaning nostalgia for a time you never experienced. It refers to the longing to step into the frame of old photos and see the world of black and white, where people lived and died in a different era.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 10:50 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2024 10:50 PM (DopAq)
Remember how the FNM tells us how we plebes should be riding public transit because we don't need cars?
Oh yes, and wanting to be safe from crime is white supremacy
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:51 PM (oZhjI)
All the big buildings downtown "bought" steam heat from the central Edison steam plant by the river. The pipes were insulated, but all the big stores had the pipes just under the sidewalk, so snow and ice were always melted off. It was very luxurious until you stepped off the curb, where the melt water was always just one inch deeper than your four-buckle arctic boots.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 22, 2024 10:52 PM (zdLoL)
Me too. Be of good cheer.
You're about to have a President who also believes in those things. And he's all out of bubble gum.
It's going to be a really fun few years.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2024 10:52 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:40 PM (XeU6L)
That’s what I love most about Christmas Story. It reminds me of the America I was born into, and which I wished I still lived in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2024 10:52 PM (7MHHr)
Posted by: mindful webworker - BEHOLD it's ONT time at December 22, 2024 10:52 PM (YwGrT)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:53 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 10:53 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
Today's word is anemoia.
Posted by: mikeski at December 22, 2024 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
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Well, not exactly. I'm not nostalgic for that particular time period. Rather, my memories of Christmas growing up were "close enough" to what was depicted to trigger nostalgia for my childhood.
I often wonder what my son will be nostalgic about as he gets older.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 10:54 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Ciampino - send them high-sulfur coal at December 22, 2024 10:55 PM (i0xsb)
Not to mention the written, eyewitness reports.
Job would have known of at least two.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2024 10:56 PM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Grace Slick at December 22, 2024 10:49 PM (X3Ct6)
Crossing streams - Grace Slick and The Flintstones
https://youtu.be/ugoFJYRCnAg
Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2024 10:56 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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That, I miss.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2024 10:56 PM (RCueb)
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver
____
We had those pullover galosh things.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2024 10:57 PM (Dm8we)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 10:53 PM (D6PGr)
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My brother and I were up at 3:00 AM Christmas morning, wearing black sweats, flashlights in hand. We took Christmas very seriously.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 10:57 PM (OGOaV)
All of the improvements since 00 or so have been technological as society has regressed universally across the board.
Baring a civilizational collapse technology will continue to improve so there will be a lot less for the current young to be nostalgic about - perhaps just music?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:57 PM (oZhjI)
"Put me in the picture!" --Nazi war criminal in first Night Gallery
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 22, 2024 10:57 PM (zdLoL)
Remember how the FNM tells us how we plebes should be riding public transit because we don't need cars?
Oh yes, and wanting to be safe from crime is white supremacy
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:51 PM (oZhjI)
This was horrendous. I watch this from ruraL TX. So glad I have my own car.
Posted by: Grace Slick at December 22, 2024 10:58 PM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 10:58 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:59 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 10:50 PM (63Dwl)
This is something that disturbs me somewhat about the use of old photographs as artistic material.
They were real people- not just cool images for a collage.
Posted by: sal at December 22, 2024 10:59 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:59 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 10:59 PM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 11:00 PM (dDmld)
You don’t hate the media enough
https://tinyurl.com/yzz2jwth
Posted by: Ciampino
Just another case of Spontaneous Human Combustion.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 11:00 PM (63Dwl)
Well, you'd at least catch ALL the next year's cold viruses right then and there.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 11:00 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 10:59 PM
***
Speaking of Sears, I learned recently that you can buy modular houses on Amazon.
Posted by: TRex at December 22, 2024 11:01 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 22, 2024 11:01 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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My Dad liked that movie for that reason. Except his parents were abusive monsters. I suspect he likes it for the idealized family it portrayed. Not the reality he grew up in.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2024 11:01 PM (RCueb)
I read some real research on that.
Almost of the victims were people that:
1) Used drugs, alcohol, or sedatives
2) Smoked
"Spontaneous" doesn't seem to well...Spontaneous when you consider the people it was happening to...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at December 22, 2024 10:46 PM (Ad8y9)
I worked as a bus boy/kitchen prep at the Cattle Company restaurant at the Rimrock Mall in Billings in the mid to late 70s. I would be back home in Billings at Christmas up until the mid 80s.
The McDonald's you mentioned was probably the one on Central Avenue near the mall. In high school we would sometimes walk over to that McDonald's and have lunch.
Posted by: Beartooth at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (3Ev2O)
Not to mention the written, eyewitness reports.
Job would have known of at least two.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2024 10:56 PM (ytKo6)
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Stegosaurus was Job 1?
Posted by: Ford Motor Co. at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 10:57 PM (OGOaV)
I was always excited before I went to bed on Christmas Eve and always planned on waking early but that good deep sleep trumped everything.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (D6PGr)
the longing to step into the frame of old photos
"Put me in the picture!" --Nazi war criminal in first Night Gallery
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver
But they changed the picture!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (63Dwl)
Pretty wholesome videos.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (Dm8we)
McDonald's gift cards to hand to… a homeless person.…
Posted by: Notorious BFD…
Decades ago, while living in Chicago, I did just that.
The bum to whom I offered the gift card was, shall we say, not happy.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ingrate on a grate at December 22, 2024 11:04 PM (YwGrT)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:59 PM (mH6SG)
My youngest, barely four, and I were shopping in the Hickory Farms store when Santa came in and discreetly asked the clerk if he could use their restroom.
