Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Old Guitarist
Pablo Picasso

One of the assumptions I make when searching for sources of the art I want to post is that the museum that possesses the work has the most interest in using an accurate version of the piece on the internet.

There are plenty of brighter and and more brightly colored versions of this Picasso all over the web, so if you like art that looks like a neon sign...have at it!

But The Art Institute of Chicago has this version, and I am going to trust them, even though they are probably filthy blue-city commies!

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

2 Death warmed over.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

3 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:30 AM (Bep7s)

4 Neil Young: The Later Years

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)

5 This image is burned in my mind.

It hung on the wall outside the principal's office in my elementary school.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (JvZF+)

6 But The Art Institute of Chicago has this version, and I am going to trust them, even though they are probably filthy blue-city commies!

The painting DOES have a blue hue to it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (2YhKe)

7 The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)

8 "But The Art Institute of Chicago has this version"

I remember seeing it there.

Posted by: gp at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (Jr5Lq)

9 Keith Richard's older brother.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (2YhKe)

10 Also I nooded

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (JvZF+)

11 "I gave my love a cherry, that ha-----"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (Ot/FD)

12 i took pops to see segovia at the auditorium.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (Bep7s)

13 Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
Blue on blue now that we are through
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
And I find I can't get over losing you

Posted by: Bobby Vinton at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (GTqXr)

14 Pablo was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

15 No boobs. No dog.
Meh.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (kXFFr)

16 >>>The Old Guitarist

Ageist!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (odBC9)

17 Cadaverous
blech

just no

Posted by: Don Black at August 14, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)

18 He's opening for The Dixie Chicks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:33 AM (o5Cl5)

19 not as rusty as casandra.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:33 AM (Bep7s)

20 The dude who posed for this then was probably about twenty years younger than Mick Jagger now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:33 AM (Ot/FD)

21 7 The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM

It's abridged.

Posted by: Oh, no... at August 14, 2026 09:34 AM (2Ez/1)

22 Making a living on the Chicago city streets is going to suck.
Or New York.
Detroit.
etc.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at August 14, 2026 09:34 AM (Sco7b)

23 5 This image is burned in my mind.

It hung on the wall outside the principal's office in my elementary school.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (JvZF+)

Yikes! No Disney for you!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:34 AM (odBC9)

24 They dug him up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2026 09:34 AM (O0YTm)

25 I sang "Dixie" as he died.

Posted by: Dwight Yokum at August 14, 2026 09:34 AM (wVcYX)

26 this image was instructive on getting the correct angle for les paul's arm.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:34 AM (Bep7s)

27 Cadaverous

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

28 Abra-
Abra-cadaver....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:35 AM (Ot/FD)

29 21 i'm tuning y'all out.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:35 AM (Bep7s)

30 "Wanna hear me play the intro from Stairway to Heaven?"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:35 AM (o5Cl5)

31 11 "I gave my love a cherry, that ha-----"

Heart attack get your tongue?

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:36 AM (odBC9)

32 "Get the shovels. Gotta fresh one we can use." - Pablo

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2026 09:36 AM (O0YTm)

33 He looks like John Carradine in The Grapes of Wrath.

Was this from Picasso's "Blue Period"?

"We visited Picasso. He was just beginning his Blue Period. But we came over, so he started it ten minutes later."
( -- Woody Allen)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)

34 Alternate title:

"The Old Guitarist Is a Part-Time Hot Yoga Instructor"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

35 17 Cadaverous
blech

just no
Posted by: Don Black at August 14, 2026 09:33 AM (ZxPkt)

27 Cadaverous
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:36 AM (odBC9)

36 "El Mariachi: The Final Years."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)

37 29 21 i'm tuning y'all out.

It just doesn't strike the right chord.

Posted by: Groan at August 14, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

38 This image is burned in my mind.

It hung on the wall outside the principal's office in my elementary school.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (JvZF+)

Spent some stretches of time waiting outside the principal's office did you?

Posted by: Count de Monet Did The Same In Church Kindergarten at August 14, 2026 09:37 AM (wVcYX)

39 I gave my love a cherry, that has no stone.
I gave my love a chicken, that has no bone.
I told my love a story,

*smash bang kaboong*

Sorry

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:37 AM (/+uur)

40 "The Old Guitarist Is a Part-Time Hot Yoga Instructor"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026

***
The hotness is clearly part-time for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:37 AM (wzUl9)

41 The Old Guitarist's setlist:

Whistle While You Work
Zippidy Do-Dah
It's a Beautiful Morning
The Whole World Smiles With You

Posted by: gp at August 14, 2026 09:37 AM (Jr5Lq)

42 NO STAIRWAY

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (/+uur)

43 22 andre williams was on the bridge near the art institute every day begging in '79. then he was rediscovered, now he's dead.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (Bep7s)

44 At first I thought it was nice of the guards to let the concentration camp victims a few instruments to entertain themselves with as they starve to death. And then I saw it had no strings. devious.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (3uBP9)

45 No pronounced hooterage. Sad.

Posted by: Bulg at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

46 More like "The Dead Guitarist" ...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (nJ/vH)

47 Was this from Picasso's "Blue Period"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:36 AM (wzUl9)
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I like how old-timers call Games Worshop's paint jobs from the 1990s as their "red period."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)

48 I hate to tell you, but that dude is died.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (JvZF+)

49 Old guitarist be dead for a few days. The flys weren't painted in. The smell is getting pungent by now.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (g8Ew8)

50 Technically, it's Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

That's why nothing gets done very quickly in Spain.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (qwx/I)

51 >>>But The Art Institute of Chicago has this version, and I am going to trust them, even though they are probably filthy blue-city commies!

Going by the filthy, blue version of the painting, I suspect they are biased.

Posted by: No Name Today at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (8mulE)

52 No comment.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at August 14, 2026 09:39 AM (0sNs1)

53 No pronounced hooterage. Sad.
Posted by: Bulg at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (77rzZ)
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Tell me about it!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)

54 Cyanotic guitarist. Get that man on O2, stat.

Posted by: huerfano at August 14, 2026 09:39 AM (2Xqig)

55 Alternate title:

"Pedro Took the Saying "If Music Be the Food of Love Play On!" Just a Little Too Seriously and Starved To Death"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026 09:39 AM (iJfKG)

56 42 NO STAIRWAY
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (/+uur)

And she's buy-ai-ing

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:39 AM (odBC9)

57 They were just stringing him along.

Posted by: Just the punchline at August 14, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

58 More like "The Dead Guitarist" ...
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (nJ/vH)

That'd be me.

Posted by: Zombie Jerry Garcia at August 14, 2026 09:40 AM (wVcYX)

59 It hung on the wall outside the principal's office in my elementary school.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (JvZF+)

Spent some stretches of time waiting outside the principal's office did you?
Posted by: Count de Monet Did The Same In Church Kindergarten at August 14, 2026 09:37 AM (wVcYX)
=====

Mom got called down to the school a couple times because of Mr. Smartmouth.

That painting said, "Give Up Hope"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:40 AM (JvZF+)

60 dar dar dar dar dar

nang nang nang nang nang

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:40 AM (/+uur)

61 What's the key? The key of D ... for dead.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 14, 2026 09:40 AM (nJ/vH)

62 Piss-poor posture here, or may be suffering from Occipital Neuralgia.

Posted by: Diagnosis On The Cheep at August 14, 2026 09:40 AM (JM9I6)

63 I think Picasso's art is exploitative.

Posted by: PG at August 14, 2026 09:41 AM (0fNkB)

64 It's an Esteban guitar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2026 09:41 AM (O0YTm)

65 Wiki: "In the latter part of 1901, Picasso sank into a severe depression and blue tones began to dominate his paintings. Picasso's painting La mort de Casagemas, completed early in the year following his friend's suicide, was done in hot, bright hues. The painting considered the first of his Blue Period, Casagemas in His Coffin, was completed later in 1901 when Picasso was sinking into a major depression."

