Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Elder Sister
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 09:30 AM (PFH6n)

2 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 09:30 AM (PFH6n)

3
"Physiognomy"

Would like to see THAT in a limerick.
Posted by: Makes note for Art Thread

**************

Mug Shot - a limerick

A criminal suspect named Jayce
Was the focus of an interesting case
A judge in Potawatomi
Said "Guilt by physiognomy!"
"It's written all over his face!"

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 09:31 AM (/iMjX)

4 Ooooo! I like it!

Posted by: Roman Polanski at September 26, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

5 Sister?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 09:31 AM (PFH6n)

6 Actually, very well done. Beautiful.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:31 AM (cYBz/)

7 we've seen this one before, no ?

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2025 09:31 AM (g47mK)

8 Title checks out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 09:32 AM (wVcYX)

9 Saccharine, saccharine, saccharine !

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2025 09:32 AM (g47mK)

10 Saccharine, saccharine, saccharine !
Posted by: runner

Judy, Judy, Judy!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (PFH6n)

11 Yep. That's the resting big-sister face.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (+0O5m)

12 Have we seen this one before?

Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (Oy/m2)

13 Fantastic choice, Mr. Moderator!

Posted by: Quentin Proudfoot at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (0sNs1)

14 Bouguereau does a nice job painting, hands and feet.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

15 Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 09:31 AM (/iMjX)

==

as a professional amateur Physiognomist, Bravo

👏👏👏

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (g47mK)

16 Awwww. That's very sweet.

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

17 When this man painted female humans, they were either:

1) Naked goddesses and nymphs of Greek mythology
2) Wholesome French peasant girls (see above)
3) The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at September 26, 2025 09:34 AM (GGGBN)

18 Have we seen this one before?
Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (
*****
It looks familiar.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 26, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

19 I’ve got three daughters. This doesn’t fool me for a second.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at September 26, 2025 09:34 AM (btFR4)

20 Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 09:31 AM

* standing ovation *

Posted by: Duncanthrax, who represents the "geek-conservative" archetype in AoSHQ's ecosystem, according to Gro at September 26, 2025 09:34 AM (0sNs1)

21 Test post, different IP.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2025 09:35 AM (uWKK8)

22 Have we seen this one before?

No.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at September 26, 2025 09:35 AM (n9ltV)

23 And the sequel:

The Elder Sister II - Electric Bouguereau

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 09:35 AM (/iMjX)

24 I bet she grew up to be a beautiful mother and wife.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2025 09:35 AM (ZmEVT)

25 I praise God every day I never had a daughter.

We would have killed each other.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2025 09:35 AM (zjsCO)

26 Hmmm
no hang
Sis would never stop looking at me

also she has no eyebrows which I find unsettling

Posted by: Don Black. Message: developing at September 26, 2025 09:37 AM (AOsQT)

27
Crazy. The Elder Sister looks almost exactly like one of my sister's daughters.

So, I guess Reincarnation is a thing now.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

28 They're both dudes.

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 09:37 AM (UnA8+)

29 I’ve got three daughters. This doesn’t fool me for a second.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Sheeeeeeet, I have five sisters. I've experienced everything that they threw at me. And yet, women remain a mystery.

It's an interesting conundrum.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:37 AM (cYBz/)

30 Ooo! I love Bouguereau, probably mention it every time he's featured.

She's thinking: "Sure, the baby gets a nap, pffft."

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2025 09:38 AM (ftFVW)

31 My soul, my soul!

Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 09:38 AM (Mku/8)

32 Bouguereau gave his all painting "The Birth Of Venus". Whatever you think of his painting style, he liked the ladies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 26, 2025 09:38 AM (Qfh/H)

33 That's the "I could have been an only child" look.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 26, 2025 09:38 AM (Q4IgG)

34 I bet her hair smells like strawberries

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (sKqQm)

35 My leg fell asleep just looking at that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (06Hmj)

36 Stuck babysitting again? Thanks, Mom.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (kgE5c)

37 Run little brother, run!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (vL0rw)

38 That expression on the big sister's face, just "Wow!"

Focused, direct and intense, yet relaxed and competent. She's 'got this'!

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (/iMjX)

39 My soul, my soul!
Posted by: RI Red

Heh.

So if one has sold their soul multiple times, how does that work out when the final accounting comes due?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

40 Where's she taking that baby?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2025 09:40 AM (ftFVW)

41 The main subject actually resembles a niece of mine very closely.

She is a wonderful wife, mother and person.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:40 AM (cYBz/)

42 39 So if one has sold their soul multiple times, how does that work out when the final accounting comes due?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

An extra rape session by drill-dicked demons for each extra sale.

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 09:40 AM (UnA8+)

43 You people have fallen under her spell

Posted by: Don Black. Message: developing at September 26, 2025 09:41 AM (AOsQT)

44 Warms this old heart!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 26, 2025 09:41 AM (lBwjM)

45 So if one has sold their soul multiple times, how does that work out when the final accounting comes due?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

Good question.... Hey, is anyone here a lawyer?

HA! Never gets old.

Posted by: Stan at September 26, 2025 09:41 AM (06Hmj)

46 So if one has sold their soul multiple times, how does that work out when the final accounting comes due?

Posted by: Tonypete

Sneak out the back while the collectors duke it out.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 26, 2025 09:41 AM (ftFVW)

47 Looks like a shower á trois, Jack!

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 26, 2025 09:42 AM (zPVKz)

48
Innocuous painting, but not a good doctor's office waiting room painting, because-

it's liable to stir up memories of sibling rivalry among your weaker-minded and/or grudge holding patients.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

49 39 My soul, my soul!
Posted by: RI Red

Heh.

So if one has sold their soul multiple times, how does that work out when the final accounting comes due?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

I’m afraid you then have a very negative soulution.

Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 09:42 AM (Mku/8)

50 That's just what I need.

A collapse in the sub-prime soul derivative markets.

Posted by: Stan at September 26, 2025 09:42 AM (06Hmj)

51 That sidebar - is this what morons find pleasing to the ear - Asian pop garbage? Don't know about you but I prefer less excrement when cleansing the palate.

Posted by: Jerzy Mark at September 26, 2025 09:43 AM (YWT6+)

52 Very sweet!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 26, 2025 09:43 AM (looXz)

53 I praise God every day I never had a daughter.

We would have killed each other.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2025 09:35 AM (zjsCO)
====
I spent 5 weeks with wife, daughter, and MiL.

'Nuff said.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 09:43 AM (7nrYO)

54 Looks like a young Anna Kendrick

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 09:43 AM (sKqQm)

55 Big friggin' heads on both of them.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 26, 2025 09:43 AM (n4GiU)

56 Everyone appears to have the correct number of fingers and toes.

Posted by: Person who likes to count fingers and toes at September 26, 2025 09:43 AM (XQo4F)

57 What is she sitting on? Eroded creek bank? Half fallen rock wall? Her tuffet? What?

Posted by: Ottoman Empire at September 26, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)

58 Holy hell.

What Ever Happened To Baby Jane - The Early Years

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 26, 2025 09:44 AM (aJQjq)

59 those feet...

Posted by: Quentin at September 26, 2025 09:44 AM (i0F8b)

60 She does look mean. It's in the eyes !

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2025 09:45 AM (g47mK)

61 Looks like a young Anna Kendrick
Posted by: 18-1

By George, you're right. I thought she reminded me of someone.

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

62 We've had other paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau on the art thread and they are all expressive and attractive. Natural poses, beautiful settings and exquisite skin tones that make the viewer want to keep examining the painting. This one is all of that and adds in tenderness. The girl's direct gaze at the viewer shows contentment in her life. No resentment at her 'duty', not even acceptance, just contentment. It is an appealing and comfortable scene that makes the audience reflect on peace and love.

Wonderful.

Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2025 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

63 She's waiting for Amazon to deliver some diapers.

Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2025 09:46 AM (Oy/m2)

64 Well drawn feet. Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 09:46 AM (jc0TO)

65 She does look like Anna Kendrick!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 09:46 AM (cCu74)

66 No boobs. Not art.

Posted by: Somewhere South ofI-80 at September 26, 2025 09:46 AM (89Sog)

67 LOL Muldoon!

Posted by: Person who likes limericks at September 26, 2025 09:46 AM (XQo4F)

68 Crazy. The Elder Sister looks almost exactly like one of my sister's daughters.
So, I guess Reincarnation is a thing now.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

I have a few pictures of my dad when he was between 1 and 6 months old. I have a 5 month old grandson who looks like those pictures are him. His eyes are even the exact same color as Pappymayhem eyes were. Seeing those pics made DiL say "that's enough to make reincarnation seem possible."

