Mid-Morning Art Thread

A Day in October, near Waxholm, Sweden
Alfred Wahlberg

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Corgies summoned. Again.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 09:30 AM (O7YUW)

2 Winter came early that year.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 05, 2025 09:31 AM (ZmEVT)

3 Actually looks like something. Is it a photo?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

4 Cool... looks like an old photo.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 05, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)

5 I'm sure it'd look lovely in colour.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (O7YUW)

6 It's Sweden. Everything is in black and white, with subtitles.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (WvZaB)

7 Like. Zoomed out, almost looks like a photo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (bss/y)

8 I thought it was a photo at first, but looking at stuff in the foreground I see that is indeed a painting.

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (sJHOI)

9 Depressing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

10 Some see the world in black and white.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 05, 2025 09:33 AM (0nHVk)

11 If thats not a picture then this painter is not from this earth.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 05, 2025 09:33 AM (snZF9)

12 Color would not reach the Scandinavian countries of Europe until the early 20th century.

Posted by: huerfano at August 05, 2025 09:33 AM (98kQX)

13

Fortunately, the old people start dying off in the fall so their bodies can be burned for warmth...

Posted by: Elderly Git at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (TN0eL)

14 5 I'm sure it'd look lovely in colour.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (O7YUW)

6 It's Sweden. Everything is in black and white, with subtitles.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (WvZaB)

You don't deserve color, maggots!

I just had a thought. A Bob Ross style painting show, but with R Lee Ermey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (bss/y)

15 In the background, someone is playing badminton with Death.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (WvZaB)

16 Home of the IKEA meatballs recipe.

Posted by: Inge at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

17 Looks like the set of an Ingemar Bergmann film

Would hang. Thx CBD you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (r/xMY)

18 Date: 1873

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 41 x 64 1/2 in. (104.1 x 163.8 cm)

Posted by: redridinghood at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

19 Wonderful!!!

Posted by: Thorvald, creator of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (0sNs1)

20 Wow, this painting is really impressive. I thought it was a photo.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 05, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

21 Looks dreary and bleak.

Posted by: dantesed at August 05, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

22 Sloppy in its detail. Sort of interesting, but has no feeling to it. I want to be interested, but the lack of color leaves it lifeless, like the artist put in no effort to draw me in, so why should I care.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2025 09:36 AM (mT+6a)

23 17 Looks like the set of an Ingemar Bergmann film

Would hang. Thx CBD you
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (r/xMY)

Set up the chessboard there under the tree.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:36 AM (bss/y)

24 Alternate title:

"Movie Still from Ingmar Bergman's 'Dark Night of the Lutefisk"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

25 Whoa! Snipers all over the place!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 09:36 AM (cYBz/)

26 16 Home of the IKEA meatballs recipe.
Posted by: Inge at August 05, 2025 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

That's not a recipe, that was the betting line for Race 4 at Linkoping Downs yesterday!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:36 AM (rIQZh)

27 Very nice. Would hang.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

28 I like it. Excellent detail. Is it actually monochrome, or is this a B&W photo of a color painting?

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 05, 2025 09:37 AM (PSEDc)

29 wow
the detail in this painting is almost photographic, when you embiggen it

I would hang this in the hallway outside the library of my country estate- the winter one- just because I would probably notice some new tiny detail every time I walked by.

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 09:37 AM (AOsQT)

30 Swedish snipers used 6.5x55mm ammo a few decades after this picture.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 09:37 AM (0sNs1)

31 Waxholm

Waxhof

Posted by: muldoon at August 05, 2025 09:37 AM (poXs5)

32 Play chess with death.

Winner takes all the lutefisk.

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 05, 2025 09:37 AM (sJHOI)

33 No trannie. Therefore, art.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 09:37 AM (77rzZ)

34 I would defintely help young Jamie Lee Curtis with her rucksack.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2025 09:38 AM (viF8m)

35
If that's a painting, I'm impressed.

If that's a photo...meh, I take better B&W pix with my iPhone.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

36 Pretty as a picture.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 05, 2025 09:38 AM (n4GiU)

37 Ted Turner needs to colorize this mess. And put some new blades on that windmill.

Posted by: Wonderful World of Color at August 05, 2025 09:39 AM (G5+As)

38 25 Whoa! Snipers all over the place!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2025 09:36 AM (cYBz/)

Looked it up (Most common dog breeds in sweden):
1) Lab
2) German Shepherd
3) Golden Retriever

Any or all of these could be hiding in that underbrush.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:39 AM (bss/y)

39 You can't see them from this angle, but the Swedish Bikini Team, wearing their early white one-piece with black polka dots (which were imported from Poland) are holding practice down on the beach.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 09:40 AM (0sNs1)

40 They've got a cannon in the tower. Would hang.

Posted by: Hitler at August 05, 2025 09:40 AM (vFG9F)

41 Almost photographic (no, I did not intend to write "pornographic") -- which is a good thing. This suggests the chill of winter is already settling in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)

42 32 Play chess with death.

Winner takes all the lutefisk.
Posted by: Otto Pen at August 05, 2025 09:37 AM (sJHOI)

'Winner'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:40 AM (bss/y)

43 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. This could also be early Seattle. The skyline is different now, but the weather hasn't changed.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2025 09:41 AM (W/lyH)

44 Death won't play chutes and ladders with me anymore.

He says I cheat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (rIQZh)

45 Waxholm or Vaxholm is a small city near Stockholm, close enough, says Wiki, for there to be a ferry service between them. Thus it's at about the same latitude as Stockholm -- not way up at the Arctic Circle, but about seven degrees south of it.

Which is pretty darn close to the Arctic Circle, when you stop and think about it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (omVj0)

46 This shows a suburban Stockholm village after everyone moved to America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (l2PRJ)

47 Swedes take pride in being neutral. So, I will be too. Meh.

Posted by: Touch of Grey at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (G5+As)

48
All the leaves are grey,
and the skies are grey.
I went for a walk,
on a winter's day.

Posted by: Mama Cass' great grandmother, on the road at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

49 If you want some photo realistic paintings

https://tinyurl.com/44b3t79t

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 05, 2025 09:43 AM (z1PMu)

50 44 Death won't play chutes and ladders with me anymore.

He says I cheat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (rIQZh)

Try Connect 4.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:43 AM (bss/y)

51 Here is a colorized version

https://tinyurl.com/mtmuzr8t

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 09:43 AM (AOsQT)

52 Well it can't be a lighthouse.

Damn thing looks like it weighs a ton.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:43 AM (rIQZh)

53 Before I forget,
It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Find a furry belly and frazzle it! You know how much they love it! How about a zerbert or two as well?!?

