Wednesday Night ONT - August 5, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. We're overstocked on RC Cola at the moment though so don't be shy about asking for refills. Only the best for the Horde...

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.

This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.

[Top photo: State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]

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"Look! It is the Wednesday ONT! Right there!"

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Veterinarian News

Dog brought to emergency clinic after eating 2.4 pounds of gummy worms

A dog was rushed to an emergency veterinary clinic in Australia after eating 2.4 pounds of gummy worms.
Animal Emergency Service Jindalee said 3-year-old beagle Scooter was brought in by her panicked owners after consuming an entire bag of gummy worms - known in Australia as "jelly snakes."
Veterinary nurse manager Kate Wesche said the candies luckily did not contain xylitol, a chemical that can be toxic to dogs, but veterinarians made the decision to induce vomiting anyway due to concerns about the high sugar content.
Scooter ended up regurgitating 2.4 pounds of gummy worms.
Wesche told 1News Scooter had "clearly no regrets in her decision."

Please secure your gummy worms. There is a photo at the link if you're really, really curious to see the dog...and the aftermath.

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Gainzzz News

Old story, but... Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds

For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too.
His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most - not the nutritional value of the food.
The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months.
For a class project, Haub limited himself to less than 1,800 calories a day. A man of Haub's pre-dieting size usually consumes about 2,600 calories daily. So he followed a basic principle of weight loss: He consumed significantly fewer calories than he burned.
But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so.
Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.

Science!

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German Priorities

Germans: These steep hills along the Rhine and Mosel Rivers are great places to grow Riesling but they are extremely steep and difficult to manage. The Riesling is delicious so we must impose our will on the landscape to grow grapes.

Also Germans: As long as we have these ridiculous hillside vineyards, we might as well race cars through them.

If you're wondering where the Rallye Mittelrhein is run, look for Piesport and Trittenheim on your map.

And yes, the local Riesling is wonderful. They keep the good (dry) stuff and export the sweet stuff.

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Mandatory Maiden

I will admit that I initially clicked on this video with low expectations. Expectations exceeded.

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ONT Movie Night

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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week

Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Jeffery the Librarian. As you might guess, the channel is operated by a guy named Jeffery who is a professional librarian and historian. Jeffery primarily devotes his channel to telling stories of history with maps.

Always been interested in battles of the civil war, but just couldn't wrap your mind around who was where doing what, when and why? I have a much easier time reading about history when I have a map nearby. But static maps are a snapshot in time. They are not dynamic. Jeffery builds dynamic maps and drills down to specific historical events to tell the story.

For example, you may generally know about the Battle of Gettysburg, but have you ever seen a detailed illustration of each unit's positioning and involvement on Day One? Jeffery has a dozen or so videos that get into the detail. He shows topography to explain the presence and importance of high ground. He shows modern day maps and streets along with a sense of what the landscape looked like in period. If you have an ancestor that fought in any of the battles he covers, the videos will give you a sense of what they experienced.

No background music. No clickbait. Just simple and clear scripts delivered with simple and clear maps and labels. Just under 100k subscribers and videos with several hundred thousand views. Recommended.

Here's a great example of background, context, positioning and focus on Day One at the Battle of Gettysburg:

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The Pittsburgh police scanner in internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!

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The Flatlanders for the big ONT finish:

Bonus track: Toni Price, Richest One

Hat tip: AOP

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Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be ignored on grounds of Fifth Amendment privilege. Are you lurking ????

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

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1 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (+9wcF)

2 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

Posted by: mindful webworker - yum at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (rQFmm)

3 It’s 5:30 AM in Tehran.
No bombing tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (nqf1u)

4 M4. R3X!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (348x5)

5 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (/rGXJ)

6 Tonight on deck for Movie Vault is, Roy Scheider.

Only have 5 films, time to acquire, The Sorcerer, 52 Pickup and a couple more.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 05, 2026 10:02 PM (XV/Pl)

7 We're overstocked on RC Cola at the moment though so don't be shy about asking for refills. Only the best for the Horde...

Heck, I'll take some. Give Reforger a six pack.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:02 PM (1Ff7Z)

8 Oh. Mr. REX!🦖 (OOPS)😜

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 05, 2026 10:02 PM (348x5)

9 The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

https://youtu.be/JNPW2wZ4D2s?t=29

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 10:03 PM (ExV1e)

10 Evenin'

You can pretty much Rally Race anywhere.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 05, 2026 10:03 PM (c711F)

11 ONT

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 05, 2026 10:03 PM (Ydd86)

12 If I ate 2.4 lb of gummy worms, I'd probably find myself in the ER as well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2026 10:03 PM (FZ29D)

13 Please secure your gummy worms.

Yes! Please find the nearest garbage can and throw all your gummy stuff in it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

14 10 dollar star wars pops up on my yoo toobz sometimes. Funny as hell. love it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 05, 2026 10:04 PM (0aYVJ)

15 It’s 5:30 AM in Tehran.
No bombing tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (nqf1u)

No boom tonight.

Boom tomorrow? Please?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:04 PM (qx7Zg)

16 That Star Wars $10 video. I like the subtle jabs at a certain, famous mouse! Heh!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 05, 2026 10:06 PM (c711F)

17 If you *really* want to get a feel for any battles your ancestors were involved in (or just in general) track down an old fashioned war game - the ones with maps and little cardboard and plastic tokens. You can play the battle the way it happened *or* you can try and do better.

