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Veterans Day Cafe
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At pre
cisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun's rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States. Thank you for your service, Veterans!
The Doctor
@TennantRob 14h Veterans Day, more accurately known as Armistice Day, is celebrated on November 11, because that is when the Great War to end all wars concluded. After the Korean and Vietnam wars, it was renamed Veterans Day. Thanks to all who have and are serving.
Thank you for your service.
Bill Draper Photography
A very primal forest in Vancouver. Probably AI because AI ruins everything. ICYMI: The good life. More of the good life. Trump bailed out the NYC Veterans Day Parade in 1995.
Murmurration at sunset. Border collie gently herding a baby sheep. (Who thinks the collie wants to play head-butt.) Cat thinks he's the T-1000. A WWII veteran, 98 years old, dons his uniform again.
Night of the Living Karens.
I've definitely posted a picture of this early Viking Christian church on the Cafe, but I don't think I've posted video before.
Borgund Stave Church in Norway was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD.
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) November 7, 2025
It built with wood only and without using a single nail. pic.twitter.com/obaoHVNUWB
Akasawa Natural Recreational Forest, Japan.
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) November 9, 2025
pic.twitter.com/DCOXE7RcEk
Possum avoids a danger by pretending to be dead, is the essence of nature...🤣 pic.twitter.com/1ubQJubI4T
— Nature & Animals🌴 (@naturelife_ok) November 10, 2025
What’s the dog thinking? 😊 pic.twitter.com/V7nUCcwbI2
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 11, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:19 PM (MXjT6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:19 PM (zZu0s)
cisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun's rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States.
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OUR NEXT CLUE!!
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin Gates at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (krQz2)
All I have to do is believe ANYTHIG the so-called establishment is telling us might NOT be true.
The truly gullible are those who get angry whenever anyone challenges the establishments.
Left or right.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (WL1+W)
What the hell did they need the nail for?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (sVOFR)
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:21 PM (zzXla)
The Great Seal sculpture in the top photo is absolutely brilliant (pun intended).
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Josephistan at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (vrsjf)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (NW+2e)
I don't think it's AI, but it doesn't look like it has enough cedars to be Vancouver. Either one of them.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (a+4eV)
Never been to that exact spot, but there's plenty of rainforest around there, e.g. the Olympic Penisula, that's even deeper.
So, my vote is it's real.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 11, 2025 07:23 PM (GF5oC)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:23 PM (1Nv0l)
It was a pro wrestling move back in the day as well. Rey Mysterio Jr used it quite a bit.
Posted by: That guy was an acrobatic fiend at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Minuteman at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (/FuYZ)
>> perfect solar spotlight
>> doesn’t line up
Hmm.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (kHop/)
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:26 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (EYmYM)
We know George had a Dodge Charger! saw it on TV!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (v0R5T)
And those kittens aren't more than a couple days old either...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 07:29 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (T52c5)
Stiff arm the guy, don't let him take control of your arm?
Guy is going down. It's like a lot of Jui Jitsu... looks wonderful when the choreography works.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:31 PM (krQz2)
.....
Aah. Stoopid hoomans do all the work.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 07:28 PM (v0R5T)
Much better than hunting for my own food!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:31 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Baby Bok Choy at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tucker at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (R86kT)
Came home in in Oct 44 as a Hospital Ship.
That was my grandfather.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (gbOdA)
One indicator is the woman seems to sit on an imaginary chair. (the version I saw is a little clearer and maybe her hands look funny too.) They also all look kind of ai-ee.
I don't know, im just some idiot wasting time on the internet.
[cripes, looking at hands to detect cyborgs. we are now in a virtual Westworld.]
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (eHquX)
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (gbOdA)
I heard a good "saying" or "maxim" or perhaps a proverb, the other day about Teaching:
"When you want someone to learn nothing, try to teach them everything."
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Odd Fra Oslo at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (oftw2)
We know George had a Dodge Charger! saw it on TV!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (mP0Kj)
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Jon Voight's old car, right?
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (krQz2)
In 1988, a gentleman at our church wore his WWI doughboy uniform for Veterans' Day. I guess he would have been ninety-something then.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (cFlmc)
In other words, teaching is best done in small increments.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (krQz2)
I know the engines were rebuilt at least 2 in WWII.
I think it ran around 30 knots.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (1WNAb)
Late afternoon sun, blue sky, lots of orange and yellow leaves and wave after wave after wave of geese flying in formations. Simply beautiful. All honking at each other as they migrated.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (0714D)
Came home in in Oct 44 as a Hospital Ship.
That was my grandfather.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:32 PM (gbOdA)
I'd buy someone being ONE kind of military ship, but not TWO. He was exaggerating a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oddbob at November 11, 2025 07:34 PM (cFlmc)
Reminded me of the scene in Hacksaw Ridge.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Vendette at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (MR1yy)
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:33 PM (A/n7m)
Starts with the Land Acknowledgment.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (gbOdA)
Got Her Majesty and The Big Dummy off on the road to Chickasha, Oklahoma for shows starting Thursday. It was a hard weekend, a busy day yesterday and a busy morning today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (tgvbd)
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They nailed it--er....didn't....
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:31 PM (krQz2)
I bet they rabbeted the lintels between the lally columns.
Posted by: Mr. Blandings at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (wVcYX)
Who is old enough to have done/seen this?
Jump starting a car with a dead battery with a Coat Hanger and Touching Bumpers?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:38 PM (MXjT6)
Posted by: banana Dream
Vagina dentata? That's just a conspiracy theory.
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 07:38 PM (nhCoE)
The hurricana? Should you have information that could lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary! and she sees you, this is how you will shuffle off your mortal coil.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 07:39 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:37 PM (A/n7m)
is that a euphemism?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:39 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Pith Helmet Sales and Service at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (GF5oC)
Andrew McCarthy, quickly becoming a legendary amateur astrophotographer, captured a full month's worth of Moon photos, and he did the "mineral moon" thing, showing the faint colors:
https://is.gd/wy61ue
You can see the full range of the libration over a month, very cool.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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That's not just old, that's cheap and unprepared.
First thing I did when I got a car was buy good cables.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (eHquX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (MXjT6)
I know the engines were rebuilt at least 2 in WWII.
