Monday Overnight Open Thread - September 1, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Happy Labor Day to ya! I'm not actually here tonight - I'm on my way to Bermuda on a cruise ship. If you're reading this, then some other member of Ace's Happy Worker Party pushed the launch button on tonight's ONT.

Enjoy your week. See you all at Club ONT on Saturday!

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What Is This Holiday Anyway?

History of Labor Day

Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers. The holiday is rooted in the late nineteenth century, when labor activists pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions workers have made to America’s strength, prosperity, and well-being.

McGuire v. Maguire: Who Founded Labor Day?

Who first proposed the holiday for workers? It’s not entirely clear, but two workers can make a solid claim to the Founder of Labor Day title.
Some records show that in 1882, Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, suggested setting aside a day for a "general holiday for the laboring classes" to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."
But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that machinist Matthew Maguire, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday.
Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey, proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York.
According to the New Jersey Historical Society, after President Cleveland signed the law creating a national Labor Day, the Paterson Morning Call published an opinion piece stating that "the souvenir pen should go to Alderman Matthew Maguire of this city, who is the undisputed author of Labor Day as a holiday." Both Maguire and McGuire attended the country’s first Labor Day parade in New York City that year.

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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 01, 2025 10:00 PM (wQPGd)

2 Oy

Posted by: Muchas buchas at September 01, 2025 10:00 PM (Lioj+)

3 YAY ONT! Now for the content!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 01, 2025 10:00 PM (wQPGd)

4 *toot*

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at September 01, 2025 10:01 PM (gKWVE)

5 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 01, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

6 Good evening morons y gracias Disco.

On a cruise? To Bermuda? Well look at Rockefeller over here!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:02 PM (RIvkX)

7 Hello, Horde!! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 01, 2025 10:02 PM (SRRAx)

8 IT Manager is #2!!?

I wonder if they talked to any?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 01, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

9 Doesn't feel like a Monday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 01, 2025 10:02 PM (63Dwl)

10 Hello back!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 01, 2025 10:03 PM (159FE)

11 Happy Labor Day morons.

I worked today but took the whole family out for lunch in Japantown. Donburi yum.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:03 PM (RIvkX)

12 Drove about 90 miles today to walk about a mile only to find my path blocked by solid rock. Damn lava tubes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 01, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)

13 Hi friends, short visit for me, up before dawn and all that. I hope you had a good weekend!

Posted by: Piper at September 01, 2025 10:04 PM (pZEOD)

14 I'm on my way to Bermuda on a cruise ship.

Have a chicken finger good time, Doof. And don't disappear in the triangle.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)

15
#2? Non posso.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:04 PM (kkTda)

16 Since Greta Thunberg's in the news again, with her picture all over, I've had the feeling that she looked like someone else. It finally came to me: the kid in the Dutch Boy Paint logo!

I think the Dutch might want to use her to fill a hole in their dykes made by the beavers they brought back.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

17 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (sAmhv)

18
Systems Engineer is NOT on that list. Don't tell my MIC employer, but I'd do this shit for free.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (QVmho)

19 Does anyone else miss the Jerry Lewis Telethon?

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (wQPGd)

20 Yes, lots of men wore sweatbands in the 80s.
Vitas Gerulitis
Hulk Hogan
Richard Simmons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:06 PM (RIvkX)

21
Well, Her Majesty will be back Thursday, at which point I will retreat to my well-deserved obscurity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:06 PM (kkTda)

22 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2025 10:06 PM (cr7L+)

23 Since Greta Thunberg's in the news again, with her picture all over, I've had the feeling that she looked like someone else. It finally came to me: the kid in the Dutch Boy Paint logo!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

That Leo guy looks to me like Lee Iacocca.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)

24 #2? Non posso.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:04 PM (kkTda)
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You really need to take stock, bro. Look in the mirror. Gaze at your navel. And so on.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:07 PM (RIvkX)

25 Thanks for the dandy Labor Day ONT, Doof!

Have fun in Bermuda, and if you drive a scooter, for goodness sakes, don't run it into a tree! (Ask me how I know how easily such a stupid thing is done!)

What a good doggeh parading our nation's colors!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 01, 2025 10:08 PM (kB9dk)

26 Chicago adds one wounded, so still at 9 KIA and 47 wounded for holiday weekend festivities. They've still got til the morning to match last year's final score, they're close.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 01, 2025 10:08 PM (U/Byj)

27
Women with sweatbands >>>> Men with sweatbands

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:08 PM (kkTda)

28 Does anyone else miss the Jerry Lewis Telethon?
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry

Yes.

Remember the Muscular Dystrophy backyard carnivals?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2025 10:08 PM (cr7L+)

29 Saw Loverboy in concert at Killians in Ybor City. Really. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I was not expecting that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2025 10:09 PM (sAmhv)

30 Good Dog.

willowed:

==

He is still trying to find his name.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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See that picture of V.P. Nixon up in Khrushchev's face?
He needs a counter punch moment like that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:09 PM (KT67S)

31 *toot*

Posted by: Eric Swalwell

Booooom booooom booooom
Another one bites the dust...

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at the club at September 01, 2025 10:09 PM (Riz8t)

32 Does anyone else miss the Jerry Lewis Telethon?
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (wQPGd)
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Well, it never pre-empted Star Trek, so no.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:09 PM (RIvkX)

33
Enjoy your fellow passengers!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:09 PM (kkTda)

34 I saw no electrical engineers on that list.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 01, 2025 10:10 PM (ufFY8)

35 No medical for me. I don't like being around sick people.

You may recall that's what sent Michael Crichton into the writing field... got all the way through med school, discovered that he couldn't handle being around sick people.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:10 PM (qpyNK)

36 8 IT Manager is #2!!?

I wonder if they talked to any?
Posted by: Tonypete

I will assume IT Minion didn't make the cut.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2025 10:10 PM (sAmhv)

37 Are the Chicken Tender Riots any particular night, or can it be any day of the cruise? I think the cruise lines now stock 200 tenders per person per cruise.

Posted by: Your Ship's Purser at September 01, 2025 10:10 PM (G5+As)

38 Women with sweatbands >>>> Men with sweatbands >>>> Men with leg warmers

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

39 Like Your Job?

Gee, mine wasn't on the list. Come on! Who wouldn't want to be a horse holder at a western brothel?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:11 PM (0eaVi)

40 > 16 Since Greta Thunberg's in the news again, with her picture all over, I've had the feeling that she looked like someone else. It finally came to me: the kid in the Dutch Boy Paint logo!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

I went with He-Man's retarded transgendered brother.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:11 PM (qpyNK)

41 Are the Chicken Tender Riots any particular night, or can it be any day of the cruise?

Are reservations required?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 01, 2025 10:11 PM (ha1wR)

42 In the 90's the nursing director of the med center asked a few of us RN's with BSN if we were interested in a master's degree. They'd pay and you had to work a certain amt of years.

I had two toddlers and said no, thank you, as it would have meant a two hour commute twice a week and my husband was often out of town. Plus studying while chimps slept. I needed some peace and quiet during those precious hours.

I figured I was crazy enough, thanks, juggling what I had and only worked Saturday's. Then weekends. Then part time once they got into elementary school.

The others in the group all became ARNP's or directors of floors in two years. No regrets.

I mean, who would want to pass up your baby son giving the fish a floride treatment as the aquarium was in their bathroom? Or cutting his hair (blonde curls) off and stuffing them in his shoe?

I could have been a bigshot! Touch me!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 01, 2025 10:11 PM (6PCLE)

43 Like Your Job?

Gee, mine wasn't on the list. Come on! Who wouldn't want to be a horse holder at a western brothel?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:11 PM (0eaVi)

I'm still waiting for the promotion to that job from shit shoveler outside the same brothel....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 01, 2025 10:12 PM (S/Y4j)

44 Is that guy that's waving and standing on the steel beams holding on to anything.???????😱

Posted by: lin-duh at September 01, 2025 10:12 PM (VCgbV)

45 ***I'm on my way to Bermuda
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Have a good one.

Buddy and wife took a cruise. It advertised StarLink all the way.
Yup. 'course you had to pay by the minute or something like that.
He was un-happy. He's a day trader. jajajaja

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:12 PM (KT67S)

46 > Remember the Muscular Dystrophy backyard carnivals?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2025 10:08 PM (cr7L+)

Yep. Sent off for a "carnival kit" every year. Never actually had a carnival.

God knows how many kids have died due to my youthful sloth delaying a cure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:12 PM (qpyNK)

47 Evening everyone. Thx Doof.
Always liked A Hard Days Rut myself

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2025 10:13 PM (ipRl8)

48 Hadrian is up to #2, pretty lofty heights.The withdrawal may be painful.

Posted by: Avis, We Try Harder at September 01, 2025 10:14 PM (G5+As)

49 Is that guy that's waving and standing on the steel beams holding on to anything.???????

His left hand is down at his waist, holding onto the cable.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:14 PM (Riz8t)

50 Labor Day is the American version of International Worker's Day - also known as May Day - which is a commie holiday.

Posted by: GWB at September 01, 2025 10:14 PM (RTQn+)

51 I call BS on that 100 best jobs list. I owe $250,000 in student loans and "Barista" isn't on it.

Posted by: African/Gender Grievance Studies Graduate ies at September 01, 2025 10:14 PM (Z57+l)

52 We have never been on a cruise but had reservations to cruise to Alaska in April 2020. Message received.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

53 28 Does anyone else miss the Jerry Lewis Telethon?
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry

Yes.

