Sunday Overnight Open Thread - June 28, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Hope your weekend has been a good one. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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So it's Sunday. First day of the week. Ever wonder why we have seven days in a week? Of course you have!

Why Is a Week 7 Days?

The seven-day week is so deeply baked into modern life that it feels almost inevitable. Workdays, weekends, school schedules, streaming release dates — nearly everything runs on the same seven-day rhythm. But there’s nothing especially natural about a week. Unlike a year, a month, or a day, it doesn’t neatly correspond to a major astronomical event.
While a year is tied to Earth’s orbit around the sun, a month is roughly one full cycle of moon phases, and a day is one rotation of Earth on its axis, the length of a week isn’t cut and dry. So why is it seven days instead of, say, five, eight, or 12?
The seven-day week has endured for thousands of years, surviving empires, revolutions, religious shifts, and even a few determined attempts to replace it. Its origins lie in a mix of astronomy, astrology, religion, and ancient practicality — with a healthy dose of historical debate.

Check out the whole thing. Be a history nerd!

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My predecessor as Sunday Night ONT host would often feature a "Genius Award Winner" segment. I'd like to foray into those waters tonight.

Man Uses Massage Gun on His Eyes with Disastrous Consequences

Doctors Niamh O’Connell ‍‍and Ashraf Khan were shocked when the unnamed patient showed up at an eye treatment center in the Scottish capital, because both of his eyes were in terrible shape. His right eye had multiple retinal tears, widespread retinal bruising, and a condition called retinal dialysis, while the left eye also had significant retinal bruising and six small horseshoe tears.
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Left without a real explanation, the doctors asked the patient about anything “untoward involving the eyes,” and that was when he reluctantly told them that he had been using a percussive massage gun both around and directly on both eyes, on a weekly basis, for around three months. He hadn’t noticed anything unusual until a few days prior to his visit to the eye treatment center, when he started seeing floaters and flashing lights in his right eye.
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The young patient reportedly used the massage gun on his eyes to relieve the feeling of tiredness, but the percussive action had unintended consequences. The massage gun is believed to have rapidly compressed the eyeballs back, causing them to squish out from the sides, leading to retinal dialysis.

How'd I do, Mis Hum?

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Moron approved behavior

This is soooo stinkin funny!😂 pic.twitter.com/THYf1gzoj1
— Sherri Unfiltered™ (@FFT1776) June 28, 2026

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Fake but accurate

This would be me if you interviewed me after a round🤣🤣🍻🍻 pic.twitter.com/wbYipq4sec
— Tyler Ratcliff (@TylerRatcliff17) June 27, 2026

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The Sophie Cunningham finger pointing meme is not going away any time soon!

Nick Shirley finding fraud 🤣 pic.twitter.com/5dyvNHzfqa
— Gizmo Memes (@GizmoMemes) June 27, 2026

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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The Evolution of Eyeglasses

Eyeglasses have transformed dramatically over eight centuries from clunky medieval tools reserved for scholars to sleek, high-tech accessories.

Long before modern spectacles, people experimented with magnification. Ancient Romans and Greeks used polished crystals or water-filled globes as simple magnifiers. In China, smoky quartz panes served as early eye protection as far back as the 12th century.

The first true wearable eyeglasses emerged in northern Italy around 1286–1290. These “rivet spectacles” featured two convex lenses set in frames connected by a rivet at the bridge. Worn by balancing them on the nose or holding them by hand, they primarily were used by scholars for reading.

The 18th century introduced temple glasses with side arms. However, many preferred discreet handheld styles like lorgnettes, elegant opera glasses with a handle. Monocles emerged as a sophisticated accessory for the upper class. Benjamin Franklin’s bifocals (around 1784) added functionality.

Mass production made glasses more accessible. Pince-nez (“pinch the nose” became hugely popular; spring-loaded clips gripped the nose without temples. Often attached to a chain or cord, they projected an intellectual or bourgeois image. Monocles reinforced upper-class sophistication. Glasses increasingly signaled education and refinement.

The 20th century marked the true shift from medical necessity to style statement.

1920s–1930s:

Round metal or tortoiseshell frames dominated, evoking the Jazz Age and intellectual chic. Women began wearing them more openly as fashion accessories.

1940s–1950s:

Browline frames (half-rim with prominent upper plastic or horn) became iconic for men, think Buddy Holly, projecting a smart, modern masculinity. For women, dramatic cat-eye frames symbolized femininity and confidence. Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe helped popularize upswept, playful shapes

1960s:

Round wire-rim or teashade glasses exploded with the counterculture movement. John Lennon’s round frames became synonymous with peace, rebellion, and artistic expression. Oversized and geometric shapes also emerged.

1970s:

Aviator styles exuded cool, adventurous masculinity. Oversized square or geometric frames captured the disco era. Sunglasses trends heavily influenced ophthalmic eyewear.

1980s:

Large, colorful plastic frames dominated, think bright reds, neons, and geometric shapes. They matched the era’s bold power suits and shoulder pads. Oversized was in for both men and women.

Late 20th to Early 21st Century:

Designer brands (Gucci, Chanel, Ray-Ban) turned glasses into luxury items. The 1990s favored thin metal frames and minimalist looks, while the 2000s saw hipster revivals of round and Wayfarer styles.

And in 2026? Oversized and architectural frames dominate, but with more thoughtful proportions than previous years. Expect deep bevels, volumetric acetate, thick fronts, and sculptural details that play with light and shadow. These create strong presence while remaining wearable.

The palette leans toward calm sophistication with new neutrals taking center stage:

Soft sage, sand, dusty rose, powdery olive, and slate metallics

Warm tortoise remains a perennial favorite

Tone-on-tone combinations (frame and lens in harmonious shades) create refined cohesion

Bold accents appear as pops: rich reds, teals, purples, and metallic shines.

Current trends build on historical evolution: the cat-eye glamour of the 1950s, the counterculture rounds of the 1960s, and the bold plastics of the 1980s all echo in today’s revivals, now elevated with better materials, comfort, and technology - something that is a discussion topic on it’s own.

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Thanks, Piper!

Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.

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DJ Doof - Memphis Edition

I heard one of these songs on SiriusXM Classic Rewind today. So Memphis gets the call tonight!

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by Cleveland

The Cleveland Arcade decorated with American flags for the U.S. Bicentennial in October 1976 in Cleveland. pic.twitter.com/LTDaWnQhEQ
— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) June 28, 2026

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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (ZAfEX)

2 Doof! Piper! ONT!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (xVpNO)

3 umph

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (VQ0bX)

4 Yeah

Posted by: Rex B at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (rgnea)

5 I was told that if I voted for the fascists the ONTs would run on time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (u/oMr)

6 YAY ONT!!! Now for the content!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (ZAfEX)

7 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (SRRAx)

8 Thank you Doof!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (B0dAE)

9 Hi everyone! Hope a good Sunday was had by all.

Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:10 PM (Wmg4n)

10 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2026 10:11 PM (+/hEQ)

11 4th, but got detoured by King Harv.

Posted by: Rex B at June 28, 2026 10:11 PM (rgnea)

12 Sorry I'm late, I could only find left-foot socks.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 28, 2026 10:11 PM (PMi3m)

13 I decked the house out today with bunting and I made a wreath. We are ready for the 260th!

Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:12 PM (Wmg4n)

14
Jamie Dimon, on dealing with the government.

@ 28:00 - > ~34:40

https://tinyurl.com/y3cmaz95

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2026 10:14 PM (VQ0bX)

15 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 28, 2026 10:15 PM (+9wcF)

16 I like the bigger eyeglass frames - mostly because I can actually SEE THINGS with them....🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 28, 2026 10:15 PM (SRRAx)

17
Naughty librarian glasses >>> Monster bug-eye glasses

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2026 10:15 PM (O0L8i)

18 I decked the house out today with bunting and I made a wreath. We are ready for the 260th!
Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:12 PM (Wmg4n)

Wow - you are very proactive! 10 years early?!?

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

19 We are ready for the 260th!

Now that's some impressive advance planning!

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at June 28, 2026 10:16 PM (JH34D)

20 11 4th, but got detoured by King Harv.

Posted by: Rex B
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You're not supposed to smoke it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2026 10:16 PM (VQ0bX)

21 I decked the house out today with bunting and I made a wreath. We are ready for the 260th!

Piper's always at least ten years ahead of the rest of us.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 28, 2026 10:16 PM (+9wcF)

22 >Browline frames (half-rim with prominent upper plastic or horn) became iconic for men
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that's what I have
call them my 'church glasses'

Posted by: Don Black at June 28, 2026 10:17 PM (ZxPkt)

23 https://x.com/fft1776/status/2071331062790197696?s=10

Cigar?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:17 PM (u/oMr)

24 I read it all.

Posted by: free tibet at June 28, 2026 10:18 PM (iNp3L)

25 Thank you Disco and Piper. Good evening Horde!

Posted by: TRex - future's so bright, gotta wear shades dino at June 28, 2026 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

26 That piano intro into All The Way From Memphis is a classic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 10:18 PM (1z8ji)

27 18 I decked the house out today with bunting and I made a wreath. We are ready for the 260th!
Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:12 PM (Wmg4n)

Wow - you are very proactive! 10 years early?!?
Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf

Better than 10 years late!

Maybe I should put my glasses on…

Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:18 PM (Wmg4n)

28 "Good evening good people." - Tonypete.

Hey, what about the rest of us???

Posted by: PabloD at June 28, 2026 10:19 PM (byoW7)

29 Not sure if this real or not:

https://tinyurl.com/32x3tffh

Citizen Vigilante 2?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 28, 2026 10:19 PM (+9wcF)

30 Eyeglasses fashion is limited when you're a male of significant hat size. "Choose from these rectangular-ish wire frames in one of 3, or possibly even 4, strikingly similar styles."

Or try to wear glasses for a person with a normal-sized head with the bows..... bowed out. Looks kinda silly.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:19 PM (VHUov)

31 Thanks for the swell Sunday Night ONT, Doof!

And thanks to Piper for the eyewear fashion article. Entertaining and interesting.

Great photo up top. What an inviting place to watch the sunset.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2026 10:20 PM (D/6p1)

32 Hey, what about the rest of us???
Posted by: PabloD at June 28, 2026 10:19 PM (byoW7)

There's a moose at the door keeping us out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 28, 2026 10:21 PM (1Ff7Z)

33 Sorry I'm late, I could only find left-foot socks.
Posted by: tankdemon

I have some Adidas socks that only have the logo printed on one side of the ankle. So they are left- and right-footed. They're actually kind of annoying.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (VHUov)

34 Greetings from the Rush concert in Ft Worth. It's intermission. Unbelievable show. If you have a chance to see them., GO

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (/4R5g)

35 A fashion segment about glasses without Elton John making an appearance?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (PMi3m)

36 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for the ONT, Doof & Piper!

Doof, check your spam folder. I sent pics of the poster. Could try re-take(s) if those are not suitable.

Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

37 I have worn glasses for most of my adult life. I do not like them. When I was younger I could not afford lasik. Now that I am past 29, I think, what's the point?

My next set of glasses will not be bi-focals. Why? Because they are useless. I take my glasses off to read my computer monitors. So what's the point? Single lens next time.

