Mid-Morning Art Thread

Deserted Bridge with Figure
Louis Guglielmi

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 09:31 AM (UjDHi)

2 Yikes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2025 09:31 AM (mT+6a)

3 NYC after Mamdani.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 09:31 AM (UjDHi)

4 Parakeet hat. Not usual.

Posted by: huerfano at October 24, 2025 09:32 AM (98kQX)

5 I see dead people.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 09:32 AM (UjDHi)

6 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 09:32 AM (UjDHi)

7 No, just no!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (hOUT3)

8
Would be safer with a dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (tgvbd)

9 The bird cage was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (4rtEq)

10 The artist was having trouble with the fence as it approached the vanishing point so he obscured it with a dust devil. Much respect.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (GPa4z)

11 Needs contrails!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (hOUT3)

12 $20 bucks , same as in town.
Like this , very sparse, would hang.
Thx CBD, have a great weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (8RjCi)

13 Typical sight in NYC

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

14 Well, this is unfortunate.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 24, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

15 I'd hit it!

Posted by: Desperate For Attention at October 24, 2025 09:34 AM (oftw2)

16 The bridge looks fine, but the woman with the birdcage on her head looks cartoonish.

Would not steal from the Louvre.

Posted by: Paco at October 24, 2025 09:34 AM (mADJX)

17 Superbly executed nonsense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 09:34 AM (06Hmj)

18 Weird looking bridge.

Posted by: dantesed at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (Oy/m2)

19 Louis should have left out the " figure,".

Posted by: Cosda at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (IE51V)

20 That was a scroll-down experience.
I was liking it until I got to the ghost(?) ad the lower-right.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (GbwPZ)

21 Well, not as ugly as the Obamapalooza.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (L/fGl)

22 Bird hats are where its at

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

23 This is what happens when someone Has A Bridge To Sell You, and you actually buy it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (06Hmj)

24 Where are those suspension cables going on the left side?

Posted by: Moderate Salami, lurking at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (8WRd3)

25 Is the figure a ghost?

Anyway, perfectly nice picture of a bridge ruined by a wraith.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

26
This is crap

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:36 AM (xG4kz)

27 The bird cage is symbolic. It lets you know she's looking for a paper copy of the New York Times.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 24, 2025 09:36 AM (ycI94)

28 Superbly executed nonsense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 09:34 AM (06Hmj)

Exactly! Well put!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 24, 2025 09:36 AM (n9ltV)

29 I will borrow the "I don't get it" comment here.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 24, 2025 09:36 AM (QGLzn)

30 would not hang

Posted by: Gref at October 24, 2025 09:37 AM (5rh/l)

31 So did this woman escape from the comic book world in the music video for Ah Ha's Take on Me?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 09:37 AM (sKqQm)

32 LOL

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at October 24, 2025 09:37 AM (gDlxJ)

33 Nice, but needs some illegal alien street vendors selling counterfeit goods and infected food.

Posted by: Vibrant Cultures Welcome at October 24, 2025 09:37 AM (oftw2)

34 The artist's last name is pronounced Goog-lee-ALL-me.

Which would sound good in a limerick.

Posted by: Person who likes lyrics at October 24, 2025 09:37 AM (4rtEq)

35 I like the depth perception.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 09:37 AM (GBKbO)

36 Out: White People

In: White Out People

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 09:38 AM (sKqQm)

37 >> This is what happens when someone Has A Bridge To Sell You, and you actually buy it.

I think she's the one who "bought it" when she leapt to her death from the bridge!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 24, 2025 09:38 AM (GbwPZ)

38 I think I might like it better without the white lady.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 09:38 AM (ecekB)

39 there is so much here that is wrong

Posted by: Don Black at October 24, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

40 3 NYC after Mamdani.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 09:31 AM (UjDHi)

Impossible. The "figure" isn't an a Burqa.

Posted by: XTC at October 24, 2025 09:39 AM (UnA8+)

41 Ok. I admit.

I like it! It’s just weird enough without being perverse to be interesting.

What’s up with the birdcage though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2025 09:39 AM (mT+6a)

42 I'd hire someone to paint over the ghost woman. Maybe then I'd hang it.

Posted by: PabloD at October 24, 2025 09:39 AM (j5I5n)

43 The girl in white looks like a sticker after the painting was finished.

Posted by: dantesed at October 24, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

44 By the end of the day, she's gonna have a major headache carrying that birdcage on top of her head.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 24, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

45 More like Deserted Figure With Bridge.

Posted by: Amirite? at October 24, 2025 09:40 AM (4rtEq)

46 I think I might like it better without the white lady.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Everything's better without AWFLs.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

47 Honey, get rid of that bird cage on your head and you might find yourself a man.

Posted by: Pearl Jelly at October 24, 2025 09:41 AM (njGzd)

48 24 Where are those suspension cables going on the left side?

Posted by: Moderate Salami, lurking at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (8WRd3)

I dunno. And, where are the suspension cables for the span between the towers?

Posted by: Gref at October 24, 2025 09:41 AM (5rh/l)

49 >>Nice, but needs some illegal alien street vendors selling counterfeit goods and infected food.

. . . and homeless meth addicts, and trash, and. . .

Sad we've had to become used to all that crap, huh?
This bridge is so clean, streamlined. There is a beauty in its sound structure and purpose.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 24, 2025 09:41 AM (GbwPZ)

50 The artist's last name is pronounced Goog-lee-ALL-me.

Which would sound good in a limerick.
Posted by: Person who likes lyrics at October 24, 2025 09:37 AM (4rtEq)
---
Judges would also have accepted "great googly-moogly!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2025 09:41 AM (IBQGV)

51 Don't jump!

Posted by: Creepy Joe at October 24, 2025 09:42 AM (4rtEq)

52
This is crap (the sooner we get to comment 100, the better)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:42 AM (xG4kz)

53 Something to do in drafting class.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 09:42 AM (jFCkp)

54 24 Where are those suspension cables going on the left side?

Posted by: Moderate Salami, lurking at October 24, 2025 09:35 AM (8WRd3)

I dunno. And, where are the suspension cables for the span between the towers?

Posted by: Gref at October 24, 2025 09:41 AM (5rh/l)
---
It's a four-dimensional bridge. The cables partially exist in a higher spatial dimension for extra support.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2025 09:42 AM (IBQGV)

55 This is the same artist who did "Terror in Brooklyn" which CBD featured here before.

Posted by: Art Maven Wannabe at October 24, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

56 Smells like cat farts.

Oh. Wait.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2025 09:43 AM (mT+6a)

57
Her name is Julia Goolia

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:43 AM (xG4kz)

58 She wore a birdcage as a hat, which was the style at the time.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 24, 2025 09:43 AM (BHrzb)

59 ~~Son~~Ma'am, you've got a ~~panty~~ birdcage on your head.

Posted by: Raising Arizona script first draft at October 24, 2025 09:43 AM (PiwSw)

60 There is no graffiti on the bridge. Its fake!

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 09:43 AM (jFCkp)

61 Japanese yokai beat Western ghosts every time. The do all types better: normal and non-threatening, scary, and weird.

They should import several million third worlders and lose their culture to close the spook gap.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 24, 2025 09:43 AM (ycI94)

62 wtf

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 24, 2025 09:44 AM (36PRH)

63 *Everything's better without AWFLs.*

Especially when they have boobs like this poor lady does.

Posted by: Because boobs at October 24, 2025 09:44 AM (4rtEq)

64 This is what I voted for!

Posted by: Low IQ Nepalese Moocher at October 24, 2025 09:44 AM (R/m4+)

65 Deserted Bridge With Figure Wearing Birdcage on Head

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)

66 She has both a birdcage and a halo. WTF?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 09:45 AM (jFCkp)

67
Watch her pull a rabbit out of her hat!

Again?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:45 AM (xG4kz)

68 Seems like a mishmash of different styles which is interesting. I don't know if I like it, but I have to keep looking at it. Maybe that's the point.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2025 09:45 AM (ftFVW)

69 bad cartoon art

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 24, 2025 09:46 AM (guCHD)

70 The girl in white looks like a sticker after the painting was finished.
Posted by: dantesed at October 24, 2025

***
Kind of like those sticker play sets we had in the early Sixties, with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 09:46 AM (omVj0)

71 I think we had his weird nuns in a snow globe looking up at pelvic bones taped to the side of a building. I think I remember that one here recently. He has a bit of an odd unsettling style.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 09:46 AM (3uBP9)

72 This kind of art simply annoys me. If that is its intent, then bravo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 24, 2025 09:46 AM (PSEDc)

73
She's Nanzi's avatar. The droopy boobs are the "tell".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:47 AM (xG4kz)

74 This picture has what's look like a portrait of Lenin ( uggh!) unless that's what the artist looks like:

https://tinyurl.com/ys4jcaf3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 09:47 AM (SKxYB)

75 Kind of like those sticker play sets we had in the early Sixties, with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I loved those things.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

76 Superbly executed nonsense.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

***********

See? Span! - a limerick

Guglielmi really had no defense
For such superbly executed non- sense
But he surely was able
To paint a bridge cable
Thus keeping us all in suspense.

