Saturday Night "Club ONT" November 29, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Alright, Christmas Tree... it is timber time. Junior, bring me the saw.

Welcome to Club ONT. A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. Apparently today was Small Business Saturday. Yet another event I was this many days old before knowing.

Quote of the Weekend

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Rogers

Who is feeling festive and enjoying their Thanksgiving weekend? Family still around? Decorations? Leftovers!

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

A man was doing some last minute Christmas shopping when he spotted a beautiful parrot through the window of a pet shop.

The man walked inside to get a better look, and the owner of the shop approached the man.

"That's Chet," the owner said, "He's a very special parrot."

"What do you mean special?" the man asked.

The owner struck a match and held it under the parrot's left foot and Chet began to sing, "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way..."

The man was totally amazed. The owner then held the lit match under the parrot's right foot and Chet began to sing, "Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la..."

The man had never seen any parrot like this one. He quickly paid the man for the parrot and rushed home to his wife.

Skeptical of her husband's purchase, the wife sat down and watched the man light a match, then hold it under the parrot's left foot. Chet began to bellow, "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way..."

The wife was speechless. The man then held the match under the parrots right foot and Chet began to bellow, "Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la..."

The wife, still skeptical asked, "What would happen if you held the match under both of his feet?"

The man thought for a minute, then held the lit match under both of the parrot's feet.

Chet began to squawk louder than ever, "CHETS NUTS ROASTING OVER AN OPEN FIRE!"

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Went into a toy store to do some early Christmas shopping and asked the assistant, "Where are the Schwarzenegger dolls?"

He said, "Aisle B, back."

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Drink of the Night

Autumn Daiquiri

Ingredients
2 ounces dark rum
½ ounce lime juice
½ ounce pineapple juice
¼ ounce Demerara Syrup (syrup made with sugar in the raw)
¼ ounce cinnamon syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
Directions
In a cocktail shaker, add all ingredients with ice. Shake well and strain into a coupe glass.

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Club ONT Department of Philosophy

Anyone know what the correct amount of woomba is?

Asking the important questions.

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Club ONT Trains

Ken Burns has rightfully been taking some heat for his revisionist Civil War series. Let's take a look at something interesting from the era.

The Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. The Failed Union Plot To Steal A Confederate Train And Destroy Tracks Across The South.

The plan to steal a Confederate train, hatched by a civilian spy named James J. Andrews, had a dual purpose. It was meant to destroy Western and Atlantic Railroad and cut off Confederate supplies to Chattanooga, making the city vulnerable to capture by Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel.

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James J. Andrews and his men targeted a train station in Kennesaw known as Big Shanty because it didn't have a telegraph station. If everything went according to plan, the Confederates would be unable to alert others to the train theft, thus giving Andrews and his men a healthy head start.

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Club ONT Permanent Record

No compatibility tests. Nor leadership. Certainly not intelligence test - we all know smart the Horde... well nevermind. The Club is going right to the jugular. Dictator and President tests. Which are you most aligned with?

Villian Test

This free online 45-question personality test will allow you to compare yourself with the personalities of 20 murderous dictators and terrorists, using a hybrid of the scientific "Big Five" measure of personality and the cognitive theories of C.G. Jung. Furthermore, this test will also match your personality scores with peer-reviewed university studies.

Which President are you Test

In his research, Professor Dr. John M. Berecz, Ph.D., studied the personalities of several U.S. presidents and concluded that each of them could be linked to a definite psychiatric pathology.
Which U.S. president do you resemble? For each of the following statements, indicate how well it applies to you below.

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Club ONT Science Update

Space trivia: Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977. It has been flying for over 48 years away from the sun at an average of over 38,026 miles per hour.

It is not yet one light-day away from earth. A light-day is the distance it takes for a beam of light to travel over 24 hours.

For comparison, the closest star is 4.24 light-years away. The closest star is Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri system.

If the relative celestial locations remained the same (which they won't), it would take Voyager 1 over 74,000 earth years to reach Proxima Centauri at its current pace. Having said that, Voyager 1 was never built for top speed. More speed is possible, so other spacecraft could get there much more quickly.

If you are at Club ONT's Proxima Centauri location and you are waiting for drink delivery from earth, please be patient. Old copies of Compute! Magazine are in the lobby for you to read while you wait.

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Club ONT Music

Let's begin the Christmas season with a very Club-worthy tune from The Waitresses!

Check out that funky bass-line!

Bringing back a Club favorite - you will face scorn if you are caught not Wanging Chung!

Anyone here named Sharona? If so, this one's for you!

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Comments

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1 egg nog

Posted by: mindful webworker - or not at November 29, 2025 10:01 PM (LaTF/)

2 Good evening morons and слава тройке!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:02 PM (9ipOP)

3 Wild attempt at first goes down in flames.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 29, 2025 10:03 PM (TfUTr)

4 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 29, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)

5 Not first

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 29, 2025 10:03 PM (fveCG)

6 I hope all of you enjoyed drinking the tears of your leftist relatives!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:03 PM (9ipOP)

7 Went into a toy store to do some early Christmas shopping and asked the assistant, "Where are the Schwarzenegger dolls?"

He said, "Aisle B, back."

Nothing like a short and sweet joke.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:04 PM (gKDq2)

8 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 29, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

9 Hola!

I’m completely heartbroken.

My boys have successfully launched to the point they don’t need me anymore. Who am I now? Who needs me? Who calls me when they skin their knees?

Sorry. I guess I shoulda fucked em up so much they never moved out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 10:04 PM (mT+6a)

10 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 29, 2025 10:05 PM (+J/Au)

11 Its cool. Just (fill in snark here.)

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 29, 2025 10:05 PM (YlWIZ)

12 You know who else was an INTJ?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:05 PM (9ipOP)

13 Hello horde, love you all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 29, 2025 10:06 PM (CHHv1)

14 Brenda Lee - that hair makes her look like her head is 2x tall. Or she's wearing one of those Royal Guard helmets.

And her voice - she could almost be a female Chipmunk!

Posted by: mindful webworker - deck the halls with boughs of molly at November 29, 2025 10:06 PM (LaTF/)

15 >>>Ken Burns has rightfully been taking some heat for his revisionist Civil War series.

I think you missed it on this one. His Civil Wars series from 1990 was largely acclaimed.

On the other hand, his Revolutionary War series from this year has been widely panned for its revisionism.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 29, 2025 10:07 PM (syz1S)

16 One for the algorithm!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)

17 Leftover stuffing heated in the waffle iron. Good stuff!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:08 PM (k2x4V)

18 I wonder how many miles that Tesla has traveled so far.

Posted by: davidt at November 29, 2025 10:09 PM (Q+gd/)

19 Sorry. I guess I shoulda fucked em up so much they never moved out.

You did good. Time to admit that you were a competent parent.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 29, 2025 10:09 PM (lUFok)

20 Hey everybody. Hey ONT!

On the other hand, his Revolutionary War series from this year has been widely panned for its revisionism.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 29, 2025 10:07 PM (syz1S)

Burns REALLY jumped the shark when he claimed that George Washington was an early fan follower of Nick Fuentes. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2025 10:09 PM (uZFV0)

21 Sorry. I guess I shoulda fucked em up so much they never moved out.
Posted by: nurse ratched

{{{Nurse!}}} But if you'd done that, they'd be hard core lefties, instead of the fine conservatives they are.
OK, back after I take the bad guy test....

Posted by: Some Rat at November 29, 2025 10:09 PM (TfUTr)

22 I could murder that daiquiri right about now.

I’ll just have to settle for bourbon and sour patch gummies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 29, 2025 10:10 PM (XV/Pl)

23 I think you missed it on this one. His Civil Wars series from 1990 was largely acclaimed.

On the other hand, his Revolutionary War series from this year has been widely panned for its revisionism.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 29, 2025 10:07 PM (syz1S)

I agree. He didn't revise The Civil War. But like muzzies saying they've always been here, Burns is now into propaganda. Leni Riefenstahl would be proud.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:10 PM (gKDq2)

24 13 Hello horde, love you all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 29, 2025 10:06 PM
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BC! What are you animating these days?