I think it ran around 30 knots.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (gbOdA)
I'd guess the QM was oil fired from the start in the 30s. It did go 30 knots. There was another QM in WWI that was sunk at Jutland.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (8avO+)
I shall wait till his children are dead and add that.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (gbOdA)
I need publius to explain how it works with leap years and axial precession and whatnot.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (DQ7R7)
I hear that it's sometimes very wearisome, Hadrian, but it couldn't be done without you and the dogs seem to love you and you them. Maybe at some point it will be time to retire.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (WFtAr)
With Trump's $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC, I'm reminded of this episode from the life of F.E. Smith, barrister and later Lord Chancellor.
"In 1907 he was asked to give an opinion on a proposed libel action by the Lever Brothers against newspapers owned by Lord Northcliffe concerning the latter's allegations of a conspiracy to raise the price of soap by means of a 'soap trust'. He checked into the Savoy and, after working all night reading a pile of papers nearly four feet thick and consuming a bottle of champagne and two dozen oysters, Smith wrote a one-sentence opinion: 'There is no answer to this action in libel, and the damages must be enormous.'"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s)
Sow. Now, please to start towing the line.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (wVcYX)
[cripes, looking at hands to detect cyborgs. we are now in a virtual Westworld.]
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
The Invaders with the pinkies that stick up.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (pkeXY)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s)
no. You sow grain to 'plant it' for crops. At harvest, you reap the benefits of your work. No reaping if you don't sow first.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (8avO+)
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The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:41 PM (8avO+)
correct sir
it was bunker
And the name was a mistake as QM was invited and QM thot it was her namesake so it was QM.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:44 PM (WFtAr)
Capt. John Parker
Posted by: MAC V SOG at November 11, 2025 07:44 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (MXjT6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (WFtAr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s)
Sow. Now, please to start towing the line.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:42 PM
ISWYDT.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 07:45 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (1WNAb)
I like walking through old sections of cemeteries and reading the headstones. I did a lot that when I lived in New Hampshire and did my travels around New England.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (0714D)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Vendette at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (MR1yy)
In Loveland OH there is an entire castle build by one guy over his life. I met him when I visited there when I was in high school.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (8avO+)
I need publius to explain how it works with leap years and axial precession and whatnot.
Posted by: Oddbob
Dude named Harvey, appliance dolly, dark of midnight. Some reassembly required.
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (nhCoE)
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (hlNLQ)
McCarthy has been teasing that he shot something even more spectacular than the H-alpha filter shot of the Falcon rocket transiting the Sun, but he hasn't release it yet, just teasing.
In the meantime, he had some fun with this, his best shot of Uranus:
https://is.gd/Tbnivq
That's not too impressive, as he needs a bigger scope, and a better location to get up close and personal with Uranus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: If It Ain't One Thing... at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Desperate men do desperate things. I recently 'fixed' a lame battery terminal using a bit of ripped apart Skoal can that I found in a ditch nearby.
Touching bumpers, these days, would be pointless.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (XeU6L)
I'm guessing that someday the solar system/sun/earth whatever will change enough that that will go out of sync. They probably have a calibration knob inside the monument's service panel that can reposition and resync it quickly.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:44 PM (WFtAr)
Tucker also thinks Buzz himself is faked.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+)
Today Wendys announces planned closing "100s" of stores nationwide.
Americans can no longer afford to eat out at Wendys
And by 100s Wendy's means at least 300 stores.
And it's not because of inflation it is because of no jobs no income no money
ICE raids are not going to distract people either from the economy or the Epstein/Trump files and all the rest of those "globalists" that are in them
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (DLKTP)
Who really cares?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:50 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: If It Ain't One Thing... at November 11, 2025
One of my grandfathers later died from complications of being gassed in the trenches during WW I.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:50 PM (0714D)
Posted by: If It Ain't One Thing... at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (oftw2)
The first US war where battle casualties exceeded disease casualties was Korea.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Farmer Bob
Is that why they've only got the one tree left?
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (meTWG)
I left in 04
hahahaha
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+)
That level of sophistry deserves a knee to the nuts.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:51 PM (/HDaX)
Ending heart disease in 2 states.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (gbOdA)
He took a dump on the moon, and then forced the moon to pitifully plead "Thank you sir may I have another?"
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (7imtn)
You want: A Nordic goddess who will use her flaming sword of justice to smite your enemies.
You'd settle for: A beautiful movie star who will furiously fight for your beliefs.
You'll get: A pretty actress who is smart enough to know that Republicans buy movie tickets too.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (9tc5u)
Posted by: Vendette at November 11, 2025 07:36 PM (MR1yy)
In Loveland OH there is an entire castle build by one guy over his life. I met him when I visited there when I was in high school.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (8avO+)
Bishop's Castle near Pueblo, CO. One man's obsession.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: gp
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That would be a very long time. The seasons would have to shift. But it's presumably already slightly off in each leap year.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (NW+2e)
Wendy's has been Failing as a business for the last 20 years. Burger King is right behind them.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
https://tinyurl.com/36v9cdn7
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (meTWG)
Wendy's execs thought they could reduce quality of their food drastically and still profit. They were wrong.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:47 PM (hlNLQ)
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It's a Scandi thing.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A/n7m)
You'd settle for: A beautiful movie star who will furiously fight for your beliefs.
You'll get: A pretty actress who is smart enough to know that Republicans buy movie tickets too.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 07:52 PM (9tc5u)
And yah know? Yer number 3 is what I actually want.
Movie Stars make their money by acting... ie doing exactly what writers and directors tell them to do and say.
I have no desire for them to talk about politics at all.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (mP0Kj)
I'm looking that up now. The timing has to vary with the leap year cycle, unless there's some adjustment. And changes in tilt and (slight) Gregorian drift.
I'm looking this up....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:49 PM (8avO+)
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I know that I've never met anybody called Buzz Aldrin.
Just asking questions....
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (krQz2)
Obama quotes from his book
You aint my bitch niggas but your own damn fries.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (gbOdA)
Ending heart disease in 2 states."
That reminds me. I've got a BOGO coupon for Culver's Butter Burgers. I don't want to eat them both in one sitting. Is it safe to refrigerate one of those overnight? And then eat it?
[Typed on my spiffy new Raspberry Pi 5]
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (MXjT6)
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (mP0Kj)
then dont buy their shit
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:56 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (hlNLQ)
Metal Bumpers on cars?!
Posted by: Soothsayer
Please, they had those at least through 1995
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (a+4eV)
I'm looking this up....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
I'm guessing it has enough slop to handle all that. You know: "It's good from 11:09-11:13, with peak illumination at 11:11 or 11:12 in a leap year."
