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August 26, 2013

Overnight Open Thread (8-26-2013)
— Maetenloch

The Surprisingly Young Ages of the Founding Fathers in 1776

Well revolutions are pretty much a young man's game.

Andrew Jackson, 9 (possibly the youngest fighter in the revolution, certainly the youngest POW)
Marquis de Lafayette, 18
James Monroe, 18
John Marshall, 20
Gilbert Stuart, 20
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
Nathan Hale, 21
Betsy Ross, 24
James Madison, 25

And then you had the 'old men' of the war:
Thomas Jefferson, 33
Nathanael Greene, 33
John Penn, 35
Ethan Allen, 38
John Adams, 40
Paul Revere, 41
George Washington, 44
Samuel Adams, 53
Benjamin Franklin, 70

The oldest prominent participant in the Revolution, by a wide margin, was Benjamin Franklin, who was 70 years old on July 4, 1776. Franklin was a full two generations removed from the likes of Madison and Hamilton. But the oldest participant in the war was Samuel Whittemore, who fought in an early skirmish at the age of 80:
On April 19, 1775, British forces were returning to Boston from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening engagements of the war. On their march they were continually shot at by colonial militiamen.

Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British Grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols and killed a grenadier and mortally wounded a second. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked.[3] He was shot in the face, bayoneted thirteen times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found alive, trying to load his musket to fight again. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98.

Meanwhile you have today's Democratic Party of 'Youth':

Let's look at our two top Democrat contenders for 2016, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Hillary (born in 1947) represents the party's youth wing and Biden (born in 1942) represents the party's ability to stick hair plugs and dentures on a learning-disabled sea urchin and address it as "Mr. Vice President."

Take the ages both will be in 2016 and add them together, and the result is 143.

Which Country Has the Most Stable Government in Modern History?

I was listening to another podcast by Russ Roberts in which the guest made a very interesting point. I'll put his point in the form of a quiz question: what country's government has survived without a regime change caused by violence longer than any other?

Answer below the fold.

You'll have to follow the link to find out.

So You're Going to Prison....

Well here are Prison Tattoos and Their Meanings

Also How To Maintain Your Social Media Presence While in the Big House

Sometimes the TSA Will Do You a Solid

So when it came time to chuck my magazines in the bag, instead of unloading the remaining ammo into the manufacturer's cardboard boxes (like the guidelines for traveling with firearms say to), I just threw them into the bag. Even then it should still be OK, so long as the ammunition was completely enclosed in the magazine. Except mine weren't.
When it came time for the TSA to screen my bags for the flight out of Redmond (RDM) they found the magazines, sans covers. At that point, they could have easily chucked the mags and left a love note, or just dumped all the ammo into the skip. Instead, someone took the time to fashion some covers for my magazines out of the TSA inspection leaflets and some tape.
My laziness could have led to a serious shortage of magazines on my end, only days before I need to ship out to the Pro/Am in Kentucky, but the TSA went out of their way to do me a solid.

Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All

"New research which takes advantage of the increase in cell phone use after 9pm due to the popularity of 'free nights and weekends' plans showed no corresponding increase in crash rates (PDF). Additionally, the researchers analyzed the effects of legislation banning cellphone use, enacted in several states, and similarly found that the legislation had no effect on the crash rate. 'One thought is that drivers may compensate for the distraction of cellphone use by selectively deciding when to make a call or consciously driving more carefully during a call.' Score this a -1 for common sense."

Want To Fly in a B-17?

Well the the restored Aluminum Overcast be visiting airports in the Northeast and you can take a ride in it for just $450.

Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport: August 30 - September 2
Lewis University Airport: September 6 - 8
Cincinnati Municipal Airport - Lunkin Field: September 13 - 15
Hartford-Brainard Airport: September 20 - 22
Lehigh Valley International Airport: September 27 - 29
Waterbury - Oxford Airport: October 4 - 6
Essex County Airport: October 11 - 13
Trenton Mercer Airport: October 15 - 16

Does Spontaneous Human Combustion Exist?

Well I've always suspected that it does but there's never been a scientifically documented case of it happening. But this baby may be the first clue as to whether it really does exist and what the cause is since he's already caught fire 4 times.

Currently the leading theory is that it's due to acetone-infused body fat:

British research biologist Brian J. Ford has shed new light on the mystery. In two recent articles, one of which appeared in the New Scientist, Professor Ford explains that spontaneous human combustion may be caused by a chemical called acetone that is produced naturally in the body.
Furthermore, acetone infuses itself well into human fat. And - this is crucial - it is also extremely flammable.

...Unable to find a human volunteer to test his theory that a build-up of acetone causes spontaneous human combustion, Professor Ford made a scale model, as it were, from pieces of pork - the animal flesh that most closely approximates ours.

The 'pork puppet' was marinated in acetone, dressed in clothes, and placed in a chair. Professor Ford then held up a gas lighter, and the result was dramatic. The 'body' burst into a fireball, and in under an hour, it had been completely consumed by flames.
In fact, the acetone was so volatile, that even just a static spark from synthetic fabrics could have caused the conflagration.

The Yahoo AoSHQ group. Bla bla bla.

And my twitter thang.

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Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 06:28 PM (8lmkt)

2 heh, gotcha, ya bastids . . .

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 06:28 PM (8lmkt)

3 Ho ho 1

Posted by: Mr. Natural at August 26, 2013 06:29 PM (KArqF)

4 what????

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 06:30 PM (8lmkt)

5 Jesse JacksonÂ’s Hypocrisy is What is Â“Frowned UponÂ” An Australian athlete was brutally murdered by three boys who were Â“bored.Â” It turns out that at least one of the boys had animus against White people and a desire for revenge againstÂ… George Zimmerman. More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=3065

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 26, 2013 06:30 PM (Vk2pI)

6 Drat!

Posted by: Mr. Natural at August 26, 2013 06:30 PM (KArqF)

7 I have a burning question about a rash from a foam finger.

Posted by: Myley Virus at August 26, 2013 06:30 PM (jmVS/)

8 The episode is Obsession.

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:30 PM (SxI9Z)

9 " Hillary (born in 1947) represents the party's youth wing" I suppose that the Precedent of the Portraits will give Hillary! cover to wear a wig ...

Posted by: Arbalest at August 26, 2013 06:30 PM (FlRtG)

10 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson feat. No One In Particular at August 26, 2013 06:32 PM (JMmQ9)

11 Copied from the last thread: Hi Peaches!!! &&&&&& (Heh.) Well, my teenage nephew will be moving from deepest darkest Africa to live with me next year. I need to become his legal guardian so I can add him onto my insurance and claim him on my taxes. I looked into legal guardianship in PA, but the only info I found made it appear that his mom would have to be declared unable to care for him. But that's not the case. He's a citizen and my family decided it's best he moves over here, but my sis lives in ddAfrica (they're both visiting currently). I'm wondering if there's a way for her to just assign me as his legal guardian without her having to be declared incompetent? Thanks, much!

Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 26, 2013 06:32 PM (r+7wo)

12 Happy-ish Monday Evening, all ...

Posted by: Adriane... at August 26, 2013 06:32 PM (1HMK1)

13 Thanks to those who recommended Olympus has fallen last night. It was just what I needed. Awesome splodey bang bang stabby with no political connotations.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at August 26, 2013 06:32 PM (RZ8pf)

14 To compliment the B-17G schedule up there, here is where the CAF Dixie Wing will be coming up.

http://www.dixiewing.org/airshow-schedule.html

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:33 PM (SxI9Z)

15 Awwwww. That baby is too cute!

Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 26, 2013 06:34 PM (r+7wo)

16 I'm sure one of them is the plucky comic relief. Sup jackwagons?

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at August 26, 2013 06:34 PM (Gk3SS)

17 Greetings, my Queen.

Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 26, 2013 06:35 PM (r+7wo)

18 Why is that Whoreson Burr above me on the list!?

Posted by: Zombie Hamilton at August 26, 2013 06:35 PM (Oc+Po)

19 IÂ’m reading WSJ & IBD editorial on Syria. IÂ’ll post tiny url if the IBD is good, it should be. Heading is it will only be half measure for show.

Posted by: CarolT at August 26, 2013 06:35 PM (z4WKX)

20 Evening Rons & Ettes!

Posted by: bill-o at August 26, 2013 06:36 PM (yylOI)

21 Broken nachos, mi amigos.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 06:36 PM (4Mv1T)

22 If anyone wants to send pizza and soda to the IDF -
http://pizzaidf.org/

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:37 PM (SxI9Z)

23 Panhandler story!

Back when I was working in Denver, I used to take the bus to and from work. (I may have mentioned this.) That meant that I had to wait around at bus stations. And I got approached by the sort of people who approach strangers at bus stations.

One such gentleman who approached me was of a subcontinental Asian look. He asked me if I was Christian. I said that I was. (Culturally only, I didn't add.) Then he launched into his "pitch". He was from Pakistan, and his bishop blah blah blah, can I have a few bucks?

I am reminded of that line of grift when I read this: http://tinyurl.com/m43guxt. I got that from Drudge.

What is pinging my grift-o-meter on this one? Well, first, the narrative is a lot like the narrative of other tried-and-true Christian martyrologies, of which I have studied plenty. Second the narrator reports that her Muslim oppressors told her that Jesus was a bastard. It is in fact STRONGLY discouraged in Islam to insult the prophet Jesus and his ancestry; Jesus was created by God in Mary's womb and is in effect another Adam. [suras 3 and 19.] The Virgin Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in that book! no good Muslim would insult her. And lastly there's this: Her new memoir, Â“Blasphemy,Â” was dictated to her husband from jail, who relayed it to French journalist Anne-Isabelle Tollet. Fifty percent of the proceeds the book will go to support Bibi and her family. So you listen to the tale of woe and you shell out your cash.

Yeah, well, I won't. Not to someone I don't know very well.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 26, 2013 06:37 PM (d7tB2)

24 Hello morons

Posted by: whatmeworry? at August 26, 2013 06:38 PM (Q3WfW)

Can we begin adding acetone to Senate bills now?

Evening 'rons! Howdy, ronettes!

Posted by: Cicero Kid at August 26, 2013 06:38 PM (DHQv9)

26 that Xbox One SOC is so damn big. No wonder why they're having yield issues

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 06:38 PM (vJdyz)

27 Maet- I am feeling quite sheepish in my forgotten US History where I performed so abysmally in HS. Were our proud first patriots indeed this young? Holy CARP.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 06:38 PM (4Mv1T)

28 Awwwww. That baby is too cute! Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 26, 2013 10:34 PM (r+7wo) I don't want to sound insensitive and I mean this sincerely, I think I *might* get a little freaked out if they spontaneously burst into flames! I hope the parents have baby-safe fire extinguishers (do such things even exist?). Imagine growing up wearing a personal fire suppression system because of a bizarre genetic/chemical condition.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 06:38 PM (qyfb5)

29 No mags for the SCAR = sad day. The one "good" agent of the TSA will be retired out. Too bad.

Posted by: EC at August 26, 2013 06:39 PM (doBIb)

30 Don't Morgan Freeman's moles look like that prison tatt?

Posted by: chelseaprof at August 26, 2013 06:39 PM (bufJH)

31 I'm wondering if there's a way for her to just assign me as his legal guardian without her having to be declared incompetent?

Thanks, much!

Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 26, 2013 10:32 PM (r+7wo)

Jeez, Chique, I have no idea whatsoever . . . I don't work for or even hang out with the kind of lawyers who would know. You might want to check with a family law or immigration law kind of person. I'm sure you don't need this advice, but if you have not already done so, I would do a search for local pro bono types. There are a lot of them, law schools having graduated about a brazilian more lawyers than even our current society actually needs or will support.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 06:39 PM (8lmkt)

32 Characters from Wagaya no Oinari-sama enjoying time at the pool.
http://tinyurl.com/ltq29op

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:39 PM (SxI9Z)

33 Greetings, my Queen *waves paw imperially* On the guardianship issue you should probably speak to both embassies to make sure that nothing gets overlooked that would affect your sister's parental rights. I would think that there is some type of arrangement for situations like yours.

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at August 26, 2013 06:40 PM (Gk3SS)

As I recall, Betsy Ross was quite the hottie.

Posted by: Pecan Scandi at August 26, 2013 06:40 PM (55ZUf)

35 12 Thanks to those who recommended Olympus has fallen last night. It was just what I needed. Awesome splodey bang bang stabby with no political connotations.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at August 26, 2013 10:32 PM (RZ8pf)

--And Puffley Judd's character died within five minutes.

Posted by: chelseaprof at August 26, 2013 06:40 PM (bufJH)

36 As I recall, Betsy Ross was quite the hottie. Posted by: Pecan Scandi ----------------------- I'm pretty sure that Vic is the only one who can "recall" that.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 06:41 PM (4Mv1T)

A major side effect of the increasing credentialism of our society is that it requires greater and greater commitments of time to achieve. This is not an accident. If you keep twenty-somethings in school and in debt struggling to get a piece of paper in the vain hope that it might land them a job, then they aren't in any position to challenge to dominant powers.

The left's commitment to the idea that "everyone should go to college" isn't simply faulty economics, it's a means of ensuring their own power.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 26, 2013 06:41 PM (lr3d7)

38 Awwwww. That baby is too cute! Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 26, 2013 10:34 PM (r+7wo) I prefer mine "Medium Rare"Â…

Posted by: Jonathan Swift at August 26, 2013 06:41 PM (Vk2pI)

39 Acetone = nail polish remover. Sometimes that's the cheapest way to get it, actually. I use it for cleaning metal for plating and other chemical processes, personally.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 06:41 PM (qyfb5)

40 As I recall, Betsy Ross was quite the hottie. Posted by: Pecan Scandi at August 26, 2013 10:40 PM (55ZUf) Very.

Posted by: Abe Vegoda at August 26, 2013 06:42 PM (Vk2pI)

41 TR, what did you take with you to Drakes?

Posted by: EC at August 26, 2013 06:42 PM (doBIb)

Posted by: Abe Vegoda at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (Vk2pI)

43 Yes Ashley Judd dying was a plus. But the big point for me was I could imagine my ex husband's face on everyone that got stabbed or shot. it was cathartic.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (RZ8pf)

44 Peaches is first at last? Nostradamus predicted this and the consequences weren't good.

Posted by: Reader Chelsea J. Burch writes more nonsense ...... at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (v6hyJ)

45 So my Imperial Queen, how stands things in Alextopia today? Raptors and emus satiated upon the blood of trolls and dingbats?

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (SxI9Z)

46 Acetone cleans things that nothing else will. Including the paint off your car.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (4Mv1T)

47 TPH, you know the drill.

Posted by: EC at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (doBIb)

48 Ever wanted to see an 8 year old Moe character with underboob?

http://tinyurl.com/kg6bqj6

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (vJdyz)

49 38 Acetone = nail polish remover.
Sometimes that's the cheapest way to get it, actually. I use it for cleaning metal for plating and other chemical processes, personally.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 26, 2013 10:41 PM (qyfb5)

Sadly nail polish remover is on the way to being restricted because the meth makers have found a way to use it.

Posted by: Mætenloch at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (pAlYe)

50 Nicely done Peaches. Tenacity pays.

Posted by: Mike Hammer's Cat at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (aDwsi)

51 Good evening good people.

Posted by: I Be That Chick On Her iPad at August 26, 2013 06:43 PM (kVw0W)

52 TPH the Barrel Courtesy Phone please. TPH the Clown Barrel Courtesy Phone.

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:44 PM (SxI9Z)

53 Peaches is first at last?

Yeah . . . I was so excited I had to step out for a smoke.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 06:44 PM (8lmkt)

54 Yea Peaches nÃºmero UNO baby

Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 26, 2013 06:44 PM (HVff2)

55 Apparently Samuel Whittemore longetivity could easily be attributed to his gigantic testicles.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 26, 2013 06:44 PM (+02SO)

56 Characters from Wagaya no Oinari-sama enjoying time at the pool. http://tinyurl.com/ltq29op Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 10:39 PM (SxI9Z) If I was a cartoon character (no, really, I'm not, stop laughing) I'd be all over that like the UN on a condemnation of Israel.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (qyfb5)

57 Sometimes that's the cheapest way to get it, actually. I use it for cleaning metal for plating and other chemical processes, personally. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith You can buy relatively impure (denatured) acetone at Home Depot in the 1 gallon metal can for about 7 bucks. De-natured to prevent its used in making Crystal meth.

