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Overnight Open Thread [12/29/2025]
30 years ago I was a pro-immigration, pro-interventionist, pro-surveillance-state idiot. It took a long while, but I finally figured out what the founding fathers were getting at. Let's mind our own business. let people do what they would like as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, stay out of their business, support our friends and kill our enemies. Pretty simple when you think about it.
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Delta Dawn, by Tanya Tucker. Yeah...good American music.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: mindful webworker - a time to refrain from embracing at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (ahS/I)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (zdQuL)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (USk4X)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:29 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 10:29 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM (viF8m)
I like giraffes. They're one of the reliable animals at the San Diego Zoo. Darn big cats are always hiding.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)
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It's well known that Mt. Everest leans unfairly on other peaks in the Himalayas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (nWPIJ)
But the damned giraffe makes the photo!
"Mount Kilimanjaro is twice the height of a giraffe!" -- super SMAHHHHRRT journalist
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (ULPxl)
I just saw this on a new site tonight:
Review Concludes CBD Not Effective Against Pain
Whaddya think, Mr D?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (47diA)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=360797
Posted by: mindful webworker - blatts from the patts at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (dESj/)
Today I drove up to the Tecovas store, about eighty miles NW of me, and purchased a pair of their "Earl" model in "Scotch goat," meaning the color and then the leather. I talked myself into a 9.5 size instead of a 10 because my ancient Justin Ropers are 9.5. They felt okay as I walked around in the store. But these boots, besides being heavy, are hot and uncomfortable. I wore them just now on the carpet in my place, including at my desk, and found my toes itching. My foot needs more room.
So, back I go on Wed. or Fri. to try the size 10s in the same model I passed on. Things just aren't simple, are they?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (n7rxJ)
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Plus they're a kosher animal.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (USk4X)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=360797
Posted by: mindful webworker - blatts from the patts at December 29, 2025 10:31 PM (dESj/)
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What are you? Some kind of commie rabble-rouser?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (nWPIJ)
🤔🧐
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 29, 2025 10:33 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)
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A geographic pimple then?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:33 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (ahS/I)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (zdQuL)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:34 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Willowed prolly at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (RIvkX)
So, back I go on Wed. or Fri. to try the size 10s in the same model I passed on. Things just aren't simple, are they?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I mail ordered a pair from them. The boots were beautiful but simply did not fit so I returned them with no issue. I eventually visited one of their storefronts and was fit properly. I have oddly shaped feet so a personal fitting was necessary.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (cYBz/)
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They're okay for a quadruped.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (jc0TO)
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Obligatory African big game reference:
https://youtu.be/OyXlf6b_azk
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (USk4X)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025
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In a memoir, Michael Crichton tells the story of his visit to Mt. Kilimanjaro, and how it is (theoretically) possible to *walk* all the way to the top. Apparently there is a trail of not too steep a grade. No climbing equipment required.
The problem turned out to be, he found, that pretty early in the ascent, the air gets thin up there. Their guides were adapted to it; he and his companions weren't. Things did not go well. He survived, but it wasn't pleasant.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:35 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (S/Y4j)
I think it's nothing short of brilliant.
It's got a planning and build system that is like nothing I've seen in the AI space.
And with all of the TUI apps that are being developed, and window managed linux setups that are terminal heavy, the future of computers may be terminal interfaces and bloated GUI's may be a thing of the past.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (XV/Pl)
Dear AOSHQ attorneys,
Please excuse my son to open-carry a plastic butterknife. To spread cream cheese on my bagel.
Posted by: mindful webworker's mom at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (dESj/)
Posted by: Capt. Spalding at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (nWPIJ)
~ ~ ~
To All: Have a Happy and Safe New Year's!
Next year may the lottery gods bless the Horde.
Posted by: RickZ at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside
Frightened of this thing that I've become
Posted by: Toto at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:30 PM
*nods sagely*
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)
Chandler, Hammett, and David Drake are probably better. Leigh Bracket was probably as good. I would think that Larry Correia would be better too, but he doesn't do short stories, he is a novel author.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (rbvCR)
He was searching for Somali child care facilities with actual children.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025
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I thought I needed a snugger fit around the heel. My Dan Posts and my Justin ropers both fit perfectly and have some comfortable slip back there, and room for my toes. I guess different brands vary a bit even within the same size.
I also liked the Cartwright model in cowhide for $30 more.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM (Q/uAJ)
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You were singing the Helen Reddy version.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Capt. Spalding at December 29, 2025 10:36 PM
What was an elephant doing in your pajamas?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (Wnv9h)
I'm still very sick. The meds that the ER doctor prescribed me did not work. I'll have to contact my GP come the new year and see how she wants me treat me. I hope it isn't more antibiotic, the ER antibiotic made me so nauseous.
Colitis is horrible. I really feel for people with IBS.
Posted by: Joyenz at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Early appointment?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (ahS/I)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (Wnv9h)
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I don't see how that's relephant.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:39 PM (USk4X)
Not quite as exotic, but still lovely.
Posted by: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching at December 29, 2025 10:39 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025
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Dunno about Drake or even Correia, but yes on Chandler and Hammett. I'd include Dorothy Parker and Ring Lardner, too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:39 PM (wzUl9)
Also an excellent unit for measuring length.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:38 PM (ahS/I)
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At synagogue. Fast day. Breakfast before dawn. Now gotta go.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (USk4X)
I'm sure it's pretty impressive in person.
They aren't freestanding, but the Chugach mountains near Anchorage are impressive in that way. When I first went there coming from the Colorado Rockies, I heard the tallest one wasn't even 14,000ft, so I was like "feh, that's no big deal."
But I wasn't thinking about the fact that that's counting from sea-level, without a continental watershed a mile deep beneath them, and when I actually got there I said "holy crap, these mountains are ENORMOUS."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Probably. I was only a toddler.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:40 PM (Q/uAJ)
The streak hits 9 as the Blue and Gold beat the Blues 4-2
Doof, Jackstraw … we’re officially back
Posted by: browndog in the crease at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (TTAGa)
I've done a couple game drives in South Africa. Both on preserves but still very cool. They take you out early in the morning and then later in the afternoon because that's when most animals are up and eating.
