Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - May 14, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT. It is also game night! Step inside and play along.

[Top photo: Ritter Sport Chocolate Factory, Waldenbuch, Germany]

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TRex has an early morning, so looking for the Horde to behave itself. If you can't behave, at least be entertaining. Please observe proper ONT etiquette. Legally Sufficient has the Ruler of Dread and is authorized to wield it was warranted. JQ has the key to the kegerator, wine cellar and liquor cabinet. She also has apple juice if you desire an alcohol-free ONT. Ciampino has the sock drawer but mostly needs to stay away from cats. tcn in AK has a telescope on the roof so make an orderly line if you want to look in to the heavens or just spy on the neighbors. Miklosbot will scan the perimeter for intruders.

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Guess how many Peeps are the jar. No clues other than the two photos:

I asked an AI tool to make an estimate based on the photos. It gave me a guess and a very convincing explanation of the logic. It was also nowhere close to the right answer.

The correct answer will be posted...later. Maybe next Wed.

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New Yorker cartoon captions are generally insipid at best. The illustrations, however, offer a blank canvas for your own caption creations.

Do your worst. Just identify which cartoon you are captioning in your post.

1. Bunny

2. Cupid

3. Sand

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If Youtube was made for cat videos, AI was made for baby videos:

pic.twitter.com/Qi5LDB8FMO
— Keep Rock Alive 🤘 (@_KeepRockAlive_) May 11, 2025

"Lil Series: Monty" pic.twitter.com/rhwbzlafvA
— Green Frog Labs (@GreenFrogLabs) May 9, 2025

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Classics:

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Point Nemo - space and geography trivia for controlled de-orbits:

Welcome to lonely Point Nemo, Earth's dumping ground for derelict space junk.

Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die.
This spread of water, 34 times larger than France, has been used as a dumping ground for space vehicles since 1971. An estimated 263 decommissioned spacecraft, including the Russian space station Mir, have been deliberately brought down and sunk here.

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Three riddles - answers further below:

You're in a mansion with a lightbulb in the attic and three switches in the basement. It's late in the evening, and you're tired, so you can only go from the basement to the attic once. How do you figure out which switch controls the lightbulb?

Two people ordered the same cocktail at a restaurant. They both drank it at different paces, but one person died while the other survived. How?

A man was pushing his car when he stopped in front of a hotel and knew immediately that he was bankrupt. How?

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Props is the best Whose Line is it Anyway? game:

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Plinko is the best Price is Right game (but I still can't get used to Drew Carey's current look):

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Games cats play:

I never knew Cats Hated Aluminum Foil 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/27z25iSsAD
— G-PA (@IndianaGPA) May 12, 2025

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Puzzle answers:

Number 1: You're in a mansion with a lightbulb in the attic and three switches in the basement. It's late in the evening, and you're tired, so you can only go from the basement to the attic once. How do you figure out which switch controls the lightbulb?

Answer: Turn on the first switch and wait for 5 minutes. Then turn it off and turn on the second switch. Go to the attic. If the light is on, the second switch controls it. If the light is off, touch the bulb: if it's warm, the first switch is the correct one; if it's cold, the third switch controls the light.

Number 2: Two people ordered the same cocktail at a restaurant. They both drank it at different paces, but one person died while the other survived. How?

Answer: The cocktail contained poison in the ice. One person drank quickly before the ice melted, while the other waited, allowing the poison to spread.

Number 3: A man was pushing his car when he stopped in front of a hotel and knew immediately that he was bankrupt. How?

Answer: The man was playing Monopoly.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving:

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Oldest living Llama in captivity for a Guinness Book of World records? Guess so.

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Ace of Base for our big ONT finish:

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. Hall of Fame reinstatement pending.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Yay, Root Canal Appreciation Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

2 Unsubstantiated reports from anonymous sources suggest that anomalous perturbations have penetrated the public discourse.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Not the craw, the craw! at May 14, 2025 10:01 PM (0Es1u)

3 What!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:01 PM (8nIhK)

4 What?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 14, 2025 10:01 PM (Lo97M)

5 60 peeps

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:02 PM (VofaG)

6 You people are bent. I love it here.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 14, 2025 10:02 PM (J8OCH)

7 Once again one erroneous keystroke away from First. Congrats again, Blanco

Going back a square to call the crowd. Per my First Loser obligation.

Posted by: mindful webworker - oooops at May 14, 2025 10:02 PM (0Es1u)

8 Top diez.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 14, 2025 10:04 PM (ufFY8)

9 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

10 Once again one erroneous keystroke away from First. Congrats again, Blanco

You could easily beat me every time. Just have something loaded up and ready to paste.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2025 10:05 PM (lUFok)

11 So, I came to the back door to the ONT. No one let me in. Fine.
But I'm still here. Hiya Rex.
I will now head on over to the lounge😜!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:06 PM (8nIhK)

12 >Two people ordered the same cocktail at a restaurant. They both drank it at different paces, but one person died while the other survived. How?

One of them was taking MAO inhibitors and the other was not.

(The riddle didn't specify that the cocktails were poisoned, so IMO my answer is valid.)

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 14, 2025 10:06 PM (Y+AMd)

13 11 But I'm still here. Hiya Rex.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:06 PM
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Good evening COMM! You're always welcome in the ONT.

Posted by: TRex at May 14, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

14 I never get the keys to the blog. Harumph.

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 10:07 PM (p4NUW)

15 Darius Rucker had a really good episode on Daryl’s House except they did it at Darius’s house in South Carolina IIRC.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:07 PM (VofaG)

16 I love Ritter Sport. Their slogan is fun to say - "Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut." Knusperkeks was my favorite back in the day.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 14, 2025 10:08 PM (Y+AMd)

17 Do these jeans make my ass look too fluffy?

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:08 PM (VofaG)

18 For the peeps, would we need to figure out the volume of the vessel and go from there? Because that sounds suspiciously like math.

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 10:08 PM (p4NUW)

19 I figured you just turn on all three switches.

I knew about the ice.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 14, 2025 10:09 PM (ZmEVT)

20 How many Peeps?

More than are necessary on the planet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)

21 What was that caption suggested for all New Yorker cartoons? "I want to kill myself," or something?

Posted by: mindful webworker - funny not funny at May 14, 2025 10:09 PM (0Es1u)

22 Happy Hump Day Everyone!! (Today IS Wednesday - right??)

Looks like some great content.

Maybe check in later.

Thank you TRex as always.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 14, 2025 10:09 PM (QGaXH)

23 Piper

How is Soup?

Did your neighbor on the pool floatie finally give up?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:10 PM (aXbZS)

24 1 (Bunny) - I'm coming out, honey! It'll be fabulous!

2 (cupid) - the anal probe of justice is rarely lubed. (Borrowed from another 'ron.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 14, 2025 10:10 PM (zZu0s)

25 That assumes that the light bulb gets warm after a while, and stays warm during the long trudge up the stairs.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at May 14, 2025 10:11 PM (TizQb)

26 45 peeps.

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

27 Sand

It really sucks being a liberal doesn’t it?

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:11 PM (VofaG)

28 Last thing from me and then I'll go to bed while you guys keep the party going. My kids like to ask me riddles, but sadly for them, I have already heard most of them and can typically guess the others.

My youngest asked me one the other day, "What do you get when you cross a mole and a police dog?" I thought about it for a while and concluded, "A vermin shepherd." Apparently, the right answer was "a creature that wants to bring law and order to the underground." I think mine was better.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 14, 2025 10:11 PM (Y+AMd)

29 111 peeps

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at May 14, 2025 10:12 PM (SS6CE)

30 I am against reparations.

That being said, it would be maybe the funniest thing ever if Trump could get them pushed through using funds from things liberals are devoutly against like tariffs, cutting funding to higher ed, and doge. Heads would explode.

The only thing funnier is watching AOC and Raskin and all the others come out against them because they can't help themselves

Posted by: 496 at May 14, 2025 10:12 PM (1OIAD)

31 1(Bunny) The mirror saud I was the faggiest of them all.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 14, 2025 10:12 PM (ufFY8)

32 Thanks for another dandy ONT, TRex!

I will do my best to make you proud on the Ruler of Dread.

Number of Peeps in the jar: 125. No need for the warning sign because I refuse to eat them!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 14, 2025 10:12 PM (rxCpr)

33 Two people ordered the same cocktail at a restaurant. They both drank it at different paces, but one person died while the other survived. How?

That was on an episode of Monk so I’ll not give it away.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:13 PM (VofaG)

34 23 Piper

How is Soup?

Did your neighbor on the pool floatie finally give up?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14

He is doing well, he is a very goofy cotton ball. I didn’t see her today, but I had a crazy day and wasn’t home much. I did not get any reports of her out there, so guessing she was not weird today that we know of!

Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 10:13 PM (p4NUW)

35 13 TRex

Oh, honey....you might not know what you could be in for🤪
Let's go darlin'....ha!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:13 PM (8nIhK)

36 >>> 21 What was that caption suggested for all New Yorker cartoons? "I want to kill myself," or something?
Posted by: mindful webworker - funny not funny at May 14, 2025 10:09 PM (0Es1u)

*channels inner ZOD*

*eyes NY commies*

Do it.

Do it now.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2025 10:13 PM (Vqx30)

37 That window at the Ritter Sport Chocolate Factory is stunning!

And I am intrigued to find out what "sport chocolate" is!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 14, 2025 10:13 PM (rxCpr)

38 Bunny:
"Have you seen my pimp chalice?"

Posted by: Mac Daddy Hoppy at May 14, 2025 10:13 PM (1wdUl)

39 32 Thanks for another dandy ONT, TRex!

I will do my best to make you proud on the Ruler of Dread.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 14, 2025 10:12 PM
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Good evening! I hope the ruler has a quiet night.

