Mid-Morning Art Thread

Vercingétorix devant César
Lionel Noel Royer

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Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2025 09:30 AM (qFAfu)

3 That's some quality horse control, right there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

4 horsey

Posted by: Hilldog Rotten Beast at May 19, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

5 Quite the nose hair that dude is sporting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

6 It didn't end well for either of them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (74LlX)

7 Rope a dope.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (qFAfu)

8 Would Hang! Thx CBD.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (aBgBM)

9 Don't know much about history. Barbarian king and Roman emperor?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (Meyva)

10
Hmmmm. I'll allow it

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (5hfjS)

11 This one's a classic. Vercingétorix was quite the noble and competent foe...I'm sure Caesar treated him well (he didn’t lol).

Posted by: Military Moron at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (JCZqz)

12 And the horse you rode in on. I know just how he feels.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 19, 2025 09:33 AM (n2swS)

13 Royer knew how to paint a horse. Very well done.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 09:33 AM (NVNRw)

14 Musée Crozatier Pays d'art et d'histoire Le Puy-en-Velay

Posted by: Hilldog Rotten Beast at May 19, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

15 This is in the olden tymes, before drone warfare, when militants could gather outside in tight groups.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 19, 2025 09:33 AM (36PRH)

16 Symbolism in play?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2025 09:34 AM (Q4IgG)

17 Don't know much about history.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM (Meyva)
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Don't know what a slide rule is for.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2025 09:34 AM (qFAfu)

18 I bring you this magnificent mustache.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 19, 2025 09:34 AM (Aqu9a)

19 Vercingetorix Throws down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar
Lionel Noel Royer
Original Title: Vercingetorix jette ses armes aux pieds de Jules César
Date: 1899
Style: Academicism
Genre: history painting
Media: oil, canvas
Dimensions: 321 x 482 cm

Posted by: Hilldog Rotten Beast at May 19, 2025 09:34 AM (gbOdA)

20 Would Hang!
Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 09:32 AM

Concur.

Posted by: zombie Gaius Julius Caesar at May 19, 2025 09:34 AM (0sNs1)

21 Vercingétorix had some big ballz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:35 AM (n17eQ)

22 Pronunciation guide - Vair sahn gay toe reeks

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2025 09:35 AM (Dv3i1)

23 Horsefeathers!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 19, 2025 09:35 AM (0nHVk)

24 Nice Horse.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

25 Lots going on here.
Mostly, manly men doing manly things.
I can smell the testosterone and foul body odor from here though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

26 And he was ritually strangled to death at Caesar's Triumph, quite a while later.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (bss/y)

27 18 I bring you this magnificent mustache.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 19, 2025 09:34 AM (Aqu9a)

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Good one! lol

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (36PRH)

28 He could use a little mustache wax

Posted by: Rollie Fingers at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (Dv3i1)

29 what am I looking at?

Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

30 I can smell the testosterone and foul body odor from here though.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM

Isn't 2100 years of progress wonderful?

Posted by: Axe Body Wash at May 19, 2025 09:37 AM (0sNs1)

31 what am I looking at?

Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)
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It's called a screen.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2025 09:37 AM (qFAfu)

32 what am I looking at?
Posted by: Don Black

An entire thread of Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:37 AM (5QooU)

33 Look! He must be the king!

How can you tell?

No shit on his boots!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:38 AM (5QooU)

34 Suspiciously French.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2025 09:38 AM (RIvkX)

35 I'm wondering what Biden Before Trump would look like, but all I get is a confused old man looking in the wrong direction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 09:38 AM (uWKK8)

36 Beautifully painted.

Posted by: Tuna at May 19, 2025 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

37 I detect a nodule on that horses prostate.

Posted by: Doktor Dr. Jill, Harpy/Delaware at May 19, 2025 09:39 AM (G5+As)

38 The Battle of Alesia can still be detected, today, by imaging the Roman trench fortifications. This battle occurred in 52 BC.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:39 AM (n17eQ)

39 I hope that before long an artist will plagiarize this painting. Depicting the real-life event of Trump and his Cabinet receiving the surrender of Nancy Pelosi. With Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as the defeated enemies kneeling in chains.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 09:39 AM (aBgBM)

40 Vercingétorix would sound cool in a limerick.

Posted by: Hint, hint at May 19, 2025 09:39 AM (CbZu+)

41 Cool! Thanks, CBD!

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

42 Caesar's robe is... interesting. He would more likely have been in armor like everyone else.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 09:40 AM (iX1qt)

43 At the last, the Rodney King gambit:

"Can't we all get along?"

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 19, 2025 09:40 AM (Aqu9a)

44 32 what am I looking at?
Posted by: Don Black

An entire thread of Monty Python & the Holy Grail.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:37 AM (5QooU)

Caesar: Now you must bring me... a Shrubbery!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 19, 2025 09:40 AM (uWKK8)

45 39 I hope that before long an artist will plagiarize this painting. Depicting the real-life event of Trump and his Cabinet receiving the surrender of Nancy Pelosi. With Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as the defeated enemies kneeling in chains.
Posted by: Gref

Off with their heads!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 09:40 AM (mT+6a)

46 Okay I now know the backstory

this is good art
would hang

Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2025 09:40 AM (AOsQT)

47 When your 'stache curls under your chin, it's time to brush hog that sucker.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:41 AM (5QooU)

48 Mustaches without beards was a barbarian style. Romans were full beard or clean shaven, nothing in between.

Posted by: Martbell at May 19, 2025 09:41 AM (k6jlz)

49 With Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as the defeated enemies kneeling in chains.
Posted by: Gref
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No way you're gonna get Schumer or Nancy on a horse.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:41 AM (n17eQ)

50 "Vair sahn gay toe reeks"

You're telling me. They stink on ice!

Posted by: Mel Brooks at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (CbZu+)

51 29 what am I looking at?
Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

This is after Caesar won at the Battle of Alesia. Vercingetorix had been raising a rebellion against the Romans. He had numbers and was firing granaries all along the country side. Caesar was not running supply lines, so he had to live off the land. He cornered Vercingetorix inside a walled town called Alesia. He encircled the town with a wall. Then another force of Gauls moved against Caesar's rear, so Caesar had a second wall built outside his lines and his men were between the two walls. Alesia could not get food, Caesar could not get food. And he was vastly outnumbered. Vercingetorix tried a break out and Caesar crushed it.

