February 28, 2013
— Maetenloch
Because the ONT's principal weapon is surprise and a fanatical devotion to the clock.
Gun Talk with Joe Biden: This Week's Episode - Handling Unwanted Strangers
I did one of these town-hall meetings on the Internet and one guy said, "Well, what happens when the end days come? What happens when there's the earthquake? I live in California, and I have to protect myself."
I said, "Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door."
Yes this is the man that Obama picked to be his second in command. Should the unthinkable happen I'm guessing that a President Biden would soon make history as the first president to be impeached for sheer stupidity.
Also: Biden and the Oscar Pistorius School of Self-Defense
Heh.
I've been seeing this for a few years now - kids just aren't that interested in driving or having their own cars.
The Western love affair with cars may be over. The FT reports that the number of UK teenagers taking driving tests has fallen by about 18 percent since 2007. For 20-somethings, the drop is about 10 percent. Even licensed drivers are driving less: many don't have cars, and those who do are clocking less miles. The US, Germany, and Japan are all seeing similar trends.
Well you can - but it'll cost you.
Novices often buy British Chieftains, a good starter tank because, though it weighs more than 50 tons, it is generally cheaper than a Sherman or Stuart. The Neal brothers bought theirs in 2011 for $65,000, in need of restoration. Plus, the State Department doesn't restrict imports of British armor.
...A tank in the U.S. can have operational guns, if the owner has a federal Destructive Device permit, and state laws don't prohibit it. The permit costs $200, and the applicant must swear he hasn't been a "fugitive from justice," "adjudicated mentally defective" or convicted of "a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A local law-enforcement official, usually a sheriff or police chief, has to sign off on the application.
But it can an expensive hobby - in more ways than one:
Lance Miller, a 41-year-old from Loudonville, Ohio, sold his elegant little Stuart, a tank famous for its service in the Pacific, for $200,000 to raise money to restore his dream tank-a 1943 Sherman. "It's sort of the pinnacle of military-vehicle collection to have a piece of armor," Mr. Miller says.
He says he has put about $280,000 into his Sherman so far and expects to spend as much as $75,000 more. "You get a tank, you end up with an ex-wife," warns Mr. Miller, who has one of each.
North Korea Now A Threat to CONUS?
According to various intelligence reports, Pyongyang conducted an engine test of its KN-08 long-range missile on 11 February, one day ahead of the nuclear test.
...The KN-08 has been called a "game-changer" for the DPRK, and with good reason. Assuming the missile achieves its projected range, the KN-08 would give Pyongyang a strike platform capable of reaching much of the CONUS. And with a mobile launch platform--supported by one of the world's most advanced denial and deception programs--the KN-08 will be extremely difficult to track and target. Among its various roles, the kN-08 could easily deliver a sudden, surprise attack against the U.S., giving the North increased leverage in its dealings with Washington, and our allies in the region.
Missile defense faster please. Also start planning Japan's welcome party to the Nuclear Club.
The Crime Wave in Atherton, CA
In case you weren't aware of it Atherton is a small city just a few miles north of Palo Alto that's usually ranked in the top 5 richest neighborhoods in the US. The median house price there is $4 million.
Years ago I used to work nearby and at lunch we used to snicker at the 'crimes' reported for Atherton in the local paper . The best one I can recall is a report of littering which turned out to be an abandoned Pentium 4 PC left on someone's driveway. But here are a few other ones to give you an idea of what the mean streets of Atherton are like.
All entertaining and best of all they're nice and short. Here's one by Terry Moore on How To Tie Your Shoes.
Any or all of these could be yours - operators are standing by. Please have credit card and pre-filled out I-129F form ready.
* Not responsible for damaged hearts or bank accounts.
Why You're Fat Ladies: Not Doing Enough House Work
One reason so many American women are overweight may be that we are vacuuming and doing laundry less often, according to a new study that, while scrupulously even-handed, is likely to stir controversy and emotions.
Men Who Like Big Boobehs: You're Oppressive Misogynists Who Hate Women
The men's preference for larger breast sizes was significantly and positively correlated with hostility towards women, more sexist attitudes towards women, benevolent sexism and objectification of women. ...Benevolent sexism was the strongest predictor for breast size rating, while objectifaction of women and hostility towards women were also significant predictors.
Hey don't blame me - I'm just the messenger for Science! here.
Yahoo group. That is all.
And my Twitter spew.
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Posted by: sluggo at February 28, 2013 04:43 PM (vVv3V)
Damn, my fingers are curling up from typing that crap.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 04:44 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at February 28, 2013 04:44 PM (6IKyK)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 04:44 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: USA at February 28, 2013 04:45 PM (RIg+t)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at February 28, 2013 04:45 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 04:46 PM (qo244)
No public Official in DC should be able to own a gun.
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 04:46 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 04:47 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at February 28, 2013 08:45 PM (Gk3SS)
you kno when i wasn't fond of my boobs?
about the third day postpartum and they would be up to my chin and hard as a rock .
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 04:47 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] at February 28, 2013 04:48 PM (vFKvo)
Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 28, 2013 04:48 PM (MhA4j)
http://www.milweb.net/features/m3a1_stuart_tank.php
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 04:48 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: carolina at February 28, 2013 04:48 PM (WQ+JZ)
Posted by: Dante at February 28, 2013 04:48 PM (0m62M)
you can get her a pretty decent shoulder rig if she gets a CCW and the 9*18 is basically a tweener round betwixt .380 and 9mm....
there's a few giys who will modify the sights for you as well, they can work the colt mustang style in to the Mak.
Nice choice.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 04:49 PM (LRFds)
also when i liked them the best ? when barely pregnant,
They would enlarge before my tummY in other words the only time they actually existed!
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 04:50 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2013 04:50 PM (d0Dmj)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at February 28, 2013 08:44 PM (6IKyK)
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Whoa! Them fightin' words there buddy....
Posted by: a sack of fuck'n stupid at February 28, 2013 04:50 PM (BVkEs)
The "Biden Defense."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 04:51 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: model_1066 at February 28, 2013 04:51 PM (7xPCu)
Posted by: USA at February 28, 2013 04:51 PM (RIg+t)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 04:51 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Ten Raccoons at February 28, 2013 04:51 PM (eHIJJ)
Piss yourself for authenticity. Posted by: model_1066 at February 28, 2013 04:51 PM (7xPCu)
Posted by: Flores para los muertos at February 28, 2013 04:51 PM (wQXBk)
Posted by: USA at February 28, 2013 04:52 PM (RIg+t)
Do you know why people like big boobs? Because boobs are awesome.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at February 28, 2013 08:45 PM (Gk3SS)
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Anything more than a mouthfull and you're risking a sprained tongue.
Posted by: Gary Wallace at February 28, 2013 04:53 PM (mV8sg)
Posted by: model_1066 at February 28, 2013 04:53 PM (7xPCu)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 04:53 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 04:53 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: EC at February 28, 2013 08:50 PM (doBIb
Hey, EC. When you're in Beaufort next week for graduation, be sure and eat at Panini's on the waterfront.
Also, how was your step-son's Crucible? Our kid had what the DIs called the coldest on record. A high of 17° and the kids were wet, to boot. Our son said they refused to rest at all because they were so cold.
At School of Infantry they had snow, and our boy developed frost bite. Still enjoyed it.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 04:54 PM (UOM48)
They both just have to be retrieved from the bottom of the lake. So the choice was just from whats on hand. The Ruger for training an the Makarov so she can put something down. If she ends up handling bigger stuff she'll get that too.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 04:54 PM (qo244)
yeah my ex liked Big Boobs too...not on her of course but "yeah"....
me I am easily amused and prefer ankles and knees...
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 04:54 PM (LRFds)
The "Biden Defense."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 08:51 PM (UOM4
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Oh, that's good.
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 04:54 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 04:54 PM (nqBYe)
It's a required raw material for the running of motorboats.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 28, 2013 04:54 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 at February 28, 2013 04:55 PM (Ph479)
Posted by: MadisonConservative at February 28, 2013 04:55 PM (sb+ta)
What, no elbows?
And you call yourself a Moron.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 28, 2013 04:55 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: model_1066 at February 28, 2013 04:56 PM (7xPCu)
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 28, 2013 04:57 PM (ynkRC)
Also, how was your step-son's Crucible? Our kid had what the DIs called the coldest on record. A high of 17° and the kids were wet, to boot. Our son said they refused to rest at all because they were so cold.
At School of Infantry they had snow, and our boy developed frost bite. Still enjoyed it.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 08:54 PM (UOM4
Thanks for the tip, Jane. My stepson is on his Crucible right now, due to finish on Saturday. My wife is crying thinking her son is being tortured or something. I told her he's having the time of his life doing "Extreme Camping".
I noticed a few other places to eat near the hotel that looked really nice. Did you try Bricks on Broadway?
Posted by: EC at February 28, 2013 04:57 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 08:51 PM (UOM4
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Jehovah's Witnesses Hardest Hit
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 04:57 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 08:51 PM (nqBYe)
You know the rulez...pics or it didn't happen
Posted by: Red Shirt at February 28, 2013 04:57 PM (FIDMq)
Posted by: Emdoc at February 28, 2013 04:57 PM (DhR/C)
Men who like Big Boobehs: Your're Oppresive Missogynists Who hate women
I'm guessing the author is either a gay man or a bitter, ugly harpy, right??
Posted by: puddleglum at February 28, 2013 04:58 PM (8SsiG)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 04:58 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at February 28, 2013 04:58 PM (6IKyK)
oh yes sir...
why I'll bet if I sold cars at say 200 bucks and fuel was say $.25 they's say, "sha yeah...uh no dude fuck you I love the bus..."
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 04:58 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at February 28, 2013 04:58 PM (Rcoex)
why didn't anyone tell me? Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2013 08:55 PM (ZOPhb)
I can assure you that there will be benevolent(ish) sexism in alextopia. You know, to go with the benevolent(ish) dictatorship.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Totes waiting until after March Madness. at February 28, 2013 04:58 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 04:59 PM (U5rMc)
The mail order brides hit a 14 on the one to ten Skankometer scale.
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How choosy can you be if you're order a bride by mail?
Posted by: Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 at February 28, 2013 04:59 PM (Ph479)
I dunno I've lived in some pretty nice cardboard boxes....
and from what I hear Detroit is under new management....
so I may get to dodge Napalm...
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 04:59 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 04:59 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 05:00 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Brother Cavil & His All-Star Sockpuppets at February 28, 2013 05:00 PM (mbxHg)
Posted by: fluffy at February 28, 2013 05:01 PM (6DDhZ)
>>The men's preference for larger breast sizes was significantly and positively correlated with hostility towards women
Toward small breasted women??
Posted by: Mama AJ at February 28, 2013 05:01 PM (SUKHu)
hell of it is, I was too tired to ride once the job was done
tomorrow
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 05:02 PM (8sCoq)
I noticed a few other places to eat near the hotel that looked really nice. Did you try Bricks on Broadway?
Posted by: EC at February 28, 2013 08:57 PM (doBIb
Tell your wife to chill. The weather's nice, and they are playing war to the hilt.
One dumbass in our son's platoon faked a knee injury to avoid the nine mile walk back. He was bumped back a couple of months.
Our son said when they arrived at the Iwo Jima statue, and the DIs presented their Eagle, Globe and Anchor insignias (I have his), they all had tears streaming down their faces. Then they got cleaned up and had steak and eggs for breakfast. And they were officially Marines. I still tear up thinking about it.
We ate at a place a couple of blocks away from the waterfront that was excellent. Dark and candle-lit. The Best Western will give you all sorts of PI info and a list of restaurants. There are several great places to eat.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 05:02 PM (UOM48)
I mean, I'm an ass man myself, but it's not like I dislike big boobs.
Or are they just saying all men are pigs?
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:02 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 05:03 PM (hO9ad)
>>The younger generation just likes walking more...
FunHiking!
Meet new people, exercise your thumbs, see the world.
Posted by: MSM at February 28, 2013 05:04 PM (SUKHu)
Well Grandpa rest his soul once told me....when I was too young to understand his sage advice...
"son anything more than a handful is waste, but every now and again a little waste never hurt anyone..."
I was maybe 5...
God bless you gramps...God bless you.
Ann Coulter needs love too.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:04 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Endeavor to Persevere at February 28, 2013 05:04 PM (zZJJp)
Sounds like Atherton is in desperate need of some Section 8 housing, and the lower primates who infest such. A whole shitload of Section 8 housing, and said primates.
Then they'll know something about no-shit crime. In fact, they'll know a lot about no-shit crime.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:04 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 05:05 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 28, 2013 05:05 PM (GoIUi)
I got pulled over by the anti sexism police the other night as I was leaving a tittie bar.
"But officer, she wanted me to objectify her. I was just being benevolent."
Posted by: Jim in Virginia at February 28, 2013 05:06 PM (ynkRC)
Not this one. I look at those sites and my heart breaks. ._. Maybe I'm just naive, but what I see is a lot of girls looking to escape their old lives, willing to be... auctioned off to someone they do not know terribly well, and ...just the concept burns me up inside.
Not cut out for this world, I think. (-_- ) I get upset too easily.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at February 28, 2013 05:06 PM (scJ/H)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 05:07 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 05:07 PM (qo244)
One dumbass in our son's platoon faked a knee injury to avoid the nine mile walk back. He was bumped back a couple of months.
Our son said when they arrived at the Iwo Jima statue, and the DIs presented their Eagle, Globe and Anchor insignias (I have his), they all had tears streaming down their faces. Then they got cleaned up and had steak and eggs for breakfast. And they were officially Marines. I still tear up thinking about it.
We ate at a place a couple of blocks away from the waterfront that was excellent. Dark and candle-lit. The Best Western will give you all sorts of PI info and a list of restaurants. There are several great places to eat.
I'm going to do my own food pr0n when I get down there. There's a place very close to the hotel called, Saltus River Grill. Looks really tasty!
Yes, my wife is easily spooked by things that sound painful. She would drive down there right now to go find him and throw a blanket on him. Not helping!!!
Posted by: EC at February 28, 2013 05:07 PM (doBIb)
If he's injured, you'll hear from his DI.
We were nervous wrecks until he completed his Crucible and we hadn't heard from the DI. Then we knew he was officially a Marine. *whew*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 05:07 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 28, 2013 05:08 PM (6IcMj)
I mean, I'm an ass man myself, but it's not like I dislike big boobs.
Or are they just saying all men are pigs?
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 09:02 PM (sL+oi)
Meh...I'll take handful and under, Alex.
Posted by: Red Shirt at February 28, 2013 05:08 PM (FIDMq)
The best boobs are the ones you get to touch. Big vs small don't matter as long as they are on a woman.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 09:07 PM (qo244)
Hater.
Posted by: Michael Moore at February 28, 2013 05:08 PM (IDSI7)
Points for amusing, at least.
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 05:08 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 28, 2013 09:05 PM (GoIUi)
I'm sadly elated about that. It's how awful politics/news and untrustworthy has become in my life. I'm actually grateful to a Liberal for actually being truthful.
although i refuse to send him flowers.
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:08 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 05:09 PM (Vk2pI)
It's good. I don't think there's any bad eating in Beaufort. If there is, and you find it, let me know.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 05:09 PM (UOM48)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:09 PM (IDSI7)
WTF is "benevolent sexism"?
