Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - April 29, 2025 [scampydog]

Owyhee OR

Good evening and thank you for stopping by the Tuesday, ONT.

A couple of shout outs this evening:

- Big thanks to ONT Cob Emeritus, Misanthropic Humanitarian, for covering last week with a dandy evening of content.

- Daywalker Cobs are doing great work while Ace is parts unknown and doing ... we probably don't want to know.

Let's see what amount of random fun we can get into this evening. Lurkers, c'mon out tonight - let it fly.

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Not Friday. Yet.

🔥Friday Funnies🔥

Drop a funny meme or video.

Humanity needs more laughter! 😂 pic.twitter.com/a3NbJlrkLb
— GnosisWolf (@GnosisWolf) April 26, 2025

There is a long list of fallen HollyWeird.

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Airport people vs. airport robots. This oversized, mouthy robot Roomba and its cousins look a bit like the R2-D2. Pic below from the ATL airport. One of the vacu-bots got stuck between two rows of gate seats - going back and forth like the Austin Powers cart scene. The robot kept saying, "Please step aside, robot is cleaning." Surprisingly less annoying than some of the airport people.

These robot cleaners use the SLAM system - or they used to. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (I read that somewhere). Simple algorithm that is decent at mapping but not very good at navigating all the ped traffic.

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While stuck at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, I came across the display pictured below.

70's lunchboxes.

Daredevil Evel Knievel soared into pop culture fame with his wild stunts and larger-than-life image. His 1970s lunchbox often captured him mid-jump, cape flying, motorcycle wheels spinning through the air.

Who had a lunchbox? And/or which one did you REALLY want? I always kind of wanted the Six Million Dollar Man version. Who else was a brown bag kid?

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MOAR airport!

How do US airports get their three letter codes? I thought you'd never ask.

It's easy to assume that airfield identifiers correlate with letters in the field's name: "JFK" because it's the initials of the late President after whom the airport is named; "MIA" because those are the first three letters in "Miami"; and "LAS" because that's the first half of "Las Vegas." Yet, it's actually way more complicated than that, involving at least three governing bodies with their own separate naming standards.

Airports and their names? Sure, sure - airport eponyms. Have that for you also.

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Horde engineers, give us an Incidental Learning Session in the comments.

High heels on airplane shoe myth? Engineers. Pressure. High Heels.
None of the links at the site work but there is a decent table of information to peruse.

Here is a link to an Engineer forum.
Worth a scan.

"There is an old story that while the 747 floor was fine - women with high heels would destroy them...."
Boeing made their improved floor panels, BMS4-23, to better handle in service wear (impact and rolling load).
BMS4-20 is graphite epoxy face with nomex core.
BMS4-23 is fiberglass flame retardent epoxy face with aluminum honeycomb core.
One of my co-workers said that the 777 has composite graphite floor beams with BMS4-23 floor panels. Maybe the type floor panels are a customer option.

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Looking at that long airstrip of a hallway might make a certain person or Moron want to get a good run and see how far they could slide. Or put some Wesson oil or dish soap or Pam spray, and give it a go barefoot. Boys really are simple creatures.

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Big Airport Finish

There is an AoSHQ airport in Spain - Moron Airport (OZP). Also airports named: Fukui Airport (FKJ), Japan, Brest Airport (BES), France, which leads us directly to... Ogle Airport (OGL), Guyana.

Here is the list. Much comment material in the link. Bestest airport names.

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This picture has been sitting in a file folder for a spell. Kept thinking I'd write a bit about noodle-armed, David Hogg, but I never seem to have an interest. Take it away, Horde.

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This ONT is brought to you by dancing. Shakira, we love you but the first 8 seconds of this video are old school Hips Don't Lie. Hit the comments with the names of the actresses, actors, and movies.

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Bonus dancing videos:

Hitch

Ann Margaret, Tonight Show

Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo

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This ONT does not endorse Goblin bats. Send large square ice cube trays, Hot Wheels track sections, and right-sized funnels to: scampydog at proton dot me.

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Comments

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1 Yay, Zipper Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 29, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

2 It just keeps raining here.

Gonna build a little canoe for us and the critters.

Now, how much is a cubit?

Posted by: mindful webworker - so they say at April 29, 2025 10:00 PM (YvdHz)

3 Drat!

Posted by: caf at April 29, 2025 10:00 PM (/+mVZ)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 29, 2025 10:00 PM (GYt5+)

5 Appropriately humbled by the speedy Blanco Basura, I have committed first-loser corgi-whitling duties.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but it is raining at April 29, 2025 10:02 PM (YvdHz)

6 Yikes! Woof! Good dog!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 29, 2025 10:02 PM (GhZY8)

7 Appropriately humbled by the speedy Blanco Basura, I have committed first-loser corgi-whitling duties.

I'm picturing someone slicing slivers off a small dog. Hopefully I've just misunderstood.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 29, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)

8 "Go Trumpman!"

More Trump anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR4tOPvNXDY

Putin is depicted as a serious bad-a$$

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:04 PM (Ut2e7)

9 I had a Snoopy lunchbox. Thermos fit into the lid. (Until I dropped/broke it-- old ones were glass-lined.)

Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm)

10 2 mw

If you get tired of the wetness, send it my way🤪!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 29, 2025 10:05 PM (GhZY8)

11 F Harry Reid. I'll always call it McCarran.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 29, 2025 10:06 PM (0eaVi)

12 Evenin'
.................
youtu.be/1eSlvoO3Vw8

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 29, 2025 10:07 PM (sAmhv)

13 Poor R2

First it was the Jawa frying his circuits. Followed by Vader blowing his top off. Getting eaten by a monster on Degobah. Then R2 just had to stick his data-wand into a Bespin power receptacle, R2 got a real shock that time. And finally on the forest moon of Endor he took a blaster bolt which really scrambled him.

Is it any wonder how he could end up in that condition then?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:07 PM (Ut2e7)

14 Experts discover flu vaccine has disturbing effect on women's health

https://mol.im/a/14660141

Posted by: Ciampino - Top Men & Women at April 29, 2025 10:07 PM (sPQoU)

15 Evening all , thx scampydog.
Obviously there was a horrible shelving accident. Because of the people killed and wounded ace had to go into the Ewok Protection Program.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 29, 2025 10:08 PM (Er3Q7)

16 Canada?

LoL 🤣

Posted by: Net Zero at April 29, 2025 10:08 PM (sAmhv)

17 I only remember one lunch box from first grade. I think it was a Disney one. Used them until fifth grade when I noticed everyone started brown bagging.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 29, 2025 10:08 PM (0eaVi)

18 (0JNcD)
Ya do know ya idiot, canada telling President to f off is a little like a man telling a woman he's not going to have sex with her. It just won't last.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 10:08 PM (TfUTr)

19 At the Battle of Cape Matapan, one of the Royal Navy officers was named, wait for it, Manly Powers.

No wonder the British won.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:09 PM (Ut2e7)

20 Lunchbox. How about a handful of Kaboom cereal in a zip lock bag.

Posted by: Ron at April 29, 2025 10:09 PM (KDtr3)

21 I'm reposting before going to bed.

223 I want to thank everyone here for keeping me relatively sane over the last while.

January.... Mom died.
February.....my Uncle Leonard....90. I did a lot for him
.
March.....my computer died. Lost my Microsoft account. That was a gift that kept on giving.

April....Trumpy disappeared last week. My friends' cats. Snowflake and Trumpy would come in around 11am and sleep to about 6pm and I'd let them out.

And the dog Ralphy is limping horribly. I took him for shots for arthritis but it no longer seems to be working.

Tomorrow. New day. There were a few people here going to be cutting down on the booze. I'm joining you tomorrow.

Today was actually pretty nice. My friends had me over for lunch.The kids loved the pictures of their cats in our house. We had eggs, bacon, bread pasta. It was really nice. I haven't had a happy day for so long.

Tomorrow I start recreating my life. My friend is an engineer. Talented as hell. He's building the kids a tree house this week. I'm helping out and doing grunt work.

Snowflake just came in and is resting on the cat tree. I'm not a cat person, but apparently there are exceptions.

Thanks for the help. Tomorrow

Posted by: Stateless.. 21% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 29, 2025 10:09 PM (jvJvP)

22 corgi-whitling duties

Whitling, whistling, whatever it takes.

Posted by: mindful webworker - dangaroonie at April 29, 2025 10:09 PM (YvdHz)

23 Thanks for the swell Tuesday Night ONT, scampydog!

Never had a lunchbox because they were more expensive than a paper sack. So we were spared the agony of choosing a theme for our lunchbox, which is a positive!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 29, 2025 10:09 PM (rxCpr)

24 Good evening morons y gracias scampydog

There's a part of Sydney called Manley, a peninsula between the Pacific and Sydney harbor. Very touristy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 29, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

25 9 I had a Snoopy lunchbox. Thermos fit into the lid. (Until I dropped/broke it-- old ones were glass-lined.)
Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm)

Yeah, and then you'd shake it, and it sounded like a can of nails sloshing around in the Thermos, but you knew it was broken glass. Don't drink it!

