A Fanfare of Elephants Cafe

Do you see a human fleeing,
or a dog approaching?

A little correction: I posted a video that purported to show a 40-year-old Corvette being discovered in a garage having never been driven (except from the dealers to the garage). Eric Blade says that the hot new fake video is "Barn Finds," where people pretend to discover treasures in barns. I think he's probably right. Sorry about that, I didn't know about the Hot New Fake Video trend.

A toddler greets his family's horses, and they bow their heads for a pet.

Doggo has cutest smile of appreciation.

The bestest fences make the bestest neighbors.

A dog that lost a fore-leg receives a new prosthetic that lets him run and play again.

Bambi and Thumper.

Bringing the new puppy home.

Tails of the Golden Monkeys.

Dogs do the new meme.

Dog raises lion cub.

Cow wants to be involved.

I note the cat takes off and doesn't help. Sometimes the reward of a hero is just the heroism itself.

Cat just relaxing and being silly.

ChatGTP, define prancing.

Dog and duck.

Baby elephant thinks he's a lap elephant.

Out of control!

He's not sure what he did but he sure did something.

But why is the duck on the floor?

Sometimes I think he only loves me for my body.

Elephants react to seeing beloved caretaker for first time in over a year (warning: loud!) pic.twitter.com/jK40R0cQLC
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 21, 2025

Incredible moment hero dog saves another dog stranded on a surfboard..🐕🐾🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/wXNnCwQwY6
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 21, 2025

We don't deserve them..🐕🐾❤️ pic.twitter.com/bWENiXHugF
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 20, 2025

Dog's reaction to hearing all his favorite words..🐕🐾😅 🔊⬆️

📹dsreps pic.twitter.com/vBkRQzpoAr
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) July 20, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM

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1 See how it is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 07:32 PM (zZu0s)

2
Hi, guys, reposting from this morning

For Jay Guevara:

https://toastourfriend.com/coop

Password = coop

They didn't want to be flooded with bots.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 07:33 PM (HL/Ld)

3 It's the lap hippos you really gotta watch out for.

Posted by: Wild Kingdom at July 21, 2025 07:34 PM (wVcYX)

4 Eric Blade says that the hot new fake video is "Barn Finds," where people pretend to discover treasures in barns. I think he's probably right. Sorry about that, I didn't know about the Hot New Fake Video trend.

I didn't know those videos were "a thing". I knew it was sus though when the tires and rubber gaskets were all intact. Those petroleum polymers do not age well.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 21, 2025 07:34 PM (gLikB)

5 Dog.

if it was a human, the knee is bending wrong.

but excellent illusion!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 07:34 PM (dKEEs)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM (GYt5+)

7 The say elephants are really smart, but you'd think something with a nose like that would figure out how to not smell so bad.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM (b4o9z)

8
A little correction:

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sallright, Lamont. It's getting to where the internet has more punking than porn these days. They're kind of related, I guess.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM (HL/Ld)

9 Yeah on the corvette find I pointed out that there would have been tire rot and all the rubber hoses and belts would have had to be changed as well.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM (VofaG)

10 What does this have to do with Timeline Witches or the legendary Kate Mulgrew, whom I thought was solid in ST: Voyager?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 21, 2025 07:36 PM (TGPs7)

11 What do you do with an elephant with three balls?

Walk him and pitch to the rhino

Posted by: Josephistan at July 21, 2025 07:36 PM (c49Mn)

12 Voyager (aside from the boobs of 7o9) was a pile of shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 07:37 PM (zZu0s)

13 The little white fluffball has the most expressive ears ever.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2025 07:37 PM (6ydKt)

14 ""Eric Blade says that the hot new fake video is "Barn Finds," where people pretend to discover treasures in barns. I think he's probably right. Sorry about that, I didn't know about the Hot New Fake Video trend.""

Those vids always amused me. Cars that are worth silly, super silly money that have been actively hunted for 50 years always seem to just pop up in a barn, as if the owners lived in a cave and had no clue of it's value.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 21, 2025 07:38 PM (snZF9)

15 I've got a "barn find". The car sat in garage for 40 years until I got it. The condition was pretty nasty but the car was solid. It's not a Corvette though.
It took another half dozen years until I could drive it down the driveway.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2025 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

16 OK, so how did the little dog get stuck out there in the ocean all by himself in the first place?

Tide take him out or something?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2025 07:40 PM (6ydKt)

17
Dog on surfboard is perfectly capable of doggy-paddling, PLUS has a lifejacket on. It just wanted some princess treatment.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 07:40 PM (HL/Ld)

18 Time and temperature are not kind to cars with fiberglass bodies.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 21, 2025 07:40 PM (b4o9z)

19 Yeah, you go down the 'staged' aspect of the videos and then you start wondering about the animal videos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 07:41 PM (zZu0s)

20 The say elephants are really smart, but you'd think something with a nose like that would figure out how to not smell so bad.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM

Compared to penguins, we're freaking Chanel No. 5!

Posted by: Elephants at July 21, 2025 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

21 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 21, 2025 07:38 PM (snZF9)

American Pickers always has a good barn find.

Their most famous one was finding Aerosmith's first tour van .

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 07:43 PM (VofaG)

22 I don't know how you humans breath through those things.

Posted by: An elephant at July 21, 2025 07:45 PM (wVcYX)

23
That big lolling leopard has the most beautiful coat I've ever seen. I didn't know they came two-toned like that, yellow on top and white on the belly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 07:46 PM (HL/Ld)

24 Evening, Ace and Cafe patrons!

Barn finds exist. I have seen several of them. Spoiler: in most cases, the owners know damned well what they have, and will not sell at any price.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2025 07:46 PM (I4OId)

25 sallright, Lamont. It's getting to where the internet has more punking than porn these days. They're kind of related, I guess.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM (HL/Ld)

You’re not wrong.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2025 07:47 PM (tFl/1)

26 Dog on surfboard is perfectly capable of doggy-paddling, PLUS has a lifejacket on.

And how did it get there in the first place? Smells faker than the car video.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 21, 2025 07:47 PM (/y8xj)

27 sallright, Lamont. It's getting to where the internet has more punking than porn these days. They're kind of related, I guess.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM (HL/Ld)

You mean not every step son is banging his step mom?

