Mid-Morning Art Thread

Symphony in White, No. 3
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Howdy CBD

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 09:29 AM (BBMJX)

2 11th day without modernism? Hooray!

Posted by: Eeyore at December 08, 2025 09:30 AM (s0JqF)

3 too white

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

4 Cloud Dancer, a "billowy, balanced white" that symbolizes serenity and a fresh start.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

5 This is Number 3? Does this guy have a whole White Album?

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (BBMJX)

6 Lovely

Posted by: Tuna at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

7 Gal on the left's pose looks uncomfortable.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

8 MAGA!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (Kt19C)

9 Artist James McNeill Whistler
Year 1865–67
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 51.4 cm × 76.9 cm (20.2 in × 30.3 in)
Location Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

U still in Englandstan?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

10 Looks like they're waiting for the drugs to kick in
Would hang though, nice colors.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (bfwj/)

11
Symphony in White, No. 3

Pffft! Where's the "Cloud Dancer"?

I call fake news.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (iJfKG)

12 So tired.

Posted by: Lily von Shtupp at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (98kQX)

13 At least the chick on the right gets to nap.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

14 Girl on right overcome by flatulence of girl on left.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (Kt19C)

15 5 This is Number 3? Does this guy have a whole White Album?
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 09:31 AM (BBMJX)

He was known as the 5th Beatle.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (gbOdA)

16 "Then he said, 'Those sammiches aren't going to make themselves!'"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (vFXRK)

17 Nowadays, this is considered white supremacy by the left.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

18 Girl on left: attractive

Girl on right: hawkface (though like her sister, she has nice red hair)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (wzUl9)

19 both women, "we're bored, can we stop this?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (2GVsD)

20 Whistler had talent but was a weak betasoy pussy. He was completely dominated by women in his life, all toxic bitches. He probably was a closet poofter.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (yhEB+)

21 Alternate title:

"Whistler's Throuple: Two-Thirds Version"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

22 Poor posture all around. Would not hang.

Posted by: Cairo Practick Institute at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (oftw2)

23 Racist!

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (vFXRK)

24 It's a 714 kind of day.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (vFG9F)

25 Fifty Shades of Grey. Wow, Just wow.

Posted by: What the ladies are thinking at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (PiwSw)

26 too white

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)
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Nothing that Windex can't solve.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (MXrgX)

27 "Pfft. They're nowhere near as hot as me."
-- Whistler's mother

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

28
Lazy girls

Get into that kitchen, and rattle them pots and pans

Posted by: Don Black at December 08, 2025 09:36 AM (ZxPkt)

29 What is that object on the floor near the right-hand girl? It looks like a brightly colored version of a booster you'd keep in your car to jump your battery.

Though if it's on its side, it could be a top or a toy version of a carousel. The spike sticking out would be to spin it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

30 "We're bored! Entertain us!"

Posted by: Two sisters, dressed all in Cloud Dancer white at December 08, 2025 09:37 AM (wVcYX)

31 This is one way to get around the fact that you can't paint feet.

Posted by: Agony of De Feet at December 08, 2025 09:37 AM (oftw2)

32 Whistler...ok. The lady on the left is about to fall of the couch !

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 09:37 AM (g47mK)

33 What is that object on the floor near the right-hand girl?

Looks like a fan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (ExV1e)

34 The redhead will steal your soul.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (MUvIp)

35 What is that object on the floor near the right-hand girl? It looks like a brightly colored version of a booster you'd keep in your car to jump your battery.

Though if it's on its side, it could be a top or a toy version of a carousel. The spike sticking out would be to spin it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:36 AM (wzUl9)
——

It’s a fan. This is the period where painters would stick fans into their paintings for some reason or another, IIRC.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (yhEB+)

36 U still in Englandstan?

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:32 AM (gbOdA)

Nope. Got back a couple of days ago. And this piece is at the Courtauld Gallery, not the Barber!

