Saturday Night "Club ONT" August 9, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

I was just here for the beer. Looks like the bartender majored in SycoLLeGy at HaVaRd.

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Arrive like a storm, dressed like the wallpaper. If you read the rules, congratulations. You are now the Director of HR for the evening.

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

The world's leading expert on European wasps walks into a record shop. He asks the assistant, "Do you have European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2? I believe it was released this week."

The assistant checks the computer and then says, "Certainly. Would you like to listen before you buy it?"

The expert replies, "Of course!" The assistant hands him a pair of earphones and puts the record on a turntable near the counter, and turns it on.

The expert listens for a few moments and says to the assistant, "I'm terribly sorry, but I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and this is not accurate at all. I don't recognize any of those sounds. Are you sure this is the correct recording?"

The assistant checks the turntable. "Yes, sir," he says. "This is the European Vespidae Acoustics Volume 2. Let me skip ahead to the second track." Again the expert listens for a few moments and then says to the assistant, "This just can't be right! I've been an expert in this field for 43 years and I still don't recognize any of these sounds."

The assistant apologizes and lifts the needle to the next track.

As soon as the track starts playing, the expert throws off the headphones. "This is outrageous false advertising! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps and no European wasp has ever made a sound like the ones on this record!"

The manager of the shop overhears the commotion and walks over. "What seems to be the problem, sir?"

The expert turns to him, red-faced and fuming. "This is an outrage! I am the world's leading expert on European wasps. Nobody knows more about them than I do. There is no way in hell that the sounds on that record were made by European wasps!"

The manager glances down and notices the problem instantly. "I'm terribly sorry, sir. It appears we've been playing you the bee side."

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Club ONT Language School

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Drink of the Night

Paper Plane Cocktail

If you love the bitterness of an Aperol Spritz, but enjoy the body of a old fashioned, the Paper Plane cocktail may just be the perfect drink for you.
This modern cocktail was created in 2008 by NYC bartender Sam Ross and is the perfect marriage of bourbon, Amaro, and Aperol.

Ingredients:
3/4 ounce Aperol
3/4 ounce Amaro Nonino
3/4 ounce bourbon
1/2 ounce lemon juice

Directions:
Add a handful of ice to a cocktail shaker along with the Aperol, Amaro, bourbon, and lemon juice and shake for 15 seconds.
Strain into a coupe glass and serve immediately.
The cocktail can be garnished with a paper plane or an orange or lemon twist.
Enjoy!

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Club ONT - Moron Cat

Klepto Kitty - Morons Left Pantless

With dozens of items unclaimed, the embarrassed owner took her search for Leo’s victims wider this month, posting photos of his hauls on a local Facebook page along with an apology and her address. Those who showed up to claim their belongings included a woman who recognized her pink and purple underpants and a boy whose beloved and missing sports jersey was helpfully identifiable by his name printed on the back.

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Club ONT Moron Mobile

Looks like the car of your cool uncle. Has the same amount of wheels as a 911 but more seating for Morons. Who likes this car? Those that appreciate things like competence and khakis. If you're the rebel type, it is pretty easy to disappear into the Midwest while enjoying AM radio.

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Club ONT Moments of Nostalgia

Hey Disco! Found your people!

[Disco says: Hey ladies! How YOU doin'? Let's get FUNKY!]

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Carried us through the 90's. Sound up.

AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30

May this sound echo in eternity:pic.twitter.com/I0zKIPERbX
— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) August 9, 2025

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Club ONT Department of Corrections News

Old news, but on the chance you missed it the first time around:
Former jail guards sentenced for using "Baby Shark" to punish Oklahoma inmates

Two former Oklahoma County jail guards have pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor cruelty charge for forcing inmates to listen to "Baby Shark" as punishment.
Gregory Cornell Butler Jr. and Christian Charles Miles were put on probation for two years and fined $200.
They also were ordered to pay $300 in victims' compensation and complete 40 hours of community service. They were also banned from working in law enforcement.
The two guards further mistreated inmates by playing children's music loudly on a loop, investigators reported. Both resigned after coming under investigation.
The criminal case centered on four victims, but investigators believe there were more.
One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight, according to an investigative report. Another said the "weird little song" was blaring and played "over and over and over again."

Cruel and unusual punishment.

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Club ONT Wholesome Content Department

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— Wow Animals (@WOW_ANIMALS1) August 7, 2025

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Club ONT Music

Cliff Clavin says: Little known fact. The original Thompson Twins in 1977 line-up consisted of four people and none of them were twins. At various stages, they had up to seven members, but their best known line-up was as a trio from 1982 to 1986.

The name comes from two bumbling detectives named Thomson and Thompson in the English language version of The Adventures of Tintin, a comics series. Thompson and Thompson are close doubles but not twins, the naming makes even less sense.

Some other twins

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week. Or thereabout...

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Club ONT brought to you by rulz:

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Club ONT regrets that the M&Ms in the large jar on the bar are not equally distributed in color. Some guy named Dave came in just before opening and demanded that the brown ones be removed.

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Comments

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1 I said so.

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (YlWIZ)

2 hmm

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (U/Byj)

3 Rd

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (Lo97M)

4
Gentlemen, start your comments!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (kkTda)

5 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 09, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

6 Back to content

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 09, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

7 Sorry I'm late, I lost control when the Rubber Band began to jam.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:02 PM (VSht7)

8 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:03 PM (WzM/W)

9 Thank you to mindful webworker and Idaho Spud Boy for covering for me last night.

1 tankdemon sends his regrets that he won't be here tonight because he couldn't think of a witty excuse about being late.

Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (7W0uI)

8 Please excuse tankdemon from tonight's ONT. A fresh shipment of hamsters came in, and he had to go find some elderberries.
Posted by: tankdemon's Mom (Idaho Spudboy) at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (bKn1x)

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:04 PM (VSht7)

10 Good evening, Club patrons!
Please purchase your restroom tokens when entering the Club. The line may be long if you wait til you need them!

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (QMAsf)

11 Old news, but on the chance you missed it the first time around:
Former jail guards sentenced for using "Baby Shark" to punish Oklahoma inmates

Sounds fishy.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (WzM/W)

12 The sign in top photo looks like it was prepared by an Ivy League graduate who can sometimes make drinks.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

13 Everyone funky now?

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

14 37 This will reflect poorly on tankdemon's Permanent Record! Tardy every evening, now an absence. Treading on thin ice, I'd say.
Posted by: Vice Principal Orlando at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)

If I were concerned about my "permanent record" would I be hanging out at AoS?

Don't answer that.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (VSht7)

15 Yay, National Garage Sale Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (lUFok)

16
Busy day. Scrubbed down the pens in the kennel and vacuumed the work area. Gave Rosalind and The Big Dummy baths. Did Dot and Diana's nails. Cut down Dan and Dutchess's coats. Plus the usual stuff. I'm tired.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (kkTda)

17 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

We made it to Funkytown?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)

18 Kicker for J'ville Jaguars kicked a 70-yd field goal.

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:08 PM (AOsQT)

19 If I were concerned about my "permanent record" would I be hanging out at AoS?

Don't answer that.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (VSht7)

All you need to do is bribe the right hamster to eat it. I don't know if playing the Hamster Dance would work, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (S/Y4j)

20 You get to the bottom of the content and see a virgin comment field.

Then you hit refresh.

Virginity is fleeting.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)

21 17 We made it to Funkytown?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August

We live there.

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

22 Paper Plane
Ingredients:
3/4 ounce Aperol
3/4 ounce Amaro Nonino
3/4 ounce bourbon
1/2 ounce lemon juice

1) I have all of those things, I should try making one sometime.