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 07:48 PM (VofaG)

28 I've got a "barn find". The car sat in garage for 40 years until I got it. The condition was pretty nasty but the car was solid. It's not a Corvette though.
It took another half dozen years until I could drive it down the driveway.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2025 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

I noticed that a lot that do actually pop up are mostly not "hunted" cars. Its usually granny's corvair, or aunt haggie's amc pacer, or some other sentimental thing that sits out of sight out of mind. Occasionally you do find a hunted car here and there that somebody had dreams of restoring and finally decides to let it go, but they know what they have. I know of a '67 camaro like that. Original owner still, and its sitting under a tarp in a back yard. It was restored once years ago. Me thinks it's going to need another round at this point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 21, 2025 07:48 PM (snZF9)

29 My 63 Corvair was last on the road in 1996 until I recently resurrected it. It was in a barn for over 25 years.

Posted by: Penguin Pete at July 21, 2025 07:49 PM (G5+As)

30 Their most famous one was finding Aerosmith's first tour van .
Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 07:43 PM (VofaG)

That is a truly astounding level of famousness, it is!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2025 07:50 PM (I4OId)

31 We're pissing all over ace's videos.

'You know ace, why were those two girls in a barn?! Why wouldn't they have found a bed some place? Plus, I question 'lesbian' especially in the case of Angela white. It seems staged to me...'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

32 My next door neighbor's investment was in a corvette always in the garage. She knew what she had, and wanted good money to see it go.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 21, 2025 07:52 PM (u82oZ)

33 Does the fact that the corvair was air cooled mean less shit to get gunked up?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 07:53 PM (zZu0s)

34
Greg Gutfeld nails it in one sentence: "They saw colbert as a government program -- sure it costs millions and it sucks, but we feel good that it's on, even if we don't watch it."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 21, 2025 07:53 PM (zKBG3)

35 A long long time ago I went with my dad to a huge old barn full old cars to find a part for his 356. I was maybe 16 at the time. There were a lot of cars, 50 or more, and tons of parts. I remember seeing the rear half of a 65 Corvette sitting on the ground, and a Stanley Steamer that looked like it had been sitting there since 1927. Odd sports cars and run of the mill Dodges and Ford's and such. I've sometimes wondered what happened to that collection. The place was so dilapidated at the time it would have collapsed by now.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2025 07:55 PM (vFG9F)

36 Gia Prism, the founder of the 4 am club, has a merch store. Color me shocked. There you can buy "Channeling the Guides of Ascension: The Light is Coming | Full Woo 1" - $11.00, or "Awakening the Weather Witch: Channeled Class + Activation" $13.00. My favorite is "The Bowie Sessions, David Bowie as Channeled by Gia Prism" - $11.00.

Full Woo. WTF? I wonder if there is a Half-Wit Foo?

https://is.gd/EMPn9D

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 21, 2025 07:55 PM (NXz8h)

37 Compared to penguins, we're freaking Chanel No. 5! - Elephants

Sal "Big Chill" Ghiaccio, on the horn to his button man, Tuxedo Tommy: "I wanna place an order for some ivory billiard balls - genuine ivory billiard balls, know what I mean?"

Posted by: Paco at July 21, 2025 07:56 PM (mADJX)

38 David Bowie as channeled by...

Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

39 "My 63 Corvair was last on the road in 1996 until I recently resurrected it. It was in a barn for over 25 years.
Posted by: Penguin Pete"

Thanks for keeping it alive. Old cars are cool. Air-cooled in your case.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2025 07:58 PM (vFG9F)

40 American Pickers always has a good barn find.

Their most famous one was finding Aerosmith's first tour van .

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 07:43 PM (VofaG)

One house in New Jersey that Mike & Danielle went to a few years back had two DeLoreans in the garages.

Mike ended up buying the one that was in rougher shape, but the couple who had bought the estate and were remodeling the place kept the other one which was in decent enough shape for them to test drive it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2025 07:59 PM (6ydKt)

41 I made a real barn find. Visiting a man's barn as a lad in 1978 with my father who was buying some tack (saddles, etc.), I spotted a car shape under a tarp. It was the man's father's 1965 Porsche 356 Super 90 cabriolet. It was in rough shape, but no rust. My father, a Porsche guy from way back, offered $500 on the spot. It was accepted. We towed it home, me pulling it with our F-250 stake truck. My father spent a year restoring it and sold it to a young Asian guy from San Francisco for $10k. That car is worth $200k or more today.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 21, 2025 08:00 PM (WHfpM)

42 My grandpa had an old Ford Model 'C' in one of the chicken coops that flowed to me and my sibs after he and Grammi passed. We decided to sell it - it had been restored once before.

I put a call in to the Ford Museum in Dearborn. When I told the guy at Ford I had a Model 'C' he said "No you don't" and we went back and forth a bit. Finally he said something like - Well Mr. Smartass, what's the serial number?

I told him I couldn't find a SN anywhere but it had 'xx' stamped on the flywheel.

He told me to talk to no one and he'd be there in 12 hours.

He was.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 21, 2025 08:00 PM (cYBz/)

43 We hold this truth to be self evident, no foreigner can
pronounce Massachusetts correctly. It just can't be done!
If you can find a foreign person who pronounces the word right, I suspect greatly they are one of David Icke's Lizard People, or what we in the Paranormal field call Reptoids, and not of this earth...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 21, 2025 08:01 PM (TGPs7)

44 Fun fact. They 5tired replace ivory billiard balls with nitro cellulose. If you smacked them hard enough they would explode.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 21, 2025 08:01 PM (b4o9z)

45 The thrust bearing movie video on the Gun Thread last night reminded me of my poor old Simca, that met it's demise with a thrust bearing pounded wafer-thin. That's the kind of car you might find in a barn and leave there.

