Saturday Night Club ONT - January 17, 2026 [Double Play]

Welcome to Club ONT - A Double Play collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

Looking for more fun than you can bear? Well, come on in and see what's bruin! Please leave the cubs outside, things can get a little bit grizzly in here. Stock up on restroom tokens, avoid using the woods outside for - well, you know what bears do in the woods!

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

A police officer pulls over a car and notices the backseat is absolutely packed with penguins.

"Officer," the driver says, "I know what you're going to say, and I have a perfectly good reason!"

The officer stares at the unusual passengers and replies, "Sir, I'm not going to say anything. I just think you should take these penguins to the zoo immediately."

The driver agrees and promises to do so. The officer lets him off with a warning.

The very next day, the same officer pulls over the same car. He looks in the window and, to his astonishment, the backseat is still full of penguins - but this time, they are all wearing sunglasses and party hats.

The officer sighs, "Hey! I thought I told you to take these penguins to the zoo!"

"I did!" the driver replies with a big smile. "And today we're going to the beach!"

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A husband comes home drunk, vomits, and falls down on the floor. Then his wife gets him up and cleans everything up...

The very next day he expects his wife to scold him and fight about last night. Instead, she kisses him on his forehead and makes him his favorite breakfast…

When she leaves the room, he asks his son about last night...

The son tells him, "When Mom got you upstairs and was trying to remove your boots and shirt, you yelled, Hey lady! Leave me alone! I'm married!"

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Drink of the Night

Tonight we drew the 4 of hearts in the deck of playing card cocktails

Dafuq is orgeat syrup? Let's ask Grok!

Orgeat syrup (pronounced "or-zha" or "or-zhat") is a sweet, nutty syrup primarily made from almonds, sugar, and a touch of floral elements like orange blossom water (and sometimes rose water). It has a rich, marzipan-like flavor with creamy, toasted almond notes and a subtle floral aroma.
Historically, it originated from a barley-almond blend (the name comes from the French word for barley, "orge"), but modern versions focus on almonds. It's milky and emulsified, giving drinks a smooth texture.

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Meanwhile at Club Bulwark

Good Friday morning! One more shift, then time to cut loose. I'd advise sticking to traditional beverages; I hear the new Bud Light replacement is terrible. Have a great day and stay positive! pic.twitter.com/vIlS8IB0lq
— Hausmeister (@Witebred) January 16, 2026

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Club ONT News Desk

50 sheep escape shepherd, walk into grocery store

A flock of about 50 sheep escaped from their owner while being herded and took a shopping trip to a nearby supermarket in Germany.
A video taken at the Penny supermarket in Burgsinn, Lower Franconia, shows dozens of sheep flooding into the store through the front doors, causing chaos inside the store and leaving a trail of destruction and poop in their wake.
Shepherd Dieter Michler said the sheep had broken away from a larger flock he had been herding through the area en route to the Sinn River.
Michler said the sheep had apparently been distracted by acorns on the ground in the store's parking lot, and then went inside in search of more snacks.
He said the sheep were safely reunited with the rest of the flock.

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Club ONT Department of Geography

This is the South American version of "did you know Reno is further west than Los Angeles?"

The entire continent of South America is further east than Jacksonville, Florida.

Latitude games:

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The childhood equivalent of "hold my beer and watch this!"

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Club ONT Music

Music history:

This band got its name by accident: while rehearsing in a Spartanburg, SC warehouse, they spotted a keychain belonging to a blind piano tuner who had used the space before them. And just like that, one of rock’s most iconic names was born. Name the band. pic.twitter.com/VfexuYKWgy
— 🇺🇸Hot Pepper (@Hot_Pepper76) January 12, 2026

The piano tuner was blind, then they write a song called "Can't You See?" That's COLD!

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Tonight's tuneage

How's that for an eclectic mix?!?

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

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Comments

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1 Did you ever click on a reply box and then realize you don't remember what you were going to comment? Yeah.

Posted by: mindful webworker - believe it at January 17, 2026 10:00 PM (FMpsC)

2 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 17, 2026 10:00 PM (lUFok)

3 Cha Ching a Ling!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (ACD6O)

4 the Shadow came before Batman, that was a sort of dark anti-hero

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (rbvCR)

5 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (RIvkX)

6 This ONT is out of control!

Posted by: mikeski bears with it at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

7 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:03 PM (cYBz/)

8 Double Play! I like it. Surprised you went with a baseball reference instead of boobs, but it sounds good.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 10:04 PM (85Pr6)

9 Evening, all.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 10:05 PM (SEFV4)

10 I'm back!

See, I told you I'd be back for the ONT, and I am.

However, Alito's will never be back. They knocked it down. For a plaza.

Plaza: n. Place for the homeless of San Francisco to poop and do drugs.

They saved the sign, so maybe the giant fish will end up in the Neon Graveyard.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 10:06 PM (uQesX)

11 Pro tip: Orgeat syrup goes nicely into a cup of steamed milk.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:06 PM (RIvkX)

12 Thx DP.
Marshall Tucker Band. Friends and I played them in a HS lip sync competition. Saw them three times in concert. Great band

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 10:07 PM (PTsqM)

13 Club ONT Department of Geography

This is the South American version of "did you know Reno is further west than Los Angeles?"

The entire continent of South America is further east than Jacksonville, Florida.

My favorite thing like that is that going from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama canal means you travel eastward.

You can see why on the map up there in the Content.

Posted by: mikeski spins right round at January 17, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

14 8 Double Play! I like it. Surprised you went with a baseball reference instead of boobs, but it sounds good.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 10:04 PM
***
Bewbs was the obvious path, so we took care of that last week to get it out of the way. Of course, bewbs are universal and could warrant a reprise at any time.

Posted by: TRex - double play dino at January 17, 2026 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

15 For those that missed this in Pixy-misa's thread:

I am sorry, even Fry ain't going to be yelling "Take my money!" for this:

https://tinyurl.com/mrd3f2df

Crack IS the cheaper addiction nyah.

Robert, questions and/or comments?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:08 PM (2GVsD)

16 Do not fall for the large brown bear's social persona. It will gnaw on your skull like a chew toy from pets-r-us.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 10:09 PM (BSdIE)

17 Sorry I'm late, I had a dream that one day I would be able to judge the content of Sydney Sweeney's bikini. (I am a little bit perturbed at my alarm clock for waking me from it.)

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:09 PM (I7mtr)

18 ONT!!

Yay!

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at January 17, 2026 10:09 PM (pscAN)

19 Interesting locations for Benghazi and Tripoli. Beirut?

Appropriate I would think.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:11 PM (2GVsD)

20 wait a minute, is that brown bear actually a brown shirt giving a certain salute?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:12 PM (2GVsD)

21 Haven't got any orgeat syrup. Would (checks bar) some Biscotti Liqueur substitute?

Well, with today's plunge in temperatures, I'm thinking it's a good choc for a night hotlet. With MiladyJo's own home-mixed Irish Cream. (From a recipe online; we lost creeper's recipe.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - warm from the inside out at January 17, 2026 10:13 PM (FMpsC)

22 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 10:13 PM (o4wD0)

23 Evening all,

Anyone else watch Svengoolie tonight?

Posted by: Joyenz at January 17, 2026 10:13 PM (2F0/Y)

24 What is striking is how far south the US is compared to Europe and the ME.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 10:14 PM (SEFV4)

25 This ONT is out of control!
Posted by: mikeski bears with it at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

Who let the bears -into- the ONT?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2026 10:14 PM (S/Y4j)

26 Not a fan of milky, emulsified beverages and certainly no Wiener Water.

Posted by: Coffee, Tea, Or Me? at January 17, 2026 10:14 PM (oftw2)

27 Badge has of one the best bass lines in music.

Maximum volume. Heavy rotation on my playlist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

28 That place probably does a lot more but they ran out of sign.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 10:15 PM (pkeXY)

29 Marshall Tucker Band. Friends and I played them in a HS lip sync competition. Saw them three times in concert. Great band
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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youtube.com/watch?v=it_ZGSHDrhQ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:15 PM (ACD6O)

30 I'm so glad about Cream's 2005 performance.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (pkeXY)

31 As a bonus, those sheep will leave fresh milk duds for everyone to enjoy while they're shopping.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (BSdIE)

32 Having finally made the Top 10ish Comment List, I am ready for my Homegoing.

Posted by: Jonathan Lawson @ Colonial Penn at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (oftw2)

33 Hitler Bear.
Ziggy says more bier.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (ACD6O)

34 Howdy Hordelings! No, we do NOT have Weiner Water here at Club ONT.

Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

35 Good Saturday eve!

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (OoFl2)

36 The lefties want their Weiner Water.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (SEFV4)

37 Thanks for the Saturday Night Club ONT, Double Play!

Much better name than the one you floated last week.

Let's par-tay!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (kB9dk)

38 For those that missed this in Pixy-misa's thread:
I am sorry, even Fry ain't going to be yelling "Take my money!" for this:
https://tinyurl.com/mrd3f2df

Crack IS the cheaper addiction nyah.
Robert, questions and/or comments?
Posted by: Anna Puma

I did miss it.

