Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - December 10, 2025 [Frosty Rex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: "The Strip" by polynikes - Thank you!!]

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"This is easy to understand. Doof has Thursday night, Weird Dave does memes on Friday night (but he used to do Thursday night), Doof (also known as Disco) posts on Sunday night with posting stats and a fashion report from Piper, TRex (also known a Dino) has the Pittsburgh scanner on Wednesdays, Doof has Tuesday night (formerly done by Doggo), the three D's (Disco, Dino and Doggo) host Club ONT on Saturday (which is now is open from time to time with a limited menu in other ONTs upon request), and Monday is a rotation between MisHum (who used to do ONTs five nights a week) and CBD. Launch times are predictable unless they're not. Got it?"

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Wednesday ONT Department of Fine Art

This is the Winter Egg, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II from the firm of Faberge, and presented to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on Easter Day, 1913.

The naturalistic design is not the only outstanding thing about this egg. The approach to materials, too, is rare and peculiarly timeless. Rock crystal, from which the shell and the base are made, is not the most lavish choice - and it had been used in previous eggs to create a kind of ovoid display case. But the Winter Egg is different. Transparent quartz is deployed here, because in the right hands it can be made to emulate both hoar-encrusted glass and jagged ice. A beautiful material has been rendered priceless by the artistry invested in it, by an ineffable human touch.
There are, of course, plenty of precious metals and gems in the egg, too - but always they serve the design. The trickling meltwater on the craggy base is made of platinum, while the sparkling effect of the whole ensemble is produced by the careful placement of minuscule diamonds, more than 4,000 of them in all.
The surprise inside the egg is a separate work of art, and also a feat of botanical mimicry. The wood anemones are arranged informally in a woven basket that is made of platinum and set with rose-cut diamonds. Some of the windflowers - as wood anemones are also known - are fully in bloom, some still half-closed. Their pale petals are of white quartz, and at the centre of each head is a demantoid garnet set within a gold stamen. The leaves on the golden stems are carved from pale green nephrite. Source: Christies

One of 50 made. Only 43 survive.

Sold at auction recently for USD$30.2 million. Where are you going to find another one for sale?

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The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes. Just turn the volume up:

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Some days are better than others...

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Jesus will be at the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday. Will you? Don't miss it and get a mark on your permanent record.

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ONT Department of Military History

On November 4, 1965, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet," flying A-1H Skyraider Bu. No. 135297, NE/572, from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway, carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet!
Also unique to this mission is the fact that this aircraft was named "Paper Tiger II" (a temporary name used for just this one flight.)
The following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965.
"I was a pilot in VA-25 on the 1965 Vietnam cruise.
572 was flown by CDR C. W. "Bill" Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII.)
The flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC [Forward Air Controller], he ended with "and one code name Sani-Flush." The FAC couldn't believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop. When it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie.
The FAC said that it whistled all the way down.
The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard. One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordnance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward. Just as it was being shot off we got a 1MC message from the bridge, "What the hell was on 572's right wing?"
There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film. CDR Stoddard was later killed while flying 572 in Oct. 1966. He was hit by three SAMs over Vinh." Source

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Bonus points if you know why an "E" was added to the toilet bomb.

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ONT Department of History and Languages

Hat tip: OrangeEnt

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REMINDER

Saturday's Hobby Thread requires Horde participation. We are honoring the Christmas ornament. Please send photos of ornaments from your collection to the Hobby Thread email address. What qualifies?

Could be something sentimental, something you made as a child or an adult, something special given to you, something you picked up on your travels, something whimsical or fun, something particularly novel, something really old, something handmade, something intricate or fancy, something irreverent and cheeky, etc.

Don't worry about sending your "favorite." We all know that many ornaments are treasures for different reasons.

If there is a story behind your photo, send a brief description. I may edit or inappropriately embellish, so be warned.

Send individual photos - one ornament for each photo (unless there is a cohesive set that go together). No limit, but the humble Hobby Thread only has so much space to work with.

If you don't usually drop into the Hobby Thread, this weekend would be a good time to stop by and say hello. It is going to be fun.

THANK YOU!

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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was from Chicago? Apparently so.

From Wikipedia:

Robert L. May created Rudolph in 1939 as an assignment for Chicago-based Montgomery Ward. The retailer had been buying and giving away booklets for Christmas every year and it was decided that creating their own book would save money. May considered naming the reindeer Rollo or Reginald before deciding upon using the name Rudolph. May chose a reindeer because of his daughter's love of the deer at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL. May also said he was treated like Rudolph as a child. In its first year of publication, Montgomery Ward distributed 2.4 million copies of Rudolph's story.

While May was staring out his office window in downtown Chicago, pondering how best to craft a Christmas story about a reindeer, a thick fog from Lake Michigan blocked his view - giving him a flash of inspiration. "Suddenly I had it!" he recalled. "A nose! A bright red nose that would shine through fog like a spotlight."

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and and Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all - LEROY!!!

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

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TSO for the big ONT finish.

Amazing that TSO started as a side project from Savatage. Songs like Prelude to Madness are thinly disguised orchestra metal. Warning: 80s Savatage isn't for everyone. Take in small doses.

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Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Comments

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1 Gabe: “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus."

Mary: "I thought it was supposed to be Immanuel."

Gabe: facepalm 🤦

Isaiah 7:14 and Matthew 1:23 v Luke 1:31 — ~~argue~~ discuss

Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and' at December 10, 2025 10:01 PM (zKAC0)

2 Hmmm. Anyway.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 10:01 PM (U/Byj)

3 Evening all.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (2F0/Y)

4 There's nothing like a hot woman in a wifebeater shirt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (COQGW)

5 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (MmTZZ)

6 This is the Winter Egg, commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II from the firm of Faberge, and presented to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, on Easter Day, 1913.

Nicholas II spent too much time chasing Faberge eggs and not enough time killing commie rabble-rousers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (COQGW)

7 Hey, Frosty!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (77rzZ)

8 Sold at auction recently for USD$30.2 million. Where are you going to find another one for sale?

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who bought it I wonder...

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (g47mK)

9 Thanks for the ONT.

I wonder if polynikes chose a specific era of rhe Strip?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (zZu0s)

10 Caller told him that if he shows up and tries anything, he'll bayonet him.

Found the Pittsburgh Moron!

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (nhCoE)

11 7 Hey, Frosty!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM
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Hey Bulg!!

Posted by: TRex - mid-week dino at December 10, 2025 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

12 Welp, tomorrow is the big day – surgery to remove part of my liver is scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm CST, and expected to take around 3 hours. The surgeon will also be using heat ablation on the remnants of the other small tumors which are also in my liver. I think the current plan is just to take 1 (of

lobe of the liver.

He will also be taking a few lymph nodes to see if the cancer has progressed outside of the liver, but so far none of the imaging over the past year has shown any lymphatic involvement.

He isn’t anticipating any surprises, and thinks that I should be able to go home in 5-7 days after surgery. We plan on traveling to South Texas on the 20th to have Christmas with both of our older daughters and their families.

I have always recovered remarkably quickly from surgery, and we are hoping/expecting that this one will be no different.

All of the Christmas presents this year are “wrapped” in the festive cardboard boxes/mailing envelopes they arrived in, as the chemo made me tireder than I realized when it came time to start wrapping everything. (Continued....)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)

13 Nicholas II spent too much time chasing Faberge eggs and not enough time killing commie rabble-rousers.

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his reign was doomed from the start me thinks...even his mommy did not think he was a good monarch...

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (g47mK)

14 Sold at auction recently for USD$30.2 million. Where are you going to find another one for sale?

I'll give you 500 bucks for it, right now.

Posted by: Antiques Roadshow at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (COQGW)

15 Yes, I am in fact lurking.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (VmDLh)

16 Willowed:

Trump HAS to go after these GOPe pretenders who haven't gotten the memo:

Washington — Republican moderates in the House revolted against leadership on Wednesday as they seek to force a vote on expiring health insurance premium tax credits — an issue that could have major political ramifications for the party in next year's elections.

Facing an end-of-year deadline, Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania introduced a discharge petition to try to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies by two years. A handful of GOP moderates quickly signed on.

The move is the latest rebellion by rank-and-file Republicans to force votes on issues that leadership would rather avoid.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (Cjcf6)

17 Boobs
( . ) ( . )

Italian boobs
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (xcxpd)

18 There's nothing like a hot woman in a wifebeater shirt.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:02 PM (COQGW)

Disagree: when she's in one of my shirts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (zZu0s)

19 I seem to remember Malcolm Forbes had the largest collection of Faberge eggs outside the Hermitage.

Posted by: browndog kicking up dirt at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (3sXRv)

20 ...Fortunately, I purchased some Christmas-y labels with individual family members’ names on them, so those are plastered all over the boxes and mailers.

We are bringing wrapping paper and accessories with us as usual for the girls to wrap their presents (they send them to our house so that they don’t have to carry them on the plane), so they may decide to wrap everything for me when they get to town 🤣🤣🤣

I will try and have Paul update everyone when I am in recovery – he should be posting something on my Facebook page. He may stay overnight in the hospital with me, but I will probably be in ICU overnight, just because I won’t be done with surgery aftermath until early evening. He may just decide to drive home (surgery is in Dallas) and come back on Friday morning.

Anyway, prayers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

***Important Update***

My doctor called with a proposition in case he has to bail on liver resection – he can implant something called an HAI pump, which can deliver medication directly into the liver. I asked if we could do both 🤣🤣🤣

Will know more tomorrow.

Apparently my case is already considered “outside the box”. Of course…🙄🙄🙄 (Cont.)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (SRRAx)

21 I have things I could send into the hobby thread. But they would not be magnificent or fabulous.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (6p0Jv)

22 Back before the Soviet collapse - I think - there was a travelling exhibition of a dozen or so of the Faberge eggs. Was lucky to catch it. Amazing really.

Spent a fair amount of time in Leningrad and of course explored the Hermitage a fair bit (it was a 20 minute walk) but don't recall seeing any of the eggs.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM (U/Byj)

23 This is easy to understand.

That photo slays me.

It's me and my wife when I try to explain THAC0 to her and insist that ascending AC is for innumerate children.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (UGyV5)

24 ...Oh, and surgery is scheduled for 2:30 pm and should last 3-4 hours if all goes according to plan. So you probably won't get an update from Paul until tomorrow evening sometime - didn't want anyone to worry too soon!

Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)

25 I'm glad TRex explained how the ONT schedule works. I've been getting confused.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

26 Nicholas II was an idiot, but only a supergenious could’ve saved Russia from communism at that point. Maybe Trumpov.

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (77rzZ)

27 Prayers for Teresa and Paul.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:09 PM (6p0Jv)

28 I like Savatage.

I'm not as sure about Italian horror movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:09 PM (xcxpd)

29 Evening, all! I'm usually around for the Hobby Thread on Saturdays. Ornaments? The one I remember best from my childhood was a Grumpy Santa, a ceramic figurine with an eternal black scowl. Not sure where Mom found it -- maybe at Woolworth's. she might still have had it when she passed away, but if so, I missed it among her things when I cleared the apartment out.

I wish I could find one like it now. Wonder if eBay has one . . .?

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

30 The surgeon will also be using heat ablation on the remnants of the other small tumors which are also in my liver.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)
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Make sure those hot irons are from the official AoSHQ medical stores...

We'll be praying for you!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (ESVrU)

31 Spent a fair amount of time in Leningrad and of course explored the Hermitage a fair bit (it was a 20 minute walk) but don't recall seeing any of the eggs.

I believe I saw several in the Kremlin museum a few years ago, but I might have been drunk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (COQGW)

32 Prayers up Teresa! You are clearly "outside the box"!!

Posted by: TRex - praying dino at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

33 I like Savatage.
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The band?

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

34 Good luck, Teresa. We'll all be pulling for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (zZu0s)

35 IIRC Coca Cola started a Christmas advertisement with Santa Claus that provided our current view of him. Prior to the advertisement he was shown a lot different.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (KDPiq)

36
Good luck Teresa, you're in our prayers!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (w6EFb)

37 Everyone is praying for you, Teresa!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (OoFl2)

38 Blue Man Group — great way to start off a holyday season ONT. Frosty Rex.

MiladyJo and I got to watch them, Saturday night and Sunday matinee, in their original show in NY. Astor Place Theatre in 1991 says Wiki? Guess so. We had a good time in NY. Won't be going back.

Posted by: mindful webworker - how we got there is a whole nother story at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (zKAC0)

39 Nice content, TRex, thank you!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM (OoFl2)

40 Nicholas II was an idiot, but only a supergenious could’ve saved Russia from communism at that point. Maybe Trumpov.

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he was not an idiot per se, just a man not suited for the job, surrounded by vicious and dirty intrigues, collapsing empire, wars, enemies all around and a rotting social structure; it was meant to collapse

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (g47mK)

41
You got it, Teresa.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (H1HTt)

42 TiFW - prayers for an uneventful surgery and speedy recovery.

Posted by: PabloD at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (GALGA)

43
My 95 yr old mother had another platelet crash right before Thanksgiving. They changed around the medications they're giving, and he platelets didn't dip below normal range for a week, so that's good.

She also seems to be perkier and more aware.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (w6EFb)

44 *** "The Strip" by polynikes
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I like it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 10:12 PM (Hm8Vv)

45 21 I have things I could send into the hobby thread. But they would not be magnificent or fabulous.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:06 PM
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Submissions are required to be neither magnificent or fabulous.

Still no macaroni art yet...

Posted by: TRex - glimmers of hope dino at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

46 You wanna know the source of the Bolshevik Revolution?

Peter the Great.

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

47 Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)

Wishing you all the best, Teresa. You are one tough lady, and you will beat this thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (npFr7)

48 Oh no!

Zarah Sultana MP
@zarahsultana
Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

49 Nicholas II spent too much time chasing Faberge eggs and not enough time killing commie rabble-rousers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:03 PM (COQGW)

Nicky was done in by his own aristocracy who thought the Czar and his court were too reactionary and backward to be cool like those Europeans who understood state socialism and industrialization, like Bismarck and the Wedgewoods

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

50 33 I like Savatage.
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The band?
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

Yes?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (xcxpd)

51 I'm glad TRex explained how the ONT schedule works. I've been getting confused.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (ESVrU)

Want to fill in for me some time?

Great stuff tonight, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (XvF0J)

52 Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

Say hi to Bobby Sands!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (rbvCR)

53 Faberge eggs...I think I've seen one in some museum. Maybe it was a copy.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (g47mK)

54 IIRC Coca Cola started a Christmas advertisement with Santa Claus that provided our current view of him. Prior to the advertisement he was shown a lot different.

Like this

https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)

55 Top photo: "The Strip" - Vegas, yes? We were there once.

Maybe hidden click shoulda been Viva Las Vegas?
https://youtu.be/B6WnnZRSKYs

Posted by: mindful webworker - (not Viva Las Vegas) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (zKAC0)

56 Thanks for the mighty, mighty, mighty Wednesday Night ONT, T-Rex!

Sometimes the Pittsburgh scanner seems waaaay too good to be true!

Love the crystal egg. Fabulous!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (kB9dk)

57 Huh. Odd. On my phone, i keep getting random lib video suggestions. Never click on em, but they keep popping up.

Does not happen at home.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

58 Wait! I think it was in Las Vegas!

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (g47mK)

59 I went to Las Vegas once: as a 13 year old on a church choir trip. Our bus broke down there, so we had to spend the night while it was repaired. For some insane reason, the adults let us loose on the strip. My group found circus circus and had a blast, but the rest of the 140 of us got up to the Lord only knows what.

We did not have a church choir trip the next year.

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (wLjpr)

60 Everyone is praying for you, Teresa!
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Absolutely! May God bless and heal you!

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (Cjcf6)

61 Seriously, I don't know if I've ever seen such a confusing mix of quality and crap as Italy puts in their cinema.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (xcxpd)

62 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (lUFok)

63 Paper Tiger II story...It gives flashbacks to that mash episode where Hawkeye tries towing the latrine to North Korea. Albeit for different purposes.

Posted by: Rex B at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (r6f6k)

64 Teresa in Fort Worth, get well soon!

Posted by: Don Black. Message: GO ARMY beat Navy at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ZxPkt)

65 Bellagio.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (g47mK)

66 Still no macaroni art yet...

Posted by: TRex - glimmers of hope dino at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

*pops up head.*
*maybe?*
Thank you, Mr Dino.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (6p0Jv)

67 Want to fill in for me some time?

Great stuff tonight, Dino!
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (XvF0J)
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I doubt I could ever do the ONT justice.

The Disco, the Dino, and the Doggo are awesome, if only for the alliteration.

I'm pretty comfortable in my own corner of the AoSHQ media empire.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)

68 Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

I hope their hospital rooms are downwind from a barbecue joint.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (npFr7)

69 Prayer up, Teresa!

Posted by: Bulg at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)

70 Like this

https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)

Is that rasputin?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

71
She also seems to be perkier and more aware.
Posted by: publius

Good, that's the right direction.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (H1HTt)

72 >I wish I could find one like it now. Wonder if eBay has one . . .?

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

I have a few very old Polish glass ornaments from my mother. The glass is impossibly thin. Mrs. Meta and I began collecting ornaments anytime time we'd travel. It's fun to reminisce while decorating the tree.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (GTqXr)

73 IIRC Coca Cola started a Christmas advertisement with Santa Claus that provided our current view of him. Prior to the advertisement he was shown a lot different.
Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025

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Coca-Cola did, and then 7UP started their "Man From Uncola" campaign, using their concept of 7UP as "The Uncola."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:16 PM (wzUl9)

74
Lives are at immediate risk.

/nods indifferently

And who put their lives at risk?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (H1HTt)

75 I'm pretty comfortable in my own corner of the AoSHQ media empire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)

The pimp hat helps

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)

76 And thanks TRex, Mr Moki and I look forward to the Wednesday ONT each week - the Pittsburgh Police scanner is a gift that keeps giving!!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (wLjpr)

77 39 Nice content, TRex, thank you!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:11 PM
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Thank you!

Posted by: TRex - workout dino at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

78 Teresa! {{{}}} Your wishes are the Hordes commands.
You go girl!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (TfUTr)

79 https://tinyurl.com/yvykejny
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM (COQGW)

Is that rasputin?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

Juan Valdez

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (COQGW)

80 I'm pretty comfortable in my own corner of the AoSHQ media empire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:15 PM (ESVrU)

The pimp hat helps
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)
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It's not as comfortable as it looks. But it is very stylish!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:18 PM (ESVrU)

81
hunger strikers...have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

oh, then crisis averted
because now they're in hospital, their stunt is over

because the hospital isn't going to not feed them

and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing

FUCKING IDIOTS

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (H1HTt)

82 56 Thanks for the mighty, mighty, mighty Wednesday Night ONT, T-Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM
***
[Respectful and grateful bow in the direction of LS]

Posted by: TRex - dino says danke! at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

83 Teresa, I'll be thinking good thoughts about you tomorrow and waiting for your Paul to update us. Good luck!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (wzUl9)

84 It's not as comfortable as it looks. But it is very stylish!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 10, 2025 10:18 PM (ESVrU)

It definitely marks you as a suave and debonair man of the world.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)

85 Winter Egg… presented to his mother… on Easter Day, 1913

Wrong Jesus holiday. Couldn't hold this one back until Easter, huh?

Well, the winter part fits the season. In the Northern hemisphere, at least.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Excused at December 10, 2025 10:20 PM (zKAC0)

86 76 And thanks TRex, Mr Moki and I look forward to the Wednesday ONT each week - the Pittsburgh Police scanner is a gift that keeps giving!!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 10:17 PM
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When real life is so entertaining, who needs fiction? Can't make this stuff up!

Posted by: TRex - dino on duty at December 10, 2025 10:20 PM (IQ6Gq)

87 because the hospital isn't going to not feed them

and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing

FUCKING IDIOTS
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:19 PM (H1HTt)

Give them those Olestra potato chips. And Haribo sugar-free Gummi Bears.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (npFr7)

88 his reign was doomed from the start me thinks...even his mommy did not think he was a good monarch...
Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (g47mK)

Unfortunately for Russia, Nicholas listened a little too much to his wife, Alexandra. And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)

89 I like Savatage.
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The band?
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

Yes?
-----

I belonged to a guitar forum that kicked me out when I didn't go along with the "guitar companies are price gougers" when COVID money suddenly showed up and drove prices upward.

Prior to getting kicked out, I was on good terms with a regular who earned my respect by acknowledging that Ritchie Blackmore had played a huge and ongoing influence on the metal guitar scene via both Deep Purple and Rainbow. Blackmore was his SECOND favorite guitarist. The guitarist from Savatage (Chris Oliva) was his favorite.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (Cjcf6)

90 wolfus, you were asking about Lois Bujold books, and I said after the Nood was called:

The hardest one to read is Mirror Dance, it is downright brutal. Start with Warrior's Apprentice, A Civil Campaign or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance to get your toes wet. She is as good a prosist as David Drake, but they are like Drake was writing Restoration novels.
her first two books in the series about Cordelia are a bit rough, much better than most first books, but she was still shaking out her universe.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (rbvCR)

91 51 Great stuff tonight, Dino!

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 10:14 PM
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Thank you, Disco!

