April 17, 2021

Saturday Afternoon Chess thread 04-17-2021 [OregonMuse]
— Ace Open Blog


http://ace.mu.nu/images/GMAntoanetaStefanovaBUL02.jpg
GM Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL)

TheJamesMadison should be along later with the movie thread. As always, the chess/dress pr0n thread is an open thread, so there is no such thing as an off-topic comment.


Beginner Problem - Black To Play (1347)

Goal: Black can force mate in 3 moves
Hint: A discovered check gets the ball rolling

7k/pp2Q1pp/5r2/P2P4/3Pb1P1/4Ppq1/1P1R3N/2r2R1K b - - 0 1

http://ace.mu.nu/images/chess_pic_20210417_01.jpg
(Cover art for the new hard-boiled chess noir detective novel, Dead Guys Don't Play the Ruy. (h/t David Llada))



Intermediate Problem - White To Play (1349)

Goal: White can force mate in 6 moves
Hint: Force Black to weaken his pawn structure

3rn1rk/1p3ppp/1qp1pb1B/p7/3P4/2PBR2Q/PP3PPP/1R4K1 w - - 0 1


Advanced Problem - White To Play (1348 )

See what you can do with this one. The actual, forced mate is a ways out (> 7 moves), but there are some shorter lines.


rnQ4r/pp2kpb1/2p4p/3p2p1/3Pn3/2q1PNB1/P4PPP/1R1K1B1R w - - 0 1

Dress Pr0n For the 'Ettes:















http://ace.mu.nu/images/20210417_dress_pr0n_ukraine_01.jpg(Greetings from Ukraine)








Bonus Melania:


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Problem Solutions
Beginner Problem - Black To Play (1347)


http://ace.mu.nu/images/20210417_Problem_1.jpg?size=225x&q=95
7k/pp2Q1pp/5r2/P2P4/3Pb1P1/4Ppq1/1P1R3N/2r2R1K b - - 0 1

1...f2+
2.Qxe4 Qg1+
3.Rxg1 fxg1=Q#

Congrats if you found this one without the hint.

Intermediate Problem - White To Play (1349)

http://ace.mu.nu/images/20210417_Problem_2.jpg?size=225x&q=95
3rn1rk/1p3ppp/1qp1pb1B/p7/3P4/2PBR2Q/PP3PPP/1R4K1 w - - 0 1

1.Bg5 g6

Forced, as Qxh7# was threatened.

2.Qxh7+ Kxh7
3.Rh3+ Kg7
4.Bh6+ Kh7
5.Bf8+ Bh4
6.Rxh4#


Advanced Problem - White To Play

http://ace.mu.nu/images/20210417_Problem_3.jpg?size=225x&q=95
rnQ4r/pp2kpb1/2p4p/3p2p1/3Pn3/2q1PNB1/P4PPP/1R1K1B1R w - - 0 1

1.Rxb7+ Kf6
2.Be5+ Kg6
3.Nh4+ gxh4

(3...Kh7 4.Qf5+ Kg8 5.Qxf7+ Kh7 6.Qxg7#)
(3...Kh5 4.g4+ Kxh4 5.Bg3+ Nxg3 6.hxg3#)

4.Qe6+ Bf6

(4...Kh5 5.Be2+ Kg5 6.f4#)
(4...Kh7 5.Qf5+ Kg8 6.Qxf7+ Kh7 7.Qxg7#)

5.Qxf7+ Kf5
6.g4+ hxg3
7.Bh3+ Kg5
8.Bf4+ Kh4
9.hxg3+ Nxg3
10.fxg3#

Hope to see you all next week!
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Note: that cryptic line of letters and numbers you see underneath each board diagram is a representation of the position in what is known as "Forsyth-Edwards Notation", or F.E.N. It's actually readable by humans. Most computer applications nowadays can read FEN, so those of you who may want to study the position, you can copy the line of FEN and paste into your chess app and it should automatically recreate the position on its display board. Or, Windows users can just "triple click" on it and the entire line will be highlighted so you can copy and paste it into your chess app.
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So that about wraps it up for this week. Chess thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to my yahoo address: OregonMuse little-a-in-a-circle yahoo dott com.