All that aside, I loathe eyeglasses to make one look smart, or edumacated. Stupid Hollyweird posers. Blech!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 28, 2026 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)

38 13 I decked the house out today with bunting and I made a wreath. We are ready for the 260th!
Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:12 PM (Wmg4n)

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The Mistress Cicero has amassed a large cache of patriotic-themed red white and blue effluvia which shall be used to festoon the tiny ship for the advent of the annual Dinghy Wars next Saturday in the local harbor. Let no one say that Cicero is not First in the Shart of His Countrymen.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:23 PM (u/oMr)

39 Piper's always at least ten years ahead of the rest of us.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 28, 2026 10:16 PM (+9wcF)

Time must go a lot faster in the afterlife

Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2026 10:23 PM (QMAsf)

40 Good Sunday to all.

Love that Marc Cohn song!

Only once in Memphis in college. Tried tequila (to kill you) for the first time with very bad results.

This song is great!!!

My first pair of eyeglasses, 5th grade,was a disaster. Mother picked out cat eye glasses and sort of flesh toned and hideous because I was only 10yrs and my eyes were dilated.

Thank God for contact lens at age 16yrs! Until Then I only wore them in class. If I did not know the color of shirt you wore that day I probably did not say hi.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 28, 2026 10:23 PM (hzuYO)

41 36 Howdy, horde!

Thanks for the ONT, Doof & Piper!

Doof, check your spam folder. I sent pics of the poster. Could try re-take(s) if those are not suitable.
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2026 10:22

This reminds me, I have something from Teresa I need to include next week!

Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:24 PM (Wmg4n)

42 I liked the “cats eye” grandma glasses the ladies wore in the 1960’s. Often or usually paired with those thin scarf things worn in their hair.

Skinny or straight ties looked nice. I’m not sure what happened, but sometime in the late 1960s and 1970s fat, garish ties and polyester prevailed, along with stupid hairstyles. The past is a different country, so the saying goes. But the 1970s were a different planet.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2026 10:24 PM (Ul5sO)

43 I had a pair of those Sunsensor glasses in the 70's. They did indeed darken in the sun but the problem with them was that they never really cleared when you were indoors. They always had a yellow tinge to them.

Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2026 10:24 PM (lJ0H4)

44 Doof, check your spam folder. I sent pics of the poster. Could try re-take(s) if those are not suitable.
Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

Email received. I should be able to work with the photos. Thanks!

Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

45 Don't fall for it, Ace! It's a trap!

https://tinyurl.com/4zd3pxr5

Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2026 10:25 PM (Riz8t)

46 Greetings from the Rush concert in Ft Worth. It's intermission. Unbelievable show. If you have a chance to see them., GO
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (/4R5g)

Very nice! I still have 2 months to wait.

Posted by: Doof at June 28, 2026 10:26 PM (QMAsf)

47 Nerd glasses, with white tape.

Posted by: Nerd at June 28, 2026 10:26 PM (Q+gd/)

48 Jamie Dimon, on dealing with the government.

@ 28:00 - > ~34:40

https://tinyurl.com/y3cmaz95
Posted by: Braenyard

BECAUSE of governmental policies and asholishness, I spent more time dealing with Legal & Compliance than actually doing the work I was hired to do at JPMC.

Point of interest: The phone operators at JPMC are as good as the While House operators - they can find anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world with only a few minutes notice. No kidding, they are that good.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2026 10:27 PM (+/hEQ)

49
My last pair of glasses I said no coatings, no photochromic lens. I did not want to see through a sepia haze.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2026 10:27 PM (O0L8i)

50 Greetings from the Rush concert in Ft Worth. It's intermission. Unbelievable show. If you have a chance to see them., GO
Posted by: screaming in digital at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (/4R5g)

I am not prone to jealousy, but, dang, I want so much to see Rush live. I had a chance to see them in 1982 on the Signals tour, but Dad refused to let me go. I've mentioned this before, but he had a strange aversion to rock and, or roll. Afraid I would get hopped up on goofballs or something.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 28, 2026 10:27 PM (0aYVJ)

51 Piper. Great essay on eyeglasses. Somewhere I still have my round gold frames from the late 60's.

Doof, as usual a great picture suitable for counting blessings.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2026 10:27 PM (u82oZ)

52 Walkin in Memphis.

What a great song. Thanks, Doof!

And any of you who remember grammie winger, please, she’s in bad shape. If you can contact bluebell for her contact info and send a card, that would be lovely. I also have that info if it’s easier to ping me.

She’s a sweet lady and it would be wonderful if she had an outpouring of love.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 28, 2026 10:27 PM (oOE08)

53 My next set of glasses will not be bi-focals. Why? Because they are useless. I take my glasses off to read my computer monitors. So what's the point? Single lens next time.

All that aside, I loathe eyeglasses to make one look smart, or edumacated. Stupid Hollyweird posers. Blech!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 28, 2026 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)

Discover that you have a cataract. Get refractive lens replacement. Use dollar store readers for real close work, go without otherwise. Win!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)

54 I had a pair of those Sunsensor glasses in the 70's. They did indeed darken in the sun but the problem with them was that they never really cleared when you were indoors. They always had a yellow tinge to them.
Posted by: Tuna

They weren't much better in the '90s.

Chemical reactions are moderated by temperature. Wear them outside in the -25F in the winter, and they don't clear up until they also warm up. So, ~15 minutes to clear up indoors. I called them my John Lennon glasses and never bought a pair again. Carrying a separate pair of sunglasses is fine.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:28 PM (VHUov)

55 Two recent inventions that are great - those dental floss pick thingies sold in bags of 50 (chinesium dental floss is major shit anyhow, so just in time)

And - inexpensive, non-prescription safety/sunglasses with a selection of various diopter grades for reading or magnification. These work great, often found on a rack at better hardware stores.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2026 10:28 PM (Ul5sO)

56 Naughty librarian glasses >>> Monster bug-eye glasses
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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*nods in agreement*

Thanks for the ONT Disco. And the fashion Piper.

Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2026 10:28 PM (41CYW)

57 Nurse, sorry to read about grammie winger. I remember her from years ago and pray for her comfort and peace.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 28, 2026 10:29 PM (hzuYO)

58 Discover that you have a cataract. Get refractive lens replacement. Use dollar store readers for real close work, go without otherwise. Win!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

That has worked for both of my parents. I'll get it done in another 15-20 years when my lenses go to sh-t.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:30 PM (VHUov)

59 51 Piper. Great essay on eyeglasses. Somewhere I still have my round gold frames from the late 60's.

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I admit to being partial to Ray-Ban aviators in the late 70s, but in my defense I was actually an aviator back then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:30 PM (u/oMr)

60
My Ray-Bans:

Wayfarer
Clubmaster
Predator
Balorama

Posted by: Don Black at June 28, 2026 10:30 PM (ZxPkt)

61 Large frame glasses are stupid and ridiculous. They are not attractive.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 28, 2026 10:31 PM (fkjGs)

62 Instead of boomer or Gen X, we should call ourselves Bicentennials. We went through Viet Nam loss, Watergate, gas lines with alternate days and paper shortage in '70. But we were still proud of our history and nation.
I am a Bicentennial!

Posted by: Enola Gay Pride at June 28, 2026 10:31 PM (mHOKe)

63 Email received. I should be able to work with the photos. Thanks!
Posted by: Doof

Oh, good I was unable to find a non-glare poster frame, so tried very hard to not have reflections! Pity the frame itself was cut out a bit.. Again, I can get & send other pics if you want.

Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2026 10:31 PM (rdVOm)

64 Doof, I believe Mis Hum would approve of your Genius Award Winner this evening!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2026 10:31 PM (D/6p1)

65 Eyeglasses on dames:
1920s - 1930s
1940s - 1950s

Yowza! Tres sexy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 28, 2026 10:31 PM (wVcYX)

66 61 Large frame glasses are stupid and ridiculous. They are not attractive.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 28, 2026 10:31 PM (fkjGs)

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Lew Wasserman sez wha-a-a-at???

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:32 PM (u/oMr)

67
Had laser done because of cataracts. No problems.

Her Majesty had laser done because of cataracts. Three rounds and she still has problems.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2026 10:32 PM (O0L8i)

68 It's worth mentioning that one no longer needs to go to the store to see how a pair of glasses will look on your face. There are many online purveyors who will use your computer's camera to superimpose the glasses on your face. Sure, they're scraping your image, but it still makes the process much easier. There is no longer the need to endure nose oils from all the preceding tryers-on.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2026 10:32 PM (Riz8t)

69 My Ray-Bans:

Wayfarer
Clubmaster
Predator
Balorama

Do you swim in your swimming pool full of money?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2026 10:34 PM (Riz8t)

70 "The Evolution of Eyeglasses"

Eyeglasses? You mean that fad among the children? Seems a foolish extravagance. There are better alternatives:

https://tinyurl.com/3sx2j6u3

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 28, 2026 10:34 PM (w/O5Q)

71 The Nick Shirley doing the Sophie Cunningham point mashup cracked me up.

Nice find!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 28, 2026 10:34 PM (wVcYX)

72 Shopping for eyeglass frames was easy, if I wore my contacts, LOL. Otherwise... not so much fun.

Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2026 10:34 PM (rdVOm)

73 There are many online purveyors who will use your computer's camera to superimpose the glasses on your face. Sure, they're scraping your image, but it still makes the process much easier. There is no longer the need to endure nose oils from all the preceding tryers-on.

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You youngsters and your "apps."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:34 PM (u/oMr)

74 61 Large frame glasses are stupid and ridiculous. They are not attractive.

I generally agree, but that is particularly true of the big, black, chunky looking monstrosities popular now. I'm sure it's supposed to be ironic or some such nonsense.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2026 10:35 PM (Riz8t)

75 Monocle!

Posted by: Col. Wilhelm Klink at June 28, 2026 10:36 PM (wVcYX)

76
Do check out the near-full (99.3%) Moon tonight. It's the lowest of the year, rising and setting about as far south as it gets. This is due to an 18.6 nodal precession cycle. Anyway the Moon's orbit is inclined close to the maximum, about 28.5 degrees it can get. The peak of that 18.6 year cycle was around Dec. 2024, but it's slow, and because of the timing/alignment of the full Moon points, this month is about as low as it was in June of last year.

It's also near apogee, so this is a micromoon. A low, small Moon.

While you could tell the difference in size if a big perigee full moon was next to a micromoon right there in sky, the difference is otherwise not noticeable. Anyway, low on the horizon near rise and set, it will looming large and yellow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

77 Monocle!

That's a Springfield thing.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2026 10:37 PM (Riz8t)

78 They weren't much better in the '90s.

Chemical reactions are moderated by temperature. Wear them outside in the -25F in the winter, and they don't clear up until they also warm up. So, ~15 minutes to clear up indoors. I called them my John Lennon glasses and never bought a pair again. Carrying a separate pair of sunglasses is fine.
Posted by: mikeski

My current sunglasses have Transition lenses in them. They do clear totally indoors. We'll see how they react to cold temps this winter.

Posted by: Tuna at June 28, 2026 10:37 PM (lJ0H4)

79 KLINK! WHO ISS ZISS MAN!!!

Posted by: Maj. Hochstetter at June 28, 2026 10:37 PM (u/oMr)

80 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey celebrated "Somali Independence Day" today. I assume instead of the regular U.S. Independence Day.

