February 29, 2012
— Maetenloch
The Incredible Shrinking Papers
The death spiral of newspapers continues:
The decline in newspaper ad revenues to a 60-year low is amazing by itself, but the sharp decline in recent years is pretty stunning. Last year's ad revenues of about $21 billion were less than half of the $46 billion spent just four years ago in 2007, and less than one-third of the $64 billion spent in 2000.
Given this many papers have grasped at online readership as way to save themselves but have managed to screw that up as well.
One of the few papers that's succeeding online is the UK's Daily Mail who seem to have found a winning formula: Giving readers the kinds of stories they actually want to read - celebrity and crime news, stories about health and bikinis, and some sports and politics - along with lots of pictures and punchy titles. Basically everything that makes J-school graduates weep.
And not only are papers' revenues and readerships shrinking - but the papers themselves are getting physically smaller too. Here you can see a 2011 issue of the Los Angeles Times compared with the same paper in 1966.
Guys Beware: Today Is Leap Day
So if a moronette tries to get you alone tonight to 'talk' - be afraid sure to mention that your new anti-virals sure help the oozing:
But a century ago, proposals by women were not only acceptable, they were a common occurrence-at least on February 29th.The legend goes that St. Bridget of Ireland was frustrated that all the non-nun ladies in 5th century Ireland had to sit around waiting for proposals that might never come. She complained about it to St. Patrick who, probably impressed by Bridget's ability to turn her used bathwater into beer, finally proclaimed that women could have the chance to propose themselves once every four years on the leap day. This became known as "The Ladies' Privilege."
Shame of Britain: Man Drowns in 3 Ft of Water, 25 Emergency Workers Stand and Watch
This was Walpole Park in Gosport, Hampshire, on an overcast lunchtime last March when no fewer than 25 members of the emergency services, including a press officer, descended on a 3½ft-deep model boating lake minutes after Simon Burgess, 41, fell into the water when he suffered a seizure. But as an inquest heard last week, he lay floating face-down for more than half an hour while firemen, police and paramedics watched and did nothing.The reason? Even though they could all swim, the first fire crew to arrive hadn't been 'trained' to enter water higher than ankle-deep. Instead they waited for 'specialists' to arrive to retrieve his body. They had decided Mr Burgess must surely be dead because he had been in the water for ten minutes. When a policeman decided to go in anyway, he was ordered not to. A paramedic was also told not to enter the water because he didn't have the right 'protective' clothing and might be in breach of the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992.
Okay correlation ain't causation but the bloom may be coming off the pork sandwich:
This is not a message that will go over well in the bacon-loving paleo world, but it is what it is. Pork consumption strongly correlates with cirrhosis of the liver (even more so than alcohol consumption), liver cancer, and MS. Even though most pork has a high omega-6 polyunsaturated fat profile, Jaminet doesn't believe that's the whole story.Enter pathogens. Pigs have certain biological commonalities with humans, which make them a more dangerous vector for disease compared to other animals. For whatever reason, the types of viruses and bacteria that thrive in pigs also thrive in humans, and frequently jump from one to the other. And it's these pathogens, like Hepatitis E, that are contributing to liver disease and MS, argues Jaminet.
Jaminet's takeaway is to avoid pork products containing liver, intestine, and blood. Pork ribs or pork bellies may be a better choice. Just be sure to wash and cook them thoroughly
What The Sharp Dressed Army Officer Was Wearing in 1941
Weapons and tactics weren't the only things that evolved over the war.
The World's Most Dangerous Golf Course
Yep the Korean DMZ has its own golf course.
Panmunjom's one and only hole is a 192 yard par three with an AstroTurf putting green, a gun tower, and LIVE MINE FIELDS in the rough! The hole is surrounded by the mine fields on three sides and it's been reported that at least one mine has exploded due to a big slice off the tee.The hole was build to provide a bit of recreation for the 50 soldiers stationed there. Camp Bonifas (formerly Camp Kitty Hawk) was named in honor of U.S. Army Captain Arthur Bonifas after he and 1st LT Mark Barrett were murdered in the axe murder incident of 1976. Camp Bonifas is the UN's Joint Security Area that keeps an eye on the Armistice Agreement of 1953 made between the North and South.
"We Will Rock You" Bagpipe Style
Pretty damn awesome. But I wouldn't advise letting this guy know where your post-apocalyptic gas refinery is located.
Don't seem very prepared for non-scripted doomsdays:
Very few people had thought their preparations through as well as they thought they had. One family had literally tons of food put by, but all in one location. One prepper in Houston planned to escape to Mexico (?!?!?), but didn't have enough gas to get there. Some didn't take practical steps to ensure their safety. It isn't difficult for someone to latch on to an idea or plan, but getting them to adapt is an entirely different matter. It is the ability to read changing conditions and adapt to them that often separates the survivors of a disaster from those that become victims.Unsurprisingly, quite a few of the preppers were very resistant to suggestions from the experts. If disaster strikes, and scenarios don't unfold precisely the way they have envisioned, then these people, despite all their preparations and supplies, are little more than delayed victims.
Well I suspect that for many people on the show disaster prepping is more a Walter Mitty-eque fantasy than serious planning. Having multiple options and adaptability is the real survival trait.
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Posted by: steevy at February 29, 2012 06:42 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 06:45 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: Peaches at February 29, 2012 06:45 PM (rTaZN)
Posted by: jem at February 29, 2012 06:46 PM (0oYHO)
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 06:47 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: Peaches at February 29, 2012 06:48 PM (rTaZN)
Dude, that's for AoSHQ Gold members.
Posted by: Armando at February 29, 2012 06:48 PM (Pf662)
Posted by: Truman North, speaking Italic at February 29, 2012 06:48 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: steevy at February 29, 2012 06:48 PM (7W3wI)
5 agreed
eatting pork is in the bible
matthew 13:27 And the lord sayeth 'yea, and all men shall eat the other white meat in all its forms and he shall eat good, and if his bacon fryeth well, blessed is he'
or something like that
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 29, 2012 06:48 PM (aeve0)
If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it.
Many hobo pelts are the first requirement, apparently.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 06:49 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 06:49 PM (lJJMb)
boppity bippity
Posted by: Truman North, speaking Italic at February 29, 2012 10:48 PM (I2LwF)
Okay, Tru, it's your moment, post like the wind!
Posted by: Peaches at February 29, 2012 06:49 PM (rTaZN)
Praise the era of Obama.
Posted by: GW McLintock at February 29, 2012 06:50 PM (AfSpm)
Noticed at work there was a line for pistol permits that went out the door and around the corner. Did something happen today that I should maybe know about?
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at February 29, 2012 06:50 PM (TCyyS)
Posted by: steevy at February 29, 2012 06:50 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: Indy at February 29, 2012 06:50 PM (GTbGH)
18 Joe, the cubs aren't winning shit anytime soon
i've been in denial since '65
let me keep it rolling
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 29, 2012 06:50 PM (aeve0)
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 06:51 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 10:49 PM (zmm1+)
It was fleeting, Polliwog. How've you been? Long time, girl . . .
Posted by: Peaches at February 29, 2012 06:51 PM (rTaZN)
Posted by: Ronster at February 29, 2012 06:51 PM (T1nDt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 29, 2012 06:51 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: GW McLintock at February 29, 2012 10:50 PM (AfSpm)
If you owned a gun shop you would...that sonofabitch has sold more iron the past few years than anybody, and caused ammo producers to go to 24/7 production to meet demand. Ironic, in the correct sense.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 06:52 PM (lJJMb)
okay, here goes
Every Leap Day, I think back to my 5th grade math teacher. He used to say he was the same age as us because he was born on Leap Day.
I understand he's in prison for sexual assault on a minor under 13.
Posted by: Truman North at February 29, 2012 06:52 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at February 29, 2012 06:52 PM (bMLFV)
Doesn't that kind of imply that there were other axe murder incidents? "No, no, the one in '76, not the '84 one, that was a SCOAMF."
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at February 29, 2012 06:52 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: steevy at February 29, 2012 06:53 PM (7W3wI)
Noticed at work there was a line for pistol permits that went out the door and around the corner. Did something happen today that I should maybe know about?
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at February 29, 2012 10:50 PM (TCyyS)
Where are you, and what's going on locally?
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 06:54 PM (lJJMb)
In New York City, the McDonald's employees are just as incompetent as everywhere else, but they're loud about it. That way, you can know in advance just how they are screwing up your order.
New York, New York: A city so loud, they had to say it twice
Posted by: Truman North at February 29, 2012 06:54 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Truman North at February 29, 2012 10:52 PM (I2LwF)
Himself?
Posted by: buzzion at February 29, 2012 06:54 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 06:54 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: steevy at February 29, 2012 06:54 PM (7W3wI)
And what of the most super transparent administration keeping the three page letter under wraps?
Posted by: GW McLintock at February 29, 2012 06:54 PM (AfSpm)
Winter storm watch here until Thursday evening. Just about 3" right now, with a foot to fifteen inches predicted. People are damned near orgasmic about it. I figure that will last until time to move the stuff.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 29, 2012 06:54 PM (SAMxH)
ditto with the boots. The trousers were called 'pinks', because they looked....pinkish. Actual shade is taupe.
They stopped wearing the Sam Browne belts after 1941
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 06:55 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 06:55 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: steevy at February 29, 2012 06:55 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: Truman North at February 29, 2012 06:56 PM (I2LwF)
New York, not much that i know of, but then i follow the local news about as closely as I follow tennis.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at February 29, 2012 06:58 PM (TCyyS)
Do you think he's even remotely aware of that fact?
Posted by: GW McLintock at February 29, 2012 10:55 PM (AfSpm)
Dammit, I hope so, but it is a 51-49 kind of deal in this country, so I doubt he cares. After all, he can get a 2nd term, go full-on unfettered executive, and do all kinds of damage without the legislature or judiciary to any number of what we used to call "rights".
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 06:59 PM (lJJMb)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 06:59 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: buzzion at February 29, 2012 10:56 PM (GULKT)
Mais oui! In fact, I'm about to bail and watch it. You?
Posted by: Peaches at February 29, 2012 06:59 PM (rTaZN)
Posted by: Clubber Lang at February 29, 2012 06:59 PM (ZPrif)
( sniggers; guffaws ).
That was the uniform for officers from 1937-1957. Enlisted men wore 'olive drab' uniforms. Replaced by 'Army Green-44', which made everyone look like a bellhop.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 06:59 PM (UqKQV)
Too bad it's the "folks" lobbing grenades at our troops and screaming "death to America" from whom he's getting his recommendations.
