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December 01, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (12-1-2013)
— Maetenloch

Break's over so get back on to the chain gang.

Some popular names are nationally popular while others seem to be quite region specific.

Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

-- Thomas Sowell

Obama Orders Airlines to Obey Chinese ADIZ; Gives China a Propaganda Win

How 'illegitimate' can the declared zone be if you obey it? Because ultimately China is more interested in de facto power than de jure power.

As China doubles down on its new Air Defense Identification Zone, the Obama administration told US airlines to comply with new rules in east Asia. US, Japanese, and South Korean warplanes have flown through the zone, disregarding China's rules, but after Chinese jets shadowed a joint Japanese-American exercise in the area, Washington has reportedly warned civilian airliners to obey them.

Meanwhile other countries are simply ignoring it.

Japan and South Korean civilian airlines will not be complying with China's rules.

And here's What a a Shooting War in the East China Sea Might Look Like.

It's December 1st so ObamaCare is All Fixed Right?

Moar Hate Crime on Campus = Hoax

This fall semester at the liberal arts college in New York saw a curiously high number of bias incident reports. On Nov. 14, the college sent a mass email to students advising them that Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) had received at least six reports in the last few months of hateful and insensitive messages being scrawled and spray painted on student residences. Messages included "Avoid Being Bitches," "Fuck Niggers," and most prominently, "Hey Tranny. Know Your Place." . . .

Five days after the email was sent, Vassar President Catharine Hill sent a follow-up email announcing that the bias incidents were hoaxes perpetrated by two students. The students wrote the vile messages and then filed the reports themselves, claiming to be the victims of unknown haters.

Child Services Takes Child From Woman's Womb Via Involuntary C-Section

And is putting it up for adoption. Because children ultimately belong to the state and not to you or your family.

I'd say this is exhibit A for why you should never travel to the UK while pregnant.

American Nuclear Family Heading Towards Endangered Species Status

Married households with children were 40.3% of all US households in 1970; in 2012, that share had fallen by more than half to 19.6%. Interestingly, the share of households that were married without children has stayed at about 30%. Other Family Households, usually meaning single-parent families with children, has risen.

6 Abandoned Sites That Would Make Great Supervillain Lairs

I already call dibs on this one.

Weekly Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
1 [309 comments] 'garrett' [43.34 posts/day]
2 [298 comments] 'Mike Hammer'
3 [248 comments] 'MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit </s></b></i></u>'
4 [244 comments] 'EC'
5 [229 comments] 'Flatbush Joe'
6 [221 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)'
7 [221 comments] 'Niedermeyer's Dead Horse'
8 [205 comments] 'Vendette '
9 [200 comments] 'BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk'
10 [199 comments] 'rickb223'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [69 names] 'The Political Hat' [9.68 unique names/day]
2 [62 names] 'phreshone'
3 [41 names] 'Reggie Love'
4 [39 names] 'fluffy'
5 [35 names] 'Brandon In Baton Rouge'
6 [33 names] 'Non Pater Patriae'
7 [33 names] 'Islamic Rage Boy'
8 [30 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'
9 [27 names] '404NFL'
10 [26 names] 'andycanuck'

The group. Yeah.

Where it's at - the Twitter

Tonight's post brought to you by the starting NFL quarterbacks of the 1961 season:

(back, L-R) Milt Plum, Bobby Layne, Sam Etcheverry, Bill Wade, Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Norm Snead, Zeke Bratkowski; (front, L-R) Jim Ninowski, Fran Tarkenton, Don Meredith, John Brodie, Sonny Jurgensen, Y.A. Tittle.

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1 Yipppe!

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 06:36 PM (dZGNV)

2 hah FOIST! Bite the semi-aquatic Otter!

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 06:36 PM (dZGNV)

3 Vasoline anyone?

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 06:37 PM (dZGNV)

4 Wow, ya'll are moving slow...still digesting from Turkey day?

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 06:37 PM (dZGNV)

5 1961 was a good year.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 06:38 PM (dZGNV)

6 Good evening, Horde. Carol

Posted by: Carol at December 01, 2013 06:38 PM (z4WKX)

7 Hey horde

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 06:38 PM (HVff2)

8 Peaches ok?

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 06:38 PM (dZGNV)

9 I tried "Mohamed" and got a big red light over Dearborn.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 01, 2013 06:40 PM (tmFlQ)

10 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 01, 2013 06:40 PM (JMmQ9)

11 I was just watching Alton Brown make something with extra virgin olive oil. Is there such a thing as Sandra Fluke olive oil?

Posted by: Northernlurker AKA Ragnar the Phillips screwdriver of Thor at December 01, 2013 06:40 PM (BLAfs)

12 Nice Ont Maet... I won! Grats, commiserations to the top 10s

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 06:40 PM (9jfyN)

13 Authorities say two people have been arrested after a person was killed in the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City after the Chiefs lost to the Broncos Sunday night.

anybody heard from teej today ?

Posted by: grease monkey at December 01, 2013 06:40 PM (qQk+U)

The shame and the pie. And the shame.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2013 06:41 PM (kpHF7)

15 Here is the "News of the Week" compilation of the news More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=4149

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 01, 2013 06:41 PM (Vk2pI)

16 Is Pixy involved in the 404care repair efforts? It seems like Sebelius could use a professional.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 01, 2013 06:42 PM (QmzQ1)

17 Oh thank goodness The ONT. Mike Hammer was trying to slip me a pill in another thread.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 06:44 PM (RZ8pf)

18 16 Is Pixy involved in the 404care repair efforts? It seems like Sebelius could use a professional. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 01, 2013 10:42 PM (QmzQ1) She could use a lot of professional help in all aspects of her warped life

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 06:44 PM (HVff2)

19 Y. A. Tittle looks like he snuck out of the old folks home to play a little ball.

And if he's still alive he can probably still kick my ass.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 06:44 PM (wNF3N)

20 That QB picture is great. Everyone was young once.

Posted by: toby928© Day two of mourning at December 01, 2013 06:45 PM (QupBk)

21 Ah such a great day. Daughter the younger took me to prison for my birthday (Alcatraz that is, it was on my bucket list). That is one eerie place, even with sunshine. Then pigging out at Bubba Gump. Now sitting down with some nice Sam Adams Winterlager. Next year on the bucket list: whale watchingÂ….yeah

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 06:46 PM (RLdcX)

22 Great job Maet as usual. Speaking of tensions rising per the last thread I had a burrito last night and just got back from the bathroom and brother let me tell you the tension was so thick in there you could cut it with a knife!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 01, 2013 06:46 PM (oFCZn)

23 "Lane" is a name?

Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 06:46 PM (9gNQd)

24 Happy birthday, Ma Bell!

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 06:46 PM (gferp)

25 Howdy, y'all!

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 06:47 PM (T1005)

26 Alcatraz that is, it was on my bucket list Nice. San Francisco was my favorite business trip ever. I could tell some stories, oh yes.

Posted by: toby928© Day two of mourning at December 01, 2013 06:47 PM (QupBk)

27 >>> Is there such a thing as Sandra Fluke olive oil? Infused with moldy clam juice.

Posted by: fluffy at December 01, 2013 06:47 PM (Ua6T/)

28 Top 10 sockpuppeteers: 1 [69 names] 'The Political Hat' [9.68 unique names/day] I would like to thank the many voices in my headÂ…

Posted by: Voice № 78 in the Political Hat's head at December 01, 2013 06:47 PM (Vk2pI)

29 I'm afraid that TFG and Co. are gonna steal the AoS hashtag #twoweeks, and blame Pixy to boot for 404Care.

It's about the only excuse they haven't used yet.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 06:47 PM (wNF3N)

30 "Lane" is a name? Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 10:46 PM (9gNQd) I know someone with that name, although he's in his 40s and has 4 kids.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 06:47 PM (gferp)

31 23 Happy birthday, Ma Bell! Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:46 PM (gferp) Thank you, thank you. It's great to be 38 for the last 20 years

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 06:48 PM (RLdcX)

32 So I made it into the top 10 for the first time. I don't know whether to feel proud or ashamed.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 06:48 PM (gferp)

33 >>> "Lane" is a name? I'm cereal. One of the regional names.

Posted by: fluffy at December 01, 2013 06:49 PM (Ua6T/)

34 31 So I made it into the top 10 for the first time. I don't know whether to feel proud or ashamed. Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:48 PM (gferp) I blamed my dogs when I made it there 2 weeks in a row, thumbs my ass.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 06:49 PM (HVff2)

35 Vendette - It's a trap! Go Back, go back! Flee!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 01, 2013 06:50 PM (aDwsi)

36 31 Vendette, You should feel proud...right proud? No...thanks sincerely I fell out of the top 10

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 06:50 PM (9jfyN)

37 Since the hate crime thing was brought up at a college campus, I can tell you that the Mormon institute on campus at Arizona state university was graffitied.

Posted by: Snow Soul at December 01, 2013 06:50 PM (qJlNG)

38 I know someone with that name, although he's in his 40s and has 4 kids.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:47 PM

Really? Wow. Never come across anyone named Lane, Street, Road or Boulevard before. Though, I did know an "Ally".

Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 06:50 PM (9gNQd)

39 Lane Meyer, slow down! A car is not a toy.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at December 01, 2013 06:50 PM (U0t2o)

40 Underhand passes are totally J.V., bro, but that back row is all balls.

Posted by: Deaf Frat Guy at December 01, 2013 06:52 PM (R6JT1)

41 > "Lane" is a name? Could be worse. Could be Sharkeisha, Magnisha or Crunchteesha or something like that

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 06:53 PM (RLdcX)

42 Wow. Sonny Jurgensen was young once.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 01, 2013 06:53 PM (u82oZ)

43 Being a Michigander by birth. My evil lair would be the old Michigan Central station. I'll need a decent amount of money for new glass but it is a cool abandoned building.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 06:53 PM (vCVhg)

44 *looks around for 1954 cheerleaders* Substitutes this SFW video, FF to 1:15 where it becomes more interesting. http://www.youtube.com/embed/61cY1ILv60k?rel=0&autoplay=1

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 01, 2013 06:53 PM (aDwsi)

45 And, with that Office Space link still fresh in my mind... Obamacare should be hauled to the middle of an abandoned field and beaten to death with a baseball bat.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 06:53 PM (DmNpO)

46 Ha! Just snuck in there!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 01, 2013 06:53 PM (GEICT)

47 40 > "Lane" is a name?

Could be worse. Could be Sharkeisha, Magnisha or Crunchteesha or something like that

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 10:53 PM (RLdcX)

Or Sue.

Posted by: Boy Named Sue at December 01, 2013 06:54 PM (OJKfN)

48 Underhand passes are totally J.V., bro, but that back row is all balls.

Posted by: Deaf Frat Guy at December 01, 2013 10:52 PM (R6JT1)

That's awesome.

Posted by: garrett at December 01, 2013 06:54 PM (yt2IB)

49 Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 10:53 PM (RLdcX) Or Barack, (spits big lugi)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 06:54 PM (HVff2)

50 Euphoria didn't last long.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 06:54 PM (dZGNV)

51 Ok once again I am going to share that somone stole the Victoria Clipper ferry in Seattle today. They caught him. Either he was a druggie out for a joy ride, or something else. But the narrative being pushed is either mental or drugs out for a joy ride. In a ferry. He was able to go through a hole in a fence and steal.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 06:55 PM (RZ8pf)

52 I'm getting damned sick and tired of these interesting times, waiting for another shoe to drop. Also, the black elite aren't letting St. Traytable go, had his egg donor "mother" at the Soul Train Awards. A room brimming with multi-millionaires, Gotta keep the rabble roused with stories of the evil white man keeping them down.

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 01, 2013 06:55 PM (VjL9S)

53 Warren Wilson College, 'KKK' carved on trees, almost certainly bogus http://www.wlos.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wlos_kkk-carved-trees-14175.shtml

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 01, 2013 06:56 PM (aDwsi)

54 in 2012, that share had fallen by more than half to 19.6% Maybe if Ward wasn't so hard on The Beaver ...

Posted by: Barbara Billingsley at December 01, 2013 06:56 PM (/0OJy)

55
Unitas is a little slow on the release in that picture but Etcheverry is looking to take out the camera.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 01, 2013 06:56 PM (caCiW)

56 So what you want to bet that Trayvon will make the top ten names this year? LIVs

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 06:56 PM (0FSuD)

57 "Lane" is a name?

Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 10:46 PM (9gNQd)

Middle name is Change

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 01, 2013 06:57 PM (JivuR)

58 Are there any telecommunications gurus on here? I have to do something to control costs and get better service. Here is the situation: 2 houses, both lacking in cell signal (106dBa & 95 dBa). Home office needing data, voice, cell phone service, 2nd home needing the same. Currently we have personal land line in main house, office land line, each of us has a cell phone and we have a wi-fi for portable data. In addition we still maintain a dial up account as a redundancy. Internet is provided by a marginal local line of sight provider that really suffers in wet weather or when foliage appears on the trees. Costs run $360/year for the personal land line $1200/year for the business land line $700/year for the ISP $3600/year for Verizon wireless and the wifi I installed an amplifier last year at one house, but there isn't much signal to amplify. As I am isolated I can put up a tower of sorts without a lot of legal trouble, even though I'm near a metro area. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 06:57 PM (l3vZN)

59 So what you want to bet that Trayvon will make the top ten names this year? *** ugh

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 06:57 PM (DmNpO)

60 Y.A. Tittle couldn't look older if he tried.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 01, 2013 06:58 PM (jucos)

61 Could be worse. Could be Sharkeisha, Magnisha or Crunchteesha or something like that

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 10:53 PM

Oh, sure. Mountain Dew, Frito or Beef Supreme are better than any of those.

Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 06:58 PM (9gNQd)

62 Warren Wilson College, 'KKK' carved on trees, almost certainly bogus

http://www.wlos.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wlos_kkk-carved-trees-14175.shtml

Posted by: Mike Hammer at December 01, 2013 10:56 PM (aDwsi)

It always is. Then they claim it's "to bring attention" to non existent problems

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 01, 2013 06:58 PM (JivuR)

63 Oh I must eat my paranoid hat. The guy was a wanted level 3 sex offender.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 06:58 PM (RZ8pf)

64 Trayvon? Hmmm...

Posted by: TIME Magazine Man of the Year Selection Board at December 01, 2013 06:58 PM (OJKfN)

65 25 Alcatraz that is, it was on my bucket list

Nice. San Francisco was my favorite business trip ever. I could tell some stories, oh yes.

