Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Gossips
Norman Rockwell

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 21, 2025 09:30 AM (4tvN6)

2 that's alot of bad breath.

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 09:30 AM (R11M+)

3 "The teachers are about to fold. Purple monkey dishwasher."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

4 LOL. Very funny.

Posted by: Tuna at October 21, 2025 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

5 This is about us acne faced teenage girls, isn't it, CBD?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 21, 2025 09:31 AM (4tvN6)

6 Appropriate. And maybe 1st....

Posted by: From about That Time at October 21, 2025 09:31 AM (n4GiU)

7 Rockwell!

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2025 09:31 AM (Oy/m2)

8 They just got back from a No Kings rally.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 21, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

9 mabel is in on it.

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

10 Reads left to right.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 21, 2025 09:32 AM (n4GiU)

11

No Kings protesters...

Posted by: Pendulating Richard at October 21, 2025 09:32 AM (Wl+1U)

12 Coordinating the next No Kings rally?

Posted by: H. Biden at October 21, 2025 09:32 AM (JkO4W)

13 Normally, I think Rockwell's too cheesy, but this one is entertaining.

Posted by: pookysgirl isn't trying to slander the good name of cheese at October 21, 2025 09:32 AM (Wt5PA)

14 Rockwell!

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2025 09:31 AM (Oy/m2)
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/tries but falls backward on office swivel chair

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 21, 2025 09:33 AM (4tvN6)

15 AoSHQ MoMees. The early years.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 21, 2025 09:33 AM (rWW7e)

16 Needs more idyllic Christmassy scenes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:33 AM (+U7B7)

17 CBD I perceive that you are carrying over from the Report thread.
Always liked Rockwell , would hang.
Thx

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 09:33 AM (8RjCi)

18 Lots of hats.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 09:33 AM (jc0TO)

19 Where , oh where, did the inspiration for this post come from?

Posted by: Undercover Fed at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (oftw2)

20 Trivia: the model for the person who is the subject of the rumor is Norman Rockwell himself.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (BHrzb)

21 Note that all but the last man think it's funny. The female vote is more split.

Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (s0JqF)

22 I count 30 heads.

But NO BEARDS

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (JkO4W)

23 Too much ugly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (+U7B7)

24
At first blush, this looks like random people gossipping. But it's actually a tale of a tale -- the first broad tells one lady, and that lady passes it on to the next person, and so on.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (RDFmy)

25 That's not how I heard it.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (rWW7e)

26 First conversation: "Did you hear that Jane got mad at the Methodists and switched to the Baptist church?"

Last conversation: "Did you hear that Jane joined the Church of Satan and has nightly orgies and goat sacrifices in her basement?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (qpyNK)

27 16 Needs more idyllic Christmassy scenes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:33 AM (+U7B7)

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Wait. I'll get Ives.

Posted by: Currier at October 21, 2025 09:35 AM (JkO4W)

28
A better title would be: People Who Can't Keep Their Big Mouths Shut

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 21, 2025 09:35 AM (RDFmy)

29 Trivia: the model for the person who is the subject of the rumor is Norman Rockwell himself.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (BHrzb)
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Is Rockwell in many of his own works along with Alfred Hitchcock?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 21, 2025 09:35 AM (4tvN6)

30 Obviously racist, only white people involved

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 21, 2025 09:35 AM (8RjCi)

31 I was going to make a No Kings joke since all the people shown are old, but I checked first. I am wise.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 09:36 AM (Riz8t)

32 Abner! The Stevens woman is doing it again. Abner!

Posted by: Gladys Gruber Kravitz at October 21, 2025 09:36 AM (Wfpy0)

33 That gray-haired lady who started the gossip is catching what-for in the final panel. It is rare to be able to find the origin of gossip.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 21, 2025 09:36 AM (srAEz)

34 The woman in the upper left corner is the same woman in the bottom right corner.

She's the one who started the rumor.

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

35 Only 15 people.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:36 AM (+U7B7)

36 Her husband has a fetish for dressing up in women's clothes.
Now everyone knows.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 21, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

37 someone doesn't recycle.

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)

38 The woman in the upper left corner is the same woman in the bottom right corner.

She's the one who started the rumor.

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 21, 2025 09:37 AM (4tvN6)

39 Which guy is the butcher? There's always a butcher.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 09:37 AM (JkO4W)

40 Journalism 101.

Posted by: davidt at October 21, 2025 09:37 AM (i0F8b)

41 > Her husband has a fetish for dressing up in women's clothes.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 21, 2025 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

Don't forget the hanging around in bars part. That's a crucial part of the experience.

Posted by: OK Lumberjack at October 21, 2025 09:38 AM (qpyNK)

42 Sam.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:38 AM (+U7B7)

43 Would make a good dartboard!

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 21, 2025 09:38 AM (TGPs7)

44 His secret is out.
He wears his wife's panties.

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 21, 2025 09:38 AM (VPPG8)

45 Only thing I notice 'bout this pitcher is all the wypipo. It's raciss and egregious.

Posted by: Dantevious Jackson at October 21, 2025 09:38 AM (oftw2)

46 you tell one friend about your only fans account...

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 09:39 AM (R11M+)

47 Ah, that commie Rockwell again.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

48 8 They just got back from a No Kings rally.
Posted by: redridinghood

Wow. Nailed it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:39 AM (mT+6a)

49 45 Only thing I notice 'bout this pitcher is all the wypipo. It's raciss and egregious.

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Minorities knew their place back then and it wasn't in a Norman Rockwell painting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 09:40 AM (JkO4W)

50 I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this picture was not CBDs first choice for today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 09:40 AM (ufSfZ)

51 Only thing I notice 'bout this pitcher is all the wypipo. It's raciss and egregious.

Not to mention tumultuous, sanctimonious, and euphonious.

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at October 21, 2025 09:40 AM (Riz8t)

52 NOBODY captures Americana like Rockwell …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 21, 2025 09:40 AM (ayRl+)

53 Is that Mr. Whipple?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:40 AM (+U7B7)

54 One of the top selling albums of all time.

Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at October 21, 2025 09:40 AM (Wfpy0)

55 I like Rockwell; his faces have a lot of character in them. You can pretty much always tell what his characters are thinking.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 21, 2025 09:41 AM (WPL6O)

56 I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK/I sleep all night, I work all day

He's a lumberjack and he's OK/He sleeps all night and works all day

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch/I go to the lavatory
On Wednesdays I go shopping/And have buttered scones for tea

He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch/He goes to the lavatory
On Wednesdays he goes shopping/And has buttered scones for tea

He's a lumberjack and he's OK/He sleeps all night and works all day

I cut down trees, I skip and jump/I like to press wild flowers
I put on women's clothing/And hang around in bars

He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps/He likes to press wild flowers
He puts on women's clothing/And hangs around in bars...?

He's a lumberjack and he's OK/He sleeps all night and works all day

I cut down trees, I wear high heels/Suspenders and a bra
I wish I were a girlie/Just like my dear papa

He cuts down trees, he wears high heels/Suspenders and a bra?!?

Posted by: OK Lumberjack at October 21, 2025 09:41 AM (qpyNK)

57 There's a cigar smoker and a pipe smoker-both men. And we worked so hard to change that.

Posted by: Virginia Slims at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (oftw2)

58 He captured the TXMOME perfectly.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (IBQGV)

59 So I says to Clara Bee, Clara Bee I says, Clara Bee, God strike me down if I'm lying...

Posted by: Woman in the top left corner at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (rWW7e)

60 You'll never hear me repeating gossip.

So you better be sure to listen close the first time.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

61 Ah, that commie Rockwell again.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

Rockwell was a commie? I never heard that. Are you basing that on his Four Freedoms series or The Problem We All Live With?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (ufSfZ)

62 Gossip can become very ugly and mean. Why does it never work towards good? Why do people always want to make others out to be worse than they already are?

Is it fun to say nasty, spiteful and untrue things about your neighbors? Or your “friends?”

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (mT+6a)

63 On the surface it's sort of a standard 'fun' Rockwell piece with the varied and very expressive faces and telling a story. But there is an underlying tension. Even if the matter is not earth shaking, it isn't a nice portrait of human nature: too much delight in hearing and passing along the nasty information. In the last pairing, even the husband going after his wife for starting things doesn't erase the damage.

It's an interesting juxtaposition of amusement and disgust.

Posted by: JTB at October 21, 2025 09:43 AM (yTvNw)

64 Now, George Lincoln Rockwell - he was a Nazi.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 09:43 AM (ufSfZ)

65 >>> 15 AoSHQ MoMees. The early years.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 21, 2025 09:33 AM (rWW7e)

Nonsense!

All of the people in the picture are clearly over 29.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 09:43 AM (ULPxl)

66 > 53 Is that Mr. Whipple?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:40 AM (+U7B7)

Can't be. Everyone knew about his toilet paper fetish. No reason to gossip about it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 21, 2025 09:43 AM (qpyNK)

67
A dog would be trustworthy. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 09:43 AM (AlQhB)

68 Ya know, a group text message could probably have avoided a lot of confusion.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (IBQGV)

69 Reply all.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (+U7B7)

70 HAHAHAH!! busted !

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (g47mK)

71 Why do people always want to make others out to be worse than they already are?

Have you ever met other people?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (ufSfZ)

72 I enjoy this picture, but we get more CBD this morning at 11 AM EST. Will his anti-gossip crusade taint his Minimalist Rant this morning. Stay tuned.

