Friday the 13th Cafe

Lichtenstein Castle, southern Germany

Very neat video of Lichtenstein Castle, basically hanging off a cliff.

Baby elephants is asshoe.

Dogs is asshoe.

Border collie understands the assignment.

Jump rope with a friend.

Introducing a baby to a horse. Which personally, I wouldn't, but it all turns out okay.

Flashback: Life during the covid panic.

Watching a scary movie.

Tilt shift photography making a real farm look like a toy. pic.twitter.com/H3EQGjep08
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) February 11, 2026

Walking home last night, as the Snow moon rises. Sound on. #cliffsofmoher #ireland pic.twitter.com/XVu1i9mcPW
— Elaine Farrell Photography (@_EFarrellPhoto) February 2, 2026

#高原故事【青藏• #魅力高原】

云白天青湖似镜
山凝雪影水藏峰

Beneath blue sky and white clouds the lake’s a glass,
Snow-capped peaks cast sharp reflections where still waters pass.#nature #Tibetan #photography #Tibetanview #scenery #plateau #Xizang #landscape #藏地风光 pic.twitter.com/g9h5w17Has
— Bobby Goo (@GooBobby1) February 2, 2026

A Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatches, Tufted Titmice, and Black-capped Chickadees visit the Hand of Snacks. The second visit from the Red-bellied Woodpecker shows how he likes to use his tail feathers as a prop against my hand. pic.twitter.com/1ZboA6ZdDf
— Jocelyn Anderson Photography (@JocAPhotography) February 3, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM

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1
Yay!

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:23 PM (3ek7K)

2
Ace,

The cafe is always a delight.

Thank you!

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:24 PM (3ek7K)

3 Yeah. Cafe!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 13, 2026 07:25 PM (suzTG)

4
Lichtenstein Castle, southern Germany

_________

Linchpin of the German defense fortifications.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:25 PM (tgvbd)

5 wait, Lichtenstein is now part of Germany?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:25 PM (2GVsD)

6 Donald Trump! Don’t trust China! China is asshoe!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 13, 2026 07:26 PM (suzTG)

7 13 is a lucky number in France!

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 07:26 PM (Wmg4n)

8

How in the world were the cliff hanging buildings built?

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:27 PM (3ek7K)

9 NOT FIRST BUT DESERVE SOMETHING!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 07:27 PM (WONhk)

10 Wouldn’t Lichtenstein Castle be in Lichtenstein?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (IJRGr)

11 So which John Ringo series should we recommend mrp to read first?

Ghost?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)

12 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)

13 So which John Ringo series should we recommend mrp to read first?

Ghost?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)

The Last Centurion

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (rbvCR)

14 How in the world were the cliff hanging buildings built?

Very carefully.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (IJRGr)

15 A Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-breasted Nuthatches, Tufted Titmice, and Black-capped Chickadees visit the Hand of Snacks

All of these are frequent visitors to my backyard feeder. Also cardinals and downy woodpeckers. The biggest birds we see are pileated woodpeckers, hawks, owls, and the occasional bald eagle. The eagles don't use the feeder, they just hang out in the tallest trees. Owls and hawks sit and wait quietly for prey.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Riz8t)

16 Last Centurion

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (IJRGr)

17 That is either tilt shift photography or the most amazing diorama I've ever seen.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (h/O4U)

18 Every time someone brings up Lichtenstein, this is what I hear:

youtu.be/Rh7Q4BplCRc

Posted by: pookysgirl enjoyed that movie, anachronisms and all at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Wt5PA)

19 I would like to build just that tower on our land on the far side of the swamp. I wonder how much it would cost.

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

20 Somehow the Doggie video turned inTJM's video, which I didn't get to yet

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

21 I would like to build just that tower on our land on the far side of the swamp. I wonder how much it would cost.

Depends on how many times it catches fire and falls into the swamp.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (Riz8t)

22 wait, Lichtenstein is now part of Germany?
Posted by: Anna Puma

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It happened in a flash, so to speak

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (8AONa)

23 19 I would like to build just that tower on our land on the far side of the swamp. I wonder how much it would cost.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)

First, you need vast tracts of land.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (IJRGr)

24 I was deer hunting in one of my grandmother's blueberry fields in Arctic, Michigan. Standing still with a slug gun in hands. A chickadee thought landing on my head was a good idea. Not much of a purchase on the nylon hood, so he tried to land on my shoulders, left and right. This went on for about 15-20 seconds and the novelty of the thing soon wore off, so I gave my head a single shake and that bird was off like a shot.

Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:33 PM (rj6Yv)

25 Our first dog was half husky and malamute. My new husband felt I should "be protected." He just wanted a puppy, altho she did protect me once from a guy wanting to break in our house.

Years later, pg with #2, and walking toddler to tire him, she ate an entire frozen roast in about 15min. Plastic and the styrofoam plate.

I came home and it was gone. She was fierce in her denial. I led her outside and she fled to her doghouse and I was yelling at her. She then showed her teeth in anger and I let her win.

She ate two meals for that week and was happy.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (WONhk)

26 How in the world were the cliff hanging buildings built?

With scaffolding on the inside of the walls?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (/lPRQ)

27 The guilty doggies are cute.

Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (lJ0H4)

28

Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a snow moon on the rise

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 07:35 PM (Cqx++)

29 So which John Ringo series should we recommend mrp to read first?

Ghost?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)

The Last Centurion
Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:29 PM (rbvCR)
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I took two years of Latin in HS. I can handle that.

Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:36 PM (rj6Yv)

30 A very nice mix for the Friday the 13th Café, especially the pretty wild birds being hand fed. Thanks, Ace. Good weekend!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (NFX2v)

31 19 I would like to build just that tower on our land on the far side of the swamp. I wonder how much it would cost.
Posted by: fd

It would sink into the peat and muck. Excavating down to bedrock will cost millions. Count the cost. It's a Biblical admonition.

Posted by: Luke 14:28 at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (oftw2)

32 13 is a lucky number in France!
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 07:26 PM (Wmg4n)

Unless you were in the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13th, 1307.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (6ydKt)

33
The guilty doggies are cute.

Posted by: Tuna at February 13, 2026 07:34 PM (lJ0H4)

__________

"I'm sorry you caught me." (*burp*)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:37 PM (tgvbd)

34 >All of these are frequent visitors to my backyard feeder. Also cardinals and downy woodpeckers. The biggest birds we see are pileated woodpeckers, hawks, owls, and the occasional bald eagle. The eagles don't use the feeder, they just hang out in the tallest trees. Owls and hawks sit and wait quietly for prey.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2026 07:30 PM (Riz8t)

Same - we have a red shouldered hawk that will sit in a maple tree on occasion. He's a pretty big boy. I have not seen (or heard) any chickadees this winter. Very odd.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:38 PM (GTqXr)

35 It was still lucky for France as it liquidated Philip's debts to the Templars.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:38 PM (2GVsD)

36 It was still lucky for France as it liquidated Philip's debts to the Templars.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:38 PM (2GVsD)

The Templars were asking for repayment on the loans to cover the cost of the next crusade

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 07:40 PM (rbvCR)

37 Very lucky for Philip that he had all those debts to the Templars when they were all arrested on his orders.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:41 PM (6ydKt)

38 Not in the swamp, on the other side on solid ground. Just eyeballing that tower I'd say it's 30' or so diameter by 120' high. How much would that run me?

