Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - Sept 3, 2025 [Confucius TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONTwhich means another random assortment of interweb debris. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Glade Creek Grist Mill at Babcock State Park, West Virginia]

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Naval history nugget:

Why the US Navy Manages Its Own Private Forest

At Naval Support Activity Crane, near Bloomington, Indiana, the U.S. Navy maintains "Constitution Grove," where a forest of white oaks are grown for the sole purpose of restoring and refitting the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned vessel still sailing (the UK's HMS Victory is older than the Constitution, but remains in drydock).
The Constitution is the last of the remaining original six frigates authorized by Congress in 1794. The other five were broken up or captured by the mid-1800s. The Constitution survived because its victory over Guerriere was so resounding that keeping her together remained popular among citizens for decades.
She became a training ship for midshipmen at the Naval Academy during the Civil War and, after that, became a notable ship used for ceremonial purposes before being converted into a museum ship in 1907. In 1997, in a celebration of its bicentennial, the Constitution underwent a complete refit and sailed on its own power to ports around the United States.
The refitting of a 200-year-old ship was not an easy task. There aren't a lot of 200-year-old white oak trees lying around. That's why the U.S. Navy had the foresight to grow them.

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Volvo Island: tourist attraction or place of worship? Either way, this 2001 Volvo S80 has been on a small rocky island of its own since January 2012.

Click here if you really want the backstory. Otherwise, it may be more fun to wonder what is going on in Rutland Township, Illinois.

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10 Entrances to Hell You Can Actually Visit

Darvaza Gas Crater (Turkmenistan)
Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave (Belize)
Chinoike Jigoku (Japan)
Cape Matapan Caves (Greece)
Acheron River (Greece)
Fengdu Ghost City (China)
Masaya Volcano (Nicaragua)
The Ploutonion (Turkey)
Houska Castle (Czech Republic)
Mount Osore (Japan)

Anybody been to any of these places?

Surprisingly, an actual place called Hell (in Grand Cayman) didn't make the list. Yes you can send a postcard from Hell.

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ONT Crime blotter

"Ninja Slushi bandit" arrested for $10,000 thefts in Fairfax County

A suspect is in custody for a months-long theft spree across Fairfax County that totaled more than $10,000.
Christine Woodson, 31, was arrested last month during a traffic stop on Russell Road in Hybla Valley.
Police say she was driving a rental van suspiciously, and committing a traffic violation.
Woodson was wanted on 16 active arrest warrants for allegedly stealing more than a dozen Ninja Slushi appliances from several different Targets in Fairfax County.

What are you in for?
Ninja Slushi machines.
Oh.

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Breaking Buc-ee's News

Buc-ee's enters into MOU with Springville, intends to build first Utah location

Buc-ee's intends to construct a 74,000-square-foot gas and convenience store on undeveloped land west of Interstate 15 off exit 261, near 1400 N and 2600 West in Springville.

Beard said Buc-ee's will have to work with UDOT before beginning construction, but estimated the company is nine months to a year away from breaking ground, and that it will open 15 to 18 months after that.

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Hmmm.... wonder which store opened first or whether this was a joint venture:

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Do you know Bette Nesmith Graham?

In 1951, Bette was working for a banker in Texas as a secretary. She had lots of typewritten documents. Wouldn't it be great if a mistake could be corrected without having to retype the entire page?

She saw some painters at work and decided to try using paint to cover up the mistakes. Wall paint wouldn't work so she experimented with different forumulations in her kitchen blender. She found a solution that would cover the mistake and dry on the page.

She initially called it "Mistake Out" but it would become better known by its official brand name, Liquid Paper. She founded the Liquid Paper Company and sold millions of units. She sold her company to Gillette in 1979 for about $48 million dollars.

On an unrelated note. Bette was the mother of musician and songwriter Mike Nesmith of the Monkees.

As Paul Harvey would say, "Now you know...the rest of the story."

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This is a 1962 NASA space suit test in the Mojave Desert. The prototype space suit was made by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation. The suit was designed to be tethered to the lander with a power system and air supply. The interweb isn't clear on the person in the photo. Could either be astronaut Deke Slayton or suit designer Allyn "Hap" Hazard.

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Speaking of space, this one is for the rocket nerds - ever wonder what happens to the SpaceX Raptor engines after they fly or are done testing? Looks like they go to the McGregor test site in Texas. They are arranged neatly in a Raptor Graveyard. I believe they are available for scavenging as needed by SpaceX staff.

(Photo Credit: NSF, Gary Blair)

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Random history nugget: The first ATM in the US opened for business at Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York on September 2, 1969. (Yes, September 2 was yesterday, but I didn't have an ONT yesterday.) An ATM remains at that location to this day. The machine was initially known as a "Docuteller" because it was manufactured bu the first Docutel. It wasn't the first in the world. Cash dispensers were introduced in Sweden and Britain in 1967.

Coincidentally, Sept 2 was also the date of the founding of the US Treasury in 1789.

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The Pittsburgh Police Scanner: The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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Marshall Tucker Band for the big ONT finish:

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Comments

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1 Sorry I'm late, my bush baby threw a tantrum after being called a chinchilla.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 03, 2025 10:00 PM (VSht7)

2 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 03, 2025 10:00 PM (SRRAx)

3 First?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 03, 2025 10:00 PM (yvNv0)

4 Good evening good people

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

5 Howdy!

Posted by: Caf at September 03, 2025 10:00 PM (/+mVZ)

6 oh no

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 03, 2025 10:01 PM (wQPGd)

7 Nooded

Posted by: tankdemon at September 03, 2025 10:01 PM (VSht7)

8 Hump day ONT

Posted by: QED Texan at September 03, 2025 10:01 PM (fveCG)

9 pretty sure Turkmenistan is already an outpost of Hell

Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 10:02 PM (gKWVE)

10 I have been to Hell in the Grand Cayman, and back. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (snZF9)

11 Click here if you really want the backstory. Otherwise, it may be more fun to wonder what is going on in Rutland Township, Illinois.

Duh. It's where the Rutles are from, of course!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (0eaVi)

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Oh, "Perfessor" Squirrel, in case you missed my willowed post, the answer to your question about tides as presented in the previous thread is: Big water! Water big!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (lCaJd)

13 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (77rzZ)

14 Saw that top pic and for a moment thought MisHum must be the ONT host again tonight. Nice pic.

G'even, y'all. Are we smiling and being happy and striking fear into the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere?

Posted by: mindful webworker - as they say at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (Hus0x)

15 Buc-ee's intends to construct a 74,000-square-foot gas and convenience store on undeveloped land west of Interstate 15 off exit 261, near 1400 N and 2600 West in Springville.

Will they offer coffee there? Last time I was in SLC, I had a hell of a time finding a cuppa Joe.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

16 That dude in the spacesuit prototype looks like he just escaped from the set of a 1960s/1970s kids' show.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:04 PM (IBQGV)

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Flute songs.
Songs with the flute in them.

Good or Bad?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:04 PM (ytyoQ)

18 My wife wants this hat

https://tinyurl.com/mrx4wda5

Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:04 PM (jc0TO)

19 Oh, "Perfessor" Squirrel, in case you missed my willowed post, the answer to your question about tides as presented in the previous thread is: Big water! Water big!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (lCaJd)
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publius covered the topic quite thoroughly, as usual!

So mad props to him!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (IBQGV)

20 Gates of Hell #11

Hillary's dried gash.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

21 Cows have cloven hooves. Horses have hooves.

Keep this shit straight!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (mFSH6)

22 Willowed, of course:

I don't know, but it's criminal what happened to craftsman. I still have a shit ton of their stuff. Multiple 200 piece sets from 40 years ago are still in my boxes. I have ratchets old enough that they have the oiler on top. I only broke 2 sockets in all this time. Now its all china.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

The company my dad worked for had a contract to heat treat their socket sets. I have a set of deep sockets, unchromed and missing one. They would heat treat them, then sacrifice one socket from the set to destroy by testing the Rockwell hardness.

Since one socket is missing from the set, the set couldn't be sold.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:06 PM (6oHLy)

23 That dude in the spacesuit prototype looks like he just escaped from the set of a 1960s/1970s kids' show.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

If you'd asked me if it was an actual NASA test, or a screenshot from an MST3K episode, I'd have said you cheated when you photoshopped out Mike and the robots' silhouettes.

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 10:06 PM (DgGvY)

24 That dude in the spacesuit prototype looks like he just escaped from the set of a 1960s/1970s kids' show.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:04 PM (IBQGV)

Danger Will Robinson!!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2025 10:07 PM (snZF9)

25 In honor of Bette Nesmith Graham, my favorite song by her son.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wUv89kx7Yo

Posted by: huerfano at September 03, 2025 10:07 PM (98kQX)

26 Breaking Buc-ee's News

Buc-ee's enters into MOU with Springville, intends to build first Utah location

MOU? Mormon Oriented Utah?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)

27 With the way school is today, I feel a lot of empathy for that little boy.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 10:07 PM (gKDq2)

28 Flute songs.
Songs with the flute in them.
Good or Bad?
Posted by: Soothsayer

* gives everyone The Eye *

Posted by: Ian Anderson at September 03, 2025 10:08 PM (DgGvY)

29 When my bank at the time got it's first ATM, it allowed you to deposit a check and then withdraw money from the deposit. It took exactly one week for someone figure out that they could put blank paper in, tell the ATM it was a $1000 deposit and take money out.

Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:09 PM (jc0TO)

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Jerry the Nads district seems to be a magnet for nepo spawn. So Webb Hubbell's kid is out and JFK's grandsprog is looking it over. What other dynastic scion will swoop in?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:09 PM (kkTda)

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My wife wants this hat

https://tinyurl.com/mrx4wda5
Posted by: toby928

It reminds me of the classic "Mustache Rides $0.05" t-shirt.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:09 PM (ytyoQ)

32 If that's a real patch.... I just... it's awesome. What a troll from way back.

Oh... and the old mill is awesome too. Been there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 10:09 PM (Q4IgG)

33 The company my dad worked for had a contract to heat treat their socket sets. I have a set of deep sockets, unchromed and missing one. They would heat treat them, then sacrifice one socket from the set to destroy by testing the Rockwell hardness.

Since one socket is missing from the set, the set couldn't be sold.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:06 PM (6oHLy)

I think they were made by Western Forge for the longest time. Thats probably where they were coming from to your dad's company.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2025 10:10 PM (snZF9)

34 Fred would’ve gotten away with it if if it hadn’t been for his darned self.

Posted by: Bulg at September 03, 2025 10:10 PM (77rzZ)

35 Thanks for another mighty, mighty, mighty Wednesday Night ONT, Confucius TRex!

So much content, so much knowledge!

Buc-ee's in Springdale! Zion will never be the same!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 03, 2025 10:10 PM (kB9dk)

36 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Yoda at September 03, 2025 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

37 I meant Springville, not Springdale...

Sheesh.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 03, 2025 10:11 PM (kB9dk)

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Flute songs.
Songs with the flute in them.

