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Monday Night ONT - October 19, 2026 [TRex]

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Good evening Horde. Welcome to the Monday overnight thread. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.

Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.

[Top photo: Uniroyal Tire, Dearborn, Michigan, 1986. The 80-foot-tall fiberglass tire still exists and is located alongside Interstate 94 in Allen Park, Michigan (just outside Dearborn). It was originally built as a Ferris wheel for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair by the United States Rubber Company (later Uniroyal). After the fair, it was disassembled, shipped to Michigan on multiple trucks, and reassembled in 1966 as a static display outside a Uniroyal sales office.]

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The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine with very random results.

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Advance Roofing, Mims, Florida, 1990. I appreciate the space shuttle homage, but no indication that it still exists.

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Beef Burger, Amarillo, Texas, 1976. Located at 3102 Plains Blvd, Amarillo, TX 79102. Looks like the building still exists but the business may have recently closed? The interweb says it was originally an A&W Rootbeer stand before the burger place took over around 1952.

20261014-beefburgeramarilloTX1976.jpg

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Benewah Dairy, Spokane, Washington, 1980. Believe it still exists at 321 S. Cedar Street, Spokane, WA 99201. Now it houses an ice cream shop.

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Big Shoe Repair, Bakersfield, California, 2003. Still operates as a shoe repair business at 931 Chester Avenue, Bakersfield, California 93301. The shoe has been hit by wayward cars and repaired several times.

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Brown Derby, Los Angeles, California, 1986. Was at 3377 Wilshire Boulevard but no longer exists. It closed in 1980 and demolished, but parts of the hat dome were purportedly incorporated into the new building (Brown Derby Plaza). Can anyone confirm?

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Coca Cola Bottling, Los Angeles, California, 1977. Still there at 1334 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90021. The location still operates as a Coca Cola bottling plant. The building itself is famous - it was designed to look like a ship with portholes, railings and curves.

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Green Giant, Blue Earth, Minnesota, 1979. It still exists near I-90 and US-169. The interweb says this was purely a local effort to grab eyeballs. The Jolly Green Giant company was not involved and did not fund it.

20261014-greengiantRt169blueearthMN1979.jpg

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Life Saver Factory, Port Arthur, New York, 1976. The plant closed in 1984 or 1985 and this large scale Pep-O-Mint life saver version was relocated to Gouverneur, New York (the hometown of Life Savers co-founder Edward J. Noble). It was installed on the village green in 1987 and is still there.

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Orange juice stand, Turlock, California, 1977. No evidence this still exists.

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Superman, Massac County Courthouse, Metropolis, Illinois, 1993. It still exists at 517 Market Street (also known as Superman Square). This version in 1993 replaced a smaller previous version that was damaged by vandals (why can't we have nice things?). Metropolis is Superman's hometown.

20261014-SupermanMassacCtyCtHouseMetropolisIL1993.jpg

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The Hogan, San Jacinto, California, 1977. It was originally built in 1936 as an Indian arts and crafts store (modeled after a Navajo hogan). It is at the corner of Main Street and Sheriff Avenue. The building has had different occupants over the years and new stucco and windows have changed its appearance. It is either a nail shop or tattoo studio today.

20261014-thehogansanjacintoCA1977.jpg

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Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM




Comments

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1 Videos of Envelopes being received at G.H.W. Bush’s funeral
https://tinyurl.com/y9p5myyu

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 19, 2026 10:00 PM (2UA/a)

2 I think The Grateful might consider this for a TRex Christmas gift this year, via Amazon.

https://a.co/d/047McAUJ

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 10:01 PM (qx7Zg)

3 Evening, T-Rex, thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 19, 2026 10:02 PM (aJQbY)

4 Ah, the Uniroyal Tire. A fond memory from my childhood.

Thanks, and Hi!, TRex.

Posted by: Bulg at October 19, 2026 10:03 PM (77rzZ)

5 MMmmm… root beer…
😛

Posted by: mindful webworker - with ice cream at October 19, 2026 10:03 PM (vmXN+)

6 The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.

Ah, the quality stuff. Rex is a dino of class.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

7 How my day went:
Found a good swath of jobs to apply to.
Had a screening call with a recruiter.
Halfway through cooking supper, the stove burner stopped burning. Had to switch to the other one that size. Hopefully I'll be able to repair it/it will be a simple part replacement... did not need this right now. (Don't need it any time, but especially now). Most of the time I'll be able to get by with just the one large burner, until I can troubleshoot and get under there sufficiently.

Posted by: RandomDave at October 19, 2026 10:04 PM (aJQbY)

8 Thanks for the ONT and the oldie pics, TRex!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:04 PM (Jr+re)

9 Thank you for the ONT T-Rex.

I lived in Dearborn for 4 months with my Aunt. I actually do remember a huge tire, but not in Dearborn. The memory may be fuzzy.

And I was in Columbus, Ohio for 8 years and saw the first Wendy's restaurant.

Oh, Alberta voting underway....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:05 PM (Sco7b)

10 Bartles and James wine coolers. A reminder that chick drinks did not always taste like ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 19, 2026 10:05 PM (zZu0s)

11 Uniroyal Tire, Dearborn, Michigan, 1986.

That's the second biggest tire I've ever seen!

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

12 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 19, 2026 10:05 PM (zZu0s)

13 Thanks for a rip- RRROOOAAARRRing ONT, Mr. TRex!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 10:05 PM (qx7Zg)

14 Meow. Damn apple products

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at October 19, 2026 10:05 PM (w3u3d)

15 Leamington, Ontario is the tomato capital of Canada and they do have a giant tomato tourist information booth which is kind of cool.

I did see it a little while back.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:06 PM (Sco7b)

16 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 19, 2026 10:06 PM (sAmhv)

17 There's always money in the Banana Stand.

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 19, 2026 10:06 PM (rQo4V)

18 MMmmm… pep-o-mint Life Savers…
😛

Posted by: mindful webworker - with root beer at October 19, 2026 10:06 PM (vmXN+)

19 Benewah Dairy, "

Balls?

Need to add the giant igloo playmate cooler...

Posted by: man at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (pfXMo)

20 Have been to the giant milk jug in Spokane and the new Brown Derby in LA.
Thanks for the ONT, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (41CYW)

21 What!? No MufflerMan pics?

I am disappoint.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (V8Zwm)

22 Orange juice stand, Turlock, California, 1977. No evidence this still exists.

It wasn't the healthiest-looking orange in 1977.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

23 Good evening TRex! What a pleasant surprise 😃
Hi Horde! I hope everyone had a swell time at TXMoMe, and you all got home safe and sound....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (96kpa)

24 17 There's always money in the Banana Stand.
Posted by: toby928(c) at October 19, 2026 10:06 PM (rQo4V)

*kicks dirt*

Someone ALWAYS beats me to the joke.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (0aYVJ)

25 Happy Post MoMe you marvelous Horde! T-Rex another outstanding ONT! (I will check the content later)

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (BJzO2)

26 That's a really big shoe.

Posted by: Zombie Ed Sullivan at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (Q+gd/)

27 The interweb says it was originally an A&W Rootbeer stand

Barrel --> Root Beer

Sure, why not?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:08 PM (1Ff7Z)

28 LRob, I will be gifting you a TXMoMe essential next year. Make sure you're there!

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:08 PM (LUFbp)

29 Beef Burger, Amarillo, Texas, 1976.

My memories of the 70s are hazy. Was beef delivered in barrels back then?

(Single-digit age, not drugs.)

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:09 PM (VHUov)

30 Benewah Dairy, Spokane, Washington, 1980.

That's the second largest... milk bottle, shoe, derby, etc....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

31 COMountainMarie {{{Marie}}} Missed you!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:09 PM (BJzO2)

32 OK, Grateful . . . . . I think.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:09 PM (Jr+re)

33 Thanks for the wayback Monday ONT, T Rex!

I recall seeing the Uniroyal Tire outside of Dearborn. It was quite impressive in person, back in the day.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 19, 2026 10:10 PM (D/6p1)

34 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 19, 2026 10:00 PM (2UA/a)

Left unsaid by our host, but assumed by sentient beings, is that this ONT is also a lunatic-conspiracy-theory-free zone.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:10 PM (k5CNB)

35 How do you curate this collection of architectural pics and leave out Tail O The Pup?

An LA institution.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 10:10 PM (vBZcw)

36 Detroit Metro was a bit of a trek from home, the tire was a marker for the halfway mark.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 19, 2026 10:10 PM (ky7/T)

37 I love all this Americana. I can't get enough of it.
Who has seen the Big Duck in Flanders NY?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (Lo97M)

38 10 Chicks in college loved the fuzzy navels that I’d make.

Unfortunately, College Bulg was so clueless that he could never translate that into sexual success.

Posted by: Bulg at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

39 The shoe has been hit by wayward cars and repaired several times.

Good thing there was a shoe repair place nearby.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (1Ff7Z)

40 Good evening Horde!

Hello and thanks to all for your patronage. Glad you're here.

Posted by: TRex- roadside attraction dino at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (LUFbp)

41 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7)

42 2 I think The Grateful might consider this for a TRex Christmas gift this year, via Amazon.

https://a.co/d/047McAUJ
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Or this, Grateful.
https://tinyurl.com/yyj725h4

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:12 PM (41CYW)

43 Hat and Boots gas station in Seattle....the "go see Cal" guy tried to save it.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:12 PM (BJzO2)

44 I thought Smallville was Superman's hometown?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 19, 2026 10:13 PM (Cqx++)

45 Left unsaid by our host, but assumed by sentient beings, is that this ONT is also a lunatic-conspiracy-theory-free zone.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:10 PM (k5CNB)

Do you mean proving the earth is flat by putting a level on the ground and claiming that means it's flat? Or using the counter example that, if the earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 10:13 PM (qx7Zg)

46 Orange juice stand, Turlock, California, 1977.

Turdlock. Saw plenty of those oranges on the way from the Big Valley to Chowchilla in the 70s.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:13 PM (1Ff7Z)

47 41 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7)

Always classin' the joint up there, sport.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:13 PM (fOTAm)

48 Bartles & James. Tasted ok after mixing Spider Web (Golden Samovar vodka).

Posted by: Eromero at October 19, 2026 10:14 PM (LHPAg)

49 43 Hat and Boots gas station in Seattle....the "go see Cal" guy tried to save it.
Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:12 PM (BJzO2)

Please tell me the Toe Truck is still there.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:14 PM (fOTAm)

50 Not home from TX yet...should be by Friday. Hanging out in TN for a few days (yes, basking in the glow of the glorious victory on Saturday). Also sitting here smiling at all the wonderful memories created in TX last week. This Horde may be a wacky, crazy group of individuals, but they are also the very best of humans and I feel so blessed to be part of this group. Thank you Ben Had, Jennifer and Bob, and everyone who contributed in so many ways to make this a highlight every single year. Looking forward to October 2027...

