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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 26, 2025 09:59 PM (6Uzhd)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 26, 2025 09:59 PM (QVmho)
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Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 26, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)
Hello
Posted by: fourseasons at September 26, 2025 10:00 PM (3ek7K)
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Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 26, 2025 10:01 PM (GYGpZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:02 PM (cCu74)
We'll watch cold start train engine videos and laugh at the inter cooler oil fires.
Tarantula is all in on this plan.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 26, 2025 10:02 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:02 PM (Q1uY4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:03 PM (Q1uY4)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 10:04 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:05 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:03 PM (Q1uY4)
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A man may be an island, but he also has a peninsula.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:06 PM (Q1uY4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 26, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 26, 2025 10:07 PM (2Yt0V)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 26, 2025 10:08 PM (2Yt0V)
Posted by: angsterdam at September 26, 2025 10:08 PM (van9r)
Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)
I hope the guy with the collapsing deck was okay. Seems unlikely though.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2025 10:08 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 26, 2025 10:09 PM (DoBxX)
Wonder what ever became of her. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2025 10:09 PM (TfUTr)
How dreamy is this dream home? Is it in the ideal spot in the southwest where I would want to live (beautiful ex-urban area)? How many floors? (Preferably three.) Brand new? No monthly payments? No property taxes? I have a neighbor who's gorgeous and in love with me?
Also, is the tarantula friendly? Can it be trained, like a dog? Maybe be taught to bring me a drink while I'm watching TV?
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:10 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 26, 2025 10:10 PM (bzR3K)
And in the pic anyway, a sound and a bay look pretty much the same. The difference in the real world, I suppose, is that sounds are wider and deeper than bays?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:10 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 26, 2025 10:12 PM (GYGpZ)
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And no bight at all.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:12 PM (Q1uY4)
And I have made a compact with the spiders that if they keep outside and out of site we cool, otherwise, there will be problems.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 10:12 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 26, 2025 10:13 PM (0Htd1)
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And no bight at all.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025
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On the other hand, Hudson Bay is huge, while Puget Sound is not.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:13 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 26, 2025 10:13 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at September 26, 2025 10:13 PM (2Yt0V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:05 PM (cCu74)
May scare intruders, too.
Any news on Mountain Town Murder?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 10:13 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Three Hour Tour at September 26, 2025 10:14 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:15 PM (PFH6n)
I took the sound/bay thing to mean sounds were more enclosed while bays had broader mouths. I grew up in Colorado, so coastal geography features have always been a mystery.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2025 10:15 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Sounds abay right.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 26, 2025 10:16 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, [0] Day(s) Since Leftist Terror Attack! at September 26, 2025 10:16 PM (L/fGl)
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"The rest." Hmmmphh.
Posted by: The Professor and Mary Anne at September 26, 2025 10:17 PM (Q1uY4)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2025 10:15 PM (lFFaq)
I always thought an isthmus was connected to land on both ends. Either it's wrong or I am.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 26, 2025 10:17 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Stymie Beard, Our Gang at September 26, 2025 10:17 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Three Hour Tour
Lagoon was about 2' deep and was a parking lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:17 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025
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Haven't heard from the "publishers" (Left Field, huh?) since July sometime. I've been so concerned with first my minor surgery that month, then recovering, and now my trip, that I haven't even thought much about it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:18 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 26, 2025 10:18 PM (Wnv9h)
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I think it's just a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land, so, yeah.
If there's no other land at the end, it's a peninsula.
Posted by: The Professor and Mary Anne at September 26, 2025 10:19 PM (Q1uY4)
—Pete Buttplug
Posted by: QED Texan
Sticky, sweet, and warm? Oh my! I can shoot some your way, cowboy.
Posted by: George Takei at September 26, 2025 10:19 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:18 PM (cCu74)
Might want to contact them. Don't want them to think you're not interested. Unless you have a lead on another publisher.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 10:19 PM (uQesX)
—Pete Buttplug
Posted by: QED Texan
Boy syrup - aka, baby gravy.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:20 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: Langerhans at September 26, 2025 10:20 PM (Q1uY4)
Sounds usually connect at least two other bodies of water. Bays just one.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2025 10:21 PM (viF8m)
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I think it's just a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land, so, yeah.
If there's no other land at the end, it's a peninsula.
Posted by: The Professor and Mary Anne at September 26, 2025
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Example: The Isthmus of Panama.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:21 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 26, 2025 10:21 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 26, 2025 10:21 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 10:21 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:21 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: Joyenz at September 26, 2025 10:21 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:22 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Hell's Gate Hank at September 26, 2025 10:22 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:22 PM (Q1uY4)
there's a whole subreddit called r/Hypothetical Scenario. Crazy stuff there. Here's a sampling of what's posted now:
On your 25th birthday, you'll receive $1,000,000. It will double each additional birthday. You can access this money at any time. But once you do, the compounding effect will stop and you won't receive any additional money.
Hypothetical: If you were offered $50,000 upfront plus 7% of every sale, would you donate a cell culture to be used for commercially available cultured human meat?
For the next 24 hrs you are the opposite gender
If you could place any object on the surface of a 'to be explored planet', purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
A third arm suddenly appears, how do you react?
You get 250 thousand dollars a year for life but you need to sleep 12 hours a day.
You are offered to curse someone with a minor inconvenience of your choice.
And so forth and so on
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:23 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:05 PM (cCu74)
Until the tarantula decides that one of the cats is food. Or you are.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 10:23 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Some Jefferson Airplane song:
"No man is an island."
"Of course not, he's a peninsula."
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:24 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 10:24 PM (FZs2o)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2025 10:24 PM (Xr4QU)
Posted by: Forrest G at September 26, 2025 10:25 PM (+abK1)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 26, 2025 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Hell's Gate Hank at September 26, 2025
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I think you're right. It's really an arm of the Atlantic that wraps around Long Island and then runs out into Long Island Sound. (There's that term again --)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:26 PM (cCu74)
We have The New York Bight here off the coast of Brooklyn/Staten Island. IIRC, there are other bights as well.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 26, 2025 10:27 PM (vFbHf)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 10:27 PM (IC093)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:28 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 26, 2025 10:28 PM (GYGpZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2025 10:28 PM (Xr4QU)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2025 10:28 PM (UWX1m)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:29 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2025 10:29 PM (u6/wt)
Posted by: Will Wirk 4 Fud at September 26, 2025 10:29 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 26, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)
I assume the guy with the kid was being electrocuted and that's why the other guy was kicking him. Hopefully.
Posted by: banana Dream
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He was being electrocuted and kicker kicked the door off and broke the connection.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2025 10:30 PM (n7CIX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:30 PM (8z6SV)
I'd take it for ten years. If I've back of enveloped it properly, at 35, I'd have 511 million dollars. I could invest that.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (PFH6n)
Here's the link for the mutual aid fund: https://tinyurl.com/y67kcmyv
The bail fund number is (515) 218-1994
The smear campaign is running. They are saying he is illegal and ran from the law and has illegal guns, typical right wing race bating BS.
If you do take a phone, shut it off if detainment becomes unavoidable. 1st restart requires a pin code. Biological won't work. They can't scan your face or unlock it with your finger. You can't be forced to give up the pin. It's your right to keep it confidential.
I would just recommend not bringing your phone at all. That's what I did for the No Kings protest
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (ycI94)
I had to explain to Pookette last week that it wasn't until high school that I saw an anime, and that was Digimon. My parents didn't have cable, there were no stores nearby that had anime, and Amazon only sold books. Even if I had wanted to be an otaku, I couldn't.
Posted by: pookysgirl isn't a subbed snob at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:23 PM (8z6SV)
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That reads like a pervert's D&D magic item list.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 26, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)
Damn. Industrious. Not only reads the content but goes the extra click.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:32 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Nature's Splendor at September 26, 2025 10:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: the way I see it
When you can't throw a rock across it?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:33 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:29 PM (EYmYM)
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When it rains real hard for a long time.
Same as when my back yard becomes a pond.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 10:33 PM (dIske)
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 10:33 PM (Yt3ED)
Also, whenever anyone posts anything in Hypo Scenario about being able to purge, kill, whatever (anything involving killing), they ALWAYS get their hateful pathetic fantasies on about wiping out (a) Trump (b) every conservative.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (8z6SV)
The MSM seems to not want to report on the 3 muzzies shooting up a youth baseball game in Houston, wounding a coach the other day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 26, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)
Thanks...that was tough to figure out.
Posted by: Joemarine at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (y171U)
Give it a hearty handshake, because I am reliably told that's how I achieve everything good in life.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:05 PM (cCu74)
Until the tarantula decides that one of the cats is food. Or you are.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
He can't hurt you. Part of the deal.
