Mid-Morning Art Thread

Dans un café
Edgar Degas

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 kool

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

3 They both stink.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Playing with the green fairy, I see.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

5 The Absinthe Drinker
Edgar Degas
Original Title: Au Café (l'Absinthe)
Date: 1876; France
Style: Impressionism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Dimensions: 92 x 68 cm

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

6 Yesterdays tits are better than today's.

Especially since it seems she has none.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

7 The stock ticker is just out of the frame

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (hYofv)

8 I didn't realize Degas was watching me last night.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (ftFVW)

9 Whom among us hasn't taken what you can get at Closing Time?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

10 She seems Down's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

11 I knew it had to be the Frogs!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

12 She's thinking "if he says something about tariffs again I'll fucking stab him with this spoon."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (ExV1e)

13 I need 2 more of these if I have to bang this dude again.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

14 Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (/tzYP)

15 Both people in the painting are thinking: "How did I end up with this loser? My life sucks."

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (xCA6C)

16 She has some very interesting shoes. She's too zonked to know that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (Hpgos)

17 Well, they don't look happy. I guess absinthe doesn't make the heart grow fonder.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (WPL6O)

18 Reflecting on her poor choices in life, no doubt.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (Aqu9a)

19 The girls all get prettier at absinthe time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

20 Where are the ballerinas?

Posted by: dantesed at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

21 She has the thousand-yard stare but she is not yet in rags. I imagine her husband has not succumbed to the same vice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (WkNQM)

22 She needs some ballet slippers.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

23 Yep.
That's about how I feel right now. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (Cki93)

24 Well, they don't look happy. I guess absinthe doesn't make the heart grow fonder.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (WPL6O)
++++
:: groan ::
:: quiet applause ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (WkNQM)

25 She looks bummed

No wonder, considering the schlub sitting next to her
he must be quite malodorous

no hang

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (AOsQT)

26 Waffle House. The early years.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (Y3I09)

27 Looks unhappy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

28 This was presented before ?

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (g47mK)

29 No dog. Not art.

Posted by: torabora at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (U4cfm)

30 Go out on this blind date, my friends said. How bad could it be, they said. I'm going to kill them.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (xCA6C)

31 She had high hopes for her blind date. Sadly, she got a bum.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

32 What next?

The Absinthe Minded Perfessor?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (ky0NK)

33 This art is genius. There's really only one person...the lady before drinking absinthe, and the lady after drinking it.

Stop it. Get some help. Don't do absinthe, kids.

Posted by: Michael Jordan at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)

34 Whom among us hasn't taken what you can get at Closing Time?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

You've heard my hit song?

Posted by: Zombie Mickey Gilley at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (Aqu9a)

35 The woman looks like she's thinking "this blind date with a hobo sucks"
Thx CBD, would hang , like the pale colors and the shadows

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (7A/rN)

36 No wonder, considering the schlub sitting next to her
he must be quite malodorous
------------
Well, its France.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (Hpgos)

37 The Absinthe Drinker

I should have had a V8!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (t0Rmr)

38 Alternate title: Stock Traders

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (jc0TO)

39 I thought Malodorous was a Marvel villain, now, undoubtedly, rewritten as gay??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 09:35 AM (/tzYP)

40 Waffle House. The early years.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (Y3I09)
++++
Except for the lady's standard of dress, it could simply be called "Waffle House: 3:00 AM, Friday."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:35 AM (WkNQM)

41 I've never had absinthe. I've never heard anything good about it, so I don't really care to try it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

42 I should have had a V8!
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (t0Rmr)
++++
Never had that many versions.

Posted by: Wernher von Braun at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (WkNQM)

43
You drink your cares away
to pass the time of day
then along comes Debbie Downer

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

44
I should have had a V8!

Posted by: 18-1

===

There's no replacement for displacement

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (hYofv)

45 This painting shows the worst happy hour ever.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (TJLr1)

46 @31 Horde mind

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (7A/rN)

47 I thought Malodorous was a Marvel villain, now, undoubtedly, rewritten as gay??

Don't worry comrades...I will save you from Malodorous!

Posted by: Captain Lume at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (t0Rmr)

48 I think the woman just modeled for Degas, she was not really drunk on absinth.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)

49 She does not look like she's enjoying the experience.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (7fElN)

50 The just heard how, one day, tariffs will end the world.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (Y1sOo)

51 I've never had absinthe. I've never heard anything good about it, so I don't really care to try it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
I think the real stuff - the stuff with actual brain poison in it (wormwood extract, maybe?) - is still illegal in the US.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (WkNQM)

52 Alternate title:

"In Which Marie and Jean-Paul Learn That There is In Fact No Green Fairy and That Absinthe Tastes Like Licorice Gum Drops"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

53 @30 Horde mind

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (7A/rN)

54 She needs some ballet slippers.
--------
She's sad because she was tossed from the ballet school when she got too fat, having put on 0.75 kilos over Christmas.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (/tzYP)

55 Where are the ballerinas?
Posted by: dantesed

A drunk stumbles into a bar and sees a woman with her arm raised, revealing a particularly hairy armpit. In his stupor, he squints and slurs, "Well, look at that! A ballerina with her leg up!" The bartender leans over and says, "Buddy, that’s no ballerina—that’s just Mabel, she hasn’t shaved since the Nixon administration!"

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (cYBz/)

56 True ! "The models used in the painting are Ellen Andrée, an actress who also appeared in Édouard Manet's paintings Chez le père Lathuille and Plum Brandy, and Marcellin Desboutin, a painter and etcher. The café where they are taking their refreshment is the Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes in Paris."

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (g47mK)

57 DNC headquarters after Trump won.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (xCA6C)

58 She had high hopes for her blind date. Sadly, she got a bum.

Hey its no picnic for me either - I've got bigger boobs then she does!

Posted by: The bum in question at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (t0Rmr)

59 This art is genius. There's really only one person...the lady before drinking absinthe, and the lady after drinking it.

Stop it. Get some help. Don't do absinthe, kids.
Posted by: Michael Jordan at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (JCZqz)
---
Absinthe is bad...m'kay?

Posted by: Mr. Mackey at April 04, 2025 09:38 AM (7fElN)

60 There's no replacement for displacement
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (hYofv)
++++
Heh. I can't believe I've never heard that one before.

Right up there with "the solution to pollution is dilution" (enrage your environmentalist friends with that one) and "quantity is a quality of its own."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:38 AM (WkNQM)

61
There's no replacement for displacement
Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 09:36 AM (hYofv)

MOAR POWER!!!!!

Posted by: Jeremy Clarkson at April 04, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

62 There is In Fact No Green Fairy
_____

Hey, my policies were green!

Posted by: Pete Buttegieg at April 04, 2025 09:38 AM (Dv3i1)

63 She had high hopes for her blind date. Sadly, she got a bum.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Ah, yes. The old "drink yourself blind" date.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:39 AM (WkNQM)

64
Chez le père Lathuille -->

https://tinyurl.com/47t2d8xk

She is good actress!

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:39 AM (g47mK)

65 They just looked at their 401k.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

66 >>What next?
The Absinthe Minded Perfessor?!

Top Gin

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:39 AM (Cki93)

67 Thujone free absinthe is legal in the US. This one is a ketone that comes from wormwood. Most be below 10 mg to be legal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 09:40 AM (7A/rN)

68 Chez le père Lathuille -->

https://tinyurl.com/47t2d8xk

She is good actress!
Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:39 AM (g47mK)

The flared nostrils are a turnoff......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

69 Is that CBD to her left?

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

70 The art...

That lady's thought bubble:
"He was so dashing and charming. He made this all sound like a wonderful romantic adventure! And now... He's a slob and I need absinthe to get through another miserable day."

Bartender! Another round toot sweet!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 09:41 AM (4XwPj)

71 I've never had absinthe. I've never heard anything good about it, so I don't really care to try it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
I think the real stuff - the stuff with actual brain poison in it (wormwood extract, maybe?) - is still illegal in the US.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:37 AM (WkNQM)

Nah.

Since 2006 or 07, you can buy Absinthe with the chemical "Thujone" (wormwood) in your absinthe in the US.

Quality varies wildly though. Expect to pay a pretty good price for the real thing from France.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 09:41 AM (iJfKG)

72 I have an unopened absinthe in the pantry somewhere.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2025 09:41 AM (lTGtQ)

73 >>There is In Fact No Green Fairy

https://tinyurl.com/3jbb9x67

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (Cki93)

74 I guess absinthe is better than drinking achewood. Reading Achewood, however, was a great experience.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (WPL6O)

75 That's odd.

The sniper is the Green Fairy.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (PzXaK)

76 I see CBD is acquainting us with the underbelly of life in Gay Paree.

Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

77 Love this painting by HTL.

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (ZiwLX)

78 I vaguely recall reading that people weren't getting rocked off of the hallucinogen aspect of absinthe but just the normal alcohol.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (t0Rmr)

79 Zonked! was a 1997 studio album by Dee Dee Ramone. Featured guest appearances by Joey Ramone, Daniel Rey, and Cramps front man Lux Interior. Give it a spin!

Posted by: Better Than Zonked in Paris at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (G5+As)

80 I'll stick with ouzo, thanks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (kgE5c)

81 I see CBD is acquainting us with the underbelly of life in Gay Paree.
Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

He's giving opportunity to live vicariously.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

82 damn, Degas....got that wrong. Must have been the absinthe

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (ZiwLX)

83 Quality varies wildly though. Expect to pay a pretty good price for the real thing from France.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 09:41 AM (iJfKG)
++++
That is how it tends to go with French things.

The French truly understand - and embrace, for better or worse - the axiom that things priced by the ton are simply less exciting than things priced by the gram.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (WkNQM)

84 I want to go somewhere nice, fancy. He only ever takes me to the Winchester.

Posted by: Girl in Painting at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (Aqu9a)

85 I'll stick with ouzo, thanks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (kgE5c)

You asked for it.........sort of.......

https://youtu.be/Xwc_XAryLlg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

86 There is In Fact No Green Fairy

https://tinyurl.com/3jbb9x67/i]

Still can't believe Michelle Trachtenburg died - she the pretty young woman in that clip.

Its one thing to see celebrities older then you dying...another when the younger ones go. But I suspect since most of them too the clot shot it is about to be a common occurrence now...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 09:44 AM (t0Rmr)

87 MOAR like Kamala voter ... am.I.right?

Posted by: Marooned at April 04, 2025 09:44 AM (kt8QE)

88 I'll stick with ouzo, thanks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:43 AM (kgE5c)
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You can have mine. I used to like it.

