January 07, 2014

Top Headline Comments 1-7-14
— Gabriel Malor

Happy Tuesday.

Sen. Johnson's Obamacare lawsuit accusing the administration of giving congressmen and their staff special treatment has been filed and Paul Clement is arguing it. Lawgeeks, you can look at the complaint here.

The Chief Justice declined to grant the plaintiffs in one of the Origination Clause lawsuits a stay of Obamacare pending completion of their litigation. The subsidies lawsuits, the contraception mandate lawsuits, the accommodation lawsuits, and Sen. Johnson's lawsuit all have a better chance of success on the merits than the Origination Clause lawsuits, seeing as how the Origination Clause lawsuits lack entirely a basis in law or precedent.

Satanists have unveiled their proposed monument for the Oklahoma state Capitol. They argue that the Capitol is obligated to accept their monument, since it just accepted the donation of a Ten Commandments monument which has since been erected on Capitol grounds. Litigation is pending.

The 5th Circuit panel reviewing the appeal of the Texas HB2 decision -- that is, the abortion limitations bill passed last year over, among other things, the objection of fad Democratic candidate Wendy Davis -- was pretty harsh. For example, Judge Jones asked one lawyer if she would inform the court when more doctors get admitting privileges, adding cryptically, “or have you notified the New York Times?” Lawgeeks, audio of the argument is available here.

Some folks are arguing that Liz Cheney's failed campaign is evidence of the decline of GOP hawks. I think it more likely it's just evidence that people from Virginia should run for Senate in Virginia. In Wyoming, even more than a lot of other places, all politics is local. Cheney just never got traction after the carpetbagger accusations. The folks that think Cheney's campaign is emblematic of a shift against GOP hawks are oddly not drawing the opposite conclusion about Tom Cotton's strong campaign to unseat Arkansas Sen. Pryor. Cotton is a notable war hawk and it looks like he's going to win.

The RNC is putting its first paid media of 2014 in the field. Radio ads hitting Dems on Obamacare will play in 12 states.

Finally, don't miss the bonus podcast with DaveinTexas and Justified's Nick Searcy. And then the regular weekly podcast is linked below. Oh, don't forget to send your "Ask the Blog" questions and comments via the link.

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1 DAY 429 1,032 to go (1,103 to Inauguration Day 2017) Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, McCain's, McConnell's, McAuliffe's, MIRV's, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 02:54 AM (olDqf)

2 LOL Spitzer was caught at it again, though this time not with a hooker but with female feet in a jacuzzi by a 10 yr old boy.

Posted by: Baldy at January 07, 2014 02:54 AM (2bql3)

3 Too bad about Liz Cheney. She is very sharp, excellent off-the-cuff debater and MFM handler and a decent person. Mike Enzi, at best is a nebbish. He is a go-along GOP establishment Quisling and as such is totally useless.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)

4 2 LOL Spitzer was caught at it again, though this time not with a hooker but with female feet in a jacuzzi by a 10 yr old boy. Posted by: Baldy at January 07, 2014 06:54 AM (2bql3) Eww! Skifozza!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 02:56 AM (olDqf)

5 28 degrees on the Gulf Coast.  Balmy compared to where some of you are.

Posted by: toby928© drinks against the cold at January 07, 2014 02:57 AM (QupBk)

6 13 degrees here in Moscow on the Hudson (literally). But supposed to hit the 50's by the weekend.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 02:57 AM (olDqf)

7 Any word on Jim Hoft?  Since the kids have school off, I'm dragging them to morning mass - does he need a few words?

Posted by: Jean at January 07, 2014 02:58 AM (4JkHl)

8 3 degrees here in Md, with wind chill at negative 13. I think I might stay under my covers all day.

Posted by: spypeach at January 07, 2014 02:58 AM (10H0T)

9 Morning!

Up very early.. our heater went out in the middle of the night..  Emergency heater guy just left.. $400 later, we got heat! (well spent!)  It is minus 11 with a wind chill of minus 32.

Wife slept thru the whole thing!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 03:01 AM (b/lt+)

10 spypeach, cross the river its a balmy 6 degrees

Posted by: Jean at January 07, 2014 03:02 AM (4JkHl)

11 Another day in paradise.  I think the liberal wing of the GOP is gonna let the Democrats run (successfully) on ObamaCare and the Minimum Wage hike I imagine Boehner passing after he passes the UE "extension."  Why not, only in Obamerica can an administration be considered a smashing success at the economy while UE3 and U6 are this high and they are having to extend UE "benefits" for the 6th year in a row...

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:03 AM (TE35l)

12 Today's celebrity birthdays: Gen. Israel Putnam (was almost Joan-Of-Arc'd) Millard Fillmore (POTUS #13) Adolph Zukor (starry mountain) Alan Napier (faithful servant) Butterfly McQueen (unlicensed midwife) Vincent Gardenia (ceiling dog) Gene L. Coon (The forgotten Gene) Kenny Loggins (metal under tension) Erin Gray (Buck babe) David Caruso (yyyeeeaaaaahhh!!) Katie Couric (over) Mark Allen Shepherd (latinum regurgitation) Hallie Todd (Data's daughter) Rand Paul (classy actions) Nicolas Cage (50 today) Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (RIP)

Posted by: Gran at January 07, 2014 03:04 AM (mw0FO)

13 9 Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 07:01 AM (b/lt+)

Not giving you the usual heat(no pun intended) but I am sorta shocked you don't have a back-up ceramic heater or two Jerry...

the cold she be a killer.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:04 AM (TE35l)

14 Sup morons, this morning the school districts in DE are closed due to 'cold'... I've heard of "too cool for school", but this is ridiculous

Posted by: Moebius at January 07, 2014 03:04 AM (5jbXu)

15 Helluva exciting football game last night.

Posted by: toby928© drinks against the cold at January 07, 2014 03:05 AM (QupBk)

16 I like Liz Cheney.  When she was doing the Sunday morning talk show circuit a few years back, she was refreshingly direct.  She can put forth the conservative viewpoint without seeming rabid.

I hope she has a future in politics.

When I become king, I will appoint her Sec'y of State.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 03:06 AM (b/lt+)

17 the Origination Clause lawsuits lack entirely a basis in law or precedent. The "let's call a penalty a tax" ruling was entirely without basis in law or precedent, so it appears that anything goes. Inconsistent law isn't law at all. It's politics posing as law. US law is all politics all the time, and since the 60s, they don't really even try to hide it anymore.

Posted by: Phinn at January 07, 2014 03:07 AM (KOGmz)

18 2 Baldy at January 07, 2014 06:54 AM (2bql3)

The star of Spitz and Swallows is probably immune at this point....

the media is not gonna go all in on the Donks most especially when they are trying to march proudly naked into generating the meme that "Republicans don't care about the unemployed"....


and the message will probably stick because the GOP is not hammering the lack of Job growth because of Donk disruptions.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:07 AM (TE35l)

19 Right up 202, we didn't even get a delay. My kids are losing their minds at the unfairness of it all.

Posted by: Crankyjanne at January 07, 2014 03:07 AM (DAZSc)

20 Right now 19F. Cats woke me up at 5am, even though they were camped all around me keeping me pinned under the covers. 5am, all four are up and then looking at me. So fed them.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 03:08 AM (GeA5I)

21 That clanging sound heard outside all over America this morning...the balls of brass monkeys falling to the ground.

Posted by: Havedash at January 07, 2014 03:08 AM (G1XMn)

22 16 Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 07:06 AM (b/lt+) Absolutely, my friend. She's terrific. And I am proud to be a knight at your round table.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 03:08 AM (olDqf)

23

Satanists have unveiled their proposed monument for the Oklahoma state Capitol.

 

A film loop of Democrats booing God would be a lot cheaper.  Just sayin'.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 03:08 AM (zF6Iw)

24 5 >> 28 degrees on the Gulf Coast. Balmy compared to where some of you are.
 
On your part of the Gulf Coat. On my part, it's a ball sucking 19 degrees. Even my hate isn't keeping me warm today.

Posted by: GnuBreed, guessing TFG's response at January 07, 2014 03:09 AM (wNF3N)

25 the cold she be a killer.
Posted by: Sven 10077
.............
Ya know.. I was just looking at those last week..  I would like to have a few in the garage so I can work on projects in the winter.  And they certainly would have helped some tonite!

But.. this cold is sooo bad, even 2 or 3  wouldn't have been barely adequate to keep us warm for long.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 03:09 AM (b/lt+)

26 17 Phinn at January 07, 2014 07:07 AM (KOGmz)

See the difference is that Judas Iscariot Roberts made the media happy with his Jedi Hand Wave ruling on Ogabecare being legal....THIS Jedi Hand-Wave(though based on a very sound footing that golly spending and taxes must originate in the House) would make the media and liberal shrieking harpy class angry.

If you're looking to the law and courts to protect us from predatory government you need to look again friend.

