Thursday Overnight Open Thread - January 15, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Thursday night ONT time. Appreciate you being here!

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Feel good story

Fiancé Surprises His Bride with Wedding Shower in the Preschool Where They First Met as Toddlers

Engaged to be wed this month, a young Texan wrangled the support of an entire preschool class to throw his fiancée a surprise bridal shower.
Walking into her preschool class at Shlenker school in Houston, Zoe Kampf was surprised by a troupe of children dressed in floral garlands and bow ties who handed her a tiara and a sash.
In the middle of it all was her hubby-to-be, Sean Folloder, in the very room where he had first met his beloved.
“When I walked in, I was really surprised,” Kampf told the Jewish Herald-Voice. “They had cookies and decorated the classroom. They gave me a sash and a veil and crown. It was really cute.”

Well played, Sean.

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Unexpectedly!

One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets

Over the decades, a glacier in Central Asia appears to have been growing when almost every other glacier on Earth has been shrinking.
Now, a scientific expedition has recovered ice cores containing 30,000 years of frozen water in the hopes that somewhere inside lies some indication of how we can help these rivers of ice survive as the planet warms.
Located in the Pamir Mountains, the Kon-Chukurbashi high-altitude ice cap in Tajikistan defies convention. While a substantial number of glaciers have completely disappeared, it has grown in size, and scientists want to know how and why.

You don't need to check out the whole thing. But it is a hoot to still see these climate doomers before they go the way of the dodo.

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AI is asshoe.

Court Invalidates Marriage Due to Incorrect AI-Generated Speech During Wedding Ceremony

On January 6th, the District Court of Overijssel, in the Netherlands, invalidated a wedding ceremony held in April of last year in the city of Zwolle. Despite the married couple’s pleas, the Court decided that their marriage had never legally existed because the wording of their wedding speeches, which had been generated by ChatGPT, did not include certain mandatory phrases.
The Dutch couple had appointed a friend to officiate as a temporary civil registrar, known as an eendagsbabs in the Netherlands, and he decided to have ChatGPT generate more romantic and informal speeches for the newlyweds. The bot came up with a more relaxed version of the usual wedding speech, but one that did not include a mandatory declaration.

Using ChatGPT to devise your wedding speech? Asshoes!

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Only 11 years for our Wednesday ONT host to finish growing up?

T. rex took 40 years to become fully grown

An analysis of growth rings in the leg bones of 17 Tyrannosaurus rex individuals reveals that the dinosaurs matured much more slowly than previously thought, and adds to the evidence that they weren't all one species
The largest-ever analysis of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils suggests the giant and fierce Cretaceous predator was a late bloomer, taking 35 to 40 years to reach maturity.
The findings also further the debate about whether there were several T. rex species instead of just one and whether smaller specimens, once thought to be juveniles, are in fact a more diminutive species called Nanotyrannus.

Keep growing, lil Dino!

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Pedal to the metal!

A remote stretch of desert interstate could become ‘America’s autobahn’

Americans love driving fast cars fast. It’s the mystique of white-knuckling a sports car to its limit that made the German autobahn and Paul Walker famous.
An Arizona lawmaker wants to give drivers the green light to drive as fast as they deem “reasonable and prudent” on some of the state’s long, straight stretches of paved road, saying the lack of a speed limit will actually reduce deadly crashes. A traffic safety advocate said the bill invites catastrophic wrecks that could lead to higher insurance premiums for the state’s slowpokes.

Probably good arguments against this, but it sounds kinda kewl to me!

Kraftwerk agrees

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DJ Doof - Guess The Theme

Easy peasy! Difficulty level 1 out of 5

What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?

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1 🛸
Sorry I'm early. My Refresh button got stuck.

Posted by: mindful webworker - surrealistically at January 15, 2026 10:08 PM (FMpsC)

2
Yay. ONT

Posted by: fourseasons at January 15, 2026 10:08 PM (3ek7K)

3 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:08 PM (lUFok)

4
I alerted the miscreants

Posted by: fourseasons at January 15, 2026 10:10 PM (3ek7K)

5 Voici ONT!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 10:10 PM (nbLIj)

6 Gorgeous mountains.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 10:10 PM (APZWP)

7 The theme is types of alcohol? Gin, bourbon, and wine?

Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2026 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

8 One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets
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Daily diet of vitamins and minerals? (ESPECIALLY MINERALS!)

Constant, regular exercise?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (ESVrU)

9 Tonight's ONT brought to you by product origins

Anyone didn't see that punchline coming is a fed.

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (nhCoE)

10 Booze

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (IhIKR)

11 Kon-Chukurbashi is hoarding all the ice.

Posted by: mindful webworker - invade the Pamir Mountains at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (FMpsC)

12 Nice to see AZ making news for wanting to try something different. Too bad they used a CA road sign at the top of the article.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (lUFok)

13 Good evening morons en bedankt Disko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

14 That was a long time to wait for the ONT. I hope everyone is okay.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (P5A9z)

15
Wine here tonight

Posted by: fourseasons at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (3ek7K)

16 One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets
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Daily diet of vitamins and minerals? (ESPECIALLY MINERALS!)

Constant, regular exercise?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Proper hydration, surely?

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (nhCoE)

17
Predator pranks Alien

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLB9kZ5Sg1k

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (y9nCu)

18 America’s autobahn? I thought that was Montana.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (0MjtC)

19 Met a lover in preschool? That's so hot.

Posted by: Timothy Busfield at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (0e5Te)

20 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 15, 2026 10:13 PM (SRRAx)

21 Met a lover in preschool? That's so hot.
Posted by: Timothy Busfield at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (0e5Te)

Hahaha!!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:13 PM (QMAsf)

22 The performers have alcoholic names!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)

23 No speed limit in the US? Bad idea. Very, very bad idea. We have lots of cars around capable of 150+mph. Going fast is a learned skill. Stopping from going fast is another. Tires are another. The vast range of idiots around is the last!

Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (47diA)

24 Booze
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (IhIKR)

The source of and the solution to most of our problems.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (2WIwB)

25 Heh at joke.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

26 Mr. Doooooooooof! Thanks for the entertaining Thursday Night ONT!

So our little T-Rex is a late bloomer, eh? When do his arms catch up with the rest of his body?

That history of the condom is pretty funny...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (kB9dk)

27 The theme is types of alcohol? Gin, bourbon, and wine?
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2026 10:10 PM (Cjcf6)

You missed a couple varieties with George Thorogood, but yes.

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

28 I'm only capable of Level 1 puzzles so I have to take it where I can.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

29 One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets

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Government grants! The secret is government grants!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 15, 2026 10:17 PM (L/fGl)

30 How are you, Teresa? Recovered from that nasty bug? How is your treatment going?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 15, 2026 10:17 PM (nz1sK)

31
35-40 years for T Rex to mature? How long did its peak last?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 15, 2026 10:17 PM (x4Mz/)

32 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (47diA)

YW!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

33 One Glacier Is Actually Growing–and Perplexed Scientists Hope to Discover its Secrets

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Government grants! The secret is government grants!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 15, 2026 10:17 PM (L/fGl)
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How many Somalis claim to live on or around the glacier?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (ESVrU)

34 Does Montana have a nighttime only speed limit? Or did they rid of that limit when the 55 mph speed limit for federal funds stopped.

On a related note, I suspect the AZ traffic engineers would prefer the flat roads get laid out like the one in the top photo; driving 3 miles to get 1 mile closer to your destination.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

35 Using ChatGPT to devise your wedding speech? Asshoes!
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Yeah, nothing says personalizing your vows quite like ChatGPT.

Posted by: Methos at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (vSvIl)

36 Mr. Doooooooooof! Thanks for the entertaining Thursday Night ONT!

So our little T-Rex is a late bloomer, eh? When do his arms catch up with the rest of his body?

That history of the condom is pretty funny...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (kB9dk)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

37 Mr Scary was my lab partner in sophomore biology class. We were just pals. There was time and space and we grew on each other. Like mold, but nicer. This year our marriage turns 29.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (n4Qav)

38 35-40 years for T Rex to mature? How long did its peak last?

About five years, then it had a mid-life crises and bought a sports car. Since there were no speed limits back then they all died in fiery high speed crashes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (lUFok)

39 There was some road out west, I forget where, that essentially had no speed limit I thought. California or Nevada. Some time in the 90s. Am I remembering that right? I was on a road trip with a friend and I remember him saying some road we were going hella fast on was fine actually because it had no speed limit.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (3uBP9)

40 Hey guys,

I hope you are all having a wonderful evening.

Posted by: Joyenz at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (2F0/Y)

41 Right-wing “transvestigators” have now convinced themselves that Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney is secretly transgender, because a conspiracy theorist’s “work” is never done.
- - - - Really - - > .them.us/story

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 10:19 PM (4BNa1)

42 Amy Winehouse no good? Well, I'm sure she's rottin' by now.*

* Too soon?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 15, 2026 10:19 PM (uQesX)

43 Why are "scientists" so concerned about chunks of ice? Water changes state every day all over the world. Just happened on my stove a while ago.

Posted by: Glacial Pace at January 15, 2026 10:19 PM (oftw2)

44 A remote stretch of desert interstate could become ‘America’s autobahn’
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I can't decide. Do we call it the "Paul Walker Patch" or maybe the "James Dead Divider"..."The Jayne Mansfield Headway"..."Princess Di Drive" ..."Harry Chapin Highway"

(Ok, maybe the Jayne Mansfield one was just a tad over the line.....BUT, so was she...so BONUS)

Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2026 10:20 PM (dIske)

45 That history of the condom is pretty funny...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at January 15, 2026 10:15 PM (kB9dk)

The Australian version uses New Zealand and sheep.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2026 10:20 PM (S/Y4j)

46 I think glaciers are healthy at any size.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 15, 2026 10:20 PM (w/O5Q)

47 I think Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth is having its 20th anniversary .

It didn’t age well to say the least.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 15, 2026 10:20 PM (KDPiq)

48 Met a lover in preschool? That's so hot.
Posted by: Timothy Busfield at January 15, 2026 10:12 PM (0e5Te)

Bloody right!

Posted by: Prince Andrew at January 15, 2026 10:20 PM (N/gmR)

49 whoa....#44 James DEAN....that's James DEAN, not James DEAD...although he is that...

Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2026 10:21 PM (dIske)

50 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (ESVrU)

Perf, I have a pic that might be suitable for the BT.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 15, 2026 10:21 PM (uQesX)

51 I was on a road trip with a friend and I remember him saying some road we were going hella fast on was fine actually because it had no speed limit.

