March 25, 2014
— Maetenloch
I warned you that you'd get nothing but did you believe me...
"To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss."
-- Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
The Genius of Frank Bunker Gilbreth and the Mistake of Taylorism
The Lost Art of Dueling With Pistols
Pistol duels have largely gone out of style in the United States. The modern version of "Sir, I demand satisfaction!" is now "You'll be hearing from my lawyer." And that's probably for the best. By the end of the 19th century, advances in firearms technology had made pistol duels unsporting. Machined, multi-shot guns with rifled barrels and reliable cartridges meant that both parties in a duel stood a good chance of dying. During the heyday of duels in the United States (the 18th and early 19th centuries) dueling pistols were handmade and generally smoothbore, single-shot, black powder, flint-lock devices that were "sporting" at the typical 30-40 foot distance at which most duels were fought . . .
Often, the duelers didn't even fire their pistols at each other. A shot into the air or the ground frequently sufficed to show that both parties had the courage to duel.but also the good sense not to. This may have been what Alexander Hamilton expected to happen when he fought his infamous and fatal duel with Vice President Aaron Burr.
I Like Oral Histories and I Cannot Lie
Cause red beans and rice didn't miss her...
There was one event that really made me think that I should do a song about this, which was irritating the shit out of me. Amy and I were at a hotel on tour, when we saw one of the Spuds MacKenzie ads for Budweiser during the Super Bowl. You'd see these girls in the ad: Each one was shaped like a stop sign, with big hair [and] straight up-and-down bird legs. There's nothing wrong with that, but I was so sick of that shit. Now, Amy never said anything about all this until she realized I was so in favor of her physique. She was an actress, and she started admitting that she felt like she lost a lot of parts because of her hourglass figure. I knew for a fact that many artists felt that if they didn't use a skinny-model-type woman in their video, then mainstream America would reject the song. But I do not agree with that: If you look at Dolly Parton at her peak, a lot of white guys were like "daammn!" At the same time, when I did casting calls for videos, curvy women wouldn't show up. They thought they didn't have a chance. Unless you were in the hood, women who had curves -- and I'm not talking about women who are shaped like me, with a gut, but women who ran five miles a day, with a washboard, six-pack stomach and a nice round, beautiful, supple ass -- wore sweaters around their waist! Bottom line: Black men like curves. When they're crooning to women about how beautiful they are in an R&B song, the ladies you see in the video don't reflect what those guys like.
When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times.
The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Cubs won the World Series.
Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.
How To Empower Yourself Through DIY Porn
Yes!!!! Of course this whole theory of female esteem boosting via self-made Pr0n is total bullshit but...hey DIY chick porn on the internets!!!
Award Winning Sandwiches (With Recipes)
The AoSHQ group. Yeah.
Teh Tweet!
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Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 05:36 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: toby928© at March 25, 2014 05:36 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: The Sofa at March 25, 2014 05:37 PM (h6TbM)
Posted by: Steve at March 25, 2014 05:37 PM (wk+th)
Posted by: DangerGirl at March 25, 2014 05:37 PM (GrtrJ)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2014 05:37 PM (291hy)
My dog's ass?
Posted by: DangerGirl at March 25, 2014 05:38 PM (GrtrJ)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 05:38 PM (h6TbM)
I extended the enrollment period because conservatives were moaning and bitching about the short enrollment period.
Posted by: Bronco Bama, The Won! at March 25, 2014 05:39 PM (nQjHM)
Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 25, 2014 05:39 PM (bCEmE)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 05:40 PM (h6TbM)
Posted by: DangerGirl at March 25, 2014 05:40 PM (GrtrJ)
Lowering taxes does in fact increase revenue...
Ogabe be damned.
Nice ONT Maet...
Things I learned this week....
1) I have a heart, albeit one of unknown quality
2) my spermatocele is not in fact a third amigo for Little Sven
3) Sven is cordially invited to see if he has to wear a Darth Vader Mask to sleep after they probe me an evening this week for a whole night.
4) My diastolic is ~ 15-25 points over what it was at the start of the year...
each ten points doubles your risk stroke...
and then... *blink*
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 05:41 PM (TE35l)
I find it incredulous that Kagan and Sotomayor were dismissive of the Hobby Lobby position and offered the simple solution of just pay the fine, when they are hump bumpers who play for the home team and have no need for birth control. But they love their sybians!
Posted by: Doctor Fish at March 25, 2014 05:41 PM (nQjHM)
Posted by: Elephant in the Room at March 25, 2014 05:41 PM (Ggh94)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 05:42 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2014 05:42 PM (291hy)
Another possible Pleisto survival were the mini-elephants on the Greek islands. I think the last of 'em were on Thera - at least, the Atlantis legend notes them.
But, they got a bowl of Kaboom and that was it.
A mini-elephant as a pet would be pretty cool.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 05:43 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 05:43 PM (h6TbM)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2014 05:43 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2014 05:43 PM (60Vyp)
dang, Sven, that's a little scary. how old are you (you don't have to say if you don't want to)? anyhoo, your ass just made the prayer list. {{{{{}}}}}
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 05:44 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 05:44 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2014 05:44 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 25, 2014 05:44 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 05:44 PM (h6TbM)
Teddy Roosevelt
Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2014 05:46 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 05:46 PM (MpP9p)
I'm 41....
I'm not too scared...hell I shouldn't be scared at all...I've been trying to die since birth one way or another.
I've been way too angry for way too long, add in Mullah Zogby gloating that the next Generation will see whites a 9.5% minority in our own nation...
I am in awe of what is and is not allowed to be discussed and by whom and have been a long time.
I am so tired, and I never feel rested.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 05:46 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 25, 2014 05:46 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: jc at March 25, 2014 05:47 PM (i8c5b)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2014 05:47 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 05:48 PM (h6TbM)
So did the Caliphate, although Abd al-Hamid II wasn't Qurâshî nor even an Arab.
Russia had a Tsar, the Taft Administration was on its way and Britannia ruled the waves.
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 05:49 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 25, 2014 05:49 PM (0FSuD)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2014 05:49 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 05:49 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2014 05:50 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: lindafell at March 25, 2014 05:50 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 05:50 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 05:50 PM (h6TbM)
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 09:46 PM (TE35l)
That sucks, Sven. I'm really sorry for your troubles. xoxo
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 05:51 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 05:51 PM (HGVmj)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 05:51 PM (MpP9p)
Teddy Roosevelt
Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2014 09:46 PM (Ua6T/)
Yup TR.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2014 05:53 PM (291hy)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 05:53 PM (HGVmj)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 05:53 PM (8lmkt)
"Growing up in our sexist, racist, transphobic, advertising-saturated culture is hard."
No wonder all of the delicate snowflakes are so fearful of global warming...
Oh, and I think I'm probably classified as transphobic.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 25, 2014 05:53 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Hugh Grant at March 25, 2014 05:53 PM (h6TbM)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2014 05:53 PM (h7iOB)
Thank you ma'am...
I'm fairly well insured, and am at peace with things no matter what happens.
If I am screwed I earned it, if I can work my out of the mess I will, and if it is nothing I'll be properly humbled and take my cardio and respiratory health more seriously.
When they found the cysts in my liver years back I took it harder than this.
I begged God for enough time to know my son would be a good person....
my son in 9 years older and looks to be a fine and mostly honorable young man.
I'll keep my end of the bargain and not whine too hard regardless.
All the best,
Sven
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 05:54 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: freaked at March 25, 2014 05:54 PM (JdEZJ)
Posted by: DangerGirl at March 25, 2014 05:54 PM (GrtrJ)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 05:54 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 05:55 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: concrete girl at March 25, 2014 05:55 PM (6fgDv)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2014 05:55 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2014 05:55 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 05:56 PM (JMmQ9)
nerdygirl, I am pretty okay with Carl's Jr., I think they do a damn good job for what they do. not like a Counter burger, but good in a pinch. however, the olive burger sounds like a total food-gasm. my tummy is rumblin' just thinking about it. mmmmmm.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 05:56 PM (8lmkt)
Ralph Wilson dies and Jim Kelly may be in stage 3 cancer land.
RIP Ralph and best luck Jim.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 05:56 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 05:57 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: concrete girl at March 25, 2014 09:55 PM (6fgDv)
OMG, what did you get????
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 05:57 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 05:57 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2014 05:57 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 05:58 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 05:58 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: The Cis Hat at March 25, 2014 05:58 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 05:58 PM (y6KdO)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 05:58 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2014 05:59 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 05:59 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: The Mustard Grilled Hat at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (LkCGG)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (zT0DN)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 09:54 PM (MpP9p)
It means that you think a guy who wants to cut off his dick is mentally ill, not simply living an alternate lifestyle.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at March 25, 2014 06:00 PM (b6nAI)
Posted by: The Couch at March 25, 2014 06:01 PM (LkCGG)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 10:00 PM (aUQgu)
In california, it's just another way to squander tax dollars. Each asshole is equal to the next asshole, I don't know why they even bother.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:01 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 06:01 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2014 06:01 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 06:02 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 06:02 PM (y6KdO)
Wow.Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:02 PM (MpP9p)
It's a lot like being the Welsh or a child of a Japanese Welsh coupling in 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
yes lots of bad days but the 1945 kid has one REALLY bad day...
I remember Jim Kelly more for the USFL glory than his unfortunate Bills era..
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 06:02 PM (TE35l)
I'll be opening up a Petting Zoo.
By that I mean I'll be standing in my basement without any pants. My advertising budget is low, so spread the word.
Stop by tonight and get a Free Lawnmower Beer!
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 06:02 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: The Cis-Normative Hat at March 25, 2014 06:03 PM (AymDN)
Go on...
Posted by: the toaster at March 25, 2014 06:03 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Lauren at March 25, 2014 06:04 PM (hFL/3)
I bought the wife Hate Chicken today...
I wonder who will be the corporate mascot of Transphabia land of the Tranny Phobes.??
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 06:04 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2014 06:04 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 25, 2014 06:04 PM (2jrIO)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 06:04 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2014 06:05 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: freaked at March 25, 2014 06:05 PM (JdEZJ)
The Obama administration has decided to give extra time to Americans who say that they are unable to enroll in health-care plans through the federal insurance marketplace by the March 31 deadline.
