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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - April 2, 2025 [TRex]

20250330-ChuckJones.jpg

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT.

[Top photo: Chuck Jones Illustration]

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A special welcome to those who have given up commenting on Ace of Spades for Lent and have assumed temporary lurker status. The rest of you know what that means. More commenting to take up the slack. Comment of the week honors are at stake.

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Rabbit seasoning (aka rabbit season, duck season):

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What's Opera, doc? (aka Kill the Wabbit):

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Duck Amuck (aka Daffy breaks the fourth wall):

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Yosemite Sam protects the Mason Dixon Line:



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Mars Ultimatum:

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Bugs meets the Tasmanian Devil:

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Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote:

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I thought I saw a Putty Tat! I did! I did saw a Putty Tat!

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One Froggy Evening (featuring Michigan J. Frog):

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What other characters should we acknowledge? Speedy Gonzales? Foghorn Leghorn? Pepe Le Pew? The Abominable Snowman? Granny?

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Mel Blanc famously gave voice to the Looney Tunes family. What a remarkable range.

Warner Brothers published this poster on his passing:

20250330-WB poster.jpg

He is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles:

20250330-MelBlanc.jpg

Here is Mr. Blanc on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson:

As the animator, Chuck Jones provided the visuals and movement to tell the story. He showed so much with such simple sketches. He has no cemetery headstone. He was cremated and his ashes spread at sea.

Here is an interview while he was still among the living.



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Who among us hasn't taken a little C4 home from work for our pup?

Army sergeant charged with taking C4 explosive to his Colorado Springs home">

Joshua King is charged with possession, use, or removal of explosive devices after his wife alleges she found a block of C4 explosive among his things. King is a sergeant in the 588th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson.

Law enforcement said his wife told law enforcement she and Joshua were going through a divorce. She said she was cleaning out the home when she found the C4 in a small wooden dresser in the garage.

His wife told investigators that he allegedly brought home the plastic explosive shortly after her father gave them a retired explosives detection canine. She said Joshua had told her not to tell anyone that he brought the C4 home from Ft. Carson. At the time, she said she didn't realize exactly what C4 was.

Investigators later spoke to another ex of King's who was living with him at a different residence.

Someone signed for the C4 at some point, so going to be some 'splainin to do. Don't think C4 is in the same category as office supplies.

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Dear Wednesday ONT readers, I give you...the Guinness World Record for the most standing jumps onto a pair of raw eggs in one minute. This one just baffles me. I don't get it, but somehow it earned a World Record?

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You knew it was coming. Ozzy Fudd for our big ONT finish:

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. Did you take a wrong turn at Albuquerque?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 02, 2025 10:00 PM (fhHcL)

2 What do we want?

When's Day ONT!

Wednes do we want it?

Right ONT!

Posted by: mindful webworker - fascinating at April 02, 2025 10:00 PM (MsUjn)

3 Back in the first place saddle again! Hey everyone, I just found out that our son and daughter-in-law are expecting our second grandchild!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 02, 2025 10:01 PM (fhHcL)

4 Dang it JohnFNot, that's pretty fast.

Posted by: mindful webworker - not really here at April 02, 2025 10:01 PM (MsUjn)

5 Back in the first place saddle again! Hey everyone, I just found out that our son and daughter-in-law are expecting our second grandchild!
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 02, 2025 10:01 PM (fhHcL)


Congratulations!

Posted by: Dr. T at April 02, 2025 10:03 PM (lHPJf)

6 I miss the Looney Toons cartoons. It still strikes me as odd that something that was so ubiquitous in my youth just basically disappeared overnight.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at April 02, 2025 10:03 PM (QdGJh)

7 Ain't I a stinker?

Posted by: Captain Ned at April 02, 2025 10:03 PM (nADdg)

8 Evening Hordemates!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2025 10:04 PM (W/lyH)

9 3 Hey everyone, I just found out that our son and daughter-in-law are expecting our second grandchild!
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry

4 Dang it JohnFNot, that's pretty fast.
Posted by: mindful webworker

Why, was the first one just born?

.....

Congrats!

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:04 PM (DgGvY)

10 Look closely at the Chuck Jones drawing up top, and you’ll see that version of Bugs actually looks a whole lot more like The Grinch, another Chuck Jones creation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2025 10:04 PM (dTleh)

11 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)

12 Looney Tunes is so appropriate for the ONT. 😸

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 02, 2025 10:06 PM (w3u3d)

13 Well, another rough evening here in the Midwest. No tornadoes right here, but plenty in my home area, just a couple of hours away.

A town just a few miles from where I grew up was basically blown away, and a cousin of mine came home to find a body in his yard.

Mother Nature, thou art a nasty old bitch.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 02, 2025 10:06 PM (lHPJf)

14 Hate that stupid bird. Did something else when the yellow flying rat came on.

Thought I saw Granny on a park bench in the Daffy/Porky movie.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)

15 Congratulations JohnFNotKerry!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)

16 Thought I saw Granny on a park bench in the Daffy/Porky movie.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Eyeing little birds with bad intent?

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

17 Hey, TRex!

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 10:10 PM (77rzZ)

18 Eyeing little birds with bad intent?
Posted by: mikeski

And to think we didn't give this lyric two thoughts back in the 70's.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)

19 Grinch was Dr. Seuss.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 02, 2025 10:11 PM (ZmEVT)

20 Mornin'

Is C4 good for killin' ground hogs? Asking for my sister.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2025 10:11 PM (G1ktt)

21 Shit just got real. Penguin shit, that is.

WarMonitor @WarMonitor3 3h
The Trump administration has put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald which has a population of 0 people and is inhabited only by penguins.

Eric @digitalgb 1h Replying to @WarMonitor3
If a territory has a country code, it gets a tariff.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcne7p3
funny thread

Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo 3h
No longer will the rapacious penguins dump their substandard goods upon unsuspecting American markets.
===
'dump' as in 'poo'!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 10:11 PM (/tzYP)

22 I've been reading Narnia fanfics on AO3. Specifically, about doomed world Charn.
I'm not linking hanky panky in here, although AO3 has a reputation for that elsewhere. On the other hand, lasciate ogni speranza because we know how Charn ends up.

"In Word and Deed" by Syrena Of The Lake -
archiveofourown.org/works/7998928
This floats a magic system based on D&D Power Words (basically). It ponders what the Deplorable Word actually is.
[There's a followup: mihrsuri, "Pointed Up (At The Red Sun)".]

"A Child of Charn" by The Landlady -
archiveofourown.org/works/40984122
This looks at Charn's elite from the eyes of its citizenry.

There's also some good stuff by edenfalling / Elizabeth Culmer; mostly prose poems.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2025 10:11 PM (gKWVE)

23 The raw egg thing, Chy-Nah got talent.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2025 10:12 PM (Pz86S)

24 Don't be messin' with a Hessian!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 10:12 PM (/tzYP)

25 Looney Tunes...Bugs Bunny in particular caused me to walk nearly 10 miles when I was an ankle biter. My brother and I had all the dialogue of every single Bugs Bunny cartoon memorized. When you possess such a wealth of knowledge, it's only to be expected to make use of it. So, driving in the car, my brother and I would recite specific cartoons from memory. (The "I wanna Easta Egg, I wanna Easta Egg...to HAVEEEEE" episode can be especially annoying if you're stuck in the car with us.

And so, my brother and I were told to get out of the car and walk the rest of the way home. Two things...in retrospect, we deserved it. We put extra panache into our rendition. And, it wasn't half bad. Since we had a whole bunch more episodes to rehash on the walk.

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2025 10:12 PM (dIske)

26 And that's how all of us 29-year-olds know a bunch of Vaudeville songs!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 10:13 PM (/tzYP)

27 No fair. Kill da Wabbit ended just as it was getting good!

Posted by: mindful webworker - hot bugs at April 02, 2025 10:14 PM (MsUjn)

28 Sorry I'm late, my jigsaw puzzle came without the assembly instructions.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:14 PM (KllAz)

29 Tweetybird used to be a popular tattoo subject for criminals, he never gets caught.

Posted by: yop at April 02, 2025 10:15 PM (RKj5x)

30 Re: Looney Tunes:

I always assumed that Henery Hawk was created ad a foil for Foghorn Leghorn, but it was actually the other way around. The little chicken hawk appeared first, and Leghorn came later.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:17 PM (KllAz)

31 Jack Benny loved Mel Blanc and employed him a lot. Jack once said that there were only five people working in Hollywood. The rest are all Mel Blanc.

Posted by: Sy? Si! at April 02, 2025 10:18 PM (G5+As)

32 11 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025 10:06 PM (cYBz/)

How is the DIL? I haven't been able to keep up today.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:19 PM (KllAz)

33 Thanks for the dandy ONT, TRex!

Cartoons!!! Pure Americana there, and lots of history.

Used to watch Mighty Mouse and Looney Tunes many moons ago. Fond memories... Can't wait to dig in to watch the clips you provided.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 02, 2025 10:20 PM (rxCpr)

34 I know someone who had a similar C-4 experience. He was a corpsmen and a few years after his discharge he was going through his ruck and found a block of C-4. He put in there on a field exercise and forgot.

Posted by: TxWill at April 02, 2025 10:20 PM (bb/mb)

35 Ahhhh, my childhood well spent on some Saturday mornings.

My Dad used to slip into the living room to watch the Roadrunner cartoons and I would hear him laugh out loud at times.

The cartoons of the era when actual "artists" created them.