Life is short, take the risk.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2025 09:43 AM (mT+6a)

54 I would not make any malicious daguerreotype comments about this painting.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 05, 2025 09:44 AM (w9Wax)

55 All the leaves are grey,
and the skies are grey.
I went for a walk,
on a winter's day.
Posted by: Mama Cass' great grandmother, on the road at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

M'f'er

https://tinyurl.com/bdd7zs7c

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:44 AM (bss/y)

56 Girthy windmill gets the job done.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 09:45 AM (wVcYX)

57 "Everything is in black and white, with subtitles."

with Death playing chess with an old knight.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 05, 2025 09:45 AM (ZmEVT)

58 Here is a colorized version

https://tinyurl.com/mtmuzr8t
Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025

***
Looks a tad less chilly, somehow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)

59 Swedish boobs. It had to be said.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

60 59 Swedish boobs. It had to be said.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

Norwegian mermaid boobs last thread, so on theme.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:46 AM (rIQZh)

61 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Find a furry belly and frazzle it! You know how much they love it! How about a zerbert or two as well?!?

Life is short, take the risk.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2025

***
No risk with little Dagny -- she loves that. Stirling is okay with it, but he'd mad at me for applying his flea treatment, so I wouldn't take the chance right now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)

62 Vaxholm

Vacc Home

I see what's going on here

Posted by: Otto Pen at August 05, 2025 09:47 AM (sJHOI)

63 Last thread was Danish mermaid boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

64 Wahlberg doesn't seem to have been mentally ill, nor did he commit suicide. So, does he really qualify as a Scandi artist?

Posted by: Like Munch a Bunch! at August 05, 2025 09:48 AM (G5+As)

65 This guy does have a lot of beautiful stuff. Kind of reminds me of Grimshaw.

Thanks CBD. This almost makes up for the rank anti-Semitism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:48 AM (bss/y)

66 All the leaves are grey,
and the skies are grey.
I went for a walk,
on a winter's day.
Posted by: Mama Cass' great grandmother, on the road at August 05, 2025 09:42 AM (0sNs1)

Alternate title:

"Mama Cass' great grandmother walks home carryihg a basket containing the Subway's "Lutefisk and Bacon Supreme Sandwich", she will choke to death on"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

67 His other works are very interesting too

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 09:48 AM (AOsQT)

68 It's Sweden. Everything is in black and white, with subtitles.

All the people are inside, being gloomy and morose.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 09:48 AM (Riz8t)

69 CBD, good find

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 09:49 AM (AOsQT)

70 And put some new blades on that windmill.
Posted by: Wonderful World

*************

The Windmill - a limerick

The people oof Waxholm are plain
They work hard for minimal gain
Yet sometimes it still seems
That they have quixotic dreams
When they tilt at their windmill in vane

Posted by: muldoon at August 05, 2025 09:50 AM (poXs5)

71 A Day in October, near Waxholm, Sweden
Alfred Wahlberg

I would hang this painting. Though missing a dog, it's perfect. Without brights or pastels there are no distractions from detail.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 05, 2025 09:50 AM (NFX2v)

72 "Heim" is home.

"Holm" is forest, maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:50 AM (rIQZh)

73 Would make an impressive puzzle.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 05, 2025 09:51 AM (P0m9n)

74 Last thread was Danish mermaid boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025

***
Damn! Sorry I missed that! Or those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

75 It's Sweden. Everything is in black and white, with subtitles.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 09:32 AM (WvZaB
====

This is absolutely the mental picture I have of Sweden.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2025 09:52 AM (RIvkX)

76 63 Last thread was Danish mermaid boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

Bah, they're all icebacks, same difference.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:52 AM (rIQZh)

77 This guy does have a lot of beautiful stuff. Kind of reminds me of Grimshaw.

***********

Yeah, I can easily envision this etched onto a walrus tusk.

Posted by: muldoon at August 05, 2025 09:52 AM (poXs5)

78 Hmmm. His colors can sometimes look off and actually diminish detail. I wonder if that's why CBD went with the B&W. Or CBD just wanted to go Ingmar Bergman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)

79 Death is in the bushes, dealing with the sniper.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 09:53 AM (Riz8t)

80
SWEDEN

Enough with the Lutefisk! m We've Got Swedish Meatballs Too!

-New Ad Campaign by Sweden's Tourism Board

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

81 79 Death is in the bushes, dealing with the sniper.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 09:53 AM (Riz8t)

"Is that a Barrett?"

"Is that a scythe?"

"Tradesies?"

"Heck yeah!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:55 AM (rIQZh)

82 SWEDEN

Enough with the Lutefisk! m We've Got Swedish Meatballs Too!

-New Ad Campaign by Sweden's Tourism Board

And rucksacks!

Posted by: Inga, Swedish exchange student at August 05, 2025 09:55 AM (Riz8t)

83 "Why go all the way to Asia when you can get looked down on and eat weird gross shit right here?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:56 AM (rIQZh)

84 80
SWEDEN

Enough with the Lutefisk! m We've Got Swedish Meatballs Too!

-New Ad Campaign by Sweden's Tourism Board
Posted by: naturalfake

Now with 20% less horse meat!!

Posted by: IKEA at August 05, 2025 09:57 AM (JCZqz)

85 82 SWEDEN

Enough with the Lutefisk! m We've Got Swedish Meatballs Too!

-New Ad Campaign by Sweden's Tourism Board

Cardamon bread.... My Aunt always made that.. Big with the Swedes...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 05, 2025 09:58 AM (VE6XX)

86 Don't eat the salmon mousse.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 09:58 AM (wVcYX)

87
It's Geezer Golf Tuesday. A few of the holes actually look like today's art.
So, besides pulling a few bucks off the fellas, it's always fun to ask them as they look for a lost ball, "Is this where you think it is, or where you hope it is?"

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

88 Don't eat the salmon mousse.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 09:58 AM (wVcYX)

Mynd you, bites of mousse can be pretti nasti.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2025 10:00 AM (ExV1e)

89 I wonder if that's why CBD went with the B&W. Or CBD just wanted to go Ingmar Bergman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 09:52 AM (bss/y)

That's the original. The artist painted it that way, and the colorized versions are crap.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 05, 2025 10:00 AM (L5An7)

90 87 You play geezer miniature golf?