Federal officials confirmed Tuesday evening that all consumers who have begun to apply for coverage on HealthCare.gov, but who do not finish by Monday, will have until about mid-April to ask for an extension.
Posted by: B at March 25, 2014 06:05 PM (6iEQd)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 06:06 PM (HsTG8)
Posted by: Things the Narcissist Won't Say at March 25, 2014 06:06 PM (lrMro)
Posted by: Doctor Farnsworth at March 25, 2014 06:06 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: concrete girl at March 25, 2014 10:04 PM (6fgDv)
you too, concrete girl! you anywhere near El Lay? if so, we should meet at the range sometime. do the whole annie oakley thing. be all fierce!
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:06 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 06:06 PM (y6KdO)
It done hit the fan in the ER tonight. See you morons when the sh*t storm clears, maybe.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2014 06:06 PM (sQ0LB)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:07 PM (MpP9p)
I would have used a double-barreled shot gun, but you knew that.
Posted by: Plugs Biden at March 25, 2014 06:07 PM (79AXR)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 06:07 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2014 06:07 PM (GEICT)
I've mostly been lurking and sparing the meteoric roller coaster ride of dealing with the Dr. game...
my PCP said and I quote: "I can't put you on BP meds when your BP looks like a power walkers'...(which I am when I exercise)
The Cardiac Care specialist wants a stress test and I had an echo cardio sonar barrage a day ago...
I am in good hands and am well...I'm more afraid of the implications of my total loss of BioFeedback control of my heart rate and by extension BP levels than the risk of sudden oops syndrome...
since that attack in Feb I feel like I have no control of my body's involuntary functions as I had developed and taken for granted since my distance runner days.
All is well, thanks again for the well wishes.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 25, 2014 06:07 PM (TE35l)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 06:07 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Things the Narcissist Will Say at March 25, 2014 06:07 PM (lrMro)
Posted by: Uniden at March 25, 2014 06:08 PM (13G+x)
Trick question. George II.
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 06:08 PM (hn5v5)
I am just fine with grease. Except not that kind of awful fast-food grease. Corn oil, canola oil? Ugh. Yuck.
Thanks ever so much to the meddling liberal busybodies and noseyparkers who got rid of fries cooked in beef tallow.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2014 06:09 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 06:09 PM (aDwsi)
http://tinyurl.com/lqx84v2
Posted by: scottst at March 25, 2014 06:09 PM (idA6q)
***
Yes, the distinguishing characteristic of a Democrat myrmidon is their overwhelming sense of honor.
It's clown shoes all the way down...
Posted by: B at March 25, 2014 06:10 PM (6iEQd)
I think the people who are hired to flip the burgers are more important than which franchise sports the logo on the building.
Screw hamburgers anyhow, I just finished a project that adds a PID controller to my smoker. Now I can load that bitch with wood and forget about it for hours while the controller maintains ideal temperature. Smoked a little piece of salmon today for the first test and tomorrow I'm gonna get a huge brisket.
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 25, 2014 06:10 PM (L02KD)
So young. So many targets yet to be destroyed. So beautiful.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2014 10:07 PM (GEICT)
Best that it happens soon, before you become too emotionally attached
Posted by: PMRich at March 25, 2014 06:11 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 25, 2014 06:11 PM (o3MSL)
If we're excluding the Red Robins of the world, then Whataburger is the joint of choice. Mind you I've not actually had White Castle or In-ampersand-Out before (or Carl's Junior).
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 06:12 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:12 PM (8lmkt)
Well stated. Just apply to the fed level.
(Called my congresscritter today re Mooch's China trip and the Bamster's 900 personnel trip to Europe. Staffer was surprised at the specifics I mentioned. DC is a foreign country)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 06:13 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:13 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 06:14 PM (HGVmj)
well, when you factor in the whole driving while asian thing, it was probably called a "total wreck." I denounce myself.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:15 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 06:15 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: Hrothgar at March 25, 2014 06:16 PM (o3MSL)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 25, 2014 06:16 PM (2jrIO)
Posted by: Mr. Dave at March 25, 2014 06:16 PM (RycDZ)
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 25, 2014 06:16 PM (qxS12)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 06:16 PM (y6KdO)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 06:16 PM (doBIb)
Shopping for a nine-TWO-four? Holy moly.
Add two to that second digit. You'll thank me later.
I keep seeing decent early Datsun Z cars out here in Commiefornia for reasonable prices. I would bet the biggest challenge is getting to be finding replacement body metal after fender-benders. Headlight buckets on them seem to be made of the least rust resistant steel alloy ever devised by humanity.
As for the RX-7 listing, you have to love that they have it as "12 cylinders".
Wouldn't that be quite the swap project!
Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2014 06:16 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: awkward davies at March 25, 2014 06:17 PM (whqez)
Posted by: awkward davies at March 25, 2014 06:17 PM (whqez)
http://tinyurl.com/pkdkidney
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 25, 2014 10:00 PM (zT0DN)
Now that just wasn't right.
No lunch later in the shift tonight
Posted by: PMRich at March 25, 2014 06:18 PM (KDUNf)
Nice to have some reason to have faith in humanity
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 06:18 PM (30eLQ)
Helluva story, traye. Very moving. Good for your sis!!!
And, awkward davies, please pick up the white courtesy phone, you are needed in the barrel.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:18 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: concrete girl at March 25, 2014 06:18 PM (6fgDv)
Posted by: freaked at March 25, 2014 06:19 PM (JdEZJ)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 06:19 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 06:19 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2014 06:19 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ruthless at March 25, 2014 06:19 PM (w/Ebk)
Posted by: The Dueling Hat at March 25, 2014 06:20 PM (AymDN)
Then I go back to daydreaming about winning the Powerball.
Posted by: Flossy at March 25, 2014 06:20 PM (YBusZ)
When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.
They'll re-harvest a transplant organ for another patient if possible.
Parts is parts.
Posted by: YIKES! at March 25, 2014 06:20 PM (mETGQ)
What is "transphobic"?
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 09:54 PM (MpP9p)</i>
It's just another term for "heteronormative"
Posted by: kindletot at March 25, 2014 06:22 PM (LRUgq)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 06:22 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 06:23 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: awkward davies at March 25, 2014 06:23 PM (whqez)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 25, 2014 06:23 PM (LkCGG)
Posted by: The H8 Hat at March 25, 2014 06:24 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 06:24 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: lindafell at March 25, 2014 06:24 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:25 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at March 25, 2014 06:26 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 06:26 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 06:26 PM (J/h7H)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 06:27 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2014 06:27 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: Lauren at March 25, 2014 06:29 PM (hFL/3)
Posted by: awkward davies at March 25, 2014 06:29 PM (whqez)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 06:29 PM (y6KdO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2014 06:29 PM (h7iOB)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:30 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 06:30 PM (J/h7H)
"Game of Thrones" had realistic character development and wasn't PC at all - until season 3 (and even there it was restricted to maybe one scene).
"Pillars of Heaven" was just preachy and bad.
"Tudors" and "Borgias", meh.
"Rome": awesome until they ran out of cash.
So: how's "White Queen"?
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 06:30 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 10:27 PM (DmNpO)
Well?
Stop standing around and go make me one!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2014 06:30 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 06:30 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:30 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: The Numerical Hat at March 25, 2014 06:30 PM (AymDN)
Kind of like the Washington Generals of baseball.
Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2014 06:31 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 25, 2014 06:31 PM (2jrIO)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 06:32 PM (J/h7H)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 25, 2014 06:32 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:32 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: lindafell at March 25, 2014 06:32 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 06:32 PM (NieZ0)
-And thanks for sharing the story, traye! I LOVE inspirational stories like yours and your Sister's! That's the kind of stuff that reinforces my stubborn, non-victim outlook on Life!
...Bless the Both of You. You're "Everyday Rockstars".
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 06:33 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 06:33 PM (XXIrM)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 06:33 PM (y6KdO)
Posted by: concrete girl at March 25, 2014 06:33 PM (6fgDv)
Any other morons taking Etodolac? I bitched about Oxycontin keeping me awake and got this stuff instead. Is it habit forming? Minor foot problem, should be off the pain meds in a couple of days anyway.
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 25, 2014 06:34 PM (L02KD)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 10:33 PM (XXIrM)
Holy crap! I have a short list of places to bust out to when I either lose my job or lose my desire to keep doing it. Please tell me the location of t his heavenly establishment.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:34 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 06:35 PM (J/h7H)
It appears to have been the Escort in Britain, also. Called the Ford Laser in Australia.
Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2014 06:35 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:35 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 25, 2014 06:35 PM (Em6d4)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 06:36 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Lauren at March 25, 2014 06:36 PM (hFL/3)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 06:36 PM (J/h7H)
Same thing it was called here, "Worthless pile of shit!"
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 25, 2014 06:37 PM (0AKks)
Posted by: CDR M at March 25, 2014 10:35 PM (cdqT6)
probably lurking and deriving sick pleasure from sucking the joy we would feel from his lunatic reactions. eh, maybe one of the kids dyed her hair a color not found in nature again. perhaps a tsunami. omg, remember tsunami day? fills me with mirth to recall that, he was hilarious!!!
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:37 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2014 06:37 PM (h7iOB)
Means if you vote Republican or are at all involved in counter-revolutionary activities, they'll check. If you're working in school administration or a green job, they won't.
Posted by: Ford Prefect at March 25, 2014 06:37 PM (30eLQ)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 10:37 PM (XXIrM)
thanks, buddy, it's now on the list. and, wow, all that green stuff? looks totally fab!!!
have a rasher for me next Tuesday, eh?
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:39 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 25, 2014 06:41 PM (zT0DN)
Posted by: The Vroom-Vroom Hat at March 25, 2014 06:41 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:41 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 25, 2014 06:42 PM (zT0DN)
Posted by: toby928© at March 25, 2014 06:42 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: lindafell at March 25, 2014 06:42 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 06:43 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: Putin at March 25, 2014 06:43 PM (WlWt+)
Posted by: toby928© at March 25, 2014 06:43 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 25, 2014 06:43 PM (L02KD)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 06:44 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette
Anything that needs to be "muddled" is normally a feminine drink. I suppose anything with more than three steps could be considered as such.
