Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - September 16, 2025 [Doof]

The time has arrived for the Tuesday ONT. Open thread, as always. Whatever is on your mind tonight, please share it in the gray boxes. But at least pretend to check out the content first, OK?

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His Name is My Name, Too!

Bankruptcy Lawyer Mark Zuckerberg Sues Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against the Meta CEO whose name he shares for repeatedly banning him on his social platforms.
It’s not easy being Mark Zuckerberg. No, not the Facebook founder, but an Indiana bankruptcy lawyer whose life has been negatively affected by sharing the younger tech maven’s name. Not only does he get over 100 emails every day from people who think that they are writing to the Meta chief executive officer, but he can rarely make a reservation at a restaurant without getting hung up on because people mistake him for a prankster. But the thing that irritates him the most is getting banned on Facebook and Instagram despite investing tens of thousands of dollars in ads for the simple reason that his name is Mark Zuckerberg.
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“My life sometimes feels like the Michael Jordan ESPN commercial, where a regular person’s name causes constant mixups,” Mark Zuckerberg complained.

Video segment at the link

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Not An "I" Tooth - An "Eye" Tooth!

Tooth Is Implanted in 34-year-old’s Eye to Restore His Vision After Two Decades

There’s an old Babylonian/Biblical legal maxim that goes, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”
For Canadian Brent Chapman, his new maxim is “a tooth for an eye,” because he has become the first in his country ever to receive an osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis.
If your Latin is on point, you’ll realize that translates to a tooth-in-eye prosthetic—literally Chapman’s tooth has been surgically implanted into his eye to act as a lens fixture which has enabled him to see again.

News video clip at the link

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Tampon Tim Didn't Ask!

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well?

Trump: I’m not familiar, who?

Reporter: The MN House Speaker, a Democrat was assassinated

Trump: The governor of MN didn't ask me to do it pic.twitter.com/nXwQjFYbPQ
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 15, 2025

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Golly, Dems never say anything inciteful, right?

Ten solid years of this by these monsters and their handmaidens in the media. It cost a father his life, but it will cost them their future. We have crossed the Rubicon.

The Democrats must be held to account every single day. pic.twitter.com/dqTPEWyt4V
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 15, 2025

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First Flying Dildo This NFL Season?

CBS puts up the flag graphic seconds after the dildo hit the ground.

(There was no flag on the play)pic.twitter.com/669xVMY2fT https://t.co/ArFNMcUFmP
— Jack Mac (@JackMacCFB) September 14, 2025

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This Phillies Fan is NOT Asshoe

Boy Gives Up His Only Foul Ball So A Grandmother Can Finally Have Her First

For her 80th birthday, Donna Morey got a gift she’ll never forget—thanks to the kindness of a 9-year-old boy she had never met.
On September 10th, Morey was celebrating at a Phillies vs. Mets game with her family. Sitting near the third baseline, she had one wish: to finally bring home a foul ball after years of attending games.
That chance came in the fifth inning when young Phillies fan Jameson Pennings caught his very first game ball. He proudly tossed it back and forth with his dad, inspecting the scuffs like a prized treasure. But before the night ended, Jameson decided someone else needed it more.
Morey recalled how it happened: “I was really absolutely amazed because he overheard my daughter talk to the ball girl about next foul would she consider giving it to me for my birthday. All of a sudden, this boy says to his dad, ‘I want to give that lady my ball,’ and his father says, ‘Are you sure about this,’ and the little boy looked at the ball in his glove and says yeah. They got up from their seat, came right over to me and handed me the ball.”

Good job, kiddo!

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DJ Doof - This Date in History Edition
(from thisdayinmusic.com)

On this date in 2004: Weather Girls singer Izora Armstead died aged 62 of heart failure at a hospital in San Leandro, East San Francisco.

On this date in 1988: Former Clash drummer Topper Headon was released from jail after serving 10 months of a 15-month sentence on a narcotics charge.

Born on this date in 1964: Dave Sabo, guitarist from American heavy metal band Skid Row. The group achieved commercial success in the late 1980s and early 1990s

Sabo was also the original lead guitarist for Bon Jovi. He played on this track

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1 tws4evtgwsv

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 09:55 PM (cCfL4)

2 ONT!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 16, 2025 09:57 PM (Wnv9h)

3 Ugh, showed up early and I'm still too late. Guess I'll compensate by heading over to Culver's for desert.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 16, 2025 09:57 PM (lUFok)

4 Early? Weird.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 16, 2025 09:58 PM (wQPGd)

5 Good evening! The Rockies are losing.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 16, 2025 09:59 PM (gKWVE)

6 Doof!

ONT!!

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at September 16, 2025 10:00 PM (wvpqW)

7 First? well close.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM (55Qr6)

8 Not first.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM (imVp/)

9 tws4evtgwsv
_-_-
You people and your....acronyms...er whatever that is.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM (vd6bO)

10 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

11 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM (I0u7c)

12
I knew an Italian guy whose name was Lorenzo de' Medici. He couldn't order a pizza, get anyone to take a cold call, get any services in Italy! He'd give his name and they'd hang up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM (cCfL4)

13
*looks at books in ONT shelf*

*shakes head in disappointment*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:04 PM (tgvbd)

14 Lorenzo de' Medici.
_-_
Great book by David Loth about that guy.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:04 PM (vd6bO)

15 My lawsuit against Monty Python for using my name continues to drag on.

Posted by: Throatwarbler Mangrove at September 16, 2025 10:04 PM (Kn28K)

16
We made a "customer switch" once on some hardware after usability testing. Customer wants to make an adjustment that in reality our software already makes. Okay, here, add this little lever think that goes >click<. Customers lift and raise the lever, hear the click, they're happy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:05 PM (cCfL4)

17 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!

Posted by: TRex - does the ONT have a COB switch? at September 16, 2025 10:05 PM (PDUpY)

18
Blanco, how you doing?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:05 PM (tgvbd)

19
Great book by David Loth about that guy.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

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Thanks for the rec! I'll take a look.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:05 PM (cCfL4)

20 New Jersey f@g tries to be a man, just shows his ass.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxpauh7

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 16, 2025 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

21 Anybody need a zebra???
https://shorturl.at/W7M04

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 16, 2025 10:06 PM (ULPxl)

22 Doof!

ONT!!
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at September 16, 2025 10:00 PM (wvpqW)

Howdy!

Posted by: Doof at September 16, 2025 10:06 PM (nEcGe)

23 Leland Sklar's 'producer switch'.

I used to do the same sometimes when asked to rewrite a 200 page Functional Requirements Document by the suits. I'd just let it sit for an day or two and then resubmit the doc with an updated version number.

No one ever noticed.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 16, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

24 Good evening Horde. Thanks Disco!
Posted by: TRex - does the ONT have a COB switch? at September 16, 2025 10:05 PM (PDUpY)

The ONT has had a LOT of COB switches lately!

Posted by: Doof at September 16, 2025 10:07 PM (nEcGe)

25 Title is Lorenzo the Magnificent

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:07 PM (vd6bO)

26 Willowed.

This was so trenchant I had to include it here:

452 435
'I don't know that I'm hot for Mamdani, but I'm increasingly bothered by him.'

Just what we need. One more foreign shit telling us how much he dislikes this country and white people.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 16, 2025 10:08 PM (3wi/L)

27 Cooker is such a spermdribbler

Posted by: gKWVE at September 16, 2025 10:08 PM (gKWVE)

28 3 Ugh, showed up early and I'm still too late. Guess I'll compensate by heading over to Culver's for desert.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 16, 2025 09:57 PM

Any chance you can grab a couple of extras?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:08 PM (HlyYF)

29 misspelled Corey's last name, sorry. it's "Senator Bugger"

Posted by: gKWVE at September 16, 2025 10:09 PM (gKWVE)

30 Damn, the producer switch. Frigging genius.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 16, 2025 10:10 PM (snZF9)

31 Leland Sklar's 'producer switch'.

I used to do the same sometimes when asked to rewrite a 200 page Functional Requirements Document by the suits. I'd just let it sit for an day or two and then resubmit the doc with an updated version number.

No one ever noticed.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 16, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

I do something kinda opposite of that. When I am reviewing / commenting on a document with "Track Changes", I usually accept most of my own changes before sending it back. I'll leave 2 or 3 things for the original author to accept/reject so they think those are my only edits.

