Monday Cafe

by Guido Krüttgen

Love at 20,000 feet.

We all tend to pursue the unavailable.

Waking up with a strange bedpartner.

Cat IT.

This cat exemplifies the phenomenon of "fur children."

Kids today, they just learn from the TV.

Jealous dog.

Dog wants more shiatsu massage.

A dog sled in bizzaro world.

Thwarting a chaos agent.

More fun than popping bubble wrap.

Must... destroy... Christmas...

Incredible Auroras 🦌 pic.twitter.com/31nBdsxrHn
— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) December 7, 2025

They couldn’t figure out why the tree kept falling until they checked the camera.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/AbGSjrEFdp
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 8, 2025

The smiles.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/eUAaslg3FB
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 6, 2025

When dad's in the charge of the kids for the day..🐶🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/JvHuIFjLEX
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 8, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM

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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:21 PM (cYBz/)

2 Beautiful selection, Ace ...

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 08, 2025 07:22 PM (3ZUWJ)

3 Evening, Ace, and Cafe patrons. Warmed up here today. I saw 37 degrees briefly while in the truck. Melting was happening.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:23 PM (npFr7)

4 Cat looking at Christmas tree, "I can climb that."

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:24 PM (2GVsD)

5 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

6 Actually, looking at the art on the wall, I think the cat got confused. Pollock would be an improvement.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2GVsD)

7 Cat looking at Christmas tree, "I can climb that."
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:24 PM (2GVsD)
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"I WILL CLIMB THAT!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (ESVrU)

8 Since when can you take your dog on a commercial flight?

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Wonder what the picture at the top is?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (pkeXY)

10 Wonder what the picture at the top is?

Tis a mystery wrapped in an enigma swaddled by a puzzle.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (2GVsD)

11 Perfessor, I don't know if you saw this earlier -- a suggestion for a future Book Thread:

https://youtu.be/qZWCNVLd44Y

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (PiwSw)

12 Actually, looking at the art on the wall, I think the cat got confused. Pollock would be an improvement.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2GVsD)

Pollock? Yum. Codfish OK, too.

Posted by: Kitties, everywhere at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (npFr7)

13 The picture finally comes into focus, thanks Ace.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:30 PM (2GVsD)

14 Wonder what the picture at the top is?

Tis a mystery wrapped in an enigma swaddled by a puzzle.

Oh, it loaded!

That's a nice winter landscape.

I can't help but being ever so slight disappointed because when I read the title of the broken link I though it said "Guido Kitten" and I was looking forward to seeing what that was.

But it's a very nice picture anyway.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (a+4eV)

15 Guido Krüttgen??!

A Dago Kraut?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (cYBz/)

16 If I lived in a house with a cat and the Christmas tree kept ending up on the floor I wouldn't need a hidden camera to clue me in on the reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt)

17 Love the pic on the top.
Fabulous contrast and the fog looks amazing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (6ydKt)

18 A Dago Kraut?

German engineering with an Italian flair.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)

19 Perfessor, I don't know if you saw this earlier -- a suggestion for a future Book Thread:

https://youtu.be/qZWCNVLd44Y
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 08, 2025 07:29 PM (PiwSw)
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Meh. Other than the obvious attractions, not much substance to fuel a conversation on the Book Thread...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (ESVrU)

20 Top pic - "miles to go and promises to keep."

The story of Sisu.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (2GVsD)

21 That picture at the top, I have been down roads like that before. Some of my relatives live (lived) very rural. One cousin lived so far out that the county built a bridge over a creek so the school bus could pick them up without making a 20 mile detour.

Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:35 PM (zBC00)

22 If I lived in a house with a cat and the Christmas tree kept ending up on the floor I wouldn't need a hidden camera to clue me in on the reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt)
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Yeah, you really don't need Nancy Drew or Encyclopedia Brown to crack this case.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 07:36 PM (ESVrU)

23
Russian space program: Too much vodka or not enough?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (w6EFb)

24 Isn't Dago Kraut giardiniera?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (rbvCR)

25 German engineering with an Italian flair.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)

Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:38 PM (npFr7)

26 And then Ford bought the Ghia design bureau. And after the Mustang II Ghia, they were never heard from again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD)

27
FLOTUSReport X feed. Lots of pictures of Melania today:
https://is.gd/NV25Nq

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (w6EFb)

28 Evening.

Okay, why is YouTube giving me ads for men's underwear with fucking boner pockets?

I keep trying to block the ads but I still get bulging packages in my feed. What the fuck?!?

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (xt2dn)

29 >>>Love at 20,000 feet.

I like the final look at the end where the dog on the floor looks to its owner and says (with its eyes), you see how the other dog is loved by its owner and held lovingly in their lap while here I sit on the cold, dirty floor.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (syz1S)

30 Russian space program: Too much vodka or not enough?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:37 PM (w6EFb)

Kosmodrome blew up on the last launch and the Russians are wondering what to do about it. The only working orbital programs now are SpaceX and the Chinese, and the Chinese use non-standard docking equipment and apparently are unwilling to share the dimensions and specs with SpaceX. This could be a problem as the Chinese astronauts may not have a functioning return craft right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (rbvCR)

31 Willowed

but do we really want people fired without cause? Key phrase- without cause.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 08, 2025 07:01 PM (MZ+PY)

Yes.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 08, 2025 07:31 PM (Kkaqr)

Listen to me! It’s important!

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (Kkaqr)

32 And then Ford bought the Ghia design bureau. And after the Mustang II Ghia, they were never heard from again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD)

Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7)

33 25 German engineering with an Italian flair.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)

Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans.
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Fix It Again, Totenkopf

Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (zBC00)

34 25 German engineering with an Italian flair.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:33 PM (2GVsD)

Karmann Ghia: rust, invented by the Italians, but perfected by the Germans.
----

Fix It Again, Totenkopf

Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (zBC00)

35 Didn't the Russians just crunk a Soyuz?

And yeah the PRC thinks stranding a crew aboard their station is just okay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:42 PM (2GVsD)

36 >>That picture at the top, I have been down roads like that before. Some of my relatives live (lived) very rural. One cousin lived so far out that the county built a bridge over a creek so the school bus could pick them up without making a 20 mile detour.

My parent's farm in Vermont was many miles on a dirt road up the side of a mountain. It wasn't quite that narrow but I can relate.

They would shop for needs weeks at a time in winter cause running out for a last minute need was going to happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)

37 This could be a problem as the Chinese astronauts may not have a functioning return craft right now.
Posted by: Kindltot

That sounds like China's problem.

Are they refusing to share the dimension hoping that SpaceX will guess, be wrong, and kill everyone on the return craft and space station?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 08, 2025 07:43 PM (a+4eV)

38 And yeah the PRC thinks stranding a crew aboard their station is just okay.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:42 PM (2GVsD)

Well, if SpaceX sends up a craft to rescue them, they will simply have to do a space wok.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (npFr7)

39 This could be a problem as the Chinese astronauts may not have a functioning return craft right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (rbvCR)

Who'd have thought 20 years ago that Elon Musk would be the only guy competent enough to get to space reliably?

And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (6ydKt)

40 32 And then Ford bought the Ghia design bureau. And after the Mustang II Ghia, they were never heard from again.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:39 PM (2GVsD)

Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7)
I had a Grenada but not a Ghia. I think mine was a Rufus.

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (LHPAg)

41 AoP

I can't remember, I was just horrified that Ghia got attached to the Mustang II body style.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (2GVsD)

42 >> Kosmodrome blew up on the last launch and the Russians are wondering what to do about it.

I saw that. Sergei didn't secure something and it got blasted in the flame trench. Did Sergei have too much vodka or not enough, I wonder.

There's going to be a problem with keeping the ISS boosted due to drag. The Soyuz does that. They can use some of their own thrusters on one of the modules, but that takes fuel, which has to come from a Soyuz. Also something about attitude control, and de-saturating the momentum gyros or something.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (w6EFb)

43 n't

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (viF8m)

44 >> And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.

The experimental stuff. Dragon and Falcon are all reliable old hat now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb)

45 One of the things apparently popping up this year are a new generation of Christmas-themed yard inflatables.

Among them are inflatable penguins.

Resist this attempt by Big Penguin to normalize their polymorphically-perverse and mephitic presence amongst us, particularly in the Christmas season.

If these symbols of perversity are to be displayed at all, it should be during June.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)

46 >>>Jealous dog.

Let me tell you how it's going to be
You're gonna give your love to me

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (syz1S)

47 Wasn't there a Ford Granada Ghia, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:41 PM (npFr7)
I had a Grenada but not a Ghia. I think mine was a Rufus.
Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:44 PM (LHPAg)

My father bought a Granada in '76. In the shop twice for transmission shift cable issues, and then trouble-free for years. The seats held up real well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (npFr7)

48 Whoohoo! Raining and windy with gusts up
To 42 kts! Boat ride home is gonna be LIT!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (VDe78)

49 Plans for the highly anticipated "Pengmetheus" movie were scuttled by Big Penguin because of the obvious polymorphicly perverse parallels between the activities of the mighty mephitic menace and those of the fictional "Engineers".

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 08, 2025 07:47 PM (vFG9F)

50 The picture looks like my home city right now. It's going down to 7° overnight. My morning walk isn't going to be too long

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:48 PM (bfwj/)

51 Nurse Ratched is going to re-enact the Flying Dutchman in the Roaring Forties?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (2GVsD)

52
Just reading. SpaceX and Dragon can do the reboosting, but it's the gyro desaturating for attitude control that is entirely dependent on the Rooskie Soyuz.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

53 The experimental stuff. Dragon and Falcon are all reliable old hat now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (w6EFb)

There were a lot of rapid unscheduled disasemblies for those before they got old and reliable.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (6ydKt)

54 T
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:45 PM (w6EFb)

I quipped to someone that will be covered in the 29th point of the Russia - Ukraine peace agreement

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:49 PM (rbvCR)

55 And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

That's part of the fun.

Posted by: some kid at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (v0R5T)

56 45 One of the things apparently popping up this year are a new generation of Christmas-themed yard inflatables.

Among them are inflatable penguins.

Resist this attempt by Big Penguin to normalize their polymorphically-perverse and mephitic presence amongst us, particularly in the Christmas season.

If these symbols of perversity are to be displayed at all, it should be during June.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 07:46 PM (0sNs1)
The Cohen Bros wanted were strong armed by big penguin during the making of Fargo....so the one penguin in the movie was chummed through the chipper.

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (LHPAg)

57 8 Since when can you take your dog on a commercial flight?
Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)

That was a train.

"Since when can you cake your dog on a train?" is probably still a valid question.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:51 PM (R256O)

58 >>>Incredible Auroras

Not as good as an Incredible Areola, but then most things aren't.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (syz1S)

59 57 here today, 63 tomorrow. There is another cold front on the way but not for a few days.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (+mUZM)

60 "What about a gorilla on a train?" - Eddie Murphy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (2GVsD)

61 I saw an inflatable penguin humping an inflatable snowman right in front of an inflatable Mrs Santa Claus. Those things have no shame.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

62 Deep thought

Black and White photos always make them more artistic but a black and white painting is boring and seems unfinished.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (KDPiq)

63 57 here today, 63 tomorrow. There is another cold front on the way but not for a few days.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:52 PM (+mUZM)

Did you get hit by that cold snap that went through last week?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (rbvCR)

64 16 If I lived in a house with a cat and the Christmas tree kept ending up on the floor I wouldn't need a hidden camera to clue me in on the reason.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 07:32 PM (6ydKt)

I've had to anchor Christmas trees to the wall with string to prevent inexplicable midnight crashes. I wasn't sure if the problem was the cat or the Jameson I put in the tree stand.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (R256O)

65 I'll just hold my dog, he will be fine for a 45 minute commute

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

66
Soyuz undocking in 22 minutes, and reentry in 2:30. The Soyuz returns pretty quickly after undocking.

There's always the possible Soyuz reentry can get sporty, if Sergei forgot something. There have been a couple of wild, 8g "ballistic reentries", including one where Don Pettit took quite a ride.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

67 I saw an inflatable penguin humping an inflatable snowman right in front of an inflatable Mrs Santa Claus. Those things have no shame.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

Lecture bottle of hydrogen. Flaming arrow. Some assembly required.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (npFr7)

68 Yeah, a dusting of snow that is gone now. PNW is supposed to get hit with heavy rains next, so you are in for fun! Was nice today to go outside with one less layer on.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM)

69 >>Let me tell you how it's going to be
You're gonna give your love to me

https://tinyurl.com/b3zcekwv

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 07:56 PM (viF8m)

70
One of my favorites was a when the Roscosmos people blamed "women drivers" for some Soyuz mishap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (w6EFb)

71 Where the hell is Beeks?!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (0aYVJ)

72 Yeah, a dusting of snow that is gone now. PNW is supposed to get hit with heavy rains next, so you are in for fun! Was nice today to go outside with one less layer on.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM)

After one nice mild day, we have a Winter storm warning for southern Alberta. Maybe all the moisture that Nurse R is seeing will find its way over the rocks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (npFr7)

73 28 Evening.

Okay, why is YouTube giving me ads for men's underwear with fucking boner pockets?