Courtauld is an absolutely spectacular museum. One of the best in the world!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (5yqpK)

37 Right-Hand Girl has a ring on the second finger of her left hand. Is there any significance to its presence on that finger?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

38 Wiki-
Symphony in White, No. 3 is a painting by James McNeill Whistler, created between 1865 and 1867. It features two women: one seated on a white sofa, dressed in white, and the other on the floor in a yellowish dress. The seated figure is Joanna Heffernan, Whistler's mistress and frequent model.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

39 Original title: White Supremacy with Dustpan.

Posted by: red speck at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (Ve/HL)

40 Birthin' hips on the left

Posted by: one hour sober at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (Y1sOo)

41 Girl on right: hawkface (though like her sister, she has nice red hair)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I've never encountered the term "hawkface" before. The girl on the right reminds me of Margaret Hamilton, however.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

42 They definitely need a sammich or three.

Posted by: Peter Paul Rubens at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (PiwSw)

43 Wolfus was #4 on the Wall of Shame last week. Good work!

And whistling is a lost art, since I passed on.

Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (oftw2)

44 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (vf0Uk)

45 Way too overdressed for art.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (vf0Uk)

46 Are those Klan symbols on the rug?

Posted by: red speck at December 08, 2025 09:40 AM (Ve/HL)

47 The incredible whiteness of being.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (0nHVk)

48 Looks more Eggshell or Ecru than white.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (9bIJg)

49 Girl on right: hawkface (though like her sister, she has nice red hair)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
I've never encountered the term "hawkface" before. The girl on the right reminds me of Margaret Hamilton, however.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

***
I may have just now coined the term. Miss Hamilton, esp. as the Witch, is the icon for the term.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (wzUl9)

50 Looks yellowish. Lots of sweat stains on that white.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (vf0Uk)

51 Wiki-
Symphony in White, No. 3 is a painting by James McNeill Whistler, created between 1865 and 1867. It features two women: one seated on a white sofa, dressed in white, and the other on the floor in a yellowish dress. The seated figure is Joanna Heffernan, Whistler's mistress and frequent model.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 08, 2025 09:39 AM (NpAcC)

We're a good looking clan.

Posted by: Doug Heffernan, King of Queens at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (wVcYX)

52 Courtauld is an absolutely spectacular museum. One of the best in the world!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (5yqpK)
============
I agree. It's a great place (as is much in England), politics aside.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 08, 2025 09:41 AM (vFXRK)

53 Looks more Eggshell or Ecru than white.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025

***
Except for Left-Hand Girl's blouse, all the "white" has a distinct yellowish cast.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

54 I'd like to see this one in person.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 08, 2025 09:42 AM (4/BuS)

55
*sings*

You say you want a Symph'ny in White
We-ell, you kno-ow
White's a color not a song
You tell me "What about the Blues?''
I tell you, buddy, that you're wrong
...

Posted by: Rejected song from The Beatles White Album at December 08, 2025 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

56 Right-Hand Girl has a ring on the second finger of her left hand. Is there any significance to its presence on that finger?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

No longer a virgin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 08, 2025 09:43 AM (vf0Uk)

57 Y'know . . . Left-Hand Girl has a distinct resemblance to Gillian Anderson of X-Files and Bleak House fame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:43 AM (wzUl9)

58 Dear Horde,

Please excuse James from the Art Thread this morning.

Signed,
Whistler's Mother

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 09:44 AM (bFu5X)

59 I do not think he knows what symphony means.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:45 AM (9ipOP)

60 The object still does not resemble a fan to me. A fan is close to 2D, while this object appears to be 3D, like a little cage with a handle sticking out of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

61 So, if you're out on your bike tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike-wear white.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (oftw2)

62 Y'know . . . Left-Hand Girl has a distinct resemblance to Gillian Anderson of X-Files and Bleak House fame.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You're right.