Then, about 15 years ago, I had a night involving poor decisions around a very large bottle of Jagermeister. Anything with that scent profile now makes my stomach churn. If I smell it - or ouzo - I feel like I'm gonna hurl.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:44 AM (WkNQM)

89 The sniper is the Green Fairy.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

If you're seeing wee snipers in your drink, it's time to stop.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 09:45 AM (ftFVW)

90 I had a night involving poor decisions around a very large bottle of Jagermeister.

I think I see the problem........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

91 Absinthe has a strong black licorice flavor. It's very good as a small addition to cocktails, but I can't imagine drinking it straight.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (xCA6C)

92 >>That lady's thought bubble:
"He was so dashing and charming. He made this all sound like a wonderful romantic adventure! And now... He's a slob and I need absinthe to get through another miserable day."

What, did you think he would whiskey away from your humdrum life?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (Cki93)

93 Then, about 15 years ago, I had a night involving poor decisions around a very large bottle of Jagermeister.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:44 A

Opening it was probably the first one.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (kgE5c)

94 Absinthe has a strong black licorice flavor. It's very good as a small addition to cocktails, but I can't imagine drinking it straight.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (xCA6C)

Ewwwww........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

95 What, did you think he would whiskey away from your humdrum life?

She was just look for rum and excitment

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (t0Rmr)

96 There is In Fact No Green Fairy

https://tinyurl.com/3jbb9x67
Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:42 AM (Cki93)

RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (MGB5H)

97 Opening it was probably the first one.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (kgE5c)
++++
LOL

I used to genuinely *like* the stuff. That is what led to the indiscretion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (WkNQM)

98
The French truly understand - and embrace, for better or worse - the axiom that things priced by the ton are simply less exciting than things priced by the gram.

I suspect The Paolo will have something to say about that.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (xCA6C)

99 Ouzo, and its Turkish version raki, is disgusting. Licorice, yech.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

100 That lady's thought bubble:
"He was so dashing and charming. He made this all sound like a wonderful romantic adventure! And now... He's a slob and I need absinthe to get through another miserable day."

"Next time I see Suzi, I'm kicking her ass."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

101 Monty to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (4v+EO)

102 Ah, yes, the merry cafe scene.

The one benefit of thujone in wormwood is that it kills internal parasites

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (D7oie)

103 >>She had high hopes for her blind date. Sadly, she got a bum.

He's thinking: Shoulda picked Brandy, she's a fine girl. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:48 AM (Cki93)

104 She was just look for rum and excitment
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM

I'm sure the surprise sodomy and lash weren't quite the excitement she was looking for.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

105 I used to genuinely *like* the stuff. That is what led to the indiscretion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (WkNQM)

Same I used to actually drink it on the rocks when I was a yute. Not just shots, and I refused to mix it with Red Bull.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (MGB5H)

106 74 I guess absinthe is better than drinking achewood. Reading Achewood, however, was a great experience
_____

The Paolo, despite what you may expect, has not experienced such a thing, this so called achewood.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (Dv3i1)

107 One of the things I like about this work is how unbalanced it is. Most of the "stuff" is on the right. The two figures weigh that side down more than the left which only has empty tables and benches. The woman *looks like* she's in the center but she's not. She's just off-center. The man is cropped. This extreme off-centered cropping was a fixture in photography, which Degas also practiced. Degas and many of the Impressionists thought this compositioning made their work feel more spontaneous and authentic. Here, the off-centeredness could represent how hammered the couple are, especially the woman. She's barely holding it together. I've heard absinth is extremely potent and highly addicting. If she were to get up now, the room would be spinning. She would have a hard time focusing and walking. I think Degas captured that experience perfectly here.

Posted by: Kris at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (EwaUh)

108 I'm sure the surprise sodomy and lash weren't quite the excitement she was looking for.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)
++++
Don't bet on it.

Posted by: International Sisterhood of Sodomizers and Dominatrices Local 440 at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (WkNQM)

109 You can have mine. I used to like it.

Then, about 15 years ago, I had a night involving poor decisions around a very large bottle of Jagermeister. Anything with that scent profile now makes my stomach churn. If I smell it - or ouzo - I feel like I'm gonna hurl.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Did that with rotgut whiskey when I was 16. It was forty years before I could smell bourbon without throwing up.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (ejfFE)

110 There's a frowsy gentility to the absinthe drinkers that our modern meth enthusiasts simply don't project.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (kpS4V)

111 >>What, did you think he would whiskey away from your humdrum life?

>>She was just look for rum and excitement

Gin up a little adventure?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:50 AM (Cki93)

112 I like black licorice. Which reminds me.... It's jelly bean season!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 09:50 AM (4XwPj)

113 Looks like absinthe plus PMS. You just don't talk to women in that state of mind. Man is smart. He's keeping his distance.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (g8Ew8)

114 There's a frowsy gentility to the absinthe drinkers that our modern meth enthusiasts simply don't project.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (kpS4V)
++++
"The *real* problem with tweakers is aesthetic" was *not* on my bingo card. Well done, Eris!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (WkNQM)

115 There's a frowsy gentility to the absinthe drinkers that our modern meth enthusiasts simply don't project.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

It's the lack of fancy hats, I'm sure.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (ftFVW)

116 She just read about Trump's tarifs. Has the sads.

Posted by: Francis at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (bbuBP)

117 I'm sure the surprise sodomy and lash weren't quite the excitement she was looking for.

Why would you say that?

Posted by: The average 50 shades of gray reader at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (t0Rmr)

118 50 The just heard how, one day, tariffs will end the world.
-----------
This is gonna be much worse than the Y2K Bug.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (Hpgos)

119 I like black licorice. Which reminds me.... It's jelly bean season!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 09:50 AM (4XwPj)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (Aqu9a)

120 Looks like absinthe plus PMS. You just don't talk to women in that state of mind. Man is smart. He's keeping his distance.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2025 09:51 AM (g8Ew

++++
Little known fact: the liquid base in Midol gelcaps is absinthe!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:52 AM (WkNQM)

121 Doesn't look like the absinthe drinking made her very happy, or more likely she was drinking to dull her pain. Sad little face.

I like the contrasting dull colors in the painting though.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 09:52 AM (JfNRv)

122 This really is a sad painting. She looks utterly defeated.

Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2025 09:52 AM (lJ0H4)

123 She's thinking, "I blew him and all I got was this lousy drink!"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 09:52 AM (ejfFE)

124 Gin up a little adventure?

Oh for goodness sake. Stop with these puns or I'll wine about it more!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (t0Rmr)

125 Then, about 15 years ago, I had a night involving poor decisions around a very large bottle of Jagermeister. Anything with that scent profile now makes my stomach churn. If I smell it - or ouzo - I feel like I'm gonna hurl.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
---------------
Jägermeister looks like Anti Freeze.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (Hpgos)

126
Did that with rotgut whiskey when I was 16. It was forty years before I could smell bourbon without throwing up.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (ejfFE)

I did that with Jack Daniels one year. I was 19 or 20.....stopped at 13 shots, then started counting bubbles in the bottle while turned up......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

127 Absinthe has a strong black licorice flavor. It's very good as a small addition to cocktails, but I can't imagine drinking it straight.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (xCA6C)

Ewwwww........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

The Drinking of Absinthe is the French Cultural Equivalent to the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Only with more hangovers and vomitting.

But, yeah, you don't drink Absinthe straight, there's a whole little routine to go through with specialized gizmos, if you want to do it right.

Makes a pretty good warm summer afternoon quaff.

Still, as stated by Archy above, its best use is in classic cocktails from the 20s-40s. Makes a YUGE difference in something like the "Corpse Reviver #2"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (iJfKG)

128 I'm sure the surprise sodomy and lash weren't quite the excitement she was looking for.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

I mean.... She knows if she misbehaves her daddy Dom will punish her but she does it anyway so....

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (4XwPj)

129 There's another big drop in the Dow today. It's starting to look like a genuine correction, or possibly just panic at the thought of Trump's tariffs.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (xCA6C)

130 Posted by: Kris at April 04, 2025 09:49 AM (EwaUh)

Thanks for the interesting and helpful analysis, Kris.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (JfNRv)

131 This was presented before ?

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (g47mK)

Nope.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (L5An7)

132 Doesn't look like the absinthe drinking made her very happy, or more likely she was drinking to dull her pain. Sad little face. ...
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 09:52 AM (JfNRv)
++++
Absinthe is on both the supply *and* demand sides of the misery market.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:54 AM (WkNQM)

133 When you want in her ass cuz it likely smells better.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

134 >>She just read about Trump's tarifs. Has the sads.

Last week it was Mezcal and immigration protests.
Next, it will be. . . ?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:54 AM (Cki93)

135 Ouzo, and its Turkish version raki, is disgusting. Licorice, yech.
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

It is not liquorice, it is anise, and it is also in Aguardiente. It is what makes it "louche" turn cloudy when you add cold water to it.
I like it, though I admit the anise is only added to kill the taste of the cheap liquor. Bad anise liquor is slightly yellow, since if you just macerate the anise seed it will impart a yellow tinge, high end oil is steam extracted.

I used to macerate anise and star anise in cheap rum because I liked to add it to my pie crust dough, it flavored it for fruit pies, and it evaporated leaving the crust just a little bit more light than you would expect.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 09:54 AM (D7oie)

136 I have a bottle of absinthe in the garage. Cuz you never know when you'll need it!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 04, 2025 09:54 AM (kpS4V)

137 I like black licorice. Which reminds me.... It's jelly bean season!
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench)

Mmmmm, licorice.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 09:54 AM (ftFVW)

138 sloe down with the booze puns

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 09:54 AM (AOsQT)

139 Ouzo, and its Turkish version raki, is disgusting. Licorice, yech.
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

My second wife first seduced me with ouzo.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2025 09:55 AM (g8Ew8)

140 ---------------
Jägermeister looks like Anti Freeze.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (Hpgos)

Tastes like Nyquil.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:55 AM (Zz0t1)

141 My hurl response to anise-affiliated drinks notwithstanding, I actually like licorice and anise-flavored candies and whatnot It's just in drink form that I can;t bear it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 09:55 AM (WkNQM)

142 There's a season for jelly beans?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

143 She doesn't seem to notice she's sitting next to a pig-man. A PIG-man, Jerry!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (LxER7)

144
🎵 Ta riff don't like it

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (AOsQT)

145 @129

>>There's another big drop in the Dow today. It's starting to look like a genuine correction, or possibly just panic at the thought of Trump's tariffs.