Remember the Muscular Dystrophy backyard carnivals?
Posted by: rickb223

I was thinking about that today. Those were a thing way back in my yute. I think they went on a bit longer after Jerry died, and then I never heard about it again. Are they still going on?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2025 10:15 PM (sAmhv)

54
Remember the Muscular Dystrophy backyard carnivals?
Posted by: rickb223

__________

Trick or treat for UNICEF!

*cringes at memory*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:15 PM (kkTda)

55 >
Trick or treat for UNICEF!

*cringes at memory*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:15 PM (kkTda)

I never fell for that one. No one and no thing was going to stand between me and a week-long sugar coma.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:16 PM (qpyNK)

56 But I can tell you what the worst jobs are...

Posted by: Zombie Norm MacDonald at September 01, 2025 10:17 PM (K8vz4)

57 Yeah... IT manager #2? WTF?

You need to understand, that most times you see an IT guy, its because something is broken. When things don't work, people get upset... and as they need to vent? Who gets it? Oh... the IT guy.

And it if the IT guy on site can't fix it? Oh, the IT Manager has to deal with those asshole clients...

Been there... did that... for years... in both the military and civilian life. WORST? Karen type low level managers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 01, 2025 10:17 PM (mP0Kj)

58 Trick or treat for UNICEF!

*cringes at memory*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:15 PM (kkTda)

And foolish people did it. How many little children did the UN guys buy with that money?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)

59 Great Caesar's Ghost! I'm #9 on the top ten commenters list! I haven't been on the losers without a life list for years!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 01, 2025 10:17 PM (L/fGl)

60 Clap for the Wolfman.

Other than that, I got nothing.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 01, 2025 10:17 PM (s913q)

61 I've actually held five of those 100 Best Jobs at one or another stages of my life.

Posted by: Eromero at September 01, 2025 10:17 PM (LHPAg)

62
Labor Day is the American version of International Worker's Day - also known as May Day - which is a commie holiday.
Posted by: GWB at September 01, 2025 10:14 PM (RTQn+)

_________

May 1st is also the Solemnity of St. Joseph the Worker in the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:17 PM (kkTda)

63 TK-42Greg at Imperial boot camp
youtu.be/Du_MhM_2ElU

Posted by: gKWVE at September 01, 2025 10:18 PM (gKWVE)

64 Here's to Labor.

*hic*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 01, 2025 10:18 PM (JkO4W)

65 49 Is that guy that's waving and standing on the steel beams holding on to anything.???????

His left hand is down at his waist, holding onto the cable.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:14 PM (Riz8t)

Mast.... ships... I'll leave it there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 01, 2025 10:18 PM (mP0Kj)

66 I've always thought quality control engineer at a house of ill repute would be a pretty good job.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 01, 2025 10:19 PM (L/fGl)

67 Those job titles are overly broad.

"Lawyer."

Which type lawyer?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:19 PM (RIvkX)

68 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde. Done wrenching for the day. Got the battery sorted out at WalMart, and it is installed in the '99 big-block Suburban, and cranked it up like ought to. Put the '08 Suburban on the hoist, and drained the engine oil out of it, and changed the oil filter. Now I have a big heap of drill cuttings on the floor, soaking up the spilled oil. The 'burb can sit on the hoist overnight, and I will hang a grease job on it tomorrow, and fill the engine with fresh oil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 10:19 PM (os5gg)

69
Is that guy that's waving and standing on the steel beams holding on to anything.???????

_________

Wonder if there are any Mohawks among those guys.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:19 PM (kkTda)

70 If I knew Doof was going cruising, I would have posted the opening scene to "Ghost Ship" right before he left to put him in the mood.

I'd link it, but let's just say it cuts deep.

Posted by: Orson at September 01, 2025 10:19 PM (dIske)

71 It's coming. You have been warned.

https://x.com/DawnSl44/status/1962548116516741336/photo/1

Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

72 >>> The 'burb can sit on the hoist overnight, and I will hang a grease job on it tomorrow, and fill the engine with fresh oil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Hold on a minuter there. Now, there are two Subs. Which one had the cranky motor mounts?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (KT67S)

73 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde. Done wrenching for the day. Got the battery sorted out at WalMart, and it is installed in the '99 big-block Suburban, and cranked it up like ought to. Put the '08 Suburban on the hoist, and drained the engine oil out of it, and changed the oil filter. Now I have a big heap of drill cuttings on the floor, soaking up the spilled oil. The 'burb can sit on the hoist overnight, and I will hang a grease job on it tomorrow, and fill the engine with fresh oil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 10:19 PM (os5gg)

SO.. which one is going to texas?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (snZF9)

74 "Lawyer" median salary is $145,760 when a psychiatrist gets $249,200?

What kind of crazy shit is that?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)

75
My job does not make the top 100, and I'm not surprised.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 01, 2025 10:24 PM (lCaJd)

76 46 > Remember the Muscular Dystrophy backyard carnivals?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2025 10:08 PM (cr7L+)

Wth are those?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 01, 2025 10:24 PM (6PCLE)

77 My song dedication for Labor Day:

youtu.be/NCIUf8eYPqA

Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

78
"Lawyer" median salary is $145,760 when a psychiatrist gets $249,200?

What kind of crazy shit is that?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)

_________

Most of their patients are lawyers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:24 PM (kkTda)

79 Aerospace engineer not on the list. I mean, sure, it’s kind of obscure but the list had biomedical engineering and others though.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Autumn Spice Balls Dream at September 01, 2025 10:25 PM (BQy8+)

80 Repost from last thread: hagged-out Hollywood "celebrity" is in hot water over having no record of how she spent a $1.2 million USAID grant to promote "diversity, inclusion, and equity" on an African tour.

Claims she didn't know she was expected to keep records.

That might actually be true. As I recall, she was bankrupted at one point by crooked agents/lawyers/accountants/whatever who siphoned off all her money.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:25 PM (qpyNK)

81 Been there... did that... for years... in both the military and civilian life. WORST? Karen type low level managers.
Posted by: Romeo13

My favorite utterance from them: "That is unacceptable!!"

Oh, that's different. I'll just wiggle my nose and the issue will go away.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 01, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

82
Repost from last thread: hagged-out Hollywood "celebrity" is in hot water over having no record of how she spent a $1.2 million USAID grant to promote "diversity, inclusion, and equity" on an African tour

_________

Someone put a grant-rape drug in her drink.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:26 PM (kkTda)

83 78
"Lawyer" median salary is $145,760 when a psychiatrist gets $249,200?

What kind of crazy shit is that?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)

_________

Most of their patients are lawyers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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The Psych sits there and bullshits while the lawyer works his assoff.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:26 PM (KT67S)

84 "Lawyer" median salary is $145,760 when a psychiatrist gets $249,200?

What kind of crazy shit is that?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Yeah. All a psychiatrist has to do is say, "Chop of your balls and change your name to Sally and you'll be fine."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at September 01, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)

85 St. Joseph the Worker

Ha!
My parish when I was a kid.

My Russian Orthodox high school mate would question why there was not a "St. Joseph the Manager"

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 01, 2025 10:27 PM (ufFY8)

86 > 76 46 > Remember the Muscular Dystrophy backyard carnivals?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 01, 2025 10:08 PM (cr7L+)

Wth are those?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 01, 2025 10:24 PM (6PCLE)

You'd get together with all your friends, Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland style, to drink and take addictive pills....err...come up with some half-assed games and acts (the "carnival kits" had suggestions), charge admission, and send the loot off to Jerry's Kids.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:27 PM (qpyNK)

87 Top 100 job #16... I shoulda been a nurse anesthetist. Image the fun I could've had!

Posted by: Joe B at September 01, 2025 10:27 PM (+xk6Q)

88 Psychiatrist Are MD's. Psychologist are Ph.D
It looked like most MD's were at that $239K median salary.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 01, 2025 10:28 PM (VCgbV)

89 74 "Lawyer" median salary is $145,760 when a psychiatrist gets $249,200?

What kind of crazy shit is that?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)
_____________________________

Kind of makes sense. Lawyers have to learn the craft from square one. Psychiatrists, by and large, are some of the most maladjusted, insane, and full on disturbed people in the workforce. That head start serves as practical experience.

Dated a psychiatrist years ago. I can assure you that she was borderline insane (and that's being generous).

Posted by: Orson at September 01, 2025 10:28 PM (dIske)

90 > hagged-out Hollywood "celebrity"

Oh: Alyssa Milano. Can't believe I forgot that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:28 PM (qpyNK)

91 81 Been there... did that... for years... in both the military and civilian life. WORST? Karen type low level managers.
Posted by: Romeo13

My favorite utterance from them: "That is unacceptable!!"