Personally, I'd find out what he liked to eat and leave dinner out for him.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (PFH6n)
I had to explain to Pookette last week that it wasn't until high school that I saw an anime, and that was Digimon. My parents didn't have cable, there were no stores nearby that had anime, and Amazon only sold books. Even if I had wanted to be an otaku, I couldn't.
Posted by: pookysgirl isn't a subbed snob at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (Wt5PA)
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When DHS starts referencing Legend of the Overfiend, shit's getting real.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 10:35 PM (Yt3ED)
Does this mean you receive $2mil at age 26, $4mil at age 27, $8mil at 28, and so on? If so, by age 30 you'll have $63 million, aside from taxes, that is. A five-year wait for that is a pretty good deal.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:35 PM (cCu74)
inb4 green dildo
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:36 PM (8z6SV)
Things heard at M.C. Escher's house on a Friday night.
"Mommmmm, Dad got drunk and screwed up the staircase in the basement again."
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 10:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 10:36 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:37 PM (25kuG)
Also, whenever anyone posts anything in Hypo Scenario about being able to purge, kill, whatever (anything involving killing), they ALWAYS get their hateful pathetic fantasies on about wiping out (a) Trump (b) every conservative.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:34 PM (8z6SV)
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Funny that the people advocating 'red flag' laws would be the first rounded up if we actually arrested people for violent fantasies and perversion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Here's the newest post:
$500,000 yearly but once a month you are randomly hunted
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:37 PM (8z6SV)
https://tinyurl.com/5s9yv6ex
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2025 10:28 PM (UWX1m)
Beer? So, a golden shower?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 10:38 PM (uQesX)
117 https://www.reddit.com/r/hypotheticalsituation/
Here's the newest post:
$500,000 yearly but once a month you are randomly hunted
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:37 PM
Nope.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2025 10:38 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (EYmYM)
Old school Barbie and Ken dolls. Nekkid of course.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)
They even have one for my fave topic, collecting reel-to-reel recorders.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:37 PM (8z6SV)
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You can eat anything you want without gaining weight but you're cursed with permanent Hitlerian-level flatulence.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (Q1uY4)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:29 PM (EYmYM)
From what I just read, ponds are generally shallower than lakes, so depth. Circumference size has nothing to do with it.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)
A giant tarantula, as polite as the description, would be preferable.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2025 10:40 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 10:40 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2025 10:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:40 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (Q1uY4)
Carbon undies?
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2025 10:41 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:41 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 10:42 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2025 10:40 PM
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space junk graveyard
Posted by: TRex - space cowboy at September 26, 2025 10:42 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:42 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)
The average depth of Lake Erie is 62 feet.
Pond Erie
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (Q1uY4)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (PmITa)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (Q1uY4)
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I just lived that for about three months. Don't miss it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2025 10:40 PM (viF8m)
20,000 leagues under the sea, of course.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (Q1uY4)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (Wmg4n)
Pond Erie
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025 10:43 PM (EYmYM)
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Did you hear about the economist who drowned in a river averaging only six inches deep?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:44 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025
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I could wait a month for almost 5.5 million
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 10:44 PM (cCu74)
The bail fund number is (515) 218-1994
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (ycI94)
The illegal alien DMPS scrool superintendent? yeah, I don't think he's gonna make bail for overstaying his visa, ignoring the deportation order for a year and a half and illegal firearm possession.
The guy is a buffoon, good riddance. His only qualification for the job is his skin color.
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 10:44 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: JackStraw
HAH! I know this one. It's the point on Earf farthest from any other land. So, that places it in the south Pacific somewhere.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 10:44 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2025 10:30 PM (n7CIX)
Well, shocked, not "electrocuted". That word has a specific meaning. Ask the Rosenbergs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 10:45 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 10:02 PM (Q1uY4)
I don't see eskers, drumlins, erratics or moraines on that infographic, we clearly are not discussing post glacial landscapes.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 10:46 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 26, 2025
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I already brought that up a long time ago!
Posted by: Mr. Sulu, When He Was a Mahematician at September 26, 2025 10:47 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)
That's What She Said
Posted by: De Rigueur at September 26, 2025 10:47 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:47 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (ycI94)
Who got deported from Des Moines?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 10:47 PM (o46Y5)
I’m reading “The Martian” and just got to the part where NASA realizes that Watney is alive on Mars.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 26, 2025 10:47 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 26, 2025 10:48 PM (vV6n9)
Doesn't matter. Anyone who complains gets deported.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 26, 2025 10:48 PM (lUFok)
Old school Barbie and Ken dolls. Nekkid of course.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)
Barbie and G.I Joe. Ken sits in the corner and watches.
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 10:48 PM (Yt3ED)
I might have gone somewhere if I had practiced more...
sigh.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:49 PM (25kuG)
Boy, the board of education in Des Moines is really, really at the top of their game. Their hiring practices are a model for us all.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 10:49 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2025 10:49 PM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 26, 2025 10:50 PM (77qEF)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:50 PM (25kuG)
Yep. Roughly 1,700 miles from land in any direction in the South Pacific. That's probably where Jules Verne got the name for Captain Nemo.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)
Bottle cap? Cigarette butt?
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 10:50 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 10:48 PM (Yt3ED)
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So, Ken is like David French.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/5s9yv6ex
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2025 10:28 PM (UWX1m)
Beer? So, a golden shower?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
>I only pissed myself ONE TIME! And the unfortunate occasion was after a case of Lucky Lager beer.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2025 10:51 PM (UWX1m)
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Have a bite or two anyway.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 10:51 PM (IC093)
I’m not taking Point: I’m just a civilian!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 10:52 PM (ZVgZ4)
I might have gone somewhere if I had practiced more...
sigh.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 10:49 PM (25kuG)
If it were easy as fishin'
You could be a musician
If you could make sounds loud or mellow
Get a second-hand guitar
Chances are you'll go far
If you get in with the right bunch of fellows
People see you having fun
Just a-lying in the sun
Tell them that you like it this way
It's the work that we avoid
And we're all self-employed
We love to work at nothing all day
Posted by: Fat Randy Bachman at September 26, 2025 10:52 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Tell me about it.
Posted by: Topsy the elephant at September 26, 2025 10:53 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025
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Two to the twenty-ninth, right? 536870912. Isn't that all pennies? Divide by 100, you get $5,358,709.12.
Posted by: Mr. Sulu, When He Was a Mahematician at September 26, 2025 10:53 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:54 PM (8z6SV)
A giant tarantula, as polite as the description, would be preferable.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2025 10:40 PM (CHHv1)
_____________________
Remove "Cats"....insert "toddlers"
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 10:54 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 10:46 PM (rbvCR)
Mostly, those are not "named" features, or if they bear a name, it would be "such and such hill", not "such and such drumlin".
There is a huge glacial erratic near Okotoks, Alberta. It is named "Big Rock".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 10:54 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 10:55 PM (IC093)
Posted by: Brother Tim
I'm pulling for ya Brother Tim. Hopefully you can find a few things that taste good to you. Hang tough.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 26, 2025 10:55 PM (144I4)
Bottle cap? Cigarette butt?
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 10:50 PM (U/Byj)
Abacus.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 10:55 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 26, 2025 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Just girthier.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 10:55 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2025 10:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2025 10:56 PM (Xr4QU)
Boca Chica Beach is eroding at 5-20 feet per year. Starbase City Commissioners met tonight to formalize an agreement with Cameron County and make plans to stop the erosion and rebuild the dunes. The collaboration will leverage state, federal, and private partnerships
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The whole TX coast. It's LA's fault.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 10:56 PM (FZs2o)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
The superintendent of schools. Illegal alien.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 26, 2025 10:56 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025
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I admit I had help from the ship's computer. . . .
Posted by: Mr. Sulu, When He Was a Mahematician at September 26, 2025 10:56 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 26, 2025 10:56 PM (Ginmk)
A working relationship.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 26, 2025 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)
A cross like the one used to crucify Jesus. It would confuse and confound a lot of people.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 26, 2025 10:57 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 26, 2025 10:31 PM (ycI94)
Who got deported from Des Moines?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 10:47 PM (o46Y5)
Des Moines public school superintendent. He overstayed his student visa and ignored a deportation order from an immigration judge. ICE went to take him into custody yesterday morning, tried to pull him over, he took off, then bailed out of his school district provided SUV, leaving behind a handgun, large knife and $3000. State cops collared him a short time later and now he's in a county jail over by Omaha.
The school board who hired him a couple of years ago are just shocked by all of this, shocked, I tell ya. They did a background check and had no idea he was illegal.