Posted by: Reader Chelsea J. Burch writes more nonsense ...... at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (v6hyJ)

58 Open Question: if you could buy a carbon fiber gas tube cover for your AK / SKS, what would you pay? I'm asking for a friend... ~~I'm~~ he's talking open weave (the cool looking carbon fiber, repleat with clear-coat paint)

Posted by: AltonJackson feat. No One In Particular at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (JMmQ9)

59 I use acetone to 'etch' any pvc pieces that I am about to glue.

Posted by: Mike Hammer's Cat at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (aDwsi)

60 Dammit. Does that mean I will have to show ID for nail polish remover soon?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (RZ8pf)

61 TR, what did you take with you to Drakes? Posted by: EC ------------------------- Barnes carbine (AR) with Leupold 1.5-4 x 32 optic. Worked great on the 200 yd range. I took my shotgun to shoot clays in case I couldn't get on the 200 yd range, but it was no problem.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (4Mv1T)

62 51 TPH the Barrel Courtesy Phone please. TPH the Clown Barrel Courtesy Phone.

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 10:44 PM (SxI9Z)

--Teh Barrel is never wanting for company.

Posted by: chelseaprof at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (bufJH)

63 I see that there is website for Mark Steyn for NH senate. It asks people to sign petition to get him to run. http://steynforsenate.com Please sign petition asking him to run.

Posted by: CarolT at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (z4WKX)

64 On the exploding baby front see see how I was right about kids! It wouldn't surprise me to discover that there is some bizarre biochemistry issue that causes people to catch on fire. I've known 3 people who cannot wear watches because of neuro electrical interference. Then again it could all be crap. In other news this voice to text thing on my phone is awesome. I'm still afraid of the phone though.

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (Gk3SS)

Fish, I love you man. But the Barney said to the barrel for you.

Posted by: Pecan Scandi at August 26, 2013 06:45 PM (55ZUf)

66 I fully expect that we'll be at war (er, kinetic military action) with Syria by the end of the week. And I was just getting used to having Pooky home again. Sigh..... Oh well, someone's got to save the world.

Posted by: pookysgirl at August 26, 2013 06:46 PM (kMnHs)

67 Posted by: Jonathan Swift at August 26, 2013 10:41 PM (Vk2pI) Well, that escalated quickly.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 06:46 PM (qyfb5)

68 If I was a cartoon character (no, really, I'm not, stop laughing) I'd be all over that like the UN on a condemnation of Israel.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 26, 2013 10:45 PM (qyfb5)

rather live in the Fire Emblem universe and bang Tharja

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 06:46 PM (vJdyz)

69 It's fitting, because this is the first day in the last 3 or 4 where I was able to step back from the ledge and feel reassured that I have a very attractive fall-back position. Yay!!!! Plus, I had the most awesomest lunch ever . . .

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 06:46 PM (8lmkt)

70 Missed it by that much!

Posted by: Mr. Natural at August 26, 2013 06:46 PM (KArqF)

71 Does that mean I will have to show ID for nail polish remover soon? Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle your brazilian waxes are gonna be taxed soon

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 06:46 PM (Z9EHQ)

72 Nice TR. I really need to find some time to get back there.

Posted by: EC at August 26, 2013 06:47 PM (doBIb)

73 You can keep Tharja, Kuu-chan is fun to hang with. Just got to remember to feed Kuu.

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:47 PM (SxI9Z)

74 jphn bolton is fantastic. never be president should make a good secstate.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 06:47 PM (Z9EHQ)

75 It took a 'test' to learn that soaking something in acetone, and applying a lighter, would result in fire? Only in academia could such a thing occur. Probably funded by a grant.

Posted by: Mike Hammer's Cat at August 26, 2013 06:48 PM (aDwsi)

76 Sadly nail polish remover is on the way to being restricted because the meth makers have found a way to use it. Posted by: MÃ¦tenloch at August 26, 2013 10:43 PM (pAlYe) On the downside, the government inserts its fat grubbies into our lives even more. On the upside, I get to go to the ladies' cosmetics counter and ask them to open the cage and get me some acetone so I can refinish some guns.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 06:48 PM (qyfb5)

77 see that there is website for Mark Steyn for NH senate. It asks people to sign petition to get him to run.
http://steynforsenate.com

Please sign petition asking him to run.

Posted by: CarolT at August 26, 2013 10:45 PM (z4WKX)

done and thank you, CarolT!! I put in my CA zip code, so not sure it will count, but I would do things I don't normally do if Mark Steyn could be a Senator. I heart him sooooooo much!!!

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 06:48 PM (8lmkt)

78 Hail and farewell, Horde. Wish us luck since we just put our house on the market.

Posted by: joncelli at August 26, 2013 06:49 PM (gUizq)

79 Speaking of Kuu-chan and food, a cute animated GIF
http://tinyurl.com/kf43wcz

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:49 PM (SxI9Z)

80 No way the utes of today could pull off what the Founding Fathers did. They wouldn't be able to form a Committee of Correspondence. All that retarded cursive (sir!) would be too confusing. And the Chelsea Class.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 06:49 PM (T1R3G)

81 It took a 'test' to learn that soaking something in acetone, and applying a lighter, would result in fire? Only in academia could such a thing occur. Probably funded by a grant. Posted by: Mike Hammer's Cat at August 26, 2013 10:48 PM (aDwsi) I actually applied for the "destroying luggage" job. The waiting list is like 20 years.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 06:49 PM (qyfb5)

82 Would should pop up in the AoSHQ's PSA's but what I suspect was the inspiration for Oprah's penis dress. I grabbed a copy , here 'tis : http://tinyurl.com/my4zfrh

Posted by: Mike Hammer's Cat at August 26, 2013 06:50 PM (aDwsi)

83 59. I think the CVS stores were considering requiring ID for nail polish removal purchases

Posted by: Matt Damom at August 26, 2013 06:50 PM (xGDj+)

84 Acetone is getting obsolete in making crystal meth. I was watching some crime show the other day, and they were making it with pseudophedrine, some other crap and lithium salts from batteries, reacting in a plastic soda bottle. Wild. Who would take something that potentially toxic and impure?

Posted by: Reader Chelsea J. Burch writes more nonsense ...... at August 26, 2013 06:50 PM (v6hyJ)

85 79 No way the utes of today could pull off what the Founding Fathers did. They wouldn't be able to form a Committee of Correspondence. All that retarded cursive (sir!) would be too confusing. And the Chelsea Class. Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 10:49 PM (T1R3G) I'm still young enough to fight going by the FF's ages.

Posted by: EC at August 26, 2013 06:51 PM (doBIb)

86 Trying to get a job with American Tourister there Merovign?

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:51 PM (SxI9Z)

87 Thanks, Peaches and Empress! The pro bono advice is helpful as I don't really feel like shelling out a large amount of dough to a lawyer. Neither he nor I have any immigration problems as he was born here and I'm a permanent resident, but I can see how this kind of thing can cause problems.

Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 26, 2013 06:51 PM (r+7wo)

88 Want To Fly in a B-17? That sounds tempting. That sounds really tempting. I've only flown in an airplane twice in my life; a single-engine Piper and a single-engine Cessna. I'm going to have to ponder this.

Posted by: rickl at August 26, 2013 06:51 PM (sdi6R)

89 Help me Chelsea! All of you .

Posted by: Javier Fiasco at August 26, 2013 06:51 PM (qQk+U)

90 Hey! ...., has my cat been on here? Someone has been screwing with my nic..., and it smells of sardines here...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 06:52 PM (aDwsi)

91 I really need to find some time to get back there. Posted by: EC --------------------------- Jake has got me jazzed about shooting long distance. I don't have a clue what I'm doing, but I figure a Rem 700 and a trip to Range 37 near Lillington will help me find out. They have a 1000 yd range. It's only 15 miles south of FV. Probably next year before I can swing getting the rifle.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 06:52 PM (4Mv1T)

92 is that a euphemism for sex with oprah?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 06:52 PM (Z9EHQ)

93 Yeah, well, I won't. Not to someone I don't know very well.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 26, 2013 10:37 PM (d7tB2)

I am guessing that you encountered a Roma (gypsy). Their tribe originated in the sub-continent, and scamming is a way of life with them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2013 06:52 PM (60Q+L)

94 So my Imperial Queen, how stands things in Alextopia today? Raptors and emus satiated upon the blood of trolls and dingbats? Things are proceeding apace. Idiots were smited and much chocolate was consumed.

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at August 26, 2013 06:53 PM (Gk3SS)

95 Jake has got me jazzed about shooting long distance. I don't have a clue what I'm doing, but I figure a Rem 700 and a trip to Range 37 near Lillington will help me find out. They have a 1000 yd range. It's only 15 miles south of FV. Probably next year before I can swing getting the rifle. Frontline Defence has a 1000 yard range. It may be closer than Range 37.

Posted by: EC at August 26, 2013 06:53 PM (doBIb)

96 Trying to get a job with American Tourister there Merovign? Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 10:51 PM (SxI9Z) Hey, I was low. And I said to myself, "wait, you broke the *head* of a hammer when you were 18 months old, YOU GOT THIS!!!" My Mom loves that story.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 06:53 PM (qyfb5)

97 I think the CVS stores were considering requiring ID for nail polish removal purchases Posted by: Matt Damom at August 26, 2013 10:50 PM (xGDj+)
But not to vote.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 26, 2013 06:53 PM (JsN1O)

98 "I've known 3 people who cannot wear watches because of neuro electrical interference. Then again it they could all be ~~crap~~ Aliens!"

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at August 26, 2013 10:45 PM (Gk3SS)

https://tinyurl.com/lf9o45q

Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 06:54 PM (T1R3G)

99 Hail and farewell, Horde. Wish us luck since we just put our house on the market. Posted by: joncelli
-----------

Have you been through that before?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 06:54 PM (aDwsi)

100 That's a good question , I first heard of that stuff, as part of the plot of an old
Dale Brown tale, the Tin Man. then I've seen Breaking Bad, so I still don't have the answer.

Posted by: Marty McFly at August 26, 2013 06:54 PM (Jsiw/)

101 I was watching some crime show the other day, and they were making it with pseudophedrine, some other crap and lithium salts from batteries, reacting in a plastic soda bottle. Wild. Who would take something that potentially toxic and impure? Posted by: Reader Chelsea J. Burch writes more nonsense ...... at August 26, 2013 10:50 PM (v6hyJ) *Raises hand jitteringly*

Posted by: Your Average Tweaker at August 26, 2013 06:54 PM (Vk2pI)

102 Roma or Tinkers, view everyone else like sheep needing fleecing. They don't care if you end up dead or poor or both as long as their tribe prospers.

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:54 PM (SxI9Z)

103 hope we get some art to what ever Plump Valkyrie is at TGS

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 06:54 PM (vJdyz)

104 Also How To Maintain Your Social Media Presence While in the Big House You have your mommy or your scumpal pay a guard to smuggle a smartphone pay as you go into prison and you hide it up your ass. Then your mommy/scumpal can add minutes. Be careful about taking photos of yourself in your cell and posting on the internet like this asshole: http://goo.gl/Mcsz Someone added the IV as a joke.

Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 26, 2013 06:55 PM (FnJUz)

105 TR - How is the 700 chambered? Did I miss that?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 06:55 PM (aDwsi)

106 anyone ever read something called 38 rules for power?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 06:56 PM (Z9EHQ)

107 If you had watched more MSNBC you would have already known about prison tattoos. And how to make a shank.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 26, 2013 06:56 PM (WY3bD)

108 Do I want to know what Plump Valkyrie is? Or TGS?

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 06:56 PM (SxI9Z)

109 http://tinyurl.com/mno243q

I want Ikki Tousen style statues for Senran Kagura, this isn't it

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 06:56 PM (vJdyz)

110 The Dream Chaser Is Getting Dangerously Close to Actually Flying http://tinyurl.com/l8h637a

Posted by: rickl at August 26, 2013 06:57 PM (sdi6R)

111 Posted by: EC at August 26, 2013 10:51 PM (doBIb)

Same here. Not sure whether to dread it, or look forward to it.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 06:57 PM (T1R3G)

112 Do I want to know what Plump Valkyrie is? Or TGS?

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 10:56 PM (SxI9Z)

Plump Valkyrie is the next thing that the creator of Senran Kagura is working on.

TGS= Tokyo Game Show

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 06:58 PM (vJdyz)

113 Have you been through that before? Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 10:54 PM (aDwsi) The wife has but this is my first. It's an immense pain in the ass and we're going to rent from here on out.

Posted by: joncelli at August 26, 2013 06:58 PM (gUizq)

114 IMHO Andrew Jackson was murdering, lying, Constitution burning piece of shit...

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at August 26, 2013 06:58 PM (a0o+l)

115 so I guess this is a sign of obama's economy I heard a commercial for charmin with the tag line "enjoy the go." so everything sucks so much that people are now looking for pleasure and satisfaction from floating a load.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 06:59 PM (Z9EHQ)

116

104 anyone ever read something called 38 rules for power?

More power! Hughhh!

Posted by: Tim "Tool Time' Taylor at August 26, 2013 06:59 PM (DHQv9)

117 joncelli at August 26, 2013 10:58 PM (gUizq) best of luck ...

Posted by: Adriane... at August 26, 2013 07:00 PM (1HMK1)

118 "Pork Puppet" Band name or politician description?

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:00 PM (+aHgF)

119 'Lo, 'rons....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:00 PM (T1005)

120 104 anyone ever read something called 38 rules for power? More power! Hughhh! Posted by: Tim "Tool Time' Taylor at August 26, 2013 someone gave me a copy a while ago. looks like a really long inelegant version of The Prince.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 07:00 PM (Z9EHQ)

121 Who would take something that potentially toxic and impure?

Posted by: Reader Chelsea J. Burch writes more nonsense ...... at August 26, 2013 10:50 PM (v6hyJ)

Hullo!!!!

Posted by: Lamar Odom-Kardashian at August 26, 2013 07:00 PM (8lmkt)

122 *blinks*

The Dude, really?

*bathes brain in brain bleach*

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 07:00 PM (SxI9Z)

123 So. I see five prospects for violent alien induced death.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 26, 2013 07:00 PM (28TG+)

124 "Pork Puppet" = Krispy Kreme Kristy of NJ.

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 07:01 PM (SxI9Z)

125 I am confused who is Lamar kardashain?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at August 26, 2013 07:02 PM (RZ8pf)

126

anyone ever read something called 38 rules for power glutes?

Read it. Loved it. Lived it.

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at August 26, 2013 07:03 PM (Oc+Po)

127 # 122 Perfect! May I use that?

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:03 PM (+aHgF)

128 Frontline Defense has a 1000 yard range. It may be closer than Range 37. Posted by: EC -------------------------------- Warrenton is probably a little closer to you. Where I live Lillington is an easier drive. I'd be game to try both, just to have an excuse to go somewhere different. Hammer- Not sure yet how the 700 will be chambered. .308 or 30.06 most likely.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 07:03 PM (4Mv1T)

129

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 11:00 PM (SxI9Z)

what? Fatties need lovin too

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 07:03 PM (vJdyz)

130 Not sure whether to dread it, or look forward to it. Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 10:57 PM That depends on how close you are to it.