Posted by: toby928Â© Day two of mourning at December 01, 2013 10:47 PM (QupBk)

About 10 years ago, I was working at a place whose Chief Engineer was Swiss. He had some guys he had gone to school with visiting, so that he could show off that he had "made it", and his buddies were staying in San Francisco.

So, these guys come 'round to the workplace (they all wore white socks....odd), and they go off for a while, then a couple of days later, our Engineering dude is all bleary and sort of cranked out of shape. Turns out, one of his buddies had called him an a panic around 3 am because this girl he picked up and brought to his hotel room had some extra parts he wasn't expecting....

Of course, our first thought was, "....and what did he expect in SF?" -- but our second thought was, "wait -- he called you?!?!?"

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 06:58 PM (T1005)

66 Being a Michigander by birth. My evil lair would be the old Michigan Central station. I'll need a decent amount of money for new glass but it is a cool abandoned building. Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 10:53 PM Being a Texan by birth, but currently living about forty miles from the Michigan Central Station; I agree, it's a kick ass old building. I'm in for a few panes of glass.

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 01, 2013 06:58 PM (JMmQ9)

67 Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 10:55 PM (RZ8pf) That's funny. I've often thought about taking a running squad car with cop in store & parking it around the corner. Guess I've matured a bit

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 06:59 PM (HVff2)

68 26 >>> Is there such a thing as Sandra Fluke olive oil? Infused with moldy ~~clam~~ anchovy juice. Posted by: fluffy at December 01, 2013 10:47 PM (Ua6T/) FIFY

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 06:59 PM (0FSuD)

69 1960s classic...

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

Fun fact... the singer/pianist and the guitarist from that song went on to form another band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 06:59 PM (RGQmh)

70 Having looked at the link for the regional names, why do some parents set their kids up for spelling their names over and over again for the rest of their lives? (With apologies to anyone who has given his/her kid a name with a unique spelling.)

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 06:59 PM (gferp)

71 69 Having looked at the link for the regional names, why do some parents set their kids up for spelling their names over and over again for the rest of their lives? Cause the "-" be silent. You know the joke.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:02 PM (0FSuD)

72 57 I believe that is a question for Purp or Maet

Posted by: DAve at December 01, 2013 07:02 PM (b7yum)

73 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:02 PM (DmNpO)

74 Also, Zeke is a name that NEEDS a comeback.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 01, 2013 07:03 PM (jucos)

75 NY Slime reports numbers on retail sales suck this weekend. Who's to blame? Gee, they have no idea.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:03 PM (0FSuD)

76 72 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM (DmNpO) My daughter? Ask me after I shoot the bastard & ground her for life

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:03 PM (HVff2)

77 (With apologies to anyone who has given his/her kid a name with a unique spelling.) Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:59 PM (gferp) Well, I have a very common german name, 3 little letters, a vowel, a consonant, a vowel. Nobody can say my name right

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 07:04 PM (RLdcX)

78 Seriously? I can figure a whole heck of a lot of things, but somebody stealing a ferry?

Paranoid Girl in Seattle, I am bemused. At best.

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:04 PM (mKMj1)

79 Also, Zeke is a name that NEEDS a comeback. *** I feel both honored and repulsed at the idea that children could be named after me.

Posted by: Ezekiel Emanuel at December 01, 2013 07:04 PM (DmNpO)

80 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM

Are they hot girls?

Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 07:04 PM (9gNQd)

81 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM (DmNpO)

Thats just nasty.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 01, 2013 07:04 PM (FMbng)

82 And of course Japan is worried about how their security looks since the US is instructing civilian airliners to comply with Chi-Com rules: Japan, U.S. at Odds Over China's Air Zone http://tinyurl.com/lucd5cn

Posted by: Thrawn at December 01, 2013 07:04 PM (ZyqBH)

83 69 Vendette, Scrabble kids are the best,, and by best I mean worst...

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 07:05 PM (9jfyN)

84 Fun fact... the singer/pianist and the guitarist from that song went on to form another band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 10:59 PM (RGQmh)

If I remember rightly, the singer/pianist in the Guess Who was Burton Cummings, and he was most emphatically not a part of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as he and Randy Bachman (a Mormon, incidentally) were on the outs, big time. I know they have since reconciled, and Cummings and Bachman have done a number of reunion concerts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 07:05 PM (8Fl6F)

85 72 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM (DmNpO) 33 yr old men don't date 16 yr old girls. They fuck them. And then brag about it to anyone who will listen.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 01, 2013 07:05 PM (GEICT)

86 75 72 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM (DmNpO) You know what you call a 50 year old divorcee right? Born again cock sucker.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:05 PM (0FSuD)

87 62 Oh I must eat my paranoid hat. The guy was a wanted level 3 sex offender. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle

Ah. That's an extra point to the story, all right!

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:06 PM (mKMj1)

88 #72: If it's my 16-year-old daughter, aww, hell, no. Otherwise... well, if they marry, I guess I can't object too much.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:06 PM (RGQmh)

89 I looked at Bobby Layne and thought "hey, that uniform isn't Honolulu Blue And Silver" and then ... 1961.

Posted by: mrp at December 01, 2013 07:06 PM (HjPtV)

90 Does it change things if the 33 year old in question is hot and famous and can have any 20 year old girl he wants? Does it make it creepier that he chooses a 16 year old?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:06 PM (DmNpO)

91 PGiS, you know how they knew it wasn't a ferry worker? He was on time and didn't hit the dock.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 07:07 PM (dZGNV)

92 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM I have a follow up question: How doe you folks feel about 51 year old men dating 24 year old girls? I'm asking for a friend...

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 01, 2013 07:07 PM (JMmQ9)

93 And of course Japan is worried about how their security looks since the US is instructing civilian airliners to comply with Chi-Com rules:

Japan, U.S. at Odds Over China's Air Zone

http://tinyurl.com/lucd5cn

Posted by: Thrawn at December 01, 2013 11:04 PM (ZyqBH)

______________________

Ummmmmmmm..... Don't worry, ahhhhhhhh, I got this

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at December 01, 2013 07:07 PM (jucos)

94 Maybe it's time to break out that old computer game SSN, although I doubt the Obama Administration would have the balls to announce an exclusion zone over the disputed areas if things heated up.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 01, 2013 07:07 PM (ZyqBH)

95 72 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM (DmNpO)

Had to check -- Polanski was 44 and the girl was 13.....but about like that.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 07:08 PM (T1005)

96 I have a follow up question: How doe you folks feel about 51 year old men dating 24 year old girls? I'm asking for a friend... Posted by: AltonJackson at December 01, 2013 11:07 PM (JMmQ9) Has the friend had her tested?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:08 PM (0FSuD)

97 NDH, no.

33 year old men do not (in any sane, modern world) go anywhere near 16 year old girls. There are jail cells for those who do. If they survive the 16 year old girl's relatives, that is.

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:08 PM (mKMj1)

98 #83: Well, I guess the source I read wasn't exactly accurate, then. Since you're actually a full-on Canuck, I'll take your word on it.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:08 PM (RGQmh)

99 I thought my middle name was a little odd (got crap for it). But Jerome is tame compared to the random letter generators used currently. And the Nuns/Nurses liked it since I was born within a couple days of Saint Jerome's day.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 07:08 PM (vCVhg)

100 If I remember rightly, the singer/pianist in the Guess Who was Burton Cummings, and he was most emphatically not a part of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as he and Randy Bachman (a Mormon, incidentally) were on the outs, big time. I know they have since reconciled, and Cummings and Bachman have done a number of reunion concerts. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 11:05 PM (8Fl6F) Yep. Randy Bachman was the Guess Who member who was a founder of BTO. He was a guitarist.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:08 PM (gferp)

101 But it seems clear that the U.S. is also sending a message that it won't respect such a claim (Popular Mechanics)

on the other hand (from other news outlets)

US Air carriers 'urged' (by Obama's White House or somebody in the news media not authorized to speak for the White House but was repeating what it had been told to report) to comply with China's new ADIZ rules.

So standard Obama White House Operating Procedure, The Obama Administration is on both sides, all sides, all possible sides of the issue. If you want to comply with these new rules you may, or probably should so you don't get shot down, unless you are US Military in which case you don't have to comply even though you might still get shot down, in which case nothing will be done about it.

So Obama is being perfectly clear.

Posted by: Whut? at December 01, 2013 07:09 PM (mkbYe)

102 Ok who are you talking about NDH?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 07:09 PM (RZ8pf)

103 It's creepy

Posted by: Thunderb at December 01, 2013 07:09 PM (zOTsN)

104 you know how they knew it wasn't a ferry worker? He was on time and didn't hit the dock.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 11:07 PM (dZGNV)

I had to laugh.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 07:09 PM (8Fl6F)

105 92 Preznir Urkel X, Quick someine tell Urkel X China is ran by the GOP! //Japan

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 07:09 PM (9jfyN)

106 NDH - Yes, that makes it creepier.

Waaaaaaay creepier.

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:09 PM (mKMj1)

107 Yeah, I hope Peaches is okay. I was actually kind of looking forward to being gloated at on account of the Patriots beating the Texans, even if it was, you know, the Texans.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at December 01, 2013 07:09 PM (Nsoq9)

108 If the girl is your step daughter, I think it's OK. Fuck her.

Posted by: Woody Allen at December 01, 2013 07:10 PM (0FSuD)

109 What if that handsome young man dated that 16 year old girl until she was 23 and he was 40 and then he died in a fiery car crash? Less creepy?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:10 PM (DmNpO)

110 Also, Zeke is a name that NEEDS a comeback. *** I feel both honored and repulsed at the idea that children could be named after me. Posted by: Ezekiel Emanuel at December 01, 2013 11:04 PM (DmNpO) Why not bring back names like Zebulon, Ã†Ã¾elwulfe, and Dagobert?

Posted by: The Unnamed Hat at December 01, 2013 07:10 PM (Vk2pI)

111

I also told that ..... uhhhhhhhh... troublesome jooooo not to..... ahhhhhhhhh, ruin my peace with Iran.

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at December 01, 2013 07:11 PM (jucos)

112 Creepy Fast and furious, but creepy

Posted by: Thunderb at December 01, 2013 07:11 PM (zOTsN)

113 So, how do you folks feel about 33 year old men dating 16 year old girls?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM (DmNpO)

Yeah that Paul Walker story is getting pretty weird. His daughter isn't much younger.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 01, 2013 07:11 PM (WdbF7)

114 Whatmeworry that was funny!

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 07:12 PM (RZ8pf)

115 108 What if that handsome young man dated that 16 year old girl until she was 23 and he was 40 and then he died in a fiery car crash? Less creepy? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:10 PM (DmNpO) Creepy, wrong, immoral. Are we talking about Crash & his flame mobile again?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:12 PM (HVff2)

116 Looks like the other Guess Who member who helped start Bachman-Turner Overdrive was Chad Allen. I'm guessing he was the bassist, since they brought in a drummer, Robbie Bachman, the Bachman of BTO.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:12 PM (RGQmh)

117 Wait what? Paul Walker was dating a 16year old???

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 07:12 PM (RZ8pf)

118 108 What if that handsome young man dated that 16 year old girl until she was 23 and he was 40 and then he died in a fiery car crash?

Less creepy?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:10 PM (DmNpO)

Next, are you going to say her family had a bunch of auto mechanics in it?

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 07:13 PM (T1005)

119 No, NDH. It continues to be creepy. To say nothing of, "Oh, so that's why it was a one-car accident, and he was the passenger."

Leaving but one question: So, the driver was who, and why wasn't disgusting creep/famous actor (I've never heard of until today) wearing his seatbelt?

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:13 PM (mKMj1)

120 WTF were her parents thinking

Posted by: Thunderb at December 01, 2013 07:14 PM (zOTsN)

121 116 Wait what? Paul Walker was dating a 16year old??? Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 11:12 PM (RZ8pf) Didn't it say the dude was 40?

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 07:14 PM (RLdcX)

122 "Braylon"? WTF?

Posted by: rickl at December 01, 2013 07:14 PM (sdi6R)

123 So..... Paul Walker, a dead Polanski then? What a world...

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 07:14 PM (9jfyN)

124 Wait what? Paul Walker was dating a 16year old??? *** he started dating her when he was 33 and was still dating her when he died. They were together 7 years.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:14 PM (DmNpO)

125 109 Also, Zeke is a name that NEEDS a comeback.

***

I feel both honored and repulsed at the idea that children could be named after me.

Posted by: Ezekiel Emanuel at December 01, 2013 11:04 PM (DmNpO)

Why not bring back names like Zebulon, Ã†Ã¾elwulfe, and Dagobert?

Posted by: The Unnamed Hat at December 01, 2013 11:10 PM (Vk2pI)

Hey, me and Dags go way back....way, waaaaaaay back, IYKWIM....

Oh, wait! Dagobert?!?!? I thought that said "Dagon"....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 07:15 PM (T1005)

126 From my Dad... The kids filed into class Monday morning. They were all very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a talk on salesmanship. Little Sally led off. "I sold Girl Scout cookies and I made $30" she said proudly, "My sales approach was to appeal to the customer's civil spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success." "Very good", said the teacher. Little Debbie was next. "I sold magazines" she said, "I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events." "Very good, Debbie", said the teacher. Eventually, it was Little Johnny's turn. The teacher held her breath. Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher's desk. "$2,467", he said. "$2,467!" cried the teacher, "What in the world were you selling?" Toothbrushes", said Little Johnny. "Toothbrushes", echoed the teacher, "How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?" "I found the busiest corner in town", said Little Johnny, "I set up a Dip & Chip stand and I gave everybody who walked by a free sample." They all said the same thing, "Hey, this tastes like dog poop!" Then I would say, "It is dog poop. Wanna buy a toothbrush? I used the President Obama method of giving you some crap, dressing it up so it looks good, telling you it's free and then making you pay to get the bad taste out of your mouth." Little Johnny got five stars for his assignment. Bless his heart.

Posted by: The Farmer at December 01, 2013 07:15 PM (eBupg)

127 When I heard Paul Walker had died, I originally thought of voice-acting legend Frank Welker. When I realized it wasn't him, I thought, Paul who?

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:15 PM (RGQmh)

128 NDH? That's weird.

What were her parents thinking? After she turned 18, of course, they had no say, but...what?!

