Sunday Overnight Open Thread - May 11, 2025 [Doof]

(Mystery click dust warning)

Howdy Hordelings! Happy Mother's Day to all the mama 'ettes! Or is it Mothers Day? More on that later.

If your mom is still around, did you call her today? If your mom is no longer with us, The ONT calls for raised glasses in honor of her and all dearly departed mamas. Step on in, and let's talk about moms (and whatever else is on your mind).

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Moms Can Relate

Boys doing boy things - with boy results

Well that backfired 😅 pic.twitter.com/2ynoS1hmtC
— Spill The Memes (@SpillTheMemes) May 10, 2025

Toddlers - If you know, you know!

It really do be like that 😂 pic.twitter.com/eoQpwZ0ozp
— Giga Based Dad (@GigaBasedDad) May 3, 2025

Awesome moment for Mom!

Mom Accidentally Captures Baby's First Steps 🥹❤️ pic.twitter.com/aoCry9fkyF
— MAT (@TheMatFun) May 3, 2025

A hack for moms (not sure when every good idea became a "hack")

MOM HACK: to get your toddler to fold their laundry 🧺👧 Get your little ones involved to make it fun pic.twitter.com/YvGN36Z8Yg
— Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ (@GraceGym_) May 5, 2025

From X account "Today in History" @historigins:

5 years old - Mom, I love you.
12 years old - Mom, I can't stand you.
16 years old - My mother is very annoying.
18 years old - I'm leaving this house.
25 years old - Mom, you were right.
30 years old - I want to go to my mom's house.
50 years old - I don't want to lose my mother.
70 years old - I would give up everything to have my mom here with me.
You only have one mom. Take care of her while she's still alive.

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TV Moms - Who Was The Best?

Highly debatable, but let's have some fun.

40 best TV mothers; greatest moms ranked

Can you guess #1 before you click?

40. Roseanne
Roseanne Barr as Roseanne Conner
36. Married with Children
Katey Sagal as Peg Bundy
31. Bewitched
Agnes Moorehead as Endora
29. The Simpsons
Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson
18. Family Ties
Meredith Baxter as Elyse Keaton
11. Modern Family
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy
2. The Cosby Show
Phylicia Rashad as Clair Huxtable

Check out the whole list. Who is missing??

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's once again that time of the week to turn the ONT over to our good friend (and mama 'ette) Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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The Met Gala had us buzzing throughout the week, mainly wondering if anyone had mirrors in their homes. Ever since Cher scandalized the world in 1974 with her Bob Mackie naked illusion dress, attendees have tried to make their outfit the most outrageous, and therefore discussed, of the night. Did anyone buck that trend and look good? Yes, a precious few.

Zendaya looked stunning in St. Laurent, a beautiful blend of Dandy and Disco. The hat was perfect.

Monica Barbaro (I don’t know either) also looked great in Dior. Her pose is…what it is. 😂.

So many people wore Thom Browne. Wendi Deng Murdoch was one of them. The buttons on this are truly incredible. She is paring her dress with illusion heels.

This is the dress from the back. It’s very…unfortunate. The person in the front is Grace Murdoch, someone else had the same purse in black as well. Oops!

The 2025 Country Music Awards happened. I don’t listen to Country. I am not aware who most of these people are, but their looks certainly weren’t topping any charts!

Starting with someone I do know, Nicole Kidman. Y’all. She is giving Hey Arnold right there.

Jessie Murph accessorized with a pig, which is the least problematic part of this outfit.

Bunny XO and her song writer husband, Jelly Roll.

This could have been so much better. she has an hourglass figure that should have been highlighted in many different ways except this one!

Did anyone wear something that wouldn’t make us scratch our head in befuddlement? Yes.

Megan Marony wore this butter yellow satin dress. It has a little fringe on there, but this was not in your face country. It fits her beautifully. You have to be careful with this fabric, it is not forgiving at all, but she looks incredible. Whoever she is. 🤣

We were also treated to our First Lady unveiling a Barbara Bush memorial stamp this week. As always, she was stunning. FLOTUS wore an oversized virgin wool and silk grain de poudre blazer from Christian Dior and a Hervé Pierre leather pencil skirt. The shoes are Louboutin Kate 100s,

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Thank you, Piper! Hope you had a fantastic Mother's Day!

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Yes - I Looked It Up (My mom should be proud!)

“Mothers Day” Vs. “Mother’s Day”: What’s The Correct Way For Celebrating Mom?

As we all know, Mother’s Day is the holiday where we let our moms know how special they are. But do you know how to correctly punctuate the name of this day? The apostrophe can be the mother of all hard-to-use punctuation marks, and it seems to be hanging around the wrong place.
Why is the apostrophe so often up to no good? Didn’t it listen to its mother growing up—wait, does an apostrophe have a mother?
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Mother’s Day, as with other such holidays as Father’s Day, New Year’s Day, and St. Patrick’s Day, places the apostrophe before the S. Mother’s Day is an interesting case, though, because its creator Anna Jarvis actually insisted on this particular punctuation placement. Jarvis wanted the day to use a singular possessive to highlight that the day should be dedicated to each family honoring their particular mother.
The apostrophe placement we use signals exactly what Jarvis wanted. If the holiday was instead called “Mothers Day,” it would imply the day was dedicated to celebrating all mothers or motherhood in general. If the day was called “Mothers’ Day,” it would mean the day belonged to all mothers—and you would need to buy a lot more gifts! By using the name Mother’s Day, the holiday indicates that it belongs to each individual mother, just as Jarvis wanted.

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DJ Doof - Mom Songs Version

Last night at Club ONT, we featured mom songs from Mr. T (yes - really!), Ozzy, and The Police. Here's a few more...

Bonus Mom Songs:

Genesis - Mama

Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom

What other mom songs do you know?

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 5-11-2025

Top 10 commenters:
1 [544 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer' [77.27 posts/day]
2 [441 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
3 [441 comments] 'Oldcat'
4 [402 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla'
5 [388 comments] '...'
6 [371 comments] 'Bulg'
7 [348 comments] 'Disinterested FDA Director'
8 [301 comments] 'polynikes'
9 [300 comments] '18-1'
10 [300 comments] 'Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ '

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [181 names] 'Miklos ' [25.71 unique names/day]
2 [153 names] 'Joyenz'
3 [143 names] 'Fireman, Save My Child!'
4 [100 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
5 [52 names] 'Facts? Reason? Research? Fuck that shít!'
6 [48 names] 'Disinterested FDA Director'
7 [45 names] 'Duncanthrax'
8 [45 names] 'Moron Analyst'
9 [45 names] 'Dean Wormer '
10 [44 names] 'Ixnay on the Iklosmay'

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by harsh mom realities

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1 Happy Mom's Day to all the Moms.

It's funny what memory does. Not long ago, when washing up in the morning, I remembered standing at the green pedestal sink in our bathroom, and Mom telling me to be sure to wash behind my ears.

Which I dutifully do and regularly think of her. Miss ya, Mom. Gone too soon at 101.

Posted by: mindful webworker - save me, Supermaaaan at May 11, 2025 10:00 PM (b/vRQ)

2 Contenty!! Thanks Piper.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 11, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

3 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at May 11, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

4 All my boys called my lovely wife today - she bore none of them but raised them all. A more loving mother couldn't be found anywhere.

How blessed we all are.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 11, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

5 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-83 - LC-39A

Launch Date: May 12, 2025
Launch Time: 12:06 a.m. EDT, 0406 UTC, 06:06 CEST
Launch Window: Open until 3:57 a.m. EDT
Launch Site: LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

https://www.youtube.com/live/bWdacZ2nDVM

In case Ciampino isn't able to post it tonight....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 11, 2025 10:04 PM (VNX3d)

6 I don't know if Baxter=MrsKeaton was bestmom, but she was the funniest of the list you posted. Classic satire of the liberal Karen before there was a word for it.
The mom from Home Improvement was pretty funny too. (I never thought it was an anti dad show, or if it was written thus, then Tim Allen made him likeable. Same as Family Ties probably didn't mean to side with Alex Keaton but Fox made it happen.)

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:05 PM (gKWVE)

7 Nice birthing person.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 11, 2025 10:06 PM (JkO4W)

8 Mystery click dust warning

Indeed. Thanks for that, Doof.

Posted by: mindful webworker - don't miss right now at May 11, 2025 10:06 PM (b/vRQ)

9 Appears to be great patriotic movie at Gun Thread. Rooskie communists just A bombed Alaska and military bases in PNW 1952.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 11, 2025 10:06 PM (bc7bh)

10 he has questions for Stacy's mom
youtu.be/XKROin-qwiE

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:07 PM (gKWVE)

11
In case Ciampino isn't able to post it tonight....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Thanks to both of you. Sis said she didn't send his laptop with him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 11, 2025 10:08 PM (bc7bh)

12 Neither of the two Seinfeld moms made the list?

Posted by: davidt at May 11, 2025 10:09 PM (i0F8b)

13 Thanks Doof and Piper. My mom has been gone 26 years. Did get to have dinner this evening with my MiL, who is an awesome mom.

Posted by: scampydog at May 11, 2025 10:09 PM (41CYW)

14 Wendi Murdoch's outfit looked like a Type IV demon barfed on it.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:09 PM (gKWVE)

15 Good evening, friends. Super content, Doof!

Posted by: Piper at May 11, 2025 10:09 PM (p4NUW)

16 How about Mothers' Day?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 11, 2025 10:10 PM (63Dwl)

17 As for Jessie Murph, um.
I'll let some other moron comment on what that looks like.

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

18 TV moms, who is missing?

Ann Sothern "My Mother the Car"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 11, 2025 10:12 PM (RWJYA)

19 Tonight's movie is Hopscotch
Walter Matthau
Sam Waterston
Ned Beatty

Former CIA agent goes rogue and writes a memoir. Hopping all over the world giving Ned Beatty heartburn.
Beatty, speaking about the FBI, says " Now I know what FBI stands for. Fucking Ball busting Imbeciles"

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 11, 2025 10:13 PM (2J/Lj)

20 Got to give my gifts to both moms today and see their reactions. They were overjoyed with the jewelry, although when I made it I didn't realize my neck and shoulders are broader than theirs and therefore the chain was a bit too long. Ooops!

Pookette was let loose in the local crafts/dollar store and gave me a grey striped Squishmallow cat. Very huggable.