Posted by: Doof at September 16, 2025 10:10 PM (nEcGe)

32 9 tws4evtgwsv
_-_-
You people and your....acronyms...er whatever that is.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM

Probably some kinky sh*t for gay, furry transgenders.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:10 PM (HlyYF)

33 Dummy room thermostats on HVAC systems. They actually kind of worked when they were first installed, but then the maintenance crew began bypassing them and let the main controls hold the rooms all at the same temperature.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 16, 2025 10:10 PM (Kn28K)

34 Drove across Missouri today. Saw a billboard along I-44 that had an American flag as the background. The wording on it said, “those who disrespect this flag have never been handed a folded one.”

Posted by: QED Texan at September 16, 2025 10:11 PM (imVp/)

35 21 Anybody need a zebra???
https://shorturl.at/W7M04
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

I wonder if we can litter box train them….😂

Posted by: Piper at September 16, 2025 10:11 PM (OoFl2)

36 I wasted so much of my life in scenes just like that picture. And I wouldn't trade a second of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 16, 2025 10:11 PM (viF8m)

37 Okay, here, add this little lever think that goes >click

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:05 PM

Brilliant solution!

Especially when working under the paradigm that the customer is always right.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:12 PM (HlyYF)

38 My boat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:13 PM (Dzytg)

39 I do something kinda opposite of that. When I am reviewing / commenting on a document with "Track Changes", I usually accept most of my own changes before sending it back. I'll leave 2 or 3 things for the original author to accept/reject so they think those are my only edits.
Posted by: Doof

That's way nicer than me. I sometimes mark up trivial stuff to increase the edit count. Keeps the underlings in their place.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 16, 2025 10:13 PM (ftFVW)

40 Guess I'll compensate by heading over to Culver's for desert.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310

Enjoy a bite for me ...

Posted by: Adriane the Weird Accordion Solo Critic . . . at September 16, 2025 10:14 PM (3ZUWJ)

41 Thanks for the girthy Tuesday Night ONT, Doof!

Kudos to the young Phillies fan for giving the ball to Grandma! Kindness works both ways...

Beautiful photo up top of a nautical parking lot under a glorious sunset!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 16, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)

42 >>>Boy Gives Up His Only Foul Ball So A Grandmother Can Finally Have her First

The Karen beyotch in Philly is disgusting. If she is a true baseball fan, she would know and abide by the bleacher bum unwritten, but always observed, rule: The ball belongs fair-and-square to the person who comes out of the scrum with it.

Self-entitled people are the worst you encounter. It doesn't matter if she's had a season ticket forever but never got a foul ball or homer ball before. I've been to a a lot of baseball games and a ball never came within 50 feet of me. No big deal to me never seeing one I might be able to snag.

Posted by: Gref at September 16, 2025 10:14 PM (5rh/l)

43 Anybody need a zebra???
https://shorturl.at/W7M04
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

After today's threads, I was nervous about clicking. Whew! It's only real zebras.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 16, 2025 10:15 PM (Kn28K)

44 But at least pretend to check out the content first, OK?
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What!?! 😊

That tooth in eye story was crazy tho! Wasn't it?

Nice ONT doof - thanks

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 16, 2025 10:15 PM (PcTds)

45 Brilliant solution!

Especially when working under the paradigm that the customer is always right.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Same goes in a family owned restaurant when an (asshoe) customer asked for a fresh cup of coffee. I'd walk the cup back into the kitchen, turn around and give Karen the same coffee right back.

"Here you go Sweetie! Just brewed a fresh pot!"

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

46
With all that was going on this last week, I wasn't paying attention to my other interests. The Younger Dryas Impact theory got another big boost with another paper published ironically on Sept 10th:
https://tinyurl.com/yvz7fxhw

They've found shocked quartz at three sites in CA, AZ, and NM right at the YD boundary layer. Shocked quartz is pretty much confirmatory of massive airbursts. And they're getting the dating pinned down pretty tight. 12,800 years ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 16, 2025 10:16 PM (w6EFb)

47
Lorenzo de' Medici.
_-_
Great book by David Loth about that guy.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

David Ree Loth?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 16, 2025 10:17 PM (63Dwl)

48 Heh. Turning a zebra loose in my neighbor's pasture would almost be worth it to see his ideas about how it got there. I mean, what else do you do with a zebra? Do they make good pack animals? Lunch?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:17 PM (vd6bO)

49 An old book called the “Hacker’s Dictionary” mentioned something about an old mainframe somebody was working on.

The tech noticed a single pole switch inside the cabinet with a single wire connected to it. It was labeled “magic” and “more magic”. It was in the “more magic” position.

Since a single wire going to a switch can’t possibly do anything, he promptly snipped it out with his wire cutters. The computer promptly crashed. (He never did figure out what it was, but said he left the switch in the “more magic” position).

Posted by: Common Tater at September 16, 2025 10:17 PM (BACll)

50 Tomorrow morning is Day 1 of me getting ready for work without my cat meowing, "good morning, I love you, where's my breakfast?"

Scout was a caution.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 16, 2025 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

51 After today's threads, I was nervous about clicking. Whew! It's only real zebras.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 16, 2025 10:15 PM

I clicked on the link, assuming that it was actually Helena selling one of her own zebras. Was slightly disappointed.

Hey Helena, surely you have room for one more animal out at your place?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:18 PM (HlyYF)

52 I had a basic Mr Coffee that the wife replaced with the 200$ monstrosity. It has the bells and whistles and made good coffee.
But she tossed out my old machine.

Posted by: Accomack at September 16, 2025 10:19 PM (JY+81)

53 Charlie Kirk didn't die for his words. He died for Steven King's words (lies)

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 16, 2025 10:19 PM (bSXnJ)

54
I've been to a a lot of baseball games and a ball never came within 50 feet of me. No big deal to me never seeing one I might be able to snag.
Posted by: Gref at September 16, 2025 10:14 PM (5rh/l)

___________

My life has been a thoroughly mediocre failure, bit I've:

- Caught a ball at a baseball game (pitched by Nolan Ryan)
- Hit a hole in one (on an actual golf course, thankyouverymuch)
- Been dealt a pat royal flush in spades playing poker
- Had a picture taken with the World Series trophy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:19 PM (tgvbd)

55 32 9 tws4evtgwsv
_-_-
You people and your....acronyms...er whatever that is.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM

Probably some kinky sh*t for gay, furry transgenders.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:10 PM (HlyYF)

You seem angry that Ratbert got a first by walking across the keyboard.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 16, 2025 10:19 PM (S/Y4j)

56 We made a "customer switch" once on some hardware after usability testing. Customer wants to make an adjustment that in reality our software already makes. Okay, here, add this little lever think that goes >click
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Did you have any really old geeks around who wanted to label the switch positions "magic" and "more magic?"

Posted by: mikeski at September 16, 2025 10:20 PM (nhCoE)

57 47
Lorenzo de' Medici.
_-_
Great book by David Loth about that guy.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

David Ree Loth?
Posted by: Bertram Cabo
Huheh.(sorry, not good at onomotopoeia).
copyright 1929, kinda hard to find

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:20 PM (vd6bO)

58 That clip of the dems calling for violence is infuriating

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at September 16, 2025 10:20 PM (wvpqW)

59 Kamala is so stoned there's not enough makeup to cover it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:21 PM (Dzytg)

60 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 10:21 PM (sAmhv)

61 Read all the cONTent

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 16, 2025 10:22 PM (6U1c2)

62 Heh, Common Tater beat me to the "magic" switch idea, so there are at least two old hackers here.

.....he flipped the switch to crash the computer, though.

Posted by: mikeski at September 16, 2025 10:22 PM (nhCoE)

63 Just what is the evidence that Hortman's killer was a righty?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (s0JqF)

64 >>> 51
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I clicked on the link, assuming that it was actually Helena selling one of her own zebras. Was slightly disappointed.

Hey Helena, surely you have room for one more animal out at your place?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:18 PM (HlyYF)

LOL

Sorry, even if I won the lottery I don't think I'd get any zebras. Cassowaries are right out.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (ULPxl)

65 I hope Atty Mark Zuckerberg gets some just-go-away money from Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (6U1c2)

66 Is no one concerned about Blonde Morticia lapsing into incoherence every now and again?

Posted by: Worry Wart at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (oftw2)

67 How long before Kamala Harris does a Requiem for a Dream and simply walks into the White House expecting to be seated in the Oval Office?

