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Friday Cafe

griffithobservatory.jpg
Griffith Observatory, LA
Brandon Yoshizawa

Jumping into Friday like...

Some cats just want to watch the world burn.

2026 explaining to 2004 why Iranians are dancing to YMCA.


Golden retrievers help mom raise the baby.

Netflix crime "documentaries" are fake and gay and follow a rote script.

Speaking of fake and gay: Fake Star Trek writers aren't sending their best.

Border collie is now in middle-level management.

Monument Valley.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM




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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 07:22 PM (cYBz/)

2 I could have been first but In was trying to find out what is it about.

Posted by: fd at March 06, 2026 07:24 PM (vFG9F)

3 Evening all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2026 07:25 PM (oKJ0C)

4 B2s are really friggin loud at air shows.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 07:25 PM (3uBP9)

5 Is Tickle single?

Just asking. For a friend.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 06, 2026 07:25 PM (0aYVJ)

6 B-2 vid looks mighty like A I

Posted by: I member zebra at March 06, 2026 07:25 PM (+abK1)

7 And the snipes get screwed over again!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 07:25 PM (cYBz/)

8 I'm Gonna Get You Sucka !!!

Posted by: Ima Banned at March 06, 2026 07:25 PM (cntUY)

9 i remember the guy who draws zippy the pinhead used to do a weekly called the griffith observatory.

Posted by: cmeat at March 06, 2026 07:26 PM (R11M+)

10 >>> Pretty sure I’d dribble a little if I saw this!

What?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 06, 2026 07:27 PM (/lPRQ)

11 In the early 20th century or thereabouts there was a big push to put an observatory on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. It isn’t a particularly good location at all for this purpose, but somebody wanted one there very badly.

A lot of interesting history of that area, there was a lot of opposition to turning it into a national park. Private landholders, among them Randolph Hearst of newspaper fame, owned getaway cabins and such.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 06, 2026 07:29 PM (SpYDH)

12 I was at an Indianapolis 500 one year when they had a B2 flyby. It was overcast, and this enormous bat like thing glided down out of the clouds. It was even better than seeing it coming.

Posted by: Advo at March 06, 2026 07:29 PM (jO4mz)

13 10 >>> Pretty sure I’d dribble a little if I saw this!

Like with a basketball?

Posted by: I member zebra at March 06, 2026 07:29 PM (+abK1)

14 Netflix crime "documentaries" are fake and gay and follow a rote script.
---
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" did an awesome parody of Making of a Murderer or whatever that Netflix show was...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2026 07:29 PM (ESVrU)

15 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

16 B-2 yea!!! No penguins, yea!! Life is clement.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 06, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

17 I once saw or heard really, a crew chief tweaking a fighter jet of some sort at full throttle static on the flight line at Osan, it was the loudest fricking thing I ever heard. Tuning for “maximum smoke” maybe I dunno. Jeeze louise it was insane.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 06, 2026 07:32 PM (SpYDH)

18 Willowed from previous thread,
238 213 I got my little tom-cat back from the vets for a neutering, and he is having the worst time with the e-collar. He keeps tripping and going face down.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 07:18 PM (rbvCR)
Well, duh. You cut out an important part of his guidance system.
Posted by: Eromero at March 06, 2026 07:26 PM (LHPAg)

Posted by: Eromero at March 06, 2026 07:33 PM (LHPAg)

19 That star trek vid of that guy on stage. I don't trust dudes that severely cross their legs. Like really wrenching the ol' huevos, while just perched up on a stool chatting away like nothing is happening. I would be screaming my lungs out. Sometimes I get the frank&beans wedged together just sliding out of the car and I think I'm going to die. Something is really wrong with you if your groin can do that.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 07:33 PM (3uBP9)

20 B2 or not B2, that is the question.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 06, 2026 07:34 PM (FXNzP)

21 this enormous bat like thing glided down out of the clouds. It was even better than seeing it coming.
Posted by: Advo at March 06, 2026 07:29 PM

As with all bat-like thing sightings, a boon.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 06, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)

22 But Penguin didn't stick the landing
( holds up 3.0 card)

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Doggone it, my no penguins observation was misguided.

Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 06, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

24 When we lived in Monterey, CA the Thunderbird and Blue Angles would swap air shows.

My wife worked for the Naval Postgrad School. So, when the Angles were in town they'd do fly overs, really low over her building.

When the Thunderbirds were in town, they'd spank the shit out of the entire campus.

Then, there was the Army. Doing rooftop repelling. With nobody noticing. Yea.. they were that good.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2026 07:36 PM (jtM2q)

25 Netflix crime "documentaries" are fake and gay and follow a rote script.
---
"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" did an awesome parody of Making of a Murderer or whatever that Netflix show was...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


Just started watching Young Sherlock on Amazon Prime. Interesting.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 06, 2026 07:36 PM (oKJ0C)

26 The B2 is orbiting in an accelerated turn, like a coordinated turn but with a positive nz increment.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 07:38 PM (3uBP9)

27 Duncanthrax, I feel your pain last mention I have seen of a Yak was being shot out of the sky.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 06, 2026 07:38 PM (+nEug)

28 It’s Friday! 🎉

===

🎊🎉

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2026 07:39 PM (GD0B3)

29 Loudest thing ever was an AV-8B in the hover at Miramar. Unbelievably loud. Next was the sound of F-14s making arrested landings on the USS JFK (even on the top of the island). They gun their engines upon touchdown in case they miss the cables.

Third was most amusing. Flyover by a B-1 at an Air Force/BYU football game. Really, REALLY low. We were up near the rim of the stadium, noise was close to hearing-damage level if not at it (everyone covered their ears). B-1 was in wings-back configuration and really moving. We smelled the exhaust. Pilot got in hot water later. Crowd loved it.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2026 07:39 PM (U/Byj)

30 B2 or not B2, that is the question.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 06, 2026 07:34 PM

Fuck you.

Posted by: The Mullahs at March 06, 2026 07:40 PM (Wnv9h)

31 B2 or not B2, that is the question.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 06, 2026 07:34 PM

Fuck you.

Posted by: The Mullahs at March 06, 2026 07:41 PM (Wnv9h)

32 I like the puppy life preserves, they seem to naturally know how to swim

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

33 Duncanthrax, I feel your pain last mention I have seen of a Yak was being shot out of the sky.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 06, 2026 07:38 PM

A Yakovlev Yak-9, Yak-7B, or Yak-3?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 06, 2026 07:42 PM (0sNs1)

34 Pre China virus they used to do an air show at the Quonset Air Base every summer. We'd always head out to see it.

Lots of impressive stuff including the Blue Angels but the B2 coming up the bay, low over our heads, was spectacular. Much more impressive in real life than on video.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m)

35 [I was getting some good belly laughs from the prior thread's porn names -- so, WILLOWED:]

First pet name and the first street you lived on = Porn Name.

Bismarck Kearsarge

Meh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2026 07:24 PM (y9nCu)

----------------

My porn name would be Sport Blanton.

The Wifey's would be Bubbles Maple. lmao

Wifey says she's got Big Bubbles and she cannot lie ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 06, 2026 07:44 PM (CM8PF)

36 Loudest plane for me was the B-1. I lived just north of McConnell AFB in Wichititty when B-1s were stationed there. They would take off, and right above my tiny house they would rotate and hit the afterburners. The whole house would shake and vibrate. I think it hit some structural resonance freq of the house. Like being in drum.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

37 A Yakovlev Yak-9, Yak-7B, or Yak-3?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 06, 2026 07:42 PM (0sNs1)
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Yak-130. I had to look it up. Trainer/light combat aircraft. Bounced by Israeli F-35I

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 07:44 PM (ZOv7s)

38 12 I was at an Indianapolis 500 one year when they had a B2 flyby. It was overcast, and this enormous bat like thing glided down out of the clouds. It was even better than seeing it coming.