Posted by: Jew janitor's mop bucket at February 29, 2012 07:00 PM (MmrSI)
Posted by: steevy at February 29, 2012 07:00 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: GergS(Dirty Scandi Dog Whistle) at February 29, 2012 07:01 PM (dptRY)
Posted by: Jimmah at February 29, 2012 07:01 PM (845uI)
New York, not much that i know of, but then i follow the local news about as closely as I follow tennis.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at February 29, 2012 10:58 PM (TCyyS)
Considering that's a locality that only allows permits to carry to the politically connected, and permits to even possess are hard to own, I have to wonder if Bloomy is up to something. For the protection of his beloved little people, of course.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 07:01 PM (lJJMb)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 07:02 PM (UqKQV)
I haven't read much on the reaction. Whose?
I've been so disgusted and I can't even talk about it to my coaching bud who is a 'Bot. There's so much stuff do point out it's overload.
I think that's by design. They aren't confined to just one scandal, they've got a dozen going on a time so it seems normal.
Posted by: GW McLintock at February 29, 2012 07:02 PM (AfSpm)
Posted by: Jimmah at February 29, 2012 07:03 PM (845uI)
On the plus side, newspapers are almost exclusively staffed by crazy liberals and/or union-scale reporters. No matter what their political affiliation, they are insulated fat-cat snobs living in a bygone era with no understanding of the real world or the actual labor market. See also: James Lileks.
So, good riddance to all of them.
Posted by: TH at February 29, 2012 07:03 PM (DV75s)
Peaches are you watching Survivor this season?
Posted by: buzzion at February 29, 2012 10:56 PM (GULKT)
Mais oui! In fact, I'm about to bail and watch it. You?
Posted by: Peaches at February 29, 2012 10:59 PM (rTaZN)
Yes, however phoenixgirl has asked for no spoilers of tonight since she won't get to watch it til later. I also won't spoil it for you. But don't you just think that they really need to use a fire extinguisher on Colton for about an hour to get him to tone down the gay so he is just "flaming?"
Posted by: buzzion at February 29, 2012 07:05 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: commonsense lib at February 29, 2012 07:06 PM (/izg2)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 07:06 PM (6RnvM)
I only read one sheet of a newspaper.
Posted by: Sheryl Crow at February 29, 2012 07:07 PM (jhEFV)
Swagger Stick
General William J. Livsey, who was the Commanding General of the Eighth United States Army in South Korea from 1984 to 1987 publicly carried a swagger stick that was carved from wood collected at the Korean Demilitarized Zone Axe Murder Incident poplar tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swagger_stick
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 07:08 PM (dxTxt)
I went to great lengths to make sure I couldn't forget the day.
Now you male morons might be thinking 'That's a great idea. Buy her a present once every 4 years.' Yeah. Right. I too had that thought.
But when I brought that up to her, let's just say it didn't go over very well. Kind of like Japan thinking that bombing Pearl Harbor was a good idea.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 29, 2012 07:08 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:08 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 07:08 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston would be forever alone without AoS at February 29, 2012 07:08 PM (ijjAe)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 07:10 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 29, 2012 07:10 PM (FIE/L)
Stupid Survivor is just another joke of a reality show. What they need to do is drop those clowns off on an island and leave them for 6 weeks. Then you'd find out just who WAS a "survivor".
Posted by: irongrampa at February 29, 2012 07:10 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston would be forever alone without AoS at February 29, 2012 07:10 PM (ijjAe)
Ok, you're not Pixy but you live and California and have visited a Vons/Pavilions this week.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 07:10 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:11 PM (Z9EHQ)
If they just delivered those things they could make money off me.
Posted by: GW McLintock at February 29, 2012 07:11 PM (AfSpm)
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston would be forever alone without AoS at February 29, 2012 07:12 PM (ijjAe)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at February 29, 2012 07:12 PM (GE1+K)
I have the advantage: my own jodhpurs. Mine are Austrian, and they go with a certain cut of boots pretty damn well, I am told.
All hail ATC.
Posted by: comatus at February 29, 2012 07:12 PM (ZOlM3)
Rumor has it that their name will be changed to the Houston Enrons or the Houston We-Have-a-Problems when they move to the AL next year.
Posted by: Basement Cat at February 29, 2012 07:13 PM (g5zKE)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:13 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 07:13 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: Barky McFucknut at February 29, 2012 07:14 PM (nzrDg)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 07:14 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:15 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 07:16 PM (j+Izh)
I saw Rum showed up on last night's ONT after I'd gone to bed! Missed it by **that** much. I miss the folks from ONTs past who don't post there anymore.
Posted by: Theresa at February 29, 2012 07:16 PM (2dNWw)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:16 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston would be forever alone without AoS at February 29, 2012 07:16 PM (ijjAe)
Posted by: navycopjoe at February 29, 2012 07:17 PM (aeve0)
"I apologize for the Twin Towers being in the way of aspiring pilots."
I so very much wish that this was a joke.
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:17 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 07:17 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:18 PM (Z9EHQ)
A bit of airship information that ties in nicely with a conservative site, in honor of the promenade deck photograph.
After WWI Great Britain embarked on a project to have two competing airships, one privately designed and built, and the other a government designed and sponsored effort.
The R-100 built by Vickers made a transatlantic crossing to Canada, while the government built R-101 crashed and burned on its maiden voyage in France. It had numerous loading and design problems.
The R-100 design team included Sir Barnes Wallis who designed the Wellington bomber and Neville Shute, the author of the apocalyptic novel, "On the Beach".
Yeah, I know......too much information.
Posted by: Jinxthecat at February 29, 2012 07:18 PM (l3vZN)
Stupid Survivor is just another joke of a reality show. What they need to do is drop those clowns off on an island and leave them for 6 weeks. Then you'd find out just who WAS a "survivor".
Posted by: irongrampa at February 29, 2012 11:10 PM (SAMxH)
Here's what I'd like to see for "Survivor", in order to make me (and the rest of the damned world) watch: 12 people are dropped onto an island with only what they can carry, and left to fend for themselves. On the beach is a tent with A/C, internet, and wonderful foods and medecine. Three shifts of well-fed and cared for cameramen capture every moment, but get to retreat to the well-stocked camp after their shift is done. The contestants' options are two - either continue to live off the land, as a group or individually, or enter the tent and lose. True survival would ensue, with the potential of a live-action "Lord of the Flies" remake. I'd never miss an episode.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 07:18 PM (lJJMb)
Posted by: robtr at February 29, 2012 11:17 PM (MtwBb)
Not to worry, it was a cruel hoax and there are no italics to be found.
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:18 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 07:19 PM (6RnvM)
I dunno Billy Bob, it's not my blog, but socking known commenters. That's a bannin'
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 07:19 PM (dxTxt)
What, am I just a number? I'm not just a number, man, I'm a whole pseudonym!
And I can't wait for Hawaii. I am so looking forward to swimming and snorkeling and just relaxing.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:20 PM (RZ8pf)
many factors to create a Nazi takeover in Germany, it takes...
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 07:20 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 11:19 PM (6RnvM)
I think they mostly settled in New York and Chicago.
Posted by: robtr at February 29, 2012 07:21 PM (MtwBb)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 07:21 PM (6RnvM)
Gneisenau
I read a book on Waterloo recently, in which there was the claim that Gneisenau acting like a total dick and slowing the Prussian Army's link-up with Wellington actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise. If the Prussians had arrived earlier, Napoleon would have realized he was outmatched, and made an orderly withdrawal, to fight again under more auspicious (for him) circumstances.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 29, 2012 07:21 PM (jhEFV)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:21 PM (Z9EHQ)
I dunno Billy Bob, it's not my blog, but socking known commenters. That's a bannin'
Posted by: weft & cut-loop at February 29, 2012 11:19 PM (dxTxt)
Not cool and it draws the attention of Mr. Banhammer.
Posted by: Mætenloch at February 29, 2012 07:22 PM (CkoMi)
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:22 PM (zmm1+)
Time for the old folk. I'm tired and there will be snow to move tomorrow.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 29, 2012 07:23 PM (SAMxH)
So when I decided to drop it for good I just let my scrip run out, figuring it would be cut off quick like before. But apparently they changed policies (probably because of all the drops they were suffering). The paper kept coming. For months.
Then they wanted me to pay for those papers I never contracted for. I laughed at the collections department and said 'nice try'. They finally went away, sulking the whole time.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 29, 2012 07:23 PM (ccXZP)
and the ground was soft in front of the English 'squares' and Nap didn't make his usual check
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 07:24 PM (UqKQV)
Posted by: carl the thread walker at February 29, 2012 07:24 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:24 PM (RZ8pf)
Lol.. well, just in case I prepared a speech for the UN, something I would do on day one of the SOS Presidency:
"Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: It is a great honor for me to be here today. My message for you today is a simple one, one that is long overdue, one that will make our world a much better place for future generations.
My message, honored delegates, is this. Get the fuck out. Allow me to reiterate, for those of you sitting in the back, so that there are no misunderstandings. Yes, I said get the fuck out. Pack your shit, and go home. As your landlord, we are informing you your lease is now at an end, you are no longer welcome, and we expect you to vacate immediately.
No longer will the United States continue to host, support, or fund this completely corrupt and totally useless organization. If you wish to continue to have a UN, feel free to host it in one of your own countries, however be advised we will not participate. I think anyone who has been here longer than a week is already well aware that it is a complete and total waste of time, energy, effort and money.
While I could spend hours, days, perhaps even weeks with a huge laundry list of reasons why the UN no longer deserves our support or participation, I think nothing sums it up more clearly than to point to April of 2011, when Syria became a member of the UN Council on Human Rights.
To claim that this body has any "moral" authority at this stage simply strains credulity. As such you may no longer count on one thin dime of support from the United States, I'll give you a few days to pack, shred any documents you think will save you from later prosecution, and then we'll be shutting out the lights and locking the doors. Please try to avoid allowing the door to hit you in the ass on the way out.
For those of you who have spent years thumbing your noise at, trying to embarrass or generally being a royal pain in the ass to the United States, feel free to drop by your governments accounting office when you do return home and tell them how much they will receiving in US Foreign Aid next year. It's an easy number to remember. It's zero. If private US companies or some of our generous civilians want to try and aid the poor of your country I wish them well, however it will no longer be the business of the United States government to fund unfriendly governments of any sort.