Posted by: KCSteve at August 05, 2026 10:06 PM (2+WvJ)

18 Sorry I'm late, somebody stole all the Twinkies.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:06 PM (yX0mH)

19 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Posted by: mindful webworker

Quietly setting up long term trusts.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 05, 2026 10:06 PM (NnhvP)

20 *feet tapping to Pennsylvania Polka*

overstocked on RC Cola

My frat bros in college up in Wisconsin in 1970 were disturbed that I drank Rum & Dr Pepper.

Pour me a Rum & RC: I'd give it a try. Good rum. Not that bottom-shelf stuff.

Posted by: mindful webworker - both mother and daughter working for that yankee dollar at August 05, 2026 10:06 PM (rQFmm)

21 911 Operator - What is your emergency?

Uber Driver - Some large breasted woman just got nekkid in the back of my car!!
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911 Operator - Go on . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2026 10:07 PM (/rGXJ)

22 Sorry I'm late, somebody stole all the Twinkies.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:06 PM (yX0mH)
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*** BURP! ***

'Scuse me!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2026 10:07 PM (FZ29D)

23 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Posted by: mindful webworker

Quietly setting up long term trusts.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 05, 2026 10:06 PM (NnhvP)
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Apparently he's never heard of the Temporal Prime Directive.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2026 10:08 PM (FZ29D)

24 Sorry I'm late, somebody stole all the Twinkies.
Posted by: tankdemon

But they lost weight!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 05, 2026 10:10 PM (NnhvP)

25 Good evening morons en bedankt Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

26 Horse and boy meme

https://youtu.be/ohNEms24ZSY?t=19

There's another good one at 1:30.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:10 PM (qx7Zg)

27 ...gummy worms - known in Australia as "jelly snakes."
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Figures, they have their own silly nickname for everything.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

28 Horse and boy meme

https://youtu.be/ohNEms24ZSY?t=19

There's another good one at 1:30.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:10 PM (qx7Zg)

That's disgusting.

Posted by: Catherine the Great at August 05, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

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2 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Posted by: mindful webworker - yum at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (rQFmm)

What do you think UFO’s are? They’re under orders not to interfere.

Well here was one bunch that did interfere in a big way, but they changed the timeline so much that they were never born and then it never happened.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 05, 2026 10:12 PM (pfrqN)

30 Did they carefully hang on to Scooter so he couldn't re eat the vomited gummy worms? Because eating anything they vomit up, is one of dogs' grossest habits. And they'll do it really fast because they know that you are going to try to stop them.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2026 10:13 PM (0Htd1)

31 Some of them take the corners with such finesse, others not so much. Others the transmission or engine fail them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:13 PM (nqf1u)

32 It’s 5:30 AM in Tehran.
No bombing tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (nqf1u)

. . . in my coffee
no bombing tonight in my tea.

It's the new Mother Nature taking over

Posted by: Guess Who? at August 05, 2026 10:13 PM (wVcYX)

33 Guess Who? at August 05

I dunno. Who?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

34 2 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Posted by: mindful webworker - yum at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (rQFmm)

As if anybody from the future would actually want to talk to you Stephen. They're all off doing cool things that they can't do in the year 2357, like skiing or eating bacon.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:15 PM (yX0mH)

35 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
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I thought this was an intelligent person.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

36 I don't think that Twinkie diet was exactly nutritional...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 05, 2026 10:15 PM (/HDaX)

37 After 3 weeks, my new cat Chloe seems to have settled into my home quite nicely.

She and Penny even share space on top of the bookshelves in my office.

Kaylee's still a bit of a wildcard, but they rarely encounter each other. Kaylee spends most of her time in my living room/kitchen and Chloe spends all of her time in my office and library.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2026 10:16 PM (FZ29D)

38 Haven't had an RC in a decade or so, but it's pretty good. Sweeter than Coke and I get a note of warm cinnamon spice in the mid-palate. I'm still a Coke Zero guy though.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at August 05, 2026 10:17 PM (Ws2ua)

39 >>>There is a photo at the link if you're really, really curious to see the dog...and the aftermath.

I love this place! You can search high and low at Hot Air, but you will find no links to 2.4 lbs of regurgitated gummy bears.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2026 10:17 PM (syz1S)

40 "Caller is an Uber driver and said that his passenger just got naked in the back of his car."

Dear Hustler, I never thought this would happen to me, but -

Posted by: 88C+u at August 05, 2026 10:17 PM (88C+u)

41
Well here was one bunch that did interfere in a big way, but they changed the timeline so much that they were never born and then it never happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I've heard of that happening.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 10:18 PM (Cqx++)

42 Sword lost and found? Gotta love the Pittsburgh scanner. Thanks for the ONT, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at August 05, 2026 10:18 PM (idXDI)

43 Pittsburgh Scanner
Greenfield. Greenfield Ave. If you lost your sword, some guy just found it on the sidewalk.

And now he thinks he's the king of Pennsylvania.

Posted by: mikeski at August 05, 2026 10:18 PM (VHUov)

44 "If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

In the past, busy being our ancestors, duh. You can't be a day-tripper 'tourist' of anything before the time machine was invented, because the only way home is the slow way.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 05, 2026 10:18 PM (aJQbY)

45 Love the Flatlanders. Joe Ely was one of my favorite singers for nearly 50 years.

Gallo del Cielo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH5i-yX9VA0

Posted by: huerfano at August 05, 2026 10:19 PM (VJX5o)

46 I love this place! You can search high and low at Hot Air, but you will find no links to 2.4 lbs of regurgitated gummy bears.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2026 10:17 PM (syz1S)

That's 'cause they ain't as classy as this place.

