Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

Boxer at Rest
Apollonius of Athens

Note: Being a three-dimensional medium, sculpture is difficult to appreciate properly in a two-dimensional format. This essay is my best effort with this limitation.
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Boxer at Rest comes from an era of art history known as Hellenism which spans the centuries between the death of Alexander the Great and the Rome’s conquest of Greece. During these centuries, the Greek world expanded beyond its peninsular homeland into modern day Turkey, the Middle East, and north Africa. The innovations of Classical Greek art — idealism, naturalism, and heroic beauty — were mixed with realism and drama. Art, especially figurative art, became more grounded with more down-to-earth subject matter. Humanity was even added to images of the gods.

Unearthed in Rome in the late 19th century, Boxer at Rest is a masterpiece of ancient bronzeworking. Bronze was a much sought-after medium for Greek artists because of its durability and moldability. Marble, the medium we now tend to associate with classical sculpture, is fragile and unforgiving. It can fracture easily and has weak spots that must be braced with struts and supports. Bronze is different. If a mistake is made, the figure can be melted down and the metal reused. Statues are hollow and free-standing, able to mimic the human body better than stone. Unfortunately, many bronzes have been lost to history and works like Boxer at Rest are rare. A large amount of the “ancient Greek art” seen today in museums are marble Roman copies of Greek bronze originals.

The figure in this work is of a defeated boxer resting after a bout. He sits exhausted, with slouched shoulders. He hasn’t even taken off his leather hand-straps (himantes) yet. His arms lay weightlessly in his knees and his legs stretch out asymmetrically. He’s exhausted. His head turns to an extreme angle to his right as though listening to someone behind him — a manager or disappointed supporter. While his limbs relax, his thick, muscular torso and shoulders are still tense.

For me, the charm of Boxer at Rest is in the details. The turned head is so real. I can envision him plopping down onto that rock after a disappointing fight when someone behind him calls out. He’s too tired to move so he only turns his head. If you zoom in on his face, the expression reflects his body language. His eyes stare and his brows are knitted. I can see him panting through his partially open mouth. His face and ears are deeply scarred. Some wounds are fresh. They are still bleeding. The nose is broken, the left cheek is swelling, and his ears are cauliflowered. To add to the realism, copper is added to the cuts to mimic blood. He also likely had eyes to complete the lifelikeness.

Classical Greek art was about the ideal — the best and most beautiful, about the perfection of the human figure. This meant a work was a flawless, unemotional, godlike figure in the nude to display the full beauty of the male human form. With Hellenism, that beauty was seen and celebrated in the common human. This is not a god. Sure, this boxer is strong, muscular, and tough but he’s also highly expressive. He is gassed, sad, and disappointed. You don’t see this emotionalism in Classical art. I can feel this work.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:30 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

2 thx hris

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

3 Yesss!! Hi, Kris! I'll call 'em.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

4 Actually, he strained his neck and simply can't move his head anymore. He needs a massage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

5 Boxer appears to not be wearing boxers.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 26, 2025 09:31 AM (Sgq8y)

6 Did all the guys have curly perms in those days?

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

7 Alternate Title: Be Right Out, Pooping!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

8 Good stuff and good analysis by Kris.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 09:32 AM (J2vNu)

9
And a fighter by his trade...

Posted by: Simon and Garfunkel at February 26, 2025 09:33 AM (DobEs)

10 How do we know the boxer was defeated?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

11 If you enlarge the pic, you'll see the cuts on his nose and face Kris mentions. There's even a cut above his left eyebrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

12 Nice patina

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

13 > Unfortunately, many bronzes have been lost to history

Bronze is valuable metal, and previous generations had their own versions of tweakers who'd steal anything that wasn't nailed down and sell it for scrap.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 09:34 AM (W5ArC)

14 Year 330 to 50 BC
Medium Bronze statue
Location Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome, Italy

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

15 How do we know the boxer was defeated?
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025

***
"You look like hell, Praxos."

"Yah, but you oughta see the other guy!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

16 Amazing painting.
Looks almost like a photograph.

Posted by: Oh, wait at February 26, 2025 09:35 AM (DobEs)

17 I was a boxer till I took an arrow to the knee

Posted by: Former boxer at February 26, 2025 09:35 AM (/6GbT)

18 Maybe he won.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 09:35 AM (jc0TO)

19 Boxer at Rest comes from an era of art history known as

Nekkid Greeks.

Obligatory: How do you separate the men from the boys in Ancient Greece?

With a crowbar.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 09:35 AM (SlNuN)

20 Isn't there a short story by Hemingway called "The Boxer"? One of the Nick Adams stories?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 09:35 AM (J2vNu)

21 17 I was a boxer till I took an arrow to the knee
Posted by: Former boxer at February 26, 2025 09:35 AM (/6GbT)

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I understood this reference.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 09:35 AM (GBKbO)

22 > 6 Did all the guys have curly perms in those days?
Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

A fashion later revived in the late '70s.

Posted by: Late Period Greg Brady at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (W5ArC)

23 This came out of the same dig:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_Prince

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

24 Cestus: a hand covering of leather bands often loaded with lead or iron and used by boxers in ancient Rome.

Meant to cause damage.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (Yj6Os)

25 Something for the 'ettes.

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (EwaUh)

26 Boxer.

So dog.

So art.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (vr7yq)

27 The eyes are the window to your soul.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

28 Damnit Carla.... I just sat down and you want what?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Q4IgG)

29
He has squandered his resistance for a pocketful of mumbles such are promises...

Posted by: All lies and jest at February 26, 2025 09:37 AM (DobEs)

30 Kris, is this a Roman copy or Greek original?

Posted by: dantesed at February 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

31 hey Kris

So the artist had to have made a positive that he then made into a negative (mold)?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 09:38 AM (gbOdA)

32 I think they dipped a real boxer in bronze.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 09:38 AM (l3YAf)

33 This meant a work was a flawless, unemotional, godlike figure in the nude to display the full beauty of the male human form.

How many nekkid lady statues did those Greek homos do?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

34 Something for the 'ettes.
Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (EwaUh)
*****
I appreciate nice calves.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

35 Did all the guys have curly perms in those days?

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)
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https://youtu.be/sU9oBVdbJG0

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:38 AM (vr7yq)

36 Cloaca Maxima.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 09:39 AM (jqxou)

37 His other sculpture, Border Collie at Rest, was never completed for reasons unknown.

Posted by: Eric at February 26, 2025 09:39 AM (w9Wax)

38 Did all the guys have curly perms in those days?

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

We may have called them Jewfros back in the day.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 09:40 AM (gbOdA)

39 23 This came out of the same dig:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_Prince
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 09:36 AM (gbOdA)

Thanks for this. Here is another example of exquisite Greek bronze-work. These are from the Classical era and were found in a shipwreck in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace_bronzes

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:40 AM (EwaUh)

40 Nude Boxing?

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 26, 2025 09:40 AM (g6nra)

41 His other sculpture, Border Collie at Rest, was never completed for reasons unknown.
Posted by: Eric at February 26, 2025

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It was a joke. Border collies are never at rest.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

42 I appreciate nice calves.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 26, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)
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Me, too, even though I'm biceptual.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:41 AM (vr7yq)

43 >>Something for the 'ettes.

And he's not Ottoman!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2025 09:41 AM (Cki93)

44 40 Nude Boxing?
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 26, 2025 09:40 AM (g6nra)

20 bux same as downtown

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

45 Everything you said , plus: It’s not just weariness and defeat. He’s kind of out of it.
He really got his bell rung, and the sculptor managed to depict it.

Posted by: Peter B at February 26, 2025 09:42 AM (ttrGW)

46 Did all the guys have curly perms in those days?
Posted by: BignJames

Early disco.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 09:42 AM (SlNuN)

47 Where does he keep his EBT card?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 09:43 AM (jqxou)

48 Nude Boxing?

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO)

Cardboard ain't gonna cut it for this one, I'm afraid.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 26, 2025 09:43 AM (OUMaO)

49 In Da Vinci's competition with Michelangelo, without mentioning his name , he opined that doing sculptures was much easier than painting where you had to turn a two dimensional canvas into a perceived three dimensional piece of art.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 09:43 AM (cwGMH)

50 That hairstyle is known as the "Bert Convy".

Posted by: What a "Racquet"! at February 26, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

51 >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_Prince

Why do these classical statues have such large, unrealistic genitalia!?

Posted by: David Hogg at February 26, 2025 09:43 AM (l3YAf)

52 The figure in this work is of a defeated boxer resting after a bout.
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Quibble:
Defeated ancient Greek boxers were generally not conscious.
Bouts were not scored; winner determined by knockout.

I would say that's the winning pugilist, barely capable of keeping himself upright, after a match that would make Fight Club look like practice.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2025 09:44 AM (T3zUV)

53 49 In Da Vinci's competition with Michelangelo, without mentioning his name , he opined that doing sculptures was much easier than painting where you had to turn a two dimensional canvas into a perceived three dimensional piece of art.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 09:43 AM (cwGMH)

Least I don't carve ugly chicks.