Posted by: Advo at March 06, 2026 07:29 PM (jO4mz)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEL8xx6448Y

2011, Not my video, etc. I was there but not as drunk as they were yet

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 06, 2026 07:45 PM (jrgJz)

39 porn name now my nic

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 06, 2026 07:46 PM (cntUY)

40 I'm old enough to have seen the XB-70 land at WP for it's final resting place. That was something to see.

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 06, 2026 07:47 PM (jrgJz)

41 We smelled the exhaust. Pilot got in hot water later. Crowd loved it.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2026 07:39 PM (U/Byj)
---
In 2005, the flight line at Alpena CRTC was much closer to the buildings along it, all of which have been subsequently replaced. Anyhoo, arriving early to my work station on a chilly morning, I was gratified when one of the F-16s fired up its engine and bathed me in nice, warm jetwash. Downright cozy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 07:47 PM (ZOv7s)

42 King Thomas

That's actually not too bad.

Posted by: Stateless at March 06, 2026 07:47 PM (Sco7b)

43 Hah...

Strawberry jam guy is hilarious.

Posted by: eleven at March 06, 2026 07:48 PM (aTgV0)

44 Pre China virus they used to do an air show at the Quonset Air Base every summer. We'd always head out to see it.

Lots of impressive stuff including the Blue Angels but the B2 coming up the bay, low over our heads, was spectacular. Much more impressive in real life than on video.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m)

---------------

I grew up in Las Vegas in the '60s and '70s about a dozen miles from Nellis Air Force Base -- home of The Thunderbirds -- and we got to frequently watch them practice their stunt-flying overhead.

In '89 I moved to the Silicon Valley and Bay Area for work, and the Blue Angels would fly over downtown San Francisco and The Bay during "Fleet Week."

Back when most Democrats still loved America, and everybody working would go outside to see them.

Damn, makes me wanna cry ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 06, 2026 07:49 PM (CM8PF)

45 I was at the El Paso airport when I first saw an
F-117. Must have flown out of White Sands.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 06, 2026 07:49 PM (cntUY)

46
Obama broke out in tears at Jackson's funeral today.

Geez Louise, get a life. Can't you enjoy the money you have and shut the fuck up?

Posted by: four seasons at March 06, 2026 07:49 PM (3ek7K)

47 My stealth name is Undercover Subaru.

Don't tell anyone!

Posted by: eleven at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM (aTgV0)

48 I have proof it really happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igF1X48ddWA

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM (jrgJz)

49 First pet name and the first street you lived on = Porn Name.


Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2026 07:24 PM (y9nCu)

Beauregard Aleutian. Could go with Bobo instead.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM (I40wl)

50 There’s not been a sea otter in 2026 on the Cafe.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM (SfVf3)

51 OK, how the hell did that B-2 pull that off... he was in enough of a bank to not have much lift... should have lost 'some' altitude...

Does the thing defy gravity not just radar waves?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM (mP0Kj)

52 I was told my father was watching an air show on top of the Ellsworth AFB hospital as I was being born.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM (cntUY)

53 Back when most Democrats still loved America, and everybody working would go outside to see them.

Damn, makes me wanna cry ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 06, 2026 07:49 PM (CM8PF)

We get Arctic Thunder air show every other year. All over the Anchorage bowl. You can hear it across the inlet. Awesome to watch, shakes the entire city.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 06, 2026 07:51 PM (I40wl)

54 Crave up here is advertising a show based on a true story. It actually looks interesting.

It's about Mennonite drug dealers.

Posted by: Stateless at March 06, 2026 07:51 PM (Sco7b)

55 50 There’s not been a sea otter in 2026 on the Cafe.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM (SfVf3)

It's because of the Honey Badger's FCC complaint about equal access...

Next, they are going after Big Penguin.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 06, 2026 07:51 PM (mP0Kj)

56 I'm not sure I like this porn name thing....

Posted by: Fluffy Route 1 at March 06, 2026 07:52 PM (XE5AP)

57 32 I like the puppy life preserves, they seem to naturally know how to swim
Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)

DH used to hold our Australian Terrier over, not in, the hot tub, and the little shit would swim like mad. Not in the water, mind you. Over it.

It's a pretty natural response for dogs.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 06, 2026 07:53 PM (I40wl)

58 Despite being known as flightless birds, penguins can actually fly, just not very well. They do fly better than ostriches, but not as well as puffins, or even wild turkeys.

Because of this ornithological handicap, penguins have historically been confined to the nether regions of the planet. After the Nazi-penguin collaboration from the 30s up until the early 60s,
and the subsequent rise of Big Penguin, the mephitic menace has spread across the southern hemisphere, with it's beady little eye on the remainder of the so far untainted northern portion of Earth.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 06, 2026 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

59 Also, Wifey and I drove out to March AFB back before we escaped Califzuela -- maybe 20 years ago -- to attend an Air Show.

We arrived late and had to park quite a distance away. As we were walking into the airfield, some military aircraft was diving straight down from several thousand feet right above us -- and then went horizontal just above the main parking lot.

The vibration was so violent during that maneuver that all of the car alarms went off at the same time ... it was hilarious.

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 06, 2026 07:54 PM (CM8PF)

60 Puffins will eat so much fish that they can't fly off the water surface. They are hilarious to watch.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 06, 2026 07:54 PM (I40wl)

61 We get Arctic Thunder air show every other year. All over the Anchorage bowl. You can hear it across the inlet. Awesome to watch, shakes the entire city.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 06, 2026 07:51 PM (I40wl)

Back when the SAC base was open here, we had the Merced Air Show. At the time, it was YUGE.... hundreds and hundreds of historic planes.

Merced Antique Fly in... shut down in the 70's.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 06, 2026 07:54 PM (mP0Kj)

62 >>In '89 I moved to the Silicon Valley and Bay Area for work, and the Blue Angels would fly over downtown San Francisco and The Bay during "Fleet Week."

I never worked in Silicon Valley but I did work for a couple Valley based companies roughly around that time. I loved going to the Bay Area back then.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 07:55 PM (viF8m)

63 Obama broke out in tears at Jackson's funeral today.

Geez Louise, get a life. Can't you enjoy the money you have and shut the fuck up?

Posted by: four seasons at March 06, 2026 07:49 PM (3ek7K)

He can't, because he's a douchebag.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2026 07:56 PM (snZF9)

64 Merced Antique Fly in... shut down in the 70's.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 06, 2026 07:54 PM (mP0Kj)

There is still the EAA Fly In at Oshkosh. Everything shows up there. You can get recordings from the tower, identifying all sorts of odd things coming and going. It is rather entertaining.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 06, 2026 07:56 PM (I40wl)

65 He can't, because he's a douchebag.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2026 07:56 PM (snZF9)

Douchebags are useful. He is a flatworm.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 06, 2026 07:57 PM (I40wl)

66 56 I'm not sure I like this porn name thing....
Posted by: Fluffy Route 1

Me neither.

Posted by: Chinook South 5th at March 06, 2026 07:57 PM (NFX2v)

67 My cats Penny and Allie are sharing my bed this evening. (I'm not in it)

It's a magical night!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2026 07:57 PM (ESVrU)

68 True story - I was a contractor working at Edwards AFB at a remote site, and a B2 buzzed right over me. November 1988.

I said, WTF was that?

The next day they unveiled it to the press. But for a whole day I thought I'd seen some sort of UFO.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at March 06, 2026 07:57 PM (HRH9e)

69 My stealth name is Undercover Subaru.

Don't tell anyone!
Posted by: eleven at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM

We won't, but be advised that ICE is starting to use Subaru as undercover vehicles.

For some reason the Left doesn't approve of this.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 06, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

70 Years ago the Blue Angels were at the Loveland airport. I was commuting, working in Denver. We lived close by in Fort Collins. Sons sat in lawn chairs and watched them practice for several days. Lucky little bastages.

I was stuck in my office all week. But, we saw the show that weekend. Dammit I love that shit. My grandpa was a Boeing/NASA engineer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 06, 2026 07:57 PM (0aYVJ)

71 I never worked in Silicon Valley but I did work for a couple Valley based companies roughly around that time. I loved going to the Bay Area back then.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 07:55 PM (viF8m)

Even 10 years ago we used to hold Sword Fighting practice in Golden Gate Park... weekly... over by the Archery Range.

Now... would not enter that area without a gun...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 06, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)

72 6 I'm not sure I like this porn name thing....
Posted by: Fluffy Route 1

Me neither.
Posted by: Chinook South 5th at March 06, 2026 07:57 PM (NFX2v)
---
Quit yer whinin'!