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2025 08:03 PM (vFG9F)

46 My barn find was a 1971 Scout rolling down the freeway with a for sale sign in the window. I chased the guy down and followed him home. It was a little tense when I jumped out of my car and ran up his driveway asking "how much?" I bought it on the spot and got a boat as part of the deal. The reason it was being sold is his wife and daughters refused to be seen in it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 21, 2025 08:04 PM (NXz8h)

47 sallright, Lamont. It's getting to where the internet has more punking than porn these days. They're kind of related, I guess.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 07:35 PM (HL/Ld)

You mean not every step son is banging his step mom?
Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 07:48 PM (VofaG)

and his aunties, too!

Posted by: Manhwa at July 21, 2025 08:05 PM (wVcYX)

48 We hold this truth to be self evident, no foreigner can
pronounce Massachusetts correctly. Posted by: Mister Ghost

Now try Puyallup.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 21, 2025 08:05 PM (NXz8h)

49 "Posted by: Ordinary American "

Wow that story mirrors the story of my dad's 57 356. We spent a year doing a total strip down restoration and the weekend after we got it put back together we drove it to a Porsche club meeting at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and I got to drive it around the track in a parade lap!

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2025 08:08 PM (vFG9F)

50 Before clicking on the link titled "Out of Control!" I am going to predict it leads to otters.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:08 PM (VSht7)

51 Yeah, Bambi and Thumper deciding how to divide up my garden.

Posted by: Paco at July 21, 2025 08:10 PM (mADJX)

52 A mother and her baby deer just walked through my backyard. Well mom walked, the baby danced around a bit.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:10 PM (viF8m)

53 Heffalumps and Woozles.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:10 PM (krQz2)

54 Yeah, Bambi and Thumper deciding how to divide up my garden.

Posted by: Paco at July 21, 2025 08:10 PM (mADJX)
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Democracy!

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:11 PM (krQz2)

55 >>>But why is the duck on the floor?

Is it possible for ducks to be housebroken? If not, I wouldn't let a duck on my bed.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 21, 2025 08:11 PM (p4nXC)

56 Posted by: Paco at July 21, 2025 08:10 PM (mADJX)

heh

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:11 PM (viF8m)

57 You I'm getting to be one of those "That was staged!" type of video consumers.

They annoyed me at first, but there seems to be a lot of people staging videos for clicks on the internet.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:12 PM (krQz2)

58
Busy day at Schloss Hadrian today. Heart test for HM. I gave big Dan a bath before his appointment with the doggie chiropractor. And I had some shopping to do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 21, 2025 08:12 PM (l7y9o)

59 50 Before clicking on the link titled "Out of Control!" I am going to predict it leads to otters.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:08 PM (VSht7)

Nope. Bears. Totally out of control, but under the watchful eye of Momma.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:13 PM (VSht7)

60 Now try Puyallup.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 21, 2025 08:05 PM (NXz8h)
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I'm a big kid now!

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:13 PM (krQz2)

61 I don't know if it'd be considered a barn find, but Mike Wolfe went absolutely nuts digging in some lady's backyard because he'd been told by the grandchild of the family that lived at the house back in the day that his grandfather had buried his very early Indian motorcycle in the backyard when the grandmother told him he couldn't ride it anymore.
It was like a family legend.

Mike paid the lady that lived there to tear up her yard and he'd get landscapers out to fix everything after they were done.

They spent all day and into the night with shovels and flashlights before they finally found the rusted, deteriorated, pieces & parts of this bike.

Wolfe then took it back to Iowa and had his welder-Mr-Fix-It put it every part together on a stand to try and get it back to a "bike" shape.

I don't know what he ended up getting for it, if anything, but it surely wasn't as much as he put in to getting the thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2025 08:13 PM (6ydKt)

62 >>>I note the cat takes off and doesn't help.

Of course the cat helped. Got off the dog's back so the dog could get out. It was cat heroism!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 21, 2025 08:15 PM (p4nXC)

63 I saw two pelicans today on the way to Red Deer. And I saw something that made me chuckle: a Mini (one of the fake BMW ones) with a huge sticker in the back window which read, "Warning! I can't see sh*t because of this awesome sticker."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2025 08:15 PM (I4OId)

64 50 Before clicking on the link titled "Out of Control!" I am going to predict it leads to otters.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:08 PM (VSht7)

Nope. Bears. Totally out of control, but under the watchful eye of Momma.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:13 PM (VSht7)

Bears Gone Wild?

Posted by: Joe Francis at July 21, 2025 08:17 PM (wVcYX)

65 Yeah...like the dog saving the cat with human standing there with a cell phone.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:17 PM (fV+MH)

66 Incredible moment hero dog saves another dog stranded on a surfboard.
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Who was that masked dog?

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:18 PM (krQz2)

67 Do you see a human fleeing,
or a dog approaching?

----

I see Saskwach

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 21, 2025 08:18 PM (pI9a0)

68 Want to sleep soundly? Get a guard duck.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2025 08:18 PM (63Dwl)

69 Do you see a human fleeing, or a dog approaching?

Well I do now!

Posted by: JML at July 21, 2025 08:19 PM (6solg)

70 Dog's reaction to hearing all his favorite words..
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I hope she paid off on all that.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:19 PM (krQz2)

71 " My grandpa had an old Ford Model 'C' in one of the chicken coops that flowed to me and my sibs after he and Grammi passed. We decided to sell it - it had been restored once before.

I put a call in to the Ford Museum in Dearborn. When I told the guy at Ford I had a Model 'C' he said "No you don't" and we went back and forth a bit. Finally he said something like - Well Mr. Smartass, what's the serial number?

I told him I couldn't find a SN anywhere but it had 'xx' stamped on the flywheel.

He told me to talk to no one and he'd be there in 12 hours.

He was.
Posted by: Tonypete "

Awesome.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:19 PM (fV+MH)

72 But why is the duck on the floor?
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I don't know why a duck?

Why not a chicken?

Posted by: Chico at July 21, 2025 08:21 PM (krQz2)

73 "I don't know how you humans breath through those things.
Posted by: An elephant"

How do elephants pick their nose?