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

91 83 "Why go all the way to Asia when you can get looked down on and eat weird gross shit right here?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Lutefisk and even surströmming aren't in the same league as Chinese street for like braised dog lungs and roasted silkworm on a stick. When I used to watch Iron Chef, and "crab brains" were a regular ingredient, I knew they were built different.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 05, 2025 10:02 AM (JCZqz)

92 "Holm" is forest, maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:50 AM (rIQZh)
---------
Island.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 10:02 AM (WvZaB)

93 Last fall we had our honeymoon in Ireland and Iceland. Ireland didn't feel like a foreign country at all, it felt like i've lived there all my life.

Iceland felt like a different planet.

It was weird.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:03 AM (rIQZh)

94 I want to be interested, but the lack of color leaves it lifeless, like the artist put in no effort to draw me in, so why should I care.
Posted by: nurse ratched
====
God you're high maintenance. No effort, really??? Know how long it took to paint this ??? We'll, do you?

Posted by: Alfred Wahlberg at August 05, 2025 10:04 AM (uku6t)

95 You play geezer miniature golf?
Posted by: Bulg

**********

It took me a minute but ISWYDT

Posted by: muldoon at August 05, 2025 10:04 AM (poXs5)

96 A Day in October, near Waxholm, Sweden (1873)
Alfred Wahlberg

At first I thought this image was a photograph from that period, but it is an oil painting. WTH? I couldn't find any deeper discussion about how this image came to be so I am going to do what I do best: make stuff up; I am a biological AI bot.

Having more than a passing interest in photography this image is clearly influenced, if not outright copied from, a photograph. Which is fascinating since photographers at this time were imitating the visual artists and wouldn't find their own photograph specific visual style until the 1920s. Ol' Alfie on the other hand is going the other way it seems. And that is where the interest lays.

The way the perspective works in this image looks exactly like what you get from the equivalent of a modern 35mm lens; it is uncanny. Then there is what looks like filter light from an overcast sky; that is prime time stuff as it constrains the dynamic range - the shadows are not overly plugged and the highlights still hold detail. And lastly, the translation of real world color into full range grey scale is spot on with that found in a B&W print.

Banger. Would Hang.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:04 AM (9vYpt)

97 Painting something like this, in black and white, when you see the world in color... I'd think would be rather difficult.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 05, 2025 10:05 AM (Q4IgG)

98 Last fall we had our honeymoon in Ireland and Iceland.
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Were you economizing on letters in your foreign destinations?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 10:05 AM (WvZaB)

99 -5 points for lack of bikini team. Do better, Sweden.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 05, 2025 10:06 AM (7UNWw)

100 like the artist put in no effort to draw me in, so why should I care.

**********

In fairness, he did draw his grandmother in. On the path ooff to the right.

Posted by: muldoon at August 05, 2025 10:06 AM (poXs5)

101 I want to be interested, but the lack of color leaves it lifeless, like the artist put in no effort to draw me in, so why should I care.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I would assume that someone in the PNW would understand immediately. The clouds, the gloomy bleakness, the collection of trannies protesting something. It practically screams Seattle.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2025 10:06 AM (ExV1e)

102 98 Last fall we had our honeymoon in Ireland and Iceland.
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Were you economizing on letters in your foreign destinations?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 10:05 AM (WvZaB)

Exactly!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:07 AM (rIQZh)

103 Last fall we had our honeymoon in Ireland and Iceland.
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Were you economizing on letters in your foreign destinations?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 10:05 AM (WvZaB)

No. His previous eight marriages and honeymoons covered A through H.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

104 100 comment rule-compliant

So did you hear about that Sydney Sweeney thing?
Crazy, amirite
I feel we haven't discussed it enough

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:07 AM (AOsQT)

105 Happy Another Day Ending in "Y"!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 05, 2025 10:08 AM (36PRH)

106 The art....

Dammit. How'm I supposed to know if the title checks out? Is it really October? Fuck I don't know. Is it really a town in Sweden? Fuck I don't know!

I like it but I can't say for certain if the title checks out.

A few years ago, the art museum in Evansville Indiana had a bunch of work from an Indiana artist who just used graphite on paper. These drawings looked like B&W photos! They were that detailed. The one I recall most clearly was a close up of a stream bed. The water, the pebbles, the sand and silt.... Amazing stuff.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 05, 2025 10:08 AM (2J/Lj)

107 92 "Holm" is forest, maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:50 AM (rIQZh)
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Island.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

No man is an island.

What about a woman?

Posted by: Celeste Holm at August 05, 2025 10:08 AM (G5+As)

108 No. His previous eight marriages and honeymoons covered A through H.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

First wife left me for a penguin we met at McMurdo.

I still think I look better in a tuxedo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:09 AM (rIQZh)

109 Ugh. This looks the way I feel today.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 05, 2025 10:09 AM (Wnv9h)

110
So did you hear about that Sydney Sweeney thing?
Crazy, amirite
I feel we haven't discussed it enough
=
You mean oberstrumbahnfurer Sweeney? What has she done now, invaded Poland again???

Posted by: Gadzooks at August 05, 2025 10:09 AM (uku6t)

111
No man is an omelette, but there are many crepes about....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 05, 2025 10:10 AM (x0n13)

112 You mean oberstrumbahnfurer Sweeney? What has she done now, invaded Poland again???
Posted by: Gadzooks at August 05, 2025 10:09 AM

Don't mention the war!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (Wnv9h)

113 This photo of the original restaurant hangs in every Wahlbergers.

Sadly, the salted cod with lingonberries is no longer on the menu.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (144I4)

114 In German, forest is 'wald'

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (AOsQT)

115 House oversight committee just dropped subpoenas on a bunch of people including the Clintons, Loretta Lynch, Bill Barr, and Jeff Sessions.

Posted by: Duke Lowell, owner of a haunted VRBO at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (u73oe)

116 I really like this painting. It really does look like an old photograph as others pointed out.

It's a little too dreary for me to hang.

But art for the walls comes later. Basement floors await mopping.

As always, everyone have the happiest day possible.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.3% at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (jvJvP)

117 115 House oversight committee just dropped subpoenas on a bunch of people including the Clintons, Loretta Lynch, Bill Barr, and Jeff Sessions.
Posted by: Duke Lowell, owner of a haunted VRBO at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (u73oe)

Paging nothing will happen guy….