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

39 I can handle the drywall and stuff myself.

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:42 PM (vFG9F)

40
fd,

Illegals work cheap.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:42 PM (3ek7K)

41 I'm going to guess, up till this very moment, she introduced herself to everyone as Obama's top legal advisor. memory hole that shit! Stat!

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:42 PM (tV890)

42 Counting down to minutes till the media says "Well achsuhully pizza-gate was a real thing, exactly as we reported."

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:43 PM (tV890)

43 That castle gets used as the basis of a lot of AI art for castles.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 13, 2026 07:43 PM (xcxpd)

44 > Anti-ICE Protesters Wave Large Dildos Outside Don Lemon’s Federal Arraignment While Chanting ‘Protect the Press!’

This is supposed to be 'anti-ICE'?
Maybe Peo-LeMon. But that doesn't make it anti-ICE.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:43 PM (/lPRQ)

45 Ace,

The cafe is always a delight.

Thank you!

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:24 PM (3ek7K)

+1

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (xcxpd)

46
Well the protesters are dicks, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (3ek7K)

47 Were they bright green dildos?

WNBA wants to know.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (2GVsD)

48 39 I can handle the drywall and stuff myself.
Posted by: fd

If you have access to a free quarry and stone cutting, you should go for it. Please post progress pics on the Hobby Thread.

Posted by: Rock Bottom at February 13, 2026 07:45 PM (oftw2)

49 "fd,

Illegals work cheap.
Posted by: fourseasons"

I would like it to last at least 500 years. Or outlast me. Whichever comes first.

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:45 PM (vFG9F)

50 Introducing baby to horse

Adult: Look, baby! It's obsolete farm equipment!
Baby: :: gurgle ::
Horse: :: snort ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:45 PM (ojr4c)

51 I used to think that the left accused Trump of all sorts of heinous shit because, well, that was what they would do if they were him.

Now I realize, no, it is exactly the shit they did, are doing, and plan to continue doing. Its's why they are so damn sure trump is doing it, because fuck, everyone they know does it.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (tV890)

52 1. Win the Mega Millions
2. Buy the Lichtenstein castle
3. Ship it to the US
4. Reassemble

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (2GVsD)

53 Flashback: Life during the covid panic
++++
Now that's funny right there

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (ojr4c)

54 I would like to build just that tower on our land on the far side of the swamp. I wonder how much it would cost.
Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:31 PM (vFG9F)
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You're gonna have to build it more than once.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at February 13, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU)

55 >47 Were they bright green dildos?

WNBA wants to know.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:44 PM (2GVsD)

Sooooo...how large are these dildos?

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at February 13, 2026 07:47 PM (GTqXr)

56
Pete,

I'm sure they aren't big enough for you.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (3ek7K)

57 1. Win the Mega Millions
2. Buy the Lichtenstein castle
3. Ship it to the US
4. Reassemble
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (2GVsD)
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I strongly suspect that the Mega Millions wouldn't be enough. Even if you could buy it, that kind of labor and transport might take the wealth of nations to achieve. It would definitely be cheaper to build your own copy from scratch and then order an airstrike on the original...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)

58 Now I realize, no, it is exactly the shit they did, are doing, and plan to continue doing. Its's why they are so damn sure trump is doing it, because fuck, everyone they know does it.
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (tV890)

It’s been said that every accusation the Democrats make is actually a confession.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (6ydKt)

59 Why is Lichtenstein Castle in Germany? Did they steal it at some point?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)

60 Not in the swamp, on the other side on solid ground. Just eyeballing that tower I'd say it's 30' or so diameter by 120' high. How much would that run me?
Posted by: fd

Say it is square with walls 3' thick, that'd be about 40 yds^3 per yard of height => 1600 yds^3 @ $1,000 per yard => $1.6M for concrete alone.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:50 PM (/lPRQ)

61

Lichtenstein castle is falling down
Falling down
Falling down

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2026 07:50 PM (Cqx++)

62
So which John Ringo series should we recommend mrp to read first?

Ghost?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:28 PM (2GVsD)

Oh my Lord Baby Jesus, no.

The perfect review of the Ghost books.

OH JOHN RINGO, NO

https://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2026 07:50 PM (y9nCu)

63 You're gonna have to build it more than once.

Ask me how I know.
Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at February 13, 2026 07:47 PM (ESVrU)
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I don't need to ask. I already know how you know. You cheaped out on the engineering and farmed it out to sub-par craftsmen. We told you. You didn't listen. You have nobody to blame but yourself.

Posted by: The Honorable International Brotherhood of Fen Engineers, Bog Builders and Swamp Drainers at February 13, 2026 07:51 PM (ojr4c)

64 Why is Lichtenstein Castle in Germany? Did they steal it at some point?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)

What is Lictenstein gonna do about it? Team up with Andorra?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (xDN0i)

65 Now I realize, no, it is exactly the shit they did, are doing, and plan to continue doing. Its's why they are so damn sure trump is doing it, because fuck, everyone they know does it.
Posted by: The Whine Guy

Have they not heard, "Let he who not had two Russian hookers pee upon themselves cast the first stone"?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)

66 I’ve been reliably informed that London Bridge is actually somewhere in Arizona.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (6ydKt)

67 52 1. Win the Mega Millions
2. Buy the Lichtenstein castle
3. Ship it to the US
4. Reassemble
Posted by: Anna Puma

Probably not the first of your Mega Millions Pipe Dreams, Anna. I have a dream, too.

Posted by: Ten Acre Classic Car Collection at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (oftw2)

68 What is Lictenstein gonna do about it? Team up with Andorra?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (xDN0i)
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They'll coordinate with Monte Carlo to fix the odds against Germany!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (ojr4c)

69 Why is Lichtenstein Castle in Germany? Did they steal it at some point?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:48 PM (ojr4c)
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The Swiss army invaded Lichtenstein in 2007. The Swiss quickly retreated.

Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (rj6Yv)

70 BLAM BLAM BLAM

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (IhIKR)

71 BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (IhIKR)

72 Lichtenstein Castle, basically hanging off a cliff.

Shoot, how did I miss that one. That's pretty cool.

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (iETvL)

73 Pete,
I'm sure they aren't big enough for you.
Posted by: fourseasons

He could strap them together like a bundle of dynamite.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (/lPRQ)

74 Have they not heard, "Let he who not had two Russian hookers pee upon themselves cast the first stone"?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:52 PM (/lPRQ)
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:: sweats ::
:: narrows eyes ::
:: squirts anitbiotics into Melinda's coffee ::

Posted by: Bill Gates and his Russian VD at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (ojr4c)

75 >52 1. Win the Mega Millions
2. Buy the Lichtenstein castle
3. Ship it to the US
4. Reassemble
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:46 PM (2GVsD)

No Throne of Skulls? Pfft. Amateur.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (GTqXr)

76
Lol Itinerant

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM (3ek7K)

77 "Say it is square with walls 3' thick, that'd be about 40 yds^3 per yard of height => 1600 yds^3 @ $1,000 per yard => $1.6M for concrete alone.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher"

Thanks for the calculation but $1000 / yard? Shouldn't that be less than $200?

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:55 PM (vFG9F)

78 Have they not heard, "Let he who not had two Russian hookers pee upon themselves cast the first stone"?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Damnit.

*throws rock down. Kicks it*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 07:56 PM (cYBz/)

79 The Swiss army invaded Lichtenstein in 2007. The Swiss quickly retreated.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM (rj6Yv)
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Really?