B) It's an IBU standard cocktail, and that recipe is a bit off. It should be equal parts.

I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to ~~water down~~ lemon down their cocktails.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

23 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (qKYfj)

24 I met two of my daughter in laws brothers today. One lives in Canada and one in Abu Dhabi. Neither of them have ever held a weapon before so, as any good Moron would do, I made that happen. Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

25 Also there's a misspelling on that chalkboard.

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (AOsQT)

26 Kicker for J'ville Jaguars kicked a 70-yd field goal.
Posted by: Don Black

The game's getting too easy, I reckon. They'll have to switch to the Arena-Football-width uprights.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)

27 >You get to the bottom of the content and see a virgin comment field.
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that should count as a first

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)

28 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

29 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

30 B) It's an IBU standard cocktail, and that recipe is a bit off. It should be equal parts.

I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to water down lemon down their cocktails.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

You're expecting standards? At Club ONT??

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

31 Akkkkshully, I believe that the last use for whale oil is lubricating watch mechanisms. Supposedly still superior to any alternative.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (rFBCq)

32 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

Just wait 'til you get the bill.

What, you thought this place was free?

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)

33 B) It's an IBU standard cocktail
Posted by: mikeski

There's an Internet Law that every correction will contain one mistake, right?

IBA standard cocktail. IBUs are for beer.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)

34 Dax Sheppard brought one of those wagons to Jay Leno’s car show. It’s a “so bad it’s good” car. Obscene yet beautiful.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (zBBwI)

35 Tonypete, why can't they shoot at a range? Can't think of any reason. Green card holders can even buy/own firearms.

When I belonged to an indoor range here, 1/2 of the business on weekdays was Asian (largely Chinese) students from UCSD etc who were renting guns. Clearly first-timers enjoying this distinctive opportunity in the US. Now of course someone in their party had to bring their own gun, in order to be able to rent. But this phenomenon was pronounced, at both indoor ranges where I was a member.

If you belong to/have access to a range, I would think you could bring them as guests, and empty brass.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (U/Byj)

36 Here, Diogenes! https://tinyurl.com/3dspsbpn

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

37 Now 16 hours without electricity and the work crew has gone for the night.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (rFBCq)

38 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Neat. I managed it a couple weeks ago, but I was wearing a sock for one, so there's an asterisk by my name in the record book.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

39 Dial up is still in existence? Wow. I would have guessed it went away sometime around 2010. Damn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (zBBwI)

40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

41 Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

I've seen plenty of YT vids of foreign visitors shooting at ranges.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)

42 Well, how about that! I'm in the comments of the week twice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

Sheesh.
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

43 You know what they grow in Guatemala?

Guatermelons.

Posted by: Piercello at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (G6MQh)

44 You're expecting standards? At Club ONT??
Posted by: Doof

I have standards!

If you don't like the ones I'm using, I have others.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (DgGvY)

45 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

Roomy back seat.

Jus' saying, exciting things can happen in a roomy back seat.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)

46 Oh, FFS. Every parent of a small child for the last ten years has been forced to listen to that stupid song for 2+ hours at a stretch, and our only crime was owning a TV set.

Are we going to fine every child in the country for cruelty?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (RcIn0)

47 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

48 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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LOL. Hope my monitor likes Bacardi Coke - it's wearing it now.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)

49 Tonypete, why can't they shoot at a range? Can't think of any reason. Green card holders can even buy/own firearms.
Posted by: rhomboid

These two don't have their green cards yet - Just visiting their Sis here so a simple visa.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:20 PM (WzM/W)

50 Roomy back seat.

Jus' saying, exciting things can happen in a roomy back seat.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)

Or in nice van, but you won't look like frigging clark grizwald. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

51 Just wait 'til you get the bill.

What, you thought this place was free?
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)

I was told Beto's covering all that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

52 I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to water down lemon down their cocktails.
Posted by: mikeski
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And the other half of your penance will be one week of garden gnomes in your front yard. All staring at your house.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)

53 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)

Were you pounding the left one, or the right one? I'll take the one on the left.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:23 PM (0eaVi)

54 Here, Diogenes! https://tinyurl.com/3dspsbpn
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

I love the BeeGees...if I don't have to look at them.
Side note, speaking of Aussies, the guy who married Olivia Newton John live down the street from me when I was a kid.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

55 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

That's a mini-house in Western PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (qKYfj)

56 50 Or in nice van, but you won't look like frigging clark grizwald. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)

Does the van have a picture of a unicorn painted on the side and an eight-track player blasting Zeppelin?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (VSht7)

57 Saw where three people were shot in times square last night around 1am. Time Square is a no gun zone. Guess if you don't mind shooting people that law would mean nothing to you.
Police are looking into the shooting, they say.

Posted by: Case at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (Kdsvb)

58 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)

59 Evening, Bulg.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (41CYW)

60 Neat. I managed it a couple weeks ago, but I was wearing a sock for one, so there's an asterisk by my name in the record book.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

Well, I think the first one is more like a comment of the week in law.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (0eaVi)

61 Good evening Club ONT patrons. Thanks to Doggo and Disco as always.

Posted by: TRex - who needs restroom tokens? at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)

62 45 40 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

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That looks a lot like a 96 Buick Roadmaster Wagon.

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (dIske)

63 Tonypete, unless I've missed something, they can shoot. No legal reason they can't. Nothing in visas of any sort concerning shooting a firearm.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (U/Byj)

64 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof

Stoopid nipple-removing airbrushes!

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (DgGvY)

65 All foreigners have to do to shoot at a range here is buy a hunting license in the State they're shooting in. That waiver the prohibition. Foreigners, especially Russians, love to hunt in the US.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (RcIn0)

66 I don't know because I was just a lil Sunday comics reading Catholic School kid at the time and Rickey Nelson was just a part of the Ozzie and Harriet actual family.(awesome)
Meh! Then after all Dreamy Eyed Rickey Nelson and his band appeared that was cool. Fast forward to the 70's and Nelson put out Garden Party. Holy shit he looked better in 1971 than 1961. The guy was a phenom....

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (VPPG8)

67 Sheesh.
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

Maybe she thought you said bare hunting?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

68 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

So did every guy in the Horde.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

69 And the other half of your penance will be one week of garden gnomes in your front yard. All staring at your house.
Posted by: scampydog

I think I'm hearing things. Sounds like someone saying "soon."

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (DgGvY)

70 https://youtu.be/PVwGO3Y4zhQ

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)

71 I was told Beto's covering all that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

To me, that one proves Democrats are just frustrated theater kids.

Act hip and cool.

Run for office, twice.

Lose.

Make money from the losing campaigns.

Act cool and hip.

Think your somebody special whose opinions matter.

Like so many of them who think their opinion matters. What is it, less than 20% approval for the Dems? There's a reason for that. Beto's one of those reasons.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)

72 Not gonna yank that taffy any more, but I think all they'd need to shoot would be picture ID to show proof of age. Private ranges and clubs of course have their own policies, but I am unaware of any visa of any kind that contains limitations on things like shooting. And there's no federal law on the matter.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (U/Byj)

73 Or in nice van, but you won't look like frigging clark grizwald. lol

In the van you'll look like Temu Epstein, so there's that. Just paint "FREE CANDY" on the sides and be done with it.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (wItF4)

74 Sheesh.
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)

Maybe she thought you said bare hunting?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (0eaVi)

Gawd. I hope not. Not at our age.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

75 Mongo like this thread. Other times,
Mongo read content,
Mongo read comments,
Mongo refresh,
Mongo read fewer comments,
Just when Mongo know what to say,
Mongo sees NOOD.
Mongo not know what NOOD mean.
Have something to do with where thread go.