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:22 PM (fV+MH)

74 Justice for Chauncey

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 21, 2025 08:22 PM (sr4jL)

75 "Want to sleep soundly? Get a guard duck.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

Holy shit. Geese.

I had to walk by a house guarded by geese everyday on my way home from school.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:24 PM (fV+MH)

76 Heh.
I was a sophomore in high school when I first heard about a guy who knew a guy who sell a brand new corvette for just $300.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2025 08:24 PM (W/lyH)

77 But why is the duck on the floor?

Gravity.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 08:24 PM (Wnv9h)

78 guinea fowl are the worst!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 08:25 PM (dKEEs)

79 From the Bee:

Obama argues that he can't be charged with treason because he wasn't born here.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 08:25 PM (hu2N2)

80 Want to sleep soundly? Get a guard duck.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2025 08:18 PM

Devil ducks!

https://youtu.be/TclQPPTnor0

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 08:26 PM (Wnv9h)

81 You guys are missing some very large Great White's on Shark Week.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)

82 How do elephants pick their nose

compressed air

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 21, 2025 08:27 PM (QSrLX)

83 But why is the duck on the floor?

Why are any of us on the floor?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 08:27 PM (cEEir)

84 "Now try Puyallup.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram"

I can't pronounce that and I'm more American than Jack Adams.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:28 PM (fV+MH)

85 "But why is the duck on the floor?"

It's a floor duck.

Posted by: HVAC jokes at July 21, 2025 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

86 If I can find me a nice, near mint 1988 Dodge Aries, I’d get it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 21, 2025 08:28 PM (YAMwy)

87 how much does the duck weigh?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 08:29 PM (dKEEs)

88 64 Bears Gone Wild?
Posted by: Joe Francis at July 21, 2025 08:17 PM (wVcYX)

Bears don't "go" wild.

They are born already well past wild and almost to full berserk.

https://tinyurl.com/2h75v359

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:29 PM (VSht7)

89 "You guys are missing some very large Great White's on Shark Week.
Posted by: JackStraw"

thnksnothnks

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:29 PM (fV+MH)

90 As if the propaganda ministry collapses aren't good enough, bot Phillip Bump an Jonathan Capeheart have accepted buyouts from the WAPO . Don't let the screen door hit you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2025 08:29 PM (Uahmw)

91 >>guinea fowl are the worst!

This is true.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:29 PM (viF8m)

92 You guys are missing some very large Great White's on Shark Week.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)
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Stick it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:30 PM (krQz2)

93 73 "I don't know how you humans breath through those things.
Posted by: An elephant"

How do elephants pick their nose?
Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:22 PM (fV+MH)

They start by looking at pictures in the catalog.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:31 PM (VSht7)

94 Now try Puyallup.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 21, 2025 08:05 PM

P-you-wallup.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 08:31 PM (Wnv9h)

95 how much does the duck weigh?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

Laden or unladen?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 08:32 PM (hu2N2)

96 O'er the land of the freeeeee
And the home if the braaaaaave.

play ball

11 What do you do with an elephant with three balls?

Walk him and pitch to the rhino
Posted by: Josephistan at July 21, 2025 07:36 PM (c49Mn)

among the things worth coming here for

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 21, 2025 08:32 PM (QSrLX)

97 As if the propaganda ministry collapses aren't good enough, bot Phillip Bump an Jonathan Capeheart have accepted buyouts from the WAPO . Don't let the screen door hit you
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 21, 2025 08:29 PM (Uahmw)

That is pronounced "Bimp", right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2025 08:32 PM (I4OId)

98 I know two barn finds that worked out really well when I was a kid at a small airport in SW Washington. One was a 1941 DeHaviland Tiger Moth my 'ol man and a couple friends found in Canada. This was back in the '60's. I helped to rebuild it and it is still flying today.
The other was found by one of the guys at the airport. It was a Canadian Hawker Hurricane. He found it in a barn in Alberta, hauled it to his shop and took almost two years rebuilding it. He was about 80% done when the company filming The Battle of Britain heard about it. They paid to finish the rebuild if they could use it in the movie. A beautiful airplane.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2025 08:32 PM (W/lyH)

99 "But why is the duck on the floor?"

It's a floor duck.
Posted by: HVAC jokes at July 21, 2025 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

Duck tape for the ceiling ducks?

Posted by: Gorilla Glue Duck Tape at July 21, 2025 08:33 PM (wVcYX)

100 You guys are missing some very large Great White's on Shark Week.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)
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Stick it.
Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:30 PM (krQz2)
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For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXF-cdQQDfk

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:34 PM (krQz2)

101 "Now try Puyallup.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram"

I can't pronounce that and I'm more American than Jack Adams.
Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:28 PM (fV+MH)

I've lived here for years. We pronounce it The Town Near Tacoma.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2025 08:35 PM (W/lyH)

102 Awesome, Diogenes. Keep 'em flying!

Posted by: fd at July 21, 2025 08:36 PM (vFG9F)

103 You guys are missing some very large Great White's on Shark Week.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:26 PM

Might as well jump!

Posted by: E. Van Halen at July 21, 2025 08:36 PM (Wnv9h)

104 87 how much does the duck weigh?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 08:29 PM (dKEEs)

About as much as a witch.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:36 PM (VSht7)

105 ou guys are missing some very large Great White's on Shark Week.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:26 PM
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Sounds a little white supremacisty.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:37 PM (krQz2)

106 Mike paid the lady that lived there to tear up her yard and he'd get landscapers out to fix everything after they were done.

They spent all day and into the night with shovels and flashlights before they finally found the rusted, deteriorated, pieces & parts of this bike.

Wolfe then took it back to Iowa and had his welder-Mr-Fix-It put it every part together on a stand to try and get it back to a "bike" shape.

I don't know what he ended up getting for it, if anything, but it surely wasn't as much as he put in to getting the thing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 21, 2025 08:13 PM (6ydKt)

I remember that. There wasn't much there. Was there even an engine? I just can't remember. I just remember a small pile of rusted shit that was barely worth the effort.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 21, 2025 08:39 PM (snZF9)

107 Great White was one of the best light metal bands of the 80s, I have to say.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:39 PM (krQz2)

108 poo YALL up

?