Ah, memories.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 29, 2025 10:10 PM (KOSi8)

26 My lunch box was a dad hand me down. Classic.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 10:11 PM (TfUTr)

27 A real flu vaccine or the garbage mRNA shots?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:11 PM (Ut2e7)

28 Thanks scampy...
Yeah. Good music....
No one beats Mis.Hum though...
Miss that guy....
But yeah. Nicely done ONT!!!💋

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 29, 2025 10:11 PM (GhZY8)

29 Sorry for your troubles, Stateless. Rest well & I hope things look brighter for you tomorrow!

Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:11 PM (rdVOm)

30 My lunchbox was from Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 29, 2025 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

31 Yeah, and then you'd shake it, and it sounded like a can of nails sloshing around in the Thermos, but you knew it was broken glass. Don't drink it!

Ah, memories.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Exactly.

You too, huh?

Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (rdVOm)

32 The Maui airport code is OGG. Which is based on a guy whose last name was Hogg. So.. that’s a stretch.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (l3YAf)

33 Oh no. Canadian fags and American retards don't like our President. Whatever shall I do?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (Poobo)

34

I had a Steve Canyon lunch box.

https://t.ly/-fnyd

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (63Dwl)

35 I don’t have to do a study to know if a guy cuts off his junk and gets breast implants he will level the field more when competing against females.

So far I haven’t seen any of these mentally ill trannies that are competing having done that .

I wonder why that is.

( Renee Richards , one of the few that have , proves my point. He sucked as a tennis player)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (VofaG)

36 If the sign for Manly refers to David "Attention" Hogg, the highway number must refer to how much he can lift in each hand, in decigrams. In Imperial measure, about 2#.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (VNX3d)

37 My lunchbox was from Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I will pay you TEN yankee dollars for that bad boy.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

38 Funny highway exits. Happy, TX made me smile. Climax, NC. LOL.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 10:14 PM (uksS7)

39 Fireball XL5?

No UFO lunch box with the Moon maidens?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:15 PM (Ut2e7)

40 Oh no. Canadian fags and American retards don't like our President. Whatever shall I do?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (Poobo)

You can do what I do, and laugh at their simplicity and/or ignorance.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 29, 2025 10:15 PM (VNX3d)

41 F Harry Reid. I'll always call it McCarran.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 29, 2025 10:06 PM (0eaVi)
* * * *
Agree on the first. It will always be the Las Vegas Airport to me. No need to go with the fancy (former) name.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 29, 2025 10:15 PM (rxCpr)

42 I had a Scooby Doo lunchbox.

My favorite was my Linda Carter Wonder Woman though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 29, 2025 10:15 PM (mT+6a)

43 Lil bro had a Dukes of Hazzard lunchbox. It's still at Dad's house, in the storeroom.

Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:16 PM (rdVOm)

44 LAX, nothing lax about air traffic in LA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:16 PM (Ut2e7)

45 Daywalker Cobs are doing great work while Ace is parts unknown and doing ... we probably don't want to know.

Indecent relations with Marco Rubio's garbage again?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 29, 2025 10:16 PM (Vqx30)

46 Good for you Stateless, so glad you were able to experience and savor a happy day. That's alot of loss in a short time, be kind to yourself and just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Praying and rooting for you...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at April 29, 2025 10:16 PM (IQ6Gq)

47 22 January.... Mom died.
February.....my Uncle Leonard....90. I did a lot for him.

january: my older sister died.
april: one of my younger sisters died.

March.....my computer died. Lost my Microsoft account. That was a gift that kept on giving.

did you look in your other pants?

April....Trumpy disappeared last week. My friends' cats. Snowflake and Trumpy would come in around 11am and sleep to about 6pm and I'd let them out.

came home from work today to a dead neighborhood cat in my front yard.

Tomorrow. New day. There were a few people here going to be cutting down on the booze. I'm joining you tomorrow.

tomorrow. new day. i'll be once again digging in to code from a major aerospace company to try to figure out how it works. i may need to take up drinking to deal with it.

Posted by: anachronda at April 29, 2025 10:17 PM (edU/H)

48
My lunchbox was from Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Was the artwork in black and white?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 29, 2025 10:17 PM (63Dwl)

49 Pro tip: the thermos is half the value of a vintage lunchbox

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 29, 2025 10:18 PM (pIfcn)

50 LAX, nothing lax about air traffic in LA.

Might be short for "laxative". 'Cause if you knew what was going on in the tower it would scare the shit out of you.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 29, 2025 10:18 PM (lUFok)

51 Now, how much is a cubit?
Posted by: mindful webworker
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It's obtaining the Gopher wood that's a problem.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 29, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)

52 A cubit?

Same as in town

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:19 PM (Ut2e7)

53 Stateless,
Hang in there. I think of you often.

It’s all going to work out. Be brave.

Thank you for taking care of your mom.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 29, 2025 10:19 PM (mT+6a)

54 I have a Hannah Montana lunchbox and one that looks like a VW Bus.

Posted by: Rollin' In Dough at April 29, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)

55 Oh by the way.

When you are 29 and make friends when you were never that at making friends,. That's kind of cool.

I did a lot for them. Canada went insane in 2020. They went to Florida and Mexico.

House was rented out. I did everything I could to help out.

I'm tired and going to bed.

Tomorrow....I start I start making the Horde prou
Good night.

Posted by: Stateless.. 21% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 29, 2025 10:19 PM (jvJvP)

56 Moron Air Base

https://tinyurl.com/mp9k2pd3

Any current Morons been there?

Posted by: Ciampino - Any morons at April 29, 2025 10:20 PM (sPQoU)

57 Speaking of Atlanta, the last time a member of my family went through there, we burned it.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at April 29, 2025 10:20 PM (EvHnz)

58 Lunch box? Uh...Hopalong Cassidy

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 29, 2025 10:20 PM (XeU6L)

59 Take care Stateless.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:20 PM (Ut2e7)

60 I've never been overly excited about dancers, but I have to admit that Sven Otten, the king of neo-swing, is pretty impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtJct8nKjcc

Posted by: davidt at April 29, 2025 10:21 PM (i0F8b)

61 Teresa in FW, I wasn't on the ONT last night, but read the comments today and saw your message. That is the most unbelievably great news. I hope this chemo drug keeps working, that your tumors shrink and/or disappear, and that you are a viable candidate for surgery should anything remain. What an incredible story, an absolute message of hope. Prayers continue...

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at April 29, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

62 There can only ever be one GOAT, and that was Astaire. Gene Kelly was always meh. Cyd Charisse is *chef's kiss*.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 29, 2025 10:22 PM (s8j++)

63 Oh no. Canadian fags and American retards don't like our President. Whatever shall I do?
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 29, 2025 10:13 PM (Poobo)

Vote Democrat!

But give me money first.

Posted by: That Hogg (At The Trough) Kid at April 29, 2025 10:22 PM (gKDq2)

64 Airport names - Oklahoma City has two airports about 8 miles apart, each named after men who died in one plane crash. Will Rogers and Wiley Post. One a famous entertainer and one an influential aviation man. Seems disheartening to fly out of places named thus.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at April 29, 2025 10:22 PM (ha1wR)

65 Now, how much is a cubit?
Posted by: mindful webworker

It's obtaining the Gopher wood that's a problem.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I pondered showing the gopher nudes of Gadget Hackwrench, but there's no way it'd be a cubit.

(No, I'm not gonna check. Rule 34. They exist.)

Posted by: mikeski at April 29, 2025 10:23 PM (DgGvY)

66 "Greatest Tightening Shock The Market Has Ever Seen": Chinese Copper Stocks To Run Out In Weeks

If Washington needed a way to truly hurt Beijing, it appears to have found it

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 10:23 PM (GITLP)

67 Crap. Hubby's brother called & wants to visit... He didn't know about the nursing home (because we never hear from him unless he wants something) due to no communication since last year.

Last year? Hubby had to tell him "no, you can't put your camper in our yard and stay here"

I fear. Muchly. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)

68 Okay I watched that Ann Margaret clip just because I like Johnny, but once she got going - oh wow! Like Johnny, that just kind of leads you at a loss for words.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:23 PM (QULmo)

69 Lunch box as a kid... I remember lunch sacks, and taking them home if I could.

On occasion, I might get a small Ace Hardware or True Value bag.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 29, 2025 10:24 PM (VNX3d)

70 Evening and thanks everyone. Had completely forgotten about the broken glass - thermos thing!

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 10:24 PM (41CYW)

71 19 Rat

See ya over at the lounge. I have little, if anything to contribute tonight...(damn this crooked table)....
Barkeep! Whiskeys all around! (Says Doc on Gunsmoke)....
Oops...I'm out....I think (hic),,,,😓

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 29, 2025 10:25 PM (GhZY8)

72 I still have my grade school lunchbox. Mine was "How the West Was Won" (TV series, not movie) so every day I got to eat my lunch with James Arness staring at me sternly.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at April 29, 2025 10:26 PM (QdGJh)

73 I've never been overly excited about dancers, but I have to admit that Sven Otten, the king of neo-swing, is pretty impressive.

Agreed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvhpJSNjEtY

Posted by: Archimedes at April 29, 2025 10:26 PM (s8j++)

74 I either had a Batman lunch box or a Rat Patrol lunch box. I know I made a Rat Patrol model, so there's a good possibility I'm confused.

