Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 25, 2025 [scampydog]

Great Wall. Cool piece of history and unique experience. Walking on it was very different as the steps are uneven, varying in height, depth, and width. Have any of the Horde made the journey to visit?

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Good evening, busy brained - ONT people. Sweetly kicking things off this evening with donuts.

Old school bakeries are the bestest. Pull a number and wait your turn for golden delight. Perfect exterior crunch, pillowy center - each bite a swirl of sugar, cinnamon, and melty yummy.

I present to you... The absolute gold standard of donut.

Not a donut. More cinnamon and sugar. About a half dozen seems the appropriate amount.

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Pull on your lab coat. It is time for some ONT space and science with our AoSHQ friend and commenter, publius.

We are leading off with a quote from Feynman. H/T to publius.

A great deal more is known than has been proved. Richard P. Feynman

Mars Madness Perfect NCAA bracket wins you a trip to the red planet.

Elon and team bring back Suni and Butch

Don Pettit has been posting a lot of photographs from the ISS. He's due to come back next month on a Soyuz, and considering his age, 69, this may be his last expedition. [publius]

Here is the link to Don's X feed. Some really cool pictures and videos.

Looks like Don got the ONT memo about pants.

OK; you all asked if this was possible….. pic.twitter.com/sMmJJtQNMy
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) February 23, 2025

He also did another little Intermediate Axis rotation demonstration using a video camera. That shows the axis flipping from the POV of the rotating object. [publius]

A new spin on orbital video. pic.twitter.com/hgdgg25XnL
— Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) November 24, 2024

Even the big kitty is science curious.

Mountain lion pushes swing and discovers physics pic.twitter.com/yVP90U4DTS
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 22, 2024

Point Nemo Watery satellite graveyard.

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Had some notes in draft for quite a while for a bit of ONT, Latin chatter. AoSHQ commenter nurse ratched posted the comment below and here we are.

Pretty amazing how much Latin is used in everyday life, unbeknownst to many. Here are a few common ones.

Non sequitur
Status quo
Ad hominem
Terra firma

Here are a few that are a bit more fun.

Veni, vidi, vici
Carpe diem
Vox populi
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Non compos mentis. Motto of the ONT readers, lurkers, and commenters?

Here are 77 word/phrases to peruse. sept..something, something, septem.

How is the Latin skillset of the Horde?

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This is cute. The things we believed as littles.

When I was 4 or 5, I swore that bird seeds grew birds, thus the name. When my parents asked me to prove it to them, I planted a pile of bird seeds. The next day there were loads of birds where I planted the seeds, showing I was right.

I got a big splinter in my foot when I was 4 and I kept pulling away when my dad tried to pull it out with tweezers, because it hurt. My older sister leaned over and whispered to me me that if I didn't let my dad pull it out, the splinter would sink into my skin and go straight to my heart, pierce it, and then I would die. I immediately believed her and let my dad pull the splinter out - and that was how I thought splinters worked for ages.

Spill it, people. You weren't always smarties.

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Cummings was 20ish and Bachman 25ish when they wrote this song.

There's an anecdote where John Lennon was allegedly asked, "If you could sing like anyone, who would it be?" Lennon allegedly responded, Burton Cummings.

Fun link about the song.

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Late add on to the post. This kid throws smoke.

78.2 MPH 😳

Karlyn Pickens just threw the FASTEST recorded pitch in NCAA Softball history 🔥🔥 @Vol_Softball pic.twitter.com/CHhnAOvbhc
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) March 25, 2025

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This ONT brought to you by the luckiest kid ever. This 19 year old wins big on the Price is Right. Bonus, it was on his birthday.

Send tips, humor, candle drip bottles, and 10 gauge wire to: scampydog at proton dot me.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 It's just the droughts, wildfires, earthquakes, and self-important lefty assholes that make the climate unbearable there.

and mudslides.

Posted by: Ciampino - great pies at March 25, 2025 10:00 PM (sPQoU)

2 I really need to swear off YouTube shorts

Posted by: mindful webworker - not at all a troll at March 25, 2025 10:01 PM (qMjwS)

3
Good evening.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2025 10:01 PM (5Iuq/)

4 First loser NOODing duties dutifully dooded.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but then it happened at March 25, 2025 10:03 PM (qMjwS)

5 I visited the Great Mall of China. It feels a lot less epic at ground level with all the aggressive t-shirt vendors hawking their wares (and hawking phlegm).

There are supposedly better segments to visit away from the main tourist spots.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2025 10:03 PM (kpS4V)

6 If you swallow a watermelon seed it'll grow inside of you.

Posted by: davidt at March 25, 2025 10:04 PM (i0F8b)

7 Good evening morons y gracias scampydog

That is a cinnamon bun, not a donut!

Just because they sell them at the donut shop does not make them donuts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2025 10:05 PM (RIvkX)

8 Sorry I'm late, the ventriloquist dummies were having an argument.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 25, 2025 10:05 PM (GHAiA)

9 Basic glazed donuts. The raised, fluffy kind.

Posted by: davidt at March 25, 2025 10:06 PM (i0F8b)

10 Don Pettit getting ready for the Book Thread

Posted by: gKWVE at March 25, 2025 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

11 When I was pre-school age, I believed all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 25, 2025 10:06 PM (GHAiA)

12 Si transit Gloria!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2025 10:06 PM (u73oe)

13 Karlyn Pickens is badass. They still gonna lose to the Sooners in the wcws though.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 25, 2025 10:06 PM (MGB5H)

14 Hello again friends!

Posted by: Piper at March 25, 2025 10:06 PM (e8mjv)

15

If you masturbate too much, you will grow hair on your palms.

What's not yet known is.How much is too much.

So far, nuthin.

Posted by: Not Masterbaiting Pete at March 25, 2025 10:07 PM (mdIPO)

16 I own land there

On the GOOD side

Posted by: Al Czervik at March 25, 2025 10:07 PM (8AONa)

17 I guess autocorrect doesn’t speak Latin.

Sic transit gloria

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2025 10:07 PM (u73oe)

18 Thanks for the dandy Tuesday Night ONT, scampydog!

Donuts... is there nothing they cannot do? Even better is the combo of donuts and bacon.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 25, 2025 10:08 PM (rxCpr)

19 I thought donuts had holes in them?
I call those cinnamon rolls.

And man do they appear to be quite tasty.

I gained 5 pounds just looking at them

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:08 PM (6ydKt)

20 Sorry I'm late, the ventriloquist dummies were having an argument.
Posted by: tankdemon at March 25, 2025 10:05 PM (GHAiA)

Peanut and Jose Jalapeño, or Walter and Achmed?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 25, 2025 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

21 When I was little I knew nothing about animal physiology. I though animals were basically hollow, with bones inside, meat on top of that, and hide or fur on the outside.

Posted by: Don Black at March 25, 2025 10:09 PM (AOsQT)

22 17 I guess autocorrect doesn’t speak Latin.

Sic transit gloria
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2025 10:07 PM (u73oe)

I have a keyboard/autocorrect set up for Gaeilge (Irish) when I am on DuoLingo.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 25, 2025 10:10 PM (GHAiA)

23 That camera spinning will make you dizzy.
Watch it fullscreen.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:10 PM (6ydKt)

24 There was a big part of my life when everything stopped for The Price is Right.

Pro Tip: never take the first showcase

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

25 I thought cats were the females and dogs the males.

Posted by: irright at March 25, 2025 10:10 PM (Jd3JC)

26 Donuts: For those in the Austin, TX area, seek out the Donut Palace in Buda, TX. That is all.

Posted by: Solutus at March 25, 2025 10:11 PM (Jnnb9)

27 Hey there, scampydog!

Gorgeous PNW spring evening.

Pea soup fog this morning. Sunny and 64 in the afternoon. Clouds in the evening. Thunderstorms tomorrow.

The daffodils are all popped. They are my favorite flowers. So happy to trumpet the coming of spring!

Ska got Valley Tulip Festival in a couple more weeks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2025 10:11 PM (mT+6a)

28 The mountain lion video is like a big house cat playing with a new toy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:13 PM (6ydKt)

29 Autocucumber blows.

Skagit valley Tulip Festival. Look it up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2025 10:14 PM (mT+6a)

30 Good evening, nurse and Horde.
Chilly here - snowed over the weekend! In-laws reported 97 in Phoenix.

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 10:14 PM (41CYW)

31 Foistest

Keep that cinnamon away from me.

Posted by: Ciampino - greatest pies at March 25, 2025 10:15 PM (sPQoU)

32 Evening, ONT Horde. Evening, Scampydog!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2025 10:15 PM (8zz6B)

33 -
Seek Trans Gorilla
That's my motto.

Posted by: Macho-Ma'am Tranny Savage at March 25, 2025 10:15 PM (Jd3JC)

34 The Guess Who video is busted, unavailable on YouTube.

But here's the audio only link:

https://youtu.be/xcLdbsrSngA

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:15 PM (6ydKt)

35 When I was a wee one, I believed that when you ate food, it just kind of amassed in your body, starting at your feet. If you threw up, it meant you were filled up.

On the topic of Latin phrases, one of my favorites is

de gustibus non est disputandum

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 25, 2025 10:16 PM (OGOaV)

36 I believed that when the emergency broadcast system was conducting a test, that they were testing for a looming disaster. I was always relieved when they concluded the test and there was no impending apocalyptic event.

Posted by: Solutus at March 25, 2025 10:16 PM (Jnnb9)

37 Dammit.
I ran in here as fast as I could....
Then, once again I tripped and face planted...
I'm such a darn clutz....

Hi y'all🤪!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 25, 2025 10:16 PM (0ohAJ)

38 17 I guess autocorrect doesn’t speak Latin.

Sic transit gloria
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 25, 2025 10:07 PM (u73oe)

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I didn't know Gloria was sick!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 25, 2025 10:17 PM (OGOaV)

39 Point Nemo is, coincidentally, the location of the sunken city of R'lyeh, home of Great Cthulhu.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 25, 2025 10:17 PM (2Oj4u)

40 Visited The Great Wall back in 94 when I was working in Hong Kong. Went to Beijing for a few days before heading home. It was March and very cold. I was wearing a jacket and a sweater that came off by the time I got back to the car. The Great Wall is the Ultimate Stair Master.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at March 25, 2025 10:17 PM (0XVad)

41 Hiya Nurse
If you're going to be in the Skagit when the snow geese are migrating, take a bumbershoot. They poop worse than Canada geese.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at March 25, 2025 10:17 PM (ylGtW)

42 I was going to say something unkind about Esperanto.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2025 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

43 The daffodils are all popped. They are my favorite flowers. So happy to trumpet the coming of spring!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2025 10:11 PM

Our oldest daughter's birthday is March 11th, and the daffodils here usually bloom around the 10th.

I gave her cut daffodils on her birthday from age 2 to 16. Occasionally we had a cold snap, and she would have to get her birthday flowers 3 days late. (Which was perfectly fine with her.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 25, 2025 10:18 PM (Q4Dc6)

44 Skagit valley Tulip Festival. Look it up.

Posted by: nurse ratched

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* waves arms wildly *

I know where that is !

We didn't see the festival when we were out there last year, but we saw massive fields of tulips. Just beautiful.

Posted by: Al Czervik at March 25, 2025 10:18 PM (8AONa)

45 Esperanto is just an attempt to make Romanian relevant

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2025 10:18 PM (D7oie)

46 If you masturbate too much…
Posted by: Not Masterbaiting Pete

Alternative belief punchline
Can I just do it 'til I need glasses?

Posted by: mindful webworker - wokka wokka at March 25, 2025 10:18 PM (qMjwS)

47 Off caddyshack sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 25, 2025 10:19 PM (8AONa)

48 Ska got Valley Tulip Festival in a couple more weeks.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2025 10:11 PM (mT+6a)

Tulip ska. Fat.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2025 10:19 PM (D7oie)

49 Spill it, people. You weren't always smarties.

As any kid raised in the 80s, I watched scary adult movies as a very small child (as was the custom at the time). After seeing Star Trek 2, I had to have my blanket pulled up over my ear when I slept so those awful bug things couldn't crawl in.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 25, 2025 10:20 PM (ycI94)

50
Elon posted this today, a Japanese astronaut playing self-baseball on the ISS:
https://tinyurl.com/2xs84mje

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 10:20 PM (w6EFb)

51 The Guess Who video is busted, unavailable on YouTube.

But here's the audio only link:

https://youtu.be/xcLdbsrSngA
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Updated in the post. Appears to be loading. Thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 10:20 PM (41CYW)

52 Sic transit gloria

Gloria gets carsick

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 25, 2025 10:20 PM (d9aHO)

53 Pastries are my Kryptonite.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 10:21 PM (jc0TO)

54 I took two semesters of Latin in college but remember very little of it. The teacher was a grad student and a total dick. He was the only option, unfortunately. You had to have a 93 in the second semester to get an A. I had a 92.