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 10:57 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 10:57 PM (PmITa)
Boy, the board of education in Des Moines is really, really at the top of their game. Their hiring practices are a model for us all.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Not to be outdone by the state of Minnesota, which hired an illegal alien and convicted sex offender as Director at the state Department of Education.
Wilson Tindi.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2025 10:58 PM (n7CIX)
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You might as well go full Monolith.
Posted by: A Monkey at September 26, 2025 10:58 PM (Q1uY4)
What San Franpsycho said. It's important that you keep eating. Both to give your body something to heal with, and because you can actually lose the ability to swallow if you don't use it. Getting nutrition through a stomach port isn't much fun.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 26, 2025 10:59 PM (lFFaq)
***
Will Yinz be in Texas for the MoMe?
Posted by: TRex - go beavers! at September 26, 2025 10:59 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 10:59 PM (ZVgZ4)
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You might as well go full Monolith.
Posted by: A Monkey
Lime green dildo.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:00 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 10:55 PM (IC093)
I won't dispute that, but I think you could say the same about most any medium sized mid-western city.
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 11:00 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 11:00 PM (uQesX)
I'll be able to check in on the Pet Thread for sure tomorrow. But I'll be on the road for the Book Thread on Sunday.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 11:01 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025
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Miss Linda thinks tarantulas are attractive. On the other hand, those are the normal-sized ones. A spider the size of my bigger cat might freak her out a bit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 11:03 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 11:01 PM (cCu74)
It's only 8pm, Wolfus.
Too bad about the book thread. I hear Weasel has some dancing girls queued up.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 11:03 PM (uQesX)
Bottle cap? Cigarette butt?
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 10:50 PM (U/Byj)
Abacus.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 10:55 PM (wVcYX)
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Monolith
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 26, 2025 11:03 PM (IC093)
***
Will Yinz be in Texas for the MoMe?
Posted by: TRex - go beavers!
Sadly, no.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 26, 2025 11:03 PM (Xr4QU)
- A video of a suspected federal agent breaching the Capitol on J6 and blaming an innocent bystander is going viral after the FBI admitted nearly 300 “plainclothes” agents were embedded in the crowd that day.
(mp4) https://tinyurl.com/ykc7bfas
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:04 PM (FZs2o)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:04 PM (wrRTB)
I'll be able to check in on the Pet Thread for sure tomorrow. But I'll be on the road for the Book Thread on Sunday.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 11:01 PM (cCu74)
What's the word on your reconnaissance trip so far? Find anything you like yet? I've been following your story, and I'm rooting for you to find a place where you're happy.
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 11:04 PM (Yt3ED)
A Stone Henge.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 11:04 PM (wVcYX)
garrett.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2025 11:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 10:59 PM (ZVgZ4)
Fit the spider with tap-dancing shoes, and train him up on old Lightnin' Hopkins records:
https://youtu.be/Y0g9STefk_g
Yeah, that is a tap dancer doing the rhythm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:05 PM (o46Y5)
Alice Kramden..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2025 11:05 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 10:30 PM (8z6SV)
Only when the ink comes dripping down the veins.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2025 11:05 PM (u6/wt)
"Hi R. call sweet factory is closed, so a tree. High gaining more fordelicious smudge. Tonight for production."
This may be the most epic text ever.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 11:06 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:04 PM (wrRTB)
WTF is wrong with these people? Are they brain damaged, or just whoring for ratings? And if it is just for ratings, who are they hoping to attract? (Never mind, I know the answer to that one).
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 11:07 PM (Yt3ED)
Did the skinneys just tout "This is ours's now?"
What exactly are you saying is "yours's"...Skinny?
I am perplexed beyond mere words.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 11:07 PM (25kuG)
I will give you that. Cats can be brought to the Shelter. Toddlers, not so much.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2025 11:07 PM (CHHv1)
The skinneys from Heinlein's "Starship Troopers"?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2025 11:08 PM (CHHv1)
A can of New Coke.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 11:09 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: 007 in Goldfinger at September 26, 2025 11:09 PM (wVcYX)
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You might as well go full Monolith.
Posted by: A Monkey
Lime green dildo.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:00 PM (PFH6n)
***
A package of Twinkies.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2025 11:09 PM (u6/wt)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 11:10 PM (25kuG)
The Antikythera Mechanism, just as it is.
We don't know what the hell it did. Maybe some other race can figure it out.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:12 PM (ZVgZ4)
3 innings. 0-5 against the sub-mediocre SF Gnats.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 10:57 PM (PmITa)
Slazenger 1?
Posted by: 007 in Goldfinger at September 26, 2025 11:09 PM (wVcYX)
Titleist.
Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at September 26, 2025 11:13 PM (p+wA/)
ah yes that ...well nice chatting it up with you all...
night.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2025 11:13 PM (25kuG)
Eh, I have no issue with non-toxic spiders, but I don't like the idea of it opening doors and not closing them. Bad Spider.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh)
https://youtu.be/Y0g9STefk_g
Yeah, that is a tap dancer doing the rhythm.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:05 PM (o46Y5)
I've already done that!
Posted by: Don Martin Comes on Strong at September 26, 2025 11:14 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025
***
Thanks, Ultra. I liked what I saw of Owensboro, KY, but there are not many properties in my price range there. But I've gotten in touch with a realtor, and she may be able to help.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 11:14 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 11:07 PM (Yt3ED)
Two things
Saudi/Qatari money is flowing to them. And there is a market for it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:14 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 10:57 PM (PmITa)
Slazenger 1?
Posted by: 007 in Goldfinger at September 26, 2025 11:09 PM (wVcYX)
Titleist.
Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at September 26, 2025 11:13 PM (p+wA/)
Pinnacle.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2025 11:14 PM (u6/wt)
"Convict him, bar him from office, lock him up, have prosecutors pursue him" -James Comey about Trump (Jan 21, 2021)
https://tinyurl.com/bpanw66c
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:14 PM (FZs2o)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Why not GRU or SOTF-D ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 26, 2025 11:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2025 11:15 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2025 11:15 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
Yeah, I'm trying. It just sucks that one of my last pleasures got nerfed, even if it is temporary. Funny thing is it's not actually everything, I can taste salty and bitter, and a bit of chocolate (which is naturally somewhat bitter, so that tracks). So I have something to work with, at least.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 26, 2025 11:15 PM (z9ulg)
We don't know what the hell it did. Maybe some other race can figure it out.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)
I thought it had been established now that is some sort of orrery or astronomical calculator? Maybe it was just a gadget made up by a fortune-teller to bullshit the rubes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:16 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 11:16 PM (PmITa)
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 26, 2025 11:07 PM (Yt3ED)
Two things
Saudi/Qatari money is flowing to them. And there is a market for it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:14 PM (wrRTB)
Larry, Darryl, and Darryl: I'll ask anything for a buck?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 26, 2025 11:16 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: RandomDave at September 26, 2025 11:17 PM (aJQbY)
I would put a Bob's Big Boy on Mars.
Posted by: Or a Buc'ees at September 26, 2025 11:17 PM (+6yBo)
Posted by: RandomDave at September 26, 2025 11:17 PM (aJQbY)
Good point!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2025 11:17 PM (u6/wt)
Megan Kelly has joined Tucker and Candace Owens in “just asking questions” about whether Mossad killed Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Has she really? Is it possible that there's a misunderstanding or a misinterpretation?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2025 11:18 PM (n7CIX)
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You did not know that Kelly was a whore until now?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:18 PM (FZs2o)
Posted by: Megthered at September 26, 2025 11:19 PM (kueL3)
Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at September 26, 2025 11:13 PM (p+wA/)
Dylan Mulvaney's nic on the cheerleading squad?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:19 PM (o46Y5)
A manhole cover.
Posted by: Rex B at September 26, 2025 11:19 PM (+xk6Q)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:19 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:20 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 11:21 PM (PmITa)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2025 11:18 PM (n7CIX)
Pretty clear what she’s doing. She’s had 2 shows dedicated to it. Just asking questions though? lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:21 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:21 PM (FZs2o)
A 10 mm socket.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:22 PM (o46Y5)
A Trilobite fossil.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2025 11:22 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:22 PM (wrRTB)
*
Ha, I get it.
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025
***
A chocolate-covered one.
Posted by: Larry Niven, Long Ago at September 26, 2025 11:22 PM (cCu74)
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:16 PM (o46Y5)
The eggspurts think they know. They developed 3-D type models. They've been able to 'see' inside thanks to newer technology. But exactly what it did and how it did it, no one knows to date.
