The Goodest Boy Cafe

Restoring Your Faith in Humanity
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The owner in this shop allows stray dogs to come in when it is dark so that they can spend the nights safely.. He puts blankets to cover the cold tiles so everyone has a comfortable bed...

Thanks to @ComradeArthur.

This is one Cool Dog.

All those years of seeing dogs pee on fire hydrants, and I never realized -- dogs are inviting the hydrants to spray them back.

Dog is a first-rate farmhand.

A couple of strays who look out for each other.

Get a room.

Pigeon wants to be included.

A cat gets pounced... by an emu chick.

This baby elephant really wants to get on the safari bus, but his mom won't let him.

If you think baby elephants are cute, check out this newborn baby elephant. The little clumsy ball of wrinkles can't even stand.

Heroic dog leads police to the location of his mistress, a grandmother who collapsed while walking him.

A loyal dog flagged down cops and helped them rescue a missing grandmother after she fell over during their walk.
The four-legged hero, named Eeyore, led officers with the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office in Florida right to the injured woman.
The police were out looking for the 86-year-old grandmother after receiving a missing persons call at around 10.30pm on September 25, the Miami Herald reported.
Bodycam footage showed the moment Deputy Devon Miller responded to her family's distressed pleas for help.
Her concerned husband told Miller that his wife had failed to return home after walking Eeyore more than an hour ago.
The video showed Miller searching for the missing woman before she spotted the couple's dog in the street.
Eeyore, who is named after the donkey in 'Winnie-the-Pooh', directly approached the patrol car.
'Where's your mama? Show me where your mama is,' Miller could be heard asking.
Deputy Devon Miller was sent out to look for the missing 86-year-old woman when she spotted the dog, named Eeyore
Eeyore then led the deputy through a yard and straight to the injured woman lying on the sidewalk.
Miller radioed the paramedics for the woman, who was 'alert and conscious.'
The injured woman was stunned upon being rescued. As they waited for the paramedics, Miller explained that Eeyore led the way.
'The dog brought you?' the woman asked Miller. 'He wouldn't leave. He kept coming back to me.'
She added: 'I'm not even his owner. I'm his grandmother!'
The injured woman was taken to the hospital for further evaluation, according to the police.
The sheriff's office posted the touching video, writing: 'Sometimes heroes come with four legs and a wagging tail!'

Video below.

This dog led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. This is Eeyore. He was on a walk with his 86-year-old grandma when she fell. After they didn't return home for an hour, his grandpa frantically called the police to report them missing. A deputy from… pic.twitter.com/zPkuCnIN9g
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I just saw this video as I was finishing the post (which was already called "The Goodest Boy"): Critical Drinker reviews Good Boy, a supernatural horror movie in which the hero is a... dog. And not a CGI cartoon dog either, but a real dog, the director's pet dog, in fact. The movie apparently took 400 days to film, presumably mostly because you need a lot of takes when your main actor is a dog.

But apparently he gets an amazing performance out of him.

I want to see it, as long as there's no Old Yeller ending.

Posted by: Ace at 07:48 PM

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1 Second!!

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 07:48 PM (lWPQK)

2 Almost first!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 07:48 PM (/p+XQ)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2025 07:51 PM (+qU29)

4 Nood issued.

The lack of penguins tonight is clement, indeed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

5 Willowed:

The "Very Fine Scholar" Leonard Jeffries posits, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that brain cells are actually hidden inside of skin cells -- the melanin pigment in skin cells, to be specific.

If that's true then I've got a mole on muh belleh that's a genius.

I'm putting that lazy fucker to work starting tomorrow.

I wonder if he can get an H1B visa to work at Amazon.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2025 07:52 PM (iJfKG)

6 naturalfake, you'll never find people more stupid than most of today's scholars.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 07:54 PM (/p+XQ)

7 Are we continuing the "great moments in bra removal" theme, or is that done?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)

8 Imagine yourself with a bunch of Morons next week at this time and it will be true.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 07:54 PM (QGLzn)

9 I want to see it, as long as there's no Old Yeller ending.
----
SPOILER: The dog was dead the whole time...

(just kidding. I have no idea...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2025 07:54 PM (IBQGV)

10 I got to visit the sea otters at Sea World in San Diego last weekend.

I love them.
Did you know they hold hands while they sleep?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2025 07:55 PM (qF+Bw)

11 I thought Old Yeller went back to the 1940s. Turns out it came out in 1957. At what movie were men allowed to cry during, before then?

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 07:55 PM (/p+XQ)

12 Are we continuing the "great moments in bra removal" theme, or is that done?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 07:54 PM (ZOv7s)

Like tears in rain.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 09, 2025 07:55 PM (i24o9)

13 Movies where men watching are allowed to cry:

- Old Yeller
- Brian's Song

... any others??

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 07:56 PM (/p+XQ)

14 The lack of penguins tonight is clement, indeed.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

If every day was Christmas, we'd get spoiled.

Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at October 09, 2025 07:56 PM (oftw2)

15 Because willowed:

AOP, have you talked to Doof today?
Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 07:39 PM (QGLzn)

No. I am aware he is trying to call me? Please give him my e-mail; I think you have that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 07:51 PM (Nzhwp)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 07:56 PM (Nzhwp)

16 AH Lloyd, some of us don't have to put one on unless going to town

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 07:56 PM (QGLzn)

17 If Trump wins the Nobell prize we at the Brattleboro Ladies Auxiliary and Fart Tube Assioation will hold a Sky Screem ceremony 7:30 Fiday at the Pete Seeger Memorial Native plant and compost fieldd behind the Doller General on Mao ze Dong boulevard downton.

Thaank you Mr O'Spards for letting me post this pubic service anmouncement.

Posted by: Mary Clogenstien of Brattleboro Vermouth at October 09, 2025 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

18 But if ifs and buts were candy and nuts...

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 07:57 PM (/p+XQ)

19 The lack of penguins tonight is clement, indeed.

We're right here, you know.

Posted by: The Bats at October 09, 2025 07:57 PM (lWPQK)

20 Good Boy does, indeed, look like a fascinating movie.

Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2025 07:57 PM (mADJX)

21 - Old Yeller
- Brian's Song

... any others??
Posted by: qdpsteve

Hardly Working-Jerry Lewis 1981

Posted by: Old Softee at October 09, 2025 07:57 PM (oftw2)

22 The synopsis for Good Boy sounds interesting, but...

No spoilers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

23 Are we continuing the "great moments in bra removal" theme, or is that done?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 07:54 PM

Back in the day, skillful removal, using only one hand, was considered an essential skill for a young man to have acquired by age 19.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 07:58 PM (0sNs1)

24 Men don't cry at movies. Wtf.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

25
I've been flogging "Good Boy" all this week ever since we saw it on the weekend.

I don't want to over sell it, but it is a very good movie

Honestly, it does everything you'd want if you think about its premise.

And yes, Indy is a very good boy.

Definitely check it out if it's playing in your town.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2025 07:59 PM (iJfKG)

26 AOP, text incoming.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 07:59 PM (QGLzn)

27 Did you know they hold hands while they sleep?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2025 07:55 PM (qF+Bw)

I've heard that, somewhere...good evening, nurse ratched!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 09, 2025 08:00 PM (zYpTz)

28 I bet that dog was a terror to work with. The director couldn't even get him out of his trailer most days! And it was constantly demanding better fare at craft services.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:00 PM (/p+XQ)

29 I can't think of any other movies

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2025 08:00 PM (+qU29)

30 She added: 'I'm not even his owner. I'm his grandmother!'

That's the amazing part. A cat would have grown impatient after thirty seconds of stillness and found a new owner.

Posted by: t-bird at October 09, 2025 08:01 PM (q1tXs)

31 The lack of penguins tonight is clement, indeed.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

OMG! Ace has been hacked by the CCP's Anti-Penguin section!

Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2025 08:01 PM (mADJX)

32
Oh, Ruby
Don't leave your bra in town.

Posted by: Lyrics Kenny Rogers rejected at October 09, 2025 08:01 PM (0sNs1)

33 Are we continuing the "great moments in bra removal" theme, or is that done?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

And to think women get to do it every day.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (ftFVW)

34 Festivities breaking out in Afghanapakiranistan (stolen from a stand-up comic, years ago). Apparently Paki airstrikes on all the Afghan towns you've come to know and love.

