Spooky Season Cafe

Point Reyes National Seashore
by Cynical Publius

There goes the neighborhood.

Horror themes played by horror icons.

New dog costumes. Not just the little dogs dressed up as knife murders I've posted before.

Okay, but if you've missed the knife maniac little dogs, here they are. And here's one terrorizing the cat.

Feeeeed me, Seymore.

Opossum steals Halloween candy but the neighborhood watch witch stops him.

KISS made their prime-time TV debut on the Paul Lynde Halloween special in 1976.

This guy's gonna get a call from his HOA.

The Real Transported Man.

+1 flaming katana. I think it's just covered in match phosphorous and there's a striker plate in the hilt but whatever, man.

Speaking of magic: simple sleights of hand exposed.

Bats are celebrating their 65 millionth birthday, some pointy-heads claim.

A huge genomic and fossil study suggests bats first evolved in Europe around 65 to 60 million years ago before spreading across the globe. The findings also indicate that flight and echolocation emerged near the beginning of bat evolution, potentially helping explain how bats became one of the most successful mammal groups on Earth.

Science has finally caught up to Duncanthrax.

...
The results suggest that bats first evolved in Europe during the late Paleocene. Their descendants then moved into Africa.
As bats continued to diversify, separate groups expanded into the Americas, Asia, and Australia. Over time, those migrations produced the major bat lineages found around the world today.

...
The findings also provide new clues about the origins of two of bats' defining features: powered flight and echolocation.
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Researchers also analyzed the fossil bat Vielasia, which sits on the oldest branch of the bat family tree. That fossil suggests echolocation had already appeared close to the beginning of bat evolution.
Taken together, the evidence indicates that both powered flight and echolocation emerged before modern bat groups began diversifying. Those abilities may have helped give bats their remarkable evolutionary success.

Anthony Fauci immediately sampled the tissues of a million-year-old bat fossil to find a disease he could infect the world with, then "cure."

Autumn delights with rich golden shades and festive atmosphere 🪾🍂🍁🪹🍂🍂 pic.twitter.com/0eOIdwdNJV
— 𝕬𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖔𝖓🌪 (@Armagedon6972) September 28, 2026

This is scarier than any modern Halloween costume:

Halloween in the 1930s. pic.twitter.com/bOTyaqtubg
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) October 23, 2023

Doggo didn’t know how to handle all the halloween cat decorations, so he just froze..🐈‍⬛🐕🐈‍⬛😅 pic.twitter.com/haNVVEuYTS
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) April 21, 2026

A tour of a 1950s home -- basically untouched for 70 years. Includes a tiki bar in the rumpus room. I think that's more of a 60s thing but whatever, man.

1950s home tour

[📹 homes_with_max] pic.twitter.com/Tf5IEzxneL
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 30, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

Comments

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1 Yo

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 07:31 PM (8d6Vf)

2 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Blade

Posted by: ballistic at October 01, 2026 07:32 PM (oqH4h)

4 Can’t believe it. And I’m not Blade.

BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 07:32 PM (8d6Vf)

5 4 BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

bicyclist invastion

Posted by: anachronda at October 01, 2026 07:34 PM (oY6Yp)

6 BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

He’s the king of the spoky world.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2026 07:34 PM (yN33w)

7 When I was a lad in Wyoming, we did not really have autumn. Some time in September we would have a really hard freeze, and the leaves would turn brown and die.

Ennui

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at October 01, 2026 07:36 PM (0aYVJ)

8 Spoky, like a bike?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:36 PM (RIvkX)

9 BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?
Posted by: RI Red

The wheel of the year is turning.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 07:36 PM (ftFVW)

10 I can smell that 1950's house.

That's really well-preserved though

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 01, 2026 07:37 PM (vJrRc)

11 KISS made their prime-time TV debut on the Paul Lynde Halloween special in 1976.
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Who on the what when?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:37 PM (RIvkX)

12 Happy-ish Thursday Evening!

I put up a Halloween wreath on the door, being Oct 1st and all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 07:38 PM (3ZUWJ)

13 Penguins do not echolocate. They yecholocate.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at October 01, 2026 07:38 PM (MWfyi)

14 OK, posting this b/c it's a feel good story. Man adopted at birth discovers his biological dad is Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers. He was 58 when he found his dad, who was only 14 when he and his girlfriend had him........

https://tinyurl.com/2568e98n

Posted by: beckster at October 01, 2026 07:38 PM (kX27y)

15
Crows: "I hear you're seeing another bird species."

Ace: "Not really... it's complicated."