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 09:47 AM (/iMjX)

77 66 She has both a birdcage and a halo. WTF?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Saint Audubon.

Posted by: Bird brain at October 24, 2025 09:47 AM (4rtEq)

78 This bridge is so clean, streamlined. There is a beauty in its sound structure and purpose.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 24, 2025

***
Is this supposed to be the Brooklyn Bridge?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)

79 Looks like a ghost
Oh, it's the Halloween season so fits

Posted by: Skip at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (xatjc)

80 There are no cars on the bridge.

Posted by: dantesed at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Oy/m2)

81 Kind of like those sticker play sets we had in the early Sixties, with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

In the 80's they were called Colorforms and the stickers were reusable for hours of play!

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (ftFVW)

82 Is this supposed to be the Brooklyn Bridge?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Since it's supposedly deserted, I guess not.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (77rzZ)

83 Terror in Brooklyn featured three nuns in a snow globe, if you remember.

Posted by: Bad Habits at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (oftw2)

84
You know what else is a mishmash?

That's right -- crap

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (xG4kz)

85 The bridge is probably deserted because of the spectral chick with the birdcage on her head. I want the back story on that one.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

86 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I'm thinking this is a painting too far.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM (2WIwB)

87 Of course she has a bird cage on her head.

Of course.

Posted by: EFG at October 24, 2025 09:49 AM (Jo9Ci)

88 The bridge is probably deserted because of the spectral chick with the birdcage on her head. I want the back story on that one.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I'm on it!
-- Carl Kolchak

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

89 Miss Havisham, renowned dance teacher and avian expert, is having second thoughts about offering free Hokey Pokey lessons to the public.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 24, 2025 09:49 AM (PiwSw)

90
Our gDaughter was a huge fan of stickers for her art.

Thankfully, Freda the Forlorn, shown here, was not among them.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:49 AM (xG4kz)

91 Btw,
The Starbucks holiday blend is out in k cups and it’s really good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (mT+6a)

92 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: Person who likes limericks at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (4rtEq)

93 On a column off to the right there is a half finished painting of a nude guy sitting on an ottoman.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (3uBP9)

94 the ghost maybe jumped off the bridge.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (EyfuW)

95 I'm thinking this is a painting too far.
Posted by: Diogenes

ISWYDT. *golf clap*

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

96 The criss-cross steel looks like the Manhattan Bridge.

Posted by: NYC Refugee at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (oftw2)

97 In the 80's they were called Colorforms and the stickers were reusable for hours of play!
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2025 09:48 AM

No love for us?*

*Costanza, you can sit this one out.

Posted by: ShrinkyDinks at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (kgE5c)

98 Good thing that bridge isn't in Washington State. Some clown would hit it with a semi and put it out of commission for months.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM (2WIwB)

99 Rachel Corrie in the Afterlife - alternate title.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2025 09:51 AM (TFXAN)

100 The figure, without any money,
said, "Hey, you think this hat's funny--"
leaning back with a leer
upon the bridge pier,
"-- you should see where I keep my pet bunny!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 09:51 AM (06Hmj)

101 She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother

Posted by: RICK JAMES at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (njGzd)

102
Miss Havisham

Wasn't she the misandryst abandoned bride in Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

103 98 Good thing that bridge isn't in Washington State. Some clown would hit it with a semi and put it out of commission for months.
Posted by: Diogenes

Roght?!? wtf is going on?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (mT+6a)

104 She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother

Well, its hard to get ectoplasm stains out of a couch

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (sKqQm)

105 Wasn't she the misandryst abandoned bride in Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Yep.

And it's not execrable. It's Dickens.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

106
We're across the 100 comment threshold? Good!

** scrapes crap off my shoes **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:53 AM (xG4kz)

107 Past 100?

Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

108 Bird hats are where its at
Posted by: 18-1
________

Everybody knows the bird is the word.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 24, 2025 09:54 AM (XvL8K)

109 So I assume its intentional the bridge looks like its done by a competent artist and the woman looks like it was done by an incompetent artist?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 09:54 AM (sKqQm)

110 Birds aren't real.

Posted by: There's even a website at October 24, 2025 09:54 AM (4rtEq)

111 109 So I assume its intentional the bridge looks like its done by a competent artist and the woman looks like it was done by an incompetent artist?
-------------
All, but the woman, was done with a straight edge.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 09:55 AM (jFCkp)

112 Ok, 100+...
I'm hearing (from younger types) all about this gambling bust... of course, Disney (espn) is concerned, as sports gambling drives their business.
This will be interesting...

Posted by: man at October 24, 2025 09:55 AM (tubbA)

113 Back in the old country, around 17th century in europe Quakers and the like, mostly their women, would go around suddenly shouting and screaming and doing weird body tremor stuff. People didn't much like that so you will see paintings and drawings of gals with cages on their heads which was the punishment. More like their head in a cage 1984 style. But this reminded me of that.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 09:55 AM (3uBP9)

114 Birds aren't real.
Posted by: There's even a website

It really pissed me off when they decided they were dinosaurs.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

115
I shall write a tome entitled "Great Expectorations" and its protagonist shall be named Loogie.

Don't hold your breath waiting for it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:55 AM (xG4kz)

116 The bridge was painted by Albert Speer, the figure by AH.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 24, 2025 09:55 AM (TFXAN)

117 Well, what's the worst that could happen?

Secret Service Kept Agent Protecting Kamala’s Family Despite Failed Fitness Tests, Holding Crazy Side Job

-
DEI Affirmative Action family protected by DEI Affirmative Action SS.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 24, 2025 09:56 AM (L/fGl)

118 Watch her pull a rabbit out of her hat!

Again?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:45 AM (xG4kz)

******

That was a clip at the conclusion a song on the Dead Kennedies album "Plastic Surgery Disasters."

Except it was Rambo...saying "Hey watch me pull a masacre out of my pants." And then some other voice goes "Again?"

I'm sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet. My mind is scattered and wandering.

Posted by: EFG at October 24, 2025 09:56 AM (Jo9Ci)

119 This is a nice one of a church in NY:

https://tinyurl.com/44snsvyf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 09:57 AM (uA11f)

120 You know.

If folks have all this extra $$$ for sports betting, can the economy really be all that bad?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2025 09:57 AM (mT+6a)

121 Hey TJM if you're here, I sent your info to HR. Good luck.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 24, 2025 09:57 AM (KbCG3)

122 This is Granny when she was young, with one of Tweety's predecessors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (omVj0)

123 121 Hey TJM if you're here, I sent your info to HR. Good luck.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 24, 2025 09:57 AM (KbCG3)

===

Thank you!

I did put in an application for that job I had named.

So...fingers crossed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

124 Alternate title: "Decent Architectural Study by man who cannot draw human figures".

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (uWKK8)

125 I shall write a tome entitled "Great Expectorations" and its protagonist shall be named Loogie.

Don't hold your breath waiting for it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:55 AM (xG4kz)

A young lad named Upton Charles, but everyone called him "Upchuck".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (06Hmj)

126 Guglielmi? Why, you hardly know me!!

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (/iMjX)

127 Thus keeping us all in suspense.
Posted by: muldoon

Well done muldoon!
So glad to see you did not abridge the limerick!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (hOUT3)

128 What is the going rate for birds in a cage on the head vs. two in the bush? Better than in the hand? I'm thinking about going into bird and bush arbitrage markets and I'm looking for insider info.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (3uBP9)

129 If folks have all this extra $$$ for sports betting, can the economy really be all that bad?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 24, 2025 09:57 AM (mT+6a)

****

People always have money for vices.

It's funny how that goes.

Posted by: EFG at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (Jo9Ci)

130 Another example of why so much mid-twentieth century painting leaves me cold. The bridge is competently painted with strong structural lines and good perspective. Not inspiring but okay. Then he adds that silly Edward Gorey-esque cartoon figure. Yeah, no.

When I think of what a Hopper or Wyeth could do with the concept, this one becomes even more unimpressive.

Posted by: JTB at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

131 Back in the old country, around 17th century in europe Quakers and the like, mostly their women, would go around suddenly shouting and screaming and doing weird body tremor stuff. People didn't much like that so you will see paintings and drawings of gals with cages on their heads which was the punishment. More like their head in a cage 1984 style. But this reminded me of that.
Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025

***
Ergot poisoning?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)

132 The bridge was painted by Albert Speer, the figure by AH.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Alyson Hannigan?

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

133 Hunter is weeping.

Coast Guard Busts Huge Drug Network, Seizes 100,000 Pounds Of Cocaine At Sea

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

134 Happy Letitia James arraignment on bank fraud charges day!

Posted by: JackStraw at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (viF8m)

135 Thank you!

I did put in an application for that job I had named.