Generally speaking, it's mostly profit taking at this point as none of Trumps actions and any results have gone through the system at this point, we are essentially, we're not even at the end of the beginning stages.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (XV/Pl)

146 >>Which reminds me.... It's jelly bean season!

Jelly bellies FTW!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (Cki93)

147 140 ---------------
Jägermeister looks like Anti Freeze.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (Hpgos)

Tastes like Nyquil.
-----------------
Nyquil versus Tussen. Death Match.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (Hpgos)

148 I like it, though I admit the anise is only added to kill the taste of the cheap liquor.

You don't want cheap liquor with a bad taste? You need to buy your corn likker from a guy named bubba that reads at a third grade level and hasn't left the holler in four years.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (ejfFE)

149 The Dow drop is being led by Boeing and Caterpillar, both of which have big overseas sales, so they'll be hurt the most by tariffs and the response to them.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (xCA6C)

150 Anything with that scent profile now makes my stomach churn. If I smell it - or ouzo - I feel like I'm gonna hurl.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

====

An appropriate style guide -

"X years ago, I lost an argument with Name of Alcohol"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (hYofv)

151 Degas works are interesting because his focus was mainly on the other side of entertainment and the night out. While he did use models sometimes, many works are candid and spontaneous. That was one of the main goals of Impressionism.

Posted by: Kris at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (EwaUh)

152 "How did I get stuck with this loser?"

Posted by: javems at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (bHTuV)

153 So if you are a Chinaman are you buying this drop or selling into it?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (Hpgos)

154 Jelly bellies FTW!!
Posted by: Lizzy

*fistbump*
-- Zombie Ronald Reagan

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

155 The Dow drop is being led by Boeing and Caterpillar, both of which have big overseas sales, so they'll be hurt the most by tariffs and the response to them.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (xCA6C)

Yesterday was Nike and Apple.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

156
I was on Crete a few times, working for Mother Green
tried ouzo
it was not good

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 09:58 AM (AOsQT)

157 Dang, my dog's effluvia is making my eyes water.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:58 AM (xCA6C)

158 There's a season for jelly beans?

Posted by: Sponge

===

No. Just . . . no

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 04, 2025 09:58 AM (hYofv)

159 139 Ouzo, and its Turkish version raki, is disgusting. Licorice, yech.
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

I always thought it tastes like Kaopectate-Paragoric - nasty medicine for stomach upset. I don't want to drink something like that for fun!

Posted by: Moki at April 04, 2025 09:59 AM (wLjpr)

160 The Absinthe Drinker
Edgar Degas

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

On Indigestion

There once was a lovely French lass
Who dined on a ten-day-old bass
"I'm burping and bloated,"
She loudly emoted,
"I have a bad case of de gas!"

Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 09:59 AM (/iMjX)

161 >>She's thinking, "I blew him and all I got was this lousy drink!"

Didn't appreciate the shnappy seconds!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 09:59 AM (Cki93)

162 Worst blind date evah (the painting).

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 04, 2025 09:59 AM (LPS7w)

163 gum drops > jelly beans

both are good tho

Posted by: Kris at April 04, 2025 09:59 AM (EwaUh)

164 There's another big drop in the Dow today. It's starting to look like a genuine correction, or possibly just panic at the thought of Trump's tariffs.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (xCA6C)

The explanation I heard is that it is expected to hit the margins the companies run on. The markets were overvalued to begin with, which was nice to have, but these things do end.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 10:00 AM (D7oie)

165 I always thought it tastes like Kaopectate-Paragoric - nasty medicine for stomach upset. I don't want to drink something like that for fun!
------------
For stomach upset I find pickles, raw turnips, carrots and celery do the trick.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:00 AM (Hpgos)

166 It's also Peeps season. *hurl*

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

167 There's another big drop in the Dow today. It's starting to look like a genuine correction, or possibly just panic at the thought of Trump's tariffs.

Posted by: Archimedes

It's an overreaction by people who listen to too many 'experts'. That being said, the market was way overvalued. Even industrial stocks have very high PE ratios.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2025 10:00 AM (lTGtQ)

168
Didn't appreciate the shnappy seconds!

Creme de menthe > Creme de bum

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (t0Rmr)

169 By Monday the bargain hunters will swoop in to Wall Street. This drop won't last another week.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (g8Ew8)

170 Generally speaking, it's mostly profit taking at this point as none of Trumps actions and any results have gone through the system at this point, we are essentially, we're not even at the end of the beginning stages.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (XV/Pl)

Yeah, I suspect we will see a rather dramatic dip in all American stocks.

That's where the parked inflation money and foreign money is right now. The rats will be scrambling to get their money out as supply chains adapt to these tariffs.

We need to get it out of our minds that the NYSE reflects the US economy. It doesn't. I don't know what percentage of money in the stock market is foreign (and there's no easy to way to know, since a lot of the money goes through US brokerages), but it's huge. If China has, for example, a trillion sitting in US stocks, them moving that money at all would start a sell off cascade.

Not to mention all the money printed in the last 5 years which ended up on investment banks' balance sheets -- also sitting in the stock market. That money needs to unwind, too (somewhat separate issue from tariffs, but inter-related for global companies like Blackrock)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (uCjyK)

171 She's thinking, "I blew him and all I got was this lousy drink!"

Didn't appreciate the shnappy seconds!
Posted by: Lizzy

Golf clap.
😂

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (ejfFE)

172 It's also Peeps season. *hurl*
Posted by: Bulg

The only thing Peeps are good for is blowing up in the microwave.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (ftFVW)

173 I did that with Jack Daniels one year. I was 19 or 20.....stopped at 13 shots, then started counting bubbles in the bottle while turned up......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM

And then there was the infamous "Sponge Bro Incident" of 2023 which will live in Hordelore.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (kgE5c)

174 She had high hopes for her blind date. Sadly, she got a bum.
Posted by: redridinghood

Use of the term "bum" is known to the State of California to cause cancer. Alternative, health-positive terms such as "unhoused, chemically dependent, neurodivergent persons" are preferred.

Posted by: State of California Hate Crime Legislation at April 04, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

175 I think marshmallow is a thing you like when you're a kid

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 10:02 AM (AOsQT)

176 ------------
For stomach upset I find pickles, raw turnips, carrots and celery do the trick.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:00 AM (Hpgos)

Now you're just being mean!!!

And you've ruined my breakfast!!!

Posted by: Moki at April 04, 2025 10:02 AM (wLjpr)

177 The only thing Peeps are good for is blowing up in the microwave.
Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM

Years ago MKH used to do a video she called "The Week in Peeps". That was good for a chuckle.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 10:02 AM (kgE5c)

178 >>She's thinking, "I blew him and all I got was this lousy drink!"

The absinthe isn't that great either.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 10:02 AM (B9Prs)

179 166 It's also Peeps season. *hurl*
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

Don't know if they still do but the WaPo style section used to have an annual Peeps-diorama competition. Some of the entries were durn clever. About the only real use for Peeps I've ever seen.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (LxER7)

180 She's thinking, "I blew him and all I got was this lousy drink!"

Didn't appreciate the shnappy seconds!
Posted by: Lizzy

She didn't enjoy the Sloe Screw Up Against The Wall.

(Sloe Gin Fizz & Harvey Wallbanger)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (ejfFE)

181 The market is dropping fast.

*waits*

waits*

*checks board* *no buyers*

*waits* *shouts bid*

Buy Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice!

*pandemonium erupts in trading pit*

Posted by: Trading Places at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (Aqu9a)

182 There's a season for jelly beans?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes. They must be picked at peak ripeness or the flavors will be dull. This generally occurs approximately two weeks before Easter. Most people do not know that this is why jelly beans are associated with Easter. It's the time when the freshly picked beans are at their best.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (4XwPj)

183 You don't want cheap liquor with a bad taste? You need to buy your corn likker from a guy named bubba that reads at a third grade level and hasn't left the holler in four years.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM (ejfFE)

around here it is "one of the old Russian farmers" and to be sure, most of them care about the end product far more than Val-U-Rite International S.A. ever did.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (D7oie)

184 It's also Peeps season. *hurl*
Posted by: Bulg

The only thing Peeps are good for is blowing up in the microwave.
Posted by: She Hobbit

We had a Peeps fight in the dorm one Easter. Slightly stale Peers make good projectiles.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

185 Someone has been enjoying the museums of Paris!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (ukV97)

186
Creme de menthe + Ripple = Cripple

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (AOsQT)

187 For stomach upset I find pickles, raw turnips, carrots and celery do the trick.
Posted by: Pudinhead

It gets everything inside...

outside.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:04 AM (ejfFE)

188 172 It's also Peeps season. *hurl*
Posted by: Bulg

The only thing Peeps are good for is blowing up in the microwave.
-----------------
There's a Peeps Co Store at National Harbor in MD. I looked around and they only sell Peeps. I could not understand how only selling Peeps was a business plan.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:04 AM (Hpgos)

189 161 >>She's thinking, "I blew him and all I got was this lousy drink!"

Didn't appreciate the shnappy seconds!
Posted by: Lizzy

I've never had absinthe, but it's telling she's not drinking it to get the bad taste out of her mouth.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 04, 2025 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

190 There's a season for jelly beans?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
For everything there's a season...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:04 AM (WkNQM)

191 I really do hope the bast majority of the American population tined out the media after the never ending covid hysteria.

So little perspective by the MSM. It’s almost summer, the time when folks pay even leas attention. Hopefully we can get through the next couple of years of market and economic corrections and out the other side. We cannot continue on the road we were on 6 months ago.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2025 10:04 AM (vOH33)

192 >>She didn't enjoy the Sloe Screw Up Against The Wall.

It was Sake for both of them. Womp, womp!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 10:05 AM (Cki93)

193 Generally speaking, it's mostly profit taking at this point as none of Trumps actions and any results have gone through the system at this point, we are essentially, we're not even at the end of the beginning stages.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2025 09:56 AM (XV/Pl)

Yeah, I suspect we will see a rather dramatic dip in all American stocks.

By Monday the bargain hunters will swoop in to Wall Street. This drop won't last another week.

Welp, I'm glad we cleared that up.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 10:05 AM (xCA6C)

194 Absinthe has a strong black licorice flavor. It's very good as a small addition to cocktails, but I can't imagine drinking it straight.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 09:46 AM (xCA6C)

It's in the Sazerac as a rinse.