Please feel free to gather in Geneva, or Paris, or anywhere else you wish. Feel free to decry our actions, call us names, whatever you wish. Honestly we could give a shit less. In it's entire recorded history the UN has never performed a single useful action and almost always causes more problems than it solves. It is the policy of this government that we will no longer subsidize such abject failure and stupidity. Now, if you "honored persons" will excuse me, I have to return to the Oval Office, so that I can kill this monstrosity called Obama Care and fire a bunch of czars, hopefully in time to save my beloved country from complete bankruptcy."
Lol.. ya, not getting elected.. but, fun to think about nonetheless.. lol - but of course then I realized, hell, I already have two write in votes. All I need is one more and I'll have the same poll numbers as Newt.. lol..
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:25 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:25 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:26 PM (Z9EHQ)
This seems to be more up Heinlein's and Paul Siple's alley. I mean, if you keep people around, hoping they'll come up with some way to contribute, at least if they fail you can divide up their gear.
Posted by: comatus at February 29, 2012 07:26 PM (ZOlM3)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 07:26 PM (j+Izh)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 29, 2012 07:27 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 11:25 PM (R5yLq)
Even if you can't get elected, have you considered being a speech writer? Your productions today have been masterful.
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:27 PM (zmm1+)
So those who have observed Kosher and Halal might have been on to something, back in the day.
There WAS a reason for no pork and not mixing meat and dairy, yes? Not just religion, but that gave it extra oomph.
BTW, I looooove bacon. Cooked to a near char.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at February 29, 2012 07:28 PM (+WgEk)
Lol.. appreciate that, but doubt I could get hired as a speech writer. Sadly I have this real problem about telling people the truth, regardless of what they want to hear. Not a real asset to a speech writer, particularly one who wants to make money in writing political speeches.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:29 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:29 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 07:29 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, sedated yet paranoid at February 29, 2012 07:29 PM (UqKQV)
Polliwog, it is a website for brain training (the hook to get you to use it) they have been advertising on television and their ads have popped up on various websites lately.
It's actually not bad from a brain training point of view, you know stuff like recall. And, its been used in schools and also for the elderly and others who have brain issues.
But, it is also used as a way for neural scientists to do experiments on brain function etc. you can type lumosity and go to their website and they have a whole paper on it.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:30 PM (RZ8pf)
Liability. Extradition. Morality
- Good luck finding insurance for the crew.
- You'd have to incorporate outside the US in a country that doesn't extricate.
- Please tell me your a Santorum fan.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 07:31 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 07:31 PM (lJJMb)
Posted by: Big T Party at February 29, 2012 07:32 PM (hC5jI)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 11:30 PM (RZ8pf)
Interesting. Pretty good set-up on the part of the neural scientists. Get people to pay for what they would usually want to be paid for. Hmm, I wonder if that's part of the experiment.
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:32 PM (zmm1+)
Okay, Alton. The flattie and trans is over at the shop, all resealed and painted up. Ready to go back in. New clutch and resurfaced flywheel, too. After the snow event is done, then installation takes place. Following, the body is nearly ready for final blocking prior to paint. Same green color as original, and the interior set should be here after paintwork.
And now I AM going to bed.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 29, 2012 07:33 PM (SAMxH)
Polliwog, I think part of it from the scientists' perspective is that they have a pool of about 1 million test subjects now plus they can more easily follow things over time etc.
I suspect that the money is really going to the tech guys, since it is a company, but still it does stick in my craw a bit to pay for being experimented on.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:33 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:34 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 11:33 PM (RZ8pf)
A million test subjects certainly does away with sample size issues. It sounds really interesting. I got a Wii game called Big Brain Academy for my kids and I'm kind of curious if they do the same general things.
P.S. How's the boy doing? Saw you post earlier that super Beagle is working on psychological warfare.
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:37 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 29, 2012 07:37 PM (JMmQ9)
Printed Newspapers are going to fast become an endangered species. Sadly though that probably means the libertards will be stepping in soon to grant them government protection as a result.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:38 PM (R5yLq)
Something else that's awesome? I just learned recently that Christina Hendricks was actually born and raised in Tennessee. That state just continues to make a totally EXCELLENT case for why I should live there.
Posted by: Christina Hendricks's Mighty Jugs are Really SMOD in Disguise at February 29, 2012 07:38 PM (TCyyS)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 11:37 PM (Z9EHQ)
She said she was having to head out-of-state again since her mom's having surgery soon. Don't know if she'll be on tonight or if she's already on her way.
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:40 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 07:40 PM (j+Izh)
No, I've heard of that guy and he sounds a little out there, though I haven't read his books either.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 29, 2012 07:40 PM (jhEFV)
Polliwog, the games are similar to Brain Age, which I assume is similar to Big Brain Academy. They are pretty fun. We'll see if they help me be able to focus more etc.
The boy is fine. He's with his dad this week. Science fair is tomorrow night. This year in a refreshing change of pace he did it all with his dad and they haven't called me at the last minute to help with the poster. It is on how arcade game joysticks work. I can't wait to see it.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:40 PM (RZ8pf)
Everybody but everybody was carefully warned off cooking pork products rare, and every butcher knew to steam hell out of leftover parts that went into sausage. And now we have forgotten. High-priced gummint education system, thousands of how-to sites online, public health messages everywhere, and it doesn't even cross our mind. Cooking columns celebrate the newfound discovery of rare pork.
If you have not heard, all bears carry trichinosis. Don't eat raw bear.
Maybe this is why nobody buys newspapers.
Posted by: comatus at February 29, 2012 07:41 PM (ZOlM3)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 29, 2012 07:41 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:42 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 11:40 PM (RZ8pf)
How _does_ a joystick work? That sounds pretty impressive for his age.
Posted by: Polliwog at February 29, 2012 07:43 PM (zmm1+)
Even Smokey the Bear? And would rare with BBQ sauce and a side of cole slaw be ok, or do I need to get to the nearest hospital?
Hey.. in my defense, he wasn't wearing a vest, and from that distance he did look vaguely deer like, and well, heck, after he dropped I figured, well, no since letting all that meat go to waste.
Serves me right for paying all that money for the Dick Cheney Hunter Safety Correspondence course I guess. Sigh..
Lol
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:44 PM (R5yLq)
From my limited contact with the industry, they all know what is going on. It's just that there are few print owners that want to gamble on a whole new format. Look at Murdoch and his daily whatever. ?
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 07:45 PM (dxTxt)
It's a dream, dude. A thought experiment on what would be more entertaining than the current "Survivor", and which would more accurately reflect the hardships and decisions required to survive on one's own in a harsh or foreign environment. Think of it as "Survivorman" or that Bear Grylls show, only real. It would be interesting, if it weren't totally impossible. You're pissing out the window at something you chose not to understand.
- You'd have to incorporate outside the US in a country that doesn't extricate.
Again, consider it a thought experiment. It's not a possibility in any real sense, just my idea of what could be compelling TV. It's no more dystopian than "The Running Man", at least. Fantasy, how the fuck does it work?
- Please tell me your a Santorum fan.
Please explain WTF that means. I don't like Ricky at all, but I cannot see, for the life of me, how that would have any bearing whatsoever, unless you're trying to impose some kind of assumed intellectual superiority over me, by connecting my admittedly unworkable fantasy of what "Survivor" could be by painting me as some kind of idiot, which I assume is what "Santorum supporter" meant in proxy.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop at February 29, 2012 11:31 PM (dxTxt)
Consider my subscription to your newsletter cancelled.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN at February 29, 2012 07:47 PM (lJJMb)
Ouch.. uber harsh.. say, what if we gave you two free issues and promised the kid we have delivering it would stop throwing it at your dog on purpose? Would you consider renewing your subscription then?
Lol..
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:49 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 07:50 PM (4qU0l)
Get the product right and itÂ’s still possible to sell a newspaper or two:
Rupert Murdoch has confirmed on Twitter that the first Sunday edition of the Sun sold 3.26m copies – the biggest sale of a UK newspaper for four years.
“Amazing! The Sun confirmed sale of 3.260,000 copies yesterday,” he tweeted at his official @rupertmurdoch account. “Thanks all readers and advertisers. Sorry if sold out – more next time”.
The 3.26m has not been bettered on a Sunday since the SunÂ’s now closed sister title News of the World sold 3.37m copies in February 2007. The last time the News of the World equalled 3.26m was in January 2008, according to official figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Sales of rival Sunday tabloids were down by 15-30 per cent, according to early figures.
UPDATE. The biggest-selling paper in four years, but the ABCÂ’s Lisa Millar found two people who didnÂ’t buy it. [Andy: the Aussie BBC that is not the US MFM network.]
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 07:50 PM (6RnvM)
Proof positive the Koran has got to have it wrong. Forget everything else, no way one can make a rational case that bacon is evil. It simply cannot be done.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:50 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:53 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at February 29, 2012 07:53 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 07:55 PM (j+Izh)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 07:55 PM (4qU0l)
Well, I can give you a super long winded technical explanation, or the basic version. I suggest the basic version:
You push the stick thingy right, and the game deally goes right, you push it left it goes left, and so on.
Troubleshooting steps: If it don't work, try reinstalling the driver. Then try unplugging it and plugging it back in preferably in a different port, if it still don't work, get a new one.
I can actually give you the long winded electro-mechnical explanation of how most of them work too, but trust me, the above will pretty much cover it in 99.99% of all known situations.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 07:56 PM (R5yLq)
The room is so sedate without a knockdown drag out primary discussion today.
I don't like Ricky at all, but I cannot see, for the life of me, how that would have any bearing whatsoever, unless you're trying to impose some kind of assumed intellectual superiority over me, by connecting my admittedly unworkable fantasy of what "Survivor" could be by painting me as some kind of idiot, which I assume is what "Santorum supporter" meant in proxy
Damn, how peeved would you be if I said, "Jurst calm down, dood?"
Barring that, it could have been a jest. Small, diminishing chance of that.
Consider my subscription to your newsletter cancelled.
Oh, I'm much, much too discriminating for cancellations at this point, Mr. Bong.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:00 PM (dxTxt)
Well, overall, probably not all that great - but considering that most of them used Hydrogen because Helium at the time was a lot more expensive and harder to come by, well, the end result was a big ass fire that had a tendency to kill people.
While most people looking back on the disasters today slap there foreheads and scream "duh", in the effort to prove that no really stupid idea ever dies, it just gets put into a new form by some libertard, Chevy announces their ode to the Hindeburg, they call it the "Volt".
Same basic idea, slightly smaller scale, funded by your tax dollars.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:00 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: runninrebel at February 29, 2012 11:57 PM (N/1Dm)
I'll have to look for that on demand. I don't always watch TV, but when I do, I watch something on TV.
