August 11, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (11 Aug 2013)
— CDR M

Evenin' morons. I'm fillin' in for Maet as he takes care of personal matters. As he is the holder of the top ten lists, you'll have to wait for his return to see how much time you spend on the blog (or the barrel).

For those of you who can't bear the thought of putting on pants and going outside to watch the Perseid Meteor shower, NASA is live broadcasting it here. (I just checked it and it looks cloudy. Way to go NASA.)

Click here if you want to listen to the radar echoes from the space surveillance radar. Tank Biathlon

OK, last night we saw that pole dancing is close to becoming an Olympic sport. How about adding tank biathlon? Oh yeah, it's on. No way the Russkies kick our ass.

The newspaper offered a preview of the new sport, covering a test competition held outside Moscow earlier this week. The event involved four tanks painted in bright colors – including yellow and pinkish red – which did three laps over rough terrain, shooting at targets shaped like tanks, houses and helicopters. The best time was 5:28.

Water Bomber

In Canada, they don't need no stinkin' fire trucks.

CO2 Levels By Time Period

Oh my God! We're gonna die from rising CO2. Oh wait, you mean it was far higher in previous time periods?

A Little Music


h/t rd brewer

What's For Dinner?

How about a 12 course meal in a can? So what's on the menu you ask?

A selection of local cheeses with sourdough
Pickled Kobe beef with charred strawberry
Ricotta ravioli with a soft egg yolk
Shiitake mushroom topped with filled peppers
Halibut poached in truffle butter in a coconut crepe
Risotto-foraged ramps, prosciutto, and fresh parmesan
French onion soup with fresh thyme and gruyere cheese
Roast pork belly and celeriac root puree
Palate cleanser, pear ginger juice
Rib eye steak with grilled mustard greens
Crack pie with milk ice cream on a vanilla tuile
French canele with a malt barley and hazelnut latte

Bear Situation

So what do you do when you find a bear in your kitchen chowin' down on some dirty plates and your wife is asleep on the couch? Oh and she is very, very scared of spiders. What do you DO?!

Edwards said his first thought was to get his wife away from the kitchen area. However, he said, “I couldn’t tell her there was a bear in the house because she would have just lost her mind. She gets very upset over spiders.”

Beer Stashing

Looks like people are stashing beer along the highway while biking.

Face Folding

The 300 scene had me rollin'.

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Posted by: CDR M at 05:39 PM | Comments (496)
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1 *head tilted* What is happening in that .gif?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 05:42 PM (CA2NO)

2 Yay, CDR M!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 05:42 PM (8lmkt)

3 Here is the "News of the Week" compilation of the news More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=2979

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 05:43 PM (Vk2pI)

4 Nice to see a CL-215 mentioned.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 05:43 PM (4+uhW)

5 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 09:42 PM (CA2NO)


Just something that will be standard at all future moron meet ups.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 05:43 PM (dKV5k)

6 nice ont Cdr M,

hope Maet and family are ok...

Rockford Files is cool show

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at August 11, 2013 05:44 PM (A4hKL)

7 Trailer for SyFy's Ghost Shark
http://youtu.be/0Bp14g2kqTY

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 05:45 PM (4+uhW)

8 Just something that will be standard at all future moron meet ups. Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 09:43 PM (dKV5k) Washington Nearsider VOLUNTEERS AS TRIBUTE! *cough* Don't tell him I told you that. I gather that it's some kind of jetpack thing, but I can't tell what the jets actually ARE. Is that... are they soda bottles? *stands on head and squints*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 05:46 PM (CA2NO)

9 When YouÂ’ve Lost Alfred E. NeumanÂ… MAD MagazineÂ’s October issue takes on the entire domestic spying scandal in a way that might not seen too kindly by some Obama supporters. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=2942

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 05:47 PM (Vk2pI)

10 I would someone has pressurized water bottles in an attempt to create the jet pack of the future that does not pollute.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 05:48 PM (4+uhW)

11 Oh my God! We're gonna die from rising CO2. Oh wait, you mean it was far higher in previous time periods? This is why I always tell people, "You think global warming is something new? You think CO2 is bad now? Try going back to when PLANTS were rulers of all."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 05:48 PM (CA2NO)

12 I can't tell what the jets actually ARE.

Possibly ghosts of the barbecue earlier in the day . . .

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 05:48 PM (8lmkt)

13 In Soviet Canada, water bombs you.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 05:48 PM (8V7pH)

14 TPH, yeah I saw the Spy v Spy cover.  Perfect summation I think.  And speaks on the LIV level.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 05:49 PM (4+uhW)

15 Cosplay from day 2 of Comiket: http://tinyurl.com/lfnxw67 http://tinyurl.com/n69e947

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at August 11, 2013 05:49 PM (Vk2pI)

16
This is a video of Nicole Kidman modeling an assortment of shoes and stompy boots

it occupied most of my morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlHpXDQgxxE

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 05:49 PM (8sCoq)

17 Is there a link to the tank biathlon thingy?

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 05:49 PM (8V7pH)

18 help me mr. wizard

Posted by: oBladi-oBlada at August 11, 2013 05:49 PM (qQk+U)

19 This is why I always tell people, "You think global warming is something new? You think CO2 is bad now? Try going back to when PLANTS were rulers of all."

MWR, I tell people this *all* the time.  And they act like I just molested their puppy.  We are doomed.  And not from global warming or cooling or whatever it is today.  It's the stupid that's doing us in.

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 05:50 PM (8lmkt)

20 "Farts are just the ghosts of the things we eat" In that case, I'm giving my cakes a chance to communicate with their ancestors.

Posted by: Cake Farts Woman at August 11, 2013 05:50 PM (9X5AZ)

21 TPH: Hah! Countdown to the left calling the cover racist because Obammy's dressed in black in 5... 4... 3...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 05:50 PM (CA2NO)

22

Canadian water bomber...NICE!

 

Good evening horde! Whaaassup!?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 11, 2013 05:50 PM (GufPw)

23 That water bombing was amazing. You know how hard that must be to hit a fucking truck? Course, I've seen them at Ft Bragg drop a tank on a runway and never stop .

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at August 11, 2013 05:51 PM (wR+pz)

24 Peaches that is the worse thing.  They have been propagandized into being followers of a new cult.  And when you present contrary data, its "Norman!" followed by their Siri phones blinking rapidly before they shut down.  And when they reboot, the cr@p code has been reloaded from backup.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 05:52 PM (4+uhW)

25 This is a video of Nicole Kidman modeling an assortment of shoes and stompy boots

it occupied most of my morning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlHpXDQgxxE

holy crap, Jones, she looks amazing in that!  I am dying of hair envy here . . .  omg, I have never seen her look better. 

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 05:52 PM (8lmkt)

26 17 Is there a link to the tank biathlon thingy?

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 09:49 PM (8V7pH)


Yes.  I forgot to add it but I fixed it now.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 05:52 PM (dKV5k)

27 MWR, I tell people this *all* the time. And they act like I just molested their puppy. We are doomed. And not from global warming or cooling or whatever it is today. It's the stupid that's doing us in. Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 09:50 PM (8lmkt) SERIOUSLY! Try telling them, "You know why the Ice Age ended? I'll give you a hint -- it wasn't because humans bought carbon credits."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 05:52 PM (CA2NO)

28 What happened to the comments?

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 05:52 PM (Vk2pI)

29 AGW is a religion.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 05:53 PM (AO9UG)

30 TPH glad some of those cosplayers are not actors.  They have the come hither look of Medusa.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 05:53 PM (4+uhW)

31 I remember one of the sciency-science channels back in the day tell us about how big animals and insects were millions of years ago. Something about Centipedes able to consume humans and plant life that dwarfed the redwoods in California. Apparently according to channel, it was because of an over-abundance of CO2 in the atmosphere. As I was watching this I kept saying to myself, "just how big were the SUV's in those days?"

Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 05:54 PM (cK0tU)

32 Ah, there they are. ONT is plotting against me againÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 05:54 PM (Vk2pI)

33 srsly you guys, go check out that Nicole Kidman thing.  mama mia!!  (and I'm not even ghey)

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 05:54 PM (8lmkt)

34
Hey, pull my finger, and witness my fart!

Posted by: Joey Biden at August 11, 2013 05:54 PM (pJF+c)

35 TPH glad some of those cosplayers are not actors. They have the come hither look of Medusa. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 09:53 PM (4+uhW) I'm sure they are quite capable of turning men into stoneÂ…

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at August 11, 2013 05:55 PM (Vk2pI)

36 pneuma (πνεῦμα) was the Greek word for wind or breath. It was also used to mean soul or spirit. It was also a euphemism for farts. Beans have souls, you guys.

Posted by: Stark Dickflüssig at August 11, 2013 05:55 PM (m6uV5)

37 Yeah, she looks pretty hot in that vid

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 05:55 PM (8sCoq)

38 They have tanker contests in Europe between NATO forces and in North America between the States and Canada too although nothing is painted pink for them.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 05:55 PM (4qnX5)

39 What is happening in that .gif?

I dunno, but its clear the designer of that apparatus had no concept of center-of-gravity and vectors.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 05:56 PM (di+Lf)

40 AGW is a religion. Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 09:53 PM (AO9UG) I call it the Church of Scienciness. 1) It looks like science 2) It smells like science 3) To the layman it appears to BE science; but 4) When faced with actual scientific scrutiny, it falls apart like tissue paper in the rain.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 05:56 PM (CA2NO)

41 no link for the bear story.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 11, 2013 05:56 PM (83xuc)

42 The 12 course meal in a can?  Who could eat it after they opened it and realized that's what it was?  There is nothing to prepare you for that.

Posted by: CausticConservative at August 11, 2013 05:57 PM (gT3jF)

43 I remember one of the sciency-science channels back in the day tell us about how big animals and insects were millions of years ago. Something about Centipedes able to consume humans and plant life that dwarfed the redwoods in California. Apparently according to channel, it was because of an over-abundance of CO2 in the atmosphere. As I was watching this I kept saying to myself, "just how big were the SUV's in those days?" Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 09:54 PM (cK0tU) Insect size is due to oxygen. They diffuse the oxygen into their bodies so the more oxygen there is, the larger the insects. O2 levels have been over 30% at times (it's around 20% now, IIRC, and not something humans would likely survive long in).

Posted by: The Historical Hat at August 11, 2013 05:57 PM (Vk2pI)

44 Jones in CO -  Nicole Kidman from 1983 movie BMX Bandits.
http://youtu.be/MaWxVdlRh4c

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 05:57 PM (4+uhW)

45 The Newfies take Screech fires seriously .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 11, 2013 05:57 PM (0iJzo)

46 Aloha!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 05:57 PM (T1005)

47 This is a video of Nicole Kidman modeling an assortment of shoes and stompy boots

it occupied most of my morning


Can you believe she dumped me for a queer?

Posted by: Tom Cruise at August 11, 2013 05:58 PM (cK0tU)

48 Roger, Roger. What's your vector, Victor?

Posted by: captain oveur at August 11, 2013 05:58 PM (4qnX5)

49 Depending on how the tank battle is judged, it should be no contest. The M1-A1 is the fastest tank built. http://tinyurl.com/ftnal

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at August 11, 2013 05:59 PM (wR+pz)

50 46 Tom Cruise,

TOTALLY unbelievable....

Posted by: Miguel Ambivalence at August 11, 2013 05:59 PM (A4hKL)

51 Saw a New Brunswick license plate in Laconia yesterday. I'm telling you: the Maritimes are planning an invasion. Gird your loins and guard your bacon!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 05:59 PM (CA2NO)

52 So does the canned gourmet meal list start at the bottom of the can or the top?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:00 PM (4qnX5)

53 LOL 46

Posted by: CausticConservative at August 11, 2013 06:00 PM (gT3jF)

54 It's the stupid that's doing us in. Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 09:50 PM (8lmkt) And the worst part is, *everyone's* stupid. Smart people are stupid, dumb people are stupid, the people inbetween are stupid. And it's even worse that than, because they're *selectively* stupid - they can be really smart about their personal budget or machines or the history of the peanut, and yet on another topic they are seriously, aggressively, paint-eatingly stupid. And for some oft-noted but little-understood reason, stupid ideas are harder to get rid of than good ideas. It's maddening, it really is.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:00 PM (qyfb5)

55 It's a 12 layer can.  What is first layer depends if the label is still on the can.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:00 PM (4+uhW)

56 Yeesh, I'm going to the barrel. Missing two links.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 06:01 PM (dKV5k)

57 It was the video Under the Milkyway Tonight by the Chruch when I clicked on it. WTF? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Z48dHFYLc

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 06:01 PM (Y92Nd)

58 Yo, cthulu! How's R'lyeh?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:01 PM (CA2NO)

59 ...where the Maritimers are bold
they sure get a pot full
but it ain't no pot o' gold!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:01 PM (4qnX5)

60 Speaking of tanksÂ… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4AXwJYEEk

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at August 11, 2013 06:01 PM (Vk2pI)

61 55 Yeesh, I'm going to the barrel. Missing two links. Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 10:01 PM (dKV5k) The water bombing plane makes up for that.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at August 11, 2013 06:02 PM (wR+pz)

62 My husband broke my favorite bud vase while we were moving. I'm borderline suicidal over it.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 06:02 PM (Y92Nd)

63 Andy , It's served horizontally , bandsaw or sawzall is mandatory .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 11, 2013 06:02 PM (0iJzo)

64 Somehow, "Khhaaaaaaaannnn!!" one octave higher, is just funny.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 06:02 PM (FlRtG)

65 So does the canned gourmet meal list start at the bottom of the can or the top?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2013 10:00 PM (4qnX5)


prob'ly you could open it at either end . . .

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:02 PM (8lmkt)

66 I know. "What are you waiting for?" Tough crowd.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 06:03 PM (Y92Nd)

67 Missing two links. /points and laughs

Posted by: Piltdown Man at August 11, 2013 06:03 PM (8V7pH)

68 Bear link fixed.  Off to the barrel.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 06:03 PM (dKV5k)

69 Apparently according to channel, it was because of an over-abundance of CO2 in the atmosphere. Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 09:54 PM (cK0tU) Oxygen. That's why animals were big, Oxygen was as high as like the high 30's%. It's 20% now. Bugs and Dinos' ability to use oxygen is not as efficient as mammals, so they couldn't stay as big. The high CO2 just helped plants grow, which produced more oxygen.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:03 PM (qyfb5)

70 I would at least taste the meal in a can. I couldn't resist.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 11, 2013 06:04 PM (jjvz+)

71 If I'm going to eat Kobe beef, I'm not going to eat it pickled from a can with eleven other pureed food items.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:04 PM (CA2NO)

72 http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/ It's a little hard to navigate (read: older-fashioned than Pixy), but it's a great resource for understanding how bad science is made and promulgated. And there is an awful lot of bad science around.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:04 PM (qyfb5)

73 Tattoo De Plane, I understand how upset you must be, but he probably already feels pretty awful about it.  There will be other bud vases . . . one good husband is a darn good thing to have, though.