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:14 PM (LUFbp)

51 Green Giant, Blue Earth, Minnesota, 1979. It still exists near I-90 and US-169. The interweb says this was purely a local effort to grab eyeballs. The Jolly Green Giant company was not involved and did not fund it.

I've driven past it.

Pretty short toga he's wearing. Wonder if he's anatomically-correct?

Wonder if a giant anthropomorphic vegetable garden even has anatomy? Probably just a big flower under there.

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)

52 Left unsaid by our host, but assumed by sentient beings, is that this ONT is also a lunatic-conspiracy-theory-free zone.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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*kicks ground* darned rules.

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:14 PM (41CYW)

53 Mystery click is a great song. Thanks as always!

Posted by: 496 at October 19, 2026 10:15 PM (m8Qhu)

54 The Hogan, San Jacinto, California, 1977.

(shakes fist)

Hogan!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

55 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: gynecologists at October 19, 2026 10:15 PM (rQo4V)

56 Oklahoma City has an old (formerly) dairy building with a milk bottle on top. Strangely, it's on some national historic listing associated with Route 66.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:15 PM (Jr+re)

57 *kicks ground* darned rules.
Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:14 PM (41CYW)

Can't do nothin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:16 PM (fOTAm)

58 Hi Rat! Good to see you!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at October 19, 2026 10:16 PM (96kpa)

59 F*ck Uniroyal

Posted by: Randy's Donuts at October 19, 2026 10:16 PM (vBZcw)

60 46 Turock, Son of Stone

Posted by: Bulg at October 19, 2026 10:16 PM (77rzZ)

61 All I know is a lot of shit I would have laughed off as conspiracy theories in my 20s seem a damn certainty now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 19, 2026 10:16 PM (zZu0s)

62 about last May I had a broken branch on a plum tree, so I picked a bunch of the green plums off the branch and tried curing them in brine, like green olives.
I changed the brine every two weeks about three times, and then let them sit in brine in the fridge.
I had one today, and it is sort of like a green olive, if you had an olive that was sort of crisp and crunchy and not olive-textured.
It used to be a thing to do, for those who lived in olive-impoverished regions

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 10:16 PM (rbvCR)

63 RAT!

You Bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 19, 2026 10:17 PM (pi/ZK)

64 Please tell me the Toe Truck is still there.
Posted by: tcn in AK

It might be, but I haven't seen in 20 yrs or so....

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:17 PM (BJzO2)

65 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM

*shifty eyes*
Posted by: gynecologists at October 19, 2026 10:15 PM (rQo4V)

--------

"Hey, why does it smell like fish in here?"

Posted by: Randy's Donuts at October 19, 2026 10:17 PM (vBZcw)

66 Newark, Ohio has the Longaberger Basket Building. The company went belly up a few years ago, but the Basket Building remains.

Posted by: Where Are We Going, And Why Are We In This Basket at October 19, 2026 10:17 PM (EdP2u)

67 Detroit Metro was a bit of a trek from home, the tire was a marker for the halfway mark.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 19, 2026 10:10 PM (ky7/T)

I lived in Ann Arbor for about five years. Dearborn was a bit of a drive, but we would go to the Ford museum occasionally.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:17 PM (k5CNB)

68 As I watched the Pink Panther vid, I wondered who did the animation. Looked so familiar.

Went by kinda fast, but the credits said "DePatie–Freleng." That would be Fritz Freleng, "American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons (WB) on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from the 1930s to the early 1960s. In total, he created more than 300 cartoons."
https://w.wiki/d$ht

Posted by: mindful webworker - for anyone who cares at October 19, 2026 10:17 PM (vmXN+)

69 Now I feel better. Thanks, nurse.

Hello Some Rat!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (Jr+re)

70 I think The Grateful might consider this for a TRex Christmas gift this year, via Amazon.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Or this, Grateful.
https://tinyurl.com/yyj725h4
Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:12 PM (41CYW)
* * * *
Yesssssss!!! Scampydog! A perfect gift for T Rex!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (D/6p1)

71
Good evening, all. There was a pair of giant hideous chickens when I was a kid in front of some restaurant a little ways up the coast. They didn't look friendly or cute or anything. If you're going to do this artwork, do it right!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (mmrXZ)

72 {{{Nurse}}} !!

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (BJzO2)

73 Taking the camper to get it winterized tomorrow. At last. We lived in it for nearly four months this summer, while the house was remodeled. Close quarters what with DH and two sled dogs. And the shedding! I think I vacuumed up at least two dogs a month. Probably could have knit a sweater if I had spun it.

Now we just wander around the house loving it.

Still unpacking and figuring out where stuff goes. And washing drywall dust off stuff that got left out upstairs. That crap gets everywhere.

And NOT going to the f*ing laundromat. Yay!

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (fOTAm)

74 It's a shame Dildo, Newfoundland doesn't have any huge, kick-ass large statues.

If only there was something....

Just....something.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (Sco7b)

75 I have a picture of me with that very same Superman! I have spent more time in Metropolis, Il than any human being should have. But there is always Paducah!

Posted by: Piper at October 19, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

76 NURSE! AND Some rat. CBD, Bulg, et. al. Big company we're keeping this evening.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (fOTAm)

77 Hey, CBD, did you ever go to Michigan Stadium?

Posted by: Bulg at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

78 Do you mean proving the earth is flat by putting a level on the ground and claiming that means it's flat?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 10:13 PM (qx7Zg)

Well, can you disprove that experiment?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (k5CNB)

79 Have been to the giant milk jug in Spokane and the new Brown Derby in LA.
Thanks for the ONT, Dino.
Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:07 PM (41CYW)

I think I had a meal once in the old Brown Derby, circa 1972.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (wSl27)

80 Left unsaid by our host, but assumed by sentient beings, is that this ONT is also a lunatic-conspiracy-theory-free zone.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:10 PM (k5CNB)

Are you sure about that?

Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (LMRVO)

81 If only there was something....

Just....something.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (Sco7b)

It's at the tip of Garrett's tongue!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (k5CNB)

82 Gaffney, SC has a nice water tower.

Posted by: Peachoid at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (EdP2u)

83 10 Chicks in college loved the fuzzy navels that I’d make.

Unfortunately, College Bulg was so clueless that he could never translate that into sexual success.
Posted by: Bulg at October 19, 2026 10:11
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As a bartender then at a college bar I remember when Fuzzy Navels became popular. It was after Amaretto Stone Sours as I recall.

Also way before Sex on the Beach.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historic take at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (4Qj8V)

84 So what is everyone's theory on what was in the Envelopes ?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (sKqQm)

85 Videos of Envelopes being received at G.H.W. Bush’s funeral
https://tinyurl.com/y9p5myyu
Posted by: Braenyard

What Was in the Envelopes at President Bush’s Funeral?

Free round-trip tickets to Epstein's luxury resort.

Posted by: mindful webworker - or not at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (vmXN+)

86 78 Do you mean proving the earth is flat by putting a level on the ground and claiming that means it's flat?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 10:13 PM (qx7Zg)

Well, can you disprove that experiment?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (k5CNB)

Somebody get Elon on the phone.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (fOTAm)

87 >>>Advance Roofing, Mims, Florida, 1990. I appreciate the space shuttle homage, but no indication that it still exists.

Alas, the same can be said of the Space Shuttle itself.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (syz1S)

88 84 So what is everyone's theory on what was in the Envelopes ?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (sKqQm)

Xerox of his ass.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (fOTAm)

89 It's beyond me why people are suggesting Christmas gifts that I would get for TRex...we all know that is all up to Santa, after he checks his very long list.
And NO ONE should support any suggestion by Doggo...EVER!

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (LUFbp)

90 Posted by: Bulg at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

It was the law.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (k5CNB)

91 In those Day of Yore, the senior prank at my high school involved certain miscreants who hit the local dairy farms and heisted their fiberglass display cows. Then "Bob" of Bobs Big Boy fame also took an unscheduled trip, and all of them somehow ended up on the roof of the administration building.

A major investigation ensued, but efforts to get DNA samples from the plastic cows proved fruitless.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 10:23 PM (vBZcw)

92 Posted by: LRob in OK

It was wonderful to see you and I enjoyed the hell out of our conversations.
Who ever invented the Horde deserves some sort of Nobel prize.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:23 PM (BJzO2)

93 84 So what is everyone's theory on what was in the Envelopes ?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (sKqQm)

Off-shore bank account numbers.

Posted by: davidt at October 19, 2026 10:23 PM (Q+gd/)

94 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7)

That's why Gay bars have no front doors. You come in the rear.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:23 PM (1Ff7Z)

95 There was a hottie named Jasmine on Global News reporting from Edmonton.

Wait times for voting today ranged from 5 minutes to 40 minutes. I'm in a small area. It's pretty much walk in and vote.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (Sco7b)

96 Well, can you disprove that experiment?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (k5CNB

Yup. My level is 100 miles long.

Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (LMRVO)

97 I saw Videos of Envelopes when they opened for Five Feet to the Window at the Crystal Ballroom in 1994

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (rbvCR)

98 90 🙂

Posted by: Bulg at October 19, 2026 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

99 Who ever invented the Horde


Not so much "who", but when? Was the term used back in the 200x time?

You know, they say the first thing to go with old age is your memory and I can't remember what's next.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:25 PM (Jr+re)

100 It's beyond me why people are suggesting Christmas gifts that I would get for TRex...we all know that is all up to Santa, after he checks his very long list.

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (LUFbp)

Barrett M82A1

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:25 PM (k5CNB)

101 Well, can you disprove that experiment?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (k5CNB

Yup. My level is 100 miles long.
Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (LMRVO)

Or that a ship is over the horizon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 19, 2026 10:26 PM (zZu0s)

102 Then "Bob" of Bobs Big Boy fame also took an unscheduled trip, and all of them somehow ended up on the roof of the administration building.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 10:23 PM (vBZcw)

Bob appeared in the student center at my high school my senior year. "Nobody" knew how it got there.