Posted by: javems at April 04, 2025 10:05 AM (bHTuV)

195 I think marshmallow is a thing you like when you're a kid
Posted by: Don Black

Ew, not even then.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 10:05 AM (ftFVW)

196 Creme de menthe + Ripple = Cripple

Posted by: Don Black

Creme de menthe's only purpose is to be an ingredient in mint chocolate chip ice cream.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (lTGtQ)

197 For stomach upset I find pickles, raw turnips, carrots and celery do the trick.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Ah, so you just get a serving of homemade chili then?

Posted by: Ducking for cover at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (JCZqz)

198 2.5 years from now when the next election season starts to get into swing, if things have picked up, nobody's going to remember or care that the stock market tanked for a bit at the start of the term.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (B9Prs)

199 With all Trump's deportations, who's gonna pick the jellybeans?

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (AOsQT)

200 Nyquil versus Tussen. Death Match.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 09:57 AM

Pffft! Amateurs.

- Turpin hydrate

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (kgE5c)

201 186
Creme de menthe + Ripple = Cripple
Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (AOsQT)

Our parents used to give us Creme de menthe and vanilla ice cream for dessert. It only occurred to me why after I had to deal with small kids myself.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (LxER7)

202 Creme de menthe + Ripple = Cripple
Posted by: Don Black

Grady Wilson's favorite drink. He loved him some Ripple.

(Sanford & Son)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (ejfFE)

203 "Terpin"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (kgE5c)

204 Back in Dec 2024 someone predicted a a 12 % correction from that all-time high. Just heard that since then including yesterday and today the market is down about 10% since then. I anticipate buying this pm

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (7A/rN)

205 For everything there's a season...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

One of my favorite Bible books. I should read it again this weekend.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

206 It's in the Sazerac as a rinse.

I could never stomach rinsing the glass with absinthe and then throwing it out. At the least, buy a cheap atomizer, but really, a Sazerac doesn't suffer at all from leaving the rinse in the glass.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (xCA6C)

207 170 We need to get it out of our minds that the NYSE reflects the US economy. It doesn't. I don't know what percentage of money in the stock market is foreign (and there's no easy to way to know, since a lot of the money goes through US brokerages), but it's huge. If China has, for example, a trillion sitting in US stocks, them moving that money at all would start a sell off cascade.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (uCjyK)

========

If the NYSE is a reflection of the economy, then Biden's economy was great.

Stock went up. Everyone's good, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

208 She looks miserable. Who would want to hang that?

Posted by: Case at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (OrSPY)

209 Not to mention all the money printed in the last 5 years which ended up on investment banks' balance sheets -- also sitting in the stock market. That money needs to unwind, too (somewhat separate issue from tariffs, but inter-related for global companies like Blackrock)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (uCjyK)

There are two other things, Europe is starting to implement capital control - restricting what can be withdrawn and where it can go - since they are in debt and trying to justify a European military to fight Russia, and there are a lot of questions about whether all the gold everyone says they have a claim on actually exists.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (D7oie)

210 Yesterday was Nike and Apple.

Nike: Oh no what if we lose access to 8 years olds working 12 hour shifts for 30 cents a day? How will we sell our $200 shoes????

Apple: DESIGNED IN CALIFORNIA!!!!!! (made in china)

Posted by: brak at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (jGJov)

211 If that's her date, no wonder she's drinking a Green Fairy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (/2Ls3)

212
Huh?

What do you know?

This year's specialty Peeps are-

Absinthe-flavored!!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

213 For stomach upset I find pickles, raw turnips, carrots and celery do the trick.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:00 AM (Hpgos)
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Worst. Smoothie. Ever.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (7fElN)

214 Our parents used to give us Creme de menthe and vanilla ice cream for dessert. It only occurred to me why after I had to deal with small kids myself.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Ahhhh. The old Benadryl Babysitter Gambit.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (ejfFE)

215 198 2.5 years from now when the next election season starts to get into swing, if things have picked up, nobody's going to remember or care that the stock market tanked for a bit at the start of the term.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (B9Prs)

========

"Reagan will never win reelection with an economy as bad as this."
-1981

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

216 Welp, I'm glad we cleared that up.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 10:05 AM (xCA6C)

I'm not saying it won't bounce back quickly -- I have no idea.

We're just about to witness trillions of US dollars owned by foreign companies and governments that have been sitting in US equities and bond markets (and our t-bills!) start to move if these tariffs stay in place.

What will that look like when the dust settles? I don't know. But this is not a reflection of the companies, the US economy, or anything other than a bunch of countries needing to get liquid US Dollars ASAP if these tariffs are in place.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (uCjyK)

217 Use of the term "bum" is known to the State of California to cause cancer. Alternative, health-positive terms such as "unhoused, chemically dependent, neurodivergent persons" are preferred.
Posted by: State of California Hate Crime Legislation at April 04, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)
++++
LOL.

The prop65 warnings on entire buildings and areas is one of the most hilarious visible examples of abject regulatory failure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:08 AM (WkNQM)

218 So little perspective by the MSM. It’s almost summer, the time when folks pay even leas attention. Hopefully we can get through the next couple of years of market and economic corrections and out the other side. We cannot continue on the road we were on 6 months ago.
_____

As long as we can avoid the tarrif brawls between the Yankees fans and the Blue Jay fans at the Rogers Centre.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 04, 2025 10:08 AM (Dv3i1)

219 You don't want cheap liquor with a bad taste? You need to buy your corn likker from a guy named bubba that reads at a third grade level and hasn't left the holler in four years.
Posted by: rickb223

I rate this comment as 'True'. I get a shipment of moonshine every so often from a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy. This stuff has absolutely no bite at all but somehow will make your clothes fall off and then you'll run down the street singing.

It really is that good.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 10:08 AM (cYBz/)

220 It's also Peeps season. *hurl*
Posted by: Bulg

Those things are an abomination.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 10:08 AM (4XwPj)

221 The Drinking of Absinthe is the French Cultural Equivalent to the Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Only with more hangovers and vomitting.
---------

Posted by: zombie george bush sr. at April 04, 2025 10:08 AM (/tzYP)

222 Creme de menthe + Ripple = Cripple
Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 10:03 AM (AOsQT)
++++
Bullshit. *I* invented Cripple, and it's a mix of champagne and Ripple!

Posted by: Fred Sanford at April 04, 2025 10:09 AM (WkNQM)

223 I am still pissed the giant chocolate Easter Bunnies were hollow inside.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:09 AM (Hpgos)

224 around here it is "one of the old Russian farmers" and to be sure, most of them care about the end product far more than Val-U-Rite International S.A. ever did.
Posted by: Kindltot

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:09 AM (ejfFE)

225 >>Yesterday was Nike and Apple.

Nike: Oh no what if we lose access to 8 years olds working 12 hour shifts for 30 cents a day? How will we sell our $200 shoes????

Apple: DESIGNED IN CALIFORNIA!!!!!! (made in china)

Hmmm, guess those factories INSIDE Uighur prisons may not have been such a good idea. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 10:09 AM (Cki93)

226 If the NYSE is a reflection of the economy, then Biden's economy was great.

Stock went up. Everyone's good, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (GBKbO)

Right, if we used the NYSE as a barometer, we had a great economic run during the COVID lockdowns.

In an era of the US being the world reserve currency, fiat dollars, and massive trade deficits, the US stock market is completely detached from any underlying economic reality.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:10 AM (uCjyK)

227 That gal has the look of:

"I should have demanded more than $20. Eh, it's a living. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 10:10 AM (cYBz/)

228 Oh, yes, it's ladies' night

And the feeling's right

Oh, yes, it's ladies' night

Oh, what a night (Oh, what a night)

Posted by: Kool and the Gang at April 04, 2025 10:10 AM (Aqu9a)

229 Public maceraters should be hanged!

Posted by: zombie huey long at April 04, 2025 10:10 AM (/tzYP)

230 226 Right, if we used the NYSE as a barometer, we had a great economic run during the COVID lockdowns.

In an era of the US being the world reserve currency, fiat dollars, and massive trade deficits, the US stock market is completely detached from any underlying economic reality.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:10 AM (uCjyK)

====

Obama's administration taught me that the stock market is fake and gay when it comes to actually measuring economic health.

I never forgot that lesson. A lot of people did forget that lesson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

231 It's in the Sazerac as a rinse.

I could never stomach rinsing the glass with absinthe and then throwing it out. At the least, buy a cheap atomizer, but really, a Sazerac doesn't suffer at all from leaving the rinse in the glass.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (xCA6C)

Eh,dispense with the rinse.

Just measure out a 1/4 tsp or so of absinthe and add it to the mix. Same same flavor/scentwise.

Unless you want to look all fancy and such to impresss someone, then by all means, rinse away.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 10:11 AM (iJfKG)

232 There are two other things, Europe is starting to implement capital control - restricting what can be withdrawn and where it can go - since they are in debt and trying to justify a European military to fight Russia, and there are a lot of questions about whether all the gold everyone says they have a claim on actually exists.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (D7oie)

True. There are about a million moving pieces here, we just need to ride the wave and see where it lands (or, ahem, crashes, I guess would be the appropriate word to use in this analogy)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:11 AM (uCjyK)

233 And then there was the infamous "Sponge Bro Incident" of 2023 which will live in Hordelore.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (kgE5c)

Heh. We told his daughter that story the other night......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

234 209 Not to mention all the money printed in the last 5 years which ended up on investment banks' balance sheets -- also sitting in the stock market. That money needs to unwind, too (somewhat separate issue from tariffs, but inter-related for global companies like Blackrock)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:01 AM (uCjyK)
-------------
Yep. Mopping up the Biden/Obama Syndicate's slush funds is part of the plan.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (Hpgos)

235 The woman in the painting is a Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe. Song by the band Whale

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (7A/rN)

236 She drinks because her pimp lost all of his money due to Trump's Tariffs.

Such a shame....good girl gone bad.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (R/m4+)

237 >>I never forgot that lesson. A lot of people did forget that lesson.

The same people who insisted the stories about inflation between 2021 and 2024 were overblown?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (Cki93)

238 There are two other things, Europe is starting to implement capital control - restricting what can be withdrawn and where it can go - since they are in debt and trying to justify a European military to fight Russia, and there are a lot of questions about whether all the gold everyone says they have a claim on actually exists.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (D7oie)
++++
I wonder how much gold sitting at the NY Fed, all owned by foreign governments, is actually still there.

I've been wondering that for a long time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (WkNQM)

239 Obama's administration taught me that the stock market is fake and gay when it comes to actually measuring economic health.