I keep trying to block the ads but I still get bulging packages in my feed. What the fuck?!?
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 07:40 PM (xt2dn)

Sometimes the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.

Or it's your NSA monitor messing with your head.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (R256O)

74 Deep thought

Black and White photos always make them more artistic but a black and white painting is boring and seems unfinished.
Posted by: the way I see it

My photography professor in college counseled:

"Print in B&W. If it's no good, print it bigger. If it's still no good, print in color."

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (cYBz/)

75 I hate the modern era.

I saw that aurora thumbnail and thought 'thats gay.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 07:59 PM (zZu0s)

76 Guido Kruttgen must be one of those Mountain Guineas I've heard about.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at December 08, 2025 07:59 PM (oftw2)

77 Robert

Maybe all that busty lesbian talk in previous thread caught an Ad LLM.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD)

78 AOP,

Ryan Hall was showing another cold front up next, but they are blowing through. Somaliland seems to be getting most of the snow. Good chance to see the auroras coming up too

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (+mUZM)

79 50 The picture looks like my home city right now. It's going down to 7° overnight. My morning walk isn't going to be too long
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 07:48 PM
I'd love to drive on that road for a short while, then I'd want to arrive home to a warm supper and some good bourbon, with Mrs. E and our two cats.

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (LHPAg)

80 Sometimes the algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.

Or it's your NSA monitor messing with your head.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:57 PM (R256O)

Fucking NSA, maaaaan!

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (xt2dn)

81 >>I'll just hold my dog, he will be fine for a 45 minute commute

That can cause kidney issues. Let your dog out when he needs it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (viF8m)

82 From a NY Times article:
Russia’s Soyuz rockets and capsules have proven highly reliable for more than half a century. But they rely on antiquated technologies and procedures. The service platform, which rolls from its position beneath the rocket into the shelter about an hour before launch, may have been dislodged because someone forgot to put in a stopper to prevent it from rolling back out.

“They were supposed to have brakes on those rails,” Mr. Zak said. Technicians install those brakes manually, Mr. Zak said, a step that has been routinely performed for more than 1,600 Soyuz launches. It is also possible that a mechanical failure caused the mishap, he said.

You had one job!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (6ydKt)

83 So the hance of flash frozen Somalis is high?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD)

84 I saw an inflatable penguin humping an inflatable snowman right in front of an inflatable Mrs Santa Claus. Those things have no shame.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 07:53 PM (vFG9F)
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Who knew that Mrs. Claus was a voyeuristic freak?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 08:01 PM (ESVrU)

85 47 AOP, I had a 76 Grenada. Kinda different with three speed stick on the floor with OD. Also had the little Ford straight six (200 CI ?). Very dependable but the Ohio Rust monster got it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:02 PM (gm9Sb)

86 AOP, if you're in charge of the Clipper Spigot or Valve or whatever, please turn it off at your earliest convenience.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Chiller Theater at December 08, 2025 08:02 PM (oftw2)

87 I've had to anchor Christmas trees to the wall with string to prevent inexplicable midnight crashes. I wasn't sure if the problem was the cat or the Jameson I put in the tree stand.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 07:54 PM (R256O)

I'd think drunk trees are extremely flammable.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:03 PM (6ydKt)

88 That's a train interior, not an aircraft.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 08, 2025 08:04 PM (vTTFR)

89 If dogs are good, I don't mind them too much out in public.

My dogs aren't well trained enough. I recognize that and would never consider taking them where they would annoy/slobber upon/hump strangers or other dogs or merchandise.

Unfortunately, lots of people also have dogs who aren't well trained, but they think their precious can accompany them everywhere all the same.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 08, 2025 08:04 PM (zYpTz)

90 So, what is the worst Christmas song? My nominees are Wonderful Christmastime by McCartney, Last Christmas by Wham. I also have problems with Where Are You, Christmas just because it is associated with thst abominable Grinch movie directed by Ron Howard (not a very good song anyway) and Do You Hear What I Hear because the king in the last verse did not react anything like the actual King Herod did at the time.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)

91 . . . but it's the gyro desaturating for attitude control that is entirely dependent on the Rooskie Soyuz.
Posted by: publius

Yes, quite. That's what I was thinking also.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (cYBz/)

92 I can drive roads like that all around here but usually don't drive them with snow or mud. I love how little traffic thereis here

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (+mUZM)

93 The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.

The tree crash video: Did I miss the perp? Their cat, I guess, but I couldn't see it. And what were those lights zipping across the screen near the end?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)

94 Yeah, there's so much snow headed to MN that you wonder if any of them will just leave.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 08:08 PM (+mUZM)

95 AOP, I had a 76 Grenada. Kinda different with three speed stick on the floor with OD. Also had the little Ford straight six (200 CI ?). Very dependable but the Ohio Rust monster got it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025

***
I had a similar car as my first, a '75 four-door Ford Maverick. It was an auto, but with the 250 CID six. Loved it after years and years of riding buses.

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

96 83 So the hance of flash frozen Somalis is high?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:00 PM (2GVsD)

Minnesota has a Warming our Way program that pays out enough for coats & blankets for 1,000,000,000 people.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (6ydKt)

97 The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.

...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:06 PM (wzUl9)

Our recently departed black kitty Scout LOVED to be carried around. She was like a regal queen in a sedan.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)

98 Past bed time, at least not driving a long distance tomorrow
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)

99 After intense lobbying by Big Penguin, the name "Chinstrap Penguin" was adopted as a replacement for the original name of this Sphenisciform that was based on its bizarre method of reproduction that led them to initially being named the "Chestburster Penguin".

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

100 So, what is the worst Christmas song?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)

I'll answer in a slightly different way -- worst song played during the Christmas season. "My Favorite Things" -- because it's not a Christmas song!!!

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (XnlIn)

101
Water well has gone out. Cleaned the contacts but it didn't help. Looked at the other wiring and didn't see any ants or corrosion

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:10 PM (tgvbd)

102 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:12 PM (77rzZ)

103 "GLOBAL WARMING" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are going to DIE before Christmas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at December 08, 2025 08:12 PM (J9q9v)

104 I will inflate my penis but most certainly not a penguin. One is Christmas related and one is not. Pretty simple.

Posted by: GigantorX at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (x8k2o)

105 I loathe most of the non-traditional carols. They range from tedious to execrable. Christmas in Hollis being a notable exception. Also, Christmas with the Devil.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)

106 Granada was the last Ford model built at the Ford Plant in Mahwah, NJ. Notorious for absenteeism, wasted workers, poor fit and finish. You wouldn't think most of your workers could be hillbillies 30 miles from NYC, but they were.

Posted by: Jackson Whites at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (oftw2)

107
Undocking in about 1 minute:

https://is.gd/slkpGf

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (w6EFb)

108 Do You Hear What I Hear because the king in the last verse did not react anything like the actual King Herod did at the time.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)

Little Drummer Boy. Not only contra-Biblical, but the lyrics are so damned twee and childish.

I will say I heard a jazz combo do an instrumental version that was quite fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (npFr7)

109 I need to find Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero." I remember liking that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (0aYVJ)

110 Not to be outdone by his fellow Beatle, John Lennon released the joy suck of a Christmas Diddy, Happy Christmas (War Is Over) to the chagrin of the multitudes.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (R256O)

111 So, what is the worst Christmas song?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)
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I'm going with something about Santa.

Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (krQz2)

112 When I was a kid, I read a book about the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Iced in on one expedition, penguins harvested with a club became one of their staples. Lutefisk with feathers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb)

113 Nobody says that you can’t play non-Christmas music during the Christmas season.

Dvorak’s 5th Symphony is a great listen during the holiday season.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

114 Mary did you know? Because, yes she did know!

And anything Mariah Cariah sings...

Posted by: lin-duh at December 08, 2025 08:16 PM (VCgbV)

115 I loathe most of the non-traditional carols. They range from tedious to execrable.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)
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Just not Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 08:16 PM (krQz2)

116 61, fd
Removes gold snuff-box from pocket of white-silk waistcoat, takes a pinch, sneezes violently (causing powdered wig to fall on the floor; picks up and restores same to its original position), grasps lapels of bottle-green swallowtail coat and eyes fd benevolently

My dear fellow! I pray that I do not give you offense - for I would not, for all this vile world, do harm to your amour propre - but a lifelong devotion to truth and reason compels me to correct your fraudulent observations with respect to penguins, inflatable or otherwise. You are not – I plead with you, sir! – to take this as a hot-tempered animadversion upon your cognitive ability, but rather as a gentle admonition designed to spare you the rough usage of my fellows, more boisterous than myself, who would not quibble to make sport of those raving asseverations with which, in the zeal of your irrational Spheniscidaphobia, you have blotted your copybook. Therefore, confident in your capacity to accept the truth when you are clouted with a clue-by-four, I tell you, sir – and I mean this in the kindliest possible sense – that you are talking through the back of your neck.

Posted by: Paco at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (2L+MU)

117 Little Drummer Boy. Not only contra-Biblical, but the lyrics are so damned twee and childish.

I will say I heard a jazz combo do an instrumental version that was quite fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:14 PM (npFr7)

I would like to hear a version featuring Dave Lombardo (Slayer).

Jesus wept.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (0aYVJ)

118
Diana to the doggie chiropractor today. Her weight is up to 63 pounds and she needed very little adjusting.

We get a session report after every visit. It will include something like, "Diana is very sweet and loves attention." But our guys are trained to stand still while being examined. I bet they get some real winners. "Fluffy is dangerously psychotic."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:17 PM (tgvbd)

119 That picture reminds me of the song Take The Long Way Home.

Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (G1OIb)

120 I had a similar car as my first, a '75 four-door Ford Maverick. It was an auto, but with the 250 CID six. Loved it after years and years of riding buses.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

Mavericks were decent cars for their time. Kind of a Son-of-Falcon. Tried and true. Rust was an issue as it was with almost all cars of the time.

Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (oftw2)

121 AOP, I HATE Little Drummer Boy, and the stupid Rsnkin-Bass special they did to go with it.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM (77rzZ)

122 When I was a kid, I read a book about the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Iced in on one expedition, penguins harvested with a club became one of their staples. Lutefisk with feathers.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:15 PM (gm9Sb)

What goes well with flipper pie?

Canadian Club.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (npFr7)

123 106 Car plants are magnets. When GM opened the Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio (first for Firebirds, then downhill with Vegas and Caddy Cimarrons) the whole area took on a Hardin County KY vibe.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (gm9Sb)

124 Thx guys the brainworm of "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is at work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:19 PM (bfwj/)

125
Our recently departed black kitty Scout LOVED to be carried around. She was like a regal queen in a sedan.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, 59 year-old awkward guy at December 08, 2025 08:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Our black Madison loves being carried around with back and front legs draped over my arm and her face in my hand. She started as a kitten when both her back legs were broken.

Posted by: Eromero at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (LHPAg)

126 "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" has got to be on the naughty list.

I grew up with "The Chipmunk Christmas Song" ("Please, Christmas, Don't Be Late"), so I really can't hate it. Alvin is such a juvenile delinquent; he's funny.

I like The Carpenters' 'Merry Christmas, Darling" and their version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" more for Karen's voice than anything particular about the songs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (wzUl9)

127 A great line :
Mary gives birth to the son of God and is exhausted.
A kid comes along and says "what this woman needs is a drum solo"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:22 PM (bfwj/)

128 Both the beloved Chilly Willy and Tennessee Tuxedo had walrus sidekicks and best friends. This never happens in the wild, but with our Great Northern Expansion now in the works, we will together make this a reality.

Posted by: Excelsior! On To Greenland! at December 08, 2025 08:22 PM (oftw2)

129 I like The Carpenters' 'Merry Christmas, Darling" and their version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" more for Karen's voice than anything particular about the songs.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:21 PM (wzUl9)

I think "Do You Hear What InHear" is a beautiful song and there are many fine renditions, it just loses me at the end.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (R256O)

130 126 Wolfus, Karen’s voice was angelic.

I hope that she’s rightfully singing with the angels now.

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (77rzZ)

131 Mavericks were decent cars for their time. Kind of a Son-of-Falcon. Tried and true. Rust was an issue as it was with almost all cars of the time.
Posted by: Ford Has A Better Idea at December 08, 2025

***
I didn't have it long enough for rust to crop up. It was not strongly powered, and while it had power steering, it did not have power brakes. Came with only an AM radio, too. I'd probably find it tinny and ridiculous now, but at the time I loved it, and it served me well. And I learned a lot about how to maintain cars on it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:23 PM (wzUl9)

132 90 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 08:05 PM (R256O)

_________________________________

Believe it or not, back in the day I did a Christmas song, but no one would play it. In the flavor of a Dickens style Christmas, I kidnapped nearly 60 orphans and lined them up in stocks in my basement. I then hit them in the kneecaps with a wooden mallet so they would scream. Each had a distinctive call of distress. It took a while, but I placed them to create a three octave scale. But, I have to tell you, it wasn't perfect. No matter how hard I tried, I never found a C-sharp. So, I had to alter the music little.

The Radio stations refused to play it. Which is horse manure since they used to play that dog barking Jingle Bells nonsense all the time. Anyone can do that.