(extends pinky)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:19 PM (1Ff7Z)

47 Horse and boy meme

https://youtu.be/ohNEms24ZSY?t=19

There's another good one at 1:30.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:10 PM (qx7Zg)

That's disgusting.
Posted by: Catherine the Great at August 05, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

The first or second one?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:20 PM (qx7Zg)

48
Haven't had an RC in a decade or so, but it's pretty good. Sweeter than Coke and I get a note of warm cinnamon spice in the mid-palate. I'm still a Coke Zero guy though.
Posted by: Otto Zilch

Is that DIET RC?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)

49 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Posted by: mindful webworker - yum

** looks suspiciously at all the Powerball winners **

Posted by: Adriane the Critically Critical Critic . . . at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (3ZUWJ)

50 I'm being alerted that Electronic Arts just got bought by the Saudis.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (88C+u)

51 It's probably a good thing that those gummy worms weren't sugar free.

http://tiny.cc/yj28101

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (yX0mH)

52 Please secure your gummy worms. There is a photo at the link if you're really, really curious to see the dog...and the aftermath.

A true technicolor yawn.

Posted by: Still a bit gnarly at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (TbWk/)

53 "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here! Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM!" (Ivanova)

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (78a2H)

54 #5 son called today just to check in. I asked him how work was going and he launched into telling me about Navier-Stokes equations as they relate to airflow over wings.

Dude. I still see a 2 year old that wouldn't listen to me and pressed his belly onto a glass fireplace screen.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (/rGXJ)

55 That's disgusting.
Posted by: Catherine the Great at August 05, 2026 10:12 PM (1Ff7Z)

The first or second one?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:20 PM (qx7Zg)

The thought of a boy! A boy! With a horse. Horses are for women!

Posted by: Catherine the Great at August 05, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

56 RC was my drink as a kid. They changed the formula somewhere along the line. XXX Root Beer would give you a buzz it was as thick as syrup.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:22 PM (nqf1u)

57 Thanks for the classic and entertaining ONT, T Rex!

I would not want a job in a steep German vineyard.

Tonight is one of those times when I wonder if "Pittsburgh Scanner" is code for "Pittsburgh HOA Police." Some mighty zany calls are placed in that area! Love them, of course!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (D/6p1)

58 36 I don't think that Twinkie diet was exactly nutritional...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

You'll lose weight but get diabetes. It's a trade off.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (c711F)

59 Apparently the company is still wrangling with the client on scheduling the interview, so no movement today. Hopefully tomorrow.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (aJQbY)

60 I wish my dog only ate gummy worms. The crazy bastard ate a Brillo pad and charcoal briquet. Yeah that was a vet visit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (S41Gd)

61 #5 son called today just to check in. I asked him how work was going and he launched into telling me about Navier-Stokes equations as they relate to airflow over wings.

Dude. I still see a 2 year old that wouldn't listen to me and pressed his belly onto a glass fireplace screen.
Posted by: Tonypete
**************
What a precious comment!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (XfIK1)

62 That video of the old guy Stuart Clifford - been thinking of getting my mane shorn, and I'm told I need glasses. I figure that's about what I'd look like. Can't play guitar anymore, though. Sometimes can barely type. 🎶🖐🏻

Posted by: mindful webworker - hooray for aging ingraciously at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (rQFmm)

63 48
Haven't had an RC in a decade or so, but it's pretty good. Sweeter than Coke and I get a note of warm cinnamon spice in the mid-palate. I'm still a Coke Zero guy though.
Posted by: Otto Zilch

Is that DIET RC?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 10:20 PM (Cqx++)

Wasn't their diet cola called Diet Rite?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:24 PM (yX0mH)

64 "Look! It is the Wednesday ONT! Right there!"

I was expecting a mystery click.

Not to a song; to a pic of Sophie Cunningham.

Posted by: mikeski at August 05, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)

65 Thanks for the ONT TRex!

She and Penny even share space on top of the bookshelves in my office.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2026 10:16 PM (FZ29D)

Congratulations!
Good night all.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 05, 2026 10:24 PM (Sco7b)

66 Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM!" (Ivanova)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (78a2H)

Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, OK U!

Posted by: Somewhere in Claremore at August 05, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

67 Did they carefully hang on to Scooter so he couldn't re eat the vomited gummy worms?

You know who I really feel for in that story? The vet tech who had to clean up after. I hope she* got the rest of the day off.

* just guessing but they're usually shes

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2026 10:25 PM (vTZFs)

68 I have a 6 pack of RC Cola 1986 Mets WS Champ Special Edition-never opened. Also an RC duffle Bag 86 Mets.

Posted by: Catch the Rising Stars! at August 05, 2026 10:25 PM (JM9I6)

69 And yes, the local Riesling is wonderful. They keep the good (dry) stuff and export the sweet stuff.

____________________________

Well, that explains it. I was never a fan of Riesling because I always considered it a dessert wine. I opted for Vintage Port. Instead, it's them giving us the dregs....

And BTW, I know "The Blade" lived in Pittsburgh.

"If you lost your sword, some guy just found it on the sidewalk."