Posted by: StPatrick_TN is not the most interesting man in the world at February 29, 2012 08:01 PM (lJJMb)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:01 PM (4qU0l)
Well, I can give you a super long winded technical explanation, or the basic version. I suggest the basic version
osted by: StuckOnStupidHe wrote, missing PGIS' completely over the top innuendo.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:02 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 29, 2012 08:03 PM (QVMZY)
Check their feet. No cloven hoof, so not kosher.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJconservative) at February 29, 2012 08:04 PM (nEUpB)
Hey now, these are my people were talking about here. We Germans have a long, proud history of getting drunk and invading places.
We gave the world lederhosen. Curiously enough they gave that one back. But hey, bratwurst? That's a good one. Beer? Real beer now, not that sissy watered down crap that you can't even stand a fork up in. If you can't chew it, how can you call it beer? Got to give us one for that.
Hmm.. Let's see.. what else.. hmm.. nope, pretty much beer and brats. But hey, your welcome.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:05 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: huerfano at February 29, 2012 08:06 PM (fIuC0)
http://tinyurl.com/7vklx7c
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 08:07 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 08:08 PM (j+Izh)
World Hunger luncheons?
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 08:08 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:09 PM (4qU0l)
Yup.. they also ignore the fact that hundreds of UN peacekeepers have been accused of rape and all manner of corruption in the areas of the world where they are supposedly "keeping the peace", mostly apparently this involves shaking down the local populace for what little they might have left of value and forcing women into sexual slavery.
"Okay, it isn't like Syria is gunning people down in the streets. Oh, wait, yes they are."
Sad thing is? They are not even bothering to go house to house, you know, and only killing the adults, or just males, etc. Nope, nothing anywhere near that discriminate. They just start lobbing artillery shells into neighborhoods and slaughtering men, women, children alike.
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:10 PM (R5yLq)
osted by: The DudeWow that looks bad.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:10 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 12:09 AM (q/891)
it's a flick called Noobz and yeah, that's the title
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 08:10 PM (M8yfa)
Probably not peeved at all. At this point, I have spare time, and somebody on the internet is wrong! I'd be more inclined in that direction if you hadn't gone on a full-out reality-Fisk of a stupid post in the first place.
Barring that, it could have been a jest. Small, diminishing chance of that.
Missed the jest, or attempt at one. If so, oops.
Consider my subscription to your newsletter cancelled.
Oh, I'm much, much too discriminating for cancellations at this point, Mr. Bong.
Mr. Bong? I don't smoke, but have perhaps missed another joke. At any rate, I generally enjoy your posts, so I'll chalk this exchange up to the internets, and blame Al Gore. It's time for shuteye.
Posted by: weft & cut-loop at March 01, 2012 12:00 AM (dxTxt)
Posted by: StPatrick_TN is not the most interesting man in the world at February 29, 2012 08:11 PM (lJJMb)
Posted by: gOOgle at February 29, 2012 08:12 PM (k9kiv)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 08:13 PM (j+Izh)
Kissing up will get you nowhere. Not because I can't appreciate it, but I have no pull <breaks down crying> I.have.no.pull Waaaaaa!
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:14 PM (dxTxt)
Ok, my turn to get offended. We cannot blame a genius like Al Gore for something like this. In fact I think it is positively shameful that a wonderful guy like Al Gore has to pound the pavement so hard to make ends meet.
I think we should begin a lobbying campaign immediately to have President Obama appoint Al Gore to a cushy government position.
I'm thinking, Ambassador to Syria. I'd be willing to chip in a few bucks for his plane ticket over there - I'm sure a lot of other people would too.
All in favor?
Lol..
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:15 PM (R5yLq)
"Faster please", as the instapundit says about looming technological miracles.
Posted by: Stranglehold 2012 at February 29, 2012 08:16 PM (u3N3z)
Posted by: gOOgle at February 29, 2012 08:17 PM (k9kiv)
/ hieroglyphs) Ya, you invented beer. Roight.
Chehops! Bring me another one so I can appreciate this reply.
/ hieroglyphs
Posted by: weft & cut-loop [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:18 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: Truman North at February 29, 2012 08:18 PM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:22 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 08:24 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: Truman North at February 29, 2012 08:27 PM (I2LwF)
/Just saw the Kate Upton Carl's Jr. commercial
//I can now die a happy man
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 29, 2012 08:27 PM (tKFT6)
Hey, easy there Cochise.. I never claimed we invented it. We did however, perfect it.
However, I suppose if one wishes to be completely fair I suppose you could take that one off the table.. after all, sauerkraut was our idea too.. yikes...
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:29 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 08:30 PM (j+Izh)
Not sure, but my chief vizier came up with this notion of a library in the middle of the harbor. It's sounds so crazy it just might work.
Posted by: weft cut notem [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:30 PM (dxTxt)
www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/019421.html
They should try marketing the test-tube meat as "Unicorn". Who can say they're wrong?
Posted by: andycanuck at February 29, 2012 08:31 PM (6RnvM)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 08:31 PM (zmm1+)
Waiting for a history channel documentary to explain why the Chevy Volt does the same thing.. somehow I have a sneaking suspicion somehow the Tea Party will be blamed.. lol
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:31 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:32 PM (4qU0l)
The Big Bad Wolf did it ...
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 08:33 PM (crQEo)
And that, kids, is why we call them the "Good old days".
Lol..
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:33 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:34 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 08:35 PM (M8yfa)
Polka music! with large brass instruments!
Posted by: navybrat at February 29, 2012 08:35 PM (xX07U)
Tricky noses may be wiped out, or not, but these newly-suspect toxins mimic its means of transmission, and are destroyed the same way: rigorous cleaning and thorough cooking, so the old-timers were right.
Lev and Deut both recognize the pig's split hoof, and reiterate that chewing the cud makes the difference. There is a pig-like creature that chews cud that is being eagerly looked into by some audacious scholars who hope to breed a kosher hog. Ironically, it too is native to Indo-nesia.
I wouldn't ever try to talk you out of trying to eat bear. Can you just build a fire, though? I'd think the muzzle blast from that Ruger Alaskan would be enough to set off the underbrush.
Posted by: comatus at February 29, 2012 08:36 PM (ZOlM3)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 08:36 PM (j+Izh)
Hmm.
That sounds like it would go well with your PORK FEVER!
Posted by: weft cut notem [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:36 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 08:36 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:38 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Truman North at February 29, 2012 08:39 PM (I2LwF)
210207, how goes that stone hotel we have the Hebrews building down at the riverside?
...
All done! Can't figure out who is starting a driveway over on the other side though, we didn't order that.
Posted by: Dem Hebrews at February 29, 2012 08:40 PM (Usk3+)
First, remember, I only need one more person to agree to my write in candidacy and I'll have as much support as Newt.
Second, ok, sauerkraut - admittedly it was just a bad idea. Doesn't matter if it was a state or federal thing, it smells like feet and tastes even worse. So lets scrap it and start over.
Third, Al Gore. We need to get him over their to Syria, stat. I'm sure he'll be able to convince them that all this warfare stuff is bad for the environment, and contributes to global warming. Either that or he inadvertently becomes a casualty. That folks has win-win written all over it.
Night folks!
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:40 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:41 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 08:41 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 08:42 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 08:44 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 08:45 PM (j+Izh)
When did you stop raping sea monkeys?
Posted by: weft cut notem [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:46 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 08:47 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 08:47 PM (I/cLr)
Even Germans didn't invent blood pudding. Perfidious Albion did that.Posted by: Gern Blandsden
Err, schnitzel?
Posted by: weft cut notem [/i] at February 29, 2012 08:49 PM (dxTxt)
Ich bin heir, liebchens!
Como esta?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 08:49 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 08:51 PM (zmm1+)
Face it, our choice this time around is hey, do you want to be shot, hung, or bludgeoned to death? From what I've read Ace's take on it is, "Mittens sucks, but he's got the best chance of beating Obama in the general".
My take on it is, "They all suck - and since by the time my state's primary rolls around this thing will have been decided already, it always is - so I'll do what I always do, hold my nose, pull the lever for whatever of these idiots gets the nomination. I'll most likely have to throw up afterwards, just like I did last time.. but anything is better than Obama."
ugh.. wait.. past my bedtime.. must --- not --- get -- sucked --- back --- in...
Lol...
Seriously though, gotta go, however, note to the "Big blog", should you wish to buy me too my opinion is for sale, I could use the extra cash. I'd like to be able to hit McDonald's a few more times before it's closed and I'm shipped off to a re-education camp, so give me a jingle, we'll talk.. lol..
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at February 29, 2012 08:51 PM (R5yLq)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 08:52 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:53 PM (4qU0l)
Zakn is going to post a vid for me, I must be here.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 08:53 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:55 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 08:55 PM (zmm1+)
Francois Mollande is suggesting a 75% tax rate for euro millionaires.. because it's the patriotic thing to do and they shouldn't have that level of income...
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 08:56 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 08:56 PM (4qU0l)
Maybe this is why nobody buys newspapers.
Posted by: comatus at February 29, 2012 11:41 PM (ZOlM3)
Funny, I got the herpes when I ate Cindy Bear.
Posted by: Yogi Bear at February 29, 2012 08:57 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 08:58 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 08:59 PM (SsG4J)
Yon master race stands, then, on the shoulders of Patagonians, Jews, Bavarians, Englishters, and Danes. Which would be fine if it weren't for the unruly thirst for glory. That's always where they trip up.
Please bring up the Volkswagen, now. We're all laying for you on that one.
Posted by: comatus at February 29, 2012 08:59 PM (ZOlM3)
I can also say "When does the train leave?" But it makes me giggle - Wann fahrt der Zug ab? (Wait, Wann did what, now?)
Posted by: Theresa at February 29, 2012 09:00 PM (2dNWw)
Posted by: comatus at February 29, 2012 11:41 PM (ZOlM3)
Funny, I got the herpes when I ate Cindy Bear.
Posted by: Yogi Bear at March 01, 2012 12:57 AM
Bastard. I ain't telling anyone what you gave me, but if you hadn't been hanging out with Ranger Smith in those SF bathhouses you wouldn't be spreading it around.
Posted by: Boo Boo Bear at February 29, 2012 09:00 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:00 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:01 PM (zmm1+)
Only on the ONT my friends...even the happenstance is scatological.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:02 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:02 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:59 AM (SsG4J)
serious...eh it was a great one sided ass kicking though
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 09:03 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Boo Boo Bear at March 01, 2012 01:00 AM
So, you let Yogi root around in your "Pick A Nick Basket"?
