Mid-Morning Art Thread

Election Propaganda
William Hogarth

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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Posted by: rhennigantx at January 02, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2
ESPONJA!!1!1!1!11!

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 02, 2025 09:30 AM (tljrc)

3 Should have posted this one back in November.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

4 I thought bars were closed on election day.

Posted by: BignJames at January 02, 2025 09:31 AM (Yj6Os)

5 Thx CBD, always liked Hogarth. Would hang, tis a very busy scene

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 02, 2025 09:32 AM (MLa3L)

6 Nicely done, lots of details

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 09:32 AM (OqE1P)

7 Par-Tay, a dollar for your vote!

Posted by: Hrothgar at January 02, 2025 09:32 AM (hOUT3)

8 Is that the cowardly lion on the left?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

9 I got a chuckle out of this because Hogarth was painting in the first half of the 18th century...truly nothing is new!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2025 09:32 AM (d9fT1)

10 Can't give away free beer if bars are closed

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 09:32 AM (OqE1P)

11 They're eating the cats
They're eating the dogs

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 02, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

12 That sign post could easily be converted to something useful.

Posted by: davidt at January 02, 2025 09:33 AM (i0F8b)

13 Maybe it's a college mascot or a gargoyle?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

14 Really like Hogarth. You can see the details better if you enbiggin the image.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2025 09:33 AM (oaGWv)

15 So we have a Bishop peeking out a doorway at a monster/demon/gargoyle eating a fleur-de-lis...

It means... It means... I'm gonna have come back to this one

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 02, 2025 09:34 AM (pIfcn)

16 Busy

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:34 AM (u1uWe)

17 Election Propaganda
William Hogarth
Date: 1754 - 1755
Style: Rococo
Series: Election
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
Dimensions: 101.5 x 127 cm

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 02, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

18 What's that beast in the lower left?????

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:35 AM (u1uWe)

19 The Humours of an Election is a series of four oil paintings and later engravings by William Hogarth that illustrate the election of a member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. The oil paintings were created in 1755. The first three paintings, An Election Entertainment, Canvassing for Votes and The Polling, demonstrate the corruption endemic in parliamentary elections in the 18th century, before the Great Reform Act. The last painting, Chairing the Member, shows the celebrations of the victorious Tory candidates and their supporters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 02, 2025 09:35 AM (gbOdA)

20 I got a chuckle out of this because Hogarth was painting in the first half of the 18th century...truly nothing is new!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The times change but people never do.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2025 09:35 AM (oaGWv)

21 What's that beast in the lower left?????
Posted by: Lizzy

$20 same as in town.

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2025 09:35 AM (ftFVW)

22 That' the name of the painting not the cobloger.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2025 09:35 AM (2Jptx)

23 18 What's that beast in the lower left?????
Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:35 AM (u1uWe)

The soldier peeps out from behind a now-impotently decorative figurehead depicting the British lion devouring the French fleur-de-lis.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 02, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

24 >>$20 same as in town.

Walked into that one, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:36 AM (u1uWe)

25 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. You'd find me at the table with a tankard 'o ale!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 09:37 AM (W/lyH)

26 Let's hear it for A Rake's Progress!

https://tinyurl.com/mr2s6ae4

A Rake's Progress (or The Rake's Progress) is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth.[1] The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735.[2] The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam).[3] The original paintings are in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where they are normally on display for a short period each day.

The filmmaker Alan Parker has described the works as an ancestor to the storyboard.[4]

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 09:37 AM (hovnC)

27 Always make your election campaign headquarters in a pub/bar.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM (3t4sN)

28 Two paintings in a painting -- 3 for the price of 1!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM (u1uWe)

29 The times change but people never do.

Why, it's almost as if you have to design a government that assumes flawed people.

Posted by: The Founding Fathers at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM (xCA6C)

30 This is surprisingly more restrained than many of Hogarth's satirical pictures. No syphilis, no suicide, no hanging, no Bedlam, no hideous Italian barbers or castrati.

If you see any of the above, feel free to correct me.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM (BHrzb)

31 Vote for Jacques! He will support you!

Posted by: Jacques LeStrappe's Campaign Manager & Debate Coach at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM (a3Q+t)

32 I like the ironwork in the balcony, the painting of the bricks and the colors.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM (EIlBF)

33 >>Always make your election campaign headquarters in a pub/bar.

". . . . or your rebel army!"
-- Patriots in Lexing, MA

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM (u1uWe)

34 The French flag was coverd in Fleur de lis before they switched to the solid white flag.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2025 09:39 AM (2Jptx)

35 Whores in the balcony

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 02, 2025 09:39 AM (NjM/m)

36 Empty that slop jar on 'is 'ead.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 02, 2025 09:39 AM (aD39U)

37 9 I got a chuckle out of this because Hogarth was painting in the first half of the 18th century...truly nothing is new!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Heh. Have you read The Autobiography of Mark Twain? He loved politics and skewered politicians. I could totally see him enjoying the backstory of this painting

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 09:39 AM (+NfUV)

38 This is surprisingly more restrained than many of Hogarth's satirical pictures. No syphilis, no suicide, no hanging, no Bedlam, no hideous Italian barbers or castrati.

If you see any of the above, feel free to correct me.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 02, 2025 09:38 AM

Fortunately for the Art Thread, he did include a sniper.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 02, 2025 09:40 AM (a3Q+t)

39 The guy o the right smoking a pipe looks like he's missing an eye.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

40 Propaganda: the Democrat Party is a legitimate political party not a criminal conspiracy against the Constitution.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2025 09:40 AM (RIvkX)

41 What's the demon-lion-thing doing? Eating a snack?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at January 02, 2025 09:40 AM (LPS7w)

42 Things never change

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 09:40 AM (0Sv+K)

43 Fake news.

Posted by: As it has ever been at January 02, 2025 09:41 AM (DobEs)

44 A Harlot's Progress

https://tinyurl.com/bdhbm3xk

A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed)[1] and engravings (1732)[2] by the English artist William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mary) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute. The series was developed from the third image. After painting a prostitute in her boudoir in a garret on Drury Lane, Hogarth struck upon the idea of creating scenes from her earlier and later life. The title and allegory are reminiscent of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 09:41 AM (hovnC)

45 Wooden eye!

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 02, 2025 09:42 AM (DobEs)

46 This appears to ve an early example of AI art, long before computer technology.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at January 02, 2025 09:42 AM (LPS7w)

47 Painting makes me wish I had a time machine.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 02, 2025 09:42 AM (KiBMU)

48 I always wonder who commissioned similar works by artists of the mundane or satirical or were the artists doing them on spec?

They have to sell them to eat unless they are independently wealthy,

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:42 AM (D6PGr)

49 That's a big beer stein on the right.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 02, 2025 09:43 AM (NjM/m)

50 >>The French flag was coverd in Fleur de lis before they switched to the solid white flag.

