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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - August 21, 2025 [Doof]

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Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday night ONT! So glad you stopped by. Please stay for a while and share your wit and wisdom in the gray boxes. Perhaps a lurker or two might consider de-lurking tonight?


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Before Bud Light Went Off The Rails

They were ahead of their time



Bud / Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" and "Real American Heroes" ad campaigns were awesome. A few examples.





Here's a compilation of 50 of these ads


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And who could forget the "Dilly Dilly" / "Pit of Misery" campaign?



The Entire Dilly Dilly saga

Clever. Funny. Memorable. Maybe even make you want to buy the product. Everything a good ad should be.

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Cracker Barrel Reinvents Itself



Lots of reaction to this "rebranding". Here's just a bit.



These are some good examples of what Cracker Barrel did to itself

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What say you, Hordelings? Good move, bad move, or don't care?

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Don't Pop That Zit!

Woman Wnds Up at Emergency Room After Popping Pimple in ‘Triangle of Death’

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Popping pimples in the ‘Triangle of Death, a triangular area of your face between the bridge of the nose and the corners of your mouth, can cause serious medical complications and even death.

Lish Marie, a young mother of three, recently went viral on TikTok after posting a video about how popping a pimple below her face caused extreme inflammation and facial paralysis that required medical attention. Lish tried to pop a pimple just below her left nostril using her nails, but within hours, she knew something was wrong. The left side of her face became so swollen that when she tried to smile, it hurt, and only the other corner of her mouth raised into a grin. After about four hours, she went to the emergency room, where doctors immediately put her on four medications – including antibiotics and steroids – to treat the infections that had allegedly entered the bloodstream through the pimple.

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Basically, when you pop a pimple in the Triangle of Death, you create an open wound through which dangerous bacteria can enter the bloodstream and cause an infection that can reach your brain. Cases as the ones mentioned above are rare, otherwise, millions of teenagers would wind up in the hospital every year, but doctors warn that, however small, the risks need to be considered.

TikTok video at the link.

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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Version
from thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this date in 1952: Turkish-born English musician, singer, actor and songwriter Joe Strummer who was the co-founder of The Clash



Born on this date in 1954: Steve Smith, drums, Journey



On this date in 2005: Robert Moog, inventor of the synthesiser died aged 71, four months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Dr Moog built his first electronic instrument, a theremin - aged 14 and made the MiniMoog, "the first compact, easy-to-use synthesiser" in 1970.
(Here's the synth king Keith Emerson, one of the most well-known guys to play a Moog synth)




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Tonight's ONT brought to you by face art

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Comments, questions, suggestions, or emotional outbursts? Do the email thing at doof2112 at proton dot me.

Update:

Late addition to the Cracker Barrel segment

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Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




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1 1st

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 21, 2025 10:00 PM (wQPGd)

2 Do not answer fools according to their folly,
lest you too become like them.
Answer fools according to their folly,
lest they become wise in their own eyes.
—Commenting 26:4-5

Posted by: mindful webworker - be a pal and pay? at August 21, 2025 10:00 PM (KZXmj)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

4 YAY ONT! Now for the content!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 21, 2025 10:00 PM (wQPGd)

5 Bringin' the wit and wisdom right here, boss!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:01 PM (hY4dx)

6 Missed the beginning. Well, I was looking at whores. I mean photography whores.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 10:01 PM (0eaVi)

7 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 21, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

8 Cafe patrons noodized.

Posted by: mindful webworker - dutifully at August 21, 2025 10:01 PM (KZXmj)

9 The pinnacle of ELP's artistry was Benny the Bouncer.

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:03 PM (hY4dx)

10 Sorry I'm late, I was dilly-dallying with the dilly-dilly vids.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2025 10:03 PM (ZGxq/)

11 FOOD!

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (77rzZ)

12 Here's a compilation of 50 of these ads

Maybe they could have spent some money to make the beer taste good, instead?

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (DgGvY)

13 In keeping with the sartorial ledes:

El Salvador’s President @nayibbukele has banned the “Edgar” haircut from public schools.

The haircut is considered to have been brought to El Salvador by deported criminals inspired by Chicano culture in the U.S.

The Ministry of Education has announces that students of public schools must attend school with "proper haircuts," clean uniforms and correct personal presentation from now on.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (MGY3l)

14 * hands Doof Bib &Tucker 10 year* We are getting so close to partying!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (dxWFK)

15 Holy Cow! DOOF!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (3wXSL)

16 Yay, National Spumoni Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 21, 2025 10:05 PM (lUFok)

17 …when you pop a pimple in the Triangle of Death…
TikTok video at the link.


Uh… pass on the video.

Posted by: mindful webworker - dermatologically at August 21, 2025 10:05 PM (KZXmj)

18 I didn't like the dilly-dilly ads, but at least they were better than the Miller Lite "Man Law" commercials. Hey, guys, you know man law #1 is that men don't drink light beer.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 21, 2025 10:05 PM (ZGxq/)

19 FOOD!
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (77rzZ)


Howdy Glub

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

20 Major Al Jourgensen vibes from the last pic.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 21, 2025 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

21 My older sister used to chase me to pop my zits. Gads, what was wrong with that girl?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:07 PM (77rzZ)

22 Jeez...why is it always white women who have to wreck everything fun?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:07 PM (3wXSL)

23 Where do they find people dumb enough to be upper management nowadays? Just this morning I was in Food Lion. What they have done with their checkout lanes is just a pain in the butt, for both the customer and the cashier.

(Well, maybe the idea is to make us all use self-checkout, but screw that.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (s0JqF)

24 Holy Cow! DOOF!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (3wXSL)


What, you want this blog to become third-world India?

Scammers aren't enough for you. Now you want holy cows. I like steak, dammit.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (gKDq2)

25 Thanks for the lovely Thursday Night ONT, Doof!

That photo above is a keeper, fer sure!

I had no idea about the "triangle of death." Sounds like good advice to leave the zits in that area alone...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (kB9dk)

26 @amuse@amuse
GO WOKE, GO BROKE: Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino's decision to 'decolonize' the company starting by removing the old-fashioned country gentleman meant to evoke nostalgia and Americana from the logo is hammering the stock wiping out $250 million in value. Since Felss became CEO the stock is down 34% erasing $587 million in value.

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She's kept the loss under $600,000,000!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (L/fGl)

27 Song up top gave me a headache.

Posted by: Bad Music For Bad People at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (G5+As)

28 "The pit of misery". Is that like the barrel?

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (0Htd1)

29 Re: Cracker Barrel. Put me in the "Don't Care" category. I've never set foot in the place, and now I never will. I'm sure a many of their customers (or many of the few they still have) will be pissed off; yet I strongly doubt that their new "look" will attract enough woketards to reverse their decline.

Posted by: Nemo at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (4RPgu)

30 I have visions of ' Ettes with cigars and shots of Whiskey fresh off the gun range. Oh wait! It's real. TXMOME X.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (dxWFK)

31 18 I didn't like the dilly-dilly ads, but at least they were better than the Miller Lite "Man Law" commercials. Hey, guys, you know man law #1 is that men don't drink light beer.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Yeah, like the one's in preceding years with hot shaky women.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:09 PM (MGY3l)

32 Hey, Doof, I’ve got some ideas for a future geography thread. Shoot me an e-mail,

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:09 PM (77rzZ)

33 * hands Doof Bib &Tucker 10 year* We are getting so close to partying!
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (dxWFK)


Thank you, my friend! Getting very excited about the upcoming MoMe. Purchased a few cases of Yuengling Oktoberfest today. First time I saw them this year, so I figured I better start buying some. They were a huge hit last year. Maybe I'll be nice and get Sponge his own 12-pack again this year.

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

34 I vaguely remember going to a Cracker Barrel in the early 2000s, but the food was bad.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 21, 2025 10:09 PM (gKWVE)

35 Jeez...why is it always white women who have to wreck everything fun?!
Posted by: COMountainMarie


Because "PBFL" is hard to pronounce.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

36 I smelt a rat with Cracker Barrel the day they started offering booze.

There are some places that just shouldn't sell alcohol.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 21, 2025 10:10 PM (VXV59)

37 Whores?? Whores!!

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

38 12 Here's a compilation of 50 of these ads

Maybe they could have spent some money to make the beer taste good, instead?
Posted by: mikeski


When I was in college you drank the good stuff first. Then as the night progressed, you drank the not so good stuff, cheap beer, Boones Farm wine, that type of thing.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:10 PM (0Htd1)

39 Holy Cow! DOOF!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (3wXSL)


Howdy COMM!

Saw your email. Will respond soon!

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:10 PM (QMAsf)

40 29 Re: Cracker Barrel. Put me in the "Don't Care" category. I've never set foot in the place, and now I never will. I'm sure a many of their customers (or many of the few they still have) will be pissed off; yet I strongly doubt that their new "look" will attract enough woketards to reverse their decline.
Posted by: Nemo at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (4RPgu)

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Yep. The Dennys crowd is loyal to their brand and won't accept an ersatz Dennys.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:11 PM (hY4dx)

41 "The pit of misery". Is that like the barrel?
Posted by: nerdygirl


In its wildest dreams!

Posted by: The Barrel at August 21, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)

42 Thanks for the lovely Thursday Night ONT, Doof!

That photo above is a keeper, fer sure!

I had no idea about the "triangle of death." Sounds like good advice to leave the zits in that area alone...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (kB9dk)


You're welcome. Glad you appreciate most of my lead photos. Appreciate you always mentioning them!

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

43 When I was in college you drank the good stuff first. Then as the night progressed, you drank the not so good stuff, cheap beer, Boones Farm wine, that type of thing.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:10 PM (0Htd1)

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By 2 am it was mouthwash and Sterno.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:11 PM (hY4dx)

44 BTW Doof...thanks for Journey....a very underrated band (only with Steve Perry though😜...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:11 PM (3wXSL)

45 I have eaten at Cracker Barrel a few times. It was a fairly reliable place to get a sit-down meal of comfort food. I am crossing them off the list. May as well go to Denny's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (+jGmf)

46 Good evening Horde. Thanks Doof!

Dilly dilly and the pit of misery is an all time favorite.

Posted by: TRex - dino dilly at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

47 Since Felss became CEO the stock is down 34% erasing $587 million in value.
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Seems like they should look for heavy short activity when whack jobs like her get in there. A major decline in stock price is practically inevitable, so shorting their stock is probably an easy trade. A license to print money. The tranny fluid debacle with Bud Light, same deal

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (X7kHo)

48 What say you, Hordelings? Good move, bad move, or don't care?

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they need to fix this, by offering endless shrimp!

Posted by: Red Lobster at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (g47mK)

49 I can't get real excited over the fate of Cracker Barrel. Their food is terrible. Bland. Tasteless. As a friend once said, it's all white, and she wasn't referring to ethnicity.
The decor is cute, but I'd rather have a steak in a dive bar.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (e16Yw)

50 "The pit of misery". Is that like the barrel?
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (0Htd1)


Looks more like it's the Cracker Barrel now

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

51 Never been to a Cracker Barrel, but I wouldn't be opposed.

Has to be better than a truck stop greasy spoon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (XV/Pl)

52 By 2 am it was mouthwash and Sterno.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)


3 am... Southern Comfort

Posted by: gKWVE at August 21, 2025 10:13 PM (gKWVE)

53 The photos of the Cracker Barrel interiors bring out the feeling of a whitewashed Burger King from the 80s.

Or this song...

https://youtu.be/4b2BOnzz7R0

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 21, 2025 10:13 PM (S/Y4j)

54 I had forgotten the Men of Genius commercials. Hilarious.

Posted by: Tuna at August 21, 2025 10:13 PM (lJ0H4)

55 I don't mind the Cracker Barrel changes as long as the food remains good.

Posted by: polynikes at August 21, 2025 10:13 PM (EYmYM)

56 Good evening Horde. Thanks Doof!

Dilly dilly and the pit of misery is an all time favorite.
Posted by: TRex - dino dilly at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)


Howdy Dino!

The penalty box at Capitals games used to have Bud Light / Pit of Misery banners on the door and walls. That was clever!

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

57 I never set foot in a Cracker Barrel so they could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn’t notice.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (k2LUN)

58 Remember who did this: I guess we're gonna find out!

"Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997)...... In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.” -- Bill Clinton'05

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (/m1h8)

59 They did not need to change the logo.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (g47mK)

60 The last time I was in a Cracker Barrel was in Breezewood, PA. They gave my kid a crayon that he proceeded to melt over the back seat of my car.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (77rzZ)

61 Good evening, Horde. Thanks for a dandy ONT Disco. Sneaky mystery click, and a good choice.

Posted by: scampydog at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (41CYW)

62 I don't mind the Cracker Barrel changes as long as the food remains good.
Posted by: polynikes at August 21, 2025 10:13 PM (EYmYM)


Enjoy your tofu gravy with gluten-free biscuits.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)

63 I don't think we have a Cracker Barrel around these parts but there is a Po' Folks over by Knotts Berry Farm.

Never tried either of them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:15 PM (hY4dx)

64 48 they need to fix this, by offering endless shrimp!

Posted by: Red Lobster at August 21, 2025 10:12 PM
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Well played.

Posted by: TRex - radioactive shrimp are cheaper at August 21, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

65 Song up top gave me a headache.
Posted by: Bad Music For Bad People at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (G5+As)


Peak era of Depeche Mode. Outstanding stuff!

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

66 Those before and after pics are nightmare fuel. That one girl turned into Ferris Bueller. Is that bottom pic Miley Cyrus? I’m not up on my Disneyfied tranny freaks

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (X7kHo)

67 Good grief - college memories of the poor sap who got drunk and passed out in the dorm hall and was paraded room to room on a moving cart. He probably to this day has permanent sharpie tracks somewhere.....

Posted by: Rumbler at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (qwJwW)

68 Doof, take note: August 27 is Alex Lifeson’s birthday.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (k2LUN)

69 Good evening, Horde. Thanks for a dandy ONT Disco. Sneaky mystery click, and a good choice.
Posted by: scampydog at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (41CYW)


*scritches Doggo on the head*

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

70 If the food and service at a restaurant are not good, that restaurant will soon go out of business. You can gussy up the decor, the printed menu and the logo, but good food served promptly keeps folks coming back.

Never been to a Cracker Barrel but my guess is that the food was not all that great.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)

71 Never been to a Cracker Barrel for anything other than breakfast. It was..... a chain-restaurant breakfast. Bacon, eggs, pancakes. Actual maple syrup and not flavored corn syrup. Solid B+ grade.

