April 17, 2021
— Ace Open Blog
Welcome once again to America's War on Drugs, already in progress.
In the name of "protecting" us from the overstated ravages of drug addiction, the government engages in violence, rights violations, overzealous prosecutions, millions of interactions with the criminal justice system, and periodic bouts of performative lawmaking.
And what have we gotten in return? Drug users are the real winners here. The more money we throw at the Drug War, the more easily accessible and cheap drugs are. While politicians and government agencies claim they want to save people from violence and corruption, violent and corrupt law enforcement officers are doing all they can to be worse than the problem they're supposed to be solving.
When there's not enough drug activity to sustain local Drug Wars, the cops will create it. We saw this happen in Houston, Texas, where a botched drug raid, predicated on multiple levels of bullshit, resulted in cops killing two residents who had never engaged in the drug sales activity cited on the warrant request. Houston cops are, fortunately, feeling the pain. They may still be alive but they're facing a host of criminal charges.
If there aren't enough drug war combatants to engage with, cops on drug task forces aren't above creating their own. The botched raid in Houston was predicated on a statement from a nonexistent informant and drugs pulled from a cop's cruiser.
In New York City, it's more of the same. And it's going to cost city residents millions of dollars before this is all sorted out.
Over nearly two decades as a police officer and narcotics detective, Joseph E. Franco made thousands of arrests, many for the possession and sale of drugs. Mr. Franco often worked undercover, and his testimony secured convictions for prosecutors around the city.
But officials who once relied on Mr. Franco are questioning his accounts. After he was accused of lying about drug sales that videos showed never happened, Mr. Franco was charged with perjury in Manhattan in 2019.
Now, the fallout over Mr. Franco’s police work is spreading: As many as 90 convictions that he helped secure in Brooklyn will be thrown out, prosecutors plan to announce Wednesday. Many more cases in other boroughs could follow — a reckoning that lawyers said appears larger than any in the city’s legal system in recent history.
Cops lie. And their lies are swallowed by those who are supposed to be overseeing them. Turning drugs (and dealers) into cartoonish supervillains has paid off for law enforcement agencies. Billions of tax dollars finance efforts that have done nothing but ensure Americans can buy purer drugs at lower prices. When it's a cop's word against some drug fiend/dealer, everyone always believes the cop. Right up until they can't. Then the fallout begins.
Over 50% Of Liberal, White Women Under 30 Have A Mental Health Issue. Are We Worried Yet?
A 2020 Pew Research study reveals that over half of white, liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point. Does this mean there's a correlation between progressive ideas and mental health?
Oh my god it's a bobcat! Oh my god!"
If you thought you were having a rough start to your day, you might want to think again. Because a new piece of viral video that just hit the Internet shows how quickly things can escalate, all in the span of just 46 seconds. In a viral video that has racked up more than 7 million views on Twitter, a bobcat comes out of nowhere to interrupt the peaceful serenity of an average day.
The video appears to be a security camera. Things start out innocently enough with a guy waving and sending a cheerful "good morning" to a neighbor jogging past. He even takes a moment to make a comment about how he needs to wash his car.
In yet another bid to completely dominate all things e-commerce, Amazon’s reportedly begun testing a premium service that lets its customers opt into having their deliveries assembled once they reach their door. The service is planned to first hit shoppers based in Virginia and "two other markets,†according to an internal Amazon presentation leaked to Bloomberg on Friday.
It’s a small upgrade, but anyone who’s ordered furniture or big-ticket items from the company will tell you it’s a significant one. Furniture assembly is time-consuming, tiring, and sometimes even dangerous, which is why it’s sometimes worth the splurge to have someone put together your heavy bedframe or bookcase. While Amazon’s long offered buyers the option to leave deliveries directly inside their homes, the lack of any assembly service means some of these buyers will inevitably turn to competitors that offer one, like Wayfair or Home Depot.
According to Bloomberg, Amazon’s new service requires drivers to not only unpack and assemble a person’s purchases but to take the item back to Amazon if that person isn’t satisfied with the end result. These same drivers aren’t merely going to be expected to assemble relatively simple furniture staples, but they might be trained on installing weighty appliances like washing machines and dishwashers.
Born on this day: 17 Apr 1955English singer, songwriter and guitarist Pete Shelley from punk rock band Buzzcocks, who had the 1978 UK No.12 single 'Ever Fallen In Love, With Someone You Shouldn't've'. They made their first appearance in 1976 in Manchester, opening for the Sex Pistols. Shelley also had a solo career: his song ‘Homosapien’ charted in the US in 1981. He died of a suspected heart attack on 6 December 2018. via thisdayinmusic.com
Died on this day:17 Apr 1998Linda McCartney died after a long battle against cancer. Married Paul McCartney in 1969 when she was working as a photographer. As well as a being a member of Wings, she became an animal rights campaigner and launched her own brand of vegetarian food. via thisdayinmusic.com
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Treats to JJ Hamilton the Hamster for being such a good boy this week!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 17, 2021 10:06 PM (rwusL)
Posted by: Blutarski at April 17, 2021 10:07 PM (6Hjyp)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:07 PM (oUcR5)
Fuck the hamster who ate my first comment....
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 17, 2021 10:07 PM (rwusL)
Be nice, the hamsters can track you down
Posted by: Ace Open Blog at April 17, 2021 10:08 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at April 17, 2021 10:10 PM (Agr8U)
Are they any kin to Bob, from NSA?
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:11 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 17, 2021 10:12 PM (uFOGo)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 17, 2021 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 17, 2021 10:14 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 10:14 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2021 10:14 PM (FVrDO)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 10:14 PM (5SOal)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:15 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by:Commissar Hrothgarat April 17, 2021 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
* * * *Indeed it is! Glad you could make it.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 17, 2021 10:15 PM (rwusL)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 10:16 PM (fLVm1)
Last words the rider said for the final photo, involved beer, the holding thereof and a sincere invitation to bear witness to the emerging event.
There may have been some redneckery involved?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 17, 2021 10:16 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:16 PM (oUcR5)
There will be harsh words and recriminations tomorrow night I tell you!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 17, 2021 10:16 PM (hOUT3)
I'll add; portable record players, Zippo lighters and high beam light switch on the floor of the car.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:17 PM (3H9h1)
So like a friend he said it was okay as long as I cleaned up afterwards.
Always act like your on TV because these days you probably are.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:17 PM (LS3oW)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex-Killer Whale at April 17, 2021 10:17 PM (/1VCd)
Posted by: BacktoGa at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (MPYWI)
I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed. But I did run a clean score on that Older than Dirt quiz.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: CppThis at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (zcf1k)
Posted by:ALH, Sister Golden Hairat April 17, 2021 10:16 PM (oUcR5)
* * * *The Association. Won tickets from the local radio station when I was in 9th Grade.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (rwusL)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:16 PM (oUcR5)
Handel's Messiah!
Oops TMI.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (hOUT3)
Black Jack gum, I've got some on the table next to me. I'm gonna have stick, had it around for along time.
Posted by: Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Blutarski at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (6Hjyp)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 10:18 PM (5SOal)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex-Killer Whale at April 17, 2021 10:19 PM (/1VCd)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 10:19 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by: CppThis at April 17, 2021 10:19 PM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:20 PM (3H9h1)
Posted by: Toni at April 17, 2021 10:20 PM (/c+mq)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:20 PM (oUcR5)
Which is nice.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2021 10:20 PM (FVrDO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 17, 2021 10:20 PM (+lVUW)
A few days later, the little boy walks in on his parents having sex. The little boy says, "Daddy, daddy, what are you and mommy doing?â€
Embarrased the father says, "We’re making you a baby brother.â€
The boy cries out "But I don’t want a baby brother, turn mommy over, I’d rather have a puppy.â€
Posted by: Eric at April 17, 2021 10:21 PM (a2F+C)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 17, 2021 10:21 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair
Marshall Tucker at the OKC Civic Center. Maybe 1974?
Posted by: Blutarski at April 17, 2021 10:21 PM (6Hjyp)
One's got to wrap them in duct tape first...
Posted by: Zettai at April 17, 2021 10:22 PM (wqVX+)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:17 PM (3H9h1)</i>
Full serve gas stations Mechanical credit card imprinters Murder holesOh wait, murder holes were the Middle Ages.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 10:22 PM (fLVm1)
You and I have the same responses, then. Sisters!
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:22 PM (oUcR5)
Those tires... I didn't know they made 20cc motorcycles.
Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2021 10:22 PM (PPQdm)
But a lot of times they do. Or they suspect it and don't do anything about it because it means that they get a good "score" on their sheet when they go looking to climb the ladder to higher office or get a job with a big law company.
And judges are in on it also. Oh they do their best to keep apart from what goes on. The turn a blind eye to stuff that is plainly bullshit. Like with warrants. A lot of cops and DAs have certain judges that they go to because they know they'll sign anything no matter how dodgy.
Probably the only guy in a court house that's not in on it is the janitor and even he may know a thing or two.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:22 PM (LS3oW)
Posted by: chango lot at April 17, 2021 10:23 PM (g741k)
But, on the plus side, my wife tells me I have the maturity of a 13 yr old boy - so there's that!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:24 PM (Rvt88)
The last thing you want in your neighborhood is junkies. And I don't think we should just throw in the towel.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 17, 2021 10:24 PM (+lVUW)
To truly date yourself, name the first concert you ever attended.Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:16 PM (oUcR5)
Iron Maiden, 1987, Phoenix.
But, to be fair, I had a chance to see Kiss in Billings in 1977, and Kansas in 1980, and rush in 1981, but Dad forbade it every time. Didn't even bother asking about Judas Priest in Casper in 1983.
Showed him though. I've seen Slayer thrice, not to mention a ton of other metal shows. Moving to CO had its upside.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 10:24 PM (4l77G)
I'll add; portable record players, Zippo lighters and high beam light switch on the floor of the car.Posted by:Martini Farmer
After you turn the car on with the key you pull the starter nob.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 10:25 PM (gtatv)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:25 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2021 10:25 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Born Free at April 17, 2021 10:26 PM (az5nH)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:26 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 10:27 PM (8s6Nt)
Historic
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 10:28 PM (fLVm1)
And I've driven a pickup with a stomp starter on the floor. And a car with a pushbutton automatic.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2021 10:29 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Tonypete
My Maserati does 185. I lost my license, now I don't drive.
Posted by: Blutarski at April 17, 2021 10:29 PM (6Hjyp)
I've said it before and I'll say it again, we have now reached the point where every soldier and police officer in the West must choose between the citizens and the overlords. What has been broken in this age of post-truth and the most convenient pandemic in history does not quietly go back together again.
Posted by: CppThis at April 17, 2021 10:29 PM (zcf1k)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:29 PM (oUcR5)
How about ice houses?
In Texas, an ice house is a covered, open-air bar. Of which a few still exist.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2021 10:30 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2021 10:30 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:30 PM (oUcR5)
HA! Actually saw Joe Walsh up in Kent, OH. back in the day.
I was reasonably coherent for that one.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:30 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Doof at April 17, 2021 10:31 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 17, 2021 10:31 PM (4thlk)
I will gladly share the front row and consume those ugly dark beers for someone who like beers with too many hops or none at all.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 10:31 PM (gtatv)
Posted by: Weasel at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (MVjcR)
It's not Yoko painful, but it's still painful.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (vuisn)
i think I saw Boston on that tour at ISU in Normal. They were just getting big.
Posted by: Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (55Qr6)
May eliminating social distancing be ... fun. I'm going to sniff my wife's hair like a Biden.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (vaVoJ)
Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (FVrDO)
Love the joke!
Posted by: jewells45 is having a sale! at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (5SOal)
Damn. I'm way older than dirt. I'm older than magma.
Oh and I'd like to see the follow up to the "bobcat" video.
Something doesn't sit right with me about it. It's hinky and I can't tell you exactly why. There's a couple things I think are off. But it's quite possible it could happen like that. I don't know where this was and that also would be a point to note.
I think the main thing is if you've ever fought an angry/scared cat you know that when you grab them they are like all claws and teeth. Yet he holds that cat FROM THE FRONT (at least it look likes the front) and then tosses it. Most cats dig their claws in and they can't retract them if they get snagged. How did this guy get released from the claws.
Another thing is the color and the head. It looked more like a regular cat than a bobcat. Maybe the guy just thought it was one.
I won't be surprised if some info comes out that contradicts what people say it looks like or what the guy said it looked like.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (LS3oW)
As I said, I kind of stopped even asking.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (4l77G)
It's not Yoko painful, but it's still painful.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (vuisn)
Yep really horrible. Even A worse singer than me
Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 17, 2021 10:34 PM (G0bXQ)
First concert
1971, Claudio Abbado conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mozart's 40th Symphony and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring were on the program.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2021 10:34 PM (mht8P)
I will gladly share the front row and consume those ugly dark beers for someone who like beers with too many hops or none at all.
I will drink with you my friend! When the guys around the bar start going off about all these extra hoppy IPAs I think poorly of them and want to pull their man-buns.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:34 PM (Rvt88)
First Concert Blood, Sweat, and Tears @ Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 10:30 PM (u82oZ)
Have seen many shows there. Spent many humid summer nights on the lawn - partaking of various beverages and other unmentionables.
Posted by: Doof at April 17, 2021 10:34 PM (mZUr4)
We need to start ending these endless wars.
