Wednesday Morning <s>Rant</s> Christmas Greeting

Wednesday Morning Rant Christmas Greeting

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Horde! As they all do, this year has had its ups and downs but this is not the time to dwell on them. As I work on my preparations for tonight's meal and tomorrow's gatherings, I hope all of you are able to celebrate the holiday joyously!

I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas! Please enjoy a Christmas open thread and some Christmas music as you hopefully juggle your preparations, spend time with family, enjoy a feast and praise G-d as we wind down the year. The HQ is a unique place and I am, as always, grateful to be a part of it. For those of you dropping in today, once again, Merry Christmas. For anyone checking in later, I hope you had a wonderful and joyous holiday!

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Joy to the World

Frank Sinatra - The Christmas Waltz

Berlin Philharmonic and Choir - Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah
This embed may not work, but it is an excellent version and worth a click-through if needed

Ricardo Montalban & Esther Williams/Red Skelton & Betty Garrett - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Not exactly a Christmas song, but synonymous with the season nonetheless

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 First

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:00 AM (QVmho)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:00 AM (c115l)

3 1st?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

4 Nope.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

5 They know what time it is, I'm a non nooding bastidge.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:01 AM (QVmho)

6 They know what time it is, I'm a non nooding bastidge.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Non-nooders are equivalent to drivers who don't use their turn signals.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

7 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)

8 Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!

Omce Junior-ette crawls out of bed and I won't wake her, I'll be back in my office trying to engrave cast acrylic red sheets to finish off my Christmas Ornament run.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:03 AM (QVmho)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Ron Karenga suggests that if you're going to set your girlfriend on fire, now is the time to do it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (nWPIJ)

11

Non-nooders are equivalent to drivers who don't use their turn signals.
Posted by: Bulg

We only had a Beemer for maybe 4 months right before we left Germany in '87. PCS car to get us through shipping oir good one home before final outprocessing.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (QVmho)

12 I guess I should get off my ass and start prepping the place for the festivities tomorrow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

13 We only had a Beemer for maybe 4 months right before we left Germany in '87. PCS car to get us through shipping oir good one home before final outprocessing.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (QVmho)

Ever drive the Autobahn?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

14 Merry Christmas to all the hordemates!
So glad I was able to meet so many of you this year in Texas.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

15 Merry Christmas Mannix.

I assume you will Be providing a photo of a scantily clad buxom blonde wearing a Santa hat later in he day?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (UJWr0)

16 Indeed. I was planning to drop in and wish all you gentiles Merry Christmas tomorrow, but since we're doing this early:

Merry Christmas, Horde. All things considered, it's been a great year. Praise the Lord, have a great holiday with your families, and prepare to make next year even better!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (BI5O2)

17 Merry Christmas to all the hordemates!
So glad I was able to meet so many of you this year in Texas.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Esther Williams was yummy. Pretty fair swimmer, too.

Posted by: I Was In The Pool! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (oftw2)

19 The Christmas spirit.

Chris Original Black Navy Vet
@Chris4Perkins2
Warning to maga. I'm not the guy to attack. I'll talk about every member of your family. Not even your kids are off limits. I'm going for the jugular every chance I get. I have white family and friends that I love. But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

20 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

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He sounds nice.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (nWPIJ)

21 @Chris4Perkins2
Warning to maga. I'm not the guy to attack. I'll talk about every member of your family. Not even your kids are off limits. I'm going for the jugular every chance I get. I have white family and friends that I love. But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

Me timbers. They be a shiverin...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

22 Experts: Tarriffs will destroy everyone’s 401k!!!

Reality:

S&P500 up 17% this year
Nasdaq up 22%

If this is 401k destruction I never want it to end.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (UJWr0)

23 Merry Christmas, Horde. All things considered, it's been a great year. Praise the Lord, have a great holiday with your families, and prepare to make next year even better!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Back at ya, YD!

Do you celebrate with Joe Mannix?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

24
It's AI, and SFW (as well as small pets). Goes to freepic.com.
https://is.gd/Uq2Mb3

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:08 AM (QVmho)

25 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: A scantily clad buxom blonde wearing a Santa hat at December 24, 2025 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)

26 Who is this Chris fellow who hates white kids?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:08 AM (UJWr0)

27 Esther Williams was yummy. Pretty fair swimmer, too.
Posted by: I Was In The Pool!

Mark Steyn has noted that she looked sexier in normal clothes than in a swimsuit.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

28 Mary Christmas.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (OaZlZ)

29 19 The Christmas spirit.

Chris Original Black Navy Vet
@Chris4Perkins2
Warning to maga. I'm not the guy to attack. I'll talk about every member of your family. Not even your kids are off limits. I'm going for the jugular every chance I get. I have white family and friends that I love. But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

Counterpoint : You, Chris Perkins, are exactly the guy to attack. I'm not getting deported to Liberia because you want to Chimp Out online and make certain whites want to deport anyone with any black DNA in them.

Shut the f*** up.

Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (UnA8+)

30 Back at ya, YD!

Do you celebrate with Joe Mannix?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

Yup, we do Hanukkah for us and Christmas for the gentiles in the family. Christmas trees and menorahs all over the place.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (BI5O2)

31 S&P500 up 17% this year
Nasdaq up 22%

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UNEXPECTEDLY!

Posted by: The Experts at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (nWPIJ)

32 Ever drive the Autobahn?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

Oh the stories!!! Loved the autobahn!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (2WIwB)

33 I didn't know there was a Gabriel Trump.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (pkeXY)

34 Betty Garrett was a cutie.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (qFwJc)

35 Yup, we do Hanukkah for us and Christmas for the gentiles in the family. Christmas trees and menorahs all over the place.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Cool. Have a great one!

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

36 Mark Steyn has noted that she looked sexier in normal clothes than in a swimsuit.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

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So the rubber swim cap didn't do it for him?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (nWPIJ)

37 Pure fake evidence.

https://is.gd/7O5MHZ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

38 Left then: oh my god Trump is killing the stock market everyone’s retirement is gone

Left now: who cares about stocks only evil billionaires benefit

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (UJWr0)

39 We're no longer big fans of Christmas celebrations.

Posted by: Hessians In Trenton at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (oftw2)

40
Ever drive the Autobahn?
Posted by: Sponge

Not with the PCS POS. My '82 VW Jetta diesel, yes. 43mpg, and would get up to 100mph. The suspension was squishy above that so i never went any faster. Had to watch for Hansel and Gretle zooming past at nearly 140mph carefully too.