The more important question is how such a device was built whenever in antiquity it was built. The skill involved in constructing that should have shown up somewhere else across the globe. I have a hard time buying the mechanism as a one-off.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 11:23 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez
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It doesn't matter what it tastes like as long as it doesn't make you throw up, eat it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 26, 2025 11:24 PM (FZs2o)
Posted by: Rbastid at September 26, 2025 11:24 PM (+r15C)
We don't know what the hell it did. Maybe some other race can figure it out.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)
It was a analog computer for determining planetary positions and eclipses.
here is a watch-smith making a copy using period type tools and techniques, as best as he can determine, from xray scans. It is fascinating
Clickspring
https://tinyurl.com/2566m3c7
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:25 PM (rbvCR)
https://tinyurl.com/bpanw66c
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
It'd be pretty funny if they put Comey into the Epstein Memorial Cell and he suicided with busted mob handle shoved four feet up his ass.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 26, 2025 11:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Maple Street Biscuit Company, a Cracker Barrel-owned restaurant chain, shuttered more than a dozen locations that fell short of its financial expectations.
You hate to see it. But also you love to see it. This is on the heals of Starbucks announcing several hundred stores closing with 1000 employees cut.
Learn 2 Kode
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:25 PM (wrRTB)
How about a collection of objects that disappeared from our timeline:
Flight 19 (1945 Bermuda Triangle)
Lockheed 10-E Electra with Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
The Lost Colony
The Holy Grail
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 11:26 PM (wVcYX)
But the corpse is wearing a digital wristwatch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 26, 2025 11:26 PM (cCu74)
Eh, I have no issue with non-toxic spiders, but I don't like the idea of it opening doors and not closing them. Bad Spider.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
And turn off the damn lights when you leave the room! Electricity isn't free!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:27 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 11:23 PM (gKDq2)
Well, if it had been useful and practical, it likely would not have been a one-off. But if it was just some skilled metalworker's mechanical doodling, or a phony machine built in aid of a fortune-telling racket, could very well have been.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:27 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 11:27 PM (dIske)
Ha, I get it.
Posted by: pawn
Yeah, they call then "service hole covers" now.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 26, 2025 11:28 PM (/lPRQ)
A 10 mm socket.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:22 PM (o46Y5)
This is perfect.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 11:28 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Perfect typo.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:28 PM (PFH6n)
If you could place any object on the surface of a 'to be explored planet', purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
Coke bottle
Posted by: Crazy tha god at September 26, 2025 11:29 PM (63Dwl)
A single sock.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:29 PM (ZVgZ4)
x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1971726284343726205
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2025 11:30 PM (gKWVE)
A Keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 26, 2025 11:30 PM (XV/Pl)
A single sock.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Tupperware lid.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:30 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2025 11:31 PM (lhenN)
Ha, I get it.
Posted by: pawn
Yeah, they call then "service hole covers" now.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 26, 2025 11:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Is that a call-back to the manhole cover that was supposedly launched into space by an underground nuke test in Nevada?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:31 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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How about... several thousand 10mm sockets?
Or... several thousand odd socks?
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2025 11:31 PM (rdVOm)
Eh, I have no issue with non-toxic spiders, but I don't like the idea of it opening doors and not closing them. Bad Spider.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
And turn off the damn lights when you leave the room! Electricity isn't free!
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:27 PM (PFH6n)
Yes! This!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 26, 2025 11:31 PM (ynpvh)
Even better is that we agree that they should be censored and cancelled.
Eric Weinstein too, because he called us "right-woke" merely because we use the same tactics that the left wokists use.
We can go back to our fifteen minutes of hate now.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:31 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:33 PM (wrRTB)
Will check back later
Posted by: Lord Percy at September 26, 2025 11:33 PM (65L+K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:27 PM (o46Y5)
The mechanism doesn't sound like the science-y gimmicks of Heron of Alexandria. As said above, it's an analog computer for a sky chart. The intermeshing of smaller metal gears, to me, is far beyond the technology of the day and for centuries to come. Big metal gears, sure, but fine metalwork I'm not so sure.
Posted by: RickZ at September 26, 2025 11:33 PM (gKDq2)
Or... several thousand odd socks?
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2025 11:31 PM (rdVOm)
I thought it was specified "single object"?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:34 PM (o46Y5)
______________________
I shouldn't type this because I'm not sure about the statute of limitations. I did something once, that was illegal, but had hilarious results. I put up a giant sign on a vacant field just after the local township voted down a new Walmart in the area. I put up a giant sign that said "Location of the Future Walmart! Welcome!"
I'd like to do that on an entirely vacant planet.
Posted by: Orson at September 26, 2025 11:34 PM (dIske)
Posted by: where does he sleep? at September 26, 2025 11:35 PM (+6yBo)
Another subreddit that's really popular is the Sopranos subreddit.
They have a ton of stuff there, just about how those mobsters/actors say the word "whore."
"She's a HOO-AH!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:35 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 26, 2025 11:35 PM (Ginmk)
"Hi R. call sweet factory is closed, so a tree. High gaining more fordelicious smudge. Tonight for production."
This may be the most epic text ever.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2025 11:06 PM (cYBz/)
What the heck does that even mean????
Posted by: moki at September 26, 2025 11:35 PM (wLjpr)
_-_-_
Of course, my cat's a jerk, but he does his job well. Several times a week, he drags up a dead rat. I reward him with tuna. He is a half-wild barn cat and always tries to do things he knows bug me. I wouldn't trade the obnoxious little bastard for anything.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (xCqRv)
The USS Eldridge (1943 Philadelphia Experiment)
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Ooops. Quite right. I withdraw the "thousands of" suggestions.
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:27 PM (o46Y5)
Watch the Clickspring video, it is fascinating. If for nothing else, than for the machining and tool making parts. The stitching pony vice alone is worth the time spent.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: ... at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (Lrj9W)
Posted by: PabloD at September 26, 2025 11:37 PM (WIjYx)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)
I bailed. Started with a bunch of loud music, and a storm at sea. Put me in mind of that Donovan tune about Atlantis.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:38 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:38 PM (wrRTB)
I can't trap the tarantula. Can I contain it? Like, put it in a suite and bolt all the doors? Put food in once a week? (Or have the butler do it)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2025 11:39 PM (n7CIX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:39 PM (8z6SV)
Yeah, that's the part that bothered me the most. If the thing can teleport, it can damn well leave my doors alone.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 26, 2025 11:40 PM (2Iefd)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)
Love is lover, hater!
Posted by: Some Furry at September 26, 2025 11:40 PM (o46Y5)
. I am not making fun: the idea intrigues me! I think other SF writers have done something similar. What about finding a 40,000 year old (by carbon dating) human body in a space suit on Mars?Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:40 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: ... at September 26, 2025 11:36 PM (Lrj9W)
Much like how Trump is simultaneously a Nazi and Israel’s bitch.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:40 PM (wrRTB)
______________________
How about Ea-Nasir's reply to the complaint about being sold inferior copper?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 26, 2025 11:41 PM (S/Y4j)
My idea of a dream house does NOT include a resident, giant tarantula!
Posted by: JQ at September 26, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)
Flight MH370
Posted by: Don Lemon at September 26, 2025 11:41 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 11:41 PM (PmITa)
Don Lemon.
Posted by: toby928 at September 26, 2025 11:42 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:42 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:42 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 11:43 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2025 11:38 PM (o46Y5)
That is the intro, go to the next one, or number 3 when they start building it.
This one is a short on building a manual lathe
youtu.be/4pK3O43Jddg
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:44 PM (rbvCR)
I'm thinking a spider the size of Jerry Nadler. I got your number, you fat fuck!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 26, 2025 11:44 PM (UWX1m)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 26, 2025 11:44 PM (snZF9)
The Del Taco I went to yesterday did not have a burger on the menu.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 11:44 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:45 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 11:45 PM (PmITa)
Did you see the four year old who had a hole in one? It was legit, 108 yard par three. Not sure what ball he was using
Posted by: Javems at September 26, 2025 11:45 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2025 11:46 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:45 PM (8z6SV)
Could be. I'm not there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2025 11:47 PM (uQesX)
I'd pass on the "dream house."
My idea of a dream house does NOT include a resident, giant tarantula!
Posted by: JQ
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That's where I am. "Dream house with non-removable tarantula" is a contradiction in terms.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 26, 2025 11:48 PM (n7CIX)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 26, 2025 11:48 PM (lhenN)
The USS Eldridge (1943 Philadelphia Experiment)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Oh dayum. That's good.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:48 PM (PFH6n)
"Kilroy Was Here" etched into the ground rock like Nazca Lines
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 11:49 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 26, 2025 11:49 PM (xCqRv)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at September 26, 2025 11:50 PM (FLiOE)
"'dream home' with non-removable giant tarantula"
"'dream home' with non-removable TV welded to MSNBC"
"'dream home' with non-removable Cher"
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:50 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 26, 2025 11:50 PM (IBQGV)
I can't make pancakes because I'm out of milk.