Also, West High has a huge painting of their mascot, an eagle, on the side of their auditorium. For their homecoming, several, and I mean a lot, of us made instant mashed potatoes and left a huge pile of them under it. But again, "nobody" knew how it got there.

And of course, after the '64 quake when some of West High collapsed, our chant was "East is best 'cause there ain't no West."

We weren't known for our empathy on that point.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:26 PM (fOTAm)

103 The Twin Teepees on Hwy 99 was quite the landmark.

The Lincoln Toe Truck is still around.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 19, 2026 10:26 PM (yEz+x)

104 My level is 100 miles long.

Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (LMRVO)

Length isn't everything!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:26 PM (k5CNB)

105 It's beyond me why people are suggesting Christmas gifts that I would get for TRex...we all know that is all up to Santa, after he checks his very long list.

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (LUFbp)

Barrett M82A1
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
*******
Okay, now we are being serious. Different story entirely....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:27 PM (LUFbp)

106 Yup. My level is 100 miles long.
Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (LMRVO)

Quite the tool, there, RI.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:27 PM (fOTAm)

107 Or that a ship is over the horizon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 19, 2026 10:26 PM

my hands felt just like balloons

Posted by: toby928(c) at October 19, 2026 10:27 PM (rQo4V)

108 It's beyond me why people are suggesting Christmas gifts that I would get for TRex...we all know that is all up to Santa, after he checks his very long list.
And NO ONE should support any suggestion by Doggo...EVER!
Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (LUFbp)

Considering how often he restocks the root beer, I assumed he regularly got Sneaky Snake Repellent.

https://youtu.be/ZCboywXksXk

(My idea came from Hallmark...)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 10:27 PM (qx7Zg)

109 "Not so much "who", but when? Was the term used back in the 200x time?"

iirc, the Moron part comes from the character Stork in Animal House.

Posted by: davidt at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (Q+gd/)

110 In addition to everything else, the TXMoMe also featured A&W root beers in the cooler!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (HlyYF)

111 The Lincoln Toe Truck is still around.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 19, 2026 10:26 PM (yEz+x)

Yay! It was my fav. Better even than the Space Needle.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (fOTAm)

112 You know, they say the first thing to go with old age is your memory and I can't remember what's next.
Posted by: LRob

Heh! I have a freaking list.....

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (BJzO2)

113 Oh, it's not decorated, but the 7 ft Costco Christmas tree is upstairs. Ralphy is crazy so Mom and I stopped with Halloween - she did it for 4 decades.

And my friends' children like to decorate the tree so 5 years ago we started to have an informal Christmas in October or November where they'd decorate the tree, we'd have food and we'd get gifts for the kids.

Outside waits until Nov 1st.

Referendum counting being held off right now.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (Sco7b)

114 Jolly Green Giant statue looks about 30 feet tall.

Posted by: Joemarine at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (y171U)

115 It's beyond me why people are suggesting Christmas gifts that I would get for TRex...we all know that is all up to Santa, after he checks his very long list.

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:22 PM (LUFbp)


Hmm. I know one thing that would be a great house-warming gift. It begins with AR.

Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (LMRVO)

116 There’s a Wheedle on the Needle.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 19, 2026 10:29 PM (yEz+x)

117 Heh! I have a freaking list.....
Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (BJzO2)

Any idea where you left it?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:30 PM (fOTAm)

118 Gaffney, SC has a nice water tower.
Posted by: Peachoid
+++
The peachoid looks like a big ole butt from certain angles.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at October 19, 2026 10:30 PM (Lo97M)

119 Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (LMRVO)
Length isn't everything!

Quite the tool, there, RI.
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:27 PM (fOTAm)

I am very humble.

Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:31 PM (LMRVO)

120 Correction: Smallville is Superman's home town.
He just works in Metropolis.

Posted by: Chemist at October 19, 2026 10:31 PM (mNyg8)

121 So what is everyone's theory on what was in the Envelopes ?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 19, 2026 10:21 PM (sKqQm)


I hold in my hand the envelopes. As a child of four can plainly see, these envelopes have been hermetically sealed. They've been kept in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls' porch since noon today. NO ONE knows the contents of these envelopes – but you, Carnac, in your mystical and borderline divine way, will ascertain the answers having never before heard the questions.

Posted by: Ed McMahon at October 19, 2026 10:32 PM (1Ff7Z)

122 You know, they say the first thing to go with old age is your memory and I can't remember what's next.
Posted by: LRob

Heh! I have a freaking list.....
Posted by: Some Rat

Ah, but do you remember where you put the list?

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)

123 On a cross country camping trip in 2002 I detoured a bit to take my kids to see the Jolly Green Giant in Blue Earth.
We had blasted out of RI to Chicago, the headed west overland by RT20 into Iowa to give them a mid west fix, then deked back north to find I90 and get the hell out of there.
That was their first real 'we're not in New England anymore' experience.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (sl73Y)

124 Any idea where you left it?
Posted by: tcn in AK

It might be in a shirt pocket, maybe on the counter, could be being used as a book mark, might have left it in the car, possibly loaned it out...

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (BJzO2)

125 I thought I might have seen the Turlock Orange; but it was probably the one in Lemon grove.

Thanks for the ONT Mr. Short arm!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (NnhvP)

126 Correction: Smallville is Superman's home town.
He just works in Metropolis.
Posted by: Chemist

With the dumbest, most unobservant reporters in the history of the Daily Planet.

Although, I must admit our current crop of 'reporters' is dismal too.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (V8Zwm)

127 Barrett M82A1
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
*******
Okay, now we are being serious. Different story entirely....
Posted by: The Grateful - R
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Stick with me here. Animatronic TRex with a Barret.

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (41CYW)

128 Evening all,

We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX/NASA - Falcon 9 - Bandwagon-5
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: October 20, 2026
Launch Time: 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 UTC, 12:30 CEST)

https://youtu.be/GxvZk5YHfR4

Tomorrow would have been Dad's 81st birthday.

Posted by: Joyenz at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (2F0/Y)

129 Late to the show...just reading over the newspaper article where my G-Grandmother was severely injured (internal injuries) in a train accident more than 120 years ago...I was wrong; she died 14 months later at the age of 34.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (l3cgK)

130 Good evening morons e grazie Dino

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

131 Hi all! Not quite home - taking the slow way through Arkansas while trying to avoid hitting the armored dildos.
Some Rat - it was just so so good to have your ornery self be present and your son is a prince among men.
I really missed all our regulars but was happy to meet some newbies an initiate them into what is the TXMoMe horde.

Posted by: SnailRacer at October 19, 2026 10:34 PM (l4M08)

132 Any idea where you left it?
Posted by: tcn in AK

It might be in a shirt pocket, maybe on the counter, could be being used as a book mark, might have left it in the car, possibly loaned it out...
Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (BJzO2)

It isn't under a leg of the wobbly table at the Saturday ONT, is it?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 10:34 PM (qx7Zg)

133 131 Hi all! Not quite home - taking the slow way through Arkansas while trying to avoid hitting the armored dildos.
Some Rat - it was just so so good to have your ornery self be present and your son is a prince among men.
I really missed all our regulars but was happy to meet some newbies an initiate them into what is the TXMoMe horde.

Posted by: SnailRacer at October 19, 2026 10:34 PM (l4M0

I've never seen armored dildos thrown at WNBA games...yet.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:35 PM (l3cgK)

134 a shame Dildo, Newfoundland doesn't have any huge, kick-ass large statues.

Come to Haesindang Park. Come one, come all!

Posted by: 88C+u at October 19, 2026 10:35 PM (88C+u)

135 Congrats to tcn in AK for escaping the camper. Must feel great.

Posted by: mindful webworker - there's no place like home at October 19, 2026 10:35 PM (vmXN+)

136 132 Any idea where you left it?
Posted by: tcn in AK

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Funny how it's always in the last place you look, amirite?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 10:35 PM (vBZcw)

137 1 Videos of Envelopes being received at G.H.W. Bush’s funeral
https://tinyurl.com/y9p5myyu
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 19, 2026 10:00 PM (2UA/a)
*********
I've always thought the note said something like "We know he killed JFK."

Or a photo of him being a pedo. I never liked him and photos showed him in Dallas and he never admitted it. A deep dive (when I was bored years ago) showed a typed msg signed by him mentioning some crap about JFK's murder. Signed as a Texas rancher. Too long ago to remember where I saw this.

I saw the funeral live. It seemed to me Jeb and Laura were glaring at Trump in shock. Opened mouth shock.

The timing was perfect. GWB did not look at the note, like he knew somehow.

Whatever it said was damning. Jeb and Laura did not try to hide their shock and horror. GWB faced forward and tried not to flinch, but his anger showed.

Hilary barely reacted.

My favorite part was Jimmah and Rosylyn looking bummed out because they didn't get an envelope like the others. Lol.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 19, 2026 10:36 PM (hzuYO)

138 There's a Lemon Grove, suburb just east of San Diego, they have a nice lemon on a stand. Then there's the oddly named hamlet of Lemon Cove, which has an orange stand very similar to the one pictured above. AZ Deplorable Moron, you talking about the Lemon Cove thing?

Stayed in a very odd hotel literally adjacent to the orange stand. I think as a base to visit Sequoia Nat. Park. Orange place was never open when we were there.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 19, 2026 10:36 PM (U/Byj)

139 134 a shame Dildo, Newfoundland doesn't have any huge, kick-ass large statues.

Come to Haesindang Park. Come one, come all!

Posted by: 88C+u at October 19, 2026 10:35 PM (88C+u)

Well, there's a South Dildo there...I first came across it 3 or 4 decades ago when there was some discussion about the town...LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:36 PM (l3cgK)

140 Because you don't keep looking after you found it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 10:36 PM (vBZcw)

141 Jolly Green Giant statue looks about 30 feet tall.
Posted by: Joemarine

Is there a minimum height for giants? The tallest human on record was just under 9'.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:36 PM (VHUov)

142 Tomorrow would have been Dad's 81st birthday.
Posted by: Joyenz

And he is missed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 19, 2026 10:37 PM (NnhvP)

143 Referendum counting being held off right now.
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (Sco7b)

Apparently some polls opened late, so are being kept open until 9:30 P.M. Possible shenanigans. Heads should roll for this.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 10:37 PM (wSl27)

144 I really missed all our regulars but was happy to meet some newbies an initiate them into what is the TXMoMe horde.
Posted by: SnailRacer

My son. "I see why you love these people."
The boy knows quality when he sees it.

