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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 17, 2026 [Doof]

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Skerries Harbour, Ireland

Top o' the evening to ya! Welcome to the Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day 2026 ONT. Did you celebrate the day? Still doing so? Tell us all about it! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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A St. Patty's Day message from President Trump


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What are ya drinkin' today, lads and lassies? Want something other than green beer or Guinness (or my preferred Irish stout - Murphy's)? The ONT has you covered!

32 St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails To Bring You Extra Luck This Year

St. Patrick's Day is all about the booze. So why not make a cocktail that will be sure to impress? Even if you're avoiding the bar crawl (we totally get it), you can still have a little fun with your drinks at home. This holiday is all about the drinks, so don’t let it pass by without jazzing up what you’re imbibing (even if it's just adding a little green to your beer). Lucky you, we’ve got everything from bright green cocktails to boozy milkshakes. Check out the list of our favorite St. Patrick’s Day drinks to get some inspiration (and likely feel the luck of the Irish as well). And who knows, you just might find a pot of gold (or a Gold Rush cocktail) at the end of the rainbow!

Check out the link and let us know which one is yer favorite!

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Kewl Solar System Stuff



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To our Rocky Mountain Hordelings -- be careful out there!

5 Most Rattlesnake Infested Areas in The Rockies

Running all the way from Canada to the northern section of New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains support a vast array of ecosystems from deserts to prairies to cold alpine slopes. The most common species you'll find here are the prairie rattlesnake and western rattlesnake. Towards the New Mexico region, you might also find the large Western diamondback rattlesnake, or the small mottled rock rattlesnake, or the massausaga rattlesnake in southeastern Colorado.

These rattlesnakes play a key role in their ecosystems by keeping certain pest populations like mice under control and preventing prairie dogs from overpopulating the land. In the vast majority of cases, these snakes will ignore humans or use their rattles to warn humans to stay away. However, if a person ignores these warnings or accidentally steps on them, it can lead to a bad bite. If left untreated, many of these rattlesnakes are capable of killing a human with their venom. The best way to prevent this from happening is simply being aware of where you might encounter rattlesnakes. Here are 5 of the most rattlesnake-infested areas in the Rockies to be on the lookout for them.


Not related, yet somehow related

Remember those guys? The band LIVE was formed in the late 80s (originally known as Public Affection) in York, PA. I saw them more times than I can count back in the 90s - they played a lot in the Baltimore / DC area. Still enjoy their music. You may remember their breakthrough hit "Lightning Crashes" for their outstanding album THROWING COPPER. Anyway, they're still around. Well, a semblance of the band is still around. Vocalist Ed Kowalczyk is the only original member with them. Legal drama engulfed the band over the years.

From a few years ago - Whatever happened to the band Behind Throwing Copper, Lightning Crashes & I Alone?


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DJ Doof - Today's Birthdays Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this date in 1959: Mike Lindup, keyboard player and falsetto voiced singer from Level 42


Born on this date in 1967: Billy Corgan, American musician, songwriter with alternative rock band, Smashing Pumpkins


Born on this date in 1975: Justin Hawkins, singer with English rock The Darkness who had the 2003 UK No.2 single ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’, and the 2003 UK No.1 album ‘Permission To Land’.

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by song inspirations

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Doof Enterprises, LLC is not responsible for any over-indulging of beverages. In fact, we're really just not repsonsible!

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1 At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. —Benjamin Franklin

Posted by: mindful webworker - 30 years of mindfulwebworks.com at March 17, 2026 10:03 PM (EAEiW)

2
Hiya

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 10:03 PM (3ek7K)

3 Howdy Doof!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 10:03 PM (kOluj)

4 ONT!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:03 PM (GhIJO)

5 New thread!!
*pulls off socks*
*puts feet on table*
*wiggles toes*

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 10:04 PM (gKWVE)

6 Damn! You folks are quick.

Posted by: Rex B at March 17, 2026 10:04 PM (DqQS/)

7 Testosterone

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 10:04 PM (8DSzR)

8 2006? OK.

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 17, 2026 10:05 PM (7D3Aa)

9 Thanks for the ONT, Doof!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at March 17, 2026 10:05 PM (7D3Aa)

10 Meow
Clocking in

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at March 17, 2026 10:05 PM (w3u3d)

11
Being quick is okay for some things and for something else it's not, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

12 How long is a day on each planet?
Answer - one {planetary} day

Very cool illustration though.
Pluto spins widdershins - must be full of witches.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:06 PM (GhIJO)

13 Recap of previous thread: tits.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:06 PM (BnDlA)

14 I repeat
200,000 Illegal CDLs dead at midnight tonight.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 17, 2026 10:07 PM (gbOdA)

15 Better St Pat's day message from that DJT guy than what the Irish got from their President on their own island
tinyurl.com/y6c3e9rm

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 10:07 PM (gKWVE)

16 Thank you Doof!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 17, 2026 10:07 PM (MZJrA)

17 2006? OK.
Posted by: LRob in OK at March 17, 2026 10:05 PM (7D3Aa)


Ha! Whoops. Fixed. Thanks for noticing.

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2026 10:07 PM (QMAsf)

18 Good evening Horde and thanks Doof!

Glad you picked the lyrics version of "I believe in a little thing called love." The "official" music video is really, really weird.

I would like to see the Zeppelin pie chart done for Maiden.

Posted by: TRex - lucky charms dino at March 17, 2026 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

19 Howdy Doof!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 10:03 PM (kOluj)


Hello!

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2026 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

20 Big Chief Tablet for notes and, oops, forgot the vodka tonic. bb in a minute.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (8DSzR)

21 This seems appropriate after tonight's Cafe

https://youtu.be/3yl0cjXDNO0

Yes, it's suitable for work.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (S/Y4j)

22 Sorry I'm late, I was polishing my shillelagh.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (vbHr6)

23 In that planetary animation, I'm not sure the planets are synced correctly relative to Earth.

Saturn, for instance, seems to be rotating faster than Jupiter, but it has a longer day.

Could be an optical illusion, I guess.

Mars also has a typo.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (ESVrU)

24 Thank you Doof!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 17, 2026 10:07 PM (MZJrA)


Good evening, good sir. Hope all is well with you and the missus!

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

25 There was once a young man who was kidnapped, taken to a foreign land, and made a slave.
He looked at the people in his new land and thought, "Wow, these people really need Jesus."

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (vbHr6)

26 Did Berserker make that pie chart? The part about the hobbits kind of gives it away.

Posted by: bluebell at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (afFes)

27 Live! Great band back in the day. Saw them at New Lennox Commons a few years back. Sounded great. Place was packed 3k easy.

Joe Kent resigning made today a bit interesting. C2 Underground has been trending more and more towards the "This is BAD" (subtly) on his YouTube missives lately. He's good (I think) but it's become more overt. Also Fine. But today he made the Joe Kent thing some huge deal and that Kent was a major player in all of this so him resigning means things are bad etc. No mention of his new wife and her entanglements but whatever.

Just interesting what value people place on stuff like this.

Posted by: GigantorX at March 17, 2026 10:10 PM (x8k2o)

28 Very cool illustration though.
Pluto spins widdershins - must be full of witches.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:06 PM (GhIJO)
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So does Uranus.

And Venus, though it rotates so slowly it's hard to see.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2026 10:11 PM (ESVrU)

29 SNEKS!!!!

Reeeeee!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 17, 2026 10:11 PM (2WIwB)

30 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 17, 2026 10:11 PM (sAmhv)

31 Ok, almost fell into a the delightful rabbit hole of the @CuriosityonX feed

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:12 PM (GhIJO)

32 Good evening Horde and thanks Doof!

Glad you picked the lyrics version of "I believe in a little thing called love." The "official" music video is really, really weird.

I would like to see the Zeppelin pie chart done for Maiden.
Posted by: TRex - lucky charms dino at March 17, 2026 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)


Yes, very weird. Exactly why I chose the lyrics version!

The Maiden equivalent pie chart would include literary references which would surprise a lot of people!!

Posted by: Doof at March 17, 2026 10:12 PM (QMAsf)

33 Here's a video for Robert the Cat

https://youtu.be/ApxnAr6pRt0

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 10:12 PM (S/Y4j)

34 What Led Zep song is about citrus?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:13 PM (GhIJO)

35 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

36
A day on Mars is 24 hours and 36 hours?

Astronomer needs an English major.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 17, 2026 10:13 PM (n7rxJ)

37 I now have Dazed and Confused running in my head.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

38 Joke for today:

Two Irishmen walk out of a bar.

Posted by: Mike O'Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (XeU6L)

39 11
Being quick is okay for some things and for something else it's not, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 10:06 PM (3ek7K)

Please elaborste.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (vbHr6)

40 25 There was once a young man who was kidnapped, taken to a foreign land, and made a slave.
He looked at the people in his new land and thought, "Wow, these people really need Jesus."
Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (vbHr6)

Never realized he used the shamrock to teach the Holy Trinity.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (y171U)

41 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

42 Did Berserker make that pie chart? The part about the hobbits kind of gives it away.
Posted by: bluebell at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (afFes)


Bluebell!!! Thanks for staying awake tonight!

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

43 11
Being quick is okay for some things and for something else it's not, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: fourseasons

A frequent lament I get from the Mrs.

Posted by: Rex B at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (DqQS/)

44 Team USA getting shut out by a bunch of 3rd-tier pitchers. The Judge/Harper effect, coming up small in the clutch.

They're playing like the Phillies in October. Bleh.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (xverI)

45 I'll bite. Which LZ songs are about citrus?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (Riz8t)

46 GigantorX, Kent resigning like he did is putting a spotlight on Tulsi Gabbard.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

47 Venezuela has a two hit shutout going against the USA times. The USA is down to six outs and eternal infamy.

Ven 2 USA Pending Infamy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (BnDlA)

48 St. Patty's Field Day event: The Lucky Charms race.

Run down field to the bowl of Lucky Charms, fill a spoon and race back to the empty bowl.

First to fill the starting bowl wins.

Expert level: Lucky Charms in milk, from 1 bowl to the other.

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Cuisine Critic . . . at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (3ZUWJ)

49 This seems appropriate after tonight's Cafe
https://youtu.be/3yl0cjXDNO0
Yes, it's suitable for work.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


St. Patrick's Day music! Not suitable for work. And they're probably drunk, too.

https://youtu.be/BF_Z7mFYOZs

(Same one I posted in the weekend Music Thread.)

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

50 What Led Zep song is about citrus?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:13 PM (GhIJO)


Tangerine.
The Lemon Song.

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

51
How long is a day on Each Planet?

Earth 23h 56m

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Damn, we've already lost 4 minutes since I was a kid.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (qsezt)

52 Something About You is one of my favorite late 80's songs.

Posted by: Bigsmith at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (1Au9i)

53 Mars also has a typo.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Prof can't turn off the proofreading; makes sense

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (GhIJO)

54 'll bite. Which LZ songs are about citrus?
Posted by: Archimedes

If I remember correctly LZ had a song about making squeezed lemonade.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (BnDlA)

55 Joke for today:

Two Irishmen walk out of a bar.
Posted by: Mike O'Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (XeU6L)

As they brush off layers of dust, they look back at the collapsed ruins of the pub. One says to the other, "Must be closing time."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (S/Y4j)

56 Bar Song by Shaboozy as an Irish song. For st pattys day

https://tinyurl.com/yjtffbk6

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (YZ0Fo)

57 Mars also has a typo.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Prof can't turn off the proofreading; makes sense
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (GhIJO)


He's probably wearing pants, too

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

58 "Did you celebrate the day?"

As I've mentioned annoyingly often (at least once), thirty years ago today I posted my first mindful webworks web page. Thousands of web pages later, I celebrated by… tweaking a few styling items no one would notice. Whoop.

But now I want a Guinness. ☘️

Posted by: mindful webworker - Webbed up 1996-2026 at March 17, 2026 10:17 PM (EAEiW)

59 A year on Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years, or approximately 10,759 Earth days, to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 17, 2026 10:17 PM (gbOdA)

60 Something About You is one of my favorite late 80's songs.

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Ok it was a 1985 song. Still love it.

Posted by: Bigsmith at March 17, 2026 10:18 PM (1Au9i)

61 That top picture could very well be off one of the cliffs or the glades in Scituate MA.
My people weren't very adventurous. Mossing and beach picking on one side of the Atlantic or the other.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 17, 2026 10:18 PM (sl73Y)

62 Team USA getting shut out by a bunch of 3rd-tier pitchers. The Judge/Harper effect, coming up small in the clutch.

They're playing like the Phillies in October. Bleh.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler

You forgot to mention the Arizona DBacks. I was there. It was great.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:18 PM (BnDlA)

63 Thanks for the St. Paddy's ONT, Doof!

I wore a green t-shirt today. That's the extent of me celebratin'.

Posted by: JQ at March 17, 2026 10:18 PM (rdVOm)

64 well, Planet 7 rotates lopsided so "Widdershins" and "Turnwise" don't much apply. It's more like a rolling ball than a spinning top

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 10:19 PM (gKWVE)

65 What Led Zep song is about citrus?
Posted by: vmom


"The Lemon Song," if you don't get euphemisms.