The only thing about lunch boxes I know is that to have any value, they have to have an intact thermos. Those thermoses always broke. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 10:26 PM (gKDq2)

75 I never took lunch to school so never had a lunch box.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 29, 2025 10:26 PM (VofaG)

76 Never had a lunch box, and always had to save the brown bag for the week.

Posted by: davidt at April 29, 2025 10:27 PM (i0F8b)

77 Crap. Hubby's brother called & wants to visit... He didn't know about the nursing home (because we never hear from him unless he wants something) due to no communication since last year.

Last year? Hubby had to tell him "no, you can't put your camper in our yard and stay here"

I fear. Muchly. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ

Explain you have way too much on your plate and email a list of motels close to the nursing home.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 10:27 PM (TfUTr)

78 The only lunchbox I remember had King Kong from the 1977 remake. He's standing astride the WTC towers and swatting at the UH-1s blasting away at him.

Posted by: PabloD at April 29, 2025 10:27 PM (65gtf)

79 I had a Rat Patrol lunchbox. The thermos broke within a month.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 29, 2025 10:28 PM (Aqu9a)

80 Okay I watched that Ann Margaret clip just because I like Johnny, but once she got going - oh wow! Like Johnny, that just kind of leads you at a loss for words.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:23 PM (QULmo)

Bye Bye Birdie is my favorite musical.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 29, 2025 10:28 PM (VofaG)

81 I had a Beverly Hillbillies lunchbox in grade school.

Posted by: CapeFear at April 29, 2025 10:28 PM (qhuez)

82 Moron Air Base

I never got there. I do know that it is pronounced "Mow-roan"

Rhymes with groan

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 29, 2025 10:28 PM (Me+bw)

83 Long ago a friend of mine tried to book a flight to San Jose, CA and knowing that San Francisco was SFO, asked for a flight to SJO. It was only when the booking agent asked him if he had a current passport that he realized that he was about to go to San Jose, Costa Rica instead.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 29, 2025 10:28 PM (/y8xj)

84 Every Navy ship has an ICAO designation, as they all have a TACAN. It's also used for other identification. My first ship was NBZO.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at April 29, 2025 10:29 PM (zrlyb)

85 Hey…why is my ad a bra for “older ladies” !?!

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:29 PM (pZEOD)

86 See ya over at the lounge. I have little, if anything to contribute tonight...(damn this crooked table)....
Barkeep! Whiskeys all around! (Says Doc on Gunsmoke)....
Oops...I'm out....I think (hic),,,,😓

Posted by: COMountainMarie

You're good.
Barkeep! These pretzels are making me thirsty!

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 10:29 PM (TfUTr)

87 Manley exit :

https://maps.app.goo.gl/cLTSusTgj34nwfVK8

Posted by: BillyD at April 29, 2025 10:30 PM (Yt3ED)

88 I had a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea lunchbox, my brother had Land of the Giants. (Mine was better)
Thermos containers never lasted. I still remember the sound of the crunch when it slips and drops on the floor and all the glass inside breaks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:30 PM (QULmo)

89 Every Navy ship has an ICAO designation, as they all have a TACAN. It's also used for other identification. My first ship was NBZO.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer
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And down the rabbit hole I go.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 10:30 PM (41CYW)

90 Mrs. Zod had (has) Jonathan Livingston lunchbox.

Zod had Kung Fu. Still smells like peanut butter and turned bananas.

Posted by: ZOD at April 29, 2025 10:31 PM (Bd09o)

91 Thanks for the dance video, Scampydog, I dropped tap after 3 years because I thought it was stupid and regret it to this day. I would like to trade my modern dance classes to get tap back (but not ballet) 🩰

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

92 Explain you have way too much on your plate and email a list of motels close to the nursing home.
Posted by: Some Rat

There are no motels near the nursing home & the bro probably doesn't have much money. Also, probably pulling his camp trailer...

I will direct him to RV parking, though. There's plenty of that around here, and way more affordable.

Meanwhile-- I keep my truck parked across the drive-thru gate into our yard!

Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:32 PM (rdVOm)

93 What have you been searching Piper?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Ut2e7)

94 78 The only lunchbox I remember had King Kong from the 1977 remake. He's standing astride the WTC towers and swatting at the UH-1s blasting away at him.
Posted by: PabloD at April 29, 2025 10:27 PM (65gtf)

Whichever version of King Kong, when he's climbing up those buildings, at some point, somebody looked out their window at a giant gorilla wang. Can you imagine the HR paperwork that would create? You'd need like five sensitivity training classes minimum.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 29, 2025 10:32 PM (pIfcn)

95 Question:

Has anyone watched the first season of "You." If you have, does the annoying "blowjob eyes" blonde get killed by Joe?

Thanks.

Posted by: ZOD at April 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Bd09o)

96 Crap. Hubby's brother called & wants to visit... He didn't know about the nursing home (because we never hear from him unless he wants something) due to no communication since last year.

Last year? Hubby had to tell him "no, you can't put your camper in our yard and stay here"

I fear. Muchly. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:23 PM (rdVOm)

Oh, that uh, that there's an RV. Yeah, yeah, I borrowed it off a buddy of mine. He took my house, I took the RV. It's a good looking vehicle, ain't it?

But, don't you go falling in love with it now, because, we're taking it with us when we leave here next month.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at April 29, 2025 10:33 PM (Aqu9a)

97 People are going to complain
People are going to wonder why
People are going to begin to doubt themselves.

But just watch the level of RAGE by the Marxist/Socialists
Just watch the MSM try and make themselves relevant again with lie upon lie
Just watch the Democrat's twist themselves into blackened knots trying to gain a SINGLE FOOTHOLD!

You bet your sweet fu**ing ASS...
THIS IS WHAT I VOTED FOR!

100 DAYS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!

And the Best is yet to come "SING IT FRANK!!!"

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 29, 2025 10:33 PM (25kuG)

98 Ann-Margaret didn't need no bra.

Posted by: davidt at April 29, 2025 10:33 PM (i0F8b)

99 I had an Emergency lunchbox. Red, lots of cool pics of fire engines, and some of the actors. I liked that show.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 29, 2025 10:34 PM (sAmhv)

100 Whichever version of King Kong, when he's climbing up those buildings, at some point, somebody looked out their window at a giant gorilla wang. Can you imagine the HR paperwork that would create? You'd need like five sensitivity training classes minimum.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 29, 2025 10:32 PM (pIfcn)

https://youtu.be/c4szhV_IBS8

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 29, 2025 10:34 PM (VNX3d)

101 Meanwhile-- I keep my truck parked across the drive-thru gate into our yard!
Posted by: JQ

Heh, don't forget the "Beware of Owner" sign.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr)

102 61 Teresa in FW, I wasn't on the ONT last night, but read the comments today and saw your message. That is the most unbelievably great news. I hope this chemo drug keeps working, that your tumors shrink and/or disappear, and that you are a viable candidate for surgery should anything remain. What an incredible story, an absolute message of hope. Prayers continue...
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at April 29

I cannot write this sentiment any better so am seconding it.

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:34 PM (pZEOD)

103 Engineering. Ann Margaret was well engineered.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 29, 2025 10:35 PM (n4GiU)

104 Hey…why is my ad a bra for “older ladies” !?!
Posted by: Piper

So you can plan ahead. Beat inflation: buy now.

Posted by: mikeski at April 29, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

105 94
" somebody looked out their window at a giant gorilla wang."

They have small ones ....

Posted by: Ciampino - Apes are not endowed at April 29, 2025 10:37 PM (sPQoU)

106
93 What have you been searching Piper?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29

Not old lady bras!

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:38 PM (pZEOD)

107 https://youtu.be/c4szhV_IBS8
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Pretty good. Not seen that one.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 10:38 PM (41CYW)

108 Meanwhile-- I keep my truck parked across the drive-thru gate into our yard!

Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:32 PM

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Hope Brother in law finds a place to park.

A padlocked gate at the end of the driveway is worth its weight in gold. If you live someplace where cell signals don't always work, even better.

Bless you and your hubby.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 10:38 PM (uksS7)

109 Hey…why is my ad a bra for “older ladies” !?!
Posted by: Piper

So you can plan ahead. Beat inflation: buy now.
Posted by: mikeski

I got shelled by hearing aid ads....never researched 'em. Figured my doc sold me oul.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 10:38 PM (TfUTr)

110 Hey…why is my ad a bra for “older ladies” !?!
Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:29 PM (pZEOD)

I got the same ad. I'm interested in how the little force vector arrows are supposed to work. Is there an anti gravity lifting device embedded in the thing?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 29, 2025 10:39 PM (Me+bw)

111 I had that Star Wars lunchbox in the picture. I used it until my brother stopped using his and I took possession. It was a Wild Wild West lunchbox like this one: https://is.gd/kZrcSQ

Posted by: Bert G at April 29, 2025 10:39 PM (VARTN)

112 Sheesh. A buddy just sent me an ad for portable speakers/music players shaped to look like claymore mines.
Dumb!
Go to the beach, set a couple of those up, get SWAT'd in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 29, 2025 10:40 PM (W/lyH)

113 I had a Star Wars lunchbox.
It was as awesome as it sounds.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 29, 2025 10:40 PM (9FEtL)

114 https://youtu.be/c4szhV_IBS8
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Pretty good. Not seen that one.
Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 10:38 PM (41CYW)

Bob Newhart could pull the driest humor.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 29, 2025 10:40 PM (VNX3d)

115 Good evening good people. Just returned from feeding the little man. He will soon be up to five pounds - he's looking forward to getting out of the slammer.