Would lurve to take my Ducati Multistrada over there.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (QVmho)

41 You know WHO ELSE loved the Autobahn...?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

42 Nooding is superfluous.

There is one page on the site. Easy to check. It's not like there are threads popping up in random secret obscure confusing places.

Plus it's fun to pour all your effort into a comment only to see that it's either been 8 minutes since the last comment, or the thread is slowing to a sudden crawl. Part of the charm. In my day we had no noods and we wore an onion on our belt.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (IuFEo)

43 mornin' horde...we're withstanding a brutally calm day down here in south America, slightly cloudy, fierce temp of 73 with a prediction of 80 again...may start Christmas shopping after lunch

Posted by: DanMan at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (8uzBS)

44 >>Ever drive the Autobahn?

In a previous job I had a Swiss distributor that also covered Germany for me. He had a Mercedes station wagon. One week we did a bunch of meetings with his customers in Germany.

It's pretty wild to cruising along at 110 mph and have cars passing you like you're doing 50.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (viF8m)

45 may start Christmas shopping after lunch
Posted by: DanMan

My brother used to wait to do all his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. Adrenaline rush, I guess.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

46 NORAD tracks Santa website: noradsanta dot org

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (NFX2v)

47 Just went out got the booze so mostly ready

Posted by: doug at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (Hy+R4)

48 42 Nooding is superfluous.

There is one page on the site. Easy to check. It's not like there are threads popping up in random secret obscure confusing places.

Plus it's fun to pour all your effort into a comment only to see that it's either been 8 minutes since the last comment, or the thread is slowing to a sudden crawl. Part of the charm. In my day we had no noods and we wore an onion on our belt.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (IuFEo)

Besides, you've got a two thread buffer.

You don't get auto-banned until you post in the 4th thread down.

Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (UnA8+)

49 I am in the midst of reading a fascinating overview of the various “humanist” philosophers (Feuerbach, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Comte) from the perspective of a Catholic priest, Vincent Micelli. The Gods of Atheism.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (EXyHK)
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I would be skeptical of that classification of Comte.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (OaZlZ)

50 Letting the dough cool in the fridge while I eat my yogurt. Lily the Cat is begging for her tithe.

KUSC is Christmas music solid now through Christmas Day.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (kpS4V)

51 Esther, stay away from Ceti Alpha V

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (pkeXY)

52 Wait, garrett's first name is Betty?

/That tracks ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 11:15 AM (Js0cN)

53 *My brother used to wait to do all his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. Adrenaline rush, I guess.*

I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Ceramic broccoli on the drug store shelf at midnight at December 24, 2025 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)

54
You know WHO ELSE loved the Autobahn...?
Posted by: Bulg

Kraftwerk

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:15 AM (pkeXY)

55 Well, work is pouring in now, so I'm out.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 11:16 AM (ufSfZ)

56 51 Esther, stay away from Ceti Alpha V

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (pkeXY)

=====

Good thing we're heading to Ceti Alpha VI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

57 And YD, whatever you do this Christmas, DO NOT play cards with Mannix' chimp. That guy cheats like an MFer.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

58 Well, yeah, it's profitable but that's because their overhead is so low.

Abandoned Minneapolis building listed as Somali daycare received $2 million in taxpayer money this year 🤔

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)

59 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)

I would only need one sentence to flip him out.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (IuFEo)

60 "Letting the dough cool in the fridge while I eat my yogurt."

Is that what you kids are calling it now?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)

61 Merry Christmas to you all!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Merry Christmas, MP4! Hope you have a great one.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)

62 Is that what you kids are calling it now?
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)
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You should go to one of our box socials!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (kpS4V)

63 Eris, if you made my dough, don't cool it. Chilled dough blorphs.

Room temp all the way.

And as The Paolo noted, let sheets cool between batches.

It will not spoil while you have breakfast, just cover the bowl and let it sit while you eat.

(I know there is a school of thought on all baking doughs/pastries to chill. In my experience, that is a no for a lot of things, and the recipe I gave it is a huge no)

Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (enw9G)

64 I had to boot Esther Williams out of a swimming pool in Jim Crow's Delaware because of her damned Jheri-Curl.

I chased her into the parking lot and beat her with a chain, too.

You can't be too permissive with these people. They're unpredictable.

Posted by: Brandon at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (BI5O2)

65 Not even close to 650 words. Fail

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (u73oe)

66 Alton Brown said it's not worth it to cook goose. If you dislike turkey, you're not improving anything by spending an extra $100 on a lake bird.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (mlg/3)

67 *Abandoned Minneapolis building listed as Somali daycare received $2 million in taxpayer money this year.*

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)

68 Happy Hanukkah & Merry Christmas, Mannix & Hordelings!

[And I'm pretty sure Mannix & YD are Jewish ... NTTAWWT]

/Seems like every day is Festivus around here with continual airing of grievances ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (Js0cN)

69 TJM, do your boys still believe in Santa Claus?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (77rzZ)

70 Dammit, Barb, I'm always hearing "chill dough to retain cookie shape"!!!!

Lies all the way down.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (kpS4V)

71 Ever drive the Autobahn?

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I have many times. Spent some time living in Europe. Not in Germany itself but close enough to go there often. I spent a couple of weekends just driving up and down on the a-barn for fun.

It is kinda weird when you’re cruising at 130,135 and a car passes you on the left lane as if you’re stopped. And not talking commie kilometers and hour, 130 mph. 😀. Fastest I ever went was about 155 that was all my car could handle.

The thing I really loved in all W. Europe was people do NOT drive in the left lane. That’s for passing only. Period. If there’s traffic then yeah left lane is used as a travel lane. But out in the open road, there’s no left lane cruising. We could learn from the Euros in that aspect.

Unfortunately the No speed a-bahn is shrinking. Partly cuz “safety” partly cuz enviro bullshit. If you want to experience it you probably don’t have a lot of time left.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (UJWr0)

72 49 I am in the midst of reading a fascinating overview of the various “humanist” philosophers (Feuerbach, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Comte) from the perspective of a Catholic priest, Vincent Micelli. The Gods of Atheism.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (EXyHK)

All that and his daughter still ended up in Cabaret.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (7JH4o)

73 I only chill pizza dough and biga preferments. Everything else is room temp all the way.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (IuFEo)

74 But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion.

I wish you especially a Merry Christmas.

Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (jCHfL)

75 You should go to one of our box socials!
Posted by: All Hail Eris

I hate those things. I talk to the boxes, but they never talk respond. What a snoozefest.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

76 and if you are concerned about anything growing in it while you eat, you'll be baking it at 400 degrees.