Posted by: Ace Open Blog at 05:36 PM | Comments (317)
Post contains 418 words, total size 10 kb.

1 Afternoon, Horde

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at April 17, 2021 05:37 PM (8C7+r)

2 Kinda late, no?

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 05:38 PM (Cxk7w)

3 Hmm, chess gal looks like a younger version of one of my nieces. If that gal has the same personality of my niece, look out, because she's very outgoing, funny and loving person!

Posted by: Right Dishonorable blake channeling Miklos at April 17, 2021 05:39 PM (2SdPm)

4 /off chanel sock.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at April 17, 2021 05:40 PM (2SdPm)

5 Had a bone to pick from last week, but should get onto this weeks.

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 05:40 PM (Cxk7w)

6 I'm happy to see that Melania is not wearing fishnet stockings.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 17, 2021 05:40 PM (a4EWo)

7 Hey everybody. Hey Chess Thread! Hey OregonMuse!

BREAKING NEWS: Meghan Markle has crashed Prince Philip's funeral by leaping on top of the casket, ripping off her black dress revealing a wild burlesque outfit underneath, performing a combination tap dance/striptease act, and loudly singing a song she wrote herself called "What About Me?"

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 17, 2021 05:40 PM (L2ZTs)

8 Chess gurl is purty. Nice smile with just the right amount of mischief in her eyes.
Hiding in the guest room that has been my office for nearly a month. House is suddenly filled with siblings, nieces, nephews and a grand-niece and nephew as a bonus.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 05:42 PM (4l77G)

9 Hola 

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo Ranch at April 17, 2021 05:43 PM (MhbK0)

10 OM and Korean girl sitting in a tree...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 05:43 PM (kTF2Z)

11 Bubble dress looks fun.
But, I think to really make it work you need to be a fun, Grace Kelly looking blonde with deep blue eyes.
And six inch heels.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 05:43 PM (dWwl8)

12 I really like the blue 50's dress

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2021 05:43 PM (Zmnko)

13 number three for the win.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 05:44 PM (fjS2+)

14 Hey, I was busy watching a movie on Youtube, otherwise I'd have been frist.

Posted by: Lump the Chump, and Hampsters at April 17, 2021 05:45 PM (0Ihv1)

15 Ok honey, we've killed the guy and took all his money. Before we make our getaway, how bout a quick game of chess?
Ok, let me touch up my face first.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 05:46 PM (kTF2Z)

16 6 I'm happy to see that Melania is not wearing fishnet stockings.
 Too bad she doesn't have class like Dr. Jill

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2021 05:46 PM (Zmnko)

17 Chess Thread Tora! Tora! Tora!
Bulgaria.....pass. It is known that when a Russian meets a Bulgar he slaps the Bulgar and the Bulgar knows why.
The Ukrainian chick has a nice smile.....Da!
Oh look! Time for a manhattan......one cherry only please.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 17, 2021 05:46 PM (R/m4+)

18 Gal number three looks like -
"Betty Boop - The Murder Spree Years"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 05:47 PM (dWwl8)

19 I have been here for a few years and have never been first. There were a few times, but I talked and didn't post.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 05:47 PM (fjS2+)

20 Looks like that Ukrainian gall is about to be Russian.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 05:48 PM (kTF2Z)

21 I'm happy to see that Melania is not wearing fishnet stockings.
 Too bad she doesn't have class like Dr. Jill

Posted by: It's me donna at April 17, 2021 05:46 PM (Zmnko)


I still don't know what Dr. Jill looks like.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 05:48 PM (fjS2+)

22 Our weekly Asian girl's dress today is 100% me.  Love it!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 17, 2021 05:48 PM (O+I8R)

23 First! Privilege is oppression.  Where's my reparations?

Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 05:49 PM (8s6Nt)

24 The first dress girl could give polka dot dress girl (from a while back) a run for her money.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at April 17, 2021 05:50 PM (Qtg3R)

25 I swear that one of the female tennis pros at my club looks just like the chess girl and she's also from Bulgaria. 

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 05:50 PM (2DOZq)

26  I have been here for a few years and have never been first. There were a few times, but I talked and didn't post. 

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 05:47 PM (fjS2+)

So....you want a Pity First?