Posted by: TRex at May 14, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 Sand:

Today's CIA spying on China.

Posted by: Orson at May 14, 2025 10:14 PM (dIske)

41 Remove wrenched ankle.

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

42 And I am intrigued to find out what "sport chocolate" is!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Yoo Hoo!!

Come over here and I'll show you!!

Posted by: Buttigig at May 14, 2025 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

43 For the peeps, would we need to figure out the volume of the vessel and go from there? Because that sounds suspiciously like math.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 10:08 PM

Assume a spherical Peep...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 14, 2025 10:14 PM (Wnv9h)

44 Hm. My answer to Riddle #1 would have been "just turn them all on." Doesn't say I can't.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2025 10:15 PM (lHPJf)

45 "touch the bulb: if it's warm…"

Tried it. Didn't work. Dang LED bulbs.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Door number two at May 14, 2025 10:15 PM (0Es1u)

46
Classic family games?

How about this one?

https://is.gd/vK6ep8

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing Bigoted Facts at May 14, 2025 10:15 PM (KCTOC)

47 Bunny:
"Too gay?"

Posted by: Totally Not Right at May 14, 2025 10:15 PM (1wdUl)

48 "Lil Series: Monty"

That was great.

Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2025 10:16 PM (X6k5M)

49
See's Candies is closing their Sunnyvale CA store.

I sure hope it's not a sign that they are going out of business.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:17 PM (3ek7K)

50 Ah, good old Ace of Base. I listened to the all the time in the 90s. Checking their wiki page, it looks like they released an album in 2010?! May have to check it out...

Of course, I'm a sucker for Scandi bands, apparently...Bjork, the Sugarcubes, The Cardigans, Royksopp. And for you few Morons over 29, you DEFINITELY have heard Royksopp in a famous commercial, even if you didn't know who they were: https://tinyurl.com/299n7e54

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 14, 2025 10:17 PM (ycI94)

51 ‘What has it got in it’s pocketses, hmmm, Precious?’

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2025 10:17 PM (LHPAg)

52 Ritter Sport is amazing chocolate. I had it all the time in Germany.

The marzipan bar will put you into a diabetic coma, though.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 14, 2025 10:17 PM (lHPJf)

53 Classic family games?

How about this one?

https://is.gd/vK6ep8
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing Bigoted Facts

Nope. Ain't gonna click it. It could be naked, coed Twister. Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Buttigig at May 14, 2025 10:18 PM (cYBz/)

54 Bunny:
"C'mon, it worked for Don Lemon."

Posted by: Thumper Is Fabulous at May 14, 2025 10:18 PM (1wdUl)

55 Sand

Think how much we'll save on cable!

Posted by: PG at May 14, 2025 10:18 PM (afPT4)

56 Heya, Eromero!

How are you, sweet man? Eating ok?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2025 10:18 PM (mT+6a)

57 IowaHawk had this thing.. it was the Law for New Yorker cartoons that said every cartoon could be improved by captioning it “I’m thinking of killing myself.”

I think that applies to all of the ones posted tonight.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 14, 2025 10:19 PM (l3YAf)

58 Hi Horde! 75 Peeps.

Fun content TRex! Love the baby AI...

Posted by: Iris at May 14, 2025 10:20 PM (bOJ2I)

59 The Kirsche vs Vice thing keeps getting more sick and entertaining.

Kirsche has posted a Google doc laying out with much humor everything that 'Ana' Vallens has done to smear her and that if they do not pull those articles then she will have to seek legal redress.

Meanwhile someone else has reported 'Ana' Vallens to the FBI. Vallens has done no favors to himself by posting such things as he has POCD* along with publishing all of his other sick kinks like having a Vore addiction.

*Padeophilia Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:20 PM (aXbZS)

60 Rumor is we are headed to $7+ per gallon of gas in CA in the next few weeks. This is due to the fabulous leadership here, and here only.

Posted by: CA Token at May 14, 2025 10:20 PM (e9j+5)

61 Good evening morons ותודה dino

What have you morons been up to while I was at work?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

62 Do these jeans make my ass look too fluffy?

Very fluffy....oh so....fluffy...I gurss😐....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:20 PM (8nIhK)

63 58 Fun content TRex! Love the baby AI...

Posted by: Iris at May 14, 2025 10:20 PM
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Iris! Good evening!

Posted by: TRex at May 14, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

64 27 Sand

It really sucks being a liberal doesn’t it?

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:11 PM (VofaG)

"It's all Donald Trump's fault we're here!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 14, 2025 10:21 PM (ynpvh)

65 >>> 43 For the peeps, would we need to figure out the volume of the vessel and go from there? Because that sounds suspiciously like math.
Posted by: Piper at May 14, 2025 10:08 PM

Assume a spherical Peep...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 14, 2025 10:14 PM (Wnv9h)

Silly RMBS, that only works for free fall in a vacuum.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2025 10:22 PM (Vqx30)

66 57

Well there is a blast from the past...does he still fancy his pipe? And the cars?

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 14, 2025 10:22 PM (25kuG)

67 Colorado Mountain Marie!

Hello, gorgeous! Join me for a pop?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2025 10:22 PM (mT+6a)

68 56 Heya, Eromero!

How are you, sweet man? Eating ok?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2025 10:18 PM (mT+6a)
It’s a challenge.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2025 10:22 PM (LHPAg)

69 OMG, so nice to be here live. It's been so long.
Best to you all.

Posted by: CA Token at May 14, 2025 10:22 PM (e9j+5)

70 Darius Rucker had a really good episode on Daryl’s House except they did it at Darius’s house in South Carolina IIRC.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:07 PM (VofaG)

Does he have more than one, or is it the reno he did on his? I've seen that one. Didn't know if there were others.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 10:22 PM (0eaVi)

71 Plinko is the best Price is Right Game but requires little skillz

I like Hi-Lo better

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

72 61 Good evening morons ותודה dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 10:20 PM
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אתה מוזמן

Posted by: TRex at May 14, 2025 10:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

73 Sorry I'm late, the wicker basket couldn't hold that many bowling balls.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 14, 2025 10:24 PM (1EHLA)

74 Meanwhile someone else has reported 'Ana' Vallens to the FBI. Vallens has done no favors to himself by posting such things as he has POCD* along with publishing all of his other sick kinks like having a Vore addiction.

For how much the left tells us they aren't pedo-friendly they are sure friendly with a lot of pedos aren't they?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 14, 2025 10:24 PM (t0Rmr)

75 Ace of Base?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v69mTdSHBUE

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:24 PM (aXbZS)

76 Best family game is Carol Burnett as Eunice playing “Sorry!” with Harvey Korman and Mama.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 10:24 PM (WqXpZ)

77 Ace of Base is going to be in Atlantic City on Oct 18?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:25 PM (aXbZS)

78 Puzzle answers:
Number 1:

Unless the switches are wired to something else completely, not to the attic light...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 14, 2025 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

79 The marzipan bar will put you into a diabetic coma, though.

You know I don't think you should eat her bar without asking her first.

Posted by: Homestar Runner at May 14, 2025 10:26 PM (t0Rmr)

80 Evenin'

Just working an 8 hour shift tonight. The beltway bandit I work for is cheap (shrugs).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 14, 2025 10:26 PM (Kdi1r)

81 Piper

Glad Soup is keeping your entertained.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:27 PM (aXbZS)

82 1 Yay, Root Canal Appreciation Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
-----------------

I went to the dentist today and was told that Denture Time has finally arrived. I've been expecting it for a while, so I guess it's time to bite the bullet (ha!) and get it over with. It's still kind of a shock, though, me being only 29 and all. On the upside, at least I like soup.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 14, 2025 10:27 PM (QdGJh)

83 75 Ace of Base?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v69mTdSHBUE

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:24 PM
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Good song, but needed to go with Wheel of Fortune in the content for the game night theme.

Posted by: TRex at May 14, 2025 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

84 You could easily beat me every time. Just have something loaded up and ready to paste.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Oh, I do. This time, fatfingering started the mystery click. Precious lost moments.

Trade secrets:
Leave a comment on the cafe to pre-set name and URL
Copy prepared text from Notepad
Refresh Refresh Refresh Refresh Refresh Refresh Refresh [ONT!]
Down a bit to see the comments link. Click it.
Key End to get to the page end, click in comment box
Paste from clipboard
Fail to hit Post and jump to random tab instead.
I am eaten by a grue.

Posted by: mindful webworker - you don't have a sword at May 14, 2025 10:28 PM (0Es1u)

85 78 peeps.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 14, 2025 10:28 PM (n4GiU)

86 See, mr.Rex! These morons make it work!
Gotta love 'em!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:28 PM (8nIhK)

87 Nostalgia - See’s Candies was always the best candy store by far in Phoenix when I was growing up. We usually could get a visit there around Christmas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 10:28 PM (WqXpZ)

88 Second caption: Listen, if I only wing 'em, you finish 'em off.

Posted by: RickZ at May 14, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

89 Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 10:22 PM (0eaVi)

Just looked it up. The episode I watched was Rucker’s house in Charleston, SC.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:29 PM (VofaG)

90 72 peeps.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 14, 2025 10:30 PM (Lo97M)

91 >>> 87 Nostalgia - See’s Candies was always the best candy store by far in Phoenix when I was growing up. We usually could get a visit there around Christmas.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 10:28 PM (WqXpZ)

There's at least one in DFW but I prefer ordering online to driving into DFW.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 14, 2025 10:30 PM (Vqx30)

92 67 nurse

And here we are darlin'...!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:31 PM (8nIhK)

93 I'm going to take a nip out under the Orange Tree and promise to return with something ...witty.

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 14, 2025 10:31 PM (25kuG)

94 Russians claims the failed Venusian probe Cosmo 482 crashed harmlessly into the ocean on 10 May.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:33 PM (aXbZS)

95 DeMet’s Candy company is the best based only on the fact they make Turtles.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:33 PM (VofaG)

96 Bunny image caption: "Never allow the demands of tomorrow to interfere with the pleasures and excitements of today".
Bonus points for anyone who gets the reference.