Posted by: AltonJackson feat. No One In Particular at August 26, 2013 07:04 PM (JMmQ9)

131 More power! Hughhh! Posted by: Tim "Tool Time' Taylor at August 26, 2013 10:59 PM (DHQv9) Unlimited powah!

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at August 26, 2013 07:04 PM (Dsds2)

132 I'll pork that puppet!

Posted by: BarryO at August 26, 2013 07:05 PM (+aHgF)

133 He's a bigtime roundball player, PGiS. Married to one of them Kardashian chickies. Apparently, loves him some crack cocaine. Fuckin' dumbass . . . Srsly, somebody paid me that kinda money, they could put a halo on my head and it would never, ever tilt, not even an inch. I'd be too busy buyin' shoes and giving hundred dollar bills to anybody who wanted one.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:05 PM (8lmkt)

134 what? Fatties need lovin too Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 11:03 PM (vJdyz) Only rich fatties. Sorry.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at August 26, 2013 07:06 PM (qyfb5)

135 lamar odom is a chubby chaser?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 07:07 PM (Z9EHQ)

136 Oh. This is a different one than was married to Kim for a minute?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at August 26, 2013 07:07 PM (RZ8pf)

137 Y-5!!!! smooshes!!!

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:07 PM (8lmkt)

138 Hey does anyone know what happened to Saddam's WMD's?

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:08 PM (+aHgF)

139 Hey does anyone know what happened to Saddam's WMD's? Posted by: Freak Out! ------------------------------------------ He loaned them to Assad I think.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 07:09 PM (4Mv1T)

140 speaking of lamar odom, his bride kko and shoes, here is a posting I saw ages ago of slippers from a kardashian sister spa day. aren't sisters grand? http://tinyurl.com/ls7uh5s

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 07:09 PM (Z9EHQ)

141 PEACHES!

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 07:10 PM (Z9EHQ)

142 Apropos to nothing I found this G.K. Chesterton quote interesting: "The curse of all journalism... Is that we think ourselves cleverer than the people for whom, whereas, in fact, we are generally even stupider. " Sounds like he's familiar with the MSM.

Posted by: Northernlurker at August 26, 2013 07:10 PM (BLAfs)

143 . . . and kids can stay on their parents' health insurance until they are 26 under Obamacare.

America: Death by Being Pussies.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 26, 2013 07:10 PM (hRNoZ)

144 Loaned? Boy is he going to be pissed.

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:11 PM (+aHgF)

145 Are we sure they didn't transplant Sharpton's head to a slimmer younger body?

I remember him having broader shoulders than he has now. His head looks too big for his body.

It's just . . . creepy.

And that's besides the insane babble that comes out his mouth.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 26, 2013 07:11 PM (28TG+)

146 Yes, PGiS, he's married to Khloe (?), whoever the fuck she is. No kids. TMZ has the entire thing . . . I do have to say, however, that Kim and Kanye's baby is very pretty and they seem to be quite changed by the whole parenting experience. She was out with no make-up and ratty-ass clothes and he was actually smiling (who knew he could do that??) in the latest pics. I don't keep up with them, but it's not like you can get them out of your face any more than you can live in ignorance of that Miley freak . . . (who is probably better at self-promotion than any marginally attractive female since Madonna and that fuckin' gaga thinglet). Sorry, don't barrel me.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:11 PM (8lmkt)

147 So, anyone watch Property Wars? It doesn't seem to add up to me. Buying houses at auction without being able to go inside? I suppose. But these yahoos seem surprised at things like pools or extra bedrooms. Can't they do a Zillow search or look at a satellite image? Seems strange to me, anyone know the bigger story?

Posted by: Weirddave at August 26, 2013 07:12 PM (aH+zP)

148 . . . and kids can stay on their parents' health insurance until they are 26 under Obamacare. America: Death by Being Pussies. Posted by: Sharkman --------------------------- This has been the case in NC since 2010.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 07:12 PM (4Mv1T)

149 Were you able to access those Canadian TV channels online, Peaches?

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 26, 2013 07:13 PM (uH46F)

150 136 Hey does anyone know what happened to Saddam's WMD's? Probably went to Syria, but that's not such an easy question to answer. Syria's been stockpiling chemical weapons for decades. Most likely any of Saddam's precursor materials were integrated with Syria's standing program; Any advanced triggers or disbursement mechanisms also probably got integrated with Syria's own antiquated systems.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 26, 2013 07:13 PM (Dsds2)

151 Use away about Krispy Kreme Kristy.

The Dude, I looked at the figure you linked to at AmiAmi. Sorry that is just absolutely not my cup of tea. I am also the person who sees Wonder Festival kits of Motoko Kusanagi where they sculpt her with 48EEE and I just want to inflict such beachballs on the sculptors so they can feel the pain.

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 07:14 PM (SxI9Z)

152 Loaned? Boy is he going to be pissed. Posted by: Freak Out! ----------------------- I don't think he'll miss them. Not where he is. He's too busy trying to find a cool place to sit down.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 07:14 PM (4Mv1T)

153 Weirddave I believe the bigger story is people are so stupid they will believe any kind of shit.

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:14 PM (+aHgF)

154 Were you able to access those Canadian TV channels online, Peaches?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 26, 2013 11:13 PM (uH46F)

I have not yet tried, andy, but I did save the link. Been too busy dancing on the ledge, but I am over that now (yay) and will check it out soon. Thank you so much!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:15 PM (8lmkt)

155 OK. I'm out tomorrow night. mi amigos

Posted by: AltonJackson feat. No One In Particular at August 26, 2013 07:16 PM (JMmQ9)

156 Bummer news for those of you familiar with the actors/actresses of yesteryear, e.g. Marlon Brando, etc.

Julie Harris (The Haunting, East of Eden) passed away last Saturday at 87.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at August 26, 2013 07:17 PM (FvyJS)

157 Andrew Jackson was just barely the youngest POW.

Squire Ferris, born Jan. 11, 1767, was taken by the British, made at least one escape with his father, and was recaptured. His father is a direct ancestor on my mother's side.

On my father's side, Henry Simmins was a part of the militia that met Washington after he crossed the Delaware and guided his troops to Trenton.

Posted by: Chuck Simmins at August 26, 2013 07:18 PM (/cmxa)

158 Shifting into lurk gear. Night folks.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at August 26, 2013 07:18 PM (4Mv1T)

159 My cooter hurtz

Posted by: Myley Virus at August 26, 2013 07:19 PM (+aHgF)

160 131 He's a bigtime roundball player, PGiS. Married to one of them Kardashian chickies. Apparently, loves him some crack cocaine. Fuckin' dumbass . . . Srsly, somebody paid me that kinda money, they could put a halo on my head and it would never, ever tilt, not even an inch. I'd be too busy buyin' shoes and giving hundred dollar bills to anybody who wanted one. Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 11:05 PM (8lmkt) Doubt that he is on coke since NBA players get drug tested 4 times during the season and twice during the offseason. At random, at any time. More likely is mama Kartrashian spreading all the shit to make her daughter look like the innocent party. She is so far up Harvey Levin's ass that she has to duck her head when his partner is giving him the business.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 26, 2013 07:19 PM (BXLPR)

161 Reagan was 70 when he became President and all the left could talk about was whether he was too old to function effectively. Hillary will be approximately the same age within a few months if she were to win in 2016.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 07:20 PM (kcfmt)

162 TR - I've had some conversation in the past with Camp Perry shooters. I was surprised to learn that drug/alcohol use was not unheard of. A delicate balance of alcohol+valium, to slow the heartbeat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 07:20 PM (aDwsi)

163 Flaming baby? http://youtu.be/U0VE7gTehAw

Posted by: mindful webworker - rickrock'n'rolled at August 26, 2013 07:20 PM (U13jb)

164 People little remember how blood soaked Massachusetts was during the Revolution. We had Tory Fort remains being found as late as the Seventies in my old hood.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 26, 2013 07:21 PM (ZshNr)

165 So, anyone watch Property Wars? It doesn't seem to add up to me. Buying houses at auction without being able to go inside? I suppose. But these yahoos seem surprised at things like pools or extra bedrooms. Can't they do a Zillow search or look at a satellite image? Seems strange to me, anyone know the bigger story?

Posted by: Weirddave at August 26, 2013 11:12 PM (aH+zP)

Friend's wife does it:

outside of property lines (and even those can be iffy), a lot property records are screwed up.

As for satellite images, your talking about a ton of houses crammed into a very short auction window that it makes it almost impossible to keep up, and that doesn't take into account in how old the satellite image is.

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 07:22 PM (vJdyz)

166 odom was suspended for drugs a while ago. Is he even playing for anyone anymore?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 07:23 PM (Z9EHQ)

167 70 Does that mean I will have to show ID for nail polish remover soon?
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle

your brazilian waxes are gonna be taxed soon

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 10:46 PM (Z9EHQ)

Don't kid yourselves -- you're going to need ID for anything soon enough.

"Show me your papers, please!!!!"

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:23 PM (T1005)

168 I'm just curious*, Peaches, as there are foreign TV stations etc. I can watch online but others, like Hulu in the States, are blocked.
* No, not that curious.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at August 26, 2013 07:24 PM (uH46F)

169 Flamin' baby pork puppets. Band name or latest Applebee's special?

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:24 PM (+aHgF)

170 Don't kid yourselves -- you're going to need ID for anything soon enough. "Show me your papers, please!!!!" Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005) Not everythingÂ…

Posted by: Democrat Election Commissioners Everywhere at August 26, 2013 07:24 PM (Vk2pI)

171 Slow night.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 07:24 PM (qyfb5)

172 Don't kid yourselves -- you're going to need ID for anything soon enough.

"Show me your papers, please!!!!"
Posted by: cthulhu
---------------------

And the purchase will be registered.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 07:25 PM (aDwsi)

173 http://tinyurl.com/lps2su2 Above is InvestorÂ’s Business Daily editorial on what TFG will do. ItÂ’s short and to the point. It will be a show for Syria.

Posted by: CarolT at August 26, 2013 07:26 PM (z4WKX)

174 Howdy Cthulhu! I've been meaning to ask you what you thought about Pacific Rim?

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:27 PM (+aHgF)

175 165 Don't kid yourselves -- you're going to need ID for anything soon enough. "Show me your papers, please!!!!" Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005) Except for voting, 'cause that's racist.

Posted by: rickl at August 26, 2013 07:28 PM (sdi6R)

176 Howdy Cthulhu! I've been meaning to ask you what you thought about Pacific Rim? Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 11:27 PM (+aHgF) I think he was mad his cousins were in it and they didn't ask him.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 07:28 PM (qyfb5)

177 Doubt that he is on coke since NBA players get drug tested 4 times during the season and twice during the offseason. At random, at any time.

His daddy was a junkie and his mom died of cancer when he was 12 (per wiki), which almost dooms him to it. I don't think TMZ has ever been sued for slander or libel and they are pretty careful about what they put out there. And coke is not the same thing as crack. I think this is true. And sad.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:29 PM (8lmkt)

178 Acetone is used to thin epoxy for fiberglass applications. Also to clean your fingers. Just in case any of you want to make a composite airplane or something. I have not seen it explode anything yet.

Posted by: The Last One at August 26, 2013 07:30 PM (8HiDF)

179 164 odom was suspended for drugs a while ago. Is he even playing for anyone anymore? Posted by: yankeefifth at August 26, 2013 11:23 PM (Z9EHQ) Pot in 2001, and he is now back with the Clippers I think.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 26, 2013 07:31 PM (BXLPR)

180 112 IMHO Andrew Jackson was murdering, lying, Constitution burning piece of shit...

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at August 26, 2013 10:58 PM (a0o+l)

You forgot "kickass" and "bank-hating"....which helps to mitigate the other. Oh, and pretty damned smart, too -- http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres24.html: "... that the destruction of our State governments or the annihilation of their control over the local concerns of the people would lead directly to revolution and anarchy, and finally to despotism and military domination. In proportion, therefore, as the General Government encroaches upon the rights of the States, in the same proportion does it impair its own power and detract from its ability to fulfill the purposes of its creation." And there's little question that he loved this country.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:34 PM (T1005)

181 Pot in 2001, and he is now back with the Clippers I think.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 26, 2013 11:31 PM (BXLPR)

free agent as he was an expiring contract. dude has nothing left in the tank

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 07:35 PM (vJdyz)

182 175 Doubt that he is on coke since NBA players get drug tested 4 times
during the season and twice during the offseason. At random, at any
time.

His daddy was a junkie and his mom died of cancer when he was 12 (per wiki), which almost dooms him to it. I don't think TMZ has ever been sued for slander or libel and they are pretty careful about what they put out there. And coke is not the same thing as crack. I think this is true. And sad.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 11:29 PM (8lmkt)

--Lamar Odom is on teh crack.

Posted by: chelseaprof at August 26, 2013 07:35 PM (bufJH)

183 I think cocaine and alcohol are the fastest intoxicants to leave the system. Sure, you'd be playing Russian Roulette, but sometimes an addict has to do what an addict has to do.

I'd bet that within 48 hours, both of those substances could be out of your system with either a masking agent or a system "flush".

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 26, 2013 07:35 PM (lq3Ak)

184 Calling all HQ MacGyvers and MacGrubers: So, I need a strong but quick method to attach aluminum cans to one another. Needs to be rainproof. Ideally also cheap and not relying on power tools. I was thinking something like Liquid Nails in a caulking gun, but I'm open to almost any idea. The application is a 1/50 scale model of the Eiffel Tower clad entirely in 2000+ uncrushed/uncut beer cans. The skeleton will be PVC or CPVC pipe, with some thin plywood or corrugated plastic for the first and second platforms. Guy wires will abound. A test build safe at home this fall, with a repeat next summer in a large, drunken campground.

Posted by: Little Chelsea Spellcheck at August 26, 2013 07:35 PM (a5ljo)

185 170 Don't kid yourselves -- you're going to need ID for anything soon enough. "Show me your papers, please!!!!" Posted by: cthulhu --------------------- And the purchase will be registered. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 11:25 PM (aDwsi) except voting don't forget asking for ID to vote is racist

Posted by: the jackwagon - EDL bro at August 26, 2013 07:36 PM (DWF95)

186 Everyone understands that dropping bombs on a country is an act of war, right?
So Obama's going to drop bombs because he said chemical weapons were a red line that must not be crossed, and Syria crossed it. So Obama drops bombs, walks away with mission accomplished, and Syria then has the right to retaliate; any US person, any US territory, any US aircraft, any US naval vessel or maritime vessel becomes a target.

Meanwhile, Obama goes back to golf and domestic politics.

Does this make sense to anyone?

Posted by: Not Sleepy Reactionary at August 26, 2013 07:37 PM (rjezb)

187 137 Hey does anyone know what happened to Saddam's WMD's?
Posted by: Freak Out!
------------------------------------------

He loaned them to Assad I think.

Posted by: Tobacco Road, Extremist at August 26, 2013 11:09 PM (4Mv1T)

My guess is that they're on tour.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:37 PM (T1005)

188 Hi ont, Maetenloch, you so crazy!! Inmate tattoos, teehee

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 26, 2013 07:37 PM (vgd4f)

189 "So, anyone watch Property Wars? It doesn't seem to add up to me. Buying houses at auction without being able to go inside? I suppose. But these yahoos seem surprised at things like pools or extra bedrooms."

I think the "surprises" in such buying are more often of the sort of finding that someone has helpfully removed all of the copper piping from the house.

There was a comment about meth manufacture upthread. THAT can give a home buyer an even more serious wake-up call.

Here in Commiefornia, meth tweakers will rent a house -- typically a nice postwar suburban rancher on a quiet cul-de-sac -- and set up a lab in the place. By the time they're done, the house is a hazmat site. Red-tagged, unfit to be re-rented or re-occupied. The only people who can go inside are remediation professionals in moonsuits and respirators. The hapless owner has to pay to have the entire house disassembled and carted off to a special landfill.