He said, "When they come for one of us, they come for all of us!" ICE Operation Metro Surge resulted in the arrest of 4000 Somali illegals.

Frey had previously stated that he "didn't think [the federal] fraud investigations added value to our commuity."

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 10:37 PM (RCjYY)

81 Monocle!
Posted by: Col. Wilhelm Klink at June 28, 2026 10:36 PM (wVcYX)

Binnacle!

Posted by: Captain Ahab at June 28, 2026 10:39 PM (1z8ji)

82 80 Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey celebrated "Somali Independence Day" today. I assume instead of the regular U.S. Independence Day.

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Fuck that steaming America-hating piece of shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:39 PM (u/oMr)

83 Frey had previously stated that he "didn't think [the federal] fraud investigations added value to our commuity."

Yeah, well, I don't think you add any value to America, yet here you are.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2026 10:39 PM (Riz8t)

84 >Do you swim in your swimming pool full of money?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 28, 2026 10:34 PM (Riz8t)
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c'mon, that's less than $1000 over the years
spent way more on guns and electronics and motorcycle stuff

Posted by: Don Black at June 28, 2026 10:39 PM (ZxPkt)

85 It's also near apogee, so this is a micromoon. A low, small Moon.
Posted by: publius

I already told you! I was in the pool!

Posted by: The Moon at June 28, 2026 10:40 PM (VHUov)

86 While you could tell the difference in size if a big perigee full moon was next to a micromoon right there in sky, the difference is otherwise not noticeable. Anyway, low on the horizon near rise and set, it will looming large and yellow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

No Moon viewing here tonight. 10/10 cloud cover, and it must be stacked deep. Rained a shitload today.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 10:41 PM (1z8ji)

87 My current sunglasses have Transition lenses in them. They do clear totally indoors. We'll see how they react to cold temps this winter.
Posted by: Tuna

Hopefully they've improved in the ~35 years since I had them.

Wait, I'm only 29, I better check my math.....

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (VHUov)

88 Publius!

How’s momma?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (yEz+x)

89 I thought it was interesting how the big frames kept reappearing throughout the ages. Nothing new under the sun!

Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (OoFl2)

90 No Moon viewing here tonight. 10/10 cloud cover, and it must be stacked deep. Rained a shitload today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 10:41 PM (1z8ji)
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Rain

*sigh*

I remember that.

Water falling from the sky, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (u/oMr)

91 Nice tunes - my favorite Memphis one though is John Hiatt's Memphis in the Meantime, with the mention of the Rendezous - first time I heard the song it was "hey, I had some great dry rub ribs there - cool".

Posted by: Patches at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (338iJ)

92 - 70+ comments and no takers yet on the 7 day week?
**sigh**
Exodus 20:8-11
The fourth commandment.

Posted by: TeeJ at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (xI6JS)

93 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (sAmhv)

94 >> No Moon viewing here tonight. 10/10 cloud cover,

Bummer. I forget what you said your current latitude was the other night, but you're high enough that it would be pretty low, rising/setting pretty darn southward. A low loom.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:43 PM (w6EFb)

95 Evening, Horde!

On the days of the week, I thought there was also some evidence that pulse rate is normally 'slower' every 7th day (which may or may not align with Sunday? Or might be a different 7th day for each person? IDK)

Posted by: RandomDave at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (aJQbY)

96 Round/oval wire-rimmed glasses (regular sized) on a good looking woman is one of my turn-ons.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (g8Ew8)

97
Why Is a Week 7 Days?

_________

Why is an hour sixty minutes? Why is a day 24 hours? Why is a year 365 days? They should all be converted to metric! We need a government diktat to shove it down everyone's throat! Experts agree!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (O0L8i)

98 Piper bringing the eyewear fashion!
Love it.

Would probably enjoy a primer on women's footwear - always a chasm of mystery to the unfairer sex.

Speaking of Memphis - being stuck inside of Mobile can have a certain effect:

https://youtu.be/3kh6K_-a0c4

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (2Ez/1)

99 Weird how sunglasses are cool no matter what but regular glasses can be uncool for the most part.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (04gcy)

100 Nice tunes - my favorite Memphis one though is John Hiatt's Memphis in the Meantime, with the mention of the Rendezous - first time I heard the song it was "hey, I had some great dry rub ribs there - cool".
Posted by: Patches at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (338iJ)

That is a cool tune. I wonder if Millennials know what a Codeaphone is?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (1z8ji)

101 >>>Lew Wasserman sez wha-a-a-at???

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

>One thing is for certain; you can see how small and petite these celebrity women are when the frames are so frigging huge on their faces. Tiny women.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (fkjGs)

102 He said, "When they come for one of us, they come for all of us!"

Your terms are acceptable!

Posted by: RandomDave at June 28, 2026 10:46 PM (aJQbY)

103 70+ comments and no takers yet on the 7 day week?
**sigh**
Exodus 20:8-11
The fourth commandment.
Posted by: TeeJ

That's in the article, after some woke hogwash about the Babylonians inventing it. A vanished culture says what?

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

104 Bummer. I forget what you said your current latitude was the other night, but you're high enough that it would be pretty low, rising/setting pretty darn southward. A low loom.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:43 PM (w6EFb)

I am at about 51N. Moon was pretty low in the sky when I last saw it, maybe 2 days ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 10:46 PM (1z8ji)

105 Round/oval wire-rimmed glasses (regular sized) on a good looking woman is one of my turn-ons.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (g8Ew

I think the good looking part is the controlling factor. Or do tgd same glasses on an unattractive woman make her more attractive?

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2026 10:46 PM (04gcy)

106 96 Round/oval wire-rimmed glasses (regular sized) on a good looking woman is one of my turn-ons.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 28, 2026 10:44 PM (g8Ew

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Ditto a chain mail corset.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:46 PM (u/oMr)

107 >> How’s momma?

She's in good spirits (she usually is). They've been pumping her full of lasix, and she's pee'd out a bunch. Her kidney function was a concern, but at this point, with the fluid build up on her lungs, they've got to get that down, and just hope it's not too bad for her kidney function.

Her blood pressure is still on the high side, but not quite as bad as it was yesterday. Her heart rhythm is showing afib, and she's throwing PVCs every so often, but nothing really bad. Her heart is 96 years old, and is just flat wearing out. No heart disease in the usual sense we think of it, just old age wearing it out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:47 PM (w6EFb)

108 Evening Horde thx Doof
All the Way from Memphis is a great song. Changed the lyric from "spade" to "dude". Wonder why?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2026 10:48 PM (f6yx7)

109
Speaking of Memphis - being stuck inside of Mobile can have a certain effect:

https://youtu.be/3kh6K_-a0c4
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 28, 2026 10:44

I forgot about that song, it’s funny when songs mention where you live.

Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 10:49 PM (Wmg4n)

110 What? No mention of those oh-so-fashionable glasses like my dear departed Aunt Helen wore back in the 50's/60's. Don't recall what they're called. Wing-shaped with rhinestones. Tried an image search, but didn't find any quite as ugly.

This ONT is off to a good start. Hello you rascally radicals. And doofy folk.

*ponders* *checks wictionary*

doof
noun
1. A type of music with pronounced bass typically associated with the modified car scene; doof-doof.
2. An outdoor dance party, held in bushland in a remote area or on the outskirts of a city.
3. A simpleton.

I did not know that.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and'?? at June 28, 2026 10:49 PM (C8pEi)

111 34 Greetings from the Rush concert in Ft Worth. It's intermission. Unbelievable show. If you have a chance to see them., GO

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 28, 2026 10:22 PM (/4R5g)

Seconded! As I mentioned yesterday, if you are a fan and able to scare up the dough for the tix, you really must go.

Posted by: goozer at June 28, 2026 10:49 PM (eTh1u)

112
Ha, ha. Yankees score two in the 9th to tie and two in the 10th to go ahead and they still lose, 5-4.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2026 10:50 PM (O0L8i)

113 I missed the food thread because the spawn was at a team gun cleaning thing. We did discuss eyewear while there.
I have a friend smoking a brisket for me for the fourth he makes an amazing Texas style smoked brisket.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 28, 2026 10:50 PM (VCgbV)

114 Back in the 70's there were a style of spectacles that were very sought after, and rarely acquired. They advertised everywhere, and promised a unique experience.

X-RAY SPECS !!!!!

https://tinyurl.com/2tt2w64x

(Not to be confused with a knock-off brand promising that you could see through womens clothes.)

Posted by: Orson at June 28, 2026 10:50 PM (dIske)

115 Left without a real explanation

I wonder what demographic this person is from. What's the cause of their ignorance?

Posted by: GWB at June 28, 2026 10:51 PM (kU0PQ)

116 >> I already told you! I was in the pool!

It's okay, size doesn't matter.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

117 Memphis edition:

youtu.be/0968f0VWvd8

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2026 10:51 PM (sAmhv)

118 107

That's tough reading. Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 10:52 PM (RCjYY)

119 Sophia Loren... yum.

Posted by: GWB at June 28, 2026 10:53 PM (kU0PQ)

120 114 Back in the 70's there were a style of spectacles that were very sought after, and rarely acquired. They advertised everywhere, and promised a unique experience.

X-RAY SPECS !!!!!

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Seems like Meta could update this concept to good economic effect.

Just spitballin' here.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:53 PM (6/7Fs)

121 @107 publius, prayers for momma

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2026 10:53 PM (f6yx7)

122
(Not to be confused with a knock-off brand promising that you could see through womens clothes.)

Posted by: Orson at June 28, 2026 10:50 PM (dIske)

__________

I suppose when you're a young, horny boy that has some appeal, but being 29 and looking at people nowadays, the thought makes me want to woof.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2026 10:54 PM (O0L8i)

123 >> I am at about 51N. Moon was pretty low in the sky when I last saw it

Transit would peak at just a little over 10 degrees there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:55 PM (w6EFb)

124 Ian Hunter is 87. Saw him in the 90s when he was in his sixties
Great show.
Mick Ralphs died last year at 81.
Mott was a very underrated band

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 28, 2026 10:55 PM (f6yx7)

125 (Not to be confused with a knock-off brand promising that you could see through womens clothes.)
Posted by: Orson

I suppose when you're a young, horny boy that has some appeal, but being 29 and looking at people nowadays, the thought makes me want to woof.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Like a portable nudist beach. Ain't nobody wanna see that.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

126 Then again, they promised a personal submarine to interested parties in the back pages of Boys Life Magazine.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 10:55 PM (6/7Fs)

127 Muslim invader in Germany giving answers in Arabic that we'd all pretty much expect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdnvKc8nT-k

There is a nasty civil war going on in Sudan, and just this month, an estimated 60,000 people lost their lives when a major city was captured by the rebels. We should ship these invaders to the Sudan and let them fend for themselves. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQEO13vevpQ )

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 28, 2026 10:58 PM (ifT/p)

128 My only contribution to the eyeglasses discussion:

From "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes":

Marilyn Monroe: "I like men who wear glasses with big thick lenses!"

Jane Russell: "REALLY? Why?"

Marilyn: "Because you know how their eyes get that way? It's from reading all that little tiny print in the Wall Street Journal."

