Festivus Monday Overnight Open Thread - December 23, 2024 [Doof]

(Mystery click is for the haters who don't appreciate this display)

Happy Festivus, Hordelings. The ONT has got a lot of problems with you people, and now you're gonna hear about it.

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Airing of Grievances

Festivus begins with the airing of grievances, and the ONT does have one grievance to air tonight. Every Sunday and Monday ONT in December 2024 has concluded with a Rush deep cut. With few notable and appreciated exceptions, there has been far too little mention of these tracks. The ONT works tirelessly and diligently to find these and all the other musical selections which are scattered around each night. Be better, Hordelings.

(Mystery click? Of course there is!)

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Feats of Strength

Festivus ends with feats of strength. The video below wonders what if people rode dinosaurs instead of walked. The ONT judges say this indeed qualifies as a feat of strength.

(H/T to Hrothgar)

That was more entertaining then the last Jurassic Park pic.twitter.com/JUjng2RoHo
— Mens_Corner__ (@Mens_Corner__) November 27, 2024

Side note: Your humble host has met and spoken to a guy who calls himself "T Rex" at multiple NoVa and Texas MoMes. The guy in this video is NOT the guy I've met and hung out with, but he appears to be the REAL T Rex. Methinks we have been fooled here at AOSHQ.

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After Festivus, Check out the NORAD Santa Tracker

Weasel mentioned the Santa Tracker on Sunday's Gun Thread. Here's a little more about how it came to be.

A Wrong Number to a Top-Secret Military Phone Led to NORAD Santa Tracker With Millions of Fans Worldwide.

In December 1955, one year after President Eisenhower established the hotline, the red phone rang at the Continental Air Defense Command, now known as NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command). The country was in the middle of the Cold War, tensions were high, and the number was for emergency use only.
When Commanding Officer Colonel Harry Shoup answered, he heard a squeaky voice asking, “Is this Santa Claus?”
Shoup thought it was a prank and responded accordingly, until the boy started crying.
Realizing it wasn’t a joke, Shoup, a father of four, played Santa and then spoke to the mom, who told him the number was in a holiday ad for the Sears department store. The number printed in the advertisement was one digit off from what Sears intended to print.
Who knows if Shoup saw the humor at the time, but the ad said: “Call me on my private phone and I will talk to you personally any time, day or night…Kiddies be sure to dial the correct number.”
The kids kept calling and Shoup put two airmen on phone duty to answer the phone as Santa.
“It got to be a big joke at the command center,” Shoup’s daughter Terri Van Keuren said. “You know, ‘The old man’s really flipped his lid this time. We’re answering Santa calls’.”
There was a giant board used to track airplanes and on Christmas Eve some of the staff added a sleigh with reindeer on it. When Shoup saw it, they apologized and offered to remove it, but he thought the sleigh was great.

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DJ Doof – Sounds of the Season (Part 8 )

Christmas with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Last Night (I Went Out With Santa Claus).

Stevie Nicks (you've been warned). Silent Night.

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The ONT Continues to Look Out for You

For you guys who need this reminder.

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Tonight’s ONT closes with respect for the Golden EIB Microphone (extreme dust warning)

Rush Limbaugh’s final Christmas show. There was always something about Rush and Mannheim Steamroller. While it wasn’t his last ever show, it was his way of saying goodbye to us. pic.twitter.com/GX0ow7RB2Z
— Jill Savage (@Jill_Savage) December 21, 2024

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All grievances and joking aside, I wish all of you the very best as you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Festivus! Thank you for your kindness and encouragement over the past month as I nervously jumped with both feet into ONT hosting. There are no people like Horde people! Stay safe out there!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:56 PM

Comments

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1 McKenna 10 Year.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 09:57 PM (d9fT1)

2 For the restivus!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at December 23, 2024 09:58 PM (hOUT3)

3 You know this will go on your permanent record!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 09:58 PM (d9fT1)

4 You know this will go on your permanent record!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 09:58 PM (d9fT1)

Isn't that Weasel's department?

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 09:59 PM (RFPHU)

5 ButI have evrything already

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 23, 2024 10:00 PM (QSrLX)

6 That top pic looks an awful lot like Gary, Indiana.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 10:00 PM (u73oe)

7 Dinner time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 10:00 PM (kquDM)

8 Isn't that Weasel's department?

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 09:59 PM (RFPHU)

Do you even Violent Femmes?

Sad. Really sad.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 10:02 PM (d9fT1)

9 Do you even Violent Femmes?

Sad. Really sad.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 10:02 PM (d9fT1)

Of course. Was just assigning proper responsibility.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:03 PM (RFPHU)

10 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

11 Rush sucks

If you don't believe me please ask nurse ratched

Posted by: Zombie Frank Zappa at December 23, 2024 10:03 PM (QXQ4l)

12 It's Christmase Eve, Eve.
Gotta think about what I am going to get the wife tomorrow.

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2024 10:04 PM (NE+I8)

13 Thanks for the clip of the last Rex family reunion. I couldn't make it. Looks like fun but looks like the idiots couldn't stay off the roof. And people wonder why our ancestors went "extinct."

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:04 PM (9tvFd)

14 Happy Christmas Eve Eve!

Posted by: Dr. T at December 23, 2024 10:04 PM (jGGMD)

15 Our long, local nightmare is over …

Sabres win for the first time in a month

Sabres 7 - Islanders 1

Merry fuqing Christmas hockey fans

Posted by: browndog lights the lamp at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (TTAGa)

16 It's Christmase Eve, Eve.
Gotta think about what I am going to get the wife tomorrow.
Posted by: buddhaha

There's plenty of time.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (WXNFJ)

17 Thank you Doof!

I enjoyed learning about Santa Tracker. That was a sweet story.

Green Bay seems to have things in hand and the cats are inside and resting so time for a horror movie.

Everyone have a great night!

Posted by: Stateless at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (jvJvP)

18 Big bad voodoo daddy sounds like a nick name you would use…..never mind.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (pZEOD)

19 I miss Rush

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2024 10:06 PM (Wx316)

20 Our long, local nightmare is over …

Sabres win for the first time in a month

Sabres 7 - Islanders 1

Merry fuqing Christmas hockey fans
Posted by: browndog lights the lamp at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (TTAGa)

Raise a glass to your team!
Mine got manhandled by the Broooons tonight.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:06 PM (RFPHU)

21 12 It's Christmase Eve, Eve.
Gotta think about what I am going to get the wife tomorrow.
Posted by: buddhaha at December

I asked for 2 things. I doubt I will get either one!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (pZEOD)

22 Continuing my 3D printing of The Settlers of Catan Game Board and Storage Units, got 80pct of the game pieces printed.

Then it's onto Terraforming Mars.

Which may take me well into my dotage to complete.

Well, goals are what keeps you going.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (XV/Pl)

23 Food! Thanks for recognizing my post on the previous blog.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (v6JzV)

24 Big bad voodoo daddy sounds like a nick name you would use…..never mind.
Posted by: Piper

Second only to 'Raoul the one balled mauler'. Who was a real guy too.

One day, I'm going to write a book. Even I can't believe much of it.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

25 As a Canadian, I've heard of Rush, the band, but couldn't name or recognize a song.

Don't worry. My government has punished me plenty the last 4 years. It's been hell.

Posted by: Stateless at December 23, 2024 10:08 PM (jvJvP)

26 Wow! Gary, Indiana actually looks pretty good all spiffied up with all those festive lights.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:08 PM (3VVY1)

27 Doofissimo!

Excellent ONT!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 23, 2024 10:08 PM (kpS4V)

28 21 I asked for 2 things. I doubt I will get either one!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (pZEOD)
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Is one of them a Christmas Day ONT?

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:08 PM (9tvFd)

29 >>> 21 12 It's Christmase Eve, Eve.
Gotta think about what I am going to get the wife tomorrow.
Posted by: buddhaha at December

I asked for 2 things. I doubt I will get either one!
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (pZEOD)

You already have 2 cats.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 23, 2024 10:08 PM (KcwUg)

30 Who are these “good people” that Tonypete keeps referring to?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:09 PM (v6JzV)

31 I saw the Violent Femmes in Carnegie Hall.

Seriously

Posted by: blaster at December 23, 2024 10:09 PM (QfvaV)

32 The video below wonders what if people rode dinosaurs instead of walked.

That's quite good.

Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2024 10:09 PM (ZZOOb)

33 Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Rush form the Trio of the greatest musical artists of all time.

Zappa and The Dead are just on the outside of that bubble.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:10 PM (XV/Pl)

34 Piper, how are the cats treating the Christmas tree?

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:10 PM (v6JzV)

35 Big bad voodoo daddy sounds like a nick name you would use…..never mind.
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (pZEOD)

Is that one of the things you asked for?