Posted by: JuJuBee at March 25, 2025 10:21 PM (HONfV)

55 I didn't know Gloria was sick!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at March 25, 2025 10:17 PM (OGOaV)

Patti Smith has some thoughts about Gloria.

https://youtu.be/bPO0bTaWcFQ

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 25, 2025 10:21 PM (2Oj4u)

56 So, the mountain lions I have around don't give no fk about swings....
They kinda dig the deer, dogs, cats....yummy stuff...
Total asshole pumas...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 25, 2025 10:21 PM (0ohAJ)

57 Esperanto?

Watching William Shatner spout off Esperanto in the movie Incubus once was enough.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:22 PM (WyV1V)

58 I honestly can't remember all the dumb things I thought as a kid.

I'm sure it was something new every week.

It's part of figuring out the world around you.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:22 PM (6ydKt)

59 More Latin for those of you who are interested in how to swear in Latin:

https://tinyurl.com/4r3uuv5w

"more meum globes" - bite my balls
"Flocci non faccio" - I don't give a damn.

And for Joy, Whoopie, and the rest of The View:

"Vacca stulta" - You stupid cow

Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at March 25, 2025 10:22 PM (x7dmL)

60 Can I just do it 'til I need glasses?

Think of the kittens.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 25, 2025 10:22 PM (d9aHO)

61 Off Calvin and Hobbes space alien sock!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 25, 2025 10:23 PM (x7dmL)

62 Illegal migrants with HIV molest boy in sauna on cruise

https://mol.im/a/14536163

Posted by: Ciampino - keelhaul at March 25, 2025 10:24 PM (sPQoU)

63 SEMPER UBI SUB UBI

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:25 PM (soUkD)

64 Nemo me impune lacessit

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 10:25 PM (jc0TO)

65 My favorite Latin tag was "In medias res"

But that was because I always translated it via Spanish to "the cows wearing socks"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2025 10:26 PM (D7oie)

66 I present to you... The absolute gold standard of donut.

Ahem

Posted by: Miklos, at the cafe du Monde with fresh beignets and a coffee with chicory at March 25, 2025 10:26 PM (RgW1J)

67 Shouldn't a dominant international language evolve naturally?

For awhile it was Greek, then Roman, then eventually French and now English.

It just happens to be whatever the dominant political entity speaks, and for a few hundred years it's been English.

Esperanto seems like somebody's hobby turned loose in the wild.

Like people learning to speak Klingon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:27 PM (6ydKt)

68 Distraught disabled woman is latest victim of Tesla attacks

https://mol.im/a/14535161

Posted by: Ciampino - baseball bats at March 25, 2025 10:27 PM (sPQoU)

69 Aries muros percussit

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 10:27 PM (jc0TO)

70 Roman = Latin...

long day.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:27 PM (6ydKt)

71 SEMPER UBI SUB UBI
Posted by: Lance McCormick

That was a good classroom giggle for First Year Latin guys

Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis at March 25, 2025 10:27 PM (RgW1J)

72 Fastest girl's pitch... only 25 MPH slower than the fastest hard ball MALE pitch.

But hey! its IMPOTENT!!!! I mean... important...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 25, 2025 10:27 PM (QAkQ3)

73 When I coached softball, a 62 mph fastball was smoking.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 10:27 PM (W/lyH)

74 I have been to the Great Wall. It was kinda cool but Beijing was disgusting. The air was gross and my lungs burned.

The Chinese are racist and they don’t care.

I don’t need to go back.

Posted by: Czech Chick at March 25, 2025 10:28 PM (vK/Ja)

75 They're called cinnamon swirls.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

76 Sic transit gloria

Gloria gets carsick
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 25, 2025 10:20 PM (d9aHO)

I thought it was chariot sick, since the phrase predates cars. Perhaps it's ass-sick, if she rode mules.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 25, 2025 10:29 PM (VNX3d)

77 Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2025 10:14 PM (mT+6a)
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Nurse, seeing your name here tonight reminded me I needed to give my cats their Tummy Rub Tuesday fuzzy, furry belly rubs...

Mission Accomplished!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2025 10:29 PM (cweKM)

78 Met an interesting old gentleman today, talked of many things. Discovered he was 10 years younger than me. Stopped talking to the smartass young whippersnapper.

Posted by: Some Rat at March 25, 2025 10:29 PM (oA29F)

79 I think i might be one of the last who enjoys a plain donut. Round, with a hole in it, sorta brown with a lighter colored cakey inside. With a black coffee.
I'm a ton of fun.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 25, 2025 10:29 PM (n4GiU)

80 Softball chick looks mighty fine.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 25, 2025 10:29 PM (ufFY8)

81 Esperanto seems like somebody's hobby turned loose in the wild..

IIIRC part of the inventor's theory was "if *some* people* need to learn a new language, then everybody needs to learn a new language!"

But, yeah, it was kind of engineered to have logical, consistent rules.

Like the metric system, which is good for science and math, but lousy for normal people doing normal things.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:30 PM (soUkD)

82 What is a "vol"?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2025 10:30 PM (g00SI)

83 Evenin'

Came back from the grocery store. It was expensive. Also, I'm missing something. It's canned water chestnuts. It may be under my car. The one of the bags broke and spilled on the ground. I thought I got everything but I'm missing 2 cans of water chestnuts. Don't really need them yet. I'm making stir fry tomorrow and will be using frozen stir fry veggie mix and it has water chestnuts.

First world problems. I'll wait till daylight and see if there under the car. They'll be fine. Safeway brand water chestnuts aren't that valuable. To dark to look now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 25, 2025 10:30 PM (sAmhv)

84 IACTUS NON MARGARITAS ANTE PORCUS

Posted by: Ifotnothing at March 25, 2025 10:31 PM (LTRHw)

85 I am semi famous I guess, Nurse answering my question started part of the thread discussion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:31 PM (WyV1V)

86 I think i might be one of the last who enjoys a plain donut. Round, with a hole in it, sorta brown with a lighter colored cakey inside. With a black coffee.
I'm a ton of fun.
Posted by: From about That Time

Pastries? The maple bar.
Now get the hell off my lawn.

Posted by: Some Rat at March 25, 2025 10:31 PM (oA29F)

87 Sorry I'm late, the ventriloquist dummies were having an argument.
Posted by: tankdemon

Less weird than this:

https://youtu.be/OGkA8Eh1-Po?t=34

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 10:32 PM (DgGvY)

88 EGO SUM SPARTUCUS!

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 25, 2025 10:32 PM (QAkQ3)

89 Burton Cummings could sing man.
Great vocalist. If I had that voice you'd never shut me up

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 25, 2025 10:33 PM (FCbAQ)

90 There was a big part of my life when everything stopped for The Price is Right.

Pro Tip: never take the first showcase
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

Pro Tip #2: Never guess $1 unless you're the last person to wager.

Corollary: If you are the last person to wager and some schmuck already wagered $1, wager $2.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 25, 2025 10:33 PM (lHPJf)

91
Graffiti found on a projectile from the Perusine War:

"Peto landicam fvlviae"

"I see Fulvia's clitoris".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 10:33 PM (w6EFb)

92 82 What is a "vol"?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2025 10:30 PM (g00SI)

Tennessee "Volunteers".

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:33 PM (6ydKt)

93 Little chocolate donuts are always on my training table!

Posted by: John Belushi at March 25, 2025 10:34 PM (RIvkX)

94 Donuts: For those in the Austin, TX area, seek out the Donut Palace in Buda, TX. That is all.
Posted by: Solutus
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There is Donut Palace and there is Donut Taco Palace....

Posted by: lin-duh at March 25, 2025 10:34 PM (VCgbV)

95 Well hey {{{nurse r}}}🙂!
I got a story for you...

Will be in touch😏....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 25, 2025 10:34 PM (0ohAJ)

96 When I was a wee lad, I thought an Antique Store was always run by a couple, who had a whole bunch of old stuff to sell. Eventually, they would (finally! We Did It!!) sell off the last lonely book case or desk or whatever, and call it a day. It never occurred to me people would seek out more old stuff to sell.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 25, 2025 10:34 PM (e7zAw)

97 Taco Donuts?

Que pasta?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:34 PM (WyV1V)

98 SEMPER UBI SUB UBI
Posted by: Lance McCormick

That was a good classroom giggle for First Year Latin guys
Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis

Bilingual puns are best puns.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 10:34 PM (DgGvY)

99 The Romans took their graffiti very seriously.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:35 PM (6ydKt)

100 Science fiction author Harry Harrison was a big proponent of Esperanto.

It's the lingua franca of the galaxy in his Stainless Steel Rat books.

Those stories are peppered with words and phrases of Esperanto, though Translation Convention renders most of the dialogue into English for the reader.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2025 10:35 PM (cweKM)

101 Pastries? The maple bar.
Now get the hell off my lawn.
Posted by: Some Rat at March 25, 2025 10:31 PM (oA29F)

Boston creams!
*drops mic*

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 10:35 PM (W/lyH)

102 More on next Sunday's book thread but today is Tolkien Reading Day. March 25th is the day of Sauron's downfall. Spent some time with a couple of my favorite parts of LOTR.

Wish I had been around for Ace's question about LOTR earlier today. Could have set him straight easily and with annoying authority.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 10:35 PM (yTvNw)

103 Typos galore here, that should be *seek*. The projectile was seeking the little man in the boat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 10:35 PM (w6EFb)

104 Thank you so much for the ONT!

Everyone have a great night!

Posted by: Stateless...74% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 25, 2025 10:35 PM (jvJvP)

105 Hello Horde...sorry I'm late, but I'll second whatever excuse Tankdemon gave for his lateness tonight - and hope I don't get a meme, too!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 25, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 Democrat (Maxine, who else) calls for Trump to deport Melania immigration rant

https://mol.im/a/14536067

Posted by: Ciampino - baseball bats for ugly at March 25, 2025 10:37 PM (sPQoU)

107 I pled nolo contendere to a speeding ticket in St. Matthews SC once.

The local speed trap magistrate did not seem to understand.

"Good enough for Spiro Agnew, good enough for me!"

Posted by: Miklos recalls he laughed and said $30 and one point at March 25, 2025 10:38 PM (RgW1J)

108 That was a good classroom giggle for First Year Latin guys.

Italia est non insula. Italia est paene insulla. Italia est penninsula.

Puella est non insula. Puella est pirata. Puer est agricola.

Cave canem. Canis est non felis. Felis longus est longus; canis longus est Dachshund.

Cartago delenda est.

Posted by: Magister was Lancius McCormicus at March 25, 2025 10:38 PM (soUkD)

109 Taco Donuts?
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They sell donuts and tacos

Posted by: lin-duh at March 25, 2025 10:38 PM (VCgbV)

110 Esparanto deserves to be dumped!

Posted by: Bucky Dornster at March 25, 2025 10:38 PM (gMdOV)

111 Good evening all

Thanks for the ONT scampydog

Adeste fideles is Latin, right?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 25, 2025 10:38 PM (PcTds)

112 Spill it, people. You weren't always smarties.

I thought the white part of an egg was called the "burden."

Because "my yolk is easy and my burden is light."

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 10:38 PM (DgGvY)

113 Cinnamon rolls are yum. And kolaches.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 25, 2025 10:38 PM (wX56x)

114 I rookied myself again. Read all the content, including all the videos. Scrolled down and saw only 3 comments! I coulda been fourthst!

Posted by: Final Arbiter ( sorry, no reality left) at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM (1UudH)

115 IIIRC part of the inventor's theory was "if *some* people* need to learn a new language, then everybody needs to learn a new language!"

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:30 PM (soUkD)

-- --

The problem with Americans learning new languages is that we hardly get to use them, unless it's Spanish, I guess.

I took French but can barely remember any of it, because I never got to use it.