Gillian Anderson and Margaret Hamilton. Weird casting choices, but it works.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (77rzZ)

63 There are no musical instruments in that painting.

Fraud.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (NwnyJ)

64 And whistling is a lost art, since I passed on.

Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby

Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

65 Nope. Got back a couple of days ago. And this piece is at the Courtauld Gallery, not the Barber!

Courtauld is an absolutely spectacular museum. One of the best in the world!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:38 AM (5yqpK)

wiki wrong l i b

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:47 AM (gbOdA)

66 All the art depicting women never shows the sammiches. How do they do that?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:47 AM (9ipOP)

67
Rhapsody in Blue >>>> Symphony in White

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 09:48 AM (tgvbd)

68 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt >> James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Posted by: one hour sober at December 08, 2025 09:48 AM (Y1sOo)

69 Classy art. Would hang this one.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 08, 2025 09:49 AM (O7YUW)

70 Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I have always been unable to whistle. Just can't do it. Dunno why.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:49 AM (77rzZ)

71 Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

Awww, how can anyone hate this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDtVe04Z5I

To hate it is to hate life.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

72 Nice.

I see a reference to the Pantone color of the year has already been made, so. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (GbwPZ)

73 Nog dogs, no boobs.

Gonna be this kind of art week eh?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (SQJLY)

74 48 >>>Looks more Eggshell or Ecru than white.

Had an art class once where we had to do a still life as an assignment. I came home from class, went to work, ate dinner at 11:00pm, and thought, "Oh shit... that stupid drawing." Figured I'd do something simple and get to bed asap because I was exhausted.

So I put two white eggs on a white plate. Felt a it like cheating. So I cracked an egg on the plate as well. Still thought, "Meh. Some grays, a little yellow... I'll be snoozing by midnight." Went to bed at 4am after agonizing over the Prestone-green that came from the egg white reflecting the yolk. And the little amniotic sac on the inside of the cracked egg was the most frustrating shade of periwinkle.

I was exhausted at class the next day but learned a good lesson in really seeing your subject for what's there. And something something procrastination.

Posted by: red speck at December 08, 2025 09:50 AM (Ve/HL)

75 Rhapsody in Blue >>>> Symphony in White
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Where does "Daydream in Blue" by I Monster fit in?
https://shorturl.at/FjT6f

Posted by: Musical Moron at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (JCZqz)

76 >> Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.

For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (GbwPZ)

77 No dogs, no boobs.

Gonna be this kind of art week eh?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Well, technically, there are boobs present. Just not on display.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

78 Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

Yikes!

Posted by: Bobby McFerrin at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (PiwSw)

79
A Lean. And Hungry Look - a limerick

Whistler's sister has a case of the flu
Which gives her a distinctly slanted view
Her angle is off
With a sneeze and a cough
"Ah. Ah. A-skew!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM (/iMjX)

80 Neither of them stuck out their gyatt for the rizzler.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 09:52 AM (UnA8+)

81 Herb Alpert's "Acapulco 1922" features a *little* whistling:

https://tinyurl.com/y7stmek2

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

82 A+

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 08, 2025 09:53 AM (6qf1m)

83 >> Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.

For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM

I'm like that with the triangle.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (bFu5X)

84 For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.
Posted by: Lizzy

Whew! Lets us off the hook.
-- Accordians

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

85 Is there an etiquette or rule around artists signing their works?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (bNf8H)

86 I'm like that with the triangle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The damn zither at the beginning of The Third Man.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

87 Pantone approves of this artwork!

very Cloud Dancer

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (emBoF)

88 For me, it's the harmonica. Generally annoying instrument.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2025 09:51 AM

I'm like that with the triangle.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 09:54 AM (bFu5X)

That is disappointing, I must say.

Posted by: Ed Grimley at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (PiwSw)

89 85 Is there an etiquette or rule around artists signing their works?

the etiquette is you should always sign. you can sign on the back if you're shy.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (emBoF)

90 Where are the pillows so they can fight?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

91 Where are the pillows so they can fight?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2025 09:55 AM (sKqQm)

It's no fun if they aren't topless.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (9G/0O)

92 The object still does not resemble a fan to me. A fan is close to 2D, while this object appears to be 3D, like a little cage with a handle sticking out of it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

It's a fan with a rattan frame covered at the top with silk or paper.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (mlg/3)

93 all the "white" has a distinct yellowish cast.

Probably hung over the fireplace in the Night Watch's smoking room for a hundred years. Be surprised what a conservator could do. They might disappear!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (zdLoL)

94
The name "Cloud Dancer" for a color makes me want to punch someone in the head.

Either that or change the name of pancakes to-

Turtle's Worzel Bits.