Posted by: Don Black at July 21, 2025 08:39 PM (AOsQT)

109 >>Sounds a little white supremacisty.

Well they pretty much are. Unless you're an Orca. They just kill sharks to eat their liver.

That's cold.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)

110 109 >>Sounds a little white supremacisty.

Well they pretty much are. Unless you're an Orca. They just kill sharks to eat their liver.

That's cold.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)

They don't even pair it with fava beans and a nice chianti.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:42 PM (VSht7)

111
We hold this truth to be self evident, no foreigner can
pronounce Massachusetts correctly.

Posted by: Mister Ghost

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That's the very word a foreigner friend of mind gave as an example of how he learned to pronounce long English words. He said you just build them, slowly, then faster, like using a metronome. "Now I can say it any time I want. Masschcchsusshtss!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 08:43 PM (HL/Ld)

112 Duck Soup!

Posted by: The Marx Brothers at July 21, 2025 08:43 PM (wVcYX)

113 They don't even pair it with fava beans and a nice chianti.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 08:42 PM (VSht7)

Remember the Futurama episode 'Popplers'? That's what great white liver are to Killer Whales.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

114 Greetings from my sister's porch. Gotta beer, the sun has set, lightning bugs are coming out, and the crickets and cicadas are singing. Also, somewhere out there, Pennsylvania rednecks are blowing up stuff. I keep hearing the occasional explosion. Probably firecrackers. Really loud ones. Lovely night.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 21, 2025 08:45 PM (uGaBv)

115 >>That's the very word a foreigner friend of mind gave as an example of how he learned to pronounce long English words. He said you just build them, slowly, then faster, like using a metronome. "Now I can say it any time I want. Masschcchsusshtss!"

Now try Billerica, Massachusetts.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:45 PM (viF8m)

116 Rappahanock

Chickamagua.

Lot of fun place names.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

117 Now I have greater respect for Orcas than ever.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:47 PM (fV+MH)

118 Now try Billerica, Massachusetts.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:45 PM (viF8m)
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Gesundheit

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:47 PM (krQz2)

119 From the Bee:

Obama argues that he can't be charged with treason because he wasn't born here.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2025 08:25 PM (hu2N2)

Thats some funny shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 21, 2025 08:48 PM (snZF9)

120 Jackstraw, behind your smoker pic on Sunday, I thought you might have a bocce court between it and the hammock, RI and all.
Then I thought no, maybe a boat pad. Either?

Posted by: From about That Tim at July 21, 2025 08:48 PM (n4GiU)

121 Now try Billerica, Massachusetts.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:45 PM

*snigger*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 08:48 PM (Wnv9h)

122 The Indians had awesome place names.

What I never got was Indiana.

Was it named that because of all the Indians?

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:50 PM (fV+MH)

123 Eh, the woke right i think is giving it too much credit. In Owen's or tuckers case, to me it feels like an extension of Ron Paul. A kind of almost gnosticism where they get enamored of having the hot take and going against the grain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

124
Another amazing astronomical discovery announced today. Betelgeuse has a companion. It's a binary, Jim.

The companion is a 1.5 solar mass, young stellar object that hasn't yet initiated fusion. It and Betelgeuse formed at the same time, but since Betelgeuse is so much more massive, it has a very short lifetime, only about 10 million years.

The companion would become an A or B blue star, if had time. It's orbiting inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere, and the drag is going to spiral it in about 10K years. So Betelgeuse is going to eat its little brother.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 21, 2025 08:51 PM (w6EFb)

125 55 >>>But why is the duck on the floor?

Is it possible for ducks to be housebroken? If not, I wouldn't let a duck on my bed.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Heh. I just got home and found cat barf on my bed.

Time to change everyrhing!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2025 08:52 PM (C9oTe)

126 >>Jackstraw, behind your smoker pic on Sunday, I thought you might have a bocce court between it and the hammock, RI and all.
Then I thought no, maybe a boat pad. Either?

Sadly, neither. Nobody on this end of island is on town sewer and there are strict restictions on septic tanks so we have these multi-stage systems that clean the stuff until it's basically water, when it hits that part of the system and it just gets pumped benath the stones back into the soil.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 08:54 PM (viF8m)

127 Speaking of incredible stories of survival - Hawker Hurricane Mk I R4118.

There are only two Hurricanes left that participated in the historic Battle of Britain. One is on static display and will never fly again. Then there is R4118.

After the Battle of Britain where five enemy planes fell victim to its .303 machine guns, the plane was used as a trainer for the next several years and several more accidents. After its last rebuild it and many other Hurricanes were crated up in 1944 and shipped to India to once again act as trainers.

Once they arrived it was determined they were surplus and left crated. After the war all but R4118 were dumped in the Bay of Bengal. R4118 went to a technical college where it sat for decades until it was found again.

After years of negotiations, it was brought back to England for restoration. The DeHavilland propellor was beyond salvage and another was not available, so a Rotol was fitted. Key structural parts were too far gone and had to be recreated; it took Krupp in Germany many tries to recreate the nickel-steel. It is still fitted with a Merlin III and has kept a 12V electrical system.

So now UP - W, R4118, is a flying piece of history.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 21, 2025 08:54 PM (UNuW6)

128 Eh, the woke right i think is giving it too much credit. In Owen's or tuckers case, to me it feels like an extension of Ron Paul. A kind of almost gnosticism where they get enamored of having the hot take and going against the grain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 08:50 PM (zZu0s)
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I tried telling Lindsay before he blocked me that we've been ignoring these guys for a long time.

As he comes from a liberal tradition, he's more interested in ideological purity, it seems. But you're always going to have the fringe--or at least the advocates of things you don't agree with. For the most part you examine how likely they are to take over the political side.

And I say, not much.

Of course, if people didn't invest so much in the fiction called "The Right" they wouldn't be surprised to find that people can want to resist Marxism and it's offshoots AND they don't agree with you on what else they want done.