Posted by: Eat the Eloi at April 17, 2021 10:34 PM (V3EEC)
To truly date yourself, name the first concert you ever attended.
they might be giants at the fairground pavilion in salt lake city.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 10:34 PM (5br8a)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:35 PM (3H9h1)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:35 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: Beartooth at April 17, 2021 10:35 PM (GIu18)
Posted by: chango lot at April 17, 2021 10:35 PM (g741k)
I wonder how many of the items are still out there.
Posted by: JTB at April 17, 2021 10:37 PM (7EjX1)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:37 PM (oUcR5)
I won't be surprised if some info comes out that contradicts what people say it looks like or what the guy said it looked like.Posted by:Jakee308
There was a follow up. He shot the bobcat and took it to be checked.
He and his wife are now getting rabies shots.
P.S.
I have given the injections... according to my victims the medicine hurts a lot.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 10:37 PM (gtatv)
Drove cars with dimmer switch on floor. Had an extensive set of road maps from service stations in vehicle. Thought TANG was the bomb, but not because astronauts drank it. Assisted with a paper route (walked or biked). Served as crossing guard (Safety Patrol) in fifth and sixth grades. Hockey sticks with hooked blades were new and cool.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 17, 2021 10:38 PM (jN9H6)
Posted by: Theseus at April 17, 2021 10:38 PM (XsYOv)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:38 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: chango lot at April 17, 2021 10:38 PM (g741k)
LMAO, that sounds like my wife! 40 yrs in June.
Posted by: Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:38 PM (55Qr6)
First "real" concert -- Judas Priest 1984 Defenders of the Faith tour. Baltimore Civic Center.
Posted by: Doof at April 17, 2021 10:38 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 10:38 PM (2DOZq)
Rabbit ears. TV dinners in that lovely foil pan, with the cooked chocolate pudding. UHF on the dial. Levi's 501's. American Motors Corporation. Skylab. Testor's glue.
movies starting with the national anthem. that german channel that would save up the commercials and play them all in an hour block in the evening. model airplanes in plastic baggies for a dime at the px. school busses were olive drab, like everything else.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 10:39 PM (5br8a)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:39 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: JTB at April 17, 2021 10:40 PM (7EjX1)
want to pull their man-buns.Posted by:Tonypete
I'll gladly drink with you; but, you can handle the man-buns... I don't want to exposed to anything hiding in them.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 10:40 PM (gtatv)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 10:40 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2021 10:40 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 10:40 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:40 PM (LS3oW)
First concert was either Boston or Kiss at the Metra in Billings 1977. Both were in town that year and Bachmann Turner Overdrive too.Posted by: Beartooth at April 17, 2021 10:35 PM (GIu1
Huh. Buddy saw Kiss and Boston there, but not BTO. As I mentioned, Dad said nuh-uh. We lived in Cody at the time. he also saw Kansas, Rush, Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath and a few others.
In later years I saw Aerosmith (Get a Grip), not bad; and Scorpions (they sucked bad) at the Metra.
BTW, the pork sammich at Fiddler's Green was really good. And yuge. that and a pint of Guinness had me heading back to my folks' house for a nap.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 10:41 PM (4l77G)
Another would be cig machines in every bar, bus stop, and rest stop.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 17, 2021 10:41 PM (G0bXQ)
Posted by: Javems at April 17, 2021 10:42 PM (8SSHh)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:42 PM (Rvt88)
Haven't seen any Teaberry tho.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:42 PM (LS3oW)
The Doobie Brothers. I don't remember the year. Mid 70's?? First time I'd ever been exposed to weed. No, I didn't smoke it. I didn't need to. Just being there I think I got high from everyone else smoking.
Posted by: jewells45 is having a sale! at April 17, 2021 10:42 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 17, 2021 10:42 PM (Q9lwr)
123: Safety Patrol!
i've still got my schuelerlotsendienst badge from 7th grade squirrelled away somewhere...
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 10:42 PM (5br8a)
Posted by: Beartooth at April 17, 2021 10:43 PM (GIu18)
Haven't seen any Teaberry tho.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:42 PM (LS3oW)
You can get it from Vermont Country Store.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2021 10:43 PM (mht8P)
Posted by:Comrade Anachronda
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Actual rivits on the Levi jeans.
Ford motor company talked Levi's into deleting them because they scratched the car paint (I think it was Ford Mustang paint).
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 10:43 PM (gtatv)
Zamfir and his damn pan flute ended his career.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 10:43 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 17, 2021 10:44 PM (G0bXQ)
Posted by: Big V at April 17, 2021 10:44 PM (6Pqz7)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:44 PM (oUcR5)
He reads her mind. It's the only way. She'll sure as hell never tell him.
Posted by: It's OK To Be gp at April 17, 2021 10:44 PM (qpX6U)
was it really a bobcat?
I wondered if it was rabid. Cause that will mess animals up and they become very aggressive. Even mild and meek ones will attack.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (LS3oW)
In 1967 my dad resurrected an old floor model Zenith radio. It received AM, some FM, shortwave and such. It opened my world as I could listen to programs from around the world. Favorites were Radio Prague, Radio Netherlands, also the state station of Switzerland and South Africa.
had a nice portable shortwave from radio shack. i attached a long antenna to a broomstick. i'd get my exercise by walking around town with my antenna over my shoulder listening to the shortwave. until mrs. chronda was using my radio while taking a bath and pulled it into the tub. it never worked right after that.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (5br8a)
Went to two different Walmarts this evening. Both had plywood up over the windows and doors, presumably in anticipation of the Chauvin verdict. These Walmarts are quite a bit south of Minneapolis.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (+lVUW)
Or seeing José Feliciano on a float at Epcot?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: pep at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (v16oJ)
When she doesn't stop him from trying.
Posted by: davidt at April 17, 2021 10:45 PM (ez/ed)
Posted by: chango lot at April 17, 2021 10:46 PM (g741k)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 10:46 PM (5SOal)
Or seeing José Feliciano on a float at Epcot?
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No and no.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 10:46 PM (fLVm1)
Similar to drive thru lanes at the bank.
What's old is new again.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:46 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Javems at April 17, 2021 10:47 PM (8SSHh)
Nehru jackets. AM (only) radios. And gas pumps with the little orange balls in a glass cup on the sides that spun when gas was being dispensed. I think those were at Esso stations.
and esso stations.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 10:47 PM (5br8a)
#18: Spelling lessons in school
Posted by: MW at April 17, 2021 10:47 PM (KXr4W)
According to the report it was a rabid bobcat.
--- And rivets are spelled with an E. DOH.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 10:47 PM (gtatv)
until mrs. chronda was using my radio while taking a bath and pulled it into the tub. it never worked right after that.
Which one - Mrs. Chronda or the radio?
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:48 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: jewells45 is having a sale! at April 17, 2021 10:48 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 10:49 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 10:49 PM (fLVm1)
Please to be naming a successful government solution?
Just one would be nice!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (hOUT3)
until mrs. chronda was using my radio while taking a bath and pulled it into the tub. it never worked right after that.
which one - Mrs. Chronda or the radio?
i'm gonna plead the fifth on that one.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (5br8a)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (G0bXQ)
Hmmmm, I don't know if it was the *first* but I saw the Allman Brothers Band open for Rare Earth. They were a really hard act to follow and Rare Earth failed miserably as expected.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (y7DUB)
https://bit.ly/3dx4co9
Quite satisfying. Wish I could see the move.
Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (JioHo)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (fLVm1)
Or seeing José Feliciano on a float at Epcot?
Are you enjoying your life in The Villages?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (jN9H6)
Edsel or a Plymouth. Valiant? I forget what model.
They were a trip.
Edsel had the buttons in the middle of the steering wheel.
Chrysler put there's on a rack on the dashboard.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (LS3oW)
I owned literally nothing with a chip in it.
Posted by: pep at April 17, 2021 10:49 PM (v16oJ)
--------------------------Not even a bag of chips?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: RobertM at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (qWhQP)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (fpng3)
Posted by: klaftern at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: shipoopi at April 17, 2021 10:52 PM (1mSXP)
I won't be surprised if some info comes out that contradicts what people say it looks like or what the guy said it looked like. Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (LS3oW)
I thought I saw someone here mention that they actually have the animal and it tested positive for rabies.
Posted by: Buzzion at April 17, 2021 10:52 PM (nrjQd)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 17, 2021 10:52 PM (4thlk)
2 different ones... a 1975 Ford Torino Wagon and a 69 Chevelle. Took the driver's exam in the wagon. Aced the parallel parking, bitches.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:52 PM (3H9h1)
Prime destinations for widespread looting when everyone knows the near downtown metro area is saturated with law enforcement. Surreal amount of National Guard servicemen on foot patrol today. Makes me wonder if the powers that be are officially predicting something less than guilty on all charges.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 17, 2021 10:52 PM (+WWsf)
*** And for heaven sakes, were my husband and I the only couple that had a code phrase for "let's make love" tonight?
Posted by: Iris at April 17, 2021 10:52 PM (6lKe4)
Neil Diamond at the Tacoma Dome. 1982
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at April 17, 2021 10:53 PM (fpng3)
Pretty cool.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 10:53 PM (4l77G)
Tonypete, the JC Penny by my grandparents house in OKC still had yhe pneumatic tibe system.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2021 10:54 PM (YynYJ)
Remembering anything pre-Elmo is a win in my book.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 17, 2021 10:54 PM (+WWsf)
And for heaven sakes, were my husband and I the only couple that had a code phrase for "let's make love" tonight?
"Brace yourself Kathrine!" seems to work out pretty well.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:54 PM (Rvt88)
'61 Rambler Ambassador station wagon, 327ci, in-dash push button automatic.
Posted by: davidt at April 17, 2021 10:54 PM (ez/ed)
Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (fjS2+)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (/6mVr)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (oUcR5)
I was the only one that had a slide-rule (Dad's Perkin-Elmer) and the instructor didn't want to skew the curve so he let us all use the calculators we had been using the entire semester.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (gtatv)
The first concert for my generation's music was a Beatles concert in Foxboro. It was so long ago they still wore ties and jackets on stage. Can't say I heard much because the F'ing teenyboppers were screaming their almost pubescent lungs out. I've been a fan of contaltos ever since.
Posted by: JTB at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (7EjX1)
If you can drive that car you could drive any car.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (FVrDO)
As I said, I kind of stopped even asking.
Posted by
ug Mahon, in the Big Sky Countryat April 17, 2021 10:33
Heck, my Mom didn't want me to buy Superman comics, ca. 1965-66. WTF?
Posted by: Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Toad-O at April 17, 2021 10:56 PM (cct0t)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 10:56 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 17, 2021 10:56 PM (+lVUW)
"Brace yourself Kathrine!" seems to work out pretty well.
Posted by:Tonypeteat April 17, 2021 10:54 PM (Rvt8
Which is akin to "Hey, you, come over here"
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 10:56 PM (oUcR5)
I thought I saw someone here mention that they actually have the animal and it tested positive for rabies.
Little bugger stayed up all night studying for it, too!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 17, 2021 10:57 PM (jN9H6)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 17, 2021 10:57 PM (/6mVr)
*I didn't know that at the time, but felt it was relevant to my experience as I remember it now. It's my truth.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:57 PM (3H9h1)
Please to be naming a successful government solution?
Just one would be nice!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 17, 2021 10:50 PM (hOUT3)
Smokey The Bear PSAs -- Only YOU can prevent forest fires. Probably did more good than harm.
After that, I'm all out of examples.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 17, 2021 10:58 PM (F0YaR)
Hidden click: Dick Clark still looked kinda young back in 1987.
Older than dirt: 4 or more? Hahaha. That can't be "old stuff" because I remember, every item on the list, quite well. Greasy Butch Wax for that "flip" on the front of an otherwise very short haircut. Helping Mom paste S&H stamps into the booklets. When BrotherL moved to the Missouri forest, all he could get was a party line. He hated it, and raged at the woman who always listened in.
Ace Open Blog, wondering why you can't just use MH nic now. Well, Pixy will be fixing things soon, so it's moot I guess.
Thanks for the ONTertainment.
Posted by: mindful webworker and the threads of overnight at April 17, 2021 10:58 PM (X15H5)
Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 10:55 PM (fjS2+)
--------------------------There's a candy shop in the Mall of America that sells candy cigarettes. There's also a huge candy store that carries a lot of candy from yesteryear.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 17, 2021 10:58 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Walter Freeman"
I think there's a good chance they'll riot even if there is a guilty version. They just want an excuse to riot.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 17, 2021 10:58 PM (+lVUW)
The government has never solved anything- it only makes things worse. The so called 'war on drugs' has been going on for 60 plus years. The government makes tons of money from it, and still, people are dying from drugs every day. Where is the upside for anyone except the government? I sure don't know what the answer is, but the government surely doesn't have it.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 10:58 PM (5SOal)
Bottle Coke machines, barely, though I remember the yellow wooden "flat" of 24 bottles that my dad would take to the gas station to exchange for filled ones.
in italy, we'd buy coke in flats delivered by a fellow who drove around in a little three-wheeler piaggio thingie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_Ape
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 10:59 PM (5br8a)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 10:59 PM (4l77G)
Posted by: Sabin at April 17, 2021 10:59 PM (efX5n)
Posted by:JTBat April 17, 2021 10:40
My Mom did green stamps, think she got silverware, maybe a lamp also.
Posted by: Farmer at April 17, 2021 10:59 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 10:59 PM (Rvt88)
*chuckles*
(At least the St. Louis Blues got off the schneid.)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 17, 2021 10:59 PM (+WWsf)
I think there's a good chance they'll riot even if there is a guilty version. They just want an excuse to riot.