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

66 US Hockey won
Womens
Mens
Legless

Hat trick

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 17, 2026 10:19 PM (gbOdA)

67 The Rockies need St Patrick to deal with their sneks

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:19 PM (GhIJO)

68 45 I'll bite. Which LZ songs are about citrus?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (Riz8t)
Tangerine

Posted by: firehorse at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (uYeSA)

69 Just thinking about wee Viking hobbits on their dragon shortboats gently rampaging up and down the coast, with plenty of snack breaks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (kpS4V)

70 A year on Saturn takes about 29.5 Earth years, or approximately 10,759 Earth days, to complete one orbit around the Sun.
Posted by: r hennigantx

What time do the pubs open and close? This might be OK.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (BnDlA)

71 Taoiseach of Ireland, whatever the hell that is, brought Trump some greenery, and in exchange asked for favorable Irish immigration. Trump raised a proverbial eyebrow. The foocking nerve of the guy, we have enough third worlders here already. Quit whining and being a little bitch and fix the place up, lad.

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (GD0B3)

72 If I remember correctly LZ had a song about making squeezed lemonade.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (BnDlA)

Spoiler: it was also about sex.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

73 Team USA getting shut out by a bunch of 3rd-tier pitchers. The Judge/Harper effect, coming up small in the clutch.

They're playing like the Phillies in October. Bleh.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler

You forgot to mention the Arizona DBacks. I was there. It was great.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Vz closer is my teams closer. Hes a walking disaster.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (YZ0Fo)

74 A year on Uranus lasts about 84 Earth years.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (gbOdA)

75 and there's that lemon in Dazed and Confused

Posted by: firehorse at March 17, 2026 10:21 PM (uYeSA)

76 Joke for today:

Two Irishmen walk out of a bar.
Posted by: Mike O'Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (XeU6L)

As they brush off layers of dust, they look back at the collapsed ruins of the pub. One says to the other, "Must be closing time."
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 10:16 PM (S/Y4j

***

What do you call a bulletproof Irishman?


Rick O'shea!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 17, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

77 An Irishman crawled out of a bar...

He crawled up the street to his wee house ... and then up the stair to his wee door. Then in through to his wee parlor.

Where the Missus yelled, "Mick, ye forgot your wheelchair again!"

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Cuisine Critic . . . at March 17, 2026 10:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

78 34 What Led Zep song is about citrus?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:13 PM (GhIJO)

https://youtu.be/2f6T4DZG9yg

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:21 PM (vbHr6)

79 Bottom of the 8th. USA bottom of the order up. Perfect.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:22 PM (BnDlA)

80 68 45 I'll bite. Which LZ songs are about citrus?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 17, 2026 10:15 PM (Riz8t)
Tangerine
Posted by: firehorse at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (uYeSA)

The Lemon Song.

It's also about sex

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:22 PM (+0Wk3)

81 I'll take a stab at the data for an Iron Maiden subject matter chart:

Significant Historical Figures - 11%
Military Battles & miscellaneous Asskickery- 19%
Demons, Spirits, and Mystical shit - 24%
Gore & Violence - 18%
Death - 28%

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 10:22 PM (kOluj)

82 What time do the pubs open and close? This might be OK.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (BnDlA)

10 33 day

Bars open at 4 close at 8.

Posted by: r hennigantx at March 17, 2026 10:23 PM (gbOdA)

83 I don't believe there are any rattlers in the Canadian Rockies. Elevation is too high, temperature too cool. You have to get out on the prairie around Medicine Hat, to find rattlers down in the coulees. Also can be found in the southern Okanagan region of British Columbia, at lower elevations.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 10:23 PM (8zz6B)

84 Yay, ONT!

Finally got my desktop machine back together today.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 17, 2026 10:23 PM (+9wcF)

85 I am sad ace didn't post this on the cafe today

x.com/carlhigbie/status/
2033985154541064383

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:23 PM (GhIJO)

86 A year on Uranus lasts about 84 Earth years.

Uranus here I come!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at March 17, 2026 10:23 PM (Riz8t)

87 Jeepers. The US better freaking wake up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 10:24 PM (A5RD0)

88 37 I now have Dazed and Confused running in my head.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

For so long, it's not true?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:24 PM (+0Wk3)

89 71 Taoiseach of Ireland, whatever the hell that is, brought Trump some greenery, and in exchange asked for favorable Irish immigration. Trump raised a proverbial eyebrow. The foocking nerve of the guy, we have enough third worlders here already. Quit whining and being a little bitch and fix the place up, lad.
Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (GD0B3)
----

The Irish menace!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 17, 2026 10:24 PM (kpS4V)

90 TIE BALL GAME!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 10:24 PM (A5RD0)

91 Why did the Irishman bring a ladder to the bar? Because he heard the drinks were on the house !

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:24 PM (GD0B3)

92 For St. Patrick's Day:

https://youtu.be/-yCCxbZ4i1E

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:25 PM (vbHr6)

93 Booooooooom Bruce Harper finally squared one up

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

94 Signs at Piper's house?

Beware of Dog
Fear the Cat

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 10:25 PM (S/Y4j)

95 A year on Uranus lasts about 84 Earth years.
Posted by: r hennigantx at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (gbOdA)
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A year on Pluto lasts 248 Earth years, which means Pluto has barely gone around the sun ONCE since the founding of the United States 250 years ago.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 17, 2026 10:25 PM (ESVrU)

96 Thanks for the outstanding Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day 2026 ONT, Doof!

Nice tie-in to the story about rattlesnakes on this day that we honor the saint who chased all of the snakes out of Ireland!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at March 17, 2026 10:25 PM (vrNzf)

97 Harper has a chance to tie this up...and it is..............a dinger!!!!

USA USA USA

Ven 2 - USA 2

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:25 PM (BnDlA)

98 Nice shout out to Live. Their first album was tremendous. After that, they got kind of full of themselves. I also saw them in a club in Gettysburg maybe, or York, back in the day. I thought they were good, but then I was probably drunk.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 17, 2026 10:26 PM (QaH55)

99 What a shot.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:26 PM (viF8m)

100
---GigantorX, Kent resigning like he did is putting a spotlight on Tulsi Gabbard.----


gKWVE...yes, you are correct. She apparently was told he was leaking and to fire him but, uh, she passed on that. He was also frozen out of any info loop for quite some time. His department really wasn't some terrorist hunting thing anyways. More of a paper pushing thing, or so I've read.

Also, LZ has a song about our favorite tube shaped bologna delivery system.

HOT DOG.

Bad song. bad! but I guess it fits on In Through the Out Door.

Posted by: GigantorX at March 17, 2026 10:27 PM (x8k2o)

101 You know who else sang about lemons.

Posted by: Bono Shillelagh-gruber at March 17, 2026 10:27 PM (DqQS/)

102 I love when Gutfeld tells an offensive joke and when the audience boos, he's all I know, I'm just as upset as you!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 17, 2026 10:28 PM (kpS4V)

103 I dindu nuffin

Posted by: Tanzaneka Ruffin at March 17, 2026 10:28 PM (Al4HM)

104 Can't take that. Lordy. But judge sucks when it matters

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:28 PM (YZ0Fo)

105 87 Jeepers. The US better freaking wake up.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 10:24 PM (A5RD0)

Put on your face a little makeup!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:28 PM (+0Wk3)

106 100
---GigantorX, Kent resigning like he did is putting a spotlight on Tulsi Gabbard.----


gKWVE...yes, you are correct. She apparently was told he was leaking and to fire him but, uh, she passed on that. He was also frozen out of any info loop for quite some time. His department really wasn't some terrorist hunting thing anyways. More of a paper pushing thing, or so I've read.

Also, LZ has a song about our favorite tube shaped bologna delivery system.

HOT DOG.

Bad song. bad! but I guess it fits on In Through the Out Door.

Posted by: GigantorX at March 17, 2026 10:27 PM (x8k2o)

He did want to be her back door man....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:29 PM (+0Wk3)

107 I was born in Butte, Montana in 1966. Did not live there long; folks moved to Billings, then Cody.

I have always wanted to be there for St. Patrick's Day. But I am 60, and I like going to bed at 2100. My liver would be hella pissed.

But hey. the hospital I was born in is now a derelict brick wreck, likely filled with bums and the restless dead. Got that going for me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 17, 2026 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

108 Now we are effed in who we can run out. You could do Mason but that's thinking you're gonna win in 9.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

109 Zeppelin stole the lemon lyric from Robert Johnson.

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

110 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

ONT comes a lot earlier on the West Coast!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 17, 2026 10:30 PM (S7WXb)

111 Good evening morons en bedankt Disko

Best corned beef ever tonight. Dark rye, cole slaw, potato salad, sharp mustard. Yum.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)

112 107 I was born in Butte, Montana in 1966. Did not live there long; folks moved to Billings, then Cody.

I have always wanted to be there for St. Patrick's Day. But I am 60, and I like going to bed at 2100. My liver would be hella pissed.

But hey. the hospital I was born in is now a derelict brick wreck, likely filled with bums and the restless dead. Got that going for me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 17, 2026 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

Outliving a hospital is notable

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:30 PM (+0Wk3)

113 109 Zeppelin stole the lemon lyric from Robert Johnson.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)

Yes. But they were legit blues fans.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:31 PM (+0Wk3)

114 How long is a day on Each Planet? That was neat.

The Retrograde Rotation: Unraveling Uranus Backward Spin? 9:27 with a soft breathy narrator
https://youtu.be/OAZ1F_LsqiM

And who decided urine-us was preferable to your-anus? They both make schoolboys giggle. This vid uses both, and also your-on-us. Pretty obviously an artificial ignorant narrator.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Webbed up 1996-2026 at March 17, 2026 10:31 PM (EAEiW)

115 That was a strike

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM (YZ0Fo)

116 I'm getting a kick out of Free Bird being a hit again.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM (viF8m)

117 I just heard that Orion Samuelson passed, age 92. 60 year broadcaster on Chicago radio and TV, later syndicated. Radio Hall of Fame. Farm and commodities.

Posted by: Pork Belly Futures at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM (oftw2)

118 The USA has to get out of the top of the 9th clean. Then comes Schwarber, Bregman, Anthony...between them they have 2 walks and 2 SOs.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM (BnDlA)

119 TiFW I hope you are having a blast.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

120 Sitting at daughter's house watching the grandsons (ages 2 & 4) rassle on the ground.

Soooo glad we had girls....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 17, 2026 10:33 PM (S7WXb)

121 some people want to call Planet 7 / George's Planet "Caelus". That's the Latin translation of... you know what.
But I don't think Caelus had a myth behind him, where Uranus did. And, well, the English are all poofters

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 10:33 PM (gKWVE)

122 Tangerine is a pretty good song.

Zeppelin wrote a song about a dog on that same album.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 17, 2026 10:34 PM (QBvtb)

123 The USA has to get out of the top of the 9th clean. Then comes Schwarber, Bregman, Anthony...between them they have 2 walks and 2 SOs.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

I'd assume Gunnar ph for bregs

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:34 PM (YZ0Fo)

124
IIRC, Uranus' axis of rotation is heeled over to close to 90 degrees and therefore is nearly coplanar with its orbital plane around the Sun.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2026 10:35 PM (xG4kz)

125 122 Tangerine is a pretty good song.

Zeppelin wrote a song about a dog on that same album.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 17, 2026 10:34 PM (QBvtb)

I thought Black Dog was on another album...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:36 PM (+0Wk3)

126 116 I'm getting a kick out of Free Bird being a hit again.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM (viF8m

I recall Kate Bush's "Running up that Road" being a hit with the yutes after it getting airplay on 'Stranger Things' about 5 years ago.

Posted by: Rex B at March 17, 2026 10:37 PM (DqQS/)

127 My freshman year in college, I got the wondrous call from the front desk of my dorm that I had a bouquet of flowers delivered to me on March 17th. It was enormous, three dozen roses, beautifully arranged. I ripped the card open and it said, "We're sorry you're not Irish." What? It wasn't signed, nothing.

I called home, asking my mom, "Did you and dad send me flowers for St. Patrick's day?" "Yes." No other explanation. This new tradition continued for the rest of my undergraduate and graduate school years, and then stopped abruptly, never to occur again. It was the weirdest, and longest, prank my parents ever pulled on me. To be fair, though, I'm not Irish.

Posted by: moki at March 17, 2026 10:37 PM (wLjpr)

128 Son of a bitch. That's game

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:37 PM (YZ0Fo)

129 Quit whining and being a little bitch and fix the place up, lad.
Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:20 PM (GD0B3)
====

He's the PM.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

130 But hey. the hospital I was born in is now a derelict brick wreck, likely filled with bums and the restless dead. Got that going for me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 17, 2026 10:29 PM (0aYVJ)

There is nothing creepier than an abandoned hospital. I had the keys to one, while I worked on the plans for demolishing it, and had to walk through it several times. Thankfully, it was only a single storey building with just one basement level. I only went there during daylight hours and was greatly relieved when it was turned into just an open pit in a field.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 17, 2026 10:38 PM (uG8FO)

131 Great. Walk the lead off, then he steals second. Go ahead run at 2nd and 0 outs.

This sucks.

