Thursday Overnight Open Thread - December 11, 2025 [scampydog]

Welcome to the Thursday night ONT. Thank you for braving the traffic and holiday crowds to be here - the best place on the internet to spend your Thursday evening.

Been about a year since my first ONT post (with CBD patiently doing all the back end work - I figured it out eventually).

Your regular host, Doof, is in parts unknown - not saying he is on a secret mission, he will be back soon with a proper alibi.

Before we get started, please grab a snack and a second look at your therapy pamphlet.

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The year is almost over. Time for the fourth quarter, lurker roll call. Comment section is mostly bite free this evening. Let's hear from you lurkers.

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Lens flare pictures - occasionally chance deliver a beautiful shot. Here is a lovely one sent along by AoSHQ commenter, nurse ratched.

Nice collection of lens flare pictures here.

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Undergrounds - plenty of interesting and historical visits out there. Have you roamed any?

Dixia Cheng, Beijing, China. The whole communist, totalitarian side of this is fascinating. Build, deny, reveal, conceal, deny (again), obfuscate.

Built 1969 - 1979 as a bomb shelter - they were worried about the Soviets (how things change). It is beneath Beijing and has somewhere between 33 to 53 square miles of tunnels - near Tiananmen Square (Walz was not there). A decade or so of black market living quarters, eventually squashed by the government. Much of the system/network of tunnels is now sealed off and closed to the public.

The subterranean world of Dixia Cheng consists of a network of tunnels and chambers under Beijing that stretches across 33 square miles of underground catacombs. Also named the “Underground Great Wall” for its vastness and military purpose, the tunnel complex was dug by hand by local citizens throughout the 1970s to serve as a shelter during invasions, air raids, or nuclear attacks. At the height of its readiness, there were more than 90 entrances to the underground corridors which were hidden in the backs of homes and businesses.
Civilians seeking shelter from Soviet bombardments in the underground complex would have been safe from boredom as well as bombs. Classrooms were constructed for the children living in the underground city, and recreational amenities like a movie theater, barber shops, restaurants, and a roller skating rink were all awaiting a potential flood of refugees. Chambers in auxiliary tunnels held grain, weapons, and other supplies. The underground city also held sites for growing sunless crops like mushrooms and areas prepared for well drilling.

Pendleton, OR. Way back days Pendleton boasted a lot of bars, 18 brothels, and what is now an underground (sounds Moron worthy).

Pendleton used to be known as the entertainment capital of Eastern Oregon, and with thirty two bars and eighteen brothels, it's easy to see why this was a hot spot of the old west.

Another 37 undergrounds across the world.

How about some of those catacombs in Europe?

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ONT Relatable

Blame the distractingly attractive person you sat next to in Biology for your forgetfulness.

For anyone whose little(s) brought homework home expecting your help / decades old brilliance: which subjects betrayed you? Logarithms perhaps? Prompting a response of, "I'll drop you off early tomorrow. Go meet with your teacher."

Logarithms. This helps.

Simple, yet amusing.

A mathematician explains the uniqueness of the number 6174 pic.twitter.com/lxgJvypaCO
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) November 18, 2025

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Leaning into the education topic

A few links for your perusal and feedback.

Plyler v. Doe. A lot of left leaning articles out there.

Send this decision back up the ladder.

At least one state is currently proposing action to limit undocumented students’ access to a free, public education. Recent efforts to challenge Plyler in five other states have been paused or failed, according to an Education Week analysis. At least one state has enacted protections of this right.

Keep poking.

Dear Anonymous Professor:
You are profoundly detached from the real issues affecting us, our families, our country, and the world today.

Pour a drink. This will validate what makes you grumpy. Better reading is deeper in the article. Bookmark for later if interested.

Across a large swath of academe, teaching is perceived as a burden to be endured. Faculty bemoan heavy teaching loads. Prized faculty teach light loads, with courses “bought out” by research grants or fellowships. (Deans and department chairs similarly negotiate for reduced teaching loads.) In short, a lighter teaching load is a badge of professional success.

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This administration continues to savage the legacy media. What's not to love about that?

The White House page of Media Offender of the Week. Scroll to the bottom of the page. From there you can click the various page numbers. They're calling out: The Claim, publication, reporter, and category.

THE OFFENSE
The Washington Post’s Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima published an article from two unnamed sources claiming Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a Joint Special Operations commander to “kill everybody” during an anti-terrorist operation in the Caribbean Sea.

THE TRUTH
The Department of War killed 11 narco-terrorists in a coordinated strike designed to “kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people.” This attack was the first in a series of lethal kinetic strikes against Designated Terrorist Organizations. The Washington Post published this unsubstantiated claim in an attempt to discredit the United States’ warfighters and inflame anti-American sentiment.

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Spent entirely too much time on this section. What a rabbit hole.

A four act musical tour. So many songs are written around love and relationships - could link a hundred for each act. Let's take a tour through the highs, lows, and the magic of it. Use link shortener if pasting songs in comments - don't blow out the margins!

Sparks Fly. Music and new love? The first few weeks were always exciting. Pure dopamine, everything electric.

Slow Hands - Niall Horan

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Red Flag Phase. After a few weeks, sometimes things didn't go as planned. Hints that perfection may not be grounded. Eyebrow raising moments.

Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash

Sex as a Weapon - Pat Benatar

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The Real Thing.Time and making it past phase two comes the, "Holy crap, this might be the real thing phase!"

Still the One - Orleans

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

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And when things really didn't go well.

She Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd

Ex's and Oh's - Elle King

Was going to add Buck Cherry here. Reconsidered.

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Silly season. Why not.

You'll find me at house #2...🎶😊

You? pic.twitter.com/Ji4swxrWQT
— Amy (@20th_Centurygal) November 29, 2025

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The jesters and confused ones are always trying to box in the patriot.

How did Nutcrackers Become a Christmas Tradition?

Meet Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner

Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner (1844-1923), hailing from the quaint town of Seiffen in the Ore Mountains of Germany, is known worldwide as the “Father of the Nutcracker.” For good reason, as he created the world’s first mass-produced nutcracker around 1870 with a water-powered lathe, revolutionizing the craft and saving himself from the laborious task of carving each statue by hand.

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Christmas traditions. Plenty in the scampyhouse. Favorite: Kids can get after their stocking whenever they awake. The presents wait until the cinny rolls are baked and mom has a cup of coffee. What are your traditions, Horde?

Track Santa
Come Christmas Eve, it's time to track Santa Claus as he delivers presents! Kiddos can use a computer or phone to follow Santa's journey from the North Pole, thanks to the free tracker from NORAD. The suspense is just magical!

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This ONT brought to you by: Wrapping presents.

Madonna Cones picture taken from elsewhere - unknown who to credit

More wrapping fails.

Tip of the cap.

⚠️ Warning. This is not a drill. pic.twitter.com/wi1Q9IAesi
— ☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ (@LuckyMcGee) December 6, 2025

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1 Girth!

Posted by: Plumbers at December 11, 2025 10:00 PM (DsA2n)

2 Good Evening

Posted by: French Jeton at December 11, 2025 10:00 PM (j0T5y)

3 Hey, Scampy!

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:01 PM (77rzZ)

4 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:01 PM (zZu0s)

5 Evening, Bulg.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (41CYW)

6 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:02 PM (lUFok)

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Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:05 PM (K+a/1)

8 Scampy! Thank you for this. I love the norad tracker. To this day, I make all 3 of my kiddos check in on it with me. I am the most excited. You can move him around and see different angles! It’s great!

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)

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That idiot Steven Tyler just says random words, and, what's worse, is they barely rhyme.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (K+a/1)

10 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (C26rB)

11 The Washington Post’s Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima published an article from two unnamed sources claiming Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a Joint Special Operations commander to “kill everybody” during an anti-terrorist operation in the Caribbean Sea.

Even if this had been verbatim what he said, I don't have a problem with it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)

12 Chicken in a Biscuit are really underrated crackers. I used them as soup crackers and they were great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:07 PM (zZu0s)

13 Evening all!

Posted by: caf at December 11, 2025 10:07 PM (qS/Xm)

14 Doggo! Seiffen? That is a favorite spot for TRex and I. Amazing part of the world, modernized but not totally.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 11, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

15 Good evening Horde and thank you Doggo!

Posted by: TRex - nutcracker dino says ouch! at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

16 Don't think any of those house parties would have an upright bass so I'll just stay here, thanks.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (3nLb4)

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Meanwhile, the great Motorhead is with the Judas Priest fags....

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (K+a/1)

18 All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:05 PM (K+a/1)

Hole in My Soul is underrated.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (zZu0s)

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Uh, can you repeat all that?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 10:08 PM (tgvbd)

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People like different things.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:09 PM (3ek7K)

21 Silly season. Why not.

House #3 will have the best music, overall.

Though the music at #1 is pretty close.

AC/DC and Journey overwhelm the good bands at house #2.

But most of the chicks are at houses #2 and #4, so I may have to re-think my priorities.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 10:10 PM (nhCoE)

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Even if this had been verbatim what he said, I don't have a problem with it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)

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*KABOOOOM!!!*

"You have the right to remain silent..."

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

23 Evening, all.

Miss Linda came over, I fed her (two eggs, some toast and butter). She spent an hour or two curled around her phone, nothing new there, and announced at eight that she needed to go home. I exhorted her to take some meds for her cold and to be sure to eat something tomorrow morning.

She hates taking even small pills, has an almost indetectable pulse, can't tell me what kind of pain she has when she complains of one, and refuses to eat when she is sick. If I were a doctor and had a bunch of patients as difficult to deal with, I'd be thinking about changing careers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:11 PM (wzUl9)

24 Sorry I'm late, my unicycle needed its handlebars re-aligned.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (rk+24)

25 I am in music group #2, except please remove Rush, KISS, Queen and BOC

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

26 People like different things.

Did you miss the last thread? This is not allowed. Everyone must like what I like or they are wrong if not actually unfit to live in polite society.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (3nLb4)

27 14 Doggo! Seiffen? That is a favorite spot for TRex and I. Amazing part of the world, modernized but not totally.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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Cool! Was interesting reading over here - not visited.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (41CYW)

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Oddbob,

Lol!

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (3ek7K)

29 I hope the northwest morons are staying dry in the face of the flooding that I hear is happening.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (VmDLh)

30 Doggo!🐕
No.2 house party for me...

Back to content - it looks mighty girthy!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (5lbLe)

31 Rock Party #2.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (rk+24)

32 That charcuterie board needs a pimento, artfully placed

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

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Everyone must like what I like or they are wrong if not actually unfit to live in polite society.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (3nLb4)

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My Xyler is allergic to peanuts, so nobody can have peanuts.