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:04 PM (8lmkt)

74 Speaking of tanksÂ… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4AXwJYEEk I will never understand Japan.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 06:04 PM (8V7pH)

75 TPH, you hooked on Girls and Panzer or what?  Do you remember this clip?
http://youtu.be/06LgCALERYc

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:04 PM (4+uhW)

76
Following up from a comment earlier in the day, a clip from Gene Roddenberry's 1970s post-Trek  tv pilot "Spectre".

http://youtu.be/MZ8kfBr1FR0

Basically Robert Culp is a Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Strange investigator of the Otherworldly, Gig Young is his Watson.

And John Hurt is just a baby.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 11, 2013 06:06 PM (kdS6q)

77 Curiosity killed the cat, but carbon dioxide hired the hit.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 06:06 PM (AO9UG)

78 61 My husband broke my favorite bud vase while we were moving. I'm borderline suicidal over it. No whining. My wife left my gold Tiffany watch in my pants and washed it. Just sent it back to Switzerland. What you think that's going to cost. Bitch.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at August 11, 2013 06:06 PM (wR+pz)

79 My husband broke my favorite bud vase while we were moving. I'm borderline suicidal over it. Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 10:02 PM (Y92Nd) Oh Tattoo, I'm so sorry! Is there any chance it could be repaired?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:06 PM (CA2NO)

80 Thanks, Peaches. We just celebrated our tenth, and he insisted on taking me to Per Se. We're going to Miami for Labor Day weekend, too. He spoils me. It's just the stress of moving. I hate it.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 06:08 PM (Y92Nd)

81 Gimme some credit for that video I found.  Come on, man.  Don't hold back.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 11, 2013 06:08 PM (Iyg03)

82 Even the name "fossil fuels" is a dead giveaway -- what the hell are they fossils of? Dead plants. Where did the plants get the carbon? From CO2 in the air....thus, there must have been as much CO2 in the air as is now in fossil fuels....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 06:09 PM (T1005)

83 Bud Vase isn't your lover is he?  Because if he is, my opinion on this matter has shifted.

Posted by: CausticConservative at August 11, 2013 06:09 PM (gT3jF)

84 Your vase was a RINO. It deserved death.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 11, 2013 06:09 PM (ZshNr)

85 Evening, fappers. And fapperettes. I'm certainly not ready for the weekend to be over.

Posted by: DC in Towson at August 11, 2013 06:09 PM (ZFinx)

86 And John Hurt is just a baby. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 11, 2013 10:06 PM (kdS6q) Well, I didn't want to be the first one to say it, but, yeah, he does get a little tetchy.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:09 PM (qyfb5)

87 My wife left my gold Tiffany watch in my pants

I remember a time when men took responsibility for their own pants.  Just old fashioned, I guess . . .  Sorry for your troubles, Billy Bob.

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:10 PM (8lmkt)

88 Back home after a pretty wild weekend...the Ocoee River tried to kill me and failed, and my liver is still in my abdomen, so good times.  What's up, 'Rons and 'Ronettes?

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:10 PM (un8zR)

89 Oh Tattoo, I'm so sorry! Is there any chance it could be repaired? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 10:06 PM (CA2NO) No, it was so smashed the neighbors opened their door and offered to help carry boxes

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 06:10 PM (Y92Nd)

90 Once upon a time, there was a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere. The plants thought this was awesome, and they gobbled it up like candy while farting out oxygen. As the oxygen in the atmosphere increased from all the plant farts, animals started to say, "Hey, this is the shit. And wow, all these plants are YUMMY!" And they started to eat the farting plants, which were already starting to get a little coked out from all the CO2 they were mainlining 24/7. Eventually the CO2 evened out to a more manageable level, the oxygen dipped down to a more manageable level, and lo, Man did stuff it in pressurized tanks so they could dive under the ocean and fly up into space to investigate places that no one had ever seen before. The end.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:11 PM (CA2NO)

91 Hey, pull my finger, and witness my fart!Posted by: Joey Biden at August 11, 2013 09:54 PM (pJF+c)
You don't need a machine gun. Just fart two times.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 06:12 PM (fnPRp)

92 By Jaysus buy dats a Newfie accent on that water bomber video.

Posted by: Northernlurker at August 11, 2013 06:12 PM (BLAfs)

93 57 Yo, cthulu! How's R'lyeh?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 10:01 PM (CA2NO)



Still non-Euclidean....and a little lighter since the Yard Sale from Hell yesterday.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 06:13 PM (T1005)

94 Shaping up to be a long night in the ER.  I'll check in later.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 11, 2013 06:13 PM (sQ0LB)

95 No whining. My wife left my gold Tiffany watch in my pants and washed it. Just sent it back to Switzerland. What you think that's going to cost. Bitch. Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at August 11, 2013 10:06 PM (wR+pz) Ouch, that's gotta hurt. I remember I got a watch as a graduation present. We went skinny dipping that night, and I forgot to take it off. Never wore a watch again, but I can see why that scene in Pulp Fiction resonates with so many people.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 06:13 PM (Y92Nd)

96 You forgot the taxes MWR .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 11, 2013 06:13 PM (0iJzo)

97
89

I love you, MWR!!!

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:13 PM (8lmkt)

98 68 Apparently according to channel, it was because of an over-abundance of CO2 in the atmosphere. Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 09:54 PM (cK0tU) Oxygen. That's why animals were big, Oxygen was as high as like the high 30's%. It's 20% now. Bugs and Dinos' ability to use oxygen is not as efficient as mammals, so they couldn't stay as big. The high CO2 just helped plants grow, which produced more oxygen. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 11, 2013 10:03 PM (qyfb5) Mammals got as big as the large dinosaurs after the dinosaurs (except birds) went extinct, and they did so in a 20% oxygen atmosphere. It is true that greater oxygen content in the atmosphere allows for bigger insects (squirrel-sized), but the connection to the size of vertebrates is much weaker.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 06:13 PM (AO9UG)

99 Its a surface area vs volume thing.  Simplifying to a sphere, surface area is a r-squared relationship, where volume is a r-cubed relationship.

So small increases in external dimension require relatively larger increases in O2 absorption surface...or higher concentrations of O2.

A large dinosaur, like T-Rex, would probably asphyxiate at modern 20% O2 concentrations as it started to mature.  It wouldn't be like a Jurassic Park T-Rex.  It'd be sluggish and and not too sharp mentally...if it could survive at all.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 06:13 PM (di+Lf)

100 65 I know. "What are you waiting for?" Tough crowd.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 10:03 PM (Y92Nd)



So have him buy another one.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 06:14 PM (T1005)

101 >>>the Ocoee River tried to kill me and failed, and my liver is still in my abdomen, The Big Gunpowder tried to do me in today. It might have succeeded. Ask me tomorrow.

Posted by: DC in Towson at August 11, 2013 06:14 PM (ZFinx)

102 Billy Bob, if it make you feel any better, I left a really nice Tissot in a Class V rapid yesterday morning.  One of the bums who walks the river after the dam is shut will find it (or more likely has already found it, since the dam was opened back up this morning) and barter it for weed. 

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:15 PM (un8zR)

103 I would buy MWR's Book of Knowledge.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 06:15 PM (8V7pH)

104

hola

a reminder to all.......your football teams have been judged by Da BEARs and have been found wanting

Posted by: navycopjoe at August 11, 2013 06:15 PM (V75zy)

105 It'd be sluggish and and not too sharp mentally...if it could survive at all.

Alas Purp, Joey 'Choo Choo' Biden does manage to live.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:15 PM (4+uhW)

106 1 *head tilted* What is happening in that .gif? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 09:42 PM (CA2NO) Looks like the world's shortest suborbital rocket flight.

Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2013 06:15 PM (sdi6R)

107 Thanks for the laughs, guys, back to moving.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at August 11, 2013 06:15 PM (Y92Nd)

108 your football teams have been judged by Da BEARs and have been found wanting to laugh

fify

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:15 PM (8lmkt)

109 "MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) – Blurring the line between sports and warfare, the Russian army premiered a new sport – tank biathlon – and invited US crews to compete." The "line between sports and warfare" is death. Using tanks instead of rifles doesn't really change anything. Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at August 11, 2013 06:16 PM (UkSku)

110 Northernlurker , The accepted phraseology is " by tunderin Jesus " , and then anything Newf .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 11, 2013 06:16 PM (0iJzo)

111 The Big Gunpowder tried to do me in today. It might have succeeded. Ask me tomorrow.

Posted by: DC in Towson at August 11, 2013 10:14 PM (ZFinx)


Sounds a lot like my yesterday.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:17 PM (un8zR)

112 reminder to all.......your football teams have been judged by Da BEARs and have been found wanting -------- You tell em Joe!

Posted by: Jay Cutler on the way to another 7-9 season at August 11, 2013 06:17 PM (Aif/5)

113 I am in now way a smart guy when it comes to science. But I did retain what I learned from Botany and basic biology that the more CO2 the more photosynthesis. In my feeble but not brainwashed mind, I deduced that plants would be more abundant with higher rates of this trace gas called CO2. Funny how the alledgedly more intelligent yet politically retarded people would somehow refute this and blame humanity. The Earth does not give two shits about human inhabitance. The extinction of the dinosaurs was nothing more than a stomach virus for the Earth.

Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 06:17 PM (cK0tU)

114 61 My husband broke my favorite bud vase while we were moving. I'm borderline suicidal over it.
I didn't know Bud came in a vase.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 06:18 PM (fnPRp)

115 "In Canada, they don't need no stinkin' fire trucks."

In the USA, evil greedy capitalists offered up no-shit widebody-jet air tankers for fighting wildfires. DC-10s and 747s. Both demonstrated in practice. Both amazing in their capability. Capable of putting out 40 acres of hot burning trees in one single pass.

However, generous kind-hearted public-spirited bureaucrats in government declined to sign contracts with the evil greedy capitalists to be sure there would be plenty of airborne firefighting available.

Result? Nineteen ground-level firefighters agonizingly barbecued to death in Arizona due to a lack of ability to quell the fire before it overran them.

All the fault of the evil greedy capitalists, of course. Why, if only they had offered their services at a lower cost than is required to provide those services, the firefighters would still be alive!

Posted by: torquewrench at August 11, 2013 06:18 PM (gqT4g)

116 Beer stashing...used to do that in high school: find a back road and an identifiable landmark, bury your beers in the snow for tomorrow night. Good times. g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 11, 2013 06:18 PM (JMmQ9)

117 I didn't know Bud came in a vase.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 10:18 PM (fnPRp)


I actually just spewed a mouthful of water all over my arm reading that. 

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:19 PM (8lmkt)

118 Still non-Euclidean....and a little lighter since the Yard Sale from Hell yesterday. Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 10:13 PM (T1005) At least it was only a yard sale from Hell, not a yard sale from Yaddith?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:19 PM (CA2NO)

119 I didn't know Bud came in a vase.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 10:18 PM (fnPRp)


He did that one time...remember when Joanne-Lynnette cut him off mid-act?  He still says he had no choice, but I don't buy the story.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:20 PM (un8zR)

120 Hey in ten minutes on TCM, Henry Fonda and Larry Hagman blow up Moscow and New York in Fail Safe.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:20 PM (4+uhW)

121 As for the .gif at the top: they had an un-even weight distribution...what did they think would happen?

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 11, 2013 06:20 PM (JMmQ9)

122 I saw some video of the latest Russian tank fire control system in action.  It was pretty impressive. 

They seem to be trending towards smaller/faster too.

I've thought the Cold War era MBT design paradigm obsolete for a while now.  Looks like the Russians came to the same conclusion

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 06:21 PM (di+Lf)

123 wonder if I could finish something like this off in two days

http://tinyurl.com/nxersvd


Posted by: The Dude at August 11, 2013 06:21 PM (vJdyz)

124 117 Still non-Euclidean....and a little lighter since the Yard Sale from Hell yesterday.
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 10:13 PM (T1005)



At least it was only a yard sale from Hell, not a yard sale from Yaddith?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 10:19 PM (CA2NO)



I'm keepin' all my Yaddith stuff....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 06:22 PM (T1005)

125 Hey in ten minutes on TCM, Henry Fonda and Larry Hagman blow up Moscow and New York in Fail Safe. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 10:20 PM I totes love that film. (Did I do that right?)

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 11, 2013 06:22 PM (JMmQ9)

126 good evening, good people.

   2 days of freedom left, Tuesday morning I go to the hospital for some knee surgery.  According to my doc, this is an outpatient deal.
 
   Some PT after and in a month should be back to what passes for normal.  Hope so, I need to be mobile for duck season.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 06:23 PM (SAMxH)

127 wonder if I could finish something like this off in two days


10 years ago, no problem. Now not so much.

Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 06:23 PM (cK0tU)

128 Mammals got as big as the large dinosaurs after the dinosaurs (except birds) went extinct, and they did so in a 20% oxygen atmosphere. It is true that greater oxygen content in the atmosphere allows for bigger insects (squirrel-sized), but the connection to the size of vertebrates is much weaker. Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 10:13 PM (AO9UG) IIRC, The dinosaurs survived the Permian extinction and thrives afterwards because the O2 level dropped like a rock and the dinosaurs evolved the ability to process and uptake oxygen really effectively. When the O2 levels shot up, that allowed them to become so huge. No way in hell could a dinosaur survive in today's atmosphere.

Posted by: The Paleontological Hat at August 11, 2013 06:23 PM (Vk2pI)

129 It is true that greater oxygen content in the atmosphere allows for bigger insects (squirrel-sized), but the connection to the size of vertebrates is much weaker. Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 10:13 PM (AO9UG) Admittedly we don't have any fleshy samples, but more bugs than dinos, yes. IIRC there's also an idea that the way they lay eggs had something to do with size limitations, in some way different from birds or, presumably, platypi. There's some dispute over ancient oxygen values, the numbers are not all as clear as they seem - it does seem unlikely that physiologically modern dragonflies could be 5 feet long or whatever the way things are. But, who knows, maybe for some reason more efficient bugs died out and the less efficient lived. Or we don't know as much as we think (most likely explanation).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:24 PM (qyfb5)

130 I'm telling you: the Maritimes are planning an invasion. Gird your loins and guard your bacon! Posted by: MWR
-------------

And be on your guard for boa constrictors.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 06:24 PM (aDwsi)

131 Good luck with the surgery, IG!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:24 PM (CA2NO)

132
I saw some video of the latest Russian tank fire control system in action. It was pretty impressive.
Posted by: Purp




Umm - still trying to figure out that whole tank gun autoloader thing.  Just another 20 years should do it.

30 tops.

Posted by: The US Army


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 11, 2013 06:24 PM (kdS6q)

133 125

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 10:23 PM (SAMxH)


Good luck, grampa.


Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:25 PM (un8zR)

134 Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 10:23 PM (SAMxH)


Good luck. Had a procedure last week where they found a Hiatal Hernia the size of an orange. Guess that would explain the GERD for the last 20 some years.

Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 06:25 PM (cK0tU)

135 In my feeble but not brainwashed mind, I deduced that plants would be more abundant with higher rates of this trace gas called CO2.

Which curiously is something every (professional) indoor dope grower knows by heart.  You want good dope that grows fast, you put in a CO2 system.