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 05, 2025 10:13 AM (AiNp4)

118 This photo of the original restaurant hangs in every Wahlbergers.

Sadly, the salted cod with lingonberries is no longer on the menu.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (144I4)

Not very much spam in that dish.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 10:13 AM (wVcYX)

119 1873. Amazing. He's invented tilt-focus photography here to make the scene look like a miniature diorama.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2025 10:13 AM (J2Jn3)

120 Comey, Mueller, and Garland too.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 05, 2025 10:14 AM (u73oe)

121 In German, forest is 'wald'
Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (AOsQT)

It's like they have a whole different word for everything!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 10:14 AM (wVcYX)

122 110
So did you hear about that Sydney Sweeney thing?
Crazy, amirite
I feel we haven't discussed it enough.

I feel Sydney gives the ugly lefty women hope.

Each of them could easily be as attractive as her in their own way with a little exercise, some plastic surgery and a magic lamp with one wish left....

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.3% at August 05, 2025 10:14 AM (jvJvP)

123 Breaking; Sydney Sweeny was Epstein’s secretary

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 05, 2025 10:14 AM (AiNp4)

124 >Paging nothing will happen guy….

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YO

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:15 AM (AOsQT)

125 Miss Sweeney owns a chrome toaster, as all patriotic Americans do.

Posted by: Morning Reflections at August 05, 2025 10:15 AM (G5+As)

126 He's invented tilt-focus photography here to make the scene look like a miniature diorama.
=
Well sure I did. But apparently not suffient effort to draw in the viewer because I didn't use a bunch of monet pastel colors. La d freakin' da!!!

Posted by: Alfred Wahlberger Farley at August 05, 2025 10:16 AM (uku6t)

127 I approve of the limited color palette but it's got identifiable subject matter. So it's shit.

Posted by: Mark Rothko at August 05, 2025 10:17 AM (TbWk/)

128 >Miss Sweeney owns a chrome toaster, as all patriotic Americans do.
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mine is red
LIKE THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:17 AM (AOsQT)

129 approve of the limited color palette but it's got identifiable subject matter. So it's shit.
Posted by: Mark Rothk
==
You would know....HACK!!!

Posted by: Alfred Wahlberger Farley at August 05, 2025 10:18 AM (uku6t)

130 121 In German, forest is 'wald'
Posted by: Don Black

I like to cavort in Wienerwald!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper At Holiday Camp at August 05, 2025 10:18 AM (G5+As)

131 Well sure I did. But apparently not suffient effort to draw in the viewer because I didn't use a bunch of monet pastel colors. La d freakin' da!!!

Posted by: Alfred Wahlberger Farley at August 05, 2025 10:16 AM

I've seen nurse shoot, buddy. Just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 05, 2025 10:19 AM (Wnv9h)

132 Predication (not much of one): Everyone of these shits that got subzones to testify in front of the Oversight Committee will have two responses: "On advice of my attorney I do not recall anything from the 50 years" and "On advice of my attorney I respectfully invoke my 5th amendment rights to stonewall your sorry asses."

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:20 AM (9vYpt)

133 Ve vill not enter the schwartzwald.

Posted by: Peasants at August 05, 2025 10:20 AM (uku6t)

134 October ? I’m sure it was August when I went to sleep yesterday.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 05, 2025 10:20 AM (6t8M3)

135 134 October ? I’m sure it was August when I went to sleep yesterday.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 05, 2025 10:20 AM (6t8M3)

Evidently CBD could not wait til next month.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:21 AM (bss/y)

136 "Gothenburg, a melancholy town, most of it quite recently burnt, inhabited by tall spare melancholiacs dressed in grey wool, much given to drinking and self-murder"

O'Brian, Patrick. The Surgeon's Mate

O'Brian clearly knew some Swedes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 05, 2025 10:21 AM (qpyNK)

137 it's always fun to ask them as they look for a lost ball, "Is this where you think it is, or where you hope it is?"
Posted by: Diogenes

I'll have to remember this on Friday. I know the opportunity will be there.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 05, 2025 10:23 AM (n4GiU)

138 The subpoenas are to appear for depositions, not to sit in the hot seat in front of a panel of Congress-things and tell lies

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:23 AM (AOsQT)

139 Since I cannot see that person's hands, I'm not commenting on the quality of the painting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2025 10:23 AM (XeU6L)

140 Ve vill not enter the schwartzwald.
Posted by: Peasants at August 05, 2025 10:20 AM

Not even for ze kirschtorte?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 05, 2025 10:23 AM (Wnv9h)

141 I understand all the Ingmar Bergman jokes, but why did it take until Comment 118 to make a Wahlberg joke?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 05, 2025 10:23 AM (BHrzb)

142 We grind up the fish. It's called cream of da fish.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 05, 2025 10:23 AM (yBPic)

143 >Paging nothing will happen guy…

We are legion.

Posted by: Nothing will happen at August 05, 2025 10:24 AM (2ZXNR)

144 Miss Sweeney owns a chrome toaster, as all patriotic Americans do.
----

mine is red
LIKE THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS
Posted by: Don Black

My toaster is stainless steel. Stainless for the purity of my patriotism and steel for the unyielding strength of my patriotism. Plus it matches my my stove, microwave, dishwasher, and refrigerator.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:24 AM (9vYpt)

145 I just showed this to Hubbymayhem. He asked, " why are you showing me an old photo of some place I've never been? "
I told him it was an oil painting and he is still saying it can't be.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 05, 2025 10:25 AM (2J/Lj)

146 139 Since I cannot see that person's hands, I'm not commenting on the quality of the painting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2025 10:23 AM (XeU6L)

?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:25 AM (bss/y)

147 Not even for ze kirschtorte
==
Ve zend Brave Zir Robin, fur zat.

Posted by: Peasants at August 05, 2025 10:25 AM (uku6t)

148 >The subpoenas are to appear for depositions
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I wonder if they will ask about the Sydney Sweeney Affair

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:25 AM (AOsQT)

149 I do not recall
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Invoked by Hillary 39 times.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2025 10:26 AM (XeU6L)

150 The Sydney Sweeney issue isn't 80/20.
It's 36DD/20.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 05, 2025 10:26 AM (Ovc06)

151 My toaster is chrome, *and* has a built in radio. Beat that, bishez. Cash me outside.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 10:26 AM (fEC80)

152 Miss Sweeney owns a chrome toaster, as all patriotic Americans do.
----

mine is red
LIKE THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS
Posted by: Don Black

My toaster is stainless steel. Stainless for the purity of my patriotism and steel for the unyielding strength of my patriotism. Plus it matches my my stove, microwave, dishwasher, and refrigerator.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:24 AM

I think the more pressing issue is why this Moron knows the details of Miss Sweney's breakfast-making tools.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 05, 2025 10:26 AM (Wnv9h)

153 You know, I have no toaster. Everywhere I have ever been it seems like counter space is at a premium. I have like a coffee maker, crock-pot, blender (2) sugar, flour, spices, etc.