I can't get milk because all the stores are closed.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:52 PM (PFH6n)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 26, 2025 11:52 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:52 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:53 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: MartynWW at September 26, 2025 11:54 PM (s1DvK)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 26, 2025 11:55 PM (xCqRv)
Posted by: Ripley at September 26, 2025 11:56 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
Never used it, do I don't have any. Can't get any because the stores are closed.
I will remedy that tomorrow.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 26, 2025 11:56 PM (PFH6n)
The wiki article here goes into great detail about the Antikythera mechanism:
https://is.gd/PMsi7m
It's damned fascinating. It may go back to around 200 BC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2025 11:57 PM (w6EFb)
This one is a short on building a manual lathe
youtu.be/4pK3O43Jddg
Posted by: Kindltot at September 26, 2025 11:44 PM (rbvCR)
I watched the one about making the big gear. One thing he completely glossed over was "how did the ancients index the wheel to file the correct number of teeth?" And when he riveted the two spokes together, he did not countersink the rivet holes, which both he and the ancients could have easily done. Would have made the riveted joint much stronger.
Posted by: Some Furry at September 26, 2025 11:58 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:38 PM (wrRTB)
He disrespected the Bing!
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 26, 2025 11:58 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Sid and Marty Krofft at September 26, 2025 11:59 PM (1PzR6)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2025 11:59 PM (PmITa)
Wouldn't confuse them per se but would make them make some other conclusions .
I would leave a good size pyramid.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 27, 2025 12:00 AM (EYmYM)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:52 PM (8z6SV)
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How will you find it in the Meadowlands?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2025 12:00 AM (m6HS6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 12:01 AM (8z6SV)
Will check back later
Posted by: Lord Percy
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Isn't it the same in every state? A federal thing?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2025 12:02 AM (FZs2o)
A piece of paper with “Earth: 33.950312 -105.313893” written on it. The coordinates of the Roswell alleged crash site.
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 27, 2025 12:03 AM (JRP2U)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 26, 2025 11:52 PM (8z6SV)
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How will you find it in the Meadowlands?
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Ground penetrating radar?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 12:03 AM (PFH6n)
Posted by: Weirddave at September 27, 2025 12:03 AM (kWNy3)
One of the characters, though not the main one, is a dragon girl with pink hair named Ritchie. She is a cop. And yes you can arrest people, frisk, give them a drug test, make them breath into a breathalyzer, or simply let them go.
Actually, Ananta is free to play and all the characters are unlockable through gameplay. Certain cosmetics, furniture, houses, and cars are purchasable.
7 minute trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMzzXYQ8zoQ
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2025 12:04 AM (UfpLt)
Ah, a man who has gotten to the nut of it. And what if there were an odd number of teeth is even harder.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:04 AM (PmITa)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2025 12:05 AM (ZVgZ4)
>A green dildo. It's a mindfuck that not even AI could 'dream' up on its best day.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 27, 2025 12:05 AM (UWX1m)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
Never used it, do I don't have any. Can't get any because the stores are closed.
I will remedy that tomorrow
Wife looking over my shoulder insists that one can subtitute water, cream, juice, lemonade, sparkling water, Sprite...you should see the stuff that comes out of our kitchen. Every day is like a big messy science project in there....and perhaps I've put on a couple of extra pounds.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 27, 2025 12:06 AM (xCqRv)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:06 AM (U/Byj)
Most people don't know that a number of Da Vinci's designs and inventions were done as props for theater plays.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 27, 2025 12:07 AM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 12:08 AM (snZF9)
It's called double entendre.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 27, 2025 12:08 AM (RCgIY)
A Jesus bobble head doll.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at September 27, 2025 12:09 AM (AG3iD)
Posted by: the way I see
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If you can't sell your invention one way sell it another.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2025 12:10 AM (FZs2o)
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:10 AM (PmITa)
They are building a lot of new houses in my community. I get nervous when I see them stacked with three high rows on the roof decking.
Posted by: the way I see it at September 27, 2025 12:11 AM (EYmYM)
*****
A wheat penny
Posted by: Megthered at September 27, 2025 12:11 AM (kueL3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2025 12:12 AM (UfpLt)
Posted by: Don in SoCo
My problem is, since it's now just me, I don't go thru milk fast enough before it spoils. I guess I'll just have to buy it by the half gallon. And get some powdered milk to store.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 12:13 AM (PFH6n)
A green dildo
Posted by: 18-1 at September 27, 2025 12:13 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2025 12:14 AM (mT+6a)
I keep a few cans of evaporated milk on hand .
Posted by: the way I see it at September 27, 2025 12:14 AM (EYmYM)
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:04 AM (PmITa)
I think wiki says the big gear has 233 teeth.
One way to index it, maybe: build a large wooden disc with a calculated circumference of exactly 233 inches (or whatever passed for an inch in those days). Bigger, the better, within reason. Using a tape measure, mark off holes on the rim one inch apart. If go the full circle, and your last increment is too small or too large, adjust your tape measure and try again. When the increments are all even, there is your indexing head. Put the gear to be cut on a common axle, put a pin in hole #1, and file a gear tooth. Rinse and repeat, 232 times.
Posted by: Some Furry at September 27, 2025 12:14 AM (o46Y5)
Bottle cap? Cigarette butt?
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 10:50 PM (U/Byj)
Abacus.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 26, 2025 10:55 PM (wVcYX)
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Monolith
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Monorail
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 27, 2025 12:15 AM (144I4)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 26, 2025 11:38 PM (wrRTB)
He disrespected the Bing!
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 26, 2025 11:58 PM (pIfcn)
I thought Tony whacked Ralph because he burnt up their racehorse, Pie-O-My. In addition to his other noted misdeeds.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 27, 2025 12:15 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:16 AM (PmITa)
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A cooker.
Posted by: Wallace and Gromit at September 27, 2025 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 27, 2025 12:15 AM (144I4)
That's more of a Shelbyville idea.
Posted by: Lyle Lanley at September 27, 2025 12:17 AM (wVcYX)
I keep a few cans of evaporated milk on hand .
Posted by: the way I see it at September 27, 2025 12:14 AM (EYmYM)
You can get UHT treated whole milk in sealed cartons that does not need refrigeration, until it is opened.
Posted by: Some Furry at September 27, 2025 12:18 AM (o46Y5)
A MAGA hat.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2025 12:18 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:18 AM (o46Y5)
I hear ya. We used to have six children in the house. Used about a half gallon of milk per day and replaced things like front door handles often. Lots of shoes to get tied every morning. Little quieter now with only the youngest two.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 27, 2025 12:20 AM (xCqRv)
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A Teflon 'O' ring.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 12:20 AM (XeU6L)
There is the problem. Plus that length has to be an exact linear distance in order to work correctly in the entire transmission. Bisecting is easy.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:21 AM (PmITa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 27, 2025 12:21 AM (UfpLt)
A placard that says: "Kilroy was Here "
Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2025 12:22 AM (IDphi)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2025 12:05 AM (ZVgZ4)
Modern gear teeth are shaped with an involute curve. The contact between them is a rolling contact. Very little wear, as long long as load limits not exceeded. Other tooth shapes will necessarily have a sliding contact.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:23 AM (o46Y5)
Posted by: the way I see it at September 27, 2025 12:11 AM (EYmYM)
Yeah sometimes people don't consider the concentrated weight of materials. When I did my kitchen couple years ago 600sq ft of flooring was 2500 pounds. I was stacking it all over the house in smaller piles so it wasn't all in one spot.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 12:23 AM (snZF9)
Been looking all over for that!
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:10 AM (PmITa)
and my Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, too!
Posted by: Marvin the Martian at September 27, 2025 12:24 AM (wVcYX)
Oughta make good "flapjacks". Just watched Groundhog Day again. Love the scene where they attempt to order food from the cop.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 27, 2025 12:25 AM (xCqRv)
Anyone heard news of grammie winger? I love her.
Posted by: nurse ratched
She was on one of the morning threads early this week.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at September 27, 2025 12:27 AM (AG3iD)
I can't make pancakes because I'm out of milk.
I can't get milk because all the stores are closed.
Posted by: rickb223
Small Town advantage - cow is right there
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 12:27 AM (/lPRQ)
Also would expect Israeli response to Eurodummies' "Palestine recognition" farce to emerge soon. Closing East Jerusalem consulates - so they can relocate to Ramallah - seems like a no-brainer. Other amusing responses are possible.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:28 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 12:29 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 27, 2025 12:29 AM (xCqRv)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:31 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: tankascribe at September 27, 2025 12:31 AM (NtoJk)
Five more yards and no go. Motor is running correctly but the tires are spinning and I'm not moving. Great. So, I get off the thing to have a look. The right front trunion bar has broken (at the front) so the moving tractor drove the bar into the ground. Tractor is pinned in one place.