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 09:47 AM (2J/Lj)

69 > 14 Bouguereau does a nice job painting, hands and feet.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

Note the "Greek toe" which we were discussing the other day.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 26, 2025 09:47 AM (qpyNK)

70 How much for thee wimmen?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 09:47 AM (Q1uY4)

71 Well drawn feet. Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025

***
They are well done, though that right foot (and I presume the left too) does not seem to have much arch.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 09:48 AM (cCu74)

72 No resentment at her 'duty', not even acceptance, just contentment. It is an appealing and comfortable scene that makes the audience reflect on peace and love.

Wonderful.
Posted by: JTB

Alternate interpretation: Big sis just earned a trip to the nut house. That look is menacing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 26, 2025 09:48 AM (aJQjq)

73 What is she sitting on?

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 09:49 AM (jc0TO)

74 > 17 When this man painted female humans, they were either:

1) Naked goddesses and nymphs of Greek mythology
2) Wholesome French peasant girls (see above)
3) The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at September 26, 2025 09:34 AM (GGGBN)

No chartreuse-haired 500-pound trannies with so many piercings they look like a box of fishing tackle?

And he called himself an artist?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 26, 2025 09:49 AM (qpyNK)

75 *Note the "Greek toe" which we were discussing the other day.*

Did he ever paint camels?

Posted by: IYKWIM at September 26, 2025 09:49 AM (XQo4F)

76 That look is menacing.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

I don't get that at all.

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

77 Your wimmen. We want to buy them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 09:49 AM (Q1uY4)

78 *Note the "Greek toe" which we were discussing the other day.*

Yeah, Morton's Toe for sure. She's going to over pronate.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 09:50 AM (jc0TO)

79 I know that face. It means "i just played a prank on you and you haven't walked into it yet".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 26, 2025 09:51 AM (06Hmj)

80 Everyone seems to think that the younger sibling is a girl, but it could very well be a boy.

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

81 It's a nice painting.Just a slice of life back in the day. I think a lot of people would like to hang this.

Posted by: Case at September 26, 2025 09:52 AM (jHd3X)

82 Its a pity that girl doesn't have shoes. You know girls really like shoes.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 09:52 AM (AdHga)

83 My aunt Ruth was tasked with watching (keeping out of trouble) my Mom and her twin. There were 11 children in the family. She did a good job as both lived to tell about it. The twins did find a loaded Luger in the bunker and gun emplacement the Krauts built in their front pasture on the North Sea facing England, the day after the war ended. They lived under occupation 1940-45 in Norway. Their oldest brother was killed in the initial invasion. He was in the Norwegian Army.

Posted by: Nordic Interiors at September 26, 2025 09:52 AM (oftw2)

84 The Elder Sister, 1869
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

I was 'the big sister' many years ago and I don't think that's love and delight in her expression, but it's certainly a nicely done painting.

The young girl in Bouguereau's The Story Book, 1877
- oil on canvas, 1877 and in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - looks related to the girl, above.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 26, 2025 09:52 AM (NFX2v)

85 What is she sitting on? Eroded creek bank? Half fallen rock wall? Her tuffet? What?
Posted by: Ottoman Empire

Her butt.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 09:52 AM (PFH6n)

86 It does amuse that in an era much more reserved about nudity that artists had no problem finding nude models, and that in general displaying their paintings, as long as they were tied to something in history, was perfectly ok.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 09:52 AM (sKqQm)

87 79 I know that face. It means "i just played a prank on you and you haven't walked into it yet".
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She's a crop duster?

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 09:53 AM (AdHga)

88 Its a pity that girl doesn't have shoes. You know girls really like shoes.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 09:52 AM

She has one precious pair to wear to Mass.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 09:53 AM (jc0TO)

89 I'm guessing that's the French countryside in the background.

Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2025 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)

90 That looks says it would be a shame if I dropped this child that you are making me hold....

Posted by: Kamala at September 26, 2025 09:53 AM (MZ+PY)

91 Child for sale.

Goes well with potatoes and carrots.

Buy now, while the meat is its most tender.

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 09:54 AM (UnA8+)

92
What is she sitting on?

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 09:49 AM (jc0TO)

L.L. Bean's All Natural Fiber Boulder-Shaped Tuffet

Available in Olive Green, Harvest Gold, and Turquoise.

$500 + delivery.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

93 Everyone seems to think that the younger sibling is a girl, but it could very well be a boy.
Posted by: Bulg

How would one know? The baby probably isn't verbal yet so hasn't selected their pronouns.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:54 AM (cYBz/)

94 Everyone appears to have the correct number of fingers and toes.
Posted by: Person who likes to count fingers and toes

**********

The Sixth Sense - a limerick

I have to disagree because actually
Your statement is phrased counterfactually
There's a girl at my school
The exception to the rule
Let me introduce my friend, Polly Dactyly

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 09:54 AM (/iMjX)

95 No chartreuse-haired 500-pound trannies with so many piercings they look like a box of fishing tackle?

And he called himself an artist?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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You can find sad, menacing, and creepy clown portraits in black velvet, glow in the dark, neon colored, posters sold at carnivals and head shops.

Those are close enough to what you are seeking.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 09:54 AM (WDjG6)

96 89 I'm guessing that's the French countryside in the background.
Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2025 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)

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We can rule out Miami.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 09:55 AM (Q1uY4)

97 Wolfus remains the Arch-Bishop of the site.

Posted by: Agony of De Feet at September 26, 2025 09:55 AM (oftw2)

98 Reminds me of a favorite painter, Pierre Auguste Cot and one of my all time favorite paintings, Springtime.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (EYmYM)

99 I think that girls likes me!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (i49OE)

100 Hey Wolfus!! How's Evansville?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (2J/Lj)

101 Wolfus remains the Arch-Bishop of the site.
Posted by: Agony of De Feet

Heh.

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

102 The big sisters head seems overly big

Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (VE6XX)

103 91 Child for sale.

Goes well with potatoes and carrots.

Buy now, while the meat is its most tender.
Posted by: XTC
========
Ah, so the portrait is the witch with either Hansel and Gretel in her lap. Makes sense.

"Long pig, it's what's for dinner."

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (WDjG6)

104 96 89 I'm guessing that's the French countryside in the background.
Posted by: dantesed at September 26, 2025 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)

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We can rule out Miami.
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Dittos Yuma.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (AdHga)

105 95 You can find sad, menacing, and creepy clown portraits in black velvet, glow in the dark, neon colored, posters sold at carnivals and head shops.

Those are close enough to what you are seeking.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 09:54 AM (WDjG6)

Well, aside from that the creepy clowns were almost always bald.

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (UnA8+)

106 That'd be my expression if I had to hold it for 6 hours.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 26, 2025 09:56 AM (+0O5m)

107 Racism! Pure f*cking racism!

TRUMP: “I met the head of Somalia. I suggested that maybe he'd like to take [Ilhan Omar] back. He said, ‘I don't want her.’”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

108 Insufficient evidence.

https://is.gd/UCnS1i

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

109 Oh, the humanity!

End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Wajahat Ali: "My family in Pakistan does not want to come to America thanks to Trump! Pakistanis are staying home!"
Who voted for this?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 09:57 AM (L/fGl)

110 68 ... "I have a few pictures of my dad when he was between 1 and 6 months old. I have a 5 month old grandson who looks like those pictures are him. His eyes are even the exact same color as Pappymayhem eyes were.

We have a photo of my grandfather at age 5 or 6 standing in front of his dad's store, circa 1900. We have one of my brother, same pose and age, circa 1960s. If it wasn't for the difference in clothing you would swear it was the same person in both, right down to the small mole in the same spot.

Posted by: JTB at September 26, 2025 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

111 *L.L. Bean's All Natural Fiber Boulder-Shaped Tuffet

Available in Olive Green, Harvest Gold, and Turquoise.

$500 + delivery.*

Exquisite!

Posted by: J. Peterman at September 26, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)

112 Gotta laugh.. The Dem promising "revenge" for charging their precious...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 09:59 AM (VE6XX)

113 *L.L. Bean's All Natural Fiber Boulder-Shaped Tuffet

Available in Olive Green, Harvest Gold, and Turquoise.

They also have them at Costco but they only come in a pack of eight.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 09:59 AM (cYBz/)

114 Insufficient evidence.

https://is.gd/UCnS1i

Two Americas.

And the victim, and us, are in the one that doesn't get justice in blue locales.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 09:59 AM (sKqQm)

115 Everyone seems to think that the younger sibling is a girl, but it could very well be a boy.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

It's a girl.

She's wearing a Raspberry Beret.

That would come into play roughly 18 years later.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 09:59 AM (iJfKG)

116 Exquisite!
Posted by: J. Peterman at September 26, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)

It makes me want to dance!!

