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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - August 16, 2026 [Doof]
[Top photo: White pine tree remnant on the banks of Plymouth Harbor (short walk from Plymouth Rock). Photo taken in July 2026. Grok says the root ball / stump was spotted in September 2014 by the whale-watch boat Tales of the Sea about 2 miles off-shore then recovered by the vessel Protector. I am unable to find any information online about this. Weird.]
No Flock stuff tonight - but something else in the surveillance overreach realm
WALMART IS SELLING 75-INCH 4K TVs FOR $40 — AND PEOPLE STILL WON’T TOUCH THEM Walmart has 75-inch 4K Roku TVs sitting on shelves with a $428 sticker price… but when you scan them in the app they ring up for just $40. Similar deals are everywhere.
Costco is clearing 100-inch TVs for $499.
The shelves are still full because a lot of people have figured out the real cost. These new smart TVs force you to create a Walmart or Vizio account just to turn them on. Once you do, the operating system tracks everything you watch... even from cable boxes, game consoles, or streaming sticks. It links that data to your purchases, your location, and your family habits so they can push personalized ads and dynamic pricing. You’re not just buying a TV.
You’re buying a surveillance device that lives in your living room. Would you take a $40 75-inch TV if it meant handing Walmart a permanent window into everything you watch… or is the “deal” actually the trap?
🚨 WALMART IS SELLING 75-INCH 4K TVs FOR $40 — AND PEOPLE STILL WON’T TOUCH THEM
— HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) August 16, 2026
Walmart has 75-inch 4K Roku TVs sitting on shelves with a $428 sticker price… but when you scan them in the app they ring up for just $40.
Similar deals are everywhere.
Costco is clearing… pic.twitter.com/v25g1sL6pG
----- Wholesome content
If you didn’t come with a kid, and you catch a foul ball, you give the ball to a kid that’s there. Period. pic.twitter.com/P0NCqLcMnr
— fivepointsvids (@FivePointsVids) August 16, 2026
----- College football season is almost here. The University of Miami at one point was a powerhouse (are they still? - I don't really know or care). Let's take a peek into their branding
This has been the thing I laugh the most about regarding Miami for the past 43 years. Because everyone knows that the "U" as a symbol is so unique when it comes to setting a University apart. 🙃 Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/oBLxlJCUaj
— Chief Nole (@AG_Nole8387) August 16, 2026
----- How many continents are there on Earth? Seven, right? Wrong! Earth has had eight continents all along — the one missing from every map and school textbook is nearly twice the size of India, 94 percent underwater, and has been quietly sitting beneath the South Pacific for 85 million years
A political map shows New Zealand, New Caledonia and a scatter of islands surrounded by blue. A geological map asks a more revealing question: what kind of crust continues beneath that water? Follow the rocks, gravity, magnetism and seafloor shape, and the islands become the visible peaks of Te Riu-a-Māui / Zealandia, a coherent continent-sized body of crust almost entirely below sea level. Geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk proposed the name Zealandia in 1995. The name gained force in 2017, when Nick Mortimer and ten co-authors set out the geological case in GSA Today. Their estimate put its area at about 4.9 million square kilometres, with roughly 94 per cent below present sea level. New Zealand and New Caledonia are among the largest portions above water, not isolated pieces floating independently in oceanic crust. The argument was not that scientists had discovered a new landmass in 2017. Ships, satellites and coastal nations already knew the ridges and plateaus were there. The advance was classification. As the team’s research institute explained at the time, decades of geological and geophysical evidence supported treating those features as one 4.9-million-square-kilometre continent rather than a loose collection of submerged fragments.Lots more at the link. Here's an interesting (in my opinion, at least) video about Zealandia
----- Have you decided on your preferred disposition for your remains after you are gone? How about rotting in some dirt for a while near Baltimore? 1st human composting facility on East Coast opens in Maryland
The funeral provider Earth has opened the East Coast's first composting facility. The 37,000-square-foot facility, which has spaces to educate families and a private room to say goodbye, purports to be the largest of its kind in the world. The vessel room, where the soil transformation process is undergone, consists of 15,000 square feet and has the capacity for 126 vessels, cofounder and CEO Tom Harries told 7News. “We’re accelerating the process through science and technology," Harries explained. "Completely natural. No chemicals, no insects.” The entire process takes about 30 days, producing an average of 250 to 300 pounds of nutrient-rich soil, according to Harries. Families can choose how much soil they'd like to keep and have Earth donate the rest to conservation projects. *** More than a dozen states, including Maryland, have legalized human composting. *** Buermeyer said he feels cemeteries become wasted land after several generations, when people are less likely to visit their relatives buried there. "For a couple of generations, you might go back and honor them with flowers or something like that, but two or three generations away? It's a whole different mindset that factored into my thinking," he explained.What say you, Hordelings? You cool with the idea of being composted? I say whatever is most cost effective for my loved ones once I'm gone!
The high heel wasn’t invented for fashion. Shoe historians, including Elizabeth Semmelhack of the Bata Shoe Museum, trace the earliest heels to Western Asia, particularly Persia (modern-day Iran) as early as the 10th century. Mounted archers wore heeled boots to lock their feet securely into stirrups. This gave them stability to stand and shoot arrows while riding at speed.85
These were functional tools of warfare and horsemanship, not decorative accessories and remain so today.
Crossing into Europe: Status Symbol for Men (Late 16th–17th Century)
Heels arrived in Europe around the turn of the 17th century through diplomatic and trade contacts with Persia. Shah Abbas I sent missions seeking alliances against the Ottomans, and European aristocrats were captivated by the exotic, masculine Persian style. What began as practical riding footwear quickly became a pure status symbol. Only those who didn’t perform manual labor could afford the impracticality of elevated shoes. Heels grew higher as a way for the elite to distinguish themselves. No one embodied this better than France’s Louis XIV (the Sun King). Standing around 5’4”–5’5”, he favored red-heeled shoes (often 4 inches or more) as a mark of royal privilege. Red dye was expensive, to boot (see what I did there?). Louis restricted red heels to the king and favored courtiers, an early form of fashion as social control.
Platform Interlude: Venetian Chopines
While true heels were rising in northern Europe, Venetian women (especially courtesans and the wealthy) wore extreme platform shoes called chopines. These could reach extraordinary heights, sometimes over a foot, to keep skirts out of muddy streets and signal status. They were more stilts than heels, but they show the long European fascination with elevated footwear.
The Gender Shift and Decline (18th–Early 19th Century)
By the early 18th century, Enlightenment ideals and changing ideas of masculinity pushed heels out of men’s fashion. They came to be seen as frivolous and feminine. After the French Revolution, anything associated with aristocratic excess (including high heels) fell sharply out of favor.
Heels largely disappeared from both men’s and women’s wardrobes for a time, replaced by more practical low-heeled or flat styles. Revival and the Birth of the Modern Heel (Mid-19th to Mid-20th Century) Heels returned for women in the mid-to-late 19th century with the rise of more fitted, feminine silhouettes. By the early 20th century they were firmly established in women’s fashion seen on flappers, movie stars, and everyday wearers in varying heights and shapes (T-straps, Mary Janes, etc.). The true game-changer arrived in the 1950s: the stiletto. New materials technology (a thin but strong metal shank or rod inside the heel) made extremely high, narrow heels possible without breaking. Designers including Salvatore Ferragamo, Roger Vivier (often credited with refining the “aiguille” or needle heel for Christian Dior), and André Perugia all contributed to its development and popularization. Named after the Italian dagger, the stiletto transformed the silhouette of the foot and the way women walked. Hollywood icons like Marilyn Monroe helped cement its sexy, glamorous image.
20th Century and Beyond: Cycles of Height and Meaning
Heels have risen and fallen with fashion ever since: • 1960s–70s: Platforms and chunkier styles mixed with the classic stiletto for both men and women
• 1980s: Power-dressing spike heels.
• 1990s–2000s: Everything from kitten heels to sky-high versions popularized by designers like Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin (whose red soles echo Louis XIV’s signature).
• Today: Heels remain a red-carpet staple and personal style statement, even as comfort-focused alternatives (sneakers, flats, chunky soles) dominate everyday wear. Why Heels Endure
From Persian battlefields to Versailles, Hollywood, and modern runways, high heels have always been about more than height. They signal status, reshape the body, convey power or allure, and reflect the cultural values of their time. What began as a practical tool for warriors became one of fashion’s most potent (and debated) symbols.
The next time you slip on a pair or simply admire them from afar, remember: you’re participating in a story that stretches back more than a thousand years. ----- Thanks, Piper! The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.
From thisdayinmusic.com Today marks the anniversaries of the deaths of The King (of Rock and Roll) and The Queen (of Soul). On this date in 1977 - Elvis Presley was found dead lying on the floor in his bathroom by his girlfriend Ginger Alden, he had been seated on the toilet reading 'The Scientific Search For Jesus'. He died of heart failure at the age of 42.
On this date in 2018 - American singer and songwriter Aretha Franklin died in Detroit at the age of 76. Known as ‘The Queen of Soul’ and one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide was diagnosed with cancer in 2010.