1/1? So a life-size statue of an anime-looking video game character?

I can find better places to spend 7 grand. Like, buy almost every anime box set released last year.

Remember the old "_____ is my anti-drug" commercials?

"Anime is my anti-drug. Cuz when you're addicted to anime, you can't afford no drugs."

Posted by: mikeski can quit anytime at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (VHUov)

39 Marshall Tucker! One of my absolute favorites!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (cCn4/)

40 Evening, Double-D's and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM (8zz6B)

41 Silly stuff for too much money? Try this:

https://shorturl.at/m3VDa

Goes to a wood tobacco pipe rack for $3000

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2026 10:18 PM (sqSJJ)

42 That kind driver ferrying penguins to the beach is the kind of selfless citizen I would be most happy to share a back fence with. A tall fence.

Posted by: Wally Walrus at January 17, 2026 10:18 PM (oftw2)

43 I know Montreal is filled with "those people" but I have had a many good times and a lot of laughs and great food in Montreal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

44
NASA rolled out the Artemis II stack to pad 39B today. The whole laborious process using that massive crawler-transporter took all day, about 12 hours to travel 4 miles from the VAB to the pad:

https://is.gd/SJVTgU

That's a live feed. Run it back all the way, and if you fast forward it there, you can actually see it's moving.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (w6EFb)

45 Howdy, horde!

Nice ONT, Double - oops - Play!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (47diA)

46 Mikeski

But it will go perfectly with your 1/1 scale Ayanami Rei statue...

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (2GVsD)

47 Canoe Bingo sounds dicey.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (mlg/3)

48 Who wrote Badge?

Posted by: Two Of Pattie Boyd's husbands at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (oftw2)

49 So Marshall Tucker was the blind piano tuner?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (KDPiq)

50 37 Thanks for the Saturday Night Club ONT, Double Play!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 10:17 PM
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Good evening LS! Glad you're here. Enjoy your time in Club ONT. Make sure to get your frequent patron card punched.

Posted by: TRex - dino dino at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (cCn4/)

51 Latitude games

Supposedly, advertisements to settle Minnesota pointed out that the state existed at the same latitudes as places like Paris and Venice.

Mostly Norwegians and Swedes fell for it.

Posted by: mikeski chills out at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (VHUov)

52 34 Howdy Hordelings! No, we do NOT have Weiner Water here at Club ONT.
Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

The ONT continues to answer questions nobody was ever going to ask.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:22 PM (I7mtr)

53 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 17, 2026 10:22 PM (SRRAx)

54 47 Canoe Bingo sounds dicey.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17

Laundromat tanning sounds worse.

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:23 PM (OoFl2)

55 Ponder if you will a laundromat canoe.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:23 PM (2GVsD)

56 Howdy Hordelings! No, we do NOT have Weiner Water here at Club ONT.
Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

So, there isn't a toilet?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (uQesX)

57 That's a live feed. Run it back all the way, and if you fast forward it there, you can actually see it's moving.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:20 PM (w6EFb)

When not taking rockets to the launch pad, the massive crawler-transporter earns its keep delivering income tax refunds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (8zz6B)

58 Double Ds?!
🦖, 🎶,?
Is Doggo mad at you guys?

Well, I guess I'll sit back and enjoy the jolly banter of the Horde...
We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll argue, we'll talk some smack, and some of us will probably imbibe🍹🍺...woo hoo!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (LNeRu)

59 It's interesting the major cities that are close to the same latitude.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:25 PM (ACD6O)

60 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 17, 2026 10:25 PM (zZu0s)

61 Only in Florida

71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

62 Who wrote Badge?
Posted by: Two Of Pattie Boyd's husbands at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (oftw2)
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Um, it's in the song. They're married to Mabel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (RIvkX)

63 Mikeski
But it will go perfectly with your 1/1 scale Ayanami Rei statue...
Posted by: Anna Puma

Hah!

No 1/1s. Nor even 1/4s. I have a few 1/7s. Nothing very recent, though. Haruhi, K-On, Madoka, etc. This is my favorite:

https://is.gd/UAehe3

Posted by: mikeski geeks out at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

64 Marshall Tucker Band-underrated great band.

Nurse will be happy tonight. I think she went to the Seattle/SF game. The Seachickens are stomping the gold miners.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (o4wD0)

65 55 Ponder if you will a laundromat canoe.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:23 PM (2GVsD)

There are worse venues for watercraft.

Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:27 PM (I7mtr)

66 Just got back from dinner with the missus. It's our 12th anniversary. Hard to imagine someone putting up with me for over a decade, yet here we are!

Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 10:27 PM (pXTL4)

67 The boob tube is showing repeats of gay men figure skating. I'm too lazy to reach for the remote to change it.

All of these guys are more feminine that Killary.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:27 PM (cYBz/)

68 I've heard that Marshall Tucker was a fine piano tuner and didn't let blindness get in the way of that. It was the driving home that was awkward.

Posted by: Road Hog!!! at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (oftw2)

69 Weiner Water ad truly gives one multiple reasons to gag.

Posted by: mindful webworker - double entrendy at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (FMpsC)

70 Double Ds?!
🦖, 🎶,?
Is Doggo mad at you guys?

Well, I guess I'll sit back and enjoy the jolly banter of the Horde...
We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll argue, we'll talk some smack, and some of us will probably imbibe🍹🍺...woo hoo!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 17, 2026 10:24 PM (LNeRu)

Doggo is off chasing squirrels or digging holes. He's still a good boy and will always be a D.

Posted by: Doof at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

71 The Wiener Water ad should have used likenesses of Scott Wiener, and Anthony Weiner.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (8zz6B)

72 Laundromat tanning sounds worse.
Posted by: Piper

It sounds backwards. I'd think they'd be more into bleaching than tanning.

Posted by: mikeski is white enough at January 17, 2026 10:28 PM (VHUov)

73 66 Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 10:27 PM (pXTL4)

Congratulations.

Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:29 PM (I7mtr)

74 If it hasn't been said yet, nurse is at the Seattle game.
No idea just how sober anyone is. I sure know I'm not.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 10:29 PM (2WIwB)

75 Cartoon

Boy T Rex: Can I go out and play?
Dad: Did you finish your chores?
Boy: Did you?
(Cut)
Both T Rexes are out playing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2026 10:29 PM (S/Y4j)

76 Only in Florida

71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

Was he well bread?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)

77 If you have a particularly tippy canoe, I would like to rent that one.

And light starch on the shirts.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (fhCge)

78 66 Just got back from dinner with the missus. It's our 12th anniversary. Hard to imagine someone putting up with me for over a decade, yet here we are!
Posted by: PabloD

I forgot. What is the 12th anniversary again? Tin Foil?

Posted by: The Man From Glad at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (oftw2)

79 Mikeski, that is certainly different and interesting.

Oh wow, for $15 can download a file to 3D print Priss' Highway Star motorcycle from Revenge Road.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

80 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma

He isn't going to rise anymore.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (cYBz/)

81 Only in Florida

71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

And I thought they cared.

Posted by: Dunkin's "Time to make the donuts" guy at January 17, 2026 10:31 PM (vSvIl)

82 Only in Florida

71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

Was he well bread?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)
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Have some sympathy. It's the yeast we can do.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:31 PM (fhCge)

83 Enjoy your time in Club ONT. Make sure to get your frequent patron card punched.
Posted by: TRex - dino dino at January 17, 2026 10:21 PM (cCn4/)
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Oh my goodness! I'm so glad to finally be eligible for a frequent patron card!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 17, 2026 10:31 PM (kB9dk)

84 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I guess he wasn't making the donuts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (S/Y4j)

85 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

Was he well bread?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)

Sadly, the police weren't there when he kneaded help.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (85Pr6)

86 Ok, someone help me out. Why would you put half an egg white into a drink?

Can you taste half an egg white? Is a raw egg white a good idea? And, I'm going to suggest that half an egg white isn't exactly a sought out texture for consumables.

Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (dIske)

87 Have some sympathy. It's the yeast we can do.
Posted by: Cicero

Oh my - this place.

I am so going to hell.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (cYBz/)

88 Was he well bread?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

He heard the International Jewish Conspiracy used blood in Matzoh.

Posted by: I Knead You at January 17, 2026 10:32 PM (oftw2)

89 Sadly, the police weren't there when he kneaded help.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

* golf clap *

Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)

90 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.

Did he proof that there is life after death?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (fhCge)

91 chef and industrial mixer seem like they don't belong together.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (hhkIi)

92 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Oh! I know what his last word was!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at January 17, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)

93
They're going to shoot for early Feb. launch. The launch window is Feb 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11.

This will basically be a repeat of Apollo 8, although they won't enter lunar orbit, just whip around with the figure 8 free-return. They will get farther from earth that any other human mission, and set the speed record coming back, breaking 25K mph. Apollo 13 set the distance record, and Apollo 10 set the speed record, at just under 25K mph, 24,791 mph.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (w6EFb)

94 chef and industrial mixer seem like they don't belong together.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 10:33 PM (hhkIi)

True. If a greasy bohunk falls in, at least you can finesse it so you don't lose any product.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (fhCge)

95 Shortest route from the Americas to the old world would be Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil to Tabou, Cote d' Ivoire. Or something like that. Jack Straw will know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (ACD6O)

96 Thanks for the fun ont

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (eZ5tL)

97 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

Should we send flours to the funeral?

Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:36 PM (I7mtr)

98 Time to change my sock.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:36 PM (I7mtr)

99 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I admit, I thought this was a joke, and was trying to figure out the "in a ____" pun with the wife's name.

But it happened and that is her name.

Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 10:37 PM (VHUov)

100 At 24,791 MPH the telephone poles will look like a picket fence.

Posted by: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen at January 17, 2026 10:37 PM (oftw2)

101 Yeah but Europe is to the east.

If South America wants to call dibbs, they should maybe...
discover a new world...forget western civ... I dunno, be worthy with something more than child sacrifice

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:38 PM (ciYHQ)

102 76 Only in Florida

71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

Was he well bread?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)

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Don't know, but I hear he was rolling in dough.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2026 10:38 PM (OGOaV)

103 Badge by Cream is one of my most favorite songs of all time.

Lyrics make no sense, but I have always loved it!

Thank you!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 17, 2026 10:38 PM (WONhk)

104 I hope someone turned the mixer off before the cops got there.

There are specific "Hazardous Orders" for child labor for the USDOL, that include mills and bakeries, and operating mixing machines. If they get a hold of you you are dead slower than diving down a chipper.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:39 PM (rbvCR)

105
Andrew McCarthy, astrophotographer extraordinaire, got a slot to film and photograph the launch live (it helps to be buds with the NASA director). Here's a short little video he took of the thing coming out of the VAB this morning:
https://is.gd/ORp7Vh

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:39 PM (w6EFb)

106 My latitude may be between Murcia and Nicosia, but where's my temperature-moderating Mediterranean Sea?

Posted by: mindful webworker - out where the prairie schooners sail at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (FMpsC)

107 95 Shortest route from the Americas to the old world would be Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil to Tabou, Cote d' Ivoire. Or something like that. Jack Straw will know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:35 PM (ACD6O)

The shortest distance from the US to Africa is from Maine to Morocco.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (I7mtr)

108 Fans of the Marshall Tucker Band and Toy Caldwell might enjoy this-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wSPR7zq7DA

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 17, 2026 10:41 PM (MZ+PY)

109 Nurse sent me a picture of the game.
She's absolutely kicking ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 10:41 PM (2WIwB)

110 You want to know how dumb and incompetent today's law school graduates are?
Tyler Robinson's attorney (he's the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk) has asked the court to dismiss the entire prosecution team because, get this, one of the prosecutors kid was in the audience when Kirk got shot. Here's the brilliant legal.theory as to.why this makes a difference: the prosecutor may have been influenced by his kid, and is now... wait for it... PREJUDICED... against her client! Plus, like cooties, this may have been transmitted to the rest of the team so they all.have to go.
She was dozing through the class on criminal court rules, and remembers something about how someone in the room is required to be neutral. The word "jury" never stuck, and, since she's the best and brightest, her delusions are precedent.
Never hire a lawyer under 50.

Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (epPlm)

111 My latitude may be between Murcia and Nicosia, but where's my temperature-moderating Mediterranean Sea?
Posted by: mindful webworker - out where the prairie schooners sail at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (FMpsC)

If you lived on the California coast you would be about Oxnard

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (rbvCR)

112 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

The accident apparently happened at 4am but police did not arrive until eight hours later.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10

They were loafing around? Sounds flakey.

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:43 PM (OoFl2)

113 Howdy Horde! Love the bears out front.

Posted by: Iris at January 17, 2026 10:43 PM (bOJ2I)

114 All of these guys are more feminine that Killary.

Brian Dennehy is more feminine than Hillary.

Edmund is more feminine than Hillary.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 10:44 PM (EXyHK)

115 4 the Shadow came before Batman, that was a sort of dark anti-hero
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (rbvCR

Used to listen to The Shadow on the radio as a kid.

Apropos of nothing.

Posted by: Javems at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (zFsEm)

116 113 Howdy Horde! Love the bears out front.

Posted by: Iris at January 17, 2026 10:43 PM (bOJ2I)

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Don't trust anything they tell you. Verify it with the moose first.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (OGOaV)

117 Piper, they thought it was a stale report.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (2GVsD)

118 I am off to bed. Church, and teach at 2. Plus I still need to rehang the drapes I picked up from the dry cleaner a week ago.

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (OoFl2)

119 /willowed and held for an OT opportunity

"No, Scott Adams didn't hate black people"

Wow, that must have really sucked to be falsely accused of something so reprehensible.

I hope his own people stood up for him, defended him, let him defend himself. Because that would have sucked even worse if they didn't.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (ciYHQ)

120 Notice Ginger Baker's right hand. The drumstick is constantly hitting a cymbal. Can you hear it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (ACD6O)

121
He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

And her brother Inna Gadda David

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 10:46 PM (pkeXY)

122 Never hire a lawyer under 50.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (epPlm)

Old Advice for lawyers:
When the facts are on your side, hammer on the jury.
When the Law is on your side, hammer on the judge.
When neither the facts or the law is on your side, hammer on the table.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (sqSJJ)

123 117 Piper, they thought it was a stale report.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10

Butter late then never, I guess!

Posted by: Piper at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (OoFl2)

124 Orgeat syrup was a staple in my dad's liquor cabinet. He'd mix it with club soda. Very refreshing. I think he used to get it from one of the Italian bakeries. Never seen it in any liquor store that I've visited.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (nbLIj)

125 Used to listen to The Shadow on the radio as a kid.

I listened to a whole bunch of Perry Mason radio episodes on a road trip a few years ago. I can still sing the Wildroot Cream Oil jingle.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (EXyHK)

126
Flat map projections give you a distorted picture. Mercator is the most familiar (and best for navigation purposes -- conformal, makes rhumb lines bearing easy), but the vertical stretch goes to infinity near the poles.

Anyway, on the flat map, that makes meridians parallel, and that really distorts the layout. The 3D globe projections are the best to see what things really look like. North America is sort of "cocked" sideways a bit compared to the picture Mercator gives you.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)

127 Piper, they thought it was a stale report.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10

Butter late then never, I guess!
Posted by: Piper

After they retrieved him they whisked him away!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:48 PM (cYBz/)

128 I delivered and installed some big meat processing equipment in the Thumann's Meats in NJ. One of the machines was kind of a tumbler with two big stainless cylinders that could chop up hundreds of pounds of meat at a time. At the bottom of both cylinders were spikes over a foot long. I imagined falling into it.

"Junior" Thumann was the CEO's son who would watch us work while munching on a 2'long salami or pepperoni. He was about 6'8", 450 lbs. He had the biggest Mercedes sedan at the time and the suspension would go up or down a foot as he got into or out of it.

Posted by: One Of My Few Meat Stories at January 17, 2026 10:48 PM (oftw2)

129 116 Don't trust anything they tell you. Verify it with the moose first.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (OGOaV)

I think the moose high-tailed it out of there when the bears showed up.

https://youtube.com/shorts/N7mJO6fGw8o

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:48 PM (I7mtr)

130 Which part of Nicosia?

The Turks invaded Cyprus, divided Nicosia, and drove all the Greek Orthodox out of Muslim areas.

But you youngsters keep shouting about the "occupation."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:49 PM (RIvkX)

131 "Shortest route from the Americas to the old world would be Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil to Tabou, Cote d' Ivoire."

"The Atlantic Narrows". In WWII it was an alternative route to the North Atlantic to avoid U-boats. Shorter/quicker crossing, and air cover was possible for much of the route.

Named the "trampoline of victory", for the shape of the route from the US Gulf ports, "bouncing" off Rio Grande do Norte, and arcing over to Africa.

Spent some time there (RGN, capital is Natal) many years ago. Favorite place in Brazil (and there are many). Quiet. Far enough north to be getting tropical. Incredible coast and beaches. I actually looked/asked around for American Army Air Corps guys who had stayed/come back (there were some, unsurprisingly) but never found any.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 10:49 PM (U/Byj)

132 She was dozing through the class on criminal court rules, and remembers something about how someone in the room is required to be neutral. The word "jury" never stuck, and, since she's the best and brightest, her delusions are precedent.
Never hire a lawyer under 50.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM (epPlm)

I'll go out on a limb, and say not so much incompetence, as it is following orders from her paymasters to throw up as many stupid dleays as possible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2026 10:50 PM (8zz6B)

133 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer.