Posted by: Elaine Benes at September 26, 2025 09:59 AM (i49OE)

117 Not picking up good vibes from that little girl.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at September 26, 2025 09:59 AM (s9EN2)

118 Leonardo da Vinci was purported to have been assaulted by a Magpie as a child in a basket while his mother was working the fields. In Italian, this is why he was a homosexual. Don't let Magpies orally assault your children while at work.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 09:59 AM (AdHga)

119 I have 2 daughters, no sons. Mrs. QED has 4 sisters, no brothers. She was ecstatic to have girls. For the first 10 or so years of marriage we also had a female cat. I was outnumbered.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 26, 2025 10:01 AM (fveCG)

120 They also have them at Costco but they only come in a pack of eight.
-----------------
So true. I picked up a potted plant for the doorstep and when I got to checkout they told me you have to buy four of them for $15.99. Fuck.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:02 AM (AdHga)

121 Just getting warmed up.

Hegseth and Noem Back Creation of Coast Guard Secretary Amid Trump’s Drug Smuggling Crackdown

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:02 AM (L/fGl)

122 Well, aside from that the creepy clowns were almost always bald.
Posted by: XTC
======
Au contraire--search for images looking for "neon creepy clowns posters" as keywords. About half have neon colored nasty hair (or wigs).

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:02 AM (WDjG6)

123 Everyone seems to think that the younger sibling is a girl, but it could very well be a boy.
Posted by: Bulg

*********

You can tell by lifting up the edge of the blanket and taking a peek.

See? Blue booties!

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)

124 Wajahat Ali: "My family in Pakistan does not want to come to America thanks to Trump! Pakistanis are staying home!"
Who voted for this?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Me! ** jumps up and down waving arms** over here! Meeeee!!!!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 10:03 AM (2J/Lj)

125 You can't see her tats.

Posted by: And that's a good thing at September 26, 2025 10:03 AM (XQo4F)

126 You can tell by lifting up the edge of the blanket and taking a peek.

See? Blue booties!
Posted by: muldoon
========
It is wonderful that a medical professional can show us the keen training used to determine sex of their patients.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:04 AM (WDjG6)

127 Comey on X

Comey. @Comey: This country is so much better than this president. And next year we have a chance to prove it.

Savage. Randy Savage. @hublette: I can't wait for justice to drag it's butthole across your face like a dog on a carpet.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:06 AM (PFH6n)

128 Definitely can paint hands and feet.

Beautiful rendering. Every bit of it is masterful.

Posted by: red speck at September 26, 2025 10:07 AM (0Id0S)

129 High level of skill on this one. Impressive.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at September 26, 2025 10:07 AM (6qf1m)

130 Hubby is having an outpatient procedure in a few minutes to fix a plumbing problem.
Please send a prayer that everything goes well,
Thanks.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 26, 2025 10:07 AM (znREB)

131 Hey Wolfus!! How's Evansville?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025

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Hello, Madame! I like it a lot, but I like Owensboro even better. Owensboro is smaller and even neater, has better paved streets and parking lots which match with the road so you don't *bump-crash* down or up. Both have nice, polite, and quiet people. Gas -- and power, I hear -- is more expensive in IN than in KY.

I'm thinking about going over to Owensboro again today. Their central bridge, the Blue Bridge, is closed for repairs, so I have to trek over east to the "new" bridge and drive back -- an extra twenty minutes. Still, at this point anyway, it seems worth it.

Some of my preference might be because I got lost in the dark last night, coming back from the nearby Walmart. Evansville does not have very good street lighting and they doesn't light up street signs at stoplights, so I kept making the wrong turns until I got some directions at a gas station.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:08 AM (cCu74)

132 @hublette: I can't wait for justice to drag it's butthole across your face like a dog on a carpet.

That will leave a mark.

Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2025 10:08 AM (i0F8b)

133 Phyllis Diller had an entire room dedicated to garish wigs, on foam heads. If you ponied up and bought a piece of her artwork, she'd let you go in and look at them.

Posted by: Also Owned A Checker Station Wagon at September 26, 2025 10:08 AM (oftw2)

134 SUPPORT THE HEAD!, three thousand worried people cry out.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 26, 2025 10:10 AM (3uBP9)

135 Late stage empires are noted for their aristocracies.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 26, 2025 09:12 AM (vF11s)

I see this formulation pretty frequently. I don't think it's accurate.

What we have here is a Republic in the final stage of death - the throes are over, it's just twitching and ragged breathing, now.

There are number of possibilities for what will replace it. An empire is one. If that happened, it would have provincial capitals here and abroad, with suzerains answering to the Big Kahuna in DC (though I'm sure the first Big Kahuna would rename that shithole to something more to his liking).

It's certainly not the likeliest successor system to the US, but it's far from the worst possibility.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2025 10:11 AM (BodWL)

136 End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Wajahat Ali: "My family in Pakistan does not want to come to America thanks to Trump! Pakistanis are staying home!"
Who voted for this?

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Shit. What will we do without Pakistanis?

DAMN YOU TRUMP

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:11 AM (Q1uY4)

137 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:08 AM (cCu74)

You can visit the Bluegrass HOF.

Posted by: The way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:11 AM (EYmYM)

138 All this will do is make people hoard Pakistanis against the coming shortage.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:12 AM (Q1uY4)

139 Comey is not only a crooked cop, he's a weirdo.

Posted by: And I Know Weirdos at September 26, 2025 10:13 AM (oftw2)

140 Very beautiful painting. "Teen Mom" vibes.

130 Hubby is having an outpatient procedure in a few minutes to fix a plumbing problem.
Please send a prayer that everything goes well,
Thanks.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 26, 2025 10:07 AM (znREB)

Sent

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 26, 2025 10:13 AM (Sco7b)

141 I would prefer ‘ It’s so bad the Pakistanis I know living in the US are planning to return to Pakistan’

Posted by: The way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:14 AM (EYmYM)

142 That will leave a mark.
Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2025 10:08 AM (i0F8b)

Yeah, a skid mark!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 26, 2025 10:14 AM (i49OE)

143 139 Comey is not only a crooked cop, he's a weirdo.

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They should kick his ass out of the Taylor Swift fan club.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:14 AM (Q1uY4)

144 I'm off, all. I'll check in later!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:14 AM (cCu74)

145 so I kept making the wrong turns until I got some directions at a gas station.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Pro tip: your phone probably has access to something called google maps.
I abhor gps in general, but for the last five miles or so and in, it's incredibly useful.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 26, 2025 10:15 AM (n4GiU)

146 138 All this will do is make people hoard Pakistanis against the coming shortage.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:12 AM (Q1uY4)

Short the Pakistanis.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 26, 2025 10:16 AM (MZ+PY)

147 Comey is the ideal pick by Trump to be the first to be indicted, as the enemy hates Comey for helping Trump defeat Hillary.

Make them defend him. Similar to the 80%/20% thing-a-ma-jig.

Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2025 10:16 AM (i0F8b)

148 OMG! Whatever will the PhDs in Lesbian Black Transgender Poetry In King Arthur's Court do?

Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:16 AM (L/fGl)

149 SUPPORT ~~THE~~ ROAD HEAD!, three thousand worried people cry out.
Posted by: banana Dream

FIXED.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:17 AM (PFH6n)

150 "People have been allowed to break laws with impunity for decades. Enforcing laws against those who break them now is just vengeance with no basis in law."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 26, 2025 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

151 The young girl in Bouguereau's The Story Book, 1877
- oil on canvas, 1877 and in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art - looks related to the girl, above.

Thanks.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Love that particular painting. I've got a print of it hanging in my entry.

Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2025 10:18 AM (lJ0H4)

152 Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan
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Starbucks needs to pivot to Ice Cream.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:18 AM (AdHga)

153 OMG! Whatever will the PhDs in Lesbian Black Transgender Poetry In King Arthur's Court do?

Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So they're closing 32 stores in a 15 bloack area.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:18 AM (PFH6n)

154 152 Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan
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Starbucks needs to pivot to Ice Cream.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:18 AM (AdHga)

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Well, it's not like Dairy Queen sells it anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 26, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

155 Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan
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Starbucks needs to pivot to Ice Cream.
Posted by: pudinhead

Mmmmmmm. Burnt ice cream.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (PFH6n)

156 I haven't set foot in a Starbucks since 2020. I wonder if they miss me.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (Q1uY4)

157 153 OMG! Whatever will the PhDs in Lesbian Black Transgender Poetry In King Arthur's Court do?

Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So they're closing 32 stores in a 15 bloack area.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:18 AM (PFH6n)

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Probably around Arlington.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1RMuoQnKo

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

158 155 Mmmmmmm. Burnt ice cream.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (PFH6n)

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So, a baked Alaska?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

159 Well, it's not like Dairy Queen sells it anymore.
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No shit. Never drink a MacDonald's shake. Its like drinking concrete.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (AdHga)

160 146 138 All this will do is make people hoard Pakistanis against the coming shortage.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:12 AM (Q1uY4)

Short the Pakistanis.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 26, 2025 10:16 AM (MZ+PY)

Well I never!

Posted by: Pakistani Robert Reich at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (PiwSw)

161 I hope you people realize the over the years CBD has been building an extensive psychological profile of each of us based on our individual reactions and observations of the daily Art.

Might as well call it The Mid-Morning Rorschach Thread.

I'm sure this database will be used for nefarious purposes.

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:20 AM (/iMjX)

162 152 Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan

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I'd start with a name change. There's too much stank attached to Starbucks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:20 AM (Q1uY4)

163 @139

>>Comey is not only a crooked cop, he's a weirdo.

They should have hit that guy with leaking classified information to his lawyer and ghostwriter as well.

In fact, follow SOP and make sh*t up, consider his lawyer and ghostwriter part of the conspiracy, invalidate lawyer client confidentiality and surveil these motherf**kers.

I mean, that's how it's done right?

I'm looking at your Andrew Weisman?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 10:20 AM (XV/Pl)

164 I hope you people realize the over the years CBD has been building an extensive psychological profile of each of us based on our individual reactions and observations of the daily Art.

Might as well call it The Mid-Morning Rorschach Thread.

I'm sure this database will be used for nefarious purposes.
Posted by: muldoon

If it takes years to build one on me, you don't know what you are doing.

Shouldn't take more than three threads.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:21 AM (PFH6n)

165 I hope you people realize the over the years CBD has been building an extensive psychological profile of each of us based on our individual reactions and observations of the daily Art.

CBD: "Hmmm. Bulg really likes boobs. Sponge really likes boobs. Doof really likes boobs. Elric really likes boobs. TJM really likes boobs..."

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

166 164 I hope you people realize the over the years CBD has been building an extensive psychological profile of each of us based on our individual reactions and observations of the daily Art.

Might as well call it The Mid-Morning Rorschach Thread.

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You should cross-reference your work with Curious. She kept dossiers on the blog kingpins.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:22 AM (Q1uY4)

167 *L.L. Bean's All Natural Fiber Boulder-Shaped Tuffet

Available in Olive Green, Harvest Gold, and Turquoise.

Dammit! I really need one in Carafe Brown

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 10:23 AM (2J/Lj)

168 Starbucks to Lay Off 900 Employees, Close Stores in $1 Billion Restructuring Plan
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So they're closing 32 stores in a 15 bloack area.
Posted by: rickb223

I've got two brand new Starbuck's within 5 or so miles of my home.

Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2025 10:23 AM (lJ0H4)

169 Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Scarborough is losing it over Comey indictment: Says Trump is making Comey a “martyr for the rule of law."
Sorry, Kimmel. Your reign as propaganda press martyr of the month has come to an end.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

170 >164 I hope you people realize the over the years CBD has been building an extensive psychological profile of each of us based on our individual reactions and observations of the daily Art.

heh

Posted by: Bob from the NSA at September 26, 2025 10:24 AM (i0F8b)

171 Headline (Independent - UK):

"Desperate search on for teenager in MAGA hat missing after reported shooting in Florida"

Incident took place in Marion County, FL

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/bdh6r754

Posted by: mrp at September 26, 2025 10:25 AM (rj6Yv)

172 In other news, sponsors of migrants will be financially responsible if the migrants apply and use welfare benefits. Also any migrant applying for welfare, etc. will be a negative mark on any application for permanent residence. Daily Caller with the shift:

https://tinyurl.com/3yjk2pn3

FWIW, this is enforcing the plain requirements of the law aka "public charge" for those sponsoring immigrants and for those immigrants not to apply nor be on welfare in order to stay here permanently.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:25 AM (WDjG6)

173 *L.L. Bean's All Natural Fiber Boulder-Shaped Tuffet

Available in Olive Green, Harvest Gold, and Turquoise.

Dammit! I really need one in Carafe Brown
Posted by: Madamemayhem

Sounds like LL Bean is selling 1970's refrigerators.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:25 AM (PFH6n)

174 Hubby is having an outpatient procedure in a few minutes to fix a plumbing problem.

Posted by: vmom

**********

Did you try jiggling the handle...?

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:25 AM (/iMjX)

175 There's a Starbucks inside our local Barnes and Noble here.

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

176 Starbucks is simply continuing their downward contraction, they currently employ 360k people, which is quite a bit down from their high of 400k.

With inflation baked into the cake, I would hazard that fewer and fewer people are wanting to shell out for a 4 dollar coffee or a 8 dollar fancy drink.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 10:26 AM (XV/Pl)

177 172 In other news, sponsors of migrants will be financially responsible if the migrants apply and use welfare benefits. Also any migrant applying for welfare, etc. will be a negative mark on any application for permanent residence. Daily Caller with the shift:

https://tinyurl.com/3yjk2pn3

FWIW, this is enforcing the plain requirements of the law aka "public charge" for those sponsoring immigrants and for those immigrants not to apply nor be on welfare in order to stay here permanently.
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:25 AM (WDjG6)

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Well, this will mix well with NGOs bringing in people and then immediately telling them how to get on benefits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 26, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

178 CBD..What happened to Kris? I hope she's ok. I miss her contributions to the Art Thread.

Posted by: Tuna at September 26, 2025 10:27 AM (lJ0H4)

179 There's a Starbucks inside our local Barnes and Noble here.
Posted by: Bulg

There was/is one inside the local Target before we moved out here.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:27 AM (PFH6n)

180 People catching on to the overpriced coffee in the snob infested Starbucks?
Go to IHOP., have breakfast, they will sit a pot of coffee on your table. And they will smile and wish you a good day.

Posted by: Case at September 26, 2025 10:29 AM (jHd3X)

181 I really don’t get the Starbucks hate.

My brother has been at SB corporate for 30 years. Prolly losing his job today.

It’s been a good company to work for.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2025 10:29 AM (1Bcgn)

182 I don't know how it is in any other region, but here in the NE, there is a Starbucks in every Target and every B&N as well as every mall.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 10:29 AM (XV/Pl)

183 usually they have Barnes and Noble cafes (which serve Starbucks). You can use giftcards there.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:29 AM (gKWVE)

184 This is a reminder of the pattyrollers , the slave patrols, even though I was never around to experience them myself.

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett, Ignorant at September 26, 2025 10:29 AM (UsFP+)

185 Starbucks.

Crappy coffee
Expensive
No "small coffee shop" feel

Why the hell do people go there again?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 10:30 AM (sKqQm)

186 There's a Starbucks inside our local Barnes and Noble here.
Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:26 AM

New Starbucks Opens In Rest Room Of Existing Starbucks

https://tinyurl.com/3sxb3kp6

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:31 AM (jc0TO)

187 185 Starbucks.

Crappy coffee
Expensive
No "small coffee shop" feel

Why the hell do people go there again?
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To prance and sashay.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:31 AM (AdHga)

188 How's the coffee at Buc-ees?

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

189 Painted by someone who never had an elder sister.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:31 AM (EL2O4)

190 From a distance it looks like she has a hint of a pleasant smile, but when you zoom in it's clear she wasn't pleased. Reminds me of all my family photos.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 26, 2025 10:32 AM (36PRH)

191 I hope you people realize the over the years CBD has been building an extensive psychological profile of each of us based on our individual reactions and observations of the daily Art.

-
Neon, The No. 2 Social App On The Apple App Store, Pays Users To Record Their Phone Calls And Sells Data To AI Firms

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If they record my phone calls, it'll be, "Yeah, uhh, I'd like large pizza, double cheese, sausage, pepperoni . . ."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:32 AM (L/fGl)

192 We have a new Wa-Wa that opened here. Right next to the High School. I see their commercials all the time but have yet to stop in.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:32 AM (jc0TO)

193 nurse: I think Starbucks' problem was when the CEO Schultz started loudly telling everyone what an awesome person he was, and then said any hobo off the street can come into their restrooms and poop and maybe shoot up too, who was he to judge.
They also attracted attention when they swapped out Christmas (already "holiday") decorations for the festive color pure red. With no imagery.
Before Cracker Barrel, there was Starbucks.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:32 AM (gKWVE)

194 New Starbucks Opens In Rest Room Of Existing Starbucks

https://tinyurl.com/3sxb3kp6
Posted by: toby928

Oh crap! I pulled a side muscle laughing.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:32 AM (PFH6n)

195 I've noticed that the MILFs no longer meet at the Panera anymore. It was the big reason I would go to Panera. That, and the Broccoli soup.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (AdHga)

196 185 Starbucks.