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:10 PM (RFPHU)

36 Thank you, and have a Merry Christmas, Doof.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2024 10:10 PM (0Htd1)

37 No rocket launches till 26th.

Posted by: Ciampino - cheap entertainment at December 23, 2024 10:11 PM (i0xsb)

38 28 21 I asked for 2 things. I doubt I will get either one!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (pZEOD)
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Is one of them a Christmas Day ONT?
Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:08 PM (9tvFd

Well of course that is on the list!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:11 PM (p4NUW)

39 I miss Rush. Those three hours every weekday were an important part of validating my world view for many years.

Posted by: Retief at December 23, 2024 10:11 PM (UL9Rw)

40 I just ordered another 3D printer, it's the same Bambu Labs A1, just without the 4 color AMS system.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:11 PM (XV/Pl)

41 Did the TRexs remember to move the coffee table aside? Important for feats of strength

Posted by: blaster at December 23, 2024 10:12 PM (QfvaV)

42 Wrapping Christmas presents. Which I bought today. A bit early this year.
Most are for the 3+yo granddaughter. Yes, there is a drum pad.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 23, 2024 10:12 PM (4780s)

43 Take away all those Christmas decorations and that house in the top pic would look just like mine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:13 PM (hY4dx)

44 34 Piper, how are the cats treating the Christmas tree?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10

My hand beaded tree skirt was in my bedroom this evening. The opposite side of the house the tree is on.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:13 PM (p4NUW)

45 Rush was a treasure.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at December 23, 2024 10:13 PM (hftn9)

46 Everyone's favorite Don Lemon's leading questions backfire during live interview

https://mol.im/a/14222015

Posted by: Ciampino - cheap assplugs at December 23, 2024 10:14 PM (i0xsb)

47 38 Well of course that is on the list!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:11 PM
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I may have some good news for you!

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:14 PM (9tvFd)

48 I'm also going to have to build a 4x4 work table to hold both the printers and AMS.

If you've never seen a 3D printer in action, it's quite the seismic event on some of these prints, two printers going simultaneously would shake the current table asunder.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:15 PM (XV/Pl)

49 I thought Festivus wasn't until after Christmas?

Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2024 10:15 PM (WlvCt)

50 It's Christmase Eve, Eve.

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What is, things Adam never said.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:15 PM (hY4dx)

51 35 Big bad voodoo daddy sounds like a nick name you would use…..never mind.
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (pZEOD)

Is that one of the things you asked for?
Posted by: Doof at December 23

Umm..no. I already told you one, the other was an antique, tiny Rolex that still had its case, box and dust bag. It was pristine. And utterly useless and impractical. But really pretty.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:15 PM (pZEOD)

52 41 Did the TRexs remember to move the coffee table aside? Important for feats of strength

Posted by: blaster at December 23, 2024 10:12 PM
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Rawr.

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:16 PM (9tvFd)

53 Thank you Doof!

Posted by: Stateless at December 23, 2024 10:05 PM (jvJvP)

You're welcome!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:16 PM (RFPHU)

54 Finally made it home

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 10:16 PM (fwDg9)

55 The airmen on JBER do Santa duty every year. They volunteer, because, I suspect, they were kids once too. So cool.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 10:17 PM (xZ/E3)

56 That T-Rex chase was better than the recent Jurassic Park movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 23, 2024 10:17 PM (kpS4V)

57 Doofissimo!

Excellent ONT!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 23, 2024 10:08 PM (kpS4V)

Thanks - glad you enjoyed it!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:17 PM (RFPHU)

58 I hate this Festivus bullshit. No better than the Kwanzaa bullshit.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:17 PM (v6JzV)

59 Who are these “good people” that Tonypete keeps referring to?

Ha! It is or was customary for Enlisted to refer to Officers in the plural sense as “Gentlemen”..

I employed this once in a while, as many NCOs weren’t maybe aware of it necessarily, Played it straight enough, enough faux sincerity that one guy “Great. Now you’re calling us names!”

Ok, maybe ya had to be there

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:17 PM (3VVY1)

60 Doof! And a fraudulent TRex! (Although that video was a hoot, but I would be worried about The Real TRex's cardiac health if that was him in the video.)

Evening, 'ettes and 'rons of the Horde, and eternal shame upon me for missing Festivus AGAIN.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at December 23, 2024 10:18 PM (v23vE)

61 58 I hate this Festivus bullshit. No better than the Kwanzaa bullshit.
Posted by: Bulg at December

This was an amazing example of airing a grievance.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:18 PM (pZEOD)

62 Been doing cookies all day.
Now it's hot cider and brandy time.
I'm bushed.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)

63 Ok, maybe ya had to be there
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Don't call me "Sir"! I work for a living!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 23, 2024 10:19 PM (hovnC)

64 Mr. Trump needs to get rid of this “Joint Base” shit, after he straightens out the rest of it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:19 PM (3VVY1)

65 A Wrong Number to a Top-Secret Military Phone Led to NORAD Santa Tracker With Millions of Fans Worldwide.

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I nominate the USS Gettysburg to take over this role.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:19 PM (hY4dx)

66 Rush loved to play Gary, Indiana. It was the highlight of every tour.

Posted by: Fountain of Misinformation at December 23, 2024 10:19 PM (G5+As)

67 If Trump plans to retake the Canal, I recommend setting phasers to "treachery."

Outfit a bunch of PANAMAX tankers sailing under foreign flags to carry Marines instead of oil. Once they're in, they rampage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2024 10:19 PM (BI5O2)

68 62 Been doing cookies all day.
Now it's hot cider and brandy time.
I'm bushed.
Posted by: Diogenes at December

Meringue begins tomorrow after Christmas light classes.

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:20 PM (pZEOD)

69 Thank you, and have a Merry Christmas, Doof.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2024 10:10 PM (0Htd1)

Thanks! To you and yours, as well!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:20 PM (RFPHU)

70 Nancy Mace wishes you Happy Festivus

https://x.com/NancyMace/status/
1871393811508728303

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at December 23, 2024 10:20 PM (/7KEl)

71 It is also the last day of Saturnella.

Posted by: Reforger at December 23, 2024 10:21 PM (xcIvR)

72 >If you've never seen a 3D printer in action, it's quite the seismic event on some of these prints, two printers going simultaneously would shake the current table asunder.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:15 PM (XV/Pl)

One of those heavy duty stainless steel wire rack systems work pretty well when you get to "printer farm" status.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 23, 2024 10:21 PM (RGt60)

73 as you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Festivus!
No love for Kwanza? C'mon, man.

Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2024 10:21 PM (WlvCt)

74 58 I hate this Festivus bullshit. No better than the Kwanzaa bullshit.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:17 PM (v6Jz

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Somebody's getting a lump of coal in his stocking this year.

Anthracite, probably.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:21 PM (hY4dx)

75 I hate this Festivus bullshit. No better than the Kwanzaa bullshit.
Posted by: Bulg at December

This was an amazing example of airing a grievance.
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:18 PM (pZEOD)

LOL! Well played, Piper!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:21 PM (RFPHU)

76 (Mystery click is for the haters who don't appreciate this display)

I hope Ri Red knows that this will go down on his permanent record.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2024 10:22 PM (Wnv9h)

77 Only atheist trannies celebrate Festivus.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 23, 2024 10:22 PM (jGGMD)

78 I'm bushed.
Posted by: Diogenes

If you were a lady that fact would have you standing out from the crowd.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:23 PM (WXNFJ)

79 Festivus is the Juneteenth of non-Christmas Christmas holidays.

Or maybe Kwanzaa is the Juneteenth of non-Christmas Christmas holidays?

I truly don't care. I'm a Christmas Holy Day and holiday guy.

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2024 10:23 PM (aBgBM)

80 I have baskets of corn!

Posted by: Kwanzaa Timmy at December 23, 2024 10:23 PM (F4R16)

81 I was always intrigued by just the name “Zoroastrian”. I don’t know their beliefs or anything, but ya gotta admit that is a kickass name.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:23 PM (3VVY1)

82 Food! Thanks for recognizing my post on the previous blog.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:07 PM (v6JzV)

The previous blog? You mean over at King of Spades?

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:23 PM (RFPHU)

83 64 Mr. Trump needs to get rid of this “Joint Base” shit, after he straightens out the rest of it.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:19 PM (3VVY1)

I know Ft Rich wouldn’t mind jettisoning Elmendorf. Too much Chair Force.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (xZ/E3)

84 Nancy Mace wishes you Happy Festivus

https://x.com/NancyMace/status/
1871393811508728303
Posted by: Don Black.

Oh my.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (WXNFJ)

85 Good evening horde и спасибо doof

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

86 Limbaugh's last Christmas signoff should be up there with Lou Gehrig's "luckiest man" speech and Ronald Reagan's 1994 letter announcing he had Alzheimer's as some of the greatest creative endeavors embracing life's final journey. Gosh darn it, it's been almost four years, and I still miss Rush L.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (v23vE)

87 Here’s hoping that there will be much GLUBbing of beverages this holiday season, along with much eating of FOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (v6JzV)

88 @72

>>One of those heavy duty stainless steel wire rack systems work pretty well when you get to "printer farm" status.

I might be going in that direction, I'm printing nearly every day and I'm printing for other people now.

I've gone from no 3D Printers to two 3D printers in about two months.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)

89 The obstacle to having an authentic Kwanzaa celebration is finding a girlfriend to set on fire.

The traditional Karenga Log.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (hY4dx)

90 I really only wanted to have one cat but if God wanted me to have three then seven it is.

(seen as an online meme)

Posted by: Ciampino - go all the way at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (i0xsb)

91 86 Gosh darn it, it's been almost four years, and I still miss Rush L.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM
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Agreed. BTW, the new nic suits you. Glad you've kept it around for a bit.

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:25 PM (9tvFd)

92 These days, getting some Coal might be a thoughtful gift.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:25 PM (3VVY1)

93 85 Good evening horde и спасибо doof
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

Gesundheit

Posted by: Reforger at December 23, 2024 10:25 PM (xcIvR)

94 The obstacle to having an authentic Kwanzaa celebration is finding a girlfriend to set on fire.

The traditional Karenga Log.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (hY4dx)

Can anything post-1965 in origin really be called "traditional"?

Posted by: Dr. T at December 23, 2024 10:26 PM (jGGMD)

95 Good evening horde и спасибо doof
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

Are you telling me that you are The Walrus?