Oh, wait, you meant the song itself. I thought you were asked what was the worst Christmas song referring to the performers.

Never mind.

Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 08:24 PM (dIske)

133 A BabyMetal Christmas song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvEYXbOrfS4

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:24 PM (2GVsD)

134 You wouldn't think most of your workers could be hillbillies 30 miles from NYC, but they were.
Posted by: Jackson Whites

And yet, Toyota has some of it's assembly plants in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky.

It's magic I tell you!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:25 PM (cYBz/)

135 Mississippi has Nissan in Canton.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:25 PM (2GVsD)

136 Thx guys the brainworm of "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" is at work
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025

***
C'mon, guys, it's funny.

"We're all so proud of Grandpa;
He's been taking this so well.
See him in there watching football,
Drinking beer and playing cards with Cousin Mel."

"And we just can't help but wonder . . .
Should we open up her gifts or send them back?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:26 PM (wzUl9)

137 Well, I am going to head out to a public meeting on the matter of Alberta sovereignty. And play "spot the Glowie"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (npFr7)

138 97 The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.

...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ummmm. That’s a dude.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (mT+6a)

139 >>So, what is the worst Christmas song?

Same one as last year.

Feed the world.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)

140 My favorite Christmas song is "O Holy Night" as sung by Robert Guillaume (Benson). The lyrics and his delivery match well.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (gm9Sb)

141 Glowie - "Alberta uber alles!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:28 PM (2GVsD)

142 Let’s face it, there’s an awful lot of bad music piggybacking on Christmas.

Just stick with the religious carols and the secular ones based on the traditional celebration of the season (e.g., “Deck the Halls”

Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:29 PM (77rzZ)

143 It's magic I tell you!!
Posted by: Tonypete

More BMW's built in SC than Deutschland, too.

Posted by: No UAW at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (oftw2)

144 Canuck glowies, trying to gain your confidence and favor, passing out Tim Hortons and beer. Mostly beer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (gm9Sb)

145
aaaarrrrrrgh

ooohhhhhhhhhherrrrgh

/groans

You see this?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 08:31 PM (MVEnt)

146 Wolfus, Karen’s voice was angelic.

I hope that she’s rightfully singing with the angels now.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025

***
In an SF story of mine, I have a close-knit Finnish family traveling out to the stars in the 2900s. They celebrate Christmas in Finnish style, but they love the ancient "carols" such as one by "a singer whose name was also a word in English, 'Carpenter.' "

Originally I had them listening to "Merry Christmas, Darling." But it didn't fit the worshipful tone of the scene; so I quoted the verse from DYHWIH about the shepherd boy telling the king of the Child shivering in the cold.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:31 PM (wzUl9)

147 "Feed the world.
Posted by: JackStraw"

It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:32 PM (vFG9F)

148 Who knew that Mrs. Claus was a voyeuristic freak?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 08:01 PM

Another conquest for Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (0sNs1)

149 Santa's Using Zebras Now (South of Timbuktu) is one I haven't heard since we sang it in 8th Grade Chorus (196

Posted by: Yikes! Stripes! at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (oftw2)

150 Wolfus

A Tupa in Space???

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (2GVsD)

151 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~

All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)

152 "Feed the world.
Posted by: JackStraw"

It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous.
Posted by: fd

And that one is it.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (cYBz/)

153 The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.

...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Ummmm. That’s a dude.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025

***
A very feminine dude, then, or a very masculine woman.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (wzUl9)

154 The cat being carried in the crook of the lady's arm while she prepares pasta for dinner is remarkably calm. I've rarely known a cat who would consent to being carried like that for more than a few moments.

...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ummmm. That’s a dude.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 08:27 PM (mT+6a)

Cat lady, its how they look. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (snZF9)

155 LURKING IN THE DISMAL FOG

Posted by: Slayer at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (4786I)

156
Christmas carols

Like:
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (because Mendelssohn)
O Holy Night

Don't like:
Everything else

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (tgvbd)

157 146 Puusuppa?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (gm9Sb)

158 I would like ace, and all of uz to see this, if have not already - our next Precident !

https://tinyurl.com/43xtaten

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 08:34 PM (g47mK)

159 151 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~

All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)

Shop at my store and hear five million covers of it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (4786I)

160 Paco, I only reported what I saw of a penguin in the wild. If they would keep it behind closed doors I would not care at all.

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

161 151 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~

All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)

Nadine, I just want you for my own more than you will ever know

How I love to love Nadine

Posted by: Randall Flagg at December 08, 2025 08:35 PM (4786I)

162
I cued it up, but Do Not Watch It.

Ace will probably post it tomorrow, or eventually. But that idiot racist Democrat shithead fake "lawyer" jizzmine ratchet made some sort of amateur-ish terrible overly-dramatic silly-cutsie-disgusting video of her black-nouncing* her candidacy for US Senate in Texas.

https://is.gd/u0r55j

*black-nounce, or blacknounce, is a term I just coined that means a black ratchet makes an announcement of something stupid they're about to do in embarrassing fasion.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 08:36 PM (MVEnt)

163 >>It takes a very special Christmas song to make me feel murderous.

I like a lot of music many of you don't. Personal taste.

It takes a very special song to piss me off. This one literally makes me angry.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)

164 151 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~

All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 08, 2025 08:33 PM (3ImbR)

Mr. O’Brien Is Coming To Town

He knows when you’ve been ungood or good
So be doubleplusgood for goodness sakes

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:37 PM (4786I)

165 Puusuppa?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025

***
That must be a Finnish word; the twin "U" letters are kind of a giveaway. No idea what it means. I researched certain things about Finnish culture, and even corresponded with a Finnish lady who has a blog about life in Helsinki.

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

166

121 AOP, I HATE Little Drummer Boy, and the stupid Rsnkin-Bass special they did to go with it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 08, 2025 08:18 PM

------

Was that claymation, and the Little Drummer Boy looked like the Tums mascot?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (VWtfl)

167 I would like to Feed The World Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (vFG9F)

168 Just because someone had a bad Boxing Day doesn’t mean we should be tortured sonically about it. Choose wisely next time.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (4786I)

169 Simply having a horrible Christmastime

“IT’S THE MOST HORRIBLE TIME OF THE YEAR”

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:40 PM (4786I)

170 Walking in a nuclear winter wonderland…

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:40 PM (4786I)

171 Nadine, I just want you for my own more than you will ever know

How I love to love Nadine
Posted by: Randall Flagg at December 08, 2025

***
"Movin' through the traffic like a mounted Cavalier,
Leanin' out the taxi window, tryin' to make her hear,
Nadine!!!"

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

172 165 I had to go down a dim memory lane for that one. Mom and Dad never encouraged me to learn Finn. I think they wanted to keep it for their own secret code. Kinda funny with childhood friends like Arvo, Seppo, and Gunnar.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:41 PM (gm9Sb)

173 Walking in a nuclear winter wonderland…
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025

***
"Walkin' 'round in women's underwear . . ."

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

174 167 I would like to Feed The World Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey.
Posted by: fd

But you like my other Christmas hit "Pepino the Italian Mouse", right?

Posted by: Lou Monte at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (oftw2)

175 Wolfus

If you want Finnish/Suomi folklore, find a copy of Tales of a Finnish Tupa

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (2GVsD)

176 What the hell are we doing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

177 That opening photo is really beautiful.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (Da7Vv)

178 No one has said the John and Yoko Happy Xmas (War is Over) song yet? I vote for that one as worst. And also "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer."

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (6p0Jv)

179 Aetius

Not sure with them. But playing with Tensor and trying not to buy more model kits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:43 PM (2GVsD)

180 Since it's more likely to be hot here in December than wintry, I've devised my own lyrics to "Winter Wonderland":

"Later on, we'll perspire --
'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!'
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"

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

181 But you like my other Christmas hit "Pepino the Italian Mouse", right?
Posted by: Lou Monte at December 08, 2025 08:42 PM (oftw2)

Oh God. No.

Now I have that in my head. You fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

182 Star Trek is on. It's the one with Surak the Sucker.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (vFG9F)

183 The Scandis invented rap.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (7XNVR)

184 Yeah, a dusting of snow that is gone now. PNW is supposed to get hit with heavy rains next, so you are in for fun! Was nice today to go outside with one less layer on.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 08, 2025 07:55 PM (+mUZM)

it has been raining and blowing all day long, it has been fabulous. Not cold, just wet.
I got my walk in today rain and all. There is a flood watch of some sort going on, but it will be more than a couple of days before it gets serious. Just another glorious rain storm that lasts a week!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:44 PM (rbvCR)

185 Model kits as addiction, eh? I can believe it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

186 Let me correct that - model kits on sale. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (2GVsD)

187 Loud snow and ice hitting the windows here in Coastal NC.

Posted by: Not Going Outside at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (oftw2)

188 >>What the hell are we doing?

At the moment?

Listening to great music.

https://tinyurl.com/43d5z2n5

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m)

189 Wolfus

If you want Finnish/Suomi folklore, find a copy of Tales of a Finnish Tupa
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025

***
I'll look, Anna. I'm thinking of expanding the short story into a novel. There is plenty of space for adventure and for exploring a culture many Westerners think is "Scandinavian," if they think about it at all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:46 PM (wzUl9)