They both had some acting credits too
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - revelationary at August 16, 2026 10:01 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:01 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2026 10:01 PM (hrOJm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 16, 2026 10:01 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2026 10:01 PM (hrOJm)
Huh. Stacey Abrams is out in the harbor?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 16, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2026 10:05 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:05 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: mindful webworker - he said woodenly at August 16, 2026 10:05 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 16, 2026 10:06 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:06 PM (viF8m)
Just which flavor of Soylent Green would you prefer?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 16, 2026 10:06 PM (Riz8t)
How very Vespasian of you!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 16, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: GWB at August 16, 2026 10:07 PM (kU0PQ)
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice and let us sing
And dance and ring in the new
Hail, Zealandia!
Way down below the ocean
Where I wanna be, she may be
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2026 10:07 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2026 10:08 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:09 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Louis XIV at August 16, 2026 10:10 PM (6/7Fs)
L'etat, c'est moi.
Posted by: Louis XIV at August 16, 2026 10:10 PM (6/7Fs)
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I was almost made to wait!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:10 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:06 PM (viF8m)
***fistbump***
My brother ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 16, 2026 10:10 PM (3sXRv)
That's pretty much what I expect.
>>>near Baltimore?
Deal killer.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 16, 2026 10:10 PM (syz1S)
Nice set up you got here.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Brought your own?
Posted by: The Grateful - R at August 16, 2026 10:10 PM (XfIK1)
Posted by: alpine_beer at August 16, 2026 10:11 PM (van9r)
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:11 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Barack Obama at August 16, 2026 10:11 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: browndog says woof at August 16, 2026 10:11 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: TRex - pre-composting dino at August 16, 2026 10:12 PM (XfIK1)
I'm fine with it. The point of being buried had been to return one's body to Mother Earth, whence it came. Nowadays, though, the body is flooded with formalin, stuffed with foam rubber like a sofa, and sealed in a concrete burial vault, cut off from all contact with the earth. Composting isn't an innovation; it's a return to how our ancestors disposed of their remains. The anonymity of it is a bit disturbing, but ultimately all the dead are anonymous.
Posted by: Nemo at August 16, 2026 10:12 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 16, 2026 10:12 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 16, 2026 10:13 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at August 16, 2026 10:14 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:06 PM (viF8m)
Yikes. Wish I had something helpful to say about that situation.
Can you shed more light on that stump? Strangely there is nothing I could find outside of asking Grok.
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 10:14 PM (QMAsf)
I'm fine with it. The point of being buried had been to return one's body to Mother Earth, whence it came. Nowadays, though, the body is flooded with formalin, stuffed with foam rubber like a sofa, and sealed in a concrete burial vault, cut off from all contact with the earth. Composting isn't an innovation; it's a return to how our ancestors disposed of their remains. The anonymity of it is a bit disturbing, but ultimately all the dead are anonymous.
I'm going the cremation route. I figure the large carbon footprint will be a big FU to the left.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 16, 2026 10:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 16, 2026 10:15 PM (aQEfL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:15 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 16, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: Michelle Fields at August 16, 2026 10:15 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Bitey McBiteneck at August 16, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
Once you do, the operating system tracks everything you watch... even from cable boxes, game consoles, or streaming sticks.
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Exactly why I don't have an online account with Walmart.
They'll take your returns when you buy at the store but otherwise they will take your soul and sell it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:16 PM (C0oZI)
I've asked Dear Wife to simply sit me in a chair on the front porch with some type of mechanical device that waves one arm back and forth until it rots off.
She thinks I'm being unreasonable.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2026 10:16 PM (hrOJm)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 16, 2026 10:16 PM (yEz+x)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 16, 2026 10:12
Heel to toe! 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:16 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:11 PM (rj6Yv)
We knew you were going to post that comment tonight
Posted by: Psychic Friends Network at August 16, 2026 10:17 PM (QMAsf)
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Don't forget the placard on your chest that says FREE
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:17 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: pookysgirl, kitten perch at August 16, 2026 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Case at August 16, 2026 10:18 PM (UKrJG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:19 PM (O0L8i)
>>My brother ...
I know every inch of that bay. My neighbor, now a multi-dollarionaire, now sells oysters around the world. He's one of the guys who makes bank you are just happy for.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:20 PM (viF8m)
Would he like to run for Senate?
Posted by: DNC at August 16, 2026 10:21 PM (1Ff7Z)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2026 10:21 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Jason Arday at August 16, 2026 10:21 PM (Riz8t)
Nice work, Piper, and I'd like to know how you personally feel about wearing heels. There's no getting around it -- they're painful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:22 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 16, 2026 10:15 PM
I currently have an extra double-axle boat trailer in my backyard.
I can certainly help you ... if you would settle for a Viking mediumship.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 16, 2026 10:22 PM (HlyYF)
Yes...and give it to somebody I don't like as a Christmas gift...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:23 PM (l3cgK)
Invented by/for men. Okay okay. scroll scroll scan text hookers stilts cavalry yatada yatada women's shoes…
Wut? Where are those pictures of shapely calves? Perfect opening for some Melania pix here.
I are disappoint. Just not a fashionable person, I guess.
https://bit.ly/ackbarheels
Posted by: mindful webworker - tap tappity tap tap at August 16, 2026 10:23 PM (Cl/mc)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2026 10:23 PM (wVcYX)
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In Zeffirelli's film "The Taming of the Shrew", there's a scene of a rather large courtesan painfully negotiating the muddy streets of Florence wearing a pair of chopines. A resolute gal, for sure. A great movie, btw.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:24 PM (rj6Yv)
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A little Bourbon will do that to you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:25 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Case at August 16, 2026 10:18 PM
Bride of PI wouldn't have anything to do with me for the first 20 years we knew each other.
Getting the rejection part out of the way FIRST, and then getting married seems to have worked out much better for finances, marital bliss, etc.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 16, 2026 10:26 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 16, 2026 10:26 PM (sAmhv)
I've asked Dear Wife to simply sit me in a chair on the front porch with some type of mechanical device that waves one arm back and forth until it rots off.
She thinks I'm being unreasonable.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2026 10:16 PM (hrOJm)
She could always get your friends to do this.
https://youtu.be/vMiEFyTuuh8
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 16, 2026 10:27 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 10:27 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2026 10:27 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:27 PM (C0oZI)
I've asked Dear Wife to simply sit me in a chair on the front porch with some type of mechanical device that waves one arm back and forth until it rots off.
She thinks I'm being unreasonable.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2026 10:16 PM (hrOJm)
She could always get your friends to do this.
https://youtu.be/vMiEFyTuuh8
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 16, 2026 10:27 PM (qx7Zg)
There it is!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2026 10:29 PM (wVcYX)
I don't think anyone wants to win the AL West.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:19 PM
EVERY team has a negative run differential.
I am not sure I have ever seen that before this late in the season.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 16, 2026 10:29 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Dames, Booze, Chains, and Boots at August 16, 2026 10:29 PM (JM9I6)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 16, 2026 10:29 PM (sAmhv)
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Compost your people
Compost your country
What difference does it make?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:29 PM (C0oZI)
Now, don't think that I'm a nut.
Don't want no fancy funeral,
Just one like ol' King Tut.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:29 PM (rj6Yv)
Yes...and give it to somebody I don't like as a Christmas gift...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:23 PM (l3cgK)
I wonder if one could root the OS on those TVs, and install a new OS that cannot phone home?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:31 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Case at August 16, 2026 10:31 PM (UKrJG)
Best of Breed and a Hound Group 4 for The Big Dummy at today's Cen-Tex KC show. On to Lake Elmo, MN for the Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialities.
I was able with great effort to reconstruct his 2025-2026 show record. His Breed and All-Breed points add up but not his Grand Champion points.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:31 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:32 PM (6/7Fs)
Doof - thanks for ONT!
Even though my family never had a tradition of visiting the cemetery, I have do visit my husband's gravesite and find it comforting to have a permanent momument to him. He has a very nice bronze plaque that has pictures on it. (Actually we do as we will be in the same grave - and the pictures show us and our kids.)
So not really comfortable with composting (though I think my daughter would be interested).
Posted by: Iris at August 16, 2026 10:33 PM (286+n)
Also, that stump almost looks carved, but not quite... something carvable peeks at us, I think.
Finally, I'm getting 'back in the saddle' on the job search, mentally speaking - y'all helped, and so did church today. I felt *preached at*, I swear, great preacher. I'll let y'all know when I have news worth praying more specifically about, until then all prayers are welcome!
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 16, 2026 10:33 PM (aJQbY)
Great photo up top. Wonder how old that tree was?
Thanks for the heel-ing, Piper! Cowboy boots have heels, and not for looks but for the utilitarian reason of helping the cowboy to stay in the saddle. (The elevated heel also helps with plantar fasciitis, or so I'm told.)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 16, 2026 10:34 PM (D/6p1)
You'd get a kick out of my little island. Geologists come here all the time arguing about how Avalonia ended up here in Massachusetts armpit.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2026 10:34 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: wth at August 16, 2026 10:34 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: GWB at August 16, 2026 10:35 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 16, 2026 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
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Rumor has it that riders when breaking in a green horse will wear boots a size too large. If, perchance, they come off the horse and the boot gets hung in the stirrup their foot will slip free.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:35 PM (C0oZI)
Yes...and give it to somebody I don't like as a Christmas gift...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:23 PM (l3cgK)
I wonder if one could root the OS on those TVs, and install a new OS that cannot phone home?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)
Dunno...some of those TVs have a function that allows the manufacturer to zero out the ability of the TV to function remotely, and might have something similar for tampering with it's programming and OS...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 16, 2026 10:15 PM (yEz+x)
Blow???