Vercingetorix surrendered to save his men, who were starving- and the rebellion and Gaul were now in Rome's pocket.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (bss/y)

52 Kilroynius hic erat

Posted by: Gaius Kilroynius at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

53 I believe beards were out of style among Romans of Caesar's day. Hadrian was the first emperor with a beard. Two, actually, if you count his wife.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (iX1qt)

54 You Roman bastards may have won the Battle of Alesia, but I'll be damned if I let you win the war!!!!

Posted by: Asterix at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (JCZqz)

55 The Battle of Alesia can still be detected, today, by imaging the Roman trench fortifications. This battle occurred in 52 BC.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I read one of those Osprey books about that battle. It was something like a double siege, IIRC. The Gauls were besieging the Romans, but then another Roman force came and besieged the Gauls. Crazy stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

56
A Perfect Fit - a limerick

Let me tell you a quaint little ballad
Although some of the facts are not valid
Chef Paul had a convulsion
Yet he made, (with some revulsion)
A perfectly delicious seizure salad!

Posted by: muldoon at May 19, 2025 09:43 AM (/iMjX)

57 Vercingétorix devant César
Lionel Noel Royer

... a pre-enactment of "Avengers: Endgame"

Posted by: SMOD at May 19, 2025 09:43 AM (RHGPo)

58 49 With Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as the defeated enemies kneeling in chains.
Posted by: Gref
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No way you're gonna get Schumer or Nancy on a horse.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:41 AM (n17eQ)

OK, on a donkey. I should have thought of that!

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 09:43 AM (aBgBM)

59 34 Suspiciously French.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2025 09:38 AM (RIvkX)

Well, Gauls. France before the Franks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:43 AM (bss/y)

60
Vercingétorix surrendering after the siege of Alesia, where Cesar built two lines of defense, one facing the city and one facing out against a relief force.

55 years ago reading the Commentaries on Gaul in Latin class this was my favorite part.

Posted by: Auspex at May 19, 2025 09:43 AM (j4U/Z)

61 I believe beards were out of style among Romans of Caesar's day. Hadrian was the first emperor with a beard. Two, actually, if you count his wife.
Posted by: Rob Crawford

So Hadrian was ghey?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:44 AM (5QooU)

62 I believe beards were out of style among Romans of Caesar's day. Hadrian was the first emperor with a beard. Two, actually, if you count his wife.
Posted by: Rob Crawford

Apparently, Hadrian had some kind of skin condition, and grew the beard to hide it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

63 Vercingetorix surrendered to save his men, who were starving- and the rebellion and Gaul were now in Rome's pocket.
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So, the parallel is the Battle of Petersburg, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:44 AM (n17eQ)

64 I read one of those Osprey books about that battle. It was something like a double siege, IIRC. The Gauls were besieging the Romans, but then another Roman force came and besieged the Gauls. Crazy stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

The other way around. Gauls in the town, Caesar besieges the town, Other gauls besiege the romans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:44 AM (bss/y)

65 No way you're gonna get Schumer or Nancy on a horse.
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:41 AM

Pfft. If I can grill, I can handle a horse.

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at May 19, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

66 Caesar sure had some Gaul.

Posted by: red speck at May 19, 2025 09:45 AM (0Id0S)

67 So Hadrian was ghey?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:44 AM (5QooU)

Yes, actually.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:45 AM (bss/y)

68
You Romans are quick typers.

Posted by: Auspex at May 19, 2025 09:45 AM (j4U/Z)

69 66 Caesar sure had some Gaul.
Posted by: red speck at May 19, 2025 09:45 AM (0Id0S)

Balls the size of church bells.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:46 AM (bss/y)

70 After sayin' "sup" to Ceaser, Vercingétorix rode North and settled in Switzerland where he changed his name and developed folding knives for his new Swiss Army.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 19, 2025 09:46 AM (MsrgL)

71 So Hadrian was ghey?
Posted by: rickb223

One of the things that provoked Bar Kokhba's revolt was that, when Hadrian visited Jerusalem, he brought his favorite catamite with him and made a big deal about it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

72 Kilroynius hic erat

In Pompei's "Villa of the Mysteries" there is a remarkable likeness of Mr. Magoo scratched into the plaster, with a laurel wreath around his head. It's labeled "Rufus est" -- "this is Rufus".

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 09:46 AM (iX1qt)

73 You Romans are quick typers.
Posted by: Auspex

Roman hands and Russian fingers.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:47 AM (5QooU)

74 The French used to have comic books about Vercingetorix. I don't know if they do that anymore.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:47 AM (n17eQ)

75 Caesar survived him for only a couple of years.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 09:47 AM (mWSu4)

76 Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres

Posted by: zombie Gaius Julius Caesar at May 19, 2025 09:47 AM (0sNs1)

77 The other way around. Gauls in the town, Caesar besieges the town, Other gauls besiege the romans.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

OK, thanks for the correction. Still a double siege, though.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

78 70 After sayin' "sup" to Ceaser, Vercingétorix rode North and settled in Switzerland where he changed his name and developed folding knives for his new Swiss Army.
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Those were Templars not Gaul's.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:48 AM (n17eQ)

79 The definitive history of Gaul can be found in the Asterix comic books.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 09:49 AM (mWSu4)

80 The other way around. Gauls in the town, Caesar besieges the town, Other gauls besiege the romans.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Whole lotta besiegin' goin' on up in here. I'm gone!

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High. at May 19, 2025 09:49 AM (G5+As)

81 75 Caesar survived him for only a couple of years.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 09:47 AM (mWSu4)

He (Caesar) packed quite a bit in that time though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:49 AM (bss/y)

82 Vercingetorix had been raising a rebellion against the Romans. He had numbers and was firing granaries all along the country side. Caesar was not running supply lines, so he had to live off the land. He cornered Vercingetorix inside a walled town called Alesia.

The Romans had been very successful at playing the competing Gaul tribes against one another. Vercingetorix uniting them was a major accomplishment, and his scorched earth strategy was working. Julius Caesar was on the ropes, desperate for food and to bring the Gauls to battle. The other Gaul chieftains were tired of burning their own land, though, and Alesia was a capital or major city, and they rebelled and forced Vercingetorix to stand and fight (and lose).

Alesia could not get food, Caesar could not get food. And he was vastly outnumbered. Vercingetorix tried a break out and Caesar crushed it.