ISWYDT

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:43 AM (u1uWe)

51 Painting makes me wish I had a time machine.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 02, 2025 09:42 AM (KiBMU)

nudge nudge say no more wink wink.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 02, 2025 09:43 AM (aD39U)

52 *in a garret on Drury Lane*

Howdy neighbor!

Posted by: The Muffin Man at January 02, 2025 09:43 AM (DobEs)

53 {{peeks in, looks around, sees all is well, withdraws}}

Posted by: TRex at January 02, 2025 09:43 AM (d9jpW)

54 Just goes to show that propaganda, as it relates to politics, is really tied to it at the hip. Like zero sunlight between the two.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2025 09:43 AM (Q4IgG)

55 Hogarth's works. Great stuff -- technically and for content!

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-hogarth

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 09:44 AM (hovnC)

56 Is that a Dancing Bear on the left? Brings back memories of Captain Kangaroo ...

Hogarth's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 09:45 AM (WA0Dj)

57 Hogarth is entertaining. As a painter, I have no idea of his technical skills, but his subjects can be absorbing. This painting is a little like reading a Richard Scarry "Busytown" children's book, in that every nook and cranny can be interesting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2025 09:45 AM (cQs7n)

58 STEIN WILL COME

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 02, 2025 09:45 AM (DsA2n)

59 Is the dude with the pipe and askew wig wearing sunglasses? Or does he just have creepy looking dark eyes?

Posted by: She Hobbit at January 02, 2025 09:45 AM (ftFVW)

60 I don't get why there are paintings hanging on the post.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 02, 2025 09:45 AM (NpAcC)

61 Location: Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 02, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

It is a weird place! It's a three story townhouse that is absolutely packed to the rafters with all sorts of stuff.

Fun to visit...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 02, 2025 09:45 AM (d9fT1)

62 *No syphilis, no suicide, no hanging, no Bedlam, no hideous Italian barbers or castrati.*

But I am experiencing some burning during urination.

Posted by: Kramer at January 02, 2025 09:46 AM (DobEs)

63 Today's painting is one of four depicting how corrupt English parliamentary elections were in the mid 1700s. The set is titled Humours of an Election.

An Election Entertainment
Canvassing for Votes (today's painting)
The Polling
Chairing the Member

It seems we have gone from being openly corrupt to deceitfully corrupt with respect to elections.

https://is.gd/NSiB5q

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at January 02, 2025 09:46 AM (Q8Bj8)

64 BTW, without confirming it via net search I'm pretty sure that's a brothel and not just a pub with the grenadier standing in the doorway and the madam outside. [Pay first outside??]

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 09:46 AM (hovnC)

65
What's the demon-lion-thing doing? Eating a snack?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at January 02, 2025 09:40 AM (LPS7w)

That's Rep. Jerry Nadler before he started wearing pants.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2025 09:46 AM (iJfKG)

66 The French flag was coverd in Fleur de lis before they switched to the solid white flag.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 02, 2025 09:39 AM (2Jptx)
===

Fags.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2025 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

67 Always make your election campaign headquarters in a pub/bar.

Not a bad idea. Arguably the most successful fighting force ever started in one.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 02, 2025 09:47 AM (3Ope8)

68 Honestly, I've had enough election propaganda for a while - when do we get a break?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:47 AM (u1uWe)

69 What's the demon-lion-thing doing? Eating a snack?

It looks like a big circus monkey wearing a hat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 02, 2025 09:48 AM (NjM/m)

70 Wooden eye!

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 02, 2025 09:42 AM (DobEs)

Harelip!

Posted by: BignJames at January 02, 2025 09:48 AM (Yj6Os)

71 Inn down a block is where the Fake ballots are being made out

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 09:48 AM (0Sv+K)

72 >>BTW, without confirming it via net search I'm pretty sure that's a brothel and not just a pub with the grenadier standing in the doorway and the madam outside.

*ahem*

So it's not closed?

Posted by: The Moose at January 02, 2025 09:49 AM (u1uWe)

73 Politics in the past have been just as bad if not worse than today.

Off the top of my head I’m thinking of The Teapot Dome Scandal, Huey Long, The Chicago Machine, Walking Tall and many more .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:49 AM (D6PGr)

74 Always make your election campaign headquarters in a pub/bar.

Given that politicians are mostly whores it seems that a brothel would be far more appropriate.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at January 02, 2025 09:50 AM (Q8Bj8)

75 This is like Dickens Does Art.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 02, 2025 09:51 AM (AFDgr)

76 >>Given that politicians are mostly whores it seems that a brothel would be far more appropriate.

"I know, right?"
-- Epstein, Weinstein, Diddy

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:51 AM (u1uWe)

77 Honestly, I've had enough election propaganda for a while - when do we get a break?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 02, 2025 09:47 AM (u1uWe)

Well, fine but, ion you don't start drinking Coca-Cola
then-

then that horrible witch's brew Pepsi is going to turn your lady legs into green lizard legs!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2025 09:51 AM (iJfKG)

78 The first three paintings, An Election Entertainment, Canvassing for Votes and The Polling, demonstrate the corruption endemic in parliamentary elections in the 18th century, before the Great Reform Act.

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Was that as aptly-named as The Inflation Reduction Act?

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 09:51 AM (WA0Dj)

79 Dudes on the street not earning their beads

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2025 09:52 AM (xhfG9)

80 Speaking of brothels, in the United States public brothels were ubiquitous from the late 1800’s to the 1920’s.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:52 AM (D6PGr)

81 But I am experiencing some burning during urination.

Did you recently sit on a tractor seat?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 02, 2025 09:54 AM (BHrzb)

82 Speaking of brothels, in the United States public brothels were ubiquitous from the late 1800’s to the 1920’s.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:52 AM (D6PGr)

La Grange Chicken Ranch was a going concern until the 70s.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

83 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 09:54 AM (KQk9m)

84 What was the town where returning WW2 soldiers took up arms to overthrow a corrupt political machine ? Was that in Tennessee?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:54 AM (D6PGr)

85 Was I too soon?

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 09:55 AM (KQk9m)

86 Politics in the past have been just as bad if not worse than today.

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They were certainly as corrupt, but did they actually hate and treasonously sell-out their countries, citizens, and constituents as we are now witnessing throughout The West and USA today?