Hey, do you think JQ needs help putting up more lights for the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday?

Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

92 I don't understand hunger strikes.

"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.

Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?

Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)

93 I was doing some online shopping and wow do some internet site use intentionally unattractive models.

It seems counterproductive because as you are looking at a range of products you aren't going to take the time to differentiate "ugly mode/nice shirt" from just ugly shirt...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:23 PM (sKqQm)

94 E for Excellence

Posted by: steevy at December 10, 2025 10:24 PM (YwEeS)

95 Pre-Book Thread content: At the library this evening, I picked up two non-fiction items, a biography of Larry McMurtry and one of C.S. Lewis. I plan to dive into one or the other once I finish my current Anthony Horowitz mystery. It occurred to me that I know very little about McMurtry's early life or how he came to be published in the first place, let alone how his stuff caught the attention of Hollywood.

As for Lewis, I know more about his life than I do his work -- and I don't know much about his life. Basically anecdotes, and that he preferred a pipe tobacco called Three Nuns.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 10, 2025 10:24 PM (wzUl9)

96 G’night, All. Sleep well.

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

97 Prayers continue Teresa and Paul.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (kB9dk)

98 Evening.

Savatage is fucking outstanding.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (1Yy3c)

99 For those who were curious where I got the idea for putting a ribbon on a male TRex, go to the 6, 16, and 20 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/prPyAPrOliM

If you like British humor, this series is a hoot!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)

100 wolfus, you were asking about Lois Bujold books, and I said after the Nood was called:

The hardest one to read is Mirror Dance, it is downright brutal. Start with Warrior's Apprentice, A Civil Campaign or Captain Vorpatril's Alliance to get your toes wet. She is as good a prosist as David Drake, but they are like Drake was writing Restoration novels.
her first two books in the series about Cordelia are a bit rough, much better than most first books, but she was still shaking out her universe.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025

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This library had a bunch of her stuff, but none of those that I recall. I'll be out at the big suburban library on Saturday morning and can have a look.

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

101 I wonder if the Whistling Toilet of Doom succeeded in taking out any Viet Cong?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)

102 Thank you for the ONT T-Rex!
Doof thanks for the pickleball info, it will be put to good use.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (TfUTr)

103 The head strapped to the wing pylon was used to illustrate the bomb shortage that was occurring while LBJ and McNamara was saying there was no bomb shortage.

The "E" is for excellence. Can't you just feel the sarcasm for it being placed on the toilet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (2GVsD)

104 98 Evening.

Savatage is fucking outstanding.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 10, 2025 10:25 PM
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I'm pleased to know that Savatage finds favor among the Horde. I wasn't sure about including it.

Posted by: TRex - deep cut dino at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (IQ6Gq)

105 Hey, do you think JQ needs help putting up more lights for the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday?

Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq

I volunteer to help JQ drunkorate. No one at home enjoys the colored lights and Blow Mold santa .

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (6p0Jv)

106 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)

Best possible luck and blessings to you tomorrow, TiFW. I'll sure send up a prayer, but be advised I might not have a lot of pull up there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (COQGW)

107 The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving.

They have a nice touch. Well done.

Posted by: t-bird at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (0ZmKh)

108 Amazing that TSO started as a side project from Savatage.

TSO's first big hit, "Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24," was originally on Savatage's album "Dead Winter Dead." A concept album set during the Bosnian War.

"CE/S" was a tribute to "The Cellist of Sarajevo," Vedran Smailović, who would go out and play cello solos in the middle of the ruins of Sarajevo while it was under siege.

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (nhCoE)

109 Excellent choice for the lurker link, TRex. Thanks for another fun and informative ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 10:28 PM (41CYW)

110 88:And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.
Posted by: RickZ

I had a huge coc......I was the perfect advisor, jerk!

Posted by: Rasputin at December 10, 2025 10:29 PM (MmTZZ)

111 Teresa in Fort Worth, have a Dr consultation at 1pm CST tomorrow. Should be done well in time to be praying for you afterward. God guide your surgeons and crew.

Your dealing with your cancer has been inspiring.

Posted by: mindful webworker - CST for the cyst? at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM (zKAC0)

112 The company Brengun makes a 1/48 resin kit with the toilet and decals for the Skyraider. BRL 48040.

So grab a Monogram or a Tamiya 1/48 Skyraider and go to town.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

113 Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk"

Well... bye.

Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (XuXeR)

114 88:And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.
Posted by: RickZ

I had a huge coc......I was the perfect advisor, jerk!
Posted by: Rasputin at December 10, 2025 10:29 PM (MmTZZ)

Not to mention, you could hardly kill the guy. He just kept ticking!

Posted by: V. Purishkevich at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (COQGW)

115 I wonder if the Whistling Toilet of Doom succeeded in taking out any Viet Cong?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 10, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)

Sounds like the opening of the series 'Dead Like Me', a toilet seat flying down from the Mir Space Station killing Ellen Muth, the lead character.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:31 PM (gKDq2)

116 Golly, who would have guessed that the UK's problems had UK participants that were totally onboard and "benefiting" from it?

Can we just sever relations with the UK unless they reform?

Andy Hughes
@AndyHughesCrime
EXCLUSIVE: A Met officer was accused of running a VIP paedophile ring, which included an MP and a judge, that sexually abused young girls in care.
A Met whistleblower claims it was “covered up” by the force.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)

117
The picture of the guy explaining and the expression on the girl's face does not foretell a continuing relationship.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (tgvbd)

118 I love the old Bond movie titles

And Jesus at customs

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:32 PM (eZ5tL)

119 That dude is showing that chick his knife hand, she probably went all bird hand and this is what happens when you go bird hand.

You will respect my knife hand!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 10, 2025 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)

120 Is the toilet plane an F6F?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:33 PM (COQGW)

121 Prayers up for you, Teresa. Merry Christmas!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 10, 2025 10:34 PM (+8v88)

122 Alright, which of you jokers put lard in the IV's?

Posted by: Hospital admin who has enough problems at December 10, 2025 10:34 PM (TfUTr)

123 Rasputin?

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

Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

124 Prayers for you and your family Teresa. You are one strong and optimistic lady. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Prayers for complete success of the surgery, record healing with no complications that leaves the docs amazed, and a great Christmas with your beloved family.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (WONhk)

125 Nope. It's an A-1 Skyraider. "Vietnam" was the giveaway.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (COQGW)

126 Cicero

No. It is a Douglas AD-6/A-1H Skyraider.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

127 Festive ONT Mr. Rex!⛄🎄🎁

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (aa8rj)

128 Teresa,
Thank you for the reminder, will definitely be praying for you. Yes, you are "outside the box", I've never heard of anyone with your diagnosis having this surgery. And I pray that it is a huge success and you are with us for many more MoMes

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

129 112 The company Brengun makes a 1/48 resin kit with the toilet and decals for the Skyraider. BRL 48040.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:30 PM
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for you:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2env24

Posted by: TRex - scaled down dino at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)

130 Unfortunately for Russia, Nicholas listened a little too much to his wife, Alexandra. And her choice of 'psychotic religious adviser' wasn't so great, either.
Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)

I've read a little about Rasputin, and the situation was not ...monosemantic. He was very possibly maligned, as Marie Antoinette was. Much intrigue surrounded the czar, many interests pulling in all directions. Rasputin did seem to have some healing abilities. He wanted to improve the plight of peasants, the common folks. He was shrewd, was popular with some at court, and maybe provided unvarnished opinion to the royal couple.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:36 PM (g47mK)

131 🎶 🎹 amateur hour again
Guess this is as good a day as any to drag this out:

Rudolfo
The Culturally Insensitive Pseudo-Hispanic Version
(should play from 1:10 in the video)

https://bit.ly/rudy-red-nose

Posted by: mindful webworker - CST for the cyst? at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (zKAC0)

132 No. It is a Douglas AD-6/A-1H Skyraider.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM (2GVsD)

Shoulda read the text. It says it right there.

Anyway, I don't think the Hellcat had hard points like that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (COQGW)

133 The Fabrege egg is spectacular. I love snowflakes!

I think whoever first named hoar frost "hoar" vs fairy frost or beauty frost is a nitwit. I think it is a rude name for something so beautiful.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (WONhk)

134
I mean, have you ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who just talks and talks and never really has a theme of what they're talking about and goes down all kinds of little side trails that don't link up with the rest of what they're saying and they just like the sound of their voice and think they're so smart you'll be impressed by the never-ending cascade of words and....

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (tgvbd)

135 Teresa, praying for ya

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (DoBxX)

136 Praying for you Theresa, and thinking of I out as well.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (M4qcY)

137 127 Festive ONT Mr. Rex!⛄🎄🎁

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:35 PM
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Thank you! Your wobbly table is available if you want it. Limited menu tonight though.

Posted by: TRex - host dino at December 10, 2025 10:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

138 Regarding Pierce Brosnan, there's apparently a comic book based on the concept of Old Man Bond (by another name) that may be being adapted, and may be starring him.

Nerdrotic thought he was cleverly not disclosing that while disclosing that, so it seems there's a pretty good chance it's true.

Posted by: Methos at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (vSvIl)

139 Honestly, I've never understood the logic of hunger strikes. You -- my opponent on some issue if not my outright enemy -- endanger your own health or life because I won't do what you want me to do? Yeah, that'll sure show me.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (3nLb4)

140 You know he's evil because it's right there in his name. Rasputin.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (UGyV5)

141 Well, I guess its time for Trump to blast and/or tariff...Denmark.

The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.

The new intelligence assessment claims Washington, under the Trump administration, is aggressively reasserting its national interests—something globalist governments in Europe have thus far not been prepared to deal with.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (Cjcf6)

142 Doggo! Saw your comment from last night's ONT this morning. Let me see if I have this right: you three have agreed to have a Santa at Saturday night's Club ONT party - but you will be seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

143 Lives are at immediate risk.

Well, that's a dang shame. Anyway.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

145 (WONhk)

134
I mean, have you ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who just talks and talks and never really has a theme of what they're talking about and goes down all kinds of little side trails that don't link up with the rest of what they're saying and they just like the sound of their voice and think they're so smart you'll be impressed by the never-ending cascade of words and....
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:37 PM (tgvbd)

Is one of the possible answers "every woman I'm related to"???

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (M4qcY)

146 137 TRex

Thanks T! However, I'm saving myself for Saturday 🤪...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (aa8rj)

147 Five hunger strikers for Palestine have been hospitalized since beginning their hunger strike.

Lives are at immediate risk.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:13 PM (Cjcf6)

Banana anyone?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (COQGW)

148 Doggo! Saw your comment from last night's ONT this morning. Let me see if I have this right: you three have agreed to have a Santa at Saturday night's Club ONT party - but you will be seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba

Heck, seat him at our table, while not good, I myself have been spectacularly mediocre.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (TfUTr)

149 seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Wait until you see the fire.