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 10:25 PM (dIske)

70 Apparently the company is still wrangling with the client on scheduling the interview, so no movement today. Hopefully tomorrow.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (aJQbY)

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! It's Ric Flair against "the client"!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:25 PM (qx7Zg)

71 Been hot in Pittsburgh, I guess. The Scanner's got one flasher, one stripper, and one guy digging a swimming pool by hand.

Posted by: mikeski at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

72 Aaaand here comes the pop ups.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (S41Gd)

73 Dude. I still see a 2 year old that wouldn't listen to me and pressed his belly onto a glass fireplace screen.

Posted by: Tonypete
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Good show, happy landing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (nqf1u)

74 "This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please."
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How about Sophie Cunningham? Van we at least have something nice?

Posted by: 496 at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (am01u)

75 For that guy who ate twinkies and etc... I am pretty sure he lost weight because his system was in shock and flushing all that nasty poisonous sugar as fast as it could, plus his deliberate malnutrition of literally everything else. He probably would have lost weight if he'd maintained his calories too, just not as much.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (aJQbY)

76 #5 son called today just to check in. I asked him how work was going and he launched into telling me about Navier-Stokes equations as they relate to airflow over wings.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2026 10:21 PM (/rGXJ)
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The Navier-Stokes equations seem to do anything...

They slice, dice, and make Julienne fries!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 05, 2026 10:27 PM (FZ29D)

77 ...and one guy digging a swimming pool by hand.
Posted by: mikeski at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (VHUov)

________________________

Ever see Hitchcock's "Rear Window"?

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)

78 You'll lose weight but get diabetes. It's a trade off.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 05, 2026 10:23 PM (c711F)
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"They're only feet.."

Posted by: 496 at August 05, 2026 10:27 PM (am01u)

79 72 Aaaand here comes the pop ups.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Dude, download a Brave browser, set the settings then download Ad Block.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:27 PM (nqf1u)

80 The good thing about the twinkie diet is that after death, there is no need for embalming.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)

81 There’s an excellent book - “UFOs and Nukes” by Robert Hastings, that I would consider well sourced and documented. “They” definitely interfered with missile silos, if the accounts can be believed. They bases ran on line voltage or diesel generators, with DC battery bank backup. All three were disabled in some cases, which is quite a trick.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2026 10:29 PM (0Ppf4)

82 Aaaand here comes the pop ups.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (S41Gd)

Wasn't that some singing group in the 50s? Sang Barbershop?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

83 If time travel is possible -- actually, there are lots of time and alternate-dimensional and interplanetary travelers. See them all the time on YouTube. Video, so it's proof.

Posted by: mindful webworker - beam me up, Dr Who at August 05, 2026 10:29 PM (rQFmm)

84 80 The good thing about the twinkie diet is that after death, there is no need for embalming.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2026 10:28 PM (2WIwB)
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Ah crap. Now I have to do a price comparison between Twinkies and Scotch.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 10:30 PM (dIske)

85 Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, OK U!

I'm with you! Don't forget March Down the Field.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 05, 2026 10:30 PM (Jr+re)

86 Boy F. and I walked past the cat cafe this morning and there were three young kittens in the window tussling and chewing on each other. We came back the other direction a half hour later, same pile of kittens, dead asleep.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)

87 Not to a song; to a pic of Sophie Cunningham.

Posted by: mikeski at August 05, 2026 10:24 PM (VHUov)
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I shoulda looked before my comment #74.

Speaking of which, I meant can not van. But if I could coax Sophie into a van, that'd be ok too

Posted by: 496 at August 05, 2026 10:30 PM (am01u)

88 This scheme seems pretty counterproductive. If they keep it up, this site will have 2 kinds of users: users running ad blockers, and former users. Keep doing it long enough, and they'll have to scrap advertising altogether and run a subscription model.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 05, 2026 10:31 PM (BI5O2)

89 >>> “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking,

>Maybe they were all at Epstein Island looking for crusty old cock.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 05, 2026 10:31 PM (iySPJ)

90

Diet RC Cola is a low-calorie version of Royal Crown Cola, introduced in 1986. It was originally sweetened with NutraSweet and later reformulated to use different sweeteners, including Splenda, before being rebranded as RC Cola Zero Sugar in 2024.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 10:31 PM (Cqx++)

91 “Sugar Free” gummy bears are not recommended. Xylitol is nasty, and you will discover why. Much hilarity will ensue. Not

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2026 10:32 PM (0Ppf4)

92 If time travel is possible -- actually, there are lots of time and alternate-dimensional and interplanetary travelers. See them all the time on YouTube. Video, so it's proof.
Posted by: mindful webworker - beam me up, Dr Who at August 05, 2026 10:29 PM (rQFmm)
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You youngsters have no idea there was this group called Earth, Wind, & Fire.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

93 Sophie is awesome, and very pretty. But I've always liked my women short and curvy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)

94 83 If time travel is possible -- actually, there are lots of time
---

It's on my side..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOmcNwqprA

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (nqf1u)

95 Blonde Morticia described the antidote for Chrome last night. I'm so configured and the ads are gone. Unfortunately, so are the video clips above.

Posted by: LRob in OK at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (Jr+re)

96 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Official diagnosis for now is Cellulitis. So lots of antibiotics until they get everything cleared up. Don't know when they are going to spring me from here; hopefully I won't spend my entire "vacation" here. I still want to see the GG Bridge and the redwoods! And my grandsons....