Posted by: Some Rat at October 19, 2026 10:37 PM (BJzO2)

145 Gila Bend, AZ has the UFO Motel...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:37 PM (l3cgK)

146 Funny how it's always in the last place you look, amirite?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Because you don't keep looking after you found it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

You should try it, sometime. You might find the next thing you would have looked for quite quickly.

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:37 PM (VHUov)

147 I have fond memories of watching the Pink Panther movies with my father and brother.

My father was a big dude, yet he would start snickering and tearing up before the next bit had even started in the shows. When the gag was actually playing out, he would be laughing so hard we couldn't even hear the dialogue.

This was during "live" TV, so we couldn't even rewind. It took multiple viewings over the years for me to get all of the punch lines. Of course, that was part of the charm of watching with our father.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at October 19, 2026 10:37 PM (HlyYF)

148 Smooches SnailRacer

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 19, 2026 10:38 PM (yEz+x)

149 http://tiny.cc/i7bc101

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:38 PM (k5CNB)

150 Summer before last I passed the "Teapot Dome" Service Station near Yakima.

Posted by: Rex B at October 19, 2026 10:39 PM (Myt96)

151 129 Late to the show...just reading over the newspaper article where my G-Grandmother was severely injured (internal injuries) in a train accident more than 120 years ago...I was wrong; she died 14 months later at the age of 34.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (l3cgK)

I had a great-aunt Judith, whom everyone called Gladys for some reason, who died of appendicitis complications after surgery in 1925. My dad's cousins were many, and so the boys went to live with other great-uncles and aunts.

Similar thing with my Great Grandfather. Died of an infection that wouldn't bother us today.

Amazing what a dose of penicillin would have accomplished. But that was a few years hence. Life was harder then.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:39 PM (fOTAm)

152 Henry Mancini wrote some good movie music . . .

Posted by: KT at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (X8QDB)

153 There's an Orange, NJ, as well as West Orange, and East Orange, but no North Orange. What's up with that?

Posted by: Exit 11, Route 280 at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (EdP2u)

154 There's a great 'Corner Gas' show set in a small Saskatchewan town of 500 people where layabout Hank has an idea to have the town build the world biggest ....something.

A small group of people are at the diner and the mayor's grandmother says the town has always been a farming community and the item should reflect that. They should build the world's biggest hoe.

It's a beautifully quiet show with a lot of word play.

I guess vote counting will be delayed for awhile.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (Sco7b)

155 According to grok, the median time to get treated for something in Canada is around 200 days.

However, they'll be happy kill you in as little as 15 days ("Track 1" cases) or 90 days ("Track 2" cases).

It seems like most of the doctors I ran across who murder old folks also perform abortions. That might be coincidence, but it's suspicious, eh?




Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (qlLNh)