Posted by:nerdygirlat April 17, 2021 10:58 PM (+lVUW)
Stimulus money is spent.
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 11:00 PM (oUcR5)
"Captain Kangaroo", followed by "I Love Lucy" re-runs on weekday mornings.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 17, 2021 11:00 PM (jN9H6)
Green 1972 Datsun 510 with a roadster clutch. It was my brother Loco's car.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:00 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 17, 2021 11:00 PM (uFOGo)
Posted by: Mike Rodin at April 17, 2021 11:00 PM (dI+0s)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 17, 2021 11:00 PM (uFOGo
Major cop car.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 17, 2021 11:01 PM (G0bXQ)
Pf Flyers were sneakers. Butchwax for making the edges of a short hair cut stand up. (called a Butch.)
Or if you had the sides long to make a D.A. (who remembers that)
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:01 PM (LS3oW)
Posted by: blaster at April 17, 2021 11:02 PM (Ef23Y)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 11:02 PM (4l77G)
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It made the crew cut stand up real good.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 11:02 PM (fLVm1)
If you can drive that car you could drive any car.
My buds and I worked on Chevys from 55 through 57. After that they became barges and you were better off with Novas or Chevelles.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:02 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (4thlk)
The Coke bottles used to have on them the city where the bottle came from.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (mht8P)
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Posted by: kbdabear at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: jewells45 is having a sale! at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (jN9H6)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (uFOGo)
Posted by:Widespread Pepeat April 17, 2021 10:57 PM (/6mVr)
Schools' house rocks.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 11:03 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 11:04 PM (2DOZq)
I saw Elvis at CVS three weeks ago.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 11:04 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2021 11:05 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2021 11:05 PM (oUcR5)
Gonna get cold and yucky again.Posted by
Water is wet, and the sun rises in the East.
You're in Montana in the Spring!
My sister in White Fish says "Don't come in May we can get freezes.
Me: Okay June.
Sis: Nope we had a freeze last year in June.
Me: July? August?
Sis: Beginning of August will be okay.
Mrs. AZ D will not move to MT.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 11:06 PM (gtatv)
Posted by: Miklos, liker of Official Saturday Night Jokes at April 17, 2021 11:06 PM (QzkSJ)
So I can add my own to the "old" list.
Touring US Navy ships almost every weekend because the Navy was still enormous, with the Cold War, and lots of WWII ships still in service.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 11:06 PM (OTzUX)
It's not Yoko painful, but it's still painful.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 10:32 PM (vuisn)
Yep really horrible. Even A worse singer than me
Posted by: LASue at April 17, 2021 10:33 PM (Ed8Zd)
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Yep, I always figured she must have been awesome in the sack, cuz........
Posted by: Norman Spiny at April 17, 2021 11:06 PM (68uBc)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 11:07 PM (2DOZq)
Geauga is one of those spooky abandoned amusement places now like so many others. So sad.
I still remember the jingle of Chippewa Lake Park too.
Some guy with a fake Indian accent - "Hav'em heap big time." Couldn't get away with that shit today.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 11:07 PM (Rvt88)
You just have to write those people off. There just too far gone to ever try to reason with. I see it everyday. I used to get angry. Now, I just laugh.
Posted by: jewells45 is having a sale! at April 17, 2021 11:07 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 11:07 PM (5SOal)
Slightly more than half the country are foreigners or insane maniacs so we are proper fucked.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2021 11:08 PM (FVrDO)
The only good thing about Twitter was Trump used it as an end around the enemedia. Other than that, lowlifes and cocksuckers. In other words, Dorsey.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:08 PM (y7DUB)
I had to stop watching the Keanu Reeves movie "Replicas" about half way in. I just don't want to see the horrible nightmare that is about to hit Reeves' character, who is trying to clone his dead wife and three kids.
It's a terrible movie and it shouldn't bother me that it is going to end so badly for the character. But it does. Maybe I'm just getting sentimental in my Older Than Dirt age.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 17, 2021 11:08 PM (i4vaF)
The most terrible fear for any student - the school contacting your parents.
(both sides of that equation seem to have vanished, entirely)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 11:09 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: jewells45 is having a sale! at April 17, 2021 11:09 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Sabin at April 17, 2021 11:09 PM (efX5n)
Posted by: Mojo Miklos witha Nixon/Agnew bumper sticker-Elvis is everywhere at April 17, 2021 11:09 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 11:09 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 17, 2021 11:09 PM (+WWsf)
The world series being over before November. November was when football season began.
Basketball over before March or there abouts. Then there was hockey (on tv. at school there wasn't much except wrestling or swimming)
In School they had to knock off one sport before the other could begin because a lot of the same guys were in multiple sports.
Track was also from School start or just before to about November. I did cross country.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:10 PM (LS3oW)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 11:10 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:10 PM (LS3oW)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 11:10 PM (5SOal)
TJM, sorry I missed yet another of your film threads. I was really busy today cleaning out my closet, but on the up side I did a really good job. Now I can come out of my closet with pride!
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 17, 2021 11:11 PM (L2ZTs)
OT: Earlier today someone posted a challenge to Muldoon to rhyme with the word "onomatopoeia". My dad was also a pediatrician with a thing for limericks, and some of it must have rubbed off on me. Muldoon, this one's for you:
With rhyming skills over the moon, the wizardly Moron Muldoon, took "Yeah? I wanna see ya rhyme 'onomatopoeia'" as a bet - which he won - and quite soon
Posted by: Cowboyneal at April 17, 2021 11:11 PM (U2zo0)
And evening, Horde!
Posted by: The_Hoser at April 17, 2021 11:11 PM (ioRP+)
https://www.the-editing-room.com/lotr.html
Posted by: Sharkman at April 17, 2021 11:11 PM (i4vaF)
Problem is talking the missus into it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 11:11 PM (4l77G)
When I worked summers for the B&O, there were teachers trying to make ends meet during down time.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:11 PM (y7DUB)
The guys at the quarry barely looking up as they said to us "stay in the back".
And this was not a rural area or small town.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 11:13 PM (OTzUX)
Geauga is one of those spooky abandoned amusement places now like so many others. So sad.
Posted by: Tonypete
Geauga outta heres!
Posted by: Miklos with fake Cleveland accent at April 17, 2021 11:13 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Cowboyneal at April 17, 2021 11:13 PM (U2zo0)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
It's Sunday in Budapest.
Posted by: multi-zonal Miklos at April 17, 2021 11:15 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: war at April 17, 2021 11:15 PM (9lcMN)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 17, 2021 11:15 PM (4thlk)
You're docked two hours. If it happens again, don't bother showing up at all.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 11:16 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: Sabin at April 17, 2021 11:16 PM (efX5n)
Geauga is one of those spooky abandoned amusement places now like so many others. So sad.
People living in Mantua must have been miserable during the summer as the park traffic clogged that dinky "major road".
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:16 PM (y7DUB)
Foot operated high beams. Eight track.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 17, 2021 10:51 PM (G0bXQ)
For brights, I seem to remember a big metal button you push into the floor. And then pop again to turn off. I was driving some rental in Scottland about 15 years ago where you could adjust the angle of your lights, up high to piss everyone off or down so low they didn't do any good. Kind of a strange option.
I had a home 8 track player and my first car which was an orange 77 nova had a pioneer 8 track in it from the previous owner. I remember cassette tapes coming out and thinking well this is a step back. Some cassette players got fancy though and would do a search for the next track. But by then CDs were already the big thing. Metal tapes were also late in the game.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2021 11:17 PM (q82Ic)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:17 PM (SchxB)
Buster Brown leather shoes for playing because sneakers were only for indoor gym classes.
Then there was the family going to the drive-in theater in the station wagon. We played in our PJs in the play area in front of the screen until the newsreel and cartoon started. The sound (which was terrible) came from a speaker that hung on the driver side window. I don't think I ever made it to the second feature. My siblings and I fell asleep on the plastic mattress in the far back of the wagon. That mattress, even though clean, always smelled a bit like puke but not enough to keep us awake.
Posted by: JTB at April 17, 2021 11:18 PM (7EjX1)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair
Pure Prairie League at the Lane County Fair in Eugene, Oregon, August 16, 1977. I was 14.
Walked out after the concert and heard that Elvis' bloated corpse had been found.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 17, 2021 11:18 PM (i4vaF)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Jail to the Thief at April 17, 2021 11:18 PM (4LwIn)
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That's what they wanted you to believe.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 11:19 PM (fLVm1)
Cruisin' Sunset Blvd.
Just like American Graffiti except in Hollywood.
Jam packed bumper to bumper for miles.
Ride to west hollywood then turn around. start back at sunset and vine Or the Aquarius Theater cause there was a gas station on that corner next you could fill up and turn around. I used to work in that gas station. Lived around the corner. Also delivered the LA Times.
I had an efficiency apartment with a murphy bed cost me $70 a week.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:20 PM (LS3oW)
Posted by: Blutarski
She had it so you wouldn't forget how cool she was even if you lived a trillion years.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 17, 2021 11:20 PM (i4vaF)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Jail to the Thief at April 17, 2021 11:20 PM (4LwIn)
Reminds me of Jungle Habitat in North Jersey. They closed their drive-thru safari park and *supposedly* just let all the animals loose in the woods where many died.
Always felt bad for the animals.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 11:21 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 17, 2021 11:21 PM (L2ZTs)
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That's what they wanted you to believe.
Posted by: Cicero
*merely observes*
Posted by: the Rosicrucians at April 17, 2021 11:21 PM (QzkSJ)
My buds and I hated all Fords but Falcons were the most underpowered pieces of shit I ever encountered.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:21 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Oh, man, so I ever envy you. I saw them in 1997 when they were old and grey but still terrific.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 17, 2021 11:22 PM (i4vaF)
Posted by: Jakee308
I'm still big, it's the beds that got small.
Posted by: Norma Miklos-Desmond at April 17, 2021 11:22 PM (QzkSJ)
I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this. Never mind the four National Guard humvees, one troop carrier, and one local police cruiser, all idling on the street directly in front of my apartment parking lot tonight.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 17, 2021 11:23 PM (+WWsf)
Posted by:Winston GOPe not one dime, not one voteat April 17, 2021 10:14 PM (8s6Nt)
Mom just told me I watched Howdy Doody, but I don't remember that one. If you mark you lawn, I'll stay off it.
Heh, when I was a grade schooler, I lived 3 house down the street from the grandad of a classmate. Even he stayed off the old man's lawn! Yeah, guy was a fanatic. Postage stamp front lawn plus devil's strip. His grass was perfect! Every reference here to such brings back that memory.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, still drinking Wild Turkey Honey at April 17, 2021 11:23 PM (8C7+r)
Posted by: Norman Spiny at April 17, 2021 11:24 PM (68uBc)
Posted by: Miklos, comprehending the slang languagings of the youths at April 17, 2021 11:24 PM (QzkSJ)
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If you experience an erection lasting more than 45 years, consult with your doctor.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2021 11:26 PM (fLVm1)
Yeah, mom said no, but offered to change her mind if "Lee's" mom agreed to let her daughter go. Mom knew that Lee's dad was an Essex County sheriff, so she was clearly stacking the deck. Took a few years for mom and sis to reconcile after that one...
My first concert? Might have been Renaissance at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ. Maybe Jethro Tull, same venue, dunno..I was busy shifting my own gears and flashing hi beams from the floor, while dropping a Sen-Sen before picking up my date. You punks get off my lawn...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 17, 2021 11:27 PM (ZJ4XO)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 17, 2021 11:27 PM (4thlk)
Posted by:Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)at April 17, 2021 11:00
Yes! Same memories. I was shocked to find that Capt K started the day before I was born. Don't know when we got a TV, but I grew up on this stuff.
Posted by: Farmer at April 17, 2021 11:27 PM (55Qr6)
I certainly hope the cop is acquitted on all counts, based on my understanding of the facts. But the festivities may be unleashed anyway, without regard to the verdict, as you and others have noted.
Of course that zero price was paid by the buffoons in power in MN for the destruction last year is the key. America spirals down, and at every step, the worst most guilty and destructive people are rewarded, and the best people punished.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 11:27 PM (OTzUX)
And BTW, it's always good to see my pal Miklos, no matter the day in the world
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 11:27 PM (5SOal)
So it goes...
Posted by: ChrisP at April 17, 2021 11:27 PM (dacO6)
there were teachers trying to make ends meet during down time.They still do that; but, they get arrested for doing it with their students now.Posted by:Captain Hate
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 17, 2021 11:27 PM (gtatv)
Posted by: Cicero
yes. Oh yes.
Posted by: Dr. Tanya Tucker, born 1958 at April 17, 2021 11:28 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:28 PM (y7DUB)
Only this one will have armed overseers with shoot to kill orders.
And then they will start rounding up people with guns because it's an emergency and they can't have people with guns under martial law.
Remember New Orleans? How the cops went around and seized peoples firearms? Yeah later the courts said it was illegal but that didn't help anybody.
That's when the rubber hits the road and we find out whether we're men/women or slaves.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:28 PM (LS3oW)
You know that story in South Carolina about the evil white man confronting the innocent black man in his neighborhood? In the 6th paragraph, The Washington Post says "the young man is accused of earlier assaults." Also tried to kidnap a baby.
The report on the incident I saw on TV made no mention of the assaults or kidnapping. Surprise Surprise.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 17, 2021 11:29 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 17, 2021 11:29 PM (KATBx)
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If you experience an erection lasting more than 45 years, consult with your doctor.