Bo's eyes were like saucers- SANTA goes to the potty!?!
Posted by: sal at December 22, 2024 11:05 PM (f+FmA)
One of the things that makes music something to be nostalgic for is the shared cultural experience. Music for a long time has been very personalized. Rick Beato did an episode on that recently, arguing that there’s no longer a generational style of music like nineties or eighties or seventies, etc. I think he has a very good point.
Not that this is necessarily a bad thing but it does make music no longer a thing of its time, which is helpful for nostalgia purposes.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 22, 2024 11:06 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: RetsgtRN at December 22, 2024 11:07 PM (0zadc)
McDonald's gift cards to hand to… a homeless person.…
Posted by: Notorious BFD…
The original post was from nurse ratched, not me. I liked what she said. Just to be clear.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 11:08 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 22, 2024 11:02 PM (Dm8we)
Okay. I went to one in Panama City Beach, FL around 1981. Are they still any good?
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 11:08 PM (X3Ct6)
May the rest of your Christmas prep go smoothly and the grocery have everything you need at the last minute...
Posted by: sal at December 22, 2024 11:08 PM (f+FmA)
Family Goals.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 11:10 PM (phIjg)
I used to do that too but then MCDonalds quit having those $1 and $5 coupons.
Had a friend who would put together a 'care package' in the sandwich zip bags. Trail mix, mints, cookies, etc.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:10 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:13 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 22, 2024 10:02 PM (mH6SG)
Greetings Hordlings, from the far East, in Singapore. All well here. Very saddened to hear about Rickey H. He was truly a great player and a lot of fun to watch. I Grew up watching Rickey. Back when I was still in NYC (where I grew up - although home in the US is Texas now for many years), as a Yankee fan, the 1986 to 1989 seasons were a blast; Rickey getting on base, Don Mattingly driving him in, it was pure baseball gold. And his larger than life showboating personality, which seems tame compared to the antics of athletes of half his talent today, will also be missed. Owning not just the lifetime SB record but also the most runs scored all time, is truly an achievement. I have to admit getting a bit broken up hearing about his passing. R.I.P. Rickey
Posted by: Publius Redux at December 22, 2024 11:14 PM (dGZxI)
I used to do that too but then MCDonalds quit having those $1 and $5 coupons.
Had a friend who would put together a 'care package' in the sandwich zip bags. Trail mix, mints, cookies, etc.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:10 PM (D6PGr)
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My wife keeps a box of granola bars in her car, which she hands out to panhandlers at intersections.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:15 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2024 11:15 PM (dIske)
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:18 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:15 PM (OGOaV)
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I wish I could see the way their faces light up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 11:19 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Rickey at December 22, 2024 11:19 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Publius Redux at December 22, 2024 11:14 PM (dGZxI)
I am also sorry. I used to love baseball, before the steroids. Rickey was great. RIP.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 11:20 PM (X3Ct6)
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I was on a call today with one of the boys and his wife, their expecting their first in May or so. They both had loads of questions about baby care and whatnot back when I was a young adult.
They couldn't believe there was ever a time that we would place infants in laundry baskets on the floorboards of the back seats in our cars. Seems a lifetime ago.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 22, 2024 11:21 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)
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We got Sears, Service Merchandise, Penney's, and a couple others as I recall. The toy sections were dog-eared and marked up by the time we were through with them.
And HO is the superior scale for all things model train.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:21 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: RickZ
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Same here, but 'O' gauge. Bicycles, Erector sets, wind-up toys (tanks!), on and on.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:21 PM (XeU6L)
Family Goals.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 11:10 PM (phIjg)
* Irish Coffee a completely acceptable substitute. A mug of Southern Irish Coffee even better: Just add Kahlua to the party.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2024 11:21 PM (gKDq2)
Did they ever tell you about pliable red blood cells and blood vessels found in a T-Rex femur? They didn't tell me.
https://tinyurl.com/hahh6mpm
Good night
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2024 11:22 PM (ytKo6)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2024 10:35 PM (wNu9z)
Gracie or Blanche?
Test driving a new nic....
Posted by: California Dreamin (formerly ARiK) at December 22, 2024 11:22 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:15 PM (OGOaV)
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I wish I could see the way their faces light up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 11:19 PM (dDmld)
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I will say this - every time I've witnessed, they've at least been polite about it, and thanked her for them..
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:23 PM (OGOaV)
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That's cool. My cynical self is spending a night in the box.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 11:25 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2024 11:25 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 22, 2024 10:13 PM (qz+gL)
Over to Mary Cloggenstein's. Her sugar free, gluten free, plant based meat, Vegan friendly figgy pudding has overtones of cat pee, just like a proper sugar free, gluten free, plant based meat, Vegan friendly figgy pudding should.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 22, 2024 11:25 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)
https://youtu.be/ugoFJYRCnAg
Posted by: Doof
Well! That couldn't be much stranger.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Rascally Rabbit, Kicks are for Trids at December 22, 2024 11:28 PM (YwGrT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:21 PM (XeU6L)
One year, around 5, I was given an erector set halftrack, complete with wheels for the front and tread for the back. Made of that erector set 'holed' metal sheets/pieces but painted an Army green. When I cut my finger on one of the metal plates, I said to myself, enough of that. I'd rather play with electricty than sharp implements.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2024 11:28 PM (gKDq2)
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Scheduled for Dec 22, 2024
Launch Date: December 23, 2024
Launch Time: 12:35 a.m. ET - 0535 UTC, 06:35 CET
https://www.youtube.com/live/Dk_7Qy63AVQ
Posted by: Ciampino - GOING UP at December 22, 2024 11:29 PM (i0xsb)
Confederate Chili Crossbow Battalion meets right over there.