Knowing it was the final battle, the Gauls early on kicked the women and children out of the city into the no man's land to conserve food. The Romans didnt let them into their camp and didn't feed them either, so they starved to death, demoralizing both sides.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 19, 2025 09:50 AM (JCZqz)

83 Suspiciously French.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2025 09:38 AM (RIvkX)

Well, Gauls. France before the Franks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:43 AM (bss/y)
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Suspicions CONFIRMED.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2025 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

84 Pfft. If I can grill, I can handle a horse.
Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at May 19, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)

The saddle goes on the horse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 19, 2025 09:50 AM (VoAdT)

85 55 The Battle of Alesia can still be detected, today, by imaging the Roman trench fortifications. This battle occurred in 52 BC.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I read one of those Osprey books about that battle. It was something like a double siege, IIRC. The Gauls were besieging the Romans, but then another Roman force came and besieged the Gauls. Crazy stuff.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

Yep. Caesar had his troops build a circumvallation, which is an inwards-facing line of fortification of walls, towers, and ditches, to watch the city and prevent anyone from leaving. Then a contravallation, which is an outwards-facing line of fortification. To defeat external attacks to reinforce and get supplies into the fortress, or to create an exit lane for the besieged troops and civilians.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 09:51 AM (aBgBM)

86 One of the things that provoked Bar Kokhba's revolt was that, when Hadrian visited Jerusalem, he brought his favorite catamite with him and made a big deal about it.
Posted by: Bulg

It's amazing that the human race didn't die out. What with all the pole smokers and ass fuckers throughout history.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 09:51 AM (5QooU)

87 Thx CBD, like this one , would hang. Very vivid colors.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 09:51 AM (ef25Y)

88 So Hadrian was ghey?

He kidnapped a 12-year-old boy from the kid's family and, um, "kept him close by" for the next five years. The kid fell off/threw himself off a boat in the Nile and drowned. Hadrian built a temple on the bank of the Nile to mourn his dead sex toy, and one at his "country villa" near Tivoli.

Hadrian's successor, Antoninus, had coins with designs celebrating the family and even one with a scene from a myth about parents protecting their son from being kidnapped by a god made in the boy's home region.

Oh, and the alphabet people claim Hadrian as a "gay icon". Apparently they don't see a problem with abusing a 12-year-old.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 09:52 AM (iX1qt)

89 I would hang this

Posted by: Skip at May 19, 2025 09:52 AM (ypFCm)

90 One of the things that provoked Bar Kokhba's revolt was that, when Hadrian visited Jerusalem, he brought his favorite catamite with him and made a big deal about it.
Posted by: Bulg

He was so progressive...well ahead of his time. Except gay and trans people have always been around and accepted. Except by backwards, traditional, Western religious cultures!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at May 19, 2025 09:52 AM (JCZqz)

91 Hell, Caeser salad again?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 19, 2025 09:52 AM (VJc7E)

92 We be siegin', yo

Posted by: Don Black at May 19, 2025 09:53 AM (AOsQT)

93 Vercingétorix would sound cool in a limerick.
Posted by: Hint, hint

**********

The Quartermaster Corps - a limerick

The sad tale of Vercingétorix
Veni, Vidi, but sadly no victorix
His army went down to defeat
'Cause they didn't take care of the feet
They should have used Twenty Mule Team Borax

Posted by: muldoon at May 19, 2025 09:54 AM (/iMjX)

94 Suspicions CONFIRMED.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2025 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

Is France France without the Franks? I think Clovis and Charles Martel might argue with you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:54 AM (bss/y)

95 74 The French used to have comic books about Vercingetorix. I don't know if they do that anymore.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 09:47 AM (n17eQ)

The French put a huge statue of Verc. on a horse near the Alesia site. Can't recall when it was erected.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 09:54 AM (aBgBM)

96 Surrendering in style.

Posted by: davidt at May 19, 2025 09:55 AM (i0F8b)

97 One of the things that provoked Bar Kokhba's revolt was that, when Hadrian visited Jerusalem, he brought his favorite catamite with him and made a big deal about it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
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I don't understand my people. What's not to like about killing ticks and fleas?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2025 09:55 AM (qFAfu)

98 The only interesting thing I learned from Hadrian's abuse of a teen was that people could still read and write hieroglyphs during his reign. His temples to his boy toy including hieroglyphic inscriptions extolling the poor kid's "beauty".

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 09:55 AM (iX1qt)

99 And he was ritually strangled to death at Caesar's Triumph, quite a while later.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

So, Caesar LXXXVI'd him?

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

100 This is an effective painting with its historic resonance, realistic detail and use of color. The two main figures of Vercingétorix and Caesar stand out as the only bright areas in the center of the image: White for Vercingétorix and red for Caesar. All else is shadowed in distance or obscured by the smoke of conquest. I especially like the way he captures the sheen of the metal weapons and appointments on the horse. Even the horse appears to be bowing down before Caesar.

I'm not sure what the Royer's intentions were: just showing an historic scene or to rouse French sentiment against Roman conquests of the Gauls. Considering Vercingétorix was jailed for years after this scene then executed by strangling, I always thought he should have gone down fighting, taking as many Legion forces to hell as he could. Guess I inherited certain beserker tendencies.

Posted by: JTB at May 19, 2025 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

101 Everyone in that pic has basically the same face.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 19, 2025 09:57 AM (g8Ew8)

102 I'm probably the only one who doesn't get the quote in the sidebar. What's so funny about telling a Congressman to get a prostate check?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 09:57 AM (s8j++)

103 So, Caesar LXXXVI'd him?

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)
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@FBI @SecretService

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2025 09:58 AM (qFAfu)

104 The French put a huge statue of Verc. on a horse near the Alesia site. Can't recall when it was erected.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 09:54 AM (aBgBM)

No horse. But it is pretty big.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 09:58 AM (mWSu4)

105 Let me tell you a quaint little ballad
Although some of the facts are not valid
Chef Paul had a convulsion
Yet he made, (with some revulsion)
A perfectly delicious seizure salad!
Posted by: muldoon at May 19, 2025 09:43 AM

You could have snuck a salad dressing "emulsion" in there, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2025 09:58 AM (bFu5X)

106 One of the things that provoked Bar Kokhba's revolt was that, when Hadrian visited Jerusalem, he brought his favorite catamite with him and made a big deal about it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)
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I don't understand my people. What's not to like about killing ticks and fleas?!
Posted by: Biden's Dog

If this is a pun, I don't get it.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

107 It appears that porn staches were big amongst the Gauls.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 09:59 AM (s8j++)

108 Caesar has a red foot.. just sayin..

Posted by: Bourbon and Cigar at May 19, 2025 09:59 AM (z9ms9)

109 This painting is replete with deep meaning.

Caesar, of course, symbolized CBD. Vercingétorix represents the French people, pleading for CBD to embrace Frenchification.