The biodiversity of the Carboniferous was astounding.  Made today's biosphere look like Mars.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 06:25 PM (di+Lf)

136 No way in hell could a dinosaur survive in today's atmosphere. Posted by: The Paleontological Hat at August 11, 2013 10:23 PM (Vk2pI) They could carry around oxygen tanks in bags like heart patients.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:26 PM (qyfb5)

137 Oh, irongrampa, good luck with the surgery.  Is it your meniscus?  I had that and was all healed up after a month (no PT).  'Course my knee is still all fucked up, but it healed and I never took a single vicodin, it really wasn't that bad. 

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:26 PM (8lmkt)

138 Hey in ten minutes on TCM, Henry Fonda and Larry Hagman blow up Moscow and New York in Fail Safe.
Sounds like a good trade to me. The Yankees, Rangers and the Russian national men's and juniors' hockey teams are in the respective cities at the same time, right?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:27 PM (4qnX5)

139 No way in hell could a dinosaur survive in today's atmosphere.

Plus, we would totally shoot them.

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:27 PM (8lmkt)

140 MErovign, ruins the whole menace of 'raptors if they are toting in a little satchel bag an oxygen generator.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:28 PM (4+uhW)

141 I've thought the Cold War era MBT design paradigm obsolete for a while now. Looks like the Russians came to the same conclusion
I don't know. I've read that the latest Leopards the Canadians had in Afghanistan were pretty popular.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:28 PM (4qnX5)

142 The biodiversity of the Carboniferous was astounding. Made today's biosphere look like Mars. Posted by: Purp at August 11, 2013 10:25 PM (di+Lf) And the CAGWarmist's response to that information is that getting closer to the Carboniferous, in terms of CO2, would in fact take us further away from it in terms of biodiversity. Because, frankly, not having a crisis does not get them any grant money or political power. Man, I can't wait to get off this rock (an find out it's worse in the larger universe...).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:28 PM (qyfb5)

143 They could carry around oxygen tanks in bags like heart patients. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 11, 2013 10:26 PM (qyfb5) Now I'm envisioning a T-Rex in a track suit, toting a rolling oxygen tank behind it. It'd have to be a specially made tank, too, with a long handle, since they had such runty arms. T-REX: *wheeze* *swipe* *wheeze* *swipe* *wheeze* *swipe GRAB* *trundles away*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:29 PM (CA2NO)

144 139 MErovign, ruins the whole menace of 'raptors if they are toting in a little satchel bag an oxygen generator. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 10:28 PM (4+uhW) Raptors are small, they'd be totes fine, like hairless wolves.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:29 PM (qyfb5)

145 Irongrampa, you'll appreciate this - I received my M1 from CMP last week, everything functioned as assembled, but as I was doing a basic lube and disassembly / reassembly, the follower pin just wouldn't go.  I eventually narrowed it down to an out of spec bullet guide (it appeared the pin had been force-fit at the armory), ordered the new part, and there it was when I got home from out of town today.  The follower pin slid home through the new bullet guide and all the old parts like butter, so if I can get loose of work sometime this week, I get to shoot it, after waiting since March.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:30 PM (un8zR)

146 135 No way in hell could a dinosaur survive in today's atmosphere.
Posted by: The Paleontological Hat at August 11, 2013 10:23 PM (Vk2pI)

They could carry around oxygen tanks in bags like heart patients.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 11, 2013 10:26 PM (qyfb5)

I think that's covered under Obamacare.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 06:31 PM (fnPRp)

147 And back in the day when there were only about 20 channels on cable TV and the Toronto Sun's TV listings had actual descriptions of the actual movies and TV shows the description for Fail Safe was something along the lines of, "Like Dr. Strangelove but without the laughs." They had some hilarious descriptions like that and had the genre for really bad movies listed as "Turkey Time" instead of e.g. "Drama".

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:31 PM (4qnX5)

148 125 good evening, good people.

2 days of freedom left, Tuesday morning I go to the hospital for some knee surgery. According to my doc, this is an outpatient deal.

Some PT after and in a month should be back to what passes for normal. Hope so, I need to be mobile for duck season.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 10:23 PM (SAMxH)



'Bout two months after bilateral knee replacement, my aunt visited Casa de Cthulhu....so we took her up to visit Muir Woods. While just about back down to the entrance, she commented: "oh, no -- I could never walk a whole mile" -- and we got to break it to her that she'd actually walked two....we distracted her from seeing the mile marker where we turned around.



Here's hoping that yours goes as well -- and opens the frontiers of your world.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 06:31 PM (T1005)

149 I wonder how many of the anti-carbon crowd realize that, except for the odd trace mineral, every plant - including the giant red-woods - are composed of water, sunlight and CO2.  Everything in a plant is made up of water, sunlight, and CO2. All the corn, all the wheat, all the rice, all the trees, all the grass -- water, sunlight, and ... CO2.

Posted by: rabidfox at August 11, 2013 06:31 PM (Gejy0)

150 The current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is a big nothing-burger. However, the green-red fools have convinced too many people that the climate is extremely sensitive to CO2 levels and thus any increase from what they consider baseline (that's a good question - what do the greenies think the optimum concentration of CO2 should be?) will bring blood and nightmares. If anything, man affects the climate more by land conversion i.e. covering large land-masses with heat-trapping concrete and asphalt than emitting a trace, yet essential gas into the atmosphere. But you all know that and so do the Greenies. The problem is that people like Gore are using the global-warming scam to enrich themselves and to also act as Lords and Inquisitors over the rest of us. The target for educations shouldn't be the scam-artists, but the rank-and-file who have been needlessly scared by the hucksters.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 06:32 PM (9X5AZ)

151
  I would be much more scared of the raptors that reach 5-6 feet than T-Rex.

    Buggers were probly pretty quick.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 06:32 PM (SAMxH)

152 Plus, we would totally shoot them.

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 10:27 PM (8lmkt)

Bow hunting for Raptors....the new African Safari!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 11, 2013 06:32 PM (gqgiP)

153 since they had such runty arms. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 10:29 PM (CA2NO) IIRC each of those runty arms could lift like 400 lbs (ish).

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:32 PM (qyfb5)

154 Well that is not a good sign for Elysium.  The domestic box office take was only about $30 million for this weekend.  International revenue of only $11 million.  And made on a budget of $115 million.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:33 PM (4+uhW)

155 I'm watching Trouble with the Curve. Clint does it again. Damn fine movie.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at August 11, 2013 06:33 PM (jjvz+)

156 Plus, we would totally shoot them. Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 10:27 PM (8lmkt) Mmmm, bronto-burgers!

Posted by: Barney Rubble at August 11, 2013 06:33 PM (Vk2pI)

157 Worlds biggest bug from Insty link http://tinyurl.com/75nl42z

Posted by: BignJames at August 11, 2013 06:34 PM (20Mmk)

158 Speaking of arms: http://bit.ly/17i8PXN Chinese low-budget Tony Stark builds bionic arms when Universal Healthcare can't give him prosthetics.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:34 PM (qyfb5)

159 That folded vid was hysterical. Wanted to see Spock folded. OT- mentioned Book of Eli once on here. Finally picked up a blade like his from Cold Steel on AMZ. It's a purty thang....

Posted by: Mr. Wolf at August 11, 2013 06:35 PM (UIAT6)

160 I think that's covered under Obamacare. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 10:31 PM (fnPRp) IPAB says DENIED! You've been rationed! Suck it, Red-state Dinosaurs!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 11, 2013 06:35 PM (qyfb5)

161 Best of luck, IG. Heal fast. I may have a trip to Vermont before the end of the year, so I'll be within driving distance. Same deal as I've offered before: I buy the dinner & drinks, you tell me stories. Lileks may have found Peg Lynch; I want to tell IG's story.

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 11, 2013 06:36 PM (JMmQ9)

162 Posted by: rabidfox at August 11, 2013 10:31 PM (Gejy0)


Don't forget stardust and other intergalactic detritus.  It's not impossible, so much so that it's probable, that the water that comprises 70-75% of your weight has Hydrogen atoms that are billions of years old.  The Fe, Mg, etc., are as old or older than the Earth itself.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:36 PM (un8zR)

163 IIRC each of those runty arms could lift like 400 lbs (ish). Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 11, 2013 10:32 PM (qyfb5) They'd have to REACH it first. Can't you picture poor, wheezy T-Rex with his rolling O2 tank, making ineffectual swipes at Jeantel with his scrawny little arms?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:36 PM (CA2NO)

164 156 Worlds biggest bug from Insty link

http://tinyurl.com/75nl42z

Posted by: BignJames at August 11, 2013 10:34 PM (20Mmk)



Note the location. I'm wondering if it gets a cameo in the next Hobbit movie.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 06:37 PM (T1005)

165 "I gather that it's some kind of jetpack thing, but I can't tell what the jets actually ARE. Is that... are they soda bottles?

*stands on head and squints* Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 09:46 PM"



A little late to the thread, but in the words of Snow, "Jetpack, Muthafukas!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 11, 2013 06:37 PM (lxD2I)

166 Too many clouds here damn it.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 06:37 PM (dKV5k)

167 Don't forget stardust and other intergalactic detritus. It's not impossible, so much so that it's probable, that the water that comprises 70-75% of your weight has Hydrogen atoms that are billions of years old. The Fe, Mg, etc., are as old or older than the Earth itself. Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 10:36 PM (un8zR) Awww, and here I get stuck with some newly made NeptuniumÂ…

Posted by: Post Atome Apocalypse Mutant at August 11, 2013 06:37 PM (Vk2pI)

168 The TCM guy mentioned Dr. Strangelove about how it beat Fail Safe to the theatres and pretty much stole all the thunder since its basically the same story.  Just one had a laugh track.

What everyone needs, a Brontosaurus with bronchitis...  "run for your lives!!  She's gonna wheeze!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:38 PM (4+uhW)

169

111  I almost choked on my coffee

 

anywho, its chick night out and the girl is going to wear mom's clothes

this will not end well

Posted by: navycopjoe at August 11, 2013 06:38 PM (V75zy)

170 irongrampa, I think you missed this link that Jones posted earlier, but it may help you in your convalescence. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlHpXDQgxxE

Talk about your gingery goodness!

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 06:38 PM (8lmkt)

171 Bed.  Night.  Bye now, morons.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 11, 2013 06:38 PM (un8zR)

172 156 Worlds biggest bug from Insty link I'ma need some bigger hooks , a bigger vice , and some really funky new fly-tying materials .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 11, 2013 06:38 PM (0iJzo)

173 Well that is not a good sign for Elysium. The domestic box office take was only about $30 million for this weekend. International revenue of only $11 million. And made on a budget of $115 million. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 10:33 PM (4+uhW) East Coast Morons, that's not an earthquake you just felt. That was me rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:38 PM (CA2NO)

174 Can't you picture poor, wheezy T-Rex with his rolling O2 tank, making ineffectual swipes at Jeantel with his scrawny little arms? Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 10:36 PM (CA2NO) Those runty arms are really retarded, sirÂ…

Posted by: Jeantelsaurus Blech at August 11, 2013 06:39 PM (Vk2pI)

175
Plus, we would totally shoot them.

Posted by: Peaches at August 11, 2013 10:27 PM (8lmkt)

Bow hunting for Raptors....the new African Safari!




http://tinyurl.com/kjpef83

Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 06:40 PM (cK0tU)

176 Bill D. Cat tunderen Jesus it is then.

Posted by: Northernlurker at August 11, 2013 06:40 PM (BLAfs)

177 The AoSHQ podcast RSS link is FUBARed. I just thought you'd like to know.

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 11, 2013 06:41 PM (JMmQ9)

178 Buggers [raptors] were probably pretty quick.
Ask Vic!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:41 PM (4qnX5)

179 174

Dammit screwed it up. Tried to post a Roland Tembo dialogue from "The Lost World."

Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 06:42 PM (cK0tU)

180 The Fe, Mg, etc., are as old or older than the Earth itself.

Should be quite a bit older than the solar system.  It was fused in some star's core that predated our sun's accretion.


Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 06:43 PM (di+Lf)

181 I bet a T-rex tasted like chicken...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 06:45 PM (di+Lf)

182 It was a good Sunday. Slept in, went shopping with sister, had dinner with the family on the back deck. Stezck, corn on the cob, fresh tomatoex potatoes. Then Schwann's chocolate chip ice cream for dessert. Yum.

Posted by: mpfs at August 11, 2013 06:46 PM (pgMfL)

183 It was fused in some star's core that predated our sun's accretion. Posted by: Purp at August 11, 2013 10:43 PM (di+Lf) That sounds like dialogue from the world's first astrophysics porn film.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 06:46 PM (CA2NO)

184 Don't forget stardust and other intergalactic detritus. It's not impossible, so much so that it's probable, that the water that comprises 70-75% of your weight has Hydrogen atoms that are billions of years old. The Fe, Mg, etc., are as old or older than the Earth itself.
----------------

It disturbs me considerably that some of the components of the air that I breathe has been farted by Greeks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 06:46 PM (aDwsi)

185 The Fe, Mg, etc., are as old or older than the Earth itself.
I don't know how true it is but I read once (maybe in the old National Geographic King Tut issue?) that as gold is often recycled that your ring might have a few flecks of gold in it that once were in jewellery worn by the ancients.

BTW, speaking of the periodic table, please no Breaking Bad spoilers tonight. I don't know if I'm going to watch it tomorrow or next weekend instead with friends over.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:46 PM (4qnX5)

186 *Dammit screwed it up. Tried to post a Roland Tembo dialogue from "The Lost World." Yet another movie screwed up by liberal tripe: a) people can't use guns, b) Earth-First idiot (played by Vince Vaughn) is glorified even though he's the reason why people start to get killed, c) John Hammond is no longer an evil capitalist, but his nephew is... so on and so forth.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 06:47 PM (9X5AZ)

187 Stars accrete? I guess that's where gas giants come from then, huh?

Posted by: joey biden at August 11, 2013 06:48 PM (4qnX5)

188 Tell someone that every atom in their body came from inside an exploding  star, and they just cock their head like a dog hearing a weird sound

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 06:49 PM (8sCoq)

189 It disturbs me considerably that some of the components of the air that I breathe has been farted by Greeks.

Yea, but every breath you take (statistically) contains a few Nitrogen molecules that DaVinci breathed during his life too.  Its not all bad.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 06:49 PM (di+Lf)

190 Or molecules from Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:50 PM (4+uhW)

191 Should be quite a bit older than the solar system. It was fused in some star's core that predated our sun's accretion.

Yeah, that.

Iron is the last "alchemical" stage in natural (stellar) fusion, after which the process is no longer exothermic. This stage is reached in larger stars, and when it happens such a star cannot any longer support its own weight. Then it implodes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_II_supernova

The really heavier metals are only created in bulk when two neutron stars collide: http://gold.yabz.com/facts.htm.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 11, 2013 06:50 PM (d7tB2)

192
    Nice and clear here again, perseids are showing intermittently, it being a bit early.

   Quite an amazing spectacle.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 06:51 PM (SAMxH)

193 I saw the sideline story that Obama is having Bo flown to him at high cost even though SEQUESTER

He just doesn't give a shit at this point what anyone thinks and he's flaunting it now

Posted by: kbdabear at August 11, 2013 06:52 PM (/9IC1)

194 Can't see the meteor shower since once again storms are headed our way. Since the last week of July, we have gotten almost 18 inches of rain. No more drought here.