Consider your rabble roused.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 22, 2024 11:29 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:15 PM (OGOaV)
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Your wife is a better woman than I. I tell them Hell to the Naw, Naw.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 11:29 PM (X3Ct6)
I'm going to have to summon the spirit of my Dad for this one.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:30 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Rickey at December 22, 2024 11:30 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: scampydog at December 22, 2024 11:31 PM (41CYW)
Almost of the victims were people that:
1) Used drugs, alcohol, or sedatives
2) Smoked…
Posted by: 18-1
I had a great-aunt who died from "SHC." She was very old, had papery skin, and fell asleep with a lit cig.
Posted by: mindful webworker - but she was nice before that at December 22, 2024 11:33 PM (YwGrT)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:33 PM (D6PGr)
Family Goals.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 11:10 PM (phIjg)
Prior-hic-ities....
Posted by: California Dreamin (formerly ARiK) at December 22, 2024 11:33 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:21 PM (XeU6L)
One year, around 5, I was given an erector set halftrack, complete with wheels for the front and tread for the back. Made of that erector set 'holed' metal sheets/pieces but painted an Army green. When I cut my finger on one of the metal plates, I said to myself, enough of that. I'd rather play with electricty than sharp implements.
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2024 11:28 PM (gKDq2)
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A couple of favorites from my youth were Capsela and Robotix. They were the same category as erector sets, but no sharp edges. Snap-together pieces that included motors and controllers.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:34 PM (OGOaV)
Being a redhead automatically increases the "crazy" axis score on the Hot/Crazy matrix for Wilma (I don't make the rules, I don't even enforce 'em, just letting y'all know what's what) so Betty is definitely the better choice, unless you have access to a straight jacket.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 11:34 PM (phIjg)
Posted by: TeeJ at December 22, 2024 11:22 PM
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Hmm......
Posted by: TRex at December 22, 2024 11:35 PM (9tvFd)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2024 11:35 PM (UKUm3)
BTW, never knew that Doof would become such a large part of my life.
Posted by: Nordic Interiors at December 22, 2024 11:37 PM (G5+As)
Why in my day GI Joe stood 12" tall and had hair...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2024 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:38 PM (D6PGr)
Why in my day GI Joe stood 12" tall and had hair...
With Kung-Fu grip to make Barbie happy?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2024 11:39 PM (XNTrX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2024 11:41 PM (XNTrX)
A while back I got a box prominently labeled "Product of Italy" and "Fragile." I took a picture of it.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2024 11:41 PM (wNu9z)
1.) AI imaging is cheesy
2.) everything about our government is fraudulent. Budgeting is just the most obvious fraud
3.) Rickey Henderson died too young
And... That's the way it is.
Posted by: YD Krankheit at December 22, 2024 11:42 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2024 11:42 PM (XNTrX)
*"some" generally meant about 80 or 90%. My grandfather was not exactly Bob the Builder.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 11:43 PM (phIjg)
Of course...He's not a father yet making you wonder why the hell anyone would be calling from Darth Father vs Darth Child Murder or Darth Traitor.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 11:43 PM (oZhjI)
With Kung-Fu grip to make Barbie happy?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2024 11:39 PM (XNTrX)
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Poor Ken never made Barbie happy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 11:43 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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I doubt it. When a kid in the neighborhood got a Gilbert Chemistry set for Christmas, our lives changed. There were the makings for gunpowder in the set, and the mixture instructions in the manual. A terrible price was paid by toy soldiers.
It was no time at all before we learned that the makings were available at the local drug store. Today, I suppose it would lead to SWAT raids.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:38 PM (D6PGr)
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Not sure, but we've got a store here (or had, not sure if it is still there) called JM Cremps. It's former tagline was "A Store for Boys". If any place was still selling those, I think they'd be the one.
I remember going there with my son once (he couldn't have been more than 7-
. It was slow in the store, so the staff grabbed some rubberband guns, loaded them up, handed one to my son, and proceeded to have a gun fight in the store.Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 22, 2024 11:44 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: scampydog at December 22, 2024 11:46 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 22, 2024 11:43 PM (dDmld)
Either one could be a tranny In the middle of transition.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:46 PM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 22, 2024 11:42 PM (XNTrX)
I have a leg lamp ornament and I cannot lie...
Posted by: Scarymary at December 22, 2024 11:46 PM (X3Ct6)
That is the subject of a future Doof mini-rant. Or maybe I'll get a shot at a real daytime rant one day. Stay tuned!
Posted by: Doof
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Good vid though. Didn't realize there were so many moldy oldies.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 11:47 PM (scSKG)
One of their better songs IMO
Posted by: 18-1 at December 22, 2024 11:47 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2024 11:48 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: Puddleglum
We're m/l obligated to go to the Nutcracker, Saturday night and Sunday matinee performances, every year, for many years, because of our daughter's involvement.
This year's show was excellent, and folks who'd been going for many more years than us said it was the best ever. Daughter had a lot to do with that.
They had record attendance on both shows. It was good to see the auditorium so packed, and the crowd so appreciative.
That said…
Old ladies sitting right behind us, both nights, sounded like they were dying of consumption. I swear they were the only hacking coughers in the whole audience.
Yeah, I'm not real fond of crowds.