Posted by: Mongo at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (vd6bO)

76 These two don't have their green cards yet - Just visiting their Sis here so a simple visa.

Private ranges or clubs may have their own rules but I'm not aware of any actual laws. Purchasing requires a green card.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:29 PM (j2fld)

77 Mongo like this thread. Other times,
Mongo read content,
Mongo read comments,
Mongo refresh,
Mongo read fewer comments,
Just when Mongo know what to say,
Mongo sees NOOD.
Mongo not know what NOOD mean.
Have something to do with where thread go.
Posted by: Mongo at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (vd6bO)

**c

Mongo just small commenter in great thread of life.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (2WIwB)

78 70 Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)

Excellent.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VSht7)

79 Writers of Airplane
formerly known as 'The Three Gaymegos'

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VPPG8)

80 Writers of Airplane
formerly known as 'The Three Gaymegos'
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VPPG

Er... isn't Captain Fantastic Elton John?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:31 PM (0eaVi)

81 Just got married, my father was shutting down his Buick dealership, so I bought my first new car in years, an '85 Electra Wagon, big nine passenger jobbie, all decked out.
I had been buying a succession of early seventies GM wagons for years, so i could carry my seventeen foot canoe.
The new wife thought I was crazy.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 09, 2025 10:31 PM (n4GiU)

82 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:32 PM (MGB5H)

83 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof

So did every guy in the Horde.
Posted by: Diogenes

The blonde one looks like she'd make a real nice sandwich. Laced with arsenic. Then use you hair hair to extend her macramé fringe.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ftFVW)

84 The blonde one looks like she'd make a real nice sandwich. Laced with arsenic. Then use you hair hair to extend her macramé fringe.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 10:32

*Doof perks up*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (MGB5H)

85 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!
Posted by: BruceWayne
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As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)

86 Wow. I’m honored to make the top tenish comments of the week. This is for all the lurkers out there that hesitate to delurk.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (fveCG)

87 Looks like the car of your cool uncle. Has the same amount of wheels as a 911 but more seating for Morons. Who likes this car? Those that appreciate things like competence and khakis. If you're the rebel type, it is pretty easy to disappear into the Midwest while enjoying AM radio.

Vedy Interesting.
-Embedded Islamic Cell Douchebags

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:35 PM (VPPG8)

88 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!
Posted by: BruceWayne
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As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)

Ya berserker is correct.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:36 PM (MGB5H)

89 , the guy who married Olivia Newton John live down the street from me when I was a kid.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes
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Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness? Daliah Lavi used to live three doors down the street. RIP

Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.

Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon

That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)

90 Nyah~

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (Ui59G)

91 That looks a lot like a 96 Buick Roadmaster Wagon.
Posted by: Orson

I'm not sure I would admit to knowing that.

But nothing says "style" like faux woodgrain. Grandpa's pimpin' it.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)

92 Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

So did every guy in the Horde.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

Perhaps. But I've been lucky enough to see her for a few days while tonight's Club was under construction. It pays to be a D!

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (QMAsf)

93 How we gonna have the berserker quote without a pic link?!
Posted by: BruceWayne
------------------------
As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)
***

Ahhh. The three B's.
Beer
Bewbs.
Blo....errr...Blondes.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:38 PM (2WIwB)

94 Hey, Scampy!

Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:39 PM (77rzZ)

95 May this sound echo in eternity

https://youtu.be/Mq39mQXoGZc

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:40 PM (DgGvY)

96 the guy who married Olivia Newton John live down the street from me when I was a kid.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes
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I took a leak next to COL Ollie North in the Reagan Airport.

No, I didn't talk to him there. I followed the Man Code. I waited until we were washing our hands.

"Good Afternoon, COL"

"Good Afternoon Son"

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (WzM/W)

97 The Airplane writers again proving the axiom that not all heroes wear capes...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (F3xjE)

98 Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness? Daliah Lavi used to live three doors down the street. RIP

Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.

Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon

That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)

I drank at the same small hotel bar as Telly Savalas. We raised our glasses and nodded to each other.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)

99 If there is a world where dogs don't exist I'm not interested.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)

100 29 The disco macrame picture was cruel. I'm pounding it like a screen door in a Kansas twister looking for the hidden video.
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes

One of those gals seems to have an uncovered boob. She needs to improve her macrame skills.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 09, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)

101 17 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

We made it to Funkytown?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)

This Funkytown (not really safe for work, I warned you)

https://tinyurl.com/3f5c2b24

Posted by: easy the elder at August 09, 2025 10:43 PM (W6SPY)

102 Good evening morons e grazie Troika

My dad had a station wagon with wood paneling.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 10:44 PM (JvZF+)

103 "One of those gals seems to have an uncovered boob. She needs to improve her macrame skills."

Five out of five Morons disagree with your criticism.

Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 10:44 PM (APp3S)

104 I drank at the same small hotel bar as Telly Savalas. We raised our glasses and nodded to each other.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)

No "who loves you, baby?" No raising of lollipops?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)

105 Club ONT Wholesome Content Department

Does the tennis-ball launcher have a sensor on the front, so it doesn't launch with the doggo right in front of it?

Because that's what my brother's dog would do. She didn't play fetch, she played goalie.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (DgGvY)

106 about the Paper Airplane. In summer 76' I( was to fly from Philly to Ft 'Lauderdale and walk my lil Sister down the isle due to the death of our father. My buddy drove me to the airport and we were early so sat aT A BAR . The bar had a wild set up with back lit quarts standing on end flowing into clear tubes ending at the valve the bartender could turn on or off.
Long story my buddy left when the departure was close. I was enamored by the whisky pouring through clear tubes and stayed long enough to miss my flight and had to book a 9 am Champaign flight to Ft Laud.. Was awesome. Only problem the wedding party stayed in a vacant family home and after the wedding I walked

There has to be a Costanza defense in here someware!! into the Maid of Honors bedroom in my under ware.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (VPPG8)

107 Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness? Daliah Lavi used to live three doors down the street. RIP

Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.

Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon

That's all I got.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)
***

Well!
My brushes with greatness include Arnold Palmer, and General Schwarzkoph when he was a colonel, but the best one was Charles Lindbergh.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB)

108 That looks a lot like a 96 Buick Roadmaster Wagon.
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (dIske)

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Hmm. I pegged it for the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, circa 1983

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (dDmld)

109 Got distracted by a bunch of sci fi trailers for movies arriving over the rest of this year. The original stories look like shit, and the rest is a bunch of retread shit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (lUFok)

110 One of those gals seems to have an uncovered boob. She needs to improve her macrame skills.
Posted by: nerdygirl

* points back at comment #64 *

Stoopid nipple-removing airbrushes!
Posted by: mikeski

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (DgGvY)

111 Thanks for the dandy Saturday Night ONT, 3 Ds!

Y'all do terrific work, I don't care what the head Ewok says...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (kB9dk)

112 I'm not sure I would admit to knowing that.

But nothing says "style" like faux woodgrain. Grandpa's pimpin' it.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)
______________________________

I'm not ashamed to state for the record that I owned/drove an all black (dark red leather interior) Buick Roadmaster Sedan sometime back in my hazy past. It was awesome, and all my college friends called me "The Funeral Director."

Seriously, beggars couldn't be choosers at that age, and it was loaded. Like driving your living room around.