Granted, "B" is about the minimum. a restaurant that gets a "C" for breakfast should just be shut down. You shouldn't be able to screw up bacon and stay in business.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

72 The closest Cracker Barrel to me is 30 miles.

The odds of me going to one are quite small.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2025 10:17 PM (XV/Pl)

73 Where was the magical, mystical time and place where "upper management" wasn't absolutely bat-shit insane ?
Posted by: Call It Like It Is at August 21, 2025 10:15 PM (RwcWI)

When the name on the door matched the name on the nametag.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)

74 My wife and I probably went to Cracker barrel 50 times. She passed on in 2020. I haven't been back since.

Posted by: Off My Rocker at August 21, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)

75 Beer commercials were celebrations of American male culture...even those gay Lowenbrau ones...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 10:17 PM (nbLIj)

76 69 Doof, take note: August 27 is Alex Lifeson’s birthday.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM
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Noted.

Posted by: TRex - Wed ONT is always on duty at August 21, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

77 Never been to a Cracker Barrel but my guess is that the food was not all that great.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)

I think it's really good if you like comfort food.

Posted by: polynikes at August 21, 2025 10:18 PM (EYmYM)

78 Doof, take note: August 27 is Alex Lifeson’s birthday.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (k2LUN)


Appears to be a Wednesday. I'm off-duty that day. Perhaps the Dino is taking notes on behalf of a certain Rush-loving ONT COB.

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

79 Is there going to be a doof thgif over the quality of Cracker Barrel's offerings?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)

80 Bill Clinton'05
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 21, 2025 10:14 PM (/m1h

Billy Bob Greatthings turned 78 on the 19th.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:18 PM (k2LUN)

81 The hidden link again wasn't what I expected. Nice play, Doof!

Born to be Wild: Steppenwolf
Roll Me Away: Bob Seger

I suppose A Horse With No Name might work as well....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 21, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

82 Was in a Cracker Barrel while traveling in the south early 90s I believe. Recall the food being meh and the decor goofy. Never understood the popularity but then Obama was "elected" so there's that.

Posted by: Rumbler at August 21, 2025 10:19 PM (qwJwW)

83 Enjoy your tofu gravy with gluten-free biscuits.
Posted by: RickZ


We haf better proteins für euch lumpenproles

Posted by: Klaus "Bugs" Schwab at August 21, 2025 10:19 PM (gKWVE)

84 Never been to a Cracker Barrel but my guess is that the food was not all that great.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 21, 2025 10:16 PM (kB9dk)


With a lot of these 'dining establishments', you can get frozen microwaved food at home for a lot less.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)

85 When I was in college you drank the good stuff first. Then as the night progressed, you drank the not so good stuff, cheap beer, Boones Farm wine, that type of thing.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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That's sort of how I got into scotch. In the Army, munificent compensation of 98 bucks a month. Slam two shots at the beginning and then maintain on cheap beer. For me, at least, the taste of beer "conflicted" less with scotch than with other liquors.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 21, 2025 10:20 PM (e16Yw)

86 Howdy Doof!

I’ve never been to Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 10:20 PM (mT+6a)

87 Got my coffee grinder and French press today. The press is stainless steel, and has a polish on it to rival the Vince Lombardy Trophy.

Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2025 10:20 PM (AOsQT)

88 they need to fix this, by offering endless shrimp!
Posted by: Red Lobster


Another restaurant that I haven't been to in ages.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:21 PM (0Htd1)

89 Where was the magical, mystical time and place where "upper management" wasn't absolutely bat-shit insane ?
Posted by: Call It Like It Is at August 21, 2025 10:15 PM (RwcWI)
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When the name on the door matched the name on the nametag.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)


APPLAUSE

Perfect.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)

90 The best breakfasts are still those from McDonald’s,

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:21 PM (77rzZ)

91 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 21, 2025 10:22 PM (gcUgZ)

92 Thank you to Doof, TRex and scampydog for really stepping up to keep the doors open.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:22 PM (dxWFK)

93 The decor is cute, but I'd rather have a steak in a dive bar.
Posted by: buddhaha


Back when I was younger, we knew which dive bars had the best hamburgers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

94 but good food served promptly keeps folks coming back.

The Apfelpfannenkuchen from Magnolia Pancake House is not served promptly, and never will be, but it IS TO DIE FOR. They will be in business as long as they serve it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:23 PM (k2LUN)

95 With a lot of these 'dining establishments', you can get frozen microwaved food at home for a lot less.
Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)

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HEY I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE

Posted by: Olive Garden at August 21, 2025 10:23 PM (hY4dx)

96 Evening all,

There is a launch soon

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - USSF-36 (OTV-
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 21, 2025 (EDT)
Launch Time: 11:50 p.m. EDT (August 22, 0350 UTC, 05:40 CEST)

https://youtu.be/wipfIrakKHc

Posted by: Joyenz at August 21, 2025 10:23 PM (sPQoU)

97 ONT with the sun still out.
Weird place this left coast.

Posted by: From about That Tim at August 21, 2025 10:24 PM (Mf0wV)

98 So, bitch totally fucked Crackerbarrel. Bitch needs to be tossed into a volcano. I don't think I was ever in one, but it's the point.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9)

99 This skinsuit is soooo comfy!!!

Posted by: Cracker Barrel CEO at August 21, 2025 10:25 PM (gcUgZ)

100 3 am... Southern Comfort

Souther Comfort? My boyfriend thought Mogen David wine was too expensive.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:25 PM (0Htd1)

101 100 So, bitch totally fucked Crackerbarrel. Bitch needs to be tossed into a volcano. I don't think I was ever in one, but it's the point.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:24 PM (snZF9)

Truth.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:25 PM (k2LUN)

102 By 2 am it was mouthwash and Sterno.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

3 am... Southern Comfort
Posted by: gKWVE
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4AM: Projectile vomiting

Which is why most adults can't stand the taste of Southern Comfort. Association. It tastes the same coming back up.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 21, 2025 10:26 PM (e16Yw)

103 Back when I was younger, we knew which dive bars had the best hamburgers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 21, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

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When I was a kid there was this shack on a barge in L.A. Harbor that you could tie up to and get lunch. The Chowder Barge was the incredibly evocative name of the joint. The Health Department wouldn't dare even venture there.

I still remember the great burgers they served. Classic.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:26 PM (hY4dx)

104
(Well, maybe the idea is to make us all use self-checkout, but screw that.)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (s0JqF)

If I am getting more than 10 items I really prefer a real live human cashier.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:26 PM (k2LUN)

105 Doof, take note: August 27 is Alex Lifeson’s birthday.

Also my birthday and Glenn Reynolds' birthday. It's a good day.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 21, 2025 10:27 PM (GdK3A)

106 With a lot of these 'dining establishments', you can get frozen microwaved food at home for a lot less.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
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HEY I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE

Posted by: Olive Garden at August 21, 2025 10:23 PM (hY4dx)


You and Applebee's, along with Commie Lobster.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)

107 TRex and Scampydog hold the doors open, while Doof rushes straight in, hopped up on bourbon, with Rush blaring and his pickleball racket held high.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:27 PM (77rzZ)

108 I have visions of ' Ettes with cigars and shots of Whiskey fresh off the gun range. Oh wait! It's real. TXMOME X.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:08 PM (dxWFK)


Hell yeah!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM (snZF9)

109 We should try to enjoy what we have here. Within two years all ONTs will be created by AI. Same with the comments.

Posted by: Feel Like A Number at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM (G5+As)

110 My family owned both a Cafe and bar. When you could serve meals better than home-cooked business was good.

Pigs feet and pickled eggs on the bar.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM (dxWFK)

111 🦖🦖🦖

Yeah, well...some kind of Rex...
Hi T!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM (3wXSL)

112 Wait hold on.

Miley Cyrus how looks like Alfred E. Neuman? Intentionally?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM (sKqQm)

113 Cracker Barrel, Cleveland, Tennessee:

Yours truly orders up the peach pancakes and coffee. Waitress informs me the coffee's a bit old and offers to bring a fresh pot when it's finished brewing. I tell her to give me what's available, "I don't mind coffee with a little hair on it".

Well she just busts out laughing and pours me a cup, then disappears into the kitchen. A few seconds later, raucous laughter rolls out from the kitchen. I was a hit in Cleveland, Tennesee...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM (nbLIj)

114 Passed out face art pranks aren't complete without dicks in the picture. Usually more than one.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 21, 2025 10:29 PM (MZ+PY)

115 As a guy in the marketing business, I can tell you this: most of marketing, from the logos you see, to the ads you see, to the coupons you see, is all aimed at women.

There are a few specific products that are just for men, but they're exceptional.

And, we might get some men to buy some not-specifically-male products with our ads, but that's just a bonus.

Women buy everything. That's the market. That's why advertising is so bemusing to men.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2025 10:29 PM (BI5O2)

116 At all times and for all purposes; with the following exceptions …

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 21, 2025 10:29 PM (6t8M3)

117 >>I think it's really good if you like comfort food.

Absolute mystery how they could change a franchise built more on atmosphere than food into not just a different one but one that insulted their decades long loyal customer base and screw everything up.

Historians will study this one for decades.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 10:29 PM (viF8m)

118 Howdy Doof!

I’ve never been to Cracker Barrel.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 10:20 PM (mT+6a)


Hello Nurse!

Cracker Barrel was just OK. Good, not great. Had a nice vibe to it. Had. I guess that's gone now. Hopefully they'll still allow free overnight camper / RV parking in their lots. Great little tip I learned before heading to Texas last year. Most locations allow you to stay overnight for free. Courtesy is to buy dinner and/or breakfast there.

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:29 PM (QMAsf)

119 Never eaten in a Red Lobster or a Waffle House. Or an Olive Garden.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (mT+6a)

120 August 27 is also…a depressing day. Early that morning, in 1990, we lost Stevie Ray Vaughan. Before the MoMe in 2020 I took the time to go to his grave at Laurel Land cemetery in south Dallas.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (k2LUN)

121 I think it depends what you get at a Cracker Barrel if it's good or not. I ate at one about 2 years ago and rated it as mid-tier Sysco.

I think RV'ers like them because they advertise that there is room for them. Busses too.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (144I4)

122 Glenn Reynolds has a birthday? I would’ve thought he’d be celebrating his “I’m-Never-Gonna-Die-Day” by now.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (77rzZ)

123 I thought Po' Folks went out of business. All the ones in the midwest did.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (63Dwl)

124 Olive Garden will give you enough ok-ish italian food to keep a 300 lb diabetic going strong. Well, not strong but...waddling.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (sKqQm)

125 I'm not going along with all this "Cracker Barrel was never that good anyway" sour grapes. I love Cracker Barrel. I love all the down-home for-sale items out front, the old-timey decor in the dining area, and I have never had a bad meal there. The fried apples are amazing.

So yes, I'm pissed that this idiot is trying to ruin Cracker Barrel with her stupid marketing campaign, and frankly, more of you should be too.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (VXV59)

126 I think it's really good if you like comfort food.

It used to be. Twitter is unanimous that post-Covid the food became generic Sysco slop and not even well cooked. (I haven't been back to one in that time frame, so I don't know personally).

Posted by: Ian S. at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (GdK3A)

127 So...I just got back from walmart. I never go there until I need mobil 1 oil for the cars. Damn, talk about night of the living dead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (snZF9)

128 I don’t get “comfort food”. All food is comforting, in that I know that I will not starve to death.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (k2LUN)

129 When I was a kid there was this shack on a barge in L.A. Harbor that you could tie up to and get lunch. The Chowder Barge was the incredibly evocative name of the joint. The Health Department wouldn't dare even venture there.

I still remember the great burgers they served. Classic.
Posted by: Cicero

We were no slackers, either.

Posted by: Hesh and Heidi's Nautical Nosh at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (G5+As)

130 Yours truly orders up the peach pancakes and coffee. Waitress informs me the coffee's a bit old and offers to bring a fresh pot when it's finished brewing. I tell her to give me what's available, "I don't mind coffee with a little hair on it".

Well she just busts out laughing and pours me a cup, then disappears into the kitchen. A few seconds later, raucous laughter rolls out from the kitchen. I was a hit in Cleveland, Tennesee...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM (nbLIj)


Coffee, old and bitter.

Reminds me of someone, just can't think who.

Oh, damn, there's that mirror.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)

131 Chilis > Applebees > non-woke Cracker Barrel > Day old Chinese food out of a dumpster > woke Cracker Barrel

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (sKqQm)

132 Passed out face art pranks aren't complete without dicks in the picture. Usually more than one.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 21, 2025 10:29 PM (MZ+PY)


This is so true!

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:32 PM (QMAsf)

133 Poland has torn down another communist statue.

"Polish-Soviet Brotherhood in Arms" in Ploty is no more.

Poland is tearing down monuments glorifying communism across the country after the introduction of a new law that bans communist propaganda.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:33 PM (MGY3l)

134
So yes, I'm pissed that this idiot is trying to ruin Cracker Barrel with her stupid marketing campaign, and frankly, more of you should be too.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (VXV59)

No, I have never been in one, but yes, I am not happy that another company that plenty of others like is being ruined by an overeducated out of touch CEO and management. Again.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:33 PM (k2LUN)

135 Greetings All! Thank you Sir Doof!

So here's a question....I'm sure like many of you I've seen and relished the video of the two self-important, entitled 'ladies', one of whom was (!) 'an A...door slam)' getting a free ride in a police car.

I have a question. What did they do? I know they didn't leave the restaurant when axed, but what started the whole mess? Why were they asked to leave? Too loud/profane? Disturbing the other diners? Hogging the salad bar?

What I find particularly grating is the way the A. door slam kept pointing with her finger to emphasize how important she was, like a scold.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 21, 2025 10:33 PM (QGaXH)

136
It used to be. Twitter is unanimous that post-Covid the food became generic Sysco slop and not even well cooked.


One of the things that got me to stop getting fast food was the always uncooked fries.

Ymm...its still squishy inside...like if I ate a shredded piece of raw potato...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 10:33 PM (sKqQm)

137 Posted by: Hesh and Heidi's Nautical Nosh at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (G5+As)

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I heard it through the grapevine that the Gato del Mar is to be avoided.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:34 PM (hY4dx)

138 Yes Sir, that's our doing right there. Ms. Julie Felss Masino, CEO of Cracker Barrel. Do you see them? Of course you do. You can see them from outer space.

Those glasses...oh, baby, those glasses. POWER GLASSES, my friends. When you want them looking you in the eye and nowhere else....POWER GLASSES!!! Let them wonder at your control of any situation, while building up your cervical muscle mass.

Get your POWER GLASSES today. 15% off if you use the discount code, "Insufferable."

Posted by: Vision Center at August 21, 2025 10:34 PM (dIske)

139 In keeping with the sartorial ledes:

El Salvador’s President @nayibbukele has banned the “Edgar” haircut from public schools.