156 On a cross country camping trip in 2002 I detoured a bit to take my kids to see the Jolly Green Giant in Blue Earth.
Posted by: From about That Time at October 19, 2026 10:33 PM (sl73Y)
~~~~~

We did a cross country trip in 2001. Started in NYC at the WTC and spent last night at a campground near Shanksville, PA. Because of the boys ages at the time, they had mapped out every single roadside giant and skate park along the route. You'd be amazed how many giant balls of twine there are in these united states.

Got home shortly before 9/11. Most memorable trip ever.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (3ImbR)

157 138 There's a Lemon Grove, suburb just east of San Diego, they have a nice lemon on a stand. Then there's the oddly named hamlet of Lemon Cove, which has an orange stand very similar to the one pictured above. AZ Deplorable Moron, you talking about the Lemon Cove thing?

Stayed in a very odd hotel literally adjacent to the orange stand. I think as a base to visit Sequoia Nat. Park. Orange place was never open when we were there.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 19, 2026 10:36 PM (U/Byj)

Haven't been to Lemon Grove in years...nobody there I need or want to see.
On the other hand, I should visit my Grandmother's 1st/2nd cousin's son who lives near Bonita...He's nearing 90 now...
Yes, my Grandmother and his Dad were both 1st AND 2nd cousins...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:41 PM (l3cgK)

158 Well, can you disprove that experiment?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:20 PM (k5CNB

Yup. My level is 100 miles long.
Posted by: RI Red at October 19, 2026 10:24 PM (LMRVO)

Or that a ship is over the horizon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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In 'Flat Land' surveyors laying out large triangles of land discovered that the angles were more 60 deg.

Posted by: Nidal Hasan at October 19, 2026 10:42 PM (XeU6L)

159 Yes, my Grandmother and his Dad were both 1st AND 2nd cousins...


I'm my own grandpa!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:42 PM (Jr+re)

160 Oops/Hasan

Posted by: Nidal Hasan at October 19, 2026 10:42 PM (XeU6L)

161 135 Congrats to tcn in AK for escaping the camper. Must feel great.
Posted by: mindful webworker - there's no place like home at October 19, 2026 10:35 PM (vmXN+)

If you've met DH, you know. It is now paradise.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:42 PM (fOTAm)

162 AZ Deplorable Moron, you talking about the Lemon Cove thing?

Posted by: rhomboid

Yes near Visalia and Porterville.

Thanks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 19, 2026 10:43 PM (NnhvP)

163 Crap! /Hasan

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 19, 2026 10:43 PM (XeU6L)

164 NY World's Fair is among my earliest childhood memories. I remember walking past that giant tire Ferris wheel. Didn't get to ride that one, but we did go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride before it opened in Disney World..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 19, 2026 10:43 PM (08OqX)

165 Dammit! Fingers not working tonight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 19, 2026 10:43 PM (XeU6L)

166 149 http://tiny.cc/i7bc101
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Perfect.

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 10:43 PM (41CYW)

167 Joe Kidd, any chance you will be at the TxMoMe next year?

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:44 PM (Jr+re)

168 164 NY World's Fair is among my earliest childhood memories. I remember walking past that giant tire Ferris wheel. Didn't get to ride that one, but we did go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride before it opened in Disney World

-------

Small World.

Pirates was original to Disneyland.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 10:44 PM (vBZcw)

169 It seems like most of the doctors I ran across who murder old folks also perform abortions.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (qlLNh)

I'll bet the Venn Diagram of shit grades in medical school, abortionists, euthanasiasts, and sex change surgeons is a circle.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:44 PM (k5CNB)

170 152 Henry Mancini wrote some good movie music . . .

Posted by: KT at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (X8QDB)

That he did.
I also like the music John Williams composed for so many movies. That guy was certainly prolific. Oh, just checked...he's still alive at 94.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:44 PM (l3cgK)

171 Heh! AI slop. Can't be a Barrett, the ejected brass is straight-wall. And there is no way the T-Rex could use the scope, even if he wanted to. It would be fun to ask an AI to draw a rifle made to fit a T-Rex's anatomy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 10:45 PM (wSl27)

172 153 There's an Orange, NJ, as well as West Orange, and East Orange, but no North Orange. What's up with that?

Posted by: Exit 11, Route 280 at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (EdP2u)

Maybe it went south...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 10:45 PM (l3cgK)

173 Big Shoe Repair in Bakersfield?
Must be down by the Pioneer Chicken Stand.

Posted by: wth at October 19, 2026 10:45 PM (oq9dX)

174 It seems like most of the doctors I ran across who murder old folks also perform abortions. That might be coincidence, but it's suspicious, eh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (qlLNh)

Mom was always blessed to get good care. She wasn't in horrible shape but I had my routine for the hospital ER and hospital visits. But there were times.....

She was unvaxxed. I spent years worried about her. I'll never forgive or forget that. This country can burn.

After Alberta leaves.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 10:45 PM (Sco7b)

175 NY World's Fair is among my earliest childhood memories. I remember walking past that giant tire Ferris wheel. Didn't get to ride that one, but we did go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride before it opened in Disney World..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 19, 2026 10:43 PM (08OqX)
====

I remember being dunked in the reflecting pool under the steel globe to cool off.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 19, 2026 10:45 PM (RIvkX)

176 > Now we just wander around the house loving it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:18 PM (fOTAm)

Nice, and none too soon. The snow is already flying in FBX.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:45 PM (qlLNh)

177 There was a day that A&W straight from an A&W was nectar, pure and simple.

I miss those days, more than I can put in words.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 19, 2026 10:46 PM (ENA4W)

178 > I'll bet the Venn Diagram of shit grades in medical school, abortionists, euthanasiasts, and sex change surgeons is a circle.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:44 PM (k5CNB)

I'm not going to bet against you on that one, to be sure.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:47 PM (qlLNh)

179 Give it up guys...this year's house warming gift is a house. But feel free to send your requests directly to Santa though...He has assured me me he will never deliver one of those huge mechanical dinos. The sled is only so big....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:47 PM (LUFbp)

180 Kovu won the battle for J’s pillow this evening. Sabi and Saijo have to use the duvet folded at the end of the bed. Now that everyone has found their spot and settled, it’s time for bed. Nightsie noodles!

Posted by: Piper at October 19, 2026 10:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

181 Honorable mention to the "Touchdown Jesus" statue near Monroe, OH. It was just off I-75. It was struck by lightning and burned to the ground in 2010.

https://shorturl.at/bJqMx

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 19, 2026 10:48 PM (/9wBX)

182 Part of the fun of the World's Fair is the Subway Special that takes you there.

Posted by: Fifteen Cents at October 19, 2026 10:48 PM (EdP2u)

183 Longaberger basket building in Ohio - looks like a basket.

Posted by: Noble9 at October 19, 2026 10:48 PM (fzRal)

184 If Big Shoe Repair keeps getting hit by cars maybe they should invest in some bollards.

Posted by: hILLRY o O at October 19, 2026 10:49 PM (oq9dX)

185 Nice, and none too soon. The snow is already flying in FBX.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:45 PM (qlLNh)

Eureka was posting snow on the ground last week. Seems it is running a week or two late here this year, so maybe we won't get buried like last winter. But really, we never know, do we?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:49 PM (fOTAm)

186 >>>In 'Flat Land' surveyors laying out large triangles of land discovered that the angles were more 60 deg.

How would they identify that, wouldn't their measuring equipment be subject to the same curvature as the land it was surveying, and show 60 degrees as well?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 10:50 PM (rbvCR)

187 153 There's an Orange, NJ, as well as West Orange, and East Orange, but no North Orange. What's up with that?

Posted by: Exit 11, Route 280 at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (EdP2u)
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No love for the best Orange?

Posted by: South Orange at October 19, 2026 10:50 PM (RIvkX)

188 http://tiny.cc/i7bc101
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:38 PM (k5CNB)
* * * *
Perfect!

*chef's kiss*

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at October 19, 2026 10:50 PM (D/6p1)

189 Shea Stadium also opened in Flushing in 1964. And the Mustang was introduced at the World's Fair April 17, 1964.

Posted by: And The Verrazano Bridge Opened In 1964 at October 19, 2026 10:51 PM (EdP2u)

190 We've got a...I don't know what they call it...cathedral maybe? here in Anchorage that is a very strange looking building. It belongs to some South American cult, as I understand it.

Why a South American cult has enough support in Anchorage, Alaska to build a friggin' cathedral is a mystery to me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:52 PM (qlLNh)

191 ...wouldn't their measuring equipment be subject to the same curvature as the land it was surveying, and show 60 degrees as well?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 10:50 PM (rbvCR)

I don't think so, if the origin of the measurement is the base of the angle.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:52 PM (k5CNB)

192 I drive by that tire almost weekly. They've refurbished/modernized the look but I remember it as it is pictured; that's how it looked best.

Posted by: I really haven't settled on a nic at October 19, 2026 10:52 PM (nGjyj)

193 It's not a TRex, but Drumheller does have a dinosaur riding a motorcycle:

https://tinyurl.com/4urmkcy4

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 10:53 PM (wSl27)

194 Joe Kidd, any chance you will be at the TxMoMe next year?
Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:44 PM (Jr+re)

I am making every effort to, yes...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 19, 2026 10:53 PM (08OqX)

195 Went to the Henry Ford museum quite a bit. As a kid didn’t know what to make of Lincoln’ s chair. Maybe couldn’t believe it was THE chair. Greenfield Village is there too, worth a visit.

Posted by: Lirio100 at October 19, 2026 10:53 PM (ky7/T)

196 Amazing what a dose of penicillin would have accomplished. But that was a few years hence. Life was harder then.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Much harder.

A shirt-tail cousin of mine was a genealogy buff. So I've got a family history back about six generations. (I'm Gen X.)

Lots of infant deaths. A couple deaths during childbirth. One where the baby survived and was immediately given to an orphanage, because how does a single (male) European peasant in the 1800s raise a child? Not like he could just head to the local Wal-Mart and buy some Similac.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

197 There is 'The Big Chicken' at Marietta GA.
Not obvious, but at noon, it cock-a-doodle-doos, its beak opens and closes, and eyes move up and down. Built in 1963.

pic: https://shorturl.at/AW6Pw

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 19, 2026 10:53 PM (XeU6L)

198
I'm not going to bet against you on that one, to be sure.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Bet against a Borgia when death is on the line?
Inconceivable!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 19, 2026 10:53 PM (NnhvP)

199 > But really, we never know, do we?
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:49 PM (fOTAm)

For sure.

The maintenance guys here were out putting the plow blades on their pickups last week.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:54 PM (qlLNh)

200 I have two ancestors who died in the Civil War, one KIA, the other who died in a military hospital after being wounded.

There's a pretty good chance he'd have survived with modern medicine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:55 PM (qlLNh)

201 What the? A post came up and when I refreshed, it was gone. I've not seen that before.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 10:56 PM (Jr+re)

202 I think LRob broke the thread.....

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 10:58 PM (LUFbp)

203 We did a cross country trip in 2001. Started in NYC at the WTC and spent last night at a campground near Shanksville, PA. Because of the boys ages at the time, they had mapped out every single roadside giant and skate park along the route. You'd be amazed how many giant balls of twine there are in these united states.

Got home shortly before 9/11. Most memorable trip ever.
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 19, 2026 10:40 PM (3ImbR)

My first cross country camping trip was 1965 , with my parents ans six siblings. My father had dreamed of ot after trzveling by train during wwii, on his way to AK. Then I repeated it in 2002 with wife and daughters, 7 + 11 yo. Forever memories.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 19, 2026 10:59 PM (sl73Y)

204 I don't think so, if the origin of the measurement is the base of the angle.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:52 PM (k5CNB)

The difference between plane surveying and spherical surveying is very evident, and becomes moreso the closer you get to the poles. North-South roads periodically have a jog in them, called a "correction line", resulting from a shift of section lines as you go north, and there can be fewer miles between meridians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 10:59 PM (wSl27)

205 How would they identify that, wouldn't their measuring equipment be subject to the same curvature as the land it was surveying, and show 60 degrees as well?
Posted by: Kindltot
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I get your point, but it has been four decades since I read the book, and I do not recall their means of surveying.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 19, 2026 10:59 PM (XeU6L)

206 I think Cow Demon made the post. I'm innocent, I tell ya!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 11:00 PM (Jr+re)

207 There was a day that A&W straight from an A&W was nectar, pure and simple.