The various weapons on the ground in front of CBD stand-in for metric-calibre weapons, while CBD sits four-square in rousing support of the designs of John Moses Browning.

(Years of appreciating Kris' analysis have paid off.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2025 09:59 AM (0sNs1)

110 I can never decide who Caesar looks like- or who looks like Caesar.

https://tinyurl.com/vaacbfkb

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:00 AM (bss/y)

111 94 Suspicions CONFIRMED.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2025 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

Is France France without the Franks? I think Clovis and Charles Martel might argue with you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:54 AM (bss/y)

The Franks 'migrated' to France from Germany. Pushing out the Celts IIRC. Other tribes 'migrated' into Germany. Don't tell a Frenchman he's really German, though. You'll be impaled with a loaf of bread.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2025 10:00 AM (aBgBM)

112 I'm probably the only one who doesn't get the quote in the sidebar. What's so funny about telling a Congressman to get a prostate check?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 09:57
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That Congresscritter he was replying to is a Congresswoman with a d*ck.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 19, 2025 10:00 AM (ViCCR)

113 No horse. But it is pretty big.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 09:58 AM (mWSu4)

That's what she said.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:01 AM (bss/y)

114 This painting is replete with deep meaning.

Caesar, of course, symbolized CBD.

No, then he'd be wearing a beret and smoking a Gauloise. Say what you want about Caesar, nobody ever accused him of being filled with ennui.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:01 AM (s8j++)

115 I can never decide who Caesar looks like- or who looks like Caesar.

https://tinyurl.com/vaacbfkb
Posted by: Aetius451AD

My first thought was George Tobias, who played Abner Kravitz.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

116 John Lithgow?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:02 AM (bss/y)

117 Happy Victoria Day, eh.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:02 AM (7YTFo)

118 Say what you want about Caesar, nobody ever accused him of being filled with ennui.

They did accuse him of being filled with the King of Bithynia.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (iX1qt)

119 Everyone in that pic has basically the same face.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops

Family tree was a stick.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (5QooU)

120 Tanks olddog, I don't tweet and I assumed that's what it was about.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (2NHgQ)

121 I'm probably the only one who doesn't get the quote in the sidebar. What's so funny about telling a Congressman to get a prostate check?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 09:57
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That Congresscritter he was replying to is a Congresswoman with a d*ck.
Posted by: olddog

That's my line!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (5QooU)

122 The Franks 'migrated' to France from Germany. Pushing out the Celts IIRC. Other tribes 'migrated' into Germany. Don't tell a Frenchman he's really German, though. You'll be impaled with a loaf of bread.
Posted by: Gref

Germanic tribes expanding, colonizing and settling remote lands? Nonsense!

Posted by: Angles and Saxons at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (JCZqz)

123 a Brittany Spaniel would work well in the foreground of this painting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (KUaiK)

124 They did accuse him of being filled with the King of Bithynia.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (iX1qt)

'Caesar conquered Gaul, but Nicodemus conquered Caesar.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM (bss/y)

125 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Nice art. I think I'll watch some reruns of Mr Ed.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM (W/lyH)

126 I like the horse. And the cool weapons. But Caesar looks gay.
Couldn't they man him up a bit? At least give him a mug of beer.

Posted by: Case at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM (Qdqx6)

127 What's so funny about telling a Congressman to get a prostate check?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 09:57 AM (s8j++)

I put up a better link. Check again.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM (mWSu4)

128 Thanks. We need an edit button. Or I need to check before hitting post, dammit.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM (2NHgQ)

129 Germanic tribes expanding, colonizing and settling remote lands? Nonsense!
Posted by: Angles and Saxon

Just looking for some lebensraum, some 'living space' in your lingo.

Posted by: Germanic Tribes at May 19, 2025 10:05 AM (Dv3i1)

130 I put up a better link. Check again.

Thanks.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:06 AM (s8j++)

131 What's so funny about telling a Congressman to get a prostate check?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 09:57 AM (s8j++)

I put up a better link. Check again.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM (mWSu4)
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Ah, now I get it. A Congresscritter with nuts and who is nuts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2025 10:07 AM (KUaiK)

132 It's a little known fact that the Saxons drove their enemies before them by deploying brigades of saxophone players.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:07 AM (s8j++)

133 Oh, and the alphabet people claim Hadrian as a "gay icon". Apparently they don't see a problem with abusing a 12-year-old.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 09:52 AM (iX1qt)

A lot of them don't. People forget that in the early days teh gheyz and the NAMBLA pedos were literally walking hand in hand down the street, until people decided that was still too icky for normies to tolerate, so it went quiet but it never went away.

Posted by: Now they teach school, write curricula, lead scout troops, and preach at May 19, 2025 10:07 AM (TbWk/)

134 CBD sits four-square in rousing support of the designs of John Moses Browning.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2025 09:59 AM (0sNs1)

But the sadness that John Browning never designed a 1911 in .50ACP is evident.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 10:07 AM (mWSu4)

135 My first thought was George Tobias, who played Abner Kravitz.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

Not bad. Close.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:07 AM (bss/y)

136 If the horseman had approached a throng of maidens there would have been many jokes about offering mustache rides, but alas.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 19, 2025 10:08 AM (36PRH)

137 Breaking: Ass cancer has been diagnosed with Joe Biden.

Godspeed, ass cancer.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 19, 2025 10:08 AM (i24o9)

138 It's a little known fact that the Saxons drove their enemies before them by deploying brigades of saxophone players.

Leading to an arms race with the Scots that ended when they created the bagpipe.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 10:09 AM (iX1qt)

139 But the sadness that John Browning never designed a 1911 in .50ACP is evident.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 10:07 AM (mWSu4)

Doesn't a company make a .50 1911? It's like Government Int'l or something like that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:09 AM (bss/y)

140 From the 'No one cares' department:

The non rivalry rivalry between Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese continued over the weekend. Clark fouled Reese on a shot attempt which was upgraded to a Flagrant One, for some reason, after Reese bowed up to Clark, pulled the "hold me back" move as she 'attempted' to rare back and throw a punch. Matching technicals were given out after the 'scrum.'

Game ended with Clark getting a triple double with 20 pts. 10 rebounds and 10 assists, with Reese getting 12 pts. 17 rebounds (off mostly her own missed layups) and 1 assist.

Oh, and yet MORE claims of 'racism' toward Reese with 'comments from the Indiana fans' after the game.