Marxism == Satanism.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 09:55 AM (WA0Dj)

87 They’re colluding with Peter the Great!

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2025 09:55 AM (v6JzV)

88 Eat Drink and be Merry. You have 200 years before Mohammad's Truck comes to the Square.

Posted by: BRAD at January 02, 2025 09:55 AM (oOc/o)

89 Was I too soon?

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 09:55 AM (KQk9m)

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Premature articulation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 09:56 AM (WA0Dj)

90 84 Athens, Tennessee

Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2025 09:56 AM (v6JzV)

91 La Grange Chicken Ranch was a going concern until the 70s.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

Yes they continued to operate as an open secret but early 20th century was the peak for being basically legal.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:57 AM (D6PGr)

92 Athens, Tennessee
Posted by: Bulg at January 02, 2025 09:56 AM (v6JzV)

Thanks

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:58 AM (D6PGr)

93 Ugh. Well, off to catch the boat. Good news is, it's already Thursday.

Next week is gonna be a toughie. Working five days in a row? What bullshit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 09:58 AM (mT+6a)

94 Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 09:55 AM (WA0Dj)

McCarthy says yes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:58 AM (D6PGr)

95 Watching cable news. We have reached the point in the story where there's nothing new to report and they can't shut up because, well, it's 24 x 7 cable news. So what do they do? What they always do: they find anybody that can that can string four sentences together without farting (mostly) to blather on as if they're reporting something when all they're doing is blathering on. It's time to switch it off and go watch cat videos on YouTube.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at January 02, 2025 09:59 AM (Q8Bj8)

96 It's time to switch it off and go watch cat videos on YouTube.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Or, you could shoot your television. That would be cathartic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:00 AM (mT+6a)

97 Or, you could shoot your television. That would be cathartic.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:00 AM (mT+6a)

Chavez the Hugo was great.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 02, 2025 10:02 AM (NjM/m)

98 There are so many elements in this painting it will take a while to get to them all. But the foreground figures are the focus. Hogarth has made each one an individual while maintaining the satirical aspects of the scene. The sunny and bright colors and the details of the buildings and objects almost distracts from the satire. After a moment the viewer starts to notice the facial expressions and activities of each person. It would take a long essay to point out all the features of the painting and what they mean. I especially like the approaching mob (soldiers?) in the background. Is justice about to be served against the politician or are they joining the corruption?

I wonder if Hogarth and Jonathan Swift were acquainted. They were contemporaries and Dublin isn't too far from London. They certainly share some acidic views of their societies.

Posted by: JTB at January 02, 2025 10:02 AM (yTvNw)

99 I’m more curious about the Tesla explosion than the New Orleans terrorist attack.

One makes sense the other doesn’t.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:03 AM (D6PGr)

100 Eyal Yakoby
Dec 31, 2024
@EYakoby
On New Year’s Eve at Mar-A-Lago Trump states that, "They better let the hostages come back soon."

Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
Complete moral clarity. Biden hasn't mentioned the hostages once in recent weeks.

Trump while celebrating the New Year still has the hostages on his mind. Hamas, I hope you're listening, there's a new sheriff in town.
6:30 PM · Dec 31, 2024

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2025 10:03 AM (RIvkX)

101 I had no intention to go OT and completely forgot this was the art thread. That’s what a political painting will do I guess.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:04 AM (D6PGr)

102 Tbf Joe Biden has nothing on his mind

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 10:04 AM (KQk9m)

103 101 I had no intention to go OT and completely forgot this was the art thread. That’s what a political painting will do I guess.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:04 AM (D6PGr)

Wouldn't political comments on a political painting be ON topic?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2025 10:05 AM (bss/y)

104 Well it is after 100 comments now and I broke it earlier than you so.

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 10:05 AM (KQk9m)

105 102 Tbf Joe Biden has nothing on his mind
Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 10:04 AM (KQk9m)

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 02, 2025 10:06 AM (bss/y)

106 "Okay, down to business. I got my Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi, and uh, I got my Black Jack gum here! And I got that feeling. Mmm, yeah that familiar feeling? That something rank is going on out there."

Gooood morning horde!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:06 AM (4XwPj)

107 Hogarth also did paintings of the Beggar's Opera play.
The Roger Daltrey TV version is very good.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126812/

https://tinyurl.com/29e3s9n4
painting

Let's be gay while we may
For summer hath all too short a stay
===
For Sharpe's Rifles fans, the "Over the Hills and Far Away" song is in the opera too but with "Queen Anne commands and we obey" instead of German George.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:07 AM (hovnC)

108 Wikipedia, in part, "The Humours of an Election is a series of four oil paintings and later engravings by William Hogarth that illustrate the election of a member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. The oil paintings were created in 1755. The first three paintings, An Election Entertainment, Canvassing for Votes and The Polling, demonstrate the corruption endemic in parliamentary elections in the 18th century, before the Great Reform Act. The last painting, Chairing the Member, shows the celebrations of the victorious Tory candidates and their supporters."

The painting featured above is Canvassing for Votes. The artist, William Hogarth, was bold and had quite the sense of humor. I like it and would hang all 4 paintings in their grouping.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - Hook him, book him, cook him. Now! at January 02, 2025 10:07 AM (NFX2v)

109 In a way, commercials and the lying media has made the thinking person quite resistant to propaganda.

Added class to civics: how to tell a commercial, news article or movie is lying. My Dad gave me training as a yute. Thanks again, Dad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2025 10:07 AM (u82oZ)

110 On the same day as the New Orleans attack NYC had a mass shooting though no one died. They are saying not terrorism. Just the same ole same ole.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:09 AM (D6PGr)

111 Or, you could shoot your television. That would be cathartic.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:00 AM

Unlikely to be cathodic these days, however.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 02, 2025 10:09 AM (a3Q+t)

112 Read Elon Tweet pointing out that Cyber truck stayed together and the Trump tower glass wasn't touched

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 10:09 AM (0Sv+K)

113 "Good news is, it's already Thursday."

But his lordship's artificial limb had still not been found.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2025 10:09 AM (w+hdv)

114 Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson to receive the Puddinhead Appreciation Medal for Meritorious Gaslighting

https://tinyurl.com/44pys8r4

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 02, 2025 10:10 AM (paSBy)

115 Sebastian Melmoth

NRA is missing a bet on inner city denizen training.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2025 10:10 AM (u82oZ)

116 Free shoe shines and beers?

I'm in!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 02, 2025 10:10 AM (Tm6bq)

117 Sebastian Melmoth

Health care costs would go way down.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2025 10:10 AM (u82oZ)

118 Cybertruck is all stainless steel iirc

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 10:10 AM (KQk9m)

119 "The last painting, Chairing the Member"

The Paolo does not like, how you say, to brag.

Posted by: Paolo at January 02, 2025 10:10 AM (a3Q+t)

120 Mass shooting: not terrorism

Parading inside the capitol building: worse than 9/11

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 02, 2025 10:11 AM (GMqLE)

121 The guy on the right told his wife he'd be on his way home after this on last beer. Woof!

Posted by: Spuds MacKenzie at January 02, 2025 10:11 AM (mvzMR)

122 That table in the lower right corner needs a banner.

THE KING IS A FINK
CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2025 10:11 AM (hY4dx)

123 Good painting. Hogarth brings the telling mirth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2025 10:11 AM (u82oZ)

124 There's a painting IN this painting.

And what appears to be satan in the corner.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:12 AM (iziT8)

125 ONE. Damn you, autocorrect. [shakes paw in the air]

Posted by: Spuds MacKenzie at January 02, 2025 10:12 AM (mvzMR)

126 Whoops! I've been doing work-work here for the last half hour; no time to comment. Okay, let's have a look at this. . . .