Either or.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 09:58 AM (iJfKG)

95 It's not often two people simultaneously have their hearts wounded with a monotonous languor.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 09:59 AM (Riz8t)

96 Two AWFL's lamenting Pantone's Color of the Year being "Cloud Dancer?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (qBdHI)

97 64 And whistling is a lost art, since I passed on.

Posted by: Zombie Bing Crosby

Nothing will set me on edge faster than someone whistling. I hate it. Makes me want to start punching/shooting people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:46 AM (ikoqu)

I've never killed anybody, so I may be well behind the curve amongst the Horde...

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (UnA8+)

98 It's not often two people simultaneously have their hearts wounded with a monotonous languor.
Posted by: Archimedes

In India, the langurs have languor.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (77rzZ)

99 Lesbeans exhausted after rug munching the morning away.

Posted by: Lick It Lick It Good at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (bwkZy)

100 That was quite a party.

Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (04KGT)

101 In the days before A/C, didn't funeral homes provide fans as a marketing tool?

Posted by: Ill wind the Bodes Nobody Good. at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (oftw2)

102 Sounds bad

@disclosetv 2m
JUST IN - Tsunami of up to 10 feet (3 meters) expected to hit Japan's Pacific coast, after 7.6-magnitude quake hits.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (mlg/3)

103 Gah! That's what I get for reading from the bottom up. The Cloud Dancer idiocy has already been addressed! My wit missed it by ---><--- that much.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 08, 2025 10:02 AM (qBdHI)

104 I've seen this painting before. It's done with Whistler's usual talent and style, especially the way he can subtly blend similar colors. I thought there was a message behind the image. The girls are in white and on a white sofa, things that are easily soiled. No room for fun or activity, just quiet and boring lounging. The younger girl on the right has dropped her viewer and is falling asleep. The older girl, more mature in her posture and with the shape of her legs showing through the material, looks like she wants some action, some romance. Her gaze is distant. She wants to be elsewhere, doing what young women desire.

I might be reading too much into the image but it's fun coming up with the scenario.

Posted by: JTB at December 08, 2025 10:03 AM (yTvNw)

105 Ilhan Omar says Jewish White House official sounds like Nazis because he thinks immigrants should assimilate

-
Maybe it makes sense in some parallel universe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:03 AM (L/fGl)

106 99 Lesbeans exhausted after rug munching the morning away.
Posted by: Lick It Lick It Good

Les Beans is the coffee place down the street run by a lesbian couple.

Posted by: Confused Moron at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (JCZqz)

107 Too white, need to add a Somali for color balance.

Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (uNwvV)

108 99 Lesbeans exhausted after rug munching the morning away.
Posted by: Lick It Lick It Good at December 08, 2025 10:01 AM (bwkZy)

Shouldn't they be eating Baba Ghannouj?

...oh. I thought you said "Lebanese".

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (UnA8+)

109 Needs more bamboo.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 08, 2025 10:04 AM (GD2xa)

110 ON another version of Alpert's "Acapulco 1922" on YooToob, the description has it that the song "was written by Eldon Allan, who was actually Herb's older brother Dave Alpert, who also wrote the 1967 Tijuana Brass song 'Wade In The Water.' "

I understood WitW was a traditional spiritual; on a visit to Linda's Catholic church, I happened to spot the title in the songbook (forgive me if I don't have the correct name for the volume). Isn't it? Herb and/or Dave may have adapted it or arranged it, but they didn't write it, did they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (wzUl9)

111 You’re bothered by his whistling? Just ask his mother!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (075ei)

112 Hope they don’t have a spaghetti dinner.

Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (pDt9x)

113 I might be reading too much into the image but it's fun coming up with the scenario.
Posted by: JTB

It's late afternoon during a hot summer's day. They're just tucker'd out.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (mlg/3)

114 The older girl, more mature in her posture and with the shape of her legs showing through the material, looks like she wants some action, some romance.