Posted by: Boo Boo Bear at February 29, 2012 09:03 PM (1grxW)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:04 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 01:03 AM (SsG4J)
Ditto.
I feel deep shame.
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 09:04 PM (4ixH5)
Zakn is going to post a vid for me, I must be here.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:53 AM (SsG4J)
You inherited? Oder war Sie "hier"?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:04 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:05 PM (q/891)
OK, I've got one: What kind of noise annoys an oyster?
ɹǝʇsʎo uɐ sʎouuɐ ǝsıou ʎsıou ɐ
Posted by: Theresa at February 29, 2012 09:06 PM (2dNWw)
Posted by: bergerbilder at February 29, 2012 09:07 PM (j+Izh)
I used to have a little stuffed animal ocelot named Sir Lancelot Lotsofdots.
He was probably actually a cheetah, but I wanted an ocelot.
I didn't titillate him, though.
cthulu, I can neither type nor speak German, please ignore my feeble attempts! And hello!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:07 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:07 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:07 PM (q/891)
Francois Mollande is suggesting a 75% tax rate for euro millionaires.. because it's the patriotic thing to do and they shouldn't have that level of income...
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 12:56 AM (KZLoo)
My opinion, in short...fuck the French.
Merkel and Sarkozy are doing what German and French imperialists have dreamed of for centuries. Like the dude said in Airplane, I say let 'em crash.
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 09:08 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:09 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:09 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:10 PM (SsG4J)
Plus it's an excellent movie.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 29, 2012 09:10 PM (jhEFV)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:11 PM (SsG4J)
ɹǝʇsʎo uɐ sʎouuɐ ǝsıou ʎsıou ɐ
Posted by: Theresa at March 01, 2012 01:06 AM (2dNWw)
How you do that?
I didn't titillate him, though.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 01:07 AM (SsG4J)
Well cats can freak out when overstimulated. One minute your oscillating the next your hand has gone missing.
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:05 AM (KZLoo)
Dude was distracted by bikini babes that I assume are off camera.
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 09:12 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:12 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:12 PM (q/891)
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 09:12 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Theresa at February 29, 2012 09:12 PM (2dNWw)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:12 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 01:12 AM (q/891)
I thought they broke up again?
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 09:13 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 01:14 AM (4ixH5)
farfen nugan, not that hard to spell
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 09:14 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:15 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:15 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 09:15 PM (4qU0l)
Got the old C2D box reassembled and Windows 8 is now installing. I've had it on the new laptop all day and it does take some adjustment. It's hardest on longtime users with lots of old habits to overcome. People who have only know smartphones and tablets will find it easy to learn.
Posted by: epobirs at February 29, 2012 09:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 01:03 AM (SsG4J)
Ditto.
I feel deep shame.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 01:04 AM (4ixH5)
It's something of an in-joke by people who know me that I'm inclined to PG rated films....it's just that there is so much in the real world that is violent, grotesque, or horrifying, that I don't really feel like paying money to know of more. Besides, I don't want to dull my reactions to the real thing so I start doing idiotic and morally dangerous stuff like advocating Democrat anti-human policies.
But the Godfather series (at least I and II) is Art -- with the capital 'A'. Every bit of it is necessary to the whole, and you can watch it time and time again and get more from it. It shows the nobility possible within vice, and corruption of virtue. I'd heartily recommend seeing it on video, as it's generally chopped into crap by commercial breaks and censorship when it's broadcast.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:16 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Dude at March 01, 2012 01:12 AM (M8yfa)
Sweet!
Cyborg is now a JLA character since the whole DC relaunch. I guess they wanted some brand consistency.
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 09:16 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:17 PM (q/891)
Posted by: ┴ɥǝɹǝsɐ at February 29, 2012 09:17 PM (2dNWw)
What can't tablets do like computers do?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:17 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:18 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 09:18 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:18 PM (zmm1+)
Cyborg is now a JLA character since the whole DC relaunch. I guess they wanted some brand consistency.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 01:16 AM (4ixH5)
it's just odd throwing him into Tower of Babel but they did a great job with him. Also, watch the McDuffie tribute as it's really damn good and interesting
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 09:19 PM (M8yfa)
Hey fluffy! Hey epo!
Zakn, was White Noise the Russians?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:19 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 01:07 AM (SsG4J)
Hi, Tammy! How ya doin'?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:19 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Dude at March 01, 2012 01:14 AM (M8yfa)
I got teh dum.
Surprised Robert even made it to work with that Kate Upton video up
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 01:15 AM (q/891)
I should work for the USPS. Neither rain nor sleet nor hot gyrating hot slices will keep me from slacking off. Or...something...
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 09:20 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: fluffy at February 29, 2012 09:21 PM (vRSeu)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:21 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:21 PM (zmm1+)
I wasn't that creative as a kid naming my stuffed animals. I had a little stuffed zebra that I absolutely had to have with me in bed every night, and I named him Zeebie. I bow to your stuffed animal naming awesomeness!
Posted by: ┴ɥǝɹǝsɐ at February 29, 2012 09:22 PM (2dNWw)
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 29, 2012 09:22 PM (jhEFV)
Amazon had the complete bluray set on sale last week for $25 bucks.
I feel deep shame.
Also, watch the McDuffie tribute as it's really damn good and interesting
Posted by: The Dude at March 01, 2012 01:19 AM (M8yfa)
Cool. I'll see if it's at Red Box.
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 09:23 PM (4ixH5)
How are you? And your dear BH?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:23 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:24 PM (q/891)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:25 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:26 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:26 PM (I/cLr)
I had a rat named The Marquis of Alverstoke once, but I was a grown woman by then.
I wonder if Polliwog will catch that?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:27 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 09:28 PM (4qU0l)
Sorry Robert,, that's all I got for bumpers...
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 09:29 PM (KZLoo)
And I want to see cthulu scaling a mountain, too. A sight to behold, I have no doubt. All those tentacles waving about.....please pass along my awe at BH's willpower!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:29 PM (SsG4J)
They didn't just reboot, they plugged in different drives random with operating systems from worm holes that opened and closed, leaving behind the drive while nobody was looking.
Posted by: epobirs at February 29, 2012 09:30 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:31 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:32 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:32 PM (SsG4J)
Where did this come from? Is Mary Kay LeTourneau sock-puppeting me?
Posted by: ┴ɥǝɹǝsɐ at February 29, 2012 09:33 PM (2dNWw)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 01:32 AM (SsG4J)
minks, ferrets or sugar gliders?
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 09:33 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:34 PM (zmm1+)
Take care! And put your 'I shall return!' sunglasses on ...
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 09:34 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:35 PM (I/cLr)
They didn't just reboot, they plugged in different drives random with operating systems from worm holes that opened and closed, leaving behind the drive while nobody was looking.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2012 01:30 AM (kcfmt)
Yeah, Firestorm basically sucks. They basically took the core Titans and split them up. Cyborg on JLA, Starfire is whoring in Outsiders, etc...
Posted by: ɹǝqoɹ at February 29, 2012 09:35 PM (4ixH5)
The wife once had a pair called Ferret Bueller and Ferret Fawcett Majors.
Posted by: fluffy at February 29, 2012 09:35 PM (vRSeu)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:36 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:37 PM (I/cLr)
Dude, yes, it was a ferret! Cutest pet ever, but man are they mischievous. She'd steal my car keys constantly.
They're illegal on California, too.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:38 PM (SsG4J)
OK, time for me to go. Take care, everyone, and Miss Tammy, have a safe trip, and I will keep you and your family in my prayers.
Nite, good folk!
Posted by: ɐsǝɹǝɥʇ at February 29, 2012 09:38 PM (2dNWw)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 09:38 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 01:38 AM (SsG4J)
really cool pets but fuck do they stink even with the glands removed.
Everything is illegal in Cali
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 09:39 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:39 PM (SsG4J)
We have medicine for that now.
Posted by: weft cut notem [/i] at February 29, 2012 09:39 PM (dxTxt)
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:29 AM (KZLoo)
Here ya go!
Posted by: ɹǝqoɹ at February 29, 2012 09:40 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:40 PM (zmm1+)
The other half of it was toning up, and she found that she could con me into hiking through some local parks.....so it hardly qualifies as a weekend if we don't have at least a 200' vertical climb under our belts. It's prettier and more relaxing than running bleachers or doing stairs, but has a similar effect.
Thing is, I'm doing the same hikes she is, but I'm not losing weight. I wonder how that works (opens beer).
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:40 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 09:41 PM (yh0zB)
Twas Pandora's downfall. I had to give her back. Then I wanted to get some chinchillas, but Thor put his size 16 foot down.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:41 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:43 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 09:43 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 09:43 PM (yh0zB)
Did you leave out a zero, or do I have to mock you?
Posted by: fluffy at February 29, 2012 09:44 PM (vRSeu)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 09:44 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Gern Blandsden at February 29, 2012 09:44 PM (4qU0l)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at March 01, 2012 01:43 AM (yh0zB)
It helps if you're standing on your head.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:44 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 01, 2012 01:44 AM (kaalw)
Not me, it just gives me a headache.
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 09:46 PM (yh0zB)
So, here I am in Windows 8. The install goes really fast when you use an existing account to import settings. So this machine knows about all of the stuff I did on the laptop as far as changes and where I keep stuff.
The IE10 web browser has problems though. None of the formatting functions in the New Comment Thingy work.
Oh wait. That is the new normal. The browser is fine.
Posted by: epobirs at February 29, 2012 09:46 PM (kcfmt)
cthulu, it is so awesome that you support her. That is so freaking important for women.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:46 PM (SsG4J)
When I'm good, I'm very, very good ... and when I'm bad, I'm butter ... Daisy May West ..
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 09:47 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 09:48 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:48 PM (SsG4J)
Did you leave out a zero, or do I have to mock you?
Posted by: fluffy at March 01, 2012 01:44 AM (vRSeu)
Mock away -- I was putting that out as a minimum. Most of our hikes have more -- and, of course, there's the distance. But the minimum is the equivalent of going up and down 20 stories of stairs and us 50-year-old chairjockeys aren't doing any marathons.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:48 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:49 PM (zmm1+)
I'm a Darjeeling fan ... but frequently add cream and stevia (0 cal sugar) and serve over ice.
English black, Irish black, Earl Grey if brewed only for 15 seconds or so ...
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 09:50 PM (crQEo)
I can't believe I don't remember Sylvester's title, I am slipping!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:52 PM (SsG4J)
As a very nearly 50 year old chair jockey, I can tell you that if you get out once a week, you will get in better shape. Yes, I was limping Monday AM.