It's kinda like math, if you don't keep using it, you lose it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM (6ydKt)

116 -was

(not was)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM (soUkD)

117 As a 4 yo I remember believing that cats and dogs were the same species. Cats were the girls and dogs were the boys. Similar with horses as boys and cows/cattle were girls.

Posted by: Wtp at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM (4cfLi)

118 -
Fulvia's a dude.

Posted by: Reality Report at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM (Jd3JC)

119 Thought canned spinach would make me strong. Saw it, decided skinny and weak was ok too.

Posted by: Some Rat at March 25, 2025 10:40 PM (oA29F)

120 Was not was?

You walked the dinosaur?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:40 PM (WyV1V)

121 As a 4 o4 5 year old, I tried digging a hole to China.

Posted by: ScaryMary at March 25, 2025 10:41 PM (wX56x)

122 I don't believe we've gotten to the point of deporting citizens yet even though I can think of several that should be.
We should be concerned about all the federal judges who are foreign born... apparently they bring their anti-American values with them.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 25, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV)

123 Spill it, people. You weren't always smarties.
__________________________

Ok, I got a good one, and a follow up. Apparently, there was a rash of nose picking at about age 6 or 7 in Second grade. My teacher decided that each year he would tell the class that those that picked their nose and put the little treasure in their mouth (apparently that was an issue every year)...they would run the risk of appendicitis. Now, this sounded serious. Second graders didn't even know what appendicitis was. Also, total horse manure. But, what do 6 year old's know?

I believed that nonsense until sometime in high school, and never tempted fate as a result. Mission accomplished by that teacher.

I ran into him about 3 years ago. I brought it up and he laughed so hard he had tears in his eyes. Great guy.

Posted by: Orson at March 25, 2025 10:41 PM (dIske)

124 Boston creams!
*drops mic*

Yeah baby!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 25, 2025 10:41 PM (0ohAJ)

125 Was not was?

You walked the dinosaur?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Wrong ONT.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)

126 Sheesh.

Pedicabo ego, et irrumabo....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (0eaVi)

127 100 Science fiction author Harry Harrison was a big proponent of Esperanto.[/]

Britcom Red Dwarf (which I loved back in the day; dunno how well it holds up) had a fair amount of Esperanto in the background. LEVEL NIVELO and such.

(and yes, the girl is a pirate and the boy is a farmer.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (soUkD)

128 It kind of looks like the power problem in the apartment is kind of sort of not a problem. For now.

Also, thanks to the Horde (c)(r)(tm) for all the views on the video. I assume it had to be you. Thank you.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (CHHv1)

129 Gees Horde

No one has mentioned a Berliner yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (WyV1V)

130 Wish I had been around for Ace's question about LOTR earlier today. Could have set him straight easily and with annoying authority.
Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 10:35 PM (yTvNw)
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What was his question?

Was it about eagles? 🦅

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (kpS4V)

131 Thanks for the ONT Scampydog...and for including the Lady Vols in it.
Would love to walk part of the Great Wall, and I know it's on the list for the hubby...maybe one day....

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

132 As a 4 yo I remember believing that cats and dogs were the same species. Cats were the girls and dogs were the boys. Similar with horses as boys and cows/cattle were girls.
Posted by: Wtp at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM (4cfLi)

When I was.4, I was.certain a nickel was worth more than a dime because it was bigger.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 10:43 PM (W/lyH)

133 -
As a 4 yo I remember believing that cats and dogs were the same species. Cats were the girls and dogs were the boys. Similar with horses as boys and cows/cattle were girls.
Posted by: Wtp at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM-
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DANG. Same here.
I completely forgot about the horse/cow thing.

Posted by: irright at March 25, 2025 10:43 PM (Jd3JC)

134 Thanks for including that link to things we believed when little. It was adorable.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 10:43 PM (yTvNw)

135

Ad dolium ego vado.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:43 PM (soUkD)

136 Adeste fideles is Latin, right?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Some of the oldest known song lyrics, from about 1000 A.D.

The music probably came later.

Posted by: Miklosius at March 25, 2025 10:43 PM (RgW1J)

137 As a 4 o4 5 year old, I tried digging a hole to China.
Posted by: ScaryMary
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Same. Don't swallow the bubble gum got me too. It'll stay in your stomach for 7 years.

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 10:44 PM (41CYW)

138 . The one of the bags broke and spilled on the ground.

I've noticed that now that we have paper bags this happens way more then when we had plastic ones

Posted by: 18-1 at March 25, 2025 10:44 PM (t0Rmr)

139 The Defender commercial with the people chattering African-like gibberish irritates the shit out of me.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 25, 2025 10:44 PM (ufFY8)

140 No one has mentioned a Berliner yet?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Bist du ein Berliner?

Posted by: Miklos Fitzgerald Kennedy at March 25, 2025 10:44 PM (RgW1J)

141 Britcom Red Dwarf (which I loved back in the day; dunno how well it holds up) had a fair amount of Esperanto in the background. LEVEL NIVELO and such.

(and yes, the girl is a pirate and the boy is a farmer.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (soUkD)
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As I recall, Rimmer liked to pretend he spoke Esperanto fluently, but he was as hopeless at learning languages as he was with learning anything. Lister (or Kryten) often corrected Rimmer's attempts at Esperanto.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2025 10:44 PM (cweKM)

142 Eris,

Now that you have seen Matango is all its glorious 1960's color, what did you think of it?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:45 PM (WyV1V)

143
The third wife of Claudius, Messalina, was reputed to be a raging nymphomaniac and was described thus:

"adhūc ardēns rigidae tentīgine volvae,
et lassāta virīs necdum satiāta recessit"

"still burning with the excitement of her rigid vulva,
tired out by men but still not satisfied, she departs"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

144 You walked the dinosaur?
Posted by: Anna Puma

It was a night like this, many years ago...

(I love that song so, so much.)

BOOM BOOM SHOCKALOCKA BOOM BOOM

hey hey

Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:45 PM (soUkD)

145 Maple bar is my choice for a donut too. In fact that is what I request instead of cake for my birthday.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 25, 2025 10:45 PM (PcTds)

146 Queen Anne cruise liner in pirate waters - nice photo

https://tinyurl.com/3zny4hrh

Posted by: Ciampino - Bofors? at March 25, 2025 10:45 PM (sPQoU)

147 I too believed the watermelon seeds growing in your stomach. Also that biting your fingernails did the same thing.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 25, 2025 10:45 PM (VCgbV)

148 Rimmer or the Emergency Medical Program?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:46 PM (WyV1V)

149 Oh yes!

Rat and Miklos! Who could not love these guys?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 25, 2025 10:46 PM (0ohAJ)

150 Best donut is Maple Bacon. Wegmans had 'em.

I miss Wegman's.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2025 10:46 PM (kpS4V)

151 Doctor, 46, 'tries to MURDER glamorous nuclear engineer wife by shoving her off Hawaii beauty spot'

https://mol.im/a/14534293

Posted by: Ciampino - glam? Relevant? at March 25, 2025 10:46 PM (sPQoU)

152 When I was 4-5 years old, I believe brown cows gave us regular milk, and cows with black spots gave us chocolate milk.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 25, 2025 10:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

153 Spill it, people. You weren't always smarties.

My little brother used to flat put disappear during Sunday School. Took me months of gingerly avoiding the Bkue Hairs, the Elders, and the 'rents to catch his ass.

Little shit would attend start up services, excuse himself to the bathroom, then slip outside and go hide under the church and play with the dog pack that followed the families to church.

I was ever so peeved that his narrow assed 3 year old self not only thought of it, but figured a way to do it, and get away with it that i sat there. All sweaty, covered in dog hair and slobber, in absolute respect at a 13 year old, that a 3 year old had such mastery over the ability to fuck off. Little dude is in his 50s now, terrorising mid career engineers with the same aplumb he had as a 3 year old. Treating it all like it's natural to be this dang good at being lazy and making slackers do yer work.

Has to be genius level redneck. I ain't stoopid, and his narrow ass can out brain me in the simple shit like there is no tomorrow. Good thing he isn't evil or puts his brain to evil ways. We'd all be right proper fooked.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 25, 2025 10:47 PM (7UGcC)

154 When I was very little, I thought the Navy fought the Army. Growing up in a navy town might have had something to do with the confusion.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 10:48 PM (yTvNw)

155 Latin phrases..... no gun threaders here tonight? Or only .45 fans?

Nobody's said "si vis pacem, para bellum" yet.

"If you want peace, prepare for war."

And the source of the name of the 9mm parabellum round.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 10:48 PM (DgGvY)

156 Thanks for the ONT Scampydog...and for including the Lady Vols in it.
Would love to walk part of the Great Wall, and I know it's on the list for the hubby...maybe one day....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady
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Big time college softball is a blast to watch. Bucket list item to get to the WCWS.

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 10:48 PM (41CYW)

157 Same. Don't swallow the bubble gum got me too. It'll stay in your stomach for 7 years.
Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 10:44 PM (41CYW)

Even worse, when it finally comes out, you will fart, and blow a giant bubble of lighter-than-air gas which will stick to your ass, and carry you away on the prevailing winds.

It's Science!!!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2025 10:48 PM (8zz6B)

158 "still burning with the excitement of her rigid vulva,
tired out by men but still not satisfied, she departs"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I Claudius describes her competition with prostitutes as to how many men they could handle.

Prostitute-"Her insides must be made of leather"

Posted by: Miklos recalls odd things at March 25, 2025 10:49 PM (RgW1J)

159 Best donut is Maple Bacon. Wegmans had 'em.

I miss Wegman's.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2025 10:46 PM (kpS4V)

Ditto.
Used to go to the one near Dulles in NOVA. Great store.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 10:49 PM (W/lyH)

160 Even worse, when it finally comes out, you will fart, and blow a giant bubble of lighter-than-air gas which will stick to your ass, and carry you away on the prevailing winds.

Imagine what Doll Eyes Alex's reaction to that would be.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:49 PM (WyV1V)

161 That lady softball thing looks pretty good.
A lot better than basketball.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 10:49 PM (wE4lY)

162 Quando omni flunkus, moritati

Posted by: Beartooth at March 25, 2025 10:50 PM (dJimA)

163 The softball would get up on you quick from 40 feet away. Don't blink.

Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2025 10:52 PM (n2swS)

164 Ok, I guess...

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep.” — Leonardo da Vinci

I simply can't keep up tonight...love youz...
Good night.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 25, 2025 10:52 PM (0ohAJ)

165 I, Claudius - when the writing was top notch, the camera work brilliant, and Patrick Stewart had hair.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:52 PM (WyV1V)

166 Spill it, people. You weren't always smarties.

When have I ever said I was a candy?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 25, 2025 10:52 PM (lUFok)

167 Doctor, 46, 'tries to MURDER glamorous nuclear engineer wife by shoving her off Hawaii beauty spot'

https://mol.im/a/14534293
Posted by: Ciampino - glam? Relevant? at March 25, 2025 10:46 PM (sPQoU)

Dang.
I'd let her see my isotopes.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 10:52 PM (W/lyH)

168 FUN FACT: The sections of the Great Wall where they take the tourists (like Badaling) are extensively restored, mostly in the 70s. If you go farther afield, you see a crumbling ruin.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 25, 2025 10:53 PM (JkO4W)

169 Silly space question: why don't the pants float up and how does the man float down?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at March 25, 2025 10:53 PM (PcTds)

170 Now that you have seen Matango is all its glorious 1960's color, what did you think of it?

There was a fungus among us (which one is the fungus).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2025 10:53 PM (CHHv1)

171 78.2 MPH is a fast pitch. And considering that the rubber is 43 feet from home, so she is releasing about 40 feet from home, that ball will get on you quick.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 10:53 PM (jc0TO)

172 Best donut is Maple Bacon. Wegmans had 'em.

I miss Wegman's.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2025 10:46 PM (kpS4V)

Ditto.
Used to go to the one near Dulles in NOVA. Great store.
***************
Happy to report that No Va still has Wegman stores.
What I miss and want is an H-E-B!!!!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 25, 2025 10:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

173 165 I, Claudius - when the writing was top notch, the camera work brilliant, and Patrick Stewart had hair.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 10:52 PM (WyV1V)
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And John Hurt's Caligula was hilariously batshit.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2025 10:54 PM (kpS4V)

174 130 ... "What was his question?

Was it about eagles? 🦅"

AHE,
He swore he remembered that Sam put on the Ring after taking it from what he thought was Frodo's dead body. He couldn't find the passage and it was annoying him.