And the WNBA still can't fathom why no one watches their shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

141 BTW, Sid Caesar's real first name was Isaac. Sidney was his middle name.

Posted by: All I know 'bout Caesars at May 19, 2025 10:09 AM (G5+As)

142 134 CBD sits four-square in rousing support of the designs of John Moses Browning.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 19, 2025 09:59 AM (0sNs1)

But the sadness that John Browning never designed a 1911 in .50ACP is evident.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 10:07 AM (mWSu4)
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I thought he also designed the .45 ACP cartridge for that pistol?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 19, 2025 10:09 AM (36PRH)

143 People forget that in the early days teh gheyz and the NAMBLA pedos were literally walking hand in hand down the street, until people decided that was still too icky for normies to tolerate, so it went quiet but it never went away.

In recent years "Gays Against Groomers" have gotten hostile receptions at "pride" parades.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 10:10 AM (iX1qt)

144 WNBA is fetch.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:11 AM (7YTFo)

145 I put up a better link. Check again.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM

That guy definitely wins the internet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2025 10:11 AM (bFu5X)

146 "Völkerwanderung" is one of my all-time favorite words.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

147
I put up a better link. Check again.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at May 19, 2025 10:04 AM (mWSu4)

Ah yes. That makes it MUCH more clear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

148 WNBA is fetch.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:11 AM

Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2025 10:12 AM (bFu5X)

149 126 I like the horse. And the cool weapons. But Caesar looks gay.
Couldn't they man him up a bit? At least give him a mug of beer.
Posted by: Case

Caesar wrote quite a lot about his campaign in Gaul (embellished to win fame back in Rome), but at least claimed to have personally fought in Alesia. The inner and outer Gaul armies attacked together at the same point, and Caesar threw on his red cloak and personally led a counter attack to shore up the area.

As for German immigrants, a large tribe of ethnic Germans (Helvetii, from Switzerland) tried to move into Gaul during the fighting and almost defeated Caesar. He also had a significant number of German tribesman and auxiliary troops.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 19, 2025 10:13 AM (JCZqz)

150 The non rivalry rivalry between Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese continued over the weekend. Clark fouled Reese on a shot attempt which was upgraded to a Flagrant One, for some reason, after Reese bowed up to Clark, pulled the "hold me back" move as she 'attempted' to rare back and throw a punch. Matching technicals were given out after the 'scrum.'

Angel Reese better be glad I'm not CC. Because I don't have an issue with playing full contact basketball. Anytime AR would run by me, I'd clothesline her like an NFL linebacker.

Especially after all the shit the female LeBron James (AR) pulled last year.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 10:13 AM (5QooU)

151 They did accuse him of being filled with the King of Bithynia.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 10:03 AM (iX1qt)

'Caesar conquered Gaul, but Nicodemus conquered Caesar.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Don't forget, his prenomen was "Gaius."

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

152
Don't know what a slide rule is for.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Got a chuckle out of that.
Oh, the irony of this place being a fount of dry wit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2025 10:13 AM (XeU6L)

153 WNBA is fetch.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:11 AM

Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2025 10:12 AM (bFu5X)

Step'n'fetchit?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

154 very galling

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 19, 2025 10:14 AM (Vh9CX)

155 Manufactured drama.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:14 AM (bss/y)

156 Don't forget, his prenomen was "Gaius."
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

But he wasn't fake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:15 AM (bss/y)

157
Especially after all the shit the female LeBron James (AR) pulled last year.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2025 10:13 AM (5QooU)

Articles are starting to be written about how she's just not a good basketball player AT ALL. 2nd season in the pros and she STILL can't make a layup.

She won't be in the league much longer. And it will be racist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

158 A dude in a dress is not a woman.

Even if he grows out his hair, and wears makeup
and gets fake boobs. Even if he cuts off his twig and berries. Even if he has higher estrogen levels than I do.

He will never be a mother or a daughter or a grandmother.

He will always be male. And not even a “man” at that point.

Please stop playing their game and capitulating
To their demands.

They are not women.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 10:17 AM (eOSa5)

159 The non rivalry rivalry between Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese continued over the weekend.

We remember when Antonio Brown tweeted that he thought Caitlyn likes to "keep it hairy".

Be better AB!

Posted by: NFL Fans at May 19, 2025 10:17 AM (xofCm)

160 He will always be male. And not even a “man” at that point.

Please stop playing their game and capitulating
To their demands.

They are not women.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 10:17 AM (eOSa5)

All they can create is a poorly constructed eunuch.

Blasphemy is NOT the way.........

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

161 Vercingétorix devant César

Where are Obelix and Dogmatix?

Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2025 10:18 AM (b+qgU)

162 We remember when Antonio Brown tweeted that he thought Caitlyn likes to "keep it hairy".

Be better AB!
Posted by: NFL Fans at May 19, 2025 10:17 AM (xofCm)

If her boyfriend doesn't care, why should you, Antonio?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

163 Just a reminder: June Lockhart turns 100 on June 25. Any Moron wanting to date her should probably not delay.

Posted by: Get Your Motor Runnin' at May 19, 2025 10:19 AM (G5+As)

164 The maple leafs will win Lord Stanley’s cup before the wnba becomes popular. That is to say never.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:20 AM (7YTFo)

165 Clark should have let Reese shoot without fouling her. Odds are Reese would have missed the shot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 19, 2025 10:20 AM (ef25Y)

166 But the sadness that John Browning never designed a 1911 in .50ACP is evident.
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You'll put your eye out, kid.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 10:20 AM (n17eQ)

167 WNBA is fetch.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:11 AM
Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 19, 2025 10:12 AM (bFu5X)

Stop trying to make the WNBA happen.

Posted by: Crappy Baseketball at May 19, 2025 10:21 AM (xofCm)

168 Of all the unmitigated Gaul across the Alps.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 19, 2025 10:21 AM (fq65S)

169 Well, just finished a week in New York to see granddaughter #1 graduate. A few thoughts:
Wouldn't want to live there.
Uber drivers are crazy cool.
Car horns are speech.
Tourists are stupid.
Food was great!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2025 10:21 AM (W/lyH)

170 We should go back to using eunuch to describe men who castrate themselves.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2025 10:21 AM (g47mK)

171 163 Just a reminder: June Lockhart turns 100 on June 25. Any Moron wanting to date her should probably not delay.
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How old is Lassie? Is Timmy in trouble?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 19, 2025 10:22 AM (n17eQ)

172 Fitting that comments about this painting involve trans issues, with it featuring thr governor of Transalpine Gaul.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 19, 2025 10:22 AM (iX1qt)

173 If the morons haven't looked at the top comment linked in the sidebar, you won't be disappointed.

it's a beauty!