Posted by: mindful webworker - but she was nice before that at December 22, 2024 11:48 PM (YwGrT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 11:49 PM (scSKG)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2024 11:50 PM (UKUm3)
Helping decorate the tree was one of the joys of Christmas time for me, though on Christmas morning there were always candy canes on some of the branches that weren't there Christmas Eve.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 11:51 PM (phIjg)
You reminded me of making lethal rubber band rifles when I was a kid with my friends. They were lethal because the end of the heavy duty rubber bands had the clothes pin spring attached to it. It would fit perfect in the clothes pin trigger.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:51 PM (D6PGr)
Elon Musk@elonmusk 8h
“Your iPhone may be getting pegged” – Apple 🤣
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Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 11:51 PM (scSKG)
A while back I got a box prominently labeled "Product of Italy" and "Fragile." I took a picture of it.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 22, 2024 11:41 PM (wNu9z)
I got a smaller version of the leg lamp for Christmas one year. We use it every day. You can actually see it in the window from the sidewalk. The leg lights up weakly, so it acts like a night light but has a regular light bulb socket on top of the leg.
Posted by: Beartooth at December 22, 2024 11:51 PM (3Ev2O)
Posted by: PaleRider
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I expect that they are pretty lame.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:52 PM (XeU6L)
That was every Christmas for me when I was a kid.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2024 11:52 PM (LkLld)
"No, Barbie comes with GI Joe, " the girl says, "she pretends with Ken."
Posted by: YD Krankheit at December 22, 2024 11:52 PM (BI5O2)
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My green Army men suffered some fate with model glue and fire, failed homemade parachutes, and the occasional fire cracker cannon.
Posted by: scampydog at December 22, 2024 11:52 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2024 11:54 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: mindful webworker
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Every person added exponentially increases the odds of a negative outcome.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 11:54 PM (scSKG)
Concur, although I haven't ever seen what Keith Richards has to say on the subject.
Posted by: azjaeger at December 22, 2024 11:54 PM (3/XaG)
My green Army men suffered some fate with model glue and fire, failed homemade parachutes, and the occasional fire cracker cannon.
Posted by: scampydog
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Which brings us to 'Big Bang' cannons.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2024 11:55 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:55 PM (D6PGr)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P1yIqmH43Kg
Posted by: Beartooth at December 22, 2024 11:55 PM (3Ev2O)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2024 11:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Not only that, but he had a .50 cal on a tripod. (I know, I had it. Didn't have the jeep. The camo netting was cool, though.)
Posted by: RickZ at December 22, 2024 11:55 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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That is fantastic and must have been a blast for your son.
Posted by: scampydog at December 22, 2024 11:56 PM (41CYW)
Woke up the next morning to find the kids had already unwrapped everything. They said they didn't want to wake us up.
😒
Posted by: mindful webworker - I didn't say it was a good memory at December 22, 2024 11:57 PM (YwGrT)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 22, 2024 11:55 PM (D6PGr)
You're not talking about Barbie, are you?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 22, 2024 11:57 PM (phIjg)
Biden should be brought up on Acessory to Murder charges Attorney Genral Garlic !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Buster Hymandd at December 22, 2024 11:58 PM (FDlb9)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2024 11:59 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Woodsy Fan at December 22, 2024 11:59 PM (G5+As)
Standing rib roast
Food Lion and Publix both have them at 6.99.lb
MUST BUY WITHIN NEXT EIGHT HOURS
Or 14
Posted by: Miklos will be at Walmart early, very early, for the dog treats at December 22, 2024 11:59 PM (xesY+)
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 23, 2024 12:00 AM (qz+gL)
Probably going to set up the O gauge Lionel tomorrow. Had the locomotive and a few cars fixed 10 years ago. A little soldering I could fix the rest (just need to restore connections so the lights light up). Also have two switch track sections that work, just need to fix the connection to the controller.
Some ornaments on the tree are from the mid-50s. Have the original boxes (cellophane/whatever *still* intact) - I handle them like mercury switches connected to C4.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 12:00 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:01 AM (XNTrX)
Posted by: Woodsy Fan
They were previously known as cave owls.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:02 AM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2024 12:02 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at December 23, 2024 12:02 AM (AH9PT)
Posted by: Woodsy Fan
Abandoned beaver lodges.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2024 12:02 AM (DgGvY)
Woke up the next morning to find the kids had already unwrapped everything. They said they didn't want to wake us up.
😒
Posted by: mindful webworker - I didn't say it was a good memory at December 22, 2024 11:57 PM (YwGrT)
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We were not allowed to open anything until everybody was up. My Dad had to set up the camera and lights.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 23, 2024 12:02 AM (OGOaV)
Posted by: scampydog
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Which brings us to 'Big Bang' cannons.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
Add in some Indians and BB guns, firecrackers and see what you can get away with before mama comes tellin'
Posted by: Former child Miklos, who played fair with all friends and cousins at December 23, 2024 12:03 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2024 11:49 PM (scSKG)
That sounds cool. I had the creepy crawler 'burn the house down' toy. Turns liquid into rubbery critters by baking them in a mold on a hot plate. And by hot, I do mean hot. Sucker got hot. Not much different than touching the business end of a glue gun (sans glue).
In 6th grade, the smartest kid set his bedroom on fire with a chemistry set. What was in those chemistry sets back then would get you arrested by Homeland Security today.
Ah, the toys we had. If they didn't kill ya, they were great. If they killed ya, they were even better.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 12:04 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Barn Owl at December 23, 2024 12:05 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:05 AM (D6PGr)
PLAIN BOILED RICE.