After removing the bar I carefully limped tractor back to the garage, removed extraneous parts, eyeballed the deck height on the other side and used a ball peen hammer handle to level it the mower deck, substituted coat hanger wire for the trunion; pulled it tight and wrapped it. Finished cutting with no more problems.
The tree cutting part of the project will wait till tomorrow.
Monday I'll go over to Sketchy's to see if they have an old trunion laying around.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2025 12:32 AM (FZs2o)
Ken Miles... Sigma Male..... but the question is why can't I find a Woman like his wife?
someone who will support me... no matter how silly my dreams are?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2025 12:32 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
They were called The Dark Ages not because they forgot how to make certain things, but because they forgot those things ever existed.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 12:34 AM (/lPRQ)
I can't make pancakes because I'm out of milk.
I can't get milk because all the stores are closed.
Posted by: rickb223
Mrs B brought home "emergency" pancake mix as a backup plan to the good old aunt jemima. The emergency mix only uses water, in case we run out of eggs or milk. I tried it last week when I was being lazy since Mrs B was out of state visiting relatives. The pancakes were like rubber floor mats. I told her I was going to move the mix out to the garage and use it as speedy dry.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 12:35 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
*snort
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 12:36 AM (PFH6n)
Posted by: Rbastid at September 26, 2025 04:21 PM (MSwfk)
A few years ago, I met a boyfriend of one of my Lady Friends, who was supposedly on the NASA Mars project.
He was clueless... I'm a Physics guy (Yeah, Navy Nuclear Power School at one point)... and he was missing so much basic knowledge... scary.
But WAS paid by our Government.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2025 12:36 AM (mP0Kj)
The tree cutting part of the project will wait till tomorrow.
Monday I'll go over to Sketchy's to see if they have an old trunion laying around.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2025 12:32 AM (FZs2o)
Sounds like a welding job is in order.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:36 AM (o46Y5)
Encouraging, federal GJ in LA indicts women who trailed ICE employee home and then posted his address.
As always there may be wheels turning that I don't know about, but I'm close to shocked that this crap around ICE facilities hasn't been slapped down much much much harder, and with more drama and pain.
Strict reciprocity in federal support to law enforcement. "Sanctuary" idiocy = no calls returned, cases go to bottom of pile, resources diverted for any but national security issues. It's a shame about that massive wave of bank robberies in your city, but sorry, FBI's got its hands full at the moment. Good luck!
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:36 AM (U/Byj)
Until I see people going to Jail...
This is all another just 'trust the plan'.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 27, 2025 12:38 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: rhomboid
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European women workers at the new consulates in Ramallah will absolutely love it. The atmosphere, the ambiance and unmistakable charm.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2025 12:40 AM (FZs2o)
We haven't neared recovery...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 12:42 AM (XeU6L)
While I had the column laid out on the work stand, I cut, shortened up, and respliced the six wires leading from the turn signal switch to the harness plug that connects it to the dash wiring. Heat shrunk all the individual splices, then a wrap of mylar tape, and then larger heat shrink over the entire bundle. Looks much tidier, and so easy to do with it at eye level on a stand, and me sitting on a chair. Column is now back in the car, securely bolted up to the rag joint, with lock nuts, and the firewall plate is bolted down to the firewall.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:44 AM (o46Y5)
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Don't build here, here, here, or here.
We won't insult your intelligence services by explaining why.
Posted by: Methos at September 27, 2025 12:44 AM (vSvIl)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 27, 2025 12:44 AM (3XQuW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:23 AM (o46Y5)
All the gears in a harley engine are that way. They last a long time. In late '77 they changed the pitch of the teeth and they can't be mixed in with the earlier '77-back gears. As a complete set yeah, but not a mix match. They grind themselves to dust. The funny thing is the difference is almost imperceptible. They are marked so you can tell which is which, but you need to know what the mark is, because god forbid harley just stamps early or late into them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 12:44 AM (snZF9)
...or a transverse dingle arm to effectively eliminate side womble.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 27, 2025 12:44 AM (xCqRv)
Found a can of sweetened condensed milk that expired in 2024. Found an unopened squeeze bottle of Whataburger Pepper Sauce that expired in 2022.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 12:44 AM (PFH6n)
Yeah, one year ago this morning right now, I had several radar and weather pages open, and was getting more and more nervous with each minute. My late cousin the weather guy was still alive, and sending me updates all the time.
I remember the guys at GSP got into very "just the facts ma'am" mode.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2025 12:46 AM (w6EFb)
Strict reciprocity in federal support to law enforcement. "Sanctuary" idiocy = no calls returned, cases go to bottom of pile, resources diverted for any but national security issues. It's a shame about that massive wave of bank robberies in your city, but sorry, FBI's got its hands full at the moment. Good luck!
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:36 AM (U/Byj)
If antifa rioters are besetting ICE facilities, as in Portland. tell the ICE agents that they have carte blanche to fire on the crowd. They are terrorists, after all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:47 AM (o46Y5)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:49 AM (U/Byj)
Found a can of sweetened condensed milk that expired in 2024. Found an unopened squeeze bottle of Whataburger Pepper Sauce that expired in 2022.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 12:44 AM (PFH6n)
Did you ever see the commercial where the aunt is standing in front of her niece's open refrigerator and removing things while saying expired...expired...expired. Mrs b always laughs at that, and every once in a while she'll be looking in a cabinet and hear her saying expired...expired. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 12:50 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Some Furry
Compass and dividers.
With diveders make flexible tape of 233 units. Connect ends to make a loop.
Use compass to make it a perfect circle.
So on so forth.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 12:50 AM (/lPRQ)
Found a can of sweetened condensed milk that expired in 2024. Found an unopened squeeze bottle of Whataburger Pepper Sauce that expired in 2022.
Posted by: rickb223
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Remember when CBD was posting about "old food stuff" a few years back? Heh.
I think there was an informal contest, re: who had the oldest specimen in their pantry. Send him a pic, if you find anything *really old*!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Fuckety, fuck, fuck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:51 AM (o46Y5)
Confuse NASA? I would put a 1964 copy of a Playboy Magazine on a deserted planet. Let them figure that one out.
Posted by: Case at September 27, 2025 12:51 AM (jHd3X)
Boy, the board of education in Des Moines is really, really at the top of their game...
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2025 10:49
I'd swear they hired his brother to run the crappy rehab place the hosp first sent my Dad to in Stevens Pt.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 27, 2025 12:52 AM (55Qr6)
Found a can of sweetened condensed milk that expired in 2024. Found an unopened squeeze bottle of Whataburger Pepper Sauce that expired in 2022.
Posted by: rickb223
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Can of minced clams, 2009.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 12:52 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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No welding for me, I've one of those electric eggbeaters.
It's straightforward but awkward. Basically it pegs in a brace hole at each end and is held by clevis pins. It could be made with a bar, an acetylene torch and a die. But they are cheap. If Sketchy doesn't have one laying around I'll go to Amazon.
The hard part is getting down there. Been considering the possibility of a motor cycle lift from Harbor Freight. Have to look and see if it would work. In the country I would hook my chain hoist to a cross member in the barn and hoist it up by the nose.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2025 12:52 AM (FZs2o)
It's worth making some effort to not give the large dumbed down part of the populace, the vile Dem elected officials, and the North Korean "press" any red meat
* the nanosecond you obstruct, menace, or physically touch an agent doing their duty, you're not a protester
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:54 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:49 AM (U/Byj)
The Guyanese illegal? Black or Indo? If Indo, is he a muslim?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:54 AM (o46Y5)
Fuckety, fuck, fuck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:51 AM (o46Y5)
I popped the lower cover on mine and reached in with a can of wd40 and hit the roller axles. Worked like a charm for a long time. When I finally rebuilt the rollers they really didn't look bad. I probably could have hit them with wd40 again.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 12:54 AM (snZF9)
But that tape has to be a specific length in order for it to work with the other gears properly.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:55 AM (PmITa)
To confuse NASA, I think I'd put a piece of spacecraft wreckage with the NASA logo on it. And make it look exactly a piece of the spacecraft that was doing the exploring.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)
Fuckety, fuck, fuck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Seems like there is something every day. I realize, in my case, that it is a consequence of most of my electro/mechanical stuff aging out simultaneously because of common age ~25 years.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 12:56 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
LOL. Love that commercial.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 12:56 AM (PFH6n)
Posted by: rickb223
The milk is still ok to use.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2025 12:57 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 12:57 AM (PFH6n)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:54 AM (U/Byj)
I used "besetting" for a reason. antifa in Portland was literally besetting the ICE office, and trapping staff inside. That is unlawful confinement, aka "kidnapping". Capital crime.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 12:58 AM (o46Y5)
Of course the first thing I asked, before my business, was - "so are expiration dates on packaged food really important?". His answer was a little multi-part, but all common sense. Chemically stable stuff kept in good condition should be good far beyond the "best by" date. All depends on the food in question.