190 So, what is the worst Christmas song?
~~~~~
Sleighride. I know, it's not a Christmas song, and that's the point.

When Christmas was being turned into "winter holiday" so as not to offend anyone, overt Christmas carols disappeared, and instead the "Holiday Concert" had to find blander fare.

"Sleighride" was perfect. Instrumental, everyone vaguely knew it, and so we played it every year. Tortured it to death. It's a shitty piece of music to play, especially on French Horn, which is all upbeats. I switched to Tuba my senior year and got to play the downbeats.

The family knows: Don't play that tune, or Dad will not shut up about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:47 PM (ZOv7s)

191 Star Trek is on. It's the one with Surak the Sucker.
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025

***
Good casting, though, with Barry Atwater (the vampire in the The Night Stalker) and Lee Bergere as Lincoln.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (wzUl9)

192 No one has said the John and Yoko Happy Xmas (War is Over) song yet? I vote for that one as worst. And also "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer."

The latter is intentionally bad so in a way, you're giving it what it wants. The former is unironically, pretentiously, arrogantly holier-than-thou which is what makes it so very very bad indeed.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (3nLb4)

193 Model kits as addiction, eh? I can believe it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:45 PM (zZu0s)
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The Pile of Shame is a thing. Gateway to hoarding.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)

194 For the uninitiated. Lou Monte.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=V57hP7Ipjw4&list=RDV57hP7Ipjw4&sta
rt_radio=1&pp=ygUibG91IG1vbnRlIHBlcG
lubyB0aGUgaXRhbGlhbiBtb3VzZaAHAQ%
3D%3D

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

195 You can get the Kalevala on Gutenberg. Lots of good Finnish stuff in there. Learn the origin of the Sampo!

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (vFG9F)

196 Wow, Tensor let that image through.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (2GVsD)

197 Wow, Tensor let that image through.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (2GVsD)

See. This is the problem with anime sometimes: makes you feel creepy just looking at it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

198 And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.

He has talked about that - it is semi intentional - they are testing the limits of the design to see what the failure points are under stress.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (Da7Vv)

199 Why are Kirk & Spock teaming up with Abraham Lincoln sporting a Miami tan.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (6ydKt)

200 The latter is intentionally bad so in a way, you're giving it what it wants. The former is unironically, pretentiously, arrogantly holier-than-thou which is what makes it so very very bad indeed.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 08, 2025 08:48 PM (3nLb4)
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Yeah, it was a novelty song that caught on in a big way. Reminds me of Da Yoopers and "Second Week of Deer Camp."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (ZOv7s)

201 Hey, it's not weird enough. Let's get weird up heah~!

@RichSementa 5m
DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. has secret online life obsessing over ‘My Little Pony’

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (mlg/3)

202 189 My Dad was an interrogator/interpreter in WW2, Finnish language with Finland having the strange status of mutual combatant. He attended school at Camp Ritchie MD and said he and a few other Finns were put in the "Scandinavian Section" which they didn't care for, Finland not really being part of Scandi Land.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (gm9Sb)

203 For the uninitiated. Lou Monte.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Oh my. Between him and every Louis Prima album known to man, my Nonna's house could be unbearable at times.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 08:52 PM (cYBz/)

204 Those MLP guys can't be trusted. I've always known.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

205 "Why are Kirk & Spock teaming up with Abraham Lincoln sporting a Miami tan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf"

You go to war with the army you have.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:53 PM (vFG9F)

206 @201 I can hear his grandma saying " he has no mind. All he wants to do is hump a pony"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (bfwj/)

207 Hey, it's not weird enough. Let's get weird up heah~!

@RichSementa 5m
DC pipe-bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. has secret online life obsessing over ‘My Little Pony’
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (mlg/3)

Bronies are totally a thing.

I don't know who Rich Sementa is, but the way that sentence reads, I'm thinking he's one.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (C2bxa)

208 When I was still working, one day an undergraduate came to me to declare her major with our department. She said her last name was "Jarvenpaa." I glanced over and said, "Finnish?" She was astonished. "How'd you know?"

"Not many languages have double a's in their words."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (wzUl9)

209 199 Why are Kirk & Spock teaming up with Abraham Lincoln sporting a Miami tan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:50 PM (6ydKt)

This did not sell me on the virtues of Star Trek at all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 08:54 PM (4786I)

210 The alien in this one reminds me of the GOP.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:55 PM (vFG9F)

211 The Brony Bomber?

Because Kaboom is Magic!

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 08:55 PM (2GVsD)

212 In other words, it's a steaming pile of dog crap.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (vFG9F)

213 And he blows up about a third of his stuff on the launchpad.

That is different from the NASA safety testing methodology: "Whirrrr Click." OK its safe.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (Da7Vv)

214 I was joking when I said this Cole guy was a gay furry.

It now appears he’s at least a gay Brony.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt)

215 That must be a Finnish word; the twin "U" letters are kind of a giveaway. No idea what it means. I researched certain things about Finnish culture, and even corresponded with a Finnish lady who has a blog about life in Helsinki.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:38 PM (wzUl9)

Was she serving the Puusuppas with Cuurtido?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (rbvCR)

216 per deepl.com Puusuppa is a wooden bucket. Does this help?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (rbvCR)

217 >>Finland not really being part of Scandi Land.

Finland is by far my favorite place in northern Europe. Dark and spooky in the winter but still beautiful. And the people know what's up living next Russia.

And they've made some of the most beautiful sailboats ever to sail. Just don't forget they all carry knives for a reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m)

218 Lee Bergere made a fine Lincoln, as did a character actor who appeared on The Rifleman many times, Royal Dano.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 08:58 PM (wzUl9)

219 Finland is by far my favorite place in northern Europe. Dark and spooky in the winter but still beautiful. And the people know what's up living next Russia.

And they've made some of the most beautiful sailboats ever to sail. Just don't forget they all carry knives for a reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 08:57 PM (viF8m)

Good metal bands too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 08:59 PM (snZF9)

220 More BMW's built in SC than Deutschland, too.
Posted by: No UAW at December 08, 2025 08:30 PM (oftw2)

We don’t make anything in this country anymore.

Posted by: Everyone else on AoS at December 08, 2025 08:59 PM (4786I)

221 Honestly as bizarre as the premise is, I always thought Savage Curtain was a cool episode (for given values of 'cool'.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (zZu0s)

222 Later on, we'll perspire --
'Is that A/C? Turn it higher!'
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

It pains me to constantly hear how much you hate where you live, Wolfus.

It rains here. And it’s dark a lot in the late
Fall/winter. And I’m surrounded by leftist retards. But I LOVE where I live. Really.

How do you do it? I could not.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (mT+6a)

223 It now appears he’s at least a gay Brony.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt)
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The correct term is "right-wing MAGA gay Brony."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (ZOv7s)

224 I still have that Lou Monte song in my head.

I want to beat someone with a rubber hose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

225
Failed Loser Democrat fag, all-red colon, says he's not running for Senate.

So, in Texas, it comes down to 2 Democrats: jizz ratchet, and a little scrawny faggot named talarico, who really hates "israel," i.e. jews. Well, he's "anti-zionist," which means he hates jews, but says "israel" instead of "jew."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (MVEnt)

226 This did not sell me on the virtues of Star Trek at all.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025

***
This was late in their less-SF-oriented third season, where the cast and crew were pretty sure they'd be canceled soon and were going through the motions. Never less than professional about it, but not with the enthusiasm of the first two years.

Plus, the story for this ep was done by Roddenberry himself. GR was not that good a writer. He was a good idea man, a solid producer, and a great rewrite guy. But a lot of his episodes, even those for Have Gun -- Will Travel, are missing something, and I've never been able to pin it down.

The best original Treks, and some of the best concepts like the Klingons, were from his line producer, Gene L. Coon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9)

227 A 44 year old former San Diego qb is returning.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:03 PM (7XNVR)

228 It now appears he’s at least a gay Brony.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 08:56 PM (6ydKt)
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The correct term is "right-wing MAGA gay Brony."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:00 PM (ZOv7s)

Don't forget: White.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 09:03 PM (nOjBC)

229 I’m surrounded by leftist retards

I blame Bellingham.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (AcsX0)

230 White Hispanic? What's that?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (7XNVR)

231 It pains me to constantly hear how much you hate where you live, Wolfus.

It rains here. And it’s dark a lot in the late Fall/winter. And I’m surrounded by leftist retards. But I LOVE where I live. Really.

How do you do it? I could not.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025

***
I'm just trying to be funny about it to keep myself, and I hope all of you, entertained. After the first of the year I'm going to move The Move into gear. Stay tuned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (wzUl9)

232 The best original Treks, and some of the best concepts like the Klingons, were from his line producer, Gene L. Coon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:02 PM (wzUl9)

Don't forget DC Fontana. She had some good ones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (snZF9)

233 >>Good metal bands too.

Doesn't surprise me. We're all a product of our environment.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (viF8m)

234 217 219 I still have the puukko Dad gave me, a pretty nice one with an embossed leather sheath and the little belt hanger with chain. During a period of wokeness in Finland they tried a crackdown on everyday carry of blades, then made an exception for armed forces members, and finally said the hell with it and went back to square one. Finland's firearms laws are very liberal by Euro standards so big deal anyway. Toivo was probably packin'.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (gm9Sb)

235 ST:TOS is the only series that I haven’t seen all the episodes of.

I’ve seen a lot of them, but I don’t remember this one with Lincoln.

I saw this funny parody of DS9 earlier:

https://youtu.be/w3LTQVirrSY

It’s called Deep Space 90210 and anybody who’s seen enough of the show will get it.

AI obviously did the most of the work but I still chuckled several times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (6ydKt)

236 The last 2 times I dialed up my classic rock station Stairway was playing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (7XNVR)

237 White Hispanic? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM (7XNVR)

White Hispanic gay brony autistic African-American.

You know, just like you and me.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (nOjBC)

238 Star Trek 90210 is coming soon to a streaming service near you.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (2GVsD)

239 The best original Treks, and some of the best concepts like the Klingons, were from his line producer, Gene L. Coon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025
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Don't forget DC Fontana. She had some good ones.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025

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True. She developed Spock and his family relationships more than anyone else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:07 PM (wzUl9)

240 Star Trek 90210 is coming soon to a streaming service near you.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025

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If the communications officer looks like the young Shannen Doherty, I'm there.

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

241 DC Fontana at the first official Star Trek con in New York gave us Kirk's middle name - Tiberius.

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

242 When my dad was in charge of the kids something fun was bound to happen.

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

243 A five line link?

Yeah, um...okay...No.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (89Sog)

244 Star Trek 90210 is coming soon to a streaming service near you.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:06 PM (2GVsD)
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All the usual critics are getting ready to hate watch it so we don't have to...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (ESVrU)

245 I will pick up any puukko I run across. If I can afford it, of course.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (rbvCR)

246 Wolfus

Nope, we get a body positive black Jemhadarr grrl plus a Klingon 'male' with a pierced eyebrow.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:10 PM (2GVsD)

247 DC Fontana at the first official Star Trek con in New York gave us Kirk's middle name - Tiberius.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025

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I heard it at Vul-Con in the summer of '73, and the Animated Series mentioned it at least once.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:11 PM (wzUl9)

248 All the usual critics are getting ready to hate watch it so we don't have to...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 09:09 PM (ESVrU)
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They are doing the Lord's work. I hear that "All's Fair" got another season because of all the epic hate-watching.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:11 PM (ZOv7s)

249 "Tiberius" is the perfect middle name for Kirk.
The way Christopher Plummer sneers at that name cements it. Here's someone Plummer can treat as a second-rate Octavian. A generation of Shakespearean acting blasted into Shatner at that moment.
We were in the presence of greatness.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:12 PM (gKWVE)

250 Nope, we get a body positive black Jemhadarr grrl plus a Klingon 'male' with a pierced eyebrow.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:10 PM (2GVsD)
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She/they/xir are also a fitness instructor! Doctor, heal thyself!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (ZOv7s)

251 My Dad was an interrogator/interpreter in WW2, Finnish language with Finland having the strange status of mutual combatant. He attended school at Camp Ritchie MD and said he and a few other Finns were put in the "Scandinavian Section" which they didn't care for, Finland not really being part of Scandi Land.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 08:51 PM (gm9Sb)

Ahhh....
The Ritchie Boys.
Some good stuff done back then. And some silly too, but they didn't know it at the time. Making a lot of stuff up as they went along to develop a pretty good operation.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (2WIwB)

252 235 ST:TOS is the only series that I haven’t seen all the episodes of.

I’ve seen a lot of them, but I don’t remember this one with Lincoln.

I saw that on reruns in Germany on AFN. I was nine and was “WTF is THIS?” and not in a good way.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (4786I)

253 The Ramones were always popular in Finland. The only country on Earth more Ramone-centric is/was Argentina.

Posted by: Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (oftw2)

254 The Eggles failed to score from the red zone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:13 PM (7XNVR)

255 245 Mine is probably an everyday upscale one judging by the sheath (embossed design, brass tip). About a three inch blade, maybe seven inches overall. Carbon blade. I should drag it out and make sure it has a wipe of oil on the blade (a very sharp, holds an edge blade).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:14 PM (gm9Sb)

256 >>When my dad was in charge of the kids something fun was bound to happen.

My dad was the original "What could go wrong?" guy. He married a crazy person who was worse.

I had the best parents any kid could ask for.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:14 PM (viF8m)

257 White Hispanic? What's that?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:04 PM

Dude, I'm right here.

Posted by: George Zimmerman at December 08, 2025 09:15 PM (Wnv9h)

258
Comments about the next US Senator for Texas, jizz ratchet, from Youtube:

"Her running for Senate is like a cashier getting fired and reapplying for the management position"

The Angel Reese of Congress….

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:15 PM (MVEnt)

259 It’s called Deep Space 90210 and anybody who’s seen enough of the show will get it.

AI obviously did the most of the work but I still chuckled several times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 08, 2025 09:05 PM (6ydKt)

At least Dax was a babe in both versions.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (snZF9)

260 In the pilot they shot with Shatner " Where No Man Has Gone Before" the tomb stone that Gary Mitchell makes for Kirk has a different middle initial. ( the episode was the first filmed but appeared third I believe and there are differences from the official first season shows)

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (YwEeS)