I can just tell.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2025 10:42 PM (vKNmo)

116 There's a part of Sydney called Manley, a peninsula between the Pacific and Sydney harbor. Very touristy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Great memories. Spent a week on Manly Beach and area back in... um... a while ago.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 10:42 PM (41CYW)

117 I had a what-was-that-dolphin-show lunchbox. No idea why. I never watched the series. I don’t think I saw a single episode. Having the lunchbox occasionally made me curious about it, but not enough to get to the tv at the weird times it aired in reruns.

I did not break the thermos, so someone got a good deal at my parents’ yard sale eons ago.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 29, 2025 10:42 PM (EXyHK)

118 I had a Star Wars lunchbox.
It was as awesome as it sounds.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 29, 2025 10:40 PM (9FEtL)
====

Not really.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 29, 2025 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

119 My lunchbox was Peanuts. The thermos leaked. Using it was like having the football kicked from under me time and again. Better than school lunch.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 10:43 PM (uksS7)

120 Over the shoulder Boulder Holders...

Man's curse upon women in the modern age because otherwise men would be "navel gazing" + 2.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 29, 2025 10:43 PM (25kuG)

121 Flipper! Actually I didn’t like it but my kid brother loved it and would pitch a fit if it wasn’t on. So I saw most of them, because what the heck it was on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:44 PM (QULmo)

122 Lift. Separate. Support.

Minimize, even.

Posted by: Playtex at April 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Aqu9a)

123 Oh by the way - the Texas Health Presbyterian system is starting to invite senior volunteers back to perform as 'cuddlers' for the babies in their nurseries and NICUs.

I'd definitely sign up for that if I lived here.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2025 10:44 PM (vKNmo)

124 56 Moron Air Base

https://tinyurl.com/mp9k2pd3

Any current Morons been there?

Posted by: Ciampino - Any morons at April 29, 2025 10:20 PM (sPQoU)

I've been there. The US Air Force used it as a transshipment point for shipping goods and equipment to and from the sand box in support of Operations Northern and Southern Watch. My group helped load the C5 that brought us back to Dover AFB. Tank track pallets are fucking heavy, but so are the big pallets with luggage. Became a moot point after the Iraq invasion. Seville is nearby and a short (45 minutes?) worker van ride to drop you off in front of the Cerveza factory (yes the brand is Cerveza, lol). Partied hard one Saturday night going bar hopping.

Posted by: Farquad at April 29, 2025 10:44 PM (bwvMs)

125 Sheesh. A buddy just sent me an ad for portable speakers/music players shaped to look like claymore mines.
Dumb!

And you know with a metaphysical certainty that some dipsh*t is going to have one in his carry-on luggage the day you're trying to get to an important flight.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 29, 2025 10:45 PM (/y8xj)

126 Thanks Tom Servo. That was driving me crazy.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 29, 2025 10:45 PM (EXyHK)

127 Brown Bag all the way. Made a PBJ or PB -n- honey sandwich, maybe a baggie of chips the night before stuck in freezer. . Name written on bag. Re-used multiple times..

Once in first grade I had put my lunch bag in the freezer overnight but forgot to take it to school. The teachers made my fifth grade brother give me his lunch (awesome sandwich) and sent him home to get my lunch for him to eat. I never had realized that apples don''t like being frozen. He still hates me.

Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 10:45 PM (uCfKO)

128 115 Good evening good people. Just returned from feeding the little man. He will soon be up to five pounds - he's looking forward to getting out of the slammer.

I can just tell.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2025
This made me laugh.

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:46 PM (pZEOD)

129 128

Though I have a brace of grandkids...I would sign up for that detail in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 29, 2025 10:46 PM (25kuG)

130 Tonypete, it is good that your grandbaby is thriving and ready to break out. So little good news these days. That is a nice story.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 10:46 PM (uksS7)

131 Any one who doesn't know what a woman is just needs to watch that Ann-Margaret video.

Posted by: Cosda at April 29, 2025 10:46 PM (HnIBa)

132 Looking at that long airstrip of a hallway might make a certain person or Moron want to get a good run and see how far they could slide. Or put some Wesson oil or dish soap or Pam spray, and give it a go barefoot. Boys really are simple creatures.
===

Indoor rifle range.

BB guns of course.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 29, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

133 Only lunch box I can remember was Man from Uncle. Mostly a brown bagger. Loved the dance video SD. Brought back memories of my sainted mother. She loved Fred and Ginger, Gene Kelly, Donald O' Connor and Doris Day. Growing up, I always considered my parents to be boring. I found out later they had a fun life before kids. At their 50th wedding anniversary, when the dancing started, their good friends put in Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by the Andrews sisters. My parents , 75 and 71 started doing the jitterbug. Apparently they had won multiple dance contests in their younger days. I was dumbfounded. I can't dance worth beans.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 29, 2025 10:47 PM (TrKJG)

134 79 I had a Rat Patrol lunchbox. The thermos broke within a month.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 29, 2025 10:28 PM

I assume the Nazis fired hundreds of rounds at you ... yet only managed to hit your thermos?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 29, 2025 10:47 PM (HlyYF)

135 Piper

Guess go search for soemthing on Etsy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:48 PM (Ut2e7)

136 I had a GI Joe (WW2) model lunchbox. The best part was that one of the soldiers looked just like my buddy. Memories.

Posted by: RetsgtRN at April 29, 2025 10:49 PM (zhs2/)

137 Well, buddies...I haven't been able to sleep for 36 plus hours...
Not that I didn't want to...just couldn't sleep. I think I'm ready finally....insomnia sucks sometimes...

"Sleep is the best meditation.” - Dalai Lama
Good night good pals💤❣❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 29, 2025 10:49 PM (GhZY8)

138 85 Hey…why is my ad a bra for “older ladies” !?!

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:29 PM

Mother's Day is coming up and the data harvesting software knows you are a thoughtful daughter?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 29, 2025 10:50 PM (HlyYF)

139 I am off to bed! Hopefully my new furry baby sleeps through the night. He was neutered today and is still a little loopy.

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:50 PM (pZEOD)

140 I had a Roy Rodgers lunchbox and thermos.

I'm not really 29 btw.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2025 10:50 PM (vKNmo)

141 I don't remember what lunchbox I had but the 6 Million Dollar Man one was really popular.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 29, 2025 10:50 PM (0JWOm)

142 Scooby Doo lunch Box for me. Sis had the Peanuts

Posted by: Jonah at April 29, 2025 10:51 PM (YCxFk)

143 Never had a lunch box. Always envied the cool kids with theirs, until mom explained that they would never accommodate a proper meatball sub. Love ya, mom..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 29, 2025 10:51 PM (bA75n)

144 Flipper! Actually I didn’t like it but my kid brother loved it and would pitch a fit if it wasn’t on. So I saw most of them, because what the heck it was on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:44 PM (QULmo)

Why didn't you go play a video game or something?, say the kids of today.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2)

145 At their 50th wedding anniversary, when the dancing started, their good friends put in Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by the Andrews sisters. My parents , 75 and 71 started doing the jitterbug. Apparently they had won multiple dance contests in their younger days. I was dumbfounded. I can't dance worth beans.
Posted by: Sock Monkey
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That's a cool memory, Sock.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

146 Well, buddies...I haven't been able to sleep for 36 plus hours...
Not that I didn't want to...just couldn't sleep. I think I'm ready finally....insomnia sucks sometimes...

"Sleep is the best meditation.” - Dalai Lama
Good night good pals💤❣❣
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 29, 2025 10:49 PM (GhZY

Can't sleep? I'm here for you.

Posted by: Bob Ross at April 29, 2025 10:51 PM (0eaVi)

147 I never had a lunch box. As a matter of fact, I was expected to fold up the bag and bring it home for re-use. Note that I didn't say "brown" bag, because sometimes I'd get a white one that was used to bring home some chipped ham from Isleys. That should tell.younse where I grew up. :-)

Posted by: buddhaha at April 29, 2025 10:52 PM (H3LQw)

148 138 85 Hey…why is my ad a bra for “older ladies” !?!

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:29 PM

Mother's Day is coming up and the data harvesting software knows you are a thoughtful daughter?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

My beautiful mama is in heaven. Which begs the question….actually, never mind. ☺️

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:52 PM (pZEOD)

149 56 Moron Air Base

https://tinyurl.com/mp9k2pd3

Any current Morons been there?
Posted by: Ciampino
.........................
Yes. Didn't get to see or do much. Midway through a trip to Saudi Arabia. A layover, wasn't long.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 29, 2025 10:52 PM (sAmhv)

150 Thanx for the dance montage; it was fun. A gal I went to high school with was a Rockette. Sadly, I don't remember her. Somehow, though, she found me on FB. She's long retired, of course. These days, she makes beautiful art.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at April 29, 2025 10:52 PM (xoECP)

151 I had the Hot Wheels lunch box.

I was never the cool kid at school, but I did have the best lunch box (to the boys) and my Mom packed great lunches.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 29, 2025 10:54 PM (HlyYF)

152 Poor Soup.

Night Piper

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 29, 2025 10:55 PM (Ut2e7)

153 Sheesh. A buddy just sent me an ad for portable speakers/music players shaped to look like claymore mines.
Posted by: Diogenes

"FRONT TOWARD PARTY"

Posted by: mikeski at April 29, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)

154 The greatest metal lunchbox of all time was themed on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Seaview on one side, flying sub on the other.