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 10:58 PM (RCjYY)

129 https://x.com/i/status/2071331062790197696
Cigar?
Posted by: Cicero

“Trump degrades what it means to be American” ~ Chelsea Clinton

Just how utterly clueless must she be to not realize that with her parents (allegedly) this is not a message she should be making!!😒

Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and'?? at June 28, 2026 10:58 PM (C8pEi)

130 I suppose when you're a young, horny boy that has some appeal, but being 29 and looking at people nowadays, the thought makes me want to woof.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

When I lived in Hawaii, I hosted my lil sis for a week on her spring break from HS. She *demanded* that we go to Waikiki beach. Ok, so we went to the beach & slathered on our sunscreen and watched.

Hahaha, I think she was expecting to see a bunch of hot young guys. Um, noooo... old wrinkly dudes in Speedos and land-whales in string bikinis. Yikes!

Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2026 10:58 PM (rdVOm)

131 1). I wear round, tortoiseshell frames ... did wear RayBan Aviators in high school and college, but found the round, tortoiseshell frames a better look for my face.

2) If you find yourself in downtown Cleveland, go see the Arcade in person, it's a very interesting landmark in the city.

Posted by: browndog says woof at June 28, 2026 10:58 PM (3sXRv)

132 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

133 Transit would peak at just a little over 10 degrees there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:55 PM (w6EFb)

Well, I just went outside to water the lawn, and Lo! And behold! There was a patch of blue sky nearly overhead. But still socked in solid around the horizon in all directions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)

134 Its origins lie in a mix of astronomy, astrology, religion, and ancient practicality — with a healthy dose of historical debate.
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12 month year, 24 hour day, 7 day week; wheels within wheels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2026 11:00 PM (VQ0bX)

135 Treated myself many years ago to a pair of Serengeti sunglasses. Nowadays, it's the "el cheapo" models.

Posted by: scampydog at June 28, 2026 11:01 PM (41CYW)

136 The 2nd woman in glasses is absolutely gorgeous.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at June 28, 2026 11:02 PM (DZ9Lv)

137 Noah Kahan's fans seem not to be housebroken. One of them at his concert dropped a couple deuces and kicked them under someone else's seat, but someone caught the crime
youtu.be/FWm5vAA_798
tl;dr, use the potty.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 28, 2026 11:02 PM (gKWVE)

138 Sofia Loren has probably been the most beautiful woman alive for many decades. Even today, she looks gorgeous.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2026 11:03 PM (CHHv1)

139 129

Last I heard, and I'm not gonna bother to check, Chelsea was married to an uber-liberal PA DEM congressman.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:04 PM (RCjYY)

140 That's in the article, after some woke hogwash about the Babylonians inventing it. A vanished culture says what?
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov

It mentions how the Germanic cultures used the names of Norse gods, but glosses over how they just took the Roman names and made direct substitutions.
Mars’ Day became Tiw’s Day, but it’s still Martes in Spanish . Mercury’s Day became Wodens Day, but back there it’s still Miercoles.

And I cannot understand why English kept Saturns Day, rather than going with some version of Sabboth like Sabado. Pretty pagan move there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:04 PM (ub99y)

141 “Trump degrades what it means to be American” ~ Chelsea Clinton

Just how utterly clueless must she be to not realize that with her parents (allegedly) this is not a message she should be making!!😒
Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and'?? at June 28, 2026 10:58 PM (C8pEi)

The shit apple does not fall far from the shit tree.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 11:04 PM (1z8ji)

142 Sorry I'm late. My M13/40 was lost in the Egyptian desert.

Thanks go out to the wonderful moron who suggested Cross Over for the Mac. My Steam games are working, including Panzer Corps 2.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2026 11:05 PM (qx7Zg)

143
Last I heard, and I'm not gonna bother to check, Chelsea was married to an uber-liberal PA DEM congressman.
Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:04 PM (RCjYY)

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I don't really keep track, but I thought she married some stuffed shirt hedge fund trader with a spectacularly mediocre record of success.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 11:07 PM (6/7Fs)

144 Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton or... suicide?

Door #3, please.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:07 PM (RCjYY)

145 Glasses instantly raise a chick’s hotness factor by like something like 50 points, provided that she’s otherwise attractive.

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 11:07 PM (77rzZ)

146 nose oils? cooties you mean

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 28, 2026 11:07 PM (75T1J)

147 What GWB said at 119.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 28, 2026 11:08 PM (2WIwB)

148 >> Its origins lie in a mix of astronomy, astrology, religion, and ancient practicality

The history of this is indeed fascinating and complex.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 11:08 PM (w6EFb)

149 >> publius, prayers for momma

Thank you all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

150 143

I might be confusing her with Amy Carter. ONE or the other married a DEM congressman from PA with a hyphenated name.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:09 PM (RCjYY)

151 The history of this is indeed fascinating and complex.

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Are we talking Zoroastrianism now? Because I have some opinions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 11:09 PM (6/7Fs)

152 138 Yeah, Sofia Loren is still hubba hubba, even in her 90s.

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 11:10 PM (77rzZ)

153 >>>“Trump degrades what it means to be American” ~ Chelsea Clinton

Just how utterly clueless must she be to not realize that with her parents (allegedly) this is not a message she should be making!!😒

Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and'??

>Chelsea is a garden slug with a plastic surgeon. What does she possibly have to contribute civilization?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 28, 2026 11:10 PM (fkjGs)

154 Chelsea is a garden slug with a plastic surgeon. What does she possibly have to contribute civilization?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The "before" picture?

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 11:11 PM (VHUov)

155 >“Trump degrades what it means to be American” ~ Chelsea Clinton

Just how utterly clueless must she be to not realize that with her parents (allegedly) this is not a message she should be making!!😒

Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and'??

Diddling your intern with a cigar in the Oval Office and lying about it to the entire country is not at all degrading.

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2026 11:12 PM (04gcy)

156 76
Do check out the near-full (99.3%) Moon tonight. It's the lowest of the year, rising and setting about as far south as it gets. This is due to an 18.6 nodal precession cycle. Anyway the Moon's orbit is inclined close to the maximum, about 28.5 degrees it can get. The peak of that 18.6 year cycle was around Dec. 2024, but it's slow, and because of the timing/alignment of the full Moon points, this month is about as low as it was in June of last year.”

Looking at it right now! Always love to see it. I remember times when it’s come up due east, but tonight it’s shining through the pecan tree on the far south side of my yard.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:13 PM (ub99y)

157 Chelsea is a garden slug with a plastic surgeon. What does she possibly have to contribute civilization?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The "before" picture?
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 11:11 PM (VHUov)

... to induce vomiting.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)

158 Trump degrades what it means to be American” ~ Chelsea Clinton

Just how utterly clueless must she be to not realize that with her parents (allegedly) this is not a message she should be making!!😒
Posted by: mindful webworker - Embrace the power of 'and'?? at June 28, 2026 10:58 PM (C8pEi)

What she said is a truly, fundamental stupid thing to have said.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 28, 2026 11:13 PM (2WIwB)

159 Chelsea used to get herself arrested Protesting Wealth and Social Injustice!

If she married a hedge fund manager, her views must've... evolved.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:13 PM (RCjYY)

160 I wonder who the hottest presidential daughter has been…

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 11:13 PM (77rzZ)

161 70+ comments and no takers yet on the 7 day week?
**sigh**
Exodus 20:8-11
The fourth commandment.

Posted by: TeeJ at June 28, 2026 10:42 PM (xI6JS)
-

SOURCE: Genesis 1.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 28, 2026 11:13 PM (5UTWB)

162 Diddling your intern with a cigar in the Oval Office and lying about it to the entire country is not at all degrading.
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2026 11:12 PM (04gcy)

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To be fair, the boys weren't exactly breaking down the doors to date Lewinsky, so you could see the cigar episode as an act of Christian charity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 11:15 PM (6/7Fs)

163 >>>“Trump degrades what it means to be American” ~ Chelsea Clinton

Dafuq would SHE know about what being an American *means*?

Posted by: JQ at June 28, 2026 11:15 PM (rdVOm)

164 160

Trump's daughter Kai checks in.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:15 PM (RCjYY)

165 Would love to check out the moon, but it won’t be dark for another two hours and it’s overcast.

Not suppposef to get out of the low 70s all week.

Neener Neener Neener.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 28, 2026 11:17 PM (qFEQT)

166 And I cannot understand why English kept Saturns Day, rather than going with some version of Sabboth like Sabado. Pretty pagan move there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:04 PM (ub99y)
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Sabado
In the park
I think it was the 4th of July.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 28, 2026 11:17 PM (5UTWB)

167 162 Monica Lewinsky was a beautiful young woman, though. Too bad Billy Jeff ruined her for all other guys, though.

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 11:17 PM (77rzZ)

168 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 11:15 PM (6/7Fs

Hah. She actually is much better looking now than when she was in her 20's .

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2026 11:17 PM (04gcy)

169 Trump's daughter Kai checks in.
Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:15 PM (RCjYY)

Granddaughter

Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2026 11:19 PM (04gcy)

170 >>>Round wire-rim or teashade glasses exploded with the counterculture movement.
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On the road he said, Brae, look in the glove box, see the leather packet, take it out. He said it as if it were a precious stone. I took it out and handed it to him. I was a black snakeskin case. He opened it and took out tiny gold wire framed blue glasses. He thought he had levitated to the next level.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2026 11:19 PM (VQ0bX)

171 Trump's daughter Kai checks in.
Posted by: mnw

Cutie, but 47's granddaughter, not daughter.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)

172 169

I don't check stuff. If my memory is wrong, then it's wrong.

It's kind of a point of pride.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:20 PM (RCjYY)

173 34 Greetings from the Rush concert in Ft Worth. It's intermission. Unbelievable show. If you have a chance to see them., GO
Posted by: screaming in digital

Groovy! My days of loud concerts are over. My hearing is already jacked up. Glad they sound great but RUSH is the GREATEST ROCK BAND EVEH!!!! I will wait for the concert CD/DVD.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2026 11:20 PM (sAmhv)

174 Cool and overcast here. Chance of rain again.

Gotta keep the heat at bay. I like it.

Looks to be sunny and hot on Independence Day weekend. Good with that too.
God Bless America.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at June 28, 2026 11:21 PM (0aYVJ)

175 Hah. She actually is much better looking now than when she was in her 20's .
Posted by: polynikes at June 28, 2026 11:17 PM (04gcy)

Told ya it was good for the skin. Glow up, even.

Posted by: Billy Jeff at June 28, 2026 11:22 PM (wVcYX)

176 I can’t say if she was the hottest, but the most legendary Presidential daughter was Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Intellectual, socialite, at times scandalous - best trivia about her is that she’s believed to have personally met every US President from Grover Cleveland through Gerald Ford.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:23 PM (ub99y)

177 I wonder who the hottest presidential daughter has been…
Posted by: Bulg

Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump

AND, PDJT's granddaughters too I imagine - Kai Madison Trump, Arabella Rose Kushner, Chloe Sophia Trump and
Carolina Dorothy Trump.

(but I'm too lazy to check)

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2026 11:23 PM (+/hEQ)

178 So, a serious question for you intellectuals. I am watching a television show which is in English. Several times during the show, a commercial will come on completely in Spanish. So why would a person watching a show in English (even if they speak Spanish), suddenly not understand English and need the commercial in their language?