. . . marvelously detailed, with the wigs, the bricks of the building on the left, and the flagstones. To me the most fascinating thing, though, is the lion-demon at lower left, about to bite into a fleur-de-lis (?). Okay, I *guess* it's a gargoyle-like sculpture -- but gargoyles were usually on the tops or upper levels of buldings, not outside the front door. This one, though tinted in red, looks like it will grow up to be the demon in Curse of the Demon w/ Dana Andrews.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:12 AM (J2vNu)

127 Added class to civics: how to tell a commercial, news article or movie is lying. My Dad gave me training as a yute. Thanks again, Dad.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2025 10:07 AM (u82oZ)

I was trained very early by reading the National Enquirer that my mom would buy. I figured out that there are indisputable facts, opinions and supposition written together in most reporting and that you have to separate them out from each
other.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:12 AM (D6PGr)

128 *It's time to switch it off and go watch cat videos on YouTube.*

Always. Cable is a dinosaur.

Posted by: In the Smithsonian at January 02, 2025 10:13 AM (DobEs)

129 THE KING IS A FINK
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2025 10:11 AM (hY4dx)

You, Sirrah, shall be hearing from our Advocates. -- International Brotherhood of Finks

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2025 10:14 AM (ExV1e)

130 Curse of the Demon w/ Dana Andrews.

Good movie, probably would have been better off not showing the papier mache demon puppet...

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 10:14 AM (KQk9m)

131 Bennie Thompson is a bust-out racist.

Small wonder Joe Biden would honor him.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2025 10:14 AM (RIvkX)

132 Good morning!

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at January 02, 2025 10:15 AM (NLkgW)

133 It's entirely possible that cat videos on youtube are why the Universe exists.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:15 AM (iziT8)

134 THE KING IS A FINK
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2025

***
"Sire! The peasants are revolting!"

"I know. I've seen 'em. Merchant class is no bargain either."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:16 AM (J2vNu)

135 Top Streaming services are getting to be almost as costly as cable.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:16 AM (D6PGr)

136 Morning.

This is a nice scene. Would hang.

In other news, my New Year's hangover is finally gone.

Posted by: Robert at January 02, 2025 10:16 AM (1Yy3c)

137 I wasn't allowed to watch a single stinking bowl game because I don't pay for ESPN. I remember when you could watch all the biggies on network tv and only the Tidy Bowl was on cable.

*shakes fist*
*pouts*

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:16 AM (jydPj)

138 We need a list of Dishonor: for all that Biden pardoned, awarded, and hired.
They are evil barbarians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2025 10:16 AM (u82oZ)

139 You're telling me. They stink on ice!

Posted by: Mel Brooks at January 02, 2025 10:17 AM (DobEs)

140 Mass shooting: not terrorism

Weren't the majority of the victims black? Maybe someone should ask the Biden Administration why they think it's okay for mass shootings of blacks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2025 10:18 AM (ExV1e)

141 Curse of the Demon w/ Dana Andrews.

Good movie, probably would have been better off not showing the papier mache demon puppet...
Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025

***
I think we needed to see a glimpse of *something* after all the tension of the previous 100 minutes or whatever it was. Still it's fine stuff. Based on a short story, "Casting the Runes," by M.R. James, the English academic and ghost-story writer par excellence. I'm not sure if any of his other works have been filmed for movies or TV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

142 {{{ nurse ratched}}}

At least Oregon went down in flames, to a Kansas State University trained QB. So we gots that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 02, 2025 10:18 AM (u82oZ)

143 I wasn't allowed to watch a single stinking bowl game because I don't pay for ESPN. I remember when you could watch all the biggies on network tv and only the Tidy Bowl was on cable.

*shakes fist*
*pouts*
Posted by: nurse ratched

Sorry you didn't get to watch the Rose Bowl. It was glorious.

Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2025 10:18 AM (oaGWv)

144 Speaking of brothels, in the United States public brothels were ubiquitous from the late 1800’s to the 1920’s.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:52 AM (D6PGr)

La Grange Chicken Ranch was a going concern until the 70s.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)
***

Likewise several "houses" in Orofino Idaho circa 1973.
And no. I did not partake.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:18 AM (W/lyH)

145 Picture in picture. The early years.

Posted by: Without a remote at January 02, 2025 10:19 AM (DobEs)

146 Vote here for Rufus Jones
Two pork chops every time you vote

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at January 02, 2025 10:19 AM (5p9UO)

147 Top Streaming services are getting to be almost as costly as cable.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:16 AM (D6PGr)

And they've started both airing commercials AND editing content.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2025 10:19 AM (ExV1e)

148 THE KING IS A FINK
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 02, 2025

The Wizard of ID!
Great reading for the young Diogenes.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:20 AM (W/lyH)

149 Added class to civics: how to tell a commercial, news article or movie is lying.

-----------

Does any school even teach civics anymore?

/I remember being taught civics in a 5th grade public elementary school in the early 70s (before Jimmy Carter helped accelerate the destruction of education with his new "Department of Communist Propaganda and Indoctrination") ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 10:20 AM (WA0Dj)

150 Speaking of brothels, in the United States public brothels were ubiquitous from the late 1800’s to the 1920’s.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 09:52 AM (D6PGr)

Then they changed the name to Congress.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 02, 2025 10:21 AM (ExV1e)

151 Sorry you didn't get to watch the Rose Bowl. It was glorious.
Posted by: Tuna at January 02, 2025 10:18 AM (oaGWv)

Whoa...
Dibs on all your ammo!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:22 AM (W/lyH)

152 Warner Brothers showed the whole 3 hour version of Barry Lyndon on youtube, for free.

The shorter version was much better.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:22 AM (iziT8)

153 They had one of the high school coaches teach the Civics class at my school. He simply taught the book . Very boring.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:23 AM (D6PGr)

154 They had one of the high school coaches teach the Civics class at my school. He simply taught the book . Very boring.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:23 AM (D6PGr)

One of my HS coaches taught History. Pretty much the same thing. What made it fun was he was a licensed mortician. Great stories.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:24 AM (W/lyH)

155 Ahhhhh. I head the ducks fouled themselves. I hate the ducks.

It must have been a hoot watching them embarrass themselves. #1 assholes they are.