So...fingers crossed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

Good company with some exciting things on the horizon. Hopefully we can nab you.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (KbCG3)

136 If folks have all this extra $$$ for sports betting, can the economy really be all that bad?"

I wanna iphone!

Posted by: man at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (tubbA)

137 "If folks have all this extra $$$ for sports betting, can the economy really be all that bad?"

Come see us.

Posted by: Lost Wages, Nevada at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (4rtEq)

138
three nuns in a snow globe

How having penguin-adjacent figures trapped and abused inside a snow globe escaped Big Penguin's attention was the real story there.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (xG4kz)

139 DEI Affirmative Action family protected by DEI Affirmative Action SS.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

There is balance in the Universe after all?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ NEXT year in Corsicana! at October 24, 2025 10:00 AM (hOUT3)

140 Good thing that bridge isn't in Washington State. Some clown would hit it with a semi and put it out of commission for months.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 24, 2025 09:50 AM

*the bridges of Storrow Drive have entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:00 AM (kgE5c)

141 M.C. Escher would have painted the bridge like this but would have replaced the birdcage with some monks ascending and descending a staircase.

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

142 I would like it better without the "figure"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 24, 2025 10:01 AM (UAGeO)

143 Coast Guard Busts Huge Drug Network, Seizes 100,000 Pounds Of Cocaine At Sea"

Skipped the pouncing, huh?

Posted by: man at October 24, 2025 10:01 AM (tubbA)

144 I had a girlfriend who painted these beautiful vistas and would then stick this stupid cartoonish dragon in the middle of it. This one reminds of that. Of course, I could never say anything because artists become morose if you crtique their work.

Posted by: Halfhand at October 24, 2025 10:01 AM (1V6dP)

145 Going bilateral.

U.S. Conducts Strikes on 2 More Alleged Drug-Smuggling Boats, This Time in the Pacific Ocean

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 24, 2025 10:01 AM (L/fGl)

146 It really pissed me off when they decided they were dinosaurs.
Posted by: Bulg

Technically they are.
Will & Holly's Land of the Lost pterodactyls.
Not Fred Flintstone's Dino.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:01 AM (UjDHi)

147 A + B x C ± 45 ≠ X … wait … wait … something's — wrong wrong wrong wrongity wrong. There is no 'blue'. You're welcome.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (ayRl+)

148 122 This is Granny when she was young, with one of Tweety's predecessors.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

She had no egrets.

Posted by: Oof! at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (4rtEq)

149 I suppose if you think about it a certain way, gambling is a net zero for the economy at large. Whoever loses, there's still a winner on the other side of the book who now has more money to spend on things, plus a bookie making a profit off the vig who also now has money either to spend or to hire lackeys or minions or other assorted Persons of Hench.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (06Hmj)

150 * In classic Brooklyn accent * "He's on da roof wit' his boids. Doity, lice-ridden boids."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (omVj0)

151 Wow, an analog glitch in the Matrix!

Posted by: pawn at October 24, 2025 10:03 AM (tqkKb)

152 Going bilateral.

U.S. Conducts Strikes on 2 More Alleged Drug-Smuggling Boats, This Time in the Pacific Ocean
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Saw a picture of one. Long, black, 3 engines. Full of blue, 55 gallon drums.

Caption was, "where's their fishing gear?"

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:03 AM (UjDHi)

153
Secret Service Kept Agent Protecting Kamala’s Family Despite Failed Fitness Tests, Holding Crazy Side Job

Was that the gelatinous blob SS agent about whom we were informed this week?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:03 AM (xG4kz)

154 148 122 This is Granny when she was young, with one of Tweety's predecessors.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

She had no egrets.
Posted by: Oof! at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (4rtEq)

That humor is pretty hard to swallow.

Posted by: This also sets up a Kamala sock at October 24, 2025 10:03 AM (PiwSw)

155 I shall write a tome entitled "Great Expectorations" and its protagonist shall be named Loogie.

Don't hold your breath waiting for it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Ha! My 9th grade English teacher called is "Great Expectorations" the entire time we were reading it. Then, to see if we got the joke, had a question on the unit test asking us to define expectoration.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 24, 2025 10:03 AM (ftFVW)

156 149 I suppose if you think about it a certain way, gambling is a net zero for the economy at large. Whoever loses, there's still a winner on the other side of the book who now has more money to spend on things, plus a bookie making a profit off the vig who also now has money either to spend or to hire lackeys or minions or other assorted Persons of Hench.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (06Hmj)

====

There's just no value created, and it's really just shuffling currency around.

Harmless from a macro point of view, really.

But can be very harmful from a personal point of view.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

157 I suppose if you think about it a certain way, gambling is a net zero for the economy at large. Whoever loses, there's still a winner on the other side of the book who now has more money to spend on things, plus a bookie making a profit off the vig who also now has money either to spend or to hire lackeys or minions or other assorted Persons of Hench.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Minus no taxes, hence no grift.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:04 AM (UjDHi)

158 135 Good company with some exciting things on the horizon. Hopefully we can nab you.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (KbCG3)

=====

*reaches up to be nabbed*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

159 This is Granny when she was young, with one of Tweety's predecessors.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

She had no egrets.
Posted by: Oof! at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (4rtEq)

That humor is pretty hard to swallow.
Posted by: This also sets up a Kamala sock

It's laden with puns.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:05 AM (UjDHi)

160
Ella Emhoff (proudly): "I do not shave my armpits!"

Gelatinous Blob SS Agent (sadly): "I can not shave my armpits -- my bingo wings get in the way."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:05 AM (xG4kz)

161 *That humor is pretty hard to swallow.*

And robin us of all the good bird puns.

Posted by: Oh, no... at October 24, 2025 10:05 AM (4rtEq)

162 I shall write a tome entitled "Great Expectorations" and its protagonist shall be named Loogie.

Don't hold your breath waiting for it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

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

It could be a best seller if you can find a promoter willing to hawk it.

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 10:06 AM (/iMjX)

163 Minus no taxes, hence no grift.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:04 AM (UjDHi)

Betting on the Giants is a tax on stupid people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 10:06 AM (06Hmj)

164 Hunter is weeping.

Coast Guard Busts Huge Drug Network, Seizes 100,000 Pounds Of Cocaine At Sea
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Coast Guard dumps cocaine into sea. Dolphins hump everything in sight!

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (UjDHi)

165
This, too, is a bird pun (think about it)

"Think you used enough dynamite, Butch?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (xG4kz)

166 >>> Ergot poisoning?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 24, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)

I don't think so, I mean that was going on a the same time, but the writers were discussing the people shaking due to religious conviction. I guess it's possible that was a cause in some cases.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (3uBP9)

167 The hell did you people do to CBD?

Posted by: Weasel at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (HEStL)

168 Trump Pardons Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao

-
Changpeng Zhao? Sounds like a ricochet off the Liberty Bell.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, OMGWTFBBQ! at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (L/fGl)

169 Coast Guard dumps cocaine into sea.....
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (UjDHi)

The booger sugar was muslim?

Huh. Fascinating.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 10:08 AM (06Hmj)

170 I shall write a tome entitled "Great Expectorations" and its protagonist shall be named Loogie.

Don't hold your breath waiting for it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

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

It could be a best seller if you can find a promoter willing to hawk it.
Posted by: muldoon

I know a gurl.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:08 AM (UjDHi)

171 I suppose if you think about it a certain way, gambling is a net zero for the economy at large. Whoever loses, there's still a winner on the other side of the book who now has more money to spend on things, plus a bookie making a profit off the vig who also now has money either to spend or to hire lackeys or minions or other assorted Persons of Hench.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 10:02 AM (06Hmj)

You just described the stock market and brokers.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:08 AM (EYmYM)

172 And this picture has some nuns:

https://tinyurl.com/mtzdk9k3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 24, 2025 10:09 AM (uA11f)

173 I read two excellent articles this morning on why "woke" is really just institutional feminization, especially in the military, and why that just doesn't work in most, but not all, settings. Highly recommended.

https://is.gd/ZQXo8h
https://is.gd/NQEhUP

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 10:10 AM (Riz8t)

174 And this picture has some nuns:

https://tinyurl.com/mtzdk9k3

That's Joe Biden dressed up as a nun

Posted by: 18-1 at October 24, 2025 10:11 AM (sKqQm)

175 Don't take Changpeng Zhao if you're allergic to Changpeng Zhao.

Posted by: Pfizer Legal Department at October 24, 2025 10:11 AM (4rtEq)

176 167 The hell did you people do to CBD?
Posted by: Weasel at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (HEStL)

Upgraded him to THC.