Posted by: pookysgirl gave out lots of hugs today at May 11, 2025 10:13 PM (Wt5PA)

21
TV moms, who is missing?

Lily Munster

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 11, 2025 10:14 PM (63Dwl)

22 Double mom, June Lockhart from Lassie and Lost in Space.

Posted by: huerfano at May 11, 2025 10:14 PM (n2swS)

23 I am off to bed. My day just got crazier in the last 3 minutes. 😂. Have a great night!

Posted by: Piper at May 11, 2025 10:14 PM (p4NUW)

24 16 How about Mothers' Day?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 11, 2025 10:10 PM (63Dwl)

That's the one I like.

Posted by: jix at May 11, 2025 10:15 PM (Leoj5)

25 Hey guys,
Ciampino is doing very well. His blood pressure is back to normal and according to his blood tests, his sepsis is already gone. He still needs to talk to the doctor about what the plan is for his kidneys.

I will leave it up to him to explain everything whenever he comes back home. He is enjoying his meals a lot more this time. They sound way more yummy than what our local hospital fed him.

Thanks again for all the prayers

Posted by: Joyenz at May 11, 2025 10:15 PM (sPQoU)

26 Thanks for the couture critique Piper. The gal in the satin dress looked great. I read that butter yellow is an "in" color right now.

Posted by: Tuna at May 11, 2025 10:16 PM (lJ0H4)

27 Good Mom's Day post. Baby's First Steps was excellent.
🥲

Posted by: mindful webworker - don't miss right now at May 11, 2025 10:16 PM (b/vRQ)

28 Sorry I'm late, I asked my mom if I made her proud, and thought it would be rude to leave before she stopped laughing.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 11, 2025 10:17 PM (R256O)

29 Thanks for the Mother's Day ONT, Doof! Great job, as always.

And thanks to Piper for the fashion deets. Always enjoy seeing hits and misses, and Melania.

Happy Mother's Day to all the Horde!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 11, 2025 10:18 PM (rxCpr)

30 Wilma and Betty?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 11, 2025 10:18 PM (KAi1n)

31
Thanks again for all the prayers
Posted by: Joyenz

Excellent news!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 11, 2025 10:18 PM (63Dwl)

32 My Mama could do anything.

Posted by: Eromero at May 11, 2025 10:18 PM (LHPAg)

33 Bear Bryant, Southern Bell commercial
'Have you called your mama today? I sure wish I could all mine...'

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BGBiG8TluMQ

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 11, 2025 10:18 PM (XeU6L)

34 Mom Accidentally Captures Baby's First Steps...and didn't even whip out her smart phone to do so.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 11, 2025 10:19 PM (bufu1)

35 25 Hey guys,
Ciampino is doing very well.

wonderful news, Joyenz!!! So relieved to hear it. I was peeking in all day hoping for news.

May his recovery be speedy and may he be back among the horde soon.
Prayers continue.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 11, 2025 10:19 PM (Eo96p)

36 Yech, and I bet Ms Murdoch paid $$$ for the dress that looks like she wore it to slop the hogs and fell down in the pig sty.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 11, 2025 10:19 PM (bP/i4)

37 Ciampino is doing very well.
...
Thanks again for all the prayers
Posted by: Joyenz at May 11, 2025 10:15 PM (sPQoU)

That's wonderful news! Thank you for letting us know.

Has the cat been given a scarier name, so it sounds more impressive when he tells the story?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 11, 2025 10:19 PM (VNX3d)

38 Joyenz - Good news!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 11, 2025 10:20 PM (XeU6L)

39

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said he will sign an executive order that institutes a "most favored nation" policy for drug pricing, reviving a plan from his first term that he said will reduce prescription drug and pharmaceutical prices "almost immediately, by 30% to 80%."

The order, which Trump plans to sign at 9 a.m. ET on May 12, is expected to direct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to adopt the policy, which would set prescription drug prices to match those of comparable countries.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 11, 2025 10:21 PM (63Dwl)

40 My mother carried a Gold Star for thirty years. I'm pretty certain she was relieved, at the end.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at May 11, 2025 10:21 PM (dkH95)

41 As always, she was stunning. FLOTUS wore an oversized virgin wool and silk grain de poudre blazer from Christian Dior and a Hervé Pierre leather pencil skirt. The shoes are Louboutin Kate 100s,

Ah, yes, I thought it was silk grain de poudre. It's unmistakable.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 11, 2025 10:23 PM (s8j++)

42 Melania is a beautiful and accomplished woman. I now know how she can get around so gracefully in those high heals. She has no toes.

Posted by: javems at May 11, 2025 10:23 PM (8I4hW)

43 Your mother should know. Beatles

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at May 11, 2025 10:24 PM (8cPKb)

44
The other night, I mentioned this fascinating anomalous discharge event *inside the house* during some little thunderstorms that went through.

This has got me really intrigued, and I was emailing with one of my late cousins buddies at GSP NWS. Also, had Grok in EM Theory mode posing questions.

Most likely explanation is a rare, crazy field focusing event. Now, if I get some "experts" interested enough, we might get some fancy $$$ meters and instruments out here and see if we see any weird fields during a T-storm here.

The equipment necessary to take the kind of measurements needed gets expensive, we're talking $10Ks of fancy shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 10:25 PM (w6EFb)

45 Has the cat been given a scarier name, so it sounds more impressive when he tells the story?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 11, 2025 10:19 PM (VNX3d)

Haha, no. His name is still Bailey and he's a klutzy sweetheart. My sister sent me a picture of the wound last night before Dad got transferred. Bailey really got him good with the claws. They aren't called murder mittens for nothing.

Posted by: Joyenz at May 11, 2025 10:26 PM (sPQoU)

46 Zendaya looked stunning in St. Laurent, a beautiful blend of Dandy and Disco. The hat was perfect.

Fashion designers love to dress up young women as if they were young men. This is a prime example

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2025 10:27 PM (t0Rmr)

47 She is paring her dress with illusion heels.

The heels look like one of those contraptions buskers use to create the illusion of floating on a carpet or something similar.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 11, 2025 10:27 PM (s8j++)

48 Here's a good one for Mother's Day:

http://tiny.cc/f5hj001

Posted by: tankdemon at May 11, 2025 10:27 PM (R256O)

49 Tattoos are ugly and barbaric...but tattoos on your face? What is wrong with people

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2025 10:28 PM (t0Rmr)

50 Zendaya looked stunning in St. Laurent, a beautiful blend of Dandy and Disco. The hat was perfect.

Fashion designers love to dress up young women as if they were young men. This is a prime example

I know I'm in the minority, but I think she's beautiful. That outfit, however, does her no favors.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 11, 2025 10:28 PM (s8j++)

51 Evenin'

My Mom is doing well at 82.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 11, 2025 10:28 PM (sAmhv)

52 Good news, Joyenz.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 11, 2025 10:29 PM (ERTmx)

53 The person in the front is Grace Murdoch, someone else had the same purse in black as well. Oops!

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I once showed up at a hearing only to find that one of the other lawyers had a briefcase just like mine. Imagine my dismay.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 11, 2025 10:31 PM (JkO4W)

54 Donald Trump is trying to cut prescription drug prices. This is madness! He must be impeached!

Posted by: Disinterested GOP Senator and Pfizer Board Member at May 11, 2025 10:31 PM (l3YAf)

55 I once showed up at a hearing only to find that one of the other lawyers had a briefcase just like mine. Imagine my dismay.

Right? I hate it when we both show up wearing pants.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 11, 2025 10:32 PM (s8j++)

56
Your mother should know. Beatles
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo

I like that song and the album.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 11, 2025 10:32 PM (63Dwl)

57 Mystery click dust warning

Indeed. Thanks for that, Doof.
Posted by: mindful webworker - don't miss right now at May 11, 2025 10:06 PM (b/vRQ)

That tune is just great songwriting with a velvety old school Country voice.

Posted by: Doof at May 11, 2025 10:34 PM (RFPHU)

58 Prayers for Ciampino. Thank you, Joyenz.

Posted by: Disinterested GOP Senator and Pfizer Board Member at May 11, 2025 10:34 PM (l3YAf)

59 Great news, Joyenz. Thank you for the update and glad he is on the mend.

Posted by: scampydog at May 11, 2025 10:35 PM (41CYW)

60 Our daughter brought a beautiful bouquet of her home-grown roses for MiladyJo today. Her excellent husband cooked a fine lunch of steak & eggs. SonM was here. Both of them brought their dogs, and there was much canine chaos. They love their mother and it shows. 💗

OTOH, SonM's fraternal twin brother SonC remains estranged as he & his spouse have been since my Mom's funeral in 2021. We have been deprived of watching our two grandbabies grow up. Pray for all the broken families. 💔

Posted by: mindful webworker - Spirit of Truth strengthen confused souls at May 11, 2025 10:35 PM (b/vRQ)

61 I am wildly curious about the sepsis part of Ciampino's trauma. I can't imagine the cat scratch could have gone septic that quickly, especially with the bleeding. Perhaps the cat scratch sending him to the hospital prevented a later problem with whatever was causing that sepsis. Or maybe I'm way off base with that thought.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 11, 2025 10:37 PM (bP/i4)

62 Thanks for the Mother's Day ONT, Doof! Great job, as always.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 11, 2025 10:18 PM (rxCpr)

Why, thank you!

Posted by: Doof at May 11, 2025 10:37 PM (RFPHU)

63 My mother has been gone for three years so I took flowers to her grave and lit some candles there. Then my kids took me out to lunch. It was the best idea seeing as both of them are mothers too. A very good day.

Posted by: Decaf at May 11, 2025 10:38 PM (unUNN)

64 My sister and I don't remember our first mother, who died when we were very small, but we were raised by our wonderful mom, who adopted us when she married our dad.
We're very grateful for both.

Posted by: sal at May 11, 2025 10:38 PM (f+FmA)

65 Yay, National Twilight Zone Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 11, 2025 10:39 PM (lUFok)

66 Posted by: sal at May 11, 2025 10:38 PM (f+FmA)

The most wholesome thing I've read in maybe months. Bless you for this and bless her too

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:40 PM (gKWVE)

67 Do not take ZENDAYA if allergic to ZENDAYA. Ask you doctor if ZENDAYA is right for you.

Posted by: Eat the ZENDAYA. Eat it! at May 11, 2025 10:40 PM (l3YAf)

68 >> I am wildly curious about the sepsis part of Ciampino's trauma. I can't imagine the cat scratch could have gone septic that quickly, especially with the bleeding.