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

34 Did you miss the last thread? This is not allowed. Everyone must like what I like or they are wrong if not actually unfit to live in polite society.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:12 PM (3nLb4)

Exactly. Good day, Mr Poopy Head!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

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Ugh, forecast has another stupid arctic blast coming down here. Forecast low of 17F for Sunday-Monday morning.

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

36 For the last one, you gotta click through to see the uncropped picture for it make sense.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:14 PM (3nLb4)

37 Wolfus, best wishes for Linda.

Where does she stand on the move to Indiana?

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)

38 Hiya Scampy! Thank you for the ONT.
On a more serious note, with regard to the top pic.
Please don't post anymore photos of my house.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (TfUTr)

39 A huge underground complex for continuity of government was secretly (kinda) built under the Greenbrier in Virginia. Some of the contractors at the time realized something was up due to insane quantities of concrete and re-bar being ordered, far in excess than would be required for remodeling or renovation.

It has a huge blastproof reinforced vault like door, underground house chambers, cafeteria, medical facilities, sleeping quarters, the whole nine yards for congress to continue operating.

What was strange was some clown reporter for a magazine revealed the existence of the facility, and that was the end of it, gazillions of dollars wasted. They should have sent that fucker to prison for 80 years just on general principles.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (OtFdX)

40 Liked the Christmas wrapping fails. My favorite is the one that with Happy Birthday paper and "Jesus" written with a black sharpie on the paper beneath "Happy Birthday."

Posted by: TRex - wrapping dino, not rapping dino at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

41 I wouldn't be interested in going to any of the four rock/metal house parties. Well, okay, when I was twenty, and was fairly sure there'd be booze and good-looking girls there (both pretty much a lock, I know).

Shatteringly loud rhythmic noise (note I don't say "music") and men screaming into a microphone as if being tortured have never been a magnet for me without a lot of other attractions, such as those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:15 PM (wzUl9)

42

House #2

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 10:16 PM (pkeXY)

43 Underground cities.
Nice collection there. I have to add Underground Seattle, The Portland, OR Shanghai Tunnels and the secret cave fortifications inside Mt Gibraltar.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 11, 2025 10:16 PM (aNX55)

44 IF I could pick the songs, I'd be at House Party #2.

But otherwise there would be FAR too many crappy post-1978 Aerosmith songs, cheesy Boston love songs, AC/DC songs that are way overplayed (like Thunderstruck) and lacking in the deeper cuts by Kiss and the great stuff from the Ace Frehley era and instead propped up by Kiss stuff that sucked.

Put me at House Party #1. And whatever idiot referred to Judas Priest in a derogatory manner never owned British Steel or Stained Class or Screaming for Vengeance or Killing Machine or Point of Entry. Metal circles would laugh you out of their presence.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:16 PM (Cjcf6)

45 House #2. Put the Led Zep on loop.

The stacked presents was a good one.

Posted by: clarence at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (JwHY3)

46 I'll be out the in the back forty with Del McCoury, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Sam Bush, Sierra Hull, and Billy Strings, who will be closing the show and inviting everybody back on stage for the last several numbers.

Yee haw.

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (98kQX)

47 38 Hiya Scampy! Thank you for the ONT.
On a more serious note, with regard to the top pic.
Please don't post anymore photos of my house.
Posted by: Some Rat
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*Checks top pic* So my dad knew where you lived (his photography)? Cool!

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (41CYW)

48 I apologize again for my querulousness on the previous thread.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:17 PM (77rzZ)

49 Wolfus, best wishes for Linda.

Where does she stand on the move to Indiana?
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025

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I haven't brought it up recently. First there was T-giving, then her birthday, and Xmas is coming. She no doubt is hoping I've changed my mind despite my frequent comments that "I hate this place." I'm hoping against hope and without evidence that she has changed hers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (wzUl9)

50 Happy-ish Thursday Evening …

Marvelously wrapped ONT!

Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Planes Be Not Yet Circling the House Critic . . . at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (3ZUWJ)

51 Undergound Seattle was in the second Night Stalker movie.

Atlanta had an undergound scene off and on for years.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (pkeXY)

52 Actually any of the houses would be all right because none of them have:

-fucking Green Day
-Counting fucking Crowes
-Cranberries or Natalie Merchant

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (zZu0s)

53 I hope the northwest morons are staying dry in the face of the flooding that I hear is happening.
Posted by: Cybersmythe

Appreciate that, considering it's the worst flooding in the freaking history of the world.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (TfUTr)

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That idiot Steven Tyler just says random words, and, what's worse, is they barely rhyme.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (K+a/1)

He sired Liv Tyler into this world. He can shout scatological beat poetry to bongos and he belongs in a Hall of Fame somewhere.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (pIfcn)

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Saying sorry is for homos & Hot Air.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (K+a/1)

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at December 11, 2025 10:19 PM (DF+jF)

57 52 Actually any of the houses would be all right because none of them have:

-fucking Green Day
-Counting fucking Crowes
-Cranberries or Natalie Merchant
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December

So don’t sing Zombie at the Christmas party?

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 10:19 PM (Q9G/L)

58 Man the rock/metal houses is a tough call. I'm probably mostly a House 1.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (31p00)

59
She was a good Elf, I guess.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (K+a/1)

60 Nice thread, scampydog.

Any idea what hill that is in the top photo?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (viF8m)

61 56 If you're lurking, that's the best lurker comment ever.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (41CYW)

62 Our Christmas tradition was that on Christmas Eve after supper my dad would take us on a drive to see people's Christmas lights. My mom would stay home to do the dishes. When we got back all the presents would be under the tree, because Santa snuck in while mom was doing the dishes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

63 Chicken in a Biscuit are really underrated crackers. I used them as soup crackers and they were great.
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They used to be really good! I thought they ought to be illegal. I think they fried them, like so many things, back in the day, and then drenched them in chicken bouillon powder. I tried a box a while back and they are “baked” now, and have lost all their mojo.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (OtFdX)

64 Saying sorry is for homos & Hot Air.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (K+a/1)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

65 House #2, please.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (/rQlD)

66 Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.
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IF Aerosmith had retired after "Night In The Ruts", they'd be viewed as hard rock visionaries. Instead, they hung around and proved they weren't.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (Cjcf6)

67 49 Prayer up that you two may find agreement, Wolfus.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (77rzZ)

68 I’ll bet that 6174 story would work out really well on a first date.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (jr4TK)

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Appreciate that, considering it's the worst flooding in the freaking history of the world.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:18 PM (TfUTr)

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Again? I thought you had some extreme atmospheric river last year that drowned everyone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 10:21 PM (tgvbd)

70 GIRTHY!

Posted by: Baron Munchausen at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (C1NyB)

71 None of the houses qualify because none involve Fighting for your Right to Party. Without that fundamental right, none of the other house parties exist.

Posted by: TRex - dino gets no sleep till Brooklyn at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

72 She is in denial. She'll probably wait until literally the last minute and decide to go with you, which will completely mess your plans for leaving that day.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (W7XSX)

73 Wrapping paper should be for all occasions. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy B-day, Get Well, Condolences, Happy Bar Mitzvah Irving, can all be written on the stupid paper. No one looks for more than a second, they tear it up and it goes in a garbage bag. Too much work for very little gain.

Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (oftw2)

74 today I heard "Last Chr---mas" for the first time this Holiday Season.
it was a cover. somehow it was even worse.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (gKWVE)

75 Liked the Christmas wrapping fails.

Some things are just plain hard to wrap. Apparently at this time of year, Amazon sends stuff in boxes with "To: / From:" printed on the side for the extra lazy among us.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:23 PM (3nLb4)

76 32 That charcuterie board needs a pimento, artfully placed
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:13 PM (rbvCR)

It’s this kind of attention to detail that brings me back to this place night after night.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 11, 2025 10:24 PM (ZTJjv)

77 A mathematician explains the uniqueness of the number 6174 pic.twitter.com/lxgJvypaCO

There's also the uniqueness of 8675309. Ask Jenny.

Posted by: Tommy Tutone at December 11, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)

78 Wandered in late, strolled through the content (which was too complicated for my tired old brain tonight), read the mighty eighteen comments so far. That's enough for me.🥱Think I'll go watch something somewhere. Or take a late nap. Don't y'all go being interesting to draw me back in, m'kay?

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - all in due time, my dear, all in due time at December 11, 2025 10:24 PM (lfab9)

79 I would trade two Extreme Atmospheric Rivers for one Bomb Cyclone any day.

Posted by: Weather Or Not at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (oftw2)

80 Wrapping paper should be for all occasions. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy B-day, Get Well, Condolences, Happy Bar Mitzvah Irving, can all be written on the stupid paper. No one looks for more than a second, they tear it up and it goes in a garbage bag. Too much work for very little gain.
Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight at December 11, 2025

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I need to give my Christmas tip to my barber this weekend. He's the owner of the shop, so it's not appropriate for me to tip him on each visit, but I will slip him some $$$ in an envelope for Christmas. I suppose I ought to get a Christmas card and envelope to put it in?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (wzUl9)

81 Any idea what hill that is in the top photo?
Posted by: JackStraw
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I don't have it handy. Original file is on an external drive - dad took A LOT of pictures. Somewhere in the PNW is the best I can do this evening.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (41CYW)

82 *peeks in*
*resumes scheduled activity*

Posted by: Doof at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (gd0qz)

83 3.14159 !

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 10:25 PM (g47mK)

84 Even if this had been verbatim what he said, I don't have a problem with it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 11, 2025 10:06 PM (lUFok)

I felt the same way about Osama bin Laden being killed because he "resisted arrest". And conveniently, we didn't have to bother with a trial, including a lot of whining from foreign and domestic liberals about his civil rights. He was shot resisting arrest, and buried at sea, so no one could prove otherwise.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:26 PM (0Htd1)

85 Again? I thought you had some extreme atmospheric river last year that drowned everyone.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yep, funny how we and the entire Country get these "worst ever!" events every 5 years or so.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:26 PM (TfUTr)

86
Egad,

When I refresh the page I get the ads. So sick of the homos kissing. The really disgusting one is the fags kissing with the dog between them.

I feel bad for the dog.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:26 PM (3ek7K)

87 It was about -20°F for a about a week straight leading up to Christmas, I wrapped a big ass bottle of bourbon in Priority Mail stickers and left it in the box for the mailman. I heard him pick it up “woo, doggie!” he sez. It was the least I could do.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 11, 2025 10:27 PM (OtFdX)

88 Wow, so much content!

Thanks, Doggo!

*goes back to rabbit holes*

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (rdVOm)

89 56 If you're lurking, that's the best lurker comment ever.
Posted by: scampydog habitually complaining

better than constantly complaining/apologizing just to add to the commenter count.