Your friend is full of sh*t. But you probably already knew that.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 15, 2026 10:21 PM (Fs0KI)

52 Man, it's too cold in GA. The latest weather report says there'll be glaciers. I escaped the midwest to get away from this.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 15, 2026 10:21 PM (3uBP9)

53 Arizona lawmaker wants to give drivers the green light to drive as fast as they deem “reasonable and prudent” on some of the state’s long, straight stretches...

Highway 90 between Sierra Vista and Tombstone. 105 mph.
This was 1975.
So I was told...

Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

54 No speed limit in the US? Bad idea. Very, very bad idea. We have lots of cars around capable of 150+mph. Going fast is a learned skill. Stopping from going fast is another. Tires are another. The vast range of idiots around is the last!

Thanks for the ONT, Doof!
Posted by: LRob in OK

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You'd have to ban dumbass Hoosiers from the state. There wouldbe carnage from 100+ mph cars plowing into Indiana-plated cars going 55 in the passing lane.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 15, 2026 10:22 PM (8AONa)

55 35-40 years for T Rex to mature? How long did its peak last?

About five years, then it had a mid-life crises and bought a sports car. Since there were no speed limits back then they all died in fiery high speed crashes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

And while they could really mash the pedals, the steering wheel was problematic.

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2026 10:22 PM (nhCoE)

56 I can't decide. Do we call it the "Paul Walker Patch" or maybe the "James Dead Divider"..."The Jayne Mansfield Headway"..."Princess Di Drive" ..."Harry Chapin Highway"

Since they finally finished the 101 south of San Jose a while back CA82 is no longer known as "Blood Alley". Could maybe use that?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:22 PM (lUFok)

57 Booze is ALWAYS the theme of the Horde.

Where the Valu-Rite flows like manna.

Posted by: XTC at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (6Uni8)

58 Well played, Sean.
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A friend and her husband became sweethearts in elementary school.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (4BNa1)

59 Speed limits are based on road conditions. I don’t have a problem with people driving fast on 4 lane divided highway with limited traffic and unlimited visibility, long straight stretches, dry pavement and the rest of it.

I do have a problem with people driving the speed limit in poor visibility or at night in the rain and snow on 2 lane roads with curves, etc. I’ve never seen anyone get a ticket for that, unless they are in a collision. A little late then, huh.

One thing Europe does correct is the Autobahn - right? … but then note well the large trucks or semis are limited to the right hand lane and no more than 100kph (62 mph). They do require actual safety inspections and the cars I drove had good brakes. American domestic car brakes are like mush in comparison.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (S4YIq)

60 Has Busfield been located yet?

Posted by: Wrong Arm Of The Law at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (oftw2)

61 There's a 16-mile stretch between Shawnee, Oklahoma and the Turner Turnpike (Chandler, Oklahoma). Those 16 miles were bliss to the freshman in college me--I hit all kinds of speeds over that 2-lane stretch. In retrospect, I question only how I would have done had I climbed a hill and found a combine in my lane.

Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (Cjcf6)

62 I see they caught the guy that stole a rifle and ammo from an ICE vehicle. Some Latin Kings thug with a long rap sheet ... they got his license plate, and tracked him down.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (vbXSk)

63 Government grants! The secret is government grants!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 15, 2026 10:17 PM (L/fGl)

Money for Somalian!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 15, 2026 10:24 PM (zZu0s)

64 22 The performers have alcoholic names!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)

The performers are alcoholics. Or were, in Amy's case.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 15, 2026 10:24 PM (MZ+PY)

65 31
35-40 years for T Rex to mature? How long did its peak last?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 15, 2026 10:17 PM (x4Mz/)

Marc Bolan?

Posted by: XTC at January 15, 2026 10:24 PM (6Uni8)

66 ice cores containing 30,000 years of frozen water in the hopes that somewhere inside lies some indication of how we can help these rivers of ice survive as the planet warms.

Warming?
I read that to say we've been getting colder for the last 30,000 years.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 15, 2026 10:24 PM (/lPRQ)

67 > A remote stretch of desert interstate could become ‘America’s autobahn’
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I-5, east of San Jose and all the way to Bakersfield. Flat, good visibility, radar detector. Yea... 130MPH is doable for long periods of time.

Until you need gas.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2026 10:24 PM (U2OZr)

68 The ones in Glacier National Park seemed to be doing just fine, last time I visited.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 10:25 PM (APZWP)

69 You'd have to ban dumbass Hoosiers from the state. There wouldbe carnage from 100+ mph cars plowing into Indiana-plated cars going 55 in the passing lane.
Posted by: 2009Refugee

Ohio waves "hi".

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at January 15, 2026 10:25 PM (N/gmR)

70 35-40 years for T Rex to mature? How long did its peak last?

About five years, then it had a mid-life crises and bought a sports car. Since there were no speed limits back then they all died in fiery high speed crashes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

And while they could really mash the pedals, the steering wheel was problematic.
Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2026 10:22 PM (nhCoE)

That must be why they only drove cars like the 1903 Oldsmobile, with the long steering arm.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2026 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)

71 Has Busfield been located yet?

I thought they locked his ass up in the Bernalillo County jail?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:25 PM (lUFok)

72 I look forward to reading exciting reports from Arizona's new Darwin Awards Highway.

Posted by: mindful webworker - how do you get this thing out of second gear?? at January 15, 2026 10:25 PM (FMpsC)

73 Hmm...thinking of other band/artist names that might have worked for tonight's quiz:

Everclear
April Wine
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 10:26 PM (nbLIj)

74 Somebody moved TRex's keyboard out in the middle of his desk and he can't reach it to comment.

Probably.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:26 PM (47diA)

75 The ones in Glacier National Park seemed to be doing just fine, last time I visited.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 10:25 PM (APZWP)
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They store them in giant freezers during the off season.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2026 10:26 PM (ESVrU)

76 I can't decide. Do we call it the "Paul Walker Patch" or maybe the "James Dead Divider"..."The Jayne Mansfield Headway"..."Princess Di Drive" ..."Harry Chapin Highway"

(Ok, maybe the Jayne Mansfield one was just a tad over the line.....BUT, so was she...so BONUS)
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2026 10:20 PM (dIske)

Arizona, right? Maybe we should put Tom in the Mix?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 15, 2026 10:26 PM (uQesX)

77 Busfield turned himself in. Said it's a lie and when he gets hold of the kid, he's going to spank that little monkey.

Posted by: Wally at January 15, 2026 10:27 PM (0e5Te)

78 I've driven the Autobahn (the German one) in a Ford Thunderbird. One of the US Armored guys had it shipped over. There were two problems.

1. It was a Sunday morning, and that's when the serious drivers are out burning carbon...scary fast.

2. The second problem was more pronounced. It was just before the Berlin wall came down, and there were East Germans sneaking into West Germany through Hungary...in their Trabants (which were powered by twisted rubber bands). And, those idiots were in the far left lane causing some of the worst accidents Germany had ever seen until the banned them at certain times of the day.

Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)

79 Has Busfield been located yet?
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Yeah. He turned himself in. But only after he posted a video to social media declaring his innocence.

I don't know how I feel about it yet.

Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2026 10:27 PM (Cjcf6)

80 Somebody moved TRex's keyboard out in the middle of his desk and he can't reach it to comment.

Probably.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:26 PM (47diA)

He might be playing with an RC TRex, and lost track of time.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2026 10:28 PM (S/Y4j)

81 >>> One thing Europe does correct is the Autobahn - right? … but then note well the large trucks or semis are limited to the right hand lane and no more than 100kph (62 mph). They do require actual safety inspections and the cars I drove had good brakes. American domestic car brakes are like mush in comparison.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (S4YIq)

Top Gear had an episode where this gal, crazy speed freak, raced a moving van down the autobahn. Great episode. She was trying to beat the best time of a sports car. And she almost did.

I found it:
youtu.be/5KiC03_wVjc

She's a keeper.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 15, 2026 10:28 PM (3uBP9)

82 Hmm...thinking of other band/artist names that might have worked for tonight's quiz:

Everclear
April Wine
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 10:26 PM (nbLIj)

Damn. Missed opportunity for April Wine - Roller.
https://youtu.be/he3VGX3rfck

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

83 A few states had “reasonable and prudent” speed limits (during daylight hours) way back in the day.

By the time of the federally mandated 55 mph speed limit (Richard Nixon signed it into law) only Montana balked, and officially complied though speeding tickets were only a $5 fine, payable on the spot, for “wasting energy”.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 15, 2026 10:28 PM (S4YIq)

84 The ones in Glacier National Park seemed to be doing just fine, last time I visited.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 10:25 PM (APZWP)

Was Glacier the park where they had to take down the signs that said, "This glacier will be gone by 2020"?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 15, 2026 10:29 PM (bhZyo)

85 Another thing to consider about AZ is that recreational marijuana is legal. When high speed meets good weed, bad things are gonna happen.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:29 PM (lUFok)

86 I think those Montana $5 tickets lasted for the whole day.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:29 PM (47diA)

87 Hmm...thinking of other band/artist names that might have worked for tonight's quiz:

Everclear
April Wine
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

Mike Keneally and Beer For Dolphins

https://youtu.be/-x07IbOgEUU

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2026 10:29 PM (nhCoE)

88 Musk -
“I will be filing for full custody today,” Elon, 54, wrote on X Jan. 12, “given her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy.”
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Maybe he will start using more discretion in his choice of girlfriends.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 10:30 PM (4BNa1)

89 I saw Uppers, Weed, Pills & Hash open for the Mugwumps at the Fillmore in ‘68

Posted by: Common Tater at January 15, 2026 10:30 PM (S4YIq)

90 (62 mph). They do require actual safety inspections and the cars I drove had good brakes. American domestic car brakes are like mush in comparison.
Posted by: Common Tater

I didn't get where I am today, head of Sunshine Desserts, by concerning myself with such trivialities as brakes. Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: C.J., Sunshine Desserts at January 15, 2026 10:30 PM (oftw2)

91 Have y'all noticed that nobody's talking about Gaza anymore?

Posted by: Oddbob at January 15, 2026 10:30 PM (Fs0KI)

92 Was Glacier the park where they had to take down the signs that said, "This glacier will be gone by 2020"?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

IIRC, during the Covidiocy lockdown.

And they replaced them with signs without a date. Can't admit to being wrong!

Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2026 10:31 PM (nhCoE)

93 Another thing to consider about AZ is that recreational marijuana is legal. When high speed meets good weed, bad things are gonna happen.
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I'm not a fan of legal weed. Sometimes society should decide that certain things are hard to obtain. It separates certain people from other people.

Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2026 10:31 PM (Cjcf6)

94 74 Somebody moved TRex's keyboard out in the middle of his desk and he can't reach it to comment.

Probably.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:26 PM
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How did you know?

I never really thought that a TRex matures. Perhaps just becomes more seasoned. I'm more like an 8 year old stuck in a 29 year old body. Fart jokes are still funny and matchbox cars are still cool.

Posted by: TRex - dino en route to AZ at January 15, 2026 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

95 Darlin' Doof...I even got the connection of the songs! For once!

Loved the preschool romance. It will be 50yrs this September when I met my guy in a hospital elevator. Introduced by one of my classmates he was "sort of" dating. Going to have our son or DIL take our photo in the elevator, which I know is weird vs a field or normal, like in class or a blind date, or a plane. But it is what it is. He asked if there's going to be a side eye shot of him looking at my boobs and I said he did not. Yes, apparently, he did when I wasn't looking. I guess all guys do this? Except the gheys?

We just watched a weird but funny at times movie called Hit and Run. We spent most of the movie in a super weird conversation throughout. Guessing who the stars were and various idiotic stuff about them.Movies we'd seen them in, someone was dating a model, etc. In sort of short hand disjointed sentences as we watched. Normally we make more sense.

Keep in mind we are retarded and barely know who anyone is, so it was pitiful at times. Somehow he knew Bradley Cooper was dating a Hadid model.

I laughed and said even for us this is a weird conversation and he agreed. Such are the daze of our lives.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 10:31 PM (WONhk)

96 You know, that quoted bit about the two people who met in kindergarten doesn't say they were both students in the kindergarten. In this day and age that might be something important to put right up front in the first paragraph or so. Just sayin'.

Posted by: GWB at January 15, 2026 10:32 PM (lUAkb)

97 Cute story about the engagement party. My brother met his wife in elementary school. My sister babysat her. They used to play with He-Man figures, obviously she was She-ra. They put those figures on their wedding cake.

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 10:32 PM (OoFl2)

98 Using ChatGPT to devise ~~your wedding speech~~ anything? Asshoes!

FTFY

Posted by: AI can suck my balls at January 15, 2026 10:32 PM (TbWk/)

99 Top Gear had an episode where this gal, crazy speed freak, raced a moving van down the autobahn. Great episode. She was trying to beat the best time of a sports car. And she almost did.

I found it:
youtu.be/5KiC03_wVjc

She's a keeper.

Sabine Schmitz, who sadly left this world in 2021.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:33 PM (lUFok)

100 Spent considerable time on the autobahn, mid - 80s. Only saw one wreck and, hoo boy! Several fatalities. Involved a big Audi going over the center wall at some significant speed. I was on the same side as the Audi and all I saw was that car upside down in the air headed into the other lane. Gasthaus knew the story that evening.

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:33 PM (47diA)

101 Their music was already tedious:

Dropkick Murphys are releasing the anti-I.C.E. song “Citizen I.C.E.” as part of a new tour-only split LP with fellow Boston band Haywire titled New England Forever.

“Citizen I.C.E.” is a reworking of the Dropkick’s 2005 song “Citizen C.I.A.” Performed live during the band’s Fall 2025 European tour, the reworking melds the original’s surging arrangement with lyrics that don’t pull punches: “Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop/ Citizen I.C.E.” Haywire also lend a hand and are featured on the track.

Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2026 10:33 PM (Cjcf6)

102 Was Glacier the park where they had to take down the signs that said, "This glacier will be gone by 2020"?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 15, 2026 10:29 PM (bhZyo)

Yes, those were posted in the Obama years.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 10:34 PM (APZWP)

103 Darlin' Doof...I even got the connection of the songs! For once!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 10:31 PM (WONhk)

I knew you could do it!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:34 PM (QMAsf)

104 I think under the Leftist Rules of Concern, Outrage, and Smug Superiority, once you put a Gaza or Ukraine flag in your Twitter bio, you don't have to talk about it or do anything else.

Posted by: Wally at January 15, 2026 10:34 PM (0e5Te)

105 An analysis of growth rings in the leg bones of 17 Tyrannosaurus rex
Wait, to know how old he is we have to cut him open?!?
No wonder dinosaurs are extinct.

Posted by: GWB at January 15, 2026 10:35 PM (lUAkb)

106 Hi all, riffing on the LASIK info post last thread: I had it done in 2007 and it was great for about seven years. But, the combo of tons of screen time (reading legal documents) and a strong astigmatism defeated it. The idea of fixing the issue once and for all is appealing.

Posted by: Effie Perrine at January 15, 2026 10:35 PM (1auMZ)

107 My lovely wife claims she noticed me while dragging the High Street bars back in the 70's. I said, "No way!" She said "Yes, way!" and described who I was with, what I was wearing, and exactly what I was doing. Dayum - she was right.

We didn't meet again until 30 some odd years later and it's a damn good thing we didn't. As immature as I was when we formally met, I was 100x worse while in college.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2026 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

108 I knew you could do it!
Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:34 PM (QMAsf)

Takin' the short bus! Thanks, you Moron.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 10:36 PM (WONhk)

109 Was Glacier the park where they had to take down the signs that said, "This glacier will be gone by 2020"?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

IIRC, during the Covidiocy lockdown.

And they replaced them with signs without a date. Can't admit to being wrong!
Posted by: mikeski at January 15, 2026 10:31 PM (nhCoE)

I'm waiting to see the glaciers expand and knock those signs down.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2026 10:37 PM (S/Y4j)

110 I miss Amy Winehouse. She had IT!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 15, 2026 10:37 PM (BSdIE)

111 I never really thought that a TRex matures. Perhaps just becomes more seasoned. I'm more like an 8 year old stuck in a 29 year old body. Fart jokes are still funny and matchbox cars are still cool.
Posted by: TRex - dino en route to AZ at January 15, 2026 10:31 PM (IQ6Gq)

Can a T Rex do the "pull my finger" thing?

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:37 PM (QMAsf)

112 Can a T Rex do the "pull my finger" thing?

Yep. But you gotta be pretty tall to reach it!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:38 PM (47diA)

113
Maybe he will start using more discretion in his choice of girlfriends.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 10:30 PM (4BNa1

He actually said this in a post. Well, what he said was he can’t populate the earth with his offspring all over everywhere and this debacle has hurt people he loves. Perhaps a reference to Shivon? He is also in a battle with Grimes, who despite all her weirdness has stopped playing her drama out publicly. I think if you have a muskette, you should shut up and be the one he trusts. Otherwise, it is going to be very, very hard for you.

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 10:39 PM (OoFl2)

114 You people and your Gottdamn meet-cute happy ending fairy tale stories. *grumbles*

Posted by: Life is such a fucking disappointment at January 15, 2026 10:39 PM (TbWk/)

115 As immature as I was when we formally met, I was 100x worse while in college.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2026 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

College was when we met. He knows all about me. No secrets. He knew exactly what he was getting into and so did I.

We were both a bit wild and crazy and got it out of our systems before we hatched sons. Raised them to be outstanding men who vote conservative. Somehow we did it and they have no idea what we did in our youth. No regrets.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 10:39 PM (WONhk)

116 I've seen much more sketchy driving on on US freeways at low speed than the German autobahn at high speed.

As much as people might thing the Autobahns are ruled by the sportscars, the truth is the black and gray wagons are the ones to watch for. They fly.

Brush with fame - we crossed paths with Sabine a few times. I have a photo of us together somewhere standing next to her Porsche race car with a giant meatball on the side (Frikadelli sponsorship). She grew up at the Nurburgring. She was special.

Posted by: TRex - speedy dino at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

117 I might have once got the 1970 Mustang Mach I up to 99mph on the turnpike from Tulsa to OKC. Managed to have it slowed down to only 80 when the hypo caught me.

The speed limit was 70 back then, IIRC, so the ticket wasn't as bad as it might have been.

I did not ever again tempt fate (and jail time and loss of license).

Anyway, the gal I was hustling down to meet stood me up.

No regerts.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 351 four in the floor herst shifter fire-engine red at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (FMpsC)

118 Bar's open, right?

https://youtu.be/mKc_Ej8RiVs

Posted by: JQ at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm)

119 >>> 115 As immature as I was when we formally met, I was 100x worse while in college.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2026 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

College was when we met. He knows all about me. No secrets. He knew exactly what he was getting into and so did I.

We were both a bit wild and crazy and got it out of our systems before we hatched sons. Raised them to be outstanding men who vote conservative. Somehow we did it and they have no idea what we did in our youth. No regrets.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 10:39 PM (WONhk)

Are you sure they don't lurk here?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (ULPxl)

120 Electric blankets are wonderful. Especially when you’re single. And it’s wintertime. And it’s cold outside.

Of course a snuggle with someone would also be nice.

Snuggle your spouse. Hold Their hand. Close your eyes and appreciate the warmth.

Or turn your electric blanket up another notch.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (IhIKR)

121 Spent considerable time on the autobahn, mid - 80s. Only saw one wreck and, hoo boy! Several fatalities. Involved a big Audi going over the center wall at some significant speed. I was on the same side as the Audi and all I saw was that car upside down in the air headed into the other lane. Gasthaus knew the story that evening.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:33 PM (47diA)

Worst one I saw was in Nuremburg. Lady got T-boned while turning in an intersection. No seatbelt and she went flying out the passenger side of the car and hit the sidewalk curb. Nasty.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (2WIwB)

122 Bar's open, right?

https://youtu.be/mKc_Ej8RiVs
Posted by: JQ at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm)

If you're here, of course it's open!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:41 PM (QMAsf)

123 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 10:41 PM (8zz6B)

124 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 10:41 PM (8zz6B)

Howdy AOP!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)

125 120 Electric blankets are wonderful. Especially when you’re single. And it’s wintertime. And it’s cold outside.

Of course a snuggle with someone would also be nice.

Snuggle your spouse. Hold Their hand. Close your eyes and appreciate the warmth.

Or turn your electric blanket up another notch.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (IhIKR)

Or snuggle a creature. Currently there are 2 cats and a dog in here with me. It’s actually kind of crowded, but they are comfy cozy.