Put 2 quarts water in a stew pan with a teaspoonful of salt; when boiling, add to it ½ pound rice, well washed; boil for ten minutes; drain off the water and slightly grease the pan with butter; put the rice back, and let it swell slowly for about twenty minutes, near the fire. Each grain will then swell up, and be well separated. Flavor with nutmeg or cinnamon, and sweeten to taste.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2024 12:05 AM (D7oie)
Illegal migrant allegedly set train passenger on fire and watched her burn to death.
So yeah , about that.
I will wait until after the Christmas Holidays to begin a new daily FLAME as some of the Horde have tender natures and I would not want to upset any tender natures at this time.
I will just head out under the orange tree and let it be.
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 23, 2024 12:06 AM (TDvv2)
Last 30 min. FBCradio.com
What Child Is This?/Hark! the Herald Angels Sing/Angels
We Have Heard on High
23:55:51
We Three Kings
23:57:55
While by My Sheep
23:59:34
Lo, How a Rose
On-Air Now
00:01:44
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 12:06 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Thin The Herd at December 23, 2024 12:06 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
My parents had a Super-8 camera with a lamp that could give you a tan in December. I still squint at the thought of it.
"Look at Daddy and smile." Funny my teeth weren't whiter back then.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2024 12:06 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 12:00 AM (1m82a)
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I did the same with my Masters of the Universe collection. My brother and I were big into them as kids. They weren't in the best of shape, as they'd been sitting in my Mom's house for nigh on forty years, but still made a decent amount on the sale (which I split with my brother)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 23, 2024 12:07 AM (OGOaV)
Posted by: scampydog
Repair could only be done with a chemical that was also your Mama's nail polish remover.
Posted by: Miklos wonders what happened to all my little green army men at December 23, 2024 12:07 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:08 AM (XNTrX)
Posted by: Nightwatch at December 23, 2024 12:09 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Online auction Miklos at December 23, 2024 12:09 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Very cool, Rhomboid. Scampywife - similar. She has some ornaments that are 40 to 50 years old. She has fond memories. Our child torture is/was no presents until my wife had a cup of coffee and I had two caramel rolls. The kids could go through stockings whenever they got up but had to wait for presents. Gotten funnier over the years.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 12:10 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:11 AM (D6PGr)
Put 2 quarts water in a stew pan with a teaspoonful of salt; when boiling, add to it ½ pound rice, well washed; boil for ten minutes; drain off the water and slightly grease the pan with butter; put the rice back, and let it swell slowly for about twenty minutes, near the fire. Each grain will then swell up, and be well separated. Flavor with nutmeg or cinnamon, and sweeten to taste.
Posted by: Kindltot
So
You have been to the South
Posted by: Miklos proposes parboiled rice at December 23, 2024 12:12 AM (xesY+)
https://tinyurl.com/22vrzzcf
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at December 23, 2024 12:12 AM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: rhomboid
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Can't part with mine...yet. Two of 'em. 8 1/2 and 10, or 8 and 10 1/2
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 12:12 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 12:13 AM (scSKG)
"Look at Daddy and smile." Funny my teeth weren't whiter back then.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2024 12:06 AM (DgGvY)
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My Dad's camera was one of the old VHS camcorders, that, if it wasn't on a tripod, you had to hold on your shoulder like a bazooka. The lights (there were two or three) were also on tripods, and super bright. In addition, the camera was hooked up to the TV (console, of course) so everyone could see what was being recorded.
I remember thinking it the height of cleverness to point the camera at the TV to get the infinite screens.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 23, 2024 12:13 AM (OGOaV)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 23, 2024 12:14 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I have a full-scale leg lamp.
Box is correctly labeled.
... Should have been a crate.
Cheap knock-off.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 12:15 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Miklos proposes parboiled rice at December 23, 2024 12:12 AM (xesY+)
Hah. I just made a bowl of rice with butter and garlic seasoning. Only because I had no fricasse gravy.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:15 AM (D6PGr)
My company does something similar. I always think "man, I wish people did cool stuff like this when I was a kid back in the day."
I guess they did. Just not in toilets like New Kensington, PA.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2024 12:15 AM (BI5O2)
>>Lawn Darts are a great gift if you have excess kids.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:16 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Thin The Herd at December 23, 2024 12:06 AM (G5+As)
It's illegal to sell those even at yard sales.
I played with them. You'd have to be stupid to get hit by th---, oh wait, Thin The Herd.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 12:18 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
I just never imagined that the kids would be so "kind" as to let us sleep instead of enjoying watching them open their gifts. Siiiigh.
Well, now… lookit the time.
If I don't go to bed, I can't get up in the morning. So, it's a plan. Of sorts.
https://youtu.be/Ujf1-flrTm4
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - dashing through the dots at December 23, 2024 12:19 AM (YwGrT)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:19 AM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:19 AM (XNTrX)
Donald Trump warned that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal that the United States “foolishly” ceded to its Central American ally, contending that shippers are charged “ridiculous” fees to pass through the vital transportation channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2024 12:20 AM (63Dwl)
The garbage man forgot the second can, but I will forgive him just this once.
Posted by: BourbonChicken
The second can was for the recycling truck.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2024 12:21 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Miklos was only required to be home for dinner at 6:30 at December 23, 2024 12:21 AM (xesY+)
One of the things we made in scouting was a hot dog cooker. Two nails in a board, attached to wires and a plug for plugging into a wall socket. I loved that thing. Pretty sure my mom did not.