The haircut is considered to have been brought to El Salvador by deported criminals inspired by Chicano culture in the U.S.

The Ministry of Education has announces that students of public schools must attend school with "proper haircuts," clean uniforms and correct personal presentation from now on.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:04 PM (MGY3l)



Anyone with an "Edgar" should be deported on principal. Or rapped on the knuckles with a ruler. Or get their head shaved. Something. Gawd.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 10:34 PM (144I4)

140 Never eaten in a Red Lobster or a Waffle House. Or an Olive Garden.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (mT+6a)


Of the 3, Waffle House is a must. Nobody - NOBODY - can prepare hash browns as good as Waffle House.

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (QMAsf)

141 Let me tell ya that there are some amazing eateries in Corsicana that are " hole in the wall".. Second only to the food at the MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (dxWFK)

142 So yes, I'm pissed that this idiot is trying to ruin Cracker Barrel with her stupid marketing campaign, and frankly, more of you should be too.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (VXV59)

I'm pissed, and I was never in one. Ok, berserker rant, because I can't take it anymore. I'm tired of these miserable leftist woke cunts with daddy issues fucking up everything and anything that ooozes Americana, testosterone, or god damn decency. I want to dig up susan B anthony and fuck her dead skull.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (snZF9)

143 My man is Hogging the salad bar? How dare he!
— Greta

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (77rzZ)

144 @121

>>Never eaten in a Red Lobster or a Waffle House. Or an Olive Garden.

Red Lobster used to offer Lobster Nachos, which were pho nominal.

I've only eaten in an Olive Garden a handful of times, used to go to Waffle House on the regular when I was at Notre Dame.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (XV/Pl)

145 >>I'm not going along with all this "Cracker Barrel was never that good anyway" sour grapes. I love Cracker Barrel. I love all the down-home for-sale items out front, the old-timey decor in the dining area, and I have never had a bad meal there. The fried apples are amazing.

>>So yes, I'm pissed that this idiot is trying to ruin Cracker Barrel with her stupid marketing campaign, and frankly, more of you should be too.

The prosecution rests.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)

146 Never eaten in a Red Lobster or a Waffle House. Or an Olive Garden.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (mT+6a)


Was driving late late night on I-81 and saw a big 'ol WAFFLE HOUSE sign in the distance. The only time I ever went to one. Mostly truckers there, so no live entertainment.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)

147 Good evening morons y gracias Disko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 10:36 PM (RIvkX)

148 102 MD20 20

HOLY cow! Could anything suck more🤮?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:36 PM (3wXSL)

149 Covered, slathered or smothered. Waffle House is a good bet.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:36 PM (dxWFK)

150 Never eaten in a Red Lobster or a Waffle House. Or an Olive Garden.

Waffle House is a reliable quick and cheap breakfast place if you want to pound on the calories. I enjoy it but almost never go. It’s a travel joint and I mostly snack on weird regional foods from gas stations when I travel.

I’ve eaten at an Olive Garden once. It’s… pasta. Okay pasta.

Sadly never been to a Red Lobster. Everyone says their biscuits are amazing, and I like biscuits.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (EXyHK)

151 I want to dig up susan B anthony and fuck her dead skull.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (snZF9)

I FEEL THE URGE, THE GROWING NEED
TO FUCK THIS SINFUL CORPSE

Posted by: SLAYER at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (k2LUN)

152 Of the 3, Waffle House is a must. Nobody - NOBODY - can prepare hash browns as good as Waffle House.
Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (QMAsf)


Agreed. Also, you know going in exactly what you're getting with Waffle House, so it can't disappoint; by contrast, Red Lobster is (apart from the biscuits) seriously overpriced.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (VXV59)

153 >>>No, I have never been in one, but yes, I am not happy that another company that plenty of others like is being ruined by an overeducated out of touch CEO and management. Again.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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I like it. Let them fail hard and set a good example.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (MGY3l)

154 Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

Link to X...

https://tinyurl.com/4jpnzjs4

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (i0F8b)

155 Short of higher-end restaurants, *all* restaurant food is "Sysco slop." Or Shamrock slop, whatever. You're buying the same products from the same companies wherever you shop.

You're paying for the preparation, the setting, and perhaps most importantly for someone else to do the dishes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (BI5O2)

156 I never got the fuss about Waffle House.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:38 PM (k2LUN)

157 I don’t get “comfort food”. All food is comforting, in that I know that I will not starve to death.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (k2LUN)

Meat loaf. Baked mac and cheese. Roast turkey, mashed taters, and gravy. The sort of stuff your Mom used to cook.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 10:39 PM (+jGmf)

158 The prosecution rests.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 10:36 PM (viF8m)
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The prosecution has a co-counsel. I very much enjoy breakfast stops at Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)

159 I'm pissed, and I was never in one. Ok, berserker rant, because I can't take it anymore. I'm tired of these miserable leftist woke cunts with daddy issues fucking up everything and anything that ooozes Americana, testosterone, or god damn decency. I want to dig up susan B anthony and fuck her dead skull.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:35 PM (snZF9)


Uh, damn.

Though from pictures of Anthony, I don't know if she had daddy issues or was just a closeted lesbian. I suspect a closeted lesbian.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 21, 2025 10:40 PM (VXV59)

160 The Cracker Barrel CEO is a perfect Leftist.

She used all true sentences, yet completely changed the conclusion.

After talking about the "new decor", she said the number #1 question she gets is, "When can you come do our renovation?".

None of franchisees said it was BECAUSE of the new decor. I bet almost every restaurant would love corporate to do a renovation on their dime, if it didn't too radically change the ambiance. Old, run down restaurants of any stripe always look cleaner and fresher with new paint at a minimum.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 21, 2025 10:40 PM (HlyYF)

161 Sadly never been to a Red Lobster. Everyone says their biscuits are amazing, and I like biscuits.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (EXyHK)


You can get boxed mixes of Red Lobster's cheddar bay biscuits. Walmart and Sam's Club definitely have them. Probably other places. Follow the instructions exactly and they turn out just like at the restaurant. Then tweak next time if you so choose.

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:40 PM (QMAsf)

162 @159

>>I never got the fuss about Waffle House.

It's in the name my man, and they also make pretty good crepes.

Not grandma quality, but close.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2025 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)

163 There's a Cracker Barrel in Camarillo, CA that I went to because my friend was friendly with some of waitresses. Nice ladies. The food was very average, and I wondered if they had to cut back on certain items because California. There are a few here in Florida, but the new CEO appears to be hellbent on killing the franchise, so I'll be going to Denny's, which, at least in my new neck of the woods, is still open 24 hours. It's good to be back in America!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 10:42 PM (nbLIj)

164 157 Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

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Umm, Hitler?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:42 PM (hY4dx)

165 ’ve eaten at an Olive Garden once. It’s… pasta. Okay pasta.

Sadly never been to a Red Lobster. Everyone says their biscuits are amazing, and I like biscuits.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (EXyHK)

Yes, the biscuits really are good. I don't eat seafood, but I went a few times with family and ordered a steak. Biscuits were to die for. Olive garden on the other hand, I think I felt my grandmother rolling in her grave just from me walking through the door. I grew up around amazing rome or naples influenced italian cooks, and nothing there was familiar. The actual food in italy farts in their general direction.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:42 PM (snZF9)

166 134 Passed out face art pranks aren't complete without dicks in the picture. Usually more than one.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 21, 2025 10:29 PM

This is so true!

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:32 PM


Mystery solved. Now I know why Ben Had asked me to bring a 25-pack of black Sharpies to the TXMoMe!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 21, 2025 10:43 PM (HlyYF)

167 Cramer's had the new Cracker Barrel DEI CEO on a few times, gushing over her bold, creative leadership.

I think he's got a 'woke' blind spot. Maybe his network masters tell him to promote these people where he can find them He's done same for Loews and Williams Sonoma CEOs also GM CEO.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 21, 2025 10:43 PM (QGaXH)

168 So yes, I'm pissed that this idiot is trying to ruin Cracker Barrel with her stupid marketing campaign, and frankly, more of you should be too.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 21, 2025 10:31 PM (VXV59)
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No, I have never been in one, but yes, I am not happy that another company that plenty of others like is being ruined by an overeducated out of touch CEO and management. Again.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 21, 2025 10:33 PM (k2LUN)


I agree withn you, Cow Demon. I laugh and make jokes but it is disgusting.

Land 'O Lakes and their squaw, Aunt Jemima herself, The Washington Commanders Redskins, changes no one needed to make. They became part of America, of who we were. These overeductaed dolts were never taught to respect our past, just the current woke trends.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:44 PM (gKDq2)

169 Good evening morons y gracias Disko
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 10:36 PM (RIvkX)


Howdy, SF

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)

170 I never got the fuss about Waffle House.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Where else can you get a decent breakfast at any hour, entertainment, and a waitress named 'Mushroom'?

True story - Mushroom works at the local WH.

I do try to blend in with the locals but the help is on to me. I asked one of them how they knew I was a newbie to town - she said - you have clean Carhart's and a decent haircut.

Nuff said.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2025 10:44 PM (cYBz/)

171 113
Hi T!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:28 PM
***
Good evening COMM! (waves politely)

Posted by: TRex - getting sleepy at August 21, 2025 10:45 PM (IQ6Gq)

172 I like Waffle House. It's a good deal for six people to get a decent breakfast. And in my town, nobody hurls stools at the staff. Nice, quiet, and peaceable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2025 10:45 PM (BI5O2)

173 170 Cramer's had the new Cracker Barrel DEI CEO on a few times, gushing over her bold, creative leadership.

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What does Paul Krugman say?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:45 PM (hY4dx)

174 @167

>>Umm, Hitler?

No, the woman of the hour, the woman, who in a manner reminiscent of Washington Crossing The Delaware, To Kill Hessians in their sleep on Christmas, if Washington had major league yabos, the one the only....

Sssidney Sweeeeenayyyyy!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2025 10:45 PM (XV/Pl)

175 These overeductaed dolts were never taught to respect our past, just the current woke trends.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 10:44 PM (gKDq2)

They need to be beat with a fire hydrant.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

176 I don't think we have a Cracker Barrel around these parts but there is a Po' Folks over by Knotts Berry Farm.
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I thought Po' Folks was long gone. It was my grandparents' favorite back in the day. We used to go there all the time.

The foodies here will shame me, but I sorta miss the cheap-ass steak houses that used to be everywhere. You could get a small steak, baked potato or fries, and salad bar for like 6 bucks. Quincy's, Ryan's, Sizzler, Ponderosa, etc. Some still exist (Golden Corral) but are nothing like what they were.

And yeah, I have been known to eat at the Cracker Barrel. Sometimes disappointing but usually decent comfort food. Tasty biscuits. I thought the Coca-cola cake was pretty damn good.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 10:46 PM (7HoOO)

177 I do try to blend in with the locals but the help is on to me. I asked one of them how they knew I was a newbie to town - she said - you have clean Carhart's and a decent haircut.


Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2025 10:44 PM


I guess I could pass ... since I am 0 for 2 on the giveaways.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 21, 2025 10:46 PM (HlyYF)

178 Cracker Barrel: by Crackers, for Crackers.

Posted by: The Cackling Cracker Coven at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (hD90I)

179
ODOF!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (kkTda)

180 Where are Miklos and the 'leens while we are discussing Waffle House??

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (QMAsf)

181 >>The prosecution has a co-counsel. I very much enjoy breakfast stops at Cracker Barrel.

I've eaten at a Cracker Barrel a grand total of once. Not a reflection of choice, they just haven't an option of where I live or work. The one time I did it was fine and the place was packed. Lots of people do like it.

Throwing that brand away was stupid. I do know that.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (viF8m)

182 One of the things that got me to stop getting fast food was the always uncooked fries.

Ymm...its still squishy inside...like if I ate a shredded piece of raw potato...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 10:33 PM (sKqQm)

Well, I hate fries that are cooked so crisp they snap like twigs. I like fries that are chipped on-site from fresh potatoes, and cooked golden on the outside, with a crumbly baked-potato texture inside. Of the chains, Five Guys has the best fries by my standards.

Good breaded potato wedges may edge out Five Guys fries, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (+jGmf)

183 I don't know if she had daddy issues or was just a closeted lesbian
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Embrace the power of “AND”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (PjW2B)

184 157 Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

Link to X...

https://tinyurl.com/4jpnzjs4
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (i0F8b)
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Well, I'm afraid that's not going to work unless she let's us bring in the fork lift and fit her with a pair of our patented POWER GLASSES.

And, keep vigilant. R & D will kill me for announcing this early, but strap in and get ready for our BLUETOOTH POWER GLASSES, equipped with I-phone controlled WIPERS. Coming soon!!!!

Posted by: Vision Center at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (dIske)

185 Breakfast bowls at Waffle House are good food. I respect the work ethic of the staff too. They hustle.

Posted by: TRex - getting hungry at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

186 We use to attempt to count the number of cracker barrels between Huntsville, AL and Manassas, VA when we were still slum land lords and had to make the trip twice a year to inspect the dump and fix stupid shit.

We would get to around 70-ish before losing count. There are a shit ton of them on that route.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 21, 2025 10:48 PM (zBYpm)

187 Thank you to Doof, TRex and scampydog for really stepping up to keep the doors open.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2025 10:22 PM (dxWFK)
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+1

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

188 160 AOP

Drooling now...yum...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:48 PM (3wXSL)

189 Was driving late late night on I-81 and saw a big 'ol WAFFLE HOUSE sign in the distance. The only time I ever went to one. Mostly truckers there, so no live entertainment.
Posted by: RickZ
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Hang out til 2 or 3 am. You'll probably see some entertainment.

I enjoy Waffle House. It used to be a bit of a tradition for me & my mom to stop in there on Christmas Day.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 10:49 PM (7HoOO)

190 Olive garden on the other hand, I think I felt my grandmother rolling in her grave just from me walking through the door. I grew up around amazing rome or naples influenced italian cooks, and nothing there was familiar. The actual food in italy farts in their general direction.
Posted by: Berserker


It's supposed to be "Tuscan style" Italian food, so probably not much like Roman or Neapolitan?

"We're Tuscany. Americanized. And commoditized. We're Olive Garden." - if Crazy People were a real ad agency

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

191 Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

Link to X...

https://tinyurl.com/4jpnzjs4
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (i0F8b)

Those..are..spectacular.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:49 PM (snZF9)

192 The foodies here will shame me, but I sorta miss the cheap-ass steak houses that used to be everywhere. You could get a small steak, baked potato or fries, and salad bar for like 6 bucks. Quincy's, Ryan's, Sizzler, Ponderosa, etc. Some still exist (Golden Corral) but are nothing like what they were.