I consider myself blessed to have watched them.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 02, 2025 10:20 PM (25kuG)

36 I quit watching after Duck Amuck. The greatest cartoons of all time, unsatisfyingly edited. Thhppppp.

Posted by: mindful webworker - they're deshpickable at April 02, 2025 10:21 PM (MsUjn)

37 Thank you for a delightful Looney Tunes ONT, TRex! I do so love Looney Tunes.

One of my favorite Looney Tunes is "Feed the Kitty" a Chuck Jones cartoon from 1952. It features Marc Anthony the Bulldog, and Pussyfoot the kitten. Neither were major characters, but it is a beautiful cartoon. The expressions on the dog's face throughout are just priceless.

https://tinyurl.com/yck47br8

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 02, 2025 10:21 PM (dQoNW)

38 I caught a clip from some superhero TV show with...Jon Cryer?!?...as Lex Luthor.

This superhero stuff keeps getting worse and worse

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2025 10:22 PM (t0Rmr)

39 Thanks all! Our granddaughter will be two years old on Saturday. Her parents just informed us that she will be a big sister later this year.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 02, 2025 10:22 PM (fhHcL)

40 The small, but vocal anti-penguite minority in here will be unemployable when we take absolute control.

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at April 02, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)

41 Greetings, and hello JSND if you're out there.

I'm an outlier, but I always kinda wished that Elmer Fudd would finally shoot Bugs. I also enjoyed the few times when Jerry got his comeuppance from Tom. But I rooted for the Road Runner, and Ferris Bueller. Shrug, I guess I was (am) an oddball.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 02, 2025 10:22 PM (lg881)

42 Looney Tunes wasn't on network TV when I was a kid, so I didn't grow up with it. I saw bits and pieces and still thought Bugs Bunny was hilarious.

Posted by: pookysgirl grew up on Garfield... and Friends! at April 02, 2025 10:22 PM (Wt5PA)

43 Eyeing little birds with bad intent?
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

Just a quick glance, but I think there was a bird at her feet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2025 10:22 PM (0eaVi)

44 Always fond of Pepe LePew. He stunk but loved the pussy.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 02, 2025 10:23 PM (HabA/)

45 43 Eyeing little birds with bad intent?
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

Just a quick glance, but I think there was a bird at her feet.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2025 10:22 PM (0eaVi)

A dead duck?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 02, 2025 10:24 PM (lg881)

46 TRex,

Thank you for this Blast from the past!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 02, 2025 10:24 PM (25kuG)

47 : pookysgirl grew up on Garfield... and Friends
----

You'll be old enough to get your driver license pretty soon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 10:24 PM (SP4ma)

48 Looney Tunes, still golden after all these years.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:24 PM (XjTSo)

49 How is the DIL? I haven't been able to keep up today.
Posted by: tankdemon

Thanks for asking - She and Baby are doing very well all things considered. Momma got some sleep and baby was granted some parole from the incubator so that Dad and Mom could get some skin time with him. Apparently his lungs and lung function are 'unremarkable' at this point which is what I was most concerned about.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/)

50 I thought it was "as cold as a duck"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 10:25 PM (D7oie)

51 16 Thought I saw Granny on a park bench in the Daffy/Porky movie.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Eyeing little birds with bad intent?
======
Nah, it's Cross-eyed Mary.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:26 PM (XjTSo)

52 Chuck Jones did an animated version of 'Riki Tiki Tavi'. I've tried to look for the version I remember. I don't recall the mongoose speaking English. Just the humans and the snaked hissed in english. Mongoose just made little mongoose noises. I haven't seen it in decades so maybe I'm mis-remembering.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2025 10:26 PM (G1ktt)

53 Hate that stupid bird. Did something else when the yellow flying rat came on.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

That was me watching Animaniacs. No, I don't care that I was too old to watch cartoons by then. I still do, if anime is cartoons.

But how can the same writers come up with epic stuff like Pinky and the Brain and Slappy Squirrel and the Goodfeathers, and stink bombs like Chicken Boo and Katie Kaboom and those bourgeois hippos?

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:26 PM (DgGvY)

54 The older versions of "Tom & Jerry" were slapstick GOLD!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 02, 2025 10:27 PM (25kuG)

55 Man I wish I could animate half that well. A quarter that well. An eighty-fifth that well.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 02, 2025 10:27 PM (CHHv1)

56 19 Grinch was Dr. Seuss.

Seuss wrote the book/script. Chuck Jones did the animation.

Posted by: Captain Ned at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM (nADdg)

57 That frog was an asshole.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM (gKWVE)

58 I would root for Roadrunner, but I was always curious what new plan Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, would devise next.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM (VNX3d)

59 Thanks for the Looney Tunes TRex!
Definitely need some Foghorn!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM (0ohAJ)

60 Warner Bros is moving to destroy the building where the Looney Tunes gang resided in the 1950s.

As for Chuck Jones, go find his book Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist. You will be well chuffed after reading it.

To make you laugh even harder. At the end of Duck Amuck isn't poor Daffy really Karen as he screams in frustration, "Who are you! I demand you show yourself!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM (xiqAs)

61 Merrie Melodies.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM (i0F8b)

62 God Bless all in the path of this gnarly storm crossing the country.

Posted by: TalkyTalk at April 02, 2025 10:29 PM (9INg6)

63 mikeski

Minerva Mink or Nurse?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:30 PM (xiqAs)

64 I know Springsteen is not at all a favorite here, but he still got the Fudd treatment. Dig it, ladies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUZUKRxYalU

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:31 PM (XjTSo)

65 52 Chuck Jones did an animated version of 'Riki Tiki Tavi'. I've tried to look for the version I remember. I don't recall the mongoose speaking English. Just the humans and the snaked hissed in english. Mongoose just made little mongoose noises. I haven't seen it in decades so maybe I'm mis-remembering.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2025 10:26 PM (G1ktt)

I loved Riki Tiki Tavi; they used to show it once a year or so on TV in Los Angeles. I don't remember if it was tied to a holiday. Never knew who the artist was.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 02, 2025 10:31 PM (lg881)

66 19 Grinch was Dr. Seuss.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 02, 2025 10:11 PM (ZmEVT)

The character and story were absolutely created by Dr. Seuss, but the famous 1966 TV special was produced and animated by Chuck Jones. (Who greatly admired Ted Geisel and his work)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2025 10:31 PM (dTleh)

67 Narrated by Boris Karloff.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2025 10:32 PM (i0F8b)

68 She and Baby are doing very well all things considered. Momma got some sleep and baby was granted some parole from the incubator so that Dad and Mom could get some skin time with him. Apparently his lungs and lung function are 'unremarkable' at this point which is what I was most concerned about.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/)

Awesome. Continued prayers.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:33 PM (KllAz)

69 You'll be old enough to get your driver license pretty soon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 10:24 PM (SP4ma)

Don't tell Pooky, he'll make me drive him everywhere.

Waitaminute...

Posted by: pookysgirl needs a chauffeur's cap at April 02, 2025 10:33 PM (Wt5PA)

70 Exdem13

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:34 PM (xiqAs)

71 Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025 10:25 PM (cYBz/)

I let out an audible sigh of relief upon reading that. I've been praying.

Posted by: pookysgirl seems to worry about babies a lot at April 02, 2025 10:35 PM (Wt5PA)

72 But how can the same writers come up with epic stuff like Pinky and the Brain and Slappy Squirrel and the Goodfeathers, and stink bombs like Chicken Boo and Katie Kaboom and those bourgeois hippos?
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:26 PM (DgGvY)

How can Leonard Stern produce I'm Dickens, He's Fenster? Buck Henry create Captain Nice? They can't all be winners.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2025 10:35 PM (0eaVi)

73 17 Hey, TRex!

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2025 10:10 PM
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Hey Bulg!!

Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

74 44 Always fond of Pepe LePew. He stunk but loved the pussy.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at April 02, 2025 10:23 PM (HabA/)

The origin of Pepe le Pew becomes clear, and even funnier, if you watch the famous 1937 French film, Pepe le Moko.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2025 10:35 PM (dTleh)

75 61

That opening & closing orchestral piece defined Warner Bros. cartoons.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 02, 2025 10:35 PM (25kuG)

76 And we're back. The worst of the storm has passed and kitty and I could come out of the bathroom. Yes we were sheltering in the bathroom for a while. It doesn't have windows.

Looney Toons were awesome but the only Yosemite Sam I can stand (hated that character) was the one where he was supposed to cook hassenpfeffer.
I like the Bugs cartoon where he has to deal with a couple of hillbillies. And the Barber of Seville. And the one where he pretends to be the maestro to fuck with the opera singer guy.
There was one with Elmer Fudd as a farmer singing about a little red barn on a farm in Indiana. I always thought that was neat. Looney Toons singing about my home state! And we had a farm with a red barn! Cooool!!!!

I didn't like Sylvester, Tweety, or Porky Pig. Cartoon characters with a speech impediment are no bueno. Same for Donald Duck.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 02, 2025 10:35 PM (4XwPj)

77 28 Sorry I'm late, my jigsaw puzzle came without the assembly instructions.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:14 PM
***
Did you at least get a picture on the box?

Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

78 37 Thank you for a delightful Looney Tunes ONT, TRex! I do so love Looney Tunes.

One of my favorite Looney Tunes is "Feed the Kitty" a Chuck Jones cartoon from 1952. It features Marc Anthony the Bulldog, and Pussyfoot the kitten. Neither were major characters, but it is a beautiful cartoon. The expressions on the dog's face throughout are just priceless.

https://tinyurl.com/yck47br8
----------
That's one of the greatest ones WB did without the usual guys. I absolutely believe it was written by someone who owned a dog & a cat.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:36 PM (XjTSo)

79 21 Shit just got real. Penguin shit, that is.

WarMonitor @WarMonitor3 3h
The Trump administration has put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald which has a population of 0 people and is inhabited only by penguins.