...A Mint Julep sounds pretty gay to me.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 06:44 PM (lq3Ak)
"The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Cubs won the World Series."
And when the Cubs win again, SMOD will shortly follow thereafter.
That two of Tyler's grandchildren are living is pretty amazing. I still think it's weird that my paternal grandfather was born in 1870 - just 5 years after the Civil War ended and well before there were World Series. He didn't marry until he was 40 - and then he married a woman half his age. He died in 1939, when he was 79 -quite old but not incredibly so. And my father didn't get married until his mid-30's.
I haven't clicked on the link or worked out the math with the Tylers - but I would say if men marry and father kids late in life, that's how you get these long streches of times covered by just a few generations (conversely, if a few generations of women crank out babies in their early teens, you can get a woman who is a great-great grandma by the time she's ready to collect social security).
Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 25, 2014 06:44 PM (R3gO3)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 06:45 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 06:45 PM (y6KdO)
Posted by: Jen at March 25, 2014 06:46 PM (IdGqX)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 06:46 PM (cc39m)
234 Chippewa Falls, WI Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 10:37 PM (XXIrM)
Make note: drive up to Chippewa Falls as soon as I can.
Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 25, 2014 06:46 PM (R3gO3)
awesome, traye. it's very, very hard to lose the guy you thought was yours for life, but it sounds like she's got the best family ever. God bless you all and congrats on your impending beebo!!!
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:46 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:47 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 25, 2014 06:47 PM (Em6d4)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 06:47 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:44 PM (lq3Ak)
Most of them are pretty shitty, but a mint julep made by a good bartender is a really good drink.
But for BCochran and Bannion?
Clearly something terminally gay is in order.
Chocolate Martini?
Anything with an umbrella?
White Wine Spritzer?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2014 06:47 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: lindafell at March 25, 2014 06:48 PM (PGO8C)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 06:48 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:48 PM (MpP9p)
I can't stand anything that isn't gum or candy with mint in it. I'm decidedly anti-mint, as far as food or drink is concerned.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 06:49 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 25, 2014 06:49 PM (zT0DN)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 06:49 PM (MV98J)
Who's THIS cheese dick? I've never heard of him before.
Plus, totally gay spelling, dude. Seriously.
Posted by: mojo at March 25, 2014 06:49 PM (AIC5Z)
Posted by: Donna and V. (no ampersand) at March 25, 2014 10:44 PM (R3gO3)
Racist.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2014 06:49 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 25, 2014 06:50 PM (Q8vlx)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:50 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2014 06:50 PM (fsLdt)
Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 25, 2014 06:50 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 25, 2014 06:51 PM (L02KD)
The Ford Focus replaced the Ford Escort in 1998 in the UK (about18 months before the Escort became the Focus here) The UK got the second generation Focus in 2005, 2 years before the US.
The Ford Escort was in production in the UK and Germany from 1968 to 2002. The US didn't get an Escort until 1981
Posted by: phreshone at March 25, 2014 06:52 PM (kFxpe)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 06:52 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: toby928© at March 25, 2014 06:52 PM (QupBk)
Also, hint hint, you strongly select for longevity if the pattern repeats.
Men who die early due to genetic issues aren't around to become fathers late in life.
Posted by: Uncle Darwin at March 25, 2014 06:52 PM (noWW6)
Remember! Everytime you drink a Cuba Libre a Bolivaromaritianochavista gets a coppery taste in his mouth.
Posted by: kindletot at March 25, 2014 06:53 PM (LRUgq)
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She also asked if I am more interested in the permanent positions than the contractor position and I told her that it depends upon the terms of each. I would prefer a permanent position but I am intrigued with the contractor position. She said, surprisingly, that she'd hate for me to settle for the Cust Svc job when the other position pays so much more and that I can always apply for a permanent position later. She said she'd talk to me soon.
If I haven't heard anything else by Friday, I'll call my friend and get the scoop.
Thanks for asking!Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 06:53 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 06:53 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: /人◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ at March 25, 2014 06:54 PM (AymDN)
Don't forget all the Smoking Gun auditonees.
Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2014 06:54 PM (Ua6T/)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:55 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 06:55 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 06:55 PM (Vzh0K)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 10:48 PM (doBIb)
Darn You, Sean Connery and Ian Fleming! Perhaps that is the exception that proves the premise?
...but "Appletini", by lindafel sounds like a much better suggestion!
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 06:55 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 25, 2014 10:42 PM (zT0DN)
2 to the 64th is 1.84 x 10 to the 19th
So....the fact is completely and totally wrong.
One mole is 6.023 x 10 to the 23rd.
How many moles in 100 earths?
QED
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2014 06:56 PM (QFxY5)
That is pretty damn encouraging, Niedermeyer, and I am so glad/relieved that the f-bff is singing your praises. Yay, you!!!!
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:56 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:57 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 06:57 PM (Vzh0K)
Posted by: toby928© at March 25, 2014 06:57 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 06:58 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2014 06:58 PM (h7iOB)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 06:58 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 06:59 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:49 PM (lq3Ak)
I do not believe the human mouth was meant to taste like mint. Thought I was the only one.
Posted by: Peaches at March 25, 2014 06:59 PM (8lmkt)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2014 07:00 PM (h7iOB)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 07:00 PM (Vzh0K)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:01 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2014 10:58 PM (h7iOB)
I love beer. I enjoy bourbon. I like whiskey.
...everything else is "stuff forced on me by the likes of beautiful women".
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 07:01 PM (lq3Ak)
Someone else really wanted some mint oreos bad recently.
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 25, 2014 07:01 PM (L02KD)
Posted by: lindafell at March 25, 2014 07:01 PM (PGO8C)
Hah, Hah, Hah.....
Oh...wait....you're serious?
That's awful. Beyond the pale.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 25, 2014 07:02 PM (QFxY5)
Posted by: The Goat at March 25, 2014 07:02 PM (l3vZN)
Anybody see Jimmah on Letterman last night? I'd bet there's a lot of morons' digital flat screen TVs encrusted with spit right about now... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2014 07:02 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Avogadro at March 25, 2014 07:02 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 07:03 PM (y6KdO)
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti at March 25, 2014 07:03 PM (zT0DN)
Did not know about Lynda Petty. Must be very hard for Richard. They were together forever. Thx for post
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 07:03 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:04 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 25, 2014 07:04 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 07:04 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: Joewhoisalwayslatetothethread at March 25, 2014 07:04 PM (4jlYO)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 25, 2014 07:04 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 07:05 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:05 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:06 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Joe Tenebris at March 25, 2014 07:07 PM (y6KdO)
THANKFULLY I was not there to witness this. It would have destroyed me.
A friend saw a couple of idiot twentysomethings in backwards baseball caps being introduced to one of the last surviving WWI vets, in a wheelchair and in poor health. The old gaffer was a living breathing historical treasure. Someone who remembered Douglas MacArthur personally. The sort of guy where you just want to sit down and listen quietly and respectfully as he opens a window into the past for you.
At first he seemed gratified for the attention.
Then it became crystal clear that the youngsters had absolutely no idea of what it was he had gone through and what he had fought for, or even where or when.
"So, like, you were there at the beginning, man, at Pearl Harbor, right? And then you went from there to Vietnam? Or was that the Civil War? I can't remember."
Imagine you and your buddies struggling and suffering, dying and being maimed, coughing up a lung and being blinded by gas, many of you thinking you had made it through safely to the armistice and then being cut down by the Great Influenza afterward, and then many decades later, meeting a bunch of arrested adolescents who don't know their asses from a hole in the ground, in an illiterate ahistorical culture that doesn't know the difference between your war and The War Of Jenkins' Ear.
Death must have been welcome.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2014 07:08 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:08 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:09 PM (MpP9p)
Was very surprised a few weks ago however, when folks both at Hot Air and here were defending Carter's decision to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow due to Afghanistan. As I recall, that was one of the major reasons Reagan won by a landslide.
Also last night, Carter was claiming he told Brezhnev in 1979 that if they tried to take over *anything other than Afghanistan*, he'd respond with military force. Wonder if that's backed up by the truth.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2014 07:09 PM (HVI5a)
Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built
Well Duh! They used them to help build it!
Posted by: That shitty 10,000 BC movie at March 25, 2014 07:09 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 07:09 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at March 25, 2014 07:10 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:11 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2014 11:09 PM (HVI5a)
I'm thinking a big no.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2014 07:12 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:12 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 07:13 PM (Vzh0K)
Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 25, 2014 07:13 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:14 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: traye at March 25, 2014 07:14 PM (NieZ0)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:14 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 07:15 PM (Vzh0K)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:15 PM (MV98J)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 11:12 PM (DmNpO)
I said that a few years ago when I still owned the tanning salon. She would have nothing to do with me, however. I had a small sad.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 07:15 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:16 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:16 PM (MV98J)
Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at March 25, 2014 07:16 PM (0tTtp)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:16 PM (doBIb)
Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans are my very favorite places.
Sweetest people I have met in those places, specially Charleston.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 07:17 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:17 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 07:17 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2014 07:18 PM (fsLdt)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 25, 2014 07:18 PM (porF1)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 10:41 PM (MpP9p)
May I be so bold as to provide you with a link, one that will offer many possibilities? I think the one called a "frenchy" is particularly apropos...
http://www.hookersandbooze.com/tags/cocktail/
Evening roonz and roonettez! What's shakin'?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:18 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: shadowofashade at March 25, 2014 07:19 PM (dczfq)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:19 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 25, 2014 07:20 PM (dfYL9)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 25, 2014 07:20 PM (wMsSu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:20 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:20 PM (MV98J)
Posted by: Reggie Love at March 25, 2014 07:20 PM (hpgw1)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:21 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:21 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2014 07:22 PM (fsLdt)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:22 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:22 PM (MV98J)
Did not know there was another Waltrip brother. Tough week for NASCAR. Appreciate the post since I don't have twitter account.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 07:22 PM (aUQgu)
Frankly, I'm all for it.