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 10:43 PM (OoFl2)

126 "The Dark Crystal" looks great in 4K. It's still not a great story. But looks great!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 15, 2026 10:43 PM (CHHv1)

127 Winehouse' "back to black" is still heartwrenching.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 15, 2026 10:43 PM (gKWVE)

128 106 Hi all, riffing on the LASIK info post last thread: I had it done in 2007 and it was great for about seven years. But, the combo of tons of screen time (reading legal documents) and a strong astigmatism defeated it. The idea of fixing the issue once and for all is appealing.
Posted by: Effie Perrine

That was almost exactly my daughter's experience. She had it done in college around 2008, then joined the Army right after graduation. She was happy she needed no glasses in the military, especially deploying to Afghanistan. She left the Army as a Captain in 2015, but within about three years started needing specs again. She is a married Mom of two and is A CPA for Lockheed-Martin.

Posted by: All I Know About Glasses at January 15, 2026 10:43 PM (oftw2)

129 "The Dark Crystal" looks great in 4K. It's still not a great story. But looks great!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Yeah, the TV series was better.
It was a death penalty offense not to produce more seasons.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 15, 2026 10:44 PM (gKWVE)

130 DOOF!

I simply cannot decide on a scotch, or one bourbon,or one beer....I think I'll try a pepsi🙂....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 15, 2026 10:44 PM (LNeRu)

131 Snuggle your spouse. Hold Their hand. Close your eyes and appreciate the warmth.

Or turn your electric blanket up another notch.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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{{{nurse}}}

Yeah, got the 'lectric blanket... Can only hold hands with hubby at the facility. *sad face*

Posted by: JQ at January 15, 2026 10:45 PM (rdVOm)

132 I met my wife at a slave auction. I beat her frequently, and she poisons my food.

Does that make it better?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2026 10:45 PM (BI5O2)

133 >>> He actually said this in a post. Well, what he said was he can’t populate the earth with his offspring all over everywhere and this debacle has hurt people he loves. Perhaps a reference to Shivon? He is also in a battle with Grimes, who despite all her weirdness has stopped playing her drama out publicly. I think if you have a muskette, you should shut up and be the one he trusts. Otherwise, it is going to be very, very hard for you.
Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 10:39 PM (OoFl2)

I think he was pretty crappy to grimes for a while. In a scattered brain, oblivious, not taking care of important health issue, doctor stuff for his children way. He's too much of a man child and needs to grow up.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 15, 2026 10:45 PM (3uBP9)

134 I always liked seeing the big sign on the overpass on eastbound I-90 at Exit 0, Lookout Pass (border with Idaho) that proclaimed the daytime speed limit to be "reasonable and prudent". There were stretches of that highway north of Butte where I'd be doing 80 or so in my truck and be passed by cars doing at least 30mph faster.

As the article mentions, it was a Libertarian Party member who got that killed. Another reason to dislike the party of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 15, 2026 10:45 PM (j7INY)

135 I think I'll try a pepsi🙂....
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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Try it with Bailey's! Seriously. It's like a melted ice cream float.

Posted by: JQ at January 15, 2026 10:46 PM (rdVOm)

136 DOOF!

I simply cannot decide on a scotch, or one bourbon,or one beer....I think I'll try a pepsi🙂....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 15, 2026 10:44 PM (LNeRu)

Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 10:47 PM (QMAsf)

137 I met my wife at a slave auction. I beat her frequently, and she poisons my food.

Does that make it better?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2026 10:45 PM (BI5O2)
====

What matters is, How are her sammiches.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

138 DOOF!

I simply cannot decide on a scotch, or one bourbon,or one beer....I think I'll try a pepsi🙂....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 15, 2026 10:44 PM (LNeRu)

NO YOU'RE ON DRUGS!!!

Posted by: Guess the reference for retro points at January 15, 2026 10:47 PM (TbWk/)

139 The history of the condom is incomplete. It doesn't explain why the muzzies invented it. That also involves goats. They were very enlightened during that time period as I've been told repeatedly.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 15, 2026 10:47 PM (vzcgi)

140 Bar's open, right?

https://youtu.be/mKc_Ej8RiVs
Posted by: JQ at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (rdVOm)

Wait! What???
Open?
That means there is a closing time.
Damn it. Nobody tells me anything.
*looks at tin foil membership*
This thing is worthless.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2026 10:47 PM (2WIwB)

141 From a January 2020 CNN article:

The signs at Glacier National Park warning that its signature glaciers would be gone by 2020 are being changed.

The signs in the Montana park were added more than a decade ago to reflect climate change forecasts at the time by the US Geological Survey, park spokeswoman Gina Kurzmen told CNN.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 10:48 PM (APZWP)

142 There was some road out west, I forget where, that essentially had no speed limit I thought. California or Nevada.
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Nevada, but not really. They had no speed limits signs, but...
In 1972, I was stopped by a Nevada State cop on I80, out around Elko. He asked me if I knew how fast I was going. I said 107. He told me my speedo.was off, I was doing 102. He then proceeded to "larn" me about Nevada's speed law, which was "reasonable and prudent", and that 102 didn't meet that definition. He told me that anything above 90 during the day and 70 at night would get me pulled over. He let me off with a warning, because my car was in good mecanical.shape with good tires. I remember one thing he said - "You wouldn't believe the number of people I stop.out here, doing over a hundred with cord showing on their tires.. and with little kids in the car."
The next year, we had the gas crisis and the national 55. After we got rid of that, Nevada never went back, and had speed limits signs.like everyone else.

Posted by: buddhaha at January 15, 2026 10:48 PM (ibgwE)

143 Does Montana have a nighttime only speed limit? Or did they rid of that limit when the 55 mph speed limit for federal funds stopped.

On a related note, I suspect the AZ traffic engineers would prefer the flat roads get laid out like the one in the top photo; driving 3 miles to get 1 mile closer to your destination.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2026 10:18 PM (S/Y4j)

They have night limits on some roads, not all. Probably based upon frequency of animal strkes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 10:49 PM (8zz6B)

144 132 I met my wife at a slave auction. I beat her frequently, and she poisons my food.

Does that make it better?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2026 10:45 PM (BI5O2)

Possibly. Were you buying or up for sale too?

Posted by: A meet-brute story at January 15, 2026 10:49 PM (TbWk/)

145 taking 35 to 40 years to reach maturity.
---------------

Well they've got me beat

Posted by: ... at January 15, 2026 10:50 PM (E0p3T)

146 I hope sea level has risen to Al Gore's porch by now . . . .

What a dumbass!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:50 PM (47diA)

147 Evenin'

Over the decades, a glacier in Central Asia appears to have been growing when almost every other glacier on Earth has been shrinking.

Some are shrinking, others are not, but whatever.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 15, 2026 10:50 PM (YoT4f)

148 Hi all, riffing on the LASIK info post last thread: I had it done in 2007 and it was great for about seven years. But, the combo of tons of screen time (reading legal documents) and a strong astigmatism defeated it. The idea of fixing the issue once and for all is appealing.

Posted by: Effie Perrine at January 15, 2026 10:35 PM (1auMZ)

The wife had it done in 1997. She was blind as a bat. If you're sitting across a large room she would not know who you were. If she lost her glasses she probably couldn't drive. Driving her home from the procedure she was reading license plates 3-4 cars ahead of us. We stopped at McDonalds on the way home, and sitting in the car in the parking lot was reading the frigging drive thru menu from the parking lot. I was amazed. She was seeing like a hawk. No more glasses, no contacts, zip, nadda. Almost 30 years later and she don't need reading glasses, and only just recently needs a mild set of glasses for driving, but isn't really a necessity. She just likes to be able see street signs from far away so they don't sneak up on her. She got a lot of millage out of that procedure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2026 10:51 PM (snZF9)

149 I’ve taken the Town Car up to a hundred miles an hour on I-10, in west Texas, when it was only me, a semi, and the wind. It was for passing only; when the wind blows in west Texas, you wan to get past the semis as quickly as possible.

Though given that the highway is long, straight, and mostly empty I’d not be opposed to removing the speed limit there. I doubt I’d go much faster than the 80mph limit generally, but if you can, more power to you on that stretch of road.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2026 10:51 PM (EXyHK)

150 146 I hope sea level has risen to Al Gore's porch by now . . . .

What a dumbass!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:50 PM (47diA)

They lie to us all the time. They know they're lying. They laugh all the way to the bank behind their devotees' backs. And yet, so many people remain enthralled, taking every word as gospel.

Posted by: Only sane man in the asylum at January 15, 2026 10:52 PM (TbWk/)

151 I suppose not too many folks liked Amy W...I really did dig her...oh well...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 15, 2026 10:52 PM (LNeRu)

152 The sad part of the glacier story is I'm sure the political clown who put up the sign still works there and has been promoted 3 times since he did it.
Literally, more people die in those government jobs than get fired.

Posted by: Wally at January 15, 2026 10:53 PM (0e5Te)

153
I think he was pretty crappy to grimes for a while. In a scattered brain, oblivious, not taking care of important health issue, doctor stuff for his children way. He's too much of a man child and needs to grow up.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 15, 2026 10:45 PM (3uBP9)

Agreed. She thought they were still a family. Then Shivon had twins. That’s pretty ugly. Maybe the silver lining of his experience with a psycho gold digger is he grows up and realizes women are humans, not incubators. He is a strangely hands on father for someone not super concerned who their mothers were.

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 10:53 PM (OoFl2)

154 Biggest driving hazard currently IMHO is LED headlights at night. Those fucking things are BLINDING in oncoming traffic.

Posted by: Bring back the regular ones at January 15, 2026 10:54 PM (TbWk/)

155 known as an eendagsbabs

—

The Dutch and Germans have the best words.

Posted by: Really?? at January 15, 2026 10:54 PM (kgFPv)

156 That picture of the mountain road would be sort of fun to cross-country ski to see if you lived.

My apt mates (two grad student guys I did not know) & their girlfriends & other friends took me on an adventure my first winter. Cross country skied from one canyon to another across a mountain ridge as seen in the photo (without the road). Sheer drops on each side of the narrow path I followed & did not look down. We got to someone's cabin about 4pm after hours of skiing & I remember collapsing in front of the fire after putting on dry clothes. I think I slept through dinner into the next day.

I firmly believe I had guardian angels as nothing bad ever happened to me and I took risks. I had fun.

I had good friends who looked out for me, including these apt mates. A friend arranged for me to have a room in this house & these two guys came with it. I did not tell my parents I was living with 2 guys in the same apt for months.