I think I'll stick to buying houses which I can properly and meticulously inspect ahead of time, thanks.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 26, 2013 07:38 PM (gqT4g)

190 His daddy was a junkie and his mom died of cancer when he was 12 (per wiki), which almost dooms him to it. I don't think TMZ has ever been sued for slander or libel and they are pretty careful about what they put out there. And coke is not the same thing as crack. I think this is true. And sad. Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 11:29 PM (8lmkt) When they get suspended for drugs, that 4 times a season and twice in the offseason increases to "pretty much whenever we want". The testers show up, take the test, and that's it. If you don't show up, that goes as a failure. As for TMZ, as long as they say "insiders" or "those close to Lamar", they have a shield because then they can say that they were given bad info if not true and print a retraction. They are just reporting what others are whispering. Plus Lamar is a public figure, it would have to be a bold lie by TMZ for it to be libel.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 26, 2013 07:38 PM (BXLPR)

191 Didn't WMD open for OMD one year?

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 07:39 PM (SxI9Z)

192 Have they cut Tebow yet? Heh Oh hey peaches

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 07:39 PM (dr6XJ)

193 How to keep your online presence while in prison? Easy. Get arrested n Charleston, SC.

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 07:40 PM (r7ZJQ)

194 Have they cut Tebow yet?
Heh

Oh hey peaches

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 11:39 PM (dr6XJ)

Hey, dumbass. How cool was it to see Da Bears win one the other night? I was thinking of you.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:40 PM (8lmkt)

195 "Didn't WMD open for OMD one year?"
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD)

No, but I heard UB40 and U2 were talking about remaking OU812, but L7 dropped out.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 26, 2013 07:41 PM (lq3Ak)

196 I have three ancestors who fought in the Revolution at a young age. The youngest marched off at age 15 to fight with Daniel Boone in the Battle of the Blue Licks. Fifteen in that era, however was often considered an adult on the frontier.

Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at August 26, 2013 07:41 PM (ej52A)

197 So Obama drops bombs, walks away with mission accomplished, and Syria then has the right to retaliate; any US person, any US territory, any US aircraft, any US naval vessel or maritime vessel becomes a target. Posted by: Not Sleepy Reactionary at August 26, 2013 11:37 PM (rjezb) Not only Syria, but Iran too since Syria is Iran's proxy. I'm more interested to see how Russia will respond.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 26, 2013 07:42 PM (Dsds2)

198 168 Don't kid yourselves -- you're going to need ID for anything soon enough.

"Show me your papers, please!!!!"

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005)

Not everythingÂ…

Posted by: Democrat Election Commissioners Everywhere at August 26, 2013 11:24 PM (Vk2pI)

In that case, your paper is either a certificate of completion from an accredited Community Organizer course or a Democrat Party membership card.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:42 PM (T1005)

199 192. I was extremely impressed with howie longs kid Now that the human open door j'webb has been shitcanned and cutler isnt running for his life every play it'll be a great year Now if someone will teach Bennett how to catch a damn ball...

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 07:43 PM (dr6XJ)

200 Thanks a lot peaches.

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 26, 2013 07:44 PM (vgd4f)

201 172 Howdy Cthulhu! I've been meaning to ask you what you thought about Pacific Rim?

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 11:27 PM (+aHgF)

Haven't seen it. Probably won't. Last movie seen in a theater -- The Hobbit. Previous to that, it was probably the last Harry Potter.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:44 PM (T1005)

202 Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 26, 2013 10:41 PM (lr3d7) And the added years of indoctrination are just a bonus!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 26, 2013 07:45 PM (XdnQT)

203
Prayers please.

My father in law has been given about two weeks to live. He's got leukemia, and there's nothing they can do for him. I'm cutting my work week short, and heading home tomorrow to be with my wife. Fuck. Just fuck. This comes out of the blue. We saw him about eight months ago, and he was healthy as a horse. My wife is torn up, and I'm on the other end of the state.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 07:45 PM (7gWmN)

204 Oh, please. Spontaneous Human Combustion has been well debunked. No need to bring acetone into it! 1. One drunk person. Helps if they're a little fat. 1a. out like a light. 2. A lit cigarette 3. A chair covered with fabric and has metal springs. ---- Cig lights the chair. Drunk dies to smoke inhalation Fire doesn't flare up due to poor ventilation in room. Doesn't go out though! Fire slowly burns the body. Melted fat drips down into the chair. the springs and fabric act like a candle-wick and keeps the burning going until all of the body above the chair seat is consumed. Feet and the lower part of the legs are usually left behind. The room never gets hot enough to "flash-over". If it did, then they would just call it a FIRE.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 26, 2013 07:45 PM (83xuc)

205 Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 11:39 PM (dr6XJ)

Hey, dumbass. How cool was it to see Da Bears win one the other night? I was thinking of you.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 11:40 PM (8lmkt)

--Fuck the preseason. I need Brandon Marshall to be huge this year.

Posted by: chelseaprof at August 26, 2013 07:45 PM (bufJH)

206 Random question - anybody ever use one of the luminescent sight paint kits?

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 07:45 PM (uRqqf)

207 199. Well shit, you're 200' tall and insane Going to the movies must be a pain in the ass

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 07:45 PM (dr6XJ)

208 Looks like a replay of Libya unless the Russians step in

Bomb Syria government and command centers with cruise missiles until the jihadists can take over and execute Asshead

Generalissimo Barry congratulates himself on stopping the slaughter while as he speaks the "moderate, pragmatic reformers" slaughter Christians and Alawites by the truckloads

Jihadists move to take over Lebanon and Jordan, kill any Americans still present in Syria while blaming something someone said somewhere that offended Muhammed

Posted by: kbdabear at August 26, 2013 07:45 PM (/9IC1)

209 Thanks a lot peaches

I'm sorry, lou, but the late great mr. peaches was from Chi-town and so da bears will always remain a sentimental favorite for me. it's a pretty safe place to be and, cripes, I'm not really expecting too much from those fuckin' pats this year, although I will still wear the shirt, at least (fingers crossed) until sometime in January.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:47 PM (8lmkt)

210 184 Everyone understands that dropping bombs on a country is an act of war, right?
So Obama's going to drop bombs because he said chemical weapons were a red line that must not be crossed, and Syria crossed it. So Obama drops bombs, walks away with mission accomplished, and Syria then has the right to retaliate; any US person, any US territory, any US aircraft, any US naval vessel or maritime vessel becomes a target.

Meanwhile, Obama goes back to golf and domestic politics.

Does this make sense to anyone?

Posted by: Not Sleepy Reactionary at August 26, 2013 11:37 PM (rjezb)

Sure, if you posit that aforementioned preznit is a red-diaper baby anti-colonial malignant narcissist....repercussions are for other people.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:48 PM (T1005)

211 Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN)

Ah, shit, buddy. I am so sorry to read that and, yes, prayers up. God bless.

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 07:48 PM (8lmkt)

212 My deepest sympathies Wicket, I lost my father this past Spring and my mother years ago. Nothing prepares you for the loss. Prayers sent that you and your wife will find comfort and support from family and friends.

Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at August 26, 2013 07:49 PM (ej52A)

213 Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN)

May the Good Lord assuage your fears and sadness, through this unfortunate news. May He bring you closer together, knowing The Kingdom of Heaven awaits your beloved.

May the times you'll share with him in his remaining time be joyous and productive and may our prayers reach His ears this night.

Prayers Sent, S.W.

Posted by: Slapweasel at August 26, 2013 07:49 PM (lq3Ak)

214 So, I need a strong but quick method to attach aluminum cans to one another. Needs to be rainproof. Ideally also cheap and not relying on power tools. I was thinking something like Liquid Nails in a caulking gun, but I'm open to almost any idea.

Posted by: Little Chelsea Spellcheck
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The consideration is bond strength. Liquid Nails might work, but the cure time is long. There is always one of the fast-polymerizing epoxies, but even that will take a while..., unless you go nutty and use UV curing. I would try various cyanoacrylates (super glue) to see if you can find one that is satisfactory. There are epoxies that cure in 3-5 minutes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 07:49 PM (aDwsi)

215 The room never gets hot enough to "flash-over". If it did, then they would just call it a FIRE.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (83xuc)

Sounds like you just confessed to murder. Book 'em Dano.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at August 26, 2013 07:49 PM (2vl2+)

216 So, I need a strong but quick method to attach aluminum cans to one another. Posted by: Little Chelsea Spellcheck at August 26, 2013 11:35 PM (a5ljo) Well, here's a place to start: http://bit.ly/14zyRaB

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 07:51 PM (qyfb5)

217 Cthulhu - I figured you'd probably just say "amateurs".. It's a fun movie though. My boys are still talking about it.

Posted by: Freak Out! at August 26, 2013 07:51 PM (+aHgF)

218 well since BHO thinks they speak Austrian in Austria, $5 say he thinks they speak Syrian in Syria BHO is suck a dumb fuck Hi Jason at the NSA! Don't forget to check in to what your ex-girlfriend is up to online,,,,,

Posted by: the jackwagon - EDL bro at August 26, 2013 07:51 PM (DWF95)

219

Sticky Wicket,

I'll keep your family in my prayers.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 26, 2013 07:52 PM (lr3d7)

220

Posted by: Not Sleepy Reactionary at August 26, 2013 11:37 PM (rjezb)

Not only that... but he will NOT get UN Security council cover, as Russia will veto...

UN charter says you cannot get involved in an Internal Insurrection, of a Member State, without that member States permission.... only way past that is with a UN Security council resolution...

The UN Mandate was a treaty signed by a President, then ratified by Congress, thus having the Force of US law.

NATO treaty only comes into play if a NATO country has been attacked... which has not happened.

I doubt Congress will give him cover.... and the War Powers Act does not come into play unless either US Personnel or Territory is attacked (which is not the case).

Obama has no International, or US Legal cover for this illegal bombing. He can order it BUT can be held accountable IF Congress, or the Courts, have any courage... (which I know they don't).

Bombing Syria will be an Act of War... precipitated by an out of control Imperial Presidency.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2013 07:52 PM (lZBBB)

221 205 199. Well shit, you're 200' tall and insane Going to the movies must be a pain in the ass A large enough drive-in movie theater should be good enough for him,

Posted by: Thrawn at August 26, 2013 07:52 PM (Dsds2)

222 181 I think cocaine and alcohol are the fastest intoxicants to leave the system. Sure, you'd be playing Russian Roulette, but sometimes an addict has to do what an addict has to do. I'd bet that within 48 hours, both of those substances could be out of your system with either a masking agent or a system "flush". Posted by: Slapweasel at August 26, 2013 11:35 PM (lq3Ak) Since he got busted, he can get tested as much as David Stern wants him tested, and with anything public like this, Stern is probably having him tested. The testing lab will call him up and say you need to be home or at the lab in 2 hours or we will meet you on the golf course. Don't show up? You fail. His agent says he isn't missing, and that his "family" knows exactly where he is. Plus, mama Kardashian is a real sick fuck. She knows doing this will destroy his NBA career, but she has her spawn's "reputation" to rehab. Look at what they did to Kris Humphries. Hell, she was the one who leaked Kim's sex tape. She really is a vile human being.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 26, 2013 07:52 PM (BXLPR)

223 207 Peaches, just messing with ya. I feel your pain. My Raiders are fugly. Defense sucks, offensive line sucks, and we lost Lechler, sadly our best player. Ho hum, there's always next year

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 26, 2013 07:52 PM (vgd4f)

224 Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN)

Consider it done. I know what you're going through.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 07:52 PM (T1R3G)

225

note to self:

lay off the acetone...

Posted by: Shoey at August 26, 2013 07:52 PM (m6OUa)

226 182 Little Chelsea Spellcheck "So, I need a strong but quick method to attach aluminum cans to one another. Needs to be rainproof. Ideally also cheap and not relying on power tools. I was thinking something like Liquid Nails in a caulking gun, but I'm open to almost any idea. " JB Weld. Available at Home Depot. Mix a small amount, on a piece of cardboard box with a wooden mizer (tongue depressor), scrape it into a pile, then dip out small amounts and apply it to the local areas ... then wait for it to set. Repeat, with another assembly. The "small amount" prevents a lot of wastage. Pay attention to the "working time" and "setting time" listed on the package.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 26, 2013 07:53 PM (FlRtG)

227 Prayers please. My father in law has been given about two weeks to live. He's got leukemia, and there's nothing they can do for him. I'm cutting my work week short, and heading home tomorrow to be with my wife. Fuck. Just fuck. This comes out of the blue. We saw him about eight months ago, and he was healthy as a horse. My wife is torn up, and I'm on the other end of the state. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN) Hang in there, man.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2013 07:53 PM (AO9UG)

228 201
Prayers please.

My father in law has been given about two weeks to live. He's got leukemia, and there's nothing they can do for him. I'm cutting my work week short, and heading home tomorrow to be with my wife. Fuck. Just fuck. This comes out of the blue. We saw him about eight months ago, and he was healthy as a horse. My wife is torn up, and I'm on the other end of the state.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN)

So sorry, SW -- my uncle died from leukemia a couple of years back....at home, with his wife and his dogs. He had always been tougher and luckier than he was careful and cautious. Prayers sent for him and all your family.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:54 PM (T1005)

229 SW - Sorry to hear it. Life slaps us when we least expect it sometimes. Prayers for you, and especially for your wife and father in law.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 07:54 PM (aDwsi)

230

Wow, that Wittemore story is great, thanks for posting!!!

I saved it. The next time the fever swamp at Zerohedge starts in about revolution I'll post it and say, OK keyboard badasses, here's how it was done in the real revolution, you got this kind of game?

That's after I agree that a revolution is called for.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2013 07:55 PM (1Y+hH)

231 211 Slapweasel, well said. Prayers sent Stickey Wicket

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 26, 2013 07:55 PM (vgd4f)

232 Spontaneous Human Combustion has been well debunked. No need to bring acetone into it! Posted by: Comrade Arthur at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (83xuc) True Believers and True Disbelievers should just screw and get the tension over with.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 07:55 PM (qyfb5)

233 Remember all that foreign money that flowed into Obama's campaigns?

Posted by: MBros inc. at August 26, 2013 07:56 PM (39lEh)

234 Bears will be lucky to make it to 3rd place in the North

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 07:56 PM (vJdyz)

235 205 199. Well shit, you're 200' tall and insane
Going to the movies must be a pain in the ass

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (dr6XJ)

Yeah, and they're phasing out drive-ins, too. http://tinyurl.com/l888z72

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 07:57 PM (T1005)

236 I propose we turn the Syria into a Maximum Security Prison. Build a Wall around it and let them work out a society. Posted by: Snake Plissken at August 26, 2013 02:00 PM

Posted by: the jackwagon - EDL bro at August 26, 2013 07:57 PM (DWF95)

237 206 Looks like a replay of Libya unless the Russians step in Bomb Syria government and command centers with cruise missiles until the jihadists can take over and execute Asshead Generalissimo Barry congratulates himself on stopping the slaughter while as he speaks the "moderate, pragmatic reformers" slaughter Christians and Alawites by the truckloads Jihadists move to take over Lebanon and Jordan, kill any Americans still present in Syria while blaming something someone said somewhere that offended Muhammed Posted by: kbdabear at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (/9IC1) Don't forget to blame teh Jews.

Posted by: Religion of Peace! at August 26, 2013 07:57 PM (BXLPR)

238 Miss Lindsay and her husband John MexCain will back President Divot all the way on bombing Syria or whatever fuck else he wants to do.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2013 07:57 PM (AO9UG)

239 Prayers please. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN) Done and done. May there be more tears of joy for the memories than sorrow for the loss.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 07:57 PM (qyfb5)

240 I propose we turn the Syria into a Maximum Security Prison. Build a Wall around it and let them work out a society.

Posted by: Snake Plissken
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Hey! I want the tattoo franchise!