Posted by: TRex - animated dino at November 29, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

25 Kathy, what a sweet story about your grandson b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:10 PM (9ipOP)

26 egg nog
Posted by: mindful webworker - or not at November 29, 2025 10:01 PM (LaTF/)

Enjoying one right now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 10:11 PM (npFr7)

27 If everything went according to plan

What, you really make us click through to get The Rest of the Story? I'm busy. Got more post to read, and comments to read and write!!

Posted by: mindful webworker - and I might fall down a rabbit hole at November 29, 2025 10:11 PM (LaTF/)

28 17 Leftover stuffing heated in the waffle iron. Good stuff!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:08 PM
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AZ - good to see you here. Hope you're well.

Posted by: TRex - sufficient dino at November 29, 2025 10:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

29 You did not receive an email from Club ONT. Some say that the minions Club ONT tasked with sending out emails this year forgot their password and got locked out of their computer without IT support on duty to reset their credentials. Others choose to believe that Club ONT values your patronage SO much that we decided to give your inbox the gift of peace. You pick.
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Those are some mighty good excuses for being late....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

30 nurse, welcome to the Give Me Grandchildren or There Will Be Unpleasantness club

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:13 PM (9ipOP)

31 AZ - good to see you here. Hope you're well.
Posted by: TRex - sufficient dino

Good to be here too!

Doing well. Improvement has slowed. But I'm Okay with that except for not being able to touch type any longer. Sigh...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:14 PM (k2x4V)

32 Nurse you did a damn fine job with the boys.
Never, ever think that you didn't. They are fine young men and yes, they still need their mom.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 29, 2025 10:14 PM (Wh47r)

33 Villian Test

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Uh oh. I came out Hitler.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 29, 2025 10:14 PM (L/fGl)

34 mindfull webworker @ 27 - It didn't go to plan; they got caught and hanged. There was a Wonderful World of Disney movie about it, early 60s. Fess Parker starred.

Posted by: Butch at November 29, 2025 10:14 PM (98xTj)

35 I'm Putin, y'all

Posted by: NCKate at November 29, 2025 10:15 PM (SFtGa)

36 I hope all of you enjoyed drinking the tears of your leftist relatives!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:03 PM (9ipOP)

My uber-lib cousin-in-law agreed with me that the Davis-Bacon act was created specifically to exclude Southern migratory black labor from Northern trade union jobs.
She also wanted to discuss immigration and I let that one sail on by without noticing it, so it was a decent potluck.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 10:16 PM (rbvCR)

37 I'm Putin, y'all
Posted by: NCKate at November 29, 2025 10:15 PM (SFtGa)

(Note to self: don't go up to the top of a tall building with NCKate)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2025 10:17 PM (uZFV0)

38 Nurse you did a damn fine job with the boys.
Never, ever think that you didn't. They are fine young men and yes, they still need their mom.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 29, 2025 10:14 PM (Wh47r)

This!

Trust me. They will always need mom.
And you're a good one!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 29, 2025 10:17 PM (y3bZw)

39 A woomba is what vacuums Barney Frank's house.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 29, 2025 10:17 PM (LjSYW)

40 TRex - sufficient dino

Your bloodline? Nanotyrannus

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:18 PM (k2x4V)

41 Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:03 PM (9ipOP)

I didn't have to worry about leftist relatives. In fact my son said during this weekend, "Did you know that Joe Biden lied about his academic record in law school.? Joe Biden lied about so many things."

It is possible to be friends with left. Just never mention politics . I had a lovely lunch with a friend the other day. We stayed entirely with church talk and about our families. I was over at her house today and I saw the back of her husbands car which said "The anti Tesla club" . Uggh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 10:18 PM (iWbgM)

42 Youngest showed up with a Buffalo Trace nog. It's better than I expected. Quite good, as a matter of fact...

Posted by: man at November 29, 2025 10:19 PM (XuXeR)

43 That Great Train Raid was comically retold by Buster Keaton in “The General”, but the true story had a much darker ending - the raiders were caught and executed by the Confederates. There is a remarkable monument to them, complete with a bronze model of “The General”. (The Andrews Raiders Monument)
This is actually the first National Cemetery in the country, predating Arlington by a few months.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 10:19 PM (3U2FH)

44 Went to mom's for a belated T-day dinner. I cooked everything but the pies. We took the hell-hound, and he's limping now because he's no longer a puppy but he runs around like one when he's at grandma's house. He'll sleep well tonight.

Posted by: PabloD at November 29, 2025 10:20 PM (GALGA)

45 I don't get the hatred towards Brussels sprouts. Either you like them or you don't. It's not an evangelism effort.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 10:20 PM (iWbgM)

46 I am going to take the villain test. Start placing your bets while I am gone. Be right back

Posted by: Piper at November 29, 2025 10:20 PM (Wmg4n)

47 I'm Putin, y'all

Onions will do that to you. Cabbage and beans, too.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 29, 2025 10:20 PM (lUFok)

48 IN CHATANOOGA I meant to add there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 10:20 PM (3U2FH)

49 30 nurse, welcome to the Give Me Grandchildren or There Will Be Unpleasantness club
Posted by: San Franpsycho

They’re tryin’! Prayers for the crazy monkey sex!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 10:21 PM (mT+6a)

50 40 Your bloodline? Nanotyrannus

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:18 PM
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Bloodlines are a bit murky. All the family records got lost in the great asteroid hit.

Posted by: TRex - post-asteroid dino at November 29, 2025 10:21 PM (IQ6Gq)

51 I'm Putin AND Trump.

Posted by: NCKate at November 29, 2025 10:22 PM (SFtGa)

52 Bloodlines are a bit murky. All the family records got lost in the great asteroid hit.
Posted by: TRex

Likely story!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:22 PM (k2x4V)

53 Those personality tests are kinda lame

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 29, 2025 10:22 PM (xcxpd)

54 49 30 nurse, welcome to the Give Me Grandchildren or There Will Be Unpleasantness club
Posted by: San Franpsycho

They’re tryin’! Prayers for the crazy monkey sex!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 10:21 PM (mT+6a)

Every night...oh wait, for them or for...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 29, 2025 10:23 PM (xcxpd)

55 Good evening all!
Yay Ds!
I'm still too full to crack wise tonight so I'm gonna iounge and lurk...
Y'all have fun😄!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 29, 2025 10:24 PM (3pxDZ)

56 Girl F.'s father in law is in town so I passed the baton to him. My leash has been yanked too many times and now I'm muzzled.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:24 PM (9ipOP)

57 they got caught and hanged. There was a Wonderful World of Disney movie about it, early 60s. Fess Parker starred.

Wonderful world of hanged to death. Disney magic. IMDb - I see Fess was James Andrews, so, one of the hanged? Davy Crockett at least got to go down fighting.