Good or Bad?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:04 PM (ytyoQ)

Flute? Really? Nobody listens to the flute these days. You really must be living in the past.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 03, 2025 10:11 PM (VSht7)

39 In the shuffling madness...

Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:12 PM (jc0TO)

40 MOU? Mormon Oriented Utah?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:07 PM (0eaVi)

Memorandum Of Understanding

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 03, 2025 10:12 PM (yvNv0)

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England's fascists are all aghast at people flying the country's flags. It's ONLY because "racism," they say.

And, get this, England's black goblins are pretending they don't "feel safe" anymore. The irony is ironic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:12 PM (ytyoQ)

42 Tonight's bedtime story is Assail by Ian C. Esslemont, another tale set in the world of the Malazan Empire.

Gold has been discovered on the titular continent, sparking a mad gold rush as everyone around the world seeks unimaginable riches.

The only catch is would-be fortune hunters must sail across the Sea of Hate, snake their way through the Fear Narrows, sail the Dread Sea up the Anguish Coast and then make their way into the Blood Range to find the legendary gold. But those are just place names that don't mean anything.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:13 PM (IBQGV)

43 And, get this, England's black goblins are pretending they don't "feel safe" anymore. The irony is ironic.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Why it's almost as if when one is a 'subject' of a country, he has limited rights.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 10:13 PM (cYBz/)

44 I don't like it and I'm not going!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 03, 2025 10:14 PM (63Dwl)

45 The New York Jokes drop their first video of the season, a highlight reel of last year's fun and games...

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

Posted by: davidt at September 03, 2025 10:14 PM (i0F8b)

46 England's fascists are all aghast at people flying the country's flags. It's ONLY because "racism," they say.

And, get this, England's black goblins are pretending they don't "feel safe" anymore. The irony is ironic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:12 PM (ytyoQ)

We got jerkoffs here that are triggered by our flag. In a nutshell, the west is filled with jerkoffs that need to be boiled away in space.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2025 10:14 PM (snZF9)

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Buc-ee's intends to construct a 74,000-square-foot gas and convenience store on undeveloped land west of Interstate 15 off exit 261, near 1400 N and 2600 West in Springville.

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Can you imagine a Buc-ee's in the EU? "Non, pairmission denied. Nothing above 100 square meters."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:15 PM (kkTda)

48 In a nutshell, the west is filled with jerkoffs that need to be boiled away in space.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Dr. Flexi Jerkoff was in space.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)

49 You really must be living in the past."

Funny.

I'm just skating away...

Posted by: man at September 03, 2025 10:16 PM (tubbA)

50 1962 NASA space suit test in the Mojave Desert

If you saw that in a SF movie, you'd just laugh. Sillier looking than Robbie from Forbidden Planet/Lost in Space.

Also, tankdemon got 1st and said he was late. Does not compute.

Posted by: mindful webworker - glitches in the matrix at September 03, 2025 10:16 PM (Hus0x)

51 Gold has been discovered on the titular continent, sparking a mad gold rush as everyone around the world seeks unimaginable riches.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:13 PM (IBQGV)

Gold titulars? Isn't that what they had on the statue of Athena in Athens?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)

52 Will they offer coffee there? Last time I was in SLC, I had a hell of a time finding a cuppa Joe.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 10:03 PM (cYBz/)
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Cannot speak for SLC, but the rest of Utah is crawling with coffee shops and drive throughs. And it's good coffee!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 03, 2025 10:17 PM (kB9dk)

53 The worst thing about the spacesuit picture is the big number "3" on it.

That means they made two of them before that one, and nobody had the balls to tell Mr. Hazard how retarded they looked.

And it means there were two tragic spacesuit accidents, and there are two unmarked graves in the middle of the Mojave Desert.....

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 10:18 PM (DgGvY)

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If you saw that in a SF movie, you'd just laugh. Sillier looking than Robbie from Forbidden Planet/Lost in Space.

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Needs some arcing and shorting electrical cables in the background.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:18 PM (kkTda)

55 Gold titulars? Isn't that what they had on the statue of Athena in Athens?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:17 PM (0eaVi)

I hate to think what was gold on the Colossus of Rhodes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2025 10:18 PM (snZF9)

56 Will we see Uranus tomorrow?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2025 09:59 PM (2WIwB)

Can we get dinner at least?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 03, 2025 10:19 PM (i24o9)

57 And it means there were two tragic spacesuit accidents, and there are two unmarked graves in the middle of the Mojave Desert.....
Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 10:18 PM (DgGvY)

Heh. "Two."

Posted by: Area 51 Clean Up and Maintenance Division at September 03, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

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And, get this, England's black goblins are pretending they don't "feel safe" anymore. The irony is ironic.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:12 PM (ytyoQ)

Anybody think that little Scottish girl was carrying a knife and an axe because she felt safe?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 03, 2025 10:20 PM (pIfcn)

59 Ho. Lee. Shit.

Karmelo Anthony’s Secret Network of Harassment Revealed! This Looks Bad!A Family in Crisis: The Anthony Saga Spirals Out of Control

It started as a typical celebrity scandal, but now the Karmelo Anthony family drama has exploded into something darker—and far more disturbing. What was once whispered about behind closed doors is now making headlines: a secret online harassment network, allegedly orchestrated by Karmelo’s own father, has been exposed. And the fallout is threatening to engulf everyone in its path.

https://tinyurl.com/3f4myfyd

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:20 PM (6oHLy)

60 I hate to think what was gold on the Colossus of Rhodes.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2025 10:18 PM (snZF9)

His crown of course! He was the Sun god.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

61 Will we see Uranus tomorrow?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2025 09:59 PM (2WIwB)

Can we get dinner at least?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:21 PM (6oHLy)

62 When my however-many-great grandparents headed west in a Conestoga wagon pulled by oxen, they had to shoe the oxen like horses. The soil was so rich, the cloven hooves could sink down a foot and break an ox's ankle.

Posted by: Wenda at September 03, 2025 10:21 PM (sjGsU)

63 16 That dude in the spacesuit prototype looks like he just escaped from the set of a 1960s/1970s kids' show.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:04 PM (IBQGV)

That is the Major Matt Mason space suit!

Posted by: joemarine at September 03, 2025 10:23 PM (y171U)

64 Hey, I had an aggravating thing today. I am selling a small lot that my mother owned in another state so I am doing it by courier. Anyways, I received the Title Deed and other forms for the sale and I had to sign and be notarized. No problem I thinks, go to one of my banks, wait almost an hour for the notary, and he looks at the papers and says that he can't notarize real estate stuff. I had to rush over to my old real estate lawyers office to get them to do it.

Has anyone every heard of this? I assumed that a notary could notarize any signature.

Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:23 PM (jc0TO)

65 With that brow, Christine looks more like Christopher.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2025 10:24 PM (/P8AX)

66
lulz, remember the olden days when one of You Morons would accidentally copy/paste the entire thread because "tecnhology" is too much for You to handle, haha?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:24 PM (ytyoQ)

67 Pittsburgh Scanner
Homewood. Frankstown Ave. Caller says that she is having a problem with witches.

That's rather vague.

Did they turn her into a newt? Refuse to turn someone else into a newt after being paid the standard newting fee?

Are they drilling wells all over her yard?

Starring in bad Star Wars spinoffs?

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 10:25 PM (DgGvY)

68
>>>Your "loved ones" will sell or discard all your cherished belongings at the estate sale"

>>>Nah. Mine have walked off with, er, borrowed everything...
Posted by: man a

>>>man, nope I am steadily liquidating my stuff. Like Noah building the Ark before the flood.
Posted by: Ben Had

Isn't that kinda the opposite of Noah? Noah was building something, collecting things. You're getting rid of stuff.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:26 PM (ytyoQ)

69 >>>wonder which store opened first or whether this was a joint venture:
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Be a good little fish, uhmm, you know what's next door.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2025 10:26 PM (/P8AX)

70 I have been to the Santiago Crater in Masaya, Nicaragua. Went up to the edge, and peered in. Smoky, couldn't see much. The docents there require you to park your vehicle backed in, so you can unass the area safely in the event the volcano starts barfing out rocks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:27 PM (wXPgs)

71
That "3" suit gives me Dukakis In A Tank vibes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 03, 2025 10:27 PM (lCaJd)

72 Excellent mystery music!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2025 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

73 >Has anyone every heard of this? I assumed that a notary could notarize any signature.
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Might vary by state/county. I've had issues with getting a notarized signature for my son, who lives in another state, for a savings bond purchased for him a billion years ago... and lost.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 10:28 PM (Q4IgG)

74 Cows have cloven hooves. Horses have hooves.

Keep this shit straight!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (mFSH6)

It behooves one to be current on such important facts!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:28 PM (wXPgs)

75 Since one socket is missing from the set, the set couldn't be sold.

The 10mm, right? Its always the 10mm.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 03, 2025 10:29 PM (a4flb)

76 Cows have cloven hooves. Horses have hooves.

Keep this shit straight!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (mFSH6)

It behooves one to be current on such important facts!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:28 PM

Bulls have only one teat.

Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:29 PM (jc0TO)

77 Looks like they go to the McGregor test site in Texas. They are arranged neatly in a Raptor Graveyard. I believe they are available for scavenging as needed by SpaceX staff.

>>> Pooky's old shop had to use The Boneyard more than once. And the Smithsonian.

Posted by: pookysgirl misses hearing Wild Blue Yonder tales at September 03, 2025 10:29 PM (cq/up)

78 I think Hollywood needs to make a new Snake Pilsskin movie: Escape from Chicago. I'm not sure who should need saving, just that she needs to be curvaceous and able to smile naturally.

Of course, Kurt Russell, at 74, is probably too old.

Who should play Snake and the rescuee? I'm not sure who would fill these roles.

Who should play the head cheese of Chicago, and the prime henchman? I'm thinking Rob Reiner or Michael Moore for the role of Chicago Deep Dish, with RuPaul as his henchman, the Cheese Grater

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 03, 2025 10:30 PM (S/Y4j)

79 If I picked up Gidions Bible and opened to page one, would the train stop going or would it not slow down.

I say no, it would not stop, no, it wouldn't slow down.
Wouldn't slow down.

Posted by: Reforger at September 03, 2025 10:30 PM (Mptn1)

80 35 Thanks for another mighty, mighty, mighty Wednesday Night ONT, Confucius TRex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 03, 2025 10:10 PM
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{respectful bow in the direction of LS}

Posted by: TRex - Angels landing is WAY up high at September 03, 2025 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)

81 >>>in a Raptor Graveyard
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Note, pickup in photo for size comparison.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2025 10:31 PM (/P8AX)

82 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 03, 2025 10:32 PM (wrXPz)

83
The new fake Craftsman chinese crap ins't too bad. It's fine for the homeowner.

The Craftsman tool box & tool chests are good value, I think. Again, for the homeowner shmoe.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:33 PM (ytyoQ)

84 Fricking Cows. As an Iowanian I should know more about Cows than I do. Camped at 10,160 ft in National.Forest (Nature’s A/C) and grazing is permitted. I don’t mind ‘em too much, I have a couple pounds of their cousin in the freezer right now.

However comma I have to wonder why they seem to want to congregate right around my camp. There are a million acres for them to frolic around in, and I can’t see why any particular blade of grass is more scrumptious than another.

I did discover “Go on, Git!!” and “Yaa!!”while swinging a stick works pretty good to get them to skedaddle.