Oh, that's different. I'll just wiggle my nose and the issue will go away.
Posted by: Tonypete

In my shop, we have a bag of pixie dust hanging with the safety gear.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2025 10:28 PM (sAmhv)

92 16 Since Greta Thunberg's in the news again, with her picture all over, I've had the feeling that she looked like someone else. It finally came to me: the kid in the Dutch Boy Paint logo!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

She got the Prince Valiant special...

Posted by: joemarine at September 01, 2025 10:29 PM (y171U)

93 Yeah. All a psychiatrist has to do is say, "Chop of your balls and change your name to Sally and you'll be fine."

I don't know, sounds like a weird way to treat agoraphobia.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 01, 2025 10:29 PM (lUFok)

94 Hold on a minuter there. Now, there are two Subs. Which one had the cranky motor mounts?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (KT67S)

The third one, of course! Current three, based on tenure with me: the 2008, bought in 2011 as government surplus, ex RCMP dog wagon. The '99 1500, bought in Arizona in 2021, IIRC, and the one that received the transplant. And the '99 2500 heavy-duty, with the 7-liter big block in it., bought in 2023 in Utah to get me home after the other '99 expired on the road. I have had 4 others, now sold or gone to their eternal reward.

I guess you can say I like Suburbans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 10:29 PM (os5gg)

95 92 16 Since Greta Thunberg's in the news again, with her picture all over, I've had the feeling that she looked like someone else. It finally came to me: the kid in the Dutch Boy Paint logo!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)

She got the Prince Valiant special...
Posted by: joemarine at September 01, 2025 10:29 PM (y171U)
Child abuse.

Posted by: Eromero at September 01, 2025 10:30 PM (LHPAg)

96 why there was not a "St. Joseph the Manager"

Wouldn't that be St. Karen?

Posted by: gKWVE at September 01, 2025 10:30 PM (gKWVE)

97 Hi Horde! Just got back from my vacation! Happy September!

Posted by: Iris at September 01, 2025 10:30 PM (bOJ2I)

98 90 > hagged-out Hollywood "celebrity"

Oh: Alyssa Milano. Can't believe I forgot that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Yea, I was wondering which hagged out Hollywood 'celebrity'. That's a big list. Not surprised it's her. She's not the brightest of bulbs.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 01, 2025 10:31 PM (sAmhv)

99 Just two words doof...
Bermuda Triang....

Posted by: Diogenes at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (2WIwB)

100 It's coming. You have been warned.

https://x.com/DawnSl44/status/1962548116516741336/photo/1
Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

Spit.

That ain't the best Christmas song. Not even in the top one hundred in my book. Dah!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (0eaVi)

101 I've always thought quality control engineer at a house of ill repute would be a pretty good job.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Um, no. Ask any Navy Corpsmen that served in overseas liberty towns back in the day. Some bases had arrangements with certain hot spots and they have to go in and check out the girls for nastiness.

GET THAT THING OUT OF MY FACE!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (cYBz/)

102 SO.. which one is going to texas?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2025 10:23 PM (snZF9)

Undecided as yet. The 2008 went last year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (os5gg)

103
Just two words doof...

_________

Marie Celeste

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (kkTda)

104 97 Hi Horde! Just got back from my vacation! Happy September!

Posted by: Iris at September 01, 2025 10:30 PM
***
Howdy! Welcome back!

Posted by: TRex - happy worker dino at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (IQ6Gq)

105 The worst jobs I ever had in college were these two. I lasted about 2wks in each:
1) Cleaning out test tubes...I guess rat brains. Some sort of neurology lab with white mice and electrodes on their shaved heads. I would be the only human, I think, in the building in late afternoons. I was ripe for a serial killer. And a real one was nearby.

2) Same university: dragging a film projector around to show films in classes. Not bad and I got to watch a film and see boys who never asked me out. Then one stormy day (making that part up), a film started burning in the projector and the film then shot around until I did emergent measures. I unplugged it and wheeled it out of class to the film dept without saying a word to anyone. Like it was a normal day. No one taught me how to splice and I had enough.

Finally I was called the next semester to work in the university health clinic. Now we were onto something that might help my degree! Life got a lot better!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (6PCLE)

106 >>Tonight's ONT brought to you by "What's an OSHA?"

Photo said to be of worker helping erect the antenna on World Trade Center 1, North Tower.

https://tinyurl.com/3m6bc4y8

I've seen this many times over the years. I've never seen info about who took the pic or how it was taken. Anyway, count me OUT for that type of job!

Posted by: Gref at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM (aBgBM)

107 My song dedication for Labor Day:

youtu.be/NCIUf8eYPqA
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

Not the Internationale?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:33 PM (0eaVi)

108 Hi Horde! Just got back from my vacation! Happy September!
Posted by: Iris at September 01, 2025 10:30 PM (bOJ2I)
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What did you bring us??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

109 It's coming. You have been warned.

https://x.com/DawnSl44/status/1962548116516741336/photo/1
Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

Spit.

That ain't the best Christmas song. Not even in the top one hundred in my book. Dah!

Yeah, that's the point. It makes me want to stick knitting needles in my ears.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:34 PM (Riz8t)

110
Gee, mine wasn't on the list. Come on! Who wouldn't want to be a horse holder at a western brothel?

Posted by: OrangeEnt

Whore Holder at Madame Horse's House.
*squints*
Get it right.
- Jack Elam

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 01, 2025 10:34 PM (QVmho)

111 All a psychiatrist has to do is say, "Chop of your balls and change your name to Sally and you'll be fine."

I don't know, sounds like a weird way to treat agoraphobia.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 01, 2025 10:29 PM (lUFok)

I just charge $5 for five minutes.
I tell my patients, "Stop it!"

Posted by: Bob Newhart at September 01, 2025 10:34 PM (ufFY8)

112 The Psych sits there and bullshits while the lawyer works his assoff.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:26 PM (KT67S)

Bulg, is that true?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:35 PM (0eaVi)

113 >>>I guess you can say I like Suburbans.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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They are GM's best and consistent unlike Ford that comes, goes and has no solid competition.
And after you get to know them. Cool.
Had one with a 6.2, loved it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:36 PM (KT67S)

114 Mike Reno is Canadian Emilio Estevez. With a Canuck do-rag.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, Nobody Reads My Posts at September 01, 2025 10:36 PM (0aYVJ)

115 I could have been a bigshot! Touch me!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
*************
Oh, you are better than a bigshot. Bless you for making the right choices.

Posted by: The Grateful at September 01, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

116 Not the Internationale?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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No. That one is for May 1.

Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2025 10:36 PM (rdVOm)

117 That ain't the best Christmas song. Not even in the top one hundred in my book. Dah!

Yeah, that's the point. It makes me want to stick knitting needles in my ears.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:34 PM (Riz8t)

SUP!

Posted by: Bruce and the boys at September 01, 2025 10:36 PM (+I6Y/)

118 Missing from that top 100 jobs list - any iteration of journalist. Those poor desperate souls mired in a dying profession that AI should soon completely annihilate. Good riddance.

Posted by: Si at September 01, 2025 10:39 PM (ZPjSR)

119 115 I could have been a bigshot! Touch me!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
*************
Oh, you are better than a bigshot. Bless you for making the right choices.
Posted by: The Grateful at September 01, 2025 10:36 PM (IQ6Gq)

Thanks, honey. I would have gone insane. None of the other people had kids yet. They went on later to have kids but seemed grouchy (especially the directors who I dealt with in one job or another the rest of my career).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 01, 2025 10:39 PM (6PCLE)

120 Gee, mine wasn't on the list. Come on! Who wouldn't want to be a horse holder at a western brothel?

Posted by: OrangeEnt

Whore Holder at Madame Horse's House.
*squints*
Get it right.
- Jack Elam
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 01, 2025 10:34 PM (QVmho)

There are ladies present. Now, stick that big violin under your chin.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:39 PM (0eaVi)

121 108 Hi Horde! Just got back from my vacation! Happy September!
Posted by: Iris at September 01, 2025 10:30 PM (bOJ2I)
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What did you bring us??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

Well I went to Portugal/Spain (for a milestone bday) - after extensive testing have determined that I do not really like Port. But figuratively I'll put port through the internet for a toast tonight! (You can make cocktails with port - that is my favorite)

Posted by: Iris at September 01, 2025 10:40 PM (bOJ2I)

122 I labored mightily today, enjoying an earned Old Fashion.

Tomorrow I head to Connecticut, a state that doesn't exist for some more toiling, different toiling to be sure, but toiling none the less.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 01, 2025 10:40 PM (XV/Pl)

123 Most psychiatrists nowadays do not do counseling and therapy. They only do 15-minute sessions for medication prescriptions after the most basic verbal 'how are you feeling' assessments.

Psychologists now do the bulk of one-hour talk therapy sessions. Because medical insurance wants to cut costs - not pay the freight for hourly sessions with much more expensive MD psychiatrists.

Posted by: Gref at September 01, 2025 10:41 PM (aBgBM)

124 Jon Cryer is the Temu Matthew Broderick. Got those two confused often in the 80s.

Posted by: Si at September 01, 2025 10:41 PM (ZPjSR)

125 >>>go in and check out the girls for nastiness.