I never forgot that lesson. A lot of people did forget that lesson.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:11 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah. Oh well. Lots of people have the memories of gold fish. I do think a lot of that has to do with the propaganda machine. Even if they intellectually know the media is full of lying liars who lie, they still internalize the messaging for some reason.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (uCjyK)

240 Thujone free absinthe is legal in the US. This one is a ketone that comes from wormwood. Most be below 10 mg to be legal
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 04, 2025 09:40 AM (7A/rN)

--

Thujone ain't free. Twenty francs, same as in town.

Posted by: Thujone Baker at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (wzAuc)

241 I wonder how much gold sitting at the NY Fed, all owned by foreign governments, is actually still there.

I've been wondering that for a long time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (WkNQM)

Shut up, they explained.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (uCjyK)

242 I am still pissed the giant chocolate Easter Bunnies were hollow inside.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Late 60's to mid 70's were a magical time. What you saw is what you got.

That chocolate bunny? Solid. Chocolate eggs? Solid.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (ejfFE)

243
Apple: DESIGNED IN CALIFORNIA!!!!!! (made in china)
Posted by: brak at April 04, 2025 10:07 AM (jGJov)

Saw a commercial where they actually pimped "Tariff free Made in the USA!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (Zz0t1)

244 The stock market can remain irrational far longer than you can remain solvent.

Posted by: Stock Market Wisdom at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (Aqu9a)

245 237 >>I never forgot that lesson. A lot of people did forget that lesson.

The same people who insisted the stories about inflation between 2021 and 2024 were overblown?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (Cki93)

=======

The stock market always going up under Biden was partially a sign of inflation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

246 ++++
I wonder how much gold sitting at the NY Fed, all owned by foreign governments, is actually still there.

I've been wondering that for a long time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (WkNQM)

**whistles innocently**

- Simon Peter Gruber

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2025 10:14 AM (LxER7)

247 I am still pissed the giant chocolate Easter Bunnies were hollow inside.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Pfffft. You call that chocolate? It's more like brown Crisco.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 10:14 AM (xCA6C)

248 My second wife first seduced me with ouzo.
-------
She blinded me with ouzo!

Posted by: zombie dr. magnus pyke at April 04, 2025 10:14 AM (/tzYP)

249 I am still pissed the giant chocolate Easter Bunnies were hollow inside.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:09 AM (Hpgos)

They didn't used to be.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

250 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Interesting art. She looks...well...horrible. I'll tell you now, scotch makes you smile. And bier makes you laugh.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2025 10:14 AM (W/lyH)

251 One of my favorite Bible books. I should read it again this weekend.
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

I first read it at just the right time in life. It's rare that something hits so hard with Truth that there's a drastic change, but Ecclesiastes did for me.

Posted by: Kris at April 04, 2025 10:15 AM (EwaUh)

252 Oh, yes, it's ladies' night

Oh, what a night (Oh, what a night)
Posted by: Kool and the Gang

I can't think of that song without thinking of Jon Lovitz in The Wedding Singer.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 04, 2025 10:15 AM (ftFVW)

253 If five shots didn't get the taste out of my mouth a sixth won't either.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at April 04, 2025 10:15 AM (jc0TO)

254 I wonder how much gold sitting at the NY Fed, all owned by foreign governments, is actually still there.

I've been wondering that for a long time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I wonder how much Nazi gold European governments are sitting on in Zurich vaults.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:15 AM (ejfFE)

255 >>Worst blind date evah (the painting).

If only he'd been cordial. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2025 10:15 AM (Cki93)

256 They have been showing a clip of Pelosi touting what is about the same as PDT's plan concerning tariffs. One thing she showed was the number of Chinese workers supported by the US versus US workers supported by the Chinese. A more accurate comparison would be man hours. Chinese might work a 12 hour shift vs 8 for the American.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 04, 2025 10:16 AM (gm9Sb)

257 This was presented before ?

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (g47mK)

Nope.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 04, 2025 09:53 AM (L5An7)

You might not remember if you've had enough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:16 AM (ExV1e)

258 Yep. Mopping up the Biden/Obama Syndicate's slush funds is part of the plan.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:12 AM (Hpgos)

Well, it's not really slush funds in the way USAID is. The fed (under Trump 1.0, by the way) just turned on the printing presses. As they have been doing on and off since the dotcom bubble.

The money mostly ended up on the balance sheets of the banks, who in turn invested it in all kinds of things that I don't think most of us are thrilled about. Like buying up single family homes all across the country. But also, they invested it in the stock market, and of course they also loaned it out to individuals and businesses.

The banks get the "fresh" money before it's been priced in to the economy as devalued money, so they do very well every time the printing presses ramp up.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:16 AM (uCjyK)

259 Yeah. Oh well. Lots of people have the memories of gold fish. I do think a lot of that has to do with the propaganda machine. Even if they intellectually know the media is full of lying liars who lie, they still internalize the messaging for some reason.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (uCjyK)
++++
"The stock market is up, so I'm rich" is a real attitude and easy to fall into even if it isn't true.

My net worth has fallen for two consecutive months. Stocks I own are down, some of the retirement funds are down, real estate is flat or slightly down.

My cash position has improved. I have more - a little bit, but more - actual money but my net worth is down in terms that don't require scientific notation to express. I am poorer on paper, but it makes no difference in reality - at least not yet. In real terms - as in, "I need something, can I get it?" - I am slightly better off than I was at the start of the year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:16 AM (WkNQM)

260 Posted by: State of California Hate Crime Legislation at April 04, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)
++++

That is very funny. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 10:16 AM (NCT0R)

261 It really is that good.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2025 10:08 AM (cYBz/)

My brothers are affiliated with a fellow who makes moonshine. Smoothest hard liquor I've ever tried. It was only a sip. I don't drink hard liquor very often and 200 proof is a bit more than I need.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 04, 2025 10:16 AM (4XwPj)

262 I think I'll stick with scotch

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (iFTx/)

263 The stock market always going up under Biden was partially a sign of inflation.
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He did print $5T of funny money and then went to war with energy and pipelines. Pretty much the school house recipe for Inflation. He did this on day one his Residency.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (Hpgos)

264 I'll tell you now, scotch makes you smile. And bier makes you laugh.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2025 10:14 AM (W/lyH)
++++
Irish it up!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (WkNQM)

265 One of my favorite Bible books. I should read it again this weekend.
Posted by: Bulg

The song helped to popularize it.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (ejfFE)

266 Jobs report: added 225K jobs, and that is with a decline of 4,000 government jobs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (lTGtQ)

267 264 I'll tell you now, scotch makes you smile. And bier makes you laugh.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2025 10:14 AM (W/lyH)
++++
Irish it up!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (WkNQM)

=======

With scotch?

The Scots and the Irish are totally different!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

268 The stock market always going up under Biden was partially a sign of inflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

Absolutely. The inflation under Biden was great for people and companies who owned a bunch of assets and/or had a fat retirement account and were near retirement.

Of course, that was at the expense of everyone else in the US. Another massive intergenerational wealth transfer.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:18 AM (uCjyK)

269 I think I'll stick with scotch
Posted by: Elric Blade

Fist bump!
A good 18 yr old lass.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:18 AM (ejfFE)

270 With scotch?

The Scots and the Irish are totally different!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)
++++
I know, but whisky is whisky.

Posted by: Casually walks away, not looking back at the explosion at April 04, 2025 10:18 AM (WkNQM)

271 He did this on day one his Residency.

More like his Regency, with Dr. Jill, Ron Klain, and Soros as his regents.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 04, 2025 10:18 AM (xCA6C)

272 Irish it up!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Erin go braless!

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

273 Of course, that was at the expense of everyone else in the US. Another massive intergenerational wealth transfer.

You're just ungrateful. You should work harder.

Posted by: Boomers at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (jGJov)

274 Love this painting!

Added bonus: more colorful IRL

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (dCxaZ)

275 Next time, I want to try that shot drink with the whipped cream on top. I do hope it tastes better that what I've had tonight.

Posted by: Lady in Painting at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (Aqu9a)

276 Of course, that was at the expense of everyone else in the US. Another massive intergenerational wealth transfer.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:18 AM

Yep. I'm part of the luckiest generation.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (jc0TO)

277 "Reagan will never win reelection with an economy as bad as this."
-1981
====
1982 Midterms
Overall control: Democratic hold
Seats contested: All 435 voting seats
Popular vote margin: Democratic +11.8%
Net seat change: Democratic +26

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (/tzYP)

278 That chocolate bunny? Solid. Chocolate eggs? Solid.

Posted by: rickb223

The solid chocolate was a bit too much, and bland. I always liked the Cadbury Eggs...I'd imagine i was some egg-eating dinosaur, gnaw off the top, then suck out the insides.

I tried it a few years ago, and almost threw up at how disgustingly oversweet and gritty it was.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 04, 2025 10:20 AM (JCZqz)

279 270 I know, but whisky is whiskey.
Posted by: Casually walks away, not looking back at the explosion at April 04, 2025 10:18 AM (WkNQM)

=========

FIFY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

280 Oh, yes, it's ladies' night

And the feeling's right

Oh, yes, it's ladies' night

Oh, what a night (Oh, what a night)
Posted by: Kool and the Gang at April 04, 2025 10:10 AM (Aqu9a)

I prefer the Jon Lovitz version.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 04, 2025 10:20 AM (PSEDc)

281 You're just ungrateful. You should work harder.
Posted by: Boomers at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (jGJov)

Yes, yes, I'll go google what a bootstrap is, buy some if they still exist, then lift myself up by them.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:20 AM (uCjyK)

282 obligatory

https://youtu.be/kUVyOa8KROE

Posted by: Don Black at April 04, 2025 10:20 AM (AOsQT)

283 So, now that Mannix walks among us again, are we gonna get some quality Mannix babes later? He's got a lot of shortfall to make up.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

284 277 1982 Midterms
Overall control: Democratic hold
Seats contested: All 435 voting seats
Popular vote margin: Democratic +11.8%
Net seat change: Democratic +26
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (/tzYP)

=======

Well, in that case, Trump should stop trying to fix the overleveraged economy for mid-term political gain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

285 You're just ungrateful. You should work harder.

Posted by: Boomers at April 04, 2025 10:19 AM (jGJov)

hahahahaha

this Boomer is doing exactly that, I will be working until I croak.
(sorry to be such a paradigm buster)

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2025 10:21 AM (dCxaZ)

286 Yes I have seen Bernadette Peters and Bob Dylan in the same room...

Posted by: Life of Wryly at April 04, 2025 10:21 AM (1FWWQ)

287 The solid chocolate was a bit too much, and bland. I always liked the Cadbury Eggs...I'd imagine i was some egg-eating dinosaur, gnaw off the top, then suck out the insides.