The left is the left, because they're Marxists. But saying that other socialists who just like the State more are "rightists", is silly.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:55 PM (krQz2)

129 PANIC IN HOLLYWOOD: Netflix Reportedly Begins Using Controversial AI Video Generation Software, Disney Said to Be Testing the Technology

Die you commies die.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 21, 2025 08:56 PM (/U5Yz)

130 As I was reading that I KNEW it was Anna Puma.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:56 PM (fV+MH)

131 "it took Krupp in Germany many tries to recreate the nickel-steel."

That's just wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

132 The "Alt Right" came around in like 2015. They've been around ~10 years. Besides becoming the name that libs thought they could shock people by calling every conservative that name, they're pretty much where they were in 2015.

They've got a following, but I don't see them growing their share.

Like libertarians.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 08:59 PM (krQz2)

133 The home of the fucking industrial revolution had to fucking outsource to the fucking hun in order to make the right steel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 08:59 PM (zZu0s)

134 sock_rat_eez: How much does the duck weigh?

tankdemon: About as much as a witch.

witch: it’s a fair cop!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 21, 2025 09:00 PM (075ei)

135 SAD!

innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 09:01 PM (dKEEs)

136 Eh, I am not sure some of the hamsters are anywhere close to the same. Some of the alt right was just because they did not want to be lumped in with Lindsey and Mitch. At the same time, not all of them are like that one guy who drops N bombs like they're chiclets or Candace these days. Actually those two need to get together.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

137 that was to Aetius @ 133

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 09:02 PM (dKEEs)

138 Funny
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The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee

Scoville Releases Separate Spiciness Scale For White People
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Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 09:03 PM (krQz2)

139 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 09:02 PM (dKEEs)

It IS sad.

I keep thinking: what was the point to any of it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:03 PM (zZu0s)

140 "After the war all but R4118 were dumped in the Bay of Bengal."

and furthermore, how big of a jackass do you have to be to dump perfectly good airplanes (in crates!) in the ocean, anyway?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 09:05 PM (dKEEs)

141 But we have the most advanced technology.

"We can't recreate the tolerances in the DB-605 so don't break it" - Rolls-Royce on BF 109G-2, Black 6,'s engine.

"Sorry we can't reproduce this nickel-steel." - Britain. Krupp of Germany, "&^*&$@#! mein gott ve will figure this out!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 21, 2025 09:05 PM (UNuW6)

142 I saw a man with a backpack fleeing
Had to readjust to see a dog arriving

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (1orN1)

143 This is a real lake in Webster, Mass. I dare you to pronounce this one.

Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg.

I had to put the spaces in because it was rejected for being too long.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (viF8m)

144 Heh. I just got home and found cat barf on my bed.

Time to change everyrhing!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2025 08:52 PM

Lucy the Fink is well named.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (Wnv9h)

145 I was out of the room when the clip of Hunter Biden played on TV and I instantly thought they put on an old clip of Joe Biden then I saw who it was. Hunter sounds exactly like a younger Joe, it's not often that it happens, not like inheriting your parents' looks.

Posted by: Decaf at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (unUNN)

146 Caption for photo up top: Hobo flees from Ace’s helicopter into the woods.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (77rzZ)

147 140 "After the war all but R4118 were dumped in the Bay of Bengal."

and furthermore, how big of a jackass do you have to be to dump perfectly good airplanes (in crates!) in the ocean, anyway?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 09:05 PM (dKEEs)
A wog?

Posted by: Eromero at July 21, 2025 09:07 PM (LHPAg)

148 I was out of the room when the clip of Hunter Biden played on TV and I instantly thought they put on an old clip of Joe Biden then I saw who it was. Hunter sounds exactly like a younger Joe, it's not often that it happens, not like inheriting your parents' looks.

Posted by: Decaf at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (unUNN)
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Doh--You know my thing!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 21, 2025 09:07 PM (krQz2)

149 The Royal Navy pushed overboard many US Lend-Lease planes instead of returning them to the US. "Cheerio ol Avenger, Hellcat, Corsair; plop!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 21, 2025 09:08 PM (UNuW6)

150 Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg.

I had to put the spaces in because it was rejected for being too long.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (viF8m)

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Which language is it?

This definitely beats that place name in Wales.

Posted by: Decaf at July 21, 2025 09:09 PM (unUNN)

151 The Indians had awesome place names.

What I never got was Indiana.

Was it named that because of all the Indians?
Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 08:50 PM (fV+MH)

Lookit all the Indians!

Posted by: Custer, South Dakota at July 21, 2025 09:09 PM (wVcYX)

152 Think of how many weapons were destroyed after wwii. If they had instead made them available to the public, I can't help but think western Europe might be in different shape now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:09 PM (zZu0s)

153 This definitely beats that place name in Wales.
Posted by: Decaf at July 21, 2025 09:09 PM (unUNN)

Iceland also has some nasty ones.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

154 143 This is a real lake in Webster, Mass. I dare you to pronounce this one.

Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (viF8m)

Is that theo one which name roughly translates to "You fish on your side, we fish on our side and nobody will fish in the middle"?

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 09:10 PM (VSht7)

155 HealthRanger@HealthRanger

My conclusion is that DNI Tulsi Gabbard is running for president in 2028, and if she achieves actual arrests and prosecutions of these traitors, she will likely WIN the presidency, because the No. 1 thing that most Americans want right now is something, anything, resembling accountability (and consequences) for the traitors and saboteurs who deliberately tried to wreck this country. Gabbard is out-Trumping Trump at the moment, btw. While Bondi does nothing (so far).

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 21, 2025 09:12 PM (TGPs7)

156 >>Which language is it?