I miss those days, more than I can put in words.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 19, 2026 10:46 PM

Couldn't beat that frosty mug taste. There might still be one or two Stewarts Root Beer drive ins left in NJ...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 19, 2026 11:00 PM (08OqX)

208 I get your point, but it has been four decades since I read the book, and I do not recall their means of surveying.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 19, 2026 10:59 PM (XeU6L)

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Pfft. Pikers.

Posted by: Eratosthenes at October 19, 2026 11:01 PM (vBZcw)

209
> Why a South American cult has enough support in Anchorage, Alaska to build a friggin' cathedral is a mystery to me.


https://maps.app.goo.gl/ QaaQ4cdU8A6VMAM68

(remove the space I added to ensure I wouldn't wind up in the barrel)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:01 PM (qlLNh)

210 Had to talk to mortgage company and insurance company today.

Insurance first was voice-recognition clanker hell. Couldn't get a real person. Couldn't get a straight answer. Could get nothing. Called the mortgage company, hit 0 for support, got a real human. Got the problem solved by a real, professional human. How I hate having clankers shoved into everything!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 19, 2026 11:01 PM (aJQbY)

211 I don't think so, if the origin of the measurement is the base of the angle.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 19, 2026 10:52 PM (k5CNB)

No, what I mean is that the tools will have the same curvature as the land being surveyed, both will have a curvature, and as 2 dimensional beings they are in the same plane, curved. Euclidean geometry requires parallel lines and 180 degree sum triangles, but a non-Euclidean being on a curvature has larger angles for the vertices of a regular triangle, however the surveying tools also would have that greater angle since they are in the same plane.

I think it would have been more obvious in a square, since parallel lines are not actually parallel and the bowing of the parallel lines would become obvious in large enough distances, as a sphere requires the lines to either not be straight and still be the same distance apart at all points, or be different lengths to maintain 90 degree corners.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

212 I think Cow Demon made the post. I'm innocent, I tell ya!!
Posted by: LRob in OK
**********
Ha!

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 11:02 PM (LUFbp)

213 North-South roads periodically have a jog in them, called a "correction line",

Is the line of longitude correlation cosecant squared of the latitude?

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 11:02 PM (Jr+re)

214 Brown Derby, Los Angeles, California, 1986. Was at 3377 Wilshire Boulevard but no longer exists.

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Last time I drove by it was a Jack In The Box.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 11:02 PM (vBZcw)

215 In Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, they decided they would build a statue in honor of their China town...
It's awful (but funny):

https://tinyurl.com/3x2bruzp

What, no laundry service?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:04 PM (l3cgK)

216 215 In Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, they decided they would build a statue in honor of their China town...
It's awful (but funny):

https://tinyurl.com/3x2bruzp

What, no laundry service?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:04 PM (l3cgK)

It would be like putting up a 23' statue of a black man picking cotton. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (l3cgK)

217 Is the line of longitude correlation cosecant squared of the latitude?

Never mind. Looked it up. Cosine of longitude.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (Jr+re)

218 Since we're on topic, I guess congrats to the obama foundation for creating the world's largest whatever the heck that is...

hmmm, with a little renovation...

41 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7)

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (Sco7b)

219 iirc, the Moron part comes from the character Stork in Animal House.
Posted by: davidt at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (Q+gd/)

Moron is from back in the "New comment thingy" days when ace called a bunch of us morons. Like, not nicely either.

Posted by: Reforger at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (SY3XK)

220 > No, what I mean is that the tools will have the same curvature as the land being surveyed, both will have a curvature

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying (highly possible) I think that light itself would have to curve in order for this to have an effect.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (qlLNh)

221 This sucker is about 3 miles from Peon Manor, but I cannot see it from here due to intervening higher ground:

https://tinyurl.com/4hhxucrj

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (wSl27)

222 They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Posted by: South Orange at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

223 OCC - Orange California Cooler was the best. Summer '85 between high school and college, drank quite a few of those. Delish.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (Fv808)

224 I have one for you, TRex:

Lucy the Elephant (still there in Margate just south of Atlantic City)

Most everyone here has probably heard of it, but maybe not its history.

Lucy is a six story (65 foot) Elephant (painted "Intestinal Pink" on the inside). A spiral staircase goes up its leg. Over the years it has served as a Real Estate office (1881), Concession stand and small restaurant, A Seaside Tavern (1902), Summer Cottage (1903), WW2 Surplus Store, and as of the present a museum.

https://tinyurl.com/39uare7y

Posted by: Orson at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (dIske)

225 > Jack In The Box.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 11:02 PM (vBZcw)

What do you call it when the Queen of Spades gets pregnant?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:06 PM (qlLNh)

226 Moron is from back in the "New comment thingy" days when ace called a bunch of us morons. Like, not nicely either.

I was thinking about "horde" use. I don't remember when we started using the term.

Posted by: LRob in OK at October 19, 2026 11:06 PM (Jr+re)

227 189 Shea Stadium also opened in Flushing in 1964. And the Mustang was introduced at the World's Fair April 17, 1964.

Posted by: And The Verrazano Bridge Opened In 1964 at October 19, 2026 10:51 PM (EdP2u)

Every time I hear Flushing, Queens, NY, I think of a giant toilet for some reason...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK)

228 Hi Horde!

Speaking of green stars: if our star is yellow, why do we have white light?

Do stars with other colors have white light?

Also, why does the color not simply match the spectrograph for Hydrogen and Helium?

And a corollary: I thought color came from temperature?

Posted by: frammish at October 19, 2026 11:07 PM (rcENI)

229 I get your point, but it has been four decades since I read the book, and I do not recall their means of surveying.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 19, 2026 10:59 PM (XeU6L)

I was in grade school when mom was taking her masters in education in mathematics, and she tried to discuss the book with me. I think we got as far as non-Euclidean geometry before I totally glitched out.
Everything I have beyond that is incidental pick ups

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 11:07 PM (rbvCR)

230 This sucker is about 3 miles from Peon Manor, but I cannot see it from here due to intervening higher ground:

https://tinyurl.com/4hhxucrj
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Looks like a giant golf tee

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 11:08 PM (41CYW)

231 224 I have one for you, TRex:

Lucy the Elephant (still there in Margate just south of Atlantic City)

Posted by: Orson at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM
***
thanks!

Posted by: TRex- roadside attraction dino at October 19, 2026 11:08 PM (LUFbp)

232 219 iirc, the Moron part comes from the character Stork in Animal House.
Posted by: davidt at October 19, 2026 10:28 PM (Q+gd/)

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Doug Kenney has a place in the AoSHQ Pantheon of Morons.

I think it was Ivan Reitman who said that Doug Kenney tragically fell off a cliff to his death while looking for a good spot to commit suicide.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 19, 2026 11:09 PM (vBZcw)

233 Every time I hear Flushing, Queens, NY, I think of a giant toilet for some reason...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK)
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Hey, how about flushing Queens?

Posted by: Goombah from Brooklyn at October 19, 2026 11:09 PM (RIvkX)

234 Moron is from back in the "New comment thingy" days when ace called a bunch of us morons. Like, not nicely either.
Posted by: Reforger at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (SY3XK)

Hes always seemed a bit excitable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 19, 2026 11:09 PM (zZu0s)

235 frammish, it was great to meet you at the MoMe. Hope to see you again next year!

Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 11:09 PM (LUFbp)

236 We call this building the "Spam Can", for obvious reasons.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ 7YDhoSTG2uBb2kMz8

(again, remove the space)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:10 PM (qlLNh)

237 196 Amazing what a dose of penicillin would have accomplished. But that was a few years hence. Life was harder then.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Much harder.

A shirt-tail cousin of mine was a genealogy buff. So I've got a family history back about six generations. (I'm Gen X.)

Lots of infant deaths. A couple deaths during childbirth. One where the baby survived and was immediately given to an orphanage, because how does a single (male) European peasant in the 1800s raise a child? Not like he could just head to the local Wal-Mart and buy some Similac.....

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

Yeah...the shortest path back is to my 2-G grandmother from Bavaria...I know which ship she sailed in, to which ports the ship came from and left, the passenger manifest...but I can't find any more information. Even her obituary didn't mention parents or siblings or cousins or aunts/uncles, just her husband (dead at the time) and her descendants.
Longer branches go back to at least the 1600s (some well beyond, but I haven't verified them yet). Lots of kids, lots died young, ancestors who died giving birth or right after from Puerperal fever...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:10 PM (l3cgK)

238
41 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM

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I encountered a creation museum like that once. The museum was inside a giant statue of a brontosaurus. The entrance was accessed up
a stairway that led to a glass door in a location corresponding to the creature's bunghole.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 19, 2026 11:10 PM (azNOR)

239 As AC/DC put it (more or less) if you give the Queen a full house, she might get a royal flush.


Just watch out for the Jack.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:11 PM (qlLNh)

240 Looks like a giant golf tee
Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 11:08 PM (41CYW)

It is claimed to be the "world's largest golf tee". Some dispute that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 11:11 PM (wSl27)

241 235 frammish, it was great to meet you at the MoMe. Hope to see you again next year!
Posted by: The Grateful - R at October 19, 2026 11:09 PM

Likewise!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 19, 2026 11:11 PM (dF6f/)

242 The Jolly Green Giant has a billboard cousin farther up US169, at Le Seuer.

When the local high school basketball team did well, he'd have a basketball stashed in the crook of his elbow for a few months.

Posted by: Piercello at October 19, 2026 11:11 PM (Ht/sz)

243 https://tinyurl.com/4hhxucrj
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Looks like a giant golf tee
_-_
Bunyan, Paul Bunyan

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 19, 2026 11:12 PM (1gmsy)

244 199 > But really, we never know, do we?
Posted by: tcn in AK at October 19, 2026 10:49 PM (fOTAm)

For sure.

The maintenance guys here were out putting the plow blades on their pickups last week.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:54 PM (qlLNh)

Woman goes to psychic, and psychic tells her her father is going to pass away the next day.
So she's worried about her dad, and keeps a close eye on him...he's fine, doesn't die.
Next day, her mother is sad, and tells her, "Did you hear the postman died yesterday?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:13 PM (l3cgK)

245 Moron is from back in the "New comment thingy" days when ace called a bunch of us morons. Like, not nicely either.
Posted by: Reforger at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (SY3XK)

Ace nevah evah does anything nice and easy. He always does it nice and rough..

Posted by: Ace and Tina Turner at October 19, 2026 11:14 PM (08OqX)

246 Did you hear the postman died yesterday?"
_-_
I think they call that an "unexpected non-paternity event".

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 19, 2026 11:15 PM (1gmsy)

247 200 I have two ancestors who died in the Civil War, one KIA, the other who died in a military hospital after being wounded.

There's a pretty good chance he'd have survived with modern medicine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:55 PM (qlLNh)

Relative (non-ancestor) died of cholera while a soldier. Yeah, lots of things we can treat today couldn't be then.
Then again, 2nd husband of an ancestor (1st husband was my ancestor) died by falling into a canyon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK)

248 247 200 I have two ancestors who died in the Civil War, one KIA, the other who died in a military hospital after being wounded.

There's a pretty good chance he'd have survived with modern medicine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 10:55 PM (qlLNh)

Relative (non-ancestor) died of cholera while a soldier. Yeah, lots of things we can treat today couldn't be then.
Then again, 2nd husband of an ancestor (1st husband was my ancestor) died by falling into a canyon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK)

Didn't say if his wife pushed him in or not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:15 PM (l3cgK)

249 Ace nevah evah does anything nice and easy. He always does it nice and rough..
Posted by: Ace and Tina Turner at October 19, 2026 11:14 PM (08OqX)

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Shut yo mouf, bitch.

Posted by: Ike Turner at October 19, 2026 11:15 PM (vBZcw)

250 Grateful & Quarter Twenty: great to meet you too, and everyone else! I dropped a note in last night's ONT but it was pretty late.

Posted by: frammish at October 19, 2026 11:16 PM (rcENI)

