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Lazy watchdog. (But he keeps an eye on things, as long as they're directly outside the window.)

Dog decides he's leaving.

Oldster still makes sure his dogs get their exercise.

Kitten tucks herself in.

What did they think was going to happen?

An odd couple but they make it work.

Cats do weird things just to freak us out.

Felalien.

The League of Shadows, but with huskies.

If you need a smile.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/fv6827qvy8
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You called? 😅 pic.twitter.com/l7rLx1A9wu
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Mom, he stole my bed again..🐕🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/raKxJ7r2zX
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Aw:

When her partner passed away, this female stork couldn't feed herself while she incubated her eggs..🪺🥺🙏

Good Samaritans have begun to feed her..❤️ pic.twitter.com/Gq8aETTIvV
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1 Oh I miss Italy!

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM (hftzA)

2 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM (Vh9CX)

3 Also, happy cafe, friends!

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM (hftzA)

4 🚨 NOW: Rep. Tim Burchett just angrily STORMED OUT of a committee meeting saying a backroom deal was cut to let Democrats control what they do!

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My Battered Conservative Symptoms -- manic eye twitches and childlike giggles a la Chief Inspector Dreyfus from the Pink Panther movies -- has been reactivated.

Posted by: ShainS at May 21, 2026 07:47 PM (4LEcr)

5
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Battle Creek KC show. Nothing in the Hound Group but we will take our wins where they come from.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 21, 2026 07:48 PM (HdYcL)

6 Good evening good people.

The same to the rest of you too!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (vhPr1)

7 I’m watching Tombstone, this must be the most stacked cast ever assembled of current and future stars.

I don’t think anything comes close.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

8 Scanno, Italy, more like Scammo, Italy. Doesn't look very handicap accessible. Not climbing all those old, dang steps. At least install an Acorn Stairlift!

Posted by: Mrs. Morley at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (oftw2)

9 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

10 Oldster is a fatster.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 21, 2026 07:50 PM (Cqx++)

11 Woot woot, big dummy!

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (hftzA)

12 OT: Kyle Busch died. Age 41. Cause of death unknown but he had been battling a sinus/cough issue over the last 2 weeks.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (tOcjL)

13 Roll on, Big Dummy!

Posted by: Zombie Demond Wilson at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (oftw2)

14 Oh I miss Italy!
Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM

I learned here that cheesy pick-up lines work much better when delivered in Italian for some reason.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

15
Wang Chung update. He's going to command the first human flyby of Mars aboard Starship, which will flyby the Moon on its way. So, apparently the first mission to Mars will be a flyby.

This will be sometime in the not-so-near future I imagine.

So, if this goes off, Wang Chung will do down as one of the first humans to get to Mars. Did not have that on my Bingo card.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 07:52 PM (w6EFb)

16 a backroom deal was cut to let Democrats control what they do

*yawn*

Democrats fuck shit up. That’s their job, and they are very, very good at it. Republicans job is a little more simple, yet equally important - their job is to make sure it stays that way. Uniparty.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 21, 2026 07:53 PM (qgiNH)

17 14 Oh I miss Italy!
Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM

I learned here that cheesy pick-up lines work much better when delivered in Italian for some reason.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

I will vouch that anything said in Italian is very effective. 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:54 PM (hftzA)

18 I’m watching Tombstone, this must be the most stacked cast ever assembled of current and future stars.

I don’t think anything comes close.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

You probably didn't consider those huge war movies like "The Longest Day" or "A Bridge Too Far" they had tons of then stars and lots of minor cast members made it big.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:54 PM (8avO+)

19 Flying by Mars is STUPID. it's a suicide mission with present tech and Elon is unethical to allow Wang Chung to do it.
If he wanted to camp out on the Moon until retrieval - I would not be saying this.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 07:55 PM (gKWVE)

20 When her partner passed away, this female stork couldn't feed herself while she incubated her eggs

Now THAT is a fishstick!