She needs to get on a dating website, or perhaps post something in the town square.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (Riz8t)

115 That yellowed dress can be whitened without bleach. Spray 'n' Wash- just pour, rub, and launder as usual.

Posted by: Betty White For Spray 'n' Wash at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (oftw2)

116 105 Ilhan Omar says Jewish White House official sounds like Nazis because he thinks immigrants should assimilate
-
Maybe it makes sense in some parallel universe.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I mentioned the failure of recent immigrants to assimilate with US culture in a reddit discussion recently, and was dismissed as being too Borg-like.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

117 Story at Faux Bizness about some Christmas decorations that are in short supply at Home Depot. And people are doing this…

“Yahoo reported that some of the most in-demand items are being resold online for prices exceeding $1,000. Customers who can’t afford those prices are also crowdsourcing their efforts to find the limited available stock. Yahoo reported on one 44-year-old collector who found an 8-foot Santa that was five hours from his home. He put down a $300 deposit to hold the item before driving to get it. ”

$1000 for a blow up Santa? And driving 10 hours for it. Has the world gone fucking mad?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:06 AM (SQJLY)

118 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Nice art. This must be just before the pillow fight.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:06 AM (2WIwB)

119 “Yahoo reported that some of the most in-demand items are being resold online for prices exceeding $1,000. Customers who can’t afford those prices are also crowdsourcing their efforts to find the limited available stock. Yahoo reported on one 44-year-old collector who found an 8-foot Santa that was five hours from his home. He put down a $300 deposit to hold the item before driving to get it. ”

$1000 for a blow up Santa? And driving 10 hours for it. Has the world gone f***ing mad?

Tell me you're an obsessive loser without telling me you're an obsessive loser.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:07 AM (Riz8t)

120 That’s not a viewer. It’s probably a mirror, or possibly a fan.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 08, 2025 10:07 AM (075ei)

121 Left: Somalis are just like all of your ancestors H8ers

Also left: how dare you ask they assimilate the way your ancestors did?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:08 AM (SQJLY)

122
Panacea - not a limerick

Tuberculosis, scoliosis, halitosis, and the flu
Proptosis, Brucellosis, and neurosis.
"Whatever shall I do?"

Tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, croup
Meningitis, hepatitis, phlebitis and rhinitis?
'I think I'll make some chicken soup!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 08, 2025 10:08 AM (/iMjX)

123 White lights around the porch columns, white lights in the boxwood hedge, wreath above the front porch. Outdoor decorations are done.

Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2025 10:08 AM (pDt9x)

124 116
I mentioned the failure of recent immigrants to assimilate with US culture in a reddit discussion recently, and was dismissed as being too Borg-like.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

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I'm going to move to Mexico and refuse to learn Spanish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

125 OOooooo...

Paramount is trying for a hostile takeover of WB.

$108 billion effort.

This is gonna be great!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

126 BREAKING:

Thailand and Cambodia are quickly amassing tanks, artillery and MLRS systems at the border.

2 Thai soldiers were wounded today after a Cambodian attack in the Kantharalak district followed by a second Cambodian attack around 100 km further north near the Preah Vihear… pic.twitter.com/3sPr2bBcqA

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 7, 2025
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Someone should tell the president his deal is coming apart.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (9ipOP)

127 I'm going to move to Mexico and refuse to learn Spanish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Move to Somalia, open a church, and play the bells throughout the day.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)

128 Dem Rep Seth Moulton says since Trump is taking out narco-terrorists, he might m*rder Americans next.
Moulton is running to unseat Senator Markey in Massachusetts.
The more insane the rhetoric, the more he beefs up the lunatic base bona fides.

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Maybe he'll drone E. Jean Carroll's panties.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (L/fGl)

129
I'm going to move to Mexico and refuse to learn Spanish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:08 AM (GBKbO)

That makes you The Quirky Gringo and a major celebrity in most Mexican towns.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (iJfKG)

130 > $1000 for a blow up Santa? And driving 10 hours for it. Has the world gone fucking mad?
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I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

131 I'm not even Somali and I accept that I deserve to be deported for what the Somalis did.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (UnA8+)

132 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

That's my name too!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (9bIJg)

133 I saw a clip of. Somali woman who claimed to have been here since 1994 when she was 5 years old. Had the thickest accent. Which shows how they absolutely do NOT assimilate.