Well, I'll be damned. They *did* invade Lichtenstein. Technically, anyway. And accidentally.

On a rainy March night, 171 Swiss troops were training near the border, doing land navigation training. The company commander took his men through the Alpine forest near the border, leading his men about 2 km (about 1.25 miles) into Liechtenstein before realizing he caused an international incident.

Everything would have been forgotten if the Swiss Armed Forces hadn’t apologized for it. Liechtenstein had no idea it had even happened, but accepted the apology nonetheless.

I wonder happened to the guy in charge. That's the kind of thing that disciplinary action should follow, but the constant razzing from the rest of the Army would be the far greater punishment...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 07:56 PM (ojr4c)

80 Thanks for the calculation but $1000 / yard? Shouldn't that be less than $200?
Posted by: fd

Profit and overhead.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 07:57 PM (/lPRQ)

81 I took two years of Latin in HS. I can handle that.
Posted by: mrp at February 13, 2026 07:36 PM

KILROYNIVS HIC ERAT

Posted by: GAIVS KILROYNIVS at February 13, 2026 07:58 PM (0sNs1)

82 No Throne of Skulls? Pfft. Amateur.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM

Do we really need to specify that? I thought that was just understood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (PrvRk)

83 Key to the success of your castle project, fd, is if you can shiplap the many rooms yourself, or if you have to contract with Chip and Joanna Gaines. They will likely want to demo some of your load-bearing walls, also.

Posted by: The Magnolia Network at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (oftw2)

84 I wonder happened to the guy in charge. That's the kind of thing that disciplinary action should follow, but the constant razzing from the rest of the Army would be the far greater punishment...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Field promotion to Colonel - Now commands a brigade.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (cYBz/)

85 I wonder happened to the guy in charge. That's the kind of thing that disciplinary action should follow, but the constant razzing from the rest of the Army would be the far greater punishment...

He's now Ursula van der Layden's cabana boy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (2GVsD)

86 I suppose I could find someone who builds silos.

Posted by: fd at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (vFG9F)

87
Sick of political commercials. The same ones over and over and over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (tgvbd)

88 Thanks for the calculation but $1000 / yard? Shouldn't that be less than $200?
Posted by: fd

Actually I should call the local batch plants and see what the going rate is. I'd like to do a back porch soon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 08:00 PM (/lPRQ)

89 He's now Ursula van der Layden's cabana boy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2026 07:59 PM (2GVsD)
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:: shudder ::

A fate worse than death, that is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:00 PM (ojr4c)

90 At WaPo: "A man was running from police. Eight llamas caught him."

Then they cuffed him and spat on him until the cops arrived. Unfortunately, the llamas forget to turn on their bodycams, so no hilarious footage available.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:00 PM (N8ZBc)

91 70 BLAM BLAM BLAM
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM

71 BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:54 PM

Missed again.

Posted by: Woody LXIV at February 13, 2026 08:02 PM (0sNs1)

92 https://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Livejournal is still around?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (f/buw)

93 The only thing the Eurotrash have that's better than what we have in the U.S. of A. is all the cool castles. I suppose places like Biltmore and some of the other mansions of that era come close, but they're mostly not hanging off the side of a mountain, and they're mostly not real castles, just big-ass houses.

American billionaires need to get off their asses and start building some cool castles. Trump could get things rolling by building a classical castle next to Mount Rushmore, then challenge Musk and Bezos to try top him.

Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (X5Jzz)

94
7

13 is a lucky number in France!
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 07:26 PM

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Horse meat is a delicacy in France!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (VWtfl)

95 OH NOOOES!!

Friday the 13th come on a Friday this month!!

https://bit.ly/pogo-fri-13

Posted by: mindful webworker - rowrbazzle at February 13, 2026 08:04 PM (6hyzx)

96
Funny how that happens mindful.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:06 PM (3ek7K)

97 Horse meat is a delicacy in France!
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (VWtfl)
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It is in my house, too!

Well, paste, anyway. But hey, horse is horse, of course of course!

Posted by: Former President of the United States Joseph Robinette Biden at February 13, 2026 08:08 PM (ojr4c)

98 70 BLAM BLAM BLAM
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM

71 BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Use your words. Rough day?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 13, 2026 08:09 PM (8AONa)

99 Another plug for Aldi Blue Stilton: Exquisite! Even the fanciest hipster exotic produce grocery stores in this city don't have a cheese this good. Recommended.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:10 PM (N8ZBc)

100 American billionaires need to get off their asses and start building some cool castles. Trump could get things rolling by building a classical castle next to Mount Rushmore, then challenge Musk and Bezos to try top him.
Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (X5Jzz)
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American tech billionaires with militarized keeps full of serfs would be a little on the nose...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:10 PM (ojr4c)

101 So. Is the defunding of the Department of Homeland Security for real?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:11 PM (IhIKR)

102 Horse meat is a delicacy in France!
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2026 08:03 PM (VWtfl)

Le Cheval Royale with cheese.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:11 PM (xDN0i)

103 So which John Ringo series should we recommend mrp to read first?

The Last Centurion

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:12 PM (u82oZ)

104 Troy Rising.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 13, 2026 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

105 "What a lovely landscape! Think how much more beautiful it would look covered with castles and mega-mansions!"

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:13 PM (N8ZBc)

106

You people with your fancy cheeses.

Here in rural Wyoming Velvetta is gourmet, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

107 Have you ever made Velveeta fudge, four seasons? It is *chef’s kiss*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:15 PM (xDN0i)

108 I don't want to hear any of you Lichtenstein fluffers talk smack about Rhode Island again. We've got rest stops on the highway bigger than Lichtenstein.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m)

109 "Here in rural Wyoming Velvetta is gourmet, lol."

I got no beef with Velveeta. I'm eclectic. But this stilton is a f'n miracle, at a good price. If Whole Foods had it, they'd charge triple.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:16 PM (N8ZBc)

110
Mary,

No I haven't. I'll try that.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:16 PM (3ek7K)

111 I don't want to hear any of you Lichtenstein fluffers talk smack about Rhode Island again. We've got rest stops on the highway bigger than Lichtenstein.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:15 PM (viF8m)
----
And your average Buc-ees is bigger than Rhode Island...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 08:17 PM (ESVrU)

112 Disclosure: I am not paid by either Aldi or Big Cheese. I only pay them.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:18 PM (N8ZBc)

113
Lol gp

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:18 PM (3ek7K)

114 New CAD station hash check.

Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 08:18 PM (UjdFS)

115 Same ol' same ol'

Posted by: wth at February 13, 2026 08:19 PM (UjdFS)

116 Aldi. The closest one is an hour away. They need to step up their game in TX.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:20 PM (xDN0i)

117 Consulting my logs, I find I have but one, only one, confirmed radio contact with Liechtenstein: HB0RER, a guy named Egon. I'd have more, but their signals are blocked by all the damn castles.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (N8ZBc)

118
Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse
He's always on a steady course
Talk to Mr. Ed

https://youtu.be/91LRPk8x14s

Posted by: Mr. Ed at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (2Ez/1)

119
I hope you guys aren't freaking out about Valentines Day.

Tell your significant other....hey I haven't left yet. Happy Hallmark holiday!