261 Wolfus, that first con in New York City was held in late January of 1972.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (2GVsD)

262 Including Paul Fix as the ships doctor

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (YwEeS)

263
btw, did Ace show you the clip of that fag "mayor" in Minneapolis, jakob fray (D-Somalia) pandering to his Salamis and eating their disgusting food?

He almost puked!
The video went viral because he started to gag!

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (MVEnt)

264 That episode is long on dialog and philosophizing and short on action.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (9ipOP)

265 In the pilot they shot with Shatner " Where No Man Has Gone Before" the tomb stone that Gary Mitchell makes for Kirk has a different middle initial. ( the episode was the first filmed but appeared third I believe and there are differences from the official first season shows)
Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2025 09:16 PM (YwEeS)
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Disappeared like Ritchie Cunningham's older brother.

He was gay, which is why no one ever talked about him.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:19 PM (ZOv7s)

266 This college playoff “controversy” thing is funny. It’s like reality TV for dudes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:19 PM (9aoE1)

267
oh dear...

Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)

268 That episode is long on dialog and philosophizing and short on action.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:17 PM (9ipOP)
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Season 3 was famously on a tight budget, and was living on borrowed time. "Spock's Brain" and all that.

I resisted buying it, but I'm a completionist, so I had to get it.

Same reason I had to get the 5th season of "Babylon 5," even though I will never watch it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (ZOv7s)

269 The Star Wars Christmas Special.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (7XNVR)

270
Did Ace cover the Cinnabon story?
Apparently a criminal walked free because someone at Cinnabon *supposedly* used the forbidden word.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:21 PM (MVEnt)

271 251 Dad had only one picture from that part of his career.Needless to say, cameras like even the common Brownie were forbidden. It was a picture of him and a half dozen hard cases in khakis. Dad always said, no rank, no colors. None had patches on their sleeves which the Army loves, and no rank, just the US officers emblems on their collars, enlisted or otherwise.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (gm9Sb)

272 Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)
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One has to talk about the old stuff because the new stuff sucks ass.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)

273 *Pulls off shelf Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance, 1995 edition.*

"Where No Man's Gone Before"
Production #6149-02. Story #2
Air date - 9/22/66.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:22 PM (2GVsD)

274 That episode is long on dialog and philosophizing and short on action.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025

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The one with Lincoln and Surak? Oh, yes. The second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is very strong on suspense and action, though.

It was the second pilot -- NBC had ordered it after they liked the first one with Jeffrey Hunter, but thought it was too cerebral for TV in 1964. When the show premiered, they ran "Where No Man" third, and it must have confused viewers that the uniforms and set designs were different from the first two. But it was a *good* story.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (wzUl9)

275 Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)

What!!! You can't say that!
"By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"

Oh...
Wait...
Never mind.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (2WIwB)

276
The ONLY reason Cinnabon stays in business:

the aroma of cinnamon & dough

It's, like, one of the best smells God ever created.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt)

277
Sizzling Bacon vs Cinnamon Buns in the oven?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt)

278 I'd have to check the date on my concordance. It has the spinning dial for the episodes. I think it might be older than I am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (zZu0s)

279 It was the second pilot -- NBC had ordered it after they liked the first one with Jeffrey Hunter, but thought it was too cerebral for TV in 1964. When the show premiered, they ran "Where No Man" third, and it must have confused viewers that the uniforms and set designs were different from the first two. But it was a *good* story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (wzUl9)
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And of course, the original pilot was recut for use as a flashback episode, which gave us the iconic "immobile guy in black motorized box who beeps to communicate."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)

280 Another pick.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2025 09:25 PM (7XNVR)

281 Marc Elias is set to argue at the Supreme Court tomorrow.

How do you suppose that will go?

I really like winning.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (viF8m)

282 51 F. now with a wind chill of 46. Going down to 43 tonight, up to 58 tomorrow, and then 70 on Wed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (wzUl9)

283 iirc, Jeffery Hunter's second in command got promoted to nurse later in the series.

Posted by: davidt at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (Q+gd/)

284 267
oh dear...

Good thing Star Trek never had a Christmas episode, otherwise You People would never stop talking about it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:20 PM (MVEnt)

Live Long and a Prosperous New Year

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (gbOdA)

285 Bill in Arkansas.
Check out The Ritchie Boys by Bruce Henderson. A good book on some of what they did.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (2WIwB)

286 51 F. now with a wind chill of 46. Going down to 43 tonight, up to 58 tomorrow, and then 70 on Wed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:26 PM (wzUl9)
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Clear and 7 degrees here. Should get up to 36 on Wednesday, and then will hit single digits again by Saturday.

This is unusually cold for December.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (ZOv7s)

287 If I ever watched Happy Days, I was a child and didn't understand any of it. Or care. So I had to look up "Ritchie Cunningham".
Two actors; after the second one, they wrote him out to an extreme degree. Mostly because the writers couldn't figure out what to do with the older sibling.
It did look bad in context that the Cunningham family decided he didn't exist. I expect when HD goes out of public domain we'll find out he was barbecuing the local Laotian kids or selling bath salts or something.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (gKWVE)

288 out of > out into

Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:29 PM (gKWVE)

289 Roddenberry was mocking of religion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:29 PM (zZu0s)

290 iirc, Jeffery Hunter's second in command got promoted to nurse later in the series.
Posted by: davidt at December 08, 2025 09:27 PM (Q+gd/)
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Also promoted to Mrs. Roddenberry.

A bunch of Trek actors popped up in "Babylon 5," including her. Walter Koenig was an outstanding villain. Guy had some chops.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)

291 And of course, the original pilot was recut for use as a flashback episode, which gave us the iconic "immobile guy in black motorized box who beeps to communicate."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025

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The classic technique of a clip show to save money. In ST's case, they were falling behind because the special effects -- cutting edge for those days -- were coming in later and later from the optical shop, and the show was getting close to missing air dates. Creating a two-parter, half of which had already been shot, gave them an extra week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (wzUl9)

292 Remember when some here pretended to care about the Epstein files and it was going to destroy the Trump presidency?

That was last week.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (viF8m)

293 Kirk gives his middle name as Tiberius in the animated episode "BEM"

Written by David Gerrold.
Production #22018, episode #18
Air date: 9/14/74.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:31 PM (2GVsD)

294 Somalis are colonizing Wisconsin as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (9aoE1)

295
I love how I turned All of You into Me.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (MVEnt)

296 Aetius

If your Concordance has the spinning wheel intact and working, much value.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (2GVsD)

297 I vaguely remembered Majel Barrett in Babylon 5, and then I remembered. The Seer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s)

298 289 Roddenberry was mocking of religion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yeah, there's a story that a Muslim confronted Gene and he outright told him to his face "this show is set in the future".
The Orville has a lot of the same DNA. Except more blatant against Islam - and astrology. Some antiChristian stuff but that's #3.
DS9 is more respectful, interestingly. Helps that the gods actually exist, in that wormhole.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (gKWVE)

299 Mostly because the writers couldn't figure out what to do with the older sibling.
It did look bad in context that the Cunningham family decided he didn't exist. I expect when HD goes out of public domain we'll find out he was barbecuing the local Laotian kids or selling bath salts or something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:28 PM (gKWVE)
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In the bad old days, shows would be tweaked to try to find the right formula, and continuity errors were common. By the time they hit their stride, the vast majority of the audience had never seen the early episodes (how would they?) so no one really noticed.

Being able to buy them on DVD has opened some eyes. I loved "Happy Days," a mainstay of our TV watching, and of course everyone tried to be as cool as The Fonz.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (ZOv7s)

300 285 Dad actually liked describing stuff about training.His favorite was flying in a Cessna Bamboo Bomber over MD fields, trying to spot stuff like a motorcycle hidden in a hay mound. Liked the gun stuff, although he wasn't a gun guy. His intelligence career was interrogating Finns off merchant ships and reading Finn newspapers brought in from Sweden in diplomatic pouches. Talk about over training!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (gm9Sb)

301 If your Concordance has the spinning wheel intact and working, much value.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:32 PM (2GVsD)

Mom bought it, I suspect when it came out. She is/was a huge trek fan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (zZu0s)

302 218 Lee Bergere made a fine Lincoln, as did a character actor who appeared on The Rifleman many times, Royal Dano.

Yup, Royal Dano was a great Lincoln. I think Disney used his voice for the animatronic exhibit at one of their parks.

Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 09:34 PM (y171U)

303 Today I spent writing and creating a spreadsheet to inventory my tobacco pipes. Tomorrow I have errands to run, so I'll have an excuse to stop for coffee and a croissant somewhere.

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

304 The classic technique of a clip show to save money. In ST's case, they were falling behind because the special effects -- cutting edge for those days -- were coming in later and later from the optical shop, and the show was getting close to missing air dates. Creating a two-parter, half of which had already been shot, gave them an extra week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:30 PM (wzUl9)
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One could also do a "remember when?" episode to recap audience favorite moments and also basically give the cast some in-season vacation time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)

305 It's, like, one of the best smells God ever created.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:23 PM (MVEnt)

Coffee

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:35 PM (4786I)

306 It's, like, one of the best smells God ever created.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

Coffee
Posted by: Cow Demon

Incense during a Catholic Mass.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 08, 2025 09:36 PM (cYBz/)

307 Lee Bergere made a fine Lincoln, as did a character actor who appeared on The Rifleman many times, Royal Dano.
*
Yup, Royal Dano was a great Lincoln. I think Disney used his voice for the animatronic exhibit at one of their parks.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025

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I'd read that! He played Lincoln at least once or twice on TV, aside from the Rifleman episode where he plays a deluded old man who *believes* he is Lincoln.

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

308 I doubt the Star Trek animated episode "Jihad" could be made in these 'modern' times.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (2GVsD)

309 ST:TOS (in late-night reruns) was such a part of my childhood that I can't help but love it, even the really bad episodes. I wanted to be Spock when I grew up.

When I grew up, I wanted to be Kirk so I could get with Dr. Helen Noel at the ship's Christmas party.

Posted by: PabloD at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (GALGA)

310 IIRC "Married with Children" tried to introduce a baby brother, but it didn't work so they wrote him out. Then they had his picture show up on a milk carton in the last season.
MWC was... something.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (gKWVE)

311
What's that song that goes incest & peppermints?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt)

312 I vaguely remembered Majel Barrett in Babylon 5, and then I remembered. The Seer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s)
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In the early days of the internet there were forums where fights were common, and I was amused by one that claimed Babylon 5 was superior to Star Trek based on the crossover actors.

Walter Koenig in Trek did a bad Russian accent and was supposed to get the girls into it, but in B5 he was a sardonic evil genius.

Majel Barrett in Trek couldn't get Spock to make time even when he was in a mating frenzy, but in B5 was a seeress whose every utterance was written down.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (ZOv7s)

313 Aetius

Sounds like you have a really cool Mom.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (2GVsD)

314 The original series had a lot of obstacles, including Gene Rodenberry. There is an episode that touches on the resurrection. Bread and Circuses.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (R86kT)

315 311
What's that song that goes incest & peppermints?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt)

Blueberry Alarm Clock

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:39 PM (4786I)

316 One could also do a "remember when?" episode to recap audience favorite moments and also basically give the cast some in-season vacation time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025

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Did TV shows, at least dramatic ones, do that in the Sixties? The Fugitive had one early on, where we found out more about the night Kimble found his wife murdered. But it wasn't a clip show -- new footage was shot amplifying what had been in the pilot. I don't think U.N.C.L.E., for example, ever did a recap or clip show. In fact it used flashbacks very little.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:40 PM (wzUl9)

317 Holy Shiite.

Wind is freaking HOWLING. Rain blasting the windows.

Whoofreakinghoo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (mT+6a)

318 I doubt the Star Trek animated episode "Jihad" could be made in these 'modern' times.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025

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Not with that title, huh?

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

319 Holy Shiite.

Wind is freaking HOWLING. Rain blasting the windows.

Whoofreakinghoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 09:41 PM (mT+6a)

I got my generator ready in case it gets down here.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (2WIwB)

320 Did TV shows, at least dramatic ones, do that in the Sixties? The Fugitive had one early on, where we found out more about the night Kimble found his wife murdered. But it wasn't a clip show -- new footage was shot amplifying what had been in the pilot. I don't think U.N.C.L.E., for example, ever did a recap or clip show. In fact it used flashbacks very little.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:40 PM (wzUl9)
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Before my time. I mean, I picked up stuff like Star Trek and the Lone Ranger in reruns, Leave it to Beaver, the Addams Family, etc., but those were pretty lean productions.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (ZOv7s)

321 Dang it, the book piles has consumed Star Trek Lives again. Book by fans, one of whom was present when "Turnabout Intruder" was being shot. So, we get a glimpse of the cast on those last days.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:42 PM (2GVsD)

322 The guy that played Cpl Hanshaw in the Sgt Bilko show later played mess Sgt SSgt Hanshaw in the Gomer Pyle show. I guess the inter service transfer paid off. Got him out of the motor pool, into the mess hall, and promotions.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (gm9Sb)

323 IIRC "Married with Children" tried to introduce a baby brother, but it didn't work so they wrote him out. Then they had his picture show up on a milk carton in the last season.
MWC was... something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025

***
Brilliant, laugh-out-loud comedy that pulled out all the stops.

Feminist mother, outraged that Al objects to her breast-feeding) "It's natural!"
Al: "So is peeing, but I don't do *that* in public!"

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

324 The episode "Jihad" is all about Kirk and Spock trying to prevent a galactic jihad.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (2GVsD)

325 @312 A.H. , the three episode arc in Babylon 5 where the station breaks away from the he Earth Alliance is some of the best sci-fi tv ever. Majel Barrett was in Point of No Return, the second episode

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (bfwj/)

326
Andrew J. McCarthy continues to blow me away with his astrophotography. Here's a video he took of an ISS overflight from his yard in AZ:

https://is.gd/BPGSV4

That was with an 11" scope. Now, tracking that requires a fancy mount because the angular speed is quite high, and he used a 10 Micron (brand name). I looked up the price. Those things start around $10K.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

327 Batten down the hatches, Nurse!