Posted by: Lovejustone at June 28, 2026 11:23 PM (LVEPX)

179 I've worn glasses since I was seven, and most of the time they were ugly inexpensive ones since I needed a new pair every year.
I did get a pair similar to the Sophia Loren glasses in the 80s, with the fancy temple arms and tinted lenses. Then I added contacts thru my 20s and 30s. It was nice, but a real PITA for general maintenance.

Just shy of my 40th birthday, I got LASIK done. It was great, but that only lasted for about 8 years before I needed readers. Now, I'm back to full time glasses with progressive lenses. Online sources make it a little easier to find what you want, but not always cheaper.

Posted by: Effie Perrine at June 28, 2026 11:25 PM (p1D+n)

180 So, a serious question for you intellectuals. I am watching a television show which is in English. Several times during the show, a commercial will come on completely in Spanish. So why would a person watching a show in English (even if they speak Spanish), suddenly not understand English and need the commercial in their language?
Posted by: Lovejustone

Same reason there are no white couples in commercials anymore. Hell, there's damn few hetero couples in commercials now that I think about it.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2026 11:25 PM (+/hEQ)

181 It is past bed time for me! Everyone enjoy the rest of the night!

Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 11:26 PM (OoFl2)

182 Speaking of the Wall Street Journal, they just amped up the Streisand Effect for Pricks & Minidicks to 11 by publishing an article on the whole stolen LEGO Star Wars collection story.

Pricks and Minidicks thought they were the big boys and able to legally bully people. But as usual, it just takes one small event to collapse a seeming giant.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

183 Night Piper!

Give soup a squeeze!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 28, 2026 11:27 PM (yEz+x)

184 Everyone enjoy the rest of the night!
Posted by: Piper

You're not the boss of me!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2026 11:27 PM (+/hEQ)

185 So, a serious question for you intellectuals. I am watching a television show which is in English. Several times during the show, a commercial will come on completely in Spanish. So why would a person watching a show in English (even if they speak Spanish), suddenly not understand English and need the commercial in their language?
Posted by: Lovejustone

Most likely: the advertiser thinks they'll gain more customers in Spanish than they'll lose in English.

Less likely: they're assuming the Spanish-speaking viewers don't understand English, and are watching with Spanish subtitles or alternate audio..... or are just watching the pretty pictures without understanding s--t.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 11:28 PM (VHUov)

186 177 Yeah, probably Ivanka.

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 11:28 PM (77rzZ)

187 181 It is past bed time for me! Everyone enjoy the rest of the night!
Posted by: Piper at June 28, 2026 11:26 PM (OoFl2)

--------

Wait. Where are you going?

I was going to make espresso!

Posted by: The Blind Hermit at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (6/7Fs)

188 Pricks and Minidicks thought they were the big boys and able to legally bully people. But as usual, it just takes one small event to collapse a seeming giant.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Goliath has entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (+/hEQ)

189 I love AosHQ but that was the dumbest link I have ever seen on this site about the history of the 7 day week. The Torah sets out the 7 day week in roughly 2500 BC and the Jews continue to follow it for multiple millenia. The Christians then pick it up but move the holy day to Sunday because of the resurrection of Jesus on that day. The Roman emperor converts to Christianity and there you go. None of the other stuff presented in the article mattered at all.

Posted by: David Hall at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (eClUY)

190 The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum recently posted a video asking a very important question.

Can a museum have too many Panzers?

My take is No. What do you think?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (qx7Zg)

191 Monica Lewinsky was a beautiful young woman, though.

Uh...huh?

Posted by: Beer goggles at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (ceJ0R)

192 So, a serious question for you intellectuals. I am watching a television show which is in English. Several times during the show, a commercial will come on completely in Spanish. So why would a person watching a show in English (even if they speak Spanish), suddenly not understand English and need the commercial in their language?
Posted by: Lovejustone at June 28, 2026 11:23 PM (LVEPX)

Because somebody in the TV station shoved the wrong cart in the player?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (1z8ji)

193 While you could tell the difference in size if a big perigee full moon was next to a micromoon right there in sky, the difference is otherwise not noticeable. Anyway, low on the horizon near rise and set, it will looming large and yellow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

I went out to see it. Am at 29.9 latitude and it's just above the tree tops to the SSE. Nice and bright, scattered clouds and no stars.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (wVcYX)

194 Doof! 'Nother Memphis song::

https://youtu.be/Pfvi8CEsrxA

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 28, 2026 11:30 PM (PiwSw)

195 Most Spicnniks in the US understand, and even speak, English perfectly well.

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 11:30 PM (77rzZ)

196 Maybe it was a commercial for a language school. I saw one in France that was half in French & half in English.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:32 PM (RCjYY)

197 I am waiting on them to finish their Wespe.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

198 Tony Pete

Pride goeth before the fall.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:32 PM (2GVsD)

199 177 I wonder who the hottest presidential daughter has been…
Posted by: Bulg

--

Oh, definitely Ella Emhoff

Posted by: That chick what lives in the alternate reality where Kamala won at June 28, 2026 11:33 PM (PiwSw)

200 191 Come on. That ivory skin, dark hair, and great smile? Way better looking than Paula Jones.

Posted by: Bulg at June 28, 2026 11:34 PM (77rzZ)

201 Oh, definitely Ella Emhoff

What colour is your skye?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:34 PM (2GVsD)

202 Groovy! My days of loud concerts are over. My hearing is already jacked up. Glad they sound great but RUSH is the GREATEST ROCK BAND EVEH!!!! I will wait for the concert CD/DVD.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2026 11:20 PM (sAmhv)

Rock bands could never destroy what I already destroyed playing in metal bands. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2026 11:34 PM (snZF9)

203 Someone in Iraq seems to be launching some kind of coup, but it’s not clear at all which side is behind it, or which side is taking control.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:37 PM (ub99y)

204 Currently listening to Ella Langley.

youtu.be/9D-uBr4Y9T0

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2026 11:37 PM (sAmhv)

205 Elanor Mondale was the sex scandal we deserved during the Clinton years. I actually saw her up close and she was very attractive.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 28, 2026 11:38 PM (ifT/p)

206 Sophie Cunningham seems to be happy just being alive. I really want to wish her all the best.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 28, 2026 11:38 PM (fqFLK)

207 Someone in Iraq seems to be launching some kind of coup, but it’s not clear at all which side is behind it, or which side is taking control.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:37 PM (ub99y)

Maybe its one of those out of control iraqi weddings.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2026 11:38 PM (snZF9)

208 Someone in Iraq seems to be launching some kind of coup, but it’s not clear at all which side is behind it, or which side is taking control.
Posted by: Tom Servo

So they're taking over, but nobody will know who they are?

That's coup-coup.

.....actually, though, could we do that here? I'd like to try "undetectable government" for a while.

Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 11:38 PM (VHUov)

209 Airfix, never let an opportunity go to waste.

They have released a 1/72 Heinkel He 111 with markings to copy a famous Motorhead album cover.

Not to be outdone, Revell also tarted up a 1/32 Supermarine Spitfire kit with Iron Maiden.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:39 PM (2GVsD)

210 BD

I suspect had I been more than metal curious, my hearing would have given out a long time ago. 😉

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2026 11:39 PM (sAmhv)

211 203 Someone in Iraq seems to be launching some kind of coup, but it’s not clear at all which side is behind it, or which side is taking control.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:37 PM (ub99y)

Thanks, George.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 28, 2026 11:40 PM (gKWVE)

212 https://tinyurl.com/y3cmaz95
Posted by: Braenyard

BECAUSE of governmental policies and asholishness, I spent more time dealing with Legal & Compliance than actually doing the work I was hired to do at JPMC.

Point of interest: The phone operators at JPMC are as good as the While House operators - they can find anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world with only a few minutes notice. No kidding, they are that good.

Posted by: Tonypete
---

The whole interview was impressive (him) but it really struck me how he had to suck it up with E.Holder and his impression of the two regimes and that kind of thing in general.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 28, 2026 11:40 PM (VQ0bX)

213 I had to Google Ella Emhoff tonight & Scott Weiner last night, trying to recall why those names sounded familiar.

Posted by: mnw at June 28, 2026 11:40 PM (RCjYY)

214 Posted by: Beer goggles at June 28, 2026 11:29 PM (ceJ0R)

Maybe Monica looked better in aerial view

Posted by: gKWVE at June 28, 2026 11:41 PM (gKWVE)

215 211 203 Someone in Iraq seems to be launching some kind of coup, but it’s not clear at all which side is behind it, or which side is taking control.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:37 PM (ub99y)

--

Quick! Deploy James Taylor!

Posted by: President John F. Kerry, in another alternate universe at June 28, 2026 11:41 PM (PiwSw)

216
Sabado
In the park
I think it was the 4th of July.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Does anybody really know what day it is?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2026 11:42 PM (Cqx++)

217 Rock bands could never destroy what I already destroyed playing in metal bands. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2026 11:34 PM (

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One concert by "The Who" was enough for me. So loud.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 28, 2026 11:42 PM (fqFLK)

218 Maybe Monica looked better in aerial view

Cameraman, "Cleveland?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:42 PM (2GVsD)

219 Local college where I mostly grew up has a lot of resources due to this guy:
https://youtu.be/EDHV4PUZvgY
Oh, and they named a building used by the Music department after him. They call it the Tom T Hall.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 28, 2026 11:43 PM (QsMc1)

220 Quick! Deploy James Taylor!

Kicked out the back of an MC-130J sans parachute oui?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:43 PM (2GVsD)

221 Any Clinton who complains about anything American must know that, if we lived in a moral age, all Clintons would be in the dunking pool, and none of them would float.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2026 11:44 PM (CHHv1)

222
For those interested, timeanddate.com will given you the rise and set azimuth and transit altitude of the Moon every day for your exact location. Use a URL of the form:

"www.timeanddate.com/moon/@Lat, Long"

where Lat and Long are your coordinates. Use negative long for W, which most of the Horde are. Positive would be east. And latitude is positive for just about all of us. We might have somebody south of the equator, I don't know.

Timeanddate is very accurate, using topocentric coordinates and the actual WGS ellipsoids true geoid elevation. But it's assuming a flat local plane, not taking into account any mountains or valleys around you, not to mention tree lines and such. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 11:45 PM (w6EFb)

223 BD

I suspect had I been more than metal curious, my hearing would have given out a long time ago. 😉

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 28, 2026 11:39 PM (sAmhv)

Yeah, no doubt. Its the drummer more than anything. Their snare drum can be like a gun shot. Over and over and over. It wasn't the amps, its was the frigging drummers. Especially if you had a hard hitting barbarian.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2026 11:48 PM (snZF9)

224 And now they know many holes it takes to fill the Tom T. Hall.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2026 11:48 PM (Cqx++)

225
Anyway, for everybody in the North, the Moon is rising and setting about as far south of east and west as it ever can. Not the absolute farthest, but close enough for govt. work.