Posted by: kallisto at May 19, 2025 10:23 AM (dCxaZ)

174 Saint Hadrian the Divine wasn't ghey. The children of Satan say that about everyone who defeats them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 19, 2025 10:23 AM (fq65S)

175
Per Joe Biden's announcement, I was reminded of the old Smothers Brothers schtick where Tommy would make up some story to elicit sympathy from the audience and Dick would call bullshit on him.

Similar in a way to Trump's Don Rickles imitation.

Posted by: Auspex at May 19, 2025 10:24 AM (j4U/Z)

176 The WNBA sucks. They're boring as fuck and play at a girls' middle school level. They get a player or two that can actually, you know, play, and lose their shit because their mediocrity has been starkly exposed. Your average crew of male teen street ballers could beat the piss out of any WNBA team. And they still whine. That ANYBODY EVER watches your lame, boring sport is nigh unto miraculous.

Posted by: If you can't play, you don't get pay at May 19, 2025 10:24 AM (TbWk/)

177 If the morons haven't looked at the top comment linked in the sidebar, you won't be disappointed.

it's a beauty!
Posted by: kallisto at May 19, 2025 10:23 AM (dCxaZ)

Now that CBD has made a better link, agreed. Before, it didn't really make much sense.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

178 Uber drivers are crazy cool.

most of them

one of them reported a ride I never took, and their employer didn't even want to hear my side of the story.

so I'm going to dispute the charge with my bank
I've already filed a complaint with the FTC, and that is just the beginning of my paper trail of RAGE

deleting Uber, there are alternatives
and waiting for the class action lawsuit against that scam outfit
because there will be one

Posted by: kallisto at May 19, 2025 10:25 AM (dCxaZ)

179 I lived in NYC for a few years. None of my peeps from back in the day still live there. The place is a very transient city. Career wise there’s no better place for certain industries. Which is why it attracts people. And it’s fun for a year or two. It is like no other place on earth. In both good and bad ways.

Then everyone needs to make the stay or go decision. The vast majority say fuck it, not for me.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:25 AM (7YTFo)

180 one of them reported a ride I never took, and their employer didn't even want to hear my side of the story.

-

There’s no employer. Uber drivers are independent contractors. There is no employer/employee relationship between uber and a driver.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 19, 2025 10:27 AM (7YTFo)

181 Doesn't a company make a .50 1911? It's like Government Int'l or something like that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

A .50 BMG 1911 is silly. However: https://tinyurl.com/4fwf8wns

The Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1 Double Barrel 1911 is a work of art...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 19, 2025 10:27 AM (JCZqz)

182 I lived in NYC for a few years. None of my peeps from back in the day still live there. The place is a very transient city. Career wise there’s no better place for certain industries. Which is why it attracts people. And it’s fun for a year or two. It is like no other place on earth. In both good and bad ways.

This is precisely my youngest daughter's experience. She's been there a bit over two years, has taken advantage of much of it, and is now done with it and ready to move back to DC.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:28 AM (s8j++)

183 he brought his favorite catamite with him and made a big deal about it.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

CataMITE??? More like cataWILL, amirite?

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 19, 2025 10:28 AM (votlM)

184 This is the one I was talking about:

https://tinyurl.com/mr25td8h

Guncrafter Industries.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:29 AM (bss/y)

185 It wasn't easy but they managed to hit it.

https://shorturl.at/YxcvM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 19, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

186 48 and raining here in the water.

Boat ride is warm and quiet. The city is shrouded in grey clouds and thick mist/drizzle.

Happy Monday! And a long weekend on the horizon!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 10:30 AM (oDNhb)

187 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2025 10:30 AM (gbOdA)

188 This is precisely my youngest daughter's experience. She's been there a bit over two years, has taken advantage of much of it, and is now done with it and ready to move back to DC.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:28 AM (s8j++)

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

189 I lived in NYC for a few years. None of my peeps from back in the day still live there. The place is a very transient city. Career wise there’s no better place for certain industries. Which is why it attracts people. And it’s fun for a year or two. It is like no other place on earth. In both good and bad ways.
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This is precisely my youngest daughter's experience. She's been there a bit over two years, has taken advantage of much of it, and is now done with it and ready to move back to DC.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:28 AM (s8j++)

How bad is NYC that after two years someone would say "I'd rather be in DC"?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2025 10:33 AM (ExV1e)

190 Fun with abbreviations.

https://is.gd/kKVeIo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 19, 2025 10:33 AM (L/fGl)

191 Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Not really. There is no way DC is Manhattan. Also, the rest of the family lives here (NoVa suburbs). She's come to the realization that family makes a huge difference in your life, and she wants to be part of it.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:35 AM (s8j++)

192 Great painting

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2025 10:35 AM (iFTx/)

193 She's come to the realization that family makes a huge difference in your life...

This is true. I spent the weekend surrounded by family and, by the end, I was ready to slit my wrists.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2025 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

194 Joe crashed in Vegas last year.
Was it one of those Lupron crashes where you body shuts down?
My dad had a few where he would just collapse from being tired.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2025 10:36 AM (gbOdA)

195 OT: Top at Insty.

So, are they thinking the angle is to announce Biden has cancer, hoping people will donate to his bogus Cancer 'Charity' and then shore up funds that way?

I can completely see it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

196 Not really. There is no way DC is Manhattan. Also, the rest of the family lives here (NoVa suburbs). She's come to the realization that family makes a huge difference in your life, and she wants to be part of it.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:35 AM (s8j++)

DC is 96% AA with an incredibly high crime rate, so it's not really all that different from NYC, statically, really.

But, to each their own. I wish her Godspeed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:37 AM (Zz0t1)

197 All Gaul was divided into FOUR parts.

(A small village of Armorican Gauls continued to hold out against the invaders, aided by a magic potion brewed by their druid that made them invincible in battle.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 19, 2025 10:38 AM (7fElN)

198 the nose hair

Shaving cream was still a Roman State Secret.

Posted by: DaveA at May 19, 2025 10:38 AM (FhXTo)

199 195 OT: Top at Insty.

So, are they thinking the angle is to announce Biden has cancer, hoping people will donate to his bogus Cancer 'Charity' and then shore up funds that way?

I can completely see it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 10:37 AM (bss/y)

=======

If there's Kremlinology at play, I'd say it was leaked by an anti-Biden faction looking to end the last vestiges of whatever power the Biden faction have.