Posted by: Michelangelo at February 26, 2025 09:44 AM (VoAdT)

54 > 24 Cestus: a hand covering of leather bands often loaded with lead or iron and used by boxers in ancient Rome.

Meant to cause damage.

Decius Caecilius Metellus, the protagonist of the SPQR historical mysteries (quite good, IMO) often slipped a cestus under his toga before going out, in much the same way that a modern hard-boiled detective would strap on a gun.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 09:44 AM (W5ArC)

55 If he'd have had a good "cut man" in his corner, he might have won.

Posted by: Ring Magazine at February 26, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

56 Thanks for this, Kris. I remember the first piece of art I could feel was the sculpture Despair by Rodin. There are many variations but this is the one I viewed at the St. Louis Art Museum.

https://is.gd/mc7CoA

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ViCCR)

57 How do we know the boxer was defeated?

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)
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Are you blind? They're right there, down to his eency-weency pinky toes!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:45 AM (vr7yq)

58 That hairstyle is known as the "Bert Convy".
Posted by: What a "Racquet"!

Aka, Mac Davis.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 09:45 AM (SlNuN)

59 Least I don't carve ugly chicks.
Posted by: Michelangelo

Well, you were teh ghey, so...

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

60 Five fingers and toes per appendage, so I don't think this is AI.

Posted by: Michelle Fields Farewell To Arms at February 26, 2025 09:46 AM (G5+As)

61 How do we know the boxer was defeated?

Because he said, "I am leaving, I am leaving?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 09:46 AM (Q0kLU)

62 > Well, you were teh ghey, so...
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

And yet his nude males always seem to have tiny peens.

Old Mike wasn't a size queen, that's for sure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 09:47 AM (W5ArC)

63 "Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat!"

Posted by: Bobby " The Brain" Heenan at February 26, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)

64 ADRIANUS !!!

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 09:47 AM (cwGMH)

65 I remember the first piece of art I could feel was the sculpture Despair by Rodin.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ViCCR)
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You guys make me sick! Feeling up a statue named "This Pair." Can't you animals think of anything else for a change!

What?

"Despare"?

Not "This Pair"?
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nevermind

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:48 AM (vr7yq)

66 Did all the guys have curly perms in those days?
Posted by: BignJames

Hair and beard were applied with a cake piping bag.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 26, 2025 09:48 AM (w9Wax)

67 For me, the charm of Boxer at Rest is in the details.

I was glad to see he got work after his boxing defeat. His cameo in Jason and the Argonauts was legendary.

Posted by: Confused Moron at February 26, 2025 09:48 AM (JCZqz)

68 Decius Caecilius Metellus, the protagonist of the SPQR historical mysteries (quite good, IMO) often slipped a cestus under his toga before going out, in much the same way that a modern hard-boiled detective would strap on a gun.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Gave rise to the saying,"is that a cestus in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 09:49 AM (SlNuN)

69 Technology today has massively advanced. It's hard to show reallife 3D images on a 2D interface, but the tech is there. Like the old "Matrix" film that had dozens or hundreds of cameras, each at a different angle, they can take panoramic images, then have a UI that would allow you to rotate and see different facets of the statue. Just having two cameras (and the proper software) can create stereoscopic 3D.

In fact, one of the "wow" factors I had was with the ill-fated Nintendo Wii U, the console with that big, bulky tablet-screened controller. They had a 'demo' of sort, a live-action video of a tourist trip through some rural parts of Japan on a horse and carriage.

The trick was that you could move the tablet around and have your view change. Like, literally stand up, turn 180 degrees, and your view would pan around to see what you were pointing at. And I think you could angle up and down as well, to view a different angle of the trip. Just like if you were using a phone camera, but sitting still. And all in seemingly-realtime, although the video itself was "on-rails".

And that was about a decade ago.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 26, 2025 09:49 AM (QNMaY)

70 "Oh, Zeus! Not Simon and Garfunkel AGAIN. Will someone please turn off that fucking jukebox?"

Posted by: The Boxer at February 26, 2025 09:49 AM (W5ArC)

71 This boxer would have won if he just did an early morning training run in Philadelphia.

Posted by: dantesed at February 26, 2025 09:49 AM (Oy/m2)

72 I definitely would like a Remington sculpture more than a Remington painting though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 09:49 AM (cwGMH)

73 Zeus having a crap.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 09:49 AM (jqxou)

74 30 Kris, is this a Roman copy or Greek original?
Posted by: dantesed at February 26, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

It is thought by many art historians to be a Greek original.

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (EwaUh)

75 That hairstyle is known as the "Bert Convy".
Posted by: What a "Racquet"!
*
Aka, Mac Davis.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025

***
Late period Robert Reed (aka "Mike Brady").

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (J2vNu)

76 Ancient sculptures have tiny weens because the Greeks and Romans considered a large one a sign of barbarity.

BUT I'm pretty sure some of thr graffiti in Pompei involves bragging about size, so that may have been an upperclass attitude.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (JDSxu)

77 I was glad to see he got work after his boxing defeat. His cameo in Jason and the Argonauts was legendary.
Posted by: Confused Moron

That giant walking statue scared the bejabbers out of me when I was a kid.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

78 Anyone who has ever seen or owned one has never seen a boxer at rest. They are born puppies and die that way.

Posted by: Roy at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (z+ik4)

79
Third Place - a limerick

Apollonius refused to surrendah
A pugilist's form he tried to rendah
But in the highest pantheons
He finished with the bronze
"I tell ya, I coulda been a contendah!"

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

80 That giant walking statue scared the bejabbers out of me when I was a kid.
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ

The fighting skeletons coming out of the ground was the part for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 09:51 AM (cwGMH)

81 It is thought by many art historians to be a Greek original.

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (EwaUh)
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So this really is a case of "Only your hairdresser knows for sure?"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:51 AM (vr7yq)

82 >> Ancient sculptures have tiny weens because the Greeks and Romans considered a large one a sign of barbarity.

We prefer small and dainty, like on the boys we bugger.

Posted by: Greek and Roman Homos at February 26, 2025 09:52 AM (l3YAf)

83 Think how much it would have cost to eat all those raw eggs every morning!

Posted by: Stallone at February 26, 2025 09:52 AM (DobEs)

84 How do we know the boxer was defeated?

Because he said, "I am leaving, I am leaving?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 09:46 AM

But the fighter still remains..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 26, 2025 09:52 AM (jc0TO)

85 Shemp Howard died of a heart attack in a cab after attending a boxing match. So, let that be a lesson to you.

Posted by: Pride of Bensonhurst at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

86
Not a dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (dxSpM)

87 He really got his bell rung, and the sculptor managed to depict it.
Posted by: Peter B at February 26, 2025 09:42 AM (ttrGW)

The body language is amazing here. The sculptor had skill.

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (EwaUh)

88 I don't see defeated at all. Could just be between rounds listening to his manager.
Just a guy at work, taking a break.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (n4GiU)

89 Lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie lie...

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

90 From what I've gleamed from watching the Howard Stern show long ago, most homos are size queens.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (cwGMH)

91 Not a dog. Not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Dude, he's a boxer!

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

92 89 Lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie lie...
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

No political commentary before comment 101, Bulg.

Posted by: Michelangelo at February 26, 2025 09:54 AM (VoAdT)

93 85 Shemp Howard died of a heart attack in a cab after attending a boxing match. So, let that be a lesson to you.

I had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: The Ball Peen Hammer at February 26, 2025 09:54 AM (DobEs)

94 Work the jab, then hook.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 09:54 AM (Yj6Os)

95 Shemp Howard died of a heart attack in a cab after attending a boxing match. So, let that be a lesson to you.
Posted by: Pride of Bensonhurst

Moe's eye jabs were more dangerous than they looked.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

96 There are a few other sculptures in the Palazzo Massimo that would go over big with this crowd. The Portonaccio sarcophagus, and the Hermaphrodite, for example.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 09:55 AM (JDSxu)

97 83 Think how much it would have cost to eat all those raw eggs every morning!
Posted by: Stallone

Let's see....Gaston eats 5 dozen eggs every day, so he's roughly the size of a large. The local Aldi has eggs at $6/dozen, so we're looking at $30/day.

Eggs are about 75 calories each, so 5 dozen eggs is 4500 calories, so i guess the good news is you don't need to eat much else to meet your daily needs.

Posted by: Moron Math at February 26, 2025 09:56 AM (JCZqz)

98 56 Thanks for this, Kris. I remember the first piece of art I could feel was the sculpture Despair by Rodin. There are many variations but this is the one I viewed at the St. Louis Art Museum.

https://is.gd/mc7CoA
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 26, 2025 09:45 AM (ViCCR)

I've lately come to appreciate Rodin. I love his "Eve (After the Fall)".