First morning we left the lodge about 6 am. Pitch black. As we got on the trail we started descending a hill and there was a bunch of trees in front us and the dirt road banked hard left and downhill. The game warden stopped because game warden. Slowly a ginormous giraffe head munching leaves arose behind the trees. And another. And another. 6 in total. Just looking at us looking at them while the munched on leaves.
One of those moments I will never forget. Till I saw the baby elephant.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (3ek7K)
It means it came out of the sky, obviously.
Posted by: Jon Anderson at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (nhCoE)
I eventually visited one of their storefronts and was fit properly. I have oddly shaped feet so a personal fitting was necessary.
Posted by: Tonypete
Did they have something ready to wear or did they have to make one special?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (pkeXY)
And rust really is a bitch on a 20 year old truck.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:41 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Angela, Veronica, or Ben?
Posted by: Thom McCan at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Joyenz
Make sure your GP prescribes the correct size pill. You don't want them falling out.
Apologies for being a butthead.
Sorry you are feeling poorly. Colitis and IBS prove that the butt controls the entire person.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 10:29 PM (pkeXY)
No bra straps, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Crusader
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He and Bob Wills were shunned by the Grand Old Opre. Welcomed by the Louisiana Hayride.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ahS/I)
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025
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I understood he had some help on that one from Wesley and Fred Rose, his producers. Not to take anything away from him, now. This verse:
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live --
I'm so lonesome I could cry . . .
-- is superb and a credit to any songwriter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I have a monstrously high instep so, they got me into zippered ropers off the shelf. Love them.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (zdQuL)
Chandler, Hammett, and David Drake are probably better. Leigh Bracket was probably as good. I would think that Larry Correia would be better too, but he doesn't do short stories, he is a novel author.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (rbvCR)
Correia has a few short stories out, in collections he's edited (eg MHI stuff) or participated in.
... or is that like "What Star Wars prequels?"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:43 PM (ynpvh)
Or the kitteh.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q+gd/)
I agree that Hemingway was a great short story writer and The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls are also great reads. And he was an asshole.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (bHeYx)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (MXMX4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Angela, Veronica, or Ben?
Posted by: Thom McCan at December 29, 2025
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I loved Angela C. when I was twelve.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (wzUl9)
Now you're talking Tetons.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (zdQuL)
Yes, but are they the Grand Tetons?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)
Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (8zz6B)
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He took the picture.
Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:45 PM (MXMX4)
I'd expect crosshairs in that case...sneaky sniper.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (bHeYx)
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)
Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (8zz6B)
It's also free-range...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)
And rust really is a bitch on a 20 year old truck.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Had to drop the tank on my 77 Suburban. Talk about a collection of everything you don't want on your face.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (ahS/I)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)
Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And Devil's Tower is a petrified ginormous tree stump.
Fight me!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:47 PM (bHeYx)
One HELL of a ski-lift...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (ynpvh)
https://is.gd/2i40q8
Posted by: Archimedes
I think they photoshopped a Babylon Bee article under the NYP header.
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (Wmg4n)
I think it's because their nosey and were always looking at the other animals over the shrubs. Eventually their neck started to grow...then the legs...etc. Whatever it was...they really suck at Hide-n-Seek. They used to be better.
Posted by: Orson at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (dIske)
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)
Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
And Devil's Tower is a petrified ginormous tree stump.
Fight me!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:48 PM (cYBz/)
Must be one without tree rings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2025 10:32 PM (Q+gd/)
Well, it's a volcano. They can pop up in many places, unconnected with the kind of tectonics that builds mountain ranges.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:46 PM (8zz6B)
It's also free-range...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Well, that's good. Keeping volcanoes in a cage is just cruel.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:49 PM (lUFok)
Key West near the Truman Annex would be a great place for a meetup. Some wouldn't survive but that's a price we should be willing to pay.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (bHeYx)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Well, that's good. Keeping volcanoes in a cage is just cruel.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
You can, though, because fire can't melt steel.
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is a weird novel. It starts out fairly high in energy, slopes down like a sagging bridge, then rises to the climax and finale. (The Gary Cooper/Ingrid Bergman film is exactly the same way.) In the middle section, everybody keeps talking about "in the milk of thy fathers" and "blowing the bridge," to the point you say, "Get on with it then!"
But the love scenes between Robert Jordan and Maria are very well done (note his technique of using "thou" and "thee" to show their intimacy), and the final scene is one of the greatest in fiction.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (wzUl9)
... or is that like "What Star Wars prequels?"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (ULPxl)
They are good, but Correia does better at a slow burn and a slow roll-out punctuated by action. And he does that exceptionally well.
Drake and Correia are incredibly transparent writers, their prose does not stand in the way of the story in any way. Drake was a lawyer who did technical writing, and Correia is a recovering CPA and the experience really shows.
I liked about half of Islands in the Stream by Hemmingway, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)
that's roughly 1,160 giraffes tall.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (KL9cQ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)
Been there, JS. And would go back again.
Of course, my liver was much younger then.
Posted by: RI Red at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (LMRVO)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q/uAJ)
Got in at 10:15 last evening. House is fine, I am fine, Suburban is fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (bHeYx)
Oh, there are at least a few myths about ginormous world trees, Yggdrasil for example...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (bHeYx)
Look what they eat and where the live.
Go see them in their natural habitat. It will not only make sense it will be a trip you'll never forget.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (viF8m)
>>Had to drop the tank on my 77 Suburban. Talk about a collection of everything you don't want on your face.
Yeah, the 6 bolts that hold the bed on were nearly rust fused and required heat and Archimedes Lever to loosen. The lock ring was pretty much fused to the pump and the rust build up was incredible and I had to destroy the ring and do major cleanup.
The only silver lining is that none of the fuel line fittings broke or snapped.
Anyway, the Vortec Lives another day.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 29, 2025 10:55 PM (KAi1n)
that's roughly 1,160 giraffes tall.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (KL9cQ)
5032 1/3 Herve Villechaizes
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:55 PM (ynpvh)
that's roughly 1,160 giraffes tall.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
5032 1/3 Herve Villechaizes
Posted by: jim
When Herve was on the mountain, he hollered - "The plain, the plain!"
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:56 PM (cYBz/)
Colitis and IBS prove that the butt controls the entire person.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)
So true!
Posted by: Joyenz at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (MXMX4)
https://youtu.be/rc9Nly-5Yj8
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (bHeYx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (wzUl9)
Of course, my liver was much younger then.