Plus, David Hedison's commanding mug on the side of the thermos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2025 10:55 PM (JkO4W)

155 117 I had a what-was-that-dolphin-show lunchbox.

--

Flipper
Eeek eek eek

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 29, 2025 10:55 PM (WL2lA)

156 I only got to use my lunchbox on days when we were bussed to the Gifted program. Mom thought only poor kids took a lunch, so she made me eat cafeteria food. No fond memories of school lunch, but no lasting damage either.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 10:55 PM (uksS7)

157 Why didn't you go play a video game or something?, say the kids of today.
Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2)

The great thing about growing up in those days is that Mom would say (especially on Saturdays) “if you stay in the house you gotta do chores.” But if you got out of the house and out of her line of sight, you could do whatever you wanted all day long.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:56 PM (QULmo)

158 I also remember the boring red plaid lunchbox

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 29, 2025 10:57 PM (WL2lA)

159 79 I had a Rat Patrol lunchbox. The thermos broke within a month.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 29, 2025 10:28 PM

I assume the Nazis fired hundreds of rounds at you ... yet only managed to hit your thermos?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 29, 2025 10:47 PM (HlyYF)

Yeah, almost. They caught us behind their camp and started firing. We had to jump a sand mogul to get away and it was the jeep's landing that did in the thermos. I'll never forgive the Nazi commander for that, even though he went on to a long career as a soap opera bad boy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 29, 2025 10:57 PM (Aqu9a)

160 I got the same ad. I'm interested in how the little force vector arrows are supposed to work. Is there an anti gravity lifting device embedded in the thing?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 29, 2025 10:39 PM (Me+bw)

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It's patented top secret boob-lifting technology. All very hush-hush.,

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2025 10:58 PM (JkO4W)

161 My beautiful mama is in heaven. Which begs the question….actually, never mind. ☺️

Posted by: Piper at April 29, 2025 10:52 PM

You think sweet ladies lose their bewbs when they go to heaven?

I assume the fine print on the ad indicated that they did have drone delivery options?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 29, 2025 10:58 PM (HlyYF)

162 Every Navy ship has an ICAO designation, as they all have a TACAN. It's also used for other identification. My first ship was NBZO.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer
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Wos, long list. https://tinyurl.com/3yud6zvr
wikipedia link - hull classifications.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 11:00 PM (41CYW)

163 Up to Gr. 8 I went home for lunch every day.

We moved the summer before high school, went to the big city, so I couldn’t wait to have a new lunch box to take.

I was the only kid in the school with one. A very uncool way for the new kid to make an impression. I recovered though.

Posted by: Marty at April 29, 2025 11:00 PM (ELmyf)

164 As an antidote to the old lady bra commercials

https://youtu.be/v90fKtK691s?t=150

I doubt it applies to any of our wonderful ettes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 29, 2025 11:01 PM (VNX3d)

165 I worked in travel for almost 10 years, and whenever I hear or see a city name, the 3-letter airport code pops into my head. It's been almost 25 years since those days, but the codes still pop up.

No, mostly the most common ones, not every small regional airport. I didn't book flights to those.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 29, 2025 11:01 PM (w6EFb)

166 >> You think sweet ladies lose their bewbs when they go to heaven?

Maybe they’re young and perky again?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 29, 2025 11:01 PM (l3YAf)

167 Who had a lunchbox? And/or which one did you REALLY want?

Sigh. Brown paper bag for me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 29, 2025 11:01 PM (mH6SG)

168 DOUG EMHOFF RAGES AS PRESIDENT TRUMP RECLAIMS HOLOCAUST BOARD FROM BIDEN’S POLITICAL CRONIES

With three days left in his presidency, Barack Obama made his final appointments to administration positions, including adding 10 members to the Holocaust Memorial Council.

Most notable on that list is Ben Rhodes, a long-time Obama aide and speechwriter who managed the White House messaging on selling the Iran deal and explaining the US decision to abstain on a United Nations Security Council resolution last month that condemned Israeli settlements as illegal.

Posted by: SMOD at April 29, 2025 11:02 PM (GITLP)

169 The great thing about growing up in those days is that Mom would say (especially on Saturdays) “if you stay in the house you gotta do chores.” But if you got out of the house and out of her line of sight, you could do whatever you wanted all day long.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:56 PM (QULmo)

So we're related, huh?

I've posted this funny Mom story before. Mom hated me just laying around the living room watching tv. So, yes, out of the house I went. However, this one time I was in my room cleaning my .22 bolt action rifle (about 10 years old). I was so busy I didn't hear her call my name. She (much) later told me she came back to see what I was doing (and if I needed something to do). She saw me cleaning my rifle and she thought to herself, 'He's doing something useful', and walked away without me ever knowing. Mom's version of 'useful' wouldn't fly today.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:02 PM (gKDq2)

170 Can't sleep? I'm here for you.
Posted by: Bob Ross at April 29, 2025 10:51 PM (0eaVi)

My sleep inducing TV is "How It's Made" A series of ten minute documentaries on manufacturing all sorts of goods. The background music is repetitive, the narrator is a soothing baritone, and after the second round of "the technician applies glue to the back of the liner," I'm out like a light.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 29, 2025 11:02 PM (Me+bw)

171 Sigh. Brown paper bag for me.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Same. And there were the 'mustard, cheese, and pickle sammich' years.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 11:03 PM (41CYW)

172 Old bewbs are still bewbs.

Old man ballz are true sadness.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 29, 2025 11:03 PM (9FEtL)

173 Old bewbs are still bewbs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 29, 2025 11:03 PM (9FEtL)

So, granny strip clubs?

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)

174 ¿Quien es mucho macho?

Posted by: Captain Comic at April 29, 2025 11:07 PM (Vsojw)

175 A just used brown paper bags. Mom would buy a pack of 50 Standard lunch. Skippy Peanut butter Welch’s grape jelly on wonder bread. A banana or Apple Pringles and a hostess cupcake or a few Oreos in a ziplock

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 29, 2025 11:08 PM (7d///)

176 My sleep inducing TV is "How It's Made" A series of ten minute documentaries on manufacturing all sorts of goods. The background music is repetitive, the narrator is a soothing baritone, and after the second round of "the technician applies glue to the back of the liner," I'm out like a light.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Based on some of the sketchier employees shown sometimes, I fully expected announcer guy to intone: "Bobs face tattoos and prison record make him ideal for this repetitive job..."

Posted by: Some Rat at April 29, 2025 11:08 PM (TfUTr)

177 Based on some of the sketchier employees shown sometimes, I fully expected announcer guy to intone: "Bobs face tattoos and prison record make him ideal for this repetitive job..."
Posted by: Some Rat
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LOL. Have had similar thoughts.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 11:09 PM (41CYW)

178 I wanted a Peanuts lunchbox but all I got was a paper bag

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at April 29, 2025 11:10 PM (y7zkd)

179 173 Old bewbs are still bewbs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 29, 2025 11:03 PM (9FEtL)

So, granny strip clubs?
Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)

GILFs seemed very distasteful. Then I got old.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 29, 2025 11:10 PM (9FEtL)

180 >> DOUG EMHOFF RAGES AS PRESIDENT TRUMP RECLAIMS HOLOCAUST BOARD FROM BIDEN’S POLITICAL CRONIES

You know who else took charge of a Holocaust board..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 29, 2025 11:10 PM (l3YAf)

181 There's a lot of talk that Reddit is the "Dead Internet". A.I. bots were manipulating comment threads for SCIENCE.
Some of them targeted the Right (there was a fake black guy who was against BLM), others went farming for the Left (fake trauma counsellors, fake sex-assault survivors).

Posted by: gKWVE at April 29, 2025 11:11 PM (gKWVE)

182 I'm seeing more and more Albertans talking about joining the US now.

I'd laugh if we do get a 51st state made out of the valuable parts of the Canuck Reich and left the Indians/Pakis running the eastern provinces to fight each other

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 11:11 PM (t0Rmr)

183 My sleep inducing TV is "How It's Made" A series of ten minute documentaries on manufacturing all sorts of goods

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 29, 2025 11:02 PM (Me+bw)

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This show is oddly fascinating. It is meditative. Although I no longer eat hot dogs as a result of watching.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 11:12 PM (uksS7)

184 The Born to Be Alive video s fun to showcase all the great dancers from the past. Some of the clips look sped up to match the rhythm of the so-so musical accompaniment. Frankly I remember some of these numbers, particularly the bits from Singing in the Rain, and the original audio was better, picked just to suit the number, and even when patently nostalgic for a past era, like Singing in the Rain, the original music just suited the sequence better. Like the bit where Debbie Reynolds’s character is introduced IIRC had a definite boo oop de doop character that belied her earlier pretensions to style and art.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 29, 2025 11:12 PM (sagpo)

185 Snowflake is scratching at the window to come in

Outdoor cat, And she's not my cat,

I let her in from 11am to about 6pm. That amuses me.

I have a cat tree. She comes in. Sleeps on the cat tree. Or the couch. Or the bed in the purple bedroom.