Posted by: fluffy at February 29, 2012 09:52 PM (vRSeu)
Ok Robert,, where's the rest of the pole dance??? that's only a teaser...
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 09:53 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: ɹǝqoɹ at February 29, 2012 09:53 PM (4ixH5)
Painted the built-in bookshelf ... got chain pulls for the fans and 'matching' light switch plates ... got the new blinds but haven't installed them yet ... got a large leaf & vine stencil for the second bed room. Never done that large of a stencil (22" x 40"), so wish me luck ...
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 09:54 PM (crQEo)
If cream is going to be foisted on me, I prefer English or Irish Breakfast. (Is that the same as black? I know they're black teas.....)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:54 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:53 AM (KZLoo)
They smash bottles of wine across a ship, for new bumper cars they get pole dancers.
Posted by: ɹǝqoɹ at February 29, 2012 09:54 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: DC in Towson at March 01, 2012 01:48 AM (I/cLr)
Intellectually, most of it is straightforward. I find it quite amusing that the BH's "classes" are mainly reinforcing things that I've been trying to tell her for two decades. Most of the problems come in the motivational side -- which is where the hiking has really been good on the exercise front.
We used to SCUBA, and that kept things on track for a while, but we had an unscheduled two-week extension of our Hawaiian holiday where we got to do an extended tour of the Kuakini hyperbaric facility, back in '96.....
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 09:55 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:55 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:56 PM (SsG4J)
But I still laugh til I cry at the ending of The Unknown Ajax.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 09:58 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 09:59 PM (zmm1+)
My mom loves Earl Grey strong! but for me a long brewed Earl Grey is just too puckeringly bitter.
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 09:59 PM (crQEo)
stairs and us 50-year-old chairjockeys aren't doing any marathons.
As a very nearly 50 year old chair jockey, I can tell you that if you get out once a week, you will get in better shape. Yes, I was limping Monday AM.
Posted by: fluffy at March 01, 2012 01:52 AM (vRSeu)
The BH has had a weekly gym night for a while, but I'm not much of a gym person (why, oh why, hasn't anyone done a nice VR non-gym gym?). So a couple of years back we "discovered" the county parks here had some lovely forest-y ones with shady hiking. And they have annual parking passes. So we go off to the county parks and hike up the mountains nearly every weekend.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:00 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 10:00 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:01 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:01 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:02 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 10:03 PM (FMbng)
I strained my right wrist ... Does that count?
: - )))
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 10:03 PM (crQEo)
And where are my delurkers?
Dave, Backhoe????
Any of the rest of y'all lurkers need to follow DC's fine example, too!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:04 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 02:02 AM (SsG4J)
bonzai tree if no one in the house smokes as they are so fucking fragile when they are saplings
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 10:04 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:06 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 10:06 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:07 PM (SsG4J)
I am worried about the paint smearing under the edge of the stencil ... Just have never done any stenciling that large. There is a stencil adhesive for sale at various craft stores. I might see how other crafters liked it.
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 10:07 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at February 29, 2012 10:07 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 02:06 AM (SsG4J)
can't since I'm a smoker (I've tried and they don't last long)
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 10:07 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Mr. Wonderful at February 29, 2012 10:07 PM (z8HSj)
My mom loves Earl Grey strong! but for me a long brewed Earl Grey is just too puckeringly bitter.
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 01:59 AM (crQEo)
A couple of years back, I went to London on business and brought back £90 of English teas. Harrods and Whittard's of Chelsea and Harvey Nichols and Taylors of Harrogate....English tea is Teh Awesome! Even Twinings is ok, although it's what the English export and not what the English drink.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:08 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:09 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:09 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:10 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Mr. Wonderful at March 01, 2012 02:07 AM (z8HSj)
but he's electable *sobs*
Personally, I can't wait to see who has an aneurysm first, Drew or Ace.
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 10:10 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:11 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at March 01, 2012 02:07 AM (I/cLr)
Cheap.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:12 PM (kaalw)
Envy is the lesser of 2 evils at this point!
I did get an Irish tea at the Irish Cultural Center gift store - our city has a "sister city" in Ireland.
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 10:13 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:13 PM (SsG4J)
Heathen! Heretic! Devil!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 02:10 AM (SsG4J)
That's only if you're using the good booze.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:14 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at February 29, 2012 10:14 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:14 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 10:14 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 02:13 AM (SsG4J)
really, pretty much everything kills them the first year or so. You just try try and try again till one lives
Posted by: The Dude at February 29, 2012 10:15 PM (M8yfa)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:15 PM (SsG4J)
It helps if you don't roll whatever it is you're trying to bonsai ...
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 10:17 PM (crQEo)
Envy is the lesser of 2 evils at this point!
I did get an Irish tea at the Irish Cultural Center gift store - our city has a "sister city" in Ireland.
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 02:13 AM (crQEo)
Where are you at?
You can get Twinings in high-end grocery stores around here -- Drager's and Andronico's -- and you can get Taylors of Harrogate (better!) in a couple of ethnic markets. If you do tea daily, Indian grocery stores have a surprising selection of tasty teas that are quite inexpensive.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:17 PM (kaalw)
reminds me of a episode on King of Queens, where the wifey was going re stimulate the romance by pole dancing for the hubby,,, didn't go well..
Do they push it for exercise, or sex sport out there MissT??
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 10:17 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:18 PM (SsG4J)
Well I was doing a touchup on a 335 that had a top repair. Then I decided to stop there and just play the strats for awhile. I was brushing up on some old deep purple I used to know years ago. They really nail that tone good. I'm starting to really like these things.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 10:21 PM (FMbng)
I am going to guess exercise, since I live in a fairly swanky city (though I live in a run down section of it) but I can't say for sure.
I love to dance, and I am not above giving the man a show, but I have to draw the line at the pole. I am not sure why, it just seems beyond tacky.
Having said that, I have seen youtube videos, and those girls are amazing!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:21 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at February 29, 2012 10:21 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 02:11 AM (SsG4J)
Southern MD In-Bred...anyone who was stationed at Pax River knows what I'm talking about.
Anything I can do to help DC.
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:22 PM (yh0zB)
I started laughing half way through your post, thinking you were gettin' the fever for sure!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:22 PM (SsG4J)
never met a Japanese man who didn't smoke
That's why the bonsai is now a small short tree.. so the smoke goes over it...
It was originally 4 foot tall but the top 3 feet kept turning brown from the smoke so they whack the top off.. they can still smoke and bonsai not brown no more...
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 10:23 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 10:24 PM (zmm1+)
Close to Phoenix ... several high end markets ... couple of Asian groceries with Indian teas ...
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 10:24 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:24 PM (yh0zB)
Oh, you'd be surprised at the tales I could tell, laddie.
Pepsi is a fine swill to waste on booze, though I feel sorry for the booze!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:25 PM (SsG4J)
Man she was a hottie, then she ballooned up.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 10:25 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at February 29, 2012 10:25 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:26 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at March 01, 2012 02:25 AM (I/cLr)
Roger that. Hell, I spent most of a Navy career in the Old South (VA, TN, FL) and Southern MD was probably the most South I've ever been.
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:27 PM (yh0zB)
Lacrosse players, they were.
Rivaled soccer thighs, those lacrosse thighs.
Mercy.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:28 PM (SsG4J)
well lets not go overboard. lol
I like the modern improvements on the newer ones, but they are still harder to play than the gibsons or jacksons that I'm used to.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 10:29 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at February 29, 2012 10:29 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 10:31 PM (zmm1+)
Agreed B'er,, I remember Howard Stern talking about it,, she got hot to get hitched, after marring some divorced dude she let it go... and go it did. But the early show she was teh hot...
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 10:31 PM (KZLoo)
Well, but that just means your playing goes from being merely stellar clear to the stratosphere, right? (I denounce myself)
Seriously, though, do you think you benefit from them being harder to play? Or is it more a matter of bad mechanics?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:32 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at February 29, 2012 10:34 PM (I/cLr)
Do you mean that they go well together or do not?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:34 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:35 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 10:35 PM (zmm1+)
I think my gateway to Heyer was either Arabella or Friday's Child. I'm thinking Friday's Child.
I can never decide if Venetia or The Grand Sophy is my favorite, though.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:36 PM (SsG4J)
Close to Phoenix ... several high end markets ... couple of Asian groceries with Indian teas ...
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 02:24 AM (crQEo)
OK, so there's internet (e.g. http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.724686/sc.7/.f ), AJ's and Oakville Grocery might have something (but it won't be cheap).
In general, you don't want an Asian grocer with Indian teas, you want an Indian grocer with British teas.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:37 PM (kaalw)
This place is soooo addictive. And comforting, in some sort of crazy way I have never understood. I guess like needs like!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:38 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:40 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:40 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: suoʍoʇ uı ɔp at March 01, 2012 02:29 AM (I/cLr)
Like crummy booze and soda.
No Polli, I don't brew it, an old shipmate of mine brewed it and gave me some of it.
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:41 PM (yh0zB)
Polli, These Old Shades was good, but I prefer the Regencies. Of the powders, I preferred The Masqueraders, though the dialogue was stilted and the story line just a tad weird.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:42 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 10:42 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:43 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 10:43 PM (bL28N)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:44 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:44 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:45 PM (SsG4J)
No benefit that I can think of. The best way I can say it is they are rattle traps. The fingerboard radius is improved, but its still hard to run lower action on them without certain amounts of buzzing, and the string pull is stiffer.You can do more with the flatter fingerboard radius of the gibsons. On the other hand strats have a tone that is distinct and nothing else sounds like them. I do have one strat here that plays pretty exceptional, and I can't figure out why, it defies logic. Its set up the same as my other ones.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 10:45 PM (FMbng)
At the last company I worked for, I almost provoked an International Incident by not serving the Ukrainian Prime Minister his tea first.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:46 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 10:47 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:48 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 10:48 PM (bL28N)
Do you think I'd have any better luck learning slide on a Gibbie?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:48 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 10:49 PM (bL28N)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:50 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 10:50 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 02:45 AM (FMbng)
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some of them are just magic. logic doesn't apply. I have a friend with a 1962 strat. It sounds great totally unplugged. I have no clue why. plug it in and holy shit the tone is just outrageous.