Posted by: One-Note Samba at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)

73 Now they'd all be sitting in front of screens. Because that's progress.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (JkO4W)

74 68 Ya know, a group text message could probably have avoided a lot of confusion.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (IBQGV)

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The topic of conversation bragging about it on social media for likes would have negated the need for the gossip to begin with.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM (GBKbO)

75 Remember, this was in the days when phones were usually 'party line' phones … remember those … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at October 21, 2025 09:45 AM (ayRl+)

76 He captured the TXMOME perfectly.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (IBQGV)

😂😂

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 09:45 AM (g47mK)

77 Being part of the church-going community, it's sometimes hard to differentiate between "gossip" and "prayer request."

Posted by: pookysgirl's prayer list is long at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (Wt5PA)

78 Discord. After the server goes down.

Posted by: Amazon Web Services at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (rWW7e)

79 Where the diversity at?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (PGEno)

80 Just Between You and Me - a limerick

Mavis told Nellie told Judy told Bill
told Susan told Betty told Alice told Jill
They all told each other
Including Tom's mother
Until that whole town had no beans left to spill

Posted by: muldoon at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)

81 Oh my, Rockwell! Thank you. Life in a small, W. MA town. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (GbwPZ)

82
Have you ever met other people?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 09:44 AM

There are two kinds of people in this world:

Avoid them both

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (tljrc)

83 >>> 76 He captured the TXMOME perfectly.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 09:42 AM (IBQGV)

😂😂
Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 09:45 AM (g47mK)

Nuh uh. See my 65.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (ULPxl)

84 You could tell when someone was listening in. The signal strength would be halved.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (+U7B7)

85 Have you EVER?

Posted by: Clara Edwards at October 21, 2025 09:47 AM (JkO4W)

86 Why do people always want to make others out to be worse than they already are?

Because it pays politically. It does, right? Right???

Posted by: No Kings at October 21, 2025 09:47 AM (Riz8t)

87 The most intelligent ladies in this painting are wearing head coverings to prevent the Bat Menace from nesting in their fresh permanents. It's a problem that transcends time itself.

Posted by: Penguin Pete at October 21, 2025 09:47 AM (oftw2)

88 Posted by: muldoon at October 21, 2025 09:46 AM (/iMjX)

👏👏👏👏

Posted by: runner at October 21, 2025 09:47 AM (g47mK)

89 Ah, that commie Rockwell again.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

Rockwell was a commie? I never heard that. Are you basing that on his Four Freedoms series or The Problem We All Live With?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

That Thanksgiving pic of his is pure commie propaganda. Mr. Dildo himself said so.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

90 Reminds me of the telephone scene in Bye Bye Birdie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 09:48 AM (L/fGl)

91

And it took Norman Rockwell to capture the moment so perfectly. Couldn't get more American .

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 21, 2025 09:48 AM (vFbHf)

92 I like Rockwell.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 09:48 AM (ExV1e)

93 Women be talking!

Oh wait, there are men, too. Um, carry on.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at October 21, 2025 09:48 AM (q+oHS)

94 77 Being part of the church-going community, it's sometimes hard to differentiate between "gossip" and "prayer request."

A part of it is that gossip is a way of affirming membership in the community, which is very important for most people. Even if the gossip is negative, it says "I'm a part of 'us'".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 09:48 AM (Riz8t)

95 The one where he tries to kick the football?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:49 AM (+U7B7)

96 Where's Waldo?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 09:49 AM (JkO4W)

97 Bravo Muldoon!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 21, 2025 09:49 AM (rWW7e)

98 My daughter and I could regale you about some of the debauchery over at the Shady Rest Hotel. Uncle Joe doesn't always move slow!

Posted by: Selma and Henrietta Plout at October 21, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

99 ALMA:
Oh yes
That woman made brazen overtures with a gilt-edged guarantee
She had a golden glint in her eye
And a silver voice with a counterfeit ring
Just melt her down and you'll reveal a lump of lead as cold as steel
Here, where a woman's heart should be

EULALIE, ETHEL, MAUD, ALMA, MRS. SQUIRES:
He left River City the library building
But he left all the books to her!

ALMA:
Chaucer!

MAUD:
Rabelais!

EULALIE:
Balzac!

Posted by: Pick A Little, Talk A Little at October 21, 2025 09:49 AM (Wfpy0)

100 That Thanksgiving pic of his is pure commie propaganda. Mr. Dildo himself said so.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

Sure, but he gave me grief at the MoMe for not wanting cheez on my burger. He's a totalitarian and they know commies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 09:49 AM (ExV1e)

101 These are examples of modern gay pipeline/er grapevine.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at October 21, 2025 09:49 AM (EyfuW)

102 Good ol' party lines.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (jBe0D)

103 92 I like Rockwell.

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Yep. The illustrations were good but the bombers we're really impressive.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (JkO4W)

104 29
Biden's Dog, not almost always like Hitchcock, but frequently. You've seen his Triple Self Portrait, right?
A few times, he painted some scrawny, gangly adolescent boy with an Adam's Apple bigger than his chin. I imagine that he saw himself in that kid.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (BHrzb)

105 "I'm not one to spread gossip, but have you heard about the preacher's wife?"

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (Oy/m2)

106 Pick a little
Talk a little
cheep cheep cheep
Talk a lot
Pick a little more.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (5yaDU)

107 Some of the women look like the prototypical Karen.

Yikes.

But, it’s uglier when men participate in gossip. Really. Men should be above that crap.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (mT+6a)

108 26 First conversation: "Did you hear that Jane got mad at the Methodists and switched to the Baptist church?"

Last conversation: "Did you hear that Jane joined the Church of Satan and has nightly orgies and goat sacrifices in her basement?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (qpyNK)

In the early 1960's, college professors were peddling studies that claimed such strings of "passing it on" would result in much altered tales, modified by the participants' prejudices. The woman hearing her tale repeated after such repeated "modifications" may well be expressing astonishment at what her tale has become.

Posted by: capercaillie4901 at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (f1WVr)

109 I guess this goes along with never pissing off a reporter - Rockwell had unlimited paint to respond:

Have you heard the story behind Norman Rockwell’s cover The Gossips? Some say the painting was Rockwell’s revenge on a woman in Arlington, Vermont, who’d spread an ugly rumor about him. He re-created the life of the rumor, beginning with an elderly woman whispering about Rockwell to a neighbor. From there the tale takes wing, speeding through town from one eager gossip to the next, until it comes back to Rockwell himself, who confronts the rumor’s originator in the bottom right.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (GbwPZ)

110 It reminds me of something I saw in person, a month ago. By coincidence, two lady cops in town quit the force the same day. Both worked at schools.

Also by coincidence, I happen to know them both - one just quit because she was moving. The other quit because she took an offer from the school where she was a cop to be a teacher (the kids all love her).

But, because they work at the schools, the moms in town all immediately spun up the Facebook smear machine.

Within 24 hours, my wife (who uses FB) was all "lol, a bunch of these moms are saying it's because there's a harassment scandal in the PD. But some think they were caught having a lesbian affair."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 09:51 AM (YGkzu)

111 Wow, Rockwell could make face.

Today's art is really good. Love it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 21, 2025 09:51 AM (xcxpd)

112 Well this is different

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 09:51 AM (xatjc)

113 90 Reminds me of the telephone scene in Bye Bye Birdie.
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Great movie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 09:52 AM (jFCkp)

114 Just found out my dad is out of operation, no details yet

Posted by: Skip at October 21, 2025 09:52 AM (xatjc)

115 I really do have a horse whose registered name is Lies and Rumors.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:52 AM (QGLzn)

116 Geez. I'm peeling like a snake shedding its skin. I got way too much sun Saturday.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 09:52 AM (1a9a5)

117 Remember, this was in the days when phones were usually 'party line' phones … remember those … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at October 21, 2025 09:45 AM (ayRl+)
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You mean even back then Republicans and Democrats didn't talk to each other?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 21, 2025 09:52 AM (4tvN6)

118 Also by coincidence, I happen to know them both - one just quit because she was moving. The other quit because she took an offer from the school where she was a cop to be a teacher (the kids all love her).

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That sounds sus. You don’t just become a teacher, you need state licensing and shit which almost always requires an education degree.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 09:53 AM (PGEno)

119 EULALIE:
Balzac!
Posted by: Pick A Little, Talk A Little

She can quote Balzac and Shakespeare, and those other high-falutin' Greeks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

120 Speaking of Bye Bye Birdie, What's the matter with kids today?

New: Virginia teens are greeting Loudoun County voters at the polls and asking them to vote for school board candidates who would restore girl only and boy only bathrooms and locker rooms in Loudoun County Public Schools.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

121 I paid my taxes, updated my car registration, and voted all in one stop.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:53 AM (+U7B7)

122 That Thanksgiving pic of his is pure commie propaganda. Mr. Dildo himself said so.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

I obviously missed that.