Yes, I was wondering about that. He lost a lot a blood, apparently, from being on blood thinners. And I've forgotten what the underlying problem he had before that sent him to the hospital the last time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

69 My son's girlfriend texted to wish me a Happy Mother's Day and thank me for having raised a wonderful son.

Posted by: Wenda at May 11, 2025 10:43 PM (SnC8S)

70 That Met Gala shit is inadvertently hilarious. uniforms for fags and retards.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 11, 2025 10:43 PM (2QL9g)

71 I will leave it up to him to explain everything whenever he comes back home. He is enjoying his meals a lot more this time. They sound way more yummy than what our local hospital fed him.

Thanks again for all the prayers
Posted by: Joyenz at May 11, 2025 10:15 PM (sPQoU)

Thank you for the update, Joyenz. Sounds very hopeful!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 10:44 PM (t1XLA)

72 I really hope I learn how to stop wetting the bed every night

Posted by: raimondo at May 11, 2025 10:45 PM (M4Ooc)

73 normally I can appreciate batting around the troll but could someone remove M4Ooc #72 from the Matrix?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:46 PM (gKWVE)

74 The equipment necessary to take the kind of measurements needed gets expensive, we're talking $10Ks of fancy shit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 10:25 PM (w6EFb)

Please, could you relate the nature of the discharge event? I must have missed the first report of it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 10:47 PM (t1XLA)

75 My mom passed away just over 7 years ago. I'm actually ok with that. She wasn't great.

I did get to have a great lunch with my MiL who is super awesome and my smokin' hot wifey and 2 of our 3 kids. It's been a really nice day overall, even if I did have to help my son fix his car.

Hope everyone has had a great Mom's day!

Posted by: AnchorPoint at May 11, 2025 10:47 PM (qgPFD)

76 Ciampino just called.
The doctor came in and said everything looks good and they will be moving him out of ICU and into a regular room. Tomorrow they may discuss when he will be discharged.

Posted by: Joyenz at May 11, 2025 10:48 PM (sPQoU)

77 thank g-d ciampino is better

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:49 PM (gKWVE)

78 normally I can appreciate batting around the troll but could someone remove M4Ooc #72 from the Matrix?
Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:46 PM (gKWVE)

He needs to express his secret desire to vote for Vance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 10:49 PM (t1XLA)

79 66 Posted by: sal at May 11, 2025 10:38 PM (f+FmA)

The most wholesome thing I've read in maybe months. Bless you for this and bless her too
Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 10:40 PM (gKWVE)

Oh, thank you!
I was saving the part where my dad adopted her two sons from a previous marriage for Father's Day.
They then had a child of their own, so they had five children under the age of six.

Stranger than Fiction- nearly thirty years later, our oldest brother met and married the daughter of the lawyer who handled our adoptions.
She remembered her dad talking about the interesting case he had...

Posted by: sal at May 11, 2025 10:50 PM (f+FmA)

80 Bunny Xo...

youch... Miami-Dade Mosquito Control wants their insect netting back.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 10:50 PM (kibtE)

81 Called my mother today. She's 84. Still lives alone. Still drives (but scarily I am trying to convince her that a Tesla with FSD is a good idea) and still sharp as a tack. We are going to see her in a couple of weeks.

We did not call sra blasters mother today. She is in the final stages of Alzheimer's and doesn't remember her when she calls. It's hard.

Posted by: blaster at May 11, 2025 10:51 PM (QfvaV)

82 Ciampino just called.
The doctor came in and said everything looks good and they will be moving him out of ICU and into a regular room. Tomorrow they may discuss when he will be discharged.
Posted by: Joyenz at May 11, 2025 10:48 PM (sPQoU)

Hip, Hip, Hooray!!!!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 11, 2025 10:51 PM (VNX3d)

83 Good evening morons und danke disco

b"h for good health for Ciampino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

84
According to Grok, sepsis can indeed go from zero to full-on in as little as 6 hours in people with compromised immune systems and other health problems that mess around with. Also, blood thinners and heavy bleeding can indeed make it worse, which I wouldn't have thought.

And cat scratches can introduce some nasty bacteria that can run amok given the above conditions. Little cat claw pricks and scratches can really turn red and get sore, which does indicate the immune system has to fight something there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 10:52 PM (w6EFb)

85 My Sister in Law - Sra blasters sister - texted my mom happy Mother's Day and thanked her for raising such a good son.

Posted by: blaster at May 11, 2025 10:53 PM (QfvaV)

86 Ciampino geez

What kind of nasty kitty cats are you playing with?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 10:54 PM (kibtE)

87 Small-brained raimondo clocks in with a wicked combo bon mot/sick burn.

Oof.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 11, 2025 10:55 PM (JkO4W)

88 When my old friend T was returning from his HS 50th reunion, he and his wife stopped to visit my Mom — their final visit, as it turned out. MiladyJo and I were there.

We were reviewing family members, where are they, what are they up to. T's wife K talked about their youngest son's suicide at 19. We talked about my eldest brother's then-recent death.

And we talked about my other older brother's decades of estrangement from our Mom, and the rest of the family, including his own children and grandchildren. K asked Mom how his estrangement made her feel. Mom paused for a moment of reflection, and said, "I've learned there's more than one way to lose a child."

I'll never forget that moment, K and Mom, two deeply-hurt mothers.

Hard to express how wounded MiladyJo has been, cut off from not only her precious son, but unable to enjoy her grandchildren's babyhood. I try to subsume my resentment in prayer. And take joy that our other two have stayed close.

Lost time is not found again.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Spirit of Truth strengthen confused souls at May 11, 2025 10:55 PM (b/vRQ)

89 Well, my outside puttering late this afternoon paid off. The front subframe, bearing the axle, engine, transmission, and radiator, is back under the Zip van, and "secured" with one bolt, scarcely needed, since gravity is doing the heavy lifting. So the van is now sitting on its own 4 wheels once more.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 10:56 PM (t1XLA)

90 Good evening morons und danke disco

b"h for good health for Ciampino
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

Howdy SF. Danke Disco sounds like a seedy place. Probably smells of musty shag carpet and body odor.

Posted by: Doof at May 11, 2025 10:58 PM (RFPHU)

91 Estelle Costanza is missing, but I think Jane Wyatt should be #1 because she was beautiful and won three Emmys in a row 1958-60 for her portrayal of Margaret Anderson.

Posted by: Can Pick'em at May 11, 2025 10:58 PM (G5+As)

92 Such awesome updates on dearest Ciampino! I agree that the kitty probably saved his life. Sepsis doesn't always resolve that quickly; he may have already been septic before the scratch.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 11, 2025 11:00 PM (Vvh2V)

93 >> Please, could you relate the nature of the discharge event?

It was the craziest thing. It was around 1AM give or take, and some little thunderstorms were rolling through. Nothing to bad, but lightning all around.

So, I'm sitting here at the computer, hearing thunder, and then all of the sudden I hear the strangest sound. It was a sort of crack/slap sound, and it sounded like it was inside the house. Miley heard it too, and we get to looking. Her brother was in bed reading his phone, and comes out all spooked.

He said there was a bright blue flash right in the middle of that closed bedroom, about 3' off the floor, right in the center of the room...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:00 PM (w6EFb)

94 Howdy SF. Danke Disco sounds like a seedy place. Probably smells of musty shag carpet and body odor.
Posted by: Doof at May 11, 2025 10:58 PM (RFPHU)
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Und now ve danz!

Posted by: Sprockets at May 11, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

95 Publius

The dreaded bit of ball lightning? At least it didn't explode like it can.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 11:02 PM (kibtE)

96 He said there was a bright blue flash right in the middle of that closed bedroom, about 3' off the floor, right in the center of the room...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:00 PM (w6EFb)
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Sounds like ball lightning. I experienced it on a jet in thunderstorm.

Posted by: Sprockets at May 11, 2025 11:02 PM (RIvkX)

97 Sepsis doesn't always resolve that quickly; he may have already been septic before the scratch.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 11, 2025 11:00 PM (Vvh2V)

raimondo caught sepsis when he was driving a septic tank at Tiananmen Square.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 11:02 PM (t1XLA)

98 /gender fluid kraut sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

99 Why is the apostrophe so often up to no good? Didn’t it listen to its mother growing up—wait, does an apostrophe have a mother?

Nope. It's the bastard child of the quote mark.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 11, 2025 11:03 PM (0eaVi)

100 Raimondo loves being septic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 11:03 PM (kibtE)

101 He said there was a bright blue flash right in the middle of that closed bedroom, about 3' off the floor, right in the center of the room...

Who ya gonna call?

Posted by: ready to believe you at May 11, 2025 11:03 PM (gKWVE)

102
Now, I'll admit had I heard Miley's brother describe that, I would've just assumed it was a close lightning strike, and the blue flash light coming in through window reflected or something and he just thought it was inside.

But I heard it, and it sounded like it was inside the house. I wish I could've seen it myself. I was trying to get him to explain carefully what he saw, but it's still sort of vague.

At first, I was getting excited, was that perhaps a storied ball lightning type event? But nope, he didn't see any spherical ball or anything that persisted, just a blue flash, with the discharge/arc noise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

103 82 Ciampino just called.
The doctor came in and said everything looks good and they will be moving him out of ICU and into a regular room. Tomorrow they may discuss when he will be discharged.
Posted by: Joyenz
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Good show.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org › health › diseases
Cat Scratch Fever: Causes, Symptoms &

I got the cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever

Well, the first time that I got it
I was just ten years old
I got it from some pussy next door
And I went and seen the doctor
And he gave me some cure

I think I got it some more
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever, hey
Cat scratch fever

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 11, 2025 11:04 PM (bc7bh)

104 The reflexive Mother's Day fawning is vomit-inducing. If you're a good mother, an actual mom, then God bless you. If you give your kids the love, support, warmth, stability, protection, empathy, encouragement, affection and compassion they need then you are a good mother and should be celebrated. But the mere fact of getting impregnated and birthing offspring just makes for a biologically reproductively functional female mammal just like all the rest.

Posted by: Hallmark can suck it at May 11, 2025 11:04 PM (aE3vh)

105 Mom Accidentally Captures Baby's First Steps...and didn't even whip out her smart phone to do so.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 11, 2025 10:19 PM (bufu1)

Because she already had her makeup done, was wearing something stylish, and just happened to have a camera trained on her when the marvelous thing happened for the very first time, honest!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 11, 2025 11:05 PM (RWJYA)

106 He said there was a bright blue flash right in the middle of that closed bedroom, about 3' off the floor, right in the center of the room...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:00 PM (w6EFb)

So...lightning rods, get some?