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (dIske)

113 One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight, according to an investigative report. Another said the "weird little song" was blaring and played "over and over and over again."
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Cruel and unusual punishment.
+++

If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
If not - fvck the judges too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

114 https://youtu.be/r58GQYFZeLE

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

115 Have told this one before. At Clinton's first inaugural, friend's wife was involved with one of the parties, got us in as "volunteers" (duties so minimal can't recall what they were). Quite early, two of the first arrivals were Jim Belushi with Loretta Switt (sp? and RIP?). Talked with them quite a while, they were full of reasonably intelligent questions about inaugurations, Congress, all sorts of crap a Beltway denizen would know. Very nice people. Remember they were so full of questions and so appreciative I never got around to asking *them* any Hollyweird questions.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (U/Byj)

116 Gene Loves Jezebel were brothers and may have been twins too.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (gKWVE)

117 My dad had a station wagon with wood paneling.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Real wood paneling: sexy. pimpin'.

Woodgrain vinyl sticker: very much less so.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

118 oops. 114 was supposed to be:

https://youtu.be/god7hAPv8f0

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

119 What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)

120 111 Thanks for the dandy Saturday Night ONT, 3 Ds!
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Good evening, LS!

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

121 Evenin', fappers. I'm beat to hell - did a long hike today, which included going off-trail over a boulder field to reach a summit. I was rather impressed by my hiking partner - he's not too far shy of 80 and still hitting the trails. I hope I can get around like that when (if) I hit that age.

Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 10:51 PM (APp3S)

122 My father went to high school with Mario Lanza
Frankie Avalon
Bobby Rydell
Fabian Chubby checker were form pops neighborhood

Johnny Depp was a guitar player for the KIDZ in 1984 .
My brother was bass player represented by BUCCI Artist management from Miami. meh who knew?

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (VPPG8)

123 Evenin', fappers. I'm beat to hell ...

Probably not the best way to start a post...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (2WIwB)

124 There was a guy in Cayucos (little beach town in central coast) who specialized in restoring woodies. One time at the B&B there, three beautiful woodies in the parking lot. Owners, at breakfast, said they occasionally came back on "pilgrimages" to the restoration guy. They lived not far.

Such beautiful cars. I recall a few in the neighborhood as a kid, unrestored of course, one of which used in stereotypical fashion as a surf buggy, longboards sticking out the open back window.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (U/Byj)

125 I met two of my daughter in laws brothers today. One lives in Canada and one in Abu Dhabi. Neither of them have ever held a weapon before so, as any good Moron would do, I made that happen. Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete
===

Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals?

When did that become a rule?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:54 PM (/lPRQ)

126 119 What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?

Oh that Manuel Noriega who started/invested in Dominion voting machines? That Guy???

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:54 PM (VPPG8)

127 119 What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)
______________

Well, you know Van Halen was in the mix with "Panama". I think I recall that they had The Clash (I fought the Law and the Law Won).

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)

128 I'm not ashamed to state for the record that I owned/drove an all black (dark red leather interior) Buick Roadmaster Sedan sometime back in my hazy past. It was awesome, and all my college friends called me "The Funeral Director."

Seriously, beggars couldn't be choosers at that age, and it was loaded. Like driving your living room around.
Posted by: Orson

You got me beat. Nothing says "this is what my high-school part time salary can afford" like a mid-80s Ford Tempo.

A rolling prophylactic. Not like there was room to get it on in the back seat, anyway, unless you had a midget fetish.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (DgGvY)

129 There was a guy in Cayucos (little beach town in central coast) who specialized in restoring woodies.

Any Girls?

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (VPPG8)

130 I caught the eye of Gene Barry and Sir Alec Guinness, on different days, at the same corner in London (I was going to my office, OK?). Got nod from Robert Plant at a Plant and Page concert.

Posted by: javems at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)

131 OK one more. Transatlantic flight Frankfurt-Dulles, mid-90s. I always maximize time on my feet, moving around, on long flights. Was hanging in the business class galley (I was infiltrating up from coach), as the attendants didn't mind. Casey Qasem comes in, doing the same thing, we start chatting. He was returning from Lebanon where he'd participated in a post-civil war/reconstruction thing, US-sponsored. I was returning from a pleasure trip to a post-Soviet war zone. As I was pretty familiar with the topic, he grilled me on foreign assistance and related matters he'd encountered at his event. At the end - of course - I said I had to ask him *his* all-time top song. And - of course - I forget what he said!

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

132 >What was it that they played while waiting on Manuel Noriega to surrender?

Posted by: Mike Hammer
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"Panama"
Van Halen

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (AOsQT)

133 At the Waffle House this morning. Comely server was singing, I Think We're Alone Now, then commented how she loved that Tiffany song. Record scratch.

Had to put her some knowledge to Tommy James and the Shondells. She took it well. Gave me a high five without muttering Bless your heart...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 09, 2025 10:58 PM (F3xjE)

134 I'm pickin' up good vibrators
She's giving me excitations (Oom-bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrations, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations, bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrators, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations, bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrators, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations)

- WNBA Fight Song

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:58 PM (L/fGl)

135 Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals?

When did that become a rule?

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There's a major industry in Vegas where certain ranges ferry in foreign nationals (overwhelmingly Chinese) to have their first experience handling a firearm. For an extra fee they can even try full automatic.

The RSOs have a helluva time keeping them from aiming at each other for their once-in-a-lifetime Instagram posts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 10:59 PM (dDmld)

136 Since my excuse referenced this, and we're in a funky mood, I might as well share...

https://youtu.be/dXcFFNx0_g8

Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 11:00 PM (VSht7)

137 One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight

If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

https://youtu.be/POdbe-_bYbs

Posted by: mikeski regrets nothing at August 09, 2025 11:00 PM (DgGvY)

138 Good evening Ds and wonderful Horde!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:01 PM (L9kkv)

139 Cicero at the indoor ranges where I used to belong it was always a Double Your Situational Awareness moment when groups of obvious novice foreigners walked in. Now I recall at one place there'd occasionally be Europeans, too.

At my club, since it's a weekday, we rarely have newbies to worry about, though we like it when we do, because they're generally very open and we can give them an instant intensive course in etiquette and safety.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

140 Good evening, COMM.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:04 PM (41CYW)

141 On a flight from NC to Ftlsuf my brothers 4 yo daughter grabbed the nose of the guy in the neaxt seat. He was Columbia Records R&B top exec. He invited my brother to Boca Resort Hotel for the anual Columbia Records showcase of the coming years bands. Alice cooper was a short dude with a tiny sholder spread. Living Color who were never heard of were the product onstage at the shocase dinner.
bands are the same as a can of soup new flavor.
You think you chose to like them but radio stations have a scale of minimum/medium/heavy rotation..

It's a club and you're not in it

-George Carlin

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 11:05 PM (VPPG8)

142 >>One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight
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PFFT!!! Ain't nuthin'!!!

One Christmas season, I had to listen to the *&^%^()&*^ Chipmunks' Christmas Album ALL day, EVERY day, for a whole effing WEEK.

Where's my reparationz????

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)

143 Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.

Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

144 One Christmas season, I had to listen to the *&^%^()&*^ Chipmunks' Christmas Album ALL day, EVERY day, for a whole effing WEEK.

Where's my reparationz????
Posted by: JQ
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Flashbacks...not good ones. While in college I worked a Christmas season in a retail store.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW)

145 Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)

146 No "who loves you, baby?" No raising of lollipops?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)

No. It was Christmastime in a small swanky hotel bar on Central Park South.