I bet you were all decked out in your fly boy uniform and swatting away the girls like flies.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 10:57 PM (MXMX4)
Ski Ride to Hell > Highway to Hell?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 10:58 PM (ynpvh)
Anyway, the Vortec Lives another day.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (XV/Pl)
The technique is: locate fuel pump on tank. Mark out a space on truck box or on car floor. Cut out large square of metal with air chisel. Repair or replace fuel pump. Patch hole in floor by any means expedient. Welding might be a little dicey.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:58 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:59 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 10:53 PM (bHeYx)
Yeah, it was tedious.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:00 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 11:00 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2025 11:00 PM (XV/Pl)
Driving through Utah, mostly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:01 PM (8zz6B)
If you've got a brother-in-law you aren't fond of, get him drunk and have HIM weld it! What's the worst could happen?
Posted by: LRob in OK at December 29, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:02 PM (bHeYx)
"For sale,
baby shoes.
Never worn."
Posted by: a.moron at December 29, 2025 11:02 PM (X5Jzz)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (KL9cQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (ahS/I)
If you've got a brother-in-law you aren't fond of, get him drunk and have HIM weld it! What's the worst could happen?
----
He survives AND you need a new truck?
Posted by: clarence at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (MXMX4)
Do it. If you aren't up for a big game drive I highly recommend this place. Everything about it is amazing.
https://www.ivorytreegamelodge.com
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 11:04 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: Goddessoftheclassroom at December 29, 2025 11:05 PM (USyCi)
I liked about half of Islands in the Stream by Hemmingway, by the way.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)
________
I preferred the half by Dolly Parton. Hemingway couldn't hold up his end of the duo. Porter would have done better.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at December 29, 2025 11:05 PM (gf7Ez)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:06 PM (BI5O2)
Actually I don't know if it blew or not. Probably. Or a surprise someday?
I used to get a pimple like this now and then in my distant youth or the trauma known as high school. On my chin. The only part of my face I got pimples. Yes, I was that perfect. I would let it either blow or go elsewhere but not touch it (my mother told me to leave it alone). My ex friend used to take needles to hers like a nitwit and has scars (she's evil so don't feel sorry for her).
We still need snow, by the way. Lots. My former calendars used to say, "snowed 2" pretty frequently each week as I love it so much. This year I am not even writing down "dustings" as it ticks me off so badly. There is snow in the mountains. Weak yay for hope in the New Year and into spring so we don't all die.
On the bright side I am not Somolian.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)
Wolfus, I recall using a credit card a time or two to de-ice my car in Central TX. 😳 I do own one now.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)
Semolina?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 11:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:08 PM (bHeYx)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:09 PM (KL9cQ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:03 PM (wzUl9)
Wolfus, I recall using a credit card a time or two to de-ice my car in Central TX. 😳 I do own one now.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Cassette case.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025
***
Ice scrapers are thin on the ground at auto parts stores in the Deep Sweatbox of the South. I got mine before I moved to Denver from a work colleague. His wife hustled Avon products, and it turned out the catalog had a few tools like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:10 PM (wzUl9)
https://www.ivorytreegamelodge.com
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:04 PM (viF8m)
That looks amazing, thank you. Hubby wants to do a 30th anniversary trip. This would be a contender.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:11 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:09 PM (KL9c
It was around 140k, but 23k vanished into Somalian "zoos."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:11 PM (BI5O2)
'the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.'
They aren't hard to spot.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (kd1a0)
IIRC -- Think it was in Hotchner's biography that I saw a story about Darryl Zanuck calling Hemingway long distance to ask about an alternate title for "Short Happy Life" that would be eye-catching and a bit sexy and also fit on theater marquees. Hemingway kept him waiting a good half-hour and then said, "Here it is. Short, eye-catching, will fit on any marquee in the country and as a sex symbol, you can't beat it. Got a pencil? Are you ready? F as in Fox. U as in Universal. C as in Columbia. K as in RKO. Have you got that, Darryl?" And hung up. The flick came out as The Macomber Affair. Who can say why?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Zombie John Holmes at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (2XHCB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:13 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 29, 2025 11:13 PM (jvxGE)
Mamdani wants universal child care and Hochul is backing him. They read the Minnesota fraud story and say "works for us"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
If they can make it there they can make it anywhere.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Goddessoftheclassroom at December 29, 2025 11:05 PM (USyCi)
That's the only book of Hemmingway's I liked as well. I bought A Moveable Feast, as I love Paris (or did before the barbarians) and French food. It is mostly a long whine about his girlfriend and sex in an empty apartment (I quit reading it and it is on the bedroom bookcase and I may or may not finish it).
I don't believe in throwing books away so I give them away to charity to bore the poors with my clothes and various other things I discard. The good books I don't keep I mail to my new DIL who likes to read.
My one feeble tie to Hemingway was finding a dusty oil painting in a thrift store in Sun Valley during covid for $18. It was signed by the first mayor of Sun Valley's wife (big whoop!) who was friends with the grouchy Hemingway. I guess they used to ski and drink together. I think he skied or I made that up.
Good night and send me some snow to perk me up! I look at the night sky, as that is as good as any prediction, with prayer. It used to mean snow if the night sky was pink. In the old days when it snowed. Like last year. My husband claims we've had winters like this
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:15 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2025 11:16 PM (2GVsD)
'the global giraffe population is somewhere between 117,000 and 140,000, which means that whoever is counting them isn't even trying to do a good job.'
They aren't hard to spot.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 29, 2025 11:12 PM (fd80v)
Ha! Someone has a fake giraffe head sticking out of a good sized laurel hedge that's on my commute.
Posted by: Rex B at December 29, 2025 11:16 PM (C9oTe)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 11:16 PM (lUFok)
Tomorrow afternoon I have a dr.'s appt., just the usual wellness visit, and Miss Linda has asked me to swing through the nearby Whole Foods to find some of the fake milk ("Malk") for which she has free coupons. It's not bad stuff if you pop a teaspoon of it into your coffee.
Wed., I'll return the boots to Tecovas or swap them for a model that fits. Thurs. & Fri.? No idea yet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:18 PM (wzUl9)
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. --Mickey Spillane
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 29, 2025 11:18 PM (XeU6L)
Has anyone asked Michelle Fields how she feels about that book?
Posted by: Blanco Basura
For her, not quite a page-turner.
Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 11:19 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2025 11:19 PM (bHeYx)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 29, 2025 11:20 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
They're sneaky bastards, though. They'll lie down and pretend to be reticulated pythons.
Posted by: a giraffe counter at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (2XHCB)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 29, 2025 11:09 PM (KL9c
It was around 140k, but 23k vanished into Somalian "zoos."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:11 PM (BI5O2)
The ones at the Venezuelan zoo also disappeared, I believe...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (czfTj)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
They're sneaky bastards, though. They'll lie down and pretend to be reticulated pythons.
Posted by: a giraffe counter at December 29, 2025 11:21 PM (nhCoE)
There'd be more, but they're always sticking their necks out...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2025 11:14 PM (2GVsD)
"I seek to cure what's deep inside"
Thanks.This song lifts me from my need snow woes. I will never not love this song!
https://tinyurl.com/3asub92t
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (WONhk)
Been to the one in Dubai.
But my favorite is one I visited in Southern Chile on an active volcano. That was different.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (viF8m)
Except here. The only thing anyone will remember her for was that ridiculous drama show, and it's only for the fun of deriding it and her.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:22 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (3/XaG)
Fight back. Use "Christian Era."
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 29, 2025 11:24 PM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at December 29, 2025 11:24 PM (MRSZC)
Will be heading to Fort Worth tomorrow after we have our traditional farewell Denny's breakfast with my BFF and her family. So incredibly glad that we were able to see each other again this year 🎄🎄🎄
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (RiICY)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
>You can thank the JEF for that idiocy. His mark on civilization will be mocked and ridiculed for an eternity.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:25 PM (czfTj)
Posted by: S
That is how it is with most great writers / stories, Moby Dick was more punishment than anything.
Posted by: n at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (a1O7k)
https://tinyurl.com/3asub92t
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Leo's cover version is great, too.
https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 29, 2025 11:23 PM (lUFok)
Heh.
My brother is a good writer, but he had a professor who kept docking him a percentage point for using AD instead of CE.
So, in true family form, he started using "the Year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1947" instead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)
Fight back. Use "Christian Era."
Posted by: Blanco Basura
"2025 years since what?"
Posted by: the meme about that at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM (3/XaG)
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)
I seem to have a problem understanding words in songs - I thought the line was, "Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like its leprous above the Serengeti." I had no idea what that meant. I tried to convince myself that perhaps the songwriter was either tripping or thought he was being deep to justify such a weird phrase. (I was in high school, I think.) When I married my husband, he informed about the proper words for this and a number of other songs, shaking his head each time.
Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM (wLjpr)
Apologies for being late. I have no snappy excuse.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)
No worries. That's tankdemon's specialty. And he is late tonight.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: the meme about that at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (nhCoE)
Since Rome was 753 years old, silly!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (rbvCR)
So, in true family form, he started using "the Year of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1947" instead.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:27 PM (BI5O2)
Ha! Where can I subscribe to your brother’s newsletter?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (czfTj)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:30 PM (2WIwB)
My response is this: Firefox is comprised entirely of effeminate men who would never have gotten a second of attention from a woman of the caliber of Bridgette. Further, she was right about the damage caused by Islamic invaders posing as immigrants. She doesn't need to be absolved--she was right. Every single French prosecutor who pressed charges against her for speaking the truth about Islamic invaders should be imprisoned instead.
Posted by: Crusader at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (Cjcf6)
I thought the line was "rises like a leopardess"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (w6EFb)
----
Exactly! As us guys get less young all we really want is to be LEFT ALONE!
Rambo First Blood was the gentle warning.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: moki
It's not just you. There's even a word for misheard lyrics: mondegreens.
Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:33 PM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:33 PM (BI5O2)
"revved up like a douche"
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:34 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2025 11:34 PM (viF8m)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 11:35 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right
203 There's a bathroom on the right.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
OK, the Hordemind timing made you 3% more scary.
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:35 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2025 11:36 PM (wVcYX)
Which is the story of 50% of my college concerts. I had a lot of fun! is all I can say. And danced.
Blows kisses as I must sleep. I have found the best thing for any insomnia is either Martha Stewart droning on about something; or, more recently, a Christmas movie. I'm going to watch one of those now for the snow and hopefully sleep well... as I wish for all of you.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:36 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: moki
It's not just you. There's even a word for misheard lyrics: mondegreens.
Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (nhCoE)
I’m a preachers son; as a kid we sang a hymn in church: When the roll is called up yonder I’ll be there…. (like your name is called and you get to enter heaven)
Well I was clueless… I thought I heard the congregation singing: When the roll is called a pyonder I’ll be there….. and I thought why would they call a roll a pyonder. A roll’s a roll and a pyonder’s a pyonder….. and what’s a “pyonder” anyway??? I was confused….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:36 PM (czfTj)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:33 PM (Q/uAJ)
Yes!!! I messed that one up too! Husband ran off the road when John Anderson's Money in the Bank was on the radio, and I asked why John was coveting a passport and a Z-28? He could just get one for (then) 40 bucks. Husband just put his head on the steering wheel, doing that silent laughing thing.
Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:37 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Kitties are well, thank you. Having more fun than me but being less productive (well, aside from being cute and loving). In fact, PG is licking herself behind me. How's the PNW?
Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 29, 2025 11:38 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: moki
Leprous? I don't think they've covered anything by Toto, but they did cover A-Ha!
https://youtu.be/5tUA4DhOjnQ
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
I like this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: mikeski uses the bathroom on the right at December 29, 2025 11:31 PM (nhCoE)
"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy"
Posted by: Zombie Jimi Hendricks at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (2XHCB)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 29, 2025 11:39 PM (sAmhv)
Yup. I also nearly put a truck in a pond when Stranglehold by Ted Nugent came on, and my ex started singing along... "I've got to strangle old ladies..."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 29, 2025 11:40 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 11:35 PM (nhCoE)
Lol. I try.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:40 PM (Q/uAJ)
It was monk named Dionysius Exiguus who fixed the year number in AD system in 525 AD. He's the one who first set that epoch, although it was adopted widely until later, Charlemagne, I think.