Crappy coffee
Expensive
No "small coffee shop" feel

Why the hell do people go there again?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 10:30 AM (sKqQm)

It’s others’ money to burn. Once upon a time their coffee cups were cool. I have a collection of them. Now, not so much.

Once upon a time, for drill time in the Reserves I’d go to Dunkin.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (EL2O4)

197 I mean, that's how it's done right?

I'm looking at your Andrew Weisman?
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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My guess is look for additional charges later. Once Comey is formally charged, then it allows extensive search of his accounts, etc. via subpoenas and warrants. Essentially a proctological exam. And the dance begins in negotiations over handing over others involved in the Russia Russia and other Deep State bullshit.

The perjury and obstruction process crimes are the easiest to convict but tying in active participation in an ongoing criminal conspiracy requires both an overt act (showing membership) and the mental agreement with others to do so.

So you get denying rights under color of law as a charge as the focus of the Rico conspiracy among the Russia Russia lawfare crowd.

Brennan is probably one of the next ones to be hoovered up in perjury and obstruction charges now that the deep state DA types in the ED of VA are gone (fwiw Comey's son was in charge of Nat Sec prosecutions in that district and the DA Siebert was blue slipped by both Dem Senators in VA). This is important because Warner as ranking and chair of the Senate Intel committee was a conspirator too.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (WDjG6)

198 In New England the layout is normally:

1 Dunkin Donuts/2K people
1 Starbucks/20k people

I just don't get it.

DD is ok-ish and not too expensive but coffee at home is cheaper/better. And Starbucks? Ugh.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (sKqQm)

199 Go to IHOP., have breakfast, they will sit a pot of coffee on your table. And they will smile and wish you a good day.
Posted by: Case at September 26, 2025 10:29 AM (jHd3X)

And their French toast is HUGE! The bread is specialty made exclusively for IHOP. Each slice is at least twice as thick as a Texas toast slice.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (2J/Lj)

200 @185 for the frou-frou coffee drinks, like pumpkin spice latte, or a grande caramel macchiato.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (36PRH)

201 192 We have a new Wa-Wa that opened here. Right next to the High School. I see their commercials all the time but have yet to stop in.
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Wa-Wa's can be nice.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (AdHga)

202 RE: Starbucks.... I gotta admit, coffee from the Big M Supper Club is adequate while road trippin.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (luW68)

203 Why the hell do people go there again?

Nice bathrooms, sanctuary status. If you were a heroin addict, you'd understand.

Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (JW6Az)

204 185 Starbucks.

Crappy coffee
Expensive
No "small coffee shop" feel

Why the hell do people go there again?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 10:30 AM (sKqQm)

To point and laugh at all the aposematism-projecting employees.

Where I live, there are only like 2 places to see the freakshow : Starbucks, and Gamestop.

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 10:34 AM (UnA8+)

205 193 nurse: I think Starbucks' problem was when the CEO Schultz started loudly telling everyone what an awesome person he was, and then said any hobo off the street can come into their restrooms and poop and maybe shoot up too, who was he to judge.
They also attracted attention when they swapped out Christmas (already "holiday") decorations for the festive color pure red. With no imagery.
Before Cracker Barrel, there was Starbucks.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:32 AM (gKWVE)
There’s nothing to do at Starbucks than drink coffee, shoot up, and shit.

Posted by: Mao at September 26, 2025 10:34 AM (EL2O4)

206 And their French toast is HUGE! The bread is specialty made exclusively for IHOP. Each slice is at least twice as thick as a Texas toast slice.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

Do they douse it in maple syrup?

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

207 It is wonderful that a medical professional can show us the keen training used to determine sex of their patients.
Posted by: whig

*********

You surely don't expect us to use a dartboard when we are assigning sex at birth, do you?

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)

208 IHOP needs to bring back the flavored syrup on the table.

The one in Galveston has a great view of the Gulf.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:36 AM (EL2O4)

209 Neon, The No. 2 Social App On The Apple App Store, Pays Users To Record Their Phone Calls And Sells Data To AI Firms

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If they record my phone calls, it'll be, "Yeah, uhh, I'd like large pizza, double cheese, sausage, pepperoni . . ."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Minutes used in the last 12 months on phone calls - 10.

Minutes used online - 248,000.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:36 AM (PFH6n)

210 181 I really don’t get the Starbucks hate.

My brother has been at SB corporate for 30 years. Prolly losing his job today.

It’s been a good company to work for.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Vile coffee from a left wing looney factory is why.
The vile coffee is because it serves as a base to upsell people to include all sorts of sugar, milk products and spice packs which is where they make their profits.

When I order coffee, I want coffee, not junk with coffee flavoring. So Dunkin Donuts or MacDonalds have superior plain coffee at a much lower cost and far faster service than Starbucks.

Heck so does QuikTrip or Racetrack/Raceway or Pilot/Buccees/Loves auto and truck stops.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:36 AM (WDjG6)

211 Very nice painting today. Lovely scene. I would hang it in the guest room.

In fact, I *might* hang it in the guest room.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:36 AM (6bTRc)

212 You surely don't expect us to use a dartboard when we are assigning sex at birth, do you?
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)

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I heard there's a checklist of 15 weighted factors

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM (Q1uY4)

213 IHOP needs to bring back the flavored syrup on the table.

The one in Galveston has a great view of the Gulf.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Rootingtootiefreshandfruity!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM (PFH6n)

214 You surely don't expect us to use a dartboard when we are assigning sex at birth, do you?
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)

Simple rule: If the baby has a dart, it’s a boy; if it has a target, it’s a girl.

Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM (Mku/8)

215 No shit. Never drink a MacDonald's shake. Its like drinking concrete.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (AdHga)

That's because they put Vaseline in their shakes

Posted by: Urban Legends from the 80s at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM (0bjKf)

216 You surely don't expect us to use a dartboard when we are assigning sex at birth, do you?
Posted by: muldoon
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I was thinking more of the three blind men examining an elephant. Consensus determines sex at birth.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

217 Mmmmmmm. Burnt ice cream.
Posted by: rickb223

Deep fried ice cream is a blessing from God. Or perhaps a temptation from Satan.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

218 Beautiful painting. Thanks CBD.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM (2NHgQ)

219 I heard there's a checklist of 15 weighted factors
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:37 AM

#7 will surprise you.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)

220 There are number of possibilities for what will replace it. An empire is one. If that happened, it would have provincial capitals here and abroad, with suzerains answering to the Big Kahuna in DC (though I'm sure the first Big Kahuna would rename that shithole to something more to his liking).

It's certainly not the likeliest successor system to the US, but it's far from the worst possibility.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2025 10:11 AM (BodWL)
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Oh, I dunno. After the end of the Republic, Rome was still Rome. There's some cachet in the old names, barring religious disagreements (thus, Istanbul).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (6bTRc)

221 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (/BPde)

222 Children of the Corn.

Haunting look, that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (/BPde)

223 Bouguereau does a nice job painting, hands and feet.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 26, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)
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Bigot

Posted by: AI Image Generator at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (6bTRc)

224 198 In New England the layout is normally:

1 Dunkin Donuts/2K people
1 Starbucks/20k people

I just don't get it.

DD is ok-ish and not too expensive but coffee at home is cheaper/better. And Starbucks? Ugh.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2025 10:33 AM (sKqQm)
Yeah, but if I’m on the road, and home is not an option, I have to decide between Starbucks and Dunkin. Dunkin’ will always win with me, with Starbucks being second. And if I got there, I’m getting the Caramel Apple Spice. Like a liquid apple pie. (I don’t get their coffee.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (EL2O4)

225 "I'm devouring your soul....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (/BPde)

226 159 No shit. Never drink a MacDonald's shake. Its like drinking concrete.
Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:19 AM (AdHga)

If you were in Antifa territory, it might have actually BEEN concrete.

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (UnA8+)

227 181 I really don’t get the Starbucks hate.

My brother has been at SB corporate for 30 years. Prolly losing his job today.

It’s been a good company to work for.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2025 10:29 AM (1Bcgn)

The only problem I have with it is the prices have gotten so high

Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 10:39 AM (VE6XX)

228 Heck so does QuikTrip or Racetrack/Raceway or Pilot/Buccees/Loves auto and truck stops.
Posted by: whig

They'll let you fill a thermos and not require a second mortgage.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:39 AM (PFH6n)

229 222 Children of the Corn.

Haunting look, that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (/BPde)

DISCIPLES OF THE WATCH!!!!

Posted by: Testament at September 26, 2025 10:39 AM (EL2O4)

230 Coffee shops are all about the coffee cakes.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:39 AM (jc0TO)

231 Note the "Greek toe" which we were discussing the other day.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 26, 2025 09:47 AM (qpyNK)
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Huh.