Posted by: Stateless.. 21% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 29, 2025 11:13 PM (jvJvP)

186 But if you got out of the house and out of her line of sight, you could do whatever you wanted all day long.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Same here, with some limitations. When I was young, the area we lived in was rural and sparsely populated. My dad had recently bought a riding lawnmower. One day I decided to take it for a spin. Apparently my little sister ratted me out. I was about a half a mile up the road just about ready to head up a mountain trail when I heard someone honking behind me. Turned around to see my mother and little sister in our old blue Ford Falcon SW. I remembered that punishment for awhile. Wasn't the last time I "borrowed " some of my dad's wheels.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 29, 2025 11:13 PM (TrKJG)

187 168 DOUG EMHOFF RAGES AS PRESIDENT TRUMP RECLAIMS HOLOCAUST BOARD FROM BIDEN’S POLITICAL CRONIES

When did he change his name from Jack?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 29, 2025 11:15 PM (bA75n)

188 You think sweet ladies lose their bewbs when they go to heaven?

Maybe they’re young and perky again?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Damn right they are! Haven't we all been told we'll be lifted up to Heaven?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2025 11:17 PM (vKNmo)

189 is it too late for Douggie Emhoff to learn to code?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 29, 2025 11:17 PM (gKWVE)

190 166 >> You think sweet ladies lose their bewbs when they go to heaven?

Maybe they’re young and perky again?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 29, 2025 11:01 PM

Yet one more thing that both 'ettes and Morons would agree on!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 29, 2025 11:17 PM (HlyYF)

191 I'm seeing more and more Albertans talking about joining the US now.

No. Absolutely no. At the end of the day - its Canada.

Stay up there. Accept the New England states. Maybe Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 29, 2025 11:18 PM (ZSWqg)

192 mustard, cheese, and pickle sammich' years.
Posted by: scampydog

Peanut butter, pickle and mayonnaise. Still a favorite.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 29, 2025 11:19 PM (TrKJG)

193 mustard, cheese, and pickle sammich' years.
Posted by: scampydog

Peanut butter, pickle and mayonnaise. Still a favorite.
Posted by: Sock Monkey

There was a time that I thought a sammich made of Lawson's chip chopped ham, veleeta, pickles and mustard was fit for a King.

Upon reflection, the chip chopped ham was as nasty as it now sounds.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2025 11:21 PM (vKNmo)

194 You think sweet ladies lose their bewbs when they go to heaven?

Maybe they’re young and perky again?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Damn right they are! Haven't we all been told we'll be lifted up to Heaven?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 29, 2025 11:17 PM (vKNmo)

So the one's who go to hell get boobs like Walter's wife (https://youtu.be/v90fKtK691s?t=150)?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 29, 2025 11:22 PM (VNX3d)

195 I had six older brothers.. For road trips my mom would make bologna sandwiches to eat at a roadside rest area. The sandwich making consisted of opening a package of bologna and emptying a bag of white bread. She would start slapping bread-bologna-bread... bread-bologna-bread... bread-bologna-bread on the kitchen counter, Then she would stack the sandwiches and slide them back into the bread bag. Come lunchtime my dad and the seven brothers would sit at the concrete picnic table and she would sling those sandwiches at us like she was dealing blackjack in Vegas.

A good day was if she added mustard. I miss Mom.

Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 11:22 PM (uCfKO)

196 Some time ago, I managed a development team that was located in Vietnam.

I got enjoyed the fact that the airport code for Ho Chi Minh City is still SGN.

Posted by: Half Dozen at April 29, 2025 11:27 PM (uVHlT)

197 A good day was if she added mustard. I miss Mom.
Posted by: muldoon

At least you have the family Recipe

Posted by: Miklos prefers his bologna fried at April 29, 2025 11:28 PM (IKhKt)

198 >>Stay up there. Accept the New England states. Maybe Wisconsin and Minnesota.

You live in Indiana. What makes you think you get to stay?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 29, 2025 11:29 PM (viF8m)

199 As I understand it, mostly from the Revelation of John, but with support elsewhere in the Bible, those who go to Heaven will be in spirit form for a time, but later we will have our bodies restored as Ben Franklin wrote from his self-written epitaph:

…
For it will, as he believed, appear once more
In a new & most beautiful Edition,
Corrected and amended by the Author.

As to whether we keep our appendages more suited to life on present day Earth, C. S. Lewis was of the opinion that gentlemen will retain their swords, but that they will remain sheathed. So women should be women in heaven, and men should be men, even better than we were, but we will all be brothers and sisters there, and children of God.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 29, 2025 11:30 PM (sagpo)

200 Who is that dancer in that first 8 seconds of dance video. It is mezmerizing
.

Posted by: Ripley at April 29, 2025 11:30 PM (PTDkx)

201 I had six older brothers.. For road trips my mom would make bologna sandwiches to eat at a roadside rest area. The sandwich making consisted of opening a package of bologna and emptying a bag of white bread. She would start slapping bread-bologna-bread... bread-bologna-bread... bread-bologna-bread on the kitchen counter, Then she would stack the sandwiches and slide them back into the bread bag. Come lunchtime my dad and the seven brothers would sit at the concrete picnic table and she would sling those sandwiches at us like she was dealing blackjack in Vegas.

A good day was if she added mustard. I miss Mom.

Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 11:22 PM (uCfKO)

My Dad was the kind of driver who only stopped for gas, and you better pee when he did so. Except when he wanted to stop at his favorite foot-long chili dog joint at a cerain little town on the US road we always traveled. But nothing else. Mom brought those packs of NABS crackers for me to eat. Wouldn't give my Dad any and it pissed him off. She told him if you eat crackers, we'll never stop.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:31 PM (gKDq2)

202 I could never keep a lunch box thermos intact. The old glass thermoses were never up to the challenges of childhood, at least not for this boy. They would often break within the first week of school, if not the first day.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 29, 2025 11:33 PM (sagpo)

203 You live in Indiana. What makes you think you get to stay?
Posted by: JackStraw

We done been through this

Posted by: Carolina Miklos thinks things might turn out differt next time at April 29, 2025 11:33 PM (IKhKt)

204 Lemmie think. What do I like about airports and commercial flying? Oh yeah. Nothing.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 29, 2025 11:34 PM (kzHlT)

205 Posted by: RickZ

*********

What are NABS crackers?

Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 11:35 PM (uCfKO)

206 >>We done been through this

That's what everyone says as they are about to pass through Indiana.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 29, 2025 11:35 PM (viF8m)

207 My Dad was the kind of driver who only stopped for gas,
Posted by: RickZ

My Dad always threated to STOP THIS CAR

Posted by: Miklos recalls generalized threats abot TURNING THIS CAR AROUND at April 29, 2025 11:37 PM (IKhKt)

208 The NFL lunchbox….I had one not unlike the ones shown here. Mine had the NFC teams on one side and the AFC teams on the other. A simple metal lunchbox, and I thought it was perhaps the coolest thing ever.

(Then my mother tossed it when we moved to Germany and got one from the bottom of the clearance pile: a Mork & Mindy lunchbox. I’m still pissed about going from so bloody awesome to extremely lame just because we moved.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 29, 2025 11:37 PM (vm8sq)

209 GILFs seemed very distasteful. Then I got old.
X
See?!
Some guys get it...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 29, 2025 11:38 PM (GhZY8)

210 We done been through this

That's what everyone says as they are about to pass through Indiana.
Posted by: JackStraw

Oh

That was Indiana? Did we miss the Bobby Knight Memorial?

Posted by: Anyone who has been through or across Indiana at April 29, 2025 11:39 PM (IKhKt)

211 Nabs Crackers are the package of Crackers you'd pick up at the convenience store to eat with your RC cola. Cheesy Crackers with peanut butter in the middle. Or Cheesy Crackers with cheese. Originally made by nabisco.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 11:39 PM (uksS7)

212 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 29, 2025 11:40 PM (bss/y)

213 a Mork & Mindy lunchbox. I’m still pissed about going from so bloody awesome to extremely lame just because we moved.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

*********

I laughed out loud. I'm sorry.

Mork & Mindy? You must have been mortified.

Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 11:40 PM (uCfKO)

214 38 Funny highway exits. Happy, TX made me smile. Climax, NC. LOL.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 10:14 PM (uksS7)

Happy is a real place. I drive through it about four times a week.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 29, 2025 11:41 PM (vm8sq)

215 Some guys get it...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Social Security, Medicaid, some little pension from my time workin' the railroad...

Posted by: Miklos considers himself Fortunate at April 29, 2025 11:41 PM (IKhKt)

216 Oh

That was Indiana? Did we miss the Bobby Knight Memorial?
Posted by: Anyone who has been through or across Indiana at April 29, 2025 11:39 PM (IKhKt)

Oh no. The IU president kind of forced him out because he found him distasteful. Then the school and town went full commie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 29, 2025 11:41 PM (bss/y)

217 I had a Snoopy lunchbox. Thermos fit into the lid. (Until I dropped/broke it-- old ones were glass-lined.)
Posted by: JQ at April 29, 2025 10:05 PM (rdVOm)

Yeah, and then you'd shake it, and it sounded like a can of nails sloshing around in the Thermos, but you knew it was broken glass. Don't drink it!