Posted by: Per-Bert, resigning as Samuel Adams at August 11, 2013 06:53 PM (cK0tU)

195 I saw the sideline story that Obama is having Bo flown to him at high cost even though SEQUESTER
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Last thread. Basketballs too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 06:53 PM (aDwsi)

196 156 Worlds biggest bug from Insty link http://tinyurl.com/75nl42z Aww. Who's a sweetie? You're a sweetie, that's who. I can totally see wetas as pets. Not for me, though, because I already have cats.

Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2013 06:54 PM (sdi6R)

197 That was me rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off.

It was everyone in America who hates Maatt Daamon's methanogenical guts. :^)

I'm especially pleased that the international audience avoided it. I was expecting it to do well in places where they want to get from A to B in order to take B's stuff, which is almost all places north of the Rio Grande and south of the Mediterranean.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 11, 2013 06:55 PM (d7tB2)

198 south of the Rio I mean. Oof

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 11, 2013 06:55 PM (d7tB2)

199 The story says Bo flew on a V-22, so I guess that means the United States Marines were tasked with flying the President's dog to Mahtha's Vinyud

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 06:55 PM (8sCoq)

200 Oh, no!!! RACIST rodeo clown linked in my sock!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 06:55 PM (4qnX5)

201

Yea, but every breath you take (statistically) contains a few Nitrogen molecules that DaVinci breathed during his life too. Its not all bad.

 


 

Posted by: Purp at August 11, 2013 10:49 PM (di+Lf)

 

 

And Jesus.... and Hitler...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2013 06:55 PM (lZBBB)

202  Global Warming will go down the same memory hole as the Population Bomb and the Silent Spring. Being a Leftist means never having to say you're stupid.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 11, 2013 06:56 PM (vfB2N)

203 I saw the sideline story that Obama is having Bo flown to him at high cost even though SEQUESTER

Is the White House chef with him?

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 11, 2013 06:56 PM (d7tB2)

204 127 Mammals got as big as the large dinosaurs after the dinosaurs (except birds) went extinct, and they did so in a 20% oxygen atmosphere. It is true that greater oxygen content in the atmosphere allows for bigger insects (squirrel-sized), but the connection to the size of vertebrates is much weaker. Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 10:13 PM (AO9UG) IIRC, The dinosaurs survived the Permian extinction and thrives afterwards because the O2 level dropped like a rock and the dinosaurs evolved the ability to process and uptake oxygen really effectively. When the O2 levels shot up, that allowed them to become so huge. No way in hell could a dinosaur survive in today's atmosphere. Posted by: The Paleontological Hat at August 11, 2013 10:23 PM (Vk2pI) No. They already do. They are known as birds. Dinosaurs arrived after the Permian.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 06:57 PM (AO9UG)

205 MWR and boulder toilet hobo, data from Box Office Mojo
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=elysium.htm

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 06:57 PM (4+uhW)

206 So if I can just get two neutron stars to smack into each other I can buy the solar system...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 06:57 PM (di+Lf)

207

2 Global Warming will go down the same memory hole as the Population Bomb and the Silent Spring. Being a Leftist means never having to say you're stupid.

 


 

Posted by: cm9000 at August 11, 2013 10:56 PM (vfB2N)

 

 

But remember the 1970's?  When they said we were heading for an Ice Age???

 

100 years from now they'll be sayin.... wow.... good prediction guys....

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2013 06:58 PM (lZBBB)

208


Umm - still trying to figure out that whole tank gun autoloader thing. Just another 20 years should do it.

30 tops.

Posted by: The US Army

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Manual loading with a well-trained crew is faster.

 

Also, I don't know if the Russkies ever figured it out either.  I've heard stories that an auto-loader would occasionally eat a crewmember back during the Soviet era.  Dunno if they ever fixed that little bug or not.

 

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 06:58 PM (Quo7C)

209 Yea, but every breath you take (statistically) contains a few Nitrogen molecules that DaVinci breathed during his life too. Its not all bad.

Posted by: Purp at August 11, 2013 10:49 PM (di+Lf)

And Jesus.... and Hitler
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You guys are just trying to get the taste of Greek farts out of your mouth.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 06:58 PM (aDwsi)

210 south of the Rio I mean.
Down Mexico waaaay.

Posted by: joey biden at August 11, 2013 06:59 PM (4qnX5)

211 201 Yea, but every breath you take (statistically) contains a few Nitrogen molecules that DaVinci breathed during his life too. Its not all bad. Posted by: Purp at August 11, 2013 10:49 PM (di+Lf) And Jesus.... and Hitler... Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2013 10:55 PM (lZBBB) Carbon atoms from Hitler's shit is in your bacon.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 06:59 PM (AO9UG)

212 The Google sky map app is pretty cool.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 07:00 PM (dKV5k)

213 it's beautiful and clear here in central IL., i'm sitting on the patio watching for shooting stars.

( I was going to put on pants, but then I thought to myself "I don't go to work for almost 12 hours, so why bother until then?)

Posted by: Shoey at August 11, 2013 07:00 PM (m6OUa)

214
   I remember reading somewhere that scientists grew teeth in a chicken's mouth.  So you could, I guess, have fanged fowl today if the right gene was triggered.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 07:01 PM (SAMxH)

215 192 I saw the sideline story that Obama is having Bo flown to him at high cost even though SEQUESTER Yep, what about us peasants? That reminds me - I saw a Twitter exchange where some lib was posting links "proving" that W was on vacation more and wasted more on AF1 than Obama. Looking more into the links yielded something I found peculiar (and also throughly debunked the lib's claims). Apparently, if the numbers are true, the operating cost of AF1 under the two terms of Bush were around $50k to $68k an hour. However, under Obama, the cost of AF1 operation skyrocketed to $179k an hour! No wonder AF1's cost is 2 to 3 times more now, if Obama is arranging special transport for his stupid animals too!

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 07:01 PM (9X5AZ)

216

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 10:58 PM (Quo7C)

 

 

Yeah.... funny how on ships we had auto loaders... for the first 20 5 inch rounds...

 

And somehow we have these little pistols and rifles with auto loaders.... called semi autos and autos...

 

But somehow Tank rounds which are in between?  can't figure it out...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2013 07:01 PM (lZBBB)

217 >The Google sky map app is pretty cool.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 11:00 PM (dKV5k)



check out the Sky and Telescope app and another called LunaSolCal

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:02 PM (8sCoq)

218

No. They already do. They are known as birds.

 

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You mean super-advanced flying stealth dinosaurs?

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/4x2x4xf

 

:p

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 07:02 PM (Quo7C)

219 Chickens with fangs?  I don't think that ends well...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 11, 2013 07:02 PM (di+Lf)

220

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 11:01 PM (9X5AZ)

 

fuel costs have about doubled under Obama.... which is a large part of it...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2013 07:02 PM (lZBBB)

221 Good evening, Horde. I'm 1/3 done my king size quilt top. Not a bad start; I was cutting this morning, had lovely husband stack them randomly so I didn't over think placement, wanted random. Should finish the top tomorrow if I apply myself. Which I will not, as Little has vacation bible school. Sitting on my ass drinking coffee in both my undies and silence.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:02 PM (aH+zP)

222 So did the leave Bo behind on the limo roof back at Andrews?

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 07:03 PM (dKV5k)

223 >Sitting on my ass drinking coffee in both my undies and silence.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 11:02 PM (aH+zP)



tell us more about your

coffee

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:05 PM (8sCoq)

224 Chickens with fangs? I don't think that ends well...
Posted by: Purp
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Yeah. I mean, what if they still have a flight gene tucked away, just waiting to be deployed?
Flying fanged chickens, really, really pissed off about all that fricassee.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 07:05 PM (aDwsi)

225 Chickens with fangs? I don't think that ends well... Better than vajayjays with fangs .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 11, 2013 07:05 PM (0iJzo)

226 check out the Sky and Telescope app and another called LunaSolCal Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 11:02 PM (8sCoq) Will do. Prefer to not use anything Google if I can.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 07:05 PM (dKV5k)

227 If I win this thing, I'm gonna grab my wife's ass on national tv.  And not for just a second, either - I'm gonna give at a go!

Posted by: Jason Dufner at August 11, 2013 07:05 PM (NJ5Ca)

228 You guys are just trying to get the taste of Greek farts out of your mouth. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 10:58 PM (aDwsi) Now think about the following: the water you're drinking has been drunk and pissed out again over and over and over and over and over...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:05 PM (CA2NO)

229 I am drunk is this the place to be?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 07:06 PM (RZ8pf)

230 Some of present day hydrogen, helium, and lithium came directly from the Big Bang. 13 billion years.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 07:06 PM (AO9UG)

231


Yeah.... funny how on ships we had auto loaders... for the first 20 5 inch rounds...

And somehow we have these little pistols and rifles with auto loaders.... called semi autos and autos...

But somehow Tank rounds which are in between? can't figure it out...

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I would imagine it has something to do with the size and shape constraints that tanks have to deal with.  Guns have no problem attaching the clip directly to the gun (you can stick it just about anywhere, really), and ships have more space to play around with.  Tanks tend to be quite tight - to the point where supposedly the Soviets had height restrictions on tank crew members.

 

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 07:06 PM (Quo7C)

232 221 Good evening, Horde. I'm 1/3 done my king size quilt top. Not a bad start; I was cutting this morning, had lovely husband stack them randomly so I didn't over think placement, wanted random. Should finish the top tomorrow if I apply myself. Which I will not, as Little has vacation bible school. Sitting on my ass drinking coffee in both my undies and silence.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 11:02 PM (aH+zP)



What kind of pattern are you doing?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:06 PM (T1005)

233 My coffee is better than your coffee, Jones in CO.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:06 PM (aH+zP)

234 (BH quilts.)

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:07 PM (T1005)

235 Good job, Dufner, you made the Boog Nation proud!  Moooo!

Posted by: Beasts of England at August 11, 2013 07:07 PM (NJ5Ca)

236

So did the leave Bo behind on the limo roof back at Andrews?

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Worse.  Obama forgot the meat for the BBQ grill.

 

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 07:07 PM (Quo7C)

237 229 I am drunk is this the place to be? Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 11:06 PM (RZ8pf) Hey, PGIS. Whatchadrinkin?

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 07:07 PM (AO9UG)

238 So does the canned gourmet meal list start at the bottom of the can or the top?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2013 10:00 PM (4qnX5)



What difference does it make, anyway?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 07:08 PM (60Q+L)

239 229 I am drunk is this the place to be?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 11:06 PM (RZ8pf)



You betcher ass!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:08 PM (T1005)

240
   As I understand, all the genes that once were active are still there, merely suppressed. Remove the suppression and you get some scary creatures.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 07:08 PM (SAMxH)

241 But remember the 1970's? When they said we were heading for an Ice Age???

100 years from now they'll be sayin.... wow.... good prediction guys....

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2013 10:58 PM (lZBBB)



10 years from now they will still be prattling about Global Warming in the 25th year of stable or decreasing temperatures.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 11, 2013 07:08 PM (vfB2N)

242 No. They already do. They are known as birds. I get a kick out of watching the hummingbirds at the feeder in the backyard and trying to imagine them millenia ago as dinosaurs.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:08 PM (CA2NO)

243 I am drunk is this the place to be? How you doin ?

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at August 11, 2013 07:08 PM (0iJzo)

244 What about me?  Remember me?  I'm still relevant...

Posted by: Gene Chizik at August 11, 2013 07:08 PM (NJ5Ca)

245 >Will do. Prefer to not use anything Google if I can.

Posted by: CDR M at August 11, 2013 11:05 PM (dKV5k)


the S and T app is a mobile version of their 'sky week at a glance' feature--

if has a 'night vision' feature-

the LunaSolCal - lunar/solar calendar- is a remarkably detailed sun/moon almanac, but has a very clean appearance on your device

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:09 PM (8sCoq)

246 Speaking of Elysium, the liberal cock sucking media here played its poor opening weekend up, by saying it was tops at the box office this weekend pulling in 30 million. Total "chocolate rations increased from 30 milligrams to 25 milligrams" moment.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 07:09 PM (RZ8pf)

247 *fuel costs have about doubled under Obama.... which is a large part of it... True, but fuel costs also went up under Bush too, so I doubt that would account for all the difference in operating costs. Unless AF1 is now using "green" fuel that's $20 a gallon or something ridiculous like that.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 07:09 PM (9X5AZ)

248 228 You guys are just trying to get the taste of Greek farts out of your mouth.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 10:58 PM (aDwsi)



Now think about the following: the water you're drinking has been drunk and pissed out again over and over and over and over and over...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 11:05 PM (CA2NO)



Reminiscent of W. C. Fields' famous observation regarding water: "I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:09 PM (T1005)

249 I am drunk is this the place to be? Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 11:06 PM (RZ8pf) Depends. You still wearing pants?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:09 PM (CA2NO)

250 Did someone mention 'ass'?

Posted by: Jason Dufner's wife's ass at August 11, 2013 07:10 PM (NJ5Ca)

251 I get a kick out of watching the hummingbirds at the feeder in the backyard and trying to imagine them millenia ago as dinosaurs. Posted by: MWR
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Yeah, well just wait until the fang gene emerges and they go off of the liquid diet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 07:10 PM (aDwsi)

252 Mammals got as big as the large dinosaurs after the dinosaurs (except birds) went extinct, and they did so in a 20% oxygen atmosphere.

It is true that greater oxygen content in the atmosphere allows for bigger insects (squirrel-sized), but the connection to the size of vertebrates is much weaker.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 10:13 PM (AO9UG)

I thought the gigantism was a function of some many isolated population, higher air pressure, and O2 rich atmosphere

Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 07:10 PM (CMlD4)

253 I am drinking girlie girl pinot grigio. It isn't bad. It isn't the wine I wanted but the store was sold out of the one I wanted. Everybody in my neighborhood must be drunk on wine this evening though, I've never seen the wine aisle so crowded.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 07:11 PM (RZ8pf)

254 What difference does it make, anyway?
Ambassador Stevens would rather start with the entrees rather than the desserts.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 07:11 PM (4qnX5)

255 Yeah, well just wait until the fang gene emerges and they go off of the liquid diet. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 11:10 PM (aDwsi) If parrots ever grow fangs, RUN.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:11 PM (CA2NO)

256 one final game in a series that has been nothing but one sided ass kickings. Winner gets just over $1.4 million and the loser gets just over $600k. Root for Alliance if nothing more than to collect Navi fanboy tears

http://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti

Posted by: The Dude at August 11, 2013 07:11 PM (vJdyz)

257 There is very little going on these days that is *not* disturbing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:12 PM (yoh1c)

258 If you find yourself in an alternate universe on a planet solely inhabited by elitist reptiles with scales that remind you of John Edwards' hair and as tight as Pelosi's botox skin; you are in hell. Turn around and start searching for a worm hole.