No chilling if you did the recipe I posted.

(said in Edna Mode voice)

Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (enw9G)

77 I'm pulling for you!

Ghanaian man builds arks, says God warned him of flood that will destroy the earth on Christmas

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

78 69 TJM, do your boys still believe in Santa Claus?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (77rzZ)

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The little one probably does. The older one hasn't for a few years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)

79 My Christmas season of joy continues. My sister had some minor surgery on her wrist last week. The wound area started to bother her over the weekend. Got so bad she stopped at the hospital yesterday to get them to take a look.

Turns out the wound got infected and they had to operate on her again last night and clean it out and now she has to stay in the hospital at least until Friday so they can figure out what caused it.

This has not been my favorite Christmas.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (viF8m)

80 Oh cookies??? I really need to stop joining conversations I'm not a part of.

Yeah I chill some cookie doughs overnight. Deepens the flavor into more caramel notes.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (IuFEo)

81 Nooding is superfluous.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (IuFEo)
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It's a cultural courtesy.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (OaZlZ)

82 This has not been my favorite Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw

Sorry to hear that, Jack.

You keeping warm?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

83 Wondering if I should send my Christmas cards out or just save them to send next year.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (ZTJjv)

84 Ghanaian man builds arks, says God warned him of flood that will destroy the earth on Christmas

The flood is obviously a metaphor for Mariah Carey's "I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

85 I thought y'all might enjoy Gavin Newsom's holiday wishes post (on Friday, Dec. 19):

“I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND, EXCEPT OUR CLINICALLY ILL FELON PRESIDENT, STEPHEN MILLER, JD VANCE, JD’S COUCH, JD’S FUTON, KASH KANT KATCH ‘EM PATEL, KOSPLAY KRISTI, PARTICIPATION-TROPHY PETE, KAROLYN’ LEAVITT, SECRETARY BRAINWORM, AND MIKE ‘ALWAYS ON HIS KNEES’ JOHNSON. — GCN.”

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (0sNs1)

86 Watching the 1963 Christmas episode of Petticoat Junction. Homer Bedloe is trying to shut down the Cannonball Express, as usual.
It's a shame that Kate Bradley, being a widow, never hooked up with Sam Drucker. Coulda saved some money on groceries for the Shady Rest.

Posted by: Newt Kiley at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (oftw2)

87 Yes Eris, a lot of it is lies, damned lies.

The chilled dough melts a little first thing in oven before starting to bake, especially with all that butter.

Burned edges, and blorphing.

Take your time with your yogurt while it comes completely to room temp.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:24 AM (enw9G)

88 Make sure you jingle all the way.
No one likes a half-assed jingler.

Posted by: Ho ho ho at December 24, 2025 11:24 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Trapped at work

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 11:24 AM (i+wP0)

90 Ah, Petticoat Junction. I liked the ginger and the brunette. I think the ginger was Paul Henning's daughter in real life.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

91 Not to be Tonypete Downer but I'd like to request prayers for my son's first girlfriend and her family. Her son passed away unexpectedly on Monday. He was 3 years old.

What a shock for them all. Ugh.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (cYBz/)

92 WHY IS GAVIN SHOUTING?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (UJWr0)

93 Harris Teeter had a decent discount on their beef rib roasts, so I bought one. Dry brined and sitting in the fridge for the smoker tomorrow.

Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (rj6Yv)

94 Willowed
58 Merry Christmas Eve, Horde.

I'm going to attempt making cookies again.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:46 AM (kpS4V)

***

I went with Christmasy snickerdoodles and the classic toll house chocolate chip. Followed up with raspberry thumb prints and mini-pumpkin bread loaves.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (2WIwB)

95 now she has to stay in the hospital at least until Friday so they can figure out what caused it.

This has not been my favorite Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw

We'd love to see you but not cross-country the day after you get out of Intensive Care.

tis the season for relative silliness.

Posted by: DaveA at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (FhXTo)

96 Well, London deserves it.

Greta Thunberg and pro-Palestinian activists once again blocked Piccadilly Circus, one of London’s busiest commercial and tourist areas, during the peak Christmas shopping period.

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Doom goblins gotta doom goblin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

97 Trapped at work
Posted by: Skip

That damn Gruber guy at it again? Throw him off the top of the tower.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

98 Why are the pro Palis still protesting , didnt they get their precious cease fire?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:26 AM (UJWr0)

99 WHY IS GAVIN SHOUTING?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (UJWr0)
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Ben Rothlisberger has taken over his X account.

Or, more probably, whether that wrote is true or not, to imitate Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (OaZlZ)

100 Merry Christmas Eve everyone!!!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (4q/mG)

101 Pickalilli Circus?

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

102 Ah, Petticoat Junction. I liked the ginger and the brunette. I think the ginger was Paul Henning's daughter in real life.
Posted by: Bulg

I thought the gals bathed in the town's water supply - mistakenly as it turns out.

No matter, still hot.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (cYBz/)

103 Please remember all the members of the armed forces who are far from home on Christmas. You tell yourself it’s just another day, but it isn’t.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (u73oe)

104 >>You keeping warm?

Kind of bundled up so not too bad, better than I had thought. I'll be fine but thanks for asking.

Kinda bummed my sister has to spend Christmas in the hospital. Both my niece and nephew had their first babies this year and my sister had planned a big Christmas for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (viF8m)

105 Well, London deserves it.

Greta Thunberg and pro-Palestinian activists once again blocked Piccadilly Circus, one of London’s busiest commercial and tourist areas, during the peak Christmas shopping period.

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Doom goblins gotta doom goblin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

***

They let you pee in the streets there right?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (2WIwB)

106 https://is.gd/oRaIGQ

“I don’t even know if I’m a Democrat anymore,” the son of former President Joe Biden said Monday in a wide-ranging interview on “The Shawn Kelly Show.”

Whadda ya say? Time to let Huntie into The Big Tent?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (3nLb4)

107 90 Ah, Petticoat Junction. I liked the ginger and the brunette. I think the ginger was Paul Henning's daughter in real life.
Posted by: Bulg

Yes Linda Kaye was Paul's daughter. The whole Hooterville universe sprang from Paul's mind because of summering in the Ozarks. Linda was a tomboy who loved and collected critters and was the inspiration for the Ellie May Clampett character.