No toaster or toaster oven. Has not been a problem.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:26 AM (bss/y)

154 Trees look like they're about to bud out and blossom.
Interesting symbolic take to go greyscale before spring is sprung.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 05, 2025 10:27 AM (w9Wax)

155 Miss Sweeney owns a chrome toaster, as all patriotic Americans do.
hat.
My WNBA projectile is also chrome. I like shiny things.

Posted by: S. Sweeney at August 05, 2025 10:27 AM (uku6t)

156 >Plus it matches my my stove, microwave, dishwasher, and refrigerator.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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my toaster matches my meat thermometer and my SwingLine 747 stapler

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:27 AM (AOsQT)

157 150 The Sydney Sweeney issue isn't 80/20.
It's 36DD/20.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 05, 2025 10:26 AM (Ovc06)

I just find it funny because it is like that episode of the simpsons when the cable goes out. And then all the people start walking outside for the first time in years.

Boobs ARE pretty awesome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:28 AM (bss/y)

158 155 Miss Sweeney owns a chrome toaster, as all patriotic Americans do.
hat.
My WNBA projectile is also chrome. I like shiny things.
Posted by: S. Sweeney at August 05, 2025 10:27 AM (uku6t)

I'm ok with that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:28 AM (bss/y)

159 ?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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In the painting...the lady walking on the road. How a painter portrays hands is a topic of frequent comment.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2025 10:28 AM (XeU6L)

160 >>Trees look like they're about to bud out and blossom.
Interesting symbolic take to go greyscale before spring is sprung.

Psst.... A Day In October.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2025 10:29 AM (viF8m)

161 First wife left me for a penguin we met at McMurdo.

I still think I look better in a tuxedo.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:09 AM

Having never seen you in a tuxedo, I can't judge, but based on what I've learned on the blog, you doggone sure smell better!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 10:29 AM (0sNs1)

162 O'Brian clearly knew some Swedes.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Surprise!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM (XeU6L)

163 You know, I have no toaster. Everywhere I have ever been it seems like counter space is at a premium. I have like a coffee maker, crock-pot, blender (2) sugar, flour, spices, etc.

No toaster or toaster oven. Has not been a problem.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

No toaster? Might be a signal of anti consumerism tendencies. Suspicious. Very suspicious.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM (9vYpt)

164 In the painting...the lady walking on the road. How a painter portrays hands is a topic of frequent comment.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2025 10:28 AM (XeU6L)

Ahhh. Deep cut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM (bss/y)

165
So. Tell me more of this Sweeney lass

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM (5hfjS)

166 Trees look like they're about to bud out and blossom.
Interesting symbolic take to go greyscale before spring is sprung.

Psst.... A Day In October.
Posted by: JackStraw

Crap. OK, trees look like they're about to lose all their leaves.
Use of greyscale adds to the depression then.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM (w9Wax)

167 In this clip, Sydney Sweeney shoots a gun

https://tinyurl.com/49x8a5rn

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM (AOsQT)

168 My WNBA projectile is also chrome. I like shiny things.
Posted by: S. Sweeney at August 05, 2025 10:27 AM (uku6t)

Steely Dan?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 10:31 AM (wVcYX)

169 The Danish Little Mermaid foofaraw seems of a piece with the Sydney Sweeney farrago.

Who knew demeaning unflattering public Envy would be the major driving force of the 21st Century?

Aaannnnnnnyyyyway-

Everyone has heard of the famous Mannikin Pis statue, the little pissing boy statue in Brussels, but-

did you know that there's also a little girl pissing fountain statue, Jeanneke Pis?

(WARNING! May or may not be NSFW)

https://tinyurl.com/37yyzewa

Why do I feel like the Envious Protesting Dane Dames want a statue more like Jeanneke Pis than a mature womanly Little Mermaid?

BONUS! Brussels also has a dog pissing statue, Het Zinneke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_Zinneke

Though I think Brussels is missing a chance to hop onto a hip, new modern trend, they need a Fat, Black Woman Pis statue to truly enter the 21st Century.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

170 As we move relentlessly northward, this black and white world of Sweden looks quite alluring. Soon, my friends, soon.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at August 05, 2025 10:32 AM (G5+As)

171 I do like the art very much. Would definitely hang.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 05, 2025 10:33 AM (g8Ew8)

172 >>@PoliticalStacy

>>American Eagle jeans only go up to size 18. A liberal boycott won’t affect them at all. 😂

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2025 10:33 AM (viF8m)

173 Arriving downtown.

Have a lovely day, morons. And may we never get tired of winning!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2025 10:34 AM (KFH84)

174 Speaking of art, mermaids, and boobs, the current Little Mermaid statue is not the original, but rather the 4 or 5th replacement, according to what a Dane has told me.

Apparently it has been vandalized more than once, which is interesting, considering that the Vandals were a Germanic people who were first reported in the written records as inhabitants of what is now Poland, during the period of the Roman Empire. Much later, in the fifth century, a group of Vandals led by kings established Vandal kingdoms first within the Iberian Peninsula, and then in the western Mediterranean islands, and North Africa.

Archaeologists associate the early Vandals with the Przeworsk culture, which has led to some authors equating them to the Lugii, who were another group of Germanic peoples associated with that same archaeological culture and region.

Archaeologically, the Vandals are not known to have lived in significant numbers in Denmark.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 05, 2025 10:34 AM (0sNs1)

175 Mermaid Statue getting removed.

Was this what the discussion was over last thread?

https://tinyurl.com/mr3n8xad

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:34 AM (bss/y)

176 Since it is a mandatory part of the art thread when appropriate: No Dog, No Art.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:34 AM (9vYpt)

177 My toaster is chrome, *and* has a built in radio. Beat that, bishez. Cash me outside.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 10:26 AM (fEC80)

And my mini-fridge in my office is red LIKE THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS.

The eagle screams loudest over my house, too.

All these signs align.

The gods demand it.

I must be forthwith appointed as ~~Tullianum Strangler~~ US Attorney General, in accordance with the ancient portents of the mos maiorum.