Posted by: PabloD at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (GALGA)

328
The NFL is the only thing keeping broadcast television alive.

Gambling is the only thing keeping the NFL alive.

Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (Y8DZL)

329 Speaking of Lincoln, I'll point out that Hal Holbrook was pretty good in North and South Book 2. I love me some North and South, own 'em on DVD and have watched both (do not even mention the 3rd) straight through several times. Great stuff.

My kids loved it, but of course they couldn't appreciate that the cast was culled from every show on the network.

Trek fans will appreciate "Wussy Riker" in the form of Stanley Hazard. Big boost to Patrick Swayze's career.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)

330 315 311
What's that song that goes incest & peppermints?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:37 PM (MVEnt)

Blueberry Alarm Clock
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 09:39 PM (4786I)

Ahhhh....
While I love blueberries, its Strawberry Alarm Clock.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:45 PM (2WIwB)

331 Holy Shiite.

Wind is freaking HOWLING. Rain blasting the windows.

Whoofreakinghoo!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Oh, boy.. hope it blows itself out somewhat, before arriving here! We're under a high-wind warning until tomorrow morning and it is *very* breezy out already.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 09:46 PM (rdVOm)

332 A.H. , the three episode arc in Babylon 5 where the station breaks away from the he Earth Alliance is some of the best sci-fi tv ever. Majel Barrett was in Point of No Return, the second episode
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (bfwj/)
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You don't need to tell me that. I watched it when it was being broadcast an "Severed Dreams" damn near caused a riot when my friend group watched it.

"Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:47 PM (ZOv7s)

333 The NFL is the only thing keeping broadcast television alive.

Gambling is the only thing keeping the NFL alive.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 09:44 PM (Y8DZL)
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College football as well, and it's now owned by the networks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (ZOv7s)

334 Photograph portraits I've seen of Lincoln (was he the first president to be photographed?) very much resemble actor Royal Dano. If Lincoln had lived into his sixties or seventies, he would have looked even more like the actor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (wzUl9)

335 Down to 14° here going to 7° overnight. The wind has died down, but very clear. Blankets

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (bfwj/)

336
If anyone needs a funny TV show to watch, all the Drew Carey Show episodes (over 200) are on Youtube (free).

Still a funny show.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (MVEnt)

337
I am currently watching a looping stream of Father Knows Best on Youtube.

I like it. Sue me.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:49 PM (MVEnt)

338 Leave It To Beaver might have been the first show to do a genuine retrospective good-bye show. The family looking at a photo album, splicing in clips from 57-63. It was a planned end because Mathers wanted to go to a real high school like a normal kid. Had been acting since age 2. The ratings were still good and it could have gone on.

Posted by: Mayfield's Finest at December 08, 2025 09:49 PM (oftw2)

339 Sounds like you have a really cool Mom.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:38 PM (2GVsD)

She is. She's awesome.

OCD as hell. So is dad, but about different things. She will look up anything and everything in the days before the internet (hence the concordance, encyclopedias, etc.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (zZu0s)

340 @332 yup. Maybe the most badass line ever spoken by a woman in tv history

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (bfwj/)

341 I doubt the Star Trek animated episode "Jihad" could be made in these 'modern' times.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025

Too many of the audience would.think Jihad was a command, not a title.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:50 PM (2WIwB)

342
Here's one he got of Ganymede in front of Jupiter:

https://is.gd/VgcmTg

His photos are so good a lot of people think he fakes them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (w6EFb)

343
Blueberries kinda suck, if you think about it.

Blueberry Pie is nice *idea,* in theory, but kinda grotesque when you start eating it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt)

344
Fruit Pie the Magician just called and told me to STFU.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt)

345 I am currently watching a looping stream of Father Knows Best on Youtube.

I like it. Sue me.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

I always liked it, have seen every episode and think both Jane Wyatt and Elinor Donahue are lovely and talented.

Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at December 08, 2025 09:52 PM (oftw2)

346 Leave It To Beaver might have been the first show to do a genuine retrospective good-bye show. The family looking at a photo album, splicing in clips from 57-63. It was a planned end because Mathers wanted to go to a real high school like a normal kid. Had been acting since age 2. The ratings were still good and it could have gone on.
Posted by: Mayfield's Finest at December 08, 2025

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The Dick Van Dyke Show explained its own existence -- that it had all been the memoirs of Rob Petrie as a soldier, DJ, and then comedy writer for TV. In the last episode we're told that Rob's book has sold, and "they" want to make a TV series out of it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:52 PM (wzUl9)

347 Thankfully they rethought the character of Delenn from what they had in the early days.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (2GVsD)

348 Married With Children benefited from the Streisand effect (before it was called that).

A woman started a campaign to get advertisers to boycott the show. It worked she got a bunch to drop out. But the media attention she got, made people check out the show and ratings shot up. All the advertisers came back and then some .

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (9iyS+)

349
Fruit Pie, the magician...

https://is.gd/GPxRMc

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (MVEnt)

350 Now I have to find my Concordance so I can check the wheel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (A0sqA)

351 Blueberries kinda suck, if you think about it.

Blueberry Pie is nice *idea,* in theory, but kinda grotesque when you start eating it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:51 PM (MVEnt)

What sorcery is this??? What evil stalks these pages???
You probably like okra too.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:54 PM (2WIwB)

352 I always liked it, have seen every episode and think both Jane Wyatt and Elinor Donahue are lovely and talented.
Posted by: TV Facts and Foibles at December 08, 2025

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Indeed they were. And Elinor had a pretty long career -- that show, a stint on Andy of Mayberry, a guest role on Trek, and I think at one point she was Felix's girlfriend on the Odd Couple in the '70s. Not sure about that last.

Jane had been in the film of Lost Horizon way back in '39 (?).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (wzUl9)

353
dickhead vandyke might make it to 100, in a week

I hate him. Sue me.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (MVEnt)

354 Thankfully they rethought the character of Delenn from what they had in the early days.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:53 PM (2GVsD)
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The show got lucky in a lot of ways, and as is often the case, the original vision was thwarted and became better. The Sinclair/Sheridan swap was totally unplanned, but came off brilliantly.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

355 Lost Horizon 1937

Posted by: TV Facts at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (oftw2)

356
I liked Sinclair.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (MVEnt)

357
I liked the stand-alone episodes of B5 instead of the Arc.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (MVEnt)

358 dickhead vandyke might make it to 100, in a week

I hate him. Sue me.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:55 PM (MVEnt)

Concur.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (2WIwB)

359 Ayah Sinclair was pretty good but the actor was going through a mental breakdown. So enter Sheridan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (2GVsD)

360 I liked Sinclair.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:57 PM (MVEnt)
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I did, too, but the actor was having problems and I think Boxleitner really brought more energy to the show and a little type because of "Tron." He's just a more charismatic actor.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 09:59 PM (ZOv7s)

361 I love how I turned All of You into Me.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Solipsism is for loners!

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 09:59 PM (nhCoE)

362 The original Lost Horizon was from '37. Oops.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:00 PM (wzUl9)

363 I liked the stand-alone episodes of B5 instead of the Arc.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 09:58 PM (MVEnt)
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You say that, but the flashback/payoff sequences are great.

Vir waving at Morden all those seasons later was gold.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 08, 2025 10:00 PM (ZOv7s)

364
All three Anderson children are still not-mort, which is nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:01 PM (MVEnt)

365 I think Vir was truly an avatar for the audience. We were all so naive in the beginning, then it gets really bad, and he has to deal with it along with us.

And when Vir gazed at Morden's head on a pike, yeah that was all of us.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:02 PM (2GVsD)

366 None come close to the best show ever, Psycho Dad.

Posted by: Al Bundy at December 08, 2025 10:02 PM (Q+gd/)

367 Lost Monday ONT tonight

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:03 PM (A0sqA)

368 The Shadows were basically an alien allegory for the Djinn. Be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:04 PM (2GVsD)

369 Does ypu be members when we be has a Loving Black Presdent ?

Not the Racist Presdent we be has now ? We wants Presdent Obamar backs now to saves this country!!!

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 08, 2025 10:04 PM (0IwHf)

370 334 Photograph portraits I've seen of Lincoln (was he the first president to be photographed?) ...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:48 PM (wzUl9)

Earliest president photographed was John Quincy Adams. Earliest sitting president was later than that, may have been Polk?

Posted by: Joemarine at December 08, 2025 10:05 PM (y171U)

371
Sinclair returning was great.
Writers wrote him into the arc quite well.
With his sidekick Zathras.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:06 PM (MVEnt)

372 Michael O'Hara who played Sinclair had some form of early onset dementia. You can see it when he comes back later and becomes Valen . Tragic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2025 10:07 PM (bfwj/)

373
How did Zathras put it?

The before, the now, the future?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:07 PM (MVEnt)

374
Not the Racist Presdent we be has now ? We wants Presdent Obamar backs now to saves this country!!!
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt

Amen, Mary! We need FART Tube funding restored now for the children of coler.

Posted by: Voice of Reason at December 08, 2025 10:08 PM (oftw2)

375 I need to meander, nyah.

Oyasumi.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2025 10:09 PM (2GVsD)

376 Zathras not good at understanding.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 10:10 PM (pkeXY)

377 323 IIRC "Married with Children" tried to introduce a baby brother, but it didn't work so they wrote him out. Then they had his picture show up on a milk carton in the last season.
MWC was... something.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025

***
Brilliant, laugh-out-loud comedy that pulled out all the stops.

Feminist mother, outraged that Al objects to her breast-feeding) "It's natural!"
Al: "So is peeing, but I don't do *that* in public!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 09:43 PM (wzUl9)

the genius of Married with Children was that Al would actually say, what a lot of us Men wouldn't... even though we were thinkin it...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:12 PM (mP0Kj)

378 Zathras was great.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:12 PM (snZF9)

379 376 Zathras not good at understanding.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2025 10:10 PM (pkeXY)

No no.... not the ONT...

Posted by: Zathras at December 08, 2025 10:13 PM (mP0Kj)

380 For once I'm on-time for the ONT and ......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:14 PM (QGaXH)

381 the genius of Married with Children was that Al would actually say, what a lot of us Men wouldn't... even though we were thinkin it...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025

***
NO MA'AM: National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood

To me, the funniest episode was a late one in which Kelly is about to star in a production of "Phantom of the Opera" at the Larry Storch School of Acting, and Al has to dress as a wolf for a "moonlight" sale at the shoe store. He realizes it's not going to work. "Nobody is going to buy shoes from us. We're wolves!"

Larry is knocked out, and Al has to go on stage as the Phantom to support Kelly. He doesn't know the lines, so he mutters, "I'll just sit here and play with my organ --!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

382
Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville.

Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors.

Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL)

383 Deorbit and landing.

Roscosmos - Soyuz MS-27
Deorbit Burn & Landing in Kazakhstan - Space Affairs Live
Re-entry scheduled for 11:10 p.m EST
Landing scheduled for 12:04 a.m. EST

https://youtu.be/EX2HlEDjTnA

Posted by: Joyenz at December 08, 2025 10:18 PM (2F0/Y)

384 Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville.

Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL)

I might start watching if they use those long hooks to take players off the field!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

385 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

I have embraced my inner Al...

Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)

386 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

I have embraced my inner Al...

Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)

Why not Al Michaels, and call out the play-by-play of idiots in your vicinity?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 08, 2025 10:20 PM (S/Y4j)

387 "Push the button, Max".

Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (zBC00)

388 The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)

389 https://youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rdVOm)

390 382
Also, the NFL is headed the way of vaudeville.

Another revenue issue for America's communist mayors.
Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:17 PM (Y8DZL)

Some of the latest games, stands are pretty much empty.

But the old time Loyal Football fan? a thing of the past because the Teams are not Loyal to the cities... and the players are nothing but Mercenaries.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (mP0Kj)

391 I have embraced my inner Al...

Not sure if it's Al Yankovic, or Al Bundy... but...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025

***
When you wake from a nap, do you say "Let's rock"? Or when you hear Madonna's "Like a Virgin," do you automatically sing "Like a surgeon . . . cuttin' for the very first time . . ." instead of her lyrics?

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

392 Wow...I just picked up a milk carton and a picture of the ONT was on it.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (QGaXH)

393 The ONT has sent me to deliver an important message.

The ONT is late.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (JkO4W)

394 The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)
====

But they don't eat dogs there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (9ipOP)

395 Or, when you hear Michael Jackson sing "Beat It," do you automatically sing Weird Al's "It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried -- Just Eat It"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9)

396 Wow...I just picked up a milk carton and a picture of the ONT was on it.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:23 PM (QGaXH)
----
Release the hounds!

"What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at 15 miles! Our fugitive's name is ONT... Go get it!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (ESVrU)

397 So nothing to eat or drink after midnight. Eating is not the problem, but I always feel thirsty when told I can't drink. I should be asleep by then but I'll probably have to get up a few times since I'm drinking now.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (VCgbV)

398 COBs get Monday-itis, just like the rest of us...

Right?

Or did somebody forget to check the schedule?

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:24 PM (rdVOm)

399 394 The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)

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Just what Britain needs. Another muslim.

Coals to Newcastle, and all that rot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (JkO4W)

400 388 The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)

Don't we have extradition treaties with Olde Bighty

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (3sXRv)

401 OMG! I'm beginning to think we may be without benefit of adult supervision overnight!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (L/fGl)

402 The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (rbvCR)

Ahhh....
So he has the inside dope on the new cultural overseers coming to England.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

403 >>The Obamas apparently have bought a home in England and there is speculation that that is going to be their bolt-hole if or when there is a subpoena sent him for the interesting things he was rumored to have done after he was preznit.

Since when don't we have an extradition treaty with the UK?

Besides, I'm reliably told nothing is happening.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (viF8m)

404 ...Blighty ... not Bighty

Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:26 PM (3sXRv)

405 Don't we have extradition treaties with Olde Bighty
Posted by: browndog moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:25 PM (3sXRv)

That's the old gov't. Muzzies, and their paid enablers, now rule.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)

406 Just saw that a 14 and 15 year old football team from Philly went to Florida for some championship game I've never heard of. 8 of the yoots took a couple of Ubers to a Dick's Sporting Goods and proceeded to try and steal over $2200 in Nike merchandise.