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (1Nv0l)
YUM, that's who.
(If you know, you know.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:54 PM (A/n7m)
Looks like they gobbled up a lot of the PepsiCo places.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (NW+2e)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Desperate men do desperate things. I recently 'fixed' a lame battery terminal using a bit of ripped apart Skoal can that I found in a ditch nearby.
Touching bumpers, these days, would be pointless.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Now you just use an 18v Milwaukee battery & two spoons.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:57 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (NW+2e)
*picks up mouse*
Computaar
Posted by: Scotty at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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They were Commies, Tarzan They were red sons-of-bitches who should have died long ago.
Posted by: Cheeta at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (XeU6L)
[Typed on my spiffy new Raspberry Pi 5]
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:55 PM (7imtn)
Sure, I've done it a few times when my reach exceeds my grasp, burger wise. You might want to consider removing any tomato or lettuce or onion to its own container if you want something closer to the original experience.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 07:53 PM (NW+2e)
*picks up mouse*
Computaar
Posted by: Scotty at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA)
I remember my first experience where the car didn't let me remove the key from the ignition
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (8avO+)
McDonalds is not doing great, I hear. Especially since the ceo hates the business.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
___________
Fast food is no longer fast and no longer cheap.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (tgvbd)
Today Wendys announces planned closing "100s" of stores nationwide.
Ending heart disease in 2 states.
Posted by: r hennigantx
The Wendy's nearest me became a donut place.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (MXjT6)
Cheese and onion, it was so damn good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (kHop/)
Metal Bumpers on cars?!
Posted by: Soothsayer
Metal rear bumper on a pickup with the dealership name stamped in the metal.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (meTWG)
Computaar
Posted by: Scotty at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA)
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*sighs*
*rolls eyes*
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:58 PM (zZu0s)
The grey cube is not the golden arches
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 08:00 PM (8avO+)
Cheese and onion, it was so damn good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s)
I remember the little card with the 256 different combinations you could have.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 08:01 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
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Fast food is no longer fast and no longer cheap.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
And the food part is sketchy.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:01 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: 496 at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (xA5Rj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (MXjT6)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (F2Ar1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (MXjT6)
yabba dadda do
Posted by: Fred F at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (kHop/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2025 07:59 PM (tgvbd)
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Yep, and if you're going to pay extra, you may as well get something with flavor.
Before Bidenflation, we'd just forage at fast food stops, but now when we travel, it's with a full load of snacks and a cooler. It's just too expensive for what you get.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius
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Spoke to a part-time McD's manager the other day. His comment, 'We have become the WalMart of fast food'.
Posted by: Cheeta at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (XeU6L)
I axed Grok: "The US Marines have a monument that focuses the sun on a particular spot at 11:11 on Nov 11 every year. How long will it be until it no longer synchronizes with the intended time, due to natural changes in earth-sun motion dynamics?"
Grok replied (after 158 secs!) "Thus, the alignment will remain effective within design tolerances (≈±12 seconds, or 0.05°
for millennia but will no longer precisely synchronize after approximately 3,300 years, when the cumulative drift exceeds the structure's precision and the sun's size."
The calculation is unbelievably complex, involving not just dynamics, but calendrical stuff too.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:03 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:04 PM (NW+2e)
This is why poor people stay poor. Shifty financial decisions.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:04 PM (F2Ar1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:02 PM (F2Ar1)
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At this late date, when China and India are snarking each other over moon missions, it's a bit rich to say no one got there.
And "chemtrails" can cause me to risk stroking out. Okay, science geniuses, how do you have an engine that produces *no exhaust gasses*?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
https://tinyurl.com/36v9cdn7
Posted by: rickb223
I knew someone would deliver.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (MXjT6)
If the govt ends the shutdown, guessing the court will dismiss as moot. The court would prefer not to get involved on the merits.
Posted by: TRex - e pluribus unum at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
But the place was pretty busy so I guess they know what they’re doing.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (F2Ar1)
This is why poor people stay poor. Shifty financial decisions.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:04 PM (F2Ar1)
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Just to be sure I understand you, you are angry that poor people are actually doing the right thing and cutting back?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (ZOv7s)
Cheese and onion, it was so damn good.
I have always thought in the back of my mind cheese and onions.
https://youtu.be/ePaHG6g7uFw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (cQHrm)
I'd appreciate if they'd keep the exhaust gases out of the inside of the fuselage, but they seem to have a problem with that on the airliners I've flown.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (MXjT6)
Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2025 08:07 PM (77rzZ)
We are in rural Wyoming. We live an hour drive to a McDonald's. We have a Subway which is awful. We had a Taco Time but it closed up as did the Pizza Hut.
We cook, lol, but it is much better for us.
Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 08:08 PM (3ek7K)
"Over 1 million poor people served"
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (cQHrm)
Everything at Taco bell meal wise is over $10. Its kind of retarded.
Hell, White castle is over $10 for 6 cheese burgers, a side and a large drink.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM
You're focused on ICE, I presume. A total electric (Tesla) or ECE (Stirling, if electrically heated) will produce no exhaust gasses.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (ZOv7s)
They should never have been going I the first place. But you’re right it is good in a way they now are forced to make better choices.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (F2Ar1)
Posted by: TRex - e pluribus unum at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Which is BS because that’s their one job! Like if I just said at work, ya know, I’m just gonna delay this until it don’t matter no more, stamp it MOOT, and go golf.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (NW+2e)
There is no value proposition left in restaurant dining. You can cook anything you want at home cheaper, and have fun doing it, with an infinite menu of recipes to choose from.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (WHfpM)
Now that they have jobs, they can't afford to miss work for dysentery.
Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 08:11 PM (+2PTH)
I read some time ago that corporate offers Subway coupons that, if the franchisers honored them, they'd end up out of business. Supposedly the profit margin at those stores is razor-thin already, just like at Papa Johns.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:11 PM (MXjT6)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (0sNs1)
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Electric aircraft engines would have laughably short ranges.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM
You fight with the army you have.
Posted by: zombie Charles Martel at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM (0sNs1)
I think they're still okay, but just only okay. If they went back to the quality they featured in the 1980s, oh man.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Ordinary American
Land of the blind, one-eyed man, etc.