Posted by: gKWVE at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (gKWVE)

68 >>> 67 How long before Kamala Harris does a Requiem for a Dream and simply walks into the White House expecting to be seated in the Oval Office?
Posted by: gKWVE at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (gKWVE)

I'll kick her ass right back out the door. It's MINE!!!

Posted by: Hillary! at September 16, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

69 Again the Left make another illogical comparison trying to compare the Kirk assassination with the murder of a couple of state politicians by a fellow political activist who had a personal grudge.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 16, 2025 10:24 PM (EYmYM)

70 55 32 9 tws4evtgwsv
_-_-
You people and your....acronyms...er whatever that is.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:02 PM

Probably some kinky sh*t for gay, furry transgenders.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:10 PM (HlyYF)

You seem angry that Ratbert got a first by walking across the keyboard.
_-_
Aha! Blonde Mortica = Ratbert. The code begins to reveal itself. And I'm a mathematician, so I can put a period after an equation if I feel like it. Math is all about how one feels.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:25 PM (vd6bO)

71 You seem angry that Ratbert got a first by walking across the keyboard.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 16, 2025 10:19 PM

Nope. Still mad that Rat Bastard shot Charlie Kirk.

I worked to exhaustion at the farm on Saturday, thinking a good night's sleep might help.

Didn't help. It might take a MoMe for me to calm the f*ck down.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:25 PM (HlyYF)

72 That whole eye-tooth story is bizarre. It's great that it works, but wtf anyway! I can't imagine the thought process whereby some doc said "Eureka!" on that.

Posted by: 496 at September 16, 2025 10:25 PM (WeJ8p)

73 The "producer switch", good man, now find the switch to turn engineers off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:26 PM (Dzytg)

74
I hope Atty Mark Zuckerberg gets some just-go-away money from Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (6U1c2)

_________

Probably Meta Zuck will countersue, then have Attorney Zuck disbarred and debanked, before having him killed and his house burned down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:26 PM (tgvbd)

75
Did you have any really old geeks around who wanted to label the switch positions "magic" and "more magic?"
Posted by: mikeski

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lol! No, but our industrial designer seethed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:26 PM (cCfL4)

76 My life has been a thoroughly mediocre failure, bit I've:

- Caught a ball at a baseball game (pitched by Nolan Ryan)
- Hit a hole in one (on an actual golf course, thankyouverymuch)
- Been dealt a pat royal flush in spades playing poker
- Had a picture taken with the World Series trophy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Child's play!!

I married three different gingers and they all still talk to me! (Well, one's dead so there's that)

Posted by: Tonypete at September 16, 2025 10:26 PM (cYBz/)

77 Image you won't forget:

https://tinyurl.com/y7z6adey

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:27 PM (Dzytg)

78 Thanks for the girthy Tuesday Night ONT, Doof!

Kudos to the young Phillies fan for giving the ball to Grandma! Kindness works both ways...

Beautiful photo up top of a nautical parking lot under a glorious sunset!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 16, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)

You're welcome!

Posted by: Doof at September 16, 2025 10:27 PM (nEcGe)

79 They've found shocked quartz at three sites in CA, AZ, and NM right at the YD boundary layer. Shocked quartz is pretty much confirmatory of massive airbursts. And they're getting the dating pinned down pretty tight. 12,800 years ago.
Posted by: publius
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You are truly the AOS Science correspondent--in better days, you would have been an editor of Scientific American. Rarely post on the ONT but do read it later on if not sleepy.

In awe of you and the actual rocket scientists that post here on occasion.

Posted by: whig at September 16, 2025 10:27 PM (WDjG6)

80
You guys never cease to amaze me with how many jokes you can come up with about my w4ftw5vw posts lolol.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:27 PM (cCfL4)

81 That clip of the dems calling for violence is infuriating
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this
+++
And still all the propaganda newsreaders call out for the Republicans to tone down their rhetoric.
Because our speech is violence.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 16, 2025 10:28 PM (Lo97M)

82 Doof made a common error. Dave Sabo played Runaway on tour before Bon Jovi's lineup was finalized. The version on the record is 100% Tim Pierce, as the man himself demonstrates here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6uYpbbe4E

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2025 10:28 PM (t5upi)

83 Nice ONT doof - thanks
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 16, 2025 10:15 PM (PcTds)

My pleasure!

Posted by: Doof at September 16, 2025 10:28 PM (nEcGe)

84
And then there's this. (Note the supertitle on the video of the "brown girl" who posted it)

https://x.com/EvaVlaar/status/
1967929335043723763

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:29 PM (cCfL4)

85 Keep repeating:

Last week he was Charlie Kirk.

This week he is Charlie.

Posted by: Fritzy at September 16, 2025 10:29 PM (T5dpv)

86 That kid can't be a real Phillies fan. Would have broken granny's leg fighting for the ball.

Posted by: Philly Sports Fans Suck In General, In Totem at September 16, 2025 10:29 PM (oftw2)

87 Sorry, even if I won the lottery I don't think I'd get any zebras. Cassowaries are right out.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM

Do you have a donkey?

There were a bunch of heart-warming donkey videos in the cafe over the last month or so.

One guy by my place has a donkey out with his llamas. He said that the donkey is hell on wheels to any coyotes that come sniffing around when the llamas are birthing.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:30 PM (HlyYF)

88 Doof made a common error. Dave Sabo played Runaway on tour before Bon Jovi's lineup was finalized. The version on the record is 100% Tim Pierce, as the man himself demonstrates here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6uYpbbe4E
Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2025 10:28 PM (t5upi)

Noted

Posted by: Doof at September 16, 2025 10:30 PM (nEcGe)

89 77 Image you won't forget:

https://tinyurl.com/y7z6adey
_-_-_-
Feet off the furniture, you uncivilized cretin!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:30 PM (vd6bO)

90 Useless factoid: It's Raining Men was co-written by Paul Shaffer.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 16, 2025 10:31 PM (8hxDK)

91 My life has been a thoroughly mediocre failure, bit I've:

- Caught a ball at a baseball game (pitched by Nolan Ryan)
- Hit a hole in one (on an actual golf course, thankyouverymuch)
- Been dealt a pat royal flush in spades playing poker
- Had a picture taken with the World Series trophy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Helluva lot better life than I have lived. Been around academics and before that politicians with stints in other fields like US military, etc.

You are kind, generous, self effacing, and do a lot for the animals you tend. Display all the traits of a true Christian. Which is the exact antithesis of many of my former academic colleagues and certainly almost all politicians I have dealt with over the years.

The dogs that you raise are far better furry people than many actual ones when it comes down to it.

Posted by: whig at September 16, 2025 10:31 PM (WDjG6)

92
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:29 PM (cCfL4)

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Forgot to include, that was to Braenyard's:

Image you won't forget:

https://tinyurl.com/y7z6adey

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:27 PM (Dzytg)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 16, 2025 10:31 PM (cCfL4)

93 12,800 years, huh? Paging Mr. Davidson to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 16, 2025 10:32 PM (vd6bO)

94 >>>I married three different gingers and they all still talk to me! (Well, one's dead so there's that)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Ginger bread man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:32 PM (Dzytg)

95 73 The "producer switch", good man, now find the switch to turn engineers off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:26 PM

I believe the bean-counter executives at Boeing used a switch to turn their engineers off.

Based on the results, it should probably now be referred to as a deadman's switch.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:33 PM (HlyYF)

96 That whole eye-tooth story is bizarre. It's great that it works, but wtf anyway! I can't imagine the thought process whereby some doc said "Eureka!" on that.
Posted by: 496 at September 16, 2025 10:25 PM (WeJ8p)

(shrug)

It's better than saying "Urethra!"

Posted by: Yellow Eyes Smith at September 16, 2025 10:33 PM (0eaVi)

97 Probably Meta Zuck will countersue, then have Attorney Zuck disbarred and debanked, before having him killed and his house burned down.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You're too young to be so cynical.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 16, 2025 10:33 PM (6U1c2)

98 The producer switch anecdote reminds me of a centuries-old trick of portrait painters: the Big Ear.

They'd get a commission to paint some rich worthy, and knowing how customers always want to stick their oar in, they'll deliberately paint one ear just a bit too big. Predictably, the sitter will come and peer critically at the painting and say, "You know, this is really fine -- but that ear, it's a bit too big."