And just like that a double

This sucks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:38 PM (BnDlA)

132 Red Sox pitcher fucks it up

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:38 PM (YZ0Fo)

133 The day on Venus is longer than its year.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 17, 2026 10:38 PM (hJH5n)

134 Nice reference to”Tangerine” by Led Zeppelin. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 17, 2026 10:39 PM (hJH5n)

135 116 I'm getting a kick out of Free Bird being a hit again.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM (viF8m)

Another song played to death

Just like Stairway to Heaven (in keeping with the LZ theme of the night)

Posted by: browndog after dark at March 17, 2026 10:39 PM (TTAGa)

136 Baseball is dead.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 17, 2026 10:40 PM (hJH5n)

137 #4 son and wife called today and I got to sing to my newest grandbaby. My Grandpa sang the same nonsense song to me and so the circle remains unbroken. He'll be a year old 4/1 and is bright, happy, and full of pep and crawling. They're going to visit in a few weeks and we just can't wait.

That little shit scared the hell out of me being born so early and small but all is now well.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 17, 2026 10:40 PM (cYBz/)

138 Tangerine is a pretty good song.

Zeppelin wrote a song about a dog on that same album.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 17, 2026 10:34 PM (QBvtb)


I really like Hey Mr Tangerine Man! Great tune!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 17, 2026 10:40 PM (2WIwB)

139 >>>visualization of gravity on different planets

The visualization for the Sun was pretty funny.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 17, 2026 10:41 PM (syz1S)

140 124
IIRC, Uranus' axis of rotation is heeled over to close to 90 degrees and therefore is nearly coplanar with its orbital plane around the Sun.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

--

Does all of it get night/day then or foes it have an area of permanent night ?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:41 PM (6U1c2)

141 boldly rock where noone's rocked before
youtu.be/JQczV6iLOMc

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 10:42 PM (gKWVE)

142 There is nothing creepier than an abandoned hospital. I had the keys to one, while I worked on the plans for demolishing it, and had to walk through it several times. Thankfully, it was only a single storey building with just one basement level. I only went there during daylight hours and was greatly relieved when it was turned into just an open pit in a field.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 17, 2026 10:38 PM (uG8FO)
===

The hospital both my kids were born in has been an empty hulk for years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:42 PM (RIvkX)

143 Yes. But they were legit blues fans.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 10:31 PM (+0Wk3)

Yes. And the old bluesmen of Johnson's day really didn't grok copyright; they all borrowed from one another anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 10:42 PM (8zz6B)

144 He looked at the people in his new land and thought, "Wow, these people really need Jesus."
Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:09 PM (vbHr6)

Jesus is JUST all right.

Oh yeah.

Posted by: Doobie Brothers at March 17, 2026 10:43 PM (hJH5n)

145 I just heard that Orion Samuelson passed, age 92. 60 year broadcaster on Chicago radio and TV, later syndicated. Radio Hall of Fame. Farm and commodities.
Posted by: Pork Belly Futures at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM

-----------

Grew up in Chicago and remember as a kid seeing the tail end of his TV show right before Ray Raynor & Friends.

Posted by: Bigsmith at March 17, 2026 10:44 PM (1Au9i)

146 Dammit!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 10:44 PM (A5RD0)

147 140 124
IIRC, Uranus' axis of rotation is heeled over to close to 90 degrees and therefore is nearly coplanar with its orbital plane around the Sun.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

--

Does all of it get night/day then or foes it have an area of permanent night ?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:41 PM (6U1c2)

98 degrees to be precise

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 17, 2026 10:44 PM (hJH5n)

148 109 Zeppelin stole the lemon lyric from Robert Johnson.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon



Robert Johnson (and other blues musicians) were pretty influential to a lot of those 60s British rock bands.

Posted by: Pundit Engagement Farming at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (sAmhv)

149 In mineral wells Texas there’s a derelict multi story mental hospital from the 30’s, even in daylight it’s creepy as hell. I can’t imagine going there in the dark.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (Li94Y)

150 Irish guy wonders why everyone thinks they're obsessed with potatoes.

https://youtu.be/JXHAiByJ2RU

NSFW language

Posted by: Halfhand at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (OO5c2)

151 So, apparently MOSSAD is placing calls to various commanders in Iran and is telling them, in Farsi, that they know everything about them and their family, and that they better stand down in the even of an uprising.

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (GD0B3)

152 Tangerine was on Led Zeppelin III.
Black Dog was on Led Zeppelin IV.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (6ydKt)

153 Joke for today:

Two Irishmen walk out of a bar.
Posted by: Mike O'Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2026 10:14 PM (XeU6L)

Another version.

Two Irishmen walk past a bar.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (+Evw/)

154 Doof! Thanks for the ONT and especially the Level 42, which takes me back to my misbegotten university period.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (t2oSI)

155 👀

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (GD0B3)

156 Tonight's cigar - a lovely little Megilla rare cut habano lancero. Decided I wanted something more decent than a Tatiana.

I'm slightly astonished that it's that much more effective than albuterol for clearing lung congestion.

I'm thinking I need to do something about the humidity level in my humidor. It's 75% at 61 degrees F, which... should be alright? But they've all been a bit hard on the draw and when I ran the poker through tonight's to improve it, the bits of leaf that got pulled out were... damp.



Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (C0Nlv)

157 IIRC, Uranus' axis of rotation is heeled over to close to 90 degrees and therefore is nearly coplanar with its orbital plane around the Sun.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

--

Does all of it get night/day then or foes it have an area of permanent night ?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:41 PM (6U1c2)

98 degrees to be precise
Posted by: Cow Demon

Does Hank Johnson know about this?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (BnDlA)

158 >>Another song played to death

True story. When I moved to PR a buddy and I decided we would drive to FL and visit his brother who lived on a boat in West Palm Beach and then fly from there. Back then you could get a free ride to FL by delivering a car for a snowbird. You didn't get paid but gas was free.

We got a yellow Lincoln Continental. Total pimp mobile. It had an FM stereo and we were constantly flipping stations along I-95 when the local signal would die. We heard Free Bird over 20 times from Boston to WPB in 3 days. No matter where we were it followed us. Couldn't listen to the song for years after that.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (viF8m)

159 An Irishman walks into a bar. The bartender says "Where you from?"
Irishman says "Dublin"
Bartender: "oh really?"
Irishman: "No, O'Reilly."

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (GD0B3)

160 Here we go

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (A5RD0)

161 113 109 Zeppelin stole the lemon lyric from Robert Johnson.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 10:30 PM (8zz6B)

Yes. But they were legit blues fans.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water



Page was in The Yardbirds.

Posted by: Pundit Engagement Farming at March 17, 2026 10:47 PM (sAmhv)

162 I was born in the same hospital my mother was. And my Marine was born there too.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 10:47 PM (A5RD0)

163
I was born in the Navy Hospital at Camp Lejeune, NC. I suppose that it still is there. Dad was learning to fly at an airfield near Kinston through a firm named Stallings, which, come to think of it, is not a good name for a flight instruction firm. I don't know about my sister's birthing place around Houston (Dad was still in the Air Force).

The place where my two brothers were born was converted into a veterans' facility in my hometown.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2026 10:48 PM (xG4kz)

164 I could not last a whole day in Uranus without some Led Zeppelin to satisfy my musical citrus needs.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 17, 2026 10:49 PM (R86kT)

165 117 I just heard that Orion Samuelson passed, age 92. 60 year broadcaster on Chicago radio and TV, later syndicated. Radio Hall of Fame. Farm and commodities.
Posted by: Pork Belly Futures at March 17, 2026 10:32 PM (oftw2)

-----------

Wow - that's the end of an era for those of us who grew up in farm country hearing the commodity price reports every 30 minutes on AM radio. May perpetual light shine upon him.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 10:49 PM (kOluj)

166
Hubby and I are wiped out.

We had our two granddaughters today from 5:30 a.m. until till 5:30 p.m.

Two family members had outpatient surgery today in SLC, which is a two hour drive from here.

Everyone is fine except we old people, lol.

It was a great day with the granddaughters, 6 y/o and 3 y/o.

They are very active, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at March 17, 2026 10:49 PM (3ek7K)

167 Hello ONT denizens....

Happy St. Patty's day

1/4 Irish on my dad's side.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 10:49 PM (QGaXH)

168 Here we go. Bottom of the 9th...I am not having a good time right now. That is a complete lie. The misery is the fun sometimes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:49 PM (BnDlA)

169 off sock

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 17, 2026 10:49 PM (sAmhv)

170 Baseball is dead.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 17, 2026 10:40 PM (hJH5n)

I can fix it.

Posted by: Nvidia DLSS 5 at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (vSvIl)

171 I spent some time this afternoon trying to install Linux on a cheap laptop I bought some time ago. I watched several videos beforehand and made notes. Of course, nothing worked correctly, so I gave up for the time being. I'll try again when I'm not so frustrated that I'm liable to go all "HULK SMASH!!!" on the damned thing.

Posted by: PabloD at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (+HNa2)

172 I would love to get a hotel room in Butte, Montana, for a long weekend; wife and I could wander around, taking pictures, visiting restaurants, sampling beer.

It really is a weird, wild, fascinating city. I was there for MEPS when I departed for Fort Sill, lo, these many years ago.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (0aYVJ)

173 Tousi showing video throughout Iran of street observance of Festival of Fire. These are proscribed and some have been attacked by the basiji.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (RIvkX)

174 Forgot!

Thank you for ONT Doof!

Happy St. Patrick's day to you!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (QGaXH)

175 HOT DOG.
Bad song. bad! but I guess it fits on In Through the Out Door.
Posted by: GigantorX

That sounds kind of, ghey. Unless she likes it that way.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (KAi1n)

176 …Couldn't listen to the song for years after that.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (viF8m)

I’ve heard of people doing that for snowbirds.

Must have been mind numbing having to hear that song on repeat

Posted by: browndog after dark at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (TTAGa)

177
Does Hank Johnson know about this?

Hank Johnson knows all about Uranus. Every crevasse.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 17, 2026 10:51 PM (R86kT)

178 156 Tonight's cigar - a lovely little Megilla rare cut habano lancero. Decided I wanted something more decent than a Tatiana.”

Megilla Gorilla?

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2026 10:51 PM (Li94Y)

179 F'ing Schwarber strikes out.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:52 PM (BnDlA)

180 Did not live there long; folks moved to Billings, then Cody.

Got that going for me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

This could be a good Country song.

Or Western, even.

Posted by: Miklos drinking PBR down at the Country Bunker at March 17, 2026 10:52 PM (Al4HM)

181 The Minstrel Boy (a capella)

https://youtu.be/LbulphzkG0g

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 10:52 PM (S/Y4j)

182 168 Here we go. Bottom of the 9th...I am not having a good time right now. That is a complete lie. The misery is the fun sometimes.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:49 PM (BnDlA)

You sound like a Tribe fan …

Story of my life

Posted by: browndog after dark at March 17, 2026 10:52 PM (TTAGa)

183 You sound like a Tribe fan …

Story of my life
Posted by: browndog

Mariner's since 1977 plus years in the Kingdome.

Stupid Gunnar SO...

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:53 PM (BnDlA)

184 Nice hearing from morons chilling with their grandkids. b"h

Girl F. announced this evening she is enrolling in the graduate psychology program at USF.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:53 PM (RIvkX)

185 So, apparently MOSSAD is placing calls to various commanders in Iran
Posted by: runner

They're answering their phones?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (KAi1n)

186 vmom: What Led Zep song is about citrus?
tankdemon: https://youtu.be/2f6T4DZG9yg

Vocals on that sounded like they were playing in a cardboard box.

"Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg?"

Always thought, somebody's not doing it right. Or I'm missing a metaphor or something.

Reminds me of that p0rn I once accidentally watched. Do any of you gentlemorons like having your lemons squeezed? Or munched on? Seemed less that optimal to me. Kind of a male equivalent of a woman saying, wrong hole! Or something. (walks off, whistling)

Posted by: mindful webworker - mindfully webworking 1996-2026 at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (EAEiW)

187 They're answering their phones?
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (KAi1n)

came up as "Mom", probably ...

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (GD0B3)

188 Ish the bar open?

I woulnd't shay nae to a beer........hic....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (QGaXH)

189 This could be a good Country song. Or Western, even.

I’ve never been to Cody, but I have been to Butte Montana.

They tell me I was born there, but I don’t really remember.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (W/QOq)

190 Yerf

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (A5RD0)

191 I looked it up - Uranus rotates every 27 hours but the length of day and night depends on where ot is in its solar orbit.
Equinox it's around 8.5 hours daylight / night
Solstice day lasts 42 years at one pole and night lasts as long on the other

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 17, 2026 10:55 PM (6U1c2)

192 The TiFW daughters were born in a hospital a couple of blocks from the one that I was born in. I didn't grow up in Fort Worth, but I was born here.

We live just a few blocks from both hospitals, which has been pretty convenient very the years!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 17, 2026 10:55 PM (S7WXb)

193 Well fuck.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:55 PM (YZ0Fo)

194 Props to Venezuela.

The World Baseball Classic is the best thing to happen to baseball since the Kingdome was blown up.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:56 PM (BnDlA)

195 Mike Lindup, keyboard player and falsetto voiced singer from Level 42

natural countertenor > falsetto

https://youtu.be/85drl9-lqRU

more heaviness:
https://youtu.be/jk63FcCIw9g

and metal growls, too. (Ette bonus: shirtless drummer):
https://youtu.be/PnWzQFTKjqI

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 10:56 PM (VHUov)

196 >>> Irish guy wonders why everyone thinks they're obsessed with potatoes.