Posted by: CA Token at May 14, 2025 10:34 PM (wYXVX)

97
Pennsyltucky,

I feel for you. Husband had to get dentures two years ago. He had such soft teeth and no matter what the dentist did he couldn't save them.

He is allergic to milk and I think the lack of calcium had an effect.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:35 PM (3ek7K)

98 Russians claims the failed Venusian probe Cosmo 482 crashed harmlessly into the ocean on 10 May.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:33 PM (aXbZS)

It was a Venereal deorbit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 10:35 PM (hujmF)

99 93 I'm going to take a nip out under the Orange Tree and promise to return with something ...witty.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 14, 2025 10:31 PM (25kuG
I had orange trees in the back yard when I was in Florida. I miss that fresh OJ and wodka.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2025 10:35 PM (LHPAg)

100 103 peeps.

Posted by: Southern Man at May 14, 2025 10:35 PM (Yx7HH)

101 Cupid

( deleted for being a hate crime against da gays)

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:36 PM (VofaG)

102 And the Eggs Benedict and asparagus.

Posted by: Eromero at May 14, 2025 10:36 PM (LHPAg)

103 Just looked it up. The episode I watched was Rucker’s house in Charleston, SC.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:29 PM (VofaG)

Ok, just a one project then done series.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 10:36 PM (0eaVi)

104 103 peeps.
Posted by: Southern Man at May 14, 2025 10:35 PM (Yx7HH)

You could probably get a whole lot more Rachel Corries in that jar, being flat, and all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 10:37 PM (hujmF)

105
ScaryMary,

If you are out there, I hope you are doing well. Hopefully you are busy and don't have time to comment.

Miss you!

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:37 PM (3ek7K)

106 160 Peeps. Unless the top row is laying flat (hard to tell), then I'll revise down to about 140-150.

Posted by: Croak at May 14, 2025 10:38 PM (YVaDw)

107 And yes nurse....I got me a cocktail...we need now for the Rat to step in 🤪....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:38 PM (8nIhK)

108 [Top photo: Ritter Sport Chocolate Factory, Waldenbuch, Germany]

well, being german, i guess we don't have to worry about their sport chocolates having lucas electrics.

Posted by: anachronda at May 14, 2025 10:38 PM (edU/H)

109 45 "touch the bulb: if it's warm…"

Tried it. Didn't work. Dang LED bulbs.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Door number two at May 14, 2025 10:15 PM (0Es1u)

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In that case, feel the base of the bulb. The lighted part of the bulb may stay cool, but the base with all the electronics gets quite warm.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 10:38 PM (OGOaV)

110 Guess how many Peeps are the jar.

forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at May 14, 2025 10:39 PM (edU/H)

111 105. Peep peep!

Posted by: JML at May 14, 2025 10:42 PM (6solg)

112 Just looked it up. The episode I watched was Rucker’s house in Charleston, SC.
Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:29 PM (VofaG)

Ok, just a one project then done series.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 10:36 PM (0eaVi)

Sorry my bad if I made it confusing or if I’m posting something you already know.

Live From Daryl’s House is a long running show with Daryl Hall where he host musical guests at his house and they jam with a mix of his songs and the guest’s songs.

He’s traveled outside of his House to do the show a few times. He went to Cabo to do an episode with Sammy Hagar.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:42 PM (VofaG)

113
Too many peeps for me. Those things are gross.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:42 PM (3ek7K)

114 In that case, feel the base of the bulb. The lighted part of the bulb may stay cool, but the base with all the electronics gets quite warm.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 10:38 PM (OGOaV)

Kind of a silly riddle, actually. What sort of retard would put the switch for the attic light in the basement? Either have a wall switch next to the attic stairway, or just have a ceiling fixture with a pull chain on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 10:42 PM (hujmF)

115 There's a hundred peeps. It's a centipeep, all curled up.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2025 10:43 PM (pIfcn)

116 I am eaten by a grue.

Yeah, that happens to me sometimes too.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2025 10:44 PM (lUFok)

117
A house we lived in for 15 years had a switch in the hallway and we never figured out what it was for. The only thing we could figure out was when the previous owners had the second story added the switch was disconnected.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:44 PM (3ek7K)

118 Cupid: You match 'em, I'll break 'em up!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 10:44 PM (VNX3d)

119 There's a hundred peeps. It's a centipeep, all curled up.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2025 10:43 PM (pIfcn)

Hah. Good one.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:45 PM (VofaG)

120 Howdy Dino! Fun stuff tonight. Although I have to admit - the AI baby stuff is growing old on me fast.

Anyway - I say 59 Peeps.

Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2025 10:45 PM (lTmcM)

121 It's so early ONT...

Lots of fun to be had tonight....yay...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:46 PM (8nIhK)

122 75 Peeps

Posted by: AlmostYuman at May 14, 2025 10:46 PM (bj34f)

123 Better a grue than dysentery

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:46 PM (aXbZS)

124 The 'Pittsburgh Scanner' - good as it may be - will never be the equal of the now-defunct 'Arcata Eye', which had a much better writing style and a drier sense of humor. Just sayin' ...

Posted by: Dr_No at May 14, 2025 10:46 PM (ayRl+)

125 A house we lived in for 15 years had a switch in the hallway and we never figured out what it was for. The only thing we could figure out was when the previous owners had the second story added the switch was disconnected.
Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:44 PM (3ek7K)

A broken three way switch can confuse the hell out of you.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:47 PM (VofaG)

126 86 peeps

Posted by: Nan in AZ at May 14, 2025 10:47 PM (gKarl)

127 Rabit: I've come to ask if you'd like to join my Owsla. We shall be glad to have you, and I know you'd like it. You've been feeling tired, haven't you? If you're ready, we might go along now.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 10:48 PM (D7oie)

128 120 Although I have to admit - the AI baby stuff is growing old on me fast.

Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2025 10:45 PM
***
Like anything fun on the interweb, it must spread to the point of saturation and then get forgotten until someone remembers it as nostalgia.

Posted by: TRex at May 14, 2025 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

129 Peeps....why?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:48 PM (8nIhK)

130 So, I came to the back door to the ONT. No one let me in. Fine.
But I'm still here. Hiya Rex.
I will now head on over to the lounge😜!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:06 PM (8nIhK)

Howdy COMM! Sent an email a day or 2 ago. Did you get it?

Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2025 10:49 PM (lTmcM)

131 14 In that case, feel the base of the bulb. The lighted part of the bulb may stay cool, but the base with all the electronics gets quite warm.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 10:38 PM (OGOaV)

Kind of a silly riddle, actually. What sort of retard would put the switch for the attic light in the basement? Either have a wall switch next to the attic stairway, or just have a ceiling fixture with a pull chain on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 10:42 PM (hujmF)

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Youtube is rife with home inspection video that really leave you scratching your head. One I saw recently was a guy tracing some electrical wiring that was a bizarre compilation of romex and extension cords.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 10:50 PM (OGOaV)

132 What sort of retard would put the switch for the attic light in the basement?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"Oh, my nephew did the wiring for my house."

"And when did his house burn down?"

https://youtu.be/ADsEuqWoRn0

Posted by: mindful webworker - how did you know? at May 14, 2025 10:50 PM (0Es1u)

133 A house we lived in for 15 years had a switch in the hallway and we never figured out what it was for. The only thing we could figure out was when the previous owners had the second story added the switch was disconnected.

This house has a switch that I though did nothing when I moved in. As part of a sanity move I was changing all sockets and switches so they'd be the same color and I figured out why that switch was there. The original owner had family that was in the house building business. They must have had a four gang box they could have for free rather than spending some money on a three gang. So that switch is there to occupy what would have been an extra hole in the faceplate.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2025 10:51 PM (lUFok)

134 There! Are! Four! Peeps!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 10:51 PM (OGOaV)

135 The lightswitch thing? If you're that tired, flip 'em all and go to bed. What the fuck?

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 14, 2025 10:51 PM (MZ+PY)

136 A house we lived in for 15 years had a switch in the hallway and we never figured out what it was for. The only thing we could figure out was when the previous owners had the second story added the switch was disconnected.
Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:44 PM (3ek7K)

You should never flip an unknown switch, it might do things. Last time we flipped one of those types of switches was in the 80's and we then we found out that the President had been shot, and we were all, "What, John Connally got himself shot AGAIN?"
Then we had to come to terms with an actor in the white house. Insanity.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2025 10:52 PM (D7oie)

137 Peeps....why?
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Because...I like doing that

Posted by: Tom at May 14, 2025 10:52 PM (t6ibK)

138 Sorry my bad if I made it confusing or if I’m posting something you already know.

Live From Daryl’s House is a long running show with Daryl Hall where he host musical guests at his house and they jam with a mix of his songs and the guest’s songs.

He’s traveled outside of his House to do the show a few times. He went to Cabo to do an episode with Sammy Hagar.

Posted by: polynikes at May 14, 2025 10:42 PM (VofaG)

Nah, no big deal. I found Rucker's house on Roku and I watched it during my workout. I have to find something to watch because exercise indoors is sorta boring.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 14, 2025 10:52 PM (0eaVi)

139 Peeps....why?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 10:48 PM (8nIhK)

A question children, staring into their Easter baskets that Sunday morning, have been asking for decades.