I ended up just instructing suppliers to not put expiration dates on the commodities for my program, as the customers (overseas) were totally unfamiliar with the concept, and in any case the nature of the commodities and how quickly they would be consumed sort of made the whole issue moot.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 12:59 AM (U/Byj)
This makes NBC guilty of fraud, accomplice to murder, aiding and abetting, incitement, and felony deception. These are serious crimes and NBC should be punished like any ordinary Joe would be. The researchers, writers, anchors and management should all face jail time for this. Anyone who had nothing to do with it, make them prove it in court.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 27, 2025 01:00 AM (kDHiw)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 12:56 AM (XeU6L)
Thats the worst. It happened in this house that I moved to a couple years ago. The kitchen appliances all started dying at the same time. Then to be a real dick the wash machine and dryer went a few months apart right after I did the new kitchen with all new appliances.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 01:00 AM (snZF9)
...
Posted by: rhomboid
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Car radio said, there was a standoff between ICE and protesters today. What is that? There is no standoff. If ICE doesn't arrest them they won. And it will get worse. ICE needs new ROE.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 27, 2025 01:02 AM (FZs2o)
But that tape has to be a specific length in order for it to work with the other gears properly.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2025 12:55 AM (PmITa)
Ah, what I'm talking about is an "indexing head". A fixture attached to to shaft (such as the headstock of a lathe) that allows it to be turned in precise fractional increments.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 01:02 AM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2025 01:03 AM (0nHVk)
But that tape has to be a specific length in order for it to work with the other gears properly.
Posted by: pawn
Your template could be 4 ft in diameter. Doesn't matter.
From the the circle center point you have precise angles for the 233 divisions.
Think of it as a very large 360 protractor indexed for the number of teeth you need, from there you choose the gear radius.
Just building a jig for cutting gears of any size with 233 teeth.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 01:05 AM (/lPRQ)
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Every single time I've ever replaced something before it actually broke (simply to upgrade, for example)-- something else would actually break, usually within days.
*grumble grumble*
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 01:08 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:10 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, the ICE office in Portland, and also the fed courthouse, have been besieged off/on for years. Including during Term 1. Never understood why that wasn't deal with, harshly.
Not kidding about strict reciprocity with "sanctuary" s-holes. They don't support national law enforcement (including on dangerous criminal cases), then feds are too busy to help out with any local matters apart from int'l terrorism. Two-way street.
Perp walking local officials/LE for 8USC 1324 (sheltering/aiding) would be a great companion piece to reciprocity.
Since the elected GOP rabidly opposes restoring rule of law, and the electorate is too stupid to change that, the obvious lever of conditioning appropriations is out from the start. So you're left with some gambits entirely within the executive's purview.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 01:10 AM (U/Byj)
--
Washer, dryer, fridge, all now 27 years old. Have had to replace fridge thermostat and defrost thermostat, no big deal...but I'm waiting on the compressor to fail.
Dishwasher is even older... have I replaced the hoses? Nooooo. Dumbass.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 01:11 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
External QRF.
To be civil, read them the riot act on lethal force will be be used to end their 'forcible felony'
10, 9, 8....
Start shooting until they are all laying face first in a pool of their buddy's blood.*
*Again, to be civil, tell them shooting will stop when they are laying face first in the pavement. running is not an option when the shooting starts.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 01:11 AM (/lPRQ)
From the the circle center point you have precise angles for the 233 divisions.
Think of it as a very large 360 protractor indexed for the number of teeth you need, from there you choose the gear radius.
Just building a jig for cutting gears of any size with 233 teeth.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 01:05 AM (/lPRQ)
The trick is, it's very hard indeed to find the angle that is 1/233 of 360, and lay it out. But it is almost trivial to make a measuring tape with 233 equal divisions on it, and then lay that tape around the rim of a suitable sized wheel. And the greeks certainly knew about pi, and the relationship between radius and circumference.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 01:11 AM (o46Y5)
"Oh. You have extra money this week? Here! Hit a pothole and need a new tire!"
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:12 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 01:14 AM (XeU6L)
Visa revoked. Buh bye.
And to think the US had helped Colombia get back on the rails from its darkest hours not that long ago.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 01:18 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yup,
That was my step one.
Big enough index wheel can have 360 increments.
Other wheels for the oddball increments.
Or same wheel with index marks at different radii.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 27, 2025 01:19 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:20 AM (8z6SV)
Now, me, I'd mill down that 4 foot disc to something a little small, such that the 1/233 increment worked out to a nice handy dimension that I already had on a ruler, say 5/8" = .6250
The ancient Greeks certainly had the math to do that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 01:22 AM (o46Y5)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:23 AM (8z6SV)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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Or Fix-All.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 01:26 AM (o46Y5)
Commercial makes it look as if you could fix a flat tire with Flex Seal.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:27 AM (8z6SV)
Flex Seal is so expensive, might as well just fix stuff the correct way.
Oh, I dunno... I suppose it has uses for "not so important" things.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
3 1/7 > π > 3 10/71
Averaging those bounds you get π ~ 3.142, so good to the thousandths place. That’s good enough for most work.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 27, 2025 01:29 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:23 AM (8z6SV)
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The Greeks spell it Pi.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 27, 2025 01:30 AM (kDHiw)
Also I was a little disappointed to read, I can't use it to repair the ripped-up crunchy vinyl in the office chair I'm sitting in right now.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:31 AM (8z6SV)
I think that it was Jim NSD who pointed out that Billy Mays passed away 14 years ago.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 01:32 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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The support rollers are going to rotate multiple times for each drum revolution. I suspect the belt. If it has a frayed spot it might squeak each time as it just contacts the drum, and that occurrence is going to be once a revolution.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 27, 2025 01:32 AM (RCgIY)
Much knowledge was lost with the Library of Alexandria. There's no telling what ancient knowledge was in there.
It's quite amazing how well the ancients knew the motions of the planets well before Copernicus to Kepler to Newton. They didn't know the mechanism that we take for granted today, but damn, they knew the motions to high precision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2025 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
*grumble grumble*
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:08 AM (rdVOm)
You know, I learned that over the decades with harleys. Literally, if it's not broke, don't screw with it. The minute you decide to "be nice" to it it breaks it off in your ass. My oldest is a 1988 softail. I owned it since 1991. I have done nothing other than maintenance to it. It hasn't left a single drop of oil under it in 34 years, it never broke down, and runs the same way every time I start it. Last year I changed the lower fork legs because over 34 years the chrome was getting pitted, so I pulled out a set I had in my stash. New bushings, new seals, new fluid. It lasted a week and the new seals were starting to leak, because the seals are shit. We had problems with 2 other bikes because the seals are shit. I just got a set in that were made in italy, we used them a few times with no problems to replace the shit ones on the other 2 bikes. Tried to be nice to it, but noooooo. I had to screw with it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 01:32 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:33 AM (8z6SV)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:33 AM (rdVOm)
Came in on a student visa in 1999.
Apparently was in the Sydney Olympics for Guyana in track in 2000(?).
Bounced around a lot of edumacation type jobs ever since.
The Des Moines School bureaucrats are defending him, probably to try and avoid looking like complete idiots.
DEI hire to me.
Should have been deported one month after his student visa expired. WTF.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 27, 2025 01:33 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:34 AM (8z6SV)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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Died young, 51 or 52 I think.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2025 01:35 AM (XeU6L)
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Yeah.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Words to live by.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:35 AM (rdVOm)
Visa revoked. Buh bye.
And to think the US had helped Colombia get back on the rails from its darkest hours not that long ago.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 27, 2025 01:18 AM (U/Byj)
I'm getting really tired of people coming here and thinking shitting on my Country is A-okay, nota big deal. If you want to shit on it, do it from your own damn hovel. Fuck that dropping a deuce on the carpet as a guest here. Glad that visa was revoked post haste.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2025 01:37 AM (gKDq2)
Not often the ONT's title requests a song. But, okay. I got ya.
https://youtu.be/pJ_UYHqWfJk
Bet ya didn't know Vangelis did stuff like this, and not just Chariots Of Fire.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2025 01:38 AM (nhCoE)
So, being the good sport, I got him a present. Actually, TWO presents.