Nothing personal Phinn it is just that courts that insist on hiding behind the murky grounds of "standing" on basic points of law and order have sort of ceded any pretension of moral credibility.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:10 AM (TE35l)

27
colder than a gut shot bitch wolf dog
with 9 sucking pups pullin' a #4 trap
up a hill in the dead of winter
in the middle of a snowstorm
with a mouth full of porcupine quills

Posted by: toby928© drinks against the cold at January 07, 2014 03:11 AM (QupBk)

28 So, is Mooch and the Orca having a scissor-fest in HI for the next few days?

Posted by: Killerdog at January 07, 2014 03:11 AM (Oi60j)

29

Gene L. Coon (The forgotten Gene)

 

When he wrote for Trek, he had a black secretary - remember, this was the 60s, and her presence was a bit unusual - so whenever somebody did a double-take on seeing her, she'd smile and say, "Hi, I'm Gene L.'s coon."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 03:11 AM (zF6Iw)

30 Sir Run Run Shaw of Shaw Brothers Studios has passed away.  The kung-fu  movie mogul was either 106 or 107 years of age.  Shaw Brothers had produced over 1,000 films.  Besides all the martial art films, for American film goers and lovers of Philip K. Dick he helped bring to the screen Blade Runner.

http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2014/01/07/remembering-sir-run-run-shaw/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 03:12 AM (GeA5I)

31 25 Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 07:09 AM (b/lt+)

You might be surprised, back in my salad days before I could move that much cash or credit in a sitting they probably kept me and the 2.5 rooms I used them in alive...

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:12 AM (TE35l)

32 We've got 1°F here in NW NJ. It was -2° when I woke up this morning. Yikes. I hope those of you in colder climes are staying safe & warm.

Posted by: Gran at January 07, 2014 03:12 AM (mw0FO)

33 >>A film loop of Democrats booing God would be a lot cheaper.

The whole2012 DNC would do it - especially the Planned Parenthood and NARAL ladies' speeches. It was one big party of death.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2014 03:12 AM (RvyuE)

34 Mornin' daywalkers. Glad to see you got the birthday list snafu worked out, Gran. I didn't want to see that go away.

Posted by: shredded chi, a little happier than last year at January 07, 2014 03:13 AM (de32k)

35

Long have I had unclean thoughts about Erin Gray.

 

She aged almost as well as Raquel Welch.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 07, 2014 03:18 AM (/qzu7)

36 Absolutely, my friend. She's terrific. And I am proud to be a knight at your round table.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
.........
And I, at yours!

It is a sad, sad state of affairs when we dream of a conservative overthrow of this great country of ours.

But.. considering the enormous brain power of the moron horde, we could probably set this country aright in no time if we were to harness that power.  Or, we'd be drunk on Val-U-Rite watching unlimited cheerleader pron..

One of those..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 03:18 AM (b/lt+)

37 local tv here in  he NYC area has 5 degrees. but the important thing is that the arctic might be ice free some day because the models say so, although this model suggests otherwise:   http://tinyurl.com/o2nhnp2

Posted by: mallfly at January 07, 2014 03:18 AM (zjcTL)

38 It's a balmy 55 degrees today, same as yesterday----- INSIDE THE BUILDING at work . Minus ten outside

Posted by: Cicero Skip at January 07, 2014 03:18 AM (3m9Uc)

39 Yesterday when I got up in the early am to get ready for work, checked my indoor/outdoor thermometer to see the temp. It read 9º. So I'm thinking that's not so bad. I step outside and Holy Cow it's cold! Came back in, again looked at what I now thought was my broken thermometer, and then noticed the (-) sign in front of the 9.


All was good though. Car started and the roads were decent enough to get to work. And it's a balmy 1º right now, supposed to get to 30 later today.

Posted by: HH at January 07, 2014 03:18 AM (XXwdv)

40 pixey had a moment there!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 03:19 AM (b/lt+)

41 WUWT- The Moonbat War on Suburbia continues

http://tinyurl.com/m4wyruw

Whaddya Know a study that backs Obama's war on the suburbs on horseshit Carbon grounds...

it's like magic even well planned high desnity suburbs somehow burn more CO2 than the Cities and we have to force the suburbs back into the cities or the Sky Gods will eat us.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:19 AM (TE35l)

42 Balmy 22 degrees here on the AZ/MEX border. Headed for 64 later today, though. The Origination Clause is in the Constitution, Gabe. All revenue raising bills must originate in the House. And since SCROTUS says "Its a TAX", Dingy ripping the guts out of an unrelated bill and inserting ner0care doesn't quite pass the smell test.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my Hate cannot be found) at January 07, 2014 03:20 AM (ial2b)

43 4 degrees here in the People's Republic of Montgomery County, Maryland. I think we're the only county in the DC area that hasn't closed or delayed school today. I'm sure the teachers' union is not happy!

Posted by: biancaneve at January 07, 2014 03:20 AM (2sR50)

44 Cold weather advice: If you have to urinate outside in subzero weather, make sure to keep moving.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 07, 2014 03:21 AM (g4TxM)

45 @34 Now I know what triggers Pixy's silver hammer.

Posted by: Gran at January 07, 2014 03:21 AM (mw0FO)

46 Especially you shorter fellows.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 07, 2014 03:22 AM (g4TxM)

47 Liz should have run in VA against Warner. I'm 99% sure she lives there. It would have avoided carpetbagger accusations & hopefully removed a dem. I like Liz too.

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 03:24 AM (z4WKX)

48 ...and the ladies, of course.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 07, 2014 03:24 AM (g4TxM)

49 36 Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 07:18 AM (b/lt+) Start the revolution with me!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 03:24 AM (olDqf)

50 and the bottom is rocky

Posted by: Just the Punchline at January 07, 2014 03:24 AM (QupBk)

51 The Left proves once again that the rules of decency don't apply to icky republicans/conservatives: Rep. Aaron Shock outed?
I know, shock all around, but still: why do RINOS continue to take the high road with these people?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/luwbjkf

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2014 03:25 AM (RvyuE)

52 Morning morons!  At one of my jobs this morning, with temperatures near -10 degrees, or as ManBearPig would say, further proof of the settled science that is Global Warming.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 07, 2014 03:25 AM (d7H2D)

53 Our furnace is maxed out... cannot get it any warmer than 72 on the lower level. My MIL's room is on that level so she's got a space heater cranked up to 80. And she still says she's frozen! 10 people out of 36 showed up for work yesterday, and all the other offices on our floor were closed. Conditions are pretty much the same today, so we'll see what happens.

Posted by: Gem at January 07, 2014 03:25 AM (zw+pb)

54 FedEx should be arriving later today...

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:26 AM (TE35l)

55 Ha! As if a white frock were a magical garment invested with vast knowledge that permeates who wears it... Al Sharpton dons white coat to explain global warming, or something.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 03:27 AM (MhA4j)

56 51 Lizzy at January 07, 2014 07:25 AM (RvyuE)

b/c "social justice" man....

It's a damn shame the Donks can't let people have their privacy and want to persecute them for their preferences and not being on the reservation....

I don't disdain Senor Graham because of his preferences in that matter I disdain his other pecadillos.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:28 AM (TE35l)

57 twenty below zero (-20) out in the (denuded) cornfields.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2014 03:29 AM (SwHqo)

58 Good Morning, Horde-like people. It's 35 degrees down here and my hatred for all things Auburn is keeping me toasty warm this fine morning. Kudos to the Florida State Seminoles for finally ending Auburn's lucky streak before a national audience.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 03:30 AM (0HooB)

59 Good Morning Morons


My Ambient weather thing has died.  Says it is - 6.9°F outside.  The other thermometers are saying about 12°.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at January 07, 2014 03:30 AM (T2V/1)

60 Olive oil used to free naked man stuck in washing machine

http://preview.tinyurl.com/m4xznkt

Posted by: Baldy at January 07, 2014 03:30 AM (2bql3)

61 Liz Cheney is a "quitter". for what ever reason

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 03:30 AM (MhA4j)

62

Can we PLEASE get a better hosting system?

 

**sigh**

 

 

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

 

 

Thomas Edison is considered to be the inventor of movies.  He wasn't, of course, but it was the genius of the Wizard of Menlo Park to use his own reputation to promote moving pictures as more than just a novelty.*

 

 

Around 1885, Edison met with photographer Eadweard Muybridge,** who suggested combining his own "instantaneous photographs" with Edison's phonograph in order to create moving and talking pictures.  Edison, typically, secreted the idea away in his mind and later convinced himself - and the world - that it had been his idea all along.

 

 

But the problem remained - Muybridge's photographs were single shots of succeeding action.  How could you make the photographs actually move?***

 

 

Around 1888, Edison (or, more accurately, his laboratory) designed what was called a "micro-kinestoscope."  The problem was that Edison's mind ran in a shallow channel.  He imagined his viewer to be a cylinder the size of his phonograph records, with approximately 42,000 images, each 1/32 of an inch wide.

 

 

Here is an example of what Edison was trying.  The "film" is called Monkeyshines:

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/lctmwvy

 

 

Eventually, of course, Edison produced a machine that utilized horizontal feed paper photographs to represent the illusion of motion.  And in order to secure a patent, his assistant W.K.L. Dickson filmed a lab employee named Fred Ott, standing in front of a black background, sneezing.  For the patent, the short actuality was titled Edison Kinetoscopic Record of A Sneeze, but it has come to be known as Fred Ott's Sneeze, and it was filmed 120 years ago today:

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/d49fww

 

 

 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

 

 

*Even if, at the end, Edison himself considered movies to have only limited application as moving reference works, just as he considered the phonograph to be a mechanical secretary.

 

 

**the subject of another story. . .

 

 

***you could, of course, create the illusion of motion (which, really, is what movies are) by viewing MuybridgeÂ’s pictures in a flip book or zoetrope, or, as today, through YouTube animation like this:  http://tinyurl.com/afufswh

 

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 03:31 AM (zF6Iw)

63

 twenty below zero (-20) out in the (denuded) cornfields.