It doesn't matter. I like Rockwell anyway.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 09:54 AM (ufSfZ)

123 Remember, this was in the days when phones were usually 'party line' phones … remember those … ?

Posted by: Dr_No

We had a party line when I was a kid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (L/fGl)

124 Remember, this was in the days when phones were usually 'party line' phones … remember those … ?

Posted by: Dr_No

Yes. And you knew if it was meant for you by the number of rings.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (1a9a5)

125 Somebody was watching Rockwell.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

126 New: Virginia teens are greeting Loudoun County voters at the polls and asking them to vote for school board candidates who would restore girl only and boy only bathrooms and locker rooms in Loudoun County Public Schools.

The Dems would be smart to consider what such political activism is doing to the future voting choices of the yoots. They would be smart, but since they aren't, they won't.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (Riz8t)

127 Awwww. Lucy just got some serious belly.

It’s Tummy Tub Tuesday!

You know they want it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (mT+6a)

128 >>Speaking of Bye Bye Birdie, What's the matter with kids today?

New: Virginia teens are greeting Loudoun County voters at the polls and asking them to vote for school board candidates who would restore girl only and boy only bathrooms and locker rooms in Loudoun County Public Schools.
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Think it's better to ask what is wrong with adults forcing the gender nonsense on young girls in their bathrooms and locker rooms?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (GbwPZ)

129 That sounds sus. You don’t just become a teacher, you need state licensing and shit which almost always requires an education degree.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 09:53 AM (PGEno

No, in my State, the districts will often pay for the schooling for a promising teacher - that's this lady's deal. You go for a certain number of classes, then you get a TA spot, then the rest and become a sub, then a teacher. She's at the sub part. Time to quit the other job.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (YGkzu)

130 No, in my State, the districts will often pay for the schooling for a promising teacher - that's this lady's deal. You go for a certain number of classes, then you get a TA spot, then the rest and become a sub, then a teacher. She's at the sub part. Time to quit the other job.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM (YGkzu)

Ahhh. Gotcha.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (PGEno)

131
Somebody was watching Rockwell.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:55 AM

ISWYDT

his suspicions were apparently well grounded

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (tljrc)

132 Dude with the pipe is a sniper... it doubles as a black powder handgun.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (Z8Qvl)

133 New: Virginia teens are greeting Loudoun County voters at the polls and asking them to vote for school board candidates who would restore girl only and boy only bathrooms and locker rooms in Loudoun County Public Schools.
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Pretty sure Jay Jones will shoot them twice in the head.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (jFCkp)

134 First conversation: "Did you hear that Jane got mad at the Methodists and switched to the Baptist church?"

Last conversation: "Did you hear that Jane joined the Church of Satan and has nightly orgies and goat sacrifices in her basement?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (qpyNK)

In the early 1960's, college professors were peddling studies that claimed such strings of "passing it on" would result in much altered tales, modified by the participants' prejudices. The woman hearing her tale repeated after such repeated "modifications" may well be expressing astonishment at what her tale has become.
Posted by: capercaillie4901

The Telephone Game.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (1a9a5)

135 This Could Be the Worst News for Democrats About the Shutdown

“In 2018/2019, 61%, more than three in five Americans, blamed Trump a great deal for that particular shutdown,” he said. This time, however, “48% of Americans blamed Trump a great deal for this particular shutdown — it’s a different world.” That’s a 13-point drop, a statistical freefall in public blame assignment. ...
For Democrats, these aren’t just numbers on a poll—they’re alarm bells screaming red. The latest government shutdown, designed to hobble President Trump, has backfired spectacularly. Instead of weakening him, it seems to have reinforced his base and showcased his ability to govern without relying on Congress. Any illusions the left had about holding leverage over Trump have been shattered, and they should rethink their strategy.

https://is.gd/sv0dbQ

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (Riz8t)

136 He captured the TXMOME perfectly.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

"And I heard it from Sponge, who heard it from Doof, who heard it from RMBS, who heard t from..."

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)

137 Pretty sure Jay Jones will shoot them twice in the head.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (jFCkp)

Then watch as their mothers cry.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 09:58 AM (PGEno)

138 Is Johnboy and Billy still making new shows? Today they said the date. It was right.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 09:58 AM (+U7B7)

139 137 Pretty sure Jay Jones will shoot them twice in the head.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 09:57 AM (jFCkp)

Then watch as their mothers cry.

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Sadly, this sort of thing is sometimes necessary to change people's minds.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 21, 2025 09:59 AM (JkO4W)

140 Spambooger has an SSRI forehead.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 09:59 AM (jFCkp)

141 He saved us!

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Protesting is "the most American thing you can do." I shut down criticism of the No Kings Protest.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 09:59 AM (L/fGl)

142 Coppers who "work" in schools are another sign of our degenerate culture. Didn't need them when I was a kid.

The DARE program started this crap. Real cops say that DARE means Deputies Avoiding Real Employment.

Posted by: Reed and Malloy at October 21, 2025 10:00 AM (oftw2)

143 Abner! The Stevens woman is doing it again. Abner!
Posted by: Gladys Gruber Kravitz at October 21, 2025 09:36 AM

Hans...er machte schoen wieder...

- Lady in the train

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 10:01 AM (kgE5c)

144 My wife informs me that we had a No Kangz rally here. Apparently the same crowd as our BLM march, with their scooters and walkers, that my old pastor was freaking out about and wanted me to call the church militia in case they tried to burn our church down.

The guy liked to overreact.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:03 AM (jc0TO)

145 Sandra Gould was a mere pretender to the Gladys Throne.

Posted by: Abner Kravitz at October 21, 2025 10:04 AM (oftw2)

146 In other news, today is the birthday of silent actress Edna Purviance,* who was Chaplin's leading lady in many of his early comedy shorts. She would have married him, but Chaplin preferred his ladies rather younger. She was, however, his mistress for many years.

Here she is in 1918s A Dog's Life:

https://tinyurl.com/mp3y247m

*pronounced "purr-VY-ance."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:04 AM (ufSfZ)

147 Usually Rockwell makes me feel uplifted. This one brings out the mean. Not my favorite.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at October 21, 2025 10:04 AM (bwviB)

148 Local elections are frustrating for me. My area is very conservative when it comes to everything else. Trump won the area all 3 times. But for local stuff nobody shows up except the left. State reps and senators all Republican.

Yet our entire city council is far left as is the school board. Because nobody shows up to vote for local stuff except the leftists. I dont know why it’s so fucking hard for those on the right to vote in these elections. And it’s not like they’re under the radar. Local media is always full of info about it, social media discussions, lawn signs, etc. Everyone knows there’s an election.

And yet turnout is like 15-20%. Every time.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:04 AM (PGEno)

149 I mean, this is a town that has "family friendly" Mardi Gras parades.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:05 AM (jc0TO)

150 WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The incoming president of Georgetown University has said he repudiates the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality. He also appeared to criticize the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

The nominally Catholic, Jesuit university in Washington, D.C., recently announced its selection of Eduardo Peñalver as its new president, to start next year. Peñalver is currently the president of Seattle University, another Jesuit university.

“President Peñalver is an exceptional leader steeped in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition who brings a wealth of experience in higher education, a global mindset, a commitment to social justice and academic excellence, and a bold vision for Georgetown’s future,” the chair of the board stated. “We look forward to him joining our Georgetown community.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 21, 2025 10:05 AM (Dv3i1)

151 Missed it by this >

Gibraltar Bank Employees Accidentally Wear Native American Costumes While Dressing Like "Indians" For Hindu Holiday

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 10:05 AM (L/fGl)

152 President Peñalver is an exceptional leader steeped in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition

It sounds like they're not wrong.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:06 AM (jc0TO)

153 but Chaplin preferred his ladies rather younger.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

How old was Paulette Goddard when he married her? She was a hottie.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

154 He saved us!

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Protesting is "the most American thing you can do." I shut down criticism of the No Kings Protest.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*J6 has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 10:06 AM (1a9a5)

155 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Awesome art. Very cool.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 10:07 AM (2WIwB)

156 Lizzy, funny you should you mention that -- Tik Tok ghetto goblins made lots of "threatening" tiktoks over the weekend about how they gonna loot if they don't get their govt welfare.

Now, how would that look -- all the Democrat plantation goblins wildin' out in their shithole blue cities because they stopped getting welfare for chips & sodie
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Now I can't remember the year--was it Obama or Bush?--when this actually happened.

A local Xerox data center went down, which was the locus of processing EBT payments for the area.

And the 13%ers basically rioted in the Walmart when the cards stopped.
And the manager was like, "f it--let 'em take it, I ain't having my store burned down."

But the fear from the Uniparty was real, just from that little "test."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 21, 2025 10:07 AM (W4LZj)

157 154 He saved us!

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Protesting is "the most American thing you can do." I shut down criticism of the No Kings Protest.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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I can't...criticize it? Like...for any of its slogans or ideas or dress or treatment of the grounds?

Sounds like Todd is just saying that the left itself is sacred and holy.

