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“The infinite is in the finite of every instant.” – Zen proverb
There are as many numbers betweens negative infinity and positive infinity as there are between zero and one. Posted by: mindful webworker - the mind goggles at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (7URu6) 2
First!
Posted by: p-squared at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (0prFs) 3
One minute, just one minute.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (M2v2q) 4
okay, second!
Posted by: p-squared at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (0prFs) 5
Well, maybe two.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (M2v2q) 6
Never mind.
Posted by: p-squared at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (0prFs) 7
Just imagine owning the same car that Ruth Buzzi owned.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:03 PM (JkO4W) 8
Good Evening Posted by: four seasons at May 02, 2025 10:03 PM (3ek7K) 9
Evenin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 02, 2025 10:03 PM (qKYfj) 10
Meow
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 02, 2025 10:03 PM (w3u3d) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:04 PM (JkO4W) 12
Whoa! Content abondanza!
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 02, 2025 10:04 PM (J8OCH) 13
I guess Rip Taylor wouldn't stoop to shilling for Lincoln.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W) 14
Good evening morons y gracias wd por Friday Night Memes!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2025 10:07 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: mindful webworker - laugh-in was a long time ago at May 02, 2025 10:07 PM (7URu6) 16
Noodity announced.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 02, 2025 10:10 PM (dg+HA) 17
Girthy content tonight. Good job!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 02, 2025 10:10 PM (yko4N) 18
Is that the Schlitz Malt Liquor bull?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 02, 2025 10:10 PM (63Dwl) 19
You know, Fist Fighting Preacher, would not be a bad band name or a concept for a movie.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2025 10:11 PM (XV/Pl) 20
The tuna chart is missing one: Charlie the Tuna.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 02, 2025 10:12 PM (VNX3d) 21
Ruth Buzzi looked old when we were young, quite frankly, I had no idea she was still among us.
RIP Ruth. Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2025 10:12 PM (XV/Pl) 22
Ruth Buzzi I did not know from Laugh In but from a Saturday morning kid's show called The Lost Saucer with Jim Nabors
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2025 10:13 PM (RIvkX) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:13 PM (JkO4W) 24
I guess Rip Taylor wouldn't stoop to shilling for Lincoln.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W) He doesn't have to. Matthew McKnockityknockity got the job. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2025 10:13 PM (MFYQF) 25
The guy in the pool hall definitely overreacted. The other guy was clearly so drunk he didn't know where he was, and barely touched the woman. I'd call that assault.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2025 10:13 PM (s8j++) 26
Keep people from their ONT....nooooo!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 02, 2025 10:14 PM (GF1P3) 27
Arte Johnson: "Do you believe in the hereafter?"
Ruth Buzzi: "Yes." Arte Johnson: "Then you know what I'm here after." Ruth Buzzi. Hits him with purse. Posted by: Some Rat at May 02, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr) 28
The tuna chart is missing one: Charlie the Tuna.
Calling it now. There will be an addition in the comments. Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2025 10:15 PM (s8j++) 29
Man, Ruth Buzzi had quite a chin.
Posted by: Jay Leno at May 02, 2025 10:16 PM (s8j++) 30
29 Man, Ruth Buzzi had quite a chin.
Posted by: Jay Leno at May 02, 2025 10:16 PM (s8j++) --------- She was a Habsburg princess. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:17 PM (JkO4W) 31
24 I guess Rip Taylor wouldn't stoop to shilling for Lincoln.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W) He doesn't have to. Matthew McKnockityknockity got the job. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ---- Lincoln was a luxury car back then. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:17 PM (M2v2q) 32
Hobbit first. Lord of the Rings. Silmarilion...never...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 02, 2025 10:17 PM (GF1P3) 33
Pacific Ocean Bluefin Tuna fishing was freaking awesome. Got me a 35 pounder. And a massive sunburn.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 10:18 PM (Q4IgG) Posted by: Don Black. Message: Doc IS here at May 02, 2025 10:18 PM (AOsQT) 35
13 I guess Rip Taylor wouldn't stoop to shilling for Lincoln.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) Confetti futures never recovered since his death in 2019. Posted by: $1.98 Beauty Show at May 02, 2025 10:18 PM (G5+As) 36
Sorry, but I'm on the bull's side every time in these bull-fights-man mishaps. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 02, 2025 10:19 PM (Mo04G) 37
I didn’t see Charlie Tuna on the tuna chart.
Posted by: Eromero at May 02, 2025 10:19 PM (LHPAg) 38
37 I didn’t see Charlie Tuna on the tuna chart.
Posted by: Eromero at May 02, 2025 10:19 PM (LHPAg) --------- You don't see Flipper either but he was there. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:20 PM (JkO4W) 39
Farrah Fawcett for Cougar XR7 https://youtu.be/trqEgZiynXQ Posted by: Don Black. Message: Doc IS here ================ She didn't even have the acting chops for a car commercial. But she knew the brief. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 02, 2025 10:21 PM (Mo04G) 40
Wolf got me.
Posted by: Eromero at May 02, 2025 10:21 PM (LHPAg) 41
Thunderboomers building outside.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 02, 2025 10:21 PM (XeU6L) 42
He may have been defending the lady's honor, but, for the same reasons that cracking a dirty joke will get you fired for sexual harassment, a DA seeing that video could easily charge him with assault and battery. Depending on the state, that could be a couple of years.
Or, when cocking his fist at the second guy who was remonstrating him, getting a bullet on the grounds that he already demonstrated a propensity for excessive violence, placing second guy in fear of great bodily harm. Posted by: buddhaha at May 02, 2025 10:22 PM (UvBCO) 43
Ruth Buzzi passed away at age 88?
She was 68 in 1971 on Laugh In! She must have had some very rough early years and then aged very gracefully after that. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 02, 2025 10:22 PM (HlyYF) 44
May 1, 2025; Buzzi died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer’s at her home near Fort Worth, Texas,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:23 PM (M2v2q) 45
Not a Lincoln but I had a friend in HS that had a '72 Oldsmobile station wagon. It was longer than a Sherman Tank and had a 455 in it. Didn't look like it could beat you but it could. It was very fast and wonderfully loud! Didn't take turns very well but in a straight line, damn quick.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 02, 2025 10:23 PM (qKYfj) 46
My grandfather drove Lincoln Continentals for a few years until he made partner at his company. After that, he bought Cadillacs. I still remember sitting in the back seats of those monsters. In all honesty, I can say: I'm glad I don't have to drive one of those today. Even thinking of parking one gives me goosebumps.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 02, 2025 10:23 PM (xoECP) 47
How do you challenge a Supreme Court ruling? Isn’t that the final ruling?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 10:23 PM (NWr1F) 48
17 Girthy content tonight. Good job!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 02, 2025 10:10 PM "And that's what I said too!" -- Young bull elk Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 02, 2025 10:23 PM (HlyYF) 49
I've heard they have Papal Bulls at the Vatican.
Posted by: Ecclesiastically Challenged at May 02, 2025 10:24 PM (G5+As) 50
And that bull said 'ima gonna kick everyone's ass!' 🤪!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 02, 2025 10:24 PM (GF1P3) 51
Evenin’, All.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 02, 2025 10:24 PM (VNX3d) 53
Farrah Fawcett for Cougar XR7
https://youtu.be/trqEgZiynXQ Posted by: Don Black. Message: Doc IS here at May 02, 2025 10:18 PM (AOsQT) Poor lady died before achieving Cougarhood. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2025 10:24 PM (MFYQF) 54
AP now reports he is a Maryland construction worker.
Posted by: torabora at May 02, 2025 10:25 PM (di/5o) 55
New you can use - didn't expect to see that vid about "resetting" a calf. Nice! And remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKoYT4febHM Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 02, 2025 10:25 PM (vd6bO) 56
In all honesty, I can say: I'm glad I don't have to drive one of those today. Even thinking of parking one gives me goosebumps.
As long as the guy with two flashlights is there to wave you in, you should be okay. Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2025 10:25 PM (s8j++) 57
19 You know, Fist Fighting Preacher, would not be a bad band name or a concept for a movie.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2025 10:11 PM I would also be OK with trial by combat used to pick the next Pope. I suspect the conservative cardinals can throw down sufficiently against the soy boy cardinal contingent. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 02, 2025 10:25 PM (HlyYF) 58
Tim Walz said his job on the ticket was to appeal to football fans.
What kind of dumbass political strategy is that? No wonder they lost. Posted by: nerdygirl at May 02, 2025 10:26 PM (0Htd1) 59
I had a friend in college who was bequeathed a late 1960s something. I want to say oldsmobile or Buick. His grandmother died and left it to him. One of those “grandma drove it to the store for groceries and church” deals but legit. Had 30k miles on it and was mint condition.
It was fun to take trips in that thing. Back seat was big enough to stretch out and sleep. Parking… hooo boy. That wa challenging. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 10:28 PM (NWr1F) Posted by: Dr. T at May 02, 2025 10:28 PM (lHPJf) 61
Captain Dude-Bro at the bar is a douchey asshole. His girl handled that drunk perfectly. No need for Captain to get involved at all, let alone fly into a rage and practically sucker-punch a drunk. My advice to the girl: run. If your dude is that uncontrollably violent, it’s only a matter of time before he turns that rage on you.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 02, 2025 10:28 PM (NiYfU) 62
46 My grandfather drove Lincoln Continentals for a few years until he made partner at his company. After that, he bought Cadillacs. I still remember sitting in the back seats of those monsters. In all honesty, I can say: I'm glad I don't have to drive one of those today. Even thinking of parking one gives me goosebumps.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 02, 2025 10:23 PM (xoECP I had a 72 lime green Coupe DeVille. It was huge for 6’2” me but when I gave it to Mammy Eromero she had to look through the steering wheel to see the road. She was one classy dame. Posted by: Eromero at May 02, 2025 10:28 PM (LHPAg) 63
‘Roid issue fo sho with punch guy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 10:30 PM (NWr1F) 64
There's a clip from Cher's variety show with Farrah guesting and they both played mannequins in a department store window. Cute and funny.