He was, reportedly, a crusty old fellow, but sweet.
🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - he was mixed up, though, at January 17, 2026 10:50 PM (FMpsC)

134 Anyway, on the flat map, that makes meridians parallel, and that really distorts the layout. The 3D globe projections are the best to see what things really look like. North America is sort of "cocked" sideways a bit compared to the picture Mercator gives you.
Posted by: publius

What about the 'Dragons be here' parts of the unknown?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2026 10:50 PM (cYBz/)

135 Then again, that's not such a big deal.

Like most here, almost every day for 40 years I've been slimed as a racist sexist homophobic nazi who sleeps with his sister in a double-wide while dreaming of nuking Mecca ... and not once did I consider wiping their entire family off the face of the earth.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:51 PM (ciYHQ)

136 Love the bears out front.

Posted by: Iris
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Easy for you to say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 10:52 PM (XeU6L)

137 Well, need to toddle off

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2026 10:52 PM (2GVsD)

138 Seahawks! 41-6!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 17, 2026 10:53 PM (HTCU3)

139 67 The boob tube is showing repeats of gay men figure skating. I'm too lazy to reach for the remote to change it.
All of these guys are more feminine that Killary.
Posted by: Tonypete

The movie "Blades of Glory" would be better. It's funny as hell. It satirizes the fact that men figure skating is a gay as hell sport.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2026 10:53 PM (0Htd1)

140 "Anyway, on the flat map, that makes meridians parallel, and that really distorts the layout"

Plus, how the hell were the explorers expected to differentiate the two continents? One was in the northern hemisphere, the other in the southern hemisphere. Calling it East America would be leaving out some important context.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 10:54 PM (ciYHQ)

141 Like most here, almost every day for 40 years I've been slimed as a racist sexist homophobic nazi who sleeps with his sister in a double-wide while dreaming of nuking Mecca ...

Do you have a newsletter?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2026 10:55 PM (sqSJJ)

142 Orgeat syrup is available at Total Booze and many other places. Apparently big in tiki cocktails. More of a rum sipper, so don't know much about tiki.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 10:55 PM (U/Byj)

143
The shortest distance from the US to Africa is from Maine to Morocco.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Who would ever want to sail out of Maine?
Who would want to sail the North Atlantic?
Anyway, I said, the Americas.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:55 PM (ACD6O)

144 It satirizes the fact that men figure skating is a gay as hell sport.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Which is funny, because "pairs" figure skating sends you straight to third base.

Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 10:56 PM (VHUov)

145 Trampoline of Victory > Cone of Silence

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (RIvkX)

146 GoogleEarth doesn't show ice at the North Pole. -ChapDicks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (ACD6O)

147 Of course the convoys that crossed from Natal to west Africa had to be escorted north to the UK. But U-boat activity was far less on that route (as a whole) than in the North Atlantic.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

148 146 GoogleEarth doesn't show ice at the North Pole. -ChapDicks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 10:57 PM (ACD6O)

I thought all of ICE was currently in Minneapolis.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 10:59 PM (I7mtr)

149 Which is funny, because "pairs" figure skating sends you straight to third base.
Posted by: mikeski

With a yucky woman!

Posted by: Man in the pair at January 17, 2026 11:00 PM (ftFVW)

150 Trump is going to sue JPMorgan Chase over 'incorrect' post Jan 6 de-banking.
In situations like this the offended, not the government, should receive the money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:00 PM (ACD6O)

151 You don't get it...

You need to Notary to document the guns you have in the canoe, right before the accident.

then the laundry to dry your clothes after the accident...

And then BINGO, suddenly your guns are gone.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2026 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)

152 The movie "Blades of Glory" would be better. It's funny as hell. It satirizes the fact that men figure skating is a gay as hell sport.
Posted by: nerdygirl

you're SO mean!

Posted by: Dick Button, Rudy Galindo, Brian Boitano at January 17, 2026 11:01 PM (oftw2)

153 What about the 'Dragons be here' parts of the unknown?
Posted by: Tonypete

You must mean West Texas. Where Dragons live in fear of being gobbled up by a tumbleweed leviathan

Ive seen things you people wouldn't believe. Armadillos on fire off the Balcones Escarpment

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:01 PM (ciYHQ)

154 Apparently big in tiki cocktails.

I was just thinking about the old Tiki Bar TV video podcast tonight. They still have a web site so I downloaded all the episodes to my “media server”. Rewatched the first four tonight between Star Trek and quantum mechanics; and will rewatch the rest over the next few weeks.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 11:03 PM (EXyHK)

155 publius, when I worked/taught navigation systems on old analog B-52s, the longitude calculation got an input from the latitude computer from a "secant" tape. As best I recall, the value was the cosecant of latitude and used to refine the longitude value. Obviously, the navs had radar to measure position and could backfeed into the nav computation. It worked pretty well up to 70d north. Then, stuff got real flaky! We didn't have INS, just an old gyro that didn't work well. This particular memory is about 45 years old!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:03 PM (47diA)

156 Used to listen to The Shadow on the radio as a kid.
Posted by: Javems
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I loved the Fire sign Theater version, which had a.black guy in the role.
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow do."

Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 11:03 PM (epPlm)

157 A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Capitol Hill sought to reassure Denmark and Greenland on Friday that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland despite President Trump’s vow to seize it “one way or another.”
...
Among those in the delegation were Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina,
_NYT

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:04 PM (ACD6O)

158 The late pastry chef ended up a little tart

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 17, 2026 11:04 PM (PTsqM)

159 men figure skating is a gay as hell sport.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Yawn. Try being an expert archer.

Tim Curry's got nothing on me!

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:05 PM (ciYHQ)

160 Among those in the delegation were Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska…

Has she started the process of returning Alaska to Russia yet?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 11:05 PM (EXyHK)

161 115 4 the Shadow came before Batman, that was a sort of dark anti-hero
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 10:01 PM (rbvCR

Used to listen to The Shadow on the radio as a kid.

Apropos of nothing.
Posted by: Javems at January 17, 2026 10:45 PM (zFsEm)

Phantom 1936... Batman... 1939.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2026 11:06 PM (mP0Kj)

162 110- She was dozing through the class on criminal court rules, and remembers something about how someone in the room is required to be neutral. The word "jury" never stuck, and, since she's the best and brightest, her delusions are precedent.
Never hire a lawyer under 50.
Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 10:42 PM.

When I was watching the hearing the other day, "she" was a "he" and he was well over 30. But you're right about the idiocy and desperation of the argument.

You might be thinking of the attorney that was arguing in favor of boys in girls' sports before the Supreme Court. She was a dope!

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 17, 2026 11:06 PM (rbKZ6)

163 Pastry accident-- wow, that's brutal. I've worked with those industrial mixers before **shudders**

That guy got so into the dough he ended up getting hooked.

Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (rdVOm)

164 Watching one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. "The Wind of ayahuasca."

No one seems to have heard of this movie, other than Kino-Lorber (who have it on blue-ray). Flawed presentation (the burned in subtitles interfere) but my God what a film.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (CHHv1)

165 NYT has discovered conservatives are using the term AWFL to describe crazed female progressives and are shocked, SHOCKED that we would stoop so low. Decent people like liberals would never group people together and label them. Unlike the uneducated white racist toxic male that make up almost all of MAGA,

The f***ing idiots couldn't even get it right and are reporting it as AWFUL's, with a U for urban. They really do live in a bubble.

Posted by: Ripley at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (PTDkx)

166 I forgot to renew my DL before my bday. Seems like last time I had to renew in person I just did a walk in. I was waiting two hours or so but it was same day. Its too long since my last in person renewal to just do it online, but they don't do walk ins anymore, I had to make an appointment, the first appointment at the convenient location was 3 weeks out. I better drive carefully until then. I think the dumb state could afford to hire enough DL staff to process drivers once every 10 years with less waiting time if they fired all the people they have to advocate for the illegals and push bullshit DEI on departments that have a real function.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (hhkIi)

167 >>The entire continent of South America is further east than Jacksonville, Florida.

Yep, knew that.

South America is pretty cool.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)

168 How do you say kalmeer je tieten in Danish?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 11:08 PM (RIvkX)

169 Has she started the process of returning Alaska to Russia yet?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
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They ought to return Murkowski's ass to Russia.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:09 PM (ACD6O)

170 You must mean West Texas. Where Dragons live in fear of being gobbled up by a tumbleweed leviathan
Posted by: Fen

I saw Tumbleweed Leviathan open for Murder By Death at the Ector in '04.

https://youtu.be/croDgo5DEWo

Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)

171 >> This particular memory is about 45 years old!

That is fascinating -- how the older systems worked. I've gotten off reading for hours a few times getting off on tangents of those systems.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:10 PM (w6EFb)

172 Seems like last time I had to renew in person I just did a walk in. I was waiting two hours or so but it was same day...
-------
Took me three hours. I pondered fomenting a revolution among the fifty people waiting there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 11:11 PM (XeU6L)

173 Posted by: Dick Button, Rudy Galindo, Brian Boitano

Oh, great. Now I have "What would Brian Boitano do?" playing in my head. Thank you, and thank you to South Park.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2026 11:11 PM (0Htd1)

174 I grew up just across the border from Montreal. If anyone else here did you'll know Canadian TV ads were very common. And anyone who did will surely remember ads for Dorion Suit as well as the ad with the phrase "two-five two-five Laurentien Boulevard" (spoken in a French Canadian accent of course).

I have racked my brain for years... does anyone remember what the ads were for?