Posted by: Kamala at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM (+fdRY)
Austrailia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:31 PM (XJ22o)
Started the video. 24 minutes? Fuck that. Click.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM (1z8ji)
Nice work, Piper, and I'd like to know how you personally feel about wearing heels. There's no getting around it -- they're painful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:22 PM (XJ22o
I used to live in them, it’s all I wore, I could run in them. Now it’s just special occasions since I wear leggings for a living. Every time I wear them I have to remind myself to take smaller steps, roll from the heel to the toe, and not over think it. I have heels that I find comfortable, good shoes really do make a difference, especially in a very high heel. That said, my Louboutin 100s are not comfortable, they are beautifully made, they make your foot look amazing. But comfort was not a priority. My 70s, on the other hand, are very comfortable. Emmy London’s are comfortable, and she does a block heel.
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM (6/7Fs)
Their response was to establish the most impractical, uncomfortable, non-sensical forms of footware and pretend it was all the rage. They even made up a story about it accentuating the calf muscle and improving a woman's appearance.
Those guys pulled off one of the best pranks ever, and their marks are all still falling for it.
Posted by: Orson at August 16, 2026 10:37 PM (dIske)
My parents have already pre-arranged for cremation. I might do the same when my years are more advanced. To me the body is a shell to be discarded at death, the person is gone above or below already.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 16, 2026 10:37 PM (aJQbY)
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It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks.
Posted by: Chairman Yang at August 16, 2026 10:37 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Steve Martin at August 16, 2026 10:38 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 16, 2026 10:34 PM (wVcYX)
A New Orleans jazz funeral is the way to do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 10:38 PM (1z8ji)
Posted by: pookysgirl never has a dull moment at August 16, 2026 10:38 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Count de Monet
youtu.be/2wyJ3S8Mxh8
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 16, 2026 10:38 PM (sAmhv)
Uh-oh. After the dinosaurs died, Zealandia's new creatures included... giant penguins.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:40 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:40 PM (6/7Fs)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: wth at August 16, 2026 10:41 PM (oq9dX)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2026 10:41 PM (0Htd1)
There's an old, small graveyard here on Rancho Webworks. No one's been buried there for well over a century. Some gravestones need to be dug back out. There may be bodies we don't know about.
If we can find a spot we're reasonably sure isn't occupied, I'd be fine being buried there. I've long said, squish me down in a plane pine box filled with rich soil and worms and plant a tree over me. Maybe a pecan. I could finally have some good purpose on this world!
After what we had to go through to put in a septic system, I suppose some government busybody would probably insist on something less polluting. So don't tell 'em about it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - grave matters at August 16, 2026 10:43 PM (Cl/mc)
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Did you get a Mourner Package? I paid for 15.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:43 PM (6/7Fs)
Started the video. 24 minutes? Fuck that. Click.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I was lost a couple of minutes in.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:43 PM (XJ22o)
It's so Buddhist and shit. Who can argue with that?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:40 PM (6/7Fs)
Some Indian (feather-not-dot) tribes did that too. When building a mall in the desert, they found the bodies of 4 Indians who had died over a century ago...only thing was those Indians did not bury their dead...so murdered? Possibly.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:43 PM (l3cgK)
Nice work, Piper, and I'd like to know how you personally feel about wearing heels. There's no getting around it -- they're painful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:22 PM
I used to live in them, it’s all I wore, I could run in them. Now it’s just special occasions since I wear leggings for a living.
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM
My feet hurt at the end of every day - only wearing shoes engineered strictly for support and comfort with zero fashion concerns.
I have no idea how our 'ettes do it.
Even more baffling, is a man that would chose to pretend to be a woman and wear high heels on purpose. That is outright proof of craziness right there.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 16, 2026 10:43 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (6/7Fs)
Traditional Latin Requiem Mass. Black vestments.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Iris at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (286+n)
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Did you get a Mourner Package? I paid for 15.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:43 PM (6/7Fs)
There was some woman offering a package where she would show up in a tight-fitting black mourning dress with a black parasol and weep from a distance...just to spice things up for you at your burial...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (l3cgK)
The only person who might be next to her is Patsy Cline.
Fight me.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (PVjNi)
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That's why Zealandia sank.
Posted by: Hon. H. Johnson at August 16, 2026 10:45 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2026 10:41 PM (0Htd1)
I have the plot, but haven't paid for the "package". I'll let the kids wing it, or as my Dad said more than once when asked, "Surprise me."...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:45 PM (l3cgK)
There was some woman offering a package where she would show up in a tight-fitting black mourning dress with a black parasol and weep from a distance...just to spice things up for you at your burial...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (l3cgK)
I have told y’all I will do this for you.
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
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DM me. I can pay.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:46 PM (6/7Fs)
The only person who might be next to her is Patsy Cline.
Fight me.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (PVjNi)
She's been socked here as Urethra Franklin on more than one occasion...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:46 PM (l3cgK)
If it can be shown that large parts of Zealandia were once high and dry, and supporting land organisms, then I will accede to it being a drowned continent.
Posted by: JackStraw
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It had dinosaurs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:47 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:47 PM (C0oZI)
Fight me.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (PVjNi)
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Marilyn McCoo, Karen Carpenter are also contenders.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:47 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Otto Zilch at August 16, 2026 10:48 PM (Ws2ua)
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That's why Zealandia stank.
Posted by: Hon. H. Johnson
Posted by: wth at August 16, 2026 10:48 PM (oq9dX)
Rush - Broons Bane/The Trees
Followed by....
youtu.be/D11fVpuqQTg
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 16, 2026 10:29 PM (sAmhv)
Nooooo. If you're going to do Xanadu in a thread about footwear, it's got to be...
https://tinyurl.com/3bajkwb3
Posted by: GWB at August 16, 2026 10:48 PM (kU0PQ)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 16, 2026 10:49 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:49 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (O0L8i)
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Die Irae in Gregorian Chant. That works.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:50 PM (rj6Yv)
Life, as we know it, came from the ocean. This is not an abstract thought, it is biological evolution.
I'm happy to return to it when my time is up.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
The stench from 10' penguins would be horrid.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 16, 2026 10:50 PM (6xukV)
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:50 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:51 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 16, 2026 10:51 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 16, 2026 10:51 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:52 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: JackStraw
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>>It had dinosaurs.
Maybe.
But I didn't say that.
Look above who actually did.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)
Dunno...some of those TVs have a function that allows the manufacturer to zero out the ability of the TV to function remotely, and might have something similar for tampering with it's programming and OS...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM (l3cgK)
So you're out $40. If I had any clue about it, I'd try it! And if successful, then sell the *solution* for $$$$$
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: LRob
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They knew they're looking good.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:52 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 10:51 PM (6/7Fs)
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Different strokes for different folks.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:53 PM (rj6Yv)
I wanted to be next to him with a plaque with an arrow pointing from his death date to my birth date with the words "Thanks, Dad..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:53 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: LRob in OK
This is what hubby requested. Makes sense to me, too.
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2026 10:45 PM (ZdaMQ)
I'm now picturing you doing this at Pooky's funeral with my foreknowledge and the hilarity that would ensue. He'd totally go for it, the scandalo would be talked about here for decades.
Posted by: pookysgirl never has a dull moment at August 16, 2026 10:53 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 16, 2026 10:53 PM (/+uur)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 10:36 PM (1z8ji)
You are free to ignore any and all content without being a dick about it
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
1. Taking up a seat at WNBA games so it looks like people go to see the games.
2. Family Halloween decoration to scare the shit out of those snotty little bastards who bitch about the getting an apple instead of candy.
3. Flagman at local construction projects since even being dead I'm likely to do a better job than the ones out there now.
4. Political sign that has me pointing at the DSA candidate's sign and a sign under me that says, if you vote for this retard I'm going to find you.
5. Hair model.
6. Flash light holder. (will require hinges installed at applicable joints)
7. Market research at an air freshener manufacturer Research and Development.
8. The youngest black tenured professor at Caimbridge (because I heard you don't have to do anything)
Posted by: Orson at August 16, 2026 10:54 PM (dIske)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Jefferson Airplain at August 16, 2026 10:55 PM (Cl/mc)
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As long as she didn't text.
Posted by: The CA Dept of Transportation at August 16, 2026 10:55 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
There are much smarter folks out there than me that may have already figured it out...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:55 PM (l3cgK)
Louisiana man kills wife, props her up in the front seat and drives through several states.
Police pull him over for a traffic violation and discover the dead wife.
Posted by: four seasons at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 10:44 PM (O0L8i)
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Die Irae in Gregorian Chant. That works.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 10:50 PM (rj6Yv)
All of that. And then a seriously raucous wake. One that upsets the neighbors and causes scandal to the local prelate.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM (PVjNi)
Posted by: LRob in OK
This is what hubby requested. Makes sense to me, too.
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 10:53 PM (rdVOm)
My mom was cremated. She did want, if possible to have her ashes placed in her mother's grave...didn't happen.
One of my younger brothers wants to make recordings of his voice with various phrases and have his ashes placed inside a Build-a-Bear...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:57 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Hm. I'm thinking that my nieces and nephews will attend because they'll inherit what I have.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2026 10:58 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: mrp
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They don't make fun movies anymore.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:58 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Jefferson Airplain at August 16, 2026 10:55 PM (Cl/mc)
I figured it had to do with the construction of the box.