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (RFPHU)

96 75 I hate this Festivus bullshit. No better than the Kwanzaa bullshit.
Posted by: Bulg at December
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Another detour.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (kquDM)

97 Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM
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Agreed. BTW, the new nic suits you. Glad you've kept it around for a bit.
Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:25 PM (9tvFd)

Thank you, sir. Hope Grateful, you, and all those around you have a Merry Christmas!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (v23vE)

98 I was always intrigued by just the name “Zoroastrian”. I don’t know their beliefs or anything, but ya gotta admit that is a kickass name.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:23 PM (3VVY1)

Haitians are really big into Zoroasting. Sauteing, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (8zz6B)

99 81 I was always intrigued by just the name “Zoroastrian”. I don’t know their beliefs or anything, but ya gotta admit that is a kickass name.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:23 PM (3VVY1)

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Thus Spake Zarathustra...

Zoroastrian Fun Fact: In the 18th century public interest in Zorastrianism peaked, with Western Europeans and Americans immersing themselves in the religion of Ahura Mazda.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (hY4dx)

100 The obstacle to having an authentic Kwanzaa celebration is finding a girlfriend to set on fire.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (hY4dx)

Check the subway.

Posted by: Sebastian Zapeta-Calil at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (F4R16)

101 82 Previous thread, I meant.

Not Ace Air, with the wonderful art thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (v6JzV)

102 Oops. Belay that.

18th century.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:28 PM (hY4dx)

103 That top pic looks an awful lot like Gary, Indiana.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

For Doof's ONTs, it's Geddy, Indiana.

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 23, 2024 10:28 PM (NMT5x)

104 I know a lot of people don't like Rush, what with Geddy Lee's voice and all, but Rush is one the most talented trio of musicians ever.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at December 23, 2024 10:28 PM (Ad8y9)

105 Haitians are really big into Zoroasting. Sauteing, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (8zz6B)

I hear some of them are also really big into barbecuing.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 23, 2024 10:28 PM (jGGMD)

106 Zoroastrian Fun Fact: In the 18th century public interest in Zorastrianism peaked, with Western Europeans and Americans immersing themselves in the religion of Ahura Mazda.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (hY4dx)

I am not sold on that Wankle engine, at all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 10:29 PM (xZ/E3)

107 I asked for 2 things. I doubt I will get either one!
Posted by: Piper
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It's like the tactic of breaking a dish or two every time she asked me to wash them; lower expectations to... way down.
Besides the fact that she already has enough that she can't think of anything when I ask, her expectations have been sufficient lowered.
It may take awhile to resign yourself - I think she finally gave up 15-20 years ago, sometime around our 40th anniversary. :-)

Posted by: buddhaha at December 23, 2024 10:29 PM (NE+I8)

108 The Grateful Dead Yule Log is still blazing on Youtube.

Posted by: Jerry's Kids at December 23, 2024 10:30 PM (G5+As)

109 Yes, there is a drum pad.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 23, 2024 10:12 PM (4780s)
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We'll be discussing that one at length...

Posted by: Your children at December 23, 2024 10:30 PM (RIvkX)

110 >>>...

I've gone from no 3D Printers to two 3D printers in about two months.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
---

Monetize your toys, 100% American.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 10:30 PM (kquDM)

111 Take away all those Christmas decorations and that house in the top pic would look just like mine.
Posted by: Cicero

There's a little door on the right with a little crescent moon on it. I've lived in that house before. Or at least been consigned to it for awhile.

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 23, 2024 10:30 PM (NMT5x)

112 That top pic looks an awful lot like Gary, Indiana.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

For Doof's ONTs, it's Geddy, Indiana.
Posted by: haffhowershower at December 23, 2024 10:28 PM (NMT5x)

Geddy's actual name is Gary Lee Weinrib.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:31 PM (RFPHU)

113 I am not sold on that Wankle engine, at all.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2024 10:29 PM (xZ/E3)

Their light bulbs were really good, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (8zz6B)

114 @104

>>I know a lot of people don't like Rush, what with Geddy Lee's voice and all, but Rush is one the most talented trio of musicians ever.

If you want to see musicians at the height of their abilities performing to wildly appreciative fans, check out Rush In Rio.

The Brazilian crowd sings along to YYZ.

Now, when you whip a crowd into such a state that they sing along to an instrumental, you know you're killing it as a band.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)

115 Freddy Mercury was born into Zoroastrianism, on Zanzibar.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (v6JzV)

116 Goo goo ga joob

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

117 Haile Selassie was Emperor of Ethiopia. Those with long memories may recall in their mind’s eye the famous photograph of various world leaders at President Kennedy’s Arlington funeral - and Selassie wws decked out in his finest military garb with a lot gee-gaws.

Anyhoo, I don’t know how this happened exactly but the Rastafarians in Jamaica worship him as G-D. Seriously.

Put the Bong Down, Mon!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (3VVY1)

118 Geddy's actual name is Gary Lee Weinrib.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:31 PM (RFPHU)

—————.

And he thought Geddy was an improvement? Wanker.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 10:33 PM (u73oe)

119 Geddy Lee had amazing vocal range when he was young. I think he had a fantastic voice. I like people who are different.

Posted by: Odd Fellow at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (G5+As)

120 > I hate this Festivus bullshit. No better than the Kwanzaa bullshit.
Posted by: Bulg at December
----

dude you hate everything

HEY MIKEY

Posted by: Don Black. Message: at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (/7KEl)

121 Rush aka the Doctor of Democracy. Yes, Nancy, Feb 17 was the "threat to our democracy" not the J6 ginned up "armed insurrection" you did your best to allow to happen.

Posted by: Rex B at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (PT7Bh)

122 The Wankel engine was great if you didn't mind changing the oil seals every 20,000 miles.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (hY4dx)

123 116 Goo goo ga joob

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

I am the eggman

Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (aBgBM)

124 Freddy Mercury was born into Zoroastrianism, on Zanzibar.
Posted by: Bulg

Farook!

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (NMT5x)

125 85 Molodyets, San Franpsycho!

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (v6JzV)

126 Been doing cookies all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)

You pervert.

Posted by: Cookie Monster at December 23, 2024 10:35 PM (gKDq2)

127 The Walrus was Paul.

Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at December 23, 2024 10:35 PM (F4R16)

128 Doof! And good evening, fellow Horde.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2024 10:35 PM (mH6SG)

129 115 Freddy Mercury was born into Zoroastrianism, on Zanzibar.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (v6JzV)

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Seems like it should have been ZZ Top.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (hY4dx)

130 123 I am the eggman
Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2024 10:34 PM (aBgBM)

I used to be the walrus!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (pZEOD)

131 Been doing cookies all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)

You pervert.
Posted by: Cookie Monster at December 23, 2024 10:35 PM (gKDq2)

————-

This place

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (u73oe)

132 120 Wrong. I do not hate Nicole Kidman.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (v6JzV)

133 @122

>>The Wankel engine was great if you didn't mind changing the oil seals every 20,000 miles.

The great thing about the 2-Rotor Wankel was that, once you stripped off all of the FEAD gear, two guys could jack ass the entire engine out of car and set it on a 5 gallon bucket.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

134 Wankel Rotary Engine.

Posted by: Ciampino - dom't they all rotate? at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (i0xsb)

135 Haile Selassie billed himself as Lion of Judah, King of Kings, Emperor of Ethiopia. No reason to be shy or self-deprecating.

Posted by: The Grand, High, Exalted, Mystic, Ruler, Morris Fink at December 23, 2024 10:37 PM (G5+As)

136 Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 10:33 PM (u73oe)

Geddy goes by that name because that's what his granny called him. She was a European Jew.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at December 23, 2024 10:37 PM (Ad8y9)

137 Limbaugh's last Christmas signoff should be up there with Lou Gehrig's "luckiest man" speech and Ronald Reagan's 1994 letter announcing he had Alzheimer's as some of the greatest creative endeavors embracing life's final journey. Gosh darn it, it's been almost four years, and I still miss Rush L.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at December 23, 2024 10:24 PM (v23vE)

I have watched that at least 10 times over the past 2 days as I cobbled together tonight's ONT. His voice is such a part of my life for nearly 20 years beginning in 1992.

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:37 PM (RFPHU)

138 135 Haile Selassie billed himself as Lion of Judah, King of Kings, Emperor of Ethiopia. No reason to be shy or self-deprecating.
Posted by: The Grand, High, Exalted, Mystic, Ruler, Morris Fink at December 23, 2024 10:37 PM (G5+As)

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"King of Kings." PHOOOEY!!

Posted by: Ashurbanipal at December 23, 2024 10:38 PM (hY4dx)

139 Hello, Merry Christmas to you all! Making a pilgrimage tomorrow so won't be around.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at December 23, 2024 10:38 PM (+VovS)

140 128 Doof! And good evening, fellow Horde.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2024 10:35 PM
***
Good evening Deal-san.

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:38 PM (9tvFd)

141 You know she's mostly plastic at this point

Posted by: Don Black. Message: not found at December 23, 2024 10:38 PM (/7KEl)

142 Weird Al - "Christmas at Ground Zero"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 10:38 PM (C2QKs)

143 Geddy goes by that name because that's what his granny called him. She was a European Jew.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at December 23, 2024 10:37 PM (Ad8y9)

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Did she have a pony?

Posted by: Jerry at December 23, 2024 10:39 PM (hY4dx)

144 The former Emperor of Ethiopia thought Haile of himself.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:39 PM (v6JzV)

145 He went by Geddy because that’s what his granny called him? Whatever metal is, this is the opposite of that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 10:40 PM (u73oe)

146 The Container Store has filed for bankruptcy, sparking fears of store closures.

https://mol.im/a/14221049

Posted by: Ciampino - dom't they all rotate? at December 23, 2024 10:40 PM (i0xsb)

147 The ONT works tirelessly and diligently to find these and all the other musical selections which are scattered around each night. Be better, Hordelings.