Posted by: Remember Variety Shows? at May 02, 2025 10:30 PM (G5+As) 65
Thanks, WD, good stuff.
Posted by: GWB at May 02, 2025 10:30 PM (wbjSL) 66
Farrah Fawcett for Cougar XR7
https://youtu.be/trqEgZiynXQ Posted by: Don Black -------- That cougar was probably Chauncey, who was s real ham. I.knew a guy who worked with him in San Diego. The cat would do multiple rehearsals, but only one take. When he saw the camera, he wouldn't repeat the stunt. Posted by: buddhaha at May 02, 2025 10:30 PM (UvBCO) 67
Hopefully Punchy McPuncher only gets charged with assault, and not manslaughter.
"When a crashing blow from a huge right hand Sent a Louisiana Cajun to the Promised Land Big John." Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 02, 2025 10:31 PM (yko4N) 68
The XO makes tombstones. At his first job, he also had to go out to the cemeteries to set them. Every now and again I'd ride along, then wander around while he worked. It was very common to see a head stone for a husband and wife trailed by a series of small head stones for the children who had died at an early age. Prior to WW II and the discovery of penicillin, parents simply could not expect any of their children to survive them.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 02, 2025 10:32 PM (xoECP) 69
It does amuse me how overnight Trump and MAGA became the voice of keeping yourself healthy.
It is just starting but RFK could become his most important cabinet pick because a traditional Republican just couldn't do stuff like this. Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2025 10:32 PM (t0Rmr) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:32 PM (M2v2q) 71
45 Not a Lincoln but I had a friend in HS that had a '72 Oldsmobile station wagon. It was longer than a Sherman Tank and had a 455 in it. Didn't look like it could beat you but it could. It was very fast and wonderfully loud! Didn't take turns very well but in a straight line, damn quick.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 02, 2025 10:23 PM I had the same car! Green with wood panels Vista Cruiser. Also had the 455 with 4-barrel carb. Very fun to win straight-track street races! The car would actually get lighter during the race as the gas tank went from 1/2 full to empty over a quarter mile. Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 02, 2025 10:32 PM (HlyYF) 72
Sorry I'm late, my speakers didn't go up to eleven.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 02, 2025 10:32 PM (n/wJo) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:33 PM (JkO4W) 74
For a regular family car, nothing like the experience of parking a Plymouth Fury with manual steering. The old police cars. They were boats. Trying to turn one with manual steering felt like a boat, too. {Grabs wheel} "Hard aport!" {Furiously spins wheel}
Posted by: RickZ at May 02, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2) 75
> Ruth Buzzi passed away at age 88?
She was 68 in 1971 on Laugh In! She must have had some very rough early years and then aged very gracefully after that. --------- Mummification would be my guess. Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 10:33 PM (Q4IgG) 76
How do you challenge a Supreme Court ruling? Isn’t that the final ruling?
The European countries slowly lost their sovereignty to Globohomo. I expect the EU will tell Britain its courts are wrong and the government will enforce that ruling. Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2025 10:33 PM (t0Rmr) Posted by: Emily at May 02, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr) 78
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Growing up in the west I had not seen much of that, but going out to the Carolinas where my family came west from, every cemetery seemed like it had more infants than adults. Tough times indeed. Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 02, 2025 10:34 PM (vd6bO) 79
The tuna poster is relevant to me, wife made fish tacos today and we were discussing the pros and cons of various tuna. Based on the color, looks like yellowfin.
Posted by: Joseph the Dreamer at May 02, 2025 10:35 PM (4TAOz) 80
The tuna chart is missing one: Charlie the Tuna. We don't want tuna with good taste. We want tuna that tastes good. Posted by: StarKist at May 02, 2025 10:36 PM (63Dwl) 81
#BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 02, 2025 10:37 PM (W/lyH) 82
Okay, I finally went on Google to find out who Ruth Buzzi is.
I still don't really get it. Posted by: Dr. T at May 02, 2025 10:28 PM (lHPJf) One of the many 'stars' on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an edgy comedy tv show from the late '60s. It's where Goldie Hawn got her start (as a dumb hot go-go girl). Nixon even had a brief cameo when he said one of the show's tag lines: Sock it to me! I guess you had to be there. Posted by: RickZ at May 02, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2) 83
I saw The Woman in the Yard and it was ok, another Blumhouse production but the thing that came through pretty early on
SPOILERS was that it was another take on depression like The Babadook which was a better movie overall. Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2025 10:37 PM (t0Rmr) 84
Which is bigger/smaller, one of those old land yachts or a modern pick up truck?
Posted by: davidt at May 02, 2025 10:38 PM (i0F8b) 85
Joan Fontaine and Olivia deHavilland were sisters, not twins. Joan lived to be 96, Olivia 104.
Posted by: Didn't Get Along at May 02, 2025 10:38 PM (G5+As) 86
62 -- Eromeo: One of my customers in the first couple years after I opened my bookstore drove a behemoth. She was elderly and downright tiny, and I think she probably had to peer through the steering wheel, too. What was even funnier was that she popped into the bookstore so many times in the middle of snow storms. I used to wonder how she did it.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at May 02, 2025 10:39 PM (xoECP) 87
PoundMeToo was intended to be used as a weapon against Trump nothing more.
Then Rose McGowan turned it on Harvey Weinstein. And she almost got him when he lost Kamala Harris as his protector. But if I understand the latest ruling the Dems still came through for old Harv... Posted by: 18-1 at May 02, 2025 10:39 PM (t0Rmr) 88
The tuna poster is relevant to me, wife made fish tacos today and we were discussing the pros and cons of various tuna. Based on the color, looks like yellowfin.
Posted by: Joseph the Dreamer at May 02, 2025 10:35 PM (4TAOz) Where does "ahi tuna" fit on the chart? Not white, not pink, more the color of a pork chop. Tasty enough, too. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2025 10:39 PM (MFYQF) 89
We don't want tuna with good taste. We want tuna that tastes good.
Posted by: StarKist at May 02, 2025 10:36 PM (63Dwl) EEEE! EEEE! EEEE! Posted by: Flipper at May 02, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2) Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 10:40 PM (f4w1i) 91
That Continental would be like driving a couch.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 10:40 PM (vKNmo) 92
Huge explosion at an Iranian port. Chinese BRI rocket fuel thought to be blame. Go to 0:30 in the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY1lmzYI6lM Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2025 10:40 PM (s8j++) 93
Could a 1970s car ad really use the word "ass?"
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 10:41 PM (f4w1i) 94
Mariners up 13-0 on the Rangers in the top of the ninth.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 02, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a) 95
Sorry, but I'm on the bull's side every time in these bull-fights-man mishaps.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia Yeah, if that's something sharp stuck in his back, the people pretty much got what they deserved. Actions have consequences. Posted by: nerdygirl at May 02, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1) 96
The tuna chart is missing one: Charlie the Tuna.
We don't want tuna with good taste. We want tuna that tastes good. Posted by: StarKist Red Skelton during a bit where he was eating a tuna fish sandwich. "No offense, but I think they finally caught Charlie." Supposedly StarKist pulled the ad for like 3 mos. Posted by: Some Rat at May 02, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr) 97
"PoundMeToo" sounds better than "OctothorpeMeToo".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2025 10:41 PM (MFYQF) 98
My wife was driving a 67 Ford Custom in 1980 when I met her. Strangely optioned car. Had A/C but no power steering or brakes. It took arm strength to parallel park it.
Posted by: She Was Frugal at May 02, 2025 10:42 PM (G5+As) 99
91 That Continental would be like driving a couch.
Posted by: Tonypete --- Honey, he says to his girl; have you tried the back seat? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:42 PM (M2v2q) 100
82 Okay, I finally went on Google to find out who Ruth Buzzi is.
I still don't really get it. Posted by: Dr. T at May 02, 2025 10:28 PM (lHPJf) One of the many 'stars' on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an edgy comedy tv show from the late '60s. It's where Goldie Hawn got her start (as a dumb hot go-go girl). Nixon even had a brief cameo when he said one of the show's tag lines: Sock it to me! I guess you had to be there. Posted by: RickZ at May 02, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2) Fun fact: one of the show's writers was a young... Lorne Michaels. He also wrote jokes for Woody Allen. Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 02, 2025 10:43 PM (I1Y6/) 101
I'd smack that smug look off of RFK Jr.'s face so fast, he'd wish that he was in JFK Jr.'s shoes when he crashed his Piper Saratoga into the Atlantic Ocean.
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at May 02, 2025 10:43 PM (fY84s) 102
Hamachi sushi is fantastic.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 02, 2025 10:44 PM (mT+6a) 103
102 Hamachi sushi is fantastic.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 02, 2025 10:44 PM (mT+6a) ---------- But if you cook it on a Hamachi is it still sushi? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 10:45 PM (JkO4W) 104
I've driven old Buick Roadmonsters, a 60 Sedan deVille, and a 58 Chrysler Imperial.
If you want to duplicate the steering experience today, get a 4WD, 4 door, 1 ton with an 8' bed. You make 8 point up turns. Posted by: buddhaha at May 02, 2025 10:45 PM (UvBCO) 105
Good evening!
Posted by: Piper at May 02, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW) 106
Has anyone here ever gotten a refund from AliExpress for a package that was never delivered?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2025 10:46 PM (MFYQF) 107
Never ordered from AliExpress
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 02, 2025 10:49 PM (gDlxJ) 108
Dang. Dude in the black shirt really clocks that guy. Hospital time I'm thinking.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 02, 2025 10:49 PM (W/lyH) 109
Hey, Piper!