Posted by: YD for AG at August 05, 2025 10:34 AM (fEC80)

178 Sweeney is an automobile enthusiast. She has restored a 1969 Ford Bronco and a 1965 Ford Mustang, and also owns a 1956 Ford F100 with original patina, gifted by her grandfather.

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:35 AM (AOsQT)

179 You understand why they are keeping focus on Madmani's "communism", right?

They are trojan horsing the rest in and his election will be a watershed moment for islamic rule in this country.

That's why they're making a big deal about his "communism". It's not a turnoff to enough New Yorkers to keep him out of office. It's a very obvious and deliberate tactic.

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 10:35 AM (jRYyy)

180 Boobs ARE pretty awesome.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:28 AM (bss/y)

And none of this "champagne glass is the ideal shape and size" nonsense either.

All Boobs Great And Small!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 10:35 AM (wVcYX)

181 Just had to outdo 'Arrangement in Gray and Black No 1' by Whistler. Was this an insider 'artist' joke?

Beautifully done, but too depressed for me.

Yesterday's Art was a hoot and I'm sorry I wasn't there.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 05, 2025 10:35 AM (WvpwN)

182 >>American Eagle jeans only go up to size 18. A liberal boycott won’t affect them at all. 😂
Posted by: JackStraw

I was size 18 in 3rd grade!

Posted by: Trigglypuff at August 05, 2025 10:36 AM (G5+As)

183 My toaster is 25 years old. It's kinda white but the stains make it look both beige and dirty. Meh. I keep it in a cupboard. I ain't wasting countertop space for something that only gets used when Hubbymayhem is home. He is a truck driver who is only home two or three days of the week. I would put the coffee maker in there too but that's a bridge too far and Hubbymayhem would be .... Displeased. I'm not stupit enough to mess with his coffee!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 05, 2025 10:36 AM (2J/Lj)

184 117 115 House oversight committee just dropped subpoenas on a bunch of people including the Clintons, Loretta Lynch, Bill Barr, and Jeff Sessions.
Posted by: Duke Lowell, owner of a haunted VRBO at August 05, 2025 10:11 AM (u73oe)

Paging nothing will happen guy….
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 05, 2025 10:13 AM (AiNp4)

And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy what says and so it begins at August 05, 2025 10:37 AM (OA79/)

185 That's why they're making a big deal about his "communism". It's not a turnoff to enough New Yorkers to keep him out of office.
Posted by: ... at August 05, 2025 10:35 AM

What else could you expect from a people who willing live in a salsa desert?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 10:38 AM (0sNs1)

186 o did you hear about that Sydney Sweeney thing?
Crazy, amirite
I feel we haven't discussed it enough.

Spokane chicks are hawt!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2025 10:38 AM (uzeQu)

187 A lot of mom's appliances growing up were that split pea soup green... avocado? Stove, dishwasher, fridge. When mom and dad redid the kitchen and got rid of all of those, my ocd did not even give a pang of regret.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:39 AM (bss/y)

188 Sydney Sweeney was a Manson family cultist in Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:39 AM (AOsQT)

189 New York did not exactly cover themselves with patriotic glory during the summer of 1776 in crafting and signing the Declaration of Independence.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 10:39 AM (wVcYX)

190 A lot of mom's appliances growing up were that split pea soup green... avocado?
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*nods*

The 70s. God knows why designers were infatuated with that color.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 10:39 AM (WvZaB)

191 And none of this "champagne glass is the ideal shape and size" nonsense either.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 10:35 AM

Au contrairé, Sir!

Posted by: Bring Back Nose Cone Brassieres at August 05, 2025 10:40 AM (0sNs1)

192 Comer issued a few subpoenas. Still missing some folks like Obama and Rice, but it is a start.

The House Oversight Committee is compelling the following individuals to appear for depositions through issued subpoenas:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: October 9
Former President Bill Clinton: October 14
Former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: October 2
Former FBI Director James Comey: October 7
Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr: August 18
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: August 26
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: August 28
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller: September 2
Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: September 9
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: September 30

https://tinyurl.com/kyxu6xpd

Posted by: Ann at August 05, 2025 10:40 AM (4neFu)

193 >did you hear about that Sydney Sweeney thing?
Crazy, amirite
I feel we haven't discussed it enough.

At least a couple times every month we refight the Civil War. We can beat this Sweeney story for at least a few more months.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2025 10:40 AM (viF8m)

194 >A lot of mom's appliances growing up were that split pea soup green... avocado?
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The approved colors were

avocado
harvest gold
frost white

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:40 AM (AOsQT)

195
boric acid = BORAX(tm)

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:41 AM (+I8Q8)

196 It's official,
Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.

Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:41 AM (53oGX)

197 It's official,
Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.
Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:41 AM (53oGX)

Congratulations and much happiness!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 05, 2025 10:42 AM (wVcYX)

198
Congratulations

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:43 AM (+I8Q8)

199 196 It's official,
Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.
Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:41 AM (53oGX)

Congratulations.

Although I am confused.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:43 AM (bss/y)

200 so you gotta marry off 4 daughters?

that's 4 dowries

ka-ching

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:44 AM (AOsQT)

201 Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.
Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:41 AM

Congratulations!

I suggest introducing son #1 to this blog early, to help offset being outnumber 4 to 1.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 10:44 AM (0sNs1)

202 avocado
harvest gold
frost white
Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:40 AM (AOsQT)

But see white at last is a nice eternal color.

I think people are going to get tired of the stainless look eventually too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:44 AM (bss/y)

203 It's official,
Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.
===
Congratulations. I wish you and yours much joy!

Posted by: Cup overflowing at August 05, 2025 10:45 AM (uku6t)

204
"Bradham believed his creation needed a more holistic name, as he was certain it not only tasted great but did indeed aid in digestion, "similar to the way the pepsin enzyme does," but, as the book noted, "Pepsi never contained pepsin.""

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:45 AM (+I8Q8)

205 178 Sweeney is an automobile enthusiast. She has restored a 1969 Ford Bronco and a 1965 Ford Mustang, and also owns a 1956 Ford F100 with original patina, gifted by her grandfather.
Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:35 AM (AOsQT)
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Holy shitballs! I guess Gen Z has at least one winner.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 05, 2025 10:45 AM (36PRH)

206 Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM

Flying dildos, eh? Bert Kreischer has some thoughts on that:

https://youtu.be/j2Bc9orC_oU

NSFW.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 05, 2025 10:45 AM (Wnv9h)

207 But see white at last is a nice eternal color.

I think people are going to get tired of the stainless look eventually too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:44 AM (bss/y)

That might be the most meta Sweeny commentary I've read yet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:46 AM (rIQZh)

208 197 It's official,
Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.
Posted by: Inogame

Congrats, but that's like a half million$$ in weddings. Best of luck.