And yeah, I have been known to eat at the Cracker Barrel. Sometimes disappointing but usually decent comfort food. Tasty biscuits. I thought the Coca-cola cake was pretty damn good.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 10:46 PM (7HoOO)


Howdy SiD!

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:50 PM (QMAsf)

193 Let me tell ya that there are some amazing eateries in Corsicana that are " hole in the wall".. Second only to the food at the MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had

Aguado's on 3rd Ave has food so good you want to fight!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 21, 2025 10:50 PM (cYBz/)

194 I don't know if she had daddy issues or was just a closeted lesbian
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Embrace the power of “AND”
Posted by: Common Tater

We going with 'dad' was a lesbian butch biker bitch with a shaved head?

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 21, 2025 10:50 PM (zBYpm)

195
Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

Link to X...

https://tinyurl.com/4jpnzjs4
Posted by: davidt


I thought it was going to be Sambo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 10:50 PM (63Dwl)

196 Poland is tearing down monuments glorifying communism across the country after the introduction of a new law that bans communist propaganda.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:33 PM (MGY3l)
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*wistful sigh*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

197 Dooooof!

I have been enjoying your ONTs. Usually I'm reading them the next morning, so not around to comment.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM (7HoOO)

198 Put S.B. Anthony Dollars in between two pieces of 2" tape.
May come in handy some day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM (MGY3l)

199
Diana is on the bed with me. She is being a pain.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM (kkTda)

200 People who can make their hands do different musical bits are amazing. Making your hands work together to do the same thing, even though they're doing different motions to accomplish it is pretty good. But making them do totally different things is even better.

Posted by: GWB at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM (1PcCZ)

201 189 Breakfast bowls at Waffle House are good food. I respect the work ethic of the staff too. They hustle.

Posted by: TRex - getting hungry at August 21, 2025 10:47 PM


When their tips are based on a percentage price of affordable food, they know they have to make it up on volume!

I always tip extra in places like that for "hustle", even if it is just because I saw their section get slammed when I was almost finished.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM (HlyYF)

202 Ponderosa

There is a restaurant called “Ponderosa” advertising on I-70 between St. Louis and I-57.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 10:52 PM (EXyHK)

203 194 Olive garden on the other hand, I think I felt my grandmother rolling in her grave just from me walking through the door. I grew up around amazing rome or naples influenced italian cooks, and nothing there was familiar. The actual food in italy farts in their general direction.
Posted by: Berserker
__________________________________

Don't visit Olive Garden....BUT, I do buy their Italian salad dressing at the grocery story. For some reason, most Italian dressing has fructose or sugar in it. I don't know whose idea that was, but they're horrible IMO. So , if I don't make my own dressing, I'll buy Olive Garden brand which is pretty darn good.

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 10:52 PM (dIske)

204 1920s men. The weakest group of fucks in American History.

You're sitting around, drinking a keg, and you just keep your paper hat and striped jacket clean while Carry Nation destroys the keg ? No - you beat Carry Nation's ass. She was just a woman, they had pictures, she was a typical big assed fat woman. Not hard to put down at all.

1920s men. The absolute worst.

Posted by: Call It Like It Is at August 21, 2025 10:46 PM (RwcWI)

If they had one ball between them somebody would have been fanning the hammer of a colt peacemaker.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:52 PM (snZF9)

205 French Fries aren’t rocket science but they can be tricky. They require attention to detail. Fried twice.

If they use the industrial vegetable oils they are already behind the power curve. Blech. That shit will tear your innards up. Took me a long time to figure that out, because I ate a lot of food. Popcorn is good fiber, right? And fiber helps move things along right? Not if you use hydrogenated oils to pop, it will lock your gut up tighter ‘n JB WELD.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 10:52 PM (PjW2B)

206 I saw Zits and Tits open for Real Men of Genius at the Cracker Barrel in Redondo Beach in '04.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2025 10:53 PM (fY84s)

207 Never eaten in a Red Lobster or a Waffle House. Or an Olive Garden.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 10:30 PM (mT+6a)

Been to all three. Red Lobster back in the '80's was damn fine eating. Broiled seafood sampler was my go-to. Olive Garden was always meh. Pasta was ok-ish, but I had the worst meatball sandwich ever..served on WHITE BREAD???

Waffle House, well, that's church. I told Little to take his girlfriend there, and measure her worth by her reaction. Happy to report that she gets it, and they're still together...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 10:53 PM (nbLIj)

208 Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

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Umm, Hitler?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 10:42 PM (hY4dx)

"Mein Führer ...Cracker Barrel hat sein Logo geändert..."

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 10:53 PM (g47mK)

209 Damn, now I want fries. Or hash browns.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:54 PM (77rzZ)

210 Cracker Barrel: by Crackers, for Crackers.

If this were true the food would be better. And the advertising epic.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 10:54 PM (EXyHK)

211 Put S.B. Anthony Dollars in between two pieces of 2" tape.
May come in handy some day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM (MGY3l)

You gave me an idea for MoMe X.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 10:54 PM (snZF9)

212 I enjoy Waffle House. It used to be a bit of a tradition for me & my mom to stop in there on Christmas Day.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 10:49 PM (7HoOO)


Christmas Eve for the Doof family. After evening church, we'd hit the local Waffle House, which was 5 minutes from our house. The lovely late Mrs. Doof would give the waitress a very generous tip. Often times the tip was more than the check amount. Her way of showing extra appreciation for someone who had to work on Christmas Eve. A wonderful woman she was.

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)

213 I used to go to Ponderosa as a kid in Western PA/WV , etc. Didn't know ut still existed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2025 10:54 PM (BI5O2)

214 Back when I was younger, we knew which dive bars had the best hamburgers.
Posted by: nerdygirl
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The rules have been seriously relaxed now, but the OLCC guarenteed that cheapest best food in Oregon was served in bars, rather than restaurants.
To have a hard liquor license, a certain, significant percentage of your income had to come from hot food, from a separate kitchen which was required to be in operation for, again, a significant portion of operating hours.
The intent was obvious- to minimize bars serving whisky etc.
But, creative accounting to the rescue. The loophole was income, not profits. So, put a sirloin steak with a baker and salad on the menu at $15. Then put up a special on the chalkboard behind the bar "Sirloin special- $5." Of course the special only went away about 2 days a month. Cost of special- about 5 bucks. They break even, or even lose a little on the food, but they can sell a ton of high margin liquor while keeping their license.
Portland strip clubs were great for this. A steak dinner that cost $25 anywhere else was $5 at The Acropolis. DAMHIK

Posted by: buddhaha at August 21, 2025 10:54 PM (e16Yw)

215 I have seen highway exits in the South that have not one but two Waffle Houses, one on each side. I used to live down the street from the original Waffle House, now a museum. It's only open by appointment.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 10:55 PM (7HoOO)

216 184 Doof

Now see! That's what I'd like to know! Those gals probably have him tied up....and yeah...he's probably diggin' it🤪....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 10:56 PM (3wXSL)

217 It's been a long time since I've been to a Waffle House but, as I recall, they at least cook the food in front of you.

Posted by: javems at August 21, 2025 10:56 PM (8I4hW)

218 CEOs get hired by boards of directors.
There are more people than this stupid bitch behind this half billion dollars of lost value, and they to should be held to account.

Posted by: From about That Tim at August 21, 2025 10:56 PM (JODp0)

219 Screaming in Digital is here! Hey, SiD!

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 10:57 PM (77rzZ)

220 My first job was in a Ponderosa. Got fired for not smiling.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 10:57 PM (63Dwl)

221 Contentment

Posted by: Moron Tia at August 21, 2025 10:57 PM (krClA)

222 https://tinyurl.com/4jpnzjs4
Posted by: davidt

Those..are..spectacular.
Posted by: Berserker


I would buy her breakfast.

And you know what they say about a woman who's that concerned about keeping her hair out of her face.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 10:58 PM (DgGvY)

223 I used to go to Ponderosa as a kid in Western PA/WV , etc. Didn't know ut still existed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2025 10:54 PM (BI5O2)

There's a few. Merged the Bonanza and Ponderosa restaurants. The original Bonanza was started by Hoss Cartwright.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 10:58 PM (0eaVi)

224
It's been a long time since I've been to a Waffle House but, as I recall, they at least cook the food in front of you.
Posted by: javems


I think they make you turn around.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 10:58 PM (63Dwl)

225 *Forrest Gump wave at Bulg*

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 10:58 PM (7HoOO)

226 Put S.B. Anthony Dollars in between two pieces of 2" tape. May come in handy some day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

You gave me an idea for MoMe X.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


How many people do you hate here?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:00 PM (mlg/3)

227 There are no waffle houses around here, so I do go when I see one if I'm on a road trip. There is one right next to the hotel during the texas mome. I will say though, they do seem to differ. There is one in Arlington texas we would go to during the guitar shows every year. That place was really good. The best one so far. We had a friend from the UK who flew in to meet us one year, so we took him there. I swear he was ready to move his furniture in there and not leave. Dude was beside himself.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 11:00 PM (snZF9)

228 You go to Waffle House, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster because you know exactly what you will get no matter where in America you are dining.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

229 Ponderosa

There is a restaurant called “Ponderosa” advertising on I-70 between St. Louis and I-57.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 10:52 PM (EXyHK)



There is the "Hen House" on I-39 in north/central IL. I think it used to be a chain. Been around a long time and this one is a survivor. Ate there a couple years ago and had a fantastic breakfast. Over the top country kitsch and the building has a unique roof...I guess like an old hen house, imagine that!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:00 PM (144I4)

230 How many people do you hate here?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:00 PM (mlg/3)

None, why?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 11:01 PM (snZF9)

231 SiD, what’s a “Forrest Gump wave?” Please no video links, as I can’t access those from my phone.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:01 PM (77rzZ)

232 >>> 225 My first job was in a Ponderosa. Got fired for not smiling.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 10:57 PM (63Dwl)

You should have had 37 pieces of flair.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2025 11:01 PM (ULPxl)

233 @nicksortor
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1h
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump will be making a televised “announcement” from the Oval Office Friday at noon ET

Posted by: Don Black at August 21, 2025 11:02 PM (AOsQT)

234 Oh, and when I was doing research for a possible MoMe, I learned that the only Waffle House that serves booze is the one at the Atlanta Braves stadium, whatever it's called now. Not sure if that's changed.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 11:02 PM (7HoOO)

235 When Dan Blocker died early that was my first inkling the world was a cruel place

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 11:02 PM (PjW2B)

236 Data set of one, but consistent with what one reads.

Today at the range, a couple 30-something Filipino guys had a younger tall white kid with them. The kid is standing on the painted yellow feet at MCRD next month, these guys were giving him a taste of shootin'. (though the handgun they brought was a Makarov, odd)

One of them said to the kid at one point - "at least you're going in when all the DEI and gender crap is being eliminated". Kid said "yep". I asked him - "tell me, in your age group, your buddies, does everyone think all of this stuff is ridiculous?". "Yep."

This gives me a warm feeling.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

237 *picks up bowl and spoon*

*shuffles to the next table*

Not sitting with the necrophiliacs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

238 CEOs get hired by boards of directors.
There are more people than this stupid bitch behind this half billion dollars of lost value, and they to should be held to account.

Posted by: From about That Tim at August 21, 2025 10:56 PM (JODp0)

Defenestration has a good ring to it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (snZF9)

239 >>> 240 Oh, and when I was doing research for a possible MoMe, I learned that the only Waffle House that serves booze is the one at the Atlanta Braves stadium, whatever it's called now. Not sure if that's changed.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 11:02 PM (7HoOO)

You want to have a gathering of Morons at a Waffle House, *with* booze???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (ULPxl)

240 I added an update to the bottom of the post.

Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (QMAsf)

241 233 Lileks’ piece on a Brit at Olive Garden has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (77rzZ)

242 Asked Bing, 'How much money does Israel spend on U.S. arms ever year?' Asked the question three different ways using quotation marks and the + sign to force it to recognize the question. It wouldn't.

The only answer was how much the U.S. gives to Israel.
Biased, we much?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (MGY3l)

243 Brrrr

Ran out for the sunset. It’s gorgeous. Slight breeze. Feels like 58.

Gonna be in the high 80s for a week.

Yuck.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 21, 2025 11:04 PM (oMF3N)

244 225 My first job was in a Ponderosa. Got fired for not smiling.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Service with a smirk, I always say.

Posted by: Depressed Area at August 21, 2025 11:05 PM (G5+As)

245 Lurkers of the World. Untie!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 21, 2025 11:05 PM (y5Bya)

246 Did this broad actually say she was going to 'decolonize Crackle Barrel' ? For that alone, she needs to stuffed in a barrel and tossed over Niagara Falls.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 21, 2025 11:05 PM (gcUgZ)

247 When Dan Blocker died early that was my first inkling the world was a cruel place
Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 11:02 PM (PjW2B)

Everybody seemed to love Hoss. Lorne Greene knew it was over when Blocker died.

For a guy everybody liked, he sure hated Nixon.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 11:05 PM (0eaVi)

248 203 Hadrian

My Ellie is always on my bed. I'd so miss her if she wasn't...
Good dogs 🐕❣❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 11:05 PM (3wXSL)

249
CEOs get hired by boards of directors.

Who knows...maybe it'll work out.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 11:07 PM (63Dwl)

250 223 CEOs get hired by boards of directors.
There are more people than this stupid bitch behind this half billion dollars of lost value, and they to should be held to account.
Posted by: From about That Tim at August 21, 2025 10:56 PM (JODp0)
___________________________

You make an interesting point, so I pulled up the Board of Directors. There are 11 of them...which they expanded just as the CEO was hired. Interestingly, most of those 11 were hired after the CEO was placed. More interestingly is that most of the new Board members are women and minorities now.

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:07 PM (dIske)

251 That's one advantage of being a 29-year-old.

All of one's drunken exploits, ridiculous hairstyles, and ugly, ugly "fashionable" clothing choices are long forgotten, or at a bare minimum, sealed in the Egyptian tomb-like bowels of moldering family photo albums.

Not so with Today's Youth.

Their idiocies will live on forever on Instagram, Twitter, FecesBook, or whatever the New Hotness in social media might be.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:07 PM (qpyNK)

252 All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 b.c., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger.

Posted by: Moron Tia at August 21, 2025 11:07 PM (krClA)

253 SiD, what’s a “Forrest Gump wave?” Please no video links, as I can’t access those from my phone.
Posted by: Bulg
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You've seen the movie, right? When Lt Dan shows up, Forrest waves wildly at him, then jumps in the water to swim to the dock.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 11:07 PM (7HoOO)

254 I added an update to the bottom of the post.
Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (QMAsf)


That is too good, Doof. ha!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:08 PM (144I4)

255 Google actually answered the question, 'AI Overview
Israel spends about $3.3 billion annually on U.S. arms as part of a decade-long agreement, supplemented by...' then proceeded with a dissertation on how much we give them.