Which isn't very secular.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

158 21 Note that all but the last man think it's funny. The female vote is more split.
Posted by: Eeyore (Is, Eum) at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (s0JqF)

Also note that the gossip is clearly about the last man told, who goes back and confronts the first woman (a neighbor? A relative?) about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:08 AM (ML8rW)

159 Gibraltar Bank Employees Accidentally Wear Native American Costumes While Dressing Like "Indians" For Hindu Holiday
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

They said they were sari.

Posted by: Beaver and Diwali Cleaver at October 21, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)

160 It's just a little place and they're all Harper Valley hypercrites.

Posted by: Case at October 21, 2025 10:10 AM (9HFDU)

161 Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Protesting is "the most American thing you can do." I shut down criticism of the No Kings Protest.

-also Chuck Todd
"As long as you agree with me."

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:10 AM (Riz8t)

162 Sounds like Todd is just saying that the left itself is sacred and holy.

Which isn't very secular.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

He also forgot the “EXCEPT ON JANUARY 6th”
Exception.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:10 AM (ML8rW)

163 Morning, grammie

Posted by: dantesed at October 21, 2025 10:10 AM (Oy/m2)

164 Gibraltar Bank Employees Accidentally Wear Native American Costumes While Dressing Like "Indians" For Hindu Holiday
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Heh. Reminds me of the time I bought an American-Indian playset for my son: Feather-Indian warriors, a totem pole, an Appaloosa horse, and...a cobra.

Obviously, someone in the Chinese toy factory got a little mixed up.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

165 I'm reminded of a tweet I saw of someone calling Trump's planned destruction of the East Wing of the White House sacrilege.

Like...the White House itself is holy and can never be updated in any way.

There's literal worship of government happening, and it's really weird.

Because politics is all ultimately theological in origin, and the left has simply made government its god.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

166 How old was Paulette Goddard when he married her? She was a hottie.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

26 to his 43.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:10 AM (ufSfZ)

167 Muldoon #80 is one of his bests, IMHO.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 21, 2025 10:11 AM (n4GiU)

168
creepy collection of heads
no hang

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 10:12 AM (AOsQT)

169 How old was Paulette Goddard when he married her? She was a hottie.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

26 to his 43.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Wow, 26? Old for him.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

170 Yeah, but I think if I started a successful #MoreKings protest movement demanding a semi-Salic hereditary primogeniture law to ensure the unbroken, divine-right rule of King Donald I's exalted bloodline, I think that Chuck Todd wouldn't find it so agreeable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 10:13 AM (YGkzu)

171 >>Protesting is "the most American thing you can do."

Ah, OK, we've returned to the "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" times, as always happens when there's a Republican in the WH. What an utterly unoriginal and lame declaration pretending to be defiant and courageous - who would bother clicking that link?

Exit question: Is shooting your opponents considered "protest," FChuck Todd? How about beating them, blinding them with lasers, pouring cement on their head? Because that's where we're at now.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 21, 2025 10:13 AM (GbwPZ)

172 Mornin', MP4.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 10:13 AM (kgE5c)

173 creepy collection of heads
no hang
Posted by: Don Black

Yeah, mine are much better.
-- New Guinea headhunter

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

174 Very good. Not for my decor, but much appreciated for what it is. Could possibly go in the Man Cave/Music Room/Bar I have?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at October 21, 2025 10:14 AM (6qf1m)

175 A grammie sighting!

Peace be with you, sweet lady. And prayers always.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 10:14 AM (VYFTW)

176 128 sure, but that wouldn't be sarcasm.

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 10:14 AM (R11M+)

177 Why did so many companies want to hire the headhunter?

Because he had such a great skull set.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

178 People saying no minorities, but 2nd row far right woman, and 4th row man in cap could well be.
In Massachusetts at this time all minorities were quite light skinned, it was some kind of rule or something.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (n4GiU)

179 Alternate title:

My Mother and Her Yenta Friends

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (dtQZx)

180 In Massachusetts at this time all minorities were quite light skinned, it was some kind of rule or something.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM

The Sunset Rule.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (jc0TO)

181 Gibraltar Bank Employees Accidentally Wear Native American Costumes While Dressing Like "Indians" For Hindu Holiday
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

They said they were sari.
Posted by: Beaver and Diwali Cleaver

ISWYDT.
Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (1a9a5)

182 I really do have a horse whose registered name is Lies and Rumors.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 21, 2025 09:52 AM (QGLzn)

Allegedly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (ExV1e)

183 There's literal worship of government happening, and it's really weird.

Because politics is all ultimately theological in origin, and the left has simply made government its god.

I recommend this article explaining why a subset of Boomers are the way they are.

Why Woke Woodstock Boomers Must Protest
Why are there so many boomers at these protests?

Some people go to high school reunions, and they try to get “reacquainted” with that boy or girl they dated in their teen years. They do this, not because they still really are attracted to ‘the person,’ but rather it’s a last-ditch effort to reconnect with their own lost youth, their glory days, and to do this, they feel the need to be with someone who was there...
Another issue is somewhat related. Many older boomers feel rudderless. This is a generation that, in huge numbers, rejected religion. They led the way on divorce, abortion, broken families, which they broke, while serving their own capitalist desires by ushering in the dot-com boom and bust, massive stock gains, and huge tech innovations, creating Silicon Valley.

https://is.gd/yrCxRy

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (Riz8t)

184 Good morning grammie.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 10:16 AM (viF8m)

185 NVDA is doing it's daily cycle. I am going to ride this horse until it dies.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:16 AM (jc0TO)

186 134 my gal in college had to do that and was asking for a phrase to start with. i sent her off with, "a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous."
it came around unrecognizable.

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 10:17 AM (R11M+)

187 Spambooger has an SSRI forehead.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Kind of sorry but I know exactly what you mean.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 21, 2025 10:17 AM (n4GiU)

188 New: Virginia teens are greeting Loudoun County voters at the polls and asking them to vote for school board candidates who would restore girl only and boy only bathrooms and locker rooms in Loudoun County Public Schools.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

Sad that the Hitler Youth are taking over northern Virginia. -- MSNBC

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 10:17 AM (ExV1e)

189 My Mother and Her Yenta Friends
Posted by: San Franpsycho

And that's what comes from men and women dancing!

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:18 AM (77rzZ)

190 142 drugs are really excellent.

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 10:18 AM (R11M+)

191 183 Another issue is somewhat related. Many older boomers feel rudderless. This is a generation that, in huge numbers, rejected religion. They led the way on divorce, abortion, broken families, which they broke, while serving their own capitalist desires by ushering in the dot-com boom and bust, massive stock gains, and huge tech innovations, creating Silicon Valley.

https://is.gd/yrCxRy
Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:15 AM (Riz8t)

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Materialism leads you to worshiping really stupid shit. Like an unremarkable politician from Chicago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

192 Sad that the Hitler Youth are taking over northern Virginia. -- MSNBC

Well, after all, tomorrow belongs to them.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:18 AM (Riz8t)

193 The first feature length comedy was Tillie's Punctured Romance (1916). In it, Chaplin wed Marie Dressler to get her money. I don't think Marie was Charlie's idea of feminine pulchritrude , though.

Posted by: Mack Sennett at October 21, 2025 10:19 AM (oftw2)

194 I recommend this article explaining why a subset of Boomers are the way they are.
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And I recommend this YD comment from a couple hours back:

These crunchy old Leftists fucks have been jerking each other off about their protesting glory days for more than fifty years. And because of the Leftist proclivity for entering media, all of it catered to their grandiose delusions of adequacy with endless hagiographies of their ephemeral hippie moment, their largely unpopular protest movements, their drug culture, and of course, an unremitting cavalcade of Beatles retrospectives.

As a result, they have a vastly overblown opinion of themselves, and now view their regrettable, misspent youth through the diaphanous veil of time, which softens the ugliness of it all.

This is their last chance to relive those halcyon Days of Whine and Roses, and they're grasping onto it with all the strength left in their bony old fingers.

It's not about politics. It's just their monumental, towering narcissism asserting itself one last time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 10:19 AM (YGkzu)

195 Of interest to movie and financial gossip fans,

"WBD decided to publicly announce it has had interest from multiple parties after rejecting several different bids from Paramount and an offer from another company that was higher than Paramount’s, according to a person familiar with the matter. The WBD board believed Paramount may go public with its bid, which one source described as “higher than what’s been in the press” but below $30 a share, according to the person."

"Netflix and Comcast are among the interested parties, sources told CNBC’s David Faber."

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:19 AM (WDjG6)

196 I recommend this article explaining why a subset of Boomers are the way they are.
-----
And I recommend this YD comment from a couple hours back:

Wow, you did it better than the columnist.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)

197 The first feature length comedy was Tillie's Punctured Romance (1916). In it, Chaplin wed Marie Dressler to get her money. I don't think Marie was Charlie's idea of feminine pulchritrude , though.
Posted by: Mack Sennett

She was great in Dinner at Eight. Left us far too soon.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:20 AM (77rzZ)

198 And that's what comes from men and women dancing!
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:18 AM

Tradition!!!!!!