Presumably part of the ongoing complex quiet war between Pakistan and some its woolier (which is saying something) opposition groups which is inter-linked with Taliban shenanigans.

Peace definitely not breaking out all over. Surprise!

Posted by: rhomboid at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (U/Byj)

35 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (+qU29)

36 Dash, so soon!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (QGLzn)

37
My shih tzu was groomed this week. He had his butt shaved and he is going nuts trying to scratch it.

I feel bad for him.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (3ek7K)

38 HOW *SMACK* MANY *SMACK* TIMES *SMACK* HAVE *SMACK* I *SMACK* TOLD *SMACK* YOU *SMACK* NOT *SMACK* TO *SMACK* JUMP *SMACK* ON *SMACK* THE *SMACK* BABY *SMACK* GATE *SMACK*

Posted by: Lack of parenting detected at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (TbWk/)

39 There have been several movies where I cried for joy because Commies got obliterated . Does that count?

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (lWPQK)

40
Oh, and if you go see "Good Boy" be sure to stay after the credits for a short little video of exactly how they made "Good Boy".

It's fascinating in it's own way.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (iJfKG)

41 Remember Kenny Rogers Roasters chicken restaurants?

Good stuff, but it was embarassing the way Kenny tried to retrofit his songs to promote the place.

"Ruby, don't take your love to town! But if you do, be sure to bring back some of that delicious Kenny Rogers Roasters chicken!!" :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (/p+XQ)

42 Back in the day, skillful removal, using only one hand, was considered an essential skill for a young man to have acquired by age 19.

So, what, you were using scissors?

Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2025 08:03 PM (mADJX)

43 AOP, text incoming.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 07:59 PM (QGLzn)

You will have to use the 587... number. Text is working on it. The other number is off-line until tomorrow afternoon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 08:03 PM (Nzhwp)

44 Hi Mary, I'm surprised that you and your coven are not in Salem, MA for the festivities since it's nearly mid October. As we know, the climax is on the 3ist, but things are building up right now.

Posted by: Witch Hazel at October 09, 2025 08:04 PM (oftw2)

45 And to think women get to do it every day.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM

Another reminder that life isn't fair.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 08:04 PM (0sNs1)

46 Oh, Ruby
Don't leave your bra in town.
Posted by: Lyrics Kenny Rogers rejected at October 09, 2025 08:01 PM (0sNs1)

Well, strictly speaking, it wasn't just her bra she was leaving in town.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

47 AOP, I did.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 08:04 PM (QGLzn)

48 Willowed bra talk:

>>> 305 My wife always appreciated that I could unhook and pull her bra out of her sleeves in 3 seconds. I developed that talent in 1972.
Posted by: Lance Romance

Didn't every girl learn this in the gym changing room in high school, so we could change without having to strip down in front of everyone else? My husband finds it impressive I can get my bra off this way in seconds. He jokes it's like witchcraft.

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2025 08:05 PM (gWBY1)

49 So, what, you were using scissors?
Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2025 08:03 PM

Practice. Start with the one-hook 'A's, and hone your technique.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 08:07 PM (0sNs1)

50 Didn't every girl learn this in the gym changing room in high school, so we could change without having to strip down in front of everyone else? My husband finds it impressive I can get my bra off this way in seconds. He jokes it's like witchcraft.
Posted by: LizLem

First thing, before I even take off my shoes.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2025 08:07 PM (vYF78)

51 They're not naming him, that's for sure...

The Guardian

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said Oslo must be “prepared for anything.”

“Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told the Guardian.

“The Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I’m not sure Trump knows that. We have to be prepared for anything from him.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 09, 2025 08:08 PM (TGPs7)

52 The "Very Fine Scholar" Leonard Jeffries posits, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that brain cells are actually hidden inside of skin cells -- the melanin pigment in skin cells, to be specific./i]

If that's true then I've got a mole on muh belleh that's a genius.

I'm going to TAKE. OVER. THE. WORLD!!!

Posted by: Fettermann's Hump at October 09, 2025 08:09 PM (Riz8t)

53 Has anyone been to Salem around Halloween? What special events do they have around that time?

Supposedly there is a coffee shop there with a speakeasy room in the back. The logo has a host and looks like it's meant to be a little satanic. But the shop looks cool.

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2025 08:09 PM (gWBY1)

54 The Palolo is, how do you say, singularly unimpressed by bra tricks, and wonders why anyone would have a need for them.

Posted by: The Palolo at October 09, 2025 08:09 PM (lWPQK)

55 Star Trek is on. It's the one with maybe my most favorite Star Trek Line:

"We do not wish to seem inhospitable but, gentlemen, you must leave. The mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us."

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:09 PM (vFG9F)

56 51, LOL!

& g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 09, 2025 08:10 PM (kHop/)

57 Re: men crying at movies...in 1971 when Love Story was showing in my town, we had to wait in the foyer while the audience left from the earlier show. I remember several men briskly blowing their noses as they exited. Daddy,-type men, who still wore hats back then.

Posted by: skywch at October 09, 2025 08:10 PM (uqhmb)

58 Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said Oslo must be “prepared for anything.”

“Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told the Guardian.

“The Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I’m not sure Trump knows that. We have to be prepared for anything from him.”

Oh, sweetie. I'm sure he doesn't GAS. You just don't matter.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2025 08:10 PM (Riz8t)

59 Ben Had, got the text OK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 08:10 PM (Nzhwp)

60 First thing, before I even take off my shoes.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 09, 2025 08:07 PM

Part of the 25%, eh?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 08:11 PM (0sNs1)

61
Are they afraid Trump will nuke them?

Dumbasses

Posted by: fourseasons at October 09, 2025 08:11 PM (3ek7K)

62 skywch, interesting. I've also read that if you look at the story objectively, Love Story is one of the biggest pieces-o-sh!t ever committed to celluloid. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:11 PM (/p+XQ)

63 I've watched some yak videos elsewhere lately and have noticed that the yak bulls especially, can be feisty, violent, ill-tempered and a danger to others. Head-butting, charging, attempting to overturn vehicles, etc. I'm sure Ace is wise to try to keep a lid on this badboy behaviour.

Posted by: All Yaks in Moderation at October 09, 2025 08:12 PM (oftw2)

64 >>> They're not naming him, that's for sure...
The Guardian
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

...or he'll just mock them on truth social, because it's just a silly prize, and work harder to annex Greenland and Canada.

If TPUSA is creating their own Halftime concert to be counter programming to the Super Bowl, can they also make a new Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2025 08:12 PM (gWBY1)

65 Has anyone been to Salem around Halloween? What special events do they have around that time?

Supposedly there is a coffee shop there with a speakeasy room in the back. The logo has a host and looks like it's meant to be a little satanic. But the shop looks cool.
Posted by: LizLem at October 09, 2025 08:09 PM (gWBY1)

It is really kind of boring, especially down town or by the capitol building, the homeless pretty much . . .

Salem Oregon, right?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 09, 2025 08:13 PM (rbvCR)

66 The Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I’m not sure Trump knows that. We have to be prepared for anything from him.”
Posted by: Mister Ghost

In honor of Nobel, all on the committee are awarded dynamite enemas.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 09, 2025 08:13 PM (LjSYW)

67 People are too fixated on Salem.
They should look into Amesbury, MA with its legendary PowWow River which runs under the town and the deep subterranean caverns hosting beasts of yore...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 09, 2025 08:13 PM (TGPs7)

68 Did you know they hold hands while they sleep?

They're gay.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 09, 2025 08:13 PM (5TUbN)

69 Bad boy behaviour?

Five words: The Horse Trailer, after dark.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)

70 Oh, sweetie. I'm sure he doesn't GAS. You just don't matter.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2025 08:10 PM (Riz8t)

If the past decade has taught us nothing, it is that Commies completely and totally believe their own propaganda about people. Even the shit they make up out of whole cloth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:14 PM (zZu0s)

71 39 There have been several movies where I cried for joy because Commies got obliterated . Does that count?
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (lWPQK)
'Lee, I killed a lot of commies tonight,'

Posted by: Eromero at October 09, 2025 08:14 PM (LHPAg)

72 To heck with Norway, I think they should have a Trump Peace Prize that's solid 24k gold and PDT should present it to the first recipient himself.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

73 Trump will just invent his own prize. :-)

"HELLO PATRIOTS! By now I'm SURE you've heard the INCREDIBLE NEWS about ISRAEL AND HAMAS signing my deal. I'm MAKING PEACE GREAT AGAIN and the loser liberals cannot stand it! To that end I know I'll NEVER get my due with the FAKE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE so I'm creating my own peace prize, the TRUMP TALISMAN prize. I get the first one and will be giving them out to many other great and courageous men and women who are MAKING AMERICA GREAT!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:15 PM (/p+XQ)

74 Practice. Start with the one-hook 'A's, and hone your technique. - Duncanthrax

Dang! Shoulda thought of that. Too late, now, of course. Arthritis.

Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2025 08:15 PM (mADJX)

75 men crying at movies

Paulie.
My Dog Skip.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 09, 2025 08:15 PM (5TUbN)

76 People said Winsome did well in the debate tonight. And that the CIA chick was wind up toy playing recorded sound. Will it have an effect? Don’t know.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 09, 2025 08:15 PM (FWYDO)

77 its legendary PowWow River which runs under the town and the deep subterranean caverns hosting beasts of yore...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 09, 2025 08:13 PM

Russ Meyer's breasts of yore >>>> PowWow River beasts of yore.

So say we all.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at October 09, 2025 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

78
See this?

Watch DHS Sec Kristi Noem arrest a literal illegal Caveman. This guy isn't even a homo sapien. They are not sending us their best, said one wise man.

Anyway, the comments are hilarious! Enjoy:

https://is.gd/rM1uLg

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 09, 2025 08:17 PM (aslzq)

79 That emu chick in the video above sure got the hell out of Dodge when that cat got spooked!

Posted by: Paco at October 09, 2025 08:17 PM (mADJX)

80 This is no deal because the hamassholes remian in place without disarming.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 08:17 PM (QGLzn)

81 Commissar, thanks.
I admit I've never heard of either of those movies.

Also, is The Natural a flick that men can cry to?

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:17 PM (/p+XQ)

82 Knowing Trump you will be able to get a replica of the Trump Peace Prize for only four easy payments of $49.95.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:18 PM (vFG9F)

83 The Yearling

Posted by: Jane Wyman at October 09, 2025 08:18 PM (oftw2)

84 banana, I hope Winsome smashed a chloroform pie right in Spanberger's face. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:19 PM (/p+XQ)

85 Hello?

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:23 PM (/p+XQ)

86 "Has anyone been to Salem around Halloween? What special events do they have around that time?"

There is an unincorporated township not too far from here by the name of Salem. It's on Salem Church road. I went down that road last year before the election and I swear every yard had a Harris for President sign. Creepy.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:23 PM (vFG9F)

87 61
'Are they afraid Trump will nuke them?

Dumbasses'

I'd settle for just kicking them out of NATO.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 09, 2025 08:23 PM (fd80v)

88 Guess everybody went to eat at Applebee's ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:23 PM (/p+XQ)

89 Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said Oslo must be “prepared for anything.”

“Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told the Guardian.

You stupid cunt. Just because you call something something, it doesn't make it so. You can call a dog turd a t bone steak. Doesn't make it so.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2025 08:24 PM (/WfnG)

90 men crying at movies

Paulie.
My Dog Skip.

Guardians of the Galaxy 2, during Yondu's funeral.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 09, 2025 08:26 PM (Riz8t)

91 11 I thought Old Yeller went back to the 1940s. Turns out it came out in 1957. At what movie were men allowed to cry during, before then?
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 07:55 PM (/p+XQ)

Bambi?

Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 08:26 PM (y171U)

92 You can call a dog turd a t bone steak. Doesn't make it so.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 09, 2025 08:24 PM

Unless you're Divine in Pink Flamingos.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 08:27 PM (0sNs1)

93 Guess everybody went to eat at Applebee's ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:23 PM

Say 'hi' to Chemjeff.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 08:28 PM (0sNs1)

94 How is it that dogs know to lay down on a blanket? I have also observed them laying down on a large piece of paper or cardboard, like a cat. Why is that? There is nothing gained from laying on a sheet of newspaper.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:28 PM (vFG9F)

95
Alternate post title:

Stay Out Of My Fucking Shot Cafe

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 09, 2025 08:28 PM (aslzq)

96 My shih tzu was groomed this week. He had his butt shaved and he is going nuts trying to scratch it.

I feel bad for him.
Posted by: fourseasons
-----------
Haircut here today. No butt shaving, however.

Posted by: scampydog at October 09, 2025 08:29 PM (41CYW)

97 Red Dog, most amazing true dog story to date.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2025 08:29 PM (QGLzn)

98 The owner in this shop allows stray dogs to come in when it is dark so that they can spend the nights safely.. He puts blankets to cover the cold tiles so everyone has a comfortable bed...

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🤗

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 09, 2025 08:29 PM (5Yz+T)

99 “Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told the Guardian.
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[note to self: buy sardines from other countries, there is something hallucinogenic in the Norwegian variety]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 08:29 PM (XeU6L)

100 Lol scampy

Posted by: fourseasons at October 09, 2025 08:29 PM (3ek7K)

101 Penguin brutality for all to see. Warning: Lots of blood. Big Penguin works hard to suppress these videos.

https://tinyurl.com/3cr3f8ac

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2025 08:29 PM (5rh/l)

102 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

My cat Allie is doing her little kneading dance in my lap right now. Oddly soothing for both of us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2025 08:30 PM (IBQGV)

103 I saw Old Yeller as a little kid and like to never got over it.

It's why I never wanted to see Marley and Me. Can't bear it.

Posted by: Beverly at October 09, 2025 08:30 PM (Epeb0)

104 In what world does a camel turn into a crab?

Madness.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 09, 2025 08:30 PM (XV/Pl)

105 When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told the Guardian.

The only thing socialists do better than lying is projection.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 08:30 PM (lWPQK)

106 Why is that? There is nothing gained from laying on a sheet of newspaper.
Posted by: fd
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Never had to sleep on the sidewalk, have you.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 08:30 PM (XeU6L)

107 51 They're not naming him, that's for sure...

The Guardian

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said Oslo must be “prepared for anything.”

“Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told the Guardian.

“The Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I’m not sure Trump knows that. We have to be prepared for anything from him.”
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Bless your hearts.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 09, 2025 08:30 PM (rRMBj)

108 Soothsayer, at Instagram, there's an Orange County spoof news site, similar to Babylon Bee. It's called the Orange County Tuna Melt.

Anyway their latest headline: "O.C. trades Katie Porter to Inland Empire for a Chili's and lightly used jet ski."

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:31 PM (/p+XQ)

109 Masked “secret police”? Lol.
Nothing secret about them bitch. They’re law enforcement agents nabbing criminals.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 09, 2025 08:31 PM (5Yz+T)

110
The only thing socialists do better than lying is projection.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate
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It is an element of their damaged psyches.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 08:32 PM (XeU6L)

111 Duncan, LOL. I could go for some of their fried shrimp right now.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:32 PM (/p+XQ)

112 41 Remember Kenny Rogers Roasters chicken restaurants?

Good stuff, but it was embarassing the way Kenny tried to retrofit his songs to promote the place.

"Ruby, don't take your love to town! But if you do, be sure to bring back some of that delicious Kenny Rogers Roasters chicken!!" :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:02 PM (/p+XQ)

"You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille". Four hungry children so I am bringing them to Kenny Rogers Roasters Chicken!

Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 08:32 PM (y171U)

113 Joemarine, LOL!

"If it weren't for the fantastic deals at Kenny Rogers Roasters, Lucille, we'd have all starved to death!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:33 PM (/p+XQ)

114 I love that top story

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 09, 2025 08:33 PM (xcxpd)

115 Penguins rarely lay on their backs. If you see a penguin laying on its back, it is either dead, or discreetly posing an invitation to a session of polymorphic perversity.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 09, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)

116 Penguins rarely lay on their backs. If you see a penguin laying on its back, it is either dead, or discreetly posing an invitation to a session of polymorphic perversity.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 09, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)
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Those aren't mutually exclusive propositions.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2025 08:34 PM (IBQGV)

117 >>>He puts blankets to cover the cold tiles so everyone has a comfortable bed...
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and zero worries of robbery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 08:38 PM (pyBzP)

118 There is nothing gained from laying on a sheet of newspaper

Sure there is. A bit more warmth and a bit more comfort. My 20-year-old Lhasa Apso is an expert on finding any place he can lie that's not the cold floor.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 08:38 PM (lWPQK)

119 "Never had to sleep on the sidewalk, have you.
Posted by: Mike Hammer"

Well, no, but aren't you supposed to sleep under the newspaper?