Posted by: angel with a sword at August 11, 2013 07:12 PM (EO34X)

259 I'm a better golfer than Dufner.  Just ask me!

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at August 11, 2013 07:12 PM (NJ5Ca)

260 Kidman dolled up reminds me of my first love,  the sexbot from Blade Runner

Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 07:12 PM (CMlD4)

261 I remember reading somewhere that scientists grew teeth in a chicken's mouth. So you could, I guess, have fanged fowl today if the right gene was triggered. Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 11:01 PM (SAMxH) You don't sayÂ…

Posted by: Count Duckula at August 11, 2013 07:12 PM (Vk2pI)

262 232 What kind of pattern are you doing? Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:06 PM (T1005) --- http://tinyurl.com/ktl3jue My take on a Jelly Roll or Lasagna [sic] quilt. I cut the strips and I'm not doing the doubling method. Can't with the measurements I want. Each one is cut to length before I go to the next. I haven't made a quilt in years but I've made dozens of traditional ones before.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:12 PM (aH+zP)

263 by the way, that is its actual name "girlie girl" hahaha. I love the way people name their wines these days. I think they are trying to make up for no longer feeling like they can brag about their poops.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 07:13 PM (RZ8pf)

264 252 Mammals got as big as the large dinosaurs after the dinosaurs (except birds) went extinct, and they did so in a 20% oxygen atmosphere. It is true that greater oxygen content in the atmosphere allows for bigger insects (squirrel-sized), but the connection to the size of vertebrates is much weaker. Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 10:13 PM (AO9UG) I thought the gigantism was a function of some many isolated population, higher air pressure, and O2 rich atmosphere Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 11:10 PM (CMlD4) Nope. It ain't.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 07:13 PM (AO9UG)

265 Those meteors didn't build themselves.  Someone else built the roads they rode in on...

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at August 11, 2013 07:15 PM (NJ5Ca)

266 263 by the way, that is its actual name "girlie girl" hahaha. I love the way people name their wines these days. I think they are trying to make up for no longer feeling like they can brag about their poops. Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 11:13 PM (RZ8pf) Husband asked me yesterday about that article. I told him there are days I am still proud of my poop, and if he told anyone I'd divorce him.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:15 PM (aH+zP)

267 > Everybody in my neighborhood must be drunk on wine this evening though, I've never seen the wine aisle so crowded.


only a few summer weekends left- gotta get in all the drinking you can

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:15 PM (8sCoq)

268 If parrots ever grow fangs, RUN.
Polly want a crazy ass cracker. (Squawk. Squawk.)

Posted by: polly at August 11, 2013 07:16 PM (4qnX5)

269 I was annoyed with the people in the wine aisle. It was like, come on assholes shouldn't you be home now. It's my time to gaze lovingly at all the wine labels while I try to decide which bottle will be my date for the evening.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 07:17 PM (RZ8pf)

270 You know what a 'jelly roll' is, right?  If not, what are you doing later?

Posted by: Jelly Roll Morton at August 11, 2013 07:17 PM (NJ5Ca)

271 T-REX: *wheeze* *swipe* *wheeze* *swipe* *wheeze* *swipe GRAB* *trundles away*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 10:29 PM (CA2NO)



Little-known fact: The "T" in "T-Rex" stands for "Turbo".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 07:18 PM (60Q+L)

272 Polly want a crazy ass cracker. (Squawk. Squawk.) Posted by: polly at August 11, 2013 11:16 PM (4qnX5) You must be more specific, Polly. Do you want a "crazy-ass cracker," or a "crazy ass-cracker?"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:18 PM (CA2NO)

273 Parrots as vicious, fanged birds-of-prey. Interesting... *writes idea in weapons notebook*.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 07:18 PM (9X5AZ)

274 There is very little going on these days that is *not* disturbing.
I find your lack of faith in the GOP disturbing

Posted by: darth lincolntf at August 11, 2013 07:18 PM (4qnX5)

275 has anyone here read "Divergent?"

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 07:19 PM (RZ8pf)

276 White meat! (Squawk! Squawk!) White meat!

Posted by: polly at August 11, 2013 07:20 PM (4qnX5)

277 270 You know what a 'jelly roll' is, right? If not, what are you doing later? Posted by: Jelly Roll Morton at August 11, 2013 11:17 PM (NJ5Ca) --- Um, a different kind of jelly roll.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:21 PM (aH+zP)

278 Parrots as vicious, fanged birds-of-prey. Interesting... *writes idea in weapons notebook*. Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 11:18 PM (9X5AZ) If you've ever been bitten by a parakeet, you know they pack a wallop in that little beak of theirs. Now size that up to, say, a macaw; watch your fingers!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:21 PM (CA2NO)

279

oh sweet turd that won't flush

my 11yo looks like she's 18ish

 

her teen years are going to be rough

let me count the 12g boxes again

Posted by: navycopjoe at August 11, 2013 07:23 PM (V75zy)

280 251 I get a kick out of watching the hummingbirds at
the feeder in the backyard and trying to imagine them millenia ago as
dinosaurs.

Posted by: MWR
---------------------

Yeah, well just wait until the fang gene emerges and they go off of the liquid diet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 11:10 PM (aDwsi)



There are two kinds of birds that no other bird will mess with....at all. Not raptors, not ravens, no other bird. The first is woodpeckers -- if a woodpecker visits a bird-feeder, all the other birds find themselves busy elsewhere. Nothing (except another woodpecker) will attack a woodpecker.....there's something about "one hit can easily break a leg or wing" that just discourages 'em.



The other one, oddly enough, is hummingbirds. Being that their unique mode of flight allows them not only to hover, but also fly backwards and/or upside-down -- as well as accelerate in ways other birds can't -- they are (rightfully) considered as someone who will be behind an aggressor's head pecking at his back within milliseconds of an attack....which, btw, is why you can frequently see hummingbird nests but not other birds'.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:23 PM (T1005)

281 Ladies fingers! Squawk! Squawk!
Macaws suck! Squawk! Squawk!

Posted by: polly at August 11, 2013 07:23 PM (4qnX5)

282 255 Yeah, well just wait until the fang gene emerges and they go off of the liquid diet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 11:10 PM (aDwsi)



If parrots ever grow fangs, RUN.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 11:11 PM (CA2NO)



There is a carnivorous parrot -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:26 PM (T1005)

283 Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005) So, a hybrid hummingbird-woodpecker, a hummingpecker, would kick ass big time.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 07:27 PM (AO9UG)

284

282 There is a carnivorous parrot 

 

 bet he tastes like chicken

Posted by: navycopjoe at August 11, 2013 07:27 PM (V75zy)

285 203 I saw the sideline story that Obama is having Bo flown to him at high cost even though SEQUESTER

Is the White House chef with him?

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 11, 2013 10:56 PM (d7tB2)

*********

Probably.  Also saw where he traveled with his own personal basketballs.  Plural. On the golf course  3 putted first hole too.  Whatever.  In Peruvia every person has their own basketball from birth.

Posted by: gracepmc at August 11, 2013 07:28 PM (rznx3)

286 More than 70 hotel rooms, each costing up to $345 (£220) a night, have been booked out for Secret Service agents, who took charge of luggage including two large mesh bags full of basketballs.

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:28 PM (8sCoq)

287 So, a hybrid hummingbird-woodpecker, a hummingpecker, would kick ass big time. Please not to be giving SyFy any ideas.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 07:29 PM (dpH+D)

288 So, a hybrid hummingbird-woodpecker, a hummingpecker, would kick ass big time. Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 11:27 PM (AO9UG) Tell me about itÂ…

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at August 11, 2013 07:30 PM (Vk2pI)

289  The Obamas are staying in Chilmark on the western tip of the island, an area that is dotted with multi-million dollar homes. The neighbours include actor Ted Danson and the singer Carly Simon.

On several previous visits the Obamas had stayed at the 28-acre Blue Heron Farm, but it has since been sold to Britain's most celebrated architect, Baron Foster of Thames Bank.

The president has therefore had to downsize to a $7.6 million, 5,000-square foot retreat on nine acres which is owned by a businessman friend from Chicago. It includes a basketball court.

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:30 PM (8sCoq)

290 246 Speaking of Elysium, the liberal cock sucking media here played its poor opening weekend up, by saying it was tops at the box office this weekend pulling in 30 million. Total "chocolate rations increased from 30 milligrams to 25 milligrams" moment.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 11, 2013 11:09 PM (RZ8pf)

 

Yeah they are definitely covering up its lackluster performance.  Yahoo had this buried a few lines into their article talking about the opening weekend for the films. 

 

 

Sony had hoped for more from the "Elysium" debut domestically, and analysts had projected a $35 million first weekend, so foreign will be critical to the film's financial success. Its first major market was Russia, and it opened there at No. 1 with $6.8 million.

Posted by: buzzion at August 11, 2013 07:30 PM (LI48c)

291 unique mode of flight allows them not only to hover, but also fly backwards and/or upside-down -- as well as accelerate in ways other birds can't -- they are (rightfully) considered as someone who will be behind an aggressor's head pecking at his back within milliseconds of an attack....which, btw, is why you can frequently see hummingbird nests but not other birds'. Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005) ========= The Aztec god of sun and war was Huitzilopochtli - a name that meant "hummingbird of the left (or south)"

Posted by: Sister Sestina at August 11, 2013 07:30 PM (1wI7y)

292 262 232
What kind of pattern are you doing?
Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:06 PM (T1005)
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http://tinyurl.com/ktl3jue
My take on a Jelly Roll or Lasagna [sic] quilt. I cut the strips and I'm not doing the doubling method. Can't with the measurements I want. Each one is cut to length before I go to the next. I haven't made a quilt in years but I've made dozens of traditional ones before.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 11:12 PM (aH+zP)



Nice!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:30 PM (T1005)

293 So, a hybrid hummingbird-woodpecker, a hummingpecker, would kick ass big time. Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 11:27 PM (AO9UG) "Hummingpecker" needs to be a superhero name RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:30 PM (CA2NO)

294 So, a hybrid hummingbird-woodpecker, a hummingpecker, would kick ass big time. Please not to be giving SyFy any ideas. Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 11:29 PM (dpH+D) Too late.

Posted by: SyFy at August 11, 2013 07:31 PM (Vk2pI)

295 bassetball jones...I got a bassetball jones...

Posted by: BignJames at August 11, 2013 07:31 PM (20Mmk)

296 Some artist with more skill then I needs to make a Castaway style basketball in an Obama motif

Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 07:31 PM (CMlD4)

297 the woodpeckers at my birdfeeder are beaucoup bigger than other birds--bluejays and cardinals, etc


size matters

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville at August 11, 2013 07:31 PM (omBWL)

298 Tonight on SyFy... Sharknado Versus Woodhumpecker!

Posted by: SyFy at August 11, 2013 07:32 PM (4qnX5)

299 *"Hummingpecker" needs to be a superhero name RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. Too bad that superhero won't be in Kick-Ass 2.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 07:32 PM (9X5AZ)

300 Posted by: Romeo13 But somehow Tank rounds which are in between? can't figure it out... It's a scaling problem. Pistol and rifle rounds can be dropped on a concrete floor and suffer no ill effects (unless a primer gets hit hard enough ...) .50cal through 27mm are almost as robust ... 30-35mm only slightly less so. 40-57mm ammo is still able to take some abuse, but nothing like the smaller rounds, and 3" rounds start being sensitive to projectile dislocation, etc. Do a Wiki check, and compare the complete round weights. Increasing overall round size increases weight fast. Now look at the size of the autoloader for each round. As the ammunition round gets larger, the loading mechanism also grows, and usually slightly faster. Part of this is due for more care needed for larger rounds, and part is due to the weight increase. IIRC, the Israeli Merkava Mk-3 and -4 versions have a 5 or 6 round revolver loader. It might be an optimal solution. The AMX-13 had twin 6-rd revolver magazines, but I think they were under very light armor. It had merit, but it was not yet ready for prime-time. Tanks are a bit of a special case. Rail flatcars are a transportation width constraint, as are the semi-tractor trailers. The Israeli Merkava is noticeably wider than NATO and Russian tanks, as it faces no rail constraint, and the Israelis can make their transporters wider. But they are still using a 5- or 6-rd loader. A generic loader, like those used in the Navy, is very much more complex, larger and subject to failure. The volume needed for current large caliber gun autoloaders does not exist in current tanks.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 07:32 PM (FlRtG)

301 283 Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005)


So, a hybrid hummingbird-woodpecker, a hummingpecker, would kick ass big time.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 11:27 PM (AO9UG)



Keahummingpecker? Hummingkeapecker? Woodkeahummer?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:32 PM (T1005)

302 1 unique mode of flight allows them not only to hover, but also fly backwards and/or upside-down -- as well as accelerate in ways other birds can't -- they are (rightfully) considered as someone who will be behind an aggressor's head pecking at his back within milliseconds of an attack....which, btw, is why you can frequently see hummingbird nests but not other birds'. Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005) Just the other day i was wondering about what might be a hummingbird's natural predators, since they're so damn FAST. You just answered my question!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:32 PM (CA2NO)

303 btw, I'll bet KA2 will beat out Elysium.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 11, 2013 07:33 PM (9X5AZ)

304 adult woodpeckers are as big as crows and small hawks


also, woodpecker spelled backwards is peckerwood

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville at August 11, 2013 07:33 PM (omBWL)

305 The hummingpecker is the national bird of Peruvia.

Posted by: Sister Sestina at August 11, 2013 07:33 PM (1wI7y)

306 287 So, a hybrid hummingbird-woodpecker, a hummingpecker, would kick ass big time.
Please not to be giving SyFy any ideas.
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 11:29 PM (dpH+D)

They'll save that one for bird week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 07:33 PM (fnPRp)

307 Keahummingpecker? Hummingkeapecker? Woodkeahummer? Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:32 PM (T1005) Kea Hummingpecker, mild-mannered UPS driver by day, fabulously attired superhero by night.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:34 PM (CA2NO)

308 Will Ted Danson be showing up in blackface?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 07:34 PM (4qnX5)

309 Burglar breaks into home of 72-yr old retired boxer: ass-whupping ensues


check the photo http://is.gd/Xgugdh

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:35 PM (8sCoq)

310 get off his lawn

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:36 PM (8sCoq)

311 297 the woodpeckers at my birdfeeder are beaucoup bigger than other birds--bluejays and cardinals, etc


size matters

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville at August 11, 2013 11:31 PM (omBWL)



Out here (Silicon Valley), many birds are larger -- crows, ravens, raptors....even pigeons. They all shuffle nervously away when a woodpecker shows up.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:36 PM (T1005)

312

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 11:32 PM (FlRtG)

 

Man on the Moon.... Rover on Mars....

 

If there was a real interest in America to solve this issue, it would have been solved...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2013 07:36 PM (lZBBB)

313 the Israeli Merkava Mk-3 and -4 versions have a 5 or 6 round revolver loader jump seat for hot IDF chicks with guns. It might be an optimal solution.