Posted by: Auspex at October 01, 2026 07:38 PM (Y8DZL)

16 Why did Dr. Frankenstein keep measuring the heitght of his monster?

Because he wanted to make sure that he’d grew some.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 07:38 PM (77rzZ)

17
*snaps fingers imperiously*

Garçon! My steak is burned and it smells of gasoline.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 07:40 PM (eRlcH)

18 >>>BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

whops!

Posted by: ace at October 01, 2026 07:40 PM (1wjle)

19 Shhhh! Everyone will want some!

Posted by: Your waiter at October 01, 2026 07:40 PM (MWfyi)

20 Why did Hungarians burn their zombies?

Because they loved ghoulash.

Posted by: Bulg at October 01, 2026 07:41 PM (77rzZ)

21 >>BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

whops!
Posted by: ace

Ah, didn't pay for the double O plan?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 07:42 PM (ftFVW)

22 I called the others, since none o'youse did.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 01, 2026 07:42 PM (zYpTz)

23 Thanks Dash

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)

24 Mr Spock hated it when Nurse Chapel called him "Spoky" but it made him blush. Ever seen a green orange?

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at October 01, 2026 07:44 PM (MWfyi)

25
I called the others, since none o'youse did.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 01, 2026 07:42 PM (zYpTz)

_________

The In Crowd doesn't need noods.

*dons shades*
*lights cigarette*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 07:44 PM (eRlcH)

26 snaps fingers imperiously*

Garçon! My steak is burned and it smells of gasoline.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Mine's still got the marks where the jockey hit it!

Posted by: Al Czervik at October 01, 2026 07:44 PM (xxBSa)

27 And just like that, spoky goes to spooky.
Whops! Opsie!

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 07:44 PM (8d6Vf)

28 I called the others, since none o'youse did.

Not true!

You wouldn't believe some of the names I called 'em...

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 07:44 PM (3ZUWJ)

29 New dog costumes.

OMG. IHOP is so wrong, but funny. And the martini glass, lol.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 01, 2026 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

30 I called the others, since none o'youse did.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

I'm too old for nooding.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 07:45 PM (ftFVW)

31 Apologies if this has been noted, like, an hour ago, but Reddington just got his pp whacked -

Judge William Sullivan denied a motion to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty of murdering her three children. It comes after Clancy's defense team argued that there was no evidence she killed her children. NBC News' Misty Marris reports.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 07:45 PM (88C+u)

32 >>>BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

whops!
Posted by: ace at October 01, 2026 07:40 PM

Well played, Ace. Well played.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 07:47 PM (GfgtS)

33 >Halloween in the 1930s

She was a sour girl the day that she met me . . .

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 07:47 PM (88C+u)

34 It is the first day of Pumpkin Spice festival.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 07:47 PM (rbvCR)

35 That black lab really understood what he had to do to participate in the Halloween decoration theme.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 01, 2026 07:48 PM (OlzlW)

36 Use a clothespin to put a playing card in your spoky season cafe and - bam! - you’ve got a motorcycle.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 07:48 PM (QjqJb)

37 We're about a week away from peak fall foliage.

Starting to get very pretty around here.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 07:48 PM (viF8m)

38 My grandparents had a Tiki bar in the basement of their house in Indianapolis. It could be the middle of winter with a foot of snow on the ground and a tropical paradise was just a staircase away.

Grandpa had his hifi down there too. And a TV. And a stack of Playboys. Paradise indeed.

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 07:49 PM (MWfyi)

39 For the next month, the traffic into Salem will suck All The Dicks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 07:49 PM (GfgtS)

40 Had to buy a vowel. I hate when that happens.

Posted by: Case at October 01, 2026 07:49 PM (9+0gc)

41 Starting to get very pretty around here.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 07:48 PM

Ayuh. Trees are looking nice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 07:50 PM (GfgtS)

42 9 BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?
Posted by: RI Red

The wheel of the year is turning.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 07:36 PM (ftFVW)

To everything, there is a season.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 01, 2026 07:50 PM (zYpTz)

43 For the next month, the traffic into Salem will suck All The Dicks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

But the witches in Salem won't.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 07:50 PM (ftFVW)

44 Not sure that 50s house couldn't be a 60s house

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 07:51 PM (Ia/+0)