Complimenting a lady's looks, opening a door for her, paying for dinner? Sounds just awful
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:10 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 28, 2013 05:10 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Pervy Guy at February 28, 2013 05:11 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: Donkey at February 28, 2013 05:11 PM (n2bsm)
Woodward is on Hannity and he's not backing down.
You know, I'm not watching this, but I'm gaining respect for Woodward. He's actually got principles, and sticks to them even when he gets some rough sledding for doing so.
It's not every day you find that on the other side of the aisle.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:11 PM (IDSI7)
Poof. History is changed. The narrative delusion continues.
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:12 PM (sL+oi)
preferring smaller boobs does not mean NOT liking bigger boobs
most guys will admit they like boobs of any size, because boobs are wonderful and they're boobs
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 05:12 PM (8sCoq)
Says his email is flooded with messages from people who have been treated like this.
So, now that everyone knows they have ALL been treated like this and they are not a sole target, perhaps they will stand up to Obama.
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 28, 2013 05:12 PM (GoIUi)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:12 PM (LRFds)
That chick on Hawaii 5 0 is hot and just barely meets that standard.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 05:13 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Beagle at February 28, 2013 05:13 PM (kuYox)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 05:13 PM (/gHaE)
Yep. <_< That's about the size of it. Known several women who stringently objected to that list; I need to meet different girls. x_x I don't handle modern culture too well.
Posted by: Kinley Ardal at February 28, 2013 05:13 PM (scJ/H)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 05:13 PM (qyK+w)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at February 28, 2013 05:14 PM (yCvxi)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 05:14 PM (UOM48)
Yes. I thought about imposing such oppressive actions but decided the more humane thing was to starve them. Because I cared.
Posted by: Uncle Joe at February 28, 2013 05:15 PM (eHIJJ)
It's good. I don't think there's any bad eating in Beaufort. If there is, and you find it, let me know.
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Never miss Luther's when I'm there. And Plums.
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 28, 2013 05:15 PM (zovVu)
North Korea would only get one shot at us before we wiped them off the map, and I would say there is about a 98% chance that first shot would be towards California.
Hell, I'll call down an air strike on my own position.
"Hey, garlic eater, is that the best you got? What kinda pussy are you clowns, anyway? You wouldn't nuke us, because you don't have the balls. Yeah, that's right, you heard me. Whaddya gonna do about it? Huh? Huh?"
Either Wun Hung Low steps up to the plate, and kills a shitload of liberals (and me, but see the above), or he backs down. Either way, America wins.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:15 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 at February 28, 2013 05:15 PM (Ph479)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 05:15 PM (Vk2pI)
They are fucking broke. Kids can not buy them because they can not find jobs.
Driving one costs a shit load and you can not speed.
The UK has serfs and a queen.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 28, 2013 05:15 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (qyK+w)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Brother Cavil & His All-Star Sockpuppets at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (mbxHg)
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Chris Christie in a thong at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:14 PM (UOM4
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (8sCoq)
thunderb: "Complimenting a lady's looks, opening a door for her, paying for dinner? Sounds just awful"
"Hey bitch, you look like shit, open your own door and buy me and my friends dinner."
Are the feminists happy now?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (IDSI7)
http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/5231/378801-grace_park_hawaii_five_0.jpg
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (qo244)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 28, 2013 05:16 PM (QTHTd)
Yes, I don't want that. He'll be fine, he's strong and healthy.
Posted by: EC at February 28, 2013 05:17 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 05:17 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:17 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 05:17 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 05:17 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:18 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 05:18 PM (4Mv1T)
and boobs
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 05:18 PM (8sCoq)
you know when i wasn't fond of my boobs?about the third day postpartum and they would be up to my chin and hard as a rock .
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 08:47 PM (nqBYe)
Really Ette, you're killin me here. My God....
Posted by: Guido at February 28, 2013 05:18 PM (waPTh)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 05:20 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 05:21 PM (U5rMc)
If I understand our esteemed Vice Idiot, you might just want to invite onto your porch. Then you can aerate them with a 12-Ga.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 28, 2013 05:21 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 05:21 PM (qyK+w)
Posted by: lindafell at February 28, 2013 05:21 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:21 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Chris Christie at February 28, 2013 05:21 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: The Ghost of Hat's Grandpa at February 28, 2013 05:21 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 09:21 PM (qyK+w)
Sean Knows!
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:22 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:22 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Joejm65 at February 28, 2013 05:23 PM (UZuc4)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:23 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:23 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 28, 2013 05:23 PM (lZBBB)
We were all thinking it.
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 05:23 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 28, 2013 05:23 PM (BuSM8)
Posted by: Chris Christie at February 28, 2013 05:24 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: annoyed at February 28, 2013 05:24 PM (u4MNH)
Posted by: I can't take it anymore at February 28, 2013 05:24 PM (PH+2B)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 05:24 PM (qyK+w)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:24 PM (nqBYe)
I'm not so sure about that anymore. On the other hand, the California thing could be a blessing in disguise. You know you were thinking it.
Disguise? Shit, it'd be a massive step toward saving the Republic. And I'm a Californian, inundated by liberal shitheads who've moved here from the Northeast over the last 40 years.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:25 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 28, 2013 05:26 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:26 PM (LRFds)
A generation ago, the cities were cesspools
Good thing that that's totally different now.
Must be the martial law imposed by the Free Shit Army.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Retching at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (8kIXE)
Posted by: USA at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (RIg+t)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (Dnbau)
slaps myself silly
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 09:26 PM (nqBYe)
Let the record show that ette is instigating a moron melting over swollen boobs!
Posted by: EC at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (JMmQ9)
What if you like big asses? does that make me sexist?
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 28, 2013 09:26 PM (NzBQO)
No, but it means you cannot lie.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:27 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 05:28 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 05:28 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 05:28 PM (qyK+w)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 09:21 PM (nqBYe)
lol. Well sweetie I will try to let the 'illusion' go myself but I'd like to hold onto it till morning with..uhhh your permission. lol.
Posted by: Guido at February 28, 2013 05:28 PM (waPTh)
The truth is that ugly women don't like pretty women being objectified.
And even that can be shortened to, "The truth is that ugly women don't like pretty women."
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:28 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:29 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 05:29 PM (qyK+w)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 28, 2013 05:30 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: Kim Jong Un at February 28, 2013 05:30 PM (Vk2pI)
Right, like women don't like to be objectified.
Right. That's why at the Academy Awards they strut and pose on the red carpet in revealing outfits, so everyone can admire their mounds minds.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:30 PM (IDSI7)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand
They're like a giant pair of nipple-less boobs. But motor boating is risky.
Posted by: Pervy guy at February 28, 2013 05:30 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: cm9000 at February 28, 2013 05:31 PM (vfB2N)
I mean, I'm an ass man myself, but it's not like I dislike big boobs.
Or are they just saying all men are pigs? "
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 09:02 PM (sL+oi)
There's nothing more beautiful than a thin, flat-chested woman, buddy. You caveman primitives just don't know a good thing when you see it.
Posted by: AR at February 28, 2013 05:32 PM (6kONE)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:32 PM (Dnbau)
You know, I don't even think about your body. It just never pops in my mind.
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:32 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 05:33 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: Barry Obama at February 28, 2013 05:33 PM (BuSM8)
Posted by: I can't take it anymore at February 28, 2013 05:33 PM (PH+2B)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 05:34 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 28, 2013 05:34 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:34 PM (Dnbau)
One Ohio class can ruin your whole day...or country in 20 minutes or less.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 05:35 PM (/gHaE)
That is cool. Here's the link.
http://tinyurl.com/cs5n9lp
Posted by: Dang at February 28, 2013 05:35 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子~です at February 28, 2013 05:36 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:36 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 05:37 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:37 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 05:37 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 05:37 PM (vN3Mm)
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 09:36 PM (sL+oi)
pr conversely
women to man , :i think the way you swill that beer is really hot"
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:38 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 28, 2013 05:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Which reminds me that feminists hate evolution
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:39 PM (sL+oi)
I like the ones that write better. When they retrieve a dropped pen anyways.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 05:40 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 28, 2013 05:40 PM (qyK+w)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 05:40 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Brother Cavil & His All-Star Sockpuppets at February 28, 2013 05:41 PM (mbxHg)
Posted by: Guido at February 28, 2013 05:41 PM (waPTh)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 05:41 PM (Vk2pI)
women to man , :i think the way you swill that beer is really hot"
Why, thanks, Darlin'. It took a lot of 12 ounce curls to get these arms to look like this.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 28, 2013 05:41 PM (+z4pE)
Evening everybody!
I'm currently stuck in lovely Trinidad, CO for the next week. Hopefully the weather holds since I'm spending every day outside.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 28, 2013 05:42 PM (BY9NA)
You're place or mine?
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:42 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 05:43 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 05:43 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:43 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: runninrebel at February 28, 2013 05:45 PM (sL+oi)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 05:45 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:45 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 05:46 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 28, 2013 05:47 PM (JMmQ9)
Jackie did have great taste and raised buckets of money to decorate and furnish the White House. She deserves a lot of credit for that, but ..."
... failed to tell Jack to duck at the operative moment. So ... the limo got decorated with Jack's gray matter.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 28, 2013 05:48 PM (IDSI7)
http://www.tonmo.com/content.php?163-Mating-Octopus-(Abdopus-aculeatus)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 09:46 PM (TvO05)
That looked very complicated,,,,but hot.
Posted by: Sqguido at February 28, 2013 05:48 PM (waPTh)
Bonus is that way they could hear yo coming.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 05:48 PM (qo244)
Posted by: CAC at February 28, 2013 05:48 PM (E5KCn)
Posted by: Doom at February 28, 2013 05:49 PM (LHavG)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 09:38 PM
Hey, A. How's it hanging? It's Thursday? ... what.. day is this again?
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 05:49 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 05:49 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 05:50 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 28, 2013 05:50 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 05:50 PM (Dnbau)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 05:51 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: eman at February 28, 2013 05:52 PM (/U2UL)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 05:52 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] at February 28, 2013 05:52 PM (vFKvo)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 05:52 PM (vN3Mm)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 05:52 PM (GEICT)
Kids get their asses hauled all over town by mommy these days - even after they turn 16. Me, I was thrilled to get my license at 16 because it meant I didn't have to take the bus all the time.
I also wonder if the lessened teen interest in cars isn't also due to the fact that teen age boys don't tinker around under the hoods like they used to - the engines have become too high tech. I remember walking through my neighborhood on a nice Saturday afternoon and it seemed like every teen boy I knew, including my brothers, was messing around with their cars. You just don't see that anymore. Those boys I knew drove old rustbuckets around - but they worked on them, they had shelled out 300 or so hard-earned bucks for them, and so they loved those cars and wanted to drive any chance they got.
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 05:53 PM (7FqJH)
Posted by: Beagle at February 28, 2013 05:53 PM (kuYox)
Posted by: L, elle at February 28, 2013 05:53 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: rickl at February 28, 2013 05:53 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 09:40 PM
I guess so. But, video games? They're not blowing their paper route pocket money on hula hoops and SSI racers anymore?
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 05:54 PM (yBF/9)
Puppeh picture for you (his name is Ray and he's recently been adopted; he's also blind):
http://tinyurl.com/bqrajvv
Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at February 28, 2013 05:54 PM (jNAkR)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 09:50 PM (Dnbau)
excellent,
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:54 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 09:51 PM (GEICT)
I guess it would help if she was laying down...but it really sounds like a good way to get your ass kicked.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 05:54 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at February 28, 2013 05:54 PM (Sptt8)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 05:55 PM (jucos)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 05:55 PM (GEICT)
back in my misspent youth when I was a sexy 165 or so I managed to fire my Mossy 500 pumpgun one handed and fwench kiss the butt into my lower jaw...
I may never have left the atmosphere but by Jesus I've seen stars.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:55 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 09:52 PM (3fX4
peaches doesn't even blink. well done.
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 05:56 PM (nqBYe)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 28, 2013 05:56 PM (XvrTA)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 05:56 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: L, elle at February 28, 2013 05:56 PM (0PiQ4)
Posted by: CAC at February 28, 2013 05:56 PM (E5KCn)
I used grandpa's modified "but a little waste now and again..." line...he taught me when I was five not knowing what he was talking about.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 09:55 PM (GEICT)
Not true. We can be quite obtuse when we want to be.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: CAC at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (E5KCn)
Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (XvrTA)
Don't feel bad I stepped in that trap in the feminism thread yesterday. Apparently there are a couple of guys with small dicks that post during the day.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (Sptt8)
Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 09:50 PM (Dnbau)
They're just showing their sensitivity, after all the object of their affection may be struggling with Gender Identity issues.
Posted by: cm9000 at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (vfB2N)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: ExSnipe at February 28, 2013 05:58 PM (PBm/l)
Posted by: LindaFell at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (vN3Mm)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (vFKvo)
Posted by: Dept. Of Accuracy Dept. at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (MhA4j)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (XMH/O)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 09:58 PM (qo244)
Her: I just wanna little dick...
Him: Good, cause that's all I got...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (jucos)
wife is thrilled to have small rack you guys...she says it would complicate road marches...
me, I'm just thrilled she's really a dame...
I was watching this movie called "Crying something or other"...'sposed to have a twist ending or rear end or something...
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 05:59 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: no good deed at February 28, 2013 06:00 PM (mjR67)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:00 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 28, 2013 06:00 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 09:31 PM (nqBYe)
Thank you ette!
Posted by: EC at February 28, 2013 06:00 PM (doBIb)
I'm pretty resilient bub...
favorite line I've ever heard Dad mutter peripherally....
*sigh* "Thank God I have a small dick...look at what I've done with it imagine if I had a big one I'd be in real trouble..."
funnier when put in context with his house gifting habit in the '70s...
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:01 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:01 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 09:53 PM
That's true. Even for idiots like me that no had no mechanical ability, there wasn't much you couldn't at least fix temporarily with a hammer and expletives.
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 06:02 PM (yBF/9)
Boobs? Oh, geez, if I could afford a boobeh reduction, I would have had one a long time ago. The backaches....
Peaches, you're lucky.
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 06:02 PM (7FqJH)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:02 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 28, 2013 09:42 PM (BY9NA)
I hope you didn't go there for a sex change.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 06:03 PM (dBayF)
More hard truth than snark here...
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 06:03 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:03 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 28, 2013 06:04 PM (Sh53/)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at February 28, 2013 06:04 PM (oe1aw)
Him: Good, cause that's all I got...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 09:59 PM (yh0zB)
Him: Yknow, I'd like to get a little pussy
Her: Me too, mine's as big as a house!
Posted by: Hawkins at February 28, 2013 06:04 PM (FIDMq)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 28, 2013 06:04 PM (NzBQO)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:04 PM (TvO05)
I also wonder if the lessened teen interest in cars isn't also due to the fact that teen age boys don't tinker around under the hoods like they used to - the engines have become too high tech. I remember walking through my neighborhood on a nice Saturday afternoon and it seemed like every teen boy I knew, including my brothers, was messing around with their cars. You just don't see that anymore. Those boys I knew drove old rustbuckets around - but they worked on them, they had shelled out 300 or so hard-earned bucks for them, and so they loved those cars and wanted to drive any chance they got.