251 When I was a little kid, I thought the Jolly Green Giant was named "Charlie".

Why? Because

1) Charlie the Tuna in the Star-Kist ads had an East Coast accent that made him pronounce his name like "Chollie".


2) The jingle for the Green Giant ads went "In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant", which I heard as "In the valley of the Chollie Green Giant".

Yeah, I wasn't right in the head even back then.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:16 PM (qlLNh)

252
Brown Derby, Los Angeles, California, 1986. Was at 3377 Wilshire Boulevard but no longer exists.

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Last time I drove by it was a Jack In The Box.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

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It's now a mini-mall called Brown Derby Plaza, with no resemblance whatsoever to a brown derby. It seems to be in or near Koreatown.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 19, 2026 11:17 PM (mmrXZ)

253 An oldie but a goodie Miller Lite commercial for October.

https://youtu.be/IAcuoDYlgzM

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 19, 2026 11:17 PM (qx7Zg)

254 >> How would they identify that, wouldn't their measuring equipment be subject to the same curvature as the land it was surveying, and show 60 degrees as well?

An angle is basically local. And "straight lines" on a curved (intrinsically) curved surface are geodesics, as straight as you can go on a curved surface. The symmetry of a sphere is just about perfect, divine even, and the geodesics of spheres are great circles. So a "triangle" on a sphere consists of three geodesic sides.

Imagine starting at the equator and going north to the pole. Then make a 90 degree turn and go the same distance. You are now back at the equator. Now, make another right angle turn. You get back to your starting place over a triangle. A triangle with 3 90 degree angles for a sum of 270 degrees.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

255 210 Had to talk to mortgage company and insurance company today.

Insurance first was voice-recognition clanker hell. Couldn't get a real person. Couldn't get a straight answer. Could get nothing. Called the mortgage company, hit 0 for support, got a real human. Got the problem solved by a real, professional human. How I hate having clankers shoved into everything!

Posted by: RandomDave at October 19, 2026 11:01 PM (aJQbY)

I really, really hate that. If you're gonna use automated systems, at least leave the button pressing available. I call up my pharmacy...imagine I have laryngitis...but I HAVE to use voice commands to get the f'n system to do anything as it won't take button presses anymore.
I've complained to the company.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:19 PM (l3cgK)

256 > As AC/DC put it (more or less) if you give the Queen a full house, she might get a royal flush.

https://tinyurl.com/2pbdax6m

Man, those guys were masters of the filthy double entendre.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:19 PM (qlLNh)

257
It's now a mini-mall called Brown Derby Plaza, with no resemblance whatsoever to a brown derby. It seems to be in or near Koreatown.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Oh wait, the dome survives! On the top level of that plaza. Chat says it was a Korean bar but it's now vacant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 19, 2026 11:20 PM (mmrXZ)

258 How do flat-earthers explain the Coriolis effect?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:21 PM (l3cgK)

259
Gauss (one of the true greats, up there with Newton, etc) did surveying, a famous one being a survey of the Kingdom of Hanover. He surveyed a big triangle using three peaks somehow and showed the sum was greater than 180 degrees. He wasn't trying to prove this, he and everyone knew it would, but this is oft cited.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)

260 >> How do flat-earthers explain the Coriolis effect?

Like they explain gravity -- they deny it exists.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:22 PM (w6EFb)

261 Oh wait, the dome survives! On the top level of that plaza. Chat says it was a Korean bar but it's now vacant.

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I remember it from the mid-80s. It was a sad remnant of a storied past.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at October 19, 2026 11:22 PM (vBZcw)

262 I've had reasonably good results by just yelling "Human!" at every prompt.

Eventually these things usually give up and connect you to a human.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:23 PM (qlLNh)

263 41 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM

___________________________

Hotel CasAnus

(Their motto) Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

Hotel Casanus is a giant intestinal model that allows guests to spend a cozy night inside a massive colon.

https://tinyurl.com/549vryt9

(now I'm worried about my computer brower history)

Posted by: Orson at October 19, 2026 11:24 PM (dIske)

264 I really, really hate that. If you're gonna use automated systems, at least leave the button pressing available. I call up my pharmacy...imagine I have laryngitis...but I HAVE to use voice commands to get the f'n system to do anything as it won't take button presses anymore.
I've complained to the company.
Posted by: jim

I had occasion to be tortured by the Marriot automated system yesterday. After numerous calls with circular paths, I ended up speaking with some dude in the Philippines. Nope, not gonna do it. He eventually connected me to the front desk of the hotel that could resolve everything easily.

I hope they truly recorded that cluster f**k of a call for training purposes.

Assholes.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 19, 2026 11:24 PM (V8Zwm)

265 Oh wait, the dome survives! On the top level of that plaza. Chat says it was a Korean bar but it's now vacant.

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The JFK. assassination side was a few blocks west on Wiltshire. Murder tourism at its best, until it was torn down and replaced by a reform school.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at October 19, 2026 11:24 PM (vBZcw)

266 251 The jingle for the Green Giant ads went "In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant", which I heard as "In the valley of the Chollie Green Giant".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:16 PM (qlLNh)

...Ho Ho Ho

Posted by: Joemarine at October 19, 2026 11:25 PM (y171U)

267 Wilshire.

Idiot autocorrect.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at October 19, 2026 11:25 PM (vBZcw)

268
In the valley of the Jolly
(ho ho ho)

Green Giant

Posted by: Don Black at October 19, 2026 11:25 PM (ZxPkt)

269 6 The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with A&W Rootbeer.

Ah, the quality stuff. Rex is a dino of class.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 19, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

Hmmm... can't think of what Alcohol would mix with Root Beer...

Posted by: Peter Dinklage at October 19, 2026 11:26 PM (mP0Kj)

270
There is another curious effect you'll notice with that equator to pole and back triangle. If you were carrying a local coordinate axis with you the whole time, which you maintained aligned with your path, you would find that it had rotated 90 degrees when you returned to your starting point. The is known as "holonomy" formally, and geodetic precession informally.

That effect would not happen in flat, Euclidean space.

And that is one of the effects that has been tested with General Relativity, recalling last thread. The earth's gravity induces a very small, but measurable spatial curvature to 3D space surrounding it. That causes gyroscopes to precess ever so slightly. In this GR context, it's known as deSitter precession, which is a curvature only effect (there are others, due to "Frame dragging" or the magnetic like gravitational analog due to moving masses, known as Lense-Thirring precession).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:27 PM (w6EFb)

271 RFK

My apologies to the Texas Schoolbook Depository.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at October 19, 2026 11:27 PM (vBZcw)

272 Hotel Casanus is a giant intestinal model that allows guests to spend a cozy night inside a massive colon.

https://tinyurl.com/549vryt9

(now I'm worried about my computer brower history)
Posted by: Orson at October 19, 2026 11:24 PM (dIske)

Do they have a semicolon for budget-minded travelers?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 11:27 PM (wSl27)

273 228 Hi Horde!

Speaking of green stars: if our star is yellow, why do we have white light?

Do stars with other colors have white light?

Also, why does the color not simply match the spectrograph for Hydrogen and Helium?

And a corollary: I thought color came from temperature?

Posted by: frammish at October 19, 2026 11:07 PM (rcENI)

The spectral components of light come from the elements on the surface of the star that re-transmit the photons from the star for the last time. I read somewhere that it takes at least 1000 years for light to make it's way out of the sun from the first fusion reaction to the escaping the photosphere...
The sun's temperature does affect what we see emitted (blackbody radiation)...forget what temp the sun's at.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:27 PM (l3cgK)

274 I ended up speaking with some dude in the Philippines. Nope, not gonna do it. He eventually connected me to the front desk of the hotel that could resolve everything easily.

I hope they truly recorded that cluster f**k of a call for training purposes.

Assholes.
Posted by: Tonypete
---------
Probably got the idea from the comments here - i ask to speak with a native English speaking customer service agent. So far, so good with that approach.

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 11:28 PM (41CYW)

275 can't think of what Alcohol would mix with Root Beer
_-_
Fireball!!! Pour out the Root Beer and pour in the Firebal!!!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 19, 2026 11:28 PM (1gmsy)

276 Hotel Casanus is a giant intestinal model that allows guests to spend a cozy night inside a massive colon

The complementary raisins are a little musty though.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 19, 2026 11:29 PM (88C+u)

277 Sun's visible spectrum:

https://tinyurl.com/nv9zaumy

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:30 PM (l3cgK)

278 Trump's had a lot of success bringing manufacturing back to the US

he should work on bringing customer service back to the US

Posted by: Don Black at October 19, 2026 11:30 PM (ZxPkt)

279 233 Every time I hear Flushing, Queens, NY, I think of a giant toilet for some reason...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:06 PM (l3cgK)
======

Hey, how about flushing Queens?

Posted by: Goombah from Brooklyn at October 19, 2026 11:09 PM (RIvkX)

Dat's Homo-phonic...or is it Homophobic?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:30 PM (l3cgK)

280
85
What Was in the Envelopes at President Bush’s Funeral?

Free round-trip tickets to Epstein's luxury resort.
Posted by: mindful webworker - or not at October 19, 2026 10:2

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If the envelopes contained something nefarious, why make the delivery out in the open in front of the cameras, instead of privately?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 19, 2026 11:31 PM (iTNuP)

281 > ...Ho Ho Ho
Posted by: Joemarine at October 19, 2026 11:25 PM (y171U)

Now I'm thinking of a roughneck I knew years go. He was doing two weeks on, two weeks off hitches on the North Slope, pulling down major bank, and spending it just as fast as it came in.

We used to say that whenever Mike hit town with a fat paycheck it was "Yo! Ho! Ho! And a bottle of rum."

Cocaine was usually in the mix as well.

I should see if I can find out what happened to that guy. Haven't seen him in decades. Fair chance that drunk driving, overdose, or cirrhosis has taken him out by now.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:31 PM (qlLNh)

282
I remember it from the mid-80s. It was a sad remnant of a storied past.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43)

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

It's in a couple of I Love Lucy episodes, all glamour and popularity.

That Ambassador Hotel was a very cool site if you ask me, that distinctively shaped building on a very spacious and gently rising hill. It actually looked haunted or creepy even without its history and without having fallen into neglect. I was shocked they let it go.

Le monde, ca change.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 19, 2026 11:31 PM (mmrXZ)

283 You folks might be surprised to learn that mixing Root Beer with Jägermeister is a lot better than you might think.

Posted by: Orson at October 19, 2026 11:32 PM (dIske)

284
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me. OBAFGKM. That's the HR color vs temp mnemonic.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:32 PM (w6EFb)

285 >Hmmm... can't think of what Alcohol would mix with Root Beer...
----

vodka

Posted by: Don Black at October 19, 2026 11:32 PM (ZxPkt)

286
Wilshire.

Idiot autocorrect.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43)

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

and site, not side

I wouldn't have said anything, but you started it!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 19, 2026 11:33 PM (mmrXZ)

287 164 NY World's Fair is among my earliest childhood memories. I remember walking past that giant tire Ferris wheel. Didn't get to ride that one, but we did go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride before it opened in Disney World..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 19, 2026 10:43 PM (08OqX)

Same here. We made the drive from TX to NJ and stayed with my NJ cousins. I saw that tire pic and I immediately flashed back to 7yo me. I have an ungodly number of 35mm color slides my dad took of the fair and that tire is in one of them.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 19, 2026 11:33 PM (itAg7)

288 The Great Survey of India. The British started at the southern tip and worked their way north. When they got to the Himalayas they took a sighting on a peak and said, "Wait a minute! The math says that mountain is almost 30,000 tall! Where did we screw up?"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at October 19, 2026 11:34 PM (/9wBX)

289 236 We call this building the "Spam Can", for obvious reasons.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ 7YDhoSTG2uBb2kMz8

(again, remove the space)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:10 PM (qlLNh)

This one's called "Stargazer", but most call it "The Big Red Dong"...
https://tinyurl.com/5ne7nx59

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:34 PM (l3cgK)

290 276 Hotel Casanus is a giant intestinal model that allows guests to spend a cozy night inside a massive colon

The complementary raisins are a little musty though.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 19, 2026 11:29 PM (88C+u)

_______________________________

How funny would it be if they pasted corn kernels to the walls of that place?

Posted by: Orson at October 19, 2026 11:35 PM (dIske)

291