BWAHAHAHAHA!  Good luck getting that on the most Darwinian blog on teh interwebs.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 05:50 PM (dWwl8)

27 Bulgarian chick's got a sixhead from all those big brains burning up her hair roots.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 05:52 PM (dWwl8)

28 Oh, I thought it was bulimia.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 17, 2021 05:53 PM (63Dwl)

29 Stupid O/T question.
What is the rational behind the sudden spike in the number of new vehicle models with electrically applied parking brakes?
Only think I come up with is the ability to remotely apply the brakes if the vehicle is connected to the internet.
IOW, somebody take control of the parking brake remotely.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 17, 2021 05:53 PM (3D/fK)

30 Intermediate:
1. Bg6  g6  (1. Bg6 h6 2. BxP leading to mate)
2. QxP+  KxQ
3. Rh3+  Kg7
4. Bh6+ Kh8
5. Bf8+  Bh4
6. RxB mate

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at April 17, 2021 05:53 PM (wJQbj)

31 A question:  Does the Smithsonian still have the first ladies  ballroom exhibit or has it been sent to the dust bin.  With all the wokeness, I would think they would just replace it with something more up to date, whatever that would be.

Posted by: Colin at April 17, 2021 05:54 PM (bExff)

32  I'm happy to see that Melania is not wearing fishnet stockings.
 Too bad she doesn't have class like Dr. Jill
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It enrages me every time I think back to how disrespected that beautiful woman...you know, the one with impeccable taste...was by the "fashion" rags.  Only to have them soak their undies in glee on how "Dr." Jill is showing old hags how to rock fishnets.  Our press is so, so worthless.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 17, 2021 05:54 PM (O+I8R)

33 Intermediate problem is giving me a headache.
Bxg7 Rxg7 and that's when then head ache starts.

Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2021 05:55 PM (88xKn)

34 Well, they laid out Old Prince Phillip.

Posted by: Eromero at April 17, 2021 05:56 PM (0OP+5)

35 Intermediate Problem.
1. Bg5 g6 ( or 2. Qxh7#) 2. Bxh7+ Kxh7 3. Rh3+ Kg7 4. Bh6+ Kh7 or Kh8 5. Bf8+  Bh4 6. Rxh4#

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 05:56 PM (AHq56)

36 I was just stationary cycling after my workout and then I got "kittied" (my kitteh decided to hop in my lap so I had to end my workout).  Being "kittied" is what my ex called it when Kitty would sit in her lap and then induce her to nap with the proper nap-inducing purr frequency.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 17, 2021 05:56 PM (KAi1n)

37
Only think I come up with is the ability to remotely apply the brakes if the vehicle is connected to the internet.
IOW, somebody take control of the parking brake remotely.

Posted by:Village Idiot's Apprentic eat April 17, 2021 05:53 PM (3D/fK)

I'm so glad I'm old and won't live long enough to see very much of the coming dystopia.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 05:56 PM (j6Wzw)

38 dantesed me too

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 05:57 PM (Cxk7w)

39 Have never been to Bulgaria, but that's one of the bypassed job opportunities I still think about.  It was back not long after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and USSR.  Would have been a sweet gig.  And colleagues told me there would have been very good hunting there at the time.