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I'm so old, I remember when 6 white castle cheeseburgers would cost $1.50.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: gp
Good enough for government work.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (lJ0H4)
the alignment will remain effective within design tolerances (≈±12 seconds, or 0.05° for millennia but will no longer precisely synchronize after approximately 3,300 years
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If we appoint the government blue ribbon panel now, it might get adjusted on time.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (0lgzA)
It is apparently not an "end;" it just kicks the can down the road 75 days. This country and this govt are so fucked. Flat-ass broke due to decades of foolish promises that never could have been kept. Plus the graft, etc. Empire Of Debt.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM
You're focused on ICE, I presume. A total electric (Tesla) or ECE (Stirling, if electrically heated) will produce no exhaust gasses.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Run exhaust through a compressor/condense into a liquid.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:12 PM
Not necessarily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft
Posted by: zombie Charles Martel at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ordinary American
Her simply existing drives the left insane. Good enough for me.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:06 PM (ZOv7s)
Translation is: "How do you do, fellow kids"
Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:09 PM (F2Ar1)
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Anyone can be poor. I was poor for a very long time. McDonald's was a treat - fancy dining. Actual restaurants were beyond our reach at the time. Lots of poor people do that, and it's quite rational.
There are also times when moving kids from event to event means one can't go home and cook a meal, and Mickey D was a low-price alternative.
That's gone now, because the Ruling Class despises the poor that it claims to treasure.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)
I wonder if anyone here remembers Roger Williams and "Born Free." :-)
In the meantime, I've read that young people are actually collecting and listening to... Herb Alpert LPs from the 1960s/70s. They enjoy his groove, unironically!
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (cQHrm)
I see someone above mentioned some of this, but they set the 11:11:11AM as the mean time to center the alignment on, but built in a 1 minute window for the full spotlight effect. This accounts for the variation over the leap year cycle. Over the leap year cycle, the sun's altitude will vary about 0.27 degrees, and azimuth by 0.02 degrees at the precise 11:11:11 design time. The 1 minute "slop" window covers this variation.
The time of perfect alignment, when it centers exactly varies from 11:10:58Am to 11:11:22AM over the 4 year leap cycle.
Also, there is another secondary alignment, when the sun's declination comes back up after the winter solstice where you'll get the same effect, around Feb 1.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM (w6EFb)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_aircraft
Posted by: zombie Charles Martel at November 11, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)
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LOL, Wikipedia. Even schoolkids are taught never to consult it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (XeU6L)
They were shooting cannon and firing guns right up 'til that moment, too. Some died at 10:59 a.m. Really bad luck.
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (9ipOP)
Oh yeah. I remember. Mom and dad had some of his albums.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (lJ0H4)
This is true. It's at the franchisee's discretion. My local won't accept the two footlongs for $14 coupon, for example.
I tried Walmart Plus for a year for $49, for the free shipping. It turns out that the free shippers expect a tip. So it's just as expensive as me driving there myself. Won't renew.
Five dollar
Five dollar
Five dollar foot longggs!
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (7imtn)
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as free as the wind blows
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Sidney at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (rzwGB)
Posted by: Ordinary American
In the context of her industry, and in the context of the last decade of cancel culture, her resistance is more than enough.
It only takes a few to wander off the reservation and the entire leftist thesis collapses. Hence why they are always totalitarian.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)
To be fair they had the middle class too.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (F2Ar1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 11, 2025 08:10 PM (WHfpM)
All of the SS news stuff is just reacting to the left’s constant freakout. The left is putting her out there in non-movie news situations and the non-left is noticing her boobs and that she isn’t struggle session positive. It is not a symmetric thing. No one is choosing her as a champion.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (NW+2e)
I may have to play somewhere else.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)
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But the illegals who work there earn a living wage and get EITC too!
-Ruling Class
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (9ipOP)
They never went downhill with quality in SoCal. But their prices went through the roof.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:20 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 07:48 PM (meTWG)
Beginning???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2025 08:20 PM (ULPxl)
Would it stop working if we ever get rid of DST?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:20 PM (/lPRQ)
I’ll take it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:21 PM (F2Ar1)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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whatever you like, is good enough
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:21 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Sidney at November 11, 2025 08:18 PM (rzwGB)
They were great. They had these miniature submarine sammies that you could get with a salad that made a good lunch. I even liked their weird commercials. But I was the only.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (NW+2e)
Posted by: Wendy's Execs at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (+2PTH)
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:13 PM (meTWG)
Not that old, but when I was in college 6 cheese and a drink would be about 5. Their sides Always sucked. Fries horrible. Onion rings nothing special.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (gKDq2)
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Great-grandpa was there, with the 5th ID, AEF. His company took 50% casualties in the Meuse-Argonne.
People look at American losses in WW I and it seems small, but almost all of it happened in 90 days. It was quite the shock back home.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: John Winger at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
If we keep the "summer" hours, yes. The current "winter" hours, no.
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:22 PM (nhCoE)
Design is for standard time, and Arizona doesn't do DST anyway. They're on MST the whole year.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:23 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:23 PM (qRoBZ)
Musicians like Tito knew you could make hard rockin' music, even well before rock 'n roll.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (cQHrm)
-Ruling Class
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 08:19 PM (9ipOP)
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Don't forget SNAP and also subsidized housing that by statute cannot be used for non-citizens.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (F2Ar1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Burgers were .15 cents and cheeseburgers were a quarter. A twenty would fill a grocery bag.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (cQHrm)
Swimvear. Very Nice...
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:23 PM (qRoBZ)
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I showed those to my kids, so that they could see that there was a time when US businesses were patriotic and made fun of our enemies to sell...hamburgers.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (lJ0H4)
Speaking of graveyards...
remember the episode of Star Wars: Voyager when Ensign Harry Wang ended up in some alien "afterlife" graveyard?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (qRoBZ)
Four Dog'n'Suds coney dogs for 60 cents. Nickel candy bars. Two egg mcmuffins for around $3.50.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
It would stop working if we made DST permanent (which is what we should do). They'd have to reposition it for 10am current-time.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:24 PM (F2Ar1)
This.
.59, .79, .99!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (zZu0s)
I may have to play somewhere else.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November
Bless you for doing this. I am so afraid people are forgetting how precious our freedoms are, and how they are protected. Is it indifference due to history not being taught with reverence? Has the immigrant influx been so massive that the ties to our service members and our nation been diluted? Or are we really so callous that we love our Military in times of war and just don’t care when it’s largely a time of peace?