Posted by: 496 at January 17, 2026 11:12 PM (t+VLa)

175 "the Fire sign Theater version"

I miss drive-in theaters. There was one in Dallas on Abrams and Forrest, but it closed down before I was legal to drive.

Do any exist today? Seems like an entrepreneur could make bank by opening a whitewashed nostalgic version. Its not like AMC theaters are making any money.

They could have roller-girls coast out to your car with food, like in the 50s.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:12 PM (ciYHQ)

176 I've gotten off reading for hours a few times getting off on tangents of those systems.

I went into the book room and picked up a copy of the flight line tech order but didn't have the nerve to open it! About 3 inches thick and back around 1975 I think I knew almost all of it! We're talking analog - motors, shafts, pots, feedback loops, very discrete and varied power levels - - - too much!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:13 PM (47diA)

177 71-year-old pastry chef dies in industrial dough mixer. He is survived by his wife Inna Moar.

Should we send flours to the funeral?
Posted by: Ty-D-Bol Man at January 17, 2026 10:36 PM (I7mtr)

It's the yeast we can do...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 17, 2026 11:13 PM (nbLIj)

178 I had a chance to go to Morocco. Guess what I did?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:14 PM (mlg/3)

179 Do any exist today?

The last one in OK (Guthrie) closed for good last month. I've seen a couple in Florida.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:15 PM (47diA)

180 158 The late pastry chef ended up a little tart
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At yeast he died doing something he loved.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 17, 2026 11:15 PM (8JzZF)

181 Used to be 'old lawyers and young doctors'; now, it's old for both of them. Unless you want a dickectomy or something like that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:15 PM (ACD6O)

182
Some of those analog computer systems were absolutely amazing. I remember reading about some fire control system for the big guns on the battleships. They were constantly adjusting the guns, adjusting for ship motion to keep the barrel locked in the correct position relative to the target.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:17 PM (w6EFb)

183 I saw Tumbleweed Leviathan open for Murder By Death at the Ector in '04.

https://youtu.be/croDgo5DEWo
Posted by: mikeski

See? I think I'm being clever and then this. Like that time I thought I had a shot at the cheerleader only to discover she was engaged to Brett Favre.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:17 PM (ciYHQ)

184 Plus I still need to rehang the drapes I picked up from the dry cleaner a week ago.
Posted by: Piper
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Do they match the carpet? *drum roll* *cymbal.crash*

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 11:18 PM (epPlm)

185
"No, Scott Adams didn't hate black people"

Wow, that must have really sucked to be falsely accused of something so reprehensible.

I hope his own people stood up for him, defended him, let him defend himself. Because that would have sucked even worse if they didn't.
Posted by: Fen

=============

The irony is that it all stemmed from him responding with alarm to a Rasmussen poll in which 47% of Black people either disagreed or weren't sure that "It's okay to be white."

He said something like "IF that's true, then stay the hell away from Black people!"

Same thing that Jesse Jackson said many years ago.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 17, 2026 11:18 PM (djaKb)

186 I had a chance to go to Morocco. Guess what I did?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

I thought you never made plans that far ahead.

Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2026 11:19 PM (VHUov)

187 Seems like last time I had to renew in person I just did a walk in. I was waiting two hours or so but it was same day...
-------
Took me three hours. I pondered fomenting a revolution among the fifty people waiting there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Renewed in TX yesterday, with appointment. No problems. Apparently it is a nightmare without an appointment. My little county was efficient and i was out in 30 minutes.

There was a young man there who no habla Ingles. He didn't have all the documentation needed and they sent him on his way until it could be provided. They weren't messing around at the Driver's license office. I voted for this.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 17, 2026 11:19 PM (85Pr6)

188 fire control system for the big guns on the battleships.

The two last models of Buffs used adaptations of those very systems on the defensive fire control of the machine guns in the tail! They had a hard time with the relative velocities of the targets and the B-52. BUT - the G model had four 50 cals and the H model had a 20mm gatling gun. Lotsa lead works.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:20 PM (47diA)

189
With modern navigation systems, it's possible to fly or sail a true geodesic, and not approximate with rhumb line way points.

You're doing continuous Riemann parallel transport on the fly (travelling truly "straight" such as it can be defined on a curved space). And for the WGS ellipsoid, not a spherical approximation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:20 PM (w6EFb)

190 >>I had a chance to go to Morocco. Guess what I did?

Hope you went to Morocco.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:20 PM (viF8m)

191 The two best things that happened to aircraft navigation were GPS and extraordinary INSs. Couple those with GPS guided bombs and we are talking of single digit feet errors in strike distances.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (47diA)

192 convenient location was 3 weeks out. I better drive carefully until then. I think the dumb state could afford to hire enough DL staff to process drivers once every 10 years with less waiting time if they fired all the people they have to advocate for the illegals and push bullshit DEI on departments that have a real function.
Posted by: PaleRider

Looking forward to the bodycam traffic stop. You might go viral!

Posted by: Bodycam Addict at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (oftw2)

193 publius the Mk 8 fire control computer on Iowa-class battleships was analog. And, IIRC (and I should, but now I'm wondering), when the battleships were brought out for their last time in the early 80s, it was decided not to replace the Mk 8 with "modern" systems, as they offered little improvement (not talking radar systems, just initial solution systems).

Pretty amazing.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (U/Byj)

194 Ha!! You rons and ettes thought we'd be talking about bewbs, but you wound up with great circle courses and ballistics!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:26 PM (47diA)

195 Daylight Saving Time killed the drive in theater.
By the time it got dark it was almost curfew.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (ACD6O)

196 When you pulled the main battery triggers on an Iowa-class, the guns might not fire immediately. Because of course the ship was moving and rocking to some degree. The system waited for the ship's position/attitude to be exactly that used in computing the firing solution, before firing the guns.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (U/Byj)

197 My latitude may be between Murcia and Nicosia, but where's my temperature-moderating Mediterranean Sea?
Posted by: mindful webworker - out where the prairie schooners sail at January 17, 2026 10:40 PM (FMpsC)

The Western Interior Seaway has been gone a long time, along with the mosasaurs that swam in it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (SEFV4)

198 178 I had a chance to go to Morocco. Guess what I did?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:14 PM (mlg/3)

Bought a fez.

Posted by: tankdemon at January 17, 2026 11:27 PM (I7mtr)

199 rhomboid, what were the approximate ranges to the targets? And are we talking 16 inch guns?

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:29 PM (47diA)

200 Correction to my movie thread comment. In the horrible movie Battle of the Bulge, Robert Shaw plays a Wehrmacht officer, not a Waffen SS officer. The black uniforms of the tankers he meets before the battle - when the famous "Panzerlied" scene unfolds - kind of fooled my memory. I had thought he was a composite of Peiper and other commanders, but now not so sure.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:29 PM (U/Byj)

201
I was reading something about navigation in the age of sail. For any long haul, you wanted to sail geodesics as much as possible -- the distance saved could make a big difference in time. They used spherical approximations -- pretended the earth was a perfect sphere. Spherical geodesics are relatively easy, just great circles, but actually sailing one continuously meant constant turning, and with all the errors, that was impossible. So they used way points. They'd sail a "straight" rhumb line course between way points.

About 5 or 6 was all that was usually required, and you'd be close enough.

In the age of the heroic polar explorers, however, they did start using try ellipsoidal geodesics, or tried to. Under those conditions, the difference was worth it -- could be life and death even. Ellipsoidal geodesics are much more complex -- you need Somali mathematicians of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:30 PM (w6EFb)

202 LRob, yes, 16 inch/50 caliber naval rifles. Range was out to ..... 24 miles? Can't remember. If you're ever in western NV, south of Reno and Carson City, stop by the ordnance museum in Hawthorne. Huge ordnance depot for the Pacific in WWII. They have the last 16-inch barrel (spare). They've cut it in two pieces, the smaller one inside the museum you can touch the rifling. Careful, feels like it would easily cut you. Barrel wear was a big issue with all artillery including these items. After WWII various tricks were devised to extend barrel life.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:33 PM (U/Byj)

203 The Greenland shit is wild. Europe proved they can't defend it with their pitiful performance and a handful of power. Trump made them look impotent, which is true. Now they are threatening to take our bases. I say we pull out of Europe entirely. Except Poland and Hungary. The rest is joining the ummah anyway

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:33 PM (kJmLc)

204 publius the Mk 8 fire control computer on Iowa-class battleships was analog. And, IIRC (and I should, but now I'm wondering), when the battleships were brought out for their last time in the early 80s, it was decided not to replace the Mk 8 with "modern" systems, as they offered little improvement (not talking radar systems, just initial solution systems).

Pretty amazing.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:23 PM (U/Byj
***

In Desert Storm, the big guns only ever had a one round Fire For Effect. Pretty damned impressive!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:33 PM (2WIwB)

205 Ellipsoidal geodesics are much more complex -- you need Somali mathematicians of course.
Posted by: publius

Or the gals from Hidden Figures, in a pinch.