I always knew this as "Roman Toe."

Those Romans took an awful lot from the Greeks!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:40 AM (6bTRc)

232 I saw on X that Trump intends to name an aircraft carrier after Charlie Kirk. Nice.

Posted by: jmel at September 26, 2025 10:40 AM (RWHIh)

233 224 Yeah, but if I’m on the road, and home is not an option, I have to decide between Starbucks and Dunkin. Dunkin’ will always win with me, with Starbucks being second. And if I got there, I’m getting the Caramel Apple Spice. Like a liquid apple pie. (I don’t get their coffee.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (EL2O4)

Where I am, it's either Starbucks and the freakshow, or Dunkin Donuts with the all-Indian staff that gets your order wrong about 90% of the time.

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 10:40 AM (UnA8+)

234 Anyone remember when the Starbucks CEO was going to be the Left's Trump?

Posted by: blaster at September 26, 2025 10:40 AM (RoO7G)

235 I saw on X that Trump intends to name an aircraft carrier after Charlie Kirk. Nice.
Posted by: jmel at September 26, 2025 10:40 AM

I would disapprove.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (jc0TO)

236 229 222 Children of the Corn.

Haunting look, that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (/BPde)
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There was a group picture of the Minneapolis City Council back in George Floyd days. Totes reminded me of Children of the Corn.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (AdHga)

237 234 Anyone remember when the Starbucks CEO was going to be the Left's Trump?

-----------

Not if Bob Iger has anything to say about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (Q1uY4)

238 There's an AI sniper with two trigger fingers in the bell tower.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (UWX1m)

239 It’s popular to hate Starbucks just as it is popular to hate big business in this so called capitalistic society.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (EL2O4)

240 232 I saw on X that Trump intends to name an aircraft carrier after Charlie Kirk. Nice.
Posted by: jmel at September 26, 2025 10:40 AM (RWHIh)

Yeah, no.

Wreck Antifa. That will be the best response.

Posted by: blaster at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (RoO7G)

241 5 "I'm devouring your soul....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (/BPde)

Too late, Sponge, soul basket full. See my 31.

Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (Mku/8)

242 Where I am, it's either Starbucks and the freakshow, or Dunkin Donuts with the all-Indian staff that gets your order wrong about 90% of the time.
Posted by: XTC

*What-a-burger in Bonham, Tx has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (PFH6n)

243 G-d only knows what the next Dem would rename the Kirk. USS Greta Thunberg, maybe.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (BI5O2)

244 wouldn't progressives being in charge *count* as "religious disagreement"?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (lFFaq)

245 ... The vile coffee is because it serves as a base to upsell people to include all sorts of sugar, milk products and spice packs which is where they make their profits. ...
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:36 AM (WDjG6)
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Yup. I once knew a guy who worked at Starbucks, at the home office. I asked him in passing why Starbucks coffee was lousy, and this is the answer he gave me. He said something along the lines of, "your mistake is in thinking that Starbucks sells coffee. We don't. We sell milkshakes with coffee in them. The coffee needs to be extremely strong and bitter to show up at all in the final product."

And for that - coffee milkshakes - it is indeed a good product. Just not my thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (6bTRc)

246 No. But you can if you want to since they bring a syrup carafe with the food.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (2J/Lj)

247 We have coffee!

Posted by: Cracker Barrel at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (Q1uY4)

248 If you were in Antifa territory, it might have actually BEEN concrete

That was Burger King. Seriously, they advertised their milkshakes exactly to antifa.
Later some loser racist wore one of their paper crowns on an airplane, which obviously was a loser thing to do, but it's funny that now internet edgelords use that crown to spread their bullshit. So now Burger King is associated with racists. Well why not. They were supporting the other team's racists earlier.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (gKWVE)

249 G-d only knows what the next Dem would rename the Kirk. USS Greta Thunberg, maybe.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

USS Jimmy Kimmel

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

250 Pretty, but needs to take better holt of that baby.

Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (jgmnb)

251
William-Adolphe Bouguereau

_________

His Mafia name is Billy Boogaloo

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (tgvbd)

252 I saw on X that Trump intends to name an aircraft carrier after Charlie Kirk. Nice.
Posted by: jmel

Yeah, no.

Wreck Antifa. That will be the best response.
Posted by: blaster

USS Wreck Antifa.

That works.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (PFH6n)

253 Yeah, but if I’m on the road, and home is not an option, I have to decide between Starbucks and Dunkin. Dunkin’ will always win with me, with Starbucks being second. And if I got there, I’m getting the Caramel Apple Spice. Like a liquid apple pie. (I don’t get their coffee.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:38 AM (EL2O4)

I just want a cup of coffee.....I don't want a latte or some flavored crap. I'm not a kid anymore. I'm too old for that shit. I read on the internet, so it's true, that people harken back to a simpler time of their childhood when they LOVED chocolate milk, so they drink the froo froo coffees in yearning for a simpler time because adulting is hard.

Dunkin every time because Starbucks regular coffee sucks. Bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (/BPde)

254 I've seen a Starbuck's or 2 in my part of Canada. I even went through a drive thru once with my friend. Nothing memorable except the price. I'm drinking hot cacao now but when I buy coffee, it's a huge No-Name bottle.

Around here, Tim's just rules. And they always give Ralphy a free TimBit. Since they know him, sometimes 2 or 3. And xl coffee for $2.25 is a pretty good deal.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Sco7b)

255 Just saw an article on why the Government shutdown is different this time.. Wanna guess ? If you said it's Trump's fault along with the republicans you'd be right

Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (VE6XX)

256 They'll let you fill a thermos and not require a second mortgage.
Posted by: rickb223
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Yep. Plus far better coffee than when I was growing up. Used to be late night interstate driving meant stopping at some truckstop where the coffee in a carafe was boiled tar in water at 4 AM and the creamer was powdered. But it was hot and caffeinated so you drank it anyway.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (WDjG6)

257 USS Luigi Mangione

Posted by: Cracker Barrel at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (Q1uY4)

258 250 Pretty, but needs to take better holt of that baby.

Posted by: Eromero at September 26, 2025 10:43 AM (jgmnb)

big sister definitely has her work cut out for her

Posted by: kallisto at September 26, 2025 10:44 AM (dCxaZ)

259 I would disapprove.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (jc0TO)
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As would I. Navy ships should be named after Navy men, states or features of the homeland.

If they want to name something after Kirk, name the new anti-terrorism group going after Antifa for him. Call it "Task Force Kirk" or somesuch, and have it go hard at the domestic terrorists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:44 AM (6bTRc)

260
*perks up*

Did someone mention coffee cake?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2025 10:44 AM (tgvbd)

261
Too late, Sponge, soul basket full. See my 31.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM

Heh. I can't read ALL the comments......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:44 AM (/BPde)

262 Trump should name a Marine boat after Victor Willis.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:44 AM (gKWVE)

263 Wawa coffee was the best when I lived in PA. Dunkin Donuts was second. Starbucks in a pinch, that said only a latte without flavoring. Everything else at SB was just too much of everything and their plain coffee even with half & half was as bad as the swill my husband drinks brewed at home. In my husband's defense he learned to drink coffee in the Army, his taste buds were ruined early in life.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 26, 2025 10:45 AM (2NHgQ)

264 242 Where I am, it's either Starbucks and the freakshow, or Dunkin Donuts with the all-Indian staff that gets your order wrong about 90% of the time.
Posted by: XTC

*What-a-burger in Bonham, Tx has entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (PFH6n)

You will be having all the modalities on your gamburger, sirrah?

Posted by: jogdish, employee of the month at September 26, 2025 10:45 AM (BHHUH)

265 G-d only knows what the next Dem would rename the Kirk. USS Greta Thunberg, maybe.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (BI5O2)
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Obviously, it would be the USS Luigi Mangione.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:45 AM (6bTRc)

266 You surely don't expect us to use a dartboard when we are assigning sex at birth, do you?
Posted by: muldoon

At the dog park yesterday, there was a South African Boerboel Boxer, a large dog I hadn't come across before. Anyway, his dick was particularly prominent. I doubt there was problem assigning his sex a birth.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

267 It’s popular to hate Starbucks just as it is popular to hate big business in this so called capitalistic society.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (EL2O4)

Or, it could be that when the CEO said he didn't want my money if I didn't support abortion and gay "marriage" I chose to believe him. Until that point Starbucks was my special treat.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (lFFaq)

268 Since I'm looking for work at present, I can verify that this adulting stuff sucks.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (gKWVE)

269 259 I would disapprove.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:41 AM (jc0TO)
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As would I. Navy ships should be named after Navy men, states or features of the homeland.