They were not happy that I moved across the country, being a half-wit and all. My mother called & one guy answered the phone. She quickly asked who that was (thinking I'd joined a cult or something).I had my own bedroom and bath I assured her; they had gfs!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 10:55 PM (WONhk)

157 I remember my mom and I driving to Montreal and I was sleeping and woke up and she was sailing at 110.

That was scary.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

158 Howdy Horde! Great ONT!

Posted by: Iris at January 15, 2026 10:55 PM (bOJ2I)

159 Posted by: Common Tater at January 15, 2026 10:23 PM (S4YIq)

The Autobahn is Germany. France has stupid speed limits, and so does the UK.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 15, 2026 10:55 PM (n9ltV)

160 I hope sea level has risen to Al Gore's porch by now . . . .

What a dumbass!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:50 PM (47diA)

They lie to us all the time. They know they're lying. They laugh all the way to the bank behind their devotees' backs. And yet, so many people remain enthralled, taking every word as gospel.
-----

Any man who supported that wimp should have been pilloried. What happened to men holding other men accountable? Can you imagine how many "men" supported Hillary and the 2024 drunkard?

Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2026 10:55 PM (Cjcf6)

161 157 I remember my mom and I driving to Montreal and I was sleeping and woke up and she was sailing at 110.

That was scary.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

No kidding. Anybody who wants to get to Montreal faster is a total maniac!

Posted by: Not the journey but the destination that matters at January 15, 2026 10:57 PM (TbWk/)

162 France has stupid speed limits

And yellow headlights.

And they are French!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:57 PM (47diA)

163 >>>Does Montana have a nighttime only speed limit? Or did they rid of that limit when the 55 mph speed limit for federal funds stopped.

>They have night limits on some roads, not all. Probably based upon frequency of animal strkes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

>How fast do you want to hit a deer? Or slide into the barrow pit from black ice? You can haul ass at your own risk. Self preservation is a choice.

Many of the roads were engineered when the speed limit was 55mph. Fair warning.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 15, 2026 10:57 PM (BSdIE)

164 41 Right-wing “transvestigators” have now convinced themselves that Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney is secretly transgender, because a conspiracy theorist’s “work” is never done.
- - - - Really - - > .them.us/story
Posted by: Braenyard

People have too much time on there hands. Idle minds turn retarded.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 15, 2026 10:58 PM (YoT4f)

165 Montana imposed limits after a guy was stopped doing something like 120 and got a ticket for not driving ins a safe manner. He fought the ticket went all the way to state Supreme Court and won. His argument was safe and prudent is too vague and the court agreed.

So the legislature said yeah that’s kinda fucked up and added a speed limit.

Posted by: Really?? at January 15, 2026 10:59 PM (kgFPv)

166 164 41 Right-wing “transvestigators” have now convinced themselves that Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney is secretly transgender, because a conspiracy theorist’s “work” is never done.
- - - - Really - - > .them.us/story
Posted by: Braenyard

People have too much time on there hands. Idle minds turn retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 15, 2026

And just like that, we are talking about Candace Owens.

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 10:59 PM (OoFl2)

167 People have too much time on there hands. Idle minds turn retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 15, 2026 10:58 PM (YoT4f)

*their

Posted by: Semi-idle mind at January 15, 2026 10:59 PM (TbWk/)

168 *their

Or possibly *they're . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 11:00 PM (47diA)

169 because a conspiracy theorist’s “work” is never done.

—

It can be exhausting, true.
- Candace Owens

Posted by: Really?? at January 15, 2026 11:00 PM (kgFPv)

170 Right-wing “transvestigators” have now convinced themselves that Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney is secretly transgender, because a conspiracy theorist’s “work” is never done.
- - - - Really - - > .them.us/story
Posted by: Braenyard

People have too much time on there hands. Idle minds turn retarded.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 15, 2026 10:58 PM (YoT4f)

I'm surprised no one has volunteered to perform an extensive study of the issue. I would, but she can't get away with a brisk walk.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 15, 2026 11:01 PM (S/Y4j)

171 Howdy Horde! Great ONT!
Posted by: Iris at January 15, 2026 10:55 PM (bOJ2I)

Hello there!

Posted by: Doof at January 15, 2026 11:01 PM (QMAsf)

172 My Canadian relatives are all maniacs, every visit was insanity.

The visit to Montreal Fiance F. screamed "let me out of this car!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 11:01 PM (RIvkX)

173 I was reading about the Battle of Manila.
MacArthur returned to Luzon, and joined up with the Filipino resistance. They approached Manila, under the command of General Tomoyuki Yamashita. Yamashita figured out, accurately, he couldn't win. So he ordered a retreat; there was a possibility of a better holdout in the local hills, "Sierra Madre" (apparently every Spanish ex colony got hills with that name).
Rear Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi disobeyed those orders thinking it would be more fun to fight in the streets and rape Filipinas.
So 100,000 citizens died, because Iwabuchi used them as human shields off-and-on just shooting them for giggles. Unless I'm reading this wrong (and I hope I am, because my faith in humanity is low enough as it is).

I dunno. Some of the people involved in the war, you know, war sucks, you have to give orders that result in horrible things. But then you read about a monster like Iwabuchi and you wonder how the fuck anyone promoted him to a position beyond "prison cook".

Posted by: gKWVE at January 15, 2026 11:01 PM (gKWVE)

174 I’ve taken the Town Car up to a hundred miles an hour on I-10, in west Texas, when it was only me, a semi, and the wind. It was for passing only; when the wind blows in west Texas, you wan to get past the semis as quickly as possible.

Though given that the highway is long, straight, and mostly empty I’d not be opposed to removing the speed limit there. I doubt I’d go much faster than the 80mph limit generally, but if you can, more power to you on that stretch of road.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Waaay back whennwe were first married, Smash & I drove from ft bliss to home (louisiana) we both signed out on leave at midnight, and were eating late breakfast in Amarillo at 10am. Little ford courier 2.0 liter iron duke. I had a Holley 500 on it. Never found it's top end, too skeery. Definitley would cruise at 110moh, though.

Would totes do that on the Ducati today. Wonder how long the gas would last at 140? Prolly only get 20mpg at that speed.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 15, 2026 11:01 PM (QVmho)

175
Though given that the highway is long, straight, and mostly empty I’d not be opposed to removing the speed limit there. I doubt I’d go much faster than the 80mph limit generally, but if you can, more power to you on that stretch of road.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2026 10:51 PM (EXyHK)

On I-55 (eye-fiddy-fi) I got my mother's V8 station wagon boat up to 112mph. I was 15yrs old and driving to volunteer at a little hospital as a candy striper. I thought this great fun with my exBF and did it for many weekends.

At some point the Hwy Patrol caught me slowing down to 93mph and gave me a $20 ticket. I was goint to pay it and yet this exBF said, oh, you need to tell your parents. Oh, boy. Daddy yelled at me. Mama cried. It was a mess.

The next day my great father and WWII Marine apologized for yelling at me. The week prior he and a friend (and me in the backseat) were on a hwy and he said, "Let's see how fast she can go" in this same car. Little did he know I was already speeding away whenever I could. He thought he was a bad influence on me. He was the greatest influence on me!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 11:02 PM (WONhk)

176 There is the 85 mph stretch of toll road 130 from Lockhart to Seguin, TX. It is kind of a hoot to putter along at 85 and have people blow past.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 15, 2026 11:02 PM (n4Qav)

177 All right, I am off to bed. Still worried about stateless. Also, has Miklos been around?

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 11:02 PM (OoFl2)

178 >>>The History of the Condom

The British could have stepped in sooner, but they thought it would be funnier to wait for 600 years.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 15, 2026 11:02 PM (syz1S)

179 So 100,000 citizens died, because Iwabuchi used them as human shields off-and-on just shooting them for giggles. Unless I'm reading this wrong (and I hope I am, because my faith in humanity is low enough as it is).

I dunno. Some of the people involved in the war, you know, war sucks, you have to give orders that result in horrible things. But then you read about a monster like Iwabuchi and you wonder how the fuck anyone promoted him to a position beyond "prison cook".

Posted by: gKWVE

This too is why they got their asses nuked twice.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 15, 2026 11:03 PM (QVmho)

180
Miklos has commented a few times lately.

Posted by: fourseasons at January 15, 2026 11:04 PM (3ek7K)

181 I saw Miklos a day or two ago

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 15, 2026 11:04 PM (RIvkX)

182 I drove 125 on i40 in Arizona once. There really ain’t much there.

On the actual autobahn 125 is chill. Not uncommon to get passed like you’re standing still at that speed. The greens are slowly killing it. If you want to experience it better go soon. May not exist in its current form for long. Even now only about 1/2 is speed limit free.

Posted by: Really?? at January 15, 2026 11:04 PM (kgFPv)

183 Top Gear had an episode where this gal, crazy speed freak, raced a moving van down the autobahn. Great episode. She was trying to beat the best time of a sports car. And she almost did.

I found it:
youtu.be/5KiC03_wVjc

She's a keeper.
Posted by: banana Dream

That's not the Autobahn. That's Nurburgring, also known as 'The Green Hell'. It's about 16 +/- miles long, over 300 turns. The 24 Hours of Nurburgring is quite the endurance race. F1 used to race there until the cars got too fast for the track.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 15, 2026 11:05 PM (YoT4f)

184 I think those Montana $5 tickets lasted for the whole day.
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 10:29 PM (47diA)

Yep, $5. You handed the Highway Patrol a $5 bill and he wrote you a citation for wasting a natural resource. So no insurance hit.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 15, 2026 11:05 PM (GGatE)

185 177 All right, I am off to bed. Still worried about stateless. Also, has Miklos been around?

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 11:02 PM (OoFl2)

Miklos has abounded, thank goodness. Stateless is still missing.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January 15, 2026 11:06 PM (n4Qav)

186 Tonight I saw the video of the fekin' caw bird yelling at the duck hunters. Throwing rocks at decoys. Shrieking and stompy feet on the public beach. The guys were laughing at her (pity they did not fire some buckshot at her).

Liberal women seem to be a special brand of retard and are going wild. The Wilding of Lesbos

Another video seen recently, full of the f word, like it is a badge of courage, said she's gone into early menopause due to TDS and all the rest of you. Which is a good thing! They can't reproduce even if an illegal rapes them! No sane American male would go near them. She was wearing big glasses as a beacon!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 11:06 PM (WONhk)

187 Biggest driving hazard currently IMHO is LED headlights at night. Those fucking things are BLINDING in oncoming traffic.
Posted by: Bring back the regular ones at January 15, 2026 10:54 PM (TbWk/)

Agree. Mostly they are floodlights, not headlights. When your light source is a large cluster of little flat tiles, the optics to properly focus it into a beam get very hard, indeed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:07 PM (8zz6B)

188
I’ve taken the Town Car up to a hundred miles an hour on I-10, in west Texas, when it was only me, a semi, and the wind. It was for passing only; when the wind blows in west Texas, you wan to get past the semis as quickly as possible.