Fixed

Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 07:37 PM (CMlD4)

314 Fucking woodpeckers.

Posted by: some Ent at August 11, 2013 07:37 PM (dpH+D)

315 I gotta bassaball jones oh baby ooh ooh ooooooooh.....

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:37 PM (8sCoq)

316 Burglar breaks into home of 72-yr old retired boxer: ass-whupping ensues check the photo http://is.gd/Xgugdh
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 11:35 PM (8sCoq)

I thought the British weren't allowed to defend themselves.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 07:38 PM (fnPRp)

317 Obama and his basketballs. Probably has presidential seal on them.

Posted by: Just Guessin' at August 11, 2013 07:38 PM (J98eP)

318 that would be a fuckpecker


sorry

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:38 PM (8sCoq)

319 We saw a red-cockaded woodpecker yesterday. Our neighbour with whom we share woods has seen a pilated woodpecker in our yard. Those suckers are big, the red-cockaded wasn't.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:39 PM (aH+zP)

320 Pistol and rifle rounds can be dropped on a concrete floor and suffer no ill effects (unless a primer gets hit hard enough ...) Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 11:32 PM (FlRtG) Don't try this at home, folks. And if you do, search online for "bullet setback kaboom" first.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:39 PM (yoh1c)

321 so a woodpecker is like a winged honeybadger


(I detect a new meme forming)

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:39 PM (8sCoq)

322 we have a woodpecker who works out a few minutes each day on our house--pecking our 'hardyboard', which is concrete and wood byproducts.  Beak of Steel on that one


the Cable Guy blunted two drills before finding a drill that could get through the exterior, and this woodpecker whacks away at it for fun.  Impressive

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville at August 11, 2013 07:40 PM (omBWL)

323 The ill fated autoloader on the FCS was very complex ...

Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 07:40 PM (CMlD4)

324 Now if we can somehow incorporate a little Red-Capped Manakin into Kea Hummingpecker's DNA, we'll have a speedy, powerful superhero who is also a maestro on the dance floor. http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-22/watch-a-lovely-bird-dancing

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:41 PM (CA2NO)

325 314 Fucking woodpeckers. Posted by: some Ent at August 11, 2013 11:37 PM (dpH+D) ---- Harooooom, hasty words master Entling.

Posted by: Treebeard at August 11, 2013 07:41 PM (aH+zP)

326 I've got a red cockade on my woodpecker, and I'm ready for Love

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 11, 2013 07:42 PM (omBWL)

327 "Don't try this at home, folks." True, and to be clear, ~40mm and larger rounds cannot be dropped; damage is essentially guaranteed.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 07:44 PM (FlRtG)

328 Hi ont, crazy woodpeckers, only the ont

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 11, 2013 07:44 PM (vgd4f)

329 Posted by: navycopjoe at August 11, 2013 11:23 PM I feel your pain, the Genitical Twinlets turn 14 come November.

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 11, 2013 07:44 PM (JMmQ9)

330 316 Burglar breaks into home of 72-yr old retired boxer: ass-whupping ensues check the photo http://is.gd/Xgugdh
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 11:35 PM (8sCoq)

I thought the British weren't allowed to defend themselves.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 11:38 PM (fnPRp)



They're not....mostly. It's so bad that if you go after a home invader with a kitchen knife, you have to have been in the kitchen when he invaded -- and heaven forfend that you defend yourself with a cricket bat if you weren't just at a match! But fisticuffs are suitable for use at pubs, watching football, or just walking down the street.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 07:44 PM (T1005)

331 Hummingpecker don't give a shit.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:45 PM (yoh1c)

332 330 316
Burglar breaks into home of 72-yr old retired boxer: ass-whupping ensues check the photo http://is.gd/Xgugdh
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 11:35 PM (8sCoq)


I thought the British weren't allowed to defend themselves.



Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 11, 2013 11:38 PM (fnPRp)


They're not....mostly. It's so bad that if you go after a home invader with a kitchen knife, you have to have been in the kitchen when he invaded -- and heaven forfend that you defend yourself with a cricket bat if you weren't just at a match! But fisticuffs are suitable for use at pubs, watching football, or just walking down the street.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 11:44 PM (T1005)

I assume solid stick umbrellas are still OK?


Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 07:46 PM (CMlD4)

333 Australia, New Zealand, and Madacascar have no woodpeckers

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:46 PM (8sCoq)

334
>>"Hummingpecker" needs to be a superhero name RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 11:30 PM (CA2NO)



Ummm, maybe super heroine?

Posted by: ontherocks at August 11, 2013 07:46 PM (i3aP/)

335 300 <- And THAT is why I hang out here..., well, that and the quilting tips.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 07:47 PM (aDwsi)

336 Hummingbirds are aggressive, territorial little bastards. Watch their behavior around a feeder sometime.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 07:47 PM (60Q+L)

337 331 Hummingpecker don't give a shit.    

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 11, 2013 11:45 PM (yoh1c)

 

 

That's LORD HummingPecker.... Warlord of the Wasteland.... Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah... or so I've heard..... but first....

Posted by: Mad Max at August 11, 2013 07:47 PM (lZBBB)

338 Fucking woodpeckers. Ho-ho-ho ho ho! Ho-ho-ho ho ho! Sounds like someone's going to get pecked to death!

Posted by: Woody Woodpecker at August 11, 2013 07:47 PM (Vk2pI)

339 Hummingpeckers with beaks coated with kryptonite. You have your nightmares, Superman has his.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2013 07:48 PM (AO9UG)

340 I saw one woodpecker a couple of years ago that was HUGE. It flew in front of my car, and I swear to God I thought it was a hawk. The only reason I figured otu what it was was because I saw it perch on the side of a tree before it was out of my sight. Red head, black and white body. Very Woody Woodpecker-esque. The woodpeckers we have most often in my backyard are little Downy Woodpeckers. Cute little buggers, even if they're noisy as HELL.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:49 PM (CA2NO)

341

Posted by: Woody Woodpecker at August 11, 2013 11:47 PM (Vk2pI)

 

 

Peckerhead..... get off my lawn...

Posted by: Crochety Old Southerner at August 11, 2013 07:49 PM (lZBBB)

342 336 Hummingbirds are aggressive, territorial little bastards. Watch their behavior around a feeder sometime. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 11:47 PM (60Q+L) --- Sounds like my ex. Only he wasn't a woodpecker, he was a peckerwood.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:49 PM (aH+zP)

343 This doesn't sound good… Multiple Arrests Reported In California Town Following “Impeach Obama” Rally http://tinyurl.com/n69e947

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 07:50 PM (Vk2pI)

344 Burglar breaks into home of 72-yr old retired boxer: ass-whupping ensues


check the photo http://is.gd/Xgugdh
----------------

"McCalium had denied the charge and claimed he could not remember what happened. "

LMAO....

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 07:50 PM (aDwsi)

345 Peck.... Peck... Peck....

Posted by: Mad Mardigan at August 11, 2013 07:50 PM (lZBBB)

346 340 MWR, that sounds like a pileated woodpecker.

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 07:50 PM (aH+zP)

347 ... and as an extra-special added bonus, for gun aficionados, I give you: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/tankammo.html The Home Ammunition Collection, Deluxe. If you thought you had guns ... no. Be sure to visit the detailed collection pages. Tell Anna; she will appreciate the link.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 07:51 PM (FlRtG)

348 Then you have your fiberglasspeckers. Known to riddle boat hulls with holes while seeking their prey, polyestermites.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 07:51 PM (60Q+L)

349 >Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 11:49 PM (CA2NO)



you most likely saw the Pileated Woodpecker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pileated_Woodpecker

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 11, 2013 07:51 PM (8sCoq)

350 340 MWR, that sounds like a pileated woodpecker. Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 11:50 PM (aH+zP) I think so! I haven't seen it since, which is a shame. It was an amazing bird. Peck.... Peck... Peck.... Posted by: Mad Mardigan at August 11, 2013 11:50 PM (lZBBB) I always knew you'd end up in a Crow's Cage.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:52 PM (CA2NO)

351 People call me "peckerhead" all the time too. It must be because of the bird, right?

Posted by: woody harrelson at August 11, 2013 07:53 PM (4qnX5)

352 That was kinda close.  Have ceramic discharge elements on all the cables going up the tower, lightning has made them click before, but just now they went KAPOW and there is a whiff of ozone inside.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 11, 2013 07:54 PM (kxSZr)

353 People call me "peckerhead" all the time too. It must be because of the bird, right? Posted by: woody harrelson at August 11, 2013 11:53 PM (4qnX5) Yeah... sure... Hey, behind you! Weed!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 07:54 PM (CA2NO)

354 The woodpeckers we have most often in my backyard are little Downy Woodpeckers. Cute little buggers, even if they're noisy as HELL.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 11, 2013 11:49 PM (CA2NO)


That big one may have been a pileated woodpecker: http://www.birdweb.org/birdweb/bird/pileated_woodpecker

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 07:54 PM (60Q+L)

355 But fisticuffs are suitable for use at pubs, watching football, or just walking down the street.
Posted by: cthulhu
-------

And soccer games..., especially soccer games..., wait..., you said football

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 07:55 PM (aDwsi)

356 Peruvia has Woodpeckers as large as goats

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at August 11, 2013 07:55 PM (jucos)

357 Woody Pecker don't give a shit!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJlmQaqjfU

Posted by: woody pecker at August 11, 2013 07:56 PM (4qnX5)

358 Peruvia has Woodpeckers as large as goats
And they kill blackbirds without provocation.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 07:57 PM (4qnX5)

359

This doesn't sound goodÂ…

Multiple Arrests Reported In California Town Following “Impeach Obama” Rally

*snip*

-------------

 

Either you intentionally provide a bad link (an anti-Obama rally here in CALIFORNIA!?) that's worse than you thought, or your link is just bad period.  The link goes to a Sankaku Complex page that's currently blank.

 

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 07:58 PM (Quo7C)

360 The Pileated Hummingpecker is the national bird of Peruvia. It's also good eats.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 07:59 PM (dpH+D)

361 See, junior? The NSA have wiped the story already!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 07:59 PM (4qnX5)

362 Evenin' all. Went to the county fair tonight and G*d as my witness I saw two kids with 'Dynamic Duo' airbrushed on their t-shirts while rockin' wagon wheels, stripes, and rat tails. I fear the 80s and early 90s fashion is coming back.

Posted by: RWC at August 11, 2013 08:00 PM (uRqqf)

363 That was kinda close. Have ceramic discharge elements on all the cables going up the tower, lightning has made them click before, but just now they went KAPOW and there is a whiff of ozone inside.
Posted by: SpongeBob
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Antenna tower, I assume. Hope most of your leads are disconnected...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 08:00 PM (aDwsi)

364

See, junior? The NSA have wiped the story already!

------------

 

D'oh!  I should have realized that was the case!

 

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 08:00 PM (Quo7C)

365 358 Peruvia has Woodpeckers as large as goats
And they kill blackbirds without provocation.  
 

Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2013 11:57 PM (4qnX5)

 

 

And there is a Peer Reviewed Theory... that Dragons once really existed in Peruvia, but our Peruvian Woodpeckers eventually grew large enough to force an extinction event...

Posted by: Peruvian Dept. of Biology at August 11, 2013 08:00 PM (lZBBB)

366 That was an Impooch Obama Rally.

Posted by: ontherocks at August 11, 2013 08:00 PM (i3aP/)

367 The Peruvian Woodpecker is great if prepared correctly.  Curry works

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at August 11, 2013 08:01 PM (jucos)

368 Peruvia has Woodpeckers as large as goats And they kill blackbirds without provocation. Posted by: andycanuck at August 11, 2013 11:57 PM (4qnX5) Cuz Peruvian Peckers don't give a shit.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 08:01 PM (CA2NO)

369 Cuz Peruvian Peckers don't give a shit.

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at August 12, 2013 12:01 AM (CA2NO)

 

 

Well, there is a well known study that supports the contention that Peruvia does have the Largest Peckers in Europe...

Posted by: Peruvian Dept. of Biology at August 11, 2013 08:02 PM (lZBBB)

370 The Peruvian Woodpecker is great if prepared correctly. Curry works Posted by: Truck Monkey

Tastes like bald eagle

Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2013 08:04 PM (CMlD4)

371 Crap! Anyone here see my dick?

Posted by: Pinocchio, with a pained look on his face at August 11, 2013 08:04 PM (60Q+L)

372 I sense the midnight slow-down setting in. Hummingpecker was an interesting way to go out though.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 08:04 PM (aDwsi)

373 Well, there is a well known study that supports the contention that Peruvia does have the Largest Peckers in Europe... Posted by: Peruvian Dept. of Biology at August 12, 2013 12:02 AM (lZBBB) This is a continent that includes France and Belgium. Not a terribly high bar, Peruvian Dept of Biology.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 08:05 PM (CA2NO)

374 I have never seen a humming pecker.  I have seen a spitting trouser cobra though.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at August 11, 2013 08:06 PM (jucos)

375 Woodpeckers aren't really a problem,
.......they are however, far preferable to the alternative.

Posted by: ontherocks at August 11, 2013 08:06 PM (i3aP/)

376 Tower has 80, 40, 6, and 2 meter antennas, no radios hooked up inside.  Will have to check the antennas and the discharge elements tomorrow.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 11, 2013 08:06 PM (kxSZr)

377 I sense the midnight slow-down setting in. Hummingpecker was an interesting way to go out though. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 12, 2013 12:04 AM (aDwsi) Hummingpecker would also be a great name for an Austin Powers heroine. And alas, I think I'll have to contribute to the slowdown myself by heading off to bed. Y'all be good now, and don't let the Peruvian Peckers break the blog! They've got neck muscles like you would not believe. G'night!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/b][/u] at August 11, 2013 08:07 PM (CA2NO)

378 This is a continent that includes France and Belgium.

Not a terribly high bar, Peruvian Dept of Biology.
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And Moldova..., do not forget Moldova.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 08:07 PM (aDwsi)

379   Tower has 80, 40, 6, and 2 meter antennas, no radios hooked up inside. Will have to check the antennas and the discharge elements tomorrow.
Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget 


Please ignore the little ferret antennas, they're government property and none of your business.

Posted by: NSA PAO at August 11, 2013 08:08 PM (CMlD4)

380 Tell the truth! Tell a lie! Tell the truth! Tell a lie! Tell the truth! Tell a lie!

Posted by: pinocchio's date sitting on his face at August 11, 2013 08:08 PM (4qnX5)

381  
   Time for the old folk.  Lazy day tomorrow.



        Goodnite, good people.    Stay safe.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 11, 2013 08:08 PM (SAMxH)

382 Tower has 80, 40, 6, and 2 meter antennas, no radios hooked up inside. Will have to check the antennas and the discharge elements tomorrow.
Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget
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My goodness! All beams?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 08:08 PM (aDwsi)

383 Heh, I wish there was an 80 meter beam up there.  I'm wondering if the lightning was close enough to damage the traps on the dipole.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 11, 2013 08:11 PM (kxSZr)

384 Night IG.

Posted by: RWC at August 11, 2013 08:12 PM (uRqqf)

385 Heh, I wish there was an 80 meter beam up there. I'm wondering if the lightning was close enough to damage the traps on the dipole.
Posted by: SpongeBob
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Well, good luck with it. I expect a report later.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 11, 2013 08:13 PM (aDwsi)

386 I've got a red cockade on my woodpecker, and I'm ready for Love Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 11, 2013 11:42 PM (omBWL) Excellent Ornithological Humour there, old boy.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 11, 2013 08:13 PM (l3vZN)

387 holy fuck was that game awesome

Posted by: The Dude at August 11, 2013 08:13 PM (vJdyz)

388 Tower has 80, 40, 6, and 2 meter antennas, no radios hooked up inside.
Will have to check the antennas and the discharge elements tomorrow.


Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget
----------------------------------

My goodness! All beams?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 12, 2013 12:08 AM (aDwsi)



Yes, enquiring hams want to know!

Posted by: Country Singer at August 11, 2013 08:13 PM (5ae6g)

389 This doesn't sound good… Multiple Arrests Reported In California Town Following “Impeach Obama” Rally *snip* ------------- Either you intentionally provide a bad link (an anti-Obama rally here in CALIFORNIA!?) that's worse than you thought, or your link is just bad period. The link goes to a Sankaku Complex page that's currently blank. Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 11:58 PM (Quo7C) correct link: http://tinyurl.com/mq4pnr9

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 08:13 PM (Vk2pI)

390 OK, if interest in sheep-killing parrots is starting to wane, how 'bout another shot at the "Mother Nature is a Bitch" sweepstakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_bat

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 08:14 PM (T1005)

391 I think I saw a wild turkey a couple of weeks ago. As I was driving past, it flew up from the ground and perched on top of a mailbox. Whatever it was, that fucker was huge. I've never seen anything like it before where I live.

Posted by: rickl at August 11, 2013 08:16 PM (sdi6R)

392 Just got in from the drive back from the river. Mostly work on the cottage, but did kayak in the chigger infested marsh for a while.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 11, 2013 08:17 PM (l3vZN)

393 Also note that the Latin designation for the common vampire bat translates to "Fat Desmond."

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 08:17 PM (T1005)

394 Methinks the National Report is an Onion wannabe.

Posted by: Pinocchio, with a pained look on his face at August 11, 2013 08:18 PM (60Q+L)

395 Off, damned sock!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 08:20 PM (60Q+L)

396 394 Methinks the National Report is an Onion wannabe.

Posted by: Pinocchio, with a pained look on his face at August 12, 2013 12:18 AM (60Q+L)



Eureka?!?!?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 08:20 PM (T1005)

397 I've seen turkey vultures here that are pretty big too.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 11, 2013 08:21 PM (4qnX5)

398 did kayak in the chigger infested marsh

They just allow all manner of racism on this blog.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at August 11, 2013 08:25 PM (kxSZr)

399 "Burglar breaks into home of 72-yr old retired boxer: ass-whupping ensues"

I have boxed on and off since (no kidding) age seven.

Do NOT presume to take yuppie boxing lessons from this silly article.

The burglar (more properly a home invader) was in his early twenties and carrying a knife. This is not a calculus which normally works out to the advantage of a seventysomething boxer.

What did work out to the aged boxer's advantage in this specific instance was that the twentysomething knife wielder was whacked out of his head, slow and clumsy.

Against a knife guy with sober fast reflexes and some experience or training, a right cross from a skilled boxer will run straight into the defensive blade. Ouch. And will then be followed up with offensive blade work that's not easy (if at all) for a boxer to counter.

I talked with an Asian martial arts guy who said that in his particular art, there is an axiom to the effect that one blade in an untrained hand negates twenty years of unarmed practice.

Pretty much.

If I encounter a guy in my house at night with a knife, I'm not going to my boxing background. Not a chance. He's getting the twelve-bore, center of mass, with a magnum load of buckshot. He can catch that on the blade all he wants. There are more on the way if required if the first lot don't get the job done.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 11, 2013 08:26 PM (gqT4g)

400 Fun fact: Kayak sounds remarkably like kuyak. Which is Inuktitut for fuck. The more you knowwwwww

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 08:27 PM (aH+zP)

401

TPH,

 

I don't think that website can be taken too seriously.  One of the other stories there is about Putin eating a little girl's liver and kidneys...

 

Posted by: junior at August 11, 2013 08:28 PM (Quo7C)

402 did kayak in the chigger infested marsh This sounds like a line from "Jabberwocky".

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 11, 2013 08:29 PM (dpH+D)

403 Wouldn't have wanted to engage in that activity in the marsh--to many bugs!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 11, 2013 08:30 PM (l3vZN)

404 Hat, if you're still here: I'm chatting, fight now, with someone very near Eureka CA. The word is that the photos in your link do not look to be from the Eureka area. ... might want to check this source with others ...

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 08:31 PM (FlRtG)

405 I don't know that source for the arrests in CA, so it's hard to judge the details given. Then again, the cockbites in the MFM (delenda est) wouldn't cover it if it were true, which is a large part of the reason we're in such deep shit as a culture.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at August 11, 2013 08:32 PM (yoh1c)

406 397 I've seen turkey vultures here that are pretty big too.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 12, 2013 12:21 AM (4qnX5)



Years ago, we went on a dive trip to Guanaja, Honduras, where we stayed at the Bayman Bay Club, which consisted of a large multistory "clubhouse", and scattered private "guesthouses" on a largish hillside property. There was the "public dock", where our dive boat berthed and where we had come to begin our stay, and a "private dock" which could only be seen from some of the guesthouses, including ours, and which only had 8 pilings and then a ramp up to the backside of the clubhouse with a winch at the top.



For those of you unaccustomed to docks, they are typically constructed with vertical posts anchored into the bottom, with the part you walk on floating between with rollers on the posts to keep it in place. That way, if the tide goes up and down four feet, the dock is still in the same place relative to the boats.



Anyway, one morning we woke up, looked out the window, and saw 8 humongous turkey vultures sitting on top of the 8 posts of the cargo dock. We were looking at each other and going, "eh, you think maybe we might not want to dive today?" -- but eventually decided that it was more likely that the supply boat would sink. Neither calamity actually occurred.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 08:32 PM (T1005)

407 Ok so they are letting people come over the border because they are afraid of the cartel? Maybe as a American citizen, I should be fearful they are letting the cartel through the border posing as scared innocents, hmmmm?

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 11, 2013 08:33 PM (vgd4f)

408 The meridian of Midnight meanders mercilessly across the middle of America. A stealthy Avenger of justice appears out of the night. Tyrants beware Masked mid...whatev... hi

Posted by: Masked Midnight Man at August 11, 2013 08:33 PM (qG1i2)

409 Oh, for crying out loud, there are conservatives in CA just like there are liberals in Texas. Even in Eureka, I know some people who retired to the area. Lone low-detail articles are just nothing to go by. Unfortunately, heavily-sourced multiple MFM stories are nothing to go by, so, you know, boned.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at August 11, 2013 08:34 PM (yoh1c)

410 "If I encounter a guy in my house at night with a knife, I'm not going to my boxing background. Not a chance. He's getting the twelve-bore, center of mass, with a magnum load of buckshot."

Of course, I live in the USA. Where, for now, armed countertactics are legal in a steadily shrinking sphere.

If I lived in the UK, where the Officially Disarmed Victims Act has been in effect for a while? I would instead own a dog.

The sort of dog where a tyrannosaur would take a look and blink and figure, "Wow, too much trouble, maybe a few houses on down the row instead."

A boyhood friend owned a completely psychotic Alsatian which his family called the "Land Shark". Accurately. I am pretty simpatico with dogs, to include large aggressive dogs, to include wolf hybrids, but I never had the stones to go out alone in the yard with that animal. It was nuts. Dangerously so. But I would absolutely own a dog like that in a place where I could not have a defensive firearm.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 11, 2013 08:34 PM (gqT4g)

411 Mrs. Jinx got stung by wasps on each foot today while she was doing some canvas sewing on the boat. She's pretty allergic, so I was prepared for a trip to the ER, but she took some benadryl and I put on a poultice and it kept her home. Feet are swollen up pretty badly though.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 11, 2013 08:37 PM (l3vZN)

412 Jinx, what did you use in the poultice?

Posted by: Gingy at August 11, 2013 08:39 PM (aH+zP)

413 Is Obama Possesed By Gaddafi's Ghost Causing Him To Masturbate to Iranian Hostage Videos?[/i}

The site that has the arrests at the anti-Obama protests also has the above for a story headline.

I'm going with not a credible source.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 11, 2013 08:39 PM (JawqV)

414   Damn barrel bait.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 11, 2013 08:40 PM (JawqV)

415 TPH: From the comments at your link: Marty August 11, 2013 at 4:41 am Totally bogus! I live in Eureka those photos are not of any local place. 255 / 101 is not even in Eureka itÂ’s in Arcata a liberal ass hippie university town. I contacted several local news agencies and they all said this is the first they had heard of it and when they checked the were told this was a fake story. You might want to use care with the information from this site.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 08:45 PM (FlRtG)

416 You might want to use care with the information from this site.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 12, 2013 12:45 AM (FlRtG)


No shit, Arb. It's a satire site; looks like it is intended to mock the check-stand expose press, like National Enquirer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 08:48 PM (60Q+L)

417 OK, so Imma gonna throw this one out there.....



I'm thinking there needs to be software to "disappear into the mist". Since there is so much freakin' computer power out there, what it would do is use your computers to conduct RANDOM Google searches every few minutes.....and "watch" RANDOM YouTube videos, half the time going off a link that it had just "watched". What if your computer visited RANDOM blogs and RANDOMLY followed links from them?



Imagine if each computer you owned did each of these 360 times a day, every day.....then imagine if all of your friends used it, too.




I'm thinking that the software could be named "KnockThatShitOffNSA", and could be very popular.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 08:50 PM (T1005)

418 This is what Oprah, and most other women, rarely talk about: the struggle for respect faced by women of color is shared, at times, with another group: women of size, another category to which Oprah belongs. The scale is not the same – racism can be as ugly as anything humans are capable of – yet, on a day-to-day basis, they have parallels. There is the same sense of diminishment, the same high-handed assumption by others, the same struggle for control of your own image.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 11, 2013 08:50 PM (e8kgV)

419 Hi guys. I shared this last night, but it was really late and I think most of you didn't get to see it. So I hope it's okay if I re-post tonight. Kinda sorta good news...

Found out the night before last from a lefty friend at Facebook that the legendary far-left radio network, Pacifica, is going completely bankrupt. In fact someone actually posted video on YouTube from yesterday of them in their car at around 2pm PDT, tuning into KPFK, Pacifica's Los Angeles station, and they heard... nothing. Dead air. Complete silence.

(By the way, said lefty friend is perfectly fine with Pacifica's demise. He thinks they were a bunch of insane nutjobs anyway.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 11, 2013 08:51 PM (7B7jB)

420 Posted by: torquewrench at August 12, 2013 12:34 AM (gqT4g) Make sure the dog is legal under the 'Dangerous Dogs Act of '91.' It covers four breeds, but also gives discretion to the .gov.

Posted by: RWC at August 11, 2013 08:51 PM (uRqqf)

421 AOP: The tiles on the right side look weird enough to make the site look real low-buck ... will take any ads. The rest ... screams "tinfoil". BUt the satire part isn't sufficiently clear. It looks like they were punked too. T9 says the photo's do not fit.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 11, 2013 08:52 PM (FlRtG)

422 There are several sting first-aid products like "Afterbite." I've seen two of them in action, and they both work -- though of course, depending on the bug, mileage will vary, and if you have a severe allergy you'll still need something else too.

Naturally you never have the damned stuff with you when you actually get into Bug Planet. Last year, mowing, I got too close to an old unused mailbox and a hornet came out to scout, and thought he'd just give me a little warning while he was there. I had just been re-arranging in the garage, so I knew there was a bottle of ammonia window cleaner right around the corner, and sprayed the sting within a few seconds.

It worked like a pip. I had a mild itch for a couple days, and no swelling or pain. And that's my Helpful Hint for the evening.

Posted by: comatus at August 11, 2013 08:54 PM (JNUY4)

423 Oprah has a billion dollars. She can have any image she wants. I have no doubt that this was a set up. If you saw photos of oprah while she was in Yodeland, she looked like a slob. If the clerk didn't she she had money, she could have opened her wallet and started pulling out the super dooper credit cards. That would have gotten the clerk's attention.

Posted by: Malcom Tucker at August 11, 2013 08:55 PM (tCBZk)

424 I'm thinking that the software could be named
"KnockThatShitOffNSA", and could be very popular.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2013 12:50 AM (T1005)



And, come to think of it, you'd have a much better argument than usual about that archive of kiddie-porn the gendarmes just found on your hard disk....."I was exercising my 1st Amendment rights to protest unreasonable searches and seizures when this automated program downloaded the archive of "B+D in Middle School."



Although, if I were writing the software, I'd be ABSOLUTELY SURE that all the RANDOM downloadings hit the bit-bucket and never touched my disk.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 08:56 PM (T1005)

425 Way OT.  Half listening to a cspan Johns Hopkins sponsored panel on Egypt.  Mostly good.  But my alma mater Gerogetown continues to produce the worst wimpy liberal profs. ever.  They embarrass themselves.  All of GU fluked.

Posted by: gracepmc at August 11, 2013 08:56 PM (rznx3)

426 Back from meteor-gazing. Managed to see several despite the comings and goings of cars at the lookout we'd chosen. Tgree especislly large/bright/ long ones near the horizon. Cool.

Posted by: Y-not popping in on the phone at August 11, 2013 08:59 PM (5H6zj)

427 I mix up a paste of baking soda and slather that on really thick and leave it on for an hour. It really helps a bee sting, though if you are really allergic then it is beyond this.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 11, 2013 09:00 PM (l3vZN)

428 426 Back from meteor-gazing. Managed to see several despite the comings and goings of cars at the lookout we'd chosen. Tgree especislly large/bright/ long ones near the horizon. Cool.

Posted by: Y-not popping in on the phone at August 12, 2013 12:59 AM (5H6zj)



From what I see, my best bet is to wait until nearly midnight. I have hills to the west, south, and east.....and if I don't want to put pants on, a house to the north -- so "horizon-grazing" ones ain't gonna work.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 09:02 PM (T1005)

429 Here in OK we have both peckerwoods and chiggars.

Posted by: Big Ben at August 11, 2013 09:04 PM (I5Htn)

430 427 I mix up a paste of baking soda and slather that on really thick and leave it on for an hour. It really helps a bee sting, though if you are really allergic then it is beyond this.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 12, 2013 01:00 AM (l3vZN)



I'd consider using ichthammol.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 09:04 PM (T1005)

431 I want to see meteors but I doubt I will be able to see them. When I did many many years ago, it was spectacular. There were hundreds and hour including the big streakers. It was a once in a life time experience. And they were over half the sky. Didn't have to look in any direction besides east. Still, I don't think any of my wishes came true...