I wouldn't have said anything, but you started it!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 19, 2026 11:33 PM (mmrXZ)

----------

Pedants

*sniff*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at October 19, 2026 11:35 PM (vBZcw)

292 238
41 They should build a proctologist building where you enter through the butthole.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Up, Up, and Away! at October 19, 2026 10:11 PM

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I encountered a creation museum like that once. The museum was inside a giant statue of a brontosaurus. The entrance was accessed up
a stairway that led to a glass door in a location corresponding to the creature's bunghole.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 19, 2026 11:10 PM (azNOR)

Humans gerbiling a Dinosaur...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:35 PM (l3cgK)

293
If the envelopes contained something nefarious, why make the delivery out in the open in front of the cameras, instead of privately?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

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

Because it was easier where they were all sitting instead of trying to chase them individually from their limos or the bathrooms.

Posted by: Mystery Movie Plot Generator at October 19, 2026 11:35 PM (mmrXZ)

294 So, my young 'ens don't drink, really, so they don't really know anything much about alcoholic beverages...had a tiramisu reciped that called for coffee liquer...didn't have any, so the mixed strong coffee and red wine...oof

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 19, 2026 11:36 PM (1gmsy)

295
Feminists were outraged by that mnemonic for star classification (even though it was actually invented by a woman, Annie Jump Cannon). One tried to change it to "Only Boys Accepting Feminism Get Kissed Meaningfully".

That did not catch on.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:36 PM (w6EFb)

296 239 As AC/DC put it (more or less) if you give the Queen a full house, she might get a royal flush.


Just watch out for the Jack.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:11 PM (qlLNh)

Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy, She'll beat you if she's able.

Posted by: Desperado--by the Eagles at October 19, 2026 11:37 PM (l3cgK)

297 Thanks jim! I asked Google too, and your explanation lines up with what it told me.

Actually it said that the cooler outer layer absorbs the energy and the H/He energy lines are missing from a spectroscope. I have some vague memory of that, although it doesn't match pictures I see online now.

I didn't remember (or never learned) what black body radiation was, so that was an interesting rabbit hole, especially about why it emits a continuous range of frequencies instead of discrete bands.

Posted by: frammish at October 19, 2026 11:37 PM (rcENI)

298 Imagine starting at the equator and going north to the pole. Then make a 90 degree turn and go the same distance. You are now back at the equator. Now, make another right angle turn. You get back to your starting place over a triangle. A triangle with 3 90 degree angles for a sum of 270 degrees.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:18 PM (w6EFb)

I understand, but the problem is that this is where I glitched out on my Mom way back when, and I am stuck between knowing what is said, and what seems apparent, in that as a two dimensional being the measurements would not be identified since the deviation could only be observed from the third dimension, which cannot be perceived by the Flatlanders.

I suppose the orbit of Mercury could be a way of analogy for 3D space, and possibly gravitational lensing, but I can't get my head around it anymore than when I was 8 years old.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 11:37 PM (rbvCR)

299 I found Jägermeister to be an emetic

Posted by: Don Black at October 19, 2026 11:37 PM (ZxPkt)

300 245 Moron is from back in the "New comment thingy" days when ace called a bunch of us morons. Like, not nicely either.
Posted by: Reforger at October 19, 2026 11:05 PM (SY3XK)

Ace nevah evah does anything nice and easy. He always does it nice and rough..

Posted by: Ace and Tina Turner at October 19, 2026 11:14 PM (08OqX)

So Ace is to Blogs what John Wayne is to Toilet Paper?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:38 PM (l3cgK)

301 > This one's called "Stargazer", but most call it "The Big Red Dong"...
https://tinyurl.com/5ne7nx59
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:34 PM (l3cgK)

There's a "sculpture" on the UAA campus that has some pretentious name or other.

We called it "That Goddamned Pile of Shit".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:38 PM (qlLNh)

302 I didn't remember (or never learned) what black body radiation was, so that was an interesting rabbit hole, especially about why it emits a continuous range of frequencies instead of discrete bands.

-------

Call me.

Posted by: A. Einstein at October 19, 2026 11:38 PM (vBZcw)

303 emits a continuous range of frequencies instead of discrete bands.
_-_
Emit all the frequencies you wany, but if you are a discrete band, you'll never get any gigs.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 19, 2026 11:40 PM (1gmsy)

304 Well, I am getting pretty sleepy. Not going to stay up late waiting for delayed results of Alberta referendum.

Nite, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 11:41 PM (wSl27)

305 262 I've had reasonably good results by just yelling "Human!" at every prompt.

Eventually these things usually give up and connect you to a human.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:23 PM (qlLNh)

Or they hang up on you.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:42 PM (l3cgK)

306 >> in that as a two dimensional being the measurements would not be identified since the deviation could only be observed from the third dimension,

That's the thing. It is observable on the surface. The Flatlanders could indeed measure that. Start out, go straight a distance. Now, relative to your local spot, using a local coordinate axis relative to you, make a 90 degree turn. Keep you axes "straight" the whole time. Make another 90 degree and return to your starting point.

Locally, you made 3 90 degree internal angle turns. ANd your local coordinate axes, which you carried only with you, are now rotated relative to where they were when you started. They did not rotate relative to you at all.

That is the basic of *intrinsic curvature*, it can be measured purely in the space. No extra embedding dimensions are required.

Gauss's Theorema Egregium was all about this, which he was stunned by.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

307 What the? A post came up and when I refreshed, it was gone. I've not seen that before.
Posted by: LRob in OK

I think LRob broke the thread.....
Posted by: The Grateful

I think Cow Demon made the post. I'm innocent, I tell ya!!
Posted by: LRob in OK

Posts from banned IPs do show up for a second before they get yeeted by the Minx. So if it was Cow Demon, either

1) Cow Demon got banned

B) Cow Demon sockpuppeted someone who got banned, and got banned along with them.

iii) Cow Demon is using a VPN, Starlink satellite, etc, and currently has an address that was banned in the past.

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 11:43 PM (VHUov)

308 I hope they truly recorded that cluster f**k of a call for training purposes.

Assholes.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 19, 2026 11:24 PM (V8Zwm)

Maybe it was for entertainment purposes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:43 PM (l3cgK)

309 268
In the valley of the Jolly
(ho ho ho)

Green Giant

Posted by: Don Black at October 19, 2026 11:25 PM (ZxPkt)

F you. That was my trademark phrase long before you were a seed in your creators mind.

Posted by: Santa Claus at October 19, 2026 11:44 PM (l3cgK)

310 I've had reasonably good results by just yelling "Human!" at every prompt.
_-_
Have you considered yodeling?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 19, 2026 11:44 PM (1gmsy)

311 272 Hotel Casanus is a giant intestinal model that allows guests to spend a cozy night inside a massive colon.

https://tinyurl.com/549vryt9

(now I'm worried about my computer brower history)
Posted by: Orson at October 19, 2026 11:24 PM (dIske)

Do they have a semicolon for budget-minded travelers?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 11:27 PM (wSl27)

You want the Sigmoidoscopy or the full Colonoscopy?

Posted by: Santa Claus at October 19, 2026 11:45 PM (l3cgK)

312 I'm getting one more script ready to run before I head up to bed. I was just checking news.

Interesting from GatewayPundit.

Joe Manchin, the former Democrat Senator of West Virginia who turned independent, is now going to campaign for a Republican in one of the races that could determine the outcome of the Senate.

Manchin is headed to Maine to campaign for Senator Susan Collins.

Every bit helps.....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 11:45 PM (Sco7b)

313 I've had reasonably good results by just yelling "Human!" at every prompt.

Eventually these things usually give up and connect you to a human.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

F-bombs do that, too. Ask me how I f**king know.

Posted by: mikeski at October 19, 2026 11:46 PM (VHUov)

314
To appreciate this, you have to consider the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic curvature. Extrinsic is about curving in the external, ambient "embedding space", which we will assume is nice and Euclidean.

Consider a cylinder. Take a flat sheet of rectangular paper and roll it around into a cylinder. You can do that without distortion (stretching or tearing). Even though that surface curves in the ambient 3D space, it remains flat intrinsically. Flatlanders would not notice that.

Intrinsic curvature is about what is actually measurable and invariant about the surface itself, relative to itself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:46 PM (w6EFb)

315 Yahoo mail is enshittifying their email so people will pay for the upgrade. Arschlochern

Posted by: Kindltot at October 19, 2026 11:46 PM (rbvCR)

316 280
85
What Was in the Envelopes at President Bush’s Funeral?

Free round-trip tickets to Epstein's luxury resort.
Posted by: mindful webworker - or not at October 19, 2026 10:2

-----

If the envelopes contained something nefarious, why make the delivery out in the open in front of the cameras, instead of privately?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 19, 2026 11:31 PM (iTNuP)

"It's HOT down here!"

Posted by: G. W. Bush at October 19, 2026 11:46 PM (l3cgK)

317 304 Well, I am getting pretty sleepy. Not going to stay up late waiting for delayed results of Alberta referendum.

Nite, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 19, 2026 11:41 PM (wSl27)

Good night.
Good luck.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 19, 2026 11:46 PM (Sco7b)

318 284
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me. OBAFGKM. That's the HR color vs temp mnemonic.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:32 PM (w6EFb)

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly (color code for resistors--Black,Brown,Red,Orange,Yellow,Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White = 0 to 9)

Posted by: G. W. Bush at October 19, 2026 11:48 PM (l3cgK)

319 Flatlanders would not notice that.
_-_
Personally, I think the shape of the Earth is Lambert Conformal Conic

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 19, 2026 11:49 PM (1gmsy)

320 297 Thanks jim! I asked Google too, and your explanation lines up with what it told me.

Actually it said that the cooler outer layer absorbs the energy and the H/He energy lines are missing from a spectroscope. I have some vague memory of that, although it doesn't match pictures I see online now.

I didn't remember (or never learned) what black body radiation was, so that was an interesting rabbit hole, especially about why it emits a continuous range of frequencies instead of discrete bands.

Posted by: frammish at October 19, 2026 11:37 PM (rcENI)

Yeah, got the absorbing part wrong. It's been more than a couple of decades...

Posted by: G. W. Bush at October 19, 2026 11:50 PM (l3cgK)

321 I know I saw that milk bottle sometime in all my summers in Spokane (and during my 2 1/2 years at Fairchild). But I can't recall seeing it when I was there last spring.

Posted by: GWB at October 19, 2026 11:51 PM (kU0PQ)

322 Good night, AOP.

I'm out, too.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 19, 2026 11:51 PM (qlLNh)

323
With these thought experiments, we are going down the road that led to Differential Geometry, and Riemann's perfection of it.

Some things to ponder: What do we mean by "going in a straight line" on a curved surface? And to answer that, think about what "going straight" rigorously means even on flat plane. Now, think about what you mean by "parallel transport", how to carry vectors and "kept them straight" as you move them along such a curved surface.

It was only recently that I truly grokked parallel transport, "going straight" in the geodesic sense, and the Levi-Civita connection. I thought I did, but realized I didn't.

Somehow, with all that was going on with my mother, this became a mental distraction and I did gain some deep understanding of this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:51 PM (w6EFb)

324 Jaeger is disgusting. Aside from the anise is just that cloying syrupiness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 19, 2026 11:52 PM (zZu0s)

325 Also, no, Metropolis is where Superman lives and works, but his hometown is Smallville.

Posted by: GWB at October 19, 2026 11:52 PM (kU0PQ)

326 1 Videos of Envelopes being received at G.H.W. Bush’s funeral
https://tinyurl.com/y9p5myyu

Yeah, years and years ago and we never got any sort of solid explanation. Very weird thing.

Posted by: Azjaeger at October 19, 2026 11:54 PM (3/XaG)

327 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:42 PM (w6EFb)

You could also walk from the equator to a pole, keep walking until you hit the equator, rotate 90º, and walk back to your starting point...not possible on a euclidean plane...

Posted by: G. W. Bush at October 19, 2026 11:54 PM (l3cgK)

328
Also, if interested, see the Frenet-Serret frame field formulas. This is about 1D curves in space, and formalizes some concepts that a very useful for determing what you mean by "going straight".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 19, 2026 11:54 PM (w6EFb)

329 off annoying sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 19, 2026 11:55 PM (l3cgK)

330 I know I saw that milk bottle sometime in all my summers in Spokane (and during my 2 1/2 years at Fairchild). But I can't recall seeing it when I was there last spring.
Posted by: GWB
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I was curious if it was still there. Plugged the address into maps and it shows up. Looks like they're using it as an entrance to a theater.
And Fairchild Airshow was always fun as a kid.

Posted by: scampydog at October 19, 2026 11:56 PM (41CYW)

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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)
News/Chat

Ann Coulter
National Review Online
The Perfect World
Free Republic
Lucianne
The Note

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