- Tevye

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 10:20 AM (kgE5c)

199 Two for Tuesday is a good thing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:21 AM (+U7B7)

200 188 New: Virginia teens are greeting Loudoun County voters at the polls and asking them to vote for school board candidates who would restore girl only and boy only bathrooms and locker rooms in Loudoun County Public Schools.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 21, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

Sad that the Hitler Youth are taking over northern Virginia. -- MSNBC
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Everyone is most conservative about what they know best. Kids have to live with the consequences of voting by virtue signal.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:21 AM (WDjG6)

201 Mornin', MP4.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 10:13 AM (kgE5c)

Hi, RMBS. Hope you had a great time at the MoMe. I told nurse that I would keep the dates open for next year, but that I wasn't going to promise to be there. Knowing me, I'd get to the airport and then just turn around and go home.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:21 AM (ufSfZ)

202 195 "Netflix and Comcast are among the interested parties, sources told CNBC’s David Faber."

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:19 AM (WDjG6)

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I'd heard about the Netflix interest in WBD a couple of weeks ago.

I really hope it never pans out.

WB is one of the oldest standing movie studios that still somewhat reflects its origins in a vague way. I don't want it to go pure streaming, its library hidden behind a monthly subscription.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

203 159 Gibraltar Bank Employees Accidentally Wear Native American Costumes While Dressing Like "Indians" For Hindu Holiday
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

They said they were sari.
Posted by: Beaver and Diwali Cleaver at October 21, 2025 10:09 AM (oftw2)

; )

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:22 AM (RuTUS)

204 And there's another important factor, too - remember that most of these Leftist Boomers were never actually part of The Thing. The Leftist counterculture of the '60s and '70s was a *tiny* percentage of the youth. The rest of the lefty youth were keeping their heads down, going to class, getting jobs, and infiltrating institutions.

OK I'm going to point this out once again. I was in Vietnam toward the end of the War (1970 - 1972) I'm 77. That makes me one of the youngest Vietnam era people. Nobody who was part of the Thing is as young as I am. More than half of the males who were part of the Thing have died of old age, since the life expectancy for males is 77. The old people 65 or so who were at the No Kings protest were around 10 years old during the Vietnam war. Somebody 65 now was 19 at the time President Reagan was first elected. So quit talking about these clowns having anything to do with The Thing. 10 year olds are rarely political.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 10:22 AM (Da7Vv)

205 But, it’s uglier when men participate in gossip. Really. Men should be above that crap.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 21, 2025 09:50 AM (mT+6a)

I see a lot of men gossiping, even those who front as quite masculine. They show their feminine underbelly when they do it and it's creepy.

Posted by: ... at October 21, 2025 10:23 AM (uWTh9)

206 It's not about politics. It's just their monumental, towering narcissism asserting itself one last time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 10:19 AM (YGkzu)
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You sound like one of those billionaires I keep hearing about.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 21, 2025 10:23 AM (dtQZx)

207 I wanna change my generation identification to one that the room approves of

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 10:24 AM (AOsQT)

208 207 I wanna change my generation identification to one that the room approves of
Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 10:24 AM (AOsQT)

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I'm Gen-null.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:24 AM (GBKbO)

209 You sound like one of those billionaires I keep hearing about.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

The ones that want to shut down the MILFy websites?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

210 The Gossips
Norman Rockwell
The Gossips Oil on canvas, painting for The Saturday Evening Post cover, 1948.

>Vintage Everyday, The Story Behind Norman Rockwell’s Most Famous Cover “The Gossips” in 1948, May 03, 2021

1940s, behind the scenes, humor & hilarious, illustration, life & culture, photography, portraits, work of art

It begins, "Have you heard the story behind Norman Rockwell’s cover The Gossips? Some say the painting was Rockwell’s revenge on a woman in Arlington, Vermont, who’d spread an ugly rumor about him. He re-created the life of the rumor, beginning with an elderly woman whispering about Rockwell to a neighbor. From there the tale takes wing, speeding through town from one eager gossip to the next, until it comes back to Rockwell himself, who confronts the rumor’s originator in the bottom right."

Reading the entire article recommended.

Like this painting & would hang it with rotational art.

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 10:25 AM (NFX2v)

211 Posted by: Mack Sennett at October 21, 2025 10:19 AM (oftw2)

You've reminded me I must get around to writing a sex scene* for Mabel Normand in my novel.

*Probably PG-13 rated, kids. I don't write pRon, since there's no money in it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:25 AM (ufSfZ)

212 We could lose flavored vapes at years end.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:25 AM (+U7B7)

213 166 huh. my old man was 49 to my moms 24. he didn't last long.

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 10:26 AM (R11M+)

214 WB is one of the oldest standing movie studios that still somewhat reflects its origins in a vague way. I don't want it to go pure streaming, its library hidden behind a monthly subscription.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Re: WBD-Forty billion in debt requires a lot of profits to pay interest. From the report, WBD is still going to split and spin off its TV properties while retaining movies and streaming.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

215 A goodly portion of gay men can out-gossip ladies any day. Seems to be part of the kink.

Posted by: Poofters Keeping Score at October 21, 2025 10:27 AM (oftw2)

216 WB is one of the oldest standing movie studios that still somewhat reflects its origins in a vague way. I don't want it to go pure streaming, its library hidden behind a monthly subscription.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

Someday I would love to do VIP tours of Universal and Paramount.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:27 AM (ufSfZ)

217 214 Re: WBD-Forty billion in debt requires a lot of profits to pay interest. From the report, WBD is still going to split and spin off its TV properties while retaining movies and streaming.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:27 AM (WDjG6)

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The Discovery merger fixed nothing and made everything worse.

There's probably no good way out of this situation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

218 >>It's not about politics. It's just their monumental, towering narcissism asserting itself one last time.

Thomas Crooks. Luigi Mangione. Tyler Robinson.

Have you figured out yet how Gen Z is made up entirely of gender confused, murderous assholes?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 10:28 AM (viF8m)

219 216 Someday I would love to do VIP tours of Universal and Paramount.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:27 AM (ufSfZ)

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Don't forget to ask for Babs at Universal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

220 this 'generation' business is right up there with astrology and dowsing

IMO

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 10:28 AM (AOsQT)

221 I don't write pRon, since there's no money in it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

"Doffing her Gainsborough hat, the lovely Edwardian lady then invited the gentleman to remove her bustle..."

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

222 Someday I would love to do VIP tours of Universal and Paramount.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:27 AM

You should remind them that as a trusted internet personality, you could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground movie caves.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:30 AM (jc0TO)

223 204 And there's another important factor, too - remember that most of these Leftist Boomers were never actually part of The Thing. The Leftist counterculture of the '60s and '70s was a *tiny* percentage of the youth. The rest of the lefty youth were keeping their heads down, going to class, getting jobs, and infiltrating institutions.

OK I'm going to point this out once again. I was in Vietnam toward the end of the War (1970 - 1972) I'm 77. That makes me one of the youngest Vietnam era people. Nobody who was part of the Thing is as young as I am. More than half of the males who were part of the Thing have died of old age, since the life expectancy for males is 77. The old people 65 or so who were at the No Kings protest were around 10 years old during the Vietnam war. Somebody 65 now was 19 at the time President Reagan was first elected. So quit talking about these clowns having anything to do with The Thing. 10 year olds are rarely political.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 10:22 AM (Da7Vv)

I don't know what "The Thing" means.

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:30 AM (RuTUS)

224 This Vanilla Custard vape is surprisingly good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:30 AM (+U7B7)

225 Someday I would love to do VIP tours of Universal and Paramount.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Better hurry.
There was some 'gossip' that Universal Comcast would definitely like to obtain the WB studio properties as they adjoin Universal's. That would allow Universal to expand its theme park portion of the Universal Studios. And as above, Comcast is one of the prospective bidders for WBD.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:30 AM (WDjG6)

226 I don't know what "The Thing" means.
Posted by: m
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A B- movie in the 1950's about a blob that ate everything. But that's not important here.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

227 >>It's not about politics. It's just their monumental, towering narcissism asserting itself one last time.

Thomas Crooks. Luigi Mangione. Tyler Robinson.

Have you figured out yet how Gen Z is made up entirely of gender confused, murderous assholes?

It is axiomatic (or should be) that we're talking about a subset of the generation.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:31 AM (Riz8t)

228 You should remind them that as a trusted internet personality, you could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground movie caves.
Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:30 AM (jc0TO)

+1 for Kent Brockman ref.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 21, 2025 10:32 AM (PiwSw)

229 204. Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

Absolutely true. 👍

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

230 I was 9 when Saigon fell. I remember walking to school with my friend and talking with him about it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:32 AM (77rzZ)

231 >>It is axiomatic (or should be) that we're talking about a subset of the generation.

Yea, me too. Or didn't you notice?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 10:33 AM (viF8m)

232 Yea, me too. Or didn't you notice?

Is there a good reason for the snark?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:33 AM (Riz8t)

233 The Vietnamese are largely going into STEM.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:34 AM (+U7B7)

234 Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 10:22 AM (Da7Vv)

Yeah, my parents are bit older than you, and were around for The Thing. My dad didn't fight in the war, and he liked to smoke dope and chase girls. Namely, my mom, who was the only one who'd let him catch her.