GET THAT THING OUT OF MY FACE!!!
Posted by: Tonypete
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youtube.com/watch?v=qWlHt0sEd8Y

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:41 PM (KT67S)

126 Not the Internationale?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
------

No. That one is for May 1.
Posted by: JQ at September 01, 2025 10:36 PM (rdVOm)

Six of one....

Posted by: International Unions are Commie Fronts at September 01, 2025 10:41 PM (0eaVi)

127 > 124 Jon Cryer is the Temu Matthew Broderick. Got those two confused often in the 80s.
Posted by: Si at September 01, 2025 10:41 PM (ZPjSR)

Broderick's characters would occasionally get laid, as I recall.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 10:43 PM (qpyNK)

128 Well I went to Portugal/Spain (for a milestone bday) - after extensive testing have determined that I do not really like Port. But figuratively I'll put port through the internet for a toast tonight! (You can make cocktails with port - that is my favorite)
Posted by: Iris at September 01, 2025 10:40 PM (bOJ2I)
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*clink*

Feliz cumpleanos!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

129 128 Well I went to Portugal/Spain (for a milestone bday) - after extensive testing have determined that I do not really like Port. But figuratively I'll put port through the internet for a toast tonight! (You can make cocktails with port - that is my favorite)

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Ruby or Tawny?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 01, 2025 10:46 PM (JkO4W)

130 Tawny is less sweet.

Ruby is that round-heeled skank who took her love to town.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 01, 2025 10:47 PM (JkO4W)

131 Feliz cumpleanos!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

Is that another one of those weird Christmas songs?

Who is this Felix Natividad, and why do they keep singing about him at Christmas time?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 10:48 PM (0eaVi)

132 I'm home, Pooky is staying overnight at the hospital, Pookette and Lil Pooky are at Grandma's. Enlarged prostates are no joke, Morons. Praying that his kidneys recover from this and that he can go without lithium for awhile.

G'night.

Posted by: pookysgirl is floppier than a floppy disk at September 01, 2025 10:48 PM (Wt5PA)

133 Posted by: Archimedes at September 01, 2025 10:20 PM (Riz8t)

Once bitten... twiice shyy

Posted by: gKWVE at September 01, 2025 10:48 PM (gKWVE)

134 10 [22 names] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'
-------

This is obviously a mistake.

Posted by: Not Mike Hammer, really, it's not me at September 01, 2025 10:51 PM (XeU6L)

135 Well I went to Portugal/Spain (for a milestone bday) - after extensive testing have determined that I do not really like Port. But figuratively I'll put port through the internet for a toast tonight! (You can make cocktails with port - that is my favorite)
Posted by: Iris at September 01, 2025 10:40 PM (bOJ2I)
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Did you try chilled tawny port, with salted nuts or desserts?

I like 20 year old tawny port. Vintage port and late bottled vintage (LBV) port (cheaper) leave me underwhelmed, especially for the prices of decent vintage port.

However - if you want to get drunk fast with tasty stuff, drink Six Grapes or Bin 27 non-vintage port with cheese, hard sausage, cold chicken, and crackers or good bread. Yum!

Posted by: Gref at September 01, 2025 10:52 PM (aBgBM)

136 Used to work in a boat yard that repaired and built barges. The damaged barges would be brought up and they'd sink in the creek until they were ready to work on them. The barges would be pumped out and brought onto a drydock when they were ready . A hole would be cut in the bottom of the barge to drain the water that remained onto the drydock. Before that we'd have to climb into the holds and use buckets to clear out eels and cat fish , bullheads, because if they were there when the water was drained they'd die and the smell would be so bad you couldn't work. Hot sweaty and dangerous

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2025 10:53 PM (ipRl8)

137 A prayer for pooky his complete and speedy recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 10:53 PM (RIvkX)

138 >>>This is obviously a mistake.
Posted by: Not Mike Hammer, really, it's not me at September 01, 2025
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Well, it was a surprise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 10:55 PM (KT67S)

139 Used to work in a boat yard that repaired and built barges. The damaged barges would be brought up and they'd sink in the creek until they were ready to work on them. The barges would be pumped out and brought onto a drydock when they were ready . A hole would be cut in the bottom of the barge to drain the water that remained onto the drydock. Before that we'd have to climb into the holds and use buckets to clear out eels and cat fish , bullheads, because if they were there when the water was drained they'd die and the smell would be so bad you couldn't work. Hot sweaty and dangerous

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2025 10:53 PM (ipRl

Curious, Mike Rowe is standing over here taking notes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2025 10:55 PM (snZF9)

140 Jon Cryer's Ducky was a character that only existed in movies. In real life he would have caught a beating too often to be real

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2025 10:55 PM (ipRl8)

141 Those poor desperate souls mired in a dying profession that AI should soon completely annihilate. Good riddance.
Posted by: Si
--

Hobson's Choice, or, Morton's Fork?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 01, 2025 10:55 PM (XeU6L)

142 99 Just two words doof...
Bermuda Triang....

Posted by: Diogenes at September 01, 2025 10:32 PM
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The sea was angry that day, my friends

Posted by: 496 at September 01, 2025 10:56 PM (FASZa)

143 Saw two antelope today, scarcely 2 miles west of my house. I think drought further east has driven them out this way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 10:57 PM (os5gg)

144 Drinking Monkey Shoulder and watching the pathetic protests in Los Angeles on Portland Andy's Youtube stream.
I expected so much more from the progs this summer! These protests are just sad!!!

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 01, 2025 10:57 PM (9aVck)

145 After 20 years in It in various management rolls … NO. Go with NP or PA. Lord, you’ll live longe

Posted by: YellowBird at September 01, 2025 10:58 PM (MEbkQ)

146
I expected so much more from the progs this summer! These protests are just sad!!!
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

Maybe they're waiting for a post Labor Day pickup in activity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 01, 2025 11:00 PM (63Dwl)

147 Deplorable Ian Galt -
Electrical engineer was on the list, about halfway down. If I had it to do it over again I’d probably go with that instead of all that time in grad school: I’m a retired physics professor, and even though I loved it, the university paid us very little. I was able to invest, however, and have a comfortable retirement.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 01, 2025 11:00 PM (Wj1DV)

148 Calling a kit of these protesters "theater kids" is spot on. All self absorbed virtue signaling with no relationship to reality. Say what you want about Antifa, but violence is reality.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2025 11:02 PM (ipRl8)

149 146
I expected so much more from the progs this summer! These protests are just sad!!!
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

Maybe they're waiting for a post Labor Day pickup in activity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 01, 2025 11:00 PM (63Dwl)

Or...When do Ivy League colleges, Cal-Berkely, and UCLA begin their fall semesters or quarters?

Posted by: Gref at September 01, 2025 11:02 PM (aBgBM)

150 Never mind port, I have cask of amontillado: just follow me down this dark narrow passageway!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 01, 2025 11:03 PM (Wj1DV)

151 >>>Maybe they're waiting for a post Labor Day pickup in activity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 01, 2025 11:00 PM (63Dwl)

Or...When do Ivy League colleges, Cal-Berkely, and UCLA begin their fall semesters or quarters?
Posted by: Gref
--------------------

USAID is down and Alex doesn't understand how to shift money around like Dad.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 11:04 PM (KT67S)

152 Hi all,

Have a great night :-)

Posted by: Joyenz at September 01, 2025 11:04 PM (2F0/Y)

153 @149 Gref, I think the Ivy's begin this week. We should start seeing the anti semitic protests in Manhattan at Columbia any day now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2025 11:06 PM (ipRl8)

154 SF writer Sara Hoyt, who runs an excellent blog and I believe posts here from time to time, has just lost her mother.

I'm sure prayers and/or good thoughts would be welcome.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 11:06 PM (qpyNK)

155 The rent-a-mobs are not getting paid to protest because USAID was cut?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 01, 2025 11:07 PM (Wj1DV)

156 > USAID is down and Alex doesn't understand how to shift money around like Dad.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 11:04 PM (KT67S)

He's like the Hunter Biden of the Soros family.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 01, 2025 11:08 PM (qpyNK)

157 19 Does anyone else miss the Jerry Lewis Telethon?

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 01, 2025 10:05 PM (wQPGd)

I'd watch a Jerry Lee Lewis Telethon. Whole lotta' shakin' and cousin-marrying going on !

Posted by: a.moron at September 01, 2025 11:08 PM (Yt3ED)

158 I heard about Sarah’s mother this morning and have been offering prayer.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 01, 2025 11:08 PM (Wj1DV)

159 Bad, nasty, and thankless jobs serve their purpose. After working railroad track demolition for Amtrak a couple summers for college money I was motivated to pursue a career in something that didn't include 4:30 am daily commutes, 120 degree working conditions, tossing 75 lb railroad ties, and creosote burns up and down my arms. On a positive note, the prison work release guys were entertaining as hell. They used to set off fire crackers every time the fat ass Union guys showed up just to watch them dive for cover. Those were the Philly Mob days.