Saw an amazing ¿toy? from Kenner at an antique store while traveling for Thanksgiving. A grill that used one 150-watt light bulb to grill real burgers. I was so amazed I almost bought it.
Explain that one in 29 years: we used to use lights that were hot enough to grill meat!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 12:21 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 12:22 AM (XNTrX)
1. I have seen used ones in antique stores in the Shenandoah Valley twice. They were overpriced and not really "me", so I didn't buy them, but they do exist outside of the movie.
2. I have a necktie with the leg lamp and other Christmas Story stuff on it, and the lamp on it has a real fringe. Too bad I've never seen the movie. It was a gift from the art teacher at a school for the gifted where I was teaching Latin.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at December 23, 2024 12:22 AM (43XUo)
One of the things we made in scouting was a hot dog cooker. Two nails in a board, attached to wires and a plug for plugging into a wall socket. I loved that thing. Pretty sure my mom did not.
Saw an amazing ¿toy? from Kenner at an antique store while traveling for Thanksgiving. A grill that used one 150-watt light bulb to grill real burgers. I was so amazed I almost bought it.
Explain that one in 29 years: we used to use lights that were hot enough to grill meat!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 12:21 AM (EXyHK)
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Must have been the boy version of the Easy Bake Oven.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 23, 2024 12:23 AM (OGOaV)
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Company i worked for way back did backpacks filled with school and life items at a school for homeless and underprivileged kids. Kindergatener, with a red afro picked out his back and sprinted up to me and gave me a big squeezer hug. Still get smokey eyes thinking about that.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 12:24 AM (41CYW)
You have been to the South
Posted by: Miklos proposes parboiled rice at December 23, 2024 12:12 AM (xesY+)
If you can't make some gravy to make this better, then bless your cottonpickin' heart.
Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at December 23, 2024 12:24 AM (X3Ct6)
Explain that one in 29 years: we used to use lights that were hot enough to grill meat!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
Same for my Easy Bake Oven. That light bulb could bake a little cake.
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2024 12:24 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2024 12:24 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2024 12:24 AM (7MHHr)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 12:21 AM (EXyHK)
Kenner's Easy Bake Oven. Even as a little boy, that one intrigued me. Make my own brownies? I'm in. Still don't mind being around a stove.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 12:25 AM (gKDq2)
Loved the infant serenade.
Trying to figure out why I couldn't find any eggnog at the grocery store. Is it just too expensive to make during the Great War on Eggs?
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 23, 2024 12:25 AM (X+xvk)
Thanks for Thread Duty Herr von Doofenmeister.
I think Doof would be a cool guy to shoot fireworks with.
Legal in SC
But who would hold whose beer?
Posted by: Miklos, is a puzzlement at December 23, 2024 12:25 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 12:21 AM (EXyHK)
That sounds a lot like an EZ Bake Oven.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2024 12:25 AM (phIjg)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:26 AM (D6PGr)
I was sound asleep when the weekly gun thread went off. One of our pups needs an AIWB holster for a Glock. Any recommendations from experienced morons? Thanks.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 12:26 AM (3GdZZ)
Posted by: Thin The Herd
Horseshoes seems lame until you realize it's just blunt lawn darts.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 12:26 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2024 12:27 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 23, 2024 12:27 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
..................
Iron City beer does interesting things.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2024 12:28 AM (RCueb)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 12:26 AM (/lPRQ)
And with those little necks, you can get ringers.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 12:28 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Miklos
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*Looks around. Does the sneaky walk away*
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 12:30 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 23, 2024 12:30 AM (YIxO9)
It's more than a camera,
It's almost alive,
It's only nineteen dollars and ninety-five.....
Posted by: Jingle Bells at December 23, 2024 12:31 AM (G5+As)
https://tinyurl.com/22vrzzcf
Posted by: Scarymary at December 23, 2024 12:32 AM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2024 12:28 AM (RCueb)
I can honestly say I've drank Iron city beer along with ribs from Tony Roma's. Take the ribs. Leave the beer.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:32 AM (D6PGr)
Aggressively
And penny rocket and Roman Candle Wars
No injuries.
Did learn physical memories that served me well in more dangerous places than my childhood backyard.
Posted by: Miklos, not raised as a pussy at December 23, 2024 12:33 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 23, 2024 12:33 AM (YIxO9)
Probably the same principle. It was definitely marketed as a grill. Likely No One of Consequence is correct that they were trying to extend their market to boys.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2024 12:34 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 12:35 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2024 12:37 AM (mH6SG)
Probably the same principle. It was definitely marketed as a grill. Likely No One of Consequence is correct that they were trying to extend their market to boys.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
FUN FACT
The Edison light bulb tat powered my little sister's E-Z Bake oven is now HARAM and VERBOTEN
Posted by: Eco-Friendly Mullah Miklos at December 23, 2024 12:37 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2024 12:38 AM (BI5O2)
Aggressively
And penny rocket and Roman Candle Wars
No injuries.
Did learn physical memories that served me well in more dangerous places than my childhood backyard.
Posted by: Miklos, not raised as a pussy
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It started with chucking rocks at each other... Then the wrist rockets.
Next it was the BB Gun Wars.*
*Gentlemen's agreement - no head shots.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 12:38 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 23, 2024 12:38 AM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2024 12:38 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 23, 2024 12:39 AM (YIxO9)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Had one of these, along with several cap pistols
t.ly/LdAJx
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 12:39 AM (XeU6L)
>>Aggressively
And most of us survived.