"What a fine eye you have!" (Sitter swells with satisfaction)... "I'll repaint that right away!"

Posted by: Beverly at September 16, 2025 10:33 PM (Epeb0)

99 That montage James Woods posted is powerful. We should spread it far and wide.

Posted by: Beverly at September 16, 2025 10:34 PM (Epeb0)

100 58 That clip of the dems calling for violence is infuriating
Posted by: Zeera.
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Biggest problem is that they conceal themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:35 PM (Dzytg)

101 "When I am reviewing / commenting on a document with "Track Changes", I usually accept most of my own changes before sending it back. I'll leave 2 or 3 things for the original author to accept/reject so they think those are my only edits."

Hey, that's my trick, too! (OUP editor for years)

Posted by: Beverly at September 16, 2025 10:35 PM (Epeb0)

102 I married three different gingers and they all still talk to me! (Well, one's dead so there's that)

Posted by: Tonypete at September 16, 2025 10:26 PM

If you are lucky enough to pull THAT off, then buying the winning ticket the next time the lottery goes over $1 billion should be child's play!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:35 PM (HlyYF)

103 Good evening morons en bedankt Disco

Phillies fans are the worst

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 10:36 PM (RIvkX)

104 Decarlos Brown Jr., murderer of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, has been transferred from jail to Central Regional Hospital in Butner, North Carolina, for a psychiatric evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial
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He was competent enough to kill her he’s competent enough to stand trial.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:37 PM (Dzytg)

105 Mariners win 12-5

Ten in a row

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 16, 2025 10:37 PM (MNnbh)

106 Take a look at the Israeli soldier on the Syrian border. Notice anything interesting ?

https://tinyurl.com/yzx5cfph

Posted by: runner at September 16, 2025 10:37 PM (g47mK)

107 But at least pretend to check out the content first, OK?
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Ok.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

108 Since I am shutting down for the night. Re magic switch.

My father had reason to employ a former union plant electrician (Chrysler) that no longer had a plant to work at.

He and a buddy wired up a big red button switch with the word ON--no off button. His buddy did plumbing and rigged up a shower surprise for the person dumb enough to push the button. They added a sign that said in really big letters--Do NOT Push the Button.

Then these two dudes had their own private Candid Camera show as executive suits, workers, visitors, demonstrated monkey curiousity about the button and inevitably some would look around carefully and then push the button and get thoroughly hosed down. Repeat as needed. Probably tells you something about the bad years in Chrysler for the type of people being hired in the bad old years at Chrysler aka the 1970's.

Posted by: whig at September 16, 2025 10:38 PM (WDjG6)

109 It's better than saying "Urethra!"

Posted by: Yellow Eyes Smith at September 16, 2025 10:33 PM

I am pretty sure that is what Mike Tyson says when he makes an amazing discovery!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:40 PM (HlyYF)

110 63 Just what is the evidence that Hortman's killer was a righty?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 16, 2025 10:23 PM (s0JqF)

He killed two Democrats; therefore he is MAGA.

Repeat as needed until you integrate this logical logic into your already brainwashed and dry-cleaned brain. Typically doesn't require a single repeat for those properly dry-cleaned.

Posted by: Gref at September 16, 2025 10:40 PM (5rh/l)

111 Pillage Idiot, I don't have a donkey but I will probably get at least one as a livestock guardian. Maybe even before a dog, since a dog can't live on mostly grass.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 16, 2025 10:41 PM (ULPxl)

112 A semi-related hack, or at least came to mind, back in the day cars were really easy to steal. A length of wire and a screwdriver. No hood locks, no steering locks. Just hot wire the ignition coil and short across the starter relay and Vroom! you’re in business.

Anyway, people would rig up some clever hacks to try and prevent it. One old guy on one of the auto forums said he replaced the ignition coil wire with a length of black rubber hose. Looked perfect. Went on vacation for a couple weeks. Forgot all about his DIY anti-theft device.

Goes to start his truck, and it cranks right up! Turns out black rubber is made with carbon - and is electrically conductive. So much for that idea.

A weird glitch or intermittent in my Nissan I once owned, every now and then, not very often, it would refuse to start unless the shift lever was pushed forward, just once.

I came out to my car one morning, and someone had tried to steal it overnight, the steering column was half disassembled and the rest of it. They couldn’t get it to start!

Yep -they didn’t tap the shift lever forward just once, one in a million.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 16, 2025 10:41 PM (BACll)

113 106 Take a look at the Israeli soldier on the Syrian border. Notice anything interesting ?

https://tinyurl.com/yzx5cfph
Posted by: runner at September 16, 2025 10:37 PM (g47mK)

Nice nails.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 16, 2025 10:41 PM (8hxDK)

114 >>>I believe the bean-counter executives at Boeing used a switch to turn their engineers off.

Based on the results, it should probably now be referred to as a deadman's switch.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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I should have been more specific. -> Recording Engineers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:41 PM (Dzytg)

115 - Caught a ball at a baseball game (pitched by Nolan Ryan)
- Hit a hole in one (on an actual golf course, thankyouverymuch)
- Been dealt a pat royal flush in spades playing poker
- Had a picture taken with the World Series trophy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:19 PM (tgvbd)
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Good list

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

116 106 Take a look at the Israeli soldier on the Syrian border. Notice anything interesting ?

https://tinyurl.com/yzx5cfph

Posted by: runner at September 16, 2025 10:37 PM

She has her polished nail off of the bang switch?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:42 PM (HlyYF)

117 Nice nails.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 16, 2025 10:41 PM (8hxDK)

right ! I was like, what is with the nails ?? lol , girl

Posted by: runner at September 16, 2025 10:42 PM (g47mK)

118 It's a bit pedantic but San Leandro (my hometown) is in the East Bay, next to Oakland... It's not "East San Francisco"

Posted by: Frosted Lexi charm at September 16, 2025 10:43 PM (cMlcA)

119 106 Take a look at the Israeli soldier on the Syrian border. Notice anything interesting ?

https://tinyurl.com/yzx5cfph
Posted by: runner
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I'd take that soldier home to mama.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:43 PM (Dzytg)

120 Hadrian

You’re an amazing human being who makes the world a better place.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 16, 2025 10:43 PM (3drxe)

121 12,800 years, huh?

Did the blacks invent nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, interplanetary spacecraft, all possible types of music, smart phones, and chocolate ice cream before or after this event?

Posted by: Gref at September 16, 2025 10:43 PM (5rh/l)

122 Dear lefties,

Everybody in this country has free speech, but keep in mind, some speech is incriminating, embarrassing, and genuinely shitty. You don't have freedom from consequences.

Nobody is denying you free speech. Your own speech is revealing you to be terrible people.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 16, 2025 10:44 PM (bSXnJ)

123 Blanco, how you doing?

Better now that I've had desert. Put together all the pictures I could gather from friends and sane relatives of foster kid. 46 pictures to tell the tale of a life. Bonus, can't post any of them online without permission from the state AG because she was in foster care. Um, I don't think anybody's kidnapping her now.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 16, 2025 10:45 PM (lUFok)

124 I should have been more specific. -> Recording Engineers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:41 PM

Oh, I knew what you meant.

You are much nicer and more circumspect than I am.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:46 PM (HlyYF)

125 That old sly fox Manchin was right, guardrails disappeared with Obama/Biden. He removed them for his minions.

Posted by: runner at September 16, 2025 10:46 PM (g47mK)

126 Netflix is producing a historical series featuring Lebanese actor Jihad Abdallah (now Alexander) as Swedish King Gustav III in the 1800s.
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And putting this crap into peoples minds.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:46 PM (Dzytg)

127 If you put a wisdom tooth in your eye, do you then have an 'all-seeing eye'?

Posted by: RickZ at September 16, 2025 10:47 PM (gKDq2)

128 Sklar's a great player. Also a big lefty, but nobody's perfect. A lot of producers have a similar switch or knob that they use to fake out bands and record company reps.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2025 10:48 PM (t5upi)

129 right ! I was like, what is with the nails ?? lol , girl
Posted by: runner at September 16, 2025 10:42 PM (g47mK)

If you are on X, "IDF Girls" is a pretty solid follow.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at September 16, 2025 10:48 PM (tE+Cl)

130 >>>My life has been a thoroughly mediocre failure, bit I've:

- Caught a ball at a baseball game (pitched by Nolan Ryan)
- Hit a hole in one (on an actual golf course, thankyouverymuch)
- Been dealt a pat royal flush in spades playing poker
- Had a picture taken with the World Series trophy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I won a school musical chairs thing in 3rd grade. I won a 4-way parlay in Vegas in the first round of the 2012 NCAA BB tournament. That's it.

