Mid-Morning Art Thread

Tompkins' Cove
Austin Mecklem

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

2 Huh. Like but odd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 06, 2025 09:31 AM (bss/y)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

4 fist

Posted by: Otto Pen at May 06, 2025 09:31 AM (sJHOI)

5 1st?

Posted by: The Guy at May 06, 2025 09:31 AM (FLX4U)

6 How global warmening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Whitney Museum of American Art

Date
1934

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 24 1/8 × 34 1/8in. (61.3 × 86.7 cm)

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

8 a bit bleak

Posted by: Otto Pen at May 06, 2025 09:32 AM (sJHOI)

9 It's mine, all mine!

Posted by: Tomkpin at May 06, 2025 09:32 AM (DsA2n)

10 Looks like my neighborhood, with added water.

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 06, 2025 09:32 AM (Jp8LL)

11 Hmmm. More WPA-style art. But I kinda like it. Much better than yesterday's flowers.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

12 Seems they built a factory in a flood zone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

13
50 shades of gray

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 06, 2025 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

14 Where's the EPA?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 06, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

15 Austin Merrill Mecklem (1890–1951) was an American artist. He did mural projects for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression era before settling down in the artist colony at Woodstock, New York. One of his works, Old Town in Alaska, is in the Wrangell, Alaska post office.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

16 Dingy, but ok

Posted by: Skip at May 06, 2025 09:33 AM (PI8P3)

17 That's one hell of a driveway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 06, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

18 *shits pants*

*cries in the corner*

Posted by: Al Gore at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

19 needs more orange

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM (SfhV1)

20 We have black smoke AND white smoke?

Schroedinger's Pope?

I am confused.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

21 The smokestacks were angry that day, my friends...

Posted by: George Costanza at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

22 Does it snow at Tompkin's Cove? That hill would make for some crazy sledding. One time, until you hit the building.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM (2OZNO)

23 Lithium mining.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

24 We have black smoke AND white smoke?

Schroedinger's Pope?

I am confused.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

"We picked a guy, but we have no idea where he is and no one has his number!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 06, 2025 09:35 AM (LY55P)

25 Hey, give me a break. They were having a sale on gray paint.

Posted by: Austin Mecklem at May 06, 2025 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

26 HOW DARE YOU!!!

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at May 06, 2025 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

27 Air Quality Action Alert: Orange

Posted by: one hour sober at May 06, 2025 09:36 AM (Y1sOo)

28 Looks like a mining operation.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 06, 2025 09:36 AM (VJc7E)

29 How much for a 'ore? $20, same as is Tompkin's Cove.

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 06, 2025 09:36 AM (Jp8LL)

30

We have sell you all for medical experiments!

Posted by: Millwright at May 06, 2025 09:36 AM (HRQvT)

31 It's going to take an entire nursery of happy bushes to save this one.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at May 06, 2025 09:36 AM (0sNs1)

32 There's a little choo-choo train on the left side of the painting.

Posted by: dantesed at May 06, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

33 I'm on it!!!

Posted by: Erin "Tits McGhee" Brockovitch at May 06, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

34 *shits pants*

*cries in the corner*
Posted by: Al Gore at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM

Can I adjust your chakras for you?

Posted by: Atomic Dog Boy at May 06, 2025 09:38 AM (0sNs1)

35 Fun fact: the entire month of August Tompkins' Cove is a nude beach.

Posted by: And it's very exclusive at May 06, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

36 Tompkin's Cove was named after Joe Cove, the prospector who first discovered lithium at the site.

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 06, 2025 09:38 AM (Jp8LL)

37 1934, of course

Posted by: runner at May 06, 2025 09:39 AM (g47mK)

38 Any green in the painting is simply mildew as it's been sitting in a garage for the last 35 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

39 Whomever smelt it, dealt it.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 06, 2025 09:39 AM (VJc7E)

40 Where’s the EPA when you need it?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 09:40 AM (mT+6a)

41 Smelter? I just met her!

Posted by: Rinshot at May 06, 2025 09:41 AM (dg+HA)

42 Damn! Smoke if you got 'em.

Posted by: Case at May 06, 2025 09:41 AM (OrSPY)

43 Tompkin's Cove was named after Joe Cove, the prospector who first discovered lithium at the site.
Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 06, 2025 09:38 AM

If that were true, it would be yclept Joepkin's Cove. As Commander Riker says, "Pull my finger."

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 06, 2025 09:41 AM (0sNs1)

44 There's a Tomkins Cove in NY, right on the Hudson in the Northern end of Rockland County. Neat little place, even though it's behind enemy lines in Hochul's NYS.

Posted by: Smoke, Water, Etc. at May 06, 2025 09:41 AM (G5+As)

45 Atomic number (Z) 3
Group group 1: hydrogen and alkali metals
Period period 2
Block s-block
Electron configuration [He] 2s1
Electrons per shell 2, 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

46
If the water ways were littered with dead fish and garbage.

And the shore strewn with used needles, condoms, and humping hobos.

And more buildings spewing black smoke and raw sewage.

Then it would be a perfect representation of the deep blue northeast states like New Jersey.

But, alas...

Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

47 Dood!!!! Doesn't he know about ~~global warming~~ climate change?!?!?! With the rising ocean levels, his house is as doomed as the Marshall Islands, which are probably completely gone by now...

Which he deserves, of course, considering all that black smoke he's pumping into the atmosphere.

Posted by: Greens at May 06, 2025 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

48 I have no idea what that might be.

But it does not have the usual Glory to Labor vibe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2025 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

49 Is this the Marsh refinery at Innsmouth?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 09:43 AM (Dg2sF)

50 Electrons on the half shell!

Posted by: That's good eating at May 06, 2025 09:43 AM (dg+HA)

51 "My husband worked in a factory where the asbestos fell like snow......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Tomkin's Cove was originally known as Mount Tomkin, but was renamed after it was mined out and the quarries flooded for recreational watercraft. The original lifthouse is now a concession stand where canoes can be rented.

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 06, 2025 09:44 AM (Jp8LL)

53 Where’s the EPA when you need it?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 09:40 AM (mT+6a)

Polluting the next river over.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

54
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 06, 2025 09:44 AM (QnmlO)

55 Isn't that Hodeidah?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 06, 2025 09:44 AM (Te9F3)

56 I think there's a hot dog stand lower right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)

57 The other right......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

58 Thx CBD. I used to work in a barge building yard and have been down to Thomkins Cove in Rockland County a few times. Deep section of the Hudson. Mecklem lived in the Woodstock art colony, about 14m from me. He died at Kingston hospital about a mile from me. Small world
Would hang

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (vmkyp)

59
Where's the EPA?
Posted by: redridinghood at May 06, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

Silly, this is from the era when America made things, not now when we look for reasons not to make things.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (QnmlO)

60
But it does not have the usual Glory to Labor vibe.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2025 09:43 AM (RIvkX)

So, NOT communist?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

61 Does the black smoke mean they picked a Cove Pope?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (t0Rmr)

62 Not that I’m an environmental wacko (thanks, Rush), but this is disheartening. There is nothing actually alive in this piece. One tree on the small plateau and a few in the background.