Though given that the highway is long, straight, and mostly empty I’d not be opposed to removing the speed limit there. I doubt I’d go much faster than the 80mph limit generally, but if you can, more power to you on that stretch of road.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 15, 2026 10:51 PM (EXyHK)

That's the road I was thinking of. I've had a rental F-150 up to about 95 on the way to and from El Paso for work with no other cars in sight for at least 5 miles. Zoom.

The fastest car in the world is a rental.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2026 11:07 PM (y9nCu)

189 >How fast do you want to hit a deer? Or slide into the barrow pit from black ice? You can haul ass at your own risk. Self preservation is a choice.

Many of the roads were engineered when the speed limit was 55mph. Fair warning.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Seeing someone slide off an icy road to the inside of a banked curve is a clue they were not going fast enough and if you want to make it you might want to go faster.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 15, 2026 11:07 PM (/lPRQ)

190 Have y'all noticed that nobody's talking about Gaza anymore?
Posted by: Oddbob at January 15, 2026 10:30 PM (Fs0KI)

They just moved to phase 2

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff
@SEPeaceMissions
Jan 14
Today, on behalf of President Trump, we are announcing the launch of Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction.

Phase Two establishes a transitional technocratic Palestinian administration in Gaza, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), and begins the full demilitarization and reconstruction of Gaza [ . . . ]

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2026 11:08 PM (rbvCR)

191 The story I was told about the French and their yellow headlights was that the Germans got the French to do it during the Occupation. The Germans wanted to know who was French vs. German by their headlights at night. And the French kept the yellow headlights even after the war!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 11:08 PM (APZWP)

192 Evening all . Thx Doof.
Amy Winehouse had talent. Too bad she was a mess.
The theme looks like drunk driving, but I'm sure that's wrong

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 15, 2026 11:08 PM (Oql3v)

193 Another video seen recently, full of the f word, like it is a badge of courage, said she's gone into early menopause due to TDS and all the rest of you. Which is a good thing! They can't reproduce even if an illegal rapes them! No sane American male would go near them. She was wearing big glasses as a beacon!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 11:06 PM (WONhk)

They weren't exactly paragons of sanity before but now they've totally lost the plot. I blame social media and synthetic hormone based contraception.

Posted by: Abortions and drugs contribute I'm sure at January 15, 2026 11:08 PM (TbWk/)

194 I had a friend who was insane when it came to driving fast. He fancied himself as some kind of stunt driver. I gotta admit though, he was a damn good driver. His thing was collecting old early to mid 60's chrysler imperials and fitting TA radials on them, and then driving on the jersey turnpike at well over 100 mph. I was in the car with him on the jersey parkway one time late at night in the early 80's and decides to go through a toll booth at 70 mph and had the frigging balls to throw the quarter. I stopped getting into a car with him after a few more of his stunts. He was insane. Never crashed though, but like I said, that lunatic could drive.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2026 11:09 PM (snZF9)

195 When the local roads get icy, and they do in OK most winters, I sit on my keester at home! Not due to my own inability to get through the ice, but due to the inability of the local idiots to get down the block!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 11:09 PM (47diA)

196 185 177 All right, I am off to bed. Still worried about stateless. Also, has Miklos been around?

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 11:02 PM (OoFl2)

Miklos has abounded, thank goodness. Stateless is still missing.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at January

Thank you. We may need to deploy some of the internet sleuths. If he wants to stay hidden, I would respect that. I just want to know he is okay. We’ve been through some stuff on this blog!

Posted by: Piper at January 15, 2026 11:10 PM (OoFl2)

197 I-91 in Vermont is a pleasure to drive. Long gentle curves, excellent condition, and I think there are about 20 state troopers in the entire state.

120mph is no problem.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 15, 2026 11:11 PM (n9ltV)

198 190 Have y'all noticed that nobody's talking about Gaza anymore?
Posted by: Oddbob at January 15, 2026 10:30 PM (Fs0KI)

I'm hard pressed to find a reason.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at January 15, 2026 11:12 PM (n4Qav)

199 So 100,000 citizens died, because Iwabuchi used them as human shields off-and-on just shooting them for giggles. Unless I'm reading this wrong (and I hope I am, because my faith in humanity is low enough as it is).

I dunno. Some of the people involved in the war, you know, war sucks, you have to give orders that result in horrible things. But then you read about a monster like Iwabuchi and you wonder how the fuck anyone promoted him to a position beyond "prison cook".
Posted by: gKWVE

... And then the Japanese occupiers were systematically defeated in detail with virtually no survivors. Something like a 40:1 kill ratio.
A handful hid in the jungle for decades.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 15, 2026 11:13 PM (/lPRQ)

200 Are you sure they don't lurk here?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 15, 2026 10:40 PM (ULPxl)

Ha! Fairly sure they don't!

I'd probably have one of my syncopal episodes if they said they did! My husband also knows nothing about my secret Moron life.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 11:13 PM (WONhk)

201 Sean went to the class with a plan
To ask Zoe if he’d be her man
“Mein Kampf would you be?”
He pled on his knees
They conjoined to start their own clan

Posted by: The Reich Stuff at January 15, 2026 11:13 PM (fKeBm)

202 >>>The fastest car in the world is a rental.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

>Damn straight, if you pay the extra insurance fee to walk away. I did this every time I was in NYC, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. It's worth it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 15, 2026 11:13 PM (BSdIE)

203 Most American drivers have no idea about tire speed ratings. More speed = lots more money!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 11:14 PM (47diA)

204 Highway 90 between Sierra Vista and Tombstone. 105 mph.
This was 1975.
So I was told...
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

SR90 (after it crosses the San Pedro) to the SR80 intersection is nearly 10 miles of straightaway. I may have, on occasion, exceeded the speed limit by just a tad.

A very large tad.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 15, 2026 11:15 PM (8TVg8)

205 Here's another what's-the-common-element song trio:

Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
https://youtu.be/Ak_MTXQALa0

Don McLean - American Pie
https://youtu.be/y5ecvBaqHBk

Procul Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale
https://youtu.be/Mb3iPP-tHdA

(As I said yesternight, this is why they'll never let me do an ONT.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - what does it all mean? at January 15, 2026 11:15 PM (FMpsC)

206 135

Yeah baby! Very nice suggestion🤪!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 15, 2026 11:15 PM (LNeRu)

207 I suppose not too many folks liked Amy W...I really did dig her...oh well...

Doogie Howser liked Amy Winehouse, apparently, for a certain definition of "liked"

Posted by: Average Guy at January 15, 2026 11:17 PM (A8Vlf)

208 Yeah baby! Very nice suggestion🤪!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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Did you try it? Isn't it tasty?!

Posted by: JQ at January 15, 2026 11:18 PM (rdVOm)

209 By the time of the federally mandated 55 mph speed limit (Richard Nixon signed it into law) only Montana balked, and officially complied though speeding tickets were only a $5 fine, payable on the spot, for “wasting energy”.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 15, 2026 10:28 PM (S4YIq)

***********

During this time, I was once driving I-94 somewhere east or west of Miles City. I was doing 85 mph and no one was in front of me and there was a little dot about five miles back of me. I didn't think anything of it and continued to drive for a few more minutes. I then looked in my rear view mirror to see a Montana Highway Patrol vehicle about 100 yards behind me. I knew it was too late to slow down, so I kept going at the same speed. Then I noticed that the HP was going considerably faster than I was, and when he passed me, I looked at him. He had left elbow perched on the window-door interface with his hand holding up his head as he rested his head in the palm of his hand.

He was bored and not interested in pulling anyone over. I chuckled and thought how great it was to be a Montanan.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 15, 2026 11:18 PM (gV1De)

210 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okJs1N6eaPA

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 15, 2026 11:20 PM (jrgJz)

211 The story I was told about the French and their yellow headlights was that the Germans got the French to do it during the Occupation. The Germans wanted to know who was French vs. German by their headlights at night. And the French kept the yellow headlights even after the war!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 15, 2026 11:08 PM (APZWP)

Actually, there is some science behind it. The color is called "subtractive yellow" and results from filtering the blue light out of a white light source, like an incandescent bulb. Blue scatters more, which is why the sky is blue - has to do with the shorter wavelength of blue light. Subtractive yellow lamps work better in rain, fog, and snow, and are not as glarey to the eyes of oncoming drivers. Ever notice that blue and purple Christmas lights always look fuzzy, while green, yellow, and red are sharp? That's because your eyes struggle to focus short wavelength light, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:20 PM (8zz6B)

212 I dunno. Some of the people involved in the war, you know, war sucks, you have to give orders that result in horrible things. But then you read about a monster like Iwabuchi and you wonder how the fuck anyone promoted him to a position beyond "prison cook".
Posted by: gKWVE at January 15, 2026 11:01 PM (gKWVE)

***

When the officer corps becomes a place for the elites and privileged, and rank is not based on professionalism and training, then war crimes are inevitable.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2026 11:21 PM (2WIwB)

213 https://youtu.be/RvV3nn_de2k

Posted by: JQ at January 15, 2026 11:21 PM (rdVOm)

214 135 I think I'll try a pepsi🙂....
Posted by: COMountainMarie

"Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I wanted to.
I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it and I take my time and it doesn't work out the way I wanted to.
It's like I concentrate real hard and it doesn't work out.
Everything I do and everything I try never turns out.
It's like I need time to figure these things out."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 15, 2026 11:21 PM (CHHv1)

215 I have used yellow fog lights, AOP. Don't know whether they worked well or not. But the looked cool under the front bumper!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 11:23 PM (47diA)

216 That's because your eyes struggle to focus short wavelength light, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:20 PM (8zz6B)

Oh! I figured it was the eggnog.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2026 11:24 PM (2WIwB)

217 Now see! Doof and TRex! It ain't even Saturday. But our loves are here💕!

I do miss that Miklos though...there is a guy that can fun to any ONT! Come back Miklos!😛😜👁!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at January 15, 2026 11:26 PM (LNeRu)

218 That's all for me. Thanks, rons and ettes! You are some clever and funny folks!

Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 11:26 PM (47diA)

219 I field-stripped my little Eibar Ruby pistol, and took the grips off it. Cleaned it with acetone and 4-ought steel wool, and blued it with 4 coats of cold blue solution. Turned out real well. Doesn't look brand new, but it looks respectable for a century old gun.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:27 PM (8zz6B)

220 I was in the car with him on the jersey parkway one time late at night in the early 80's and decides to go through a toll booth at 70 mph and had the frigging balls to throw the quarter. I stopped getting into a car with him after a few more of his stunts. He was insane. Never crashed though, but like I said, that lunatic could drive.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2026 11:09 PM (snZF9)

That brings back a memory or three. Fastest I went through a GSP toll booth was a touch over 30. Made the bucket (bell rang then stopped when the quarter dropped. Ever approach a toll and the green light was lit? Yeah, that was probably me. Yer welcome.