"He's about to die. You can all ignore him and his harpy wife now."

Pretty much designed to get Jill kicked out of meetings, I'd assume.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 19, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

200 Doesn't a company make a .50 1911? It's like Government Int'l or something like that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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When Rowland .460 just isn't enough.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 19, 2025 10:39 AM (XeU6L)

201 How bad is NYC that after two years someone would say "I'd rather be in DC"?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Despite the fact that it's the epicenter of the swamp, DC is physically much nicer than NYC.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

202 DC is 96% AA with an incredibly high crime rate, so it's not really all that different from NYC, statically, really.

TBC, she wants to live in the NoVa burbs. In any case, DC is 41% black, and it is not uniformly distributed.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:40 AM (s8j++)

203 She's come to the realization that family makes a huge difference in your life...

This is true. I spent the weekend surrounded by family and, by the end, I was ready to slit my wrists.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 19, 2025 10:36 AM (ExV1e)

Word. Any and all family events my first action is a beeline to the liquor cabinet. Only way I can deal with it.

Posted by: Anesthesia is a good thing at May 19, 2025 10:40 AM (TbWk/)

204 202 TBC, she wants to live in the NoVa burbs. In any case, DC is 41% black, and it is not uniformly distributed.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:40 AM (s8j++)

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"No taxation without representation!"
-resident of Arlington

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 19, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

205 Speaking of Ancient Rome . . .

https://is.gd/WFabZy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 19, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

206 TBC, she wants to live in the NoVa burbs. In any case, DC is 41% black, and it is not uniformly distributed.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:40 AM (s8j++)

That's slightly different, working in DC and living outside, which is what my step-sis is doing as well.

Seems it wasn't that long ago DC was predominantly AA, but I guess that's changed a bit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 19, 2025 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

207 D.C. or NYC. Kinda like the devil or it's grandmother.

Posted by: Case at May 19, 2025 10:42 AM (Qdqx6)

208 Scott Adams announced he has terminal prostate cancer

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 19, 2025 10:43 AM (ntk8v)

209 Pretty much designed to get Jill kicked out of meetings, I'd assume.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 19, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

Ass cancer is a shield to garner sympathy for FJB and the DNC by proxy, because everyone is sick of both of them, even their own voters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 19, 2025 10:44 AM (i24o9)

210 Seems it wasn't that long ago DC was predominantly AA, but I guess that's changed a bit.
Posted by: Sponge

*shifty eyes*
-- Planned Parenthood

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

211 and raining here in the water.

Boat ride is warm and quiet. The city is shrouded in grey clouds and thick mist/drizzle.

Happy Monday! And a long weekend on the horizon!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 19, 2025 10:30 AM (oDNhb)
***

If this keeps up, no golf tomorrow.
Diogenes don't do no rain golf!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2025 10:44 AM (W/lyH)

212 209 Pretty much designed to get Jill kicked out of meetings, I'd assume.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 19, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

Ass cancer is a shield to garner sympathy for FJB and the DNC by proxy, because everyone is sick of both of them, even their own voters.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 19, 2025 10:44 AM (i24o9)

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That's the surface level explanation, and it's very likely true. I was just going...conspratorial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 19, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

213 Seems it wasn't that long ago DC was predominantly AA, but I guess that's changed a bit.

It has changed dramatically since I was a kid. You did NOT go into many parts of the city back then.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:45 AM (s8j++)

214 Same Face Syndrome is a real thing. I have it as many artists do and it's quite funny. It's weird because you think it's not happening and then you look at your subject and there it is.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2025 10:46 AM (tiORS)

215 I am with Don Jr.:

Why didn't DOCTOR Jill Biden diagnose this cancer earlier?

Which is hilarious as it forced the Hate Feed to clarify that Jill Biden only has a PhD in Education.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 10:47 AM (V/ccX)

216 Scott Adams announced he has terminal prostate cancer
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 19, 2025 10:43 AM (ntk8v)

Yikes, that’s sad.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 19, 2025 10:47 AM (l3YAf)

217 Dr Jill has no degrees in medicine.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 19, 2025 10:48 AM (fq65S)

218 That's the surface level explanation, and it's very likely true. I was just going...conspratorial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 19, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

Yours is a desired side benefit of TPTB and their money people, I am sure.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 19, 2025 10:49 AM (i24o9)

219 This is your brain on drugs.

https://shorturl.at/Y4YGG

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 19, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

220
Which is hilarious as it forced the Hate Feed to clarify that Jill Biden only has a PhD in Education.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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Not even a Ph.D. An Ed.D. Another "doctorate" that shouldn't even exist.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 10:51 AM (n7rxJ)

221 Scott Adams announced he has terminal prostate cancer
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For real ? Or as a social experiment to compare the phony sympathy for Biden from all over vs the sick comments to be made against himself from the left ?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2025 10:51 AM (Dv3i1)

222 149 (Helvetii, from Switzerland)

noted as the founders of defund the police.

what, you've never heard that helvetia was the sans-sheriff font?

Posted by: anachronda at May 19, 2025 10:53 AM (sGtp+)

223 >>Dr Jill has no degrees in medicine.

Eminence front.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 10:54 AM (viF8m)

224
I hadn't watched Scott Adams in at least six months, maybe nine, and someone told me about his announcement. I turned him on on YouTube and it was a bit shocking. He's aged and shrunk and expects to be gone by summer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 19, 2025 10:55 AM (n7rxJ)

225 Game ended with Clark getting a triple double with 20 pts. 10 rebounds and 10 assists, with Reese getting 12 pts. 17 rebounds (off mostly her own missed layups) and 1 assist
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There is a fellow on the toks that shows her, uh, highlights.
I swear, 80% of us here would be better basketball player.

Also, the WNBA will have to create a new statistical category for her:
Me-bounds.
80% of her "rebounds" are just her catching her horrible, awful, embarrassingly bad "shots."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 10:55 AM (V/ccX)

226 For real ? Or as a social experiment to compare the phony sympathy for Biden from all over vs the sick comments to be made against himself from the left ?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 19, 2025 10:51 AM (Dv3i1)

I wondered that - definitely do not condone. Guy is gonna be like Andy Kauffman, in 30 years everyone's gonna think he's still alive somewhere.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2025 10:55 AM (tiORS)

227 I love the cheese products from Switzerland.

Especially Helveeta.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

228 Bravo Muldoon, bravo!

Posted by: Hint, hint at May 19, 2025 10:56 AM (CbZu+)

229 Jill has a very high degree of grasping bitch.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 19, 2025 10:56 AM (NVNRw)

230 Oh my! Scott Adams is dying.

https://tinyurl.com/yctefu9d

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 19, 2025 10:56 AM (qFAfu)

231 Wow. Royer even included a carnyx as part of weapon collection surrendered to Caesar.

Several of the Celtic battle horns have been made, patterned after historical remnants. There are YT videos of musicians playing them. Quite intimidating during battle, I'd think.