Posted by: Malcom Tucker at August 11, 2013 09:06 PM (tCBZk)

432 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 12, 2013 01:00 AM (l3vZN) I'm convinced wasps are the only insects w/brains....devious bastards.

Posted by: BignJames at August 11, 2013 09:08 PM (20Mmk)

433 I'd consider using ichthammol. Especially for those hard to reach places around her hooves!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 11, 2013 09:09 PM (l3vZN)

434 Bedtime for me. Coffee from the trip is wearing off and it is a Sunday night. Have a good week everyone. Put more water in the soup, there's better times a'coming.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 11, 2013 09:12 PM (l3vZN)

435 433 I'd consider using ichthammol.


Especially for those hard to reach places around her hooves!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 12, 2013 01:09 AM (l3vZN)



I was first introduced to it by a Kaiser doctor who gruffly said, "it's horse liniment, but it should help" in regards to a boil, with the proviso that I should come back in two days. I had been given the old "hot compresses crap" for years at this point (I was about 14-yo).....and this gorp was just bangin'-the-gong all over the thing I had when I went back two days later -- to get a completely different doctor who insisted on lancing it anyway. Still pisses me off, if you haven't noticed. So I ended up being cut (which I hate), having an almost tattoo-like dark stain where the thing used to be, and gaining a keen appreciation for veterinary medicine.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 09:17 PM (T1005)

436 I thought the Spurwing Plover was the national bird of Peruvia...

Posted by: Bobymandius Destroyer of Threads at August 11, 2013 09:17 PM (eGb5D)

437 436 I thought the Spurwing Plover was the national bird of Peruvia...

Posted by: Bobymandius Destroyer of Threads at August 12, 2013 01:17 AM (eGb5D)



I was just thinking....would I even recognize a Spurwing Plover if it bit me on the ass? So, here ya go! -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurwing_Plover

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 09:25 PM (T1005)

438 TPH, I don't think that website can be taken too seriously. One of the other stories there is about Putin eating a little girl's liver and kidneys... Posted by: junior at August 12, 2013 12:28 AM (Quo7C) Link was forwarded by someone I know who is usually wary of stuff like that. but ya, some of the other stuff is a bit out thereÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 09:30 PM (Vk2pI)

439 but ya, some of the other stuff is a bit out thereÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 12, 2013 01:30 AM (Vk2pI)


The article itself reads like satire; poorly done, since leftists are bad at humor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 09:33 PM (60Q+L)

440 Damn. Some of these stories are hilarious: Is Obama Possessed By GaddafiÂ’s Ghost Causing Him To Masturbate To Iranian Hostage Murder Videos? http://tinyurl.com/mxwlfa4

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 09:34 PM (Vk2pI)

441 "campaign (a campaign in which literally 10s of people have participated by waving signs on highway overpasses promoting the impeachment of President Obama)."

Does this not sound like mockery?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 11, 2013 09:38 PM (60Q+L)

442 Well, finally got the ER under control and most people have packed it in.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 11, 2013 09:44 PM (sQ0LB)

443 441 "campaign (a campaign in which literally 10s of people have participated
by waving signs on highway overpasses promoting the impeachment of
President Obama)."

Does this not sound like mockery?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2013 01:38 AM (60Q+L)



The Tea Party has been mocked up one side and down the other, by establishment RINOs and the MSM, Dems and Keynesians....but it didn't stop them from being persecuted by the IRS and FEC in flagrant violation of both the Constitution and blackletter statutory law. Rude and mocking are so common from our "elites" as to not matter -- unconstitutional and illegal are working on it.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 09:46 PM (T1005)

444 442 Well, finally got the ER under control and most people have packed it in.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 12, 2013 01:44 AM (sQ0LB)



Hey, Crank -- congrats! when's your shift over?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 09:48 PM (T1005)

445 Night all. Here is "Elysian Fields" by Megadeth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXx6I-zLciU

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 09:51 PM (Vk2pI)

446 TPH, thought Michelle was possessed by Gaddafi, that fashion sense and all.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 09:52 PM (4+uhW)

447 0700 Eastern, so 0400 where you are, dark one.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 11, 2013 09:56 PM (sQ0LB)

448 447 0700 Eastern, so 0400 where you are, dark one.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 12, 2013 01:56 AM (sQ0LB)



Whoof! Not much of a social life....and shopping is difficult. Still, it's quieter than days.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 09:59 PM (T1005)

449 Looks like Cory booker might have been caught receiving kick-backs. Possession by Gaddafi not involved. http://tinyurl.com/mojbae4

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 11, 2013 09:59 PM (Vk2pI)

450 449 Looks like Cory booker might have been caught receiving kick-backs.

Possession by Gaddafi not involved.

http://tinyurl.com/mojbae4

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 12, 2013 01:59 AM (Vk2pI)



OK -- everyone raise their hands if they think that Dem politicians ain't crookeder than a dog's hind legs.....



Uh-huh....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 11, 2013 10:03 PM (T1005)

451 Booker Danno....

Posted by: Craig Poe at August 11, 2013 10:04 PM (BVkEs)

452 Oh, I don't work exclusively nights--got 3 day shifts later this week at my other job, where sadly the HQ is blocked (political sites/blogs not allowed, so all I've got is Drudge or my phone).  But the work schedule in general limits social stuff because I'm usually working or sleeping, especially on weekends.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 11, 2013 10:04 PM (sQ0LB)

453 Happy-ish Sunday Night - No triffids in the back yard, but no sign of the meteors either ... oh well.

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 10:09 PM (/yH2j)

454 This is what Oprah, and most other women, rarely talk about: the struggle for respect faced by women of color is shared, at times, with another group: women of size,


One of the least understood aspects of the Republican War on Women is their constant attacks on women of size. While women of color are painfully aware of the pervasive racism of the predominately old white southern male GOP, this "Second Front" against women of size has gone largely unnoticed.    

Posted by: cm9000 at August 11, 2013 10:18 PM (vfB2N)

455 >>>"Good evening, Horde. I'm 1/3 done my king size quilt top. Not a bad start; I was cutting this morning, had lovely husband stack them randomly so I didn't over think placement, wanted random. Should finish" See, I love these cozy threads. Now I can get the PJ's on and start transitioning into bed. (in a not creepy way)

Posted by: Eton Cox at August 11, 2013 10:30 PM (QCc6B)

456 Eton Cox at August 12, 2013 02:30 AM (QCc6B) Get a good night's rest ... the FSA is dependent on you ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 10:32 PM (/yH2j)

457 Hey Kids,


Been shopping money all weekend.  I will be having my mancard examined in the AM.  I fear it may be wearing a dress.  I hope I don't start saying words like 'icky.'



Posted by: jc at August 11, 2013 10:44 PM (PlzOe)

458 One of the least understood aspects of the Republican War on Women is their constant attacks on women of size. While women of color are painfully aware of the pervasive racism of the predominately old white southern male GOP, this "Second Front" against women of size has gone largely unnoticed.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 12, 2013 02:18 AM (vfB2N)


====


Damn.  I keep falling behind.   Where is the list of all the people I am supposed to be hating?  I just can't keep it all straight.


Also, it is so tiring.  Can I just hate from 10-2 and use the rest of my day for other stuff?

Posted by: jc at August 11, 2013 10:47 PM (PlzOe)

459 Get a good night's rest ... the FSA is dependent on you ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 12, 2013 02:32 AM (/yH2j)



Yes. I will arise in a few short hours to toil in support of the FSA. My labor is a privilege I unfairly hold. The idle are entitled to its fruits.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 11, 2013 10:49 PM (vfB2N)

460 453 Happy-ish Sunday Night -

No triffids in the back yard, but no sign of the meteors either ... oh well.

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 12, 2013 02:09 AM (/yH2j)



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did they run off together?

Posted by: jc at August 11, 2013 10:55 PM (PlzOe)

461 did they run off together? Well triffids slither and meteors fall ... so I'm gonna go with 'no' ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 10:58 PM (/yH2j)

462 triffids slither and meteors fall



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that batch of syllables sound like they would be right at home in the middle of some lengthy shakespeare soliloquy or monologue.

Posted by: jc at August 11, 2013 11:02 PM (PlzOe)

463 So apparently there was a rodeo clown at the MO state fair dressed as Obama and people have decided this is racists and not the mocking of a political figure at a nonpolitical event. I am not entirely sure how this is racist but the correct thinking people of both parties are assuring me that it is and that someone should apologize for it.

Posted by: Drew in MO at August 11, 2013 11:02 PM (cGlgB)

464 Starring up at the starry and clear night sky
Crickets chirping while distant dogs howled
Nary a vehicle to mar the sounds of nature
Whilst Isis was clamped firmly upon my forearm
busily licking my skin within an inch of its life
Though the streetlight stayed maddeningly on
Did manage to see a few streaks of light
The last flashy show of comet bits.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 11:03 PM (4+uhW)

465 Posted by: Drew in MO at August 12, 2013 03:02 AM (cGlgB) Sounded like a real crowd pleaser to me.

Posted by: BignJames at August 11, 2013 11:05 PM (20Mmk)

466 465 Posted by: Drew in MO at August 12, 2013 03:02 AM (cGlgB)

Sounded like a real crowd pleaser to me.

Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2013 03:05 AM (20Mmk)

 

Replace "Obama" with "Allen West".  See if the same outraged response is provoked.  If not, then it's just bullsh*t.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 11, 2013 11:10 PM (sQ0LB)

467 jc at August 12, 2013 03:02 AM (PlzOe) triffids slither and meteors fall, zombies lurch and banshees call from Binkley's closet, anxieties emerge, from college campuses, conservatives are purged, but the day of all days, I live in dread, the day some oopsiedaisy bioengineering makes all roses of world a color other than red ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:10 PM (/yH2j)

468 For your amusement, some obscure Celtic monster - the much dreaded Venomous Sheep
http://mikemonaco.wordpress.com/2013/06/30/venomous-sheep/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 11:16 PM (4+uhW)

469 I will not, I won't, say nary a peep, About a man believing in the silliness of Venomous Sheep, Since if you have been keeping a note, Belief in AGW is practically rote ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:22 PM (/yH2j)

470 "Maaaaannnnn bbbaaadddd!!!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 11:23 PM (4+uhW)

471 "Maaaaannnnn bbbaaadddd!!!!!" "Muuuuuuuutoooooooonnnnn Woooooooorrrrrse!!!!"

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:27 PM (/yH2j)

472 Lambchop & the Venomous Sheep would make a great name for a punk rock band ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:31 PM (/yH2j)

473 hey, a couple of pings on the space weather live cast ..

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:31 PM (/yH2j)

474 Or even worse, Speed Metal Celtic

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 11:36 PM (4+uhW)

475 Or even worse, Speed Metal Celtic Speed Racer's musically inclined brother ?

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:39 PM (/yH2j)

476 463 So apparently there was a rodeo clown at the MO state fair dressed as Obama and people have decided this is racists and not the mocking of a political figure at a nonpolitical event. I am not entirely sure how this is racist but the correct thinking people of both parties are assuring me that it is and that someone should apologize for it. Posted by: Drew in MO at August 12, 2013 03:02 AM (cGlgB) Was the bull dressed up as Moochelle? That would have been the icing on the cake.

Posted by: model_1066 at August 11, 2013 11:43 PM (QMWjL)

477 Roses are red, Meteors go byuup, And radical feminists, worry about their daughter's poop ... may not be the end time, but I can see it from my computer ...

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:43 PM (/yH2j)

478 That would have been the icing on the cake. I don't have any cake, but I do have English muffins, a toaster, and some nutella ... BRB

Posted by: Adriane ... at August 11, 2013 11:45 PM (/yH2j)

479 Mean musically declined?

http://youtu.be/vOl1LqyUL4Q

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 11, 2013 11:51 PM (4+uhW)

480 Heh. I know everybody else is either asleep or passed out.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 12, 2013 12:04 AM (0HooB)

481 Re: Perseids --



Light pollution in this area is significant -- only about a dozen to 20 stars visible in the whole sky. Observed for about 5 minutes....saw nothing.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2013 12:08 AM (T1005)

482 Every day, there are more and more omens.....the local Lowes has special sales on moving boxes in the aisles.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2013 12:12 AM (T1005)

483 Omens for the elder god to flee the approaching terrors of Klownifornia?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 12, 2013 12:19 AM (4+uhW)

484 483 Omens for the elder god to flee the approaching terrors of Klownifornia?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 12, 2013 04:19 AM (4+uhW)




I'm gently massaging the BH into thinking about somewhere else....and my inner sensors are screaming: "RUN!!!!!!!"

Posted by: cthulhu at August 12, 2013 12:25 AM (T1005)

485

The  no hostages tango. http://tinyurl.com/2jf9e4

Sleep well. God bless all here.

Posted by: and irresolute at August 12, 2013 12:28 AM (2qM95)

486 I hate to say I see it, but I already know the liberal response to the CO2 in the past post, and it's not a half-bad one:

"Right Wingers use evidence of higher CO2 from times where everything went extinct to prove we are NOT going to die from it."

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 12, 2013 01:06 AM (MMDO6)

487 "Right Wingers use evidence of higher CO2 from times where everything went extinct to prove we are NOT going to die from it." Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 12, 2013 05:06 AM (MMDO6) Cockroaches are still with us.

Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2013 01:24 AM (20Mmk)

488 About time to put this thread to bed--T-minus 90 minutes for Vic.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 12, 2013 01:30 AM (sQ0LB)

489 "Cockroaches are still with us."

I guess that's good news if you're a cockroach.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 12, 2013 01:45 AM (MMDO6)

490 Morning all - time to sweep the empty Valu Rite bottles up and get ready for the morning thread. First day of school for my little Moron-ette, and we have 5:30am practice. Yawn.... Hubby says Breakin Bad was pretty okay.

Posted by: SAT Rose at August 12, 2013 02:02 AM (LXmAx)

491 Good morning everybody. A congregation member-Ann-is having spinal surgery this morning. For the people who pray out there I would be most grateful for your prayers for her. Thanks and God bless you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2013 02:29 AM (2Tv3A)

492 Done Fenelon

Posted by: Conservative Crank at August 12, 2013 02:42 AM (sQ0LB)

493 Video: Sarah Palin Talks 'Death Panels' - 'Phony Scandals' and more http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/08/video-sarah-palin-talks-death-panels.html

Posted by: Steve at August 12, 2013 02:44 AM (alDW0)

494 Gawd Almighty. Quit posting animated GIFs on the main page. A link. A description. They totally fuck up my new netbook.

Posted by: backhoe at August 12, 2013 02:45 AM (ULH4o)

495 Tell us about this 'new' netbook of yours. Something is terribly wrong with it or it's not new as in recently produced. Animated GIFs were not a problem when Windows 98 was the norm on new retail machines.

We have a fair amount of know-how here. Some of us are even in the habit of getting paid for our services. So lets work on the problem at your end, because cobs aren't going to stop having animated GIFs because one guy has a bad machine.

Posted by: epobirs at August 12, 2013 03:51 AM (kcfmt)

496 Bearack Obama... read the book.

Posted by: Joseph Teach at August 12, 2013 06:28 AM (idosS)

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