Ever scoop up the missed quarters/tokens around the base of the bucket? That was...strangely satisfying...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 11:28 PM (nbLIj)

221 The Rape of Manila is one of the most underreported tragedies of the war; 100,000 civilian casualties are the low side, it could easily have been twice that. Of course, the casualties were all the fault of the Japanese decision to dig into the city core and hold a massive number of hostages. But it’s necessary to remember that at least some portion of the civilian casualties came about when the America's army decided to eliminate the Japanese positions with a massive artillery barrage of the city that lasted for days.

Necessary because battles like that should be remembered whenever it’s claimed that Israel isn’t doing enough to protect civilians.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2026 11:29 PM (xVja5)

222 Prince Humperdink: "Man and wife, say man and wife!!"

Wesley: "If you didn't say it, you didn't do it."

Posted by: Frankie at January 15, 2026 11:29 PM (efx3C)

223 Reading about speeding to Montreal (you go, Mama!)...we were there in the early 2000's. Took a train to Quebec City, which I loved...the train and the city.

Anyway, the cab ride from Montreal to the train station woke us all up one morning like Red Bull IV. The cabbie (probably a moose limb) drove like a lunatic. Super fast and we were not in a hurry. Maybe normal? Zipped over speed bumps, etc, weaving in and out of lanes.

Son said he almost hit a pedestrian. I was in the backseat giggling and my DIL and husband were freaked out and mute next to me.

I think I am conditioned to wildness from the farm cars we were in speeding through woods and my love of going fast. They thought something was wrong with me.

When my men were getting the suitcases out of the trunk I thought our son said his life had changed. Instead he said he needed a change. Which set me off again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 11:29 PM (WONhk)

224 I have used yellow fog lights, AOP. Don't know whether they worked well or not. But the looked cool under the front bumper!
Posted by: LRob in OK at January 15, 2026 11:23 PM (47diA)

Even white fog lights work pretty well, when mounted low, and aimed to illuminate the road directly ahead, and the fog line on your right. When the fog or snow is real bad, turn the headlights off, and drive on the foglights alone. Your eyes will be much less dazzled by your own lights being scattered back at you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:31 PM (8zz6B)

225 the Rubys are cute little pistols, and they were made in pretty much every gunshop in Northern Spain. I have a friend who is enamored of them and will pick them up when he can.
There was also 38 special knock offs for the Smith & Wesson revolvers that were also called Ruby

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2026 11:31 PM (rbvCR)

226 165 Montana imposed limits after a guy was stopped doing something like 120 and got a ticket for not driving ins a safe manner. He fought the ticket went all the way to state Supreme Court and won. His argument was safe and prudent is too vague and the court agreed.

So the legislature said yeah that’s kinda fucked up and added a speed limit.
Posted by: Really?? at January 15, 2026 10:59 PM (kgFPv)

*********

An interesting fact that I saw in a study was that the average speed went from 84 mph during the unlimited speed time to 82 mph after the 80 mph speed limit was enacted.

So the state legislature did a pretty good job in selecting the correct speed.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at January 15, 2026 11:31 PM (gV1De)

227 There's just enough time to say b'bye.

https://youtu.be/0SSkJHJE_l4

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Mama always said, nothing good happens after at January 15, 2026 11:32 PM (FMpsC)

228 I do miss that Miklos though...there is a guy that can fun to any ONT! Come back Miklos!😛😜👁!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

He made a late night visit last night.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at January 15, 2026 11:33 PM (vzcgi)

229 67 > A remote stretch of desert interstate could become ‘America’s autobahn’
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I-5, east of San Jose and all the way to Bakersfield. Flat, good visibility, radar detector. Yea... 130MPH is doable for long periods of time.

Until you need gas.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2026 10:24 PM (U2OZr)

Hubs used to do this stretch often between LA and SF to visit a girlfriend (before we met.) The fastest he did was 110 mph in his '93 Ford Escort GT. Manual 5 speed.

Such a fun car. Relearned driving stick in that car, in Boston, of all places. We once drove from Boston to my parents' house in northern Vermont in 2.5 hours. Consistent speed between 95-100 mph the entire way. So sweet.

Posted by: Effie Perrine at January 15, 2026 11:35 PM (1auMZ)

230 The fastest I ever went was with a buddy on a Kawasaki Z1000 - I was riding with him. We hit about 115-120 mph and then we got the high speed wobbles. Somehow, God took pity on us and the driver recovered, pulled over and we both threw up.

I think we did 45 mph tops on the way home after that. Never again.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2026 11:35 PM (cYBz/)

231 decides to go through a toll booth at 70 mph and had the frigging balls to throw the quarter

Funny as hell. Horrible. But funny.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2026 11:35 PM (zZ4br)

232 the Rubys are cute little pistols, and they were made in pretty much every gunshop in Northern Spain. I have a friend who is enamored of them and will pick them up when he can.
There was also 38 special knock offs for the Smith & Wesson revolvers that were also called Ruby
Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2026 11:31 PM (rbvCR)

They are basically knockoffs of the Colt 1903 Pocket Hammerless, a Browning design. .32 ACP

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:36 PM (8zz6B)

233 The mountain road reminds me of this video...that I love so much it is bookmarked. I watched it 10x on the day I found it.

Good night Morons and 'ettes. You rock!

https://tinyurl.com/ye2yak4k

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 15, 2026 11:36 PM (WONhk)

234 The fastest I ever went was with a buddy on a Kawasaki Z1000 - I was riding with him. We hit about 115-120 mph and then we got the high speed wobbles. Somehow, God took pity on us and the driver recovered, pulled over and we both threw up.

I think we did 45 mph tops on the way home after that. Never again.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2026 11:35 PM (cYBz/)

couple of friends of mine bought those Kawasaki 750 triples when they came out. Both had high-speed wrecks, which they managed to survive. Chassis design was the not the strong point on those bikes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:39 PM (8zz6B)

235 >>> but it looks respectable for a century old gun.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Good pocket pistol.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 11:40 PM (4BNa1)

236 The Hermanos Orbea also made a knock off of the S&W Russian top break pistol, in 32, 38 and .44 Russian. They were called "Ona" revolvers since that meant Good in Basque. The .44 model was called the Model Number 7 and was adopted as the standard army revolver.
During WWI when the French were ordering all those 8mm revolvers and Ruby pistols in .32, the British asked for the Ona to be made in .455 Webley. The Brits then rejected most of them, and they were rebored to 10.35 Italian revolver, marked Tettoni by the importer and sold to the Italian army.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2026 11:41 PM (rbvCR)

237 Ever scoop up the missed quarters/tokens around the base of the bucket? That was...strangely satisfying...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

Most people just chucked a handful into the funnel and it with the green light.

There was one in Tampa that I had to pause because I didn't throw in enough to get the green light.... And what I chucked just into the change return. Got about ten bucks in quarters, dimes, and nickels out of it. It only "worked" for a few days before it got fixed.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 15, 2026 11:42 PM (/lPRQ)

238 Love a good condom gag. Especially one at the expense of muslims.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 15, 2026 11:43 PM (JkO4W)

239 Fiancé Surprises His Bride with Wedding Shower in the Preschool Where They First Met as Toddlers

Was it the Quality Learing Center?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2026 11:45 PM (3ha+O)

240 The fastest I drove, outside of the Autobahn, was in the Swan Valley highway in Western Montana. My friend took off in his '68 Couger like a bat out hell. I soon followed in my '69 Galaxy.

He topped out at around 100 mph, I passed him going over 120. Probably higher because the speedometer was still climbing when I let off the gas. My friend later told me that all he saw was a blue streak passing him.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 15, 2026 11:46 PM (GGatE)

241 They are basically knockoffs of the Colt 1903 Pocket Hammerless, a Browning design. .32 ACP
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2026 11:36 PM (8zz6B)

The Spanish had a copyright law that required all patents to be registered in Spain to be protected, and if they weren't a Spanish company could make them. The Spanish manufacturers could also register a patent on those designs, also, as long as they paid the licensing fee. Orbeas Hermanos eventually gave up "their" patent on the .44 Russian design, so other manufacturers could make them too.

There were a couple of interesting Spanish patents made, but most of the small arms were some sort of borrowing.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 15, 2026 11:46 PM (rbvCR)

242 Raimondo's mom gags on condoms all the time.

Occupational hazard.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 15, 2026 11:47 PM (zZ4br)

243 Hubs used to do this stretch often between LA and SF to visit a girlfriend (before we met.) The fastest he did was 110 mph in his '93 Ford Escort GT. Manual 5 speed.

Posted by: Effie Perrine at January 15, 2026 11:35 PM (1auMZ)

According to the NJ State Trooper, I was doing 95 on the parkway in my Chrysler Laser. According to the speedometer, I was doing 85. That was the highest number on the gauge. Always thought it was funny to put a speedo that topped out at 85 mph into a car with a 2.2 liter turbocharged mill. The state trooper didn't think it was funny...not even a little...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 11:47 PM (nbLIj)

244 Kawasaki 750 triple, was on the back of one at 110.
Ever so glad that ride was finished.
Driver ended up owning a Ford dealership.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 11:50 PM (4BNa1)

245 I was driven on the Autobahn in Germany. The driver was doing something like 130-140MPH. Took a few minutes getting used to. Happy there were no pin curves.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 15, 2026 11:50 PM (Ti0Hb)

246 That brings back a memory or three. Fastest I went through a GSP toll booth was a touch over 30. Made the bucket (bell rang then stopped when the quarter dropped. Ever approach a toll and the green light was lit? Yeah, that was probably me. Yer welcome.