I don’t like this at all. It makes me angry. It screams death and destruction and filth.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (mT+6a)

63 Soon to be sold to a Chinese mega-company whereby the manufactured goods will be shipped to China, relabeled, and shipped back to the US to be sold for pennies on the dollar.

Unless....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 06, 2025 09:47 AM (Q4IgG)

64 The artist took some artistic liberty with the placement of the smokestack's shadow.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 06, 2025 09:47 AM (0sNs1)

65 Nurse MAD! Nurse SMASH!!

Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp! at May 06, 2025 09:47 AM (Jp8LL)

66 Silly, this is from the era when America made things, not now when we look for reasons not to make things.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (QnmlO)

Between Bhussein and Biden we have not made more stuff than has even not been made.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

67 Whomever smelt it, dealt it.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard

the cliff keeps the funk out of town.

Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2025 09:48 AM (FhXTo)

68 36 Tompkin's Cove was named after Joe Cove, the prospector who first discovered lithium at the site.
Posted by: We Must Not Allow A Mineshaft gp!

He didn't have nearly the commercial success his cousin, Joe Camel, did.

Posted by: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company at May 06, 2025 09:48 AM (JCZqz)

69 Does the black smoke mean they picked a Cove Pope?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (t0Rmr)

The Cove Pope's power is limited to forgiving out of date fishing licenses.

So, it's not such a big deal.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

70
I don’t like this at all. It makes me angry. It screams death and destruction and filth.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM (mT+6a)

Not to mention exploitation and child labor.

*laughs*
*leans back in plush office chair*
*puts feet on desk*
*lights cigar with $100 bill*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 06, 2025 09:49 AM (QnmlO)

71 Cue Billy Joel's "Allentown":

"Well, we're living here in Allentown,
And they're closing all the factories down --
Out in Bethlehem, they're killing time,
Filling out forms, standing in line. . . "

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 09:49 AM (omVj0)

72 Would not hang.

Posted by: Gref at May 06, 2025 09:49 AM (aBgBM)

73 Not that I’m an environmental wacko (thanks, Rush), but this is disheartening. There is nothing actually alive in this piece. One tree on the small plateau and a few in the background.

I don’t like this at all. It makes me angry. It screams death and destruction and filth.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 09:46 AM

See #31.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at May 06, 2025 09:49 AM (0sNs1)

74 I like it. Bleak, but has trees, though no discernible doggies.

Posted by: Gorehound at May 06, 2025 09:49 AM (G5+As)

75 Google says this is some place just outside of NYC. Looks nice honestly.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2025 09:49 AM (t0Rmr)

76 Ah-hey-ma-ma-ma (Life in a northern town)
Ah-hey-ma-ma-ma
Dee-doo-din-nie-ya-ya
Ah-hey-ma-ma-ma (All the work shut down)
Hey-y-yah
Life in a northern town

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2025 09:50 AM (2J/Lj)

77 It's going to take an entire nursery of happy bushes to save this one./i]

I saw Bush open up for The Screaming Trees at the Gorge in '96

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2025 09:50 AM (t0Rmr)

78 Tompkins' Cove
Austin Mecklem

**********

Old Man Tompkins is Flat Broke -a limerick

This seems to show a vibrant thriving millage
Including some pretend industrial spillage
But the whole thing is a fake
There's not a single thing they make
It's a mere facade, a real Po' Tompkins viillage

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 09:50 AM (uCfKO)

79 Would hang. In the restroom of the local machine shop.

Posted by: Snooty art critic at May 06, 2025 09:51 AM (dg+HA)

80 I like it. Bleak, but has trees, though no discernible doggies.
Posted by: Gorehound at May 06, 2025 09:49 AM (G5+As)

There's a couple of guys towards the bottom of the painting.

Posted by: dantesed at May 06, 2025 09:51 AM (Oy/m2)

81 Would YOU eat a fish out of that cove?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)

82 Old Man Tompkins is Flat Broke -a limerick

This seems to show a vibrant thriving millage
Including some pretend industrial spillage
But the whole thing is a fake
There's not a single thing they make
It's a mere facade, a real Po' Tompkins viillage
Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 09:50 AM

* standing ovation *

* shouts of "Author! Author!"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 09:52 AM (0sNs1)

83 Allentown. I sang about it.

Posted by: Billy Joel at May 06, 2025 09:52 AM (dg+HA)

84 Would YOU eat a fish out of that cove?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025

***
Well, not if it had three eyes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

85 Nurse, happy National Nurses' Day!

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

86 Would hang. In the restroom of the local machine shop.
Posted by: Snooty art critic at May 06, 2025 09:51 AM

Stay in your lane!

Posted by: Ridgid Tool Calendar at May 06, 2025 09:53 AM (0sNs1)

87 I like it .. A reminder of days gone by

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2025 09:53 AM (VE6XX)

88 How far back does National Nurses' Day go?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

89 How far back does National Nurses' Day go?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)

Midnight, duh.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2025 09:54 AM (2J/Lj)

90 81 Would YOU eat a fish out of that cove?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)

Meals for Manic Depressives

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:54 AM (gbOdA)

91 Trumpkin's Grove is filthy and shows his war on environmental justice!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at May 06, 2025 09:55 AM (y9ksN)

92 FUN Fact:

While there are no hot dog stands in Tompkin's Cove,

there are always stands serving the local favorite-

Boiled Lamprey on a bun. Be sure to ask for extra nacho cheese on the topping!

You can see one of traditional Lamprey Stands just to the lower left on the painting.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

93 About the Nord Stream pipeline getting blown up, Trump just said "we all know who did it."

I'll give up you a Clue. It was the Deep State in the Baltic with a Submersible.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 06, 2025 09:56 AM (31RWj)

94

1000s of New Jersey Whitefish washed up on the shore...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at May 06, 2025 09:56 AM (HRQvT)

95 Tompkins' Cove
Austin Mecklem

**********

Oh Daddy won't you take me down to Mecklem-burg county
Down by the seaside, where Paradise lay?

I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Tpmpkins' old factory has smelted it away!

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 09:56 AM (uCfKO)

96 You can see one of traditional Lamprey Stands just to the lower left on the painting.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

Just thinking about that makes me eel.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:56 AM (gbOdA)

97 Boiled Lamprey on a bun. Be sure to ask for extra nacho cheese on the topping!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 09:55 AM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Radioactive-green relish topping on a Chicago dog at May 06, 2025 09:57 AM (0sNs1)

98 I think lampreys are poisonous.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

99 @81 nurse, I wouldn't but when I worked in the barge yard we had to pump out barges so you could repair them. After pumping them out we'd have to inside the barge with buckets to catch eel, catfish and other bottom feeders because if they died you couldn't repair the barge because of the stench. The guys who worked there kept the eels and catfish we caught to eat.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 06, 2025 09:58 AM (vmkyp)

100 That ol' factory really smells!

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 09:58 AM (uCfKO)

101 You can see one of traditional Lamprey Stands just to the lower left on the painting.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

Just thinking about that makes me eel.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 09:56 AM

Some find it toothsome.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 09:58 AM (0sNs1)

102 Speaking of Nurse's Day, I watched The Good Nurse on Netflix last night.

It was okay.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 06, 2025 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

103 You can see one of traditional Lamprey Stands just to the lower left on the painting.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

Just thinking about that makes me eel.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Sorry to hurt your morayle.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

104 The left has 98% of. Media. But they’re now saying without NPR and PBS the right wing will control the news.

😂😂😂

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 09:59 AM (xeo0s)

105 led Lamprey on a bun. Be sure to ask for extra nacho cheese on the topping!
*
You can see one of traditional Lamprey Stands just to the lower left on the painting.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025

***
Thanks, I've had a surfeit.

Posted by: King Henry I at May 06, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)

106 Now that we're over 100, y'all realize that CBD is sitting back, wearing his beret, and sipping an espresso in bemused disdain over the comments, right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:00 AM (0sNs1)

107 Nurses lost a lot of mojo when they stopped wearing white shoes, white uniform, and a cap. Crocs and scrubs are inferior.