Posted by: jc at February 29, 2012 10:51 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: DC in Towson at March 01, 2012 02:43 AM (I/cLr)
We went last May. It was a wild trip -- from the two page visa application that wants to know about your prior employers, to the horrific consequences if you overstay your visa even if an Icelandic volcano is erupting. And Saint Petersburg itself is unbelievably gorgeous.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:52 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 10:53 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 10:53 PM (bL28N)
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Polli, YES, he is one of my favorite of her characters. And of course I also identified with the Amazonian female and her Mountain. Especially since I ended up with a Mountain of my very own.
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Lib, I am even sorrier that you had the month from Hell, too. February is thankfully behind us!
And we will meet up FOR SURE soon, I hope.
Wife and Boss Cat both well?
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:53 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: GGE, Exclusive Member of the ONT at February 29, 2012 10:54 PM (yh0zB)
Also, bers, Zakn, jc...howdy.Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:55 PM (I/cLr)
Do you think I'd have any better luck learning slide on a Gibbie?""
Tube amps are a must, period. Nothing sounds like them. As far as slide goes, I know as much about slide as Julius Caesar knew about our space program. I couldn't tell you. Gibsons have a 24 3/4" scale, fenders are 25 1/2. I don't know whats better for slide.
there is no slide in metal. lol
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 10:55 PM (FMbng)
Steak. Mashed Potatos, Lima beans.
\o/Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 10:57 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:57 PM (SsG4J)
there is no slide in metal. lol
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 02:55 AM (FMbng)
I'd suspect that slide worried more about the radius of the fingerboard than its length.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 29, 2012 10:57 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 10:59 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 10:59 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 10:59 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 10:59 PM (bL28N)
Posted by: jc at February 29, 2012 11:01 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 11:02 PM (I/cLr)
yeah thats about right. The wood is everything, but then you got the fretjobs and actual build quality too, basically the human element. I have build pairs of classical guitars from the same frigging planks of wood. I cut the backs, sides, and tops from the same billets, sliced off next to each other, and the finished guitars still had slight differences in tone. Its very hard to get 2 identical guitars in any given batch.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 11:02 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 11:02 PM (bL28N)
And yes, I am doing pretty good; very good, actually. I maybe able to get back to work soon, for which I am deeply grateful, yet dreading at the same time.
One grows accustomed to staying up late yakking with the coolest people on the planet!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:02 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 11:03 PM (bL28N)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 11:05 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at March 01, 2012 03:03 AM (bL28N)
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being a curious sort of bear, I dare ask -- what are you playing?
Posted by: jc at February 29, 2012 11:06 PM (ufJKx)
yeah see thats what I don't know. Are you better off with 7 1/4" fender radius or the flatter 12" radius of a gibson. I don't play slide so I have no clue. Is it better to have almost a violin effect of the fender radius where each string almost has its own height, or do you want the strings closer to an even plane. I don't know.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 11:06 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 29, 2012 11:06 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 11:06 PM (bL28N)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 11:08 PM (ehMV3)
Pretty unsteady to those not used to seeing how I was before, and my employer may prefer me to be it the wheelchair til Iam fully steady, but a vast improvement overall.
And I work in aerospace, so I can call a SCOAMF a SCOAMF without fear of reprisal!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:10 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 11:10 PM (bL28N)
Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 11:10 PM (zmm1+)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:11 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:11 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 29, 2012 11:12 PM (bxiXv)
yeah I kinda solved that by hording shitloads of the same model in the hopes of beating the laws of averages. lol
I got lucky to where I did manage to get 2 les pauls that were damn near genetic twins, and a few V's that are very similar, but it was a major task. Sometimes you get freaks too. My cheapest neck thru jackson rhoads V was made in japan in the early 90's, and for some reason it feels and sounds better than my USA ones of around the same era. I have yet to find one quite like that.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 11:13 PM (FMbng)
Sleep well. Hug the Cougar tight.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:13 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:14 PM (SsG4J)
Hhhmmm....
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:15 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:15 PM (SsG4J)
Boobies ... pizza ... winning lottery tickets ... free guitar lessons ...
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 11:16 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:17 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: DC in Towson at February 29, 2012 11:17 PM (I/cLr)
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 11:18 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:18 PM (SsG4J)
) but I suppose I should listen to the cat.Posted by: Polliwog, Teahada hobbit at February 29, 2012 11:19 PM (zmm1+)
And a horrible death for joffrey.
And some bearskin rugs and soccer thighs.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:19 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:20 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 29, 2012 11:21 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:21 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: A Liberal AoSHQ Reader, Really! at February 29, 2012 11:22 PM (bL28N)
Prez putt should be sporting some of them '41 army pantaloons.. he'd look rather dashing on the greens and it would match his ears...
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 11:22 PM (KZLoo)
Someone alert Maet that we will need barebreasted, gun-totin' wimmenz tomorrow night.
Strictly for healing purposes, nothing lascivious intended, of course.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:23 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:24 PM (SsG4J)
Thats some funny shit.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 11:26 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 29, 2012 11:26 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:27 PM (SsG4J)
http://tinyurl.com/756yt4e
I could solve my other problems.
Then I could spend all night here.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 03:26 AM (bxiXv)
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yeah, but ..... If you had that, why on earth would you want to spend nights here?
Posted by: jc at February 29, 2012 11:28 PM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 11:29 PM (q/891)
Shit, I'm glad I didn't mention that the legs by some miracle stayed with me over the years. Good thing too, because the rest is a frigging bastard to maintain. When I get lazy I pay for it.
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 11:30 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 29, 2012 11:30 PM (bxiXv)
Yep, damn good thing you didn't mention that, that way there I won't be awake in my bunk all night!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:33 PM (SsG4J)
We're tricky in more ways than just that, Mister Dark Lord Sith thing.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:35 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:35 PM (4ixH5)
You will share the shame with me.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:37 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:37 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Adriane at February 29, 2012 11:37 PM (crQEo)
Posted by: Justin Observer at February 29, 2012 11:38 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 29, 2012 11:38 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:38 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 03:37 AM (crQEo)
Can't go a day without peggin' some J's.
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:40 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 11:41 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:42 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Erik Erickson at February 29, 2012 11:45 PM (4ixH5)
Look, I am doing my best. I have to see Zakn's tie fighter to help me keep my mind off berserker's soccer thighs. That's just the way it is.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:47 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:50 PM (4ixH5)
You sure about that MissTams?? I could of swore it was B'er's legs before,,, now you up to the thighs!!!!!
Posted by: beanervt at February 29, 2012 11:51 PM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 29, 2012 11:53 PM (bxiXv)
JHC. That boy done stole Thor's 30 year old shoulders.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:54 PM (SsG4J)
I always wanted a bumper sticker that says "my other car is a deathstar"
Posted by: Berserker at February 29, 2012 11:55 PM (FMbng)
http://tinyurl.com/6wpsqa3
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 03:53 AM (bxiXv)
All I see is a pie plate.
Posted by: Project Blue Book at February 29, 2012 11:55 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 03:54 AM (ehMV3)
Sadness and lamentations...work blocked.
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:56 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:56 PM (SsG4J)
X-Wing, Millennium Falcon, and Imperial ShuttlePosted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 11:57 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 03:54 AM (SsG4J)
All I know is his girlfriend is stupidly hot.
http://tinyurl.com/6n2v5v6
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:58 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at February 29, 2012 11:58 PM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:59 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 03:56 AM (KZLoo)
Occupy the IT Department!
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 03:56 AM (q/891)
I'd love to walk through it all Godzilla like.
RAARRRGGHHHH!!!!
Posted by: Robert at February 29, 2012 11:59 PM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at February 29, 2012 11:59 PM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:00 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 03:58 AM (q/891)
I know, everytime I click on the image I can't take my lips off the screen.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:00 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:03 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 04:00 AM (bxiXv)
Your car now has a trade in value of a buck and a quarter.
We bid you good day, sir!
Posted by: Kelley Blue Book at March 01, 2012 12:04 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:04 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:05 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 04:03 AM (SsG4J)
can't blame a woman for knowin' what she likes.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:06 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:06 AM (bxiXv)
I am the IT Dept this time of night... and they use to trust me with the proxy/web server passwords... now not so much...
not that I abused the privileged or anything..
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 12:06 AM (KZLoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6n2v5v6
oh my, those are some hypnotic mofos aren't they.
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 12:07 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 04:05 AM (bxiXv)
We're wondering if your car has enough room to store 15 four foot tall humanoid...uh, pie plates.
Posted by: Project Blue Book at March 01, 2012 12:08 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 04:06 AM (KZLoo)
Oh. Uh, well, carry on then.
Posted by: Jorge Soros at March 01, 2012 12:10 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:10 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:11 AM (SsG4J)
hell ,I want to fabricate a full size tie fighter out of sheet metal and fucking party in it.
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 12:11 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 12:11 AM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 04:06 AM (SsG4J)
Thanks to SCIENCE! We now have the two fittest human male specimens combined into one. Introducing...TIME HASSELHOFF!
http://tinyurl.com/cqj6pny
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:12 AM (4ixH5)
Never looked back- all they sell is junk.
Much like Hollywood.
...and they wonder why their revenues are declining?
Posted by: backhoe at March 01, 2012 12:13 AM (QROim)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 04:10 AM (bxiXv)
I'll tell you what they don't do. They don't burn well at all.
Posted by: The US Air Force at March 01, 2012 12:14 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:16 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:17 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:18 AM (bxiXv)
http://tinyurl.com/7yv3bhs
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:18 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:19 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 12:20 AM (q/891)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 04:16 AM (SsG4J)
Let me make it up to ya.
http://tinyurl.com/8xu6zt7
And here, Tim Tebow after overclocking his brain.
http://tinyurl.com/74lwvap
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:20 AM (4ixH5)
I can rent you one.
Actually, Rum has it, but I can get it back on short notice.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 04:19 AM (bxiXv)
Certainly, but we should warn you that under this Administration our fusion torch rental budget has been reduced to a mere $875,000,000 dollars. American, in case there's any confusion. Next year it might be Canadian. You never know with these guys.
Posted by: The US Air Force at March 01, 2012 12:23 AM (4ixH5)
Never looked back- all they sell is junk.
Much like Hollywood.
...and they wonder why their revenues are declining?
Posted by: backhoe at March 01, 2012 04:13 AM (QROim)
I used to have a morning routine where I read the paper, had breakfast and tea, as I collected myself in the morning.
Election day 2008, I decided that every dollar I sent to those schmucks ended up financing evil. The end. Haven't really missed it.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 01, 2012 12:23 AM (kaalw)
Print Newspapers. Hah! At one time or another I have subscribed to everyone of them in this area of the State. I dropped the first one because I was living in an apartment and others thought my paper belonged to them. At the time I wasn't too offended by the bias. I dropped the second one because it got so outrageous I couldn't stomach it any more. With my cancellation I told them if I wanted a Democrat Promo rag I would contribute the money to that party and get their news letters.