I tried it a few years ago, and almost threw up at how disgustingly oversweet and gritty it was.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 04, 2025 10:20 AM (JCZqz)
++++
I loved and still love Cadbury eggs.

Unlike when I was a kid, though, there is now a very hard limit: one. One is actually just over the limit, but you can't go less than one.

One single Cadbury egg. That's it. Absolute maximum.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:21 AM (WkNQM)

288 My husband is working on taxes. Which he doesn't like to do, so he could probably use a drink, except that it is 10:00 in the morning here and he can't drink because of having gout. He also says absinthe is not good for your brain and that Lautrec
also did a picture of an absinthe drinker or drinkers.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2025 10:21 AM (kxqU/)

289 14 Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (/tzYP)

; )

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:22 AM (CQE5S)

290 Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 09:32 AM (/tzYP)

***
You thon of a Bitch

Posted by: Mike Tyson at April 04, 2025 10:24 AM (1FWWQ)

291 “ “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”

Matthew 17:25

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2025 10:24 AM (6M5My)

292 >>>I wonder how much gold sitting at the NY Fed, all owned by foreign governments, is actually still there.

It wasn't us.

Posted by: Kelly's Heroes at April 04, 2025 10:26 AM (Y1sOo)

293 Last Minute Leak @LastMinuteLeak 1h
Kremlin: there are no plans at the moment for a Trump-Putin phone call.

Kremlin, asked about rising tensions around Iran, urges restraint on all sides.

Kremlin says Russia must take extra measures to minimise negative consequences for its own economy in wake of trump tariffs and market turbulence.

zerohedge @zerohedge 3h
Russia Warns Against US Strikes On Iran Nuclear Sites: 'Catastrophic & Illegal'
catastrophic for the entire region...

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:27 AM (/tzYP)

294 Heh. We told his daughter that story the other night......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 04, 2025 10:11 AM

"You're never going to let him forget this, are you?"

"Never."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2025 10:27 AM (kgE5c)

295 Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."

Winston Churchill: "Madame,if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2025 10:28 AM (u0hLB)

296 Hasn't this been posted previously?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 04, 2025 10:28 AM (kTd/k)

297 281 You're just ungrateful. You should work harder.
Posted by: Boomers

So grateful that my parents don't act like that kind of Boomer.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (BpO1e)

298 That looks a lot like “Blind Date Not Gonna Work Out”

Posted by: Common Tater at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (IejsB)

299 zerohedge @zerohedge 3h
Russia Warns Against US Strikes On Iran Nuclear Sites: 'Catastrophic & Illegal'
catastrophic for the entire region...
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:27 AM (/tzYP)

Oh, did we decide the next war is going to be in Iran already? I didn't get the memo. I was really hoping for a more exotic location for our next military industrial complex money grabbing war.

Somewhere with jungles would switch it up a bit. Like a pacific island or somewhere in Asia.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (uCjyK)

300 What's the broken-looking thing coming in diagonally from the left edge of the image to rest on the tabletop in the foreground?

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (CQE5S)

301 That looks a lot like “Blind Date Not Gonna Work Out”
Posted by: Common Tater

Blind Date was a funny show.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

302 I think I'll stick with scotch
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM

Aged 18 years...the way I like it.

Posted by: Stiffler's Mom at April 04, 2025 10:30 AM (kgE5c)

303 It wasn't us.

Posted by: Kelly's Heroes

Now, there's a movie I need to revisit.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2025 10:30 AM (u0hLB)

304 296 Hasn't this been posted previously?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 04, 2025 10:28 AM (kTd/k)

uh-oh

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:30 AM (CQE5S)

305 Keep talkin' shit about me and you'll be out of my will. Then you'll have something to whine about.

Posted by: boomer talking to his whiny kids and grandkids at April 04, 2025 10:31 AM (Y1sOo)

306 Now, there's a movie I need to revisit.
--------------
Endlessly entertaining. Oddly, Clint Eastwood was not happy with the movie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:31 AM (Hpgos)

307 zerohedge @zerohedge 3h
Russia Warns Against US Strikes On Iran Nuclear Sites: 'Catastrophic & Illegal'
catastrophic for the entire region...
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:27 AM (/tzYP)

Oh, did we decide the next war is going to be in Iran already? I didn't get the memo. I was really hoping for a more exotic location for our next military industrial complex money grabbing war.

Somewhere with jungles would switch it up a bit. Like a pacific island or somewhere in Asia.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (uCjyK)
___________

Lan Kwai Fong

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:32 AM (iFTx/)

308 From the archives:

At the Moulin Rouge a young girl named Wanda
Hada liqueur with her good friend Rhonda
She made sounds when passing gas
Like a scooter up her ass
It's true! Absinthe makes the fart go "Honda!"

Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 10:32 AM (/iMjX)

309 Remember the Mystery Date game as a kid? This guy is who she opened up the door to. Her expression tells all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2025 10:33 AM (qBdHI)

310 What happens in Degas stays in Degas.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:33 AM (CQE5S)

311 Lan Kwai Fong
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:32 AM (iFTx/)

Hong Kong could be fun! I don't know if they have jungles though

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:33 AM (uCjyK)

312 "Reagan will never win reelection with an economy as bad as this."
-1981
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Well, in that case, Trump should stop trying to fix the overleveraged economy for mid-term political gain.
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Sorry, it seemed to me that you were saying that "Trump"/Vance would win the next presidential election with a great economy like Reagan did because e.g. the stock market drop would be temporary or necessary and I was pointing out that Reagan's "short-term pain" [that was definitely needed, I fully agree] helped the Dims in the Midterms.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:34 AM (/tzYP)

313 That looks a lot like “Blind Date Not Gonna Work Out”
Posted by: Common Tater

Blind Date was a funny show.
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

I should have auditioned for that Third Wheel show instead.

Posted by: Lady in Painting at April 04, 2025 10:34 AM (Aqu9a)

314 Great, she says, I'm sitting here drinking wormwood and this guy's gonna be thinking with his wormwood later.

Oh, and why do I have a chicken roosting on my head?

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 04, 2025 10:35 AM (NMT5x)

315 How 'bout that woman's chapeau, though, no?

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:35 AM (CQE5S)

316 Blind Date was a funny show.

--

I can't remember his name, but one of the contestants on one of those Blind Date episodes was a serial killer. He "won" the date with the girl, but behind the scenes after the show concluded, she declined to go out with him because he gave off a super creepy vibe.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2025 10:35 AM (qBdHI)

317 As long as we can avoid the tariff brawls between the Yankees fans and the Blue Jay fans at the Rogers Centre.
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Not applicable. Everyone in baseball wants to brawl with obnoxious Yankees' fans!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:36 AM (/tzYP)

318 I know this expression. I think I dated this woman's great granddaughter.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:36 AM (jc0TO)

319 Endlessly entertaining. Oddly, Clint Eastwood was not happy with the movie.

Posted by: Pudinhead

Never knew that. It's definitely one of my favorite performances of his.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (u0hLB)

320 315 How 'bout that woman's chapeau, though, no?

Impressive, but no match for the extravagant creations of the Edwardian Age.

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (dCxaZ)

321 Now, there's a movie I need to revisit.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2025 10:30 AM (u0hLB)

Last night I revisited the movie, "Tommy",

which I pretty much hated when it first came out.

Buuuut, last night I was charmed by the sheer Ken Russellness of the whole thing.

Not a great movie and pretty incoherent, but loaded to the gills with great and/or WTF? scenes. A fun watch.

Now on 4K for those who wish.

Check it out....again!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (iJfKG)

322 I can't remember his name, but one of the contestants on one of those Blind Date episodes was a serial killer. He "won" the date with the girl, but behind the scenes after the show concluded, she declined to go out with him because he gave off a super creepy vibe.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Wow, I never heard about that.

My wife and I logged a lot of time with that show when we were up late with our newborn son.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

323 I can't remember his name, but one of the contestants on one of those Blind Date episodes was a serial killer. He "won" the date with the girl, but behind the scenes after the show concluded, she declined to go out with him because he gave off a super creepy vibe.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2025 10:35 AM (qBdHI)

Those were innocent days. You won the show, and worse case scenario, you went on a date with serial killer Rodney Alcala.

Nowadays, with Naked and Afraid and 90 day fiance and Love is Blind, worst case scenario you are alone with a serial killer and get killed on camera. But, you know, think about the ratings!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (uCjyK)

324 Jobs report: added 225K jobs, and that is with a decline of 4,000 government jobs.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (lTGtQ)
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I looked at the table. Although 4k decline in FED jobs, there was an increase of 19k in state and local government jobs.

Incredible. Like parasites feeding on a new host except the new host is same old host: the taxpayer.

Posted by: WisRich at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (2MyAD)

325 314 Oh, and why do I have a chicken roosting on my head?
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 04, 2025 10:35 AM (NMT5x)

🎶 chickENS roosting on a dame-for-hire

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (CQE5S)

326 She looks like she needs a pat on the back.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (0HaGk)

327 Irish it up!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:17 AM (WkNQM)

I shall be having some Redbreast 12 this evening.

Just to be clear, the whiskey - not underage Native American bosom.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)

328 319 Endlessly entertaining. Oddly, Clint Eastwood was not happy with the movie.

Posted by: Pudinhead
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Never knew that. It's definitely one of my favorite performances of his.
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My guess is Clint hates playing the straight man in any film.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (Hpgos)

329 Impressive, but no match for the extravagant creations of the Edwardian Age.
Posted by: kallisto

Paging MP4. MP4, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

330 Nowadays, with Naked and Afraid and 90 day fiance and Love is Blind, worst case scenario you are alone with a serial killer and get killed on camera. But, you know, think about the ratings!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM

Killed and eaten, and hopefully in that order.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)

331 What's the broken-looking thing coming in diagonally from the left edge of the image to rest on the tabletop in the foreground?
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (CQE5S)

Chef's knife? Machete?