In the Southern hemisphere, the Moon will be the highest it can get just about. It's still rising and setting very south of E and W, but for them that's "high" being upside down. A low moon rises north for them. For us, a high moon rises north.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 11:48 PM (w6EFb)

226 *ROTFLHCAO*

Joey Bidet, Mr. Diminished Capacity claims that Trump has diminished the US on the world stage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:48 PM (2GVsD)

227 New days of week:

Sunday - Peaceday
Monday - Jobday
Tuesday - Adamday
Wednesday - Noahday
Thursday - Peterday
Friday - Joeday or Josephday
Saturday - Sabbaday

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2026 11:49 PM (qx7Zg)

228 One concert by "The Who" was enough for me. So loud.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 28, 2026 11:42 PM (fqFLK)

---------

I ruined my hearing on a tourist jaunt in Vietnam. I fired a captured Ma Deuce with no hearing protection.

My hearing never recovered but now I can honestly say l wrecked my hearing under fire in 'Nam. I get sympathetic but inquisitive looks from the neighbors.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 28, 2026 11:49 PM (6/7Fs)

229
If you don't want to put in your coordinates, just use the nearest town, and that will generally be close enough. For exact timings, that can be a little off (but not much, unless you're really far away from the nearest town). Altitudes, rise and set azimuths will be even closer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 28, 2026 11:51 PM (w6EFb)

230 I need the brain bleach now.

Magnificon Expo 2026 in Poland, they have a guy on the stage extorting the crowd. He is thickset and with a beard. He is also wearing an anime themed dress with a short, ruffled skirt.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:52 PM (2GVsD)

231 Iraq having a coup? I have no idea who the current Iraqi leaders are nor if it makes any difference who is in charge there.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 28, 2026 11:53 PM (PV+Zw)

232 WGS ellipsoids
_-_
Didn't expect to see that term here. First project I worked on 30 -something years age was some code to do geodetic datum transformations; transform coordinates to earth centered fixed from the referenced datum, do the translation,rotation,scale change, then back to latitude and longitude. Fun!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 28, 2026 11:53 PM (QsMc1)

233 Who cares what Chelsea has to say? Who is she? What has she ever done? So she has infamous parents, big deal.

Posted by: Case at June 28, 2026 11:53 PM (IY9No)

234 Joey Bidet, Mr. Diminished Capacity claims that Trump has diminished the US on the world stage.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:48 PM (2GVsD)

Leftist scumbags always claim that. The only thing trump did was to diminish Europe's ability to belly laugh at the US president like they did with joey choo choo.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 28, 2026 11:54 PM (snZF9)

235 "Use negative long for W....".

One of the reasons I hang out here is because I'm not the only person in the room who understands what this means. The Horde is a type of living, breathing Wikipedia without the libtard editing.

Posted by: PabloD at June 28, 2026 11:56 PM (byoW7)

236 After Keir Starmer's resignation, Larry the Cat has now outlasted 6 UK Prime Ministers and is set to welcome a 7th at 10 Downing Street. At this point, he might be the most stable figure in British politics.

-- WeirdWorld

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 28, 2026 11:56 PM (qx7Zg)

237 So far the Iraqi operation, which is purportedly an anti-corruption one, is following along the purported lines, but with an emphasis on (surprise!) Sunni politicos. And some military officers. Of course fairly coarse corruption can be found in most public figures and operations in the country, but this doesn't make the operation necessarily useless or merely sectarian. And still not clear if any Shi'a bigs will be hit. Though there was one report that Kataib Hezbollah, the key Iran-influenced/militia-tied outfit, was targeted.

Like everything else in the region, the perception and expectation of Iranian regime prospects is probably key. At the moment those (perceived) prospects have almost certainly skyrocketed compared to 2 months ago.

Iranian foreign minister was in Baghdad today.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2026 11:58 PM (U/Byj)

238
231 Iraq having a coup? I have no idea who the current Iraqi leaders are nor if it makes any difference who is in charge there.
Posted by: PaleRider at June 28, 2026 11:53 PM (PV+Zw)

It’s led to the most ridiculous story on X tonight - a video was posted showing M1A1 tanks moving through Baghdad tonight. (That much is true)

So some Islamic microcephaloid started shrieking that this proved that America was invading Iraq again! And he attracted the usual group of chattering fools.

Sane people tried reminding them that the Iraqi government owns a large number of those tanks which the US gave to them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 28, 2026 11:58 PM (ub99y)

239 Larry the Cat would make a better PM at this point.

His chief rival to be Chief Mouser at #10 recently passed away, well that is the official story.

Larry had MI6 'retire' him I am sure.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:58 PM (2GVsD)

240 Magnificon Expo 2026 in Poland, they have a guy on the stage extorting the crowd. He is thickset and with a beard. He is also wearing an anime themed dress with a short, ruffled skirt.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:52 PM (2GVsD)

Extorting the crowd? Is he threatening to take his skirt off?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2026 11:58 PM (1z8ji)

241 The only thing that Joe Biden accomplished as president, and what honest history will honor him for, is his complete and total exposure of the Democrat party as criminals, thieves, and parasites. Lots of people woke up during his tenure, and they're still awake.

Yes, lots of Liberals didn't wake up, and remain brain damaged beyond repair. But you can't cure every disease, no matter how destructive it is. As long as it's enshrined as a "viewpoint."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 28, 2026 11:59 PM (CHHv1)

242 It was in Polish and no subtitles so no idea.

Thank Kami-sama.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:00 AM (2GVsD)

243
Well, of course we have at least one south of the equator: Pixy! That totally escaped me.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 12:00 AM (w6EFb)

244 One concert by "The Who" was enough for me. So loud.
_-_
Yeah, when the guys playing on stage are wearing earplugs, and the people in the audience are wearing earplugs, it seems like there is some efficiency to be wrung out of the thing.

Now the Great Highland pipes, well, if you don't play those with earplugs, you won't be hearing long. Nothing much can be done about that one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 29, 2026 12:00 AM (QsMc1)

245 Iranian foreign minister was in Baghdad today.

Perfect time for a crash.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:00 AM (2GVsD)

246
They think Stonehenge also has markers for the Major lunistices (lunar standstills) as well, marking the northernmost and southernmost rising/setting of the Moon, too. The solar alignments are obvious, but there is some doubt about the lunar ones still, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 12:02 AM (w6EFb)

247 Larry the Cat would make a better PM at this point.

His chief rival to be Chief Mouser at #10 recently passed away, well that is the official story.

Larry had MI6 'retire' him I am sure.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:58 PM (2GVsD)

His name is Whiskers, Larry Whiskers, 003.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 12:04 AM (qx7Zg)

248 208 Someone in Iraq seems to be launching some kind of coup, but it’s not clear at all which side is behind it, or which side is taking control.
Posted by: Tom Servo
-------------

They locked down the green zone and arrested some politicians yesterday/last night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 12:07 AM (VQ0bX)

249
The Moon's orbit is inclided about 5 degrees to the ecliptic. That remains almost constant, but precesses around once every 18.6 years. Thus, that 5 degrees either adds or subtracts for the earth's axial tilt at the peak and trough of the cycle. When it adds, that's a Major Standstill, and when it subtracts, that's a Minor Standstill.

Wiki has some diagrams here. There was a better one somewhere, but I can't find it:

https://t.ly/4vpsZ

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 12:07 AM (w6EFb)

250 I had to look up the last 6 UK prime ministers. Even reading the names Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak I have no recollection of either of them. Liz must have been short tenure 2022-2022, but Rishi was 2022-2024 so at least over 13 months as PM. But I was very unplugged from world news during that period.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 29, 2026 12:07 AM (PV+Zw)

251 >>To be fair, the boys weren't exactly breaking down the doors to date Lewinsky, so you could see the cigar episode as an act of Christian charity.

You might yet make a fine sailor.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 12:07 AM (viF8m)

252 They think Stonehenge also has markers for the Major lunistices (lunar standstills) as well, marking the northernmost and southernmost rising/setting of the Moon, too. The solar alignments are obvious, but there is some doubt about the lunar ones still, I think.
Posted by: publius,

Any yet, no stone for Juneteenth?

How racist! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2026 12:08 AM (+/hEQ)

253 AoP

I am not sure if more knowledge is a good thing in this matter. The bearded guy in the dress apparently was a guest of the con. The group is called BabyBeard and had a concert at the con.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:09 AM (2GVsD)

254 Larry Whiskers 003 has my vote.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 12:11 AM (WnX77)

255 Larry the Cat would make a better PM at this point.

His chief rival to be Chief Mouser at #10 recently passed away, well that is the official story.

Larry had MI6 'retire' him I am sure.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2026 11:58 PM (2GVsD)

His name is Whiskers, Larry Whiskers, 003.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 12:04 AM (qx7Zg)

License to nap.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 29, 2026 12:11 AM (wVcYX)

256 Gotta tell someone this: One of my nieces, blond, lovely and an imbecilic mental midget with a Masters Degree in Social Work has been posting all kinds of Juneteenth BS. She has only dated black losers and found varying degrees of abuse and yet, has not figured out how she has experienced such a run of bad luck.

Yes, her Mom and Dad are leftards too - in case you are wondering.

But apparently, I'M the MAGA asshoe.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 29, 2026 12:12 AM (+/hEQ)

257 Sorry Tonypete.

Both my nieces are lost. And my “nieces” (best friends daughters) as well.

As progtarded as they get. True Seattle girls. At least they all identify as girls. For now.

My God, I got lucky with my boys. Holy crap.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 12:15 AM (WnX77)

258 That's in the article, after some woke hogwash about the Babylonians inventing it. A vanished culture says what?
Posted by: mikeski at June 28, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

They wrote it down, all the maths and angles.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 29, 2026 12:15 AM (rbvCR)

259 Pretty sure I saw Rush in concert at the Hippodrome. Late 70s or very early 80s

Posted by: Pretty Sure at June 29, 2026 12:15 AM (aaVhS)

260 I am not sure if more knowledge is a good thing in this matter. The bearded guy in the dress apparently was a guest of the con. The group is called BabyBeard and had a concert at the con.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:09 AM (2GVsD)

You missed the joke, Anna. I'm sure you meant "exhorting" but autocucumber printed "extorting", and I ran with that, as I am wont to do in such cases.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 12:16 AM (1z8ji)

261 I am not sure if more knowledge is a good thing in this matter. The bearded guy in the dress apparently was a guest of the con. The group is called BabyBeard and had a concert at the con.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Oh, him. The Aussie crossdresser pro-wrestler movie-stuntman metal-singer.

I think his persona is as real as anything else in pro wrestling, so the 'trans' folks probably hate him.

Posted by: mikeski at June 29, 2026 12:16 AM (VHUov)

262 found varying degrees of abuse and yet, has not figured out how she has experienced such a run of bad luck

Chicks are especially vulnerable to psychological manipulation and propaganda. She hates her “whiteness” because she was taught that. She would have been fainting & fawning over Der Fuhrer in another time, another place amiright?

Posted by: Pretty Sure at June 29, 2026 12:19 AM (aaVhS)

263 Mikeski

So a grifter cashing in. What's gnu.