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 07:58 PM (aDwsi)

241

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN)

Tough duty coming up. Prayers up for you and the family.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2013 07:58 PM (1Y+hH)

242 SW, sorry to hear that My dad passed the same way and both my sister and I were underway when the message came

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 07:58 PM (XruKb)

243 Sorry to hear about your FIL Sticky. We'll say some extra prayers for your family.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 26, 2013 07:59 PM (BXLPR)

244 Yeah, but babies aren't allowed to have acetone. It's right there in the Constitution in the recipe section.

Posted by: eman at August 26, 2013 07:59 PM (AO9UG)

245 Well shit, I think I found my ultimate vacation.

http://www.70000tons.com/home.php

Posted by: Berserker at August 26, 2013 08:00 PM (FMbng)

246 Posted by: MBros inc. at August 26, 2013 11:56 PM (39lEh) Turning off the credit card verification software was a stroke of genius, evil genius, but still genius! The future caliphate will always make sure Barky is remembered as a hero!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 26, 2013 08:00 PM (XdnQT)

247 Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:57 PM (T1005)

There used to be a drive in theater in Starkville, MS that showed pron. You couldn't buy cold beer in that town at the time, but no problem with open air pron viewing.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 08:00 PM (T1R3G)

248 232. I predict at least 13-3 season and a defeat of the texans at the Super Bowl And a year of putting up with my dumbass bragging

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 08:01 PM (XruKb)

249 201 SW My Mom went quick (3 weeks) from a heart problem and crappy things that made it deadly. It sucks and nothing anyone can say will make it better, Just do what you can for thoase left behind. My Dad really is ready to follow and we need to do what we can to give him a reason to stay.

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:01 PM (V6R8M)

250 #182

I recall someone who had sealed up used soda cans and joined them together to form a raft using overlapping rubber bands. You need to find the right size to bind two cans together without crushing. Two rubber bands per can, except those along the edge. That formed the horizontal bands. I forget how he bound the bands together, unless it was different rubber bands.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 08:02 PM (kcfmt)

251 236 eman, hate them fuckfaces!! Sorry for the swear but that's what they are.

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 26, 2013 08:02 PM (vgd4f)

252 Posted by: Slapweasel at August 26, 2013 11:49 PM (lq3Ak)

You need a church. Move some of those dreary half-assed going-through-the-motions clerics to the curb and have you start packin' the pews....and then the aisles.....you always say things better.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:03 PM (T1005)

253 over and out, darlin' ones . . . don't disappoint the ghosts tonight, eh?

Posted by: Peaches at August 26, 2013 08:03 PM (8lmkt)

254 You need acetone to make smokeless powder. There's more going on here than meth.

Posted by: comatus at August 26, 2013 08:03 PM (JNUY4)

255 I predict at least 13-3 season and a defeat of the texans at the Super Bowl

And a year of putting up with my dumbass bragging

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 12:01 AM (XruKb)

with Jay Cutler and that O-line....lol

wish I was smarter to grasp what the engineers talked about today on the upcoming Xbox One SOC. I know just enough to be retarded

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 08:04 PM (vJdyz)

256 Posted by: eman at August 26, 2013 11:57 PM (AO9UG) That's only because they have nothing to fear from a president Obama, or any future dem president!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 26, 2013 08:04 PM (XdnQT)

257 247. My mom went a week later She just gave up Tore us kids up The worst part....two days later T told me she was preggers, they never knew there was a grandbrat on the way

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 08:04 PM (XruKb)

258 253. Didn't see it yet To the bing!!!

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 08:06 PM (XruKb)

259 245 Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:57 PM (T1005)

There used to be a drive in theater in Starkville, MS that showed pron. You couldn't buy cold beer in that town at the time, but no problem with open air pron viewing.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 27, 2013 12:00 AM (T1R3G)

Was "Make-out Row" right outside the theater?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:06 PM (T1005)

260 Gutwrenching news for any Mets fans like me today

Matt Harvey felt a bit of stiffness in his forearm after the start against the Detroit Tigers, went for an MRI and it shows he has a partial UCL tear in his elbow

They'll check again in a few weeks, but it's likely he'll require Tommy John surgery that will keep him out all of the 2014 season

Posted by: kbdabear at August 26, 2013 08:06 PM (/9IC1)

261 Tweeted by me earlier today: @SenatorReid : Harry "The Surge Has Failed" Reid: Why are you now letting BHO attack Syria? @piersmorgan ... I still want to know ...

Posted by: Obsidian Smith at August 26, 2013 08:06 PM (FlRtG)

262

I offer a palate cleanser for anyone that risked watching that Miley Cyrus performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmsZUN4r_s

Posted by: buzzion at August 26, 2013 08:07 PM (LI48c)

263 "increase in cell phone use after 9pm"

If one looks at phone cause crashes at night there could be less accidents as there is less traffic. People on phones don't have crash all alone they crash into other cars when the are distracted on the phone.

Posted by: Trevor (@TJexcite) at August 26, 2013 08:07 PM (jc2uI)

264 I was surprise to learn that General Daniel Morgan was only 44 at the time of Cowpens. I had expected him to be a bit older. I've been on that battlefield at sunrise on a very cold January 17 and given the abuse Morgan's body had been through can understand why he retired from the fray shortly thereafter.

Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at August 26, 2013 08:07 PM (HC3GR)

265 Sticky Wicket, Damn. Prayers sent.

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 08:07 PM (uRqqf)

266 I recall someone who had sealed up used soda cans and joined them together to form a raft using overlapping rubber bands. You need to find the right size to bind two cans together without crushing. Two rubber bands per can, except those along the edge. That formed the horizontal bands. I forget how he bound the bands together, unless it was different rubber bands.
Posted by: epobirs
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Great idea! Office suppliers have 1" wide bands that would do it. Again, a few drops of super glue under the bands would help.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:07 PM (aDwsi)

267 "He's got leukemia, and there's nothing they can do for him."

Is that a first opinion? Consider the medical error statistics.

I've seen several cases in my life where someone was told by Doctor A to go get their affairs in order, and then consulted with Doctor B, who said, "Yeah, Doc A is a quack, I wouldn't let him work on my dog, I think we can do a little better than writing you off."

Maybe the poor guy is an actual write-off, but BE SURE ABOUT THAT. And don't panic.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 26, 2013 08:08 PM (gqT4g)

268 NC Mountain Girl - Where are you located?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:09 PM (aDwsi)

269 The worst part....two days later T told me she was preggers, they never knew there was a grandbrat on the way >>

One of the things that gives me hope for Dad is one of my grandkids (with my Daughter is living in his house). I know how hard it is to be depresed witha a 3 year old in the house. Pissed yes depressed no.

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:10 PM (V6R8M)

270 JB Weld. Available at Home Depot.

Mix a small amount, on a piece of cardboard box with a wooden mizer (tongue depressor), scrape it into a pile, then dip out small amounts and apply it to the local areas ... then wait for it to set.

Repeat, with another assembly.

The "small amount" prevents a lot of wastage.

Pay attention to the "working time" and "setting time" listed on the package.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 26, 2013 11:53 PM (FlRtG)

JB Weld is strong, but takes several hours to set and develop full strength. For the OP's project, cladding a model Eiffel Tower in beer cans, I'd suggest a hot glue gun. Joints are weaker, but will stand handling inside of a minute.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2013 08:11 PM (60Q+L)

271

"used to be a drive in theater in Starkville, MS that showed pron."

There's a little town in Colorado named Monte Vista. There's a motel there with big windows in each room that afford a view of a huge movie screen. The sound is piped into the rooms of course. It's great. The place is called the Movie Manor. Don't know if it's still in operation, been many years since I was there. They didn't go past soft porn back then.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2013 08:11 PM (1Y+hH)

272 And a year of putting up with my dumbass bragging Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 12:01 AM (XruKb) You don't have the Ditka 'stache do you? One of the last funny bits of SNL was Da Bears fans.

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 08:11 PM (uRqqf)

273 #253

Link?

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 08:12 PM (kcfmt)

274 Sticky Wicket at August 26, 2013 11:45 PM (7gWmN) Thoughts and prayers. Make the most of the time you have left. When my Grandmother died, my family and I had been told a couple weeks ahead of time. I am most thankful that I had a chance to say good-bye.

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 26, 2013 08:12 PM (Vk2pI)

275 I'd suggest a hot glue gun. Joints are weaker, but will stand handling inside of a minute.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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My impression was that this was being done at a campground..., perhaps no power.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:12 PM (aDwsi)

276

And also related to today. A News Report about the missing M from MTV. And there is something at the 3:20 mark that I have never seen before and now feel incredibly sick and question the existence of God.

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

Posted by: buzzion at August 26, 2013 08:12 PM (LI48c)

277 Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 12:06 AM (T1005)

Actually, no. Too many other places for that that were a lot less pervy in a college town.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 26, 2013 08:12 PM (T1R3G)

278 AOP: "JB Weld is strong, but takes several hours to set and develop full strength. This teaches patience.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 26, 2013 08:16 PM (FlRtG)

279 My impression was that this was being done at a campground..., perhaps no power.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 27, 2013 12:12 AM (aDwsi)

Good point, but even the smallest portable generator would run a hot glue gun.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2013 08:16 PM (60Q+L)

280 JB Weld is strong, but takes several hours to set and develop full strength. For the OP's project, cladding a model Eiffel Tower in beer cans, I'd suggest a hot glue gun. Joints are weaker, but will stand handling inside of a minute.>>

That is your dads JB weld. http://www.jbweld.com/product/j-b-steelstik/

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:17 PM (V6R8M)

281 270. Uggggh Before I'm ratted out by a moron I've met Yeah, I do

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 08:17 PM (XruKb)

282 Is is too soon after FDR's death to start bashing the shit out of his policies? Or are the schools text's books still fapping at his "New Deal" ?

Posted by: the jackwagon - EDL bro at August 26, 2013 08:18 PM (DWF95)

283 #253

Link?

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 12:12 AM (kcfmt)

Here is Dean Takahashi's write up

http://tinyurl.com/m35r735

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 08:21 PM (vJdyz)

284 Xbox one slides

http://tinyurl.com/kxwa9wy

http://tinyurl.com/lejbo78

only thing I got out of it was Tensilica for the audio chip which is quite sexy and MS just threw silicon at any problem they could think of

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 08:21 PM (vJdyz)

285 ... also, JB Weld is waterproof ... a requirement in this situation. Hot melt glue: choose correctly. How many participants will be involved? 50 pieces of cardboard and 50 popsicle sticks are cheap, and LMS seems to be enough of a disciplinarian to make it all happen.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 26, 2013 08:22 PM (FlRtG)

286 280 Is is too soon after FDR's death to start bashing the shit out of his policies?

Or are the schools text's books still fapping at his "New Deal"
?

Posted by: the jackwagon - EDL bro at August 27, 2013 12:18 AM (DWF95)

Every idea that came out of FDR's life and policies was either horribly wrong.....or somewhat more subtly wrong with horrific long-term results. And that includes "surviving polio."

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:23 PM (T1005)

287 Even 5 minutes would be a long time if this is a real-time project, which I suspect that it is. I like the rubber band idea. Finish a beer, snap it to the column. The epoxy would have to be mixed in *tiny* batches to prevent a lot of waste.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:23 PM (aDwsi)

288 I also shouldn't have laughed off the rumor of it being 350mm2 as it's even bigger at 363mm2

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 08:25 PM (vJdyz)

289 Even 5 minutes would be a long time if this is a real-time project, which I suspect that it is. I like the rubber band idea. Finish a beer, snap it to the column. The epoxy would have to be mixed in *tiny* batches to prevent a lot of waste.>>

It's Fing putty with a work time of 5 minutes. How hyper are these kids they can't touch something for 5 minutes?

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:27 PM (V6R8M)

290 XB1, the game console with a CPU the size of a largish spider?

Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 26, 2013 08:28 PM (SxI9Z)

291 There is a searchable census of Revolutionary Pensioners from 1840, in which you can look up your relatives who fought in the Revolution and who also survived until at least that year:

http://www.us-roots.org/colonialamerica/census/1840/index.html

Alas, no Sharkmen fought in the War . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at August 26, 2013 08:28 PM (ltNot)

292 279 navycop joe, haha, that makes me smile!!

Posted by: lou's a girl at August 26, 2013 08:28 PM (vgd4f)

293 279 270. Uggggh Before I'm ratted out by a moron I've met Yeah, I do Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 12:17 AM (XruKb) Now THAT is team loyalty

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 08:30 PM (uRqqf)

294 It's Fing putty with a work time of 5 minutes. How hyper are these kids they can't touch something for 5 minutes?
Posted by: The Hickster
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Hmm. I think I missed something. Wasn't there mention of 'beer cans' and camping? Headslap. I've been assuming a group of my rowdy friends building an Eiffel Tower *as* they consumed the beer. Ignore everything I've said...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:31 PM (aDwsi)

295 A 1:50 scale model of the Eiffel Tower? Er, the tower is 1063 feet tall, so you're going for something 21' tall? How are you planning on constructing this?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:31 PM (T1005)

296 I propose we turn the Syria into a Maximum Security Prison.

Build a wall around it and let them work out a society.

Posted by: Snake Plissken at August 26, 2013 08:31 PM (c6N69)

297 Just no grass skirts and coconut bras, right?

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 08:31 PM (uRqqf)

298 Even 5 minutes would be a long time if this is a real-time project, which I suspect that it is. I like the rubber band idea. Finish a beer, snap it to the column. The epoxy would have to be mixed in *tiny* batches to prevent a lot of waste.>>

Duct Tape will be better than rubber bands if there is no wait time in the lesson. Removes accuracy and will hold better if there is length.

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:32 PM (V6R8M)

299 Every idea that came out of FDR's life and policies was either horribly wrong.....or somewhat more subtly wrong with horrific long-term results. And that includes "surviving polio."

Hoover was an idiot for allowing FDR to run to his right.

The GOP's history is full of losers who allowed the Democrat to campaign as the pro-market and/or anti-nation-building candidate. Bush Senior, McCain, Romney...

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 26, 2013 08:32 PM (d7tB2)

300 Tomorrow night : Modeling the Great Pyramid with Valu-Rite bottles.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:33 PM (aDwsi)

301 Hoover's biggest mistake was to not take a lesson from Coolidge, and just let failed banks fail.

Posted by: Kristophr at August 26, 2013 08:34 PM (c6N69)

302 Duct Tape will be better than rubber bands if there is no wait time in the lesson. Removes accuracy and will hold better if there is length.
Posted by: The Hickster
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A nice idea. Quick.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:34 PM (aDwsi)

303 295. What happens in the bedroom is none of your business

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 08:35 PM (XruKb)

304 298 Tomorrow night : Modeling the Great Pyramid with Valu-Rite bottles Tonight: Emptying enough Valu-Rite bottles to model the Great Pyramid?

Posted by: Anachronda at August 26, 2013 08:36 PM (U82Km)

305 As for TMZ, as long as they say "insiders" or "those close to Lamar", they have a shield because then they can say that they were given bad info if not true and print a retraction.

Some people I trust have informed me that Harry Reid has a thing for little boys. I'm not saying that's true but I will say that I wouldn't trust my nephew around him

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 26, 2013 08:37 PM (d7tB2)

306 281
#253

Link?

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 12:12 AM (kcfmt)

Here is Dean Takahashi's write up

http://tinyurl.com/m35r735

Posted by: The Dude at August 27, 2013 12:21 AM (vJdyz)

Lordy, lordy -- that's a chunk of silicon. TSMC is good at what they do, but the yields on that are going to suck, big time.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:37 PM (T1005)

307 Tonight: Emptying enough Valu-Rite bottles to model the Great Pyramid?
Posted by: Anachronda
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Stay thirsty my friend.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:38 PM (aDwsi)

308 What happens in the bedroom is none of your business

I totally agree, because mine's a total mess :^/

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 26, 2013 08:39 PM (d7tB2)

309 Lordy, lordy -- that's a chunk of silicon. TSMC is good at what they do, but the yields on that are going to suck, big time.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 12:37 AM (T1005)

yield issues is the reason why they've been cutting down on launch countries (even though I still would have rather had them do paper launches instead of being honest)

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 08:39 PM (vJdyz)

310 What happens in the bedroom is none of your business Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 12:35 AM (XruKb) But you will be forced to subsidize it anywayÂ…

Posted by: Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate at August 26, 2013 08:40 PM (Vk2pI)

311 Searchable Database through the National Park Service where you can find your relatives who fought in the War of Northern Aggression:

Civil War Vets

The Sharkmen had by this time found their ballsacks, and 104 of them fought with the Bluebellies, while 27 fought for Freedom from Tyranny.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 26, 2013 08:40 PM (ltNot)

312 Prayers for your father in law and all of your family, Sticky Wicket.

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 08:40 PM (UaCt0)

313 A nice idea. Quick.
Posted by: Mike Hammer>>

With my JB weld putty I missed the making an Eiffel tower. Ducct tape makes more sense since it is not top to top. But half way across and just minimizing side to side movement. Gravity will give some stability in an Eifel Tower model.