I did go for a dip in the Sound and see some Orcas on the other side of the water during me walk in the afternoon.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:25 AM (KlzAE)

156 The Wizard of ID!
Great reading for the young Diogenes.
Posted by: Diogenes

Lucy the Fink approves.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:26 AM (KlzAE)

157 Speaking of brothels, in the United States public brothels were ubiquitous from the late 1800’s to the 1920’s.
-----------
So what do you do when you need broth?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 02, 2025 10:26 AM (6K6Eu)

158 Does any school even teach civics anymore?

They did in my school in the 80s - and I disagreed with most of it even at the time. The Econ guy was lifetime ed who'd never turned a hand of manual labor in his life - he was an Evangelical Hater of all Unions. A couple other guys were ex-military, and thus were Evangelical International Interventionists. Then we had the usual programming espousing the virtues of the Two Party system and such.

My kids received similar programming in the 2010s - which I had to counter on a weekly basis. I'd rather schools DON'T teach "civics" and stick to the Three Rs. One mans civics is another mans indoctrination, and I'd rather leave that to the individual parent. That way they can only ruin their own.

Posted by: We'll See at January 02, 2025 10:26 AM (FeAkV)

159 Speaking of brothels, in the United States public brothels were ubiquitous from the late 1800’s to the 1920’s.
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So what do you do when you need broth?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 02, 2025

***
Boner broth is supposed to be good for you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:26 AM (J2vNu)

160 156 The Wizard of ID!
Great reading for the young Diogenes.
Posted by: Diogenes

Lucy the Fink approves.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:26 AM (KlzAE)

Clearly a smart and clever sweetie pie!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:27 AM (W/lyH)

161 Oh - and both my kids and I got a steady diet of the bullshit that the Supreme Court was designed to be the Guardians of the Bill of Rights. That is quite simply wrong.

Posted by: We'll See at January 02, 2025 10:27 AM (FeAkV)

162 One of my HS coaches taught History. Pretty much the same thing. What made it fun was he was a licensed mortician. Great stories.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:24 AM (W/lyH)

They can have some good stories. There used to be a reality show about a funeral home /mortician family that I got caught up watching.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:27 AM (D6PGr)

163 153 -- They had one of the high school coaches teach the Civics class at my school. He simply taught the book . Very boring.
Better than my lazy-ass English teacher who taught from the text book from 5 years earlier (not our new one), because she already had the class notes for THAT book. Could not make heads nor tails of whatever she was babbling about. What a douche nozzle...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2025 10:28 AM (XMwZJ)

164 Wow. It's dark.

And chilly.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:28 AM (KlzAE)

165 So what do you do when you need broth?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 02, 2025 10:26 AM (6K6Eu)

You go to the master station to get it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:29 AM (D6PGr)

166 The Wizard of ID!
Great reading for the young Diogenes.
Posted by: Diogenes
*
Lucy the Fink approves.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025

***
Nurse, is that why you nicknamed Lucy that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:29 AM (J2vNu)

167 Nurse, is that why you nicknamed Lucy that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yep!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:30 AM (KlzAE)

168 When B.O. was running I remember a modified Wizard of ID cartoon that had been modified to show B.O. as the king in the tower addressing the serfs.
Frame 1: "Vote for me and you'll get free food and housing!" (yay!)
Frame 2: "And free health care!" (yay!)
Frame 3: "And jobs for everyone!" (yay!)
Frame 4: (from a person in the crowd) "What do we need jobs for?"

Posted by: Back in the day at January 02, 2025 10:30 AM (DobEs)

169 Guy that taught government and civics in my school was a published author, artist and illustrator. When he lectured, it was deadly dull. When he started illustrating the lecture, on the board, with chalk, no one forgot the lesson. Even now, decades later, I remember that caricature of Ben Franklin. Took about 30 seconds for him to draw it.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:30 AM (4XwPj)

170 We had civics in ninth grade. Darned if I recall much about it, or whether it jibes with what other commenters remember from more recent exposures.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:30 AM (J2vNu)

171 163 153 -- They had one of the high school coaches teach the Civics class at my school. He simply taught the book . Very boring.
Better than my lazy-ass English teacher who taught from the text book from 5 years earlier (not our new one), because she already had the class notes for THAT book. Could not make heads nor tails of whatever she was babbling about. What a douche nozzle...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2025 10:28 AM (XMwZJ)
***

*looks at text for the class I teach at local university where I don't teach anymore except for when I need bier money*
*quietly slides text under desk*

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:30 AM (W/lyH)

172 137 I wasn't allowed to watch a single stinking bowl game because I don't pay for ESPN.
---
I watch on the PC, so

https://thedaddy.to/stream/stream-44.php

works for me. YouTube usually carries the games, too, but ESPN sometimes cuts the stream during the game.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 02, 2025 10:31 AM (paSBy)

173 When I think back on all the CRAP I learned in high school...

Posted by: Paul Simon at January 02, 2025 10:32 AM (DobEs)

174 Nurse, is that why you nicknamed Lucy that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Yep!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025

***
My little Dagny is nicknamed "The Queen" because of her royal "I'll show you affection [i.e., sit next to you] when I feel like it, manservant!" attitude.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

175 I love Hogarth. His drawings of Bedlam put me in mind of a Democratic national convention, or perhaps a Biden cabinet meeting.

Posted by: Paco at January 02, 2025 10:32 AM (mADJX)

176 Part of the civics I was taught in secondary school was all of the States and State capitals and all 64 Parishes in LA and their Parish seat.

Remember all the capitals. Remember about a dozen Parish seats.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:33 AM (D6PGr)

177 Guy that taught government and civics in my school was a published author, artist and illustrator. When he lectured, it was deadly dull. When he started illustrating the lecture, on the board, with chalk, no one forgot the lesson. Even now, decades later, I remember that caricature of Ben Franklin. Took about 30 seconds for him to draw it.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:30 AM (4XwPj)
***

Have mentioned this previously but I sat next to Gary Larson in college (Washington State U) The doodling on his notes was...interesting.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:33 AM (W/lyH)

178 works for me. YouTube usually carries the games, too, but ESPN sometimes cuts the stream during the game.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 02, 2025 10:31 AM (paSBy)

FUBU is the best sports streaming service but it is not cheap.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:34 AM (D6PGr)

179 Civics education, to me, is just teaching about the basic structure of our government, the history about its formation and reasoning that went into it, etc.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2025 10:35 AM (XMwZJ)

180 "FUBU is the best sports streaming service but it is not cheap."

I want free.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:35 AM (iziT8)

181 FUBU is the best sports streaming service but it is not cheap.
---
Yeah, I'm not paying.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 02, 2025 10:36 AM (paSBy)

182 Have mentioned this previously but I sat next to Gary Larson in college (Washington State U) The doodling on his notes was...interesting.
Posted by: Diogenes

That would have been awesome.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at January 02, 2025 10:36 AM (3t4sN)

183 So what do you do when you need broth?
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Ironically, the spots to get broth soups were called 'whorehouses'!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:36 AM (hovnC)

184 I’m more curious about the Tesla explosion than the New Orleans terrorist attack.

One makes sense the other doesn’t.

