May 28, 2013
— Maetenloch
A Worthwhile Public Health Initiative
Some people will tell you that if there were but a single loaf of bread in all India it would be divided equally between the Plowdens, the Trevors, the Beadons, and the Rivett-Carnacs. That is only one way of saying that certain families serve India generation after generation, as dolphins follow in line across the open sea.Let us take a small and obscure case. There has been at least one representative of the Devonshire Chinns in or near Central India since the days of Lieutenant-Fireworker Humphrey Chinn, of the Bombay European Regiment, who assisted at the capture of Seringapatam in 1799. Alfred Ellis Chinn, Humphrey's younger brother, commanded a regiment of Bombay grenadiers from 1804 to 1813, when he saw some mixed fighting; and in 1834 John Chinn of the same family - we will call him John Chinn the First - came to light as a level-headed administrator in time of trouble at a place called Mundesur. He died young, but left his mark on the new country, and the Honourable the Board of Directors of the Honourable the East India Company embodied his virtues in a stately resolution, and paid for the expenses of his tomb among the Satpura hills.
He was succeeded by his son, Lionel Chinn, who left the little old Devonshire home just in time to be severely wounded in the Mutiny. He spent his working life within a hundred and fifty miles of John Chinn's grave, and rose to the command of a regiment of small, wild hill-men, most of whom had known his father. His son John was born in the small thatched-roofed, mud-walled cantonment, which is even to-day eighty miles from the nearest railway, in the heart of a scrubby, tigerish country. Colonel Lionel Chinn served thirty years and retired. In the Canal his steamer passed the outward-bound troop-ship, carrying his son eastward to the family duty.
The Chinns are luckier than most folk, because they know exactly what they must do. A clever Chinn passes for the Bombay Civil Service, and gets away to Central India, where everybody is glad to see him. A dull Chinn enters the Police Department or the Woods and Forest, and sooner or later he, too, appears in Central India, and that is what gave rise to the saying, "Central India is inhabited by Bhils, Mairs, and Chinns, all very much alike." The breed is small-boned, dark, and silent, and the stupidest of them are good shots. John Chinn the Second was rather clever, but as the eldest son he entered the army, according to Chinn tradition. His duty was to abide in his father's regiment for the term of his natural life, though the corps was one which most men would have paid heavily to avoid. They were irregulars, small, dark, and blackish, clothed in rifle-green with black-leather trimmings; and friends called them the "Wuddars," which means a race of low-caste people who dig up rats to eat. But the Wuddars did not resent it. They were the only Wuddars, and their points of pride were these:
Firstly, they had fewer English officers than any native regiment. Secondly, their subalterns were not mounted on parade, as is the general rule, but walked at the head of their men. A man who can hold his own with the Wuddars at their quickstep must be sound in wind and limb. Thirdly, they were the most pukka shikarries (out-and-out hunters) in all India. Fourthly-up to one-hundredthly - they were the Wuddars - Chinn's Irregular Bhil Levies of the old days, but now, henceforward and for ever, the Wuddars.
No Englishman entered their mess except for love or through family usage. The officers talked to their soldiers in a tongue not two hundred white folk in India understood; and the men were their children, all drawn from the Bhils, who are, perhaps, the strangest of the many strange races in India. They were, and at heart are, wild men, furtive, shy, full of untold superstitions. The races whom we call natives of the country found the Bhil in possession of the land when they first broke into that part of the world thousands of years ago. The books call them Pre-Aryan, Aboriginal, Dravidian, and so forth; and, in other words, that is what the Bhils call themselves. When a Rajput chief whose bards can sing his pedigree backwards for twelve hundred years is set on the throne, his investiture is not complete till he has been marked on the forehead with blood from the veins of a Bhil. The Rajputs say the ceremony has no meaning, but the Bhil knows that it is the last, last shadow of his old rights as the long-ago owner of the soil.
Read the rest here.
So What's the Mistress of Disaster Up To These Days?
She may be back to her law practice and lobbying (for now) but she's also busy defending Eric Holder's DOJ.
Democrats Choose European Union Over Great Britain
The Obama administration has warned British officials that if the UK leaves Europe it will exclude itself from a US-EU trade and investment partnership potentially worth hundreds of billions of pounds a year, and that it was very unlikely that Washington would make a separate deal with Britain.
The warning comes in the wake of David Cameron's visit to Washington, which was primarily intended as a joint promotion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with Barack Obama, which the prime minister said could bring £10bn a year to the UK alone, but which was overshadowed by a cabinet rebellion back in London.
Choosing between Europe and the UK ought to be a no brainer for multiple reasons - but not for Obama as Moe Lane points out:
Anyway. Barack Obama just doesn't like the United Kingdom, huh? - Because I've never seen a President so visibly offended at the idea that they have to play nice with the Brits. Heck, I've never seen a President that needed to be told that they have to play nice with a crucial ally; most of 'em had the mother-wit to figure it out on their own. And, by the way? If the Democrats don't like being lumped in like this with the President, they have an excellent opportunity here to correct matters.
National Enquirer: Hillary's Memoir To Include Bi-sexuality, Brain Cancer and Monica's Baby
Clearing the deck for 2016 apparently.
"Bill and Hillary are the consummate politiÂÂcians, and they realize the LGBT community is a huge voting bloc," said a family insider."They want lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people behind Hillary in the 2016 campaign. So Hillary's going to come clean for the votes. She'll admit that she's bisexual and has had lesbian relationships."
Hillary dropped a major hint about her coming out in March when she announced her support of gay marriage in a six-minute video.
...According to a source, Hillary will also confirm The ENQUIRER's report in 2000 that a veterinarian who treated the family cat Socks at the White House stumbled upon her locked in a steamy embrace with a woman.
Another lie that Hillary will fess up to is her denial that she battled a serious brain crisis before being hosÂÂpitalized with a blood clot in her head.
How the Future Actually Comes: Solylent Green to be Crowd-sourced on Kickstarter
10 Brands That Will Disappear in 2014
2013 isn't even half over but he's the leading contender so far.
An Olympic love-rat dumped his loyal wife who had given up her chance of competing in last year's games to look after their children, and has started dating her replacement on the British team.After winning a silver medal in the Windsurfing at last year's Olympics, Nick Dempsey, thanked his 'amazing wife' Sarah Ayton who had 'sacrificed a medal' so he could win his.
But four months later it emerged that Dempsey, 32, had left the family's £425,000 detached home in Weymouth, Dorset.
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Posted by: Felt Wrapper at May 28, 2013 06:22 PM (ecmD4)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 28, 2013 06:25 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:25 PM (GEICT)
all the way, till the wheels fall off and burn . . . but, hey, that's just me!
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:26 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Jonathan Alter at May 28, 2013 06:26 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:27 PM (GEICT)
#800. He's been checked out for 4 years. Was good to see he was still alive. When you read his posts, you think you're listening to Frazier Crane. He's a good guy.
Posted by: Name at May 28, 2013 06:27 PM (KqnY1)
[and according to a gay friend of mine, that should be "LGBTQ"]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:27 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (GULnm)
Posted by: Felt Wrapper at May 28, 2013 10:22 PM (ecmD4)
Don't know - I came across it a while ago but was never able to find the original source.
Posted by: Mætenloch at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (XkotV)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Nick Dempsey at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 10:27 PM (GEICT)
Dude.
Focus.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:28 PM (O6Tmi)
.Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 06:29 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:29 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 28, 2013 06:29 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2013 06:29 PM (NeFpf)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:29 PM (zPVBH)
Yes...you are.
Questioning.
Makes me want to puke.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:29 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:30 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: Lesbians Everywhere at May 28, 2013 06:30 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: EC at May 28, 2013 06:30 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Some Sim at May 28, 2013 06:30 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:31 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars[/b][/i][/s] at May 28, 2013 06:31 PM (gJeT3)
Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/b][/u] at May 28, 2013 06:31 PM (GULnm)
Posted by: Weirddave at May 28, 2013 06:31 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, drive-by commenting at May 28, 2013 06:31 PM (6rcHp)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:32 PM (wpE68)
The Chinns are luckier than most folk, because they know exactly what they must do. A clever Chinn passes for the Bombay Civil Service, and gets away to Central India, where everybody is glad to see him.