But neither of them were commies with no better thing to do than show up at a gay protest. He was a dirt poor hillbilly who voted Nixon. She was a well-to-do Jewish girl who voted Dem until Reagan, and eventually went hard right in late middle age.

The people at these protests are... not them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 10:35 AM (YGkzu)

235 I like to draw a distinction between the Turn On Drop Out Hippy culture, back to the Earth etc, and the politicized Youth International Yippie fucking communists.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:35 AM (jc0TO)

236 230 was it dark out because nixon kept us on DST?

Posted by: cmeat at October 21, 2025 10:35 AM (R11M+)

237 The Republicans used to rule Caliefornia.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:36 AM (+U7B7)

238 I have a huge coffee table book of Rockwell prints. Its called Norman Rockwell artist and illustrator. Its big enough to BE a coffee table. I got it off ebay for around $30 in mint intact condition, and its a first edition. Some of the prints appear to be easily removable if you want to frame them. At the time there were others on ebay for roughly the same price. I thought that was pretty damn cheap for such a huge thick book.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 21, 2025 10:36 AM (snZF9)

239 The Vietnamese are largely going into STEM.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Does the "M" stand for "manicures?"

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

240 Not like anything I ever saw in my Boy Scout handbook, which was full of Norman Rockwell paintings.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 21, 2025 10:37 AM (pNkJD)

241 >>Is there a good reason for the snark?

It's truly incredible that some of you smear an entire generation on a daily basis and then get butthurt when it gets pointed out.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 10:37 AM (viF8m)

242 Thing T. Thing was also a recurring character on the TV show The Addams Family.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 21, 2025 10:37 AM (PiwSw)

243 Mathematics iirc.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:37 AM (+U7B7)

244 230 was it dark out because nixon kept us on DST?
Posted by: cmeat

Nope. It was April.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

245 A B- movie in the 1950's about a blob that ate everything. But that's not important here.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:31 AM (WDjG6)
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Then what's "The Blob"?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 21, 2025 10:38 AM (IBQGV)

246 >>Is there a good reason for the snark?

It's truly incredible that some of you smear an entire generation on a daily basis and then get butthurt when it gets pointed out.

183 There's literal worship of government happening, and it's really weird.

Because politics is all ultimately theological in origin, and the left has simply made government its god.

I recommend this article explaining why a subset of Boomers are the way they are.

Or didn't you notice.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:38 AM (Riz8t)

247 The Discovery merger fixed nothing and made everything worse.

There's probably no good way out of this situation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Legacy cable network and tv properties are becoming a burden in an era of cord cutting. Comcast is doing the same thing and I think Disney will after Iger goes.

Online ad sales by aggregators like Google is eating legacy media's ad revenues to the point that radio and newspapers are almost dead, tv revenue is dying, and online ad revenue for independents is down 90 percent (Insty's own figures) from what it was.

If Big Pharma is no longer allowed to air ads for drugs, then a lot of the legacy broadcast and cable media on life support now will die.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

248 DST is gheyer than soccer and the metric syatem.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (+U7B7)

249 237 The Republicans used to rule Caliefornia.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:36 AM (+U7B7)

That was ungood.

Posted by: CA government at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (pNkJD)

250 >>Or didn't you notice.

Ok, Luigi

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (viF8m)

251 A good comment just disappeared. Bad VPN I guess.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (jc0TO)

252 I don't know what "The Thing" means.

The protest counter culture of the Vietnam era. I was using a previous poster's terminology.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (Da7Vv)

253 Mathematics iirc.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Tell me you don't get jokes without telling me that you don't get jokes.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

254
But neither of them were commies with no better thing to do than show up at a gay protest. He was a dirt poor hillbilly who voted Nixon. She was a well-to-do Jewish girl who voted Dem until Reagan, and eventually went hard right in late middle age.

The people at these protests are... not them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 10:35 AM (YGkzu)

I have a bro and sis in law in Portland that fit this boomer contingent perfectly - upper 70's now. They have always loved to think how "Liberal" they are, and yet in actual fact they are the most conservative (lower case c) people I know. They would never dare to hold any political opinion which wasn't shared with and approved by all of their neighbors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (uWKK8)

255 Then what's "The Blob"?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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A gelatinous cube if you like D&D old school.

Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:40 AM (WDjG6)

256 The Blob wasn't about Chris Christie?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:40 AM (+U7B7)

257 252 I don't know what "The Thing" means.

The protest counter culture of the Vietnam era. I was using a previous poster's terminology.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (Da7Vv)

Thank you.

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:40 AM (RuTUS)

258 If Big Pharma is no longer allowed to air ads for drugs, then a lot of the legacy broadcast and cable media on life support now will die.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

'tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (uWKK8)

259 Oh boy. Another fight over generations.

So, how about that Lincoln guy?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

260 The Soviets financed the antiwar movement.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (+U7B7)

261 259 Oh boy. Another fight over generations.

So, how about that Lincoln guy?
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

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He told me to be excellent to each other.

And to party on, dudes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

262 Ahnuld has a post on twitter where he says:

People went election day to be a holiday
People are concerned about gerrymandering
People want ID to vote

And...I'm amused the first point is non-partisan. The second one is now something on the left's plate but there is no easy way to resolve - New England, for example, is the most heavily gerrymandered area in the country and the left says its just a coincidence...well, Texas and the rest can say the same.

Then finally, I thought ID to vote was white supremacist hate speech or something

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (sKqQm)

263 Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Protesting is "the most American thing you can do." I shut down criticism of the No Kings Protest.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*J6 has entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 10:06 AM (1a9a5)

The King feels secure on his throne when the jester is permitted to live. That's the difference. Trump knows that he's President... for real.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (ExV1e)

264 252 I don't know what "The Thing" means.

The protest counter culture of the Vietnam era. I was using a previous poster's terminology.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 21, 2025 10:39 AM (Da7Vv)

Then this seems fair.

235 I like to draw a distinction between the Turn On Drop Out Hippy culture, back to the Earth etc, and the politicized Youth International Yippie fucking communists.
Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:35 AM (jc0TO)

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (RuTUS)

265 Who has the time to protest? It’s old people. Some 40 year old dude with kids is probably at a kid’s soccer game on Saturday afternoon.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (PGEno)

266 262
Then finally, I thought ID to vote was white supremacist hate speech or something
Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (sKqQm)

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"It is. Only smart, well-heeled, and rich white people like me have the intelligence to get an ID."
-DU, 99.99999% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

267
Private Snafu in "Censored"

https://tinyurl.com/bdh4ktvy

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (tgvbd)

268 He was a dirt poor hillbilly who voted Nixon. She was a well-to-do Jewish girl
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Wow, he must've had something going on.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

269 255 Then what's "The Blob"?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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A gelatinous cube if you like D&D old school.
Posted by: whig at October 21, 2025 10:40 AM (WDjG6)

256 The Blob wasn't about Chris Christie?

i was thinking that Pritzker guy, but yeah Christie works.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (uWKK8)

270 I thought Norman Rockwell died before the MoMe's started?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM (tT6L1)

271 256 The Blob wasn't about Chris Christie?

i was thinking that Pritzker guy, but yeah Christie works.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (uWKK

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Pritzker saw The Blob as a warning and got on Ozempic.

Christie saw The Blob as a goal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

272
I don't know what "The Thing" means.

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:30 AM

arguably John Carpenter's greatest film

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM (tljrc)

273 Requiring id to vote is a defacto poll tax.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM (+U7B7)

274 Requiring id to vote is a defacto poll tax.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM

Most people can't afford ID.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:44 AM (jc0TO)

275
People went election day to be a holiday

Sure, the government drones get the day off to vote for candidates that promise to fatten the government drones. Meanwhile, private businesses can't afford to give everyone the day off.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:44 AM (tgvbd)

276 Registering to vote is a de facto poll tax.

Taking time out to vote is a de facto poll tax.

We should just let the NYT rule us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

277 I like it's the lady at the beginning spreading the gossip that gets yelled at by her husband at the end...or at that least, that's my interpretation.

The gossip she's spreading like the trollop she is... "CBD secretly likes syrup on pancakes and ketchup on hot dogs! But you didn't hear it from me!"

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 10:45 AM (gWBY1)

278 273 Requiring id to vote is a defacto poll tax.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM (+U7B7)

It'll be like forced COVID shots. "Required" for some people.

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:45 AM (RuTUS)

279 Most people can't afford ID.
Posted by: toby928

I blame Trump's tariffs.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

280 First conversation: "Did you hear that Jane got mad at the Methodists and switched to the Baptist church?"

Last conversation: "Did you hear that Jane joined the Church of Satan and has nightly orgies and goat sacrifices in her basement?"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 21, 2025 09:34 AM (qpyNK)

Embrace the power of and.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 10:45 AM (iJfKG)

281 275
People went election day to be a holiday

Sure, the government drones get the day off to vote for candidates that promise to fatten the government drones. Meanwhile, private businesses can't afford to give everyone the day off.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:44 AM (tgvbd)

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Why do people act like voting is an all day thing?

Longest I ever spent in a line was 2 hours (2016).

The rest? 15 minutes, max.

The polls are open for 12 straight hours, sometimes more. It's genuinely not hard to do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

282
Oh, yeah...

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 10:46 AM (iJfKG)

283 Pritzker saw The Blob as a warning and got on Ozempic.

*need some help over here boss!