Posted by: XTC at October 24, 2025 10:12 AM (UnA8+)

177 176 167 The hell did you people do to CBD?
Posted by: Weasel at October 24, 2025 10:07 AM (HEStL)

Upgraded him to THC.
Posted by: XTC at October 24, 2025 10:12 AM (UnA8+)

Stop trying to make the cobs cannabinnoyed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 24, 2025 10:13 AM (06Hmj)

178 Sweden is done.

https://youtu.be/a6Y34AwBQ58

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 24, 2025 10:13 AM (ExV1e)

179 Needs a better support bra.

Posted by: Tuna at October 24, 2025 10:14 AM (lJ0H4)

180
This picture has a nun in it, too!

https://tinyurl.com/NunsTheWord

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:14 AM (xG4kz)

181 Three Nuns In A Snowglobe was one of my most popular sideshow attractions.

Posted by: PT Barnum at October 24, 2025 10:14 AM (4rtEq)

182 I know that someone bought one of my books out of pity yesterday.

Whomever that was, thank you. I hope you enjoy it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

183 175 Don't take Changpeng Zhao if you're allergic to Changpeng Zhao.

Posted by: Pfizer Legal Department at October 24, 2025 10:11 AM (4rtEq)

Don't consume foods and drinks you are allergic to.

Posted by: The AMA and FDA at October 24, 2025 10:16 AM (5rh/l)

184 "Coast Guard Busts Huge Drug Network, Seizes 100,000 Pounds Of Cocaine At Sea"

A few more of these and the street prices are going to start to go up. DU will start complaining:

"Trump is causing the price of drugs to go up!"

Posted by: pawn at October 24, 2025 10:16 AM (tqkKb)

185 Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

Stick to bicycle racing!

I loved "Great Expectations!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:17 AM (n9ltV)

186 I loved "Great Expectations!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:17 AM (n9ltV)

The book or the movie?

Posted by: dantesed at October 24, 2025 10:18 AM (Oy/m2)

187 Acute triangles.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 10:18 AM (wVcYX)

188 185 Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

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I'm curious why you dislike it. I'm always interested in unpopular opinions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

189 The book or the movie?
Posted by: dantesed at October 24, 2025 10:18 AM (Oy/m2)

There was a book?

( great Maxwell Smart quote)

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:19 AM (EYmYM)

190
This painting reminds me of when we went to Hong Kong long ago and far away, when I was in the Navy.

The delightful and globe-trotting Fiance naturalfake and I went to eat dim sum at every morning, and the Chinese, particularly the women, always carried in a bird cage with them to hang while they ate.

Soooo, you ate this delicious food with dirty, stinking, noisy birds flapping about over your table.

Weird. Culture.

Anyway, I was reminded of that last night when watching "Hard Boiled" on Criterion and by this painting.

Perhaps the woman is going to eat dim sum and now all is revealed. OMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:20 AM (iJfKG)

191
Changpeng Zhao

That's the sound effect that Joe Pesci made as he told his tale about disrespecting cops in "Goodfellas", which led to his "How am I funny?" showdown with Henry.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:21 AM (xG4kz)

192 Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

GE is that rare exception that is both a great read and a great movie, 1946.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

193 Three Nuns In A Snowglobe was one of my most popular sideshow attractions.
Posted by: PT Barnum

*********

What am I? Chopped liver?

https://tinyurl.com/Solid-Muldoon

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 10:24 AM (/iMjX)

194
I'm curious why you dislike it. I'm always interested in unpopular opinions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava

It was the first work of Dickens that I had to read in high school and during freshman year, to boot.

I found the batshit crazy Miss Havisham repellant in every aspect of her character and her actions.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:24 AM (xG4kz)

195 In Nevada can i just walk-in buy a pistol and not have endure a cooling off of two weeks.

cooling off normally 2 weeks

cooling off because i'm an independent voter, two years.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 24, 2025 10:24 AM (EyfuW)

196 Three artists, who you trying to kid?

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 24, 2025 10:24 AM (s9EN2)

197 192 Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

GE is that rare exception that is both a great read and a great movie, 1946.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

That movie and that book are SHIT. Fuck Dickens.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:25 AM (vwL3N)

198 194 It was the first work of Dickens that I had to read in high school and during freshman year, to boot.

I found the batshit crazy Miss Havisham repellant in every aspect of her character and her actions.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:24 AM (xG4kz)

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I mean...she's supposed to be, no? It'd be different if you hated Pip, our hero.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

199 Wasn't Dickens paid by the word for Great Expectations?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:26 AM (EYmYM)

200 Who names their kid "Pip"?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 10:26 AM (wVcYX)

201 It was the first work of Dickens that I had to read in high school and during freshman year, to boot.

I found the batshit crazy Miss Havisham repellant in every aspect of her character and her actions.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:24 AM (xG4kz)

I, and my peers, for once agreed on something my freshman year of HS:

What was the plot?

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:27 AM (vwL3N)

202 I'm a big fan of Silas Marner which all my classmates hated.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:27 AM (EYmYM)

203 If you hate Dickens' wordy style...

There were others, his contemporaries, who did the same thing of writing books in installments in periodicals, filling word counts with every entry.

I just finished Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, and it was the most endless, spin your wheels story I've ever read. And she doesn't have the fun way with words that Dickens does.

At least Dickens makes jokes while he writes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

204 I'm Dickens-He's Fenster was a fine TV series, alas, short-lived.

Posted by: TV Hall of Fame at October 24, 2025 10:28 AM (oftw2)

205
GE is that rare exception that is both a great read and a great movie, 1946.

Posted by: naturalfake

I have not failed to notice that you declined to apply the label, "great", to the more recent Gwyneth "Smell My Hoo-ha" Paltrow version. And rightfully so.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (xG4kz)

206 Wasn't Dickens paid by the word for Great Expectations?
Posted by: the way I see it at

I think he got paid by the word for all his novels.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

207 Anyone else rooting for the Dodgers?

I loathe them (Padres fan) but baseball shouldn't be in Canada.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (NtAsh)

208 206 Wasn't Dickens paid by the word for Great Expectations?
Posted by: the way I see it at

I think he got paid by the word for all his novels.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

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And Great Expectations isn't even that long. It's no Bleak House.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

209 Wasn't Dickens paid by the word for Great Expectations?
Posted by: the way I see it at

I think he got paid by the word for all his novels.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)
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Just like wearing an onion on the belt, it was the style of the time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM (IBQGV)

210 I like hues in the sky. Other than that...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM (6qf1m)

211 Who names their kid "Pip"?
Posted by: Count de Monet

His first name was "Phillip" and his last name "Pirrip." As a little kid he mashed them together as "Pip," so that became his nickname.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

212 207 Anyone else rooting for the Dodgers?

I loathe them (Padres fan) but baseball shouldn't be in Canada.
Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (NtAsh)

Baseball is dead. I hope they both lose.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM (vwL3N)

213 I have not failed to notice that you declined to apply the label, "great", to the more recent Gwyneth "Smell My Hoo-ha" Paltrow version.

This made me laugh more than it should have.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM (Riz8t)

214 They made a DEI David Copperfield movie that wasn't all that bad if you ignored the DEI.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM (EYmYM)

215 Y'a;; asked for it. From the archives:

A former street hooker named Hemphill
Found peace in a nunnery. 'Twas simple
She forsook her former friends
And thus her sinful era ends
No, not with a bang, but a wimple

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (/iMjX)

216 "Wasn't she the misandryst abandoned bride in Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?"

Krebs, I loved Great Expectations (when we finally got to it--they started with David Copperfield in grade school, and made me wonder why Dickens? Christmas Carol in 8th grade led me to a second chance, and Great Expectations in high school was a treat!)

Uncle Pumblechook is hilarious in such an unctuous grotesque way ("May I?" He did.), and Wemmick is great--I often think of his advice on portable property.
Will agree Pip was an idiot for loving Estella

Posted by: barbarausa at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (enw9G)

217 The book report I did on Great Expectations would make any Kamala answer sound like the Magna Carta.

I dipped in to probably five pages to come up with my treatise. I can only imagine how far the teacher's eyes must have rolled back in her head reading whatever it was.

Posted by: ... at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (ANbpg)

218 I mean...she's supposed to be, no? It'd be different if you hated Pip, our hero.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:25 AM (GBKbO)

Wow...way to be led around by your nose.

Magwitch was the real hero!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (n9ltV)

219
I mean...she's supposed to be, no?

Sure, and Dickens succeeded in doing just that, so kudos to him.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (xG4kz)

220 She seems nice though, if you could get used to the bird.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (3uBP9)

221 Cow Demon,

If only.

MLB leadership has done everything they can to destroy the game.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (NtAsh)

222 He prefers "Richardens".

Posted by: XTC at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (UnA8+)

223 The opening of Great Expectations with Pip and Magwitch in the churchyard is awesome.

And Miss Havisham is a great character.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

224 Dicken's execrable "Great Expectations"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 09:52 AM (xG4kz)

GE is that rare exception that is both a great read and a great movie, 1946.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:22 AM (iJfKG)

That movie and that book are SHIT. Fuck Dickens.
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:25 AM (vwL3N)

I'm going to ignore your opinion because I seriously doubt that cow's can read, let alone the demonic companion of bovines.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

225 Wasn't Dickens paid by the word for Great Expectations?
Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:26 AM

As was the practice at the time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (kgE5c)

226 His first name was "Phillip" and his last name "Pirrip." As a little kid he mashed them together as "Pip," so that became his nickname.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

Thanks. My literary education is sorely lacking. Did Mad magazine ever do a send up of Great Expectations?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (wVcYX)

227 And Great Expectations isn't even that long. It's no Bleak House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah but it felt like War and Peace because it sucked as badly as it did. I have read some page turners. This PoS is not that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (vwL3N)

228 cow's = cows

*sigh*

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

229 218 Wow...way to be led around by your nose.