But the libs got the disgusting pedophile Harvey Milk.. We should get a non Navy Man too...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

270
*What-a-burger in Bonham, Tx has entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:42 AM (PFH6n)

Their mushroom swiss is the best fast food burger ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (/BPde)

271 265 Obviously, it would be the USS Luigi Mangione.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:45 AM (6bTRc)

USS Lance Twiggs.

"Haha, Dick Joke."

Posted by: XTC at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (UnA8+)

272 I am not very old, but one thing that has gotten markedly better in my lifetime is the average quality of gas station coffee.

Gas station coffee is rarely great, but it's also now pretty rarely *bad*. I can't remember the last time I got a genuinely bad cup of coffee from a gas station or convenience store. It has moved into a pretty tight band ranging from "mediocre" to "decent."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (6bTRc)

273 Did someone mention coffee cake?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Back off, Dude, we heard it first. We call dibs.
-- Hadrian's borzois

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

274 But the libs got the disgusting pedophile Harvey Milk.. We should get a non Navy Man too...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM

Milk was Navy.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

275 But the libs got the disgusting pedophile Harvey Milk.. We should get a non Navy Man too...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)
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Milk was in the Navy. He didn't earn a ship name (or any other signal of respect), but he *was* a Navy man.

And SecWar Hegseth has also gotten the ball rolling on renaming it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (6bTRc)

276
Milk was Navy.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

I stand corrected...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 10:48 AM (VE6XX)

277 The artist is showing off - painting those hands and feet. Would hang.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 26, 2025 10:48 AM (Da7Vv)

278 The weird thing about a McDonald's shake is that it never melts.

Posted by: Wally at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (7CamO)

279
A Starbucks just opened across the street from my subdivision entrance a few months ago. Always full. I have no idea why. Burnt, overpriced coffee is not something I enjoy.

Posted by: Ann at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (w9jrX)

280 FWIW, one of the secrets on coffee making is the quality of the water used. Want better hotel in the room coffee, use distilled water to make it instead of motel tap water. And a lot of commercial establishments use filtered descaled water to eliminate buildup of scale inside their large commercial brewing machines.

If you get used to home coffee without using filtered or distilled water, it will taste different than what you get at commercial establishments.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (WDjG6)

281 Since I'm looking for work at present, I can verify that this adulting stuff sucks.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (gKWVE)

I will pray for your gainful employment. Hope it happens soon.

Adulting IS hard.....that's why it's left to the adults. Millennials are big pussies that can't handle the slightest thing.

"I'm sorry, you need to schedule time with me to mow the lawn. I have a full time job....."

- - - - - Shit a Millennial Has Actually Said

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (/BPde)

282 Cumby’s coffee beats both DD and SB. New program: give them your cell number and you get 5 free coffees, then all coffee thereafter is a buck.

Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (Mku/8)

283 Milk was Navy.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

He said, "Hold the rum. I'll just take the sodomy and the lash, please."

Posted by: Bulg at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

284 FWIW, one of the secrets on coffee making is the quality of the water used. ...
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (WDjG6)
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So coffee is like Olympia beer?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (6bTRc)

285 278 The weird thing about a McDonald's shake is that it never melts.
Posted by: Wally
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That is the emulsified microplastics that McDonalds uses in place of real ice cream. (/sarc)

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (WDjG6)

286
Milk was Navy.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

So was Buttigieg. We'll get a USS Buttigieg by 2030.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (/BPde)

287 that people harken back to a simpler time of their childhood when they LOVED chocolate milk, so they drink the froo froo coffees in yearning for a simpler time because adulting is hard.

Dunkin every time because Starbucks regular coffee sucks. Bigly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Why don't they just drink chocolate milk or hot cocoa? Drink a fucking Yoohoo and let the coffee be coffee.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (2J/Lj)

288
I am not very old, but one thing that has gotten markedly better in my lifetime is the average quality of gas station coffee.

__________

I agree. 30 years ago, it was routinely awful. Now it's not bad, can be quite good (hello, Buc-ee's) and only infrequently boiled-down-to-asphalt tasting.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (tgvbd)

289 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.

Posted by: Lord Comey at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (UWX1m)

290 Yep. Plus far better coffee than when I was growing up. Used to be late night interstate driving meant stopping at some truckstop where the coffee in a carafe was boiled tar in water at 4 AM and the creamer was powdered. But it was hot and caffeinated so you drank it anyway.
Posted by: whig

Leaving Galveston at 11:30 after getting off work in 1983.
IH-45 north from Galveston - mile marker 16. Fill up and coffee at Gulf Station.
Mile Marker 112 in Huntsville. Shell station. Gas. Mile marker 190. Gulf Truck Stop. Gas and more coffee. Once sat in the restaurant and drank a whole pot of coffee.
Can't remember the last one. It was right before downtown Dallas. Gas.

Yeah. Those were the ONLY stations open 24 hours back then.
1978 Ford F-250 351/M400. Only thing it couldn't pass was a gas station.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (PFH6n)

291 Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...

Posted by: mishdog at September 26, 2025 10:51 AM (DUi3L)

292 Milk was Navy.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

So was Buttigieg. We'll get a USS Buttigieg by 2030.
Posted by: Sponge

Bootygig was just seamen.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:51 AM (PFH6n)

293 Cumby’s coffee beats both DD and SB. New program: give them your cell number and you get 5 free coffees, then all coffee thereafter is a buck.
Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM

Sonny Cumby was a record setting quarterback at Texas Tech during the Mike Leach era.

There's also a Cumby, Texas. Don't speed through there while traveling down I 30. Local cops are bored.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:52 AM (/BPde)

294 Why don't they just drink chocolate milk or hot cocoa? Drink a fucking Yoohoo and let the coffee be coffee.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (2J/Lj)
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Because it's not for grownups, I think.

I had a friend once, much older than me (15ish years, I think) and he drank chocolate milk with dinner whenever we were out. Other people would always raise an eyebrow. I suspect chocolate milk is in the "childhood" file.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:52 AM (6bTRc)

295
As would I. Navy ships should be named after Navy men, states or features of the homeland.

________

Navy men who died in line of duty only.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2025 10:52 AM (tgvbd)

296 If ya can't stand a spoon up in it it ain't coffee

Posted by: Ben Had at September 26, 2025 10:52 AM (kurEY)

297 Diogenes should have no trouble finding coffee on this thread.

Once he finishes yawning and scratching that is.

Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:52 AM (/iMjX)

298 Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...
Posted by: mishdog

Hillary Wants To Date You on Prime Audio Books.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:52 AM (PFH6n)

299 Might as well call it The Mid-Morning Rorschach Thread.

I'm sure this database will be used for nefarious purposes.
Posted by: muldoon

CBD has promised me a prominent no-show position in his coming Ruling Junta!

Posted by: Royal PITA at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (oftw2)

300 And now, a word from Tater . . .

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
CNN banner: "COMEY INDICTED IN EXTRAORDINARY ESCALATION OF TRUMP REVENGE"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

301 At the dog park yesterday, there was a South African Boerboel Boxer, a large dog I hadn't come across before. Anyway, his dick was particularly prominent. I doubt there was problem assigning his sex a birth.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (L/fGl)

Ummm, my eyes are up here...

Posted by: The Big Boxer Dog at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (i49OE)

302 Their mushroom swiss is the best fast food burger ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM (/BPde)

Arby's has a Philly that is really good. And they give the dog a cup of meat.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (Sco7b)

303 Navy men who died in line of duty only.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2025 10:52 AM (tgvbd)
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Eh, I think there's room for great commanders, too. Nimitz earned his namesake (and the whole class named after that first ship).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (6bTRc)

304 "I'm sorry, you need to schedule time with me to mow the lawn. I have a full time job....."

- - - - - Shit a Millennial Has Actually Said
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:49 AM (/BPde)

I am a millennial, but isn't this how everyone does it? Every week I have some version of this conversation with my wife. We both work and have three kids to juggle, so we block out time on weekends for when I'll mow, she'll do other tasks, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (BodWL)

305 Love this... makes me think of my oldest when her (much wanted!) little brother was born; she was about the same age as the girl in this picture. She loved him to bits and would have destroyed anyone who tried to hurt him. Still would, lol. She has four of her own now, and is an amazing momma raising the next generation of women who love the fact that they were created to nurture life.

Posted by: Momlady at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (G8AG/)

306 So coffee is like Olympia beer?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Yep. Any beverage with water in it depends on the quality of water. And commercial establishments don't want crap they have to clean from pipes, etc. during the process of turning whatever into water based beverages.

Try the distilled water trick the next time you go to stay at a hotel and use the in room coffee machine whether pods or the mini coffee bags. It may not taste fantastic but will normally taste better than using tap water instead.