Posted by: RickZ at May 14, 2025 10:52 PM (gKDq2)

140 A Steven Wright Joke:

I have a switch on my wall. It doesn’t do anything.
A couple times a week I flip it on and off, just to check.
Last a week a woman in Germany called me up.
She said cut it out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 10:53 PM (WqXpZ)

141
LOL Tom

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:54 PM (3ek7K)

142 The lightswitch thing? If you're that tired, flip 'em all and go to bed. What the fuck?
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 14, 2025 10:51 PM (MZ+PY)

What if all three of them were 4-way switches, and they all controlled the attic light?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 10:54 PM (hujmF)

143 Rook to Ass 9

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 14, 2025 10:56 PM (mlg/3)

144

We had an inspection done on this house we bought in August. I"m pissed because half of the windows are *ucked. There is no way to open them.

Shouldn't windows be included as part of an inspection?

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:57 PM (3ek7K)

145 I'll repeat this on the Saturday Hobby thread when it goes live, but I'm mostly done with a new animation (not connected with any ongoing projects). As a bonus, there's a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo by a genuine AoSHQ fetish object!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 14, 2025 10:57 PM (CHHv1)

146 What do you get when you play a radiator?

An iron polka.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 11:01 PM (VNX3d)

147 130 Doof
I didn't receive that. Did you contact nurse? She has my info.
Do get in touch🙂!
Your pal COMM🤣😅!!!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 11:01 PM (8nIhK)

148 Shouldn't windows be included as part of an inspection?
Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:57 PM (3ek7K)

They should have told you. If they’re older wood windows, it’s because lazy painters love to paint them shut. (If they opened the windows just a couple inches right after they painted it wouldn’t happen)

Having always lived in older houses with wood windows, I’ve gotten pretty good at getting them to work again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 11:02 PM (WqXpZ)

149 Shouldn't windows be included as part of an inspection?
Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:57 PM (3ek7K)

The inspection we got for this house we bought four years ago included comments about a couple of our windows. One won't stay up when we open it and I can't remember what the other issue was.

We haven't had any terribly rude surprises, but our expectations are somewhat relaxed because the house is over a century old.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 14, 2025 11:02 PM (rF2iL)

150 Good No Trespassing Sign

You would be better off sandpapering a lion's ass in a pair of pork chop panties than be caught on the other side of this fence.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 14, 2025 11:04 PM (VNX3d)

151 Also, not cheese.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 14, 2025 11:04 PM (VJc7E)

152 Bunny: And if you distribute to TWO dozen yards, you become a captain and are eligible for bonus commission!

Sand: Yes, Beyonce IS the greatest country singer ever!

Posted by: PITA federalist at May 14, 2025 11:05 PM (p8cAR)

153 Good song, but needed to go with Wheel of Fortune in the content for the game night theme.
Posted by: TRex

Theme music? That's a game I can play.

https://youtu.be/shHzYGkoaps

Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2025 11:06 PM (DgGvY)

154
The windows aren't wood, they are maybe fiberglass??

I have a thing about windows, first being able to open them, safety if you have to escape and we don't have air conditioning.

I do think the sellers knew. Oh well, too late now.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:06 PM (3ek7K)

155 Doof
I didn't receive that. Did you contact nurse? She has my info.
Do get in touch🙂!
Your pal COMM🤣😅!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 11:01 PM (8nIhK)

I tried what she sent me. Maybe it was lost in translation.

If you would - please hit me up:
doof2112 at proton dot me

Posted by: Doof at May 14, 2025 11:07 PM (lTmcM)

156 The inspection we got for this house we bought four years ago included comments about a couple of our windows. One won't stay up when we open it and I can't remember what the other issue was.“

Since your house is 100 years old, it’s because the cords that go to the weights in the window frame have broken. You can replace them, you just have to take the window frame apart. I was doing that once and was horrified to find that once I pulled all the trim off and could see inside the frame, there was a huge paper hornets nest there that stretched all the up both sides and across the top! Luckily it was old and dead or I woulda been arunnin!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 11:09 PM (WqXpZ)

157 Doof,
I just resent comm’s addy to you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2025 11:10 PM (mT+6a)

158 "Plinko is the best Price is Right game"

Agree to disagree. Let's just say when the day comes for a lift chair to take me upstairs I'm having it rigged to play a certain yodeling song.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2025 11:10 PM (pIfcn)

159 Do your worst. Just identify which cartoon you are captioning in your post.

3. Sand

"I really don't understand your sexual fetishes."

.....I was trying to guess the original New Yorker caption. Was I close?

Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2025 11:10 PM (DgGvY)

160 I didn't see your guess first, Iris. Maybe we can share the prize. Gotta be a prize, right.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at May 14, 2025 11:11 PM (bj34f)

161 (Cupid): "Isn't it cool how Raimondo's face leaves an imprint on the banhammer?"

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 14, 2025 11:12 PM (ynWyt)

162 108 peeps

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:12 PM (GYlcL)

163 144

We had an inspection done on this house we bought in August. I"m pissed because half of the windows are *ucked. There is no way to open them.

Shouldn't windows be included as part of an inspection?
Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:57 PM (3ek7K)

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We have two separate lights hooked up to what are supposed to be three-way switches that (fun fact, they don't work)... well, let's just say have some creative wiring, 'cause apparently whoever wired them thought it was too much work to do it properly.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 11:12 PM (OGOaV)

164 Agree to disagree. Let's just say when the day comes for a lift chair to take me upstairs I'm having it rigged to play a certain yodeling song.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 14, 2025 11:10 PM (pIfcn)
====

Yeah, that's another great one

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 11:13 PM (RIvkX)

165 155 DOOF!

Message sent😁

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 11:13 PM (8nIhK)

166 On home inspections: Anyone I know who's bought a home has had nothing good to say about them. The home inspections are mandatory for a loan and most find a waste of money. They will never tear into a wall to check wiring/construction. They will hardly ever climb onto a roof. Even turning on a faucet seems to be beyond the ken of most.

I've got a feeling in the windows story above the inspector said, 'Windows? Check. Intact? Check. Next Item.'

Posted by: RickZ at May 14, 2025 11:13 PM (gKDq2)

167 157 Doof,
I just resent comm’s addy to you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 14, 2025 11:10 PM (mT+6a)

Why do you resent it? Did it do something to you?

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 11:14 PM (WqXpZ)

168 We had a couple of mystery switches in our house. There's a random-looking switch on our bedroom wall. It doesn't activate any of the outlets. I texted the previous owner and learned that it controlled a yard light on that outside corner of the house. Yep.

There were other yard lights surrounding the patio that were on all of the time. I finally found a switch behind a large cupboard-type piece of furniture left by the previous owners that functioned like a pantry in the kitchen. I can barely squeeze my hand behind there to reach it.

Also, the porch light was ridiculously dim. It wasn't until after the lightswitch failed that I discovered that it had a dimmer function and was probably set at the lowest level.

It's an adventure getting to know a new house.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 14, 2025 11:14 PM (rF2iL)

169

96 Peeps

Posted by: ? and the Mysterions at May 14, 2025 11:14 PM (63Dwl)

170
Emmie,

Yes, it is an adventure. We've found out the previous owner THOUGHT he was a handyman and he wasn't.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:16 PM (3ek7K)

171 1) bunnies

And that's how Grace Slick became Queen of the White Rabbits.

Posted by: 13times at May 14, 2025 11:17 PM (B17mP)

172 "Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die.

This spread of water has been used as a dumping ground for space vehicles since 1971. An estimated 263 decommissioned spacecraft, including the Russian space station Mir, have been deliberately brought down and sunk here.

Point Nemo, also called the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, is at coordinates 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, according to the National Ocean Service. It's about 1,670 miles from the nearest land"

It can't be used as a de-orbit target area for spacecraft in orbits inclined less than 48 degrees, 52 minutes. All the stuff listed in the article that have been/will be dumped there were launched into approx. 51 degree orbits. That is the preferred Russian launch inclination out of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This is why Skylab wasn't targeted for Point Nemo - it was launched into a 28.5 degree inclination out of KSC. Target area was in a smaller dead zone in the Indian Ocean west of Australia and why some of its stuff that didn't completely burn
-up during entry impacted in Australia. Way back in 1979.

I'm out for tonite - thanks TRex!

Posted by: Gref at May 14, 2025 11:17 PM (aBgBM)

173 Don't peeps blow up real good if you microwave them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:18 PM (hujmF)

174 Yes, it is an adventure. We've found out the previous owner THOUGHT he was a handyman and he wasn't.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:16 PM (3ek7K)

Oh I’ve had one of THOSE houses! Took years to find all of what he did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 11:18 PM (WqXpZ)

175 Not all New Yorker cartoons are woke or depressing, I worked for a moving company and remember moving the widow of Otto Soglow, the cartoonist who wrote The Little King comic strip. It ran from 1930-1975, his death. Started in the New Yorker, then syndicated. She had all of his books. He illustrated 35 books for others, wrote 5 himself. She lived in a kind of artist's colony at South Mountain Road, New City, NY. She seemed like a nice, friendly lady. Their son seemed like a ne'er do-well, coasting on Dad's money.

Posted by: Brush With Greatness II at May 14, 2025 11:19 PM (G5+As)

176 Since your house is 100 years old, it’s because the cords that go to the weights in the window frame have broken. You can replace them, you just have to take the window frame apart. I was doing that once and was horrified to find that once I pulled all the trim off and could see inside the frame, there was a huge paper hornets nest there that stretched all the up both sides and across the top! Luckily it was old and dead or I woulda been arunnin!
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 11:09 PM (WqXpZ)

Our windows are double-pane vinyl composite frames, I'm guessing less than ten years old. We also have a new roof, new wiring, new plumbing, new central heat and air with a Nest thermostat.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 14, 2025 11:20 PM (rF2iL)

177 Holy cow guys! I finally got into the ONT room! I love this place!
Is Rat here...or Miklos...yikes!
The best place is the AoSHQ!!!!
Especially up here in the ONT! I love you folks...
I guess I'll take a little nap now...see ya later❣❣❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 14, 2025 11:20 PM (8nIhK)

178 Yes, it is an adventure. We've found out the previous owner THOUGHT he was a handyman and he wasn't.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:16 PM (3ek7K)

Ooh, our previous house was like that. Many questionable things ...