Answer: Sam never actually wore the Ring but even so it tried to tempt him and made him hesitate when he returned it after rescuing Frodo.

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 10:54 PM (yTvNw)

175 FUN FACT: The sections of the Great Wall where they take the tourists (like Badaling) are extensively restored, mostly in the 70s. If you go farther afield, you see a crumbling ruin.
Posted by: Cicero

Next you'll be telling me that the Kremlin was built by Italians.

Posted by: Miklos practices scoffing noises at March 25, 2025 10:55 PM (RgW1J)

176 >> why don't the pants float up and how does the man float down?

He propelled himself down a little. The pants were set up stationary for Don to try that stunt.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 10:56 PM (w6EFb)

177 As a 4 yo I remember believing that cats and dogs were the same species. Cats were the girls and dogs were the boys.

I think people still do that--we meet a dog, we assume it's a boy, we see a cat, we assume it's a female. It's like a synesthesia thing.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (CHHv1)

178 78.2 MPH is a fast pitch. And considering that the rubber is 43 feet from home, so she is releasing about 40 feet from home, that ball will get on you quick.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
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Yep. Smoke. About .35 of a second.

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (41CYW)

179 I came. I saw. I conquered.

But not necessarily in that order!

Posted by: zombie julius caesar at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (/tzYP)

180 >> Don Pettit has been posting a lot of photographs from the ISS. He's due to come back next month on a Soyuz, and considering his age, 69, this may be his last expedition.

That’s probably wise.

Does NASA not have any astronauts under the age of 50 anymore?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (l3YAf)

181 When I was coaching girls softball, I had a college pitcher come in and pitch to my all-star team, and of course they prevailed on me to get in the box, no helmet. I saw the first pitch out of her hand and the button told my baseball muscle memory told me that it was breaking down and away. But the spin was backwards so it was up and in. I leaned in and it missed my chin by about two inches and I was out of there.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (jc0TO)

182 Another Volunteer - Ben Joyce - holds the real NCAA record fastball at 105.5mph, more than 27mph faster than this literal booby prize.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 25, 2025 10:58 PM (BI5O2)

183 Does NASA not have any astronauts under the age of 50 anymore?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (l3YAf)

No one under 60 can use a slide rule.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

184 >> Does NASA not have any astronauts under the age of 50 anymore?

Well, with the young 'uns going on diaper rampages and running naked through airplanes, maybe stick with the old timers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 10:58 PM (w6EFb)

185 I honestly can't remember all the dumb things I thought as a kid.
. . . .
Posted by: SpeakingOf

When I announced we were moving the family for work my oldest was 5. He was pretty bummed for more than a few days and I asked him what was bothering him.

He asked through barely stifled cries - "Will I get a new gramma at the new house?"

Still kills me.

In the absence of facts, little kids will make up their own.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 25, 2025 10:59 PM (cYBz/)

186 All Gaul is divided into three parts.

Posted by: Miklos with a reminder at March 25, 2025 10:59 PM (RgW1J)

187 Answer: Sam never actually wore the Ring but even so it tried to tempt him and made him hesitate when he returned it after rescuing Frodo.
Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 10:54 PM (yTvNw)
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Oh wow, I read it recently and thought Sam slipped it on, dreaming of saving the Shire and making everything bloom again. But he merely clutched it? He was made of strong stuff.

Sam was stout-hearted and brave, in his self-effacing and forelock-pulling way.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 25, 2025 10:59 PM (kpS4V)

188 Cinnamon rolls - the best pastry devised by humans. The best in my youth were my moms. Much later, found a restaurant in what was then west Omaha called the Garden Cafe. Oh, boy! A delicious concoction of approximately 12 - 16 ounces with about a half-cup of vanilla icing added on top. Always fresh from the oven. Sorry, mom.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 25, 2025 10:59 PM (ha1wR)

189 Does NASA not have any astronauts under the age of 50 anymore?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (l3YAf)

No one under 60 can use a slide rule.
Posted by: Diogenes

And pocket pen protectors are so ICK

Posted by: the Youth of Today at March 25, 2025 11:00 PM (RgW1J)

190 (and yes, the girl is a pirate and the boy is a farmer.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 25, 2025 10:42 PM (soUkD)

I am a pirate, I fry airpranes

Posted by: That Hot Asian Chick at March 25, 2025 11:00 PM (D7oie)

191 Answer: Sam never actually wore the Ring but even so it tried to tempt him and made him hesitate when he returned it after rescuing Frodo.
Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 10:54 PM (yTvNw)
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Hate to contradict you, but Sam does indeed wear the One Ring. It's a significant plot point, making him the last of the Ring Bearers. When Orcs are searching for the disturbance caused by Shelob, Sam finds himself slipping on the One Ring:

"He [Sam] was not aware of any thought or decision. He simply found himself drawing out the chain and taking the Ring in his hand. The head of the orc-company appeared in the Cleft right before him. Then he put it on."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2025 11:01 PM (cweKM)

192 Is there such a thing as an Italican font in Cyrillic?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2025 11:02 PM (8zz6B)

193 All Gaul is divided into three parts.
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And I'm in the Caesarian section!

Posted by: zombie julius caesar at March 25, 2025 11:02 PM (/tzYP)

194 When I was coaching girls softball, I had a college pitcher come in and pitch to my all-star team, and of course they prevailed on me to get in the box, no helmet. I saw the first pitch out of her hand and the button told my baseball muscle memory told me that it was breaking down and away. But the spin was backwards so it was up and in. I leaned in and it missed my chin by about two inches and I was out of there.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (jc0TO)

Had a pitcher who could throw an inside riser to both left and right hand hitters.
Most bizarre thing I ever saw. So I asked her, How do you do that?
Big mistake. She'd been doing it so long she didn't even think about it. Took her two days to stop thinking and just throw.
Coach was pissed at me.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 11:02 PM (W/lyH)

195 So, how does a girl pitching a softball 78.2 MPH from a distance 43', from rubber to the plate, compare to a baseball pitch of 100 MPH pitched from a distance of 60'6", from the rubber to the plate?

Math will probably be needed.

Posted by: javems at March 25, 2025 11:02 PM (8I4hW)

196 When I was coaching girls softball, I had a college pitcher come in and pitch to my all-star team, and of course they prevailed on me to get in the box, no helmet. I saw the first pitch out of her hand and the button told my baseball muscle memory told me that it was breaking down and away. But the spin was backwards so it was up and in. I leaned in and it missed my chin by about two inches and I was out of there.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
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Here is an amusing ewe tubz link to Kruk facing Michele Smith. https://tinyurl.com/y2t55kfv

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 11:02 PM (41CYW)

197 119 Thought canned spinach would make me strong. Saw it, decided skinny and weak was ok too.

Posted by: Some Rat at March 25, 2025 10:40 PM (oA29F)
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That whole thing spinach = strength = Popeye?
All due to an error by FDA/USDA ? made it 10 times richer in iron.

Posted by: Ciampino - not attracted by magnets at March 25, 2025 11:03 PM (sPQoU)

198 Is there such a thing as an Italican font in Cyrillic?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The Soviets developed one.

It leans Left.

Posted by: Fun Facts with Miklos at March 25, 2025 11:04 PM (RgW1J)

199 As a 4 yo I remember believing that cats and dogs were the same species. Cats were the girls and dogs were the boys. Similar with horses as boys and cows/cattle were girls.
Posted by: Wtp at March 25, 2025 10:39 PM (4cfLi)

For some reason I always thought cats were generally considered to be females, because they needed a special modifier to denote "tom cats" as males.

There are a few other critters I saw that way too. Later I developed the concept of "in house" and "out of house" things that were linked to women for in house, and men for out of house. I was an odd child.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2025 11:04 PM (D7oie)

200 ХЧЪЯд

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 25, 2025 11:05 PM (/tzYP)

201
Don Pettit, years ago, had a hell of a return ride on a Soyuz -- something went wrong and they had to do a ballistic re-entry. He pulled 8 g's.

And, making it worse, he was holding "luggage" in his lap. He had shot a bunch of his "Saturday Morning Science" experiments. At the time, they didn't have any way to transmit stuff at high bandwidth, so he had to bring physical copies back somehow.

There's video of them fishing him out of the capsule after that ride. Talk about looking "rode hard and put up wet".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 11:05 PM (w6EFb)

202 ХЧЪЯд
Posted by: andycanuck

SAME TO YOU FELLA!!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 25, 2025 11:05 PM (cYBz/)

203 192 Is there such a thing as an Italican font in Cyrillic?
---------
Yes, at least at the HQ.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 25, 2025 11:05 PM (/tzYP)

204 When I was little, I *knew* that I could fly. In my sleep.

I'd fall asleep downstairs, and wake up in my room upstairs.

I'm telling ya --- I FLEW!!! Really! Lol.

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2025 11:06 PM (rdVOm)

205 John Kruk gets back at Carl for throwing a battery at him in Shea Stadium:

https://youtu.be/VcXVtC_AN3o?si=RiNZIvZ5S4rlx2kI

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 25, 2025 11:07 PM (BI5O2)

206 123
Apparently booger eaters have a stronger immune system.

Posted by: Ciampino - boogers full of bugs at March 25, 2025 11:07 PM (sPQoU)

207 Karlyn Pickens just threw the FASTEST recorded pitch in NCAA Softball history 🔥🔥 @Vol_Softball

Another Volunteer - Ben Joyce - holds the real NCAA record fastball at 105.5mph, more than 27mph faster than this literal booby prize.
**********
I am off to bed smiling that the ONT has featured Vols Lady softball and men's baseball. Go Big Orange!

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at March 25, 2025 11:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

208 Both my kids had amazingly well thought out explanations about Santa Claus. Logical, within their knowledge.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 11:08 PM (jc0TO)

209 ХЧЪЯд
Posted by: andycanuck

Uncle Palp, the Horde cries out!

Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist at March 25, 2025 11:08 PM (RgW1J)

210 I saw a horse fuck a cow once in Shawnee, CO.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 25, 2025 11:08 PM (BI5O2)

211 I saw a horse fuck a cow once in Shawnee, CO.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
---------

Damn. That freak governator has got the whole state F'd up-- even the animals!

Posted by: JQ at March 25, 2025 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

212 I saw a horse fuck a cow once in Shawnee, CO.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Was it worth the $20?

Posted by: Innocent Lil' Miklos at March 25, 2025 11:10 PM (RgW1J)

213 I thought the man tossing the fastball was a softball pitcher. Stupid not to read the whole post.

Back in the fast-pitch men's days, there were lots of guys who could throw faster than 90mph. You had to decide to swing when the ball was still in the pitcher's hand behind him. Lots of games wound up 3 -1, 4-2, etc.

It hurt when hittin' the ribs, believe me.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 25, 2025 11:10 PM (ha1wR)

214 Things we believed as littles? Not actually a belief, but...

I asked my mother why there were holes in bread. She said that those were where the baker tried to crawl through.

Absurd, of course, and never believed it - but I've never gotten the image of a baker crawling in a loaf of bread out of my head.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at March 25, 2025 11:10 PM (bufu1)

215 Why do you ask, Horse-who-fucked-a-cow??

Posted by: just the punchline at March 25, 2025 11:11 PM (/tzYP)

216 In 213, I meant fast-pitch softball.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 25, 2025 11:11 PM (ha1wR)

217 191 ... "Hate to contradict you, but Sam does indeed wear the One Ring. It's a significant plot point, making him the last of the Ring Bearers. When Orcs are searching for the disturbance caused by Shelob, Sam finds himself slipping on the One Ring:

"He [Sam] was not aware of any thought or decision. He simply found himself drawing out the chain and taking the Ring in his hand. The head of the orc-company appeared in the Cleft right before him. Then he put it on."

Dammit, Perfessor, you're right. And I recently finished rereading LOTR. Can't believe I didn't remember it correctly. Thanks for the correction. (Blushes in embarrassment.)

Posted by: JTB at March 25, 2025 11:12 PM (yTvNw)

218 I saw a horse fuck a cow once in Shawnee, CO.

Lying dog face pony soldier?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:12 PM (WyV1V)

219
Just read up on Don's ballistic reentry. He got stuck on the ISS after the Columbia disaster which grounded the Shuttle fleet (this "stranding" of astronauts has happened before a couple of times).