Posted by: Cicero
yes, oh yes
Posted by: Dr. Tanya Tucker, born 1958 at April 17, 2021 11:30 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 11:30 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by: Cthillary at April 17, 2021 11:30 PM (FWn1L)
Posted by: Big V at April 17, 2021 11:30 PM (6Pqz7)
Posted by: Tennessee Jed at April 17, 2021 11:31 PM (alrWI)
@ChrisHrapsky; local NBC anchor and reporter: "We can now confirm that Minnesota has reached out to other states for law enforcement help. Ohio state troopers will be coming here and 'other law enforcement agencies' will be assigned to 'security missions at key state facilities' according to @MinnesotaOSN"
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." -Barack Obama 2008
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 17, 2021 11:35 PM (63Dwl)
Good grief. A 45 year erection. Honestly, good for the gal who could keep up with THAT!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 11:35 PM (5SOal)
Posted by:Winston GOPe not one dime, not one voteat April 17, 2021 11:30 PM (8s6Nt)
I have a fine crop of dandelions coming up. A paucity of yard maintenance last your due to back surgery followed by COVID.
Am considering chemical warfare commencing tomorrow AM.
Or sleeping off bourbon.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf, still drinking Wild Turkey Honey at April 17, 2021 11:36 PM (8C7+r)
And as strong and manly as me.
Posted by: Bawack Owbamma at April 17, 2021 11:37 PM (QzkSJ)
Am considering chemical warfare commencing tomorrow AM.
I've got a few anthills to kill. Will be deploying a full suite of chemical weapons to accomplish the task. OK, probably just some bug spray on their mounds.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:38 PM (SchxB)
Captain Hate.. yes, but one could option the 298 V-8 in the Falcon, and it would damn near get out of it's own way.
And given that the '64-1/2 Mustang was in essence just a re-skinned Falcon with a styilin' interior, it had the same straight six or 289 of it's Falcon progenitor.
Wasn't till the '67 Mustang (IIRC), that the engine bay grew large enough to contain the 351, and also (IIRC), it was Carrol Shelby who figured out how to shoehorn the 427 into the 'Stang.
It might be a restorative sin, but I'm hugely in favor of a strong resto-mods on 1st gen Mustangs. Better suspension, better brakes, better cooling and 'lectronic fuel injection for the win. All of the looks, few of the failings. Just keep all the old parts to put "back as was" in case a collector's sale forces the issue.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 17, 2021 11:39 PM (QzJWU)
Am considering chemical warfare commencing tomorrow AM.
Or sleeping off bourbon.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf
The dandlions
have time
For Bourbon
One has time
Posted by: Miklos, noting that the current format is not haiku-friendly at April 17, 2021 11:40 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:41 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Javems at April 17, 2021 10:47 PM (8SSHh)
1954 Chevrolet 3100. Bought it for $215, in 1978. Sold it for $4k in 2018. Got lucky in it ....
Posted by: BifBewalski - that's scary as fook at April 17, 2021 11:41 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 11:41 PM (8s6Nt)
J.J. Cale live is always a great intimate live show.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 17, 2021 11:42 PM (/6mVr)
Documents Released in Ghislaine Maxwell Case Show DOJ Knew Years Ago that Epstein Abused Girls "As Young as 12 But Younger the Better†But Did Nothing
Recently Opened Houston Shelter for 500 Teen Migrant Girls Abruptly Closed and Evacuated After Volunteer Dies Amid Literal Warehousing of Children
Gateway Pundit
Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 11:42 PM (wgsys)
Posted by: Cthillary at April 17, 2021 11:42 PM (FWn1L)
I can testify that Round up works a treat. Get the real stuff and it will keep all grass and weeds from growing for up to a year.
Not for the garden or any garden or lawn nearby via drainage.
Within a couple weeks you will have a brown lawn that doesn't grow. No watering or mowing needed.
Your HOA or your neighbors might get upset tho.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:43 PM (LS3oW)
Posted by: EyeTest at April 17, 2021 11:43 PM (FkbB3)
Posted by: Pastor Charles the Simple at April 17, 2021 11:43 PM (HuH1F)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 17, 2021 11:43 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 11:43 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by:Sabinat April 17, 2021 11:09
Told this to Jules who grew in Chicago area. She remembers this, thinks they were called charge plates. Grandma and Mom had them. Places that offered them were the high end ones.
But Sam Drucker at the Junction was offering the earliest form of credit. Petticoat Junction...
Posted by: Farmer at April 17, 2021 11:44 PM (55Qr6)
That was the last place I used a wringer washer too.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2021 11:44 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: RTW at April 17, 2021 11:44 PM (jJlJu)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 17, 2021 11:44 PM (/6mVr)
289s were nice but those 6 cylinder slugs just redefined uselessness. Chevy had their share of underpowered turds too with obligatory tapping valves always needing adjustments.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:45 PM (y7DUB)
Some green spray paint can fix that color problem. Won't make the dead grass any less flammable.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:45 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: BifBewalski
My parents had one. I remember putting my young eyes close to the rear floorboards in the back and watching the road go by about a foot away, because it was rusted out.
Posted by: Miklos, could have lost any eye that way, but didn't at April 17, 2021 11:46 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 11:46 PM (8s6Nt)
Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden at April 17, 2021 11:47 PM (bTQ72)
Posted by: Pastor Charles the Simple at April 17, 2021 11:48 PM (HuH1F)
I've seen some of those. I think by an "artist" in Australia. The results are very interesting to look at. All I need is a lot of empty beer cans and a small smelting plant to melt them down.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:49 PM (SchxB)
If you're thinking of a single speed with Bendix brakes on the rear axle and no caliper brakes? They still make those too.
Expensive as all hell but they're a good piece of machinery. Last a long time. I had mine stolen.
It was a mountain bike with big tires and caliper brakes 18 speeds and it folded so it could be traveled with.
I think it was $400 in the early 90s.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:49 PM (LS3oW)
Chrysler, Plymouth and Dodge: all MoPar.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:49 PM (y7DUB)
Is the Boulder Theater still up and running? I attended many shows there; I just can't deal with Boulder anymore. It used to be a fun town- not so much anymore. Too many lefties who are way too full of themselves...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 11:50 PM (5SOal)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 11:52 PM (8s6Nt)
All I need is a lot of empty beer cans and a small smelting plant to melt them down.
well, you can work on the first while you figure out the second.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 17, 2021 11:53 PM (5br8a)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:53 PM (y7DUB)
Sadly, Schwinn has borne the Made in China decal on the seat post downtube, since at least 2003, if not before.
And now you know why the handlebar bell sounds: "chink!chink!"
/idenouncemyself
Galveston, TX
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 17, 2021 11:53 PM (QzJWU)
Yeah there's a couple types of weeds that don't react. Did you use the killer stuff or the control stuff. There's a difference in concentration.
Just apply it again till they don't come back. May take a couple applications.
It will do your lawn good. Mine (when I stopped doing it) came back much nicer than the way it used to be. Came back with a lot of clover. Lots of ground covering weeds of some kind but they didn't grow as fast as the old lawn which was a pain and why I killed the old lawn off. Got tired of mowing every other day. (had neighborhood restrictions on the height of the grass and I could not afford getting anyone on my case)
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:53 PM (LS3oW)
Pretty sure that's true for any form of metal casting. A little burns a long way if you miss the target.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:53 PM (SchxB)
You should seriously leave town. Plan on a week. They will riot and burn regardless of the verdict. If he's convicted, they will just loot. It could get very very ugly and dangerous.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2021 11:54 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 11:56 PM (8s6Nt)
I wouldn't want to be those folks for any amount of money. Unless they guaranteed me an armored car out and a private jet to my new home in another country.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:57 PM (LS3oW)
Not really. There might be some surface flame as the stuff on the outside oxidizes, but it's not really burning like wood or plastic do.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 17, 2021 11:57 PM (SchxB)
Try Crossbow. It's what works on blackberries. And with that advice, I'm out for the night. The dogs wake me up early Sundays.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2021 11:57 PM (YynYJ)
Posted by: late Nite Pedant, with 26 minutes of Free Life remaining at April 17, 2021 11:57 PM (QzkSJ)
I don't think so. It oxidizes at a low temperature but it doesn't weaken it like iron rusting. You might be thinking of magnesium which burns really brightly when heated enough.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 17, 2021 11:58 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex-Killer Whale at April 17, 2021 11:58 PM (/1VCd)
Led Zeppelin. Rick Derringer was the middle act. New to the scene Judas Priest was the opener. Oakland Coliseum, 1977
Posted by: Al Bundy at April 17, 2021 11:58 PM (6H/55)
You should see them pouring metal wearing sandals.
They have zero safety standards. Which is one reason their stuff is so cheap. A lot of it is made at home workshops.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 17, 2021 11:59 PM (LS3oW)
"Good and hard, Minneapolis, good and hard!" ?
Posted by: Zettai
zombie H.L. Mencken?
Posted by: Miklos hazards a guess at April 17, 2021 11:59 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Pastor Charles the Simple at April 17, 2021 11:59 PM (HuH1F)
Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 18, 2021 12:00 AM (8s6Nt)
First real concert, Jefferson Airplane 1968. Followed by Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead and The Who. And yes, I did lots of drugs. It was the late 60's after all. Amazing that I've lived this long. I remember watching The lone Ranger and Mighty Mouse on Saturday mornings with whom I identified. If you have met me you know why. My first car was a purple station wagon that my father bought me because he said I would be easy to spot. I was a kind of a bad girl and I think he thought this would keep me out of trouble. Unfortunately, did not work.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2021 12:00 AM (sd8p8)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 18, 2021 12:00 AM (a4EWo)
Was that a "Day on the Green" concert?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 12:01 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:01 AM (LS3oW)
Thin Lizzy.
Pantera.
Pink Floyd.
Grand Funk.
Johnny Cash.
Alice in Chains.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 18, 2021 12:01 AM (4l77G)
I don't think so. It oxidizes at a low temperature but it doesn't weaken it like iron rusting. You might be thinking of magnesium which burns really brightly when heated enough.
Posted by: Captain Hate
Hmm
Not sure about this
Posted by: HMS Sheffield at April 18, 2021 12:02 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 18, 2021 12:02 AM (y7DUB)
Is the Boulder Theater still up and running? I attended many shows there; I just can't deal with Boulder anymore. It used to be a fun town- not so much anymore. Too many lefties who are way too full of themselves...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 17, 2021 11:50 PM (5SOal)
I have no idea, Marie. I moved back to Dixie many years ago. The Boulder Theater was a gem though. It's crazy that Boulder had both the Fox Theater and The Boulder Theater for live music. I even saw Russel Crowe's band open for Susan Vega and David Byrne at The Fox. Russell Crowe got drunk as fuck and acted like an asshole literally wanted to fight people in the crowd and told the Fox Theater folks to fuck off. I'm pretty sure that was the inspiration for how South Park came up with Russell Crowe's Fighting Round The World episode. Those were the days. *sigh*
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 18, 2021 12:02 AM (/6mVr)
But I think the town I lived in was too small for numbers 5 and 6. The town had one diner with no jukebox, and no milk delivery that I recall. I think if you were too far away to walk to the supermarket for milk, you probably had your own cows.
Posted by: mikeski at April 18, 2021 12:03 AM (P1f+c)
Aluminum WILL burn, but only at temperatures substantially hotter than merely the melting point, itself.
The WWII Damage Control Expert Laden U.S. Navy would be aghast to modern warships with steel hulls and aluminum superstructures. Once it does get to that actual burning point, it's pretty much laughing at the fire hoses pointed it's way.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2021 12:03 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 12:05 AM (5SOal)
Blanco, yes it was. Bill Graham put them on every year. You could see a show with four or five headlining bands for the incredibly low price of $9.00 Those were the days.
Posted by: Al Bundy at April 18, 2021 12:05 AM (6H/55)
I can't be any clearer, folks; the city will burn and sensible people don't want to be there when the shit goes down. I may not like it, you may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that it'll happen. Prime Doofus Walz will huff and puff but he won't do fuckall, just like he didn't do fuckall last year when his DFL underlings lost control of the streets for good.
What's kind of ironic is when I moved to MN I thought it would be one of the later places to get touched by the inevitable hard-left conflagration. I started to change my mind around 2017, it was becoming obvoius that the D in DFL was pushing FL out the door and mainlining some weapons grade stupid.
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 12:06 AM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 18, 2021 12:06 AM (y7DUB)
I still remember when memes were grammatically correct.
I also remember laundry washboards and how they were occasionally used for something else:
https://youtu.be/SdejswQs5e8
Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 18, 2021 12:07 AM (TIE/M)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 18, 2021 12:07 AM (vuisn)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country
I sent you VIP passes to the tour of Miklos and His All-Star All-Chick Hungarian/Ukrainian Big Titty Band and Orchestra, but you never showed. Unless you were the guy when we had to bail out, and then drop charges.
Man, charges were DROPPED, OK?
Posted by: Miklos and the Girls offer honest "hands" of "friendship" at April 18, 2021 12:08 AM (QzkSJ)
Too many LI people and the media won't say anything.
In fact they blame it on the Republicans and White supremacists.
And some people believe them.
It's not difficult to look up the party of the mayor of a city and to find out how long that party has been in control.
Most big cities have been Democrat controlled for 50+ years. Because of the POC and the illegals and the corrupt businesses that get money from the gov't. And all the city services are shitty and the roads are terrible and the trains are dirty and down a lot. They are a mess. If you've ever been to Europe you wonder how they do it. Compared to any Democrat town those cities over there are fantasy land.