Posted by: Fido Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Lake Shore Drive at March 06, 2026 07:59 PM (ESVrU)

73 Loudest aircraft I remember? 9/11, when a plane carrying the vice-president flew overhead from Wyoming on its way to Great Falls MT to get him on official aircraft. The only plane in the sky. I think people watched him and prayed for him all the way. I know we did.

Posted by: Wenda at March 06, 2026 07:59 PM (8eeWV)

74
Loudest thing ever was an AV-8B in the hover at Miramar. Unbelievably loud. Next was the sound of F-14s making arrested landings on the USS JFK (even on the top of the island). They gun their engines upon touchdown in case they miss the cables.

Third was most amusing. Flyover by a B-1 at an Air Force/BYU football game. Really, REALLY low. We were up near the rim of the stadium, noise was close to hearing-damage level if not at it (everyone covered their ears). B-1 was in wings-back configuration and really moving. We smelled the exhaust. Pilot got in hot water later. Crowd loved it.

Posted by: rhomboid


Cold war 1980s variant of the kc-135. Those pieces of noisy shite need to be burned at the ramp.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 07:59 PM (QVmho)

75 45 I was at the El Paso airport when I first saw an
F-117. Must have flown out of White Sands.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 06, 2026

My sister was born in White Sands.

Posted by: Piper at March 06, 2026 08:00 PM (Wmg4n)

76 Because of this ornithological handicap, penguins have historically been confined to the nether regions of the planet. After the Nazi-penguin collaboration from the 30s up until the early 60s,
and the subsequent rise of Big Penguin, the mephitic menace has spread across the southern hemisphere, with it's beady little eye on the remainder of the so far untainted northern portion of Earth.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 06, 2026 07:53 PM (vFG9F)

---------------

"Cucker Qatarlson, Jussie Owens, and rock-ribbed conservative St. Nick have assured me that Big Penguin is an arm of The Jewish Mind- and Weather-Controller Conspiracies, and have blackmailed Trump & Erika Kirk into going to War over their heinous acts of child-trafficking and -rape as depicted in The Epstein Files! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 06, 2026 08:00 PM (CM8PF)

77 I believe the British Avro Vulcan is considered the loadest plane.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 06, 2026 08:01 PM (Vh9CX)

78 Any jet can be quite loud especially at speed

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 08:01 PM (Ia/+0)

79 72. Quit yer whinin'!
Posted by: Fido Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Lake Shore Drive

🤣🤣

Posted by: Chinook South 5th at March 06, 2026 08:01 PM (NFX2v)

80 In Re B2 Bomber shape and color against the sky:

everyone is gangsta until the sky starts losing pixels

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 08:01 PM (rbvCR)

81 Most airshow aircraft are high fuel, low stores, and aft cg. Not that you would need stores for a show flight. But high fuel is generally mitigative for critical wing bending shear torsion. And aft CG helps performance. With minimal stores it's hard to get a good ballast for aft cg but there's generally a way to get enough.

Some of the maneuvers look crazy but the aircraft is actually way way within it's structural design envelope at low Q and mach.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:02 PM (3uBP9)

82 oh, look, the roos are out trolling for crocs!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 08:03 PM (rbvCR)

83 >>Even 10 years ago we used to hold Sword Fighting practice in Golden Gate Park... weekly... over by the Archery Range.

>>Now... would not enter that area without a gun...

The thing that is so infuriating about what leftists have done to the places they infest is that it can all be turned around so fast. We've seen what has happened in DC in a few weeks. But they choose to live with this shit and ruin it for everyone.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:03 PM (viF8m)

84 Fucking B-bomber's unreal. Sci-fi is here today brought to you by the United States along w/Israel's engineering community. Thank you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 06, 2026 08:03 PM (83+LM)

85 How has there never been a comic book character called the Colonel of Truth?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 06, 2026 08:03 PM (06Hmj)

86 Cold war 1980s variant of the kc-135. Those pieces of noisy shite need to be burned at the ramp.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 07:59 PM (QVmho)

Grew up 1.5 miles from Castle Air Force Base... B-52 training base, with KC-135s, and F-104s for a bit.

Day and night Touch and Go's... often 24/7... Yes, I can ignore Jet noises.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 06, 2026 08:03 PM (mP0Kj)

87 Mone does not work for me, but would for a woman:

Trudy Saratoga

Trudy is a name you do not hear very often.


Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

88
Guinness World Records
Loudest aircraft | Guinness World Records
The loudest aircraft ever flown was likely the Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech", a turboprop-driven variant of the US Air Force's F-84 Thunderjet fighter. No scientific measurement…
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com › world-records

Must be true. It's Guinness.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 06, 2026 08:05 PM (/lPRQ)

89 I live near Boise airport. I can tell which way the planes are taking off, based on wind direction. Westerly is louder.

I find it oddly soothing, as I slowly wake up in the morning. I go to work pretty early, because land surveyors are like my grandpa.

"We're burning daylight here! Let's go!" An hour later, the sun rises.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 06, 2026 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)

90 During Trumps first term when he had some celebration he had jets doing flybys all over the place. I was at a car show and directly overhead a B-2 flanked by 2 fighters flew by. They were real low, and flying low speed. One fighter was an F-22, not sure about the other since I was fixated on the B-2. That was wicked. The crowd went ape shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 06, 2026 08:06 PM (snZF9)

91
Day and night Touch and Go's... often 24/7... Yes, I can ignore Jet noises.
Posted by: Romeo13

High frequency hearing loss, the world ends and nothing exists but that jp8 being turned into noise.

I am a 100% supporter of manpads. And pilot ambush with lead pipes to the knees. But mostly lead pipes to the knees of the noise makers.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:07 PM (QVmho)

92 First pet name and the first street you lived on = Porn Name.

Muffet Madison.
Evidently I'm the new Willow.

Posted by: MkY at March 06, 2026 08:07 PM (q6tQZ)

93 Nose art on a B-17

IRL Monterey 2007

https://ibb.co/ShSCLMS

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2026 08:07 PM (jtM2q)

94 >>>Randolph Hearst of newspaper fame, owned getaway cabins and such.
Posted by: Common Tater
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John Wayne and his refurbished minesweeper.
Whatever. About the only way to get away from all the busybodies is a nice boat or a thousand acres.
Sometimes a boat is easier to get to.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 06, 2026 08:08 PM (83+LM)

95 I''m getting a barge so that I may float out and watch the burning times from a distance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 06, 2026 08:08 PM (83+LM)

96 Only think seen 1 fighter jet do over mach speed, when a teenager one glew over back yard silent until it was well past then a roar hit.

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 08:09 PM (Ia/+0)

97 Thanks, Ace. Have a good weekend. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 06, 2026 08:09 PM (NFX2v)

98 Do I have to write it down again?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 06, 2026 08:09 PM (YlWIZ)

99 I imagine the loudest aircraft ever flown was the space shuttle. I mean it is technically an aircraft, generates lift. And on liftoff it is really loud, boosters and all.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:10 PM (3uBP9)

100
First pet name and the first street you lived on = Porn Name.
Muffet Madison.
Evidently I'm the new Willow.
Posted by: MkY

Smokey Chester

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:11 PM (QVmho)

101 Dudley Bertis. If itvwas first dog, Jiggs Bertis

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 06, 2026 08:11 PM (YlWIZ)

102 Even at Langley AFB don't think it happened

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 08:11 PM (Ia/+0)

103 Iirc, I heard a couple sonic booms on 9/11.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:11 PM (zZu0s)

104 There’s not been a sea otter in 2026 on the Cafe.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 06, 2026 07:50 PM

This does not bode well.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 06, 2026 08:12 PM (Wnv9h)

105 Trudy is a name you do not hear very often.


Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

I went out with a Gertrude back in high school

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:12 PM (3sXRv)

106 I went out with a Gertrude back in high school
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:12 PM (3sXRv)


Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:13 PM (zZu0s)

107
I''m getting a barge so that I may float out and watch the burning times from a distance.
Posted by: Braenyard

The zombies can climb anchor chains. Have you not seen Pirates of the Caribean movies?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:13 PM (QVmho)

108 Although if we mean our own dogs. And adult homes.

Ajax Timberview

I.miss that dog. He was a good boy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:14 PM (zZu0s)

109 Fucking B-bomber's unreal. Sci-fi is here today brought to you by the United States along w/Israel's engineering community. Thank you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 06, 2026 08:03 PM (83+LM)

The B-2 supposedly uses plasma discharge over sections of the wing to modify the airflow, and change the lift potential and stall speed or the wing.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 08:14 PM (rbvCR)

110 Occasionally an aircraft would go SS around Wichita. Generally an oopsie because the fighter pilot flew through an inversion. It would slightly rattle windows and by the time it got to the city would sound like a muffled double fart.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:15 PM (3uBP9)

111 Reef is awesome, he just has more energy than any 5 dogs i have ever seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:18 PM (zZu0s)

112 First street you remember living on ... big difference here:

Dutchess Allen Lane

My first memories are from around four years old

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:18 PM (3sXRv)

113
Although if we mean our own dogs. And adult homes.
Ajax Timberview
I.miss that dog. He was a good boy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Bwahahahahhaa!