Posted by: scampydog at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (41CYW)

150 T Rex the other bombs being carried by the Skyraider drives home the point there was a bomb shortage.

It was the same Korean War bombs aboard Forrestal that killed so many. The more modern bombs have a 30 second delay you could say before cooking off. All these old bombs did not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (2GVsD)

151 and the whole thing was a big fucking stupid waste that accomplished nothing

FUCKING IDIOTS
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

Yeah, something tells me that they never intended to actually starve to death. The posers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

152
The new intelligence assessment claims Washington, under the Trump administration, is aggressively reasserting its national interests—something globalist governments in Europe have thus far not been prepared to deal with.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:39 PM (Cjcf6)

___________

Apparently the duty of the US is to shut up and do what the EU says. To which I say, piss on that noise.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:43 PM (tgvbd)

153 I thought I had some nice ornaments as my parents would get one every year.. then I found Henry Ford museum has them all on display.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (/lPRQ)

154 142 Doggo! Saw your comment from last night's ONT this morning. Let me see if I have this right: you three have agreed to have a Santa at Saturday night's Club ONT party - but you will be seating him OUTSIDE? In the cold? I know, next to a fire - but this is Santa we are talking about. And did I mention it's COLD outside?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10

You know, some of us have copies of the keys to the new ballroom addition. We could relocate him upon making a command decision. Only thing they can do is stamp our meal card no dessert, JQ would ignore that anyway.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (Wmg4n)

155 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (2GVsD)

156 Give them those Olestra potato chips. And Haribo sugar-free Gummi Bears.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That would unfairly punish hospital staff.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)

157 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Oh. That explains why I don't get it.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:45 PM (3nLb4)

158 Good news, there are five more people who won't need Ozempic.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:45 PM (2GVsD)

159 Who was hunger strike guy in the late 70s early 80s? Bobby so and so or Gary? irish. Sinn Finn? I remember that. Hope he died.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)

160 Savatage is fucking outstanding.
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus

I'm pleased to know that Savatage finds favor among the Horde. I wasn't sure about including it.
Posted by: TRex - deep cut dino

Be sure!

The counterpoint vocals that show up in some TSO songs? That was a Savatage thing, too.

First heard near the end of "Chance," in 1994:

https://youtu.be/pqWg3QRAMSA

And in the closer of the Dead Winter Dead concept album, "Not What You See":

https://youtu.be/PR17ynfz8qI

"Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24" is DWD's penultimate track.

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)

161 {{{TiFW}}}

Prayers ascending!

Wishing you a pain-free recovery and a Merry Christmas.

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)

162
Dang, just looking at the weather station data, I had a quite a pressure drop today, going from 30.06" to 29.67". Wonder my ears didn't pop...

Back during that winter storm of the century in '93, which set low pressure records all over the SE and east coast on up north pretty good, it fell so fast, some did swear their ears did pop.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (w6EFb)

163 I'll be going on a Hunger Strike until 7AM EST. Good night, will post on The Morning Report, if I survive.

Posted by: Full, Up To Here at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)

164 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Whine to the u.n. who will send a strongly worded letter to President Trump...who will wipe his ass with it.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (TfUTr)

165 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Taunt us a second time?

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (nhCoE)

166 A comedy in 2 acts:

Act 1

92 I don't understand hunger strikes.

"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.

Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?

Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)

Act 2

144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)

167 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
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Ok, so Trump should do a couple of things:

1. Symbolically "donate" the oil to The Strategic Reserve.

2. Then "donate" the tanker to the Naval Academy as a training vessel.

The left will howl, but they always howl. Those who get what's going on will love it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)

168 166 A comedy in 2 acts:

Act 1

92 I don't understand hunger strikes.

"Give me my way, or I'll starve myself!" Ok.

Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?

Have a sandwich. Or don't. I don't care.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (UGyV5)

Act 2

144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)

I guess I'm indecent...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

169 Maybe we should drop a toilet on Maduro

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (2GVsD)

170 Hey, do you think JQ needs help putting up more lights for the Club ONT Christmas party on Saturday?

Posted by: TRex - drinkerating dino at December 10, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq

I volunteer to help JQ drunkorate. No one at home enjoys the colored lights and Blow Mold santa .
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:27 PM (6p0Jv)
---------

Sure! Bring your favorite decorations!

TRex, you found that special box of lights in the store room, didn't you?

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (rdVOm)

171 Your tanker, it's mine. It's my tanker.

Posted by: Orangeman, Lord of the Oceans at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (COQGW)

172 167 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
-----

Ok, so Trump should do a couple of things:

1. Symbolically "donate" the oil to The Strategic Reserve.

2. Then "donate" the tanker to the Naval Academy as a training vessel.

The left will howl, but they always howl. Those who get what's going on will love it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (Cjcf6)

Use it to transport illegal aliens back home?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

173 Teresa in Fort Worth...

May God be with those entrusted with your care...

Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (XuXeR)

174 Prayers up for Teresa and Paul.

Posted by: KT at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (7vIsy)

175 Trump makes it a sea going golf course of course.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)

176 I will be looking for epithets in AoSHQ nics now.

Posted by: KT at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (7vIsy)

177 You know, some of us have copies of the keys to the new ballroom addition. We could relocate him upon making a command decision. Only thing they can do is stamp our meal card no dessert, JQ would ignore that anyway.
Posted by: Piper
*******
Girlfriend! Yes, please. Seriously, what are they thinking? I dropped off the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, and now they want it back. I left the receipt near the cash register and hope someone picks it up before Saturday at noon, when they close. I'd do it, but I'm busy with cookie dough, icing and sprinkles for dozens of cookies...I'm beginning to feel like you on Sunday night!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

178
Use it to transport illegal aliens back home?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

________

Operation Magic Carpet 2!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (tgvbd)

179 Hunger strike... bah, pikers. They should hold their breath instead.

I'd gladly assist, with duct tape and clothespins!

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)

180 Commie / Third World prisons preempt hunger strikes.

Posted by: No Soup For you !! at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (KDPiq)

181 Is it just me or does the blonde with the impressive...aahhh...bewbs look less than happy to be where she is? And with the dudes hand on her neck?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (2WIwB)

182
A Mel Tucker / Sharonne Moore podcast / radio show is more than what you want.

It's what America needs.

Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (Y8DZL)

183 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Oh. That explains why I don't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob

It might be a Gen X thing. We were told to finish our meals and not waste food because there were starving children in Africa.

So some political such-and-such intentionally not eating his food has to be evil, right? Think of the children!

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

184
I was reading that Trump 1.0 wanted to seize Venezuelan tankers, but the RINOs and cucks balked. Trump 2.0 learned his lesson about putting the right people in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

185 Has anyone, anywhere, anytime said,"Oh, those poor dears. Better do what they want."?"

Sure. There was this lady who said "won't somebody help that poor man? "

Might have been in a movie....

Posted by: man at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (XuXeR)

186 170 TRex, you found that special box of lights in the store room, didn't you?

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM
***
Yes! I plugged them in and they looked marvelous! Then I stepped on one of the bulbs and the whole string went out. Damn vintage light strings. Sorry about that. There may be others in the storeroom, but I didn't look out of fear of doing more damage.

Posted by: TRex - clumsy dino at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

187 The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.

Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

188 Dear Denmark

We are cancelling the extended warranty on your F-35s.

The USA.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

189 Girlfriend! Yes, please. Seriously, what are they thinking? I dropped off the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, and now they want it back. I left the receipt near the cash register and hope someone picks it up before Saturday at noon, when they close. I'd do it, but I'm busy with cookie dough, icing and sprinkles for dozens of cookies...I'm beginning to feel like you on Sunday night!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:50 PM (IQ6Gq)

I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (Wmg4n)

190 Is it just me or does the blonde with the impressive...aahhh...bewbs look less than happy to be where she is? And with the dudes hand on her neck?

Judging from the seating and his shirt, they're at a baseball game and he's mansplaining the infield fly rule.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (3nLb4)

191 Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

And butter cookies are right out!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (COQGW)

192 Savatage wasn't bad; I prefer the original Grieg piece.

https://youtu.be/OqvHWUZZdP0

I actually like the entire Peer Gynt suite.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (ynpvh)

193 Who was hunger strike guy in the late 70s early 80s? Bobby so and so or Gary? irish. Sinn Finn? I remember that. Hope he died.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:46 PM (6p0Jv)

Yep. Bobby Sands and his diet.

Sinn Fein (Shin Fain). Proper commie rat bastards they are.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

194 Sounds like the opening of the series 'Dead Like Me', a toilet seat flying down from the Mir Space Station killing Ellen Muth, the lead character.
Posted by: RickZ

Heh. I thought the same. We binge-watched the whole series earlier this year. Enjoyed it. Decided not to watch the follow-up movie to avoid disappointment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - reap what you sew at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (zKAC0)

195 Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.
Posted by: nerdygirl

And sugar cookies in those metal cans.

Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)

196 I am going on a hunger strike until the Somalians aren't retarded. Ot until I need a sammich.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (6p0Jv)

197 144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Hunger strikes work on decent people? Uh, oh.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

198 187 The intelligence service of Denmark, a NATO ‘ally’ currently under the rule of left-liberal globalists, has caused quite the stir across Europe and the globe after it labeled the United States as a potential security concern, a stunning shift for a country long conditioned to defer to NATO orthodoxy.

Well, that does it. I'm boycotting cheese Danish.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)

That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

199 You know, some of us have copies of the keys to the new ballroom addition. We could relocate him upon making a command decision. Only thing they can do is stamp our meal card no dessert, JQ would ignore that anyway.
Posted by: Piper
---------

Here's the "outdoor" space. Thought I posted it the other night?

https://tinyurl.com/4y2v6rzy

****Don't worry, Doof! Pic was taken before I added COLORED LIGHTS and put up the plexiglass panels for wind-block****

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (rdVOm)

200 I wish to go on hunger strike
Like fearless leader ace
No eat for days

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (tcsrY)

201 I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper
**********
Excellent, have none of those. Let me get thru tomorrow and I'll list what I'll be bringing.
I think we need to be considered for the dental plan...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

202 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

You think "decent people" would resort to this "rectal feeding"?!
Just glad that lobster wasn't on the menu...

- GITMO Prisoner No 153

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (/lPRQ)

203 Dear Denmark, we are enacting a no fly zone and naval blockade of Greenland.

Yours truly,

The United States of America.