Eric @digitalgb 1h Replying to @WarMonitor3
If a territory has a country code, it gets a tariff.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcne7p3
funny thread

Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo 3h
No longer will the rapacious penguins dump their substandard goods upon unsuspecting American markets.
===
'dump' as in 'poo'!
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 10:11 PM (/tzYP)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 02, 2025 10:37 PM (bZK1I)

80 LOONEY ONT!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at April 02, 2025 10:37 PM (ewhCO)

81 mikeski
Minerva Mink or Nurse?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Hello Nurse, definitely. But just for the weekend. Neither one is meet-the-parents material.

Posted by: mikeski is weirding himself out a bit at April 02, 2025 10:38 PM (DgGvY)

82 Poor Marc Anthony as kitteh started making biscuits on him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:38 PM (xiqAs)

83 WB had so many memorable characters, but I always liked the Dover Boys. Surprised there wasn't another one. Supposedly, WB got mad because it was completely different that what they'd been doing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2025 10:38 PM (0eaVi)

84 33 Thanks for the dandy ONT, TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 02, 2025 10:20 PM
***
Animated acknowledgement and appreciation to you!

Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

85 Did you at least get a picture on the box?
Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

It was a cartoon tiger.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:38 PM (KllAz)

86 "What other characters should we acknowledge? Speedy Gonzales? Foghorn Leghorn? Pepe Le Pew? The Abominable Snowman? Granny?"


Witch Hazel. I have no idea why it always cracked me up when she dashed off and her hair pins went flying everywhichway.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at April 02, 2025 10:39 PM (4XwPj)

87 77 28 Sorry I'm late, my jigsaw puzzle came without the assembly instructions.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:14 PM
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Did you at least get a picture on the box?
Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

Was it the right picture?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2025 10:39 PM (VNX3d)

88 Sorry I'm late, my jigsaw puzzle came without the assembly instructions.
Posted by: tankdemon

But now you've got a jigsaw!

And a couple spare screws and a spring.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:39 PM (DgGvY)

89 67 Narrated by Boris Karloff.
Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2025 10:32 PM (i0F8b)

Let’s do all the credits! The song was done by a man with one of the best names I’ve ever seen, Thurl Ravenscroft. (Imagine telling people that really was your name!)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2025 10:39 PM (dTleh)

90 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpiE5QCsfYA

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 02, 2025 10:39 PM (25kuG)

91 I miss the Looney Toons cartoons. It still strikes me as odd that something that was so ubiquitous in my youth just basically disappeared overnight.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at April 02, 2025 10:03 PM (QdGJh)

I have the entire catalog on DVD. All of it. Even the "racist" ones. And the weird ones with crazy long-necked birds and stuff. It's a crazy ride.

"Hassan! CHOP!!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Me no type good at April 02, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)

92 59 Thanks for the Looney Tunes TRex!
Definitely need some Foghorn!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM
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Good evening COMM!

Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

93 Fun ONT, TRex. Foghorn Leghorn quotes still crack me up.

Posted by: scampydog at April 02, 2025 10:40 PM (41CYW)

94 Did you at least get a picture on the box?
Posted by: TRex

It was a cartoon tiger.
Posted by: tankdemon

* stands up *

* golf clap *

Posted by: mikeski deploys the rare standing-ovation golf-clap at April 02, 2025 10:40 PM (DgGvY)

95 Tiny Daffy Duck, "It's all mine mine mine!"

Bugs, "Close Sesame."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:41 PM (xiqAs)

96 63 mikeski

Minerva Mink or Nurse?
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Nurse, all the way!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZYyaXLrt1U

Nurse even got her own song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8E4XoAeVdw

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:41 PM (XjTSo)

97 53 But how can the same writers come up with epic stuff like Pinky and the Brain and Slappy Squirrel and the Goodfeathers, and stink bombs like Chicken Boo and Katie Kaboom and those bourgeois hippos?

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:26 PM
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Yes. This.

Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:41 PM (IQ6Gq)

98 Tankdemon and the jigsaw puzzle
https://bit.ly/42tkpnx

Posted by: mindful webworker - smart guy at April 02, 2025 10:42 PM (MsUjn)

99
Thanks for asking - She and Baby are doing very well all things considered. Momma got some sleep and baby was granted some parole from the incubator so that Dad and Mom could get some skin time with him. Apparently his lungs and lung function are 'unremarkable' at this point which is what I was most concerned about.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2025

Awww, this is so good. Precious baby.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2025 10:42 PM (QzINz)

100
Q: You know we have silly-putty so there must be some serious-putty ....?

A: I think that's called C-4.

Posted by: Ciampino - Never go plaid? at April 02, 2025 10:42 PM (sPQoU)

101 89 67 Narrated by Boris Karloff.
Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2025 10:32 PM (i0F8b)

Let’s do all the credits! The song was done by a man with one of the best names I’ve ever seen, Thurl Ravenscroft. (Imagine telling people that really was your name!)
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He was grrrrreat!!!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:43 PM (XjTSo)

102 Re the Chuck Jones Rikki Tikki Tavi:

Check it out at:
https://archive.org/details/rikkitikkitavi_201701

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 02, 2025 10:43 PM (q3u5l)

103 98 Tankdemon and the jigsaw puzzle
https://bit.ly/42tkpnx
Posted by: mindful webworker - smart guy at April 02, 2025 10:42 PM (MsUjn)

Why did I laugh at that?

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:44 PM (KllAz)

104 You forget Rita and Runt

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:44 PM (xiqAs)

105
I figured the Pepe Le Pew character's stink was a shot at the French attitude towards personal hygeine and BO.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2025 10:45 PM (biznJ)

106 Carl Stalling.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2025 10:45 PM (i0F8b)

107 You forget Rita and Runt
Posted by: Anna Puma

Until you reminded me.....

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 10:45 PM (DgGvY)

108 Super Chief

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 02, 2025 10:46 PM (Aqu9a)

109 I used to collect Daffy Duck stuff (my fave). I had A LOT of cool pieces.

Then all my friends started giving me more and more items.
I finally had to give up the habit...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2025 10:46 PM (0ohAJ)

110 I figured the Pepe Le Pew character's stink was a shot at the French attitude towards personal hygeine and BO.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2025 10:45 PM (biznJ)

Not to mention the sexual assault.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 10:47 PM (l3YAf)

111 70 Exdem13

https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246
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We love the kittehs, yes we do. BUT! Fox wives really are wonderful!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:47 PM (XjTSo)

112 104 You forget Rita and Runt
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I liked Rita & Runt myself, but I was the only one of my circle of friends then who had watched the old movies that the duo referenced.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:48 PM (XjTSo)

113 And don't forget....

PORKY PIG!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 02, 2025 10:50 PM (25kuG)

114 Grab a fence post, hold it tight
Whomp your partner with all your might.
Hit him in the shin, hit him on the head
Hit him again, that critter ain't dead.

- B. Bunny, square dance caller

Posted by: 496 at April 02, 2025 10:50 PM (FqCIy)

115 Whens I sez "Whoas", I means "Whoas"!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 10:51 PM (/tzYP)

116 Corey Booker’s lone stand against fascism has altered the course of world history!

Posted by: Borey Cooker, Anonymous Internet User at April 02, 2025 10:52 PM (l3YAf)

117 Me smell Mohican burning.
*pause*
Me last Mohican.
*pause*
Must be me! Yaahhh!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 02, 2025 10:53 PM (Aqu9a)

118 Daffy Duck - the God of Frustration

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2025 10:53 PM (VNX3d)

119 Sorry I'm late, my jigsaw puzzle came without the assembly instructions.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 10:14 PM
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Did yours come with a tube of superglue? You know, like doing a crossword with an inkpen?

Posted by: Ciampino - and indelible ink at April 02, 2025 10:53 PM (sPQoU)

120 _US stock futures plunge as Trump's punishing tariffs rip through markets _Yahoo Finance

•Nvidia, TSMC, chip stocks fall on sweeping reciprocal tariffs _Yahoo Finance
Nvidia closes up 0.25%
TSMC closes up 2.37% (Taiwan Semiconductor)
.
Apple stock slides after tariffs threaten to hit production hubs
_Bloomberg
Apple closes up 0.31%

•Tesla up 5.33%
•Ford Motor Co up 2.11%
-------------------------

Believe what they say or believe the ticker?
One is real the other bought & paid for.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 10:55 PM (SP4ma)

121 At the precocious age of seven Chuck Jones learned an important lesson for anyone who wants to create really - "Character always comes first, before the physical representation."

And how did he learn that? When a tom wandered onto his parents' property in Balboa. A most peculiar cat as he had strapped around his neck a tongue depressor and on it written in purple ink was one word - "Johnson."

It was Johnson who demonstrated to Chuck: it is the individual, the oddity, the peculiarity that counts.

Extracted from pg. 14 Chuck Amuck

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:56 PM (xiqAs)

122 So how does everyone feel about Musk leaving DOGE soon???

Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2025 10:56 PM (VCgbV)

123 Competition for Florida Man?

https://tinyurl.com/nmh7r2sj

Posted by: Ciampino - and cinnamon to boot at April 02, 2025 10:57 PM (sPQoU)

124 Good evening morons и спасибо TRex

I loved the Chuck Jones/Mel Blanc Looney Tunes on TV when I was a kid. They were the lingua franca of the kids in my neighborhood.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2025 10:57 PM (RIvkX)

125 Funny Mel Blanc bit from WWII days:


https://tinyurl.com/ecxyt3dd

Posted by: javems at April 02, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)

126
Free
Bird
Seed

X

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 02, 2025 10:58 PM (Aqu9a)

127 >>>I finally had to give up the habit...
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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No more duck à l'orange?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 10:58 PM (SP4ma)

128 I also liked the bulldog Spike with the little dog Chester jumping around him, annoying him.

Posted by: Shipoopi at April 02, 2025 10:58 PM (t1uwd)

129 Glad you approve there Exdem13, Tensor NSFW'd the Tank Police ones. Come on Tensor, she is wearing a sports bra and running shorts..