Posted by: Ozempic at October 21, 2025 10:46 AM (1a9a5)

284 I’d be all vote an Election Day holiday if we got rid of early and mail in voting.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:46 AM (PGEno)

285 Thing T. Thing was also a recurring character on the TV show The Addams Family.

Trivia: "Thing" was portrayed by Ted Cassidy, the Addams' butler Lurch. In one episode of the original series, a female Thing, "Lady Fingers," was portrayed by Carolyn Jones.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:46 AM (ufSfZ)

286 I've mostly lived in the 'burbs and voting is a 15m thing usually.

For some reason the urban areas all seem to have long wait times.

The FNM tells me it is do to rayscissms but generally minority groups control that whole process.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (sKqQm)

287 I gotta go pay my property tax. BBL.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (jc0TO)

288 Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 10:37 AM (viF8m)

I just read an article by Aaron Renn where he wrote:

"Nobody really makes decisions based on rational analysis, but the Boomer is particularly impervious to logic"

So, I no longer take Aaron Renn seriously. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (PiwSw)

289 So quit talking about these clowns having anything to do with The Thing. 10 year olds are rarely political.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President

I was noticing that myself recently...if these fools are in their '60s, they were young adults during Reagan. Who are these people? Why are they all in with this crap? And why do I get the feeling all is not quite as it seems...oh who am I kidding, it's never what it seems...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (OUMaO)

290 Wow, he must've had something going on.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

Yup. Poor but well-educated, highly intelligent, driven, and pursuing a promising career in the sciences.

All the guy needed was a g-ddamned bath. And my mom could see that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (YGkzu)

291 The polls are open for 12 straight hours, sometimes more. It's genuinely not hard to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And I don't believe employers can penalize you for taking time to vote during working hours.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

292
Why do people act like voting is an all day thing?

Longest I ever spent in a line was 2 hours (2016).

The rest? 15 minutes, max.

The polls are open for 12 straight hours, sometimes more. It's genuinely not hard to do.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

Not to mention the weeks or in some cases
Months of early voting available.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (PGEno)

293 Pritzker saw The Blob as a warning and got on Ozempic.

Christie saw The Blob as a goal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM (GBKbO)

Christie ate the Blob...

...and then Jerry Jones.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 21, 2025 10:48 AM (iJfKG)

294 Requiring id to vote is a defacto poll tax.
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:43 AM

Most people can't afford ID.
Posted by: toby928

Funny how they have it for the liquor store and signing up for EBT.

Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 10:48 AM (1a9a5)

295 nonsense

Posted by: Don Black at October 21, 2025 10:48 AM (AOsQT)

296
Funny how they have it for the liquor store and signing up for EBT.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire at October 21, 2025 10:48 AM (1a9a5)

Or voting in union elections.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:49 AM (PGEno)

297 We have early voting here. Go in pay your car tax, reup your vehicle registration, and vote, all in the same building right next to each other. Tiny City.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:49 AM (+U7B7)

298
Most people can't afford ID.
Posted by: toby928

Funny how they have it for the liquor store and signing up for EBT.
Posted by: rickb223 Acehole Extraordinaire

Guess they never fly either.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:49 AM (tgvbd)

299 The art today got me to remembering my childhood. We had a party line. I'd pick up the phone and mean old Mrs Bedford would yell, "Get off this call!"

Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 10:50 AM (2WIwB)

300 Guess they never fly either.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:49 AM (tgvbd)
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Renting a hotel room. or car.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 10:50 AM (tT6L1)

301 300

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:50 AM (RuTUS)

302 Doh!

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:51 AM (+U7B7)

303 Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 10:50 AM (2WIwB)

No geezer golf today? Have they all left for Florida so soon?

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

304 I was born in the peak year of the BBoom, 1955. I remember well the protest movement, but I was too young by a year for Vietnam. I suppose I view myself as at the interface of the two parts of the Boomers.

I was always conservative, and always had contempt for the protest "culture" which always struck me as a lot of self-indulgence wrapped up in liberal pieties. OTOH, I wasn't facing the draft, so there's that.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:52 AM (Riz8t)

305 I can’t remember every time I’ve voted but since I’ve lived where I am now I have never spent more than 10 minutes from walking in the door to walking out. And this includes an ID check. Yes I live in one of these KKK run states that dates to ask me to prove I am who I say I am before handing me a ballot.

There is never a line more than 3 or 4 people and there are always at least 2 people doing check in.

If you need all day to vote here, that’s a you problem not a “voting system” problem.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:52 AM (PGEno)

306 >>For some reason the urban areas all seem to have long wait times.

When I lived in Boston my voting place was in the basement of the Boston Public Library. Me and a few thousands of people. The line was out the door and around the block. Took at least an hour to vote and it wasn't minorities that controlled the process. Lot of people just said fuck it and didn't bother.

Vote suppression happens in a lot of different ways.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 10:52 AM (viF8m)

307 Back when gays were trying to claim every important western cultural figure as theirs, just closeted, I think it was Smithsonian magazine, of all things, pushing a story that maybe, just maybe, Rockwell was a closet pedo/MAP. His family or trust came out swinging against the completely unprovable accusations, and the accusations got swiftly dropped. I think the gay community realized they needed to tone down claiming everyone with non proof.

They used the famous painting of the runaway kid with the hobo sack at the soda counter as an example, with the kindly cop talking to him and gently convincing him to go back home. That the cop was "too" friendly to the kid, if you catch my drift. And Rockwell was hinting at secret desires.

Only sickos think this way. They've forgotten there was once a part of America where small town cops behaved like that.

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 10:52 AM (gWBY1)

308 Guess they never fly either.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It's hard for the poor minorities to keep their wings in decent shape.

Check your wing privilege.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

309 No geezer golf today? Have they all left for Florida so soon?
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

Nope. No golf today. My sister is coming to visit and I was given chores to do.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 10:53 AM (2WIwB)

310 I was noticing that myself recently...if these fools are in their '60s, they were young adults during Reagan. Who are these people? Why are they all in with this crap? And why do I get the feeling all is not quite as it seems...oh who am I kidding, it's never what it seems...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 21, 2025 10:47 AM (OUMaO)
Have you considered satanic influence? It really answers all the questions.

Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2025 10:53 AM (LHPAg)

311 I believe I can fly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:54 AM (+U7B7)

312 One of the best shows at MOMA was a display of all Rockwells Post covers and some of the full sized works the Post worked from.
Such an uplifting and compassionate overview of human nature and experiences.
I saw a goth couple there, all tattoos and Mohawks and piercings, and they were chuckling with recognition not snark.

Posted by: Vivi at October 21, 2025 10:54 AM (cpunl)

313 309 No geezer golf today? Have they all left for Florida so soon?
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

Nope. No golf today. My sister is coming to visit and I was given chores to do.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 10:53 AM (2WIwB)

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Your sister saw your room when you were 15, most likely.

There's no possible way to improve your image in her eyes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

314 Sometimes, life works out. Tried to sell company stock yesterday at $131 but the price kept dropping. Today I sold it at $132.50.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 21, 2025 10:54 AM (ExV1e)

315 Diogenes was the Major?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:54 AM (+U7B7)

316 298 Guess they never fly either.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:49 AM (tgvbd)

This I believe. Because $$$$.

Posted by: m at October 21, 2025 10:55 AM (RuTUS)

317 if these fools are in their '60s, they were young adults during Reagan. Who are these people?

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Tens of millions of people voted against Reagan. It’s those people. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:55 AM (PGEno)

318 315 Diogenes was the Major?
Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:54 AM (+U7B7)

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Major Payne.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

319 Writing my check and it occurred to me that a lot of you would be weeping to see what I pay on my property. Because of the way stuff is calculated, and being a senior citizen, I pay a bit less than $2K for three acres in the city limits with a house and barn. I'm bet that some of you pay five times that or more.

State Tax: $0
County Tax: $480
City Tax: $760
School Tax: $760
Other: $0

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 10:55 AM (jc0TO)

320 Your sister saw your room when you were 15, most likely.

There's no possible way to improve your image in her eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

Good point. That may be why she's only visited once in the last 15 years.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 21, 2025 10:55 AM (2WIwB)

321 Shadooby.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:55 AM (+U7B7)

322 if these fools are in their '60s, they were young adults during Reagan. Who are these people?

Most of the Boomers I've seen at the NK rallies looked more like in their 70s.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:56 AM (Riz8t)

323 Have you considered satanic influence? It really answers all the questions.
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If you haven't seen the abortion "abolitionist" short videos, they're frightening to the degree that apparently "normal" people will hurl invectives at someone who has the nerve to stand in a public space with a sign that asserts that abortion should be abolished. Some of them look absolutely possessed when they're interacting with the abolitionists.

Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 10:56 AM (TN0g+)

324 Segmenting people into age demographics such as Boomers and Zoomers and Tiddly Winks is part of the Communist conspiracy to divide the American people. It is the same divisiveness as dividing the family unit.