Posted by: shadowofashade at March 25, 2014 11:19 PM (dczfq)
Bers in a slight breach of etiquette goes past the B word and goes right for the C word.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2014 07:23 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: eman at March 25, 2014 07:23 PM (AO9UG)
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 25, 2014 07:23 PM (dxLXf)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 07:23 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 25, 2014 07:24 PM (porF1)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:24 PM (MV98J)
This is to the best of my understanding one of the few things Carter has said recently that is actually true.
Geopolitical strategists, to include Carter's national security adviser Zbig Brzezinski (yes, father of the MSNBC ditz), were freaking out about the thought of a massive Soviet push south into the Persian Gulf states. As well they bloody well should have been.
The Shah of Iran had been meant as a bulwark against southern Soviet expansionism. Which is why Iran ended up with the F-14 Tomcat, the only export customer allowed to buy in. Plus a bunch of other top-shelf military hardware. (Some of which they never got, such as the _Kidd_ class destroyers.)
Then the Shah fell, and the Sovs settled into Afghanistan, and the Beltway Bandit analysts began to panic. Again, as well they ought. Dumb shits got consistently out-thunk and out-played by their counterparts in Moscow Centre.
Basically, what the Carter doctrine said was that if the Soviets went any closer to the Gulf oil fields than Afghanistan, the USA would go tactical nuclear to stop them. Would have had to. There was no chance of stopping a Red Army push with conventional arms. The force posture was all wrong. Too Euro-centric. And too hollow after years of Carter underbudgeting.
And of course a regional tactical nuclear fight would almost inevitably have escalated to strategic nuclear volleys between the USA and USSR. Shiver.
A really big part of the Reagan re-armament push was to forestall the possibility of these kinds of nightmare scenarios, where the only way out was to go nuclear, and where going nuclear carried inevitable escalation risk.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2014 07:25 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 25, 2014 07:25 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Reggie Love at March 25, 2014 11:20 PM (hpgw1)
Is it true that she shot a man once just for snoring too loud?
Or was that John Harding?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 25, 2014 07:25 PM (/0PJL)
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 25, 2014 07:25 PM (h7iOB)
I got questions and no answers. I like it and I hope it's easy to stop taking it.
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 25, 2014 07:26 PM (L02KD)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:26 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:26 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:26 PM (MV98J)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:26 PM (MpP9p)
[from Maet's post:]
Quote of the Day
"To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss."
-- Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
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Who is this guy Oakeshott?
Must be a liberal...because this sounds like a liberal's idea of what it is "to be a conservative".
What hogwash! Every. Fucking. Bit. Of. It.
Posted by: wheatie at March 25, 2014 07:27 PM (vkigW)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 07:27 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:27 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Alana at March 25, 2014 07:28 PM (tsAQI)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:29 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 25, 2014 07:29 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 11:24 PM (MV98J)
Downtown Cleveland is no place for a strip club, either. To thieve a quip from Jay Mohr; 'It is all tattoos, back-fat, C-section scars and bullet-hole wounds.'
-You want to put a Woman's Shelter card in their G-strings instead of a twenty.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 07:29 PM (lq3Ak)
Hotel accommodations are still on you, though.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:29 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 07:31 PM (ojnk6)
The Greeks were in the middle of a rebellion against the Turks, and they fought on their side. The Kingdom of Sardinia sent an army. 2500 Swiss were there. Swiss.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 25, 2014 07:31 PM (xq1UY)
Sounds like some well-honed 'taqiyya' going on in this case. FBI will say "terrorism" ruled out.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 07:32 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 11:20 PM (aDwsi)
Thursday AM. Tomorrow he's scheduled for physical therapy all day, hopefully it will do him some good.
Father IN LAW, fwiw, my Dad lives in Iowa surrounded by my lovely and very patient mother and my three siblings. I don't worry about him.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:32 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:33 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 25, 2014 07:33 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 07:33 PM (DmNpO)
Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans are my very favorite places.
Sweetest people I have met in those places, specially Charleston.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 11:17 PM (aUQgu)
Oddly enough, I'm going to be in two of those between next Saturday and the Sunday a week after [Savannah and Charleston]. What should I make sure to do in those 8 days?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 07:34 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:34 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:34 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:34 PM (aDwsi)
Of course, the pics were supposedly far more stately (and, for propaganda purposes, pro-British/French) than Brady's warts-and-all depictions of the Civil War.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2014 07:35 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:35 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:35 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 11:33 PM (aDwsi)
Yeah, couple of hours maybe, but it's in a convertible so it's all good.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:35 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at March 25, 2014 07:36 PM (N/J8p)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:36 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:36 PM (rDidD)
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Your link didn't work for me for some reason, Jinx, but what I've gathered so far is -
A truck driver (with proper credentials to get on base & the pier) got down to the pier.
As he approached the quarterdeck, a petty officer saw him acting erratically and approached. A struggle ensued, contractor gets POs gun & kills another another sailor coming to aid.
Contractor is then taken out by security forces.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 25, 2014 11:18 PM (porF1)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 07:36 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 11:35 PM (V22Sh)
Muah-ha-ha-hah!
Posted by: RAIN at March 25, 2014 07:37 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 11:35 PM (MpP9p)
Twins???
so ah...what's your sister up to? Asking for a friend...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:37 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:38 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 07:38 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: The 11th Hat at March 25, 2014 07:38 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:38 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 11:35 PM (QeH9j)
I think it's just that once the first one was in the can, so to speak, the planning for the second went easier so the "ads" are up earlier. It was a good time last time.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:39 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:39 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 07:39 PM (hn5v5)
I would hate to see my lovely Sarah at the end of a gun. Posted by: eleven
I think its ladies go first in dueling, 18th cent rules.
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2014 07:39 PM (Aqvh6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:40 PM (rDidD)
After the Obama administration decreed Nidal Hasan's _openly admitted_ jihadi terror shooting rampage at Fort Hood to have been merely "workplace violence", I will believe anything.
I previously would have thought and hoped that such an obtuse and insulting declaration would have led to, for instance, all of the Joint Chiefs walking into the Oval Office and resigning en masse, on the spot. That nothing even close to this happened is extremely dispiriting.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2014 07:41 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 11:39 PM (doBIb)
Boggles the mind, don't it?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:41 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:41 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 07:41 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (rDidD)
A good life is a huge slab of German chocolate cake submerged in French Vanilla ice cream, brought to one as part of the reward for doing the laminate floor and wainscoting project in the living room.
Along with the steak and baked for dinner.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (porF1)
Posted by: MTF, now with 100% full potency at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (B+HTd)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (MpP9p)
Vet #1: "Damn, it's windy."
Vet #2: "No, its Thursday."
Vet #3: "So am I. Let's go get a beer."
Vet #1: "What?"
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:42 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2014 07:43 PM (Aqvh6)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:43 PM (MpP9p)
Sounds like someone is spoiling you. Well done.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:43 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:44 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:44 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 25, 2014 07:44 PM (l3vZN)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 25, 2014 07:47 PM (l3vZN)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Russell
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 07:47 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:47 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 11:42 PM (aUQgu)
June 21, and I'll keep a seat open for you if you'd like.
EC, she's cute as a speckled puppy in a little red wagon, so even evil would be good.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:47 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:47 PM (MpP9p)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2014 07:47 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 25, 2014 07:48 PM (porF1)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:49 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 11:42 PM (QeH9j)
The Horde is surprisingly photophobic, given their "pics or it never happened" motto. Or maybe it's because, you never know.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:49 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:50 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:50 PM (QeH9j)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2014 11:47 PM (SAMxH)
Tally ho! and Goodnight IG.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:51 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:51 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:51 PM (MV98J)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe."
Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2014 11:47 PM (SAMxH)
Go get 'em, tiger! Talk about having your cake, ice-cream and eating it, too.
Axiom broken.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 07:51 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:51 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2014 11:43 PM (Aqvh6)
I might, provided there were sufficient impetus....the general outline is that we're bailing out of NC to end up on Columbia on Friday (for staging).....we'll be doing Savannah for a bit (mostly in the rain), then moving up to Charleston, then heading for Charlotte on Saturday (for staging). The original plan had us flying home on Sunday.....but things are getting weird.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 07:52 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:52 PM (QeH9j)
So Bannion can still walk home
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2014 07:52 PM (Aqvh6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 11:51 PM (rDidD)
Nice save. Wonder if it will work...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:52 PM (V22Sh)
If you have kids, it could part of your "scared straight" program for years
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2014 07:53 PM (Aqvh6)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 07:53 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:53 PM (doBIb)
Charleston:
First, enjoy the Gullah accent and the beautiful people who speak and act with kindness.
You will fall in love with Charlestonians.
Purchase a basket woven from "sweetgrass"-
it is unique to Low Country SC and passed on through the generations.
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum
(USS Yorktown is there)
The Battery (historic center of city)
Walk from Battery to view beautiful Southern homes
Restaurants? Pretty much any along the harbor
Savannah
Haven't been there in donkey years
But be sure to stroll around the squares that populate the historic central part of Savannah.
A friend (with two large hounds) visited Savannah and visited a restaurant that voluntarily offered water dishes to the dogs.
That's how Savannah roles.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 07:54 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 11:52 PM (QeH9j)
Ah, yes, in fact there was. Most amusing, that.
So Bannion can still walk crawl home
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2014 11:52 PM (Aqvh6)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:54 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:54 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 07:54 PM (MV98J)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:54 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:55 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 07:55 PM (MCtb9)
Posted by: Alana at March 25, 2014 07:55 PM (tsAQI)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 07:55 PM (MCtb9)
That's how Savannah roles.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 11:54 PM (aUQgu)
at first I thought that said "two large hands"
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:55 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:55 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 11:47 PM (MpP9p)
Ah, fraternal....so not identical. Which one of you is the evil one?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 07:57 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 07:57 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 07:57 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 11:54 PM (rDidD)
hmm, well, you know from what I understand Gingy is supposed to be there this time...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:57 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:57 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: The Sheep Catcher at March 25, 2014 07:57 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 07:57 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 07:58 PM (aDwsi)
Of course, the pics were supposedly far more stately (and, for propaganda purposes, pro-British/French) than Brady's warts-and-all depictions of the Civil War.