The seven course Irish Dinner they all subsist on six days a week might have something to do with it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 17, 2026 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)

197 Maybe we should put Maduro back.

Seriously, the Venezuelan people are having a good few months.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:56 PM (viF8m)

198 Cuba's a mess. They've got a whole lot of work to do.

https://tinyurl.com/tx6xz4d4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 10:56 PM (8DSzR)

199 Red Sox pitcher fucked it and Red Sox hitter made the laser out.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:56 PM (YZ0Fo)

200 Wish USA coulda pulled it off. But I'm really happy for Salvador Pere, who had long been my favorite professional baseball player

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 10:57 PM (kOluj)

201 Perez..

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 10:57 PM (kOluj)

202 There is nothing creepier than an abandoned hospital. I had the keys to one, while I worked on the plans for demolishing it, and had to walk through it several times. Thankfully, it was only a single storey building with just one basement level. I only went there during daylight hours and was greatly relieved when it was turned into just an open pit in a field.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy


Where do the ghosts go when they knock the building down?

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 10:57 PM (VHUov)

203 Good for Venezuela. They need some heroes there.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 17, 2026 10:58 PM (R86kT)

204 Maybe we should put Maduro back.

Seriously, the Venezuelan people are having a good few months.
Posted by: JackStraw

NYT Headline: Venezuela humiliates Trump!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 10:58 PM (BnDlA)

205 Good lord, that cocktail menu is outstanding. I would never make or buy any of them, but if somebody were to offer, there were several there that looked tasty.

I have never been a sugar or mixer or fruit guy, I like my ethanol pretty much straight up. I know where I stand.

With those fancy cocktails made to disguise the alcohol, two drinks later you're walking on you lips, and the next day the sugar hangover is unbearable.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 17, 2026 10:58 PM (M9gjJ)

206 148 109 Zeppelin stole the lemon lyric from Robert Johnson.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Robert Johnson (and other blues musicians) were pretty influential to a lot of those 60s British rock bands.
Posted by: Pundit Engagement Farming at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (sAmhv)

A few of the songs from their first album were reworked old blues songs, written by Willie Dixon, along with a few on their second.

From the third album onwards it’s almost all original credits for Page & Plant along with some from Page & Bonham and an occasional outside songwriter.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 17, 2026 10:58 PM (6ydKt)

207 So, apparently MOSSAD is placing calls to various commanders in Iran
Posted by: runner

They're answering their phones?
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (KAi1n)

Well, they gave up their pagers a while ago.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 10:58 PM (S/Y4j)

208 Here's to the potato and its juice.
Made in Poland.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 10:58 PM (8DSzR)

209 But hey. the hospital I was born in is now a derelict brick wreck, likely filled with bums and the restless dead. Got that going for me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank

Outliving a hospital is notable
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


I didn't outlive the hospital I was born in. But it did change purposes, and is now a mental institution.

"That makes sense." -- The Horde

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 10:59 PM (VHUov)

210 155 👀
Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 10:45 PM (GD0B3)

What d'ya think you're looking at?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 17, 2026 10:59 PM (vbHr6)

211 At least derosa will never coach again. And maybe people like skubal would shift their schedule by a day and pitch twice.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 10:59 PM (YZ0Fo)

212 Maybe we should put Maduro back.

Or maybe Iran can name him the next Supreme Leader

Posted by: Cock of the Walk at March 17, 2026 10:59 PM (ZIP4U)

213 should be “Jones & Bobham” oops.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 17, 2026 11:00 PM (6ydKt)

214 Venezuela wins 3-2. The US still leads 1-0 in Presidents.

Posted by: Indiana Lurker at March 17, 2026 11:00 PM (3ZVqj)

215 Such good baseball games. The WBC has become something special.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 11:00 PM (BnDlA)

216 Uranus rotates every 27 hours but the length of day and night depends on where ot is in its solar orbit.
Equinox it's around 8.5 hours daylight / night
Solstice day lasts 42 years at one pole and night lasts as long on the other
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Is this going to be on the test?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 17, 2026 11:00 PM (cYBz/)

217 Girl F. announced this evening she is enrolling in the graduate psychology program at USF.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:53 PM (RIvkX

---------

Congratulations! Let us know when she graduates- I'm sure we can send some work her way 😁

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 11:01 PM (kOluj)

218 I didn’t even know Samuelson was still around. Great baritone. He was probably doing farm market reports when he was one of the first, if not the first to announce JFK trouble in Dallas.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 17, 2026 11:01 PM (rIXF2)

219 Good for Venezuela.

I hope this gives their people a huge boost and they rebuild. Their country to benefit everyone.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 11:01 PM (A5RD0)

220 Tousi showing video throughout Iran of street observance of Festival of Fire. These are proscribed and some have been attacked by the basiji.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 10:50 PM (RIvkX)

When the new Shah ascends the Peacock Throne, there has to be a complete proscription of islam in Iran. No muzzies in public office, no voting rights for muzzies, no blasting the call to prayer over mosque speakers. Pull down all the minarets. If they want to leave, they get a free bus ride to the border of their choice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:01 PM (8zz6B)

221 Yup, it’s bedtime.
i cant fight the typos and the ipad any longer.

G’night horde.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 17, 2026 11:02 PM (6ydKt)

222 207 So, apparently MOSSAD is placing calls to various commanders in Iran
Posted by: runner
---

Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:02 PM (8DSzR)

223 And she'll have fun fun fun
til the daddy takes the wifi away

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 17, 2026 11:02 PM (CHHv1)

224 I'll take a stab at the data for an Iron Maiden subject matter chart:

Significant Historical Figures - 11%
Military Battles & miscellaneous Asskickery- 19%
Demons, Spirits, and Mystical shit - 24%
Gore & Violence - 18%
Death - 28%

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 10:22 PM (kOluj)


Yeah, a lot of their songs are taken from books, movies, and history so they get a good blend.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 17, 2026 11:02 PM (snZF9)

225
Good lord, that cocktail menu is outstanding. I would never make or buy any of them, but if somebody were to offer, there were several there that looked tasty.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

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

I once had dinner at a place in San Fran called Poppleton's that was too good to last. I was intrigued by the "Tangerine Gimlet" on the cocktail menu and ordered it. It was then, for the first time, that I understood the artistry of a great bartender. The drink was so delicious and beautiful, cold and satisfying and fresh -- that was fresh tangerine juice, I kid you not -- I measure that drink against all others everywhere, and I've never found its equal.

I once googled up the dead Poppleton's but I couldn't find out anything about the bartender. I'd follow that person to the ends of the earth.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 17, 2026 11:03 PM (n7rxJ)

226 215 Such good baseball games. The WBC has become something special.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram


Honestly. It’s so fun to watch! It’s the real WORLD series.

So many kids you’ve never seen before. Some of them in high school! And the guys seem to really assimilate. Not the hierarchy of the pros and the rookies. They all seem to support each other.

It’s a fun fun series to watch.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 11:03 PM (A5RD0)

227 So, apparently MOSSAD is placing calls to various commanders in Iran
Posted by: runner

The commanders are warned that Israel has Godzilla on deck, waiting to stomp.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 11:03 PM (S/Y4j)

228 I'm thinking I need to do something about the humidity level in my humidor. It's 75% at 61 degrees F, which... should be alright? But they've all been a bit hard on the draw and when I ran the poker through tonight's to improve it, the bits of leaf that got pulled out were... damp.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (C0Nlv)

75% is way over. Between 65 & 70% is the optimal range. Temp is a bit low as well. I try to maintain 68-72 degrees...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at March 17, 2026 11:04 PM (nbLIj)

229 uch good baseball games. The WBC has become something special.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram -

It needs to be moved to all star break in July. The fact that teams are in spring training and people opt in and out makes it impossible to navigate. The four nations wasn't in August. Just do it in the middle of the season.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:04 PM (YZ0Fo)

230 Yeah, a lot of their songs are taken from books, movies, and history so they get a good blend.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 17, 2026 11:02 PM (snZF9)

--------

Yup - Number of the Beast is straight out of Revelation

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at March 17, 2026 11:05 PM (kOluj)

231 Uh oh the fife and drums just started up at the Irish pub on out corner.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

232 Yup - Number of the Beast is straight out of Revelation
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher

That scene with Ralph Fienes in the new 28 years later was amazing.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:06 PM (YZ0Fo)

233 I was looking through old threads I had saved for something totally different and found this from July 2020. Man, I think I'm too hard on myself sometimes when I get stuff wrong.......

=======================
There's zero enthusiasm to vote for Biden, so they're trying to
convince people that they are part of a big important movement and that Trump is so evil they have to do whatever it takes to remove him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 07, 2020 03:22 PM (KZzsI)

I think it's about the *appearance* of voter enthusiasm and turnout. How else can you fake 5 million votes?

Posted by: ... at July 07, 2020 03:26 PM (ffond)

Posted by: ... at March 17, 2026 11:06 PM (vE0+H)

234 186 vmom: What Led Zep song is about citrus?
tankdemon: https://youtu.be/2f6T4DZG9yg

Vocals on that sounded like they were playing in a cardboard box.

"Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg?"

Always thought, somebody's not doing it right. Or I'm missing a metaphor or something.

Reminds me of that p0rn I once accidentally watched. Do any of you gentlemorons like having your lemons squeezed? Or munched on? Seemed less that optimal to me. Kind of a male equivalent of a woman saying, wrong hole! Or something. (walks off, whistling)
Posted by: mindful webworker - mindfully webworking 1996-2026 at March 17, 2026 10:54 PM (EAEiW)

Squeeze my lemon = Squeeze my penis.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 11:08 PM (+0Wk3)

235 Girl F. announced this evening she is enrolling in the graduate psychology program at USF.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

So you're stuck here for awhile longer? One day we should mome. Two of the psych profs at USF are former clients of mine. Great couple. One of the most satisfying legal beatdowns (arbitration) I've ever meted out for a client.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 17, 2026 11:08 PM (KAi1n)

236 New wave of missile attacks in Israel according to Fox News.....

Biden's dog doing ok I hope.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:09 PM (QGaXH)

237 Squeeze my lemon = Squeeze my penis.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 11:08 PM (+0Wk3)

NOoooooo. Really?

Everyone knows that Led Zeppelin is known for their subtle lyrics.

Posted by: Aetius451AD, Papist Stooge at March 17, 2026 11:09 PM (bss/y)

238 When you're not allowed to pitch the best reliever on the planet it changes the game.

It's been a great tournament. But it shouldn't be in March if we want it to be best on best.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (YZ0Fo)

239 Now Dazed and Confused is playing in my head.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (RIvkX)

240 Girl F. announced this evening she is enrolling in the graduate psychology program at USF.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Cool. What did girls A to E do with themselves?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (BnDlA)

241 That would be an odd Bob Newhart bit. "Hello, Ahmad! This is the Mossad. No, the Mossad. Yes, Yes, you said that. So, anyways . . . Yes, but my Father believes otherwise and I have his nose. So, Ahmad, we have a proposal for you . . . No, not that, really, we have people for that, and really that is why I am calling . . ."

Posted by: Kindltot at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (rbvCR)

242 Nice hearing from morons chilling with their grandkids. b"h…
Posted by: San Franpsycho


Always nice, to appreciate vicariously, but painful personally. We have not been allowed to have any contact with our only two young grandkids, or their parents, in years. Demonic influence is real.
😔

Posted by: mindful webworker - mindfully webworking 1996-2026 at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (EAEiW)

243 Cuba is placing a surcharge on electrical bills to alleviate the outage.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (8DSzR)

244 "Biden's dog doing ok I hope."

I wonder if he thought through the long-term implications of that nick.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 17, 2026 11:11 PM (KAi1n)

245 next you'll tell me that "Big Balls" isn't really about high society dances

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 11:11 PM (gKWVE)

246 237 Squeeze my lemon = Squeeze my penis.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 11:08 PM (+0Wk3)

NOoooooo. Really?

Everyone knows that Led Zeppelin is known for their subtle lyrics.
Posted by: Aetius451AD, Papist Stooge at March 17, 2026 11:09 PM (bss/y)

Sometimes you need a little Ben R. as some folks don't get it unless it's spelled out.

They can be a LITTLE subtle but...only a little. When they talk about sex, they talk about sex (Whole Lotta Love).

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 11:12 PM (+0Wk3)

247
Cuba's a mess. They've got a whole lot of work to do.

https://tinyurl.com/tx6xz4d4
Posted by: Braenyard


"They'd have done Communism right were it not for you meddling Yankees!"

-- super schmart lefties

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 17, 2026 11:12 PM (xG4kz)

248 245 next you'll tell me that "Big Balls" isn't really about high society dances
Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 11:11 PM (gKWVE)

Well some balls ARE held for charity and some for fancy dress....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 11:12 PM (+0Wk3)

249 I'm glad Paul Skenes didn't hurt himself at the WBC. The Pirates need him healthy so they can finish last in the NL Central (he'll have this 1.0 ERA or something and still have a losing record because Pirates), then trade him to the Dodgers or Yankees for prospects from Bhutan and a Yak.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 17, 2026 11:12 PM (sAmhv)

250 Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (YZ0Fo

Thanks for telling me about 9th circle.

I loved how the credits had more people involved than 'Terrifier' 1.