My roommate in the hospital does not speak English. Nor does anyone in her family. The hospital staff has to "call" interpreters to translate everything for this woman and her family, which takes 3-4 times as long as normal to explain everything.

Someone out there is making bank on these translation services.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (XPqtf)

97 CNN: Haley Stevens did well with working-class and African American voters.

Abdul El-Sayed "did very poorly" with those groups and "really just" ran up the score in college towns.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (/+uur)

98 Sophie is awesome, and very pretty. But I've always liked my women short and curvy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)

Search E-bay for used fun house mirrors.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

99 No cat would eat 2.4 lbs. of gummy worms. Proves our superiority, right there.

Posted by: Krazy Kat at August 05, 2026 10:36 PM (JM9I6)

100 Trying to decide on the $1 Viagra vs. the $.87 Viagra.

Posted by: Ad Watcher at August 05, 2026 10:38 PM (JM9I6)

101 Fuck Harrisburg.

That is all.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2026 10:38 PM (u/oMr)

102 97 CNN: Haley Stevens did well with working-class and African American voters.

Abdul El-Sayed "did very poorly" with those groups and "really just" ran up the score in college towns.

Posted by: r hennigantx
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Read that he lost Detroit and the county it's in. Which is heavy muslim and black. He lost his theoretical base.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 10:38 PM (nqf1u)

103 Oh, if Publius is out there - and Wolfus is in the market - Neil Armstrong’s boyhood home in Wapokeneta is up for sale. $430k

Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2026 10:38 PM (0Ppf4)

104 Sophie is awesome, and very pretty. But I've always liked my women short and curvy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (0aYVJ)
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I wouldn't have looked twice at her normally, but when she stood in there and fought for her teammate last year she won me over. She's fine looking... but I love her for her attitude.

Posted by: 496 at August 05, 2026 10:38 PM (84SQ0)

105 Just got home.

Lucy the Fink is purring beside me. It’s Smokey here. I can smell wood smoke in my living room. Too warm to close the windows. Not bad though. 72. Should get down into the 50s overnight. Will be smokey and mid 80s next few days. Ugh. Makes for an intense sunset.

Can’t wait for November. Did the powers that be ever decide if we are still doing the clock changing thing this year?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 05, 2026 10:39 PM (yEz+x)

106 SpaceX: Going Where Many IPOs Have Gone Before:

Some poster was angry in June that he couldn't buy SPX stock at the offering price. It was over-subscribed, but the poster suspected a CONSPIRACY.

Anyway, it opened on the first day of trading at appx $135, & shot up to $192 the next day. Today, a little over 2 months later, it changes hands at $108. SPX lost 14% today.

I follow SPX for my amusement only. I'd rather invest in lottery tickets.

Posted by: mnw at August 05, 2026 10:39 PM (RCjYY)

107
Blonde Morticia described the antidote for Chrome last night. I'm so configured and the ads are gone. Unfortunately, so are the video clips above.
Posted by: LRob in OK

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

Just tap on 'em and they'll open in YouTube.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 05, 2026 10:39 PM (mmrXZ)

108 She's fine looking... but I love her for her attitude.
Posted by: 496 at August 05, 2026 10:38 PM (84SQ0)

Agree. She's friggin' awesome, and is not backing down.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 05, 2026 10:40 PM (0aYVJ)

109 The entire content of this ONT, as well as all comments, are false and Rayciss

As was my denied application to the University of Miklos

Posted by: Jason Arday at August 05, 2026 10:41 PM (XOG/m)

110 68 I have a 6 pack of RC Cola 1986 Mets WS Champ Special Edition-never opened. Also an RC duffle Bag 86 Mets.
Posted by: Catch the Rising Stars!

I have an unopened can of Iron City Beer with a picture of the 1979 Super Bowl Champions, Pittsburgh Steelers. I won't open it due to HAZMAT concerns.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 05, 2026 10:41 PM (c711F)

111 Who is the next big balled man to go to School?
Not actually go to School but to go on campus and talk.
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
That is the question of every generation.
I was 3 when Kennedy was killed, 8 when RFK was killed.
I was 20 when they tried to kill Reagan.
Next thing you know NO ONE tried to kill Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
See the trend?
They were all there because they were supposed to be there.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 05, 2026 10:41 PM (/+uur)

112 Cellulitis is no fun at all. Hope they knock it into submission soon.

Posted by: Concerned Viewer at August 05, 2026 10:41 PM (JM9I6)

113 The pop-over ad seemed to be gone for some (including myself) on the desktop version of the site earlier today. I just tested the browser I allow ads on, and it's back. So more investigation/yelling at the adserver operator for Pixy later.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 05, 2026 10:41 PM (aJQbY)

114 There is nothing to compare to standing on the actual battleground. I visited Fredericksburg, and I can tell all of you that the Union general who ordered the attack on the wall was a total idiot. All the Confederates had to do was lay behind that wall and pick off the Union soldiers as they came up the slight slope. Sadly, I never made it to Gettysburg. The fall the XO and I planned to visit Gettysburg and northern Virginia, I wound up in the hospital.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 05, 2026 10:42 PM (DK5Sh)

115 75 For that guy who ate twinkies and etc... I am pretty sure he lost weight because his system was in shock and flushing all that nasty poisonous sugar as fast as it could, plus his deliberate malnutrition of literally everything else. He probably would have lost weight if he'd maintained his calories too, just not as much.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 05, 2026 10:26 PM (aJQbY)

He probably lost muscle mass, bone density too.