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:56 AM (EwaUh)

99
Condominiums?
I don't use 'em.

Posted by: Rocky Balboa at February 26, 2025 09:56 AM (DobEs)

100 Friends. Romans. Countrymen.
Lend me your ear...

Posted by: Mikus Tysonius at February 26, 2025 09:56 AM (/iMjX)

101 I didn't know one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a sculptor.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 09:56 AM (jqxou)

102 Shemp Howard died of a heart attack in a cab after attending a boxing match. So, let that be a lesson to you.

Posted by: Pride of Bensonhurst at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)
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Stop taking cabs, people!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:56 AM (vr7yq)

103

I'd hit it...

Posted by: Mayor Pete- looking for gainful employment at February 26, 2025 09:57 AM (5hfjS)

104 the Hermaphrodite
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 09:55 AM (JDSxu)

LOL. That one was a crowd-pleaser in class.

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 09:57 AM (EwaUh)

105 Moe's eye jabs were more dangerous than they looked.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
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That was the coroner's concussion, too.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:58 AM (vr7yq)

106 I've lately come to appreciate Rodin.
Posted by: Kris

Pfft.

Posted by: Godzilla at February 26, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

107 Looks like he may have been a Welterweight.

Sugar Rayus Leonidas

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 09:58 AM (cwGMH)

108 Condominiums?
I don't use 'em.

*********

Even if it's a studio apartment and they don't charge rent?

You know, Stay Free Mini Pads...

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

109 Yay! Kris content!

I always enjoy her contributions.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at February 26, 2025 09:58 AM (o1mb2)

110 I'd hit it...

Posted by: Mayor Pete- looking for gainful employment at February 26, 2025 09:57 AM (5hfjS)
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Show us the ER hand xr-ays after you dare.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 09:59 AM (vr7yq)

111 LOL. That one was a crowd-pleaser in class.

I saw it from behind first, which is how I think it was intended to be seen. Then you get around front and...

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 09:59 AM (JDSxu)

112 Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

Ooph!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2025 09:59 AM (mWSu4)

113 Pam Bondi announces charges against AOC for interfering with ICE. At her arrest, AOC will also be charged with a Tazer.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at February 26, 2025 09:59 AM (Da7Vv)

114 Moe's eye jabs were more dangerous than they looked.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

Fountain pen to the forehead....hadda' hurt.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 09:59 AM (Yj6Os)

115 This sculpture is wonderful and of a type I don't associate with Greek art. It isn't the pristine marble used for gods and the perfect. It is more moving, more universal. Kris' comments are, as always, insightful. The one thing I could add is that the boxer's core, his torso and hips, remain even after the defeat. He lost a bout and shows the signs of that but he isn't destroyed. His expression is of exhaustion but not despair. Anyone who has struggled, really struggled and expended their energy on trying for something meaningful, can identify with this piece. It is powerful and, in some ways, inspiring.

Continued ...

Posted by: JTB at February 26, 2025 10:00 AM (yTvNw)

116 Stop taking cabs, people!
Posted by: Biden's Dog

I think the story was that Shemp was in a serious car accident when very young, and never drove again. Taxicabs from then on.

Posted by: Samuel Horwitz at February 26, 2025 10:00 AM (G5+As)

117 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2025 09:59 AM (mWSu4)

So, you are here after all...

Posted by: Godzilla at February 26, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

118
Jake Tapper's "Original Sin" = O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It.".

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 10:01 AM (j4U/Z)

119 Oops, off kaiju sock.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

120 I have to admit, I look forward to each new day with Trump in the White House. It's like a Whitman's sampler: every day is a new, different surprise of MAGA wins or Lefty meltdowns. I'm still in the afterglow of Joy Reid getting shitcanned, and Europe freaking out over the German elections and try to act tough....

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 26, 2025 10:01 AM (JCZqz)

121 Shemp Howard died of a heart attack in a cab after attending a boxing match. So, let that be a lesson to you.

Posted by: Pride of Bensonhurst at February 26, 2025 09:53 AM (G5+As)

Fred Mertz died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in in front of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.

Another cautionary tale from which we can all take our lessons.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:02 AM (muwun)

122 It isn't the pristine marble used for gods and the perfect.

The Greeks and Romans painted their statues; the clean white marble is partly the fault of modern-era "cleaning" removing what was left of the paint.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 10:03 AM (JDSxu)

123 Show us the ER hand xr-ays after you dare.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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ISWYDT,, and it's hot...

Posted by: Mayor Pete- looking for gainful employment at February 26, 2025 10:03 AM (5hfjS)

124 Stone toilets ... ? They were more advanced than we knew ...

Posted by: Dr_No at February 26, 2025 10:03 AM (ayRl+)

125 Jake Tapper's "Original Sin" = O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It.".

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 10:01 AM (j4U/Z)
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Funny you should mention Tapper. Oh, the irony!

https://tinyurl.com/3msyceh4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 10:03 AM (vr7yq)

126 The fighting skeletons coming out of the ground was the part for me.
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That was cool.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:03 AM (pLaQB)

127 Fred Mertz died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in in front of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.
Posted by: Cicero

You've obviously been misinformed. He's alive and well and is the new chancellor of Germany.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

128 The boxer looks puzzled. Maybe he lost his wax.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:04 AM (muwun)

129 Continued from comment 115 ...

This sculpture brought to mind the quote from Teddy Roosevelt.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming"

I also thought of Rodin's The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone. It has that same sense of defeat but not giving up.

Posted by: JTB at February 26, 2025 10:05 AM (yTvNw)

130 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 26, 2025 10:05 AM (kTd/k)

131 Stone toilets ... ? They were more advanced than we knew ...
Posted by: Dr_No

The Romans had a flush toilet on Hadrian's Wall.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

132 Fred Mertz died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in in front of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.

Another cautionary tale from which we can all take our lessons.
Posted by: Cicero

So, he didn't really own an apartment building at 623 E. 68th St.? The Dickens you say!

Posted by: Fashion Icon at February 26, 2025 10:06 AM (G5+As)

133 The boxer looks puzzled. Maybe he lost his wax.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:04 AM (muwun)

Caught a slobberknocker to the ear?

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2025 10:06 AM (Yj6Os)

134 The boxer looks puzzled. Maybe he lost his wax.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:04 AM (muwun)

Is he standing in a clearing? Is he a fighter by his trade?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 26, 2025 10:06 AM (kTd/k)

135
*Fred Mertz died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in in front of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.*

Another grim milestone of the LBJ administration...

Posted by: Tsk, tsk, tsk at February 26, 2025 10:06 AM (DobEs)

136 Rubio and Mr VP JD have done more for Europe in 5 weeks than anyone has since the Marshall Plan.

They got called weak and illiberal.
Will they pout or fix it?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:06 AM (gbOdA)

137 I always appreciate skill, and this piece demonstrates the skill of a master.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 26, 2025 10:06 AM (pohLc)

138 I have to admit, I look forward to each new day with Trump in the White House. It's like a Whitman's sampler: every day is a new, different surprise of MAGA wins or Lefty meltdowns.

What? What is this? I was told by the Legacy Media that everyone who voted for Trump is suffering intense pangs of buyer's remorse!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:07 AM (muwun)

139 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Well, to be fair, they do speak for the great majority of voices in their heads.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

140 Funny you should mention Tapper. Oh, the irony!

https://tinyurl.com/3msyceh4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 10:03 AM (vr7yq)
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Clearer irony:

https://tinyurl.com/4hxceab7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 26, 2025 10:07 AM (vr7yq)

141 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Polling results

Posted by: suPer SeRiOus PoLliNg gRouP at February 26, 2025 10:07 AM (5hfjS)

142 I was glad to see he got work after his boxing defeat. His cameo in Jason and the Argonauts was legendary.
Posted by: Confused Moron

That giant walking statue scared the bejabbers out of me when I was a kid.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah I remember that as a kid. Frigging spooky. Didn't they uncork the heel or some shit to drain the sand?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 10:08 AM (VwHCD)

143 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Hubris. And living within a bubble of entitled elitests that believe it is their right and duty to dictate what is right for the ignorant masses.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 26, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

144 Maybe he lost his wax.
Posted by: Cicero

***********

No, the Boxing Commissioner wouldn't let him fight if he was unwaxinated...

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 10:09 AM (/iMjX)

145 The Romans had a flush toilet on Hadrian's Wall.

Continuous-flow toilets were their norm. There's one in great shape in Ostia, and when I was at Vindolanda (a fort near Hadrian's Wall in England), the volunteer excavators were digging in the outflow of the public latrine.

Absolutely no dividers between the seats, but still better than the street-corner terracotta jugs for urinals.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 10:09 AM (JDSxu)

146 Trump has exceeded my wildest hopes and dreams. I am beyond pleased with his choices for high office this time. And his extra competent women are even hot!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 26, 2025 10:09 AM (pohLc)

147 Romans had a flush toilet on Hadrian's Wall.
Posted by: Bulg at February
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Were they shitting on England or Scotland?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 26, 2025 10:09 AM (n4GiU)

148 Kris,
Thank you so much for choosing today's art. It is an aspect of ancient Greek art I was unaware of. Just ordered a used book on the topic to learn more and see more examples.