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (3ek7K)

120 Thanks, fourseasons! I thought the llama joke was funniest.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:22 PM (N8ZBc)

121 Aldi cheese curds: the best, Jerry! The BEST!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 13, 2026 08:23 PM (2Ez/1)

122 Huh. Rhode Island has a staggering *90* ZIP codes. That is about 12,000 people per ZIP code, averaged out.

Manhattan - an actual island - has only 56 ZIP codes. That is about 30,250 people per ZIP code.

ZIP code equity now! Rhode Island *must* surrender some of its ZIP code surplus so the people of Manhattan may have their fair share!!!!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:23 PM (ojr4c)

123 I don't want to get off schedule too much so calling it a night
Havexa good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2026 08:24 PM (Ia/+0)

124 I hope you guys aren't freaking out about Valentines Day.

Tell your significant other....hey I haven't left yet. Happy Hallmark holiday!
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:21 PM (3ek7K)
++++
There aren't many upshots to being single, but it does prove to be a significant cost savings on Valentine's Day...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:24 PM (ojr4c)

125 See ya, Skip!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:24 PM (ojr4c)

126 Monday Feb 16 forecast is 61degF. This is great!

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:25 PM (N8ZBc)

127 Mr Scary gave me a wok for Valentine's day. I am making him a cherry pie, but not in the wok.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:26 PM (xDN0i)

128 Oh, hey; Per VOZ.US The US has sent a shipment about six tons of medicine and medical supplies from the United States to Venezuela.

The arrival was confirmed by Laura Dogu, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Caracas, after the official account of the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela on X shared images of the cargo plane and boxes identified with the U.S. flag. In the post, the delivery was described as an effort to "support the recovery of the Venezuelan people" and as the beginning of a series of similar shipments.

That and the reopening of the oil sales to the world at market rates is probably making the Venezuelan government sweeter that they might have been otherwise.
They are still working through getting all the political prisoners out of jail, apparently.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:26 PM (rbvCR)

129 I still have an unclaimed lump of coal.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:26 PM (u82oZ)

130 Friends, just in case you were unaware, we have now entered Deep Gras. It’s Mardi Gras from here until you wake up Ash Wednesday. Parades tonight, tomorrow, Sunday. Mardi Gras balls here, there, everywhere. Beads are hung on the oak tree with care (not really, they are just thrown up there). King Cake. Moon Pies. Well, if you can find them. They were on sale at Rouses, shelves pretty empty.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:27 PM (Wmg4n)

131 108
'We've got rest stops on the highway bigger than Lichtenstein.'

Any castles?
...
...

I didn't think so.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 13, 2026 08:27 PM (fd80v)

132 >>ZIP code equity now! Rhode Island *must* surrender some of its ZIP code surplus so the people of Manhattan may have their fair share!!!!

I'm sorry, doesn't your town have it's own area code?

That's so sad.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:28 PM (viF8m)

133 My ex paid extra to have divorce papers delivered to me on Valentines Day 2006.

Yay.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:29 PM (IhIKR)

134 That was a shitty thing for him to do, nurse.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 08:30 PM (xDN0i)

135 Aetius451AD

Troy Rising is basically 1 plot repeated thrice. I have that trilogy, but The Last Centurion is better.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:30 PM (u82oZ)

136 Walking home last night, as the Snow moon rises.
— Elaine Farrell Photography

So, Elaine. The interesting thing in that video is not the moon.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (syz1S)

137 Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

No. Manhattan has three zip codes. One is just for Kansas State University.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (u82oZ)

138 Now, I can laugh about it.

Then, I was not amused. At all.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (IhIKR)

139 Oh, the castle is actually in Germany. I've got 307 confirmed contacts with Germany. They're not shy.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (N8ZBc)

140 > Friends, just in case you were unaware, we have now entered Deep Gras. It’s Mardi Gras from here until you wake up Ash Wednesday. Parades tonight, tomorrow, Sunday. Mardi Gras balls here, there, everywhere.
------------
My grandmother was a "Queen" on one of the crew's floats back in... oh around 1928 or so. I have a framed B&W photo from that time.

Gumbo will be made this weekend.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (jtM2q)

141 When I was a wee lassie growing up in Manhattan, my zone (aka zip code) was 25, and my phone number was 222-0007 (Academy 2).

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ImbR)

142
I'll tell ya'll what I want for Valentine's Day, not from my husband, from God.

We need a big snowstorm here, actually several.

We've had no snow here in Wyoming this winter and we need it for our water and to keep wildfires away.

Send snow!!

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ek7K)

143 Would love to share a Moon Pie with you sometime, Piper!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (2Ez/1)

144 {{{nurse ratched}}}

Sorry. If he has gone the way of that woodpecker, I'll give you an alabi.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:33 PM (u82oZ)

145 No. Manhattan has three zip codes. One is just for Kansas State University.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:31 PM (u82oZ)
++++
HA!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:33 PM (ojr4c)

146 BLAM BLAM BLAM
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 07:53 PM

Geez, lady, relax!

Posted by: The Woodpeckers at February 13, 2026 08:33 PM (PrvRk)

147 >>Any castles?
...
...

>>I didn't think so.

But we do. American castles. Take a trip along Bellevue Avenue in Newport.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (viF8m)

148 *puts on wool hat-*
* tries to snow dance*

Woo woo woo
Snow snow snow
Woo woo woo

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (IhIKR)

149 First night.

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (LHPAg)

150 ... We've had no snow here in Wyoming this winter and we need it for our water and to keep wildfires away. ...
Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ek7K)
++++
Yeah, that's no good.

"Mild winter" == "bad fire season"
I hope you get some soon! I remember how nervous I'd be at this point in the year when I lived in the Rockies and it was a mild winter...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (ojr4c)

151 133 My ex paid extra to have divorce papers delivered to me on Valentines Day 2006.

Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13

My divorce was finalized by the Judge on Valentine’s Day after my ex played and around for so long refusing to sign them. The Judge said, yep, we are just doing this decree without you now. I feel like the date was a gift to me at that point.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (Wmg4n)

152
Joe Mannix,

Yep. The wildfires last summer were bad.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:35 PM (3ek7K)

153 nurse ratched

Instead of targets, you got a picture of your ex and very small truck nuts? That go OW! when you hit them?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (u82oZ)

154 SSNs are only nine decimal digits. After one billion have been issued, there'll be some head scratching to do.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (N8ZBc)

155 >>When I was a wee lassie growing up in Manhattan, my zone (aka zip code) was 25, and my phone number was 222-0007 (Academy 2).

You must be wicked old.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)

156 154 Or is it 100 million? I dunno.

Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:38 PM (N8ZBc)

157 I feel like the date was a gift to me at that point.
Posted by: Piper

I cried.

I was reading to my boys and there was a knock o the door and there I was handed papers by some dude. I guess iwas still hoping we would all go home again.

Nope.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:38 PM (IhIKR)

158 SSNs are only nine decimal digits. After one billion have been issued, there'll be some head scratching to do.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (N8ZBc)
++++
The SSN scheme won't last that long. It's amazing it's lasted as long as it has. The SSN scheme is almost hilariously bad. No check digit. Positional meaning for some of the numbers. It was barely fit for purpose at its incept and is unfit for purpose now that it's used for so much and so much tremendously important stuff is tied to it (which was never supposed to happen, of course, but here we are).