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at May 14, 2025 11:22 PM (rF2iL)

179 Don't peeps blow up real good if you microwave them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

A peep is just a sugar-coated marshmallow, so they should inflate when microwaved.

I don't know if they explode or catch fire or whatever when over-microwaved. Anyone have a spare peep to test it?

Posted by: mikeski isn't cleaning his microwave for this at May 14, 2025 11:22 PM (DgGvY)

180 My house is 120 years old. Everything’s been renovated most things more than once. Windows are newish. Plumbing, electric all modern. In the basement there are pipes that go nowhere and a few switches that do nothing. One of the fireplaces is sealed. What is now the kitchen used to be master bedroom and the laundry room used to be a bathroom. Crazy shit has gone on in this house over the years.

Some areas have floors that are, shall we say not exactly flat. Not a bug. But a feature. We call it character. 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:22 PM (GYlcL)

181
The light in the ceiling fan in our bedroom burned out. I removed the globe to replace the bulb and the entire wiring and bulb are hanging by a thread. Come to find out the guy moved the fixture from the ceiling over the patio into the bedroom. How did he not know it was *ucked? I think he didn't care.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:24 PM (3ek7K)

182 Hudson Bay would be a good splashdown site for space junk. One of the more useless large plots of aquatic real estate there is.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:24 PM (hujmF)

183 Some areas have floors that are, shall we say not exactly flat. Not a bug. But a feature. We call it character. 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 14, 2025 11:22 PM (GYlcL)

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When my wife and I were looking at houses many years ago, one we looked at had a visibly sloping floor. Understood why when we checked out the basement. Significant foundation issues.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 11:25 PM (OGOaV)

184 Guessing 77 Peeps in jar.

Posted by: Frankie at May 14, 2025 11:26 PM (LKcRm)

185 We've found out the previous owner THOUGHT he was a handyman and he wasn't.
Posted by: four seasons

My first house was owned by the laziest handyman ever. Used the first fastener he found for everything. Nails hammered in halfway and bent over to hold Romex to the studs. Wire staples to attach window-well covers to the siding.

* twitch *

Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2025 11:27 PM (DgGvY)

186 Anybody have any good advice about naked pictures (of a minor girl) being out on the internet, or at least being threatened to be released, as to any means to stop wider distribution?

The pictures are real and I think the scamsters may have them now instead of just an ex-boyfriend having them.

We have given her phone that has received the blackmail threats to the police, but they are not optimistic about cybercrimes breaking through to the actual sender.

Any advice from our tech experts or parents that have dealt with a similar evil situation would be appreciated.

P.S. After reading this, could y'all please forget who posted it as a favor to me? Thanks, PI.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:27 PM (HlyYF)

187 I lived in a house for 2 years that was built in 1760. Had seven fireplaces. And it wasn't haunted.

Posted by: Bit Drafty, Though at May 14, 2025 11:27 PM (G5+As)

188 When my wife and I were looking at houses many years ago, one we looked at had a visibly sloping floor. Understood why when we checked out the basement. Significant foundation issues.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 11:25 PM (OGOaV)
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We had to jack up one side of our house and rebuild the foundation and it still slopes slightly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 11:28 PM (RIvkX)

189
One more thing about the house and then I'll shut up.

The smoke alarms were TAPED to the walls. Yeah, they all fell off the walls. I'm guessing they didn't have any before and they were made to install them.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:29 PM (3ek7K)

190 "Plaasmoorde: The Killing Fields."

Katie Hopkins reports.

https://rumble.com/v6gi01a- plaasmoorde-the-killing-fields.html

Posted by: Beverly at May 14, 2025 11:30 PM (Epeb0)

191 In my defense, they are as funny as any the New Yorker...so yeah, they suck....

1. I know it's Easter, Alice, but the hat is undignified.

2. The arrow of love and the hammer of lust.

3. This is not how I envisioned getting head.

Posted by: JML at May 14, 2025 11:30 PM (6solg)

192 Pillage idiot will make a prayer for peace in your house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

193 Answer to Number 1: Turn on all 3 switches.

Posted by: GWB at May 14, 2025 11:31 PM (Sl82m)

194
Pillage,

Wow. What a terrible situation. I don't have any advice, but I feel really bad that you are having to deal with it.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:31 PM (3ek7K)

195 185 We've found out the previous owner THOUGHT he was a handyman and he wasn't.
Posted by: four seasons

My first house was owned by the laziest handyman ever. Used the first fastener he found for everything. Nails hammered in halfway and bent over to hold Romex to the studs. Wire staples to attach window-well covers to the siding.

* twitch *
Posted by: mikeski at May 14, 2025 11:27 PM

Our first house was like that. Fortunately, the person was so bad at performing repairs that nothing major had been touched.

Not a single door in the house would latch in any room that had been re-painted in the previous 10 years. The idiot worked very hard to install hardware incorrectly.

I think it took at least a few thousand dollars off of our buying price, so I was actually pretty happy with the deal.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:32 PM (HlyYF)

196 We had to jack up one side of our house and rebuild the foundation and it still slopes slightly.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 11:28 PM (RIvkX)

The good news is your roof will never be used by FBI snipers.

Posted by: RickZ at May 14, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)

197 Yay, Root Canal Appreciation Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
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You know the drill.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 14, 2025 11:33 PM (P/ezU)

198 In that case, feel the base of the bulb. The lighted part of the bulb may stay cool, but the base with all the electronics gets quite warm.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 14, 2025 10:38 PM (OGOaV)

Kind of a silly riddle, actually. What sort of retard would put the switch for the attic light in the basement? Either have a wall switch next to the attic stairway, or just have a ceiling fixture with a pull chain on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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This was one of the puzzles in "Alice in Borderland".

A bizarro asian sitcom (two seasons) where randos are forced to play games or solve puzzles or be killed if they do not play or get puzzle wrong.

Worth watching once.

[Spoiler Alert]

It was aliens.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2025 11:34 PM (/lPRQ)

199
Our oldest grandson wants a cellphone. All his friends have them, they are all 11 years old.

Son and daughter-in-law told him when he can afford the payments he can have one. He isn't happy, but too bad, so sad.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:35 PM (3ek7K)

200 192 Pillage idiot will make a prayer for peace in your house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 11:31 PM

Thanks. I probably should have thought to ask for that first!

Anxiety of the stressed family member is sky high, but I don't read that self-harming options are on the table. I hope that assessment on my part is correct, but will monitor closely anyway.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:35 PM (HlyYF)

201 Anxiety of the stressed family member is sky high, but I don't read that self-harming options are on the table. I hope that assessment on my part is correct, but will monitor closely anyway.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:35 PM (HlyYF)

Could some pressure be put upon the ex-boyfriend?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:36 PM (hujmF)

202 Having always lived in older houses with wood windows, I’ve gotten pretty good at getting them to work again.
Posted by: Tom Servo

What's your secret? I have a house built in 1901 with many windows that won't open. Some may be paint others are more serious.

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 14, 2025 11:38 PM (y7zkd)

203 49
See's Candies is closing their Sunnyvale CA store.

I sure hope it's not a sign that they are going out of business.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:17 PM (3ek7K)

There is zero chance of See's going out of business. They've been owned by Berkshire Hathaway for decades, and both Munger and Buffett have said many times that the company is a cash cow for them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 14, 2025 11:38 PM (j/uDM)

204 You know the drill.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 14, 2025 11:33 PM (P/ezU)
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My uncle Tony always said, "when you like a girl, check her teeth, make sure she has good teeth."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 11:38 PM (RIvkX)

205 Son and daughter-in-law told him when he can afford the payments he can have one. He isn't happy, but too bad, so sad.
Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:35 PM (3ek7K)

Said to the therapist later in life: "I had it so bad as a kid I had to go to school without a cell phone."

Posted by: RickZ at May 14, 2025 11:39 PM (gKDq2)

206 For shits and giggles Trump should set tariffs on Cuban Cigars to ZERO%.

Progtards will flip out becuse only the oligarchs smoke Cubans... Nevermind that setting restrictions to zero would put them in reach of the everyman.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2025 11:40 PM (/lPRQ)

207 199
Our oldest grandson wants a cellphone. All his friends have them, they are all 11 years old.

Son and daughter-in-law told him when he can afford the payments he can have one. He isn't happy, but too bad, so sad.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:35 PM

I can attest to the fact that early cell phone usage and social media are net negatives on children in the current day and age.

We had parental controls on our kid phones. The kids found ways from friends/internet to hack our controls off.

I believe there might be some hardware limited "kid safer" phones available now? Might check into those options once the parents decide the kid is ready for a phone.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:40 PM (HlyYF)

208 Last thing I smuggled out of Canada was Cuban cigars. My FiL z"l was thrilled.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 14, 2025 11:41 PM (RIvkX)

209 I would have said for the cocktails that it had a fast-acting poison. The guy who nursed the drink saw that the other guy died, so he stopped and survived a sub-lethal dose.

Posted by: Nathan at May 14, 2025 11:41 PM (uqYS/)

210 We had parental controls on our kid phones. The kids found ways from friends/internet to hack our controls off.

I believe there might be some hardware limited "kid safer" phones available now? Might check into those options once the parents decide the kid is ready for a phone.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:40 PM (HlyYF)

Just get the kids some flip phones with the browser crippled.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:42 PM (hujmF)

211 A riddle -

What can no one give away and no one can buy at any price?