MegaRoy's Shadow Wood


Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:19 PM (QVmho)

114 I find it oddly soothing, as I slowly wake up in the morning. I go to work pretty early, because land surveyors are like my grandpa.

"We're burning daylight here! Let's go!" An hour later, the sun rises.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 06, 2026 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)

Having tried to do a long shot with a transit in the afternoon in Ontario Oregon and later near Burns, early is better for a lot of reasons. It is hard to see for the thermals.
Of course, that is all ancient tech now, everyone uses GPS, and no-one knows what a Philly rod is.

(I have been fired from a lot of jobs and that was one of them!)

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 08:19 PM (rbvCR)

115 "Cucker Qatarlson, Jussie Owens, and rock-ribbed conservative St. Nick have assured me that Big Penguin is an arm of The Jewish Mind- and Weather-Controller Conspiracies, and have blackmailed Trump & Erika Kirk into going to War over their heinous acts of child-trafficking and -rape as depicted in The Epstein Files! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 06, 2026 08:00 PM (CM8PF)
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I saw Ace talking about some of this earlier, and what I would like to see him do is pick standard Ace Style Guide names for these people and ONLY use them, never the names of the grifters so they are denied free advertising and web presence.

I was trying to make that point when he was getting worked up, but his fur was up and he wasn't listening. Maybe some of the COBs can explain it to him that there is actually an entire genre of advertising based on "YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT [BLANK] JUST DID! IT'S TERRIBLE! and then you click on the link to find out how awful it is.

That is their business model now. Feel free to trash them, but instead of using the right names, settle on Ace-approved (tm) substitutes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)

116 >>Occasionally an aircraft would go SS around Wichita

Wichita you say.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:21 PM (viF8m)

117 If he wants to get really hard-core, have posts that use the actual names be blocked. Ban their names from the site. Choke them out completely. Only insulting parodies allowed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)

118 Sammy St. Paul

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 06, 2026 08:22 PM (MIIRH)

119 The zombies can climb anchor chains. Have you not seen Pirates of the Caribean movies?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:13 PM (QVmho)
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This was one of the more retarded ideas of the Zombie Survival Guide. Um, why would mindless creatures climb something just because it is there? Why doesn't this apply to telephone poles and power lines?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:23 PM (ZOv7s)

120 106 I went out with a Gertrude back in high school
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:12 PM (3sXRv)

----------

You were probably doing her a favor.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2026 08:23 PM (mNdmn)

121 That is a great photo of Griffith...brings back fond memories of parties and events we attended there....but still thrilled to be out of CA!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at March 06, 2026 08:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

122 >>> Wichita you say.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:21 PM (viF8m)


Out of McConnell AFB generally training and way out over plains. But people would complain and the AFB would put out a statement. It really was nothing more than a muffled fart and some mild shaking by the time it got to the city.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:24 PM (3uBP9)

123 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 06, 2026 08:24 PM (h7ZuX)

124 Why doesn't this apply to telephone poles and power lines?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:23 PM (ZOv7s)

Because there isn't food up telephone poles or power lines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:25 PM (zZu0s)

125 Next was the sound of F-14s making arrested landings on the USS JFK (even on the top of the island). They gun their engines upon touchdown in case they miss the cables.

I used to live within earshot of a USAF base. You could always tell by the sound when the Navy came for a visit.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 06, 2026 08:25 PM (Fs0KI)

126 MegaRoy's Shadow Wood


Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:19 PM (QVmho)

Heh. Nice. Sounds like a badass cool guy DnD character.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

127 B-2 vid looks mighty like A I
Posted by: I member zebra at March 06, 2026 07:25 PM (+abK1)

I'm inclined to agree. I don't think that bird has the kind of thrust it takes to maintain a back angle that steep for that length of time.

And speaking of bank angle, it'd be nuts to really turn a seriously expensive B-2 that steeply. The odds of pulling a Lt. Col. Bud Holland would be unacceptable.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 06, 2026 08:27 PM (/HDaX)

128 >>Dutchess Allen Lane

Duchess Garden Place

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:27 PM (viF8m)

129 back = bank

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 06, 2026 08:27 PM (/HDaX)

130 Good evening Dash!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:29 PM (cYBz/)

131 6 I'm not sure I like this porn name thing....
Posted by: Fluffy Route 1

Yeah, I get Smoky 188. Needs a better street name. Smoky works, though.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 06, 2026 08:30 PM (h7ZuX)

132 Because there isn't food up telephone poles or power lines.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:25 PM (zZu0s)
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How would they know that? What reservoir of knowledge are they drawing upon to know that?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

133 Hi, Tonypete!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 06, 2026 08:31 PM (h7ZuX)

134
This was one of the more retarded ideas of the Zombie Survival Guide. Um, why would mindless creatures climb something just because it is there? Why doesn't this apply to telephone poles and power lines?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

They can hear the sound of the living through the acoustic amplifier of the water with the barge's hull as the sounding board?

Any bubble headed sonar nerds here?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:31 PM (QVmho)

135 They can hear the sound of the living through the acoustic amplifier of the water with the barge's hull as the sounding board?

Any bubble headed sonar nerds here?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:31 PM (QVmho)

They would also attack whales

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 08:32 PM (rbvCR)

136 How would they know that? What reservoir of knowledge are they drawing upon to know that?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

Smell?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s)

137

They would also attack whales
Posted by: Kindltot

Zombie killer whales!

Stop the world, i gotta get off.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:33 PM (QVmho)

138 They can hear the sound of the living through the acoustic amplifier of the water with the barge's hull as the sounding board?

Any bubble headed sonar nerds here?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:31 PM (QVmho)
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Their minds have completely degenerated but they possess the neural capacity to differentiate sound signatures that are beyond anything they had when their brains actually functioned. Sure.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)

139 Zombie instincts.

Posted by: fd at March 06, 2026 08:34 PM (vFG9F)

140 Donroe Doctrine in practice.

"At the order of Secretary of War Hegseth, SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan directed the joint force to support Ecuadorian forces conducing lethal kinetic operations against Designated Terrorist Organizations within Ecuador March 6,” US Southern Command said....

At the request of Ecuador, the Department of War executed targeted action to advance our shared objective of dismantling narco-terrorist networks.

This operation demonstrates the power of coordinated action and sends a clear message: narco-terrorist networks will not find refuge in our hemisphere."

Pentagon Statement
https://tinyurl.com/duzmupj7

Posted by: illiniwek at March 06, 2026 08:34 PM (vbXSk)

141 Mea culpa for the thread hijacking.

If you land in Cuna, i'll let all the passengers go free unharmed.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:35 PM (QVmho)

142 Smell?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s)
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You can smell the surface under water? Does the anchor chain provide a smell corridor for them?