They can be quiet when they want to, believe it or not. 1200 pounds of ‘em. I’ll open up the curtains and all there is in the window is Cow. &$@!!! Go outside and there’s a whole Cattle Congress. I’ve a big enamelware boiler full of water when I want to say Hi to Gene and this big ass cow was trying to get a drink.

I thought they bedded down at night. Oh hell no, they stumble around in the dark, I don’t think they sleep, much.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 10:33 PM (37PXt)

85 Cows have cloven hooves. Horses have hooves.

Keep this shit straight!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (mFSH6)

It behooves one to be current on such important facts!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:28 PM

Bulls have only one teat.
Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:29 PM (jc0TO)

The things that are uddered here.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2025 10:33 PM (2WIwB)

86
Cows have cloven hooves. Horses have hooves.

Keep this shit straight!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (mFSH6)

_________

I have a mild addiction to hoof-care videos. Cows get snazzy modern equipment. Horses have stuff a farrier from 200 years ago could pick right up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:33 PM (kkTda)

87 I have a mild addiction to hoof-care videos. Cows get snazzy modern equipment. Horses have stuff a farrier from 200 years ago could pick right up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Nate the Hoof Guy fan are you?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 10:34 PM (cYBz/)

88 Yankees blew a 3 point lead, now tied with the *s for 4-4

Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

89
So I made this comment on Youtube earlier today and it's getting quite a few Thumbs in the upward orientation:

"I guess now they'll put away their Iranian flags and start waving Venezuelan flags."

I wonder how right I'll be.
Are these leftist fascist kneejerk jerkoffs that predictably idiotic & robotic?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:36 PM (ytyoQ)

90 https://tinyurl.com/b8cbjksv
Illustrated Spygate Scandal pt VI
Doug Ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at September 03, 2025 10:37 PM (+qU29)

91 On an unrelated note. Bette was the mother of musician and songwriter Mike Nesmith of the Monkees.
——

I’d say that is a very related note, seein’ how she was his Mom! And that ain’t Deke Slayton

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 10:37 PM (37PXt)

92 Anybody think that little Scottish girl was carrying a knife and an axe because she felt safe?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 03, 2025 10:20 PM (pIfcn)

Weapon suggestion for those living in benighted countries like England and Canada that don't let you carry a BFH (big fucking handgun): a cellphone "case" that contains a powerful laser working in the near-infrared range. Something powerful enough to simply fry a goblin's retinas if swept over his eyes. That would likely stop an attack on the spot, or at least greatly even out the odds. Maybe have a pale green laser collimated with it for aiming purposes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:37 PM (wXPgs)

93 Are these leftist fascist kneejerk jerkoffs that predictably idiotic & robotic?

Yes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 03, 2025 10:38 PM (lUFok)

94
Yankees blew a 3 point lead, now tied with the *s for 4-4
Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

________

The shortest period of time in the universe is the one preceding a Yankees fan telling you they won 27 World Series.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:38 PM (kkTda)

95 Pittsburgh seems to be a happenin' place.

I went to a Marshall Tucker concert in college with my posse of friends (5 boys and sometimes another girl who lived in the fourplex...they were her friends but also became mine). I don't remember much but I was there. Which is the theme to many college concerts. Flashes of memory and I had fun.

I found an old email from 2007 to one of my brothers. An angry email from FL about Hispanics stealing coconuts from our trees. A new home had been built next to us and my first introduction to illegals on their new roof. I also had a skirmish with one who stole water from my casa.

Anyway, in the email to my brother (my entire family are used to my emails), the doorbell rang and a young man who did not speak English wanted my coconuts. I told him NO (I said he pantomimed he wanted to either cut the coconuts or behead me, but without a machete). My husband wandered up, saw my laser glare and backed me up with a manly no.

Once we closed the door he said I was "not acting very Christian." I said, "Where in the Bible does it say I have to give illegals my coconuts?" I ended the email saying I had a jab at illegals. No longer in FL but feel the same.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2025 10:38 PM (6PCLE)

96 A titular continent sounds kind of fun.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 03, 2025 10:38 PM (r2+h3)

97 >>>If you'd asked me if it was an actual NASA test, or a screenshot from an MST3K episode, I'd have said you cheated when you photoshopped out Mike and the robots' silhouettes.
Posted by: mikeski
----------

Maybe aircraft designers should stick with aircraft.
see: Boeing Starliner

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2025 10:39 PM (/P8AX)

98 I wonder how right I'll be.
Are these leftist fascist kneejerk jerkoffs that predictably idiotic & robotic?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:36 PM (ytyoQ)
----
Oh, yes. Remember, they are NPCs (Non-Player Characters) with no agency of their own.

They are as predictable and programmable as a character in a video game.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:39 PM (IBQGV)

99 A mighty mystery click....given that their college football team lost last weekend to FSU...truly a beautiful thing...we appreciate you FSU...

Posted by: The Grateful at September 03, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

100 Weapon suggestion for those living in benighted countries like England and Canada that don't let you carry a BFH (big fucking handgun): a cellphone "case" that contains a powerful laser working in the near-infrared range. Something powerful enough to simply fry a goblin's retinas if swept over his eyes. That would likely stop an attack on the spot, or at least greatly even out the odds. Maybe have a pale green laser collimated with it for aiming purposes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:37 PM (wXPgs)

Bonus: He'll have a hard time identifying you.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)

101 85 Cows have cloven hooves. Horses have hooves.

Keep this shit straight!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 03, 2025 10:05 PM (mFSH6)

It behooves one to be current on such important facts!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:28 PM

Bulls have only one teat.
Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:29 PM (jc0TO)

The things that are uddered here.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2025 10:33 PM (2WIwB)

don't have a cow over it, man!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM (0CU3H)

102 A titular continent sounds kind of fun.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 03, 2025 10:38 PM (r2+h3)
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South Park had some fun with this idea in their "Major Boobage" episode.

https://youtu.be/Pma_mr1Uh_A

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM (IBQGV)

103 Hey, I had an aggravating thing today. I am selling a small lot that my mother owned in another state so I am doing it by courier. Anyways, I received the Title Deed and other forms for the sale and I had to sign and be notarized. No problem I thinks, go to one of my banks, wait almost an hour for the notary, and he looks at the papers and says that he can't notarize real estate stuff. I had to rush over to my old real estate lawyers office to get them to do it.

Has anyone every heard of this? I assumed that a notary could notarize any signature.
Posted by: toby928

Never heard of that. All a notary does is guarantee that the person signing the document is who they say they are.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM (6oHLy)

104 It started as a typical celebrity scandal, but now the Karmelo Anthony family drama has exploded into something darker—and far more disturbing. What was once whispered about behind closed doors is now making headlines: a secret online harassment network, allegedly orchestrated by Karmelo’s own father, has been exposed. And the fallout is threatening to engulf everyone in its path.

https://tinyurl.com/3f4myfyd
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:20 PM (6oHLy)

That entire family needs to be put down, for the betterment of society..

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:42 PM (wXPgs)

105 Marshall Tucker playing over a pool table, drinking from 25 cent beer mugs...I do miss those days...

Posted by: The Grateful at September 03, 2025 10:42 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 I thought Vulva Island was something completely different.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2025 10:43 PM (JkO4W)

107 The Cramps had a lovely song titled "Aloha From Hell".

And quite a proliferation of Mystery Clicks this evening. Kudos.

Posted by: RIP Lux Interior at September 03, 2025 10:43 PM (G5+As)

108 94
Yankees blew a 3 point lead, now tied with the *s for 4-4
Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

*lights cigarette*

Posted by: 3 Point Lead at September 03, 2025 10:43 PM (2WIwB)

109
All a notary does is guarantee that the person signing the document is who they say they are.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM (6oHLy)

_________

Lance Parkertip, Notary Public!

(a Don Martin classic)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:44 PM (kkTda)

110 All a notary does is guarantee that the person signing the document is who they say they are.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM

That's what I thought.

Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:44 PM (jc0TO)

111 102. South Park had some fun with this idea in their "Major Boobage" episode.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM
***
Great episode. Great soundtrack too.

Posted by: TRex - I watch for the music. at September 03, 2025 10:44 PM (IQ6Gq)

112
I thought they bedded down at night. Oh hell no, they stumble around in the dark, I don’t think they sleep, much.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 10:33 PM (37PXt)

The moo cows just want to be friends. When my father built a house on his land the first thing my mother did was get curtains for their ground floor bathroom, facing the front porch. She got out of the shower to a crowd looking at her.

They also will form a huddle around a newborn and abandoned baby kitten. My brother adopted her and raised her with an eye dropper.

They also formed and stared for an hour at my baby brother on the front porch from behind a fence.

They are nosy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2025 10:44 PM (6PCLE)

113 And, get this, England's black goblins are pretending they don't "feel safe" anymore. The irony is ironic.

----------

The problem with England is, that it's full of Orcs.

Posted by: Edward I Longshanks at September 03, 2025 10:45 PM (JkO4W)

114 If that's a real patch.... I just... it's awesome. What a troll from way back.

Oh... and the old mill is awesome too. Been there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 03, 2025 10:09 PM (Q4IgG)

Friend of mine rode on the SR71. He'd love to have that patch...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 03, 2025 10:45 PM (nbLIj)

115 NASA was actually pretty smart when they put out bids for proposal. Nobody was quite sure what the designs would end up, they gave wide parameters of what they wanted to do.

So there are some really cool mockups from different aerospace companies. Tracked vehicles for the lunar surface, and big huge rockets, spinning wheel space stations, really cool drawings right out of Sci-Fi.

For a little while they envisioned sending a single astronaut down from lunar orbit via a kind of open platform while wearing a space suit. Grumman got the LEM contract because they had spent a few years previous and their own money on how they might do it, they were way ahead of anyone else. But they had a hell of a time making it work. It was a close run thing. Kelly’s book is excellent.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 10:47 PM (37PXt)

116
Classic clip. Always gives me a chuckle.

a typical girl vs men "fight" scene in Disney's fake Star Trek:

https://is.gd/U6PQFg

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:47 PM (ytyoQ)

117 107
And quite a proliferation of Mystery Clicks this evening. Kudos.
Posted by: RIP Lux Interior at September 03, 2025 10:43 PM
***
Thanks! Mystery clicks are half the fun.

Posted by: TRex - down low dino at September 03, 2025 10:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

118 A titular continent sounds kind of fun.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 03, 2025 10:38 PM (r2+h3)

It can be called, "Grand Tetonia."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 10:47 PM (0eaVi)

119 Bonus: He'll have a hard time identifying you.
Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)

Bingo! And since muzzies are already mostly collecting welfare, the bottom line doesn't change much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:48 PM (wXPgs)

120
Points?

There are *points* in Baseball??

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:48 PM (ytyoQ)

121 All a notary does is guarantee that the person signing the document is who they say they are.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:41 PM

That's what I thought.
Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:44 PM (jc0TO)

When I've had to use a Notary, I pay the whatever fee, he checks my ID, watches me sign whatever I'm signing, then affixes his stamp.