 

The bright side is the lack of mosquitos and flies.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2014 03:31 AM (BAS5M)

64 Spitzer and Dick Morris need to team up maybe have Marv Albert cover sports.....

Spitz, Swallows, and Chews

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:31 AM (TE35l)

65 don't disdain Senor Graham because of his preferences in that matter I disdain his other pecadillos. him because he's a pecadildo. Accuracy and all that shit.

Posted by: RickZ at January 07, 2014 03:31 AM (PpAf4)

66 In the case people don't know it, podcast is not safe for work. I put it one after six one night & I listened on iPhone. My boss stopped when he walked by to ask if I was on phone. If I listen again at the office, I will use ear buds. I have my own office & turned volume down.

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 03:32 AM (z4WKX)

67 59 Vic at January 07, 2014 07:30 AM (T2V/1)

Good morning Vic, yeah it may take therapy and a hot humidity ball to bring it around...

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:33 AM (TE35l)

68 -17 here in SE Wis. No place to go today. Dialysis yesterday was a cold bitch, but should be warmer tomorrow.

Posted by: Fat Freddy's Cat at January 07, 2014 03:34 AM (OsheA)

69 -7 here. But the wind has laid down at least.Stopped for gas last night and had to help a guy jump his car. About froze my tootsies off.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at January 07, 2014 03:35 AM (RVbg/)

70 65 RickZ at January 07, 2014 07:31 AM (PpAf4)

Well stated, I am trying to be a "kinder, gentler, less addled" Sven this year...

but well stated Rick.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:35 AM (TE35l)

71 Olive oil used to free naked man stuck in washing machine *** And he swore to be faithful to me, the cad!

Posted by: The Toaster at January 07, 2014 03:35 AM (g4TxM)

72 Did somebody mention a pack of dildos?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 07, 2014 03:35 AM (zF6Iw)

73 Since MPPPP has mentioned Gene L. Coon and Star Trek here is a story from the book The Making of Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry and Stephen Whitfield.

They were about to film the episode "I, Mudd" and Joe D'Agosta was having a devil of a time finding beautiful twin girls who could act.  It seemed that was one commodity that even Hollywood could not produce.  Then one day driving home on Sunset Blvd he spied these two comely twins walking down the street.  Joe slammed on the brakes and immediately started gibbering asking if they could act and would they show up the next morning at Desilu Studios.

Next morning lo and behold the twins show up.  Joe is there.  So is story editor D.C. Fontana.  Gene Coon and Bob Justman also.  The twins were wearing low cut dresses with the skirt ending about the hip.  And they brought a bobcat.  A real wild bobcat.  It was their pet and about six weeks old.

Bob Justman was apparently somewhat flustered at the sight of these lovely young ladies in micro-mini skirts and tinkling peace bells, and not knowing where to fasten his eyes, he began staring at the bobcat.  Bob made smalltalk, and since the bobcat was the thing he had been staring at, he talked about bobcats. (He also had a finger nearly gnawed off by the affectionate animal.) He told the girls that when the bobcats get bigger, if they're not spayed, they kill dogs. One of the girls said very innocently, "Well how do you know when they are old enough?" Bob replied, "When they start killing dogs."

(Bob says he doesn't remember that ... probably because he was dazed at the time.)

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 03:36 AM (GeA5I)

74 72 Sandra Fluke at January 07, 2014 07:35 AM (zF6Iw)

Sandy baby you and PIV Avenger lady need to have a talk...


Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:36 AM (TE35l)

75 62. MP4 "The Story of Film" international documentary series streaming on Netflix narrator's musical accent lulls into dreamland

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 03:37 AM (MhA4j)

76 Even Pixy's hamsters are loathe to move this morning. Posting is taking a long time on my machine. They haven't eaten all the ampersands I put out for them either.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 03:37 AM (0HooB)

77 Ha!  Let's cut to the important thing, I just did the who would play you in a movie thing and got Helen Mirren.

I win bitches! 

*dances about*

Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at January 07, 2014 03:38 AM (Gk3SS)

78 Satanists aka We have Mommy/Daddy issues. Look at me Look at me

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 03:40 AM (KyIAM)

79 77 alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at January 07, 2014 07:38 AM (Gk3SS)

I'd rather have gotten Helen Mirren than Ben Affleck or MATT DAMON as I did... so nicely played.

I kinda like MATT DAMON in Hunting GoodWill a story where Jason Bourne is assigned to eliminate some drunk asshole janitor with pretensions of adequacy...

Minnie Driver is his mole.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:40 AM (TE35l)

80 78 RWC at January 07, 2014 07:40 AM (KyIAM)

I have a burning candle for a tail...

LOVE ME DADDY!

//Satanists Local 957

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:41 AM (TE35l)

81 AlextheChick.  I got as answer - If my life were a film, it'd be a raucous comedy starring Julia Roberts. You love thigh-highs.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 03:41 AM (GeA5I)

82 79 Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 07:40 AM (TE35l) Supposedly Matt Damon and Ben Affleck did not actually write the screenplay for "Good Will Hunting," which they won an Academy Award for. After receiving his Oscar, Affleck reportedly said, "now I know how Milli Vanilli felt."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 03:41 AM (olDqf)

83 81 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 07:41 AM (GeA5I)

Someone was shocked I didn't get Bo Svenson...

I needed to find the "beat Oprah roundly" and "Show Farrah Fawcett my big stick" hidden buttons I think...

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:42 AM (TE35l)

84

If you haven't yet, make sure to read the links from the ONT last night where some ultraradical feminist argues that all intercourse is rape and that men basically owe the world to women.  Amazingly, there are people who comment and agree with this nitwit.  I especially love how in the comments the original author dismisses arguments that her position trivializes actual rape as bullsh*t.

Posted by: Conservative Crank at January 07, 2014 03:42 AM (d7H2D)

85 AJ McCarron still has more National Championship rings on one hand than Auburn has in total.

Posted by: Heywood Jablowme at January 07, 2014 03:43 AM (jsWA8)

86 I wanted Daniel Craig to play me in a movie. I got Weird Al Yankovich.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 03:43 AM (0HooB)

87 20 - 30 -- Anna -- My ninja-neko is far more direct, she stands on my chest if the food bowl is less than full.

Damn... Shaw was still breathing? Oh well, all beginnings have an ending; his kung-fu flicks were the staples of my youth. I still have several of his classics in my DVD rack.
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As to the Satan statue...? Let'em. They have to pony up the money, find an artist to sculpt it, they pay to emplace it. Then after the all the hoorah... the statue can have a mysterious 'accident' (20 lbs of TNT ought to do it...); then send the clean-up bill to the yaya's that demanded it by placed.

Happy ending...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 03:43 AM (lJaja)

88 50 days until spring training

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 50 days until spring training at January 07, 2014 03:43 AM (u8GsB)

89 82 J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 07:41 AM (olDqf)

It wouldn't shock me if there is a grain of teuth there.  Kevin Smith, MATT DAMON, Ben Afflac, and Marky Mark all may irritate the shit out of me politically but I respect their ability to know how to play the indy scene libs like a fiddle.

If they bought the story off some schmoe and presented it as their starving artist offering it'd have been a good con.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:45 AM (TE35l)

90 It is 26 in central FL.

Did Algore go to Disney or something?

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 07, 2014 03:45 AM (P/gm7)

91 84 Conservative Crank at January 07, 2014 07:42 AM (d7H2D)

A good part of my 1100 posts was raging at her.

I am fighting the urge to ask her what magical fruit got the perfect race of Saphhic Angels preggers prior to the XY Bearers ruining paradise.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:46 AM (TE35l)

92 Supposedly Matt Damon and Ben Affleck did not actually write the screenplay for "Good Will Hunting," which they won an Academy Award for.
After receiving his Oscar, Affleck reportedly said, "now I know how Milli Vanilli felt."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
..............
Really?  This was the one redeeming thing about Matt Damon in my book..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 03:46 AM (b/lt+)

93 Well Cpt Charles I have four.  When one of them starts moving, the others also.  But they are polite minions with claws +4.  So before they resort to sterner measures, quickly get them fed.

Oh yeah.  For all anime fans.  Here is a listing of movie theaters nationwide, including Hawai'i, that will show Neon Genesis Evangelion 3.0.

http://www.elevenarts.net/evangelion3.theater.html

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 03:47 AM (GeA5I)

94 Morning morons. -21 this AM with a -38 windchill. Considerably warmer than yesterday so I ain't complaining.

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 07, 2014 03:47 AM (t9e6Q)

95 Thanks for that image Sven. I ain't blowing it out. (And again, G*d bless the morons who use the phone to post. Damon this is a pain.)

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 03:47 AM (KyIAM)

96 spring training A Slinky workout.

Posted by: RickZ at January 07, 2014 03:47 AM (PpAf4)

97 It's 5 in lower Kent County, DE. Wind chill is -15. Just got back from taking trash out, and it feels it!

Posted by: Empire1 at January 07, 2014 03:48 AM (Bfhqw)

98 92 Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 07:46 AM (b/lt+)

Mine too, but a lot like HILLARY! and Cattle Trading his magical skill can only be used one time...then satisfied it is never to be brought out again.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:48 AM (TE35l)

99 92 Really? This was the one redeeming thing about Matt Damon in my book.. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 07, 2014 07:46 AM (b/lt+) I heard this from my dear friend and manager, who has worked in Hollywood for almost 30 years. Will have to clarify that, but that's what he told me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 03:48 AM (olDqf)

100 Sapphic?  Nah turkey basters upon the shores of Lesbos will be that Harpy's answer.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 03:48 AM (GeA5I)

101 -5 here in Central Kentucky.  Going to be 50 on Friday.