There was a daguerreotypist with the American army in the very first phase of the Mexican American war, but he got sent packing with the rest of the camp-followers. Granted, the photography time was bloody long so no action shots
Posted by: kindletot at March 25, 2014 07:58 PM (LRUgq)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 07:58 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 07:58 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 07:59 PM (doBIb)
I also believe there are a fair number that are wanted and / or worried about having their souls stolen by photos.
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 11:54 PM (rDidD)
Given the fact that everyone had "smart" phones, we should have had everyone face the wall with their phones out as if they were ONT'ing and then taken the photo..."when Morons/ettes gather..."
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 07:59 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 11:58 PM (aDwsi)
Hah! You're a kind soul, sir!
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:00 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Bob at NSA at March 25, 2014 08:00 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:00 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 25, 2014 08:01 PM (MCtb9)
Anybody here ever eat Lobster Thermidor?
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2014 08:01 PM (HVI5a)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:01 PM (MpP9p)
#idiot.
Posted by: Slapweasel
------
I saw that, but figured, meh, the conversation would be the same.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 11:58 PM (aDwsi)
USS Merrimac burned to the waterline. CSS Virginia was the ironclad that fought USS Monitor to a standstill at the mouth of the James River.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 08:01 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:02 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:02 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Maximilien Robespierre at March 25, 2014 08:03 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 08:03 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 08:04 PM (MV98J)
In the next generation, there will be room to breathe--
Posted by: Null at March 25, 2014 08:04 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 08:04 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 12:01 AM (MpP9p)
*best announcer voice* and Vendette lobs a hanging curve ball right over the plate...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 08:04 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 08:05 PM (MV98J)
you could be hero status !
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 26, 2014 12:04 AM (MV98J)
*rubs chin thoughtfully*
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 08:06 PM (V22Sh)
Anything with an umbrella?
White Wine Spritzer?
Remember this major seller from the 90's... ZIMA? What the... this is Fresca!?!
Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at March 25, 2014 08:06 PM (8nONd)
Charleston:
First, enjoy the Gullah accent and the beautiful people who speak and act with kindness.
You will fall in love with Charlestonians.
Purchase a basket woven from "sweetgrass"-
it is unique to Low Country SC and passed on through the generations.
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum
(USS Yorktown is there)
The Battery (historic center of city)
Walk from Battery to view beautiful Southern homes
Restaurants? Pretty much any along the harbor
Savannah
Haven't been there in donkey years
But be sure to stroll around the squares that populate the historic central part of Savannah.
A friend (with two large hounds) visited Savannah and visited a restaurant that voluntarily offered water dishes to the dogs.
That's how Savannah roles.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 11:54 PM (aUQgu)
I can't begin to explain how much I enjoy being here. Was talking to a quilt-store owner as the BH selected fabric, and there's a weird dynamic. People are overwhelmingly polite and well-spoken, but there's this undercurrent that there's some testing involved.....and that makes the BH a trifle uneasy, just that the testing is there. OTOH, I keep answering "fuck, yeah -- and twice on Thursdays!" to the tests, so it doesn't hit me quite the same way. Thing is, this is being done on a massive scale through the totalitarian monitoring of the internet, social media, emails, and cellphone data....so I really do feel uneasy about the idea that any interaction be analyzed for political content....but not one-at-a-time, informally.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 08:08 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2014 08:08 PM (JMmQ9)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 08:08 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 08:09 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 08:10 PM (V22Sh)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 25, 2014 08:10 PM (ojnk6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 11:42 PM (rDidD)
I was buy one, get one for no extra charge.
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 11:55 PM (MpP9p)
Does that make you BOGette?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 08:10 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 08:11 PM (MV98J)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 12:01 AM (V22Sh)
Weren't we talking about kids whose idea of history was pathetic earlier?
#1. The joke still stands. On its own.
#2. Hampton Roads, Virginia. I remember that.
#3. The Horde is as kind as my recollection is dumb.
#4. I'm forty-two and I don't mind being corrected via snark or otherwise.
#5. For being ill-informed and ignorant, I "get by" with vocabulary and sentence structure.
I'll put this in my pocket, take it out later, and learn from it.
#goofy-ass Slapweasel
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:12 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 08:12 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: Joe Biden's keeper at March 25, 2014 08:13 PM (B+HTd)
As I look back through history at what I consider healthy robust cultures and proud free nations on the upswing, hey, guess what? They had painters. And other artists.
Don't sell yourself short.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2014 08:15 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:15 PM (MpP9p)
having 10 bucks to having a losing lottery ticket,
having a partial nirvana to having a faux nirvana,
being clothed to being left holding your dick
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 25, 2014 08:16 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 08:16 PM (MV98J)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:17 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 08:19 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 12:17 AM (MpP9p)
Does she enjoy baseball as much as you do? If so, please have her give me a call at 1-(Numbers From Northeast Ohio).
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:20 PM (lq3Ak)
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbourÂ’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbourÂ’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbourÂ’s.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at March 25, 2014 08:20 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 08:21 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: General Martok at March 25, 2014 08:22 PM (AymDN)
Prolly don't save seat for me. I'd be PITA. Pit stops and all. Would be fun had by all, sure nuff.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 08:22 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 25, 2014 08:22 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 08:22 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: 5.0 Coors at March 25, 2014 08:22 PM (MV98J)
That's why I keep Confessing. My neighbor's ass is worthy of covet.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:23 PM (lq3Ak)
And I don't know what I'm singin'
Crank the volume, ears are bleedin'
I still don't know what I'm singin'
We're so loud and incoherent
Boy, this oughta bug your parents
Yeah
Posted by: Kurt Cobain at March 25, 2014 08:23 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:24 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:26 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at March 25, 2014 08:26 PM (hn5v5)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 08:26 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:27 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: \m/ The Political Hat at March 25, 2014 08:27 PM (AymDN)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 08:28 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:28 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2014 12:10 AM (cc39m)
Maybe so!!!
BTW, if you're wondering if twins can feel each others' pain, it's true.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 12:15 AM (MpP9p)
I wasn't, but I recently had a somewhat scary discussion along the same line.
Ahhh, crud -- don't have email archives on Traveler, the computer I have here. Do ask me again when I'm back in my lair, as I had links and stuff, and you might find it interesting.....but let me give you the context of the conversation -- Joffen's sister Sarah was asking me to help her understand John's state of mind, and I was telling her that I was honor-bound to give her anything she asked of me, but that the only means of fully understanding such a thing would involve taking on that state of mind herself -- which I would passionately and forcefully argue against. In the end, I believe that she threaded that needle and determined that she knew enough and would find no resolution in the other -- and, for that, I salute her -- and hope that her family heals and prospers in the future.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 08:28 PM (cc39m)
Democrats have spent a large amount of time in the last few weeks posturing Charles and David Koch, the billionaire oil tycoons who donate significant amounts of money to conservative causes and candidates, as the sort of bogeyman of the Republican Party. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid even blamed them in part for Russia annexing Crimea.
But according to a new bipartisan George Washington University Battleground Poll, that strategy may be less than fruitful. The poll shows 52% of Americans still donÂ’t even know who the Kochs are and another 11% have no opinion on them.
“Trying to make the Koch brothers into that red meat is going to be about as effective as what we tried to do for several cycles with George Soros,” Republican pollster Ed Goeas told reporters during a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
As far as ReidÂ’s numbers go, the poll shows 25% of Americans donÂ’t know who he is and another 16% have no opinion on him.
That suggests Reid, someone many Americans donÂ’t care much about, going on the Senate floor multiple times a week to decry the actions of the Kochs, who a majority of Americans have never even heard of, may not be the most effective strategy for protecting a Democratic majority in the Senate come November.
Posted by: Useles S Grant at March 25, 2014 08:29 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:29 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 11:42 PM (rDidD)
You'd love my sister. Not that I'm biased.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 12:17 AM (MpP9p)
When's she comin' by?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 08:30 PM (cc39m)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjmN84KCYAALxl5.jpg
Just looked it up. Surrounded by bobble-heads, this one is.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:30 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2014 08:30 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 25, 2014 08:31 PM (HxSXm)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:31 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:32 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 25, 2014 08:33 PM (1tYHk)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 26, 2014 12:26 AM (rDidD)
Heavens, no.
Although if she's like me, she'd be appalled at first and then warm up to the place.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 12:29 AM (MpP9p)
Wait a second...."if"? You have no idea how she'd react to a situation?
Which one of you was shipped off to Mars shortly after birth?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 08:33 PM (cc39m)
Just wonderin when it became "proper conduct" to call out private citizens on the Senate floor? Is this a Reid innovation?
PS: Love the nic
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 08:33 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:34 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: EC at March 25, 2014 08:34 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:35 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 08:35 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Dendritic at March 25, 2014 08:35 PM (Fi+kS)
Here it is... Milwaukee Brewers Ballpark Pup:
http://tinyurl.com/n2gdg4z
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:36 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at March 25, 2014 08:36 PM (EHhm7)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 08:37 PM (MpP9p)
“I'm Buster Brown, and I live in a shoe. That's my dog, Tige, and he lives there, too.
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 08:42 PM (aUQgu)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2014 08:44 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:47 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2014 08:47 PM (aTXUx)
Must be a liberal...because this sounds like a liberal's idea of what it is "to be a conservative".
What hogwash! Every. Fucking. Bit. Of. It.
Posted by: wheatie at March 25, 2014 11:27 PM (vkigW)
Sigh. Even conservatives are unfamiliar with the intellectual foundations of conservatism.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 25, 2014 08:48 PM (XkotV)
Back in, if memory serves, the late 1970s or early 1980s, I was in a large shoe store here in northern Commiefornia, and they had one of the classic X-ray fitting machines.
The radiographic source had been removed, of course. They had a lit photograph in view when you looked through the viewer, of foot bones outlined within a ghostly shoe.