#1, which I could 'award' to him at work-- a 12 inch wide roll of duct tape.
#2, for the after-party-- a bottle of Crown Royal (his fave)
Good dude. He bested me fair & square.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:40 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: buddhaha at September 27, 2025 01:32 AM (RCgIY)
Good thought. Or it could be the drum is slightly eccentric, and a worn support roller lets it contact a fixed part of the machine once per revolution. I will take the back off, and run it. Fortunately, an electric dryer, not gas, so very simple to work on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 01:40 AM (o46Y5)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2025 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
Growing food depended on knowing the seasons and knowing astronomy sure helps with that.
Also when the sun/moon combo is right for the virgin sacrifice.
But, hey, take the good with the bad.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2025 01:42 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy at September 27, 2025 01:44 AM (4VMNo)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2025 01:46 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 27, 2025 01:47 AM (8z6SV)
Been looking all over for that!
Posted by: pawn
But is it made of pure prefamulated amulite?
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2025 01:54 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 01:54 AM (rdVOm)
Four Horsemen:
https://youtu.be/JCluvGGhbXc
Posted by: JQ
287 views in 4 years? I bow to your esoteric music links. That's lower than most of mine. 😄
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2025 02:01 AM (nhCoE)
I got interested in the Hebrew calendar a few weeks ago. Lunar calendars always caused me to MEGLO with their complexity, and I got interested enough to slog through it. It was invented, the mathematical calculation calendar as opposed to the observational method, probably during the Babylonian captivity. And it was likely based on long term Babylonian observation records.
The Jewish calendar estimates the mean synodic month at 29.530594 days. The current value, as of epoch J2000 is 29.530588861 +( 2.52E−7)*T, where T is in Julian centuries of ephemeris time, and that's valid for maybe 10,000 years centered on J2000 (you want more than that, just add the higher order terms in powers of T).
That is impressively close. Around 2000BC, it was even closer. The Moon is slowly receding due to tidal braking. So, the synodic month, in uniform time, is getting longer. But, the earth's rotation is slowing, and that effect is greater. Thus is mean solar days, the synodic month is getting shorter, not longer, so it was a smidge longer than in 2000BC.
Based on current estimates, it was about 29.530598 days then. Compare that to the Hebrew estimate. Damned, damned close.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2025 02:02 AM (w6EFb)
But yeah, I'm a Gamma Fan! Love Ronnie & Davey!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 02:03 AM (rdVOm)
I got a call tonight from the wife of one of hub's best friends, she told me that he passed away on Wednesday morning and she is shattered. He was a great guy, quite instrumental in getting hubs and I together in the first place. Cheers to Bobby.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2025 02:03 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2025 01:46 AM (0nHVk)
That shit works. Before I moved into the house I had my brothers painters do 2 of the rooms that have stooopid high ceilings. One of them used the bathroom and somehow broke one of the tank bolts holing the tank to the toilet. Anyway, I decided to wash the tank in the laundry sink to clean it out before reassembling it with new bolts and seal. The tank slipped and fell into the sink and blew out a half dollar size hole in the bottom of the sink near one of the corners. Well lets try the flex tape. Damn if it didn't work. Its been 3-4 years and it still holding. I'll have to change the sink, but its low on the totem pole at this point. Still, the shit works better than i thought.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 02:08 AM (snZF9)
Good for you, for fixing stuff on your own! Every little bit helps, not just with money but expedience. Darn if ya want to spend hours somewhere if it isn't really necessary!
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 02:09 AM (rdVOm)
A can of New Coke.
Posted by: Tonypete
That tripped a memory. "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. There was one about time travel where you found a crushed Coke can in dinosaur times. Or a trisected circular piece of metal the "radiated affluence." (A Mercedes hood ornament.)
Or maybe those were in two different books. I read a ton of those in grade school, but that was forty-someth..... twenty years ago. I almost forgot we're only 29.
Posted by: mikeski turns to page 42 at September 27, 2025 02:10 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: mikeski looks for the edit button at September 27, 2025 02:13 AM (nhCoE)
Luckily, we had the sense to forget about syncing with the Moon, and go with pure solar/seasonal calendars, which is what is really important. The notion of months is purely vestigial.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2025 02:14 AM (w6EFb)
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2025 02:14 AM (+qU29)
Four Horsemen:
https://youtu.be/JCluvGGhbXc
Posted by: JQ
Damn, for a minute there I was thinking of this band Gamma ray. They blister
https://tinyurl.com/4jf2nra4
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 02:15 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Berserker
Gamma Ray, I knew about.
Gamma, not so much. Even if it was Ronnie Montrose's band.
Posted by: mikeski looks nothing like a metalhead at September 27, 2025 02:21 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at September 27, 2025 02:23 AM (FFn+L)
Posted by: qdpsteve
I'll do it for 5%, but you have to trademark the product "Eat Me."
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2025 02:28 AM (nhCoE)
Took him long enough to figure that out.
Posted by: gp at September 27, 2025 02:32 AM (1vrHF)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Big tiddy goth girlfriends FTW.
If she doesn't like enormous tarantulas she has to turn in her goth card.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2025 02:33 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2025 02:37 AM (o46Y5)
LOL. Has-been.
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 02:38 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2025 02:41 AM (0nHVk)
https://youtu.be/XAOzOUoYNOM
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2025 02:43 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JQ at September 27, 2025 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
Took him long enough to figure that out."
I guess he didn't find it convincing enough when Trump was actually shot by a wacko rooftop sniper.
Posted by: gp at September 27, 2025 02:44 AM (1vrHF)
Took him long enough to figure that out."
I guess he didn't find it convincing enough when Trump was actually shot by a wacko rooftop sniper.
Posted by: gp
One guy isn't a campaign.
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action," four times is a conspiracy, five times is a campaign.
Or something to that effect.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2025 02:49 AM (nhCoE)
After what happened to Charlie Kirk, Imma gonna take a hard pass on that one. Those vicious asshole jacobins are all done with "having their say."
Posted by: gp at September 27, 2025 02:50 AM (1vrHF)
Go to Tennessee State U and try that. They love to "say" edifying stuff.
Posted by: gp at September 27, 2025 02:59 AM (1vrHF)
After what happened to Charlie Kirk, Imma gonna take a hard pass on that one. Those vicious asshole jacobins are all done with "having their say."
Posted by: gp at September 27, 2025 02:50 AM (1vrHF)
Remember when Conan the barbarian said enough talk, and then threw his sword into the dude. Yeah, that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 27, 2025 03:00 AM (snZF9)
Much knowledge was lost with the Library of Alexandria. There's no telling what ancient knowledge was in there.
It's quite amazing how well the ancients knew the motions of the planets well before Copernicus to Kepler to Newton. They didn't know the mechanism that we take for granted today, but damn, they knew the motions to high precision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2025 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
I think we know remarkably well what was in that library. Seems like every document since quotes parts of other documents that were kept there. The Septuagint was based there, and we haven't lost any of that.
But yes, destroying that library was very much like destroying all the scrolls from Rome, or even hiding all the scrolls in the Dead Sea caves. We found a lot of those, but not all.
History is often ephemeral.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 27, 2025 03:01 AM (urtE/)
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2025 02:14 AM (+qU29)
I had almost forgotten about Peter Strzok.
I'm trying to imagine appropriate punishment for that smarmy smirking self-important sack of shit cockgoblin.
It could probably start with the penis fish, if one small enough could be discovered.
Posted by: far cry at September 27, 2025 03:02 AM (p+wA/)
However, District Attorney Greg Willis clarified that because Anthony is a minor, he cannot face the death penalty or life without parole.
This comes as per Supreme Court rulings.
https://tinyurl.com/bdfk3nyj
Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2025 03:02 AM (PFH6n)
Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara
We've all been banned. We've all been banned...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2025 03:03 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 27, 2025 03:31 AM (vdTVD)
Posted by: mikeski turns to page 42 at September 27, 2025 02:10 AM (nhCoE)
I remember those well (have they ever featured on the Sunday Book Thread? I admit I don't attend as often as I should).
I have a distinct memory of reading an awfully lot of those books, always with every finger on the left hand marking a potentially-decisive turning-point page. just in case the latest disastrous choice inexplicably resulted in expiry.
"Wait no! I didn't mean that!!"
*flip-flip-flip-flip*
"I meant thsi"
...
Come to think of it, I actually made a low-effort Choose Your Own Adventure novel for a Grade 11 high school English project - can't remember what we were trying to prove. We all had to read our excreta in front of the class ... this form at least got some minor-level class engagement.
Strangely, I now have no idea now what it was about.
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