Posted by: Gref at September 16, 2025 10:48 PM (5rh/l)

131 Enjoy a bite for me ...

For you, Miss Adriane, I enjoyed two.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 16, 2025 10:48 PM (lUFok)

132 Melissa Hortman was assassinated by a Democrat who had been in the employ of Tim Walz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 10:48 PM (joBNx)

133 122 Dear lefties,

Everybody in this country has free speech, but keep in mind, some speech is incriminating, embarrassing, and genuinely shitty. You don't have freedom from consequences.

Nobody is denying you free speech. Your own speech is revealing you to be terrible people.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 16, 2025 10:44 PM (bSXnJ)

Bullsh*t. Freedom of speech includes expressing gladness that somebody was assassinated who was a hate preacher. A single person. When you guys misgender someone or use their "dead name" you're advocating for literal genocide. BIG difference.

Posted by: Lefties at September 16, 2025 10:49 PM (8hxDK)

134 Calling for violence is not "free speech"

Leftists rely on everyone forgetting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

135 Encountered a Karen while out for a walk this evening. It was just after sunset and a pickup truck with bright headlights was approaching me. All the sudden a SUV in the other lane slows to a crawl near me. The driver, a black lady, opens her window to yell at the driver of the truck to turn off his high beam and why is he using his high beam, yadda yadda yadda. The truck is still oncoming and hits a bump in the road. The lady thinks he flicked his high beam at her and she starts ranting again. The truck just passes on by like nothing was going on. I just kept walking and she starts asking me did you see that? And I just told her he probably just has halogen bulbs and that he hit a bump in the road. No idea if she heard me. She stopped just so I could listen to her rant. Ugh.

Posted by: Farquad at September 16, 2025 10:50 PM (HSJIN)

136 Anybody need a zebra???
https://shorturl.at/W7M04
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 16, 2025 10:06 PM (ULPxl)

Isn't that Lizzo's size?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 10:51 PM (joBNx)

137 Hadrian,

Don't you have some "Best in Show"s to add to your accomplishment list?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:51 PM (HlyYF)

138 Qatar is controlling our universities:
Charles Small investigates Qatar:

“We located over a $100 billion in undocumented funds going from Qatar, i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood, to American universities.

We found $10 billion at Cornell and 1,300,000,000 at Texas A&M.

At Brown University, we found a billion dollars in one program called the Choices Program, led by Professor Omer Bartov, a scholar of genocide, who is now arguing that Israel is committing a genocide.

Interestingly, he is running this project that received a billion dollars from the Qataris,...

https://tinyurl.com/33ppvp27

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:51 PM (Dzytg)

139
Yep, the Erf got a smiting about 12,800 years ago. The last glacial maximum peaked a few thousands years before, but that big ice sheet was still covering most of Canada then.

Many species of megafauna roamed what is now the US then. Wolly mammoths, wolly rhinos, elephants, saber-tooth cats, even giant beavers and giant sloths. Yep, beavers the size of bears. Native horses as well. A human culture of sorts, dubbed the Clovis culture was here as well. Then, boom, it was all wiped out. Mass extinctions of 60% of the megafauna species.

The climate was slowly warming, with ice sheets slowly retreating. Something big happened in a geological instant. Massive fires (the black mat layer). The warming trend was interrupted for about 1000 years. Global temp dropped as much 18F. And then, boom, the ice sheets were largely going, sea levels rose, and here we are in the modern epoch, dubbed the Holocene.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 16, 2025 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

140 Melissa Hortman was assassinated by a Democrat who had been in the employ of Tim Walz.

Also she was targeted because she was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans on a major bill a few days prior.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2025 10:51 PM (t5upi)

141 My most memorable achievement is a Citation from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

142 Didn't know Leland Sklar and I were related. Out of college I worked swing shift as a radio engineer. One night the station owner called me complaining about the "modulation" and wanted me to boost the transmitter's power. This of course is simply not done, and the chief engineer had previously gone around the bend with this guy, trying to explain FCC rules governing signal coverage.

I told him to give me a few minutes to see what I can do, then went back to watching Monday Night Football. About ten minutes later, he called me back telling me the station is coming in "like a bomb, now". I told him that I took it as far as I could, and wasn't sure if it was enough to be noticed. "No, it's perfect now kid! You're great!" I was his favorite from that night on. Told the chief engineer and I think he's laughing to this day...

Here's another good Leland Sklar story:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lq3r2hUsqwQ

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 16, 2025 10:52 PM (nbLIj)

143 Again the Left make another illogical comparison trying to compare the Kirk assassination with the murder of a couple of state politicians by a fellow political activist who had a personal grudge.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 16, 2025 10:24 PM (EYmYM)

IMAO, they simply can't grasp the enorminity of what transpired. They think he was 'just a podcaster', some religious nut.

That's their idiotic biases showing through.

Posted by: RickZ at September 16, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

144 The "producer switch", good man, now find the switch to turn engineers off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:26 PM
+++

I believe the bean-counter executives at Boeing used a switch to turn their engineers off.

Based on the results, it should probably now be referred to as a deadman's switch.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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When Comey played his 86 gag I did a quick search and found some ANSI std electrical devices. Function 86 was the "kill switch / relay". Shuts everything down with manual lockout.

Fairly sure these were ANSi stds. If you ever had to replace a relay in a car there is usually a two digit number on them. That is the function number

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 10:54 PM (/lPRQ)

145
Don't you have some "Best in Show"s to add to your accomplishment list?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:51 PM (HlyYF)

________

That's Her Majesty's accomplishment. I'm just the kennel help.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:55 PM (tgvbd)

146 “We located over a $100 billion in undocumented funds going from Qatar, i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood, to American universities.

We found $10 billion at Cornell and 1,300,000,000 at Texas A&M.

At Brown University, we found a billion dollars in one program called the Choices Program, led by Professor Omer Bartov, a scholar of genocide, who is now arguing that Israel is committing a genocide.
=====

But Ay Pak!!!!
-Tucker and Friends

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

147 IMAO, they simply can't grasp the enorminity of what transpired. They think he was 'just a podcaster', some religious nut.

I was surprised to find out that Charlie had "discovered" DataRepublican and talked her into doing what she now does. I suspect he's had a lot of second and third order impacts even we don't know about.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 16, 2025 10:56 PM (t5upi)

148 Tomorrow morning is Day 1 of me getting ready for work without my cat meowing, "good morning, I love you, where's my breakfast?"

Scout was a caution.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 16, 2025 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

Condolences. Kitties are the best. Dogs, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 10:56 PM (joBNx)

149 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 16, 2025 10:57 PM (SRRAx)

150 Netflix is producing a historical series featuring Lebanese actor Jihad Abdallah (now Alexander) as Swedish King Gustav III in the 1800s.
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And putting this crap into peoples minds.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 10:46 PM (Dzytg)

His next role will be a reboot. Jihad Clampett in the Bethlehem Hillbillies.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 16, 2025 10:57 PM (144I4)

151 @greg_price11
Thomas Massie was just the only Republican who voted against bills requiring DC to charge people aged 18-24 as adults and lowering the age to 14 that people in DC can be tried as adults for first degree murder, sexual assault, armed robbery, and assault.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 16, 2025 10:57 PM (gKWVE)

152 My life has been a thoroughly mediocre failure, bit I've:

- Caught a ball at a baseball game (pitched by Nolan Ryan)
- Hit a hole in one (on an actual golf course, thankyouverymuch)
- Been dealt a pat royal flush in spades playing poker
- Had a picture taken with the World Series trophy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Caught a ball at a minor league baseball game in Tampa. No idea who hit.
I got a hole in one at a public course in Butler County, PA. My high point in my golf 'career'.
Saw a hyena in Ethiopia. It peaked in the car I was sitting in. Its head was the size of the car window.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 16, 2025 10:58 PM (sAmhv)

153 147 IMAO, they simply can't grasp the enorminity of what transpired. They think he was 'just a podcaster', some religious nut.