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 04, 2025 10:39 AM (NMT5x)

332 Blind Date was a funny show.

--

I can't remember his name, but one of the contestants on one of those Blind Date episodes was a serial killer. He "won" the date with the girl, but behind the scenes after the show concluded, she declined to go out with him because he gave off a super creepy vibe.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 04, 2025 10:35 AM (qBdHI)
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Didn't they all give off creepy vibes? I thought this show was 90% fake at the time, and still do. Ditto the 500 other "dating" reality shows since then.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:39 AM (iFTx/)

333 Lan Kwai Fong
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Was that Dianne Feinstein's chauffeur??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:39 AM (/tzYP)

334 The lady looks sad. Almost expressionless, but sad.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:40 AM (CQE5S)

335 Killed and eaten, and hopefully in that order.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)

Yes, that would be my preferred order as well.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:40 AM (uCjyK)

336 I shall be having some Redbreast 12 this evening.

Just to be clear, the whiskey - not underage Native American bosom.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)
++++
Tell me you're not a politician without telling me you're not a politican.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:40 AM (WkNQM)

337 ... I thought this show was 90% fake at the time, and still do. Ditto ~~the 500 other~~ "dating" ~~reality shows since then~~.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:39 AM (iFTx/)
++++
FIFY

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:41 AM (WkNQM)

338 >>>I can't remember his name, but one of the contestants on one of those Blind Date episodes was a serial killer.

I was framed.

Posted by: Rodney Alcala at April 04, 2025 10:41 AM (Y1sOo)

339 331 What's the broken-looking thing coming in diagonally from the left edge of the image to rest on the tabletop in the foreground?
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (CQE5S)

Chef's knife? Machete?
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 04, 2025 10:39 AM (NMT5x)

Above that; parallel to that, but above it. Looks like a piece of wood snapped at the end.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:41 AM (CQE5S)

340 Creme de menthe's only purpose is to be an ingredient in mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Or getting a 16 y.o. kid pretty drunk on a bus ride back from NYC to D.C. on a school Model UN field trip. (That and the two cans of beer.)

Posted by: SFGoth at April 04, 2025 10:41 AM (KAi1n)

341 She looks like tons of fun.

Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at April 04, 2025 10:42 AM (ufJfM)

342 Didn't they all give off creepy vibes? I thought this show was 90% fake at the time, and still do. Ditto the 500 other "dating" reality shows since then.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:39 AM (iFTx/)

Friend of a friend was on one of those shows. According to her, it's not ... entirely fake.

Just mostly fake. And they can do magical things with editing, which they freely do to enhance the drama.

Same with those househunter shows that used to be popular on HG TV (and maybe still are, I dont know). I had a friend who was on it a decade or so ago. Basically, they ask people who have recently bought a home to sign up for the show. As in, he and his wife already owned the house they "bought" on the show before they even submitted to be on the show. So it's real in the sense that he ended up living in the home that was on the show, but everything else (the entire premise of the show) is faked.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:42 AM (uCjyK)

343 She might be wearing house slippers.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:43 AM (CQE5S)

344 I shall be having some Redbreast 12 this evening.

Just to be clear, the whiskey - not underage Native American bosom.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:38 AM (ExV1e)
++++
Tell me you're not a politician without telling me you're not a politican.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:40 AM (WkNQM)
_________

They do make Redbreast 18, ya know

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:43 AM (iFTx/)

345 Somewhere with jungles would switch it up a bit. Like a pacific island or somewhere in Asia.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:29 AM (uCjyK)

*facepalm*

Posted by: Vizzini the Sicilian at April 04, 2025 10:43 AM (PiwSw)

346 zerohedge @zerohedge 11h
Iran Lacks The Leverage For A Fair Deal With The US
It’ll therefore either have to accept a lopsided one or prepare for a major war that it might lose...

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:43 AM (/tzYP)

347 This picture reminds me of the Hillary Clinton headquarters on election night, 2016.

That turns what is a depressing scenario into something joyous to behold.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 04, 2025 10:44 AM (G2w/T)

348 ... or maybe I've just had too much absinthe.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:44 AM (CQE5S)

349 You'd never know it, but she's a freak in the sheets.

Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at April 04, 2025 10:44 AM (ufJfM)

350 🎶 chickENS roosting on a dame-for-hire
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:37 AM (CQE5S)

Noice!

chickENS roosting on a dame-for-hire
Degas can't paint any toes
It's been said many times, many ways
Have an absinthe, and zone out the hoes

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 04, 2025 10:45 AM (NMT5x)

351 They do make Redbreast 18, ya know

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:43 AM (iFTx/)

It was a gift so I shan't complain. I don't think I've ever had Redbreast although I've only ever heard good things about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:45 AM (ExV1e)

352 I think my Old French whore is dead.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:45 AM (jc0TO)

353 349 You'd never know it, but she's a freak in the sheets.
Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at April 04, 2025 10:44 AM (ufJfM)

... and a sheikh in the frites!

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:45 AM (CQE5S)

354 I can't remember his name, but one of the contestants on one of those Blind Date episodes was a serial killer. He "won" the date with the girl, but behind the scenes after the show concluded, she declined to go out with him because he gave off a super creepy vibe.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Rodney Alcala - The Dating Game 1978

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:45 AM (ejfFE)

355 I know someone who looks a LOT like that woman, and every time I glance at the painting, I think, oh, sad.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:46 AM (CQE5S)

356 This picture reminds me of the Hillary Clinton headquarters on election night, 2016.

That turns what is a depressing scenario into something joyous to behold.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 04, 2025 10:44 AM (G2w/T)

Yeeesh, I must've had some absinthe in my orange juice this morning.

I read that as "Hillary Clinton's Hindquarters".

Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2025 10:47 AM (iJfKG)

357
Roast me, but I don't think the majority of Clint Eastwood films hold up very well.

And Eric Fleming was much better than him in "Rawhide".

Posted by: Auspex at April 04, 2025 10:47 AM (j4U/Z)

358 The best part about Blind Date was the MST-like comments they'd insert.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

359 I can't remember his name, but one of the contestants on one of those Blind Date episodes was a serial killer. He "won" the date with the girl, but behind the scenes after the show concluded, she declined to go out with him because he gave off a super creepy vibe.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Rodney Alcala - The Dating Game 1978
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:45 AM (ejfFE)

Ahhh. Those were the days.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2025 10:48 AM (g8Ew8)

360 I read that as "Hillary Clinton's Hindquarters".

Posted by: naturalfake

You & me both!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2025 10:48 AM (ejfFE)

361 hey do make Redbreast 18, ya know

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:43 AM (iFTx/)

It was a gift so I shan't complain. I don't think I've ever had Redbreast although I've only ever heard good things about it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:45 AM (ExV1e)
_______

RB12 is good stuff. I have a bottle at my place. It's my go-to Irish. I don't like any of the cheap blended Irish. They taste too bland.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:48 AM (iFTx/)

362 Roast me, but I don't think the majority of Clint Eastwood films hold up very well.
Posted by: Auspex

"Paint Your Wagon" has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

363 Same with those househunter shows that used to be popular on HG TV (and maybe still are, I dont know). I had a friend who was on it a decade or so ago. Basically, they ask people who have recently bought a home to sign up for the show. As in, he and his wife already owned the house they "bought" on the show before they even submitted to be on the show. So it's real in the sense that he ended up living in the home that was on the show, but everything else (the entire premise of the show) is faked.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:42 AM (uCjyK)
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I imagine that greatly simplifies the logistics of the "six months later, here they enjoying their decorated and moved-into home" shots...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:49 AM (WkNQM)

364 "Roast me, but I don't think the majority of Clint Eastwood films hold up very well."

You got old.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2025 10:49 AM (0HaGk)

365 362 "Paint Your Wagon" has entered the chat.
Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

=======

It's no Ballistics: Ecks vs. Sever, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

366 Yo!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (Vh9CX)

367 The Absinthe Drinker
Edgar Degas

Wait! The jpg is titled

Manet Absinthe

as in "The Absinthe Drinker" who is a guy wearing a black top hat!

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (CQE5S)

368 Hillary's hindquarters look like tapioca pudding by now.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (0HaGk)

369 I imagine that greatly simplifies the logistics of the "six months later, here they enjoying their decorated and moved-into home" shots...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:49 AM (WkNQM)

Yeah, exactly. In my friends case, he hadn't moved in yet (was having some renovations done), but I imagine a lot of the people have moved in. So I guess the producers move the peoples stuff out of the house for the "we're looking at this place" shots, then move their stuff back in for the "we love it here now" shots? I don't know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:51 AM (uCjyK)

370 wikipedia

The Absinthe Drinker is a full-length portrait of an alcoholic chiffonnier (rag-picker) named Collardet who frequented that area around the Louvre in Paris.[2] Collardet is painted in mostly brown, grey and black tones. He is standing, wears a black top hat and is wrapped in a brown cloak, like an aristocrat; he leans on a ledge with the empty bottle discarded on the ground by his feet.[3] Manet later added a half-full glass of absinthe on the ledge.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:51 AM (CQE5S)

371 Saw a speech by the EU president. If you looked for AWFL in the dictionary her pic would be there. She starts speech by saying she agrees with Trump that some
Nations don’t trade fair and she understands the need to counter this. Then spends the next 10 minutes saying how Trump is going to blow up the world with tariffs.

Bitch please.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (4La0r)

372 The Absinthe Drinker
Edgar Degas

Wait! The jpg is titled

Manet Absinthe

as in "The Absinthe Drinker" who is a guy wearing a black top hat!
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (CQE5S)

He's Satan, leading that poor young girl astray.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (g8Ew8)

373 ... he leans on a ledge with the empty bottle discarded on the ground by his feet.[3] Manet later added a half-full glass of absinthe on the ledge.
Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:51 AM (CQE5S)
++++
Reshoots aren't just a modern Hollywood thing...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (WkNQM)

374 369 Yeah, exactly. In my friends case, he hadn't moved in yet (was having some renovations done), but I imagine a lot of the people have moved in. So I guess the producers move the peoples stuff out of the house for the "we're looking at this place" shots, then move their stuff back in for the "we love it here now" shots? I don't know.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:51 AM (uCjyK)

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Michael is a part time substitute teacher. Janice sells macramé when she's not volunteering at the local botanical garden.

Their budget is $7.3 million and must be in a good school district.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

375 The local krauts told me that Jaegermeister is something that only bums and alcoholics might drink, basically. Never straight in quantity. It is intended or rightly consumed chilled, as an after dinner drink to help settle the stomach, that kind of thing. 56 herbs and spices. Medicinal. Blech.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 04, 2025 10:53 AM (IejsB)

376 362 Roast me, but I don't think the majority of Clint Eastwood films hold up very well.
Posted by: Auspex

"Paint Your Wagon" has entered the chat.
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Not to mention those Orangutan Movies. Methinks Clint was trying too hard to displace Burt Reynolds from number one action figure.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:53 AM (Hpgos)

377 ... Then spends the next 10 minutes saying how Trump is going to blow up the world with tariffs. ...
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (4La0r)
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He kinda is.