Google +.5 Bing 0

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:08 PM (MGY3l)

256 247 Trump Names Doof National Pickleball Czar, Orders him to “Clean Up That S-Hole Game. Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter.”

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:08 PM (77rzZ)

257 I added an update to the bottom of the post.
Posted by: Doof at August 21, 2025 11:03 PM (QMAsf)

Top pic: she looks better when she smiles.

Bottom pic: she looks better when she turns away.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 11:08 PM (0eaVi)

258 Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger.

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Did Jesus eat at Olive Garden?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 11:09 PM (hY4dx)

259 You want to have a gathering of Morons at a Waffle House, *with* booze???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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I mentioned Waffle House (I was actually joking) and someone said something like, "Sure, as long as there's booze"

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 11:09 PM (7HoOO)

260 Oh, I missed the last one; Thumbutt, the true cracker barrel girl.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:09 PM (MGY3l)

261 I always ask the Navy guys what their ship or unit is when I can. Today the group up on Range 1 was from an LCS (forget the name).

Whenever they say LCS, I say "oh, I'm sorry" - and without exception, they have laughed, rolled their eyes, and said "yeah". Today I softened the blow by noting that unlike the amphibious fleet, LCSs had not been burning at regular intervals.

But when their medical gal called me over to ask about local first-responder situation, I noticed that about 20% of the group was clearly unfit, overweight. This does not make me happy. Don't follow every development, but pretty sure Hegseth was picked above all to fix all the accumulated personnel issues in uniform. Hope that PT requirements up to/including general officers get re-introduced and strictly enforced.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2025 11:09 PM (U/Byj)

262 Delurking to say Cracker Barrel has gone off the rails. When the QED girls were young, I would get a hokey T-shirt every Father’s Day from them that they had bought at a CB. I love the shirts. I’m not sure if CB still carries anything Americana.

Posted by: QED Texan at August 21, 2025 11:10 PM (fveCG)

263
I added an update to the bottom of the post.
Posted by: Doof


How dare you!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 11:10 PM (63Dwl)

264 I've been a nurse for over 31 years and I'm calling BS on the "triangle of death" story.

Posted by: Frankie at August 21, 2025 11:10 PM (DkAjB)

265 244 225 My first job was in a Ponderosa. Got fired for not smiling.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
___________________________

How many pieces of flair were you wearing? Because just because they say 12 is required doesn't mean they won't fire you for not having more than that.

Proof: https://tinyurl.com/3hh5chdx

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:10 PM (dIske)

266 BREAKING: President Trump will be making a televised “announcement” from the Oval Office Friday at noon ET
Posted by: Don Black


So, right after Jerome Powell speaks at the Jackson Hole symposium?

Powell's supposed to speak "in the morning," but Mountain Time, presumably.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:11 PM (DgGvY)

267 You go to Waffle House, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster because you know exactly what you will get no matter where in America you are dining.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)


The reason why McDonald's became so big starting in the late '50s. When people traveled back then, the food 'on the road' was spotty, at best. McDonald's changed all that. No matter what part of the country you were from and where in it you now were, when you saw The Golden Arches, you knew what you were getting.

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

268 Launch link change.

https://youtu.be/t-6K8G39Svo

Reason for link change:

SPACE AFFAIRS
​​Spacers. Because of a provider change of our broadband connection, they cut this morning the line. The new one isn‘t active, so we can‘t stream. They promised, but ….

​​No connection to the web at the moment. 4:48 a.m. here. Hotline beginning at 8. Nice. Thanks for your understanding and patience.


Posted by: Joyenz at August 21, 2025 11:12 PM (sPQoU)

269 Olive garden on the other hand, I think I felt my grandmother rolling in her grave just from me walking through the door. I grew up around amazing rome or naples influenced italian cooks, and nothing there was familiar. The actual food in italy farts in their general direction.
Posted by: Berserker

It's supposed to be "Tuscan style" Italian food, so probably not much like Roman or Neapolitan?

"We're Tuscany. Americanized. And commoditized. We're Olive Garden." - if Crazy People were a real ad agency
Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)


I've only eaten there for the first time about 4 years ago. The kids like it. Before I cut down on carbs, I liked it because I could pig out on pasta. I had no preconception of it being authentic Italian food, I just figured it was a good deal because you could stuff yourself with never-ending breadsticks and soup. And pasta/sauce with meat and melted cheese is comfort food to me.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:12 PM (144I4)

270 I added an update to the bottom of the post.
Posted by: Doof


Huh. Three boobs.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:12 PM (DgGvY)

271 > If they use the industrial vegetable oils they are already behind the power curve. Blech. That shit will tear your innards up.

Beef tallow is pretty damned good (despite being "trendy" at the moment) but the absolute best french fry medium is bacon grease.


OMG that's good.

When the late Mrs. Borgia and I got a craving to harden our arteries, we'd put some corn oil in the deep fryer to get things started, then deep fry a package of bacon.

Then came the chicken, fries and/or tots.

OMG that was good.

Hardly worth the effort as a single dude, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:13 PM (qpyNK)

272 Waffle House is 10x better than Cracker Barrel.
And the waitresses are polite.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:14 PM (MGY3l)

273 I had a really good comment but by the time I got to the box I forgot it. Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

274 I've been a nurse for over 31 years and I'm calling BS on the "triangle of death" story.
Posted by: Frankie


Maybe they left out the part where she popped the zit with a rusty drywall screw she found in the gutter.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (DgGvY)

275 Google +.5 Bing 0

This is my problem with everyone who says “use a different search engine”. There’s never an example of “here’s what I use and here’s an example of it doing better than Google.”

I have every device set to use a different search engine. And I still have to regularly return to Google to get results that even partially match what I’m looking for. It’s all a race to the bottom and Google is losing.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (EXyHK)

276 {{{Nurse}}}

78?!
Jeez! I wish...that would be so nice here at 8000 ft. In my mountains. 85plus here and way too dry ....ow...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (3wXSL)

277 253 No, actually, Forrest Gump is another one of those flicks that I’ve never watched in its entirety. Just bits and pieces is all.

Why can’t the Horde reference the original King Kong, or Lon Chaney, Sr.’s Phantom of the Opera? Y’all are too modern for me.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (77rzZ)

278 273 I had a really good comment but by the time I got to the box I forgot it. Sadz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

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Don't worry. You still get a participation trophy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (hY4dx)

279 I added an update to the bottom of the post.
Posted by: Doof

How dare you!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 11:10 PM (63Dwl)


*golf clap*

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (144I4)

280 Not popping a zit on your face sounds like fake news, one of those urban legends that gets passed around.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (xcxpd)

281 I wonder if the people who put that stooned coont into the CEO job at Cracker Barrel are the same ones that have been shorting the stock?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (PXoV/)

282
Hardly worth the effort as a single dude, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Being single sucks. Read somewhere that single women get on better than single men. I think it's true.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:16 PM (MGY3l)

283
243 Brrrr
Ran out for the sunset. It’s gorgeous. Slight breeze. Feels like 58.
Gonna be in the high 80s for a week.
Yuck.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Is the page jumping around for anyone else or am I riding the short bus today? Nurse here was 250 when I hit reload. If I'm missing trolls getting banned....it's good to be a waifu.

*waves*

H inurse!

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 21, 2025 11:16 PM (zBYpm)

284 Never been in a Cracker Barrel. Just in a Waffle House once, last November, Ft. Lauderdale. Around 8PM, not 3AM. Perfectly fine, just what I was looking for - breakfast for dinner, emphasis on hash browns. Don't remember it being as ridiculously expensive as all restaurants are now.

Last year we went to Denny's nearby for breakfast, just for the hell of it (we were up early for something, can't recall). It was good, as remembered.

$50. Fifty US dollars. For breakfast (no steak and eggs, no "dessert" - just breakfast plates and coffee). Stunning. Some of that may well be the Khmer Rouge idiocy degrading CA, making everything needlessly expensive. But yowzah.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2025 11:17 PM (U/Byj)

285 Incidentally, there is a New "Greta" getting warmed up. Some 12 year old girl named Kike Dueck is being allowed and encouraged to argue against Saskatchewan Coal project in an effort to get an injunction for production.

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:17 PM (dIske)

286 281 I wonder if the people who put that stooned coont into the CEO job at Cracker Barrel are the same ones that have been shorting the stock?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sounds like PepsiCo, get it and bleed it out.
It's going around. See RedWire.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:18 PM (MGY3l)

287 282
Hardly worth the effort as a single dude, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
----------------

Being single sucks. Read somewhere that single women get on better than single men. I think it's true.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:16 PM (MGY3l)

I hated it when I was single. Now I wonder about how good I had it. A sexless, loveless marriage is ten times worse than being single.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 11:18 PM (xcxpd)

288 Night y'all. I was supposed to go to sleep about an hour ago...

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 21, 2025 11:19 PM (7HoOO)

289 Well, you all have caused me to get really hungry...
Imma gonna go eat things,,,
Good night lovely pals😋

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 21, 2025 11:19 PM (3wXSL)

290 277 253 No, actually, Forrest Gump is another one of those flicks that I’ve never watched in its entirety. Just bits and pieces is all.

Why can’t the Horde reference the original King Kong, or Lon Chaney, Sr.’s Phantom of the Opera? Y’all are too modern for me.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (77rzZ)

...Forrest Gump was 30 years ago...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 11:19 PM (xcxpd)

291 What say you, Hordelings? Good move, bad move, or don't care?

We used to go there a lot. It was an upgrade from IHOP but a downgrade from the Pancake House (in Dallas and Austin). When I made the morning trek from Austin to Dallas would stop at the one in Temple.

Then we discovered First Watch and said "Good Bye" to the HFCS pancake syrup and the way too salty ham.

There are some in ETX, but never has been worth the drive. We grew out of it.

But still enjoy the memories. The Bud Lighting of Crackhead Barrel is just a reminder you can never really go back home.

I'm 100% sure I'll never darken the doorway again of the place, its just another clone of Denny's, Waffle House and IHOP now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 21, 2025 11:19 PM (a4flb)

292 >>>Stunning. Some of that may well be the Khmer Rouge idiocy degrading CA, making everything needlessly expensive. But yowzah.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Smells like CA but everyone is paying more. Joey B. and the Administrative State screwed us good.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:20 PM (MGY3l)

293 285 Incidentally, there is a New "Greta" getting warmed up. Some 12 year old girl named Kike Dueck is being allowed and encouraged to argue against Saskatchewan Coal project in an effort to get an injunction for production.

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The old Greta has about as much value as a snotty used Kleenex after the fiasco in Gaza. I see a big future for her at truck stop glory holes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 11:20 PM (hY4dx)

294 you knew what you were getting.

It was also fast. Insanely fast. There’s a great scene in The Founder where Michael Keaton doesn’t realize his order was filled because he paid for it and they gave it to him.

Fast, cheap, quality. Pick any two and you have a great product. Nowadays most of these restaurants barely pick one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 21, 2025 11:20 PM (EXyHK)

295 287 I’m sorry, MAE. I’m sure that stinks.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:21 PM (77rzZ)

296
198 Put S.B. Anthony Dollars in between two pieces of 2" tape.
May come in handy some day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 10:51 PM

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What's it for?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 21, 2025 11:22 PM (azNOR)

297 If I was drunk and someone marked up my face that way, I would take my revenge and very little would I rule out.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 21, 2025 11:22 PM (2xthb)

298 Not popping a zit on your face sounds like fake news, one of those urban legends that gets passed around.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 11:15 PM (xcxpd)


Pop zit first, then scratch ass. No problems.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:22 PM (144I4)

299 Waffle House is 10x better than Cracker Barrel.

No kidding, Crackhead Barrel was missing the impromptu amateur MMA matches. Maybe that is the drive to "modernize" is that their primary demographic, Boomers, are dying out or can't afford $30 per plate breakfasts.

Ditch the old coot in the logo, place a "We Accept EBT" sign in the window.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 21, 2025 11:25 PM (a4flb)

300 Remember that Bond movie where 5 put a string of Sovereigns around the perimeter of his briefcase under the lining?
Scotch packing tape is no good. Go to dollar general an purchase Duck brand 2" packing tape.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:25 PM (MGY3l)

301 235 When Dan Blocker died early that was my first inkling the world was a cruel place
Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 11:02 PM (PjW2B)

Yes, as a little kid I was shocked and sad.

Posted by: joemarine at August 21, 2025 11:25 PM (y171U)

302 300

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:25 PM (144I4)

303 290 Groundhog Day was 1993, 37 years ago. The last decent film made.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:26 PM (77rzZ)

304 302 300
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:25 PM (144I4)

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SPARTANZZZZ

Posted by: Leonidas at August 21, 2025 11:26 PM (hY4dx)

305 the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is what, 25 years old now? Time flies.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:26 PM (144I4)

306 ------

What's it for?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Who knows, but it will be a shiny thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:27 PM (MGY3l)

307 304 302 300
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:25 PM (144I4)

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SPARTANZZZZ
Posted by: Leonidas at August 21, 2025 11:26 PM (hY4dx)

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:-) Look, evensies!

304 stainless steel, Ford 302, 300 SPARTANZZZZ. All good stuff!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (144I4)

308 It's supposed to be "Tuscan style" Italian food, so probably not much like Roman or Neapolitan?

"We're Tuscany. Americanized. And commoditized. We're Olive Garden." - if Crazy People were a real ad agency
Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

Was friendly with a Tuscan girl. Used to razz her about their view of us Naplitans (briefly, "take away tomatoes and they'll starve"..)

Anyway. She hosted a Christmas dinner and I made cavatelli (say it with me: "gavadeal") from scratch. She provided the bolognese sauce. Also made a lasagne with pesto sauce which I had to admit did not need tomatoes. Heck of a woman, that one...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (nbLIj)

309 Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

Link to X...

https://tinyurl.com/4jpnzjs4
Posted by: davidt


Yeah, she looks like she could keep them afloat.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (lUFok)

310 CB's menu didn't appeal to me, but I wouldn't go wreck the place.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (2xthb)

311 Groundhog Day was 1993, 37 years ago. The last decent film made.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:26 PM (77rzZ)


There's been a small few since.

My two noms are Tim Allen flicks, 'The Santa Clause' and, by Grabthor's Hammer, 'Galaxy Quest'.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (gKDq2)

312 303 290 Groundhog Day was 1993, 37 years ago. The last decent film made.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:26 PM (77rzZ)

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BING!!!