Posted by: sal at May 11, 2025 11:05 PM (f+FmA)

107 Next question.

Just a blue flash? Did he recently eat at Taco Bell?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 11:06 PM (kibtE)

108 Couple years ago, Hadrian had lightning come down his chim-o-lee, burnt a hole in the flooring in front of the fireplace, and fry all the electronics in the house.

Posted by: High Voltage at May 11, 2025 11:06 PM (G5+As)

109 Posted by: Hallmark can suck it at May 11, 2025 11:04 PM (aE3vh)

Didn't get a lot of party invitations, I take it.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 11:06 PM (gKWVE)

110 Sep sis pr0n is very popular these days.

Posted by: dummy with internet access at May 11, 2025 11:07 PM (Fkqu4)

111 (aE3vh)

Fire mission

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 11:07 PM (kibtE)

112
And the thing was, there were no other electical disturbances at all at the time. No blinking lights, UPS going off, appliances getting messed up, or anything.

Just that slap/crack sound, and bro-in-law reporting seeing that interior blue flash.

Again, don't think it was ball lightning. No floating ball, just like a spontaneous arc flash in the middle of the room.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)

113 Cat claws are coated in all kind of toxins; feces, blood, decayed flesh. Cat scratches should always be promptly cleaned.

My Aunt's cat killed her by chewing on her oxygen tube. Her O2 sat dropped too low.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 11:08 PM (RIvkX)

114 Sounds like ball lightning. I experienced it on a jet in thunderstorm.
Posted by: Sprockets at May 11, 2025 11:02 PM (RIvkX)

Yep. I saw a "man-made" plasma ball once, at a wellsite. A 480 volt 3-phase plug on one of the rig electrical panels shorted out to the shell of the plug. There was a loud bang, and this golf ball-sized glowing sphere came bouncing across the lease in my general direction, and simply winked out before it got near me. Fascinating.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 11:09 PM (t1XLA)

115 Glad to hear Ciampino is recovering well from his bout with cat scratch fever.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 11, 2025 11:09 PM (lUFok)

116 Nocturnal discharges are normal, and nothing to worry about. However, nothing should be done to stimulate these discharges manually.

Posted by: Official Boy Scout Manual at May 11, 2025 11:11 PM (SICIT)

117 Nocturnal or anomalous discharges are completely normal, and nothing to worry about. However, nothing should be done to stimulate these discharges manually.

Posted by: Official Boy Scout Manual at May 11, 2025 11:12 PM (Ft/w+)

118 At first, I was getting excited, was that perhaps a storied ball lightning type event? But nope, he didn't see any spherical ball or anything that persisted, just a blue flash, with the discharge/arc noise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

Maybe just not enough energy to create a plasma ball. I wonder if maybe cosmic rays, or charge particles from the Sun can create an ionization trail that can be exploited by massive charges in thunder clouds?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 11:13 PM (t1XLA)

119 The ball lightning I saw was sustained and stable almost 30 seconds. It was in the aisle in a 3x3 plane so it was only a few feet away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

120 At first, I was getting excited, was that perhaps a storied ball lightning type event?

Trying going commando in wool pants during cold, dry weather.

Posted by: Ball lightning at May 11, 2025 11:15 PM (aE3vh)

121 Posted by: Official Boy Scout Manual at May 11, 2025 11:12 PM

You said 'manual discharge' twice.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 11:15 PM (gKWVE)

122 I finally made it back home from the PNW MoMee. That was a lot of driving for one weekend, but it was great to catch up with some familiar faces and to meet a few new folks.

Posted by: PabloD at May 11, 2025 11:15 PM (hqOqg)

123 I finally made it back home from the PNW MoMee. That was a lot of driving for one weekend, but it was great to catch up with some familiar faces and to meet a few new folks.
Posted by: PabloD at May 11, 2025 11:15 PM (hqOqg)

Excellent!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 11:16 PM (t1XLA)

124 Just watched Trace Adkins in the movie Lincoln Lawyer. That is one big dude.

Posted by: polynikes at May 11, 2025 11:16 PM (VofaG)

125 112
And the thing was, there were no other electical disturbances at all at the time. No blinking lights, UPS going off, appliances getting messed up, or anything.

Just that slap/crack sound, and bro-in-law reporting seeing that interior blue flash.

Again, don't think it was ball lightning. No floating ball, just like a spontaneous arc flash in the middle of the room.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)

My wife was nearly struck by lightning *inside* our friends house up in the mountains (Conifer, CO). Came through the kitchen ceiling and hit a toaster. She just felt the static before the flash and crack.

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at May 11, 2025 11:17 PM (ScW81)

126 Again, don't think it was ball lightning. No floating ball, just like a spontaneous arc flash in the middle of the room.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

Somebody check with Ace on the whereabouts of the Time Machine …

Posted by: Adriane the Temporary Critic . . . at May 11, 2025 11:17 PM (tcomi)

127 Mom passed away on Jan 1, 1996. I still miss her very much. Made the trip yesterday to place flowers on her grave. She made our house, our home. Thank you for giving me life, and for being my mom.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 11, 2025 11:18 PM (5xuJ/)

128 Curious.

Posted by: Dr Manhattan at May 11, 2025 11:19 PM (gKWVE)

129 104: Hallmark can suck it

How many boxes of wine have you consumed this evening?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 11, 2025 11:19 PM (sAmhv)

130 Okay, technically Aunt Bea was not a mom, but I think she deserves a mention.

What kind of "Best Mothers" list has Mrs. Soprano on it?

Posted by: sal at May 11, 2025 11:19 PM (f+FmA)

131 The order, which Trump plans to sign at 9 a.m. ET on May 12, is expected to direct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to adopt the policy, which would set prescription drug prices to match those of comparable countries.

If government could just dictate prices by fiat and the market would comply, it would have been done as soon as the first government was formed.

I fail to see how Big Pharma isn't going to test this by pulling out a full media press and embargoing pharmaceuticals while making Trump fully responsible for the millions of people dying because of the lack of meds.

Matching the Left be deprived of their SSRIs might be the trigger for CW2

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 11, 2025 11:19 PM (a4flb)

132
Ball lighting is a real thing, but it is not really understood at all. There are several theories about what it is, a self-sustaining plasma ball set of by some exotic EM behavior is one. Then there are chemical theories (ball of burning something or other set off by lightning current vaporizing the right compounds in a ground channel) among others. Then others I forget.

There have even been some lab set ups that have created something similar.

But the thing, while these theories can explain *some* of the observed behavior, they can't explain all, and worse, contradict some subset of the behavior. For example theory A might explain behavior X and Y well, but would preclude behavior Z. Theory B explains Z, but precludes X.

That leads to speculation ball lightning may be more than one phenomenon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:19 PM (w6EFb)

133 Just that slap/crack sound, and bro-in-law reporting seeing that interior blue flash.

Again, don't think it was ball lightning. No floating ball, just like a spontaneous arc flash in the middle of the room.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)

Just a tachyon wave from a poorly tuned FTL drive propagating backwards through time. Nothing to see here, ancestors. Forget this ever happened.

Posted by: The Time Police at May 11, 2025 11:20 PM (RWJYA)

134 🌩️
⚡Electrical fun

Decades ago, I was sitting in my Mom's family room when a bolt of lightning struck the tree just outside the room.

I saw, or almost mostly felt, a crackling across the upper part of the high-ceilinged room.

Simultaneously, we heard a scream from the kitchen, on the opposite side of the house from the tree. Mrs. R, family helper, had been washing dishes and had just taken her hands out of the water when sparks flew across the top of the suds.

Mrs. R was okay. The tree didn't survive.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I think it might have been a Thor's day, at May 11, 2025 11:20 PM (b/vRQ)

135 Again, don't think it was ball lightning. No floating ball, just like a spontaneous arc flash in the middle of the room.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:07 PM (w6EFb)

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Could have been a transporter malfunction, laddie.

Posted by: Mr. Scott at May 11, 2025 11:23 PM (JkO4W)

136 127..... She made our house, our home. Thank you for giving me life, and for being my mom.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 11, 2025 11:18 PM (5xuJ/)

"She made our house, our home."

And so I nominate "Our House" by Madness for another Mother's Day song.

Posted by: Rex B at May 11, 2025 11:25 PM (RFhjS)

137 From all us hear at Btrattboro's Reproductive Freedom abd Pet Clinic, thatk to all birthing persons for all you've done with your fronthols.

Posted by: mary cloggenstein at May 11, 2025 11:25 PM (40eS+)

138 TV moms, who is missing?

Edith Bunker

Posted by: Ripley at May 11, 2025 11:25 PM (PTDkx)

139 Not a huge Trace Adkins fan. But yeah, good song.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 11, 2025 11:25 PM (W/lyH)

140 48 hour rule definitely applies, but buzz on X that:

- Israel arranged the Signal call scandal because they hate Pete Hegseth for not wanting the US involved in a new war in Iran
- DJT found out and is furious
- US may formally recognize a Palestinian state as soon as tomorrow in retaliation

Posted by: Ian S. at May 11, 2025 11:26 PM (NqGS/)

141 Too late

Great cigar review rhomboid. That is a good stick.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 11, 2025 11:27 PM (W/lyH)

142 (NqGS/)

Step away from the Copium

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 11:28 PM (kibtE)

143 TV moms, who is missing?

Edith Bunker
Posted by: Ripley at May 11, 2025 11:25 PM (PTDkx)

She's on the list.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 11, 2025 11:29 PM (0eaVi)

144 That Tweet sounds more like a post from DU. So detached from reality.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 11:29 PM (kibtE)

145 I apparently took the exit ramp to the wrong universe again. I could have sworn Trace Adkins died several years ago. It's not spelled Bearenstein Bears here, is it?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 11, 2025 11:31 PM (SSEhk)

146 - Israel arranged the Signal call scandal because they hate Pete Hegseth for not wanting the US involved in a new war in Iran
- DJT found out and is furious
- US may formally recognize a Palestinian state as soon as tomorrow in retaliation
Posted by: Ian S. at May 11, 2025 11:26 PM (NqGS/)
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*slaps own forehead in amazement*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

147 NqGS/
I agree at least as far as waiting 48 hours.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 11:31 PM (gKWVE)

148 Invasion USA 1951

If you want to change what you will become
first change what you are.
_Omen, the wizard

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 11, 2025 11:32 PM (bc7bh)

149 Not American but Hyacinth Bucket. She dotes over her Sheridan.

Posted by: Reforger at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (xcIvR)

150 And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids!

Posted by: Bibi Netanyahu at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (JkO4W)

151 The chances of Trump recognizing a Paleostinian State is about as high as a scoop of ice cream lasting for 30 seconds on a street in Riyadh.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (kibtE)

152 Broadcaster Brian Sussman tells the story of living in Florida when a thunderstorm blew up, as they do in Florida all the time. He went to close the windows in the sunroom when lightning hit close enough to energize the aluminum window frame just as he was touching it. Threw him backwards across the room, he slammed into opposite wall and was knocked cold. When he came to, his toddler son was standing over him saying- Daddy, do it again!