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 10:49 PM (77rzZ) 110
That Lincoln Continental ad brings back some memories. Like that old cartoon where Popeye uses Ruth Buzzi's chin to open a can of spinach.
Posted by: Bombadil at May 02, 2025 10:50 PM (MX0bI) 111
Hi Bulg.
Posted by: Piper at May 02, 2025 10:52 PM (p4NUW) 112
PoundMeToo was intended to be used as a weapon against Trump nothing more.
Then Rose McGowan turned it on Harvey Weinstein. And she almost got him when he lost Kamala Harris as his protector. But if I understand the latest ruling the Dems still came through for old Harv... Posted by: 18-1 What about Oprah, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Meryl Streep? Did they turn on him too? Why it's almost like the entertainment industry is overrun with phony, hypocrite bitches. Posted by: nerdygirl at May 02, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1) 113
That was supposed to be hi, Bulg!
Posted by: Piper at May 02, 2025 10:52 PM (p4NUW) 114
No refund. You go now.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 10:53 PM (NWr1F) 115
106 Has anyone here ever gotten a refund from AliExpress for a package that was never delivered?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ---------------- Speaking of deliveries. I am waiting for a three day express delivery that left Canada on the 24th of last month. It has gone to three different postal stations in CA, two different mid-way postal stations, and back and forth between two different stations in my state but it's nowhere near my house. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:54 PM (M2v2q) 116
Thank you WD for yet another awesome ONT!
Personally I'm a big fan of the tuna. In my belly or on my tongue. Also most any other seafood, once I was diving with a guy who pulled an abalone off the rock and ate it 100ft underwater! He liked it rare :-) Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2025 10:54 PM (bok6T) 117
108 Dang. Dude in the black shirt really clocks that guy. Hospital time I'm thinking.
Posted by: Diogenes ------------- Wonder if he'd been as eager if the other guy was his own size? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:56 PM (M2v2q) 118
Joey Heatherton wants to sell you a Perfect Sleeper
You know, Joey was, for a time, married to Lance Rentzel. Rentzel was once asked about the rumor he was being traded to Oakland. "Never happen, said he. I'd rather stick it out in Dallas." HeyOhhhhhhh!!! Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 10:57 PM (vKNmo) 119
Greetings everyone. I hope the Horde (TM) is having a great Friday night.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 02, 2025 10:57 PM (CHHv1) 120
Speaking of deliveries. I am waiting for a three day express delivery that left Canada on the 24th of last month. It has gone to three different postal stations in CA, two different mid-way postal stations, and back and forth between two different stations in my state but it's nowhere near my house.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 10:54 PM (M2v2q) Dude. I just got an ebay order that the dumbass sent thru USPS.....swear to dog.... Started in Arkansas...went to Mississippi then Ok City then Georga then fucking Indianapolis before they routed it to Charlotte then Raleigh then finally to me.. I can provide screenshots as evidence. Can we get DOGE on the fucking USPS???? Posted by: NC Ref at May 02, 2025 10:59 PM (bok6T) 121
"Never happen, said he. I'd rather stick it out in Dallas."
HeyOhhhhhhh!!! Posted by: Tonypete ------------- Joey and Lance go into a bar. She goes one way he goes the other. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 11:00 PM (M2v2q) 122
I was working in Japan and we had an office potluck. One of the locals brought sashimi, in the form of a fresh caught tuna, which he proceeded to clean in the break room sink.
The building stunk for a couple of days. It was dandy raw tuna, though. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 02, 2025 11:01 PM (yko4N) 123
Oh look, Bondi's big "I'm suing Maine over trannies in women's sports" ends in a wet shart all over Trump.
She may be good at some things, but she's drowning on the big stage: Playing in their sandbox, by their rules is exactly how the 1st term was strangled in its crib. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 02, 2025 11:02 PM (NwfFc) 124
There's a really good video of a arena bull fight when the bull jumps the 6' wall and he's in the seating.
Posted by: 13times at May 02, 2025 11:03 PM (AQVyJ) 125
>>>Dude. I just got an ebay order that the dumbass sent thru USPS.....swear to dog....
Started in Arkansas...went to Mississippi then Ok City then Georga then fucking Indianapolis before they routed it to Charlotte then Raleigh then finally to me.. I can provide screenshots as evidence. Can we get DOGE on the fucking USPS???? Posted by: NC Ref --------- They have no shame, post the, easy to log, tracking chart. The fellow who designed their web site should be hired to design the routing for them. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 11:03 PM (M2v2q) 126
They have no shame, post the, easy to log, tracking chart.
The fellow who designed their web site should be hired to design the routing for them. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 11:03 PM (M2v2q) I wonder how much of USPS' troubles stems from DEI rules that require them to hire crooks and illiterates? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2025 11:05 PM (MFYQF) 127
What I remember of the Ruth Buzzi Muppets episode is the duet/fight she gets into with Sweetums. Oh, and the funniest interrogation I've ever seen. I asked Pooky if it would work, and he said you'd definitely have to get the info beforehand, so maybe?
Posted by: pookysgirl, Muppets fan at May 02, 2025 11:05 PM (Wt5PA) 128
Send all the mail to Memphis first.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 02, 2025 11:06 PM (63Dwl) 129
Long distance information give me Memphis, Tennessee
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 11:08 PM (M2v2q) 130
We don't want tuna with good taste. We want tuna that tastes good. Posted by: StarKist ============ The bizarreness of the ad character that wants to be eaten. SNL spoofed it pretty good with the Cluckin Chicken restaurant. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 02, 2025 11:08 PM (Mo04G) 131
>>Calling it now. There will be an addition in the comments.
Good call. Black Fin and Blue Fin to name two. And they do taste different. And Skipjack tastes like cat food. Blech. Fun to catch though. Posted by: JackStraw at May 02, 2025 11:09 PM (viF8m) 132
Read and looked, so now I’m late to the thread. No way a 1970 Lincoln Continental ad mentions Ruth Buzzi’s ass , even if she owned a donkey. A funny tribute though.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 02, 2025 11:10 PM (ZVgZ4) 133
Oh look, Bondi's big "I'm suing Maine over trannies in women's sports" ends in a wet shart all over Trump. Posted by: People's Hippo Voice ================ Wait, what? What happened? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 02, 2025 11:11 PM (Mo04G) Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 11:11 PM (77rzZ) Posted by: JackStraw at May 02, 2025 11:12 PM (viF8m) 136
There are places here the cook will start to make my tuna avocado and toast as soon as I'm seated.
I love tuna in all its forms, grilled ahi steak, yellowfin sushi, deli salad on toast with avocado, tuna casserole, it's all good. Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2025 11:13 PM (RIvkX) 137
1 “The infinite is in the finite of every instant.” – Zen proverb
There are as many numbers betweens negative infinity and positive infinity as there are between zero and one. Posted by: mindful webworker - the mind goggles at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (7URu6) ----------------------------------------- Long ago when I was learning set theory, one of my favorite fun facts was that the set of all multiples of 1 million is the same size as the set of all integers. Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 02, 2025 11:13 PM (OGOaV) 138
34 Farrah Fawcett for Cougar XR7
https://youtu.be/trqEgZiynXQ Posted by: Don Black. Message: Doc IS here at May 02, 2025 10:18 PM (AOsQT) ---- When I met my future wife she had a 2-door Cougar. Nice but no disk brakes so I almost had to stand on the pedal to avoid creep, or put it in N. Posted by: Ciampino - 1975 in Boston at May 02, 2025 11:14 PM (sPQoU) 139
134 113 Piper, no exclamation point needed.
I hope that you and yours are well. Posted by: Bulg at May 02, Thank you! You, too! The puppy is not settling tonight so I am going to go sleep on the couch with him until he does. He has been really good so not sure why tonight he is not sleepy! Posted by: Piper at May 02, 2025 11:15 PM (p4NUW) 140
Long ago when I was learning set theory, one of my favorite fun facts was that the set of all multiples of 1 million is the same size as the set of all integers.
Posted by: No One of Consequence Duuuuuuuuuude! *Takes another monster hit off of the bong* Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 11:15 PM (vKNmo) 141
Duuuuuuuuuude!
*Takes another monster hit off of the bong* Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 11:15 PM (vKNmo) ==== "Can I buy some pot from you?" -Pinto Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2025 11:17 PM (RIvkX) 142
Parallel lines only meet at Infinity. Can you imagine the mess at infinity with every pair of parallels ever created, all meeting there? Start with railway lines, pencil lines, .....
Posted by: Ciampino - are we there yet? at May 02, 2025 11:18 PM (sPQoU) 143
I should have taken a left turn at infinity.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 02, 2025 11:20 PM (63Dwl) 144
That one punch knock out in that billiard room...I am pleased to recommend that place to friends and family. They hire only experienced personnel. How do I know?
Well, the bartender went over the meat bag lump and turned him on his side in the event that he choked on vomit, blood or teeth. You can't teach that sort of professionalism. That only comes with experience. Well done. Posted by: Orson at May 02, 2025 11:21 PM (dIske) Posted by: Kindltot at May 02, 2025 11:22 PM (D7oie) Posted by: 13times at May 02, 2025 11:22 PM (AQVyJ) 147
I bought a couple of blue Rubbermaid ice trays off ebay.That was April 10. It currently says that the shipment will take longer than expected. Turned to tracking and only the shipping label had been produced, no package. These are the old style ice trays. They stopped making them. My guess is the guy who was selling them thought he had another pair, but when he looked, he was out. I hope he is scrambling to find a replacement pair, but we’ll see.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 02, 2025 11:23 PM (ZVgZ4) 148
I've heard, but never seen confirmed, that back in the 19th/early 20th Century Catholic priests assigned to rough working-class neighborhoods (e.g., South Boston) were in fact chosen with an eye toward fighting ability, as it was not unheard for them to have to go into a bar and forcibly recall a delinquent husband/father to his family duties.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2025 11:24 PM (W5ArC) 149
> No way a 1970 Lincoln Continental ad mentions Ruth Buzzi’s ass
Yeah, I was unsure myself until I got to that part. Excellent parody. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2025 11:26 PM (W5ArC) 150
My local liberal rag is spiking the football over all of the losses Trump has faced in court..