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:39 PM (vFG9F)

120 Penguins rarely lay on their backs. If you see a penguin laying on its back, it is either dead, or discreetly posing an invitation to a session of polymorphic perversity.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 09, 2025 08:33 PM (vFG9F)
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Those aren't mutually exclusive propositions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2025 08:34 PM

Given the known penguin predilection for necrophilia, AND is mosdef, as the kids say, a strong possibility.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 09, 2025 08:39 PM (0sNs1)

121 Also in Norway…

Norway's wealth tax increase, expected to raise $146M, led to a $448M net loss as $54B in wealth left the country, reducing tax revenue by $594M..

They never fucking learn do they?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 09, 2025 08:39 PM (5Yz+T)

122 Sure there is. A bit more warmth and a bit more comfort. My 20-year-old Lhasa Apso is an expert on finding any place he can lie that's not the cold floor.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 08:38 PM (lWPQK)
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That's exactly why Allie is curled up in my lap and Jasmine is curled up on the corner of the futon in my office.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2025 08:40 PM (IBQGV)

123 They never fucking learn do they?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 09, 2025 08:39 PM (5Yz+T)

No, they never do. They're stupid. They're commies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

124
I thought Old Yeller went back to the 1940s. Turns out it came out in 1957. At what movie were men allowed to cry during, before then?
Posted by: qdpsteve

The Pride of the Yankees

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 09, 2025 08:42 PM (63Dwl)

125 I think dogs like variety. In the summertime my dog will lay stretched out on the cool hard concrete floor of the shop and he looks just so comfortable.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:42 PM (vFG9F)

126 The vapid, rabid, anti-penguinites will be the first locked up when Trump reopens the institutions. Shock therapy has come a long way since the 50s.

Posted by: For Their Own Good at October 09, 2025 08:43 PM (oftw2)

127 Reef still destroys every bed i get him. He is destroying chew toys. I am hoping this is a phase. I did try Ben Hads bone idea, but he kept cleaning them really quickly. I need to get him some more or find something thats harder for him to clean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

128 Eh. Penguins ain't real.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:44 PM (vFG9F)

129 Bertram, forgot about that one

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:45 PM (/p+XQ)

130 Kimmel is talking about inviting Trump on his show. Do it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

131
51 They're not naming him, that's for sure...

The Guardian

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 09, 2025 08:08 PM

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I don't think Trump would do anything much at all. Why would he?

The Peace Prize, degraded as it is, would be appropriate. But they don't award it for actual achievement anymore. Long time now.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 09, 2025 08:48 PM (OA/Kt)

132 130 Kimmel is talking about inviting Trump on his show. Do it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

Not if it helps his pitiful ratings.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 08:48 PM (y171U)

133 I never could keep a dog bed intact with German Shepherds. They alternately hump them and destroy them. I even got an "indestructible" one that was made out of fire hose material and it lasted maybe two weeks. I just get used comforters from the Goodwill store now and that works fine.

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:48 PM (vFG9F)

134 That's exactly why Allie is curled up in my lap and Jasmine is curled up on the corner of the futon in my office.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 09, 2025 08:40 PM (IBQGV)

We have dog beds scattered throughout the house. The older the dogs get, the more they use them.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 08:49 PM (lWPQK)

135 Kimmel is talking about inviting Trump on his show.

It's AFRAID!

Posted by: Kommandant Doogie at October 09, 2025 08:49 PM (gKWVE)

136 Trump would humiliate Kimmel. Is he that dumb?

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:50 PM (vFG9F)

137
They never fucking learn do they?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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It's the sardines, I'm telling you...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 08:50 PM (XeU6L)

138 I wanna see Trump's conditions for him to appear on Kimmel's piece-o-shit program. At the very least, he should insist Jimmy wear a clown outfit during the interview.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:52 PM (/p+XQ)

139 Not if it helps his pitiful ratings.
Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 08:48 PM (y171U)

I say do it anyway. The same guy Kimmel calls an evil fascist. The horrible monster. Let his studio audience of clapping seals deal with it. Trump has the balls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

140 so there's a new TRON movie. apparently it is bad.
not woke, just good old fashioned TRON being bad like it had been bad since 1981.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 09, 2025 08:52 PM (gKWVE)

141 Nope. No conditions. I trust Trump is faster on his mental feet than Kimmel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

142 Also Jared Leto sucks.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 09, 2025 08:53 PM (gKWVE)

143
Bed Fail

https://tinyurl.com/yc2nv4zv

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2025 08:53 PM (tgvbd)

144 Kimmel is talking about inviting Trump on his show. Do it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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It's not about the ratings.

Posted by: Jimmeh Kimmel at October 09, 2025 08:54 PM (41CYW)

145 136 Trump would humiliate Kimmel. Is he that dumb?

Posted by: fd at October 09, 2025 08:50 PM (vFG9F)

Kimmel is a guy who believes he is the smartest, cleverest, guy in every room. He does believe he'll humiliate Trump. I hope he does invite Trump. Trump should crush him by declining, with many humiliating digs at Jimmy.

Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2025 08:55 PM (5rh/l)

146 Actually now that I think about it, Trump *should* do Kimmel. When he's on the set, the president can do the following:

- Insist Jimmy wear a complete clown outfit, including makeup

- Call out ABC and Disney on their shitty anti-conservative bias

- Designate the entire studio audience as antifa and have them arrested and jailed

- Deport Guillermo

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 08:55 PM (/p+XQ)

147 132 130 Kimmel is talking about inviting Trump on his show. Do it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

Not if it helps his pitiful ratings.
Posted by: Joemarine
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Well, it's golden squares tonight. But anyway.

Kimmel thinks he is smart, his people think that they are smart.
They don't know smart. It will be one big beautiful show.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 08:57 PM (pyBzP)

148 Kimmel is a guy who believes he is the smartest, cleverest, guy in every room. He does believe he'll humiliate Trump. I hope he does invite Trump. Trump should crush him by declining, with many humiliating digs at Jimmy.
Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2025 08:55 PM (5rh/l)

They all do this. Fuck even we do this. They underestimate him.

I say do it so it is a rhetorical punch in the mouth at all of the little anklebiters like Kimmel. He won't bump his ratings once he is gone. Everyone will just remember that the little bitch got owned.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

149
Q: How do you say “genius” in Norway?
A: Tourist.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 08:57 PM (XeU6L)

150 Only way Trump should agree is if they do the show live. If it’s taped and edited he’d be crazy to agree.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 09, 2025 08:57 PM (5Yz+T)

151 Nope. No conditions. I trust Trump is faster on his mental feet than Kimmel.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

And then have ICE and the FBI go through the audience arresting wetbacks and pantyfas.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 08:58 PM (Nzhwp)

152 Only way Trump should agree is if they do the show live. If it’s taped and edited he’d be crazy to agree.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 09, 2025 08:57 PM (5Yz+T)

Agreed. But it is supposed to be a live studio audience, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:58 PM (zZu0s)

153 I may check out Good Boy. But I won't deny it - I cry at the end of Old Yeller.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 09, 2025 08:58 PM (s0JqF)

154 145 Kimmel is a guy who believes he is the smartest, cleverest, guy in every room. He does believe he'll humiliate Trump. I hope he does invite Trump. Trump should crush him by declining, with many humiliating digs at Jimmy.
Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2025 08:55 PM (5rh/l)

Kimmel doesn't deserve a Trump interview. He shows no contrition for his disgraceful lies about the Kirk assassin.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 09:00 PM (y171U)

155 11 I thought Old Yeller went back to the 1940s. Turns out it came out in 1957. At what movie were men allowed to cry during, before then?
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 07:55 PM (/p+XQ)
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The Baby Mine scene in Dumbo.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 09, 2025 09:01 PM (s0JqF)

156 Agreed. But it is supposed to be a live studio audience, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 08:58 PM (zZu0s)

Do zombies count as "live"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 09:01 PM (Nzhwp)

157 He shows no contrition for his disgraceful lies about the Kirk assassin.
Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 09:00 PM (y171U)

He cried fake tears on cue. It was so manufactured it was painful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

158 Trump could have written script for Rodney Dangerfield.
Kimmel's _ss will be this ( 🌺 ) big before the show is over.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:02 PM (pyBzP)

159 Visegrad24@visegrad24

The Pakistan Air Force just bombed Kabul and 3 other cities in Afghanistan.