Apparently his Blue Period lasted until 1904, when he began his Rose Period.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9)

66
Nice shout out for the Chicago Art Institute, plan on taking a couple days if you go, French Impressionists took me a whole day alone.

Posted by: Auspex at August 14, 2026 09:41 AM (Y8DZL)

67 Ah, shit! Get the Narcan the guitar player OD'd again.

Posted by: Grizzled Roadie who's too old for this shit at August 14, 2026 09:41 AM (r7+Q7)

68 The actual painting, as I recall (it has been about 25 years since I have been to the. Art Institute) is a bit brighter than my phone is showing here but not extraordinarily so.

I am not sure whether this painting makes me want to listen to Paco de Lucia or Robert Johnson.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:41 AM (+1BUN)

69 If he plays American Pie one more time, I'll El Kabong him.

Posted by: Quick Draw McGraw at August 14, 2026 09:41 AM (JM9I6)

70 No strings attached!

Posted by: The other punchline at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

71 Neil Young?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (XCctI)

72 2 Death warmed over.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:30 AM (2YhKe)

Leftovers again?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (+1BUN)

73 Also I nooded

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (JvZF+)/i]

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (2YhKe)

74
Caption:

"And now for my next piece, I'll be playing Handel's "Death March". Everybody Sing along!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

75 That feller is gonna get a crick in his neck, I guarantee it

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (cdNls)

76 the entertainment committie was unsure about this choice. he calmly offered, "don't fret, board."

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (Bep7s)

77 45 No pronounced hooterage. Sad.
Posted by: Bulg at August 14, 2026 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

The man sat outside of the luthierage
staring straight down at the sewerage,
with an axe with no string,
Ain't no ladies want a fling,
and he's bereft of all pronounced hooterage.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (Ot/FD)

78 Don think I've liked any Picasso.
Freebird!!!!

Posted by: From about That Time at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (sl73Y)

79 Who draws the crowd, and plays so loud?
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's gonna steal the show? You know
Baby, it's the guitar man

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (/+uur)

80 Don’t trust Pablo. He’s picasshoe.

Posted by: Bulg at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

81 Morning.

*Clears throat*

FREE BIRD!

Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (02QaS)

82 You got me singing the blues.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (ibDUx)

83 All seriousness aside, the painting does reflect and project a dour, dark, joyless air. Perhaps the guitarist is enjoying what he's doing, as much as he can anyway. But the viewer is going to say, "What's the use in anything?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (wzUl9)

84 7 The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)

It's got me wound up.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (+1BUN)

85 Play Free Bird!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (ndZc7)

86 This is an accurate rendition of the end state of living in NYC without access to a quality picante sauce.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (0sNs1)

87 Baby, it's the guitar man
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (/+uur)

great song

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (Ot/FD)

88 66 life member

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM (Bep7s)

89 Babysat as a yute by Taylor Lorenz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM (2YhKe)

90
WARNING:

If you have a Blue Period, See Your Gynecologist Immediately.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM (iJfKG)

91 I think his guitar is gently weeping.

Posted by: George Harrison at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

92 33 He looks like John Carradine in The Grapes of Wrath.

He looks like David Carradine after jerking off.

Too soon?

Posted by: Grizzled Roadie who's too old for this shit at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM (r7+Q7)

93 5 That feller is gonna get a crick in his neck, I guarantee it
Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2026

***
I can hear the crack in his neck when he straightens up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM (wzUl9)

94 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: The Mid-Size Manatee at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (JM9I6)

95 The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026

***
Tune me up!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

96 14 Pablo was angry that day, my friends.
Posted by: George Costanza at August 14, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

If you think he was angry that day, you should see Guernica.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (+1BUN)

97 Never understood the fascination with Picasso.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (O0YTm)

98 An old guitarist named Manuel
Did not take care of himself very well
Now he's down to a stick, but doesn't give a lick
Because he still wants to entertain the fans well.

( sorry it's not nearly up to the " Doc's" level but he's been at it much longer than I have).

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (rHgXV)

99 91 I think his guitar is gently weeping.
Posted by: George Harrison at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM

And he's killing me softly.

Posted by: R. Flack at August 14, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

100
Picasso, therefore not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2026 09:46 AM (O0L8i)

101 Not a fan of Pablo Picasso (it's my opinion that he pretty much became a fraud and a parody of art once he went into his abstract phase). However, this painting is okay-ish, but the posture of the guitarist looks awkward to me.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 09:46 AM (ksbjf)

102 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:46 AM (/+uur)

103 Anxiously awaiting a piece of Art that should be delivered this morning. A restored 1950's era lamp in the form of Joan of Arc, a birthday gift for my wife. She is an art historian who converted to Catholicism in 2020, so I think she'll really like it. I've only seen a few pics of the lamp, don't even know how tall it is (looks like desktop size), but I am hoping it is suitably impressive. Tracking says it should be here in an hour or two. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (vV6n9)

104 I'm not clicking on that link. I know this place.

Posted by: dantesed at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (Oy/m2)

105 97 Never understood the fascination with Picasso.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (O0YTm)

Does seem pretty Pizzaro

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (/+uur)

106 Also from Wiki: "Furthermore, El Greco, Picasso's poor standard of living, and the suicide of a dear friend Carlos Casagemas influenced Picasso's style at the time which came to be known as his Blue Period. Several x-rays, infrared images and examinations by curators revealed three different figures hidden behind the old guitarist."

Easter Eggs, ca. 1903!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (wzUl9)

107 Never understood the fascination with Picasso.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (O0YTm)

Same here.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (g8Ew8)

108 I actually appreciate this much more than some of Picasso's other paintings.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (rHgXV)

109 If you think he was angry that day, you should see Guernica.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (+1BUN)

Picasso was the epitome of the champagne socialist.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (l4RKn)

110 77 45

The man sat outside of the luthierage
staring straight down at the sewerage,
with an axe with no string,
Ain't no ladies want a fling,
and he's bereft of all pronounced hooterage.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (Ot/FD)

luthierage: What a cool word!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (odBC9)

111 I do generally think that Art People take Pablo Picasso wayyyy more seriously than Pablo Picasso took Pablo Picasso.

I'm sure he greatly enjoyed the ride, but he must have still thought "What a bunch of idiots" for most of his working life, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (Ot/FD)

112
94 100 comment rule. [CBD]
Posted by: The Mid-Size Manatee at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (JM9I6)

OOOF. So close, yet so far.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (2YhKe)

113 103 is it a leg in a fishnet stocking?

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (Bep7s)

114 I've only seen a few pics of the lamp, don't even know how tall it is (looks like desktop size), but I am hoping it is suitably impressive. Tracking says it should be here in an hour or two. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (vV6n9)

It will look great beside the ladys fishnet leg Lamp

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (/+uur)

115 That feller is gonna get a crick in his neck, I guarantee it
Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2026 09:42 AM (cdNls)
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He has his chiropractor on speed dial....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (FZ29D)

116 Dead guy with a guitar. OK, Pablo.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (Wnv9h)

117 *sings*

Some people try to pick up girls and get called assholes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso
He could walk down your street and girls could not resist to stare, and so
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole

Well, the girls would turn the color of the
Avocado when he would drive down their street in his El Dorado
He could walk down your street and girls could not resist to stare
Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole
Not like you

Posted by: Zombie Jonathan Richman at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM (iJfKG)

118 Several x-rays, infrared images and examinations by curators revealed three different figures hidden behind the old guitarist."