I know people who immigrated here when they’re were kids and you’d never know it since they have no accents. Because back in the olden days pre 1990ish) immigrant kids learned English and lived in English. Now it’s a distant second language for them their entire lives.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (SQJLY)

134 Whistler is a master, no doubt about that

first he painted all the white, then he painted all the black

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (dCxaZ)

135 125 OOooooo...

Paramount is trying for a hostile takeover of WB.

$108 billion effort.

This is gonna be great!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (GBKbO)

AEW fans flying into a rage as we speak.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (UnA8+)

136 130 I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

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I hate the blow ups. We have a couple for Halloween, but Dolley just didn't put them up this year. I'm not sure why because I haven't voiced my displeasure over them.

Christmas, though, is classy. Warm white lights. Wreaths. Red bows. That's about it on the outside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

137
Woman on left: "The Paolo. He's everything they said he'd be, and more."

Woman on right: * moans softly, in agreement *

Posted by: Moron Art Critic at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

138 Paramount is trying for a hostile takeover of WB.

$108 billion effort.

This is gonna be great!

I find it really hard to imagine how any entertainment company in this day and age is worth that kind of money.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (Riz8t)

139 One house in our neighborhood has two enormous blow-up reindeer and an enormous blow-up Christmas ornament in the front yard.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

140 The old artist's trick: one model, two different poses!

I believe the woman who posed for this one moved out of Whistler's home just before Whistler's widowed mother moved in. Mother was a sweet Church Lady, but a Church Lady nonetheless.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (BHrzb)

141 Move to Somalia, open a church, and play the bells throughout the day.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:10 AM (JCZqz)
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Just try doing that in Vermont!

https://tinyurl.com/yu2kcd52

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (MXrgX)

142 I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

These same people: Trump is making everything unaffordable!!!

And yeah I’m seeing a lot of those yards as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (SQJLY)

143 I'm not even Somali and I accept that I deserve to be deported for what the Somalis did.

Posted by: XTC

I'm going to need to see your work on that.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:14 AM (Riz8t)

144 A good day to all the Rons and Ettes and all the art-lovers at sea. Wreaths on the door and tree ready to be decorated. It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas.

What an odd composition. The ladies look to be in uncomfortable positions, and not interacting in any way. And the symphony in whites has a lot of off-white, yellowish-white, eggshell, beige, and ecru, but not a lot of white, or even any "cloud dancer."

What was Whistler thinking??

Posted by: mindful webworker - probably about his mother at December 08, 2025 10:15 AM (yqA/D)

145 Stay in your lane, Jimmy.

Sincerely,

Ludwig

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 08, 2025 10:15 AM (NYInA)

146 Ilhan Omar says Jewish White House official sounds like Nazis because he thinks immigrants should assimilate
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"Because I'm muslim enough, I'm fraudulent enough, and gosh darn it, people dislike me."

/Stuart Somali

Posted by: muldoon at December 08, 2025 10:15 AM (/iMjX)

147 Christmas, though, is classy. Warm white lights. Wreaths. Red bows. That's about it on the outside.

Agreed. Also, if there is a pause in the Christmas decoration arms race due to lack of supply, I'm okay with it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

148 130 I was out yesterday and saw a "lot" of those blow-up yard decorations for Christmas. A couple yards looked like an amusement park there were so many, large decorations.

Santa in a Jeep. Santa on a Harley. Santa climbing a palm tree. An entire inflatable house with Santa in the chimney. Flocks of Penguins. Multiple snowmen. And so on.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2025 10:11 AM (NwnyJ)

And then there are the people who just stick a santa hat on the 20-foot skeleton they put up for Halloween.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (UnA8+)

149 Woman on left: "The Paolo. He's everything they said he'd be, and more."

Woman on right: * moans softly, in agreement *
Posted by: Moron Art Critic

That's why neither can stand.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (9bIJg)

150 And the symphony in whites has a lot of off-white, yellowish-white, eggshell, beige, and ecru, but not a lot of white, or even any "cloud dancer."

What was Whistler thinking??