I was there for an office Christmas party somewhere upstairs. I was starting the party early. He was just sitting in a corner of the small bar having something straight on the rocks. He looked like he didn't want to talk so I didn't bother him, just acknowledged him with a raised glass and a nod. And he reciprocated.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:09 PM (gKDq2)

147 While in college I worked a Christmas season in a retail store.
Posted by: scampydog

"Once bitten... twiiice shy"

Posted by: George Michael at August 09, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)

148 yeah special meetings .

STARSTRUCK
I fapped to a movie with Jayne Mansfield once I never saw really anyone having a catholic family and nuns at school where girls were reprimanded for altering school uniforms above the knee..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 11:11 PM (VPPG8)

149 It says it's a 3D ONT, but I just can't see it, Elaine!

Posted by: Mr. Pitt at August 09, 2025 11:11 PM (G5+As)

150 Weee cAn HaRdlY sTaNd ThE wAAaaIt

pLeeZe ChiStmAs DoNt bE LaaaTe!

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)

151 You guys paying attention to how Canadian provincial governments are proving beyond any doubt that they are clinically insane?

Nova Scotia won't let anyone go out into the woods due to fire risks. It's a $25,000 fine if they catch you. Newfoundland just one upped that to $100,000 fine and prison time.

No hiking, no camping, no fishing, no hunting no nothing. They, basically, have negated one of the few remaining attributes of their country.

I wonder how that would play down here in the states. I think we might be a little more spiteful than they are.

Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

152 Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.
Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

Send ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer

Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf)

153 At the end - of course - I said I had to ask him *his* all-time top song. And - of course - I forget what he said!
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

Well damn rhomboid, that's just mean.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:14 PM (2WIwB)

154 If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
If not - fvck the judges too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)

Alternate theory: The two guards were no-good-niks, and this was the only charge that the bosses could get to stick.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 11:14 PM (bKn1x)

155 Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness?
===

My one brush with greatness?

Sum Dude mistook me for somebody famous...
"Excuse me, are you Johnny Depp".

To which I responded,
"Who the fuck is Johnny Depp?"

Wifey laughed her ass off... I really didn't know who "Johnny Depp" is, and now that I know, it's really quite embarrassing.
===

Politicians aren't great but inadvertantly found my self within rock-chucking distance of every President (some multiple times) since HW Bush, though technically MushBrain was just VP then.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:16 PM (/lPRQ)

156 was Biden ever President?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 11:18 PM (gKWVE)

157 was Biden ever President?
Posted by: gKWVE

His meat sack sat in the Oval Office sometimes. Does that count?

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 11:19 PM (ftFVW)

158 I've seen plenty of foreign nationals shooting at ranges. The reason I knew they were foreign nationals is I saw their passports being held behind the counter while they were shooting on the range.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2025 11:19 PM (VCgbV)

159 >was Biden ever President?

Posted by: gKWVE
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he was in the room

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (AOsQT)

160 152 Doof

IKR?!
In other words...'Get off my lawn!' You damn kids!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (L9kkv)

161 I still stand by my comment in 107 and Charles Lindbergh, but over the Fourth, I was.on the golf course when PDT played through. The agent that told me No Pictures was hawt, right down to the glock on her thigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (2WIwB)

162 Evening all :-)

Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (sPQoU)

163 Although I hope to live a good long life, I wonder if I can go to my grave never having heard Baby Shark.

Or that cars for kids or whatever it is.

(Things I only know about from the Moron Horde.)

Bad enough the goofy songs already in my head.
https://youtu.be/ynWhozyOoZQ
https://youtu.be/H-K2DZojWi0
https://youtu.be/5jV-E09efRE
https://youtu.be/C6KEuseUTmA
https://youtu.be/ge9Ou3-YyqU&t=26
https://youtu.be/C6KEuseUTmA

Posted by: mindful webworker - brain full of earworms at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (7W0uI)

164 Send ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf)

. . . Wait for it. . . . Wait for it. . . . Wait for it -- There it is!

There's always one.

Geez Louise and FFS and all that. A post to bloody complain about content? Well, somebody's shit sure as hell doesn't stink.

Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

165 Not even the dogs with the automatic ball chucker?

Tough crowd.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:24 PM (bss/y)

166 The energy is all on our side. This is our country and its spectacular.

https://tinyurl.com/z7hdffa3

Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 11:25 PM (viF8m)

167 Ok, gotta kill the Chipmunk earworm. This ought to do it...

https://youtu.be/PeMvMNpvB5M

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

168 Chuck Tanner, WS winning manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, lived down the street from me. Nice guy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 11:27 PM (qKYfj)

169 Geez Louise and FFS and all that. A post to bloody complain about content? Well, somebody's shit sure as hell doesn't stink.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

I, for one, want to complain about the lack of gladiator movies and documentaries about Turkish prisons.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (bKn1x)

170 JQ, The Club appreciates your bartending, late night snacks, clean up, and your unknown - until now, DJ skills.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)

171 Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

Is your reddit app broken?

Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (gKWVE)

172 Ok.
3 cocktails in.
I'm ready for this here 'Group Therepy'🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (L9kkv)

173 I, for one, want to complain about the lack of gladiator movies and documentaries about Turkish prisons.
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (bKn1x)

Yo Pete!
Take a trip to Sinop Turkey. The prison there dates back to the times of the Hittites. Trust me...you'll love it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)

174 I do detect a paucity of large breasts... in the post at least. I speak not for the ettes.

https://tinyurl.com/bde2sxe6

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)

175 Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)

*blushes*

Aw, shucks. Just having fun!

Thanks. Glad to ~~not get kicked out yet~~ be here!

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)

176 Just finished 'Light at the Edge of the World', started off a little slow but overall a good watch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (xFREA)

177 Yo Pete!
Take a trip to Sinop Turkey. The prison there dates back to the times of the Hittites. Trust me...you'll love it.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)

Huh. Mithridates.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (bss/y)

178 Ok.
3 cocktails in.
I'm ready for this here 'Group Therepy'🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (L9kkv)

So...what cha drinkin'?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (2WIwB)

179 Huh, had a random thought and figured I would check on State of Decay 3 ( a zombie/base building game series I have enjoyed in the past.)

Looks like they might of kilt it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (bss/y)

180 'May this sound echo in eternity'
---

Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (xFREA)

181 Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (xFREA)

It's not Rush. I hope it's not Rush.

Not a fan of Geddy Lee.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:39 PM (bss/y)

182 Re: Baby Shark...

Making a note of the Judge's name in case I ever get a chance to vote against...

Posted by: RandomDave at August 09, 2025 11:40 PM (aJQbY)

183 BOING!

Reporting in on tasting from a gift bottle of Breckenridge Bourbon.

I wouldn't buy it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (PlmO8)

184
Comely server was singing, I Think We're Alone Now

I think I'm a clone now

https://youtu.be/1kw_d3d0XAo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (63Dwl)

185 Earlier this year I took a co-worker out shooting for the first time. He grew up in Belgium until his last year in high school. He had never touched a gun before.

Turned out he was a natural shooter, he just didn't know it.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (BbZ1G)

186 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy

Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 11:45 PM (AOsQT)

187 186 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy
Posted by: Don Black
-------------

They'd surely surrender.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:47 PM (xFREA)

188 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy
Posted by: Don Black
---------
I'm sure this will stir up some shit. Pink Floyd is ear poison to me.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:47 PM (41CYW)

189 https://youtu.be/m4tJSn0QtME

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

190 I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy

Pretty much any Canadian band would do.

Except Triumph. Trying to demoralize your enemy with "Never Surrender" would be a huge mistake.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 11:49 PM (lUFok)

191 Loading up game roms on my new handheld.

Going to be a tight collection, whittling down 2tb of roms to 512gb.