There are people who do and those who don't do.
Don't fall for the Communist crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 21, 2025 10:56 AM (kkYD1)

325 Hi, RMBS. Hope you had a great time at the MoMe. I told nurse that I would keep the dates open for next year, but that I wasn't going to promise to be there. Knowing me, I'd get to the airport and then just turn around and go home.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 21, 2025 10:21 AM

The MoMe was great. You were missed.

"MoMe...or MoMe not. There is no try."

- Stuff Yoda probably said about the TXMoMe

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 21, 2025 10:57 AM (kgE5c)

326 My Toyota pickup is so old that my car tax was 0.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 10:57 AM (+U7B7)

327 Segmenting people into age demographics such as Boomers and Zoomers and Tiddly Winks is part of the Communist conspiracy to divide the American people. It is the same divisiveness as dividing the family unit.

There are people who do and those who don't do.
Don't fall for the Communist crap.

Kulak says what?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 21, 2025 10:57 AM (Riz8t)

328 >>> One of the best shows at MOMA was a display of all Rockwells Post covers and some of the full sized works the Post worked from.

I'm glad that the fine art community is willing to recognize his talent and his mastery at storytelling in illustrations. It's a gift. But because he got regularly paid by the Saturday evening post, he got tainted with the "commercial artist" scarlet letter for a long time. Heaven forbid you make art that sells and people are asking for!

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 10:57 AM (gWBY1)

329 If you haven't seen the abortion "abolitionist" short videos, they're frightening to the degree that apparently "normal" people will hurl invectives at someone who has the nerve to stand in a public space with a sign that asserts that abortion should be abolished. Some of them look absolutely possessed when they're interacting with the abolitionists.
Posted by: Crusader at October 21, 2025 10:56 AM (TN0g+)
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I'll never forget the spittle flecked protester who came at me over Gulf War II. (He was protesting) That lefty was way off the reservation, to the point a gal asked if I'd been assaulted. I said no. It's hard for someone who's 6" shorter to really intimidate. But the crazy was easily 20' tall.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at October 21, 2025 10:58 AM (tT6L1)

330 In all the years I have been voting in NYC or NJ, I think the maximum wait time I have experienced to get into a polling place and a booth was 2 minutes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 21, 2025 10:58 AM (Ot2mX)

331 TBWNH

Too weird and depressing

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 21, 2025 10:58 AM (iFTx/)

332 It’s funny how leftist yuuutes hate boomers for being greedy capitalists but the right now hates them for being filthy hippie communists.

It’s almost as if categorizing tens of millions of people simply by when they were born is silly or something.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:59 AM (PGEno)

333
I was noticing that myself recently...if these fools are in their '60s, they were young adults during Reagan. Who are these people? Why are they all in with this crap?

_________

When I was in grad school, we'd go over to the café in the biology building for coffee. There was a guy who came every day with his gf or whatever, sit at the next table and lecture her about the perfidity of the Reagan administration and the heroic Sandanistas. I never heard her utter a single word. That guy was at those rallies this weekend.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 21, 2025 10:59 AM (tgvbd)

334 Kulak says what?
Posted by: Archimedes

Sounds more like a capitalist running dog to me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

335 Heaven forbid you make art that sells and people are asking for!
Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 10:57 AM (gWBY1)

The artists who did the covers for romance novels and detective novels sold more art than Jackson Pollack

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 10:59 AM (rbvCR)

336 At least not a glowie.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:00 AM (+U7B7)

337 304 I was born in the peak year of the BBoom, 1955. I remember well the protest movement, but I was too young by a year for Vietnam. I suppose I view myself as at the interface of the two parts of the Boomers.

I was always conservative, and always had contempt for the protest "culture" which always struck me as a lot of self-indulgence wrapped up in liberal pieties. OTOH, I wasn't facing the draft, so there's that.
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Fellow 55 boomer. They ended the draft the year I turned 18. I had tickets to see the new sensation Bette Midler at our local Jazz Club. She got famous and cancelled the show. Fucking bitch. I and my friends got to listen to some piano player instead.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 21, 2025 11:00 AM (jFCkp)

338 >>Segmenting people into age demographics such as Boomers and Zoomers and Tiddly Winks is part of the Communist conspiracy to divide the American people. It is the same divisiveness as dividing the family unit.

True.

Did the boomers riot again in Portland for like the thousandth day in a row or was that blue haired, face pierced Gen Z assholes?

But it's fun to make stupid generalizations.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:00 AM (viF8m)

339 Sounds more like a capitalist running dog to me.
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

Four Olds.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 11:01 AM (rbvCR)

340 But it's fun to make stupid generalizations.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 21, 2025 11:00 AM

This is the way.

Posted by: toby928 at October 21, 2025 11:01 AM (jc0TO)

341 Does real hardship make a person?

1930s, Hardships of the Great Depression
The American Youth Congress (AYC): Formed in 1934, eventually collaborated with 1st Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Radical student activists: Many students on campuses became politicized and organized protests for workers' rights, peace, and racial equality. Advocating for programs like Social Security. Unions influenced New Deal policies.
The Scottsboro Boys: This landmark case involved nine Black teenagers, some as young as 12, who were falsely accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. Hobos, rail riders.

1960s: The Greensboro Four: The Little Rock Nine; Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture). Decade of political assassinations.

1970s: Mohamed Ali; Billie Jean King; Jim Thorpe. Inflation, political upheaval.

1980s: Self expression.

I think real hardship does. And also some people create their own hardships to be able to claim need & belonging.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

342 >>> Have you considered satanic influence? It really answers all the questions.

I first heard this floated by Melonie Mac, and I kind of dismissed it. But it makes too much sense, the way people are behaving now. It's not like the demons the Bible just said hey, let's stop possessing people! Our bad!

Melonie had a YouTube channel where she reads the Bible out loud every day. It's fun to see a cute young tattooed nerdy gamer reading Bible verses!

Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:02 AM (gWBY1)

343 My uncle was so 4F that he had to sling hash in Tokyo during the Korean War.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 21, 2025 11:02 AM (+U7B7)

344 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

345 I'm opposed to this sort of thing!

Posted by: javems at October 21, 2025 11:03 AM (8I4hW)

346 The generation thing is totally fucked. So is the gender thing, and the race thing, and the economics thing, and all The Things

It's always the same problem, good and evil. Every group has normies, and mutants. It's always normies vs. mutants. The mutants recruit and militate, because they can. The normies don't, because they can't. It's an insoluble problem.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 21, 2025 11:05 AM (YGkzu)

347 Eh, the silents got told that life was hard but if they worked hard enough things would turn out OK.
Boomers got told the world was screwed up but they would survive.
Gen X got told the world was screwed and they were doomed.
Millennials got told they were screwed.
Gen Z got told that people were being recruited specifically to screw them over.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 21, 2025 11:05 AM (rbvCR)

348 Yet our entire city council is far left as is the school board. Because nobody shows up to vote for local stuff except the leftists. I dont know why it’s so fucking hard for those on the right to vote in these elections. And it’s not like they’re under the radar. Local media is always full of info about it, social media discussions, lawn signs, etc. Everyone knows there’s an election.

And yet turnout is like 15-20%. Every time.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 21, 2025 10:04 AM (PGEno)

The massive ad buys before major elections let the unengaged know something is up, which is why school board elections and the like are cleverly held not just off year but off season in Wisconsin.
The teacher unions get out the vote on their side for these spring elections and no ad buys mean an awful lot of people don't even know there's an election going on unless they inadvertently pass a polling place with the sign out.
First they hear of it is the next day, when the results (all leftist wins) are reported in the press.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM (Hx0tZ)

349 Oh boy. Another fight over generations.

So, how about that Lincoln guy?
Posted by: Bulg at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

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He told me to be excellent to each other.

And to party on, dudes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 21, 2025 10:41 AM (GBKbO)

He told me "Don't worry. Be happy".

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 21, 2025 11:07 AM (g8Ew8)

350 I first heard this floated by Melonie Mac, and I kind of dismissed it. But it makes too much sense, the way people are behaving now. It's not like the demons the Bible just said hey, let's stop possessing people! Our bad!

Melonie had a YouTube channel where she reads the Bible out loud every day. It's fun to see a cute young tattooed nerdy gamer reading Bible verses!
Posted by: LizLem at October 21, 2025 11:02 AM (gWBY1)
No matter who reads it, the truth is the truth. If it says demons, it means demons.

Posted by: Eromero at October 21, 2025 11:12 AM (LHPAg)

351 64 Now, George Lincoln Rockwell - he was a Nazi.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

>Jewish Telegraphic Agency: 'Three Rockwell Supporters Arrested in Philadelphia Demonstration,' Feb 3, 1961
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He was assassinated on August 25, 1967, in Arlington, Virginia, by a disgruntled former follower.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 21, 2025 11:43 AM (NFX2v)

352
Going steady! Going steady!
Steady for good!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at October 21, 2025 12:02 PM (xG4kz)

353 Rockwell's painting looks like Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde," although with gossip instead of sex.

Posted by: idgent at October 21, 2025 01:48 PM (PzOlS)

354 Sorry I missed this one. I always love a good Rockwell. I have an address book (remember those?) with this picture on the front.

Posted by: bluebell at October 21, 2025 02:35 PM (79pEw)

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