Posted by: Dixie From Rampart at May 06, 2025 10:01 AM (G5+As)

108 My grandfather worked in a cement factory in the Rust Belt, died of mesothelioma. Asbestos is the best fire retardant material in existence but it's so, so dangerous when mishandled.

Posted by: Farquad at May 06, 2025 10:01 AM (bwvMs)

109 Nurses lost a lot of mojo when they stopped wearing white shoes, white uniform, and a cap. Crocs and scrubs are inferior.
Posted by: Dixie From Rampart at May 06, 2025 10:01 AM

Librarians have lost a lot in dressing down, as well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:02 AM (0sNs1)

110 93 About the Nord Stream pipeline getting blown up, Trump just said "we all know who did it."
____

Since he admitted it, why not de-classify the docs, and publish them along with videos of Biden, the dems and the media (BIRM) lying their assess off about it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 06, 2025 10:02 AM (Dv3i1)

111 107 Nurses lost a lot of mojo when they stopped wearing white shoes, white uniform, and a cap. Crocs and scrubs are inferior.
Posted by: Dixie From Rampart at May 06, 2025 10:01 AM (G5+As)

Judges would have accepted Tik Tok Dances.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 10:02 AM (gbOdA)

112 My grandfather worked in a cement factory in the Rust Belt, died of mesothelioma. Asbestos is the best fire retardant material in existence but it's so, so dangerous when mishandled.
Posted by: Farquad at May 06, 2025

***
I think asbestos was also an ingredient in talcum powder. They use corn starch, "zea mays," now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

113 Per last thread Dave Portnoy is going to be on Varney in a few minutes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 06, 2025 10:03 AM (vmkyp)

114 The left has 98% of. Media. But they’re now saying without NPR and PBS the right wing will control the news.

😂😂😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 09:59 AM (xeo0s)

They will not rest until the right is destroyed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

115 I wondered about the start of National Nurses' Day because my mother was an RN. She might have appreciated the shout-out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 10:04 AM (omVj0)

116 Per last thread Dave Portnoy is going to be on Varney in a few minutes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 06, 2025 10:03 AM (vmkyp)

I'm so excited not to watch it, I can barely contain myself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

117 106 Now that we're over 100, y'all realize that CBD is sitting back, wearing his beret, and sipping an espresso in bemused disdain over the comments, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:00 AM (0sNs1)

Is he disgusted by our American ways?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (xeo0s)

118 Nurses put up with a lot of crap.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

119 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

Hey Wolfus! You still considering Indiana?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (2J/Lj)

120 Back in the late 90's I was working in West Virginia, not far from the Ohio River. One morning there was this loud noise, like thunder. It turned out to be the Shell petrochemical plant on the other side of the river blowing up. For two days these weird ashes would fall, sort of spiral, hairy looking stuff.

Later, like 6 months or so, everyone's vehicle that was parked outside and got covered with this stuff needed a new paint job.

Rumors abound about the health effects. I stayed inside as much as possible. The resultant class action suit forced the plant to close. A similar story as many plants on the "mid-Ohio River" were shuttered during the 90's and 2000's.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (Q4IgG)

121 I wondered about the start of National Nurses' Day because my mother was an RN. She might have appreciated the shout-out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

So was my Mom. She was an Army Flight Nurse in WWII.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (77rzZ)

122 Several leftists have said they cannot compete with the right if both sides are shared equally with the public, so no they won't rest until they control all of the media and can imprison people for wrong think

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (t0Rmr)

123 ot:
Sometimes they wear scalp weasels.

AoSHQ style guide:
"Graced to carry The Golden Scalp Weasel on his mission"

Posted by: DaveA at May 06, 2025 10:06 AM (FhXTo)

124 Several leftists have said they cannot compete with the right if both sides are shared equally with the public, so no they won't rest until they control all of the media and can imprison people for wrong think
Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (t0Rmr)

To save democracy, you see.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

125 Now that we're over 100, y'all realize that CBD is sitting back, wearing his beret, and sipping an espresso in bemused disdain over the comments, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Does he have a French maid? Because then he's probably doing something else.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

126 Right: the media is biased

Left; build your own media then

Right; ok we will

Left; how dare the right have its own media we must burn it down

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (xeo0s)

127 Mecklem? I don't even know 'em!

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (144I4)

128 Is he disgusted by our American ways?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM

There are rumours that he's converted to 9mm, and switched his professional sportsball fandoms to soccer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (0sNs1)

129
Does he have a French maid? Because then he's probably doing something else.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

No, but he does wear the outfit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

130 National Nurses' Day?

24 hours of 'nurses' Twerking on TikTok?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (Zf1k9)

131 It is interesting how the dress standards of almost every field has declined. I do think nurses probably made the least sense to have a fancy uniform with what they do for work though I suppose it was better for morale of the guys they were treating.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2025 10:08 AM (t0Rmr)

132 When an eel bites your hand
with a sting you can't stand

That's a moray!

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 10:08 AM (uCfKO)

133 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. That painting would look good in the little trailer construction managers use at construction sites.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 06, 2025 10:09 AM (W/lyH)

134 Hey Wolfus! You still considering Indiana?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM

You know that if Indiana wants you, Lord, you can't go back there, right?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:09 AM (0sNs1)

135 118 Nurses put up with a lot of crap.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

/punch

Some assholes has my pencil.

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

136 For today in North Texas.......

https://youtu.be/MkQqhWN6Fwg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

137 Music for this pic:

https://youtu.be/6y6d0l9E32M

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:10 AM (ESTMH)

138 My wife became a Registered Dietitian in the 70s. Hospital dietitians wore white uniform, hose, shoes in those days. No cap, though.