I was surprised to find out that Charlie had "discovered" DataRepublican and talked her into doing what she now does. I suspect he's had a lot of second and third order impacts even we don't know about.

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That's a REAL INFLUENCER

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 16, 2025 10:58 PM (bSXnJ)

154 When Comey played his 86 gag I did a quick search and found some ANSI std electrical devices. Function 86 was the "kill switch / relay". Shuts everything down with manual lockout.

Fairly sure these were ANSi stds. If you ever had to replace a relay in a car there is usually a two digit number on them. That is the function number

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 10:54 PM

What, Comey lied?

How many does that make now?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 10:59 PM (HlyYF)

155 LMAO is a Duffy electric boat. Not sure why they're laughing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 16, 2025 11:01 PM (JkO4W)

156 Scout was a caution.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo

Oh no.

I’m sorry. Lucy gets extra snurgles tonight.
What a sweet friend you had for so long.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 16, 2025 11:01 PM (OtD4R)

157 >>>Also she was targeted because she was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans on a major bill a few days prior.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Discipline. That's why the Democrats are always in lock step.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 11:02 PM (Dzytg)

158 141 My most memorable achievement is a Citation from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

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Sad. One of the worst Chevys ever built.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 16, 2025 11:02 PM (JkO4W)

159
Turns out there is good evidence (still a lot of speculation, but it's pretty plausible) that Comet Encke and the Taurid meteor stream are the remnants of this YD comet. The Tunguska event itself was probably a big piece from the Taurid stream.

Anyway, the big picture goes like this. There was a big comet, about ~100 km/60 mi diameter was whipping around Sol ever so often. One fateful perihelion, it got too close to the Sun, or perhaps something else, and broke up into a bunch of pieces. On a fateful day some 12,800 years ago, the Erf slammed right into that debris trail.

We took a shotgun blast of many large pieces of low density dirty snowball/snowy dirtball impactors. The result was a bunch of Tsar Bomba airbursts all over North America. We got nuked from orbit so to speak.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 16, 2025 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

160 Condolences. Kitties are the best. Dogs, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 10:56 PM (joBNx)

Thanks. She was a real sweetie.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 16, 2025 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)

161 157 >>>Also she was targeted because she was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans on a major bill a few days prior.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Discipline. That's why the Democrats are always in lock step.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 11:02 PM (Dzytg)

Big Democrat is a thousand times more vengeful and ruthless than Big Penguin.

Posted by: Gref at September 16, 2025 11:04 PM (5rh/l)

162 Dear lefties,

Everybody in this country has free speech, but keep in mind, some speech is incriminating, embarrassing, and genuinely shitty. You don't have freedom from consequences.

Nobody is denying you free speech. Your own speech is revealing you to be terrible people.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 16, 2025 10:44 PM (bSXnJ)

The Dildo of Consequences rarely comes lubed.

Posted by: RickZ at September 16, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)

163 Did you have any really old geeks around who wanted to label the switch positions "magic" and "more magic?"

Posted by: mikeski at September 16, 2025 10:20 PM (nhCoE)

On guitars with 2 pickups the selector switch has 3 positions. one for the bridge pickup, usually labeled treble, one for the neck pickup, labeled rhythm, and the middle position which turns both pickups on. Totally ass backwards in metal land, because all rhythms are done with the bridge pickup along with most leads. Shred leads use the neck pickup, and the middle position is pretty much never used. As a result, we call the positions Blowtorch, Shred, and Neutral. Such assholes we are, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 16, 2025 11:05 PM (snZF9)

164 I came out to my car one morning, and someone had tried to steal it overnight, the steering column was half disassembled and the rest of it. They couldn’t get it to start!

Yep -they didn’t tap the shift lever forward just once, one in a million.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 16, 2025 10:41 PM (BACll)

Adam Corolla describes how he installed a switch that turned off the fuel pump in his Toyota pick up truck. Thieves would get a few yards before the thing crapped out and he simply had to walk a couple blocks the next day to retrieve it.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 16, 2025 11:06 PM (nbLIj)

165 Meow. Clicked the boats and got lost in the past. 😺

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 16, 2025 11:07 PM (w3u3d)

166 What a sweet friend you had for so long.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 16, 2025 11:01 PM (OtD4R)

Wife and I drove all over town afterward, just talking about Scout. She loved humans. Life of the party. Partly why she was always an indoor cat. I could go on all day. I may share some stories on the next pet thread.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 16, 2025 11:08 PM (0aYVJ)

167 Adam Corolla describes how he installed a switch that turned off the fuel pump in his Toyota pick up truck. Thieves would get a few yards before the thing crapped out and he simply had to walk a couple blocks the next day to retrieve it.
Posted by: Joe Kidd

With fuel injection requiring pressure to work you can just intercept then crash/inertia switch with your own switch and the won't even start.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)

168 That's Her Majesty's accomplishment. I'm just the kennel help.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:55 PM

Good answer.

Many years ago, I had two Brittany Spaniels sired by the runner-up to the champion at national field trials.

They would consistently outhunt and embarrass the wealthy guys' high dollar dogs, that had been through extensive even higher dollar training.

The more personable guys would ask me what did I do to train up such fabulous dogs. My reply, "It's not me. It's all them. I just taught them basic discipline."

My female was so smart, with such a strong desire to please, that if she had opposable thumbs I am sure she would have helped me build a deck or shingle a roof!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 11:08 PM (HlyYF)

169 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 16, 2025 10:57 PM (SRRAx)

Evening, Teresa! How's the tummy faring, now?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 11:09 PM (joBNx)

170 Adam Corolla describes how he installed a switch that turned off the fuel pump in his Toyota pick up truck. Thieves would get a few yards before the thing crapped out and he simply had to walk a couple blocks the next day to retrieve it.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 16, 2025 11:06 PM (nbLIj)

What are the odds Corolla owns a Toyota?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 16, 2025 11:10 PM (0eaVi)

171 If you put a wisdom tooth in your eye, do you then have an 'all-seeing eye'?
Posted by: RickZ

Based on feedback I've received, I must have one implanted in my buttocks.

Posted by: mikeski at September 16, 2025 11:11 PM (nhCoE)

172 157 >>>Also she was targeted because she was the only Democrat to vote with the Republicans on a major bill a few days prior.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Discipline. That's why the Democrats are always in lock step.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 11:02 PM

Wow!

That gives new meaning to the title; Democrat Majority Whip.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 11:11 PM (HlyYF)

173 Hi! Countdown to TX!

Posted by: Iris at September 16, 2025 11:11 PM (bOJ2I)

174
Well, that was an unnecessarily exciting game

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 11:15 PM (tgvbd)

175 Please to correct Adam Carolla not Corolla.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 16, 2025 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

176
Some years back I tried to catch a line drive foul ball hit down the first base line at a minor league game somewhere in Virginia, bare handed.

I acquired a new level of appreciation for the phrase "stinging" for my folly, but not the ball.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 16, 2025 11:15 PM (xG4kz)

177 I put myself through a few years of my mispent college days as a live sound/concert engineer.

There was a lot of "I need more vocal in the monitors" *does nothing* then ask how is that? "Totally dialed in now!"

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at September 16, 2025 11:16 PM (tE+Cl)

178 "There's no shortage of idiots around the world who think it's a great idea to murder someone. Why would we give a visa to those who think it's good that someone was murdered in the public square? It's just common sense. We don't want them here."
_Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

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

179 Adam Corolla describes how he installed a switch that turned off the fuel pump in his Toyota pick up truck. Thieves would get a few yards before the thing crapped out and he simply had to walk a couple blocks the next day to retrieve it.
Posted by: Joe Kidd

With fuel injection requiring pressure to work you can just intercept then crash/inertia switch with your own switch and the won't even start.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)

Back in the '80's, when Toyotas were being stolen all over the place, a friend of mine rigged his family's Toyotas with a switch behind the ashtray. Pull out the ashtray just a tad, and the crank circuit would be interrupted. So when he parked, he'd pull the ashtray out may half an inch. Thieves often look in the ashtray to see if a spare key is stashed there, so they'd pull it out all the way, find nothing, and proceed to defeat the ignition lock. And then the car would not start.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 11:17 PM (QjQFX)

180 >>> Senator John Fetterman Calls Out His Party for Second Time in Two Days: ‘Don’t Ever, Ever, Call Someone Hitler’

+++++

Something is... Right about that guy.