Posted by: mindful webworker - kilt him a bar at November 29, 2025 10:24 PM (LaTF/)

58 Putin...but, but, I woulda left the ukes alone and attacked china.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 29, 2025 10:24 PM (TfUTr)

59 I don't get the hatred towards Brussels sprouts. Either you like them or you don't. It's not an evangelism effort.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Not like okra then?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:24 PM (k2x4V)

60 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 29, 2025 10:24 PM (k2x4V)

I don't think I've ever had okra.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 10:25 PM (iWbgM)

61 I don't get the hatred towards Brussels sprouts. Either you like them or you don't. It's not an evangelism effort.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 10:20 PM (iWbgM)

Maybe, but the bacon, brown sugar, and maple syrup I put in them would turn a heathen sprout hater toward the light.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:25 PM (uQesX)

62 My grandson left his phone over here on Thanksgiving so I drove over today and returned it. My preschool grandson ran over when he saw me asking, "Did you bring any donuts?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 29, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)

63 45 I don't get the hatred towards Brussels sprouts. Either you like them or you don't. It's not an evangelism effort.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 10:20 PM (iWbgM)

Brussels Sprouts are one of the cruciferous vegetables along with broccoli, mustard, horseradish and many others. All of these vegetables tend to have high concentrations of sulfur, which adds a flavor which some don’t mind and which some can’t abide at all.
As your body does require some small amounts of sulfur to operate effectively, they are quite healthy for you to eat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 10:26 PM (3U2FH)

64 Evenin’, All,

Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:26 PM (77rzZ)

65 That Great Train Raid was comically retold by Buster Keaton in “The General”, but the true story had a much darker ending - the raiders were caught and executed by the Confederates.
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Seven of them. The rest either escaped or were exchanged. The survivors of the military men were awarded the first Medals of Honor.

Two excellent reads on the raid are "Stealing the General" and the Osprey book on the raid (much shorter).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 29, 2025 10:27 PM (0cOaq)

66 OrangeEnt - add in some Dijon mustard and black pepper to your ingredients, and you have my recipe for Brussels sprouts.

Posted by: PabloD at November 29, 2025 10:27 PM (GALGA)

67 Evening all. Wasted day. Cold & rainy.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 29, 2025 10:28 PM (3k5hk)

68 Muammar Gaddafi. Hmmm. Not sure how I feel about this.

Posted by: Piper at November 29, 2025 10:28 PM (Wmg4n)

69 Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:25 PM (uQesX)

The ones I served on TG had a maple glaze an they were soft.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 10:28 PM (iWbgM)

70 Gaddafi was well-known for his love of kale smoothies. Total psychopath.

Posted by: PabloD at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (GALGA)

71 Reagan here.

I can live with that.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (cYBz/)

72 Villian Test

Uh oh. I came out Hitler.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 29, 2025 10:14 PM (L/fGl)
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I'm Putin, y'all
Posted by: NCKate at November 29, 2025 10:15 PM (SFtGa)

We've got the Trifecta here on the ONT. I'm Josef Stalin. And I hate commies.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

73 OrangeEnt - add in some Dijon mustard and black pepper to your ingredients, and you have my recipe for Brussels sprouts.
Posted by: PabloD at November 29, 2025 10:27 PM (GALGA)

Haven't tried mustard, but have used salt, pepper, and garlic powder at the initial saute.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (uQesX)

74 All of my recipes for Brussels sprouts involve a wastebasket.

Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (77rzZ)

75 >> My grandson left his phone over here on Thanksgiving so I drove over today and returned it. My preschool grandson ran over when he saw me asking, "Did you bring any donuts?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stranger In a Strange Land at November 29, 2025 10:26 PM

The boy has his priorities straight. You know what to do.

Posted by: huerfano at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (98kQX)

76 I avoid all those online personality quizzes. I don't want to give big data extra insight about me. But these two do sound kind of fun. Oh well.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 29, 2025 10:30 PM (hhkIi)

77 I spent the holiday with son, daughter, and now seven grandchildren. The last foster child was just officially adopted a week ago. The judge has spoken. It's now final.

Eleven of us look like lanky Vikings. The newest family member looks like a three year old Gary Coleman. Son and Daughter-in-law have fostered him since he came out of NICU, with the exception of a failed three month stint with his birth parents. We are all very happy about it.

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at November 29, 2025 10:30 PM (oftw2)

78 47 I'm Putin, y'all

Onions will do that to you. Cabbage and beans, too.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November

Do you know how hard it is to explain why you are laughing when the person next to you doesn’t get this blog to start?

Posted by: Piper at November 29, 2025 10:31 PM (Wmg4n)

79 There was a Wonderful World of Disney movie about it, early 60s. Fess Parker starred.
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I've got a copy. It's pretty leaden starting and ending, but really gets cracking once the raid is actually underway. Jeff Hunter is Conductor Fuller, the man most responsible for getting pursuit under way, and Slim Pickens is the engineer of the "Texas," the locomotive that finally caught up to the raiders.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 29, 2025 10:31 PM (0cOaq)

80 My grandson left his phone over here on Thanksgiving so I drove over today and returned it. My preschool grandson ran over when he saw me asking, "Did you bring any donuts?"
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That's great! Hope you didn't disappoint him....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

81 Cold and rainy is perfect for late November:

Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:31 PM (77rzZ)

82 nurse, welcome to the Give Me Grandchildren or There Will Be Unpleasantness club
Posted by: San Franpsycho

They’re tryin’! Prayers for the crazy monkey sex!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 10:21 PM (mT+6a)

Dang!
That's hawt!

*makes plans to change flight home*

Posted by: Diogenes at November 29, 2025 10:32 PM (y3bZw)

83 A dear aunt of mine served Brussels sprouts to my family one time when we visited. Neither Mrs. QED nor either daughter nor myself had ever eaten them. We dutifully took some and ate them. Even picky eater daughter #2 who now loves them and fixes them for her hubby.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 29, 2025 10:32 PM (fveCG)

84 My recipes for Brussels Sprouts involve steam and butter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Wt3Iw)

85 Putting some mp3's onto a new thumb drive so I can test the car stereo on the bench in the other room.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 10:32 PM (npFr7)

86 57 they got caught and hanged. There was a Wonderful World of Disney movie about it, early 60s. Fess Parker starred.

Wonderful world of hanged to death. Disney magic. IMDb - I see Fess was James Andrews, so, one of the hanged? Davy Crockett at least got to go down fighting.
Posted by: mindful webworker - kilt him a bar at November 29, 2025 10:24 PM (LaTF/)

Saw the movie about 5 years ago but can't remember Fess Parker's fate. I believe he was captured but the Confederates did not execute him.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 29, 2025 10:32 PM (y171U)

87 I avoid all those online personality quizzes. I don't want to give big data extra insight about me. But these two do sound kind of fun. Oh well.
Posted by: PaleRider

Honestly, it's too late. ALL online access provides info data points to Big Data about you. Seriously.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 29, 2025 10:33 PM (cYBz/)

88 We've got the Trifecta here on the ONT. I'm Josef Stalin. And I hate commies.
Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

Rejoice, then. Stalin killed more commies than just about anyone.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 10:33 PM (rbvCR)

89 OrangeEnt - add in some Dijon mustard and black pepper to your ingredients, and you have my recipe for Brussels sprouts.
Posted by: PabloD at November 29, 2025 10:27 PM (GALGA)

Toasted in butter sliced almonds as a sprinkled on topping.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

90 Saddam Hussein & Jimmy Carter....kind of depressing. I'm less upset about being paired with Saddam, than I am being associated with the Peanut farmer.