Posted by: runner at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (g47mK)

204
155 So what is Venezuela going to do now that we have their oil tanker?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:44 PM (2GVsD)

Hey Anna, I posted this in the previous thread, but nobody in media has noticed or understood what just happened - most brilliant move by Trump and Hegseth yet. 3 primary effects:
1) this tanker was headed for Cuba, which has an antiquated, failing oil powered system for all of their power production. The loss of this tanker might cause the grid to go down for the entire island (again)
2) Maduro desperately needed the money from this shipment for his associates and other expenses, since the loss of the drug boats is hurting him and his partners badly.
3) this ship was part of the Russian "shadow fleet" so it was a nice little way to kick Putin in the teeth as well.

That's a lot of billiard balls to get moving with one little shot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (M4qcY)

205
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow.
Posted by: Piper

You shake the cookies and "snow" flies?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (H1HTt)

206 In other military news, Boeing has finished converting the 127th and last F-16 to QF-16 drone status.

The US have more QF-16 drones than some nations who operate the F-16 with pilots.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (2GVsD)

207 183 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.

Oh. That explains why I don't get it.
Posted by: Oddbob

It might be a Gen X thing. We were told to finish our meals and not waste food because there were starving children in Africa.

So some political such-and-such intentionally not eating his food has to be evil, right? Think of the children!

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)

I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

208 You think "decent people" would resort to this "rectal feeding"?!
Just glad that lobster wasn't on the menu...

Looking forward to Pineapple Night!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (COQGW)

209 So why did we seize the oil tanker? Were their drugs onboard?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (sKqQm)

210 Tom Servo

Don't forget Maduro is in bed with the Mullahs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (2GVsD)

211 Yep. Bobby Sands and his diet.

Sinn Fein (Shin Fain). Proper commie rat bastards they are.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

That's the guy! I remember the helpful media counting down the days he was hungry. Oh noes.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (6p0Jv)

212 I am going on a hunger strike until the Somalians aren't retarded. Ot until I need a sammich.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Heh!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (TfUTr)

213 >> this tanker was headed for Cuba, which has an antiquated, failing oil powered system for all of their power production.

Just reading that while Cuba has publicly condemned the imperial US military build up, they are privately talking about "what the region will look like without Maduro".

They've already got the message.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (w6EFb)

214 Alright, y'all hunger strikers asked for it!

https://youtu.be/VUb450Alpps

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (nhCoE)

215 Is Raul Castro still alive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

216 You knwo you could make a decent movie about a retired Bond.

Have him chilling in a retirement home when he finds out there is a plot by a new version of Spectre to kill off the elderly via a fake vaccine and he has to stop Faucifinger and Bidenfeld from killing off a bunch of people...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (sKqQm)

217 205
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow.
Posted by: Piper

You shake the cookies and "snow" flies?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (H1HTt)

In theory and on paper, yes.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (Wmg4n)

218 does anybody use venezuelan oil besides US and chinese?

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (L8VMA)

219 Soup's first encounter with those cookies will be very funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

220 Is Raul Castro still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (2GVsD)

As far as I know, but Diaz-Canel Singao is probably still in charge

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (rbvCR)

221 216 You knwo you could make a decent movie about a retired Bond.

Have him chilling in a retirement home when he finds out there is a plot by a new version of Spectre to kill off the elderly via a fake vaccine and he has to stop Faucifinger and Bidenfeld from killing off a bunch of people...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:58 PM (sKqQm)

If only Brian Dennehy was still alive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (ynpvh)

222 I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

223 I guess I'm indecent...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

But morons are allowed to not wear pants, so it's okay.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

224 [Grateful making note to self to tell Santa on Saturday that she was not involved in any way in the decision to have him outside...would never do that to "the man" who has the list and checks it twice}

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

225 "Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a message on Saturday to the authorities and people of Venezuela, reaffirming the island’s support for the South American nation in the face of U.S. hostility."

of course

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

226 I would think the Ethiopians would still be feasting on Sally Struthers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

227
Has grammy winger been around?

Rev was bad shape, last I heard.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (H1HTt)

228 209 So why did we seize the oil tanker? Were their drugs onboard?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (sKqQm)

Is that a parrot on your shoulder, Captain?
-reporter at press conference

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (bss/y)

229 219 Soup's first encounter with those cookies will be very funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

He has been stealing stockings and killing them all day. He is still traumatized currently from my sneeze that resulted in a scared cat accidentally landing on him.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (Wmg4n)

230 Posted by: TRex - clumsy dino at December 10, 2025 10:51 PM
------

That's okay. Those were old but not especially valuable.

No, there should be a few strings of these in there, I was saving them for you!:

https://tinyurl.com/2hfrh4t6

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (rdVOm)

231
144 Hunger strikes are emotional blackmail tgat only work on decent people.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 10, 2025 10:42 PM (DoBxX)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 10, 2025 10:47 PM (UGyV5)

I guess I'm indecent...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

Did she mean easily deceived people? Cause decent people would tell that brat to stop emotionally blackmailing others.

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (wLjpr)

232 219 Soup's first encounter with those cookies will be very funny.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 10:59 PM (2GVsD

And he got a pup cup from Starbucks today. They thought he was adorable.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (Wmg4n)

233 Did you record the cat performing a landing the dog?

Were arrestor claws used?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (2GVsD)

234 223 I guess I'm indecent...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

But morons are allowed to not wear pants, so it's okay.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (0Htd1)

Yeah, I was sitting there in the recliner, watching TV without my pants...the trouble came in when they kicked me out of the store.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

235 "Possessor of Splendor", you know, the fella that came up with that one was...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (Exvay)

236 I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.
Posted by: RickZ

Ok mom, feel free to mail them my portion of whatever this lower middle class glop is.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (TfUTr)

237 Has grammy winger been around?

Rev was bad shape, last I heard.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (H1HTt)

Seems like I saw grammie a couple weeks ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:02 PM (bss/y)

238 Dear Denmark, we are enacting a no fly zone and naval blockade of Greenland.

Yours truly,

The United States of America.
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Love it. Of course we could just announce that we were no longer committed to the defense of nations who didn't respect the very rights our nation was founded on.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (Cjcf6)

239
Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (H1HTt)

240 [Grateful making note to self to tell Santa on Saturday that she was not involved in any way in the decision to have him outside...would never do that to "the man" who has the list and checks it twice}
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
--------

Don't panic, Grateful! See my @199

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

241 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent a message on Saturday to the authorities and people of Venezuela, reaffirming the island’s support for the South American nation in the face of U.S. hostility.

How nice. It must be like walking through scary dark alley and realizing that David Hogg is right there at your side.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (COQGW)

242 And he got a pup cup from Starbucks today. They thought he was adorable.

they have to say that, even muslim baristas

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (L8VMA)

243 233 Did you record the cat performing a landing the dog?

Were arrestor claws used?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025

No, I didn’t realize just sneezing would cause that chain of events. No claws, but very nasty language like somehow it was Saijo’s fault.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:04 PM (Wmg4n)

244 How nice. It must be like walking through scary dark alley and realizing that David Hogg is right there at your side.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (COQGW)

And he brought his backstabbin' knife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:04 PM (bss/y)

245 Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

everything is an op these days, trust nobody unconditionally

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (L8VMA)

246
And sugar cookies in those metal cans.

Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)

I thought those all had sewing stuff in them - ours NEVER had cookies!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (wLjpr)

247 242 And he got a pup cup from Starbucks today. They thought he was adorable.

they have to say that, even muslim baristas
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (L8VMA)

I don’t think we have those in Alabama and I will have you know he is disgustingly cute. 😂

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (Wmg4n)

248 Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

"No matter how cynical I get, I can never keep up."
-- Lily Tomlin

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (3nLb4)

249 222 I was told about the starving children in China...Maybe that was pre-1980...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

It was the starving children of Cambodia in the early 70s. I remember the TV commercials

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (6p0Jv)

250 230 No, there should be a few strings of these in there, I was saving them for you!:

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM
***
Outstanding! They will add a touch of class to the place. I'm sure you'll find a good place for them!! Thank you!

Posted by: TRex - light up my life dino at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

251 [Grateful making note to self to tell Santa on Saturday that she was not involved in any way in the decision to have him outside...would never do that to "the man" who has the list and checks it twice}
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:01 PM (IQ6Gq)
--------
Don't panic, Grateful! See my @199
Posted by: JQ
***********
Thank goodness someone is taking this seriously...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

252 Just a little tweaking:

"Live and Let Die- (Do-not-Resuscitate)"

Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (dIske)

253 It was the same Korean War bombs aboard Forrestal that killed so many. The more modern bombs have a 30 second delay you could say before cooking off. All these old bombs did not.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The Forrestal? I was there...
- Some old dude who happened to be in our open office when a few of us were joking on John "My Turn" McCain.

Old dude answered they question, "Didn't he also almost sink an aircraft carrier?"

Old Dude told us hiw his flight just got back from a mission when shit hit the fan...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)

254 I don’t think we have those in Alabama and I will have you know he is disgustingly cute

business is slow for sbux

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (L8VMA)

255 215 Is Raul Castro still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma

As much as you can be at his age and situation.

If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.

Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

256 246
And sugar cookies in those metal cans.

Posted by: Danegeld at December 10, 2025 10:54 PM (oftw2)

I thought those all had sewing stuff in them - ours NEVER had cookies!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:05 PM (wLjpr)

Hah! Yeah, I know. Reminds me when I was in Mexico visiting my maternal grandmother and great-grandmother...my Mom said when we heard the music (the popsicle guy, it turned out), she told us NOT to go outside as it was the tax man...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

258 Hey there everyone. Just finished hitting golf balls at an indoor simulator. Now enjoying a frosty cold beverage at the bar. Is it too late to bring one of these simulators in for the party on Saturday?

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (XvF0J)

259 does anybody use venezuelan oil besides US and chinese?
----

Someone earlier today pointed out that their oil is rougher than ours and requires a higher level of refining.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (Cjcf6)

260 Nicholas II was kinda doomed.
His grandfather, Alexander II, was a reformer who liberated the serfs, was still assassinated by radicals despite his liberalism.

So Nicholas’ father, Alexander III, was quite the reactionary after his father was killed and he proceeded to crack down hard on the radicals and revolutionaries for decades.

By the time Nicholas was crowned the die was cast for revolution. WWI pretty much ended any chances things would turn out differently.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (6ydKt)

261 It was the starving children of Cambodia in the early 70s. I remember the TV commercials

radio?

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (L8VMA)

262 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (0Htd1)

I'm so happy for her about that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)

263 when we heard the music (the popsicle guy, it turned out), she told us NOT to go outside as it was the tax man...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

The tax man had a jingle???? In Jordan the music van was for propane tanks!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (wLjpr)

264 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

265 Someone earlier today pointed out that their oil is rougher than ours and requires a higher level of refining.
Posted by: Crusader

yeah its garbage, we and the chinese have the ability to refine such garbage not sure anybody else does

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (L8VMA)

266 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

And she's already been traumatized by Trump calling her fat. I mean, geez, how much should the chunky cow have to endure.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

267 Someone earlier today pointed out that their oil is rougher than ours and requires a higher level of refining.

Yeah. For some reason it's full of sulphur.