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 10:59 PM (xiqAs)

130 124 Good evening morons и спасибо TRex

I loved the Chuck Jones/Mel Blanc Looney Tunes on TV when I was a kid. They were the lingua franca of the kids in my neighborhood.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2025 10:57 PM
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Good evening. I always appreciate a good lingua franca.

Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 10:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

131 My old university friend Angelo was from the mean streets of Cleveland. He really liked cartoons. One time he said he had a hard time getting to like classical music. I then spent some time telling him about all the Looney Tunes that referenced classical music as a comic reference. There's quite a list of them!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 02, 2025 10:59 PM (XjTSo)

132 Practical Advice
If all the toilets in the house are occupied
and you are waiting forone to be free,
try turning off the WiFi router.

Posted by: Ciampino - the Internet is down? at April 02, 2025 11:00 PM (sPQoU)

133 >> Apple stock slides after tariffs threaten to hit production hubs
_Bloomberg
Apple closes up 0.31%

You’re quoting the closing price. $AAPL is down 7.1% after-hours. Futures are showing a NASDAQ opening 650 points down.

Not horrific, but definitely a market reaction to Trump’s tariffs. Reshoring industry is not going to be cheap or easy

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 11:01 PM (l3YAf)

134 Then the proggies took over Saturday mornings for indoctrination.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2025 11:02 PM (i0F8b)

135
I have to wonder how much china manipulates the US Markets daily.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 11:02 PM (SZD2V)

136 Did yours come with a tube of superglue? You know, like doing a crossword with an inkpen?
Posted by: Ciampino - and indelible ink at April 02, 2025 10:53 PM (sPQoU)

No. That's some expert level stuff there. Plus, I like to take them apart once complete in case I need something to occupy the grandkids when they visit.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 11:03 PM (KllAz)

137 Blue Star loves Apple.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2025 11:03 PM (i0F8b)

138 re: "What's Opera Doc?"

Chuck Jones - "Missing the great pink busty qualities of the proverbial Wagnerian diva, we invested all the fat curves we owned in Brunnhilde's charger."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 11:04 PM (xiqAs)

139 127 No more duck à l'orange?


Sadly, no....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2025 11:05 PM (0ohAJ)

140
122 So how does everyone feel about Musk leaving DOGE soon???
Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2025 10:56 PM (VCgbV)

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As originally stated at the beginning of the Trump administration, Musk was only going to stay for a few months. His departure is according to schedule. The DOGE team will continue with their assignment.

The anti-MAGA media are trying to portray this as a falling out between Trump and Musk. It is not.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2025 11:05 PM (d4X7t)

141 So I made a snack with Smoked Oysters, Thin sliced French Baggette. crumbled Blue Cheese and Soy sauce


might have been an overreach but I will finish it none the less.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 02, 2025 11:05 PM (25kuG)

142 Dodsworth. The laziest cat.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 02, 2025 11:06 PM (Aqu9a)

143 122 So how does everyone feel about Musk leaving DOGE soon???
Posted by: lin-duh at April 02, 2025 10:56 PM (VCgbV)

So long as his team is still in place and sticks to the guiding principles DOGE was created for, I don't think it will have too much of an impact. I don't think Musk was in the weeds running code and digging through bytes himself, just setting up the outline of what needed doing.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2025 11:08 PM (KllAz)

144 I have to wonder how much china manipulates the US Markets daily.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 11:02 PM (SZD2V)

They could. Other than the occasional pump-and-dump markets have been on autopilot for over a decade.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 11:08 PM (l3YAf)

145 I always appreciate a good lingua franca.
Posted by: TRex

I always found it strange that the term for "common language" was literally "French Tongue," but said in Latin.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 11:09 PM (DgGvY)

146 Gossamer was also a great character!

Posted by: ERF at April 02, 2025 11:13 PM (qqD/x)

147 -------

As originally stated at the beginning of the Trump administration, Musk was only going to stay for a few months. His departure is according to schedule. The DOGE team will continue with their assignment.

The anti-MAGA media are trying to portray this as a falling out between Trump and Musk. It is not.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Good leaders choose good subordinates.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:15 PM (SP4ma)

148 Not horrific, but definitely a market reaction to Trump’s tariffs. Reshoring industry is not going to be cheap or easy
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 11:01 PM (l3YAf)

Thing is, these are not permanent Tariffs. These are retaliatory tariffs, usually HALF of what they charge us.

So... if they open their markets, we won't have to reshore industries... because the tariffs will go away.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2025 11:16 PM (QAkQ3)

149 141 So I made a snack with Smoked Oysters, Thin sliced French Baggette. crumbled Blue Cheese and Soy sauce


might have been an overreach but I will finish it none the less.
Posted by: Nightwatch

RMBS mentioned last food thread about oysters on the half shell with a few drops of raspberry vodka and some wasabi flying fish roe.

I’m trying it asap.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2025 11:16 PM (2+mmk)

150 Willowed from the Tariffs thread:
-

I have to say it though, how dare Israel have one penny of tariffs considering how much foreign and military aid the US has given it. That's some chutzpah.

Posted by: Leupold at April 02, 2025 04:22 PM (4pwAx)
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Israel taxes everything and everybody (both customs and VAT) coming into the country. It's not about the US. It's about the Israeli government needing revenue for its bloated bureaucracy. The biggest victims are us Israeli citizens, who have to pay for this and whose salaries, cars and gasoline are taxed like crazy.

But as it is, Israel already has a US trade agreement from the 80s, where tariffs were removed from almost everything except agricultural goods and something else which I forgot. I think the remaining tariffs amounted to something like $11m in 2024.

From the list I saw, Israel has been one of the lowest tariff trading partners of the US for a long time. Get hold of the list and see who the real bad guys are.

In any case, I'm pretty sure that VAT will continue to apply to my consumer good shipments from the US because VAT is a tariff on the consumer, not on the manufacturer. VAT rate here is currently 18%. Sucks.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 11:17 PM (J/vW3)

151 Articles were written before the close.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:17 PM (SP4ma)

152 Another Biden family member is busted behind the wheel in Maryland

https://mol.im/a/14564849

Posted by: Ciampino - the Internet is forever at April 02, 2025 11:18 PM (sPQoU)

153 “Bloomberg now reporting a 10% universal tariff on all countries, as well as the WSJ”
Holy crap! I'll have to cancel my subscription. I can't afford that!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:18 PM (/tzYP)

154 I want the tariffs to stay and the income tax to go.
Too long have we suffered in Wilson's shadow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:19 PM (SP4ma)

155 Oh my! It seems another Looney Tunes character has been overlooked:

https://youtu.be/UKyhTX9LQEA

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 11:21 PM (J/vW3)

156 So... if they open their markets, we won't have to reshore industries... because the tariffs will go away.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2025 11:16 PM (QAkQ3)

The point of all of that is to reshore industry, though. The who reason for tariffs is to make America more attractive for manufacturing, in order to reduce our trade deficit with the world.

It probably won’t work, because it doesn’t address the core issue causing trade deficits (USD as reserve currency and the Triffin Dilemma) but it’s worth a shot.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 11:21 PM (l3YAf)

157 Cremieux @cremieuxrecueil Apr 1
To avoid being slapped by Trump's reciprocal tariffs, Israel has gone ahead and embraced tariff-free trade with the U.S.

I hope more countries follow this example.

Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso Apr 2
Trump, no Trump, unilateral trade liberalization is a good idea

unusual_whales @unusual_whales Apr 2
BREAKING: The US has announced tariffs on countries:

Brazil 10%
Pakistan 30%
Sri Lanka 44%
Switzerland 31%
Cambodia 50%
South Africa 30%
United Kingdom 10%
China: 34%
India: 26%
European Union: 20%
Israel: 17%

Minimum tariff on all imports: 10%

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:22 PM (/tzYP)

158 I want the tariffs to stay and the income tax to go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:19 PM (SP4ma)
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Isn't that the plan?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 11:22 PM (J/vW3)

159 If VATs are tariffs, so are US state and city sales taxes.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:22 PM (/tzYP)

160 Israel: 17%

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:22 PM (/tzYP)
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That coincides with our VAT rate up until last year (raised to 18% recently because of the war).

As I said, VAT is a tariff on the consumer and is applied to locally produced goods just the same. I'm the victim here no matter who manufactured what and where.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 11:25 PM (J/vW3)

161 VATs are creepy. If Democrats got a hold of those we'd be in worse trouble.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:26 PM (SP4ma)

162 No added tax on Argentina, Philippines, Viet Nam, Korea, Japan.
hmmm, pretty sure we hit Japan with something; Radio said, Japan taxes our rice at 100%.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:29 PM (SP4ma)

163 VATs are creepy. If Democrats got a hold of those we'd be in worse trouble.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:26 PM (SP4ma)

The Democrats (and Republicans) already have the most devastating tax of all: capital gains.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 11:30 PM (l3YAf)

164 Coyote vs Acme, the legal thriller that Warner brothers hid from the world, will now be released thanks to the rights being purchased by Ketchup entertainment.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 02, 2025 11:32 PM (lUFok)

165 TRex,
Thanks for all the Loony Tunes videos. Some of the best cartoons ever.

Posted by: JTB at April 02, 2025 11:34 PM (yTvNw)

166 As I said, VAT is a tariff on the consumer and is applied to locally produced goods just the same. I'm the victim here no matter who manufactured what and where.
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Exactly, and you shouldn't be victimized twice over when Israel has no [or virtually no] tariffs on US goods.