Magwitch was the real hero!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (n9ltV)

=====

They wouldn't have succeeded without the boat. The boat is the real hero.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:33 AM (GBKbO)

230 MLB leadership has done everything they can to destroy the game.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:31 AM (NtAsh)

It's amazing. Everything that irritates the fans...they love!

But their greatest crime has been to allow the umpires to be front-and-center, while simultaneously sucking at their jobs.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:33 AM (n9ltV)

231 Who names their kid "Pip"?
Posted by: Count de Monet
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What's wrong with "Pip?"

Posted by: Peregrin Took at October 24, 2025 10:33 AM (IBQGV)

232
I wanted a Seattle / Milwaukee World Series.

The backstory would have been, "Two Failures From Milwaukee"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:33 AM (xG4kz)

233 Joe Gargery was also a good character. One of the bright spots in the novel.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

234 Thanks. My literary education is sorely lacking. Did Mad magazine ever do a send up of Great Expectations?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (wVcYX)
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Dunno about MAD Magazine, but an early episode of South Park did.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2025 10:34 AM (IBQGV)

235 Krebs,
LOL

I wanted Milwaukee too.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:34 AM (NtAsh)

236 Bernie Sanders is praising Trump for immigration enforcement.

"If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.”

Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn't do it."

Black is white.

Up is down.

I apparently woke up in the Bizarro Universe this morning.

Or maybe it's just that fellating criminal invaders is starting to poll badly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (qpyNK)

237 Interleague Play was the end of MLB, as I foretold at the time.

Remember when it started with "just the tip"? Like 15 games a year or whatever?

Now you have the Red Sox playing the Padres in game 162 to decide divisions. Idiotic. And don't get me started on the faggy DH.

Posted by: ... at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (ANbpg)

238 234 Thanks. My literary education is sorely lacking. Did Mad magazine ever do a send up of Great Expectations?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (wVcYX)
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Dunno about MAD Magazine, but an early episode of South Park did.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 24, 2025 10:34 AM (IBQGV)

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Cartman once wrote a piece on nature called On Walden Pond.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

239 MLB is sending love letters to the fans compared to the NFL.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (EYmYM)

240 Yeah but it felt like War and Peace because it sucked as badly as it did. I have read some page turners. This PoS is not that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (vwL3N)

You assignment for next week is to read "Moby Dick or, The Whale."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (n9ltV)

241 I'm a big fan of Silas Marner which all my classmates hated.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025
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"Eppie must go into the coal-hole for being naughty. Daddy must put her in the coal-hole."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (XeU6L)

242 Little Curiosity Shop was written as a series for a magazine. From week to week Dickens seems to have entirely forgotten what he wrote the prior week, so it's more than a little disjointed.

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)

243 236 Black is white.

Up is down.

I apparently woke up in the Bizarro Universe this morning.

Or maybe it's just that fellating criminal invaders is starting to poll badly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (qpyNK)

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Bernie has always been a national socialist, not an international one.

He has a long history of calling open borders the favorite policy of oligarchs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

244 'm going to ignore your opinion because I seriously doubt that cow's can read, let alone the demonic companion of bovines.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

YMMV. But my HS textbook had Great Expectations, which was a pointless, plotless slog. It also had The Odyssey. I’d alternate between them to make Dickens better. Sort of how I would positively drown liver in ketchup when my mom made me eat liver as a kid.

I was so put off by Great Expectations I saw no point in fiction. TIL that summer, when a few acquaintances pointed me to a little book called The Hunt For Red October…

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (vwL3N)

245
Local news cockslobbering on dodgers.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (EuI33)

246 Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:30 AM

O/T, but did you change your nic? Or is my memory just 29? Forgot to ask in TX.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (kgE5c)

247 CBD

I see what you did.

Golf clap.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (NtAsh)

248 That movie and that book are S***. F*** Dickens.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Have you considered a career as a literary critic? You seem well suited to it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (Riz8t)

249
Lt Col “Karen” DUI Stop Goes Exactly How You’d Expect:

https://is.gd/VkhSPQ

The police in Florida DO NOT fuckaround, not even with DEI supposed "lt colonels" in the Marine Corpse.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (pD+At)

250 Would not hang.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 24, 2025 10:37 AM (t/2Uw)

251 Or maybe it's just that fellating criminal invaders is starting to poll badly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (qpyNK)

Bingo , Yahtzee , Uno

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:37 AM (EYmYM)

252
The backstory would have been, "Two Failures From Milwaukee"

Crap -- I got it backwards

The backstory would have been, "Two Failures From Seattle"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:37 AM (xG4kz)

253 'm going to ignore your opinion because I seriously doubt that cow's can read, let alone the demonic companion of bovines.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:32 AM (iJfKG)

We will sweep away all cow demons and snake spirits. Death to the Four Olds!!! And why are you reading a foreign book??? Why are you so foreign altogether???

Posted by: Red Guards at October 24, 2025 10:37 AM (vwL3N)

254 Bernie has always been a national socialist, not an international one.

He has a long history of calling open borders the favorite policy of oligarchs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

And he cares so much about his pet issues he will vote every single time with the party that supports open borders and the oligarchy. Or should I say supports it more.

Posted by: ... at October 24, 2025 10:37 AM (ANbpg)

255 Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM

Ha! I almost linked that yesterday. You just know she's an asshole to MPs as well.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:38 AM (kgE5c)

256 Looks like a cartoon stitched onto a painting.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:38 AM (vwL3N)

257 Cartman once wrote a piece on nature called On Walden Pond.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

No doubt better than the original, which is only rivaled in its shittiness by Skinner's version.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM (n9ltV)

258
Long story short: The DEI supposed "lt colonette" would not cooperate, or even roll her window down. Spoiler: She doesn't have a window no more.

(Incidentally, I'm just glad she's a real woman. I mean, at least it wasn't a tranny disgracing the uniform.)

/sings "Low Expectations" song

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM (pD+At)

259 NFL has the teeny toppers with Tay Tay.

NBA has the Mafia now.

MLB? Nothing.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM (NtAsh)

260 254 And he cares so much about his pet issues he will vote every single time with the party that supports open borders and the oligarchy. Or should I say supports it more.

Posted by: ... at October 24, 2025 10:37 AM (ANbpg)

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Well, yeah.

Because he's a dishonest, lazy thief of a man who will lie about anything to secure more personal wealth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

261 when a few acquaintances pointed me to a little book called The Hunt For Red October…
Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (vwL3N)

Tom Clancy, the Herman Melville of the 20th Century.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM (EYmYM)

262 I'm curious why you dislike it. I'm always interested in unpopular opinions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

Prometheus reactions not enough for you?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM (ufFY8)

263
Yeah but it felt like War and Peace because it sucked as badly as it did. I have read some page turners. This PoS is not that.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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You assignment for next week is to read "Moby Dick or, The Whale."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!]

And when you're done with that, your next assignment of shit literature to read is Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 24, 2025 10:40 AM (fvLoR)

264 Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM

Spouted some drunken sovcit BS as well.

I'm convinced that whole movement was started by Big Auto Glass.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:40 AM (kgE5c)

265
Ha! I almost linked that yesterday. You just know she's an asshole to MPs as well.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I HATE these Cop-Stop videos...because I could spend an hour or two watching them. Then I hate People afterwards.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:40 AM (pD+At)

266 Thug Notes on Great Expectations:

https://tinyurl.com/yuncfxdy

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 24, 2025 10:40 AM (XvL8K)

267 Muldoon - thanks for the link.

Never heard of that story.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (4rtEq)

268 Joe Gargery was a saint.
Pip wouldn't have lived to meet Magwitch or anyone else without him.
I always wished he had put that blacksmith's strength to Mrs Joe's noggin when she went off on them, but he was too kind and gentle to use the advantage.

Posted by: barbarausa at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (enw9G)

269 Would paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (jc0TO)

270
I'm curious why you dislike it. I'm always interested in unpopular opinions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadiso

I'm with Cow Demon. It was uninteresting crap, forced onto middle schoolers by asshole communist teachers.

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (fvLoR)

271 The police in Florida DO NOT fuckaround, not even with DEI supposed "lt colonels" in the Marine Corpse.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (pD+At)

Plus they can call up that Lt Col’s commander and have him or her intervene.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (vwL3N)

272 Great Expectations video dating (circa 198

. Dating profiles on VHS tape, which was in style at the time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (wVcYX)

273 You assignment for next week is to read "Moby Dick or, The Whale."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!]