The Taliban are in trouble.

Unprecedented…

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 09, 2025 09:02 PM (TGPs7)

160 That was really vulgar but Kimmel is nothing but vulgar.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:04 PM (pyBzP)

161 'No' on a Kimmel show. It would absolutely be a setup. There is nothing to gain by taking the risk. Kimmel has humiliated himself, and he is looking for a way out. Let him drown.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:04 PM (XeU6L)

162 Ahhhhhhh.

Finally home.

Shoes kicked off. Bra on the back of the chair and bourbon poured.

Who’s making dinner?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2025 09:04 PM (mT+6a)

163 If Trump wins the Nobel, it will spell a resounding defeat for the communistic reign of terror instigated by Obama and Biden all those years ago in 2009. My only concern is why Joe Biden didn't receive one; his performance seemed tantamount to Obummer!

Posted by: exonfixer_94 at October 09, 2025 09:04 PM (8Xy/A)

164 159 Visegrad24@visegrad24

The Pakistan Air Force just bombed Kabul and 3 other cities in Afghanistan.

The Taliban are in trouble.

Unprecedented…
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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Strange alliances...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:04 PM (pyBzP)

165
Bed Fail

https://tinyurl.com/yc2nv4zv
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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I didn't know that was a problem with dogs. Cats, sure. Give kitty the nicest little bed in the world and it will choose your keyboard while you're trying to type, the pillows on your bed, your lap just as you were about to get up, some dark hole in your closet where it will sit quietly while you call it and call it and call it to come in at night or come out so you can take it to the vet's, the top of a suitcase, a box 1/4 of its size...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:05 PM (oKXMA)

166 Men crying at movies. For some of a certain age, the ending of "The Green Berets" when John Wayne promises Short Round that the USA will never abandon him to the Commies.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2025 09:05 PM (CE99X)

167 Eeyore and Idaho, good contributions. Didn't think of those movies...

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:07 PM (/p+XQ)

168 The Pakistan Air Force just bombed Kabul and 3 other cities in Afghanistan.

Kabul is in Afghanistan? Uh-oh, we thought it was in India.

Posted by: Achmed, Paki Pilot at October 09, 2025 09:07 PM (Nzhwp)

169 Kimmel is a guy who believes he is the smartest, cleverest, guy in every room. He does believe he'll humiliate Trump. I hope he does invite Trump. Trump should crush him by declining, with many humiliating digs at Jimmy.
Posted by: Gref at October 09, 2025 08:55 PM (5rh/l)
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Disagree. Most comedians are filled with self-loathing. Everyone thinks they are happy, telling jokes because they are full of joy, but the majority are miserable, vain, insecure. They tell jokes to cover up their emotional instablity.

Kimmel knows that his career is almost over. He got his big break, and it turns out that he sucks. He's now just playing for time, getting as much dough as he can before he's doing third-tier podcasts and low-rent comedy clubs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (ZOv7s)

170 And Trump will want to go on Kimmels show. Hopefully, he listens to his advisors and politely refuses.

There is no win there. Jimmy hates PDT and will do everyrhing in his power to humiliate him. Be it a gag or the audience or simple “engineering problems.” It’s a set up and a stupid waste of time for Trump.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (mT+6a)

171 Men crying at movies.
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I don't cry, but the closing of 'Saving Private Ryan' gets at me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (XeU6L)

172
Jews killing Muslims: Genocide

Muslims killing Muslims: Business as usual

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (tgvbd)

173 AH Lloyd, don't forget all Kimmel's future dates playing Indian casinos, out in the sticks. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (/p+XQ)

174 ZEROETH!

That’s my new vulgar shtick.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:09 PM (77rzZ)

175 I don't cry, but the closing of 'Saving Private Ryan' gets at me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (XeU6L)
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By the end I was so pissed off that even the sappy angsty veteran wondering if his life was good enough only added to my choking rage and hatred of Spielberg.

Most overrated film of all time, built on a lie.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:10 PM (ZOv7s)

176 The one movie scene that makes my cry if the last one of Gallipoli.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:10 PM (77rzZ)

177 "Tonight at the Komedy Kavalkade in beautiful downtown Bumfuck: Jimmy Kimmel! Tickets start at $2.50 each! 19-drink minimum!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:10 PM (/p+XQ)

178 ZEROETH!

That’s my new vulgar shtick.
Posted by: Bulg
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This has something to do with pretzels, doesn't it?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:11 PM (XeU6L)

179 Incidentally, regarding the Beluga story. It's not "all Canadians" are down with this, anymore than it was "all Americans" were to blame when Shitpants did some evil thing. It's the fucking Liberals, and the fucking NDP who prop them up. Not that the Conservatives are all saints, by any means, but they are light-years less evil.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 09:11 PM (Nzhwp)

180 AH Lloyd, don't forget all Kimmel's future dates playing Indian casinos, out in the sticks. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (/p+XQ)
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Guy couldn't have landed Borscht Belt gigs. Imagine him being heckled at the joint in "Dirty Dancing."

Pathetic creature, whose claim to fame was "The Man Show" and then self-neutered to obey his mistresses.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:12 PM (ZOv7s)

181 No lifeline for Kimmel.

Posted by: davidt at October 09, 2025 09:12 PM (i0F8b)

182 The Pakistan Air Force just bombed Kabul and 3 other cities in Afghanistan.
The Taliban are in trouble.
Unprecedented…
Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 09, 2025 09:02 PM (TGPs7)

Perhaps this explains Donaldus Maximus talking a couple of weeks ago about about the US returning to Bagram Air Base. It seemed insane at the time, but makes some kind of sense now.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 09, 2025 09:12 PM (CE99X)

183
I don't care if Trump gets the Nobel. No point in giving him the one prize that's going to be turned into a joke anyway when Hamas starts killing again. Give the prize to Hamas.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:13 PM (oKXMA)

184 Men crying at movies...

Simon Birch. When prime Ashley Judd got killed like 20 minutes in. Literally the only reason we rented it.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at October 09, 2025 09:13 PM (1onG4)

185
Most overrated film of all time, built on a lie.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Eh, c'mon...there must be something worse.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:13 PM (XeU6L)

186 Incidentally, regarding the Beluga story. It's not "all Canadians" are down with this, anymore than it was "all Americans" were to blame when Shitpants did some evil thing. It's the fucking Liberals, and the fucking NDP who prop them up. Not that the Conservatives are all saints, by any means, but they are light-years less evil.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 09:11 PM (Nzhwp)
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And yet people keep voting for them in large numbers despite their proven incompetence.

Obama won, and then lost Congress in a wave of rage, to be succeeded by Trump. Biden stole a majority, only to have it wrested back and Trump restored.

Where is the reaction in Canada? Justin is sent packing but now Mark Carney says the magic words ("USA BAD!") and everyone is like "Wow, Liberal promises are always kept!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)

187
Eh, c'mon...there must be something worse.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:13 PM (XeU6L)

__________

It sank in the North Atlantic

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2025 09:14 PM (tgvbd)

188 I not ashamed to say I cry during many scenes in Taking Chance.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at October 09, 2025 09:15 PM (ZTJjv)

189 Cindy McCain has suffered what has been described as a mild stroke. She is expected to recover and to return to her position at the UN World Food Program in Rome in the next month or two.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 09, 2025 09:15 PM (3ImbR)

190 I'm not a movie person, but there are certain SONGS that can get me bawling like a baby, especially, after a couple of adult beverages:

Jerry Garcia's "Ripple (in Still Water)"
Gram's "Hickory Wind"
Sam Cooke's "Bring it on Home to Me".

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 09:16 PM (lWPQK)

191
It sank in the North Atlantic
Posted by: Hadrian
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The iceberg was set up as the bad guy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:16 PM (XeU6L)

192 Didn't like him on Win Ben Stein's Money and liked him less afterward.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:16 PM (pyBzP)

193 Gone With the Wind has me sobbing in a few places.

When Scarlett falls down the stairs and loses the baby, I’m a mess.

And when Rhett leaves her after she finally figures it out…….