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:16 PM (mKMj1)

129 The hell? Forecast for Wednesday is low of -18 F. Thursday -13.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at December 01, 2013 07:16 PM (Nsoq9)

130 Oh well, wasn't Priscilla something like 13 when Elvis started dating her, and 15 when she moved in with him?

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 07:16 PM (RLdcX)

131 Not knowing who Paul Walker was, I did a search on "creepy Paul Walker". Top of the list, baby.

Posted by: mrp at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (HjPtV)

132 120 Ma Bell, Said 33 year old was in a committed relationship with 16 year old for 7 years.... Man he went to 2 proms in his 30s...

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (9jfyN)

133 Any man that dates a 16 year old that is over 20 is creepy and many that are 20 that do it are creepy too. And Man is likely the wrong description in the first sentence.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (vCVhg)

134 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 10:57 PM (l3vZN) T1 line? Internet and voice all on the same 4 wire. Plus, look at getting a femtocell from your cell provider ( short range private cellular using your landline)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (c2oll)

135 Didn't Elvis meet Priscilla when she was sixteen?

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (dZGNV)

136 Leaving but one question: So, the driver was who, and why wasn't disgusting creep/famous actor (I've never heard of until today) wearing his seatbelt?

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 11:13 PM (mKMj1)

Having seen a picture of the wreck, I doubt a seatbelt would have done a damn thing to save him. Squashed like a bug, he was.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (8Fl6F)

137 Driver was his best bud and business partner His daughter is 15 He has been dating his GF since she was 16 His daughter moved in with him this year Creepy

Posted by: Thunderb at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (zOTsN)

138 Posted by: The Farmer at December 01, 2013 11:15 PM (eBupg) Wonderful! Although I was waiting for Johnny to drop the F bomb

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:17 PM (HVff2)

139 Priscilla Presley was...what...14....when Elvis started dating her?.....yeah I know they were chaperoned.

Posted by: BignJames at December 01, 2013 07:18 PM (HtUkt)

140 Apophis, SMOD, arrival 2029 and again in 2036.

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 01, 2013 07:18 PM (VjL9S)

141 Beddie-bye!

Good night, Horde!

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:18 PM (mKMj1)

142 OK, tell an old guy, who the fuck is Paul Walker?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:18 PM (0FSuD)

143 Correction from #115: Randy Bachman, the guitarist in the video I posted, was the Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Robbie Bachman, the drummer was... Randy's brother, I guess? As I previously mentioned, Chad Allen must've been the bassist, just because the lead singer didn't come along and the drummer was replaced.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:19 PM (RGQmh)

144 141 OK, tell an old guy, who the fuck is Paul Walker? Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 11:18 PM (0FSuD) A dude who drove a car in a movieÂ….really fast

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 07:20 PM (RLdcX)

145 who the fuck is Paul Walker? --- Actor who died yesterday. Apparently he dated a woman for 7 years starting when she was 16?

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at December 01, 2013 07:20 PM (GmTxn)

146 Oh well, wasn't Priscilla something like 13 when Elvis started dating her, and 15 when she moved in with him? Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 11:16 PM (RLdcX) Ted Nugent got legal custody of an underaged girl to facilitate his boning of her.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 01, 2013 07:21 PM (Vk2pI)

147 The Guess Who recently played here on the MS Gulf Coast. i could have scored free tix but I passed since I didn't want to see a rehashed band without either the original guitarist or vocalists. I mean, what's the point?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 07:21 PM (wNF3N)

148 Ted Nugent got legal custody of an underaged girl to facilitate his boning of her. Posted by: The Political Hat at December 01, 2013 11:21 PM (Vk2pI) Wrong is wrong

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:23 PM (HVff2)

149 ITC: Thanks for the comment. T1 not available at either location, signal amplifiers don't have enough signal to amplify. Both places are located in tiny white dots on the coverage maps.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 07:23 PM (l3vZN)

150 As I previously mentioned, Chad Allen must've been the bassist, just because the lead singer didn't come along and the drummer was replaced. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 11:19 PM (RGQmh) Chad Allen wasn't always the bassist. BTO had a complicated history: http://www.allpar.com/ed/btohist.html

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:23 PM (gferp)

151 Correction from #115: Randy Bachman, the guitarist in the video I posted, was the Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Robbie Bachman, the drummer was... Randy's brother, I guess? As I previously mentioned, Chad Allen must've been the bassist, just because the lead singer didn't come along and the drummer was replaced.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 11:19 PM (RGQmh)

I think you got it right this time. I know Burton Cummings, who had a great voice, went on as a solo act for a while, kind of going into the Bobby Darin niche. You know, solo singer/pianist playing a white grand piano sort of thing. Not bad, if you like that style.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 07:23 PM (8Fl6F)

152 I can't even get my mind around a dude in his 30's dating a 16 year old chick. I didn't even touch 16 year olds when I was 18. Besides, the 20 year old chicks knew stuff. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 01, 2013 07:24 PM (FMbng)

153 Well, thanks for the Paul Walker update, put me down as someone that does NOT give a shit.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:24 PM (0FSuD)

154

144 Lotta creepy in this world. If they were together for 7 years obviously they had something.

Go to the Other McCain and see the latest teachers bangin' middle school students.

Creepy to me is a marriage that lasts less than 7 years. Or sucker punching old ladies. Lotta creepy in this world

Posted by: DAve at December 01, 2013 07:24 PM (b7yum)

155 What just happened in the giants redskins game?

Posted by: Thunderb at December 01, 2013 07:25 PM (zOTsN)

156 Ted Nugent got legal custody of an underaged girl to facilitate his boning of her. *** Don't fucking tell me that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:25 PM (DmNpO)

157
Not often you can fuck the Redskins, but tonight's our night.

Posted by: General George Custer at December 01, 2013 07:25 PM (pJF+c)

158 Just when I thought that Daryl couldn't get any more BA on the Walking Dead. BOOM!

Posted by: jmel at December 01, 2013 07:25 PM (cfFqn)

159 Al Michaels was seriously PO'd.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:26 PM (gferp)

160
We fucked the first down call up, but it's very late and time for a brewsky and blowjob.

Posted by: NFL Officials at December 01, 2013 07:27 PM (pJF+c)

161 I'd say this is Exhibit A for why you should not travel to the UK while pregnant. ---- Pregnant women should never travel. Anywhere.

Posted by: Andrew Sullivan, Gynecology Expert at December 01, 2013 07:27 PM (GmTxn)

162 158 Al Michaels was seriously PO'd. He's a douchebag, he will get over it

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:27 PM (HVff2)

163 146 The Guess Who recently played here on the MS Gulf Coast. i could have scored free tix but I passed since I didn't want to see a rehashed band without either the original guitarist or vocalists. I mean, what's the point?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 11:21 PM (wNF3N)

Well, it sort of works with some bands....like the way Chris Squire ended up as having sole custody of name of the group "Yes".

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 07:27 PM (T1005)

164 So not only do the Redskins and Giants suck tonight (NY less so I guess since they won), the refs promply display that yes, they too can be sucktastic.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 01, 2013 07:28 PM (8SsiG)

165
Hey what's the problem, we're liberals!

Posted by: NFL Officials at December 01, 2013 07:29 PM (pJF+c)

166 #146: Totally sensible viewpoint. As much as I love, for example, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, they wouldn't be the same without the late, great Desi Arnaz, and I would turn my nose up at any sort of "reunion" attempt.

Not that that's really a concern, since any surviving members of the Desi Arnaz Orchestra from the 1940s would be nonagenarians at the youngest. Still, the basic principle holds, I think.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:29 PM (RGQmh)

167 Buenas nachos, my friendsh!

Posted by: Santiago McCain at December 01, 2013 07:30 PM (Dwehj)

168 Lemme see if I have this straight, based on a quick DVR rewind: The Redskins were 2nd and 5, but didn't quite make it to the first down. But the chain gang moved the chains anyway. After the next play, they moved them back. The Redskins eventually lost the ball on downs. I can be corrected if I'm wrong.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:30 PM (gferp)

169 So the game is over and all I get is that little dickhead Costa?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:30 PM (0FSuD)

170 These days the Beach Boys are pretty much Mike Love and a backing band of young guys.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:31 PM (gferp)

171 The Washington Redskins: Every bit as good as Jacksonville

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:31 PM (DmNpO)

172 Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 11:30 PM (gferp) That's about right. Costas sucks donkey dick

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:31 PM (HVff2)

173 I don't normally have access to cable. But due to Thangiving I have one more night. Is there new walking dead on tonight? Or have I already missed it?

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 07:31 PM (vCVhg)

174 Evidently Putin hasn't told Obama what to think about China's new defense zone. Once Obama learns Putin's view, he'll eventually fall in line like he always does.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 01, 2013 07:32 PM (rHThR)

175 How bout my "Heels"! What? Oh, never mind.

Posted by: Tingle Legs Chris at December 01, 2013 07:32 PM (0FSuD)

176 #158: Al Michaels can eat a balls. I'm sick of watching Broncos games and listening to him talk about nothing but how awesome the other team is. And his little girlfriend, Chris Collinsworth, looks like Olive Oyl.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:32 PM (RGQmh)

177 your name is Ana

Posted by: soothsayer is connectin the dots at December 01, 2013 07:33 PM (LbjC3)

178 And his little girlfriend, Chris Collinsworth, looks like Olive Oyl. **** ROBERT MATHIS The1st ‏@RobertMathis98 57m What Collinsworth says in production meetings and what he says on air is interesting for lack of a better word.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:33 PM (DmNpO)

179 @ 57

Jinx the Cat,

It all depends on your location, and what Internet options you have.

If you can get a stable internet connection, it can replace everything to one degree or another. The cell phones can leverage the internet connection using a femtocell, which will take care of signal strength. Use Google Voice or something like Vonge for "landline like" service. If the cells can get a stable connection, why do you need to keep the traditional POTS (plain old telephone service) lines?

If all you can get Internet wise is what you have, you may want to see what wildblue.com can offer (satellite Internet ). Though this can have issues in bad weather.

Posted by: Frank Rizzo at December 01, 2013 07:33 PM (JHRCt)

180 Yes new episode, but I won't spoil it for you. Daryl is sooo sexy!

Posted by: jmel at December 01, 2013 07:33 PM (cfFqn)

181 Bob Costas, half the man Ray Maddow is with Arec Borwin's humility...

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 07:33 PM (9jfyN)

182 I put the "correct" in politically correct sports broadcasting.

Posted by: Bob Costass at December 01, 2013 07:33 PM (Dwehj)

183 So after my nap, I get two dozen Krispy Kreme HOT donuts and family eats them all, I take a sugar nap again, so I guess I up for a while.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:34 PM (0FSuD)

184 Speaking of the NFL I wonder where NCJ is tonite and the praises of the midgets of the midway.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:34 PM (HVff2)

185 Did they pre-record the post-game show? NBC isn't mentioning what happened at the end of the Giants-Redskins game.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:35 PM (gferp)

186 133 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 10:57 PM (l3vZN) Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2013 11:17 PM (c2oll) T1, but nearest central office may not be capable of supporting this level of service in rural areas. Same for DSL.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 01, 2013 07:35 PM (XdnQT)

187 Hmmm hot Krispy Kremes or rootbeer float? ... hot krispy kremes or rootbeer float? decisions, decisions

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:35 PM (DmNpO)

188 There is still a Glenn Miller Orchestra touring and performing, the current band having been founded in 1956.

It would probably be worth seeing, if only just to get a little feel for what it was like in the heyday of the big bands.

http://glennmillerorchestra.com/

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 07:36 PM (8Fl6F)

189 155 Ted Nugent got legal custody of an underaged girl to facilitate his boning of her. *** Don't fucking tell me that. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:25 PM (DmNpO) Eh, that is sleazy, but to use Jay Carney's parlance, it "happened a long time ago" (197

. There are more pressing issues to deal with rather than a rocker's various interludes with the ladies. The Iranian new year occurs when, in March? They might bring in their new year, whatever # it is, with a nuclear bang.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 01, 2013 07:36 PM (ZyqBH)

190 hot Krispy Kremes or rootbeer float? ... hot krispy kremes or rootbeer float? decisions, decisions I would suggest an Obama compromise. Do both.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:36 PM (0FSuD)

191 I cannot imagine as an adult going to a prom in any capacity other than a chaperone. Teenagers are so silly and snotty and self-centered and neuterotic. Come to think of it, it would be the perfect place for Liberals.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at December 01, 2013 07:37 PM (DoZD+)

192 186 NDH, Hot rootbeer, cold doughnuts

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 07:37 PM (9jfyN)

193 Frank Rizzo: thanks for your reply. I am in isolated locations, with driveways in excess of a mile long. Internet provider is marginal, but I could probably increase that by putting up a small tower with antenna and repeater to the house, I think.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 07:37 PM (l3vZN)

194 ... hot krispy kremes or rootbeer float? decisions, decisions Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:35 PM (DmNpO) If you decide on the rootbeer float, I'll take the hot krispy kremes.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:37 PM (gferp)

195 Hot rootbeer, cold doughnuts *** Ewwww!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:37 PM (DmNpO)

196 184 Did they pre-record the post-game show? NBC isn't mentioning what happened at the end of the Giants-Redskins game. Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 11:35 PM (gferp) Big no no in the nfl is to rip on refs after the game

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:38 PM (HVff2)

197 185 133 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 10:57 PM (l3vZN)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 01, 2013 11:17 PM (c2oll)

T1, but nearest central office may not be capable of supporting this level of service in rural areas. Same for DSL.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 01, 2013 11:35 PM (XdnQT)

Remember, T1 is only 1.54 Mbps.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 07:38 PM (T1005)

198 Posted this on the football thread by mistake: Got a post on my FB that Babe Heffron passed today, and that Earl McClung passed this last Wednesday. Rest in Peace gentlemen, you truly belong to the generation that saved the world. For what, I'm not sure lately. My father is of this generation and is 89 and still healthy. I hope to keep him around for a long time yet but his side of the family tends to go quickly. I remember telling him that since I spent 20 years away in the service, he had to make it another 20 years to make up for it. He laughed at the time, but it has now been almost 13 and a half years. The meanest man I ever knew grew up to be an old teddy bear.