Where the hell is the Congressional GOP? FFS.. Why is that sorority bimbo Bondi allowed near anything anymore? She’s a complete disaster, as was easily predicted. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:26 PM (l3YAf) 151
>>Oh look, Bondi's big "I'm suing Maine over trannies in women's sports" ends in a wet shart all over Trump.
Did you actually read what was agreed to or just went for the headline? The lawsuit isn't over. All the Trump administration agreed to was restoring funding for school lunch programs. >>The settlement does not affect the Trump administration's decision to sue Maine over allegations that it is violating Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs, or the U.S. Department of Education's decision to launch an administrative proceeding to cut off all federal education funding for Maine's public schools. https://tinyurl.com/4at3xpbn The blind hatred of Bondi is weird. I like blonde girls. Posted by: JackStraw at May 02, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m) 152
Ruth Buzzi also won an award for being on Sesame Street
per a memorial for her from CNN.com Buzzi was active on social media and had thousands of followers whom she rewarded with such one-liners as “I have never faked a sarcasm” and “Scientists say the universe is made up entirely of neurons, protons and electrons. They seem to have missed morons.” Posted by: Kindltot at May 02, 2025 11:28 PM (D7oie) 153
> 20 The tuna chart is missing one: Charlie the Tuna.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 02, 2025 10:12 PM (VNX3d) Even as a small child, I wondered why Charlie was apparently suicidal. "Yes, my goal in life is to be entrapped in a net, then spend some time gasping for oxygen before being clubbed in the head, butchered, and put into little cans". Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2025 11:28 PM (W5ArC) 154
My sister, born in 1950, is still living. Her twin died in childbirth. I've never really broached the subject with her.
Posted by: 496 at May 02, 2025 11:28 PM (FrTE1) 155
Ruth Buzzi lead with her chin.
Posted by: George Foreman at May 02, 2025 11:29 PM (mH6SG) 156
146 Jump to 2:25.
https://tinyurl.com/y2dcm22u Posted by: 13times at May 02, 2025 11:22 PM (AQVyJ) ______________________________ That was awesome. Bull has hops. And, I was sort of rooting for him to get a little payback in order to convince that group of rubbernecking idiots that it wasn't the bull's choice to be made a spectacle. Posted by: Orson at May 02, 2025 11:30 PM (dIske) 157
I wonder how much of USPS' troubles stems from DEI rules that require them to hire crooks and illiterates?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 02, 2025 11:05 PM (MFYQF) Eh.. most of USPS just shouldn’t exist. Maybe the package business, if it can compete with FedEx or UPS. The mail side is just a spam delivery service. I can’t remember the last time I got something in the regular mail that wouldn’t have been better sent in an email, if not at all. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:31 PM (l3YAf) 158
There was a Scottish Borderer priest who's parish was divided and the families were at each others' throats.
He began bringing two loaded and cocked flintlock pistols to the pulpit to preach the sermons swearing that if he had to shoot someone from one side of the congregation for starting some violence, he would shoot someone from the other on principles. He supposedly had a rapt congregation, especially when he started ranting and pounding the pistols on the pulpit Posted by: Kindltot at May 02, 2025 11:31 PM (D7oie) Posted by: George Foreman at May 02, 2025 11:32 PM (mH6SG) Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 02, 2025 11:32 PM (ZVgZ4) 161
I hope Lamborghini names its next car after that bull.
Posted by: far cry at May 02, 2025 11:32 PM (VFvUP) 162
I thought everybody called # a hash. Yes I know on a Brit keyboard that was the £ sign.
Posted by: Ciampino - to infinity--are we there yet? at May 02, 2025 11:33 PM (sPQoU) 163
161 I hope Lamborghini names its next car after that bull.
Posted by: far cry at May 02, 2025 11:32 PM (VFvUP) -------- Brad? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 02, 2025 11:33 PM (hY4dx) 164
> Posted by: StarKist at May 02, 2025 10:36 PM (63Dwl)
Also, we wanted Congress to give us an exemption to the minimum wage law for our cannery in American Samoa, because the Pelosis owned a whole bunch of our stock. We got it, too. Posted by: StarKist at May 02, 2025 11:33 PM (W5ArC) 165
>> I like blonde girls.
Dude, she’s an old lady. And she’s terrible at her job. If the goal was just to have ditzy, blonde eye candy put Sydney Sweeney in there. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:34 PM (l3YAf) 166
162 I thought everybody called # a hash. Yes I know on a Brit keyboard that was the £ sign.
Posted by: Ciampino - to infinity--are we there yet? at May 02, 2025 11:33 PM (sPQoU) _________________________ Pound sign is a hold over for us old f*ckers and the Lan line phones. Posted by: Orson at May 02, 2025 11:35 PM (dIske) 167
> Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:34 PM (l3YAf)
You do realize that one day you're going to look back on this time when you knew everything, and be embarrassed, right? Most people grow out of this stage by about 18 or so. Posted by: StarKist at May 02, 2025 11:35 PM (W5ArC) 168
# is an octothorpe.
I always call it a number sign. It’s only a hashtag if it’s part of a hastag. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:38 PM (l3YAf) 169
The blind hatred of Bondi is weird. I like blonde girls.
Posted by: JackStraw ----- She stepped on her toe her first time out with the Epstein files. She is the least productive of Trumps appointments. She overstates and under performs her announcements. If she would simply shut up until she has accomplished something exclamatory she would not be an object of derision. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 11:39 PM (M2v2q) 170
>>Dude, she’s an old lady. And she’s terrible at her job.
Dude, I'm an old man. She looks great for her age. Who says she's terrible at her job? Not Trump. He praises her constantly. So does Kash and every other person in his administration. She was tasked with reforming the most corrupt agency in the federal government. Give the woman a chance to do her job instead of this instant gratification bullshit. I just showed you the claim that she settled the lawsuit over dudes in dresses playing in girls sports was complete bullshit. Stop falling for every media lie. When Trump thinks she is failing then she goes but until then let her do a very difficult job without jumping her shit ever damn day. Posted by: JackStraw at May 02, 2025 11:41 PM (viF8m) 171
>> You do realize that one day you're going to look back on this time when you knew everything, and be embarrassed, right?
Why would I be embarrassed? What has Bondi not screwed up? Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:41 PM (l3YAf) 172
Where does "ahi tuna" fit on the chart? Not white, not pink, more the color of a pork chop. Tasty enough, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon From Commiepedia: "Ahi tuna, also known as yellowfin tuna" Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 02, 2025 11:42 PM (y7zkd) 173
There are as many numbers betweens negative infinity and positive infinity as there are between zero and one.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the mind goggles at May 02, 2025 10:02 PM (7URu6) The only think I have figured out about Cantor's theorem is that they don't actually matter to anything I do And apparently cardinality does not have anything to do with red Posted by: Kindltot at May 02, 2025 11:45 PM (D7oie) 174
There’s still a # sign on my cell phone. It’s a Kyocera, ruggedized for military use. Got the recommendation from a geologist acquaintance who wanted a cell phone he could drop on a rock that would still work afterward.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 02, 2025 11:45 PM (ZVgZ4) 175
Asian Jungle Cat/HH6 made it back from six weeks TDY in the Philippines, tanned, rested and ready! And there was much rejoicing... Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 02, 2025 11:47 PM (Xv+t7) 176
166 162 I thought everybody called # a hash. Yes I know on a Brit keyboard that was the £ sign.
Posted by: Ciampino - to infinity--are we there yet? at May 02, 2025 11:33 PM (sPQoU) _________________________ Pound sign is a hold over for us old f*ckers and the Lan line phones. Posted by: Orson at May 02, 2025 11:35 PM (dIske) I have a few recipes that still have 2 # for two pounds of something. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 02, 2025 11:47 PM (VNX3d) 177
When I deal with phone trees, the computer voice still tells me to press "pound"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 02, 2025 11:50 PM (yko4N) 178
Bondi came into the limelight with a certain amount of distrust (having to do with gun rights); I'm underinformed on the subject and have no opinion about that, but she started out behind for some.
Plus, she's a lawyer. The AG is necessarily mired in legal process. The public hates that kind of thing. I think that contributes a lot to the disdain. I'm not endorsing it (being a lawyer myself). But anything she does is going to be ponderous by comparison to say, DOGE, which is blitzkrieging. I'm ambivalent about her at this point. We'll see. But "we'll see" is an unpopular position, and justifiably so to an extent. The patience of conservatives has often been ill rewarded. So I get it. Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 02, 2025 11:50 PM (55kM1) 179
I thought everybody called # a hash. Yes I know on a Brit keyboard that was the £ sign. Posted by: Ciampino =============== The first time I saw it I called it "sharp." Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 02, 2025 11:54 PM (Mo04G) Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 02, 2025 11:56 PM (bss/y) 181
===============
The first time I saw it I called it "sharp." Posted by: Blonde Morticia ------------- You don't have to get up in G about it. _things my mom said. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 02, 2025 11:57 PM (M2v2q) 182
Grew up on a cattle farm. Never saw that technique before. Not surprised it works; cows are dumb.
Saw a lot of cows die for stupid reasons. Common one is mother refuses to nurse. Sometimes another old heifer will start producing milk and will nurse the calf, which is good. The mother in those cases may not only ignore the calf, but will try to hurt it. Those mothers get sent to the slaughterhouse. Nursing with a bottle is so-so. I nursed several rejected calves with a bottle. They’ll get stronger over a couple of weeks, but often end up dying. Sometimes there’s a reason the mother rejected the calf and it was doomed. Sometimes they just stop eating or you go to feed it for the fourth time in a day and it’s just mort. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:57 PM (l3YAf) 183
>>>You do realize that one day you're going to look back on this time when you knew everything, and be embarrassed, right?