Posted by: mrp at May 19, 2025 10:57 AM (rj6Yv)

232 Not many enjoy the prostate exam (well, I did when I had Doctor Jennifer...slimmest fingers evah!) but it makes early discovery of cancer easy and treatable.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 19, 2025 10:57 AM (W/lyH)

233 Just before they hit the bridge.

https://shorturl.at/XAN6t

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 19, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)

234 Not many enjoy the prostate exam (well, I did when I had Doctor Jennifer...slimmest fingers evah!) but it makes early discovery of cancer easy and treatable.
Posted by: Diogenes

I think the doctors hate doing them even more than we hate having them.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

235 I hadn't watched Scott Adams in at least six months, maybe nine, and someone told me about his announcement. I turned him on on YouTube and it was a bit shocking. He's aged and shrunk and expects to be gone by summer.

this really hits hard

again, my dad died in his early 60s from an aggressive prostate cancer in this same way. no mRNA involved btw. just terrible, awful luck. yes prostate cancer is mostly not terrible. but there's always that percentage.

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 19, 2025 10:59 AM (Pv3Rg)

236 I watch these clips of the WNBA, and they are all terrible basketball players. Even the "stars." There is zero sense of teamwork. It's basically a series of one-one-one match-ups where the rest of the teams are barely in the frame. I've never seen so many missed shots where the rebound is retrieved by ... the girl who missed the shot in the first place.

It's astonishing to me that anyone would watch this at all, let alone pay to see it live. There's more action at the local pick-up game.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2025 10:59 AM (iFTx/)

237 Why did "they" let *biden continue on in such a diminished capacity?

*biden's crew, his family and those in his administration that were actually screwing over the country for fun and profit did not want that gravy train to stop. For one, it would have increased the possibility of exposure as to what they were all engaged in. Thus, the money would cease or at least slow to a trickle.

For two, there was an awful lot of animosity between the Harris camp and the *biden camp. Iron grip on power and all that.

Lastly, there was a stubborn asshole in the White House who'd refuse to step down no matter what. And a wife hell bent on keeping him in power. For her own personal reasons not at all to do with a greater good for the country.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 19, 2025 11:00 AM (Q4IgG)

238 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

239 >>Dr Jill has no degrees in medicine.

Eminence front.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 19, 2025 10:54 AM (viF8m)

Come and join the party, dressed to kill.

Posted by: Stan at May 19, 2025 11:01 AM (i24o9)

240 Just before they hit the bridge.

https://shorturl.at/XAN6t
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 19, 2025 10:59 AM (L/fGl)
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That's real?? How on Earth did they think that mast would clear the bridge?? It's not even close.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 19, 2025 11:01 AM (iFTx/)

241 I lived in NYC for a few years. None of my peeps from back in the day still live there. The place is a very transient city. Career wise there’s no better place for certain industries. Which is why it attracts people. And it’s fun for a year or two. It is like no other place on earth. In both good and bad ways.
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This is precisely my youngest daughter's experience. She's been there a bit over two years, has taken advantage of much of it, and is now done with it and ready to move back to DC.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 19, 2025 10:28 AM (s8j++)

I moved to NYC after college from Louisiana to find a job in advertising. I don't like to play the victim card and really not because I laugh about it, but I almost know for certain I wasn't offered any position because of my accent and Louisiana college I attended. They really do think people from the Deep South walk around barefoot with a hay straw in their mouth gawking at their hot cousin.

Posted by: polynikes at May 19, 2025 11:02 AM (VofaG)

242 Dr Jill has no degrees in medicine.

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And is completely worthless.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now For a Limited Time Only! at May 19, 2025 11:02 AM (L/fGl)

243 That's real?? How on Earth did they think that mast would clear the bridge?? It's not even close.

they weren't supposed to go that way

I think the harbor staff effed up - the tug was not ready/not stable as a backup when the ships engines failed and it started floating out

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 19, 2025 11:02 AM (Pv3Rg)

244 A lot of Reese's "rebounds" never hit the rim or even the backboard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 19, 2025 11:03 AM (V/ccX)

245 "I'll show you how a Gaul dies!"

Vercingetorix

Posted by: m at May 19, 2025 11:03 AM (CQE5S)

246 Well, obviously it’s more impressive on a larger scale. D’oh. I’d rather see the faces of people a little better, though I think I would rather see his paintings that deal with Joan of Arc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2025 11:04 AM (Ai/LL)

247 34 Suspiciously French.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 19, 2025 09:38 AM (RIvkX)

Are you gonna say, "No French"?!!!

Posted by: m at May 19, 2025 11:06 AM (CQE5S)

248 Not even a Ph.D. An Ed.D. Another "doctorate" that shouldn't even exist.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

That was interesting. I just thought doctorates were doctorates. Turns out this 'Ed.D.' is more teacher training and a status credential within the education industry. That's it. No science.

Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2025 11:08 AM (Ex9V+)

249 That's real?? How on Earth did they think that mast would clear the bridge?? It's not even close.

The funny thing is, they had already sailed IN to the harbor. Maybe they just got lucky that time.

Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2025 11:10 AM (Ex9V+)

250 Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 19, 2025 09:42 AM (bss/y)

This is right up your alley!

Posted by: m at May 19, 2025 11:10 AM (CQE5S)

251 238 U nas yest' NOOD.
Posted by: Bulg at May 19, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

Posted by: m at May 19, 2025 11:11 AM (CQE5S)

252 Wanted to ask a question of Black orchid if she's still around:

Were you the poster who was expressing concern about a graduation service and that there be no disruptions/protests. If so, how did things go? If I'm confusing you with someone else, I apologize.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2025 11:17 AM (nFq4j)

253 They really do think people from the Deep South walk around barefoot with a hay straw in their mouth gawking at their hot cousin.
Posted by: polynikes at May 19, 2025 11:02 AM (VofaG)

WUTT? They don't?? You mean all those movies and TV shows aren't real? You're just pulling my lariat. **kicks rock**

Posted by: NYC Upper Crust Guy at May 19, 2025 11:23 AM (5xuJ/)

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