I assume they'd also climb moored buoys and just bob out there for eternity - or till seagulls pecked them to death. Huge conga lines of zombies gathered, each waiting to be bird food.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:35 PM (ZOv7s)

143 all the kennedys and adjacent are f’d up

the jack punk
his mom
ted
the loser who raped the girl
the other loser who was in congress & got busted high on pills…patches?

that’s just off the top of my head

Posted by: cherries in season at March 06, 2026 08:36 PM (LqeC6)

144 Donroe Doctrine in practice.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 06, 2026 08:34 PM (vbXSk)
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We are officially the "strong horse."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:36 PM (ZOv7s)

145 I don't believe that B-2 video is fake. I think it is definitely a real video of a game simulator screen capture. A lot of airplane videos on x, the 'gram, farcebook are actually in-game renders because the game engines are so good now. I think they actually have to make them grainy and add artifacts just to help you cross the uncanny valley.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:37 PM (3uBP9)

146 Was at the KC-135R roll-out in Wichita. Believe they are much quieter than they were with the old engines.

Growing up sonic booms by Navy jets were not uncommon (shook the sliding glass doors real good). NAS Miramar not far away. Different universe back then, of course, sonic booms long since prohibited over populated coastal zone. Good 6th grade friend's father was a squadron skipper (VF-213).

Angels have their first show out in El Centro a week from tomorrow. Not sure I can go this time, but it's been great in the past (much much smaller than Miramar show, easier, though a drive).

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2026 08:38 PM (U/Byj)

147 You can smell the surface under water? Does the anchor chain provide a smell corridor for them?

We are talking about two different things. I am talking power lines and telephone poles.

I would go with the classic zombie thing where an island would be a perfect place to build civilization- or at least a bastion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:38 PM (zZu0s)

148 Are you morons seriously debating the brain function of mythical dead people?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:38 PM (viF8m)

149 i forgot another one…maria shriver

lol

arnold loving up the matronly maid

Posted by: cherries in season at March 06, 2026 08:39 PM (LqeC6)

150 Never thought much about her name being unusual, as I had family members with the name Flosse and Ethel.

The thing I remember most was that she lived in a hard to get to, out of the way section of Cleveland.

Made dating a real endeavor ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:39 PM (3sXRv)

151 Are you morons seriously debating the brain function of mythical dead people?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:38 PM (viF8m)

I posited how Captai. James T Kirk would deal with each of the bete noires of the day.

In answer to your question: yes. Yes I am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

152 The thing I remember most was that she lived in a hard to get to, out of the way section of Cleveland.

Made dating a real endeavor ...
Posted by: browndog says woof

Down in an oil sump in The Flats?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:40 PM (cYBz/)

153

I would go with the classic zombie thing where an island would be a perfect place to build civilization- or at least a bastion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

They could still walk across the water body's floor and right back up o to land, though. You'd need a moat/bailey style of reinforced defenses to whack them as theynattempted to ascend the walls. Basic 3rd century defense of a stronghold tactics.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:41 PM (QVmho)

154 And speaking of bank angle, it'd be nuts to really turn a seriously expensive B-2 that steeply. The odds of pulling a Lt. Col. Bud Holland would be unacceptable.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 06, 2026 08:27 PM (/HDaX)

That very thought crossed my mind.

Also wondered about the opsec of crew members sending out cell phone videos of their ships engaged in actual military operations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2026 08:42 PM (fSA1n)

155 "Cucker Qatarlson, Jussie Owens, and rock-ribbed conservative St. Nick have assured me that Big Penguin is an arm of The Jewish Mind- and Weather-Controller Conspiracies, and have blackmailed Trump & Erika Kirk into going to War over their heinous acts of child-trafficking and -rape as depicted in The Epstein Files! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Algorithmic Racist, Semantic Ablationist, and Systematic Lobotomist at March 06, 2026 08:00 PM

The truth is that they, along with everything else that is evil and unholy, are flippers of Big Penguin.

Like rust, Big Penguin never sleeps.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 06, 2026 08:42 PM (0sNs1)

156 Down in an oil sump in The Flats?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:40 PM (cYBz/)

Bratenahl ... just no easy way to get there, unless you're in Euclid.

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:42 PM (3sXRv)

157 They could still walk across the water body's floor and right back up o to land, though. You'd need a moat/bailey style of reinforced defenses to whack them as theynattempted to ascend the walls. Basic 3rd century defense of a stronghold tactics.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:41 PM (QVmho)

But why would they do that if they couldn't smell the food?

Far north and go Viking would also be a plan. Frozen zombies are not agile.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

158 Down in an oil sump in The Flats?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:40 PM (cYBz/)


Isn't that where the Torso Killer left his victims corpses?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

159 105 Trudy is a name you do not hear very often.
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Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ

youtube.com/watch?v=pBp441mQWsg

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 06, 2026 08:44 PM (83+LM)

160
But why would they do that if they couldn't smell the food?
Far north and go Viking would also be a plan. Frozen zombies are not agile.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Now I'm back to the aural senses of the zombie, they were drawn to the brain food by sound of human habitation.

Apex predators, but shambling and slow.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:44 PM (QVmho)

161 I went to an air show in the 80’s where a Concorde flew in and out. That’s the loudest plane I’ve ever heard! (On takeoff)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2026 08:45 PM (fSA1n)

162 Apex predators, but shambling and slow.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:44 PM (QVmho)

Joe Biden ... with a brain

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:45 PM (3sXRv)

163 Apex predators, but shambling and slow.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:44 PM (QVmho)

How are they supposed to hear that over the waves. I am talking ocean island off the coast, not river island.

Maybe Mississipi River?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

164 Isn't that where the Torso Killer left his victims corpses?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Yep - that's the place. The Flats were tough enough during the 70's. I can't imaging the place in the 30's.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:47 PM (cYBz/)

165 Every country song is a story. Some are more entertaining than others.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 06, 2026 08:47 PM (83+LM)

166 2026 explaining to 2004 why Iranians are dancing to YMCA.

Ha, good one.

Posted by: t-bird at March 06, 2026 08:48 PM (jlI90)

167 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is starting on The Sundance Channel, for anyone who would enjoy such a film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 06, 2026 08:48 PM (XV/Pl)

168 I don't believe that B-2 video is fake. I think it is definitely a real video of a game simulator screen capture. A lot of airplane videos on x, the 'gram, farcebook are actually in-game renders because the game engines are so good now. I think they actually have to make them grainy and add artifacts just to help you cross the uncanny valley.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:37 PM (3uBP9)
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Our sailors in the Gulf are totally allowed unlimited access to TikTok.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:48 PM (ZOv7s)

169 164 Isn't that where the Torso Killer left his victims corpses?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Yep - that's the place. The Flats were tough enough during the 70's. I can't imaging the place in the 30's.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:47 PM (cYBz/)

When was this taking place ?

We moved to Cleveland in '60. I don't remember hearing about this growing up.

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:48 PM (3sXRv)

170 Yep - that's the place. The Flats were tough enough during the 70's. I can't imaging the place in the 30's.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:47 PM (cYBz/)

The bad part about a good memory is I cannot delete. So if I idly decided to read books on serial killers in college...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

171 >>> The thing I remember most was that she lived in a hard to get to, out of the way section of Cleveland.

Made dating a real endeavor ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:39 PM (3sXRv)


The most humiliated I've ever been was when I was driving a girl home from a date and I couldn't get up her street in ice. I tried like 3 times and would slide back. I thought the date was great until then. I was walking up with her she said bye. I said I would carry her she said forced a smile and said no thanks and walked the rest of the way while I stood there like a dork.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:49 PM (3uBP9)

172 Now I'm back to the aural senses of the zombie, they were drawn to the brain food by sound of human habitation.

Apex predators, but shambling and slow.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at March 06, 2026 08:44 PM (QVmho)
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They wander the ocean floor looking for whales.

I mean, why are they in the water in the first place? Do normal people just wade into rivers, lakes and oceans? Where is this imperative coming from?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (ZOv7s)

173 Saw Obama at Jessie Jackson's funeral today.....


But........ Did not see Big Mike there !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (xl8DV)

174 We moved to Cleveland in '60. I don't remember hearing about this growing up.
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:48 PM (3sXRv)

1930s. Iirc, Elliot Ness was involved in the manhunt. The method matched the Black Dahlia murder (although i think the Cleveland victims were dudes) so they think it might be the same guy. Regardless, never caught.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

175 The most humiliated I've ever been was when I was driving a girl home from a date and I couldn't get up her street in ice. I tried like 3 times and would slide back. I thought the date was great until then. I was walking up with her she said bye. I said I would carry her she said forced a smile and said no thanks and walked the rest of the way while I stood there like a dork.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:49 PM (3uBP9)

Ohhhh dear ...