No one on the staff knew anything about the machine or its antecedents, or at least were not willing to fess up. They were all pretty young and so probably did not know anything about it firsthand, or even why the practice had come into disrepute. I suspect an older owner of the store had had the machine safed and then kept it around nostalgically.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 25, 2014 08:48 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 25, 2014 08:49 PM (DmNpO)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 08:50 PM (QeH9j)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2014 08:51 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: RWC at March 25, 2014 08:52 PM (QeH9j)
I wasn't on that ONT and I refuse to read it. All I know is that you and others put forth a herculean effort and many others did what they could. I pray for the comfort of his family. I also pray for you and those on that ONT.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 12:35 AM (MpP9p)
I won't go back to read it, myself -- and I trust the discretion of anyone doing honest research to not second-guess my half-asleep panicked ass where I can hear about it. But this does give me another opportunity to put this out there: it is a comfort to his sister and family that people knew of Joffen and wished him well, and entries to the family's memorial guestbook are appreciated. Furthermore, his sister has visited us here and seen how we can maintain a healthy paranoia and yet care for each other deeply, and also moderates the guestbook -- and will post entries under PG-rated nics or partial names. If you care about Joffen's grieving family -- and I would hope you might -- please DO visit and leave condolences.....and this is where I get all mumbly 'cause the link is bookmarked in a computer 2300 miles away.
Seriously, I've posted the link several times. Or someone having it available could post it.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 08:52 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:52 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: Dendritic at March 25, 2014 08:52 PM (Fi+kS)
Posted by: NCwoof at March 25, 2014 08:53 PM (aUQgu)
The "short-order" place called "Country Kitchen" did both really well.
Perkins: Fries.
Denny's: Patty Melt
Everything else was local and not relevant.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 08:53 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 08:55 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and nothing at March 25, 2014 08:56 PM (5MGOE)
"John Tyler, who became president in 1841, has 2 living grandchildren"
I heard this a few years ago and I still can't believe it's true. I mean, John Tyler was born in 1790, a year after the Constitution went into effect. My Grandfather was born in 1921. This seems unpossible.
Posted by: Elephant in the Room at March 25, 2014 09:41 PM (Ggh94)
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According to my extensive research (at Wikipedia), Tyler was president from 1841-1845. He lived from 1790-1862. In 1842, in the midst of his presidency, his first wife, Leticia, died at the age of 52. He had had 8 children with her. He married his 2nd wife, Julia, in 1844. He was 54; she was 24. They went on to have 7 more children.
One of them, Lyon, is the one we are interested in for this exercise. He was born in 1853 (his father would have been 63 at the time). Lyon lived until 1935. Before he died, he had 6 children (again, by two wives). The two who are still alive, Lyon Jr, and Harrison, were born in 1924 and 1928, respectively. Lyon Sr. would have been 71 and 75 at the birth of those two children.
If that whole Idiocracy thing comes to pass, it won't be the Tyler family's fault.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 25, 2014 08:58 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2014 08:58 PM (bStrg)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and get audited at March 25, 2014 08:58 PM (5MGOE)
Posted by: Barky O at March 25, 2014 08:59 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2014 09:00 PM (aTXUx)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2014 01:00 AM (aTXUx)
that's not being too drunk, that about the right amount of drunkenness to be eating at a White Castle
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2014 09:01 PM (bStrg)
I wasn't on that ONT and I refuse to read it. All I know is that you and others put forth a herculean effort and many others did what they could. I pray for the comfort of his family. I also pray for you and those on that ONT.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 12:35 AM (MpP9p)
In the interest of completeness, I should say that the efforts weren't herculean by a long shot....if I could take credit for anything, it would be a dogged insistence on continuing in the face of everything previously done being demonstrated as ineffectual. If it were herculean, I might regard it as my finest hour....as it is, I did what I had to do to not live in a house without mirrors.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 09:02 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: The Dude at March 26, 2014 01:01 AM (bStrg)
*applause*
I agree.
...'X gets the square'.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 09:03 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 09:03 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and get audited at March 25, 2014 09:04 PM (5MGOE)
Posted by: Dendritic at March 25, 2014 09:05 PM (Fi+kS)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 09:05 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 09:05 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 09:08 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 09:10 PM (rDidD)
alas, the handrail adventure continues at the same speed that progressives learn.
Posted by: jc at March 25, 2014 09:18 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 25, 2014 09:20 PM (rDidD)
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2014 09:23 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2014 09:28 PM (sLR/I)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 26, 2014 01:05 AM (qyfb5)
You say that merely because your prowess has not even been encroached, let-alone "challenged".
We pedantic dupes share 98% Ape DNA. (*RACIST*!)
*chides self*
You, (Sir), should be at some MENSA website, where you belong.
G'wan... *sniff*.
*sniff* ...go on!
GO AWAY! *bawls*
...I know you're not a bunny from 1985, but THIS IS ALL I KNOW!
I'm "A Stupid". I don't even know the difference between the Merrimac, the Monitor, the Hunley or the Virginia!
*bawls*
I thought "Hampton Roads" was the paths hamsters took between the sawdust in my Habitrail!
*waaaaa-aaah-aaah!*
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 09:29 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 09:30 PM (qyfb5)
You went above and way beyond.
Posted by: Vendette at March 26, 2014 01:05 AM (MpP9p)
I acted honorably at the time and at previous times, and I intend to act honorably in the future.
Look, guys -- I contacted him previously during an episode, and helped to talk him down from that. He seemed to be doing well with Chi and I faded my monitoring accordingly. On his last night, I had his (real) name, his city, his email address and his phone number, and vague memories of other discussions....but let's talk counterfactuals for a second -- Chi knew he had a Twitter page. I first saw it six days after I knew he was gone....and found an obscure location code that might have gotten the police (called within 8 minutes of my receipt of his jarring "farewell" email) to his location more quickly than the last previous communication he sent.
So I could regard myself as a failure because I didn't get all the crumbs left along the trail. But I don't. I stepped up when I could and did as best I could with what I had. I'm not ashamed, and I'm not proud. I hope that other morons might do the same for me in like circumstances, and I'd be happy if they did....but I'm not going to feel heroic or wonderful when we don't have Joffen around to BS with.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 09:31 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: I Have the Munchies at March 25, 2014 09:31 PM (W5iHt)
Uh don't cue up the tentacles.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 01:28 AM (sLR/I)
How are you doin'???
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 09:33 PM (cc39m)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 09:35 PM (qyfb5)
Doing okay. Writing. Staying warm. And Ra finally decided to grace me with his presence after I had fed the other cats and searched the yard for him.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2014 09:36 PM (sLR/I)
Here is yet another example of Common Core assignments making simple math more “accessible.”
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=5376
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 25, 2014 09:44 PM (AymDN)
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I clicked through to get to the source, and it is the stupid. Common Core's "wisdom" is as follows:
Add 26 + 17 by breaking apart numbers to make a ten.
Use a number that adds with the 6 in 26 to make a 10.
Since 6 + 4 = 10, use 4.
Think: 17 = 4 + 13.
Add 26 + 4 = 30.
Add 30 + 13 = 43.
So, 26 + 17 = 43.
That seems like the hard way to me. Of course, if you have paper and pencil, the easiest way is to put the numbers on top of each other and then add the ones column, carry over as necessary to the tens column, etc. As I'm sure anyone wasn't taught with Common Core learned when they were in first grade:
26
+17
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43
But, even if you don't have paper and pencil and have to do it in your head, they are still doing it the hard way. If you are used to adding figures with a paper and pencil, then you are already familiar with the method of grouping the ones and tens. So, 26 + 17, becomes 20 + 10 + 6 + 7, becomes, 30 + 13, which gives 43.
Why are they trying to fuck up our kids?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 25, 2014 09:36 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 25, 2014 09:38 PM (idmwx)
As for that NASA rube and his Earth size planet in the Goldilock zone, an M1 star? Really? Very likely there is no energy for anything living to evolve.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2014 09:39 PM (sLR/I)
Doing okay. Writing. Staying warm. And Ra finally decided to grace me with his presence after I had fed the other cats and searched the yard for him.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2014 01:36 AM (sLR/I)
I bookmarked it. At home, I have a 23" screen....here....not so much
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2014 09:39 PM (cc39m)
...Missing that shuttle had to have been a defining moment, amigo. Epuflotic Timetables, notwithstanding.
My plane is plain.
...so f'ing three-dimensional.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 09:42 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 09:43 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 09:44 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: MaxDamage at March 25, 2014 09:45 PM (UgtuZ)
I am heading to bed. Night all.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2014 09:46 PM (sLR/I)
-Dinosaurs were NOT cold-blooded.
-Increased K-12 Spending + Smaller Class Sizes DOES NOT = Better Grades.
-Most of our, (My), DNA is NOT "junk". Fifty-five percent is BOOBS. Boobs ARE NOT "junk".
-Saccharin does NOT cause cancer.
-High Fiber Diets DO NOT Prevent Cancer.
-Stars CAN be Larger than 150 Solar Masses.
...this has been presented as "fact" by an idiot. Also known as:
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Slapweasel.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 09:49 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Vendette at March 25, 2014 09:49 PM (MpP9p)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 09:52 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2014 09:53 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: jc at March 26, 2014 01:20 AM (PlzOe)
wish I was better at bending laminated wood
Posted by: The Dude at March 26, 2014 01:36 AM (bStrg)
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me, too. the stack of broken attempts is getting huge.
we are not laminating and then bending -- we are bending a few pieces at a time and laminating each piece onto the rest.
we have only had a couple that bent end-to-end without a break. I am worried that the project might fail. butt joints in the finish surface would suck unless they are extremely well done.
Posted by: jc at March 25, 2014 09:53 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 25, 2014 09:59 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2014 10:00 PM (4euv/)
Posted by: thunderb at March 25, 2014 10:01 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 26, 2014 01:59 AM (/96QU)
Still waiting for my copy from Amazon :/
Posted by: The Dude at March 25, 2014 10:02 PM (bStrg)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:04 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 10:04 PM (qyfb5)
I don't know, but the answer to that question should be instructive.
Posted by: rickl at March 26, 2014 01:53 AM (sdi6R)
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If they are, they are keeping quiet about it. The term does not show up anywhere on their website.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 25, 2014 10:13 PM (IN7k+)
My perception may be affected here, though, by the fact that I've had terrible so-called "reubens" made by people who had no idea what the word means.At least this reuben pizza sort of sounds like a proper reuben.
One such place made its reubens with corned beef on rye (sounds good so far, huh?), but then added "sweet pickled cabbage" instead of sauerkraut, and "Gruyere cheese" (which had the texture of ABC gum still warm and soft from the chewer's mouth) instead of Swiss, and "tomato-dill aioli" instead of Thousand Island dressing.