(I'm not sure which is the villain and which is the President)

Posted by: Orson at November 29, 2025 10:33 PM (dIske)

91 All of my recipes for Brussels sprouts involve a wastebasket.
Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (77rzZ)

You misspelled okra.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 29, 2025 10:33 PM (y3bZw)

92 Eleven of us look like lanky Vikings. The newest family member looks like a three year old Gary Coleman. Son and Daughter-in-law have fostered him since he came out of NICU, with the exception of a failed three month stint with his birth parents. We are all very happy about it.
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp
***********
Congrats! This is a great story....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:33 PM (IQ6Gq)

93 I believe he was captured but the Confederates did not execute him.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 29, 2025 10:32 PM (y171U)
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They drew the veil of good taste over the executions.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 29, 2025 10:34 PM (0cOaq)

94 Do you know how hard it is to explain why you are laughing when the person next to you doesn’t get this blog to start?
Posted by: Piper

That's why I insisted my lovely wife accompany me to a MoMe. Hell, she fit in like she was born to it.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 29, 2025 10:34 PM (cYBz/)

95 84 Just eat the butter, without the sprouts:

Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:35 PM (77rzZ)

96 Rejoice, then. Stalin killed more commies than just about anyone.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 10:33 PM (rbvCR)

LOL! This is true. Didn't think of it that way.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:35 PM (gKDq2)

97 53 Those personality tests are kinda lame
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 29, 2025 10:22 PM (xcxpd)

At the end they list Nixon as "paranoid". Must have been written by a lefty.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 29, 2025 10:35 PM (y171U)

98 Wow.....one comment today and yet I made the list.

Posted by: Chappyman66 at November 29, 2025 10:36 PM (BAKPg)

99 At the end they list Nixon as "paranoid". Must have been written by a lefty.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 29, 2025 10:35 PM (y171U)

Yeah, paranoid. That's the ticket. Just like Tailgunner Joe was 'paranoid'.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)

100 ***None of Russia's other launch sites can currently handle the Soyuz craft, which means that SpaceX may have to save the day yet again.
---

But, what about the stranded Chinamen?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:37 PM (Wt3Iw)

101 The ones I served on TG had a maple glaze an they were soft.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 29, 2025 10:28 PM (iWbgM)

Only three of us, so I didn't make them this year. Kid likes corn and wife is cutting out certain foods to lower her AIC.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:37 PM (uQesX)

102 67 Evening all. Wasted day. Cold & rainy.
Posted by: rickb223

Come up here.
I can show you an appreciation for cold and rainy.

Proper gear. Hot food. A thermos of hot coffee. Bird book. Binoculars.

Amazing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 10:38 PM (mT+6a)

103 91 I actually don’t mind okra. Better than Brussels sprouts:

Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:38 PM (77rzZ)

104 All of my recipes for Brussels sprouts involve a wastebasket.
Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:29 PM (77rzZ)

God created all food to be good to eat. Except mushrooms. The devil made those.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:38 PM (uQesX)

105 What the World really needs, is a Metal version of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks

And soon

And Berserker is just the guy for the job

Posted by: Western Civ Miklos at November 29, 2025 10:39 PM (N7hqt)

106 The Knack lead singer, with that hair, looks like he could be a cousin of John Ritter.

"Suzanne Summers" fits the lyrics of "My Sharona"…

Posted by: mindful webworker - Running down the length of my thighs, Chrissy Snow at November 29, 2025 10:39 PM (LaTF/)

107 I'm a Stalin
"More likely than the average person to be barbed and acerbic with people who irritate you."

Mom, is that you?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:39 PM (9ipOP)

108 Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: scamoydog at November 29, 2025 10:39 PM (41CYW)

109 ***Space trivia: Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977. It has been flying for over 48 years away from the sun at an average of over 38,026 miles per hour.
---

Those cigarette smoking buzz cuts came to work with intent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:40 PM (Wt3Iw)

110 I avoid all those online personality quizzes. I don't want to give big data extra insight about me. But these two do sound kind of fun. Oh well.
Posted by: PaleRider at November 29, 2025 10:30 PM (hhkIi)

If you're running Brave browser, you can right click the link and open in a private window, or in Tor.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:40 PM (uQesX)

111 They'd be working for Musk, today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:40 PM (Wt3Iw)

112 98 Wow.....one comment today and yet I made the list.

Posted by: Chappyman66 at November 29, 2025 10:36 PM
***
The East German judge was impressed.

Posted by: TRex - non-evil dictator dino at November 29, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

113 >>>If you're running Brave browser, you can right click the link and open in a private window, or in Tor.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
---

If you believe that makes a difference.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:41 PM (Wt3Iw)

114 they list Nixon as "paranoid"

Well, he was, but only because they were out to get him.

Posted by: mindful webworker - speak into the lamp base at November 29, 2025 10:41 PM (LaTF/)

115 Well constructed test; I couldn’t predict where it was going, so I honestly.
I came out as Hermann Goering.

I’m so doing, I see the obvious limits of such a test - general personality type has very little to do with the actions one takes. For every villain on that list, there are thousands of people with the same general personality type who did NOT make the choices those villains did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 10:41 PM (3U2FH)

116 97 53 Those personality tests are kinda lame
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 29, 2025 10:22 PM (xcxpd)

At the end they list Nixon as "paranoid". Must have been written by a lefty.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 29, 2025 10:35 PM (y171U)

I was thinking that too.

God knows, Nixon had enemies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 29, 2025 10:42 PM (xcxpd)

117 108 Hey, Scampy!

Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:42 PM (77rzZ)

118 My graduate school thesis was about how presidential psychology affects policymaking, specifically Jimmy Carter's messiah complex and how it determined both his energy policy and his foreign policy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:42 PM (9ipOP)

119 I’m so doing, I see the obvious limits of such a test - general personality type has very little to do with the actions one takes. For every villain on that list, there are thousands of people with the same general personality type who did NOT make the choices those villains did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 10:41 PM (3U2FH)

Do you have a huge model train layout in your attic?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 10:42 PM (npFr7)

120 Come up here.
I can show you an appreciation for cold and rainy.

Proper gear. Hot food. A thermos of hot coffee. Bird book. Binoculars.

Amazing.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Y'all do have the experience.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 29, 2025 10:43 PM (3k5hk)

121 108 Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: scamoydog at November 29, 2025 10:39 PM
***
...l,m,n,o.....P!

Posted by: TRex - alphabet dino at November 29, 2025 10:44 PM (IQ6Gq)

122 If you believe that makes a difference.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:41 PM (Wt3Iw)

Pixy might know.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 29, 2025 10:44 PM (uQesX)

123 ...l,m,n,o.....P!
Posted by: TRex - alphabet dino

LMNO is one letter.

Discuss.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 29, 2025 10:44 PM (cYBz/)

124 106 The Knack lead singer, with that hair, looks like he could be a cousin of John Ritter.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Running down the length of my thighs, Chrissy Snow at November 29, 2025 10:39 PM (LaTF/)

Yeah, Doug Fieger. I don't remember his hair looking like Dana Carvey from "Wayne's World".

Posted by: Joemarine at November 29, 2025 10:44 PM (y171U)

125 Mom and Dad always gave me good advice. They have passed on now but I still remember how I was raised and what they they taught me. So even now I still rely on them because I know what they would say and I know they would be right.

Posted by: Case at November 29, 2025 10:45 PM (5Je/N)

126 Posted by: scamoydog at November 29, 2025 10:39 PM (41CYW)

Aha! The rare and highly sought-after Scamoyed!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 10:45 PM (npFr7)

127 >>>Pixy might know.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Pixy has a binder on each of us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:46 PM (Wt3Iw)

128 I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to do outside, but said, "Nah".

I've been doing that a lot lately. Just can't get motivated.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 29, 2025 10:47 PM (3k5hk)

129 Hi Bulg, and you spelling smart asses.

Posted by: scamoydog - likes the nic error at November 29, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW)

130 114 they list Nixon as "paranoid"

Well, he was, but only because they were out to get him.
Posted by: mindful webworker - speak into the lamp base at November 29, 2025 10:41 PM (LaTF/)

So true..."You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore".

Posted by: Joemarine at November 29, 2025 10:47 PM (y171U)

131 I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to do outside, but said, "Nah".

I've been doing that a lot lately. Just can't get motivated.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 29, 2025 10:47 PM (3k5hk)

It's below zero here. "Outside" is gonna have to wait.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 10:48 PM (npFr7)

132 Ran the dogs, trimmed the tree, finally got through the TG day dishes, even cleaned out another box after a year from moving. I'm feeling positively proactive.

And then there's gin.

Shoulder surgery revision scheduled for mid-December, so I'm trying to finish everything up before that. Being a one-armed bandit for 6 weeks really fucks up life. I'm NOT canceling the outrageous NY Eve fondue party, so if you are around, feel free to drop in and bring something to blow up. DH says he will cut up the cheese and nibbles, and anybody can melt chocolate in heavy cream, so we should be good to go.