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 09, 2025 09:17 PM (mT+6a)

194 that might be fun, to get a crew of Morons at some chucklehut where Kimmel is performing and heckle his ass

Posted by: gKWVE at October 09, 2025 09:19 PM (gKWVE)

195 Eh, c'mon...there must be something worse.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:13 PM (XeU6L)
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"Castle Keep" is a terrible WW II movie, but it's not overrated. I only found out about it because it came on a compilation DVD set.

Shaving Ryan's Privates is constantly lauded, celebrated, hailed as a masterpiece, IT WAS SO REAL and yet it's lie stacked upon lie. And boring. Ooh look! Our troops shot Germans trying to surrender! Ooh look! Nothing in this lousy war is worthwhile other than saving this one dude.

Utter garbage.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)

196 Where is the reaction in Canada? Justin is sent packing but now Mark Carney says the magic words ("USA BAD!") and everyone is like "Wow, Liberal promises are always kept!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:14 PM (ZOv7s)

What makes you think the Liberals are incapable of stealing an election?

If it came to light that Mark Carney was butt-raping teenage boys on Epstein's island, I would not be at all surprised.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 09:19 PM (Nzhwp)

197 Apollo 13, radio contact reestablished.

Still choke up

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 09, 2025 09:20 PM (8AONa)

198
Jimmy hates PDT and will do everyrhing in his power to humiliate him. Be it a gag or the audience or simple “engineering problems.” It’s a set up and a stupid waste of time for Trump.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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I can easily imagine a trap door, a trick collapsing chair, a pie in the face. Or "We've got Mrs. Marilyn McCabe here tonight, she's about to lose her Obamacare subsidies and she has three hemophiliac kids..."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:21 PM (oKXMA)

199 "Castle Keep" is a terrible WW II movie, but it's not overrated. I only found out about it because it came on a compilation DVD set.

It at least had a funny scene with one character driving a floating VW in a moat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 09:21 PM (Nzhwp)

200 190 I'm not a movie person, but there are certain SONGS that can get me bawling like a baby, especially, after a couple of adult beverages:

Jerry Garcia's "Ripple (in Still Water)"
Gram's "Hickory Wind"
Sam Cooke's "Bring it on Home to Me".

Incidentally, Eric Burdon does a truly excellent rendition of "Bring it On Home To Me". https://tinyurl.com/mxfayhpx

Posted by: exonfixer_94 at October 09, 2025 09:21 PM (8Xy/A)

201
Utter garbage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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I've not lauded the movie, I speak only to the emotional sentiment expressed by the actor.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:22 PM (XeU6L)

202 2009Refugee, IMHO that movie, Apollo 13, suffered because everyone already knew the (happy) end of the story.

If it was changed up and made more fictional, and obviously *not* based on a real Apollo mission, it might have had more cinematic/dramatic heft, IMHO, given the audience wouldn't know if the astronauts survive or not.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:22 PM (/p+XQ)

203 What makes you think the Liberals are incapable of stealing an election?

If it came to light that Mark Carney was butt-raping teenage boys on Epstein's island, I would not be at all surprised.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 09:19 PM (Nzhwp)
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I mean anything is possible, but it's funny how eagerly the polls completely inverted with a non-Canadian who never held elective office picking a fight with Trump and suddenly HE WAS THE ONE.

You know all about him. He's comically dirty, but a critical mass of Canadian voters were like, "Yeah! That will show Trump!"

Enjoy the economic collapse and breakup of the Confederation, I guess.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)

204 If it was changed up and made more fictional

Isn't that just "Marooned" or "Space Cowboys"?

Posted by: gKWVE at October 09, 2025 09:23 PM (gKWVE)

205 Enjoy the economic collapse and breakup of the Confederation, I guess.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)

I am looking forward to it!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2025 09:23 PM (Nzhwp)

206 Blonde, LOL.

I seriously wonder: if Trump *did* show up on the program, and then had a severe heart attack, right there and then...

what would happen? Would Kimmel actually stop and help the president? Would the audience laugh? Would Jimmy just go nuts and start screaming obscene names at him?

I honestly don't know.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:24 PM (/p+XQ)

207 gKWVE, hmmm. I dunno. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:24 PM (/p+XQ)

208 The end of Gone With the Wind is a hot mess…

Scarlett falls down the stairs and has a miscarriage,
Bonnie falls off her pony and dies.
Melanie comforts Rhett over Bonnie’s death, then collapses and dies.

It’s like Selznick said, “OK, let’s kill everybody off and wrap this up.”

Great speech by Hattie McDaneil after Bonnie’s death, though. One of the best scenes in the movie.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)

209 I've not lauded the movie, I speak only to the emotional sentiment expressed by the actor.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:22 PM (XeU6L)
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By the end of the movie I was checking my watch repeatedly, counting the seconds until I could leave.

The true story is of course that a Catholic Chaplain went to find Ryan on his own, and how nice for him to be completely erased from history! Lets concoct a totally contrived story instead, chock full of tropes and saccharine sweet sentimentality!

A much better film is "Glory," the the moment when Broderick realizes that he's going to his death is not only visceral, but totally surprising given the actor. No one expected that kind of depth.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:26 PM (ZOv7s)

210 bulg and nurse ratched:

There's been a major campaign in Hollywood the last several years, to absolutely bury Gone With The Wind. They want people to forget it was ever made, or even written as a novel.

Another reason to despite that industry, IMHO.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:27 PM (/p+XQ)

211
It’s like Selznick said, “OK, let’s kill everybody off and wrap this up.”

Posted by: Bulg

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tbf, he was faithfully following the book.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:27 PM (oKXMA)

212 "They stole that election in 2020. They gave us g*ddamn COVID so we'd send in those mail-order ballots and all that bullshit and ...

click here for the rest of the clip _ https://tinyurl.com/y2tnr72d

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:27 PM (pyBzP)

213 Not easy with the tears. Kids said it was the first time they'd seen me cry - they were 15 and 13. We were on a road trip and stopped to see the Liberty Bell.

Posted by: scampydog at October 09, 2025 09:28 PM (j4gmY)

214 Great speech by Hattie McDaneil after Bonnie’s death, though. One of the best scenes in the movie.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)
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She won Best Supporting Actress, only to have people try to cancel the film that showcased her.

In the name of diversity.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:28 PM (ZOv7s)

215 I don't cry, but the closing of 'Saving Private Ryan' gets at me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:08 PM (XeU6L)
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By the end I was so pissed off that even the sappy angsty veteran wondering if his life was good enough only added to my choking rage and hatred of Spielberg.

Most overrated film of all time, built on a lie.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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So much dumb shit done one cannot but cheer on the Germans.
Like cheering for the monster vs dumb college co-eds

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 09, 2025 09:29 PM (/lPRQ)

216 If only they could find enough black midgets they'd be remaking Wizard of Oz with a tranny as Dorothy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2025 09:29 PM (Q1uY4)

217 She won Best Supporting Actress, only to have people try to cancel the film that showcased her.

In the name of diversity.

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Lucky for her she was never on a bottle of syrup.

Posted by: Aunt Jemima at October 09, 2025 09:30 PM (Q1uY4)

218 No question that with regard to his career, Spielberg peaked early.

IMHO there's almost nothing past 2000 from him that's really worth the watch. Maybe "The Terminal."

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:31 PM (/p+XQ)

219 So much dumb shit done one cannot but cheer on the Germans.
Like cheering for the monster vs dumb college co-eds
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 09, 2025 09:29 PM (/lPRQ)
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How many guntubers have proven that bullets don't penetrate water like that? They either skip off or just sink.

Same with the flamethrowers. They were not under pressure. They had training films where they shot them to show that they would not explode, but Spielberg loved his spectacle!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:31 PM (ZOv7s)

220 >>>Another reason to despite that industry, IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09
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Obama started that, he started a small campaign, it was a trial balloon for his 'disappear it' list. I took the bait and ordered a CD from Amazon. I think sales went up so much his handlers decided to put effort elsewhere.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:32 PM (pyBzP)

221 Braenyard, yup.

Simiar with Chick-Fil-A some years ago. Lefties decided to get loud and cancel CFA. Result: others literally took it upon themselves to eat it 2x/3x as often.

By the end of the year, CFA had posted record profits and was opening stores everywhere. Tee hee! Nice backfire, lefties!