Posted by: Registered Voter at January 07, 2014 03:48 AM (BGFPo)

102 95 RWC at January 07, 2014 07:47 AM (KyIAM)

We all have our gifts...

the nook got me barreled twice last week....

Good hunting on the phone comrade.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:49 AM (TE35l)

103 currently 17 degrees in central Texas, Bergstrom "recreating" area

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 03:49 AM (MhA4j)

104

"The Story of Film"


international documentary series streaming on Netflix

narrator's musical accent lulls into dreamland

 

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 07:37 AM (MhA4j)

 

Is that the Irish documentary that was on TCM?  If so, don't waste your time.  It's a mental masturbation festival for people who think Zabriskie Point was the high-water mark of movies and who casually drop "I read in Cahiers du Cinema into their conversation."

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 07, 2014 03:50 AM (zF6Iw)

105 Ah yes, the ol' skank sock.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 03:50 AM (zF6Iw)

106 100 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 07:48 AM (GeA5I)

Yeah one of my rants was there had to be a series of hidden artifacts of artificial insemination trees and artificial wombs in rocks or something....

what set me off so bad is this idiot woman's views are considered valid in the Govt/Academic/Entertainment/Media complex....

Her political preferences are ascendant and are never made to account for their lunatics like her.

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:51 AM (TE35l)

107 Windchill is between minus 10 & 20! I received Drudge alert that one of those old fools donned white coat to explain global warming. I did not read it. I would be happy with some of that made up global warming. Al Gore profited from that lie.

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 03:51 AM (z4WKX)

108 Little girl with cancer posts a message on her hospital window requesting pizza. 

http://www.viralnova.com/cancer-patients-pizza-party/

That should warm anyone up.  Though Mz. PIV the Grinch I will mark as a maybe.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 03:53 AM (GeA5I)

109 Zabriske Point? Nah. Vanishing Point? Better.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 03:54 AM (0HooB)

110

Morning, Horde.

 

This weather sucks.  Yesterday the wind was blowing harder than Sandra Fluke at a frat party, and today it's 2 degrees.  Are the global warmists having a convention somewhere?

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 07, 2014 03:55 AM (PFy0L)

111 41 -- Sven -- Nah, it's just an additional excuse to go ahead with his scheme to steal the tax revenues of all the outlying municipalities/counties and hand them over to their respective cities.

They're still working on that scheme ya know...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 03:55 AM (lJaja)

112 What did Pixy do? I missed it.

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 03:55 AM (z4WKX)

113 Sapphic? Nah turkey basters upon the shores of Lesbos will be that Harpy's answer.  Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 07:48 AM (GeA5I)

Good.  At least I'll get a break.

Posted by: The Chicken[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 07, 2014 03:57 AM (6T8Ay)

114 111 CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 07:55 AM (lJaja)

another piece of low hanging fruit the GOP refused to attack...

Posted by: Sven 10077 at January 07, 2014 03:57 AM (TE35l)

115 Where is the Vic?

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 03:58 AM (z4WKX)

116 Important News! Saturday Night Live has first black female comic in 6yrs! That is all.

Posted by: KW Dreaming at January 07, 2014 03:58 AM (/yOZJ)

117

H.S. daughter  has already left for school.  College daughter is driving back today, leaving within the hour.

 

House is sure going to feel empty today with just me rattling around in it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 07, 2014 03:59 AM (BAS5M)

118 That BCS game last night could be described as The Annoying Team vs The Dumb Luck Team.  The Annoying Team won, but didn't cover the spread.

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2014 03:59 AM (9mWut)

119

Local news site has a short story on the homeless that won't go to a shelter even in this weather.

 

http://tinyurl.com/lcxbbvu


 

 

So it would seem that no matter how much you spend on the "poor", there will always be some mugs who are too stupid to come in out of the rain.

 

I remember reading a Book some time ago that said "the poor will always be among you". Now what book could that have been.....?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at January 07, 2014 04:00 AM (/qzu7)

120 Empress AlextheChick surveys Alextopia now that Winter has come.

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Chiara-Fersini-photography-26.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 04:00 AM (GeA5I)

121

I heard this from my dear friend and manager, who has worked in Hollywood for almost 30 years. Will have to clarify that, but that's what he told me.

 

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I believe it.  I mean, how many other screenplays have Academy Award Winning Screenwriters Ben Affleck and Matt Damon had?

 

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 07, 2014 04:01 AM (PFy0L)

122 7 in DC. Still not cold enough to freeze the bastids unfortunately.

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 04:01 AM (KyIAM)

123 Dealing with depression There were some excellent suggestions over the last days (from people who have there, I think on dealing with winter blues-the SAD light, exercise, Vitamin D (although you shouldn't take too much), learning a new skill, prayer. meditation, spending time with loved ones. One great suggestion from OJ ? Celtic (I remembered the "Celtic" but not the rest. That s what happens when you get old like I am. ;^) Anyway, he said a way to combat the blues was the give to other people, and of course there are many ways to do that and probably many people have done one or more of these things- volunteer at a soup kitchen if there's one nearbye, deliver meals on wheels, work with Habitat for Humanity, become a literacy volunteer (they have a fine training program), Another way I know of is to become a prayer partner with the "Upper Room" which is a global ministry that encourages spiritual growth. They have a magazine who you can get in paper form or read the devotions on line. Their prayer ministry goes from 7 to 11 CST daily and people call in with prayer requests. They seem to always need volunteers and you can do a 2 hour shot at a time for as little as once a year or more frequently. It's very worthwhile. You need to have a recommendation from a pastor of a mainline church. Why mainline? I think it's because they don't want people doing the "word of faith" /name iot and claim it stuff, ie, Telling people that in the name of Jesus their illness WILL be cured" or all their needs met. No offense to anyone who is part of that type of church, but I have seem some spiritual abuse in this area. Sometimes people get blamed because, for instance they weren't healed and we're told their faith wasn't strong enough and then there's guilt on top of blame. That's so wrong. Anywhooooo to wind this up-if you volunteer and in this instance, pray with people it takes you out of your own problems . If you have an interest you complete an application and get training. The training consists of their written requirements (You're not supposed to give advice or ask personal questions, etc) and there is a video. You don't have to go anywhere to get trained. Here is the information on the website. I would recommend this opportunity for anyone who enjoys praying : http://prayer-center.upperroom.org. If the link doesn't work put in "Upper room prayer Center" on a search. They also have articles on prayer and a little quiz on spiritual types on their website.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2014 04:03 AM (7kkQJ)

124 It's a brisk -9°F right now, with a crisp 20 mph wind. That's fucking refreshing first thing in the morning.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 04:05 AM (JDIKC)

125 Ha! Let's cut to the important thing, I just did the who would play you in a movie thing and got Helen Mirren. I win bitches! *dances about* She is very talented and still quite good looking, but what lots of people here probably want to know if you got Helen Mirren was,. "Do you look good in a bikini?" ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 07, 2014 04:06 AM (7kkQJ)

126 Vic, I didn't see you were here. Maybe your thermometer is frozen.

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 04:06 AM (z4WKX)

127 Off to warm up the car and head off to work.  The sun is not up and it is cold and black as Cromwell's heart outside.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at January 07, 2014 04:07 AM (BcCwi)

128 t's a brisk -9°F right now, with a crisp 20 mph wind. That's fucking refreshing first thing in the morning.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff

I didn't have a reason to leave the house yesterday, except to get the mail. It was about 15 below at the time. Walked about 4 steps out of the garage and took a deep breath, and about froze my lungs. You remember then to breath through your nose.

I can't imagine  how the people that are living outside manage it.

Posted by: Bruce at January 07, 2014 04:08 AM (nZ561)

129 Helen Mirren was a babe then and is still a babe now.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:08 AM (0HooB)

130 It's a brisk -9°F right now, with a crisp 20 mph wind. That's fucking refreshing first thing in the morning.  Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 08:05 AM (JDIKC)

You know....you could always come back to the U.S.

Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:09 AM (6T8Ay)

131 Oh, i'm dedicating tonight's PIV, hot, sweaty monkeysex session to "witchwind", the Moonbat Supreme who wrote the "stop sticking your dick in women" man-hating screed. Silly bitch, dicks are for chicks.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 04:09 AM (JDIKC)

132 The car started! This day is getting better and better!

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at January 07, 2014 04:09 AM (+RAVB)

133 EoJ, try putting on clothes next time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:10 AM (0HooB)

134 EoJ, try putting on clothes next time.  Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 07, 2014 08:10 AM (0HooB)

He'd have to give up his AoSHQ Platinum Card if he did that.

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:11 AM (6T8Ay)

135 Had to get up to watch the sun rise. S'posed to get up to the 40s today, and I just wanted to make sure the sun arrived. So far, so good. Also, new thick wool socks for Christmas, hung in the furnace room overnight. mmmm... Warrrmmmm. GOOD MORNING, FOLKS! Have we all survived the Polar Express?