Posted by: old chick at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (F3Dlr)

90 Evening again everyone, thx scampydog. Glad to see everyone survived the dachshund bombardment.
Still makes me say "huh?" when I remember Elle King is Rob Schneider's daughter.
Oh and #2.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (D+mpw)

91 Wrapping paper should be for all occasions. Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy B-day, Get Well, Condolences, Happy Bar Mitzvah Irving, can all be written on the stupid paper. No one looks for more than a second, they tear it up and it goes in a garbage bag. Too much work for very little gain.
Posted by: Not Wrapped Too Tight

Sunday comics are a fine fall back position.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (TfUTr)

92 Evening, Scampydog and ONT Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 10:28 PM (npFr7)

93 3.14159 !
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025

***
I forget what year in school it was when they introduced us to pi. I think I was out sick that day, and came back the next day to find my classmates and teacher talking about baked Thanksgiving desserts. Took me a little while to get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (wzUl9)

94 Sorry I'm late, my unicycle needed its handlebars re-aligned.
Posted by: tankdemon

I hope the chiropractor treated you well.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)

95 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (jr4TK)

96 >>I don't have it handy. Original file is on an external drive - dad took A LOT of pictures. Somewhere in the PNW is the best I can do this evening.

He was a good photographer. It reminds me of the area around my folks old place in Vermont.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)

97 I hate choices like the party thing. I like parts of all four.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 10:30 PM (0aYVJ)

98 There's also the uniqueness of 8675309. Ask Jenny.
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Jenny? I've got her number...

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:30 PM (Cjcf6)

99 Good evening morons en bedankt Hondo

Any report on Teresa in Fort Worth?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:31 PM (A0sqA)

100 But, if I had to narrow it down, #3.

Except Metallica. they have sucked since 1988.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

101 Somewhere in the PNW is the best I can do this evening.

On the west side of the Cascades old unpainted barns turn grey, on the east side they turn that brown color. It is either the sun, the rain, or the humidity.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (rbvCR)

102 My Rock House isn't even listed.
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five
The Turtles
The Doors
CCR
The Animals
Jefferson Airplane
CSN&Y
Moody Blues
Steppenwolf
The Mothers of Invention

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (2WIwB)

103 Lens flare pictures - occasionally chance deliver a beautiful shot.
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JJ Abrams, to the white courtesy phone, please!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (A0sqA)

104 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
-----

I'd invest in a trail-cam. Just to be sure. They're affordable.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:33 PM (Cjcf6)

105 Welp, as they say, time for me to shuffle off to bed. I have a workout scheduled tomorrow, some grocery and other errands, etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:33 PM (wzUl9)

106 Anybody get a status on Theresa in Fort Worth?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:33 PM (rk+24)

107 My Rock House isn't even listed.
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five
The Turtles
The Doors
CCR
The Animals
Jefferson Airplane
CSN&Y
Moody Blues
Steppenwolf
The Mothers of Invention
Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025

***
That'd be more like it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (wzUl9)

108 FAR too many crappy post-1978 Aerosmith songs, cheesy Boston love songs, AC/DC songs that are way overplayed (like Thunderstruck)

Actually, it would be lovely to have "Thunderstruck" accompany videos of those Venezuelan narco terrorists being blown to bits. I'd watch that video.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)

109 Nice thread, scampydog.

Any idea what hill that is in the top photo?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (viF8m)

I don't know, but that farm has one hella crop of rocks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)

110 House metal party - Rush and Blue Oyster Cult, absolutely!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (jr4TK)

111 My personal music collection is like house party #2 (except KISS), so...

I'd probably go over to #3, to expand my horizons.

Posted by: JQ at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (rdVOm)

112 There is an underground in Newark but it is only open to Prudential employees. They can't risk their people walking the streets in daylight.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:34 PM (A0sqA)

113 First time I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" I thought, hey, this is Metallica but they're actually good!

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

114 102 My Rock House isn't even listed.
The Beatles
The Dave Clark Five
The Turtles
The Doors
CCR
The Animals
Jefferson Airplane
CSN&Y
Moody Blues
Steppenwolf
The Mothers of Invention
Posted by: Diogenes

I'll be setting up shop at Diogenes joint.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

115 Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner (1844-1923), hailing from the quaint town of Seiffen in the Ore Mountains of Germany, is known worldwide as the “Father of the Nutcracker.”
_______________________________

This guy has contributed more to society than most of us. But, at a price. While the rest of us will meet St. Peter at the Gate and spend a few anxious seconds while the good Saint checks his notes, Wilhelm is going get pulled aside for a cavity search and the whole TSA treatment unless he brings references explaining that, no...Nutcracker isn't some niche sexual device for masochists.

The more Wilhelm tries to explain, the deeper he will get. He'll be thrown in the Purgatory room with the guy that invented caulk.

Posted by: Orson at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)

116 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
-----

I'd invest in a trail-cam. Just to be sure. They're affordable.
Posted by: Crusader

For sure, be fun to see which of the shop vermin are into cleaning.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)

117 #3

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (YwEeS)

118 Back in 78 when I started seeing shows, I saw Allman's, Ble Oyster Cult and Kiss in a six week stretch. Then a couple months later I saw Orleans at the Chance . Good show. John Hall later was a congress critter later from an adjoining district

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (D+mpw)

119 Nightly lurker, but narciso will vouch for me (we share a JustOneMinute heritage). Merry merry to you all. This is all the de-lurking y'all will get from me, but this is a splendid opportunity to thank you for the evening ab workout I get from my laughter reading the ONT comments. No one is funnier than a moron. Wide congratulations to all concerned.

Posted by: Catsmeat at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (le38v)

120 I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with "Wonderful Tonight".

I loathe that song nearly as much as "Imagine".

I would be absolutely disgusted with myself if I was immortalized as the woman who babysits a drunk addict through yet another evening out while he binges, takes his keys, drives him home, holds him up while he staggers in, pours him into bed to sleep it off before he starts all over, and my validation is that before he passes out, he tosses me the bone of "gee you're swell".

Not to mention the dreary drugged whine of the tune.

Nope. nope nope

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:37 PM (enw9G)

121 So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (jr4TK)
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You really don't want to know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:38 PM (A0sqA)

122 I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with "Wonderful Tonight".

I loathe that song nearly as much as "Imagine".

I would be absolutely disgusted with myself if I was immortalized as the woman who babysits a drunk addict through yet another evening out while he binges, takes his keys, drives him home, holds him up while he staggers in, pours him into bed to sleep it off before he starts all over, and my validation is that before he passes out, he tosses me the bone of "gee you're swell".

Not to mention the dreary drugged whine of the tune.

Nope. nope nope
Posted by: barb

what she said

Posted by: n at December 11, 2025 10:38 PM (7neCS)

123 3.14159 !
Posted by: runner

Pi just kills me - an old math professor turned me on to this: π is believed to be a normal number ( π is strongly suspected to be one, though not yet proven). If a number is normal in base 10, then every finite sequence of digits appears with exactly the expected frequency. Even without full normality being proven for π, it has passed every statistical test for normality to millions of digits, so for all practical purposes any finite string you can imagine is essentially guaranteed to appear somewhere in π if you go far enough.

The key mathematical concept is normality of a number (specifically "normal in base 10"). A slightly weaker but still relevant property that π is known to have is that it is disjunctive (every finite sequence appears at least once), which is true for almost all real numbers in the sense of Lebesgue measure.

Your phone number, your birthday, the entire text of Hamlet encoded as digits… all of it is hiding in π if you look far enough out.

*Takes bong hit*

Dude . . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)

124 113 First time I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" I thought, hey, this is Metallica but they're actually good!
Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

I was thinking “WTF is this?”

I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (4786I)

125 I'll be out the in the back forty with Del McCoury...

Just got tix for Alison Krauss with Jerry Douglas next June. Billy Strings is still on the bucket list.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (3nLb4)

126 Wonderful Tonight is part of the Patty Boyd collection. Didn't think she was so attractive that she inspired that many songs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (D+mpw)

127 I'll be setting up shop at Diogenes joint.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 11, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)

Welcome!
Great tunes!
Great bier!
Great whiskey!
But somebody needs to bring pizza.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (2WIwB)

128 Goodnight, All. Sleep well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)

129 Except Metallica. they have sucked since 1988.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 11, 2025 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

I loved …And Justice For All. I liked (key word) The Black Album. After that I was done.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:40 PM (4786I)

130 >>I don't know, but that farm has one hella crop of rocks.

I'm used to it. There's a reason New England is covered in stone walls.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:41 PM (viF8m)

131 ***Built 1969 - 1979 as a bomb shelter - they were worried about the Soviets (how things change).
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Nixon worked hard to drive that wedge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (xgeFZ)

132 nurse ratched -

That's the beach in Discovery Park near the lighthouse, isn't it?

Spent many a day in and around that park, lived only a couple of blocks away.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (gUs21)

133 71 None of the houses qualify because none involve Fighting for your Right to Party. Without that fundamental right, none of the other house parties exist.
Posted by: TRex - dino gets no sleep till Brooklyn at December 11, 2025 10:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

Kerry King of SLAYER on guitar on that song

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (4786I)

134 I still have never understood the admiration for Nirvana.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (4786I

In all fairness, neither did Kurt.
Nevermind was produced to a state he didn't necessarily want. "Teen Spirit" was supposed to be some Louie-Louie parody. The single was supposed to be "Come As You Are", a Killers plagiary so obvious that the band was expecting maybe a few hipsters would enjoy.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:43 PM (gKWVE)

135 WHERE IS DREAM THEATER ON THOSE LISTS???

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:43 PM (4786I)

136 Smell the Glove, Something is a much better tribute that Wonderful Tonight.

She's a period piece as far as looks, but she must have had something going if Harrison and Clapton were both so smitten.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:44 PM (enw9G)

137 2CELLOS - Thunderstruck

https://youtu.be/uT3SBzmDxGk

Think classical music meets Back to the Future.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 10:44 PM (6ydKt)

138 Nixon worked hard to drive that wedge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:42 PM (xgeFZ)

And he didn’t need to. Mao and Stalin didn’t really get along. And Mao HATED Khrushchev.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 11, 2025 10:44 PM (4786I)

139 Something in the way she moves, that is

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (enw9G)

140 A four act musical tour. So many songs are written around love and relationships - could link a hundred for each act. Let's take a tour through the highs, lows, and the magic of it. Use link shortener if pasting songs in comments - don't blow out the margins!

You can do the whole thing with Pain Of Salvation's "Remedy Lane" album.