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:41 PM (V6R8M)

314 Some people I trust have informed me that Harry Reid has a thing for little boys. I'm not saying that's true but I will say that I wouldn't trust my nephew around him Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 27, 2013 12:37 AM (d7tB2) Holy cow. Who knew that Tom Cruise packed fudge at the candy factory?

Posted by: Stan Marsh at August 26, 2013 08:42 PM (BXLPR)

315 Oops, the fucking link thing doesn't work (big surprise). Here is the War of Northern Aggression link:

http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm

Posted by: Sharkman at August 26, 2013 08:43 PM (ltNot)

316 Oh snap. We're not done with Chris Hayes yet, are we.

I think he should just start cross dressing. Go Chelsea, Chris. At this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: dissent555 at August 26, 2013 08:44 PM (yR6A1)

317 I think he should just start cross dressing. Go Chelsea, Chris. At this point, what difference does it make? Posted by: dissent555 at August 27, 2013 12:44 AM (yR6A1) But pantyhose chafes soÂ…

Posted by: Chris Hayes at August 26, 2013 08:47 PM (Vk2pI)

318 Good evening, Horde. I have three hours of yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays all semester. I get actual college credit for this. What the fuck? I'm allergic to something else now. My friend Angelique, possibly Matt. Came home looking as though I was punched. Hives on my eye, folks. I'm a delicate flower.

Posted by: Gingy at August 26, 2013 08:47 PM (aH+zP)

319 Stay thirsty my friend. Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 27, 2013 12:38 AM (aDwsi) Love the new commercial where they have his definition of 'bromance.' 'Sorry, I have no idea what that is.'

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 08:47 PM (uRqqf)

320 Just want to say "hey", and congrats to peaches

Vacay was so fuckin awesome! But today wasn't. To put it mildly. Gotta pay to play, though. FSA is looking better every day./ I have been trying to keep up with prayer requests and whatnot, but I purposely denied myself Internet during vacation. That's part of what made it so great. Any urgent updates, I need to start doing them.

Posted by: Kalneva at August 26, 2013 08:48 PM (XyrkB)

321 Love the new commercial where they have his definition of 'bromance.'

'Sorry, I have no idea what that is.'>>

Something a male feels if they had no Father,

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:49 PM (V6R8M)

322 316 Good evening, Horde. I have three hours of yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays all semester. I get actual college credit for this. What the fuck? I'm allergic to something else now. My friend Angelique, possibly Matt. Came home looking as though I was punched. Hives on my eye, folks. I'm a delicate flower. Posted by: Gingy at August 27, 2013 12:47 AM (aH+zP) LOL. I took aerobics. Ps- don't F around or you will be leading the class most days. At least I was. 'Brown Sugar' by the Stones still makes me sick.

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 08:51 PM (uRqqf)

323 @ 260 I offer a palate cleanser for anyone that risked watching that Miley Cyrus performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmsZUN4r_s
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 12:07 AM (LI48c)

Thanks for the valiant try my friend. But I still think I'm going to need a good long soak in aqua regia to get that stink off of me.

Posted by: dissent555 at August 26, 2013 08:51 PM (yR6A1)

324 Whittemore was one serious badass. Born in Britain, fought against the French in the colonies as a Brit at the age of 54, then fought 'em again as a colonist at the age of 64, then fought the Brits as a colonist in 1775 at the age of 80.

Note to self -- commercial application of time travel.....someone walks up to 83-year-old Whittemore in 1778 and says, "Cthulhu sends you a pint from 2023." while a button on a nearby jacket glints by the light of the lanterns....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:52 PM (T1005)

325 316 Gingy, the best shape of my life was when I was getting PE credits for going to the gym! It was so awesome, and then I made friends with the instructor and got personal training for nothing! I wasn't employed, then, though, and the kids were in school. Good times.

Posted by: Kalneva at August 26, 2013 08:52 PM (XyrkB)

326 Posted by: Kalneva at August 27, 2013 12:48 AM (XyrkB) Sticky Wicket could use some.

Posted by: RWC at August 26, 2013 08:52 PM (uRqqf)

327 But I still think I'm going to need a good long soak in aqua regia to get that stink off of me.>>

Try Oxalic acid etchant you'll lose less skin.

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:54 PM (V6R8M)

328 Ace of spades is forwarding me to youtube. This is the top page. I'm on Safari if that makes any difference.

Posted by: Eton Cox at August 26, 2013 08:54 PM (QCc6B)

329 Already done, horde. Loves.

Posted by: Kalneva at August 26, 2013 08:54 PM (XyrkB)

330 Kalneva, I've been a Bikram practitioner for about 6 years. Husband is rather appreciative.

Posted by: Gingy at August 26, 2013 08:54 PM (aH+zP)

331 What does the tattoo of Soap on a Rope symbolize?

Posted by: Beorn at August 26, 2013 08:54 PM (OFVu8)

332 316 Good evening, Horde. I have three hours of yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays all semester. I get actual college credit for this. What the fuck?

I'm allergic to something else now. My friend Angelique, possibly Matt. Came home looking as though I was punched. Hives on my eye, folks. I'm a delicate flower.

Posted by: Gingy at August 27, 2013 12:47 AM (aH+zP)

I was reading somewhere that Harvard currently has more classes on yoga than classes on Shakespeare....

Sorry to hear 'bout the allergies. You should pack it with some nice, soothing, viscous slime.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:55 PM (T1005)

333 Sharkman - Annnnnd, there's my g-grandfather.:

29th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Overview:Organized at East Saginaw, Mich., and mustered in October 3, 1864. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Decatur, Ala., October, 1864. Attached to District of North Alabama, Dept. of the Cumberland, to November, 1864. 1st Brigade, Defences Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to December, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Defences Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, to February, 1865. Unattached, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Sub-district, Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to September, 1865. Service: Defence of Decatur against Hood's attack October 26-29, 1864. Garrison duty at Decatur, Ala., till November 24. Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn., November 24-27. Siege of Murfreesboro December 5-12. Winchester Church December 12. Near Murfreesboro December 13. Murfreesboro December 13-14. Moved to Anderson December 27 and assigned to duty guarding Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad till July, 1865. Moved to Dechard, thence to Murfreesboro, Tenn., and garrison duty there till September 6. Mustered out September 6 and discharged at Detroit, Mich., September 12, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 5 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 65 Enlisted men by disease. Total 72.
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Note that, by far, most died of disease.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:55 PM (aDwsi)

334 Try Oxalic acid etchant you'll lose less skin.
Posted by: The Hickster at August 27, 2013 12:54 AM (V6R8M)

Bad to the bone(s).

Posted by: dissent555 at August 26, 2013 08:56 PM (yR6A1)

335 #282

The second slide is interesting. The hard drive is connected by SATA-2 according to the label. This is a little surprising but it saves some cost and SATA-3 isn't really needed for low end 2.5" drive. Still, one dreams of a hot rod optional SSD replacement for the hard drive. This makes me wonder how the hard drive on the PS4 is connected since that one is replaceable, continuing the policy on the PS3.

What also caught my eye was the 8 GB of flash memory. Since this is presumably solely for system use to store the firmware, and a console doesn't need to have huge gobs of the material found in a desktop OS install, that looks like a pretty healthy amount of space. I find myself wondering how much of it is used in the launch version of the firmware and how much is left for the future. Both machines have a good chunk of RAM and CPU reserved for the system and both have admitted this is a good deal more than they actually need initially but they don't want to be starved for resources when some new add-on device or something needs it a few years from now.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 08:57 PM (kcfmt)

336 Bad to the bone(s).>>

I said Oxalic not Hydrofluoric.

Posted by: The Hickster at August 26, 2013 08:58 PM (V6R8M)

337 329 What does the tattoo of Soap on a Rope symbolize?

Posted by: Beorn at August 27, 2013 12:54 AM (OFVu

That you asked your hoodlum friend to tattoo "I love %hoodlum's sister's name%" on your back where you couldn't see it while he was working?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 08:58 PM (T1005)

338 Cthulhu, do you know where one might find said nice, soothing, viscous slime?

Posted by: Gingy at August 26, 2013 08:58 PM (aH+zP)

339 I said Oxalic not Hydrofluoric.
Posted by: The Hickster
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Crap! Now my beaker is etched...

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 08:58 PM (aDwsi)

340 201 Have had similar with family and friends. Big prayers for strength,love and peace.

Posted by: gracepmc at August 26, 2013 08:59 PM (rznx3)

341 FYI: cold beer cans are soothing.

Posted by: Gingy at August 26, 2013 09:01 PM (aH+zP)

342 Has Preezy Chelsea O called Miley to see if she's a'ight?

Posted by: Craig Poe at August 26, 2013 09:01 PM (BVkEs)

343 FYI: cold beer cans are soothing. Posted by: Gingy
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Okay..., are you sitting on it, or holding it to your eye?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 09:02 PM (aDwsi)

344

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 12:57 AM (kcfmt)

yeah, that 8gb of flash was an interesting surprise as that was the first they've mentioned it. Gives me a glimmer of hope that the UI with all of the plane switching will actually work the way that they are targeting.

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 09:03 PM (vJdyz)

345 329 What does the tattoo of Soap on a Rope symbolize? Posted by: Beorn at August 27, 2013 12:54 AM (OFVu It means you are going to federal pound you in the ass prison.

Posted by: Michael Bolton at August 26, 2013 09:03 PM (BXLPR)

346 HF?? Hall no. That stuff be dangerous.

Posted by: dissent555 at August 26, 2013 09:04 PM (yR6A1)

347 My eye. It hurts worse than my butt. Can't believe there's no big bruise!

Posted by: Gingy at August 26, 2013 09:05 PM (aH+zP)

348 336 Cthulhu, do you know where one might find said nice, soothing, viscous slime?

Posted by: Gingy at August 27, 2013 12:58 AM (aH+zP)

Well, there's http://www.calistogaspas.com/mud_baths.htm -- or perhaps http://watercourseway.com/spa-treatments/moor-mud/ -- but I'm not sure what you might have locally.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 09:05 PM (T1005)

349 329 What does the tattoo of Soap on a Rope symbolize? Posted by: Beorn at August 27, 2013 12:54 AM (OFVu Watch yer cornhole dude!

Posted by: Lawrence at August 26, 2013 09:05 PM (BXLPR)

350 cool, trailer for Avadon 2

http://youtu.be/vOKNsPORe3M

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 09:05 PM (vJdyz)

351 339 FYI: cold beer cans are soothing.

Posted by: Gingy at August 27, 2013 01:01 AM (aH+zP)

Full ones, or while they're emptying?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 09:06 PM (T1005)

352 Hematomas sometimes take a day or two to show up. Maybe you bruised the bone itself.
At any rate, it sound like you're having fun.
Have tried taking Benedryl ? Might help.

I'm out. Nite all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 26, 2013 09:08 PM (aDwsi)

353 #307

It would be interesting to know the nature of the yield problems. Only shortly before they cut back on launch territories they increased the GPU clock by 53 MHz, to 853 MHz. Not a huge boost but it helps. Apparently the ones that come out good have a greater envelope than originally estimated.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 09:08 PM (kcfmt)

354 349 339 FYI: cold beer cans are soothing. Posted by: Gingy at August 27, 2013 01:01 AM (aH+zP) Full ones, or while they're emptying? Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 01:06 AM (T1005) -- Is empty. I has a sad. But I took an allergy pill and I'd best not have another. Should go to bed, I have to get Little up for school... and me too. I have a bloody humanities class tomorrow.

Posted by: Gingy at August 26, 2013 09:08 PM (aH+zP)

355 The chime tolls. Hasta maÃ±ana.

Posted by: dissent555 at August 26, 2013 09:10 PM (yR6A1)

356 Took the B-17 ride about 1990. Got 15 minutes in the left (pilot's) seat. They marked an hour in my log book. ;-) Brave men to fly and fight such machines.

Posted by: die trying at August 26, 2013 09:15 PM (w7J/R)

357

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 01:08 AM (kcfmt)

can't wait for Takahashi's new book, the one on the 360 was a bit lackluster as there wasn't much to report on.

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 09:15 PM (vJdyz)

358 349 339
FYI: cold beer cans are soothing.

Posted by: Gingy at August 27, 2013 01:01 AM (aH+zP)

Full ones, or while they're emptying?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 01:06 AM (T1005)

Seriously, Gingy -- and I'm allergic to a bunch o' stuff -- (1) Doff everything, and make sure it isn't in the same room with you. (2) Cool shower to get irritants away. It may be gross, but blowing your nose and hawking up spit is probably not the worst idea here. (3) Hot, steamy shower to get irritants out of your pores. (4) Cool shower to get everything bumped out by step 3 sloughed away from your body. (5) Reassess (seriously, 90% of my contact/inhaled allergy problems resolve by this point). and (6) Pseudonephedrine or Benadryl.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 09:15 PM (T1005)

359 Thank you, Ancient One. Hubby says its easier to list what m not allergic to, so I know the drill. Alavert is the only thing that works for me and I've taken it. It seems to have gone down, and now I'm out for the night. Ta.

Posted by: Gingy at August 26, 2013 09:18 PM (aH+zP)

360 I don't know what Sticky Wicket has going on, but I will just do, for tonight, a general prayer and I think that will work.

Posted by: Kalneva at August 26, 2013 09:19 PM (CEFJu)

361 331 Mike Hammer: Damn, man, where the heck were you able to find all that information about your great grandfather (whose service, despite my birth in Arkansas and quips about the War of Northern Aggression, I truly honor)????

Very true what you say about disease v. battle deaths. This website: http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm, says this about that:

The Price in Blood!
Casualties in the Civil War

At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.

The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:

Battle deaths: 110,070 Disease, etc.: 250,152 Total 360,222

The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:

Battle deaths: 94,000 Disease, etc.: 164,000 Total 258,000
The South wound up losing over 24 percent of men between 18 and 24, and that is killed, not killed and wounded. That's how you win a war.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 26, 2013 09:20 PM (ltNot)

362 Allergies suck. If you're going to bother clearing your nose consider one o' them thar saline washes. It's actually disgusting. But, you know, clearing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 09:21 PM (qyfb5)

363 360 Allergies suck. If you're going to bother clearing your nose consider one o' them thar saline washes. It's actually disgusting. But, you know, clearing. Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 27, 2013 01:21 AM (qyfb5) Like an enema, but for your sinuses.

Posted by: model_1066 at August 26, 2013 09:25 PM (QMWjL)

364 #355

There were fun bits, like IBM having to juggle meeting so that Sony and Microsoft people wouldn't run into each other in the halls, with Sony being a bit pissed later on to find out the CPU core they'd largely financed had been the basis of the Xbox 360 CPU cluster.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 09:26 PM (kcfmt)

365 Like an enema, but for your sinuses. Posted by: model_1066 at August 27, 2013 01:25 AM (QMWjL) Pretty much that. Don't mix up the hardware.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 26, 2013 09:29 PM (qyfb5)

366 What the hell is with Miley Cyrus and her damn tongue. Can't she keep that thing in her mouth? I mean, its long and coated and round like a mouse's ear and rather disgusting. Maybe she ate Mickey before she left Disney?

Posted by: Sphynx at August 26, 2013 09:31 PM (cll/q)

367 The order of events in The Simpsons Tapped Out game seems to have changed a lot with the addition of Krustyland. They're trying to get me going on that despite having very few businesses rebuilt and none of Squidport yet.