Posted by: Food For Thought at May 06, 2025 10:10 AM (G5+As)

139 I once attended a symphony thing where the conductor gave a q&a before the performance. The guy was like ask anything you want to know. Someone asked how much money do you make. He through about it for a second and said less than a doctor more than a nurse.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:10 AM (xeo0s)

140 ”Varney the Vampire” is the actual title of a Victorian Penny Dreadful, something like the type of paperback you used to find on the spinner rack at the old five and dime, only this was so far back the price was, you guessed it, one English penny. I know this book because I checked out a modern copy from a university library and read it. It lived up to its reputation.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 10:10 AM (uTWkf)

141 I usually don't like industrial themed paintings but I find this one kind of pleasing. Must all that calm gray.

Posted by: Tuna at May 06, 2025 10:11 AM (lJ0H4)

142 May 6, 1937: The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Hindenburg was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by volume. Filled with hydrogen, it caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The accident caused 35 fatalities among the 97 people on board and an additional fatality on the ground.

The publicity shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the abrupt end of the airship era.

Oh, the humanity.

Posted by: Cheri at May 06, 2025 10:12 AM (oiNtH)

143 French maid outfit?

I give you Olivia Munn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkkjXz_JW0

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:12 AM (Zf1k9)

144 81 Would YOU eat a fish out of that cove?
Posted by: nurse ratched

I was part of an inspection team of a mostly unregulated mining operation in the Balkans. Crushed ore was washed with a cyanide solution to remove silver and lead, I believe. When I asked where the liquid waste went, they happily took me to their "containment".

It was a small pond of impossibly bright bluish-green "water", with a pipe at the far end pumping the black sludge waste in. PH strips placed it around 11, so bleach-territory. The heavy metals and other toxic particulate matter would settle, and the liquid would rise. If it rose high enough, it went out an overflow pipe directly into the nearby Ibar river.

When the sediment filled the pond completely, it would be abandoned, and a new pond started. The liquid topping the old pond would evaporate, exposing the years of accumulated toxic sediment, which would then dry out and slowly erode, blown by the wind as toxic dust all over the area.

Cancer rates are kinda high in the area. Weird. That was 2018.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 06, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

145 When I did Workers Comp law I did a lot of defense work regarding asbestos. The workers used to take asbestos out of bags and make it into balls and have "snowball" fights . Early in my career I took a guy's testimony who worked at a bathroom tile plant when the tiles contained a lot of asbestos and he definitely had asbestosis. He grew up in Poland and at 14 was captured by the Soviets and taken to Siberia to chop wood. Very few survived . He did, then joined the British army and fought in the Holy Land. He then came to the US and worked at the tile company for forty years. Died a week after I took his testimony. Amazing story

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 06, 2025 10:12 AM (vmkyp)

146 I find this one kind of pleasing. Must all that calm gray.
Posted by: Tuna at May 06, 2025 10:11 AM

And the brown trees.

Makes you want to stay.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

147 To our favorite nurse: National Nurses' Day!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 06, 2025 10:13 AM (W/lyH)

148 Nurses lost a lot of mojo when they stopped wearing white shoes, white uniform, and a cap. Crocs and scrubs are inferior.
Posted by: Dixie From Rampart at May 06, 2025 10:01 AM (G5+As)

That's one thing that I love about Japan is -

that they for the most part take their jobs seriously and wear their uniforms with pride. Such as the traditional white nurses uniform.

Not sure if nurses still wear the whites, since I haven't been in a hospital setting over there for a long time, but I suspect they do.

For my part, the nurses in white generally look good and the uniform gives them authority, instead of slowing around in scrubs like the "candy-stripers".

Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 10:14 AM (iJfKG)

149 I give you Olivia Munn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkkjXz_JW0
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:12 AM (Zf1k9)

Smokin.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Speaking of Nurse's Day, I watched The Good Nurse on Netflix last night.

It was okay.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 06, 2025 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

I dreamt of Jessica Rabbit in a nurse's uniform.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:15 AM (Dg2sF)

151 The left has 98% of. Media. But they’re now saying without NPR and PBS the right wing will control the news.

The Left has complained about right-wing talk radio and Fox News dominating media for the last 3 decades. We'd be a socialist utopia if it weren't for Rush Limbaugh and Fox, apparently.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2025 10:16 AM (JCZqz)

152 Kind of an odd painting. It was the depths of the Depression and might have been seen as hopeful activity and employment. But the scene itself is grim, gray, and the style is almost primitive. And while there are signs of human activity (the smoke stacks, the train moving, etc.) there are no people. Not the kind of WPA art I usually think of with sunlit scenes of agricultural activity and cheerfulness.

Posted by: JTB at May 06, 2025 10:16 AM (yTvNw)

153 The problem with hospitals now is that everyone is wearing scrubs, you never know if the person who just entered your room is a surgeon or a janitor.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 06, 2025 10:16 AM (0nHVk)

154 Naughty nurse outfits on Halloween are teh hawt.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:16 AM (xeo0s)

155 Speaking of Nurse's Day, I watched The Good Nurse on Netflix last night.

It was okay.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 06, 2025 09:58 AM (Y1sOo)

I dreamt of Jessica Rabbit in a nurse's uniform.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:15 AM (Dg2sF)

That escalated quickly.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2025 10:16 AM (2J/Lj)

156 For my part, the nurses in white generally look good and the uniform gives them authority.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 10:14 AM

Remember, nurses decide what gauge needles and catheters to use.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 06, 2025 10:16 AM (0sNs1)

157 153 The problem with hospitals now is that everyone is wearing scrubs, you never know if the person who just entered your room is a surgeon or a janitor.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 06, 2025 10:16 AM (0nHVk)

The surgeons usually have an air of douchebaggery around them to self identify.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:17 AM (xeo0s)

158
I dreamt of Jessica Rabbit in a nurse's uniform.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:15 AM (Dg2sF)

https://is.gd/ICwRfT

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

159 Tompkins' Cove
Austin Mecklem

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

This is actually the cover for the little known Pink Floyd EP album Animal, with the song Pig being it's only release.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 06, 2025 10:17 AM (FCbAQ)

160 The lone tree on the presumably artificial plateau appears to be green. Do the workers come out on their lunch break to eat beside it?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 10:18 AM (YItOJ)

161 Hindenburg, along with Shenandoah, Macon, and R-101 killed the rigid airship concept.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:18 AM (Zf1k9)

162
This is actually the cover for the little known Pink Floyd EP album Animal, with the song Pig being it's only release.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 06, 2025 10:17 AM (FCbAQ)

Mostly being because Pink Floyd sucks and is largely unlistenable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

163 And yesterday was International Gilbert & Sullivan Day. I should have settled down and listened to either Iolanthe or The Yeomen of the Guard.

Instead, I just slept the day away.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:19 AM (Dg2sF)

164 Not sure if nurses still wear the whites, since I haven't been in a hospital setting over there for a long time, but I suspect they do.

For my part, the nurses in white generally look good and the uniform gives them authority, instead of slowing around in scrubs like the "candy-stripers".

Hospitals that I've been in or visited have color coded dressing now. Every job has a different color uniform. LPNs light blue, RNs dark blue, etc. Probably varies from hospital to hospital.

Posted by: Tuna at May 06, 2025 10:19 AM (lJ0H4)

165 The long-awaited reports collectively run over 500 pages, overflow with testimonies and survey results from thousands of community members, and include striking statistics — such as the fact that 56 percent of Muslim and 26 percent of Jewish student respondents feared for their physical safety at Harvard.