Sparks Fly. Music and new love?
Fandango: https://youtu.be/Bi6WWXWnyZI

Red Flag Phase. After a few weeks, sometimes things didn't go as planned.
Chain Sling: https://youtu.be/BH98I0TDHzE
Undertow: https://youtu.be/ja5wA4s8tQU

The Real Thing.
This Heart Of Mine (I Pledge): https://youtu.be/53eKWJ4RMvg

And when things really didn't go well.
Rope Ends (trigger warning: suicide attempts. It really, really didn't go well):
https://youtu.be/jZxC7kl_WSg
Beyond The Pale: https://youtu.be/O7AH17jRciU

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (nhCoE)

141
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Posted by:
at December 11, 2025 10:19 PM (DF+jF)
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Comment of the Week!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (A0sqA)

142 >>Billy Strings is still on the bucket list.

Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 10:46 PM (viF8m)

143 /killing joke

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:46 PM (gKWVE)

144 So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.

When's the last time you saw your Elf on a Shelf?

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 10:46 PM (rk+24)

145
Your phone number, your birthday, the entire text of Hamlet encoded as digits… all of it is hiding in π if you look far enough out.

*Takes bong hit*

Dude . . . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 11, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)

Come to me! Embrace the Everynothing!

Posted by: infinite infinities receding asymptotically at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (pIfcn)

146 122 I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with "Wonderful Tonight".

I loathe that song nearly as much as "Imagine".

I would be absolutely disgusted with myself if I was immortalized as the woman who babysits a drunk addict through yet another evening out while he binges, takes his keys, drives him home, holds him up while he staggers in, pours him into bed to sleep it off before he starts all over, and my validation is that before he passes out, he tosses me the bone of "gee you're swell".
Not to mention the dreary drugged whine of the tune.
Nope. nope nope
Posted by: barb
But she gets to be f**ked by someone who's rich and famous. So, there's that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)

147 @136 barbarausa, yup , Layla kinda shows she had a hold over those guys

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (D+mpw)

148 Christmas traditions: I remember going to Mr. C’s in North Omaha on Christmas Eve, a unique restaurant that was garishly decorated and kept growing until it seemed like it would take over the city, then going home and opening one present. Then my sister always waking me up at 6 AM Christmas morning. Also hearing Santa’s sleigh bells at midnight at my grandparents’ farm, which sounded a lot like the old sleigh bells my grandfather kept in the basement.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at December 11, 2025 10:47 PM (tRYqg)

149 I liked most of And Justice For All. One is seriously gay though. An abomination.

The Black Album was okay-ish. Nothing Else Matters is gayer than cum on a mustache.

But I always thought the best thing Metallica did was throw out Mustaine, giving us Megadeth.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 11, 2025 10:48 PM (4/BuS)

150 I'm off to clean up the kitchen, after two kinds of cookies.

Sorry to drop in just long enough to dump on a song, but boy does it rub me wrong, lol!

Goodnight all, and sweet dreams when you get to them

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:49 PM (enw9G)

151 Actually any of the houses would be all right because none of them have:

-fucking Green Day
-Counting fucking Crowes
-Cranberries or Natalie Merchant
----

Also none of them have:

Alannis
Spin Doctors
Gin Blossoms
Eurythmics
Grateful Dead (screw those talentless hacks)
Bob Dylan (get back to me when you can *enunciate*)

There should have been a room that had REO Speedwagon, Billy Squier, and Def Leppard, but no Def Leppard songs should be allowed post-Pyromania and Tom Petty but no songs after "Long After Dark". And I mean NONE from either Leppard or Petty.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:49 PM (Cjcf6)

152 nerdygirl, if he fucks like he holds his liquor in the song, nope.

He wrote LOTS of better songs, and played many more inspiring pieces.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 11, 2025 10:50 PM (enw9G)

153 151 Billy Squier......
Posted by: Crusader
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Was listening to some Billy Squier today. Good stuff.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

154 White House Media Offenders, thank you, did not know that page existed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:51 PM (xgeFZ)

155 Many years ago (before me) my wife took a holiday job wrapping presents at a large department store. They had men wrappers as well, to trick wives into thinking their husbands did it.

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 10:52 PM (8I4hW)

156 I lurk I lurk

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 11, 2025 10:52 PM (8cPKb)

157 I have dim memories of Montreal underground but I am sure it is at least 40 years since I've been down there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:53 PM (A0sqA)

158 152 nerdygirl, if he fucks like he holds his liquor in the song, nope.

He wrote LOTS of better songs, and played many more inspiring pieces.
Posted by: barbarausa

Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't think she was in it for the quality of the "love making".

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)

159 I saw recently that Ted Nugent planned to blast some of his songs at 2 AM in Dearborn, as a counter to the Muslim screeching, er, call to prayer that happens at 5:30 in the morning.

Did he actually do it? If so, does he now have a price on his head in Dearborn?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 11, 2025 10:54 PM (S/Y4j)

160 @151, 153, Billy Squier, one of the he weirdest implosions in entertainment history. Talented guy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 10:54 PM (D+mpw)

161 Oh, Hai

After a decade of calling Bitcoin a fraud,
JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, went on live TV and admitted:

“We move trillions of dollars a day on blockchain.
It’s real. It’s faster. It’s cheaper.”

Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 10:55 PM (rbvCR)

162
Pickleball is dangerous. A man in Malaysia fell three stories to his death trying to retrieve a ball.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 11, 2025 10:55 PM (3ek7K)

163 Blue Oyster Cult, not me but our friend and fan, nor his cat, from San Francisco has not been around in a couple of months. Maybe the Cult on the placard will bring him out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 10:56 PM (xgeFZ)

164 But I always thought the best thing Metallica did was throw out Mustaine, giving us Megadeth.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 11, 2025 10:48 PM (4/BuS)

And kept Lars. If you want a view into what could have been, look no farther than the day Lars had a diva meltdown before a show. Joey Jordinson filled in on drums doing all old shit. Lars was a fool for letting that happen. He would have been better off showing up and playing through his pussy hurt than to get shown up like that.
I actually became somewhat of a fan again when I found out that that sawed off little bitch was the actual problem
with the band.

Posted by: Reforger at December 11, 2025 10:57 PM (TAT25)

165 so less-than-one-hit wonders from the '80s, Sixtieth Parallel, are trying again: "Now That I Know"
youtu.be/z8R9Ur2nCKU
("Into Bliss" was legit good, though)

Posted by: gKWVE at December 11, 2025 10:57 PM (gKWVE)

166 Back in 78 when I started seeing shows, I saw Allman's, Blue Oyster Cult and Kiss in a six week stretch.
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I saw all 3 of them--I saw Kiss on the reunion tour with Ace and Peter and saw Blue Oyster Cult twice, once opening for Rush circa 1985 and then opening for Allman Brothers circa 1996.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 10:58 PM (Cjcf6)

167 Needs more cowbell.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 10:58 PM (6ydKt)

168 You can do the whole thing with Pain Of Salvation's "Remedy Lane" album.
Posted by: mikeski

The songs aren't in chronological order for the story, so I don't know if it's "a concept album." But some lyrical and musical themes show up in multiple songs.

Undertow's lyrics are basically "if you love something, set it free." First verse:

Let me go, let me go, let me seek the answers that I need to know.
Let me find a way, let me walk away, through the undertow.
Please let me go.....

But it uses the melody from the bridge of "This Heart Of Mine (I Pledge)" for its guitar solo. The lyrics from that part are:

I believe this heart of mine when it tells my eyes, that this is beauty
I believe this heart of mine when it tells my mind, that this is reason
I believe this heart of mine when it cries at time, that this is forever
I believe this heart of mine when it tells the skies, that this is the face of God

Posted by: mikeski geeks out about music at December 11, 2025 10:59 PM (nhCoE)

169 Didn't think she was so attractive that she inspired that many songs
——-

Certain skill sets?

Posted by: Chrome, Trailer Ball Hitch at December 11, 2025 10:59 PM (OtFdX)

170 Many years ago (before me) my wife took a holiday job wrapping presents at a large department store. They had men wrappers as well, to trick wives into thinking their husbands did it.
Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025

***
I'm quite the good present-wrapper. Like many things I know now, Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 taught me. Unfortunately I'd be too slow for the department store gig.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

171 132 nurse ratched -

That's the beach in Discovery Park near the lighthouse, isn't it?

Spent many a day in and around that park, lived only a couple of blocks away.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer

Nope! Alki Beach! 100 steps from my front door.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:01 PM (mT+6a)

172 156 I lurk I lurk
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at December 11, 2025 10:52 PM (8cPKb)

This could sound ominous if the phrase is repeated to the music from Jaws.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:01 PM (rk+24)

173 I told a friend today that I only had 2or 3 more Motown puns left in me.....4 tops.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025 11:02 PM (CDX35)

174 When we got back all the presents would be under the tree, because Santa snuck in while mom was doing the dishes.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 11, 2025 10:20 PM (0Htd1)

One year, when they were little, Oldest D and family, who were very little at the time, were scheduled to fly to Disney World early on Christmas Day.
So, we had dinner on the Eve at our house, and during dessert, Uncle T quietly disappeared. Then we all went over to their house and lo and behold- Santa had come!
Because he knew they were going to be on a plane the next day.
He's just that good...

Posted by: sal at December 11, 2025 11:03 PM (f+FmA)

175 As a child, after Christmas Eve service, we'd go over to my grandmother's house where we saw her tree for the first time. Her family was German, and the big reveal was always on Christmas Eve. Leaving Detroit we'd go along Lakeshore Drive to see the mansions lit up. Most of them are gone now, I think the Ford estate is about the only one left.

Posted by: Lirio100 at December 11, 2025 11:03 PM (ky7/T)

176 I told a friend today that I only had 2or 3 more Motown puns left in me.....4 tops.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025

***
There are temptations to take that as a challenge. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)

177 Oh man, who can resist The Tempations of Motown puns?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 11:04 PM (6ydKt)

178 173 I told a friend today that I only had 2or 3 more Motown puns left in me.....4 tops.
Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025 11:02 PM (CDX35)

I will try to resist the Temptstions to join in the pun-ditry.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:05 PM (rk+24)

179 Horde mind activated.

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (rk+24)

180 or why you refuse to trust your compass, and/or any other GPS devices,

Oh, my whole family (and then some) knows that I do NOT do Google Maps directions! Just this week, Pooky's nephew's friend was trying to use them to direct me to the other side of a mall. I ignored it and got us there faster.

Posted by: pookysgirl sez DEATH TO CLANKERS at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (Wt5PA)

181 Nope! Alki Beach! 100 steps from my front door.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:01 PM (mT+6a)

Same beach where they filmed the father/son boating scenes in Sleepless in Seattle?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (2WIwB)

182 Tank demon. Don't be late.

Posted by: Muchas buchas at December 11, 2025 11:06 PM (CDX35)

183 I always liked “Wonderful Tonight.”

Some of us only get compliments when the man is drunk. Or we are helping them.