If you are looking for the point where we went off the rails you found it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:40 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2024 12:40 AM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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No swimsuit area shots either. We'll maybe one. On accident.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 12:41 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2024 12:42 AM (BI5O2)
First brother: pump-pump-pump-quickly aim-pull trigger
Second brother: "Ow!! Dammit!!!" pump-pump-pump-pump-quickly aim-pull trigger
First brother: "Ow!! Dammit!!!" pump-pump-pump-quickly aim-pull trigger:
Second brother: "Ow!! Dammit!!!" pump-pump-pump-quickly aim-pull trigger
And so on for several more cycles. The two didn't hit each other with the guns, thankfully.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 23, 2024 12:43 AM (ZB7RZ)
All you girls
If you young wish to get a man, and then keep him, PAY STRICT ATTENTION
Posted by: Home Economics Teacher c. 1960 at December 23, 2024 12:43 AM (xesY+)
t.ly/nsi0y
I wonder if the fact that so many of our fathers and grandfathers had been in Korea and Europe made them more amenable to their boys playing 'war', and being fascinated with military toys. Maybe, learning to become men.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 12:45 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 23, 2024 12:45 AM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The brain is afire. AOP, what was your gift contribution?
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 12:46 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Miklos is about to go all Housman on you people at December 23, 2024 12:46 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 12:47 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: scampydog
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[Arizonian excitedly opening *huge* giftwrap]
WTH is a 'Panhard'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 12:48 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip
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Can you imagine the panic today if kids were running around the neighborhood with such?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 12:50 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I am told that the best parties involve pink elephants.
Posted by: Crazy Mikos' Non-Stop Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Somewhat Legal Other Stuff at December 23, 2024 12:51 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2024 12:37 AM (mH6SG)
Ok. You can bite me.
Posted by: Scarymary at December 23, 2024 12:52 AM (X3Ct6)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2024 12:53 AM (BI5O2)
Mom, I'm going to do some crazy stupid shit.
Ok. Have fun. Give me a call when you get moment.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 12:54 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Few years ago I got a visit from local PD. Cop is a friend and relayed the following: Got a call that someone is driving around town with a machine gun mounted to the hood of a Jeep. My kids school vehicle was a Jeep. With a high jack mounted on the hood. We had a pretty good laugh about it.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 12:54 AM (41CYW)
2h
Alice Weidel of the AfD party, the only party that wants mass deportations in Germany, is now leading in the polls for the coming German national election.
Germany does not vote for an individual to be the Chancellor. They vote for parties. However, Alice Weidel is polling as the most popular of the 4 major leaders.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 12:55 AM (scSKG)
All you girls
If you young wish to get a man, and then keep him, PAY STRICT ATTENTION
Posted by: Home Economics Teacher c. 1960
I took Home Ec in 80ish...
Not much about "getting a man" then, but basic um, home economics, balance a budget, bills, living frugal, do it yourself stuff.
Shop class for the girls, mostly. Myself and a couple other guys who also took the shop classes.
I went to college and got the degree. Those guys own their own shops now.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 12:56 AM (/lPRQ)
Just don't encourage Skip, that little scamp.
For Christmas, he will get enviro-friendly batteries so that he can read under the covers, even on School Nights.
Posted by: Kindly Aunt Miklos at December 23, 2024 12:56 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Skip
Can you imagine the panic today if kids were running around the neighborhood with such?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Toy gun from when I was a little kid: looked like a gun.
Toy gun from now: still kind of looks like a real gun, but has a Safety Orange tip so people know it's a toy.
What I wondered when the "orange tip" rule came about..... what stopped the thugs from painting the end of their real gun orange, to get the drop on the po-po?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2024 12:56 AM (DgGvY)
Mom, I'm going to do some crazy stupid shit.
Ok. Have fun. Give me a call when you get moment.
Posted by: JackStraw
For me it was just "dinner is at 6:30"
Posted by: Free Range Miklos at December 23, 2024 01:00 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 12:47 AM (fwDg9)
When I was about 4, I had a metal one-shot derringer with a metal bullet. Didn't shoot it very hard but hard enough to break my Mom's favorite ornament (with a shot from the dining room table about 15 feet away from the tree; I was proud of that aimed shot, Mom not so much).
But as a kid I had so many metal toy guns of all types, starting with cap pistols and such on up until I had a real rifle in my closet when I was about 10. Then the toy guns went away.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 01:03 AM (gKDq2)
Toy gun from now: still kind of looks like a real gun, but has a Safety Orange tip so people know it's a toy.
And then came Cerakote, which can make real guns look like toys.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2024 01:04 AM (wNu9z)
And you can bet the feds go to toy shows to monitor that as well.
Posted by: Bete at December 23, 2024 01:04 AM (LX4y3)
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 12:46 AM (41CYW)
A small bottle of Grand Marnier, some local honey, and one of those chocolate oranges. And a cowboy boot shot glass.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:05 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
>>>>THIS GUY GETS IT<<<<
Posted by: The Wisdom of the Ancients according to Miklos at December 23, 2024 01:09 AM (xesY+)
- Muzzle loader pistol and long gun. Actually fired small cork balls about .25 caliber. Used the red roll caps for the charge. More caps, more power.
- Ornithopter. Like a 12" butterfly. Flapping wings and propeller.
- Battery powered tool kit. Circ saw, drill, welder. Came with plastic boards and beams / rods. Actual mini circ saw! All powered with one of those big 12V latern batteries. Welder was basically a mini glue gun.