Posted by: Current Events at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (G5+As)

153
But the thing, while these theories can explain *some* of the observed behavior, they can't explain all, and worse, contradict some subset of the behavior. For example theory A might explain behavior X and Y well, but would preclude behavior Z. Theory B explains Z, but precludes X.

That leads to speculation ball lightning may be more than one phenomenon.

I recall there was a series of UFO sightings in Scandinavia. The leading theory was ball lightning/piezoelectric effect caused by large quantities of quartz in the region.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (t0Rmr)

154 150 And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids!
Posted by: Bibi Netanyahu at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (JkO4W)

Good Doge... Have a Scooby Snack.

Posted by: Reforger at May 11, 2025 11:36 PM (xcIvR)

155 When I was a child I remember helping my mother bring in groceries. Since I was very young I wasn't so much helping really as just following her around. As she reached into trunk I was looking towards the road and I remember seeing a bolt hit the ground maybe 10-20 ft from me.

It wasn't a stormy evening and my mother didn't react. Childhood imagination perhaps but the memory feels real, like other memories I have from this age range.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2025 11:37 PM (t0Rmr)

156 Broadcaster Brian Sussman tells the story of living in Florida when a thunderstorm blew up, as they do in Florida all the time. He went to close the windows in the sunroom when lightning hit close enough to energize the aluminum window frame just as he was touching it. Threw him backwards across the room, he slammed into opposite wall and was knocked cold. When he came to, his toddler son was standing over him saying- Daddy, do it again!
Posted by: Current Events at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (G5+As)
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He's a great guy. I never heard that story.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 11:37 PM (RIvkX)

157 My mom passed a year ago. She had no idea who I was, but she was quite sure she didn't want me around. That all started when I took Dad's car keys. He told my husband that I was not to contact them again. As he put it, he was removing me from their Christmas Card list.

Aging and cranky parents are a trial.

Mom always told folks that I was the dumb one. She was quite sure I couldn't make it through college so she didn't send a single dime to support me. She said I was on a fool's errand.

She also never bothered to get me braces when the dentist said she should. She said it would be a waste of money. I have awful teeth that have cost me thousands of dollars over the years.

I was the fourth girl, the last one before the desired boy. I should probably never have been born, but here I am.

I loved my mother, and I really don't know why. I still pray for her, because I am supposed to. That's about all there is to it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 11, 2025 11:37 PM (a4NoL)

158 I don't think Gaza is going to be a Palestinian State but it's possible for West Bank.
Israel has burned a lot of goodwill. Not so much for Gaza (fuck Gaza) but because too many proIsrael voices have been doxxing antiIsrael commenters and generally playing the bully. I've seen this on Jihadwatch, what with Skrbina / "Dalton". (And they probably doxxed the wrong doxx.)
Not to mention that House bill which would have made a boycott illegal.
It's been adding up, as Cernovich has documented.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 11, 2025 11:39 PM (gKWVE)

159 Mama Tried - Merle Haggard and The Dead

Posted by: Jerry Saves at May 11, 2025 11:42 PM (d9BTl)

160 He went to close the windows in the sunroom when lightning hit close enough to energize the aluminum window frame just as he was touching it...
Posted by: Current Events
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I have seen arcs between aluminum window frames and steel studs in the wall.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 11, 2025 11:42 PM (XeU6L)

161 You know whose dress looked fabulous at the Meh Ball, and I hate to admit it?

Kamala Harris. She should have worn dresses more often.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 11, 2025 11:43 PM (rHAI3)

162 Mom also hated my kid. I expect it was because my son is adopted from Guatemala, and wasn't my bio kid. She and Dad were both somewhat racist. They said he couldn't hang out with them because they didn't trust him. They extolled the virtues of my sisters' kids constantly, but they wouldn't spend time with mine.

I have racked my brain to figure out what I did to deserve the kind of dislike and indifference my mom dished out. Oddly, she thought my husband was wonderful, but me? Not so much.

It isn't like I didn't get anything from her. She taught me to garden, to cook, to can, to sew, to knit, all sorts of productive things. She just made it clear that she didn't care for me or mine.

Maybe I came out sidewise when I was born. No idea.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 11, 2025 11:45 PM (a4NoL)

163 I recall there was a series of UFO sightings in Scandinavia. The leading theory was ball lightning/piezoelectric effect caused by large quantities of quartz in the region.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2025 11:33 PM (t0Rmr)

As an explanation, that ranks right up there with swamp gas. One: there are large quantities of quartz in the ground nearly everywhere. It's a very abundant and widely-dispersed mineral. Two: the "piezo" part of "piezoelectric" means "pressure". Quartz (and many other things) develops an electric charge on certain crystal faces when the crystal is bent. (or the crystal will bend if an electric charge is applied to it) For a current to be generated, quartz would have to be under an oscillating strain.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 11:45 PM (HV7Dx)

164 Missing TV Mothers

There was a show called 'That's My Mama' and they don't even list the Mama.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 11, 2025 11:45 PM (rHAI3)

165 Thanks for posting weekly Wall of Shame, Doof.

Math is to be shunned here, but stats are important.

Posted by: #3 Sockpuppet at May 11, 2025 11:46 PM (G5+As)

166 For Mother's Day I made my mother the stuff her parents used to make for her when she was a child. It's been a long, long time since her parents could do that for her, and for whatever reason, she never learned how to make them.

Posted by: Locarno at May 11, 2025 11:46 PM (wiYsG)

167 So, Mother's Day means a lot of things to a lot of people, but I will take a pass. I figure I spend too much effort on mom, and should probably just leave her to rest in peace.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 11, 2025 11:46 PM (a4NoL)

168 Mother -Pink Floyd

Posted by: Jerry Saves at May 11, 2025 11:48 PM (d9BTl)

169 {tcn}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 11:48 PM (RIvkX)

170 Two things:

First, I got the top mom on the list correct.

Second, I was disappointed that the mystery click at the top was not Paul Anka's "Havin' My Baby".

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 11, 2025 11:49 PM (U6Q8K)

171 SpaceX launch has slipped a little.

Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 1:03 a.m. EDT (0503 UTC) on Monday, May 12.

https://www.youtube.com/live/-kx0P71W7Zs

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 11, 2025 11:49 PM (RWJYA)

172 I live in Florida's lightning belt. The sound you get when a bolt is basically right on top of you is distinct and unforgettable.

First time I heard it was when I was a kid and a group of us had been playing ball and had stopped to argue about whether or not a storm was too close for us to continue. A bolt nailed a pole maybe thirty feet away and put an end to all debate.

Posted by: Locarno at May 11, 2025 11:49 PM (wiYsG)

173
There was a show called 'That's My Mama' and they don't even list the Mama.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
--------
Maybe 'Mama'
"Mama is a weekly CBS Television comedy-drama series that ran from July 1, 1949 until March 17, 1957"

I recall in the opening narrative that the speaker said, 'But most of all, I remember mama'.

Wait...I'm only 29.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 11, 2025 11:50 PM (XeU6L)

174 Posted by: tcn in AK at May 11, 2025 11:37 PM (a4NoL)

That's extremely sad and I'm sorry you went through that. Rejection and lack of love from a parent leaves a deep and indelible mark on one's soul.

Posted by: Genuine sympathy at May 11, 2025 11:50 PM (aE3vh)

175 Gnight morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 11, 2025 11:50 PM (RIvkX)

176 I do love Pearl.

Posted by: Mother at May 11, 2025 11:52 PM (XeU6L)

177 82 Ciampino just called.
The doctor came in and said everything looks good and they will be moving him out of ICU and into a regular room. Tomorrow they may discuss when he will be discharged.
Posted by: Joyenz at May 11, 2025 10:48 PM (sPQoU)

Hip, Hip, Hooray!!!!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 11, 2025 10:51 PM (VNX3d)

Seconded!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 11, 2025 11:52 PM (rHAI3)

178

Dinosaurs - Not the Mama

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 11, 2025 11:52 PM (63Dwl)

179 Kung Fury The Movie was shelved but I love this not-quite-trailer.

https://youtu.be/JQRuka2aJy4?si=NC9vrM2TqJzasEr1

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (lhenN)

180 I was surprised they left out the Queen Mother Xenomorph from Aliens. Probably they're just being really strict that it has to be a mother specifically on TV.

Happy Mother's Day, Queen Mother Xenomorph!

Posted by: Bombadil at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (MX0bI)

181 For a current to be generated, quartz would have to be under an oscillating strain.

The argument here was that it was a tectonically active region and that's what was causing the stress on the quartz.

TBH, whether this answer is accurate or not, I think there should be more study along these lines. I've mentioned before I don't believe there are aliens visiting the earth (I think it is clear we are the only intelligent life, at least in our own galaxy) but people see and rightly would like to know what they saw and want answers .

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (t0Rmr)

182
Anyway, the "working hypothesis" on what this was is some sort of rare (million to one shot, doc!) field focusing effect. Somehow, someway, we got a high E field in a small region high enough to ionize air.

Is that possible? Yep, but it would be a rare thing for some ambient conditions to be able to do that naturally. Lightning has high frequency components (100 kHz - MHz components), and with RF crazy shit can happen.

Now rock. That came up talking about this. Turns out here the bedrock comes close to the surface especially right here at the house. Less than 6'. I forget the types, but what's important is it be conductive.

"Conductive veins" as Mrs. Duke's engineers have called it have given them fits with stray voltage around here over the years (think this "vein" is transmitting neutral voltage drop over the distribution line run from Point A to point B, bringing ground potential relative to power line neutral high enough to cause shocks to people).