DH is the bartender, so that's covered. Grey Goose was on sale at Three Bears, so if you like martoonies, you are good to go. Plus I think he bought Lagavulin, so there's sipping, too. And we will be shooting, but not after you've been drinking, so plan accordingly.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:48 PM (6Bc88)

133 I am Reagan and Trump. Interesting. On that note, I am off to bed.

Posted by: Piper at November 29, 2025 10:48 PM (Wmg4n)

134 Hi Bulg, and you spelling smart asses.
Posted by: scamoydog - likes the nic error
***************
So, you're changing your nic? Need to know for the Christmas card....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

135 I am Reagan and Trump. Interesting. On that note, I am off to bed.
Posted by: Piper
*********
Going forth I'm referring to you as Sybil....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:49 PM (IQ6Gq)

136 LMNO is one letter.

Discuss.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 29, 2025 10:44 PM (cYBz/)

So is "prayferus". You may need to be Catholic to know that.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:50 PM (6Bc88)

137 Off to do a few more things before the evening gets too far along. See you all on the book thread.

Posted by: PabloD at November 29, 2025 10:50 PM (GALGA)

138 So is "prayferus". You may need to be Catholic to know that.
Posted by: tcn

HA!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 29, 2025 10:51 PM (cYBz/)

139 Posted by: raimondo at November 29, 2025 10:50 PM (fuXqv)

Does anybody know what this idiot is on about?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:51 PM (6Bc88)

140 I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to do outside, but said, "Nah".
I've been doing that a lot lately. Just can't get motivated.
Posted by: rickb223
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Understood! It's cold & rainy here too. Windy, with daytime temps in the 40s.

Yeah, not motivated *at all* for outdoor work. And Thanksgiving weekend has always been my "catch-up the yard work" time, with few exceptions.

(This is why I usually install Christmas lights ~mid-November or so!)

Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 10:51 PM (rdVOm)

141 Does anybody know what this idiot is on about?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK
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Does anybody really care?

Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 10:52 PM (rdVOm)

142 Pixy has a binder on each of us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:46 PM

Ahhhh. Pixy.
That wanton libidinous trollop.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 29, 2025 10:53 PM (y3bZw)

143 My graduate school thesis was about how presidential psychology affects policymaking, specifically Jimmy Carter's messiah complex and how it determined both his energy policy and his foreign policy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:42 PM (9ipOP)

I have recently read an article or three about how the need to conceal inflation, due to the spending in the 60's that lead to the end of Bretton-Woods and the rise of the Petro-dollar, led a lot of the dietary, energy and ecology directives that we are faced with now.
You said you focused on personality, but did you consider the economic obligations as well?
No doubt Carter had a messiah complex, but he would have needed a disaster to save us from, I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 10:53 PM (rbvCR)

144 Does anybody know what this idiot is on about?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:51 PM (6Bc8

He seems to be even more off his meds than usual tonight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 29, 2025 10:54 PM (3U2FH)

145 scamoydog, from Dogmanistan.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:54 PM (Wt3Iw)

146 It's not quite so cold out since TG. Warmed up into the 20's during the day, so that's nice. Got the wood stove on high burn just now though. It is still cold at night.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:54 PM (6Bc88)

147 “Scamoy,” I didn’t notice the spelling change.

Posted by: Bulg at November 29, 2025 10:54 PM (77rzZ)

148 So, you're changing your nic? Need to know for the Christmas card....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
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I might! My sparkling personality will remain unchanged, however.

Posted by: scamoydog - likes the nic error at November 29, 2025 10:54 PM (41CYW)

149 No doubt Carter had a messiah complex, but he would have needed a disaster to save us from, I think.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 10:53 PM (rbvCR)

That ass couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag. He was so stupid he didn't realize how stupid he was. Honestly, peanut farmer was the height of his ability.

He could not even pronounce "nuclear," and claimed to be a "nuculear scientist."

Dumb as a post.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:56 PM (6Bc88)

150 Hi Horde, Happy Saturday.

JQ, the club is looking quite festive, thanks for decorating.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 29, 2025 10:56 PM (0nHVk)

151 Carter was an idiot. They should have shot him out a tube when they had him down under.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 10:56 PM (Wt3Iw)

152 My graduate school thesis was about how presidential psychology affects policymaking, specifically Jimmy Carter's messiah complex and how it determined both his energy policy and his foreign policy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 29, 2025 10:42 PM (9ipOP)

Barack Obama. Our second three-term president.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 10:56 PM (gKDq2)

153 So, you're changing your nic? Need to know for the Christmas card....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:48 PM (IQ6Gq)
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I might! My sparkling personality will remain unchanged, however.
Posted by: scamoydog - likes the nic error
************
Right...Thanks anyway, I'll just send it to Scampywife....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

154 I might! My sparkling personality will remain unchanged, however.
Posted by: scamoydog - likes the nic error at November 29, 2025 10:54 PM (41CYW)

I kinda like the "scamoyed" nic. Big white fluffy with a pink nose....

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:57 PM (6Bc88)

155 Do you know how hard it is to explain why you are laughing when the person next to you doesn’t get this blog to start

Sadly, this is about the only place anyone would admit to getting that kind of joke.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 29, 2025 10:57 PM (lUFok)

156 DDS, I am rarely still up when you join in, so waving to you and hope you have a great time at the Club tonight.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 10:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

157 So I ran across an interesting story.

Remember the guy that assaulted and maybe tried to murder Jeffrey Epstein? Nicholas Tartaglione?

He was in prison because he murdered 4 hispanic guys over drugs.

Well, before he was dealing drugs. he was cop in Ossining NY . And he had a nemesis. A guy named Clay Tiffany who had a public access TV. Tiffany claimed Tartaglione and much of government in his area were deeply corrupt with the former part of the mob.

Tartaglione assaulted Tiffany and got fired for it. Interestingly, Tartaglione offered to settle the case with Tiffany for $200K after he was fired. Apparently offering money from the town even though the town had fired him. Tiffany refused and won a million dollar judgement.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:00 PM (sKqQm)

158 Hi, Debby! The usual?

I just love how lights are reflected by the mirrored bar back and then sparkle through the stemware over the bar. So pretty.

*slides Chivas/rocks down the bar*

Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 11:00 PM (rdVOm)

159 I might! My sparkling personality will remain unchanged, however.
Posted by: scamoydog - likes the nic error at November 29, 2025 10:54 PM (41CYW)

Well, there was always hope.

Is 'scamoydog' related to Samoyeds?

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)

160 JQ, I love your imagination and respect how you can paint a picture with words

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

161 I got Mussolini, for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 29, 2025 11:01 PM (vV6n9)

162 Chance of snow tonight, so I fired up the riding mower and sucked up the last of the leaves off the lawn. Even with a riding mower, it is a fair sized job.
It helps that I pull the bagging chute off and run over the leaves first to mulch them a little. This makes for a lot fewer runs back and forth to the compost pile with the bagger.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 29, 2025 11:01 PM (8QVSJ)

163 Vladimir Lenin and Jimmy Carter.

Poop.

Posted by: Methos at November 29, 2025 11:02 PM (vSvIl)

164 Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 29, 2025 11:01 PM

*blushes*

Got lots o' memories to work with.

Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

165 Starting to wander off to accumulate backlog of vids from Thanksgiving week…

Why You Owe People Afraid of Butterflies an Apology
Casual Geographic
https://youtu.be/Zc_tLEG1duM

Posted by: mindful webworker - pretty vampire bugs at November 29, 2025 11:04 PM (LaTF/)

166 Sadden Hussein.
But I don't have a mustache. Or a beret.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 11:05 PM (6p0Jv)

167 why would us invade Venezuela?

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:05 PM (gbOdA)

168 That ass couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag. He was so stupid he didn't realize how stupid he was. Honestly, peanut farmer was the height of his ability.