Or they just don’t tell us we are loved unless they’re popped.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)

184 >>> 141
56

Posted by:
at December 11, 2025 10:19 PM (DF+jF)
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Comment of the Week!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 10:45 PM (A0sqA)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (ULPxl)

185 I used to wrap my buddies gifts when I was a kid in exchange for letting me plunder their Christmas cookie supplies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (A0sqA)

186 My wife would win the gift wrapping Olympics, my family always felt ashamed to open presents from her because they looked like works of art.
Me, I learned gift wrapping from my dad, who’s signature move was to take the funny pages out of the Sunday paper, wrap a couple roughly around the present, and then tie it all of with a couple wraps of twine.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (jr4TK)

187 Oh man, who can resist The Tempations of Motown puns?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 11, 2025 11:04 PM (6ydKt)

Serve these puns up on a platter.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (2WIwB)

188 I'll check in with the lame answer. If all those parties were on the same street, I'd leave one party and go to the next when something terrible came on. I could listen to a Rush instrumental album- the music was great, I just can't stand Geddy Lee or his lyrics.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (NZPfR)

189 I'm quite the good present-wrapper. Like many things I know now, Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 taught me. Unfortunately I'd be too slow for the department store gig.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)

I used to decent, now I'm awful. No idea why

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (8I4hW)

190 We do have some supremes punters here at AoSHQ

Posted by: tankdemon at December 11, 2025 11:08 PM (rk+24)

191 I'm generally a fan of Metallica, but Lars drums sound like they're covered by a blanket. Why has nobody pointed this out or fixed it yet?

Phil Collins was getting *crisp* drum sounds on tape as early as the '80s. Cozy Powell was too--the 2 of them split the drum tracks on Robert Plant's first solo album.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:09 PM (Cjcf6)

192 Christmas Eve when I was a kid was exciting, full of suspense and anticipation. We'd have the tree lit, of course, and there would always be Christmas-themed episodes of our favorite shows on TV. Mom would hustle us off to bed as early as she could, of course. Equally naturally, I'd be awake early.

Later, in college, I'd sit up drinking with Mom if I didn't go out with friends. The last thing I wanted to do was get up early on The Day.

Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's extended maternal family had a tradition of gathering in one relative's house on Xmas Eve. Fortunately they all lived pretty close to each other. "I won't inflict my family on you except at Christmas and Easter," she said, and (for once) was as good as her word. I didn't know any of the people and they didn't wear name tags, so I was lost.

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

193 102 Diogenes -- Yes, I would be very happy to live in that house. May I suggest Chad and Jeremy, Freddie and the Pacemakers, and of course Simon and Garfinkel.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 11, 2025 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)

194 Just saying, the math guy is a bit weird.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 11, 2025 11:10 PM (w3u3d)

195 >>> 95 Things that go Bump in the Night - or in this case the garage. We have a 2 car detached garage. Workbench, tools, yard equipment, wife’s car stay there. We were in it last weekend while doing yard work, wife hadn’t had to go anywhere so neither of us has gone in for 2 or 3 days.
So I went in tonight, and everything is in order, except …. One of the brooms is on the other side of the garage, not like it fell but like it was tossed. But everything else is in order, nothing else was touched.
So I’m not gonna spend a lot of time thinking about it, except once in a while to wonder what possessed a broom to fly from one side of the garage to the other in the middle of the night. By itself, apparently.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 10:29 PM (jr4TK)

We had a fight. I won.

Posted by: Tom Servo's rake at December 11, 2025 11:11 PM (ULPxl)

196 and then tie it all of with a couple wraps of twine.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Twine wrap - memory jolt. Used to be commonplace, been a spell since I've seen something twine wrapped. Always appreciated the functional aspect of a brown bag and a good twine wrap.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:11 PM (41CYW)

197 Motown puns . . . drifters on Broadway or up on the roof could have seen those coming. .. .

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

198 193 102 Diogenes -- Yes, I would be very happy to live in that house. May I suggest Chad and Jeremy, Freddie and the Pacemakers, and of course Simon and Garfinkel.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 11, 2025

***
Also fine choices. Don't leave out the folk singers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:12 PM (wzUl9)

199 191 I'm generally a fan of Metallica, but Lars drums sound like they're covered by a blanket. Why has nobody pointed this out or fixed it yet?

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:09 PM (Cjcf6)

That's what removing the suck supplied by Lars sounds like post production.

Posted by: Reforger at December 11, 2025 11:12 PM (TAT25)

200 >>Oh, my whole family (and then some) knows that I do NOT do Google Maps directions! Just this week, Pooky's nephew's friend was trying to use them to direct me to the other side of a mall. I ignored it and got us there faster.
Posted by: pookysgirl sez DEATH TO CLANKERS
--

Buddy picked up SIL who flew in to visit her mom.
On the way from the airport, using her phone, she was giving him route directions back to his house.

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

201 Some of us only get compliments when the man is drunk. Or we are helping them.

Or they just don’t tell us we are loved unless they’re popped.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)

Nurse, You just reminded me of something you wrote earlier today, hopefully in jest, but in the art thread you wrote that you were an “ugly” person, too.

Well that could not be further from the truth, I met you at one of the MoMe’s, and you are a completely lovely person, inside and out! You should be told that more often.

And no, just for the record I haven’t been drinking at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:13 PM (jr4TK)

202 Same beach where they filmed the father/son boating scenes in Sleepless in Seattle?
Posted by: Diogenes

I thought that was at Leschi on Lake Washington.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)

203 Or Lake Union.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 11, 2025 11:14 PM (mT+6a)

204 Well that could not be further from the truth, I met you at one of the MoMe’s, and you are a completely lovely person, inside and out! You should be told that more often.

And no, just for the record I haven’t been drinking at all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025

***
I get that impression of Nurse, too, and I've never met her in real life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:14 PM (wzUl9)

205 Billy can really play.

https://tinyurl.com/5a72uc2k

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)

206 >>> Another 37 undergrounds across the world.

Did not check it but they say in Hawaii, Oahu, you go through tunnels throughout the whole island.
Not true. Most have been walled off or closed by iron gates.
Kunia may not even be in use anymore.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 11, 2025 11:18 PM (j0hB7)

207 I'm watching yet another "Harrelson's Own" commercial.

How sad. Its like those losers get a mouth spray that *hints* at being high, but they never get to experience the joy that is listening to Rainbow at 2 in the morning perform "A Light in the Black" or "Lost in Hollywood".

Get clean and live life on your own terms. Or don't. But straddling the 2 seems pointless.

Posted by: Crusader at December 11, 2025 11:18 PM (Cjcf6)

208 And for the record about "Wonderful Tonight": Maybe I've misunderstood some of the lyrics. But I always had the impression that the narrator/singer's getting drunk on this night was an isolated incident, not that he was an addict or habitual drunk. That would change the dynamic between him and the woman, whom I presumed was his wife of some years and not an occasional or casual girlfriend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (wzUl9)

209 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?

Posted by: EastBayLarry at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (Kbnct)

210 No procrastination this year.

I started my holiday weight gain in September.

Posted by: Fritzy at December 11, 2025 11:20 PM (2GIh1)

211 Boston. I have the album from my college days in storage .
Now get off of my lawn.😁

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 11, 2025 11:20 PM (w3u3d)

212 I would be at house party #1 and #3. Start at #1 and try like hell to hit #3. Btw, Helloween belongs at party #1, they are power metal. Berserker christmas party this saturday will have most of 1 and 3 anyway. Let the mayhem begin.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:21 PM (snZF9)

213 I've never had the good fortune of meeting nurse in person so forgive me for picturing Louise Fletcher

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:21 PM (A0sqA)

214 >>> 213 I've never had the good fortune of meeting nurse in person so forgive me for picturing Louise Fletcher
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:21 PM (A0sqA)

I hope she doesn't picture you as a woodpecker. ;P

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 11, 2025 11:22 PM (ULPxl)

215 212 I would be at house party #1 and #3. Start at #1 and try like hell to hit #3. Btw, Helloween belongs at party #1, they are power metal. Berserker christmas party this saturday will have most of 1 and 3 anyway. Let the mayhem begin.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Good stuff. Saw that, started rearranging bands/houses, and thought... I wonder what Berserker would think of the lists? And now that riddle is solved! Thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:23 PM (41CYW)

216 On Xmas Eve in the years after Katrina, Linda and I would drive out to the uptown area or near the lakefront to walk and look at the lights of the decorated houses. Increasingly in recent years, I've been much more leery of going out in this town after dark, though. I'll drive, but not walk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:23 PM (wzUl9)

217 House at the end of the block that has the good bands from the first four that survived the slaughter.

Posted by: Operator Error at December 11, 2025 11:24 PM (j0hB7)

218 Mostly a lurker. Christmas tradition: open wrapped presents from all, but Santa, on Christmas Eve. Dad would pass gifts out in order of the 4 siblings, opened one by one, so we could all appreciate what each of us received. Parents did this to take the edge off, in hopes we would not get up so early on Christmas morning. In the morning we would make our beds, then march downstairs, in order by age, to see what Santa brought us. The toys (usually our biggest gift) would be unwrapped and ready to go/play with so we did not have to wait for the folks to get up, though it was tough to sleep in with 4 excited kids playing. We continued to open gifts on Christmas Eve, even through college, and sleep in Christmas morning.

Posted by: Shipoopi at December 11, 2025 11:24 PM (t1uwd)

219 Billy Strings Tiny Desk

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

Posted by: huerfano at December 11, 2025 11:24 PM (98kQX)

220 I will go with Diogenes' Rock House. In particular the Moody Blues.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (0Aoc4)

221 Wife is one of nine girls, all in a row. Number ten was a boy. When we used to host the Christmas party. We have had as many as 71 immediate family members at our house for the party. Thankfully a younger sister bought a large house and has had held them for several years.

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (8I4hW)

222 Regarding 6174, I have a book called The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers by David Wells, which contains numbers like these.

For 6174, it describes the Kaprekar’s constant process; and then also notes that “6174 is also a Harshad number, because it is divisible by the sum of its digits.”

Fascinating bathroom reading.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (EXyHK)

223 Now it is bedtime, all. Until the Tech Thread, I say, play nice; and if you can't do that, don't get caught!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)

224 You keep telling us lurkers to de-lurk. But not everyone has something to add to a thread. Even *I* don't care what I say most of the time. Why should I inflict that on you? Lurking can be a gift to all of the comment readers.