Posted by: mindful webworker - the 13th Day of Christmas! ... too much? at January 07, 2014 04:11 AM (Vdd8W)

136 You know....you could always come back to the U.S. Jus' sayin' Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 07, 2014 08:09 AM (6T8Ay) ------------------------- I'll be in Detroit in March. Yay.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 04:11 AM (JDIKC)

137

Re; Good Will Hunting; I read, years ago, Afleck/Damon did write a script but the original was a action/adventure movie where Damon is recruted by a gov't contractor to develope weapons system or some such and pursued with Afleck by some spy orginization or another. The scene where Afleck tries to get a $100 from the computere company posing as Damon is from the original script

 

So yeah they wrote something just not what was made

Posted by: Finn McCool at January 07, 2014 04:12 AM (xfPn3)

138 Got called in to work at 3am.  I have a polar vortex in my pants right now.

Posted by: Heywood Jablowme at January 07, 2014 04:13 AM (jsWA8)

139 Oh yeah... the sun is dawning on SW Ohio, we have a delightful -19F (w/wind) to embrace.

[Started my car yesterday... the coolant was at -3 when I fired the Pontiac up.]

Sven -- feh, the GOP was too busy busy feeding the media-midge flies, and jousting at 404-care to notice that (somewhat) stealthy maneuver. As usual, the 'rats are using regulations, and the bureaucracy, to attack the hinterlands.

In my ideal world, the Federal bureaucracy gets a make-over involving bonfires and lyme-pits...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 04:14 AM (lJaja)

140 I'll be in Detroit in March. Yay.  Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 08:11 AM (JDIKC)


I said "U.S." not "Third World"

Posted by: Sean Bannion[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:14 AM (6T8Ay)

141

@ 133 EoJ, try putting on clothes next time.-BackwardsBoy

 

Ha!  There would definitely be shrinkage in -15 degrees.

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2014 04:14 AM (9mWut)

142 It's a balmy 4, count 'em, 4º here. Nice amateur video of yesterday's Falcon 9/Thaicom 6 launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TVSA-eBoxE And Orbital Sciences Corporation, who built the satellite, will be launching their own resupply mission to the ISS tomorrow afternoon.

Posted by: rickl at January 07, 2014 04:15 AM (sdi6R)

143 44°

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 50 days until spring training at January 07, 2014 04:15 AM (u8GsB)

144 Ha! There would definitely be shrinkage in -15 degrees.  Posted by: Case at January 07, 2014 08:14 AM (9mWut)

See?!?!  It's true!

Posted by: George Costanza[/i][/s][/u][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:16 AM (6T8Ay)

145 77 alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at January 07, 2014 07:38 AM (Gk3SS)

Helen, Mirren, eh? She's awesome.
I got Gemma Arterton (and quite pleased I didn't get JLo or Heigle)..

Posted by: Lizzy at January 07, 2014 04:16 AM (RvyuE)

146 It was Reverend Al that donned white coat to explain global warming. I knew it was one of the old fools but wouldnÂ’t watch him.

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 04:17 AM (z4WKX)

147 Goldman was called in but he said he was merely a consultant and for only one day. So, I don't think he was a script doctor. I think most scripts are changed by other than those who wrote them. I think Affleck and Damon came up with the premise. Anyway, acting is so much more profitable than writing so they made the right choice.

Posted by: Plaintiff Pug at January 07, 2014 04:17 AM (Qev5V)

148 >>>the sun is dawning on SW Ohio, Where are you at captain? I won't hurt my furnace shut off in hours. Anybody know if that's bad for it?

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at January 07, 2014 04:18 AM (cuDET)

149 Good morning everyone, I was remiss yesterday in not giving you all the opportunity to wish me a happy [redacted]th birthday and bask in the glory that is the remembrance of the day the world was blessed with me. ;-) I would also like to wish my birthday mate, jmel, a happy birthday again.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at January 07, 2014 04:18 AM (RXwsr)

150 Sorry. Haven't heard my furnace shut off

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at January 07, 2014 04:18 AM (cuDET)

151 "All PIV sex is rape for the simple natural fact that it is painful the first time. It's UNNATURAL. Now get over here and fist me, Chaz."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 04:19 AM (JDIKC)

152 So, to someone against any and all PIV, how are babies made? Serious question.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at January 07, 2014 04:21 AM (09o/X)

153 Happy Birthday, chique! Report for your birthday spankings.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 04:21 AM (JDIKC)

154 GOOD MORNING, FOLKS! Have we all survived the Polar Express? Posted by: mindful webworker - the 13th Day of Christmas! ... too much? at January 07, 2014 08:11 AM (Vdd8W) We are still living through the polar express. I remember an email from FarmerÂ’s Almanac predicting a big storm for the Super Bowl. I donÂ’t have one, I singed up for free emails. I donÂ’t remember what else it predicted.

Posted by: Carol at January 07, 2014 04:22 AM (z4WKX)

155 Regarding the continuing (but not for long) saga of Jahi McMath: All this fighting over a feeding tube when there are no bowel signs and they can't feed her even if she weren't brain dead.

Posted by: Plaintiff Pug at January 07, 2014 04:22 AM (Qev5V)

156

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at January 07, 2014 08:18 AM (RXwsr)

 

Happy birthday, chique!

 

**despatches a detachment of the Imperial Raptor Hussars with two cakes; one for eating and one for a gender-appropriate piece of cheese- or beefcake to jump out of.**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 04:22 AM (zF6Iw)

157 >>>> how are babies made?<<<<

Budding?

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 07, 2014 04:22 AM (P/gm7)

158 P in the V goes in the EBDB. -Taco

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 07, 2014 04:22 AM (ZshNr)

159 Oh yeah... re: that loony feminist bitch... zero federal funds to any non-science/non-technical university programs; make'em decide between fiscal solvency, or maintaining the life-styles of tenured comfy, smug, commie professors.

And, more ammo for re-thinking that whole 19th Amendment thingy...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 04:24 AM (lJaja)

160 -5.4 deg. in NC

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 07, 2014 04:24 AM (aDwsi)

161 "Cats woke me up at 5am, even though they were camped all around me keeping me pinned under the covers." : Anna Puma Hahaha. Aren't they great! It's an emotional mixed bag. They're all warm and furry and purry, but between fearing crushing their little selves and cursing the deadweights trapping me in bed, and making it impossible to pull the covers up over me... high entertainment value... for certain definitions of entertainment.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the 13th Day of Christmas! ... too much? at January 07, 2014 04:25 AM (Vdd8W)

162

>>>I donÂ’t remember what else it predicted.

 

Cmon, be a sport and make stuff up

Posted by: Bigby's Kung Fu Grip at January 07, 2014 04:25 AM (3ZtZW)

163 It is now 14F in Jackson, MS.  And the sun is out.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 07, 2014 04:25 AM (GeA5I)

164 77 Ha! Let's cut to the important thing, I just did the who would play you in a movie thing and got Helen Mirren. I win bitches! *dances about* Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at January 07, 2014 07:38 AM (Gk3SS) Great. So instead of just worrying the beasties in your menagerie we have to worry about a sniper rifle as well. mental note - don't piss off AtC

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 04:25 AM (fWAjv)

165 149 -- chique -- Happy Birthday! And, many happy returns...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 04:26 AM (lJaja)

166 We are in positive territory! 1F now, climbing all the way to double digits (10F) by 3pm! Windchill? Bah! Where's my shorts?

Posted by: votermom at January 07, 2014 04:26 AM (GSIDW)

167 worrying about sigh

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 04:27 AM (fWAjv)

168 I didn't do the movie thing but its safe to say Brian Dennehy

Posted by: Bigby's Kung Fu Grip at January 07, 2014 04:28 AM (3ZtZW)

169 Good morning everyone, I was remiss yesterday in not giving you all the opportunity to wish me a happy [redacted]th birthday and bask in the glory that is the remembrance of the day the world was blessed with me. ;-) I would also like to wish my birthday mate, jmel, a happy birthday again. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at January 07, 2014 08:18 AM (RXwsr) *smish* Happy happy! May your year be filled with joy! Also, awesomecakes. The heat is out in the office. It is 47 degrees in here. I had to haul out the Scary Space Heater of Doom and I am hovering over it like um well me over a plate of blondies with whipped cream. Did I mention my desk is directly next to a wall of windows? Yeah.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at January 07, 2014 04:29 AM (VtjlW)

170 Happy Birthday chique. warms hands by cake candles *please don't take that the wrong way.

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 04:29 AM (fWAjv)

171 Hey, it's up to 7 degrees here, or as they call it in Minnesota - a nice spring day.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 07, 2014 04:29 AM (PFy0L)

172 birthday? cake? happy bday chique! and jmel.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 50 days until spring training at January 07, 2014 04:30 AM (u8GsB)

173 148 -- Herr Morgenholz-- east of (Fort) Hamilton, Ohio.

(exdem13 is my house/room-mate).

And, LOTS of sunshine coming down now... and just heard a siren going running by... too early in the morning for this shite.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 04:30 AM (lJaja)

174 "Satanists have unveiled their proposed monument for the Oklahoma state Capitol." Because all Western Law and morality was based on Lucifer's Manifesto, just like they teach in the Federal Child Indoctrination Centers. The Satanists' true "memorial" is everywhere, they just don't like it as such: Christ crucified. I could see a statue of that next to the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the 13th Day of Christmas! ... too much? at January 07, 2014 04:31 AM (drXjQ)

175 Oh. I take it back. It's 46 in here. This being an adult thing and not saying fuck this shit and going home because there's super important stuff to do and I can't leave because I have to do it and I can't do it from home truly sucks.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at January 07, 2014 04:31 AM (VtjlW)

176 175 Oh. I take it back. It's 46 in here. This being an adult thing and not saying fuck this shit and going home because there's super important stuff to do and I can't leave because I have to do it and I can't do it from home truly sucks. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at January 07, 2014 08:31 AM (VtjlW) "in"?