*****
Man, that story had more Chinns than Jabba the Hutt
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 06:32 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at May 28, 2013 06:32 PM (NcPjb)
Posted by: Q at May 28, 2013 06:32 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:32 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:33 PM (wpE68)
Uhhh....Nook is going down?
I better tell my wife, here's is starting to crack on the page turn button (not surprisingly as fast as she reads.) and she was thinking of getting another...maybe we should wait.
Posted by: tsrblke at May 28, 2013 06:33 PM (GaqMa)
If Hillary comes out as Bi.... not only will it prove she lied to us for years...
But there are a LOT of us who are tired of the Gay Agenda... they do seem to own the Press, but not the public...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2013 06:33 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:33 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Mætenloch at May 28, 2013 10:28 PM (XkotV)
I'm guessing there's a Getty Images extortion letter in your very near future, Maet. 
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:33 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:33 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:34 PM (GEICT)
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Wait..., I thought that LGBT were natural conservatives...,we only have to legitimize them , and they will flock to the conservative cause. Hold it...,maybe that was someone else..
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 06:34 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 06:34 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:34 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: Huma Abedin at May 28, 2013 06:34 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 10:34 PM (GEICT)
I've always taken them far more seriously than . . . uh . . . some of the regulars.
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:35 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:35 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: Reggie Love, Obama's personal prostate examiner at May 28, 2013 06:35 PM (Vk2pI)
now now the answer is obviously "no" but guy is a baltimoron it's a high risk lifestyle
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:35 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:35 PM (wpE68)
Really? Hope the analysts are wrong. I'd especially miss JCPenney, which has been a major anchor at Lakewood Mall nearby me forever, and Olympus, which has a long-standing rep as a quality camera maker.
Plus I remember that EVERYBODY seemed convinced two years ago that Rite Aid was an absolute goner, and our location here in Lakewood is still open.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 28, 2013 06:35 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 06:35 PM (aDwsi)
OT-
Q: Why did the roadrunner avoid using anabolic steroids?
A: He didn't want to be ostrich-sized.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 06:36 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Name at May 28, 2013 06:36 PM (KqnY1)
Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 06:36 PM (3KMf/)
WTF is a "demisexual"???Posted by: The Political Hat at May 28, 2013 06:36 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:37 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: MrCaniac, Now Known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at May 28, 2013 06:37 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 06:37 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:37 PM (wpE68)
The unadulterated and self-debasing worshipping of Obama by the lib media types reminds me of a story in Motley Crue's (screw the umlauts) autobiography, "The Dirt; Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band".
During their heyday, two of the band members made a bet to see who could go the longest without showering and still get groupies to have sex with them on a daily basis. IIRC, both members made it about a month, before the other band members (who had to share a bus with them) forced them to shower.
The band described the smell as sickening and horrendous (remember, these guys were doing two-hour shows almost every night and sweating their ass off).
However, no matter how putrid they became...covered in weeks of sweat, grime and the fluids of multiple skanks, their worshippers were still eager to drop to their knees and service their hero.
Posted by: Icedog at May 28, 2013 06:37 PM (ZM9OS)
If you're happy with your library I'd say go for it regardless...
the Nook HD is a better tablet bang for the buck than some android ones...
Wife is quite happy with hers
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:37 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at May 28, 2013 06:37 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:38 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:38 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 28, 2013 06:38 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 10:34 PM (GEICT)
What a waste of intellectual energy to obsess over this kind of shit. I'm sure some committee has spent 1000s of hours discussing this topic.
I'd rather just look at boobs.
P.S. Still in the dog house?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:38 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: Israel at May 28, 2013 06:38 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:38 PM (wpE68)
They must be a nation of masochists
Posted by: kbdabear at May 28, 2013 06:39 PM (mCvL4)
All the LGBT eyewash is about running down any convictions about normal behavior.
"It's the right thing to do, plus we get BIG votes!"
It's all a lot of self-reinforcing nonsense. Hillary is a ridiculous cartoon of a real person.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense at.... at May 28, 2013 06:39 PM (I2uSp)
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I noticed.
Posted by: Winston Churchill's bust at May 28, 2013 06:39 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Obligatory at May 28, 2013 06:39 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 10:38 PM (O6Tmi)
What did you do now?
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:39 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 06:39 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: Felt Wrapper at May 28, 2013 10:22 PM (ecmD4)
Don't know - I came across it a while ago but was never able to find the original source.
Thanks.
Posted by: Felt Wrapper at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (ecmD4)
Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: rickl at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: SCOAMF at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (vrxxH)
A friend of mine made the salient point yesterday that Wile E. Coyote had a very useful super power...
...invincibility.
He was impervious to anvils, pianos, exploding TNT, etc.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (pxDth)
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...who has mucked up everything she has ever touched. Everything.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (wpE68)
a veterinarian who treated the family cat Socks at the White House stumbled upon her locked in a steamy embrace with a woman.
"There was this smell and I thought Socks had whizzed on a heating grate. Well, I turn around and whatdoyouknow...."
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 28, 2013 06:40 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: rickl at May 28, 2013 10:40 PM (sdi6R)
did you actually see them performing lesbianistic acts or is it possible they just told you that to make you cry?
it's a fair question!!
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:41 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:42 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: rickl at May 28, 2013 06:42 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: garrett at May 28, 2013 10:41 PM (NeFpf)
omg, that fuckin' guy!!! haven't thought about his scurvy ass in years. ewwwwwwww . . .
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:42 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:42 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2013 06:42 PM (MBqvE)
I wonder which Smiths / Morrissey song goes best with this thread. Other than "all of them".
I'll go with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAWXwraqxRc
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at May 28, 2013 06:42 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:42 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: joeindc44 at May 28, 2013 06:43 PM (3KMf/)
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 10:37 PM (LRFds)
She's an e-ink kinda girl, so it'd be a Nook touch (or whatever it is) at least they're fairly inexpensive)
Posted by: tsrblke at May 28, 2013 06:43 PM (GaqMa)
Everything this guy says is bullshit!!!!!
Posted by: ACME at May 28, 2013 06:43 PM (7B7jB)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars[/b][/i][/s] at May 28, 2013 06:43 PM (gJeT3)
My first squadron was in Guam (no danger of tipping back then) and we used to fly up to Tinian to the old abandoned airfield. Just coral runways in the jungle, a couple of run-down buildings. Could walk right up to the bomb loading pits used for Fat Man and Little Boy - they'd put the bombs in, tow the planes over and load them up. Interesting bit of history.
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 06:43 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 10:42 PM (GEICT)
Obama on the economy??? oh.... wait....
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2013 06:43 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:44 PM (wpE68)
First day at U.C. Berkeley. I was living in a shithole of a student co-op (Barrington Hall if anyone cares).
Came down for dinner, and figured that I might as well give the smokin' hot chick sitting alone a shot. And this is California smokin' hot. World class.
Two minutes later, a fat dyke with hairy armpits, a wide belt, 40 extra pounds and probably more facial hair than I had sits down and shoves her tongue down this goddess's throat.
It was my darkest hour in college.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:44 PM (O6Tmi)
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Interspecific
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 06:44 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 06:44 PM (JqnAE)
I'm just wondering what inertial dampners young ensign Hank Johnson used to keep Guam upright?
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:44 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:45 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Alex wink alex at May 28, 2013 06:45 PM (wpE68)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 06:45 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 06:45 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: Ernie at May 28, 2013 06:45 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: rickl at May 28, 2013 06:46 PM (sdi6R)
It was also fun schooling my friends on why it was called what it was called. They're products of the public education system. I am not. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Tom In Korea (author of My Teachers are Zombies, buy it on Amazon.com!) at May 28, 2013 06:46 PM (oJkTX)
Alex is being banned under the Life is Too Damn Short Rule i.e. the third time your comments appear on the troll-dar, I've already wasted far too much time on you.