Most people grow out of this stage by about 18 or so. Posted by: StarKist >The smartest man in the room is always the guy who just barely passed to get his GED. Posted by: Rev Wishbone at May 02, 2025 11:58 PM (fY84s) 184
So I get it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 02, 2025 11:50 PM (55kM1) Fair enough. I may be too harsh, but I’m disappointed she keeps complying with these insane Hawaiian judges. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 02, 2025 11:59 PM (l3YAf) 185
Well, the nice thing about Bondi-hate is that it can be used to de-legitimzing Trump and everyone in his circle, while pretending to be a Trump supporter.
Soft voice of concern to cause unease that can be redirected at the source of "everything that was wrong, you know we should have never trusted [insert target] I told you [insert target] was incompetent and lying" Old, it gets old Posted by: Kindltot at May 02, 2025 11:59 PM (D7oie) 186
It'll take 20 years to root out the woke bureaucrats. We're at first 100 days of a very long culture war.
Posted by: 13times at May 03, 2025 12:00 AM (AQVyJ) 187
I need a nap. Hopefully will be up for Pixy as I have a Skype/Teams problem.
Posted by: Ciampino - need another messafing app at May 03, 2025 12:01 AM (sPQoU) 188
>>So I get it.
Has RFK Jr figured out what is causing a huge increase in child autism yet? Has he completely ridded HHS of Big Pharma yet? What the fuck is taking him so long? He's been in the job 3 whole months what the hell is he doing? Yea. Like that. The left has spent decades infiltrating our bureaucracy and most True Conservatives did squat to stop it other than to write super tough articles and harrumph a lot. And now everything is supposed to be fixed in 3 months because we finally elected a team that is willing to try and go after all the rot and corruption the left has spent decades building? Trump can do a lot of stuff with EOs. That power only exists with POTUS. The rest have to go after layers of filth the left has purposely installed to stop reform and no place is more layered with it than the DOJ. Bondi may turn out to be bad but making that judgement after 3 frigging months is dumb. Who do people think is fighting the rogue courts fighting Trump's deportations? There isn't a 2nd DOJ that does that. That's Bondi. Posted by: JackStraw at May 03, 2025 12:01 AM (viF8m) 189
Veterans get automatic extra points on the exam you take to get in to the USPS. It was pretty hard to get in, unless you were a vet. That used to imply a certain level of competence, because you didn’t make it through the service to an honorable discharge if a thief or illiterate. Not so true lately. Did you hear the latest? The pilot of the helicopter that flew into the passenger jet over the Potomac, an officer, was not only a total DEI hire, but failed her previous flight test 4 times (the fatal flight was her 5th checkout) and had been told both by ground and her copilot who was going to pass or fail her on this flight, a warrant officer, to divert more than 15 seconds before the collision. She refused to comply. I wish the warrant officer copilot had taken control, probably would have cost him his career, but better than dying, and it would have saved everyone else, including the pilot officer. Some are even suggesting she did it deliberately. I don’t think so. What do you think? Military service doesn’t imply competence, at least not anymore.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:03 AM (ZVgZ4) 190
It's not old it's anxious.
Did you see the round (coffee) table talk with Trump and Giorgia Meloni paired at the head? Trump asked Bondi to explain something and complemented her when she finished then asked Steven Miller to elaborate. If Trump had been satisfied with her answer (her area of responsibility) he would not have asked Miller to finish it off. If your boss asked someone else to finish off your statement how would you feel? Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:06 AM (M2v2q) 191
>> Some are even suggesting she did it deliberately. I don’t think so.
I’m starting to think it was deliberate. I’m not prone to that kind of paranoia, but given how many times she was warmed and that she had a motive.. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 12:07 AM (l3YAf) 192
What was her motive? Was she suicidal? A homicidal maniac? I think she was a total CF and incompetent, and an example of Dunning-Kruger. It’s a shame. I don’t see a motive, though.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:14 AM (ZVgZ4) 193
>>If Trump had been satisfied with her answer (her area of responsibility) he would not have asked Miller to finish it off.
That's nothing more than your interpretation and a silly talking point that is circulating online. Did you notice that Miller's job is policy? He is the in charge of Homeland Security policy for Trump. He is literally in charge of the deportation policy for Trump not Bondi. She's in charge of the DOJ not border policy. Bondi's job is just the legal aspect, Miller is the leader of the policy. The entire reason he is in the Trump administration is because he made his chops on being a border hawk. It would have been weird for Trump to not have asked his opinion. You Bondi haters are grasping at straws. Posted by: JackStraw at May 03, 2025 12:16 AM (viF8m) 194
Having women as aviators or pilots seems sound, much more so than them pounding the ground. Pushing them ahead in line because they are women is profoundly stupid.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:17 AM (M2v2q) Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:17 AM (ZVgZ4) 196
That's nothing more than your interpretation and a silly talking point that is circulating online.
---- That's a gross assumption. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:19 AM (M2v2q) 197
I think there can be competent CFs. She wasn’t.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:19 AM (ZVgZ4) 198
Senator Thom Tillis is opposing Ed Martin’s nomination as a result of his support for January 6th political prisoners. Tillis wanted them to rot in jail for life.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:23 AM (M2v2q) 199
>>That's a gross assumption.
Judging by your inability to address the fact that Stephen Miller is the person in charge of border policy and illegal immigration for Trump and your gross assumption that Trump only asked him to speak on the issue and not other issues like say firebombing of Tesla dealerships which is Bondi's responsibility and has stopped I'm going to go with fact. Posted by: JackStraw at May 03, 2025 12:24 AM (viF8m) 200
Another song for your airplane list... 1979, BÖC "In Thee"
Saw them twelve or so years ago, my all-time favorite live performance. Dharma broke a string playing I forget what, finished the song with alternate fingerings, restrung, broke another string during the next song. Posted by: mea culpa at May 03, 2025 12:24 AM (YxlHp) 201
Why would they allow a pilot to take her flight test for the 4th time in such a high traffic area. She apparently demonstrated incompetence on 3 previous attempts.
Posted by: TC at May 03, 2025 12:25 AM (szqEY) 202
But where is the flat key?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:17 AM (ZVgZ4) In Brie Larsen's pants. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 12:25 AM (KrEx1) 203
NOT THE BEE: You simply can't make this up. The deceptively edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris at the heart of Trump's $20 lawsuit against CBS was just nominated for an Emmy for, wait for it, OUTSTANDING EDITING!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:26 AM (M2v2q) 204
CBS News @CBSNews
"Are Trump's tariffs just punishing China for being good at what it does?" Malicious bullcrap. Posted by: 13times at May 03, 2025 12:27 AM (4/TQH) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:27 AM (M2v2q) 206
The first time I saw it I called it "sharp." But where is the flat key? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit =============== That's it! How is an asterisk the opposite of sharp? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2025 12:27 AM (Mo04G) 207
guess this democrat is going to #mita prison
x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1918464913653092538 Posted by: gKWVE at May 03, 2025 12:27 AM (gKWVE) 208
203 NOT THE BEE: You simply can't make this up. The deceptively edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris at the heart of Trump's $20 lawsuit against CBS was just nominated for an Emmy for, wait for it, OUTSTANDING EDITING!
Posted by: Braenyard LOL! Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 03, 2025 12:28 AM (qKYfj) 209
>>You may keep your personal invective to yourself.
You spent last night not doing that. You lost the right to ever tell me to do it. Or you could just change your nic. Posted by: JackStraw at May 03, 2025 12:29 AM (viF8m) Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:29 AM (ZVgZ4) Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:29 AM (M2v2q) 212
Oh, please, AOP, I have to eat in the morning!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:31 AM (ZVgZ4) 213
>>>You spent last night not doing that. You lost the right to ever tell me to do it.
Or you could just change your nic. Posted by: JackStraw ---- That really was you last night? Didn't recognize you. Thought someone had assumed your nic. That was my first statement. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:32 AM (M2v2q) 214
Good evening Horde
My two cents on Bondi: from what I saw of her the first few times I saw her speak, I wondered if she had the steel within for the fight ahead. I dismissed that when I noticed that she appeared to be fighting a cold. However, my first impression may have been correct, time will tell. Super pleased with Rubio! Cool, calm, collected and doesn't pull any punches. Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 12:34 AM (PcTds) 215
>>That really was you last night? Didn't recognize you.
Thought someone had assumed your nic. That was my first statement. Yea, that was me. Still me. Posted by: JackStraw at May 03, 2025 12:34 AM (viF8m) 216
Howdy all, what's shakin?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 03, 2025 12:35 AM (55Qr6) 217
Watched a compilation of skits from Laugh-In with Ruth Buzzi. Several musical skits; she had a good voice, and wielded it comedically very well. Overall, I was reminded how lame most Laugh-In jokes really were. Even worse when there's just a bunch of Buzzi skits in a row. A lot of what made the show fun was the fast pace, quick cuts, variety of characters, and, of course, the wealth of naughty innuendo, risqué for the day. Also, the idea that a joke might not be funny the first time, but gets funnier when it's a repeated running gag, of which they had many.
Trying to remember what show it ran against on a different network that kept me from watching more Laugh-In. Posted by: mindful webworker - laugh-in was a long time ago at May 03, 2025 12:36 AM (7URu6) 218
BREAKING: House investigating which representative is playing "smoke detector low battery beeps" whenever Rep. Jasmine Crockett begins speaking.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:37 AM (M2v2q) 219
BREAKING: House investigating which representative is playing "smoke detector low battery beeps" whenever Rep. Jasmine Crockett begins speaking.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:37 AM (M2v2q) Turns out it was just Jerry Nadler backing up. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 03, 2025 12:41 AM (yko4N) 220
The first time I saw it I called it "sharp."