It was to barf.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 25, 2014 10:17 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:17 PM (lq3Ak)
Why are they trying to fuck up our kids?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 26, 2014 01:36 AM (IN7k+) fnord (IN7k+)
Because they are fucking stupid. Teachers are so fucking stupid. They've just spent 4 years going to school to learn how to teach. They are taught using tried and true, classical teaching methods. And what do they use that to do? To teach them to try new stupid ideas that have no fucking hope of working. Why else would I as a Junior in High School be required to have MARKERS for AMERICAN HISTORY?
That's right we had to do art in high school American History as part of our grade. Oh sure she claimed that we wouldn't actually be judged on our art, but don't tell me she wasn't giving better grades to some girls who went all out on the "responses" to the notes we were taking.
Some days I really wish I knew where that dumbass bitch was so I could tell her what a shitty teacher she was and how I remember things from 8th grade American History a lot better than anything she attempted to teach. It'd probably sting her pretty good because she liked me and I was smarter than her.
Posted by: buzzion at March 25, 2014 10:18 PM (LI48c)
Barbarian!!!
A proper Reuben is made with Russian dressing.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 25, 2014 10:20 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 10:20 PM (V22Sh)
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accepted and done. perhaps we should talk about T&A instead.
Posted by: jc at March 25, 2014 10:20 PM (PlzOe)
Your mama wears army boots. My guess is this comes from the Depression era, where people had to make do with whatever was available. Nowadays, it's likely that your mama wears army boots cuz she is IN the Army.
Sticks and stones my break your bones, but words will never hurt me. Words are now 'bullying', and don't forget that if you yell a racial slur you might get charged with a hate crime. If you're white, that is. Progress.
You bastard. As in, 41 out of 100 births in the US today. Yep, the zing is definitely gone for that one.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2014 10:20 PM (wNF3N)
This is also why so many liberals are pushing for earlier pre-school access, so they can get more of a head start on making our kids dumb and therefore liberal.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 25, 2014 10:22 PM (/96QU)
The educational system isn't worth what we are paying for it.
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 26, 2014 02:17 AM (lq3Ak)
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If I might suggest --- when my parents were young a teacher had the right to send a misbehaving student home. Then the lawyers took over and schooling as a quest for excellence has been dying ever since.
School has become a nationalized babysitting service. Education is secondary to holding the inmates for a set number of hours.
Union or not, it is impossible to teach students that don't want to learn.
Posted by: jc at March 25, 2014 10:26 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 10:27 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Sister Sestina at March 25, 2014 10:28 PM (Em6d4)
But one of these days, I want to learn how to make red cabbage sauerkraut. German style. I like that stuff.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2014 10:28 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:29 PM (lq3Ak)
But if you look at women in the military today, they tend to be much cuter than you'd expect based on that old stereotype.
Female athletes are overall much cuter today, too, than they were thirty years ago.
This may have something to do with studies that have shown that a majority of today's women are physically attractive; said attractiveness would tend to spread across the spectrum of women's career choices.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 25, 2014 10:31 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 10:32 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2014 10:35 PM (sdi6R)
The smell of dill rye toasting makes me drool all by itself. Then add butter. Oh my.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 25, 2014 10:36 PM (IN7k+)
Thank you, Sir! The topics are at the whim of the ONT, so please proceed!
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 26, 2014 02:29 AM (lq3Ak)
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T-ampersand-A. Well, at least A
http://tinyurl.com/lz74kmw
Posted by: jc at March 25, 2014 10:37 PM (PlzOe)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 25, 2014 10:39 PM (V22Sh)
My Father and baby sister had polycystic and my brother is currently suffering from same, he is undergoing tests to see if he can have a transplant. Hopefully it works out.
Posted by: bill-o at March 25, 2014 10:39 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 02:39 AM (V22Sh)
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We already told you. Weren't you listening?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 25, 2014 10:40 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:40 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: The Farmer at March 25, 2014 10:40 PM (eBupg)
656: I think it's more based on old-fashioned views of the military, when a woman who went with that sort of career was considered macho and not at all feminine
Unfortunately, the old view was that any woman who joined the military was a whore.
My parents met while in the Air Force (1950's). Dad got out before Mom and moved back to IL to get a job. The one time that she wore her uniform to church while visiting on leave (normal for the time) - they were absolutely shunned.
Posted by: PMRich at March 25, 2014 10:42 PM (KDUNf)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:43 PM (lq3Ak)
One thing I would do was throw out random 2 or 3 digit numbers verbally and ask for their sum or difference. The idea, of course, was to practice doing it in your head, a useful skill for your entire life. And as they got older, there was multiplication and division added.
PS The kids enjoyed it, too. Even though it is probably some kind of bullying hate crime to quiz 'em like that nowadays.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2014 10:45 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 25, 2014 10:46 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:47 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 25, 2014 10:48 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 25, 2014 10:53 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: The Farmer at March 25, 2014 10:56 PM (eBupg)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 10:56 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 11:03 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Seamus M. at March 25, 2014 11:05 PM (g4TxM)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy at March 25, 2014 11:07 PM (lq3Ak)
I was a cruel taskmaster -- would use a new word, and when they asked what it meant, I would suggest they either hit the dictionary or pay me a dime.
Cheapskates that they were, I collected very few dimes. Oh, and I taught them that in order to 'own' a new word they had to be able to spell it, define it, and use it correctly in a sentence. Oh the horrors of their childhoods. The scars have lasted them a lifetime already.
Weirdly enough, by the 8th grade both of their vocabularies were rated as college level by the standardized tests.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2014 11:13 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2014 11:16 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 11:29 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Slapweasel at March 25, 2014 11:32 PM (lq3Ak)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcmY6T_HzIM
Good night, everyone!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 25, 2014 11:40 PM (/96QU)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 25, 2014 11:40 PM (qoKTg)
Posted by: buzzion at March 25, 2014 11:41 PM (LI48c)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 25, 2014 11:46 PM (qoKTg)
and as usual the BBs got it wrong as it appears that the potato is worse for you than the beef tallow
Posted by: bill-o at March 25, 2014 11:47 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 25, 2014 11:47 PM (JS0vr)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 25, 2014 11:48 PM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 25, 2014 11:49 PM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 25, 2014 11:49 PM (JS0vr)
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 25, 2014 11:49 PM (nkPV9)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 25, 2014 11:51 PM (qoKTg)
Posted by: That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! at March 25, 2014 11:54 PM (qoKTg)
It seems every couple years they come out with the latest food(s) that will kill you and then a few years after that they say; no that wasn't right, THESE foods will kill you.
So far to my limited memory it's:
Sugar
Salt
Butter
Oleomargarine
Transfats (whatever they are)
Cheese
Milk
Red meat
Any kind of meat
Fish (certain kinds)
Poultry
Eggs
Lard
Saccharine
Coffee
Cream
Non Homogenized milk
Veal
Liver
There's more but I don't remember them because I didn't change what I ate anyway.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 25, 2014 11:55 PM (JS0vr)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 25, 2014 11:56 PM (qoKTg)
And not just stuff to allow the commercials to get squeezed in but important stuff. Sometimes stuff that were the only reason the movie was a hit.
Try watching Blazing Saddles on TV. (that's if they even try to show it anymore.)
There's others too numerous to mention and tedious to remember.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 25, 2014 11:59 PM (JS0vr)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 26, 2014 12:01 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 12:01 AM (qyfb5)
I KNOW!
How did it freaking land anywhere?
I know the side wings folded, I guess the lower wing folded too.
Well, in space there 3 degrees of freedom so I supposed It was hyper maneuverable.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:04 AM (JS0vr)
Sometimes a book is so full of crap I cannot get past the first chapter. I'd make a terrible reviewer, as you have to read a book in its entirety to properly write about it. But here I go anyway.
The premise is that the health care system is already the product of massive government intervention, so much of the debate over Obamacare is arguing about the wrong things. All well and good but it starts off by offering four industries it claims would either not exist or exist in much reduced form without government involvement: railroads, the interstate highway system, the internet, and satellite communications.
The government's most important contribution to the first was to allow federally controlled land to be used. Which is to say, allowing citizens to something of value form empty wilderness. On the second, automobile manufacturing was already a core sector of the US economy. More and better roads were going to happen regardless of the level of federal enthusiasm. It was also understood that the next big war would involve the use of long range missiles, with rail being more vulnerable to disruption than roads. That a defense initiative had economic benefits is not a slam dunk testimonial to government meddling.
The section on the internet repeats a lot of myths about its creation and completely ignores the existence of networked BBS systems and commercial services like Compuserve coming about in the late 70s. The emergence of a network of networks was a matter of when, not if.
Finally, the author makes the blanket assumption that without the Space Program there would simply be no satellite in orbit today. Really? The concept and commercial potential of the communications satellite was first published by Arthur C. Clarke in the 40s, and several writer in both fiction and non-fiction had suggested how they believed the aircraft industry would evolve to move into the upper atmosphere and beyond. It may have taken longer to get payloads to orbit without government investment but once the technology was established it would likely have developed faster in a world where the public hadn't been programmed to believe that space development was something best left to government.
Since accepting the premise that these four industries would not exist or would exist in much lesser form is the basis for the rest of the book, I couldn't bring myself to go any further. The author is either grossly misinformed of grossly dishonest. In either case it doesn't hold out much hope of learning anything of value from the bulk of the volume.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 26, 2014 12:05 AM (bPxS6)
That does sound like something a few folks around here have been charged with.
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 26, 2014 12:06 AM (nkPV9)
It always struck me as a design based on running out of matching parts in the pile the modelers were working from.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 26, 2014 12:06 AM (bPxS6)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 12:09 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 26, 2014 12:11 AM (qoKTg)
The Highway system probably wouldn't be as connective and homogenous as it is because the States would've built them as needed.
And they would've done the routing different.
The FedGov just came through, surveyed the route, told people they were living there on borrowed time and maybe 2-15 years later the machines would show up.
We moved into a new house in the early summer of 1957. They surveyed for I-94 later that summer.
They finally took the property (I have no idea what they paid for it.) in 1969.