Did become friends with a Bulgarian army colonel once, in an adventurous place.  He was more pro-America than probably 40% of America, today.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 05:59 PM (OTzUX)

40 Bulgarian chick is okaysky. But she looks like she styles her hair by having cats lick it. Be better, Bulgarian chick.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 17, 2021 05:59 PM (H5knJ)

41 Korean girl is like: "Did I leave the iron on?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 06:00 PM (Rvt88)

42 BTW, Bulgaria has an excellent lager called Kamenitza.  (I can't type the Cyrillic.)  I wish I could find it here; have only had it in Bulgaria.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 17, 2021 06:00 PM (KAi1n)

43 Ms. Ukraine prefers to stick to the primary colors.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 17, 2021 06:01 PM (fLVm1)

44 Mr OM, sir. While waiting for the thread to arrive I took a look at teh KATU website.  They have an editorial up about how 22 counties in OR wanting to join Idaho is bad.  It breaks up the, "Oregon Family".  The guy is a Duck and is now in Berkley running his own non profit telling people, in a place he no longer lives, how to play nice with Salem.  I boiled it down to, Shut proles and take the shit we want to give you. 

Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 06:01 PM (8s6Nt)

45 The most Darwinian blog on the internet?

I like that definition. We should include it in the style manual.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 06:01 PM (sd8p8)

46 Lady in Black - so totally agree with you.  There are so many ways us older women can look fashionable - classic, elegant, casual, etc.  Fishnets are for little girls and Halloween costumes.  She so often looks ridiculous and she's not a bad looking woman.  Why she chooses to dress like a pre-teen is a mystery. 

Posted by: Russkilitlover at April 17, 2021 06:01 PM (nWxPx)

47
Posted by:I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH!at April 17, 2021 05:53 PM (wJQbj)

Looks good.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 06:02 PM (j6Wzw)

48 Fun Fact: The word "buggery" is derived from the Bulgars.
Do with that what you will.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 17, 2021 06:02 PM (fLVm1)

49
Bulgaria has all the faults of Russia with none of the accomplishments. 

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 17, 2021 06:03 PM (mht8P)

50 Palp said his relatives went to Bulgaria and it scared the shit of of them, fwiw. 

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2021 06:03 PM (89T5c)

51 Don Ho would be proud to we seen in the blue dress up top. So many Tiny Bubbles...

Posted by: Lump the Chump, and Hampsters at April 17, 2021 06:04 PM (0Ihv1)

52

BWAHAHAHAHA!  Good luck getting that on the most Darwinian blog on teh interwebs.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 05:50 PM (dWwl


naah, just saying I had the chance but did not take it.   (The rest of the comment was deleted by the poster, because many can't take a harsh line even in jest).  My interest in drama is next to nil, move along.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:05 PM (fjS2+)

53 My thinking was B x h7, K either takes h7 or could lose Rook next turn then any Bishop left standing retreats and let the hilarity ensue

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 06:05 PM (Cxk7w)

54 I love  the flapper dress and Melania's blue plaid number. I don;t know how she actually walks in those shoes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 06:05 PM (sd8p8)

55 I'd like to strum that Russian gal's balalaikas!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 17, 2021 06:06 PM (CjFDo)

56
Why she chooses to dress like a pre-teen is a mystery.
  Posted by: Russkilitlover


I'm gonna hazard a guess and say it's because she's broken in mind and spirit having sold herself and her dignity long ago. 

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2021 06:06 PM (Rvt88)

57 The First Lady wore a belted gingham Michael Kors coat dress and matching pumps as she met with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium at the Royal Palace in Brussels.

As always, she wore her diamond ring, along with a pair of matching gingham stilettos from Manolo Blahnik.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 17, 2021 06:07 PM (ju2Fy)

58 For once, I like Kate Middleton’s dress. Severe and the belt is too much, but the dark green is an underutilized color in women’s clothing.