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 50 days until spring training at January 07, 2014 04:32 AM (u8GsB)

177 http://tinyurl.com/pfu7kpq

Maybe, but never underestimate the GOP's ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I. Have. Little. Faith. And, plan to contribute little time\capital to support their grasp of failure...

Posted by: fred zeppelin at January 07, 2014 04:34 AM (zL/eJ)

178

I didn't do the movie thing but its safe to say Brian Dennehy

 

I used to play an association game with friends called "Bad Hollywood Agent."  The idea was to come up with actors (living or dead) that you would want for a movie, but then you had to name other actors that you'd end up with because you had no pull.

 

Example:  You want Clark Gable.  You'll take Tom Selleck.  You get Ron Jeremy.

 

You want King Kong.  You'll take Mighty Joe Young.  You get Magilla Gorilla.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 04:35 AM (zF6Iw)

179 Yeah,that''s what we need to put the country over the top,monuments to Satan at public buildings.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2014 04:39 AM (zqvg6)

180 J.J. Sefton on Damon-Affleck It wouldn't be a surprise to find that any movie's theme-story was brainstormed by someone contractually paid off to stfu re: film's acknowledgement. The "one wad shot" degree of creativity only goes so far. Popularity aside to quality of insight and durability of values taught, it isn't as though good will hunting were to kill a mockingbird, eh? The Boston boys' films are as "real" as Hollywood gets. I'll toss in the stupid plot of Shakespeare In Love, juxtaposing today's cultural "shoulda, coulda, woulda"s (women lib) back in time on to Renaissance society, AS IF a woman wouldn't suffer severe consequences for living Paltrow's role. Another example, the setting plot of Private Ryan getting saved would NEVER have happened. It's a fraud of a WWII story. I put "Good Will Hunting" with "Saving Private Ryan" revising society and history to fit the politically correct "wouldn't it be nice" mode. AS IF today's "better educated class" intelligentsia doesn't absolutely qualify their paper "degree" as distinguishing themselves as better people, MORE DESERVING, than the blue collar self read, self made greater man than they. Oh, but by profiting from the movie, the beautiful people wash their hands of their own smug guilt even as they squash the life from the less "deserving", cross the street to avoid every opportunity to BE the good Samaritan, and remain the hypocrite. Those movies are hardly as effective on the given contemporary audience/society's long term response as the oldies were, for instance, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." At least the oldies stuck to their own time and standards when wrapping up the loose ends of a story. Perhaps today's society hates itself so much. Given media interviews with the Paltrow types, the "beautiful people" find their audience reprehensible. The audience or today's mass population can't deal with our own Zeitgeist, or any other for that matter. It's the lunacy of smorgasbord juxtapositions, no anchor, no insight, just fabrications for fabrications' sake (art*). When the "creative" people are only playing as the world's mini Demiurge, "all about me, worship me above all else," look elsewhere for inspiration in life. $.02

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 04:39 AM (MhA4j)

181 Morning all. I hate obama more than ever and that fat bastard wife of his also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2014 04:39 AM (t3UFN)

182 The whole rad-fem PIV is Da EVIIIL reminds me of dark ages monastics decrying the human body as bags of excrement etc. Basically they sound to me like latter-day militant nuns minus any godliness. *shudder*

Posted by: votermom at January 07, 2014 04:39 AM (GSIDW)

183 Read the article on the abortion clinic(s) in McAllen closing so the women who want to kill their babies have to run up the road to Corpus Christi, boo ckfuing hoo. I live near Corpus and I have to drive to McAllen to shop at Costco and so far I have not found it an exceedingly onerous burden. I think the issue has a lot more to do with wanting to avoid the Border Patrol checkpoints and less to do with how 'burdensome' a two hour drive is. I bet those border clinics do a brisk business killing little Mexican babies.

Posted by: Republic of Texas 2: Electric Boogaloo at January 07, 2014 04:40 AM (Gk2GE)

184 This should put a smile on your faces... a very happy bulldog: http://youtu.be/8J4k32LhTNw

Posted by: Gran at January 07, 2014 04:40 AM (mw0FO)

185 Posted by: fred zeppelin at January 07, 2014 08:34 AM (zL/eJ)

My only effort recently has been to return the requests for funds (in the postage paid envelope of course) with the following, written in large letters across the payment slip:

NO AMNESTY!
CUT SPENDING!
END OBAMACARE!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2014 04:41 AM (QFxY5)

186 You want Lucille Ball. You'll take Carol Kane. You get Margaret Cho.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 04:41 AM (JDIKC)

187 The Farmers almanac published last summer used words like "piercing cold", bitterly cold" and "biting cold" to describe the upcoming winter.  It's prediction for the Super Bowl is the messy "Storm Bowl".

Posted by: Case at January 07, 2014 04:41 AM (9mWut)

188 Posted by: toby928© drinks against the cold at January 07, 2014 07:11 AM (QupBk) that comment, like the dawn, cracks hard -- like a pool cue.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 07, 2014 04:41 AM (LWu6U)

189 Shit I am flying out of Newark NJ tomorrow, I G-D damn hope my plane is on time and not stuck in some warm weather airport just hanging out

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2014 04:41 AM (t3UFN)

190 I think the Satanists should have to show when and where in history their "law" was the law of a land.  The Decalogue and the Rule of Hammurabi were actual laws once.


Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at January 07, 2014 04:43 AM (V70Uh)

191 148 -- Herr Morgenholz-- Part. II -- Hmm... that depends on what kind of furnace you have. (Mine's a no-nonsense gas heater, doesn't care if it's on, or off.) But normally, no it shouldn't matter unless it's an ancient model (which I doubt anybody has anymore).

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 04:43 AM (lJaja)

192 Gabe had it right today when he said politics in Wyoming is more local than most places. .5 million people spread out in alot of wide open space. It's like a big small town. When your Congresswoman says she'll see you around she means it. Pete and Alan Simpson and even Dick Cheney are a presence here in Laramie because they are UW almni. Liz could'nt break into this tight circle because she hadn't been around the state for years meeting folks and shaking hands but she tried to act like she had and that she knew better and it jst didn't fly here. It did put Enzi on his toes though and that was a good thing. I ike Liz a lot but she should have known this would have worked a whole lot better in Virginia than in a place like Wyoming.

Posted by: small town girl in wyoming at January 07, 2014 04:43 AM (ltNot)

193

>>>Yeah,that''s what we need to put the country over the top,monuments to Satan at public buildings.

 

They oughta do it. Tourism from Scandi black metal freaks would be over the top

Posted by: Bigby's Kung Fu Grip at January 07, 2014 04:44 AM (3ZtZW)

194 The East and South were braced for record-breaking, dangerously low temperatures Tuesday as the "polar vortex" responsible for the coldest Arctic outbreak in at least 20 years forced millions to stay inside.






The only thing that would make this worse? Sharks. Polar Sharkvortex!!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 07, 2014 04:44 AM (1Jaio)

195

You want Lucille Ball.


You'll take Carol Kane.

You get Margaret Cho.

 

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 08:41 AM (JDIKC)

 

I like it, EoJ.  How about this - you want Elaine Stritch.  You'll take Bea Arthur.  You get Broderick Crawford.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 04:45 AM (zF6Iw)

196

Happy birthday for yesterday, Jmel and Chicque d'Afrique

 

Yikes - I'm feeling cold looking at pics from the US!

 

 Hope you are all warm and safe - looking at those photos of icicles hanging off buildings and people with ice on their beards -reading the  Daily Mail from the UK at the moment

BTW greetings from Sydney where the only ice we'll ever see is in drinks and in coolers- we do have an ice rink nearby

Posted by: aussie at January 07, 2014 04:45 AM (UVpzA)

197 I saw Polar Vortex open up for Slayer at the Roseland in 99.

Posted by: steevy at January 07, 2014 04:45 AM (zqvg6)

198 heh. Movie quiz. I got Andy Serkis. Who the hell is Andy Serkis? The guy that played Gollum. Is this a bad thing?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 07, 2014 04:45 AM (aDwsi)

199 Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2014 08:39 AM (t3UFN)

Jerry Coleman died....


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2014 04:45 AM (QFxY5)

200 Sun-god RA will not be mocked! Demands beating heart of manbearpig!

Posted by: votermom at January 07, 2014 04:45 AM (GSIDW)

201

Ah, here's what I was trying to go for -

 

You want Lucille Ball.

You'll take Carol Burnett.