Posted by: Stateless at March 17, 2026 11:13 PM (Sco7b)

251 the balls that are held for pleasure are the balls that I hold best

Posted by: gKWVE at March 17, 2026 11:13 PM (gKWVE)

252 239 Now Dazed and Confused is playing in my head.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 11:10 PM (RIvkX)

Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you
Lots of people talkin', few of them know
Soul of a woman was created below, yeah

Posted by: Aetius451AD, Papist Stooge at March 17, 2026 11:14 PM (bss/y)

253 DOOF!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 17, 2026 11:14 PM (c1+iT)

254 They can be a LITTLE subtle but...only a little. When they talk about sex, they talk about sex (Whole Lotta Love).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 11:12 PM (+0Wk3)

Nothing on Spinal Tap

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I like to sink her with my pink torpedo

Posted by: Aetius451AD, Papist Stooge at March 17, 2026 11:15 PM (bss/y)

255 I'm glad Paul Skenes didn't hurt himself at the WBC. The Pirates need him healthy so they can finish last in the NL Central (he'll have this 1.0 ERA or something and still have a losing record because Pirates), then trade him to the Dodgers or Yankees for prospects from Bhutan and a Yak.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer

Pirates actually spent huge (for them) in free agency. They might finish third in the division while skenes goes 14-7 instead of 9-10. And wins another cy young. His trade is still a year off. Which will happen

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:15 PM (YZ0Fo)

256 Thanks for telling me about 9th circle.

I loved how the credits had more people involved than 'Terrifier' 1.
Posted by: Stateless at

Oh the original appearance? It was legit in its own way. Plus set the stage

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:16 PM (YZ0Fo)

257 What's all this talk about big balls?

Posted by: Irish Rovers, Long Necked Geese Division at March 17, 2026 11:17 PM (DqQS/)

258 Huh. Does Team Venezuela get to take the trophy to Maduro's jail cell?

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at March 17, 2026 11:17 PM (xverI)

259 So you're stuck here for awhile longer? One day we should mome. Two of the psych profs at USF are former clients of mine. Great couple. One of the most satisfying legal beatdowns (arbitration) I've ever meted out for a client.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 17, 2026 11:08 PM (KAi1n)
===
Sure love lunch mome. MiL is going to be 88 still walking 8 miles daily, so it will be a while longer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

260 Squeeze my lemon = Squeeze my penis.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


Kinda figured, but it doesn't make metaphorical sense.

Squeeze my banana? 'Til the peel…

Never mind. Sorry I mentioned it.
🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - mindfully webworking 1996-2026 at March 17, 2026 11:19 PM (EAEiW)

261 One of the few things that make me happy about VZ winning is almost everyone on their team are actually vz born. The WBC rules are quite broad. A white dude named Austin wells started at catcher for the DR.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:19 PM (YZ0Fo)

262 >>It needs to be moved to all star break in July. The fact that teams are in spring training and people opt in and out makes it impossible to navigate. The four nations wasn't in August. Just do it in the middle of the season.

Never happen. Many of these players will be on MLB teams contending for a World Series run. No way in hell the owners would let them go play in a tournament in the middle of a pennant race.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 11:19 PM (viF8m)

263 158 >>Another song played to death

True story. When I moved to PR a buddy and I decided we would drive to FL and visit his brother who lived on a boat in West Palm Beach and then fly from there. Back then you could get a free ride to FL by delivering a car for a snowbird. You didn't get paid but gas was free.

We got a yellow Lincoln Continental. Total pimp mobile. It had an FM stereo and we were constantly flipping stations along I-95 when the local signal would die. We heard Free Bird over 20 times from Boston to WPB in 3 days. No matter where we were it followed us. Couldn't listen to the song for years after that.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 10:46 PM (viF8m)

I made several vacation break drives from college in upstate NY to my parents house just south of WPB in the late '70's with the same snowbird deal. Except I had to pay my own gas. I would do it in about 28 hours straight with the 55 mph speed limits.

One trip the song Native New Yorker from Odyssey followed me all the way down until near dawn outside Savanna where WABC faded out into Farm Reports and late night preachers.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:20 PM (QGaXH)

264 Thanks for telling me about 9th circle.

I loved how the credits had more people involved than 'Terrifier' 1.
Posted by: Stateless at

Oh the original appearance? It was legit in its own way. Plus set the stage
Posted by: BruceWayne at

Also I'd have to bet the larger credits was that it was an anthology movie.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:21 PM (YZ0Fo)

265 Kinda figured, but it doesn't make metaphorical sense.

Squeeze my banana? 'Til the peel…

Never mind. Sorry I mentioned it.
🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - mindfully webworking 1996-2026 at March 17, 2026 11:19 PM (EAEiW)

You see the semen is the 'juice' that runs down...

You know, nevermind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD, Papist Stooge at March 17, 2026 11:22 PM (bss/y)

266 Never happen. Many of these players will be on MLB teams contending for a World Series run. No way in hell the owners would let them go play in a tournament in the middle of a pennant race.
Posted by: JackStraw

I completely disagree. They are probably going to let them play in the 28 olympics. Why would they allow that?

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:22 PM (YZ0Fo)

267 Kenya begins to withdraw its police from Haiti ahead of Chad's upcoming deployment of troops

Nairobi.- Kenyan police officers participating in an international security mission in Haiti will begin returning to Nairobi this Tuesday after the start of a gradual withdrawal from the Caribbean country, while the deployment of Chadian forces to combat armed gangs is prepared.

Surprise me.
Imagining reading of rights is done either with hickory or lead.

_//eldia.com.do/kenia-comienza

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:23 PM (8DSzR)

268 So yeah. Where I live in the Rockies, if a rattler showed up, it would probably be frozen...no problem here...🪱...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 17, 2026 11:23 PM (c1+iT)

269 Radio Hall of Fame. Farm and commodities.
Posted by: Pork Belly Futures
------
6:00 a.m. ?

Posted by: Mike O'Hammer, etc., etc. at March 17, 2026 11:23 PM (XeU6L)

270 Joe Kent was on the famous Hegseth Signal chat. Which some folks on X take to mean that he was involved in the Tucker Carlson leak scheme and resigned when he finally realized he was being used.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 17, 2026 11:24 PM (QZThv)

271 So yeah. Where I live in the Rockies, if a rattler showed up, it would probably be frozen...no problem here...🪱...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

I was hiking mt Evans years ago and a rattler showed up. I went on the other pass.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:24 PM (YZ0Fo)

272 Oh the original appearance? It was legit in its own way. Plus set the stage
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:16 PM (YZ0Fo

It was good.

Everyone have a great night. Cold here in my part of Canada. My friends cats raced in the house. Litter box, water and a makeshift bed on shelves are in the garage.

It's one night and I didn't want to bring the litter box in, the cat tree's downstairs. Snowflake slept here on my bed all day anyways. Cute.

Posted by: Stateless at March 17, 2026 11:24 PM (Sco7b)

273 192 I didn't grow up in Fort Worth, but I was born here.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 17, 2026 10:55 PM (S7WXb)

Reminds me of bumper stickers I've seen in Texas 'I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could'...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:24 PM (QGaXH)

274 Always nice, to appreciate vicariously, but painful personally. We have not been allowed to have any contact with our only two young grandkids, or their parents, in years. Demonic influence is real.
====
I'm very sorry to hear that and will make a prayer for peace in your house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 11:25 PM (RIvkX)

275 Is your refrigerator running? No, because we knocked out yor power grid.

Is Amanda Hugginkiss there? I know a one-legged ayatollah who's looking for Amanda Hugginkiss.

Is this the Tehran morgue? My name's Ali Larijani and I'm looking for Myra Mains.

Posted by: Mossad caller at March 17, 2026 11:26 PM (zG4BR)

276 222 207 So, apparently MOSSAD is placing calls to various commanders in Iran
Posted by: runner
---

Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game
Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:02 PM (8DSzR)

Better would be:

Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me jump in your game
Hello, I love you

BOOM!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:27 PM (QGaXH)

277 Wandering off now. Be back later. Or another day. Or not.

Will time make man more wise? Hah. As if.
https://youtu.be/tOc-_GpfF1w

Posted by: mindful webworker - what's thirty years among friends? at March 17, 2026 11:27 PM (EAEiW)

278 Great. Now I've got Freebird stuck in my head.

Posted by: Case at March 17, 2026 11:27 PM (pvf3X)

279 outside Savanna
------

*cough*

Savannah

Posted by: Hard Hearted Hannah at March 17, 2026 11:27 PM (XeU6L)

280 The Dominican Republic is forming technological partnerships with companies like Nvidia and Google to support the development of the Pedernales spaceport.

The CEO of Launch On Demand has emphasized that the spaceport in Pedernales will significantly contribute to the Dominican Republic's entry into the global space economy, with an investment exceeding $600 million

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:30 PM (8DSzR)

281 My name's Ali Larijani and I'm looking for Myra Mains.
Posted by: Mossad caller


If "Myra Mains" isn't a goth pr0nstar, I'll eat my hat.

* searches *

An instagram th0t. Close. I guess I'll take a bite out of the brim.

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 11:31 PM (VHUov)

282 The Rob Zombie horror classic "The Devil's Rejects" uses a seven minute version of Free Bird for the final scene.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 17, 2026 11:31 PM (uG8FO)

283 271

Sometimes folks mistake bull snakes for rattlers - they look the same, and they're everywhere. They're fun to catch, but they sure are big, and boy they can bite🤯

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 17, 2026 11:31 PM (c1+iT)

284 *cough*

Savannah
Posted by: Hard Hearted Hannah at March 17, 2026 11:27 PM (XeU6L)

British Columbia has a small town named Savona. Pronounced "Sav O Nah".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:31 PM (8zz6B)

285 >>I completely disagree. They are probably going to let them play in the 28 olympics. Why would they allow that?

We'll see who actually plays.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 11:32 PM (viF8m)

286 They can be a LITTLE subtle but...only a little. When they talk about sex, they talk about sex (Whole Lotta Love).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at March 17, 2026 11:12 PM (+0Wk3)

Nothing on Spinal Tap

My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I like to sink her with my pink torpedo

Posted by: Aetius451AD, Papist Stooge at March 17, 2026 11:15 PM (bss/y)

or motorhead

I'll eat you, baby, you eat me
Eat two, baby, get one free
Shetland pony, extra pepperoni
Just pick up the phone
Eat Greek or eat Chinese
Eat salad or scarf up grease
You're on the shelf, you eat yourself
Come on and bite my bone

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 17, 2026 11:32 PM (snZF9)

287 Sometimes folks mistake bull snakes for rattlers - they look the same, and they're everywhere. They're fun to catch, but they sure are big, and boy they can bite🤯
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Oh no it was a rattler. It rattled at me.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:32 PM (YZ0Fo)

288 Free Bird was the theme of my h.s. yearbook.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 17, 2026 11:32 PM (RIvkX)

289 Where I'm at in the Rockies, when I was a cowboy/ranchhand, there were no protections for rattlers.

We used to blow up their dens with dynamite. You gotta safeguard the livestock.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 17, 2026 11:33 PM (M9gjJ)

290 Secretary of war Hegseth decommissioned the four non metallic Avenger class minesweepers last September in cost saving move. Only ships we have now are vulnerable to Iran's mines. Nato still has some ;but will they send them to help the hated trump?

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 17, 2026 11:33 PM (9Hc9v)

291 279 outside Savanna
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*cough*

Savannah
Posted by: Hard Hearted Hannah at March 17, 2026 11:27 PM (XeU6L)

Oops! Sorry! should'a proofed a little more thoroughly......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:34 PM (QGaXH)

292
Oh yeah, blast the shit out of the snakes.

There are two legged snakes who need blasting, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:35 PM (3ek7K)

293 282 The Rob Zombie horror classic "The Devil's Rejects" uses a seven minute version of Free Bird for the final scene.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 17, 2026 11:31 PM (uG8FO

I just watched that yesterday. Great movie. Beautiful shot at the end of the movie.

And a fantastic opening. Such a different movie than 'House of 1000 Corpses' which looks like it was conceived with drugs involved.

Posted by: Stateless at March 17, 2026 11:35 PM (Sco7b)

294 We'll see who actually plays.
Posted by: JackStraw

The fact that they would allow it has never happened. And if they allow it it means they are allowing their players to play.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:36 PM (YZ0Fo)

295 290 Secretary of war Hegseth decommissioned the four non metallic Avenger class minesweepers last September in cost saving move. Only ships we have now are vulnerable to Iran's mines. Nato still has some ;but will they send them to help the hated trump?
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 17, 2026 11:33 PM (9Hc9v)

Non-metallic? or non-magnetic?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:36 PM (QGaXH)

296
ARIK,

You're banned for mispelling, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:36 PM (3ek7K)

297 Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 17, 2026 11:33 PM (9Hc9v)

Trump has a better idea. He's going to send obsolete cruise ships loaded with fags, commies, and trannies to clear the mines. Didn't you get your ticket in the mail?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:37 PM (8zz6B)

298 They tell me I was born there, but I don’t really remember.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Like when Paw left, they said in December

Posted by: Miklos drinking another PBR down at the Country Bunker at March 17, 2026 11:37 PM (Al4HM)

299 The Rob Zombie horror classic "The Devil's Rejects" uses a seven minute version of Free Bird for the final scene.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 17, 2026 11:31 PM (uG8FO

I just watched that yesterday. Great movie. Beautiful shot at the end of the movie.