Hint - All you old farts would recognize this as true.
/ There may be more than one right answer.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 14, 2025 11:42 PM (/lPRQ)

212
Good sense

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:43 PM (3ek7K)

213 I would have said for the cocktails that it had a fast-acting poison. The guy who nursed the drink saw that the other guy died, so he stopped and survived a sub-lethal dose.
Posted by: Nathan at May 14, 2025 11:41 PM (uqYS/)

The guy who drank it quickly had to go pee, and got strangled by the psycho lurking in the mens' room.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:44 PM (hujmF)

214 Number 2: Two people ordered the same cocktail at a restaurant. They both drank it at different paces, but one person died while the other survived. How?

Answer: The cocktail contained poison in the ice. One person drank quickly before the ice melted, while the other waited, allowing the poison to spread.

I was going to say it's because only one was poisoned, which is a possibility since it doesn't say both cocktails were poisoned, just that they ordered the same cocktail.

Posted by: Iocane. I'd bet my life on it. at May 14, 2025 11:46 PM (TbWk/)

215 98 Russians claims the failed Venusian probe Cosmo 482 crashed harmlessly into the ocean on 10 May.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2025 10:33 PM (aXbZS)

It was a Venereal deorbit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 10:35 PM (hujmF)
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It needed a Penicillian recovery procedure?

Posted by: Ciampino - Spaceports are infectious at May 14, 2025 11:48 PM (sPQoU)

216 Got the NHL playoffs on at work. I noticed that Toronto is doing it's playoff 'regression toward the mean' again. I'm probably using that phrase wrong. In other words, they're choking. Edmonton and LV are playing now. LV is fighting for survival. Down in the series 3-1.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 14, 2025 11:49 PM (Kdi1r)

217 Good shop day today. Got the tractor awakened after its Winter hibernation. Put the battery in it, and cranked, but would not start until I gave it a whiff of go-go juice (ether). Glow plugs are dead. Did a circuit of the yard to put a little charge in the battery, and then used it to pull the Zip van ahead about 25 feet so I could better work on it, and mow where it had sat.

And then I decided to see if the tractor could push over trees. Had a little copse of poplar growing out of a rotten wood pile. Trees were quite dead this year, no green, no buds at all. So I put the tractor in low gear, lowered the bucket to about 6 inches, and pushed. Three or four runs at it, and the trees are all uprooted, and on the ground. Chainsaw time, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:50 PM (hujmF)

218 Cupid's arrow and Stupid's mallet.

Posted by: Obvious at May 14, 2025 11:51 PM (rvwwT)

219 Cupid's arrow and Stupid's mallet.
Posted by: Obvious at May 14, 2025 11:51 PM (rvwwT)

Love and lust at Paul Pelosi's house.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:53 PM (hujmF)

220 Could some pressure be put upon the ex-boyfriend?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:36 PM

The relationship ended two years ago. I doubt he is involved at all (beyond being the initial leaker). They both did "young person stupid things", and he was not Dad approved as a "good guy". But I don't think he would go the blackmail route.

We have a police meeting tomorrow. I will ask if they should just give him a call and question his knowledge of distribution of the photos.

I suppose it might be something as seemingly mundane, as he deleted the photos and turned his phone in for an upgrade, and the refurbishment guys in Malaysia pulled up the photos out of deleted memory and sold them to blackmailer types?

That is why I was asking if anyone from the Horde knew of any means to restrict distribution.

The good news is that I just tried to go to pornhub and search her name, but that site is blocked in my state. My wife said we had recent legislation that blocked a lot of the porn sites, so even if the pictures do get "out there", then nobody my daughter knows will see them, I hope.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:53 PM (HlyYF)

221 97
Pennsyltucky,

I feel for you. Husband had to get dentures two years ago. He had such soft teeth and no matter what the dentist did he couldn't save them.

He is allergic to milk and I think the lack of calcium had an effect.
Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 10:35 PM (3ek7K)
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Mine are the same. They've been falling apart since I was a kid. I believe there's a genetic component. Two of my Mom's brothers both ended up with dentures in their 30s, and my Mom got them in her 40s. I made it a little farther, so I've got that going for me, I guess.

At any rate, the remaining originals have got to go. There are so many missing and broken that I probably could floss with a piece of paracord.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 14, 2025 11:53 PM (QdGJh)

222 116 I am eaten by a grue.

Yeah, that happens to me sometimes too.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 14, 2025 10:44 PM (lUFok)
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Grue = Japanese glue ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Grue sticks to your palate at May 14, 2025 11:55 PM (sPQoU)

223 Thanks for the ONT, TRex. Content of awesome, again. Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at May 14, 2025 11:55 PM (41CYW)

224 What's your secret? I have a house built in 1901 with many windows that won't open. Some may be paint others are more serious.
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 14, 2025 11:38 PM (y7zkd)

First go around all the edges, where you see old paint between window and frame, both sides, with a box cutter. Then use a thin flat putty knife in the line you made with a box cutter and go all the way in all around. Then on the outside get something you can gently pry with and work back and forth under both corners. It’s a pain but that will usually get it free.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 14, 2025 11:56 PM (WqXpZ)

225 It can be lunch time
From last night, have a homemade Italian hoagie
Oil, lettuce, peppers, hot Cappy, hard salami, ham and cheese.
To me a grinder is a hot Sammy, I do make them sometimes.

Posted by: Skip at May 14, 2025 11:57 PM (nYyi3)

226
Pennsyltucky,

My Husband has always had problems with his.

Some people think it's because of a lack of dental care. Nope, sometimes stuff happens.

Posted by: four seasons at May 14, 2025 11:57 PM (3ek7K)

227 The good news is that I just tried to go to pornhub and search her name, but that site is blocked in my state. My wife said we had recent legislation that blocked a lot of the porn sites, so even if the pictures do get "out there", then nobody my daughter knows will see them, I hope.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 14, 2025 11:53 PM (HlyYF)

How do the blackmailers expect to get paid? Bitcoin? Maybe one of those "scam the scammers" guys could figure out a trap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:58 PM (hujmF)

228 I was thinking the man died of irritation because the woman was drinking so slow.

Posted by: Obvious at May 14, 2025 11:59 PM (rvwwT)

229 I was thinking the man died of irritation because the woman was drinking so slow.
Posted by: Obvious at May 14, 2025 11:59 PM (rvwwT)

He was hoping for "nue", but all he got was ennui.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2025 12:00 AM (hujmF)

230 I agree with Tom Servo on the windows problem.

Also do it when it is low humidity outside and inside. I even ran the de-humidifier indoors before tackling some rooms that had all of the windows stuck.

Any humidity swelling the wood framing or the movable wood parts of the windows themselves makes things just that much more difficult to break free that very first time!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 15, 2025 12:01 AM (HlyYF)

231 I am eaten by a grue.

Yeah, that happens to me sometimes too.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Grue = Japanese glue ?
Posted by: Ciampino

A monster that lurks in dark places in text-based computer games. They're quite gruesome.

Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2025 12:02 AM (DgGvY)

232 Either 70 or 72 peeps

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2025 12:05 AM (rT96s)

233 How do the blackmailers expect to get paid? Bitcoin? Maybe one of those "scam the scammers" guys could figure out a trap.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2025 11:58 PM

If there is any chance of that, then I hope our cybercrime people will let us know at our meeting tomorrow. I believe she may have authorized them to try that.

I was not part of all of the discussion with the police officer because she is no longer a minor. (And has gotten a fair bit wiser than she was two years ago.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 15, 2025 12:06 AM (HlyYF)

234 “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 15, 2025 12:06 AM (25kuG)

235 71 Peeps!

Posted by: Obvious at May 15, 2025 12:06 AM (rvwwT)

236 Thanks Horde, but I need to crash.

If anyone does choose to comment regarding my post at #186, please do so. I will come back tomorrow and read through the ONT comments.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 15, 2025 12:07 AM (HlyYF)

237 Well, I am also tired, and set to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2025 12:09 AM (hujmF)

238
Pillage,

Best of luck to you all. I hope everything works out for you.

Posted by: four seasons at May 15, 2025 12:09 AM (3ek7K)

239 She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She's wearing Ambush and a French twist

https://youtu.be/RX5cVSs_fqw?t=164

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:09 AM (9oFPr)

240 First go around all the edges...

Will give it a shot & report back Tom!

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 15, 2025 12:10 AM (y7zkd)

241 Pillage, sorry to hear that.
I will also pray for her.
Although if the pics do get out, maybe she can just say they are deepfakes?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2025 12:12 AM (rT96s)

242 ordon G. Chang @GordonGChang 6h

Balochistan just declared independence from Pakistan.
_your late to the party, Gordon

Here's an announcement and map.

https://tinyurl.com/3p6u73vp

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:18 AM (9oFPr)

243 Skylab, the first and only all-American space station was launched May 14,1973, exactly 52 years ago, if midnight hasn’t passed in your time zone. The Soviets had launched their Salyut space station about two years earlier. When I was in college as an undergraduate in the late 1970s, one of my professors (not physics, but engineering - learned orbital mechanics from him) had been hired by NASA to predict where Skylab was to de-orbit. There had been proposals to boost its decaying orbit, but interest in space exploration was dying fast. Skylab’s orbit eventually decayed, and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. Not sure now if my prof had called it or not - probably, he was certainly one of the world experts on orbital mechanics. He had come up as one of the assistants to Sikorsky in the early days of helicopters, so things that go round and round just came naturally to him, I suppose.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2025 12:19 AM (ZVgZ4)

244 "Balochistan" sounds like it should be in Middle Earth or Minecraft, not Pakistan.

Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2025 12:20 AM (DgGvY)

245 Edmonton vs Las Vegas, 0-0 at the end of 60 minutes. Sudden death overtime coming up. LV has to win, or it's off to links for them because they've down 1 game to 3.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 15, 2025 12:21 AM (H6vnY)

246 21 What was that caption suggested for all New Yorker cartoons? "I want to kill myself," or something?
Posted by: mindful webworker - funny not funny at May 14, 2025 10:09 PM (0Es1u)

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I believe it's "I think I'm going to kill myself", although there was a later suggestion of "Jeffrey Toobin masturbated during a zoom call."

Posted by: Cave Johnson at May 15, 2025 12:21 AM (r0NVS)

247 187 I lived in a house for 2 years that was built in 1760. Had seven fireplaces. And it wasn't haunted.

Maybe you just can’t see dead people.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2025 12:22 AM (ZVgZ4)

248 She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She's wearing Ambush and a French twist

https://youtu.be/RX5cVSs_fqw?t=164
Posted by: Braenyard
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A touch of Tuesday Weld - yeah, that got a click.

Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2025 12:22 AM (41CYW)

249 Balochistan is on British maps from mid 19th century.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:22 AM (9oFPr)

250 Only saw this today

Police arrest Pennsylvania man for detonating explosive inside Catholic chapel

An explosive device detonates at St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

32-year-old Kyle Kuczynski

https://tinyurl.com/epshhf9u

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 15, 2025 12:22 AM (rT96s)

251 242 ordon G. Chang @GordonGChang 6h

Balochistan just declared independence from Pakistan.
_your late to the party, Gordon

Here's an announcement and map.

https://tinyurl.com/3p6u73vp
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Nevermind the Balochistans
Here's the Sindhastans

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2025 12:23 AM (/lPRQ)

252 See the movie? Ava Gardner gave that old lesbian...difficulty.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:24 AM (9oFPr)

253 The Sikhs had a lot of territory back then.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:26 AM (9oFPr)

254 Double hung wood windows.

Paint stores once sold window spades - kind of a hardened but thin, heart shaped putty blade, with a pocked-abrasive surface to break free a painted-stuck sash.

Gently tapping a stiff putty knife with a hammer around the entire exterior sash-frame may work to free the window - if everything is completely dry and not moist. If the interior sash is painted over - possibly multiple coats? It's tricky and messy and likely to end chewing up the interior finish trim work - by the tools used to free the sash.

The old window spades are pretty aggressive little monsters. And then you'll need to reglaze some of the mullions.

Posted by: 13times at May 15, 2025 12:30 AM (B17mP)

255 The U.S. has found Trojan horse communication devices in Chinese-made solar power inverters. They are used to connect solar panels to electricity grids.

The devices could be turned out remotely to destabilize energy grids, potentially leading to massive blackouts like the recent one in Spain.
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Saw another article about remote signal devices secreted on dock side cranes at major ports.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:31 AM (9oFPr)

256 For those so inclined and in the area, it's nice to drop by one of the See's factories. One in LA off La Cieniga. The one near SF is in South San Francisco, just north of SFO. Just seeing the big pipe hook-ups labeled "Milk Chocolate" and "Dark Chocolate" for tanker trucks is worth a drop-by.

The SF factory is just south of the national cemetery where Adm. Nimitz is buried (flanked by Spruance, Lockwood, and Turner). Some day I'm hitting the Sees factory and finally visiting that cemetery.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 15, 2025 12:32 AM (1m82a)

257 The U.S. has found Trojan horse communication devices in Chinese-made solar power inverters. They are used to connect solar panels to electricity grids.

The devices could be turned out remotely to destabilize energy grids, potentially leading to massive blackouts like the recent one in Spain.
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Saw another article about remote signal devices secreted on dock side cranes at major ports.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Which came first, Israeli special pagers of Chinese IOT?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 15, 2025 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)

258 I saw Reglaze My Mullions open for It's a Beautiful Day at the Fillmore West in 1969.

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp! at May 15, 2025 12:37 AM (G5+As)

259 China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.

https://tinyurl.com/mrb4p65p

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:41 AM (9oFPr)

260 Edmonton wins in OT. Vegas eliminated.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 15, 2025 12:43 AM (H6vnY)

261 Reglaze My Mullions

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp! at May 15, 2025 12:37 AM (G5+As)

Sounds like a pr0n title. Or the latest weird reality fixer-upper show.

Posted by: RickZ at May 15, 2025 12:43 AM (gKDq2)

262 And....
It's over. Edmonton wins. Canada still has a chance to win that elusive SC. Been a while. 1993 with Montreal?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2025 12:43 AM (Kdi1r)

263 Pillage,
Sorry about the legal issues. This is NOT a recommendation to get into the way of police but there are some Internet companies that deal with these issues and monitor when pix surface around the net. See what the police will do and then find a well regarded PI cyber service to contact. Be sure to be upfront about what outcome you desire and what your budget is.

But they can go to the isps and demand takedown of accounts with the pix, forward info to the cops, etc. And scan the web including the dark web for photos attached to her name etc. When they pop up elsewhere. Usually that part is automated.

Posted by: whig's phone at May 15, 2025 12:47 AM (ctrM5)

264 I expect that Florida will end Toronto's run. The Caps are being Caps like and will probably lose Thursday night to the team formerly known as the Hartford Whalers. I liked those old HW jerseys.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2025 12:47 AM (Kdi1r)

265 Imma go with 78 peeps stuffed into that jar to suffocate...poor things...can't wait for my moron prize

Posted by: Mark at May 15, 2025 12:56 AM (gP8ie)

266 Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships.
...
investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.
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Chinese designed and manufactured microchip as small as a pencil tip.
Some chips were built to look like signal couplers, and they incorporated memory networking capability and sufficient processing power for an attack

The microchips ere inserted at Chinese factories that supplied Supermicro, …

Compromised motheroards were built into serves assembled by Supermicro.

Sabotaged servers put inside data centers operated by dozens of companies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:56 AM (9oFPr)

267 I'm rooting for Edmonton to win it all.

Posted by: Archer at May 15, 2025 01:01 AM (IDphi)

268 Reglaze My Mullions
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp!

Sounds like a pr0n title. Or the latest weird reality fixer-upper show.
Posted by: RickZ

Or an epithet from Granny on Beverly Hillbillies. Maybe without the "Re."

Posted by: mikeski at May 15, 2025 01:03 AM (DgGvY)

269 The microchips ere inserted at Chinese factories that supplied Supermicro, …

Compromised motheroards were built into serves assembled by Supermicro.

Sabotaged servers put inside data centers operated by dozens of companies.
Posted by: Braenyard

Maybe we should manufacture things here, for a change?

Posted by: mikeski and/or Donald Trump at May 15, 2025 01:05 AM (DgGvY)

270 Hey Horde.

RickZ I watch a lot of those fixer upper shows!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2025 01:05 AM (0nHVk)

271 77 peeps

Posted by: scampydog at May 15, 2025 01:09 AM (41CYW)

272 WATCH: Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen is removed by law enforcement for interrupting RFK Jr. hearing

https://tinyurl.com/mw45rduk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 01:11 AM (9oFPr)

273 >>I expect that Florida will end Toronto's run. The Caps are being Caps like and will probably lose Thursday night to the team formerly known as the Hartford Whalers. I liked those old HW jerseys.

The Whalers started out in the old WHA. The original GM and coach was a hockey legend named Jack Kelley. He had two sons, David and Mark. David Kelley is the Hollywood producer who has done a bunch of tv hit shows. Mark was a college friend and a great guy and became a scout for the Blackhawks. Good hockey player, better friend.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 15, 2025 01:13 AM (viF8m)

274 Big day at SCOTUS tomorrow

The days of rogue district court judges hijacking executive authority may finally be numbered.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a consolidated case, Trump v. CASA, which challenges lower court rulings that blocked President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.

Despite the constitutional authority granted to the executive branch on immigration matters, three district judges issued sweeping nationwide injunctions halting the order.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 01:14 AM (9oFPr)

275 266 Amazon reported the discovery to U.S. authorities, sending a shudder through the intelligence community. Elemental’s servers could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the CIA’s drone operations, and the onboard networks of Navy warships.
...
investigators found that the chips had been inserted at factories run by manufacturing subcontractors in China.
---
Chinese designed and manufactured microchip as small as a pencil tip.
Some chips were built to look like signal couplers, and they incorporated memory networking capability and sufficient processing power for an attack

The microchips ere inserted at Chinese factories that supplied Supermicro, …

Compromised motheroards were built into serves assembled by Supermicro.

Sabotaged servers put inside data centers operated by dozens of companies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 12:56 AM (9oFPr)

Saw article a few years back that those server cards were even used by our Military...
I blame Nixon, Clinton, Obama, and Biden.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2025 01:15 AM (ynpvh)

276 Or rather, DoD...which is worse

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2025 01:15 AM (ynpvh)

277 did the candy estimation maybe about 13 or 14 years ago with my elder child. I showed him how to estimate (this case, it was, I think, jelly beans in a large jar). I told him to estimate the number of layers, a rough count of the beans on the top layer, multiply. We got lucky and hit the number exactly and won a prize...won't ever happen again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2025 01:18 AM (ynpvh)

278
Not for nothing...

but when I watched the clip of those leftist weirdos disrupt the RFK hearing, I noticed when that weirdo bitch started shrieking it really startled RFK.

Who could blame him, tho? Left wing loons have a history of murdering his family members.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing Bigoted Facts at May 15, 2025 01:23 AM (KCTOC)

279 278
Not for nothing...

but when I watched the clip of those leftist weirdos disrupt the RFK hearing, I noticed when that weirdo bitch started shrieking it really startled RFK.