-
OMG! Not an old accordionist?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ndZc7)

119 Why are Muslim American Politicians Uniformly Democrats?

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Because they're both allied with Satan?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ndZc7)

120
Hw Was AGOG* - a limerick

There once was a guitarist named Serge
Who lived his whole life on the verge
He entertained the kiddies
Playing happy little ditties
And for an encore played a funeral dirge

*A Grumpy Old GGuitarist

Posted by: muldoon at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM (I0N4X)

121 113 114 hm

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 09:50 AM (Bep7s)

122 100
Picasso, therefore not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2026 09:46 AM (O0L8i)

Heh. It's a theory.

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:50 AM (odBC9)

123 Thanks for the shout out to the Art Institute. Used to be my first stop when bringing visitors to the city.

More rain headed our way in N Illinois. My backyard is turning into Vietnam...which is fitting for Illinois.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 14, 2026 09:51 AM (qwx/I)

124 Not a Picasso fan

Posted by: It's me donna at August 14, 2026 09:51 AM (3+Zxg)

125 Morning all. Geez. What a morning.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026 09:51 AM (AzRNx)

126 More rain headed our way in N Illinois. My backyard is turning into Vietnam...which is fitting for Illinois.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 14, 2026 09:51 AM (qwx/I)

Chi-gon?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:52 AM (Ot/FD)

127 luthierage: What a cool word!
Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:48 AM

Hmmmmph!

Posted by: The kazooage at August 14, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

128 Picasso, therefore not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2026 09:46 AM (O0L8i)

* golf clap *

I share the same low opinion of Picasso.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)

129 Ho "Chi" Minh City would be too on the nose, really....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:52 AM (Ot/FD)

130 We avoid shoeless guitarists at all costs.

Posted by: Buster Brown (and Tige) at August 14, 2026 09:53 AM (JM9I6)

131 SPLC Top Dog Arrested for Fraud and Money Laundering

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I think the word you're looking for is "bitch".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:53 AM (ndZc7)

132 It will look great beside the ladys fishnet leg Lamp
Posted by: r hennigantx

It's a major award!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 09:53 AM (hrOJm)

133 Congrats, CBD. You picked about the only Picasso painting I like. He captured the look of old age and what is familiar to the man, maybe the only thing that is important to him. The angles, this time, are not completely distorted, just suggestive. The overall blue tones are quiet, peaceful, perhaps accepting his situation. The simple areas of white and dark serve to bring out his thin, age-reduced physique.

I don't care for most of Picasso's paintings. He obviously has the talent to paint what he wants but I don't care for his topics or more abstract style.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2026 09:53 AM (yTvNw)

134 He's blue, da-ba-dee, da-ba-di...

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 14, 2026 09:53 AM (ftFVW)

135
Picasso was the epitome of the champagne socialist.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (l4RKn)

Picasso was asshoe?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:53 AM (2YhKe)

136 If by "old" Picasso means "found dead in a ghetto gutter two weeks after the fact, stuffed into a garbage bag and buried in a shallow grave that turns out to be a pothole on the main thoroughfare, only to be removed by the road crew as they attempt to fix the roadway and discover his mangled corpse but don't have time to re-entomb him so they playfully prop him up against the wall with Miguel's guitar," then absolutely -- "Old Man" is an apt title.

Posted by: red speck at August 14, 2026 09:54 AM (Ve/HL)

137 If it's a fishnet leg lamp, that will be funny enough to qualify as a good gift, I guess. I'd laugh and then run out real quick to buy a new gift. I actually know the seller from my old neighborhood. Haven't seen him in 30+ years, but he recently opened an antique/repair shop in upstate NY (Cobleskill, I think) and he used to be a Marine, so I trust he won't rip me off.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 14, 2026 09:54 AM (vV6n9)

138 I like it more and more, the more I look at it in light of the Moron comments!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:54 AM (odBC9)

139 80 Don’t trust Pablo. He’s picasshoe.
Posted by: Bulg at August 14, 2026 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

https://youtu.be/qX8ROnkCo6A

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:54 AM (+1BUN)

140 Tracking says it should be here in an hour or two

Nothing says they have to deliver it to the right house. Maybe it’s really sitting at a distribution center at Indianapolis. Or it will be smashed to pieces. All of the above. Lots of possibilities here!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (cdNls)

141
Why are Muslim American Politicians Uniformly Democrats?

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Because they're both allied with Satan?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ndZc7)

Because they both think the other is the sucker, and can be easily controlled and/or eliminated when the time comes.

Also, they both want to destroy the West.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

142 If you think he was angry that day, you should see Guernica.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (+1BUN)

Picasso was the epitome of the champagne socialist.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (l4RKn)
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So many lies about Guernica. Picasso had started his painting long before the raid, and it's name was just clever branding. He was no Gordon Lightfoot.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

143 It's a Picasso.

Gross pervert.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (BI5O2)

144 About to take a video tour of a new property, and wouldn't you know it, big black Stirling is up here on my desk. I've shifted him so I can take some notes as we go.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (wzUl9)

145 "More rain headed our way in N Illinois. My backyard is turning into Vietnam"

I got the mowing done during a brief lull in the rain on Monday. The soup continues until at least this next Monday. This WX is a real challenge for local forecasters.

Posted by: gp at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (Jr5Lq)

146 SPLC Top Dog Arrested for Fraud and Money Laundering

She's so ugly she had to bribe some Dude $1.2 Million to play hide the sausage with her.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (hrOJm)

147 A little depressing but I've always liked Picasso.
Would hang.
Thx CBD, have a great weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (xCuiu)

148 Posted by: Lincolntf at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (vV6n9)

What a very interesting and thoughtful gift . Hope the lamp arrives safely and may your wife have a blessed birthday!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (Sz4/F)

149 Naomi Wolf Video: No Mojo in the Air – The Vax’s Killing of Sexual Desire

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You're thinking of feminism.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (ndZc7)

150 Ho "Chi" Minh City would be too on the nose, really....
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Ho Chi Cago

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (AzRNx)

151
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

https://youtu.be/qX8ROnkCo6A
Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:54 AM (+1BUN)

I just did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (2YhKe)

152 Old Guitarist

"I'm 37, I'm not old. You could call me Dennis..."

Posted by: red speck at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (Ve/HL)

153 >>> WARNING:

If you have a Blue Period, See Your Gynecologist Immediately.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026 09:44 AM (iJfKG)

Gosh! Thanks for the warning, I'll call right now...

Posted by: Smurfette at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (3uBP9)

154 I hope you nutsacks all know just how badly you're effing up my yootoob algorithm, here...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (Ot/FD)

155 Holy moley
Chinook are running strong this morning. Guys pulling in 15# ers left and right.

Folks gonna eat good tonight!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (2Jo7a)

156
She's so ugly she had to bribe some Dude $1.2 Million to play hide the sausage with her.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (hrOJm)

He's the only one that had enough flour to roll her in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (2YhKe)

157 Thank you, Fenelon.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (vV6n9)

158 Order a fancy restaurant meal. A fine bottle(s) of wine. Two desserts. "Pay" for it by scribbling on a table napkin.

Posted by: Picasso's Grift at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (JM9I6)

159 It's a Picasso.

Gross pervert.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Gandhi has also entered the chat.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (hrOJm)

160 151
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

https://youtu.be/qX8ROnkCo6A
Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:54 AM (+1BUN)

I just did.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (2YhKe)

!