Posted by: Do you like fishsticks in your beak? at May 21, 2026 07:55 PM (TbWk/)

21 We know the Senate will sell us out.

Posted by: Accomack at May 21, 2026 07:55 PM (8jVAy)

22 The only part of Ittly (to use Billy Crystal's pronunciation) that I saw were Trieste and Venice. I was in Portoroz in what was then Yugoslavia. It was a battalion-sponsored trip. Venice should have been more than a day trip, but we had fun. Had some really good food in a little cafe off the beaten path.

Waiter slapped one of my buddies over the head with the menu for ordering a hamburger.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 07:56 PM (0aYVJ)

23 Yeah, that place needs modernization bad. A Dollar General and a couple drug needle exchanges.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 21, 2026 07:56 PM (qgiNH)

24 Moe Howard had good pick up lines.
"Babe, I'd like to cover you in furs and automobiles! The finest furs, mink, skunk, porcupine".

Posted by: Moe On The Make at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (oftw2)

25 Sinus infection in the triangle of death

Posted by: Accomack at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (8jVAy)

26
That huskie and cat look like good friends. When one of them dies, the other will grieve.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (n7rxJ)

27 The only part of Ittly (to use Billy Crystal's pronunciation) that I saw were Trieste and Venice. I was in Portoroz in what was then Yugoslavia. It was a battalion-sponsored trip. Venice should have been more than a day trip, but we had fun. Had some really good food in a little cafe off the beaten path.

Waiter slapped one of my buddies over the head with the menu for ordering a hamburger.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 07:56 PM (0aYVJ)

A Mexican place in Chicago had a menu price of 100 dollars (in the 80s) for a burger, and it said they would send a busboy to a fast food place to buy one there rather than make it.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (8avO+)

28 “ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”

Isaiah 40:26

Posted by: Marcus T at May 21, 2026 07:58 PM (wn0/z)

29 I learned here that cheesy pick-up lines work much better when delivered in Italian for some reason.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Believe it or not,

"How you do'in?!" actually works much of the time.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 21, 2026 07:59 PM (vhPr1)

30 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:54 PM (8avO+

A new WW2 movie being released in June.

Lucky Strike starring the son's of two of the biggest movie stars Eastwood and Hanks.

About a soldier caught behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge. Allegedly based on true events ( yeah the Battle of the Bulge was a true event)

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:00 PM (qrzX6)

31 “ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”

Isaiah 40:26
Posted by: Marcus T at May 21, 2026 07:58 PM (wn0/z)

aside from Supernova 1987A

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:00 PM (8avO+)

32 @elonmusk
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11m
The hydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract.

If that can be fixed tonight, there will be another launch attempt tomorrow at 5:30 CT.

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at May 21, 2026 08:01 PM (ZxPkt)

33 You probably didn't consider those huge war movies like "The Longest Day" or "A Bridge Too Far" they had tons of then stars and lots of minor cast members made it big.
Posted by: Oldcat

Grand Hotel, 1932.

Posted by: Classic Cinema at May 21, 2026 08:01 PM (oftw2)

34 Saw "The Mandalorian and Grogu" today mostly out of curiosity (sorry Ace!). Eh, it's mid/meh, and skews young, but honestly I needed a little slice of Star Wars and it hit the spot. And no fucking Death Star!

Ludwig Göransson's score was great, percussive and synthy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 21, 2026 08:02 PM (kpS4V)

35 Went to my youngest niece’s Baccalaureate Mass this afternoon. She is graduating from an all girls Catholic school here. There was a choir and a chamber orchestra all from the school. The sound quality in the cathedral was majestic.

Too bad about the homily.

Oh well. Graduation is Sunday. Both my boys will be with me to celebrate their cousin. It will be just wonderf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:02 PM (A5RD0)

36 A new WW2 movie being released in June.

Lucky Strike starring the son's of two of the biggest movie stars Eastwood and Hanks.

About a soldier caught behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge. Allegedly based on true events ( yeah the Battle of the Bulge was a true event)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:00 PM (qrzX6)

Dang. Count me as interested.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:03 PM (0aYVJ)

37 >> aside from Supernova 1987A

A few more missing in fact. Indeed there was some paper a while back about objects seen in '50s star catalogs that are no longer there. And some things that popped up.