Posted by: JTB at February 26, 2025 10:10 AM (yTvNw)

149 Thx Kris. This is an amazing piece. The ancients were amazing sculptors / metal workers what with the tools they had. I usually say would hang, but I would definitely place this on my deck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:10 AM (r45RC)

150 Fred Mertz died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in in front of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.
Posted by: Cicero
*
You've obviously been misinformed. He's alive and well and is the new chancellor of Germany.
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025

***
And he's dropped that annoying "T" from his name, too!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

151 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Well, to be fair, they do speak for the great majority of voices in their heads.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

These are the same people who think a 4.5 billion year old planet will adjust it's climate to their whims. They're are out of their frigging minds to start with.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 10:11 AM (VwHCD)

152 Time to start stacking bodies deep.

Texas official issues warning after rancher killed by cartel IED in Mexico: 'A terrorist attack,' son says
Texas officials on Tuesday warned ranchers to exercise caution when traveling in Mexico

Texas ranchers working near the southern border have been urged to exercise extreme caution when traveling through Mexico after one of their own was killed earlier this month by an improvised explosive device (IED).
Antonio Céspedes Saldierna, 74, a Texas rancher who worked on both sides of the border, was driving near his ranch in Tamaulipas, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas, when he was killed by an IED, KRGV-TV reported.
Also killed was Horacio Lopez Peña. Ninfa Griselda Ortega, Lopez's wife, was hospitalized with injuries.

https://tinyurl.com/mr49m43d

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 10:11 AM (SlNuN)

153 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 26, 2025 10:05 AM (kTd/k)

Literally everyone I know thinks this way. Also, in the before times, when Civilization was still strong and Elon Musk didn't own twitter, people who disagreed with me were silenced, cast out, shunned. The little people rightly averted their gaze lest the sight of my visage burn the thoughts from their feeble minds.

Why would I assume otherwise? -- Liberals

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:11 AM (ExV1e)

154 There was a board game when I was a kid You'd walk around a pyramid after you rolled the dice. Those Jackal headed men scared me.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:11 AM (jqxou)

155 143 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Hubris. And living within a bubble of entitled elitests that believe it is their right and duty to dictate what is right for the ignorant masses.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 26, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

I suspect it's also a bit of a reductive process in their nasty little rattle-can heads. A bit of a "no true Scotsman" kind of thing.

If they don't speak for you, you ain't American.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:12 AM (VoAdT)

156 Fred Mertz died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in in front of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.

So, who's going to be PM of the Islamic Republic of Germany?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:12 AM (ExV1e)

157 Caught a slobberknocker to the ear?
Posted by: BignJames

**********

I nominate slobberknocker as the AOSHQ word of the day.

And a finalist for Word of the Year!

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 10:12 AM (/iMjX)

158 Where do liberals get the bizarre impression they speak for the great majority of Americans?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Liberal
Pro War
Pro graft and fraud
Pro 3rd World Conversion (bringing in the 3rd world)
Pro Poor (policies meant to keep the poor poor)
Anti Free Speech
Anti Religion

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:12 AM (gbOdA)

159 >>>Were they shitting on England or Scotland?

Yes

Posted by: Romans at February 26, 2025 10:12 AM (CwhoI)

160 Any fun Hawaiian judge rulings today? Or rulings against Hawaiian judges by other judges?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 10:13 AM (TuAFT)

161 hx Kris. This is an amazing piece. The ancients were amazing sculptors / metal workers what with the tools they had. I usually say would hang, but I would definitely place this on my deck
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Me too,,, oh wait, you said 'deck'

Posted by: Mayor Pete- looking for gainful employment at February 26, 2025 10:13 AM (5hfjS)

162 Stone Temple Toilets... not quite the same

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 26, 2025 10:13 AM (/6GbT)

163 They got called weak and illiberal.
Will they pout or fix it?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:06 AM (gbOdA)

That's a trick question, right?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:13 AM (ExV1e)

164 I recommend as a sentence that AOC be spanked good and hard.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:13 AM (r45RC)

165 If you are running heat and you leave your front door open you will heat up the outside.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:14 AM (jqxou)

166 Caught a slobberknocker to the ear?
Posted by: BignJames

**********

I nominate slobberknocker as the AOSHQ word of the day.

And a finalist for Word of the Year!
Posted by: muldoon

😢 There goes donnybrook.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 10:14 AM (SlNuN)

167 Fred Mertz died of a heart attack on the sidewalk in in front of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.
*
So, who's going to be PM of the Islamic Republic of Germany?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025

***
Mohammed Mohammed Altengruber

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 10:15 AM (J2vNu)

168 > Despair by Rodin.

Godzilla > Rodin

But Gamera is the King of All Kaiju.

If I remember right, the Cloaca Maxima ("biggest sewer") in Rome is still in use, thousands of years after it was built. The same for some of the Roman roads.

Say what you will, those boys built to last.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:15 AM (W5ArC)

169 😢 There goes donnybrook.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 10:14 AM (SlNuN)

oh no another AoSHQ brouhaha

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:15 AM (gbOdA)

170 RoMa Tabac has a very good cigar in their Aquitaine line called a Slobberknocker. It's a neat 7.5 inch x 56.

I'll never smoke another again without thinking of this place.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:15 AM (PzXaK)

171 Trump to auction off citizenship via his 'gold cards' for $5m to foreigners who create jobs.

“Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card,” Trump continued. “They'll be wealthy and they'll be successful and they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people. And we think it's going to be extremely successful and never been done before.”

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick clarified the Trump administration plans to terminate a somewhat similar EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program and “replace it with the Trump gold card.”

Kind of like the Pope selling indulgences? For enough money you can buy your way into the heaven of citizenship. Fuck that "give me your tired, your poor" bullshit.

So the USA is officially for sale, by policy. Nice. Wealthy foreigners don't usually need green cards either. So what exactly would they be purchasing?

He's letting the world know he's for sale. He was hawking more of his bullshit merchandise during this press conference. While signing more of his evil AF executive orders. I foresee a hundred Russian oligarchs coming soon.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2025 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

172 I recommend as a sentence that AOC be spanked good and hard.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:13 AM (r45RC)

She has built-in defenses against that!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 10:16 AM (l3YAf)

173 oh no another AoSHQ brouhaha
Posted by: rhennigantx

At least it's not a kerfuffle.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

174 149 Thx Kris. This is an amazing piece. The ancients were amazing sculptors / metal workers what with the tools they had. I usually say would hang, but I would definitely place this on my deck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:10 AM (r45RC)

That's a big desk. This statue is life size.

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 10:17 AM (EwaUh)

175 Late last night and the night before
slobberknockers, slobbersknockers
knocking at the door.
I want to go out;
don't know if I can,
'cause I'm so afraid
of the slobberknocker man.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:17 AM (gbOdA)

176 I recommend as a sentence that AOC be spanked good and hard.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

While bare bottomed and lying across your knees.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (SlNuN)

177 > Were they shitting on England or Scotland?
Posted by: From about That Time at February 26, 2025 10:09 AM (n4GiU)

You gotta figure that the Scottish border must've been a really shite posting for a legionary. The Minot, North Dakota or Adak, Alaska of its day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (W5ArC)

178 Hasn't that basically been the Australian and New Zealander approach to immigration for decades now?

Shut it the hell down, but let in anyone who wants to shell out a whole bunch of cash. There won't be many, and those who do won't be a burden. Except for being Chinese spies. But meh. If you suck at keeping secrets anyway, who cares.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (VoAdT)

179 Apollo was astonished

Posted by: Taggart at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (HcoTw)

180 Charlie Kirk says Jeff Bezos told WaPo employees that the opinion page will now write in support of personal liberties and free markets, and that contrary opinions "will be written elsewhere."

Opinion editor David Shipley quit as a result.

https://tinyurl.com/ya6a432f

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (paSBy)

181 174 149 Thx Kris. This is an amazing piece. The ancients were amazing sculptors / metal workers what with the tools they had. I usually say would hang, but I would definitely place this on my deck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:10 AM (r45RC)

That's a big desk. This statue is life size.
Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 10:17 AM

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It would fit in with the Guernica print I have on my office wall.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (PzXaK)

182 At least it's not a kerfuffle.
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

or a melee

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (gbOdA)

183 deck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:10 AM (r45RC)

Whoops! Read that wrong. It would definitely fit on your deck.

Posted by: Kris at February 26, 2025 10:19 AM (EwaUh)

184 That's a big desk. This statue is life size.
Posted by: Kris
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I certainly hope so,, oh wait, you said 'desk'

Posted by: Mayor Pete- looking for gainful employment at February 26, 2025 10:19 AM (5hfjS)

185 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Beautiful art today. Thanxs Kris.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:19 AM (W/lyH)

186 f I remember right, the Cloaca Maxima ("biggest sewer") in Rome is still in use, thousands of years after it was built. The same for some of the Roman roads.