Posted by: Cheep Skate at August 05, 2025 10:46 AM (G5+As)

209 What about a woman?
Posted by: Celeste Holm at August 05, 2025 10:08 AM (G5+As)

No man can be an island, but a woman can be key

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2025 10:46 AM (rbvCR)

210 It's official,
Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.
Posted by: Inogame

Bifid uterus?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 05, 2025 10:46 AM (w9Wax)

211
maple + oatmeal = MAYPO

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:47 AM (+I8Q8)

212 Although I am confused.

I assume one of the progeny is male.

Posted by: Halfhand at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (fb+zr)

213
Tampax = ??

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (+I8Q8)

214 >I think people are going to get tired of the stainless look eventually too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I have a new-ish Maytag dishwasher- it is stainless inside and out

It's like washing my dishes in a tesseract

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (AOsQT)

215 maple + oatmeal = MAYPO
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:47 AM (+I8Q

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I don't think that stuff tasted like maple. Or oatmeal.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (WvZaB)

216 That might be the most meta Sweeny commentary I've read yet.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:46 AM (rIQZh)

LOL. Well, I did not realize I was making a racial comment. Hah!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (bss/y)

217 Soup green was made perfect. The Exorcist.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 05, 2025 10:49 AM (ruemI)

218 >Tampax = ??

Posted by: Soothsayer
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yeah that's in Florida, I think

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:49 AM (AOsQT)

219 4 daughters! I presume the wife will be kept around, which means 5, total.

As a man with 3, I convey my respect and condolences

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 10:49 AM (fEC80)

220
Bosco chocolate syrup gets its name from the brand name "Boscul" of a coffee product produced by the William S. Scull Company, which acquired the rights to Bosco in 1928. The Scull Company, based in Camden, New Jersey, also manufactured a popular coffee blend called Boscul. The syrup itself was reportedly invented in 1928 by an unknown physician. The name "Bosco" is also thought to be derived from the Ancient Greek word "bóskō," meaning "I nourish".

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:49 AM (+I8Q8)

221 It's Sweden. Everything is in black and white, with subtitles.

All the people are inside, being gloomy and morose.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2025 09:48 AM (Riz8t)

And they speak as though they're half laughing and half crying.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 05, 2025 10:50 AM (g8Ew8)

222 212 Although I am confused.

I assume one of the progeny is male.
Posted by: Halfhand at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (fb+zr)

Ah-ha! Makes sense. I was thinking. She's 12 weeks pregnant with kid #5, how could she also be pregnant with #4.

Inogame is turning his children into logic problems for us. Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:50 AM (bss/y)

223 Small boobies are like the desert. Not much there, but really hot.

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 05, 2025 10:50 AM (SlrUo)

224 105 degrees in Las Cruces today. And just like that day drinking on the patio at my favorite pub died.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:50 AM (9vYpt)

225
I call AI bullshit on the Bosco name.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:50 AM (+I8Q8)

226 I think people are going to get tired of the stainless look eventually too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I am now! I hate stainless steel appliances. They look too industrial. And don't get me started on black appliances! Those are awful! We were looking at getting a new fridge. To get a basic white fridge with top freezer section and ice maker was special order and $200 more than the ugly black or stainless. Our old fridge will work just fine! Thankfully we were only looking because new house, maybe new fridge.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 05, 2025 10:51 AM (2J/Lj)

227 Was my comment too depressing for Sweden art?

Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2025 10:51 AM (jgmnb)

228 219 4 daughters! I presume the wife will be kept around, which means 5, total.

As a man with 3, I convey my respect and condolences
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 10:49 AM (fEC80)

You are also assuming they are going to call it quits at 5.

Am I insane or was it just yesterday he was saying she was pregnant with the 1st?

Damn, it's like shit's getting old at warp speed!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:51 AM (bss/y)

229 201 Better half is 12 weeks with #5, daughter #4 is on the way.
Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:41 AM

Congratulations!

I suggest introducing son #1 to this blog early, to help offset being outnumber 4 to 1.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 05, 2025 10:44 AM (0sNs1)

I convinced the wife to let me by an old jeep for me and #1 to mess around with...

Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:51 AM (53oGX)

230 maple + oatmeal = MAYPO
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 05, 2025 10:47 AM (+I8Q
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I don't think that stuff tasted like maple. Or oatmeal.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (WvZaB)

I want my Maypo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz7IdA11n3U

Posted by: naturalfake at August 05, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

231 223 Small boobies are like the desert. Not much there, but really hot.
Posted by: Diabeetus at August 05, 2025 10:50 AM (SlrUo)

No, you're right. ANY boobs are like an oasis in the desert. Welcome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:52 AM (bss/y)

232 167 In this clip, Sydney Sweeney shoots a gun

https://tinyurl.com/49x8a5rn
Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:30 AM (AOsQT)
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Um, more like going all John Wick with a gun.

Posted by: WisRich at August 05, 2025 10:53 AM (G0vdT)

233 222 212 Although I am confused.

I assume one of the progeny is male.
Posted by: Halfhand at August 05, 2025 10:48 AM (fb+zr)

Ah-ha! Makes sense. I was thinking. She's 12 weeks pregnant with kid #5, how could she also be pregnant with #4.

Inogame is turning his children into logic problems for us. Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:50 AM (bss/y)

But no math!

Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:53 AM (53oGX)

234 avocado
harvest gold
frost white
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You forgot 'bronze'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 05, 2025 10:53 AM (WvpwN)

235 "Holm" is forest, maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 09:50 AM (rIQZh)
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Island.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

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I think 'Holme' is more like a penninnsula. Or a spit?

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 05, 2025 10:53 AM (144I4)

236 The front page of the NY Post does not disappoint on yesterday's Mamdani/Warren meeting:

"African American Meets Native American"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at August 05, 2025 10:54 AM (0bjKf)

237 234 avocado
harvest gold
frost white
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You forgot 'bronze'.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 05, 2025 10:53 AM (WvpwN)

Separate from harvest gold?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:54 AM (bss/y)

238 There's a video out there of Sydney Sweeney setting the sparkplug gaps on her '65 Mustang.

It's quite exciting.