Posted by: Mætenloch at May 28, 2013 06:46 PM (XkotV)
It's all your fault. Don't you understand?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:47 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:47 PM (zPVBH)
I have met some smokin' hot lesbians in my time.
Posted by: rickl
Have you considered that they really weren't lesbians, but rather hot girls that weren't interested in you and were trying to be nice about it?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 28, 2013 06:47 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 06:47 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at May 28, 2013 06:48 PM (b9K4P)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 28, 2013 06:48 PM (i7B17)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at May 28, 2013 06:48 PM (QTHTd)
well we all have our crosses and cooses to bear... speaking of cooses I wonder have Kos is taking the last fortnight of news...
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:48 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:48 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Some Amorous Couple at May 28, 2013 06:49 PM (zPVBH)
141
Syria has flying tanks????
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2013 10:46 PM (MBqvE)
Imported from Libya..... of course...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2013 06:49 PM (lZBBB)
"BTW Rubio is Spanish for blond."
I thought maybe it was spanish for weasel, or RINO; perhaps its a conjunction of 'McCain's lil' sucker'.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 28, 2013 06:49 PM (PsfVm)
Posted by: blaster at May 28, 2013 06:49 PM (W6bkf)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 06:49 PM (Z9EHQ)
I let spouse hit me...no seriously I did/do anyway...she was far too meek and introverted for her own good and I was durable enough I felt it would be good therapy for her to learn to lash out a bit...
one time she came at me unawares and I blocked...damn near broke her arm.
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:49 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Elizabethe at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (zPVBH)
same hash as "wink"Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (JMmQ9)
That is an insult to young dumb ensigns everywhere.
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (AkdCZ)
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Sven--- Easy, "It's Bush's fault.."
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (aDwsi)
Mitsubishi is known mainly for the Eclipse and the Evo, but every non-K Dodge in the 80s was basically a rebadged Mitsubishi.
Mitsubishi has a long history, they manufactured a nasty little fighter plane called the Zero
Posted by: kbdabear at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (mCvL4)
Sean bannion I'm not ignoring you, but I am preparing to have voluntary coma claim me...
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:50 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 10:47 PM (jE38p)
I was just thinking about this topic today.
One day soon Israel will have a group of leaders who will tell the military to take the convoluted and dangerous rules of engagement booklet and toss it in the garbage.
"Unrestricted warfare against all enemies."
It's coming, and the Arabs have no idea how bad it will be.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: Weirddave at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (aH+zP)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (i7B17)
Posted by: EC at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (doBIb)
quite...in the Andi Sully makos Koos world that is akin to the univeral applicability of "this too shall pass"....
"George Bush caused this"
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: ET at May 28, 2013 06:51 PM (YpjaN)
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But any "no-fly" zone we implement in Syria will undoubtedly spread to ground targets not threatening any aircraft just like what happened in Libya. The difference is Syria is not Libya and Putin isn't going to give up a "base" in the ME.
Not to mention those Syrian rebels the no-fly zone would help are AQ linked, but Kerry and McCain don't care. "What difference does it make?!"Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 06:52 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:52 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 10:50 PM (zPVBH)
Uh...no.
Have you seen those chicks? What do you think pron and KY jelly is for?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:52 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: Elizabethe at May 28, 2013 06:52 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 10:22 PM (8lmkt)
Was it that kind of day, or was that a general observation, given the state of the world?
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 06:53 PM (mKMj1)
Baltimore has its bright points...I lived in APG after all...I'd prefer any rust belt city not called Detroit by far, but likely a matter of taste....
although i would probably give my eye teeth for the Rusty Scupper to relocate to Cincy
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:53 PM (LRFds)
Tom I am a product of public schools....
just saying
Exception that proves the rule?
Outlier on the overall curve?
Posted by: Tom In Korea (author of My Teachers are Zombies, buy it on Amazon.com!) at May 28, 2013 06:53 PM (oJkTX)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:54 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 10:51 PM (GEICT)
Because he is a selfish prick for not loaning me an M1A1.
He knows where I live. he knows that I will do good with it.
But nooooo........
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:54 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: Elizabethe at May 28, 2013 06:54 PM (qPCAa)
Supposedly BCochran has some really nice boobs, so.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:55 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 06:55 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 06:55 PM (zPVBH)
Posted by: Jmel at May 28, 2013 06:55 PM (9tSXa)
Posted by: Elizabethe at May 28, 2013 06:56 PM (qPCAa)
it aided the joke...
he is a lot like Ogabe actually just a decade older
well that and Hep C positive...
which may not be that unlike Bambi come to think on it
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:56 PM (LRFds)
Oh, good, Elizabethe!! I was all "have I met you, Ernie?" But, despite the day I had, I opted to be cordial. Weird, huh?
xoxo
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:56 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: MrCaniac, Now Known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at May 28, 2013 06:56 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:56 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Elizabethe at May 28, 2013 10:56 PM (qPCAa)
I don't like to gossip, but.....YES!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (O6Tmi)
Posted by: t-bird at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (WW/UE)
Their main import is muzzie welfare thugs ... er, "youths"
Posted by: kbdabear at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: Elizabethe at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (qPCAa)
oh, please, like that ship hasn't sailed . . .
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (jE38p)
I'd say "typically atypical".....
It was also a different era....
I would have been purposefully expelled in my son's learning environment....
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 06:57 PM (GEICT)
They must be a nation of masochists
Posted by: kbdabear at May 28, 2013 10:39 PM (mCvL4)
Well wtf, a muslim saws a dude's head off in public and the brits say "want some tea?". The muslim here only sent back the Churchill bust and insults them, so no surprise they want to lick his bung.
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 06:58 PM (FMbng)
The A62M "Zero" was an agile carrier fighter plane, and in the hands of a good pilot, was a dangerous weapon.
But the Japanese started to run out of good pilots, especially after Midway. They just couldn't get enough pilots well trained.
The US training effort just ramped up, and the F6F Hellcat was as good or better than the Zero, mainly because it had a little more armor and self-sealing gas tanks (the Zero scrimped on everything to make it light and agile, and did not have self-sealing gas tanks).
More and more American fighters were heavier, faster, better armed and built.
The "Marianas Turkey Shoot" was a good example of how the disparity in training and ability had tilted the other way from Dec 1941.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense at.... at May 28, 2013 07:00 PM (I2uSp)
Expect for your patriotism to come under question in about a month or so....
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2013 10:54 PM
Juan McCain had a meetup with the
He's as hot to team up with the "rebels" as he is to let every last Mexican walk into Arizona
Posted by: kbdabear at May 28, 2013 07:00 PM (mCvL4)
Posted by: also, Obama ate a dog at May 28, 2013 07:01 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 07:01 PM (Z9EHQ)
I will miss JC Penney
Posted by: chemjeff
So will I. Pretty much all the linens and glassware and china I first bought were from Penney's. And a bunch of area rugs, before I could afford actual oriental carpets.
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:01 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:02 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 07:02 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 07:03 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: CausticConservative at May 28, 2013 07:03 PM (gT3jF)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 07:05 PM (4Mv1T)
Yes it is an old joke here...
The Oompa Loompa family are interchangeable...
the "only sane Republicans*" are always the answer to a question no one but democrats asked...
*as defined by the M$M
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at May 28, 2013 07:05 PM (LRFds)
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:05 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 11:01 PM (Z9EHQ)
*****
I've always suspected that 90% of the commenters here were artificial Japanese robot girlfriend prototypes being beta-tested.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 07:06 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Bomber
------------
Every year , about now, I look at the NWS (or NOAA) predictions for the hurricane season..., it's always the same, :"Record number of storms predicted". It's always bullshit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 07:06 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense at.... at May 28, 2013 07:07 PM (I2uSp)
There would be more boob pics if they were. Maybe robot boobs, but still....