Posted by: pookysgirl now has the Homophone Polka stuck on her head at August 16, 2026 10:58 PM (Wt5PA)
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As long as she didn't text.
Posted by: The CA Dept of Transportation at August 16, 2026 10:55 PM (6/7Fs)
As long as she didn't close her eyes and bow her head.
Posted by: GWB at August 16, 2026 10:59 PM (kU0PQ)
Body farm, aka forensic anthropology research facility. They won't even need to take me home from the hospital. Just toss me aside and study my deterioration.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Jefferson Airplain at August 16, 2026 10:55 PM (Cl/mc)
I bought both my wife's casket and my father-in-law's casket at Costco...the prices are very reasonable.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 10:59 PM (l3cgK)
As long as she didn't text.
Posted by: The CA Dept of Transportation at August 16, 2026 10:55 PM (6/7Fs)
As long as she didn't close her eyes and bow her head.
Posted by: GWB
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Can you imagine if she was Muslim?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM (PVjNi)
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That reminds me of my Mom's cousin's 25th Ordination anniversary party. When we showed up at the rectory, some red-nosed 12 yo kid was handing out Screwdrivers.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 11:00 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at August 16, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
One simply cannot discuss fashionable high heels without discussing our first lady!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2026 11:00 PM (l4RKn)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
____________________________
Oh, we're doing that now. BURN!
Posted by: Orson at August 16, 2026 11:00 PM (dIske)
Body farm, aka forensic anthropology research facility. They won't even need to take me home from the hospital. Just toss me aside and study my deterioration.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:59 PM (XJ22o)
That was an aunt's last wishes. She told me. Her son didn't tell the others at her memorial service about it, obviously.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:00 PM (l3cgK)
Would have needed speakers on top of the car to "announce" the proceeding . . . . . . . .
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 16, 2026 11:00 PM (Jr+re)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at August 16, 2026 11:00 PM (0aYVJ)
When they dig up my body, they'll go, "WTF..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:01 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at August 16, 2026 11:02 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: mrp
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They don't make fun movies anymore.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 10:58 PM (C0oZI)
I think Bobby DeNiro wears those...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:02 PM (l3cgK)
It was said that all newspaper accounts of Irish wakes contained the phrase, "Among the injured were..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 11:02 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM (0aYVJ)
I get to see them on Friday night in Philly.
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 11:02 PM (QMAsf)
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"It appears to be some type of hominid, but I'll be damned if I can figure out which one."
Posted by: An Archaeologist at August 16, 2026 11:03 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: LRob in OK at August 16, 2026 11:04 PM (Jr+re)
There were dinosaurs in Antarctica as well. And it's been at the pole for a little over 100 million years.
The climate at the poles was subtropical then.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 16, 2026 11:04 PM (w6EFb)
It was said that all newspaper accounts of Irish wakes contained the phrase, "Among the injured were..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 11:02 PM (O0L8i)
Same with Mexican Birthdays with piñatas, blindfolds and bats...
Actually no. I've been to quite a few and I'm still amazed I've not seen somebody brained by an errant bat...yet...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:04 PM (l3cgK)
Tell me you are gay witho...
Never mind. You're gay.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: An Archaeologist at August 16, 2026 11:05 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
We did that for each of my parents. I was actually impressed with how well funeral directors handle it. They tactfully question you, and present the options and prices, without being offensive. It wasn't as upsetting as I would have expected.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2026 11:05 PM (0Htd1)
Oh, we're doing that now. BURN!
Posted by: Orson
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No, I'm playing dead and listening to you make asses of yourselves.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 11:06 PM (XJ22o)
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You can tell by the coconut shells.
Posted by: An Archaeologist at August 16, 2026 11:05 PM (6/7Fs)
::: Imagining Archaelogists taking petrified coconut shells and making horse clomping noises ala "The Far Side" :::
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 11:02 PM (QMAsf)
I had a chance to see them in Billings MT during the Signals tour, but my Dad had a very hard line about concerts. No dice. He was convinced I would turn into some kind of stoner, or something.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at August 16, 2026 11:07 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
We did that for each of my parents. I was actually impressed with how well funeral directors handle it. They tactfully question you, and present the options and prices, without being offensive. It wasn't as upsetting as I would have expected.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2026 11:05 PM (0Htd1)
My Dad wasn't upset either...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:07 PM (l3cgK)
Good lord, the Zealandia video misspelled Australia.
Austrailia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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faggots
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 11:07 PM (C0oZI)
Tell me you are gay witho...
Never mind. You're gay.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)
Did you think we wore high heels to impress the ladies? You apparently don't think having impossibly long legs and being completely vulnerable to men is.... sexy. So, who here is gay? Exactly?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:09 PM (PVjNi)
Good lord, the Zealandia video misspelled Australia.
Austrailia.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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faggots
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 11:07 PM (C0oZI)
We have those in gravy, but not too spicy, as kids don't like 'em spicy, so I'm told...
Posted by: Birdseye Faggots in Gravy at August 16, 2026 11:09 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 16, 2026 11:04 PM (w6EFb)
it helped there was no circumpolar current due to Australia and Antarctica being united and blocking that
Posted by: 88C+u at August 16, 2026 11:09 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM (0aYVJ)
I get to see them on Friday night in Philly.
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 11:02 PM (QMAsf)
Will you still be deaf on the Saturday Cafe? Should we practice yelling in the gray boxes to get your attention?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 16, 2026 11:09 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 16, 2026 11:09 PM (2979e)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2026 11:10 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: The Swamp King at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 16, 2026 11:09 PM (2979e)
Those Pharaonic curses sure didn't work very well...or perhaps they had a limited capacity...
"So, was that 5 curses or 6 curses? Do ya feel lucky, punk?"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:05 PM (viF8m)
Yes... my interest in Melania Trump looking smoking hot in 4" heels makes me gay.
At least I don't live in a toy state!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (l4RKn)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: four seasons at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (/QHx4)
That is the most selfish bullshit on earth.
We cremated them, but I have no idea where they ended up. My sister did that, and she didn't care to tell any of us about it.
Again, self centered. She learned well from our parents, I suppose.
And they left a house full of crap for us to deal with. Children of the Depression, so they never threw out anything. Took two years to clean up that mess.
I will never, never do that to my son, no matter what sort of ass he has become. Never.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (PVjNi)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 16, 2026 11:09 PM (qx7Zg)
It's a wonder I don't have hearing issues given the number of very loud concerts I've been to over the past 40+ years. And how loudly I listen to music in my vehicle. And at home. And with earbuds.
Hmm - maybe I actually DO have hearing issues!
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 11:12 PM (QMAsf)
CBD.
Pay attention.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:12 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (w6EFb)
A great name for a company that does that would be "The Family Jewels"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:12 PM (l3cgK)
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I saw that loot in the Cairo Museum back in 2003. There was a metric shit-ton of it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:12 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:11 PM (l3cgK)
well, the looters in antiquity were mostly Egyptian, and Egypt never really recovered after Rameses III
Posted by: 88C+u at August 16, 2026 11:13 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
Brave AI says most of the newer TV's have locked bootloaders, so rooting is not possible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 11:13 PM (1z8ji)
Here's one of those staged flash concerts with a 9yo singer. Also features young guitarist Olly Pearson, seen the other day in a Paris flash concert of Bohemian Rap Soda ICYMI: https://youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA
https://youtu.be/tPRxEr2OPlM
G'nite, y'all. New days ahead.💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - every day in every way I am betting at August 16, 2026 11:13 PM (Cl/mc)
Still. It was emotionally draining.
Once we got out to the car, I plopped into my seat with a quiet "F**k", and bro just a second later: same. Plop. "F**k".
I said to him: "Wait a minute" rolled up all the windows "All together now..."
And we both screamed F*******CK!!!!! Right there in the parking lot. It was therapeutic.
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 11:13 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:14 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:15 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 11:12 PM (QMAsf)
What?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:15 PM (PVjNi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 11:13 PM (1z8ji)
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Just a sec while I give my Sony Trinitron a big hug.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 11:16 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 11:13 PM (rdVOm)
Brother took care of Dad's funeral and did a great job of it. The military gave Dad the three volley salute, and after the funeral, we went by and thanked them and gave them a small token of our appreciation for their trouble.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:16 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: mindful webworker
I figured it had to do with the construction of the box.
Posted by: pookysgirl
Even if I'm dead, I don't wanna be full of splinters.
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)
It was all down hill after he moved from Arizona.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 16, 2026 11:17 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Adriane the Critically Critical Critic . . . at August 16, 2026 11:18 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: mindful webworker
I figured it had to do with the construction of the box.
Posted by: pookysgirl
Even if I'm dead, I don't wanna be full of splinters.
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)
Note to mikeski's funeral planner--put the non-splinter toilet paper in his coffin...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:18 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:18 PM (PVjNi)
It’s entirely possible that King Tutunhamun’s treasure, was fairly “meh” as far as the average Pharaoh funerary swag went. We’ll never know for sure as the rest were all completely looted in antiquity.