Not "blow up," exactly, but "disrupt and change radically."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 10:53 AM (WkNQM)

378 >>>or prepare for a major war.
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Which may be short and brutal.

so short the media won't have time to make a narrative stick

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 04, 2025 10:54 AM (uLhSg)

379 RB12 is good stuff. I have a bottle at my place. It's my go-to Irish. I don't like any of the cheap blended Irish. They taste too bland.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 10:48 AM (iFTx/)

I'll very occasionally have bourbon but I never drink REAL whiskeys blended. It's not a snobbish thing but they always taste muddy to me. Could be psychosomatic. Whatever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:54 AM (ExV1e)

380 Not "blow up," exactly, but "disrupt and change radically."

Given the ICC is still trying to arrest Bibi for being mean to terrorist assholes the world could use some blowing up.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 10:54 AM (2ocoG)

381 The NASDAQ has just about give up all it's gains for the last 12 months.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:54 AM (jc0TO)

382 Burt Reynolds ...talk about movies not aging well.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2025 10:54 AM (0HaGk)

383 352 I think my Old French whore is dead.
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At least, she ain't what she used to be!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:55 AM (/tzYP)

384 Their budget is $7.3 million and must be in a good school district.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

The house they end up with costs $7.7M but they could not pass up the giant oak tree in the backyard. Perfect for a tire swing he’s always wanted.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 10:55 AM (4La0r)

385 Not to mention those Orangutan Movies. Methinks Clint was trying too hard to displace Burt Reynolds from number one action figure.
Posted by: Pudinhead

"What do you know about ape movies?!"
-- Pearl Forrester

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

386 Hillary's hindquarters look like tapioca pudding by now.
Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (0HaGk)

You've turned me off tapioca forever.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 04, 2025 10:55 AM (kTd/k)

387 Hillary's hindquarters look like tapioca pudding by now.
Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (0HaGk)

Thanks for taking the hit for the rest of us. Not sure any of us were wondering though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 04, 2025 10:55 AM (ExV1e)

388 Then spends the next 10 minutes saying how Trump is going to blow up the world with tariffs.

Bitch please.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (4La0r)

She's right.

Look, this is about the worst case scenario for Europe right now. Most of Europe has been mooching off us since the Marshall Plan.

Some countries can stand on their own -- France, Germany, UK -- but it will still be a huge blow to their economy if they can't export to the US while blocking meaningful imports from the US, which is essentially what they've been doing.

And I get it. If I were in charge of Italy, for example, I don't want American companies taking over the country. I'd prefer it if some of the Italian culture (what remains of it) stays alive. Farmers, local food places, etc. etc.

Which is a totally legitimate position to hold.

The only problem I have with that as an American is that they're trying to have their cake and eat it too. Export their dry pasta to the US, but vastly limit US exports to them.

Can't have it both ways. That's very unfair to the US middle class.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:55 AM (uCjyK)

389 I just hear her thinking, "Oi 'ate licorice."

Don't know why she's English. Ask her.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2025 10:56 AM (VoAdT)

390
compare/contrast

Manet, The Absinthe Drinker (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen) = a guy standing outside in a tophat

Degas, In a Café (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) = a sad lady and a clown-looking guy sitting at a table in a bar

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:56 AM (CQE5S)

391 384 Their budget is $7.3 million and must be in a good school district.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

The house they end up with costs $7.7M but they could not pass up the giant oak tree in the backyard. Perfect for a tire swing he’s always wanted.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 10:55 AM (4La0r)

===

lol.

Perfect

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:56 AM (GBKbO)

392 You've turned me off tapioca forever.
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You don't like chunks of lumps in your Tapioca?

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 04, 2025 10:56 AM (Hpgos)

393 I started to make a 'I saw Hillary's Hindquarters open' and my mind recoiled in Lovecraftian horror.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (jc0TO)

394 Some countries can stand on their own -- France, Germany, UK -- but it will still be a huge blow to their economy if they can't export to the US while blocking meaningful imports from the US, which is essentially what they've been doing.

I think Germany's destroyed their industrial base too much to be on that list. Lots of factories fleeing because they no longer have reliable electricity.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (2ocoG)

395 Michael is a part time substitute teacher. Janice sells macramé when she's not volunteering at the local botanical garden.

Their budget is $7.3 million and must be in a good school district.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, I wonder if they fake the people's professions to make them more relatable to the audience? I don't know. Or they lie about the price of the house?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (uCjyK)

396 Without the Covid pump by the feds DJIA would be in the 30k range right now. Maybe lower. Do we want to go back to a real economy or not?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (4La0r)

397 Which may be short and brutal.
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Nasty, brutish and short?? Leave Robert Reich out of this!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (/tzYP)

398
At the Moulin Rouge a young girl named Wanda
Hada liqueur with her good friend Rhonda
She made sounds when passing gas
Like a scooter up her ass
It's true! Absinthe makes the fart go "Honda!"
Posted by: muldoon at April 04, 2025 10:32 AM (/iMjX)

Mrs.D is.pissed now. I absolutely LOL'd at the breakfast table.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (W/lyH)

399 Acres and acres of tapioca. No tan at all.

Posted by: eleven at April 04, 2025 10:58 AM (0HaGk)

400 393 I started to make a 'I saw Hillary's Hindquarters open' and my mind recoiled in Lovecraftian horror.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (jc0TO)

======

I just finished playing a game drenched in Lovecraftian horror.

Dredge.

Real good.

I prefer the bad ending. Your wife rises from the ocean as an Old One rises behind her. Everyone dies.

The good ending is only you get eaten by a giant sea monster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)

401 400

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:58 AM (CQE5S)

402 I think Germany's destroyed their industrial base too much to be on that list. Lots of factories fleeing because they no longer have reliable electricity.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (2ocoG)

Germany was -- last time I looked -- still the largest exporter in Europe.

I think they are in the process of destroying their culture that lead to them having an industrial base by importing millions of Muhammeds in to the country, but that's a different story.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at April 04, 2025 10:58 AM (uCjyK)

403 Wait! The jpg is titled

Manet Absinthe

as in "The Absinthe Drinker" who is a guy wearing a black top hat!

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (CQE5S)

Because I screwed it up!

It's fixed now...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 04, 2025 10:59 AM (L5An7)

404 Runner redeemed!

28 This was presented before ?
Posted by: runner at April 04, 2025 09:33 AM (g47mK)

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:59 AM (CQE5S)

405 403 Wait! The jpg is titled

Manet Absinthe

as in "The Absinthe Drinker" who is a guy wearing a black top hat!

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 10:50 AM (CQE5S)

Because I screwed it up!

It's fixed now...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 04, 2025 10:59 AM (L5An7)

I thought it was a test.

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 11:00 AM (CQE5S)

406 NOOD BUCK SHOTS

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2025 11:01 AM (WkNQM)

407 I started to make a 'I saw Hillary's Hindquarters open' and my mind recoiled in Lovecraftian horror.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (jc0TO)

======

I just finished playing a game drenched in Lovecraftian horror.

Dredge.

Real good.

I prefer the bad ending. Your wife rises from the ocean as an Old One rises behind her. Everyone dies.

The good ending is only you get eaten by a giant sea monster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 10:58 AM (GBKbO)
_____

You probably won't be surprised they are developing a live-action movie of it

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 11:01 AM (iFTx/)

408 The past 40 years of trade boils down to US buys the world’s stuff while funding that consumption with trillions and trillions of borrowing.

Everyone was happy. Americans got cheap shit. World got jobs.

But lie all ponzi schemes it has to collapse eventually.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 11:01 AM (4La0r)

409 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at April 04, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

410 407 You probably won't be surprised they are developing a live-action movie of it
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2025 11:01 AM (iFTx/)

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I actually had not heard that.

Could be good. Could be terrible.

I'm cautiously hopeful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 04, 2025 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

411 I think they are in the process of destroying their culture that lead to them having an industrial base by importing millions of Muhammeds in to the country, but that's a different story.

They were. They won't be. Even the big names (Siemens, BASF, BMW) have plans in progress to move production to countries where something actually happens when you flip a light switch. Anything in the EU's gonna be a lateral move at best because of the Mohammeds though.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 11:02 AM (2ocoG)

412 I think Germany's destroyed their industrial base too much to be on that list. Lots of factories fleeing because they no longer have reliable electricity.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2025 10:57 AM (2ocoG)

This. I don't think people realize just how radical the German green energy agenda has become.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2025 11:03 AM (g8Ew8)

413 That Degas painting we're looking at, up there, with that sad lady and guy sitting at a table? It's

Degas, In a Café (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 11:05 AM (CQE5S)

414 217 LOL.

The prop65 warnings on entire buildings and areas is one of the most hilarious visible examples of abject regulatory failure.

i'm surprised there's not one covering the whole state at that "agricultural inspection" station just inside the border.

Posted by: anachronda at April 04, 2025 11:09 AM (oY6Yp)

415 413 That Degas painting we're looking at, up there, with that sad lady and guy sitting at a table? It's

Degas, In a Café (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

we need sustainable art by dewind or desolar.

Posted by: anachronda at April 04, 2025 11:10 AM (oY6Yp)

416 415 413

Degas, In a Café (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

we need sustainable art by dewind or desolar.
Posted by: anachronda at April 04, 2025 11:10 AM (oY6Yp)

"De plane! De plane!"

Posted by: m at April 04, 2025 11:15 AM (CQE5S)

417 Bitch please.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 04, 2025 10:52 AM (4La0r)

That is Queen Ursula. (JD Vance is going to play George of the Jungle in this one)

Posted by: Kindltot at April 04, 2025 11:57 AM (D7oie)

418 la fee verte.

Posted by: cmeat at April 04, 2025 12:02 PM (6+aIJ)

419 Dans un café
Edgar Degas

When THAT guy is the one buying you drinks, ladies, you've hit the wall and waited too long to get married

Posted by: NSA Bob at April 04, 2025 12:15 PM (FCbAQ)

420 pelinkovac, croatian. a disturbing marriage of jagermeister and malort. would drink again.
thirty years ago we got absinthe from swiss, czech and french sources. no accoutrements; did shots. not bad. wonderful early morning motorcycle ride... kinda floaty.

Posted by: cmeat at April 04, 2025 12:36 PM (6+aIJ)

421 A painting that just screams, "How did I end up like this."

Posted by: Sixiron at April 04, 2025 03:03 PM (c4Wfm)

422 Two Cheese Burgers one with the Works and the other with Tomato and pickles two large Pepsis and two Orders of Curly Fries

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 04, 2025 05:00 PM (wGqjj)

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