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:54 AM (AOsQT)

239 sorry, can be "a" key

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2025 10:54 AM (rbvCR)

240 I think people are going to get tired of the stainless look eventually too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:44 AM (bss/y)

It will come full circle back to Gaia brown and avocado.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 05, 2025 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

241 I love stainless. I wanted to do our kitchen 100% stainless, cabinets, counters, everything, like a full on commercial kitchen. Wife said nah. But she does like the appliances to be stainless.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:55 AM (rIQZh)

242 I am wondering, my grandparents had all of the 70s colors in chairs and sofa (avocado, goldenrod.)

But they had electric blue carpet in the living room. I am assuming late 60s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:55 AM (bss/y)

243 I love stainless. I wanted to do our kitchen 100% stainless, cabinets, counters, everything, like a full on commercial kitchen. Wife said nah. But she does like the appliances to be stainless.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:55 AM (rIQZh)

Don't forget the floor drains.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2025 10:56 AM (rbvCR)

244 238 There's a video out there of Sydney Sweeney setting the sparkplug gaps on her '65 Mustang.

It's quite exciting.
Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:54 AM (AOsQT)

I saw that. She is using a dial gap thingee.

Mmmmmm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:56 AM (bss/y)

245 Spelling and punctuation matter. Take Gary Oldman as an example.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 05, 2025 10:56 AM (9vYpt)

246 Bronze was brown and another 70s appliance abomination.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (WvpwN)

247 Don't forget the floor drains.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2025 10:56 AM (rbvCR)

It would be awesome to have floor drains. You know how easy it would be to keep the floor clean?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (bss/y)

248 228 219 4 daughters! I presume the wife will be kept around, which means 5, total.

As a man with 3, I convey my respect and condolences
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 10:49 AM (fEC80)

You are also assuming they are going to call it quits at 5.

Am I insane or was it just yesterday he was saying she was pregnant with the 1st?

Damn, it's like shit's getting old at warp speed!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:51 AM (bss/y)

I was just thinking about this, and I have been able to share the good news here for my whole brood.
I don't know how my wife does it, She'll be pregnant or breastfeeding for a decade by the time we get through this.

Posted by: Inogame at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (53oGX)

249 hehehehe.

Feeler gauges.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (rIQZh)

250
Here's the original clip from Taran Tactical.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7my6NQpJDzM

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (FoIOl)

251 249 hehehehe.

Feeler gauges.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (rIQZh)

Helloooooo tokyooooo

Posted by: Just the punchline at August 05, 2025 10:58 AM (OA79/)

252 210 Bifid uterus?

triffid uterus > bifid uterus

Posted by: anachronda at August 05, 2025 10:58 AM (sGtp+)

253 SO- to sum up

She grew up in Idaho
shoots guns
fixes cars
votes Republican
ample bosom

what's not to like

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:59 AM (AOsQT)

254 But they had electric blue carpet in the living room. I am assuming late 60s?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

That blue seems mid century modern. Doubt if it would hold up in to the 70's though. Could just be the color they liked best and used it any time they replaced carpet.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 05, 2025 10:59 AM (2J/Lj)

255 Whole house should be a huge dishwasher.
Shut doors and drawers.
Push the big wash button.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 05, 2025 10:59 AM (ruemI)

256 Monkey is up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 05, 2025 11:01 AM (u73oe)

257 249 hehehehe.

Feeler gauges.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (rIQZh)

Something came up at the new job about a month in. We were trying to check a very narrow gap on some parts and they were saying 'let's use pin gauges!' I looked at them like they were retarded and asked 'Do we have a set of calibrated feeler gauges?' Blank looks everywhere- like I was speaking Swahili.

I dug in our CMM room and we DID have a set of feeler gauges (with a lot of the gauges missing, of course) but the guy who maintains the instruments was like 'Huh, I did not know they were called that.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 11:01 AM (bss/y)

258 It would be awesome to have floor drains. You know how easy it would be to keep the floor clean?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (bss/y)

Yeah, it would be nice until that swarm of spiders start running out of it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 05, 2025 11:02 AM (g8Ew8)

259 I dug in our CMM room and we DID have a set of feeler gauges (with a lot of the gauges missing, of course) but the guy who maintains the instruments was like 'Huh, I did not know they were called that.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 11:01 AM (bss/y)

Guaranteed there's a table somewhere in that building shimmed up with a stack of the missing ones.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2025 11:02 AM (rIQZh)

260 I understand all the Ingmar Bergman jokes, but why did it take until Comment 118 to make a Wahlberg joke?
Posted by: Pete in Texas

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As I understand it, as Marky Mark was looking through the old family archives, he found inspiration for his group's name.

You see, back in the old days the original restaurant used to offer something called "The Donkey Brunch".

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 05, 2025 11:02 AM (144I4)

261 Incredible detail, so realistic. The black and white really emphasizes the fact that it is October and winter is coming. Would love to see in person.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 05, 2025 11:02 AM (PcTds)

262 258 It would be awesome to have floor drains. You know how easy it would be to keep the floor clean?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:57 AM (bss/y)

Yeah, it would be nice until that swarm of spiders start running out of it.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 05, 2025 11:02 AM (g8Ew

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I think there was an X-Files episode with roaches swarming out a drain too.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 05, 2025 11:05 AM (36PRH)

263 244 238 There's a video out there of Sydney Sweeney setting the sparkplug gaps on her '65 Mustang.

It's quite exciting.
Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2025 10:54 AM (AOsQT)

I saw that. She is using a dial gap thingee.

Mmmmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 05, 2025 10:56 AM (bss/y)
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Called a caliper, boss!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 05, 2025 11:05 AM (36PRH)

264 No, you're right. ANY boobs are like an oasis in the desert. Welcome.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Are you sure about that?

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at August 05, 2025 11:13 AM (5hfjS)

265 The funny part is, because my brothers and I were so bad, I thought daughters would be easier. WRONG. The boy is practically zero-maintenance, and even helps with stuff. I just have to feed him, and help with some occasional homework. His grades are pretty high. He's even working a job now and trying to get a car, and figure out his future - with minimal prompting. It's like we were, but without all the bail money and medical bills.

The girls are much higher-maintenance. They're more... restful. But also more restive.

Boys are so much easier.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2025 11:17 AM (fEC80)

266 Where are the Muzzies introducing the 'Free Palestine!' gaybos to the stony floor below ... ? This ain't 'mod'ren-day Svenska' ... still, black-and-white is a nice choice for the subject matter at hand. Kinda like it was for Hitchcock's 'Psycho' ... and how come this doesn't have a 'Norman Bates' trib in it ... ? See how important details are ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at August 05, 2025 12:41 PM (ayRl+)

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