And a fantastic opening. Such a different movie than 'House of 1000 Corpses' which looks like it was conceived with drugs involved.
Posted by: Stateless at March 17, 2026 11:35 PM (Sco7b)

LOVE devils rejects. I'm ehhh on house of a thousand corpses. But I also love 3 from hell.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:37 PM (YZ0Fo)

300 Pluto is still a planet to me, damn it!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 17, 2026 11:38 PM (x29G8)

301
AOP,

What a great idea!

Can I donate?

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:38 PM (3ek7K)

302 296
ARIK,

You're banned for mispelling, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:36 PM (3ek7K)

I dun woirse...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:38 PM (QGaXH)

303
ARIK,

Me two

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:39 PM (3ek7K)

304 @295 They were made out of wood and plastic not metal.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 17, 2026 11:39 PM (9Hc9v)

305 289

In the lower places many people with dogs get them trained to know how to avoid rattlers. Where I live I've been lucky I guess to never encountered one. I'm pretty high up in the mountains though...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 17, 2026 11:39 PM (c1+iT)

306 298 They tell me I was born there, but I don’t really remember.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Like when Paw left, they said in December
Posted by: Miklos drinking another PBR down at the Country Bunker at March 17, 2026 11:37 PM (Al4HM)

Was it the 3rd of September? A day I'll always remember....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:40 PM (QGaXH)

307 But I also love 3 from hell.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:37 PM (YZ0Fo

I saw that before for free but now you have to pay.

I am thinking of ordering Shudder for a month or so.

Baby was so attractive. Loved the hair.

Posted by: Stateless at March 17, 2026 11:41 PM (Sco7b)

308 Non-metallic? or non-magnetic?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:36 PM (QGaXH)

Minesweepers used to be built of wood, so as not to detonate magnetically-triggered mines. I expect there is a much better way now to deal with such mines, so the old wooden hulled minesweepers are obsolete.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:41 PM (8zz6B)

309 Thanks for the ONT, Disco.

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

310 Non-metallic? or non-magnetic?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:36 PM (QGaXH)

What he’s saying isn’t true. The decommissioned ships had wooden hulls but were well beyond their expected service lifetime. The replacements use standoff technology to locate and disable/detonate mines, and thus are at far less risk of being damaged.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 17, 2026 11:43 PM (Li94Y)

311 >>The fact that they would allow it has never happened. And if they allow it it means they are allowing their players to play.

Just not true. Two years ago the Mets closer, Edwin Diaz, blew out his knee at the WBC and missed the entire season. The owners have a lot of say in what players can do because they are paying them astronomical amounts of money.

Even the reporting tonight talked a lot about the large number of big stars playing for the US at the WBC because in the past a lot of them didn't play. Even the pitchers that did pitch were all on team mandated pitch counts. And this is pre-season. I don't see the owners being this generous in the middle of the season but we'll see.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 17, 2026 11:43 PM (viF8m)

312 Doggo! How lovely to see you!❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at March 17, 2026 11:43 PM (c1+iT)

313 British Columbia has a small town named Savona. Pronounced "Sav O Nah".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

How else would one pronounce it?
Oh, I forgot, Massachusetts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:44 PM (8DSzR)

314 308 Non-metallic? or non-magnetic?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:36 PM (QGaXH)

Minesweepers used to be built of wood, so as not to detonate magnetically-triggered mines. I expect there is a much better way now to deal with such mines, so the old wooden hulled minesweepers are obsolete.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:41 PM (8zz6B)

I thought maybe they used a non-magnetic material like 300 series stainless, aluminum or copper for the outer hull...?

I don't remember that being mentioned in 'The Caine Mutiny'.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:44 PM (QGaXH)

315 YZ0Fo

I saw that before for free but now you have to pay.

I am thinking of ordering Shudder for a month or so.

Baby was so attractive. Loved the hair.

Posted by: Stateless

If shudder has k-horror. Do it. The things they have been making the last I dunno 6 years are great

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:44 PM (YZ0Fo)

316 My local Mexican restaurant was crammed for St. Patrick's Day. Of course, it was snowing and then sleeting outside, so that may have been a factor. (High of 58 degrees tomorrow! Isn't Iowa awesome?)

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to thaw out at March 17, 2026 11:44 PM (Wt5PA)

317 238 When you're not allowed to pitch the best reliever on the planet it changes the game.

It's been a great tournament. But it shouldn't be in March if we want it to be best on best.
----

I doubt that MLB would want to stop the season for 3 weeks in July to put on a tournament like this. A post MLB-season tourney is right out. So we have this. The games have been fun, the level of play top-notch. Now it's on to 6 months of Twins-White Sox.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at March 17, 2026 11:45 PM (xverI)

318 My local Mexican restaurant was crammed for St. Patrick's Day

==

if this is not cultural appropriation, I don't know what is !

Posted by: runner at March 17, 2026 11:45 PM (GD0B3)

319 British Columbia has a small town named Savona. Pronounced "Sav O Nah".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

How else would one pronounce it?
Oh, I forgot, Massachusetts.

Posted by: Braenyard

It's obviously pronounced WORST- ah

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:45 PM (YZ0Fo)

320 If shudder has k-horror. Do it. The things they have been making the last I dunno 6 years are great
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:44 PM (YZ0Fo

I will.

Have a great night. All of you.

Posted by: Stateless at March 17, 2026 11:46 PM (Sco7b)

321 *Waves to COMM*

Posted by: scampydog at March 17, 2026 11:46 PM (41CYW)

322 My understanding is that US petroleum doesn't use anything that passes through the Straits of Hormuz. Europe and China rely on it, at least in part. Other countries might, as well.

If Iran deploys mines, why would the US military need to remove them? Let the navies of countries who need those sea lanes open do the job.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 11:47 PM (S/Y4j)

323 If there's a strike or lockout next season, as expected...that would be the perfect time, lol.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at March 17, 2026 11:47 PM (xverI)

324
Stateless,

You too. I'm so happy to see you are back!!

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:47 PM (3ek7K)

325 John Wayne's mine sweeper had a fir hull.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:47 PM (8DSzR)

326 I doubt that MLB would want to stop the season for 3 weeks in July to put on a tournament like this. A post MLB-season tourney is right out. So we have this. The games have been fun, the level of play top-notch. Now it's on to 6 months of Twins-White Sox.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler

Been a prospal that they can run it over the all star game and only cost like 6 extra days...

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:47 PM (YZ0Fo)

327 So today was a tough day here in southern California. I had a 10:30 dentist appointment. Just a routine cleaning but this meant I had to get up, get cleaned up, dressed and out of the house by 10. Worse, it meant I had to go out and interact and (shudder) actually speak with people....very exhausting!

Spent the rest of the afternoon in the bedroom with the shades drawn......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:49 PM (QGaXH)

328 261 One of the few things that make me happy about VZ winning is almost everyone on their team are actually vz born. The WBC rules are quite broad. A white dude named Austin wells started at catcher for the DR.
Posted by: BruceWayne


I never knew Holland was populated exclusively by black people!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 11:50 PM (A5RD0)

329 Megilla Gorilla?
Posted by: Tom Servo


It's missed opportunity if they don't have one named that.

Maybe a salamone

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 17, 2026 11:50 PM (C0Nlv)

330 I thought maybe they used a non-magnetic material like 300 series stainless, aluminum or copper for the outer hull...?

I don't remember that being mentioned in 'The Caine Mutiny'.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 17, 2026 11:44 PM (QGaXH)

All much too expensive. IIRC, John Wayne's yacht, the Wild Goose was a former minesweeper, built in 1942, and decommissioned in 1946. A beautiful little ship.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:50 PM (8zz6B)

331 My local Mexican restaurant was crammed for St. Patrick's Day

if this is not cultural appropriation, I don't know what is !
Posted by: runner


The Hispanics and the Irish have been together for a while.

Long enough for "O'Casey" to become "Ocasio" and one of them to become a Representative for New York.

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

332 ARIK,

Lol

I get that.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:52 PM (3ek7K)

333 Decided to do my taxes. Drinking was involved. Hope they have internet in prison!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 17, 2026 11:53 PM (CHHv1)

334 I never knew Holland was populated exclusively by black people!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Fun fact. It's actually curaco that has the highest pro players per capita. They have 160k people and have produced 50 major league players including hall of famer (should be) Andrew jones.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:53 PM (YZ0Fo)

335 My understanding is that US petroleum doesn't use anything that passes through the Straits of Hormuz. Europe and China rely on it, at least in part. Other countries might, as well.

If Iran deploys mines, why would the US military need to remove them? Let the navies of countries who need those sea lanes open do the job.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


It would be nice, but it's a global market. If they can't get oil from Iran, they'll start buying it from the places we get it, and drive the prices up.

We're an exporter, so they could buy from us (yeahright). But still: global prices up, prices at the pump up.

Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)

336 If Iran deploys mines, why would the US military need to remove them? Let the navies of countries who need those sea lanes open do the job.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 17, 2026 11:47 PM (S/Y4j)

Iran is pretty much depleted of ships that can lay the large numbers of mines needed to make an effect minefield. The Strait is 25 miles across, and it's basically an American lake now. Any vessel setting out from port in iran is going to get the hairy eyeball, or simply be sunk on suspicion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:55 PM (8zz6B)

337 never knew Holland was populated exclusively by black people!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Fun fact. It's actually curaco that has the highest pro players per capita. They have 160k people and have produced 50 major league players including hall of famer (should be) Andrew jones.
Posted by: BruceWayne

That is where hollands baseball team comes from.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:55 PM (YZ0Fo)

338
BeckoningChasm,

Lol.

Howz Robert? Was he a tax deduction for you?

He is a dependent.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 17, 2026 11:56 PM (3ek7K)

339 fml, BIL's ID card did not arrive today. Fk.

I'm going bonkers. Stupid me, stupid me, shoulda never let him into the house. Ugh!

Sorry. It's my own fault, I know, but I needed to vent.

Carry on.

Posted by: JQ at March 17, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)

340 A high school kid from Brazil struck out Aaron Judge.

Don’t tell me that this all had to be a bunch of pro players to have top notch play. I’d prefer
To watch unknowns play. They are truly performing and putting themselves out there.

Pros get plenty of screen time and hero worship. Let baseball be baseball.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 17, 2026 11:57 PM (A5RD0)

341 >>>If Iran deploys mines, why would the US military need to remove them? Let the navies of countries who need those sea lanes open do the job.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Massive suck up there alright.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 17, 2026 11:57 PM (8DSzR)

342 high school kid from Brazil struck out Aaron Judge.

Don’t tell me that this all had to be a bunch of pro players to have top notch play. I’d prefer
To watch unknowns play. They are truly performing and putting themselves out there.

Pros get plenty of screen time and hero worship. Let baseball be baseball.
Posted by: nurse ratched

17 year old. Jose Contreras's kid. Manny Ramirez kid was on that team too.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:58 PM (YZ0Fo)

343 Commercial just said, "For your full jacuzzi experience." Image didn't align with my mental picture.

Posted by: scampydog at March 17, 2026 11:58 PM (41CYW)

344 That is where hollands baseball team comes from.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 17, 2026 11:55 PM (YZ0Fo)

You'd think that Holland would be a force to be reckoned with in the WNBA.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2026 11:59 PM (8zz6B)

345 @338 he's definitely a deduction, but he's doing fine. He has found a new fun thing to do, which is jump on my stomach when I'm sleeping. Fifteen pounds, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 17, 2026 11:59 PM (CHHv1)

346 Saw John Wayne's minesweeper yacht a few times as a kid. It was docked where my dad would rent sailboats for sailing around Mission Bay.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2026 11:59 PM (U/Byj)

347 333 Decided to do my taxes. Drinking was involved. Hope they have internet in prison!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 17, 2026 11:53 PM (CHHv1)

I still have to do mine. State and Federal! Thankful there's no city or county tax but I think it's a matter of time. I've been dreading it! It's much harder now that I have to calculate where I am financially every quarter and figure out if I'm having enough withheld from the various pensions and social security and what not.

Plus I have to remember to pay for the supplemental medical and dental insurance.

I usually do TurboTax. And pay extra for the audit support.

Just thinking about it makes me want to retreat to the bedroom and draw the blinds...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 18, 2026 12:01 AM (QGaXH)

348 Sorry. It's my own fault, I know, but I needed to vent.

Carry on.
Posted by: JQ at March 17, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)

Maybe you should get in touch with Beckoning Chasm, and swap your BIL for Robert the Cat.

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

349 high school kid from Brazil struck out Aaron Judge.

Don’t tell me that this all had to be a bunch of pro players to have top notch play. I’d prefer
To watch unknowns play. They are truly performing and putting themselves out there.

Pros get plenty of screen time and hero worship. Let baseball be baseball.
Posted by: nurse ratched

17 year old. Jose Contreras's kid. Manny Ramirez kid was on that team too.
Posted by: BruceWayne

He pitches in Georgia. He's not from Brazil...