That shit stays with you doesn't it ?!?!

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (3sXRv)

176 browndog - during the mid to late 30's. He(?) killed about 12 folks and dismembered them - leaving the pieces parts scattered about. Never caught him.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (cYBz/)

177 Jumping into Friday like...

crap. I have no knees with which to absorb this landing.

Posted by: penguin at March 06, 2026 08:51 PM (jlI90)

178 >>Do normal people just wade into rivers, lakes and oceans?

Well, yea.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:52 PM (viF8m)

179 Made up my top 10 war movie list and startdd my top 10 Westerns, ThecGood, the Bad and the Ugly for as much as I like it that bit in the middle of the war wrecks it to me

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 08:53 PM (Ia/+0)

180 1930s. Iirc, Elliot Ness was involved in the manhunt. The method matched the Black Dahlia murder (although i think the Cleveland victims were dudes) so they think it might be the same guy. Regardless, never caught.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

Ahhh ... that explains it.

We lived in the Heights. Supposedly Elliot, or a his mom ... some family member lived across the street: East Overlook and Mornington Lane ... spooky damn house.

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:53 PM (3sXRv)

181 It would be a fun zombie short film where they have no idea of direction sense and since most of the world is covered by water, wander off into various aquatic traps where they're devoured by scavenger fish who pass their evil up the food chain until you get horrific zombiefied sharks and and whales and sea transit is menaced by these sea monsters, and travel in convoys.

Instead of lifeboats, crews are issued black capsules.

Makes Waterworld look like a best-case scenario.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:54 PM (ZOv7s)

182 176 browndog - during the mid to late 30's. He(?) killed about 12 folks and dismembered them - leaving the pieces parts scattered about. Never caught him.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (cYBz/)

I'm so shocked I never heard this story before ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:54 PM (3sXRv)

183 >>> Ohhhh dear ...

That shit stays with you doesn't it ?!?!
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (3sXRv)

And this was in Kansas, the one f'ing hill in the state of Kansas.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:54 PM (3uBP9)

184 The kangaroos hopping in the lake at sunset. Wow!

Posted by: Decaf at March 06, 2026 08:55 PM (OP9Gm)

185 Abby and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins, have been spotted with a newborn.

Abby is married, Brittany is not.

They share one set of reproductive organs.

Someone on X is claiming that they, and Abby's husband, are all going to hell because of this.

I... don't think so.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 06, 2026 08:55 PM (IG3/x)

186 >>> Instead of lifeboats, crews are issued black capsules.

Makes Waterworld look like a best-case scenario.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:54 PM (ZOv7s)


Maybe zombification has the opposite affect on sharks and they become cuddly sea buddies.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:56 PM (3uBP9)

187 I mean, why are they in the water in the first place? Do normal people just wade into rivers, lakes and oceans? Where is this imperative coming from?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:50 PM (ZOv7s)

Like George Mallory said of the mountains ...

Because it's there

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:56 PM (3sXRv)

188 And this was in Kansas, the one f'ing hill in the state of Kansas.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:54 PM (3uBP9)

lol ...

I mean, it's not like anyone had a lot of practice with them.

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 08:57 PM (3sXRv)

189 C-5 starting up is deafening. And thanks so much for penguin content. Beloved around the world by all well-adjusted citizens.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at March 06, 2026 08:57 PM (oftw2)

190 Abby and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins, have been spotted with a newborn.
Abby is married, Brittany is not.
They share one set of reproductive organs.
Someone on X is claiming that they, and Abby's husband, are all going to hell because of this.

I... don't think so.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Everyone fails to look on the bright side. Abby and her hubby will always have a sitter.

But, talk about getting your freak on. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (cYBz/)

191 Made up my top 10 war movie list and startdd my top 10 Westerns, ThecGood, the Bad and the Ugly for as much as I like it that bit in the middle of the war wrecks it to me
Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 08:53 PM (Ia/+0)
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"The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" is nominally set in the American west, but the lens through which the Civil War is shown is that of the Spanish Civil War. The bit where the two armies are slogging it out over a river crossing is based on the Battle of the Ebro. Look it up or buy my book.

Adding an additional complication, the Nationalists (who were rebels) are actually identified with the Union because they won. Of course, the final showdown took place in a war cemetary.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (ZOv7s)

192 If I saw that B-2 fly over I would have gotten a MASSIVE WOODY to the point I may pass out !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (xl8DV)

193 >>> C-5 starting up is deafening. And thanks so much for penguin content. Beloved around the world by all well-adjusted citizens.
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at March 06, 2026 08:57 PM (oftw2)


After RERP they sound a bit different.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (3uBP9)

194 >Do normal people just wade into rivers, lakes and oceans?

Well, yea.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:52 PM (viF8m)
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Normal. He said normal.

Posted by: bluebell at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (79pEw)

195 So, since a large part of sexual arousal is mental....

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 08:59 PM (zZu0s)

196 Everyone fails to look on the bright side. Abby and her hubby will always have a sitter.

But, talk about getting your freak on. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (cYBz/)

I'm trying to envision what Brittany was doing to occupy her time ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 09:00 PM (3sXRv)

197 63 Obama broke out in tears at Jackson's funeral today.

Geez Louise, get a life. Can't you enjoy the money you have and shut the fuck up?

Posted by: four seasons at March 06, 2026 07:49 PM (3ek7K)

He can't, because he's a douchebag.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


It's a pose. Performance art.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2026 09:00 PM (Wg6v7)

198 C-5 starting up is deafening. And thanks so much for penguin content. Beloved around the world by all well-adjusted citizens.
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at March 06, 2026 08:57 PM (oftw2)
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I did a TDY at Ramstein, staying off-base in a hotel at the end of the runway. It was summer, no A/C so I opened the windows. Every day at 0600 a C-17 took off and flew directly overhead.

When I came home, I woke up early on my first morning back, because the plane noise was missing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:01 PM (ZOv7s)

199 Et tu, bluebell?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 09:01 PM (viF8m)

200 Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 08:52 PM (viF8m)
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Normal. He said normal.
Posted by: bluebell at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (79pEw)

bluebell off the top rope ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 09:01 PM (3sXRv)

201 Et tu, bluebell?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 06, 2026 09:01 PM (viF8m)
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I've got to keep my hand in, you know.

Posted by: bluebell at March 06, 2026 09:02 PM (79pEw)

202 191 Made up my top 10 war movie list and startdd my top 10 Westerns, ThecGood, the Bad and the Ugly for as much as I like it that bit in the middle of the war wrecks it to me
Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 08:53 PM (Ia/+0)
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"The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" is nominally set in the American west, but the lens through which the Civil War is shown is that of the Spanish Civil War. The bit where the two armies are slogging it out over a river crossing is based on the Battle of the Ebro. Look it up or buy my book.

Adding an additional complication, the Nationalists (who were rebels) are actually identified with the Union because they won. Of course, the final showdown took place in a war cemetary.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


And, the movie was filmed in Spain.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2026 09:02 PM (Wg6v7)

203 Everyone fails to look on the bright side. Abby and her hubby will always have a sitter.

But, talk about getting your freak on. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (cYBz/)
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The obvious observation is that conjoined twins have a completely different (or should I say "nonexistent") sense of privacy. It's not even a thing.

Any freakishness is on the part of the husband...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)

204 Iran warns it will 'consider every scenario' as Strait of Hormuz shipping plummets

OK.... Then we will level every city in Iran until you cease !!

Posted by: Harcourt Fenton Mudd at March 06, 2026 09:03 PM (YuOiR)

205
Ford Tower, this is Ghostrider, requesting a fly-by

Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2026 09:05 PM (y9nCu)

206 And, the movie was filmed in Spain.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2026 09:02 PM (Wg6v7)
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That's what I mean. The crew, director, everyone was like "Oh, civil war? Yeah, we get that." And so it's more about their civil war than ours. The bit about Tuco's brother being a priest and the wounded being tended by monks is kind of weird in an American context, but of course Spanish Protestants in 1936 would have been found only in the International Brigades.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)

207 And that B-2 pilot called the tanker after approval for the fly-by, and said, "Hey, can we get a little extra? We're gonna do a morale boost for the Navy guys." And the tanker co-pilot asked "How much?" with a big grin on his face.