So more than double the number calling for destruction than those that are named for said destruction fear their safety.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 10:19 AM (gbOdA)

166 And yesterday was International Gilbert & Sullivan Day. I should have settled down and listened to either Iolanthe or The Yeomen of the Guard.

Instead, I just slept the day away.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Or watched Topsy-Turvy.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

167 For a minute, I thought it was Alcatraz!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 06, 2025 10:20 AM (rbKZ6)

168 They will not rest until the right is destroyed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:04 AM (Zz0t1)

World

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2025 10:20 AM (Kn237)

169 I think asbestos was also an ingredient in talcum powder. They use corn starch, "zea mays," now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2025 10:03 AM (omVj0)

Not so much an ingredient as a contaminant. Talc is a mineral, and it can be associated with asbestos, also a mineral, and both minerals come from similar environments, and are sometimes naturally commingled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:20 AM (ESTMH)

170 This is actually the cover for the little known Pink Floyd EP album Animal, with the song Pig being it's only release.

What no flip side?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 10:20 AM (YItOJ)

171
World

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2025 10:20 AM (Kn237)

It does go hand in hand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

172
slowing = slobbing

Who knew?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 06, 2025 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

173 Hospitals that I've been in or visited have color coded dressing now. Every job has a different color uniform. LPNs light blue, RNs dark blue, etc. Probably varies from hospital to hospital.
Posted by: Tuna at May 06, 2025 10:19 AM (lJ0H4)

Wifey was OT at big system and they got army green.
Did not fade or stain like the blues.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 10:21 AM (gbOdA)

174 I need to know more about these "ass besties."
-- Mayor Pete

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

175 So more than double the number calling for destruction than those that are named for said destruction fear their safety.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 10:19 AM (gbOdA)

Of course. The theoretical backlash to Muslim terrorism is always worse than the terrorism.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:21 AM (xeo0s)

176 The painting looks like it needs a good cleaning. Probably would be interesting to look at if only it was brighter.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 06, 2025 10:22 AM (vlXMQ)

177 Right after high school, I worked summers driving/delivering construction materials in and around NYC. In 74 or 75 I delivered to a job at American Chicle Co. in Long Island City, NY. They made Dentyne and Chiclets. The whole neighborhood smelled of sweet chewing gum and the sidewalk outside had powdered sugar on it. The interior of the whole plant had powdered sugar on the floors. I wondered if this was safe.
In 1976, there was a huge explosion that killed one worker and injured 55. Lawsuits, etc. Plant closed taking 1,600 jobs with it.

Posted by: Chewing The Fat at May 06, 2025 10:22 AM (G5+As)

178 Of course. The theoretical backlash to Muslim terrorism is always worse than the terrorism.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:21 AM (xeo0s)

Another buried stat in the papers shows 92% of Mohammendan fears that their views will be seen as dangerous to others.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 10:23 AM (gbOdA)

179 Olivia Munn had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

180 In 1976, there was a huge explosion that killed one worker and injured 55. Lawsuits, etc. Plant closed taking 1,600 jobs with it.
Posted by: Chewing The Fat at May 06, 2025 10:22 AM (G5+As)

Put a big camera system in at a sugar packing plant near Savannah. About a month later Kaboom.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 10:25 AM (gbOdA)

181 Happy Nurse's Day, nurse! I hope that you are feeling better.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 06, 2025 10:25 AM (0nHVk)

182 Another buried stat in the papers shows 92% of Mohammendan fears that their views will be seen as dangerous to others.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 06, 2025 10:23 AM (gbOdA)

That might be because their book tells them to be a danger to others.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

183 Weird to think there used to be manufacturing in NYC.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:25 AM (xeo0s)

184 That might be because their book tells them to be a danger to others.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:25 AM

No! No, it does not!!

Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface at May 06, 2025 10:27 AM (0sNs1)

185 Instead, I just slept the day away.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:19 AM (Dg2sF)

Maybe you needed sleep more than you needed Gilbert and Sullivan.
Have you seen a YouTube channel called Moving History? They take old photos, colorize them and animate them. They don't change the way the subject looks as in their facial features are the same. It's really neat! They have a few silent era film actresses.
Relax History AI is not the same. Avoid! They westernized and make people look younger. They are not true to the photo/portrait/sculpture. The only one that looked the same was Walt Whitman.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2025 10:27 AM (2J/Lj)

186 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Chase em down! Rub rub rub! They really want it, you know….. would be a shame to deny a furry friend a good old belly rub!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2025 10:28 AM (BL1uJ)

187 I dreamt of Jessica Rabbit in a nurse's uniform.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

With the internet and modern cosplay, you're living in the right time, my friend: https://tinyurl.com/3hnbspsx

A quick search finds Nurse Jessica, Park Ranger Jessica, Mermaid Jessica...in all sorts of mediums, from drawings, animations, and cosplay. The world is your oyster!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

188 Painting reminds me of "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 06, 2025 10:29 AM (WPL6O)

189 187 I dreamt of Jessica Rabbit in a nurse's uniform.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

With the internet and modern cosplay, you're living in the right time, my friend: https://tinyurl.com/3hnbspsx

A quick search finds Nurse Jessica, Park Ranger Jessica, Mermaid Jessica...in all sorts of mediums, from drawings, animations, and cosplay. The world is your oyster!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

Ha! I'm onto you Mr. Fish Face trap layer.

Posted by: Farquad at May 06, 2025 10:30 AM (bwvMs)

190 179 Olivia Munn had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Christina Applegate and Anglina Jolie, too.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

191 Painting could have been a Pink Floyd album cover.

Posted by: Crusader at May 06, 2025 10:31 AM (TN0g+)

192 Sponge

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

Patricia passed away at the age of 25 in 2023 due to breast cancer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:31 AM (Zf1k9)

193
No! No, it does not!!

Posted by: Abdully McAbdulface at May 06, 2025 10:27 AM (0sNs1)

But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

194 186 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Chase em down! Rub rub rub! They really want it, you know….. would be a shame to deny a furry friend a good old belly rub!
Posted by: nurse ratched

You lied to me! Worse than Ackbar!

Posted by: Cat owner with shredded hand at May 06, 2025 10:32 AM (JCZqz)

195 No trains or train tracks. Not good.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:32 AM (pZ64F)

196 190 179 Olivia Munn had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Christina Applegate and Anglina Jolie, too.
------------
Do all three of them have tats?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:34 AM (pZ64F)

197 Painting reminds me of "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

What a great book. Loved reading that to my son when he was little.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

198
Christina Applegate and Anglina Jolie, too.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:30 AM (JCZqz)

While this does remove the need to do chemo and radiation, it changes things dramatically.

First Lady didn't choose that route.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

199 No trains or train tracks. Not good.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Look in the left background.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

200 195 No trains or train tracks. Not good.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:32 AM (pZ64F)

There's a train partially hidden by a building on the left center of the painting.