This. A lot of kids no longer pay for a car. Mom and dad shell out for the car, gas, insurance, etc. I got a car for my 18th birthday, but I had to pay for the insurance and the gas and any repairs. Thus, I had to find a job. A lot of kids nowadays don't want to work, or they can't work, because it interferes with their preplanned life.
Combine that with the way that the internet has removed the need to go anywhere to shop or meet friends or generally have a life, and suddenly they're not interested.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 28, 2013 06:05 PM (BY9NA)
*sigh* "Thank God I have a small dick...look at what I've done with it imagine if I had a big one I'd be in real trouble..."
funnier when put in context with his house gifting habit in the '70s...
OMG, sven, that is hilarious.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:05 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: CAC at February 28, 2013 06:06 PM (E5KCn)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:06 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at February 28, 2013 10:04 PM (oe1aw)
Yeah, it's a wonder his eyeballs haven't been sucked in yet.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:06 PM (yh0zB)
you also have to feel bad for them to a degree...
my nephew makes a decent living by midwestern standards...of course he lives in SoCal so golly Kal-ee-fore-nee-ya needs a lot of that scratch....
I don't think he voted on the time bomb there but he lives with it...
remember back under "Evil Bush" version 1.0 when 1500 bucks was a lot of money and you could cross country with it?
yeah neither does he...
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:06 PM (LRFds)
recovering enough to walk upright and use opposable thumbs.
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 09:58 PM
Well, you're two up on the monkeys. What festival?
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 06:06 PM (yBF/9)
20 years ago store bought was pretty rare, even in south FL. Walk through a mall now and its a tidal wave of silicone.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 06:06 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: eman at February 28, 2013 06:07 PM (FouoW)
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 06:07 PM (XMH/O)
I hope you didn't go there for a sex change.
My coworker mentioned that little fact about the town earlier tonight. WTF?
I'm here to support a brigade conducting training at Pinion Canyon.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 28, 2013 06:07 PM (BY9NA)
He got a job as a bus boy at a local pizza-game-go kart place. He wants money for a car.
He is not going to sit around and have me and his mom drive him places.
He is a regular guy.
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 28, 2013 06:07 PM (GoIUi)
well....remember my mom was wife #2...
he's been through several...in the '70s deciding you were in love with someone not your wife involved sacrificing palatial estates...
he was ruminating over how much the houses were values at ~2005...
since the implosion he is somewhat mollified.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:08 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:08 PM (LUnTP)
When I was in high school, $25 bought a tank of gas, a pack of smokes, and a six pack.
Posted by: no good deed at February 28, 2013 06:09 PM (mjR67)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:09 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 28, 2013 06:10 PM (GoIUi)
Posted by: LindaFell at February 28, 2013 06:11 PM (PGO8C)
I remember $300 worth of $20's taking me from San Diego to Albany NY in the early 80's in my old VW bug, and having money left over when I arrived. Of course I was sleeping in the car to save $$$.
I made that transit probably a half dozen times during my "CA phase". Took different routes each time...the bug hit every one of the lower 48 eventually.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 06:11 PM (/gHaE)
when wife and I were courting I could get to detroit on 18 bucks in fuel or roughly 4 hours worth of take home...
Try that magic trick as a high school kid today...
the ship is imploding....
our first road trip took us to Toronto and back for a milkshake...
total coast was ~125 bucks...
I miss my youth
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:11 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 06:11 PM (jucos)
Posted by: no good deed at February 28, 2013 10:09 PM (mjR67)
When I was in HS my dad sold his Merc when gas got to the outrageous price of 80 cents per gallon and bought a Fiat 128 sedan from my driver's ed teacher.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:11 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:12 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 06:12 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:13 PM (LUnTP)
a tank of gas
3 packs of cigs
2 six-packs of beer
10 hamburgers at McDonalds
10 orders of fries at McDonalds
5 Hershey bars
1 lipstick
And a partridge in a pear tree!
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 28, 2013 06:13 PM (GoIUi)
I have seen this. Took a college date to shoot clays (TRY and shoot clays). She was a soccer player and no wimp but probably 5'4" and thin. Pulled both triggers and when she looked down, she was standing in her socks behind her clogs.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 06:13 PM (4Mv1T)
Most women with big breasts who take care of themselves got em from the Lord. Have you..seen some of the women who have augmented themselves?
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Wife had a book club pal who got a new set and made everybody feel them. They wouldn't let me join the book club.
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 28, 2013 06:14 PM (JvoHc)
miore games the Sierras played on society....
I'm certain they're cleaner because they're bookooo bucks but the problem is they stole the lower end from the ability of the working poor like my mother was for her last years of relative sanity to have the lifestyle perk.
I hate them, I really do and Obarka is using them to run the long con....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:14 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:14 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 10:12 PM (qo244)
You can still change the intakes (cold air intakes, bigger throttle bodies, bigger injectors) camshafts and exhaust (headers, X or H pipes, etc), most of the rest is done on a laptop. Lots more expensive now than when the Chevy 350 was king.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:15 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 06:15 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: LindaFell at February 28, 2013 06:16 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:16 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at February 28, 2013 06:16 PM (Sptt8)
That's a feature not a bug...were they the 'diet ones"?
All kidding aside stay hydrated...hope you get better.
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:17 PM (LRFds)
Single port 1500cc, standard carburation...setting number three's exhaust valve a few thou looser than spec saves much grief.
I rebuilt a 68' squarebacks engine, the first one with the EFI. My dad saw that engine all in pieces on the warehouse floor, shook his head and waked away convinced it would never run again...but it did.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 06:17 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Robert taking things grossly out of context at February 28, 2013 06:17 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Timon at February 28, 2013 06:18 PM (hHlaS)
fuck, no, I don't buy "diet" anything. Hydrating with beer. Of course.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:18 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 09:50 PM
This is true.
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 06:19 PM (yBF/9)
The way things are going here God help me I almost want the UK Indy Party to win...
yes they are not nice guys but if they ring the "come on home boys!" bell I'd be tempted....
The Motherland needs Americans to housebreak islam IMHO....
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:19 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 06:19 PM (hyIbd)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:19 PM (LUnTP)
I loved that three-colored car.
Posted by: Justamom of the LiB camp at February 28, 2013 10:16 PM (Sptt
I bought the aforementioned Fiat from Dad and got really really good at jury rigging a piece of bicycle cable to stand in for a clutch cable. I'd have to drive 70 miles to order the clutch cable and then wait two weeks for it to come in, then drive 70 miles to get it. IIRC I put three clutch cables in it the two years I owned it (Dad sold it to me for $25 cause it needed a clutch cable).
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:20 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: irongrampa
That's ok. I think most here are deep in their cups anyway.
Posted by: Coxswain Eddy! [/i] [/b] at February 28, 2013 06:20 PM (Ipj15)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 06:20 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:21 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 28, 2013 10:07 PM (BY9NA)
Sounds like you will be fine. Doing work that needs to be done.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 06:21 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 10:19 PM (hyIbd)
Oh, poor baby, Y-not! I had that vicious cold-of-death thing for 3 weeks, actually went down to 108 pounds but now I'm back at 112. Dammit!
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:21 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: ALH at February 28, 2013 06:21 PM (eqV3Q)
They're playing games or yacking on social media. If they want to go out, mommy drives them.
Just another example of kids refusing to grow up.
It's a shame, nothing beats the feeling for a 17 year old than grabbing your keys and driving somewhere just because you want to.
Memo to the Juiceboxers. You won't pick up the hot chicks by showing her your monthly bus pass.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 06:22 PM (mCvL4)
I guess that leaves out most of Harlan County, KY.
Posted by: andycanuck at February 28, 2013 06:22 PM (ORGYc)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 10:20 PM (jucos)
and they can't put anything on the innertubes that isn't true.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:22 PM (yh0zB)
My son is on his third try to get his license here in MD. These miserable little statists who give these tests LIVE to humiliate and demean these young boys.
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To get a permit in the 70s you had to sit for 5 questions in front of huge PA State Trooper. He chewed ne out first for filling out the form improperly; I was so rattled I blew the questions. NOBODY failed the permit test. My friends were in hysterics.
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 28, 2013 06:23 PM (dsMqV)
Not going to get started on cars, I'd likely bore the pants off all of you.
But I love reading about the first car thing.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 06:23 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:23 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 06:23 PM (hyIbd)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 06:23 PM (/gHaE)
You can't tinker with new cars. Youth employment has been destroyed via minimum wage laws and regulation. We have the internet now. Not really a mystery. Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 10:07 PM (XMH/O)
Yep. Not to mention the price of gas.
I can understand the lessened interest in cars, but it's another way we're (depressingly) becoming like the rest of the world. Of course, lefties have always tried to push public transportation on us.Cars, especially in America, provide the freedom to move around across vast spaces as one wishes, instead of being one of the herd on a bus or train. It's your own individual space. That's why P.J. O'Rourke becomes almost poetic on the subject of cars. I imagine generations of American boys longed for a really fast horse for the same reason - not a good seat on the public stagecoach (if such things existed).
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 06:23 PM (7FqJH)
You can't tinker with new cars.
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 10:07 PM
They're also coffins on wheels. You shouldn't hoon around in them. Used to be you could pack a band plus the equipment into an old charger, GT , monaro or whatnot and roll it. After you could just get more rum, set up the gear and play, no worries. Cars were like tanks back then.
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 06:24 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:24 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:25 PM (yh0zB)
Ass men, like me, are like that too except the feminist babes don't notice it because we check them out, duh!, from behind so they don't see it!
Posted by: andycanuck at February 28, 2013 06:26 PM (ORGYc)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 06:26 PM (hyIbd)
You can get a blue tooth OBD code reader for less than 20 bucks.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 06:26 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:26 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Robert at February 28, 2013 06:27 PM (LUnTP)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:27 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:27 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 06:28 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 10:26 PM (qo244)
but a tuner will run ya a bit more.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:28 PM (yh0zB)
if I didn't have a car and had to ride mass transit every day, I would be going postal within a month
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 06:28 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Timon at February 28, 2013 06:28 PM (hHlaS)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 06:29 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] at February 28, 2013 06:29 PM (vFKvo)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:29 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:30 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Synova at February 28, 2013 06:30 PM (7/PU+)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 06:31 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 28, 2013 10:29 PM (vFKvo)
Yep, it's just a bit more pricy. F'rinstance, I'm looking at exhaust for the Mustang. Over 500 bucks for axlebacks, they're just MUFFLERS ferfucksakes!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:31 PM (yh0zB)
Perhaps today will bring us some good news.
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
----Percy Bysshe Shelley
Posted by: Miss Marple at February 28, 2013 06:31 PM (GoIUi)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 06:32 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:32 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 06:32 PM (hyIbd)
This is terrifying. The order of succession for president.
1. Biden
2. Boehner
3. Leahy
4. Kerry
5. Lew
6.Hagel
How did we get to this point in our history?
Posted by: ExSnipe at February 28, 2013 06:33 PM (PBm/l)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 06:33 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 10:31 PM (M/TDA)
I like em, but I wouldn't want a pair of my own. It's harder to look at 'em that way.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:33 PM (yh0zB)
They were bigger but not safer. I've seen crash test videos of full sized cars of the 60's that left no recognizable sheet metal, but on today's cars left the passenger cabin intact. Today's cars also have better handling, airbags, traction control, antilock braking, stiffer doors and passenger cabins, and better lighting
I love the old cars as much as anyone, but let's not romanticize them to the point of denying modern engineering advances
Not just safety, but power too. The V-6 in the base Camaro or Mustang now has 300 hp, something no V8 had in the 70s or 80s, and only the muscle cars or biggest luxury cars had in the 60s.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 06:33 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:34 PM (TvO05)
I just fix no speed anymore. The first car I bought for $1200 was a 1970 GTO judge. Dumb ass me beat it like a rented mule for a year and sold it for the same.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 06:34 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 06:34 PM (hyIbd)
Later roonz and roonettez!
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 28, 2013 06:35 PM (yh0zB)
Posted by: USS Diversity at February 28, 2013 06:35 PM (nDHF8)
I will tell about my 1st car, a '47 Chev that Dad parked due to it swallowing a piston top. I was bugging about a car, so he sold me that car--either buy it or it was heading to the junk yard.
Spent an entire summer under it learning about Chevy engines--all done at my expense. All the expense came out of my pocket. Damn thing ran fine , but the first year I owned it I walked everywhere.
Funny thing, before the car, I had few friends--after, everybody claimed me as one. Solved that real quick by telling them that I didn't like them before I owned a car, and nothing had changed.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 06:35 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:36 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: no good deed at February 28, 2013 06:37 PM (mjR67)
Had a '59 Dodge with a broken motor mount un beknownsed to me. Every time I hit a bump or tapped the gas too hard, broken rotor, because the distributor set in a little indentation in the firewall. Took me a long time to figure that one out.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 06:37 PM (dBayF)
Most of us here said that. You will be surprised at the disinterest in cars once yours get old enough, depending on where you live. My 16 year old has LOTS of friends, and plays basketball on the school team. Did I say lots of friends? Yea. Popular kid, at a small school. Anyway, he has ONE 10th grade friend who drives. The rest at school his age? apparently not that interested.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 06:37 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: sTevo at February 28, 2013 06:37 PM (ykof+)
http://tinyurl.com/bydo6qa
Tomorrow, last day to see.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 28, 2013 10:31 PM (xjpRj)
wow, very cool, BC!! I love (LOVE) the first one. The fourth is very Dali-esque/Magritte-esque. And I wish I could see those last ones better, the landscapes. kudos!! you are a very talented artist, I'm impressed.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:38 PM (3fX4B)
100% correct. Everything except styling is better on modern cars.
The downside is that there is almost nothing that the car enthusiast can repair on a late-model car.
They are rapidly become discardable.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 06:38 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Bob Woodward at February 28, 2013 06:38 PM (79AXR)
Posted by: Cicero Kid at February 28, 2013 06:39 PM (UrENZ)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:39 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 10:34 PM (hyIbd)
It wasn't today, it was in the LATimes this morning. I emailed Ace, but didn't want to mention it on the blog, because the obit was very low-key, name only, and I thought perhaps the family may not want any media shit. The burial is Sunday. So sad for the family. Prayers up for them all.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:39 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 06:40 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 06:41 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 06:41 PM (hyIbd)
Posted by: Panhandler at February 28, 2013 06:41 PM (rZ5RE)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 10:30 PM
Yeah, those volvos have always been pretty good with that sort of thing. First 2 cars were a 66 Holden HD and a 68 Toyota corolla. The HD could double up as a lugger unlike the corolla. But the Toyota could not be killed. God knows, I tried. It just wouldn't die. I'm not sure I ever gave it oil,
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 06:41 PM (yBF/9)
it is just very sad all around
sad kitteh
http://tinyurl.com/3eoace6
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 06:42 PM (BBWjt)
Tuna, when my sister was a home care nurse, she took care of a woman in her early 30's, a fashion model, who had pancreatic cancer (just lost someone I knew to that, and it kills you fast). My sister said this woman was really nice and it was a tragedy to see her go downhill so quickly. She also said this patient had had breast implants and it was extremely bizarre to see this huge firm boobs on what had become a skeleton body.