Posted by: Common Tater
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I always read he was an insignificant, reigning from the age of something like 8-19. Meh treasures compared to others.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 11:18 PM (XJ22o)
Posted by: pookysgirl now has the Homophone Polka stuck on her head
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You could scare a person sometimes.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 11:19 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 11:12 PM (QMAsf)
What?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:15 PM (PVjNi)
Here's a comedian's way to test your hearing.
https://youtu.be/llE0xRK0oUc
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 16, 2026 11:19 PM (qx7Zg)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 16, 2026 11:19 PM (2NHgQ)
"So, was that 5 curses or 6 curses? Do ya feel lucky, punk?"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
The Far Side:
https://tinyurl.com/a8j9thcb
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:14 PM (viF8m)
172 on the GSP..
But rifraff from RI arent allowed off there.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2026 11:20 PM (l4RKn)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:20 PM (PVjNi)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 11:18 PM (XJ22o)
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His father was the heretic king Akhenaten and his mother was the legendary Nefertiti.
The kid was no slouch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:21 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 11:12 PM (QMAsf)
What?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:15 PM (PVjNi)
Here's a comedian's way to test your hearing.
https://youtu.be/llE0xRK0oUc
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 16, 2026 11:19 PM (qx7Zg)
That's a good one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:21 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Case at August 16, 2026 11:22 PM (UKrJG)
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
I'm not being a dick. Geology is/was my career. Video presenters need to learn how to preface a video with an abstract, or an "executive summary" to sell me on why I should invest time it takes to watch the darn thing right through. You will note that scientific papers all begin with an abstract.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 11:23 PM (1z8ji)
I loved heels and all of my many shoes. Note past tense. I could still rock 3" heels but haven't lately. Altho I have heels on boots I still wear. I have a lot of boots and mostly 2" stack heels. I should have a shoe give away but don't have time.
I should feel guilty about the shoes after watching a youtube of women being stinky on the Oregon Trail. No bathing. Two shifts and dresses and alternating I am no pioneer woman.
I will not be composted. No, sir. I will be in an urn in a drawer next to my dude's urn when the time comes. We do need to pick out a drawer this year, which will be weird.
My mother has her funeral planned down to everything and we just have to show up. Similar to her mother's funeral. Mine will have rock and roll along with some favorite hymns. I guess the rock music at the lunch afterwards vs during Mass.
Here's the sound of college summers in this great song below. Heard it on the way home from church today with my husband. Probably have listened to it hundreds of times since and still love it.
Carry on my wayward friends.
Summer Breeze, Seals and Crofts, August 1972
https://tinyurl.com/4exym3jc
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 16, 2026 11:24 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
I'm not being a dick. Geology is/was my career. Video presenters need to learn how to preface a video with an abstract, or an "executive summary" to sell me on why I should invest time it takes to watch the darn thing right through. You will note that scientific papers all begin with an abstract.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 11:23 PM (1z8ji)
I often play videos at 2x speed...as long as I can understand what they are saying...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:25 PM (l3cgK)
You know you are the state of Snooki, right?
The world doesn't need lectures about elegance from the home of the Jersey shore.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:25 PM (viF8m)
The only person who might be next to her is Patsy Cline.
Fight me.
Posted by: tcn in AK
Aretha filled in for Luciano Pavarotti when he was late for some award show. The producers were in a panic because live TV and Pavarotti wasn't going to be there. The saw Aretha backstage and asked her to fill in. Showed her the opera music number and she said, 'sure', and walked out on stage. She nailed it.
youtu.be/k33sINjn9o0
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 16, 2026 11:26 PM (sAmhv)
Nefertiti makes me think of Nefarious Tits.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 16, 2026 11:26 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2026 11:26 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:21 PM (6/7Fs)
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I had no idea his mother was Nefertiti! I don't know how I missed that all these years.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 11:27 PM (XJ22o)
Aretha filled in for Luciano Pavarotti when he was late for some award show. The producers were in a panic because live TV and Pavarotti wasn't going to be there. The saw Aretha backstage and asked her to fill in. Showed her the opera music number and she said, 'sure', and walked out on stage. She nailed it.
youtu.be/k33sINjn9o0
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 16, 2026 11:26 PM (sAmhv)
There are more pop singers than you would normally imagine that have had at least a modicum of operatic training, some professionally.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:27 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2026 11:28 PM (JvZF+)
Try “funeral home” or “funeral parlor”.
(Not AoS, the idiot that wrote the piece AoS quotes from,)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:28 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (viF8m)
Louisiana man kills wife, props her up in the front seat and drives through several states.
Posted by: four seasons at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM
My paternal grandparents wintered in Mexico every year.
My grandmother died of a heart attack while down there in '82. My grandfather started making arrangements to get her body returned to the U.S., but was getting hit up for a large bribe at every step.
He finally got so pissed (from an already agitated state) that he put a big hat on her and drove her back across the border after telling the guards that she was asleep.
He was an attorney, so he certainly was not baffled on how to navigate the system in Mexico. However, he did become incandescent when people he termed "vultures" would pick at people when they were at their lows in life, and did file some pro bono lawsuits on behalf of widows that had been cheated.
That travel tale is part our family lore. My father was a big story teller - which sometimes does require a bit of embellishment to make the story better. However, my aunt is not like that at all, and she tells the same story as my father.
It might actually be true?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2026 11:31 PM (O0L8i)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (viF8m)
Because I've never been sailing either, nor do I ever intend to.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:31 PM (l3cgK)
I scattered her ashes in the woods behind our place. After I remarried Dear Wife snuck back onto that property and gathered up a few handfuls of where she thought T. was and brought them to our new home's flower garden. I thought that was nice.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2026 11:31 PM (hrOJm)
Posted by: publius
"[Name] and the Nefarious Tits" would be an all-girl punk band.
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2026 11:32 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (viF8m)
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I was one of three boats out off Dana Point yesterday. Good steady winds of 10 knots. The little ship handled it like a champ.
So there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:32 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 16, 2026 11:32 PM (2979e)
Nice work, Piper, and I'd like to know how you personally feel about wearing heels. There's no getting around it -- they're painful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 16, 2026 10:22 PM (XJ22o)
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I had a great pair of black leather open toed 4" heels I gave to my DIL. It was a sad passing but I could not give them to charity. Very comfortable. I only buy leather shoes and have for a long time. I once had fake leather grey heels for one suit and they were uncomfortable because leather stretches or molds to your foot or something scientific. I don't care what PETA thinks.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 16, 2026 11:32 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:33 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: publius
"[Name] and the Nefarious Tits" would be an all-girl punk band.
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2026 11:32 PM (VHUov)
Aki and the Nefarious Tits...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:33 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Hal Dall MD at August 16, 2026 11:34 PM (5eFk1)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (viF8m)
Because I've never been sailing either, nor do I ever intend to.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:31 PM (l3cgK)
Y’all just suck.
Posted by: Christopher Cross at August 16, 2026 11:34 PM (4g5V+)
No desire for one. What would I watch?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:33 PM (4g5V+)
My living room TV has been dead for probably 2 years now...don't know when it died, just tried to turn it on six months ago and it wouldn't turn on...that's how often I watch TV...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:34 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:33 PM (4g5V+)
Fist bump.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 11:35 PM (1z8ji)
>>So there.
My man.
You don't have to tell me, I know you loved every second of it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:35 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: four seasons at August 16, 2026 11:35 PM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2026 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
I'm not being a dick. Geology is/was my career. Video presenters need to learn how to preface a video with an abstract, or an "executive summary" to sell me on why I should invest time it takes to watch the darn thing right through. You will note that scientific papers all begin with an abstract.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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and Not talk like a faggot
and Not misspell the names of countries
ht:BM
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 11:35 PM (C0oZI)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (viF8m)
Because I've never been sailing either, nor do I ever intend to.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:31 PM (l3cgK)
Y’all just suck.
Posted by: Christopher Cross at August 16, 2026 11:34 PM (4g5V+)
But I HAVE had a long way to go, to make it to the border of Mexico...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 11:36 PM (rj6Yv)
On cobblestones.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:36 PM (4g5V+)
~Piper
And could be used for stabbing assaults.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 16, 2026 11:37 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:36 PM (l3cgK)
Such a long way to go
Posted by: Michael McDonald at August 16, 2026 11:37 PM (4g5V+)
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The best part was my bottom cleaner (shut up) was waiting on the dock when I came in, and immediately set to scrubbing down the entire boat. Good man, that Miguel.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:39 PM (6/7Fs)
My living room TV has been dead for probably 2 years now...don't know when it died, just tried to turn it on six months ago and it wouldn't turn on...that's how often I watch TV...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:34 PM (l3cgK)
In early 2022 the phone company stopped offering cable TV services. So I didn’t so much cut the cord as the cord was cut for me.
I got a DVD player hooked up to the TV but that’s it, and I haven’t even used that very much.
There’s YouTube but that’s used more as a radio than a visual medium.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:41 PM (4g5V+)
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The best part was my bottom cleaner (shut up) was waiting on the dock when I came in, and immediately set to scrubbing down the entire boat. Good man, that Miguel.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:39 PM (6/7Fs)
Go on...
Posted by: Don Lemon at August 16, 2026 11:41 PM (l3cgK)
~Piper
And could be used for stabbing assaults.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 16, 2026 11:37 PM (NnhvP)
She's so good with her stiletto
You don't really mind the pain..
Posted by: Billy Joel at August 16, 2026 11:41 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:39 PM (6/7Fs)
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I imagined that with a Jim Backus voice.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 11:42 PM (rj6Yv)
It might actually be true?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
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Traveled back and forth before the world went crazy.