Go figure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (COQGW)

268 263 when we heard the music (the popsicle guy, it turned out), she told us NOT to go outside as it was the tax man...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (ynpvh)

The tax man had a jingle???? In Jordan the music van was for propane tanks!

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (wLjpr)

He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

269 It's the Devil's own crude.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (2GVsD)

270 24 ...Oh, and surgery is scheduled for 2:30 pm and should last 3-4 hours if all goes according to plan. So you probably won't get an update from Paul until tomorrow evening sometime - didn't want anyone to worry too soon!

Thank you SO MUCH for all of the prayers - we really do appreciate it! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:07 PM (SRRAx)

Teresa - I'm praying for you (and Paul) now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (0CU3H)

271 Yeah. For some reason it's full of sulphur.

Venezuelan dinosaurs ate a lot of eggs.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (3nLb4)

272 Hey there everyone. Just finished hitting golf balls at an indoor simulator. Now enjoying a frosty cold beverage at the bar. Is it too late to bring one of these simulators in for the party on Saturday?
Posted by: Doof
**********
Sounds good...just as long as someone picks up the Santa suit from the dry cleaners before Saturday at noon. The dry cleaners on Main St, not the one on State St.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

273 His grandfather, Alexander II, was a reformer who liberated the serfs, was still assassinated by radicals despite his liberalism.

His legs got blown off by an anarchist's bomb.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (COQGW)

274 264 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

Oh, THAT'S what Hugo meant when he mentioned the smell of Sulphur while at the podium at the UN...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

275 266 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

And she's already been traumatized by Trump calling her fat. I mean, geez, how much should the chunky cow have to endure.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (0Htd1)

Watch out or she'll go whaling on you...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

276 Yeah Hugo Chavez was smelling his own farts that day.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (2GVsD)

277 On hunger strike, eh?
What would you be having today, shish kabob or en Fuego California burrito? Chef's surprise? OK.

- GITMO Guard

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)

278 Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?

---
I believe the government is untrustworthy. I help people I know. And not all of them. Not everyone is helpable.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (6p0Jv)

279 "The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes"

Hidden musical themes are dumb

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (XvF0J)

280 Hey there everyone. Just finished hitting golf balls at an indoor simulator.

why do you need some simulator, easier to go indoors

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (L8VMA)

281
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

Hmmm...just realized that Mom also told us she never lied...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

282 255 215 Is Raul Castro still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma

As much as you can be at his age and situation.

If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

Blast out TR's face and replace it with Trump on Rushmore.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (0CU3H)

283
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

Dang, your mom was tough! My kids were little when we were in Jordan and asked for money for popsicles when they heard the music. The disappointment that followed when the driver started to hand them a tank of gas...

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (wLjpr)

284 What imposing peak in the lower 48 we can rename Mt. Trump?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (2GVsD)

285 279 "The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes"

Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11

You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

286 That wing toilet is frigging hysterical. I can't stop laughing. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)

287 283
He didn't; she didn't want us clamoring for mexican popsicles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:09 PM (ynpvh)

Dang, your mom was tough! My kids were little when we were in Jordan and asked for money for popsicles when they heard the music. The disappointment that followed when the driver started to hand them a tank of gas...

Posted by: moki at December 10, 2025 11:12 PM (wLjpr)

LOL! The looks on their faces must've been priceless!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

288 If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)
______________________

I'm starting to wonder whether Trump dangled a carrot in front of Marco Rubio. "Look. If you show me complete allegiance, and do what I say rather than whomever was giving you your marching orders before, I'll take a stab at Cuba. Still have relatives down there, don't you?"

Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

289 Sounds good...just as long as someone picks up the Santa suit from the dry cleaners before Saturday at noon. The dry cleaners on Main St, not the one on State St.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

Have we figured out who's wearing said suit?

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (XvF0J)

290 285 279 "The Wednesday ONT has no time for hidden musical themes"

Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11

You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

She has beans?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh)

291 >> What imposing peak in the lower 48 we can rename Mt. Trump?

Hell, let's name Olympus Mons on Mars after him, the biggest mountain in the whole damned solar system...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (w6EFb)

292
Hidden musical themes are dumb
Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:11 PM (XvF0J)

________

"Hey!" - Sir Edward Elgar

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (tgvbd)

293 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

FINGERS CANNOT MELT PUSSY!

Posted by: rosie o'doughnuts at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (AX0w3)

294 264 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

Heh. I remember during the 90s, one of the areas that Clinton made a nature preserve and hence not allowed to be exploited by mining, had a vast field of coal with an ultra LOW sulfur content... which was opposed to the Chinese coal which had a high sulfur content.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (bss/y)

295 yeah its garbage, we and the chinese have the ability to refine such garbage not sure anybody else does
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (L8VMA)

The Cubans probably use it for bunker fuel to power the power stations.
It is also useful for making diesel, which sweet light crude doesn't do so well.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (rbvCR)

296 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 10:55 PM (M4qcY)

Are we at war with any of the participants in this?

Kinda puts the whole US Navy Freedom of the Seas mission in perspective.

We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (mP0Kj)

297 Many of us grew up with the "eat, there's starving children in China (or Africa)" rule.

Back when Nixon first went to China, the Doonesbury character Duke (I think it was, based on Hunter S. Thompson) went with him. They were at a state dinner, and Duke did a great double-take when a mother sitting near him said to her child, "Eat. There are starving children in Appalachia."

Once upon a time, Doonesbury was still funny.

Posted by: mindful webworker - At last as funny as first-season SNL at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (zKAC0)

298 239
Is there any reason why I shouldn't believe Maduro (and Chavez before him) are propped up by the CIA?

Am I being too cynical & paranoid?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:03 PM (H1HTt)

There were rumors (just rumors, no public evidence or public accusations) that the General in charge of the Southern Command, who was forced into early retirement by Hegseth just prior to this all starting, had way too many personal contacts and personal relationships with those running both Venezuela and Columbia.

And on a completely unrelated note, the CFO of the DEA under Obama was just arrested and charged with setting up a multimillion dollar money laundering scheme for the Cartels.
(OH but no he never took money from the cartels while he was part of the DEA's top level, nah why would you think that?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (M4qcY)

299 The Cubans probably use it for bunker fuel to power the power stations.
It is also useful for making diesel, which sweet light crude doesn't do so well.
Posted by: Kin

asphalt

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (L8VMA)

300 293 257 That's what you get for sticking fingers in dykes...
Oh, is that the Netherlands? Nevermind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Rosie O'Donnell is offended by that comment.
Posted by: nerdygirl

FINGERS CANNOT MELT PUSSY!

Posted by: rosie o'doughnuts at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (AX0w3)

The Paolo has his ways...

Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (ynpvh)

301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Beans?

Boobs autocucumber?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (bss/y)

302 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Haha! Nice callback

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (XvF0J)

303 I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper

I've made stained glass cookies a time or two. They came out okay, kind of a pain to make. Snow globe cookies sound...complicated.

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (B1U/i)

304 I wonder, did the US lean on Caracas not to pop Hugo Chavez after his first coup attempt failed?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)

305 291 >> What imposing peak in the lower 48 we can rename Mt. Trump?

Hell, let's name Olympus Mons on Mars after him, the biggest mountain in the whole damned solar system...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (w6EFb)

I dunno. Whenever I hear about Olympus Mons, Mons Pubis pops in my head...

Posted by: The Paolo at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (ynpvh)

306 If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

Carve his face on the moon. Leftists will be forced to see it until the end of the solar system.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 10, 2025 11:16 PM (snZF9)

307 ...off sock...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

308
It makes absolutely No Sense we tolerated Castro to rule an island 90 miles off our shores.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (H1HTt)

309 301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Beans?

Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10

Apparently I caused a ruckus last night and then dipped on the ONT, leaving the mess in my wake to Doof. Some people are just touchy about their fiber, I guess!

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:17 PM (Wmg4n)

310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)

311
I am making snow globe cookies tomorrow. 😂. Stay tuned on it being amazingly cute or amazingly not.
Posted by: Piper

________

If not, you have a mobile garbage disposal to take them off your hands.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (tgvbd)

312 Pammy Anderson, LOL. I liked how Tripping the Rift portrayed her...

https://youtu.be/qLEdrGFQ9nM

Guess, hahahahaha!

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (rdVOm)

313 guessing we're screwing with venezuela, besides the obvious reginal hegemony thing, to fuck with china's access to crude, then off to Argentina so we toss the sat tracking site out.

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (L8VMA)

314 301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)

Beans?

Boobs autocucumber?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (bss/y)

If she was Mexican, that WOULD be an insult. Never insult a Mexican woman's beans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

315 I'm starting to wonder whether Trump dangled a carrot in front of Marco Rubio. "Look. If you show me complete allegiance, and do what I say rather than whomever was giving you your marching orders before, I'll take a stab at Cuba. Still have relatives down there, don't you?"
Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)

Marco has always had it in for Castroagonia, I think that was why he was a neocon to begin with. It is part and parcel to being a Cuban in Florida. The end of Communist Cuba was probably his ask.
Rubio is going to give a speech in the Plaza de la Revolucion to announce the new, free Cuba if he has anything to say about it,

It was pointed out to me that Rubio is the most powerful SoS since Kissinger. That is not by accident on anyone's part

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:19 PM (rbvCR)

316
I've made stained glass cookies a time or two. They came out okay, kind of a pain to make. Snow globe cookies sound...complicated.
Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered

I know. I don’t know why I get myself into these things.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:20 PM (Wmg4n)

317 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
Posted by: Romeo13

They made the rules. And yes, they're at war with us.

Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:20 PM (Y8DZL)

318 I am off to bed. I will do a cookie update tomorrow.

Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (Wmg4n)

319 Night Piper.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)

320 Teresa - prayers up!

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 10, 2025 11:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

321 Here is something that caught me by surprise.

Back in 2020, the IIRG was going to kidnap an American citizen who was born in Iran, stuff her on a boat, take her to Venezuela, and then fly her to Tehran to make her vanish.