He had to hitch a ride back on a Soyuz, and this was the first manned version of the Rooske's new Soyuz TMA variant. The guidance system failed on reentry, causing ballistic mode.

Don had a 20 kg pack strapped to his chest, containing all that stuff he wanted to bring back. It was supposed to be no more than 3g. They hit 8.

That was like having a 350 lb weight on his chest during reentry. He dislocated a shoulder.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 11:12 PM (w6EFb)

220 So, how does a girl pitching a softball 78.2 MPH from a distance 43', from rubber to the plate, compare to a baseball pitch of 100 MPH pitched from a distance of 60'6", from the rubber to the plate?

Math will probably be needed.
Posted by: javems at March 25, 2025 11:02 PM (8I4hW)

If I did the maths right, both batters (softball and baseball) have about .4 second to see the ball and react...perhaps a bit less.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 11:12 PM (W/lyH)

221 Why do you ask, Horse-who-fucked-a-cow??

I snorted way to hard at this. My wife is concerned.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 25, 2025 11:12 PM (jc0TO)

222 Latin phrases..... no gun threaders here tonight? Or only .45 fans?
Nobody's said "si vis pacem, para bellum" yet.
"If you want peace, prepare for war."
And the source of the name of the 9mm parabellum round.
Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 10:48 PM (DgGvY)

And no comment about the Radom WZ. 35, either

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2025 11:13 PM (D7oie)

223 Was it worth the $20?
Posted by: Innocent Lil' Miklos at March 25, 2025 11:10 PM (RgW1J)

Hell of a lot more. It was on Miss Hickel's field, across 285 from the high school. Some of the most valuable pasture in the county.

Probably because the grass there made the horses so virile, if I had to guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 25, 2025 11:14 PM (BI5O2)

224 Just went out on to the interwebs and found that my memory of softball speeds is probably incorrect. Huh! I've been 29 for too long and too often.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at March 25, 2025 11:14 PM (ha1wR)

225 Google Translate:
ХЧЪЯд Mongolian detected; Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 25, 2025 11:15 PM (/tzYP)

226 The Lady Vols coach is Karen Weekly, a very sharp coach and she was an excellent player in college.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2025 11:15 PM (W/lyH)

227 That interview of Howard Lutnick is very interesting. I haven't done anything for almost two hours in years. But I will do this.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 25, 2025 11:15 PM (cYBz/)

228 How is this latest image?

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:16 PM (WyV1V)

229 Does NASA not have any astronauts under the age of 50 anymore?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 25, 2025 10:57 PM (l3YAf)

They have regular new ones but there are limited slots for human spaceflight.

One of the charming things they do for candidates is do things like turn off their air when they are training in the zero Gee water tank

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2025 11:17 PM (D7oie)

230 Great wall you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

Posted by: Bombadil at March 25, 2025 11:17 PM (MX0bI)

231 Four years of High School Latin. Was helpful in getting English words of Latin root. Helpful in parsing out other Romance languages, like French. Helpful with the three years of High School Spanish.

And now, over fifty years later, I can sort-of order in Mexican at a restaurant.
Dos enchiladas, carne, con salsa de queso, y cerveza Negro Modelo, por favor.

Alas, last time we went out for Mexican, I had to tell the waiter that I could no longer order en español, porque el presidente Trump dice que el idioma oficial en Estados Unidos es el inglés.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ole at March 25, 2025 11:17 PM (qMjwS)

232 Hey, Scampy!

Posted by: Bulg at March 25, 2025 11:17 PM (77rzZ)

233 Bulg!

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 11:18 PM (41CYW)

234 Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Posted by: Linnet at March 25, 2025 11:19 PM (l1cnI)

235 So, how does a girl pitching a softball 78.2 MPH from a distance 43', from rubber to the plate, compare to a baseball pitch of 100 MPH pitched from a distance of 60'6", from the rubber to the plate?
Math will probably be needed.
Posted by: javems

If I did the maths right, both batters (softball and baseball) have about .4 second to see the ball and react...perhaps a bit less.
Posted by: Diogenes

Might as well include the relative diameter of the balls (this is pretty meta), too. Baseball, 2.9in, fast-pitch softball, 3.8in.

The sweet spot to put them in play is probably similar size, but it's easier to make contact and foul off the softball.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 11:19 PM (DgGvY)

236 Zero Trump judges confirmed by the Senate.

Nothing out of congress except the Laken Riley Act.

That's it. They've done nothing but talk and tweet.

They are running out the clock on Trump.

And Johnson is about to recess for 3 weeks.

Posted by: The Gope will betray you at March 25, 2025 11:20 PM (/FzWA)

237
Don posted this, which I hadn't see, demonstrating capillary action in zero-g:
https://tinyurl.com/2bbhs22o

It's amazing how far the water pulls itself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)

238 How is this latest image?

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:16 PM (WyV1V)

I like the one with the open door.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 25, 2025 11:20 PM (0eaVi)

239
In the first grade, I had been told that all rivers flow to the sea. But when I saw a map of North America, I wondered how the sea water got desalted as it flowed into the rivers. Maybe strained out somehow by deadwood and sediment in the rivers.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2025 11:22 PM (L78T1)

240 How is this latest image?
https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246
Posted by: Anna Puma

Neat.

Is she going to hire a private eye, or fight the Matrix?

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 11:22 PM (DgGvY)

241 Might as well include the relative diameter of the balls (this is pretty meta), too. Baseball, 2.9in, fast-pitch softball, 3.8in.

The sweet spot to put them in play is probably similar size, but it's easier to make contact and foul off the softball.
Posted by: mikeski
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My experience - it was easier to hit the softball. I faced 98 in baseball and 65 in softball, which translates - from a reaction time perspective to about 95 in baseball. Much easier to make contact with the big, optic yellow ball. I enjoyed playing and coaching both games. Softball - very little margin for error. Everything needs to be fielded cleanly - no bobbles. Moves quickly. Fastpitch softball is typically moving flat - maybe a 1 degree drop. Baseball comes from a bunch of arm slots and angles. Short fences is another factor - fly balls go out of the park in fastpitch.

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 11:26 PM (41CYW)

242 How is this latest image?

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:16 PM (WyV1V)

I like the one with the open door.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 25, 2025 11:20 PM (0eaVi)

😰

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 25, 2025 11:26 PM (l3YAf)

243
Hah, Don invented the "Zero-g coffee cup", which uses capillary action to pull the fluid up the sides, and helps keep it contained inside the cup.

He hated using a straw for his coffee.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 25, 2025 11:27 PM (w6EFb)

244 6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv 1h
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is catching more eggs than fentanyl at the border, with 3,254 egg seizures in the first 2 months compared to only 134 fentanyl busts In 2025

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 25, 2025 11:27 PM (/tzYP)

245 Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025 - 08:20 PM
The U.S. is reportedly deploying stealth bombers to Diego Garcia
_zerohedge

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:29 PM (wE4lY)

246 Maybe hiring a private eye in the Matrix?

Yeah I liked that one also though it was far from what I had in mind.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:31 PM (WyV1V)

247 B-2 Spirits stage out of Anderson on Guam.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:33 PM (WyV1V)

248 Docui Anglice in Sina et ambulavit Magnum Murum.

Posted by: pjungwir at March 25, 2025 11:33 PM (8TbJ+)

249 We moved when I was 4. My mom told me and the other kids our new house did not have a fireplace but it did have a garage. For years, I thought houses could only have one or the other, not both.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 25, 2025 11:33 PM (J4pRf)

250 cont.
A significant buildup is happening in Diego Garcia

At least 5 USAF B-2 Spirits and 7 C-17A Globemaster IIIs have arrived over the last 3 days, or are currently en route to the island.

At least 18 US Air Force tankers are being staged in the Pacific with several each at Travis AFB in CA, Daniel K. Inouye IAP in HI and Andersen AFB in Guam.

B-2s heard this morning on the way to Diego Garcia being refueled over Australia.

This route to Diego Garcia is longer but requires less diplomatic clearance than transiting across the Atlantic and Europe/Middle East to Diego Garcia.
_zerohedge

Open Source Intel
@Osint613
·
Follow
A military NOTAM confirms ramp slots B1 & B2 at Diego Garcia are closed until May 1 — signaling a sustained U.S. air deployment on the U.K.-controlled island.

This timeline overlaps with the end of Trump’s 2-month ultimatum to Iran, adding intrigue to the sudden bomber buildup Show more

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:34 PM (wE4lY)

251 The only time I look at The Daily Mail is when an article is posted here. Looking at some of the other headlines, it's still a garbage rag. Not complaining, just observing. I don't mind the links posted here. I read them.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 25, 2025 11:36 PM (sAmhv)

252 Diego Garcia is also on a British territory. Which means the US would have to get London in the loop for any actions I bet.

Guam is less of a headache.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:36 PM (WyV1V)

253 The U.S. is reportedly deploying stealth bombers to Diego Garcia
_zerohedge
Posted by: Braenyard

I was gonna snark on "reportedly," but they are stealth bombers. Hard to be sure.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 11:37 PM (DgGvY)

254 OSINTdefender @sentdefender 10h
Following the arrival earlier today of 2 B-2 “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers, with the 509th Bomb Wing from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Communications between the bombers and ground stations in San Francisco have confirmed that another flight of 2-3 B-2s from Whiteman are currently crossing the Pacific Ocean destined for Diego Garcia. This is seeming like a much larger buildup than would be needed for strikes just against the Houthis in Yemen.

TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog 10h
A significant buildup is happening in Diego Garcia

At least 5 USAF B-2 Spirits and 7 C-17A Globemaster IIIs have arrived over the last 3 days, or are currently en route to the island.

OSINTdefender @sentdefender 21h
Several U.S. Air Force KC-135R Aerial-Refueling Tankers departed earlier from RAAF Base Amberley in Eastern Australia and are now circling over Queensland, likely either currently or preparing to refuel the pair of B-2 “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, which are believed to be heading to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 25, 2025 11:38 PM (/tzYP)

255 We moved when I was 4. My mom told me and the other kids our new house did not have a fireplace but it did have a garage. For years, I thought houses could only have one or the other, not both.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

All six of the houses I've lived in have had garages, but only 2 have had fireplaces. So most of them were up to code in your world.

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 11:39 PM (DgGvY)

256 I hope all these mother fcking arses are dead wrong on all this 'intel' they are spewing.

We are talking the lives of American warriors here.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:41 PM (WyV1V)

257 TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog Mar 23
At least 18 US Air Force tankers are being staged in the Pacific with several each at Travis AFB in CA, Daniel K. Inouye IAP in HI and Andersen AFB in Guam.

This suggests some kind of large movement of air assets into the Pacific theater will take place this week.

1/
===
More at the thread.

http://tiny.cc/83le001

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 25, 2025 11:41 PM (/tzYP)

258 I'm going to put "rigid vulva" in the mental bank for future insult use.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 25, 2025 11:43 PM (gGDgb)

259 When I was 3 of 4 I thought all the songs on the radio were sung live.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2025 11:43 PM (VofaG)

260
Alas, last time we went out for Mexican, I had to tell the waiter that I could no longer order en español, porque el presidente Trump dice que el idioma oficial en Estados Unidos es el inglés.
Posted by: mindful webworker - ole

Que Lastima!

Posted by: Miklos Ocasio-Nike-Cortez at March 25, 2025 11:43 PM (RgW1J)

261 Reporter Goldberg reported in the chat cia director radcliff named a cia undercover agent :but reporter goldberg being a patriot refused to out her name in the article unlike rethugliKKKans traitors who outed Valerie Plame for political gain.

Posted by: raimondo at March 25, 2025 11:43 PM (zqGVS)

262 261.. but how is your Latin?

Posted by: scampydog at March 25, 2025 11:44 PM (41CYW)

263 On a separate X thread, Elon Musk commented on Laura Loomer's post about the NGO - [ the Indivisible Project received "$7.26 million worth of Soros grants to Indivisible since 2018 alone," adding, "The most recent financial report shows Soros funds comprising over half of all foundation grants. ] - "mass deleting content off their website after being called out for their organization of Tesla Takedown protests."
_zerohedge

@nataliegwinters

This Soros-backed group is the leading organizer of anti-Trump protests and violent Tesla acts.

Matthew Graves' wife, Fatima Gross Graves, is the director of the rogue NGO.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:45 PM (wE4lY)

264 rainman gets more retarded everyday.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2025 11:45 PM (VofaG)

265 >The only time I look at The Daily Mail is when an article is posted here. Looking at some of the other headlines, it's still a garbage rag.