Posted by: RoadRunner at December 11, 2025 11:25 PM (Lyv1/)

225 And kept Lars. If you want a view into what could have been, look no farther than the day Lars had a diva meltdown before a show. Joey Jordinson filled in on drums doing all old shit. Lars was a fool for letting that happen. He would have been better off showing up and playing through his pussy hurt than to get shown up like that.
I actually became somewhat of a fan again when I found out that that sawed off little bitch was the actual problem
with the band.

Posted by: Reforger at December 11, 2025 10:57 PM (TAT25)

Lar's drum set dreams of a 3some with joey and dave lombardo after that night.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:26 PM (snZF9)

226 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry

If you've never made the Wall Of Shame, you can still call yourself a lurker.

I've made the Sockpuppet list, but never the Poster list, so I'm a provisional lurker, or something.

Posted by: mikeski sorts socks alphabetically, not by color at December 11, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)

227 Eyes are getting fuzzy.

Posted by: javems at December 11, 2025 11:28 PM (8I4hW)

228 If that's a nutcracker...
https://youtube.com/shorts/WImYkUOZKaA
NSFW!!!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)

229 209 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry
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*Checks Style Guide* Lurker status...upgraded. Restroom tokens unlocked.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:29 PM (41CYW)

230 229 209 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry
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*Checks Style Guide* Lurker status...upgraded. Restroom tokens unlocked.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:29 PM (41CYW)

It's that technically the Barrel?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 11, 2025 11:29 PM (ynpvh)

231 Good stuff. Saw that, started rearranging bands/houses, and thought... I wonder what Berserker would think of the lists? And now that riddle is solved! Thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:23 PM (41CYW)

It was a tough choice. If Helloween was in party #1 I probably wouldn't leave to hit party 3. Helloween is great. In the end though, lemmy probably wouldn't let me leave. I've been on their tour bus, lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:31 PM (snZF9)

232 >>Billy Strings Tiny Desk

It must be so fun to be able to play like that. Any of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:31 PM (viF8m)

233 In case you missed it or want something for the archive.

Jasmine Crockett challenges anyone to produce a clip of Democrats suggesting violence.

https://tinyurl.com/bd9rktr8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:32 PM (xgeFZ)

234 221 Wife is one of nine girls, all in a row.....
Posted by: javems
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Evening, javems. Always great to see you in the grey boxes.
9 girls!!!! I had 3 sisters, I have so many questions.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:32 PM (41CYW)

235 And for the record about "Wonderful Tonight": Maybe I've misunderstood some of the lyrics. But I always had the impression that the narrator/singer's getting drunk on this night was an isolated incident, not that he was an addict or habitual drunk. That would change the dynamic between him and the woman, whom I presumed was his wife of some years and not an occasional or casual girlfriend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (wzUl9)

Clapton wrote the song as he was waiting (again) for his wife Patty (formerly Mrs. George Harrison) to get herself ready to accompany him to a party (possibly hosted by the aforementioned Mr. Harrison). The drinking reference could have been poetic license. Eric is a reformed addict, but unpacking all that would, as you say, change the dynamic..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 11, 2025 11:33 PM (nbLIj)

236 I would go to rock/metal house party #3. But I usually prefer classical.

Posted by: Blahblahblah at December 11, 2025 11:34 PM (oV7lS)

237
205 Billy can really play.

https://tinyurl.com/5a72uc2k
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)

Wow - that link led me to one of Billy doing “Tangled up in Blue” - best version of that song I’ve ever heard!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:34 PM (jr4TK)

238 Peon's Party House? In no particular order:

Rolling Stones
Small Faces
Cream
Guess Who
Ten Years After
CCR
Allman Brothers
Little Feat
Grateful Dead

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:35 PM (npFr7)

239 232 >>Billy Strings Tiny Desk

It must be so fun to be able to play like that. Any of them.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:31 PM (viF8m)

I'm confident all of our feeds overlap quite a bit, so you guys may have seen his cover of Pink Floyd Fearless. If not check it out, even if it is from the Howard Stern Show.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 11, 2025 11:35 PM (pIfcn)

240 7
Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

All their songs have the stupidest lyrics.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 11, 2025 10:05 PM (K+a/1)

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If you don't see the brilliance in "can't catch me cuz the rabbit done died", then maybe you're just too young to get the reference.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 11, 2025 11:36 PM (kDHiw)

241 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (Kbnct)
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You should have appended the obligatory "Asking for a friend."

*points deducted from permanent record*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:36 PM (9ipOP)

242 WHERE IS DREAM THEATER ON THOSE LISTS???
Posted by: Cow Demon

That's why I'm at the #3 house with Savatage and Fates Warning. Those are the most prog-metal of the bands on the lists, I think.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)

243 240 Regarding top pic

I did NOT give permission to have a photo of Stately Miklos Manor published.

There are security concerns.

Also, you didn't kick yer shoes off and set a while.

There's always a jug on the table.
Posted by: Miklos v. Scampydog, Miklos' cousin the Magistrate presiding
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Well heck. I didn't know you and Some Rat were residing at the same residence - see 38. That's a lot of wits, brains, and fun. Guessing a booby trap or three to keep an eye out for.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:40 PM (41CYW)

244 Jasmine Crockett challenges anyone to produce a clip of Democrats suggesting violence.
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Do we limit ourselves to just today's entries or do we go back as far as we want?

Posted by: clarence at December 11, 2025 11:40 PM (JwHY3)

245 Blue Oyster Cult, not me but our friend and fan, nor his cat, from San Francisco has not been around in a couple of months. Maybe the Cult on the placard will bring him out.

Posted by: Braenyard

Extremely busy. Still working at 8:40 p.m. No time for anything except the cat, sort of. Not even BOC which came 20 miles from here last month. Hi and goodbye.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 11, 2025 11:42 PM (KAi1n)

246 Aerosmith?

Worst Lyrics in any band. Ever.

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They're no Steve Miller Band

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:42 PM (0RiMX)

247 Lovely ONT, scampydog!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (6p0Jv)

248 @SenJoniErnst
Dec 10
$79 billion in COVID fraud could have been prevented if four basic questions were asked.

Is the Social Security Number valid, does the number match the name, does the birthday match, and is the individual ALIVE?

https://tinyurl.com/3f5ffaht

The new part is... they used pictures of dolls for people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (xgeFZ)

249 >>I'm confident all of our feeds overlap quite a bit, so you guys may have seen his cover of Pink Floyd Fearless. If not check it out, even if it is from the Howard Stern Show.

I haven't but I will.

I like his version of this with Marcus King a lot but this one strikes a bit closer.

https://tinyurl.com/bdefdv44

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (viF8m)

250 I'm tardy. It's probably been asked. Any news on Teresa?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:46 PM (6p0Jv)

251 Feeling under ye weather and having myself a little pity party

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (GhIJO)

252 Posted by: Braenyard

Extremely busy. Still working at 8:40 p.m. No time for anything except the cat, sort of. Not even BOC which came 20 miles from here last month. Hi and goodbye.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 11, 2025 11:42 PM (KAi1n)
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Thanks for checking in. He worries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (A0sqA)

253 246 Jasmine Crockett challenges anyone to produce a clip of Democrats suggesting violence.
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Do we limit ourselves to just today's entries or do we go back as far as we want?
Posted by: clarence

She's a gift. Amazing!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (C26rB)

254 242 Is a 'lurker' somebody who NEVER comments, or does my 2 or 3 comments per year revoke my lurker status?
Posted by: EastBayLarry at December 11, 2025 11:19 PM (Kbnct)
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You should have appended the obligatory "Asking for a friend."

*points deducted from permanent record*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:36 PM (9ipOP)

for the record.... Permanent Records, if on the Net?

Not permanent.... for the public at least...

Just sayin....

Posted by: Bob, NSA... at December 11, 2025 11:47 PM (mP0Kj)

255 I would hit all four of those house parties...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 11, 2025 11:48 PM (kOluj)

256 I'm tardy. It's probably been asked. Any news on Teresa?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:46 PM (6p0Jv)
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Several requests but no reports.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:48 PM (A0sqA)

257 249 Lovely ONT, scampydog!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Good evening, and thank you. You coming to the Club ONT Christmas Party? JQ has been decorating like crazy - trying to balance Doof and his multicolored lights vs. the white lights.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:49 PM (41CYW)

258 @SenJoniErnst
Dec 10
$79 billion in COVID fraud could have been prevented

The new part is... they used pictures of dolls for people.
Posted by: Braenyard

"That's Teddy Ruxpin."

"Maybe he hasn't shaved since the lockdown started."

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:50 PM (nhCoE)

259 Hi and goodbye.
Posted by: Dark Litigator
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Good to know that your up and kicking.
We'll be here when you've settled those cases.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:51 PM (xgeFZ)

260 I mentioned this a few days ago but it’s so hilarious here it is again.

On Tuesday I got a letter from the fed government and the Army. They wrote to inform me that my house and the property it’s on is a designated national superfund site. So it turns out there’s different levels of superfund from Aaagh! we must set our hair on fire spend a billion dollars and bring in the core of engineers! to “well good luck that pal”. My house is on the latter end.

So turns out there was an army camp north of ATL that became an artillery and ordinance training area before WWII. (cont.)

Posted by: banana Dream at December 11, 2025 11:52 PM (Rh0Gp)

261 Several requests but no reports.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 11, 2025 11:48 PM (A0sqA)

Reported in the last thread. She is out of surgery. Surgeon decided not to do a liver resection, but implanted a pump to deliver chemo drugs directly to her liver.

I don't know if this is good news, or bad news. I would hope it's good news, meaning the surgeon thinks direct application of chemo will save her liver.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 11:53 PM (npFr7)

262 I've already made my 4th quarter lurker post, but since you asked so nicely.. Hi!

Posted by: ChE99 at December 11, 2025 11:53 PM (bLGb+)

263 I'm tardy. It's probably been asked. Any news on Teresa?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

From the Homan Thread earlier today:

289 Teresa is out of surgery. Doctor decided against resection and instead installed a pump to deliver chemo directly to the liver.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 11, 2025 08:38 PM (PQ0Vo)

I don't think there's been an update since that one?

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:53 PM (nhCoE)

264 Good evening, and thank you. You coming to the Club ONT Christmas Party? JQ has been decorating like crazy - trying to balance Doof and his multicolored lights vs. the white lights.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:49 PM (41CYW)

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Yes sir. I will be there with the colored lights in my heart. And a Blow Mold Santa 😃

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:54 PM (6p0Jv)

265 I will need that scaffolding back UNDAMAGED
Posted by: Moderately Helpful Miklos
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Please see the Disclaimer above. The Club Christmas Party will be more verbose, contain more words, and linguistic contortions.