Now, recently, but this was in another galaxy, they think they've seen one of those suspected by not yet seen core-collapses of a massive start where there's no supernova, damn thing just collapses to a black hole with no fireworks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

38 A Mexican place in Chicago had a menu price of 100 dollars (in the 80s) for a burger, and it said they would send a busboy to a fast food place to buy one there rather than make it.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (8avO+)
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Ha!

There was a swanky restaurant in Georgetown (in the 80's) that had a $500 burger because it was served with a VERY expensive bottle of wine.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 21, 2026 08:04 PM (kpS4V)

39 Both my boys will be with me to celebrate their cousin. It will be just wonderf.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Pretty sweet, congrats!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 21, 2026 08:05 PM (eFzxY)

40 I don't know how long he was on the air (seems like forever), but I can honestly say I've never seen one episode of Colbert's show. I think that's healthy.

Also, Eastwood's kid seems more....Eastwood than Hank's kid seems Hanks. I like them both though.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:07 PM (l26NL)

41 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:08 PM (qrzX6)

42 Stork are nasty birds. They purposely kill their younger chicks. Suffocate, then swallow them whole. Or just puncture them with the beak, until they are dead. Throw them out of the nest.

Posted by: runner at May 21, 2026 08:08 PM (GD0B3)

43 12 OT: Kyle Busch died. Age 41. Cause of death unknown but he had been battling a sinus/cough issue over the last 2 weeks.
Posted by: Nova Local

He had just won at Dover last Friday in one of NASCAR's support series (Craftsman Trucks). Sad and odd. No reason given yet on cause of death.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 21, 2026 08:09 PM (W3T6M)

44 >>> I’m watching Tombstone, this must be the most stacked cast ever assembled of current and future stars.

I don’t think anything comes close.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

No trannies tho. You have to have a couple. I wonder what a collection of trannies is called?.... A part store? A swap meet of trannies. I don't know.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 21, 2026 08:09 PM (3uBP9)

45 Also, Eastwood's kid seems more....Eastwood than Hank's kid seems Hanks. I like them both though.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:07 PM (l26NL)

Scott Eastwood played a pretty good bad guy in Wrath of Man.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:10 PM (qrzX6)

46 Scanno is nice. But a lot of towns out that way have become very touristy. Overall it’s a nice drive from Naples, and if you take the route through Cassino, it’s very scenic. I really like Popoli and some of the towns further out. If I remember it’s about a 2 1/2-3 hour drive. Worth it.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 21, 2026 08:10 PM (wn0/z)

47 No trannies tho. You have to have a couple. I wonder what a collection of trannies is called?.... A part store? A swap meet of trannies. I don't know.
Posted by: banana Dream

A swap?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:10 PM (l26NL)

48 43 12 OT: Kyle Busch died. Age 41. Cause of death unknown but he had been battling a sinus/cough issue over the last 2 weeks.
Posted by: Nova Local

He had just won at Dover last Friday in one of NASCAR's support series (Craftsman Trucks). Sad and odd. No reason given yet on cause of death.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 21, 2026 08:09 PM (W3T6M)

I'm thinking sepsis will ultimately be the cause of death. He just waited too long to treat and recover from something nasty (sitting here with a nasty virus myself, maybe that's why I'm on that...well, that and the announced reason for his hospitalization this morning of severe illness)...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 21, 2026 08:11 PM (tOcjL)

49 "They purposely kill their younger chicks. Suffocate, then swallow them whole. Or just puncture them with the beak, until they are dead. Throw them out of the nest.
Posted by: runner"

That is very penguin-like behavior. Isn't nature fascinating?

Posted by: fd at May 21, 2026 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

50 Me and the Missus are heading for the Oregon coast this weekend. We've been in Idaho for over a year; it's high time we go see the Pacific again. Been a minute, as the kids say. Not sure which town, Florence, Newport, Depot Bay. Whatever.

Now I just gotta focus on one more day of work. Kind of sucks when you have to get billable work done.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)

51 >> aside from Supernova 1987A

A few more missing in fact. Indeed there was some paper a while back about objects seen in '50s star catalogs that are no longer there. And some things that popped up.