Posted by: Tales From Hooterville at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (oftw2)

108 Scott Adams Destroys Gavin Newsom’s 2028 Hopes Just by Reading His Resume

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Obozo had a single ply resume and it didn't stop him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

109 He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (gbOdA)

110 WHY IS GAVIN SHOUTING?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Hand jive is getting expensive, yo~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (mlg/3)

111 "But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion."

Bless his heart.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (qFwJc)

112 Merry Christmas, Horde, Ace, and Cobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (dK+Kv)

113 My wife decided the presents need bows and ribbons. So off she goes to the Dollar Store.

*shakes my head*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (NwnyJ)

114 Why are the pro Palis still protesting , didnt they get their precious cease fire?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:26 AM (UJWr0)
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Palestine is not free, from the river to the sea.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (OaZlZ)

115 Say, what's in this drink?

Posted by: Texican ette at December 24, 2025 11:32 AM (SNf74)

116 I thought y'all might enjoy Gavin Newsom's holiday wishes post (on Friday, Dec. 19):

“I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND, EXCEPT OUR CLINICALLY ILL FELON PRESIDENT, STEPHEN MILLER, JD VANCE, JD’S COUCH, JD’S FUTON, KASH KANT KATCH ‘EM PATEL, KOSPLAY KRISTI, PARTICIPATION-TROPHY PETE, KAROLYN’ LEAVITT, SECRETARY BRAINWORM, AND MIKE ‘ALWAYS ON HIS KNEES’ JOHNSON. — GCN.”

He is really bad at this.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

117 All that and his daughter still ended up in Cabaret.

I’m often reminded of the line “Do you still think you can control them?”

Especially when hearing the news out of Minnesota or New York City.

Also, from a similarly-titled movie, “They’re asleep all over America.”

We learned a lot of lessons from World War II. They seem to be the wrong ones. The lessons that only mattered once, not the timeless lessons that matter throughout history.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (EXyHK)

118 "But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion."

I pray for my enemies.
And I also give thanks I live in America where we have the 2nd amendment.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (2WIwB)

119 “I don’t even know if I’m a Democrat anymore,” the son of former President Joe Biden said Monday in a wide-ranging interview on “The Shawn Kelly Show.”

Whadda ya say? Time to let Huntie into The Big Tent?

As long as it's one of those tents they use to cover a house before they pump it full of insecticide, sure.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

120 My wife decided the presents need bows and ribbons. So off she goes to the Dollar Store.

*shakes my head*
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You know. . . . . The Dollar Store around here has Hallmark cards for $1 or less. Nice ones. MUCH more preferable to those $7 ones at other places. Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (cYBz/)

121 120 You know. . . . . The Dollar Store around here has Hallmark cards for $1 or less. Nice ones. MUCH more preferable to those $7 ones at other places. Just saying.

but a 3x5 card and a sharpie gives it that "made with love" touch!

Posted by: anachronda at December 24, 2025 11:34 AM (v3pYe)

122 Just finished reading an article about a father who defended his son at Kentucky State University from a mob of thugs (about 30 of them). The criminals had burglarized the son's dorm room, and when the son called the cops and reported the crime, the son and his roommates were severely beaten. The KSU administration rolled its eyes and whistled. This went on for awhile until Mom and Dad rolled in to work things out. A campus cop showed up to escort them. The thug mob coagulated around the family and proceeded to pound everybody into a pulp. The cop stood aside. Dad grabbed Mom's concealed weapon and shot two thugs. One thug died.

Guess what the DA did. Yep. Went to the Grand Jury, too. They no-billed Dad and he was released. I hope he sues KSU for every last dime.

Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (rj6Yv)

123 Know what's missing from that Sinatra video? Bottle of Jack. Must be behind the sofa.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (MZ+PY)

124 You know. . . . . The Dollar Store around here has Hallmark cards for $1 or less. Nice ones. MUCH more preferable to those $7 ones at other places. Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete

Tonypete is a Cheapskate-even on Christmas!

Posted by: Big Spender at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (oftw2)

125 — GCN.”
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (0sNs1)

I don't think he understands the concept of "the Christmas spirit." Maybe he needs visits from some Christmas ghosts.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (FMtrg)

126 Ever drive the Autobahn?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

Oh the stories!!! Loved the autobahn!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (2WIwB)

Me too. One of the top things I liked about Germany.......coming in third under the women and adult beverages.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (g8Ew8)

127 But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion."

Bless his heart.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (qFwJc)
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Yeah. He's a black man who "goes for the jugular", which i would take to mean says the most offensive things possible.

So, what makes the N-word off the board (besides that i won't use it)?

But, Trump needs to be more compassionate to violent multi-felons.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (OaZlZ)

128
but a 3x5 card and a sharpie gives it that "made with love" touch!
Posted by: anachronda

Tru dat! Except for Thanksgiving - for Turkey Day one has to draw an outline of their hand and then color the 'feathers' with crayons.

And then eat them if you are a Jarhead.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (cYBz/)

129 re chilling dough, and the like.

At the risk of incurring CBD's wrath, a lot of foodies are more concerned with ritual than results.

Their results are often enhanced by their many gadgets and accoutrements, as well.

Most people have not the time, money, space, etc to go through the religious process and trappings; they want a pie, cookies, a meal that looks good and more importantly tastes better.

I made damn near flawless cookies with that recipe with my mom's old wooden rolling pin and heavy foil disposable cookie sheets when my kids were little, and rewashed the sheets.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (enw9G)

130 The complete account of what happened at Kentucky State University can be found at the link below.

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/58s2hutz

Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:37 AM (rj6Yv)

131 Oh no!

Greta Thunberg Arrested After Backing Palestine Action Group at London Protest

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)

132 IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE GAVIN IS YELLING AT ARE ACTUALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLESBERGEF at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (u73oe)

133 Scott Adams Destroys Gavin Newsom’s 2028 Hopes Just by Reading His Resume

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Obozo had a single ply resume and it didn't stop him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM

obama had no record that could be tied to him, none. He was an enigma that could be presented anyway the democrat machine wanted to.

newsom has a ton of failure tied to him that will be exploited in the primary and if he wins, in the general.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (0N4FZ)

134 I think I drank too much yesterday. But I think the worst thing I said or wrote was my desire to "fondle your tits."

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (qFwJc)

135 Newsom could do what he did well or poorly. He did the latter.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (UJWr0)

136 Guess what the DA did. Yep. Went to the Grand Jury, too. They no-billed Dad and he was released. I hope he sues KSU for every last dime.
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (rj6Yv)

Be a shame if after the Christmas break,the university prez was found face down, naked, and stoned on the 59 yard line.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (2WIwB)

137 I hope he sues KSU for every last dime.

Universities with a demonstrated inability to ensure the safety of students and the orderliness of campus should be ineligible for any federal funds, including student grants and loans.