Posted by: Joemarine at August 05, 2026 10:43 PM (y171U)

116 I commuted to Harrisburg for about 6 months. Kind of a plain rust belt town. The drive through Gettysburg to DC in the dawn is amazing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

117 I heard about some professor eating mainly junk food to prove weight loss is just about calories probably 15 years ago. But a whole lot of normal people will not get satiated eating only junk food with very little protein and don't have an iron will to ignore cravings induced by such a diet. So normal people have an easier time with weight loss with almost any other strategy. Its probably easier to fast for 36-48 hours 1x or 2x a week than to eat only 1800 calories of twinkies and corn chips every day.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 05, 2026 10:43 PM (PV+Zw)

118 Oh, if Publius is out there - and Wolfus is in the market - Neil Armstrong’s boyhood home in Wapokeneta is up for sale. $430k
Posted by: Common Tater at August 05, 2026

***
* laughs hysterically *

* runs off into the night *

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2026 10:43 PM (wzUl9)

119 {TiFW} a prayer for complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

120 77 Ever see Hitchcock's "Rear Window"?
Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)

What about Gazebo?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:45 PM (yX0mH)

121
Re Sophia, I'm female so commenting from a different perspective, but her attractiveness for me is her realness. Messy, sweaty hair funny faces, athletic body. I would FAR rather watch clips of Sophia than Kardashian slideshow.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 05, 2026 10:45 PM (mmrXZ)

122 I spent three years of my youth growing up a stone’s throw from the Rhein/Mosel Rivers in Germany and know those steep hillsides well.

And as far as I am concerned, the exported wine is divine.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2026 10:45 PM (ukytI)

123 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2026 10:43 PM (wzUl9)

Wait! Don't go! I found something you might wanna look at. Give me a minute to find it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

124 I bought SPX because I'm a traveler from the future.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2026 10:47 PM (RIvkX)

125 I had some Billy Beer

Drank it. Good or bad? no remember

Had JR Beer for the Who shot JR party

I think it was just relabled Lone Star

Posted by: Miklos recalls with Extreme Vagueness at August 05, 2026 10:47 PM (XOG/m)

126 Harrisburg is on the Susquehanna River, which is nice.

Posted by: Longest River In The East at August 05, 2026 10:48 PM (JM9I6)

127 Come on Eileen

Posted by: Dexy's Irish Runner at August 05, 2026 10:48 PM (u/oMr)

128 Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 05, 2026 10:45 PM (mmrXZ)
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Yep. Well said.

Posted by: 496 at August 05, 2026 10:48 PM (LzXLk)

129 124

You're in luck! There's PLENTY left.

Posted by: mnw at August 05, 2026 10:49 PM (RCjYY)

130 Stumbled across Donovan's EweTewb channel today. Amused to see that the latest vid is a couple of stills from the new movie with a minute snip of Donovan's Superlungs My Supergirl. Could have been better, but, oh well, go for current relevance coin, you old hippie.

https://youtu.be/fOwT7njEqfw

It is the hour to time-travel to tomorrow morning.
G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - one point twenty-one jigglewatts at August 05, 2026 10:49 PM (rQFmm)

131 Wolfus - and others - might enjoy these:

https://tinyurl.com/52x6vsuz

https://tinyurl.com/y2wh2w4j

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:50 PM (1Ff7Z)

132 * runs off into the night *
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Careful out there

Harry Lee ain't Sheriff in the Parish no more

Posted by: Miklos recalls Harry Lee as a very no-nonsense Chinese-American Jefferson Parish Enforcer at August 05, 2026 10:50 PM (XOG/m)

133 123 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2026 10:43 PM (wzUl9)

Wait! Don't go! I found something you might wanna look at. Give me a minute to find it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

Are you going to make espresso, too?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 05, 2026 10:51 PM (XPqtf)

134
General Relativity famously allows time travel in the most general case. Godel famously proved that with what is now known as the Godel metric. It required a rotating universe with a *negative* cosmological constant.

He intuitively saw the field equations allowed for this. Einstein said "Bullshit, Kurt!". Godel said, "I'll prove it." He did. When Godel said he could prove something, well look out.

The only problem with that is it leads to contradictions, Grandfather paradox the most famous one. Hawking proposed the "Chronology Protection Conjecture" which is a hypothesis that other laws of physics prevent such solutions from ever being possible.

That remains unproven.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (w6EFb)

135 I would FAR rather watch clips of Sophia than Kardashian slideshow.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

Kardashians are so fake.

Posted by: Grok, Claude, etc at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (VHUov)

136 97 CNN: Haley Stevens did well with working-class and African American voters.

Abdul El-Sayed "did very poorly" with those groups and "really just" ran up the score in college towns.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 05, 2026 10:33 PM (/+uur)
__________________________

The fact that it was so close was surprising. Stevens struck me as a bit of a naive loon. That race was supposed to be a run-away. Abdul El-Sayed was up in the most recent poll 54% to 39%. That's not a good sign for him.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

137 Harrisburg is on the Susquehanna River, which is nice.
Posted by: Longest River In The East at August 05, 2026 10:48 PM (JM9I6)

Niagara Falls?! Slowly I turned....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

138 They don't tune up their Rally cars in Germany?

Posted by: wth at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (oq9dX)

139 TiFW, I am glad they found the cause, and hope it is cleared up soon.

Posted by: Joemarine at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (y171U)

140 Are you going to make espresso, too?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 05, 2026 10:51 PM (XPqtf)

If I can get someone to express some milk, sure!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

141 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2026 10:43 PM (wzUl9)

Wait! Don't go! I found something you might wanna look at. Give me a minute to find it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

Are you going to make espresso, too?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 05, 2026 10:51 PM (XPqtf)

I love this place so much! It's like a Mandelbrot's set of inside jokes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (0aYVJ)

142 Are you going to make espresso, too?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth,

Wolfus isn't dead

He's moving

Posted by: Miklos requests rim shot (not like that, preverts) at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (XOG/m)

143 39 >>>There is a photo at the link if you're really, really curious to see the dog...and the aftermath.