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (F2Ar1)
As I mentioned: young people who enjoy vinyl are actually collecting copies of that album. Say they enjoy it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (cQHrm)
Comedy gold, Jerry!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (ZOv7s)
I wish things were that easy.
Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (NW+2e)
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (gKDq2)
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Great-grandpa was there, with the 5th ID, AEF. His company took 50% casualties in the Meuse-Argonne.
People look at American losses in WW I and it seems small, but almost all of it happened in 90 days. It was quite the shock back home.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
+++++
Ever wonder who built all those trenches?
I presume sappers between the a tipn but not good for movies
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Whipped Cream and Other Delights..
Posted by: man
Had that album. Played it over and over.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (lJ0H4)
Roger that! Four cats, and I'm going broke from the inflated costs of all supplies and vet care.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (7imtn)
Herb Alpert has admitted that the LP cover helped sell a ton of copies of it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (cQHrm)
We'd hit the Taco Bell on Hayward. $.50 would cover tacos and drink...plus it had the cool stone wall thingy out front - perfect to set bike ..
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (qRoBZ)
According to Grok, the drift in the alignment does get significant every leap year. The sun gets a bit too low on Nov. 11 in a leap year, and the best alignment occurs on Nov 10 really. The best alignment is on Nov. 11, first year after a leap year. 2025 is thus a good year, and then 2029 will be the next "zeroing". 2028 will be piss poor.
Also, not the design life was 100 years. Y2K was the first 400 year cycle where the century year didn't skip a leap. When we skip the leap in 2100, that will be a little hiccup in that alignment as well. :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
If we keep the "summer" hours, yes. The current "winter" hours, no.
Posted by: mikeski
Design is for standard time, and Arizona doesn't do DST anyway. They're on MST the whole year.
Posted by: publius
I didn't know it was in AZ. I sit corrected.
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (9tc5u)
That’ll be $5.29 sir at the second window.
Ahhh the 90s!!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (F2Ar1)
Whipped Cream and Other Delights..
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:25 PM
She was a) clothed underneath that, and b) it was shaving cream, not whipped cream.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (fd80v)
Wait, there was a record inside?
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
Still very provocative for the late 60's.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:31 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:29 PM (9tc5u)
Private equity demands returns to keep the rating to allow the pension plans to buy the stock.
Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (7imtn)
Is still alive and kicking...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:26 PM (OoFl2)
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I didn't come up with the idea myself. I was in the marching band in college and dislocated my knee during a rather generously described "two-hand touch" football game. So I was sidelined on Game Day. A stogie-smoking guy came up to me while I sat on the cart (with my horn, in uniform) and asked if I could play "Taps." Of course! Would I play it for his class on Nov. 11? Sure. How much? I said I didn't need payment, but he said he only used professionals, so I accepted $1.11.
He was a prof, not just a prof, a university president emeritus - Walter Adams. So at the appointed time, I came into his class, he asked everyone to stand, and I played "Taps." After that, I got into the habit of doing it around campus, and later moved to the Capitol, and finally Veterans Memorial Park. Haven't missed a year yet, but it is depressing watching it go away. Maybe next year I'll try gin up some media coverage.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (qRoBZ)
'Heck, a few houses I went to in Appalachia didn’t have floors.'
They had walls?
Luxury.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025
I think even that might have been a little questionable! But for the Grace of God, right?
Posted by: Piper at November 11, 2025 08:32 PM (OoFl2)
A few weeks ago, I linked a Youtube of some poor guy dealing with 3 young dogs abandoned near his property.
He gets no help from his local Animal Control and then explains how much the pups are costing him.
https://is.gd/NvcIu9
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Jack at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)
And hot as fuck, you nancing retard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (qRoBZ)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
That only changes the method of de-creaming her. Licking is now right out.
And shut up, Wesley.
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (nhCoE)
Herb Alpert has admitted that the LP cover helped sell a ton of copies of it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (cQHrm)
Helped some other things too.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher
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dude you're ruining it for everyone
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (AOsQT)
Alpert tells the story that he met people in the 1960s and 70s who told him, they loved Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Then they would go on and on... about the cover.
Herb would ask them, "but what did you think of the music?"
And they'd respond "well I haven't gotten around to listening to it yet..." ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (cQHrm)
Now playing "The Lark Ascending". A gorgeous piece of music.
Posted by: Tuna
Why is Ralph pronounced "Rafe?"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:16 PM
It's actually not a bad article.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (aOqEy)
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dude you're ruining it for everyone
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (AOsQT)
He likes to hang out with the Traveler. IYKWIM.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp
Yup, my parents had 3 of us at Ohio State late 60's through mid 70's. No student loans.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (cQHrm)
There are good articles and bad ones. When I see a mistake in one, I edit it, for all the good it does.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:35 PM (7imtn)
And shut up, Wesley.
Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (nhCoE)
Or re... nvm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:36 PM (zZu0s)
I presume sappers between the a tipn but not good for movies
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 08:28 PM (/lPRQ)
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Guys with e-tools did the first work, digging foxholes that were later deepened and connected.
By 1918, the continuous lines were a thing of the past. Machineguns had proliferated and having troops packed into firing lines just caused extra casualties. Defense in depth with interlocking fire points was what things looked like in 1918, and once the deadlock was broken, the defensive lines were less developed.
If retreating, one could have rear-area troops use heavy equipment/actual shovels to prepare positions, but otherwise it was some grunt digging his own grave.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:37 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:37 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (NW+2e)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Abhhh. 25 cent tacos at Jack in the Box when you actually spoke into the clown.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (0sNs1)
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I have neither the time nor the inclination to sort the blatantly biased from the merely jacked-up.
I used to enjoy browsing wikipedia, but it is getting absurdly bad - and that is compounded by the fact that the best stuff they have is blatantly plagiarized. And then they screw it up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (NW+2e)
Bet that led to more than just a few divorces...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (NW+2e)
Just looked it up. Sounds horrifying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:34 PM (cQHrm)
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Alpert is the only artist with a #1 hit both as an instrumentalist and a vocalist.
What were they?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: AlaBAMA
With less cream.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 08:40 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:41 PM (MXjT6)
Bet that led to more than just a few divorces...
Posted by: qdpsteve
I don't remember those. We didn't even get the burgers, just the greasy tacos. They were meat & cheese and sealed like an empanada. And then deep fried. Which is why they were greasy.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (meTWG)
Instrumental, I'd assume Herb Alpert's biggest hit was A Taste Of Honey.