That made me wonder what all these women with breast implants will look like when they're little old ladies. My wager is that there is going to be some really freaky old people walking around in 30 or 40 years - huge perky boobs on elderly bodies and lots of faded tattoos on saggy skin.
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 06:43 PM (7FqJH)
Modern cars are techno marvels, but they have all the appeal of a dead tree stump. They're just transportation modules now.
And I say this after a 44 year career being the friendly person who fixed your car right the FIRST time.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 06:43 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: ette at February 28, 2013 08:47 PM (nqBYe)
Marry me.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 06:43 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Y-not on the phone at February 28, 2013 06:44 PM (hyIbd)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 06:44 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:44 PM (3fX4B)
Now, they're just getting broken in at 100K, many of the better built cars like Toyotas and Hondas will easily clock 300K
Oil changes no longer need to be done at 3,000 miles, and many other maintenance requirements like alignment, tires, tuneups, or parts replacement don't need to be done for a year rather than several times a year.
It's not the cars, it's the kids
PS, I worked on my own cars when I was young. I far prefer driving them to working on them, although many all night keg parties started by friends stopping by on a Saturday afternoon when one guy was working on his car in the driveway
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 06:45 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 10:43 PM (SAMxH)
So....you didn't work for the GM dealer on Rte. 17 in Paramus, NJ.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 06:45 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 10:14 PM (TvO05)
I love waltz, argentine tango, and foxtrot. I can't stand salsa, however. Cha-cha is fun, as well as rumba, but the salsa community has always been too 'clubby' to me.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 28, 2013 06:45 PM (BY9NA)
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 06:45 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 06:46 PM (qo244)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 10:45 PM (GsoHv)
OMG, I lived in Ridgewood in the early 70s. My stupid lame-ass ex-husband numero uno worked on the Paramus mall (which I think is now called something else) when they were building it. You guys!!!
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:46 PM (3fX4B)
Hah, yeah, the vacuum "may shift" on alternate Thursdays. Yeah, I got it to work after a buttload of grief. That aside the car was bullet proof, and I'd like to have another Aerosedan just like it.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 06:47 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 06:47 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:47 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: Rancor at February 28, 2013 06:48 PM (m7CdA)
You are in one of the few states that's even worse than NJ!
Where in Ridgewood?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 06:48 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 06:49 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:49 PM (TvO05)
The good old days when a mechanic could tell you the problem by ear instead of blindly following an OBD code.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 06:49 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 06:49 PM (M/TDA)
I love the old cars as much as anyone, but let's not romanticize them to the point of denying modern engineering advances
Not just safety, but power too. The V-6 in the base Camaro or Mustang now has 300 hp, something no V8 had in the 70s or 80s, and only the muscle cars or biggest luxury cars had in the 60s.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 10:33 PM
You're probably right. But, the old ones were a lot more fun. I guess we were lucky, or something. The only serious injuries came via head ons and telephone poles. Rolls and assorted stacks didn't result in much more than a banged up car. Oh well. God, drunks, children and idiots, I guess.
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 06:50 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 06:51 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 10:48 PM (GsoHv)
We had this awesome fuckin' place, CBD. I think it was on Prospect right up from that little park (which may no longer be there). There was a lawyer office on the ground floor, this old judge and his younger partner, McQueston I think, and we had the two top floors. For, iirc, $225 a month. We could walk down to the shops and everywhere in Ridgewood. My former f-i-l used to say Ridgewood would have one of the highest per capita incomes if you guys didn't live there. He was probably right, lol. We used to go up every Sunday morning to Tice's Farms for the fresh, hot donuts and cider.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:52 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 06:52 PM (C8mVl)
My 1st car...
1942 Willy's jeep....with the flat head 4, X-military in the full and I sold it to some rancher in Paso Robles for what I bought it for 10 years earlier
wish I could buy it back.....
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 06:52 PM (vOFmE)
Posted by: Ranco
Not sure where you are, but here in the Carolinas there's a website where folks buy/sell/trade guns and ammo. I noticed tonight that some are starting to offload excess ammo. If they loaded up before the scare, they can now sell at a "reasonable" price, and still turn a profit. 1760 rds of 223 tonight for $900. Not TOO bad, compared to on-line retailers, anyway.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 06:53 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 06:53 PM (XMH/O)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 06:54 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 28, 2013 06:55 PM (/7Xis)
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 06:55 PM (7FqJH)
Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 06:55 PM (LRFds)
Unique sound to them, almost like a small plane engine or an old Chris-Craft boat. They were huge, didn't put out a lot of hp for their bulk but they had massive torque
The old Flathead Fords were loved, but they usually needed to be rebuilt at 40,000 miles
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 06:55 PM (mCvL4)
dermatology has always been the slacker specialty, as far as MDs go.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 06:56 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 06:56 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Timon at February 28, 2013 06:56 PM (hHlaS)
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 06:56 PM (XMH/O)
Maybe not a 42 but that is the car I learned how to drive in out in the woods at13. Made a mistake and hit a tree. All we did was hook a chain on the front bumper and back up.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 06:57 PM (qo244)
$.75 here, routinely, and cheaper if you look, as I mentioned above at .50.
$1 plus at the on-line retailers.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 06:57 PM (4Mv1T)
Tice's Farm is now a high-end mall. No more farm!
Ridgewood is still nice, but there are empty storefronts...something that would have shocked me even 10 years ago.
There are some big houses on Prospect!
We live on the North side of town, North of Glen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 06:57 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Panhandler at February 28, 2013 06:58 PM (rZ5RE)
Posted by: LindaFell at February 28, 2013 06:58 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 28, 2013 06:58 PM (/7Xis)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at February 28, 2013 06:59 PM (yJYwC)
http://www.tonmo.com/content.php?163-Mating-Octopus-(Abdopus-aculeatus)
hat tip: http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2013/03/friday-ephemera.html
Posted by: Adriane ... at February 28, 2013 10:51 PM (TvO05)
That's a really great series of pics. My experience with aquarium life rarely has them doing anything interesting when I have a camera set up.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:00 PM (kaalw)
Texas....Ahhh....Texas.
Unfortunately, my wife is a North-easterner, and nothing will get her to move.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:00 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 10:56 PM (XMH/O)
I'll be dead in 10-15 years. Enjoy your life under the new dictatorship.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:01 PM (dBayF)
"Tomorrow is my first day of employment since the end of September."
Congrats on the new job! I'm going to assume your failing to give thanks and praise to me was just a simple oversight. I will be counting you in my next press release....rounded up, that's 10,000 new jobs created!
Posted by: Barrack Obama at February 28, 2013 07:01 PM (3qKP/)
You are in one of the few states that's even worse than NJ!
Where in Ridgewood?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 10:48 PM
I lived in NJ until 1995, then moved to California
California is better, take my word for it. Not that it takes much to improve on the Police State of New Jersey
Peaches, are you saying the two of us might have at one time crossed paths at the Jersey Shore and not known it?
I'm betting that with the Sandy damage to the prospects of the upcoming summer, those "Bennies Go Home" signs and shirts won't be seen all that much this year
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 07:01 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 09:50 PM (jucos)
That happened to my son too, TM....here in CT....at a driving school (10 years ago). It was ridiculous....3X the fee.
My daughter took her's at DMV and was back in 10 mins....with her license. I was shocked. She came back so quickly, I thought she had wrecked the car.
She has had lots of tickets and fender benders....he's had zero.
Posted by: Tami [/i] at February 28, 2013 07:01 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 07:02 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 07:02 PM (qo244)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 10:57 PM (GsoHv)
He grew up (in a manner of speaking) in 250-year-old house in Franklin Lakes. Very nicely restored, of course. I just found out that our best friend from those days died in January. 63 years old. RIP, Johnny, and thanks for all the cool rides in the Goat and on the Harley.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:02 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 10:56 PM
We had better weed too
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 07:02 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 07:02 PM (BBWjt)
Hell, at this rate, we'll ALL be dead.
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 07:02 PM (4Mv1T)
Nah, kb, never did. One of my few friends had a Pontiac with a straight 8. Those things IIRC ran as quiet as any engine I can remember--on a par with the flathead Fords.
I simply like messing with the old machinery. Much more appeal than plug in and replace. Diagnostics is the majority of modern repair, and it bugs me to discard something with only part of it bad.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 07:02 PM (SAMxH)
how are the tentacles tonite
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 10:58 PM (BBWjt)
Doin' ok, cj -- how's the youthful angst?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:03 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Tattoo Artist in the Process of Ripping Out His Eyeballs at February 28, 2013 07:05 PM (Vk2pI)
I told you guys up thread that you could cross my lawn, but remember, mind the toe poppers and claymores.
Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 07:05 PM (SAMxH)
"Texas....Ahhh....Texas."
You don't want to live there! The place is crawling with snakes and rabid animals. The average temperature is 160 degrees - with 200% humidity, and everyone runs around shooting everything that moves. Hell, there were 30 people killed in my little neighborhood just today!
Please spread this warning to everyone north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Posted by: Concerned and Caring Texan at February 28, 2013 07:05 PM (ZolUS)
Way late to the ONT, as usual, but I'm thinking that Joe Biden is kinda fucking stupid. And that his buffoonery is an intentional distraction from the horrific shit that is actually happening.
*sigh*
*reaches for the Evan Williams*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, So Very Tired at February 28, 2013 07:05 PM (6rcHp)
Maybe back in the day, buddy. Now, only if you're sneaking in from Mexico. And I only went to the shore once. What a fuckin' shithole. And then a 5-hour ride on the back of a motorcycle in the rain, freezin' my tiny tits off. I remember it to this day (which is sayin' a lot for the 70s, iykwimaityd)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:05 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Lord Keynes at February 28, 2013 07:05 PM (Vk2pI)
you mean my students?
well I know one of my students is currently breaking up with his girlfriend, because he requested to be transferred from his current lab group
not sure what I'm going to do about that, seeing as how it's in the middle of the semester already
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 07:06 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 28, 2013 07:06 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 07:06 PM (C8mVl)
518
Then you old farts can REALLY reminisce.
Posted by: Hobojerky at February 28, 2013 10:56 PM
We had better weed too
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 11:02 PM
Hahahaha. You tell those young punks. Nobody pointed and laughed at us for wearing all denim, either.
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 07:06 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 11:02 PM (BBWjt)
Nah -- never went salt. I've been doing Tanganyikans for years and years -- right now, somewhat cycled-down.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:07 PM (kaalw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAsRFVbcyUY
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 07:07 PM (zCivO)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 11:05 PM (3fX4B)
Try to stick to the narrative.
All Moronettes are smokin' hot.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:08 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: LindaFell at February 28, 2013 07:08 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Jay Leno at February 28, 2013 07:08 PM (I88Jc)
but it is really fuckin' clear right now, no hint of algae
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 07:08 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Jim at February 28, 2013 07:08 PM (vvk2F)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:09 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 11:02 PM
in a way, kb. then, you could smoke, like, 12 fatties. now, you take one hit and you are blasted. although, to be fair, it does taste a whole lot better. don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:09 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 07:09 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 28, 2013 07:10 PM (/7Xis)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 07:10 PM (mCvL4)
Now we post thus..
We have put our faith in complete failures....and watch the "news" that does nothing more than validate what complete failures we have joined onto.
When will we tire of being joined to the REPUBLICAN PARTY which now has FAILED AGAIN for the.....shit, you all do the math
Anger this....who stands for us now....
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 07:10 PM (vOFmE)
"...tiny small, but perfect tits..."
I always preferred the adjective "perky" when describing A-cups
Posted by: Guy who likes perky tits at February 28, 2013 07:10 PM (ZM9OS)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 28, 2013 07:11 PM (Z9EHQ)
there are some very pretty areas in that neck of the woods, Linda. of course, i have no idea what it looks like now, 40 years later, but it's probably still pretty good. sad to hear downtown ridgewood is suckin' wind, it was pretty swanky, back in the day.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:11 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 07:11 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 28, 2013 07:12 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Guy who likes perky tits at February 28, 2013 11:10 PM (ZM9OS)
Breasts are beautiful. There is no debate.
[especially Peaches'!]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:13 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:13 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 11:11 PM (qo244)"
Lost your sense of smell?
Posted by: Icedog at February 28, 2013 07:13 PM (ZolUS)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 28, 2013 07:13 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 28, 2013 07:13 PM (piMMO)
if you smelled it, you would know immediately . . . there would be no question in your mind.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:14 PM (3fX4B)
You know the dome is cast iron? Every dimple as you look up from the rotunda can be opened.
My sons and I climbed the outside, the area between the old dome and the new, to go to the very top of the capital dome and actually touch that Indian chick.
The view from the top is just fucking unbelievable.
You got a congressman who likes you? Get them to take you up. They have to go with you.
It is simply the best.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 28, 2013 07:14 PM (wR+pz)
you mean my students?
well I know one of my students is currently breaking up with his girlfriend, because he requested to be transferred from his current lab group
not sure what I'm going to do about that, seeing as how it's in the middle of the semester already
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 11:06 PM (BBWjt)
Actually, I was thinking of your own journey of self-discovery. But....how much of a big deal is it to be in a lab group? All the classes I remember, you kept your own notebook.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:14 PM (kaalw)
Guess so.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (WVMUQ)
Anger this....who stands for us now....
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 11:10 PM (vOFmE)
I think there are many who are tired of the R "leadership" which fails us on a daily basis, but very few have presented viable long-term alternatives. The TEA party (more like a reaction) was great while it lasted, and the seats they won have pretty much been neutered as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (Cnqmv)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (BBWjt)
Still nice, but the high concentration of finance people hurt the economy after the beatdown of 2008. It's coming back, and town is crowded from Thursday through Saturday night (just got back from an excellent restaurant/bar).
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (GsoHv)
1969 Roadrunner, 383, 4 on the floor, posi 3.23 rear that I later swapped to a 3.73
Fell apart inside of 2 years, but it was fun for a while
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (mCvL4)
No I just like booze more. Never was good at dose control and beer is just safer for me.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Inspector Asshole at February 28, 2013 07:15 PM (ovaQa)
trunk big enough to hold four dead or live bodies. Huge and solid and could do 110 without straining
Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 28, 2013 07:16 PM (Dll6b)
What a pleasure to see this nic!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:16 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 11:10 PM (mCvL4)
Fury I FuryII or Fury III. Because that's improtant.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:16 PM (dBayF)
and I'm like fuckin' 40 years old, I don't have youthful angst anymore
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 07:16 PM (BBWjt)
we were emailing, i think, maybe on Sunday (?). she's cool. was out in El Lay for some bullshit nuthin' surgery that Thor had. got bronchitis on top of the pneumonia recovery. had a little car crash that bruised her chest (moron have already covered it, you don't have to go there). now back in the hinterlands with her mama, who accompanied her on the trip. damn, i love that girl!
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:16 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 11:15 PM (qo244)
Exactly!
It's the process that is the pleasure, and one hit from a late-model joint and you are a blubbering fool.
What's the pleasure in that?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:17 PM (GsoHv)
"You got a congressman who likes you? Get them to take you up. They have to go with you."
You young men just give me a call...I promise I'll get you up!