Yes, but sadly the shrine to Cloacina, goddess of the sewers, has been lost.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 10:19 AM (JDSxu)

187 Shut it the hell down, but let in anyone who wants to shell out a whole bunch of cash. There won't be many, and those who do won't be a burden. Except for being Chinese spies. But meh. If you suck at keeping secrets anyway, who cares.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (VoAdT)

The Bahamas used to be $500k cash down on property.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:20 AM (gbOdA)

188 This could turn into a real hullabaloo.

Posted by: Stand back at February 26, 2025 10:20 AM (DobEs)

189 > Opinion editor David Shipley quit as a result.

Oh, no!

Anyway...

I've actually seen these fucking tards threatening to "boycott" White House press events.

Go right ahead, you arrogant pricks. There's no shortage of bloggers and podcasters waiting in line to take your slots.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:20 AM (W5ArC)

190 enough money you can buy your way into the heaven of citizenship. Fuck that "give me your tired, your poor" bullshit.

—

Uhm yeah that’s exactly the point. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 10:21 AM (TuAFT)

191 Literally everyone I know thinks this way. Also, in the before times, when Civilization was still strong and Elon Musk didn't own twitter, people who disagreed with me were silenced, cast out, shunned. The little people rightly averted their gaze lest the sight of my visage burn the thoughts from their feeble minds.

Why would I assume otherwise? -- Liberals
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:11 AM (ExV1e)

Also, the Deep State / media / intelligence community w/ USAID money is great at creating false consensuses.

So if you're a LIV and your exposure to the greater world around you is some Apple News updates and whatever you see on TikTok or reddit, and every "person" (largely bots, likely) has the same general opinions, and you're given a silly straw man argument for the "other side" and told only stupid and/or evil people believe the "other side", well...

You can see how effective that is.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (uCjyK)

192 Cloaca Maxima - Rectum Massive.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (pLaQB)

193 Say what you will, those boys built to last.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:15 AM (W5ArC)

Yup... their concrete is better than modern stuff!

Amazing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (mWSu4)

194 I like sculptures, well done

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (/iyoL)

195 Sculpture is wonderful. Some years ago we were lucky enough to be alone in front of the David for a half hour, and the power of the medium makes a tremendous impression.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (EYeDJ)

196 Adak, Alaska. My fathers post in ww2. Motor pool, got his leg crushed between two trucks.
Not particularly heroic service.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (n4GiU)

197 You gotta figure that the Scottish border must've been a really shite posting for a legionary. The Minot, North Dakota or Adak, Alaska of its day.

It was so cold they wore pants.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (JDSxu)

198 I can't get over the absurdity of it.... AP whines to the courts that they specifically have been wronged, courts say "What? You don't have that right. Nobody does. Your association is nothing more than a club." And the administration says "Well would ya look at that. Adios, buttholes."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:23 AM (VoAdT)

199 Deck dick, oooo. - Petey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:23 AM (r45RC)

200 191 So if you're a LIV and your exposure to the greater world around you is some Apple News updates and whatever you see on TikTok or reddit, and every "person" (largely bots, likely) has the same general opinions, and you're given a silly straw man argument for the "other side" and told only stupid and/or evil people believe the "other side", well...

You can see how effective that is.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (uCjyK)

========

And yet...

Literally Hitler won in 2016, they had to shut down ballot counting in six states in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory, and Literally Hitler won in 2024.

The cultural influence is obviously very big, but there's also a ceiling to its reach. And I think that ceiling gets lower with every passing year as media continues to segment into smaller and smaller pieces.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

201 180 Charlie Kirk says Jeff Bezos told WaPo employees that the opinion page will now write in support of personal liberties and free markets, and that contrary opinions "will be written elsewhere."

Opinion editor David Shipley quit as a result.
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Perfect definition of NEWS.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (pLaQB)

202 It was so cold they wore pants.
Posted by: Rob Crawford

Only on the Scroll Thread.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (77rzZ)

203 Shut it the hell down, but let in anyone who wants to shell out a whole bunch of cash. There won't be many, and those who do won't be a burden. Except for being Chinese spies. But meh. If you suck at keeping secrets anyway, who cares.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (VoAdT)

We already have investor visas -- eb5's for example. Massive amounts of fraud, of course.

I don't know why we're giving green cards to rich Chinese assholes (and to be a rich Chinese asshole, you need to be connected to the Communist Party), but whatever.

We should be shutting down visa types and making green cards much harder to get, not making it easier to buy your way in to US citizenship then be an anchor sugar daddy for your entire extended family.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (uCjyK)

204 Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (jqxou)

205 180 Charlie Kirk says Jeff Bezos told WaPo employees that the opinion page will now write in support of personal liberties and free markets, and that contrary opinions "will be written elsewhere."

Opinion editor David Shipley quit as a result.

https://tinyurl.com/ya6a432f
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (paSBy)

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I'm really curious how WaPo's intelligence sources are taking this change in direction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

206 @176rickb223, you read my mind

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:25 AM (r45RC)

207 I find I'm really OK with the concept of Immigration Indulgences.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:25 AM (PzXaK)

208 Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Kept out the haggis-smuggling cartels.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

209 Charlie Kirk says Jeff Bezos told WaPo employees that the opinion page will now write in support of personal liberties and free markets, and that contrary opinions "will be written elsewhere."

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (paSBy)

And Trump will still be an existential evil, because he is a fascist and a Nazi.

I'm not holding my breath for a radical shift away from their traditional hatreds.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2025 10:26 AM (mWSu4)

210 > The Bahamas used to be $500k cash down on property.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:20 AM (gbOdA)

I think Malta still has that type of program. The added advantage there is that a Maltese passport, while not at the very top of the list, is quite good in terms of getting you into other countries visa-free. It's in the fourth rank, compared to the US and Canada, both in the seventh rank.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:26 AM (W5ArC)

211 Literally Hitler won in 2016, they had to shut down ballot counting in six states in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory, and Literally Hitler won in 2024.

The cultural influence is obviously very big, but there's also a ceiling to its reach. And I think that ceiling gets lower with every passing year as media continues to segment into smaller and smaller pieces.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, agreed. The propaganda doesn't seem quite as effective in the US as it has been in Eastern Europe in the past.

Made US media consumers are more sophisticated, I don't know.

But it is amazing that Trump won in 16 and 24 with every institution imaginable coming out against him in any way they could.

So I'd say that pegs the LIVs who rely on the "mainstream" at only... 40% of the population? Which is very encouraging.

The true believers / whatever will never change their minds. The LIVs are obviously easily susceptible to being influenced.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:26 AM (uCjyK)

212 For $5 Million I would leave.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:26 AM (jqxou)

213 I had a discussion with someone on social media about global warming. I said why did Obama buy a house on the ocean if oceans are rising at an alarming rate. The response was the oceans are rising only a few mm a year so it will take hundreds of years for his house to be affected. To which I said oh so why are we freaking out about what May happen in hundreds of years, are you saying the threat is not imminent? Reply back was stop watching Fox News.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 10:26 AM (TuAFT)

214 192 Cloaca Maxima - Rectum Massive.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (pLaQB)

Big Asshole

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

215 And yet...

Literally Hitler won in 2016, they had to shut down ballot counting in six states in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall to barely get Biden an electoral college victory, and Literally Hitler won in 2024.

The cultural influence is obviously very big, but there's also a ceiling to its reach. And I think that ceiling gets lower with every passing year as media continues to segment into smaller and smaller pieces.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

I wonder why Congress was so hot and bothered to kill TikTok.

Sure, it's cultural rot and it's Chinese infiltration but that's not what they really cared about.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:27 AM (ExV1e)

216 > 204 Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (jqxou)

They'd seen the Scots?

(take that any way you want...heh)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:27 AM (W5ArC)

217 I'm really curious how WaPo's intelligence sources are taking this change in direction.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

I think Tulsi fired them all yesterday.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 10:27 AM (l3YAf)

218 Upcoming WaPo opinion:

A $5k check is an existential threat to your personal liberties.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:28 AM (PzXaK)

219 I don't know if Jake Tapper is a sociopath incapable of recognizing his own misdeeds, or is suffering from advanced dementia, but to pimp a book calling out journalistic malpractice that he himself played a key role in is breathtakingly shameless.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 26, 2025 10:28 AM (CwhoI)

220 Glutius Maximus.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (jqxou)

221 Thanks Kris. Love your commentaries.

Posted by: Tuna at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (lJ0H4)

222 219 I don't know if Jake Tapper is a sociopath incapable of recognizing his own misdeeds, or is suffering from advanced dementia, but to pimp a book calling out journalistic malpractice that he himself played a key role in is breathtakingly shameless.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 26, 2025 10:28 AM (CwhoI)

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Sociopath.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

223 Call it the FYPM Visa.

"F*ck You. Pay me."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (VoAdT)

224 204 Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Highland Pipes.

Posted by: Cacophony at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (G5+As)

225 219 I don't know if Jake Tapper is a sociopath incapable of recognizing his own misdeeds, or is suffering from advanced dementia, but to pimp a book calling out journalistic malpractice that he himself played a key role in is breathtakingly shameless.
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I was just thinking, "How does he thing he can get away with this?"