But inertia is *heavy,* man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:39 PM (ojr4c)

159 The SAVE act v Women

https://bit.ly/4rLrSYT

Gentlemen, if your Valentine doesn't laugh at this, trade her in on one who does.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sufferin' suffragettes! at February 13, 2026 08:40 PM (6hyzx)

160 Nurse, moral of the story is they are king of the jerks, and they never deserved us to start.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:40 PM (Wmg4n)

161 SSNs are only nine decimal digits. After one billion have been issued, there'll be some head scratching to do.
Posted by: gp

They are not unique numbers anyway.
the first two digits are codes for geographic areas or other purposes. IIRC, first digit of 8 or 9 means it is NOT a SSN.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (/lPRQ)

162 *puts on wool hat-*
* tries to snow dance*

Woo woo woo
Snow snow snow
Woo woo woo
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:34 PM (IhIKR)

***

Hey!
Do a different dance!
Friggin' woodpeckers!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (2WIwB)

163 Piper,
Without him, I wouldn’t have my boys.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (IhIKR)

164 Nice castle. Good balance. I like the curvature in the courtyard.
Approve.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 13, 2026 08:42 PM (sl73Y)

165 >>>You must be wicked old.
~~~~~

No. Precocious! Very precocious!!! I was still a twinkle in my father's eye when you graduated from kindergarten.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:42 PM (3ImbR)

166 You must be wicked old.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)

In the west, a lot of small towns resisted automatic dialing because the night operator doubled as the emergency contact for the fire and police departments.
My step mom had been a phone operator at the local Navy hospital at the end of the war, and she was the night operator at the local exchange here in town until it modernized. She made money on the side and also went to college to get her teachers degree since her husband was generally broke and didn't contribute much to paying off the house.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:43 PM (rbvCR)

167 nurse ratched

Look on the bright side of life. You raised two good sons.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 13, 2026 08:43 PM (u82oZ)

168 I cried.

I was reading to my boys and there was a knock o the door and there I was handed papers by some dude. I guess iwas still hoping we would all go home again.

Nope.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026

Of course you did! Because you are normal. He is not. Being cruel for the sake of being cruel is truly abusive behavior. And he didn’t deserve you to start. I said what I said. 💜 and hugs.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:43 PM (Wmg4n)

169 Direct dialing, I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:44 PM (rbvCR)

170
Wyoming has one area code.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:44 PM (3ek7K)

171 I think this is AI generated

https://tinyurl.com/53v8ps9z

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2026 08:45 PM (rbvCR)

172 Can you give me your last four?
Last four of what?
Your social.
My social what?
Your SSAN.
Lady all I want to do is deposit a check in my own account.

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:45 PM (LHPAg)

173 163 Piper,
Without him, I wouldn’t have my boys.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026

I get it, I wouldn’t have my girls, but that doesn’t mean either one of them deserved us. They didn’t. But we did we we had to do for the kids.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:46 PM (Wmg4n)

174 They are not unique numbers anyway.
the first two digits are codes for geographic areas or other purposes. IIRC, first digit of 8 or 9 means it is NOT a SSN.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 08:41 PM (/lPRQ)
~~~~~

Yep. That's how it was discovered that Obama's SSN was quite a bit off.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:46 PM (3ImbR)

175 Nurse and Piper,
I applaud your courage and what you have achieved. I had my husband's backup always, and I still struggled. You have managed on your own to do an amazing job.

Change of subject: since you are here, Nurse, and talking of woodpeckers, you might enjoy the comment of freeman, who was here this week looking at damage. Birch tree plus woodpecker: grrr.

He said, If it makes you feel any better, think of it this way: they're the closest to the noise. They must all be totally deaf.

!

Posted by: Wenda at February 13, 2026 08:47 PM (v9ee3)

176 Sorry: that should say "TREEMAN."

Posted by: Wenda at February 13, 2026 08:49 PM (v9ee3)

177 >>In the west, a lot of small towns resisted automatic dialing because the night operator doubled as the emergency contact for the fire and police departments.
My step mom had been a phone operator at the local Navy hospital at the end of the war, and she was the night operator at the local exchange here in town until it modernized. She made money on the side and also went to college to get her teachers degree since her husband was generally broke and didn't contribute much to paying off the house.

When I was a kid my parents had friends that had a family cabin in the Adirondacks. The whole area was still on a party line with a central switchboard for limited connectivity outside the local area. Seems hard to believe we now live in a time where people lose their mud if they are out of constant connectivity for 5 minutes.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:50 PM (viF8m)

178 With the threat of Global Warming is getting worse I recommend that folks do not buy land on the shore or islands.

Believe me I know what I am talking about. Just ask Al Gore.

Posted by: Barry O at February 13, 2026 08:50 PM (X7dyz)

179 He said, If it makes you feel any better, think of it this way: they're the closest to the noise. They must all be totally deaf.

Woodpeckers have shock absorbers around their brains and sound deadening built in for hearing. I think.

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)

180 Woodpeckers have shock absorbers around their brains and sound deadening built in for hearing. I think.
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
~~~~~

Believe it or not, it's their tongue that wraps around their brain.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:52 PM (3ImbR)

181 With the threat of Global Warming is getting worse I recommend that folks do not buy land on the shore or islands.

Believe me I know what I am talking about. Just ask Al Gore.
Posted by: Barry O at February 13, 2026 08:50 PM (X7dyz)
++++
That's Peace Laureate Albert Gore!

Something else you have in common with him...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2026 08:53 PM (ojr4c)

182 180 Woodpeckers have shock absorbers around their brains and sound deadening built in for hearing. I think.
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
~~~~~

Believe it or not, it's their tongue that wraps around their brain.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:52 PM
Marge, come look at the size of this thing!
-Bug dude standing too close to his just-demolished front door.

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:54 PM (LHPAg)

183 Woodpecker anatomy:

https://tinyurl.com/4huj6xwz

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 08:56 PM (3ImbR)

184 143 Would love to share a Moon Pie with you sometime, Piper!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at

Okay! Let me know if you are ever on the Eastern Shore.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 08:56 PM (Wmg4n)

185 133 My ex paid extra to have divorce papers delivered to me on Valentines Day 2006.

Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched

That seems to be a thing for some reason. My Dad's parents split up on Valentines Day, 1981. Never divorced though. I think they were waiting for the other to die so they can swoop in and take over assets. It didn't work, of course. No assets worth anything and my Aunt put her foot down and advised my Grandmother of some hard truths, like lying on tax forms about marital status is wrong and they were NOT going to help her steal. My grandparents were difficult, which is understating it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 13, 2026 08:57 PM (ohOaC)

186 >>Believe it or not, it's their tongue that wraps around their brain.

Im gonna need an explanation on this one.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 08:57 PM (viF8m)

187 Oh, great. Now I have the Lichtensteiner Polka earworm playing in my head.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 13, 2026 08:59 PM (0Htd1)

188 Thank you, mein Schatz.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 13, 2026 09:00 PM (0Htd1)

189 Pileated woodpeckers nest in our utility poles. The holes are big enough to stick your head in. Sometimes red throated woodpeckers nest in their abandoned holes. I like watching them.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:00 PM (xDN0i)

190 Packing up my bag and moving some stuff off of desk. . . and I have a big headache. . . tenuous day at my office (at best). . . . . I cruise the Cafe. All is well. I especially loved the Great Dane getting spooked. Phenomenal clip.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:00 PM (HeR4S)

191 Eromero: Spoilsport.

Posted by: Wenda at February 13, 2026 09:01 PM (v9ee3)

192 My ex paid extra to have divorce papers delivered to me on Valentines Day 2006.

Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched
--------

And little did he suspect, he was giving you THE BEST GIFT EVAR!