But where is the flat key? Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:17 AM (ZVgZ4) It's a little tiny "B", see: bbbb Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 12:42 AM (l3YAf) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2025 12:44 AM (63Dwl) 222
What was her motive? Was she suicidal? A homicidal maniac? I think she was a total CF and incompetent, and an example of Dunning-Kruger. It’s a shame. I don’t see a motive, though.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:14 AM (ZVgZ4) Wasn't she a lesbian? And she was an obvious DEI failure. She probably knew she was going to fail a fifth time. This was all right after Trump's orders to end DEI and pro-gay crap. If she thought her career was over.. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 12:46 AM (l3YAf) 223
The thread on EVs early got me thinking about what I would like in a car: I would like the simplist car possible - one that I, a mechanical moron (small m), could fix.
Then I wondered if any car company could make such a car with the CAFE (?) regulations. Any talk of getting rid of CAFE standards? Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 12:47 AM (PcTds) 224
Thought Nicole Shanahan climbed out on the kook ledge with her theories on geoengineering but here goes Florida banning further use of it and requiring plane registration for those equipped to do so. The governor is also pressing the legislation and will sign it.
--- The Florida House has passed a groundbreaking bill that bans all geoengineering and weather modification efforts within the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for final approval. Under the bill, it will be illegal to inject, release, or disperse any substances into the atmosphere intended to alter temperature, climate, weather patterns, or sunlight intensity. The legislation also requires that any aircraft outfitted for geoengineering or weather modification be reported to the Department of Transportation. https://tinyurl.com/yc5hzrmw Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:48 AM (M2v2q) 225
Dunno if helo discussion was prompted by the *new* incident at Reagan National, but wow. One seasoned observer is pointing out that military helos have been using a route that is screened at points from ATC radar by high-rises (some route that follows 395). Apparently for a long time. Yikes. In all those years there I never recall seeing helos anywhere close to the pattern. Even the ones using the Pentagon pad, which is very close. Sean and Pete might need to talk, and it's possible they have.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 03, 2025 12:49 AM (1m82a) 226
Trump plans 1,200 personnel cuts to the CIA, thousands more elsewhere within the intel community - WaPo.
Posted by: 13times at May 03, 2025 12:51 AM (a/GBD) 227
Laugh-In was very much a topical show. Imagine a comedy show of 2025 (are there any?) being recorded today and watched by a different audience in 2075.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2025 12:51 AM (63Dwl) 228
I heard this was the 5th attempt for the DEI officer pilot. Did I hear wrong?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:51 AM (ZVgZ4) 229
Then I wondered if any car company could make such a car with the CAFE (?) regulations. Any talk of getting rid of CAFE standards?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel ---------- The House has nulled CA's no gas vehicle law, also heavy EV tractor law. Trump will, if he hasn't, nix Biden's EOs. It seems further than that is only hope. Did read that manufacturers are bringing back crank windows (popular demand) that they had cancelled last year. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 12:52 AM (M2v2q) 230
>> The thread on EVs early got me thinking about what I would like in a car: I would like the simplist car possible - one that I, a mechanical moron (small m), could fix.
You and 60% of the car-buying public. >> Then I wondered if any car company could make such a car with the CAFE (?) regulations. Nope. Not to mention all the safety regs that require 70 airbags. It’s still illegal to sell a functioning gas can in America, too. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 12:53 AM (l3YAf) 231
AmericanKestrel, yes - re CAFE standards. DOT is reviewing - actually, I think, waiving - one particular requirement applying to a certain class of vehicles, but it's a first step to looking over the whole thing. Total abolition would be, of course, the obvious and sensible thing. These standards were from the outset a ridiculous attempt to substitute a guvamint hand for the invisible hand in an area where the latter does an excellent job.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 03, 2025 12:54 AM (1m82a) 232
Howdy all, what's shakin? Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take =============== Nothing much! Howa bout you? Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2025 12:56 AM (Mo04G) 233
Something different for my musical outro tonight: Many albums back in the day would run-on for a whole side, rather than have silence between songs, but then they're posted on YouTube as individual cuts which don't start or end cleanly. Here, someone has apparently re-assembled Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's album from those separate cuts, and so there's still a slight blip between some songs. But, it's not too bad. I enjoyed it. Played this album a lot back in the middle of the last century.
https://youtu.be/5DuIi7wD1Os I'm logging out before some drunken Moron grabs some 'Ette's butt and another Moron clocks him. You know how these late-night Horde crowds can get. G'nite, fellow mortals. Posted by: mindful webworker - Fear not. Fear just saps your energy. at May 03, 2025 12:57 AM (7URu6) 234
Re: The 1970 Lincoln Continental ad --
Who was Ruth Buzzi and why does she have the jaw of a 17th century Spanish Habsburg? Posted by: SD at May 03, 2025 12:57 AM (O3qZY) 235
Let's not argue over 'oo killed 'oo.
"Let us not grow weary, in doing good, in due season, we shall reap" Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 12:57 AM (PcTds) 236
Talk show host: You're laughing?
A drugged up gay prostitute watches Nancy Pelosi's husband talk nervously to the cops at the front door, and out of the blue takes a carpenter's hammer from nowhere and swings at the guy, and you're laughing? Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 03, 2025 12:57 AM (lhenN) 237
Then I wondered if any car company could make such a car with the CAFE (?) regulations. Any talk of getting rid of CAFE standards?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel USDOT secretary Duffy has talked about rescinding the CAFE standard changes from 2024, and reviewing the standards prior to that, He seems to be focusing on roads and air traffic right now. Posted by: Kindltot at May 03, 2025 12:58 AM (D7oie) 238
225 Dunno if helo discussion was prompted by the *new* incident at Reagan National, but wow. One seasoned observer is pointing out that military helos have been using a route that is screened at points from ATC radar by high-rises (some route that follows 395). Apparently for a long time. Yikes. In all those years there I never recall seeing helos anywhere close to the pattern. Even the ones using the Pentagon pad, which is very close. Sean and Pete might need to talk, and it's possible they have.
Posted by: rhomboid Yea, never seen the I395 route, by military choppers anyway. I've seen hospital and police choppers though. I live near the Potomac and you see LOTS of military choppers flying above that. Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 03, 2025 12:59 AM (qKYfj) 239
Banning weather modification over Florida won’t work. Assuming weather modification works (big if) you could just look at the prevailing winds and just do it whatever you’re doing where the wind just pushes whatever you did _over_ Florida.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 12:59 AM (ZVgZ4) 240
Good night mindful 💤
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 12:59 AM (PcTds) 241
Few Dollars More
"Try to shoot me Colo-nel. Just try." *pocket watch chimes* https://youtu.be/0JPnR7C8mZQ?si=DUzTSfKB7XJoWKBx Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 03, 2025 01:00 AM (lhenN) 242
Also, gas guzzler tax: I’m already buying more gas, which is taxed too much as it is. Why do I have to pay extra tax on top of that for being fuel-inefficient. Fuckin’ hippies.
I want to see D.C. bureaucrats given helicopter rides. With a DEI pilot. In the flight path of a passenger jet. Filled with state bureaucrats. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 01:00 AM (l3YAf) 243
Turnabout is fair play…
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 01:05 AM (ZVgZ4) 244
Three Rutgers students: Hana Hassan, Lexi Tassone, and Jasmine Rodriguez were arrested for inciting a riot outside a Jewish student event featuring Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
Posted by: 13times at May 03, 2025 01:06 AM (a/GBD) 245
Banning weather modification over Florida won’t work.....
Hopefully, what it will do is draw attention to this issue because sunlight is the best disinfectant. Let's have all these conversations that have been summarily dismissed and see if if there is any there there. Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 01:07 AM (PcTds) 246
Thanks for the responses re CAFE standards
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 01:09 AM (PcTds) 247
Trump plans 1,200 personnel cuts to the CIA, thousands more elsewhere within the intel community - WaPo.
Excellent! Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 01:10 AM (PcTds) 248
If Jack is still around, the NYR have a new coach. Mike Sullivan, former Pittsburgh Penguins coach. New surroundings might do him good. Mike did very well in Pittsburgh. Win two Stanley Cups in a row isn't bad.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 03, 2025 01:11 AM (qKYfj) Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 03, 2025 01:11 AM (PcTds) 250
@NicoleShanahan
Based on what I’m seeing and hearing from whistleblowers, there’s a very real possibility that the biggest contributor to our atmospheric pollution (or PPM which is used to assess climate change) isn’t your fireplace or your car—it’s the lingering effect of geoengineering and stratospheric projects. These programs appear to be pumping far more into our skies than anything coming from a modern fuel-injected engine or even today’s coal burning plants, which can run with highly advanced filtration systems. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 01:12 AM (M2v2q) 251
>> Hana Hassan, Lexi Tassone, and Jasmine Rodriguez
All-American names there.. *spit* We should be deporting Shia to Sunni countries and Sunni to Shia countries. Just for laughs. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 01:14 AM (l3YAf) 252
>>>Let's have all these conversations that have been summarily dismissed and see if if there is any there there.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel ---------- Witnesses in CA are saying there are times there yards are covered with other colored substances. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 01:14 AM (M2v2q) 253
Changin' a sock fer Ah ferget.
Posted by: RickZ at May 03, 2025 01:17 AM (gKDq2) 254
I remember a friend from decades ago who used to do maintenance on his VW Bug. Said he couldn’t do it any more when the Super Bug came out. So this is a long standing problem. Come to think of it I used to do simple maintenance on my Honda Gold Wing back in the day (like change the spark plugs, etc. - lots of busted knuckles!). That was more I didn’t have the money to pay someone else to do it, and back then I had a lot of time.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 01:21 AM (ZVgZ4) 255
>>If Jack is still around, the NYR have a new coach. Mike Sullivan, former Pittsburgh Penguins coach. New surroundings might do him good. Mike did very well in Pittsburgh. Win two Stanley Cups in a row isn't bad.