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (paSBy)

226 213 I had a discussion with someone on social media about global warming. I said why did Obama buy a house on the ocean if oceans are rising at an alarming rate. The response was the oceans are rising only a few mm a year so it will take hundreds of years for his house to be affected. To which I said oh so why are we freaking out about what May happen in hundreds of years, are you saying the threat is not imminent? Reply back was stop watching Fox News.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 26, 2025 10:26 AM (TuAFT)

I post to X

The day Obama bought a place on the water who did not know there was no sea level rise?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (gbOdA)

227 222 219 I don't know if Jake Tapper is a sociopath incapable of recognizing his own misdeeds, or is suffering from advanced dementia, but to pimp a book calling out journalistic malpractice that he himself played a key role in is breathtakingly shameless.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 26, 2025 10:28 AM (CwhoI)
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Sociopath.
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Tapper wears tight pants. This is always a clue.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:30 AM (pLaQB)

228 I was just thinking, "How does he thing he can get away with this?"
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (paSBy)

Because he can and he will.

It's all a big game to them, they're shameless. Like actors reading a script, but with an even larger ego.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:30 AM (uCjyK)

229 The day Obama bought a place on the water who did not know there was no sea level rise?

Obama voters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (ExV1e)

230 It's not as if the Scots were 10 feet tall and able to shoot fireballs out of their arses.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (jqxou)

231 Say what you will, those boys built to last.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:15 AM (W5ArC)

Yup... their concrete is better than modern stuff!
Amazing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

The Romans incorporated volcanic ash into the mixture.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (w9Wax)

232 219 I don't know if Jake Tapper is a sociopath incapable of recognizing his own misdeeds, or is suffering from advanced dementia, but to pimp a book calling out journalistic malpractice that he himself played a key role in is breathtakingly shameless.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 26, 2025 10:28 AM (CwhoI)

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I know, right?

-Dan Rather

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (PzXaK)

233 Hearing butthurt Lefties muttering about Trump and his MAGA supporters is the best part of waking up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (muwun)

234 NY Post is reporting that the majority of Maddow's staff is being fired. I bet she won't stand for it and will leave. Strangely, I don't have the sadz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (r45RC)

235 229 The day Obama bought a place on the water who did not know there was no sea level rise?

Obama voters.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (ExV1e)

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High level Democrats have every reason to think their voters are braindead retards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

236 Three Stooges in the art thread.

'Rons.

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (0HaGk)

237 229 The day Obama bought a place on the water who did not know there was no sea level rise?

Obama voters.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (ExV1e)

Actually, I regularly look back on the day Obama got the D nomination (or was it when he won) when he said that we will look back on that day as the day the sea levels stopped rising.

So I think 2008 was the end of the sea levels rising.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:32 AM (uCjyK)

238 I don't know if Jake Tapper is a sociopath incapable of recognizing his own misdeeds, or is suffering from advanced dementia

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 26, 2025 10:28 AM (CwhoI)

He has lived in the leftist bubble for his entire life, and has never heard the word "no" with respect to his pontifications. So he is making the assumption that his every thought is of tremendous value, and has never been held accountable to actual coherence in his world-view.

And yes, I just described most of his peers!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2025 10:32 AM (mWSu4)

239 > I think Malta still has that type of program.

€750,000 gets you citizenship in a year. €600,000 gets you citizenship in three years.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:32 AM (W5ArC)

240 2 supposedly Western Civilizations are a 3 long years war
with maybe >1 Million dead and wounded and the one man calling for a Peace Plan is called Evil, and Weak, and a Sellout.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:32 AM (gbOdA)

241 234 NY Post is reporting that the majority of Maddow's staff is being fired. I bet she won't stand for it and will leave. Strangely, I don't have the sadz
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She will still live in NY, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:32 AM (pLaQB)

242 Three Stooges in the art thread.

'Rons.
Posted by: eleven

Why I outta...

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

243 @219 I can sum it up ; Jake Tapper is a dick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:33 AM (r45RC)

244 Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:24 AM (jqxou)

Why not build a second wall?

Posted by: Antoninus Pius at February 26, 2025 10:33 AM (muwun)

245 Daddy Warbucks has decided he needs to pay attention to his children at the Washington Post?

Interesting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 10:33 AM (tT6L1)

246 This could turn into a real hullabaloo.

***********

All y'all need to stop your caterwauling!

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 10:33 AM (/iMjX)

247 246 This could turn into a real hullabaloo.

***********

All y'all need to stop your caterwauling!
Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 10:33 AM (/iMjX)

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These shenanigans will get out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

248 I can't believe all these evil bastards even insinuating that you can use money as a medium of exchange for procuring something you want that everyone else wants, too.

How absolutely dare they.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (VoAdT)

249 The ancient Greeks, much like modern Germans, French, and English chose homosexuality instead of making babies.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (ZmEVT)

250 High level Democrats have every reason to think their voters are braindead retards.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (GBKbO)

The "Deep State" think everyone is a braindead retard, except for them and their cohort of nepo babies from ivy league schools (who are, sadly, largely actually retarded). And frankly, I can see why they would believe that.

Look at the shit they've been getting away with for decades and all they have to do is get their propaganda arm ramped up to get people arguing over at what point it is appropriate to amputate boy's penises, instead of people revolting against the thievery and corruption.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (uCjyK)

251 Daddy Warbucks has decided he needs to pay attention to his children at the Washington Post?

Interesting.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

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I'm wondering if these kinds of moves are just holding actions with the assumption that the Dems will be able to steal the next election so things get back to "normal."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (PzXaK)

252 > The day Obama bought a place on the water who did not know there was no sea level rise?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:29 AM (gbOdA)

Definitely. A guy who genuinely believed in imminent catastrophic sea level rise would not buy a house sitting on a glorified sand bar with the friggin' North Atlantic Ocean in his back yard.

Nor would a bank that believed in such write a mortage, nor would an insurance company that believed in such write a policy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (W5ArC)

253 I've lately come to appreciate Rodin.
Posted by: Kris

The Kiss is beautiful.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (W/lyH)

254 Actually, I regularly look back on the day Obama got the D nomination (or was it when he won) when he said that we will look back on that day as the day the sea levels stopped rising.

So I think 2008 was the end of the sea levels rising.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:32 AM (uCjyK)

That would be an interesting response to the enviro-weenies.

We don't have to worry about rising sea levels. That stopped in 2008. Or are you calling Barack Obama a liar?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (ExV1e)

255 220 Glutius Maximus.
Posted by:

Fuck Spartacus. I am Glutius Maximus!

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at February 26, 2025 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

256 >>>Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?

Because conquering would require living in Scotland.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 26, 2025 10:35 AM (CwhoI)

257 245 Daddy Warbucks has decided he needs to pay attention to his children at the Washington Post?

Interesting.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 26, 2025 10:33 AM (tT6L1)

"Holy crap, the WaPo sucks. Who even owns that piece of shit."

"You do, sir. Remember when you bought it for a dollar?"

"I think I want my money back."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:35 AM (VoAdT)

258 The Romans incorporated volcanic ash into the mixture.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (w9Wax)

It is now being used again. It seems the rain melts the very soft rock (ash) in the mixture. It seeps into cracks and rehardens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:35 AM (gbOdA)

259 233 Hearing butthurt Lefties muttering about Trump and his MAGA supporters is the best part of waking up.
Posted by: Cicero

You'll be hearing from our attorneys, sir!

Posted by: Folgers at February 26, 2025 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

260 Godzilla kicked the crap out of Rodin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:36 AM (r45RC)

261 Just thinking about Rachel freaking Maddow having a "staff".

lolwut?

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2025 10:36 AM (0HaGk)

262 Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Because I was bodacious!

Posted by: Boudicca, Warrior Queen of the Iceni at February 26, 2025 10:36 AM (w9Wax)

263 14 and 96:
It's worth adding that the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme is very close to the main train and bus terminal in Rome (Termini), which most tourists pass through, so there's no excuse not to visit when you're in Rome. If you look out the front doors of the train station, facing northwest towards the huge square where all the buses are parked, you will also see the Palazzo Massimo: it's across the street from the far left corner of the bus area. Lots of excellent restaurants in the area, too, and at least one affordable hotel right behind the Palazzo with a roof-top dining area.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at February 26, 2025 10:36 AM (43XUo)

264 IIRC, Bezos was pursuing a private space flight initiative that he shelved. He also bought the WaPo.

Thinking he's more than a bit miffed right now.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:37 AM (PzXaK)

265 My friendly staff.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:37 AM (jqxou)

266 The Kiss is beautiful.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (W/lyH)

Pfft. Derivative.

Posted by: Gustav Klimt at February 26, 2025 10:37 AM (muwun)

267 > 234 NY Post is reporting that the majority of Maddow's staff is being fired. I bet she won't stand for it and will leave. Strangely, I don't have the sadz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (r45RC)

LOL! Just yesterday she was screeching racism because of Joy Reid getting canceled. Just evening up the score by canceling a white woman, Rach.