He could not even pronounce "nuclear," and claimed to be a "nuculear scientist."

Dumb as a post.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:56 PM (6Bc8

One thing, among many, that pissed me off about Carter and it goes pretty much unmentioned today.

Being a Southern Baptist, no liquor touched his lips. Instead of being normal, like George Bush and not drinking, he banned alcohol at his White House dinners. Yeah, I don't drink so you can't, either.

I didn't vote for the Moral Police when I voted for Trump, just the police is fine.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:06 PM (gKDq2)

169 Saddam autocucumber.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 29, 2025 11:06 PM (6p0Jv)

170 167 why would us invade Venezuela?
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Why not?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 11:06 PM (Wt3Iw)

171 Whoohoo!

JQ!
Please send a round to the wobbly table. I’m here solo, but hopefully I’ll get some fellow morons!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 11:06 PM (mT+6a)

172 Vladimir Lenin and Jimmy Carter.
Poop.
Posted by: Methos

And now I'm hungry for a peanut butter and borsht sandwich. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2025 11:07 PM (uZFV0)

173 Woot! The old (2012 model?) Kenwood car stereo works. Played the mp3"s off the memory stick, got FM reception off the antenna, and now it's currently playing a CD.

The bad news? I poured myself a rum and eggnog, but poured the eggnog out of the milk carton instead of the eggnog carton, and for some inexplicable reason, I got milk. So, I am drinking moosemilk.

And I am listening to Studebaker John and the Hawks. Some fine modern-day Chicago electric blues.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)

174 We've got the Trifecta here on the ONT. I'm Josef Stalin. And I hate commies.
Posted by: RickZ

Rejoice, then. Stalin killed more commies than just about anyone.
Posted by: Kindltot

And anyone who gets "Adolf Hitler" can rest easy knowing they're the one who killed Adolf Hitler.

Posted by: mikeski at November 29, 2025 11:07 PM (XGULh)

175 Hi Grateful, I loved reading of your hotel room Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 29, 2025 11:08 PM (0nHVk)

176 Does anyone else besides me enjoy the clips of Stephen A. Smith at X/Twitter?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2025 11:08 PM (uZFV0)

177 I am the murderous villian dictator that tired of test on the eighth question and terminated it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 29, 2025 11:08 PM (Z5/Ih)

178 why would us invade Venezuela?
Posted by: r hennigantx
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Why not?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 11:06 PM (Wt3Iw)

Too messy.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:08 PM (gKDq2)

179 You got it, Nurse!

*loads up drone*

A round for the Wobbly Table!

"Mix it, and they will come..." right? LOL!

Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 11:08 PM (rdVOm)

180 He could not even pronounce "nuclear," and claimed to be a "nuculear scientist."

Dumb as a post.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 10:56 PM (6Bc8

how did he get thru Naval Acad?

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:08 PM (gbOdA)

181 Off to bedland💤💤

“Going to bed early is the new staying out late.”

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 29, 2025 11:09 PM (3pxDZ)

182 It's colder in Amarillo right now than in Boise, Idaho.

Weather is weird.

Manbearpig, you guys!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at November 29, 2025 11:09 PM (0aYVJ)

183 Why not?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 11:06 PM (Wt3Iw)

nothing there

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:10 PM (gbOdA)

184 why would us invade Venezuela?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:05 PM (gbOdA)

Because Vuvuzuela is too well-armed?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:10 PM (npFr7)

185 Well, the weather people finally got one right. That storm going across the midwest actually did hit us in NE IN. Still snowing, we have about 7.5 inches on the ground right now.
Grandkids are in snow heaven!
Weather alert says travel will be difficult. Huh. Regular geniuses, they are.
At least they decided saying travel may be "impossible" was just a bit much.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 29, 2025 11:10 PM (+4S8X)

186 COMountainMarie, a joke I like to tell:

When you're 5 years old and someone says "go to bed!" you're most likely to respond "I don't wanna!!"

When you're 55 years old and someone says "go to bed!" you're most likely to respond "oh thank you!!" ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2025 11:10 PM (uZFV0)

187 I made two burgers Thursday night-- saved one for Friday night, but wasn't hungry... ate it this evening. All the sloppy fixin's *except* onion. Haha, my tummy is thanking me for that.

Posted by: JQ at November 29, 2025 11:11 PM (rdVOm)

188 how did he get thru Naval Acad?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:08 PM (gbOdA)

Who nominated him and how did he get selected?

People forget you just don't apply to service academies.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:11 PM (gKDq2)

189 JQ!
Please send a round to the wobbly table. I’m here solo, but hopefully I’ll get some fellow morons!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 11:06 PM (mT+6a)

Can I interest you in a shot of moosemilk?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:11 PM (npFr7)

190 Good night COMM. JQ, thanks for the Chivas, you are hands down my favorite bar tender!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 29, 2025 11:12 PM (0nHVk)

191 VZ is another one of those problems Shrub half assing everything left us.

He could have collapsed the communists there and supported the resistance...but he refused and led to all these years of despotism.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:12 PM (sKqQm)

192 182 Manbearpig, you guys!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at November 29, 2025 11:09 PM
***
Good reference.

Posted by: TRex - extreme weather desk dino at November 29, 2025 11:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

193 The videos of porch pirates who grab "exploding" packages, showering them in colored dust or liquid, are certainly BS (AI). But they are funny.

https://tinyurl.com/3ads2d6m

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 11:12 PM (WG4Tn)

194 One more moosemilk and everything will be OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 29, 2025 11:12 PM (Wt3Iw)

195 Colorado Department of Corrections records show Huling was on parole at the time of the crash, having been arrested in Denver County in 2019 and Arapahoe County in 2015.

Douglas County District Attorney George Brauchler told local outlet Denver 7 that Huling had an 11-page criminal history, dating back to when he was a child.

"This guy’s criminal history and the fact that he appears to have been on parole and this happened seems like we are failing the community,"

There is not 1 single (D) Judge that would put a criminal behind bars to save your life.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:13 PM (gbOdA)

196 7-day forecast here is for it to warm up some tomorrow, and to actually break above freezing Monday-Tuesday.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)

197 Porch pirates are another one of those modern problems that would have confused the people a couple of generations ago.

They stop after a few of them get shot right? Wait...no one shoots them? Oh you have cops they just beat them and sent them to jail for a while right? No...they get slaps on the wrist and asked nicely not to do it again? What the hell is wrong with you people in the future?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:15 PM (sKqQm)

198 why would us invade Venezuela?
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:05 PM (gbOdA)

1) they are a major transhipment point for cocaine to the US and a financial stream for the Cartels
2) they are a major source of infiltration of Cartel members to the US
3) they are a major source of corrupting money to our politicians
4) they are a major source of cocaine to Europe and Africa
5) they are a major profit center for the European crime, and for the Iranians
6) they are a concentration point for training agents, revolutionaries and other similar sorts
7) they control one end of the waterway into the gulf of America, which has major US ports

the ports on the Mississippi, in Texas and Florida are the only ones not overseen by Democrat state governments
9) They are supporting Cuba - and Rubio has a hardon for Cuba, the surviving Castros and Diaz-Canel
10) they are supporting the drug manufacturing in Colombia, the Narcos there, and the ELN. They also influence Petro's administration
11) Maduro is trying to get a move to invade Guiana to seize oil and gas fields US companies have leased.
12) this does not include serious violations of diplomatic norms against US Allies

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:15 PM (rbvCR)

199
There is not 1 single (D) Judge that would put a criminal behind bars to save your life.

Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:16 PM (sKqQm)

200 The videos of porch pirates who grab "exploding" packages, showering them in colored dust or liquid, are certainly BS (AI). But they are funny.

https://tinyurl.com/3ads2d6m

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 11:12 PM (WG4Tn)

I'm sure many are but I watched this one video where you see the guys building their trap. It released a noxious fart-like spray after about a minute delay from being picked up, so that it was released inside the car. You could see the porch pirates driving away, chucking the box out the window. Pretty funny.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:16 PM (gKDq2)

201 Can I interest you in a shot of moosemilk?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well. I don’t usually Mix dairy with booze, but if that’s what it takes to get you over here, I’ll try it!