Resale value?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:16 AM (Riz8t)

151 We saw "Rental Family" this weekend based on moviegique's strong recommendation.

Excellent movie. Very sweet. The kind of family oriented movie "they" used to make.

Brendan Fraser was great., along with the other actors. Strong script. Crisp direction.

Highly recommend you see it before it leaves the theaters (which will more than likely be this week if you wish to:
1)See a good movie
2) Support this kind of good movie.

It a dramedy basically in case you're wondering, Nothing blows up.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)

152 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:12 AM (SQJLY)

that's painting the immigrant experience with a really broad brush

Loss or retention of native language accent is usually a function of what age the immigrant arrived here.
If it was pre- 15 or 16 years old, there is a good chance the accent will disappear.
There are other factors, such as their engagement in the larger society.
My grandparents kept their strong accents until their death, as did my mother. And mom got here at age 19.
Presence or absence of a foreign accent doesn't really correlate with whether or not a person has fully assimilated.

My dad's accent left fairly quickly, he arrived at age 18. I think because he was drafted and then when discharged from Army went into business for himself, he was more exposed to hearing how Americans talk and his ear acclimated to it more than other members of my fam.

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

153 I mentioned the failure of recent immigrants to assimilate with US culture in a reddit discussion recently, and was dismissed as being too Borg-like.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 08, 2025 10:05 AM (JCZqz)

Go post in all caps. When they yell at you, ask, "why? is that some custom here? why should I care about the customs here?"

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (pIfcn)

154 143 I'm going to need to see your work on that.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:14 AM (Riz8t)

Well, I'm not taking a DNA test since those all instantly go to the Feds.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (UnA8+)

155 We've got a few houses in the area who left their giant skeletal Halloween decorations up and slapped Santa hats, wreaths, etc. on them.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (vV6n9)

156 Thinking about stepping out for a coffee and croissant, or muffin. When I drive someplace I like to combine errands, but I can't think of anything I *need* that I could add to this jaunt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

157 152 My dad's accent left fairly quickly, he arrived at age 18. I think because he was drafted and then when discharged from Army went into business for himself, he was more exposed to hearing how Americans talk and his ear acclimated to it more than other members of my fam.

Posted by: kallisto at December 08, 2025 10:17 AM (dCxaZ)

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Movie factoid:

Billy Wilder emigrated in his late 20s from Germany. He could never lose his accent, and he was extremely self-conscious of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (GBKbO)

158 ‘Daddy says we can’t go to New York with Luigi.’

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 10:18 AM (x4MxA)

159 How's the whole soldiers should refuse Hesgeth's war crime orders thing going? Let's check the Dickhead-o-Meter . . .

Mark Kelly on drug boat second strike:

Dec 2: Members of the military have been given “clearly unlawful, illegal orders."

Dec 7: "I’m not going to prejudge this. I want to see the video. I want to see an investigation."

Backtrack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

160 Christmas, though, is classy. Warm white lights. Wreaths. Red bows. That's about it on the outside.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

No! Garish colored lights are the way to go. And not the one lit candle in each window like some stuffed shirts. People that live in some faux "colonial" house with their faux Drunken Fife furniture. Piss me off to no end!

Posted by: Hostile Xmas Takeover at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (oftw2)

161 Kalliato,

Yeah for sure depends on age. Pre-teen years is when kids absorb languages easily. Put a 5 year old who’s never spoken English into an English school and within a few month kid is damn near fluent and with no accent quickly.

The Somali in question claimed she came here when she was 5. She still have a very thick accents which means she was not exposed to much English as a young child.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (SQJLY)

162 Has the world gone fucking mad?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:06 AM

Is this a trick question?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (bFu5X)

163 Don't worry, be happy. *whistles*

Posted by: Bobby McFerrin at December 08, 2025 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

164 139 One house in our neighborhood has two enormous blow-up reindeer and an enormous blow-up Christmas ornament in the front yard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)

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One of my neighbors has wandering laser dots of varying colors. At night I'm seeing persistent fireflies up in my evergreens. We're not that far from the approach at a major airport. I wish ATC would tell him to knock it off.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 08, 2025 10:21 AM (NYInA)

165 159 How's the whole soldiers should refuse Hesgeth's war crime orders thing going? Let's check the Dickhead-o-Meter . . .