Posted by: Orson at September 01, 2025 11:10 PM (dIske)

160 I expected so much more from the progs this summer! These protests are just sad!!!
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

The shutting down of USAID by Donaldus Maximus cut off a huge amount of their funding. Somebody has to pay for all those pre-printed signs and pallets of bricks.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 01, 2025 11:10 PM (Z57+l)

161 I had a summer job one time between semesters that included some roofing work. Made me decide I was not going to do that for a living!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 01, 2025 11:13 PM (Wj1DV)

162 69
Is that guy that's waving and standing on the steel beams holding on to anything.???????
_________

Wonder if there are any Mohawks among those guys.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 01, 2025 10:19 PM (kkTda)

Can't tell, they're all wearing hats . . .

Posted by: a.moron at September 01, 2025 11:13 PM (Yt3ED)

163 remained onto the drydock. Before that we'd have to climb into the holds and use buckets to clear out eels and cat fish , bullheads, because if they were there when the water was drained they'd die and the smell would be so bad you couldn't work. Hot sweaty and dangerous

Posted by: Smell the Glove

People think it humorous when I tell them my hovercraft is full of eels. Only you understand what a horror it can be.

Posted by: Hovercraft Sales and Service at September 01, 2025 11:18 PM (G5+As)

164 Sarah's mom, may her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 01, 2025 11:18 PM (RIvkX)

165 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at September 01, 2025 11:21 PM (/gSPu)

166 One summer job I had was cutting multi-layered cardboard sheets into certain shapes to be glued to a carbboard runner. These all had a slight angle. We were making the ball returns for cheap pool tables.

Posted by: RickZ at September 01, 2025 11:23 PM (gKDq2)

167 G'night all. Early golf

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 01, 2025 11:24 PM (ipRl8)

168 I'm an orthopaedic surgeon. It has been the best job I could imagine.

Posted by: PTSD giver at September 01, 2025 11:25 PM (WV4wf)

169 huh, diplomat isn't listed on the 100 happiest jobs?

I guess it depends on which cone you went into - econ and political are cushy, consular and admin have all the real work. Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.

Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:27 PM (wLjpr)

170 However - if you want to get drunk fast with tasty stuff, drink Six Grapes or Bin 27 non-vintage port with cheese, hard sausage, cold chicken, and crackers or good bread. Yum!
Posted by: Gref at September 01, 2025 10:52 PM (aBgBM)

Oh, Six Grapes. That spurs memories of The Back Bay Brewing Company in Boston. America was still a right proper country back in 1995, B.K. (Before Karens).

A travelling network engineer could tuck into a local brewpub that served outstanding beer and amazing food (the beef carpaccio was my standard opener there). Order up a Graham's Six Grapes for dessert and peruse the cigar menu. That's right, kids. Smoking at the bar was not only permitted in that golden age, it was encouraged. We have fallen...so far...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 01, 2025 11:28 PM (nbLIj)

171
Looks like the aurora tease turned out to be just that, another big tease.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 01, 2025 11:28 PM (w6EFb)

172 I have my doubts about the best jobs list. Substance abuse counselor comes in at #16, making $53k a year and requiring a master's degree, plus spending most of your waking hours with addicts? Hard pass.

Posted by: Frankie at September 01, 2025 11:29 PM (nCoED)

173 Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.
Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:27 PM (wLjpr)

Pummeled to death by boobies>>>strangled to death by bra.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 11:29 PM (os5gg)

174 Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.

She would have preferred they harassed her in person?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 01, 2025 11:30 PM (lUFok)

175 I guess it depends on which cone you went into - econ and political are cushy, consular and admin have all the real work. Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.
Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:27 PM (wLjpr)

That happened to me last week!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 11:30 PM (0eaVi)

176 >>> 169 huh, diplomat isn't listed on the 100 happiest jobs?

I guess it depends on which cone you went into - econ and political are cushy, consular and admin have all the real work. Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.
Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:27 PM (wLjpr)

Fcking aliens.

Posted by: Fox Mulder at September 01, 2025 11:34 PM (ULPxl)

177 I think, without a doubt, the dude who had the best job ever was Faustin Wirkus. One day you're a Marine Gunny. The next day King of a Haitian Island with 14,000 subjects

That's a nice promotion.

Posted by: Orson at September 01, 2025 11:36 PM (dIske)

178 Oh. Not first then, huh ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 01, 2025 11:37 PM (ayRl+)

179 That's a nice promotion.
Posted by: Orson at September 01, 2025 11:36 PM (dIske)

Until he found out the dinner menu was King a la Chicken.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 11:37 PM (os5gg)

180
That happened to me last week!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 11:30 PM (0eaVi)

Lol!

That was my second week on the job. Same week, I had to go identify five different bodies of Americans who died in five unbelievably horrible ways - including a plane crash. I was crying by the time I contacted the fifth person's family in the States. They were very sweet about it, bless them.

Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:37 PM (wLjpr)

181
I'd watch a Jerry Lee Lewis Telethon. Whole lotta' shakin' and cousin-marrying going on !

Posted by: a.moron
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Speaking of morons, cousins and Jerry Lee. Jerry Lee would get drunk (really) and drive his Cadillac into cousin Jimmy Swaggart's gate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 01, 2025 11:39 PM (KT67S)

182 Number 45 on that jobs list: Flight attendant entry describes what appears to be a translator gig. Click on the link, and it gives the details for flight attendant. I note that Copy Editor is absent from the list...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 01, 2025 11:41 PM (nbLIj)

183 That was my second week on the job. Same week, I had to go identify five different bodies of Americans who died in five unbelievably horrible ways - including a plane crash. I was crying by the time I contacted the fifth person's family in the States. They were very sweet about it, bless them.
Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:37 PM (wLjpr)

That took courage and a big heart. I don't think I could ever do that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 11:42 PM (0eaVi)

184 Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.
Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:27 PM (wLjpr)

Damn, usually that kind of thing is reserved for musicians, lol. Curiously, I didn't notice that job on the list.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 01, 2025 11:49 PM (snZF9)

185 And entry 48 is Architect...

http://tiny.cc/jfzr001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 01, 2025 11:50 PM (nbLIj)

186 IT Manager isn't all that stressful?

Really?

In that case, I have a couple of nice bridges in Brooklyn for sale. Not, cheap either, as vintage gear is in.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 01, 2025 11:52 PM (tT6L1)

187 Hugs and prayers being sent off for Pooky and all the family.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 01, 2025 11:53 PM (/rQlD)

188 One of the terrible jobs I had was working for an organic fertilizer company, I got the job of sweeping gunnysacks of bat quano through a sieve.
I got the job because I had oily skin and I was the only worker there who did not start peeling around the respirator after a day.

I also worked in a grass seed warehouse, and I was bad at that job.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2025 11:54 PM (rbvCR)

189 My worst job was in college, was being a desk clerk and maid at Motel 6 in the desert between LA and Vegas (Victorville to be precise.) Had a party of guests who stole the mattress, pissed on the box springs, took a dump in the shower, and wrote "helter skelter" on the wall in red nail polish. Great times.

Posted by: Frankie at September 01, 2025 11:55 PM (nCoED)

190 I also worked in a grass seed warehouse, and I was bad at that job.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2025 11:54 PM (rbvCR)

Kept lighting up, huh?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 11:56 PM (0eaVi)

191 My sister is in the hospital with edema in her lungs. The Doc thinks she will be out in a couple of days, but I took home her kitten to care for here.
It smells like cigarette smoke and my other cats are not convinced this is a good idea.

She has other cats, but they are older and are used to spending time outside, they won't go in just for me, so I feed them outside at her place. I hope they are OK.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2025 11:56 PM (rbvCR)

192 Looks like the aurora tease turned out to be just that, another big tease.
Posted by: publius

"Aurora" is such a stripper name. What did you expect from her?

Posted by: mikeski at September 01, 2025 11:57 PM (DgGvY)

193 Kept lighting up, huh?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 01, 2025 11:56 PM (0eaVi)

Ryegrass, fescue, blue grass

Posted by: Kindltot at September 01, 2025 11:57 PM (rbvCR)

194 Taking Care Of Business

BTO

https://youtu.be/NCIUf8eYPqA

Posted by: Crew of SSN21 USS SEAWOLF at September 01, 2025 11:59 PM (XQo4F)

195 >>>I also worked in a grass seed warehouse, and I was bad at that job.
Posted by: Kindltot
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You're not supposed to smoke the seeds.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 02, 2025 12:00 AM (KT67S)

196 Oops.
Sock fail.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 02, 2025 12:01 AM (XQo4F)

197 Damn, usually that kind of thing is reserved for musicians, lol. Curiously, I didn't notice that job on the list.
Posted by: Berserker

It would have been #1, but it was disqualified as "not a job" because of that "money for nothing, chicks for free" song.

They demoted it to "hobby," instead.

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

198 I thought I'd see more of the engineering fields, especially the core, classic fields of chemical and civil, along with electrical and mechanical which were on the list. I graduated with a lowly B.S, in Materials Engineering specializing in Metallic Materials. I was never without a job except for six weeks in 1982, and made what I think was pretty exceptional money.