That has lightning current ramifications, channeling ground currents.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)

183 by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 11, 2025 11:02 PM

I wish raimondo could just be nice and rational and have a civil discussion. He doesn't have to be rude. I liked him the other night when he seemed sober.

I have tons of family and friends who are lefties, and it doesn't bother me to talk politics with them at all if they're civil.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 11, 2025 11:54 PM (Vvh2V)

184 Well was drunk the day my Mom got out of prison
But I went to pick her up in the rain

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 11, 2025 11:57 PM (Aqu9a)

185 Posted by: tcn in AK at May 11, 2025 11:37 PM (a4NoL)

I am so glad you were born! 🤗 You are so witty and feisty. I'm sorry for what you went through, but if it made you who you are, we and the world benefited from it!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 11, 2025 11:58 PM (Vvh2V)

186 140 48 hour rule definitely applies, but buzz on X that:

- Israel arranged the Signal call scandal because they hate Pete Hegseth for not wanting the US involved in a new war in Iran
- DJT found out and is furious
- US may formally recognize a Palestinian state as soon as tomorrow in retaliation
Posted by: Ian S.
.................................
I saw it on the Internet, it must be true!

Dudley Do-Right - 2025

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 11, 2025 11:59 PM (sAmhv)

187 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)

probably witches.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 12, 2025 12:02 AM (pIfcn)

188 I’m sorry, tcn. You deserved better.

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

189 I had parents that hated me, but growing up I was unable to observe what was plain on its face. When I read "go visit your parents more" ... great advice for 99% of everyone ... I just keep scrolling past. I feel like an outsider, for lack of a better term. On the other hand, parents that hate their own kids is not as uncommon as I thought it was.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 12, 2025 12:03 AM (lhenN)

190 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)

probably witches.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 12, 2025 12:02 AM (pIfcn)

Could be leprechauns.

Posted by: Darby O'Gill at May 12, 2025 12:03 AM (Aqu9a)

191 ====
*slaps own forehead in amazement*
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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I read the palistine thing was a hoax, that Trump said it was a hoax. Where is this info coming from.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:03 AM (bc7bh)

192 Now rock. That came up talking about this. Turns out here the bedrock comes close to the surface especially right here at the house. Less than 6'. I forget the types, but what's important is it be conductive.

"Conductive veins" as Mrs. Duke's engineers have called it have given them fits with stray voltage around here over the years (think this "vein" is transmitting neutral voltage drop over the distribution line run from Point A to point B, bringing ground potential relative to power line neutral high enough to cause shocks to people).

That has lightning current ramifications, channeling ground currents.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)

Maybe it was an actual lightning strike, just a very low-energy one. Look closely at the floor and ceiling of the bedroom for pinholes; also the roof.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2025 12:04 AM (HV7Dx)

193 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (w6EFb)
..................................
Awiens.......

Posted by: Cute fuzzy kitty at May 12, 2025 12:04 AM (sAmhv)

194 I read the palistine thing was a hoax, that Trump said it was a hoax. Where is this info coming from.

---------

The plan to destroy Hegseth was discussed in detail in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You should check it out, man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 12, 2025 12:07 AM (JkO4W)

195 Israel setting up the Signal call error would be a cheap shot for them. They can do better than that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:07 AM (bc7bh)

196 >> Look closely at the floor and ceiling of the bedroom for pinholes; also the roof.

I have, absolutely nothing visible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 12, 2025 12:07 AM (w6EFb)

197 Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 12, 2025 12:03 AM (lhenN)

Yes, there are a lot of parents who had no business having children. There is certainly no need to go see them. I'm glad you know that, and I hope you've come to truly understand that their assholiness doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:08 AM (Vvh2V)

198 Kilauea's gone splodey again.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2025 12:08 AM (Aqu9a)

199 Or the Protocols of the Udders of Zayna.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2025 12:08 AM (HV7Dx)

200 I read the palistine thing was a hoax, that Trump said it was a hoax. Where is this info coming from.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:03 AM (bc7bh)

That's just what THEY want you to think.

Posted by: Guy handing out pamphlets in the park at May 12, 2025 12:08 AM (RWJYA)

201 ---------

The plan to destroy Hegseth was discussed in detail in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You should check it out, man.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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I should have known.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:09 AM (bc7bh)

202 179 Kung Fury The Movie was shelved but I love this not-quite-trailer.

https://youtu.be/JQRuka2aJy4?si=NC9vrM2TqJzasEr1
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (lhenN)

Trai!er? That's pretty much the whole movie they have there.

And I'd pay money to see it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 12, 2025 12:11 AM (rHAI3)

203 Israel setting up the Signal call error would be a cheap shot for them. They can do better than that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:07 AM (bc7bh)

They should stick to the things they do best, like controlling the weather. And training sharks to eat Red Sea tourists.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 12, 2025 12:11 AM (RWJYA)

204 Neither of my ungrateful children (age 39 and 37) have wished me a happy mother's day today. My feelers are hurt. I did get 2 books that i wanted from my husband. I sent my stepmother a batch of homemade cranberry biscotti in the mail and she said she liked them.

Posted by: Frankie at May 12, 2025 12:12 AM (VK0vR)

205 We possess Scogg.
Scogg treasures us.

Posted by: Sri Chinmoy. at May 12, 2025 12:13 AM (G5+As)

206 Good to see you Tammy. How are you doing with your mom with dementia situation? I think of you now and again ever since you posted about it after Hackman and his wife were found dead.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 12, 2025 12:13 AM (bP/i4)

207 I can just about see Trump recognizing a "Palestinian" State. 🙄

No other US President has wanted a war in Iran, not even Reagan. The Israelis are not going to resort to cheap shots aimed at the President who moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem, either.

I like Hegseth, but he's perfectly capable of creating his own (non) scandals.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:14 AM (Vvh2V)

208 186 140 48 hour rule definitely applies, but buzz on X that:

- Israel arranged the Signal call scandal because they hate Pete Hegseth for not wanting the US involved in a new war in Iran
- DJT found out and is furious
- US may formally recognize a Palestinian state as soon as tomorrow in retaliation
Posted by: Ian S.
.................................
I saw it on the Internet, it must be true!

Dudley Do-Right - 2025
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 11, 2025 11:59 PM (sAmhv)

This seems like planted bullshit.

1) I cannot imagine Israel hating a guy personally enough (who is loyal to Trump- and Trump would be making this call) to be stupid enough to do this.

2) I cannot see Trump recognizing a Pali state.

Wishcasting or muddying the water seems like to me.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 12, 2025 12:15 AM (bss/y)

209 Kilauea's gone splodey again.
Posted by: Count de Monet

I felt a great disturbance in Gaia's chakras, as if millions of carbon credits suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Posted by: Gore-Bi-Wan at May 12, 2025 12:15 AM (Aqu9a)

210 Tammy beat me by seconds!

*shakes fist*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 12, 2025 12:16 AM (bss/y)

211 198 Kilauea's gone splodey again.
Posted by: Count de Monet

The Bobby and Peter Brady Tiki curse rides again!

Posted by: Robbie Rist at May 12, 2025 12:16 AM (G5+As)

212
Protocols of the Udders of Zayna.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I think that's a song on the Rush 2112 album.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2025 12:17 AM (63Dwl)

213 212
Protocols of the Udders of Zayna.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I think that's a song on the Rush 2112 album.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2025 12:17 AM (63Dwl)

I was thinking she was that really flat chested actress from Dune.

So I thought it was sarcastic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 12, 2025 12:18 AM (bss/y)

214 Happy Mother's Day, Queen Mother Xenomorph!
Posted by: Bombadil

Sci Fi mom #1 and mud bath enthusiast … Lwaxana Troi, Majel Barrett

Posted by: Adriane the Temporary Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 12:18 AM (tcomi)

215 Evening and God rest my mother.

Of all the current news items, the Democrat's going full libtard crazy at an ICE event in New Jersey caught my eye.

So the voted into office "representees" are willing to go full on and assault actual ICE OFFICERS?

Sounds like a regional INSURRECTION ya think.

Throw them into jails formerly occupied by the J6 at once!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)

216 @TrumpUpdateHQ 1h

EXPOSED: 🇮🇳🇵🇰 Al Jazeera falsely claimed Pakistan captured an Indian female pilot during the India-Pakistan clash sparked by Operation Sindoor.

Even Pakistan denies it in it's press conference. India says all pilots are safe and satellite data backs that up. No wreckage, no radar proof, no shot-down Rafales.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:19 AM (bc7bh)

217 195 Israel setting up the Signal call error would be a cheap shot for them. They can do better than that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:07 AM (bc7bh)

This is more Brian Stelter league spycraft. Or Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 12, 2025 12:20 AM (bss/y)

218 209

I watched the live feed from the USGS cams on the rim...

SPECTACULAR!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:21 AM (25kuG)

219 My wife was nearly struck by lightning *inside* our friends house up in the mountains (Conifer, CO). Came through the kitchen ceiling and hit a toaster. She just felt the static before the flash and crack.
Posted by: tRusty Hudson

Had that static effect before. Quite hair-raising.
Just mentioned to the wife a couple hours ago during a lightning storm here and after a close strike.
She swears she heard 'pop' right before the big 'crack'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 12:21 AM (/lPRQ)

220 I sent my stepmother a batch of homemade cranberry biscotti in the mail and she said she liked them.
Posted by: Frankie
------

A very thoughtful thing for you to do.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2025 12:22 AM (XeU6L)

221 Posted by: PaleRider at May 12, 2025 12:13 AM (bP/i4)

I so appreciate your thoughts! Thank you! I am not handling it well. I am list in admiration of all you Morons, Stateless, I'm looking at you, and all you who are dealing with aging and cranky parents!

I mean, I'm fine, and honestly, it could be so much worse, but I have no patience any more. I feel trapped and panicky and I don't have that joy everyone else seems to get in caring for their elderly parents. Iove her dearly, and I will always take care of her, but it is far more difficult than I ever dreamt it would be.

Thankfully, I am able to hide my feelings from her. And Thor is very, very patient with her. He teuses to let her go into a nursing home, even though she mentions it often. We're both so lucky to have him.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:22 AM (Vvh2V)

222
Sci Fi mom Jane Jetson

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2025 12:23 AM (63Dwl)

223 Now what are the dead pool odds of Putin & Zelensky sitting down with a cease fire in place?

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:24 AM (25kuG)

224 179 Kung Fury The Movie was shelved but I love this not-quite-trailer.

https://youtu.be/JQRuka2aJy4?si=NC9vrM2TqJzasEr1
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 11, 2025 11:53 PM (lhenN)

And this is why Hollywood as we know it is doomed. AI-GCI will make making movies with human actors as obsolete as vaudeville. Organized crime will have to find a new way to launder money, as "Hollywood accounting" goes away.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 12, 2025 12:24 AM (RWJYA)

225 220

indeed.