Posted by: Bwaney Fwank at February 28, 2013 07:17 PM (3qKP/)
but it is really fuckin' clear right now, no hint of algae
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 11:08 PM (BBWjt)
Good to hear. Being a little ecosystem, sometimes things just have to evolve a bit.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:18 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 07:18 PM (jucos)
Posted by: typo dynamofo at February 28, 2013 07:18 PM (WVMUQ)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 07:18 PM (C8mVl)
I want to die behind the wheel of a "42" Willys!
I wish a frame up restoration to Mil Specs.....I wish to drive into a golden west coast sunset...with a cocktail of my choice.....and a President that is worthy
....so not in my lifetime it would seem........
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 07:18 PM (vOFmE)
My first father in law owned an Olds dealership. I got a Delta 88 Police Interceptor with a 455 V-8. MFer would go 0-60 in nothing, but the high end was only 110.
Only cops in the country that had them were in NJ. I blew by an unmarked NJ State Trooper one night and scared the shit out of him. He could not figure out how a NC licensed car had a cop car. Came up and waved.
I about shit, and waved back. Put a 110,000 miles on that fucker 12 mpg at a time.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 28, 2013 07:19 PM (wR+pz)
I don't think we generate enough heat for that level of hatred.
Posted by: A Thousand Suns at February 28, 2013 07:19 PM (BBWjt)
First car I bought myself was a 1965 Mustang fastback, 6 cyl with a 3-speed. Fake dual exhausts. Traded it in for a 65 Mustang convertible; 8 cyl automatic, white with red interior, but Fla is too hot for convertibles ( think about it ).
Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 28, 2013 07:20 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 28, 2013 07:20 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: notsothoreau at February 28, 2013 07:20 PM (Lqy/e)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1Ap46w-hw
Instrumental by Galaxie 500, if you're like me you may remember it from an old Acura commercial, "Engineering is our Art".
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 07:20 PM (zCivO)
Posted by: Jake in ID at February 28, 2013 07:21 PM (4Nkxq)
Posted by: The Political Hatg at February 28, 2013 07:21 PM (Vk2pI)
and I'm like fuckin' 40 years old, I don't have youthful angst anymore
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 11:16 PM (BBWjt)
You had said you were 40 a couple of ONTs back, and I thought, "heh, whippersnapper!" I'm 50.
Of course, there are some who might say I was 50, going on 14.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:21 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 11:15 PM (mCvL4)
You must have beat the shit out of it. My wife's first car, a '68 Dodge Super Bee (pretty much the same as a Roadrunner) went over 200k.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:21 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: chemjeff hates snow at February 28, 2013 07:21 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 28, 2013 07:21 PM (ZPrif)
What the hell is the drop at 1000 yards?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:22 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 28, 2013 07:23 PM (Z9EHQ)
Think we are in the frog+water+slow heat = boiled Ranidae, but just not immediately! The mañana culture has become part of our culture!
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 28, 2013 07:23 PM (Cnqmv)
The last one is my favorite. Heh.
Posted by: Book at February 28, 2013 07:23 PM (3v8SI)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 28, 2013 07:23 PM (piMMO)
For the dream will it have a mounted Ma Deuce?
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 28, 2013 07:24 PM (qo244)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:24 PM (3fX4B)
You're one of the good ones!
Cheers, and good night!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 07:25 PM (GsoHv)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 11:10 PM (mCvL4)
Fury I FuryII or Fury III. Because that's improtant. Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 11:16 PM
It was a surplus police cruiser, so it had A/C but no carpets, radio, or any other luxuries.
It had the 383 2 bbl when I got it, soon put on a Rochester 4 bbl
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 07:26 PM (mCvL4)
heartiest guffaw of the night goes to the inestimable Y-5! can't believe you answered your phone. dumbass!
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:26 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 28, 2013 07:26 PM (piMMO)
Is it just me? - I felt like I watched 15 minutes of show and 15 minutes of commercials in a half hour episode.
Posted by: Lewis at February 28, 2013 07:27 PM (UB1pV)
All during the 60's gas ran about 30 cents a gallon. Hi test, 35. It was leaded too, so it was the real deal.
Course, cars back then had pretty loose specs.
The cars today are fucking amazing. The engines are simply works of art.
Even the cheapest car is better built than a Cadillac in 1965.
You could never manufacturer a car in the 60's to the specs today. No computers.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 28, 2013 07:27 PM (wR+pz)
By the way....
Hollywood is a land of whores and Necro-Lickers pan tongue sloppers and beasts of anus kiss planters....
before you send your kids out here to become..."STARS!!"
Jus warning......
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 07:29 PM (vOFmE)
sorry, if you guys want me to get the fuck outta here, I totally understand.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:29 PM (3fX4B)
What the hell is the drop at 1000 yards?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 11:22 PM (GsoHv)
IIRC like 33 feet depending on the load
Posted by: The Jackhole somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 28, 2013 07:29 PM (/7Xis)
Posted by: Baldy at February 28, 2013 07:30 PM (opS9C)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 28, 2013 07:30 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Synova at February 28, 2013 07:30 PM (7/PU+)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 11:26 PM (mCvL4) [i/]
Must have been special order. What good is a 383 with 2 bbl?
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:30 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 07:31 PM (jucos)
are you fuckin' shitting me? biden was picked because he was the one least likely to ever, in his entire craptastic life, utter a word that sounded smarter than that fascist shitbird he works for. do you not think that if there was anyone at all who would have ridden the ticket with barky in '12, he wouldn't have been tossed aside like yesterday's poo?
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:32 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 11:15 PM (mCvL4)
You must have beat the shit out of it. My wife's first car, a '68 Dodge Super Bee (pretty much the same as a Roadrunner) went over 200k. Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 11:21 PM
It was my daily driver. Add NJ winters and the road salt that would eat titanium, it literally fell apart
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 07:33 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 07:33 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 11:31 PM (jucos)
That indeed is a sad story.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:34 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 28, 2013 07:34 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 28, 2013 07:35 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:35 PM (3fX4B)
I had a transmission replace under it. Somehow the speedo got disconnected for a year or so. Damn, must have shook loose.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 28, 2013 07:36 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Jake in ID at February 28, 2013 07:36 PM (4Nkxq)
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 11:35 PM (zCivO)
It was a car first.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at February 28, 2013 07:37 PM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:37 PM (dBayF)
my 61 Galaxie 500 didn't have PS, so steering that Lead Sled was a challenge
Posted by: DOA in Scrambletown, FLA at February 28, 2013 07:37 PM (Dll6b)
Posted by: Casting Couch/Bus Stop Pimp at February 28, 2013 07:38 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:39 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: Eaton Cox at February 28, 2013 07:40 PM (+wxCD)
That POS went through three starters, two ring gears, a full tranny, two water pumps, a carb, an alternator, and ate valve-cover gaskets like candy. Went through tires like nobody's business until some smart shop told me the factory spec was crap and it didn't need toe-in like it said in the book. The tranny, I suspect, wasn't bolted to the frame when it left the factory. Had a "variable-venturi" carb that was supposed to be the bee's knees, 'cause they'd get amazing performance from it using research-grade gasoline.....in the real world, there was this needle-valve that rapidly got glazed with impurities in gas and made the thing's performance a total crapshoot.....
I still have problems walking onto a Ford lot, 'cause I get this overwhelming desire to scream "you screwed me over, how will you ever make that right?"
Bought a Nissan Sentra that was so stripped it didn't even have a radio antenna.....in the first 12 months I owned it, my out-of-pocket for car payments and the down payment were less than the last 12 months of repair bills had been.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:40 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Ed Anger at February 28, 2013 07:41 PM (tOkJB)
^^^^THIS. The narcissist in chief would never have a VP capable of upstaging him. This is why so many of Obama's cabinet picks are fucking idiots too. His ego demands he be the smartest guy in the room, even if that's a pretty low bar.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 07:41 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 07:41 PM (jucos)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 28, 2013 07:42 PM (GBvA/)
Posted by: Whatev at February 28, 2013 07:43 PM (A7Wh1)
Eschew gizmos. Anyone remember the Caddy 2-4-8 engine?
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 07:44 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 11:39 PM (dBayF)
Oh, gosh, I dunno, I just always thought it was a butt-ugly car. If I had a gearhead younger brother, fine. My little tiny mom, it was just weird. The dadster and I were talking about it just the other day, laughing, she loved that fuckin' car. When she got her new one (early 90s Buick Regal that he's still driving), I told her, I know a guy who will buy that thing, top dollar. Oh, hell, no. She sold it to some 'nice young man' for nothing -- some fuckin' illegal who wrecked it before he ever transferred the registration.
she put up with my shit (kinda), I put up with hers (kinda)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:44 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Eaton Cox at February 28, 2013 11:40 PM (+wxCD)
Pish and tosh -- EPA was the murder capital of the US, not the world. And that was before they put in the IKEA.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:46 PM (kaalw)
OMG!!! Suicide doors?? Cause those WERE the coolest. Lotta power under that hood, too.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:46 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 28, 2013 11:42 PM (GBvA/)
Why are your ears burning? Are you downwind from Peaches?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:47 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Whatev at February 28, 2013 11:43 PM (A7Wh1)
---
-Had one of those once. '72 I think it was. Land Barge. Loved it. Traded it to a car dealer who just wanted the 357 engine. I babied that engine, too.
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 07:48 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:49 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 07:49 PM (jucos)
Posted by: NCKate at February 28, 2013 07:49 PM (4FeFx)
BTDT, learned my lesson selling a car to a couple of locals in the hood. Can't ever trust a buyer to register it in their name. YOU need to contact DMV right away and file an ownership transfer, and get it off your insurance pronto or you'll get burned.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 07:49 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 28, 2013 07:51 PM (GBvA/)
I have actually gifted cars I was done with to some fairly sketchy young people. But I took 'em to the DMV and made sure it was done. She was stupid about that, the car was a collector's dream. And badass, if that was your taste. A shame, really.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:51 PM (3fX4B)
Peaches. some fuckin' illegal who wrecked it before he ever transferred the registration.
That is a sad story. Depending on engine, and not rusted to hell, that is a very desirable car. I liked the '68 charger better, just personal preference.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 07:51 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 07:53 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 28, 2013 07:53 PM (GBvA/)
Hah! Parents had a '79 LTD with that same fucking thing. POS would stall out for no apparent reason, and would refuse to start under certain conditions, like winter, unless you applied precisely the right amount of throttle and recited lines from the Necronomicon backwards. You could fake it out by having someone hold the venturi open until the engine caught. This worked well unless you were alone, in which case you jammed your ice scraper into the thing to keep it open, cranked the engine and the the millisecond it caught, you darted out to remove the ice scraper before it stalled again, which it would if you were so much as a half-second late.
Good times.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 07:54 PM (zCivO)
Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2013 07:54 PM (M/TDA)
"YOU need to contact DMV right away and file an ownership transfer, and get it off your insurance pronto or you'll get burned."
I always do my "hand-overs" or transfers at the DMV.
Posted by: Icedog at February 28, 2013 07:54 PM (ZM9OS)
Posted by: Keena at February 28, 2013 07:55 PM (M5qgo)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:55 PM (3fX4B)
hows you? Grimmy waves too, to my imaginary friends....
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at February 28, 2013 07:55 PM (r7Ddb)
.....left a black smudge on her bumper. Zero damage otherwise. Cars are safer today, but they were more solid way-back-then.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:56 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Whatev at February 28, 2013 07:56 PM (A7Wh1)
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 07:57 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Boomer Redneque votes Galt/Rearden '16! at February 28, 2013 07:57 PM (eQnzo)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 07:58 PM (3fX4B)
It's the process that is the pleasure, and one hit from a late-model joint and you are a blubbering fool. What's the pleasure in that? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 11:17 PM (GsoHv)
Yeah, that was always the problem with pot for me - going from not-stoned to completely friggin' stoned in, like, 5 seconds. Also, it always seemed to intensify my previous mood. Fine if I was in a good mood - then I'd laugh like hell at anything. But if I was depressed or sad to begin with, it didn't make me happy. I vaguely remember one ridiculous evening when I locked myself in a bathroom, sat down on the edge on the tub and blubbered away because life was meaningless or some damn thing.
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 07:58 PM (7FqJH)
Hah! Parents had a '79 LTD with that same fucking thing. POS would stall out for no apparent reason, and would refuse to start under certain conditions, like winter, unless you applied precisely the right amount of throttle and recited lines from the Necronomicon backwards. You could fake it out by having someone hold the venturi open until the engine caught. This worked well unless you were alone, in which case you jammed your ice scraper into the thing to keep it open, cranked the engine and the the millisecond it caught, you darted out to remove the ice scraper before it stalled again, which it would if you were so much as a half-second late.
Good times.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 11:54 PM (zCivO)
We are definitely talking about the same device. I was in California, so "cold" wasn't so much a problem....but it would behave differently with different *humidity*.
Did you ever figure out about the needle valve thing?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 07:59 PM (kaalw)
Boomer, the barrel awaits.
I've had manual cars all my life, but remain in awe of people who can drive them with non-functioning clutches.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:00 PM (zCivO)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 08:00 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 11:55 PM (3fX4B)
my dad had a powder blue Buick Riviera with a blueprint racing engine in it. i really really wanted that car.
and of course i will hug the hell out of Bebe for you! and teh Kittehs too
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at February 28, 2013 08:01 PM (r7Ddb)
672
Then,
I step with jaunty care..less down the steps from my bedroom door and pee upon the dirt of my.....land. After which I stagger to and fro to the table on which my wine glass resides....under the Orange Tree....and raise it to my lips
and quaft it mighty in the Name of ACE!
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 08:01 PM (vOFmE)
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 08:02 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 08:02 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at February 28, 2013 11:55 PM (r7Ddb)
*Waves back to Grim.*
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:03 PM (kaalw)
WTF.
The old man went from that to a Taurus with electronic fuel injection. Holy shit, what a difference.. Choirs of angels.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:03 PM (zCivO)
Posted by: J. Random Dude at February 28, 2013 08:03 PM (72afg)
Posted by: RWC at February 28, 2013 08:04 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: RWC at February 28, 2013 08:04 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 01, 2013 12:00 AM (jucos)
If only. I sometimes look at the feral government today and Article I, Section 8, and just shake my head.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:04 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 01, 2013 12:00 AM (jucos)
If only. I sometimes look at the feral government today and Article I, Section 8, and just shake my head.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:04 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:05 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:05 PM (3fX4B)
"First car was a used Lincoln Continental."
Geez, I had a boyfriend in college who owned his dad's old Lincoln Continental. We could have set up house in that car. If that interior could speak - well, thank God, it couldn't speak, because my daddy would have hunted Bill down with a shotgun.
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 08:05 PM (7FqJH)
"First car was a used Lincoln Continental."
Geez, I had a boyfriend in college who owned his dad's old Lincoln Continental. We could have set up house in that car. If that interior could speak - well, thank God, it couldn't speak, because my daddy would have hunted Bill down with a shotgun.