And it doesn't seem to be based upon your VAT but upon...

unusual_whales @unusual_whales 1h
JUST IN: The NYPost has reported that the US tariffs on each nation is calculated by taking the current US trade deficit with each target country and dividing the deficit by half, to get the resulting tariff imposed.

https://tinyurl.com/57snxzx9
article; and when the country has a trade surplus with the US, it is automatically set at 10% instead of, say 0%

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:34 PM (/tzYP)

167 Hollywood has fully embraced their inner Coyote.*

*No not the Trickster.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 11:34 PM (xiqAs)

168 Look at the Nasdaq 100 over the last 30 years. The dot-com bubble is just a speed bump. It’s gone hyper-inflationarily parabolic since covid. Unsustainable.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 02, 2025 11:35 PM (l3YAf)

169 165 TRex,
Thanks for all the Loony Tunes videos. Some of the best cartoons ever.

Posted by: JTB at April 02, 2025 11:34 PM
***
JTB! Good evening to you.

Posted by: TRex at April 02, 2025 11:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

170 Blondes and Baldies in space. Fantastic view of Kamchatka?
Where did they get that camera?

https://tinyurl.com/2ks7sa3b

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:36 PM (SP4ma)

171 145 I always appreciate a good lingua franca.
Posted by: TRex

I always found it strange that the term for "common language" was literally "French Tongue," but said in Latin.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 11:09 PM (DgGvY)
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Actually from Italian. Also franc/frank has several related meanings as well as a name. My cousin's name is Franca. Franco would be a man. Very popular.

Posted by: Ciampino - what's in a name at April 02, 2025 11:37 PM (sPQoU)

172 My favorite Looney Tunes line -

"A'hm the rootinest, tootinest, shootinest hombre, North, South, East, aaaaannd West of the Pecos!"

Posted by: Gref at April 02, 2025 11:37 PM (aBgBM)

173 Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:34 PM (/tzYP)
-

MATH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It's 6:40AM here. Not going there!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 11:39 PM (J/vW3)

174 MATH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It's 6:40AM here. Not going there!
=======
Even worse. The reciprocal rate calculation is no longer secret but has been released...

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/
reciprocal-tariff-calculations

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:41 PM (/tzYP)

175 I would root for Roadrunner, but I was always curious what new plan Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, would devise next.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2025 10:28 PM (VNX3d)

We didn't go for the usual bears or lions for our patrol name. Named my Boy Scout Patrol 'The Roadrunners'. We had a homemade patrol flag with the Roadrunner on it and homemade should patches for our patrol which was a cloud of dust and 'Meep! Meep!'

Only Roadrunner Patrol I ever saw in Scouts.

Posted by: RickZ at April 02, 2025 11:42 PM (gKDq2)

176
Okay, so this is how it'll work:

Tomorrow, the sky is gonna fall, but ONLY if you turn on media (TV, Radio, Internet.) If you Do Not turn on Media, the sky will not fall.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 11:42 PM (SZD2V)

177 Favorite Mel Blanc role: Bob and Doug's father in Strange Brew.

Least favorite role: Twiki on Buck Rogers.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at April 02, 2025 11:46 PM (TdCYS)

178 @neuralink
🌎 The Neuralink Patient Registry is now open globally!

If you have quadriplegia and are interested in exploring groundbreaking ways to control a computer using your thoughts, you can now sign up from anywhere in the world

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:46 PM (SP4ma)

179 Looney Tunes were part of the Soundtrack Of My Life, LOL

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, TRex!

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

180 The Neuralink Patient Registry?

Standalone Complex, not going to let anyone hack my ghost.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2025 11:49 PM (xiqAs)

181 Innocent Walgreens employee EXECUTED by gunman he didn't know

https://mol.im/a/14564257

Posted by: Ciampino - death sentence at April 02, 2025 11:50 PM (sPQoU)

182 If you don't have Neuralink, then how do you sign up for Neuralink online??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:51 PM (/tzYP)

183 Phew!!
Baby is found in trash moments before it was due to be crushed

https://mol.im/a/14563383

Posted by: Ciampino - death sentence also at April 02, 2025 11:52 PM (sPQoU)

184 MATH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

It's 6:40AM here. Not going there!
=======
Even worse. The reciprocal rate calculation is no longer secret but has been released...

https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/
reciprocal-tariff-calculations
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at April 02, 2025 11:41 PM (/tzYP)
-

So I looked over here and started reading all the arguments in the comments:

https://tinyurl.com/36ywsynh

I am lost. Not qualified to have a factual opinion at this time. I bow out.

But what's going on in the Senate?

https://tinyurl.com/5n8ntkwn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 02, 2025 11:52 PM (J/vW3)

185 The Neuralink Patient Registry?
Standalone Complex, not going to let anyone hack my ghost.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Nah, nobody's going to take over your brain. Look what we use the Internet for now. They'll just broadcast ads to you 24/7. Maybe lock up your childhood memories until you send them some bitcoin.

.....I'm not selling this very well, am I?

Posted by: mikeski isn't Laughing at April 02, 2025 11:54 PM (DgGvY)

186 Passenger 'bites' flight attendant during flight
Hey those in-flight meals ans snacks are a joke.

https://mol.im/a/14562901

Posted by: Ciampino - redheads at April 02, 2025 11:55 PM (sPQoU)

187 But what's going on in the Senate?

https://tinyurl.com/5n8ntkwn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:56 PM (SP4ma)

188 I always found it strange that the term for "common language" was literally "French Tongue," but said in Latin.
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2025 11:09 PM (DgGvY)

Before Lingua Franca, it was Koine, (which means "common")

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2025 11:56 PM (D7oie)

189 FLORIDA WOMAN this time.
Naked woman has meltdown at Florida airport

https://mol.im/a/14563943

Posted by: Ciampino - it's the heat at April 02, 2025 11:58 PM (sPQoU)

190 .....I'm not selling this very well, am I?
Posted by: mikeski isn't Laughing a
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You'll be signing up for the one that allows you to levitate objects.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2025 11:58 PM (SP4ma)

191 Airlines these days, between TSA, and commie flight attendants do push the flying public to the brink sometimes but,

there are the "culture" ASSHATS that ruin it for the rest of us on a regular basis.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 03, 2025 12:04 AM (25kuG)

192 179 Looney Tunes were part of the Soundtrack Of My Life, LOL

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, TRex!
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2025 11:48 PM
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You're welcome! What a soundtrack. Amazing that we all remember so much of it so clearly.

Lingo Franco and all that.

Posted by: TRex at April 03, 2025 12:05 AM (IQ6Gq)

193 Investigators later spoke to another ex of King's who was living with him at a different residence.
I think I see evidence of a lack of judgment in other things....

Posted by: GWB at April 03, 2025 12:07 AM (XR+2F)

194 ELON MUSK: "Tesla is the only company with all the ingredients for making intelligent humanoid robots at scale.

My prediction is that Optimus will be the biggest product of all time by far. It will be 10 times bigger than the next biggest product ever made."
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They are going on sale next year. I'm buying one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:08 AM (SP4ma)

195 Mikeski

You've only read about the Shirow universe, I lived it nyah.

Still surprised Neurohard never got translated.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:08 AM (xiqAs)

196 189 FLORIDA WOMAN this time.
Naked woman has meltdown at Florida airport

https://mol.im/a/14563943
Posted by: Ciampino
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Definitely not the cute girl.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:10 AM (SP4ma)

197 They are going on sale next year. I'm buying one.

Pris version, Cherry 2000, or a 33-S?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:10 AM (xiqAs)

198 I remember PAN AM once the highest level of Airline Class.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 03, 2025 12:10 AM (25kuG)

199 Pepe LePew has fallen on hard times of late. Pity.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at April 03, 2025 12:11 AM (tkSGW)

200 Innocent Walgreens employee EXECUTED by gunman he didn't know

https://mol.im/a/14564257
Posted by: Ciampino - death sentence at April 02, 2025 11:50 PM (sPQoU)

The term is murdered. I know you are quoting the Demented Maggot, but a good "sic" never hurts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 12:14 AM (8zz6B)

201 161 VATs are creepy. If Democrats got a hold of those we'd be in worse trouble.
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VATs are un-American. That is all.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 03, 2025 12:16 AM (XjTSo)

202 Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2025 10:12 PM (dIske)

ROFL! THAT is how you do a childhood!

Posted by: GWB at April 03, 2025 12:16 AM (XR+2F)

203 195 Mikeski

You've only read about the Shirow universe, I lived it nyah.

Still surprised Neurohard never got translated.
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Watch out for those unlicensed neural links, Anna.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at April 03, 2025 12:18 AM (XjTSo)

204 Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

...already, the failure of so many thrusters violated the mission's flight rules. In such an instance, they were supposed to turn around and come back to Earth.
...
Wilmore: "I don't know that we can come back to Earth at that point. I don't know if we can. And matter of fact, I'm thinking we probably can't. So there we are, loss of 6DOF control, four aft thrusters down, and I'm visualizing orbital mechanics.

The space station is nose down. So we're not exactly level with the station, but below it. If you're below the station, you're moving faster. That's orbital mechanics. It's going to make you move away from the station.

So I'm doing all of this in my mind. I don't know what control I have. What if I lose another thruster? What if we lose comm? What am I going to do?"...

https://tinyurl.com/yw5je2a6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:18 AM (SP4ma)

205 Chip and Dale defending their tree was always good.

Posted by: mot at April 03, 2025 12:19 AM (fIPNY)

206 My G-d, Chuck Jones! I had the honor of meeting him when he had a show at a gallery in San Francisco, got him to sign my copy of his wonderful book, Chuck Amok. I thrilled him by not only being able to converse with him about the book (which I had read, unlike most of the cretins there), but because I wore a Wile E. Coyote ACME t-shirt, which tickled him pink because most people would talk to him about Bugs Bunny, but he didn't create Bugs. He did create the Roadrunner & Coyote, Pepe le Pew, and a slew of other characters. Bought a limited-edition print and got that signed, too. Could have talked to him for hours, he was a really interesting guy!