Posted by: Farquad at May 06, 2025 10:36 AM (bwvMs)

201 200 195 No trains or train tracks. Not good.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:32 AM (pZ64F)

There's a train partially hidden by a building on the left center of the painting.
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You must be a sniper.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:36 AM (pZ64F)

202 195 No trains or train tracks. Not good.
Posted by: Pudinhead

So true. I love a good train.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 06, 2025 10:37 AM (JCZqz)

203 Mostly being because Pink Floyd sucks and is largely unlistenable.

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Their album "Animals" is under-appreciated genius level material. My favorite track from that one is "Dogs". Great song-writing, great musicianship.

Posted by: Crusader at May 06, 2025 10:37 AM (TN0g+)

204 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

Nice try, Admiral. I wasn't born on Hoth, you know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:37 AM (Dg2sF)

205 First Lady didn't choose that route.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

KEEP MICHELLE'S NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH!!!

Posted by: Will Smith at May 06, 2025 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

206 Saw an SUV festooned with all sorts of abortion stickers. Stuff like I DISSENT, no Uterus, No Opinion. Dont Tread on Me, with a pic of (you guessed it) a uterus. There must have been 10 of these on the back of the SUV.

I’m like oh Kay. Here’s the funny part. Inside the suv there were several kids. lol. This wymyn hates babies but popped out several. This kids will grow up to be well adjusted I’m sure.

This wymyn also probably believes she’s being “silenced” by the manosphere or some nonsense. Nah honey, we hear you loud and clear. And no we’re not laughing with you we’re laughing at you.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:38 AM (xeo0s)

207 197 Painting reminds me of "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

What a great book. Loved reading that to my son when he was little.
---------------
Future Leader was absorbed for four years with Thomas The Tank Engine. His favorite book was the Thomas The Tank Engine Catalog. And then the Power Rangers showed up.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:38 AM (pZ64F)

208 Painting reminds me of "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

What a great book. Loved reading that to my son when he was little.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

IIRC, the same author wrote Katy and the Big Snow, about a snowplow clearing up the city after a blizzard. That is also a lovely book for children.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:39 AM (Dg2sF)

209 I'm a bit confused here-- the big chimney is saying there is no new pope, but the small one is saying we have a new pope, so, which is it?

Posted by: tankdemon at May 06, 2025 10:39 AM (FVLcK)

210 204 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:28 AM (JCZqz)

Nice try, Admiral. I wasn't born on Hoth, you know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

If you were, and were a weirdo like Sam Brinton, that link would keep you hot, Hot, HOT!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:39 AM (JCZqz)

211 My friend is having five months of chemo, then a double, then radiation. Gonna be a long year.

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2025 10:40 AM (Kn237)

212 108 My grandfather worked in a cement factory in the Rust Belt, died of mesothelioma

My uncle died from it, too. He was in the Navy WWII, was exposed there. They just didn't know how dangerous it was.
Now if you find asbestos tile in your home they practically condemn it.
Slight exaggeration. But everybody's hair gets on fire.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 06, 2025 10:40 AM (Eo96p)

213
KEEP MICHELLE'S NAME OUT YOUR MOUTH!!!
Posted by: Will Smith at May 06, 2025 10:38 AM (JCZqz)

She wuddnt no first lady.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

214 This wymyn also probably believes she’s being “silenced” by the manosphere or some nonsense. Nah honey, we hear you loud and clear. And no we’re not laughing with you we’re laughing at you.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:38 AM (xeo0s)

Bitch would likely whine if you scooped up her crotchfruit and said you were going to abort them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:40 AM (ESTMH)

215 No my ideal location for an estate.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 06, 2025 10:40 AM (FVLcK)

216 Future Leader was absorbed for four years with Thomas The Tank Engine. His favorite book was the Thomas The Tank Engine Catalog. And then the Power Rangers showed up.
Posted by: Pudinhead

My son was also big into Thomas, both the show and the books. He never had a Power Rangers phrase, though. I think Ben Ten was his version of the Power Rangers.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

217 And yesterday was International Gilbert & Sullivan Day. I should have settled down and listened to either Iolanthe or The Yeomen of the Guard.

My favorite Gilbert and Sullivan song as a child was “We Sail the Ocean Blue” from HMS Pinafore, which we children had in 45 rpm, and which I would play over and over on a beige metal case phonograph player, which thinking back on it must have been designed as a portable (this was the early 1960s). I believe it could play 33 and 1/3 records, too (with the lid open) but no other speeds. It had an adaptor, built in IIRC, that allowed both sizes. The speaker was mono and built-in to the case. We children were only given 45s, but some of them quite “educational” like the G&S. It was only years later that I saved up enough money from my allowance to by a Beatles 45. It was “Lady Madonna” with the flip side being Harrison’s “Inner Light”. I still have it out in the den with other records from the pre CD era.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 10:42 AM (YItOJ)

218 My son was also big into Thomas, both the show and the books. He never had a Power Rangers phrase, though. I think Ben Ten was his version of the Power Rangers.
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Power Rangers didn't last long. They were soon eclipsed by Japanese Anime books. Power Rangers really sucked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:42 AM (pZ64F)

219 215 No my ideal location for an estate.
Posted by: tankdemon

Fredo, yes, I know I said I wanted lakeside property. I don't CARE how much of a deal you got on it. Get rid of it.

Posted by: Michael Corleone at May 06, 2025 10:43 AM (JCZqz)

220 IIRC, the same author wrote Katy and the Big Snow, about a snowplow clearing up the city after a blizzard. That is also a lovely book for children.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Yes. We had a book that had both of those stories in it, along with one about a little red house. Wonderful stories, all three.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

221 20 We have black smoke AND white smoke?

Schroedinger's Pope?

I am confused.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

209 I'm a bit confused here-- the big chimney is saying there is no new pope, but the small one is saying we have a new pope, so, which is it?
Posted by: tankdemon at May 06, 2025 10:39 AM (FVLcK)

I should have known somebody would have already hit this subject. I guess there are consequences for being late.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 06, 2025 10:43 AM (FVLcK)

222 209 I'm a bit confused here-- the big chimney is saying there is no new pope, but the small one is saying we have a new pope, so, which is it?
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So, will the Jesuits win or does this go to some other order?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 06, 2025 10:44 AM (pZ64F)

223 American Power Ranger actors still get willing fans at conventions.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:44 AM (Zf1k9)

224 lol

CNBC: Hispanic shoppers are spending less on groceries because of Trump’s immigration policies

So because illegals are getting (kinda) deported other Hispanics are starving. I guess?

No matter how much you hate the media….

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:44 AM (xeo0s)

225 My friend is having five months of chemo, then a double, then radiation. Gonna be a long year.
Posted by: ... at May 06, 2025 10:40 AM (Kn237)

Ugh.....Must've been bad. Prayers out to your friend. That's a tough road, for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:45 AM (Zz0t1)

226 We have black smoke AND white smoke?

Schroedinger's Pope?

I am confused.
Posted by: Bulg

So exciting! Could be our first non-binary pope!!! Take that, patriarchy!

Posted by: LGBTQIA2S+ Activist Catholics and Atheists at May 06, 2025 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

227 212 108 My grandfather worked in a cement factory in the Rust Belt, died of mesothelioma

My uncle died from it, too. He was in the Navy WWII, was exposed there. They just didn't know how dangerous it was.
Now if you find asbestos tile in your home they practically condemn it.
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My grandfather was a foreman in a cotton factory in Georgia and died of emphysema. He said there were days the cotton dust was so thick inside the factory where the machines he maintained were that you couldn't see more than an arms-length ahead.