----

when viewing the site, the right side is tabloid nonsense, and the left side is where some actual news can be found

Posted by: Don Black at March 25, 2025 11:46 PM (AOsQT)

266 Americans should eat more invasive species ...

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/
american-should-eat-more-
invasive-animals-experts

Posted by: Ciampino - boar may have tapeworms at March 25, 2025 11:46 PM (sPQoU)

267 Avalanche 5, Redwings 2 Final

Posted by: Don Black at March 25, 2025 11:46 PM (AOsQT)

268 😰
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 25, 2025 11:26 PM (l3YAf)

Well, AP's links go to the main page. I'm not always sure which one is being featured.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 25, 2025 11:47 PM (0eaVi)

269 The Hill posting piece that Judge Boasberg is like the Sheriff saving the cowardly towns people from the bad (orange) man.

Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2025 11:47 PM (0Gnoc)

270 If anyone is in touch with Hogmartin, please inform him that Miklos needs...something.

Posted by: Computer died and I lost the stoatlink at March 25, 2025 11:48 PM (RgW1J)

271 >>>We are talking the lives of American warriors here.
Posted by: Anna Puma
---

It's Trump diplomacy. He's going to call up Iran on the telephone.
He's going to say, 'let's talk'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:49 PM (wE4lY)

272 When I was a kid, I used to think the televised ABC Saturday Bowling show was at my local lanes. One Saturday, they had to take me to my nearby lanes to prove to me that it wasn't.

I'm not from Missouri but show me anyway.

Posted by: RickZ at March 25, 2025 11:49 PM (gKDq2)

273 Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
10h

The signal chat didn’t contain classified information.
Terrorists were killed.
Americans are safer.

Mar 25, 2025 · 5:02 PM UTC

THIS IS THE WORST HAIKU EVAR!!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)

274 Americans should eat more invasive species ...
Posted by: Ciampino

Something something "hot latinas."

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2025 11:50 PM (DgGvY)

275 Americans should eat more invasive species ...

Posted by: Ciampino - boar may have tapeworms at March 25, 2025 11:46 PM (sPQoU)

Eat more invasive species? What, they want us to become cannibals?

Posted by: RickZ at March 25, 2025 11:51 PM (gKDq2)

276 >>> 270 If anyone is in touch with Hogmartin, please inform him that Miklos needs...something.
Posted by: Computer died and I lost the stoatlink at March 25, 2025 11:48 PM (RgW1J)

Home page or something else?
https://stoatnet.org/
I can text him in the morning if you're looking for something specific.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 25, 2025 11:51 PM (Vqx30)

277 Goldberg reported in the chat cia patriotdirector named a cia undercover Reporteragent :but reporter goldberg being a Plame name refused to out her in the article unlike rethugliKKKans traitors who radcliff Valerie outed for political gain TRUMP!!!!.

Posted by: raimondo on tap at March 25, 2025 11:52 PM (RgW1J)

278 Added a new image.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:53 PM (WyV1V)

279 The Hill started out somewhat liberal it's now in competition with Rachel Madcow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2025 11:53 PM (wE4lY)

280 264 rainman gets more retarded everyday.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2025 11:45 PM (VofaG)

-------

Not true. raimondo's therapist says he's making remarkable progress.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 25, 2025 11:54 PM (JkO4W)

281 Halftime

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2025 11:55 PM (fwDg9)

282 Not true. raimondo's therapist says he's making remarkable progress.
Posted by: Cicero

sometimes he changes his own underwear

Posted by: raimondo's mom at March 25, 2025 11:55 PM (RgW1J)

283 rainman gets more retarded everyday.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 25, 2025 11:45 PM (Vofa

I disagree. He got his boss to buy him a better translator program, which does a much better job on the Mandarin to English than his old program did. That shows he has a little bit on the ball.

I say this is all part of his cunning plan for us to pay for his sex reassignment surgery.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 25, 2025 11:55 PM (2Oj4u)

284 I believed my toys came alive at night and,
if I prayed hard enough, God would send me a kitten. I even looked under the bed, for it, in the morning.

Posted by: Shipooi at March 25, 2025 11:56 PM (t1uwd)

285 I say this is all part of his cunning plan for us to pay for his sex reassignment surgery.

So, bewbs for the boob?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2025 11:57 PM (WyV1V)

286 284 I believed my toys came alive at night and,
if I prayed hard enough, God would send me a kitten. I even looked under the bed, for it, in the morning.
Posted by: Shipooi at March 25, 2025 11:56 PM (t1uwd)

----------

Did you ever wish for a pony?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 25, 2025 11:57 PM (JkO4W)

287 Venezuelan deportees - illegal aliens can't demand
FAFO

Posted by: Ciampino - how many diseases? at March 25, 2025 11:57 PM (sPQoU)

288 When I was 5, I thought the optical illusion with the transparent cube was actually moving. But then again it was shown to me for the first time on a computer screen. I don't think I would have thought that if it was drawn on a page.

Posted by: ... at March 25, 2025 11:58 PM (E0p3T)

289
287
Forgot the link
https://tinyurl.com/5dptemks

Posted by: Ciampino - how many diseases you got? at March 25, 2025 11:59 PM (sPQoU)

290 "Americans should eat more invasive species ..."

I concur! I, personally, am quite fond of Thai!

Posted by: Zombie Jeffery Dahlmer at March 26, 2025 12:01 AM (2Oj4u)

291 Did you ever wish for a pony?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 25, 2025 11:57 PM (JkO4W)

Dad used to tell me that he could trade me in for a pony up to the age of 6, and I was pissed off because it meant I wouldn't have a pony, he would.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 26, 2025 12:02 AM (D7oie)

292 FDA approved artificial blood vessels amid warnings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24
/health/fda-artificial-blood-vessel-
trauma-humacyte.html

Posted by: Ciampino - how bad? at March 26, 2025 12:03 AM (sPQoU)

293 292
Sorry it needs a subscription which I don't have.

Posted by: Ciampino - how bad? Bad at March 26, 2025 12:04 AM (sPQoU)

294 Seen Burton Cummings last Saturday in Joliet .
78 years young and still rocking. Cummings and Bachman going to get together next year for Guss Who
Tour.

Posted by: Lars at March 26, 2025 12:05 AM (kJH1Z)

295 Venezuelan deportees - illegal aliens can't demand
FAFO
Posted by: Ciampino - how many diseases? at March 25, 2025 11:57 PM (sPQoU)

Maduro is rumored to have an agreement with the gangs to use them as street muscle, and I suspect things are quite strained if he is letting them be jailed in CECOT in El Salvador.

Also, Nayib Bukele is rumored to have a "kitchen cabinet" of Venezuelan ex-pats who are giving him input and advice, and I am sure they wouldn't be too careful of what happens the the TdA

Posted by: Kindltot at March 26, 2025 12:06 AM (D7oie)

296 English were the worst about wanting to drop Latin into conversation, probably to justify them all taking it in school. I remember wondering why they called a pound note a quid, and finally realized “oh, quid pro quo.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 26, 2025 12:06 AM (7ka71)

297 274 Americans should eat more invasive species ...

There's not much meat on those sparrows, starlings, and grackles.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:09 AM (wE4lY)

298 Seen Burton Cummings last Saturday in Joliet .
78 years young and still rocking. Cummings and Bachman going to get together next year for Guss Who
Tour.
Posted by: Lars
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I saw you posted on Friday or so that you were going to attend. I had tickets a couple years ago - work travel popped up unfortunately. Dude can sing.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:09 AM (41CYW)

299 Unless Kobe cows are released into the wild I can’t think of an invasive species I would eat .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 12:11 AM (VofaG)

300 297

What about African swallows?

Posted by: Ciampino - spitting feathers at March 26, 2025 12:11 AM (sPQoU)

301 293 292
Sorry it needs a subscription which I don't have.
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https://archive.is/

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:12 AM (wE4lY)

302 257 TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog Mar 23
At least 18 US Air Force tankers are being staged in the Pacific with several each at Travis AFB in CA, Daniel K. Inouye IAP in HI and Andersen AFB in Guam.

This suggests some kind of large movement of air assets into the Pacific theater will take place this week.

1/
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More at the thread.

http://tiny.cc/83le001
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 25, 2025 11:41 PM (/tzYP)

And telling our enemies where our forces are, is such a GOOD IDEA?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 26, 2025 12:12 AM (QAkQ3)

303 There's not much meat on those sparrows, starlings, and grackles.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:09 AM (wE4lY)

By the time you pluck them and clean them, there's not much of anything.

Boil them up whole, and feed them to hogs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 12:13 AM (8zz6B)

304 What about African swallows?
Posted by: Ciampino - spitting feathers at March 26, 2025 12:11 AM (sPQoU)

I don’t think the women like to .

Oh I read that wrong. never mind.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2025 12:13 AM (VofaG)

305 293 292
Sorry it needs a subscription which I don't have.
Posted by: Ciampino
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Here is one to the FDA site - not sure it's the same. Interesting stuff. https://tinyurl.com/2cw5rt59

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:13 AM (41CYW)

306 quid
n noun (plural same) British informal one pound sterling.

PHRASES
not the full quid Australian/New Zealand informal not intelligent.
quids in British informal profiting or likely to profit from something.

ORIGIN
C17 (denoting a sovereign): of obscure origin.

Posted by: Ciampino - quid never quids at March 26, 2025 12:14 AM (sPQoU)

307 ORIGIN
C17 (denoting a sovereign): of obscure origin.
Posted by: Ciampino - quid never quids at March 26, 2025 12:14 AM (sPQoU)

Back in the day, in England, you could get a pro for a quid.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 12:16 AM (8zz6B)

308 March 19th is the feast of St Joseph. Growing up as an Italian Catholic back east, I lived for that day when every good neighborhood bakery featured Zeppoli di San Guiseppe. Highland, Capri. and Calandra were the top three places in my neighborhood. Only Calandra's remains to this day. I was a spoiled child...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 26, 2025 12:17 AM (bA75n)

309 305
Thanks for that.

Posted by: Ciampino - quid never quids for pounds at March 26, 2025 12:19 AM (sPQoU)

310 In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at March 26, 2025 12:20 AM (y7zkd)

311 The Iranians probably can subscribe to Flightradar.24 as well

Posted by: Kindltot at March 26, 2025 12:20 AM (D7oie)

312 Sevile, si ergo
Fortitubus es in ero
Novile, deus trux
Vadis item, causen dux

(See Willy, see 'er go
Forty buses in a row.
No willy, they is trucks.
What is in them? Cows and ducks)

Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2025 12:22 AM (t+VLa)

313 Sevile, si ergo
Fortitubus es in ero
Novile, deus trux
Vadis item, causen dux

(See Willy, see 'er go
Forty buses in a row.
No willy, they is trucks.
What is in them? Cows and ducks)
Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2025 12:22 AM (t+VLa)

Wait, the Romans had buses and trucks? So The Ancient Aliens people are correct?

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 12:24 AM (gKDq2)

314 Had a better day. Tomorrow starts early. Gotta see if I can get some sleep.

https://youtu.be/8jTlaToBXcM

G'nite, y'all. May your tomorrow be bright.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hasta la pasta at March 26, 2025 12:26 AM (qMjwS)

315 Wait, the Romans had buses and trucks? So The Ancient Aliens people are correct?
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 12:24 AM (gKDq2)
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Darn straight they sure did. My word as a Biden

Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2025 12:27 AM (t+VLa)

316 African swallows?
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Didn't know we had them, never seen one. Are they big and fat?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:27 AM (wE4lY)

317 So let me just bowl into this ONT with a Tank's to Scampydog for being the dude tonight.

I will keep this brief.

Trump is going for the GOLD in trying to RESTORE what this Republic should be.

We should avail ourselves of our fears and give him our support in his and his very competent cabinet that they will do great works on behalf of the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

That's all I have.

Posted by: Nightwatch at March 26, 2025 12:28 AM (25kuG)

318 About the Donut Song:

A 5-yen coin ( go-en ) has a hole in the middle.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 26, 2025 12:29 AM (PiwSw)

319 316 African swallows?
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Didn't know we had them, never seen one. Are they big and fat?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:27 AM (wE4lY)
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Invaders. I hear they come over on coconuts.