Posted by: Bill R. at December 01, 2013 07:38 PM (QnRSM)

199 Oops! I just noticed the time. Rootbeer float it is.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:38 PM (DmNpO)

200 190 Katya, He'd have fit right in.... I didn't want to go to my own prom

Posted by: sven10077 at December 01, 2013 07:38 PM (9jfyN)

201 #187: I should look into that. They're from Colorado, so they probably play around here a fair bit. On the other hand, Earth, Wind And Fire are from Denver, but they don't play here much.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:38 PM (RGQmh)

202 Big no no in the nfl is to rip on refs after the game Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 11:38 PM (HVff2) They're discussing it now. The previous segment had to have been pre-recorded.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:38 PM (gferp)

203 Remember, T1 is only 1.54 Mbps. Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 11:38 PM (T1005) Really? I've been lied to.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:39 PM (0FSuD)

204 Posted by: Hrothgar at December 01, 2013 11:35 PM (XdnQT) Missed some of the thread. Hughes or Wildblue satellite.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 01, 2013 07:39 PM (XdnQT)

205 We weren't losing for 80% of the game.

Posted by: Washington Men of a Hue at December 01, 2013 07:39 PM (FcR7P)

206 Somebody remember the French(?) 'rule' on dating age, someone commented on here a while back? Why can't I remember everything? Good evening, clan. Nice ONT, NDH. ((JOKE))

Posted by: mindful webworker - now that I'm not 33, that's awful! at December 01, 2013 07:40 PM (yFFC0)

207 <S> Babe.

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 01, 2013 07:40 PM (dZGNV)

208 Eh, that is sleazy, but to use Jay Carney's parlance, it "happened a long time ago" (197. There are more pressing issues to deal with rather than a rocker's various interludes with the ladies. **** I just looked it up. I will never be able to look at him the same.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:40 PM (DmNpO)

209 OK, I'm out tomorrow night, mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 01, 2013 07:40 PM (JMmQ9)

210 50 Ok once again I am going to share that somone stole the Victoria Clipper ferry in Seattle today. They caught him. Either he was a druggie out for a joy ride, or something else. But the narrative being pushed is either mental or drugs out for a joy ride. In a ferry. He was able to go through a hole in a fence and steal. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 10:55 PM

What's to worry about, we're crazy. They're just going to take us back to where we already are

Posted by: Randall McMurphy at December 01, 2013 07:40 PM (aTXUx)

211 Nice ONT, NDH. ((JOKE)) *** tee hee!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:40 PM (DmNpO)

212 Damn! It's snowing here. You'd think I was in Alberta, in December.

Oh, wait....

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 07:41 PM (8Fl6F)

213 I cannot imagine as an adult going to a prom in any capacity other than a chaperone. Teenagers are so silly and snotty and self-centered and neuterotic. Come to think of it, it would be the perfect place for Liberals. Posted by: katya, the designated driver at December 01, 2013 11:37 PM (DoZD+) I don't know if it's changed since then, but when I was in high school in my part of Canuckistan there was a graduation dinner and dance. There was no such thing as the junior or senior prom.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:42 PM (gferp)

214 The "rule" is, I think, half your age plus five? Or seven? Something like that...

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at December 01, 2013 07:42 PM (GmTxn)

215 202 Remember, T1 is only 1.54 Mbps.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 11:38 PM (T1005)

Really? I've been lied to.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 11:39 PM (0FSuD)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signal_1

Read it and weep.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 07:43 PM (T1005)

216 Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 11:38 PM (gferp) Once the game is over I switch channels. I don't care for the nbc crew pre game, during game or post game

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:43 PM (HVff2)

217 When I got divorced I got my dick cut because a buddy of mine got a bitch pregnant and he's got 18 years of child support. Dr asked me how old my girlfriend was, I didn't have one at the time. He said the rule is half your age plus five. So a 60 year old can fuck a 35 year old.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:43 PM (0FSuD)

218 I've never understood why parents insist on saddling their kids with made up names, especially the almost unpronounceable ones.

Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2013 07:43 PM (M/TDA)

219 Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 11:39 PM (0FSuD) T1 is 1.544 Mbps, if you can't get T1, then a landline solution is out since the line will not support DSL either, at a useful rate.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 01, 2013 07:43 PM (XdnQT)

220 Eh, that is sleazy, but to use Jay Carney's parlance, it "happened a long time ago" (197. There are more pressing issues to deal with rather than a rocker's various interludes with the ladies. **** I just looked it up. I will never be able to look at him the same. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 11:40 PM (DmNpO) He even sang about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDQnsJWPu2U The question is, NDH, if you want ZZ Top ruined for you as wellÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 01, 2013 07:43 PM (Vk2pI)

221 Damn! It's snowing here. You'd think I was in Alberta, in December. Oh, wait.... Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 11:41 PM (8Fl6F) I'm sure I'll be shoveling some of that stuff in a few weeks when I'm up there. At least it's the fluffy stuff, not the stuff that falls and turns into cement in the mid-Atlantic.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:44 PM (gferp)

222

205 Somebody remember the French(?) 'rule' on dating age,

someone commented on here a while back?

Half your age plus 7 years. I'm working from memory, did not bother to look it up.

Posted by: tbodie at December 01, 2013 07:44 PM (ndxIr)

223 T1 not available, so it is a moot point. I am hoping to find a way to get rid of some of these expenses long term. It always gets my goat that I'm paying all those 'internet connectivity' taxes when I don't have it either.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 07:45 PM (l3vZN)

224 A friend I grew up with, her mom died and her dad remarried, the new wife was 16, my friend was 13.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 07:46 PM (RZ8pf)

225 217 I've never understood why parents insist on saddling their kids with made up names, especially the almost unpronounceable ones. So they can recognize the names when they read them in the newspaper front page 17 years later.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at December 01, 2013 07:46 PM (DoZD+)

226 On the T-1's I had two, closed company so it is not an issue, but at the time they were smoking hot.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:46 PM (0FSuD)

227 "Cold beer, hot lights -
My sweet romantic teen-age nights!"

I know I should be in bed, but I saw the bit about rootbeer and krispy kreme, and couldn't leave until I put that particular ear-worm out there.

Sorry!

Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 07:46 PM (mKMj1)

228 A friend I grew up with, her mom died and her dad remarried, the new wife was 16, my friend was 13. Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 11:46 PM (RZ8pf)

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:47 PM (gferp)

229 I don't want a drone delivering my amazon orders. Is that wrong of me?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 07:47 PM (RZ8pf)

230 Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 11:45 PM (l3vZN) Just remember that those Internet connectivity charges ensure that the needy have Netflix!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 01, 2013 07:47 PM (XdnQT)

231 I'm sure I'll be shoveling some of that stuff in a few weeks when I'm up there. At least it's the fluffy stuff, not the stuff that falls and turns into cement in the mid-Atlantic.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 11:44 PM (gferp)

Well, when I was clearing my yard and driveway last week, the snow blower was climbing up onto the compacted snowdrifts. Stuff was like cement, but not soggy. Good thing I have a tractor with a blade on the 3-point hitch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 07:47 PM (8Fl6F)

232 224 217 So they can recognize the names when they read them in the newspaper front page 17 years later. Posted by: katya, the designated driver at December 01, 2013 11:46 PM (DoZD+) Not to burst your bubble, but are you sure the parents can read?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:47 PM (HVff2)

233 222 T1 not available, so it is a moot point. I am hoping to find a way to get rid of some of these expenses long term. It always gets my goat that I'm paying all those 'internet connectivity' taxes when I don't have it either. Call HHS, they can refer you to a reliable carrier. ha ha

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:47 PM (0FSuD)

234 Posted by: Dianna at December 01, 2013 11:46 PM (mKMj1) It's OK. I've posted after a good-night many times before. Good night and I hope you have a great day tomorrow!

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:48 PM (gferp)

235 Time for bed....thanks for the comments on the telecommunications, and I'll check back in the morning. Verizon and friends are bleeding me white.....

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 01, 2013 07:49 PM (l3vZN)

236 I used to live next to a prominent attorney who started a second family when he was 70. His second wife was 26. He already had grandkids from his first set of children. So when he had his second batch (2) of kids they turned into Uncles and Aunts right when they were born.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 01, 2013 07:50 PM (jucos)

237 I've never understood why parents insist on saddling their kids with made up names, especially the almost unpronounceable ones.
Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2013 11:43 PM (M/TDA)

So Dad will know to leave the strip club before his baby girl gets on stage.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 01, 2013 07:50 PM (lr3d7)

238 Good nite Horde, be well

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 01, 2013 07:51 PM (HVff2)

239 He said the rule is half your age plus five. So a 60 year old can fuck a 35 year old. Wait one night stands don't count right? Dating May take math but anything older than my kids is fair game otherwise.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 07:51 PM (vCVhg)

240 One of my new favorite dumb names is "Uniqua"

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 07:51 PM (RZ8pf)

241 Well, when I was clearing my yard and driveway last week, the snow blower was climbing up onto the compacted snowdrifts. Stuff was like cement, but not soggy. Good thing I have a tractor with a blade on the 3-point hitch. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 11:47 PM (8Fl6F) In the 3 big snowstorms of the winter of 2009-10, if I wasn't out there shoveling at least every 4 hours I had a cement problem. What pissed me off most was that the neighbor hired someone to shovel and they piled all the snow onto my very small lawn. I had to walk snow across the street because the pile was so high on the lawn.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 07:52 PM (gferp)

242 The question is, NDH, if you want ZZ Top ruined for you as wellÂ… **** You really can't ruin them for me. I've never been a big fan.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:52 PM (DmNpO)

243 Good evening, Horde. My name is not particularly unusual, but nobody ever spells it right or pronounces it right if they seen it spelled first. My boys have saints' names, so they will never have that issue. Best friend spent the holiday in New York State, and brought me home Tim Hortons pastries! Happy me!

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 07:53 PM (N/cFh)

244 I don't want a drone delivering my amazon orders. Is that wrong of me? *** I'll be fine with it until they drop one on my cat.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 07:53 PM (DmNpO)

245 If I ever have a daughter, I plan to name her Zimkha. It's Aramaic for "radiant". And it'd enable me to nickname her Zim, which would be cute.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 07:54 PM (RGQmh)

246 I still call my daughters Peanut and The Monkey. I've forgotten their real names. They wouldn't have it any other way, and they are now 9 and 13.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 01, 2013 07:56 PM (jucos)

247 221 205 Somebody remember the French(?) 'rule' on dating age, someone commented on here a while back? Half your age plus 7 years. I'm working from memory, did not bother to look it up. Posted by: tbodie at December 01, 2013 11:44 PM (ndxIr) That's correct. And it works for all ages. It really makes sense. These are minimum ages for the female, based on the age of the male. 15 year old male = 14.5 year old female 16 year old male = 15 year old female 18 year old male = 16 year old female 20 year old male = 17 year old female 26 year old male = 20 year old female 30 year old male = 22 year old female 40 year old male = 27 year old female 50 year old male = 32 year old female 60 year old male = 37 year old female And so on.

Posted by: rickl at December 01, 2013 07:56 PM (sdi6R)

248 I don't want a drone delivering my amazon orders. Is that wrong of me?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 11:47 PM (RZ8pf)

The drone will be there anyway, so you might as well order something. Mwaaahhhaahhaaahhhaaaa......

Posted by: Amazon at December 01, 2013 07:57 PM (2vl2+)

249 My last name was always mispronounced. But now that it is a popular first name in the hood due to a NFL player most telemarketers get it right now.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 07:57 PM (vCVhg)

250

"Soda"

Posted by: george costanza at December 01, 2013 07:57 PM (9gNQd)

251 What the hell is a "Braylon"?

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 01, 2013 07:58 PM (VVsZ2)

252 Names? ha ha. Almost every male in my family for about 250 years has has Charles as his first name, which only left the middle name for experiments. Don't ask why I have a Russian middle name.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 07:59 PM (0FSuD)

253 Bet half those baby names are from Twilight or 50 Shades of Gray. Some people don't deserve to be parents.

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at December 01, 2013 08:00 PM (DoZD+)

254 Hey y'all. Out of Afghanistan, but thanks to the wonderful Navy travel system, I get an extra week in a tent in Kyrgyzstan. But we should be happy, because we should still be home by Christmas. They think. At least for now.

Posted by: Bomber at December 01, 2013 08:00 PM (nr+of)

255 Oh well, wasn't Priscilla something like 13 when Elvis started dating her, and 15 when she moved in with him? Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 11:16 PM (RLdcX) Ted Nugent got legal custody of an underaged girl to facilitate his boning of her. Posted by: The Political Hat And Barack stole this last election to bone us. Seriously 100% showed up and voted in some precincts, BS. Why doesn't the RNC challenge any of this?

Posted by: The Farmer at December 01, 2013 08:01 PM (eBupg)

256 248 My last name was always mispronounced. But now that it is a popular first name in the hood due to a NFL player most telemarketers get it right now. Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 11:57 PM (vCVhg) --Your last name is D'Brickashaw?

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2013 08:01 PM (fETNt)

257 But we should be happy, because we should still be home by Christmas. They think. At least for now. Posted by: Bomber at December 02, 2013 12:00 AM (nr+of) --If only in your dreams?

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2013 08:02 PM (fETNt)

258 Hey y'all. Out of Afghanistan, but thanks to the wonderful Navy travel system, I get an extra week in a tent in Kyrgyzstan. But we should be happy, because we should still be home by Christmas. They think. At least for now. Posted by: Bomber at December 02, 2013 12:00 AM (nr+of) So December 9 in DC is out?

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:02 PM (gferp)

259 So how would you like to be in a Scottish pub bombed and a fucking helicopter crashes into the pub an kills you? That would suck.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 08:02 PM (0FSuD)

260 253 Hey y'all. Out of Afghanistan, but thanks to the wonderful Navy travel system, I get an extra week in a tent in Kyrgyzstan. But we should be happy, because we should still be home by Christmas. They think. At least for now. Posted by: Bomber at December 02, 2013 12:00 AM (nr+of) --- So not next Monday then?

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 08:02 PM (N/cFh)

261 250 It sounds like a new miracle fabric

Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2013 08:03 PM (M/TDA)

262 The "rule" is, I think, half your age plus five? Or seven? Something like that... : Jenny Hates Her Phone Yeah, something like that. 16/2+7=15. 34/2+7=24. If I wasn't happily married I could date... 38 year olds? Well (shrug) they'd still be under 40....

Posted by: mindful webworker - sexagenarian, baby! at December 01, 2013 08:03 PM (i5xnd)

263 Braylon?

A Rayon covered Braying Democrat?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 01, 2013 08:04 PM (ofljX)

264 What the hell is a "Braylon"? Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 01, 2013 11:58 PM (VVsZ2) A new space-age polymer?