Ah, memories.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 29, 2025 10:10 PM (KOSi

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Me, too!

Ebay:

https://tinyurl.com/ydx98ycz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 29, 2025 11:42 PM (qFAfu)

218 What are NABS crackers?
Posted by: muldoon

Nabisco club crackers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 29, 2025 11:42 PM (TrKJG)

219 Cheesy Crackers with peanut butter in the middle. Or Cheesy Crackers with cheese. Originally made by nabisco.
Posted by: ScaryMary

********

Thanks. Familiar with the crackers, not familiar with the name.

Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 11:42 PM (uCfKO)

220 Thermos containers never lasted. I still remember the sound of the crunch when it slips and drops on the floor and all the glass inside breaks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 29, 2025 10:30 PM (QULmo)

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Glass-lined thermoses were the lawn darts of kids cuisine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2025 11:42 PM (JkO4W)

221 My Dad always threated to STOP THIS CAR
Posted by: Miklos recalls generalized threats abot TURNING THIS CAR AROUND at April 29, 2025 11:37 PM (IKhKt)

I was the only kid in the car. I was easy to ignore -- or smack.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:42 PM (gKDq2)

222 64 Airport names - Oklahoma City has two airports about 8 miles apart, each named after men who died in one plane crash. Will Rogers and Wiley Post. One a famous entertainer and one an influential aviation man. Seems disheartening to fly out of places named thus.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at April 29, 2025 10:22 PM (ha1wR)

BRW is named for both as they died about 15 miles south of there.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 29, 2025 11:43 PM (vm8sq)

223 185 Snowflake is scratching at the window to come in

Outdoor cat, And she's not my cat,

I let her in from 11am to about 6pm. That amuses me.

I have a cat tree. She comes in. Sleeps on the cat tree. Or the couch. Or the bed in the purple bedroom.
Posted by: Stateless.. 21% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at April 29, 2025 11:13 PM (jvJvP)

Hope Snowflake made it in. I have an indoor outdoor cat but worry about too many predators in my little slice of suburbia. He is always in by 9/10 pm, wakes me by 5am wanting back out again.

Posted by: Rex B at April 29, 2025 11:44 PM (RFhjS)

224 DOUG EMHOFF RAGES AS PRESIDENT TRUMP RECLAIMS HOLOCAUST BOARD FROM BIDEN’S POLITICAL CRONIES

Wait...wait...I got this...

No one elected Dough Emhoff to head the Holocaust Board. Right? That's what we see when a President puts some oligarch in charge of something right?

Also, aren't the Democrats formally on the pro side of mass murdering Jews now anyway?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 29, 2025 11:44 PM (t0Rmr)

225 a Mork & Mindy lunchbox. I’m still pissed about going from so bloody awesome to extremely lame just because we moved.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Fine

When I was about 11 years old Old Mama (who was young then, and interested in the Styles of the Day) sent me to school in a Nehru jacket.

That never saw anything public beyond the first 42 seconds on the school bus.

Posted by: Miklos may have Polyester Attire Disorder at April 29, 2025 11:46 PM (IKhKt)

226 Out

Endeavor to persevere, y'all!

Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 11:46 PM (uCfKO)

227 221 My Dad always threated to STOP THIS CAR
Posted by: Miklos recalls generalized threats abot TURNING THIS CAR AROUND at April 29, 2025 11:37 PM (IKhKt)

I was the only kid in the car. I was easy to ignore -- or smack.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:42 PM (gKDq2)

---
Also the only kid. Dad gave me the map and made me copilot. It was heaven. I still love maps.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 11:46 PM (uksS7)

228 I had a Hot Wheels lunch box and a Scooby Doo. Don't recall in which order. I remember one kid using his lunch box as a weapon when another kid challenged him to a fight. {Whack!} - upside the head.

Posted by: Rex B at April 29, 2025 11:49 PM (RFhjS)

229 OW!!!!

I had the Nancy Drew school lunchbox.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at April 29, 2025 11:49 PM (hYWaT)

230 Also, aren't the Democrats formally on the pro side of mass murdering Jews now anyway?
Posted by: 18-1

Sometimes there's rape, kidnapping, torture and rape. Allegedly.

Posted by: UNRWA at April 29, 2025 11:50 PM (gKWVE)

231 For some reason not known to me, I got a lot of wedgies during lunch hour.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at April 29, 2025 11:50 PM (hYWaT)

232 When I was about 11 years old Old Mama (who was young then, and interested in the Styles of the Day) sent me to school in a Nehru jacket.

That never saw anything public beyond the first 42 seconds on the school bus.
Posted by: Miklos
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Sound bus decision. https://tinyurl.com/3pun7p8m

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 11:50 PM (41CYW)

233 If you've ever driven around the northeast you've probably seen a car with an ACK sticker on it. That's the code for the Nantucket Airport.

When they were naming the place the Navy had a restriction on using the letter N for naming airport codes. So they skipped the N in Nantucket and went to A and then randomly through in the CK from the rest of the name Nantucket.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 29, 2025 11:50 PM (viF8m)

234 Thanks. Familiar with the crackers, not familiar with the name.
Posted by: muldoon at April 29, 2025 11:42 PM (uCfKO)

Southern thing I guess. We'd also see Tom's vending machines when we got gas, the machines with the pull handle for each selection. They had those crackers, along with other munchies suitable for driving. We normally drove about 7 1-2 hours and I don't remember ever stopping for a sit down meal but one time: In Appomattox, VA, at a locally famous diner/buffet. Lots of pictures of Boys and Men in grey populated the walls. They even had a little civil war tourist ~~shop~~ counter. Typical Southern, a/k/a Soul, Food. Fried chicken, roast beef, collards, string beans, mashed 'taters, mac 'n cheese, and other mains and sides. But only the one time did we stop.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:51 PM (gKDq2)

235 If you've ever driven around the northeast you've probably seen a car with an ACK sticker on it. That's the code for the Nantucket Airport.

ACK ACK ACK ACK

/Shoots dove

ACK ACK ACK ACK

Posted by: Some Martian at April 29, 2025 11:51 PM (t0Rmr)

236 When they were naming the place the Navy had a restriction on using the letter N for naming airport codes. So they skipped the N in Nantucket and went to A and then randomly through in the CK from the rest of the name Nantucket.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Muldoon, we need you to check back in. There has been a Nantucket reference.

Posted by: scampydog at April 29, 2025 11:51 PM (41CYW)

237 sent me to school in a Nehru jacket.

Green leather vest with fringes and a paisley shirt. I was angry until my fourth grade teacher told me I looked handsome. It helped that Miss Bailey was my first crush.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 29, 2025 11:51 PM (TrKJG)

238 threw

Posted by: JackStraw at April 29, 2025 11:51 PM (viF8m)

239 233 If you've ever driven around the northeast you've probably seen a car with an ACK sticker on it. That's the code for the Nantucket Airport.

---------

I once flew my plane to Nantucket
I wanted to land but said fuck it

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 29, 2025 11:52 PM (JkO4W)

240 Endeavor to persevere, y'all!
Posted by: muldoon

So must we all

Posted by: Miklos Fidelis at April 29, 2025 11:52 PM (IKhKt)

241 How did they overlook Sioux City, IA's Sioux Gateway Airport, with the truth-in-advertising airport code SUX?

Posted by: MaxDamage at April 29, 2025 11:53 PM (Zmh2V)

242 I once flew my plane to Nantucket
I wanted to land but said fuck it
Posted by: Cicero

JFK Jr-is that you?

Posted by: Semi-submersible Miklos at April 29, 2025 11:53 PM (IKhKt)

243 >>Muldoon, we need you to check back in. There has been a Nantucket reference.

That's like asking Picasso to do a paint by numbers.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 29, 2025 11:54 PM (viF8m)

244 How They Do It: Plumbus

youtu.be/eYy-EJi7t2I

Posted by: Kindltot at April 29, 2025 11:54 PM (D7oie)

245 That never saw anything public beyond the first 42 seconds on the school bus.
Posted by: Miklos may have Polyester Attire Disorder at April 29, 2025 11:46 PM (IKhKt)

I had those scarves hipsters wore around their necks, you know, like directors and shit. But I never had a Nehru jacket. With all the bad sartorial taste in my youth, I'll give myself points for never having one of those.