And at the end of the day, I'll probably end up playing the same 20 games I've been playing for 40 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 11:50 PM (XV/Pl)

192 Klepto Kitty made me lol. 🤣

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 09, 2025 11:50 PM (Ezs10)

193 Alrighty... got to get shuteye. Long day tomorrow.

G'night, horde. Thanks for lettin' me play a while.

Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)

194 @186

>>I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy

Rush are harmless little fuzzballs, the deep guttural sound of Cookie Monster Metal is better suited for the job.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 11:51 PM (XV/Pl)

195 G'night, JQ. Thanks for the tunes.

Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (41CYW)

196 'May this sound echo in eternity'
---
Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.
Posted by: Braenyard

Almost 2 generations, now.

Gen alpha never heard it.

Gen Z thinks of it the way Gen X thinks of the sound of corduroy pants: something their parents subjected them to when they were little.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (DgGvY)

197 Gotta go. Bad Blue Top 20:

https://tinyurl.com/28empa6p

Waiting for the arrests, trials, and sentencings.

Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (PlmO8)

198 Pretty much any Canadian band would do.

Except Triumph. Trying to demoralize your enemy with "Never Surrender" would be a huge mistake.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Corey Hart, for the same reason, strangely enough.

Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 11:54 PM (DgGvY)

199 Send ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf

🔥🔥🔥

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 11:55 PM (+dm09)

200 Off to bed, night!

Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 11:56 PM (+dm09)

201 178 D

Vodka/lemonade...3 was just right🙃

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:57 PM (L9kkv)

202 >>Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.

There has never been a time when ace posted 24/7. Not ever.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 12:01 AM (viF8m)

203 189 https://youtu.be/m4tJSn0QtME
Posted by: JQ at Augus
---

Good one

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:03 AM (xFREA)

204
Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.

_________

Removing myself from your lawn right now.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 12:07 AM (kkTda)

205 In line with JQ's, Without Love,

I dedicate this love's lost to the memory of my ex.

youtube.com/watch?v=w9iTjVfh558

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:08 AM (xFREA)

206 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

Not for 72 hours!

Posted by: Lumed Blewed and Tattooed at August 10, 2025 12:08 AM (144I4)

207 Interesting local news article this week. (Florence, Oregon, is the same place that infamously tried to blow up a whale back in 1970.)

Florence man loses arm while trying to stop car thieves with grenade

According to a probable cause affidavit, David Ray Allen attempted to deter suspected car thieves in June by throwing the device, resulting in the loss of part of his forearm and hand.

Allen reported seeing four individuals near his vehicle at 43rd and Oak Streets in the middle of the night. He called the Florence police, who discovered his injuries upon arrival. Allen said the grenade exploded in his hand as he tried to throw it at the suspects. Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.

Posted by: Frankie at August 10, 2025 12:09 AM (nVUa4)

208 Akkkkshully, I believe that the last use for whale oil is lubricating watch mechanisms. Supposedly still superior to any alternative.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (rFBCq)

Sperm whale, it's time has come.

*off whole body deodorant for pits, tits and ass*

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 10, 2025 12:12 AM (144I4)

209 end ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025

Be better doof , do better

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:14 AM (MGB5H)

210 >Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper
----

I had a shower earlier
I'm jam up and jelly tight

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 12:15 AM (AOsQT)

211 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper

Pretty much any Canadian band would do.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Canadian and funky? I can do that.

https://youtu.be/fmxbaHXOXGw

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:15 AM (DgGvY)

212 Allen reported seeing four individuals near his vehicle at 43rd and Oak Streets in the middle of the night. He called the Florence police, who discovered his injuries upon arrival. Allen said the grenade exploded in his hand as he tried to throw it at the suspects. Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie at August 10, 2025 12:09 AM (nVUa4)

Piker. He should have doused himself in gasoline, lit it, and then run screaming towards the miscreants. That would have certainly chased them off.

Posted by: Dept of Bad Ideas at August 10, 2025 12:17 AM (bKn1x)

213
Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie

"Grenade" or home made firecracker?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 12:18 AM (63Dwl)

214 Demands for accountability from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) and the American people bore fruit this week, as it was reported that multiple senior FBI officials were fired.

Among the alleged “deep state” actors was now-former Special Agent Walter Giardina said to have once instructed fellow agents to use false justification to “dig around” on President Donald Trump.

Efforts to purge “political weaponization” in the federal government found FBI Director Kash Patel citing “poor judgment” in terminating an agent connected to the Steele Dossier and more.

bizpacreview.com/.../ patel-fires-deep-state-

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:19 AM (xFREA)

215 Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie

🎶 One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong 🎶

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (DgGvY)

216 Everyone funky now?
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM

For sure matched my lifetime deadlift and hadn't been training it all.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (MGB5H)

217 "Grenade" or home made firecracker?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 12:18 AM (63Dwl)

Petard? As in hoisted on?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (bKn1x)

218 50,000+ fans for Banana Ball at Coors Field tonight. 31 runs scored. 20,000+ on Youtube and the game was on ESPN 2 also.

Posted by: Yellow Fever at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (G5+As)

219 Nick Sortor@nicksortor

BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

Over 100 black teens have taken over the park, terrorizing the neighborhood

FBI and DHS responding now

TAKE OVER DC, PRESIDENT TRUMP!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (TGPs7)

220 >>>213
Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie
------------

We have modern devices that are factory safe to the user if used properly. - > see your local firearms store

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (xFREA)

221 AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30
- - - - --
Great, just after I got my landline repaired. >:-(

Hopefully I can find a replacement service...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)

222 There should be no homes, apartments, abodes, dwellings, etc. in DC. Come to DC to work then go home to VA or MD.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (xFREA)

223 Used to be Democrats lived in Maryland and Republicans lived in Virginia.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:24 AM (xFREA)

224 BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

Over 100 black teens have taken over the park, terrorizing the neighborhood

FBI and DHS responding now

TAKE OVER DC, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (TGPs7)

Trump is a racist. That's just boys being boys.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:24 AM (MGB5H)

225 We have modern devices that are factory safe to the user if used properly. - > see your local firearms store
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (xFREA)

Just because a feller gets a half dozen convictions for meth possession, he isn't allowed to buy a gun anymore?

I thought this was America!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (bKn1x)

226
Well, I see I completely missed an astronomy themed hobby thread this evening. I was mowing....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)

227 Fermented Stevia Extract Kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells In Lab Tests
Saturday, Aug 09, 2025 - 08:00 PM
Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times via zero

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:27 AM (xFREA)

228 Well, I see I completely missed an astronomy themed hobby thread this evening. I was mowing....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)

Earthly demands.

Keeps one grounded.

Posted by: RickZ at August 10, 2025 12:28 AM (gKDq2)

229 New York Post@nypost

Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:29 AM (TGPs7)

230 Just because a feller gets a half dozen convictions for meth possession, he isn't allowed to buy a gun anymore?

I thought this was America!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
-------------------

One of the benefits of being a law abiding citizen.
Violently break the law and lose serious privileges.
Can't vote anymore either.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:30 AM (xFREA)

231 Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

Range? What is this range you speak of?

Posted by: Somewhere west of the Rockys at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (5UJkg)

232 I wonder how that would play down here in the states. I think we might be a little more spiteful than they are.
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

OK, I believe enough time has passed that maybe the statute of limitations has run out. I confess that I tore down all of the police tape on the playground on Government Hill during the Covid crapola. I shoved it in a public trash can and moved on. Kids gotta play, they just do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (1Gsou)

233 Well, I see I completely missed an astronomy themed hobby thread this evening. I was mowing....
Posted by: publius

Your fault for choosing Earth. You wouldn't have to mow on any of the other planets in the solar system.