Posted by: The Polymeric Hat at December 01, 2013 08:04 PM (Vk2pI)

265 #258: Anything that kills me would suck. At least, as far as I'm concerned. The world might not mind so much.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:04 PM (RGQmh)

266 What the hell am I gonna do dating a 28-year-old? Do they even have fully-formed brains? What would we talk about?

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 08:04 PM (N/cFh)

267 I've read that the reason some names are spelled so weird is that the parent(s) can't spell very well. Here's one I recently encountered on a nametag --

Moneak

Phonetically, that's a correct spelling.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 08:04 PM (wNF3N)

268 --Your last name is D'Brickashaw?>> I said last name not a mode of travel?

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 08:04 PM (vCVhg)

269 "I used to live next to a prominent attorney who started a second family when he was 70. His second wife was 26. He already had grandkids from his first set of children. So when he had his second batch (2) of kids they turned into Uncles and Aunts right when they were born."

I have also known some rare and extraordinary men like that. Widowed at age 50, remarried at 60 (to a 25 year old) and raising family number two with wife number two. I have a friend who is 71 and has a 12 year old son, as well as numerous offspring from family number one.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 08:05 PM (YcCMP)

270 >>> So December 9 in DC is out?

Yeah, just emailed you. Looks like 17 now.

Posted by: Bomber at December 01, 2013 08:05 PM (nr+of)

271 My boys have saints' names, so they will never have that issue. ---- My kids have saints' names, too, and still have that problem. Some of it's just translation (Christina/Cristina) but some of it boggles the mind---there are people in this country, who have jobs, apparently can't spell Mary. Seriously.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at December 01, 2013 08:07 PM (KUUWO)

272 Fucking unbelievable. In my 10-team PPR league, neither Eric Decker nor Alshon Jeffery were started by their owners.

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2013 08:07 PM (fETNt)

273 Jerry Lee Lewis achieved notoriety in the 1950s when he married his 13 year old cousin. He was 22 at the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis#Marriage_to_a_minor

Posted by: rickl at December 01, 2013 08:08 PM (sdi6R)

274 I was just watching a comedian on Showtime and he was doing a bit about how some movies of the 40s and 50s were considered edgy by the standards of the time but nobody bats an eye at them now. I'ts not even that funny, I can acknowledge that fact, but I LMAO! when he said: Here's looking at you, bitch.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 08:08 PM (DmNpO)

275 Well if the discounts I just got on some of my Christmas orders are any indication, retail sales did not go well this weekend and businesses are approaching desperation quickly.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 08:08 PM (RZ8pf)

276 Jerry Lee Lewis achieved notoriety in the 1950s when he married his 13 year old cousin. He was 22 at the time. *** Yes. And it was rightly his undoing.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 08:09 PM (DmNpO)

277 Can I order a drone to be delivered by drone from amazon?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 08:10 PM (RZ8pf)

278 I bought a buttload of yarn today. To go with that hole in my head I have planned.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 08:10 PM (N/cFh)

279 #265: That rule applies to men, not women. Going by the same rule, you'd be looking to date men up to 70 years old.

Although, if you're interested in having red-haired kids ("Gingy" means you're a ginger, right?), I could help you with that. I'm very giving that way.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:10 PM (RGQmh)

280 Not by design, but my sisters and I all have "John" in our name in different languages. Strange.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 08:10 PM (0FSuD)

281 266 I would have pronounced it Mon-e-ak. Long e, short a.

Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2013 08:11 PM (M/TDA)

282 44 And, with that Office Space link still fresh in my mind...

Obamacare should be hauled to the middle of an abandoned field and beaten to death with a baseball bat.

Look, I know I was messed up, "PC Load Letter" and all that, but don't try to compare me with that hot mess. That's just insulting.

Posted by: Printer from Office Space at December 01, 2013 08:11 PM (bKA83)

283 278 What kind?

Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2013 08:12 PM (M/TDA)

284 Here's looking at you, bitch.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 02, 2013 12:08 AM

Gone with the Wind- "Yo, bitch... I don' give a shizzle."

Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 08:12 PM (9gNQd)

285 Trendy names are intended to boost the ego of parents and have very little to do with the kids themselves. This is the state of parenting today.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 01, 2013 08:12 PM (V4CBV)

286 As for the Essex social services getting a court order, what does it remind me of ...

Judgement at Nuremberg and all those forced sterilizations of mental defectives, Communists, and other undesirables of the NAZI regime.

Went to see The Book Thief.
All these children dressed in their NAZI school uniforms singing like a church chorus about how great Germany is and how it will break free of the shackles and against Jews. It is Kristalnacht and the SA are shown dragging Jews out of their homes and being brutalized.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 01, 2013 08:12 PM (ofljX)

287 278 #265: That rule applies to men, not women. Going by the same rule, you'd be looking to date men up to 70 years old. Although, if you're interested in having red-haired kids ("Gingy" means you're a ginger, right?), I could help you with that. I'm very giving that way. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 12:10 AM (RGQmh) --- Well, since I have been 'fixed', and I'm married, that may not be optimal. But yes, ginger. Good of you to offer to take one for the team. Neither of the kids are gingers, although they both started out that way. Sandy blonde boys.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 08:12 PM (N/cFh)

288 Yeah, just emailed you. Looks like 17 now. Posted by: Bomber at December 02, 2013 12:05 AM (nr+of) I responded. For those in the DC area, if you wish to meet Bomber as he transitions through on his way home to Mrs. Bomber, Bomber Jr., and Bomberette, email me at linseyziq at yahoo. It would be for dinner, at this point on the 17th (subject to scheduling).

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:12 PM (gferp)

289 #279: No weirder than Michael Jackson's kids all having Michael in their names, or George Foreman's kids all having George in theirs.

Well, okay, maybe it's a little weird. But not all that weird, when you get right down to it. There's way weirder things parents can do in the naming of their children.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:13 PM (RGQmh)

290 277 I bought a buttload of yarn today. To go with that hole in my head I have planned.

Mind your little fontanelle.

Posted by: Dot from Raising Arizona at December 01, 2013 08:14 PM (bKA83)

291 Anna how sad was book thief?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 01, 2013 08:15 PM (RZ8pf)

292 @279 Well, Jane and Yvonne, unless you knew they were John, are not obvious.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 08:15 PM (0FSuD)

293 Gone with the Wind- "Yo, bitch... I don' give a shizzle." *** LOL! He also did an impression of Jimmy Stewart calling Mr. Potter a shitbag. Later on, he said that he's so confident that the economy is going to turn around that he's shopping for a pot to piss in.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 08:15 PM (DmNpO)

294 Gingy, something not to do with all that yarn
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/selection-du-weekend-64-37.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 01, 2013 08:15 PM (ofljX)

295 Me and my fontanelle are going to bed now. Good night, Horde.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 08:15 PM (N/cFh)

296 283 Gone with the Wind- "Yo, bitch... I don' give a shizzle."

Shocked! Shocked, I am, to find incompetence and lies going on in this Administration.

Posted by: Barack "Teh One" Obama at December 01, 2013 08:16 PM (bKA83)

297 280 >> I would have pronounced it Mon-e-ak. Long e, short a.

I pronounced it Monique and I was right.

(but I wasn't sure I admit, until she didn't correct me)

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 08:16 PM (wNF3N)

298 288 Isn't his youngest named Blanket? What the hell kind of name is that? I know Michael Jackson was weird but doing that to a kid is downright cruel.

Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2013 08:17 PM (M/TDA)

299 Gingy, something not to do with all that yarn http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/selection-du-weekend-64-37.jpg **** HAHAHHAHAHAA!!!! It has a fly!!!!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 08:17 PM (DmNpO)

300 Oh good god, Anna.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 08:17 PM (N/cFh)

301 294 Me and my fontanelle are going to bed now. Good night, Horde. Good night, Trayvon will be over to tuck you in. Shot him again if you see him, just for good measure.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 08:17 PM (0FSuD)

302 Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 02, 2013 12:17 AM (N/cFh) Yeah, I don't see you knitting that for Weirddave.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:18 PM (gferp)

303 But we should be happy, because we should still be home by Christmas. They think. At least for now. Posted by: Bomber Hope you make it home for Christmas. Thanks for all you do for us.

Posted by: The Farmer at December 01, 2013 08:18 PM (eBupg)

304 AMF, team!

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 01, 2013 08:18 PM (0FSuD)

305 My first daughter is named Samantha. And my crazy ass ex thought I named her after Samantha Fox who was in Playboy that year. That would have been a reason to pick a different name for me.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 08:19 PM (vCVhg)

306 301 Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 02, 2013 12:17 AM (N/cFh) Yeah, I don't see you knitting that for Weirddave. Posted by: Vendette at December 02, 2013 12:18 AM (gferp) --- Knowing him, he would ask for something weird like that. Now for realsies it's bed time. Ta.

Posted by: Gingy @GingyNorth at December 01, 2013 08:19 PM (N/cFh)

307 http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/selection-du-weekend-64-37.jpg

Please tell me there are bunny ears on top of that damn thing.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 01, 2013 08:20 PM (lr3d7)

308 Look, I know I was messed up, "PC Load Letter" and all that, but don't try to compare me with that hot mess. That's just insulting. **** You're right. The fax machine worked some of the time.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 08:20 PM (DmNpO)

309 Yes. And it was rightly his undoing.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 02, 2013 12:09 AM (DmNpO)

Well, it set his career back a little, but he is still going strong, and all his contemporaries at Sun records, Johnny Cash, Elvis, and Carl Perkins, are pushing up daisies.

However skeevy it may sound now, his marriage was legal under the laws of the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 08:21 PM (8Fl6F)

310 265 What the hell am I gonna do dating a 28-year-old? Do they even have fully-formed brains? What would we talk about? Exactly. I felt a pretty strong attraction to a 28-year-old woman not long after settling in Oklahoma. Then the brain in my head took over. Evening, Horde.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 01, 2013 08:22 PM (5J54Q)

311 I will now predict the top story on all of the Monday newscasts in DC: We wuz robbed!

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:22 PM (gferp)

312 #286: Yeah, that would be sort of suboptimal. I'm sure Mr. North would agree.

But, yeah, I figure I have to do my part if we redheads are going to take over the world. By virtue of being married, yes, you are officially released from such obligations. I've double-checked with our soc- er, uh, I mean, umm, of course there's no society gingers have to check in with for such things. And we totally aren't soulless, no matter what you've read at those awful anti-ginger sites.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:24 PM (RGQmh)

313 265 What the hell am I gonna do dating a 28-year-old? Do they even have fully-formed brains? What would we talk about? Exactly. I felt a pretty strong attraction to a 28-year-old woman not long after settling in Oklahoma. Then the brain in my head took over. Evening, Horde. Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 02, 2013 12:22 AM (5J54Q) Note that she was talking about 28-year-old men.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:24 PM (gferp)

314 ...Y.A. Tittle. Hmmm...I've seen a building near the center of town that says, "Y.A. Tittle Insurance" on it...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 01, 2013 08:24 PM (VVsZ2)

315 Primary Colors is now on HBO. I love that movie.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 08:24 PM (DmNpO)

316 I call dibs on the Niagra Falls evil lair. I was worried that my Death ray had a capacity of over 5 shots and I didn't want to get a nasty confiscation letter from NY 'gun-grabbers" . But as it turns out it's on the Canadian side of the falls! Just call me Dr. Evil, eh? Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 01, 2013 08:25 PM (5Vi5+)

317 Hey, Bomber, at least you have beer, right?

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:25 PM (gferp)

318 311 #286: Yeah, that would be sort of suboptimal. I'm sure Mr. North would agree.

But, yeah, I figure I have to do my part if we redheads are going to take over the world. By virtue of being married, yes, you are officially released from such obligations. I've double-checked with our soc- er, uh, I mean, umm, of course there's no society gingers have to check in with for such things. And we totally aren't soulless, no matter what you've read at those awful anti-ginger sites.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 12:24 AM (RGQmh)

Nobody thinks that you're soulless....we all understand that you are born without and collect them along the way.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 08:25 PM (T1005)

319 Best friend spent the holiday in New York State, and brought me home Tim Hortons pastries! Happy me!
When wargaming friends of mine and myself visited a friend who moved to Buffalo, we got fresh Tim's in Buffalo to take to his place along with some Canadian-only wine-gum candies for his pregnant wife.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 08:25 PM (4NEdy)

320 Hmmm...I've seen a building near the center of town that says, "Y.A. Tittle Insurance" on it...

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 12:24 AM (VVsZ2)

Can you put me in touch with them? I need to insure my young American titties.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 01, 2013 08:27 PM (8Fl6F)

321 311 But, yeah, I figure I have to do my part if we redheads are going to take over the world.

It begins.

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:27 PM (bKA83)

322 All right, turning in now. 'Night, Horde!

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2013 08:27 PM (fETNt)

323 All these children dressed in their NAZI school uniforms singing like a church chorus about how great Germany is and how it will break free of the shackles and against Jews. It is Kristalnacht and the SA are shown dragging Jews out of their homes and being brutalized.
So it was a holiday charmer. Three goats up!

Posted by: al-jazeera movie reviewer at December 01, 2013 08:27 PM (4NEdy)

324 #297: Blanket's real name is Prince Michael Jackson. There's a II on the end, but that doesn't really mean anything because his father's name was Michael Joseph Jackson, not Prince Michael Jackson I/Sr.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:27 PM (RGQmh)

325 Note that she was talking about 28-year-old men. Posted by: Vendette at December 02, 2013 12:24 AM (gferp) Noted. Still, in my case, I felt the same way. I want to have at least some common ground. Not a whole lot to work with when this woman was born the year after I graduated from high school. Hell, it's not like any woman in her 20's in her right mind would take a second look at a shlub like me, anyway.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 01, 2013 08:28 PM (5J54Q)

326 later, LP

Posted by: otho at December 01, 2013 08:29 PM (9gNQd)

327 Moneak vs Brainiac.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 01, 2013 08:30 PM (BrrWI)

328 Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 02, 2013 12:28 AM (5J54Q) *Does math* I thought you were younger than that.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:30 PM (gferp)

329 #320: What begins? I have no idea what you're talking about, and the bomb surgically attached to my brain would tell you the same.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:30 PM (RGQmh)

330 So you're doing some more knitting, then, Vendette. Are you using the technique linked in my sock?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 08:31 PM (4NEdy)

331 Antonio Smith, Texan, is now accusing Belichick of spying again. http://t.co/3TcMtrvQEJ And, at this point, I feel compelled to remind you that I still believe Smith will be the first openly gay NFLer.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 01, 2013 08:31 PM (DmNpO)

332 >>> Hope you make it home for Christmas. Thanks for all you do for us. Posted by: The Farmer at December 02, 2013 12:18 AM (eBupg)

Aren't you from the childhood home of everybody's favorite President? I'm headed to right down the road, to Sterling.