Posted by: m at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (odBC9)

161 I don't care for most of Picasso's paintings. He obviously has the talent to paint what he wants but I don't care for his topics or more abstract style.
Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2026

***
As John D. MacDonald had Travis McGee tell an abstract artist, "Picasso could sure enough draw a realistic cow if he wanted to."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (wzUl9)

162 OMG! Not an old accordionist?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM

Would you prefer Lady of Spain, or something more polkaish?

Posted by: zombie Myron Florin at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (0sNs1)

163 Also, they both want to destroy the West.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (iJfKG)

Judges would have accepted
They want to control every part of your life
food, sex, housing, money, health, doctors, drugs, vehicles, weapons, income, job, work, religion, and media.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (/+uur)

164 Because they're both allied with Satan?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ndZc7)
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It's a reprise of the old Popular Front ("no enemies to the left!). In this case, it's not Marxism but overthrowing the old order that brings them together. Iran showed us how that works out in practice, but leftists are eternally ignorant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)

165 He's the only one that had enough flour to roll her in.
Posted by: Sponge -

Hah! The old jokes are the best!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 09:58 AM (hrOJm)

166 Touch of gray?

Posted by: Grateful Dead at August 14, 2026 09:58 AM (Dv3i1)

167 Old Guitarist

"I'm 37, I'm not old. You could call me Dennis..."
Posted by: red speck

I'm 3700, I'm not old. You should call me Kieth Richards.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026 09:59 AM (AzRNx)

168 If you think he was angry that day, you should see Guernica.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 09:45 AM (+1BUN)

Picasso was the epitome of the champagne socialist.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 14, 2026 09:47 AM (l4RKn)
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So many lies about Guernica. Picasso had started his painting long before the raid, and it's name was just clever branding. He was no Gordon Lightfoot.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)

Hi there, AHL. It's not the Prayer Thread, but just letting you know that I have prayed Rosaries for Mrs. Lloyd for her healing.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 09:59 AM (ksbjf)

169 On the University of Montana campus, about where Grizzly stadium is now, there used to be a legacy private inholding. A farmhouse with a large garden. There was this old guy living there. He would wear this enormous straw hat to ward against the sun. He had some sort of osteoarthritis or weird thing where his head was bent over at about a 90 degree angle.

He walked REALLY slow. It was excruciating just to watch. But he was out there every day in his garden doing stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2026 10:00 AM (cdNls)

170 OMG! Not an old accordionist?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM

Would you prefer Lady of Spain, or something more polkaish?
Posted by: zombie Myron Florin

Apples Peaches Pumkin Pie, please.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026 10:00 AM (AzRNx)

171 He's the only one that had enough flour to roll her in.
Posted by: Sponge -

Hah! The old jokes are the best!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 09:58 AM (hrOJm)
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When she sits around the house, she sits *around* the house!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

172 Graham Platner to speak at labor rally, one of his first public events since ending Maine campaign

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Modeled on the Nuremberg rallies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7)

173 He's the only one that had enough flour to roll her in.
Posted by: Sponge -

Hah! The old jokes are the best!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 09:58 AM (hrOJm)
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When she sits around the house, she sits *around* the house!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Back of her neck looks like a package of hot dogs.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026 10:01 AM (AzRNx)

174 Apples Peaches Pumkin Pie, please.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026

***
As I used to say when I had to pack my courier van:

"I load you more today than yesterday,
But not as much as tomorrow . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

175 Hi there, AHL. It's not the Prayer Thread, but just letting you know that I have prayed Rosaries for Mrs. Lloyd for her healing.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 09:59 AM (ksbjf)
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Thank you! They are working, I assure you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)

176 Graham Platner to speak at labor rally, one of his first public events since ending Maine campaign

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Modeled on the Nuremberg rallies?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:01 AM (ndZc7)
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They need that Nazi energy!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)

177 ---
Thank you! They are working, I assure you.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)

It seems I've missed something........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:03 AM (2YhKe)

178 However, high fiscal deficits, a substantial interest burden, and high and rising government debt levels constrain the rating. Debt is more than double the 'AA' rating median. The government has not taken meaningful actions to address the large general government (GG) fiscal deficits (averaging 7% of GDP since 2022), and spending pressures will mount over the next decade due to an aging population.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 10:03 AM (/+uur)

179 171 He's the only one that had enough flour to roll her in.
Posted by: Sponge -
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Hah! The old jokes are the best!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026
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When she sits around the house, she sits *around* the house!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026

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For exercise, she plays teeter-totter with the 4th Marine Division!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl9)

180 My phone seems to gotten over its recalcitrance., so I would like share a thing that made me laugh today. I was at mass at the RCC today and no, I don't take the Eucharist. I go there because I enjoy the devotion of the people who attend, it's a nice way to start the day and it's a lovely church with beautiful stained glass windows . Anyway, there was a couple there - she is Asian of some sort and they have a little girl about three or four , and another child on the way. At the end of the mass after the priest's blessing she said "Can we go NOW? Rather loudly. I told the parents they have very cute little girl.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM (xPsv8)

181 Order a fancy restaurant meal. A fine bottle(s) of wine. Two desserts. "Pay" for it by scribbling on a table napkin.
——-

There was a guy, can’t remember his name but became semi-famous because he could free-hand very authentic looking dollar bills and higher denomination US currency. Boggs maybe was his name.

He wouldn’t try to pass them off as legal tender, just order a meal and then hand them one and say, “hey isn’t this really cool?” and it oftentimes worked. The Secret Service, then under the US Treasury was in charge of going after counterfeiters and they determined he wasn’t doing anything illegal. He termed them “art” or whatever.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM (cdNls)

182 Wolfus,
The new Dave Sundstrom video on YT is about how James Blish Star Trek novels are so important. Figured you would enjoy it.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM (yTvNw)

183 It seems I've missed something........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:03 AM (2YhKe)
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Mrs. Lloyd had her breast cancer surgery on Wednesday. Double mastectomy. When it was time to move her to surgery, I looked at her chest and said: "I'll miss you guys. Still, we had 26 great years together!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)

184 Brother in law is on day two of recovering from his surgery. FINALLY woke up and is out of the woods. Dear Wife remains with him as he is not handling his hospital stay well. They had to catharize him (not related to his surgery) as his bladder is not working properly. When she called this morning she had a bunch of pene questions regarding the catheter.

I told her "Hell, I don't know. You've seen a lot more of them than I have."

Now she isn't talking to me.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM (hrOJm)

185
SPLC Top Dog Arrested for Fraud and Money Laundering

Pray, do not insult dogs by comparing them to this thieving strumpet.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM (O0L8i)

186
A.H., how's the missus? I've remembered her in my Rosary intentions. Hope Our Lady is listening, not that I have influence Upstairs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2026 10:07 AM (O0L8i)

187 Because they're both allied with Satan?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 09:49 AM (ndZc7)
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It's a reprise of the old Popular Front ("no enemies to the left!). In this case, it's not Marxism but overthrowing the old order that brings them together. Iran showed us how that works out in practice, but leftists are eternally ignorant.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)

True enough, but both ideologies are in service to Satan (whether they acknowledge it or not). Some of Marx's writings admit to demonic influences, and Mo wasn't taking dictation from the Archangel Gabriel (I find it very revealing that Mo's version of Heaven was very carnal, while Jesus Christ taught that even married couples would be celibate in Heaven).