Posted by: Crusader at May 06, 2025 10:46 AM (TN0g+)

228
CNBC: Hispanic shoppers are spending less on groceries because of Trump’s immigration policies

This makes no f*cking sense at all.

If it's that bad for you here, go home.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

229 So exciting! Could be our first non-binary pope!!! Take that, patriarchy!
Posted by: LGBTQIA2S+ Activist Catholics and Atheists at May 06, 2025 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

Green smoke, muslim Pope.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:46 AM (ESTMH)

230 20 We have black smoke AND white smoke?

Schroedinger's Pope?

I am confused.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 09:34 AM

I'm Popeing smoke!

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 06, 2025 10:46 AM (ewjUl)

231 212 108 My grandfather worked in a cement factory in the Rust Belt, died of mesothelioma

My uncle died from it, too. He was in the Navy WWII, was exposed there. They just didn't know how dangerous it was.
Now if you find asbestos tile in your home they practically condemn it.
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You may be entitled to compensation!

Posted by: Annoying Ad at May 06, 2025 10:47 AM (JCZqz)

232
I'm Popeing smoke!
Posted by: Minnfidel at May 06, 2025 10:46 AM (ewjUl)

Is this what happens when you put a banana in the tailpipe?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

233 And, of course, orange smoke, protestant Pope!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:48 AM (ESTMH)

234 This makes no f*cking sense at all.

If it's that bad for you here, go home.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

Of course it makes no sense. But if it can portray Trump in a negative way they’ll go with it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:48 AM (xeo0s)

235 I'm hoping for paisley smoke.

Posted by: zombie Carlos Castaneda at May 06, 2025 10:48 AM (0sNs1)

236 Now if you find asbestos tile in your home they practically condemn it.

Spray it with water and seal it in a plastic bag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

237 229 So exciting! Could be our first non-binary pope!!! Take that, patriarchy!
Posted by: LGBTQIA2S+ Activist Catholics and Atheists at May 06, 2025 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

Green smoke, muslim Pope.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

No, that's either a Jamaican Pope, or CGI Yoda pope. Either would be an upgrade from his predecessor.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:48 AM (JCZqz)

238 As seen in a meme...

Popeyes = white smoke
Popeno = black smoke

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 06, 2025 10:49 AM (Q4IgG)

239 I would like to see them pull off Rainbow Smoke.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:49 AM (Zf1k9)

240 And, of course, orange smoke, protestant Pope!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:48 AM (ESTMH)

I thought that meant Trump was Pope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

241 You may be entitled to compensation!
Posted by: Annoying Ad at May 06, 2025 10:47 AM (JCZqz)

Just saw one of those again yesterday. Hadn't seen one in years.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2025 10:49 AM (2J/Lj)

242 Missed the earlier thread. But it's interesting. Acoording to the left, Fetterlump is suddenly mentally incapacitated now that he went off the reservation. They were fine covering up for a senile old man because they could control him. We still don't know who was actually running the country.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 06, 2025 10:49 AM (ewjUl)

243 Pope Yoda, "Either believe or believe not."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:50 AM (Zf1k9)

244 Red smoke communist pope. So just a continuation of the last pope.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 06, 2025 10:50 AM (xeo0s)

245 that's either a Jamaican Pope
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Ganja smoke.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

246 How did Fetterman go off the dem reservation?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:50 AM (ESTMH)

247 How did Fetterman go off the dem reservation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:50 AM (ESTMH)

He openly supports Israel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

248 You may be entitled!

Posted by: Elon at May 06, 2025 10:51 AM (qcvs8)

249 He openly supports Israel.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

That is scarcely new.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:51 AM (ESTMH)

250 CNBC: Hispanic shoppers are spending less on groceries because of Trump’s immigration policies

...because they're buying less, or don't have to pay as much?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 06, 2025 10:51 AM (OUMaO)

251 243 Pope Yoda, "Either believe or believe not."
Posted by: Anna Puma

Pope Jar Jar, "Oh, maxi-big da Christ. Weesa all prayin' togetha for da world peace."

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 06, 2025 10:52 AM (JCZqz)

252 Snow is coming down quite heavily at this point. Expecting perhaps 12-18" total today and tonight, tapering off tomorrow morning. Probably won't get any solar charging today so will get to fire up the generator to top up our batteries. Slog day for me. Frolic day for the puppy. This is her first real snow ever!

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 10:52 AM (uCfKO)

253 It's going on 5pm in Rome so lots of daylight left. 68° They keep odd hours there so people are out shopping dining now.

Hennepin County is defending its use of race in making plea deals saying it's necessary for fair and just outcomes.

Astonishing.
DoJ is on this like white on rice.

Posted by: torabora at May 06, 2025 10:53 AM (m4ZZk)

254 252 Snow is coming down quite heavily at this point.
____

Muldoon lives down under?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 06, 2025 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)

255 > CNBC: Hispanic shoppers are spending less on groceries because of Trump’s immigration policies
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Their prepaid debit cards are running out and not being refilled as they were under *biden.

Some had 10's of thousands of dollars on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 06, 2025 10:53 AM (Q4IgG)

256
That is scarcely new.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:51 AM (ESTMH)

He still votes lock step with them, but they don't like him speaking positive of Israel and their fight against terrorists.

That's just a road too far.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

257 Snow is coming down quite heavily at this point. Expecting perhaps 12-18" total today
Posted by: muldoon

I told you moving to the Ob River Basin was a bad idea.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:53 AM (77rzZ)

258 Muldoon lives down under?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 06, 2025 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)

Colorado mountains.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

259 We still don't know who was actually running the country.
Posted by: Minnfidel at May 06, 2025 10:49 AM

* nods approvingly *

Posted by: Big Penguin at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (0sNs1)

260 Slog day for me. Frolic day for the puppy. This is her first real snow ever!
Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 10:52 AM (uCfKO)

Looks like another sunny T-shirt day here in Alberta. Being 5000 feet lower has its advantages...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (ESTMH)

261 I have a hunch that the disaffection with Fetterman goes deeper than just "hurr durr he a jooo luvver". I think their problem is that he actually treats MAGA as a simple adversarial political position. He tends to engage in real back and forth, saying where he agrees and where he doesn't, and why, instead of the typical leftie asshole smoke grenade FUD cloud of lies and demonization.

If you allow one of your own to clearly articulate what your own position and what the other position is, well, gosh darn it, the herd might go off the reservation.

I could be full of shit. But it's a thought. He's just an old guard left leaning liberal.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (kBh81)

262 254 252 Snow is coming down quite heavily at this point.
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Muldoon lives down under?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Shot down a Columbian drug running plane.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

263 How did Fetterman go off the dem reservation?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*******

Pro-Israel mainly

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (uCfKO)

264 Plaid smoke = Spaceballs Pope

Posted by: Farquad at May 06, 2025 10:55 AM (bwvMs)

265 Kosmo 482, the 500Kg failed Venusian lander, could return to Earth between May 8th and May 12th.

Where will it strike? No one knows yet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:55 AM (Zf1k9)

266 Muldoon lives down under?

*********

More like up over. Southern Rockies

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 10:56 AM (uCfKO)

267 255 > CNBC: Hispanic shoppers are spending less on groceries because of Trump’s immigration policies
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Their prepaid debit cards are running out and not being refilled as they were under *biden.