I love this place! You can search high and low at Hot Air, but you will find no links to 2.4 lbs of regurgitated gummy bears.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 05, 2026 10:17 PM (syz1S)

This is a classy joint with proper information, Hot Air is just what it's name infers.

Posted by: moki at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (wLjpr)

144 85 -- Very popular Nebraska car sticker back in the day: If I owned Oklahoma and Hell, I'd rent out Oklahoma and live in Hell. Oklahoma ruined a lot of Thanksgivings.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (DK5Sh)

145 Careful out there

Harry Lee ain't Sheriff in the Parish no more
Posted by: Miklos recalls Harry Lee as a very no-nonsense Chinese-American Jefferson Parish Enforcer at August 05, 2026 10:50 PM (XOG/m)

Related to Sheriff Lamb in Las Vegas, I take it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:55 PM (1Ff7Z)

146 I don't want to see Hitchcock's rear window. Or anybody else's, for that matter. That's Bootygag's fetish.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2026 10:55 PM (1z8ji)

147 Niagara Falls?! Slowly I turned....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Ent by Ent.....

Posted by: Miklos notes at August 05, 2026 10:55 PM (XOG/m)

148 137 Harrisburg is on the Susquehanna River, which is nice.
Posted by: Longest River In The East at August 05, 2026 10:48 PM (JM9I6)

Niagara Falls?! Slowly I turned....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

Harrisburg is just north of Three Mile Island.

I visited the capitol there years ago in my quest to hit all 50 state capitols. Of which I currently have 36.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2026 10:56 PM (ukytI)

149 This is a classy joint with proper information, Hot Air is just what it's name infers.
Posted by: moki at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (wLjpr)

Psst. Moki, don't forget to extend your pinky.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 10:57 PM (1Ff7Z)

150 99 No cat would eat 2.4 lbs. of gummy worms. Proves our superiority, right there.
Posted by: Krazy Kat at August 05, 2026 10:36 PM (JM9I6)

Had a beagle who learned to open the refrigerator, pulled out a glass casserole full of cheese potatoes in cream sauce with pork chops on top, ate the entire thing after breaking the glass, so who knows how much glass she ingested. When we got home, she looked like a garden hose that swallowed a basketball, moaning in pain, and we figured she was dead.

I tried to get her to puke, but she just didn't.

Next morning she was fine. Went out, took a dump, and was back to perfectly happy.

Beagles are the most obnoxious breed imaginable.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 05, 2026 10:57 PM (hfIju)

151 144

Boomer Sooner born,
and Boomer Sooner bred,
When I die I'll be Boomer Sooner dead.

Posted by: mnw at August 05, 2026 10:57 PM (RCjYY)

152 Can’t wait for November. Did the powers that be ever decide if we are still doing the clock changing thing this year?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 05, 2026 10:39 PM (yEz+x)

Who knows? Will the Senate vote?

Will they change the clock to 20 hours a day (10 AM, 10 PM), with 100 minutes/hour?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 10:57 PM (qx7Zg)

153
The fact that it was so close was surprising. Stevens struck me as a bit of a naive loon. That race was supposed to be a run-away. Abdul El-Sayed was up in the most recent poll 54% to 39%. That's not a good sign for him.
Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

Calls for a meme: sweating superhero with two buttons facing him, marked "Al Qaeda terrorist" and "common Loon".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2026 10:58 PM (1z8ji)

154 Wolfus - and others - might enjoy these:

https://tinyurl.com/52x6vsuz

https://tinyurl.com/y2wh2w4j
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026

***
Fall 1966! In fact I just finished a short horror story set in October of that year, with mentions of the new show Mission: Impossible and music like Shirley Ellis's "The Clapping Song."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2026 10:59 PM (wzUl9)

155 144 85 -- Very popular Nebraska car sticker back in the day: If I owned Oklahoma and Hell, I'd rent out Oklahoma and live in Hell. Oklahoma ruined a lot of Thanksgivings.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (DK5Sh)

That's based off a quote from a Civil War general, I think Sheridan, but Texas was the subject of his scorn.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:59 PM (yX0mH)

156 Will they change the clock to 20 hours a day (10 AM, 10 PM), with 100 minutes/hour?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

A combination of the Julian and Mayan calendars would be diverse and inclusive.