Go into the heartland and you'll see the same thing. Clean, good roads, services delivered on time and things taken care of when it needs to be.
Our infrastructure is bad in the cities because the Democrats spend the money on other stuff instead of upkeep.
But try and tell a leftist that.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:09 AM (LS3oW)
Wish I could remember the concerts me & my steady went to in the late '60s. I remember that we saw Three Dog Night, and Led Zeppelin, but I don't remember them very well, nor what other groups we saw. I was straight-arrow back then, but a few bangs to the noggin in the ensuing decades has made some memory kind-of Swiss cheesy.
Learned to drive on the old Allis tractor on the farm. (The one rusting away out there in the shed.) And go-karts. First car was '68 Mustang. Which took me & aforementioned steady to those many concerts and movies, and, afterward, remarkably, considering the space, window-fogging sessions.
But, going 'way back, one of my most vivid and surreal memories. (In the "why we started doing psychedelics" category, like Dumbo's deleriums.) I was staying overnight at my Great Aunts' house. Got up early and went down to their already-then antique TV, adjusted the horizontal and vertical on the test pattern, and watched Howdy Doody. At the end of the show, Buffalo Bob informed us that this was the last Howdy Doody show, and next week would be that lame-ass lambsy-divey puppet lady I'd seen on, probably, Ed Sullivan. Kids' shows can end?? My world was shattered. Even weirder, at the end, Clarabell the Clown SPOKE!
Posted by: mindful webworker and the forgotten whateveritwas at April 18, 2021 12:10 AM (X15H5)
Blanco, yes it was. Bill Graham put them on every year. You could see a show with four or five headlining bands for the incredibly low price of $9.00 Those were the days.
Went to one in 1982. Friend of mine that was also there wore mirrored sunglasses to the concert and got second degree sunburn on his nose. Journey, Santana, Gamma, The Tubes, and Toto played, which really was a bit of a weird mix.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 12:11 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
To my knowledge, there is one (1) cajun rub-board in use in all of Central Europe.
Didn't get there by itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxc3FpuTP88
Posted by: The first recirding before I got those boys a proper accordion and rub-board at April 18, 2021 12:14 AM (QzkSJ)
And now you know why the handlebar bell sounds: "chink!chink!"
/idenouncemyself
Galveston, TX
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
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lol, I remember THOSE, too! Never had one tho. Our big thing was to attach a couple of playing cards to the front & rear struts using clothespins, with the cards aimed so they brushed against the spokes, creating that cool pfttttttt sound.
Posted by: EyeTest at April 18, 2021 12:14 AM (FkbB3)
I was gonna say that aluminum oxidizes very fast. It's why there is not veins of ore. It's all tied up in oxide compounds.
And when something oxidizes there usually is flame and heat. Since it's already hot then flame starts up. Most of the scum on the top of aluminum melt is oxide. The best casting is done in a non-oxygen environment. But that's expensive and only the big boys can afford it.
So you heat it up and pour it quick before it flames up too much.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:14 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: late Nite Copy Editor Miklos at April 18, 2021 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)
________________________Fast"And when something oxidizes ^ there usually is flame and heat. "
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:16 AM (LS3oW)
Well that didn't work.
And when something oxidizes - FAST - there usually is flame and heat.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:17 AM (LS3oW)
Finely powdered aluminium is explosive... I've read it's a component of some rocket fuel formulations...
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 12:18 AM (wqVX+)
I don't remember the exact details, but I think it was the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office that put out an open letter to the Brooklyn Center mayor, yesterday or day before, asking whether or not they still wanted help on previously agreed terms. You really don't expect to see that kinda eye poking in public at times like this, but here we are.
Anyways, I did a walk around, and made sure to thank the guardsmen for being present and visible. Sadly, while I was out there, a large fight broke out in front of the one and only major bar around here stupid enough to remain open.
There's that bad electricity in the air. Sketchy combination of stupid people doing stupid things to win stupid prizes, and gawkers who don't realize they're on the verge of become collateral damage 'cause they're not clever enough to go home.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 12:19 AM (+WWsf)
*dons pith helmet...
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 12:19 AM (wqVX+)
Oh, sure, Miklos. What am I, chopped liver? So I don't get a VIP pass? Don't be a dick, and remember the gal that steps aside for Darleen, although it hurts my heart...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 12:20 AM (5SOal)
Yes that's why aluminum has a dull finish. If you scratch it it will be shiny underneath briefly before the oxygen makes it dull again.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 18, 2021 12:21 AM (y7DUB)
I prefer Zydeco myself.
That video was more like Boogie Woogie.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:21 AM (LS3oW)
And it's why aluminum stuff has to be anodized.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:22 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 18, 2021 12:23 AM (F0YaR)
Fucking lunatics.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 12:26 AM (+WWsf)
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 12:27 AM (wqVX+)
Seen too many bad things happen when things get out of hand.
Of course if you or your property are in the middle and there's no way out then you have to do what you have to do.
I'm waiting for the summer at the latest. This Chauvin deal might start things but I expect there will be more, lots more this summer.
And the feds are going to knock heads. But only white supremacist heads. Not BLM or that stupid named Antifa.
Did you see how they rioted in DC the other night and nothing happened to them?
It's pure plain obvious what's going on.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:27 AM (LS3oW)
My first concert was Santana, January 1, 1972 at the Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu. The first concert I actually paid for was Santana, June 12, 1981 at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia.
Posted by: goozer at April 18, 2021 12:28 AM (ra9Xu)
At least they're not playing with matches in a grain silo.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 12:29 AM (SchxB)
@RepMaxineWaters is currently in #BrooklynCenter encouraging 'protesters' to defy curfew and be more confrontational with law enforcement
Incitement to riot. A prole would face a decade in the slammer for that.
Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2021 12:30 AM (W4eKo)
I saw where Antifa had "banned" BLM from one of their functions last night. Doesn't that technically make Antifa a racist, or white supremacist, organization?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 12:31 AM (SchxB)
It does hide the comments and they disappear and you have no way to get them back except to go back to the front page and start all over again and click comments.
I also had someone else's comment loaded into my comment box.
Fun in the sun, hun.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:31 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 12:32 AM (+WWsf)
Posted by: Exile at April 18, 2021 12:32 AM (arJlL)
Watchin' clips of Mad Maxine in Brooklyn Center at @JackPosobiec right now...
Incitement to riot, for sure, in a sane world anyway...
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 12:33 AM (wqVX+)
Don't expect rationality from that crew.
And no one is going to say anything.
Antifa has been put on notice that the cops won't do a damn thing. They can do whatever they want. That may be why some people are out and about. They're waiting for a chance to loot and create chaos.
Willing helpers on the country's journey to perdition.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:35 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 18, 2021 12:35 AM (F0YaR)
That is a strange mix, haha. I remember one that I went to had Ozzy and Molly Hatchet. I can't remember who the headliner was, I want to say Journey but I'm not sure. Another strange one that I saw had Iron Maiden as the headliner and Bryan Adams was one of the middle acts.
Posted by: Al Bundy at April 18, 2021 12:36 AM (6H/55)
That video was more like Boogie Woogie.
Posted by: Jakee308
Well, I had to provide equipment and instruction. I got them a rub-board from Jumpin' Johnny Sansone, and an accordion from Beau Jocque.
Posted by: late Nite Copy Editor Miklos at April 18, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:37 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: Harly8r at April 18, 2021 12:37 AM (bNsrE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 12:38 AM (vOGqy)
Posted by: Zettai
The roof of my house has powdered aluminium in it.
Posted by: hurricane-proof auto-claved Miklos at April 18, 2021 12:38 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 18, 2021 12:39 AM (F0YaR)
She's A. breathing B. clothed C. not holding a gun
Posted by: Exile at April 18, 2021 12:41 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: hurricane-proof auto-claved Miklos at April 18, 2021 12:41 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:42 AM (LS3oW)
Geez.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:43 AM (LS3oW)
Sous-Vide, mufukkas
Posted by: hurricane-proof auto-claved Miklos
Sorry.
That should have been "Martha Stewart, on the day she got out of jail"
Posted by: hurricane-proof auto-claved Miklos at April 18, 2021 12:43 AM (QzkSJ)
You got me to thinking that it was a big enough event that someone had to have documented the "Day on the Green" concert series somewhere. Sure enough: https://bit.ly/3dsbz03
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 12:43 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 12:43 AM (CTJwJ)
Russel Crowe sings to Tugger
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wkDTSvljqmc
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 18, 2021 12:43 AM (Oog2f)
Speaking of DC venues at that time anyone see Little Feat during one of their stops at GW's Lisner auditorium?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 18, 2021 12:44 AM (y7DUB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 12:45 AM (pbStR)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 12:45 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 12:46 AM (+WWsf)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 12:46 AM (SchxB)
I saw Molly Hatchet play at a bar in Ithaca, Newyorkistan sometime in the '90's... They sucked...
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 12:46 AM (wqVX+)
"Brace yourself Kathrine!" seems to work out pretty well.
Posted by: Tonypete
Even if her name is Kathrine, sometimes.
Sometimes, even if her name is Kathrine !
Posted by: Exile at April 18, 2021 12:47 AM (arJlL)
Sounds like playing that bar was flirtin' with disaster.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 12:48 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * el Lobo solitario at April 18, 2021 12:48 AM (nLs8t)
plywood up on the windows yet?
Do you carry? or even own a firearm?
Just standing outside with a broomstick might keep them off your property. esp. if you are confident cause you're armed.
I glad I live on a cul-de-sac if there was ever trouble like that in my town.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:49 AM (LS3oW)
Marshall Tucker (the Southern Rock band) was named for a real person named Marshal Tucker, a blind black guy who made his living tuning pianos. I met him, because he tuned the pianos where I was. Nobody wanted or trusted anybody other than Mr. Tucker.
Posted by: Miklos, still no good on piano at April 18, 2021 12:50 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * el Lobo solitario at April 18, 2021 12:51 AM (nLs8t)
They always sounded contrived to me. Especially the name. It's like they group tested it until they got one that was popular.
I know I didn't realize Def Leppard was a stone cold corporate setup from their start. It's like they used a formula.
I know the Monkees were staged.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:52 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: Tonypete
Cajun foreplay-
Eh Clothilde, ya' awake?
Posted by: Miklos, translating for the Englishters at April 18, 2021 12:53 AM (QzkSJ)
"Take the Older Then Dirt Quiz"
I still remember when memes were grammatically correct.
no, it's fine. first you get older, then they toss you in the dirt.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 18, 2021 12:53 AM (5br8a)
Posted by: Miklos, don't get me started on HR Puffnsfuff at April 18, 2021 12:55 AM (QzkSJ)
There's a site that has a Marshall Crenshaw in Santa Cruz recording where he asks between songs if there are any Molly Hatchet fans. After a very tepid response he asks if there are any closet Molly Hatchet fans which receives more laughter before playing " Flirtin' With Disaster", a pretty good version.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 18, 2021 12:55 AM (y7DUB)
It actually was!
Some years later, I was riding around that town, in the daytime, and I stopped in for a beer... I must not have been paying attention when I stopped as I slowly came to the realisation that it had become a ghey bar!
The name change from 'Max's' to 'Key West' should have been my first clue...
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 12:55 AM (wqVX+)
Bet he had sensitive ears. That's one thing I hate about going deaf. Can't hear all the notes. It's weird when I know they're there but I can't hear them. I used to play the piano and had a pretty good ear for notes. Sung in a choir in HS too.
*Sniff*
Growing old ain't for sissies. It sucks mightily. If I'd known I was gonna live this long I woulda taken better care in certain areas.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:55 AM (LS3oW)
Seen too many bad things happen when things get out of hand.
Of course if you or your property are in the middle and there's no way out then you have to do what you have to do.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 12:27 AM (LS3oW)
I totally get defending one's property, but it's also important to look at the big picture and choose one's battles. Imagine being a minor French noble in 1790, or a Russian anything in 1919. You see the bad shit, you make an attempt, but you know the numbers aren't on your side. Do you die in an utterly futile attempt to forestall the inevitable or do you get away to an area of localized strength, far enough away that you can regroup and either wait for the fires to burn out or keep the locals from making the same mistakes?
This sort of thinking is at the root of why I left Minnesota last year. As I was loading my rifles and setting out various other goodies in case the sportiness went suburban and they tried to burn down my apartment building, a thought occurred to me: why am I doing this? If I go down fighting, I'm still dead, my stuff is still on fire and these idiotic suburban drones will pretend to care only long enough to cash the next check in their hollow, worthless existence. Fuck. Them. They didn't care enough to create an environment conducive to the next generation actually setting down roots so why stick around and go to the mattresses for someone else's huge lie? So I left. And the other guy I knew up there outside of work also left at about the same time, for the same reasons.
Are there things that I miss? Oh yeah, absolutely. Was it cowardly? Maybe. But it was the right decision, and I've never once doubted that.
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 12:55 AM (zcf1k)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 18, 2021 12:56 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Miklos up late again at April 18, 2021 12:57 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 12:58 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Al Bundy at April 18, 2021 12:58 AM (6H/55)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 18, 2021 12:59 AM (Oog2f)
It carries a lesson, like most, but the bit about the otters is kind of deep.