AOP, you’re a gem. When do you head south?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 11:17 PM (mT+6a)

202 This makes for a lot fewer runs back and forth to the compost pile with the bagger.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 29, 2025 11:01 PM (8QVSJ)

Haven't seen our lawn for a month and a half. Lots less work that way.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 11:17 PM (6Bc88)

203 I would not support an invasion of VZ.

If we deem they are important enough to the cartels destroy their ports and coastal cities.

If a resistance shows up arm them.

But...not a single soldier on VZ ground.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:17 PM (sKqQm)

204 13) they control one end of the gulf of America which is the approach to the Panama canal
14) they are about as efficient as the North Koreans, and about as gentle in their administration of government as Papa Doc Duvalier was.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)

205 Apparently I'm a N@z! admiral. Oh, well...

Posted by: AnchorPoint at November 29, 2025 11:18 PM (XY7MO)

206 Is it the personality test from the Parallax corporation?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 29, 2025 11:18 PM (pkeXY)

207 What the hell is wrong with you people in the future?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:15 PM (sKqQm)

You come up on my porch uninvited and you will meet the dark and pointy end of my self protection.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 29, 2025 11:19 PM (6Bc88)

208 Who nominated him and how did he get selected?

People forget you just don't apply to service academies.
Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:11 PM (gKDq2)

let us ask the web

immy Carter was nominated to the U.S. Naval Academy by Congressman Stephen Pace. He initially applied but was not selected on his first attempt, so he studied at Georgia Southwestern College before receiving the appointment.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:19 PM (gbOdA)

209 Villain test - Josef Stalin. I hate beets.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 29, 2025 11:20 PM (3k5hk)

210 Am I still allowed to talk about textualism and New Criticism?

I don't associate those with originalism at all, which seems wedded to The Author(s) and their intention.

Folks should read C.S. Lewis's Experiment in Criticism. The main idea is that instead of judging readers by their books, we should judge books by their readers. If you have read his Christian works, you will recognize the combination of old wisdom with stunning-but-obvious observations.

Also you might be interested in Foucault's "What is an Author?" I don't think he felt too bound by Wimsatt's intentional fallacy. How could he, when he wants everything to be a will to power?

Posted by: pjungwir at November 29, 2025 11:20 PM (uCw0Z)

211 102 -- I do my birding from my livingroom. I hung a small platform feeder in a tree I can easily see from my apartment window, and I am amazed at what birds show up. In addition to the ever present sparrows, I've seen male cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers, blue jays, and more. The XO bought me three bags of high quality birdseed. I just have to use up this last bag of cheap, red millet infested bird seed. Last week, I caught sight of a strange something on the bird feeder branch. I had just about gotten my binoculars out when it dove to the ground. Hawk. I've managed to create another hawk buffet.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 29, 2025 11:21 PM (DK5Sh)

212 I am wondering if the "shut down" of the flights in and out of Venezuela are to embargo air shipments of coke to the US and to wherever they ship to Europe and Africa.
Once the go-fast boats stop moving because the crews would rather die on dry land, there is still customer demand and probably some deliveries that have to be made up

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:21 PM (rbvCR)

213 Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:15 PM (rbvCR)

Is that worth boots on the ground

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:21 PM (gbOdA)

214 AOP, you’re a gem. When do you head south?
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 29, 2025 11:17 PM (mT+6a)

Hopefully before Christmas. Contingent on my medical status. Have an appointment with the cardiologist on Wednesday; he wants to start me on a new anti-arrhythmia med. So I will want to to try that for a while and see how I tolerate it, and if it helps me. FWIW, the faintness episodes have diminished a lot, and I feel pretty well, all things considered.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

215 The main idea is that instead of judging readers by their books, we should judge books by their readers

So those "chick lit" books about women having sex with dinosaurs or minotaurs...what do we learn from their readers?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:22 PM (sKqQm)

216 I'm sure many are but I watched this one video where you see the guys building their trap. It released a noxious fart-like spray after about a minute delay from being picked up, so that it was released inside the car. You could see the porch pirates driving away, chucking the box out the window. Pretty funny.
Posted by: RickZ

Mark Rober. He's on his fifth gen glitter bomb/fart spray invention.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 29, 2025 11:23 PM (3k5hk)

217 > So those "chick lit" books about women having sex with dinosaurs or minotaurs...what do we learn from their readers?
Posted by: 18-1

Actually he talks about that. :-)

Posted by: pjungwir at November 29, 2025 11:24 PM (uCw0Z)

218 Mark Rober. He's on his fifth gen glitter bomb/fart spray invention.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 29, 2025 11:23 PM (3k5hk)

I have fart spray in my truck in case I see that pantifa dicks in a blow uup costume.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:25 PM (gbOdA)

219
Trout

Sounds of fish frying on open fire....

I cued it up:

https://is.gd/QWeHl0

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 29, 2025 11:25 PM (cm/D3)

220 Is that worth boots on the ground
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:21 PM (gbOdA)

No one asked if we should, they just asked why we might.
I am of two minds, one I loved the Venezuelans I knew and Chavez and Maduro have been terrible. I also know that the second we do something directly the Euros, the Brazilians and the Colombians will lose their collective s___, and Petro will lose no time to arm the ELN and other "resistance" to sandbag the US and probably try to invade or disable Panama.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:25 PM (rbvCR)

221 Took the villians quiz.

I got... Barney the purple dinosaur. Brrrrrrrr...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 29, 2025 11:26 PM (uZFV0)

222 Ok, I'm Mao.
But the authors comments on Mao are shallow at best.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 29, 2025 11:26 PM (sl73Y)

223 Posted by: r hennigantx at November 29, 2025 11:19 PM (gbOdA)

Interesting. So I looked up Pace. Old school Democrat, born in 1891.

He retired from Congress and resumed his legal work in Americus, GA in '51. Americus is 11 miles from Plains. Carter's funeral started in Americus due to his connection to a hospital there.

It's a small world.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:26 PM (gKDq2)

224 I watched an unintentionally amusing video.

The point of it was basically "if you noticed that a lot of modern movies seem to have a common underlying message you aren't wrong...its Gnosticism"

And the kicker for it was that they were making a pro-Gnostic video...they then made a positive argument for it and complained modern Christians were suppressing Gnosticism.

The first part they aren't wrong about, Gnostic ideas are common in the post-Christian west. But Christians don't really have the power to suppress anything anymore - look at the jizya we are paying Somalis for example...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:27 PM (sKqQm)

225 Actually he talks about that. :-)

And...?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:28 PM (sKqQm)

226 Even yet more fun in nature

True Facts: Electric Nematodes and Flying Spiders
Ze Frank, hilarious narrator
https://youtu.be/DxSrU-rqs7A

Posted by: mindful webworker - nema toads? at November 29, 2025 11:28 PM (LaTF/)

227 Seems to me the ideal "load" for an anti-porch pirate package would be something apparently valuable that they would be very tempted to fence into the criminal underworld for cash.

How about a .45 automatic pistol? Rig it with a restricted barrel, say about .42 caliber, so a bullet will jam in it, and blow the breechblock back forcibly. If the thieves try it themselves, somebody gets hurt, but not likely fatally. If they fence it, and it blows up on somebody else, they wind up getting a beating from the fence's enforcers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)

228 I also watched some videos about the 3 Body Problem and there was an interesting nugget in it.

Some SPOILERS if you don't want to know some of the ideas in the show...

But the author argues that war between sentient species is likely because while resources in the universe are vast in terms of constant growth there will always eventually be a conflict no matter how benign those civilizations want to be.