Posted by: tankascribe at April 03, 2025 12:19 AM (NtoJk)

207 197 They are going on sale next year. I'm buying one.

Pris version, Cherry 2000, or a 33-S?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Optimus, man servant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:21 AM (SP4ma)

208 So, I will piss in the eye of Newsom as I have for the 10 last years...

"You Twat, I have been carrying for the last 10 years, and you can go FUCK YOURSELF.

Always armed and ready. For people like you.

UP THE REPUBLIC!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 03, 2025 12:22 AM (25kuG)

209 Williams: "Starliner is based on a vision system that looks at the space station and uses the space station as a frame of reference.

So if we had started to fall off and lose that, which there's a plus or minus that we can have; we didn't lose the station ever, but we did start to deviate a little bit.

I think both of us were getting a bit nervous then because the system would've automatically aborted us."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:22 AM (SP4ma)

210 199 Pepe LePew has fallen on hard times of late. Pity.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat


#METOO cancelled him.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2025 12:23 AM (G1ktt)

211 Again, it is the Boeing Space Edsel.

Yeah, nothing is sketchier than an unlicensed neural link, well except for gas station sushi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:24 AM (xiqAs)

212 And any time I read something about the assisine subject of "personal" pronouns, I always hear Daffy Duck exclaiming, "HAH! That's it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble!" and have to keep a giant smirk off my face.

Posted by: tankascribe at April 03, 2025 12:24 AM (NtoJk)

213 Pepe le Pew?

It was #MeowToo

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:25 AM (xiqAs)

214 OOPPPSS.

That was not a good post. Oh well. such as it is...

Night Horde.

Sleep the Sleep of Kings and Queens.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 03, 2025 12:27 AM (25kuG)

215 After Starliner lost four of its 28 reaction control system thrusters, ... Houston decided the best chance for success was resetting the failed thrusters. ...a fancy way of turning off your computer and rebooting it to try to fix the problem.

But it meant Wilmore had to go hands-off from Starliner's controls.

Imagine that. You're drifting away from the space station, trying to maintain your position. The station is your only real lifeline because if you lose the ability to dock, the chance of coming back in one piece is quite low.
And now you're being told to take your hands off the controls.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:27 AM (SP4ma)

216 Pete the puma had me and my buddies in Iowa as our favorite.

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 03, 2025 12:29 AM (8cPKb)

217

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is accused of mocking the LGBTQ+ community in a social media post on April Fools' Day.

"The Left wins... They have finally brainwashed me. I am taking down our 'Come And Take It' flag and replacing it with this one. April Fools!" Rokita posted on his social media pages Tuesday, April 1, as he is seen standing next to a Pride flag.

https://t.ly/WUip6

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2025 12:29 AM (63Dwl)

218 >> The station is your only real lifeline because if you lose the ability to dock, the chance of coming back in one piece is quite low.

I don't think that's true. They likely would have just had to abort.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 12:30 AM (l3YAf)

219 Genetically Engineered Catgirls are Possible,
Scientists say, “but we lack funding”
_BBC News

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:32 AM (SP4ma)

220 What was hysterical about Pepe le Pew is that Eddie Selzer, the head of the animation department at Warner Brothers, informed the animators that there was nothing funny about a skunk, they decided to go ahead and make a cartoon about a skunk anyway. Then the guy had the brass balls to be the one to accept the award when it won the Oscar. The very height of un-funny stuff was bullfights, which spawned Bully For Bugs which they probably won't show any more because of the Mexican Hat Dance in it.

Posted by: tankascribe at April 03, 2025 12:32 AM (NtoJk)

221
Any canadians still here?

I'm see that a fake news fake "fact checker" and fake "journalist" employed by CTV was Fired. Rachel Gilmore.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2025 12:34 AM (SZD2V)

222 Thanks for this topic, TRex! In case you hadn't guessed, I'm a real Looney Tunes fan. Most especially of the team of Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, and Carl Stalling. Anything those three guys worked on together was solid gold.

Posted by: tankascribe at April 03, 2025 12:34 AM (NtoJk)

223 Bully for Bugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14KTu4i27j8

Why was this made? Their boss said, to quote, "there is nothing funny about a bullfight!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:34 AM (xiqAs)

224 Another naked woman in an airport? Maybe I'll rethink my distaste for flying.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2025 12:35 AM (9sYIl)

225 Ancient Phil Foglio cartoon in, I think, Heavy metal posted the downsides of having a cat-girl. To whit, the hairballs and clawing of the furniture.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:36 AM (xiqAs)

226 AutismCapital
Vietnam has cut all tariffs on American goods in response to Trump’s reciprocal tariffs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:36 AM (SP4ma)

227 Speedy Gonzalez was one of my favorites. He and his tubby buddy.

Jeepers, the Latinx crowd would fall on their fainting couches.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2025 12:37 AM (/3Exi)

228 Slowpoke Rodriguez

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:40 AM (xiqAs)

229 227 Speedy Gonzalez was one of my favorites. He and his tubby buddy.

Jeepers, the Latinx crowd would fall on their fainting couches.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2025 12:37 AM (/3Exi)

I believe Speedy's sidekick was Slowpoke Rodriguez. Personally, I always felt the Roadrunner gave a better impression of speed and was faster. Plus, Wile E. Coyote (genius) was a funnier protagonist.

Posted by: tankascribe at April 03, 2025 12:41 AM (NtoJk)

230 Wandered off to watch some Rick Beato and Cowboy Kent Rollins and cafe videos. Took some time, even running Rick at 1.5x.

Here's the off-ramp for me. May you all dodge the tornadoes. All we have here is maybe more rain on the tin roof.
https://youtu.be/R9L0oOIGIAw

G'nite, y'all. Angels guard you through the night.

Posted by: mindful webworker - them rustlin' holy wings at April 03, 2025 12:42 AM (MsUjn)

231 No added tax on Argentina, Philippines, Viet Nam, Korea, Japan.
hmmm, pretty sure we hit Japan with something; Radio said, Japan taxes our rice at 100%.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

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Sometimes the tariffs are to keep local industry alive.
Japan with 100% on rice for example.
And then... Local producers raise their prices to match...

Asked the manager/owner of an asian grocery (in florida if it matters) why they do not carry domestic calrose rice like the stores in Hawaii?
Customers won't buy it. They'd rather pay more for calrose shipped bulk to korea or japan, packaged by their domestic brands, and shipped back to the states. Even if it is the exact same commodity that peeps in Hawaii prefer.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2025 12:42 AM (/lPRQ)

232 Well, I got tape and mud on the remaining eleven feet of wall in the front room. It should be dry enough to sand by morning. I will sand it, decide if it needs a re-coat, and then primer it. Sometimes the primer discloses spots that need more mud. Might have it in finish paint tomorrow evening, or Friday for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 12:43 AM (8zz6B)

233 Any canadians still here?

I'm see that a fake news fake "fact checker" and fake "journalist" employed by CTV was Fired. Rachel Gilmore.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2025 12:34 AM (SZD2V)

Read about that yesterday. Entire empires have arisen and crumbled into dust since the ast time I watched Canadian TV news.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 12:45 AM (8zz6B)

234 Just woke up from a little snooze on the couch. Thanks TRex, for an uplifting ONT on a cold and rainy night.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2025 12:48 AM (0nHVk)

235
Yes, an abort due to failure to rendezvous properly with the ISS would've been a return to earth about. The capsule would orbit around 'til a good reentry window opened up and come back down.

Thruster failure there, meaning attitude control was lost or not well functioning would mean a "ballistic" re-entry. Survivable, but very high g's. Unless something really bad happened. Then boom.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2025 12:48 AM (w6EFb)

236 Yes, an abort due to failure to rendezvous properly with the ISS would've been a return to earth about. The capsule would orbit around 'til a good reentry window opened up and come back down.

Thruster failure there, meaning attitude control was lost or not well functioning would mean a "ballistic" re-entry. Survivable, but very high g's. Unless something really bad happened. Then boom.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2025 12:48 AM (w6EFb)

Hi publius! Such a treat to meet you and Miley last week! A most enjoyable visit. So what is the bright planet hanging around 8:00 to the Moon tonight?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 12:51 AM (8zz6B)

237 Looney Tunes is another Mandela Effect.

Some people will swear they saw it as
Looney Toons.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 12:54 AM (VZZ3b)

238 >> So what is the bright planet hanging around 8:00 to the Moon tonight?

That would be old Jove, I think.

Yes, Miley and I enjoyed dinner with you guys as well. It's nice to have a face to put to the grey boxes!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

239 And does anyone have a suggestion for the use of scrap and off-cuts of sheetrock? I have a mitt-full of it. Some of it, I will put away in the garage for patch material should a wall or ceiling get damaged, but I have way more than I will likely ever need for that. Seems like breaking it up, and putting it in the wheelie bin is the best option.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 12:56 AM (8zz6B)

240 Another tariff list:

United States announces reciprocal tariffs on the following countries

• Chile 10% • India 26% • Israel 17% • Brazil 10% • China 34%
• Japan 24% • Turkey 10% • Taiwan 32% • Vietnam 46%
• Pakistan 29% • Thailand 36% • Australia 10% • Malaysia 24%
• Colombia 10% • Sri Lanka 44% • Singapore 10% • Indonesia 32%
• Cambodia 49% • Philippines 17% • Switzerland 31% • Bangladesh 37%
• South Korea 25% • South Africa 30% • United Kingdom 10%
• European Union 20%

Pixy says I*'m a spammer

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:56 AM (SP4ma)

241 I remember as a kid learning that it is near impossible to break an egg in your hand only squeezing the top and bottom together.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 12:56 AM (VZZ3b)

242 Argentina hasn't made a list yet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:57 AM (SP4ma)

243 I hope no one here is horribly affected by the weather.

We have rain. After flooding a couple of years ago that resulted in 1+ years of renovations, I'm staying up a bit. The rains are not horrible, but I'm paranoid now. Fortunately, the carpets were replaced by vinyl flooring.