>>> Hey, Bomber, at least you have beer, right?

Shitty Russian beer, but it tasted damn good last night.

Posted by: Bomber at December 01, 2013 08:31 PM (nr+of)

333 So you're doing some more knitting, then, Vendette. Are you using the technique linked in my sock? Posted by: andycanuck at December 02, 2013 12:31 AM (4NEdy) I hope you get three feet of snow in 12 hours.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:32 PM (gferp)

334 *Does math* I thought you were younger than that. Posted by: Vendette at December 02, 2013 12:30 AM (gferp) I used to be.

I also don't look my age, according to just about everyone I meet. I guess that's one thing to be grateful for.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 01, 2013 08:32 PM (5J54Q)

335 To tell U.S. air carriers to participate in the People's Republic of China's Sea Air Defense Identification Zone is a stroke of genius. To quote Popular Mechanics as a prophet of Commie readiness to interdict air traffic is hilarious. Imagine the fluent radio traffic of loyal Chinese Communist Party controllers interrogating international air crews. I'm sure plenty of operators will be standing by for all the expected calls to 1-800-FRY-SAFE. Imagine overloaded reverse engineered Chinese Communist computers crashing under the deluge of automated responses of commercial transponders simply doing their jobs. 404 error, please try to fly through here again some other time soon. See how many Chinese drones are loosed into the Sea Air Defense Identification Zone to keep tabs on all that traffic. See how many operational fighter jets the Chinese People's Red Great Leap Forward Air Force send up. It is laughable that the Communist Chinese presume to manage access to a huge piece of sea and atmosphere.

Posted by: DM at December 01, 2013 08:33 PM (LaKlJ)

336 318 Best friend spent the holiday in New York State, and brought me home Tim Hortons pastries! Happy me!
When wargaming friends of mine and myself visited a friend who moved to Buffalo, we got fresh Tim's in Buffalo to take to his place along with some Canadian-only wine-gum candies for his pregnant wife.

Wait. Tim Hortons has invaded the U.S. now? Is this because Canada used their unassuming wiles to quietly become better than us during these years of darkness?

This will not stand. America will be renewed. But maybe we'll need to cut off that Northeast Corridor to survive. A Tim Horton infection, once started, is hard to stop. Amputation may be required. Without drastic action, the very principle of bacon itself could be lost. Canadians have many virtues, but understanding bacon is not one of them.

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:34 PM (bKA83)

337 323 The "II" on the end of Blanket's legal name isn't to distinguish him from his father. The older son's name is also Prince Michael Jackson (he goes by Prince because that's not weird at all).

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at December 01, 2013 08:35 PM (GmTxn)

338 he goes by Prince because that's not weird at all aHEM>

Posted by: The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince at December 01, 2013 08:36 PM (5J54Q)

339 I hope you get three feet of snow in 12 hours.
So that's a 'no'?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 08:37 PM (4NEdy)

340 336 The older son's name is also Prince Michael Jackson (he goes by Prince because that's not weird at all).

No, not weird at all.

Also not weird: using anesthesia as a sleeping pill.

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:37 PM (bKA83)

341 Where is my goat?

Posted by: Achmed in Arabia at December 01, 2013 08:38 PM (SXDDj)

342 #336: Oh, you're right! It's to distinguish him from his older brother, not from his father. Just like with George Foreman's kids. It's just been a long time since I thought about it.

But, yes, you're correct.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:38 PM (RGQmh)

343 And think of all the Aussie arts grant money you'd be losing!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 08:38 PM (4NEdy)

344 Canadians have many virtues, but understanding bacon is not one of them. Posted by: Splunge at December 02, 2013 12:34 AM (bKA83) Canadian bacon is known as back bacon in Canuckistan. Otherwise, you can be assured that regular bacon is doing well in Canadian grocery stores everywhere.

Posted by: Vendette, defensive Canuck at December 01, 2013 08:38 PM (gferp)

345 Canadians have many virtues, but understanding bacon is not one of them.

Posted by: Splunge at December 02, 2013 12:34 AM (bKA83)

A vile calumny, indeed. We love bacon so much, we have devised ways to make even more of the pig into it. Nothing like some yummy back bacon!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 01, 2013 08:39 PM (8Fl6F)

346 293 What's lower on the scale than a beta male? Any man who would wear that is definitely in need of a testosterone transfusion.

Posted by: Tuna at December 01, 2013 08:39 PM (M/TDA)

347 PGiS, it is a somber film that has moments of levity and others of sadness.

Rudi, the 'boy with the lemon colored hair,' has a puppy dog infatuation with Liselle but he grows into being her best friend. He is a sprinter who sees nothing wrong in wanting to be like Jesse Owens so daubs himself in black polish that leads to him being hauled to his parents by a neighbor. And his father Alex is reduced to telling him why he can't be like Jesse Owens is because the father says so. He becomes her ally.

At one point Rudi thinks of running away - 'See I am prepared!' as he holds up a bulging knapsack, Liselle ansers 'probably has your soccer ball.' So him and Liselle are at a lake all alone and they scream "I hate Hitler!" before eventually going back home

Rosa, played by Emma Watson - you won't recognize her, is 'the woman wrapped in thunder.' She is gruff and with a sharp tongue but you find as the movie goes on its because she cares too much for her husband Hans and eventually Liselle.

Hans, the painter who refuses to join the NAZI party. The NAZIs finds out one of his neighbors is really a Jew. They are dragging the man into a car. As everyone else stands there as the man screams he is a good German, Hans rushes to try and help his friend. He is knocked violently to the curb. Later at home as Rosa tries to mend his wounds, Hans breaks down at the kitchen table crying and wondering what had he done. Later Liselle tells him he had merely done what people do.

And there is Max. A Jew on the run after Kristalnacht. Hans owes a life debt to Max's family. Max's father died in WWI instead of Hans. One night after Max regains some of his strength he and Liselle are in the bedroom upstairs. Max sleeping in the bed that would have been where Liselle's brother slept if he had not died. And they are giggling imaging letters to Hitler from his mother. Both have lost their mothers - Liselle's had given her up because she could not care for the girl. And when the SA came for the Jews on Kristalnacht, a friend helped Max escape but he had to leave his mother.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 01, 2013 08:40 PM (ofljX)

348 Today was actually a good day. It was the last video on this thread on Hot Air that made it so: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/01/quotes-of-the-day-1572/ The outpouring of Family Solidarity in response to Teh JEF's Message was unanimous and overwhelming ... ... to the point that Sheer Emotion required the camera to be turned off ... by 1:24. ... I even wiped a tear from my eye ...

Posted by: Arbalest at December 01, 2013 08:40 PM (FlRtG)

349 334 Imagine the fluent radio traffic of loyal Chinese Communist Party controllers interrogating international air crews. I'm sure plenty of operators will be standing by for all the expected calls to 1-800-FRY-SAFE.

Can you offer a simplified version of this, for people who do not already subscribe to your no-doubt-worthy newsletter?

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:40 PM (bKA83)

350 eeew! off subsidized sock!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 08:40 PM (8Fl6F)

351 I'm kinda surprised there isn't some kind of push to refurbish the Niagara hydroelectric plant. After, it's renewable power.

Of course, if our gubmint took that task on the website alone would cost $6 trillion and would crash daily. So nevermind.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 08:41 PM (wNF3N)

352 Also not weird: using anaesthesia as a sleeping pill. ---- If there had been a fourth one "Anaesthesia" might well have been the name. How weird it is it that Paris is the normal name of the bunch? Of course, they all fared better than their cousin JerMajesty.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at December 01, 2013 08:41 PM (GmTxn)

353 343 Canadian bacon is known as back bacon in Canuckistan. Otherwise, you can be assured that regular bacon is doing well in Canadian grocery stores everywhere.

This is indeed encouraging. But how did we get to "back bacon"? I had thought that the putative "back bacon" was in fact made from the loin, and that the back of a pig was actually fatty, as in the term "fatback". Can you help sort this out?

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:43 PM (bKA83)

354 #351: Paris also has Michael in her name. Her full name is Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:44 PM (RGQmh)

355 Peameal back bacon is great!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 08:45 PM (4NEdy)

356 I'm kinda surprised there isn't some kind of push to refurbish the Niagara hydroelectric plant. After, it's renewable power.

Of course, if our gubmint took that task on the website alone would cost $6 trillion and would crash daily. So nevermind.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 02, 2013 12:41 AM (wNF3N)

In the minds of the greentards, hydro power is not renewable. The dams silt up, and the fishies must swim free!

I'm not joking. Legally, in California, hydro power is not considered "renewable". Partly, no doubt, because it works.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 08:45 PM (8Fl6F)

357 223. My uncle (by marriage) brother married his daughter's best friend. She was 18 -- he was about 40. Three kids and years later still married. Still awkward wife and daughter. Creepy.

Posted by: gracepmc at December 01, 2013 08:47 PM (rznx3)

358 This is indeed encouraging. But how did we get to "back bacon"? I had thought that the putative "back bacon" was in fact made from the loin, and that the back of a pig was actually fatty, as in the term "fatback". Can you help sort this out? Posted by: Splunge at December 02, 2013 12:43 AM (bKA83) Canadian back bacon is from the loin. British back bacon is a combo of the loin and belly.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:47 PM (gferp)

359 I once got some thinly sliced Canadian bacon to use in grilled cheese sandwiches. It was the same size as the bread I was using. It wasn't exactly bacon, but it wasn't exactly ham, either. It did work nicely with my sandwiches, though.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:47 PM (RGQmh)

360 eeew! off subsidized sock!
Thank G-d!
I almost lost my appetite there.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 08:48 PM (4NEdy)

361 I had thought that the putative "back bacon" was in fact made from the loin, and that the back of a pig was actually fatty, as in the term "fatback". Can you help sort this out?>> Modern hog farming methods produce much leaner hogs.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 08:48 PM (vCVhg)

362 "America will be renewed. But maybe we'll need to cut off that Northeast Corridor to survive. A Tim Horton infection, once started, is hard to stop."

I think we need to amputate the Northeast Corridor in order for America to survive even if this Tim Horton invasion is just a rumor.

The entire Pacific seaboard is going to have to go too. A shame. Some nice places and pleasant views.

Posted by: NSA at December 01, 2013 08:48 PM (gqT4g)

363 348 334 Imagine the fluent radio traffic of loyal Chinese Communist Party controllers interrogating international air crews. I'm sure plenty of operators will be standing by for all the expected calls to 1-800-FRY-SAFE. Can you offer a simplified version of this, for people who do not already subscribe to your no-doubt-worthy newsletter? Posted by: Splunge at December 02, 2013 12:40 AM (bKA83) Dear Sir or Madam, I am honored and humbled. (Dabs eyes, blows nose)

Posted by: DM at December 01, 2013 08:48 PM (LaKlJ)

364 I once got some thinly sliced Canadian bacon to use in grilled cheese sandwiches. It was the same size as the bread I was using. It wasn't exactly bacon, but it wasn't exactly ham, either. It did work nicely with my sandwiches, though. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 12:47 AM (RGQmh) And you have to cook it very fast. Overcook it, and it's tough.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:49 PM (gferp)

365 I rarely buy Canadian bacon, unless I feel like making cajun eggs benedict. You add cayenne and cajun seasoning to regular Hollandaise to make that.

Though c.b. is pretty good as a pizza topping too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 01, 2013 08:49 PM (wNF3N)

366 355 I'm not joking. Legally, in California, hydro power is not considered "renewable". Partly, no doubt, because it works.

Seriously? Really? "It rains and you get new water from the sky" is not considered to be a renewal mechanism?

I think I've found my ticket out of this screwed up state. Fingers crossed. Within a year, I may be posting from the Arizona desert, complaining about the tarantulas and scorpions and rattlesnakes, any of which I'd happily choose over a California Democrat.

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:49 PM (bKA83)

367 Canadian Bacon, American Bacon. It's all tasty. That's all that matters.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 01, 2013 08:51 PM (5J54Q)

368 If you cook it just right, Canadian bacon works great in a breakfast sandwich and also with peas.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:51 PM (gferp)

369 360 Modern hog farming methods produce much leaner hogs.

That's just wrong. Pig fat is one of the pleasures of life. Who needs a lean hog?

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:52 PM (bKA83)

370 367 If you cook it just right, Canadian bacon works great in a breakfast sandwich and also with peas.

This all makes sense. If they hadn't decided to call it by the sacred name of bacon, and instead had called it "lightly cured Canadian style ham," it could have been easily accepted, and might even be treasured worldwide. Heck, for the Europeans, you could make legally defined Canadian Lightly Cured Ham Zones and let them compete for Ham Terroir.

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 08:55 PM (bKA83)

371 That's just wrong. Pig fat is one of the pleasures of life. Who needs a lean hog? Posted by: Splunge at December 02, 2013 12:52 AM (bKA83) *mumblemumble* years ago I visited the Philippines and went to a Rotary Club dinner. The first course? Pig fat. The rest of the pig was there, but for later. I can assure you that those of us fresh from North America were a bit stunned that there was a plate of pig fat as the appetizer.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:55 PM (gferp)

372 If you cook it just right, Canadian bacon works great in a breakfast sandwich

Posted by: Vendette at December 02, 2013 12:51 AM (gferp)

Works wonders in an egg mcmuffin.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 01, 2013 08:57 PM (FMbng)

373 And the Niagara produces plenty of electricity. The abandoned plant is probably because it wouldn't have been cost-effective to upgrade from its earlier tech I'd guess.
www.opg.com/power/hydro/niagara_plant_group/

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 08:58 PM (4NEdy)

374 Andycanuck owes me an EggMcMuffin.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 08:59 PM (gferp)

375 Colorado Alex, no idea if that had bunny ears. But here is another bad idea. Knitted deer antler hoodies for your dogs.
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/selection-du-weekend-64-34.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 01, 2013 08:59 PM (ofljX)

376 #363: Yeah, I cooked that Canadian bacon very lightly before putting it in the sandwiches to finish cooking as the cheese melted around it. I also added slices from an heirloom tomato that were also roughly the same size and shape as the bread.