I guess the bank may not have wanted to notary non-bank documents.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 10:48 PM (gKDq2)

122 99 A mighty mystery click....given that their college football team lost last weekend to FSU...truly a beautiful thing...we appreciate you FSU...
Posted by: The Grateful at September 03, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

That was one hellovagame! Son and DIL graduated from FSU. Other sons went to UF and USF. My husband and I became Noles 'cause the kids were nicer to us when we went to games, and I am in love with Chief Osceola. Man did we have fun in Doak Stadium. Out of fairness we went to games at the other two universities, but prefer Seminoles.

It was rockin' Saturday night!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 03, 2025 10:48 PM (6PCLE)

123 Lance Parkertip, Notary Public!

(a Don Martin classic)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:44 PM (kkTda)

My commission expired.

Posted by: Lance Parkertip at September 03, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

124 Friend of mine rode on the SR71. He'd love to have that patch...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 03, 2025 10:45 PM (nbLIj)

Same with a buddy who flew TR-1s (the U-2).
Nice little space suit thing he'd wear, but with a big purple."W" on the front. Poor guy. He went to the U of Washington.

Posted by: 3 Point Lead at September 03, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

125 Damn sock.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

126 Cows have cloven hooves. Horses have hooves.
Keep this shit straight!
Posted by: Ben Had

It behooves one to be current on such important facts!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Bulls have only one teat.
Posted by: toby928

The things that are uddered here.
Posted by: Diogenes

don't have a cow over it, man!
Posted by: Darrell Harris

You're not the Bos of me!

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 10:50 PM (DgGvY)

127
Yankees blew a 3 point lead, now tied with the *s for 4-4
Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

You know, if this was World War II times, this is the type of thing that would make us suspect your're a a kraut spy!

But, since it isn't WWII times, we now think you're a space alien sent here to spy on us humans.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:51 PM (ytyoQ)

128 Weapon suggestion for those living in benighted countries like England and Canada that don't let you carry a BFH (big fucking handgun): a cellphone "case" that contains a powerful laser working in the near-infrared range. Something powerful enough to simply fry a goblin's retinas if swept over his eyes. That would likely stop an attack on the spot, or at least greatly even out the odds. Maybe have a pale green laser collimated with it for aiming purposes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 10:37 PM (wXPgs)

Bonus: He'll have a hard time identifying you.
Posted by: RickZ

Once bind you can prick his jugular with the smallest of sharp objects at your convenience.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2025 10:51 PM (/lPRQ)

129
We had some legal documents that we needed notarized and witnessed. Not knowing what to do, we went to a mail place that had recently opened. We explained the situation to the owner and he replied, "Come back in an hour." He rounded up two witnesses and we got it all done. That place now gets all our postal business.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:52 PM (kkTda)

130 Our UPS takes passport photos.

Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:52 PM (jc0TO)

131 104 It started as a typical celebrity scandal, but now the Karmelo Anthony family drama has exploded into something darker—and far more disturbing. What was once whispered about behind closed doors is now making headlines: a secret online harassment network, allegedly orchestrated by Karmelo’s own father, has been exposed. And the fallout is threatening to engulf everyone in its path.

https://tinyurl.com/3f4myfyd
Posted by: rickb223 at September 03, 2025 10:20 PM (6oHLy)

That entire family needs to be put down, for the betterment of society..
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Karmelo Anthony? The basketball player?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 03, 2025 10:53 PM (wrXPz)

132 10 Entrances to Hell You Can Actually Visit

_______________________________

Ladies and Gents, I present to you THE DMV. Sure, you can get to Hell from all those other places. BUT, if you want the full tilt experience, the DMV is your entry point. They'll add insult to injury and force you to take a number and wait your turn to enter. Of course, there are refreshments provided you can peel all the used chewing gum off the bottom of the chair. Some of it has been their for decades, so you have a legitimate at Black Jack gum, which hasn't been made in a while.

Posted by: Orson at September 03, 2025 10:54 PM (dIske)

133 Good evening morons и спасибо Дино

My college tuition was sponsored in part by Chemical Bank. Suckers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

134 >> Will we see Uranus tomorrow?

Hold on, let me freshen up a bit....

Posted by: Hope Solo at September 03, 2025 10:56 PM (w6EFb)

135
Entrances to Hell You Can Actually Visit

No mention of Mel's Hole.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 03, 2025 10:56 PM (63Dwl)

136 My college tuition was sponsored in part by Chemical Bank. Suckers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

---------

Now you're not part of the solution. You're part of the precipitate.

Chemistry humor is the best humor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W)

137
They'll add insult to injury and force you to take a number and wait your turn to enter.

_______

After an inordinate wait, your number will be called at last. You arrive before the clerk, who tells you without looking up that your documentation is incomplete.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:57 PM (kkTda)

138 oh man what a choke. 3-0 to 4-7.
those poor Yankees fans.
... eh, I'm over it now.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)

139 Karmelo Anthony? The basketball player?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 03, 2025 10:53 PM (wrXPz

---------

His brothers Toffee and Snickerdoodle got all the good press.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2025 10:58 PM (JkO4W)

140 excuse me, 4-8

Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 10:59 PM (gKWVE)

141 10 Entrances to Hell You Can Actually Visit
====

Do you need MiL's address?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 10:59 PM (RIvkX)

142
Now you're not part of the solution. You're part of the precipitate.

__________

A chemist sees the word "unionized" and doesn't think it means labor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:59 PM (kkTda)

143 Squirrel Nut Zippers

Hell

http://tiny.cc/mq2s001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 03, 2025 11:00 PM (nbLIj)

144 Flute music...

https://tinyurl.com/25ztlzqz

The first few bars make a great ringtone, too.

Posted by: Clio Weeps at September 03, 2025 11:00 PM (kSAM8)

145 Anyone got advice for sleeping on a pullout chair? Bonetired but this going to hurt.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to save her hips at September 03, 2025 11:00 PM (cq/up)

146 meanwhile, the Rockies were ahead 5-4 last I looked in on 'em so are surely bound for the playoffs

Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 11:00 PM (gKWVE)

147 After an inordinate wait, your number will be called at last. You arrive before the clerk, who tells you without looking up that your documentation is incomplete.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:57 PM (kkTda)
____________________________

Oh, it's much better than that. What the clerk actually says is:

"Tu documentación está incompleta."

Posted by: Orson at September 03, 2025 11:02 PM (dIske)

148 Has anyone every heard of this? I assumed that a notary could notarize any signature.
Posted by: toby928 at September 03, 2025 10:23 PM (jc0TO)

WHat I couldn't do was anything other than verify that the person signing had been identified to me by documentation. There were certain apostalizations that were done by the Secretary of State's office though.

It might be that the bank wasn't allowing its people to do non-bank stuff or wouldn't do real estate stuff unless they were involved.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 03, 2025 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

149 After an inordinate wait, your number will be called at last. You arrive before the clerk, who tells you without looking up that your documentation is incomplete.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That reminds me: Walking into the place to renew my car registration today. Three open stations and I'm the only guy in the place. Clerk looks up and says "May I help you?" I hand her my notice and $29. Almost instantly, she hands me my new sticker and says "Have a great day."

Elapsed time - maybe two minutes between in and out.

ps - don't move to Tennessee. It's terrible here!!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 11:02 PM (cYBz/)

150 It might be that the bank wasn't allowing its people to do non-bank stuff or wouldn't do real estate stuff unless they were involved.
Posted by: Kindltot

Chase implemented that with it's notaries a number of years ago.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 11:03 PM (cYBz/)

151 toby928, my story is not like what you describe with the notary. But when I bought my first house decades ago, everyone involved had to prove identity with drivers licenses. The real estate people explained that there had been an incident where a man and his wife sold a house and walked off with the check. Later the actual wife showed up. Turned out the husband had brought his girlfrien

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2025 11:05 PM (0Htd1)

152
THIS is what I meant by "flute songs"

https://is.gd/O89KW1

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:05 PM (NWPaw)

153 Saw Marshall Tucker 5 times in the 70s, most notably as a part of a concert at Englishtown Raceway in NJ on Sept 3, 1977. New Riders also on the bill, with headliners the Grateful Dead. Fourteen hours of music in front of about 125,000 fans. 105,000 tickets were sold, but they just let thousands more in free. Hot, humid, and fun!

Posted by: Dire Wolf at September 03, 2025 11:05 PM (G5+As)

154 And today, I picked tomatoes before the end-of-summer cloud burst, and I even got them canned before it started raining. I have a batch of tomatoes stewing to make tomato sauce tomorrow.
80 degrees and it must have been 80% humidity. Reminds me of when I was in Atlanta for five hours.

Also, I am caring for my sister's kitten, and the other cats are not amused by the new cat in the house.

My wife didn't like his name so she is calling him Sejong. She thinks if he keeps eating like he is, he will wind up as fat as Sejong the Great

Posted by: Kindltot at September 03, 2025 11:06 PM (rbvCR)

155 A somewhat-popular bumper sticker here back in the day was "If You Think Hell Never Freezes Over, You Haven't Been To Alaska".

Mostly popular with military who weren't here by choice, I think.

Oh, and imagine how disappointed I was when I learned that "titular see" had nothing to do with topless bars.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:06 PM (qpyNK)

156
shit
I forgot to cue it up to flute part:

https://is.gd/AwfLr9

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:06 PM (NWPaw)

157
See? That's a "flute song."
"Moondance" by Van Morrison.

Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:07 PM (NWPaw)

158 toby928, when I was executor for my parents' estate, one of the transactions required what I believe was called a medallion signature. It took longer to arrange than a notary because the bank didn't have one at each branch, like they did notaries. You had to schedule it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

159 157
See? That's a "flute song."
"Moondance" by Van Morrison.

Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:07 PM (NWPaw)

Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin.

Posted by: davidt at September 03, 2025 11:08 PM (i0F8b)

160 > You arrive before the clerk, who tells you without looking up that your documentation is incomplete.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 03, 2025 10:57 PM

It really, really pisses them off if you do in fact have every conceivable document they could want.

I think they must be on a quota to reject a certain number of customers for not providing (e.g.) a sperm sample.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:09 PM (qpyNK)

161 I forgot to cue it up to flute part:

https://is.gd/AwfLr9
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:06 PM (NWPaw)

In my day, I was a virtuoso performer on the skin flute.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at September 03, 2025 11:09 PM (wXPgs)

162
Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin.
Posted by: davidt

Good one!
I cued it up to the flute part:

https://is.gd/yLsJ3L

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:10 PM (NWPaw)

163 That reminds me: Walking into the place to renew my car registration today. Three open stations and I'm the only guy in the place. Clerk looks up and says "May I help you?" I hand her my notice and $29. Almost instantly, she hands me my new sticker and says "Have a great day."

Elapsed time - maybe two minutes between in and out.

ps - don't move to Tennessee. It's terrible here!!
Posted by: Tonypete at September 03, 2025 11:02 PM (cYBz/)
_________________________________

That's how they suck you in. It's an old trick of the Devil. Same deal with potato chips and beer.