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 08:05 PM (7FqJH)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 28, 2013 08:07 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:08 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at February 28, 2013 08:08 PM (GBvA/)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 28, 2013 08:08 PM (NzBQO)
fold? "fold?" that crybaby shitbird will crumple like used, bargain brand kleenex. fuck. it's already done, babe.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:09 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 08:10 PM (dBayF)
Still about 50 minutes before the Sequestrashockwave hits my part of flyover country. I'd head for the bunker, but I'm too busy drinking. Unfortunately, it's diet soda.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 28, 2013 08:10 PM (5J54Q)
"Ya know, it just occurred to me that, if I can possibly find a way to drink myself to death tonight, I won't have to go to work tomorrow"
Please don't die, Peaches, but hell, have another drink. I would - but I'm out of wine. So goodnight, all.
Posted by: Donna V. at February 28, 2013 08:11 PM (7FqJH)
710
True, The 3rd bottle of wine will not end my pain.....yet...I am feeling pretty damn fine about now.....and BABY!! you looking SO FINE!!!!
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 08:11 PM (vOFmE)
Posted by: Maxine Walters at February 28, 2013 08:12 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 08:13 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: derit at February 28, 2013 08:13 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Richard at March 01, 2013 12:11 AM (vOFmE)
Keep your hands to yourself, cousin.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 28, 2013 08:14 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 08:16 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 11:44 PM
The 69 Charger? Such heresy uttered. The stake awaits you, foul servant of lucifer..
Posted by: otho at February 28, 2013 08:16 PM (yBF/9)
I've seen grainy video of weeping children and crumbling infrastructure.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:16 PM (PLDC7)
oh, and, yeah, baby, Tom Fuckin' Brady for the classiest move in pro football, um, EVER!!!!
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:17 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 08:18 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: RWC at February 28, 2013 08:18 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: otho at March 01, 2013 12:16 AM (yBF/9)
flattery will get you nowhere . . .
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:19 PM (3fX4B)
http://www.scion.com/cars/FR-S/
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 08:19 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 28, 2013 08:19 PM (1V6Pv)
OMG!!! Suicide doors?? Cause those WERE the coolest. Lotta power under that hood, too.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 11:46 PM
They were homicide doors to me ..
Posted by: JFK at February 28, 2013 08:19 PM (mCvL4)
Our Benevolent God-Emperor makes everything ultra-cool.
http://tinyurl.com/b52soe7
Was the Dukes' car a '69?
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:19 PM (PLDC7)
Bingo. Joe Biden is the cognitive version of the ugly person who is kept around by moderately attractive people to make them look good by comparison in bars and parties.
Obama is a far less likeable Luke Wilson to Biden's Dax Shepherd.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 08:20 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: JFK at March 01, 2013 12:19 AM (mCvL4)
I should have been so lucky . . .
Posted by: Marilyn at February 28, 2013 08:21 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Peaches at March 01, 2013 12:17 AM (3fX4B)
Oh please. Elway did the same for the best team ever. The DENVER BRONCOS. That's wher Brady got the idea. He could not have come up with that all by his self.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 08:21 PM (dBayF)
http://www.scion.com/cars/FR-S/
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2013 12:19 AM
Pretty cool looking except for those humps on the front fenders. Makes it look like they were distorted in a fender bender
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 08:22 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: JFK at March 01, 2013 12:19 AM (mCvL4)
I should have been so lucky.
Posted by: Mary Jo Kopechne at February 28, 2013 08:22 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at February 28, 2013 08:22 PM (5J54Q)
Posted by: John Boner at February 28, 2013 08:23 PM (jucos)
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 08:23 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 01, 2013 12:19 AM
Yes it was
But when I thought of a 69, I thought of Daisy
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 08:23 PM (mCvL4)
ATTENTION!!!
Maxine...your botox injections are pending subscribed fail-safe.....time for a re-do or your face will go to putty...please remit so you don't look like.....WELL...YOU!!!!.....EEEEECCCKKK...I added that so you will remit sooner than later....serious..you NEED this....
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 08:24 PM (vOFmE)
Love the possible colors - Firestorm, Asphalt, Raven, Hot Lava... Has a 200hp pancake motor in it from Subaru.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 08:24 PM (U5rMc)
WTF.
The old man went from that to a Taurus with electronic fuel injection. Holy shit, what a difference.. Choirs of angels.
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 01, 2013 12:03 AM (zCivO)
I'm not really that much of a car geek, but this particular piece of stupidity took me so long to figure out that I'm kind of proud to know about it.
The whole "variable-venturi" thing is that carbs have a section where the walls pinch in to maximize air velocity and create low pressure, but engines suck more air when they're turning-over faster and less air when they're revving slower, so you're almost never at the optimum air velocity or pressure. But if you made one wall stationary and put the other wall on a piston, you could make the "pinch" bigger or smaller as more-or-less air was needed. So far, so good.
Where the engineers went overboard is that they figured "with different amounts of air, you need different amounts of fuel".....so they decided to mount a precision metal rod on the moving wall that matched up with a precision hole on the stationary wall so that if you opened the pinch-point, it'd spritz more gas through the narrow-part of the rod/hole gap, but if you closed the pinch-point, the thicker part of the rod would close up more of the hole. [If this sounds like machine sex.....]
The problem is, that's some mighty precision machinin', there....and in realsville, both the rod and the hole would become coated in a shellac-like substance formed when impure gasoline was heated and evaporated away (uh, like in a carburetor....). And, what's more, said lacquer swelled when the humidity was high (and got sticky and occasionally stopped the venturi piston in its tracks) and shrank when the humidity was low.
And now we come to the big picture. In order to keep from picking a compromise airflow venturi and sticking with the air/fuel it gave them, they varied the venturi and the air/fuel in a way that destabilized it beyond where any compromise design would take them -- making it totally useless under circumstances the standard 2-barrel and 4-barrel carbs would laugh off.
Genius!
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:25 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy and Oldsmobile at February 28, 2013 08:25 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Arbalest at February 28, 2013 08:25 PM (veiOt)
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:26 PM (PLDC7)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 28, 2013 08:26 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: harleycowboy at February 28, 2013 08:27 PM (+9AX9)
Had the 340 which was a great engine and the car was very light so it was the fastest car I had
The reason it was light however was less due to size than the paper thin steel Chrysler used at the time. It also had the suspension of the Mopars, meaning it could fairly hold a straight line if you had new tires and a recent front end alignment.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 08:27 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at February 28, 2013 08:27 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Arbalest at February 28, 2013 08:28 PM (veiOt)
damn those thin mints, I have now developed a (hopefully temporary but visceral) fear of farting.
At least they'll smell minty........probably not tho.
Posted by: harleycowboy at February 28, 2013 08:28 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 12:23 AM (kcfmt)
Yes. Let. It. Burn.
Posted by: Mary Jo Kopechne at February 28, 2013 08:28 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 08:28 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: Al Roker at February 28, 2013 08:29 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Arbalest at February 28, 2013 08:30 PM (veiOt)
Posted by: MadisonConservative at February 28, 2013 08:55 PM (sb+ta)
You'll probably never see this, 3 1/2 hours later, but maybe. When my 15 year old son let his grades slip, I sat him down and pointed to the convertible parked outside. "That's yours when you turn 16" I told him, "As long as you get your grades to a certain level". When I was 16 I would have crawled through broken glass to have a car (In fact I did, metaphorically, to be able to drive the better car. Hehe, my doctor dad drove a 16 year old English Ford for about 2 years because my grades and behavior earned me the pilot's seat of the much newer VW Scirocco.
). He didn't care. His grades never came up, he never got his license, and today at 19 he still doesn't have one. He moved to Calgary a year ago for better work opportunity, and last week I was talking to him about his new apartment. "It's right on the bus line that goes to my job!", he told me excitedly. Of all the things that I don't get about my son, that right there is #1. I'm proud as hell of him this past year, he's working like a dog to support himself doing teenage jobs, so everything that I tried to teach him about a work ethic but thought I'd failed at out actually took root, but that there...baffling. Thinking about it now, I'm still gobsmackered. Honestly Bidened. I've got no clue.
Posted by: Weirddave at February 28, 2013 08:31 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:31 PM (kaalw)
Today is the one year anniversary of the death of a great man
I have to believe that if Andrew was alive now, he'd listen to our tales of woe and knock our heads together like he was Moe and we were Larry and Curly
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 08:32 PM (mCvL4)
Please, God, don't let me eat more thin mints this evening, while in my cups.
I cannot tell you how much I love you guys!!! You are such a blessing in my life.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:32 PM (3fX4B)
Oh yeah! Dad had a Reader's Digest (!) book about car repairs which actually explained how the variable-venturi "worked".
It did not detail the ice-scraper trick.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:32 PM (PLDC7)
when my dads 65 riviera got in an accident (yes the headlamp shades worked, no ugly lights on the grill) a Blue toyota pickup stopped in front of us on the freeway. He was smoking weed. The Riviera opened up the back wend of that toyota all the way through the tailgate and smooshed up way up toward the back window, opening it like a can opener.
that sharp nose it had was dinged in a little. and the paint scratched a bit. That was it. That was when they made cars to go fast, look gorgeous and LAST.
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at February 28, 2013 08:33 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: harleycowboy at February 28, 2013 08:36 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: lou's a girl at February 28, 2013 08:36 PM (vgd4f)
Yes,
(Walking under the Orange Tree and lifting glass full)
To Andrew,
A Knight who's sword shines still!
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 08:38 PM (vOFmE)
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 08:38 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Arbalest at February 28, 2013 08:38 PM (veiOt)
While in college driving my '51 cheby, I slid down a slick hill and hit a Vulva (Volvo). Shortened the Volvo by 18 inches and I had to wipe some paint off the '51 bumper.
Posted by: Ronster at February 28, 2013 08:39 PM (dBayF)
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at February 28, 2013 08:40 PM (51bRa)
Today is the one year anniversary of the death of a great man
I have to believe that if Andrew was alive now, he'd listen to our tales of woe and knock our heads together like he was Moe and we were Larry and Curly
Posted by: kbdabear at March 01, 2013 12:32 AM (mCvL4)
---
Seems like ten years.But that's just me.
Posted by: Craig Poe at February 28, 2013 08:40 PM (BVkEs)
Oh fu....
Posted by: Methos, firstborn at February 28, 2013 08:40 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 28, 2013 08:41 PM (1V6Pv)
Good night and God bless us all, darling morons! You are truly the finest, smartest, funniest, most lovable people on this earth. Thank you. I am ever grateful for your fakey internet friendship . . . more than you know.
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:41 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:42 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: zeera at February 28, 2013 08:43 PM (Lv9bM)
Found the word and definition as a chapter heading in Williamson's science fiction novel 'Beachhead' about reaching Mars and trying to survive.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 08:44 PM (U5rMc)
stay turgid, friend . . . you just got on the prayer list. and, hey, here's a hug for you. {{{{{{}}}}}
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:44 PM (3fX4B)
Posted by: Arbalest at February 28, 2013 08:45 PM (veiOt)
776
Could the Republicans....with doing nothing.....even FUCK THIS UP???
Given the past.....YES they could FUCK THIS UP!!!!
Such are REPUBLICANS as of late......"LOSERS".....
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 08:45 PM (vOFmE)
Could they??? I'm pretty sure they fap to it . . .
Posted by: Peaches at February 28, 2013 08:46 PM (3fX4B)
I believe this is the apotheosis of The Moron™ Way.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:46 PM (PLDC7)
I don't know. At this point he might be drinking with Peaches.
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 08:46 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 28, 2013 08:46 PM (U5rMc)
Posted by: The Political Hatg at February 28, 2013 08:47 PM (Vk2pI)
The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at March 01, 2013 12:40 AM
One metal basher at your service.
Posted by: harleycowboy at February 28, 2013 08:47 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: Richard at March 01, 2013 12:45 AM (vOFmE)
As if late? Hahahahaha
Posted by: lou's a girl at February 28, 2013 08:47 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Steck at February 28, 2013 08:49 PM (RL7U1)
Posted by: derit at February 28, 2013 08:50 PM (I88Jc)
Some day, someone will use 'the Joe Biden' defense to justify shooting thru a door and injuring/killing someone. That ought to be a real hootenanny.
Great ONT Maet; now to get thru some of the links.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 28, 2013 08:51 PM (ccXZP)
Seriously?
How many front doors has the fucker shotgunned?
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 08:52 PM (PLDC7)
Posted by: Steck at March 01, 2013 12:49 AM (RL7U1)
Yes, but when they say they are trying to save the middle class, I roll my eyes, and laugh my fat white ass off.
Posted by: lou's a girl at February 28, 2013 08:52 PM (vgd4f)
There was no damage to her car, except for the soiled upholstery.
Posted by: derit at March 01, 2013 12:50 AM (I88Jc)
Went to the bank to get some cash this afternoon. Parked my Honda Accord wagon next to a Ferrari. When I got out, I noted that the engine cover (in the back) was plexiglas, which had me chuckling while I walked to the ATM.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:53 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Average Guy at February 28, 2013 08:54 PM (7bqMw)
Posted by: Steck at February 28, 2013 08:54 PM (RL7U1)
Posted by: Gozer the Gozerian at February 28, 2013 08:55 PM (Vk2pI)
My best friend had a 69 SS which he dropped a 427 with a performance cam and 12 to 1 pistons. He was a wiz at bodywork too and painted it a dark burgundy with about 10 coats of clear
Beautiful and faptastically fast. I think he turned 11 second quarter miles with it IIRC
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 08:56 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Average Guy at March 01, 2013 12:54 AM (7bqMw)
Are you in the Spanish-speaking half, or the English-speaking half?
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 08:56 PM (kaalw)
I'm letting this asshole get under my skin, and I shouldn't.
Posted by: Steck at March 01, 2013 12:54 AM (RL7U1)
Mark of the beast, step away from the marxist/communists/satan..
Posted by: lou's a girl at February 28, 2013 08:57 PM (vgd4f)
Why do we suffer fools at all....
I have...Yes I do have......arms of steel.....and a "Blunder-Bus" with Fifther-o-Brady" "Concorde Shot Blocks" in 10.5mm Thunder Rounds.....
Stopping the creep...one round at a time!!
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 08:58 PM (vOFmE)
Or...
We could have been through a Depression and seen it fall below the horizon in the rearview mirror long ago. Without the idiocy that allowed the housing bubble things would have gotten rough during the Bush administration due to the fallout of the dot.bomb bubble but it would have been resolved within a few years in the normal course of things.
Why Alan Greenspan, who actively encouraged the housing bubble to put off dealing with the previous bubble bursting, isn't burned in effigy at Tea Party and OWS gatherings alike tells me the average American hasn't a clue to the level of malfeasance at the top.
We keep putting it off and the tumor just gets bigger. When first diagnosed the doctor said he had to cut off a pinky on the left hand to remove the tumor and allow life to continue normally. But that would be painful and inconvenient. So the tumor grew and soon had twins on the other fingers of that hand. Then up to the wrist, then the forearm, up to the shoulder, and just kept going. It was never time for the surgery because the thought of the pain was just too much compared to living with the increasing burden of the tumor and its offspring.
Someday soon, a massive 400 pound tumor is going to ooze into a surgeon's office to find out about getting this pesky American voter hanging off its side removed so it can have a normal life.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 08:59 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Steck at February 28, 2013 08:59 PM (RL7U1)
Posted by: Whatev at February 28, 2013 08:59 PM (A7Wh1)
Do you have any unused bays? It may be more convenient to get a port insert, maybe with some bells and whistles like a card reader or a drive dock, and wait until a good deal on a good case comes along.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 09:01 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: RWC at February 28, 2013 09:02 PM (sqp6o)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 28, 2013 09:02 PM (1V6Pv)
Posted by: lou's a girl at March 01, 2013 12:57 AM (vgd4f)
Evangelical... socialist, maybe?