There is some debate if he chose that number so that leap year numbers would be exact multiple of 4 without any nasty offset to worry with, or was it just a coincidence.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:41 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Steven Stills at December 29, 2025 11:42 PM (C9oTe)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 29, 2025 11:42 PM (v7EM2)
In life you ask why things aren't fair and you're met with the inscrutable will of God. But in a book I can easily point directly to the author and blame him. Why? Again not fair, I concede that. I'm an easily frustrated person. Life frustrates and confuses me. I'd prefer reading that is mostly an escape from tragedy. Do I miss out on a lot of deep philosophical insight in my simpleminded diversions? Probably. Oh well.
I'll put off understanding stoicism until the hereafter. I'll have an eternity to study it then.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2025 11:42 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 29, 2025 11:46 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM (wLjpr)
Until fairly recently, I thought Stevie was singing "like a one winged dove" and I thought it was some deep asian philosophy thing. Never even thought to question it. One winged dove, sure ok,... cool cool cool.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2025 11:48 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2025 11:48 PM (dK4kO)
https://tinyurl.com/bdhtjaef
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (WONhk)
So a local reporter went to four Somali run day care centers in Federal Way WA. Just like Minnesota, no kids, no one willing to talk , and threats to call the police.
There are over 500 such places in the state.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (2WIwB)
Interesting according to Grok, the historical evidence is it is just a coincidence that Dionysius Exiguus chose the Year 1, which he calculated was Jesus' birth, to a first year after a Julian leap year, making the year number work out nicely.
He was primarily concerned with a system for calculated the date of Easter.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (w6EFb)
the lyrics for a booklet used in a college senior dance. I guess they didn't know I was deaf in one ear. Until after the booklets were published.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 29, 2025 11:49 PM (AuJxW)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)
The body parts were debating who should be boss.
The brain, eyes and stomach all had their say.
Then in a tiny squeaky voice the butt-hole spoke up.
All the other body parts laughed and laughed. The butt hole got so mad it closed up, and allowed nothing to pass.
Pretty soon, the eyes couldn't see straight, the brain couldn't think and the stomach ached.
They all agreed the butt-hole should be boss.
And that my friends explains why the boss is always an a-hole.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:50 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:50 PM (Q/uAJ)
All that guy did was make cheap beer from what I heard ....
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
-- Samuel Adams
Posted by: Kami Harris at December 29, 2025 11:51 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2025 11:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Doug Heffernan at December 29, 2025 11:53 PM (XeU6L)
1. Blinded by the Light (written by Springsteen but performed by Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band)
2. Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven ( if there’s a bustle in your head row… what???)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 29, 2025 11:53 PM (czfTj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Well, that's good. Keeping volcanoes in a cage is just cruel.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
You can, though, because fire can't melt steel.
Posted by: mikeski at December 29, 2025 10:51 PM (nhCoE)
Then how do they...oh never mind.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:54 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Kami Harris at December 29, 2025 11:55 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 10:44 PM (Q/uAJ)
Got in at 10:15 last evening. House is fine, I am fine, Suburban is fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 29, 2025 10:52 PM (8zz6B)
Yay! Good Work!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 29, 2025 11:55 PM (QGaXH)
Also, I figured out how we can eliminate half of all improvised auto repair in this country.
We just have to get rid of all the damned Suburbans
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 29, 2025 11:56 PM (8WtOr)
Posted by: raimondo at December 29, 2025 11:57 PM (4PsrM)
I believe he says a "Bustle in my Hedge Row"....
Posted by: Jackson at December 29, 2025 11:57 PM (X7dyz)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 29, 2025 11:57 PM (5TAdl)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 29, 2025 11:59 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 29, 2025 11:26 PM (Q/uAJ)
Yes - the AirBnB lady said the cleaning crew found it! We are working out how to get it shipped to our house ASAP!
***does happy dance ***
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 29, 2025 11:59 PM (RiICY)
That's fucking stupid. Even for you. You sound like a got-damned 4 year old, you foreign dumbfuck.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (BI5O2)
On the bright side I am not Somolian.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 29, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)
May I ask 'where'?
I know I can ask but will you answer?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
Not all potential mondegreens are. Word salads are a thing, too.
Sharp.
Distance.
How can the wind with so many around me?
I feel lost in the city.....
Posted by: re-donning Jon Anderson sock at December 30, 2025 12:01 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: John Fogarty at December 30, 2025 12:02 AM (8WtOr)
***does happy dance ***
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Yay! Glad they found it!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 30, 2025 12:02 AM (Q/uAJ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:03 AM (QGaXH)
I would like to express appreciation and satisfaction with the operation, of particular complexity and importance, which enabled the arrests of nine people accused of having financed Hamas, through certain associations, self-styled charities, for over seven million euros to be carried out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:03 AM (ahS/I)
Well, he was no Robert Crumb.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:04 AM (HTCU3)
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice..."
"...In the name of God, go!"
tiny.cc/220x001
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 30, 2025 12:07 AM (2XHCB)
1. Blinded by the Light (written by Springsteen but performed by Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band)
2. Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven ( if there’s a bustle in your head row… what???)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
Louie Louie demands some respect. Even the FBI couldn't figure them out.
Posted by: The Kingsmen at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)
So being Boy Scouts, of course we messed with them as much as possible.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 30, 2025 12:10 AM (dK4kO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)
I'd have to check it out, because Stargate. It wl be disappointing aost certainly.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 30, 2025 12:13 AM (Q/uAJ)
https://www.youtube.com/live/vM9ZOsED3ZM
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:15 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)
Yay! We will be able to bitterly complain how the new TV series doesn't follow the novels based on the original series in the Sunday Book Thread!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 30, 2025 12:15 AM (2XHCB)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 30, 2025 12:18 AM (8WtOr)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 30, 2025 12:18 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)
Yay! We will be able to bitterly complain how the new TV series doesn't follow the novels based on the original series in the Sunday Book Thread!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
And in the case they do follow the novels based original TV series I am confident other topics can be found to bitterly complain about.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:18 AM (HTCU3)
I had a most wonderful time at a wedding this weekend, it was not hard for me to be alone because there were so many wonderful people to talk to. One of my sons was "in the wedding" too, so it was just such a happy gathering.
AOP, welcome to your winter home, I would like to get me one of those. I hate the cold now.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 30, 2025 12:20 AM (0nHVk)
Here’s how vouching works for Minnesota residential facilities:
Shukran: “I work for a residential facility. My 300 residents want to vote.”
Election Day Worker: “Show me you’re an employee.”