Posted by: Orson at September 03, 2025 11:10 PM (dIske)

164 > Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:07 PM (NWPaw)

Stairway to Heaven, if recorders count.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:11 PM (qpyNK)

165 >>>You had to schedule it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September
----------------

Another transaction fee. Because, if you don't want it...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 03, 2025 11:11 PM (/P8AX)

166 Sushi Villa and Fish World; the circle of life, if you like guppy sushi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:11 PM (4w2Cy)

167 Does Zamfir count?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:11 PM (4w2Cy)

168 Not a flute song, but it sounds like it:

https://youtu.be/ds3wXLxM6kg

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 11:12 PM (wXPgs)

169 Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"

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Good Vibrations?

Oh wait. That's a Theremin song.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2025 11:12 PM (dDmld)

170 167 Does Zamfir count?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:11 PM (4w2Cy)

--------

Only up to twenty, with his shoes off.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2025 11:13 PM (dDmld)

171 159 157
See? That's a "flute song."
"Moondance" by Van Morrison.

Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:07 PM (NWPaw)

Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin.
Posted by: davidt at September 03, 2025 11:08 PM (i0F8b)

Well, speaking of Marshall Tucker...

http://tiny.cc/ar2s001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 03, 2025 11:14 PM (nbLIj)

172 Marshall Tucker was Great. Thanks. Seen them a few times. That was good.

Posted by: DBCooper at September 03, 2025 11:14 PM (ItA3D)

173
Does Zamfir count?
Posted by: Anna Puma

okay, wisenheimer

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:14 PM (NWPaw)

174 “All The Leaves Are Brown” Mamas and Papas

Woefully out of tune (the band, technically, not the flute) makes me criinge every time I heard it. There are a whole bunch of famous tunes that are way out of whack, acfually, but that’s notable for sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 11:14 PM (zXS73)

175 re: White oak to keep USS Constitution in shape -

Another critical material used for construction of USS Constitution and her five sister 44-gun frigates is Live Oak (Quercus virginiana). It grows in coastal areas of the US from South Carolina to Texas. Its wood is dense and immensely strong.

I found a good article about live oak supplies to keep Old Ironsides in good shape, but TinyUrl won't accept the domain.

Google 'USS Constitution and the Legacy of Live Oak', August 10, 2002, if you are interested.

Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:14 PM (aBgBM)

176 Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:07 PM (NWPaw)

The Guess Who, "Undun".

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:15 PM (gKDq2)

177 157 Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:07 PM (NWPaw)

I can name a kazoo song:

https://youtu.be/px5kIbXbgvU

Posted by: tankdemon at September 03, 2025 11:15 PM (VSht7)

178 85 years ago, the Battle of Britain was reaching its crescendo which would be marked on the 15th of September was a black day in fact due to severe bomber losses. After being shocked at how strong Fighter Command still was, Operation Sealion was cancelled, and England was safe from seaborne invasion.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:15 PM (4w2Cy)

179 Did Donaldus Maximus take the day off? I checked my local news website and they didn't have a single headline about how Trump was destroying the country.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 03, 2025 11:15 PM (yvNv0)

180 "Kill the beast" song in Beauty & the Beast is so fun

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 03, 2025 11:16 PM (6U1c2)

181 85 years ago, the Battle of Britain was reaching its crescendo which would be marked on the 15th of September was a black day in fact due to severe bomber losses. After being shocked at how strong Fighter Command still was, Operation Sealion was cancelled, and England was safe from seaborne invasion.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:15 PM (4w2Cy)

85 years later their pitiful Navy/Air Force can't sink little boats.

Maybe they'll take lessons from Trump.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:17 PM (gKDq2)

182 If you find yourself needing a notary on a bank holiday, many UPS Stores and the like have notary services.

They'll stamp anything.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:17 PM (qpyNK)

183 They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:17 PM (4w2Cy)

184 Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"

Not off the top of my head. I can name two bagpipe songs, though.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 03, 2025 11:17 PM (lUFok)

185 Had a cricket somehow get in the house, and it's been taunting me all evening. Finally, I used my head, turned to my black lab and said, "get it". And, off he went. Seconds later, no more chirping, and a rather satisfied looking pup trotted back into the living room licking his chops.

Someone is getting a few pieces raw sirloin and a well deserved head pat.

Posted by: Orson at September 03, 2025 11:18 PM (dIske)

186 Trivia: How many US states do not have a straight line in their border?

Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:18 PM (aBgBM)

187 "I guess now they'll put away their Iranian flags and start waving Venezuelan flags."
I wonder how right I'll be.
Are these leftist fascist kneejerk jerkoffs that predictably idiotic & robotic?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 10:36 PM (ytyoQ)

Simon Bolivar wrote to an old comrade as he was dying, waiting in vain for the ship that would take him to exile in England, predicting the future of America (Colombia and Venezuela and the other countries he conquered from the Spanish):

You know that I have ruled for twenty years, and I have derived from these only a few sure conclusions:
1) America is ungovernable, for us;
2) Those who serve revolution plough the sea;
3) The only thing one can do in America is emigrate;
4) This country will fall inevitably into the hands of the unrestrained multitudes and then into the hands of tyrants so insigniﬁcantthey will be almost imperceptible, of all colors and races;
5) Once we’ve been eaten alive by every crime and extinguished by ferocity, the Europeans won’t even bother to conquer us;
6) If it were possible for any part of the world to revert to primitive chaos, it would be America in her last hour

Posted by: Kindltot at September 03, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)

188 Nope, not a Theramin on Good Vibrations.

The inventor was a Russian - he also invented an amazingly clever surveillance device that was gifted to the American Embassy, in a stylized Eagle and US motif, that hung on a wall. It wasn’t discovered except by accident, some Brits were monitoring radio frequencies in a nearby location and were picking up harmonics of the American staff voices. Some weird cavity resonance thing, they still aren’t sure quite how it worked as they pranged it up trying to inspect it.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 11:19 PM (zXS73)

189 a typical girl vs men "fight" scene in Disney's fake Star Trek:
https://is.gd/U6PQFg
Posted by: Soothsayer

I've watched reality tv shows and youtubes of cops taking down resisting perps. The female cops almost always get thrown around like ragdolls, and need a male cop to help them. I don't think I've ever seen one where a female cop could handle a resisting man without help.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2025 11:19 PM (0Htd1)

190
Some of the dumbest, funniest Youtubes are from "shittyflute" channel.

It's just someone who plays popular songs on a flute, terribly. Very amusing to my tiny, chimp-like brain. I find it hilarious.

https://is.gd/uQYk8n

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:20 PM (NWPaw)

191 Trivia: How many US states do not have a straight line in their border?
Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:18 PM (aBgBM)

I can think of Hawaii.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

192 I'm in and out quick tonight - thanks, TRex, you da man!

Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:21 PM (aBgBM)

193 186 Trivia: How many US states do not have a straight line in their border?
Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:18 PM (aBgBM)

Only Hawaii comes to mind. Even West Virginia has a bit of a straight line in the part that juts up between PA and OH.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 03, 2025 11:22 PM (VSht7)

194 189 a typical girl vs men "fight" scene in Disney's fake Star Trek:
https://is.gd/U6PQFg
Posted by: Soothsayer

I've watched reality tv shows and youtubes of cops taking down resisting perps. The female cops almost always get thrown around like ragdolls, and need a male cop to help them. I don't think I've ever seen one where a female cop could handle a resisting man without help.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2025 11:19 PM (0Htd1)

It's almost like there are genuine differences in physical strength between the sexes.

Posted by: flesh stromboli at September 03, 2025 11:22 PM (bL4CC)

195 Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"
Posted by: Soothsayer

Genesis, back when Peter Gabriel flauted for them:

https://youtu.be/Rz-tHZEr37I?t=201

.....and cued up to the flute part.

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 11:22 PM (DgGvY)

196 191 Trivia: How many US states do not have a straight line in their border?
Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:18 PM (aBgBM)

I can think of Hawaii.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

Winner winner, chicken dinner! It is the only one.

Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:23 PM (aBgBM)

197 I can think of Hawaii.
Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

Wyoming and Colorado are right out...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 11:23 PM (wXPgs)

198 re: White oak to keep USS Constitution in shape -

Another critical material used for construction of USS Constitution and her five sister 44-gun frigates is Live Oak (Quercus virginiana). It grows in coastal areas of the US from South Carolina to Texas. Its wood is dense and immensely strong.

I found a good article about live oak supplies to keep Old Ironsides in good shape, but TinyUrl won't accept the domain.

Google 'USS Constitution and the Legacy of Live Oak', August 10, 2002, if you are interested.
Posted by: Gref

Also some other exotic wood grown in the Florida Keys.
I believe it was once a strategic reserve, but so limited in availability its kind of lost technology of wooden ships.
The name escapes me at the moment...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

199 There's a Hell, Michigan near Ann Arbor.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 03, 2025 11:23 PM (k9869)

200
Simon Bolivar wrote to an old comrade as he was dying, waiting in vain for the ship that would take him to exile in England, predicting the future of America (Colombia and Venezuela and the other countries he conquered from the Spanish):

You know that I have ruled for twenty years, and I have derived from these only a few sure conclusions:
1) America is ungovernable, for us;
2) Those who serve revolution plough the sea;
3) The only thing one can do in America is emigrate;
4) This country will fall inevitably into the hands of the unrestrained multitudes and then into the hands of tyrants so insigniﬁcantthey will be almost imperceptible, of all colors and races;
5) Once we’ve been eaten alive by every crime and extinguished by ferocity, the Europeans won’t even bother to conquer us;
6) If it were possible for any part of the world to revert to primitive chaos, it would be America in her last hour
Posted by: Kindltot

Cliff notes, bro?

(akshually, the cool kids just say "cliffs?" now, but I felt I had to be more clear)

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:24 PM (NWPaw)

201 Winner winner, chicken dinner! It is the only one.
Posted by: Gref at September 03, 2025 11:23 PM (aBgBM)

With mashed and gravv, please.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)

202 There's a lot of cop-cam video where some she-orc is charging the cop with something sharp.
Whatever the sharp object is, it's not their brains.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 03, 2025 11:24 PM (gKWVE)

203 Also some other exotic wood grown in the Florida Keys.
I believe it was once a strategic reserve, but so limited in availability its kind of lost technology of wooden ships.
The name escapes me at the moment...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

Lignum vitae, maybe? Although the Constitution, being a sail-only ship, didn't need propeller shaft bearings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 11:26 PM (wXPgs)

204 Acheron River (Greece)
Technically, that's an exit, isn't it? It flows OUT of the ground?

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2025 11:26 PM (RTQn+)

205 Anyone got advice for sleeping on a pullout chair? Bonetired but this going to hurt.
Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to save her hips at September 03, 2025 11:00 PM (cq/up)

Since no one else has answered....

They're like sleeping in a regular recliner, but have slightly more room so you can lay on your side. It'll still feel like you slept in a chair, but at least you're at the bedside. Hope Pooky's ok.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 03, 2025 11:26 PM (0eaVi)

206 179 Did Donaldus Maximus take the day off? I checked my local news website and they didn't have a single headline about how Trump was destroying the country.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 03, 2025 11:15 PM (yvNv0)

He hosted the president of Poland at the White House, took questions afterwards.

Posted by: joemarine at September 03, 2025 11:27 PM (y171U)

207 One of the Few who shall never grow old.

Sgt. John William 'Jack' Ramshaw of 222 Sqn whilst flying Spitfire Mk I K9962 was shot down by a Bf 109 and died of his injuries whilst on his way to hospital on 4 Sept 1940. He was buried on 12 Sept 1940 with his fiancée Irene Williams in attendance.