The "both sides" is BS.
Talking heads getting national media stoking the coals vs. some rando on obscure blogs being witty about chippers are not the same.

At least not by several orders of magnitude.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 11:18 PM (/lPRQ)

181 All that top pic needs to represent SoCal is a huge sea lion projectile crapping onto one of the boats.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 16, 2025 11:19 PM (4a+wk)

182 Reading all these fancy homemade car anti-theft devices, I'd just go with having a manual transmission.

Posted by: RickZ at September 16, 2025 11:20 PM (gKDq2)

183 Reporter: The MN House Speaker, a Democrat was assassinated

Trump: The governor of MN didn't ask me to do it

Makes sense since he ordered the killing.

Posted by: toby928 at September 16, 2025 11:20 PM (jc0TO)

184 What are the odds Corolla owns a Toyota?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Should of had a Corolla.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 11:20 PM (/lPRQ)

185 182 Reading all these fancy homemade car anti-theft devices, I'd just go with having a manual transmission.

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Or, you could get a Prius.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 16, 2025 11:20 PM (4a+wk)

186 Some years back I tried to catch a line drive foul ball hit down the first base line at a minor league game somewhere in Virginia, bare handed.

I acquired a new level of appreciation for the phrase "stinging" for my folly, but not the ball.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

They guy who got it was happy you slowed it down for him, though.

Posted by: mikeski at September 16, 2025 11:20 PM (nhCoE)

187 That "producer switch" sounds like this Dilbert:
Ummmm... ok, I can't find it, even though I know it's out there.

It's the one where Wally takes b&w presentation to his boss who tells him it needs to be in color. That satisfies the boss' need to make changes, AND he was already printing the color copies while he was talking to the boss.

Posted by: GWB at September 16, 2025 11:21 PM (RTQn+)

188 180 >>> Senator John Fetterman Calls Out His Party for Second Time in Two Days: ‘Don’t Ever, Ever, Call Someone Hitler’

+++++

Something is... Right about that guy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 11:18 PM

My theory: After you start recovering from a traumatic brain injury, and your IQ starts to improve, you must necessarily move from the far Left side of the political spectrum to a position farther to the Right.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 11:22 PM (HlyYF)

189 Transmission swap job is proceeding apace. Got the proper ram's horn manifolds installed on the engine, and they look fine there. Got the shifter out of the car, and the 700R4 tranny set up on a work table. Looks like the shifter will be a non-problem; take a rubber bumper out of it, and it has enough range to move the manual valve in the tranny its full range. All I have to do, really, is make a new plastic window with the PRNDL on it. And add a cam to the lever on the transmission to work micro-switches for neutral safety and backup lamps. Easy to do on the bench!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 11:22 PM (QjQFX)

190
The lump Fetterman got rid of turned out to be his wife, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 16, 2025 11:22 PM (w6EFb)

191 Very cool picture DOOF.

The left is running and gunning with so many lies, obfuscations and otherwise talking points from Alinsky's 14 rules for radicals.

They now see their critical misstep.

Let us take advantage of their Fu*k up and drive them to the sea.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 16, 2025 11:23 PM (25kuG)

192 They've found shocked quartz at three sites in CA, AZ, and NM right at the YD boundary layer. Shocked quartz is pretty much confirmatory of massive airbursts. And they're getting the dating pinned down pretty tight. 12,800 years ago.
Posted by: publius

That's neat. Murray Spings is just up the road from me. I only knew it as a Clovis mammoth kill site. To find out the hunters that brought it down got killed just weeks later by a Tunguska type event is pretty wild.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at September 16, 2025 11:25 PM (D/6GV)

193
The more personable guys would ask me what did I do to train up such fabulous dogs. My reply, "It's not me. It's all them. I just taught them basic discipline."

__________

A great deal of success is how much the dogs love it. Lacey had her faults, but when she went into the ring it was, "Here I am! Adore me." Delilah was the same way.

On the other hand, Alan was a magnificent stallion hound who won group placements from the classes. Judges loved him. But he told us he didn't want a show career and we respected his wishes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 11:26 PM (tgvbd)

194 Why my truck is a low risk theft truck:

1) Manual transmission
2) No electric locks
3) Roll-down windows
4) Ugly as fuck-all

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 16, 2025 11:28 PM (0aYVJ)

195 I never built one, but I read about intercepting the power to the electric fuel pump and building a switch box with a half dozen rocker switches, wired so you need the correct sequence of rockers turned on and off to route power through the box.

Thought about building one for my 1989 Mustang, but never got around to it.

I suspect trying something similar on a modern car would initiate the self destruct sequence.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 16, 2025 11:30 PM (Kn28K)

196 Hey, AOP! I'm just old enough to remember when they were PNDLR, which could cause problems . . . .

Could you just raid a junk yard to find the right indicator device?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 16, 2025 11:31 PM (ha1wR)

197 But he told us he didn't want a show career and we respected his wishes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 11:26 PM

Impressive. I could never get any of my dogs to talk.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 11:32 PM (HlyYF)

198 >>>Easy to do on the bench!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'm lost. Is this #1, 2, or 3?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 11:32 PM (Dzytg)

199 Sad. One of the worst Chevys ever built.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 16, 2025 11:02 PM (JkO4W)

I abused one through HS. Never failed to make it to the pallet fire parties. We called it the Huey because like 10 people could fit into it.

Posted by: Reforger at September 16, 2025 11:32 PM (SPOEc)

200 Impressive. I could never get any of my dogs to talk.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 11:32 PM (HlyYF)

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"Maybe I shoulda said DiMaggio."

Posted by: The Talking Dog at September 16, 2025 11:33 PM (4a+wk)

201 196 Hey, AOP! I'm just old enough to remember when they were PNDLR, which could cause problems . . . .
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Caused some liability problems with the majority of folks accustomed to standard transmissions, all on the tree.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 11:34 PM (Dzytg)

202 Candace Owens and Nick the incel Fuentes are pushing the “Joos killed Charlie” idiocy bigly.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 16, 2025 11:35 PM (qM1j6)

203 "Maybe I shoulda said DiMaggio."

Posted by: The Talking Dog at September 16, 2025 11:33 PM

Wow, even more impressive.

A dog that can talk, type on the internet, and is a Moron!

I bet ALL of the bitches love you.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 11:35 PM (HlyYF)

204 Why my truck is a low risk theft truck:

1) Manual transmission
2) No electric locks
3) Roll-down windows
4) Ugly as fuck-all
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo

++++

Ugly as fuck-all alone will do it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 16, 2025 11:35 PM (/lPRQ)

205 Candace Owens and Nick the incel Fuentes are pushing the “Joos killed Charlie” idiocy bigly.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 16, 2025 11:35 PM (qM1j6)

Is this based on the idea that Mormons are salty Jews?

(Stupid people really frustrate me.)

Posted by: GWB at September 16, 2025 11:37 PM (RTQn+)

206 Stupid Chevy Citation story. Moved to the OKC area in 1994. I don't remember when they shut down the plant that built Citations, but the sorta-fired workers went to the union office every day and still collected paychecks. I retired in 2013 and there were still some guys being paid to do nothing. Unions.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 16, 2025 11:38 PM (ha1wR)

207 202 Candace Owens and Nick the incel Fuentes are pushing the “Joos killed Charlie” idiocy bigly.

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I won't believe it until I hear it from Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 16, 2025 11:39 PM (4a+wk)

208 My life has been a thoroughly mediocre failure, bit I've:

- Caught a ball at a baseball game (pitched by Nolan Ryan)
- Hit a hole in one (on an actual golf course, thankyouverymuch)
- Been dealt a pat royal flush in spades playing poker
- Had a picture taken with the World Series trophy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 16, 2025 10:19

And you have shared some grt classical music with many morons, TY.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 16, 2025 11:39 PM (55Qr6)

209 >> Tunguska type event is pretty wild.

This thing would've been a few thousand Tunguskas total spread all over. And it could've been one event lasting hours, Erf plowing through the shotgun blast of debris, or it could've been stretched out over several orbital periods of Erf and the comet fragments. IOW, big impacts every so many months over a few years.