Thanks for that. I was hoping the Rangers would grab him. He was actually drafted out of BU by the Rangers but didn't last as a player and was an assistant for them a number of years ago. Great fit. Posted by: JackStraw at May 03, 2025 01:23 AM (viF8m) 256
Hana Hassan, Lexi Tassone, and Jasmine Rodriguez
All-American names there.. *spit* We should be deporting Shia to Sunni countries and Sunni to Shia countries. Just for laughs. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 01:14 AM (l3YAf) Beat them until bloody, and then deport to the muzzie shithole of their choice. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:23 AM (4THD/) 257
I still remember the utube video where the women sees all these different colors in the spray of her sprinklers and automatically assumed it was chemicals. Yes lady, it’s that infamous dihydrogen monoxide! She had no idea where a rainbow comes from!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 01:28 AM (ZVgZ4) 258
I remember a friend from decades ago who used to do maintenance on his VW Bug. Said he couldn’t do it any more when the Super Bug came out. So this is a long standing problem. Come to think of it I used to do simple maintenance on my Honda Gold Wing back in the day (like change the spark plugs, etc. - lots of busted knuckles!). That was more I didn’t have the money to pay someone else to do it, and back then I had a lot of time.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 01:21 AM (ZVgZ4) Meh. The engine in the Super Beetle is the same as the one in the regular Beetle of the same vintage. 1600 dual-port. Brakes about the same, transmission is the same. McPherson strut front end is different, but actually simpler in construction. I have one of each on my place here, so speak from first-hand knowledge. Super Beetles did get more goofy ventilation and defroster hoses under the front bonnet, though. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:30 AM (4THD/) 259
>> There are as many numbers betweens negative infinity and positive infinity as there are between zero and one.
I think someone above mentioned Cantor, and his progression of infinities. What really fascinated me is this. The set of integers is infinite, yet the number of points on the real line is a greater infinity than the infinity of integers. Now, natural numbers, integers, even the set of all rational numbers are the same size or cardinality as the infinite set of integers. They call all be put into one-to-one correspondence. This is also dubbed countable infinity, in the sense you could count them all as some 1, 2, 3, .... You cannot do that with the real line. That is an uncountable infinity. That is a cardinality higher than the integers. Now, turns out that the points in the plane are equal, as well as the points in 3D space. Even 4D space and on. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 03, 2025 01:31 AM (w6EFb) 260
Beat them until bloody, and then deport to the muzzie shithole of their choice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:23 AM (4THD/) The Supreme Court would probably frown on that, but most of them should probably be beaten and deported to Saudi Arabia, too. Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 01:31 AM (l3YAf) 261
The Supreme Court would probably frown on that, but most of them should probably be beaten and deported to Saudi Arabia, too.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 03, 2025 01:31 AM (l3YAf) Get the deportation paperwork in order, and then arrange for them to fall down the jetway stairs a time or two while boarding. "Crikey! She tripped over the hem of her toe-bag, twice." Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:34 AM (4THD/) 262
OK, AOP, never worked on a VW, just a half remembered conversation from decades past. A Honda motorcycle was complicated enough for me, Glad I sold it when I left for graduate school, even gladder it had crash bars on it. Young people and their assumptions of immortality!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 01:35 AM (ZVgZ4) 263
We’ll leave the light on for ya.
Posted by: Hilbert's Hotel 6 at May 03, 2025 01:36 AM (l3YAf) 264
And still no Miklos........
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 03, 2025 01:37 AM (QGaXH) 265
I still remember the utube video where the women sees all these different colors in the spray of her sprinklers and automatically assumed it was chemicals. Yes lady, it’s that infamous dihydrogen monoxide! She had no idea where a rainbow comes from!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit ----- After The Storm, I arranged a siphon out of a neighbor's pool to fill 5gal. containers with water for flushing. A neighbor asked me, 'How do you make a siphon?' 3 neighbors over-filled their $$$ genrac generators with oil. One neighbor asked me how to turn off his water heater. There was more. The list of dumb/naive goes on. Last week, I was with a group having coffee with some 70-something guys. I reached in my pocket for some change, and amongst the change were a couple of wire nuts. One guy said, 'What are those?' Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 01:38 AM (XeU6L) 266
OK, AOP, never worked on a VW, just a half remembered conversation from decades past. A Honda motorcycle was complicated enough for me, Glad I sold it when I left for graduate school, even gladder it had crash bars on it. Young people and their assumptions of immortality!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 01:35 AM (ZVgZ4) VW Beetles went through steady evolutionary changes from early post-War until the end of the series. And they gradually got more complicated. They added a fuel gauge in 1961! A whole new layer of complexity. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:41 AM (4THD/) 267
Now, you can do that up to a countably infinite number of dimensions. The number of points in such an infinite dimensional space is still the same size as the points on the real line. Now, the Continuum Hypothesis. This states basically that there is no infinite set "in between" the integers and the real line. Unfortunately, that can't be proven or disproven with the confines of the basic ZFC axioms of mathematics. You have to adopt another axiom in order to prove that. When you do that, everything is nice. Now, what is the next greater infinity? This is the points in in an *uncountably infinite* dimensional space. And that's about as big an infinity as my mind can conceive of. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 03, 2025 01:42 AM (w6EFb) 268
How do you siphon out of a swimming pool, unless you can get down-slope below the water level?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:43 AM (4THD/) 269
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 01:38 AM (XeU6L)
Wow. That's scary! Even *I* (a mere female) know what wirenuts look like! Posted by: JQ at May 03, 2025 01:45 AM (rdVOm) 270
My '88 Chevy pickup started up and ran fine today, on its 12 year old battery. I think the battery came out of some other vehicle, and got adopted by the Chevy, but it's still doing the job it was built to do.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:46 AM (4THD/) 271
How do you siphon out of a swimming pool, unless you can get down-slope below the water level?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ------ House and pool above street level. 2 garden hoses and a valve on the end made it a piece of cake to pull up at the curb and fill 5 gal. containers. I figured that over 3 weeks I hauled 420 gallons to older neighbors. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 01:46 AM (XeU6L) 272
I have always a hunch that Cantor set theory might have clues helpful to the quantization of gravity. There seems to be a lot of work that count up all possible quantum states at the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole, is that a finite number? Just a hunch. Heaven knows there hasn’t been a lot of progress on the problem even by the sharpest minds: thinking Stephen Fulling of Fulling-Unruh radiation and his attempts from a field theoretical approach. That man was smarter than me, and he ran into a dead end!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 01:47 AM (ZVgZ4) 273
Even *I* (a mere female) know what wirenuts look like!
Laughing at the idea of an 'ette being a mere anything. It's kind of like Eric Clapton calling himself a mere guitar player or Donald Trump a mere president. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 03, 2025 01:48 AM (lUFok) 274
My '88 Chevy pickup started up and ran fine today, on its 12 year old battery. I think the battery came out of some other vehicle, and got adopted by the Chevy, but it's still doing the job it was built to do.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon ----- Battery manuf.? Also, just salvaged a 6v gel cell out of a debris pile. Caused me to wonder if your friend's 12v/6v system has been resolved. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 01:49 AM (XeU6L) 275
So 5/6/25 is the six month anniversary of my brother's suicide.
It came not even two months after the death of our mother. My father, the smartest of us passed in 2015. My mother the kindest of us, passed in late September. So I wasn't the strongest, smartest, or kindest member of my family, yet I'm still here. I don't understand why. Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at May 03, 2025 01:49 AM (elaR+) 276
House and pool above street level. 2 garden hoses and a valve on the end made it a piece of cake to pull up at the curb and fill 5 gal. containers. I figured that over 3 weeks I hauled 420 gallons to older neighbors.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 01:46 AM (XeU6L) How did you start the siphon? Suck on the end of the hose, or immerse the entire hose, then cap the end, and pay it out? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:50 AM (4THD/) 277
LOL, Blanco Basura. I've been peeking in on too many daywalker threads, I guess.
Posted by: JQ at May 03, 2025 01:50 AM (rdVOm) 278
>>>3 neighbors over-filled their $$$ genrac generators with oil.
One neighbor asked me how to turn off his water heater. There was more. The list of dumb/naive goes on. Last week, I was with a group having coffee with some 70-something guys. I reached in my pocket for some change, and amongst the change were a couple of wire nuts. One guy said, 'What are those?' Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc --- Save us. This is why China can't make watertight hatches. They never had the opportunity (time/necessity) to tinker (curiosity/free thought). And it's why Russian fabrication is getting better. They now have time and money to tinker. To take that old Vespa type scooter and make an ice-water racer or something. weeeeeeeee. And their sons are right there. And on and on. _my two cents Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 01:51 AM (M2v2q) 279
Battery manuf.?
Also, just salvaged a 6v gel cell out of a debris pile. Caused me to wonder if your friend's 12v/6v system has been resolved. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 01:49 AM (XeU6L) Not sure. I could check tomorrow. Some discount brand, I think. Sure out there on the tail of the curve, it is. The car with the 12/6 issue is laid up for the summer in AZ. I will round up a 12 volt overdrive solenoid for it, and that solves the big problem. They sell little solid-state 12>6 volt reducers for gauges under the "Runtz" brand name. Two of them will take car of the fuel and temp gauges. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:55 AM (4THD/) 280
>> I have always a hunch that Cantor set theory might have clues helpful to the quantization of gravity.
It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out that spacetime is not quantizable. It is continuous and classical. It's just the stuff in it, mass-energy that is quantum. Until someone finds a deviation in gravity from the predictions of the EFE/GR, I'm going to assume that. None has been found yet. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 03, 2025 01:56 AM (w6EFb) 281
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo Congresswoman AOC is left silenced as she is heckled by a pro-Palestine protester at a town hall-style event in Jackson Heights, NYC. Two men force the woman to leave. Posted by: 13times at May 03, 2025 01:57 AM (a/GBD) 282
Well, almost midnight here. I felt feverish for much of the day. Do anything at all, and i would break into a sweat. A few hours ago, I took one tablet of HCQ, and now I am feeling much better. I think I had a touch of flu, or maybe norovirus. A good night's sleep will serve me well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2025 01:59 AM (4THD/) 283
How did you start the siphon? Suck on the end of the hose, or immerse the entire hose, then cap the end, and pay it out?