That would fix that shit up real fast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)

138
Shawn Farash
@Shawn_Farash

TRUMP SINGS: "TIS THE SEASON TO DEPORT 'EM"

https://is.gd/LnXCuk

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (WWHbJ)

139 Greta gets arrested all the time. Has she ever actually done any time for these arrests?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:39 AM (UJWr0)

140 I'm musing on the contrast between J.D. Vance's amusing self-deprecation and Newsome's painfully awkward and ineffective attempts to DESTROY Trump and his people. It will be an entertaining 2028 campaign season.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

141 The BBC is glad to report that the UK military has done a review of the safety features on Santa's sled, and has given permission for him to visit the island.

Seriously.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 11:40 AM (0U5gm)

142 Forget the Alamo!

Colombian President Petro Calls for Texas to Be “Returned” to Mexico

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

143 IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE GAVIN IS YELLING AT ARE ACTUALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOBS!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLESBERGEF at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (u73oe)
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They're no match at hand-dancing, though.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:41 AM (OaZlZ)

144 "Cheapskate" has such negative connotations. I prefer the word "frugal."

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:41 AM (qFwJc)

145 The BBC is glad to report that the UK military has done a review of the safety features on Santa's sled, and has given permission for him to visit the island.

Too bad they're getting coal...even in Newcastle...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2025 11:43 AM (OUMaO)

146 "Cheapskate" has such negative connotations. I prefer the word "frugal."

What about nickel-pincher? Where do you land on nickel-pincher?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:43 AM (Riz8t)

147 Please take a moment to shed a tear for Alec Baldwin.

"The Oscar-nominated actor, 67, spoke with the podcast Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction on Friday about what he experienced personally in the wake of the traumatic incident.

Alec Baldwin said his health has suffered tremendously in the four years since the tragic fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film Rust, in which the gun was in his hand.

"What it's done to my health, I mean, if I told you what my health conditions have been since October 21st of 2021 - it's taken 10 years off my life - it's taken at least 10 years off my life. I can tell you, it broke every nerve in my body, spiritually, financially, work-wise, my career, my wife, my kids, my friends, my health.

The people I was most concerned about, the people I had the deepest pain for, were my wife and my kids."

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 24, 2025 11:43 AM (0sNs1)

148 I think I drank too much yesterday. But I think the worst thing I said or wrote was my desire to "fondle your tits."

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (qFwJc)
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Not something you want to write on a card to mom.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (OaZlZ)

149 Merry Christmas, Horde, Ace, and Cobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (dK+Kv)

Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (IuFEo)

150 JFC that KSU story…

Not surprising to read this part.

“As Law&Crime previously reported, two people were struck by bullets. One of them, 19-year-old De'Jon Fox, died, ”

De’Jon. One of those maga types I bet.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)

151 Turns out the wound got infected and they had to operate on her again last night and clean it out and now she has to stay in the hospital at least until Friday so they can figure out what caused it.

This has not been my favorite Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (viF8m

Well, at least she's alive, and getting care. You can't smoke your devil's weed in the hospital, but you can at least bring in some ham and whiskey.

You can still make it a decent Christmas, Straw.

All jokes aside, prayers for your sister, and Mery Christmas

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (BI5O2)

152 I have an old school friend who enjoys cooking and baking in her retirement (from her good govt job with full pension and bennies that allowed her to retire to a historic home with acreage overlooking a river in New England, in a completely pimped out kitchen.)

One of her biggest social media whinges during lockdown was that it prevented her from jaunts to Europe to sign non-disclosures at quaint B&Bs and inns in Tuscany, Sicily, France to cook with first press EVOO right from the source at an antique faily owned facility in the mountains! Which is the ONLY EVOO she EVER uses now, as she also social medias about constantly, whenever anyone mentions using a recipe with olive oil.

She always chills her pie crust, made with only organic unsalted butter, and posts pictures of some of the homeliest pies I've seen. The damn crust is a mess, and always with burnt edges.

I'm sure they taste fine. (cont)

Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (enw9G)

153 What about nickel-pincher? Where do you land on nickel-pincher?

*stealthily substitutes "nickle" for "nickel"*

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

154 Not all AI is bad.

https://tinyurl.com/4ueszyed

Goes to Rumble. Short.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

155 Nothing more pathetic than an internet tough guy.

Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 11:45 AM (ZxPkt)

156
Greta Thunberg and pro-Palestinian activists once again blocked Piccadilly Circus, one of London’s busiest commercial and tourist areas, during the peak Christmas shopping period.

You can never find a soccer hooligan when you need one.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:45 AM (pkeXY)

157 "What it's done to my health, I mean, if I told you what my health conditions have been since October 21st of 2021 - it's taken 10 years off my life - it's taken at least 10 years off my life. I can tell you, it broke every nerve in my body, spiritually, financially, work-wise, my career, my wife, my kids, my friends, my health.

The people I was most concerned about, the people I had the deepest pain for, were my wife and my kids."

-What an asshole.

Posted by: Joey Nichols at December 24, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

158 Frugal is buying the wife a vacuum cleaner for Christmas.

Cheapskate is making her drink chicory with her toast for breakfast.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:46 AM (BI5O2)

159 "What it's done to my health, I mean, if I told you what my health conditions have been since October 21st of 2021 - it's taken 10 years off my life - it's taken at least 10 years off my life. I can tell you, it broke every nerve in my body, spiritually, financially, work-wise, my career, my wife, my kids, my friends, my health.

The people I was most concerned about, the people I had the deepest pain for, were my wife and my kids."

What's that? Halyna? Fuck that bitch. She had it coming. -- Alec Baldwin, probably

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)

160 I think I drank too much yesterday. But I think the worst thing I said or wrote was my desire to "fondle your tits."

I believe this is one of those quotes where context is everything.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 11:47 AM (3nLb4)

161 Tightwad

Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (ZxPkt)

162 nickel-pincher? not familiar with the term penny-pincher I remember. But it makes no cents anymore.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (qFwJc)

163 It's a cultural courtesy.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (OaZlZ)

My face is my courtesy.

(that's a play on a line from some movie - my face is my warrant. Nevermind)

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (IuFEo)

164 As time goes by Christmas becomes more and more about stress, performance, obligations, worry, and guilt. The magic disappears all too quickly.