YouTube has Act II of Dominion Tank Police and the auto-translate, I had to turn off. The Police chief's rant at the mayor about wanting to arm the Tank Police with nukes, somehow the LLM put in there 'sperm vagina"

All right... yeesh

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:20 AM (2GVsD)

264 They are all faggots and queers preening to be first in line.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 12:21 AM (VQ0bX)

265 Romans 1:28

Posted by: Archer at June 29, 2026 12:22 AM (wvc0i)

266 Birmingham Blues

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-V99bqrnQo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 12:22 AM (VQ0bX)

267 Unity Mitford not only fell in love with Hitler, she took to stalking him and he finally had to acknowledge her. When war broke out and he told her she needs to go back to England, Unity tried to blow her brains out. Instead, she survived and returned to England brain damaged.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:22 AM (2GVsD)

268 looks like youtube, which hates all things fun, removed 21stcenturymouse.com content from the site.
Star-Babes and Starships can still be had from rumble

Posted by: gKWVE at June 29, 2026 12:24 AM (gKWVE)

269 Chicks are especially vulnerable to psychological manipulation and propaganda. She hates her “whiteness” because she was taught that. She would have been fainting & fawning over Der Fuhrer in another time, another place amiright?
Posted by: Pretty Sure at June 29, 2026 12:19 AM (aaVhS)

Most interesting theory was that back in very ancient times, young women were often traded to, or captured by, completely different groups than those they were born in. Because of that, the idea is that an ability to quickly and wholeheartedly adopt the new groups beliefs and standards became an essential survival technique, while for men all they needed to do was to be able to hunt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2026 12:26 AM (ub99y)

270 YouTube has Act II of Dominion Tank Police and the auto-translate, I had to turn off. The Police chief's rant at the mayor about wanting to arm the Tank Police with nukes, somehow the LLM put in there 'sperm vagina"

All right... yeesh
Posted by: Anna Puma

It must be fun to [auto-]translate audio in a language with that many homophones.

Posted by: mikeski at June 29, 2026 12:26 AM (VHUov)

271 It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party...

Posted by: Archer at June 29, 2026 12:28 AM (wvc0i)

272 Pretty sure I saw Rush in concert at the Hippodrome. Late 70s or very early 80s
Posted by: Pretty Sure at June 29, 2026 12:15 AM (aaVhS)

Wait. I don't get it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 29, 2026 12:28 AM (u/oMr)

273 I saw Moo Deng at the Hippodome.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2026 12:29 AM (Cqx++)

274 MU closed at 1,132.33. I sold it in '25 @ 118 & was glad to be rid of it.
_I do not live in FL

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 12:30 AM (VQ0bX)

275 Citizen Vigilante: Uneven, but I can understand its resonance with Europeans. "The Rape Gang Report" -- 250,000 British girls raped by Pakistani men in recent decades proves the film's point. Britain's authorities, from top to bottom, have betrayed the citizens.

They have done nothing.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 29, 2026 12:30 AM (EGHOE)

276 Yippee!!

Tank Police tai Ahhan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:31 AM (2GVsD)

277 Mikeski

Yes it is a weird 'translation,' thank Kami I got the script memorized.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 29, 2026 12:31 AM (2GVsD)

278 I saw the band Bandit at Howdy Neighbor Day in Fritch Texas in ...1983, was it?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 29, 2026 12:32 AM (QsMc1)

279 It’s so entertaining when you guys tell each other what you believe women think and feel.

Please. Go ahead.

Or ask a woman what they think.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 12:35 AM (yEz+x)

280 @279 I have never at any time thought that I knew what women think. Ever.

Learning Photoshop is a lot easier and makes more sense.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2026 12:37 AM (CHHv1)

281 @CNBC
58m
Shares of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunged on Monday after reports surfaced that the pair are expected to unveil investment plans worth more than a trillion dollars
---

Wholly shit, they are the only other 2 mfg's of DRAM. There's a credible guy, Gavin Baker, saying that that's the next hit, the next bottleneck in supply.

https://tinyurl.com/4vnsa6ax

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 12:37 AM (VQ0bX)

282 ask a woman what they think
_-_
They hate it when you do that. Makes them fell pandered-to.

Posted by: Are we not entertained? at June 29, 2026 12:40 AM (QsMc1)

283 @279 I have never at any time thought that I knew what women think. Ever.

Learning Photoshop is a lot easier and makes more sense.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2026 12:37 AM (CHHv1)

I'd rather try to build a computer operating system with both text and a windowing user interface from scratch than try to understand women. There's a part of me that is tempted to try the first. I know I would fail on the second.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 12:41 AM (qx7Zg)

284 Spectacular sunset tonight.

Wow

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 12:42 AM (yEz+x)

285 I asked my wife a while back what she thinks. I 'll let you know when she gets done telling me.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at June 29, 2026 12:43 AM (QsMc1)

286
Another interesting effect of this is the sublunar point, the lunar tropics if you will, can be wider than the sun's, and the Moon can get higher and lower, and rise and set father north and south than the sun ever can at a given location.

Right now, Miami is below the current lunar tropic line. In Dec, the full Moon transited to the north by a smidge, and same with new Moon this month.

Although you can't really tell when it's that close to directly overheard, the full Moon was technically upside down in Miami last Dec, just like it's usually seen in the Southern hemisphere.

Anyway, another way to phrase it is at Major Standstill, the Moon reaches its highest high and lowest low. At a Minor Standstill, it reaches its lowest high and highest low.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 12:44 AM (w6EFb)

287 256:TonyPete

Yikes. Sorry to read that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 12:44 AM (sAmhv)

288 @283 - I'm trying to learn Blender. It's like learning Martian without a dictionary. But it's still easier than learning women.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2026 12:46 AM (CHHv1)

289 >> Spectacular sunset tonight.

Wow

Now turn around and look for the Moon, very south of east. Should be just over the horizon, looming large and yellow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

290 I'm not sure what's going on in this thread, so here's Japanese pop metal with a guy in a dress. I think he's extorting that you must their culture... OR ELSE.

LADYBABY "ニッポン饅頭 / Nippon manju"
https://youtu.be/M8-vje-bq9c

Posted by: SciVo at June 29, 2026 12:46 AM (Sy6m/)

291 >>They hate it when you do that. Makes them fell pandered-to.

Some of you are thrill seekers.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 12:47 AM (viF8m)

292 In honor of Mel Brooks, one of his Yiddish movie clips.

https://youtu.be/Wvc1I6jsPUo

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 29, 2026 12:49 AM (qx7Zg)

293 266: 266 Birmingham Blues

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-V99bqrnQo

Posted by: Braenyard

youtu.be/riXNeEki07A

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 12:49 AM (sAmhv)

294
oops

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 29, 2026 12:50 AM (sAmhv)

295 A man praying on a California beach asks God for one wish and requests a bridge to Hawaii. God rejects this as too materialistic and difficult, citing the immense engineering challenges of spanning the Pacific Ocean. The man then asks to understand women, prompting God to reply, "You want two lanes or four lanes on that bridge?

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 29, 2026 12:50 AM (wVcYX)

296 It's been overcast and windy all day, now dark and raining. Bleh. No sunset & no moon for me!

On the plus side-- it was still about 65* today, so was able to do some yard-junk cleanup. Important, because it's trash-day eve! Filled 'er up, I did.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 12:52 AM (rdVOm)

297 publius,
No moonrise yet over the hill behind the beach.

And I tend not to be out after sunset.

Turning into a pumpkin and all that.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 12:52 AM (yEz+x)

298 I'm not sure what's going on in this thread, so here's Japanese pop metal with a guy in a dress. I think he's extorting that you must their culture... OR ELSE.

LADYBABY "ニッポン饅頭 / Nippon manju"
https://youtu.be/M8-vje-bq9c
Posted by: SciVo

That's the same guy/meme/thing that Anna was talking about. Ladybaby is one of his previous bands; he's been in a few.

I'll give him credit that "Deadlift Lolita" was a hilarious band name. The other bandmember was a female pro-wrestler & powerlifter.

Posted by: mikeski at June 29, 2026 12:53 AM (VHUov)

299 Anyway, another way to phrase it is at Major Standstill, the Moon reaches its highest high and lowest low. At a Minor Standstill, it reaches its lowest high and highest low.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
---

Gotta' get a boat/barge

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 12:56 AM (VQ0bX)

300 And the drive by shootings.

Which happen 3-5x a week. But. Ok.

Stay in your lane and it’s all good.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 12:57 AM (yEz+x)

301
According to timeanddate, moonrise was a little before sunset, but it doesn't know about the local topography. And that's the limitation of the "geometric rise and set" times based on flat tangent plane.

It will only get to about 14 degrees max altitude at high loon (12:40AM PDT) there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

302 @288

>> I'm trying to learn Blender. It's like learning Martian without a dictionary. But it's still easier than learning women.

It’s easier if you have an actual project to work on.

I learned Blender to modify and create stl files for 3d printing projects.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2026 12:58 AM (XV/Pl)

303 Was curious what time it was, not as late as thought

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 12:58 AM (Ia/+0)

304 293 266: 266 Birmingham Blues

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-V99bqrnQo

Posted by: Braenyard

youtu.be/riXNeEki07A

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst
---

One missed the town the other missed his woman.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 01:00 AM (VQ0bX)

305
And tomorrow will be latest sunset for me at ~35N. That was the 25th in Seattle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 01:01 AM (w6EFb)

306 publius,

You would love to see how the sun set travels north and south seen from my beach over the Olympic Mountain range. The sun travels so fast and so far it is humbling. Seriously.

I love where I live.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 01:03 AM (yEz+x)

307 IMO...

Men place more value on secks, while women place more value on intimacy. These are not the same thing.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

308 The sun traverses the entire range! So far South I can’t even see the sunset in November.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 01:06 AM (hLmvR)

309 When I first heard about it i said No Way.
So I asked AI if it waa true.
And AI said it wasn't true and their relationship is strictly professional.

So we're just reich wing haterz per usual.

Posted by: torabora at June 29, 2026 01:06 AM (p8DwV)

310 I’m so pissed the Dems and the press are turning America 250 political.

Holy shit. I hate these assholes.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 01:10 AM (yEz+x)

311 Well, it was a soggy day here, so I puttered in the shop. Opened my file drawer filled with used Studebaker starters, and went through five of them. One had a tag I made in 2020, saying it had been tested OK. So I cleaned the exterior and set it aside. I had 3 V8 starters; disassembled each one, checked brushes, polished commutator in the lathe, lubed bushings, wire-wheeled the cases and reassembled. One got a newer pinion in the starter drive to replace a bad one. Bench-tested each one - connected a battery, to see if it would spin readily. All did. Painted them with various colors from rattle cans. Last one was a six-volt truck starter. It was in real bad shape, bushings worn, brushes down to nubbins, and pinion mangled. So it got rendered, yielding several pounds of copper for the Peon Beer Fund.

There are still more to be done. But it was a productive day. And now it's time for bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2026 01:10 AM (1z8ji)

312 That's a Strawberry Moon up there.

Posted by: torabora at June 29, 2026 01:10 AM (p8DwV)

313 >>Opened my file drawer filled with used Studebaker starters, and went through five of them.
--------

This is *the most AOP thing* I've ever read!

Good night, AOP. Sweet dreams.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:13 AM (rdVOm)

314
wtf Markwayne Mullin? He told Jake Tapper that non-TPS Haitians can apply for permanent residence instead of gtfo. Like, they can STAY here and apply from here.