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:07 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 07:07 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: also, Obama ate a dog at May 28, 2013 07:08 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense at.... at May 28, 2013 11:07 PM (I2uSp)
*****
AHA!!! I knew it!
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 07:08 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Peaches
------------------
How you doing?
Posted by: Blake Shelton at May 28, 2013 07:08 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 11:07 PM (Z9EHQ)
*****
Who said they only had two hands?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 07:08 PM (pxDth)
I wish somebody would run a story in early December: Here's what they predicted, and here's what actually happened.
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:09 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 10:40 PM (Wl/Ht)
And still not more than 1.5% of the population of these United States. And, every damned one of them can kiss my ass before I will think they are worth trashing our entire society over.
And, not only no, but hell no, they cannot use the women's rest room.
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 07:09 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:09 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: Ma Bell at May 28, 2013 07:10 PM (RLdcX)
Posted by: Tom Arnold, who prays for death- but death won't come at May 28, 2013 07:11 PM (i7B17)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
No kidding!
One morning I heard a "newscaster" reporting that some California office was predicting the hottest summer on record. This was in 2007. Needless to say, it was nowhere close.
I wrote and demanded a follow-up, but of course, there wasn't one.
Grrr.
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:11 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:11 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at May 28, 2013 07:12 PM (DoZD+)
You Sons-O-Bitches are the best thing since internet-driven fantasy baseball.
I want to thank you all for allowing me to laugh, (and pee a little at times; I'm over forty), on a nightly basis.
You guys do more for my day than most anything other than a good night's sleep.
God bless all of you and your witty "bullshiticisms".*
*...I have no idea what that means. I'll leave it to you, my favorite "public domain".
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 28, 2013 07:12 PM (7gwGw)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:13 PM (w5kAo)
More to the point, didn't everyone already know that? It's not like it's a big surprise.
Posted by: Country Singer at May 28, 2013 07:13 PM (U22Yw)
Posted by: absolutely nobody at May 28, 2013 07:14 PM (QTHTd)
Anytime some expert gets on to talk about disappearing brands, or hurricanes, or climate change, or elections, or any other topic that involves a discussion of future outcomes, I want to see some kind of accuracy percentage.
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:14 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 07:14 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:14 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 07:15 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Artificial Japanese Girlfriend at May 28, 2013 07:15 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:16 PM (AkdCZ)
Drag me away from baseball?
The desktop TV is right next to the computer.
I was watching the Reds shellac the Indians, but now watching the boring Dodgers play the boring Angels. Huge payrolls, big disappointments.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense at.... at May 28, 2013 07:16 PM (I2uSp)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:16 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: Tom Arnold, who prays for death- but death won't come at May 28, 2013 07:17 PM (i7B17)
Posted by: also, Obama ate a dog
Why, thank you!
Yes, I am. I have a request from a writer to review her book (she's probably going to hate me by the time I'm done), and I've read some things I think it might be fun to review.
Do you have a favorite review? Just asking.
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:17 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: blaster at May 28, 2013 07:17 PM (W6bkf)
I wrote and demanded a follow-up, but of course, there wasn't one.
Grrr.
Posted by: Dianna
------------
I had a friend write about a month ago, complaining that Baltimore set an all-time high record that day. He blamed global warming. I checked, and the night previous, they set an all-time low. I returned his letter, pointing that out, and asked if he was going to blame the record low temperature on global warming also. I also pointed out that on an earlier day of the year, in 1937, Baltimore had set an even higher record.
Posted by: Blake Shelton at May 28, 2013 07:17 PM (aDwsi)
I don't have cable or satellite, so I'm guessing no. I do love that man . . . and his darling wife Miranda. They're both aces in my book!
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 07:17 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 07:18 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 28, 2013 07:18 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:18 PM (qPCAa)
There was an L Word marathon on that early morning.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 28, 2013 07:18 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: Blake Shelton at May 28, 2013 07:18 PM (aDwsi)
bwahahahahahahaha!!!! killing myself laughing here, buddy.
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 07:19 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 28, 2013 07:19 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: The Robotic Hat at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: The Peaches 6900 artificial girlfriend® at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (9+vDU)
Worry when the Hyundai 'girls' really go on-line. They are programmed to receive. Though I expect Genom... eerr Bandai is already hard at work on some 33-S models.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (qPCAa)
There's a Voyager episode where Janeway is tasked with reforming his juvenile delinquent son, and a wife is mentioned.
Posted by: @PurpAv[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (/gHaE)
Not sure that I want a robot playing with my parts....
Posted by: Blake Shelton
There was an episode like that on "The Big Bang Theory" and it ended badly, meaning humorously.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes more nonsense at.... at May 28, 2013 07:20 PM (I2uSp)
Posted by: Tom Arnold, who prays for death- but death won't come at May 28, 2013 11:17 PM (i7B17)
*****
Bet your heart skipped a beat when the dog snarfed it up in one bite.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 07:21 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Phil Laîcheaux ('cause it's funnier than Emdoc) at May 28, 2013 07:21 PM (oe4oA)
Given that, I don't see any reason some idjit couldn't blame *colder* temperatures on global warming, too.
"Is there nothing it cannot do?"
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:21 PM (mKMj1)
just had an hour or so of constant thunder, lightning and rain here. I mean constant. flash, boom, torrent.
What a weird weather pattern.
Anybody else get it ?
Posted by: seamrog at May 28, 2013 07:22 PM (b2eYX)
Posted by: Blake Shelton at May 28, 2013 07:22 PM (aDwsi)
In fact, yes, she will turn into a totally innocuous maid-robot.
***
That would suck!
For the first six months anyway.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 07:22 PM (pxDth)
Personally I disagree - I liked that book - but slaughtering that sacred bovine showed some daring. Also "I see that this series is scheduled for six books. Please, no!" proved to be prescient (GRRM has no clue how to get from A to Z).
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at May 28, 2013 07:22 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:22 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 11:06 PM (aDwsi)
Record number of "please increase our funding."
That's all it is.
Posted by: tsrblke at May 28, 2013 07:23 PM (GaqMa)
I remember a certain Third World border dispute being described as a case of "two bald men fighting over a comb".
To have the totally bankrupt US and totally bankrupt EU touting a "trade and investment partnership potentially worth hundreds of billions of pounds a year" has to be considered in the same cynical light.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 28, 2013 07:23 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:24 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:24 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: RWC at May 28, 2013 07:24 PM (Wl/Ht)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:25 PM (qPCAa)
OK folks, "Letter of interest" done.
I'm calling it a night, tomorrow I get to go over the writing sample, and reform the CV.
(It's a really longshot job application, but hey, reach for the stars.)
Posted by: tsrblke at May 28, 2013 07:25 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: The Peaches 6900 artificial girlfriend® at May 28, 2013 07:25 PM (9+vDU)
We got her back later. She kept our little boonie dog mutt. He has very short legs. She let him sleep in her bed, which he never got to do at our house. Middle of the night, he pissed all over himself, the bed, her, got everything within reach.
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:26 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 07:26 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 28, 2013 07:26 PM (lr3d7)
----
Mumble, mumble, CO2, mumble, mumble..., "climate change"..
The usual rationaliztions to justify the BS. Oh, BTW his wife is a bigwig Prof. at a well known university. Also, he's a nodding acquaintance of Gov. O'Malley, so, it all follows...
Posted by: Blake Shelton at May 28, 2013 07:26 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Phillip J Fry at May 28, 2013 07:27 PM (i7B17)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 07:27 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at May 28, 2013 07:27 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 11:25 PM (qPCAa)
no shit . . .
Posted by: Peaches got a gun at May 28, 2013 07:27 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:27 PM (qPCAa)
But I'm right, really, truly, I am! It's just the Wars of the Roses with re-animation. Though, truly, at some points, you had to wonder about the whole Beaufort/Tudor and Plantagenet business.