Posted by: Stateless...81% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 03, 2025 12:57 AM (jvJvP)

244
Heh. I just Groked ballistic reentry. Soyuz and Apollo had that designed in. If RCS and attitude control was lost, the thing was designed for a survivable ballistic reentry (think uncontrolled plunge, but you had to get it started right).

Soyuz has had to do several of those over the decades. Poor Don Pettit, riding back home on one of those, pulled 8g's. With a load strapped to his chest. He was not a happy camper. Another Japanese astronaut-ette had to ride one of those, and it put her in the hospital, spinal injury. Nothing permanent, I don't think, but a very bad ride.

Now, it turns out that Dragon and the Starliner do not have such a built-in ballistic failsafe. They depend on system redunancy to maintain control. "Survival would not be guaranteed", says Grok.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2025 12:59 AM (w6EFb)

245 Seems like breaking it up, and putting it in the wheelie bin is the best option.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Maybe as a last-ditch dessicant... but yeah, trash. Here, we must bag it, because "no construction debris!" in home waste. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

246 @239

It'll eventually end up in whatever facility in your area takes construction debris. Leftover drywall is a PITA.

Posted by: Captain Ned at April 03, 2025 01:00 AM (nADdg)

247 Thank you for the ONT by the way.

Great cartoons.

Posted by: Stateless...81% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 03, 2025 01:01 AM (jvJvP)

248 Always thought the idea that Speedy was offensive to Latins was ridiculous. Speedy was the hero, and he was cool. I remember being a little kid and us yelling andale andale arriba and bolting off. And in that place, at that time, before even Taco Bell, that was about all we knew about Latins.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 03, 2025 01:04 AM (3/XaG)

249 Put it in the walls for insulation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:04 AM (SP4ma)

250 Speaking of desiccant--

I found a couple of paint-can sized containers of silica sand at Dad's place. Mom used to preserve flowers, for fun...

Need a way to package it & use for ammo storage.

Suggestions?

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

251 Warning: some things, once seen, cannot be unseen.

https://tinyurl.com/3zkjdemm

Don't blame me.

Blame Mike Lee.

Posted by: Commie Lay Harris at April 03, 2025 01:05 AM (W5ArC)

252 I hope no one here is horribly affected by the weather.

We have rain. After flooding a couple of years ago that resulted in 1+ years of renovations, I'm staying up a bit. The rains are not horrible, but I'm paranoid now. Fortunately, the carpets were replaced by vinyl flooring.
Posted by: Stateless...81% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 03, 2025 12:57 AM (jvJvP)

I have a friend who has 'weather trauma'. She got it from Hurricane Sandy (she lives on Staten Island, right off the Guinea Gangplank and near the ocean). Her roof was torn off in spots, the sound was like a freight train that never ended, the flooding in her garage was horrid. She was actually scared for her life when she heard the roof start to go. People forget it was very cold after Sandy and snow came into her attic through the holes in her roof. Now even a heavy thunderstorm causes her to panic.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 01:06 AM (gKDq2)

253 Maybe as a last-ditch dessicant... but yeah, trash. Here, we must bag it, because "no construction debris!" in home waste. Heh.
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

I might take some of it out to the desert and use it as target backboards, and haul the shot-up board back home to throw in the bin. the little scraps of gypsum and paper shot out by the slugs would be nothing compared to the trash that is already on those sites.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 01:06 AM (8zz6B)

254 239 And does anyone have a suggestion for the use of scrap and off-cuts of sheetrock? I have a mitt-full of it. Some of it, I will put away in the garage for patch material should a wall or ceiling get damaged, but I have way more than I will likely ever need for that. Seems like breaking it up, and putting it in the wheelie bin is the best option.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 12:56 AM (8zz6B)

My friend renovated his house....and did most of the work on ours.

I was shocked at how much weight those bins can hold. I'd toss in 50 pounds or so at a time but he had a ton of weight in there one time.

Posted by: Stateless...81% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 03, 2025 01:07 AM (jvJvP)

255 > Need a way to package it & use for ammo storage.

Suggestions?
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

How big are the granules? If reasonably large, a simple thing to do would be to put them in a length of old pantyhose, knotted at either end.

If smaller, I'd try putting them in glass jars with, once again, a piece of pantyhose fabric rubberbanded over the top.

Most silica gel can be regenerated by drying it out under moderate heat in a regular oven.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:08 AM (W5ArC)

256 When I was a young 'un, we used to treasure scraps of sheetrock for use as makeshift sidewalk chalk.

Yeah, we'uz po folk.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:10 AM (W5ArC)

257 WarMonitor @WarMonitor3 3h
The Trump administration has put a 10 percent tariff on the Heard Island and McDonald which has a population of 0 people and is inhabited only by penguins.
- - - - - -

They are actually the world's largest exporter of tuxedoes...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at April 03, 2025 01:11 AM (JbUif)

258 Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 01:06 AM (gKDq2)

What a horrible story. Poor lady.

I had clients throughout Florida for 8 years. Hurricane season was always terrible. And people did suffer major damage.

Posted by: Stateless...81% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 03, 2025 01:11 AM (jvJvP)

259 > Speedy was the hero, and he was cool.

Sure. Very popular character in Mexico.

I mean, the smart, fast Mexican mouse was always making a fool out of the stupid Gringo cat.

That's a recipe for success in that region.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:11 AM (W5ArC)

260 It wasn't Mexicans what got rid of Speedy it was Grievance groups flexing their muscles. Frito Bandito also.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:13 AM (SP4ma)

261 When I was a young 'un, we used to treasure scraps of sheetrock for use as makeshift sidewalk chalk.

Yeah, we'uz po folk.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Sidewalks? Luxury!
We just used sticks to draw in the mud.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2025 01:13 AM (XeU6L)

262 > 225 Ancient Phil Foglio cartoon in, I think, Heavy metal posted the downsides of having a cat-girl. To whit, the hairballs and clawing of the furniture.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2025 12:36 AM (xiqAs)

That litterbox would suck major ass, too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:14 AM (W5ArC)

263 How big are the granules?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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It's like very fine sand. Doubt that pantyhose could contain it.

Perhaps sew it into bags made of high-thread-count percale? Could still dry it out in the oven, with low heat I think.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

264 I found a couple of paint-can sized containers of silica sand at Dad's place. Mom used to preserve flowers, for fun...

Need a way to package it & use for ammo storage.

Suggestions?
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

Silica sand or silica gel? Silica gel is the dessicant. Typically looks like coarse salt, and is not very sharp-cornered. They used to "dope" silica gel with cobalt chloride. The dry product was pink, and as it absorbed moisture, it turned blue. You can spread silica gel out on a cookie sheet in the oven, and bake it to drive off the moisture it has absorbed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 01:15 AM (8zz6B)

265 > 260 It wasn't Mexicans what got rid of Speedy it was Grievance groups flexing their muscles. Frito Bandito also.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:13 AM (SP4ma)

Sure. One of my favorite memes is of a blonde female superhero type (I don't know if it's a real character or not). Caption: "By the power of White Girl, I am offended on your behalf!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:15 AM (W5ArC)

266 > It's like very fine sand. Doubt that pantyhose could contain it.

Yeah, then I'd try the glass jar idea.

I think any kind of closely-woven fabric is probably going to interfere with the airflow too much. I could be wrong, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:17 AM (W5ArC)

267 It wasn't Mexicans what got rid of Speedy it was Grievance groups flexing their muscles. Frito Bandito also.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Haven't seen Juan Valdez around in a while. Of course, he was Columbian.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2025 01:17 AM (XeU6L)

268 > I hope no one here is horribly affected by the weather.
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We've been in a tornado shelter in town for the last several hours. Just got home. It's wild. Several tornados confirmed within 10 miles of us. Torrential rain and 40 - 50MPH wind gusts. Almost constant thunder and lightning right now, but I think the worst is over.

Yet... we're in that area that is forecast to get up to a foot (yes a foot) of rain between now and the weekend.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2025 01:17 AM (Q4IgG)

269
So, yep, if I've got it right, if the Space Edsel's thrusters completely failed, meaning no attitude control during reentry, it might not survive it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2025 01:19 AM (w6EFb)

270 It's like very fine sand. Doubt that pantyhose could contain it.

Perhaps sew it into bags made of high-thread-count percale? Could still dry it out in the oven, with low heat I think.
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

If it is silica sand, then, I doubt it will be an effective dessicant for boxes of ammo. I think it dries flowers by wicking the moisture away from the petals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 01:19 AM (8zz6B)

271 Silica sand or silica gel?
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Excellent question, AOP. I'll have to look at the labels again tomorrow!

It's in a sand-like form, but needed to be refreshed periodically (baked in the oven) between 'projects' so I'd guess it's actually "gel"?

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

272 Washington Sheriff Won't Allow Non-Citizens To Work As Police Officers, Despite Political Pressure

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:21 AM (SP4ma)

273 > Haven't seen Juan Valdez around in a while. Of course, he was Columbian.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2025 01:17 AM (XeU6L)

He discovered that there was much more money to be made in agricultural products other than coffee.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:22 AM (W5ArC)

274 Well, if the stuff isn't "gel" then I'll donate it to some craft group. Stuff was expensive, iirc, so don't want to just toss it out if someone else can find a use.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:22 AM (rdVOm)

275 269
So, yep, if I've got it right, if the Space Edsel's thrusters completely failed, meaning no attitude control during reentry, it might not survive it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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It's difficult to survive re-entry in a tumbling ball of fire.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:26 AM (SP4ma)

276
Some balls on those Viet Namese fucks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2025 01:26 AM (SZD2V)

277 The 3D printing community (of whom I am one) uses silica gel to keep some types plastic filament dry (some kinds absorb moisture, which then boils off in the hot end/nozzle, leading to a poor surface finish).