Posted by: scampydog at December 11, 2025 11:55 PM (41CYW)

266 Thank you AOP and Mikeski. I don't know what that means for Teresa, but prayers continue.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 11, 2025 11:56 PM (6p0Jv)

267 Indiana republican senate tells dump you may be on a leqembi I.V. ;but were not! We got slaughtered again in tuesday's election. Putting black democrats from their districts into ours in the coming democrat wave election is stupid.

Posted by: raimondo at December 11, 2025 11:56 PM (f8qQO)

268 That's why I'm at the #3 house with Savatage and Fates Warning. Those are the most prog-metal of the bands on the lists, I think.

Posted by: mikeski at December 11, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)

Savatage was frigging great. Power of the night and The unholy were killer tunes. The lyrics for The Unholy were genius.

Raging spirits kept from the light, enslaved in worlds of doom
marching armies to the darker side, the devil's black platoon
Torches raised, no mercy, victory was theirs
Such was life, in the unholy years

You're not hearing shit like that in hair metal, thats for sure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:56 PM (snZF9)

269
Good evening, all. Thanks for the update on Teresa.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 11, 2025 11:58 PM (1N/bM)

270 Dark Litigator

Good to see you.

Miss you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 12, 2025 12:00 AM (mT+6a)

271 193 102 Diogenes -- Yes, I would be very happy to live in that house. May I suggest Chad and Jeremy, Freddie and the Pacemakers, and of course Simon and Garfinkel.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 11, 2025 11:10 PM (DK5Sh)

Fine additions, but keep the Simon and Garfunkle turned down. I'm not a fan.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (2WIwB)

272 (Cont.) That camp is part of the superfund. People find unexploded shells occasionally. But it has mostly been developed into a small municipal airport in Kennesaw GA. But that’s not where my house is. No. So one of the targets they used for training was a small mountain, hill really, in a city to the south. And that’s my house and the superfund location 2. I live on the firing solution for an over half century old Army training base. The Army provided me with a helpful pamphlet on what very boring thing to do when I find a shell and no guidance on what to bonk it real good with.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (Rh0Gp)

273 First World Problem... hear me out.
I grabbed up all my ~~colored clothes~~ clothes of color today, and took them downstairs to wash them in the machine. Unbeknownst to me, I dropped a sock on the way out of the room and didn't notice until hours later, after the laundry was cleaned and dried.

So, now I have a dilemma. Do I 1) just toss the matching sock back in the dirty clothes bin with the dirty one, and suck up being one pair short all week? Or, 2) do I just wear the dirty one with its clean mate sometime this week, so I now have a dirty pair to wash next time?

Or, 3) do I surreptitiously toss it in the garbage, pretending it got lost? (I think the universe would punish me for mocking its mysteries like that. Very dangerous.)

If I were living in the days of hand-washing everything, I would just hand-wash it and hang it out with the others. But, nooooo, we have these infernal machines....

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (D60l2)

274 Looks like raimondo found his mom's absinthe stash.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2025 12:02 AM (0RiMX)

275 AOP, that is a great list at your 238. I have a low threshold for repetition, but can listen to Burton Cummings sing over...and over...and...

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:02 AM (41CYW)

276 I always toss the extra sock back into the dirty basket.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:04 AM (jr4TK)

277 Thanks for the report on TiFW hard to know without asking a lot more questions

First recover from surgery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:05 AM (A0sqA)

278 How many here want another war. Even on faux show gutfeld the panel said no to another war. I thought you dumpsters voted for no more wars. I see tap is back.

Posted by: raimondo at December 12, 2025 12:05 AM (f8qQO)

279 253 I'm tardy. ...
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

That's nothing. Raimondo just got here.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 12, 2025 12:05 AM (gKWVE)

280 GWB, the choice is yours. I'd do option 1 or 2. The top of my dresser is the waiting area for matchless socks. It usually works out in a wash or two.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:05 AM (6p0Jv)

281 Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (D60l2)

Febreze the dirty sock and wear it with the clean sock.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:06 AM (A0sqA)

282 283 Looks like raimondo found his mom's absinthe stash.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Yeah, I don't know whether to laugh, delete, hire an interpreter, or snip it as a cautionary tale for (as you mentioned) an absinthe in moderation fable.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:07 AM (41CYW)

283 I haven't but I will.

I like his version of this with Marcus King a lot but this one strikes a bit closer.

https://tinyurl.com/bdefdv44
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:43 PM (viF8m)

Oh, that's nice! Not in a hurry to get anywhere. Love it. How is he effortlessly far better than anyone I've seen?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 12, 2025 12:08 AM (pIfcn)

284 And when things really didn't go well.
And not a single country song in there? Pfft. Lame.

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:10 AM (D60l2)

285 So, now I have a dilemma. Do I 1) just toss the matching sock back in the dirty clothes bin with the dirty one, and suck up being one pair short all week? Or, 2) do I just wear the dirty one with its clean mate sometime this week, so I now have a dirty pair to wash next time?

Or, 3) do I surreptitiously toss it in the garbage, pretending it got lost? (I think the universe would punish me for mocking its mysteries like that. Very dangerous.)

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (D60l2)

If Spock was here he would say 1 and 3 both leaves you a pair short, so you might as well do #1 and still have the socks. #2 is right out.

If it makes you feel better I always do #1, because the same frigging thing happens to me.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:11 AM (snZF9)

286 I would wonder what war the retard is going about but then I realized I don't care.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:12 AM (A0sqA)

287 Rhe war on drugs?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:13 AM (6p0Jv)

288 It all depends on how rank your feet are.

Not all of us are blessed in the feet. I could wear socks for two days no problem. Three days maybe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:14 AM (A0sqA)

289 @299 Don't care about the americans who will die in war against Venezuela. OK thats on you.

Posted by: raimondo at December 12, 2025 12:16 AM (f8qQO)

290 296 And when things really didn't go well.
And not a single country song in there? Pfft. Lame.
Posted by: GWB
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Fair. I litigated that in my small brain - thought the entire genre of those years would encompass every country song. Did ponder Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors for one section.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:16 AM (41CYW)

291 My Scoutmaster was out of his mind that we had to change our socks before going to bed when camping out and went on and on about how some dumb kid in 1959 woke up with his feet frozen off because he didn't change his socks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:16 AM (A0sqA)

292 And then I met a man who had no sock

Posted by: Miklosian sob story fundraisers LLC at December 12, 2025 12:14 AM (N7hqt)

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At this joint he is a poor man indeed.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary with no sock at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (6p0Jv)

293 Huh. I didn't have 'mondo figured for the CCP prison tramp. I always just thought he was demented and sad but normal... well normal for marxist fukwits and poorly executed bots.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (pIfcn)

294
Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

295 Viva Venezuela Libre!

or something

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:18 AM (A0sqA)

296 308
Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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This.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:18 AM (41CYW)

297 Was checking out the gift-wrap "fails" haha..

One year, I wanted to give hubby some tools and motorcycle goodies (because he had a Harley at the time) but could not find any plain black wrap! I ended up spray-painting butcher paper in my garage. Perfect flat black finish. Plus: had some black curling ribbon already.

My inspiration for this?

https://youtu.be/XTml9EN1nzE

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:19 AM (rdVOm)

298 Thank you, Helpful Miklos

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 12, 2025 12:19 AM (6U1c2)

299 @299 Don't care about the americans who will die in war against Venezuela. OK thats on you.
Posted by: raimondo

Then the drug overdoses, and gang violence (black kids shot!) are on you, right?

Posted by: mikeski at December 12, 2025 12:20 AM (nhCoE)

300 Country or Texas Country?
You haven't heard this one.

youtube.com/watch?v=tNk1LO8aMuA

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:20 AM (xgeFZ)

301 Feeling under ye weather and having myself a little pity party
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Hang in there man, there are days (and nights) like this, but they too shall pass.

Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2025 12:21 AM (Cjcf6)

302 305 My Scoutmaster was out of his mind that we had to change our socks before going to bed when camping out and went on and on about how some dumb kid in 1959 woke up with his feet frozen off because he didn't change his socks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 12, 2025 12:16 AM (A0sqA)

LoL you reminded me of the coldest my feet have been waking up. We didn’t do much winter camping but did some, and our troop camped out in Northern Arizona one February. It was quite fun, and the first night it snowed about 6 inches - a very quiet, fluffy snow. I had a good zero degree sleeping bag, but I was in an open ended pup tent and my feet stuck out the open end. I remember waking up trying to figure out why my feet were so damned cold, then I looked down and saw 6 inches of snow on the bottom foot of my sleeping bag.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:22 AM (jr4TK)

303
Do a search on DataRepublican's X feed for Venezuela. Under Maduro, it's become quite the hub for anti-American subversion by several bad actors. Antifa and the domestic commies. Iran and the Islamists. And the Chicoms.

A lot of this drug stuff is the Chicoms messing us up. Weaken us by all that drug carnage. And the Chicoms are trying to get in on the oil. Donnie Two Scoops ain't gonna let that happen. This is our backyard, and they ain't gonna fuck around with us there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:23 AM (w6EFb)

304 House parties? Can you say And? #1, #3, #4, #2.

At #3, I'm catching my second wind.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 12:24 AM (1zOXE)

305 Meaning of the aerosmith lyric "can't catch me cuz the rabbit done died" from sweet emotion is pretty much meaningless to anyone under 70.

Posted by: steven at December 12, 2025 12:24 AM (QOrsj)

306 Floyd Tillman (December 8, 1914[1] – August 22, 2003)[2] was an American country musician who, in the 1930s and 1940s, helped create the Western swing and honky tonk genres. Tillman was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:24 AM (xgeFZ)

307
Wartime Consigliere Rubio is big on this Donroe doctrine as well. I was reading something about why Rubio was a damned good choice for SS here, as opposed to some others who wouldn't have been as good on this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)

308
My inspiration for this?

https://youtu.be/XTml9EN1nzE
Posted by: JQ

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Not only is that an incredibly cool ad, it's an 18-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBE VIDEO. Holy crikies, I didn't know there was such a thing.

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (1N/bM)

309 I've camped at the Grand Canyon North Rim. No snow but it was in the 20s at night. It was cold.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (6p0Jv)

310 315 Country or Texas Country?
You haven't heard this one.

youtube.com/watch?v=tNk1LO8aMuA
Posted by: Braenyard
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Good one. Paid attention to lyrics, but liked the instruments. Correct - not heard that one before.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (41CYW)

311 The people at rock party #2 would give wedgies to people at the other 3 parties.

Posted by: steven at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (QOrsj)

312 Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:17 AM (w6EFb)

And if all else fails we'll just erase his world from orbit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:28 AM (snZF9)

313 Hey Horde, haven't been on the blog all day, it is getting to be crunch time for Christmas. I skimmed through all the comments looking for news of Teresa, thanks to those who re-posted the update.