As a career field, engineering in general doesn't get its due from the media or culture. Working in manufacturing, I at times felt like a Dr making rounds in a hospital as I addressed various issues on the floor. Over the years I saw plenty of a-hole managers - MBAs and HR Karen's were the worst until the DEI crowd showed up. But but but I had the pleasure of seeing some of them go down in flames, including being in the room ( cowering under my desk) when Security came and frog-marched one insidious crazy jerk manager off the premises...

All in all it was a good life and I miss it still.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 12:03 AM (QGaXH)

199 9 to 5 (Morning Train)

Sheena Easton

https://youtu.be/S_3vZYOYNYU

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 02, 2025 12:04 AM (XQo4F)

200 I guess it depends on which cone you went into - econ and political are cushy, consular and admin have all the real work. Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.
Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:27 PM (wLjpr)

***

Wow!
An embassy MoMe with the 'ettes!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 02, 2025 12:04 AM (2WIwB)

201 143 Saw two antelope today, scarcely 2 miles west of my house. I think drought further east has driven them out this way.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 01, 2025 10:57 PM (os5gg)

Were they and the deer playing?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 12:06 AM (QGaXH)

202 Deck hand on an oyster shell dredge in the Mobile Bay. Summer of 1978. Great way to make great money. Great way to get hurt. I have a slightly flattened thumbnail to remind me.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 02, 2025 12:08 AM (XQo4F)

203 189 My worst job was in college, was being a desk clerk and maid at Motel 6 in the desert between LA and Vegas (Victorville to be precise.) Had a party of guests who stole the mattress, pissed on the box springs, took a dump in the shower, and wrote "helter skelter" on the wall in red nail polish. Great times.
Posted by: Frankie

Are you sure it was red nail polish? Yikes!!
Since the subject of lonely desert hotels has popped up, how about some Gram Parsons!

youtu.be/d9mEiclL1UA

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 02, 2025 12:10 AM (sAmhv)

204
*"Aurora" is such a stripper name. What did you expect from her?*

---
Is this about me?

Posted by: Corona at September 02, 2025 12:11 AM (XQo4F)

205 Were they and the deer playing?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 12:06 AM (QGaXH)

No deer to be seen. The antelope cam up out of the ditch on my right, scampered down the road in front of me fr a few dozen yards, then back down into a field. Both had a nice set of horns on them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 12:11 AM (os5gg)

206 9 to 5

Dolly Parton

https://youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 02, 2025 12:13 AM (XQo4F)

207 Chain Gang

Sam Cooke

https://youtu.be/zBn5aIfZElE

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 02, 2025 12:15 AM (XQo4F)

208 youtu.be/lcIK3akktLU

Workin for a livin

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 12:23 AM (rdVOm)

209 Civil engineer or a ditch digger

Knew two who are now senior VP s at a gas pipeline co.

Posted by: Lord Percy at September 02, 2025 12:24 AM (65L+K)

210 Take This Job And Shove It

Johnny Paycheck

https://youtu.be/ZDBQDqylxNI

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 02, 2025 12:28 AM (XQo4F)

211 Get A Job

The Silhouettes

https://youtu.be/ysKhbaLyIFw

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 02, 2025 12:31 AM (XQo4F)

212 Engineering is one of those fields where you need to have "The Knack" (and not the band by that name) to be happy and successful.

https://youtu.be/Dx6HojLBsnw

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 02, 2025 12:33 AM (Z57+l)

213 Get a haircut and get a real job!

youtu.be/3w7CrxLj36I

(my lil brother needs to do this...LOL)

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

214 We're doing job songs? Tennessee Ernie Ford.
The guy had quite a voice:
https://shorturl.at/q6L8g

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 02, 2025 12:38 AM (XeU6L)

215 Minutes To Memories- John Cougar Mellencamp

"On a Greyhound thirty miles beyond Jamestown
He saw the sun set on the Tennessee line
He looked at the young man who was riding beside him
He said I'm old kind of worn out inside
I worked my whole life in the steel mills of Gary
And my father before me I helped build this land
Now I'm seventy-seven and with God as my witness
I earned every dollar that passed through my hands"

The last line, how many people can honestly make the claim these days?

https://youtu.be/bTK1W5dIljw

Posted by: Rex B at September 02, 2025 12:40 AM (+xk6Q)

216 Which commie socialist is planning to buy stock in private company Intel? Zorro Mamdani or dump?

Posted by: raimondo at September 02, 2025 12:40 AM (oKZLc)

217 213 Get a haircut and get a real job!

youtu.be/3w7CrxLj36I

(my lil brother needs to do this...LOL)
Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

"The sign said 'long-haired, freaky people need not apply

So I tucked my hair up under my hat and went in to ask him why...."

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 12:40 AM (QGaXH)

218 OMG! Gonna be 86 F here tomorrow!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 12:44 AM (QGaXH)

219 Rummaging around in garage for my can of Troll-B-Gone.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 12:45 AM (QGaXH)

220 Posted by: raimondo at September 02, 2025 12:40 AM (oKZLc)

What part of buying do you not understand? Commies just steal it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 12:46 AM (os5gg)

221 OMG! Gonna be 86 F here tomorrow!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 12:44 AM (QGaXH)

It was 86 here today for much of the afternoon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 12:47 AM (os5gg)

222 @219 hit home did I?

Posted by: raimondo at September 02, 2025 12:47 AM (oKZLc)

223 Photograph: This iconic photograph captures construction workers during the building of the Empire State Building in New York City.
The image, often misidentified as "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," depicts ironworkers guiding a steel beam into place, not eating lunch.
The photograph was taken by Lewis Hine in 1931, during the construction of the Empire State Building.
It symbolizes the spirit of American industry and the daring of the workers who built the city's towering landmarks.

Btw, "OSHA, our savior has arrived!" was what was yelled as a greeting at some scum bag worksites, sometimes by management but sometimes by union reps. Depended who was winning on a particular day.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 02, 2025 12:48 AM (NFX2v)

224 Long hair is fine, as long as it's *clean* and neat-looking. Lil bro fails this test.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

225 Is this about me?
Posted by: Corona at September 02, 2025 12:11 AM (XQo4F)

No, Ms Virus.

Posted by: RickZ at September 02, 2025 12:53 AM (gKDq2)

226 >> Is this about me?

No, it's about me.

Posted by: T. Coronae Borealis, Nova Tease Extraordinaire at September 02, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

227 Damn, usually that kind of thing is reserved for musicians, lol. Curiously, I didn't notice that job on the list.
Posted by: Berserker

It would have been #1, but it was disqualified as "not a job" because of that "money for nothing, chicks for free" song.

They demoted it to "hobby," instead.

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

Probably, a lot of times you get paid like it's a hobby. I still talk to some of the dudes from 1 pretty known band I was in. One of them said its a little rough." We got got offered a short tour for 100K, and it will cost 110K to do it". Unless you're an uber big arena act you aren't making shit from the live shows.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 12:57 AM (snZF9)

228 huh, diplomat isn't listed on the 100 happiest jobs?

I guess it depends on which cone you went into - econ and political are cushy, consular and admin have all the real work. Nothing like having a lady who's off her meds strip naked in your embassy waiting room and threaten to strangle you with her bra because you won't stop the aliens from harassing her from their spaceship.
Posted by: moki at September 01, 2025 11:27 PM (wLjpr)

In English or the local patois?

Posted by: mrp at September 02, 2025 12:59 AM (rj6Yv)

229 Deport the reptilians.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 02, 2025 01:00 AM (Tv7N8)

230 I went off the deep end today and dropped some coin for a CD of the remastered Goldfinger soundtrack. One of John Barry's greatest works, I think.

Posted by: mrp at September 02, 2025 01:05 AM (rj6Yv)

231 Long hair is fine, as long as it's *clean* and neat-looking. Lil bro fails this test.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

Mines pretty frigging long. The chick who cuts it is a riot. She'll look at it and say yeah not dude enough, too neat. I watch her technique. She gets it all even using a series of moves I can't explain, then holds it so the ends are pointing up, then she stabs down at it with her scissors to roughen the cut. I don't even ask, I just pay her. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:07 AM (snZF9)

232 Engineering is one of those fields where you need to have "The Knack" (and not the band by that name) to be happy and successful.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

And if you have the Knack and wind up in another sort of work, you'll hate it. Engineers need to solve problems like labradors need to fetch sticks.

Posted by: mikeski at September 02, 2025 01:08 AM (DgGvY)

233 Up to $1.3 Billion now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 02, 2025 01:09 AM (Tv7N8)

234 224 Long hair is fine, as long as it's *clean* and neat-looking. Lil bro fails this test.
Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

Nowadays sure!