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 18, 2021 01:00 AM (ybIRR)
C'est tres difficile, my Countryman Sarte was correct-Hell is other people
Posted by: Le Comte de Lafayette at April 18, 2021 01:00 AM (QzkSJ)
Little Feat was an excellent band once they kicked the pervert Roy Estrada out and reformed the group. Lowell George taught Bonnie Raitt how to play electric slide guitar.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 18, 2021 01:01 AM (y7DUB)
Our apartment building cluster is historically old, so we're unlikely to be a major target unless things go beyond the pale. Plenty of fancy new condos around here if rioters decide to firebomb residential buildings. There are mansions around the lakes just three blocks away too.
I wish I were better armed, because I'd go full tactical vest and rifle in the parking lot for night watch, but there are private security contractors in the commercial parking lot across the street, law enforcement immediately nearby, and anyone caught inside our buildings will be carried out by paramedics, so hopefully that's good enough.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 01:01 AM (+WWsf)
yeah I hear ya. I'm glad I live where I do and not where I used to.
All I got to worry about is our Democrat Governor but he's been getting push back from the Repub controlled Senate and House Legis.
We're about to vote on some amendments to our constitution to keep the governor from unilaterally continuing an emergency and not letting the legislature call a halt. Gonna make it so that they can stop an emergency declaration after a certain amount of time without the Gov's agreement.
I just hope they can keep him corralled until 2022 cause he's gonna get his butt kicked. Unless the lame ass GOP in PA screw up again and nominate a real stone loser like Corbett again.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 01:02 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
I am sure you could always pass for a VIP.
Posted by: Miklos with mainly authentic credentials at April 18, 2021 01:03 AM (QzkSJ)
Who's memory is? You got to more of them than I did, no surprise some things might mix together.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 01:04 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Zettai
*GLARBLES*
Posted by: Miklos with mainly authentic credentials at April 18, 2021 01:04 AM (QzkSJ)
Good for you. Glad to hear you aren't alone. Prayers up for you and yours.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 01:04 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2021 01:06 AM (KAi1n)
I think Nesmith was really the only one. On a Wrecking Crew documentary, Mickey Dolenz, who seemed like a nice guy, said they were actors playing musicians. I think Peter Tork *wanted* to be a good musician...
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at April 18, 2021 01:06 AM (y7DUB)
I was friends with my USAF EOD counterparts in the '70s. They had many creative ideas.
Amazing what you can learn when you shut up and watch experts at their crafts.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2021 01:06 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Unfrozen Caveman Miklos at April 18, 2021 01:06 AM (QzkSJ)
Misspelling? I'm pretty sure you meant MANLY authentic credentials.?.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 01:09 AM (5SOal)
Yep. All those states that thought they were gonna have a big payout are upset cause the revenues just isn't what they were told they would be.
That's cause the price is too high with the tax and all plus the street dealers can sell the really really strong stuff for cheaper.
And they don't write your name down in a book for the cops to read.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 01:10 AM (LS3oW)
When the corporate frenzz that own my former apartment building sent out an email discussing their (fake and corporate) response to possible threats to the EP/Chan/Chaska area, I responded by asking whether they needed volunteers for the citizen militia that they were surely forming in response to the threat. Sadly I never received a reply to that one.
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 01:11 AM (zcf1k)
Amazing what you can learn when you shut up and watch experts at their crafts.
Jim
My favorite was a friend who was an EWO on a BUFF explaining how easy it would be to make system that would detect speed radars, and respond with a blast on the same frequency. So you don't get busted for speeding, with the additional benefit of driving by the speed trap cop wondering why there is smoke coming from his cruiser.
Posted by: Moderatle law-abiding Miklos at April 18, 2021 01:11 AM (QzkSJ)
Oh, honey! It all works out. Just take it slow.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 01:11 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 18, 2021 01:12 AM (Oog2f)
Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2021 01:12 AM (KAi1n)
anyone who’s ordered furniture or big-ticket items from the company will tell you it’s a significant one. Furniture assembly
shelves TVs exercise equipment phasers
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:14 AM (1ENjc)
Posted by: Jakee308
I hate to say it, but you know it's going to happen.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Living on the prison planet at April 18, 2021 01:14 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 01:15 AM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Jakee308
Ordinance is like bad girlfriends. It all gets disposed of, one way or another. Some are 'splodier than others.
Posted by: Miklos, standing well clear at April 18, 2021 01:16 AM (QzkSJ)
I think the cop would chase you down and arrest you for having contraband electronics.
There are some states where radar detectors are illegal and that's the charge they lay on you. Besides confiscating the detector.
That's why most of them have quick removal brackets so you can hide it before the cop walks up.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 01:16 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: qdpsteve
No, they really didn't.
Kirshner hired Neil Diamond, Carole King, and a couple of other good songwriters who wrote all the songs to their first two albums. Then, the boys in the band wanted to write and do their own songs. Then they flopped.
Michael Nesmith had some limited talent. The rest didn't. Davey Jones died a broken alcoholic.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Living on the prison planet at April 18, 2021 01:17 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2021 01:18 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 01:20 AM (5SOal)
If he was born in different times he'd have been a great Moron w/ his totally unpc comments.
Posted by: Farmer at April 18, 2021 01:21 AM (55Qr6)
Maybe not cause the guys in the legislature are really pissed off at the old fuddy duddies in the party and are pushing back on their business as usual crap way of running things. This isn't the 60s you butt heads. The democrats are not just folks with a difference of opinion. They want to fundamentally change the country and destroy the Republicans and their base voters. Dead if the can get away with it.
I know my rep for my district has been leading some of the push back against the governor and I think he's working behind the scenes with others to get some changes done in the party.
I'm thinking about getting involved with the local party because of some stuff I read about how to do it and that a lot of the positions are going open cause no one's running for them. Get on the board and make the decisions on who runs and who gets money and backing.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 01:21 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: SFGoth
It's enough to make you a coke - head Democrat, isn't it?
Damn straight.
Posted by: Hunter Biden, All American guy at April 18, 2021 01:21 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:21 AM (1ENjc)
I know my two worst concerts were Sawyer Brown and ZZ Top. My best concerts were many really. Hank JR, Charlie Daniels, Alabama, and The Highwaymen. The best concerts at regional bars were by Jerry Jeff Walker and Jimmy Buffett.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 01:22 AM (fjS2+)
Would hypothetically a Daniel Defense DDM 4 pistol be a fun range tool in October?
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 18, 2021 01:23 AM (Jzz++)
First concert was a KGB radio 101 show at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego. Cost of admission. $1.01.
Roughly 1973/4.
Foghat. J.Giles Band. Four others that I cannot now recall.
But the waft of burning pot in the open air stadium was a contact high of the first order. Funny thing though. The pot back then smelled like the "burning rope" of yore.
Just did an April 5th/8th trip to San Diego, hit many of the old stomping grounds, including Ocean Beach. (hippieville). The burning pot now smells much more that of a recently spraying skunk. It just DOES!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2021 01:23 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Jakee308
I wish you the best of luck, and hope it works. The only real way we can get out of this mess is at the State level. The FedGov has now been corrupted beyond our ability to fix it.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Living on the prison planet at April 18, 2021 01:23 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 18, 2021 01:23 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Jakee308
I actually looked into that.
Heh
South Carolina allows almost any and every damn thing. The Slice of Pie/Pizza shaped state in some ways is even more Texas than Texas (don't tell anybody). But also alligators, poisonous snakes, and Dangerous Racist Murderous Rednecks, about to burn your house down RIGHT NOW
Posted by: Miklos, just leave us alone and we'll be fine at April 18, 2021 01:23 AM (QzkSJ)
Stupid website for the local party doesn't even have all the choices for the special election in May and the website sucks ass. Who's in charge of that I want to know?
Gonna find out next week too. I couldn't believe they ran corbett after all the stupid stuff he said and did. But that's the old way of choosing candidates. They go by seniority and backing. Who cares if the guys a loser. And that's because they don't recognize the threat the Dems are. I think some are getting the idea like the state chairman is a Trump man. Not MAGA but close. Still a bit too liberal looking for me but if he straightens these old guys up a bit and maybe kicks a few out of their cushy sinecures then he's okay with me.
This May election will be a preview of what's gonna happen in 22.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 01:25 AM (LS3oW)
Are there things that I miss? Oh yeah, absolutely. Was it cowardly? Maybe. But it was the right decision, and I've never once doubted that.
Posted by:CppThisat April 18, 2021 12:55 AM (zcf1k)
You did the right thing. Your neighbors were neglegent, and you can't teach this shit.
Posted by: Bourbonchicken at April 18, 2021 01:26 AM (ybIRR)
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 18, 2021 01:23 AM (Jzz++)
If you're going to go that far "there", then plunge in and install a Double Action AR trigger, that fires when you pull, AND when you release.
Either way, the Grand Jury is going to make you turn your head to the right and cough.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2021 01:26 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 01:26 AM (5SOal)
1. Decriminalization, end the police-state fuckery, do what thou wilt.
2. Send pretty much all of the good classic-rock artists to jail along with a fair few actors, writers, and comedians, and censor their substantial pop-culture contributions.
I'm tired of the War On Drugs, but I'm REALLY tired of the failure theater in which old ass boomers incessantly brag about how great drugs are while selectively locking up youngsters who take their paranoid, delusional fantasies at face value.
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 01:26 AM (zcf1k)
Marshall Tucker (the Southern Rock band) was named for a real person named Marshal Tucker, a blind black guy who made his living tuning pianos. --------- Miklos: Truly a Fun Fact! I did not know that. Learn something every day. Last concert I attended, on a Sunday evening, , they were supposed to appear as the headliner, along with Foreigner and.38 Special. Reportedly, their bus broke down. By time they arrived, around 11pm, people were leaving. Meanwhile, the other two bands filled in and were terrific, especially Foreigner, which was really the highlight, sounding every bit as good as they ever did.
Posted by: EyeTest at April 18, 2021 01:27 AM (FkbB3)
Related song, "Radar Gun": https://youtu.be/4wjhTt9fqYY
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 01:27 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 01:28 AM (fjS2+)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 01:28 AM (+WWsf)
Related song, "Radar Gun": https://youtu.be/4wjhTt9fqYY
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 01:27 AM (SchxB)
one is Maryland or Virginia, I can't remember which one. The other one isn't.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 01:29 AM (fjS2+)
Marshall Tucker was, and still is, excellent music. I truly love the Southern rock. Still gets me dancin'
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 01:30 AM (5SOal)
I believe, in Newyorkistan, radar detectors are only illegal in vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds...
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 01:31 AM (wqVX+)
Birmingham Blues: https://is.gd/ahTENP
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:31 AM (1ENjc)
South Carolina allows almost any and every damn thing. The Slice of Pie/Pizza shaped state in some ways is even more Texas than Texas (don't tell anybody). But also alligators, poisonous snakes, and Dangerous Racist Murderous Rednecks, about to burn your house down RIGHT NOW
Posted by: Miklos
Palmetto bugs, you forgot Palmetto bugs...and sandspurs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 01:31 AM (9Fwwf)
A sot on trigger pull and release seems both wasteful and excessively belligerent. If I did my homework one would be enough.
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 18, 2021 01:31 AM (Jzz++)
I got a feeling that junkies would still be thieves. Its the attitude. Same one that got them addicted to junk.
When they came out with methadone, the first thing that happened was a black market in methadone and people getting ripped off and junkies using too much to get high and then od'ing.
A junky is a junky and they don't usual change much. They have to hit rock bottom with a bad OD or somebody dying and even then they might go right back to it anyway.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 01:31 AM (LS3oW)
Bad news for Jerry Nadler and JB Pritzker if they ever visit.
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 01:32 AM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:33 AM (1ENjc)
Which I wouldn't do.
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 18, 2021 01:34 AM (Jzz++)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 01:35 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Zettai
It is usually a primary ingredient to solid fuel rocket motors. Like the Minuteman missile and the solid fuel boosters on the space shuttle. It is compounded to burn very rapidly.
Yes, aluminum will burn, but you can make it molten if you control the heat (without it burning).
Burning aluminum from the two airliners that hit the WTC is thought to be the reason they came down. Fire may not be able to melt steel according to Rosie O'Donnel, but burning aluminum can get hot enough to melt steel. There are shots of molten, burning aluminum coming out of the upper levels of the WTC. And combined with water, , flashed to steam and breaking water to make Oxygen and hydrogen, and then burning made hydrogen, which made it burn hotter.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Living on the prison planet at April 18, 2021 01:35 AM (tjZg/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 01:37 AM (l0Lgi)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:37 AM (1ENjc)
https://mobile.twitter.com/grand_handsome/status/1383515264008949764
Never ever take away Alex’s right to ride a horse (Video)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 18, 2021 01:38 AM (Oog2f)
Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2021 01:38 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 01:38 AM (+WWsf)
The bad news: I remember every single item on the list.
Gad, I'm old.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker at large at April 18, 2021 01:38 AM (ZYEz6)
Palmetto bugs, you forgot Palmetto bugs...and sandspurs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Thank you
ATTENTION COMMIE YANKEES-ASHEVILLE NEEDS U
ELVIS NEEDS BOATS (ok, back to Mojo Nixon) ASU NEEDS MOAR COMMIES
Posted by: Miklos, whose Old Mama attended Brevard College, BAC (Before Academic Communism) at April 18, 2021 01:40 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker at large at April 18, 2021 01:41 AM (ZYEz6)
Glad you made the tip, sounds like you enjoyed it. Hope you are feeling well and recover quickly. I think I can tell by your posts you are doing OK.