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:33 PM (/p+XQ)

222 It’s like Selznick said, “OK, let’s kill everybody off and wrap this up.”

Posted by: Bulg

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tbf, he was faithfully following the book.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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A quick review:
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949), a lifelong resident of Atlanta, Georgia, was an American journalist and novelist who published only one novel in her lifetime. Gone With the Wind (MacMillan, 1936) topped the American fiction best selling lists; earned the National Book Award for Distinguished Fiction in 1936, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937; and became a legend in its adaption to film and stage -- particularly the Academy award winning movie produced in 1939 by David Selznick that starred Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:34 PM (XeU6L)

223 Mike, Mitchell didn't live long enough, but at least we were all spared her GWTW sequel:

"Break Like The Wind."
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:35 PM (/p+XQ)

224 ATLANTA, Aug. 16, 1949--Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind," died today at Grady Hospital of injuries received when she was struck down by a speeding automobile on Peachtree Street last Thursday.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:35 PM (XeU6L)

225 By the end of the year, CFA had posted record profits and was opening stores everywhere. Tee hee! Nice backfire, lefties!

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Until the idiot second generation of the Cathy family decided to run their mouths about how woke they were.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2025 09:35 PM (Q1uY4)

226 Cicero, that didn't help. But they shut up pretty quickly after that.

Anyway, in my very-blue spot of LA County, there's always lines at CFA.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:36 PM (/p+XQ)

227 So much dumb shit done one cannot but cheer on the Germans.
Like cheering for the monster vs dumb college co-eds
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 09, 2025 09:29 PM (/lPRQ)
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I have to say that Godzilla Minus One was really affecting. The desolation, the visceral sense of loss. Really wrenching.

And then the monster, which felt actually scary.

I felt a slight allergic reaction, by my womenfolk were openly weeping during the film.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:36 PM (ZOv7s)

228 I cried while watching one of the later Barnaby Jones episodes. Show opens, Elinor Donahue was guesting as a teacher. I always enjoyed watching her and was ready to settle into the show. Then she got bumped off in the first five minutes. I felt gypped. She was gone-like that!

Posted by: Still Brings Tears at October 09, 2025 09:37 PM (oftw2)

229 226 Cicero, that didn't help. But they shut up pretty quickly after that.

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The Murdoch boys (and their loudmouthed wives) should take a hint.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2025 09:38 PM (Q1uY4)

230 Baseballcrank is trying to bemoan the lawfare against Trump as a disaster for American civics. I wonder if he is pissed at trumps reaction because he did not just lie down and take it up the ass like republican usually do?

They were already lawless.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 09:38 PM (zZu0s)

231 She won Best Supporting Actress, only to have people try to cancel the film that showcased her.

In the name of diversity.
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I am amazed that Joel Chandler Harris' home in Atlanta hasn't been torched.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:38 PM (XeU6L)

232 195 Utter garbage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)

Yup. First 20 minutes are decent, the rest of the movie is muddled and improbable.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 09:39 PM (y171U)

233 Still Brings Tears:

I've read people were shocked, during the original run of Psycho, that Janet Leigh was bumped off by Norman so soon.

Audiences were like "WHAT?! What are we going to sit through then for the next hour?!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:39 PM (/p+XQ)

234
Jefferson getting cut down in The Dirty Dozen. That was a poignant moment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2025 09:39 PM (tgvbd)

235
By the end I was so pissed off that even the sappy angsty veteran wondering if his life was good enough only added to my choking rage and hatred of Spielberg.

Most overrated film of all time, built on a lie.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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"even" the sappy angsty veteran...

ESPECIALLY the sappy angsty veteran. Yet another Spielbergian coda or interjection that tells us what this story was about and why it's great and assigning us our discussion topic for the drive home. He just doesn't know when to quit and he throws in stupid lies and giveaways all the time. The minute I saw that tidy guy who types, I knew he was going to have a crisis when it came time to shoot, and SURE ENOUGH! Then that faux-profound soliloquy or whatever it was from the sniper. Quit telling us you're here, Spielberg! You're supposed to be invisible!

It's too bad he's the guy who got his hands on Schindler's List, another cliche-ridden heap with tons of signals of "twists" to come.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:40 PM (oKXMA)

236 Blonde Morticia, I have not read the novel, but it seems to me like the deaths at the end of the film could’ve been handled better.

In the film, we see Scarlett mourning Melanie, but not her daughter. We don’t know how much time has passed between the two deaths, but it doesn’t seem right.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:41 PM (77rzZ)

237 SPR. Eh. I thought the first 20 were i Teresa I NG. The rest? I found sort of boring and retarded. The collapse of the wall scene. The 'P-51s sir- Tankbusters!'

Que?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 09:42 PM (zZu0s)

238 ATLANTA, Aug. 16, 1949--Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind," died today at Grady Hospital of injuries received when she was struck down by a speeding automobile on Peachtree Street last Thursday.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I didn't know that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 09, 2025 09:42 PM (LjSYW)

239 Joe Bob was right. Spielberg always has to add the "Spielbergian glow", which always sucks. The reason his best movie was good is that the mechanical shark didn't work. (And Robert Shaw was drunk the whole time, I understand.)

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 09, 2025 09:43 PM (s0JqF)

240 ATLANTA, Aug. 16, 1949--Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind," died today at Grady Hospital of injuries received when she was struck down by a speeding automobile on Peachtree Street last Thursday.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I didn't know that.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Also:

The Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta was destroyed by a fire on January 30, 1978, after a period of decline and closure that followed its famous hosting of the 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind. The fire, which consumed the building's upper floors and rendered it unusable, led to the historic venue's demolition shortly thereafter.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:44 PM (XeU6L)

241 Bulg, that scene might have been left on the cutting room floor.

I just now read that the original director's cut of GWTW was 4.5 hours. It was brought down by about 45 minutes.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:44 PM (/p+XQ)

242 I sniffled a bit when Susan Atkins got incinerated by a flamethrower at the end of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2025 09:44 PM (Q1uY4)

243 Between talented animals and AI vs traditional Hollywood...

*rubs hands together*

This is great!

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 09, 2025 09:44 PM (144I4)

244 Still, I wouldn't say it's surely "the most overrated". There are other candidates. The English Patient, for one, and of course the most overrated movie of my youth, The Graduate. (I've found more and more agree with me about that one now. Back in the day, I was just about alone.)

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 09, 2025 09:46 PM (s0JqF)

245 The Longest Day >>> Saving Ryan's Privates

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:46 PM (ZOv7s)

246 This maxed out M4 Max MacBook Pro is wicked fast.

With my M1 when I sliced 3d prints it would take a couple of seconds, now it happens instantaneously.

Still going to take me the better part of a month to completely set it up.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 09, 2025 09:46 PM (XV/Pl)

247 I sniffled a bit when Susan Atkins got incinerated by a flamethrower at the end of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2025 09:44 PM (Q1uY4)
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One of her cousins was in my National Guard unit. Small world.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:47 PM (ZOv7s)

248 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Another generation and no one will remember.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:47 PM (pyBzP)

249 ---
How many guntubers have proven that bullets don't penetrate water like that? They either skip off or just sink.

Same with the flamethrowers. They were not under pressure. They had training films where they shot them to show that they would not explode, but Spielberg loved his spectacle!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
+++

Oh no! That German machine gun could take out a whole company. Let's take it out with our short squad!

Germans are coming... Should we blow the bridge per our orders?
No! Let's defend this bridge until we are all KIA!

Etc.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 09, 2025 09:48 PM (/lPRQ)

250 The problem with War films is rewatchability.

As good as Saving Private Ryan is, do you really want to rewatch it.

Now The Dirty Dozen is eminently rewatchable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 09, 2025 09:49 PM (XV/Pl)

251
Blonde Morticia, I have not read the novel, but it seems to me like the deaths at the end of the film could’ve been handled better.

In the film, we see Scarlett mourning Melanie, but not her daughter. We don’t know how much time has passed between the two deaths, but it doesn’t seem right.
Posted by: Bulg

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I read it when I was 16 so, uh, 13 years later my memory has dimmed, but I recall that book and movie matched pretty well. The book is sentimental and shallow.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:49 PM (oKXMA)

252 Still, I wouldn't say it's surely "the most overrated". There are other candidates. The English Patient, for one, and of course the most overrated movie of my youth, The Graduate. (I've found more and more agree with me about that one now. Back in the day, I was just about alone.)
Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 09, 2025 09:46 PM (s0JqF)
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"The English Patient" is entirely forgotten. No one talks about it, no one references. "The Graduate" is part of Boomer lore, no one else saw it, and anyway, the whole "Milf" thing renders it utterly tame.