What a guy, nurse... what a guy. Good riddance, I'd say.

Posted by: JQ at February 13, 2026 09:02 PM (rdVOm)

193 Oh, great. Now I have the Lichtensteiner Polka earworm playing in my head.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Lawrence Welk on youtube ...

You'll have a new earworm in no time!
: -))

Posted by: Adrian the Bad Poetry Critic . . . and . . . writer, thereof . . . at February 13, 2026 09:03 PM (3ZUWJ)

194 Collins now onboard for the SAVE act.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (IG3/x)

195 182 180 Woodpeckers have shock absorbers around their brains and sound deadening built in for hearing. I think.
Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2026 08:51 PM (LHPAg)

>>>

I've nailed about 20 of them over time up at the cabin using my wrist rocket. So much for shock absorbers. I get tired of them wrecking the healthy aspens.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)

196 My cat Allie has developed the habit of reaching up to tap me on the shoulder when I'm sitting in my office chair to let me know she wants attention...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 09:05 PM (ESVrU)

197
Perfessor,

My husband does the same thing, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 09:08 PM (3ek7K)

198 195
I've nailed about 20 of them over time up at the cabin using my wrist rocket. So much for shock absorbers. I get tired of them wrecking the healthy aspens.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)

I think they're Federally protected, so you might want to clarify that by "nailed" you mean "photographed", and by "wrist rocket" you mean "camera".

Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 09:08 PM (X5Jzz)

199 My ex paid extra to have divorce papers delivered to me on Valentines Day 2006.

Yay.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:29 PM (IhIKR)

Definite text book example of a rotten shit stain.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2026 09:08 PM (snZF9)

200 All those birds being fed by hand were very cool. Woodpecker is gorgeous.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 09:10 PM (RIvkX)

201 Oof...Got a rough case of heartburn going on right now.

I tried swallowing a hot iron (standard Moron medical device) but it didn't help as much as I'd hoped.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2026 09:11 PM (ESVrU)

202 I be proud two anointed the City of Brattleboro has be sents a letter too the Governer on Vermint to rename are state the Gay Prides States.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 13, 2026 09:11 PM (jwBFW)

203 I've nailed about 20 of them over time up at the cabin using my wrist rocket. So much for shock absorbers. I get tired of them wrecking the healthy aspens.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)
~~~~~

No bueno. Woodpeckers don't harm healthy trees. And they eat lots of bad insects like termites and wood boring beetles. Healthy trees are more likely harmed by sapsuckers than woodpeckers.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 09:12 PM (3ImbR)

204 Nurse and Piper, you are both better than me, cause I'd still be in prison. Passive aggressive twits to do this on a day you can't forget. UGH

I love men, but not this kind.

I am sorry and no they did not deserve you.

Once on a plane a girl got on late and sat next to me. I waited about 15min til we were in the air and told her, "no man is worth this." As it turned out her mother was ill, but she emailed me after she got home and told me she appreciated my concern. Called me an angel, and I don't hear that often!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:13 PM (WONhk)

205 >>>Im gonna need an explanation on this one.
~~~~~

You, of all people, knows exactly what that means.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 09:14 PM (3ImbR)

206 154 SSNs are only nine decimal digits. After one billion have been issued, there'll be some head scratching to do.
Posted by: gp at February 13, 2026 08:36 PM (N8ZBc)

In 2023, the SSA reported about 531 million SSN's issued, with roughly 358 million left—enough to last around 70 years at current rates.

Posted by: Joemarine at February 13, 2026 09:15 PM (y171U)

207 202 I be proud two anointed the City of Brattleboro has be sents a letter too the Governer on Vermint to rename are state the Gay Prides States.

How about the "Spell Checker" State !!!!!!

Posted by: Franklin Mason at February 13, 2026 09:15 PM (J9q9v)

208 Forgot to add to my comment @204 that the girl was sobbing and puking in a puke bag before I told her my great advice...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:15 PM (WONhk)

209 *know*
noun/verb agreement

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 13, 2026 09:16 PM (3ImbR)

210 142
I'll tell ya'll what I want for Valentine's Day, not from my husband, from God.

We need a big snowstorm here, actually several.

We've had no snow here in Wyoming this winter and we need it for our water and to keep wildfires away.

Send snow!!

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 08:32 PM (3ek7K)

Some in the mountains and rain here. Maybe snow next week for us both! Keep praying!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:18 PM (WONhk)

211 Today we have requested the help of "The Three Stooges" to help with the investigation of Nancy Guthrie disappearance.

Larry, Moe, and Curly were not available for comment...

Posted by: Pima County Sheriff's Office at February 13, 2026 09:20 PM (speX7)

212
ChristyBlinky,

Amen sister!

We have no snow in the mountains this year. It's not good.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 09:22 PM (3ek7K)

213 My ex paid extra to have divorce papers delivered to me on Valentines Day 2006.

Yay.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 08:29 PM

Dayum! That's some cold shit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:22 PM (PrvRk)

214 all I know about Valentines Day is we can buy cheap chocolate all through next week.
also the coffee place here has a berry latte or mocha which I want to drink tomorrow.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 13, 2026 09:23 PM (gKWVE)

215 The Birds are very polite

Posted by: LASue at February 13, 2026 09:23 PM (lCppi)

216 211 Today we have requested the help of "The Three Stooges" to help with the investigation of Nancy Guthrie disappearance.

Larry, Moe, and Curly were not available for comment...

Posted by: Pima County Sheriff's Office at February 13, 2026 09:20 PM (speX7)

Keystone Kops are who you want. A big step up from the Biden FBI.

Posted by: a.moron at February 13, 2026 09:24 PM (X5Jzz)

217 >>No bueno. Woodpeckers don't harm healthy trees. And they eat lots of bad insects like termites and wood boring beetles. Healthy trees are more likely harmed by sapsuckers than woodpeckers.

My yard is bordered by tree covered conservation land. Lots of woodpeckers. They come to my bird feeder but never hit my wood shaked house or the healthy trees in my yard.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:25 PM (viF8m)

218 We have no snow in the mountains this year. It's not good.

Posted by: fourseasons

Yikes. Bad news out west.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2026 09:25 PM (tg5bM)

219 Our Friday Mardi Gras parade has finished. The street in front of my house is full of cars and pedestrians.

The Maids of Jubilee.

Apropos of nothing, I once met the first person to throw Moon Pie during a parade in Mobile.

According to old timers, before the pies, they threw green bananas. I like the pies much better.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:25 PM (jc0TO)

220 To the Pima County Sheriff my comment is the following.....

"Sointly........ Nyuk..... Nyuk..... Nyuk..

Posted by: Curly at February 13, 2026 09:27 PM (speX7)

221 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:22 PM (PrvRk)

Nice hash.
Perv.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 09:27 PM (giVIm)

222 Woodpeckers like dead wood.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM (xDN0i)

223 219 Our Friday Mardi Gras parade has finished. The street in front of my house is full of cars and pedestrians.

The Maids of Jubilee.

Apropos of nothing, I once met the first person to throw Moon Pie during a parade in Mobile.