Posted by: Farmer at April 18, 2021 01:41 AM (55Qr6)
https:youtube.com/watch?v=jI_AvSF8bvU
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:43 AM (1ENjc)
Of course, what you've really got to watch out for are Those Damned Blue Collar Tweakers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUb18VYLjc).
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 01:44 AM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 18, 2021 01:44 AM (BMmaB)
Best to old mama...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 01:44 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2021 01:44 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at April 18, 2021 01:45 AM (RJCvt)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 18, 2021 01:45 AM (Oog2f)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 01:38 AM (+WWsf)
I was right when I said it was either VA or MD. It is VA and DC. Who needs a radar detector in DC? It is like Road Warrior when you enter the 51st state.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 01:45 AM (fjS2+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 01:45 AM (mzC78)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 01:46 AM (+WWsf)
Gad, I'm old.
Posted by: blake
A list...I had a list here somewhere...
Posted by: Miklos, from a family in which absentmindedness runs rampant (On the Family Crest, even) at April 18, 2021 01:46 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:47 AM (1ENjc)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 18, 2021 01:48 AM (+WWsf)
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 18, 2021 01:31 AM (Jzz++)
Fully agreed, but I thought the give the libs all the bad feelz was a worthy contribution to the dialogue. Given that the D/A trigger IS an ATF (for now) approved bit of tech.
They worry about our rate of fire. And completely ignore the likes of our Tennis Queen nailing steel at 500 yards, like it was nuthin' at all.
I saw Rude Surprise open for Really Gonna Fuck Ya Up, at the FAFO Arena.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2021 01:49 AM (QzJWU)
State Capital=lawyers, lobbyists and other politicians, and the Big State University.
Nebraska is a comparable example.
Posted by: Miklos, short and sweet at April 18, 2021 01:49 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Lurker Ken at April 18, 2021 01:49 AM (3MSVb)
Posted by: CppThis at April 18, 2021 01:50 AM (zcf1k)
I own several cars with the dimmer switch on the floor. Two are parked not ten yards from where I sit right now.
How many have owned cars with the starter switch on the floor? Or the button to make the radio seek a new station?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 01:51 AM (mzC78)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 18, 2021 01:53 AM (BMmaB)
A list...I had a list here somewhere...
Posted by: Miklos, from a family in which absentmindedness runs rampant
I just had it in my hand...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 01:53 AM (l0Lgi)
I got the nose-poke test today. Results, tomorrow or early Monday.
Regardless. No more fever, but achy as hell, low energy, and minimal appetite. I can still smell and taste though, so that's good.
Pro Tip. Copious amounts of Bourbon thoroughly quell the "scratchy throat cough" impulse, altogether. And so, I shall continue to add a buffering amount of said bourbon to the initial solution.
Galveston, TX
Cheers!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2021 01:53 AM (QzJWU)
State Capital=lawyers, lobbyists and other politicians, and the Big State University.
Nebraska is a comparable example.
Posted by: Miklos, short and sweet at April 18, 2021 01:49 AM (QzkSJ)
I remember when they flew the "Confederate Flag" or "Rebel Flag" on top of their capital. That was not that long ago, it was the late 1990s. Seemed like a nice quiet college town though for a state capital. There are better towns there, like Beaufort. But a nice town compared to most.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 01:56 AM (fjS2+)
Posted by: Alberta
GM 'Autronic' headlight dimmer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 01:57 AM (ELgVT)
How many have owned cars with the starter switch on the floor? Or the button to make the radio seek a new station? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 01:51 AM (mzC7
Yo to both
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:58 AM (1ENjc)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 18, 2021 01:58 AM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:58 AM (1ENjc)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 01:59 AM (1ENjc)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at April 18, 2021 01:59 AM (Oog2f)
Cool story! I still, to this day, listen to Charlie Daniels, as well as Marshall Tucker, to get my mojo going when I need to get my chores going. Nice to see folks talking music tonight.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:01 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 02:01 AM (1ENjc)
I remember that. Their french fries were awesome.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 02:02 AM (mzC78)
1-never
2-RIGHT NOW
#pls infom re: the audio system of Ye Wreteched Panhard
Posted by: Miklos, aficionado of cool but cheap used cars at April 18, 2021 02:03 AM (QzkSJ)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_O5T2nqEd4A
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 02:04 AM (1ENjc)
Pro Hint, there is a song called In America where he mentions Pittsburgh Steeler fans. THat is because they won the Super Bowl that year. He changed the lyrics from time to time later to fit where he was singing. But looking back, and looking at Trump, Pittsburgh Steeler fans was the right choice to make.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 02:05 AM (fjS2+)
The 4 Aces diner in West Leb NH was a great spot for inexpensive food when we were in college (as long as you had a car). They had those table juke boxes. Last time I was there was in '77.
Apparently they're still in business (with masky idiocy of course).
https://4acesdiner.com/
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, tired of typing green at April 18, 2021 02:06 AM (Mzdiz)
You can never win it by attacking only the supply side, but that's what they do. Jail the users, and after X number of jail terms, pop them one in the back of the head. They are bent on slow suicide, anyway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 02:06 AM (mzC78)
Thanks...I was such a youngster then...sigh...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:06 AM (5SOal)
There are better towns there, like Beaufort. But a nice town compared to most.
Posted by: Quint
South Carolina-Bew-fort
North Carolina -Bow-fort
Posted by: Kindly Miklos, not wanting no trouble at April 18, 2021 02:07 AM (QzkSJ)
South Carolina-Bew-fort
North Carolina -Bow-fort
Posted by: Kindly Miklos, not wanting no trouble at April 18, 2021 02:07 AM (QzkSJ)
oh, now it is on!
just kidding. as usual Miklos speaks the truth.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 02:09 AM (fjS2+)
I remember that. Their french fries were awesome.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Re Woolworths, worth a listen, if you've never heard it, Nanci Griffith: tinyurl.com/c73uxxu9
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2021 02:09 AM (vOGqy)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:10 AM (5SOal)
I think the last car I drove with one of those was my grandfather's 1965 Chevy Biscayne.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, tired of typing green at April 18, 2021 02:10 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 18, 2021 02:10 AM (yOVXa)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess
Dear Duchess-
My Goode Olde Kollidge days were in New Orleans. If there wasn't a jukebox, it wasn't a place. I will never be that young again, but damn, they could at least keep the juke boxes.
Posted by: Miklos, who learned aerly on how to hijack a jukebox at April 18, 2021 02:12 AM (QzkSJ)
Thought he was talking about a foot switch.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 02:13 AM (1ENjc)
Jack Posobiec on Tw*tter is insinuating that Mad Maxine has committed some serious crimes in zis visit to Brooklyn Center, like crossing state lines to incite a riot and jury tampering...
Posted by: Zettai at April 18, 2021 02:14 AM (wqVX+)
Posted by: Braenyard
Playing footsie in your Daddy's Cadillac
Posted by: Miklos, with potential song title and/or inspiration at April 18, 2021 02:17 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:17 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Zettai
Whiners. Goldbricks. Always got a couple.
Posted by: DO NOT CALL ME SIR, YOU MAY CALL ME SERGEANT MIKLOS at April 18, 2021 02:19 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2021 02:23 AM (jNZYC)
Posted by: Braenyard
You did a bad thing in my brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqiZ_gryYUQ
Posted by: Things Miklos wishes that he could forget at April 18, 2021 02:25 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 02:25 AM (1ENjc)
Posted by: Braenyard
Cosmic Charlie? It will be...transcendental
Posted by: Anticipatory Miklos at April 18, 2021 02:28 AM (QzkSJ)
Miklos is on a top secret okra procurement mission. Don't ask where he is. He's an international man of okra mystery.
Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 18, 2021 02:28 AM (Mzdiz)
Cheers!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by:Jimat April 18, 2021 01:53
Good to hear you are rockin it. Be well.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 18, 2021 02:29 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 02:13 AM (1ENjc)
He mentioned a foot switch, and also the buttons (metal) you pushed in to change stations. Never had a foot switch. The older car I ever drove was the 1964 Chevy BelAir wagon (3 on the tree).
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, tired of typing green at April 18, 2021 02:30 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Dieter, now on AoSprockets at April 18, 2021 02:30 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Alberta
Army M-151A2 jeep
M-35A2 deuce and a half's, M-113s, 5 tons and all the others had starter buttons on the instrument panels
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated at April 18, 2021 02:31 AM (/KPPD)
Posted by: Braenyard
better than South, North. East, or West of Foggy Bottom. Even in Foggy Bottom is sucks, and it has always sucked.
i take that back, not sure what Foggy Town is but I have a hint. They might be equally piss poor in my humble opinion.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 02:31 AM (fjS2+)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:31 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, tired of typing green at April 18, 2021 02:31 AM (Mzdiz)
If Human civilization as we know it ceases, there will be okra There will always be okra, but a new and glorious kind...
Posted by: Dr. Miklos Strangelove at April 18, 2021 02:33 AM (QzkSJ)
First concert, Ferante and Teicher at the Broadmoor, ca 1979.
Posted by: Fox2! at April 18, 2021 02:34 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:36 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Miley
Pro Tip-don't play the "Waffle House Song" more than twice. Irritates people with hot items and sharp knives. And Attitudes.
Posted by: Miklos, who learned that and will show the scars at April 18, 2021 02:36 AM (QzkSJ)
My '92 F-150 is now much older now than that '55 was then. And I don't think of it as that old at all. Still runs good. But damn plastic pieces are getting brittle. The glove box catch broke off the other day.
I used to say things, and my father and his buds would get this look on their faces and look at each other and sort of shake their heads. I understand that now. Very well.
It's worse now. I don't think these millennials will ever come to understand.
Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 18, 2021 02:38 AM (Mzdiz)
M-35A2 deuce and a half's, M-113s, 5 tons and all the others had starter buttons on the instrument panels
Posted by: redc1c4
What happens if I push this button?
Posted by: the First Female Secretary of the Army at April 18, 2021 02:39 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: publius
In a best-case scenario, I suspect that you and I and some others will do a lot of head shaking.
Posted by: Miklos, who saw the demise of Communism, but now it's back, and I've seen this movie at April 18, 2021 02:42 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Getting the band back together after elder abuse at April 18, 2021 02:44 AM (TdQLl)
And now you know.......the REST of the story.
Posted by: Zombie Paul Harvey at April 18, 2021 02:44 AM (6H/55)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:45 AM (5SOal)
What happens if I push this button?
Posted by: the First Female Secretary of the Army at April 18, 2021 02:39 AM (QzkSJ)
----
absolutely nothing, if the "Master Power" switch is off, or if you have to slave start a dead battery, because either, or both, terms will cause you to have a meltdown...
not to mention AFV's involve hard w*rk and physical discomfort, neither of which you can deal with.
this is why the new "woke" military doesn't overly worry me, except where the safety of my country is in question.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated at April 18, 2021 02:46 AM (/KPPD)
Posted by: Getting the band back together after elder abuse at April 18, 2021 02:48 AM (TdQLl)
Posted by: Getting the band back together after elder abuse at April 18, 2021 02:49 AM (TdQLl)
the 23 cubic foot freezer out in te BBQ pagoda apparently took a shit this evening... we'll either be buying something we're not ready to spend money on, or i'll be cooking a shit load of food in the very near future.
schise!
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated at April 18, 2021 02:50 AM (/KPPD)
Heh. That's because there aren't any bands. Model A had a very conventional 3-speed transmission with a floor shift lever. Model T's were the ones with the bands, which were shifted by 3 pedals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 02:51 AM (mzC78)
Hey now! Commander Cody was also an amazing band! Lots of fun if one had a good buzzzz on...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:52 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Getting the band back together after elder abuse at April 18, 2021 02:44 AM (TdQLl)
Yeah. 2nd grade, we lived across the street from Knotts. Pre fence days. The fried chicken was glorious.
Galveston, TX
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2021 02:52 AM (QzJWU)
It came to me with a British-made vacuum-tube car radio, which actually works! And was apparently the OEM radio for the car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 02:53 AM (mzC78)
this is why the new "woke" military doesn't overly worry me, except where the safety of my country is in question.
Posted by: redc1c4
DON'T MANSPLAIN TO ME
Posted by: Christine Wormuth, nominated as Secretary of the Army at April 18, 2021 02:53 AM (QzkSJ)
besides which, IMHO, Pixy should be restoring the glory of Minx 0.7 alpha to it's rightful place in the world, and not poasting tech shit most of us do not grok.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated at April 18, 2021 02:53 AM (/KPPD)
DON'T MANSPLAIN TO ME
Posted by: Christine Wormuth, nominated as Secretary of the Army at April 18, 2021 02:53 AM (QzkSJ)
---
last calling station, suggest you change locations and Romeo Tango Oscars: you are coming in broken and stupid, over.
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated at April 18, 2021 02:56 AM (/KPPD)
Sir-
Multiple vectors of backup and redundancy are suggested.
Posted by: Miklos only knows about hurricanes at April 18, 2021 02:56 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2021 02:57 AM (ufFY8)
I wasn't clear, but I meant the button to activate the signal-seeking tuner that was mounted on the toeboard. Cadillac had it. You could mystify passengers by making it change stations, while both hands were on the wheel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 02:57 AM (mzC78)
Anyway, it had a 6V electrical system, positive ground and a push button for the starter on the dash.
Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 18, 2021 02:58 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 02:58 AM (5SOal)
last calling station, suggest you change locations and Romeo Tango Oscars: you are coming in broken and stupid, over.