And when you're done with that, your next assignment of shit literature to read is Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Hey now! Just because you two can't appreciate the finest novel ever written, there's no need to demonstrate your lack of taste so publicly.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (Riz8t)

274 Soothsayer,

I watch those too. The Walmart shoplifters are epic. I go down the rabbit hole.

Posted by: mpfs. I'M BACK at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (NtAsh)

275 TJM, Good luck on job hunt. Saw that SoFi in Charlotte is searching for new employees. I know nothing about the company.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at October 24, 2025 10:42 AM (yTvNw)

276
That movie and that book are S***. F*** Dickens.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Are you, perhaps, one of those "cow orkers" that are spoken of here from time to time?

How does one acquire certification to become one?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:42 AM (xG4kz)

277 Low expectations are the key to satisfaction.

Posted by: And we all know it at October 24, 2025 10:43 AM (4rtEq)

278 You assignment for next week is to read "Moby Dick or, The Whale."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Billy Budd.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:43 AM (jc0TO)

279 I HATE these Cop-Stop videos...because I could spend an hour or two watching them. Then I hate People afterwards.
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:40 AM

As an attorney, those and courtroom videos are like crack to me. But, yes, they are worse that an Antifa riot for show how we, as a society, are so totally f'd.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:43 AM (kgE5c)

280 I just finished Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, and it was the most endless, spin your wheels story I've ever read. And she doesn't have the fun way with words that Dickens does.

At least Dickens makes jokes while he writes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava

I enjoyed Gaskell's "North and South".

Posted by: Tuna at October 24, 2025 10:43 AM (lJ0H4)

281 I couldn't get into one of the reputedly best Leonard books (Cat Chaser) because it was too many characters to keep track of. And Leonard is about as easy a read as Sesame Street. And it was probably like six characters. I am not a smart person. I just use fancy words to cover for my lack of book learnin'.

Posted by: ... at October 24, 2025 10:44 AM (ANbpg)

282 Have you considered a career as a literary critic? You seem well suited to it.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (Riz8t)

If that meant me getting out a copy of Great Expectations and pissing on it, absolutely!

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:44 AM (vwL3N)

283

Hey now! Just because you two can't appreciate the finest novel ever written, there's no need to demonstrate your lack of taste so publicly.
Posted by: Archimedes

*Billy Bud has entered the chat for the hate posting

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 24, 2025 10:44 AM (fvLoR)

284
The Walmart shoplifters are epic. I go down the rabbit hole.
Posted by: mpfs

Ugh, so many Dindu Nuffins in this world...

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:44 AM (pD+At)

285 275 TJM, Good luck on job hunt. Saw that SoFi in Charlotte is searching for new employees. I know nothing about the company.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at October 24, 2025 10:42 AM (yTvNw)

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Thank you!

I will look.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

286
As I recall, "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", and "A Tale of Two Cities" comprised the remaining works of Dickens that were part of my high school journey. I recall next to nothing of the first, but I enjoyed the next two, especially so the last.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:45 AM (xG4kz)

287 Buncha phonies!

Posted by: Holden Caulfield at October 24, 2025 10:45 AM (wVcYX)

288 Watching cop videos is why I give them the benefit of the doubt. I could never be a cop. I'd have a dozen police brutality claims against me in the first week.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:45 AM (EYmYM)

289 Wait... this is a book thread??? I'm confused

Posted by: lin-duh: I'm offended! at October 24, 2025 10:45 AM (/iXAp)

290 Pip wouldn't have lived to meet Magwitch or anyone else without him.
I always wished he had put that blacksmith's strength to Mrs Joe's noggin when she went off on them, but he was too kind and gentle to use the advantage.
Posted by: barbarausa at October 24, 2025 10:41 AM (enw9G)

Magbitch and Mr. Pimp as we called them.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:46 AM (vwL3N)

291 *Billy Bud has entered the chat for the hate posting
Posted by: BifBewalski at October 24, 2025 10:44 AM

Hoisted like a pennant.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:46 AM (jc0TO)

292 I think I am rooting for the Toronto Canuck fags. I like Scherzer from Detroit, and LA is...LA, although I respect Ohtani.

Been a National League fan all my life, but since they both have the retarded DH, what's the difference?

My money is on LA, but my anti-commie heart is just barely with Toronto.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 24, 2025 10:46 AM (ufFY8)

293 280 I enjoyed Gaskell's "North and South".

Posted by: Tuna at October 24, 2025 10:43 AM (lJ0H4)

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I've read others by her that I've liked more (Cranford), but Wives and Daughters was just...

It's about 800 pages and shouldn't have been more than 200.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

294 It's no Bleak House.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Bleak House is a great novel. Unfortunately, all too reminiscent now for me of the crap that went on in my family over my parents' estates.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

295
If you think about it, Cops are like Garbage Men -- They are paid to take the trash away to keep things neat & orderly.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:47 AM (pD+At)

296 Ugh, so many Dindu Nuffins in this world...
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:44 AM

Cop: You're under arrest.

D. Nuffin: No I'm not!

*smh*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:47 AM (kgE5c)

297 Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq rise after cooler-than-expected CPI inflation report

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

298 I HATE these Cop-Stop videos...because I could spend an hour or two watching them. Then I hate People afterwards.
Posted by: Soothsayer

You can change it up a little and watch the cops be a-holes instead -

Army of Cops Appears on 71 Year Old Man's Lawn to "Talk"
https://youtu.be/nCxKEfXU-V8

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 24, 2025 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)

299 Bartleby the Scrivener…

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:47 AM (PCK5/)

300
@ TJM,

Check this place. They usually have decent positions open damned near everywhere. Plus, you can also get some hate for being an MIC blood sucker on this smart military blog if successful.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/
en-us/careers/index.html

Posted by: BifBewalski at October 24, 2025 10:48 AM (fvLoR)

301 288 Watching cop videos is why I give them the benefit of the doubt. I could never be a cop. I'd have a dozen police brutality claims against me in the first week.
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Same deal for me and why I would never be a teacher.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 10:48 AM (jFCkp)

302 Reading Joseph Conrad right now… pretty good stuff.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:49 AM (PCK5/)

303 The police in Florida DO NOT fuckaround, not even with DEI supposed "lt colonels" in the Marine Corpse.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:36 AM (pD+At)

I approve of the work of police auditors...they are keeping police honest. But these cops were 100% correct, and impressively professional.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:49 AM (n9ltV)

304 I think I am out of the market today. It has been a great month. I have been in tune with the animal spirits. Placed a little bet on a retreat before the EOD but that's it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:49 AM (jc0TO)

305 Wait... this is a book thread??? I'm confused
Posted by: lin-duh: I'm offended! at October 24, 2025 10:45 AM

*sigh*

Boobs.

*waits for the thread to self-correct*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (kgE5c)

306 Moby Dick is awesome.

Been a long time since I read Billy Budd.

I am stalled out in the middle of Crime and Punishment right now...good grief.

Got some Phillip K Duck in the queue.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (ufFY8)

307 Muldoon - thanks for the link.

Never heard of that story.
Posted by: Quarter Twent

*********

There's a little out of the way roadside marker at a place not far from Pueblo called Muldoon Hill that is supposedly where the fossilized remains were found. It's quite underwhelming.

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (/iMjX)

308 302 Reading Joseph Conrad right now… pretty good stuff.
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Which one?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jFCkp)

309 Lol auto-correct

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (ufFY8)

310 It's a movie thread now.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jc0TO)

311 Ha! I almost linked that yesterday. You just know she's an asshole to MPs as well.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:38 AM (kgE5c)

And to subordinates. Probably a shit leader.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (vwL3N)

312 I approve of the work of police auditors...they are keeping police honest. But these cops were 100% correct, and impressively professional.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:49 AM

The actual ones who stand back and quietly film? Yes.

The assholes who insert themselves into a stop screaming obscenities at the police for clicks and views? No.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:51 AM (kgE5c)

313 Reading Joseph Conrad right now… pretty good stuff.
Posted by: tubal
_______

Agreed. Which one?

My top three:

Lord Jim
Youth
Chance

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 24, 2025 10:51 AM (XvL8K)

314 Well, yeah.

Because he's a dishonest, lazy thief of a man who will lie about anything to secure more personal wealth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

You know, I have a sneaking admiration for a guy who was so lazy and worthless that he was kicked out of a hippie commune (wrap your mind around that), and yet-

was able to live the life of a millionaire and oligarch by the method of condemning millionaires and oligarchs to lowIQ, smooth-brained Democrat voters so that they would vote for him and he could use his position to get rich.

Really brilliant in it's simplicity.

So, all hail Bernie, I guess. He did it his way.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

315 Bartleby the Scrivener…
Posted by: tubal

I really identify with that guy. Can't tell you how many times I've wanted to tell people, "I would prefer not to."