Posted by: mikeski does not compute at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (VHUov)

206 Whatever else you want to say about it, Morocco has some great food.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (nWPIJ)

207 I've been trying to learn plane trigonometry with the goal of learning spherical trigonometry. It started with reading books about early trans-oceanic navigation and I went down the rabbit hole big-time. The main barrier is that I'm not good at math in general, and I avoided taking any courses beyond what was absolutely necessary to graduate college.

Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (pXTL4)

208 298 wasn't there a cartoon character named morocco mole who wore a fez

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (kJmLc)

209 196 When you pulled the main battery triggers on an Iowa-class, the guns might not fire immediately. Because of course the ship was moving and rocking to some degree. The system waited for the ship's position/attitude to be exactly that used in computing the firing solution, before firing the guns.
Posted by: rhomboid
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That's fantastic. Imagine being in the turret. ...waiting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2026 11:35 PM (ACD6O)

210 publius, the nav system I tried to describe used straight line navigation for any distance of less than 600nm. GC after that. We were usually travelling at about 350 knots and had radar - 600nm didn't take long!

Some of the early sailing stuff I've seen talked about less than 1 degree of error being acceptable until you sighted some land.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:35 PM (47diA)

211 Diogenes by then they also had UAV "forward observer" support. You probably recall the small group of Iraqi soldiers "surrendering" to a Scout UAV from a battleship (early Israeli drone) in Kuwait.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:36 PM (U/Byj)

212 199 rhomboid, what were the approximate ranges to the targets? And are we talking 16 inch guns?

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Capt. Lou Albano had 16-inch guns.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 17, 2026 11:36 PM (nWPIJ)

213
Ellipsoidal geodesics are wild. On sphere, the geodesics are all closed paths, nice, "great" circles. On an ellipsoid, geodesics are not generally closed. For an oblate spheroid (equatorial cross section is a circle, but polar is an ellipse -- it's just a solid of revolution of an ellipse), there are some nice closed ones. All meridians are closed, and the equatorial one is closed.

The others are not. That is, if you go all the way around, you do not get back exactly where you started. You'll miss a little bit. If you keep going you'll eventually "densely cover" some finite region of the surface. There are all sorts of theorems about that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:37 PM (w6EFb)

214 When you pulled the main battery triggers on an Iowa-class, the guns might not fire immediately. Because of course the ship was moving and rocking to some degree. The system waited for the ship's position/attitude to be exactly that used in computing the firing solution, before firing the guns.
Posted by: rhomboid

That's fantastic. Imagine being in the turret. ...waiting.
Posted by: Braenyard

Ready!
Aim!
Fire!
.....
Wait for it!

Posted by: Adm. Monty Python at January 17, 2026 11:37 PM (VHUov)

215 "Used to be 'old lawyers and young doctors"

My father was a lawyer who made his fortune off other lawyers.
They thought a law degree made them an expert in everything.

He bought me a corvette at 16, funded entirely off Hubris.

Yay Hubris. Patron Saint of my childhood dreams. The irony of the Corvette. By the time you can afford to buy one, it's unseemly inappropriate for a man of your age to drive one. And anyone flyent with wealth knows YOU DONT BUY YOUR SON A VETTE. But by some magical alignment of the stars, my father was new money who simply wanted to give his son the car he had dreamed of in his youth. 16 was the perfect age to appreciate the majesty of the Corvette. I would tell my parents I was going out on dates and just.. drive. For hours. It was a magical symbiosis - you felt like you were part of the machine.

Sorry for the ramble. I just miss the love of my youth.

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:38 PM (ciYHQ)

216 Diogenes by then they also had UAV "forward observer" support. You probably recall the small group of Iraqi soldiers "surrendering" to a Scout UAV from a battleship (early Israeli drone) in Kuwait.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:36 PM (U/Byj)

Ha!
I have the video. It's awesome.
Whilst the navy was hammering the coast, I was slamming ATACMS at them further inland.
Moar awesome!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:39 PM (2WIwB)

217 >>So they used way points. They'd sail a "straight" rhumb line course between way points.

Oy

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 11:39 PM (viF8m)

218 I thought you never made plans that far ahead.
Posted by: mikeski

This must be the place where they empty all the old hourglasses.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:39 PM (mlg/3)

219 Pour me another drink boss

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:40 PM (ciYHQ)

220 I think the typical delay on the Iowa main battery trigger was 3 seconds or less. And there are videos on UToob of crews loading the guns and the guns firing. A salvo was actually not all 3 guns in a turret firing exactly simultaneously. They were offset slightly (left first, then right, then center I think) to avoid any effect on a projectile by the neighboring blast wave exiting the muzzle.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:41 PM (U/Byj)

221 publius, I was stunned (at age 19) to learn the earth is NOT a sphere! I knew about mountains, but it was worse than that!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (47diA)

222 SEAHAWKS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (I++gp)

223 Just so you all know. Nurse was at the Seahawks game. No idea what shape nurse is in now.
I suspect alcohol may of been involved.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (2WIwB)

224 In line for the boat home.

Drunk

SEAHAWKS WIN! Blew
The Niners OUT!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (I++gp)

225 Hope you went to Morocco.
Posted by: JackStra

No. I sat in the Spanish cafe and got wired on those stupid tiny cups of coffee. Woof~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (mlg/3)

226 Good evening, Horde. Thanks to the Double Daffodils for the Club ONT.

Posted by: scampydog at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (41CYW)

227 In Desert Storm, the big guns only ever had a one round Fire For Effect. Pretty damned impressive!
Posted by: Diogenes

I don't understand. You mean they only needed one round to adjust on target? Or are you talking about battleships obliterating entire grid squares in one volley?

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (ciYHQ)

228 NURSE!

Posted by: Seahawks at January 17, 2026 11:44 PM (pXTL4)

229 Just so you all know. Nurse was at the Seahawks game. No idea what shape nurse is in now.
I suspect alcohol may of been involved.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 11:42 PM (2WIwB)
=====

They have holding cells at the stadium.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

230 wasn't there a cartoon character named morocco mole who wore a fez
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:34 PM (kJmLc)

Secret Squirrel's sidekick...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 17, 2026 11:44 PM (nbLIj)

231 222 SEAHAWKS!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Ass whuppin!

Posted by: scampydog at January 17, 2026 11:45 PM (41CYW)

232 Happy evening for you, nurse!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:45 PM (47diA)

233 ... Don't order a second of Americano in Spain. Trust me.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:46 PM (mlg/3)

234 Franpyshco a good friend had a few, uh, many too many drinks at a Charger game, and was a guest of the holding cell in the lower depths (old stadium, now replaced). He then got a night at the drunk tank downtown. Unsurprisingly, a colorful experience (to the extent he could remember things).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:46 PM (U/Byj)

235 Thanks for the discussion, rons! Good night!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 17, 2026 11:47 PM (47diA)

236 It's looking like an early bedtime for me. See you miscreants on the book thread.

Posted by: PabloD at January 17, 2026 11:47 PM (pXTL4)

237 >> I knew about mountains, but it was worse than that!

:-). Oblate spheroid to second order approximation, which is good enough. Mostly.

There's ellipsoids, geoids, and "topoids". This is an (exagerated) 3D model of the geoid. The is the equipotential surface of the earth gravity (and rotation terms). This would be the shape of "sea level":
https://is.gd/i1vzX5

Note that is not the topographical shape, but the gravitational shape. Now, plotting actual geodesics on such a general surface, why that would be difficult even for the Somalis.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb)

238 230. That's the one. A fat rodent with a fez.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:48 PM (kJmLc)

239 If you took all the people in the world and laid them end-to-end…

…um…

…it wouldn't be very healthy, I guess.

https://youtu.be/ypvUI1qqP2M

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - get the funniest looks from everyone we meet at January 17, 2026 11:48 PM (FMpsC)

240 Wake up
Morons!

PARTAY!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:50 PM (iUXlD)

241 Reportedly, 1,500 of the 11th Airborne Div. (Alaska) put on alert for possible deployment to a place where the weather will be familiar ..... Minneanoplace. Spicy.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 17, 2026 11:50 PM (U/Byj)

242 ....He then got a night at the drunk tank downtown. Unsurprisingly, a colorful experience (to the extent he could remember things).
====

That "downtown" is among the worst in North America. A stinking pile of crap. And I am an expert in stinking piles of crap. Especially that Horton Plaza. Who designed it Dr. Seuss?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2026 11:51 PM (RIvkX)

243 Congratulations on the Seahawks

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:52 PM (kJmLc)

244 Hiya, nurse!

Need a drinky? (Or... a bib & barf bag?)

I won't judge.

Glad your team won!

Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2026 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

245 The irony is that it all stemmed from him responding with alarm to a Rasmussen poll in which 47% of Black people either disagreed or weren't sure that "It's okay to be white."

He said something like "IF that's true, then stay the hell away from Black people!"

Same thing that Jesse Jackson said many years ago.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Reminds me of that poor SOB who published "The Talk" for white kids. He was 100% spot on but was pilloried for it. I forget his name, did he ever recover from the fallout?

Edit: Grok reminds me he is John Derbyshire.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:52 PM (ciYHQ)

246 Congratulations on the Seahawks
Posted by: night

And a thank you from this Dallas native for taking down our nemesis.