Posted by: redc1c4
So
No whiskey for that sad, but true sock
Posted by: Miklos, not here to pick no fights, official hurricane season starts in 6 weeks at April 18, 2021 02:59 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Getting the band back together after elder abuse at April 18, 2021 02:48 AM (TdQLl)
You can never be better than Commander Shepard.https://tinyurl.com/z925abx
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2021 02:59 AM (ufFY8)
Radio was from a Hudson that we (Dad) put in the PickUp.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2021 02:59 AM (1ENjc)
Posted by: Miklos, with genuine thanks to kbdabear at April 18, 2021 03:04 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 03:04 AM (mzC78)
I remember driving it home one day and it came a little shower. Going up hill, I had to let off and downshift to get it to make a full sweep. If you had a passenger, he could reach around and give the blades a push.
A neighbor, same one with the '55 pickup, had an even older big truck with the vacuum wipers. He just rigged a piece of baling twine which he tied to the wiper arms, allowing him to pull it either way.
Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 18, 2021 03:04 AM (Mzdiz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqcFPDRtQVQ
Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 18, 2021 03:09 AM (Mzdiz)
Perfectly satisfactory electric-powered wipers existed before WWII, and were optional on many cars. Yet the manufacturers stubbornly stuck with the crappy vacuum motors, and even added all kinds of bizarre vacuum boosters to paper over their shortcomings, right into the 1960's. Makes no sense at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 03:12 AM (mzC78)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 03:04 AM (mzC7
sounds like a day well spent to me.
Posted by: Quint at April 18, 2021 03:14 AM (fjS2+)
Posted by: Miklos, on AoS, where apparently it a permanent St. Patrick's Day at April 18, 2021 03:15 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:18 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:20 AM (5SOal)
Well, I will keep this thread open, but will also pop into the tech thread for a look. But will be going to bed soon, in any case.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 03:21 AM (mzC78)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:26 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:29 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:32 AM (5SOal)
There is no word in Hungarian for "Mischief" with proper connotation. So I will make up a new Hungarian term (I am allowed to do this) and the New word magyarul is, if I understand the context and intent, "krampussag".
Posted by: Miklos, a thinkin' and a drinkin' at April 18, 2021 03:33 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated at April 18, 2021 03:34 AM (/KPPD)
Hold my beer then get off my lawn.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 03:34 AM (LS3oW)
I'm up and rereading "One Second After", which ironically I can only do because the power is on.
For now.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 18, 2021 03:35 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: JROD at April 18, 2021 03:35 AM (0jZnq)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:37 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: JROD at April 18, 2021 03:39 AM (0jZnq)
Eris - One Second After is a great book. It's a good guide if you look closely.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:40 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: redc1c4
You are the Time Lord, and ain't foolin' nobody.
Posted by: Miklos, Sir, van I get that one special five minutes back? at April 18, 2021 03:41 AM (QzkSJ)
Ok, fine. I'm just gonna dance nekkid around, and theck with it...weeeeee!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:47 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:50 AM (5SOal)
And maybe. Last!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:53 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Aldous Miklos-Huxley at April 18, 2021 03:53 AM (QzkSJ)
Hey that tech talk is like a new toy. It's different than anything that goes on here at AoSHQ. (well other than occasional help for some moron(ette) who's having tech problems)
We'll get bored and Pixy will get tied up doing other stuff and soon it won't be regular just off and on and then disappear completely.
It's the cycle of life.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 03:54 AM (LS3oW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2021 03:55 AM (mzC78)
Notice; the Sun will be rising where you're at in about 6 hours or there abouts.
Just thought I'd warn you. That big flaming ball in the sky? yeah that thing.
Posted by: Jakee308 at April 18, 2021 03:56 AM (LS3oW)
And maybe. Last!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Ha! I liked when a troll tried to harass me by claiming I was dancing naked under the streetlight. Trolls are trolls, but how did troll know?
Posted by: Mistake makin' Miklos at April 18, 2021 03:56 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 03:58 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:59 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 04:03 AM (5SOal)
I don't think I am ADD.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2021 04:05 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:05 AM (VDbGO)
Mmmmmm-mmmm-mmm.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:07 AM (VDbGO)
Good Lord.
Been working way, waaaaayyyy too much.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:09 AM (VDbGO)
I haven't tried that bourbon. Not an IPA drinker - mostly lagers or pilsners. Small brewery beers really can be pretty tasty.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 04:14 AM (5SOal)
Ha! I liked when a troll tried to harass me by claiming I was dancing naked under the streetlight. Trolls are trolls, but how did troll know?
Neighbors, TikTok, I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - New lower calorie formula! at April 18, 2021 04:16 AM (SchxB)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 04:20 AM (5SOal)
Okay, you don't have an address. I'll just follow the moon to somewhere just east of Mt. Antero.
I'm bringing the pilsner. Pilsner Urquell! My favorite beer. Czechs know how to brew.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:28 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 04:29 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:30 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 03:50 AM (5SOal)
Ok, I'm late. but I'm here!
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 04:31 AM (sy5kK)
So I slowly read everything and there are still hangers-on around!
Why am I not surprised?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 04:33 AM (sy5kK)
I think LeftCoastDawg could find a way to help you load those jpegs....
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:33 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 04:36 AM (5SOal)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 04:40 AM (5SOal)
I nailed each and every one of the 17 things on the list. I had to think about the little wax Coke bottles, they were at that little country store I rode my bike to, about a mile away, when I was about 8. And the newsreels were at a little dive old theater in Poulsbo, west side of Puget Sound north of Bremerton, when our family went there for the weekend with others in the boat club. I thought, "why are they playing these black and white short news movies, of old news?"
I hated Butch Wax, because my Dad would insist on buzz cuts for the summertime after school ended for the year, and Dad would say crap like "yeah, just get some Butch Wax, and you'll look great!" Oh, that pissed me off. Still, got the damn butch cut, until I was maybe 11 or so. Little brothers didn't get it when it stopped for me. They didn't know how good they had it, those youngin's.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 04:40 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 18, 2021 04:36 AM (5SOal)
surely you have me mixed up with another LCD.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 04:41 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: jasonj at April 18, 2021 04:45 AM (ocTOb)
Then, in '75, Led Zep again, 4 1/2 hours with no warmup band, Robin Trower - Too Rolling Stoned Tour at the old Paramount, both were beyond incredible concerts.
'76-'77, buddy worked in the Seattle U athletic dept, and they played their games at the Coliseum. He got to know the head usher, and the usher would let him,, and 3 to 5 of his closest friends into every concert. Ted Nugent in his early prime was something to witness, especially when it was free and I was a poor college student.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 04:48 AM (sy5kK)
Never seen a newsreel at the beginning of a movie, and I've never had a buzzcut. Thank Almighty God.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:49 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:51 AM (VDbGO)
And that is who should be made to suffer, first, foremost, and with prejudice. Extreme prejudice. That's about as descriptive as I can get, without getting the place shut down. Use your imagination.
EXACTLY! Because there is no law left. Just the law of the jungle.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 04:54 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 04:57 AM (sy5kK)
The Democrat Party, that's who.
And once again, when you're figuring out who deserves retribution for the deliberate misery being foisted on the peoples of a good and decent nation, well....
As MH says, "*types....deletes.*"
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:59 AM (VDbGO)
So, in '77, we bought a case of quarts of Rainier beer, and he took them in and stuck them in the .big walk in refrigerator in the commissary where they would make the food for the evening.
He would then bring out about 4 at a time, hidden under his shirt, and the rack he carried the pop, tied so they wouldn't fall and break. A quart of Rainier back then was maybe 50 cents, I was getting offers for ten bucks from people who saw us make the exchange. Oh, hell no, there were a couple of sweet young friendly things standing in front of us guys, and they got them. I and a buddy got ours later.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:06 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:07 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:12 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 04:49 AM (VDbGO)
Only had the chalky sticks with the end painted red. I remember at that little store buying a pack once, and thinking how I wasted my money.
I remember when Milk Duds were all wrinkly with real chocolate, instead of the smooth waxy crap they have now. Still the same yellow box, though.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:13 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:12 AM (VDbGO)
I have some nephews that are late 20's early 30-ish now. When they were early teens, they would listen to the Old Rock stations, never new stuff, circa 2000-ish. I remember asking them why. They said all the new stuff was crap, and besides, it was all new to them. Once I pulled out a Grand Funk Railroad album out and played I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home. They were speechless for probably a minute. Not even the rock oldies stations played GFR, apparently.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:17 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:21 AM (sy5kK)
https://tinyurl.com/kr3eb3tf
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:22 AM (VDbGO)
Good God, be careful.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:26 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:28 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Skip the guy who says Nood at April 18, 2021 05:29 AM (Cxk7w)
And yet, there are so many top acts that I either didn't or couldn't see. I have been bumbed out in the past thinking about those I missed, instead of all the stuff I saw.
I still remember well the '75 LZ concert, sat up on the side maybe 30 rows up, and could see the entire stage perfectly,and far enough back where the sound was good. Plant was quite the actor and dancer during the concerts, as well as an amazing vocalist. He moved around the stage not unlike Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. Must be that English / Scottish background in them. Oh, yeah, forgot, I saw Tull around '76 or so, too.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:32 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Skip the guy who says Nood at April 18, 2021 05:32 AM (Cxk7w)
Good God, be careful.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:26 AM (VDbGO)
Seattle.
Born here.
Raised here.
Gonna probably die here.
The only question at this point is how.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:33 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:36 AM (VDbGO)
The Stones are a band I can take or leave. Like some of their stuff, but I certainly don't go out of my way to find it.
Zeppelin is completely different for me. A revelation. Rush as well. Allman Brothers.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:40 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2021 05:41 AM (Cxk7w)
Yep, that was the same tour as when I saw them. Not the best musical show, but the crowd of Stones fans was different than any other group of fans I was a part of. Intense, and a different vibe from any concert I ever attended. And we lined up and waited for hours before the lines started to let people in. Maybe 60K? 65K? per concert. Waiting in that line for the first concert, I have never seen so many people consume so many drugs. Of every possible kind. We just stuck with a few joints we had rolled up and stashed in the socks. We kept our coke until the show started. Well, some of us did. Some couldn't wait that long. Me, I could, and also had a buddy who couldn't. Luckily for my buddy the few dozen people that we knew fairly well were all carrying and sharing during the concert.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:42 AM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2021 05:43 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:43 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2021 05:48 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:36 AM (VDbGO)
At the Texas MoMe last October sitting around the campfire, WeirdDave asked me nearly the identical question. And I didn't really have a good answer for him, either.
I will say that historically, Seattle /WA state has always been very independent and generally ignored by the rest of the country. Maybe in '67, with the Sonics, or the mid '70's when the Seahawks and Mariners were expansion teams, people noticed. Before then, the West Coast was Los Angeles, San Francisco, and points north all the way to Alaska. Nobody cared about Seattle or Portland.
Until then, this area was very independent and lots of natural resources, so we pretty much kept to ourselves. Seattle was the host of the only General Strike in US History, in 1919, led by the Wobblies. Think of Upton Sinclair - type vibe. Google it for background, although I wouldn't trust Google to find an honest account of what happened.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:50 AM (sy5kK)
Imagine a world without them.
My, what a beautiful place it could be.
Death to Communism/Socialism, and all who advocate it.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 05:51 AM (VDbGO)
Posted by: Eromero at April 18, 2021 05:52 AM (0OP+5)
------ There is the central city, where CHAZ/CHOP was, and then the suburbs north and south. On the other side of Lake Washington is The Eastside, where Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, and Sammamish are. All essentially built (maybe 80%) after 1960.
Liberals live north and south. Leftists live in the central city. Normal people, as well as Liberals and many Karens, driving $120k Escalades and Lexuses, live on the Eastside.
And then farther out, are many of the most outdoor loving, self-sufficient, redneck, armed, patriotic, yet still politically aware people you will find anywhere. When CW2.0 arrives, the weeping and gnashing of teeth will be unpresented.
Me? I've been training at the range with Mark Andrew Edwards, nurse rached, and others. Like I said, politically aware.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 05:59 AM (sy5kK)
I watch as time after time Seattle PD and federal agents are repeatedly, violently attacked, and their attackers are never prosecuted. If YOU are attacked, and you defend yourself, those same cops will come after you. Unbelievable. Think I'll stick with Texas. Would love to attend the next MoMe here.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 06:02 AM (VDbGO)
History has given us many Communist / totalitarian situations in the past where millions have died, and entire countries were destroyed.
But never in history have a general population been so armed, and with so much experience on how to use firearms. And while we have maybe 2 million in the military today, there are over 14 million vets from Vietnam, the Middle East wars, and also who served in peacetime. They mostly still remember how to hold a line or set up a defensive position, and can quickly train the 10 to 25 million gun owners that go hunting once in a while.
Was it Yamamoto that said something about not wanting to invade America, because behind every blade of grass is an American with a rifle?
Damn, I have had to self-censor quite a bit in this post.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 18, 2021 06:09 AM (sy5kK)
I grew up watching the USSR. I've read Solzhenitsyn. I will NOT live under that shit.
Posted by: Sam Adams at April 18, 2021 06:14 AM (VDbGO)
I freaking can't WAIT!!!!!
Go Lindell. I am curious if he is working in tandem with Trump since he announced something similar on the Twitter/Facebook competitor.
Another yearning in my heart is for the old blog to come back. For some reason my computer does not like the new one. Color me sad.
Posted by: Sweets at April 18, 2021 08:48 AM (Hh51s)
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