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 18, 2026 12:02 AM (YZ0Fo)

350 Fifteen pounds, though.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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Ouch! My Cat is that size too! Fortunately, he doesn't jump up on me.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:02 AM (rdVOm)

351 @347 I do H&R, I've been using them for years and haven't been arrested yet. You can generally get their software pretty cheap through a number of places (NewEgg, eg)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 12:03 AM (CHHv1)

352 Saw John Wayne's minesweeper yacht a few times as a kid. It was docked where my dad would rent sailboats for sailing around Mission Bay.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2026 11:59 PM (U/Byj)

Saw it at least once in Georgia Strait, southwest of Bowen Island. Wayne liked to cruise the coast in salmon season.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 12:03 AM (8zz6B)

353 >>swap your BIL for Robert the Cat.
----------

AOP, I wouldn't do that to any Moron!

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

354 Sorry. It's my own fault, I know, but I needed to vent.

Carry on.
Posted by: JQ at March 17, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)

Maybe you should get in touch with Beckoning Chasm, and swap your BIL for Robert the Cat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 12:01 AM (8zz6B)

Just borrow Robert the Cat, unless BC did something to tick you off.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 18, 2026 12:04 AM (S/Y4j)

355 JQ,
Your tolerance for bullshit is far beyond mine. I’m a bitch This I know.

I’m glad there are kinder persons in the world than me.

I hope things work out for you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 18, 2026 12:04 AM (A5RD0)

356 351 @347 I do H&R, I've been using them for years and haven't been arrested yet. You can generally get their software pretty cheap through a number of places (NewEgg, eg)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 12:03 AM (CHHv1)

"..haven't been arrested yet.."

YET!

You had to put 'yet' in there! LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 18, 2026 12:05 AM (QGaXH)

357
JQ needs a posse of ettes to go there and run the guy off.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 18, 2026 12:06 AM (3ek7K)

358 355 JQ,
Your tolerance for bullshit is far beyond mine. I’m a bitch This I know.

I’m glad there are kinder persons in the world than me.

I hope things work out for you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 18, 2026 12:04 AM (A5RD0)

JQ

This is just an off the wall thought - can you stay with husband for a while? If you could, or stay somewhere else, leave BIL alone in house and gradually turn off the utilities until he leaves......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 18, 2026 12:08 AM (QGaXH)

359 Well... this bullshit won't happen again. Next time, it's *trespass*

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:08 AM (rdVOm)

360 Generally don't feel sorry for the mega rich owners..but considering that now any major league starting type player holds at the lowest a 10-20 million dollar multiyear fully guaranteed contract could you blame them for not wanting them to play in basically exhibition games that bring the owners no income?

Posted by: Azjaeger at March 18, 2026 12:08 AM (3/XaG)

361 No, I can't stay at the nursing home. Not going to let this bum run me out of my own house.

He's out the door as soon as he has ID and phone. Told him I would help with those 2 things.

After that, I don't care where he goes. He's had his whole life (71) to get his own shit together.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:11 AM (rdVOm)

362 Sorry. It's my own fault, I know, but I needed to vent.

Carry on.
Posted by: JQ
---

He's a threat, you're scared, talk to your friend down the road. Peace bond.

By the way, how did you battle with the pellet stove go?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 18, 2026 12:11 AM (8DSzR)

363 British Columbia has a small town named Savona. Pronounced "Sav O Nah".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Once upon a time I camped and chased The Grouse (tm) around that area until the Communists decided that couldn't be allowed. We used to head up Deadman Road, about 5 miles west of Savona, and then head north about 25 miles towards Vidette. Lovely country.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 18, 2026 12:11 AM (BnDlA)

364 My understanding is that US petroleum doesn't use anything that passes through the Straits of Hormuz. Europe and China rely on it, at least in part. Other countries might, as well.

If Iran deploys mines, why would the US military need to remove them? Let the navies of countries who need those sea lanes open do the job.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


Should charge those countries that need escort through the Straight just $10 / barrel for "insurance". If their ship gets sunk they get a refund. Do this until the Lloyds feels comfortable reinstating their full insurance package.

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

365 It would be nice, but it's a global market. If they can't get oil from Iran, they'll start buying it from the places we get it, and drive the prices up.

We're an exporter, so they could buy from us (yeahright). But still: global prices up, prices at the pump up.
Posted by: o'mikeski at March 17, 2026 11:54 PM (VHUov)

Makes sense. I'm just tired of seeing our military save the world's ass every time.

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

366
Call the Ette Squad.

We will kick ass and get the job done.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 18, 2026 12:13 AM (3ek7K)

367 The pellet stove *is my bitch* and bows to my majesty now. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:14 AM (rdVOm)

368 Generally don't feel sorry for the mega rich owners..but considering that now any major league starting type player holds at the lowest a 10-20 million dollar multiyear fully guaranteed contract could you blame them for not wanting them to play in basically exhibition games that bring the owners no income?
Posted by: Azjaeger at

Kyle Tucker just signed a a deal for 60/year ohtani makes 70/year. MLB is the only sport that owners pay the players what is "market rate". And the owners are gonna shut it down to enforce a cap. That has been proven to ruin the sport. Also don't act the owners didn't get money. The Houston and Miami owners did because of the games their

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 18, 2026 12:14 AM (YZ0Fo)

369 361 No, I can't stay at the nursing home. Not going to let this bum run me out of my own house.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:11 AM (rdVOm)

Well.. you wouldn't stay in the house if it was being tented for termites - right?

Just think of it as 'pest control'.....

I concede it's probably not a really practical approach - especially with family who could return at a later date..

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 18, 2026 12:15 AM (QGaXH)

370 I won't need the 'ette squad until maybe day after tomorrow:

If the outfit we follow-up with on Thursday has found a place for him, then great-- I'll take him there.

If he doesn't like their solution(s), then he's back on the street or into homeless shelter.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:17 AM (rdVOm)

371 So Pluto IS a planet, just like I always knew since a kid. Don’t believe the deniers and their BS Science!

Posted by: Ripley at March 18, 2026 12:20 AM (PTDkx)

372 >>He's a threat, you're scared, talk to your friend down the road.
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He's NOT a threat and I'm NOT scared. He's just a fking MOOCH and maybe a bit on the stupid side.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:20 AM (rdVOm)

373 Taxes will be done before the end of March. I see another TurboTax user. A useful tool. I like it

I'm still waffling on what and where in regards to a MacBook. Not sure of model yet, Neo or Sky, or where to buy. Never shopped at Apple online store. Amazon is ok until they change delivery schedule on me. First World issue but it annoys me.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 18, 2026 12:21 AM (sAmhv)

374 367 The pellet stove *is my bitch* and bows to my majesty now.
Posted by: JQ
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That's the ticket, HRH, JQ. Has a nice ring to it.
Keep the andiron er scepter handy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 18, 2026 12:22 AM (8DSzR)

375 You are if you say you are.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 18, 2026 12:23 AM (8DSzR)

376 48 St. Patty's Field Day event: The Lucky Charms race.

Run down field to the bowl of Lucky Charms, fill a spoon and race back to the empty bowl.

First to fill the starting bowl wins.

Expert level: Lucky Charms in milk, from 1 bowl to the other.
- - - - -
Expert?! No.
Bond Villain Level Tip for Next Year:
Eat LC from bowl with spoon; Race to empty bowl; Stick spoon into throat and harf up LC into empty bowl. You Win!

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at March 18, 2026 12:24 AM (YU9c3)

377 Having Robert the Cat in your house is like being in an "Evil Dead" movie. I wouldn't wish that on any Moron. I'm like the tombkeeper or the guardian or whatever.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 12:27 AM (CHHv1)

378 Yawn......well good night everyone....

JQ - I wish you luck in dealing with your guest.....

I've been considering a new nic....maybe :

ARiK - He's just a MOOCH and maybe a bit on the stupid side.

Has a nice ring to it - no?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at March 18, 2026 12:27 AM (QGaXH)

379 G'night, ARiK.

Thanks for the laugh!

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:29 AM (rdVOm)

380 I saw some doublespeak today, pro-Iran piece crowing about how china was giving some m00hamedans 200k in aid......

I posted "how much did they give to the ughars"

It was deleted

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 18, 2026 12:35 AM (jrgJz)

381 *buys a round for the house*

Sorry, y'all. Thanks for 'listening' and for your support!

2 more days... 2 more days... 2 more days............

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:35 AM (rdVOm)

382 “This is just an off the wall thought - can you stay with husband for a while? If you could, or stay somewhere else, leave BIL alone in house and gradually turn off the utilities until he leaves......”

Sounds risky. Good chance you come home and all the plumbing has been ripped out and sold for scrap.

Posted by: Ripley at March 18, 2026 12:38 AM (PTDkx)

383 No, Ripley. No. It's not that kind of situation at all.

It's under control.

I want my privacy back. If I can't have hubby home with me, I want to live ALONE. Period.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:41 AM (rdVOm)

384
JQ,

You don't have to apologize.. you are having to deal with a situation no one should have to deal with.

Vent all you want. You are a great person and there are lots of us who care.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 18, 2026 12:43 AM (3ek7K)

385 Once upon a time I camped and chased The Grouse (tm) around that area until the Communists decided that couldn't be allowed. We used to head up Deadman Road, about 5 miles west of Savona, and then head north about 25 miles towards Vidette. Lovely country.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 18, 2026 12:11 AM (BnDlA)

Hah! I know that road. I drove it all the way to the end, in hopes that I would get clean through to the Cariboo district. It basically dead-ends at an escarpment that marks the southern limit of the Cariboo Plateau Tertiary volcanic field. There was a gold mine at Vedette lake, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 12:43 AM (8zz6B)

386 BeckoningChasm, I'll bet Robert the Cat is a very sweet furball and that you two get along pretty well by now.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:43 AM (rdVOm)

387 It was deleted
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot
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Hilarious! 200k? That's *all*? Tightwads...

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

388 including hall of famer (should be) Andrew jones.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Andruw Jones

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 18, 2026 12:46 AM (KAi1n)

389
Fuck off

Posted by: fourseasons at March 18, 2026 12:46 AM (3ek7K)

390 325 John Wayne's mine sweeper had a fir hull.

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But not a real fir hull, that's cruel

Posted by: Barenaked Ladies at March 18, 2026 12:52 AM (JkO4W)

391 Haven't had a Guinness in a while. That was pretty damn good.

Who let the stormfront douche in. Close the damn door as you leave. Geez.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 18, 2026 12:54 AM (sAmhv)

392
The pos is using a VPN. It will keep saying shit.

Posted by: fourseasons at March 18, 2026 12:55 AM (3ek7K)

393 Average Joe sucks cock by choice. Do not respond to it.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 12:56 AM (rdVOm)

394 Who let the stormfront douche in. Close the damn door as you leave. Geez.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 18, 2026 12:54 AM (sAmhv)

Looks like it got the muzzie dick out of its ass long enough to spew a couple of turds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 12:58 AM (8zz6B)

395 Sniffs the heady smell of ozone...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 12:59 AM (8zz6B)

396 Yeah, so I finally got all my tax paperwork out, spread it out all over the couch, started sorting it all. Was about 1/3 way done and was going cross-eyed, so went to bed.

That was 2 weeks ago... the last evening that I had to myself in my own house.

Now? All that stuff has been scooped *back* into a box to make room for the uninvited, unannounced "guest".

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

397 Just in and out. Second round of cancer surgery tomorrow. Like last time, I should be able to go home afterwards. Let's hope.

Prayers, good thoughts, toasts, funny dances all welcome.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 18, 2026 01:02 AM (urTAq)

398 Just in and out. Second round of cancer surgery tomorrow. Like last time, I should be able to go home afterwards. Let's hope.

Prayers, good thoughts, toasts, funny dances all welcome.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 18, 2026 01:02 AM (urTAq)

I hope everything comes out all right, Rodrigo! Best wishes going your way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 01:05 AM (8zz6B)

399 Prayers up for you, Rodrigo Borgia!

Fuck cancer.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

400 @386 - Robert the Cat, I have concluded, does not know how to cat. But that's OK, because I don't know how to human. You'd think that would be one of those "cancelling" things, but I still get bitten a lot with a lot of pettings from me. So it's one of those Twilight Zone things I guess.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 01:05 AM (CHHv1)

401 Well, checked Apple online store and the Neo isn't shipping till the first week in April. Maybe. Amazon seems ok, for now. Still might spend extra and get the MacBook Air. Not ordering anything till Saturday. I'd like it delivered when I'm actually home.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 18, 2026 01:06 AM (sAmhv)

402 Good fortune to all Morons who suffer from whatever ills there are in this world. All of us Morons, at least the rest of you, are the best folks on the planet, and the planet needs you.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 01:07 AM (CHHv1)

403 BeckoningChasm-- your tales of Robert the Cat are amusing. (I hope he doesn't really bite you. Much.)

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

404 "Oops" seems to use his username as a description of his thought processes. Very sad. One suspects that kind of """thinking""" will be with us for a while, alas.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 01:12 AM (CHHv1)

405 @404 He bites more than I, personally, like, but there are YT videos that explain this behavior and perhaps, maybe, I can learn that he has been right all this time.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 01:14 AM (CHHv1)

406 We're getting some warm days/nights this week. It's still 55* outside at 10 pm.

This winter has been the strangest I can recall, weather-wise.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

407 "Oops" seems to use his username as a description of his thought processes. Very sad. One suspects that kind of """thinking""" will be with us for a while, alas.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 01:12 AM (CHHv1)

It's probably some raghead in pakistan; they are about the only ones dumb enough not to know that Mossad can now back-trace vpn posts to the exact machine used to make them. And then sooner or later, that machine goes dark for some inexplicable reason.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 01:16 AM (8zz6B)

408 BeckoningChasm, does he like to be brushed?

Safest way, is to hold out the brush and let him rub against it, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:17 AM (rdVOm)

409 And then sooner or later, that machine goes dark for some inexplicable reason.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That makes for a very pleasant visual! Heh.