Krustyland is a bit annoying in that it has a separate economy but requires taking away characters from your Springfield to perform tasks there. If Homer is earning tickets in Krustyland he can't put in a shift at the nuclear power plant back home.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 09:31 PM (kcfmt)

368 So, I plan on watching one of three anime tonight: Dogs and Scissors, Genshiken Nidaime, or Servant X Service. The first involved canine bondage and budding zoophilia, the second involves a trap (transvestite), the last involved bureaucrats. So, which ought I to watch?

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at August 26, 2013 09:32 PM (Vk2pI)

369 ServantXServant is really good

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 09:34 PM (vJdyz)

370 So the only possible explanation for new laws banning cell phone usage in cars not lowering crash rates is that they don't CAUSE crashes in the first place ? Really ? Couldn't possibly be that self obsessed people who cannot imagine they aren't the best driving in the world and who are SO important they couldn't possibly NOT use their phone while the police are busy not enforcing unenforceable laws, right ? I mean, gosh, laws against drunk driving don't seem to stop THAT, but of course, magically by passing a law, BAM, immediately all banned usage of cell phones just stops ? Please.

Posted by: deadrody at August 26, 2013 09:34 PM (w8kg1)

371 What the hell is with Miley Cyrus and her damn tongue. Can't she keep that thing in her mouth? I mean, its long and coated and round like a mouse's ear and rather disgusting. Maybe she ate Mickey before she left Disney? Posted by: Sphynx at August 27, 2013 01:31 AM (cll/q) That explains why it hurts to pee nowÂ…

Posted by: Mickey Mouse at August 26, 2013 09:34 PM (Vk2pI)

372 2ch has been hacked: http://tinyurl.com/kcqp6kr Ads at link are NSFW

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at August 26, 2013 09:38 PM (Vk2pI)

373 #368

I've no doubt a certain number of car accidents in the last twenty years can be attributed to fools giving too much attention to a cell phone. But I do doubt that this is addition to the reasons those same fools were having accidents before. Just another brick in the wall.

When did the first battery powered shaver come to market? I bet the first car accident involving an idiot trying to shave while driving happened less than a year later.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 09:40 PM (kcfmt)

374 @333 Oh, epobirs! That was too funny! I know that you post made sense and that I could translate it if I cared to but just imagine how that looks to a lot of people. Sorry, I just love getting bumped by other people's "jargon".

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 09:41 PM (UaCt0)

375 My eye. It hurts worse than my butt. Can't believe there's no big bruise! Aaaand, that's what Miley Cyrus said.

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 09:45 PM (UaCt0)

376 http://tinyurl.com/mo64uc6

this actually sounds interesting, a novella that is based around as an exercise in reading redacted info

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 09:47 PM (vJdyz)

377 #374

Looks like it would fit in with Gone Home.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 09:54 PM (kcfmt)

378 fuck it, I'll buy BlackBar and do a quick writeup on it for this weekend

Posted by: The Dude at August 26, 2013 09:59 PM (vJdyz)

379 Hmmm, is anyone else here? Here is some selections from various AMV Hell Minis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8r7nIff9Rg

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at August 26, 2013 10:22 PM (Vk2pI)

380 Meremortal, are you still around?

Posted by: Mindy at August 26, 2013 10:24 PM (gnIfb)

381 Oh sweet god Why do stupid people call cabs? Just had a welfare mama, her slug husband and her 5 little bastards going about 1 1/2 miles I drive a sedan It's a $95 fine for not wearing a seatbelt here and she's on a major intersection across the street from a police station She's pissed cause I had to call her a van

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 26, 2013 10:27 PM (ZfBzk)

382

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 02:27 AM (ZfBzk)

This is why you call a gypsy cab.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2013 10:36 PM (WbtgK)

383 Isn't a cab kind of expensive for that sort? Is there no bus service in the area?

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 10:37 PM (kcfmt)

384 Eh, watching a late rerun of the Fox News show, The 5. Ed says that the DoJ is right to sue Texas over it's "unbelievable" requirements for Voter ID...that are "discriminatory against Mexican Americans". Uhm, no Ed. They are meant to disrcriminate between Mexicans who happen to be in Texas and American citizens of Mexican descent who live in Texas. World of fuckin' difference pal...

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 10:44 PM (UaCt0)

385 Mindy, happened to fly in just now, what's up?

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2013 10:48 PM (1Y+hH)

386 It's a $95 fine for not wearing a seatbelt here and she's on a major intersection across the street from a police station I would assume that it is YOU and not HER that would be charged $95 each for any un-belted passengers. Also, isn't it lovely when you can get the whole fambily involved in bailing sluggo out of the clink!

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 10:50 PM (UaCt0)

387 379 Oh sweet god
Why do stupid people call cabs?

Just had a welfare mama, her slug husband and her 5 little bastards going about 1 1/2 miles

I drive a sedan

It's a $95 fine for not wearing a seatbelt here and she's on a major intersection across the street from a police station

She's pissed cause I had to call her a van

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 02:27 AM (ZfBzk)

The BH is setting-up a tech support/customer service group in NC. Due to a bit of falling-through-the-cracks, one of her new-hires didn't get training with the group in NC when the trainer was out there for a month....so had to come to California for training. Turns out, she (a) doesn't have a credit card and (b) has never been on a plane.

The first flight in her life gets bumped from Piedmont->Atlanta->SFO to Piedmont->DETROIT!!!->SFO because the stupid plane was late. Corporate scheduled her to fly in Sunday evening, work Monday-Friday, and fly out Saturday morning, jetlag be damned. So the BH gets into "fairy godmother mode" and tweaks the schedule -- result, they get off work at 2:00 Friday....and then we all head to San Francisco where the new-hire gets her first subway ride, first boat ride, a walk through Chinatown, Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf, the Musee Mechanique, dinner, and her first Cable Car ride, getting back to her hotel at midnight for an early-morning flight.

I'm thinking that her overall impression of the trip won't be "pain in the ass punctuated by TSA gropes." I'm pretty sure that "work hard, play hard" is gonna stick.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 10:53 PM (T1005)

388

I am here,

in this place because there are other people.....here.

Not that we can see across a table per se and indulge our observations of the day...per se and engage our.....selves in that most human desire to....

Interact....and say my view....then you say your view and she says her view followed by his view and we laugh (hopefully) and drink some more and on and on while we just interact and enjoy looking across the table....at another human being.......

This place is almost like that.....it has ALWAYS been just like that....

Posted by: Richard at August 26, 2013 10:54 PM (h1LzA)

389 Posted by: Richard at August 27, 2013 02:54 AM (h1LzA)

Hiya, Richard!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 10:56 PM (T1005)

390 Wikipedia seems to be fraying at the edges -- note "The iceberg was the best part of Titanic." randomly inserted in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower -- as well as "tallest structure in Paris, Texas" link.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 10:58 PM (T1005)

391 heheh eh heheh... "inserted"... heheh eh heheh

Posted by: beavis at August 26, 2013 11:00 PM (9gNQd)

392

Signing off from the mountains of Colorado, where Grouse season is almost upon us.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 26, 2013 11:00 PM (1Y+hH)

393 #385

Sounds like she's going to remember the two of you for the rest of her life.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 11:03 PM (kcfmt)

394

387

I have read that your posting Shingle......means something most ancient.

Forgive me for not popping it off since I am 3 glasses in and feeling a bit

HELL you all know.....

Posted by: Richard at August 26, 2013 11:05 PM (h1LzA)

395 Something that really pissed me off. I ordered a PCIe USB 3.0 host adapter from Newegg entirely because of the price after rebate, figuring it would be a handy thing to have around. The day I ordered it was the last day of the rebate and I must have looked at some other stuff before finalizing the order or some other delay. The rebate was rejected because it was outside the dates of the offer... by 37 minutes.

Posted by: epobirs at August 26, 2013 11:07 PM (kcfmt)

396

393

OH CRAP!!

After midnight already on the west coast????

Posted by: Richard at August 26, 2013 11:10 PM (h1LzA)

397 393 Something that really pissed me off. I ordered a PCIe USB 3.0 host adapter from Newegg entirely because of the price after rebate, figuring it would be a handy thing to have around. The day I ordered it was the last day of the rebate and I must have looked at some other stuff before finalizing the order or some other delay. The rebate was rejected because it was outside the dates of the offer... by 37 minutes.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 03:07 AM (kcfmt)

Put that everywhere. If they won't do right by you, at least you'll gain cred with others similarly positioned.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:15 PM (T1005)

398 Night all. Here is "Bad Vibrations" by The Black Angels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jV6TnBC2nk

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 26, 2013 11:19 PM (Vk2pI)

399 Hey Kids,

it's dark!!

but that's OK, I am expecting widely scattered light by morning.

Posted by: jc at August 26, 2013 11:20 PM (PlzOe)

400

I wish I had been a computer nerd circa 1970's.....

then again.......FUCK NO!!!!

Posted by: Richard at August 26, 2013 11:22 PM (h1LzA)

401 To compliment the B-17G schedule up there, here is where the CAF Dixie Wing will be coming up.

http://www.dixiewing.org/airshow-schedule.html

Thank you Chelsea, Anna et. al.

Decisions, decisions.... hmmmm

A B-17G ride over New England (queues up Don Henley's Heavy Metal)
or
The Peachtree City, GA Great Georgia Air Show?

For Peaches of course.

If it is the B-17 I will definitely be going the Depends mode. As I want to sit in the ball-turret and plank down in the nose gunner position.

Posted by: Forty Baht Barry at August 26, 2013 11:25 PM (TgB1m)

402 391 #385

Sounds like she's going to remember the two of you for the rest of her life.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 03:03 AM (kcfmt)

I sure hope it isn't that bad. I'm hoping more like, "she's a great success doing tech support/customer service for the BH's company in NC; any time her coworkers go off on some bullshit management/worker thing, she tells 'em they might be better off applying themselves to the business need than kvetching; she advances in her career to where business travel is needed more often, but can artfully blend some enjoyment into the horrible drudgery; increased responsibilities result in increased compensation, to the point where she can travel for leisure....

She seemed like a good kid. I'd rather her story was about her achieving her full potential than about two old farts showing her a good time.

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

403 Isn't a cab kind of expensive for that sort? Is there no bus service in the area? I'm guessing here but most of the "in-town" (ie not going to or from the Airport) cabbie activity that I have seen in a less than major Metropolis with "some" Bus Service seems to revolve around grocery stores in predominantly Section 8 neighborhoods and downtown government offices. (Shit! I would have taken a cab to downtown for jury duty and saved myself the hassle & expense of Public Parking but for the fact that I would have had to wait on some street corner for 45min. after I was dismissed to get a ride home. My downtown is ONLY government buildings, lawers, citizens on Jury Duty, and smelly hobos. I wouldn't prowl there if I had to make my nut for my livery licence!) It must make "some" sort of economic sense to hire a cab once a week to haul your groceries home rather than pay for a bus trip both ways to "shop for the freshest ingredients an a daily basis, like the Europeans do" and carry them home in 2 hemp woven bags imprinted with Emmerson quotes. As to carrying 4 kids along with you? I have no idea. If I were on a super-tight budget and bulk shopping so as to need a car to haul my stuff home, LAST thing I would want were a bunch of little kids grab-assing around in the Cereal Aisle of Food City. I would beg my neighbors or any family members to watch the adorable little so & so's for an hour or two.

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 11:27 PM (UaCt0)

404 Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 02:53 AM (T1005)

Oh, crap -- I got so caught up in the backstory that I forgot the point.

So, the BH is from NYC, and I'm from LA, so I defer to her for the whole cab thingie.....but we had grave difficulties hailing cabs during our peregrination -- and we had one cabbie that was so bad that I was actually worrying about what we should do if he got in a fender-bender.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:31 PM (T1005)

405 I'm thinking that her overall impression of the trip won't be "pain in the ass punctuated by TSA gropes." I'm pretty sure that "work hard, play hard" is gonna stick. Also, her eyes are gonna look like saucers for 2 weeks!

That's a lot! You must really like this candidate. Good for her!

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 11:35 PM (UaCt0)

406

397

SuP.......and don't say you no remember that little "FLY BOY" move you put on that L.A.P.D officer at WENDY'S.....YAH-TAH busting outta her B.P.V and ALL THAT...watchin your eyes go all goofy before you played her c-number.....OH!!!! she so waiting on YOUR call!!!

Otherwise...have ya told the wife???

Posted by: Richard at August 26, 2013 11:35 PM (h1LzA)

407 Sticky Wicket, I went to sleep a few hours ago, but now am wide awake & reading ONT. I'm sorry about your father in law. Same thing happened to one of my cousins @ age 60. He fought it for a year and a half, but it did no good. My prayers are with your family. Carol

Posted by: CarolT at August 26, 2013 11:39 PM (z4WKX)

408 403 I'm thinking that her overall impression of the trip won't be "pain in the ass punctuated by TSA gropes." I'm pretty sure that "work hard, play hard" is gonna stick.

Also, her eyes are gonna look like saucers for 2 weeks!

That's a lot!

You must really like this candidate.

Good for her!

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 03:35 AM (UaCt0)

Yeah, very possibly. But she was at work in NC today and doing ok.....a little nervous after the week of high-intensity training, but her new coworkers seem to be accepting.

When I had a crew that I was responsible for, I always "wishcast" that all sorts of good things would happen for them -- so it's easy to recognize when the BH is doing the same thing.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:41 PM (T1005)

409 I'd have given $50 to see Miley Cyrus eaten alive on stage by lions. $100 to have her run over by a chariot. I'm a traditionalist that way.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at August 26, 2013 11:46 PM (SzAZ7)

410

406

So?

All about the stress of....getting around on the WEST COAST???

I'm going to drink now........may drink into Baarrfing mode...jus fer fun...

Posted by: Richard at August 26, 2013 11:51 PM (h1LzA)

411 Yeah, very possibly. But she was at work in NC today and doing ok.....a little nervous after the week of high-intensity training, but her new coworkers seem to be accepting. I hope it's not wish-casting but I recognize that I have done the same. On the other hand, you mentioned her coworkers seem to be willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. They most likely went through the same high-intensity training and are over it now but remember how it feels.

Posted by: Deety at August 26, 2013 11:53 PM (UaCt0)

412 136 Hey does anyone know what happened to Saddam's WMD's?

----

Complete mystery, but my boys are lookin' into it.

Posted by: Bashar El-Assad at August 26, 2013 11:57 PM (UNFot)

413 407 I'd have given $50 to see Miley Cyrus eaten alive on stage by lions. $100 to have her run over by a chariot. I'm a traditionalist that way.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at August 27, 2013 03:46 AM (SzAZ7)

===

remember when it was reasonable to be a little envious of kids that made some money?

I am starting to rethink my disbelief in Satan.

Posted by: jc at August 26, 2013 11:59 PM (PlzOe)

414 Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 03:41 AM (T1005)

When I was at XXX, as sort of a Controller/COO of a 50-person telecom manufacturing company, we got this receptionist through an agency. Her ex found out about her pending economic independence and threatened to come down and shoot up the place, and the agency asked if we wanted a replacement. I said, "absolutely not" and arranged for phones to be routed to a nondescript other office in our building.....

After the ex gave up, we ended up training her to do accounts payable, and after that some general accounting. After a couple of years, she went off to the Sierras, where she became the office manager for a company that did widgets similar to golf carts. A year later, she was the "go-to person" for the company and "holding the fort" while the owner left town, and she invited me to her wedding.

You can't know how proud I am that I once had a receptionist that other people would have fired.....who (last I checked) practically runs a company, while using things that I taught her nearly every day.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 26, 2013 11:59 PM (T1005)

415 409 Yeah, very possibly. But she was at work in NC today and doing ok.....a little nervous after the week of high-intensity training, but her new coworkers seem to be accepting.

I hope it's not wish-casting but I recognize that I have done the same.

On the other hand, you mentioned her coworkers seem to be willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.

They most likely went through the same high-intensity training and are over it now but remember how it feels.