According to old timers, before the pies, they threw green bananas. I like the pies much better.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09

Shadow Barrons tomorrow night.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM (Wmg4n)

224 Shadow Barrons tomorrow night.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM

We have one in the afternoon apparently. Krewe of Mullet Mates, who I have never heard of.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:30 PM (5Rvu2)

225 I'll go to the Magnolia Maids on Monday.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:30 PM (5Rvu2)

226 Or to give them their full name Mystic Order of Magnolias.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:31 PM (5Rvu2)

227 I've been to many NOLA Mardi Gras as a kid, Piper and Farmer.

The only one and last in college was epic. I got my first and only hickey on my neck in Pat O'Brien's piano bar. I did not know I was getting a hickey from the guy from the University of North Carolina. I was sitting in his lap and wall to wall people.

Met him at a parade earlier with his frat boy friends. He "rescued" me off a parade barricade as a nut with a rifle was on a balcony above us. As I was 17yrs old I was trying to see what the commotion was. Now they would shut down the city, but at the time police came and got him and the parade went on and we hung out with these guys.

The crowd carried us to Pat O'Brien's & I had a Hurricane. Before we got in, the side of my head was pressed against a police horse's side from the mass of people. A tsunami of people.

I was horrified to see the hickey later at my aunt's and tried to hide it with make-up and a turtleneck. My mother never asked.

The guy wrote me in MS and called my dorm for months later. Suddenly showed up on our farm (alarming my parents). He learned that evening that I was quite the lady who allowed no one to second base. He quit writing me after that!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:32 PM (WONhk)

228 224 Shadow Barrons tomorrow night.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:28 PM

We have one in the afternoon apparently. Krewe of Mullet Mates, who I have never heard of.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09

Aren’t they the ones with the run down floats? I thought they went down 1, my friend lives way down 1 and I was positive they go by her house.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:33 PM (Wmg4n)

229 >> Our Friday Mardi Gras parade has finished.

I confess to not knowing that Mardi Gras was a Mobile thing long before it was a New Orleans thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM (viF8m)

230 It's a beer so good, you'll Lichtenstein~!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM (diia5)

231 We have no snow in the mountains this year. It's not good.

Posted by: fourseasons at February 13, 2026 09:22 PM (3ek7K)

Our mountains have about half of normal. There's hope. We've had 2 storms of a few inches back in Nov/Dec and nothing for January. I still have hope. A White Easter is possible and we had one in 1984 of 8" in our yard.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:36 PM (WONhk)

232 Woodpeckers like dead wood.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Got one or two here that really like the aluminum gutter right outside the bedroom. Really loud.
I assume it's playing some sort of lovesong trying to attract the ladies.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 09:36 PM (/lPRQ)

233 229 >> Our Friday Mardi Gras parade has finished.

I confess to not knowing that Mardi Gras was a Mobile thing long before it was a New Orleans thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM

Absolutely! It’s an entire thing. The kids are out of school next week, govt offices closed Tuesday. Like I said, it’s now Deep Gras.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:37 PM (Wmg4n)

234 Mrs. Red and I decided to get married on Valentine’s Day. We got officially engaged on April Fool’s Day.
I’ve been telling her for almost 52 years that it was a joke.
She slugs me on the arm.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (sk1rK)

235 A friend of mine told a real horror story about being in New Orleans for a parade. He said the crowd was body to body, like festival seating in the old Rock-N-Roll days. He said a guy kept banging into his back and he kept shoving the fellow back away. After quite a few times he said that he twisted around to bitch at the guy and realized that the reason he was banging into him was that the guy was being stabbed repeatedly. My friend said that he was trapped up against the poor guy and couldn't get away in the press.

He also says that he is never going back.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (5Rvu2)

236 According to old timers, before the pies, they threw green bananas. I like the pies much better.
Posted by: toby928(c)

They used to chuck cans of pork and beans before the bananas but too many injuries.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (/lPRQ)

237 Nice hash.
Perv.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 13, 2026 09:27 PM

🤣🤣🤣

Hey, I'm in a college bar...what do you expect?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (PrvRk)