Where's the Zappa?

Just kidding. Lurve the deep cuts. I just don't comment on them.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2024 10:40 PM (MsrgL)

148 His voice is such a part of my life for nearly 20 years beginning in 1992.

Same here. Merry Christmas, El Rushbo.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2024 10:40 PM (mH6SG)

149 Geddy goes by that name because that's what his granny called him. She was a European Jew.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Kinda like Shemp Howard. His Mom had a hard time pronouncing Samuel or Sam.

Posted by: They Stooge To Conga at December 23, 2024 10:40 PM (G5+As)

150 Cheers, y'all. Have a hot buttered rum on me.

Well, this being Christmas Eve Eve, seems like the right time to once again link to my 16th and last Mindful Webworkshop video, from Christmas, 2016.

Politically Incorrect and Culturally Inappropriate pop song parodies and original tunes sure to put coal in my stocking.

Includes
Rudolfo
The Terrible Christmas Song
Christmas Wrap
The All-Purpose Greeting Card Song
and more
11 cringe-inducing minutes, yet I link to it anyway.

http://bit.ly/webworkshop-016

Posted by: mindful webworker - that vixen was a real troublemaker at December 23, 2024 10:40 PM (288S2)

151 I got caught up in content and mystery clicks. Don't think I officially said good evening to the Horde and thanks to Doof.

Good evening Horde. Thanks Doof!

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:41 PM (9tvFd)

152 The great thing about the 2-Rotor Wankel was that, once you stripped off all of the FEAD gear, two guys could jack ass the entire engine out of car and set it on a 5 gallon bucket.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)

Wankel engines are compact, but they are not light. Practically no open space inside them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 10:41 PM (8zz6B)

153 Duct guys were playing Greatful Dead for a hour in Delaware

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 10:41 PM (fwDg9)

154 Are the robots on strike?
AOC joins Amazon picket line as thousands of workers strike

https://mol.im/a/14221883

Posted by: Ciampino - don't they all rotate? at December 23, 2024 10:41 PM (i0xsb)

155 The Container Store has filed for bankruptcy, sparking fears of store closures.
Posted by: Ciampino

So the Container Store is going to pack it in?

Sorry, I can't help myself.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:42 PM (WXNFJ)

156 Put the Bong Down, Mon!
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:32 PM (3VVY1)
====

*riiiiiiiiiiiiiip*

Posted by: The Lion of Judah at December 23, 2024 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

157 Disagree, Don Black.

But, even if true, she still looks damn good.

To quote Bugs Bunny: “So she’s mechanical!” *starts walking after her like a robot*

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:43 PM (v6JzV)

158 Prime minister's response to Trump's plans to 'buy Greenland'

https://mol.im/a/14222869

Posted by: Ciampino - don't they all have a price? at December 23, 2024 10:43 PM (i0xsb)

159 Part of Haile's title was "Elect of God", I forgot that part.

Posted by: The Grand, High, Exalted, Mystic, Ruler, Morris Fink at December 23, 2024 10:43 PM (G5+As)

160 @AnthonyCumia
I just hope Jimmy Carter stays alive long enough to see Trump take back the Panama Canal.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 23, 2024 10:43 PM (lhenN)

161 Geddy Lee is a commie fuck fuck. Fuck him and all like him.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2024 10:44 PM (IG4Id)

162 155 So the Container Store is going to pack it in?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:42 PM
***
Apparently, they couldn't think out of the box.

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:44 PM (9tvFd)

163 immersing themselves in the religion of Ahura Mazda.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:27 PM (hY4dx)

Then in the 1980's again, with that rotary engine in the RX-7....

Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2024 10:44 PM (WlvCt)

164 They got boxed in?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 10:44 PM (C2QKs)

165 142 Weird Al - "Christmas at Ground Zero"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 10:38 PM (C2QKs)

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

"You might hear some reindeer on your rooftop
Or Jack Frost on your window sill
But if someone's climbin' down your chimney
You'd better load your gun and shoot to kill!"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 23, 2024 10:44 PM (OGOaV)

166 155 So the Container Store is going to pack it in?

Posted by: Tonypete

***
Apparently, they couldn't think out of the box.
Posted by: TRex

That's a wrap!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:45 PM (WXNFJ)

167 Duct guys were playing Greatful Dead for a hour in Delaware
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 10:41 PM (fwDg9)
====
Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

168 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2024 10:45 PM (fwDg9)

169 159 Part of Haile's title was "Elect of God", I forgot that part.
Posted by: The Grand, High, Exalted, Mystic, Ruler, Morris Fink at December 23, 2024 10:43 PM (G5+As)

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That makes him a Calvinist, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:45 PM (hY4dx)

170 The Container Store reached a bottleneck in their business plan.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:45 PM (v6JzV)

171 Are the robots on strike?
AOC joins Amazon picket line as thousands of workers strike

Posted by: Ciampino - don't they all rotate? at December 23, 2024 10:41 PM (i0xsb)

I will say this about my rep, she really thinks quite highly of herself, as if she's some resistance icon. Such a blithering idiot.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (gKDq2)

172 ...as I was raining punches down on him, I thought that there had to be a better way....

Posted by: Archer at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (IDphi)

173 153 Duct guys were playing Greatful Dead for a hour in Delaware
Posted by: Skip

So one song, then.

Posted by: Casey Jones at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (G5+As)

174 So the Container Store is going to pack it in?

Posted by: Tonypete

***
Apparently, they couldn't think out of the box.
Posted by: TRex

That's a wrap!
Posted by: Tonypete

End of a store age.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (IG4Id)

175 For you guys who need this reminder.

It's totally a trap. Smash has been hinting about wanting another 12" skillet. Today she showed me some Hexclad and some Made In cookware models she is interested in. $180 for a freaking skillet!

Of course, she is a most excellent cook. As evidenced by my well nourished a$$. So...no skillet for Christmas, but there will be a skillet for her birthday.

CBD? You here? Can we has a cookware focused food thread one day?

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (MsrgL)

176 134 Wankel Rotary Engine.
Posted by: Ciampino - dom't they all rotate? at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (i0xsb)

************

Invented in Wisconsin by one of my relatives!

Posted by: Kelly Bundy at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (ZB7RZ)

177 171 It was a jarring realization for them.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (v6JzV)

178 I liked Rush Limbaugh pretty well. The last several years - sometime after his cochlear implants perhaps, I couldn’t stand network commercials any longer. Too many, too long, too much bullshit at the top of the hour as well. I sort or drifted away.

He did a great job of illustrating how fucked up leftists are.

How tough is that? Not very. It was remarkable at the time how much they hated him. “Progressives” controlled the big major TV networks, PBS, major print like NYT and WP. I think maybe WSJ editorial section leaned conservative sometimes. That was about it. National Review? Sure, Jan.

Here ole Rushbo started broadcasting on AM Radio by that time a declining, moribund medium. And the left totally lost their shit. Couldn’t believe it. 99% Control of The Narrative Is Not Enough Guys. I seem to recall their first inclination was to have congress outlaw him or something. An early glimpse on what was to come as the left slipped further and further into madness. In 1988 it was still possible to have a discussion with liberals. Sort of.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:47 PM (3VVY1)

179 Things are so bad at the Container Store that the laid-off employees didn't even get a box for their personal belongings.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:47 PM (hY4dx)

180 iirc Emp. Selassie thought the Rastafarians were nuts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

181 Can we has a cookware focused food thread one day?
Posted by: BifBewalski

No uni-taskers!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2024 10:47 PM (IG4Id)

182 The Dollar Tree Xmas Dinner
(No Stove Required)

https://youtu.be/hjcvPFZv9m0

Posted by: Ciampino - no turkey basedrum sticks? at December 23, 2024 10:47 PM (i0xsb)

183 G’night, Skip. It can be REM sleep time.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:48 PM (v6JzV)

184 166 That's a wrap!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 10:45 PM
***
Put a lid on it!

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:48 PM (9tvFd)

185 I got caught up in content and mystery clicks. Don't think I officially said good evening to the Horde and thanks to Doof.

Good evening Horde. Thanks Doof!
Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:41 PM (9tvFd)

If I only reach ONE moron with my ONT, it is worth the effort!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:48 PM (RFPHU)

186 Can we has a cookware focused food thread one day?

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (MsrgL)

Absolutely!

Shoot me an email in the next few days and I'll actually remember to do it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2024 10:48 PM (d9fT1)

187 It was a jarring realization for them.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (v6JzV)

Their Masons weren't free, and they dropped the Ball.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2024 10:49 PM (8zz6B)

188 Put a lid on it!
Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 10:48 PM (9tvFd)

————-

Can’t find one that’ll fit!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 10:51 PM (u73oe)

189 I never listened to Rush. I listened to Dr. Laura and Michael Savage.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2024 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

190 So the Container Store is going to pack it in?

Posted by: Tonypete

***
Apparently, they couldn't think out of the box.
Posted by: TRex

That's a wrap!
Posted by: Tonypete

End of a store age.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2024 10:46 PM (IG4Id)

Hanging it up and going back in the closet.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy - OT but harmless at December 23, 2024 10:52 PM (v23vE)

191 Shoot me an email in the next few days and I'll actually remember to do it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

WILCO

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 23, 2024 10:52 PM (MsrgL)

192 Every Sunday and Monday ONT in December 2024 has concluded with a Rush deep cut. With few notable and appreciated exceptions, there has been far too little mention of these tracks.