The bacon didn't leave as much in the way of drippings in the pan as I was expecting, which made my sandwiches unexpectedly low-fat. They came out well, though!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 08:59 PM (RGQmh)

377 370 *mumblemumble* years ago I visited the Philippines and went to a Rotary Club dinner. The first course? Pig fat. The rest of the pig was there, but for later. I can assure you that those of us fresh from North America were a bit stunned that there was a plate of pig fat as the appetizer.

Awesome. The Italians call it Lardo, and, I imagine, charge a lot more for it. The Cantonese will, at times, serve you a dish that consists of a very crisp layer of caramelized pork skin, 3/4" of pure happy pork fat, and 3/8" of meat. It's incredibly delicious, and, I am informed, illegal in the US because you're not allowed to butcher pigs at the optimum "suckling pig" age, for some reason.

Posted by: Splunge at December 01, 2013 09:00 PM (bKA83)

378 Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 12:59 AM (RGQmh) Sigh. May I come over for breakfast?

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:03 PM (gferp)

379 Andycanuck owes me an EggMcMuffin.
If you're in Toronto any time, I'll happily buy you a Tim's breakfast sandwich instead. Look for them the next time you're ~~back home where you belong~~ vacationing in the Great White North.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 09:03 PM (4NEdy)

380 The local Mexican butcher sells deep fried bacon, it comes out like fried pork skins, only it has a lot of meat on it.

I forget the Mexican name of that stuff, but, damn it is good.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:04 PM (YcCMP)

381 If you're in Toronto any time, I'll happily buy you a Tim's breakfast sandwich instead. Look for them the next time you're back home where you belong vacationing in the Great White North. Posted by: andycanuck at December 02, 2013 01:03 AM (4NEdy) Pearson, December 30th.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:04 PM (gferp)

382 Seriously? Really? "It rains and you get new water from the sky" is not considered to be a renewal mechanism?

I went to the California government's website. "Small hydro" is deemed "eligible renewable". Not so, large hydro.So if you live next to a mountain stream with several hundred feet of head, and you can tap off a little water and run it through a Pelton wheel, you are golden. Good luck with that, if the waters are inhabited by fish, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 01, 2013 09:05 PM (8Fl6F)

383 Chicarrones.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:05 PM (YcCMP)

384 #377: Any time! Let me know in advance, and I'll even have some groceries in stock so I can feed you properly.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 09:05 PM (RGQmh)

385 373 Andycanuck owes me an EggMcMuffin.

Posted by: Vendette at December 02, 2013 12:59 AM (gferp)

Interestingly, I've been in the McDonalds where the EggMcMuffin was first introduced -- there's even a plaque on the wall. It's in Santa Barbara, near La Cumbre Plaza.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 09:06 PM (T1005)

386 Any time! Let me know in advance, and I'll even have some groceries in stock so I can feed you properly. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 01:05 AM (RGQmh) Where do you live?

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:07 PM (gferp)

387 I guess I killed the discussion over The Book Thief.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 01, 2013 09:07 PM (ofljX)

388 Continued from #383.. Of course, I'd rather you stayed for breakfast, but, well, I'm not overly picky about such details.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 09:08 PM (RGQmh)

389 #385: Lakewood, Colorado.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 09:08 PM (RGQmh)

390 My ex Father in law would warm up the bacon grease from the previous morning and dip bread in it for breakfast. Since he was a depression kid it made sense but it was not something I thought was appetizing. Though some of my favorites from childhood, my kids think are gross to. Like beef tounge.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 09:10 PM (vCVhg)

391 I guess I need to visit Colorado.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:11 PM (gferp)

392 I think we need to amputate the Northeast Corridor in order for America to survive even if this Tim Horton invasion is just a rumor.

The entire Pacific seaboard is going to have to go too. A shame. Some nice places and pleasant views.

Posted by: NSA at December 02, 2013 12:48 AM (gqT4g)

Cut out the cancers that are Seattle and LA and SF, and the rest of the region has a chance to survive.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 01, 2013 09:11 PM (lr3d7)

393 I had a grandmother that would eat lard with her bare fingers as if it were butter.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:11 PM (YcCMP)

394 If you've got the time, I'd be happy to meet you and your family, Vendette. I'm in central Etobicoke so especially if you're staying in a hotel near the airport, there are plenty of places we can easily meet at.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 09:12 PM (4NEdy)

395 390 I guess I need to visit Colorado.
Posted by: Vendette at December 02, 2013 01:11 AM (gferp)

Yes, you do. We'll make sure to welcome you in style.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 01, 2013 09:12 PM (lr3d7)

396 One of the good things about Canadian bacon (aka. back bacon)? Makes great Eggs Benedict.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:12 PM (gferp)

397 News Update: American Left supports the Russians over the Ukrainians.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 09:14 PM (4NEdy)

398 391 Colorado Alex Cut out the cancers that are Seattle and LA and SF, and the rest of the region has a chance to survive. .. and leave Chicago?

Posted by: Arbalest at December 01, 2013 09:14 PM (FlRtG)

399 NDH, I would make a distinction between 30 something men picking up high schoolers randomly, and situations where a long term relationship was involved (I think 7 years qualifies).

My best friend started dating a 16 year old he met in a venue where age wouldn't have been the first topic of conversation, so I don't know when he knew. He would have been in his very late 20s at the time. They got married 4 years later and have three kids.

Is the not getting married part of your ick factor here?

Posted by: Methos at December 01, 2013 09:15 PM (hO9ad)

400 Oh for fuck's sake are we now discussing how my particular area of geography has to be destroyed? Again?

OK, I will come in and move next door to you where you will not like my practice hours.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:15 PM (YcCMP)

401 That'd be cool, Vendette!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 09:15 PM (RGQmh)

402 My 2nd generation Italian dad was disgusted at my mom's 2nd generation Irish family eating bacon dripping sandwiches in the '40s too.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at December 01, 2013 09:15 PM (4NEdy)

403 Damn! I am getting old! I identified half of the QBs in 1961. Without reading the caption. Oh well, back to work.
Any odds on Blue Monday consumer scuffles at the local WalMart?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 01, 2013 09:16 PM (1zO08)

404 I am leaving and taking Geo. Schultz and Zombie Milton Friedman with me.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:18 PM (YcCMP)

405 @402

I didn't know that Sonny played for the Eagles too!?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 01, 2013 09:18 PM (1zO08)

406 *Makes mental note to visit Colorado for a few days and get out of Pearson International Airport*

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:18 PM (gferp)

407 #398: If an older dude marries a high-school girl, that does take out a lot of the ick factor, in my opinion. I'd still object to my own hypothetical teen daughter dating a dude twice her age, but I think it'd be reduced to some minor bristling if he at least made a point of asking me for permission to marry her and gave her a ring and stuff. Provided I generally approved of him, of course.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 09:21 PM (RGQmh)

408 I didn't know that Sonny played for the Eagles too!? Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 02, 2013 01:18 AM (1zO0

He did. But if you live in the DC area and don't know the details, you'd think he was a lifelong Redskin.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:22 PM (gferp)

409 397. Yes leave Chicago The best city in the US if you just firebomb the south side

Posted by: Ncj at December 01, 2013 09:24 PM (fmjNz)

410 "Oh for fuck's sake are we now discussing how my particular area of geography has to be destroyed? Again?"

I live in the SF Bay Area. I was born here. It's my particular area of geography.

And if America as we have traditionally understood it is going to survive in a recognizable form, America has to be politically broken off from this place (and the rest of coastal Commiefornia). There are other parts of the country which share that fundamental incompatibility.

No place has to be "destroyed", as you put it. Rather, the incompatible regions must divorce from one another. Hopefully in an amicable manner.

Posted by: NSA at December 01, 2013 09:24 PM (gqT4g)

411 but I think it'd be reduced to some minor bristling if he at least made a point of asking me for permission to marry her and gave her a ring and stuff. Provided I generally approved of him, of course.>> Yes an old dude with a career is better than a gang banger with no future. Especially if kids will be involved.

Posted by: The hickster at December 01, 2013 09:25 PM (vCVhg)

412 I didn't know that Sonny played for the Eagles too!? Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 02, 2013 01:18 AM (1zO0

I think he and Norm Snead were swapped....maybe more than once.

Posted by: BignJames at December 01, 2013 09:28 PM (HtUkt)

413 NSA : No place has to be "destroyed", as you put it. Rather, the incompatible regions must divorce from one another. Hopefully in an amicable manner.

They should be encourage to secede. Then we should sanction them for human rights violations, followed by a declaration of war.

After these areas are militarily defeated, the Democratic Party registered inhabitants should be sold and exported to China as slaves, and the resulting unoccupied lands opened to homesteading by American citizens.

Posted by: Kristophr at December 01, 2013 09:28 PM (c6N69)

414 397
391 Colorado Alex

Cut out the cancers that are Seattle and LA and SF, and the rest of the region has a chance to survive.

.. and leave Chicago?

Posted by: Arbalest at December 02, 2013 01:14 AM (FlRtG)

Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 09:30 PM (T1005)

415 OK if you need a fifth column, lemme know. I know where all the best commies live, the top tier.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:30 PM (YcCMP)

416 Nite all.

For Monday -
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/selection-du-weekend-64-47.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 01, 2013 09:31 PM (ofljX)

417 Hey, when it comes to rock stars boning seriously underage girls, don't forget Jimmy Page:
http://tinyurl.com/m4s9vku

Posted by: Epobirs at December 01, 2013 09:33 PM (bPxS6)

418 That, or just let the Sheriff's Secret Police take care of them:

https://soundcloud.com/nightvaleradio

Posted by: Kristophr at December 01, 2013 09:33 PM (c6N69)

419 No place has to be "destroyed", as you put it. Rather, the incompatible regions must divorce from one another. Hopefully in an amicable manner.

1) Call Constitutional Convention

2)Amendment to be considered:The federal government is hereby dissolved with all it's properties being given to the state in which they are currently located or next scheduled to return to. Anyone who wants DC is welcome to it.

3)Close the convention. States can then reorganize as they see fit.

Posted by: Methos at December 01, 2013 09:36 PM (hO9ad)

420 According to Cary Grant: If she is under 16 she's protected by law. If she is over 65 she is protected by nature. In the middle she's fair game.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 01, 2013 09:39 PM (RXQ2T)

421 Dammit. Has anyone else seen a massive increase in spam of the 'male enhancement' variety? I'm getting hundreds of these a day now. It goes to the junk folder automatically on my computer but my phone is severely cluttered with this crap.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 01, 2013 09:40 PM (bPxS6)

422 #416: Yeah, I wouldn't have tolerated the Jimmy Paige situation, and I wonder what that girl's parents were thinking. But that guy who married Courtney Stodden... yeah, as a father, I'd find it much harder to object to that. He straight-up married her, which is a pretty solid sign of his intentions.

Granted, they recently split up, so maybe blessing their union wouldn't have been the smartest decision her father could've made. But it seemed good at the time.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 09:42 PM (RGQmh)

423 Dammit. Has anyone else seen a massive increase in spam of the 'male enhancement' variety?

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Posted by: lace dicks at December 01, 2013 09:42 PM (hO9ad)

424 20 Ah such a great day. Daughter the younger took me to prison for my birthday (Alcatraz that is, it was on my bucket list). That is one eerie place, even with sunshine. Then pigging out at Bubba Gump. Now sitting down with some nice Sam Adams Winterlager.

Next year on the bucket list: whale watchingÂ….yeah

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 01, 2013 10:46 PM

I need to see that movie again. I could knock out one after NY2014. To go see the Hanoi Hilton (if it still exists). I am only a couple hundred kms west of there.
And no, I did not vote for McCain. My 2008 absentee ballot is still in the file box... wonder if I could put in on eBay?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 01, 2013 09:42 PM (1zO08)

425 If there is a wedge issue to use locally (in CA.) against the Feds it is use of pot, weed, marijuana.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:44 PM (YcCMP)

426 This older guy who wants to date my hypothetical daughter. How rich and how how healthy is he? Because if the answers are very and not very in that order, it is food for thought.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 01, 2013 09:45 PM (bPxS6)

427 Granted, they recently split up, so maybe blessing their union wouldn't have been the smartest decision her father could've made. But it seemed good at the time. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 01:42 AM (RGQmh) Is there proof her father blessed it in reality, blessed it in 'reality', or didn't bless it at all?

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:45 PM (gferp)

428 Has anyone else seen a massive increase in spam of the 'male enhancement' variety?

Yeah, for like, 25 years or so.

Posted by: navybrat at December 01, 2013 09:49 PM (YcCMP)

429 Happy-ish Sunday Night, all -

Posted by: Adriane... at December 01, 2013 09:50 PM (jdRXP)

430 Happy-ish Sunday Night, all - Posted by: Adriane... at December 02, 2013 01:50 AM (jdRXP) The long weekend has thrown me off.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 09:54 PM (gferp)

431 So, I'm heading out in the morning for New Orleans. Looks like I'll be staying in the nearby town of LaPlace, rather than New Orleans-proper. I'd like to avoid driving in the city itself as much as possible, but the hotel (Holiday Inn) doesn't appear to have a shuttle service as far as I can tell.

Anybody got any tips on how I might be able to get to-and-from the city without huge hassle or expense?

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at December 01, 2013 09:54 PM (m0h0I)

432 #426: I'm not sure, to be honest. She was 16 when they married, and thus may not have even needed parental permission, depending on where she lived at the time.

That's another reason I wouldn't have objected too strongly in that situation. If he just wanted to sleep with her, her father would have legal recourse to stop him. But marriage? Not so much.

Even without age-of-consent laws permitting marriage whether or not the girl's father okays it, the fact that her suitor was willing to give up so much just to have her is pretty compelling. Marriage is kind of a big deal, especially for the man involved.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 09:59 PM (RGQmh)

433 420 Dammit. Has anyone else seen a massive increase in spam of the 'male enhancement' variety? I'm getting hundreds of these a day now. It goes to the junk folder automatically on my computer but my phone is severely cluttered with this crap.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 02, 2013 01:40 AM (bPxS6)

I understand that frequently happens when you are unprotected and peruse certain fapping sites....IT guys frequently complain about having to deal with it for Sales guys.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 10:00 PM (T1005)

434 Dammit. Has anyone else seen a massive increase in spam of the 'male enhancement' variety? I'm getting hundreds of these a day now. It goes to the junk folder automatically on my computer but my phone is severely cluttered with this crap. Posted by: Epobirs at December 02, 2013 01:40 AM (bPxS6) I'm a lady and I get those in my junk folder.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:03 PM (gferp)

435 junk folder
heh heh

Posted by: beavis at December 01, 2013 10:06 PM (4NEdy)

436 The long weekend has thrown me off. Been busy with remodeling. Gotta go back to work tomorrow and get some rest!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 01, 2013 10:08 PM (jdRXP)

437 DDR, pictures you say? This writer died in NOLA in 2002 but dunno if he is buried there. If so, I would like to see what's written on his tombstone.
TIA

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

Will dig through the external links later.