Jack Ramshaw was only 24.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:27 PM (4w2Cy)

208 More state trivia:

How many states have discontiguous regions (like the Upper Peninsula in Michigan)?

Let's say that islands don't count.

Hint: more than you might think.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:27 PM (qpyNK)

209 Maybe they'll take lessons from Trump.
Posted by: RickZ

Trump should the next one strafed from a helicopter.
Door gunners.

This way they can wave back at the pirates/smugglers when they wave two armed Forest Gump style.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2025 11:27 PM (/lPRQ)

210
Even the phrase "shittyfluted" makes me laugh like an 12 year old. Like it's a verb, now.

If you're not at leasting *snorting* a little laugh within 19 seconds, there's no humor left in you.
EARTH WIND AND FIRE - SEPTEMBER - SHITTYFLUTED:

https://is.gd/vg2H1Z

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:28 PM (NWPaw)

211 More state trivia: Of the Lower 48, which state abuts the fewest states?

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:28 PM (gKDq2)

212 179 Did Donaldus Maximus take the day off? I checked my local news website and they didn't have a single headline about how Trump was destroying the country.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 03, 2025 11:15 PM (yvNv0)

Didn't you hear? He died over the weekend. I think the swollen ankles did him in.

Posted by: Emmie at September 03, 2025 11:28 PM (FMtrg)

213 Star Trek is a property not owned by Disney YET. Paramount is still fucking it.

Posted by: steevy at September 03, 2025 11:28 PM (YwEeS)

214 How many states have discontiguous regions (like the Upper Peninsula in Michigan)?

Let's say that islands don't count.

Hint: more than you might think.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:27 PM (qpyNK)

Washington State, for one. Point Roberts is the enclave.

And there is one on the Mississippi River where the channel changed as a result of the New Madrid earthquake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 11:30 PM (wXPgs)

215 213 Star Trek is a property not owned by Disney YET. Paramount is still fucking it.

-------

Disney will pay $4 billion for it just to give Kathleen Kennedy something new to set on fire.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 03, 2025 11:30 PM (dDmld)

216 How many states have discontiguous regions (like the Upper Peninsula in Michigan)?

Let's say that islands don't count.

Hint: more than you might think.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:27 PM (qpyNK)

Virginia for one.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:30 PM (gKDq2)

217 208 More state trivia:

How many states have discontiguous regions (like the Upper Peninsula in Michigan)?

Let's say that islands don't count.

Hint: more than you might think.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Washington. They got a bit part of it stuck at the end of a peninsula in Canada.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 03, 2025 11:32 PM (wrXPz)

218 Bette was the mother of musician and songwriter Mike Nesmith of the Monkees.
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And yet...and yet...no Nesmith vid.
[steps up to the plate]

This is mildly salacious, and poignant, no Monkees
https://shorturl.fm/OAF4O

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 03, 2025 11:32 PM (XeU6L)

219 AOP: correct, but there's more than one state that has territory on the "wrong" side of the river due to course changes.

RickZ: correct.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:33 PM (qpyNK)

220 Lignum vitae, maybe? Although the Constitution, being a sail-only ship, didn't need propeller shaft bearings.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That's it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2025 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)

221 For bonus points, there's one state that has a former capital that is disconnected (technically it was a territory then, I think).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:34 PM (qpyNK)

222 See? That's a "flute song."
"Moondance" by Van Morrison.
Besides Jethro Tull, can you name another "flute song?"
Posted by: Soothsayer

Genesis, back when Peter Gabriel flauted for them
Posted by: mikeski

Do they have to be Top-40 types? If not.....

Tirill
https://youtu.be/tfZysKKdcpE

Mostly Autumn
https://youtu.be/KcyIynwlDbM

Isildur's Bane
https://youtu.be/2jpnPu8av_4

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 11:36 PM (DgGvY)

223 Another discontiguous state, though maybe a technicality: The northeast corner of North Carolina: Knotts Island. You get to it by way of driving past Pungo, in Va Beach, or you take a ferry in, I think it's Coinjock or Moyock, something, North Carolina. Knotts Island is a little peninsula on the shoreline extending from Virginia.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:37 PM (gKDq2)

224 That's it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2025 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)

I have a log of it, hand-me-down from my grandfather. I sent some slabs to JIm (Sunk New Dawn) to make gun grips. Don't know if he ever managed to do anything with them before that evil disease claimed him. RIP, Jim.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 11:37 PM (wXPgs)

225
Lignum vitae

Wiki - The belaying pins and deadeyes aboard USS Constitution and many other sailing ships were made from lignum vitae. Due to its density and natural oils, they rarely require replacement, despite the severity of typical marine weathering conditions, and also resist jamming in their mortise holes. The sheaves of blocks on sailing vessels were made of lignum vitae until the introduction of modern synthetics.
...

and bearings in early propeller driven ships etc.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 03, 2025 11:38 PM (/lPRQ)

226 How many states have discontiguous regions (like the Upper Peninsula in Michigan)?
Let's say that islands don't count.
Hint: more than you might think.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Minnesota.

It's not even discontinuous through another state. You have to drive through Canada to get to the Northwest Angle.

And to Elm Point nearby, but that's barely a beach. People live on the Angle.

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 11:39 PM (DgGvY)

227 I live 1/2 mile from Knotts Island Ferry.

Posted by: Currituck Chuck at September 03, 2025 11:39 PM (G5+As)

228 Live rock flute solo by a well-known musician not Ian Anderson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XncZCEX0OpI

Posted by: Dark Litigator at September 03, 2025 11:39 PM (KAi1n)

229 Kid Rock

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 03, 2025 11:40 PM (63Dwl)

230 More state trivia: Of the Lower 48, which state abuts the fewest states?
Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:28 PM (gKDq2)

I guessed Maine, and was right. Its only neighbor is New Hampshire.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 03, 2025 11:40 PM (yvNv0)

231 Illinois and Kentucky both have parts on the "wrong" side of the Mississippi River, due to the river changing its course (Kentucky due to the New Madrid earthquake, as AOP mentioned, Illinois due to natural flooding and erosion).

Kaskaskia, part of Illinois and a former territorial capital, is now on the Missouri side of the river.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:40 PM (qpyNK)

232 RickZ: correct.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:33 PM (qpyNK)

I 'cheated'.

As a kid, for cheap Sunday entertainment, before they built The Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel, my parents would pack up for a day trip on the Cape Charles Ferry over to the Eastern Shore. It wasn't a short trip, about 17 miles. We'd grab a bite then come back. That was that Sunday afternoon. As a kid, I loved that ferry.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:41 PM (gKDq2)

233 Currently on the discontiguous region of VA, drove through the one in MD to get here.
I forget if it is Illinios or Missouri that had a sliver cut off by a change in course of the Mississippi River, but one of those. So, including the aforementioned Michigan and Washington, I am going with 5.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 03, 2025 11:41 PM (VSht7)

234
I love how Kentucky has both "Pennsyltucky" and "Kentuckiana" regions, both created by local Fake News channels.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:42 PM (tL5G5)

235 First?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 03, 2025 10:00 PM (yvNv0)

Wow. TFW you're beaten by tankdemon of all people AND he has an excuse!

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2025 11:42 PM (RTQn+)

236 Focus featured a flute in all their music. Though most folks only know "Hocus Pocus".

Posted by: Currituck Chuck at September 03, 2025 11:42 PM (G5+As)

237 It's almost like there are genuine differences in physical strength between the sexes.
Posted by: flesh stromboli

Well, except for that swimmer, Lia Thompson. "She" seems to have a lot of muscle mass and upper body strength.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2025 11:42 PM (0Htd1)

238
Right? Weren't those imaginary regions created by local TV channels who were broadcasting in that area and didn't want to alienate the viewers in the bordering state? So you end up with bullshit such as "Kentuckiana" and "Pennsyltucky."

Shirley other states have this, too. Yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:43 PM (tL5G5)

239 It's not even discontinuous through another state. You have to drive through Canada to get to the Northwest Angle.

Allow me to revise and extend my remarks: you can drive there without leaving the USA if Lake Of The Woods is frozen over.

Posted by: mikeski at September 03, 2025 11:44 PM (DgGvY)

240
Hocus Pocus by Focus is quite likely the Greatest song ever composed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:45 PM (tL5G5)

241 I live 1/2 mile from Knotts Island Ferry.
Posted by: Currituck Chuck at September 03, 2025 11:39 PM (G5+As)

When in high school and gas was cheap, we'd pile in my VW Squareback, with the good stereo, and we'd drive to Knotts Island from Norfolk, drinking beer when we got past Pungo. We'd cross the state line, take a piss, and come back home.

Later, an ex-BiL's brother was a Methodist preacher on Knotts Island. It was part of Virginia's domain/whatever and it was the furthest place their bishop could send him to get him out of the way. He was an ass.

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:45 PM (gKDq2)

242 The northwestern part of Arizona is cut off from the rest of Arizona by the Colorado river. When I was working in Arizona it was considered a No Man's Land.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 11:48 PM (RIvkX)

243 One of the Few who shall never grow old.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 03, 2025 11:27 PM (4w2Cy)

I was just quoting To An Athlete Dying Young to someone the other day. It's a good poem, but even more applicable to someone like this.

Posted by: GWB at September 03, 2025 11:48 PM (RTQn+)

244 Here's a Wikipedia page that lists some, along with various other border irregularities.

https://tinyurl.com/2vdpuyzy

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:49 PM (qpyNK)

245 Right? Weren't those imaginary regions created by local TV channels ....
Posted by: Soothsayer

"Imaginary regions"? You mean like a tranny's vagina?

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2025 11:49 PM (0Htd1)

246
"Imaginary regions"? You mean like a tranny's vagina?
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yes, and the "g-spot."

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:50 PM (tL5G5)

247 I've been in a discontiguous bar. Copper Hill Tennesee/Macaysville Ga.

The state line runs through the center of the bar. The Georgia side is dry, so the serving/ drinking area is on the other side of the line that runs down the center. The rest rooms are on the Georgia side.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 03, 2025 11:51 PM (XeU6L)

248 "Imaginary regions"? You mean like a tranny's vagina?
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 03, 2025 11:49 PM (0Htd1)

You mean a tranny's open wound that has to be continually dilated with a dildo to keep from healing/closing?