It makes sense when you remember that car-b-ques for Islam are a regular thing in Europe. Also that video with his crazy Trump hating wife makes suicide understandable.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 02, 2025 10:37 AM (QZThv)

185 Make your own broth!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 02, 2025 10:37 AM (KlzAE)

186 Part of the civics I was taught in secondary school was all of the States and State capitals and all 64 Parishes in LA and their Parish seat.

Remember all the capitals. Remember about a dozen Parish seats.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Part of getting a Master's degree in Texas History, one had to memorize all of the counties in Texas.

All 254 of them.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at January 02, 2025 10:37 AM (3t4sN)

187 Have mentioned this previously but I sat next to Gary Larson in college (Washington State U) The doodling on his notes was...interesting.
Posted by: Diogenes

I bet they were. My daughter is an artist and doodles on everything! Including my grocery list! It's hilarious seeing what she decides a piece of paper needs and which paper needs embellishment. Completely random.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:38 AM (4XwPj)

188 It makes sense when you remember that car-b-ques for Islam are a regular thing in Europe. Also that video with his crazy Trump hating wife makes suicide understandable.
Posted by: Ian S.

Old joke:
"Why do men usually die first? Because we're ready."

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at January 02, 2025 10:39 AM (3t4sN)

189 But why do you need a college degree to be a cartoonist?

Nothing about The Far Side requires a college education.

It's all just intuitive.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:39 AM (iziT8)

190 ~~STEIN~~ STEYN WILL COME

…to Spain and Portugal for a full week of sun, sea and civilizational collapse!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 02, 2025 10:39 AM (EXyHK)

191 When I think back on all the CRAP I learned in high school...
Posted by: Paul Simon
----
Or were you and Julio spending too much time down on the schoolyard, playing ball??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:40 AM (hovnC)

192 But why do you need a college degree to be a cartoonist?

Nothing about The Far Side requires a college education.

It's all just intuitive.
Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:39 AM (iziT

For the material

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 02, 2025 10:41 AM (D6PGr)

193 And chilly.
Posted by: nurse ratched

With carrots?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at January 02, 2025 10:41 AM (JfTEZ)

194 Brothels of old? We in the mid-Atlantic have our strip malls with extraordinary pairings of nail salons and 'spas,' and all in close proximity to booze, convenience stores, cigarettes & vaping, and - of course - lottery tickets & ATMs.

Posted by: L - Hook him, book him, cook him. Now! at January 02, 2025 10:42 AM (NFX2v)

195 I see Biden is going to award Cheney the President's Citizens Medal.
Hmmm...
I bet she'd rather be awarded a pardon.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:42 AM (W/lyH)

196 Morn' all... The LV Tesla thing is weird....I'm wondering if it was suicide and not a terrorist attack ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)

197 Likewise several "houses" in Orofino Idaho circa 1973.
And no. I did not partake.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:18 AM (W/lyH)

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

There was a famous legal brothel in Pahrump (in Nye County outside of Las Vegas) -- The Nevada Chicken Ranch -- that opened in the mid-70s.

A college friend of mine (MBA and budding entrepreneur) was visiting Vegas (where I was living) in the mid-80s and wanted to go out there ... just to get a business card so he could carry it around and show it off as a prop.

It was really embarrassing as we two 20-somethings went inside, asked the old, ugly (straight out of central casting) "madam" for a business card, and promptly thanked her and left.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (WA0Dj)

198 the mid-Atlantic
----
I thought Bermuda was nice not like, say, Jamaica??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (hovnC)

199 Re Tesla explosion -- I saw nothing in that posted video of the guy with his wife that would indicate the guy was wacko, suicidal, or a terrorist threat. His wife was perfectly normal in that video, though she may have been an anti-Trumper on Facebook. So what--that describes about half of all women. Could the Tesla explosion just be an accident? Guy had fireworks in the truck (for whatever reason) and they went off by accident?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (XMwZJ)

200 Dilbert definitely requires a college education.

That Far Side just requires being funny.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (iziT8)

201 Make your own broth!

With the Paolo women are like the dogfood that makes it's own gravy.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at January 02, 2025 10:44 AM (JfTEZ)

202 But why do you need a college degree to be a cartoonist?

Nothing about The Far Side requires a college education.

It's all just intuitive.
Posted by: eleven

My girl is in college studying pre law type shit. She doesn't need a college degree or even classes to be an artist. She already is an artist.
My brother, Thing Two, was cleaning out his workshop and found a bunch of old circular saw blades. He gave them to the girl so she can paint scenes on them and sell them. She did a big sawmill blade for him and another one for brother Thing One. I have one of those big sawmill blades also but it's not finished.
It's primed and ready to be painted.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:45 AM (4XwPj)

203 It was really embarrassing as we two 20-somethings went inside, asked the old, ugly (straight out of central casting) "madam" for a business card, and promptly thanked her and left.
Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (WA0Dj)

I did matchbooks.
I was a cook at the Mustang (outside Reno) for as long as I could handle being around whores all day. About 3 months.

Posted by: Reforger at January 02, 2025 10:45 AM (xcIvR)

204 7 Likewise several "houses" in Orofino Idaho circa 1973.
And no. I did not partake.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025

***
I never knew where the "houses of ill-repute" were when I was growing up. Probably I wouldn't have had the money to spend anyway -- but it would have been nice to *know.*

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 02, 2025 10:47 AM (J2vNu)

205 195 I see Biden is going to award Cheney the President's Citizens Medal.
Hmmm...
I bet she'd rather be awarded a pardon.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:42 AM (W/lyH)

Lol.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 02, 2025 10:47 AM (OA79/)

206 Dilbert definitely requires a college education.

That Far Side just requires being funny.
Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (iziT

I'd bet money that Dilbert's creator worked at a large NW-based Defense and Aerospace company.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:47 AM (W/lyH)

207 A college friend of mine (MBA and budding entrepreneur) was visiting Vegas (where I was living) in the mid-80s and wanted to go out there ... just to get a business card so he could carry it around and show it off as a prop. ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (WA0Dj)
====

Your friend must have had very low self-esteem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2025 10:47 AM (RIvkX)

208 I'd bet money that Dilbert's creator worked at a large NW-based Defense and Aerospace company.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:47 AM (W/lyH)
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I believe he was at one of the big telephone companies.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 02, 2025 10:47 AM (6K6Eu)

209
Is this the Beer Street or the Gin Lane constituency?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 02, 2025 10:48 AM (dxSpM)

210 Sure pull up in front of of Trump Tower with a rented Tesla that just happens to explode while full of fireworks.

Posted by: steevy at January 02, 2025 10:48 AM (KQk9m)

211 > Could the Tesla explosion just be an accident?
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His ex-wife was purportedly rabidly anti-Trump. He was also assigned to Ft Bragg... the same installation the NOLA terrorist was. Not clear if it was at the same time. The first Trump assassin also visited that base over 100 times before trying to kill him.