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:28 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 07:29 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:29 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: rickl at May 28, 2013 07:31 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:31 PM (w5kAo)
Awww, poor butthurt Pete King won't attend Fundraiser because that meanie Ted Cruz is speaking
Yea team, Go Ted!
Posted by: Infidel [/i] at May 28, 2013 07:31 PM (gqEUi)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 07:31 PM (4Mv1T)
Hi, Elizabethe -
I've reviewed a few of Lois' books. Not The Sharing Knife, specifically, for a number of reasons - the main one being that I have not yet reached an opinion about it.
If you want my general opinion of Lois McMaster Bujold, it consists of "READ HER! Right now! I don't care which book or series! Just read her!"
Seriously, the Vorkosigan saga is worth it; the Curse of Chalion series is a fascinating, extended theological argument disguised as a series of romance novels, and I have no idea what, exactly, the point of The Sharing Knife series is, except that I'm sure there is one. I'm just too dense to figure it out.
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:32 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 28, 2013 07:32 PM (Z9EHQ)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 07:32 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 11:26 PM (AkdCZ)
Crikey, don't you folks know anything about house-training a dog? Or has somebody been terrifying the poor dears in the middle of the night?
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 07:32 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: The Peaches 6900 artificial girlfriend® at May 28, 2013 07:32 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:33 PM (qPCAa)
wow. so Pete King has basically committed seppuku?
Ted Cruz, for the win!!!!
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 07:33 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: blaster at May 28, 2013 11:17 PM (W6bkf)
That was a great flick. Typical 80's sci-fi. The cherry chick was pretty smoking too.
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 07:34 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at May 28, 2013 07:34 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 07:34 PM (JMmQ9)
You srsly need to cut that shit out right now before I track your sorry ass down and smite you into the next dimension. Call it a professional courtesy, rationalize it any way that works, but cut it the fuck out, okay? I'm asking nicely.
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 07:35 PM (8lmkt)
Our dog wasn't allowed on furniture, got spoiled one night. Bed was too high for him to get off of, so he went where he was. He was still pretty young at the time, but he was housebroken already.
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:35 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:36 PM (qPCAa)
I am having trouble justifying the use of the word "steamy" to describe anything to do with Hillary.
ewww.
Posted by: Daniel Simpson Day at May 28, 2013 07:36 PM (l4Fq6)
That is why the Peaches' series calls the Cherry series the Fisker-Karma of human-robot interpersonal relations.
Posted by: The Peaches 6900 artificial girlfriend® at May 28, 2013 07:36 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: Peaches at May 28, 2013 07:37 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:37 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: AWESOM-O at May 28, 2013 07:38 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 28, 2013 07:38 PM (xSegX)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 07:38 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 07:38 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:38 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 11:35 PM (AkdCZ)
Well, yes, there is the typical dog attitude, which is, I gotta go, and here I am. Boy dogs more than girl dogs, but still.
We've got an empty headed mutt made up of leftover parts who is terrified of thunderstorms, but he will. not. go. in. the. house. or even the garage, ever, no matter how terrified he is. Like he has an electric sphincter or something.
And we have a beagle girl who craps in the garage if nobody is paying attention. Guess he likes her privacy. At least it is the garage.
Who knows what the hell dogs are thinking or even if they are thinking at all.
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 07:39 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 28, 2013 07:39 PM (xSegX)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:39 PM (qPCAa)
I don't recall running into a gay couple in the entire series! Or did I just miss that part?
Forgive me, I know I'm dense. What - given that our main characters, Fawn and what's his nose are a woman and a man (though I was uncomfortable with the age difference, no matter how explained) - makes you say that? Is there an interview I missed, or what? I really never picked that up!
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:40 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 07:40 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 11:39 PM (VLG62)
*****
I do. My dog is thinking of chipmunks...
...and the grandchildren...
...and integral calculus.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 07:41 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:41 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 07:41 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:41 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 07:42 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 11:41 PM (pxDth)
Probably more like advanced geometry and trigonometry if, indeed, he is considering chipmunks or other rodents who are relatively fleet of feet. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 07:42 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 07:43 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 07:43 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 28, 2013 07:43 PM (xSegX)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 28, 2013 11:39 PM (xSegX)
I normally acquise enviromentalists of 'Earth Worship'
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 11:42 PM (zzeVM)
These are people who prefer dirt to people. Pretty simple. But let your dog take a crap in their living room and they will squeal like stuck pigs.
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 07:44 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 28, 2013 07:44 PM (pxDth)
Posted by: AWESOM-O at May 28, 2013 07:44 PM (9+vDU)
273 Elizabethe
I'm in the PRI, not thre Puerto Rican Islands.
The Peoples Republic of Illinois, northern branch.
Non-stop Thor and Odin bowling. Sheets of rain.
Thankfully no power outage.
Posted by: seamrog at May 28, 2013 07:44 PM (b2eYX)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 07:45 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at May 28, 2013 07:45 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:46 PM (w5kAo)
I was hardware hacking my vintage game PC project and botched a soldering job. Some little dribble of solder snuck under a wire and was hidden from view creating a +12v to gnd dead short.
When I powered it up, a (relatively) impressive gout of flame and smoke appeared before I could hit the switch.
The joint stunk of burned circuit board and smoke for about an hour.
Setting a PC on fire is almost the textbook definition of fun ;->
Posted by: @PurpAv[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 07:47 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 07:47 PM (VLG62)
Who knows what the hell dogs are thinking or even if they are thinking at all.
Posted by: tcn
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FWIW, our dog has been trained to use doggy pads if she can't be taken for a walk (i.e., if it is raining). I thought it pretty stupid at first..., but I then figured out that the bears dislike grubbing through the trash if there are stinky dog pads in it. A twofer...
Posted by: Mike at May 28, 2013 07:47 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at May 28, 2013 07:49 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: cowboyup at May 28, 2013 07:49 PM (+a9or)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at May 28, 2013 07:49 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at May 28, 2013 07:50 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 07:50 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:50 PM (qPCAa)
It interested me, in that Bujold chose to just step away from the arguments we've all grown too familiar with to try to re-imagine faith in an integrated (but distinct) god-head that would be accessible to people via age and condition, without the whole dire predestination and grace and works versus faith conundrum. To say nothing of the confusion most of us face when discussing God in Three Persons.
Though I pretty much figure that if Augustine didn't get the Trinity (do find that particular story, it's pretty good), I'm surely not going to.
And with that, I'm doomed, because I must walk dogs and go to bed, not hang out and discuss what I consider a pretty interesting discussion.
Posted by: Dianna at May 28, 2013 07:50 PM (mKMj1)
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 07:51 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: dwagyak at May 28, 2013 07:51 PM (W3xgm)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 28, 2013 07:51 PM (Vk2pI)
Setting a PC on fire is almost the textbook definition of fun ;->
Posted by: @PurpAv
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Nothing quite like the smell of PCB vapor.
I once shorted the the output of a 50A (!) 5V supply. Of course the R&D Dept. was made up of cubicles...., so everyone for 1/4 mile around knew that I had done something really epic. Honestly, I think the windows had a finefilm of copper sputtered onto them. Took a while to live that one down.
Posted by: Reddy Kilowatt at May 28, 2013 07:51 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at May 28, 2013 07:53 PM (ZETiK)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 07:54 PM (w5kAo)
I have heard that a few times from various coworkers, friends and acquaintances (no one in the immediate family, thank goodness).
My response has always been, "Guess so. Hey, our old 1970s vintage furnace is getting kind of clapped out. Since you won't be needing your expensive nice new one because of global warming, can we have it? I'll remove it with my usual surgical neatness and precision. Cap the gas lines, nut the wires, plug the ducts. And then you can come laugh over us having installed such a useless outdated artifact as a 'furnace' in our house. What backward losers we are."
No takers yet. Not even a nibble. Wonder why.