Posted by: Ciampino - squid? at March 26, 2025 12:30 AM (sPQoU)

320 Trump is going for the GOLD in trying to RESTORE what this Republic should be.

We should avail ourselves of our fears and give him our support in his and his very competent cabinet that they will do great works on behalf of the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

That's all I have.
Posted by: Nightwatch
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You're going to like the ONT next Tuesday. And good evening.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:30 AM (41CYW)

321 I have yet to find one, but I think the best pastry would be one of those glazed apple fritters with that maple frosting they put on donuts.

Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2025 12:30 AM (t+VLa)

322 Up in the country there a couple of families of barn swallows that would camp out on my front porch every summer for about 10 years.
Serious little critters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:34 AM (wE4lY)

323 37 Dammit.
I ran in here as fast as I could....
Then, once again I tripped and face planted...
I'm such a darn clutz....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 25, 2025 10:16 PM (0ohAJ)
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Wait, are you the gal in the NY subway trying to steal a MAGA cap?

Posted by: Ciampino - squid? quid at March 26, 2025 12:35 AM (sPQoU)

324 Good Night Horde,

Sleep the sleep of Kings and Queens.

Posted by: Nightwatch at March 26, 2025 12:40 AM (25kuG)

325 Up in the country there a couple of families of barn swallows that would camp out on my front porch every summer for about 10 years.
Serious little critters.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Aerial acrobats.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:41 AM (41CYW)

326 Latest Racism Hoax:
... news outlets earnestly reporting a claim by Allentown, Pennsylvania city employee LaTarsha Brown
that she found a small noose on her computer when she arrived at work in the 🤡🤡🤡Department of Economic and Community Development.💩 💩

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:43 AM (wE4lY)

327 LaTarsha Brown
that she found a small noose on her computer when she arrived at work in the 🤡🤡🤡Department of Economic and Community Development.💩 💩
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:43 AM (wE4lY)

And apparently that scrunt got charged with filing a false police report.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 12:47 AM (8zz6B)

328 AOP, heard you were approaching triple digits there in the Valley today. When do you head back north?

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:48 AM (41CYW)

329 -----------
Aerial acrobats.
Posted by: scampydog
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They can hover a bit also. Old Kodak pic of one hovering me straight in the face. She thought I was too close to the nest.
They got used to me after a while and went about their business eating mosquitoes.

Don't have a pic of one body blocking a cardinal off a fence post.
That was a good scene. Buzzed him two times, third time was charm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:48 AM (wE4lY)

330 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 12:43 AM (wE4lY)

Gee I wonder if we can get Corky from Life Goes On to solve this mystery

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2025 12:52 AM (E0p3T)

331 AOP, heard you were approaching triple digits there in the Valley today. When do you head back north?
Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:48 AM (41CYW)

Hit 98 here today. No plans to go home extra-early. Stuff to be done here yet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 12:54 AM (8zz6B)

332 Just looked up at the wall clock - decoration, it doesn't keep time worth a sh*t. Went down the rabbit hole of how quartz watches work a few weeks ago. Might need to litigate that in a future ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:55 AM (41CYW)

333
Where was I?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 12:56 AM (5Iuq/)

334 Good evening Horde. Thanks SD. Just checking in to see what the ONT looks like at this time of night. Not usually awake to see it.

Posted by: TRex at March 26, 2025 12:56 AM (t/HCa)

335 Thanks for popping in, Short Arms. See ya Saturday.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:57 AM (41CYW)

336 I have to ask a serious question: Who today knows how to even make a proper noose? Do they teach Noose Making when the lefty covens gather? If it wasn't for ginned up anti-black racism, there'd be no anti-black racism at all.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 12:57 AM (gKDq2)

337 333 Where was I?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Halfway to the number of the beast.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 26, 2025 12:58 AM (KAi1n)

338 That zero-gravity camera video was wild... had to stop a couple times, then resume, before motion-sickness kicked in. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at March 26, 2025 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

339 >> Zeppoli di San Guiseppe

Zeppelin without Joseph?

Posted by: Literal Translation at March 26, 2025 12:58 AM (l3YAf)

340 Thanks for popping in, Short Arms. See ya Saturday.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 12:57 AM (41CYW)

That's 'forelimb challenged'.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 12:59 AM (gKDq2)

341 Hi, Blonde Morticia-- you survived the scary house!

Did you find out what all the creepy noises were? And why the lights went off/on like they did?

Posted by: JQ at March 26, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

342 I have to ask a serious question: Who today knows how to even make a proper noose? Do they teach Noose Making when the lefty covens gather? If it wasn't for ginned up anti-black racism, there'd be no anti-black racism at all.
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 12:57 AM (gKDq2)

I hear when you search for “how to make a noose” Google pops up a little assistant like Clippy that says “It looks like you’re trying to commit a hate crime hoax.. would you like help buying a MAGA hat?”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 26, 2025 01:00 AM (l3YAf)

343 340 That's 'forelimb challenged'.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 12:59 AM
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{Types. Thinks better of it. Deletes.}

Good night Horde. Thanks SD. Will likely need your help tomorrow night for launch.

Posted by: TRex at March 26, 2025 01:01 AM (t/HCa)

344 I have to ask a serious question: Who today knows how to even make a proper noose? Do they teach Noose Making when the lefty covens gather? If it wasn't for ginned up anti-black racism, there'd be no anti-black racism at all.
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 12:57 AM (gKDq2)

I hear when you search for “how to make a noose” Google pops up a little assistant like Clippy that says “It looks like you’re trying to commit a hate crime hoax.. would you like help buying a MAGA hat?”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Because I'm a curious idiot, I went on a reading/study of knots last week. Not one website showed a noose. Damn that Tuco and Blondie.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 01:04 AM (41CYW)

345
Did you find out what all the creepy noises were? And why the lights went off/on like they did?
Posted by: JQ

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Heya, JQ! The noises I brushed off; the lights are haunted, that's all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 01:05 AM (5Iuq/)

346 Did you purchase them from Amazon? I bought a Seiko two years ago from Amazon and last week it stopped. Haven't called them yet. Last Seiko went 7 years before it needed a battery and it was a work watch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:06 AM (wE4lY)

347
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 26, 2025 01:00 AM (l3YAf)

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You made me LOL.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 01:06 AM (5Iuq/)

348 Good night Horde. Thanks SD. Will likely need your help tomorrow night for launch.
Posted by: TRex
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Happy to launch if needed - no promises on what it'll look like after the Horde, but I'll give it a go. G'night, TRex.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 01:06 AM (41CYW)

349 I hear when you search for “how to make a noose” Google pops up a little assistant like Clippy that says “It looks like you’re trying to commit a hate crime hoax.. would you like help buying a MAGA hat?”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 26, 2025 01:00 AM (l3YAf)

Honest to God! It's like 'The Patriot Front'. Let's act like we think MAGA acts. More projection than a multi-plex cinema.

And to think all those protests over the last decade or so have been paid for by us. It's why the MSM could not wrap their pea brains around The TEA Party. There was no head, no organization (until the grifters came along). They only had the lefty model of protests being paid for to go by. Look at Harris' campaign. Crowds of paid 'supporters' and the damn media knew it. But those huge crowds were 'organic' and prove 'she should have won'.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:09 AM (gKDq2)

350 The noises I brushed off; the lights are haunted, that's all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Hahaha! Glad you survived!

Posted by: JQ at March 26, 2025 01:11 AM (rdVOm)

351 Father taught me how to make a proper noose. All I remember is that it's supposed to break the neck not strangle and 13 turns. The placement of the knot body not the loop is important to push the head forward.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:12 AM (wE4lY)

352 A lot of 'copy, open new window' learning on Latin this evening. While you were all distracted, I ate all the donuts. RickZ, en fuego this evening - thanks for the laughs. G'night, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 01:14 AM (41CYW)

353 Father taught me how to make a proper noose. All I remember is that it's supposed to break the neck not strangle and 13 turns. The placement of the knot body not the loop is important to push the head forward.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:12 AM (wE4lY)

Pole hanging (cenral Europe) has got to be the weirdest form of hanging. It's quite literally a 'hands on' hanging. You're still dead, though.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:14 AM (gKDq2)

354 Drove through our small town very early and the only light on came from a half storefront bakery I did not know of. Stopped for a cup and a donut. The case only had a couple of trays out. One was a raised chocolate covered cinnamon roll. Two please!
Paradise!
Turns out we had an old style German baker plying his trade. I began going by mornings for some time until he sadly passed.

Posted by: Miflin at March 26, 2025 01:14 AM (aA6YN)

355 have to ask a serious question: Who today knows how to even make a proper noose?

Somewhere on my computer I have a PDF of the 1947 Army Manual for Executions. Signed off by General Eisenhower, it shows how to tie a hangman's knot, how to build a field gallows, and even has a handy chart for determining drop heights.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 26, 2025 01:17 AM (2Oj4u)

356
Pole hanging (cenral Europe) has got to be the weirdest form of hanging. It's quite literally a 'hands on' hanging. You're still dead, though.
Posted by: RickZ
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If it really comes to that, and I don't think it will, Vlad Tepes technique should be studied and used.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:18 AM (wE4lY)

357 RickZ, en fuego this evening - thanks for the laughs. G'night, Horde.
Posted by: scampydog at March 26, 2025 01:14 AM (41CYW)

Well thank you. And me without a fire extinguisher. Maybe I'll hop on the subway.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:21 AM (gKDq2)

358 If it really comes to that, and I don't think it will, Vlad Tepes technique should be studied and used.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:18 AM (wE4lY)

The Pinochet solution has a lot to recommend it, too. Bad guys just disappear, never to be seen again.

Went to the farm to play with the wild puppies, they did.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 01:21 AM (8zz6B)

359 >> Just looked up at the wall clock - decoration, it doesn't keep time worth a sh*t.

I keep the local network and my machines on it synced to UTC within 50ms (mostly). It's pretty easy to do now.

I wish they'd make some of the old electric clocks, rather than the battery powered stuff a lot of which is cheap. The old electric clocks were run by PM synchronous little motors. They kept time as well as line frequency.

The appliance clocks here, stove, microwave, and even the coffee makes are electronic, but they appear to count AC zero crossings and stay well synced. As long as Mr. Duke keeps her frequency well regulated, they keep good time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 26, 2025 01:24 AM (w6EFb)

360 If it really comes to that, and I don't think it will, Vlad Tepes technique should be studied and used.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:18 AM (wE4lY)

IMO, too messy. Just one bullet is all you need.

But public hangings have their appeal. Even if they're hanged upside down after they're already dead.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:25 AM (gKDq2)

361 To my surprise, searching for "1947 Army Manual for Executions" on DDG provided the document immediately.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 26, 2025 01:26 AM (2Oj4u)

362 339
Zeppoli di San Giuseppe (not Guiseppe)

Posted by: Ciampino - San is for Saint at March 26, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)

363 When Jim Morrison did his final oopsie or joined the Rock Star Protection Program or whatever there was some chatter of Burton Cummings joining The Doors. I bet that would have mostly worked. Apparently Cummings liked to drink too although he didn't do the dark lizard thing.

Posted by: azjaeger at March 26, 2025 01:28 AM (3/XaG)

364 HHhmmm...

I like a good hanging with a proper noose.The standard drop involves a drop of between 4 and 6 feet (1.2–1.8 m) and came into use from 1866, when the scientific details were published by Irish doctor Samuel Haughton. Its use rapidly spread to English-speaking countries and those with judicial systems of English origin.

It was considered a humane improvement on the short drop because it was intended to be enough to break the person's neck, causing immediate unconsciousness and rapid brain death.[7][8]

Posted by: Nightwatch at March 26, 2025 01:28 AM (25kuG)

365 Just an observation: Iced hazelnut coffee is the bomb.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:32 AM (gKDq2)

366 The Pinochet solution has a lot to recommend it, too. Bad guys just disappear, never to be seen again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 01:21 AM (8zz6B)

The other thing about the Pinochet soluton is that it is eco-friendly. Fishes gotta eat, too.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:34 AM (gKDq2)

367 Fishes gotta eat, too.
Posted by: RickZ
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And crabs, stuffed crabs, soft shell crabs. mmm

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:37 AM (wE4lY)

368 I feel like Miklos the other night. I could run the table.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:37 AM (gKDq2)

369 And crabs, stuffed crabs, soft shell crabs. mmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:37 AM (wE4lY)

Exactly. When I tell people I want to be dropped into the ocean wrapped in a sheet with a weight attached to sink my body, they think I'm crazy. But I figure I've eaten enough seafood in my life that I should give back.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:39 AM (gKDq2)

370 "When Jim Morrison did his final oopsie or joined the Rock Star Protection Program or whatever there was some chatter of Burton Cummings joining The Doors."