Ft Bragg might have a Islamic radicalization problem.

TL;DR... it wasn't an accident.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 02, 2025 10:48 AM (Q4IgG)

212 Region 😉

Posted by: L - Hook him, book him, cook him. Now! at January 02, 2025 10:48 AM (NFX2v)

213 Could the Tesla explosion just be an accident? Guy had fireworks in the truck (for whatever reason) and they went off by accident?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2025 10:43 AM (XMwZJ)

Yes. He just happened to rent a Cybertruck and then proceeded to put fireworks and gasoline and camping fuel in the back and then they just, you know, went off.

As they do.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2025 10:48 AM (xhfG9)

214 Probably true but I wonder what he did to upset the Uniparty et alia??

Breaking911 @Breaking911 38m
Federal agents have searched the home of former NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey as part of an investigation into allegations of demanding sexual favors for overtime pay. Maddrey, who was still on track to retire after his resignation, was suspended this morning.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:49 AM (hovnC)

215
My girl is in college studying pre law type shit. She doesn't need a college degree or even classes to be an artist. She already is an artist.
My brother, Thing Two, was cleaning out his workshop and found a bunch of old circular saw blades. He gave them to the girl so she can paint scenes on them and sell them. She did a big sawmill blade for him and another one for brother Thing One. I have one of those big sawmill blades also but it's not finished.
It's primed and ready to be painted.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:45 AM (4XwPj)
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Sounds like when it comes to art, she is a cut above the rest.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:49 AM (W/lyH)

216 That Far Side just requires being funny.
Posted by: eleven

Midvale School For The Gifted
Kid leaning in hard pushing on door
(Door sign saying "Pull")

"Bummer of a birthmark Hal".
(Buck with a 9 & 10 ring birthmark on chest)

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at January 02, 2025 10:49 AM (3t4sN)

217 My brother, Thing Two, was cleaning out his workshop and found a bunch of old circular saw blades. He gave them to the girl so she can paint scenes on them and sell them. She did a big sawmill blade for him and another one for brother Thing One. I have one of those big sawmill blades also but it's not finished.
It's primed and ready to be painted.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:45 AM (4XwPj)
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Sounds like when it comes to art, she is a cut above the rest.
Posted by: Diogenes

I saw that coming.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at January 02, 2025 10:49 AM (3t4sN)

218 Sounds like when it comes to art, she is a cut above the rest.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:49 AM (W/lyH)
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Saw that coming.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 02, 2025 10:50 AM (6K6Eu)

219 *fistbump*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 02, 2025 10:50 AM (6K6Eu)

220 Sounds like when it comes to art, she is a cut above the rest.
Posted by: Diogenes

And very sharp!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:51 AM (4XwPj)

221 Civics education, to me, is just teaching about the basic structure of our government, the history about its formation and reasoning that went into it, etc.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 02, 2025 10:35 AM (XMwZJ)

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Yes, that's what I was referring to. Also tied in with US History, especially the Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, and US Constitution.

Every student had to memorize and recite in front of the class The Preamble ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 10:52 AM (WA0Dj)

222 Every student had to memorize and recite in front of the class The Preamble ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 10:52 AM (WA0Dj)
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WEEE...the PEEpul...

Posted by: James Tiberius Kirk at January 02, 2025 10:53 AM (6K6Eu)

223 We the people....

In order to form a more perfect union...

C'mon...you know it.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:53 AM (iziT8)

224 I'd bet money that Dilbert's creator worked at a large NW-based Defense and Aerospace company.
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I think maybe a bank and an insurance company. He started doing Dilbert fulltime when they told him he couldn't be promoted because of the white nd straight.

||Adams worked closely with telecommunications engineers at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco between 1979 and 1986. Upon joining the organization, he first worked as a teller. After four months in which he was twice held up at gunpoint, he entered a management training program.[12] His positions included management trainee, computer programmer, budget analyst, commercial lender, product manager, and supervisor.[12]

He later shifted to work at Pacific Bell.||

So close!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:53 AM (hovnC)

225 Ft Bragg might have a Islamic radicalization problem.

TL;DR... it wasn't an accident.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

/tinfoil_on
And that Ryan Routh nutjob was on the visitor logs at Bragg as well. Of course, it's a big base with thousands of visitors every year, but, damn, these coincidences sure are stacking up.
/tinfoil_off

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 02, 2025 10:53 AM (IG4Id)

226 Elon Tlweeted the Cyber truck telemetry had no issues
Frightening your vehicle is sending its telemetry out there, no doubt where you are, how fast and where your going.

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 10:54 AM (0Sv+K)

227 as an Xer, I surely know the preamble ... but I have to sing it!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 02, 2025 10:55 AM (Pv3Rg)

228 226 Elon Tlweeted the Cyber truck telemetry had no issues
Frightening your vehicle is sending its telemetry out there, no doubt where you are, how fast and where your going.
Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 10:54 AM (0Sv+K)

Yes, all that telemetry is going back to Tesla. It's how they train their AI to drive.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2025 10:55 AM (xhfG9)

229 We can be sure of one thing.. We're not gonna get the truth about either "attack."

Posted by: It's me donna at January 02, 2025 10:55 AM (VE6XX)

230 "as an Xer, I surely know the preamble ... but I have to sing it!
Posted by: Black Orchid "

Well...yeah.

Greatest Schoolhouse Rock evar.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:56 AM (iziT8)

231 Tesla explodes outside a Trump hotel.

Clearly, that's supposed to indicate Musk and Trump.