With vocals? This Guy's In Love With You.
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (cQHrm)
I don't think it's that simple and I don't think it's all about the food prices. Wendy's also closed hundreds of restaurants in 2024.
I think it's more cultural. Fast food in general is not what it was when my generation was in our teens and twenties. Drive by any fast food place these days and they just aren't busy like they used to be. Fast food joints are going the way of the mall.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 08:41 PM (MXjT6)
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Is it more gritty? More real?
Because the true gritty real Robin Hood story has only been told...um, endlessly.
I liked the black one, where they're gang-bangers robbing people in public housing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (ZOv7s)
What were they?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Pretty sure the vocal was "This Guy's in Love With You ".
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM (meTWG)
Euphemism, rick?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 11, 2025 08:43 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (meTWG)
Bright Red in my AO at sunset. Had a double take, thought it was sunset cloud illumination. Pretty far south, so it should be remarkable if you live up North
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (//5Rf)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (7imtn)
oh dear...
They are rebooting "Scrubs." I never thought it was that funny -- kinda like the unfunny Always Sunny.
Also rebooting Malcom In The Middle, (probably an all-black or gay or gay-black version), and rebooting Buffy Vampire Slayer, (probably black-gay fake Buffy).
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (A/n7m)
With vocals? This Guy's In Love With You.
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:42 PM (cQHrm)
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Correct on the vocals, but "Rise" was his big instrumental hit, featured in a rape scene on "General Hospital."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
No. Lol. There was an actual clown head on the menu board that you spoke into in the drive thru.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (meTWG)
My Name Is Earl
Now THAT is a funny show.
Scrubs, not so much.
But still better than The Office crap.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:45 PM (7imtn)
The smoke show from Wolf of Wallstreet
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (//5Rf)
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Overcast.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Well not all. Not the douchebags. Thanks to all who served honorably.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (//5Rf)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (meTWG)
Ace thinks everything is funny...(except us).
Ace loved Big Bang Theory, which is the literal opposite of funny.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (A/n7m)
I figured Alpert's biggest instrumental was either The Lonely Bull, A Taste Of Honey, or Rise.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 08:48 PM (3ek7K)
Wait.
Didn't You People love 2 Broke Chicks??
You did, I remember!
(I'll admit it had a few funny moments.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:48 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Sean Bean is in it. I assume he plays a bad guy.
Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 08:48 PM (lJ0H4)
You did, I remember!
(I'll admit it had a few funny moments.)
Posted by: Soothsayer
Tits!
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 08:49 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (A/n7m)
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Never watched it. All the clips/highlights I saw promoting it looked deeply cringe.
It was the show that made nerds cool, and thereby destroyed nerd culture.
The wokes swarmed into Star Wars and fantasy and sci-fi and completely trashed them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:49 PM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/2fh3ejzj
Scroll down to "WSA-Enlil Prediction" to play an animation of what's coming.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:50 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: when in doubt, get your groove on at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (AOsQT)
Dammit, this has got me obsessed with the details of the alignment window. We've got the tropical year vs calendar year, and the Equation of Time variation over the same leap year cycle.
Another lucky thing is the Equation of Time maximizes around Nov. 3, so it's not changing much on Nov 11. This helps with the timing alignment.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:47 PM (cQHrm)
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A Taste of Honey was a hit when Michigan State went to the 1966 Rose Bowl and at Alumni Band a few years ago we played an arrangement of it. Cool tune.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 08:05 PM (ZOv7s)
An electric one.
The battery, though, remains problematic.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 08:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 08:52 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:54 PM (F2Ar1)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:54 PM (JmM66)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:55 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:55 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 11, 2025 08:54 PM (JmM66)
Most sitcoms are like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 11, 2025 08:56 PM (F2Ar1)
What the hell did they need the nail for?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (l3YAf)
Some guy named Luthor, had some suggestions, never heard of e-mail.
Posted by: JB1000 at November 11, 2025 08:56 PM (ttgbj)
The old "Mama's family" sketches on Carol Burnett, and the show itself, could be kind of nasty and sad sometimes. Eunice (played by Burnett) gave and took a lot of really barbed insults.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:56 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 08:58 PM (7imtn)
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What are we going to wind up doing, using AI to divine whether a pic is AI?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 08:58 PM (dveO7)
Also it's supposed to be $20 for a pie that's 8 inches in diameter. Kind of overpriced, but I've heard some franchises actually sell them for a lot less.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:58 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 08:59 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 08:59 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:00 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2025 09:00 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (aOqEy)
Also it helps me personally that I enjoy their cheapo stuff. The bean burrito and bean/rice/cheese burritos are good.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (//5Rf)
Posted by: Oldcat
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If only he were alive. He could help Tucker understand.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:01 PM (dveO7)
In its defence, I guess, it came out in 1915.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 09:02 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:02 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (cQHrm)
'What was left was mentally ill people saying cruel things to each other.'
That's only funny in real life.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 11, 2025 08:30 PM (0sNs1)
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And hot as fuck, you nancing retard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 08:33 PM (zZu0s)
!
Still chuckling.
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (gKDq2)
The old "Mama's family" sketches on Carol Burnett, and the show itself, could be kind of nasty and sad sometimes. Eunice (played by Burnett) gave and took a lot of really barbed insults.
Posted by: qdpsteve
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It was a modern burlesque venue.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (dveO7)
Went to Jack in the Box once in college. It was 3am. Did not go well.
Really don’t do fast food. Unless it’s an egg McMuffin on the way to the ski slopes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (mT+6a)
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I tried it again last year after a lengthy hiatus I guess you’d call it. So-so, portions now micro-sized. Cost $25 to get sorta kinda filled up. Sad. I cook for myself now.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (//5Rf)
I like her, but my mom? She loves Carol.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (cQHrm)
I haven't eaten at Taco Bell in at least twenty years.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
Yeah, because YUM ruined it. Taco Bell was always crap, but edible crap at a good value. Same with the pizza joint chain that I can't remember. Same with KFC. YUM ruined all of them.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (A/n7m)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:04 PM (cQHrm)
Gimmicky but I'll take it. Blizzard with M&Ms or Oreos.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:05 PM (aOqEy)
Posted by: banana Dream
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WAIT !, I'll take her. She must not be left to stand alone.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:06 PM (dveO7)
Thank you to all our veterans, and God bless you.