Posted by: Joyeux? No way. at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (TbWk/)

165 I would have guessed Japanese shrimp, but no.

(NewsNation) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded a frozen shrimp recall including more than 83,000 bags of the raw crustaceans for potential radioactive contamination.

The shrimp, imported from Indonesia and sold nationwide under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brands, may have come in contact with Cesium-137, a radioactive substance.

https://is.gd/h13s70

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

166 Glad your Sister got the hand looked at and treated. A late neighbor of mine had a seemingly minor hand injury at work (he was a longshoreman), it got infected and sepsis took him, toot sweet). Missing Christmas by a day is very minor in comparison.

Posted by: Christmas Goose at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (oftw2)

167 Colombian President Petro Calls for Texas to Be “Returned” to Mexico

By weird coincidence, we have a flag for just that occasion.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (3nLb4)

168 nickel-pincher? not familiar with the term penny-pincher I remember. But it makes no cents anymore.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (qFwJc)
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The US Treasury makes no more cents.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (OaZlZ)

169 One of my grandmother's first jobs in this country was cook at a mining camp in South Dakota.

Back in the days when you had to stoke a woodstove, and produce edible food three times a day from it. Haul water, the works

"Good cook" had a distinct meaning then, far removed from gadgets and rituals, other than a lot of cast iron and how to proof bread, etc.

Her cookies were outstanding--delicious, simple ingredients, perfect. Brought to every Sunday dinner in old Quaker oats boxes lined with wax paper.

When my mom and her sibs were kids in the Depression, Grandma paid the doctor in rye bread if they got sick, at his request.

She was a great cook.

Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (enw9G)

170 Sorry Jack. I will say a prayer.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (IuFEo)

171 164 As time goes by Christmas becomes more and more about stress, performance, obligations, worry, and guilt. The magic disappears all too quickly.

The magic miraculously reappears with grandchildren.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

172 Yes Linda Kaye was Paul's daughter. The whole Hooterville universe sprang from Paul's mind because of summering in the Ozarks. Linda was a tomboy who loved and collected critters and was the inspiration for the Ellie May Clampett character.
Posted by: Tales From Hooterville

The funny thing about the Hooterville universe: The Clampetts knew and interacted with some of the folks back in Hooterville, and the folks in Hooterville knew and interacted with Oliver and Lisa Douglas. But there was an ep of Green Acres where Oliver and Lisa were in the stage version of the Beverly Hillbillies. So, to the Douglases,the Clampetts were just characters in a TV show. But I guess that kinda makes sense given the surreal nature of GA in general.

Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

173 Enjoying some White Castles for lunch and doing some light shopping before the rush.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 11:51 AM (hZbl2)

174 JFC that KSU story…

Not surprising to read this part.

“As Law&Crime previously reported, two people were struck by bullets. One of them, 19-year-old De'Jon Fox, died, ”

De’Jon. One of those maga types I bet.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)
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A dollar to donuts, Kentucky State University receives federal money. If ever a university deserved a Department of Education root-and-branch investigation, KSU should be at the top of the list. DOJ, too. Read it.

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/58s2hutz

Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:51 AM (rj6Yv)

175 I have a tip for any young men who might be in this thread:

You can be a pauper and spend every penny you have on a woman, and she'll call you cheap for buying crappy stuff.

You can be as rich as Croesus, and buy her exquisite things, and she'll call you cheap for not spending every penny.

Just pinch those pennies. You'll get called cheap no matter what, but you'll have the last laugh, because you have those pennies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (BI5O2)

176 A dollar to donuts, Kentucky State University receives federal money. If ever a university deserved a Department of Education root-and-branch investigation, KSU should be at the top of the list. DOJ, too. Read it.

It's an HBCU. Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

177 Colombian President Petro Calls for Texas to Be “Returned” to Mexico

Colombian President Petro is unaware of history. The US didn't take Texas from Mexico. We left on our own.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (ExV1e)

178 164 As time goes by Christmas becomes more and more about stress, performance, obligations, worry, and guilt. The magic disappears all too quickly.

Posted by: Joyeux? No way. at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (TbWk/)

If you focus on the reason for the celebration, it makes it much more lovely. It is a Christian celebration of the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. The seculars co-opted it to make money and smudge our religious beliefs. Ignore them, make a simple meal your family loves, spend time together and if you are a believer, spend time in prayer and worship. If you are not, then spend time doing something free and fun. It becomes onerous only if you let it!

Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 11:53 AM (wLjpr)

179 Ghanaian man builds arks, says God warned him of flood that will destroy the earth on Christmas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

And the prophet - and the money the people gave him - will ascend to the sky before the dawn of the 26th.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (uQesX)

180 And Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to the Horde, God bless you, every one!!

Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (wLjpr)

181 Minnesota Mayors Warn of Looming Financial Crisis Under Walz’s Leadership

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Well, just steal a few billion. It's the Minnesota way!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (L/fGl)

182 Pixley is a real town between Bakersfield and Fresno. But not on the US. 99

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:55 AM (qFwJc)

183 Colombian President Petro Calls for Texas to Be “Returned” to Mexico

Tell me you're a commie who's worried about what Trump's going to do to you so you're trying to gin up some resentment of the US without telling me you're a commie who's worried about what Trump's going to do to you so you're trying to gin up some resentment of the US.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

184 My woman would mean cheap as a compliment.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:55 AM (IuFEo)

185 Ghanaian man builds arks, says God warned him of flood that will destroy the earth on Christmas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

And the prophet - and the money the people gave him - will ascend to the sky before the dawn of the 26th.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (uQesX)

Did he build arks? The video I saw had him walking around making noise (I had the sound off so I don't know if he was speaking, or chanting, or singing, or grunting) but they never showed any of the five arks he was supposed to have built. Or the animals for them. Or the families to populate them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)

186 Minnesota Mayors Warn of Looming Financial Crisis Under Walz’s Leadership

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But how can this be? Diversity is our strength. Surely the 100k Somalis on welfare are creating an economic boom that will fill the coffers of every city in the state with tax revenue.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (UJWr0)

187 I would live anywhere in the Valley between the Hooterville, Pixley, Crabwell Corners Metroplex.

Posted by: Country Fried Jake at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (oftw2)

188 The African Space Program.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (PIdvu)

189 Why was there no EAR ON CHRISTMAS this year?
Did the christianists finally surrender?
I miss it
The WAR ON CHRISTMAS had become an American tradition usually starting before Thanksgiving. And sometimes as early as October.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (8sSRd)

190 175 I have a tip for any young men who might be in this thread:

You can be a pauper and spend every penny you have on a woman, and she'll call you cheap for buying crappy stuff.