Not so much on men in 1971.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 01:09 AM (QGaXH)

235 By the way, I got the battery squared away at WalMart. They adjusted the price down to 129 bucks, which is what it was supposed to be. And I now know what happened. Some roach peeled the top sticker with the bar code off "my" 129 dollar battery, stuck it on a 169 dollar battery, and placed the bar-coded sticker off the 169 dollar battery on "mine". And waltzed out of the store, having ripped them off for 40 bucks. Lady at Customer Service put me onto the scam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:10 AM (os5gg)

236 https://tinyurl.com/4uzycv3b
Illistrated Spygate pt V from Doug Ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at September 02, 2025 01:14 AM (+qU29)

237 By the way, I got the battery squared away at WalMart. They adjusted the price down to 129 bucks, which is what it was supposed to be. And I now know what happened. Some roach peeled the top sticker with the bar code off "my" 129 dollar battery, stuck it on a 169 dollar battery, and placed the bar-coded sticker off the 169 dollar battery on "mine". And waltzed out of the store, having ripped them off for 40 bucks. Lady at Customer Service put me onto the scam.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:10 AM (os5gg)

$129 isn't "too" bad for a battery these days. Some are stooopid pricey. I think most harley batteries are more than that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:14 AM (snZF9)

238 235 By the way, I got the battery squared away at WalMart.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:10 AM (os5gg)

They have Walmarts out there where the deer and the antelope play? How far is the nearest Target?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 01:16 AM (QGaXH)

239 Mickey Gilley › Age at death - 86 years - May 7, 2022
Jerry Lee Lewis was 87 years old - passed away on October 28, 2022
Jimmy Swaggart, died at age 90 in Baton Rouge, on July 1, 2025,
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Preacher outlived 'em all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 02, 2025 01:20 AM (KT67S)

240 $129 isn't "too" bad for a battery these days. Some are stooopid pricey. I think most harley batteries are more than that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:14 AM (snZF9)

Well, that was Loonie bucks, too. It would not surprise me to learn that they are exactly the same battery. Pay 129 and get a one-year warranty; pay 169, and get a 5-year warranty. I have had consistently good luck with the el-cheapo Walmart batteries.

And while I was waiting at Customer Service, I saw the most amazing display of free-range boobies I have seen in a long time. Some gal, quite slender, with a huge rack, wearing a loose-fitting T-shirt and no bra, went strolling by, twice, and as she walked, her boobs were counter-rotating, left one clockwise, right one counter-clockwise. It was mesmerizing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:20 AM (os5gg)

241 They have Walmarts out there where the deer and the antelope play? How far is the nearest Target?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 01:16 AM (QGaXH)

Target opened a store in Calgary years ago, and it closed again real quick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:22 AM (os5gg)

242 231 Long hair is fine, as long as it's *clean* and neat-looking. Lil bro fails this test.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

Mines pretty frigging long. The chick who cuts it is a riot. She'll look at it and say yeah not dude enough, too neat. I watch her technique. She gets it all even using a series of moves I can't explain, then holds it so the ends are pointing up, then she stabs down at it with her scissors to roughen the cut. I don't even ask, I just pay her. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:07 AM (snZF9)

a number of years ago, I went to a Christmas Service with my parents in my home town... in an Armani Suit, and my hair down to the middle of my shoulder blades.

My Dad was amused..... saying I was his Long Haired Son.... my Mom was pretty quiet... others in the Congregation, some I had grown up with... were silent... this was 5 years after I retired from the Navy.

funny how something as silly as a hair style, can somehow make you others judge you as less, than you are.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 02, 2025 01:26 AM (mP0Kj)

243 Truck battery comes from Auto Zone. They are good about customer service and well, they last longer than the warranty.
Interstate batteries are good but don't last that much longer than AutoZone batts. Years ago it was Die Hards but that's long gone.

Bat form the lawn tractor is close to 50 from Walmart. The perfect size costs more but a larger, more common one with more CCA is cheaper. I turn it around so the poles are in the right place and squeeze it in.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 02, 2025 01:27 AM (KT67S)

244 My hubs always liked the song Call My Job by Albert King. I tried to link it here, but the whole site went wonky on me for a minute. How are you, Horde? I have watched enough Maine Cabin Masters for the evening.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 02, 2025 01:29 AM (0nHVk)

245 Bat form the lawn tractor is close to 50 from Walmart. The perfect size costs more but a larger, more common one with more CCA is cheaper. I turn it around so the poles are in the right place and squeeze it in.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 02, 2025 01:27 AM (KT67S)

Batteries for yard equipment and motorcycles lead a tough life. Wintering over can be real hard on them, and lawn tractors usually don't have real decent voltage regulator in the charging system. Lots of vibration, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:36 AM (os5gg)

246 And while I was waiting at Customer Service, I saw the most amazing display of free-range boobies I have seen in a long time. Some gal, quite slender, with a huge rack, wearing a loose-fitting T-shirt and no bra, went strolling by, twice, and as she walked, her boobs were counter-rotating, left one clockwise, right one counter-clockwise. It was mesmerizing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:20 AM (os5gg)

Well worth the price of a battery. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:36 AM (snZF9)

247 https://youtu.be/C9-pjOc9Coo

Albert King, Call my Job

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:38 AM (os5gg)

248 Well worth the price of a battery. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:36 AM (snZF9)

It was, by golly!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:39 AM (os5gg)

249 241 Target opened a store in Calgary years ago, and it closed again real quick.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:22 AM (os5gg)

When we were traveling with the camper this time last year I considered any town with a Target a good sized town.

Camper is currently getting its annual service and a furniture upgrade. We hope to do some traveling later in the fall. Wife has been kind of preoccupied with her elderly mother.

I wish mother in law was doing better. She was always a hoot to take on road trips...I think she'd like the camper life.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 01:39 AM (QGaXH)

250 That was funny, you guys!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 02, 2025 01:39 AM (0nHVk)

251 Batteries for yard equipment and motorcycles lead a tough life. Wintering over can be real hard on them, and lawn tractors usually don't have real decent voltage regulator in the charging system. Lots of vibration, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:36 AM (os5gg)

I get about 5 years out of harley battery. I keep them on trickle chargers over the winter. The main thing with the harley is to fully charge a new battery before you put it in. The charging system is good, they usually charge at 13.5 volts, but for some reason if the battery isn't fully charged they die fast. They just never charge to where they need to be. If you charge them up first, there's never a problem. People come in with dead new batteries a good amount of time and its always the same. I ask if they charged it first. Oh no, they told at the store it was charged. No, no, they are never charged.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:42 AM (snZF9)

252 Camper is currently getting its annual service and a furniture upgrade. We hope to do some traveling later in the fall. Wife has been kind of preoccupied with her elderly mother.

I wish mother in law was doing better. She was always a hoot to take on road trips...I think she'd like the camper life.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 01:39 AM (QGaXH)

Friend of mine is currently dealing with that. His 94 year old Mom is in hospital with pneumonia, and some sort of stomach bug. But she is in good spirits.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:42 AM (os5gg)

253 People come in with dead new batteries a good amount of time and its always the same. I ask if they charged it first. Oh no, they told at the store it was charged. No, no, they are never charged.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:42 AM (snZF9)

Do modern Harleys have a voltmeter or ammeter? I think some of the vintage ones had ammeters, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:44 AM (os5gg)

254 Hubby had hair down to his ass... clean. Kept it out of the way at work. Always looked nice, until he got sick & most of it fell out. It's growing back, and is finally longer than my own again, but still looks better than bro's.

Lil bro? Dirty hair. Greasy and gross. Doesn't even comb it sometimes. Scroungy looking, in general.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

255 Where the deer and the antelope play -
The antelope in the verse is the antelope jackrabbit, the largest rabbit in the Western Hemisphere. There are, in fact, no antelope antelopes in North America, although the pronghorn is sometimes called the American antelope. Nonetheless, the antelope of the song are merely rabbits, albeit large jackrabbits. Here’s a National Park Service write up about the antelope jackrabbit:

https://is.gd/BVObN5

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 01:48 AM (Wj1DV)

256 So, no, I don't have a *thing* against long hair on men.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

257 When I see Loverboy, I see Garrett and Ace bopping around like two young highschoolers on their first night out from middle school. It's chemistry, man!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 02, 2025 01:52 AM (hDyg2)

258 Now do Jackalopes.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 02, 2025 01:52 AM (Z57+l)

259 funny how something as silly as a hair style, can somehow make you others judge you as less, than you are.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 02, 2025 01:26 AM (mP0Kj)

Dealt with it my whole life. Now you know the key to my attitude. I just don't give a fuck. I remember years ago for a few months I took a job at a really high end harley shop JUST to see how these fancy places operate. No different, just higher prices. The owner was a frigging pod. During the "interview" I told him my background, which was way more technical than his own, which he was happy about. Then he asked if I would think about cutting my hair because "it might be scary" to some of the customers. I said flat out, its harleys, not a poodle wash, and if your customers are scared by my hair I don't want to work on those undeserving homo's bikes anyway, so count me out. I stood up to walk out and he says well its not a requirement. I lasted 3 months. the place was silly.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:53 AM (snZF9)

260 255. "...antelope. Nonetheless, the antelope of the song are merely rabbits, albeit large jackrabbits. Here’s a National Park Service write up about the antelope jackrabbit:"

https://is.gd/BVObN5
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 01:48 AM (Wj1DV)

Schmarty-pants! LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 01:55 AM (QGaXH)

261 Jackalopes are mythical, but fun!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 01:57 AM (Wj1DV)

262 259. and if your customers are scared by my hair I don't want to work on those undeserving homo's bikes anyway, so count me out. I stood up to walk out and he says well its not a requirement. I lasted 3 months. the place was silly.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:53 AM (snZF9)

Wow! Kinda like the song I referenced in an earlier post....