Posted by: Ned Ryerson at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (hY4dx)

313 Incidentally, there is a New "Greta" getting warmed up. Some 12 year old girl named Kike Dueck is being allowed and encouraged to argue against Saskatchewan Coal project in an effort to get an injunction for production.
Posted by: Orson


She looks like someone froze one of the brothers from "Hanson" back in 1992, and thawed him out yesterday.

https://is.gd/rvXBHz

She also can't spell "pollution."

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:29 PM (DgGvY)

314 That's what I paid at Mel's Diner last week
Pancakes
Waffle, 1 Egg, 1 Sausage
1 Coffee, 1 OJ
$57.27 incl tip

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

315 Hop Sing made that show. And probably Little Joe, too, along with Mrs. Cartwright.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:30 PM (77rzZ)

316 Via Insty, Only one person can save Cracker Barrel...

Link to X...

https://tinyurl.com/4jpnzjs4
Posted by: davidt

Yeah, she looks like she could keep them afloat.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (lUFok)


Yep. Also for some reason, I could really go for some sunny side up. Ya know, over easy would work too.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:31 PM (144I4)

317 >>>Boomers, are dying out or can't afford $30 per plate breakfasts.

Ditch the old coot in the logo, place a "We Accept EBT" sign in the window.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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You would do better, you know, be a better troll, if you kept up with reality. Be better troll.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:31 PM (MGY3l)

318 > Some 12 year old girl named Kike Dueck

Seriously? Her parents named her "Kike"?

So she's been programmed to be a Jew-hater since birth?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:31 PM (qpyNK)

319 Remember that Bond movie where 5 put a string of Sovereigns around the perimeter of his briefcase under the lining?
Scotch packing tape is no good. Go to dollar general an purchase Duck brand 2" packing tape.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:25 PM (MGY3l)


Did you realize that at the time that was written, the act of taking gold sovereigns out of the country was a violation of the British currency control act?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)

320 314 That's what I paid at Mel's Diner last week
Pancakes
Waffle, 1 Egg, 1 Sausage
1 Coffee, 1 OJ
$57.27 incl tip
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Get out of CA and you can cut that in half.
And get a bigger plate of food too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:33 PM (MGY3l)

321 266 BREAKING: President Trump will be making a televised “announcement” from the Oval Office Friday at noon ET
Posted by: Don Black

So, right after Jerome Powell speaks at the Jackson Hole symposium?

Powell's supposed to speak "in the morning," but Mountain Time, presumably.
Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:11 PM (DgGvY)

You think President Trump's announcement at noon tomorrow is the firing of Jerome Powell?

Posted by: joemarine at August 21, 2025 11:33 PM (y171U)

322 I'll be honest.

I've never been to a Cracker Barrel restaurant, but I did go to a Bob Evans in Powell, OH. The modernized CB looks very much like the BE restaurant. If I didn't know the chain any better (see above: I don't), I'd probably stop inside one and try it out. The food at Bob Evans was great, so I'd expect at least as much from The Cracker. That's where it lives or dies in my book. The store itself is much bigger and more extensive than the Bob Evans' so I'd probably have The Wife check that out.

I'd try it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 21, 2025 11:33 PM (0CU3H)

323 Seriously? Her parents named her "Kike"?

Probably pronounced Key-kay or something "cute" like that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 21, 2025 11:34 PM (lUFok)

324 Did you realize that at the time that was written, the act of taking gold sovereigns out of the country was a violation of the British currency control act?
Posted by: Kindltot
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He was Bond.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:34 PM (MGY3l)

325 Cracker Barrel is now dead to me. They hate me, and I can live with that.
Missed the dilly dilly thing, had stopped watching NFL by then.
Meh. It ain't bullfrogs or WASSUP! hilarity.
Rebranding efforts should always include 2 guys named Bubba to prevent huge mistakes.

Posted by: PTSD giver at August 21, 2025 11:34 PM (o/3Rm)

326 A Dan Blocker story, by way of Harlan Ellison:

Blocker was in some public venue (a grocery store or whatever) when a little old lady came up to him.

"When you get back to the Ponderosa, you tell your father I said, blah-blah-blah...."

Blocker (very politely): "Ma'am, my name is Dan Blocker. Hoss is just a character I play on TV."

LOL: "Yes, I know, but when you get back to the Ponderosa, you tell your father I said, blah-blah-blah...."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:34 PM (qpyNK)

327 Hop Sing made that show. And probably Little Joe, too, along with Mrs. Cartwright.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:30 PM (77rzZ)


The one scene from the show I remember was a courtroom scene with Hop Sing on the stand. He's testifying about the 'chop' on something, I forget what, to prove one of the boys' innocence. How it wasn't the defendant's 'chop'. The 'chop' was a fingerprint.

Forensic Files on Bonanza. In 1968.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2025 11:35 PM (gKDq2)

328 Did you realize that at the time that was written, the act of taking gold sovereigns out of the country was a violation of the British currency control act?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)

If they had had X-ray machines at airports in the time of the movie, those coins would have shown up like they were outlined in neon lights.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 11:35 PM (PXoV/)

329 Seriously? Her parents named her "Kike"?
So she's been programmed to be a Jew-hater since birth?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


It's "Kiké," but I'm not sure the accent mark helps.

I guess it leads you to pronounce it with 2 syllables?

Meh, she's an indoctrinated leftist already, so it fits.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:36 PM (DgGvY)

330
Hop Sing made that show. And probably Little Joe, too, along with Mrs. Cartwright.
Posted by: Bulg


And Adam.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2025 11:36 PM (63Dwl)

331 Hmm... I think lead fishing sinkers are mostly off the market nowadays, but it seems like a shipment of those might be good concealment for smuggling gold.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:36 PM (qpyNK)

332 OK, All. Last of the booze is drained.

Paradoxically, booze is one of the few things that does not make me puke these days.

Anyway, off to bed, where beautiful naked ladies may cavort in my dreams.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:37 PM (77rzZ)

333 Probably pronounced Key-kay or something "cute" like that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 21, 2025 11:34 PM (lUFok)

About the first I have heard of the little twat. I will be sure to pronounce her name as the slur word, just to piss off the 'tards.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 11:38 PM (PXoV/)

334 329 Seriously? Her parents named her "Kike"?
So she's been programmed to be a Jew-hater since birth?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

It's "Kiké," but I'm not sure the accent mark helps.

I guess it leads you to pronounce it with 2 syllables?

Meh, she's an indoctrinated leftist already, so it fits.
Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:36 PM (DgGvY)

Well, does it rhyme with SanDeE*? That might make it better.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 21, 2025 11:38 PM (0CU3H)

335 > I guess it leads you to pronounce it with 2 syllables?

Meh, she's an indoctrinated leftist already, so it fits.
Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:36 PM (DgGvY)

I'd go with "Kikey", but I don't think she'd appreciate that.

What on earth were the parents thinking?

I know, they weren't.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (qpyNK)

336 323 Seriously? Her parents named her "Kike"?

Probably pronounced Key-kay or something "cute" like that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 21, 2025 11:34 PM (lUFok)

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Her brother's name is pronounced Nee-jehr.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (hY4dx)

337 Anyway, off to bed, where beautiful naked ladies may cavort in my dreams.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:37 PM (77rzZ)

Remember, two pints make one cavort.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (PXoV/)

338 Incidentally, there is a New "Greta" getting warmed up. Some 12 year old girl named Kike Dueck is being allowed and encouraged to argue against Saskatchewan Coal project in an effort to get an injunction for production.
Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:17 PM (dIske)



Kike in de Dueck = Kiek in de Kök

Nothing against the girl. Given her age, all she's known is propaganda. Shame on the parents for pimping her out.

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (144I4)

339 BREAKING: President Trump will be making a televised “announcement” from the Oval Office Friday at noon ET
Posted by: Don Black

So, right after Jerome Powell speaks at the Jackson Hole symposium?

Powell's supposed to speak "in the morning," but Mountain Time, presumably.
Posted by: mikeski

You think President Trump's announcement at noon tomorrow is the firing of Jerome Powell?
Posted by: joemarine


I think the announcement of the timing of Trump's announcement might get Powell to ponder the impermanence of things.

Even if Trump is planning to talk about the border wall or Ukraine or whatever else.

Posted by: mikeski at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (DgGvY)

340 > Her brother's name is pronounced Nee-jehr.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (hY4dx)

Damn, beat me to it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:40 PM (qpyNK)

341 Where are Miklos and the 'leens while we are discussing Waffle House??
Posted by: Doof

In the Waffle House parking lot having a smoke and drinking Natty Daddys

Where you?

Posted by: Darleen, Marleen and Charleen at August 21, 2025 11:40 PM (vEse0)

342 (does web search)

Well, Kikey doesn't look nearly as much like she has a raging case of fetal alcohol syndrome as Greta did.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:41 PM (qpyNK)

343 337 AOP, LOL. Well done.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:42 PM (77rzZ)

344
Cracker Barrel fell for the "smart girl glasses" CEO gambit??!!

Did they not pay attention to Butt Light's fiasco? Or Harvard's?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 21, 2025 11:42 PM (Tv15w)

345 Groundhog Day isn't even the best Groundhog Day.

Posted by: Edge of Tomorrow at August 21, 2025 11:42 PM (gKWVE)

346 I hated it when I was single. Now I wonder about how good I had it. A sexless, loveless marriage is ten times worse than being single.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 11:18 PM (xcxpd)

Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

Poverbs 25:24

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 11:42 PM (nbLIj)

347 If Powell doesn't make it clear that there will be cuts Trump will be progressively, more than he has been, humiliating Powell.
He will have to move to New Zealand to get away from Trump.
It won't end with his term.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:43 PM (MGY3l)

348 About the first I have heard of the little twat. I will be sure to pronounce her name as the slur word, just to piss off the 'tards.

Thank you for doing that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 21, 2025 11:44 PM (lUFok)

349 I have read and agree with the description that "Waffle House is Southern hibachi." I loved it in my 20s. You knew what you were getting and the hash browns and raisin toast were always good.

When I see the Cracker Barrel logo change and the woman that goes along with it, I think of Bud Light and how these big companies keep bringing in people who don't actually like the company or its products. I don't know if they don't have other options (or are sourpuss Yale females all that are on tap for these C-suite positions?), but my understanding is that part of Philip Morris' renaissance started with really bringing in people who liked their products at the time, e.g., cigarettes and junk food. I didn't go to Cracker Barrel to eat like an upwardly-mobile yuppie Yale undergrad- I went for decent food where my whole family could get something they liked. If I wanted a side of condescension there are plenty of expensive restaurants with mediocre food that I could go visit.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 21, 2025 11:46 PM (6nQni)

350 Cicero - ifn you're still here:

There's a Cracker Barrel in Rialto off the 210 and another in Victorville off the 15.

I've been to the Po' Boys by KBF years ago. Is it still there?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 21, 2025 11:49 PM (QGaXH)

351 Incidentally, there is a New "Greta" getting warmed up. Some 12 year old girl named Kike Dueck is being allowed and encouraged to argue against Saskatchewan Coal project in an effort to get an injunction for production.
Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:17 PM (dIske)

It gets worse. It uses "they, them" pronouns.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 11:49 PM (PXoV/)

352 * PoFolks not Po Boys

Oops!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 21, 2025 11:50 PM (QGaXH)

353 Groundhog Day isn't even the best Groundhog Day.

Posted by: Edge of Tomorrow at August 21, 2025 11:42 PM (gKWVE)

Edge of Tomorrow really doesn't hold up to repeat viewings, imo. The final battle is super clichéd and even manages to magically erase all stakes and consequences for the boring Hollywood ending. Fun movie once, inferior to its source material.

Posted by: Sjg at August 21, 2025 11:52 PM (aqZN1)

354 Ellen Page just makes me sad. She was really beautiful. Her memoir said that she kept getting used or molested or some kind of sexual mistreatment (I don't recall which), so she seemed to think the solution was to cut off her breasts and try to be a man, because she thought that was easier.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 21, 2025 11:52 PM (6nQni)

355 Kike in de Dueck = Kiek in de Kök

Nothing against the girl. Given her age, all she's known is propaganda. Shame on the parents for pimping her out.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (144I4)
________________________________

Well, if you do some digging on her you will find a National Post article where she is featured as a self-proclaimed "non-binary" 10 year old arguing for schools keeping gender issues from parents. So, I think it's pretty clear that she likes to be in front of the cameras, and her parents have no problem putting her there regardless of how foolish she and her parents look to the rest of us.

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:52 PM (dIske)

356 I miss Bob's Big Boy. I used to kick the mascot statue in the nuts every visit as a kid.

Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:54 PM (dIske)

357 Well, if you do some digging on her you will find a National Post article where she is featured as a self-proclaimed "non-binary" 10 year old arguing for schools keeping gender issues from parents. So, I think it's pretty clear that she likes to be in front of the cameras, and her parents have no problem putting her there regardless of how foolish she and her parents look to the rest of us.
Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:52 PM (dIske)

Insane is as insane does. She needs to be locked up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2025 11:55 PM (PXoV/)

358 Anyway. She hosted a Christmas dinner and I made cavatelli (say it with me: "gavadeal") from scratch. She provided the bolognese sauce. Also made a lasagne with pesto sauce which I had to admit did not need tomatoes. Heck of a woman, that one...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 21, 2025 11:28 PM (nbLIj)

I had lasagna in Tuscany that had no red sauce at all. That was pretty strange, but it was actually pretty good. Washed it down with 1 1/2 bottles of Brunello wine. That was even better. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 21, 2025 11:57 PM (snZF9)

359 Rebranding efforts should always include 2 guys named Bubba to prevent huge mistakes.

Ayup.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 21, 2025 11:57 PM (vd6bO)

360 I love CrackerBarrel! It evokes fond memories of my now long gone parents and my now grown kids.

For a long time we didn't have them on the Left Coast so C B was always my first stop when traveling out of state.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 21, 2025 11:57 PM (QGaXH)

361
That Cracker Barrel CEO is a stereotypical AWFL. Just put her picture in the dictionary for AWFL.

Cracker Barrel was in the rotation of "Sunday dinner" places here for many years, going back to my teens. They started small in the early 70s, and through the 80s were mostly a SE and mid-West operation. In the mid-90s they started expanding nation wide.

There's one in Simpsonville here, and we've been going there regularly. The food was good, I thought. Not spectacular, but good.

This one here so went down a little after Covid and then Biden-flation. It recovered a bit, food wise, but still isn't up to where it was.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 21, 2025 11:59 PM (w6EFb)

362 Insane is as insane does. She needs to be locked up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I was for read as "knocked up"

Posted by: Mohammed M. Mohammed at August 21, 2025 11:59 PM (vEse0)

363 This one here so went down a little after Covid and then Biden-flation. It recovered a bit, food wise, but still isn't up to where it was.
Posted by: publius, Rascally

Breakfast?