Frankly, I don't know the difference between socialist and communist and Marxist and fascist and corporatist and statist.
Damn, I miss Andrew. :-(
Posted by: Steck at March 01, 2013 12:59 AM (RL7U1)
AKA this government, dems, republicans, independents, anarchists, code pink, black congress, tea party, etc, etc etc. Hellllooo or maybe hellllnooo.
Why doesnt mother nature pick her battles more carefully?
Posted by: lou's a girl at February 28, 2013 09:03 PM (vgd4f)
It's mostly technical trivia, like being able to tell the model year of a long produced car by a subtle change to the trim. They're pretty much the same beast under the hide.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 09:03 PM (kcfmt)
They can't.
See, we're screwed because they can't keep running up the debt without blowing the bond market all to hell. Sure the Fed can buy new debt, but there's $13 trillion or so held by other people who may decide they don't want it because the post inflation dollars it will be paid in aren't worth the bother. The fed can't buy all of those if any significant portion get dumped on the market, because you'd have instant, massive inflation. Also, deficit spending in and of itself causes inflation because it creates false demand, and those dollars eventually trickle into everything.
On the other hand, with some mild variation, they have to deficit spend by an exponentially increasing amount to keep GDP from contracting in a very apparent way. Also, because all money enters the system as debt (by design) debt has to get paid off at a rate (very roughly) proportional to the amount of cash floating around at any given time (or, rather what was around at the average time the debts were incurred), the Fed absolutely must continue emitting exponentially higher amounts of cash, or the monetary system collapses to a singularity. And with not much of anyone running up their credit cards (because they already did so) or taking other debt out, about the only place that money can go right not is through the federal government into student loans (which are defaulting at an increasing rate because half of all graduates can't find jobs) or general spending.
The balance between these two is an ever thinner blade. Eventually someone will slip.
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 09:04 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Thorvald at February 28, 2013 09:04 PM (1V6Pv)
#OnTheSceneSequesterReport #SequesterApocalypse @AceofSpadesHQ
pic.twitter.com/36h3QC9rn0
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 09:05 PM (mCvL4)
http://tinyurl.com/aoh8w4s
And let me add a heartfelt 'I miss you Andrew' to the chorus. A note of encouragement from Drudge today -- It was reported that more people now get their news from the internet than from TV.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 28, 2013 09:06 PM (ccXZP)
Posted by: harleycowboy at February 28, 2013 09:06 PM (+9AX9)
Actually, today was a day of doing stuff around the house with Roberto -- a guy the BH's sister bumped into almost 20 years ago who does random projects [....and is legal!!!]....and who happens to live in Redwood City. So here I was in suburban [Anglo] Santa Clara trying to get security cameras to work with a guy from Guatemala who I only talk to in Spanish who lives in the Hispanic part of Redwood City.
It's sort of difficult to tell, otherwise, but I don't think I'm in Minnesota.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 09:07 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: Whatev at February 28, 2013 09:07 PM (A7Wh1)
/underlines note never to get on Ace's shit list
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 09:09 PM (PLDC7)
Do you have any unused bays? It may be more convenient to get a port insert, maybe with some bells and whistles like a card reader or a drive dock, and wait until a good deal on a good case comes along.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 01:01 AM (kcfmt)
no unused bays and frankly, my components have grown a bit too big for the case I'm using anyways, shit is a hassle and a half in my monthly cleaning.
I'm pissed that that I was pulling up through the ranks on a race in iRacing and then my wheel died which promptly gave me a DNF and a warning for dirty driving.
Tempted to buy this since the 15% code still works but I've never liked mounting the PSU on the bottom:
http://tinyurl.com/62ywzyb
Posted by: The Dude at February 28, 2013 09:09 PM (vJdyz)
You all know where this is going....if it is in fact going bad.
Where then. do we all join up? To fight the bad?
How quickly can we get our shit together to fight the "BAD"
I do not want to be "picked off" by HLS because I want to fight the "BAD"
See where this is going??
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 09:09 PM (vOFmE)
Posted by: Uncle Joe at February 28, 2013 09:10 PM (A7Wh1)
Posted by: Whatev at March 01, 2013 01:07 AM (A7Wh1)
Well, that Sherriff called it, in other words,
obamas government should be called snitches get stitches, and then some!
Posted by: lou's a girl at February 28, 2013 09:11 PM (vgd4f)
Posted by: Uncle Joe at February 28, 2013 09:12 PM (A7Wh1)
No, being married to Andrea Mitchell isn't remotely sufficient punishment for Alan Greenspan's crimes against us and generations to follow.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 09:12 PM (kcfmt)
Now and not knowing.....
Posted by: Richard at March 01, 2013 12:30 AM
Boy, I hope you ain't no hard case
Anyone using italics must close those italics. Anyone not closing their italics spends the night in The Barrel
There will be no copyin' and pastin' from MS Word. Anyone caught copyin' and pastin' from Word spends the night in The Barrel
I'm Carr the Threadwalker. I keep order in here, you got any questions y'all come to me
Posted by: Carr the Threadwalker at February 28, 2013 09:13 PM (mCvL4)
LLOOOOK
He gets another bottle for being "NON-FLAME"...and fluffy socks with arm holes for his rabbits who dig little holes for Jerry Brown in his bath house...
how sweet.......
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 09:18 PM (vOFmE)
Socialist-wants to destroy your freedom for your own good. Really.
Communist-wants to destroy your freedom for the good of "the working man" all around the world. Doesn't think much of your country, either.
Marxist-catch all for satanic political systems not counting islam. Wants to destroy your freedom because it's the wave of the future.
Fascist-wants to destroy your freedom for the good of your country's working man by keeping businesses in line or something. Likes the version of your country he sees in his imagination.
Corporatist-wants to destroy your freedom for the good of the largest businesses (ie who can bribe him best). Initially likes his version of your country, eventually sees borders as an annoyance because "trade!"
Statist-wants to destroy your freedom because he can.
Note that while these all have the same dictatorial end state, these groups will generally all hate the others, unless Marxism is currently considered cool, in which case they get invited to all the after parties.
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 09:19 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: derit at February 28, 2013 09:19 PM (I88Jc)
Posted by: Truman North at February 28, 2013 09:20 PM (I2LwF)
Sequester is the Marx-killer.
Sequester is the little-death that brings minor budget relief.
I will face my sequester.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the sequester has gone there will remain a federal government largely identical in size and scope.
Somehow this will cause the end of the world
Posted by: some Barky Gesserit at February 28, 2013 09:22 PM (PLDC7)
Neither of my kids got their licenses until they were 18, though I worked with them on learners permits at 17.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 28, 2013 09:23 PM (ccXZP)
#SequesterApocalypse #OnTheSceneSequesterReport
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 09:24 PM (mCvL4)
Unpossible!
Posted by: Ralph Obama at March 01, 2013 01:14 AM (PLDC7)
Between that link and Amity Shlaes' The Forgotten Man, it all comes into focus. Half-assed plans get more and more improbable until people go, "this ain't gonna work" and the whole thing ends up in the shitter; everyone cries for the government to do something; you have a choice -- either (a) the government goes "bite me", and people reshuffle themselves into an economy that works within 2 years (depression of 1920-21); or (b) the government does things.....which are worse than useless.....which cause massive ongoing distortions perpetuating the problems......and will only end up being solved after some poor schmoes get nuked. (1929-1945 or 2001-201?).
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 09:24 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: chaz at February 28, 2013 09:24 PM (sSNkG)
Posted by: Uncle Joe at February 28, 2013 09:25 PM (A7Wh1)
Neither of my kids got their licenses until they were 18, though I worked with them on learners permits at 17.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2013 01:23 AM
Good thing you didn't have the VW Hippie Bus. I think the only way to get it to 60 MPH was to push it off a cliff
Which wasn't a bad idea if the hippies were still in it
Posted by: kbdabear at February 28, 2013 09:26 PM (mCvL4)
Sequester is the Marx-killer.
Sequester is the little-death that brings minor budget relief.
I will face my sequester.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the sequester has gone there will remain a federal government largely identical in size and scope.
Somehow this will cause the end of the world
Posted by: some Barky Gesserit at March 01, 2013 01:22 AM (PLDC7)
Heh.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 09:26 PM (kaalw)
I really don't care for the idea of paying almost $500 a computer case. Hell that's about half the price of my current one I built this fall. Went with an Antec that has plenty of fans and room. Even more fan locations than my motherboard supports.
Posted by: buzzion at February 28, 2013 09:27 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: Moron Muad'Dib at February 28, 2013 09:27 PM (Vk2pI)
I built a Core i7 Sandy Bridge Win7 system for Jerry Pournelle in one of those cases. It's like having your first top of the line limousine ride after a lifetime of traveling in surplus Jeeps. It's pretty damn deluxe but wierd looking, which is why I named it AlienArtifact. It looks like a generic machine of mysterious purpose from a Trek episode.
ThermalTake also sent him one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/atndagm
It's running an Ivy Bridge Core i5 Win8 install. Because of the color and the wings of no apparent purpose on the front, I wanted to name it for a white flightless bird but couldn't find anything I liked, so I settled on Swan. The two are equipped with SSDs, the first in Chaos Manor.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 09:27 PM (kcfmt)
#doyourownJillStJohngooglesearch
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 09:27 PM (PLDC7)
Posted by: Berserker at February 28, 2013 09:29 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Truman North at March 01, 2013 01:20 AM (I2LwF)
Yep, not a lot bothered me at that point, but Andrew mattered. God Bless Breitbart.
Going to bed, night all.
Posted by: lou's a girl at February 28, 2013 09:31 PM (vgd4f)
Like the plan to go to single payer once Obamacare lays waste to the health insurance industry? Because doubling and tripling of current rates isn't going to be nearly enough once everyone who can starts taking advantage of the system.
Note that there were snickers around the time of passage over the fact that even obamacare in all its glorious stupidity doesn't in fact cover everyone. So transitioning to single payer, including all the dirt poor not yet included, will drive the costs of care even higher as doctors flat out flee the system.
The money for this is going to come from where?
Not that I think we get anywhere near that point, see my comment about a thin blade above.
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 09:31 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 09:31 PM (Vk2pI)
Sweet.
I retract my snark, if not my desire for an early-70s Jill St. John.
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 09:32 PM (PLDC7)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 09:32 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 09:33 PM (kcfmt)
I rather doubt that sort of thing will get tolerated much longer.
Posted by: Methos at February 28, 2013 09:34 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Whatev at February 28, 2013 09:34 PM (A7Wh1)
The two are equipped with SSDs, the first in Chaos Manor.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 01:27 AM (kcfmt)
Say "hi" to Jerry from me. I met him in Santa Barbara just one time at a "Footfall" booksigning, where I inquired about the physical layout of Chaos Manor and found out something very, very interesting. When he remodeled, he put in a "crawlspace" between the first and second floors that he used for wiring and such.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 09:36 PM (kaalw)
After seeing that case I'm afraid. lol
Posted by: Berserker at February 28, 2013 09:37 PM (FMbng)
885 I'd love to do a build in an Antec Skeleton case. Case isn't the right word really, it more like a platform for hanging PC hardware off of. And you need the right place to put it. But it's ugly and cool all at once.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 01:33 AM (kcfmt)
I just went with the 1200. Massive fan on top. 2 in the back, 3 in front in removable drive bays. Though one doesn't work. Which isn't exactly horrible since with my processor fan I'm already using all 6 of the fan connections on my Motherboard. And there is a slot for a side fan as well if I need it.
Posted by: buzzion at February 28, 2013 09:39 PM (GULKT)
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 01:27 AM (kcfmt)
yeah, just ordered the white edition of the Level 10 GT since I couldn't find anyone in the states selling a Parvum case and I ain't paying to import one. Not too much more than what I paid for my HAF X that I've been using for about 6 years
Posted by: The Dude at February 28, 2013 09:40 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 09:44 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 01:33 AM (kcfmt)
those Skeletons always scared me, they seem like they would be a hassle in building and keeping it clean
Posted by: The Dude at February 28, 2013 09:44 PM (vJdyz)
ThermalTake also sent him one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/atndagm
It's running an Ivy Bridge Core i5 Win8 install. Because of the color and the wings of no apparent purpose on the front, I wanted to name it for a white flightless bird but couldn't find anything I liked, so I settled on Swan. The two are equipped with SSDs, the first in Chaos Manor.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 01:27 AM
That system you got? You didn't build that. Also, I do think at a certain point point, you've got enough ram.
Posted by: barry soetoro at February 28, 2013 09:48 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 09:48 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: The Dude at February 28, 2013 09:51 PM (vJdyz)
This is the way of posting here,
I get to read, from great fellow M's and M's
I get to post and get a pass for the oft "WTF"
I do try and keep my posts within the ACE doctrine...
though sometimes "I'm just "Hammered" beyond the normal!"
True and Richard
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 09:51 PM (vOFmE)
Yep, ArcNet on coax cable. Was the wave of the future back then. But it was different enough from the coax you'd use for TV that it wasn't usable for MOCA when it became desirable to get the whole place networked. So a combination of powerline and WiFi covers the gaps.
He has a D-Link NAS box that is a bit dated but I'm hoping to get a couple of 2 TB drives in JBOD mode running so I can set him up with a video library he can pull up on the big TV downstairs as well as the assorted computers. There is a LG BP-220 Blu-ray deck that would act as the DLNA client. It has pretty good codec support, just lacking Ogg and FLAC. Transcoding can fix that if one is willing to wait. The newer Intel CPUs do it pretty fast if quality isn't required to be pristine to the source file.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 09:52 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: jeremiah fuck that metrosexual life support system for a pair of lieing purple lips Obama wright at March 01, 2013 01:48 AM (+OTLF)
You will note that I said "99% of systems". The 1% could and should have their 1% systems.....but I'm seeing a lot of vanity upgrades that are unjustified by any potential productivity increase.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 09:52 PM (kaalw)
Posted by: harleycowboy at February 28, 2013 09:53 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: beavis at February 28, 2013 09:55 PM (yBF/9)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 10:03 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Baldy at February 28, 2013 10:07 PM (opS9C)
There is no enough RAM. There is only the limit of what the motherboard will support.
The first machine I put Win95 on was an IBM Blue Lightning clock-tripled (100 MHz internally, which was a big deal at the time) 486 system that was a cast-off from Chaos Manor. This was a pre-release model based on a chip that IBM manufactured for Cyrix (IIRC) and had rights to sell under their own brand.
That machine could only accept 16 MB, which was only halfway to the Win95 sweet spot of 32 MB. (Anything over 64 MB was largely useless unless it was for an app that did its own memory management, like PhotoShop. One of the major improvements of Win98 was getting up to 96 MB before diminishing returns became severe.)
I then got a Gateway Pentium 133 system that had been in the first generation to ship with Win95 and was the fastest thing they had at the time it was sent to Chaos Manor. It was named Racing Cow and ended up with me after it had become sufficiently dated as new machines showed up there frequently. It came with 16 MB and my first upgrade was to add more. I could have just added 16 MB but I noticed it was only about $50 more to add 32 MB and go up to 48 MB.