Posted by: RickZ at April 29, 2025 11:55 PM (gKDq2)

246 Can't stand Paul McCartney ever since he yukked it up with Obammy in the White House Library about it being nice to have a president who knew what a library was seemingly ignorant of the fact that the referenced president's wife was a librarian.......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 29, 2025 11:56 PM (QGaXH)

247 Also the only kid. Dad gave me the map and made me copilot. It was heaven. I still love maps.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 11:46 PM (uksS7)

I became kind of obsessed with maps in third grade. When I was in fourth grade, on the road trip to West Berlin, I did that with a German road map that we used to get to Helmstedt. As all old timers know, you had to go there first before driving on to West Berlin.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 29, 2025 11:56 PM (vm8sq)

248 Also the only kid. Dad gave me the map and made me copilot. It was heaven. I still love maps.
Posted by: ScaryMary

Shotgun picks the tunes

Posted by: Miklosian Teenage Rules at April 29, 2025 11:57 PM (IKhKt)

249 I wore a Nehru jacket to church in the late 1960s. My brother both had them and wore them, just to church, easier than coat and tie. And for a very short time it was the height of fashion.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 29, 2025 11:57 PM (sagpo)

250 Dad gave me the map and made me copilot. It was heaven. I still love maps.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 29, 2025 11:46 PM (uksS7)

Yeah but can you FOLD them?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 29, 2025 11:59 PM (w6EFb)

251 Did anyone here have the Space:MCMXCIX lunchbox?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 30, 2025 12:01 AM (vm8sq)

252 Ben Franklin’s self written epitaph, written in 1728, but revised and rewritten throughout his life, is in full:

The Body of Ben Franklin Printer,
Like the Cover of an old Book
Its contents torn out
And stript of its Lettering & Gilding,
Lies here Food for the Worms,
yet the Work shall not be lost:
For it will, as he believed, appear once more
In a new & most beautiful Edition,
Corrected and amended by the Author.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 30, 2025 12:01 AM (sagpo)

253 Green leather vest with fringes and a paisley shirt. I was angry until my fourth grade teacher told me I looked handsome. It helped that Miss Bailey was my first crush.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * poorly trained emotional support moron at April 29, 2025 11:51 PM (TrKJG)

Teachers who tell white lies to kids to build self-esteem/stop harrassment are gems. Had one do that with me over my lunch in 4th grade. I liked to put (and still do) the chips/Fritos on my PB and apple jelly (ONLY) sandwich. Kids were making fun. She leaned over and whispered to me loud enough for others to hear, 'You like doing that? So do I!' Stopped the razzing that little white lie did.

Posted by: RickZ at April 30, 2025 12:02 AM (gKDq2)

254 Ahoy, morons.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 30, 2025 12:03 AM (Dj0Qv)

255 I had those scarves hipsters wore around their necks, you know, like directors and shit. But I never had a Nehru jacket. With all the bad sartorial taste in my youth, I'll give myself points for never having one of those.
Posted by: RickZ

Well about 1982

A girlfriend acquired from her father's (NASA electrical engineer) closet a silk Ascot. To match the c. 1963 smoking jacket I got at a thrift store.

Inquiring mind of young Miklos inquired.

"Oh yes, during the Apollo program they had parties. Big parties, cocktail parties"

Posted by: Miklos suspects that tobacco may also have been consumed at April 30, 2025 12:04 AM (IKhKt)

256 To match the c. 1963 smoking jacket I got at a thrift store.
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Smoking jackets are underrated. Need to make a comeback.

Posted by: scampydog at April 30, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW)

257 Things have taken a weird turn. I suspect one of you morons will admit to wearing a dickey.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 30, 2025 12:08 AM (viF8m)

258 I liked to put (and still do) the chips/Fritos on my PB and apple jelly

FUN FACT

At a place in Columbia SC, that mainly served beer but also sandwiches, they had the Gagwich (sub with crushed potato chips).

Never saw anyone order or eat one, but the one who had the job making sandwiches and pouring beer was Darius Rucker, of later Hootie and the Blowfish fame and fortune.

Posted by: Darius owes Miklos cigars, and he damn well knows it at April 30, 2025 12:09 AM (IKhKt)

259 Yeah but can you FOLD them?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 29, 2025 11:59 PM (w6EFb)

*Kicks rock*

Not fold them back into place exactly. But I can navigate from Podunk to BFE. That counts for something.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 30, 2025 12:10 AM (uksS7)

260 Sorry to read that David Horowitz of "The Freedom Center" has passed away at age 86 after a long battle with cancer:

https://tinyurl.com/ybf3u8y6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 30, 2025 12:10 AM (yVRyG)

261 To match the c. 1963 smoking jacket I got at a thrift store.
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Smoking jackets are underrated. Need to make a comeback.
Posted by: scampydog

True

I lent it to a girl who wore and trashed it a party I was not invited to.

Never got Full Recompense

Posted by: Miklos is just a stupid sucker, let's admit this at April 30, 2025 12:11 AM (IKhKt)

262 Smoking jackets are underrated. Need to make a comeback.

Posted by: scampydog at April 30, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW)

I have a mink smoking jacket, for winter balcony smoking.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 30, 2025 12:12 AM (w6EFb)

263 Ahoy, morons.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

TURN ON YOUR LIGHTS

Posted by: ONT Coast Guard with a Kind Reminder at April 30, 2025 12:13 AM (IKhKt)

264 Greetings Everyone:

Happy First 100 days of the Trump Restoration!

Celebrated by getting up early and hiking in the Portola Hills above Irvine with some nice people from the Land Conservancy. Hills are still green with yellow mustard flowers all over, bright sunshine and temps in the 60's with a cool breeze. Did about 6 miles and 800 feet elevation gain in a little over two hours.

Now contemplating indulging in a cold brewski and some 70's reruns...

Wish you all good health and good days to come!

Thank you ScampyD for a great ONT!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 12:13 AM (QGaXH)

265 Not fold them back into place exactly. But I can navigate from Podunk to BFE. That counts for something.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 30, 2025 12:10 AM (uksS7)

Of course it does. Arriving at the destination is the whole point.

But putting the map away in the glove compartment properly folded is the cherry on top.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 30, 2025 12:15 AM (w6EFb)

266 I have a mink smoking jacket, for winter balcony smoking.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

You built another floor?

*thoughts...*

Hey I gots cool jackets too!

Posted by: Ever Stylish Miklos at April 30, 2025 12:15 AM (IKhKt)

267 >>>You built another floor?

Nah, that was for the apartment in northern Virginia. 4th floor balcony overlooking the pool across the road.

The White House back then was full of Obamas and I used to imagine a mushroom cloud 25 miles due east.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 30, 2025 12:19 AM (w6EFb)

268 It is the penultimate day of April (almost over here in God's Best Time Zone, adjusted for government clock tyranny). It's still thundering and raining. And some hail. Been a lot of that this month. The yard is swampy and the dog is frustrated at not getting to play fetch.

Tonight's closing rainy music video suggested last night by Helpful Musical Miklos
https://youtu.be/8geaBMBAiqI

Bonus rainy day song by me, the Afternoon, 2nd of 4-song cycle
https://bit.ly/resistance-afternoon

G'nite, y'all. May your roof not leak.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mud, mud, everywhere there's mud at April 30, 2025 12:20 AM (YvdHz)

269 My favorite dancer from that golden age of dance is Cyd Charisse. She’s in that compilation a couple times.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 12:21 AM (QULmo)

270 I'm seeing more and more Albertans talking about joining the US now.
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No. Absolutely no. At the end of the day - its Canada.
Stay up there. Accept the New England states. Maybe Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson
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I don't see Alberta joining the United States, at least not immediately. OTOH, I think they will separate from the rest of Canada (maybe with Saskatchewan) within a couple of years. Albertan's(?) have been pissed at Ottawa for years, for good reason. Alberta has been sending 3 times as much tax revenues to the National government as the next province, while getting less services than most. IOW, they've been getting milked.
As an independent country, I'm sure there will be security arrangements with the US, but at this point, they really are not a good fit. If they move a lot more right, maybe, but doubtful. Their oil revenues can support a lot of socialism given the comparatively small population. Leftism is very attractive when you don't have to pay for it.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 30, 2025 12:21 AM (H3LQw)

271 Tonight's closing rainy music video suggested last night by Helpful Musical Miklos
https://youtu.be/8geaBMBAiqI
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Irma! Nicely done, mindful webworker and Musical Miklos.

Posted by: scampydog at April 30, 2025 12:22 AM (41CYW)

272 The White House back then was full of Obamas and I used to imagine a mushroom cloud 25 miles due east.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Now see?

We can at least imagine Nice Things.

Miss D goes to the Doggie Beauty Parlor...well... later today.

Up on all shots, needs to learn to drive a car.

Ok, maybe half a block

Posted by: Plan Making Miklos at April 30, 2025 12:22 AM (IKhKt)

273 The only way I’d be ok with Alberta becoming part of the US would be if Trump invaded and we kicked all their canuckian asses and made them give it to us. Then I’d be ok with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 30, 2025 12:23 AM (QULmo)

274 50 LAX, nothing lax about air traffic in LA.

Might be short for "laxative". 'Cause if you knew what was going on in the tower it would scare the shit out of you.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 29, 2025 10:18 PM (lUFok)

People don't realize Airplane - The Movie was a Documentary, not a comedy!

Your hash (?) sounds like something indecent (I - U - FOK) - Is that a proposition?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 30, 2025 12:26 AM (QGaXH)

275 Your hash (?) sounds like something indecent (I - U - FOK) - Is that a proposition?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Airport code. Unabridged.

Posted by: scampydog at April 30, 2025 12:27 AM (41CYW)

276 Well, I'm getting a molar pulled and set up for an implant tomorrow at 9 am, so I gots to boogie on to bed. I hope I'm not too goofy afterwards from sedation. Publius will just laugh at me.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 30, 2025 12:30 AM (w6EFb)

277 Canada is screwed. They chose poorly. Too bad for them. There's nothing Canada has we need.

I have zero sympathy for any country that has been sticking it to us for years and decided doubling down now was the way to go.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 30, 2025 12:30 AM (viF8m)

278 I had a Hong Kong Phooey Lunch Box.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 30, 2025 12:33 AM (urqc/)

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