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

410 390 325 John Wayne's mine sweeper had a fir hull.

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But not a real fir hull, that's cruel
Posted by: Barenaked Ladies at March 18, 2026 12:52 AM (JkO4W)


Synthetic pine..marten?

Posted by: SciVo, Retard Whisperer at March 18, 2026 01:20 AM (Sy6m/)

411 /sock off

Posted by: SciVo at March 18, 2026 01:24 AM (Sy6m/)

412 But not a real fir hull, that's cruel
Posted by: Barenaked Ladies at March 18, 2026 12:52 AM (JkO4W)

But then, the man did have a million dollars.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 18, 2026 01:25 AM (uG8FO)

413 @408 - he does, kind of and sort of.

As an offside, it's extremely nice to be part of this community, where a stupid humanoid and a stupid cat can post their moronic thoughts and not be blitzed with lightning (or a storm of spelling corrections). Here's hoping you all live long and prosper. I'm heading toward sleep (I hope).

Good night, all. Yeah, even the trolls. (Stupidity is a curable condition, not a death sentence.) (Mostly.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 18, 2026 01:26 AM (CHHv1)

414 'Night, BChasm

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:28 AM (rdVOm)

415 But then, the man did have a million dollars.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 18, 2026 01:25 AM (uG8FO)



It's amazing how quickly a million dollars can evaporate when there are barenaked ladies around.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 01:29 AM (8zz6B)

416 Night, BC!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 01:29 AM (8zz6B)

417 We're getting some warm days/nights this week. It's still 55* outside at 10 pm.

This winter has been the strangest I can recall, weather-wise.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)


Ours has been the same old bullshit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 18, 2026 01:37 AM (snZF9)

418 It was 95 degrees this afternoon, here in Apache Junction. Got the A/C going in my bedroom.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 01:40 AM (8zz6B)

419 It was 95 degrees this afternoon, here in Apache Junction. Got the A/C going in my bedroom.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 01:40 AM (8zz6B)

The other extreme of misery. I might like the cold better.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 18, 2026 01:42 AM (snZF9)

420 Bers, we usually have a few snow storms and lots of freezing rain/ice... Your side of the country really got slammed.

2 years ago, we had a false Spring in January. Was nice and warm & lasted just long enough for plants to break dormancy and then-- Whammo! A couple of weeks of steady, near-zero temps. Killed my weeping cherry tree completely, and many "hardy" shrubs died back to the ground all over this area.

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

421 And it's getting on for 11 P.M. here. My belly is full of corned beef and potatoes, and I need a nap. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2026 01:42 AM (8zz6B)

422 If it's cold, I can grab a blanket or three. If it's hot... fk that, I'm moving North!

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

423 'Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

424 The Willamette Valley has been unusually mild, very dry winter, I'm concerned about the Mt. Hood snowpack that we rely on for summer water. But for myself in the now, the last couple days have just been shockingly pleasant. I keep waiting for a late snow as often happens, but no. I'm going to have to start mowing the lawn, I'm behind the neighbors on that.

Posted by: SciVo at March 18, 2026 01:47 AM (Sy6m/)

425 Mowing the lawn... UGH! I need to pull tarp off of mine & get it going. Yard is looking rough. If I wait much longer, will need to borrow a combine, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

426 Bers, we usually have a few snow storms and lots of freezing rain/ice... Your side of the country really got slammed.

2 years ago, we had a false Spring in January. Was nice and warm & lasted just long enough for plants to break dormancy and then-- Whammo! A couple of weeks of steady, near-zero temps. Killed my weeping cherry tree completely, and many "hardy" shrubs died back to the ground all over this area.

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

I'm not sure we got slammed actually. We had 2 snows here. one was maybe 8" and the other big one, maybe 18" here, but that big one wasn't as big as we had in the past. We also didn't have ice around here. We used to get a bunch of normal snows. 1 year we had 19 snow storms, but its been probably 15 years since that happened. We had a bunch of years with no snow at all, and one january was mostly 60 degree days. Its always a mixed bag but in general we haven't had the snows we normally get. It goes in cycles though. This year wasn't super cold like a few years ago when it was 4 degrees on new years eve. we might have had a few days of high teens,and maybe a few in the 20's, but for the most part its been in the 30's.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 18, 2026 01:53 AM (snZF9)

427 Then you'd also need a baler for the stalks, a customer to buy the grass, people to muscle it, payroll, accounting -- you don't need all that! Better to just mow it.

Posted by: SciVo at March 18, 2026 01:53 AM (Sy6m/)

428 Mowing the lawn... UGH! I need to pull tarp off of mine & get it going. Yard is looking rough. If I wait much longer, will need to borrow a combine, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

I let the servants do it. They do such a nice job, better than I would do it. Cheap enough where it don't pay for me to get involved. I kinda miss it though. Well until it gets really hot. Right now the grass is still kinda dead. No new growth. Probably april it starts.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 18, 2026 01:59 AM (snZF9)

429 All I know about Eastern US weather is what Da Nooz says... yeah I should know better... sounded like OMGSNOWMAGGEDON! but probably wasn't. *shrug*

Glad it was no big thang, Bers. LOL.

We usually get light snow, on & off from Dec to Feb and temps from 20* to 40* with most of the ice coming from snow melt (or just rain) & freeze.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)

430
He bites more than I, personally, like, but there are YT videos that explain this behavior and perhaps, maybe, I can learn that he has been right all this time.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

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

I've known two cats that are bizarrely bitey, and I think they have some sort of autistic or epileptic thing going. Or hell, just call it psychotic and evil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 18, 2026 02:02 AM (YmPQR)

431 "Lawn service" is an extra expense that I can't afford. Wish I could just hire it out, though. *sigh*

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

432 BIL asked me what I'm going to do when hubby dies. I don't *like* to think about that, but it's always back of mind...

Sell this place. Sell everything. If there's enough, buy a smaller place up North somewhere. Or find a "senior" apartment complex.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)

433 Wondering what I want for breakfast in a couple hours

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2026 02:07 AM (Ia/+0)

434 "Lawn service" is an extra expense that I can't afford. Wish I could just hire it out, though. *sigh*

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

yeah it was trade off. Spend it here or spend it there. I'll sacrifice some things to not have to be out there for a few hours in the 95 degree days. The weed whacking/trimming is the killer. The guys come in like a swarm of bees and blow it out in 15 minutes. It would take me a few hours to do everything. Its a little over $200 a month, but they make everything look good. One time the FIL visited and looked around and said the grounds look nice. Mrs B says "thats because we're not doing it". lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 18, 2026 02:11 AM (snZF9)

435 the grounds look nice. Mrs B says "thats because we're not doing it". lol
Posted by: Berserker
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LMAO! Hahahaha...

If I still had a job, I'd probably go for it. (But in reality? If I still had my job, I'd be dead by now from overwork and stress, what with all the other shit I'm saddled with.)

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

436 15 minutes, Bers? How big is your place?

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

437 I don't like to think about my parents dying, they're still independent and all, but they're both in their 80s and my mom has mobility issues (uses a walker even in the house). It's inevitable sometime, given enough time. I have lots of cousins in the area, but only one sibling and so I'm only an uncle to just her kids, so I've started looking at West Virginia.

Not that she's in West Virginia. She's in NoVa, but I'm not sure I could bring myself to get so close to Mordor on the Potomac, especially with elected state leadership that hates me and wants me dead. Charles Town, WV is pretty close to them by my Western big state standards. WV also has a lower than average cost of living, versus higher than average in VA, and I suspect that I would like the people better too.

Posted by: SciVo at March 18, 2026 02:22 AM (Sy6m/)

438 My parents are both gone now. I've always hated this town & only moved back to be near them. One brother lives here too, but we haven't spoken for 2 years and likely never will again. Meh.

Once hubby is gone, I have no reason to stay here.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:27 AM (rdVOm)

439 Go with WV, if you can. VA was nice before CIA Barbie and her Merry band of marxists took over. I live and work in NoVA. It's an extension of Babylon DC. Avoid if you can.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 18, 2026 02:28 AM (sAmhv)

440 Wondering what I want for breakfast in a couple hours
Posted by: Skip


https://glow-diaries.com/raspberry-chocolate-scones/

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Cuisine Critic . . . at March 18, 2026 02:39 AM (3ZUWJ)

441 Evening.
I promise not to go down the rabbit hole of Cheech and Chong clips tonight.
Off work now. Beer cracked.
Just got caught up on local news. The little Sikh owned store down the street from me got robbed at gunpoint Sunday afternoon. I missed it by about an hour. Went to get a beer and a hand scribbled note was on the door.
"Due to unforseen circumstances we are closed Indefinately"

Dudes bail is $250,000.
Fucking idiot. I helped the owner set up the cameras. If you are within 30 feet of that building your ass is easily identifiable.

Caught with a mountain of speed too.

Posted by: Reforger at March 18, 2026 02:43 AM (rpbjO)

442 Prayers, good thoughts, toasts, funny dances all welcome.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


May ye lick cancer faster than ye lick a mint ice ream cone !!!

or something like that...

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Toast Critic . . . at March 18, 2026 02:44 AM (3ZUWJ)

443 Fucking idiot. I helped the owner set up the cameras.
.
.
.

Posted by: Reforger


But you didn't set up the automatic trebuchet ...

Posted by: Adriane the Medieval War Machine Critic . . . at March 18, 2026 02:47 AM (3ZUWJ)

444 And JQ, you had asked about my job shit last night but it was into the tech thread before I saw it.
Practical upshot is status quo. I haven't done shit. I suck.
Boss man knows I'm pissed though. Hope he's fixing things.

Posted by: Reforger at March 18, 2026 02:49 AM (rpbjO)

445 Boss man knows I'm pissed though. Hope he's fixing things.
Posted by: Reforger
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Hope he's *actually fixing things* and not just giving you lip service, as many bosses are known to do...

I still think you should contact your State Labor Board-- if you are due the money, they need to fkn PAY UP!

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

446 Thank you for the confirmation, Puddleglum, and may God cover you with his hand to obscure you from those that hate good.

JQ, if I didn't have a critical mass of kin and had to choose from just any arbitrary place in the U.S., I don't know. There is such a massive variety. I would probably just move further south or east to an even less populated part of Oregon, since I do like the place a lot, just the people leave something to be desired with so many busybodies and stickyfingers.

Posted by: SciVo at March 18, 2026 02:52 AM (Sy6m/)

447 Double-check your w2's vs YTD pay as well, Reforger.

Make sure employer didn't do any *funny bidness* about leaving you with the tax-bag for boss' GF (unearned!) shift differential!

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

448 I still think you should contact your State Labor Board-- if you are due the money, they need to fkn PAY UP!
Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:52 AM (rdVOm)

That is part of my continued employment with the company. I just haven't told them yet.

Posted by: Reforger at March 18, 2026 02:56 AM (rpbjO)

449 447 Double-check your w2's vs YTD pay as well, Reforger.

Make sure employer didn't do any *funny bidness* about leaving you with the tax-bag for boss' GF (unearned!) shift differential!
Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

Another issue. I somehow, somewhere cliked a fucking button to help save da erf and agreed to "paperless W2". My employee number is seven digits. The site I have to go to demands 8.

I hate working for woke.

Posted by: Reforger at March 18, 2026 03:01 AM (rpbjO)

450 Oregon used to be so cool... and conservative! Until the hippies moved up from Cali & ruined it.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

451 15 minutes, Bers? How big is your place?

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

A hair under 2 acres, probably 1 acre clear that has to be mowed, maybe a bit less. Hard to say. they got 2 dudes on those stand up mowers that rip. one does the front, the other does the back and sides, 1 dude runs around with the weedwacker, then 1 or 2 of those guys will grab the leaf blower and blow everything clean. It's 15-20 minutes. They haul ass. The lawn mowers are fast. They rip back and forth on those things, and they never cut in the same direction, they change every week. People love the company, pretty big operation and the reviews are great.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 18, 2026 03:03 AM (snZF9)

452 450 Oregon used to be so cool... and conservative! Until the hippies moved up from Cali & ruined it.
Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

This also applies to northern california.

Posted by: Reforger at March 18, 2026 03:03 AM (rpbjO)

453 Berserker, I have Phil McKnight in a split screen with a Fender Ultra II 75th Anniversary Telecaster. I don't know if you like Teles, heck I don't even have any guitars yet because I need to get my situation and finances stabilized, but there is something compelling about his systematic approach:

https://youtu.be/5vmi38Vj3xw

Posted by: SciVo at March 18, 2026 03:04 AM (Sy6m/)

454 My employee number is seven digits. The site I have to go to demands 8.

Posted by: Reforger
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I know you must've tried putting a zero in front of your Emp#. Right? If that doesn't do it, you go to HR and tell them to change it back to *killtheErf* mode, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at March 18, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

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Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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