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (DgGvY)

234 Range? What is this range you speak of?
Posted by: Somewhere west of the Rockys at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (5UJkg)

Yeah, that's just my back yard, I believe.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (1Gsou)

235 BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

What park? The Navy Yard is a military installation.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (qKYfj)

236 221 AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30
- - - - --
Great, just after I got my landline repaired. >:-(

Hopefully I can find a replacement service...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)

I want my
I want my
I want my Web TV ..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (wKhFy)

237 Evening, Three Amigos, and ONT Horde! Back from Brahmarama in Elnora. A Brazilian cowboy was overall winner, with an 87.5 point ride. The wild cow milking was a hoot. Had a good time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (r3G7K)

238
Well, DUT1, the difference between UT1, astronomical time (this is the closest thing to the old GMT, but much more precise) and UTC/Zulu hit +71 ms today, as of 8/10 Zulu.

This is the highest it's been since July of 2018. And this increase is entirely due to the the Erf speeding up. The leap second at midnight, rollover to 2017 knocked it up to 0.6 ms, and it was steadily falling going negative. But the Erf speeded it up a smidge around 2020. 2022 was the fastest mean spin since atomic clock regime started. And it has increased back to the positive side entirely due to that speed up.

I'm still thinking a negative leap second is probably not going to be needed by 2029/2030, but it is possible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)

239 New York Post@nypost
Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo
Posted by: Mister Ghost

* checks mug shot *

* sighs *

Posted by: The MSM at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (DgGvY)

240 >Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way:
---

what kind of beer

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 12:34 AM (AOsQT)

241
I think Erf chose me, rather than me choosing it. Of course, I can't remember that far back.

Riding a tractor on Venus would be quite hot, and Mars would be too cold. I wonder how Martian regolith would plow?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

242 229 New York Post@nypost

Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo
Posted by: Mister Ghost

youtu.be/0968f0VWvd8

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 12:35 AM (qKYfj)

243 Hopefully I can find a replacement service...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)

I want my
I want my
I want my Web TV ..
Posted by: Joe Kidd

I still subscribe to Wometco Home Theater.

Posted by: Old Fossil at August 10, 2025 12:36 AM (G5+As)

244 Brahma's are really sweet till they aren't.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:38 AM (xFREA)

245 I met two of my daughter in laws brothers today. One lives in Canada and one in Abu Dhabi. Neither of them have ever held a weapon before so, as any good Moron would do, I made that happen. Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals, I let them hold and love on an (unloaded) long gun and pistol.

They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)

I have shot at several ranges in Arizona, and I am a foreign national. Nobody ever said "boo!".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:39 AM (r3G7K)

246 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban. If one of those wagons passed by me at the right price, I would snag it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:43 AM (r3G7K)

247 Never heard that foreign nationals couldn't fire weapon in the U.S.

Tito's commercial of that Englishman firing that pistol - yeah, I think it's OK. Maybe some silly PA law but not in America.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:45 AM (xFREA)

248
Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban. If one of those wagons passed by me at the right price, I would snag it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----------

Beef up the suspension a bit and it's a ride.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:46 AM (xFREA)

249 Baby steps. He was just prepping the battle space.

So the next time they visit, he will take them to the range, with the story that he "knows some guys" and pulled some strings for them.

They will be so grateful, and their visit will just happen to coincide with the house needing painting, the driveway sealed, etc...

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 10, 2025 12:47 AM (144I4)

250
Does this no foreign national apply only for commercial things like ranges? I'd assume it would be a different story say on private property, with no commercial activity? A foreigner visits and you let him shoot on your own private property. If that's illegal as well, I'd have a big problem with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:48 AM (w6EFb)

251 Dammit. Can't sleep.

*switches on the deep fryer*

There's a large tray of egg rolls in the walk-in. Gonna cook 'em up. Gallon of homemade sweet n sour for dipping, too.

Posted by: JQ at August 10, 2025 12:51 AM (rdVOm)

252 Real wood paneling: sexy. pimpin'.

Woodgrain vinyl sticker: very much less so.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

I know a guy who is restoring a '51 Monarch (Canadian Mercury) woody wagon, and it is going to be a no holds barred restoration. And the wood work is real maple and mahogany. It will be a beautiful piece when it is done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:52 AM (r3G7K)

253
I just looked this up, at least an overview. Non-immigrant aliens (those on a visa not on a green-card track) may not own, purchase, or "possess" firearms or ammunition.

Now, what is the meaning of "possess" here? If I let a foreign national under that definition shoot a gun of mine, is he "possessing" it? I'm not renting it to him, just letting him shoot it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:53 AM (w6EFb)

254
That doesn't apply to any country on the "visa waiver" program agreement, whatever that is. I'd assume Canada was in on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

255 Can relate to nothing - not a thing in this post. Pretty wild actually. Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.
Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)

Well, as a has-bean, you oughta know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:56 AM (r3G7K)

256 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Wow! Tonight's ONT is FULL of content - kind of like the Sunday New York Times newspapers used to be (maybe still are)! Thanks for all of the hard work, D's 😘😘😘

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 01:00 AM (SRRAx)

257 That station wagon is the antidote for your erection lasting more than 4 hours.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)

Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:43 AM (r3G7K)

I am a fan of wildly overpowered station wagons. Ultimate Q Ships. Nobody notices you and off you go.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 01:01 AM (iGZ9n)

258
According to Grok, "possess" the way the courts have interpreted means "having physical control of". So, yep, letting such a restricted foreign national that doesn't fall into any of the exceptions shoot a gun on your own private property would be a violation of this provision.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

259 BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building

Ok, delved a bit further with this and it's around the Metro Station there. Lots of offices, hotels, and condos/apts there. Near the Nats ballpark. Lots of bars and nightclubs too. I don't recall any parks there but its been a few years since I was in that area.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (qKYfj)

260

When's the last time you saw a station wagon? Wouldn't it be noticeable?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (63Dwl)

261 According to Grok, "possess" the way the courts have interpreted means "having physical control of". So, yep, letting such a restricted foreign national that doesn't fall into any of the exceptions shoot a gun on your own private property would be a violation of this provision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

Sounds like the sort of thing that would only ever be prosecuted if something bad happened while the foreigner was using the weapon, like a negligent discharge resulting in injury or death.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:07 AM (On+XH)

262 When's the last time you saw a station wagon? Wouldn't it be noticeable?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (63Dwl)

They are really only noticeable if you are inclined to notice them. An awful lot of folks are really terribly incurious about cars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:09 AM (On+XH)

263 >>>So, yep, letting such a restricted foreign national that doesn't fall into any of the exceptions shoot a gun on your own private property would be a violation of this provision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
------------

They can kiss a pig.
_private property

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:09 AM (xFREA)

264 Top pic needs a theremin to go with the therepy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:10 AM (On+XH)

265 Went to WTOP News and the website has nothing on the front page. I did chuckle at a headline though.

Trump administration slashes DC’s security funding by 44%

That's FEMA funding they're whining about. I did not know FEMA provided law enforcement. Something called FEMA Urban Security Fund was cut. I suspect the money never went to fund security.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 01:11 AM (qKYfj)

266 Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.

Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 01:17 AM (Kdsvb)

267 So, today I went to Three Hills to hear a campaign speech from Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party Of Canada leader who is running for a House of Commons seat in my riding. He gave a good speech, pressed most of the right buttons. They had a meet and greet. I stood in line for 25 minutes or so, got to meet him, shake hands, and share a few words. I said, "One thing I did not hear: an end to subsidies and incentives for wind turbines. You know they are a fraud, and a net drain on the economy." "That is on our agenda. Believe it." Me, "one other thing, shitcan supply management (my exact words)." "Agreed."