Unfortunately for them, but fortunately for us, they did so in Polk County, and Grady Judd had a press conference (it's up on YouTube now).

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (ciXcx)

407 Don't we have extradition treaties with Olde Bighty
Posted by: browndog moving slowly
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Think Jolly Ole would honor them?

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)

408 Mondays make me seem punctual.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 08, 2025 10:28 PM (4I7QN)

409 I remember when George Washington decamped to England when his term as president ended.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:28 PM (JkO4W)

410 Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....

OPEN BAR!

ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

411 But the old time Loyal Football fan? a thing of the past because the Teams are not Loyal to the cities... and the players are nothing but Mercenaries.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:21 PM (mP0Kj)

Same as it ever was then?

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (4786I)

412
Did Ellen get a good price from Big Mike?

Posted by: Auspex at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (Y8DZL)

413 >>I remember when George Washington decamped to England when his term as president ended.

How's the bareboat qualification going?

You are going sailing, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)

414 Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....

OPEN BAR!

ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9)

415 dickhead vandyke might make it to 100, in a week

I hate him. Sue me.

The good die young.

Posted by: no one at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (W7XSX)

416 OPEN BAR!

ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

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Has the taco truck showed up yet? I ordered a taco truck.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (JkO4W)

417 So nothing to eat or drink after midnight. Eating is not the problem, but I always feel thirsty when told I can't drink. I should be asleep by then but I'll probably have to get up a few times since I'm drinking now.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025

***
Surgery, Lin-duh? Or blood work?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (wzUl9)

418 Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....

OPEN BAR!

ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)
***

Woohoo!!!
We're not leavin' till we're heavin'!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:31 PM (2WIwB)

419 TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)

420 I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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AWESOME! We need it! Heh.

*Maker's Mark for Bers*

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (rdVOm)

421 I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker

You can't coordinate mayhem! It would just be shenanigans, at the craziest!

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (nhCoE)

422 Wolfus,
Minor surgery.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV)

423 Whoofreakinghoo!

LETS PARTY!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (mT+6a)

424 Where's willow?

Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE)

425 415 dickhead vandyke might make it to 100, in a week

I hate him. Sue me.

The good die young.
Posted by: no one at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (W7XSX)

gotta say, he may have reason.... that Damn Mary Poppins was a Tease.... poor Burt...

Shit, she even kissed a PENGUIN!!! But Burt? nada...

She ruined him!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (mP0Kj)

426
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper

Is this part of a list of demands?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (MVEnt)

427 TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper
-------

Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)

428 How's the bareboat qualification going?

You are going sailing, right?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)

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I'm starting a new class in January. Getting those stickers for my official log book.

I earned the marine head operation merit badge last month.

And yes, I've been sailing, mostly in the 5 knot gale conditions that are standard for this part of the coast.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (JkO4W)

429 Where's willow?
Posted by: gKWVE
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*snort!*

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (VCgbV)

430 Hmmm.... no supervision.... hmmm....

OPEN BAR!

ALL DRINKS ARE *ON THE HOUSE* UNTIL ONT SHOWS UP!!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9)

***

All 'ettes report to the trampoline!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

431 424 Where's willow?
Posted by: gKWVE at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (gKWVE)

Off looking for Bathmorda with Mad Mardigan?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (mP0Kj)

432 A Canadian Navy veteran on X objected to the Franklin memes, which caused people to create about 50 more and send them to him. So, exactly how everyone except him thought that would go.

Also, is the Canadian Navy like a bass boat with an outboard motor or something?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (ciXcx)

433 OMG! I'm beginning to think we may be without benefit of adult supervision overnight!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 08, 2025

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When do we ever have "adult" supervision?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

434
Fruit Pie The Magician Rescued by Twinkie The Kid

https://is.gd/qdnPIT

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (MVEnt)

435 Merry Christmas~

https://youtu.be/hFjoOOPU6Xo

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (rdVOm)

436 When do we ever have "adult" supervision?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

Art Thread - 100 comment rule

Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (3sXRv)

437
Yeah, Cherry Pie is gross. Worse than blueberry.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (MVEnt)

438 TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)
---
We don't hang the colored ones no more.

Posted by: The Democratic Party at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (krQz2)

439 I offer my services as mayhem and debauchery coordinator. lol
Posted by: Berserker

You can't coordinate mayhem! It would just be shenanigans, at the craziest!

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (nhCoE)

Yeah, but you have to start it right. Showing up with a game of yahtzee isn't going to cut it, and no good story ever began with drinking tea.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (snZF9)

440 Wolfus,
Minor surgery.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025

***
Ask for the good drugs.

In all seriousness, I wish that everything works out well for you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (wzUl9)

441
I hate that tired trope in TV/movies:

the diner with the cherry pie

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (MVEnt)

442 426
TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper

Is this part of a list of demands?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

Yes, starting small and working my way up to the Burberry coat.

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (p4NUW)

443 I imagine there's mass chaos and a rising level of panic along with frantic phone calls and shouts of 'just publish something...' going on somewhere...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (QGaXH)

444
I have never once seen "cherry pie" at a diner. And nobody would order it, anyway.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (MVEnt)

445 When do we ever have "adult" supervision?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

It's relative.

In the land of the grade-schoolers, the middle-schooler is king.

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (nhCoE)

446 437
Yeah, Cherry Pie is gross. Worse than blueberry.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM (MVEnt)

***Spock eyebrow***

Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (3sXRv)

447 438 TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:32 PM (p4NUW)
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We don't hang the colored ones no more.
Posted by: The Democratic Party at December 08, 2025 10:36 PM (krQz2)

/golf clap

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (mP0Kj)

448 Hey, there's extra gelatin in the storeroom...

Where's that inflatable pool?

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)

449 there's mass chaos and a rising level of panic along with frantic phone calls and shouts of 'just publish something...' going on somewhere...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Perhaps I may be of some assistance?

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (gKWVE)

450 435 Merry Christmas~

https://youtu.be/hFjoOOPU6Xo

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM
***
That will liven things up a bit!!

Posted by: TRex - headbanger dino at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (zcHq9)

451 Can you imagine the king of ball breaking deals going up against Starmer on literally anything?

Why would Obama run to a place it would take two snaps to have him deported?

Obama isn't going to run and he likely won't be indicted. Neither will Hillary.

The goal is to get your country back.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (viF8m)

452 Hey, there's extra gelatin in the storeroom...

Where's that inflatable pool?

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:37 PM (rdVOm)

Thats one big ass jello shot. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:38 PM (snZF9)

453 When do we ever have "adult" supervision?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well...there goes somebody's pants!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB)

454 Franklin Conquers Canada was pretty neat, true. Franklin and the Big Blue Sky Decision; Franklin Joins the Seperatists was pretty balsy

Franklin Fakes An Injury To Get Percocet was not

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (rbvCR)

455 Cherry pie is the very foundation of pastry as we know it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (9ipOP)

456 "You know, Egon, this reminds me of that time when you tried to drill a hole through your own head."

"That would have worked, too, if you hadn't stopped me."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)

457 Merry Christmas~

https://youtu.be/hFjoOOPU6Xo

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:35 PM

Ah, so we have learned. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:40 PM (snZF9)

458 The only watchable "Dick Van Dyke Show" episodes are the ones that revolve around Rob Petrie's office. The one's that revolve around his home give Mary Tyler Moore free reign to *ruin* every episode. She whines, and moans, and cries thru every episode. I'm a fan of traditional marriage, but Rob should have spanked her until she behaved, and if she wasn't capable of behaving, he should have divorced her and raised Ritchie by himself. Laura Petrie was insufferable.

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)

459 Alright. Who hid the ONT?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (TfUTr)

460 Thanks Wolfus!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (VCgbV)

461 Ok. If this is what it is..

Let’s bust this baby to 1000 comments.

Get freaking busy!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a)

462
Didn't Drake's make their own version of Hostess Fruit Pies?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (MVEnt)

463 Cherry pie is the very foundation of pastry as we know it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 08, 2025 10:39 PM (9ipOP)

And blueberry pie is the cornerstone!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (2WIwB)

464 These frantic explosions of excitement about "no supervision" remind me of my early teen years, when my mother would go off to work at the hospital overnight and leave my brother and me at home alone. Especially in the summer, we felt like the brakes were off. Potato chips and root beer, watching TV until the stations signed off, reading and listening to music until nearly dawn . . .

Kept me sane during those long school years, lemme tell ya.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (wzUl9)

465 Thats one big ass jello shot. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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If there are enough sign-ups for jello wrestling, I will make the gelatin...

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (rdVOm)

466 Always spent Mondays trying to find where I put things last Friday.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (Ow52c)

467 How the fuck can anyone be against Mary Tyler Moore?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (JkO4W)

468
you get a big delight
in every bite

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (MVEnt)

469 Geeze...just saw a beg commercial for the SPLC. But, you get a t-shirt!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (XeU6L)

470 Apple Pie is the only fruit-based pie I can abide, and I will eat a bite or two of it only to be polite. Sweets are supposed to include chocolate. If they don't, why am I consuming all of those calories?

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (Cjcf6)

471
Wait.

I never thought of this before.

Is a Cherry a berry?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (MVEnt)

472 TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper
-------

Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)

You 2 might get uninvited from the Club ONT Christmas party

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (XnlIn)

473 Americans Spent $2.6 Billion On OnlyFans In 2025
---

Yeah, it was your money from EBT cards.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (Ow52c)

474 465 Thats one big ass jello shot. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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If there are enough sign-ups for jello wrestling, I will make the gelatin...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:43

Well look at the time! It was great seeing y’all! Dang it, Where are my shoes?

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (pZEOD)

475
Shirley it 'tis. Shirley, a cherry is of the berry family. Right?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (MVEnt)

476 I saw Boner Pockets open for the Brazillion Honeybalm at the Troubadour in '22.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (1zOXE)

477 The only watchable "Dick Van Dyke Show" episodes are the ones that revolve around Rob Petrie's office. The one's that revolve around his home give Mary Tyler Moore free reign to *ruin* every episode. She whines, and moans, and cries thru every episode. I'm a fan of traditional marriage, but Rob should have spanked her until she behaved, and if she wasn't capable of behaving, he should have divorced her and raised Ritchie by himself. Laura Petrie was insufferable.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025

***
The nice thing about the show was that both Rob and Laura were capable of doing or saying foolish things on occasion. When people compare that execrable anti-male fest Everybody Loves Raymond to DVD, I want to laugh at the idea. Ray's wife did everything she could to knock him down and treated him like a doormat. Now that was truly insufferable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)

478 387 "Push the button, Max".
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424 Where's willow?
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Well, I tried.

Posted by: clarence at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (zBC00)

479 469 Geeze...just saw a beg commercial for the SPLC. But, you get a t-shirt!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2025 10:43 PM (XeU6L)

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Those Lamborghini loans don't pay for themselves.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (JkO4W)

480 Strawberry rhubarb pie is the best pie.

Fight me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (mT+6a)

481 Maybe this is an experiment to see what we'll do.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (QGaXH)

482 Wait.

I never thought of this before.

Is a Cherry a berry?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

It's a fruit, but I don't judge.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)

483 >>I'm starting a new class in January. Getting those stickers for my official log book.

>>I earned the marine head operation merit badge last month.

>>And yes, I've been sailing, mostly in the 5 knot gale conditions that are standard for this part of the coast.

Fantastic.

Keep going. You can do more than you think you can.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (viF8m)

484 Laura Petrie was insufferable.
Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (Cjcf6)

But that wasn't her selling point, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: RickZ at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)

485 Get freaking busy!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:41 PM (mT+6a)

Nurse, do you make it to Leavenworth very often?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (uQesX)

486 Wait.

I never thought of this before.

Is a Cherry a berry?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:44 PM (MVEnt)
***

You mean Sharon Berry's?
Well, not anymore.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB)

487 These frantic explosions of excitement about "no supervision" remind me of my early teen years, when my mother would go off to work at the hospital overnight and leave my brother and me at home alone. Especially in the summer, we felt like the brakes were off. Potato chips and root beer, watching TV until the stations signed off, reading and listening to music until nearly dawn . . .

Kept me sane during those long school years, lemme tell ya.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:42 PM (wzUl9)

When my parents would do overnight trips down the shore and leave me in my brother home resulted in some intense episodes. We were late teens, but still. My asshole brother brought a chick home and railed her in my parents bed. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (snZF9)

488 JackStraw and Cicero

It’s blowing stink out here. Come on up

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a)

489 Watched a most remarkable thing on youtube. They researched Judy Dench's ancestry and found out not only is she a Dane, her ancestors were Danish aristocrats, and through her Great grandfather's (9 generations ago) she is related to the great astronomer Tycho Brahe! But here is where it gets even more interesting that grandpa's sister (Tycho's mother) was the lady in waiting to the queen of Denmark ( you know where this is going , right?). And she lived in ...ELSINORE (Helsingør) ! And Dench's first role was ..Ophelia ! Wild, no. That lady lived there same time when Shakespeare was writing. And here is another, that castle was visited by the troupe from the Globe theater!

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (g47mK)

490 Keep going. You can do more than you think you can.

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In the spirit of full disclosure, there is no marine head merit badge. I just made that part up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (JkO4W)

491 Wait.
I never thought of this before.