45 For the next month, the traffic into Salem will suck All The Dicks.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 07:49 PM (GfgtS)

And where is this “Salem”?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 07:51 PM (8d6Vf)

46 Apologies if this has been noted, like, an hour ago, but Reddington just got his pp whacked -

Judge William Sullivan denied a motion to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty of murdering her three children

That's hardly a smacking. He needs to be disbarred.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 01, 2026 07:51 PM (vTZFs)

47 Bats are celebrating their 65 millionth birthday, some pointy-heads claim.

Hmmmmm. Didn't something else happen roughly 65M years ago? I can't quite place it. There's a big hole in my memory.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 07:52 PM (Riz8t)

48 Friday 13ths movies are already on IFC

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 07:52 PM (Ia/+0)

49 KISS made their prime-time TV debut on the Paul Lynde Halloween special in 1976.
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Who on the what when?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 01, 2026 07:37 PM (RIvkX)

I saw that. I was 10. It was cool. I was a huge KISS fan. But then I found much better bands. Aside from Ace, KISS sucks, and has sucked for a half century.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, call BR549 at October 01, 2026 07:53 PM (0aYVJ)

50 Asking for a friend.
Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 07:51 PM (8d6Vf)

Try Provincetown

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 07:54 PM (88C+u)

51 “Spoky”
“Shelvy”

I’m beginning to see a pattern.

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 07:54 PM (8d6Vf)

52 Friday 13ths movies are already on IFC
Posted by: Skip

Meh, more of an Elm Street girl myself.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 07:54 PM (ftFVW)

53 >39 For the next month, the traffic into Salem will suck All The Dicks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 01, 2026 07:49 PM (GfgtS)

We're heading to Southie to visit Meta Girl in a few weeks. She disabused me of any notion of a visit to Salem.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 01, 2026 07:54 PM (vr4To)

54 27 And just like that, spoky goes to spooky.
Whops! Opsie!
Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 07:44 PM (8d6Vf)

Heh. I am fascinated by how many people misspell "oops" as "opps." I guess consonants are free.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 01, 2026 07:55 PM (zYpTz)

55 Snaps fingers -

You load 16 tons of number 9 coal and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt!

- Tennessee Ernie “Spoky” Ford

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 07:55 PM (QjqJb)

56 Miami stone.

Posted by: Eromero at October 01, 2026 07:58 PM (LHPAg)

57
BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

That was a song by The Classics III

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2026 07:58 PM (Cqx++)

58 To everything, there is a season.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Very true ... but some people put waaaaay too much garlic in spaghetti sauce.

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic. . . at October 01, 2026 07:58 PM (3ZUWJ)

59 Halloween in the 1930s...

That's what the folks from Innsmouth, MA wore when they had to travel outside their town...They thought it made them look "normal" to outsiders.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 01, 2026 07:58 PM (FZ29D)

60 I didn’t know Ace was in the rock band Kiss?!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 07:58 PM (QjqJb)

61 Never seen Fri 13 nor Elm Street.

Posted by: Eromero at October 01, 2026 08:00 PM (LHPAg)

62 Not sure it will stand up with Shelvey, but we could get going AOS lore on Spoky.
And I hereby relinquish any and all rights.

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 08:00 PM (8d6Vf)

63 I was never a Kiss fan but a guy I played with for a while was so I was forced to learn the bass part to "Strutter" to humor him. Other than that, I always thought Kiss was a band mostly for girls.

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 08:00 PM (MWfyi)

64 Hmmmmm. Didn't something else happen roughly 65M years ago? I can't quite place it. There's a big hole in my memory.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 01, 2026 07:52 PM (Riz8t)

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Keith Richards was born?

Posted by: ShainS at October 01, 2026 08:01 PM (JXBGz)

65 Doggie had to be wondering what king of Witchcraft this was and was he going to get turned into a board

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 08:01 PM (Ia/+0)

66 57
BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

That was a song by The Classics III
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2026 07:58 PM (Cqx++)
IV

Posted by: Eromero at October 01, 2026 08:01 PM (LHPAg)

67
You load 16 tons of number 9 coal and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt!

- Tennessee Ernie “Spoky” Ford

__________

My parents came from a coal-mining company town. There was a company department store, providing credit but selling stuff at a premium. So a miner might actually end up in debt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 08:02 PM (eRlcH)

68 Willowed:
192 Forget it, Dash...it's Reddit Town.

And AI trains on Reddit feeds.