------------ Immersed hose, capped it, left as much in pool as possible hauled the capped end down to street level. 'Suck on the end of the hose'...right. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 02:02 AM (XeU6L) 284
Nothing much! Howa bout you?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2025 12:56 Not much. Lotsa medical appts as Jules recovers. Main lasting effect is neuropathy of the feet and ankles. Makes it awkward to walk so she recently sprained her ankle but good. She's doing well considering she went "code blue" back on 11/8. Many thanks to all the prayers from here, I think they worked! Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 03, 2025 02:03 AM (55Qr6) 285
Here’s an example of ignorance - I knew what a wing nut is, been using them since childhood, just forgot what they were called, so I just looked up a picture on Yandex (good search engine - just don’t look up Ukraine, or anything Slavic, really), and goodness gracious, so that’s what you call them! I must have known the name at one time - must have been printed on the package - but I go back to the days when you just walked down the electrical aisle in the hardware store until you see what you needed and grab enough out of the bin, often unlabeled, and took them up front to pay for them. Also, I’m _really_ absent-minded.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 02:04 AM (ZVgZ4) 286
@LauraLoomer May 1
EXCLUSIVE: The husband of California U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer L. Thurston, the judge who just ruled that President Trump’s administration can’t arrest any more illegal aliens unless they have a warrant for their arrest, is a multifamily real estate broker in California who caters to the illegal alien and immigrant community, and makes Instagram videos about how Donald Trump’s mass deportations and immigration policies are bad for multifamily real estate brokers and investors. Judge Thurston was appointed by @JoeBiden in 2021. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 02:06 AM (M2v2q) 287
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/listing/ 1970-lincoln-continental-torrance-ca-2848175
Remove spaces before 1970 Posted by: scottst at May 03, 2025 02:07 AM (qcvs8) 288
8 hr
Turkish fighter jets enter Syrian airspace and issue warnings to Israeli jets conducting strikes. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 02:09 AM (M2v2q) 289
By Emanuel Fabian Today, 1:25 am
The IDF confirms carrying out a wave of airstrikes in Syria this evening. According to the military, the strikes carried out by fighter jets targeted “a military site, anti-aircraft artillery, and surface-to-air missile infrastructure in Syria.” “The IDF will continue to act as required to protect the citizens of the State of Israel,” the military adds. _timesofIsrael Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 02:13 AM (M2v2q) 290
During these operations, Turkish fighter jets, reportedly operating in or near Syrian airspace as part of Ankara’s efforts to secure influence and establish a defense pact with Damascus, came into close proximity with Israeli aircraft. While no direct confrontation was reported, the incident highlights the growing risk of miscalculation between the two regional powers.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned Israel’s actions, _greekcitytimes ------------ Yes, there was no confrontation. Erdogan wants his jets intact. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 02:16 AM (M2v2q) Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 02:16 AM (XeU6L) 292
A lot of predictions using GR are wrong because they use over simplistic assumptions about the metric for the universe, for example. Can we really get away with assuming that results based on modeling the universe as uniform in density, averaged over superclusters of galaxies really works and gives reliable results? Observationally, the universe is NOT uniform and has filamentary structure and great voids filled with nothing. I think a lot of nonsense comes from being overconfident in the results from over-simplified models (because easier to model that way, of course).
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 02:19 AM (ZVgZ4) 293
I am off to sleep, Horde, been lurking around. That is a sweet looking Continental, Frank Cannon would be proud to own it. See you tomorrow.
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Congresswoman AOC is left silenced as she is heckled by a pro-Palestine protester at a town hall-style event in Jackson Heights, NYC. Two men force the woman to leave. Posted by: 13times at May 03, 2025 01:57 AM (a/GBD) It pisses me off. They never announce these things. I live in Jackson Heights. I'm searching now for an exact location but so far nothing. I want to know how close it was to me. Posted by: RickZ at May 03, 2025 02:21 AM (gKDq2) 295
Salvo como favorito, Eu realmente gosto seu site!
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*glances around the room*
Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 03, 2025 02:31 AM (QBaXC) 297
Wing nut =/= wire nut. As I have said on previous nights, I was infamous for saying things like “magnetism” when I meant “gravitation”. My colleagues in the department would stop me and point out what I had just said, and I knew what I meant but my brain just puts the somewhat associated word in there. So I mean it when I say I am absent minded! I also know what a wing nut is, was taking wing nuts off things before I even tried electrical repair. I just didn’t remember the word - wire nut. My IQ based on my GRE scores equated back then to 168. I am brainy, but absent minded. Stephen Fulling I would put at 175, maybe higher, from personal observation. I knew the man, did work with him that he later said was the equivalent of a masters’s degree, resulting in my very first physics paper. I got my actual MS for other work. PhD later on at a different institution.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 02:34 AM (ZVgZ4) 298
I figured that over 3 weeks I hauled 420 gallons to older neighbors.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 01:46 Good on you MH. That right there is Merica, folks. Something the libs don't get as they are worried about a wife beating, gangbanging human trafficker. It's like when they are confronted by Trump's love for America they just have to choose the opposite. Go figure, they really are idiots. Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 03, 2025 02:38 AM (55Qr6) 299
I will also add that I am on OxyContin for pain after surgery, and am probably loopy from it. I am worried about using the drug, and only take it at night. I had stayed up too late watching anime tonight, and had let my 6 PM dose wear off, and really felt ill rom the pain, so I came to the bedroom and took another around 1AM. So maybe that’s why I am being so absent minded!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 02:40 AM (ZVgZ4) 300
US 'Not Serious' About Nuclear Talks After Trump's Secondary Sanctions: Iran
The Iranian Foreign Ministry affirmed on Friday that Tehran is committed to continuing the diplomatic process and negotiations regarding its nuclear program but that it "will not accept pressure and threats that violate international law and target the rights of the Iranian people." _theCradle ---------------- Iran, the best deal is to take the deal. The next deal will be severe. Suggestion, reference Darth Vader and 'the deal'. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 02:41 AM (M2v2q) 301
299 I will also add that I am on OxyContin for pain after surgery,...
--- When they are necessary use them. At first I use them to make sure - then as things get better I'll wait until I feel it then distract myself with something until I have to. That's my technique of getting away from it. Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 02:46 AM (M2v2q) 302
Here’s the picture from Yandex that I looked up to see what a _wire_nut_ is:
https://is.gd/2Ke5sq and I thought oh, so that’s what they call it. You can know something without knowing it’s name. Or even being so goofy you say wing nut when you mean wire nut. But the name is right there in the picture. Instant recognition for me. Wrong word when I want talk about it. I have always been this way. Look up Stephen Fulling, I worked with him. Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 02:51 AM (ZVgZ4) 303
'Suck on the end of the hose'...right.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 02:02 As a young novice farmer I once felt I needed to siphon some gas to finish planting one day. Needless to say I saw stars, learned the poison control number and belched gas hours later. Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at May 03, 2025 02:52 AM (55Qr6) 304
Humanoid Robot Goes Skynet
A Unitree Robotics H1 humanoid robot, developed and produced in Hangzhou, China, was seen exhibiting "erratic behavior" in a video circulating on X. Footage circulating on X, shared by one user, alleged the incident was caused by "imperfect coding." https://tinyurl.com/t9z965mn Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 03, 2025 02:57 AM (M2v2q) 305
Oh my, that robot video is scary! Depending on its strength it might have killed those two men standing next to it when it went bezerk.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 03:04 AM (ZVgZ4) 306
I felt too ill from pain to take a shower earlier. Now I feel too sleepy! I will take a shower in the morning before getting dressed. Good news! Out of the Lord’s lovingkindness, He has apparently decided I am to live a little while longer. I am apparently on the mend, and my body is beginning to work properly again! Halleluah! And goodnight!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 03, 2025 03:16 AM (ZVgZ4) 307
25 The guy in the pool hall definitely overreacted. The other guy was clearly so drunk he didn't know where he was, and barely touched the woman. I'd call that assault.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 02, 2025 10:13 PM (s8j++) If the drunk guy is dead, is that second-degree murder? Posted by: m at May 03, 2025 03:22 AM (CQE5S) 308
Good on you MH.
------- I felt like the milkman, I'd drop off the full containers each morning and pick up the empties. ------- Nemo - About the Oxy. Be prepared for compromised intestinal operation. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 03:26 AM (XeU6L) 309
G'nite all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 03:27 AM (XeU6L) 310
Needless to say I saw stars, learned the poison control number and belched gas hours later.
Posted by: Farmer ----- Rite of passage. Now I'm out. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 03, 2025 03:34 AM (XeU6L) 311
3rd time up tonight, maybe stay up.
Not sure Posted by: Skip at May 03, 2025 04:19 AM (ypFCm) Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2025 04:21 AM (RIvkX) 313
Good morning morons
Awake before Pixy = bad insomnia Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2025 *** Same here! Morning, all. I almost believed in the Ruth Buzzi Lincoln ad until I hit the mention of "Ruth's ass." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 03, 2025 04:28 AM (omVj0) 314
How much did a 1970 Lincoln Continental retail for, I wonder? I think a '66 Cadillac Coupe de Ville was about $5500-6000 new.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 03, 2025 04:30 AM (omVj0) 315
Noodus pixyana
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 03, 2025 04:31 AM (omVj0) 316
I know a guy that knocked a big mouth out for messing with his girlfriend, one punch & the guy fell,hit his head & died. 25 years in jail.
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