I couldn't help it...I was in a rush.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

193 No uni-taskers!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2024 10:47 PM (IG4Id)

Now that depends. I have a cheapo 3-4" pan so thin you can't cook in it as everything burns. But it's great for dry toasting seeds. That's the only reason it's still in my kitchen.

A uni-tasker is fine if they don't take up too much space.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 10:52 PM (gKDq2)

194 G'night, all.

Posted by: Dr. T at December 23, 2024 10:52 PM (jGGMD)

195 It isn’t that I didn’t appreciate Rush, but it seems we are now inundated with plenty of folks who make good money describing our problems in great detail, but it seems so many still labor jnder the delusion that somehow leftists can be shamed into noticing their hypocrisy and absurdity and cruelty. They don’t GAF about any of that. “Whatbif the roles were reversed, hm!?? “

Everybody is trying to apply facts, logic, and reason in the hopes of persuading people who have been innoculated against anything of the sort. This is a long running project in the schools, in case you haven’t … noticed

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 10:53 PM (3VVY1)

196 Who here doesn't like Geddy Lee?

Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at December 23, 2024 10:53 PM (hY4dx)

197 192 Every Sunday and Monday ONT in December 2024 has concluded with a Rush deep cut. With few notable and appreciated exceptions, there has been far too little mention of these tracks.

I couldn't help it...I was in a rush.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

Well, a rush to get out of the hospital...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 10:53 PM (ynpvh)

198 @152

>>Wankel engines are compact, but they are not light. Practically no open space inside them.

A FEAD less 2-rotor wankel weighs less than 300lbs, a 352 weighs about 600lbs, and you can't disassemble it on a bucket.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2024 10:55 PM (XV/Pl)

199 196 Who here doesn't like Geddy Lee?

Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at December 23, 2024 10:53 PM (hY4dx)

Sara Lee makes better desserts...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 10:55 PM (ynpvh)

200 http://bit.ly/webworkshop-016
Posted by: mindful webworker - that vixen was a real troublemaker

Wow!! That's the most disturbing Christmas Show I've ever seen, and I've seen a thing or two.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at December 23, 2024 10:55 PM (G5+As)

201 I couldn't help it...I was in a rush.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

So you're saying you needed to make Time Stand Still?

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 10:56 PM (RFPHU)

202 Goodnight, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2024 10:58 PM (v6JzV)

203
Haile Selassie billed himself as Lion of Judah, King of Kings, Emperor of Ethiopia. No reason to be shy or self-deprecating.
Posted by: The Grand, High, Exalted, Mystic, Ruler, Morris Fink

Almost as powerful as the Duke of New York.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2024 10:59 PM (63Dwl)

204 First heard Rush in Somalia on AFN. One hour.
Came home and found out he actually did 3 glorious hours because my first job had a work truck with the radio stuck on the local AM talk radio station. After him was G. Gordon Liddy.

Posted by: Reforger at December 23, 2024 10:59 PM (xcIvR)

205 Night Bulg!

I am also headed to bed. Sleep tight everyone!

Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2024 11:00 PM (p4NUW)

206 I arrived at the grocery and saw that rear tire was completely flat. I keep a ton of emergency road stuff in the trunk, and there was a travel-size compressor in there. It pumped the tire right up, but I do not trust it anymore.

Random event that was either going to leave me feeling less-manly or more-manly.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 23, 2024 11:01 PM (lhenN)

207 G. Gordon Liddy.
Posted by: Reforger

Time to order your new "Stacked and Packed" calendar for 2025.

Posted by: Did 5 Years, Standing On My Head at December 23, 2024 11:02 PM (G5+As)

208 What the hell does “FEAD” stand for?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 11:04 PM (zbmv/)

209 Fuel and drivetrain maybe?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 11:05 PM (zbmv/)

210 A FEAD less 2-rotor wankel weighs less than 300lbs, a 352 weighs about 600lbs, and you can't disassemble it on a bucket.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Air-cooled VW 1600 weighs in around 209 lbs. Very easy to handle alone.

Posted by: V at December 23, 2024 11:05 PM (G5+As)

211 Eons ago in DC, at some dinner or lunch lost to memory, one of the people there was a very elegant, well dressed black guy (clearly Ethiopian or close, with the fine features and also the way he carried himself). On his hand was a beautiful big onyx (? maybe) and gold ring. Big square of onyx, on which a gold lion figure was depicted. Assume the gold was, well, gold.

I axed, and he explained - Lion of Judah. Don't remember if he was royal family, or just a high-class expatriate - lots of them in DC back then. Quite a ring.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 11:06 PM (1m82a)

212 Somebody's getting a lump of coal in his stocking this year.

Anthracite, probably.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 10:21 PM (hY4dx

As a gag, for years dad would put a lump of coal in the bottom of my Christmas stocking. It became a tradition and he would include a lump of coal as one of my Christmas presents once I moved away.

Well, the young grandkids over heard me telling their parents the story. Later, my wife heard the grandkids talking and they were saying grandpa must have done something really bad for Santa to give coal!

Posted by: Beartooth at December 23, 2024 11:06 PM (3Ev2O)

213 Time to order your new "Stacked and Packed" calendar for 2025.
Posted by: Did 5 Years, Standing On My Head at December 23, 2024 11:02 PM (G5+As)

"Review and comment on the news. Let's see hear."
I really did enjoy his show. Threw a fit live on the radio over it. Turns out he was being canceled because advertisers were bailing due to an orchestrated boycot.

Posted by: Reforger at December 23, 2024 11:08 PM (xcIvR)

214 I hate this Festivus bullshit. No better than the Kwanzaa bullshit.
Posted by: Bulg

Winter Solstice is the only holiday which is real.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)

215 Container Store thing is Chapter 11, right? Not going out of business?

The death of retail is slowly but inexorably lowering the standard of living/increasing the hassle of living. So many things need to seen, touched, assessed physically, to get what you really want (or refine what you really want or need).

I get the economics of it all. But it is a paradoxical example of efficiency reducing consumer welfare (for many).

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 11:09 PM (1m82a)

216 >>>Wow!! That's the most disturbing Christmas Show I've ever seen, and I've seen a thing or two.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23
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It pale's in comparason to one I saw today. The presenter introduced it with 'WTF is this?' It was sick. Not like the kids say sick it was sick as in disgusting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 11:09 PM (kquDM)

217 Helluva ONT, Doof! Well done on the Violent Femmes. And the TRex vid.

Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 11:10 PM (41CYW)

218 208 What the hell does “FEAD” stand for?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2024 11:04 PM
***
Forced Energy Addition Device

Posted by: TRex at December 23, 2024 11:11 PM (9tvFd)

219 Winter Solstice is the only holiday which is real.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7BC. It's OK to celebrate now, though.

Posted by: Permission Granted at December 23, 2024 11:12 PM (G5+As)

220 I've been listening to a bunch of Celtic Women videos today. It's a shame that there are people in our civilization who are willing to turn their backs on what has been created that is so beautiful (and what is objectively good and true, as well) but here we are.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 23, 2024 11:12 PM (ZB7RZ)

221 When I was a kid we had a beautiful little shiny block of PA anthracite (parental origins in coal country) around the house. Have no idea what happened to it.

On a gourmet train trip deal in Japan last year they had a similar piece of anthracite on the table as decoration, and regional artifact - it had been a coal-mining area. Almost asked if I could take or buy it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 11:13 PM (1m82a)

222 He went by Geddy because that’s what his granny called him? Whatever metal is, this is the opposite of that.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Depends on the granny, I think.

Posted by: mikeski's grannies would not have been metal at December 23, 2024 11:14 PM (DgGvY)

223 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7BC. It's OK to celebrate now, though.
Posted by: Permission Granted at December 23, 2024 11:12 PM (G5+As)

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It must have been weird being Jesus living in the BC era.

"Mom, is it A.D. yet?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 11:15 PM (hY4dx)

224 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7BC. It's OK to celebrate now, though.
Posted by: Permission Granted

Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate. That should put an end to all the hubbub Bub.

I don't know why I have to think of everything.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 11:16 PM (WXNFJ)

225 When leftards/atheists hassle about Christmas not being "Christ's *actual* birthday" blahdeblah and "copy-cat of pagan rituals" blahdeblah...

I counter with:

Jesus' birthday *observed*

Usually shuts up their BS.

Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2024 11:17 PM (YoCnN)

226 220 I've been listening to a bunch of Celtic Women videos today. It's a shame that there are people in our civilization who are willing to turn their backs on what has been created that is so beautiful (and what is objectively good and true, as well) but here we are.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie

I've been binging on Enya video the last two days, which led me to Clannad and Maire Brennan. Enya has some very talented brothers and sisters, including Maire Brennan. I think 9 kids in the family. Her Mom and Dad were great musicians, too. Enya has the voice of an angel.

Posted by: Dublin's Finest at December 23, 2024 11:17 PM (G5+As)

227 According to Twitter, somewhere in the world (India?) they call today Christmas Adam, because it's right before Christmas Eve.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at December 23, 2024 11:17 PM (43XUo)

228 Helluva ONT, Doof! Well done on the Violent Femmes. And the TRex vid.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 11:10 PM (41CYW)

Thank you. Appreciate your kind words on my ONTs. Glad you enjoy them!

Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2024 11:18 PM (RFPHU)

229 Of all the famous Irish musicians of the last hundred years, only U2 surpasses Enya in music sales.

Posted by: Dublin's Finest at December 23, 2024 11:19 PM (G5+As)

230 224 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7BC. It's OK to celebrate now, though.
Posted by: Permission Granted

Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate. That should put an end to all the hubbub Bub.