But ... Satan always eventually breaks his tools.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 10:07 AM (ksbjf)

188 Mrs. Lloyd had her breast cancer surgery on Wednesday. Double mastectomy. When it was time to move her to surgery, I looked at her chest and said: "I'll miss you guys. Still, we had 26 great years together!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)

Oh my.....I'm sooooo sorry to hear that.

First Lady chose to do the lumpectomy due to the type and early detection of her breast cancer.

Prayers for you and her. That's such a rough thing to go through.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:08 AM (2YhKe)

189 Tempo- lento

♫

blue-bla-di
blue-bla-dah
life goes on, brah
blah-blah how the life goes on

Posted by: muldoon at August 14, 2026 10:08 AM (I0N4X)

190 154 I hope you nutsacks all know just how badly you're effing up my yootoob algorithm, here...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM (Ot/FD)

You're welcome.

Have another--

https://youtu.be/mrndSo8Uelo

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 10:08 AM (+1BUN)

191 For exercise, she plays teeter-totter with the 4th Marine Division!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 14, 2026 10:03 AM (wzUl90
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Destroyer of folding chairs.

(I actually knew a guy like that. At an encampment, lots of folks favored "director chairs" because they looked less modern, and damn if that guy didn't decimate the camp to the point where people would take the chairs back to their tents.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)

192 Why is it hung sideways?

Posted by: muldoon at August 14, 2026 10:09 AM (I0N4X)

193 Prayers for you and her. That's such a rough thing to go through.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:08 AM (2YhKe)
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Thank you. There is a hidden blessing in this. My wife has had back trouble for years, and while her rack was glorious, it was also heavy. One of her first reactions was how much better her back feels now, and that she will be more mobile after she heals.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)

194 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I'm not a Picasso fan but I like this even if it is a commie guitar with no strings.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2026 10:12 AM (2WIwB)

195 Thank you. There is a hidden blessing in this. My wife has had back trouble for years, and while her rack was glorious, it was also heavy. One of her first reactions was how much better her back feels now, and that she will be more mobile after she heals.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)

Wow.....that's one hell of a way to go through reduction surgery, but, good you can both see a silver lining through it all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:12 AM (2YhKe)

196 You're welcome.

Have another--

https://youtu.be/mrndSo8Uelo
Posted by: tankdemon

I don't know what the hell I just watched but I must admit, it gave a chuckle.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 10:12 AM (hrOJm)

197 McDonald’s Taiwan today said it has halted sales of its limited edition Sea Flavor Fried Shrimp Burger and its double-patty version

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 10:12 AM (/+uur)

198 I hope you nutsacks
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 14, 2026 09:56 AM

You know who only had a half-filled nutsack?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 14, 2026 10:12 AM (0sNs1)

199 Why is it hung sideways?

Posted by: muldoon at August 14, 2026 10:09 AM (I0N4X)

That's what she said.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 14, 2026 10:13 AM (2YhKe)

200 True enough, but both ideologies are in service to Satan (whether they acknowledge it or not). Some of Marx's writings admit to demonic influences, and Mo wasn't taking dictation from the Archangel Gabriel (I find it very revealing that Mo's version of Heaven was very carnal, while Jesus Christ taught that even married couples would be celibate in Heaven).

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 10:07 AM (ksbjf)
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Yes, the Father of Lies authors a great deal of "secular" mischief.

But I will raise a point of order: there was no Mohammed. he was created after the fact. The same """scholars""" who nitpick the Gospels and Greco-Roman philosophers and historians are completely silent on the lack of any contemporaneous reference to Islam's purported founder.

Gibbon pointed this out more than 200 years ago.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

201 155 we have a snag season here when they spawn and die. the bad part is they have rotting flesh trailing from their living corpses. the good part is browns, coho and scamania follow them for the eggs...

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 10:13 AM (Bep7s)

202 >>> Why is it hung sideways?
Posted by: muldoon at August 14, 2026 10:09 AM (I0N4X)

Turning it 90deg actually amps it up a bit. One way he's happily lounging, the other way he's a character crawling across the ceiling in a japanese horror flick. 180deg and he's doing advanced yoga.

Posted by: Smurfette at August 14, 2026 10:13 AM (3uBP9)

203 192 Why is it hung sideways?

That's what I said!

Posted by: wife of guy with Peyronie's at August 14, 2026 10:13 AM (J4Dwc)

204 158 Order a fancy restaurant meal. A fine bottle(s) of wine. Two desserts. "Pay" for it by scribbling on a table napkin.
Posted by: Picasso's Grift at August 14, 2026 09:57 AM (JM9I6)

Salvatore Dali did something similar. He woukd actually pay the bill.

With a check. Then he would add a little doodle on the signature line and hope the restauratuer would prefer to have an original Dali work than cash the check.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 10:13 AM (+1BUN)

205 156 should have sock puppeted "the wet spot"

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 10:14 AM (Bep7s)

206 They've already caught the creep who desecrated the WWII memorial in DC.

https://tinyurl.com/y6n6sktf

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 14, 2026 10:14 AM (3ImbR)

207 Salvatore Dali did something similar. He woukd actually pay the bill.

With a check. Then he would add a little doodle on the signature line and hope the restauratuer would prefer to have an original Dali work than cash the check.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 14, 2026 10:13 AM (+1BUN)

Dick move.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:14 AM (2YhKe)

208 Jesus, if thats what guitar does to you....

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2026 10:14 AM (S41Gd)

209 When she jumps, it registers as 5.4 on the Richter Scale. She's permanently banned from California and Japan.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)

210 I told her "Hell, I don't know. You've seen a lot more of them than I have."

Now she isn't talking to me.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 14, 2026 10:05 AM

Tell her to "Calm down."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 14, 2026 10:15 AM (0sNs1)

211 They've already caught the creep who desecrated the WWII memorial in DC.

https://tinyurl.com/y6n6sktf
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 14, 2026 10:14 AM (3ImbR)

Another tranny?

Common sense tranny control, NOW!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:15 AM (2YhKe)

212 The Catholics here probably know this, but today is the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest canonized by John Paul II . He helped Jews and gave up his life by volunteering to take the place of a family man who was with him
In the concentration camp. I was glad to go to church on the feast day of such and inspirational man.

Here is some more about him:

https://tinyurl.com/epmk9cs7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2026 10:15 AM (xPsv8)

213 He's having a stroke and continues to sing the blues … excellent.

Posted by: Dr_No at August 14, 2026 10:15 AM (ayRl+)

214 Saw Old Guitarist at the Mann Center in Philadelphia in 1982, hear he is still playing recently

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2026 10:15 AM (KYOJq)

215 183 ... "Mrs. Lloyd had her breast cancer surgery on Wednesday. Double mastectomy. When it was time to move her to surgery, I looked at her chest and said: "I'll miss you guys. Still, we had 26 great years together!"

AHL, Prayers for your wife as she recovers.

As far as your joke: she is either going to smile and love you more or hit you with a cast iron pan. Could go either way. :-)

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2026 10:16 AM (yTvNw)

216 Trouble in paradise.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
David Hogg says Platner shouldn't be speaking at an upcoming labor event in Maine.

They went all in to make this guy a model for the new type of candidate they want to run, and are now upset that he doesn't want to go away and be quiet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:16 AM (ndZc7)

217 CBD:

Saw that Aldi's is selling "Frozen Ice" cubes that you might be interested in. Four large, square, crystal clear ice cubes for $4.99.