Posted by: GWB at March 06, 2026 09:05 PM (kyr9/)

208 TGTB&TU is a prequel.

Maybe the first prequel, which is ironic since it’s the last film in a non-trilogy, trilogy.

Could be the first meta film series.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 06, 2026 09:05 PM (XV/Pl)

209 bluebell off the top rope ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at March 06, 2026 09:01 PM (3sXRv)
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Brutal. I like it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:06 PM (ZOv7s)

210 > But, talk about getting your freak on. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 08:58 PM (cYBz/)

Yeah, it's kinda weird, but I'm thinking not "go to Hell" weird.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 06, 2026 09:06 PM (IG3/x)

211 TGTB&TU is a prequel.

Maybe the first prequel, which is ironic since it’s the last film in a non-trilogy, trilogy.

Could be the first meta film series.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 06, 2026 09:05 PM (XV/Pl)
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Yeah, the trilogy goes in reverse order. Pretty cool.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:07 PM (ZOv7s)

212 "Obama broke out in tears at Jackson's funeral today."


If I recall correctly, Jackson said he was gonna cut Barack's balls off.

Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2026 09:08 PM (Q+gd/)

213 Yeah, it's kinda weird, but I'm thinking not "go to Hell" weird.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 06, 2026 09:06 PM (IG3/x)
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Correct.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:08 PM (ZOv7s)

214 I heard on the news tonight that Biden wasted millions of dollars on printing Gay Friendly Maps !!!!

What are Gay Friendly Maps ???

The more and more we hear about Biden, the more he deserves that his Boney Lying Sack of S**t body should be Drawn and Quartered....

This guy is absolutely DISGUSTING .....

Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 06, 2026 09:09 PM (38587)

215 If I recall correctly, Jackson said he was gonna cut Barack's balls off.
Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2026 09:08 PM (Q+gd/)
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Barry didn't have a problem with that because Michelle had already done the deed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:09 PM (ZOv7s)

216
If I recall correctly, Jackson said he was gonna cut Barack's balls off.
Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2026 09:08 PM (Q+gd/)


How was Jesse going to tie down Mooch for the procedure?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2026 09:09 PM (y9nCu)

217 41 We smelled the exhaust. Pilot got in hot water later. Crowd loved it.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2026 07:39 PM (U/Byj)
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In 2005, the flight line at Alpena CRTC was much closer to the buildings along it, all of which have been subsequently replaced. Anyhoo, arriving early to my work station on a chilly morning, I was gratified when one of the F-16s fired up its engine and bathed me in nice, warm jetwash. Downright cozy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 07:47 PM (ZOv7s)

On the flight line at Clark, working on top of an F-4, badly hungover, on a balmy Philippine morning, 90 degrees and 90% humidity at 0800, with a couple of other F-4s with engines running, 20 feet or so in front of the aircraft you're on top of, "cozy" is not the word that immediately comes to mind. I love the smell of hot JP-4 exhaust in the morning. Smells like I'm gonna puke.

Posted by: a.moron at March 06, 2026 09:11 PM (X5Jzz)

218 Crazy thunderstorms, downpours and hail here. Wild.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:11 PM (ZOv7s)

219 Could be the first meta film series.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 06, 2026 09:05 PM (XV/Pl)
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Yeah, the trilogy goes in reverse order. Pretty cool.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:07 PM (ZOv7s)

What I liked a lot is in TGTBTU , when Clint gives a smoke to the dying confederate soldier is when he first picks up the famous poncho that he wears in Fistful of Dollars.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2026 09:11 PM (fSA1n)

220
Yeah, it's kinda weird, but I'm thinking not "go to Hell" weird.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 06, 2026 09:06 PM (IG3/x)



I dunno. Every time he got it on with his wife, it qualified as group sex.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2026 09:11 PM (y9nCu)

221 Wow - went to my local Chevron station - Regular is 5.399 / gallon. Two months ago it was in the low 4's. Two weeks ago it was 4.79.

They wasted no time hiking the prices.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 06, 2026 09:13 PM (QGaXH)

222 And, Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!

Posted by: GWB at March 06, 2026 09:13 PM (kyr9/)

223 216
If I recall correctly, Jackson said he was gonna cut Barack's balls off.
Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2026 09:08 PM (Q+gd/)

How was Jesse going to tie down Mooch for the procedure?


Easy... Mooch has them in a jar in the refrigerator next to the boiled eggs..

Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 06, 2026 09:13 PM (38587)

224 218 Crazy thunderstorms, downpours and hail here. Wild.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:11 PM (ZOv7s)

Where is 'here' ?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (QGaXH)

225 They wasted no time hiking the prices.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 06, 2026 09:13 PM (QGaXH)

Here, every station pegged to 2.99.

I realize this is still not horrible, but it was about a .50 increase.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

226 That's what I mean. The crew, director, everyone was like "Oh, civil war? Yeah, we get that." And so it's more about their civil war than ours. The bit about Tuco's brother being a priest and the wounded being tended by monks is kind of weird in an American context, but of course Spanish Protestants in 1936 would have been found only in the International Brigades.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:05 PM (ZOv7s)

Franco's government was still censoring film at the time, not as hard as in the 50's and 60's so there was a thirst for Spanish civil war film.
I just bobbled over the priests because the Good the Bad and the Ugly was set in the Southwest and a lot of the locals were Catholic and there would have been a sizeable Catholic infrastructure.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (rbvCR)

227 On the flight line at Clark, working on top of an F-4, badly hungover, on a balmy Philippine morning, 90 degrees and 90% humidity at 0800, with a couple of other F-4s with engines running, 20 feet or so in front of the aircraft you're on top of, "cozy" is not the word that immediately comes to mind. I love the smell of hot JP-4 exhaust in the morning. Smells like I'm gonna puke.
Posted by: a.moron at March 06, 2026 09:11 PM (X5Jzz)
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Sucked to be you.

There was a joke back in the day that if the Air Force gave a medal for photography while being badly hungover, our entire office would be on its third oak leaf cluster.

"Airman Lloyd, you are tore up. How much did you drink last night?"

"Only one, First Shirt, but it was *this big*."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (ZOv7s)

228 I dunno. Every time he got it on with his wife, it qualified as group sex.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

"Was it good for you?"

Abby and Brittney - "Yes".

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (cYBz/)

229 Saw today gas in se Pa was $3,39

Posted by: Skip at March 06, 2026 09:16 PM (Ia/+0)

230 The reverend wasn't happy about the upstart nobody seizing the mantle of leader of the downtrodden african americans.

Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2026 09:16 PM (Q+gd/)

231 Where is 'here' ?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (QGaXH)
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Michigan! On the banks of the Red Cedar!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

232 231 Where is 'here' ?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (QGaXH)
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Michigan! On the banks of the Red Cedar!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

Holds up hand, palm facing out.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 06, 2026 09:19 PM (QGaXH)

233 The Dead Cedar?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 06, 2026 09:19 PM (/HDaX)

234 And, the movie was filmed in Spain.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 06, 2026 09:02 PM (Wg6v7)

And with an Italian production company that also looked at the world from the Catholic side.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

235 My dad was a big Civil War buff (and amateur historian) and the battle scene in TGTBTU annoyed the hell out of him because all the details were wrong. But Sergio Leone didn’t care.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2026 09:19 PM (fSA1n)

236 Franco's government was still censoring film at the time, not as hard as in the 50's and 60's so there was a thirst for Spanish civil war film.
I just bobbled over the priests because the Good the Bad and the Ugly was set in the Southwest and a lot of the locals were Catholic and there would have been a sizeable Catholic infrastructure.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 09:15 PM (rbvCR)
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Much of it works as being part of the American Southwest, but the troop densities were not high enough for massive attritional assaults. If a position was strongly held, it could be bypassed. This bothered me when I first saw it, but after digging into the Spanish Civil War (don't forget to buy your copy of Long Live Death today!) I realized that they were going off of the Ebro campaign, which was a bloody, back-breaking attritional slog. Spain's Verdun. Lots of criticism for Franco in choosing to push back the Republican salient vs making an attack elsewhere, but it does parallel Grant's siege of Petersburg, pinning down forces that could not be moved elsewhere. When the Ebro front was restored, Franco's subsequent offensive into Catalonia completely shattered Republican resistance.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:22 PM (ZOv7s)