Eggs Up Grill

Chicken and dumplings?

I can make better

Posted by: Chef Miklos at August 22, 2025 12:02 AM (vEse0)

364 Groundhog Day 1992 was one of the most traumatic and awful days of my life. Until then I didn't even know it was the same day every year. The following year the movie comes out and a guy is actually trapped in it. In some ways I've still never actually left that day. It's weird.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2025 12:02 AM (E0p3T)

365
Cracker Barrel, pre Covid, used to have a damned good broiled catfish item. Some other good fish as well. After Covid and inflation they dropped a lot of that. I think they brought the catfish back, but I'm not sure.

I think they tried to keep from raising their prices too much during Biden-flation, and quality suffered. Another regular restaurant around here, a local favorite around here, a local concern did just the opposite. They maintained quality, but raised prices. They're still doing fairly well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 12:02 AM (w6EFb)

366 Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 22, 2025 12:02 AM (qpyNK)

367 I am serious about the stock-shorting question. We have seen this with Cracker Barrel, and with Budweiser, and several others. Hire some woke cunt to wreck the property, an make a bundle shorting the stock.

Maybe it's time to ban short trades altogether.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 12:03 AM (PXoV/)

368 Insane is as insane does. She needs to be locked up. (AOP)
-_-_
...or set free in the wilderness of one of your nation's northern provinces to learn to focus on things that matter.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 22, 2025 12:03 AM (vd6bO)

369 Groundhog Day isn't even the best Groundhog Day.
Posted by: Edge of Tomorrow

Edge of Tomorrow really doesn't hold up to repeat viewings, imo. The final battle is super clichéd and even manages to magically erase all stakes and consequences for the boring Hollywood ending. Fun movie once, inferior to its source material.
Posted by: Sjg


They Hollywooded the f--k out of the ending. In the original (Japanese) book, Cage has to kill not just the big bad alien, but also kill Rita to end the time loops. And Rita baits him into doing it.

Can't have a Hollyweird action movie where the hero doesn't get the girl at the end, though.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 12:03 AM (DgGvY)

370 I was for read as "knocked up"
Posted by: Mohammed M. Mohammed at August 21, 2025 11:59 PM (vEse0)

Have you seen her picture? Makes sheep look good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 12:06 AM (PXoV/)

371 Short trading is the opposite of investing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 22, 2025 12:07 AM (D+kq4)

372 ...or set free in the wilderness of one of your nation's northern provinces to learn to focus on things that matter.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 22, 2025 12:03 AM (vd6bO)

Heh. Let her prove that Timothy Treadwell was just an unfortunate misunderstanding.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 12:07 AM (PXoV/)

373 Groundhog Day was 1993, 37 years ago. The last decent film made.
Posted by: Bulg
===

Oh, great. Now, 'I Got You Babe' is playing in my head. Thanks Bulg.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 22, 2025 12:10 AM (XeU6L)

374 Short trading is the opposite of investing.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 22, 2025 12:07 AM (D+kq4)

It's literally gambling. And if you have a means of tanking the value of the stock, its crooked gambling. Like betting on Not Glue, Yet to win the Preakness, when you have a sniper ready to take out Secretariat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 12:11 AM (PXoV/)

375
Good evening, good people, from the Adirondacks where there is a preponderance of eating venues. Any and everything can be consumed here.

Meanwhile, may all effort from you be returned with maximum benefit to accompany like frustration for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 22, 2025 12:15 AM (hKoQL)

376 hated it when I was single. Now I wonder about how good I had it. A sexless, loveless marriage is ten times worse than being single.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 11:18 PM (xcxpd)

Could've just said "marriage." The rest is implied.

Posted by: economy of language at August 22, 2025 12:15 AM (TbWk/)

377 The last time I was at a Cracker Barrel was sometime in the 80s. In Georgia, somewhere. I liked it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2025 12:16 AM (gcUgZ)

378 @ABC . 2h

BREAKING: Erik Menendez has been denied parole during his first-ever parole hearing, 36 years and one day after he and his brother killed their parents.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:17 AM (MGY3l)

379 314 That's what I paid at Mel's Diner last week
Pancakes
Waffle, 1 Egg, 1 Sausage
1 Coffee, 1 OJ
$57.27 incl tip
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

-----

In my distant youth, an end-of-night "meal" at the
Gossage Grill:
two eggs,
toast,
butter and
coffee
went for 57 cents. Good eating

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 22, 2025 12:17 AM (2xthb)

380 The Suburban motor mount saga goes on without resolution. New mounts in place, and the engine is resting on them. And still low on the driver's side. And the left mount is not aligned with the holes in the cross-member to bolt it down. Right one is. I think the shims I made will have to come out. Fortunately, it is not too big of a chore to do that.

Did have one unalloyed win today, though. Took the blades off the Dixon mower to sharpen them, and, as expected, they were loose on the spindles. Sharpened and balanced, and then welded washers, on center, to their bottom faces, and put them back on the spindles with a plastic washer between the blade and the hub face. No more slippage. Mower runs 100% quieter, and is cutting way better. Mowed the ditches, and they look awesome.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 12:17 AM (PXoV/)

381 Probably a few CB's in the Babylon DC region, but I have no idea where. For diner food fare, I just walk up to Bob&Edith's. Its a decent 24/7 diner.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2025 12:17 AM (gcUgZ)

382 Triangle of Death?

Did anyone else know about this?

I'm 50 and never heard of this.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:20 AM (bss/y)

383 Late greetings, horde!

No opinion on Cracker Barrel-- never been there. Sadly, never been to a Waffle House, either.

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 12:20 AM (rdVOm)

384 And I heard back from DualAV about the the little car stereo that wouldn't. They said, "try pushing the Reset button". Me: "there's a Reset button?" Sure enough, there is. Tiny button on the power right, recessed in a hole, so you need a stylus or ballpoint pen to click it. Haven't tried it yet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 12:21 AM (PXoV/)

385 I am serious about the stock-shorting question. We have seen this with Cracker Barrel, and with Budweiser, and several others. Hire some woke cunt to wreck the property, an make a bundle shorting the stock.

Maybe it's time to ban short trades altogether.
Posted by: Alber



nah, for most options contracts, most have a duration of 30 days, though there are varations.

It would be a very long grift to do what you have suggested.

Otherwise it is necessary to have options, especially shorts, to maintain honesty.

Posted by: n at August 22, 2025 12:21 AM (Io4wT)

386 My favorite Groundhog Day movie is Palm Springs with Andy Samberg.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 12:23 AM (EYmYM)

387 Instead of washers for shims what about a plate cut to size of the mount base? If the plate's not thick enough sheets of flashing between the plate and the body?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:23 AM (MGY3l)

388 We have a Cracker Barrel here in toon town NV. Piss poor health department record. Closed after lunch. Only went once years ago and wrote it off.
We have casinos with damn good cheap breakfasts that blow that CB out of the water. I don't know why anybody goes there but it's usually packed.
All of our cool old timey mom and pop places closed during covid and never returned.

Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2025 12:23 AM (pxUkb)

389 It's literally gambling. And if you have a means of tanking the value of the stock, its crooked gambling. Like betting on Not Glue, Yet to win the Preakness, when you have a sniper ready to take out Secretariat.
Posted by: Alber


it is no different than other trading and you should thnk of it as free speech for the markets.

there are dozens of reasons guys use options and bunches get hammered by bad decisions.

Posted by: n at August 22, 2025 12:23 AM (Io4wT)

390 Edge of Tomorrow for me. Peak Emily Blunt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:24 AM (bss/y)

391 Edge of Tomorrow for me. Peak Emily Blunt.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:24 AM (bss/y)

Another non traditional looking actress who is attractive.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 12:26 AM (EYmYM)

392 I went to a Waffle House in the Boston burbs about a decade ago. It was ok. I'd eat there again.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2025 12:27 AM (gcUgZ)

393
I got another 1.2" of rain this evening, putting me at 9.24" for August. After those bad droughts we had over the years, I said I was never going to complain about too much again. But I'm about to.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 12:27 AM (w6EFb)

394 Another non traditional looking actress who is attractive.
Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 12:26 AM (EYmYM)

No comparison with Anya Taylor Joy- who is a space alien.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:27 AM (bss/y)

395 Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2025 12:23 AM (pxU

What casinos are that because it ain’t Vegas or any that are in the podunk river/lake towns.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 12:28 AM (EYmYM)

396 392 I went to a Waffle House in the Boston burbs about a decade ago. It was ok. I'd eat there again.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2025 12:27 AM (gcUgZ)

Waffle House is always OK. That's the point. Same building, same food.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:28 AM (bss/y)

397 I've fasted all day -- medical procedure tomorrow --and tonight's ONT is food. Aargh!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 22, 2025 12:29 AM (2xthb)

398 Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:27 AM (bss/y)

Agree. She’s more the Ellen Barkin non traditional. Not that they look anything alike but just that they are not the classic beauty look.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 12:30 AM (EYmYM)

399 Happy Death Day 1 and 2 are both very fun. 2 is better if you don't watch the trailer for it.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2025 12:30 AM (E0p3T)

400 >>>But I'm about to.
---

Only if it's drowning your plants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:32 AM (MGY3l)

401 No opinion on Cracker Barrel-- never been there. Sadly, never been to a Waffle House, either.
_-_-_
You know, Waffle House is not always a good thing (kinda depends on who's there), but I went to one south of Denver with my son the other day and had a pecan waffle,.scrambled eggs, bacon, and coffee...the food was good, the cook had part of it going before the order was cpmpletely written, and we were fed and back on the road really fast. Not too expensive, either.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 22, 2025 12:32 AM (vd6bO)

402 397 I've fasted all day -- medical procedure tomorrow --and tonight's ONT is food. Aargh!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 22, 2025 12:29 AM (2xthb)

I still need to drink the kale-blueberry-kefir smoothie. The results would put you off food for a bit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:33 AM (bss/y)

403 I am trying to think of a franchise I would pick less to go gay with. Cracker Barrel just does not seem like a good choice.

Hell, even Hooters I could see going gay with dudes in nut huggers (there's an image to pout you off food JQ.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:35 AM (bss/y)

404 Sorry, JM.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:35 AM (bss/y)

405 You almost wonder if the CEO is trying to burnish her street cred of woke by absolutely destroying an old school brand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:38 AM (bss/y)

406 No comparison with Anya Taylor Joy- who is a space alien.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Giant wide-set eyes. Narrow chin.

Her father was human, but her mother was an anime character.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 12:39 AM (DgGvY)

407 A Hotel in Reno had a Mel's Diner.

Posted by: Boss Moss at August 22, 2025 12:39 AM (D+kq4)

408 Giant wide-set eyes. Narrow chin.

Her father was human, but her mother was an anime character.
Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 12:39 AM (DgGvY)

Or like a preying mantis serial killer alien.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:41 AM (bss/y)

409 Hey look. It's Judge Kathleen Williams, the district judge who just ordered Trump and DeSantis to shut down and dismantle Alligator Alcatraz....

She means business. You can tell because she has those

P O W E R G L A S S E S !!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/4d9ts8ys

Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2025 12:41 AM (dIske)

410 What casinos are that because it ain’t Vegas or any that are in the podunk river/lake towns.
Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 12:28 AM (EYmYM)

I live in Carson City. We have three traditional style casinos. The Gold Dust (worst of the bunch) then The Nugget (oldest and best) and one called Slot World (hit or miss). All cheaper than CB.

Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2025 12:41 AM (pxUkb)

411 It’s time for the insanity to stop. Girls are girls. Boys are boys. And punishing young men for speaking up about their discomfort is not normal.
_Winsome Sears

I don't know this lady but I think I like her.

https://tinyurl.com/56tb5z82

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:43 AM (MGY3l)

412 She means business. You can tell because she has those

P O W E R G L A S S E S !!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/4d9ts8ys
Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2025 12:41 AM (dIske)

Just insanity.

Sidenote: same glasses as the cracker barrel ceo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:43 AM (bss/y)

413 Hell, even Hooters I could see going gay with dudes in nut huggers (there's an image to pout you off food JQ.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 12:35 AM (bss/y)

I picture Duke Nukem walking in and saying "I had enough with this crap" and then lights the room up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 12:44 AM (snZF9)

414 403 I am trying to think of a franchise I would pick less to go gay with. Cracker Barrel just does not seem like a good choice.
_-_-_
In my head it is more about what they would like to destroy. Like the Brokeback Mountain thing....don't think anybody was excited about seeing a movie about a couple of side-saddle cowboys...it was just a slap in the face of tradition.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 22, 2025 12:44 AM (vd6bO)

415 407 A Hotel in Reno had a Mel's Diner.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 22, 2025 12:39 AM (D+kq4)

Overpriced but good. It's outside Reno on Hwy 80. Town called Verdi.

Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2025 12:45 AM (pxUkb)

416 I live in Carson City. We have three traditional style casinos. The Gold Dust (worst of the bunch) then The Nugget (oldest and best) and one called Slot World (hit or miss). All cheaper than CB.
Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2025 12:41 AM (pxUkb)


Well, yeah, cheaper if you avoid the casino floor.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 12:45 AM (gKDq2)

417 Waffle House in daylight hours only. Dilly dilly.

Posted by: Archer at August 22, 2025 12:45 AM (IDphi)

418
A Hotel in Reno had a Mel's Diner.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Did they serve grits?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2025 12:45 AM (63Dwl)

419

AZ's AWFL governor has those power glasses, too. It's an AWFL look.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

420 It’s time for the insanity to stop. Girls are girls. Boys are boys. And punishing young men for speaking up about their discomfort is not normal.
_Winsome Sears

I don't know this lady but I think I like her.

https://tinyurl.com/56tb5z82

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:43 AM (MGY3l)

I think she was a Marine. Balls that clank.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 12:48 AM (snZF9)

421 I'm not the type to dine alone in a restaurant. Can't afford it anyway. Best I can do, for "take out" is fried chicken at the grocery store deli. It's really good!

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

422 There was a place catty cornered from Harrah's had good cheap breakfast. You could play Keno while you waited.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:51 AM (MGY3l)

423 Instead of washers for shims what about a plate cut to size of the mount base? If the plate's not thick enough sheets of flashing between the plate and the body?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:23 AM (MGY3l)

No advantage to a plate. The mount bolts to 3 raised pads on the block, each about an inch in diameter, same as the washers. A plate would gain no contact area..

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 12:51 AM (MRBis)

424 No comparison with Anya Taylor Joy- who is a space alien.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Giant wide-set eyes. Narrow chin.