Aldi is selling Crystal Clear Frozen Ice Cubes as a 4-pack for $4.99. They’re about 1.8 inches across, made with reverse osmosis (RO) purified water, and are designed to melt more slowly so drinks stay colder with less dilution.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 14, 2026 10:17 AM (3ImbR)

218 @WesternLensman
David Hogg says Platner shouldn't be speaking at an upcoming labor event in Maine.

They went all in to make this guy a model for the new type of candidate they want to run, and are now upset that he doesn't want to go away and be quiet.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:16 AM (ndZc7)

The fact that they picked Hogg, fired him, and are now picking him again makes me belly laugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:17 AM (2YhKe)

219 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s

I will pray for your wife, Mr. Lloyd.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 14, 2026 10:17 AM (xPsv8)

220 Thieving Strumpets was the garage band name for The Dixie Chicks.

Posted by: Music nerd at August 14, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)

221 McDonald’s Taiwan today said it has halted sales of its limited edition Sea Flavor Fried Shrimp Burger and its double-patty version
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 10:12 AM (/+uur)
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I've been doing a series of posts discussing at potential PLA invasion of Taiwan for those who are interested. I loaded Part IV last night. Link in nick or just go to ahlloyd.com.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

222 Mrs. Lloyd had her breast cancer surgery on Wednesday. Double mastectomy. When it was time to move her to surgery, I looked at her chest and said: "I'll miss you guys. Still, we had 26 great years together!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Prayers to Mrs. Lloyd. 🙏🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (AzRNx)

223
That painting looks like a snapshot of practically any denizen of the Kensington neighborhood in Philly, without the cacophony of sound and the revolting smells.

Posted by: AOC, Hoping Still to Foal a Triple Crown Winner One of These Days at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (s9VOe)

224 Another tranny?
Common sense tranny control, NOW!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:15 AM (2YhKe)
~~~~~

Not sure. I'm leaning toward AWFL.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (3ImbR)

225 169 i had a neighbor like that. he would putter around while singing, "dee dee, deedeedee" all day.
we called him the dee dee dee man. nobody knew his real name. he lived next door to richard siemen, no kidding. dick's father ran away to arizona with dick's wife. weird.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (Bep7s)

226 Prayers up AHL.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (2WIwB)

227 The poll gods giveth

El-Hamas losing by 4 to Rogers in Michigan
Paxton up 1 in Texas

And the poll gods taketh away

Brown up 8 in Ohio
Cooper up 13 in NC

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (7xx4i)

228
Not sure. I'm leaning toward AWFL.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (3ImbR)

That's some serious manface, if true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:19 AM (2YhKe)

229 You can trust her. She's a journalist.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Jen Psaki complains that there aren't enough "excellent journalists" asking questions at the White House like there used to be.

"So therefore people are not getting actual transparent information."

Ah, yes. Psaki really misses the days when 99% of the WH press corps were Democrat political allies and party propagandists.

Like the network that currently employs her now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:19 AM (ndZc7)

230 Yes, the Father of Lies authors a great deal of "secular" mischief.

But I will raise a point of order: there was no Mohammed. he was created after the fact. The same """scholars""" who nitpick the Gospels and Greco-Roman philosophers and historians are completely silent on the lack of any contemporaneous reference to Islam's purported founder.

Gibbon pointed this out more than 200 years ago.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

That would account for the odd and contradictory passages in the Koran. Of the contemporary Koran, there is only a couple of pages that have been dated to when Mo supposedly existed. The earliest nearly complete Koran is dated nearly two centuries later.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:20 AM (E4rtv)

231 As far as your joke: she is either going to smile and love you more or hit you with a cast iron pan. Could go either way. :-)
Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2026 10:16 AM (yTvNw)
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She laughed but also glared at me, which is the norm around here. The surgical staff found it hilarious.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

232 @106 Several x-rays, infrared images and examinations by curators revealed three different figures hidden behind the old guitarist.

Röntgen only discovered X-rays in 1895, so it must be a new wave of art criticism to admit how tech-savvy Picasso was.

This would have never hung in the waiting room of my principal's office. Guitar playing of any sort was officially frowned upon: it was a pastime for complainers and wastrels, and this was in the hard-strumming Kingston Trio days (only serious radicals knew those Weavers songs).

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 14, 2026 10:20 AM (zdLoL)

233 You know who only had a half-filled nutsack?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Lance Armstrong.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 14, 2026 10:20 AM (AzRNx)

234 >>>That's some serious manface, if true.
~~~~~

Agreed.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 14, 2026 10:21 AM (3ImbR)

235
@WesternLensman
David Hogg says Platner shouldn't be speaking at an upcoming labor event in Maine.

"I will not be denied, Clapner! You get your sorry ass up on that stage!"

-- Li'l Tottie, Graham Clapner's prized body art

Posted by: AOC, Hoping Still to Foal a Triple Crown Winner One of These Days at August 14, 2026 10:21 AM (s9VOe)

236 As far as your joke: she is either going to smile and love you more or hit you with a cast iron pan. Could go either way. :-)
Posted by: JTB

"And" is not off the table.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 14, 2026 10:22 AM (OUMaO)

237 227 The poll gods giveth

El-Hamas losing by 4 to Rogers in Michigan
Paxton up 1 in Texas

And the poll gods taketh away

Brown up 8 in Ohio
Cooper up 13 in NC
Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez

Garbage polls by garbage people--they cannot even accurately predict Democratic primaries for Wisconsin Governor or Michigan's Senate race.

And Faux News polling in particular has blown goats for as long as they have employed that Dem operative to do them. Reason to shut their shit off and unemploy the Murdoch bros and rancid papa.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:22 AM (E4rtv)

238 The rhythm guitar player for Draugr-X.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 14, 2026 10:22 AM (S41Gd)

239 Picasso, therefore not art.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 14, 2026 09:46 AM (O0L8i)

* golf clap *

I share the same low opinion of Picasso.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 09:52 AM

I have an aunt who had a career as an elementary school level art teacher. When told her I couldn't stand most Picasso, the look of horror on her face was priceless.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 14, 2026 10:23 AM (Wnv9h)

240 @WesternLensman
Jen Psaki complains that there aren't enough "excellent journalists" asking questions at the White House like there used to be.

"So therefore people are not getting actual transparent information."

Ah, yes. Psaki really misses the days when 99% of the WH press corps were Democrat political allies and party propagandists.

Like the network that currently employs her now.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:19 AM (ndZc7)

The left is communist. They think they should have all the control, make all the decisions and rule with an iron fist. "Ideas so good they must be forced" and all that.

It's absolutely amazing.

You don't like the decisions coming from the Supreme Court? PACK IT!

You don't like losing elections? OPEN THE BORDERS, MAIL IN VOTES and BAN VOTER ID.

They're absof*ckinglutely incorrigible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:23 AM (2YhKe)

241
@WesternLensman
Jen Psaki complains that there aren't enough "excellent journalists" asking questions at the White House like there used to be.

Coming from a serial obfuscator and one who had not the answers to their questions in a timely manner, I'll continue to give her opinion on anything a hard pass.

Posted by: AOC, Hoping Still to Foal a Triple Crown Winner One of These Days at August 14, 2026 10:24 AM (s9VOe)

242 181 yup. he was an artist that worked out of pilsen. he would ask people what they thought on of his crazy looking not legal tender bills were worth to them. sometimes he accepted their estimate.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 10:24 AM (Bep7s)

243 That would account for the odd and contradictory passages in the Koran. Of the contemporary Koran, there is only a couple of pages that have been dated to when Mo supposedly existed. The earliest nearly complete Koran is dated nearly two centuries later.
Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:20 AM (E4rtv)
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There was a "burning of the books" a couple of century after "Mohammed" and the Caliphs kept the book under tight control. Even today I think all Korans use the same version commissioned in 1922 or thereabouts. When they find older versions, they hide them.