Grandfther divorced Grandmother before I was born.
Guess he felt something was owed... Horney bugger married the babysitter. Got an uncle younger than me. That I know of.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 01:10 AM (/lPRQ)
🚨 RAW MILK UPDATE: Earlier this summer, I toured Mark McAfee’s @Raw_Farm and witnessed firsthand the precision and excellence behind their operations. As the nation’s leading raw milk producer in an industry under constant media attack and regulatory scrutiny, Mark and his team know there’s no room for error—they operate at the highest standards every day.
Mark joined me on a call to give an update on what’s transpired and what is coming down the pike. Governor Newsom’s state of emergency over bird flu and raw milk isn’t about science—it’s about control. Despite zero evidence of raw milk ever transmitting a virus, despite Stanford studies showing raw milk neutralizes pathogens within days, and despite cows recovering naturally, the government persists with their tyrannical edicts. The real crisis is fear-based narratives and billion-dollar Big Pharma deals for vaccine manufacturers making up fabricated threats.
Farmers like Mark are standing strong, and innovation is keeping shelves stocked, but it’s time to ask the question: Why suppress raw milk when science and history prove its safety?
Farmers over Pharma.
End the emerg
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 01:12 AM (scSKG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:05 AM (8zz6B)
Grand Marnier's a great gift. Sipping, mixing, cooking, it does it all -- even kills the common cold. Makes a pretty good Grand Marnier Chocolate Cheesecake, too.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 01:13 AM (gKDq2)
That's how it started.
Then I realized my mom was a co-conspirator.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2024 01:13 AM (LkLld)
No firearm-type devices in my possession have any orange on them at all (hey Clepmpson fans, we're fine!).
Darleen got some sparklies put on hers.
The cutest Colt 4evah
Posted by: Miklos notes the relatively low crime rate at Trailer Acres, other than at Lots 227 and 118 at December 23, 2024 01:16 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 01:17 AM (YoCnN)
Posted by: mikeski
One state had a bill to outlaw guns NOT in traditional colors. They defined the colors.
GOLD was not one of the acceptable colors.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 01:19 AM (/lPRQ)
Only regert, is that we didn't go to Sapporo for a snow festival. Went to one Nebuta fest, in Aomori. And many smaller, local celebrations.
Would love to go back someday.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 01:21 AM (YoCnN)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 01:23 AM (8zz6B)
We are having a grand time 😊❤
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2024 01:25 AM (jx3Zf)
Posted by: Ciampino - buzzing around at December 23, 2024 01:28 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Ciampino - STL MO this time at December 23, 2024 01:30 AM (i0xsb)
We have almost 60 no-go zones.
I wonder who did most of the bombings and also who lives in the no-go zones?
Posted by: Ciampino - Have the Army take them out one at a time at December 23, 2024 01:34 AM (i0xsb)
'It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Burt, the iconic Saltwater crocodile and star of the Australian classic Crocodile Dundee,' they wrote to their Facebook page.
'Burt passed away peacefully over the weekend, estimated to be over 90 years old, marking the end of an incredible era.'
Posted by: Ciampino - Wow. at December 23, 2024 01:36 AM (i0xsb)
Posted by: Ciampino - She broke wind? at December 23, 2024 01:38 AM (i0xsb)
Was worried because I know they love Germany and the Christmas markets, but didn't know which area(s) they were visiting.
Good news: they didn't get run-over at Magdeburg.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 01:39 AM (YoCnN)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2024 01:40 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Ciampino - Have the Army take them out one at a time at December 23, 2024 01:34 AM (i0xsb)
Probably those damn Norwegians.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2024 01:43 AM (wNu9z)
Hang the b@$tard !!!!!
Nobody messes with Ted Drew’s Frozen Custard !!!
Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 23, 2024 01:44 AM (qz+gL)
https://mol.im/a/14219805
Posted by: Ciampino
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Dayum! She found a nursing home what charges ONLY $4K/month?
That's less than *half* what they charge here, in the middle of nowhere!
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 01:48 AM (YoCnN)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2024 02:02 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 23, 2024 02:06 AM (QPCEj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 23, 2024 02:07 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 23, 2024 02:07 AM (QPCEj)
Yeah, *criminal* is right! Jeez!
Gotta suck every last nickel out of the peeps before they go, I guess?
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 02:07 AM (YoCnN)
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Most of them (here) charge per day. Plus, every little extra thing, like meals served in-room instead of dining area, is billed *per day*
Not unusual to be $350 or more Per. Fking. Day.
Dad paid ~$7500 a month, and was *not* demented or incontinent. (MOAR $$$$ for those!)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 02:16 AM (YoCnN)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2024 02:27 AM (RCueb)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 02:29 AM (YoCnN)
Moron Acres?
Will Range Time interfere with Nap Time?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 02:51 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 02:55 AM (YoCnN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 03:00 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: m at December 23, 2024 03:07 AM (VnUSN)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 03:10 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 03:20 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at December 23, 2024 03:24 AM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 03:48 AM (GHvvy)
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2024 03:55 AM (oaGWv)
Posted by: Tuna at December 23, 2024 03:55 AM (oaGWv)
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Have you tried counting gray boxes?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2024 03:57 AM (GHvvy)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2024 04:01 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 04:01 AM (fwDg9)
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I never found any interesting article like yours. It is pretty worth enough for me.
Personally, if all web owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the web will be a lot more useful than ever before.
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