At the border, Mexicans would try to nail you coming in
not leaving. I believe it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 16, 2026 11:42 PM (C0oZI)
On cobblestones.
Posted by: Cow Demon
I still say it's like hoverboards. There's a gyroscope spinning away somewhere keeping them on-balance.
Not sure where she'd keep it if she's not carrying a purse, though. Especially in a tight pencil skirt. Does she wear fashionable hats?
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2026 11:43 PM (VHUov)
Butterscotch lasted longer than I thought, finally died today. It was 9 days since we were forced to have her get a rabies shot.
She was 19, half blind and senile, but she was happy. Then after the shot a steady decline. I think that law needs exceptions for older indoor cats.
Last night I asked Jules...what do I do with the body if I find her dead in the middle of the night. She replied...don't check on her till morning. I do love this gal I md 45 yrs ago, lol.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at August 16, 2026 11:43 PM (4Qj8V)
Posted by: Miley
As a fossil you night became an opal!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 16, 2026 11:44 PM (NnhvP)
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2026 11:43 PM (VHUov)
I don’t see a lot of images of her wearing a hat. It could just be skill. Or witchcraft.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 16, 2026 11:44 PM (4g5V+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:18 PM (l3cgK)
*******
Not to get totally morbid, but yet I will. A year ago I discovered that "open casket" for someone being cremated is a real thing. I was more used to seeing an urn at the funeral.
For reasons unknown and I won't ask, the atheist liberal antifa weirdo nephew, who married the weirdest niece had the rent-a-coffin.
About a month after he died. While it was super weird and I did not want to be there AT ALL, he looked like he'd been smushed in a wire cage contraption before the rent-a-coffin. He had giant Lego men he built in the coffin.
The rent-a-coffin is a real thing (I think). Otherwise I could not figure the expense if cremated.
It was videoed and my son and DIL in FL started laughing inappropriately (as we do) when they saw my dude almost knock a funeral wreath into the open coffin. Then I arrived and argued with other son that we were NOT sitting on the front row (he thought, "Oh, boy").
An atheist poem was said.Siblings wept at the podium. It was sad but I wanted to beat feet out of there and did as soon as I could.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 16, 2026 11:45 PM (hzuYO)
No you big goofball, it wasn't about Miguel.
It was about you, harnessing the wind and the sea. And someday owning them.
I'm surrounded by morons.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: four seasons at August 16, 2026 11:35 PM
Dang, crazy people are CRAZY and overwhelmingly violent.
Were they always that way and the faster news cycle, ubiquitous cameras, etc. make it so we get more reports on the crazy now?
Or are the crazies actually getting crazier now as people are becoming more and more detached from their families and their communities?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 16, 2026 11:46 PM (HlyYF)
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Standing tall against the pitiless and indomitable forces of nature was a big part of the thrill, but not having to clean up was pretty cool too.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 16, 2026 11:47 PM (6/7Fs)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 16, 2026 11:47 PM (88C+u)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 16, 2026 11:47 PM (88C+u)
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And Crocs. And Earth Shoes.
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 11:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
I prefer the capitalized first letter, if you don't mind...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2026 11:49 PM (l3cgK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 16, 2026 11:04 PM (w6EFb)
Australia, Antarctica and South America were also joined at that time, and that broke up any circumpolar currents that currently isolate Antarctica, and that also would have moderated the climate at the poles.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 16, 2026 11:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 16, 2026 11:49 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 16, 2026 11:49 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: 88C+u at August 16, 2026 11:47 PM (88C+u)
Yan's TV show was transformational, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2026 11:51 PM (1z8ji)
Stay in your lane Retha.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2026 11:28 PM (JvZF+)
Dionne Warwick has her place, but she's no Aretha. Aretha could sing the phone book and it would be a hit. There's a difference between someone singing cute songs from Bacharach, and serious soul.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:52 PM (PVjNi)
And we both screamed F*******CK!!!!! Right there in the parking lot. It was therapeutic.
Posted by: JQ at August 16, 2026 11:13 PM (rdVOm)
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I have thankfully not had to deal with funeral ghouls til one of my brother's died suddenly from a massive stroke a decade ago. My mother, bro and I went in to deal with the details. We were in shock, and I hate the ghouls who fake sympathy as they don't know the family. I wanted to slap them in my grief.
Instead I waited quietly until one asked our cell phones and the cell phone of my late brother.
I started laughing, rather loudly all things considered, and asked, "Why? He can't answer!" Then laughed again.
My other brother almost laughed and smiled. Mother did not seem pleased. The ghouls seemed shocked as they should be because I hate them.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 16, 2026 11:54 PM (hzuYO)
Posted by: clarence at August 16, 2026 11:54 PM (zRghv)
Posted by: pookysgirl, enjoying having cats again at August 16, 2026 11:54 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:52 PM (PVjNi)
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And then there's Ella Fitzgerald, who crossed musical frontiers like no other singer in the 20th century. "April in Paris"?
Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2026 11:57 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:45 PM (viF8m)
In the words of Billy Connolly, "D'ye know where ya are, lad?"
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 16, 2026 11:57 PM (PVjNi)
It might actually be true?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 16, 2026 11:30 PM (HlyYF)
There is the story about the German widow who died and the guys cleaning out her house discovered that the barrel of rum in the basement held the remains of her husband. On research it turned out that he had died in Barbados when they were both on vacation, and the cost of the barrel of rum and the German import fee was less than the tax and fees for returning the body to Germany.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 16, 2026 11:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 16, 2026 11:58 PM (2xMmZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 16, 2026 11:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: pookysgirl, enjoying having cats again at August 16, 2026 11:54 PM (Wt5PA)
There was a pitcher for Milwaukee named Ray King. He explained that no matter how he stunk it up on the field any day, when he got home he was just Daddy, and that put it all in perspective.
My dogs do the same thing.
What matters, in the end? Love.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 12:00 AM (PVjNi)
https://youtu.be/3FuU4bBOk2k
According to Miklos, she is also a crackerjack cook.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 16, 2026 11:58 PM (2xMmZ)
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LOL That, she did.
Posted by: mrp at August 17, 2026 12:01 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (nbLIj)
I got a DVD player hooked up to the TV but that’s it, and I haven’t even used that very much.
There’s YouTube but that’s used more as a radio than a visual medium.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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All that I have is over-the-air. Mostly old shows, but current news, if I want it. Lots of old Westerns, comedy series, sitcoms. Next week GRIT will have John Wayne movies. I generally only have the TV on for background noise.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2026 12:03 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:03 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 17, 2026 12:03 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 12:04 AM (UKrJG)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (nbLIj)
My grandmother gave her body to UW Medical School. It was useful, as when they used her as a cadaver, they confirmed that she had vascular dementia rather than Alzheimer's. That's usually good to know for those of us who are connected by dna. Yes, I will go nuts, but not die from Alzheimer's. Gosh, what a relief. Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 12:05 AM (PVjNi)
I think the lockdowns brought out a lot of crazy in people.
The news and many more people on social media.
Posted by: four seasons at August 17, 2026 12:06 AM (/QHx4)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (DZ9Lv)
WUT? She was so young...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 17, 2026 12:06 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (DZ9Lv)
Another TeeVee star I had never heard of. Also an "activist".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:07 AM (1z8ji)
There’s YouTube but that’s used more as a radio than a visual medium.
Posted by: Cow Demon
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All that I have is over-the-air. Mostly old shows, but current news, if I want it. Lots of old Westerns, comedy series, sitcoms. Next week GRIT will have John Wayne movies. I generally only have the TV on for background noise.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2026 12:03 AM (XeU6L)
Have over a hundred DVDs/Blu Ray discs, a 5.1 stereo system with 400 watts per channel and a subwoofer with its own 200 watt amp. Gotta do it right.
Loved movies since I was a kid in the 50's, spending every Saturday afternoon in the neighborhood theater. In the mid 70's, I built a basement theater capable of showing Super 8mm Sound and 16mm films. Had actual theater seats I removed from a theater that was being torn down. Curtain motor came from there as well as a huge section of the screen. I even built the Sensurround system and subwoofers so we could show Earthquake. Fun times. Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 17, 2026 12:08 AM (hmYU4)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:03 AM (DZ9Lv)
And 1-year-old boys too. Lil Pooky has dinosaur cowboy pajamas, and I'm kinda jealous.
Posted by: pookysgirl is not sure how that t-rex holds a lasso at August 17, 2026 12:09 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: mrp at August 17, 2026 12:11 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: pookysgirl is not sure how that t-rex holds a lasso at August 17, 2026 12:09 AM (Wt5PA)
I made DH and the boy matching jammies when the boy was young. They both liked them. Lots of silly prints, like guitars, and various critters, and other bizarre prints. The photos showing the boy sitting in DH's lap--he kinda disappears. It's very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 12:12 AM (PVjNi)
Goodnight morons.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 17, 2026 12:12 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (DZ9Lv)
Save the cheerleader. Save the world.
Oops.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 17, 2026 12:13 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
As a child, she played a major role in one of the best (and conservative) movies I've ever seen.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:14 AM (DZ9Lv)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
WUT? She was so young...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
36 years old. Man.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 12:15 AM (VHUov)
Hayden Panettiere ist mort.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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Whoa. I don't know anything about her except that she is a young actress. (Well, I know a little more because I just googled her -- her bro had died of cardiomegaly and she's an alcoholic who suffered from postpartum depression.)