Imagine a few thousand, maybe even 10 thousand Tsar Bombas being detonated all over North America.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 16, 2025 11:39 PM (w6EFb)

210 Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 16, 2025 10:18 PM (0aYVJ)

I'm so sorry.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 16, 2025 11:40 PM (Vvh2V)

211 106 Take a look at the Israeli soldier on the Syrian border. Notice anything interesting ?

https://tinyurl.com/yzx5cfph
Posted by: runner at September 16, 2025 10:37 PM (g47mK)

There is a plastic chamber plug ahead of the bolt. No round chambered. Nice nails.

Posted by: ChrisP at September 16, 2025 11:40 PM (mepiA)

212 well the Astros tried hard to blow their lead to the Rangers but in the end left them with blue balls. 6-5.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 16, 2025 11:40 PM (gKWVE)

213 Count the attendees

https://youtu.be/Q0HHZbvvQOE

Posted by: toby928 at September 16, 2025 11:41 PM (jc0TO)

214 pretend to check out the content first, OK?
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Content checked out! We'll done, Doof. Just landed at LaGuardia. Open the damned door!

Posted by: scampydog at September 16, 2025 11:43 PM (e5hut)

215 I'm so sorry.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 16, 2025 11:40 PM (Vvh2V)

Thank you. Lord bless.

I'm heading in.

I love the Horde. I truly do.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at September 16, 2025 11:44 PM (0aYVJ)

216
IIRC, Africa was the best place to be during the YD event. It suffered the least megafauna extinctions, IIRC.

The Sahara was quite humid and green during this time. In fact, that humid period didn't end until maybe 5000 years ago. It was a slow decline.

But during that YD event, the Sahara was lush, wet and green.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 16, 2025 11:44 PM (w6EFb)

217 https://tinyurl.com/v6h8dy29
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at September 16, 2025 11:49 PM (+qU29)

218 Could you just raid a junk yard to find the right indicator device?
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 16, 2025 11:31 PM (ha1wR)

Drove the PNDLR this evening, a '64 Studebaker Daytona convertible. Ran just fine, too.

Well, there might be suitable indicator windows in some Avanti II's from the '80's but they won't be found in junkyards. It will be a pretty easy piece to make. Cut a strip of clear plastic. Frost it. Install in bezel. Hook shifter up to transmission. Hook up the lamp that move with the lever. With the lever in "park" stick a cutout "P" to the plastic. Ditto for the other positions. Spray the plastic with black paint. Peel off the stickers. Done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 11:49 PM (0sq2f)

219 >>>Self-entitled people are the worst you encounter.[ . . .]https://tinyurl.com/bdecxx49
Posted by: Gref at September 16, 2025 10:14 PM (5rh/l)

We are in the age of entitlement

https://tinyurl.com/bdecxx49

Posted by: Kindltot at September 16, 2025 11:51 PM (rbvCR)

220 But during that YD event, the Sahara was lush, wet and green.

Posted by: publius
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The Golden Age

Posted by: Dildos at September 16, 2025 11:54 PM (XeU6L)

221 I'm lost. Is this #1, 2, or 3?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 16, 2025 11:32 PM (Dzytg)

This is not a Suburban. 1963 Avanti, bubba-built with a TH350 transmission, that leaks like a sieve. Replacing with a 700R4 (rebuilt) transmission, and fixing a few other fuckups as I go. A fun project.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 11:54 PM (0sq2f)

222 Sad. One of the worst Chevys ever built.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 16, 2025 11:02 PM (JkO4W)

There is/was a very occasional poster on here who goes/went by the name of Citation X Driver.

Every time I saw the nick, I first laughed because I thought it meant he drove a Chevy Citation X-11. Then I wept when I realized the joke was on me, and he actually flies a Cessna Citation bizjet for a living, which is kind of my dream job.

Posted by: far cry at September 16, 2025 11:55 PM (df6L4)

223 Evenin’, All, Food.

Posted by: Bulg at September 16, 2025 11:55 PM (77rzZ)

224 Hey, AOP! I'm just old enough to remember when they were PNDLR, which could cause problems . . . .
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Was it Edsel that had push buttons in the steering wheel? Can't recall...

Posted by: Dildos at September 16, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)

225 My theory: After you start recovering from a traumatic brain injury, and your IQ starts to improve, you must necessarily move from the far Left side of the political spectrum to a position farther to the Right.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 16, 2025 11:22

My theory: After your wife starts recovering from a traumatic brain injury, and starts to improve, she will blame you more and more for being stuck in a hospital against her will. Go figure.

This will get better. If I don't expire first.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 16, 2025 11:56 PM (55Qr6)

226 Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well?

This story got a lot of coverage as it happened, then disappeared when it was by a Walz flunkie who claimed Walz told him to do it.

Now, I suspect the government is right and this guy was a loon, but you can't complain that "both sides do it" when all the assassins claim it is the same side making them do it...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 16, 2025 11:57 PM (sKqQm)

227 Count the attendees

https://youtu.be/Q0HHZbvvQOE
Posted by: toby928 at September 16, 2025 11:41 PM (jc0TO)

Five, six thousand at most. Nothing to see here. Move along, subjects.

Posted by: The British Establishment at September 16, 2025 11:58 PM (Kn28K)

228 AOP, I don't think I knew you were working on a Stude - just assumed Suburban. Never mind.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 16, 2025 11:59 PM (ha1wR)

229 Jewish actress Hanna something or other who won an Emmy gave acceptance speech, saying among other things, Free Palestine.

I don’t get it. Never will.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 16, 2025 11:59 PM (qM1j6)

230 Was it Edsel that had push buttons in the steering wheel? Can't recall...
Posted by: Dildos at September 16, 2025 11:56 PM (XeU6L)

Edsel, Packard, and some Chrysler products all had the "typewriter shift". Implemented differently in each case.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 16, 2025 11:59 PM (0sq2f)

231 Was it Edsel that had push buttons in the steering wheel? Can't recall...

Posted by: Dildos
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Yup, pic: https://shorturl.at/NT2hP

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 17, 2025 12:00 AM (XeU6L)

232 Then, there was the Corvair that had the shifter lever in the dash...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 17, 2025 12:01 AM (XeU6L)

233 AOP, I don't think I knew you were working on a Stude - just assumed Suburban. Never mind.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 16, 2025 11:59 PM (ha1wR

Working on the Suburbans is a chore I have to do to keep the daily drivers roadworthy. Working on the Studebakers is therapy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2025 12:02 AM (0sq2f)

234 Working on the Studebakers is therapy.

Same for me, sort of. Working on my roadster makes me feel good, most of the time. At the TxMoMe, ask me about the leaking pan gasket. Long, stupid story.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 17, 2025 12:04 AM (ha1wR)

235 You don't have freedom from consequences.

A few years ago the left claimed that opposing gay marriage or not using tranny pronouns was grounds to be cancelled for exactly this reason.

Amusing now that calling for the wholesale murder of your political opponents is now apparently "free speech" and should also be "free from consequences"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 17, 2025 12:04 AM (sKqQm)

236 Same for me, sort of. Working on my roadster makes me feel good, most of the time. At the TxMoMe, ask me about the leaking pan gasket. Long, stupid story.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 17, 2025 12:04 AM (ha1wR)

What kind of roadster?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 17, 2025 12:05 AM (0sq2f)

237 https://youtu.be/Q0HHZbvvQOE
Posted by: toby928 at September 16, 2025 11:41 PM (jc0TO)

The Grauniad makes sure its first comment is about how a couple of bobbies were accidentally jostled around a bit. "Far-Right Assault!!!!!!!"

Beyond the pinned comment, everyone is mocking the lying cocksucking (it is upper-class English, after all) fuckwits who pretend to tell us our own eyes deceive us.

Posted by: far cry at September 17, 2025 12:05 AM (df6L4)

238 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at September 17, 2025 12:06 AM (77rzZ)

239 At Brown University, we found a billion dollars in one program called the Choices Program, led by Professor Omer Bartov, a scholar of genocide, who is now arguing that Israel is committing a genocide.

Sorry Horde, but for a billion dollars I'll claim its scientifically proven the Jews are killing Gazan babies with their space weather lasers as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 17, 2025 12:07 AM (sKqQm)

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