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 03:53 AM (UaCt0)

They got four weeks when they could go home and sleep with their families -- she got one week where she was hauled across a continent away from her 15-month-old daughter and groped by the TSA.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 12:02 AM (T1005)

416

409

So then they all are on board with their new jobs applying gold flakes to the rigid members of Saudi-Prince little peckers with their tongues?

The QUESTION had to be asked....if it do NOT apply to you then just......move on to your other social media site.......

Posted by: Richard at August 27, 2013 12:04 AM (h1LzA)

417 You can't know how proud I am that I once had a receptionist that other people would have fired.....who (last I checked) practically runs a company, while using things that I taught her nearly every day. Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 03:59 AM (T1005) It's like seeing your kid turn out great.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 27, 2013 12:04 AM (qyfb5)

418 414
409
So then they all are on board with their new jobs applying gold flakes to the rigid members of Saudi-Prince little peckers with their tongues?
The QUESTION had to be asked....if it do NOT apply to you then just......move on to your other social media site.......

Posted by: Richard at August 27, 2013 04:04 AM (h1LzA)

Have another drink.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 12:05 AM (T1005)

419 415 You can't know how proud I am that I once had a receptionist that other people would have fired.....who (last I checked) practically runs a company, while using things that I taught her nearly every day.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 03:59 AM (T1005)

It's like seeing your kid turn out great.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 27, 2013 04:04 AM (qyfb5)

Pretty much.

Reminds me of one of my canned spiels....."if you're leaving me, you'd better be making a shit-ton more money....if you leave here for $5K less, you should know that my reference for you is 'insufferable asshole, full of himself and attitude up the yin-yang'."

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 12:10 AM (T1005)

420 You can't know how proud I am that I once had a receptionist that other people would have fired.....who (last I checked) practically runs a company, while using things that I taught her nearly every day.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 03:59 AM (T1005)

====

that's much different than the story I heard about a receptionist that was asked to hire her own replacement once she gave notice. she chose a person whose last occupation turned out to be a padded room at happy acres.

I don't remember all the gory details but it was a helluva funny story, and the teller swore it was true.

Posted by: jc at August 27, 2013 12:10 AM (PlzOe)

421

Or just getting.....THAT break.

Because that is life at the end of the day.

Random Shit duth happen even for the well prepared minds and they fail.

It is.....being Human. Save, we pick ourselves up after fucking it up....and continue to try and make ...it...better.

Such is the blinding AWESOMENESS.....

of human.....

Fuck You All....

and...goodnight....

Posted by: Richard at August 27, 2013 12:14 AM (h1LzA)

422 #401

That reminds me of one of the smart things the Vallarta chain of supermarkets aimed at Latino neighborhoods does for its customers. They have vans for giving their customers rides home with their purchases. It's a lot like the drop off ride most car dealers have for their service departments. Makes for some very loyal shoppers, I'd bet.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 12:15 AM (kcfmt)

423 418 You can't know how proud I am that I once had a
receptionist that other people would have fired.....who (last I checked)
practically runs a company, while using things that I taught her nearly
every day.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 03:59 AM (T1005)

====
that's much different than the story I heard about a receptionist that was asked to hire her own replacement once she gave notice. she chose a person whose last occupation turned out to be a padded room at happy acres.
I don't remember all the gory details but it was a helluva funny story, and the teller swore it was true.

Posted by: jc at August 27, 2013 04:10 AM (PlzOe)

Another "canned spiel" is talking about priorities. If you say that your job is your top priority, you're a sick bastard unworthy of trust. If I had to guess, your health should be #1 -- 'cause you can't be anything but a burden to others if your health is torqued. Your family should absolutely be in the top 3. Your good name should be in the top 5. If you have a spouse and kids, your dance-card is probably filled to 6th place by now. Your career should weigh in as more important than any job......but I'd like to see this job somewhere in your top-ten.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 12:18 AM (T1005)

424 Have another drink. Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 04:05 AM (T1005) I don't think that's possible.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 27, 2013 12:20 AM (qyfb5)

425 My career is so important that I'm not even bothering to do it this year.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 27, 2013 12:21 AM (qyfb5)

426 420 #401

That reminds me of one of the smart things the Vallarta chain of supermarkets aimed at Latino neighborhoods does for its customers. They have vans for giving their customers rides home with their purchases. It's a lot like the drop off ride most car dealers have for their service departments. Makes for some very loyal shoppers, I'd bet.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 04:15 AM (kcfmt)

Sounds like a great plan.....except when TPTB get their greedy little hooks into it, and insist on union drivers and certifications.....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 12:22 AM (T1005)

427 Far as I know, Vallarta has told the SEIU to go screw themselves thus far.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 12:39 AM (kcfmt)

428 Listening to more of David Stockman's 'The Great Deformation.'

A century from now, if sanity prevails, the list of great mass murderers of the 20th Century will include John Maynard Keynes.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 12:40 AM (kcfmt)

429 Kirk Spock and Ensign Ricky go down to the planet's surface which one is not coming back?

Posted by: Chelsea10077 at August 27, 2013 12:47 AM (A4hKL)

430 427 Kirk Spock and Ensign Ricky go down to the planet's surface which one is not coming back?

Posted by: Chelsea10077 at August 27, 2013 04:47 AM (A4hKL)

===

The one that spends the rest of the day down at the clinic trying to get rid of whatever the hell it was he caught from Whoopi on the rape-rape deck?

Posted by: jc at August 27, 2013 12:56 AM (PlzOe)

431 You can't know how proud I am that I once had a receptionist that other people would have fired.....who (last I checked) practically runs a company, while using things that I taught her nearly every day. Uhhhm... Yeah, a co-worker of mine when I was working at a Hotel and marking time and making money until I could go off to the college of my 2nd choice asked me to be a god-mother, 20 years ago. She was/is an incredibly smart and attractive(fashion model)product of Chicago's South-Side black community. She taught me a lot and I taught her maybe 3 things at the wise old age of 19. She went through a very difficult pregnancy and delivered her baby way up in the NW of Chicago far away from "her people". I initially demurred from being a godmother mostly on the grounds that I was not a believing Christian and also that I wasn't sure that any baby named "Titanium" could be baptized!

"Her name is Tatiannam!", scratched a mom who was just wrecked by the birth of her little girl after 3 mo. in the hospital. Okay, sure. Little baby Titanium! Whatever you say momma, you just get better! 'Cause I'm sensitive like that and like to crack up people with new stitches. -------------- Well, 20 years later on... "Little Baby Titanium" is going to the University of Chicago and counts Thomas Sowell & Milton Friedman as her intellectual heroes just 10 years after I have ever paid attention. Ms. Cassandra is a General Manager of a significant property for a major Hotel Chain. I taught her how to figure out percentages and how to discount with just a calculator, pen & paper when the computers shut down. She was losing any patience she might have had for loose shit & so was I. What a strange, lovely, friendship. Neither of us gets back to Chicago as much as we would like and our career and family paths are so radically different but still... (Did I mention that she was preturnaturally beautiful? Looked her up on a Corporate Web-Site. Still is.)

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 01:03 AM (UaCt0)

432 http://tinyurl.com/ll3434g

Even Cthulhu's password is not safe!

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2013 01:19 AM (kcfmt)

433 Another "canned spiel" is talking about priorities. If you say that your job is your top priority, you're a sick bastard unworthy of trust. If I had to guess, your health should be #1 -- 'cause you can't be anything but a burden to others if your health is torqued. Your family should absolutely be in the top 3. Your good name should be in the top 5. If you have a spouse and kids, your dance-card is probably filled to 6th place by now. Your career should weigh in as more important than any job......but I'd like to see this job somewhere in your top-ten.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 27, 2013 04:18 AM (T1005)

within the constraints of my current tech, I'd like to persue this chain of thought a moment.

nitpicky first.

If job is your top priority, isn't it alsosomewhere in your top-ten?

Posted by: dDan at August 27, 2013 01:19 AM (q1RJB)

434 381. Welfare family of 5 makes 61,000 here They had an extra bastard 401. Here in Honolulu it's basically $3.10 to start the meter and $3.20 per mile If you're good and do voucher work making six digits a year isn't hard at all I'm at the top of the cabbie food chain

Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 01:20 AM (dYf+Z)

435

formatting and fingers got in the way...

meant to add..

like, possibly number one?

Posted by: dDan at August 27, 2013 01:22 AM (q1RJB)

436 That reminds me of one of the smart things the Vallarta chain of supermarkets aimed at Latino neighborhoods does for its customers. They have vans for giving their customers rides home with their purchases. Huh. As far as I know, the ONLY supermarket in Tucson that attempts deliveries is a tiny Safeway near Skyline Country Club. (Average age, 76) Don't know that it makes any $$ but it sure does fuck-up, day to day operations (so far as I can tell) in the back room. That might be a good business, though. You get to the store & make your purchases and I will cart you and your produce and 1 other person directly home for... $$$? What kind of Livery Licence would I have to purchace? What kind of Vans? What kind of insurance? How many? I know EXACTLY 18-26 locations where this would make perfect sense in my town if I could do it cheaper than the cabbies. I would imagine that I would have to afiliate with the individual GC Locations (Not here to haul your Bow-Tyers & Jewellry-Wire from Jo-Ann Fabrics. This is for Groceries! Ah, Crap! 6 of my 18 are Fry's Foodstores (Kroger, Ohio, read SUPER UNION!) not possible. Ahh, well. Was fun to role-play, anyway!

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 01:45 AM (UaCt0)

437 Yeah well baseline purchasing power says I'd rather make 45 grand in some places than 100,000 in Honolulu

Posted by: Chelsea10077 at August 27, 2013 02:18 AM (A4hKL)

438 Talking to your kids about Pauly Shore is harder than talking about drugs to them I suspect...

ah the 90s

Posted by: Chelsea10077 at August 27, 2013 02:21 AM (A4hKL)

439 Talking Points Memo: Bill OÂ’Reilly Tears Into Civil Rights Â‘GrievanceÂ’ Industry: Dr. King Would Be Horrified http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/08/talking-points-memo-bill-oreilly-tears.html

Posted by: Steve at August 27, 2013 02:23 AM (xZPp3)

440 I don't get it. Dead men beaming? The unsung hero's of countless away missions, being the poor trigger-pullers in the red shirts, are the salt of the Earth ... or some other Federation planet. God bless them all. Same as it ever was. We should be so lucky as to beam down with those boys and girls.

Posted by: and irresolute at August 27, 2013 02:32 AM (2qM95)

441 Another "canned spiel" is talking about priorities. If you say that your job is your top priority, you're a sick bastard unworthy of trust. If I had to guess, your health should be #1 -- 'cause you can't be anything but a burden to others if your health is torqued. Your family should absolutely be in the top 3. Your good name should be in the top 5. If you have a spouse and kids, your dance-card is probably filled to 6th place by now. Your career should weigh in as more important than any job......but I'd like to see this job somewhere in your top-ten. Not getting your weighting, I'm afraid. My job MUST be my #1 Priority because that's what pays my family's bills and I am, the one who works. (Breaking Bad Reference http://bit.ly/1djpIrv) I'm not doing prostitution or drug-dealing or pole-dancing but rather, Door to Door Sales, if you can believe such a thing! I VERY much believe in protecting my good name, personally and professionally. I will walk for 6 hours straight, AFTER my lower back has been SCREAMING for 2 hours in 109 degree weather and treat every door as if I had a fiduciary duty (which I don't but old habits die hard) to get them the best deal on TV & Internet & Phone. So, you tell me. My job IS my #1 Priority, right now. It's how I make $$ and also (personally gratifying & kind of fun!) save people $$ and get them cool TV & HSI and even Phones! are so much fun now... My boss likes it when I make sales though, mostly. And he ain't wrong!

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 02:44 AM (UaCt0)

442 Just checking in to thank the Horde for their good wishes and let everyone know we arrived safely after a 21 hour drive.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, assault Hobbit at August 27, 2013 02:52 AM (mkVKC)

443

...

......but I'd like to see this job somewhere in your top-ten.

Not getting your weighting, I'm afraid.

My job MUST be my #1 Priority because that's what pays my family's bills and I am, the one who works

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 06:44 AM (UaCt0)

posted something a while ago on this, I said it was nitpicky and i think it was.

lays a lot on definitions of career, job, and personal situations open to question.

Posted by: dDan at August 27, 2013 03:10 AM (q1RJB)

444 Looks like Gabe will be late this morning. I am going to go do my morning walk while we are waiting.

Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 03:10 AM (lZvxr)

445

Posted by: dDan at August 27, 2013 07:10 AM (q1RJB)

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 06:44 AM (UaCt0)

i didn't mean your response was nitpicky, only the ranking of top ten v: #1 priority.

sorry, I didn't make that distinction before.

Posted by: dDan at August 27, 2013 03:21 AM (q1RJB)

446 lays a lot on definitions of career, job, and personal situations open to question. Not really, I don't think. I mean, I pretend to be more ignorant of the state of Medicare and MediCaid than the average person but I worked for an old-timey Insurance Company, right out of college and my specialty was LTC. (So, Ezra Klein & his ilk can COMPLETELY fuck off. You were 12 when I was 32, faggits!) My boss & (Texas Woman, Tyler, I think) mentor had a long string of tragedies and she ended up working for the AARP in Phoenix. That's terrible. She told me against the AARP from my first day on the job.

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 03:38 AM (UaCt0)

447 Thanks for the many ideas on beer can attaching. The various JB Weld products sound extremely promising, and the rubber bands great for the narrow upper stages that bear little weight. Duct tape is always brilliant. Merovign's forum post by the guy apparently building an airplane skin with sheet metal shingles and glue kind of terrifies me, in a good way. I'm looking now for a hot glue gun that doesn't require 120v AC. Generators are banned in the campground. I'm not above outright fraud, so if we build some sturdy framing modules in the at-home rehearsal, I'm willing to smuggle them into the campsite and have them magically appear overnight. A housemate observes that the cans are to be assembled mouth-down so 100 pounds of empties don't become a half-ton collection of rain water. I like diverting the finest minds of a generation for important projects like this. If Hitler had only built his own Eiffel Tower instead of coveting the one in Paris, imagine how much evil nervous energy could have been dissipated. I've set a design goal of 100 pounds (2800 cans). At school this fall, that's three Saturday nights' donations from friendly frats in a two-block radius. At the festival next August, Thursday night's yield from 5,000 campers should do the trick. The 12-foot spire assembles first, then is lifted and secured to the second platform stage as it's completed. Four sturdy legs are built separately, attached to the first platform, then the 60 pounds of stages one and two will require careful heavy lifting. My plan is to Tom Sawyer our can contributors into making subassemblies so our 20-foot tower can rise overnight and stand over a sea of tents for three full days before its funeral at the recycling dumpster. Will report as tests begin. Sadly, classes have begun, so the project will start very slowly.

Posted by: Little Chelsea Spellcheck at August 27, 2013 03:44 AM (a5ljo)

448 359

No, you win a war by having an army twice as large a the other side.

Posted by: Artruen at August 27, 2013 03:46 AM (fDGF1)

449 I don't get it. Dead men beaming? Uhm, Red Shirts? Every guy who wears a Red Shirt (tunic) and "beams down" with Capt. Kirk (Shatner) to a new planet, always dies.

Posted by: Deety at August 27, 2013 03:56 AM (UaCt0)

450 Alexander Hamilton was born in 1757 and was 19 in 1776. Historians confuse his birth year with that of his older brother.

Posted by: Hibernian Faithful at August 27, 2013 05:10 AM (lXXXP)

451 Mr. Whittemore should be put in for the Medal of Honor. Unfortunately there is no one alive from his "Chain of Command" (as if he actually had one) to submit the paperwork. Maybe I should write my congresscritter - - -

Posted by: CharlieL at August 27, 2013 07:08 AM (1s0Ao)

452 Greetings: That photo looks more like a B-29 than a B-17 to me.

Posted by: 11B40 at August 27, 2013 08:11 AM (X67eo)

453 451 Oh hell no. B17, -G series or later.

Posted by: ELizabeth Bathory at August 27, 2013 11:00 AM (1flKi)

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