I was struck by the realization that this would be 1024 times the memory of the first machine I owned, an Atari 800. At that moment it went from interesting option to moral imperative.
I'm like a kid who grew up during the Great Depression (copyright US Government) who later hit it big. I want all the affordable RAM I can get, just because I can.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 10:10 PM (kcfmt)
could and should have their 1% systems.....but I'm seeing a lot of
vanity upgrades that are unjustified by any potential productivity
increase.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 01, 2013 01:52 AM (kaalw)
When you work in CG/arts there is no such thing as enough ram cores processor speed power and a fast enough graphics card. Fucking retard gamers (of which i am one) get to use SLI but the mother fucking graphics industry still doesnt touch sli for production so no benefit there so no point in sli atleast not with autodesk apps...I still scream at my system sometimes to hurry the fuck up...and its top of the line currently. But yeah, i know a lot of people (cough mom cough) who bitch that their computers are too slow and all they use it for is facebook card games and watching youtube videos
Posted by:
906 You will note that I said "99% of systems". The 1%could and should have their 1% systems.....but I'm seeing a lot of
vanity upgrades that are unjustified by any potential productivity
increase.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 01, 2013 01:52 AM (kaalw)
When you work in CG/arts there is no such thing as enough ram cores processor speed power and a fast enough graphics card. Fucking retard gamers (of which i am one) get to use SLI but the mother fucking graphics industry still doesnt touch sli for production so no benefit there so no point in sli atleast not with autodesk apps...I still scream at my system sometimes to hurry the fuck up...and its top of the line currently. But yeah, i know a lot of people (cough mom cough) who bitch that their computers are too slow and all they use it for is facebook card games and watching youtube videos
Posted by:jeremiah fuck that metrosexual life support system for a pair of lieing purple lips Obama wright at March 01, 2013 01:59 AM (+OTLF)
at March 01, 2013 01:59 AM (+OTLF)
In the 90s, I was the Controller of a manufacturing company that was talking about getting a new plotter, and they were dinking around about this-or-that $4K model.
Someone suggested a $20K laser plotter, and everyone was shocked when I upchecked it (and we eventually purchased it).
Fact is, you got three people wandering the halls drinking coffee with a donut at $80/hour, and it doesn't take you very long to justify shaving 80% off of plotting time for $16K.
Posted by: cthulhu at February 28, 2013 10:11 PM (kaalw)
Auf Wiedersehen, AoSHQ!
Schläft wohl, Ihr Sorgen
Leckt mir am Arsch bis Morgen
Denn Morgen mit demselben Fleiße
Geht's wieder um derselben Scheiße
Posted by: Waterhouse at February 28, 2013 10:11 PM (PLDC7)
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 28, 2013 10:15 PM (Vk2pI)
Have you looked at the Intel server CPU's? Same computational cores, but with massively larger L2's than the desktop crap has. That makes a huge difference with repetitive pouring over data.
Looking at the cache line loading behavior of an app can make a big difference too. Sometimes simply reordering the elements of a structure a bit, or processing arrays row major rather than column major can make a 2X-10X speed difference. Fortran compilers are notorious for preferring column major storage ordering.
I've seen apps speed up 10X just by changing a handful of machine instructions in a critical spot.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 10:15 PM (/gHaE)
Yep. Just blow it out every few weeks while a vacuum cleaner is close at hand to suck up the resulting cloud.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 10:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Whatev at February 28, 2013 10:17 PM (A7Wh1)
Posted by: derit at February 28, 2013 10:17 PM (I88Jc)
Do you know....
None of what you all equate means a DAMN THING?
We are all now powerless.....listing within the Obama play book....floating to his desire....with no power.....with no leaders to direct....no leaders to state our desire....They have FUCKED US ALL!!!! REPUBLICAN BASTARDS!!!!
REPUBLICAN WHORES!!!!
DEATH TO REPUBLICANS!!
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 10:19 PM (vOFmE)
For render farms the power needs of SLI doesn't work out well. That market is served by the dedicated HPC cards using high end GPUs but greater power efficiency because they aren't concerned with driving a display.
Those cards are kinda pricey but the electrical bills for a big render farm can be far worse. You have to spend some serious cash to save more in the long term.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 10:21 PM (kcfmt)
If its a forms app waiting on user input all the time, meh, but sometimes people wait insane amounts of time on poorly tuned S/W
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 10:31 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Mirage at February 28, 2013 10:33 PM (5J7i+)
1) they've been brainwashed into thinking it's so damaging to the environment
2) where do they need to go? they're living in mom's basement and blogging in their jammies.
3) cars aren't much fun today for kids (no power, risk, freedom, did I mention power?)
4) they can get laid at home (that's if they are ABLE to get laid.)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:37 PM (qyv02)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:39 PM (qyv02)
What's worse is they don't seem to care.
This doesn't bode well as it indicates that they feel confident that they won't suffer for their actions OR that we can't punish them for their actions.
Now is this because of something they know or is it an educated guess?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:41 PM (qyv02)
Posted by: Mirage at February 28, 2013 10:43 PM (5J7i+)
Me too. After a starvation diet of programming in assembler so you can tweek a program to use 512 bytes less memory the new machines with *gasp* giga bytes is almost too much (swoon).
Now I find my choke point is the memory on the graphics card and I don't have one that memory can be added by the user. I can't upgrade because I'm so far back in the past on hardward and can't afford new because of well . . you know.
I just sprung for a 160 gb hd as a back up to my main drive. 37 bucks. Good grief.
I was the proud owner of an original ibm pc with the 5 mb hdd and 2 (count them) 2 5" floppies. What a machine baby.
Whizzed right through Lotus 1-2-3 like nothing. (or was it SuperCalc?)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:49 PM (qyv02)
Posted by: Mirage at February 28, 2013 10:50 PM (5J7i+)
In Denmark he could afford a scooter and a small flat with all the taxes they had. Here he bought a house, a car, a boat, and got married.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 10:50 PM (/gHaE)
In the first half of 1999 I had a job at a place that mainly installed and maintained phone systems. Unlike most of its competitors it had an actual IT staff. I was hired as #3 guy and soon to move up when the IT lead took a job at the then then new Getty Center.
The dispatch center was the big trouble spot I was determined to resolved. Because it was seriously broken and also was the primary location for young unmarried female employees. Anyway, the company had a intense resistance to any investment in training that wasn't directly revenue driven. So, to avoid showing the dispatchers how to use Windows properly, ALL of the apps they used were launched from the Startup folder at login. This was on an assortment of HP Vectras running Win95 with 16 MB.
The average time from pressing the power button to doing any work was almost fifteen minutes, with something like a 15% probability of a BSOD and starting from scratch. When one of the dispatch machines had a hard drive go tits up I took the opportunity to run an experiment. In addition to replacing the hard drive and installing the works, I used some RAM lying around the IT workbench to kick the machine up to 32 MB.
Night and frigging day. Time to a usable system from boot was down to about four minutes and crashes eliminated. The user dispatch was convinced I'd given her an entire new PC. So it seemed the next obvious step was to upgrade the lot.
Not so fast.
The company was in the process of being acquired by a new entity called Exp@nets that thought there was call for a company that installed phone and data wiring and gear on a national scale. To create this they were buying up local companies all over and merging them together. The former #2 who was now running the department was terrified to suggest anything that called for spending money, even just a few hundred bucks for what I wanted to do. I even put together a presentation showing the amount of the dispatchers' time wasted in just one week was enough to cover the cost of making sure every PC in the company had at least 32 MB of RAM. He wouldn't present it to his boss nor would he let me take it up the chain myself.
On top of this, Exp@nets was under the delusion that each of the Southern CA companies they were buying and merging together had their own IT and there would soon be too many of us. In fact, the other two companies had NO IT staff and instead had PBX installers doing internal IT work in their rare free time. So the company was really severely understaffed for IT. But it took them the better part of a year to process this concept, even with the VP my department fell under shouting at them on the phone.
I was the last hired, so I was the first fired. I moved on to other stuff, and the guys who sold the company to Exp@nets eventually bought the name back for a small fraction of what they'd been paid for it and started a new company to do the same stuff except with a lot more networking in the mix. I found out about this far too late to get aboard. Which is a shame because the place is close enough to my home that I could bicycle to work much of the year. (It's a newer building a few miles from the original location, where our next door neighbor was Foundation Imaging of Babylon 5 fame.)
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 10:55 PM (kcfmt)
Curiously, saving memory like that can still be a big win on modern CPU's with gigs of ram...due to smallish L1 caches. The original Pentium 4 only had a 4k L1 cache.
If you can keep the computationally intensive code and data mostly in the L1, its like a 5X-10X boost over having to go hit the L2 or main RAM.
Many people make a big mistake telling their compiler to optimize for "speed", because that often results in plumper code that can blow out the L1 cache even thought the "book" cycle timings say it should be faster.
Sometimes smaller and a little bit slower by the book is faster in real life. Its one of those Heinlein you gotta "grok" it things.
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 10:58 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Mirage at February 28, 2013 11:00 PM (5J7i+)
Posted by: Cheri at February 28, 2013 11:00 PM (EAgmr)
927
What is the pain then, we should begin to feel pain for the very presence of this Master-Faker who calls himself CIC?..Even you in the DEEP LEFT know he is a problem yet still prop him because you got nothing beside him and you don't want to drop him.....cause ya got nothing else HEY!!! how bout GORE!!!......HEY!!!! How Bout HILLARY!!!....HEY HOW BOUT YOU ALL FUCK YOURSELVES and move to some 3rd world country
"TODAY!!"
Posted by: Richard at February 28, 2013 11:01 PM (vOFmE)
Any virtual memory system where working set constantly exceeds RAM is going to get into a thrashing condition...at which point you put down the stopwatch and get a sundial ;->
Posted by: @PurpAv at February 28, 2013 11:03 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Mirage at February 28, 2013 11:04 PM (5J7i+)
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 28, 2013 11:05 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Mirage at February 28, 2013 11:06 PM (5J7i+)
Posted by: Mirage at February 28, 2013 11:11 PM (5J7i+)
Posted by: zeera at February 28, 2013 11:16 PM (Lv9bM)
What was especially bad in this case is that all of the apps wanted to own the system during initialization. Watching it play out in a debugger log showing memory usage was a real eye opener. It was like having a barracks where all of the individuals briefly turn into an elephant when they wake up and then revert to human size. Not a problem if you only have one elephant at a time but when everybody becomes an elephant almost simultaneously...
Win95 just didn't have the mechanisms to mange this. Running the same setup on NT went much better but a couple of the items simply didn't work right under NT due to their awful abuse of the API guidelines. I was testing a script that would delay each launch so that it didn't become a roomful of elephants but then was suddenly unemployed and no longer cared. Given just one more day I would probably have save them a few hundred bucks a week in wasted dispatcher's time on the clock.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 11:20 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Lurkasaurus at February 28, 2013 11:29 PM (axGv/)
Turn those machines back on!
That is all.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 28, 2013 11:35 PM (ccXZP)
Way back when I got my first 300 baud modem I used the handle Nathan Brazil everywhere I went online. The guy the Well of Souls paged when it had a problem it couldn't resolve.
Posted by: epobirs at February 28, 2013 11:52 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Richard at March 01, 2013 12:01 AM (vOFmE)
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 12:05 AM (kcfmt)
Not that any of this matters
I sleep now and wish to sleep......deeply......for days on end....
posting sucks...............
Posted by: Richard at March 01, 2013 12:05 AM (vOFmE)
epobirs, I have that entire series of Well of Souls novels by Jack L. Chalker. Good stuff.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2013 12:08 AM (ccXZP)
http://tinyurl.com/a25jx3k
Gimme gimme gimme that sweet sweet Ewok love.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2013 12:12 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: derit at March 01, 2013 12:14 AM (I88Jc)
I actually read the second and third ones first, then found the first one before any more were published. Among the first books I ever bought with my own money. Blew my young mind at the time.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 12:22 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: chaz/
Fewer. 'Fewer' for countable nouns.
'People are buying fewer cars for the same reason people have decided to have fewer babies; it's too expensive.'
Posted by: Coxswain Eddy! [/i] [/b] at March 01, 2013 12:27 AM (Ipj15)
It's hard to beat having Hollywood accounting on your side for buying new gear. They're master of charging the entire cost of a big equipment buy to a single production, then doing the same for another production. By the time it's decommissioned the same render box has been paid for by a half-dozen different movies.
A friend of mine in the industry said that a facility built and charged entirely to the budget of 'Mars Attacks' was also charged to at least three other movies, one of which ended up not using it at all.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug and that is how they pay for it.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 12:28 AM (kcfmt)
He's a funny damn demon when he's been drinking, which is almost always.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2013 12:33 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2013 12:34 AM (ccXZP)
(gives Clint a a totally brotherly kiss on the cheek for his efforts on our behalf)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 01, 2013 12:44 AM (ccXZP)
Yeah, he did that one before the SF publishing business got addicted to the lucrative trilogy. And the Chalker cliches hadn't quite set in yet, or at least hadn't been overused yet.
Chalker drinking game.
1) Character is transformed to another species or otherwise unrecognizable human: Take one drink.
2) A character, male or female, is transformed into a fantastically sexy woman with a special anatomical attribute such as supplemental back muscle to allow for a massive rack, and a raging libido, along with a mind programmed to not only accept the changes but also like them: Take one dri.. You know what? Fuck it. Just chug the whole bottle right now. You know how this is going to play out.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 12:45 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 04:28 AM
Not always. Did you see "Lady in the Water"? I'm still paying for my shit coz of that.
Posted by: m. night shyamalan at March 01, 2013 12:45 AM (yBF/9)
Genius!
Posted by: cthulhu at March 01, 2013 12:25 AM (kaalw)
Yeah, Ford took the variable-venturi concept from the British SU carb, used on generations of Brit sports car, and large ones, too. But having a "better idea", they fucked it up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 01, 2013 12:52 AM (673KB)
After a string of turkeys you've still got a writer/director gig with Will Smith and his demon spawn coming out this year. Seems like a charmed life to me.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 01:02 AM (kcfmt)
After a string of turkeys you've still got a writer/director gig with Will Smith and his demon spawn coming out this year. Seems like a charmed life to me.
Posted by: epobirs at March 01, 2013 05:02 AM
Oh god... thanks for reminding me. Not! Like doing a film with what's his face and his brat is anything but cruel and unusual punishment. A genius like me saddled with a Jayden Smith flick? I blame the blow. And Lady in the Water. Could it be my writing is far shittier than I think it is? I think not.
Posted by: m. night shyamalan at March 01, 2013 01:26 AM (yBF/9)
First day of the sequester, and apparently all the commentators get put on furlough.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 01, 2013 02:50 AM (coJww)
the nice thing about being a GS-9 or up is I can half ass half assing and nobody will notice
Posted by: sven10077 at March 01, 2013 02:51 AM (LRFds)
My peeps have arrived!!
Was getting worried there for a bit.
Even rebooted to see if you all were trapped in the registry or something.
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This country has never had a bigger jackass than Joe Biden, but as long as the checks keep coming, nobody seems to care.
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