Posted by: Beverly at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (Epeb0)
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Who can forget that is was the sound track for Rush Limbaugh 's animal rights updates.
Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (SdF2+)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:07 PM (cQHrm
Dressed as a bat! Yes!
You should email their PR dept. seriously.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 11, 2025 09:08 PM (aOqEy)
That's funny about Born Free, but at the same time? Still a great recording IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:08 PM (cQHrm)
Bendix was a good actor.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:10 PM (dveO7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:11 PM (cQHrm)
youtube.com/watch?v=dEqa-pQa-WA
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:12 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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I didn't know.
More MBA's fixing things.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:13 PM (dveO7)
Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 09:13 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:14 PM (cQHrm)
Wouldn't hurt to go out and take a look.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 09:15 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (//5Rf)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 09:15 PM (npFr7)
Just getting dark here. Looks like it will be clear enough to see it tonight. I intend to watch it from the vantage point of the hot tub.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (yKmBH)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:19 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:21 PM (Sco7b)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:21 PM (cQHrm)
The “Sorry!!!” Game to me is the funniest one, because that was like watching every board game night at my house when I was a yute.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2025 09:22 PM (aTimx)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (7imtn)
Problem is minimum wage laws make some think fast-food jobs should have a 'living wage', whatever the fuck that is. The living wage concept is a main driver of minimum wage increases, which leads to inflation and reduced purchasing power for that higher 'living wage'.
Economic stupidity knows no bounds.
Posted by: RickZ at November 11, 2025 09:24 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:18 PM (//5Rf)
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I was wondering if it's adjustable because it's going to be slightly out of alignment over time, which will only get worse.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 09:25 PM (IBQGV)
The “Sorry!!!” Game to me is the funniest one, because that was like watching every board game night at my house when I was a yute.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Tim Conway talking about the elephant.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:25 PM (meTWG)
We are at G5 geomagnetic level. Go here:
https://is.gd/6oWITB
And click on the Aurora prediction run. There's about 50 minute lead time. Doubt we'll see anything this far south. G5 level will get us there. It was visible here, when was it, in May 2024?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (//5Rf)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
They built in a sloppy minute to account for leap years and such.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:26 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: qdpsteve
My mother LOVED 'Mama's Family.'
When I came back from teaching in South Korea, I was able to find and burn to DVR discs many of her favourite shows. I could never find 'Mama's Family.'
I even tried to buy it. Couldn't find them.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:27 PM (Sco7b)
https://youtu.be/IlE6ocdZFto?si=ZaaWOna80w7R5kBO
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:27 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: qdpsteve
I don't know.
But I don't know how you could grow up in that house without peeing yourself on a daily basis. I mean, watch how he destroys Carol and Harvey and they KNOW it's coming.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:29 PM (meTWG)
And I'd bet by now most if not all of them are out of print. I agree it's a shame that so much great TV is all but impossible to purchase on hard-disk media.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:29 PM (cQHrm)
One year they gave me a free meal near Christmas, just because.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 09:29 PM (IBQGV)
The design life is only 100 years. The slight change in obliquity (earth's tilt) and the slight Gregorian long term drift is insignificant over 100 years. If they want it to keep it going for a few thousand years, however, it will need adjustment.
Change in tilt has resulted in 3 secs less daylight on the summer solstice here since I was born, and 4 secs more daylight on the winter solstive. Tropics have moved equatorward and arctic circles poleward accordingly over those 58 years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:30 PM (w6EFb)
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Bullshit. Brad Manning? Reality Winner?
Yeah …. no. Thank everyone who served honorably. Apples and aircraft carriers.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:32 PM (//5Rf)
Carol Burnett Show DVDs are also still available, but I have no idea how many Mama's Family sketches actually found their way to those volumes.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:32 PM (cQHrm)
The Lakshman GPS compass app is now installed and working. Now I’m working on a way to mount the phone to the radio-direction-finding antenna mast, and when that’s done, I have an automatic azimuthal readout on the direction it’s pointing, instead of just an eyeball estimate.
I have reached my Android goal, for now. Maybe later on, if I feel like banging my head against a wall for a few solid weeks, who knows, I might even try creating my own app. Using Android Studio without Grok as a guide is near impossible for mere mortals. It’s huge and intricate, with a not-so-intuitive UX. A maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:33 PM (7imtn)
I don't know why I find myself doing this every year. I'm worth a lot of money.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 11, 2025 09:33 PM (qwx/I)
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Lit up the sky pretty good in the desert southwest Pub!
That’s why I suggested those in the North to check it out.
I’m a go out and look again. Will it be better tomorrow night maybe?
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:34 PM (//5Rf)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Bing: tim conway jr on dad being funny
Arroyo Grande interview. I think it the first entry. It's on YouTube.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:35 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:35 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 09:36 PM (dveO7)
>> Raspberry Pi 5 is working fine for routine desktop computing.
I used to be into the RPI but it’s pretty much lost its cost competitiveness.
You can get a renewed HP deskpro mini i5 with 8gb of ram, 256gb had for less than $150.
This unit is only slightly bigger than a kitted out rpi and will run rings around it.
When the i7s were plentiful, I bought 10 of them for around the same price, the supply has dried up and now their cost has risen sharply, which makes the i5 more attractive.
Even at the higher prices, a fully maxed out i7 makes for a great low end workstation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:36 PM (XV/Pl)
Thanks. I wasn't a huge fan.
I think everyone will always remember the dentist sketch.
One reason I like the kids shows is famous actors sometimes show up. Vicky Lawrence sp? and a ton of famous people were on ' Hannah Montana.' It was really cool.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:36 PM (Sco7b)
$159.99 complete set on Amazon
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:37 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:38 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK
Wow. Pretty overcast here. Supposed to rain for the next few days. Hot tub under a frozen clear sky is sublime.
Please hug DH. You’re both outstanding individuals.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:38 PM (mT+6a)
Clicky clack on that NOAA page for the 3 day predictions. That short term aurora gives you 24 hours total, but only 30 mins roughly future predictions (which is based on the the SOHO spacecraft at L1 measurements).
Currently, the lead time is 50 mins, so they can predict 50 minutes ahead.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Holy shit. That’s a lot of money.
Good for you if you are there. That’s awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:39 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Baton The Hatches! at November 11, 2025 09:40 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:32 PM (//5Rf)
I stand corrected. That's a really good point.