Her father was human, but her mother was an anime character.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 12:39 AM (DgGvY)

Strange looking chick. I'm sensing Praying Mantis energy with that one.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 12:53 AM (snZF9)

425 Food thread? Late night Instapot cooking so I can have leftovers for four days.
Set pot on saute, add some oil and diced onion.
Dump some previously cooked shredded pork roast on top.
Pour in a quart of beef broth from a carton.
Add two cups rice.
Add one can of corn and a splash of Worcestershire sauce.
Stir well and put on lid.
Switch pot to Rice cycle. Go do something else for a while.
Return and shovel rice casserole into Tupperware containers.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 22, 2025 12:54 AM (SnC8S)

426 Her brother's name is pronounced Nee-jehr.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 21, 2025 11:39 PM (hY4dx)

Damn, beat me to it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2025 11:40 PM (qpyNK)

I thought it was danefew, pronounced da-nef-you.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2025 12:54 AM (S/Y4j)

427 I'm glad I grew up in the peak of "Real men of genius" as now I often respond to people with (in song) "Reading's overrated!".

They're probably my favorite series of ads

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2025 12:55 AM (J6dkx)

428 Graspy hands.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:55 AM (MGY3l)

429 Did they serve grits?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 22, 2025 12:45 AM (63Dwl)

I can't honestly answer that question. I would assume so. I don't eat grits.

Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2025 12:55 AM (pxUkb)

430 Hey look. It's Judge Kathleen Williams,
-----------

Appointed by...
Any guesses?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 22, 2025 12:56 AM (XeU6L)

431 Hey look. It's Judge Kathleen Williams,
-----------

Appointed by...
Any guesses?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 22, 2025 12:56 AM (XeU6L)

probably the jug eared fuck.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 12:57 AM (snZF9)

432 o. I don't eat grits.
_-_-_
Never was a fan of grits 'til I had shrimp and grits in Carleston, S.C. Good eatin', that was.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 22, 2025 12:58 AM (vd6bO)

433 Appointed by...
Any guesses?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
-------

I don't go to Yahoo, so did a search instead. Appointed by... Yeah, it was in the description, so kinda cheated. All I will say is:

It figures.

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 12:59 AM (rdVOm)

434
Branch/service United States Marine Corps
Years of service 1983–1986 Rank Corporal

Winsome Earle-Sears (born March 11, 1964) is an American politician, businesswoman serving as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Virginia since 2022.

A member of the Republican Party, she is Virginia's first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to hold statewide office in Virginia.[2][3]

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 22, 2025 12:59 AM (MGY3l)

435 probably the jug eared fuck.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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Bers collects the win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 22, 2025 12:59 AM (XeU6L)

436 Greeyuts is better than oatmeal! Says this Northerner.

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

437 Cracker Barrel is the favorite restaurant of a dear friend of mine. She doesn't like to sit still waiting for her food to come and lines to get up and browse the store. She probably likes the rebrand... for me, meh? I'll go It's not my go to.

Posted by: Sugar Plum fairy - why am I still awake? at August 22, 2025 01:03 AM (G77LY)

438 Greeyuts is better than oatmeal! Says this Northerner.
_-_-_
Pass me the blackeyed peas, will ya?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 22, 2025 01:03 AM (vd6bO)

439 Pass me the blackeyed peas, will ya?
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Shure thang! Ya want chow chow with?

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

440 436 Greeyuts is better than oatmeal! Says this Northerner.
Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)

Apples and cinnamon oatmeal with plenty of butter and sugar is excellent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 22, 2025 01:05 AM (bss/y)

441 Sorry, Aetius... I got a *bad* thing about oatmeal. The texture gags me. Can't choke it down, no matter how much butter & brown sugar & otherwise yummy stuff gets put on top!

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:07 AM (rdVOm)

442 Once again grabbed a nearly-top comment and then wandered off to watch videos instead of engaging in discussions of (checks comments) greasy spoons.

Anyway, it's Midnight here in God's favorite time zone, which means it's my birthday. Another day older.

Don't do dishes during a thunderstorm!
bit.ly/22aug-song-vid

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 1974 was a while ago at August 22, 2025 01:07 AM (KZXmj)

443 Apples and cinnamon oatmeal with plenty of butter and sugar is excellent.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Better minus the oatmeal and plus a pancake.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 01:07 AM (DgGvY)

444 Better minus the oatmeal and plus a pancake.
Posted by: mikeski
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^^^ This!

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)

445 I've read that even Anya Taylor Joy thinks she's odd looking.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2025 01:09 AM (gcUgZ)

446 've read that even Anya Taylor Joy thinks she's odd looking.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 22, 2025 01:09 AM (gcUgZ)

Strangely attractive

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2025 01:10 AM (WF/xn)

447 Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 22, 2025 01:10 AM

What I call Ugly Pretty.

Posted by: polynikes at August 22, 2025 01:14 AM (EYmYM)

448 "Set pot on saute"

I sauteed pot once. Got very, very, very stoned.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 22, 2025 01:15 AM (KAi1n)

449 probably the jug eared fuck.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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Bers collects the win.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 22, 2025 12:59 AM (XeU6L)

Wasn't too much of a stretch. Toonces liked to appoint that special bread of hag, and man she looks it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 01:16 AM (snZF9)

450 breed of hag, not bread. Fuck i must be hungry.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 01:17 AM (snZF9)

451 I used to simmer the, um, sticks & stems, in water to make 'tea'-- was nice to sip while passing around the bong, LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

452 I used to simmer the, um, sticks & stems, in water to make 'tea'-- was nice to sip while passing around the bong, LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

I know people that did that. You're a true believer. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 22, 2025 01:19 AM (snZF9)

453 Birthday dishes...hmm...why did Treadwell scream? I mean, I know why he did, but...need to replace that blown engine in my Suburban...hope the replacement engine sets in there easily, but...if you put too much butter in the oatmeal it's really good....I should get some sleep. Goodnight, good people!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 22, 2025 01:20 AM (vd6bO)

454 204 -

Carrie Nation died in 1911.
Prohibition started in 1920.

Not the fault of the men of the 1920s.
The U.S. Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917, while a lot of men were off in Europe, fighting a war.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 22, 2025 01:24 AM (ZVgZ4)

455 I used to simmer the, um, sticks & stems, in water to make 'tea'-- was nice to sip while passing around the bong, LOL
Posted by: JQ

Sticks and stems will stone my bones....

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 22, 2025 01:27 AM (KAi1n)

456 True believer? Nah, just a cheapskate trying to get the most out of the stash, back in the 70s.

I do think it helped the buzz, though. Maybe only a little, but the tea was pleasant anyway.

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:30 AM (rdVOm)

457 Greg@WaywardGreg

A public gang bang is being organized in Portland, Oregon, to “fight racism.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2025 01:31 AM (TGPs7)

458 439 Pass me the blackeyed peas, will ya?
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Shure thang! Ya want chow chow with?
Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

Is there any news from Choctaw Ridge?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 22, 2025 01:31 AM (QGaXH)

459 Greg@WaywardGreg
A public gang bang is being organized in Portland, Oregon, to “fight racism.”
Posted by: Mister Ghost


"Racism-fighting gangbang?"

1978 called, and wants their pr0n theme back.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 01:33 AM (DgGvY)

460 442 Anyway, it's Midnight here in God's favorite time zone, which means it's my birthday. Another day

G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - 1974 was a while ago at August 22, 2025 01:07 AM (KZXmj)

Happy Birthday MWW

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 22, 2025 01:33 AM (QGaXH)

461 'Public gangbang'? Shit, sex is funny enough without having other people laugh at you.

Posted by: RickZ at August 22, 2025 01:35 AM (gKDq2)

462 Well, hitting the Reset button on the dead DualAv stereo did nothing. Tuner appears to work. USB reader appears to work. Controls all appear to work. just no audio. At. all. Looks like there might be a cold-soldered joint or two on the amp chip. I am too tired right now to delve further into it. I should set up my binocular microscope, and have a REAL close look at the solder joints. I could also probably set up a signal tracer, and see if I can pick up the audio upstream of the amp chip. The amp chip has no markings at all on it, but appears similar to those from some other car stereos I have parted out. Odds are it's a knockoff of a common part.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 01:36 AM (YlAE5)

463 It looks like Kathleen Williams is using bird hands to go along with her power glasses!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 22, 2025 01:37 AM (ZVgZ4)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 01:38 AM (YlAE5)

465
The stupid bint judge is using some environmental law to shut down Alligator Alacatraz. I think POTUS has powers to suspend that for federal purposes for national security reasons. So maybe Trump could just short-circuit this whole line of attack with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 01:39 AM (w6EFb)

466 Are you nonplussed, AOP?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 22, 2025 01:41 AM (ZVgZ4)

467 I'll bet many of these rogue judges have criminal skeletons in their closets. A deep dive might prove worthwhile.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 01:42 AM (YlAE5)

468 If Trump can do that, publius, I hope he does just that!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 22, 2025 01:43 AM (ZVgZ4)

469 Are you nonplussed, AOP?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 22, 2025 01:41 AM (ZVgZ4)

Just posting a belated close tag. But Pixy seems to have fixed that bug.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 01:43 AM (YlAE5)

470 376 hated it when I was single. Now I wonder about how good I had it. A sexless, loveless marriage is ten times worse than being single.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 21, 2025 11:18 PM (xcxpd)

Could've just said "marriage." The rest is implied.
Posted by: economy of language at August 22, 2025 12:15 AM (TbWk/)

Well, that's fucking miserable.

DH and I have a wonderful marriage, no hate, no nastiness, lots of respect and kindness and honesty, clear delineated roles, no arguments, and no fear.

Try trust.

If you can't trust, you can't have a marriage worth spit.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 22, 2025 01:44 AM (1Gsou)

471 But Pixy seems to have fixed that bug.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


You can still emBarrel yourself by leaving tags open. But you should be safe if you only tried to use one set of tags in the first place.

If your "posted by:" line isn't infected, you got the get-out-of-Barrel-free card.

Posted by: mikeski at August 22, 2025 01:46 AM (DgGvY)

472 Launch tomorrow afternoon. Posting now as I probably won't be on.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-6
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 22, 2025
Launch Time: 10:02 a.m. PDT (1702 UTC, 19:02 CEST)

https://youtu.be/6pjhzjhM2l4

Goodnight all :-)

Posted by: Joyenz at August 22, 2025 01:47 AM (sPQoU)

473
Back in the 90's Jonathan Turley, representing some former defense workers at the vaunted Area 51 in a lawsuit, forced Bubba to do just that. He had to a) acknowledge that Area 51 existed, and then b) exempt it from environmental laws.

It was a clever trick to make the US govt admit. You can't claim something is exempt if you also claim it doesn't exist.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 22, 2025 01:48 AM (w6EFb)

474 If you can't trust, you can't have a marriage worth spit.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska
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Hear, hear!

Hi there, tcn, your Pickle Queen majesty!

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

475 I put a bunch of close tags, all sorts, in my sig. Saves my bacon if I mistype and don’t catch it before I post: doesn’t show in the sig, either!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 22, 2025 01:52 AM (ZVgZ4)

476 Friends of mine, grew their own mj last year-- they live in one of those 'enlightened' states.

Harvest was amazing! Still had that nasty skunk aroma, though. Too bad.

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

477 I looked at my collection of audio amp IC chips, and I don't have any like the one in this stereo. What I need to do is identify which of the 20-odd pins on the chip go where. I know that 8 of them got to the 4 speakers. One is probably ground, and one is probably switched power. It would not surprise me if the fault lay in the power trace.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 01:56 AM (YlAE5)

478 AOP-- maybe check here:

pinoutguide.com

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

479 I find it very interesting that someone would be alive to see their son canonized.Carlo Acutis was very young when he died in 2006 ( only a teen.) He and Giorgio Frassati who was in his twenties when he died is also being canonized the same day- September 7th: NC Register has an article about it:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxv4h6b

I would like to see Blessed Miriam Theresa Demjanovich cananozed ( ( She was a nun in her 20's when she died and from NJ) . I enjoyed reading about her life and all these young people who loved the Lord. Not being RC I have no say in it. I just have an interest . So maybe several posters her ( one regular, one drive by" could put to bed the idea that I have disrespect for either the Mass or the RCC? I may not agree on all theological points of the RCC, but have read a number of RC mystics and theologians and I believe we should support each other as brothers
And sisters in Christ. And as fa as bed, I need to go there as well. I am not a big fan of waking up this early in the morning since I'm on the East Coast

Oh yes, if you could pray for my son, I would appreciate it . He needs a full time job and he and I need patience with each other.. Thanks

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2025 02:13 AM (2GCMq)

480 AOP-- maybe check here:

pinoutguide.com
Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

Checked it, thanks. They don't publish pinouts of IC's or datasheets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 02:14 AM (YlAE5)

481 Darn, AOP. It was worth a look, I guess. Bookmarked for later, of course...

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

482 Fenelon-- best of luck to your son, hope he finds FT job!

And, yeah, that parent/child relationship... more prayers!

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 02:18 AM (rdVOm)

483 Well, I am going to call it a night. No point in me spending too much time with this doggone stereo; it only cost me 29 bucks, new. The other one is playing fine. This thing has two RCA line-out jacks. If there is good signal there, the obvious kludge would be to simply feed that signal to an outboard stereo amp, of which I have several.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 22, 2025 02:26 AM (YlAE5)

484 Good night Horde, went down way too many rabbit holes tonight.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 22, 2025 02:33 AM (0nHVk)

485 Time for me to check out, too...

Good night, all!

Posted by: JQ at August 22, 2025 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

486 Put up 14 pints of beef veggie soup this evening. Most of the veggies and some of the herbs from my garden. Not the beef. We don't do livestock. But carrots, peas, green beans, potatoes, garlic, thyme, basil, oregano, even tomatoes. Not the paprika. I don't even know what that looks like in the wild.

Smells good, will test tomorrow when it's all cooled.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 22, 2025 03:11 AM (1Gsou)

487 Long commute north again, better get moving

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2025 03:31 AM (+qU29)

488 Sitting here bored at work waiting for the lights to go off.
Another hour and 20 minutes until it happens. Then back on and I get to get the nitrogen system back up and running.

Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2025 03:43 AM (pxUkb)

489 285 Incidentally, there is a New "Greta" getting warmed up. Some 12 year old girl named Kike Dueck is being allowed and encouraged to argue against Saskatchewan Coal project in an effort to get an injunction for production.
Posted by: Orson at August 21, 2025 11:17 PM (dIske)

She needs to step up her game. As does Greta.

Posted by: Samantha Smith at August 22, 2025 03:53 AM (k2LUN)

490 If you get caught sharing at a Waffle House, the beating you will receive from the staff will be savage. And they serve grits with their butter.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 22, 2025 03:54 AM (k2LUN)

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