Shukran: “Here you go.” *Shows badge*
Election Day Worker: “All 300 can vote.”
X: https://bit.ly/3NlOIHC
So, if Shukran was an employee of a residential facility with 5,000 residents,
all Shukran has to do is prove he’s an employee of said facility
& Shukran can vouch for ALL 5,000 facility residents for the purpose of voting?
Is this correct, @grok?
Grok @grok
Yes, Minnesota Statutes 201.061, subd. 3, allows employees of residential facilities to vouch for an unlimited number of residents for proof of residence during Election Day registration, if they prove employment. Regular voters are limited to eight vouchers.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:20 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 12:21 AM (BI5O2)
, and it was after their visit that the massacre occurred. The Magi were warned in a dream not to return to Herod, and Joseph was similarly warned to take Jesus and Mary and leave immediately for Egypt until Herod was dead. The expensive gifts the Magi left must have come in handy for the trip and stay in Egypt.Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 30, 2025 12:23 AM (bELOb)
"she has electric boobs
my mom has two
you know I read it in the back of playboy....
Benny and the Jetsss......
Also could never make out the line in Cher's Gypsies Tramps and Thieves:
I was 16 he was 21
mumble mumble mumble
and papa woulda shot him if he'd knew what he'd done...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:25 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: moki at December 29, 2025 11:28 PM
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a shot glass man
Before I knew the name of the song, I thought these were the lyrics when I heard the song on the radio.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:25 AM (P5BPp)
That's fucking stupid. Even for you. You sound like a got-damned 4 year old, you foreign dumbfuck.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 12:00 AM (BI5O2)
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Unfortunately, I have cherished relatives that snipe at Trump for this and that. They don't see the big picture at all. They have no idea that Western Civilization is teetering on the precipice. Kamala would've made 16 years out of 20 with a leftist President. Trump is desperately trying to save us.
.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 12:27 AM (ci5JR)
Posted by: Dark Litigator
Cold. Gray. Damp.
Lucy the Fink is a slug under the Christmas Tree on her heating pad.
How is the Orange Creamsicle?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 30, 2025 12:27 AM (IhIKR)
"The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.
https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)
"The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.
https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)
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So, I should avoid touching doorknobs for a while?
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 12:34 AM (Vczv0)
mumble mumble mumble
=============
Rode with us to Memphis
I actually picked up on that one from the start. What's interesting Is that just about everybody I knew at the time, me included, thought "Olympus" in the Toto song was "a lepress". Nobody ever really thought to ask what the hell that was..
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 30, 2025 12:34 AM (8WtOr)
The caffeine overload was intense, even though it was watered down. I put what was left over in some bowls and set them outside for the tree rats and trash pandas to find (-that- oughta amp them up... ;-)
Going to experiment with a lighter roast the next time...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 30, 2025 12:34 AM (S0STk)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Haven't seen the big fella around in a few weeks. He does this occasionally and then a month later shows up nuzzling my fingers like everything's cool. I'd love to know his story but he's the strong/silent type. My mother began donating to a community cat charity after seeing pics of him.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (KAi1n)
"The next solar storm to hit could cause this plasma to precipitate downward toward the planet's upper atmosphere," Burns said.
https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)
Aye Carumba! that sounds bad!
Hope the brains in all the stuff in Geo is well shielded.....
Wait... Burns? Van Allen? Gracie Allen? George Burns?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH)
Going to experiment with a lighter roast the next time...
Posted by: As not seen on TV
So it went something like this?
https://x.com/i/status/2005127047052718306
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (HTCU3)
Bad Kitty Unleashed @pepesgrandma
Columbus Ohio holds the second largest Somali community in the US.
Muckrackers visited their first daycare and there’s zero signs anyone is even there.
Muckraker.com @realmuckraker
FIRST SIGNS OF MASSIVE POTENTIAL SOMALI FRAUD IN COLUMBUS, OHIO
The first Somali-affiliated daycare facility that we knocked after landing in Columbus, Ohio today did not answer.
A neighbor across the street told us, “I’ve never seen nobody come out the building or go in the building.”
X video: https://bit.ly/3MTSs37
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:36 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate
A female leppo. But what's a leppo?
Posted by: Dark Litigator at December 30, 2025 12:37 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 30, 2025 12:09 AM (3uBP9)
The original series was spectacular, so of course they'll fuck it up beyond recognition. Instead of a super cute Amanda Tapping looking chick as Major Carter we'll get a bull dyke, Jackson will be a hindu, General Hammond will be a drunk who sits around base in a wife beater, Teal'c will be ruby rhod from the 5th element, or look like he just stepped off of a somali pirate ship. Colonel O'Neil will be a millenial neck beard whose son didn't just shoot himself accidentally, but shot up a school and offed himself, because guns are bad. Dr Fraiser will look like Aunt Harriet from the original batman series. How am I doing so far?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 30, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:37 AM (77rzZ)
"As many as three CMEs are approaching Earth, including today's fast-moving X5-class CME from sunspot 4274," SpaceWeatherNews wrote in a report on its website.
www.spaceweather.com/
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:40 AM (ahS/I)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 12:42 AM (55cF/)
Then he dropped the knockout line that landed across the country:
"And truthfully, until somebody in a position of power, until somebody in a position in Minnesota, elected position, who was in charge of administering this or having some oversight over it, goes to jail, it’s honestly never going to stop."
"Look what’s going on in blue states across the country: 9 billion in Minnesota, 70 billion in fraud in California, cooking the crime stats in Washington, D.C."
"When is someone in a position of power going to go to jail for the rampant fraud?"
"You can put all the low-level people in jail you want, but until somebody in charge goes to jail, it won’t stop!"
X video: https://bit.ly/3MX3Vii
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 12:42 AM (P5BPp)
https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:31 AM (ahS/I)
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Seriously, this could be a catastrophe.
"the largest geomagnetic storm ever recorded in 1859 – a storm hundreds of times larger than “typical” solar storms – that destroyed telegraph systems in Britain and the U.S."
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 12:43 AM (VZZtk)
Posted by: raimondo at December 30, 2025 12:48 AM (4PsrM)
Preparedness.