I use calcium chloride myself. It absorbs a ton more moisture than an equivalent amount of silica gel. It's not (easily reusable), but drying the silica gel out in the oven is something of a pain in the ass anyway.

It's dirt-cheap in the form of ice melt (read the label... there are different kinds of chemicals in different brands).

It's easy to buy here in Alaska. YMMV if you're in Florida or something.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:27 AM (W5ArC)

278 240
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 12:56 AM (SP4ma)
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I didn't see Italy in a list.

Posted by: Ciampino - it's the boot at April 03, 2025 01:27 AM (sPQoU)

279 Excellent question, AOP. I'll have to look at the labels again tomorrow!

It's in a sand-like form, but needed to be refreshed periodically (baked in the oven) between 'projects' so I'd guess it's actually "gel"?
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

Checking the label would be a good idea. Silica gel is made kind of coarse and chunky, so air can flow through and around the granules, which literally suck moisture out of the air. Those little packets you find in bags of beef jerky, and pill bottles, and packed with electronic and camera gear are silica gel.

A real good dessicant for crates and cabinets is calcium chloride, and you can buy little plastic basket things that use it, and catch the slime that drips out. Marine supply stores should have it, maybe RV supply places too. Calcium chloride is very cheap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 01:27 AM (8zz6B)

280 @CollinRugg 3h

17-year-old 4.0 student stabbed in the heart at a high school track event in Frisco, Texas, dies in his twin brother’s arms.

Horrifying.

Austin Metcalf was attacked after telling a teen from a different school that he was sitting in the wrong spot.

Karmelo Anthony has been been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:30 AM (SP4ma)

281 Thanks, AOP. Will probably just stick with Dri-Z-Air units for the safes.

The old ladies at Community Center/Senior Center will be happy to dry their flowers for wreath-making & such...

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:31 AM (rdVOm)

282 Frisco is a city in Texas and part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
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There you go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:32 AM (SP4ma)

283 We've been in a tornado shelter in town for the last several hours. Just got home. It's wild. Several tornados confirmed within 10 miles of us. Torrential rain and 40 - 50MPH wind gusts. Almost constant thunder and lightning right now, but I think the worst is over.

Yet... we're in that area that is forecast to get up to a foot (yes a foot) of rain between now and the weekend.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2025 01:17 AM (Q4IgG)

I'm glad you're alright. Hopefully the rain doesn't do much damage.

Fear of water damage is my special brand of crazy now.

Posted by: Stateless...81% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 03, 2025 01:33 AM (jvJvP)

284 It's easy to buy here in Alaska. YMMV if you're in Florida or something.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:27 AM (W5ArC)

100% calcium chloride is sold relatively cheaply as “calcium increaser” for pools.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 01:34 AM (l3YAf)

285 Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2025 01:17 AM

Yikes!

Glad you're safe & hope you don't float away this weekend!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)

286 Massie Bill Demands Federal Candidates Reveal Dual Citizenship

if you're a citizen of two countries, which oath are you taking more seriously, or can you take them both seriously?" Massie told Fox's Cain.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:41 AM (SP4ma)

287 Time for me to hang it up.

Good night, all...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 01:44 AM (W5ArC)

288 buy calcium chloride

https://tinyurl.com/mw4pxbyw

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:44 AM (SP4ma)

289 JQ, what the heck, save some, and preserve a wildflower that grows where you live. My Mom did a lot of flower preservation. She stored them in a damp basement, alas, and I was unable to save them. I should do that for one flower from here. I need to make some decisions soon, but I am still contending with a big piece of the puzzle that hasn't been solved yet. My front lawn is not mowed at all, it is a small field full of weeds and wildflowers, but something is always blooming there.


Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2025 01:47 AM (0nHVk)

290 I am going to call it a night, too. Busy day planned for tomorrow. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2025 01:47 AM (8zz6B)

291 Welp, got an apt w/CT at 5, need a couple of hours anyway.
Enjoy. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:49 AM (SP4ma)

292 armelo Anthony has been been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2025 01:30 AM (SP4ma)
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Story to disappear before the news at 10PM:

https://tinyurl.com/2r2wnpw7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 03, 2025 01:53 AM (IMKWe)

293 Goodnight, guys! Thanks for your suggestions.
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Hi, Debby!

Yes, maybe I'll preserve some of the daffodils here. Mom did roses & hydrangeas (and others), but they got *so* dry, they'd just fall apart.

Too bad the colors fade so much.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

294 264
The dry product was pink, and as it absorbed moisture, it turned blue
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The other way round: the dried cobalt ion (blue) turns pink as it hydrates.

Posted by: Ciampino - it's the pink at April 03, 2025 01:56 AM (sPQoU)

295 Good night, AOP, safe travels when you head back North, it must be coming up pretty soon. Good luck on finishing the room first, I know that you will do it.

Martini Farmer and Stateless, I will pray for you, flooding is no fun, been through it a few times despite two fairly strong sump pumps in the basement.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2025 01:57 AM (0nHVk)

296 I just really don't have time for crafting anymore-- haven't even *looked* at my beads n stuff for a few years... too many responsibilities.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

297 Hey JQ, how is hubby doing?

Posted by: Ciampino - we slow down as we get older. I'm molasses now. at April 03, 2025 02:01 AM (sPQoU)

298 Hi, Ciampino! Hubby is okay, thanks.

How are YOU? Better by the day, I hope!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:02 AM (rdVOm)

299 JQ, I get it.

Ciampino, good to see you back to your old self.

Good night, Horde, I am tired and off to bed, carry on.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2025 02:09 AM (0nHVk)

300 Hubs was fiddling with his tv remote when I arrived the other day... and then he asked if I got the pictures he sent. (? He doesn't have a cellphone)

And told me about his brother coming to visit, but that brother walked away without having conversation with him. (Bro lives in AZ and hasn't been here in years)

*That* is how hubby is really doing, but at least he still recognizes me and those who call while I'm there with him.

Wondering how things will go when his son and ExW visit next week!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:13 AM (rdVOm)

301 Not for weak stomachs.

Tow truck driver's head run over by car driver trying to drive off. Truck driver survived.

https://tinyurl.com/mr7p7n3w

Posted by: Ciampino - we slow down as we get older. I'm molasses now at April 03, 2025 02:14 AM (sPQoU)

302 Not clicking that, Ciampino!

How awful!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

303 Good night, Debby

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:19 AM (rdVOm)

304 'Tis a flesh wound, JQ. It wasn't like a watermelon at a Gallagher concert.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 02:20 AM (gKDq2)

305 Thanks, RickZ. Will take your word for it.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

306 298 Hi, Ciampino! Hubby is okay, thanks.

How are YOU? Better by the day, I hope!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:02 AM (rdVOm)
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Still unsteady on the legs. Almost got rid of this cough - it's been at least 6 weeks from when I started. Appetite slowly coming back.
Great that I'm retired and can nap anytime. I'm going to do that right now and maybe make the Pixy thread.
Goodnight.
Goodnight DDS.

Posted by: Ciampino - I've fallen & I can't get up LOL at April 03, 2025 02:23 AM (sPQoU)

307 'Night, Ciampino. Rest well.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

308 1 hour to go

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2025 02:32 AM (ypFCm)

309 The bottom of my gas grill rusted out. Bummer. But I found a metal-shop & got a piece of 18ga steel cut to size as a replacement.

Good to go!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:51 AM (rdVOm)

310 Wondering how things will go when his son and ExW visit next week!
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 02:13 AM (rdVOm)

One day my grandma just stopped being in the present. She called my aunt to say if she wanted to see her before she died, she'd better come quick.

So Aunt Dorothy went over, and grandma was up on a ladder in the basement getting down canning jars. She asked why Dorothy was not ready for the school bus and where on earth was Shirley (my mom). So, off to memory care she went.

She was perfectly happy there, and for the first time in her life, she cussed like a sailor on shore leave, but she called everyone by her daughter's names, so I was Shirley, etc. And she had a great time, got her hair done once a week, showed off for all the old boys.

Sometimes it's a blessing, some times it is a curse. I intend to enjoy being bonkers when my times comes, which probably isn't too far away.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 03, 2025 02:56 AM (LweC0)

311 Wow, tcn, that's wild!

Hubby has been very slowly 'losing it' for the last couple of years, and then had a very sudden downturn (incontinence) in Sept, and another (weakness/falling) in Dec.

He's been losing cognitive ability much faster since then.

Some of the situations have been hilarious but at the same time heartbreaking. It's an odd journey...

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)

312 Need to pay the facility tomorrow, for April.

So much for the new deck...

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)

313 I'm just so happy to get the grill fixed!

The 'bottom' piece was just a shelf under the burners, to funnel drips into a cup-- also a heat shield over the gas bottle. Got scary hot underneath without it, until I subbed a piece of foil but knew that wouldn't last.

Less than ten bucks for the sheet metal. Yay!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 03:25 AM (rdVOm)

314 Tcn, is your doggo Piper home yet? Hope she's doing okay!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

315 Wanted to get up 10 minutes ago

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2025 03:41 AM (ypFCm)

316 Has Wolfus been around since slipping the yoke? Heh.

Happy happy retirement, Wolfus! Wherever you are!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 03:45 AM (rdVOm)

317 Bedtime here. Oh, waaayyy past, in fact!

G'night, horde. Sweet dreams.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2025 03:46 AM (rdVOm)

318 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2025 04:03 AM (ypFCm)

319 Yosemite Sam once said, "Well let's just sashay on over thar and have a look-see!" and I still haven't recovered. I use it all the time.

Posted by: Dave at April 03, 2025 07:25 AM (rPheK)

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