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:25 AM (25kuG)

226
There was a lightning story my father told when he was a young man. He had his father, and some other field hands were out hoeing in a patch of cotton. Thundercloud came up, but still far away, but they were watching it. Then, they felt the hair standing up on their arms and heads. Heard some hissing. They threw down their hoes and ran like hell. Boom! Lightning struck right there in that spot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 12, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

227 And if anyone sees Mis Hum before me, please tell him thank you soooo much for that BoDeans link last night! I had forgotten all about them, and thatcwas my favorite song of theirs... and I played it for Mama today and she loved it!

I played it again and again for her, and we danced all over thriving room. It truly brought her so much joy !

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:29 AM (Vvh2V)

228
That was an encounter with a local "ground streamer" forming. Basic mechanism of lighting. Thundercloud is a charge separation engine (and that is not completely understood). Top of cloud (usually) gets positive, bottom gets negative. Now, bottom of cloud is closer to ground than the bottom to the top. Cloud to ground lightning is transferring negative charge to the ground. Finally, it has to balance out, and that's the positive stroke lightning, which is usually much stronger.

Now, high E field on bottom of cloud. Random ionization starts. A little fractal-like jagged "finger" of ionization starts working its way from the bottom of the cloud towards the ground. This is dubbed a "stepped leader". This is conductive, and brings the charge closer to the ground. E field gets stronger closer. Ground starts to respond with charge building up underneath. Ionization starts to happen there. This is a ground streamer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 12, 2025 12:30 AM (w6EFb)

229 222

Carol Brady

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:30 AM (25kuG)

230 Oh...forgot...

Mis Hum's mom.

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:31 AM (25kuG)

231 Hey, Oooo

IT WAS JUST A TISSUE AND AN INNOCENT WEIRD LITTLE SPOON!!! betweeeeen ~0:22 & 0:24

https://tinyurl.com/2zz48bby

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:32 AM (bc7bh)

232 Sheldon Cooper's mom didn't get a spot?! She was perfect!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:32 AM (Vvh2V)

233
Now, when the stepped leader and ground streamer meet, the circuit is closed, and Boom, you get a discharge. Current is typically around 30 - 50kA. And it's RF, and sort of pulsing.

What you feel, with the hair standing up, and the hissing and popping is the charge build up and ionization of the ground streamer around you. If you notice that, it's time to act, right then.

Running is the optimum thing to do. There's a chance you could run into it, rather than away from it, but that's the chance you have to take. Just standing there, even hitting the deck and balling up is less odds of survival.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 12, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

234 The air battle between India and Pakistan sounds fascinating from a military standpoint. Reports are that there was a “dogfight” involving about 125 aircraft; and yet neither side ever left its own territory, the fight being conducted by both sides shooting loads of long range air to air missiles at each other, from distances up to 100 miles apart.

So it will be impossible to confirm what was shot down, if any were lost from either side they would have fallen into their own territory.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 12:33 AM (S+5p3)

235 I sent my stepmother a batch of homemade cranberry biscotti in the mail and she said she liked them.
Posted by: Frankie
----

Missed it. Was it 'If I could hold you tonight'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2025 12:33 AM (XeU6L)

236 Jeez, Louise, if any of you can actually figure out my posts, God bless ya.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:34 AM (Vvh2V)

237 And if anyone sees Mis Hum before me, please tell him thank you soooo much for that BoDeans link last night!
-------

Oops.. mis-posted 235
Was it 'If I could hold you tonight'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2025 12:35 AM (XeU6L)

238 Kilauea's gone splodey again.
Posted by: Count de Monet

It's got a long way to go to get back to where it was about ten years ago. Almost bought some land right about where the main eruption settled on and kept going for weeks. Destroyed a lot of places I used to go.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 12:36 AM (/lPRQ)

239 My buddies and I were bird hunting along the top of a ridge, when we saw lightning striking in the canyon below us.

The dog just barely beat us getting back to the truck.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 12, 2025 12:37 AM (RWJYA)

240 Jeez, Louise, if any of you can actually figure out my posts, God bless ya.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Compared to rainmandodo, you're are a skilled writer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2025 12:37 AM (XeU6L)

241 My electric death story.

Summertime thunderstorm, me at home as a young Count. Had opened the front door to watch through the screen door. Saw a squirrel scampering along the power line / telephone line across the street, close to the transformer can.

Suddenly, there was a blue ball of light surrounding the squirrel. Then immediately, a tremendous clap of thunder. The blue light stayed visible for a few seconds, traveling back to the transformer, which then blew, darkening the street.

Just a few glowing cinders of the unlucky squirrel fell to the street.

Posted by: Gore-Bi-Wan at May 12, 2025 12:38 AM (Aqu9a)

242 If you missed it here it is in 5 seconds

https://tinyurl.com/5hcy22dn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:39 AM (bc7bh)

243 Off stupid ManBearPig sock

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2025 12:41 AM (Aqu9a)

244 X has been blowing up this weekend with all kinds of wild stories about Trump, Bibi, and Gaza. Almost none of them make any sense.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 12:42 AM (S+5p3)

245 The air battle between India and Pakistan sounds fascinating from a military standpoint. Reports are that there was a “dogfight” involving about 125 aircraft; and yet neither side ever left its own territory, the fight being conducted by both sides shooting loads of long range air to air missiles at each other, from distances up to 100 miles apart.

So it will be impossible to confirm what was shot down, if any were lost from either side they would have fallen into their own territory.
Posted by: Tom Servo
====

Shouldn't they be duking it with drones?

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

246 233

Hunnington Lake Ca. Boy Scout camp 1972 just out of the truck after a 7 hour drive. Ran into the woods to relieve myself. Raining heavy and just as I unzipped...Lightning bolt down the tree 30 ft away. I smelled the ozone, and my hair stood up on end just before the strike and the blast caused me to piss myself, ending in running and screaming back to the truck. Hell of a way to start a weeklong camping experience.

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:43 AM (25kuG)

247 So it will be impossible to confirm what was shot down, if any were lost from either side they would have fallen into their own territory.
Posted by: Tom Servo
-----------

All the Rafale pilots are home with their husbands.
Note: Rafale pilots were women Su-35 pilots were men.
The Su-35 were too big for the women to handle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:45 AM (bc7bh)

248
Hell of a way to start a weeklong camping experience.
Posted by: Nightwatch

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2025 12:47 AM (63Dwl)

249 That Met Gala shit is inadvertently hilarious...
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 11, 2025 10:43 PM (2QL9g)

Plus luridly decadent.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 12, 2025 12:47 AM (Hmysf)

250 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2025 12:37 AM (XeU6L)

😆

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:48 AM (Vvh2V)

251 AHhhh work...night horde

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:48 AM (25kuG)

252 Thanks Tammy.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 12, 2025 12:48 AM (lhenN)

253 Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10 8h

ARREST Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates.

A staggering 3328%
increase in Child Mortality in
Alberta, Canada without explanation. Children are dying en masse.

“We couldn't believe it...it's actually increased by 3328%...”
---

inoculate, must inoculate, inoculate

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:49 AM (bc7bh)

254 And if anyone sees Mis Hum before me, please tell him thank you soooo much for that BoDeans link last night! I had forgotten all about them, and thatcwas my favorite song of theirs... and I played it for Mama today and she loved it!

I played it again and again for her, and we danced all over thriving room. It truly brought her so much joy !
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 12:29 AM (Vvh2V)

Saturday Night's ONT appears to be nuked. Did I miss something?

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2025 12:50 AM (gKDq2)

255 Shouldn't they be duking it with drones?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 12:42 AM

They’ve been using some; but neither side appears to have gotten into that tech as much as they should have.
Read a great thread on X about the rapid drown development; both sides (although the Ukes are better at it) are now neutralizing air defense systems by sending large numbers of cheap decoy drones near a target, with only a few deadly drones mixed in with them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2025 12:50 AM (S+5p3)

256 “We couldn't believe it...it's actually increased by 3328%...”
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inoculate, must inoculate, inoculate
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Like the high school and other young athletes dropping dead -
It's always been like this just never in the news.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 12:51 AM (/lPRQ)

257 The air battle between India and Pakistan sounds fascinating from a military standpoint. Reports are that there was a “dogfight” involving about 125 aircraft; and yet neither side ever left its own territory, the fight being conducted by both sides shooting loads of long range air to air missiles at each other, from distances up to 100 miles apart.

So it will be impossible to confirm what was shot down, if any were lost from either side they would have fallen into their own territory.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Shouldn't they be duking it with drones?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 12:42 AM (/lPRQ)

A beach volleyball tournament for all the marbles?

Posted by: Maverick, Goose, Ice, & Slider at May 12, 2025 12:51 AM (Aqu9a)

258 Sheldon Cooper's mom didn't get a spot?! She was perfect!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

Quit watching Big Bang before the moms appeared, but have caught many YooToob shorts featuring them. Sheldon Cooper's mom and Leonard H's mom were a great juxtaposition.

TCN in AK, one thing I learned after I grew up was that what I was going through as a kid was *not* "normal," if there is such a thing. When young, it can be hard to realize all families aren't like yours. Also have learned, coulda been much worse.

And with that, may motherly love embrace you all.
https://youtu.be/FFQbERB2DAM

G'nite, brothers and sisters.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mama tried mama tried at May 12, 2025 12:53 AM (b/vRQ)

259 They’ve been injecting cancer for a long time.

“I never bought that story…”

“A PhD researcher discovered a cardiothoracic surgeon with 472 specimens in his office. They check the samples and every single case of mesothelioma had SV40 in it…”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:54 AM (bc7bh)

260 SV40?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 12:55 AM (/lPRQ)

261 A staggering 3328%
increase in Child Mortality in
Alberta, Canada without explanation. Children are dying en masse.

“We couldn't believe it...it's actually increased by 3328%...”
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inoculate, must inoculate, inoculate
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:49 AM (bc7bh)

Got a link to that? Have not heard anything about that here, in conversation with my fellow Albertans. I would point out though, that if child mortality was very small to begin with, an increase of 3328% would not necessarily mean thousands dead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2025 12:56 AM (HV7Dx)

262 BREAKING: Leo Terrell at the DOJ tells Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver to “lawyer up.”
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Ruh Roh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:58 AM (bc7bh)

263 BREAKING: Leo Terrell at the DOJ tells Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver to “lawyer up.”
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Ruh Roh
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 12:58 AM (bc7bh)
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She the one that acted like the INS detrntion center was a mosh pit?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 12, 2025 01:00 AM (/lPRQ)

264 Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2025 12:50 AM (gKDq2)

Oh, I don't know...is it really gone?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 01:01 AM (Vvh2V)

265 Sci Fi mom #1 and mud bath enthusiast … Lwaxana Troi, Majel Barrett
Posted by: Adriane the Temporary Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 12:18 AM (tcomi)

I'd also nominate the Horta.