Algonquian.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 09:12 PM (viF8m)

157 146 Caption for photo up top: Hobo flees from Ace’s helicopter into the woods.
Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 09:06 PM (77rzZ)

It does look like the book cover for a spy novel.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 21, 2025 09:12 PM (VSht7)

158 Standard poodle coming.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:14 PM (zZu0s)

159 Jackstraw -

Bil-lerica native Tom Gla-vine. Did I get that right?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 21, 2025 09:14 PM (KAi1n)

160 Aetius

We paid German civilians to torch 'war-weary' P-51D Mustangs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 21, 2025 09:14 PM (UNuW6)

161 >>Is that theo one which name roughly translates to "You fish on your side, we fish on our side and nobody will fish in the middle"?

Yep.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 09:14 PM (viF8m)

162 152, no kidding. big difference.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 09:15 PM (dKEEs)

163 I live by Chequamegon Bay, of Lake Superior. It's a French version of an Indian word. In the springtime the Indians would go to the shore of the bay, put their hand in the water and say, "She warm again."

Posted by: davidt at July 21, 2025 09:16 PM (i0F8b)

164 g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 21, 2025 09:16 PM (dKEEs)

165 >>Bil-lerica native Tom Gla-vine.

Bilrika.

Tom spent too much time in Atlanta and lost his way.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 09:18 PM (viF8m)

166 So Stewart is going to quit in order to protest Colbert getting canceled. Huh. Would be fitting since he gave the hack a start.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:18 PM (zZu0s)

167
Now, where did "Idaho" come from?

Apparently, it was just made up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 21, 2025 09:19 PM (w6EFb)

168 " This is a real lake in Webster, Mass. I dare you to pronounce this one.

Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg.

I had to put the spaces in because it was rejected for being too long.
Posted by: JackStraw"

In Wunnashowatuckoog it means "a fairly nice lake that has fish in it."

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 09:19 PM (fV+MH)

169 >>In Wunnashowatuckoog it means "a fairly nice lake that has fish in it."

It really messes up the mystique of the injuns when you translate what they really said. It sounds like a travel guide for AAA.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 09:22 PM (viF8m)

170 Which language is it?

This definitely beats that place name in Wales.
Posted by: Decaf

I believe it is Nipmuc, who belong to the Algonquin family.
Father and two brothers went to Nichols college next door in Dudley MA.

Posted by: From about That Tim at July 21, 2025 09:27 PM (n4GiU)

171 Now, where did "Idaho" come from?

Apparently, it was just made up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 21, 2025 09:19 PM (w6EFb)

From a potato.

Posted by: RickZ at July 21, 2025 09:27 PM (gKDq2)

172 Humptulips
Chewelah
Pshit
and chehalis

Have entered the chat

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 21, 2025 09:28 PM (mT+6a)

173 Now, where did "Idaho" come from?

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Misheard answer from people who were lost.

"Where are we?"

"I da know."

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 09:29 PM (krQz2)

174 Idaho is derived from ee-da-how.
Shoshoni name for "spuds".

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 21, 2025 09:31 PM (P0m9n)

175 Looks like Jeff Daniels is really Dumb and Dumber.

I am unaware if he was an outspoken Lefty before but he decided to open his mouth now and left no doubt .

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 09:32 PM (VofaG)

176 Idaho
The oldest profession in the world. Idahoans do not think this is funny.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at July 21, 2025 09:32 PM (L7OEs)

177 Most folk-etymology place names are wrong.

Posted by: Bulg at July 21, 2025 09:34 PM (77rzZ)

178 Ironto. On I-81 south of Roanoke. Never did learn how to pronounce it.

I dare you to pronounce this one.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 09:19 PM (fV+MH)

Cholmondeley. Minor nobility in England.

Pronounced 'Chumly'.

Posted by: RickZ at July 21, 2025 09:35 PM (gKDq2)

179
PANIC IN HOLLYWOOD: Netflix Reportedly Begins Using Controversial AI Video Generation Software, Disney Said to Be Testing the Technology

Die you commies die.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

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The last movie star ever has already been born.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 09:36 PM (HL/Ld)

180 Looks like Jeff Daniels is really Dumb and Dumber.

I am unaware if he was an outspoken Lefty before but he decided to open his mouth now and left no doubt .
Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 09:32 PM (VofaG)

Yes. Daniel's has opened his uneducated celebrity piehole before. This makes 'Dumber'. Eventually he'll hit on 'Dumbererest'.

Posted by: RickZ at July 21, 2025 09:37 PM (gKDq2)

181
I live next to Mascuppic Lake and still don't know how to say it.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at July 21, 2025 09:37 PM (K5NlA)

182 You're in my neck of the woods, eleven. Ironto is where you have to go if you miss the last exit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 21, 2025 09:38 PM (EQg1P)

183 One could purchase a surplus Grumman Goose for just a few thousand bucks after the war. Wouldn't that be nice?

Posted by: Goose Grease Gus at July 21, 2025 09:39 PM (G5+As)

184 They could name the team the Washington Oklahomas.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 09:39 PM (VofaG)

185 You're in my neck of the woods, eleven. Ironto is where you have to go if you miss the last exit.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 21, 2025 09:38 PM (EQg1P)

That was me.

Saw it every time I drove that stretch of I-81 (to Bluefied, Va Tech, Chattanooga, lots of driving). Still don't know how to say it.

Posted by: RickZ at July 21, 2025 09:40 PM (gKDq2)

186 One could purchase a surplus Grumman Goose for just a few thousand bucks after the war. Wouldn't that be nice?
Posted by: Goose Grease Gus

That would be few million today's dollars.
Imagine how much money you'd have if bought a bunch and sold them today.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 21, 2025 09:41 PM (/lPRQ)

187 Jeff Daniels is an old has been who's claim to fame is the diarrhea scene in Dumb and Dumber.

Image that having loud explosive diarrhea is the thing everyone remembers you for, and then thinking 30 years later that you have a political pulpit.

"That's Hollywood, Baby".