And there's probably people who served who turned out pretty crappy afterwards...especially after some of them went into politics.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:40 PM (Sco7b)
Per Wiki, there were 31 Mama's family sketches featured on the original Carol Burnett Show. Then there was a TV movie, and one more sketch on Carol's follow-up variety series, Carol & Company. And then there was the TV series.
So it was kind of an entire series within a series.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:40 PM (cQHrm)
🌌 YES!!! Meteor and Northern Lights in Southern Missouri - Absolutely wild night with the aurora borealis. Visible with the naked eye!❤️
Photo from the back of my camera!
LSC/Joshua Napper
Wow.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:41 PM (meTWG)
'The “Sorry!!!” Game to me is the funniest one, because that was like watching every board game night at my house when I was a yute.'
I liked the Monopoly one.
10 50!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:39 PM (mT+6a)
Nurse, how are you today?
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (Sco7b)
>> Holy shit. That’s a lot of money.
Adjusted for inflation, I used to make more money in 1990.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (1WNAb)
I like walking through old sections of cemeteries and reading the headstones. I did a lot that when I lived in New Hampshire and did my travels around New England.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2025 07:46 PM (0714D)
I visited Copps Burial Ground on the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston. Oldest headstone is from 1661. No earlier markers survive due to weathering, erosion, and historical damage like British soldiers using stones for target practice during the Revolutionary War.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (y171U)
Probably my all-time favorite TV movie is Special Bulletin, which was presented *on videotape* in 1982. It was about nuclear terrorism, of all things, and featured the star of Sledge Hammer, David Rasche, as one of the terrorists.
IMHO it was quite ahead of its time, and even featured early examples of digital graphics for television.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:42 PM (cQHrm)
So it was kind of an entire series within a series.
Posted by: qdpsteve
Amazon
Mama's Family the Complete Collection all 24 discs.
$49.95
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:43 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:43 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 09:44 PM (kUdqB)
Well, hell. Don't see anything here, but I'm gonna go out to higher ground where I can see closer to the horizon North.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)
Look North. Red-ish haze.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 09:45 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:45 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: JQ at November 11, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:46 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 11, 2025 09:48 PM (uWSFJ)
EVERYBODY had Herb Alpert albums. Even my parents. My dad was of the opinion anything after the 1940s big band music wasn’t too good. He thought Riders On The Storm was good, however.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 09:48 PM (//5Rf)
287 Did anyone see the Turkish C-130. It is pretty horrific. I’ve seen a lot of bad things but never anything like that.
Posted by: General Chang at November 11, 2025 08:38 PM
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I looked it up. I'm not exactly sure what I was looking at. It looked like half of the airplane was gone. Just wings and part of the fuselage descending. There was word of search and rescue. I don't think there's going to be any rescue.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 11, 2025 09:48 PM (t1fZA)
It’s a tough week. I reached out to my brother and he was kind and loving. When dad died, my
Younger brother was the executor. Not much of an “estate.” But. He took care of everything and wrote the obit and sold everything. Then wrote me a check and gave an itemized receipt of everyrhing.
He’s a lib. But he’s an honest, good man. And there was NO fighting.
Blessings to you. I’m sorry your experience was so horrid.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:50 PM (mT+6a)
>> I also use the RPi's for the GPIO interfacing stuff, which a PC doesn't have. For $124, this is fine.
That would be one use case where the pi might shine, but you can add gpio to a pc either through usb or network.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 09:50 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:51 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: General Chang
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Similar to the C-130 breakup a few years ago over... parts SE US? Carolinas?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 09:52 PM (NwnyJ)
Just give me the sturdy old CUA GUI interface, and I'll find WitsEnd in a trice.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:52 PM (7imtn)
Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 09:53 PM (kUdqB)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
How tf does that even happen? It's like the front and rear broke off and it was just the wings and a small part of the fuselage.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:53 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:54 PM (meTWG)
Posted by: qdpsteve
He really was. He is the one who called me after the cops found dad on the beach. I was at work.
He went to identify the body.
It was four days before his 40th birthday. He was planning a big party in Vegas.
Thanks dad.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:54 PM (mT+6a)
He commented that it might be the last time he could pull it off.
Posted by: waepnedmann at November 11, 2025 09:55 PM (E2mjq)
'How tf does that even happen? It's like the front and rear broke off and it was just the wings and a small part of the fuselage.
'
A mid-air crash or a bomb were all I could think of.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2025 09:55 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2025 09:56 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: fourseasons at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (3ek7K)
Looks like aliens invading.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (cQHrm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 09:50 PM (mT+6a)
I'm happy your family was decent through such a horrible time.
I just put the angel on top of the Christmas tree! The house is clean. My friiends are coming tomorrow at 4pm. The kids will decorate the tree.
I have gifts for the kids, pumpkin pie and strawberries. They are bringing roast beef and mashed potatos. So I'm feeling very blessed today.
May you feel this soon also. Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (Sco7b)
OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (7imtn)
There’s been speculation on X, someone remembered another C-130 accident where a prop blade came apart in flight, and one struck the fuselage ahead of the wings with enough force that the crew cabin was severed. And then speculated that as the plane began to tumble, the stresses caused the back of the fuselage to break off.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2025 09:57 PM (aTimx)
Not a smidge here that I can see. It may be slightly hazy to the north. Overhead, it's pretty clear, see a lot of stars, but not many low on the northern horizon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 09:58 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2025 09:58 PM (cQHrm)
Very severe turbulence.
Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 09:58 PM (7imtn)
My father was a WWII Marine Sgt, South Pacific Theater island hopping for 30mo. Including Peleliu and Guam.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (MAl//)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (Sco7b)
https://tinyurl.com/52eavr8u
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2025 09:54 PM (meTWG)
Hit by a missile?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 11, 2025 10:00 PM (npFr7)
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I have visited an even older stave church at Urnes, not far from this one. One thing I can say about all these historical sights is their smell of ages.
Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 10:01 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM
You reap what you sow. Sow oats, reap oats. Sow evil, reap evil.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 10:01 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 10:20 PM (MAl//)
>>OK, write up a BOM for all that and price it. Include the added A/D, D/A, PWM, I2C, SPI, UART peripherals.
Cheapest way to go would be to use an arduino nano as a bridge device with the pc, it will get you 99pct of what you need.
So for 140 buck you get a real computer and for 25 bucks you get a microcontroller/gpio interface with all of those features.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 11, 2025 10:23 PM (XV/Pl)
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