If you don't like jugs, Kroger sells individual sized water bottles made up of distilled water by the case. Nice water for travel and using such water can also forestall upset in your lower GI from those bacteria not getting the type of water that they are accustomed to.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (WDjG6)

307 I new a very pale blonde girl that I had a crush on in my freshman year. Her eyebrows were so pale you couldn’t see them until she applied mascara to them.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (ZVgZ4)

308 Why don't they just drink chocolate milk or hot cocoa? Drink a fucking Yoohoo and let the coffee be coffee.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 26, 2025 10:50 AM (2J/Lj)

LOVED Yoo-hoo!

Oddly enough, there was no milk in that chocolate flavored beverage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (/BPde)

309 I don't think Vinson or Stennis served in military, which clears the way for USS God-Emperor Donald Trump

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (oGq7T)

310 @brianstelter
CNN banner: "COMEY INDICTED IN EXTRAORDINARY ESCALATION OF TRUMP REVENGE"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
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Eh. Extraordinary escalation would be a helicopter ride. This is a simple indictment for a crime with loads of already-public evidence.

CNN should quit with the histrionics. If something extraordinary *actually* happens, they will have run out of scary words.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (6bTRc)

311 298 Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...
Posted by: mishdog

Does Kamala's new book have an audio version?

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (Sco7b)

312 New —> knew

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 10:55 AM (ZVgZ4)

313 Geez, every time I refresh, it goes to the picture and that girl looks at me with that “I know what you’ve been up to” look.

Posted by: RI Red at September 26, 2025 10:55 AM (Mku/8)

314 But the libs got the disgusting pedophile Harvey Milk.. We should get a non Navy Man too...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 26, 2025 10:46 AM

They will run a chyron that looks like someone's head hit the keyboard.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 10:55 AM (jc0TO)

315 "your mistake is in thinking that Starbucks sells coffee. We don't. We sell milkshakes with coffee in them. The coffee needs to be extremely strong and bitter to show up at all in the final product."
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This makes a lot of sense.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 10:56 AM (AdHga)

316 Does Kamala's new book have an audio version?
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 26, 2025 10:54 AM (Sco7b)
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:: shudders ::

He asked for "scary," not "chimeric hybrid of disturbing, hateful and revolting!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:56 AM (6bTRc)

317 Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...
Posted by: mishdog

I enjoyed Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

318 We both work and have three kids to juggle, so we block out time on weekends for when I'll mow, she'll do other tasks, etc.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (BodWL)

Do you schedule appointments or just do the shit that needs to be done whenever you have a spare moment? I don't have an entry in my calendar to "wake up, shit, mow lawn."

I just do the shit that needs to be done whenever because it needs to be done.

Keep in mind, most millennials are playing games and streaming themselves online because they think they're the most important thing to happen to the internet since ever. They will walk past a full trash can, pile something on top in some form of garbage Jenga and not take it out until they're TOLD to, and require you to make an appointment so they can make time to do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:57 AM (/BPde)

319 Speaking of coffee, I bought some jasmine tea on a lark. Nice. I forgot how much I liked jasmine tea. I am going to work to dial in a jasmine-based iced tea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:58 AM (6bTRc)

320 296 If ya can't stand a spoon up in it it ain't coffee
Posted by: Ben Had

Been there, done that, got the tshirt. Nowadays, I prefer Costco whole bean Columbian at home as a good compromise between cost and taste. Stomach due to other meds cannot take the boiled tar anymore unless you put a lot of cream/milk in it.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 10:58 AM (WDjG6)

321
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
CNN banner: "COMEY INDICTED IN EXTRAORDINARY ESCALATION OF TRUMP REVENGE"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

It's not revenge. He committed perjury, you f*cking asshole.

Why can't you have a debilitating cardiac event, already, you fat f*ck?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 10:59 AM (/BPde)

322 Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...

Posted by: mishdog

The Devil in the White City. The story of the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, and the serial killer who used the crowds to work his trade.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 26, 2025 10:59 AM (0U5gm)

323 It's not revenge. It's a reckoning.

Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (jc0TO)

324 "Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook?"

I recommend listening to the whole Fr. Brown series on audiobook. Not really that scary, but good stories that occupy your brain.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (6qf1m)

325 Speaking of coffee, I bought some jasmine tea on a lark. Nice. I forgot how much I liked jasmine tea. I am going to work to dial in a jasmine-based iced tea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 10:58 AM (6bTRc)

You asked for it......

https://youtu.be/2tzx6MyBZEY

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (/BPde)

326 319 Speaking of coffee, I bought some jasmine tea on a lark. Nice. I forgot how much I liked jasmine tea. I am going to work to dial in a jasmine-based iced tea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Hot teas are what I drink sometimes in winter. I prefer plainer teas like orange pekoe (or simply LuziAnne) for iced during the summers.

And something like Lapsang would be horrible as iced but just fine without it.

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:00 AM (WDjG6)

327 CNN banner: "COMEY INDICTED IN EXTRAORDINARY ESCALATION OF TRUMP REVENGE"

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huh, they held back ! No "citizen poet" or "philosopher".

Posted by: runner at September 26, 2025 11:01 AM (g47mK)

328 Buck up. Don't know if it's a rant. Looks like a movie preview.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:01 AM (PFH6n)

329 Not scary, but the audiobook version of "At All Costs" by Sam Moses was quite good. It's about the extremely dangerous mission to resupply the RAF base at Malta with fuel early in our involvement in the War.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:03 AM (6bTRc)

330 New insty post,

"ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING? Justice Department sues 6 states for failing to turn over voter registration rolls.

The suits were filed against the top election officials in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and allege the moves not to provide the voter registration rolls violate federal law."

Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:03 AM (WDjG6)

331 The suits were filed against the top election officials in California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and allege the moves not to provide the voter registration rolls violate federal law."
Posted by: whig at September 26, 2025 11:03 AM (WDjG6)
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The only potential surprise on the list is NH.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:04 AM (6bTRc)

332 319 Speaking of coffee, I bought some jasmine tea on a lark. Nice. I forgot how much I liked jasmine tea. I am going to work to dial in a jasmine-based iced tea.
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Just think of Jasmine Crocket the next time you brew Jasmine tea.

Posted by: pudinhead at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (AdHga)

333 NOOD BUCK

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 26, 2025 11:05 AM (6bTRc)

334 I hope you people realize the over the years CBD has been building an extensive psychological profile of each of us based on our individual reactions and observations of the daily Art.

Might as well call it The Mid-Morning Rorschach Thread.

I'm sure this database will be used for nefarious purposes.
Posted by: muldoon at September 26, 2025 10:20 AM

I have a simpler theory. CBD does much of this for his own amusement.

Of course, the magic of AND could well be operant here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax, who represents the at September 26, 2025 11:08 AM (0sNs1)

335 She's a catch and looking for a husband!

https://is.gd/1FztgY

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

336 Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...
Posted by: mishdog

Anything read by Kamala.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 26, 2025 11:09 AM (fveCG)

337 As would I. Navy ships should be named after Navy men, states or features of the homeland.
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This.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2025 11:11 AM (XeU6L)

338 NOOD BUCK
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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I read that as 'Buick'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2025 11:12 AM (XeU6L)

339 That'd be my expression if I had to hold it for 6 hours.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

Yes, this is not a photograph. The child has to sit there and follow the artist’s instructions which way to look, how to hold the baby, how to pose her arms and feet for hours! That she has an only slightly pained expression tells me that she is a very good natured child!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:15 AM (ZVgZ4)

340 Fellow Ace of Spaders, could anyone recommend a good scary story audiobook? I have an unexpected trip tomorrow and I'll be driving for about 15 hours...
Posted by: mishdog

"Ghost Story" by Peter Straub would make an excellent long drive listen.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 26, 2025 11:19 AM (iJfKG)

341 Her bakery carries 'Baby Loaf' as well as regular baked goods ...

Posted by: Dr_No at September 26, 2025 11:40 AM (ayRl+)

342 This painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. I'd guess it's about 5'x8' and far more captivating in person. Once upon a time it hung over a grand entry staircase, kind of like Winged Victory in the Louvre.

I get the appeal of Impressionism, but I am coming to appreciate the academic artists more and more. Their subject matter could be overly restrictive and 'proper', but they had skill. Bouguereau's girl looks alive.

Posted by: craig at September 26, 2025 12:37 PM (1dUlh)

343 the infant looks deceased and the girl appears guilty.

Posted by: cmeat at September 26, 2025 01:02 PM (LgQ89)

344 Bye Baby Bunting, Daddies gone a hunting, to get a little rabbit skin, to wrap the Baby Bunting In

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 27, 2025 12:06 AM (FLiOE)

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