I don't know why I have to think of everything.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 11:16 PM (WXNFJ)

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Bah!

According to our records, he was born in winter. Otherwise, that infernal Kris Kringle wouldn't have conspired with Winter Warlock to make reindeer fly to deliver toys on Christmas Eve!

Posted by: Burgermeister Meisterburger at December 23, 2024 11:19 PM (ZB7RZ)

231 Has Bono driven off that cliff yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2024 11:20 PM (C2QKs)

232
Good evening, all. I have to make a pie crust.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2024 11:21 PM (+9XGo)

233 It takes a dying world to try to stamp out all that is good about Western, Judeo-Christian culture. It is a demonic sickness.

Posted by: Stand Up! at December 23, 2024 11:22 PM (G5+As)

234 I think I know the perfect song to blast at the White House on January 19th: Napoleon XIV, They're Coming to Take Me Away.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2024 11:22 PM (VNX3d)

235 Daily Wire:
James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has reportedly made it clear to Amazon executives that she will not support plans for a spinoff female 007 TV series.
Broccoli — who acquired all the rights to the James Bond franchise from her late father Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and holds all approval rights for anything associated with the franchise — has reportedly not agreed with Amazon’s woke plans for the next spy film or even TV series, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In March 2022, the giant e-retail acquired the rights to the franchise from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio for $8.5 billion, WSJ noted.
“These people are f***ing idiots,” Broccoli reportedly told others when describing Amazon executives.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2024 11:23 PM (0JWOm)

236 Can't help myself. Watching a Christmas movie, Die Hard. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 23, 2024 11:23 PM (mH6SG)

237 The Container Store has filed for bankruptcy, sparking fears of store closures.

https://mol.im/a/14221049
Posted by: Ciampino - dom't they all rotate?

They had a store that just sold boxes?
A bit of a niche market.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 11:24 PM (/lPRQ)

238 Jane Bond. And I thought it couldn't get worse than Daniel Craig.

I can't wait not to go see it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 11:27 PM (hY4dx)

239 If you want to see musicians at the height of their abilities performing to wildly appreciative fans, check out Rush In Rio.

The Brazilian crowd sings along to YYZ.

Now, when you whip a crowd into such a state that they sing along to an instrumental, you know you're killing it as a band.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Some bands have serious cult followings.

X Japan could take their break between their main set and their encore in the middle of Endless Rain. The audience just sat there singing the four-line chorus over and over for 5-10 minutes until they came back to finish the song.

It's not the whole encore break, but you can watch them leaving the stage while the audience sings their song to them, from about 9:30 on, here:

https://youtu.be/7rwJIeN1M7o&t=531

Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2024 11:28 PM (DgGvY)

240 "Every Sunday and Monday ONT in December 2024 has concluded with a Rush deep cut. With few notable and appreciated exceptions, there has been far too little mention of these tracks. The ONT works tirelessly and diligently to find these and all the other musical selections which are scattered around each night. Be better, Hordelings."

Ahem.. I spent the last 48 years playing Rush, practically the whole length of their career. Burned up 100's of sets of strings, amp tubes, and frets doing it. I have entire separate guitar rigs completely outside of my normal genre dedicated to THAT sound. I sit at the right hand of the RUSH god, I am one of the chosen. My conscience is fucking clear. lolol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2024 11:29 PM (VwHCD)

241 Can't help myself. Watching a Christmas movie, Die Hard. Heh.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Heh, I watched it last night.

Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 11:29 PM (41CYW)

242 When I was a kid we had a beautiful little shiny block of PA anthracite (parental origins in coal country) around the house. Have no idea what happened to it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2024 11:13 PM (1m82a)

Still have a lump of coal from The Pocahontas (VA) Exhibition Coal Mine on my bookshelf. Many family worked in the coal mines of Appalachia; one Grandpa died in a coal crash (before I was born). My Dad even worked in them as a rowdy teen before joining the Navy. Dad didn't like hard work. So the Navy it was; the Air Force hadn't been created yet.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 11:30 PM (gKDq2)

243 Thanks for the dust warning on that clip. Ufda, that hurt...

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 23, 2024 11:30 PM (dtlDP)

244 Wow!! That's the most disturbing Christmas Show I've ever seen, and I've seen a thing or two.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23

Delighted with your review. Makes it all worth it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - door dasher prancer at December 23, 2024 11:31 PM (288S2)

245 The Admiral Ackbar meme is so true. I think I rate fairly high on the husband scale, but my gift giving absolutely sucks.

Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2024 11:32 PM (yHP5w)

246 It must have been weird being Jesus living in the BC era.

"Mom, is it A.D. yet?"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2024 11:15 PM (hY4dx)

"Yes, Child, the day you were born." ~ Mary

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 11:33 PM (gKDq2)

247 As for the Festivus pole, I ordered an antenna the other day that looks very similar. Throw out some counterpoise wires and maybe I could work the upper HF bands and celebrate the holiday at the same time.

Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2024 11:34 PM (yHP5w)

248 244 Wow!! That's the most disturbing Christmas Show I've ever seen, and I've seen a thing or two.
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23

Delighted with your review. Makes it all worth it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - door dasher prancer

Really, I meant disturbing in a good way. Very entertaining.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at December 23, 2024 11:34 PM (G5+As)

249 Not to do with store but products and presentation. I'm shopping for a toothbrush with a spinning head. Several brands are advertised as spinners:
DUAL ACTION BRUSH HEAD features oscillating circle (spinner) and sliding plate (scrubber), moving up to 3,900 sweeps per minute!
Oral B has one called the Revolution - it oscillates at 45° each way.
Many of them (Disney) come with Bluetooth and timers but simple, actual rotation seems beyond them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 11:34 PM (kquDM)

250 Good evening, all. I have to make a pie crust.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Yum.

Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 11:35 PM (41CYW)

251 246 It must have been weird being Jesus living in the BC era.

"Mom, is it A.D. yet?"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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And the sun comes up in the afternoon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 11:36 PM (kquDM)

252 My grandpa contributed to my classical music collection, but Rush got me listening to Mannheim Steamroller. And Lil Pooky has so many opinions about music, holy cow. I was practicing clarinet today and he woke up screaming, making me wonder if I had hit too many wrong notes. Because that would be on brand for him!

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at December 23, 2024 11:37 PM (dtlDP)

253 Watching 'A Christmas Carol'. The ghost of Christmas present just revealed the wretched creatures under his robe

“They are Humanity’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware of them both and everyone like them, but most of all beware of this boy, for he will lead you to Doom, unless he is changed.”

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 11:37 PM (XeU6L)

254 The Admiral Ackbar meme is so true. I think I rate fairly high on the husband scale, but my gift giving absolutely sucks.
Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2024 11:32 PM (yHP5w)

When in doubt, Coach leather handbags. They come in all sizes, including 'kitchen sink' sizes for the busy woman. Coach bags are not cheap but they are made to last.

Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2024 11:39 PM (gKDq2)

255 Why doesn't someone simply check His birth certificate. That should put an end to all the hubbub Bub.

I don't know why I have to think of everything.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2024 11:16 PM (WXNFJ)

Probably lost in that big c. 700.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 11:39 PM (/lPRQ)

256 Oh, and a crisis was averted this afternoon. I thought I would have to fake happiness while loathing Pooky's gift to me, but it turns out that he got me something awesome: A Lego Barad-Dur. Over 5,000 pieces!!!!

tinyurl.com/y7ckteyh

Posted by: pookysgirl, Eggo My Lego! at December 23, 2024 11:42 PM (dtlDP)

257 Christ was born on October 1 or 2, 7 BC.

Is that by the Julian calendar?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2024 11:42 PM (3/kEz)

258
241 Can't help myself. Watching a Christmas movie, Die Hard. Heh.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Heh, I watched it last night.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 11:29 PM (41CYW)

Technically, the french movie "Inside" is a Christmas movie.

A French woman loses her guy in a car crash. Four months later, the doctor at the hospital sends her home on Christmas Eve and they will induce labor in the morning if neccessary.

She goes home. But a lady with a knife shows up.

The movie is only about 80 minutes long. The first 15 to 20 minutes are slow. The rest of it, pretty relentless.

Prepared me for the 'Saw' series...all 10 films.

But Christmas movie!

Posted by: Stateless at December 23, 2024 11:43 PM (jvJvP)

259 I found one! Philips Sonicare DiamondClean toothbrush, it's only $109 dollars. Think I'll get two.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 11:44 PM (kquDM)

260 Probably lost in that big c. 700.

BIG FIRE.. sheesh. Proofread once in a while.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2024 11:45 PM (/lPRQ)

261 Honda and Nissan are talking merger. Also maybe Mitsubishi to join them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2024 11:46 PM (63Dwl)

262 Is that by the Julian calendar?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Yes, by our current way of tracking the significance of the passage of time.

Posted by: The Veep at December 23, 2024 11:46 PM (G5+As)

263 259 I found one! Philips Sonicare DiamondClean toothbrush, it's only $109 dollars. Think I'll get two.
Posted by: Braenyard

That's a bit steep. I'm going to keep cleaning them in the glass at the side of my bed.

Posted by: Polident at December 23, 2024 11:48 PM (G5+As)

264 259 I found one! Philips Sonicare DiamondClean toothbrush, it's only $109 dollars. Think I'll get two.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 11:44 PM (kquDM)

I have a Philips I like. Don't know the exact type.

You can get replacement heads on Amazon but may have to search.