Now, recently, but this was in another galaxy, they think they've seen one of those suspected by not yet seen core-collapses of a massive start where there's no supernova, damn thing just collapses to a black hole with no fireworks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

I think for those random stars dropping out of visibility the suspicion is a very long term variable star that now is too dim to pick up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

52 Posted by: Nova Local at May 21, 2026 08:11 PM (tOcjL)

Whatever it was I hope he didn't give it to his wife and kids.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (qrzX6)

53 Wonder how many thousands of Italian-Amerians in the NY/NJ area took a trip to Italy with Perillo Tours. They advertised on NY TV for decades.

Hah, they're still in business. Three generations.

Posted by: Atsa My Boat! at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (oftw2)

54 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

I read that the Milky Way isn't creating new stars as expected . I don't know what that means for the long term 😃

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:15 PM (qrzX6)

55 Not sure which town, Florence, Newport, Depot Bay. Whatever.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Hint...
Newport, Rogue brewery.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (eFzxY)

56 I like Kyle Eastwood, and I also like Colin Hanks. I did see some woke inklings in the trailer, but it might work. Hanks had a small role in Band of Brothers, but he was excellent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

57 So close ... * fingers crossed *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

58 Posted by: Pug Mahon

Too bad you don't golf or do you?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:17 PM (qrzX6)

59 Hint...
Newport, Rogue brewery.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (eFzxY)

ah, man. Great beer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:18 PM (0aYVJ)

60 Good videos tonight
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 08:18 PM (Ia/+0)

61 Posted by: Pug Mahon

Too bad you don't golf or do you?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:17 PM (qrzX6)

No. I do not. Are you hinting at Bandon?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:19 PM (0aYVJ)

62 >> I read that the Milky Way isn't creating new stars as expected

That is an area of active research, meaning there's a lot of disagreement. But the star formation rate will decline ultimately over time.

There's argument over just what the current rate is.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:19 PM (w6EFb)

63 No. I do not. Are you hinting at Bandon?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:19 PM (0aYVJ)

Yes pretty nice resort destination now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:20 PM (qrzX6)

64 That hotstick looks a little iffy to me. Good luck with the fishes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 21, 2026 08:21 PM (D1E+2)

65 We loved visiting Bandon, in the olden times. Last summer my boss spent an hour on the phone trying to get a spot for his trailer. I know this, because he wears hearing aids and has to have the volume loud.

And he does not shut his door. Heh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:24 PM (0aYVJ)

66 Looking at this, there's some paper claiming that the Milky Way is in the middle of a mini-baby boom, and the current stellar formation rate is 3x what is was 1 billion years ago.

But any rate, the Big Baby Boom was about 10 billion years ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:24 PM (w6EFb)

67 They advertised on NY TV for decades.

Hah, they're still in business. Three generations.
Posted by: Atsa My Boat! at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (oftw2)
=====

I membeh Mario Perillo used to advertise on "Rambling with Grambling" on WOR radio.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 21, 2026 08:26 PM (RIvkX)

68 3 goals in just under 5 minutes. Mtl 2 - Car 1. Plus a couple of penalty boxes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 21, 2026 08:26 PM (glnUu)

69 Pug,

I love Lincoln Beach. And the Salishan.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:27 PM (A5RD0)

70 Looking at this, there's some paper claiming that the Milky Way is in the middle of a mini-baby boom, and the current stellar formation rate is 3x what is was 1 billion years ago.

But any rate, the Big Baby Boom was about 10 billion years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:24 PM (w6EFb)

Interstellar science is like climate science to me in that the real answer is 'we really don't know' .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (qrzX6)

71 Click to hear the soothing tones of nature. :

x.com/MsCiencia2/status/2057251691750158601

Be sure to turn the sound way up! (as they say)

Posted by: banana Dream - It's basically me. at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (3uBP9)

72 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

I read that the Milky Way isn't creating new stars as expected . I don't know what that means for the long term 😃
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:15 PM (qrzX6)

It means that astronomers have been lazy about serious theories defining star formation rates under various conditions despite having millions of examples to test them against out there.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (8avO+)

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