You get Kathy Griffin.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 04:46 AM (zF6Iw)

202 19 now in San Antonio- will get up to 45 today, 60 tomorrow. Sunday, I was in South Padre working on my tan; now I'm hacking lung biscuits and there's snot everywhere. I ran out of meds last night, so I'm sipping on a few fingers of Stranahan's. What a tasty waste of good whiskey.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at January 07, 2014 04:46 AM (bUmSq)

203 180 $.02 Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 08:39 AM (MhA4j) More than I usually get paid! Writing in today's Hollywood is too complicated a nightmare to detail here. My manager is writing his memoirs, entitled "Happy Go Fuck Yourself." That hints at it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 04:46 AM (olDqf)

204 Jerry Coleman died.... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2014 08:45 AM (QFxY5) Yeah I saw. Last of a dying breed. We will not see their like again soon.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2014 04:46 AM (t3UFN)

205 Movie quiz wants Stallone to play me. I think the question about torturing animals as a child put me over the top.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at January 07, 2014 04:48 AM (bUmSq)

206 I got Andy Serkis. Who the hell is Andy Serkis? The guy that played Gollum. Is this a bad thing? Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 07, 2014 08:45 AM (aDwsi) Sorry. That actually made me LOL.

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 04:49 AM (fWAjv)

207 Our temp has gone down fifty degrees to thirty. While freezing I realized up there it is sixty degrees colder. That is scary. I would need new clothes.

Posted by: Beagle at January 07, 2014 04:49 AM (sOtz/)

208

>>>I got Andy Serkis. Who the hell is Andy Serkis? The guy that played Gollum. Is this a bad thing?

 

Nope. He also played Ian Drury

Posted by: Bigby's Kung Fu Grip at January 07, 2014 04:50 AM (3ZtZW)

209 I'm sort of curious how GLAAD takes PIV screed-woman's contention that a penis anywhere is rape. Why does she hate gay men?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 07, 2014 04:50 AM (mjrNj)

210 Does it work for Presidents also?

You want Ronald Reagan
You'll take a unlubed Tabasco enema
You get JEF

I guess it does.

Posted by: Bruce at January 07, 2014 04:50 AM (nZ561)

211

Inre Liz Cheney running in VA.

 

Like the Establishment would  ever  back her running against Mark Warner.  Hahahahahaha.  She would be written off as "unelectable."

 

 

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 07, 2014 04:50 AM (PFy0L)

212 104. MP4 Yes, the film maker's approach was immediately apparent when the word "racist" applied to America. The series is obviously his own "artistic creation." And as far as lectures on film's international historical developments go, his chronological observations are interesting enough while he works like a charm. Lulls me to sleep. Hardly his intention, heh.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 04:51 AM (MhA4j)

213 I'm one of the half-dozen that made it into the office today. Wild snow patterns here in WNY...I only got a few inches in my neighborhood, others are snowed in. Today's gonna suck with a skelleten staff. -15 degrees, headed up to a balmy -7.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 07, 2014 04:52 AM (7ObY1)

214 Hammer, He was also the Witch-King of Angmar. So don't piss off the 'ettes.

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 04:52 AM (fWAjv)

215

>>> a penis anywhere is rape

 

Asparagus patches must be banned for the chillrens!

Posted by: Bigby's Kung Fu Grip at January 07, 2014 04:52 AM (3ZtZW)

216 I'm not taking the quiz. I pick Steven Seagal... ...Or Herve Villachaize

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 07, 2014 04:52 AM (g4TxM)

217 Daniel Craig has been chosen to play the movie version of me.

bbl, gotta winterize the Land Yacht.

Posted by: Fritz at January 07, 2014 04:52 AM (UzPAd)

218 Writing in today's Hollywood is too complicated a nightmare to detail here.  Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 07, 2014 08:46 AM

Try writing for magazines, JJ. You'll be pining for all that abundant Hollywood lucre in no time! No matter what, unless you're one of the Chosen Few -- no, not them -- writing is a mug's game. Far better to take up robbing church collection plates or shoplifting chewing gum....

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 07, 2014 04:53 AM (ff7/5)

219 When I went to bed last night it was 21 degrees.
It's now 46 degrees.
Windy as hell, though.
Boulder, Colorado area.

Posted by: jwb7605 [/i][/u][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:53 AM (3Tv+N)

220 That Satan statue will be a great target for pranksters. The Devil in a pink tutu, or with Groucho glasses, would take some of the sulphur out of the air, and annoy the shit out of the "Satanists".

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 07, 2014 04:53 AM (ZshNr)

221 I'm sort of curious how GLAAD takes PIV screed-woman's contention that a penis anywhere is rape. Why does she hate gay men? Penis envy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2014 04:53 AM (8D0/R)

222 We will not see their like again soon.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2014 08:46 AM (t3UFN)

Marine Corps pilot in WWII.

He went back in to fly in Korea, and his rationale was: It will take two years to train somebody to do what I can do today.....

Wow.

RIP

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2014 04:54 AM (QFxY5)

223 204. J.J. Sefton Independent films are where the best are found, imho. Including the most novel.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 04:54 AM (MhA4j)

224 @182 votermom Excellent comparison.

Posted by: Beagle at January 07, 2014 04:54 AM (sOtz/)

225 Joey Lawrence from the old Blossom show, and more recently Mel & Joey. People always tell me I look like him. The current version of him I mean. He can play me. Remember Six on Blossom? Best Ass of the Eighties. Only reason any guys even watched that chick show. Six's ass.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 07, 2014 04:55 AM (7ObY1)

226

Well, JJ you could always open a business in Today's Tax-Free NY

 

ROTFLOL

Posted by: Bigby's Kung Fu Grip at January 07, 2014 04:55 AM (3ZtZW)

227 You get Margaret Cho.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 08:41 AM (JDIKC)

That's just nasty.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2014 04:57 AM (QFxY5)

228 Edison "imagined his viewer to be a cylinder the size of his phonograph records, with approximately 42,000 images, each 1/32 of an inch wide." So, if he hadn't gone with linear strips, we would have had the proto laser disc 50+ years sooner...? Interesting tech tale, MPPPPPP. Say, Poppins, about collecting the stories, any idea when you started?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Election Year! Oboy! at January 07, 2014 04:57 AM (ETWo2)

229 Inre Liz Cheney running in VA.

Like the Establishment would ever back her running against Mark Warner. Hahahahahaha. She would be written off as "unelectable."

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 07, 2014 08:50 AM (PFy0L)


Just for clarity I am sure you mean the Republican Statist Establishment, and you are right, Liz would never take my advice, she would speak intelligently about many things based on her experience, and she would support conservative ideals so yes--totally unelectable.



Posted by: Karl Rover at January 07, 2014 04:58 AM (o3MSL)

230 You want Danny Kaye. You'll take Jim Carrey. You get Sandra Bernhard.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at January 07, 2014 04:58 AM (JDIKC)

231 Posted by: Beagle at January 07, 2014 08:54 AM (sOtz/) -- Bereft of religious history, they dimly recreate it. Nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: votermom at January 07, 2014 04:58 AM (GSIDW)

232 Those of us who claim there's not a whit of difference between Republicans and Democrats are looking more and more correct.

Republicans Help Georgia Democratic Senate Candidate Michelle Nunn

Breitbart:  http://tinyurl.com/lkp8pvz

Posted by: jwb7605 [/i][/u][/s][/b] at January 07, 2014 04:59 AM (3Tv+N)

233 Hmm... everybody run off for more coffee?

Hey Morgen, you didn't blow yer self up messing with the furnace, did ya?

Posted by: CPT. Charles at January 07, 2014 05:00 AM (lJaja)

234 Cheney, Bush...names which repulse most voters of all parties. Liz has a life, hasn't she? If she wants America to see her as THE cosmopolitan every-woman, sorry. I'm not buying. Hell, if it's legislation she wants to write, the most obvious point is that Legislators don't do that themselves. And given ACA for obvious illustration, legislation isn't even written any more. Just decreed via Oval Office executive call, policy, memo, order, whatever. And though legislators/politicians are enriched via sticky finger deep pocket private trading where public funding goes, lobbyists get at least as big a cut of the tax fund pie. So Liz will try her hand lobbying next, bets? Easy money for insider trading of national security.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 05:02 AM (MhA4j)

235 So, David Brooks admits he snuck weed into the 2000 RNC convention. I bet his joints have exquisite creases.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 07, 2014 05:03 AM (7ObY1)

236 2 degrees in the wilds northwest of Philly. Accuweather says it feels like -18 degrees with the wind and I believe them.

Auburn's luck just couldn't hold out long enough to beat the mothercuffing Semiholes. My desire for revenge is once again foiled, but at least I have my anger to keep me warm.

Posted by: joncelli at January 07, 2014 05:04 AM (RD7QR)

237 Thanks to all birthday well-wishers. You guys are awesome.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at January 07, 2014 05:05 AM (RXwsr)

238 Oh, and the dogs woke me up at 4:00 am. I did get revenge in that case, though, by the simple act of actually taking them outside.

Posted by: joncelli at January 07, 2014 05:05 AM (RD7QR)

239 +30 degrees here in south central Montana although it was -3 over the weekend.

Posted by: free tibet, etc. at January 07, 2014 05:05 AM (jAc/f)

240 Does it work for blogging?

You want ace.
You'll take Andy.
You get Gabe Malor.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2014 05:06 AM (IV4od)

241 Thanks to all birthday well-wishers. You guys are awesome. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at January 07, 2014 09:05 AM (RXwsr) Ugh I missed your Birthday? Drinks on me next time. Happy Belated Birthday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2014 05:06 AM (t3UFN)

242 http://tinyurl.com/n2ga4n6 According to the Chicago Tribune, U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang issued a 35-page ruling in which he wrote: Chicago's ordinance goes too far in banning legal buyers and legal dealers from engaging in lawful acquisitions and lawful sales of firearms, and at the same time the evidence does not support that the complete ban sufficiently furthers the purposes the ordinance tries to serve. Time to troll the antis.