And completely turning away from SF to the real world...I think this is very accurate Chinese view of geopolitics. For China to get stronger...the US has to get weaker.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:31 PM (sKqQm)

229 DDS, thanks. It was an experience...but now I have a very solid plan for Christmas...it's a trip to take a full holiday "on the road." We spent Friday decorating MIL's apt for Christmas...she's still discovering things we installed....

Posted by: The Grateful at November 29, 2025 11:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

230 Porch pirates plus command detonated claymore mines from the other night. Go ahead and cross the streams.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 29, 2025 11:32 PM (8QVSJ)

231 Absolutely fascinating, bone-chilling interview. Those Dominion voting machines feature prominently. Their placement is strategic, limited, and very curious. So is who supplied their chips.

How Patriots and White Hat Hackers Saved the 20204 Election from Getting Stolen

https://tinyurl.com/48bwc4rt

Posted by: Sam Adams at November 29, 2025 11:32 PM (X+xvk)

232 Gnosticism is about hidden knowledge that can only be revealed through a process of understanding that allows the student to not misunderstand the message.
Which sounds well and good, but implies that God is hiding s___ from us on purpose, and his Creation requires a rentier class of theological teachers to achieve enlightenment, which as a Protestant I object to.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:33 PM (rbvCR)

233 Porch pirate adjacent. Scampywife is the office prankster. Her latest: they give the hunters a goody bag. Jerky, candy, etc. She emptied out small, snack size Cheetos bags, filled them with baby carrots, and resealed. The boys have revenge on their minds.

Posted by: scamoydog - likes the nic error at November 29, 2025 11:33 PM (41CYW)

234 The main idea is that instead of judging readers by their books, we should judge books by their readers.

Posted by: pjungwir at November 29, 2025 11:20 PM (uCw0Z)

That's not true. Without reading 'verboten' books like Mein Kampf, one cannot fully appreciate History.

Just because one reads a book doesn't mean they support every idea in that book. Even Shakespeare would have a tough time surviving that critique. How can one debate ideas if you don't know what the idea is?

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:33 PM (gKDq2)

235 Snowblower was working reqat -- until I sucked a piece of downspout into the auger. It's in there tight. Has anyone taken apart the auger end of a snowblower?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 11:35 PM (iHFID)

236 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)

Did you know that if I have a firearm stolen from me in Oregon, I may be investigated to see if I am at fault for failure to secure the firearm correctly?

Because that is justice.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:35 PM (rbvCR)

237 The tests say I'm Putin and Carter, if anyone is keeping track of how crazy the Horde is.

Posted by: mikeski at November 29, 2025 11:35 PM (XGULh)

238 The North Star is about 450 light years away.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 29, 2025 11:35 PM (KDPiq)

239 Just because one reads a book doesn't mean they support every idea in that book. Even Shakespeare would have a tough time surviving that critique. How can one debate ideas if you don't know what the idea is?
Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:33 PM (gKDq2)

This argument got me called "troll-adjacent"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)

240 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 29, 2025 11:36 PM (bss/y)

241 Ford / Reagan

I can live with that ...

Posted by: browndog being presidential at November 29, 2025 11:37 PM (3sXRv)

242 Which sounds well and good, but implies that God is hiding s___ from us

Well, continuing with Gnostic theology, God isn't really God. The entity we think of as God is the Demiurge a very imperfect creator.

He's generally intentionally hiding an understand of reality from us for various levels of nefarious reasons...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:39 PM (sKqQm)

243 This argument got me called "troll-adjacent"
Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)

I am getting a little hairy.

But I have to ask why would one think that?

Just because every high schooler read 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' doesn't mean we're all out hunting Grendl.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:40 PM (gKDq2)

244 If we could make a space ship that could travel at
60 million mph it would take over 40 years to reach the closest star.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 29, 2025 11:40 PM (KDPiq)

245 Snowblower was working reqat -- until I sucked a piece of downspout into the auger. It's in there tight. Has anyone taken apart the auger end of a snowblower?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 29, 2025 11:35 PM (iHFID)

I can tell you my snowblower has shear pins for each side of the auger, to prevent the gearbox from being damaged in the event of such happening. You might look for shear pins; they ought to be 6 mm or quarter-inch bolts going though the auger axle at points near the middle. If you remove them, then you can turn each half of the auger backwards, and probably extract the mangled downspout. My last trip out with mine, I hit a garden hose, and sheared one of the shear pins.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:40 PM (npFr7)

246 He's generally intentionally hiding an understand of reality from us for various levels of nefarious reasons...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:39 PM (sKqQm)

Gnostics = Hidden Knowledge
-Heresy flash cards

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 29, 2025 11:41 PM (bss/y)

247 The North Star is about 450 light years away.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 29, 2025 11:35 PM (KDPiq)

So unlikely to be contributing to Global Warming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:42 PM (npFr7)

248 Just because one reads a book doesn't mean they support every idea in that book.

Nowadays this is an explicitly right wing idea. Lefties will tell you that you shouldn't read a book or listen to a person if you don't agree with their politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:42 PM (sKqQm)

249 gnosticism is exhausting because you not only have to track the datum world, but also detect and figure in the distortions created by the demi-urge, and then find the corrections to see the ideal world.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:43 PM (rbvCR)

250 Here's a question for the horde...but no googling it.

Where does the animal turkey originally come. And why is it called a turkey?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:43 PM (sKqQm)

251 The President quiz must be right. I'm Carter because I'm compulsive.

But I'm only 83% Carter, so I got 1 of the 6 "OCD" questions wrong, and that bothers me.

QED.

Posted by: mikeski at November 29, 2025 11:43 PM (XGULh)

252 The plan to steal a Confederate train,
-------

The hanging of the Yankees is still celebrated in Kennesaw, and The General locomotive is carefully preserved and displayed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 29, 2025 11:44 PM (XeU6L)

253 And...?
Posted by: 18-1

If I answer from memory I'm going to mess it up (and I have kids to put to bed), but if you email me I'll send something once I'm home from the in-laws. But even better, just read it. It's short and full of insights. I should read it again myself.

Posted by: pjungwir at November 29, 2025 11:44 PM (uCw0Z)

254 Nowadays this is an explicitly right wing idea. Lefties will tell you that you shouldn't read a book or listen to a person if you don't agree with their politics.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:42 PM (sKqQm)

That's why they can't debate as their breadth of knowledge is incredibly shallow.

They can only cheat to win.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:44 PM (gKDq2)

255 Just like I appreciate others for reading the DU and relay their latest psychopathic rants , I have no intention of ever reading it or any other claptrap.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 29, 2025 11:45 PM (KDPiq)

256 Where does the animal turkey originally come. And why is it called a turkey?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:43 PM (sKqQm)

Because its feathers were used for stuffing Ottomans?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:45 PM (npFr7)

257 248 Just because one reads a book doesn't mean they support every idea in that book.

Preach it! I nearly got in big trouble for just doing a little research.

Posted by: Pete Townsend at November 29, 2025 11:45 PM (oftw2)

258 Because its feathers were used for stuffing Ottomans?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 29, 2025 11:45 PM (npFr7)

Stupid Ottomans. Eat the bird. Preferably with gravy.

Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:46 PM (gKDq2)

259 Just because every high schooler read 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' doesn't mean we're all out hunting Grendl.
Posted by: RickZ at November 29, 2025 11:40 PM (gKDq2)

well, no, because they are different stories from different cultures chasing different concepts of heroism.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 29, 2025 11:47 PM (rbvCR)

260 Where does the animal turkey originally come. And why is it called a turkey?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 29, 2025 11:43 PM (sKqQm)

American Turkey named after the country Turkey who was a main trading market for African Guinea birds which resemble our Turkey.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 29, 2025 11:47 PM (KDPiq)

261 I'm Putin also. There are a lot of putins here...

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at November 29, 2025 11:48 PM (VCgbV)

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