Posted by: Stateless at December 23, 2024 11:49 PM (jvJvP)

265 253. When I was little, remember watching a cartoon Christmas Carol starring Mr. McGoo. Wonder if that is still around in tv vaults somewhere.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 23, 2024 11:51 PM (7sehj)

266 I found one! Philips Sonicare DiamondClean toothbrush, it's only $109 dollars. Think I'll get two.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 11:44 PM (kquDM)

Colgate PLUS Clean & Fresh manual toothbrush (Soft), only 99 cents.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2024 11:54 PM (Aqu9a)

267 Proofread once in a while.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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A good editude.

Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2024 11:55 PM (41CYW)

268 265 253. When I was little, remember watching a cartoon Christmas Carol starring Mr. McGoo. Wonder if that is still around in tv vaults somewhere.
Posted by: Jen the original
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Jim Backus mounted his twin Beech and flew off into the bourbon afterlife.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2024 11:55 PM (kquDM)

269 Know what's weird? We now have three grocery stores in our small town. But none of them carry kids' toothbrushes. So I have to go to the Dollar General to get not only kids' toothbrushes, but really good ones that last forever. Yay, capitalism!

Posted by: pookysgirl is kind of sick of buying the Frozen ones every time at December 23, 2024 11:57 PM (dtlDP)

270 My Phiips is *ancient*. Amazed that the battery(s) have lasted so long.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2024 11:58 PM (XeU6L)

271 *Philips

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2024 12:02 AM (XeU6L)

272
Good evening, Mr. Phiips.

Er, Mr. Phillips.

Er, Phelps.

This comment will self-destruct in 8 seconds...

Posted by: Mission Impossible Guy at December 24, 2024 12:04 AM (pn4py)

273 Now that I think about it, Julian and Gregorian wouldn’t have differed yet. It was only much later that the Julian calendar got off from the celestial year. Why did the Monk Dennis (who set the date of AD vs. BC) get the date of our Savior’s birth off by so much (I know the big clue is Herod’s murder of the innocents in Bethlehem + Herod’s death in 4 BC, also the Wise Men met Jesus as a toddler - to paidion). But why didn’t Dennis know that?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 24, 2024 12:04 AM (3/kEz)

274 Jim Backus was lost on a desert island with some other castaways, so he couldn’t do any more voiceovers for Mr. McGoo.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 24, 2024 12:09 AM (3/kEz)

275 Philips
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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If I take a p/t job in retirement I want to sell screwdrivers. What type ya need? Plus sign or minus sign. If a tricky customer, star. No Phillips, standard, or torx talk. Dummy and dummy.

Posted by: scampydog at December 24, 2024 12:11 AM (41CYW)

276 @235

>>“These people are f***ing idiots,” Broccoli reportedly told others when describing Amazon executives.

This may go down as one of the stupidest business decisions ever, Amazon bought the distribution rights but not the creative rights, so they have to essentially wait until ole Barb decides to sh*t something out.

Which may be a blessing in disguise at this point.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2024 12:14 AM (XV/Pl)

277 Was just looking at the 2025 calendar. I note that 3 months have days that fall within 6 Sunday thru Saturday weeks.

March, August, November.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2024 12:14 AM (XeU6L)

278
fish don't fry in the kitchen

....?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 12:17 AM (pn4py)

279
fish don't fry in the kitchen

....?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2024 12:17 AM (pn4py)

280 No Phillips, standard, or torx talk. Dummy and dummy.
Posted by: scampydog

As long as your screws don't freeze to the hole, you're good.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2024 12:19 AM (IG4Id)

281 Life in the "South Sound, PNW.
So, about 1915 I went outside for a smoke, as we had a ‘wind warning’ for then. Dead Calm. I came inside and read interweb shit and Anita got on the treadmill to watch “Elementary”. Five minutes later the wind hit the house like the shockwave from a bomb. The sky lit up like the 4th of July as limbs hit wires, fuses blew, and then it got very very dark…

This old man dragged the genset outside and put some gas in it, sprayed a little ether into the air filter and yanked on the pull starter for the 10HP Briggs & Stratton. My 76 year old back got the fookin’ thing started once again. This is the fourth time this year. I don’t know how many more times I’m gonna be able to do this. Getting old is sucking pretty hard…

Posted by: ChrisP at December 24, 2024 12:22 AM (WbGL/)

282 The Biblical Timeline of History is very involved and takes hundreds of hours of study. No one was ever able, until recently, to harmonize the perfect harmony of the dates of the Hebrew Kings, for example. And all the "begat" references, ironed out as to who was a direct son/father and who was a grand or great grandfather, etc.

The best work on this is at ebiblefellowship.org. Link on home page for timeline studies. Several guys there have studied this seriously for thousands of hours and their findings and charts are there.

Posted by: Timeline of History at December 24, 2024 12:22 AM (G5+As)

283 If I take a p/t job in retirement I want to sell screwdrivers. What type ya need? Plus sign or minus sign.
Posted by: scampydog

Your first Japanese customer will be astounded that you know their terms for them: "plus driver" and "minus driver".

Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2024 12:22 AM (DgGvY)

284 As long as your screws don't freeze to the hole, you're good.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2024 12:19 AM (IG4Id)

Outdoor sex in the winter can be dangerous.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2024 12:22 AM (gKDq2)

285 One of the ships involved in Russia’s military evacuation from Syria, the cargo vessel Ursa Major, reportedly suffered a major engine room explosion in the Mediterranean and sank earlier today.

Posted by: 13times at December 24, 2024 12:25 AM (2ktXd)

286 Outdoor sex in the winter can be dangerous.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2024 12:22 AM (gKDq2)

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Never touch your tongue to a frozen pole.

Posted by: Ralphie at December 24, 2024 12:25 AM (dDmld)

287 285 One of the ships involved in Russia’s military evacuation from Syria, the cargo vessel Ursa Major, reportedly suffered a major engine room explosion in the Mediterranean and sank earlier today.
Posted by: 13times at December 24, 2024 12:25 AM (2ktXd)

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Oops.

Posted by: Mossad at December 24, 2024 12:26 AM (dDmld)

288 This old man dragged the genset outside and put some gas in it, sprayed a little ether into the air filter and yanked on the pull starter for the 10HP Briggs & Stratton. My 76 year old back got the fookin’ thing started once again. This is the fourth time this year. I don’t know how many more times I’m gonna be able to do this. Getting old is sucking pretty hard…
Posted by: ChrisP

Went through that drill last week during a power outage. My inverter generator is easy to start, though. After I got it all set up with cords, etc. and cooking on a small 2 burner stove, power came back.

Posted by: Thankful For Generator at December 24, 2024 12:26 AM (G5+As)

289 Never touch your tongue to a frozen pole.
Posted by: Ralphie at December 24, 2024 12:25 AM (dDmld)

Hawk Tuah Girl hardest hit.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2024 12:28 AM (gKDq2)

290 When we built this house we put in a Gen-Tran panel that put the well, most lights, the wire closet(modem, routers), server, fridge, gas-log, gas stove, microwave on the emergency buss.
Plug one cable from the gen-set into the house and flip the switch. We have hot water and heat and light on the generator.

Posted by: ChrisP at December 24, 2024 12:37 AM (WbGL/)

291 Your first Japanese customer will be astounded that you know their terms for them: "plus driver" and "minus driver".
Posted by: mikeski
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Had to look that up. We'll done mikeski. I did not know that my brain was Japanese influenced.

Posted by: scampydog at December 24, 2024 12:37 AM (41CYW)

292 Well. Auto cucumber. Damnit.

Posted by: scampydog at December 24, 2024 12:38 AM (41CYW)

293 Well, I am ready for sleep. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2024 12:41 AM (8zz6B)

294 I wondered about the Mr. Magoo Christmas Carol, and supposedly it's on Hulu. I'm trying to log in and getting the Eternal Hourglass of Death.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 24, 2024 12:42 AM (+9XGo)

295 UPA animation studios was founded by Disney rebels who were chased out during the strike, and was under investigation by federal commie-hunters. The original Mister Magoo character created there was meant as a highly politicized parody of McCarthyism. As television brought high demand for simple and cheap cartoons, the character changed hands and got cleaned up.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 24, 2024 12:45 AM (zdLoL)

296 When I was little, remember watching a cartoon Christmas Carol starring Mr. McGoo. Wonder if that is still around in tv vaults somewhere.
Posted by: Jen the original

DuckDuckGo is your friend.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
https://archive.org/details/
mister-magoos-christmas-carol-1962

We just started watching Remember The Night (1940) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, also found on archive.org. Seems like a good resource. YooToob didn't have Remember, and wanted $ to watch McGoo.
https://archive.org/details/
remember-the-night-1940

I remember the McGoo Christmas Carol as being pretty good, but I was very young when I watched it.

Thanks to whatever Moron suggested Remember the Night.

Posted by: mindful webworker - comet cupid donner party blitzen at December 24, 2024 12:46 AM (288S2)

297 Festivus it is for me.

While sitting at stop sign, the front driver's side wheel area of my new Toyota RAV4 (4700 miles) got plowed into tonight by dip shit 2 who was driving to fast and was unable to stop when dip shit 1 made a left turn in front dip shit 2.

Dip shit 1 pulled into two of the three oncoming lanes of heavy traffic and stopped when he realized he would never clear them.

All other lanes of traffic were able to stop in time except for dip shit 2 in the middle lane who tried swerve around him. Of course the two smacked into each other which caused dip shit 2 go careening and plowed into me. After the cars were cleared I checked for skip marks from dip shit 2's car - none. He never touched his brakes.