Posted by: RWC at January 07, 2014 05:07 AM (fWAjv)

243 It's 20 degrees but we didn't get any snow. My kids may disown me soon. It's been years now. How far would I have to drive to find some to play in? Somewhere in Texas? Arkansas? St. Louis?

Posted by: Mama AJ, super special moron at January 07, 2014 05:08 AM (SUKHu)

244 Ugh I missed your Birthday? Drinks on me next time.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 07, 2014 09:06 AM (t3UFN)

Is chique d'afrique legal?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 07, 2014 05:08 AM (QFxY5)

245

You want Giovanni Ribisi

 

You'll take Chris Burke

 

You get MATT DAMON!!1!

Posted by: Bigby's Kung Fu Grip at January 07, 2014 05:09 AM (3ZtZW)

246 +30 degrees here in south central Montana although it was -3 over the weekend.

--

Warmer in Montana than my little ole upstate SC?  Pigs are indeed flying.  Btw, my grandparents used to live in Virginia City.  We went there every summer in my yoot.  I loved that place.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 07, 2014 05:09 AM (Oa7B2)

247 Lumière Brothers' first film screening It is believed their first film was actually recorded that same year (1895) with Léon Bouly's cinématographe device, which was patented the previous year. The cinématographe — a three-in-one device that could record, develop, and project motion pictures — was further developed by the Lumières. http://tinyurl.com/3oltbge By 1894 the Lumières were producing around 15,000,000 plates a year. Antoine, by now a successful and well known businessman, was invited to a demonstration of Edison’s Peephole Kinetoscope in Paris. He was excited by what he saw and returned to Lyons. He presented his son Louis with a piece of Kinetoscope film, given to him by one of Edison’s concessionaires and said, "This is what you have to make, because Edison sells this at crazy prices and the concessionaires are trying to make films here in France to have them cheaper". The brothers worked through the Winter of 1894, Auguste making the first experiments. Their aim was to overcome the limitations and problems, as they saw them, of Edison’s peephole Kinetoscope. They identified two main problems with Edison’s device: firstly its bulk - the Kinetograph - the camera, was a colossal piece of machinery and its weight and size resigned it to the studio. Secondly - the nature of the kinetoscope - the viewer, meant that only one person could experience the films at a time. By early 1895, the brothers had invented their own device combining camera with printer and projector and called it the Cinématographe. Patenting it on February 13th 1895, the Cinématographe was much smaller than Edison’s Kinetograph, was lightweight (around five kilograms), and was hand cranked. The Lumières used a film speed of 16 frames per second, much slower compared with Edison’s 48 fps - this meant that less film was used an also the clatter and grinding associated with Edison’s device was reduced. Perhaps most important was Louis’s decision to incorporate the principle of intermittent movement using a device similar to that found in sewing machines. This was something Edison had rejected as he struggled to perfect projection using continuous movement. The brothers kept their new invention a closely guarded secret with Auguste organising private screenings to invited guest only.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 05:09 AM (MhA4j)

248 Coughcough70degreescoughcough

Posted by: Navypopojoe at January 07, 2014 05:10 AM (b0/Zr)

249 241 lowandslow you get Cap'n Morrissey

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 05:11 AM (MhA4j)

250 Satanists have unveiled their proposed monument for the Oklahoma state Capitol. They argue that the Capitol is obligated to accept their monument, since it just accepted the donation of a Ten Commandments monument which has since been erected on Capitol grounds. Litigation is pending. This is one of those situations in which the citizenry needs to deliberately defy courts, and refuse to cooperate. We have reached a strange place when a nation that was founded at a time when states had their own state religions can now tell states they have to tolerate satanism. I predict if such a monument is ever built, they will have to post armed guards to protect it.

Posted by: D-Lamp at January 07, 2014 05:13 AM (bb5+k)

251 @232 I used to compare the fainting feminists against everything to the Victorians. New slots for the same kinds of people. They did not love that analysis.

Posted by: Beagle at January 07, 2014 05:14 AM (sOtz/)

252 Say, Poppins, about collecting the stories, any idea when you started?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Election Year! Oboy! at January 07, 2014 08:57 AM (ETWo2)

 

If you mean the e-book, I haven't started.  Otherwise, I began seriously collecting books / movies / magazines when I began writing The Director's Cut - I also ended up with a huge library about early 20th century NYC, as well - and naturally, you wind up buying memoirs or story collections to get an idea of what was going on both in front and behind the camera. 

 

So I probably started about ten years ago, maybe longer; TDC took a very long time to write and the new one is 3-5 years in the gestation and writing, but it's still not finished (thank God for Amazon self-pubbing!).  I can put up a list of some of the best books in my collection, if you like, but you can't go wrong with Hollywood Anecdotes by Paul Boller and Ronald Davis; it's where I get a lot of my stories from.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 05:15 AM (zF6Iw)

253 in patriotism You want Patrick Henry. You'll readily take John Paul Jones. You get John McCain.

Posted by: panzernashorn at January 07, 2014 05:15 AM (MhA4j)

254 Dump up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 07, 2014 05:16 AM (8D0/R)

255

You want Marilyn Monroe.

You'll take Jayne Mansfield.

You get Divine.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 05:16 AM (zF6Iw)

256 Ha! Let's cut to the important thing, I just did the who would play you in a movie thing and got Helen Mirren.

I win bitches!

*dances about*

Posted by: alexthechick - Really Universe Really? at January 07, 2014 07:38 AM (Gk3SS)


I got Christina Hendricks.  Do I win anything?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, shhh, be a little quieter, some of us are trying to sleep. at January 07, 2014 05:16 AM (kXoT0)

257 Happy Birthday chique! Now that you're 21, what do you want to be when you grow up? § Reposting myself from ONT .. why not? Didn't click thru to the test, but... I'd like to think I'd be played by someone with that guy who plays Captain America's looks, with some Ricardo Montalban style, a touch of WC Fields and Tom Mix. (Pre-fame, Tom Mix worked for my grandfather.) But it would probably be a drunken Jim Carrey.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Election Year! Oboy! at January 07, 2014 05:16 AM (xhupI)

258

Does it work for blogging?

 

Sure.

You want Ace.

You'll take Insty.

You get Olllie Willis.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 05:17 AM (zF6Iw)

259

Secondly - the nature of the kinetoscope - the viewer, meant that only one person could experience the films at a time.

 

Which is why Edison fought against projection for a long time.  He believed there was more money in people coming to view one kinetoscope  one at a time  than in a room of people seeing the film all at once.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 07, 2014 05:19 AM (zF6Iw)

260 Well, I kinda see it as most government buildings are already monuments to Satan, so is a gilding-the-lily problem really.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 07, 2014 05:20 AM (SwHqo)

261 It's- Colder than the nipple on a witch's tit, Colder than a bucket of penguin shit, Colder than the hairs on a polar bear's ass, Colder than the frost on a champagne glass* *Special bonus points if you can name the novel this is from.** **And win a great free prize*** ***There is no free prize

Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2014 05:21 AM (0cMkb)

262 Happy Belated Birthday, chique!

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, shhh, be a little quieter, some of us are trying to sleep. at January 07, 2014 05:22 AM (kXoT0)

263 Gah. Colder than a bucket full of penguin shit FIFM

Posted by: naturalfake at January 07, 2014 05:23 AM (0cMkb)

264 Hmmm. Russell Crowe would play me? Crowe is an a**hole. Oh, wait.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my Hate cannot be found) at January 07, 2014 05:28 AM (u1jJP)

265 I got Anne Hathaway, by the way.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 07, 2014 05:28 AM (SUKHu)

266 Poppins, no, I meant about when did you start posting stories on here? If one were to go back to collect them?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Election Year! Oboy! at January 07, 2014 05:32 AM (cDwCa)

267 >>I predict if such a monument is ever built, they will have to post armed guards to protect it. Posted by: D-Lamp at January 07, 2014 09:13 AM (bb5+k) That goat head, upside down, would make a nice offertory.

Posted by: Chris_Balsz at January 07, 2014 05:33 AM (v0dfv)

268 In many cases during the script-writing stage, someone else will come in and write the actual script that gets shot, but because of contracts can't be credited as the writer.  So he or she (or they) get credited as "Assistant Producer" or some such (or perhaps "Special thanks to").

The Christopher Reeves-Richard Donner Superman film is a good example.  The producers wanted Mario Puzo's name in the credits, but the script was apparently the work of Tom Mankeiwitz, who got no script credit.

Posted by: Null at January 07, 2014 05:35 AM (DuH+r)

269 "*Special bonus points if you can name the novel this is from.** "

Gravity's Rainbow, now where free subscription.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 07, 2014 05:37 AM (IV4od)

270 I used to compare the fainting feminists against everything to the Victorians. New slots for the same kinds of people. They did not love that analysis. Posted by: Beagle at January 07, 2014 09:14 AM (sOtz/) === Jane Eyre has a great chapter, when she was in charity school, of Mr Brocklehurst lecturing the girls on the values of plain dress and hair while his own family is dressed very fashionably & luxuriously. That's our elite overlords to a T - always lecturing others on "rules" that don't apply to themselves.

Posted by: votermom at January 07, 2014 05:43 AM (GSIDW)

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