Mark Kelly on drug boat second strike:

Dec 2: Members of the military have been given “clearly unlawful, illegal orders."

Dec 7: "I’m not going to prejudge this. I want to see the video. I want to see an investigation."

Backtrack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

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I've seen a theory that he's trying the "lawfare target to massive electoral support" strategy. You know, how Trump was targeted for bullshit that everyone except the most partisan of Democrats (like, writers at NRO) saw as bullshit.

And it seems somewhat convincing to explain his path.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

166 My accent is S.C. Redneck/Ebonic.

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 10:21 AM (x4MxA)

167 Movie factoid:

Billy Wilder emigrated in his late 20s from Germany. He could never lose his accent, and he was extremely self-conscious of it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025

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Bela Lugosi never lost his, and it was important to his work, as he appeared in *front* of the camera instead of toiling behind it like Wilder. His accent worked well for roles like Dracula and Ygor, and the Soviet commissar he played in Ninotchka. But it hampered him in the Hollywood of those days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:22 AM (wzUl9)

168 Thailand and Cambodia are quickly amassing tanks, artillery and MLRS systems at the border.

Someone should tell them never get involved in a ground war in Asia.
Oh.
Wait...

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:23 AM (2WIwB)

169 Hope they don’t have a spaghetti dinner.
Posted by: tubal

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Ha!

Posted by: muldoon at December 08, 2025 10:23 AM (/iMjX)

170 Posted by: naturalfake

Rental Family is on my To See list.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:24 AM (9bIJg)

171 168 Thailand and Cambodia are quickly amassing tanks, artillery and MLRS systems at the border.

Someone should tell them never get involved in a ground war in Asia.
Oh.
Wait...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:23 AM (2WIwB)

Europe wants WW3...

...they're gonna get WW3.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2025 10:24 AM (UnA8+)

172 I've known hundreds of Norwegian immigrants over the years. The cutoff for no accent is 14. Later than that will always have some accent. This assumes you go to school and speak English from then on.

Lawrence Welk was born and grew up in North Dakota, went to German speaking schools, church, lodge, stores, etc. Look how his speaking turned out.

Posted by: Nordisk Tidende at December 08, 2025 10:24 AM (oftw2)

173 Mark Kelly on drug boat second strike:

Dec 2: Members of the military have been given “clearly unlawful, illegal orders."

Dec 7: "I’m not going to prejudge this. I want to see the video. I want to see an investigation."

Backtrack.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Backtrack? Motorized goalposts.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (9bIJg)

174 One house in our neighborhood has two enormous blow-up reindeer and an enormous blow-up Christmas ornament in the front yard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

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I'd love to see one with a blow-up Santa, and a bunch of mannequin strippers cavorting around a pole with Santa putting $5 bills in their G-Strings!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (wzUl9)

175
"I'm just mad about Saffron ...
Saffron's mad about me"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bamboo Ruminant at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (BZKvP)

176 Bela Lugosi never lost his, and it was important to his work, as he appeared in *front* of the camera instead of toiling behind it like Wilder. His accent worked well for roles like Dracula and Ygor, and the Soviet commissar he played in Ninotchka. But it hampered him in the Hollywood of those days.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I met a guy from Romania once. He was the spitting image of Bob Newhart, except his voice was that of Bela Lugosi. I was kind of jarring.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

177 Mel Gibson in his early career was full on Oz accent. Then as he became a big start it went away. Even in interviews I’ve seen with him he sounds ‘Murican. And that infamous tape. He fully embraced Americanizing his accent.

he is American since was born in NYC. He could run for prezzy. 😀

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 10:26 AM (SQJLY)

178 EU messed with Elon so he looked into their X account and found illegal harvesting activities.

He has canceled account.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

179 178 EU messed with Elon so he looked into their X account and found illegal harvesting activities.

He has canceled account.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (gbOdA)

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They'll make it up on BlueSky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

180 EU messed with Elon so he looked into their X account and found illegal harvesting activities.

He has canceled account.

They really, really don't understand that he's far smarter than they are.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 08, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)

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