Plan Accordingly

Posted by: Community Notes at October 01, 2026 07:34 PM (rgGn5)

What would AI be like if it was trained at the HQ?...
Boobs, beer, guns...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 01, 2026 08:02 PM (l3cgK)

69 158 And just like that, the Sabres begin the 2026 / 27 campaign in Columbus.

Go Sabres ...
Posted by: browndog says woof

I'm not holding my breath on a Penguins playoff run, but starting the season by decimating the putrid trash Flyers, 7-0, in Filthydelphia was nice.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 01, 2026 08:02 PM (EweRc)

70 Sporky was a joint research program with the US Army Quartermaster corps and Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation. Although it was cancelled before much could be accomplished, KFC leveraged on the technological know-how learned and made eating those coleslaw tubs as simple as eating the whipped potatoes and gravy.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 08:02 PM (rbvCR)

71 "For the next month traffic in Salem will suck"

With these gas prices? To hell with that.

Posted by: Case at October 01, 2026 08:03 PM (9+0gc)

72
She was a sour girl the day that she met me . . .
Posted by: 88C+u

That's what you get from drinking STP.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 01, 2026 08:03 PM (Cqx++)

73 >70 Sporky was a joint research program with the US Army Quartermaster corps and Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation.

---

Sporky was slated to be the replacement for Clippy. Unfortunately, Bill Gated pulled the cord.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 01, 2026 08:06 PM (vr4To)

74 I was never a Kiss fan but a guy I played with for a while was so I was forced to learn the bass part to "Strutter" to humor him. Other than that, I always thought Kiss was a band mostly for girls.

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 08:00 PM (MWfyi)

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I hardly ever went to concerts when young. Saw Chicago in the early 80s and The Moody Blues in the mid-80s.

in the late 80s (around 27) I was dating a 19-year-old young lady who wanted to go see KISS (I was not a fan).

All I remember is my eardrums were nearly blown out by the ridiculously LOUD ampage -- they apparently had handed out earplugs to early arrivals but ran out by the time we entered -- and my ears were ringing for three days afterwards.

Posted by: ShainS at October 01, 2026 08:06 PM (JXBGz)

75 Point Reyes National Seashore-
Did any one notice the child wandering deeper into the spoky/spooky forest? Look again!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 08:07 PM (QjqJb)

76 Guys, I hate to speculate like this, but it kinda sorta seems like to me that Paul Lynde might be gay.

Shocking, I know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 01, 2026 08:07 PM (zZu0s)

77 That's not a child it's Bigfoot in sweatpants.

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)

78 oooo, I wanna know how Flaming Katana Man does that!

So, so, so gonna do that with one of my Gerber Mk II's!

(spozing I ever draw it, opponent will likely poop and run away!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:08 PM (VyBeY)

79 75, yes, I did

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:09 PM (VyBeY)

80 Guys, I hate to speculate like this, but it kinda sorta seems like to me that Paul Lynde might be gay.

Shocking, I know.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 01, 2026 08:07 PM (zZu0s)

No, he’s just a very effusive personality!
- official spokesperson

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 08:10 PM (QjqJb)

81 paradise indeed, fd!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:11 PM (VyBeY)

82
I like the vintage house. I'd get vinyl records just to use that built-in.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 01, 2026 08:11 PM (mmrXZ)

83 Transportation Man was excellent, no idea how its done

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 08:12 PM (Ia/+0)

84 That's not a child it's Bigfoot in sweatpants.
Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)

What happened to the guy wearing the sweatpants?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 08:12 PM (QjqJb)

85 I'm not holding my breath on a Penguins playoff run, but starting the season by decimating the putrid trash Flyers, 7-0, in Filthydelphia was nice.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 01, 2026 08:02 PM (EweRc)

Always nice to see Philthy lose bigly ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at October 01, 2026 08:13 PM (oCio0)

86 I saw Priest on the Turbo tour w/o earplugs. Big mistake. Loud, very very loud.

Posted by: Dark Lix at October 01, 2026 08:13 PM (Fv808)

87 "What happened to the guy wearing the sweatpants?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit "

I dunno. Spoky, isn't it?