238 I put beads on my dog and now he has zoomies.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:39 PM (Wmg4n)

239 203 I've nailed about 20 of them over time up at the cabin using my wrist rocket. So much for shock absorbers. I get tired of them wrecking the healthy aspens.
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:04 PM (HeR4S)
~~~~~

No bueno. Woodpeckers don't harm healthy trees. And they eat lots of bad insects like termites and wood boring beetles. Healthy trees are more likely harmed by sapsuckers than woodpeckers.

>>>

Sorry, but the Downey and Hairy woodpeckers eventually damage the Aspens. I have 20 years of observing this.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at February 13, 2026 09:39 PM (HeR4S)

240 I confess to not knowing that Mardi Gras was a Mobile thing long before it was a New Orleans thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:34 PM

It is so old that one of the 'new krewes' was named The Infant Mystics. Infants because they were the first krewe too young to have fought in the Civil War.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:39 PM (5Rvu2)

241 Mrs. Red and I decided to get married on Valentine’s Day. We got officially engaged on April Fool’s Day.
I’ve been telling her for almost 52 years that it was a joke.
She slugs me on the arm.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
***********
As she should!
Your wife must be a force of nature....I look forward to meeting her.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

242 Hey, I'm in a college bar...what do you expect?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (PrvRk)

I think an explanation is in order.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (sk1rK)

243 Mrs. Red and I decided to get married on Valentine’s Day. We got officially engaged on April Fool’s Day.
I’ve been telling her for almost 52 years that it was a joke.
She slugs me on the arm.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (sk1rK)

So you've been Somebody! to Mrs RI Red for 52 years. That is sweet.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (xDN0i)

244 >>Absolutely! It’s an entire thing. The kids are out of school next week, govt offices closed Tuesday. Like I said, it’s now Deep Gras.

I was in Mobile on business right after your Mardi Gras and my customer told me some of the history. I'd never heard the history and tradition.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (viF8m)

245 Your wife must be a force of nature....I look forward to meeting her.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

5 foot 2, eyes of blue. And a good shot.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:43 PM (sk1rK)

246 I like the Joe Cain parade in Mobile where pretty much anyone can be in the parade. That parade is the one that made them have the rule that the float drivers cannot be drunk.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:44 PM (5Rvu2)

247 Your wife must be a force of nature....I look forward to meeting her.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM (IQ6Gq)

5 foot 2, eyes of blue. And a good shot.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
************
I would expect no less. Happy Anniversary to you and her!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:44 PM (IQ6Gq)

248 I think an explanation is in order.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:40 PM

Down here in Clemson with old friends for the opening baseball weekend against Army. My buddy's nephew pitches for Clemson. I'm here to support Army. And drink.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 09:45 PM (PrvRk)

249 I know everyone hates Power Line Blog, but Heineraker has a good point: if this is the “elite” of the elites, this country is fucked. Or words to that effect.

The people are smart on law school exams and completely useless in real life, like their professors and Dem honchos they model.

Posted by: Henry at February 13, 2026 09:45 PM (tWkg3)

250 So you've been Somebody! to Mrs RI Red for 52 years. That is sweet.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (xDN0i)

I tell people that we’re now at the Grudge Match stage, trying to see who will outlive the other.
She slugs me on the arm.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:45 PM (sk1rK)

251 My friend said that he was trapped up against the poor guy and couldn't get away in the press.

He also says that he is never going back.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:38 PM (5Rvu2)

There was no way I'd go again after college...this was in 1972 probably. And NOLA is an insane place to begin with. We fly in and out there as it's a direct flight from here vs Atlanta then an ancient plane to MS.The airport is it's own crazy.

We know not to go anywhere after dark with the kids in French Quarter. But nothing is safe, really. They still have great food in the old restaurants like Galatoires's, and my grands are the 5th generation to eat there. We are going to Commander's Palace for my birthday this year and then flying home the next day.

We honeymooned in NOLA as it's about 2.5hrs from the farm. I figured being from Long Island my groom had seen it all in NYC, but NOLA blew his mind. One of his grandmother's got goosed on Bourbon Street.

We were in a fancy French restaurant and he looked around and said, "This must be mafia run." I informed him the mafia was "not in the South." He and my father never let me forget this statement.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:46 PM (WONhk)

252 So you've been Somebody! to Mrs RI Red for 52 years. That is sweet.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:41 PM (xDN0i)

I tell people that we’re now at the Grudge Match stage, trying to see who will outlive the other.
She slugs me on the arm.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
*************
I'm seeing a pattern here...and have no intention of ever positioning myself between the two of you!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:47 PM (IQ6Gq)

253 My parents honeymoon in New Orleans as they went from Texas to SC.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:47 PM (5Rvu2)

254 1968. A friend set me up with a friend of his girlfriend; we double-dated. Next, Valentine's Day, we had our first just-us date. Took her to see Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. When we came out, a couple of inches of snow had fallen. We wandered around to several cars before finding mine.

It was all very romantic. We went steady for a couple of years until 💔 I screwed up (fortunately for her: I was a mess for a while there). It was very good while it lasted.

No regerts. It took a while, but I learned to say I love you 💞 once again, and my lady of fifty+ years together is perfect.

https://bit.ly/perfect-vid

Posted by: mindful webworker - love is no game but you must know the rules at February 13, 2026 09:49 PM (6hyzx)

255 Guess the star of this movie

Michael Mason is a recluse on a remote Scottish island who rescues a girl from the sea, unleashing a perilous sequence of events that culminate in an attack on his home, compelling him to face his turbulent history.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM (5Rvu2)

256 I love NOLA, but I never, ever go to the Quarter. Ever.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM (Wmg4n)

257 52 years ago, wow.
I remember we celebrated my 10th birthday right before that.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:51 PM (sk1rK)

258 I love NOLA, but I never, ever go to the Quarter. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM

That's the only part I have ever been to. That and the zoo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:51 PM (5Rvu2)

259 But I also loved Breaux Bridge and that has gotten scary too.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:52 PM (Wmg4n)

260 Lol RI Red.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 13, 2026 09:52 PM (xDN0i)

261 Got one or two here that really like the aluminum gutter right outside the bedroom. Really loud.
I assume it's playing some sort of lovesong trying to attract the ladies.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 13, 2026 09:36 PM (/lPRQ)

I got some here that do that too. I think they’re Nature’s drummers, they’re in love with that constant BANG BANG BANG!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM (otNgF)

262 Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:44 PM (5Rvu2)

Do the Merry Widows still make an appearance.?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM (Vvh2V)

263 258 I love NOLA, but I never, ever go to the Quarter. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM

That's the only part I have ever been to. That and the zoo.
Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026

What? We live right here! Technically we can take the train now.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM (Wmg4n)

264 52 years ago, wow.
I remember we celebrated my 10th birthday right before that.
Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody!
******************
Ha! This is for anyone who wonders how this gem of a man has earned his own very thick permanent record!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 09:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

265 Do the Merry Widows still make an appearance.?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM

Can't have a Joe Cain Day without the wailing of his widows.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:54 PM (5Rvu2)

266 What? We live right here! Technically we can take the train now.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:53 PM

To do what?

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM (5Rvu2)

267 Down here in Clemson with old friends for the opening baseball weekend against Army. My buddy's nephew pitches for Clemson. I'm here to support Army. And drink.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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You're in Clempson? I live less than 10 miles from there.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM (mNjzF)

268 Evening, Ace and Cafe folken. Suffering a nasty cold tonight. Regular snot factory in my nose.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (8zz6B)

269 You're in Clempson? I live less than 10 miles from there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM

MiniMOME!

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (5Rvu2)

270 Does it crack y’all up Toby and I live next door to each other and have never seen each other? That we know of, at least

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (Wmg4n)

271 WW II museum in NOLA is worthwhile. But it’s been a while.
My first time in Louisiana was Basic Training at Ft. Puke, uhh, Fort Polk.
Fond memories.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM (sk1rK)

272 Does it crack y’all up Toby and I live next door to each other and have never seen each other? That we know of, at least
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:56 PM

One day will meet and you will say Oh, it's you!

I have a distinctive pelt.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:57 PM (5Rvu2)

273 There is but one cheese, Camembert. It is made in one place, Normandy.

Posted by: Javems at February 13, 2026 09:57 PM (zFsEm)

274 Mardi Gras history...

https://64parishes.org/the-goddesses-at-100

Elsie E. Elchinger, first queen of the Krewe of Iris, 1922.

That's my grandmother.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 09:58 PM (jtM2q)

275 Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 09:54 PM (5Rvu2)

That brings back many childhood memories. I spent a lot of time all along the Gulf as a kid.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 09:59 PM (Vvh2V)

276 256 I love NOLA, but I never, ever go to the Quarter. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2026 09:50 PM (Wmg4n)

We go in the daytime, briefly, for beignets and coffee at the Cafe Du Monde. Last year we slept in. Dinner before dark.

Son, DIL and kids went to the Cathedral after coffee. Said a homeless woman tried to set the basket of tithes on fire and the police were called. Mass in NOLA.

There's a place on Jackson Square where I buy a hat each year and that's it!

One year we were staying in the Royal Orleans so the kids could swim in the rooftop pool. A jackass set off 2 fire alarms at 3am and we had to evacuate down the stairs and sit around til cleared by the police and FD.

Our then 5yo grandson had it explained to him that a "bad man" set the alarms and was just being stupid. So every time for a day he'd hear a car alarm he'd mutter that he guessed that was the "bad man." Upon leaving in the airport he saw the police escort a cuffed couple out of the gate and had closure. Told my husband they got the "bad man." We cracked up.

We know to be careful. Does not mean I won't be in the cross fire buying a hat someday.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 13, 2026 09:59 PM (WONhk)

277 ONT

Posted by: four seasons at February 13, 2026 10:00 PM (3ek7K)

278 Nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 13, 2026 10:00 PM (RIvkX)

279 Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 09:58 PM (jtM2q)

That is so awesome!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 10:00 PM (Vvh2V)

280 That's my grandmother.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 09:58 PM

So cool.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 13, 2026 10:01 PM (5Rvu2)

281 Now, Ms. Blinkly, surely you pop into Yvonne LeFleur occasionally!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 13, 2026 10:02 PM (Vvh2V)

282 You're in Clempson? I live less than 10 miles from there.
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 13, 2026 09:55 PM

We're here tomorrow for the double header!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2026 10:03 PM (PrvRk)

283 Grateful, I’ve told many stories to DILIT about my life. She has encouraged me to put them down on paper. Some of them are unique/Permanent Record entries.
Some will have to wait until all participants are not around.
Sample: In 1970, Air Force Academy Cadet Red puked in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House.
It gets better.

Posted by: RI Red - who is now Somebody! at February 13, 2026 10:04 PM (sk1rK)

284 That's my grandmother.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2026 09:58 PM

So cool.
Posted by: toby928(c)
************
That is fantastic!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at February 13, 2026 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

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