I was pleased to hear that.

He is a good speaker, has an easy manner about him, and does not come across as a phony or a stuffed shirt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (On+XH)

268 Wasn't there a picture, some years ago, of a FEMA director and his secretary in a hotel terrace bathtub drinking champagne?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (xFREA)

269
And it looks like state laws can go further on this. Canada and the UK and Australia and a bunch of others are in on this visa waiver thing, and this doesn't apply to them. However, a state law could restrict them beyond federal law.

Looking, here in SC, the only problem is illegal aliens. I'm A-OK with that. It would be a felony to knowingly sell or give an illegal a firearm. I think even "possess" would fall under that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)

270
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case

I used to drive a Fiat X1/9. Everybody blocked my view.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (63Dwl)

271 Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 01:17 AM (Kdsvb)

And SUV's come with all-wheel or 4-wheel drive. Very rare on wagons. AMC Eagle, maybe some Subarus?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:22 AM (On+XH)

272 Looking, here in SC, the only problem is illegal aliens. I'm A-OK with that. It would be a felony to knowingly sell or give an illegal a firearm. I think even "possess" would fall under that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)

Well, an illegal alien is technically a felon, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:24 AM (On+XH)

273 And SUV's come with all-wheel or 4-wheel drive. Very rare on wagons. AMC Eagle, maybe some Subarus?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:22 AM (On+XH)

Audi and Volvo make AWD wagons. Think Mercedes has one as well

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 01:26 AM (iGZ9n)

274 270
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case

I LOVED my 1984 Chevy K5 Blazer. I drove it until 2002 and it had almost 300,000 miles on it. It was the first car I ever owned.

Many many hours on the road with my boys and Rush Limbaugh. Ferries. Parks. Mountains. Woods. Towing broncos out of deep sand on the coast. I freaking loved that rig. I had to drive backwards and jostle the steering wheel to disengage the hubs out of 4wd.

It was a beast. 13mpg. Hwy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 01:27 AM (1Bcgn)

275 Long before (eons), the illegal thing was a topic. One neighborhood over, a criminal (you guessed that one) robbing a convince store was shot dead by a Mexican National (patron).
The store gave him an award and sponsored his citizenship.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:29 AM (xFREA)

276 It's certainly the case here, apparently also in NV, and I imagine everywhere - ranges that rent firearms rent to non-citizens all the time. As I said, it appeared to be up to half the traffic at two indoor ranges I used to belong to, on weekdays anyway. Foreign students, Asians, mostly Chinese. Green card required for purchase, but as a practical matter and probably legal too, non-citizens on non-immigrant visas can rent and shoot.

And AOP no, being in the US without status (illegally) is not always in itself a felony, but a civil violation. Unauthorized re-entry after removal (deportation) - and a list of other things - becomes a felony.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:36 AM (U/Byj)

277 But AOP you were probably asking in the context of firearms, and there, illegal aliens cannot purchase firearms (though I'm not sure there's a positive exclusion per se, that is they're "prohibited persons" - it's just that there's no way for them to legally qualify).

Legal permanents (green cards) *may* purchase firearms. Not sure, but probably those here on diplomatic status as well.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:38 AM (U/Byj)

278 But AOP you were probably asking in the context of firearms, and there, illegal aliens cannot purchase firearms (though I'm not sure there's a positive exclusion per se, that is they're "prohibited persons" - it's just that there's no way for them to legally qualify).

Legal permanents (green cards) *may* purchase firearms. Not sure, but probably those here on diplomatic status as well.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:38 AM (U/Byj)

I know that Arizona police are pretty chill about Canadian snowbirds possessing firearms. A guy I know was going through a nasty divorce, and his soon-to-be ex scooped up a bunch of his firearms and tried to dump them on the cops in Apache Junction. They kindly told her to not be doing that shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:48 AM (On+XH)

279 I am almost 100% current with mowing the "lawns" here at Peon Manor. A few small patches remain to be done, and they can wait until the next general mow is needed, and go to the top of the rotation. One puzzling thing I saw today: a neighbor to the south of me was swathing and baling what looked to be a real fine crop of grain. Maybe it was timothy hay? Dunno. Or maybe the price of feed for cattle has shot way up, and cutting it for hay is more lucrative than waiting a couple more weeks, and combining it for the grain?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:56 AM (On+XH)

280 Hey Horde, today I babysat the grandkids, came home and showered and went next door to a neighbor's Saturday summer bash. I have napped for a while and read most of the comments here, but I have gone down more than a few rabbit holes. How are you all, at least those of you still awake. Just poured myself a Chivas.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 02:06 AM (0nHVk)

281 Well, past midnight here, and I am ready for bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 02:12 AM (On+XH)

282 Club ONT regrets that the M&Ms in the large jar on the bar are not equally distributed in color

Several decades ago - long before the Internet - one of our engineering friends (all of our friends are engineers) was stuck having to babysit some project in the lab on second shift for several weeks. He ended up getting lots of snacks from the vending machines - one of his favorites was M&Ms.

Being an engineer, he would pour the contents of the package out onto his desk, then sort them by color. He found himself counting the number of each color, and he started to notice a pattern in the distribution of the various colors.

Our friend LOVES to make graphs of things, so he plotted a graph of the colors, and sure enough, over the course of a couple of weeks, A pattern did, indeed, emerge.

He wanted to confirm his hypothesis, so he write a letter to the M&M company telling them what he had observed, and as king if they had some "formula" for how many M&MS of each color went into each bag.

Lo and behold, someone from the company actually wrote him back and said that yes, they did have a certain percentage of each color in all of their bags. (Cont.)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 02:16 AM (SRRAx)

283 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
SLC-40 - CCSFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 10, 2025
Launch Time: 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC, 14:57 CEST)

https://youtu.be/YEVD9hnk0YU

Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 02:19 AM (sPQoU)

284 (Cont.). He was telling all of his coworkers about this, and the co-op student they had that semester - a young lady who was of Asian descent but who had been born in this country so didn't have the Asian accent - looked at him and said, "I think they know you a geek"

Everyone just lost it 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 02:20 AM (SRRAx)

285 {{{Teresa}}} I am laughing so hard !!!

While his baby sister was sleeping my grandson and I had fun with stomp rockets in the back yard. He is a great little guy, we have tons of fun together.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 02:46 AM (0nHVk)

286 There is a federal law which prohibits non-resident foreigners from using or possessing firearms in the United States. Violation is a federal felony.

Most ranges seem blissfully unaware of this law.

There are several exceptions to this law:

1) Foreign police or military personnel while on assignment in the United States.

2) Persons with a valid hunting license in any state.

3) Persons participating in a target shooting competition or practicing for such a competition.

Posted by: Engineer at August 10, 2025 02:47 AM (jGCIA)

287 I am off to sleep, Horde, I remember when you couldn't get a seat at the bar here on Saturday nights. I still love you guys, male and female.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:11 AM (0nHVk)

288 OK, you are all getting tucked in and wished the sweetest of dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:31 AM (0nHVk)

289 288 OK, you are all getting tucked in and wished the sweetest of dreams.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:31 AM (0nHVk)

Thank you DDS!

All the best to you also and always.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 03:42 AM (QGaXH)

290 It's tomorrow's wake up time

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 03:57 AM (+qU29)

291 Tech thread is upstairs

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:31 AM (+qU29)

292 Pixy's up!

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