Maybe the fact that upstate New York got three feet of snow THIS FUCKING WEEK might be sowing a few seeds of doubt.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 28, 2013 07:54 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:54 PM (qPCAa)
I think Global Warming is the ultimate in arrogance. Do we really believe we are so all-powerful that our mere presence does such harm to this magnificent planet?
STFU denier douchebage. We're totally gonna terraform Mars with MMGW, just as soon as I finish this joint.
Posted by: LIV "No Tits"... oh, who cares... this sock sucks at May 28, 2013 07:56 PM (i7B17)
Gorlick, and all the myriad others, the Axel-somethings, the journolists, the Gibbs, the Carneys, and all others that are the puppet-masters of these ilk and dregs of actual humanity.
All the Chinns ask, and all the Bhils ask, then why has someone not sent them to central India? Its a great place to lose everything and anything that is so un-human.
Posted by: A Chinn and a Bhil talking at May 28, 2013 07:57 PM (Zz48T)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at May 28, 2013 07:57 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:58 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 28, 2013 07:58 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: elizabethe at May 28, 2013 07:59 PM (qPCAa)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 08:00 PM (JqnAE)
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We're simple creatures...
Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 28, 2013 08:00 PM (aDwsi)
Thank God for air fresheners and open windows. I think if I had lit a candle, the whole place would have gone up.
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 08:00 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: buzzion at May 28, 2013 08:00 PM (LI48c)
Fredericksburg, TX is the birthplace of CINCPAC Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Mmmm. Peaches... Not this year, tho. Late freeze wiped 'em out. 
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 28, 2013 08:01 PM (i7B17)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 08:02 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:02 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Lad10077 at May 28, 2013 08:03 PM (C3KwS)
Do you know of any "religion" that has a god that actually requires, orders, and authorizes every unimaginable crime, including murder, lies, rape, pedophilia, cannibalism, etc. and a giant litany of crimes to be wrought to advance the conquest eternally and non-stop, of the "religion"? Do you know of "religions" that demand automatically, the death of anyone who decides to leave or to criticize the "religion", even if they came into it under lies and misrepresentations being committed to sucker them.?
Do you know of a "religion" that authorizes beating, stoning to death, of disobedient only half a man's worth women of multiple wives and the murdering of same if they are raped? Do you know of a religion that authorizes or excuses, the rape of a child, or a baby, or the marriage of a child as young as 6, or the murder to correct imaginary family honor, if a woman doesn't behave, as a youth, or sibling? And authorizes slavery, sex and black, brown, and sometimes white slaves, etc.?]
And I ask: CAN YOU IMAGINE ANYONE BEING GULLIBLE, IGNORANT, AND UNEDUCATED ENOUGH, EVER, TO BELIEVE SUCH A SYNDICATED ORGANIZATION, AS DESCRIBED ABOVE, ACTUALLY, AND 100% TRUTHFULLY, AND TOTALLY PROVABLE,IS OR COULD EVER BE CALLED OR DESCRIBED AS A “RELIGION”, EXCEPT BY ITSELF, AND EVER IMAGINE IT BEING PROTECTED UNDER ANY LAW, IN A NATION THAT CALLS ITSELF “CIVILIZED” (such as in America?)?
Posted by: Death To Islam at May 28, 2013 08:03 PM (P2O4A)
It's amazing how long something like that can keep the men entertained.
I got my son a fart gun when he was little. It only fired one 'aroma', but you could shoot one 20 feet. Awesome.
Posted by: Beefy Meatball at May 28, 2013 08:03 PM (i7B17)
Serious, guys.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, now 50% witty at May 29, 2013 12:03 AM (pxDth)
These are people who never raised any sons. Clearly.
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 08:03 PM (VLG62)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 28, 2013 08:03 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 08:04 PM (zzeVM)
I was re-reading Prange's Miracle at Midway where he was interviewing Nimitz and his wife. When asked his opinion of Spruance by Prange, Nimitz in part said "he always knew the mission." This interview was long after the guns had fallen silent and when I read that I had to pause. Even though Mrs. Nimitz said Chester refused to write his biography because he would have to be truthful and hurt people, did Nimitz just take an indirect dig at Halsey who went haring after Ozawa's sacrificial carriers and almost cost the US the successful invasion of the Philippines. Things to ponder.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 08:04 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 08:05 PM (AkdCZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 08:06 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: rickl at May 28, 2013 08:06 PM (sdi6R)
Manana, folks.
Posted by: tcn at May 28, 2013 08:07 PM (VLG62)
I suppose I'm lucky to have survived that.
Posted by: @PurpAv[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 28, 2013 08:08 PM (/gHaE)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 28, 2013 08:08 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:09 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at May 28, 2013 08:10 PM (DoZD+)
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 08:10 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 08:10 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:11 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 08:12 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 08:12 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 08:14 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at May 28, 2013 11:45 PM (DoZD+)
The left has no problems telling people how to live, and yes they are arrogant enough to believe a 4.5 billion year old planet will do what they say.
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 08:14 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 28, 2013 08:15 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 29, 2013 12:08 AM (9+vDU)
I want a new T shirt...
something along the lines of...
If you Wish to ACT like a 7th Century Religion, that could be arranged...
Signed.... Odin, AllFather
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2013 08:16 PM (lZBBB)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 28, 2013 08:18 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: Jake in ID at May 28, 2013 08:18 PM (zzeVM)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 28, 2013 08:19 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Haliburton Weather Machine Co., VP Plausible Deniability at May 28, 2013 08:19 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: The Political Space Helmet at May 28, 2013 08:20 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:20 PM (Jv4FA)
When they deny that it's a religion, ask them what turning off their shit for an hour once a year for "Earth Day" is, if not penance...and whether or not there is any fundamental difference between "Carbon Credits" and "Papal Indulgences"?
Posted by: Country Singer at May 28, 2013 08:21 PM (U22Yw)
isn't that always the case.
so I go downstairs to do a load of laundry, before I start my big trip tomorrow, and what do I find - my basement is starting to leak.
UGH.
Posted by: chemjeff at May 28, 2013 08:21 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 08:21 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:22 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:24 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 08:24 PM (4Mv1T)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 28, 2013 08:25 PM (JqnAE)
Posted by: Jesse Ventura at May 28, 2013 08:25 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: The Astral Hat at May 28, 2013 08:27 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: The Astral Hat at May 28, 2013 08:28 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: MrCaniac, Now Known as Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at May 28, 2013 08:30 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at May 28, 2013 08:30 PM (D2NYZ)
Given what the IRS, the EPA, the FDA, the DHS do on a daily basis, you want NASA to be able to do it too?
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 29, 2013 12:22 AM (Jv4FA
Well really I'm fine with cutting all their budgets in half and giving 1/4 of that to NASA. Just as long as it doesn't go to James Hansen or their muslim outreach.
Posted by: buzzion at May 28, 2013 08:31 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 08:31 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 28, 2013 08:33 PM (xSegX)
I believe that Kipling excerpt is from his famous short story called: "Nobody's Ever Finished This Story, Ever."
Or should be.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 28, 2013 08:33 PM (8+xjO)
I went outside, one of the gutter spout drainage pipes fell off, so I readjusted it. I hope that's all it was.
but I have no time to deal with it as I'm leaving on my trip tomorrow.
Anna I may be up for some Neverwinter in about an hour
Posted by: chemjeff at May 28, 2013 08:35 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 08:35 PM (FMbng)
Ans: 0.039%.
They "care" but they don't "know".
They're the real menace. We need laws against them.
Posted by: Arrogant Occupooper at May 28, 2013 08:36 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Tobacco Road at May 28, 2013 08:36 PM (4Mv1T)
I went outside, one of the gutter spout drainage pipes fell off, so I readjusted it. I hope that's all it was.
but I have no time to deal with it as I'm leaving on my trip tomorrow.
Posted by: chemjeff at May 29, 2013 12:35 AM (BBWjt)
Hydraulic concrete is your friend.
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 08:37 PM (FMbng)
----
.... and of that .039%...... only 3% is man made.