Luckily the FBI was not asleep this time or working for the other side. They stopped the plot by relocating the woman.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

322 Cookies...I remember at one workplace a vendor had left us cookies, and I mean GIANT cookies: about 8" diameter cookies. One mechanical engineer was looking at the one on his plate and loudly commented, "Look at the size of THOSE cookies!" just as a female programmer walked by...she apparently thought he was talking about her chest...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

323 301 You know what else is dumb? Pamela Anderson’s hair and beans.
Posted by: Piper at December 10, 2025 11:13 PM (Wmg4n)
Beans?
Boobs autocucumber?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Thank you for that. I was trying to figure out what "beans" was a euphemism for.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (0Htd1)

324 How did people not see Bing Crosby as a dysfunctional old alcoholic dad? I hate watching his movies.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (6p0Jv)

325 asphalt
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:15 PM (L8VMA)

I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

326 I need to snooze also. Ciao.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

327 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (mP0Kj)

What we are doing right now is telling the entire world that WE rule the seas now, and they do not. Sure Iran, go ahead and FA ; your FO is coming.

Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (4IClK)

328 Prayers, Teresa.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (ynpvh)

329 Night Anna Puma.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (ynpvh)

330 The police scanner incident with the transformer reminds me of something that happened to me. There was a thunderstorm in the area and there was a flash of lightning, simultaneous crack of thunder and my power goes out. I call the local power company and tell them that lightning hit the transformer across the street. They ask how I know. I explain that there was lightning, simultaneous thunder, my power is out and the transformer across the street is on fire and there is black smoke pouring off it. I tell them that I am guessing a bit about the lightning hitting the transformer but the fact it is on fire seems relevant. They laughed and promised a service truck as soon as possible.

Posted by: JB1000 at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (tLjC6)

331 I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kin

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (L8VMA)

332 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
----

Its pretty easy once you embrace that announced wars don't come even close to the number of enemies that are already actively working against you.

And I could complain about Iran putting plastics into a regular garbage can--I look forward to the day its referred to again as "Persia".

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:24 PM (Cjcf6)

333
Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (4IClK)

Nietzche was a cat?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:25 PM (ynpvh)

334
House dogs given a last turnout, kennel dogs put up and fed, evening prayers said. Good night, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 10, 2025 11:25 PM (tgvbd)

335 317 We are now using Military power to blatantly interfere in the economies of countries we are not at War with... How can we complain about Iran grabbing oil Tankers, when we are doing the exact same thing?
Posted by: Romeo13

They made the rules. And yes, they're at war with us.
Posted by: Auspex
---

Yes. Be done with formalities and take them over. Or, in cases like Ukraine, disassociate from them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (CnLH3)

336 Both Cuba and Venezuela are tottering on the edge of collapse. I think it was Nietzche who said that anything ready to fall deserves to be pushed.

he's great in theory, otherwise not so much

Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (L8VMA)

337 Migawd. Raimundo has achieved Variety-Speak!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:27 PM (rbvCR)

338 Night Hadrian

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)

339 Take Cuba and develop it, not as a state but as a property. It would make a beautiful tourist destination.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:28 PM (CnLH3)

340 Toilet bomb on a Skyraider flying from the Big E, USS Enterprise. For model airplane builders, its available to add to a scale model airplane. Thanks for a great post!

Posted by: KungPow at December 10, 2025 11:29 PM (Rw2Dy)

341 I think I'll retire for the evening as well. Gotta start prepping for my surgery Monday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 10, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

342 I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

That sounds like some of the Venezuelan fields, too. People who say "Venezuela has more oil than the Saudis" don't understand that a lot of it is thick hard to deal with glop like that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:30 PM (4IClK)

343 2 I think I'll retire for the evening as well. Gotta start prepping for my surgery Monday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

God Bless. May your surgery go well

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary is a sad Cockney orphan at December 10, 2025 11:31 PM (6p0Jv)

344 Have we figured out who's wearing said suit?
Posted by: Doof
**************
Excellent question, but way above my pay grade. Night all....

Posted by: The Grateful at December 10, 2025 11:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

345 His grandfather, Alexander II, was a reformer who liberated the serfs, was still assassinated by radicals despite his liberalism.
-----

His legs got blown off by an anarchist's bomb.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 10, 2025 11:10 PM (COQGW)

Lenin's brother was hanged in the aftermath of that assassination. Some say it helped radicalize ol' Vlad. That's not something easily dismissed.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)

346 Good evening morons e grazie Dino

I absolutely love polynike's painting on top. Energy, color, and creativity. *chef's kiss*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (A0sqA)

347 Thank you for that. I was trying to figure out what "beans" was a euphemism for.
Posted by: nerdygirl

It was a euphemism for beans, believe it or not. Previous ONT wanderings included the health benefits of beans, after the Content included record-breaking farts.

And also Pamela Anderson.

Though it should have been George Wendt.

Posted by: mikeski at December 10, 2025 11:32 PM (nhCoE)

348 he's great in theory, otherwise not so much
Posted by: n at December 10, 2025 11:26 PM (L8VMA)

"The difference between theory and practice; well in theory there isn't any. But in practice, there is."

- Yogi Berra

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:34 PM (4IClK)

349 Hello Horde, praying for you, Teresa.

JQ, I will grab the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, no worries. How did things go with your BIL?

Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 11:35 PM (0nHVk)

350 DataRepublican has a lot of stuff about Venezuela if you search her posts.

She calls it the hub of all sorts of anti-US subversion, foreign (China being a big one) and domestic (they support Antifa, and Soros shit).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 11:36 PM (w6EFb)

351 TIFW
Hitting my knees for ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 10, 2025 11:37 PM (2WIwB)

352 If Trump topples the Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships there is no mountain high enough to make a marble bust of him out of.
Posted by: Auspex at December 10, 2025 11:06 PM (Y8DZL)

Blast out TR's face and replace it with Trump on Rushmore.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Crazy Horse would work.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (/lPRQ)

353 Apparently New Jersey has a "medically assisted suicide" law now?

You know what's not "medical"? "Assisting" people commit suicide. Every damned individual who lifted a finger to make this happen deserves a lot more than just being called out for it.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)

354 Once upon a time, Doonesbury was still funny.
Posted by: mindful webworker - At last as funny as first-season SNL at December 10, 2025 11:14 PM (zKAC0)

I remember one from the Sunday funny pages in the 1990s.

It had the college prof guy talking to a class about what would be required.

He said 10 years ago, it was 7 books and two papers. 5 years ago it was 4 books and a paper. This year is 1 book.

A kid in the back stood up and said, 'I have to read a book? I'm outta here.'

Yep, it could still be funny.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (gKDq2)

355 Hello Horde, praying for you, Teresa.

JQ, I will grab the Santa suit at the dry cleaners, no worries. How did things go with your BIL?

Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Thanks, DDS! You're a life-saver!

Hmm. Can never go wrong with a crockpot of Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce. I'll bring that.

*Chivas rocks for Debby*

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:41 PM (rdVOm)

356 "310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"

I kinda had that idea first you bastards!

Posted by: Chainface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)

357 enator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen . 7h

As Trump continues to manufacture a cover story for armed conflict with Venezuela, I'm calling on Congress to block him from using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war.
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Before the communists took over Venezuela was a jewel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:43 PM (CnLH3)

358 Damnedable autocorrect!

Posted by: Chairface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:43 PM (ZfTMG)

359 Debby-- all's well with BIL. He's fixed up & headed home. I did *not* need to drive out there today. Thank God. Roads are good and weather is unseasonably warm, so it wouldn't have been SO bad, but I'm no longer the Road Queen of my misspent youth, haha.

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:45 PM (rdVOm)

360 Well, this has been a busy buzzy ONT chat. Gotta go now. Can't wake up in the morning if I don't go to sleep.

See you later. In time.
https://youtu.be/52Imasc8Zw8

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - all in due time, my dear, all in due time at December 10, 2025 11:45 PM (zKAC0)

361 Hmm. Can never go wrong with a crockpot of Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce. I'll bring that.
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I earnestly believe God Himself has a sense of humor. I also believe, with no basis, that God sometimes despite being God is mildly surprised with what we humans come up with. I think God Himself's first reaction to Lil Smokies in BBQ sauce was "Ok...I didn't see that one coming...its way better than I imagined."

Forgive me for my heresy.

Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:46 PM (Cjcf6)

362 'Night, mindful!

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:46 PM (rdVOm)

363 Grok, Democrat foreign interventions beginning 1993, Bill Clinton forward.

https://tinyurl.com/ym2xndwu

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:48 PM (CnLH3)

364 Forgive me for my heresy.
Posted by: Crusader
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I think you made a fair point... Uh-oh...

(not Catholic, but maybe I should *confess* anyway?)

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)

365 enator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen . 7h

As Trump continues to manufacture a cover story for armed conflict with Venezuela, I'm calling on Congress to block him from using taxpayer dollars to launch a regime change war.
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Cover story? So many anti-American politicians in Congress.

And this mf'er can tweet that with a straight face wihile voting to send Ukraine billions more on top of the 140 billion we've already given. Ukraine who completed a coup with our help.

Talk about cover stories.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 10, 2025 11:50 PM (KDPiq)

366 354 Apparently New Jersey has a "medically assisted suicide" law now?

You know what's not "medical"? "Assisting" people commit suicide. Every damned individual who lifted a finger to make this happen deserves a lot more than just being called out for it.
Posted by: Crusader at December 10, 2025 11:39 PM (Cjcf6)
____________________

Well now...that explains something I was curious about. NJ recently had an aggressive effort to push through legislation that would change the state from an "Opt In" organ donation to "Opt-Out" organ donation.

What this means is currently you have to sign up to donate organs. But, in changing to Opt-Out, you would be required to remove yourself from default donation.

Why is this important? Well, consider that Canada has the MAID program for assisted suicide. Canada now leads the world in organ donations resulting from Euthanasia. There is mucho dinero to be made on organ donation from a bunch of different parties. Opt Out increases the "stock"...so once again...follow the money, and you have your ghoul.

Posted by: Orson at December 10, 2025 11:51 PM (dIske)

367 Not to go all QDoba, but this is interesting article from the Max Planck Society

Reddit field experiment examines what distinguishes lurkers from power users

https://tinyurl.com/5ddvmet7

Online discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while the majority remain silent. This imbalance can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization. The question is to understand why a small minority are highly active while the majority remain silent—and what that means for perceptions of public opinion.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:52 PM (rbvCR)

368 Ace and Musk have retweeted this fellow.

Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal . 6h
"CHINA'S CARIBBEAN OIL REFINERY IS THE REAL REASON TRUMP IS CIRCLING VENEZUELA WITH CARRIER GROUPS"

China built a massive refinery in the Caribbean to process Venezuela's ultra-heavy crude after U.S. sanctions.

Now Beijing refines it on-site, skips the Atlantic crossing, and pockets the profit.

Ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou just dropped the quiet part out loud on stream:

"If you want to know when America is serious about attacking a country, always watch for naval movements.

A month ago, I said 'no invasion of Venezuela' because we hadn't sent one. Then the USS Gerald R. Ford and 11 warships showed up.