[Pour out a glass for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, who had to find a new brand due to unexpectedly problematic search results.]

"Shaving Private Ryan" continues to get mentions as a great war movie, and it isn't. "Kelly's Heroes" is more realistic and a better movie.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:50 PM (ZOv7s)

253 I have rewatched Longest day quite a few times over the years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)

254 F5 paging F5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:51 PM (pyBzP)

255 Great speech by Hattie McDaneil after Bonnie’s death, though. One of the best scenes in the movie.
Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)
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She won Best Supporting Actress, only to have people try to cancel the film that showcased her.

In the name of diversity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:28 PM (ZOv7s)

The office I used to work at in Fort Collins CO was on the same block as a home that Hattie McDaniel lived in as a child (not her birthplace). it's even a historical landmark, although it's also a private residence. there are signs that tell people to not peer into the windows, because it's a private home.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at October 09, 2025 09:51 PM (0aYVJ)

256 Braenyard, yup.

Simiar with Chick-Fil-A some years ago. Lefties decided to get loud and cancel CFA. Result: others literally took it upon themselves to eat it 2x/3x as often.

By the end of the year, CFA had posted record profits and was opening stores everywhere. Tee hee! Nice backfire, lefties!

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:33 PM (/p+XQ)

I never ate that until a few years ago one of their locations around 20 miles from me starting hosting a sunday car show/cruise night. A few of us local gear heads decided to roll the cars and go. I went inside and was blown away. The food was better than I thought, and the service was like nothing I ever saw in fast food.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 09, 2025 09:52 PM (snZF9)

257
Now The Dirty Dozen is eminently rewatchable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 09, 2025 09:49 PM (XV/Pl)

_________

As is The Great Escape

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 09, 2025 09:52 PM (tgvbd)

258 208 The end of Gone With the Wind is a hot mess…

It’s like Selznick said, “OK, let’s kill everybody off and wrap this up.”

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)

Very true. Selznick is thinking it is a 4 hour movie we better rush to finish this.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 09:53 PM (y171U)

259 F5 paging F5
Posted by: Braenyard
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*please!*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:53 PM (XeU6L)

260 Berserker, yup. CFA must pay their employees really well, or at least give them happy pills before every shift. Maybe both. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:53 PM (/p+XQ)

261 I have rewatched Longest day quite a few times over the years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 09, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)

Hell yeah, along with Midway.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 09, 2025 09:53 PM (snZF9)

262 As is The Great Escape
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Oooooh.... good call, H7.

Posted by: scampydog at October 09, 2025 09:53 PM (j4gmY)

263 >>>The book is sentimental and shallow.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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youtube.com/watch?v=KGRWTxOhjEk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2025 09:54 PM (pyBzP)

264 I read it when I was 16 so, uh, 13 years later my memory has dimmed, but I recall that book and movie matched pretty well. The book is sentimental and shallow.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:49 PM (oKXMA)
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The film ignored Charles Hamilton's son, and Scarlett's indifference to him. It made sense to leave him out of the movie, because it made her look pretty bad and he was always there, lurking, reminding us that Scarlett was a total bitch.

Also her obsession with Ashley was maddening and absolutely spot on in terms of how women operate. Stupid bint has been widwoed twice, finally finds a real man in Rhett, but pines for an inbred pansy who has no discernable life skills.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:54 PM (ZOv7s)

265 Berserker, yup. CFA must pay their employees really well, or at least give them happy pills before every shift. Maybe both. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:53 PM (/p+XQ)

Yeah no clue. I was blown away. I actually got a best of show trophy that day. I think it was a bribe. Hey lets hook the new guy. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 09, 2025 09:55 PM (snZF9)

266 Oh no I ain't seeing any movie where a doggo is in jeopardy.

Posted by: Random PJ at October 09, 2025 09:55 PM (RRCAT)

267 Hattie McDaniel was awesome. She makes GWTW for me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:56 PM (77rzZ)

268 "A Bridge Too Far" has some epic battles scenes. The airdrop/breakout is superb. Love the artillery doing the work and the Germans getting pounded.

The survivors make an ambush, but then *purple smoke* and the cab rank aircraft bomb them to hell.

A thing of beauty.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

269 Berserker, yup. CFA must pay their employees really well, or at least give them happy pills before every shift. Maybe both. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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I think that they are very selective about the people that they hire. All seem to be young wholesome types.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:57 PM (XeU6L)

270 Stupid bint has been widwoed twice, finally finds a real man in Rhett, but pines for an inbred pansy who has no discernable life skills.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

This is about me isn't it??

Posted by: King Charles III at October 09, 2025 09:57 PM (/p+XQ)

271 If you're talking about great war movies, I'd nominate three: Master and Commander, Zulu, and Waterloo.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 09, 2025 09:57 PM (s0JqF)

272 208 The end of Gone With the Wind is a hot mess…

Scarlett falls down the stairs and has a miscarriage,
Bonnie falls off her pony and dies.
Melanie comforts Rhett over Bonnie’s death, then collapses and dies.

Posted by: Bulg at October 09, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)

Let's not forget Scarlett has the shattering revelation that Rhett was always the one!

Posted by: Joemarine at October 09, 2025 09:57 PM (y171U)

273 "How the hell are we going to advance up this road?"

"Its worse than that. This part here is the wide part."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 09, 2025 09:58 PM (ZOv7s)

274 Mike, yup. I don't think any CFA employees have any visible tattoos either.

I want to know what their hiring secret is, so they can also successfully screen out crazy antifa types. I'm sure other hiring managers would love to know their tricks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 09, 2025 09:58 PM (/p+XQ)

275 I think that they are very selective about the people that they hire. All seem to be young wholesome types.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:57 PM (XeU6L)

Yeah, exactly. There were some older women who reminded me of church ladies. I was totally amazed at the service. It was like I was buying a Rolls Royce.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 09, 2025 09:59 PM (snZF9)

276
The film ignored Charles Hamilton's son, and Scarlett's indifference to him. It made sense to leave him out of the movie, because it made her look pretty bad and he was always there, lurking, reminding us that Scarlett was a total bitch.

Also her obsession with Ashley was maddening and absolutely spot on in terms of how women operate. Stupid bint has been widwoed twice, finally finds a real man in Rhett, but pines for an inbred pansy who has no discernable life skills.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

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That's right, both her kids from previous marriages were barely visible, and her sisters got shorter shrift in the movie than in the book.

Also Rhett's obsession with Scarlett was maddening and absolutely spot on in terms of how men operate. Stupid ass has his pick of smart, beautiful women but pines for an all-around bitch with minimal motherly instincts or morals.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 09, 2025 09:59 PM (oKXMA)

277 Master and Commander
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Book series >>>movie

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 09:59 PM (XeU6L)

278 For a fun quasi-war movie, The Final Countdown is a winner. Loads of military hardware and a great confrontation between F-14s and Japanese Zeroes top it all off.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 09, 2025 10:00 PM (Q1uY4)

279 Berserker,
CFA's are usually closed on Sunday's.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at October 09, 2025 10:00 PM (VCgbV)

280 NOOD

ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 09, 2025 10:01 PM (ULPxl)

281 Berserker,
CFA's are usually closed on Sunday's.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at October 09, 2025 10:00 PM (VCgbV)

Could have been a saturday. It was definitely on a weekend.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 09, 2025 10:01 PM (snZF9)

282 200
' Eric Burdon does a truly excellent rendition of "Bring it On Home To Me"'

I play it on loop when I'm down in the dumps.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 09, 2025 10:02 PM (fd80v)

283
ONT
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Whew! I was beginning to regret that we can't smoke in the theaters anymore.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 09, 2025 10:03 PM (XeU6L)

284 Old Yeller was adopted by a sweet old lady down the road who had a rabies treatment. MY Grammy told me.

Posted by: Fisht at October 09, 2025 10:11 PM (BHEHK)

285 Sam Cooke's "Bring it on Home to Me".

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 09, 2025 09:16 PM (lWPQK)

Fun fact: that's Lou Rawls singing harmony and backup for Cooke.

Posted by: Philip at October 09, 2025 10:46 PM (Du2c9)

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