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

316 308 302 Reading Joseph Conrad right now… pretty good stuff.
-----------------
Which one?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (jFCkp)

Currently Lord Jim. Prior to this, Nostromo.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:52 AM (PCK5/)

317 And to subordinates. Probably a shit leader.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM

No doubt. According to the comments she's an AF periodontist. I can just imagine how the chat with her commander went the next day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:52 AM (kgE5c)

318 "A Tale of Two Cities"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 10:45 AM (xG4kz)

I enjoyed the glimpse of a crumbling French society. Sadly, 200 years later, and they still have their elites.

Clearly French culture does not understand and cannot support democratic structures.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:52 AM (n9ltV)

319 The problem with cops is they interact with assholes 90% or more everyday and enough to notice forget how to act when they deal with the other 10% or less non-assholes.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:53 AM (EYmYM)

320 Got some Phillip K Duck in the queue.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM (ufFY

"Pip" is the diminutive nickname of Phillip.

Should be for this thread:

Pip K Duck.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:53 AM (iJfKG)

321 So, all hail Bernie, I guess. He did it his way.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:51 AM

From dirt floor to generational wealth. He's the Ragged Dick of conmen.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:53 AM (jc0TO)

322 Currently Lord Jim. Prior to this, Nostromo.
Posted by: tubal
_______

Would you have jumped off the ship if you were in his place?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 24, 2025 10:53 AM (XvL8K)

323
Speaking of books...

Did you know the Chevy Chase movie "Fletch" was based on the Fletch books?

Did you know Fletch books existed? I thought it was just some dumb comedy flick.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (pD+At)

324 I also read a few weeks ago, The dreaded “N” word of the Narcissus. I fine story.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (PCK5/)

325 So, all hail Bernie, I guess. He did it his way.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:51 AM (iJfKG)

The ultimate "Champagne Socialist." In his next incarnation he will be a wealthy English lord with hereditary estates who rails against market economies.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (n9ltV)

326 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - AoSHQ's "Plucky Wee One" - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (SRRAx)

327 Wemmick was probably my favorite in GE.
That horrible depressing job clerking for Jaggers, and the rich and lovely private life with his dear deaf Aged Parent and Miss Skiffins of the green gloves.
He was a good man, and provided some safe harbor for Pip in London.
(I'm sure Estella had magnificent boobs, but would use them only as bait for torture)

Posted by: barbarausa at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (enw9G)

328
see what I did there?

I combined ALL the off-topics into one comment: books, movies, and police.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (pD+At)

329 You can change it up a little and watch the cops be a-holes instead -

Army of Cops Appears on 71 Year Old Man's Lawn to "Talk"
https://youtu.be/nCxKEfXU-V8
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 24, 2025 10:47 AM (Dv3i1)

Don’t be afraid to call balls and strikes. I’ll give the cops their due when they do right. But when they fuck up or spit in the public’s face, I’ll call them out.

The cops dealing with that Lt Col did what they had to do.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (vwL3N)

330 Bleak House is a great novel. Unfortunately, all too reminiscent now for me of the crap that went on in my family over my parents' estates.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:46 AM

The first case I got stuck with out of law school was a hugely tangled will contest that had been pending off and on since I was a toddler. I used to call it the Bleak House matter.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (kgE5c)

331 322 Currently Lord Jim. Prior to this, Nostromo.
Posted by: tubal
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Would you have jumped off the ship if you were in his place?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 24, 2025 10:53 AM (XvL8K)

Excellent question. Not sure, actually.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (PCK5/)

332 "A Tale of Two Cities" probably has the best plot of all Dickens' works. It's taught and streamlined. None of the bloviating that Dickens is occasionally prone to.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

333 Alternate Title: "Deserted Figure with Bridge."

Thank God for The Art Thread, CBD, and the often witty, punny, and insightful comments, commenters, and banter.

Y'all help me feel more cultured and less of a philistine ...

It could also be called "The Repertoire and Repartee Thread," amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 10:55 AM (/hdlF)

334 Watch some James Freeman.

He exposes a lot of the bullshit of local government petty tyrants. He wants to ask a question, and the person he sees is invariably not available. His subtle humor is often biting.

If you can tolerate a strong NH accent, Press NH Now is interesting also. He approached an FBI facility on a public raid, and within a minute the Feds had rifles aimed at him. WTF?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 24, 2025 10:55 AM (ufFY8)

335 Why do I get the sense that this was funded by some New Deal Works Progress Administration program?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 24, 2025 10:55 AM (9bTw3)

336 236 Bernie Sanders is praising Trump for immigration enforcement.

"If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.”

Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn't do it."

Black is white.

Up is down.

I apparently woke up in the Bizarro Universe this morning.

Or maybe it's just that fellating criminal invaders is starting to poll badly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (qpyNK)

Or, the answer is YES to all of these questions.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 24, 2025 10:55 AM (0CU3H)

337 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:51 AM (kgE5c)

I disagree, but this is a conversation to be had over some 6.5 Creedmoor!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM (n9ltV)

338 I'm so hetero that I don't even enjoy Dickens.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM (jc0TO)

339 Speaking of movies....

I'll probably go see the Chainsaw Man movie this weekend.

It's gotten good reviews and-

BONUS! Chainsaw Man is one of the best mangas and animes evah.

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM (iJfKG)

340 313 Reading Joseph Conrad right now… pretty good stuff.
Posted by: tubal
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Agreed. Which one?

My top three:

Lord Jim
Youth
Chance
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Agree on Lord Jim. Also enjoyed Almayer's Folley. Loved Heart of Darkness. Gave up on Nostromo and in TBR pile I have The Secret Agent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM (jFCkp)

341 Speaking of books...

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (pD+At)

I read that as "boobs."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM (i24o9)

342 Is thst pillar the ghostly parakeet owner standing in front of the inspiration for the Obama library?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM (9bTw3)

343 Would you have jumped off the ship if you were in his place?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 24, 2025 10:53 AM (XvL8K)

Excellent question. Not sure, actually.
Posted by: tubal
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The way it's described, I think I'd have jumped.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 24, 2025 10:57 AM (XvL8K)

344 I would avoid any bridge haunted by the ghost of a woman with a birdcage on her head. Simple prudence, after all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 10:57 AM (8zz6B)

345 The first case I got stuck with out of law school was a hugely tangled will contest that had been pending off and on since I was a toddler. I used to call it the Bleak House matter.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

My lawyer brother also had a case like that back in rural Michigan. Swore he was gonna retire off it when he won it. I don't remember how it turned out. But he did not retire.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)

346 "A Tale of Two Cities" probably has the best plot of all Dickens' works. It's taught and streamlined. None of the bloviating that Dickens is occasionally prone to.

Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)

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The Greatest Opening Paragraph of All Time. And it still applies today:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (/hdlF)

347 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

Yay, Teresa! How are you feeling?

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire coined by JSpicy at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (UjDHi)

348 206 Wasn't Dickens paid by the word for Great Expectations?
Posted by: the way I see it at

I think he got paid by the word for all his novels.
Posted by: Bulg at October 24, 2025 10:29 AM (77rzZ)

I saw an excellent movie about Dickens featuring Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey) as Dickens. It's called "The Man Who Invented Christmas".

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (0CU3H)

349 It could also be called "The Repertoire and Repartee Thread," amirite?

What else would you expect from reprobates and reprehensibles?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (Riz8t)

350 A forgotten writer, in my probaly useless opinion, is Rudyard Kipling. I read him pretty extensively last year, came away enriched.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

351 *reaches up to be nabbed*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 24, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

Best of luck, grey box friend.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (i24o9)

352 Chapter Three: I am eaten by sharks.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (jc0TO)

353 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:51 AM (kgE5c)

I disagree, but this is a conversation to be had over some 6.5 Creedmoor!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM

Followed by bourbon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (kgE5c)

354 A forgotten writer, in my probaly useless opinion, is Rudyard Kipling. I read him pretty extensively last year, came away enriched.
Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

IMO the greatest writer in history.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (EYmYM)

355 Hey, art lovers (and admirers, I won't judge the depth of your devotion) tomorrow is Picasso's 144th birthday. CBD featured one of his works a couple of days ago. Is wearing blue an appropriate recognition, or should I try something else?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (9bTw3)

356 Whitney Museum of Art - Louis Guglielmi, 1906–1956

Guglielmi, who was born in Egypt to Italian parents and immigrated to the United States as a child, was one of a group of American painters who became known as the Social Surrealists. Along with artists such as Peter Blume and Walter Quirt, Guglielmi utilized the imagery and techniques of European Surrealism to address social and political themes during the 1930s and 1940s.

The bridge is ok but would pass hanging this painting and likely others of this artist. (Too contrived or something. 🤷‍♀️

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 24, 2025 11:00 AM (NFX2v)

357 Posted by: tankdemon at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (9bTw3)

Hammer and Sickle?