Some had 10's of thousands of dollars on them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

But how will Trump be able to afford to fly them all home and pay them $1,000 each if they all register to self deport!?!??!? (Common retort seen on Reddit recently)

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2025 10:56 AM (JCZqz)

268 Shot down a Columbian drug running plane.
Posted by: Military Moron at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (JCZqz)

They have planes that run on drugs?

Wow. I would have though aviation fuel was way cheaper. But then again, Colombia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 06, 2025 10:57 AM (kBh81)

269 The best thing to do with asbestos tile, if it is still in good condition and not friable, is leave it alone. It actually might help in case of fire. But no, when they find it, they have to tear it out and replace it with non-asbestos tiles at great expense (because of all the abatement procedures). I think it partly a scam, particularly when done on the government dime. They replaced the floor tile in the early 70s building the Physics department was in and used state money. Quite a bother. Didn’t tell them about the asbestos embedded material (not friable, and impervious to all sorts of chemical and fire related attacks) that I had in my lab area sink. It was still there when when I retired along with a large chalkboard with chalk, not a whiteboard with markers. I think I had the last chalkboard in the department. Terrible for optics experiments, but I wasn’t doing optics there.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 10:57 AM (YItOJ)

270 Kosmo 482, the 500Kg failed Venusian lander, could return to Earth between May 8th and May 12th.

Where will it strike? No one knows yet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:55 AM (Zf1k9)

I'm pulling for that apartment Huma and Satan's Child were in in that photo yesterday. While they're there. Sleeping.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

271 Maybe you needed sleep more than you needed Gilbert and Sullivan.

I've been sleeping and napping nearly constantly, either after work or during the entire week. It's more depression than anything else - when I sleep, my subconscious can't make me feel all that rotten.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 10:57 AM (Dg2sF)

272 Kosmo 482, the 500Kg failed Venusian lander, could return to Earth between May 8th and May 12th.

Where will it strike? No one knows yet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 06, 2025 10:55 AM (Zf1k9)

Sounds like it might miss Earth altogether, too. Or maybe strike the Moon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 10:57 AM (ESTMH)

273 258 Muldoon lives down under?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 06, 2025 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)

Colorado mountains.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)

Oh it can snow at anytime of the year then. I know it snowed on the 4th of July in Colorado Springs in the early 90s.

Posted by: Farquad at May 06, 2025 10:58 AM (bwvMs)

274 Looks like another sunny T-shirt day here in Alberta. Being 5000 feet lower has its advantages...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

**********

I hate you.

In the moment.

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 10:58 AM (uCfKO)

275 76 and sunny here today. Low humidity. AKA one of the 17 nice days we have annually.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 06, 2025 10:59 AM (ewjUl)

276 . But no, when they find it, they have to tear it out and replace it with non-asbestos tiles at great expense (because of all the abatement procedures).

Abatement procedures:

Wear a hazmat suit. Spray water. Put materials in a plastic bag and seal it. Take it away (Likely to a dump to be plowed under like everything else).

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

277 So it's not a failed Venus lander.

It's a successful Earth lander.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 06, 2025 10:59 AM (kBh81)

278 Looks like another sunny T-shirt day here in Alberta. Being 5000 feet lower has its advantages...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You guys will be Americans soon, right?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2025 11:00 AM (JCZqz)

279 We had a book that had both of those stories in it, along with one about a little red house. Wonderful stories, all three.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

That reminds me of a children's story about a house that gets built, has a family move in, have children and grandchildren and then the owners die and the house is abandoned, but it's happy that there was so much love in it for so long.

I have no idea how to even begin searching for it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 11:00 AM (Dg2sF)

280 You guys will be Americans soon, right?
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2025 11:00 AM (JCZqz)

Would be nice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 11:00 AM (ESTMH)

281 I know it snowed on the 4th of July in Colorado Springs in the early 90s.
Posted by: Farquad

That's insane.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

282 It was still there when when I retired along with a large chalkboard with chalk, not a whiteboard with markers. I think I had the last chalkboard in the department. Terrible for optics experiments, but I wasn’t doing optics there.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 10:57 AM (YItOJ)
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What is it with you physicists and your chalk?

The physicists where I work have vetoed replacing chalkboards with whiteboards. Chalk dust is extremely hard on the projectors and computers in the classrooms (and lab equipment!)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 06, 2025 11:01 AM (7fElN)

283 We had a book that had both of those stories in it, along with one about a little red house. Wonderful stories, all three.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

There's a red house over yonder. That's where my baby stays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

284 208
IIRC, the same author wrote Katy and the Big Snow, about a snowplow clearing up the city after a blizzard. That is also a lovely book for children.

And The Little House, about a house built out in the country that eventually becomes inner city. Very sweet book. Happy ending.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 06, 2025 11:02 AM (Eo96p)

285 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

286 Does he have a French maid? Because then he's probably doing something else.
Posted by: Bulg at May 06, 2025 10:07 AM (77rzZ)

Obligatory cute Japanese rock band dressed as French maids

https://tinyurl.com/4xukt7mb

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 06, 2025 11:02 AM (FoIOl)

287 I've seen snow in July here. Just a flurry, and it didn't stick because the ground was warm.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2025 11:02 AM (ESTMH)

288 There's an abandoned building north of Dallas on I-35 that's condemned. It's full of asbestos.

Too expensive to abate. Can't blow it up because asbestos.

It will sit there, forever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 06, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

289 I have no idea how to even begin searching for it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

*********

Have you tried pasting that paragraph into a search engine?

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 11:04 AM (uCfKO)

290 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 06, 2025 11:00 AM (Dg2sF)

The Little House? Virginia Burton?

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2025 11:10 AM (Kn237)

291 The House by J. Patrick Lewis;?

Posted by: muldoon at May 06, 2025 11:13 AM (uCfKO)

292 276 They did a lot more than that, like cordon off certain hallways with plastic sheeting and set up blowers so that air was flowing into the containment area from the rest of the building (of course the blowers were blowing everything to the outside - it was a larger dispersal volume than inside, but…

. Luckily the building layout was such that there were two alternate ways to get somewhere when they were working on any one hallway. And it probably did all end up in a dump somewhere, to be plowed under. A scam on the government dime.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 11:13 AM (YItOJ)

293 Perfessor -
Did you know there is a conjecture that if you drop a new piece of chalk on a hard floor that it breaks in pi = 3.1415926… pieces? We have to keep chalkboards around so that we can investigate this hypothesis!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 06, 2025 11:21 AM (YItOJ)

294 Yes! The Little House by Virginia Burton

Different author but same illustrator as Mike Mulligan ?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 06, 2025 11:26 AM (Eo96p)

295 It looks cozy, like a miniature.

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