And the last one was a bi-weekly local rag which was just fine until the original founding editor retired and sold it to the McClatchy group. It went immediately from a small Southern town conservative paper to a Democrat PR rag. I cancelled it shortly thereafter.
All my magazine subscriptions went the same way. When Consumer Reports became more concerned with how "green" some POS was vs how well it worked they went into the shitter. When Discover caught the AGW fraud I dumped them. I will not mention Time, Newsweek, and USA Today.
On the drowning due to bureaucratic shit score we had almost the same shit happen in CA a few months ago. It is insane.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 12:24 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:25 AM (bxiXv)
Okay, the first one gets you back in my good graces.
I wanna rub my face in his belly. I do, I admit it. And lick my way down that hairline. And then nibble that flabby bit on each side of him.
He is just perfect. He is muscled, but he's got that layer of....I dunno if fat is the right word, but whatever it is, it keeps him from looking TOO muscly.
And his body hair is yumtastical. Well, he could use a little more chest hair to be honest, but that belly hair, lord.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:27 AM (SsG4J)
You would walk down a catwalk "hallway" and climb into the "fighters" to go to your bedroom.
Because I'm a geek.""
Oh the shit I would do if I was rich. One thing I wouldn't do is pull a michael jackson and build a fucking homo ferris wheel. All that money and its the best he came up with?? A ferris wheel?
I would have a castle, and a moat, and an atmospheric dome, and a private army, a game room that looked like a space port, and a metal club with all my gear permanently parked on stage, and a naked chick chauffeur driving me around the property in a fucking army tank.
yeah man, screw the ferris wheel.
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 12:27 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:28 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:28 AM (4ixH5)
Yeah and I hear they power theirs with bacon,,, so buy pork futures..
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 12:28 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 12:29 AM (q/891)
And Thor to make them all behave. Or maybe to make me behave?
And lots of perfume and flowers and candles.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:30 AM (SsG4J)
And his body hair is yumtastical. Well, he could use a little more chest hair to be honest, but that belly hair, lord.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 04:27 AM (SsG4J)
Are you feeling okay? Do you need to cool down?
Posted by: Robert standing by with a bucket of cold water at March 01, 2012 12:30 AM (4ixH5)
Oh right, I forgot, he thought he was peter pan.
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 12:30 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:31 AM (SsG4J)
Cancelled all paper subscriptions in 1999.
Never looked back- all they sell is junk.
Much like Hollywood.
...and they wonder why their revenues are declining?
Posted by: backhoe at March 01, 2012 04:13 AM (QROim)
I used to have a morning routine where I read the paper, had breakfast and tea, as I collected myself in the morning.
Election day 2008, I decided that every dollar I sent to those schmucks ended up financing evil. The end. Haven't really missed it.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 01, 2012 04:23 AM (kaalw)
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I quit in the early 90's for several reasons. 1) I came to realize that they were only interested in my glands and not my mind. One person worded it this way, "if they have the choice between shedding light and applying heat they will apply heat every time." It turns out that if I don't start my day with someone deliberately trying to piss me off, I spend a lot less time pissed off.
2) in my job, I know something about 1%-2% of the stuff that hits the paper long before it hits the paper. The stories they would write would be unrecognizable compared to the truth if you knew the truth. Oddly enough, all the facts would be actually true, but they are assembled in such a dumbshit way that they stop having any real relationship to the truth. So, it finally occurred to me, "If what I know about is some grossly misunderstood by the folks writing the paper, why in hell should I let them have so much control over my opinion about the other 98-99%? That's just dumb on my part."
3) Their politics just suck. Complete Slavery party worship at the cost of all other things. After a while I could not in good conscience continue to give my quarter to such assholes. They might be rich without me, but they are going to get all their money from some other than me. Fuck 'em. And when enough people decide the same thing, they will be flat broke and it serves the fuckers right.
Posted by: jc at March 01, 2012 12:32 AM (ufJKx)
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 04:30 AM (FMbng)
You reminded me of this.
http://pixyland.org/peterpan/
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:32 AM (4ixH5)
Oh hell yes I do. And Thor is snoring. He has to get up at 4. I suppose I'd better leave him be.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:32 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:33 AM (bxiXv)
http://tinyurl.com/88hv4q4
is a touch better ...
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 04:30 AM (crQEo)
Which reminds me, I really should start watching Farscape again.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:33 AM (4ixH5)
But that is not all. The 30 miles is intended to give you time to load up and get out to an alternate location. Personally I want to go Galt and move to WY which satisfies two criteria in one action. But alas, it is not to be because can not get wifey to agree. I do not live within 30 miles of a large urban area but the county I live in is small area-wise and has 70,000 people, so it is just as bad.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 12:33 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor needs that bucket of water now at March 01, 2012 12:34 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 04:32 AM (SsG4J)
Well if you wait a couple of hours...no, no, I shouldn't be encouraging such debauched behavior.
No, yes I should.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:34 AM (4ixH5)
You mean you really aren't holding a bucket of cold water ?!?
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 12:36 AM (crQEo)
Robert has a bucket of cold water at the ready, should we need it.
I am about to need it, myself.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor needs that bucket of water now at March 01, 2012 12:36 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 04:36 AM (crQEo)
Well, it's more like a styrofoam cup.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:37 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:37 AM (bxiXv)
I cannot wait a couple of hours. I have never been good at waiting.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor needs that bucket of water now at March 01, 2012 12:38 AM (SsG4J)
yeah man. The shit I would let claudia black do to me. In space nobody can hear you scream. lol
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 12:38 AM (FMbng)
No, yes I should.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 04:34 AM (4ixH5)
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LOL, this reminds me of a joke some of us played on a Supervisor-Engineer who was up with us on graveyard shift working up for an SRO license. We all told him that when he got home around 06:30 to wake up wifey and "get some" because "woke up p..y" was the best there was.
He cussed us all night the next night.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 12:38 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:41 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor needs that bucket of water now at March 01, 2012 12:42 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 12:43 AM (YdQQY)
This is true, my dilithium crystal would wear down to a nub. lol
Posted by: Berserker at March 01, 2012 12:43 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:43 AM (bxiXv)
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Wont be around for the news thread, will be leaving in a few minutes.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 12:44 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:45 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor needs that bucket of water now at March 01, 2012 12:47 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 04:38 AM (YdQQY)
I'm dyin' here.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:49 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Tammy al Thor needs that bucket of water now at March 01, 2012 04:47 AM (SsG4J)
Think I might need a bucket of water now.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:49 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 04:49 AM (4ixH5)
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Are you on a graveyard shift somewhere?
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 12:49 AM (YdQQY)
You meant well, I know, but it had the opposite effect. Do not make me explain.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor needs that bucket of water now at March 01, 2012 12:50 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:52 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:52 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2012 12:54 AM (YdQQY)
But that was pretty tame, right? I could have waxed poetic, but I felt my filters engage. Instinctual and growly didn't seem too bad.
I should probably sign off, though.
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 12:54 AM (SsG4J)
Again.
I usually cry 'Make it Stop!' but to each his own ...
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 12:55 AM (crQEo)
Be of good cheer ...
It's make the bastards wonder what you're up to ...
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 12:57 AM (crQEo)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 12:58 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 12:58 AM (4ixH5)
Yeah Adriane but them Dark Lord's is all about the drama,,
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:00 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 04:55 AM (crQEo)
If I had been ingesting anything at the moment I read this I would have choked.
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 01:01 AM (4ixH5)
I will be gone a few more weeks, probably, so try not to have too much fun without me cuz I am selfish like that and don't want to miss anything!
Thank you SO SO much for being so fabulous and awesome.
I miss you all dreadfully when I'm gone.
Now behave yourselves!
Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 01, 2012 01:02 AM (SsG4J)
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 01:02 AM (crQEo)
Well, Ben Browder is happily married, so this will be truer than your previous advice ...
sigh.
: -)))
Be good and hurry back.
Posted by: Adriane at March 01, 2012 01:06 AM (crQEo)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 01:06 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 01, 2012 01:08 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 01:19 AM (q/891)
The BH was watching some TV show when this came on and I started singing along with it to her surprise.....of course, I'm most familiar with this version.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 01, 2012 01:23 AM (kaalw)
Did you coat your steak with caffeine sauce Zak??
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:23 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 01:24 AM (q/891)
Ah ha.. I do that.. ice boat was the last one that got me going. and the DN nationals are here next week so maybe I'll have to watch for real...or even buy one there...
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:28 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 01:30 AM (4ixH5)
Posted by: Zakn at March 01, 2012 01:31 AM (q/891)
Time to do some chores around this place.
Bean, Zakn, Adriane, Cooth, Mero, Bers...Good night!Posted by: Robert at March 01, 2012 01:44 AM (4ixH5)
2 cows die from excessive slit throat,, cult??, vampire?? coppers haven't a clue so stay away from StJ for a while..
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:44 AM (KZLoo)
Whoops StA not StJ,, now it could be international, crazy canuck or even alien..
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 01:50 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 01, 2012 02:15 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 01, 2012 06:15 AM (niZvt)
There was a storm?
Posted by: Tami at March 01, 2012 02:17 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 01, 2012 02:21 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 01, 2012 02:25 AM (mP3uM)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 01, 2012 02:25 AM (niZvt)
So, I decide I'll instead go get a manicure. Place was empty and they tell me that people have cancelled their appts. WTF? It's r.a.i.n.i.n.g!
Idiots.....
Posted by: Tami at March 01, 2012 02:27 AM (X6akg)
their all potential gorebullwarmest fodder so they hype them all now..
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 02:28 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 01, 2012 02:30 AM (niZvt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at March 01, 2012 02:32 AM (niZvt)
Oh man not a good way to start to the day CoolC..
and not only italics Tami , even colors returned
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 02:32 AM (KZLoo)
(local float for mardi gras parade)
Yeah I already call them libtards anyhoo...
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 02:39 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 02:49 AM (KZLoo)
Posted by: beanervt at March 01, 2012 03:07 AM (KZLoo)
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” Obama said in an interview with ABC News‘ Bob Woodruff at the White House. “But my criteria in any decision I make, getting recommendations from folks who are actually on the ground, is what is going to best protect our folks and make sure that they can accomplish their mission.”
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"Folks"??? From *him*? It's enough to make you vomit.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 01, 2012 06:03 AM (exvgC)
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