Posted by: Fen at January 17, 2026 11:54 PM (ciYHQ)

247 I forget his name, did he ever recover from the fallout?
----

Derb was fired by NR.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 11:56 PM (XeU6L)

248 Don't order a second of Americano in Spain. Trust me.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 11:46 PM (mlg/3)

I remember my first cup of coffee in Spain. The waitress pour a thick syrup into my cup. ( Think Elly Mae Clampett coffee from the Beverly Hillbillies TV show). Then poured hot milk into the cup. I was dubious at first but it was really good coffee that got me wired.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 17, 2026 11:56 PM (GGatE)

249 Bought a fez.
Posted by: tankdemon
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So.you could be a holy.man?

Posted by: buddha at January 17, 2026 11:57 PM (epPlm)

250 https://youtu.be/HXVc1f7IOgs

Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2026 11:58 PM (rdVOm)

251 Minnedishu is dead set on starting a Civil War, it seems.

Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 12:00 AM (6Uni8)

252 JQ!

WhoofreKinghooooooo!
Oldest son messaged me on Thursday and asked what my plans were for the game. Then he said I GOT TICKETS!

How much fun to go to a HUGE community event with your kid and have a BLAST!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 18, 2026 12:02 AM (GI7J4)

253 Derb was fired by NR.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc

Say what you will about the Left, at least they fight for their people. Even when they know they are wrong. The Right could learn something from that.

Sometimes I wonder if our side is only defined by the Left's hatred of us. That if they simply ignored us, we would wander off on our separate ways to pursue career and family while being left alone. And the Left could just march on in. How ironic that they are control freaks who get in their own way.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:03 AM (ciYHQ)

254
Minnedishu is dead set on starting a Civil War, it seems.
Posted by: XTC

==============

Guardsmen to the front!

wtf do they think this is?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2026 12:03 AM (djaKb)

255 Once I was arrested for ticket warrants. They put me in holding with the other warrant arrestees.
Common conversation was; why are you here? I'm here from the main prison on appeal of a murder charge.

Yes sir, pay those fucking tickets or get a ticket lawyer. Whatever. You don't want to go to jail.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:06 AM (ACD6O)

256 Fuck the niners!

Clap clap
Clapclapclap

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 18, 2026 12:06 AM (2ZBXn)

257 How much fun to go to a HUGE community event with your kid and have a BLAST!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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That is so awesome! Happy for you!

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:07 AM (rdVOm)

258 Daylight Saving Time killed the drive in theater.
By the time it got dark it was almost curfew.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Why would you go to the drive in with a girl.who worried about curfew?

Posted by: buddha at January 18, 2026 12:10 AM (epPlm)

259 226 scampydog

{{{DOGGO}}}!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 18, 2026 12:10 AM (LNeRu)

260 "Common conversation was; why are you here? I'm here from the main prison on appeal of a murder charge"

Similar. What astonished me was they all confessed to each other. Right next to a wall phone with a huge sign warning that telephone conversations would be recorded. It never occurred to them that such a notification implied they should also expect no privacy rights as they chatted away under 3 security cams

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:10 AM (ciYHQ)

261 Fuck the niners!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Heh. Marry me! I'm glad you got to experience that.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:13 AM (ciYHQ)

262 *Waves to COMM* Cheers!

Posted by: scampydog at January 18, 2026 12:16 AM (41CYW)

263 Oldest son messaged me on Thursday and asked what my plans were for the game. Then he said I GOT TICKETS!
How much fun to go to a HUGE community event with your kid and have a BLAST!
Posted by: nurse ratched
----
Congratulations! For the win, and the fact that -
He likes you! He really likes you!

Posted by: buddha at January 18, 2026 12:16 AM (epPlm)

264
What's interesting in the difference in the definition of latitude on an ellipsoid vs. a sphere. The current model of the earth used for navigation and GPS is WGS84, which uses a reference ellipsoid which is the best fit of the actual earth's geoid to a perfect oblate spheroid.

Latitude there is not the geocentric latitude, the angle of radius from the center to the point and the equator, but the angle of the normal to the surface at a given point with the equator. Those two are different. Anyway, if you're above or below the ellipsoid surface, your height is defined along such a normal, not the geocentric radius.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 18, 2026 12:16 AM (w6EFb)

265 Well it looks like the wobbly table could use a round, JQ, congrats to the Seahawks, putting seven points on the board on the opening kickoff was a huge stress reliever for Sam Darnold.

Cheers!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 18, 2026 12:18 AM (0nHVk)

266 "Minnedishu"

Love it.

Ya know, I was part of Operation Restore Hope. We risked our lives to save these people from Famine. It was a difficult adjustment for the Marine Corps too as it was our first humanitarian op.

And this is how the repay us? I almost wish I could take it back. But I can't go there, else my darkness might send me to MN to take it back one life at a time.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:19 AM (ciYHQ)

267 Well, nobody talking about Iran no more

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 18, 2026 12:20 AM (/lPRQ)

268
And that normal is not the same as vertical or plumb. Plumb is the direction of gravity (well, the direction of the vector sum of true gravity and the centrifugal terms due to rotation), which is the normal of the geoid, not the ellipsoid. :-)

That difference is called the vertical deflection. It is not until modern times that this could even be measured. There was an error in the definition of the Prime meridian of about 100m due to this. They aligned the transit at the Royal Observatory perfectly plumb, with amazing precision using reflections of cross hairs in a pool of mercury, but because of that vertical deflection they were off a bit.

The transit wasn't exactly lying in a true meridional plane.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 18, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)

269 In line for the boat home.

Drunk

SEAHAWKS WIN! Blew
The Niners OUT!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (I++gp)

Did you get any of their gold from the enstompening?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 18, 2026 12:23 AM (S/Y4j)

270 Wooo!

*brings round for the Wobbly Table*

*sits down with ya all*

Cheers!!

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

271 ---Note that is not the topographical shape, but the gravitational shape.
---

That egg hypnotized me.
Where's the link to the topographical shape?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:24 AM (ACD6O)

272 Yes sir, pay those fucking tickets or get a ticket lawyer. Whatever. You don't want to go to jail.

Posted by: Braenyard

Or commit the crime in S.F.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 18, 2026 12:25 AM (KAi1n)

273 Oldest son messaged me on Thursday and asked what my plans were for the game. Then he said I GOT TICKETS!
How much fun to go to a HUGE community event with your kid and have a BLAST!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Your team won at football, and you won at Momming!

Posted by: mikeski at January 18, 2026 12:25 AM (VHUov)

274 Congratulations! For the win, and the fact that -
He likes you! He really likes you!
Posted by: buddha

Honestly.

That’s the best part.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 18, 2026 12:31 AM (7Lfjw)

275 The failure of Somoli civ could be condensed into one recurring image - a woman loaded down like a pack mule and behind her, a man carrying nothing but the piece of Khat they would get high on starting around noon

The fields always had one child standing on a stump cracking a whip every 3 minutes.

The famine? A result of 5 gangs fighting over dirt. Same sht you see in south central LA. We were sent because they were raiding UN food and medicine meant for THEIR OWN PEOPLE.

Up in Baderra our leadership got chewed out for intercepting an air shipment of khat and burning it. Because THIS was Somalia rising back to "normal"

I know we had the best intentions but, like the Palestinians who teach their children to literally gang rape women to death, some tribes of humanity should be left to die. We don't need to carry that DNA into our future.

I was proud of what we did in Somalia. Minnesota has tarnished that.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:34 AM (ciYHQ)

276 >> Where's the link to the topographical shape?

I do not know if any such thing actually exists in a similar form. The oceans are constantly changing with the tidal bulges and all that.

You can easily find flat topographical maps that will show you the elevation (height above geoid) for any land point on the globe, but I've never seen anything like that geoid model.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 18, 2026 12:35 AM (w6EFb)

277 253 Sometimes I wonder if our side is only defined by the Left's hatred of us. That if they simply ignored us, we would wander off on our separate ways to pursue career and family while being left alone. And the Left could just march on in. How ironic that they are control freaks who get in their own way.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:03 AM (ciYHQ)

We're not a side. We're atomized individuals who believe in competition between said individuals.

If one falls behind, it's because they screwed up somewhere in their life and it's nobody else's responsibility to get them caught up.

If one who otherwise agrees with us is a bad actor, the principled stance isn't to circle the wagons and close ranks around the bad actor.

We're just not a collective like they are. That's probably a handicap when it comes to politics, and when it comes to "direct action".

But can you change that without betraying your principles?

Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 12:35 AM (6Uni8)

278 We buried my SIL today, it was a lovely ceremony, the snow falling on the casket was a poignant, poetic coda to her life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:36 AM (XV/Pl)

279 224 In line for the boat home.

Drunk

SEAHAWKS WIN! Blew
The Niners OUT!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:43 PM (I++gp)

Reading this post puts a WIDE SMILE on my face!
And nurse, in the words of blues guitarist Albert Collins, "I ain't drunk, I'm just drinkin'"

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 18, 2026 12:36 AM (4nEGa)

280 240 Wake up
Morons!