Besides the obligatory sheet metal destruction, my front wheel is sitting at about a 45 degree angle. The car may be totaled. Yeah. This is going to be a nightmare.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 24, 2024 12:49 AM (Q8Bj8)

298 I notice Madonna's "Like a Prayer" is popping up everywhere again now for some reason.

And in some cases Christians are using it un-ironically and the left is having a shit fit.

But...they are taking all sorts of icons, symbols, and music and re-using it for leftwing crap so...why not? I mean outside of it being a stupid song.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 24, 2024 12:53 AM (oZhjI)

299 Alteria Pilgrim -

Sorry about your new car. Glad to hear you’re OK, though.

Posted by: Adriane to Totally Not Cynical Critic . . . at December 24, 2024 12:55 AM (qz+gL)

300 Gonna go away now. Gotta get to sleep before Santa's Christmas Eve elf crawls down our non-existent chimbley. He's the one that decorates our tree.

Never know what will turnip when I go looking for Christmas tunes.
https://youtu.be/05rUSARpr4g

G'nite, y'all. God bless us every one.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ho ho ohhhh my at December 24, 2024 12:56 AM (288S2)

301 G'night, mindful. Merry Christmas.

Posted by: scampydog at December 24, 2024 12:59 AM (41CYW)

302 "Like a Prayer" was on the Deadpool and Wolverine soundtrack.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 24, 2024 01:00 AM (lhenN)

303 Besides the obligatory sheet metal destruction, my front wheel is sitting at about a 45 degree angle. The car may be totaled. Yeah. This is going to be a nightmare.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Who is his insurer?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2024 01:01 AM (XeU6L)

304 Same to you Scampy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2024 01:02 AM (XeU6L)

305 Wel, cracked open some Christmas cheer. Went to the liquor store this morning and bought two bottles of Bailey's. They came in a box with a nifty glass mug, quite sturdy. Stuck 'em in the fridge and am now sipping some, sans ice.

Haven't really been drinkng much these last 6 years, so I thought I'd go easy on myself.

Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2024 01:03 AM (gKDq2)

306 Who is his insurer?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Farmers.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 24, 2024 01:08 AM (Q8Bj8)

307 Farmers.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Okay. No experience with them. Keep us posteed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2024 01:11 AM (XeU6L)

308 Ah, there is no other like Rush Limbaugh...can imagine his delight in Nov 2024...when we departed CA for the east coast, the only detour was to Limbaugh's grave in St Louis....may he RIP, and we are so much better because of him...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at December 24, 2024 01:12 AM (Tuja5)

309 Who is his insurer?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Farmers.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Oops. I don't know the other party's insurance companies. Almost instantly the cops were there and gathered up all that information and it opened up a case. I have to wait a few days before I can get my mitts on that. In the meantime, I'm looking at a long holiday weekend with no wheels unless I can get the insurance agent to do something tomorrow.

There's a real chance that the dipshit 2 doesn't have insurance. He was driving a 25-year-old Jeep Cherokee that was in rough shape. Dipshit 2. Had a newer car so they probably have insurance. In addition to dealing with the insurance company tomorrow, I'll give my attorney a phone call.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 24, 2024 01:13 AM (Q8Bj8)

310 Wow, Alteria Pilgram, what a pain in the ass!

Glad you're OK.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2024 01:19 AM (YoCnN)

311 The best version of the Wassail song was in Claymation Christmas. Most others don't sound nearly as happy as those elves... ;-)

Also, Bono sings much better when he doesn't have his dentures in

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 24, 2024 01:22 AM (/Xmuk)

312 That Russian cargo ship in distress/worse in the Med hasn't been in Syria since July, so whatever else was going on, it wasn't part of any transfer of military materiel out of Tartus. According to a maritime guru's account on X.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2024 01:22 AM (1m82a)

313 Wow, Alteria Pilgram, what a pain in the ass!

Glad you're OK.
Posted by: JQ

I'm really glad I'm okay too. Could have been very different. What really sucks is I saved up the cash to pay for this car so I wouldn't have a car payment and I bought exactly the vehicle I wanted to live with for the next 10+ years. And now it's gone. 40K poof. And to get it back I'm going to have to fight with an insurance company. I'm going to get hosed one way or another.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 24, 2024 01:23 AM (Q8Bj8)

314 Fk'n "insurance"... grrrrr....

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2024 01:28 AM (YoCnN)

315 286 Outdoor sex in the winter can be dangerous.
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Old girlfriend loved the cold. We bought those long wool military surplus long coats and would take my dog to the National Guard Reservation (they used it maybe 2 or 3 times a year, otherwise it was forest) to run. We'd walk out into the middle and I'd let him go. Irish Setter mix loved to run.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 01:31 AM (kquDM)

316 Fk'n "insurance"... grrrrr....
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It's only a license to argue with the insurance company.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2024 01:33 AM (XeU6L)

317 Alteria - it is amazing how one can be minding one's own business, life is under control, and BOOM. Life hands you a shit sandwich.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2024 01:39 AM (XeU6L)

318 314 Fk'n "insurance"... grrrrr....

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2024 01:28 AM (YoCnN)

You may need more Lalochezia.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2024 01:44 AM (ynpvh)

319 Hello, Horde!

The TiFW family is now all in one place for the holidays - we are so happy to have everyone together this year! ❤❤❤

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2024 01:56 AM (jx3Zf)

320 We've had lovely, unseasonably warm weather here. No hope of a 'white Christmas' this year, LOL.

Was able to finish a few outdoor chores that I thought would need to wait until Spring.

Hubby & I will have a quiet holiday, just the two of us.

youtube.com/watch?v=6POZlJAZsok

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2024 01:59 AM (YoCnN)

321
Dear me, I'm back after getting two pumpkin pies into the oven and the kitchen completely cleaned up and it's barely 20 posts since my last one.

Anyway, I found Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol on Dailymotion. It's playing in another tab right now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 24, 2024 02:19 AM (+9XGo)

322 Nite all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2024 02:19 AM (ynpvh)

323 UnItree, B2-W, Talent - vittorio@IterIntellectus

how do you even defend from an army of these chasing you?
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New Robot on the block. Boston Scientific, look out.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcwv45

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 02:23 AM (kquDM)

324
Besides the obligatory sheet metal destruction, my front wheel is sitting at about a 45 degree angle. The car may be totaled. Yeah. This is going to be a nightmare.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

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omg I'm so sorry. Next Christmas will be better.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 24, 2024 02:24 AM (+9XGo)

325 The fighting dinos are great

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 24, 2024 02:24 AM (wDJaI)

326 Elon Musk@elonmusk39m
One the craziest things ever said in America
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Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital43m

🚨 Former head of the Wikimedia foundation and current CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher: “The Wikipedians who write these articles aren’t focused on finding the truth. For our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth isn’t the best place to start. Reverence for the truth might have become a bit of distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.” 🤦‍♂️

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 02:30 AM (kquDM)

327 324
Besides the obligatory sheet metal destruction, my front wheel is sitting at about a 45 degree angle. The car may be totaled. Yeah. This is going to be a nightmare.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Rent a car, pigeon hole your emotions and have a good Christmas.
Then have a go at it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 02:33 AM (kquDM)

328 Just listened to Rush. Reminds me that my number of future Christmases is on the low side. Remember to appreciate each day.

G'night all. Merry Christmas Eve.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 24, 2024 02:39 AM (7ewII)

329 Thanks Doof! I’m rarely on the ONT because I go to bed early… but alas I found myself in the ER tonight. A sudden appearance of floaters in my eye… wife worried about retinal detachment so here I am. Thankfully after all tests, no detachment but gotta go see an opthamologist tomorrow morning… but not an emergency. Something called vitreous hemorrhage, but not severe. Floaters are…. Weird

Love that Rush Limbaugh clip; sure miss him. No offense but I don’t miss the other (musical) Rush!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2024 02:40 AM (xGalg)

330 December 23, 2024 xAI raises $6B Series C

We are partnering with A16Z, Blackrock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Kingdom Holdings, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Vy Capital, amongst others.

Strategic investors NVIDIA and AMD also participated and continue to support xAI in rapidly scaling our infrastructure.

Since the announcement of the Series B in May 2024, xAI has made significant technical progress and shipped a multitude of key initiatives including:

https://x.ai/blog/series-c

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2024 02:40 AM (kquDM)

331 131 Been doing cookies all day.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)

You pervert.
Posted by: Cookie Monster at December 23, 2024 10:35 PM (gKDq2)

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This place
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2024 10:36 PM (u73oe)

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Made me LOL

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at December 24, 2024 02:53 AM (mVcBl)

332 I really miss Rush. I respect Bongino though he can annoy me at times. He is right no one can replace Rush. You just have to move on.

I disagreed with Rush as well at times of little things, but never over the big things. And half of the things I disagreed with him on I was wrong about.

Posted by: Quint at December 24, 2024 04:00 AM (Iikdq)

333 Noodus pixyana, y'all

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2024 04:04 AM (omVj0)

334 There was a B movie Hallmark type film called Carole’s Christmas that had Wallace Shawn in it. It was time and place, but that film touched me.

I know Wallace Shawn is an anti Trump jag off. If I remember correctly, it was one of the multitude of versions of a Christmas Carole.

Posted by: Quint at December 24, 2024 04:07 AM (Iikdq)

335 The ONT thread makes my day.

Posted by: Kurtz at December 24, 2024 06:34 AM (6DQxe)

336 It would have been nice to have Rush around the last 3 years. Can you image what he would still be saying about the '24 election. Ha. Everyone is paying for it now as Biden fucks the entire country everyday he's still in office until midnight on the Jan 19th.

Posted by: just saying at December 24, 2024 07:44 AM (rzwGB)

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