I've never heard that (not that it's false). I do have Ray Manzarek's post-Doors stuff (most of which I like) and some Krieger/Densmore which is ok. The post-Morrison Doors is, well, the band died with Morrison.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 26, 2025 01:41 AM (KAi1n)

371 Exactly. When I tell people I want to be dropped into the ocean wrapped in a sheet with a weight attached to sink my body, they think I'm crazy. But I figure I've eaten enough seafood in my life that I should give back.
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:39 AM (gKDq2)

Just tell your friends and family to be on the lookout for a lobster wearing your wristwatch like a WWE championship belt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 01:42 AM (8zz6B)

372
I've always been partial to the Casio watches. I've got some "G-shocks" that keep time pretty well. I just checked, and it's been probably over 6 months since I set two of them, and they're about 30 seconds fast. I had one that could do better than that. Depends on the model, and even particular versions within a model.

I've got an "atomic" version that I wear most of the time now. It's not as accurate as the non-atomics running on its own, depending on the NIST signal from Ft. Collins. It's error is probably 2-3 the non-atomic ones.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 26, 2025 01:44 AM (w6EFb)

373 @jeffreyatucker 10h

I could not understand why TSA employees seem so newly nice, happy, and sharp looking. Finally I just asked. Their union was summarily abolished about three weeks ago. Now they have to respond to management and customers, and can be fired!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:44 AM (wE4lY)

374 Just tell your friends and family to be on the lookout for a lobster wearing your wristwatch like a WWE championship belt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 01:42 AM (8zz6B)

I don't wear a wristwatch anymore but when you bite into your swordfish and find a pacemaker, it's me.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:45 AM (gKDq2)

375 Then there was the ARGENTINA method of cargo plane flights with the back ramp open to shove out the Govt. "dissidents" into the open ocean from altitude.

South American Politicos always were Mucho nasty..

Which is why we need to eradicate the CARTELS as a whole.
Like the Vermin they are. No mercy for them...they kill Americans with their drugs .

Soon we nuke the Chicoms. Yes.

Posted by: Nightwatch at March 26, 2025 01:46 AM (25kuG)

376
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:44 AM (wE4lY)

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It's a start. Next, let's completely revamp the TSA along the Israeli model. No stripping or frisking, just well-trained people doing the screening.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 01:47 AM (5Iuq/)

377 Well, it is getting late, and I am sleepy already. Going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2025 01:50 AM (8zz6B)

378 It's a start. Next, let's completely revamp the TSA along the Israeli model. No stripping or frisking, just well-trained people doing the screening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 01:47 AM (5Iuq/)

And the start is asking politically incorrect questions of visitors. Having training in knowing the visual clues when somebody is deceptive should also be mandatory. That is to say, we should have a professional TSA looking for bad guys not grandma in a wheelchair.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 01:51 AM (gKDq2)

379 I'm not sure if there was any actual discussions between any of the people involved but I remember reading it discussed in contemporary music articles that I read later. Not really all that far fetched as both groups were quite commercially successful. Now we tend to view the Guess Who as "pop" and the Doors as "out there" but no matter how twisted Morrison wanted to be they weren't some outsider band that didn't sell, and the Guess Who had a lot of "art" in them. Cummings waa definitely the better singer but to me the two had similar enough styles that I think it would have worked.

Posted by: azjaeger at March 26, 2025 01:53 AM (3/XaG)

380 TSA...grrr...

I had to go thru PDX in 2002, after attending Tucson Gem & Mineral Show (and purchasing a *whole bunch of* silver beads, on strands, which were in my carry-on).
Oh, yes, the alarms lit up when they x-ray'd it!

Had to stand on the footprints, heavily guarded, while they scanned me and tore everything out of my bag.

Fkers didn't even put stuff back. Oh, well... nothing dangerous... "Here. Put your stuff away." Not even an apology. Jerks.

Posted by: JQ at March 26, 2025 01:54 AM (rdVOm)

381 Had a G-Shock five alarm Hunter. It was a good watch. Can't make it with the resin band. My sweat reacts with it and you can smell it across the room after 5 hours.
I opted for a standard face with hands on the Seiko. I didn't need the extras and the hands are easier to read.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 01:58 AM (wE4lY)

382 Double check times.

Firefly Aerospace - Alpha - Message in a Booster
SLC-2W - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: March 26, 2025
Launch Time: 6:37 a.m. PDT, 1337 UTC, 14:37 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/HRtcEPYx00E
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Rocket Lab - Electron - Finding Hot Fires Near You
LS-1 - Mähia Peninsula, NZ - Space Affairs Live
Scheduled for Mar 26, 2025
Launch Date: March 27, 2025 (NZDT)
Launch Time: 04:30 NZDT - March 26, 11:30 ET, UTC 1530, 16:30 CET

https://www.youtube.com/live/cqq0Ie-xDbE

Posted by: Ciampino - time zones at March 26, 2025 01:58 AM (sPQoU)

383 I don't wear a wristwatch anymore but when you bite into your swordfish and find a pacemaker, it's me.
Posted by: RickZ
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Tic Tok, Tic Toc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 02:01 AM (wE4lY)

384 The Guess Who was my first concert. A Saturday Youth Bowling League girl who had an older brother in the league. We had to be dropped off at Scope (Norfolk) by my Mom as I wasn't old enough to drive yet. Dating as a 15-year-old.

What surprised me the most, knowing their catalogue quite well and how beautiful and moving some of the songs were, was how vulgar the lead guy, I guess Burton Cummings, was. He played a flute and at one point made a joke about only wanting a musician's flute while twirling his flute and ending up with it pointing out from his crotch. Being on my first date as a young man, I was horrified.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 02:01 AM (gKDq2)

385
Having training in knowing the visual clues when somebody is deceptive should also be mandatory. That is to say, we should have a professional TSA looking for bad guys not grandma in a wheelchair.
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I haven't traveled in or out of Israel, but as I understand it, that's exactly what it is. People who eyeball you, exchange a few words, and let you proceed or not based on a well-trained assessment of bad guys.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 02:02 AM (5Iuq/)

386 It's a start. Next, let's completely revamp the TSA along the Israeli model. No stripping or frisking, just well-trained people doing the screening.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 01:47 AM (5Iuq/)

"Thaass raycisss!" -Angry Little Black Boy

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 26, 2025 02:08 AM (2Oj4u)

387
Not even an apology. Jerks.
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I don't even hide my disgust with those people.
Them: "How are you, ma'am?"
Me: "Fine, except for this."

One Christmas, this adorable older couple all dressed up like Santa and Mrs. Claus in casual clothes were going through. He's using a cane and they tell him he's got to take off his belt. He says if his belt comes off, his pants fall down. (It was true, he had a Santa-sized belly and that belt was the only thing keeping his pants up.) They say, well, can you *hold* them up with your hand? He says it's difficult for him to hold up his pants with one hand and manage his cane with the other. They say "Well, TRY."

Absolute fvkers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 02:08 AM (5Iuq/)

388 People who eyeball you, exchange a few words, and let you proceed or not based on a well-trained assessment of bad guys.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 26, 2025 02:02 AM (5Iuq/)

Human lie detectors.

But that is my understanding of Israeli security as well. Simple but pointed questioning of individuals looking for those visual tells that are hard to hide. Maybe we need to get poker players to work for the TSA, being paid with cash bounties. The World Series of You're Not Allowed. Possibly one of those cable channels might pick it up as a reality tv show.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 02:12 AM (gKDq2)

389 >>>Being on my first date as a young man, I was horrified.
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Rightly so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 02:19 AM (wE4lY)

390 >>>Being on my first date as a young man, I was horrified.
Posted by: RickZ

Could have been worse. You could have gone to the Doors concert where Jim Morrison decided it was a good idea to remove his trousers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 26, 2025 02:22 AM (2Oj4u)

391 Kids in the Hall - Into the Doors

https://youtu.be/5xillqqt0Y0

"Doors fans aren't made, they're born!"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 26, 2025 02:33 AM (2Oj4u)

392 “This is the biggest secret Big Pharma has been trying to keep from us.”

Nicole Shanahan just exposed the truth about autism.
...I can remember a call I had with a neurologist—and I’m calling about my child, I don’t know about the politics of autism at that point...
...
...

“Could something have caused this?”

“Every doctor who is trained by the mainstream medical industry will say we don’t know what causes this, which is true.”

“The scientific community has not done the proper inquiry to figure out what causes autism.”

“Once you go there, you find RFK, and you find all those other moms who’ve been silenced over the years, and all of those doctors who’ve been silenced over the years, and all of those papers that have been redacted.”

“Then you realize, holy smokes, this is the biggest cover-up in my lifetime.”

“And somehow I’m in the middle of it all, and I found myself married to the guy who started the company that censors all of these people.”

https://tinyurl.com/2h2y3chh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 02:36 AM (wE4lY)

393 Kind of quiet in here. Did everybody steal a car, go into a pool hall and get into a fight, then check into the Morrison Hotel?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 26, 2025 02:36 AM (2Oj4u)

394 Hi, Spudboy... mostly just reading tonight, got nothing of interest to say.

Posted by: JQ at March 26, 2025 02:42 AM (rdVOm)

395 it's OK as long as the lights don't start flickering

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 02:43 AM (wE4lY)

396 393: no

(This hotel sucks. No cable and the mirror is melting, for some reason. Shouldn't have eaten that mint. )

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 26, 2025 02:43 AM (sAmhv)

397 Kind of quiet in here. Did everybody steal a car, go into a pool hall and get into a fight, then check into the Morrison Hotel?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 26, 2025 02:36 AM (2Oj4u)

It's been the 2:30 a.m. Equinox Doldrums for the last couple of weeks.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 02:44 AM (gKDq2)

398 You know you're getting old when your gummies are a vitamin.

Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2025 02:47 AM (gKDq2)

399 Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says Zelensky understands that his days are numbered, and his 'bright image' has faded.

China says it supports the efforts of the United States and Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine.
"It's necessary to create a consensus to resolve this conflict and lay the foundations of peace."

Russia says the United Kingdom is the "main instigator" of the conflict in Ukraine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 02:51 AM (wE4lY)

400 Iran unveils new underground missile city.

1:20

https://tinyurl.com/3ypvnese

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 02:58 AM (wE4lY)

401 US and Russia agree to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea, eliminate the use of force, and prevent commercial vessels from being used for military purposes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 03:00 AM (wE4lY)

402 Iran unveils new underground missile city.
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Sandrats and their tunnels... ssdd.

Posted by: JQ at March 26, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)

403 I'll leave this must watch clip as mosey on out to bed.

Jessie Lee Peterson asks, What's Wrong With Michelle Obama?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwoSvbFjDUc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 26, 2025 03:11 AM (wE4lY)

404 403: What's Wrong With Michelle Obama?
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Nothing. He's doing alright.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 26, 2025 03:51 AM (sAmhv)

405 Morning, Latin-speaking insomaniacals! Well, okay, maybe not "speaking," but "conversant with"?

I'm up early to work out. This week, my last at work, will be busy with one thing and twenty others, including bringing all my "stuff" home from the office and backing up a bunch of my personal files. I also need to remove those from my work computer and backup drive.

Next Tuesday cannot come fast enough.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 26, 2025 03:57 AM (omVj0)

406 Mooch has gone African, it's getting trendy with elite

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 03:57 AM (fwDg9)

407 .
NOOD

Pixy's here with the tech thread

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 26, 2025 04:00 AM (O7YUW)

408 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2025 04:00 AM (fwDg9)

409 Russia says the United Kingdom is the "main instigator" of the conflict in Ukraine.
Posted by: Braenyard

The Great Game continues.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 26, 2025 04:01 AM (mfgi/)

410 Best donuts ever - Spudnuts in Richland, WA.

Part potato flour.

Posted by: Whitehall at March 26, 2025 06:10 AM (+/24O)

411 I visited the Great Wall at Badaling in 2010. Yes. I was surprised at the reality of the Great Wall compared to the rather sanitized photos.

Uneven, steep, and amazingly crowded.

Posted by: Rick67 at March 26, 2025 05:30 PM (38Xd9)

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