Rotting vegetation in the Amazon gives off more CO2 in a year than American automobiles do in a decade.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 28, 2013 08:37 PM (IrLKP)
Posted by: Berserker at May 29, 2013 12:35 AM (FMbng)
New version. Its an MMO. I don't think its done by the same people either.
Posted by: buzzion at May 28, 2013 08:37 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: buzzion at May 29, 2013 12:37 AM (LI48c)
MMO?
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 08:38 PM (FMbng)
It's something of a sequel, though I don't remember the first well enough to say for certain. One of the big selling points is user created content, which you could do in NN, and I think the big bad is the fallen paladin you cast down at the end of NN.
Posted by: Methos at May 28, 2013 08:40 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Methos at May 29, 2013 12:40 AM (hO9ad)
The paladin was a chick if I remember right? Its been awhile. A friend of mine set up her own room, if thats what you call it, so it was just me and her cruising through the game. I remember it being pretty cool. I remember this little irritant fuck in this one room that kept saying "me go gem" that I had to lead somewhere.
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 08:44 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:44 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 28, 2013 08:48 PM (9+vDU)
Posted by: zeera at May 28, 2013 08:48 PM (3dXwx)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 08:52 PM (w5kAo)
Posted by: zeera at May 28, 2013 08:52 PM (3dXwx)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 28, 2013 08:53 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 08:53 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 08:53 PM (Jv4FA)
Can I get me a bundt cake here?
Bake your own. Fag FSA POS. What am I the Bundt Cake Equality Police?
Posted by: Hector Hyperbole at May 28, 2013 08:54 PM (i7B17)
What percentage of the population? Or of the atmosphere?
Posted by: torquewrench at May 28, 2013 08:54 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 28, 2013 08:56 PM (JKNDp)
hydraulic concrete you say?
Posted by: chemjeff at May 28, 2013 08:56 PM (BBWjt)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子~です at May 28, 2013 08:57 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Methos at May 29, 2013 12:40 AM (hO9ad)
not a sequel, it's just the same town in the Forgotten Realm that was also in the Bioware/Obsidian games
Posted by: The Dude at May 28, 2013 08:59 PM (vJdyz)
hydraulic concrete you say?
Posted by: chemjeff at May 29, 2013 12:56 AM (BBWjt)
Well if its missing mortar then there is a gooood chance thats your problem. Hydraulic concrete is concrete that will set up in water. It will dry really fast, so work time is very limited, maybe 2 minutes. You mix it up and trowel it in, but you push as much as you can into the cracks and you will feel it setting. I keep pressure on it until it sets. I used it with water dripping out of the holes and it set up bone dry.
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 09:01 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at May 28, 2013 09:02 PM (1GHao)
Given that Steve Jobs is dead, it's very unlikely he's the one that gave the Japanese school girls crabs.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at May 28, 2013 09:03 PM (jGsIV)
Posted by: mindful webworker didn't get a nap today at May 28, 2013 09:04 PM (F3WsD)
Posted by: and irresolute at May 28, 2013 09:06 PM (DBH1h)
Posted by: zeera at May 28, 2013 09:06 PM (3dXwx)
Posted by: The Dude at May 28, 2013 09:07 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 09:09 PM (Jv4FA)
"When a Rajput chief whose bards can sing his pedigree backwards for twelve hundred years is set on the throne, his investiture is not complete till he has been marked on the forehead with blood from the veins of a Bhil."
Somebody set me in to some knowledge here as regards ancestry. Mine, like most of you, is humble. Except that, by no small accident, we are all here because we are winners in the great competition that is humanity.
I (we) have a father. I have two grandfathers. I have four great grandfathers. And so it goes in a predictable equation. Each great, great grandfather has his own lineage. As does each mother and grandmother.
Which lineage to follow? The one with the common surname seems reasonable, but surnames change.
The numbers get big, fast.
Posted by: navybrat at May 28, 2013 09:11 PM (MCvta)
YEA hobo hunters,
Funny, the "Cross Bolt" is a very fine weapon in practiced hands.
Given the new tech and materials that have increased it's level of lethal range.
Quiet as the breath of DEATH as evidenced by the shock of demise in the eyes of those so punctured.......like a .22 round that you never hear....
Yes!.....there are so many ways to......."HEY!!!! I SAID 2 OLIVES IN THAT MARTINI!!!!"...."NOT ONE!!" "COMON DUDE!!!"
your killing your tip........
Posted by: RICHARD at May 28, 2013 09:14 PM (rE6Op)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 09:16 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 09:17 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 29, 2013 01:16 AM (qyfb5)
White Knight Chronicles games did it, it was okay but it felt empty
Posted by: The Dude at May 28, 2013 09:19 PM (vJdyz)
fuck sharing. lol
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 09:21 PM (FMbng)
Waiting for the light to get just so...
Posted by: navybrat at May 28, 2013 09:26 PM (MCvta)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 09:26 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: rickl at May 28, 2013 09:27 PM (sdi6R)
Console game.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 29, 2013 01:26 AM (qyfb5)
well yeah, you just asked for a game like that and that's the only one I can think of that went down that route
Posted by: The Dude at May 28, 2013 09:28 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: Virgil at May 28, 2013 09:29 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 28, 2013 09:30 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at May 28, 2013 09:31 PM (qyfb5)
Long, long, long since dead to me.
I am to the point with New York City that I will if necessary pay large amounts of additional money to avoid even so much as routing through their airports. Just do not want my feet even to touch the ground there.
Speaking of my feet, at least I can see them, unlike this New York union honcho:
http://tinyurl.com/n9w5ywq
Posted by: torquewrench at May 28, 2013 09:35 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 29, 2013 01:31 AM (qyfb5)
for controllers, 360 controller is best. Don't even know if the 360 has mouse and keyboard settings, hell the PS3 does but hardly any game makes use of it
Posted by: The Dude at May 28, 2013 09:36 PM (vJdyz)
Posted by: cthulhu at May 29, 2013 01:28 AM (T1005)
'sup
I'm still trying to figure out what Tom Hanks, Sexy Commando, and the Cthulhu mythos have to do with each other...
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 29, 2013 01:30 AM (Vk2pI)
Er.....besides the profile? <poses>
Posted by: cthulhu at May 28, 2013 09:36 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 29, 2013 12:56 AM (JKNDp)
No argument here. I live an hour from the place and I just won't go. Its wall to wall zombies packed like sardines. I went a little while back for the first time in years, and every fucking time I went out for a smoke I got hit up by a beggar either wanting a smoke, or money for food, or whatever.
Fuck that place.
Posted by: Berserker at May 28, 2013 09:37 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Fauxcahontas at May 28, 2013 09:39 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: The Dude at May 28, 2013 09:39 PM (vJdyz)
OLD MAN
thought i be a most ?real? HA-HA-HA- Hollywood player
tryin to to be the BEsty behind the CAMERA---BULLSHIT!!!
Got yur takedown from the sharp elbowed 600....."U" too old to be blaying with the young donk's....U shoulda jumped this game when u were still wearin "BABY SOCKS" I did not heed.....so now I bleed......so now I bleed and my
game is...........done......ripples on the pond.....showing small ripples on the pond...and...I....am........out!
Posted by: RICHARD at May 28, 2013 09:43 PM (rE6Op)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 09:47 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: The Political Hat \m/ at May 28, 2013 09:58 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 10:06 PM (Jv4FA)
"466 Somebody set me in to some knowledge here as regards ancestry. ...
Which lineage to follow? The one with the common surname seems reasonable, but surnames change.
The numbers get big, fast. "
navybrat -
I've been doing genealogy for decades, and the answer is pretty simple: "Do whatever you are interested in." It not some sort of competition.
Some people do choose to focus on their paternal line, following their surname. To me, that has kind of a "TV view of the world" quality to it - on TV, everybody who is related has the same last name. (In reality, you would expect only about a quarter of even your first cousins to have the same surname - until half of THEM get married and change their names, if the go that route.) It's shorter, and maybe a little easier to relate to, but you have just as much DNA, and ethnic heritage, from your 15 other gt-gt grandparents as you get from your paternal grandfather's paternal grandfather. Odds are, one of those other lines is more interesting anyway.