Posted by: fd at October 01, 2026 08:13 PM (MWfyi)

88 My parents came from a coal-mining company town. There was a company department store, providing credit but selling stuff at a premium. So a miner might actually end up in debt.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As an infant I lived in company housing with the folks and grands at the cement plant everyone in town worked at. Grandpa, Dad, all my uncles and most of my cousins worked there at one time or another. I worked summers there too during college. Made real $$ - I could afford tuition and room and board just working 3 months a year.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 08:15 PM (CI1Dh)

89 The 1950s house is a visit to another era, a time we will never see again. We just find little pockets of it here and there to remind us where we were.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 08:17 PM (QjqJb)

90 snaps fingers imperiously*

Garçon! My steak is burned and it smells of gasoline.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

***

Its France. They call it benzene.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 08:17 PM (2WIwB)

91 "What happened to the guy wearing the sweatpants?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit "

I dunno, but wondering about that kind of thing is why Happy Fun J Frame goes everywhere with me ... except when (in deep enough woods) I swap it out for Happy Fun 629 ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:18 PM (VyBeY)

92 Its France. They call it benzene.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 01, 2026 08:17 PM (2WIwB)

And they use every part of it.

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 08:18 PM (8d6Vf)

93 >>BTW, Ace: “Spoky”?

whops!
Posted by: ace

Ah, didn't pay for the double O plan?

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 07:42 PM (ftFVW)

He only got the license to ill.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 01, 2026 08:18 PM (c+XN4)

94 I better turn this off
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 01, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

95 The fastest, cheapest way to remove a tattoo is not get one in the first place.

Ripping off one of the pop-up ads.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 08:19 PM (QjqJb)

96 g'night Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 01, 2026 08:20 PM (VyBeY)

97 Fascinating article. AP got access to federal data on illegals and where they settled by zip code. They built an interactive map where you can enter your zip code or any zip code and see if any illegals settled in your zip and where they came from.

Scroll down the article to find the place where you can enter your zip code.

https://tinyurl.com/y5dux2vt

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)

98 Here come the leaf peepers.

Posted by: Al Czervik at October 01, 2026 08:21 PM (xxBSa)

99 Rangers 3
Tampa Bay 0

2nd period

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)

100 100

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 01, 2026 08:26 PM (eRlcH)

101 Gasoline is “essence,” or perhaps “petrol”. Pompe à essence, Essence sans plombe.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 08:26 PM (QjqJb)

102 97 Fascinating article. AP got access to federal data on illegals and where they settled by zip code.
----

As I was driving down the street - oy ya amigo andele,
singing do wa di di di boom, cha ka la ka, boom cha ka la ka, oy ya amigo adelante

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 08:29 PM (+UcOf)

103 For the next month, the traffic into Salem will suck All The Dicks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

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True Story: I found myself in Salem ... on Halloween night 1998 ... with a Witch.

Details: Had flown out of San Diego to Boston beginning of October '98 for a 3-month software installation, customization, and training gig; client was Liberty Mutual Insurance in Portsmouth, NH.

One of the Operators I was training was a nice older black woman who'd casually mentioned that she practiced witchcraft and occasionally put spells on people; fortunately, she liked me!

As Halloween weekend approached (it fell on a Saturday night that year), she asked me if I had plans. I said I'd never been to Lexington and Concord and was going to drive out there on Halloween Day. She was single and asked if I wanted company.

I said "Sure." On the way back to NH as night had fallen we were approaching Salem, and she asked if I wanted to go experience Salem on Halloween night; she wanted to visit some famous witch who lived there.

Always up for adventure, we popped into that town -- pretty wild! -- and knocked on the famous witch's door, but alas there was no answer.

Posted by: ShainS at October 01, 2026 08:29 PM (JXBGz)

104 Bats are celebrating their 65 millionth birthday

Well, Yoko is 93.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 01, 2026 08:30 PM (Zli+D)

105 >>Details: Had flown out of San Diego to Boston beginning of October '98 for a 3-month software installation, customization, and training gig; client was Liberty Mutual Insurance in Portsmouth, NH.

Heh. Many years ago, they were a customer. Been to the Portsmouth location many times.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:31 PM (viF8m)

106 Rangers 3
Tampa Bay 0

2nd period

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)

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Texas is playing the Rays in the MLB Playoffs tonight?

/

Posted by: ShainS at October 01, 2026 08:32 PM (JXBGz)

107 say what you will about Yoko, she's not Bono.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 01, 2026 08:33 PM (88C+u)

108 Scroll down the article to find the place where you can enter your zip code.

https://tinyurl.com/y5dux2vt

Posted by: JackStraw
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Think they pulled that entry point.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 08:33 PM (+UcOf)

109 Heh. Many years ago, they were a customer. Been to the Portsmouth location many times.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:31 PM (viF8m)

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I really enjoyed the experience -- good firm, and loved the rural living.