Actual Western Islamic scholars are like Cold War spies, using fake names and moving to safe house-style libraries.

An Islamic version of "The Davinci Code" would be lit - and probably fatal for the author.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)

244 “Frozen Ice Cubes”

Are there any other kind?

I’ve always wanted to take one of those ICE bags back (full of water) to the store and demand a refund.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 14, 2026 10:25 AM (cdNls)

245 The only way Talarico is within 1 of Paxton is if the polling op went to roadside toilets and polled the workers using it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:25 AM (2YhKe)

246 I've been doing a series of posts discussing at potential PLA invasion of Taiwan for those who are interested. I loaded Part IV last night. Link in nick or just go to ahlloyd.com.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

I've read your previous posts, and agree with you: China can't successfully mount an amphibious invasion. Besides a lack of a warrior culture, their engineering is correctly-assessed to be inferior. Big copiers of stolen technology, they lack the ability to execute it well. I remember reading an article years ago in which the Chinese were bragging that they had finally been able to domestically manufacture the micro-perforated balls necessary to make ballpoint pens.

Plus our punitive expedition against Iran has revealed that the vaunted Chinese HQ-9 SAM is garbage. We knocked-out all three SAM batteries in about an hour with zero launches.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 10:25 AM (ksbjf)

247 183 my identical twin sister in law, same deal. she said, "get 'em off! after surgery i'll get the boobs of a twenty year old!"

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 10:26 AM (Bep7s)

248 An Islamic version of "The Davinci Code" would be lit - and probably fatal for the author.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The Satanic Verses was nearly so for Rushdie and that was just a book.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:26 AM (E4rtv)

249 You don't like losing elections? OPEN THE BORDERS, MAIL IN VOTES and BAN VOTER ID.

They're absof*ckinglutely incorrigible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:23 AM (2YhKe)
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The hospital has signs up that says current IDs are required to visit. The notion that there is there are millions of people buying things and living life without any form of identification is simply absurd.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

250
Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:27 AM (2YhKe)

251 The Jews are up to it again.

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
Israeli settlers are raging out of control on the West Bank, and Gaza is an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Could the Israeli election in October change this?

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No word on whether they're using rape dogs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

252
Picasso, therefore not art.

I'll take a work of Pissarro over anything from that Spanish poseur any day of the week.

Posted by: AOC, Hoping Still to Foal a Triple Crown Winner One of These Days at August 14, 2026 10:28 AM (s9VOe)

253 ---
The hospital has signs up that says current IDs are required to visit. The notion that there is there are millions of people buying things and living life without any form of identification is simply absurd.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

And yet they continue to push it, call the black community too stupid to address it, yet they continue to vote overwhelmingly for the racist assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:28 AM (2YhKe)

254 Can we stop calling people like Psaki communist? Is she left wing? Yes. Is she the same as El-Hamas or Hong? No. Not even close.

The right has called everyone a communist for so long that when real communists show up it’s the boy who cried wolf.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 14, 2026 10:29 AM (7xx4i)

255 Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
Israeli settlers are raging out of control on the West Bank

What's so wrong with throwing one helluva party?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:29 AM (2YhKe)

256 It shouldn't be easier to vote than it is to buy a gun.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 14, 2026 10:29 AM (0sNs1)

257 The Old Guitarist
Pablo Picasso

I appreciate that he got there before the vultures did.

Posted by: t-bird at August 14, 2026 10:30 AM (i+Wsn)

258 The left is communist. They think they should have all the control, make all the decisions and rule with an iron fist. "Ideas so good they must be forced" and all that.

It's absolutely amazing.

You don't like the decisions coming from the Supreme Court? PACK IT!

You don't like losing elections? OPEN THE BORDERS, MAIL IN VOTES and BAN VOTER ID.

They're absof*ckinglutely incorrigible.
Posted by: Sponge

Because the movement is made up of people that are lazy, believe themselves to be smarter than the plebes, and those that want something for nothing. So they are so brittle that they cannot think, they can only recite. The end result of their desired utopia is enslavement of society for these the power and pleasure of these mental and evil misfits.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv)

259 Why are Muslim American Politicians Uniformly Democrats?
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Can't imagine.

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2026 10:30 AM (d2MOG)

260
The right has called everyone a communist for so long that when real communists show up it’s the boy who cried wolf.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 14, 2026 10:29 AM (7xx4i)

You're wrong.

They ARE communists. They want FULL control. They don't want to play nice with others. They want to change the rules every 3 minutes so they can have all the power.

Thinking that's anything LESS than communism makes you embarrassingly ignorant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:31 AM (2YhKe)

261
@NickKristof
Israeli settlers are raging out of control on the West Bank, and Gaza is an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Could the Israeli election in October change this?

I think that it is a matter of record, you perspicacious genius, that the number of Israeli settlers in Gaza is exactly zero.

Posted by: AOC, Hoping Still to Foal a Triple Crown Winner One of These Days at August 14, 2026 10:31 AM (s9VOe)

262 @NickKristof
Israeli settlers are raging out of control on the West Bank

We're talking about bears trying to use hammocks, right?

Posted by: t-bird at August 14, 2026 10:31 AM (i+Wsn)

263 @184 They had to catharize him

A hospital of the Albigensian Order, in this day and age?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 14, 2026 10:32 AM (zdLoL)

264 Not sure why people call this his "Blew Period".

In his next phase is paintings blew a lot more.

Posted by: Axeman at August 14, 2026 10:32 AM (Fi81e)

265
Oh, will you look at the time! Gotta go whip up an omelet from my fresh frozen eggs!

Posted by: AOC, Hoping Still to Foal a Triple Crown Winner One of These Days at August 14, 2026 10:32 AM (s9VOe)

266 The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)
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Really stuck your neck out, didn't ya?

Posted by: Axeman at August 14, 2026 10:33 AM (Fi81e)

267 And yet they continue to push it, call the black community too stupid to address it, yet they continue to vote overwhelmingly for the racist assholes.
Posted by: Sponge
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They can't very well say the real reason--they want to cheat to win, cheat massively, cheat enough to win power--then get rid of elections or make them useless by cheating.

Even Democrat voters realize that once the cheat is in, they are dispensable. Gimme dats are at least smart enough to realize when their gubmint check is endangered. That is why they predominately support voter id.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:33 AM (E4rtv)

268 They had to catharize him

===

A hospital of the Albigensian Order, in this day and age?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 14, 2026 10:32 AM

Maybe it didn't get all sorted out.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 14, 2026 10:33 AM (0sNs1)

269 Plus our punitive expedition against Iran has revealed that the vaunted Chinese HQ-9 SAM is garbage. We knocked-out all three SAM batteries in about an hour with zero launches.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 10:25 AM (ksbjf)
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I'm working on a draft that discusses their equipment and that will feature prominently.

Taiwan is the true China, the China of meticulous craftsmanship and quality work. The China of artists and beauty. I have a Mauser Kar98k that was made in China in 1945. Lots of people don't know that the Nationalists got training and equipment from Germany in 1935, including tooling for the Kar98k. These are fully parts compatible with the German-made ones, and in fact mine (which must have gone through a lot before coming here as a trophy) has a German stock and bolt. It was captured by the Communists, who struck out Chiang Kai-shek's name and stamped militia marks on the stock.