That being said, there's a new thing called "Y-DNA", which focuses on the few genes on the Y-chromosome that are generally only passed from father to son. So you can get an idea of what other people with your surname are really related of not, however way back, through science!! And male lines can be easier to track, because sometimes it's hard to find out a maiden name.
For some people, it's about how far BACK you can go. Going way back is an interesting novelty, but for my money, the further you go back, the less important a given individual is. My gt-grandparents are each 1/8 of my ancestry, and are more likely to have influenced my life culturally and such, while each gt-gt-gt-gt grandparent is only 1/64. I go way back like that on a few lines, and it's interesting, but I focus more on the more recent ones, about whom you can find more stuff anyway.
"Humble roots?" The numbers go the other way, too. William the Conqueror undoubtedly has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of descendants by now. A lot of times, if you have British roots from the 1600s, you can work it back to nobility and, ultimately, royalty. Or, if you go the other way, you could - like me - find out that you're an uber-distant relative of royalty. Which is amusing.
Then there's the folks who want to record who all their relatives are, which doesn't require going back so far. They're about starting with, say, a gt-gt grandparent, and seeing who all the descendants are. This can actually be a research tool for ancestry as well, because you can end up contacting people who have ancient photos and stuff, or who have done research themselves. I came upon a 3rd cousin who had a photo of a gt-grandma of mine (who looks exactly like my cousin!), and I had assumed none existed because she lived a long time ago, and died young.
All in all, genealogy helps put your life in context, and generally give you the "big picture" on life, as see what people did for a living, where they went and why, how big their families were, how old they tended to live, what stories survived, etc.
Posted by: Optimizer at May 28, 2013 10:06 PM (Mxt9o)
So I admit,
I fucked up this venture 10 ways to Sunday....and the worst part.....
I dragged my entire Family along with it......
Salvage...is going to be a TOTAL FUCKING BITCH....
....and that is just the apology....first and foremost......Why do you still even
allow me here?......fucking serious people? Do I even remotely contribute
anything to this site? Do I give any value? Because.... I'm just not even at this point sure given all these years here that I have given anything of value....I think me more a patient....yes some patient........just as well.
Still....posting this is gonna suck.....cuz this will never be 2006 again....
Posted by: RICHARD at May 28, 2013 10:10 PM (rE6Op)
Not to mention that maidens, themselves are difficulty to come by! LOL!
Thank you, Optimizer for your well crafted response!
Posted by: navybrat at May 28, 2013 10:14 PM (MCvta)
I certainly hope the night is going well for all the rest of you.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 28, 2013 10:17 PM (xa1/W)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 10:19 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 10:21 PM (Jv4FA)
I have family members on both sides who do geneology research. I haven't gotten into it myself, but I enjoy reading what they come up with.
On my mother's side, they can trace it directly back to the Mayflower. Probably some nobility somewhere just a little further back than that. I have seen one line traced back to the 1200s.
On my father's side, family was established in NY before the Revolutionary War. One of them was advised to move south for his health, so he went to Georgia, then the family slowly started moving west.
Coolest story was a guy on my dad's side, born in Arkansas, went off to the gold rush in California, came back home and later became a Confederate general. Ended up owning most of a county, I think.
Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 10:28 PM (4Mwv/)
@494 You're welcome! But be warned - it is extremely time-consuming and addictive - it will ruin your life!! ;-)
You know, somebody mentioned Global Warming, so here's a couple of questions for the Horde (not to make anybody think too hard at this time of day!)...
1) It amazes me whenever I hear stuff about Obama that appears to be blissfully ignorant as to his being a socialist. I don't call him a socialist as just some sort of ill-mannered smear. I know he was on an officially-socialist ticket back in IL, and I realize that's been dismissed as some sort of Republican conspiracy theory. Fine, that was a few years ago, anyway. My thing is that his "you didn't build that" rant was his "coming out". It seems like even the right didn't recognize that what he was saying is the exact argument that socialists give for nationalizing companies - it's morally to seize what the owners have built, because "they didn't build that" - the govt did. So my question is, "Who really understands that Obama is a socialist? Does the Left know, but don't want to admit it? (And if so, why bother pretending?) Does the average person know? Does the typical 'moron' here recognize the fact?"
2) About Global Warming, is it common knowledge among the horde that it is all but disproven? Did everybody see the handful of articles about it last month? Do they understand that it's about hypothesis testing, that the hypothesis is literally the AGW theory, and that the data is such that it is on the verge of requiring that the hypothesis be rejected? It seems like people don't really understand just how close to "Myth Busted" we are. The science is all but settled, and the alarmists are the deniers now. But who knows this, and really understands it?
Posted by: Optimizer at May 28, 2013 10:32 PM (Mxt9o)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 29, 2013 02:21 AM (Jv4FA)
That makes my mouth hurt just thinking about it...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 28, 2013 10:33 PM (xa1/W)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 10:35 PM (Jv4FA)
Posted by: Adriane ... at May 28, 2013 10:37 PM (Jv4FA)
ChemJeff I have not idea what is going on. You said you were in 10, I was in 10. By the big fire and I saw no one except a dwarf named Four. Meanwhile I could see and change to join Conservative Monsters Lvl 52 and new Lvl 2 Cleric. No idea what is going on.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 28, 2013 10:39 PM (khd7K)
Posted by: Rose Bexar at May 28, 2013 10:43 PM (Mt8eo)
Rebuilt bed....during which let had sleeping hours slide while I was on couch. Now I need to get back to regular sleeping hours and get back to deferred stuff.
Posted by: cthulhu at May 28, 2013 10:44 PM (T1005)
Posted by: The Political Hat \m/ at May 28, 2013 10:45 PM (Vk2pI)
"499 ... On my mother's side, they can trace it directly back to the Mayflower. Probably some nobility somewhere just a little further back than that. I have seen one line traced back to the 1200s. ...
Coolest story was ..."
Maybe you're related to my Dad, because he WAS a bomber! Just kidding; he was just the pilot of one in WWII.
Anyway... I think I have a branch or two that goes back to 1620 MA, but nobody on the Mayflower. I suppose one could turn up someday, though. The thing about those guys is that there were only about 100 people on board, about half of whom did not survive the first year, so not too many families there. I apologize in advance, but they were basically a bunch of commie city-dweller religious fanatics who had no clue what the hell they were doing. Fortunately for them - and you! - after reality hit them in the face, they responded and found ... capitalism!!
The lines you've seen may be OK, but be wary of some of those lineages that go WAY back. Some are just crap. I saw one for one of my lines that had a 100 year gap from father to son, and traced back to Adam. Usually you can get a feel for when something is well-researched and reliable, just be wary. There's been lots of jumping to conclusions out there, and then it spreads like a rumor, with one guy spreading it referencing another.
Maybe my coolest guy was a guy considered to be a pirate! It's not a great characterization, but the descendants seem to enjoy it. Basically, he was the prime contractor for the wall that Wall St was named after, back around 1650, and shortly after he did that, the Dutch (who had NY then) and England went to war. He was an Englishman who had been living in NY, so he was suddenly unemployed, and generally screwed. So he got a commission with CT and RI to commandeer ships trading with the Dutch, and grabbed a couple. Things did not go well, and he got branded a pirate. From what I can read into it, the main beef from the English colonies was really that they did not get THEIR CUT.
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Posted by: Bomber at May 28, 2013 11:17 PM (4Mwv/)
Didn't see anything about her future plans. Think she'll run for a different office?
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Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2013 10:27 PM (O6Tmi)
*sigh*
I'm gonna regret this........what's the Q?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at May 28, 2013 10:28 PM (GEICT)"
It's name is Quetzalcoatl... just call it Q, that's all you'll have time to say before it tears you apart!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084556/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
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