Is a Cherry a berry?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Stone fruits are 'drupes.' I think that covers cherries. Which I only know because so many culinary "nuts" aren't nuts, they're also drupes.

* DDGs *

Yup, cherries are drupes. Berries have multiple seeds in them, while drupes have only one.

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)

492 482 Wait.

I never thought of this before.

Is a Cherry a berry?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

It's a fruit, but I don't judge.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (TfUTr)

I think it's considered a drupe...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

493 481 Maybe this is an experiment to see what we'll do.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 08, 2025 10:45 PM (QGaXH)

WAIT!!!!!

Yer Fauci? shit!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mP0Kj)

494
Geeze...just saw a beg commercial for the SPLC. But, you get a t-shirt!
Posted by: Mike Hammerp

fake org Amnesty Int'l is also resorting to begging on TV

That USAID money-funnel was capped, I suspect.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (MVEnt)

495 Nurse, do you make it to Leavenworth very often?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Every few years or so. Cute town. Good beer and schnitzel.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mT+6a)

496
drupes?
Seriously, fellas?

That's the best you can do?

drupes?

Pull the other one.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (MVEnt)

497 More holiday cheer~

https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (rdVOm)

498 I always found it interesting that Morey Amsterdam (Buddy on the DVD Show) had a reputation for being one of Al Capone's favorite performers.

Amsterdam used to do his act in a Speakeasy in Chicago as a headliner.

Posted by: Orson at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske)

499 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)

500 Submitted for your consideration:

Imagine if you will...an Ace of Spades site...where there was no Overnight Thread. Oh sure...your first thought is "I've got this."

But...do you? Are you...sure? And how would you know whether what you experienced was *real*....or something that we might call...The Twilight Zone?

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)

501
Okay, I'll play along...

So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt)

502 When my parents would do overnight trips down the shore and leave me in my brother home resulted in some intense episodes. We were late teens, but still. My asshole brother brought a chick home and railed her in my parents bed. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 08, 2025

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Oh, if I'd had a car and some money in my later school years and college, I'd have gotten myself into some trouble. But we were broke and I didn't even know how to drive (my father refused to teach me and Mom didn't know how either). So I lived a rather dull life until I left home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (wzUl9)

503 Stawberries...I believe are not technically berries. Peanuts aren't nuts, but legumes...confusing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)

504 drupes?
Seriously, fellas?
That's the best you can do?
Posted by: Soothsayer

I'm not a biologist, and I haven't stayed in a Holiday Inn in decades. Take it as you will.

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (nhCoE)

505 Here is more, in one of Tycho's books from the 1500s , there is a portrait of him surrounded by various heraldic crests. One of them says "Rosencrantz", and there is also a "Guildenstern" ! She also ran into one of her distant cousins in Copenhagen during research. Turns out he is an actor in a royal theater. History...it rhymes !

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (g47mK)

506 501
Okay, I'll play along...

So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt)

Yes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

507 497 More holiday cheer~

https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Now we're getting serious.

Posted by: TRex - du hast dino at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (zcHq9)

508 500 Submitted for your consideration:

Imagine if you will...an Ace of Spades site...where there was no Overnight Thread. Oh sure...your first thought is "I've got this."

But...do you? Are you...sure? And how would you know whether what you experienced was *real*....or something that we might call...The Twilight Zone?

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)

It's happened before...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (ynpvh)

509 drupes?

Pull the other one.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM (MVEnt)

It's wrong. Strictly by the rules, it's Moops.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (uQesX)

510 Cicero I hope you have all the foul weather gear you'll be needing. Tomorrow is supposed to break 80 down here. Swim workout planned.

My relative with a boat in your marina is getting some level of captain's license, not sure which. Will ask her at Christmas - actually weather permitting (ha!) we'll start that day with a short sail off DP.

Do you do the Christmas light thing on the boat? Need to check - there are two boat light parades down here, one in the harbor, one in Mission Bay. They can be amusing.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (U/Byj)

511 By the time ONT gets fired up half of its audience'll be distracted by something else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (Ow52c)

512 An entire leftard ecosystem was choked off by winding down USAID. It is to laugh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (JkO4W)

513 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)

I can send you some fashion content

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (XnlIn)

514
Contrary to my AoS persona, I am quite learned and have the knowledge of an expansive lexicon. I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (MVEnt)

515 There is not going to be an ONT.

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK)

516 This is the ONT.

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (g47mK)

517
513 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)

I can send you some fashion content
Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10

Oh boy….

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (pZEOD)

518 513 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)

I can send you some fashion content

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (XnlIn)

The local Medical Examiner club had an open Mike night...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

519 So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Yes. Even if they're not droopy.

Bananas are berries, though, no matter how droopy.

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (nhCoE)

520 Every few years or so. Cute town. Good beer and schnitzel.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:47 PM (mT+6a)

Expensive during the winter?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (uQesX)

521
Stawberries...I believe are not technically berries. Peanuts aren't nuts, but legumes...confusing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Alright. The joke's over.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (MVEnt)

522
Soyuz deorbit and reentry coverage has begun:

https://is.gd/QgMJBw

It will likely go smooth, but with the Rooskies, there's a chance something could go sideways.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)

523 501
Okay, I'll play along...

So a peach is also a "drupe," then, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:49 PM (MVEnt)

It covers all stone fruits ...

Posted by: browndog still moving slowly at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (3sXRv)

524 514
Contrary to my AoS persona, I am quite learned and have the knowledge of an expansive lexicon. I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:51 PM (MVEnt)

drupe /droo͞p/
noun

A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed. A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut. A stone fruit.

(from the InterTubes )

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

525 TAKE DOWN ALL THE COLORED LIGHTS,
Posted by: Piper
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Nah, I'll just unplug them. The white ones are still there, but unplugged, so I'll plug them in instead!
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:33 PM (rdVOm)

You 2 might get uninvited from the Club ONT Christmas party
Posted by: Doof
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*Invited*? Thought I had to work?
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This is Ace's thread right now, not the ONT. I believe you're out of your jurisdiction at the moment...

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (rdVOm)

526 Do you do the Christmas light thing on the boat? Need to check - there are two boat light parades down here, one in the harbor, one in Mission Bay. They can be amusing.

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This weekend is the big event at Dana Point. Our slip is spectacularly situated for viewing, being right on the main channel. Got the whole family coming out for the festivities.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (JkO4W)

527 Still, it was kind of exciting for thirteen-year-old me when Mom was getting ready to leave for work, and I didn't have school the next day (a Friday, or during the summer). I could look forward to pouring myself a cold Barq's, munching some Jane Parker potato chips (A & P's house brand), and putting my latest Herb Alpert album on to listen to.

I wuz a party animal, baby.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (wzUl9)

528 >>In the spirit of full disclosure, there is no marine head merit badge. I just made that part up.

Full disclosure. I know.

Go sailing.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (viF8m)

529 507 497 More holiday cheer~

https://youtu.be/ZkW-K5RQdzo

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Now we're getting serious.
Posted by: TRex - du hast dino
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Who would have ever though that they would sit while Saracens raped their women.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (Ow52c)

530
So "drupes" is the new AoS "type of weasel" meme? Very funny, fellas.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (MVEnt)

531 Actually, it’s open mic night. I need someone in charge of a nice header picture- raise your hands-, and mystery clicks? Who has that? I need a joke or 2…hands, please! A few questions / posts that herd into interaction- would you raise your hands a little higher? I am short.
Posted by: Piper

Is it a Christmas-themed not-ONT? This could be a mystery click:

https://youtu.be/EAsLEYWtIkY

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (nhCoE)

532 This is Ace's thread right now, not the ONT. I believe you're out of your jurisdiction at the moment...
Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:54 PM (rdVOm)

Damn. You got me there.

Posted by: Doof at December 08, 2025 10:55 PM (XnlIn)

533 There is not going to be an ONT.
Posted by: runner

As long as we have our Saturday Club ONT, I will survive. Sure I'll have the shakes, but morning will come eventually.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (TfUTr)

534 Thus apples are NOT drupes; they are considered pomes (funny that).

pome /pōm/
noun

1. A fleshy fruit, such as an apple, pear, or quince, having several seed chambers and an outer fleshy part largely derived from the hypanthium.
2. A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
3. A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

535 507/ OK JQ, now you've gone and done it...The Dino is gonna be all over this...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

536 I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025

***
It does sound like something out of Lewis Carroll.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (wzUl9)

537 This reminds me of the old days when ONTs were posted at inconsistent times and sometimes not at all.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 08, 2025 10:56 PM (VCgbV)

538 Pomes are those funny things that rhyme, right? And you hafta recite 'em in class?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (wzUl9)

539 Soyuz deorbit and reentry coverage has begun:

It will likely go smooth, but with the Rooskies, there's a chance something could go sideways.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 08, 2025 10:53 PM (w6EFb)

Oopski, it hit Kiev.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (uQesX)

540 >>I have never heard the word "drupe" in my life.
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Dogwood trees produce *drupes* also. I saved some, before the birds ate them all, and hope to start another tree or two.

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (rdVOm)

541 488 JackStraw and Cicero

It’s blowing stink out here. Come on up
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a)

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Yeah, but it's cold up there. And rain.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W)

542 I need moar bier!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (2WIwB)

543 Expensive during the winter?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Always expansive. Check out The Sleeping Lady
b and B.

Beautiful

Avoid the Nutcracker Museum. Creepy
Af.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (mT+6a)

544 Cicero I should ask her if she's participating. Are they keeping the seals off your dock? Seems like a real problem in that marina.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj)

545 "He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land;
And the crew were all pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (wzUl9)

546 I'm just peachy.

Posted by: Drupey Dog at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (krQz2)

547 >>>As long as we have our Saturday Club ONT, I will survive. Sure I'll have the shakes, but morning will come eventually.
Posted by: Some Rat
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Send vodka slider through USB.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (Ow52c)

548 Rat!

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:59 PM (mT+6a)

549 541 488 JackStraw and Cicero

It’s blowing stink out here. Come on up
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 08, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a)

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Yeah, but it's cold up there. And rain.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 10:57 PM (JkO4W)

It's gonna be so HOT tomorrow; high of 83°F. Must be Climate Change...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 08, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh)

550 'Bout time I headed off to sleep meself. No need to get up early, but the cats, esp. a certain Evil Black Kitten of War and Pestilence, will probably leap across and on me around four am.

Play nice, now, and if you can't, well, just don't get caught.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

551 Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations.

Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (Ow52c)

552 Looks like the AOSHQ is got a case of the Mondays!

Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (krQz2)

553 Have a drink, Doof! You're off-duty, man!

*slides drink down the bar*

Wheeeee!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)

554 Random open thread links, all are YouTube:

https://tinyurl.com/y7h42k8x

https://tinyurl.com/2z7ehdpf

https://tinyurl.com/5scx42t4

https://tinyurl.com/2rcwa8ss

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:01 PM (pIfcn)

555 Looks like the AOSHQ is got a case of the Mondays!
Posted by: Axeman at December 08, 2025

***
Yes, Mondays are rough. But remember:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (wzUl9)

556 (s)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (Ow52c)

557 and obligatory

https://tinyurl.com/5n6rpnvt

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (pIfcn)

558 Nurse! At least we both still have power....

Posted by: Some Rat at December 08, 2025 11:02 PM (TfUTr)

559 Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 10:58 PM (U/Byj)

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The sea lions are ever present. There are usually six or eight lounging about on my dock. They stink, but if they refrain from blasting shit all over my boat I'm grateful.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (JkO4W)

560 Reminds me to run the sprinklers on the bank tonight. Didn't think I'd need to do that again for 6 months. Also wish I'd planted more mizuna and other greens that do OK in warm weather the last few weeks. Already transitioned to "cold" weather prep for lettuce garden, but fortunately haven't planted anything yet. They'd bolt before Christmas.

Always have wondered how the farmers out in the Imperial Valley do it. It's a billion degrees half the year, but they turn out 3 crops of lettuce with no apparent bolting problem.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)

561 >>Yeah, but it's cold up there. And rain.

Ok, I failed.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)

562 I'm actually surprised that Doof hasn't posted an ONT. Maybe he's getting one ready. With Rush clip.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (uQesX)

563

nood droops

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (MVEnt)

564 ONT is up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (JkO4W)

565 *bier for Diogenes*

YeeHaw!

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

566 unseen1
@unseen1_unseen
Repeat after me. There is no 4th branch of government. There is no such thing as an "independent" agency.

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (Cjcf6)

567 Yes, we have no ONT

We have no ONT today

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (wVcYX)

568 ont is new

Posted by: Kindltot at December 08, 2025 11:04 PM (rbvCR)

569 Uh-oh....

https://youtube.com/shorts/BuQ_JG2415A

Posted by: JQ at December 08, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)

570 @sentdefender. 12m

Democrat Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered a letter today to President Donald J. Trump urging greater support, including sanctions relief, for the United States’ close ally Japan in light of an escalating campaign of economic and military coercion in the Indo-Pacific by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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If they can't have a war with Russia they'll settle for one with China.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Ow52c)

571 Monday is not my funday. But then neither is Tuesday.
Wish the weather would get better. Do we still have a sun?

Posted by: Case at December 08, 2025 11:08 PM (G1OIb)

572 570 @sentdefender. 12m

Democrat Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered a letter today to President Donald J. Trump urging greater support, including sanctions relief, for the United States’ close ally Japan in light of an escalating campaign of economic and military coercion in the Indo-Pacific by the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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If they can't have a war with Russia they'll settle for one with China.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 08, 2025 11:06 PM (Ow52c)

Quite a leap there.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 09, 2025 02:05 AM (4786I)

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