(she is actually a woman in the sense of "born with a vagina", right?)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:37 AM (W5ArC)

268 260 Godzilla kicked the crap out of Rodin
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Same deal with Mothra. Who in their right mind thinks a moth could take Godzilla?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:37 AM (pLaQB)

269 . He is gassed, sad, and disappointed.

GASSSSSSS? Them old Greek homos.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 26, 2025 10:37 AM (MFCwg)

270 >> Nor would a bank that believed in such write a mortage

I doubt Obama has a mortgage. That’s for the little people. He’s a public servant, so he’s worth tens of millions.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (l3YAf)

271 I saw this in person in Rome. It's more detailed in person, you can see the wounds, the broken nose, the cauliflower ears, etc. The posture is also more hunched over when you see it in 3D.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks the boxer lost the fight. That's not the impression I get at all. This pose seems to me like it's a fighter going into the final rounds of a very close and brutal fight.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (iFTx/)

272 @267 Rodrigo, I really don't want to think about it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (r45RC)

273 Nor would a bank that believed in such write a mortage, nor would an insurance company that believed in such write a policy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:34 AM (W5ArC)

Now explain how molecules of warm air rise and can find the exact location of a molecule of CO2 when there are 0.04% of the air, then bounce back more heat than the air originally contained.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (gbOdA)

274 This could turn into a real hullabaloo.

***********

All y'all need to stop your caterwauling!
Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 10:33 AM (/iMjX)

=======

These shenanigans will get out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I'm more interested in lollygagging, especially the gagging part...

Posted by: Mayor Pete- looking for gainful employment at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (5hfjS)

275 > Because conquering would require living in Scotland.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 26, 2025 10:35 AM (CwhoI)

Even worse, it'd eventually result in drunken Scots wandering the streets of Rome, playing those fucking bagpipes at all hours.

There'd be no Pax Romana with them in the picture, that's for sure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (W5ArC)

276 179 Apollo was astonished
Posted by: Taggart at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (HcoTw)

Dionysus thought me mad.

Posted by: goozer at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (V1MWf)

277 Michaelangelo was the orange one with the numchucks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:39 AM (jqxou)

278 270 >> Nor would a bank that believed in such write a mortage

I doubt Obama has a mortgage. That’s for the little people. He’s a public servant, so he’s worth tens of millions.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (l3YAf)

Probably the opposite. He's got three or four mortgages on it, and has never paid a dime on any of them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:39 AM (VoAdT)

279 If you look out the front doors of the train station, facing northwest towards the huge square where all the buses are parked, you will also see the Palazzo Massimo: it's across the street from the far left corner of the bus area. Lots of excellent restaurants in the area, too, and at least one affordable hotel right behind the Palazzo with a roof-top dining area.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at February 26, 2025 10:36 AM (43XUo)

How far is the Sbarros?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:40 AM (gbOdA)

280 these insane lefties aren't just wishing for Trump's plans to fail (reasonable) , they are wishing for literal destruction and death of the country.

Same as when they hoped the invasion of Iraq would result in 20k American deaths.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 10:40 AM (cwGMH)

281 NY Post is reporting that the majority of Maddow's staff is being fired. I bet she won't stand for it and will leave. Strangely, I don't have the sadz
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM

LOL. Learn to mine lettuce.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2025 10:40 AM (4p0Xq)

282 >192 Cloaca Maxima - Rectum Massive.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:22 AM (pLaQB)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at February 26, 2025 10:40 AM (NgqoH)

283 I'm not sure why everyone thinks the boxer lost the fight. That's not the impression I get at all. This pose seems to me like it's a fighter going into the final rounds of a very close and brutal fight.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (iFTx/)

I've often wondered who he is looking at, or listening to? Something has his attention. Who could it have been?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

284 It seeps into cracks and rehardens.

Like the Paolo.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (MFCwg)

285 How far is the Sbarros?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:40 AM (gbOdA)

It's next door to the Olive Garden.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (muwun)

286 How far is the Sbarros?
Posted by: rhennigantx

Man, I loved the Sbarro in Union Station when I worked in DC.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

287 Probably the opposite. He's got three or four mortgages on it, and has never paid a dime on any of them.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:39 AM (VoAdT)

Yeah, I remember when it came out after 2008 that Countrywide had a special "VIP program" where they made loans to former politicians and such at basically 0% interest on properties they would have never normally qualified for. And many of those loans were in arears, but no foreclosure action had been started.

Seemed like bribery, but what do I know?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:42 AM (uCjyK)

288 285 How far is the Sbarros?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:40 AM (gbOdA)
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Sbarros' meatballs are excellent. I don't know how they do that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:42 AM (pLaQB)

289 They could save at least 15 million and get rid of Maddow and not lose rating shares at all. There are plenty of Lefties that would take her place for 5 million.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 10:42 AM (cwGMH)

290 I've often wondered who he is looking at, or listening to? Something has his attention. Who could it have been?
Posted by: Diogenes

--

Burgess Meredith.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:42 AM (PzXaK)

291 Seemed like bribery, but what do I know?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 26, 2025 10:42 AM (uCjyK)

At least with good old fashioned graft back in the day, you actually got a new bridge or a dam or a library out of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:42 AM (VoAdT)

292 Apollo was astonished

Posted by: Taggart at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (HcoTw)

Dionysus thought him mad.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (VwHCD)

293 Boxing is the purest of sport.

I learned how to watch a box fight from my dad and Howard Cosell. I remember watching the Thrillah in Manila.

Pure sport.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (W2Pud)

294 Once upon a time Sbarro's had good meatballs and was very cheap.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (jqxou)

295 Burgess Meredith.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:42 AM (PzXaK)

"Stop calling me Rock, asshole, i'm clearly metallic."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (VoAdT)

296 Wanna bet Maddow's "staff" is all YT pepo.

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (0HaGk)

297 Burgess Meredith.
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Or Ethel Merman.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (paSBy)

298 > I've often wondered who he is looking at, or listening to? Something has his attention. Who could it have been?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

Donius Rex, the promoter, who's just informed him that his share of the 100,000 aurei gate will be 15 denarii.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (W5ArC)

299 289 They could save at least 15 million and get rid of Maddow and not lose rating shares at all. There are plenty of Lefties that would take her place for 5 million.
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Just replace her with The Andy Griffith rerun show and kick back and enjoy a tripling of your ratings.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:44 AM (pLaQB)

300 I thought Sbarros closed when the Mall closed.

Which came first?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2025 10:44 AM (ZmEVT)

301 I've often wondered who he is looking at, or listening to? Something has his attention. Who could it have been?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

Vic

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 26, 2025 10:44 AM (/6GbT)

302 Just replace her with The Andy Griffith rerun show and kick back and enjoy a tripling of your ratings.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 26, 2025 10:44 AM (pLaQB)

Dopey -> Opie

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2025 10:44 AM (VoAdT)

303 Man, I loved the Sbarro in Union Station when I worked in DC.
Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

My favorite bar was the one in the main hall. Used to grab a Foggy Bottom ale there a lot.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:45 AM (W/lyH)

304 When I worked in the mall I would either go to Sbarros or Friendly's for lunch. I have neither close to me now. I don't even know if Friendly's still exist.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 10:45 AM (cwGMH)

305 >300 I thought Sbarros closed when the Mall closed.

Which came first?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2025 10:44 AM (ZmEVT)

Orange Julius has entered the chat

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 26, 2025 10:45 AM (NgqoH)

306 Three Stooges in the art thread.

***********

We appreciate Larry Fine Art...

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 10:45 AM (/iMjX)

307 Once upon a time Sbarro's had good meatballs and was very cheap.
Posted by: Boss Moss

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True story. My daughter fancies herself a super gourmet know it all.

She was impressed that Wolfgang Puck created Sbarro's and just loved his commitment to "food for the people." She's go to Sbarro's every time she was at a food court.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:45 AM (PzXaK)

308 Hearing butthurt Lefties muttering about Trump and his MAGA supporters is the best part of waking up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2025 10:31 AM (muwun)

The best part of waking up,
Is lib tears in your cup!

Posted by: LASue at February 26, 2025 10:46 AM (lCppi)

309 I learned how to watch a box fight from my dad and Howard Cosell. I remember watching the Thrillah in Manila.

Pure sport.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (W2Pud)

"The Altercation To Cause Perspiration!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 10:47 AM (Q0kLU)

310 Now explain how molecules of warm air rise and can find the exact location of a molecule of CO2 when there are 0.04% of the air, then bounce back more heat than the air originally contained.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:38 AM (gbOdA)

That’s not how that works. Carbon dioxide reflects light that bounces off the earth back. More carbon dioxide = more light reflected = more energy trapped in Earth’s atmosphere.