You can be as rich as Croesus, and buy her exquisite things, and she'll call you cheap for not spending every penny.

Just pinch those pennies. You'll get called cheap no matter what, but you'll have the last laugh, because you have those pennies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The grim reality is that a woman is attracted to you or they are not pretty fast upon knowing a person. Stupid romcoms emphasize grand romantic and expensive gestures--if she digs you, none of that is necessary. If she doesn't, then you are relying on buying her love via presents, etc. which is never worth it.

You can discard the gold diggers pretty fast by giving small thoughtful gifts and time spent listening to your date. They turn up their nose at that, then a relationship is probably not worth pursuing.

If they insist on dinner at the most expensive restaurant in town or demand expensive gifts, then your relationship is and will be transactional.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)

191 Please remember that, when you are pinching an old-style United States nickel, you are partially pinching a bison, and not a buffalo. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)

192 Ghanaian man builds arks, says God warned him of flood that will destroy the earth on Christmas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

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Hope he leaves the mosquitoes behind this time.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 11:59 AM (u73oe)

193 Mmmmm Christmas Elephant Ear.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:59 AM (UJWr0)

194 Can we haz a 150% tax on EBT?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:59 AM (PIdvu)

195 160 I think I drank too much yesterday. But I think the worst thing I said or wrote was my desire to "fondle your tits."

I believe this is one of those quotes where context is everything.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Fondling one's own tits as a male is frowned upon by polite society.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)

196 Hmmmm. something something about never using a flood to destroy mankind again.

Next time fire.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (qFwJc)

197 Fondling one's own tits as a male is frowned upon by polite society.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)

And now you understand Windows 11. -- Bill Gates

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (ExV1e)

198 Colombian President Petro Calls for Texas to Be “Returned” to Mexico
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But it rebelled from Mexico, before it voluntarily became a state in the US. It would be strangely contra-modern to suggest that ideological rebellions are illegitimate.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (OaZlZ)

199 Mary was an actual teenybopper 14 or 15 yo when she got ghosted

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (8sSRd)

200 Will be in an out during the next couple of days. Have the Covids for Christmas. Came down with it yesterday.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (WDjG6)

201 Nevermind the Ear on Christmas, I have my Eye on Christmas.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (IuFEo)

202 Will be in an out during the next couple of days. Have the Covids for Christmas. Came down with it yesterday.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (WDjG6)

Ugh. Get better soon. Lots of water. And paxlovid if you can handle it.

Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 12:03 PM (IuFEo)

203 Only 28% of kids in Texas schools are white. Texas will be Mexico soon enough.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (UJWr0)

204 So, ASS, you're saying it was statutory rape?

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (qFwJc)

205 197 Fondling one's own tits as a male is frowned upon by polite society.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)

And now you understand Windows 11. -- Bill Gates
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Problem with Gates is Windoze 11 is designed to steal every bit of such personal data including photos for teh Microsux Mothership, probably to feed their AI crap models.

Course Gates might be an exhibitionist for all I know. Nasty Gollum like creature.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)

206 I would live anywhere in the Valley between the Hooterville, Pixley, Crabwell Corners Metroplex.
Posted by: Country Fried Jake at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (oftw2)
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I would prefer the land where Jed was shouting for some food.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (OaZlZ)

207 Paul Henning wanted Bea Benaderet for the Granny role, but after testing Irene Ryan, even Bea said "There's your Granny".
So, Henning made Bea Cousin Pearl and a year later created Petticoat Junction and Kate Bradley was born.

Posted by: Hooterville World Guardian at December 24, 2025 12:05 PM (oftw2)

208
Whig,

Best wishes to you.

Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 12:05 PM (3ek7K)

209 Nevermind the Ear on Christmas, I have my Eye on Christmas.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (IuFEo)

Eye of the tiger?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:05 PM (UJWr0)

210 Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 11:53 AM (wLjpr)

Shouldn't you be reading??? (insert smiley here, because they ain't woikin')

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 12:06 PM (uQesX)

211 Barb, the cookies just came out of the oven and look great. This will be my go-to cookie recipe. Thanks!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 12:06 PM (kpS4V)

212 If god didn’t intend on tits being fondled he wouldn’t have made them so fondleable.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (UJWr0)

213 Universities with a demonstrated inability to ensure the safety of students and the orderliness of campus should be ineligible for any federal funds, including student grants and loans.

That would fix that shit up real fast.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)

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I was a practical joker in college -- and nearly got for the following:

Among the denizens of our row house was a bright and sweet but effeminate young man whom was the frequent butt of jokes.

[This was out of character for me; every fight I got into before then was defending kids picked on my bullies.]

One night while he was showering in a locked community bathroom, I helped others lower my roommate down by a rope through a slightly open window to abscond with his clothes and towel.

We all had a good laugh waiting outside the bathroom door as he flew into a panic and smashed his fist through the opaque window in the door -- nearly severing a tendon (he was a concert pianist).

I was summoned by the Dean Of Students and told: if anything further happened to this other student through the end of the year -- I would be expelled; I had now become his protector.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (EAgl+)

214 They bombed Cambodian Casinos.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (PIdvu)

215 But it rebelled from Mexico, before it voluntarily became a state in the US. It would be strangely contra-modern to suggest that ideological rebellions are illegitimate.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (OaZlZ)

Further, if the US were to say, "Gosh, we're super sorry. We'll get rid of Texas." Texas would revert to being an independent country.

I recommend that Mssr. Petro become acquainted with the Treaties of Velasco.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)

216 Ugh. Get better soon. Lots of water. And paxlovid if you can handle it.
Posted by: ...
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Already took first dose a few minutes ago. I aggressively treat any respiratory virus with antivirals as I always end up with either bronchitis or pneumonia if I don't. Thought it was the flu but the tests show teh Vid instead so went to a doc in the box first thing this morning to confirm
diagnosis and get prescription.

Abbvie is actually pretty good about their ambassador program and got a response. The ritonavir component in Paxlovid can create dosage issues with some medications and Rinvoq is one of them. Had to check dosage levels with Abbvie to avoid complications.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6)

217 Mary was an actual teenybopper 14 or 15 yo when she got ghosted
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Ewww gross. Way too old.
- Joe Biden

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (UJWr0)

218 I had absolutely no idea that Mary was a teen when Jesus was born., a totally startling revelation. I may have to rethink my faith/ s

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (looXz)

219 I recommend that Mssr. Petro become acquainted with the Treaties of Velasco.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)
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Not to mention: his own business.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:09 PM (OaZlZ)

220 I recommend that Mssr. Petro become acquainted with the Treaties of Velasco.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

As well as the Fissure of Rolando.