Miklos, is there a Novdu food or Christmas tradition that you could share at the Christmas Party?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (0nHVk)

314 Something that I think is a complete scam is dryer lint traps. I have never even had to clean one. Complete bs. I don’t even check anymore. There’s obviously something really shady going on there. My hypothesis is the Illuminati are using it to track us. Or the lizard people are harvesting lint to power their vast underground facilities. Or, and this is the craziest possibility, I’m really just including it for completion sake, maybe my wife was always diligently cleaning it out instead.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (Rh0Gp)

315 Something that I think is a complete scam is dryer lint traps. I have never even had to clean one. Complete bs. I don’t even check anymore. There’s obviously something really shady going on there. My hypothesis is the Illuminati are using it to track us. Or the lizard people are harvesting lint to power their vast underground facilities. Or, and this is the craziest possibility, I’m really just including it for completion sake, maybe my wife was always diligently cleaning it out instead.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (Rh0Gp)

The wife is cleaning it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:31 AM (snZF9)

316 Not only is that an incredibly cool ad, it's an 18-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBE VIDEO. Holy crikies, I didn't know there was such a thing.
Posted by: Nothing Will Happen
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Yeah, youtoob has been around a while. I saw the commercial on regular tv, back in the day. (Hubby & I weren't even married yet, LOL.)

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:33 AM (rdVOm)

317
The wife is cleaning it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

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100%

Posted by: Nothing Will Happen at December 12, 2025 12:33 AM (1N/bM)

318 Delurking -

House party
—————-
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
The Cramps
X
X-Ray Spex
Generation X
Circle Jerks
James Brown

Merry Christmas to all - what an extraordinary group of talented people gather here every night; hard not to wake the wife from the not infrequent belly laughs caused by the various stories shared.

Posted by: Slash Buzz at December 12, 2025 12:34 AM (FstDi)

319
Oh, this is the ONT. I guess I can get that Nothing Will Happen sock off that works in every afternoon news thread.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 12, 2025 12:34 AM (1N/bM)

320 Here is the key to never having to do laundry again.

Dry the bras on high heat.

Posted by: Reforger at December 12, 2025 12:36 AM (TAT25)

321 Something that I think is a complete scam is dryer lint traps. I have never even had to clean one. [...] Or, and this is the craziest possibility, I’m really just including it for completion sake, maybe my wife was always diligently cleaning it out instead.
Posted by: banana Dream

The wife is cleaning it.
Posted by: Berserker

Or all your clothes are made of PVC.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: mikeski at December 12, 2025 12:36 AM (nhCoE)

322 If Trump gets his way the Western Hemisphere will be clear of communists. It may not be perfect by foreign power and money will be greatly diminished and the people (every jungle rat will have internet) will have much more sway over governments.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:37 AM (xgeFZ)

323 Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:30 AM (Rh0Gp)

The wife is cleaning it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 12, 2025 12:31 AM (snZF9)

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Yes. Mr. Scary doesn't often look at ours. A while back he said "you really keep it cleaned out!" D'uh! Was my reply.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:37 AM (6p0Jv)

324 The biggest problem with the party list:

No Vinnie, Rex and Dimebag.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 12:38 AM (1zOXE)

325 Saw some clips of Milei after speaking in a town square. He was surrounded by thousands of people wanting to just touch him. The world is ready to be free of tyrants.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:39 AM (xgeFZ)

326 Hi, Blondie!

Haha, there's another Harley ad that uses some of the same footage, but is also awesome:

https://youtu.be/LXWZf55KZt8

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:39 AM (rdVOm)

327
Every load, the lint screen gets full in my experience.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

328 309 I've camped at the Grand Canyon North Rim. No snow but it was in the 20s at night. It was cold.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:27 AM (6p0Jv)

7,000 ft elevation. Because the plateau doesn’t look mountainous, it’s easy to forget how high you are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:40 AM (jr4TK)

329 Here is the key to never having to do laundry again.

Dry the bras on high heat.
Posted by: Reforger
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Do not recommend. Bras are *ridiculously* expensive.

It'll cost ya!!!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

330 I'm having lint problems. I need to replace the dogs.
However, being lazy I searched Amazon for a solution. For sale are various objects the vendors claims will capture lint from the water.
The reviews say otherwise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:42 AM (xgeFZ)

331 Every load, the lint screen gets full in my experience.
Posted by: publius

Buy some new bath towels, and you can empty it 2-4 times per load.

And make another new bath towel out of all the lint you recover.

Posted by: mikeski at December 12, 2025 12:42 AM (nhCoE)

332 7,000 ft elevation. Because the plateau doesn’t look mountainous, it’s easy to forget how high you are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2025 12:40 AM (jr4TK)

It was wonderful. Not crowded. There was hiking. We rode a mule. It was worth being cold at night

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:46 AM (6p0Jv)

333 318 Delurking -

House party
—————-
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
The Cramps
X
X-Ray Spex
Generation X
Circle Jerks
James Brown

Merry Christmas to all - what an extraordinary group of talented people gather here every night; hard not to wake the wife from the not infrequent belly laughs caused by the various stories shared.
Posted by: Slash Buzz
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Generation X - early Billy Idol. Excellent choice. Thanks for delurking.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:46 AM (41CYW)

334 Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Save some in a waterproof container for starting campfires. Or for the Burning Times, whatever.

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

335 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (sYc19)

336
272

And that’s my house and the superfund location 2. I live on the firing solution for an over half century old Army training base. The Army provided me with a helpful pamphlet on what very boring thing to do when I find a shell and no guidance on what to bonk it real good with.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 12, 2025 12:01 AM (Rh0Gp)

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And just think -- in 20 years I can retire!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (azNOR)

337 >>Trump is not going to start a boots-on-the-ground regime change war. He's just making Maduro an offer he can't refuse. This is the Donroe doctrine, reasserting American control of our hemisphere. Chicoms and Iran and even Rooskies have been encroaching, thanks to Biden weakness. Donnie Two Scoops is putting his foot down. Maduro is the example being made.

One of the worst parts of our current clickbait society is that most people listen to the media spin not what people say, particularly not Trump.

It's not a mystery what Trump is doing if people listen to what he says.

The Monroe Doctrine.

https://tinyurl.com/ypnf3hp7

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2025 12:48 AM (viF8m)

338 335 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo
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That's a helluva delurk. Enjoy your travels and happy anniversary.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (41CYW)

339 Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo

Congrats on your anniversary! Happy sailing!

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (rdVOm)

340 334 Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Save some in a waterproof container for starting campfires. Or for the Burning Times, whatever.
Posted by: JQ
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My aunt's favorite saying, Burn the house down and run off by the light of the fire.

She had that approach to life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (xgeFZ)

341 Had some excitement in this little town tonight. Two semis caught fire and some pressurized tanks exploded about a half mile from here. Pretty sure I heard the walls and windows rattle five separate times. Seems to be all calm now, though.

Bonus, found out my 2 meter HT can receive the fire department frequencies.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 12, 2025 12:49 AM (lUFok)

342 Hi, my name is reason, and I'm a long time reader, occasional poster, mostly lurker now.

Posted by: reason at December 12, 2025 12:50 AM (B5sfV)

343 JQ, my Dad is a retired Fire Marshal. You betcha I was taught to keep thaf dryer lint cleaned out.

And PSA to the Horde: don't burn Christmas wrapping paper in your fireplace. Good chance it will set your chimney on fire.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:51 AM (6p0Jv)

344 Epic Games is giving away Hogwarts Legacy this week, if that would be of interest to anyone.

Posted by: Methos at December 12, 2025 12:51 AM (vSvIl)

345 338 335 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!
Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo
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Be careful around the islands that's where the 'fishing boats' are and there may be some big steel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:51 AM (xgeFZ)

346 >>> Dryer lint is extremely flammable. Save some in a waterproof container for starting campfires. Or for the Burning Times, whatever.
Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

It makes a great fuel source.

Posted by: The Lizard People at December 12, 2025 12:52 AM (Rh0Gp)

347 And PSA to the Horde: don't burn Christmas wrapping paper in your fireplace. Good chance it will set your chimney on fire.

Next you'll tell me in a pile under the Christmas tree is a bad idea, too.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at December 12, 2025 12:53 AM (lUFok)

348 Hello y’all. Delurking as requested to say hi. I am currently somewhere in the southeastern Caribbean sailing on an anniversary celebration journey with the Mrs. It’s been a great time so far. Best to all of you!

Posted by: The Ghost of PugBoo at December 12, 2025 12:47 AM (sYc19)

Hello!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 12, 2025 12:53 AM (6p0Jv)

349 I'm following orders and delurking. I was in Costco yesterday and there were no signs of Christmas, except holiday treats in one section. I was shocked, and a little sad not to see the pretty Christmas decor for sale. I predict swimsuits will be on the sales tables next week.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at December 12, 2025 12:54 AM (FFn+L)

350 “The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers,”
_Botta Bing Bottom Line

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 12, 2025 12:54 AM (xgeFZ)

351 dryer lint is flammable but only cotton lint is any good for kindling. I've tried general mixed lint and it didn't work nearly as well as i expected. the various different fibers, and whatever anti-flammable chemicals they put into kids clothes and bedding made for a lackluster starter.

I'll take those little firestarter cubes that come in a yellow box with me on campouts.

This concludes tonight's lesson from Scoutmaster Reason.

Posted by: reason at December 12, 2025 12:54 AM (B5sfV)

352 When the kids were little and we used to do a lot of arts and crafts around the house I had a recipe for a dryer lint modeling compound. It was lint, and wheat flour, maybe self-rising flour and some oil of some kind, clove I think. We used to make some fun stuff with that. I never had a shortage of lint.

Hi Blondie.

JQ, I loved that Harley Christmas ad, I don't remember it from way back when.

vmom, I hope that you feel better and can come to the Christmas party on Saturday. I am making your chicken wings from the Deplorable cookbook. They are so, so good.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 12, 2025 12:55 AM (0nHVk)

353 342 Hi, my name is reason, and I'm a long time reader, occasional poster, mostly lurker now.
Posted by: reason
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A fine trilogy. If JQ or Miklos are around, they'll set you up with a drink - they don't let me behind the bar anymore.

Posted by: scampydog at December 12, 2025 12:56 AM (41CYW)

354
Woman gives birth in driverless taxi carrying her to hospital:

https://is.gd/dRggbC

That is just, yep, dystopian indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 12, 2025 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

355 Back in the day when we used to drink whiskey, Crown Royal was the standard stocking stuffer. Not so much since the COVID delusion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 12, 2025 12:57 AM (1zOXE)

356 Miklos (N7hqt)

What did you do *this* time?

Posted by: JQ at December 12, 2025 12:57 AM (rdVOm)

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