Had to work today my eyes won't stay open. I'm going to miss the fun. See yal tomorrow. 'night
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 30, 2025 12:49 AM (ahS/I)
The Grid boys assure us they've got it under control if we get a big one. The trouble is E-W running long transmission lines. A big wig woggle in Earth's magnetic field on short term scales would induce essentially a DC voltage, "big zero sequence" in the transmission lines, driving those YUGE transformers into saturation. They've got mitigation measures to break direct ground connections and put capacitance in series with the neutral ground connections to block that.
Or so they say. They have used those over the years with some high G storms.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 30, 2025 12:54 AM (/rQlD)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM (55cF/)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM (QGaXH)
The Great Carrington Event. The induced DC field was enough to actually operate the telegraph lines without any power. There were fires and electric shocks, but some clever operators figured out to just disconnect the power and let the earth's field power the system and were able to keep things contained in some cases.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)
OK, I’ll try to quicken things up: BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (8WtOr)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM
Bobie Doll tells me, "Live in the moment"
Don't get too far ahead, don't live in the past
I blink my eyes and the moment is over
I guess another day has passed
But it's just another day
It's just another day
Watching girls on the street
Well, that's alright with me
And it's just another day
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4jscQVe
Posted by: John Mellencamp at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (P5BPp)
OK, I’ll try to quicken things up: BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (77rzZ)
Annnnd I'm back....
BOOBS you say? I'm all for 'em......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:58 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 12:59 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 12:59 AM (55cF/)
If we still used telegraphs it would be problem but we don't. We should be set.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:00 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 12:55 AM
Bobie Doll tells me, "Live in the moment"
Don't get too far ahead, don't live in the past
I blink my eyes and the moment is over
I guess another day has passed
But it's just another day
It's just another day
Watching girls on the street
Well, that's alright with me
And it's just another day
Posted by: John Mellencamp at December 30, 2025 12:57 AM (P5BPp)
Very good - but I was thinking McCartney:
Every day, she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:04 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (QGaXH)
There was likely a YUGE solar storm in 755 or 755AD that was probably 20 - 50 time stronger than Carrington. We didn't have wires strung all over the planet or radio communication then. There was a huge C-14 and Be-10 spike in the record dated to then, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle noted a red cross in the sky that year, which they attributed to some divine sign, I think.
Now, there was an even bigger storm likely around 12,400 BC. This would've been 2 orders of magnitude bigger than Carrington.
Note the timing of that, coinciding with the Younger Dryas and the impact hypothesis. This all aligns with the Erf got one hell of a smiting of some kind back then.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (w6EFb)
Every day, she takes a morning bath, she wets her hair
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:04 AM
I knew that song sounded familiar. It's in "50 First Dates".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2025 01:08 AM (P5BPp)
— Pete Buttigieg
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:10 AM (77rzZ)
An ongoing topic of astronomical research is about superflares. Roughly sun-sized stars, a few of them, have been observed to belch out these superflares. If the Sun did that, Erf would be toast -- extinction level event. Protons on the deck and all that.
They're trying to rule out that the Sun could ever do that. They're hopeful, but still can't say for certain it can't.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:05 AM (w6EFb)
Greetings Publius
A poster on an earlier thread today asserted that because this coming Feb has 4 Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, etc that it is one that only comes around every 800+ years or so.
Several commenters pointed out that every 28 day Feb has that, and that it isn't that uncommon for Feb to begin on a Sunday.
I was wondering if the poster got half the story - maybe this Feb starts on a Sunday AND coincides with something else less common making it a 'once every 800+ years February'.
Are you aware of anything like this?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:11 AM (QGaXH)
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Lol.
Never.
Our ruling class is so treacherous and larcenous it would make Quintus Servilius Caepio shudder.
They all MUST protect the hive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (BI5O2)
Note the timing of that, coinciding with the Younger Dryas and the impact hypothesis. This all aligns with the Erf got one hell of a smiting of some kind back then.
Posted by: publius
Exactly, and proves why all the ancient technologically advanced civilizations, that built the Egyptian pyramids among other things, vanished without a trace.
Posted by: Randall Carlson at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Randall Carlson at December 30, 2025 01:12 AM (HTCU3)
Wouldn't the pyramids be 'a trace'?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:15 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:16 AM (77rzZ)
Nope, and I wouldn't think off the top of my head it would be that rare. Looking it up, it isn't, happening maybe once every 7 common years. It's rarer for leap years, but not that rare.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
What's a February?
Are you aware of anything like this?
Posted by: Anonymous
Posted by: Ye Olde Mayan Calendar Shoppe at December 30, 2025 01:18 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Bulg
Bulg
Ypu spelled it wrong. Are you new?
Posted by: Sock Monkey
My editor has an ironic sense of humor.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 01:18 AM (55cF/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:20 AM (77rzZ)
But I guess it's not exactly right, because he was in fact disgraced, and died in exile. Here, he'd be lauded and they'd make a statue of him, and he'd probably be the country's biggest daycare operator.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 30, 2025 01:21 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:21 AM (7ih/h)
If we still used telegraphs it would be problem but we don't. We should be set.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:00 AM (HTCU3)
the 3rd world just bangs the rocks together.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 30, 2025 01:22 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:20 AM (77rzZ)
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There's not a single one left standing.
Even the museum mummies are flat on their backs.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:22 AM (7ih/h)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (77rzZ)
https://www.youtube.com/
shorts/rmckJxDKAQk
This is my newest youtube addiction.
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (grNgC)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:20 AM (77rzZ)
The idea is that someone who wasn't Egyptian built them, maybe Atlanteans, to use the Greek nomenclature.
Posted by: Methos at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (vSvIl)
Nope, and I wouldn't think off the top of my head it would be that rare. Looking it up, it isn't, happening maybe once every 7 common years. It's rarer for leap years, but not that rare.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:17 AM (w6EFb)
Yeah, nobody thought so on the earlier thread either. I thought you might be aware of something else that in combination with 28 day Feb starting on a Sunday would be an extremely rare event.
Thank you for answering.
Calling it a night now for real.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:26 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bulg
Just like half my socks.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 01:26 AM (55cF/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:29 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:30 AM (grNgC)
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:30 AM (grNgC)
Miss Owens, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:29 AM (77rzZ)
Paging Donovan; Donovan to the white courtesy phone....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:31 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 30, 2025 01:33 AM (55cF/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:33 AM (77rzZ)
Miss Owens, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:29 AM (77rzZ)
Ignoramus.