Now we're serious

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:53 PM (CnLH3)

369 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 10, 2025 10:05 PM (SRRAx)

I'm praying it goes well, Teresa.

Posted by: GWB at December 10, 2025 11:53 PM (01WzZ)

370 https://youtu.be/mgD1kBRLh5k

Posted by: JQ at December 10, 2025 11:54 PM (rdVOm)

371 Seems like everybody is making cookies, I'll bring a pot of meatballs and a big tray of chicken wings on Saturday.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 10, 2025 11:35 PM (0nHVk)

DDS -- Hello!!

Posted by: Doof at December 10, 2025 11:55 PM (Wc8sE)

372 357 "310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"

I kinda had that idea first you bastards!
Posted by: Chainface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)

Give me a 'C'!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:56 PM (xcxpd)

373 That6h could part of the answer to Kindletot's question.

Now we're serious.

We're not at war with Venezuela. We don't buy their oil anymore. The drugs transiting Venezuela are Colombian/Ecuadorian headed to Europe, not America.The Indians and the Chinese built new refineries to handle Venezuelan oil, and they ship the oil there.

The Chinese are swimming in money.

They decided instead of shipping the Venezuelan oil all the way to China, they'll just build the refinery in the Caribbean, refine it right there, and ship it out from the Caribbean.

And the United States doesn't like that."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 10, 2025 11:57 PM (CnLH3)

374 Lest we forget, Hugo Chavez nationalized the oil industry and surrounded the 14 billion dollar Exxon Mobil oil refinery with military personnel, and gave them 120 days to get the fuck out of the county. I wonder how many Americans are ignorant of this fact? 99.9% I would guess!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:00 AM (CnLH3)

375 The question is to understand why a small minority are highly active while the majority remain silent—and what that means for perceptions of public opinion.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:52 PM (rbvCR)

This isn't difficult: The small minority are highly active because we're mouthy. It's not bloody rocket science.

Posted by: RickZ at December 11, 2025 12:00 AM (gKDq2)

376 Here is something that caught me by surprise.

Back in 2020, the IIRG was going to kidnap an American citizen who was born in Iran, stuff her on a boat, take her to Venezuela, and then fly her to Tehran to make her vanish.

Luckily the FBI was not asleep this time or working for the other side. They stopped the plot by relocating the woman.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Iran has Magic Dirt too.
I did not know that.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 11, 2025 12:01 AM (/lPRQ)

377 Itinerant Alley Butcher, I love the idea of repurposing the Crazy Horse rock carving. Has that ever reached completion?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:04 AM (0nHVk)

378 My wife took all of the left over Halloween candy and made cookies, Snicker, Twix, M&M's Million Dollar Bars, Reeses PBC, etc.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 11, 2025 12:06 AM (XV/Pl)

379 Well hey, Doof, can I buy you a drink?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)

380 @DOGEai_tx . 6h
...
The Regarding Venezuela, US naval deployments aren't about regime change—they're enforcing hemispheric sovereignty under the Monroe Doctrine 2.0.

China's refinery gambit in the Caribbean is economic warfare, exploiting Venezuela's collapsed state to bypass sanctions and control energy flows. Every barrel processed there funds Beijing's aggression and cartel pipelines poisoning our streets.

Strategic deterrence isn't optional; it's essential to prevent hostile powers from turning our backyard into a launchpad for chaos. Weakness invites predation—strength secures peace.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:08 AM (CnLH3)

381
I think Trump (and Rubio -- he's a big player in this, too) want to do a regime change without firing a shot.

Venezuela is a hub for all sorts of anti-US subversion by our enemies, Chicoms, Iran, globohomo, etc. This is Trump asserting the Monroe Doctrine, call it the Donroe Doctrine. Stay out of our hemisphere, you fuckers.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

382 Wasn't it Jessie Jackson who rather hilariously introduced the notion of a "serial" hinger strike (I'll go without eating lunch, and then you go without eating dinner, etc)?

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:10 AM (2L+MU)

383 Best wishes, Teresa. God bless you and yours, and speed you to a full recovery.

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:11 AM (2L+MU)

384 382 "hunger" not "hinger".

Sigh...Measure twice, cut once.

Posted by: Paco at December 11, 2025 12:12 AM (2L+MU)

385 Well hey, Doof, can I buy you a drink?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)

I'd be honored. Bourbon. Neat. Highest proof they have here tonight!

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 12:12 AM (Wc8sE)

386 *Wild Turkey 101 for Doof*

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)

387 Smartest thing Central and South American countries can do is, get with the program.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:16 AM (CnLH3)

388 jim - prayers up for Wonderful Monday ...

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 12:17 AM (3ZUWJ)

389

John Candy had a bit on an old episode of SCTV where he was going to eat continuously until there was peace in the Middle East.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 12:19 AM (pkeXY)

390 *Wild Turkey 101 for Doof*
Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:15 AM (rdVOm)

*nods and smiles*

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 12:19 AM (Wc8sE)

391 372 357 "310 His face on the Moon?

Trump, "Hey Elon can you build a giant solar pumped laser in space?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:18 PM (2GVsD)"

I kinda had that idea first you bastards!
Posted by: Chairface Chipendale at December 10, 2025 11:42 PM (ZfTMG)

Give me a 'C'!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 10, 2025 11:56 PM (xcxpd)

Makes me proud that my then 12 year old son wanted to be Chairface for Halloween last year even though no one at school would get it. Unfortunately, met by my wife's Tick strenghed eye-roll and 'No'...

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 11, 2025 12:20 AM (ZfTMG)

392 Just reading that while Cuba has publicly condemned the imperial US military build up, they are privately talking about "what the region will look like without Maduro".

They've already got the message.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 10, 2025 10:57 PM (w6EFb)

I think Trump could pull Cuba out of Communism. Practice some heavy-duty carrot and stick diplomacy with Cuba's current leaders. Offer them safe haven in the USA if they abandon Communism, and hold "free" elections to put a Trump-approved figure in control. Then back the new guy to the hilt with money and supplies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:26 AM (npFr7)

393 Anybody a fan of Centerville Pies ?

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 12:29 AM (3ZUWJ)

394 yRusty, my oldest went as Buddy Ryan when he was in the 4th grade, nobody got it, but he was happy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:30 AM (0nHVk)

395 Venezuelan crude IIRC has a very high Sulphur content.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 10, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)

More effort to refine it, but the pure sulfur byproduct is an important industrial feedstock, and has market value. There used to be giant blocks of sulfur next to gas plants in Alberta that processed "sour" gas into sweet gas. Gone now; the sulfur was all sold.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:32 AM (npFr7)

396
Well, well. Sweden's Princess Sophia has an Epstein connection:

https://is.gd/76vR38

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (w6EFb)

397 The Monroe Doctrine is definitely in play here based on China instead of European powers interfering in the Caribbean /Latin America hemisphere.

Posted by: No Soup For you !! at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (KDPiq)

398 *clocks out*

G'night, horde. It's been a very long day.

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)

399 I suggested El Seed, since he had an actual head. But no, years of crazy costumes finally broke my wife.

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at December 11, 2025 12:35 AM (ZfTMG)

400 Off soup Nazi sock

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 12:35 AM (KDPiq)

401 That was supposed to be tRusty, but I occasionally have very fat fingers here late a night, I am noticing real changes with my vision as I get older.

Doof, the honor is mine, and thanks for the h/t the other day, made me smile.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 12:36 AM (0nHVk)

402 Well, I guess I'm done for the night. It's bourbon time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 12:38 AM (snZF9)

403 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:32 AM (npFr7)

We have a city in SW Louisiana named Sulphur . Yes sulphur was once mined there.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 11, 2025 12:39 AM (KDPiq)

404 I saw a vid that supposedly of the outflow of a Cuban oil well. It was so thick that the workers standing at the end of the pipe were cutting it with machetes as it came out like it was some unending can of jellied cranberry sauce.

Funny, but I had no way of telling what it actually was.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 10, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

I was on a job with a Canadian drilling engineer who worked some wells in Cuba, and he told me about witnessing that. Some of the Cuban wells tap reservoirs in porous volcanic rock that were fed from hydrocarbon-rich shales out in the basin.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:39 AM (npFr7)

405 Make the Western Hemisphere Great Again.

Exxon is the only US refinery that cracks Venezuelan tar.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:42 AM (CnLH3)

406 That sounds like some of the Venezuelan fields, too. People who say "Venezuela has more oil than the Saudis" don't understand that a lot of it is thick hard to deal with glop like that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 10, 2025 11:30 PM (4IClK)

The oil in the Athabaska "tar" sands is like that too. Took a huge capital investment to build the mines, and separating plants, and the upgrader that hydrogenates the heavy crude, and makes a lighter sweet crude with it, but the resource is so huge, it was worth the effort.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:43 AM (npFr7)

407 Dear Santa,

I want a Joe Diffie mullet for Christmas. I'll leave some cookies and moonshine out for you and Leroy.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 12:48 AM (1zOXE)

408 Smartmatic voting machines were invented by Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate, who founded the company in 2000. They initially focused on developing secure voting technology in response to the challenges faced during the 2000 U.S. presidential election
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Smartmatic was founded in 2000 by three engineers: Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola, and Roger Piñate, who are Venezuelan. However, Smartmatic is now a UK-based company

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:54 AM (CnLH3)

409 The Independents Dilemma@IndieDilemma . 10m

Trump wants all the Smartmatic and Dominion voting machine corruption exposed before the 2026 election so the Dems can't cheat as much anymore!

Venezuela was the center of that as the Smartmatic machines were set up in order for Maduro to steal his elections( which he did in the last election, look it up) and then they used them in the USA

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 12:54 AM (CnLH3)

410 I want a Joe Diffie mullet for Christmas. I'll leave some cookies and moonshine out for you and Leroy.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 11, 2025 12:48 AM (1zOXE)

I'm sure some here would just settle for hair for Christmas, no special cut needed.

Posted by: RickZ at December 11, 2025 12:55 AM (gKDq2)

411 I got told the 'the starving children in Africa' sob story in the 1960s.

Posted by: RickZ at December 10, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

It became true after Sally Struthers showed up there...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 11, 2025 01:06 AM (l5srl)

412 2006 CNN REPORT of voting machine FRAUD using Smartmatic/Dominion voting machines in VENEZUELA.

This is the real focus of us being in Venezuela. They helped OVERTHROW OUR GOVT AND 71 OTHERS
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https://tinyurl.com/yk3hae74

youtube.com/watch?v=PJpjrgPrdHY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 01:07 AM (CnLH3)

413 Well, past 2300 here. Going to call it a night. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 01:11 AM (npFr7)

414 'Night AOP and JQ and Horde, I need to be horizontal, at least until the sinuses kick in. I am going to enjoy a few last sips and sit and behold my Christmas tree.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)

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