Posted by: Away Team Red Shirt at May 12, 2025 01:02 AM (2Ct1S)

266 Oh, I don't know...is it really gone?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 01:01 AM (Vvh2V)

It's not there now, that's all I know.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2025 01:06 AM (gKDq2)

267 BREAKING: President Donald Trump announces he will sign an Executive Order that will reduce Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices.
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The US will pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest price.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:07 AM (bc7bh)

268 BoDeans. They were ok. Always liked this song:

youtu.be/MsgJYd9Sasg

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 01:09 AM (sAmhv)

269 It sure is gone, Rick. How weird.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 01:10 AM (Vvh2V)

270 tcn, I am sorry that you had to go through that. We all are fortunate that you found your way here.

Tammy, I was thinking of you tonight, while she may not vocalize it I am sure that your Mom is awfully proud of you.

I had a great day with most of my kids, one son kept telling me that the real surprise of the day was going to be a tour of the nearby senior living center. Love that kid!!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 12, 2025 01:11 AM (0nHVk)

271 I think everything typed was very reasonable. However, what
about this? what if you added a little information? I ain't saying your information isn't good.,
but what if you added a title that grabbed people's attention? I mean Sunday Overnight Open Thread - May
11, 2025 [Doof] is kinda boring. You might look at Yahoo's front page and see how they create
article titles to grab people to open the links.
You might add a video or a related pic or two to grab people excited about everything've written.
In my opinion, it might bring your posts a little bit more
interesting.

Posted by: link at May 12, 2025 01:12 AM (ybv8V)

272 (ybv8V) Deranged homo Commie faggot Trudeau-loving link spammer at 271.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2025 01:19 AM (+gXOI)

273 RE: Signal and Hegseth, I cruised some of my favorites and some hair on fire sites such as Alex Jones, BRICS and zerohedge.
Not. A. Peep.

They are concerned about cocaine, vaccines, China deal and Ukraine deal.

and on the side the conflict between India and Pakistan.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:20 AM (bc7bh)

274 We are approaching lace wigs territory with these spam bots.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 01:20 AM (Vvh2V)

275 271 I think everything typed was very reasonable. However, what
about this? what if you added a little information? I ain't saying your information isn't good.,
but what if you added a title that grabbed people's attention? I mean Sunday Overnight Open Thread - May
11, 2025 [Doof] is kinda boring. You might look at Yahoo's front page and see how they create
article titles to grab people to open the links.
You might add a video or a related pic or two to grab people excited about everything've written.
In my opinion, it might bring your posts a little bit more
interesting.
Posted by: link at May 12, 2025 01:12 AM (ybv8V)

I'm not saying your comment is spam, but I wouldn't visit Hawaii if I were you.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 12, 2025 01:21 AM (44PAK)

276 Debby, your son sounds like fun! 😂

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 01:21 AM (Vvh2V)

277 271: IT'S A TRAP!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 12, 2025 01:21 AM (sAmhv)

278 Puddleglum,

I liked the BoDeans way back when. There were two BoDeans to me. I enjoyed their old time rockers like 'Tied Down And Chained'. Then there's those harmonic songs with great lyrics like 'Paradise', my personal favorite.

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2025 01:22 AM (gKDq2)

279 The BoDeans mystery link was She's a Runaway, if either of you were curious. 😉

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 12, 2025 01:25 AM (Vvh2V)

280 When posting from my phone, if I use either the '(Jump to bottom of page) or (Jump to top of page), I go to a page full of ads. Only happens with my phone (Motorola/Android).

First World Problems. A really annoying one.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2025 01:26 AM (sAmhv)

281 Need to go vacuum a fan. Weather be getting hot.

Posted by: Adriane the Temporary Critic . . . at May 12, 2025 01:26 AM (tcomi)

282 Got a link to that?
...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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https://tinyurl.com/mr6542pd

You might get more comments if you use xcancel.
Liz Churchill is usually pretty straight up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:26 AM (bc7bh)

283 Posted by: Nightwatch at May 12, 2025 12:43 AM (25kuG)

Funny.... I was there that year.... LOL...

Missed the storms though, must of been a different week.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 12, 2025 01:27 AM (QAkQ3)

284 My mother had her tonsils out in the 1930s. So what you say, even in the 1930s that was not that big a deal! Her mother decided they could not afford anesthesia: it was the 1930s. My mother had them out without anesthesia. For years my mother remembered that. One of the few blessing of her failing memory (she’s 93) is that she can no longer remember that. She hardly seemed to know me when I called her today. My sister who has guardianship over her says that sometimes she doesn’t even know her own daughter, despite my sister seeing her almost every single day. Even though she lives halfway across the continent, I need to go see her in person soon, not that she will know me or remember my visit 5 minutes after I leave. At least we saved will all be restored eventually in Heaven. God bless you all, and if the Holy Spirit has not come to you, I pray He will soon, so that you may believe and be saved.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 01:31 AM (a07r0)

285 Tidy article on the India / Pakistan dust up.
So tidy it failed to mention the Baluch or them blowing up the Chinese railroad bridge, the only bridge for the Gold & Copper railroad, putting a halt to the Belt & Road initiative in that region or the number of Pakistani soldiers killed.

https://tinyurl.com/35e5upmj

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:40 AM (bc7bh)

286 https://tinyurl.com/mr6542pd

You might get more comments if you use xcancel.
Liz Churchill is usually pretty straight up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:26 AM (bc7bh)

Link goes to a video from some activist group, and I have no idea if they are trustworthy. DDG search on "excess infant mortality Alberta" brings up nothing new at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2025 01:42 AM (+gXOI)

287 280 When posting from my phone, if I use either the '(Jump to bottom of page) or (Jump to top of page), I go to a page full of ads. Only happens with my phone (Motorola/Android).

First World Problems. A really annoying one.
Posted by: Puddleglum,
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Brave Browser, Brave Browser cuts

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:42 AM (bc7bh)

288 >>>Tomorrow they may discuss when he will be discharged.
Posted by: Joyenz
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Joyenz, thank you for bringing us updates on Ciampino.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:44 AM (bc7bh)

289 "Jessie Murph accessorized with a pig, which is the least problematic part of this outfit."
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Other than pink her out fit was country.
Pig was a nice touch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 12, 2025 01:50 AM (bc7bh)

290 The BoDeans mystery link was She's a Runaway, if either of you were curious. 😉
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Ah. I have that...on cassette.

'Still The Night' is my favorite.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2025 01:52 AM (XeU6L)

291 Joyenz, I was happy to read of Ciampino's condition tonight. Thanks for keeping us updated.

Thanks to Doof for a very nice Mother's Day ONT.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 12, 2025 02:00 AM (0nHVk)

292 Thanks for the ONT, Mr. Doof!

Ah, Mother's Day...

Mom's been gone since 2002 and I still miss her every day.

Hubby's mom passed in '02 also-- never got to meet her, but seems she was really cool, too.

Posted by: JQ at May 12, 2025 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

293 Ah. I have that...on cassette.

'Still The Night' is my favorite.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2025 01:52 AM (XeU6L)

One of those bands from which I went from cassettes to cds really quick. That band was right on the cusp of the music industry changeover*. Had two cassettes, I don't know 5, 6 cds (with the two cassettes replaced).

* Back in '89 I think it was, we went away for Christmas '88. When we got back, around two-three weeks into January, we went to a nearby mall. When we went to look at albums at a 'record' store, they were all gone, now just cds (with some leftover cassettes [they were small]).

Posted by: RickZ at May 12, 2025 02:04 AM (gKDq2)

294 Well, past midnight here. Going to call it a night, Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2025 02:09 AM (+gXOI)

295 Stepson called tonight, to wish me happy Mother's Day.

So sweet, especially since I didn't really have much chance to be a "step mom" as he was already 16 when we first met.

What a blessing!

Posted by: JQ at May 12, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

296 'Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at May 12, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

297 “We couldn't believe it...it's actually increased by 3328%...”
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If real, it’s the vaxx. Count on it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 12, 2025 02:13 AM (a07r0)

298 Got my outdoor chores finished just in time this evening. Rain began less than an hour afterward. Beats getting caught out in a downpour while only halfway done!

Bonus: Free water!

Posted by: JQ at May 12, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

299 Awww... Cat came in, *soaking wet* poor baby. (Yeah, he's a rough n tough, outdoor barn-cat, what lurves his independence)

And he's gobbled his grunchy kibble & headed for the bedroom. No dummy, he.

Sounds good to me, too.

G'night, Horde. Catch ya all tomorrow.

Posted by: JQ at May 12, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm)

300 Well, I see they still have that ugly 12 foot statue in Times Square. Hell, pigeons are afraid of it. They should have put it on the side of the Empire State Building.

Posted by: Case at May 12, 2025 03:20 AM (kDs7V)

301 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56MfuZAfwI

Posted by: Ashley Squishy at May 12, 2025 03:44 AM (kvDvI)

302 Last early morning for awhile

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 03:49 AM (ypFCm)

303 The older I grow, the more I realize just how smart my parents were. This is a realization everyone comes to, whether they admit it or not.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 12, 2025 03:56 AM (hKoQL)

304 Keep saying I am.lucky both parents are still around

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 04:11 AM (ypFCm)

305 As far as the pic of Melania goes, you had me at “pencil skirt”.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 12, 2025 04:13 AM (vm8sq)

306 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2025 04:39 AM (ypFCm)

307 270 I had a great day with most of my kids, one son kept telling me that the real surprise of the day was going to be a tour of the nearby senior living center. Love that kid!!!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 12, 2025 01:11 AM (0nHVk)

omigoodness!

Posted by: m at May 12, 2025 06:37 AM (CQE5S)

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