Who could blame him, tho? Left wing loons have a history of murdering his family members.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing Bigoted Facts at May 15, 2025 01:23 AM (KCTOC)

He didn't get heckled like that before he became associated with Trump.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2025 01:27 AM (ynpvh)

280 In-N-Out to get rid of artificial food colorings in their strawberry shakes and pink lemonades.

MAHA!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 01:33 AM (9oFPr)

281
True, jim. But he left the Cult, therefore a heretic.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing Bigoted Facts at May 15, 2025 01:33 AM (KCTOC)

282 @liz_churchill10 _ 4h

[Communist]Traitor John Brennan has a breakdown over the firing of Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof.

“This whole thing just makes me livid. It’s appalling and outrageous and demonstrates why Tulsi Gabbard never should have been confirmed as director. It's appalling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 01:38 AM (9oFPr)

283 My answer to the light bulb problem: set up your smartphone to show all three bulb at once. Send the video to your tablet. Take your tablet to the switches to see which switch does what. Also, stated answer assumes the light bulbs are incandescent and warm up enough to be felt as warm some minutes later. What if they are very cool LED bulbs?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 15, 2025 01:40 AM (ZVgZ4)

284 Good luck ‘Vaccine Industry’…

“The 76 shots that children receive…none have been safety tested in pre-licensing studies against a placebo. We don't understand the risk profile for those products. That's something that I intend to remedy.” -HHS RFK Jr
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This is appalling. They ever hear of colostrum? There aren't 76 things to be of concern even if the vaccines did work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 01:40 AM (9oFPr)

285
Brennan can *uck off.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 01:40 AM (3ek7K)

286 282 @liz_churchill10 _ 4h

[Communist]Traitor John Brennan has a breakdown over the firing of Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof.

“This whole thing just makes me livid. It’s appalling and outrageous and demonstrates why Tulsi Gabbard never should have been confirmed as director. It's appalling.
Posted by: Braenyard

If the traitor John Brennan is livid about this, then it was the correct move by Tulsi. The traitor John Brennan just confirmed it with his little stompy feet here.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2025 01:44 AM (Kdi1r)

287 You are right fourseasons, boot his ass back to Easter Island!!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2025 01:45 AM (0nHVk)

288 My answer to the light bulb problem: set up your smartphone to show all three bulb at once.

My answer - remove the light bulb. Then do that slow jiggle to find the sweet spot where the switch will arc in the not quite off not quite on position ... I know I've done that by accident.

Two of the switches will do it. The third one controls the socket to the bulb you just removed.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 15, 2025 01:45 AM (aTYQb)

289
Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof...

If, like me, you're wondering who these two assholes are and what they did:

Collins was Acting Director of the National Intelligence Council, Langan was his Deputy. These two Shits were acting against the President of the United States by deliberately putting out false reports that contradicted the President's positions (namely, Venezuela). In other words, they were pulling the same shit the other "resistors" pulled in the first term.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing Bigoted Facts at May 15, 2025 01:47 AM (KCTOC)

290 Traitor John Brennan has a breakdown over the firing of Mike Collins and Maria Langan-Riekhof.

The Deep State really doesn't like the entire idea of representative democracy. Of course, most people don't, when it runs against their wishes.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 15, 2025 01:49 AM (aTYQb)

291 The weekend is coming
After a long drive home

Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2025 02:00 AM (nYyi3)

292 Noam and MTG tag team Dems on Trump, so far, finding 5,000 children lost or trafficked by Biden and still looking.

https://tinyurl.com/55eu6us2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:03 AM (9oFPr)

293
Skip,

I hope your weekend is great. You be careful driving home.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:03 AM (3ek7K)

294

People who traffic children should be killed.

Evil, perverted pieces of shit.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:06 AM (3ek7K)

295 281
True, jim. But he left the Cult, therefore a heretic.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing Bigoted Facts at May 15, 2025 01:33 AM (KCTOC)

Which is what I was kinda implying.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2025 02:06 AM (ynpvh)

296 294

People who traffic children should be killed.

Evil, perverted pieces of shit.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:06 AM (3ek7K)

For some reason, the dems politicians seemed to want an ample supply of young children coming in...so yeah, should be handled like Vlad the Impaler and have their bodies lined up each side of each road leading to Washington DC.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 15, 2025 02:09 AM (ynpvh)

297 People who traffic children should be killed. Evil, perverted pieces of shit.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:06 AM (3ek7K)

They sure seemed to go from "anything for the children" when it came to budgets and taxes to "don't look too hard behind the mirror" real quick.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 15, 2025 02:09 AM (aTYQb)

298 After a long drive home
Posted by: Skip
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It's about time for a break.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:10 AM (9oFPr)

299 Oh. My.

That Monty video I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!. Cannot wait to share it with my lib family and how can they argue??? It's so beautiful thank you ONT!!!

Posted by: NC Ref at May 15, 2025 02:12 AM (gHHVE)

300
For the children, lol. Aholes probably stole any money allocated for children's programs.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:14 AM (3ek7K)

301 I believe that 50 percent of leftists are mentally ill. The other 50 percent take advantage of them.That is why the crazy people get put on the news so much. It's kinda scary that the crazy get so much of the headlines from the media. A media who act like the crazy people are just normal and sane. Meanwhile normal people are getting played.

Posted by: Case at May 15, 2025 02:16 AM (Qdqx6)

302 >>>296 294

People who traffic children should be killed.
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When they started using snipers to shoot airplane hijackers the number of hijackings dropped precipitously to zero. Not because these angry people didn't want to pull a crazy stunt. But dying wasn't part of the plan.

Yeah, it will definitely cause others to have second thoughts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:16 AM (9oFPr)

303
Are we more aware of the crazy people because of the internet.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:20 AM (3ek7K)

304 James Comey has some serious explaining to do.

A DOGE audit just uncovered a $16 MILLION payment—wired straight to Comey’s private company. And get this: it was approved by Comey himself.

Comey was asked for comment.
He stayed silent.

Typical

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:23 AM (9oFPr)

305 303
Are we more aware of the crazy people because of the internet.
Posted by: fourseasons
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We're flooded with everything.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:25 AM (9oFPr)

306
Geez

Thay never thought they would be caught.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:26 AM (3ek7K)

307 Are we more aware of the crazy people because of the internet.

I really do not think so.

We're still getting over how crazy the news curators were back when it was the Big Three Networks. When they'd tell us the most outlandish shit in soft, even, Tom Daschle tones.

Have you noticed some of the unhinged shit that Judy Woodruff has uttered over the years ? Do you really think Peggy Noonan was ever sober and sane at the same time ?

We're more aware of the amateur crazies now - before they move up in class and get all the political class protection. But that's better. Because cats like Saul Alinsky would at least out themselves early now.

If anything, the Internet has given everyone a platform. To show us just how crazy the under-currents have always been.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 15, 2025 02:28 AM (aTYQb)

308 James Comey has some serious explaining to do.

A DOGE audit just uncovered a $16 MILLION payment—wired straight to Comey’s private company. And get this: it was approved by Comey himself.

Comey was asked for comment.
He stayed silent.

Typical

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:23 AM (9oFPr)
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Arrests. Trials. Convictions. Sentencings.

Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2025 02:29 AM (P/ezU)

309 Or said better - its just more crazy people - but we've always had crazy people in our ear.

The Internet just makes it easier now to recognize crazy. It wasn't better in the old day - when we didn't know how crazy the TV talkers were, and were even less aware how crazy everything was on their side of the camera.

Ignorance is not bliss.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 15, 2025 02:30 AM (aTYQb)

310
That makes a lot of sense Mike.

I'll tell my Husband that tomorrow. We discuss this a lot.

Posted by: fourseasons at May 15, 2025 02:32 AM (3ek7K)

311 Say! How's part of the US energy infrastructure doing?

Simply ask Chynah:

https://tinyurl.com/2p238fb5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2025 02:34 AM (P/ezU)

312 Good night, Horde, I have a lengthy list of tasks in the morning.

jim (in kalifornia), it is good to see you posting, I hope that you are well.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2025 02:36 AM (0nHVk)

313 Lawfare.

The hunt for US Attorney Ed Martin:

https://t.co/ZVcuDofkHj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 15, 2025 02:43 AM (P/ezU)

314 Wait, you mean the guy who wrote a book titled 'A Higher Loyalty' is a greedy, depraved, sleaze bucket?

No. Way.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2025 02:46 AM (Kdi1r)

315 Energy:

_Chevron's started a big project in the Gulf of America
_NRG bought 11 or so gas fired energy plants they say will boost availability from NE Tx to states further east
_Rig count is up
_Taiwan Semi Conductor's completed a $100 Billion dollar facility here.
_NVDA and Intel are doing OK.
_Constellation Energy is opening 3 Mile Island.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:49 AM (9oFPr)

316 Ok, one last thing, my caption for the bunny cartoon.

Well, I'm off to work, honey, easy gig, just gotta scare Joe Biden at the Easter egg roll. I should be home early.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 15, 2025 02:49 AM (0nHVk)

317 _Constellation Energy is opening 3 Mile Island.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Posted by: The China Syndrome at May 15, 2025 02:52 AM (Kdi1r)

318 >>>For some reason, the dems politicians seemed to want an ample supply of young children coming in...so yeah, should be handled like Vlad the Impaler and have their bodies lined up each side of each road leading to Washington DC.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Hey, didn't see you back there. Hope everything is going OK.
You know, there's a gap around here with you missing.
Take a pain pill and dive in.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:52 AM (9oFPr)

319 The China Syndrome
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Hollywood's been punking for a long time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 15, 2025 02:55 AM (9oFPr)

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