Posted by: Big Time Miklos at August 05, 2026 11:01 PM (XOG/m)

157 {{{ COMountainMarie }}}

Sent you an email reply, sunshine.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 05, 2026 11:01 PM (u82oZ)

158 Thanks for the tip for Jeffery the Librarian's videos. They are terrific.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2026 11:02 PM (/rGXJ)

159 Hi, Salty

Posted by: mnw at August 05, 2026 11:02 PM (RCjYY)

160 155 144 85 -- Very popular Nebraska car sticker back in the day: If I owned Oklahoma and Hell, I'd rent out Oklahoma and live in Hell. Oklahoma ruined a lot of Thanksgivings.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 05, 2026 10:54 PM (DK5Sh)

That's based off a quote from a Civil War general, I think Sheridan, but Texas was the subject of his scorn.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2026 10:59 PM (yX0mH)

During the pipeline era up here, there was a very popular bumper sticker that said "Happiness is 10,000 Texans headed south with an Okie under each arm."

We didn't care much for the oilmen and their snotty wives and kids.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 05, 2026 11:02 PM (hfIju)

161 Harrisburg is just north of Three Mile Island.

I visited the capitol there years ago in my quest to hit all 50 state capitols. Of which I currently have 36.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 05, 2026 10:56 PM (ukytI)

Isn't there a well-known hat company there?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 11:02 PM (1Ff7Z)

162 Calls for a meme: sweating superhero with two buttons facing him, marked "Al Qaeda terrorist" and "common Loon".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"common Loonie"

*checks CAD/USD exchange rate futures*

Posted by: Miklos hedges all bets at August 05, 2026 11:03 PM (XOG/m)

163 I would FAR rather watch clips of Sophia than Kardashian slideshow.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

Kardashians are so fake.
Posted by: Grok, Claude, etc at August 05, 2026 10:52 PM (VHUov)

The only, absolutely only, reason I'd watch anything with the Kardashians is watching aliens trying to determine if they're human, plastic, or a weird variant of a Venus fly trap.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)

164 {{{Captain Josepha Sabin}}}

Still have prayers for you and the XO.

Are you doing better?

I found your address, and will send a letter tomorrow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 05, 2026 11:03 PM (u82oZ)

165 I love this place so much! It's like a Mandelbrot's set of inside jokes.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 05, 2026

***
And edu-literate remarks too, like sock_rat-eez's rendering of "rosy-fingered dawn" this morning on the Tech Thread as "rhododactylos eos"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 05, 2026 11:04 PM (wzUl9)

166 Can’t wait for November. Did the powers that be ever decide if we are still doing the clock changing thing this year?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 05, 2026 10:39 PM (yEz+x)

If they do that one of my two vehicles clocks will always be wrong.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 05, 2026 11:05 PM (sl73Y)

167 If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Posted by: mindful webworker

They come back from the future to buy the best vintages before they become known and expensive. Alcoholism is one of the risks of the temporal traveler.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:05 PM (rbvCR)

168 {{{ COMountainMarie }}}

Sent you an email reply, sunshine.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

*stares at shoes*

Umm.. tell her I said hi, maybe

Posted by: Distinctly Diffident Miklos at August 05, 2026 11:05 PM (XOG/m)

169 Arbay used AI to write his resignation letter.
Madagascar weasels return in the spring to frolic and mate.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 05, 2026 11:05 PM (/+uur)

170 Keça Kafiroş,

https://tinyurl.com/rrx8y2s9

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 05, 2026 11:05 PM (nqf1u)

171 Alcoholism is one of the risks of the temporal traveler.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:05 PM (rbvCR)

Now do Corvettes Rolexes and Stocks

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 05, 2026 11:06 PM (/+uur)

172 They come back from the future to buy the best vintages before they become known and expensive. Alcoholism is one of the risks of the temporal traveler.
Posted by: Kindltot

Was gonna go back in time

But I got high

Posted by: Miklos yhinks "free" sedatives are in our future at August 05, 2026 11:06 PM (XOG/m)

173 155 -- Yes, I've seen it in various places with different names. The "Boomer Sooner" hit just the right brain cell and I actually remembered the bumper sticker. These days, I'm damn lucky to remember my own name.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 05, 2026 11:07 PM (DK5Sh)

174 2 “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Posted by: mindful webworker - yum at August 05, 2026 10:00 PM (rQFmm)

Why would they go to the 20th or 21rst century?
I'll go with 'they know better'.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2026 11:08 PM (S1fh+)

175 Arbay used AI to write his resignation letter.

Has anyone actually seen Jason Arbay?

Maybe ...

Just maybe ...

He was a creation of AI all along !!!

Posted by: Adriane the Critically Critical Critic . . . at August 05, 2026 11:08 PM (3ZUWJ)

176 Calls for a meme: sweating superhero with two buttons facing him, marked "Al Qaeda terrorist" and "common Loon".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2026 10:58 PM (1z8ji)

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You know, if James Madison were here he'd appreciate my attempt at a movie reference. You guys are just mean.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 11:08 PM (dIske)

177 Srsly

You Greek homos want Dawn's Rosy Fingers?

Posted by: Rosie Palmer at August 05, 2026 11:08 PM (XOG/m)

178 xxford cemma
the double secret FiB against PDT

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 05, 2026 11:09 PM (/+uur)

179 Isn't there a well-known hat company there?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

It's a travesty. Little girls with little curls slaving away.....

Posted by: Fluegel Street, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams at August 05, 2026 11:09 PM (JM9I6)

180 Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2026 11:08 PM (S1fh+)

Reforger, you're here! There's a case of RC waiting for you, courtesy of TRex.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2026 11:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

181 He was a creation of AI all along !!!
Posted by: Adriane the Critically Critical Critic

Let's not be too hasty here

Posted by: MiklosBot v300.56.99.47b at August 05, 2026 11:10 PM (XOG/m)

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