"Signs" 5 Man Electrical Band. 1971

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 02:00 AM (QGaXH)

263 Jackalopes are mythical, but fun!

Jackanapes on the other hand ...

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at September 02, 2025 02:00 AM (3ZUWJ)

264 Jackalopes are mythical, but fun!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 01:57 AM (Wj1DV)

I have seen stuffed ones in several fine bars. They must exist!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 02:02 AM (os5gg)

265 Oh my gosh, Bers, what an ahole, you got great hair, I'm jealous, truly.

How are you doing JQ?

I have an early dentist appointment so I am off to bed. There is nice cool air out tonight, the crickets are singing.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 02, 2025 02:02 AM (0nHVk)

266 Do modern Harleys have a voltmeter or ammeter? I think some of the vintage ones had ammeters, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 01:44 AM (os5gg)

The really old ones, like from the 1920s or 30s had ammeters. Eventually they went away and you just had an idiot light. Usually that was bikes with generators. When they went to alternators the bikes had nothing, no gauge or idiot light. The big touring bikes eventually started getting volt meters.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 02:02 AM (snZF9)

267 I was driving thru the northern Nevada desert one night and the jackrabbits were so thick and large I thought we had an alien invasion. I didn't want to hit them in my vehicle because it would have been totalled and I'd be stranded in no-man's land.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 02, 2025 02:03 AM (hDyg2)

268 The really old ones, like from the 1920s or 30s had ammeters. Eventually they went away and you just had an idiot light. Usually that was bikes with generators. When they went to alternators the bikes had nothing, no gauge or idiot light. The big touring bikes eventually started getting volt meters.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 02:02 AM (snZF9)

Ah. Thanks for that. Past midnight here. Time for me to get some sleep. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 02, 2025 02:05 AM (os5gg)

269 Hi, Debby! Doin' ok!

Hope your dentist appt is painless.

G'night, lady.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 02:05 AM (rdVOm)

270 265 I have an early dentist appointment so I am off to bed. There is nice cool air out tonight, the crickets are singing.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 02, 2025 02:02 AM (0nHVk)

So DDS has an early appointment with the DDS?

I'm out too. I've been getting up at 5:30 and walking 6 miles every day. Too soon to see any significant changes but noticing I'm sleeping a little better and feeling better overall.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 02:05 AM (QGaXH)

271 I was driving thru the northern Nevada desert one night and the jackrabbits were so thick and large I thought we had an alien invasion. I didn't want to hit them in my vehicle because it would have been totalled and I'd be stranded in no-man's land.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 02, 2025 02:03 AM (hDyg2)

Was it the Night of the Lepus?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 02, 2025 02:08 AM (Z57+l)

272 Goodbye and good luck, Minneapolis:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfc4svw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 02, 2025 02:10 AM (3cjis)

273 In graduate school, I taught two sections of physics for nursing students: there was a lot of emphasis on linear fluid flow, Bernoulli’s principle, conservation of energy applied to fluids, etc. I had one section in the morning and the other in the afternoon. One was a delight to teach; the other was a bear! I found afterwards that a “queen bee” type in one class had poisoned the attitudes of her fellow students (all women) because I had long hair and looked “unprofessional”. This was in the student evaluations at the end of term. Of course I read them after both classes were over. Frankly, at the time, I looked like I could have been in ZZ Top. But I had no problems with that other class. I kept my long hair until I was out of grad school with my doctorate and looking for a job. I cut my hair short, and trimmed my beard and mustache (you can have a beard in academia, nobody cares). I did wind up with an NRL postdoc, but I’m not sure the trim appearance was make or break for it. The NRL postdoc and the work I did for the Navy did lead to a tenure-track job at my university, so I’m not complaining.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 02:13 AM (Wj1DV)

274
Was it the Night of the Lepus?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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It's never Lepus.

Posted by: Dr. House at September 02, 2025 02:14 AM (XeU6L)

275 In graduate school, I taught two sections of physics for nursing students: there was a lot of emphasis on linear fluid flow, Bernoulli’s principle, conservation of energy applied to fluids, etc.
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No one ever talks about me!

Posted by: Venturi at September 02, 2025 02:15 AM (XeU6L)

276 >>>Was it the Night of the Lepus?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

>I don't know if those jackrabbits are protected now, but back then, my only defense was a .50 cal Desert Eagle. Never go up against a swarm of jackrabbits at night in the desert unless you're packing serious heat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 02, 2025 02:21 AM (hDyg2)

277 Jackanapes - from Wiktionary:
From Middle English iack napys, iac nape, iac napes (“derogatory nickname of the English military commander and statesman William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450)”

,[1] probably from Jacun or Jakin (“pet forms of the male name Jack”

+ ape (“ape, monkey”

[2] + -s (possibly modelled after surnames such as Hobbes and Jakkes), referring to Suffolk’s heraldic badge which was an ape’s chain and clog (“weight such as a block of wood or log attached to an animal to hinder motion”

. It is uncertain whether the word was first coined as a nickname for Suffolk (the earliest known uses), or to refer to an ape or an ape-like person.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 02:21 AM (Wj1DV)

278 Whoa. Guess I really touched some nerves. LOL.

Relax, guys. I'm sure you all at least *wash* your long hair and appear as if you've bathed recently.

Lil bro... does not.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

279 No one ever talks about me!
Posted by: Venturi

Nothing personal ... but your cousin Ventura is so much more famous ...

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at September 02, 2025 02:22 AM (3ZUWJ)

280 I'm out too. I've been getting up at 5:30 and walking 6 miles every day. Too soon to see any significant changes but noticing I'm sleeping a little better and feeling better overall.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 02, 2025 02:05 AM (QGaXH)

TURN AROUND! WALK BACK! BEFORE YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ALL THE WAY HOME!

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 02, 2025 02:22 AM (1Gsou)

281 uh-oh

5 [306 comments] 'm'

Posted by: m at September 02, 2025 02:24 AM (aURVT)

282 The Venturi effect is an application of Bernoulli’s principle. You can also get it from the Euler equations.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 02:26 AM (Wj1DV)

283 Mines pretty frigging long. The chick who cuts it is a riot. She'll look at it and say yeah not dude enough, too neat. I watch her technique. She gets it all even using a series of moves I can't explain, then holds it so the ends are pointing up, then she stabs down at it with her scissors to roughen the cut. I don't even ask, I just pay her. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 02, 2025 01:07 AM (snZF9)

I'm the chick that cuts DH's hair. It's lovely. Long and with lovely waves. The kind that makes women shake their heads in envy.

Looks good with the goat.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 02, 2025 02:29 AM (1Gsou)

284 Another F-ing Haboob in the AZ desert late afternoon. power was out for 7 hours. Just came on. house was 85 degrees. Hobbling around with my broken bones. At least i had Scotch and Ice and pain pills. need to wait for the temp to go down before I attempt sleep.
Berserker- I look for long hair in a good Harley Mechanic!

Posted by: DBCooper at September 02, 2025 02:35 AM (svX4n)

285 Finally down to 83F here. Moon is orange-y due to wildfire smoke.

Been over 100 the last couple days, and will continue thru the week. Ugh. I hate summer.

Posted by: JQ at September 02, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

286 Haboob? In west Texas we just call them dust storms. They’re not nearly so bad in west Texas as they were 60 years ago! Maybe it’s worse in Arizona!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 02, 2025 02:41 AM (Wj1DV)

287 Giovanni Venturi got the take but it was Bernoulli's idea.
That's the way it goes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 02, 2025 02:43 AM (KT67S)

288 Nemo- yeah dust storm. Some jackasses came up with Haboob. Think its some reference to storms in Iraq from the war. 61mph at the house. I'm on a shit utility, San Carlos Apache Irrigation District, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept of Interior owned. Complete shit utility. Goes out if the wind gets past 25.

Posted by: DBCooper at September 02, 2025 02:45 AM (svX4n)

289 I've got some Korean War surplus closed cell sleeping pad about 1/2". That ought to soften the battery ride on the lawn tractor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 02, 2025 02:46 AM (KT67S)

290 i have a 4 cyl diesel Onan gen but for some reason it was running a bit undervoltage and the whole house spike-undervotage units I have on the house cut the gen voltage off.

Posted by: DBCooper at September 02, 2025 02:48 AM (svX4n)

291 Going down below 80 tonight. First time since winter. Ah, that sun's getting lower and the days are a little shorter. Bastardi says not to fear the sun fun is coming back.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 02, 2025 02:49 AM (KT67S)

292 leg warmers

I wore them, kept the snow out my boots.

Posted by: here it comes at September 02, 2025 02:59 AM (FSP3j)

293 the prince valiant cut....

my mom used to go twice a week to "erni".

my dad said he paid for ernis' mb500.

but after watching what my sister has done,

to my mom, she put her in a box.

gets to hang out with the rest of the soylent green.

she gave my mom the hair cut , and posted it.

Posted by: here it comes at September 02, 2025 03:09 AM (FSP3j)

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