PARTAY!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2026 11:50 PM

Great game nurse! The Seahawks looked amazing!

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 18, 2026 12:38 AM (rbKZ6)

281 World on edge. Finger on the Trigger

Good Prep:
Hello Iran

https://tinyurl.com/ukbcxxet

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:39 AM (ACD6O)

282 Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:36 AM

*bows head in silent prayer*

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:40 AM (rdVOm)

283 Replacing Atlanta with Beirut would make it less skeezy. I mean, Atlanta has Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 18, 2026 12:41 AM (noPDf)

284 Well, nobody talking about Iran no more
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Yeah, I roll my eyes at the America First crowd that doesn't seem to grasp that interference in Venezuela and Iran is part of that

BUT

I admit to some jealousy. Every story about the Left gaining momentum with their Insurrection seemed to be followed by a Trump statement on Iran. I want his full attention and I want him to stop warning rebels who need to be shot

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:42 AM (ciYHQ)

285 We gonna get this thread to 300?

Sheesh, it's Caturday Night, fercryinoutloud...

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:42 AM (rdVOm)

286 But can you change that without betraying your principles?
Posted by: XTC

I don't know - loyalty is a principle, and I thought we were a side so I need to process your pov. But you've given me something to consider, so thanks for taking the time to reply.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (ciYHQ)

287 There's so much bs out there about Iran and the 'trusted sources' are not saying much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (ACD6O)

288 *pours drink for self*

Cheers

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)

289 @282

>>*bows head in silent prayer*

It really was a lovely ceremony, I feel bad for my wife as all her siblings have now journeyed on, she keeps saying she's all alone now. Which is heartbreaking.

I talked to my brothers and said, you know, one of us has to go first, they told me to shut the hell up.

My SIL death has had a very profound effect on everyone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (XV/Pl)

290 My SIL death has had a very profound effect on everyone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (XV/Pl)

My condolences to your family.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (dK+Kv)

291 -----
Why would you go to the drive in with a girl.who worried about curfew?
Posted by: buddha
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Discipline.
It keeps life in order.
It doesn't eliminate fun.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 12:51 AM (ACD6O)

292 286 I don't know - loyalty is a principle, and I thought we were a side so I need to process your pov. But you've given me something to consider, so thanks for taking the time to reply.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:45 AM (ciYHQ)

Part of me wishes that we (right-leaning people in general) were more of a side, but then I realize that that's going to look to other people like weakness and hippie-dippy commie shit, and that's no good.

Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 12:52 AM (6Uni8)

293 Condolences on your SIL, Thomas Bender, and to your wife too. I shall raise my next glass in her honor.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 18, 2026 12:55 AM (0nHVk)

294 What's cool is I can feed your response to Grok and get an 8 page analysis that breaks it down into something I can more easily understand (with the usual caution re AI hallucination telling me what it thinks I want to hear).

Grok's take:
4. Conclusion: Change Is Possible, But It Requires DisciplineYes, you can mitigate the handicap without full betrayal by emphasizing voluntary, decentralized cooperation driven by self-interest. Think of it as upgrading from solo players to a pickup basketball team: Individuals compete within the game but align temporarily for wins.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 12:59 AM (ciYHQ)

295 Thank you all for the kind words about my SIL.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 01:00 AM (XV/Pl)

296 >>"I feel bad for my wife as all her siblings have now journeyed on, she keeps saying she's all alone now. Which is heartbreaking."
----

Dad said similar. He was the last of his generation in his family...very lonely indeed.

We had many conversations while he was on hospice; feels like I didn't even really know him until those days.

One day he broke down in tears, telling me he wanted to go back. Back to the time when he was 5 years old, living with his mom & dad and brother & sister, and play with his toy trains.

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:01 AM (rdVOm)

297 Not sure I agree, I need time to refrigerate.

But it worries me that we have to operate on such a handicap when I'm still dealing with the fact that their side is willing to kill to advance their cause and we seem to lack the will.

That's two strikes. Its like we're working under a political philosophy that's not equipped to fight Marxism. Its frustrating.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 01:03 AM (ciYHQ)

298 Taking a wild guess that a small town is home of the Laundromat etc. and that the building next next door is the pharmacy/barber shop/newsstand/bait shop.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 18, 2026 01:03 AM (LDCG6)

299 We complain about the black voting block, but where else are they going to go? When they look at us they must wonder how we can be trusted to fight for them when we don't even fight for our own people.

Oh well. Sorry to be a downer. Ignore my ramblings. I need to get back to enjoying the era of Trump while it lasts

Greenland? LOL

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 01:08 AM (ciYHQ)

300 300

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

301 So I'm watching the evening news for the first time in weeks. Damn. The weather hottie is what I have in mind when I tell mrs D I'm stopping off for a short one.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2026 01:11 AM (2WIwB)

302 @296

>>One day he broke down in tears, telling me he wanted to go back. Back to the time when he was 5 years old, living with his mom & dad and brother & sister, and play with his toy trains.

Ahhh... Life... It's beautiful and cruel... and sometimes it ends with snow falling on your casket.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 01:11 AM (XV/Pl)

303 My SIL death has had a very profound effect on everyone.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 18, 2026 12:50 AM (XV/Pl)

Condolences to you, TB.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:12 AM (8zz6B)

304 *sets up a round of shots*

For any who would like to toast their loved ones or happier times (or anything at all.)

To The Future! May it be better than now!

*clinks glass*

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

305 Well at least we made 300, JQ, I hate to do it, but I am off to sleep, sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 18, 2026 01:13 AM (0nHVk)

306 'Night, Debby. Rest well!

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

307 231 222 SEAHAWKS!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Ass whuppin!

Posted by: scampydog at January 17, 2026 11:45 PM (41CYW)

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Seahawks scored more points in the first 5 seconds than the Niners scored the entire game

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 18, 2026 01:18 AM (Wnqw0)

308 Ahhh... Life... It's beautiful and cruel... and sometimes it ends with snow falling on your casket.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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We buried Dad on a beautiful late-Spring day. Sun shining, birds singing, flowers in bloom... he was finally pain-free.

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

309 Had the Lark out for a run today, and something went wrong in the rear axle. Hit the brakes to take a freeway off-ramp, and I heard this "thump, thump, theump..." coming from the rear of the car. Sounded like a wheel was about to come off. Pulled into a parking lot, popped off the wheel covers, checked all the lug nuts with the wheel wrench, all were tight. Put the covers back on, proceeded cautiously, still thumping loud and strong on brake application, and a faint thump when just rolling. Reached destination, and called a friend with a car trailer to come pick me up. Hauled car back home, off-loaded it, still thumping on brake application. Wheel bearing? Tire belt separation? Broken brake drum? No clue. Will take rear wheels off tomorrow or Monday, and puzzle it out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:21 AM (8zz6B)

310 @mercoglianos . Jan 16

UPDATE On US Tanker Seizures in the Caribbean | Six Supertankers Are in US Possession | What Next?

youtube.com/watch?v=JusYIRixp5E

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2026 01:21 AM (ACD6O)

311 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:21 AM
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Yikes! Glad you had a buddy with trailer!

Don't like those *wake you up* noises, at all.

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

312 Yikes! Glad you had a buddy with trailer!

Don't like those *wake you up* noises, at all.
Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

Buddy says,"you know you have Hagerty insurance. You could have called them and they would have gotten you a flatbed tow truck." And I am thinking, "yeah, right. Eventually, and maybe they would have hauled it to the nearest repair shop, still 50 miles away." I got it hauled to the vacant lot across the street, where we offloaded, and I drove it 200 yards to my driveway. And I hauled the damned trailer down here for him in the first place.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:33 AM (8zz6B)

313 Well, getting sleepy. Going to call it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 18, 2026 01:41 AM (8zz6B)

314 Hmm. Some "buddy" AOP... but at least he did carry ya home.

*slides a beer down the bar for you*

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)

315 Oops, skip the beer I guess, LOL!

G'night AOP. Long day, I'm sure.

Posted by: JQ at January 18, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

316 297 Not sure I agree, I need time to refrigerate.

But it worries me that we have to operate on such a handicap when I'm still dealing with the fact that their side is willing to kill to advance their cause and we seem to lack the will.

That's two strikes. Its like we're working under a political philosophy that's not equipped to fight Marxism. Its frustrating.

Posted by: Fen at January 18, 2026 01:03 AM (ciYHQ)

The Left had the will, post-Vietnam, to build a legal and financial infrastructure to protect their own when they took violent action.

The Right abandoned the institutions, and let the Left do it.

I know some will disagree, perhaps angrily, but I think that Vietnam ended up being the biggest Demoralization campaign in American history.

Posted by: XTC at January 18, 2026 01:42 AM (6Uni8)

317 I just ran across the best AI video I've seen.

Someone asked Grok to make a video as if it was Amelie, the character EngSoc is currently trying to suppress and its...good. https://tinyurl.com/4e2583j4

Posted by: 18-1 at January 18, 2026 01:48 AM (sKqQm)

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