Posted by: Plato at December 30, 2025 01:34 AM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:33 AM (77rzZ)
They call him Mellow Yellow.....quite rightly....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:34 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:35 AM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:35 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Bulg
https://youtu.be/jkQyFrfJaqs
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:35 AM (HTCU3)
That's a good one too. I'd forgotten about it.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:37 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:38 AM (Q0yOR)
https://tinyurl.com/5n6n6fyx
Posted by: Braenyard
* checks 2026 bingo card *
Well, heck. I was sure "rain of fire" would be on there.
Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 01:39 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 30, 2025 01:40 AM (QGaXH)
Feb began on Sun in 2015. 2006 is 11 years after. There's a 6 - 11 alternating pattern in there somewhere, too lazy to think about it too much.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:40 AM (w6EFb)
2026 is 11 years after, I meant to say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:43 AM (grNgC)
Yep, in 2032, Feb will begin on Sunday again, 6 years from now. There's a 6 - 11 - 11 year cycle there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:43 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:25 AM (77rzZ)
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I willowed to you yesterday. Must've missed it.
Temperatures dropped and lotsa rain and flooding.
Only snow is on Mt. Hermon, Israel's only ski resort. However, even there, not much for a ski resort. In a good year, the place would have been deeply covered by now.
Haven't had a good snow in Jerusalem in over a decade.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:46 AM (7ih/h)
Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:46 AM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:49 AM (77rzZ)
WIth the Julian calendar, yes. With Gregorian, skipping the century leap years 3 times per 400 years messes that up. 2000, however was the first century leap year since 1600, so the 28 year cycle has been going since 1900.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:49 AM (w6EFb)
Really awful online flame wars involve solar flares.
https://youtu.be/9e_L3IfxaLI
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker was here at December 30, 2025 01:50 AM (dESj/)
Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:51 AM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 01:52 AM (grNgC)
None of us were “idiots” for believing that, we were just Americans who were proud of our Country. But our politicians and the people we trusted deceived us into swallowing this whole without questioning it. It’s ALL on them, not us and I’m proud that we saw thru their BS, turned the corner, moved on and became America First. We ended a movement and started another, and should be proud of that!
Posted by: Jerry Saves at December 30, 2025 01:53 AM (XLxzE)
Posted by: Turambars phone at December 30, 2025 01:53 AM (Q0yOR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 01:54 AM (77rzZ)
https://tinyurl.com/3cf7zn79
Just imagine had the money gone instead to a Somali learing center.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 01:56 AM (7ih/h)
The Julian is currently behind the Gregorian by 13 days, and has been since Feb 28, 1900. It will jump to 14 in 2100.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 30, 2025 01:58 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg
They call him Mellow Yellow.....quite rightly....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Donovan still weirds me out with that "she's my supergirl and I love her" chorus.
Because the first verse that says she's naive, and innocent, and "only 14." Maybe a 16-year-old Jeffrey Epstein hooked them up?
The album cover being portraits of little girls doesn't help.
https://youtu.be/PM5hFz_WRLk
Good song other than that. Distorted guitar work that kind of bridges the tone between earlier psych bands and the up-and-coming heavy metal bands.
Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 01:59 AM (nhCoE)
Pretty cool video. Jay Leno with a Ford WWII Jeep.
https://tinyurl.com/37ww9x9z
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 30, 2025 02:00 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Bulg at December 30, 2025 02:02 AM (77rzZ)
https://youtu.be/G1d-erufTGY
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 02:02 AM (HTCU3)
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It ain't over till it's over:
https://tinyurl.com/yrvvm5pz
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:06 AM (7ih/h)
https://youtu.be/vnojY9I6iyc?t=118
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 02:08 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: scampydog at December 30, 2025 02:09 AM (41CYW)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:12 AM (7ih/h)
https://www.youtube.com/
shorts/jAo5mzIj-6o
Posted by: garrett at December 30, 2025 02:13 AM (grNgC)
Because the first verse that says she's naive, and innocent, and "only 14." Maybe a 16-year-old Jeffrey Epstein hooked them up? The album cover being portraits of little girls doesn't help.
https://youtu.be/PM5hFz_WRLk
Posted by: mikeski
Go find the uncensored Blind Faith album cover if you uncomfortable is what you seek. I think the model was 13.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 02:14 AM (HTCU3)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:16 AM (7ih/h)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 30, 2025 01:00 AM (HTCU3)
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True. And fiber optic cable should be good.
But modern electronics are way more delicate than it nineteenth century telegraph system. The circuits ("wires") in computer chips are a few nanometers meters apart, a separation of a few atoms. Won't take much to create a short circuit
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 02:18 AM (JCXyn)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 30, 2025 02:19 AM (X/nnO)
https://tinyurl.com/bdebjrd8
It's a start.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:16 AM (7ih/h)
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I won't be surprised to see many of them fleeing the country t spend their loot
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 02:19 AM (JCXyn)
https://tinyurl.com/bdebjrd8
It's a start.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
"We have charged 98 individuals in relation to fraud in Minnesota. More than 60 have pled guilty or been convicted."
Good deal.
Work your way up to the one named "Walz," plskthx.
Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 02:25 AM (nhCoE)
I don't have a visual clock in bedroom, if I don't put on my phone I have no idea what time it is.
Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:27 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
I hope you don't have an audio one in there. Makes it hard to sleep.
Posted by: "the time is now two twenty-nine" at December 30, 2025 02:29 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 30, 2025 02:19 AM (JCXyn)
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I'm looking forward to kinetic strike videos.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:31 AM (7ih/h)
Below the ocean, thats where I want to be
Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:32 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:33 AM (Ia/+0)
I don't have to be up for 2 hours so ought to try a m d sleep a bit more
Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2025 02:36 AM (Ia/+0)
Go find the uncensored Blind Faith album cover if you uncomfortable is what you seek. I think the model was 13.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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And she was the daughter of one of those musicians.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 30, 2025 02:41 AM (n7rxJ)
https://tinyurl.com/8e8p67n6
We already know how it ends.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 02:55 AM (PD8dm)
Below the ocean, thats where I want to be
Posted by: Skip
I know it's not the song you're quoting, but it made me want to listen to Swimming Home.
https://youtu.be/JbQFMkTINTY
Posted by: mikeski at December 30, 2025 02:56 AM (nhCoE)
Language warning:
https://tinyurl.com/5xfxyefn
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 30, 2025 03:01 AM (PD8dm)
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