That part is pretty well-established. However, carbon dioxide is such a weak greenhouse gas that the effect is minimal, so all of the climate change models rely on carbon dioxide triggering feedback loops in other natural processes (like cloud formation) that cause out-of-control warming.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 10:47 AM (l3YAf)

311 Wanna bet Maddow's "staff" is all YT pepo.
Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (0HaGk)

What is YT pepo?

Posted by: LASue at February 26, 2025 10:48 AM (lCppi)

312 I don't even know if Friendly's still exist.

They do. At least in my area of NE MA.

The chain I really miss is York Steak House.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 26, 2025 10:48 AM (Q0kLU)

313 Pope Francis is getting the Francisco Franco treatment, I see.

(for the younger Hordelings, Franco was on his deathbed for what seemed like months. Every night the news would say something like "Francisco Franco is still alive." After he finally kicked off, the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Life would open with "Francisco Franco is still dead").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:48 AM (W5ArC)

314 292 Apollo was astonished
Posted by: Taggart at February 26, 2025 10:18 AM (HcoTw)
Dionysus thought him mad.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (VwHCD)

Too slow...see me at 276. \m/ -_- \m/

Posted by: goozer at February 26, 2025 10:48 AM (V1MWf)

315 Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:45 AM (PzXaK)

Does she like California Pizza?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 10:48 AM (cwGMH)

316 301 I've often wondered who he is looking at, or listening to? Something has his attention. Who could it have been?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2025 10:41 AM (W/lyH)

Greek Burgess Meredith.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 26, 2025 10:49 AM (PiwSw)

317 Anyone know anyone taking the Cal bar today? Yesterday was the biggest CF I've ever heard of. The Bar is such a disaster, and this is just the latest and most clear example. Expect class action suits galore.

Posted by: LASue at February 26, 2025 10:49 AM (lCppi)

318 His head changes position each time you refresh the page.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2025 10:49 AM (Hmzn7)

319 >> Donius Rex

*golf clap*

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 10:50 AM (l3YAf)

320 I learned how to watch a box fight from my dad and Howard Cosell. I remember watching the Thrillah in Manila.

Pure sport.
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I remember watching Howard Cosell attempting to describe a boxing match in the, I believe, '76 Olympics. It was between Rhodesian and Nigerian fighters, and they were amateurs in every sense of the word. Poor Howard gamely tried calling the fight, then finally said, Oh, well, you just watch them," and gave up.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 10:50 AM (6K6Eu)

321 >>NY Post is reporting that the majority of Maddow's staff is being fired. I bet she won't stand for it and will leave. Strangely, I don't have the sadz

Looking like Maddow will be the last one standing due to her contract. Let's see if this uber-progressive takes care of her staff, or offers to pay them out of her salary.

Keanu is watching. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2025 10:51 AM (Cki93)

322 Wanna bet Maddow's "staff" is all YT pepo.
Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2025 10:43 AM (0HaGk)

What is YT pepo?
Posted by: LASue

White people.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 10:51 AM (SlNuN)

323 Maddow uses an odd verbal delivery when she talks down to her aides. I think she has a staff inflection...

Posted by: muldoon at February 26, 2025 10:52 AM (/iMjX)

324 Vatican: "Weekend at Jorge's"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2025 10:52 AM (ZmEVT)

325 >What is YT pepo?

Posted by: LASue at February 26, 2025 10:48 AM (lCppi)

Those of us who are melanin challenged, aka white people.

Given my eastern European heritage, I'm practically translucent.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 26, 2025 10:52 AM (NgqoH)

326 I just read the it took $500 Million in advanced chips alone to build the model the trained the $6 Million DeekSeek.

Like saying you built a house for the cost of the front door.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:52 AM (gbOdA)

327 Pope Francis is getting the Francisco Franco treatment, I see.

(for the younger Hordelings, Franco was on his deathbed for what seemed like months. Every night the news would say something like "Francisco Franco is still alive." After he finally kicked off, the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Life would open with "Francisco Franco is still dead").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 26, 2025 10:48 AM (W5ArC)
_________

Very good chance Francis is already dead

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2025 10:53 AM (iFTx/)

328 Why would they build a wall rather than just conquering the Scots?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025

***

"Them Scots be crazy." -- Free translation of hadrian's local generals, ca. AD 120

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

329 Maddow uses an odd verbal delivery when she talks down to her aides. I think she has a staff inflection...
Posted by: muldoon

I know a doctor who can clear that right up.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2025 10:53 AM (SlNuN)

330 I thought Sbarros closed when the Mall closed.

Which came first?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 26, 2025 10:44 AM (ZmEVT)

Orange Julius has entered the chat
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 26, 2025 10:45 AM

Cinnabon is holding on line 3

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2025 10:53 AM (4p0Xq)

331 Speaking of boxing, Adam Corolla actually did box a little and met Jimmy Kimmel while he was giving lessons at a gym. I think that's the story.

I really enjoyed his movie The Hammer which is fiction but takes some of his real life experiences.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 10:53 AM (cwGMH)

332 I can enjoy a good hockey fight but I've never liked boxing

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 26, 2025 10:53 AM (kTd/k)

333 That’s not how that works. Carbon dioxide reflects light that bounces off the earth back. More carbon dioxide = more light reflected = more energy trapped in Earth’s atmosphere.

That part is pretty well-established. However, carbon dioxide is such a weak greenhouse gas that the effect is minimal, so all of the climate change models rely on carbon dioxide triggering feedback loops in other natural processes (like cloud formation) that cause out-of-control warming.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 10:47 AM (l3YAf)

Would not it also then reflect the initial sunlight? Reducing the amount of heat hitting the Earth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:55 AM (gbOdA)

334 Iron Mike in his prime was so fun to watch.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2025 10:55 AM (Hmzn7)

335 "Them Scots be crazy." -- Free translation of hadrian's local generals, ca. AD 120
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2025 10:53 AM (J2vNu)
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"Those [insert nationality here] are crazy" shows up a lot in the Asterix comics.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 26, 2025 10:55 AM (6K6Eu)

336 YT.......white folks.

Posted by: Case at February 26, 2025 10:56 AM (xcRXq)

337 White boys be crazy in general.

Just take a look at the X Games

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 10:57 AM (cwGMH)

338 " I can enjoy a good hockey fight but I've never liked boxing
Posted by: Northernlurker"

I'm not a huge fan, but when you see two really good fighters it is pretty damn good.

Posted by: eleven at February 26, 2025 10:57 AM (0HaGk)

339 Didn't the 9th Roman legion disappear around the time an invasion of Scotland was planned?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 26, 2025 10:58 AM (kTd/k)

340 Iron Mike in his prime was so fun to watch.

Posted by: ... at February 26, 2025 10:55 AM (Hmzn7)

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Could have been the greatest.

I thought he was going to literally kill someone in the ring ... and he just attack opponents like a tank always moving forward.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 26, 2025 10:58 AM (UWO/I)

341 Id rather watch a good MMA fight than a good boxing match. My Scottish grandfather was a huge boxing fan. I wonder what he would have thought of MMA.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 10:58 AM (cwGMH)

342 Taking a poll.

How do *you* decide who the winner is in a hockey fight?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 26, 2025 10:59 AM (PzXaK)

343 >339 Didn't the 9th Roman legion disappear around the time an invasion of Scotland was planned?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 26, 2025 10:58 AM (kTd/k)

I gotta good look at them wild-eyed blue painted maniacs. Nah, dawg, I'm good.

Posted by: Roman Conscript at February 26, 2025 10:59 AM (NgqoH)

344 Which came first?
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Sbarros.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 26, 2025 11:00 AM (ViCCR)

345 The Goon was a really good movie though I can't believe he started off that bad of a skater.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 26, 2025 11:00 AM (cwGMH)

346 One Legion did disappear. Forgot the number. Personnel from that Legion did reappear in paperwork of other Legions afterward.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 26, 2025 11:00 AM (jqxou)

347 323 Maddow uses an odd verbal delivery when she talks down to her aides. I think she has a staff inflection...
Posted by: muldoon

You are the God of Dad jokes, Muldoon.

Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2025 11:00 AM (j4U/Z)

348 Thank you, Kris. Love the ancient bronze masterpieces.

Britannica dot com - Apollonius The Athenian, Greek sculptor
In part, "Thus, Apollonius appears to have been one of the most talented copyists of his time."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 26, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

349 The guy on top when they inevitably fall to the ice, exhausted after throwing a couple dozen "punches" that rarely land.

Posted by: most hockey fans at February 26, 2025 11:01 AM (Y1sOo)

350 Would not it also then reflect the initial sunlight? Reducing the amount of heat hitting the Earth.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 26, 2025 10:55 AM (gbOdA)

It does, but when light bounces off the earth its wavelength shifts. Carbon dioxide is such a weak greenhouse gas because it only reflects in a few narrow wavelengths of light. So more of the light reflecting off Earth is bounced back the higher the CO2 in the atmosphere.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 26, 2025 11:01 AM (l3YAf)

351 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at February 26, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

352 Would have been something to see a Tyson in his prime versus Ali in his prime.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 26, 2025 11:02 AM (UWO/I)

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