My Father was smart, he took the money and had the house moved about 1/2 mile away. Smaller lot but he kept the house. (which he built himself btw)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:12 AM (JS0vr)
Or absurd audio overdubs. I saw the beauty pageant movie 'Smile' in the theater. There is a subplot about a group of kids, 14 year olds or thereabouts, sneaking into the backstage area with a camera. An argument has one of them calling another 'dickhead.' This became 'duckhead' for broadcast TV.
I used to be baffled as a child by some of things characters would say old books and comics, as I'd never heard anyone say such things. It was a while before I realize that this was euphemism for what the character was really intended to be saying.
Posted by: Epobirs at March 26, 2014 12:12 AM (bPxS6)
In the meantime, please don't take a nap on the railroad tracks.
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 26, 2014 12:12 AM (nkPV9)
http://www.steynonline.com/6204/in-flaunters-fields-the-dollars-blow
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 12:14 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 12:14 AM (qyfb5)
No no the "wings" were there for hanging engines and weaponry off of. So wider spread between engines greater moment arm = quicker manueverability.
Even George Lucas knows that.
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Waiting For SMODOT) at March 26, 2014 12:15 AM (JS0vr)
Posted by: Epobirs at March 26, 2014 04:05 AM (bPxS6)
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just another feeble mind that can't accurately state their assumptions when they advance a theory.
Posted by: jc at March 26, 2014 12:19 AM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 26, 2014 12:20 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 12:21 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 12:25 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 12:26 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: RickZ at March 26, 2014 12:26 AM (exKE2)
Everything will kill you in the long term. Worrying about the effect of life sustaining foods over the course of decades is a very recent luxury in human history. Trying to find the perfect diet, especially when it seems to always come at the cost of the most basic pleasure a person can hope to enjoy, is a fool's errand. I hold out far more hope for our understanding and technology advancing to the point where it can mitigate or correct any damage we may build up along the way. After all, no matter what they ate, every human known to have existed eventually succumbed to death by old age is nothing else got them first.
"Red meat won't kill you. GREEN MEAT will kill you!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eybZtDx6tAU
Posted by: Epobirs at March 26, 2014 12:27 AM (bPxS6)
Wish I had a land speeder right now. Then again, probably get attack by the Illinois version of sand people.
They are called madiganis projectalis venomous, iirc
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 26, 2014 12:35 AM (nkPV9)
I just reloaded the article with no problems Mero.
>> Emiril's asparagus soup
mmm, I love soups and we had an Emiril's restaurant in town for a few years. Yummy. His cajun bbq shrimp and banana cream pie were worth going to jail over.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 12:36 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 12:38 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 12:39 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 12:40 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 26, 2014 12:41 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 12:42 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 12:42 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 12:43 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 12:44 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? at March 26, 2014 12:45 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 12:48 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 12:50 AM (V22Sh)
pay no attention to the drunk man over in the corner...except for you BCochrain, this is your future.
Mine much sooner than his. 17 y.o. daughter
Posted by: PMRich at March 26, 2014 12:50 AM (KDUNf)
Listen to that sound; it's the clomp clomp clomp of her biological clock ticking. (Cousin Vinny reference)
I hope she finds a good man GGE.
My daughter is getting married in October, as a spry 24 year old. I'm very happy for them both.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2014 12:53 AM (wNF3N)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 12:59 AM (1tYHk)
http://youtu.be/XnMajQgYgqo
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:00 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: PMRich at March 26, 2014 04:50 AM (KDUNf)
oh you poor bastard....
you do have a shotgun right?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:01 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:04 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: fastfreefall at March 26, 2014 01:07 AM (ZjBoP)
and a pistol, rifle, several large knives, axe and most importantly a shovel
Posted by: PMRich at March 26, 2014 01:07 AM (KDUNf)
What are things you will not find in the storage compartment of an X-Wing fighter, Alex?
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 26, 2014 01:09 AM (nkPV9)
and all this time she thinks she has no talents...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:10 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: PMRich at March 26, 2014 05:07 AM (KDUNf)
gators gotta eat...same as worms...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:11 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: PMRich at March 26, 2014 05:12 AM (KDUNf)
Buzzards then...but the bodies are easier to find...
yeah....let me know if you need a hand.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:15 AM (V22Sh)
Hogs gotta eat, same as the gators. ONT always has the good advice
Posted by: PMRich at March 26, 2014 01:17 AM (KDUNf)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:17 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at March 26, 2014 01:18 AM (V22Sh)
Posted by: PMRich at March 26, 2014 01:20 AM (KDUNf)
Posted by: Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? at March 26, 2014 01:25 AM (qoKTg)
UNPOSSIBLE! Only a man as SMART as the JEF can improve our standing on the world stage ...
Posted by: Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? at March 26, 2014 05:25 AM (qoKTg)
======
Chauncey Gardner without the water wings.
Posted by: jc at March 26, 2014 01:33 AM (PlzOe)
I've noticed on many occasions that young people working as cashiers have hard time making change in general.
Posted by: Crazy Cat Lady at March 26, 2014 01:35 AM (rItIL)
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 26, 2014 01:36 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Adriane is easily confused ... at March 26, 2014 01:38 AM (qoKTg)
without the ability to work hard in the garden as well ...
Posted by: Adriane ... at March 26, 2014 05:36 AM (qoKTg)
====
I suspect he can grow the choom.
Posted by: jc at March 26, 2014 01:39 AM (PlzOe)
Posted by: Adriane... at March 26, 2014 01:40 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Adriane... at March 26, 2014 01:41 AM (qoKTg)
Posted by: Adriane... at March 26, 2014 01:41 AM (qoKTg)
The dissolution begins,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtaD2VaJSME&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 26, 2014 01:59 AM (nkPV9)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 02:08 AM (1tYHk)
Posted by: Baldy at March 26, 2014 02:09 AM (2bql3)
$12.00 worth of shit, I have to give the little retard both the $10.00
and the $20.00 so the special snowflake can Common Core me some change
from $30.00 instead of $20.00.
I've noticed on many occasions that young people working as cashiers have hard time making change in general.
Posted by: Crazy Cat Lady at March 26, 2014 05:35 AM (rItIL)"
My brother gets a kick out of getting change from the current generation of cashiers. For example, if his bill comes to $1.87, he will give the cashier two ones, a dime and two pennies. They will enter that into the POS device and are amazed to learn that he gets back a quarter as change. "How did you do that?" they often ask in amazement as if he had just performed a magic trick.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at March 26, 2014 02:16 AM (PD6iL)
Really now?
Their Air Force is big enough to need that many Generals?
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 26, 2014 02:26 AM (nkPV9)
Posted by: mindful webworker - okay, okay, I'm awake awreddy! at March 26, 2014 02:36 AM (Tqh1Y)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 02:38 AM (1tYHk)
Posted by: mindful webworker - okay, okay, I'm awake awreddy! at March 26, 2014 02:41 AM (Tqh1Y)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 02:42 AM (60Vyp)
Posted by: mindful webworker - okay, okay, I'm awake awreddy! at March 26, 2014 02:42 AM (Tqh1Y)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 02:42 AM (1tYHk)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 02:46 AM (zF6Iw)
Thanks. Five minutes trying to compose a comment with links and shit, and when I hit the Post button it says "your comment looks like spam"
So I delete every damn word except the first sentence, and Pixie still does it.
So.....
You want blazing neon announcements
You'll settle for bolded words
you get a limp dick ammo alert
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 02:46 AM (si68n)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 02:48 AM (1tYHk)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 02:49 AM (60Vyp)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 02:50 AM (1tYHk)
Posted by: mindful webworker - ah, first cuppa th day at March 26, 2014 02:51 AM (ItCyz)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 02:52 AM (1tYHk)
Posted by: panzernashorn at March 26, 2014 02:53 AM (/vO0r)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 02:54 AM (60Vyp)
Posted by: Barry Hoosane Obummer at March 26, 2014 02:56 AM (ItCyz)
You may be more correct then you know.
I am pretty capable of performing every function allowed by Pixie, except the amper-thingies.
But EVERY time I come to a post relating to ammo, it's like it gets clamped down,
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 02:57 AM (si68n)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 02:57 AM (1tYHk)
Yes...
Slick Guns
Wikiarms
Gunbot
Ammospy
Wikiarms is the one that gave me the e-mail alert on Cabela's
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 02:59 AM (si68n)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 03:00 AM (1tYHk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mVFrdWIs2LI
You would think he would be used to it by now.
Posted by: GMB (et al) at March 26, 2014 03:00 AM (nkPV9)
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 03:03 AM (1tYHk)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 26, 2014 03:06 AM (60Vyp)
Life? Meh. I mean, at least I'm on this side of the ground and, fortunately, not in constant pain like Carol. It could always be worse. Just a sort of low-level depression day.
The writing? Oy, as J.J. would say. Yesterday I went over the book and broke it down into a series of scene cards, laid them all out and realized that none of it makes a coherent, full-length story. There are episodes, but no throughline.
And Pixy is f'ng up for me this morning. I'm going to get a cup of tea.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 03:06 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: mindful webworker, adopted Chicagoan at March 26, 2014 03:07 AM (t0hSy)
"You know, the law of averages says
Anything will happen that can
But the last time the Cubs took the pennant
Was the year we dropped the Bomb On Japan...."
Did you ever hear the Perry Como song, "Dig You Later (A-Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)?"
I got it from a guy that was in the know,
It was mighty smoky over Tokyo!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 26, 2014 03:11 AM (zF6Iw)
Glad to help.
I have e-mail alerts set on all of them, using the same price points for each.
And it's a toss-up between Wikiarms and Slickguns as to who alerts me first.
I have been able to get myself out of the "Grab anything at any price" mindset that I had when casual shopping in Brick/morter stores showed nothing but empty shelves, and snickering sales clerks saying "Good luck"
With the alerts, you will see patterns of most low prices popping Monday-Wednesday, and very few specials Thursday-Sunday.
But, wait for the better prices. They're out there.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2014 03:13 AM (si68n)
Posted by: mindful webworker — a veritable Nostradamus at March 26, 2014 03:15 AM (t0hSy)
Posted by: mindful webworker — a veritable Nostradamus at March 26, 2014 03:15 AM (t0hSy)
Posted by: Baldy at March 26, 2014 03:18 AM (2bql3)
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