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 01, 2013 10:09 PM (1zO08)

438 1) Call Constitutional Convention 2)Amendment to be considered:The federal government is hereby dissolved with all it's properties being given to the state in which they are currently located or next scheduled to return to. Anyone who wants DC is welcome to it. 3)Close the convention. States can then reorganize as they see fit. Posted by: Methos at December 02, 2013 01:36 AM (hO9ad) Try that and we'll end up with a new constitution that is practically a carbon-copy of South Africa'sÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 01, 2013 10:09 PM (Vk2pI)

439 #432

Doesn't seem likely. I'd never bother with something of that nature that required a registration. Even if I did I'd get a separate address just for that purpose, in expectation of it being sold as a spam target.

It's just really annoying after so many years of very little of this kind of thing.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 01, 2013 10:09 PM (bPxS6)

440 #431 The marriage was legit as far as I know which implies parental consent if it were legally required from at least one parent. He did the straight up thing and married her; what they did before getting married really is her father's job to control but I never heard anyone say they slept together before marriage. The fact that it fell apart has probably more to do with their lifestyle choices than age differences. My aunt at 22 married my uncle when he was ~55 and it lasted over 40 years. Have a buddy in his mid 70's divorce his wife, #2, after 19 years of marriage. Their age difference is 20 years.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 01, 2013 10:12 PM (RXQ2T)

441 @ 436 [Forty Baht Barack] -- That might be a tall order:

http://is.gd/x0B1Hg

Burial:
Body lost or destroyed, Location of ashes is unknown.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at December 01, 2013 10:14 PM (m0h0I)

442 "Oh for fuck's sake are we now discussing how my particular area of geography has to be destroyed? Again?"

I live in the SF Bay Area. I was born here. It's my particular area of geography.

And if America as we have traditionally understood it is going to survive in a recognizable form, America has to be politically firewalled off from this place (and from the rest of coastal Commiefornia). There are other parts of the country which share that fundamental incompatibility.

No place has to be "destroyed", as you put it. Rather, the incompatible regions must divorce from one another. Hopefully in an amicable manner.

Nations don't have to be geographically contiguous. No reason why the USA can't break up into coastal and heartland pieces, with many of the Pacific and Atlantic coastal sections remaining in a long distance union with one another.

And, arrogant liberals from the two coasts will still be able to look out the windows of the jet from thirty thousand feet and sneer about "flyovers". Except that the flyovers will be spared having to cohabit within the same political union as the arrogant liberals any longer. I call that a win.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 01, 2013 10:18 PM (gqT4g)

443 #440

It would be appropriate for Effinger if one person knew the location of his grave but was subject to a memory wasting disease. This guy was in an early novel of his (The Wolves of Memory) and referenced some way in nearly every other book he wrote.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 01, 2013 10:18 PM (bPxS6)

444 #441

Make them survive on their own for a while and they'll self-destruct in short order. The urban left is very often completely clueless about what it take to feed and maintain a modern civilization.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 01, 2013 10:21 PM (bPxS6)

445 @ 440 DamnDirtyRino

Thanks! I always learn a baker's dozen or two items from the ONT. Enjoy your trip to The Big Easy!

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 01, 2013 10:21 PM (1zO08)

446 Hmm, watching VH1, a whole hour show with some dude trying to see if grunge belongs in the "metal" genre. I could have saved him a shitload of time and told him don't make me fucking laugh.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 01, 2013 10:24 PM (FMbng)

447 Great! On QVC right now if I want to spend $26 I can get a can opener.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:24 PM (gferp)

448

huhuhuh uh huhuh... she said "can opener"... huhuhuh

Posted by: butthead at December 01, 2013 10:28 PM (9gNQd)

449 Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 01, 2013 10:32 PM (RGQmh)

450 Good night, PW!

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:34 PM (gferp)

451 Every year, around Thanksgiving, we clear off the patio and put in "pop-up" greenhouses ( http://www.greenhouses.com/FlowerHousePortableGreenhouseKits.html ) for the tropical gingers, orchids, zygocactus, orchid cactus, and other assorted tropicals that we have.

This year, Thanksgiving is late and we're supposed to have a frost Tuesday night......and I've only got one set up (without shelves or occupants). So I'm going to be haulin' ass tomorrow.

Yet another crisis at Casa de Cthulhu.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 10:37 PM (T1005)

452 Remember former U.S. Senator Bob Smith from New Hampshire? He's running for the Senate again. http://tinyurl.com/lrnn994

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 01, 2013 10:39 PM (Vk2pI)

453 Having the plague sux. I am very tired of it. I want it to go away without taking me with it.

Posted by: jc at December 01, 2013 10:42 PM (PlzOe)

454 @ 444 [Forty Baht Barack] -- You're more than welcome, and thanks for the wishes on the trip!

@ 445 [Berserker] -- What gets me is that Alice in Chains is often classified as a "grunge" band. Maybe they skirted the genre on Jar of Flies, but they always sounded much more metal to me than grunge -- "Them Bones", "Rooster", "Man in the Box" -- not grunge at all. Soundgarden -- eh, Idunno. Not grunge to my ear, and more metal than not. Still, they're a tough call.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at December 01, 2013 10:45 PM (m0h0I)

455 jc at December 02, 2013 02:42 AM (PlzOe) May you be blessed with Healing and Health ... Damn the bacilli! Full Speed Ahead!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 01, 2013 10:50 PM (jdRXP)

456 cthulhu at December 02, 2013 02:37 AM (T1005) Set up the speakers and play hula music ... they'll never know the difference ... Oh and maybe some "ocean sounds" for extra effort...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 01, 2013 10:52 PM (jdRXP)

457 Although, if you're interested in having red-haired kids ("Gingy" means you're a ginger, right?), I could help you with that. I'm very giving that way. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 12:10 AM (RGQmh) I've got that handled, thanks so much for your kind and generous offer.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 01, 2013 10:53 PM (N/cFh)

458 Roses are red, Chicken Soup is soothing, A nice day at Ace's, Been some interesting perusing ... Good night, all.

Posted by: Adriane... at December 01, 2013 10:54 PM (jdRXP)

459 Although, if you're interested in having red-haired kids ("Gingy" means you're a ginger, right?), I could help you with that. I'm very giving that way. Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at December 02, 2013 12:10 AM (RGQmh) I've got that handled, thanks so much for your kind and generous offer. Posted by: Weirddave at December 02, 2013 02:53 AM (N/cFh) He has all the Gingy he can handle. And having met her, Gingy is a pistol.

Posted by: Vendette at December 01, 2013 10:56 PM (gferp)

460 455 cthulhu at December 02, 2013 02:37 AM (T1005)

Set up the speakers and play hula music ... they'll never know the difference ...

Oh and maybe some "ocean sounds" for extra effort...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 02, 2013 02:52 AM (jdRXP)

I already go out there and give 'em a rousing "Aloha!" -- but it's just like I'm talking to a bunch of potted plants.

Hey, wait a minute.....

Posted by: cthulhu at December 01, 2013 10:56 PM (T1005)

461 What gets me is that Alice in Chains is often classified as a "grunge" band. Maybe they skirted the genre on Jar of Flies, but they always sounded much more metal to me than grunge -- "Them Bones", "Rooster", "Man in the Box" -- not grunge at all. Soundgarden -- eh, Idunno. Not grunge to my ear, and more metal than not. Still, they're a tough call.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at December 02, 2013 02:45 AM (m0h0I)

Yeah if you ask me none of those bands qualify as metal. I can't put a finger on it. There was always good and bad metal, and even the bad stuff still had some elements I could somewhat recognize. For me that early 90's era was a different deal, I hated that stuff on a whole different level, I found nothing about it familiar.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Div at December 01, 2013 10:59 PM (FMbng)

462 Tonight on TWD there were some tasty little morsels. Not sure why anyone would follow the governor.

Posted by: The Commenting Software at December 01, 2013 11:00 PM (kkbgQ)

463 Have a good week horde and don't get injured for limited item sales.
I'll read the rest of the ONT after dinner.
Stay safe for at least the rest of '13.

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at December 01, 2013 11:02 PM (1zO08)

464 Knew a dude in college whose hot but very stupid girlfriend wound up with the nickname "bacon grease". Nobody would tell her why they called her that, of course. Seems one evening at a frater party she passed out, and he lubed her with the leftovers from the breakfast pan, and had his way with her. That she didn't figure it out the next morning, just from the prominent bacon scent emanating from her nethers is surprising, though perhaps not. Her being hot, but very, very stupid and all.

Posted by: FYNQ at December 01, 2013 11:23 PM (aglty)

465 Night all. Here is "Spit Out Your Teeth" by Black Moth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V72bTssfBmE

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 01, 2013 11:32 PM (Vk2pI)

466 So, he raped her and you and your friends thought it was funny???

Posted by: The Commenting Software at December 01, 2013 11:32 PM (kkbgQ)

467 Two more Dell courses passed. Now to see if the company that has me doing this produces any work for me as a result.

Posted by: Epobirs at December 01, 2013 11:36 PM (bPxS6)

468 465 So, he raped her and you and your friends thought it was funny??? Posted by: The Commenting Software at December 02, 2013 03:32 AM (kkbgQ) I'm interested in the answer, too.

Posted by: BignJames at December 01, 2013 11:44 PM (HtUkt)

469 ....and now for something completely different:

"Alamo pintado" means "painted poplar" in Spanish; "Sierra Nevada" means "snowy saw" [a circular saw is a "sierra circular"].

Posted by: cthulhu at December 02, 2013 12:03 AM (T1005)

470 Mitch McConnell: Republicans Need To 'Stand Up To' Conservatives 'Giving Conservatism A Bad Name' http://tinyurl.com/l25w9js Haw haw haw. I guess this confirms that Mitch isn't much of a conservative himself. He's just another establishment Republican, for whom party is more important than actual conservative principles.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 12:06 AM (VVsZ2)

471 Hmmm.....so there's a woot-off, and you can mouse over all the woot sites and it shows you previews of the current hot deals. When you mouse over the user-submitted deals, it gives you a preview of http://tinyurl.com/la8m56c, but when you go to the actual woot page [ http://deals.woot.com/ ], that deal is nowhere to be found.

Direct link to the underlying woot link, just in case -- http://tinyurl.com/meaywcp

Posted by: cthulhu at December 02, 2013 12:12 AM (T1005)

472 469 Mitch McConnell: Republicans Need To 'Stand Up To' Conservatives 'Giving Conservatism A Bad Name'

http://tinyurl.com/l25w9js

Haw haw haw. I guess this confirms that Mitch isn't much of a conservative himself. He's just another establishment Republican, for whom party is more important than actual conservative principles.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 04:06 AM (VVsZ2)

There are so many who campaign on "Washington shouldn't direct the economy" while they're campaigning in their states and immediately convert to "Washington should favor me" when they get there.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 02, 2013 12:15 AM (T1005)

473 Careful what you say about Mitch the Bitch there fella.

It just might be "nose punching" time.

Posted by: GMB at December 02, 2013 12:16 AM (nkPV9)

474 469 Mitch McConnell: Republicans Need To 'Stand Up To' Conservatives 'Giving Conservatism A Bad Name'

http://tinyurl.com/l25w9js

Haw haw haw. I guess this confirms that Mitch isn't much of a conservative himself. He's just another establishment Republican, for whom party is more important than actual conservative principles.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 04:06 AM (VVsZ2)

====

Sorry. No fricking way do I let Huffpost tell me who I am supposed to be mad at, even Mitch.

You remember when your grandmother told you "consider the source?" Based on that source I don't believe one damn thing.

Posted by: jc at December 02, 2013 12:31 AM (PlzOe)

475 Fuck all these old guard assholes. They're all disgraceful pieces of shit.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 12:32 AM (VVsZ2)

476 You remember when your grandmother told you "consider the source?" In McConnell's case, the source doesn't matter. He's already proved he's got no spine, so he has no value as a member of what is supposed to be opposition.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 12:39 AM (VVsZ2)

477 474 Fuck all these old guard assholes. They're all disgraceful pieces of shit.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 04:32 AM (VVsZ2)

Some of them served honorably with Reaganus Maximus.....and a whole bunch are sniveling, self-serving sellouts -- but I agree with jc 100% -- I wouldn't trust Huffpo to tell me the time of day.

Posted by: cthulhu at December 02, 2013 12:41 AM (T1005)

478 475 You remember when your grandmother told you "consider the source?"

In McConnell's case, the source doesn't matter. He's already proved he's got no spine, so he has no value as a member of what is supposed to be opposition.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 02, 2013 04:39 AM (VVsZ2)

===

If the source isn't needed, why did you bring them around?

Posted by: jc at December 02, 2013 12:43 AM (PlzOe)

479 Looks around, whistles...last?

Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 02, 2013 03:10 AM (dZGNV)

480 "Child Services Takes Child from Woman's Womb via Involuntary C-Section"

Well, the up side is that I bet that the woman didn't have to pay for the procedure...you know, the fine NHS and all!

Posted by: Lost in Maryland at December 02, 2013 05:59 AM (pcQ7s)

481 465 So, he raped her and you and your friends thought it was funny???

Posted by: The Commenting Software at December 02, 2013 03:32 AM (kkbgQ)

I'm interested in the answer, too.

Posted by: BignJames at December 02, 2013 03:44 AM (HtUkt)

Nope, I wasn't there when it happened. If you could read, you'd see that I was relating a story about some people ("dude" that I knew and his very stupid, if hot, girlfriend) but that I wasn't also involved in the story.

I think the "dude" was a scumbag and his girlfriend was pretty fucking stupid. The story really relates only to the prevalence of bacon grease in this comment thread, not to my moral failings, which are many, as I am sure both of yours are as well.

Posted by: FYNQ at December 02, 2013 09:46 AM (TM1p8)

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Posted by: whatmeworry? at December 02, 2013 03:57 PM (dZGNV)

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