It was probably sent as aid to Vietnam and captured there. I found a book documenting Vietnam trophy weapons and our boys picked up a lot of crazy stuff.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)

270
...and we're back!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Deport! Deport! Deport! at August 14, 2026 10:33 AM (s9VOe)

271 Because the movement is made up of people that are lazy, believe themselves to be smarter than the plebes, and those that want something for nothing. So they are so brittle that they cannot think, they can only recite. The end result of their desired utopia is enslavement of society for these the power and pleasure of these mental and evil misfits.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:30 AM (E4rtv)
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Sounds like atheism. (Though, not all atheists.)

Posted by: Axeman at August 14, 2026 10:34 AM (Fi81e)

272 209 and guam.

Posted by: cmeat at August 14, 2026 10:34 AM (Bep7s)

273
The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)
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Really stuck your neck out, didn't ya?
Posted by: Axeman

Pick, pick, pick!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Deport! Deport! Deport! at August 14, 2026 10:34 AM (s9VOe)

274 266 The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)
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Really stuck your neck out, didn't ya?
Posted by: Axeman at August 14, 2026 10:33 AM (Fi81e)

Don't be so picky.

Posted by: Roy at August 14, 2026 10:35 AM (qwype)

275 I once shot video of an old classical guitarist playing on a bridge in Venice. It was in twilight. It always very much reminded me of this painting. Lovely. And yah, blue.

Posted by: Lunge Clanghole at August 14, 2026 10:35 AM (w1Bba)

276 And yet they continue to push it, call the black community too stupid to address it, yet they continue to vote overwhelmingly for the racist assholes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:28 AM (2YhKe)

Several times a year there are stories about hate crimes against Asians, usually women, stabbed or thrown onto subway tracks and yet urban Asians continue to vote for Democrat prosecutors that openly hate them. People vote for their team, not their interest.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 14, 2026 10:35 AM (igCg8)

277 Thinking that's anything LESS than communism makes you embarrassingly ignorant.
Posted by: Sponge

History (and graveyards) is filled with people saying, This Time It's Different. Communists going to be commies, Muzzies going to be Muzzies, and neither have demonstrated any changes in basic behavior--for Commies since Marx wrote his evil polemic. For Muzzies, since the Dark Ages.

Kill, pillage, plunder, enslave. That is what Commies and their new friends Islam do to unbelievers. They cannot restrain from doing so because without violence, any regime they create implodes because it is contrary to human nature and the Lord. I call that Satanic.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:36 AM (E4rtv)

278 The guitar has no strings, but I wouldn't fret about it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)
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Really stuck your neck out, didn't ya?
Posted by: Axeman at August 14, 2026 10:33 AM (Fi81e)

Don't be so picky.
Posted by: Roy at August 14, 2026 10:35 AM (qwype)
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Cicero had no reply: Catgut his tongue?

Posted by: Axeman at August 14, 2026 10:36 AM (Fi81e)

279 Neil Young: The Later Years
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 14, 2026 09:31 AM (o5Cl5)

James Taylor, he has to pose and everything. He is just missing John F'n Kerry at his elbow

Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2026 10:36 AM (rbvCR)

280 Of course. The suspect for the WWII vandalism is an AWFL.

Posted by: WisRich at August 14, 2026 10:37 AM (G0vdT)

281 Israeli settlers are raging out of control on the West Bank, and Gaza is an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Could the Israeli election in October change this?

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No word on whether they're using rape dogs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 14, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)
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The annoying thing is that Israel has been picking on the local Christian population, but because of all the b.s. and fake atrocities, it gets lost in the shuffle. There have been several confrontations in Jerusalem, and it's a terrible look for Israel to pull those stunts.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)

282 Can we stop calling people like Psaki communist? Is she left wing? Yes. Is she the same as El-Hamas or Hong? No. Not even close.
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Psaki would oversee the death camps and sleep like a fucking baby. Of course she's a fucking communist. Who do you think she and her masters are selling out the country to?

Sorry, not falling for the "these are the real communists" bs.

Democrats have been communists that's why they're ushering this movement in now. Soon the media will inform us all that half the country believes in communism - after Trump won three straight times - and people will fall for the bilge.

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2026 10:38 AM (d2MOG)

283
James Taylor, he has to pose and everything. He is just missing John F'n Kerry at his elbow
Posted by: Kindltot at August 14, 2026 10:36 AM (rbvCR)

I still find that one of the more embarrassing moments for American international politics........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 14, 2026 10:38 AM (2YhKe)

284 Several times a year there are stories about hate crimes against Asians, usually women, stabbed or thrown onto subway tracks and yet urban Asians continue to vote for Democrat prosecutors that openly hate them. People vote for their team, not their interest.
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey

Some don't, most do because in a low trust society, your own peeps in office are supposed to look out for you and your fellow ethnics. They don't of course but in an ethnically diverse society, people will vote their religion and ethnicity over their economic and objective political interests. Lee Kuan Yew was correct.

Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:39 AM (E4rtv)

285 n his next phase is paintings blew a lot more.

Something in the proportions of the guitar look wrong to me- which makes it the best Picasso I've ever seen, because he's actually trying to depict something!

Posted by: t-bird at August 14, 2026 10:40 AM (i+Wsn)

286 Fentanyl.

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2026 10:40 AM (0ViWo)

287 221 McDonald’s Taiwan today said it has halted sales of its limited edition Sea Flavor Fried Shrimp Burger and its double-patty version
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 14, 2026 10:12 AM
+++

I'm back.
For a limited time.

Posted by: The McRib at August 14, 2026 10:40 AM (2Ez/1)

288 Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:39 AM (E4rtv)

BTW we are already transitioning from a low trust society to a high mistrust society. That's when the real fun begins.

Posted by: ... at August 14, 2026 10:40 AM (d2MOG)

289 Can we stop calling people like Psaki communist? Is she left wing? Yes. Is she the same as El-Hamas or Hong? No. Not even close.

The right has called everyone a communist for so long that when real communists show up it’s the boy who cried wolf.

Posted by: Sandy Cocasio Ortez at August 14, 2026 10:29 AM (7xx4i)

You're just mad that "Left" is actually synonymous with "Communist." The old-school Democrat politicians were perfectly content to hide their Collectivist-bent while enriching themselves. The Democrat Socialists of America loons are just claiming the Communism out loud.

Psaki was (and is) a paid liar. She sees everything from the perspective that there will be "Heaven-on-Earth (tm)" if people she liked controlled every aspect of our lives. She's yet another huckster promising free stuff paid for by other people. Just another person conflating charity for collectivism.

This always ends the same way: millions of dead and misery.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 14, 2026 10:40 AM (ksbjf)

290
This morning, we are filing two felony charges, Depredation Against Property of the United States and Destruction of Veterans' Memorials, in Federal District Court against Melissa L. Farris, offenses that carry penalties of up to ten years in prison. She is now in custody.

Try her. Convict her. Incarcerate her at Gitmo.

Let the Mooslim fellers enjoy her charms.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Deport! Deport! Deport! at August 14, 2026 10:41 AM (s9VOe)

291 Some don't, most do because in a low trust society, your own peeps in office are supposed to look out for you and your fellow ethnics. They don't of course but in an ethnically diverse society, people will vote their religion and ethnicity over their economic and objective political interests. Lee Kuan Yew was correct.
Posted by: whig at August 14, 2026 10:39 AM (E4rtv)
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The US shut the door on immigration for this reason. The ethnic blocs were not assimilating, and organized crime was getting out of control (exacerbated by Prohibition).

Prohibition itself was strongly Nativist.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 14, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

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