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:52 PM (gKDq2)

249 "Imaginary regions"? You mean like a tranny's vagina?
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yes, and the "g-spot."
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 03, 2025 11:50 PM (tL5G5)

Might as well search for El Dorado.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 11:52 PM (wVcYX)

250 The northwestern part of Arizona is cut off from the rest of Arizona by the Colorado river. When I was working in Arizona it was considered a No Man's Land.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 03, 2025 11:48 PM (RIvkX)

I think there is a low-grade gravel road that links that northwest sector to the main part of the State. But it is in no way a shortcut.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 11:54 PM (wXPgs)

251 Flute?
Thre Dog.Night...Joy to the world?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 03, 2025 11:54 PM (2WIwB)

252 Some weird cavity resonance thing, they still aren’t sure quite how it worked as they pranged it up trying to inspect it.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 03, 2025 11:19 PM (zXS73)

Microwave cavity resonator, it is unpowered, has a membrane that changes dimensions as sound waves impinge on it, and resonates in radio frequencies to a beamed external microwave. It is one of the reasons the US Embassy in Moscow was bombarded continually with microwaves during the 70's.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 03, 2025 11:56 PM (rbvCR)

253
You mean a tranny's open wound that has to be continually dilated with a dildo to keep from healing/closing?

Posted by: RickZ at September 03, 2025 11:52 PM (gKDq2)

Shit man, you're saying its like pierced ears?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 03, 2025 11:56 PM (snZF9)

254 That Wikipedia list is by no means complete.

It doesn't have San Franpsycho chunk of Arizona, for one. There's also at least one chunk of Missouri that got separated when the big lakes were constructed. It's now embedded in Arkansas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 03, 2025 11:56 PM (qpyNK)

255 After seeing that 1962 spacesuit prototype, I now know where the idea for the Lost In Space robot came from.

Very, very cool!

Posted by: Happy at September 03, 2025 11:56 PM (8wFql)

256 Annie Lennox was a classical flautist, but I don't know if she played it on any of the Eurythmics' hits

Posted by: Kindltot at September 03, 2025 11:57 PM (rbvCR)

257 Might as well search for El Dorado.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 03, 2025 11:52 PM (wVcYX)

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied—
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Posted by: Alan Bourdillion Traherne at September 04, 2025 12:00 AM (0eaVi)

258 Ian Anderson's daughter came home from her first flute lesson at school and informed her dad he was holding it wrong.

Posted by: Reforger at September 04, 2025 12:00 AM (Mptn1)

259 Also, I was told there are fundamental Mormon colonies there practicing polygamy and such there because they are better able to evade Church authority outside Utah. And people who don't want to be found.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 04, 2025 12:00 AM (RIvkX)

260 Mystery clicks O'plenty, TRex. Much fun up top. Thanks for the ONT, TRex.

Posted by: scampydog at September 04, 2025 12:01 AM (41CYW)

261 It is really hard to get from Ontario Oregon to Jordan Valley by paved road without going through Idaho.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 04, 2025 12:01 AM (rbvCR)

262 Another Mike Nesmith video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=72CWBcl526A

Cruisin' AKA Lucy and Ramona and Sunset Sam.

For some reason I can't find the original video that I remember from MTV. It's probably caught in licensing Hell.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 04, 2025 12:02 AM (yvNv0)

263 Hocus Pocus by Focus is what I used to open up my kids mind to the wonders of 70-80s rock before it became a thing.

He took it from there.

One day after that I came home from work and he had "Muffin Man" blasting on the stereo with all the windows of the house open.

Ah, those were the days...

Posted by: pawn at September 04, 2025 12:03 AM (PmITa)

264 Lignum vitae, maybe? Although the Constitution, being a sail-only ship, didn't need propeller shaft bearings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 03, 2025 11:26 PM (wXPgs)

Thats some hard shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 04, 2025 12:04 AM (snZF9)

265 So we're talking exclaves?

One furrin' one lately in the news is Nakhichevan (Gesundheit!), the little pocket of Azerbaijan along the Iranian (and, barely, Turkish) border, surrounded by their good friends Armenia. All over that interesting area, but never got there.

Ditto for Angola, where Cabinda is (was? haven't kept up) the main oil/gas area, a decent-sized exclave on the coast surrounded by little strips of Congo and Zaire. Never got there either, despite enjoying the plush living in Angola several times. Cabinda was justly famous back then for having Cuban troops guarding US-operated (Gulf) oil facilities.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 04, 2025 12:05 AM (U/Byj)

266 Jordan Valley by paved road without going through Idaho.
Posted by: Kindltot
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'bout 3 ways in to Jordan Valley, escape routes limited.

Posted by: scampydog at September 04, 2025 12:07 AM (41CYW)

267 Note... Major Matt Mason HAD that same Space suit... but it was only 5 inches tall...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 04, 2025 12:07 AM (mP0Kj)

268 I can't believe I forgot about Focus!

There should be a lot of flutes in prog rock.

Here's a flute song from Camel:

https://youtu.be/hf-OcVSZn5I

And one from Gentle Giant:

https://youtu.be/CAzl57WI4Us

Flute starts the Camel tune. It plays lead at about 2:10 in the GG tune.

Posted by: mikeski at September 04, 2025 12:08 AM (DgGvY)

269 Flute song : “Flute Thing” by The Blues Project (1966) with Al Kooper:

https://youtu.be/hXh6P2QVVks

Which later was sampled by Beastie Boys as “Flute Loop” (from Ill Communication)

https://youtu.be/gOE79XuNd6U

Posted by: Slash Buzz at September 04, 2025 12:09 AM (FstDi)

270 Flute?

Canned Heat

Posted by: a dude in MI at September 04, 2025 12:10 AM (+I6Y/)

271 Hello horde, nice ONT, TRex.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 04, 2025 12:11 AM (0nHVk)

272 Buc-ees in my own little slice of Heaven! Please let it happen!

Posted by: PlumDuff North America's Newest Cryptid at September 04, 2025 12:11 AM (6+ZSF)

273 Thats some hard shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 04, 2025 12:04 AM (snZF9)

Got any use for some? I still have some slabs, about 3/8" thick. Fretboard for a guitar maybe? I don't know if it will take glue very well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:12 AM (wXPgs)

274 For those into flute jazz, here is Herbie Mann’s “Don’t You Know” from “Live at Newport” (1963):

https://youtu.be/hTiESdsqttM

Posted by: Slash Buzz at September 04, 2025 12:12 AM (FstDi)

275 Got any use for some? I still have some slabs, about 3/8" thick. Fretboard for a guitar maybe? I don't know if it will take glue very well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:12 AM (wXPgs)

I was thinking about trying some to make a few guitar nuts, just for shits and giggles. Fret board would be interesting.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 04, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

276 247 I've been in a discontiguous bar. Copper Hill Tennesee/Macaysville Ga.

The state line runs through the center of the bar. The Georgia side is dry, so the serving/ drinking area is on the other side of the line that runs down the center. The rest rooms are on the Georgia side.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 03, 2025 11:51 PM (XeU6L)

So they have two tax bills from two counties and states?

That must be a pain in the ass.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 04, 2025 12:17 AM (6ydKt)

277 Flute song?

Men at Work

Down Under

https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 04, 2025 12:17 AM (yvNv0)

278 Flute?

Canned Heat
Posted by: a dude in MI at September 04, 2025 12:10 AM (+I6Y/)

Yeah, I think Canned Heat used a flute for Goin' Up The Country, which was pretty much a straight-up copy of Henry Thomas' Bulldoze Blues from circa 1929, which I linked up-thread. But Thomas used an instrument called a "quill" which was basically Pan pipes in a box, worn on a neck strap. See the video linked at 168.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:18 AM (wXPgs)

279 I was thinking about trying some to make a few guitar nuts, just for shits and giggles. Fret board would be interesting.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 04, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

Let me know. I plan to be at the MoMee in October.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:20 AM (wXPgs)

280 Yeah, I think Canned Heat used a flute for Goin' Up The Country, which was pretty much a straight-up copy of Henry Thomas' Bulldoze Blues from circa 1929, which I linked up-thread. But Thomas used an instrument called a "quill" which was basically Pan pipes in a box, worn on a neck strap. See the video linked at 168.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:18 AM (wXPgs)

Of the videos of goin up the country, hes shown 'playing' a flute, but some of those are obviously piped in as in one hes playing it backwards. Hard to say if thats what it is.

Posted by: a dude in MI at September 04, 2025 12:22 AM (+I6Y/)

281 I have so many patches like that. Thanks to my Dad and Grandpa for teaching me right.

Posted by: NC Ref at September 04, 2025 12:23 AM (HIRLq)

282 So they have two tax bills from two counties and states?

That must be a pain in the ass.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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That's an interesting question. I suspect that *no* income is allotted to the GA side, but then, there are property taxes, other nuances.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 04, 2025 12:24 AM (XeU6L)

283 >>>much a straight-up copy of Henry Thomas' Bulldoze Blues from circa 1929,
----

Before players all got up into 'it's my paycheck', it used to be considered a complement, a hat tip to one's predecessor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 04, 2025 12:27 AM (/P8AX)

284 Before players all got up into 'it's my paycheck', it used to be considered a complement, a hat tip to one's predecessor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 04, 2025 12:27 AM (/P8AX)

Exactly, the old blues guys used to consider the songs a community resource. Until the revenue from records became a thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:30 AM (wXPgs)

285 And in 1969, the record of Henry Thomas' Bulldoze Blues was an ancient obscurity only a handful of people had ever heard. Canned Heat brought it to the attention of many thousands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:32 AM (wXPgs)

286 Marshall Tucker Band- Can't You See

Fluity

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 04, 2025 12:35 AM (WF/xn)

287 Let me know. I plan to be at the MoMee in October.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:20 AM (wXPgs)

Fuck it, bring it. I'm curious.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 04, 2025 12:36 AM (snZF9)

288 Thanks AOP, that's some real interesting history right there.

Posted by: pawn at September 04, 2025 12:38 AM (PmITa)

289 Fuck it, bring it. I'm curious.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 04, 2025 12:36 AM (snZF9)

Okey-doke. Can't be too big a piece; no paperwork to prove it's a hundred years old.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 12:41 AM (wXPgs)

290 Ditto for Angola, where Cabinda is (was? haven't kept up) the main oil/gas area, a decent-sized exclave on the coast surrounded by little strips of Congo and Zaire. Never got there either, despite enjoying the plush living in Angola several times. Cabinda was justly famous back then for having Cuban troops guarding US-operated (Gulf) oil facilities. Posted by: rhomboid at September 04, 2025 12:05 AM (U/Byj

@rhomboid, Cabinda's still in Operation. Chevron nowadays (successor to Gulf). Nobody who works there calls it that, oddly enough. They call it "Angola."

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 04, 2025 12:41 AM (eStot)

291 I just read through the comments. There is so much esoteric knowledge collectively contained in the Horde that somehow needs to be bottled and stored. Maybe Pixy can create an AI that reads the years of ONTs and rivals (or supplements) Wikipedia. So you would check Wikipedia first and then check Acepedia to see what Wikipedia didn't tell you.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 04, 2025 12:49 AM (eStot)

292 Thanks Caesar. Oh yeah, it's Angolan territory (never have looked into how that came about, obviously during the colonial era). As I recall the Cuban troops were to guard against not Congolese or Zairois (?) miscreants, but ..... US-funded rebels, thinking up there probably FNLA (Holden Roberto). Though it's been a while and my Angolan civil war alphabet soup rebel group directory is foggy. Only hung out with UNITA and the MPLA myself (joking! just a bit of time with both, strictly as a visitor).