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 09:42 PM (fV+MH)

188 I lot of equipment and small arms were sold to Army Surplus vendors.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 09:43 PM (VofaG)

189 I'm finally viewing the Hunter rant. Prominent pinhole pupils.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos Calientes at July 21, 2025 09:44 PM (klf3J)

190 Looking up Daniel's thinking there has to be something besides dumb and dumber.

He played James Comey in a movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

191
The cafe has given me an appreciation for elephants and crows that I never had.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 09:45 PM (HL/Ld)

192 Looking up Daniel's thinking there has to be something besides dumb and dumber.

He played James Comey in a movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

Colonel Chamberlain in Gettysburg.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 21, 2025 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

193 Looking up Daniel's thinking there has to be something besides dumb and dumber.

He played James Comey in a movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:45 PM (zZu0s)
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He first came out as a lib-nag in Newsroom, IIRC.

Posted by: Axeman at July 21, 2025 09:46 PM (krQz2)

194 Well, hell. Gettysburg. I had forgotten.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

195 I don' know what's true. I am seeing videos claiming China is forcing everyone to go to CBDC unannounced. No warning. Soldiers emptied all the atms and banks. Shops no longer accept cash. How to confirm?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 21, 2025 09:47 PM (EQg1P)

196 Jeff Daniels played General Chamberlain in 'Gettysburg'. He did a fine job. I just assume most entertainers are slightly too the right of Stalin. Saves time.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 21, 2025 09:47 PM (uGaBv)

197 Colonel Chamberlain in Gettysburg.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 21, 2025 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

Didn't he do George Washington, too, in a tv movie?

I think actors believe their roles give them gravitas.

Posted by: RickZ at July 21, 2025 09:48 PM (gKDq2)

198 Wow, aside from Gettysburg, he was in a lot of nothing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:48 PM (zZu0s)

199 Cholmondeley. Minor nobility in England.

Pronounced 'Chumly'.
Posted by: RickZ

Also a brand of English muffin bread. Forty years ago.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 21, 2025 09:49 PM (/lPRQ)

200 Posted by: Boss Moss at July 21, 2025 09:47 PM (EQg1P)

CBDC?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:50 PM (zZu0s)

201 Central Bank Digital Currency.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 21, 2025 09:51 PM (EQg1P)

202 Keanu shot Daniels in the leg in "Speed" (1994). Then Dennis Hopper blew him to pieces as big as your fist.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos Calientes at July 21, 2025 09:51 PM (klf3J)

203 I think Jeff Daniels did some voice overs in the 'Civil War' series too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 21, 2025 09:51 PM (uGaBv)

204 201 Central Bank Digital Currency.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 21, 2025 09:51 PM (EQg1P)

Hmmm. Does not seem to be a great way to convince everyone that everything is just peachy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:52 PM (zZu0s)

205
Got my hate-watch for the day. Pod Save America is doing Hunter's interview. He specifically named them as "fuckin' Obama speechwriters."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 09:52 PM (HL/Ld)

206 Something Wild was a pretty good movie. It had younger Melanie Griffith boobs.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2025 09:52 PM (VofaG)

207 I don' know what's true. I am seeing videos claiming China is forcing everyone to go to CBDC unannounced. No warning. Soldiers emptied all the atms and banks. Shops no longer accept cash. How to confirm?
Posted by: Boss Moss

I guess like the Kung Flu Freakout I guess the rest of the world is supposed to panic and run on banks too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 21, 2025 09:53 PM (/lPRQ)

208 …human fleeing…

…with a dog's head backpack

🐶

Posted by: mindful webworker - still the same at July 21, 2025 09:53 PM (RviYc)

209
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 09:52 PM (HL/Ld)

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Oof, "junior fucking speechwriters who've been dining out on the relationship with him for years." They no likee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 21, 2025 09:54 PM (HL/Ld)

210 "Something Wild was a pretty good movie. It had younger Melanie Griffith boobs."

That's why it's in the Criterion Collection.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos Calientes at July 21, 2025 09:55 PM (klf3J)

211 I guess like the Kung Flu Freakout I guess the rest of the world is supposed to panic and run on banks too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 21, 2025 09:53 PM (/lPRQ)

What he is describing does not sound like a run on the banks per se. It is forced seizure of hard currency by the government to prevent a run.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 21, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)

212 ECNY. Several cities in China even I have heard of.

https://is.gd/UkdqZh

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 21, 2025 09:56 PM (EQg1P)

213 Well I just watched "Revolver" (2005). I don't regret the experience.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos Calientes at July 21, 2025 09:57 PM (klf3J)

214 And all DC apparatchiks are upset, for sure.

@RickyDoggin 1h
🚨#BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just announced she is officially ENDING the Obama-era “Quiet Skies” program, which was used to surveil American citizens on airplanes

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 21, 2025 09:58 PM (mlg/3)

215 nood

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos Calientes at July 21, 2025 10:00 PM (klf3J)

216 ONT is nood!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 21, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

217 I've come across the first LLM that I can legitimately say is out of it's mind.

Starcoder will not do what you ask it to do, it will tell you it's name is Christopher, it's 36 and it likes to code.

Only if you ask it to produce C++, it will produce python, if you ask it to correct the syntax of Ruby, it will correct it in PHP.

If you ask it's hallucinating, it will respond: Maybe.

Truly wacky stuff.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2025 10:04 PM (XV/Pl)

218 China is in a weird no man's land between Capitalism and Communism.

I don't think even they know what they are.

I see youtubes of people in Chinese cities walking around in western style clothes and booty shorts and pink and blonde hair with stores having English signs.

I don't know what the fuck is going on in China.

Posted by: eleven at July 21, 2025 10:05 PM (fV+MH)

219 >>@RickyDoggin 1h
🚨#BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just announced she is officially ENDING the Obama-era “Quiet Skies” program, which was used to surveil American citizens on airplanes

Including Tulsi Gabbard. Maybe not the best decision in retrospect.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2025 10:05 PM (viF8m)

220 I think the best barn car find I have heard of was the guy who found Steve McQueen's actual 390 green Mustang coup from the movie Bullitt.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 21, 2025 10:07 PM (Da7Vv)

221 NY Dems describe the Commie running for Mayor as a Capitalist with a small "c". Rightttttttttttttt.

Posted by: Case at July 22, 2025 12:50 AM (kDs7V)

222 That baby Golden pup...oh, my heart!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2025 01:14 AM (6PCLE)

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