All violence comes from the left, or from islam. All of it.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 02, 2025 10:56 AM (WPL6O)

232 And Conjunction Function.

Natch.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:56 AM (iziT8)

233 Is that AOC on the balcony luring potential voters inside for a free beejer?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2025 10:57 AM (/U5Yz)

234 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 29m
BREAKING: US Capitol Police "officers just responded to the area of Constitution Avenue and Third Street, NW, for a suspicious vehicle."
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They'll really throw the book at it if it stays behind the red-velvet ropes!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:57 AM (hovnC)

235 Elon Tlweeted the Cyber truck telemetry had no issues
Frightening your vehicle is sending its telemetry out there, no doubt where you are, how fast and where your going.
Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 10:54 AM (0Sv+K)

Yes, all that telemetry is going back to Tesla. It's how they train their AI to drive.
Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2025 10:55 AM (xhfG9)
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Ha!
They'd better hope granddaughter of Diogenes #1 doesn't start driving one. It'll set them back a decade.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 02, 2025 10:57 AM (W/lyH)

236 LV guy was on active duty with 10SFG.

An active special forces guy.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2025 10:57 AM (xhfG9)

237 Scott Adams - Dilbert
Adams worked closely with telecommunications engineers at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco between 1979 and 1986. Upon joining the organization, he first worked as a teller.
After four months in which he was twice held up at gunpoint, he entered a management training program. His positions included management trainee, computer programmer, budget analyst, commercial lender, product manager, and supervisor. He later shifted to work at Pacific Bell. To devote time to developing a new career, he woke up every day at 4 a.m. and spent time at various endeavors; cartooning proved to be the most successful of them. Adams created Dilbert during this period of personal exploration.
The Dilbert name was suggested by his former boss, Mike Goodwin. Dogbert, originally named Dildog, was loosely based on his family's deceased pet beagle Lucy. His submissions of Dilbert and other comic panels to various publications, including The New Yorker and Playboy, were not published, but an inspirational letter from a fan persuaded Adams to keep trying. He worked at Pacific Bell between 1986 and June 30, 1995, and the personalities he encountered there inspired...

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at January 02, 2025 10:57 AM (3t4sN)

238 232 And Conjunction Function.

Natch.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 10:56 AM (iziT

I liked Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 02, 2025 10:58 AM (a8Yoi)

239 It's how they train their AI to drive.
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I hope they're not selling many/any to Asians then!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:58 AM (hovnC)

240 Every student had to memorize and recite in front of the class The Preamble ...
Posted by: ShainS

We were supposed to do that too. Big part of our grade for the semester. I can't memorize stuff like that very well. I can remember all sorts of shit I've read, heard, seen, whatever but if it's something specific that I have to memorize for a special reason.... Nope. I was supposed to memorize the Preamble? Holy shit! I was doomed! My last name was at the beginning of the alphabet and he always went in alphabetical order! Doomed!!! Until I wasn't because he decided to change it up and start at the end of the alphabet! Yay! I didn't get to perform the Preamble because we ran out of semester!!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 02, 2025 10:59 AM (4XwPj)

241 227 as an Xer, I surely know the preamble ... but I have to sing it!
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"Mmm. Obama! Mmm. Obama!"??

[just joking]

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 10:59 AM (hovnC)

242 WA Post is saying the terrorist crash car in New Orleans drove itself into the crowd. Musk is behind it probably.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 02, 2025 10:59 AM (/U5Yz)

243 They'd better hope granddaughter of Diogenes #1 doesn't start driving one. It'll set them back a decade.
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Horde mind!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 11:00 AM (hovnC)

244 "I liked Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here.
Posted by: Scarymary"

That was for the hipster kids.

I wasn't cool enough for that.

Posted by: eleven at January 02, 2025 11:00 AM (iziT8)

245 Your friend must have had very low self-esteem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 02, 2025 10:47 AM (RIvkX)

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I think he did it more for giggles.

He may have been gay (we never discussed it, and I don't recall him having a girlfriend when I knew him).

BTW, he was from Bellevue, WA, and said that his high school English teacher was the father of The Wilson Sisters of "Heart" fame -- and that they would occasionally come and play for the class.

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 11:00 AM (WA0Dj)

246 FBI has decided nah, no one else involved in NO.

Nothing to see here.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2025 11:00 AM (xhfG9)

247 I liked Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here.
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I recall "I'm still just a bill" from Buffalo TV during cartoons.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 11:01 AM (hovnC)

248 MONKEY TIME

Posted by: Skip at January 02, 2025 11:01 AM (1v+yC)

249 I did hang this one! Long ago in law school when I was a freshly minted English History major. Lots going on in the pic, as is typical for the Great Hogorth. This painting/print is one of a series on the election (1756?). The Tory candidate is only interested in wooing his tarts, while his campaign manager takes bribes with both hands. The old Tory pub, "The Royal Oak" has been replaced by a comic dispenser of bribes. The only sound representative of Old England is the grizzeled vet sailor playing against a Frenchy, recreating a great English naval battle.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 02, 2025 11:01 AM (sFNX2)

250 BTW, he was from Bellevue, WA, and said that his high school English teacher was the father of The Wilson Sisters of "Heart" fame -- and that they would occasionally come and play for the class.
Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 11:00 AM (WA0Dj)
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"Magic Man" and "Crazy On You" would liven things up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 02, 2025 11:02 AM (6K6Eu)

251 nood rant

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 11:02 AM (hovnC)

252 BTW, he was from Bellevue, WA, and said that his high school English teacher was the father of The Wilson Sisters of "Heart" fame -- and that they would occasionally come and play for the class.
Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 02, 2025 11:00 AM (WA0Dj)

Wiki:

Wilson's family eventually settled in Bellevue, a suburb of Seattle, Washington. In 1968, she graduated from Sammamish High School.

So, plausible.

Posted by: blaster at January 02, 2025 11:03 AM (xhfG9)

253 While in Cambridge I picked up large prints from the 1820s of Hogarth's most famous works, "Beer Street" and "Gin Alley." Mrs Tell hates them, but I am allowed to hang in my basement man cave.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 02, 2025 11:03 AM (sFNX2)

254 Civics education, to me, is just teaching about the basic structure of our government, the history about its formation and reasoning that went into it, etc.

Meh ... hard pass. The structure of it - as written in the Constitution - was at an 8th grade level and can be independently read. The reasoning ? Again, that's mostly taught as indoctrination to a personal point of view. Its not like we don't have an unbelievable amount of writings from what had to be the most verbose group of dudes in Western Civ. Hell - the wrote ad nauseam about everything.

What do we get out of "civics" ? Separation of Church and State - not at all what was intended or written in that letter. A "more perfect Union" ? Not even many of the Founders agreed that the Republic, once joined, could never be abandoned. And that's a point of view defended to the death by many Unionists right here.

I'd rather the entire subject not be taught. If anything, a semester of independent study with essays.

Posted by: We'll See at January 02, 2025 11:05 AM (DfWDu)

255 I've got links to both A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress, above, Martin Tell.

I love him and Gillray.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 02, 2025 11:06 AM (hovnC)

256 hmm. not only has pluto.tv decided that i no longer need a godzilla channel, but the radio station i listen to while gallivanting about town has changed formats.

for 2025 so far, all i can say is "no sir, i don't like it."

Posted by: anachronda at January 02, 2025 11:06 AM (v3pYe)

257 91 La Grange Chicken Ranch was a going concern until the 70s.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 02, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)
Yes they continued to operate as an open secret but early 20th century was the peak for being basically legal.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Look up Wallace, ID. Famous for the last unfinished section(with a redlight!) of I80, and for the cathouses that kept the miners happy and which were the final resting place for many Washington State and University of Idaho young men's virginity.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 02, 2025 08:02 PM (6vMQv)

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