237 The B-2 video is from DCS. High fidelity flight sim.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2026 09:22 PM (jtM2q)

238 The Dead Cedar?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 06, 2026 09:19 PM (/HDaX)
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It's much, much cleaner than when I was an undergrad.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:23 PM (ZOv7s)

239 One of my white whales is the Spanish copy of the 1892 lever action "el Tigre" rifle in 44-40, that was the secondary rifle used by the Guardia Civil and the militias.
It is always a rifle that is priced higher than I want to pay.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 09:24 PM (rbvCR)

240 And with an Italian production company that also looked at the world from the Catholic side.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)
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The Italians of course supported Franco and sent huge amounts of aid, far more than the Germans. The Italians and Spanish also got along much better.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)

241 I'm curious. Is the observatory in the photo used to observe the stars, or the wit and wisdom of their Senator Kennedy. Either one is suitable for extensive study.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 06, 2026 09:29 PM (S/Y4j)

242 The Italians of course supported Franco and sent huge amounts of aid, far more than the Germans. The Italians and Spanish also got along much better.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:25 PM (ZOv7s)

There was a Spanish civil war zombie movie that was called in English The Valley of the Dead, and in Spanish Malnazidos

It has pretty accurate uniforms, and it is a Zombie movie where an insane German army unit is creating zombies to fight back the Republican forces, and zombies can't tell the difference

Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 09:29 PM (rbvCR)

243 Why does Kier Starmer look absolutely terrified in every single picture anyone takes of him?

Posted by: Splunge at March 06, 2026 09:29 PM (jgJIy)

244 One of my white whales is the Spanish copy of the 1892 lever action "el Tigre" rifle in 44-40, that was the secondary rifle used by the Guardia Civil and the militias.
It is always a rifle that is priced higher than I want to pay.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 06, 2026 09:24 PM (rbvCR)
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Spanish Civil War surplus is fascinating, and I own one of the few Mosins made in 1938 that made it into Spain. This is somewhat controversial, but there is solid evidence that there was a shipment from the USSR to Spain in early 1938, and there are at least two other documented examples of rifles marked "1938" that came from Spain.

It's generally held that only Mosins marked 1936 or 1937 saw service in Spain. Of course, lots of older ones also showed up there as the Soviet emptied their stocks of ancient weapons. I saw a 19th Century Mosin with a beautiful Czarist crest go for a small fortune and it was clearly out of Franco's weapon haul.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:30 PM (ZOv7s)

245 OSINTdefender

@sentdefender
The U.S. Navy is preparing to deploy a third carrier strike group to the Middle East near Iran in the coming weeks, according to a report by Fox News, with the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) and her Carrier Strike Group having now completing their Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), expected to depart from Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia sometime before the end of March for a regularly scheduled deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet Area-of-Responsibility. However, due to the ongoing hostilities with Iran, it is not known if she will relieve the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-7, who entered the Red Sea on Thursday and has been deployed now for nearly 11-months, or if she will arrive to further reinforce the U.S. Navy in the Middle East.

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2026 09:30 PM (vSvIl)

246 It's much, much cleaner than when I was an undergrad.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:23 PM (ZOv7s)

Same here. The early to mid 80's, it wasn't the most pleasant.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 06, 2026 09:31 PM (/HDaX)

247 214 I heard on the news tonight that Biden wasted millions of dollars on printing Gay Friendly Maps !!!!

What are Gay Friendly Maps ???
Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 06, 2026 09:09 PM (38587)

I dunno, but if anyone tells you not to visit a place on those maps, because it is a shithole, believe them.

Posted by: Splunge at March 06, 2026 09:31 PM (jgJIy)

248 I remember seeing a video where some cop pulled over a dude for speeding, and he was some kind of foreign Muslim dude, and he knelt down in front of the cop and said "Mercy! Mercy!"

I figure that's what we're waiting for the Ayatollahs to do.

Posted by: Splunge at March 06, 2026 09:33 PM (jgJIy)

249 What makes TGTBTU truly great is the incredible musical score by Enrico Moricone.

Ecstacy of Gold:

https://tinyurl.com/47523hu8

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 06, 2026 09:33 PM (fSA1n)

250 Same here. The early to mid 80's, it wasn't the most pleasant.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 06, 2026 09:31 PM (/HDaX)
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I'm local, and recall fishing in the Red Cedar with a friend in high school and pulling in a very sketchy bluegill, which we quickly threw back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:33 PM (ZOv7s)

251 I saw Very Sketchy Bluegill open for Blue Oyster Cult at the Maryland Sewage Spill Stadium.

Posted by: Splunge at March 06, 2026 09:34 PM (jgJIy)

252 What are Gay Friendly Maps ???
Posted by: Franklin Stein at March 06, 2026 09:09 PM (38587)

I dunno, but if anyone tells you not to visit a place on those maps, because it is a shithole, believe them.
Posted by: Splunge at March 06, 2026 09:31 PM (jgJIy)
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I'm assuming they have all the bath houses, glory holes and rest areas highlighted.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:35 PM (ZOv7s)

253 I saw Very Sketchy Bluegill open for Blue Oyster Cult at the Maryland Sewage Spill Stadium.
Posted by: Splunge at March 06, 2026 09:34 PM (jgJIy)
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Same! Great show!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 06, 2026 09:36 PM (ZOv7s)

254 >>> What makes TGTBTU truly great is the incredible musical score by Enrico Moricone.
Ecstacy of Gold:
https://tinyurl.com/47523hu8

from the S&M concert:
youtu.be/e0_JvuBpDB8

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 09:36 PM (3uBP9)

255 There was a Spanish civil war zombie movie that was called in English The Valley of the Dead, and in Spanish Malnazidos

It has pretty accurate uniforms, and it is a Zombie movie where an insane German army unit is creating zombies to fight back the Republican forces, and zombies can't tell the difference
Posted by: Kindltot


Worth watching twice.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 06, 2026 09:36 PM (/lPRQ)

256 Where is the USS Ronald Reagan?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2026 09:36 PM (Cqx++)

257 Saw today gas in se Pa was $3,39
Posted by: Skip

It shot up to $3.79 here. Up 40¢. Diesel $4.99. Man. Are the pumps busy, are people hoarding? No, just an excuse to raise prices.

Posted by: t-bird at March 06, 2026 09:43 PM (jlI90)

258 256 Where is the USS Ronald Reagan?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2026 09:36 PM (Cqx++)

... the world wonders.


Posted by: zombie Adm Chester Nimitz at March 06, 2026 09:44 PM (3sXRv)

259 > Where is the USS Ronald Reagan?
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The USS Ronald Reagan is currently in a major shipyard period (Docking Planned Incremental Availability) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA, expected to finish in late 2026.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 06, 2026 09:45 PM (jtM2q)

260 Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins, were both married and had nearly 20 children between them. Love will find a way.

Posted by: My Turn! at March 06, 2026 09:47 PM (oftw2)

261 >>> Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins, were both married and had nearly 20 children between them. Love will find a way.
Posted by: My Turn! at March 06, 2026 09:47 PM (oftw2)


Yes

Posted by: banana Dream at March 06, 2026 09:52 PM (3uBP9)

262 So Biden spent millions of taxpayer dollars making maps "gayer". You can read all about it (link to Not The Bee) here: https://tinyurl.com/4pbfzjp2

But the short version is they made a website where gays could place pins on maps of Czechia and Slovakia to indicate places where they'd committed sodomy. No idea why they singled out those countries, and I have to think that most gays would find that to be retarded.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 06, 2026 09:53 PM (sabhw)

263 Nood

Ont

Posted by: Stateless at March 06, 2026 10:00 PM (Sco7b)

264 ONT is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 06, 2026 10:00 PM (zZu0s)

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