Ever scoop up the missed quarters/tokens around the base of the bucket? That was...strangely satisfying...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 11:28 PM (nbLIj)

I never did that. I heard more than a few times of people that didn't have any change and just reached for the coins laying on the ledge under the bucket and tossed them in. There was always some laying around.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2026 11:54 PM (snZF9)

247 12 Nice to see AZ making news for wanting to try something different. Too bad they used a CA road sign at the top of the article.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 15, 2026 10:11 PM (lUFok)

Not only is it a CA road sign - it's from the westbound side of I-8 about 40 miles from Arizona!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 15, 2026 11:54 PM (QGaXH)

248 @EYakoby . Jan 13

Pro-Scottish independence accounts on X went dark after Iran’s internet shutdown — exposing links between Tehran and influencers meddling in UK politics.

More proof the regime is running a massive astroturf campaign to divide the West

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 11:57 PM (4BNa1)

249 One of the things that make the Autobahn work in Germany is that you are responsible for the traffic in back of you. If you are being overtaken and the over taker flashes his lights you have to get out of his way by pulling over into a slower lane. If you don't have that provision, the crash rate will be catastrophic.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 16, 2026 12:00 AM (Da7Vv)

250 >>> The fastest I drove, outside of the Autobahn, was in the Swan Valley highway in Western Montana. My friend took off in his '68 Couger like a bat out hell. I soon followed in my '69 Galaxy.

He topped out at around 100 mph, I passed him going over 120. Probably higher because the speedometer was still climbing when I let off the gas. My friend later told me that all he saw was a blue streak passing him.

Posted by: Beartooth

>I took my 17 year old girlfriend out for a high speed cruise one night, in my modified camaro z-81 doing 140mph, not realizing until later that my tires were probably not rated for that speed. Never again.

Young, dumb and full of ...

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 12:01 AM (BSdIE)

251 z-28? I'm old.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 12:03 AM (BSdIE)

252 Amid all the Minneapolis and Iran crap, Trump's announcement of his "Great Healthcare Plan" seems to have been overlooked, both here and elsewhere.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/greathealthcare/

Sounds good, if he can pull it off. Good luck with that, Mr. President...

Posted by: Frank Zappa at January 16, 2026 12:05 AM (IG3/x)

253 (sock off)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:05 AM (IG3/x)

254 Chassis design was the not the strong point on those bikes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Not handlers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 12:06 AM (XeU6L)

255 @RichardGrenell

IAC (owned by Barry Diller) owns People, Southern Living and The Daily Beast (and more).

The leadership is all woke.
The Daily Beast CEO is former Disney/ABC Left wing radical @bensherwood.

Under Sherwood’s leadership, The Daily Beast has grown more radical and mean.
He attacks Republicans non-stop. He single-handedly has contributed to a public discourse filled with hate and ultimately violence.

The IAC sites are trashy click-bait outlets.
People is still really woke.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:06 AM (4BNa1)

256 Kawasaki 750 triple, was on the back of one at 110.
Ever so glad that ride was finished.
Driver ended up owning a Ford dealership.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 15, 2026 11:50 PM (4BNa1)

Jesus, that bike was called the widow maker for a reason. You're lucky you lived.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 12:07 AM (snZF9)

257 There is the 85 mph stretch of toll road 130 from Lockhart to Seguin, TX. It is kind of a hoot to putter along at 85 and have people blow past.

I take that road occasionally between Round Rock and the airport, or Round Rock and somewhere north of San Antonio. It would be nice if more people were doing 85 or higher.

Of course, right now I think it’s full of construction especially on the northern end of that stretch.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 16, 2026 12:09 AM (EXyHK)

258 My truck is a z-71, there's my lazy confusion.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 16, 2026 12:12 AM (BSdIE)

259 High speed wobbles are always adrenaline-producers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 12:13 AM (XeU6L)

260 CNN is lucky that I'm not King for if it were so they would be in a Dungeon humiliating themselves.

https://tinyurl.com/2s37c7s4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:14 AM (4BNa1)

261 One of the guys I played high school football with dreamed of being a NASCAR driver. He regularly drove his car at 120 on the highways of VA. He actually got in the NASCAR training school. After all the class room and track training he got to drive 180 on the Charlotte tri-oval. Before they released the students they warned them that if they started developing tunnel vision at that speed to shut it down, they were never going to be NASCAR drivers. Very few brains can process peripheral vision information at that speed. That was the end of his NASCAR dream.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at January 16, 2026 12:14 AM (Da7Vv)

262 I never could figure out going stupid fast on a motorcycle. Sooo much bad shit can happen. One of my bikes has a pretty tweaked engine. Bigger valves, stroked, compression, cam, etc. It will do 60mph on a highway barely touching the gas, but thats the point. A bike with an effortless engine that isn't even working, not to go escape velocity on. At some point you're going too fast to survive anything..like anything.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 12:16 AM (snZF9)

263 When the fog or snow is real bad, turn the headlights off, and drive on the foglights alone. Your eyes will be much less dazzled by your own lights being scattered back at you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

But you don't feel like you're about to jump to hyperspace.....

Posted by: mikeski solo at January 16, 2026 12:18 AM (VHUov)

264 Who the hell did the cc lyrics to that Autobahn clip?
It isn't "fun, fun, fun of the autobahn."
It's "wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn."
Kraftwerk is a German group, fer cryin' out loud.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 16, 2026 12:18 AM (bufu1)

265 He was a motorhead, I anticipated it would be a ride but never that. He kept that bike a year.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:18 AM (4BNa1)

266 Adm. Iwabuchi had the battleship Kirishima shot out from under him by the USS Washington at one of the naval battles around Guadalcanal. Obviously in retrospect a tragedy that one of Washington's salvos didn't vaporize him. Washington demo'd the ongoing increasing mastery of gunnery in the USN under the leadership of Admiral Willis Augustus "Ching" Lee. He was aboard Washington during the battle.

Plagued by poor eyesight, Lee cheated on a vision test to graduate from Annapolis, and yet also was an Olympic marksmanship champion. A true American character.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 16, 2026 12:22 AM (U/Byj)

267 "the Court decided that their marriage had never legally existed because the wording of their wedding speeches, which had been generated by ChatGPT, did not include certain mandatory phrases."

Buried Lede: in the Netherlands, your wedding vows are controlled by the State.

Posted by: MartynWW at January 16, 2026 12:27 AM (M9zxq)

268 Nineteen seconds of Karoline Leavitt dressing down a reporter.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3zeurd

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:27 AM (4BNa1)

269 Best freeway ride I ever did was an early-day run leaving Hermosa Beach CA bound for Utah via Vegas, splitting lanes across LA, on a Honda ST1100, doin 75 to 80 the whole way. That bike was rock-solid at 90.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 16, 2026 12:28 AM (KiBMU)

270 First US flagged merchant ship transits Red Sea in 2 years. Container ship MV Maersk Denver.

If the regime in Tehran falls, likely the Houthis will be in deep hummus. And there will, again, be nothing noteworthy about US/western-flagged ships transiting the Red Sea and Suez.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 16, 2026 12:31 AM (U/Byj)

271 Does it matter if you can't speak Italian?

https://tinyurl.com/96n5sf8z

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:33 AM (4BNa1)

272 Does it matter if you can't speak Italian? https://tinyurl.com/96n5sf8z

I’m debating trying to read her autobiography in Italian.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 16, 2026 12:37 AM (EXyHK)

273 Always thought it was funny to put a speedo that topped out at 85 mph into a car with a 2.2 liter turbocharged mill. The state trooper didn't think it was funny...not even a little...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 11:47 PM (nbLIj)

I had a 89 Mustang with a 5.0 and the speedometer only went to 85. I pegged (snigger) the meter more than once with it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 12:42 AM (bhZyo)

274 273 Always thought it was funny to put a speedo that topped out at 85 mph into a car with a 2.2 liter turbocharged mill. The state trooper didn't think it was funny...not even a little...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 15, 2026 11:47 PM (nbLIj)

I had a 89 Mustang with a 5.0 and the speedometer only went to 85. I pegged (snigger) the meter more than once with it.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 16, 2026 12:42 AM (bhZyo)

85 mph speedometers were another (stupid) idea promulgated by our betters in WDC. The idea was if the speedo didn't go past 85 then people wouldn't try to drive faster than 85. Notice too on those the 55 is highlighted in red (usually) to emphasize the 'correct' allowed highway speed.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 16, 2026 12:48 AM (QGaXH)

275 Does it matter if you can't speak Italian?

https://tinyurl.com/96n5sf8z

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:33 AM (4BNa1)

No not really, lol. I should, but I can't. None of my generation learned. The first and 2nd generation Americans knew it, but always spoke english, so the 3rd generation learned oogatz.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 12:50 AM (snZF9)

276 None of my generation learned. The first and 2nd generation Americans knew it, but always spoke english, so the 3rd generation learned oogatz.
Posted by: Berserker
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Same in my family, except: french. Dad's grandpa was from Montreal.

Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

277 275 .......so the 3rd generation learned oogatz.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 12:50 AM (snZF9)

'oogatz'. Now that's a term I haven't heard in quite a while......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 16, 2026 12:52 AM (QGaXH)

278 Historically, first generation immigrants didn't speak English, the next generation was bi-lingual, the third generation couldn't speak the native tongue but had a basic understanding. Next gen. all English.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:56 AM (4BNa1)

279 275 .......so the 3rd generation learned oogatz.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 12:50 AM (snZF9)

'oogatz'. Now that's a term I haven't heard in quite a while......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 16, 2026 12:52 AM (QGaXH)

yeah I only know some slang, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 12:58 AM (snZF9)

280 Historically, first generation immigrants didn't speak English, the next generation was bi-lingual, the third generation couldn't speak the native tongue but had a basic understanding. Next gen. all English.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 12:56 AM (4BNa1)

My family was a little screwed up. My grandmother was born here, but went back to italy when she was 1 years old, and came back at 26 with my father's older brother and sister who were born there, but he and his younger sister were born here. They are all fluent in italian, but have zero accent, because my aunt was 2, and my uncle was 5. They were either practically born speaking english, or were so young when they learned it you would never expect them to know anything other than english. The cousins didn't learn shit. Its weird because my grandmother and father being born here technically makes me 3rd generation, but my uncle and aunt who were born there have kids that are probably 1st generation, even though they got an american born grandmother, while I have the same grandmother and I'm 3rd generation. The end result is me and the cousins learned squat.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2026 01:07 AM (snZF9)

281 39 There was some road out west, I forget where, that essentially had no speed limit I thought.
- - - - -

Bonneville Salt Flats. Go as fast as you want! ;-)

Posted by: As not seen on TV at January 16, 2026 01:12 AM (T1dJ+)

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