Being there in winter was rough as I was running a lot at night training for a marathon -- and I wasn't used to THE COLD!

Bought my first pair of running tights and gloves ....

Posted by: ShainS at October 01, 2026 08:35 PM (JXBGz)

110 Refreshed the page and it came up! OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 01, 2026 08:36 PM (+UcOf)

111 Fascinating article. AP got access to federal data on illegals and where they settled by zip code. They built an interactive map where you can enter your zip code or any zip code and see if any illegals settled in your zip and where they came from.

Scroll down the article to find the place where you can enter your zip code.

https://tinyurl.com/y5dux2vt
Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)

Had to reload it a couple of times to get to the interactive part. In my zip code in rural South Georgia, there a 11 Mexicans: that might be the wait staff at a local Mexican restaurant, although I know at least one of them is Puerto Ricueña.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 01, 2026 08:36 PM (QjqJb)

112 Scroll down the article to find the place where you can enter your zip code.

https://tinyurl.com/y5dux2vt
Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:20 PM (viF8m)

The data on Oregon, at least Western Oregon is incomplete.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 01, 2026 08:36 PM (rbvCR)

113 >>Think they pulled that entry point.

I just refreshed the page a couple tines and I still see it. You have to scroll all the way down. Annoying format with lots of pop ins but if you keep scrolling eventually you'll get to the bottom of the page.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)

114 Annoying format with lots of pop ins but if you keep scrolling eventually you'll get to the bottom of the page.
Posted by: JackStraw

This, too, is the story of life.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 01, 2026 08:38 PM (ftFVW)

115 They built an interactive map where you can enter your zip code or any zip code and see if any illegals settled in your zip and where they came from.
Posted by: JackStraw

Roughly 125 illegals in my county - mostly from Mexico. Doesn't surprise me really. It really is white bread hillbilly mostly. BUT, in the past 20 years or so - we have added about 50% of our population with refugees from IL, WI, MI and MN. Somewhat less from OH, FL.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 08:41 PM (CI1Dh)

116 >>The data on Oregon, at least Western Oregon is incomplete.

Yea, it's only a partial list of about 5 million who gave the zip they were heading for. Still, they tend to congregate in like communities of illegals so it's probably a pretty good indicator that if you see some of a certain nationality there are more.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2026 08:41 PM (viF8m)

117 Geez how long ago did I say that "youths" were the next class to be mobilized? Can't be more than 8 to 12 weeks ago. The Left are as predictable as a sunrise.

Posted by: ... at October 01, 2026 08:43 PM (vE0+H)

118 My zip code is too small for any data. But it looks like a handful of Venezuelans made it to the nearest town. Yay.

Tren de Aragua, meet Lancaster, OH.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 01, 2026 08:45 PM (zYpTz)

119 Tren de Aragua, meet Lancaster, OH.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Should have sent them to Pickerington - THAT would have resulted in some panties being knotted up!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 08:47 PM (CI1Dh)

120 The new dog costumes are hilarious.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 08:47 PM (KC5Lt)

121 Hondurans in my area. Then Guatemalans. Mexicans were #5 which surprised me.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 01, 2026 08:48 PM (xxBSa)

122 13 illegals with destinations to my AO -- all from Mexico (no surprise in Northern AZ).

Posted by: ShainS at October 01, 2026 08:49 PM (JXBGz)

123 Should have sent them to Pickerington - THAT would have resulted in some panties being knotted up!
Posted by: Tonypete at October 01, 2026 08:47 PM (CI1Dh)

Ha! They're close enough.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 01, 2026 08:51 PM (zYpTz)

124 No data for our zip. No surprise. The town is called White Haven.

Posted by: Cosda at October 01, 2026 08:51 PM (NkrL+)

125 No data for northern NH. Albeit that we have numerous roofing and lawn care crews.
Pretty spoky info, Jack.

Posted by: RI Red at October 01, 2026 08:54 PM (8d6Vf)

126 I live in Houston area. Illegals look up a data base to see how many American citizens are in their area.

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2026 08:54 PM (KC5Lt)

127 Evening, Ace, and Cafe habitues.

Having a virtue-rewarding rum and eggnog. Fixed a little Hyundai 4kW generator this afternoon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 01, 2026 08:55 PM (4znQE)

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