X is all lit up about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 01:15 AM (XJ22o)

315 251 >>To be fair, the boys weren't exactly breaking down the doors to date Lewinsky, so you could see the cigar episode as an act of Christian charity.

You might yet make a fine sailor.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 12:07 AM (viF8m)

Law of the sea.

Boy.

Makes me glad of being a landlubber.

Posted by: The Sea Was Something That Day at June 29, 2026 01:16 AM (uVIh1)

316
I remembered tcn in AK. In Anchorage, the Moon will only get to 1/2 degree above the horizon this morning. It will rise about 167 degrees, and set at 194. Just about 14 degrees either side of due South. And only be up for about 2 hours.

Just as the lunar tropics are wider so is the lunar arctic circles. Anchorage is almost above that now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 01:16 AM (w6EFb)

317
I would love to see that range.

Maybe you can make a Stonehenge like circle on the beach to mark those extremes. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 01:18 AM (w6EFb)

318 IMO...
Men place more value on secks, while women place more value on intimacy. These are not the same thing.
Posted by: JQ

IMO, you're not wrong.

I've heard it phrased a bit less delicately as "men will use love to get sex, and women will use sex to get love."

Posted by: mikeski at June 29, 2026 01:20 AM (VHUov)

319 Yes, I agree...men don't know women.

I will add, though, that women don't know men. Yeah, you've had dealings with the aggressive guy, and the sensitive guy, and the caring guy, and the artistic guy.

Each of those is an aspect. In the same way that "breast size" is a female aspect.

That's why everyone is going to be disappointed from now until the sun burns out.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2026 01:20 AM (CHHv1)

320 >>Makes me glad of being a landlubber.

That's because you never met Brandy.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 01:21 AM (viF8m)

321 No Place To Go, Capitol Theater, - Passaic, NJ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_AvSF8bvU

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 01:21 AM (VQ0bX)

322 315 251 >>To be fair, the boys weren't exactly breaking down the doors to date Lewinsky,
---

And she wasn't exactly innocent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 01:24 AM (VQ0bX)

323 No. I do not know men.

But I raised two of them.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 29, 2026 01:27 AM (FVIA4)

324 Wonder what would happen if we were told, all posts are closed at 1:30?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 01:28 AM (VQ0bX)

325
IMO, you're not wrong.

I've heard it phrased a bit less delicately as "men will use love to get sex, and women will use sex to get love."
Posted by: mikeski

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

I've heard it as women need affection, men need sex. Also, women are from Venus, men are from Mars.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 01:28 AM (XJ22o)

326
Wonder what would happen if we were told, all posts are closed at 1:30?
Posted by: Braenyard

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

Then pixy had better play the Star-Spangled Banner and show an Indian-head test pattern.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2026 01:30 AM (XJ22o)

327 Wonder what would happen if we were told, all posts are closed at 1:30?
Posted by: Braenyard

Haha, here on Pacific Time, ONTs generally *do* close at 1:30 a.m.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:32 AM (rdVOm)

328 325
IMO, you're not wrong.

I've heard it phrased a bit less delicately as "men will use love to get sex, and women will use sex to get love."
Posted by: mikeski

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

I've heard it as women need affection, men need sex. Also, women are from Venus, men are from Mars.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---

Whatever, the job of making it work was given to us by the Almighty and it's up to us to work it out. Not doing so is failure to Him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 01:32 AM (VQ0bX)

329 IMO...
Men place more value on secks, while women place more value on intimacy. These are not the same thing.
Posted by: JQ

??? They're the same picture! —men

Posted by: mindful webworker - intimidating imitation intimacy at June 29, 2026 01:35 AM (C8pEi)

330 At my current stage of life, the whole M vs. F thing is both uninteresting and irrelevant. Meh.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

331 I think, ultimately, men and women want the same thing. Companionship. They want someone they can talk to, they can share ideas with, and build a kind of life together that neither could do alone. They want to be more than themselves. Only a companion can do that.

Yeah, I'm a stupid dreamer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2026 01:36 AM (CHHv1)

332 >>No. I do not know men.

You can only imagine how we feel.

Men and women are a lot less lot different than popular culture would suggest. Different, not that hard to understand.

You did take our rib.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2026 01:37 AM (viF8m)

333
Haha, here on Pacific Time, ONTs generally *do* close at 1:30 a.m.

Posted by: JQ
--

Yeah, ya'll are just getting up and it's time to go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 01:38 AM (VQ0bX)

334 If'n I had any self-discipline, I'd be going to sleep right about now.

But noooooooo.... LOL

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:41 AM (rdVOm)

335
Heh, the things I get fascinated with playing around with Stellarium. At the South Pole, and close enough it to you, it's dead of polar winter, sun never rising. Right now, at full Moon, the Moon is above the horizon, circling and never setting.

I would love to see that (and the midnight sun).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

336
I guess we'd have to call this the "noon Moon". Midnight sun and Noon Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 01:47 AM (w6EFb)

337 You may have seen video of that dog that gets sparkly flapping fairy wings and carries a purse and admires herself in the mirror? Well… if it could play violin…

Yoot Ube's al gore rhythm thought I might like this music, freshly updated just three days ago.

So I thought I'd pass it along.

https://youtu.be/Gvtd0K5QEnY

That's a big g'nite, y'all. Monday beckons.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - fancy that at June 29, 2026 01:50 AM (C8pEi)

338 Dropping in for a quick night cap. I feel like the ONT is an all night convenience store, it always seems to have just what I need.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 29, 2026 01:53 AM (ibDUx)

339 Noon Moon!

Oh, that must be Moon Moon's brother?

LOL, I :heart: Moon Moon! He's my spirit animal...

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

340 330 At my current stage of life, the whole M vs. F thing is both uninteresting and irrelevant. Meh.

Posted by: JQ
---

Phases and stages, a little rest, things change.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 29, 2026 01:55 AM (VQ0bX)

341 Hi, Debby!

*pours Chivas*

Cheers!

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

342 Phases and stages, a little rest, things change.
Posted by: Braenyard

Maybe, Braenyard. Maybe...

This ain't my first rodeo (unfortunately) and I thought things were *done* after BF passed away. The difference? I wasn't yet 40 at that time. Now? 25 years later... Bah.

Guys just want to get it wet. (And at this age? Also looking for nurse/purse!) Fine, they can find someone else for that.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

343 Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

Posted by: Old Horde Wisdom (By Way of the Coen Brothers) at June 29, 2026 02:05 AM (uVIh1)

344 Cheers JQ!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 29, 2026 02:05 AM (ibDUx)

345 336
I guess we'd have to call this the "noon Moon". Midnight sun and Noon Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 01:47 AM (w6EFb)

Well, it is still daylight here, nice and clear after a day of rain. Only 22:00 hours, and the sun will be up for another hour and half, but it won't get dark tonight at all. The moon comes and goes at all hours. This is one reason we live up here. Never beastly hot, light all night, short by productive growing season, fish all night if you want to. Bag limits switch at midnight, so catch your limit, wait until midnight, and catch it again. None of which applies to dipnetting, but for most folks that's how it works.

The winter is another story, but right now, this is absolutely paradise.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 02:08 AM (bl07w)

346 Sorry. Didn't mean to kil the thread!

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 02:21 AM (rdVOm)

347 You didn't kill it, JQ. just happens sometimes. I am off to sleep hopefully, sweet dreams Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 29, 2026 02:26 AM (ibDUx)

348 'Night, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 02:28 AM (rdVOm)

349 Dump to oil companies stop raising gas prices just because your oil tanker was attacked and left sinking by Iran. I said the strait of hormuz is open ignore what Iran says. I am the all powerful OZ!

Posted by: raimondo at June 29, 2026 02:30 AM (QKiXP)

350 Well well well... look what showed up, to drop a turd on our carpet.

Blow it out your ass, rainmandodo.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

351 Quite a range of subjects addressed here tonight.

Yeah, duh as always, but I wanted to address male/female relationships since yesterday was our 45th anniv. And this Nov is 50 yrs since we "started dating".

Just give me another 45-50 yrs more I might come up with some good answers.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 29, 2026 02:35 AM (55Qr6)

352 Hi, Farmer! Congrats on your LONG-term anniversary! A shining example of a successful relationship! I'm sure it wasn't all sunshine and roses... but you kept faith. What a wonderful accomplishment.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 02:38 AM (rdVOm)

353 @350 Iran is blowing it out of dump's ass. The mid terms are coming soon and dump sees the writing on the wall. Detrumpification as denazification was done in germany after the first fuhrer was got rid of.

Posted by: raimondo at June 29, 2026 02:40 AM (QKiXP)

354
Rainman is sort of our Moon Moon.

Of course, Moon Moon is sort of cute. Rainman is not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 02:42 AM (w6EFb)

355 Mornin' JQ. Up briefly, thought I'd send a quick hello. No, not a leg cramp this time, just the classic 2 to 3 am running of the "Kidney 500". ;-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 29, 2026 02:48 AM (O7YUW)

356 >>>Posted by: raimondo

>At some point you may want to hit the tip-jar to keep this blog running for your pleasure. You know you want to.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 29, 2026 02:50 AM (fkjGs)

357 Hi, Farmer! Congrats...
Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 02:38

Hi JQ,
Good to see you. You are really doing so much for hubby. Your dedication is steadfast, he is lucky to have you.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 29, 2026 02:52 AM (55Qr6)

358 Hi, G & R-- glad it's not leg cramps tonight. Sleep well!

Thanks, Farmer. Hubby is mostly aware, but not always appreciative... goes with the territory I guess.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 03:06 AM (rdVOm)

359 Rainman is sort of our Moon Moon.

Of course, Moon Moon is sort of cute. Rainman is not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 29, 2026 02:42 AM (w6EFb)
-

Moon Moon > Loon Loon

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 29, 2026 03:13 AM (5UTWB)

360 Moon Moon is goofy and lovable. Rainman is stupid and obnoxious.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)

361 Good night, horde.. finally I'm feeling sleepy.

Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 03:21 AM (rdVOm)

362 Thanks, Farmer. Hubby is mostly aware, but not always appreciative... goes with the territory I guess.
Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 03:06 AM (rdVOm)

You and I know that his awareness is not what drives the love. In for a penny, in for a pound. By the grace of God, we are given an image of God's love by our love for our spouse, which reaches beyond all silly issues like yukky stuff or even bullshit. Our saving grace is from God, so it transcends all the nonsense.

In the end, we are either His or not.

Sounds very much like you are His.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 03:32 AM (bl07w)

363 360 Moon Moon is goofy and lovable. Rainman is stupid and obnoxious.
Posted by: JQ at June 29, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)

I gotta say, though, Rainman is at least OUR little idiot. He is reliable, and certainly predictable. And he's hanging in there, against the odds.

Pat him gently on the head and send him off to bed, like the imbecile he is. God made him too, heaven only knows why.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 29, 2026 03:34 AM (bl07w)

364 Time to get moving

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2026 03:50 AM (Ia/+0)

365 351 yesterday was our 45th anniv. And this Nov is 50 yrs since we "started dating"
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at June 29, 2026 02:35 AM (55Qr6)

Many congratulations, you lovebirds!

Posted by: m at June 29, 2026 04:26 AM (6wpGE)

366 Pixy's up!

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