Too bad, she was a single mom of a little kid.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:19 AM (XJ22o)
I was on my way out to see him, but he passed before I could make it. Had I been there, I would have thanked the nurse for her services, walked her to the door and immediately called the university.
My brother was a wreck, watching dad's decline. No blame there. We didn't have a service, but I took mom up to visit cousins who loved her and my dad. It was one of the few correct calls I've made in life, and it assuages my guilt for not getting there sooner..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 12:20 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:14 AM (DZ9Lv)
Not a moviegoer, either. I had to look her up to learn who it was.
Scarcely a unique instance. There is a metric fuckton of Hollyweird celeries that I have never heard of. Unless they misbehave badly enough that Ace reports on it, LOL.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:22 AM (1z8ji)
But what can I say? It was my brother's show. I was likewise not invited to her memorial service.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 17, 2026 12:23 AM (l3cgK)
Looks like Hayden's brother died from the clot shot "Her brother, Jansen Panettiere, died suddenly in February 2023 from cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) coupled with aortic valve complications, his family said in a statement at the time. He was 28."
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2026 12:24 AM (sKqQm)
Too bad, she was a single mom of a little kid.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:19 AM (XJ22o)
Coming soon to the big screen: Cardiomegalodon! The giant shark with heart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:25 AM (1z8ji)
Too bad, she was a single mom of a little kid.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:19 AM (XJ22o)
Sounds like she may have been trying to drown her postpartum depression in alcohol. Not good.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 12:26 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 12:02 AM (DZ9Lv)
Another TeeVee star I had never heard of. Also an "activist".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Except for a few shows I quit watching TV at about 13yo (eighth grade).
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:26 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2026 12:27 AM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:27 AM (C0oZI)
The folks arranged to have their remains donated to a medical school. When dad passed, the hospice nurse convinced mom that his body was too far gone and convinced her to pay for a cremation. I have thoughts...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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It's true, medical schools like young, intact bodies for Gross Anatomy classes, but I'd think it's up to them how to use a donated body.
I have thoughts about hospice nurses -- well, the last one I dealt with. She was a bit bossy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:28 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
I just remember her from 'Heroes', which I lost interest in about half way through. She was cute. Sad to hear. Sounds like she had the typical Hollywood life, short and depressing. That industry just chews them up.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 17, 2026 12:28 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 17, 2026 12:08 AM (hmYU4)
Buddy of mine built a theater in his house. Dolby system with transducers under a raised floor. Soundproofed the walls so he could show Jurassic Park at full volume and no one outside that room was the wiser. 4k projector with a mesh screen, so the sound was unimpeded, and brother, you felt it! Neat bit of engineering, from a guy who didn't finish college...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 12:31 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 17, 2026 12:31 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:26 AM (C0oZI)
There are a very small handful of shows I will watch. But…yep, I stopped seeing a point in TV at 16.
Even sports have died in that they want to be political above all things. I’d love to follow the NFL and NBA again, but they told me to fuck off so I did. (MLB has been dead to me since 2013). The Winter Olympics have been the most sports I have seen in years - capped off by the USA punking Canada out of men’s hockey gold.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 12:31 AM (4g5V+)
As a child, she played a major role in one of the best (and conservative) movies I've ever seen.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal
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Title please.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:31 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:26 AM (C0oZI)
I can tell you the exact date I last watched TV here at home. Sept. 11, 2001. Got word on the computer that the World Trade Center was under attack. Fired up the old Sanyo 19" vacuum tube color TV, hooked to an outside antenna, and tuned in CBC Red Deer. Saw some news film of the planes striking the towers, and the usual talking heads babbling about it. Switched the TV off again, for the final time. Felled the antenna like a big old tree a few weeks later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:32 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2026 12:27 AM (sKqQm)
I still get weirded out when Pookette is watching a Mythbusters episode and Grant Imahara shows up. He's been dead for years.
Posted by: pookysgirl, dodging tiny paws at August 17, 2026 12:33 AM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 16, 2026 10:34 PM (D/6p1)
Pointed toes to make it easier to slide them into the stirrup, too.
Same basic idea as those Persian jobbies, except designed for heterosexuals.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 12:33 AM (IG3/x)
Hi folks
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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We're talking about funerals, burial, body donation, a dead actress, dementia, and a sunken continent.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:33 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 17, 2026 12:34 AM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:33 AM (XJ22o)
Well, if you mixed Everclear into your mustard and ketchup squirt bottles, you'd have drunken condiments.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:36 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem.
Dona eis requiem sempiternam.
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 17, 2026 12:38 AM (Ydd86)
Too damn young.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 12:38 AM (4g5V+)
I guess those don't really go bad? I keep 'em in the fridge at home.
Like vinegar, which has pretty much gone as bad as it's possible for it to go already?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 12:39 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2026 12:27 AM (sKqQm)
I still get weirded out when Pookette is watching a Mythbusters episode and Grant Imahara shows up. He's been dead for years.
Posted by: pookysgirl, dodging tiny paws at August 17, 2026 12:33 AM (Wt5PA)
Didn't know he was mort...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 17, 2026 12:40 AM (l3cgK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:33 AM (XJ22o)
FUNERAL HELD FOR THE DEPRESSION OF MAN
HOLDS THE KEY TO HIS OWN DEATH
ENTER A TOMB OF A CORPSE YET CONCEIVED
TIGHTEN THE TOURNIQETVAROUND YOUR NECK
SIFTING AWAY DEBRIS OF HATED LIFE
COLD TOUCH OF DEATH BEGINS TO CHILL YOUR SPINE
SEEKING LIFE BEYOND YOUR PERISHMENT
REPEATING WORDS ECHOING THROUGH YOUR MIND
Posted by: Slayer at August 17, 2026 12:40 AM (4g5V+)
I could take it all off with the D/A sander, but color coat has a bad tendency to clog up sandpaper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:41 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 12:41 AM (IG3/x)
I'm sorry, brother.
I have thoughts about hospice nurses -- well, the last one I dealt with. She was a bit bossy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:28 AM (XJ22o)
My brother and I later agreed that the right move would have been to let the medical school make that call. I think there was a clause in the agreement that they'd cover the cremation cost regardless of the shape of the remains. In the grand scheme, it wasn't a huge deal, but still, I have thoughts..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 12:41 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:32 AM (1z8ji)
I have it on good authority than not even the digital signals from the affiliates in Amarillo have much reach. So I couldn’t even get that if I wanted.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 12:43 AM (4g5V+)
Like vinegar, which has pretty much gone as bad as it's possible for it to go already?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 12:39 AM (IG3/x)
I think both yellow mustard and ketchup contain enough vinegar that they basically immune from spoiling. But I keep them in the fridge, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:43 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 12:44 AM (PVjNi)
The U said they had enough medical cadavers and didn't need hers. So, a monkeywrench in the works for the funeral planning. She was cremated, instead.
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 12:45 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 17, 2026 12:45 AM (Ydd86)
YMMV.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 12:49 AM (PVjNi)
YMMV.
Posted by: tcn
Amen
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 17, 2026 12:50 AM (Ydd86)
The only thing missing is taxes. Yes it is kinda depressing.
Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 12:52 AM (UKrJG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:43 AM (1z8ji)
I'll continue to do so, but leaving them out must be safe, or you'd think the health department would throw a fit.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 12:52 AM (IG3/x)
I don't trust anyone at hospice care. They have a tendency to kill folks with morphine
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Happened to my father. I know that nurse doped him to death. What's really awful is, he was fighting for breath and his last moments were pain, struggle, and fear.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:53 AM (XJ22o)
She was living with her boyfriend, and in the afternoon she told him that she felt terrible, and needed to lay down, he said ok I gotta go to the grocery store. I feel so sorry for him - he got back 45 minutes later and she was still in bed, and had already turned blue. She was gone.
I do not remember at all so many people dying so young 30 or 40 years ago. But now it seems like an every day thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 17, 2026 12:54 AM (TCmq7)
That is the most selfish bullshit on earth.
We cremated them, but I have no idea where they ended up. My sister did that, and she didn't care to tell any of us about it.
Again, self centered. She learned well from our parents, I suppose.
And they left a house full of crap for us to deal with. Children of the Depression, so they never threw out anything. Took two years to clean up that mess.
I will never, never do that to my son, no matter what sort of ass he has become. Never.
Posted by: tcn in AK
My father planned his funeral when he saw his time was short. I actually intervened and said he needed to have full military honors rendered - the man spent 30 years in the Army! I think he saw my logic and did just that. The only thing that held us up was the final bit - reserving the place/time at the National Cemetery with the VA.
I am convinced my mother is doing nothing of the sort and will leave everything to us kids to do.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 12:54 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 12:52 AM (UKrJG)
Nothing depressing about death if you are right with God. Anyone in hospice or anyone else that steals my chance for Holy Viaticum I will haunt until they die. I rather look forward to heaven, all things considered, although I'm fine here, right now. When He calls, I'll go.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 17, 2026 12:55 AM (PVjNi)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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It was an evil conspiracy, going from analogue to digital.
It was analogue at the time of the country (30ft antenna) I could get a strong signal from 70 miles away. -closest station.
Solid Gold and the news were approved shows.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:55 AM (C0oZI)
The only thing missing is taxes. Yes it is kinda depressing.
Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 12:52 AM (UKrJG)
“The bluebird of happiness being unavailable, the blackbird of despair is now taking requests.”
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 12:56 AM (4g5V+)
Because newer is always better and analogous signals are stupid 20th Century.
Posted by: FCC at August 17, 2026 12:58 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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The table placing is used up before it goes bad. Mine are in the fridge too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:59 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:55 AM (C0oZI)
The Solid Gold Dancers. On that life-affirming note, I'll retire to my bunk...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 12:59 AM (nbLIj)
By law they have to agree
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 17, 2026 01:01 AM (Ydd86)
I don't trust anyone at hospice care. They have a tendency to kill folks with morphine
Posted by: tcn in AK
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Happened to my father. I know that nurse doped him to death. What's really awful is, he was fighting for breath and his last moments were pain, struggle, and fear.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 12:53 AM (XJ22o)
If only…my father fought for his last fortnight. The home hospice nurse came in, doped him up, and that was it as far as I know. I was hundreds of miles away but all with a ringside seat assure me (and I would agree) was that it was not fun to watch,
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 01:02 AM (4g5V+)
ok.ru has The Taming of the Screw in English. Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 01:03 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: Case at August 17, 2026 01:03 AM (UKrJG)
I loved my relative very much, but she was an old woman with TERMINAL FUCKING CANCER. It's not like she got hit by a bus at the age of 30 or something. She knew it was coming, FOR YEARS, and did nothing to avoid this mess.
My funeral is prepaid, my will is made and up-to-date, real estate is all gone already, everything.
That reminds me, I do need to set up "transfer on death" for a new bank account (the old bank got gobbled up by a bigger fish and I'm not sure the TOD I had with the old one is still applicable).
Sorry for venting.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 01:03 AM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 12:55 AM (C0oZI)
The Solid Gold Dancers. On that life-affirming note, I'll retire to my bunk...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 17, 2026 12:59 AM (nbLIj)
I may have been too young to appreciate the Solid Gold dancers, I sure appreciated the music. From the word “go” I knew and understood that music was a big deal. Sadly precious few appreciate that now.
1800 CST/CDT on Saturdays on KSAT in San Antonio back in the day…
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 01:05 AM (4g5V+)
Dad wanted to be cremated and have only small graveside service. He was going to make all arrangements & prepay, but got too sick. At least he communicated his wishes to us!
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)
By law they have to agree
Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at August 17, 2026 01:01 AM (Ydd86)
I did that It was beautiful and less than 1/3 the price of the funeral home offering.
Posted by: LASue at August 17, 2026 01:08 AM (mFhj8)
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2026 01:09 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 01:09 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 17, 2026 01:11 AM (C0oZI)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)
For my father the service was very small. But as my mother told me, “All his friends are here already.”
Sure enough, some time later I noted that within visual range of his burial site is that of another soldier…one of his old Army buddies, who died a full fortnight before he did.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 01:12 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2026 01:12 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2026 01:12 AM (Ia/+0)
It’s easy and I love them. Besides, my husband is 6’5”. I’m 5’7”. I NEED them.
And I look great in a pencil skirt.
Posted by: Queen Letizia at August 17, 2026 01:15 AM (4g5V+)
****
From observation, it's practice, determination and getting back up from falling down.
Posted by: clarence at August 17, 2026 01:17 AM (zRghv)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 01:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 01:03 AM (IG3/x)
You say venting, I take as a warning. When my mother goes, I know who the executor is. Hint: neither of my sisters.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 01:23 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 01:30 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Ugh. Sorry man. It's a hassle.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 01:35 AM (rdVOm)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 01:37 AM (1z8ji)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 01:41 AM (4g5V+)
During primary election day in Michigan trump had government agents asking voters for proof of citizenship and other forms of ice agent intimidation. DU. Msnow.
Posted by: exodus
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CITIZENSHIP??!?! To vote??!?!???
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 17, 2026 01:50 AM (XJ22o)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Next, they'll be asking them to be adults. And alive. Craziness.
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2026 01:55 AM (VHUov)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25
>What does that mean? Sounds very confrontational. I have never experienced that.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 17, 2026 01:58 AM (tvdD1)
Wait, wait, wait... I thought if we had nothing to hide, then we had nothing to worry about!
Right? Right?!
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: clarence at August 17, 2026 02:04 AM (zRghv)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 17, 2026 02:07 AM (sAmhv)
OR
Endless pop up ads. I can handle most pop ads, but these are insidious.
I just can’t anymore with this blog.
Posted by: RNUT at August 17, 2026 02:08 AM (xW84Z)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 17, 2026 02:09 AM (DZ9Lv)
In TX for years now I have needed to provide ID in order to vote. Given that I walk around with 3 forms of ID at a given moment, did I care? No. Intimidated? Hardly. I don’t have anything to hide…I CAN’T have anything to hide to have 2 of those three forms of ID.
Try harder you drive by coward troll.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 02:11 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 17, 2026 02:07 AM (sAmhv)
Right? The people who are screaming about what a dictator Trump is are spoiled brats without an inkling as to what a dictator is.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 02:13 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2026 12:43 AM (1z8ji)
I'll continue to do so, but leaving them out must be safe, or you'd think the health department would throw a fit.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 17, 2026 12:52 AM (IG3/x)
What if they are gone through at such a rate where long term storage isn’t an issue?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 02:14 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)
Nor do they want people other than US citizens showing passports at PoEs in order to enter the United States.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 02:19 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon
Exactly. In a restaurant, one bottle of ketchup might not last one day.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:19 AM (rdVOm)
I will leave as an exercise to sort out which these two situations, having a CCW or voting without an ID, are more dangerous to the public.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 17, 2026 02:24 AM (/TM72)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:45 AM (rdVOm)
Little by little, I'm getting this place shaped up. Long way to go, but got to start somewhere and then keep going.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 02:50 AM (rdVOm)
Make is hard to do anything outside, or organizing the outbuildings. Heat just incapacitates me. Sucks.
But I have many projects...all over this place. Hope I live long enough to whittle it down to a manageable level.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)
Life is lonely without hubby here. He's in his own world-- safe, if not always happy. We both got cheated out of a pleasant retirement together. Cruel.
Will I be able to reinvent my life again? Dunno. I'm so much older than last time. Not as much 'support' either.
We'll see...
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:18 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:26 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:27 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:27 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: clarence at August 17, 2026 03:27 AM (zRghv)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: clarence at August 17, 2026 03:29 AM (zRghv)
I will leave as an exercise to sort out which these two situations, having a CCW or voting without an ID, are more dangerous to the public.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 17, 2026 02:24 AM (/TM72)
That's a real Sophie's Choice there.
In neighboring TX you take a class, send in your paperwork afterwards to DPS, and after their anal rectal exam of you, you get your LTC. Took me 30 days to get mine. AND you show ID at polling places here.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:31 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:34 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:34 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:35 AM (4g5V+)
Submit paperwork to Sheriff.
Pay $37.50
Get fingerprinted.
Wait for background check.
Takes about 90 days.
Now we have Constitutional Carry. No more permit, within State boundary.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:35 AM (rdVOm)
Better get moving and see if water came in downstairs
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2026 03:35 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2026 03:51 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:35 AM (rdVOm)
TX does as well but the LTC is extremely useful. No background checks on the 4473 with one because the background check has been done.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 03:56 AM (4g5V+)
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Understood. I won't be purchasing any more hardware, so not a concern here.
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:59 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 03:59 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah so it probably won't do you much good.
For me, still useful.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 04:00 AM (4g5V+)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 17, 2026 04:04 AM (gIjzl)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 04:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2026 04:09 AM (rdVOm)
145
Louisiana man kills wife, props her up in the front seat and drives through several states.
Police pull him over for a traffic violation and discover the dead wife.
Posted by: four seasons at August 16, 2026 10:56 PM
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She wouldn't respond to the deputy's questions so he ordered her out of the car. Rigor mortis had set in, and he yelled at her repeatedly to stop resisting.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 17, 2026 04:09 AM (VWtfl)
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Looks like the officer has no experience with dead bodies. If rigor had set, there are several external signs.
Posted by: clarence at August 17, 2026 04:14 AM (zRghv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 17, 2026 04:19 AM (gIjzl)
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Looks like the officer has no experience with dead bodies. If rigor had set, there are several external signs.
Posted by: clarence at August 17, 2026 04:14 AM (zRghv)
She was going to a Dead Man's Party.
Who could ask for more?
Everybody's coming
Leave your body at the door
Leave your body and soul at the door
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 17, 2026 04:26 AM (4g5V+)
425 On occasion I will watch some of those body cam videos. There are some seriously mentally ill people roaming around. There is a homeless lady that has been sitting on the bench in front of the post office where she is frequently screaming into a phone.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 17, 2026 04:19 AM
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Once I was in New Orleans, walking down the street. There was an old lady sitting in front of a bank yelling "help me." I went inside the bank and told the security guard seated in the lobby about her. He said, "That's the Help Me Lady. She's out there every day."
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 17, 2026 04:28 AM (VWtfl)
Posted by: m at August 17, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)
And, what? You don't think Google, Apple, MS, FB, etc have not been spying and gathering information on everything we do on their devices or websites???? I can have a conversation with a friend and the next day what we talked about is on my phone by way of advertisements.
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Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)