Posted by: Lux Interior at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (oftw2)

221 I was summoned by the Dean Of Students and told: if anything further happened to this other student through the end of the year -- I would be expelled; I had now become his protector.
Posted by: ShainS
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Shades of the movie, My Bodyguard. Decent 80's flick.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)

222 Ther must be an extra Hydrogen bomb lying around we don't need.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (PIdvu)

223 Why was there no EAR ON CHRISTMAS this year?
Did the christianists finally surrender?

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No.

It's because their orange god-king now dominates every aspect of your puny life.

Bow to him.

Do it now.

Deus Vult.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (BI5O2)

224 I recommend that Mssr. Petro become acquainted with the Treaties of Velasco.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Petro is a sniveling pos druggie and former member of a terrorist party. Poor Colombia for having him as president.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (WDjG6)

225 Um.... Mary was betrothed, asshole.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (OaZlZ)

226 Zoe Saldana is saying her Avatar character is racist. Yet another reason not to see it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (2vrAX)

227 I had absolutely no idea that Mary was a teen when Jesus was born., a totally startling revelation. I may have to rethink my faith/ s
Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (looXz)

I don't know how old Mary was but I do know that she was married so, apparently, she wasn't considered too young at the time. I refuse to judge people from 2000+ years ago by the mores of today.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

228 I think she was about 18. She had to graduate HS before her parents would let her marry.

Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (qFwJc)

229 Nood. Christmas Eve strippers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)

230 222 Ther must be an extra Hydrogen bomb lying around we don't need.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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If Maduro goes, cartels won't be able to keep Petro in office. He is pretty much despised in Colombia as a drugged out clown. The winds are changing in Latin America.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)

231 Hey OrangeEnt!!! I read 1/3 of the book yesterday - I am really enjoying it!! So far, only a couple of typos, otherwise, engaging, characters are developing apace, and everyone is likeable. Solid sci fi novel!!

Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (wLjpr)

232 Merry Christmas everybody!

Posted by: Chief Engineer Scotty at December 24, 2025 12:13 PM (2GIh1)

233 Zoe Saldana is saying her Avatar character is racist. Yet another reason not to see it

It's always amusing to see if you can figure out WTH they're talking about before they tell you. But as you say, it's not a good enough reason to waste part of my limited time on earth seeing it.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 12:13 PM (Riz8t)

234 Joseph is considered probably a young as 16. After all, he had already "entered manhood".

Peter could have been in his upper teens when he became a disciple.

Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:14 PM (OaZlZ)

235 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e

I was being sarcastic . The troll (Aliassmithsmith)
Thinks that nobody knew this before?!!

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (7RYym)

236 Hey OrangeEnt!!! I read 1/3 of the book yesterday - I am really enjoying it!! So far, only a couple of typos, otherwise, engaging, characters are developing apace, and everyone is likeable. Solid sci fi novel!!
Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (wLjpr)

Woo hoo! Thanks. Hope the editor likes it too.

Ah crap. A nood call, Moki probably won't see me response.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (uQesX)

237 Thanks YD.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 12:16 PM (viF8m)

238 I saw Doc In The Box open for The Code Blues at The Cassandra Complex in '03.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:18 PM (EAgl+)

239 I saw Doc In The Box open for The Code Blues at The Cassandra Complex [h/t ellipsis] in '03.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (EAgl+)

240 Most people have not the time, money, space, etc to go through the religious process and trappings

A few years ago I received a copy of two Rose Levy Beranbaum books, one of which was The Baking Bible. It was fascinating to go through it, and I learned a lot. But I will never in real life take that much time and that many steps. At one point she recommends rolling your dough in a wine cellar, because that’s the ideal temperature.

She really made me love the old-school recipes that would give in one or two sentences what she would take three or four pages to do.

One cup stewed pumpkin, one-half cup milk, one-half cup sweet cream, two-thirds cup sugar, salt, two eggs, spice to suit.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (EXyHK)

241 @177. The US didn't take Texas from Mexico. We left on our own.

This is true. See what happens when you let a bunch of foreigners into your country?

Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (G1OIb)

242 Oh the stories!!! Loved the autobahn!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (2WIwB)

Me too. One of the top things I liked about Germany.......coming in third under the women and adult beverages.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (g8Ew

Were I not a married woman, I'd let you know that I am of German descent and therefore like driving fast and hard liquor (but I never ever mix the two).

Posted by: pookysgirl has to wait a few weeks to drink again at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (Wt5PA)

243 Just pinch those pennies. You'll get called cheap no matter what, but you'll have the last laugh, because you have those pennies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (BI5O2)

Not so fast my friend …

Posted by: Divorce Court at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (pY+ea)

244 See what happens when you let a bunch of foreigners into your country?

The Texas revolution was supported as much by “original” Texans as by newcomers. Santa Anna had just done a Star Wars and taken over/dissolved the Mexican legislature. Most of the northern states of Mexico didn’t like this, and Texas went so far as to rebel. And, with the grace of God, successfully.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 12:26 PM (EXyHK)

245 Shades of the movie, My Bodyguard. Decent 80's flick.

Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)

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Ah, yes -- never saw it but remember my stepdaughter watching it -- and that a young Adam Baldwin was in it.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:30 PM (EAgl+)

246 229 Nood. Christmas Eve strippers.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)

Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:36 PM (RuTUS)

247 Saw the nood, just want to leave this *here* because
I dunno why...

XH (see where this is going?) was a cheapskate. A tightwad. He grew up poor but we, as a married couple, were not poor and both had jobs.

To clarify-- what's his was his; what's mine was his too. So, he always got whatever he wanted (stereo equipment, camera, car accessories) and then told me we couldn't afford what I wanted (microwave oven, set of *matching* dishes, basic stuff).

One Christmas, he actually gave me a toothpick holder. With toothpicks!-- it was a cute little wooden wishing-well, with fancy lil picks that looked like they were turned on a lathe... you know those Japanese ones...

But really. A freaking toothpick holder. And that was *it* after he'd unwrapped a nice haul of goodies: things I knew he'd like.

Now, before you all say I was ungrateful-- I thanked him politely, and I really liked the little thing-- it was the callousness of him that hurt me: "You know I hate Christmas." It was such a chore for him to think of anyone other than himself.

Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:17 PM (rdVOm)

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