Posted by: rhomboid at September 04, 2025 12:50 AM (U/Byj)

293 It is really hard to get from Ontario Oregon to Jordan Valley by paved road without going through Idaho.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 04, 2025 12:01 AM (rbvCR)
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Let alone the Atlantic ocean.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 04, 2025 12:53 AM (xu4nt)

294 Maybe Pixy can create an AI that reads the years of ONTs and rivals (or supplements) Wikipedia. So you would check Wikipedia first and then check Acepedia to see what Wikipedia didn't tell you.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 04, 2025 12:49 AM (eStot)

"All hovercraft are filled with eels that cost twenty dollars, same as downtown."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 04, 2025 12:54 AM (yvNv0)

295 Pretty funny, and revealing/predictable at once.

Some idiot on X, displaying the quintessential ignorance, bigotry, and stupidity of an NPR-listening coastal airhead*, responded to Trump moving Space Force! HQ to Huntsville thusly:

Ahhh yes Huntsville exactly where I'd go to find rocket scientists.

To which a commenter reposting this replied:

Huntsville is literally where all the rocket scientists are located.

* a mindset, not limited by geography, like "Beltway"

Posted by: rhomboid at September 04, 2025 01:00 AM (U/Byj)

296 Well, 2300 here, and sleep is overtaking me. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 04, 2025 01:08 AM (wXPgs)

297 Cafe vids
Couple History Guy
Other various videos
Michael Nesmith songs
Almost 300 ONT comments
How the night passes by so fast

🤖
I like the idea of AI built on AoS. Wonder how it would change the answers if only someone could teach Grok how to parse out the whole catalog of acecomments.mu.nu from the dead minx links in the archive posts. It's like a vid game with secret passwords and hidden passages.

Keep on commentin', geniuses. I'm out for the night.

https://youtu.be/viGLRE2UDtk

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Professor Flutesnoot? at September 04, 2025 01:12 AM (Hus0x)

298 Before players all got up into 'it's my paycheck', it used to be considered a complement, a hat tip to one's predecessor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 04, 2025 12:27 AM (/P8AX)

I got into listening to some of the works of Ledbelly once (very early blues, early 20th century) and he told an interviewer once that a lot of the songs he was credited with weren’t exactly his, they were songs every black musician knew in late 19th/early 20th century. Nobody really knew who wrote them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 04, 2025 01:14 AM (r2+h3)

299 AOP, Mr. TiFW might like to take a look at that woos as well - he likes making knife and gun accents!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 04, 2025 01:32 AM (SRRAx)

300 "Wood"

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 04, 2025 01:32 AM (SRRAx)

301 Checked Powerball. Bet $6, won $7.

Posted by: RickZ at September 04, 2025 01:33 AM (gKDq2)

302 Oh, and no winner.

Posted by: RickZ at September 04, 2025 01:35 AM (gKDq2)

303

Good evening, good people, from the Adirondacks. Leaf season begins soon, a time that may make you cringe at the thought of removal. This depends on how many oak +red maples you have on your lawn area. I have 11 mature oaks plus 5 maples to deal with. Town won't pick up in my area and the recycling center stopped taking leaves last year. Someone introduced (by accident) the emerald ash borer and the state went nuts and shut it all down. So now there's a commercial outfit that picks up for $1.50 per bag.

Just so you know, at my place it runs 75/85 35 gallon bags that I deal with.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 04, 2025 01:40 AM (hKoQL)

304
From the Earth as a moon of Saturn thought experiment from last thread. We imagine this at the Erf-Saturn system at current earth orbital distance, with earth-Saturn distance at current Earth-Moon radius.

I got to wondering about long-term stability of that in the solar system. The Earth-Saturn system itself (with just Earth as a moon) would be quite stable. However, it would perturb the other inner planets significantly.

Venus orbit would get much eccentric and the orbital inclination would swing much wider. It would remain bound and stable.

Mercury, however, could become much more unstable, and potentially crash into the Sun or Venus. Mars orbit would perturbed as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 04, 2025 01:51 AM (w6EFb)

305 Wow, IG, that sucks!

We have weekly (except for dead of winter, then only 1x monthly) yard waste pick-up, plus a compost facility which is free for county residents to dump bulk yard waste.

Finished compost isn't free, of course. Don't know how much $ currently...

Each household was *issued* one container. I ordered 3 extras because large property. Don't used all of them every week, but they are there if needed. Monthly cost is cheaper than buying gas for one truckload, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

306 Kaliningrad is a discontiguous part of Russia, located on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania.

Posted by: Frankie at September 04, 2025 01:59 AM (nCoED)

307 One week's worth of lawn clippings, will fill one yard waste container. I have about 1/3 acre of mow-able area. Can't really call it "lawn" anymore, as it's mostly weeds now.

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:01 AM (rdVOm)

308 Down to only 5 trees now, with walnut being the messiest, one hornbeam, one maple, two dogwoods.

Have lost 2 cherry, 3 apple, 2 elm due to disease, death, or just PITA removal.

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

309 I have one big brown dumpster for yard garbage. I fill it about once a month from 1/2 an acre and we just pay about $2 a month for it. They alternate recycle and yard every week.
I think IG's output is probably about what my whole city puts out in a week living here in the high mountain desert. We have so few trees we let weeds that resemble trees grow, because they will. Cotonwoods and Dutch Elms. Garbage producing shit tier weeds. I hate them and their seed dropping times.

Posted by: Reforger at September 04, 2025 02:20 AM (CjwnQ)

310 Reforger-- ugh. Our elms were *huge* and dropped an ocean of seeds every year. Hubby would clean them out of the flowerbeds for me, with a shop-vac!

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

311 Thank you Sensei Confucius TRex for tonight*s ONT Dojo. Bobby Mackey*s honkytonk-night club in Wilder, KY had a well known Portal To Hell. The original building was torn down last DEC, and will supposedly be rebuilt on the site. Not sure how they secured the Hell Portal. You wouldn*t want some kid accidently falling into it! The Rex rocks, Buc-ee*s rocks, and The Marshall Tucker Band triple rocks. Also, I knew that far-out space suit looked familiar. I looked up the Major Matt Mason astronaut toys from the 1960s, and sure enough, Major Matt had one of those, right down to the big number three on the torso! Dang those were great toys. I had the Space Station, and loved that toy! Goodnight and God Bless Y*all!

Posted by: SuperExMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Buffest Ex-Mayor Going at September 04, 2025 02:25 AM (+FaBs)

312 I have two huge ones that the city owns in front of my house. They have so far refused my demands that they remove them. Those seeds will sprout on no water. Root til they find it and destroy your house. They are into the sewer line on mine and I have to roto rooter that pipe twice a year. 120 feet of pipe. I curse them the whole time I'm doing it. Took me 8 hours and an upgrade in my plumbing arsenal just three weeks ago.

Posted by: Reforger at September 04, 2025 02:29 AM (CjwnQ)

313 I do miss the shade of that biggest elm tree. It was at least 60ft high and just as wide, or more. Too bad it was old & diseased. Plus the bark beetles...it started dropping some large branches and was dangerous.

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

314 Oh, yeah-- those fk'ing little seeds get *everywhere* and the roots will keep suckering long after the tree is cut down!

I'm still finding elm saplings around this place. Root suckers are mostly gone, but the damned seeds remain viable for a while I guess.

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:34 AM (rdVOm)

315 Took me 8 hours and an upgrade in my plumbing arsenal just three weeks ago.
Posted by: Reforger at September 04, 2025 02:29 AM (CjwnQ)

Sounds like you need a visit from the Midnight Clipper.

My dad used to sneak out at night and trim back the Municpalities' messes. It would be a darned shame if those trees somehow tipped over in the night, now wouldn't it?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 04, 2025 02:41 AM (1Gsou)

316 A soaking spray of triclopyr around the trunks, some night... wait for trees to become "sick"...

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:44 AM (rdVOm)

317 300 "Wood"
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 04, 2025 01:32 AM (SRRAx)

It's the female equivalent of the dude who posts, "Boobs."

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at September 04, 2025 02:44 AM (1Gsou)

318

Acorns have the toughest tap root of anything I've ever met. The tap root is super flexible and insanely strong. The only sure way to stop them, is to pull the whole thing out--single leaf, 8" root with the acorn it sprouted from and be sure you put the damn thing upside down in the sun or you'll just have planted another oak.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 04, 2025 02:44 AM (hKoQL)

319 Many comments missed but if you can't find coffee in Utah that's sad. What makes me laugh is all the Mormon chickies who get custom sodas so they can have that Starbucks experience. I love Mormons but they are a weird bunch.

Posted by: PlumDuff North America's Newest Cryptid at September 04, 2025 02:47 AM (6gC+1)

320 Tree rats make sure to plant walnuts in every crevice around here. I pull dozens of saplings each spring and always miss a few, that I must dig out later. Ugh!

If that tree wasn't in a good place, I'd get it removed too. It's just too damned hot here in summer, to not have the shade.

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm)

321 Down to only 5 trees now, with walnut being the messiest, one hornbeam, one maple, two dogwoods.

Have lost 2 cherry, 3 apple, 2 elm due to disease, death, or just PITA removal.

Posted by: JQ at September 04, 2025 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

Let's see.... I think I'm at 13 trees total, with one maple for sure needing to be taken out by the city next year. Two walnuts got semi-professional "haircuts" after the storm and might limp on for a while until I can get the professional (who trained the semi-professional) to take them down. I hate losing my trees like this, but they all die at some point.

Posted by: pookysgirl, taking a break at September 04, 2025 03:32 AM (9LXqq)

322 One thing we've learned from Twitter: We all need donkeys... And little skateboards for our turtles.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 04, 2025 03:34 AM (TGPs7)

323 One thing we've learned from Twitter: We all need donkeys... And little skateboards for our turtles.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 04, 2025 03:34 AM (TGPs7)

No and yes. Donkeys are, well, jackasses to work with.

Posted by: pookysgirl, taking a break at September 04, 2025 03:35 AM (9LXqq)

324 Been just cat napping since a little after 2am
Time to get moving

Posted by: Skip at September 04, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

325 Running a bit late. Tech thread will be along about half an hour after the usual time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 04, 2025 04:24 AM (BLOW1)

326 Fluity. Doug Fluity.

Posted by: On Her Majesty's NFL at September 04, 2025 04:49 AM (XQo4F)

327 No problem. I may be the only one around.

But I know Skip will appear magically at first

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 04, 2025 04:50 AM (jblHd)

328 No problem. I may be the only one around.

But I know Skip will appear magically at first
Posted by: Pete Bog

I just left here. Crap.

Shower time.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 04, 2025 04:55 AM (iZawE)

329 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 04, 2025 05:00 AM (aURVT)

330 The Far Side cartoon:
It doesn't matter how fast you're driving because it's not the FAST lane.
It doesn't matter if you're left-handed because it's not the LEFT lane.
It doesn't matter your age in the Sr. Citizen lane because it's not the St. Citizen lane.
It doesn't matter if your driving a car in the RV lane because it's not the RV lane.
It doesn't matter if you're not obstructing traffic in the Rolling Roadblock lane because it's not the Rolling Roadblock lane.
It's the PASSING LANE!!!!!!!!!! It only matters that you are quickly passing someone!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Darin Zimmerman at September 04, 2025 12:14 PM (55jmf)

331 my dad served on the u.s.s. constitution when is ship went into drydock.
i have an oak marlin spike he kept.

Posted by: cmeat at September 04, 2025 12:40 PM (LgQ89)

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