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 11:00 AM (EYmYM)

358 Speaking of books...

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 24, 2025 10:54 AM (pD+At)

I read that as "boobs."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 10:56 AM (i24o9)

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Love this place.

Come for the books ... stay for the boobs.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 11:01 AM (/hdlF)

359 Nostromo? Golly! We never did get the bonus situation straightened out before the xenomorph kilt the oppressed crew.

Posted by: Parker at October 24, 2025 11:01 AM (wVcYX)

360 319 The problem with cops is they interact with assholes 90% or more everyday and enough to notice forget how to act when they deal with the other 10% or less non-assholes.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:53 AM (EYmYM)

I think there’s much to be said here. When you are a hammer…

My biggest ballache with the cops is that I WANT to like them. I remember in HS we had two SAPD cops on our campus. They’d fuck with us, we with them…because they knew and understood that not everyone in the school was a gangbanger and that maybe we just wanted to go through the school day and get on with our lives. Now, there were times when I’d walk past them arresting and frisking some assholes but those were people we all knew were up to no good.

Maybe if they weren’t absolute assholes all the time and would occasionally tell their superiors “Sorry, I can’t do that, that’s against the law/Constitution” the public esteem in them would be MUCH greater.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 11:01 AM (vwL3N)

361 If the bridge is deserted, how can there be a figure?

If there's a figure, how can the bridge be deserted?

This makes no sense.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 24, 2025 11:01 AM (0sNs1)

362 It could also be called "The Repertoire and Repartee Thread," amirite?

What else would you expect from reprobates and reprehensibles?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (Riz8t)

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* golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 11:02 AM (/hdlF)

363 A forgotten writer, in my probaly useless opinion, is Rudyard Kipling. I read him pretty extensively last year, came away enriched.
Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

IMO the greatest writer in history.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (EYmYM)

Rudy "The Red" Kipling is one of the greatest English writers.

It's a shame that he's been shadow banned by Our Betters.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 11:02 AM (iJfKG)

364 242 Little Curiosity Shop was written as a series for a magazine. From week to week Dickens seems to have entirely forgotten what he wrote the prior week, so it's more than a little disjointed.
Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 10:35 AM (/iMjX)

Weren't most of Dickens' works serialized in magazines? I sometimes wondered how he was able to keep the plot from going off the rails when only writing a snippet at a time over the course of a a year.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 24, 2025 11:03 AM (9bTw3)

365 354 A forgotten writer, in my probaly useless opinion, is Rudyard Kipling. I read him pretty extensively last year, came away enriched.
Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

IMO the greatest writer in history.
Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 10:59 AM (EYmYM)

A writer who understand to some degree economy of words. Not Hemingway, who got cryptic, but not someone who dumped say 300 run-on words into a single sentence. THAT is demoralizing, for me.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 11:03 AM (PCK5/)

366

Having a large number of relations currently serving hearing and seeing the "feminization" of my military has been jarring. By great good fortune the NCO cadre has been able to defray the worst of it and keep us on course while this shit was nullified. I'll take some credit in regards to the NCO thing. Thank God we had some good ones holding on until the damage was mostly righted, we aren't by any means done yet.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 24, 2025 11:04 AM (vFbHf)

367 If the bridge is deserted, how can there be a figure?

If there's a figure, how can the bridge be deserted?

This makes no sense.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 24, 2025 11:01 AM (0sNs1)

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I don't know how to cross or figure out this comment.

/Was a pleasure for The Wifey and me getting to meet and chat with you at the MoMe last Saturday.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 11:04 AM (/hdlF)

368 317 And to subordinates. Probably a shit leader.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 10:50 AM

No doubt. According to the comments she's an AF periodontist. I can just imagine how the chat with her commander went the next day.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 24, 2025 10:52 AM (kgE5c)

The Wing CC probably gave her an Article XV. Career: over.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 24, 2025 11:05 AM (vwL3N)

369 359 Nostromo? Golly! We never did get the bonus situation straightened out before the xenomorph kilt the oppressed crew.
Posted by: Parker at October 24, 2025 11:01 AM (wVcYX)

Well done.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 11:05 AM (PCK5/)

370
Having a large number of relations currently serving hearing and seeing the "feminization" of my military has been jarring. By great good fortune the NCO cadre has been able to defray the worst of it and keep us on course while this shit was nullified. I'll take some credit in regards to the NCO thing. Thank God we had some good ones holding on until the damage was mostly righted, we aren't by any means done yet.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 24, 2025 11:04 AM (vFbHf)

The restoration under the new Secretary of War has been encouraging to watch.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 24, 2025 11:05 AM (i24o9)

371
FUUUUUUUUUUU-

Rudy "The Red" Kipling = Rudy "The Rud" Kipling

I mean what I say, stupid AC!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 11:05 AM (iJfKG)

372 Having a large number of relations currently serving hearing and seeing the "feminization" of my military has been jarring. By great good fortune the NCO cadre has been able to defray the worst of it and keep us on course while this shit was nullified. I'll take some credit in regards to the NCO thing. Thank God we had some good ones holding on until the damage was mostly righted, we aren't by any means done yet.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 24, 2025 11:04 AM (vFbHf)

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"Discipline is the soul of an Army." -- George Washington, 1757

"High heels are the sole of an Army." -- F. Joe Mugabe, 2021

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 11:05 AM (/hdlF)

373 Not Hemingway, who got cryptic, but not someone who dumped say 300 run-on words into a single sentence. THAT is demoralizing, for me.
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Not a big fan of Hemingway but loved reading his Nick Adams Stories. Otherwise, I find him to be a bully and a suck up.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 24, 2025 11:06 AM (jFCkp)

374 I mean what I say, stupid AC!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 24, 2025 11:05 AM (iJfKG)

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lol

"I feel your pain ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 11:06 AM (/hdlF)

375 Not Hemingway, who got cryptic, but not someone who dumped say 300 run-on words into a single sentence. THAT is demoralizing, for me.

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* ShainS and JJ Sefton have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 11:07 AM (/hdlF)

376 Captains Courageous remains my all time favorite book.

The movie was good too even though they changed the ending.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 11:07 AM (EYmYM)

377 * ShainS and JJ Sefton have entered the chat *

The crown forever belongs to James Joyce

Posted by: barbarausa at October 24, 2025 11:08 AM (enw9G)

378 361 If the bridge is deserted, how can there be a figure?

If there's a figure, how can the bridge be deserted?

This makes no sense.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 24, 2025 11:01 AM (0sNs1)

As one can tell by the lack of tincture, the "figure" is actually a representative of the spectral plane, which explains why the bridge has been deserted.

Ghosts are spooky, even with a whimsical parakeet cage chapeau.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 24, 2025 11:09 AM (9bTw3)

379 375 Not Hemingway, who got cryptic, but not someone who dumped say 300 run-on words into a single sentence. THAT is demoralizing, for me.

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* ShainS and JJ Sefton have entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at October 24, 2025 11:07 AM (/hdlF)

Snort. Tempted to insert an emoji here, but will resist.

Posted by: tubal at October 24, 2025 11:09 AM (PCK5/)

380 People always have money for vices.

It's funny how that goes.
Posted by: EFG at October 24, 2025 09:58 AM (Jo9Ci)

It's no coincidence that the drop in quality of sports television, and of the quality of the officiating has mirrored the rise in the popularity of legal sports books.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 11:11 AM (8zz6B)

381 Speaking of a lot of characters and long descriptions,I tried to give Lucifer's Hammer another go. Failed.

Posted by: the way I see it at October 24, 2025 11:11 AM (EYmYM)

382
Wait... this is a book thread??? I'm confused
Posted by: lin-duh: I'm offended!

My apologies. I knocked it off the art rails with my comment at 102.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 11:12 AM (xG4kz)

383
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,

**********

Turn, Turn, Turn

/The Byrds

Posted by: muldoon at October 24, 2025 11:12 AM (/iMjX)

384 Barbara Gips, a copywriter who came up with the legendary Alien tagline, "In space no one can hear you scream," died from a stroke on Oct 16th, 2025. She was 89.

Her late husband was a co-designer of the Alien movie poster and the line popped into her head while she was washing dishes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 11:14 AM (wVcYX)

385
NOOD -- Advance, Alberta Fair!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 24, 2025 11:17 AM (xG4kz)

386 Barbara Gips' late husband was Phillip Gips. In keeping with the literary knowledge acquired today from this very blogpost, I'd hazard a guess that he was known as Pip Gips to his friends and colleagues.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 24, 2025 11:18 AM (wVcYX)

387 But their greatest crime has been to allow the umpires to be front-and-center, while simultaneously sucking at their jobs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 24, 2025 10:33 AM (n9ltV)

How can the sportsbooks be guaranteed a profit, unless they corrupt the game?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 24, 2025 11:23 AM (8zz6B)

388 TODAY BILLY JOE McCALACASTER, JUMPED OFF THE TALAHACY BRIDGE

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 24, 2025 06:00 PM (wGqjj)

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