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 06:08 PM (b88US)

59 Ukrainian girls has some serious cankles.

Posted by: runner, Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink ! at April 17, 2021 06:08 PM (Q9SFr)

60 A question: Does the Smithsonian still have the first ladies ballroom exhibit or has it been sent to the dust bin. With all the wokeness, I would think they would just replace it with something more up to date, whatever that would be.  Posted by: Colin at April 17, 2021 05:54 PM (bExff)


It would be ironic if they got rid of it now, because for the first time in history a First Lady can actually have balls.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 17, 2021 06:09 PM (fLVm1)

61 I'm sunburned. 

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2021 06:10 PM (U2p+3)

62 The word "buggery" is derived from the Bulgars. 



can't be.  It would have been bullgary is it was.

Posted by: runner, Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink ! at April 17, 2021 06:10 PM (Q9SFr)

63 Did the US send a delgation to Philip's funeral? Don;t even recall a condolence message.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 06:10 PM (sd8p8)

64 Girl in flapper dress acts like she forgot her cigarettes' case.

Posted by: dantesed at April 17, 2021 06:10 PM (88xKn)

65 Oh I don't think Bulgaria's that bad.  Still plan to visit some day, just not with the same agenda.  Rose festival is supposed to be pretty nice (every June, I think).  One of the closest Slavic languages to Russian, which may help.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:11 PM (OTzUX)

66 can't be. It would have been bullgary is it was.

Posted by: runner, Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink ! at April 17, 2021 06:10 PM (Q9SFr)</i>

You ever hear a drunk limey slur his words?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 17, 2021 06:11 PM (fLVm1)

67 Geesh, this is getting to be like chess trying to understand it.
Some interesting tidbits though if you can ignore the non-stop self promotion of this non-MD.....
FASCISM CONFIRMED, THE GOVERNMENT IS WORKING WITH THE CORPORATIONS, PEOPLE MUST RISE UP
https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/dr-shiva-fascism-confirmed-the-government-is-working-with-the-corporations-people-must-rise-up/

Fyi 
 Ontario Canada Turns Itself Into A Police State…
Weasel Zippers 

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 06:13 PM (/x+Eb)

68

I'm so glad I'm old and won't live long enough to see very much of the coming dystopia.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 05:56 PM (j6Wzw)

OM, I think you got that wrong. "see very much of" should be "participate kinetically in".

If not us, then who?

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:14 PM (Xkiew)

69 Rub it in nurse - it is a high of only 55 here today.

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 06:14 PM (/x+Eb)

70 I've been forgetting sunscreen and getting burned several times this week.  This morning for the shootin' match I remembered.

Good news is today's match was fun - 6 stages instead of 4, much more steel.  The kind I'll actually get up and drive for.

Was able to do 2 quick mag dumps with the XD9 after (shot the 1911 today), to confirm pistol is functioning, and it's my last batch of reloads that's the issue (it was failing to eject, cycle, and feed this past week at the range).  One mag of factory and one mag of my previous 9mm reloads - no issues.  So it's the last batch that's light.  Gonna switch in my old spring, see if they work that way, otherwise one of my RO buddies who's always giving me stuff will get 300 rounds gratis.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:15 PM (OTzUX)

71 Bonus Melania is right!  Wow, she looks  incredible.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:15 PM (Pm0A7)

72  After posting on my neighborhood online paper the Babylon Bee parody article and picture about the man who got a vaccine and was still having to be in lockdown wearing a mask at home, and my comment that paper and cloth masks are basically useless some nice man posted this reply:

Go to the CDCs website, like I did last year before I made my mask pic.A 100% seal & N95 filtration is what you really want for "Superior Protection.


Nope; I am not going to do that. but I did not reply that I wouldn't trust the CDC as far as I could throw them.





Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2021 06:15 PM (7hF2c)

73 1st Problem
I found 2 different forced mated in 3.  But I am often wrong.  

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:16 PM (u82oZ)

74 Both Biden and Trump sent condolences to the Royal family, though Biden’s was tardy (in my opinion.) Due to the restricted number allowed to attend (and "quarantine requirements” for travelers?), I don’t think a US representative went to the funeral.

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 06:16 PM (b88US)

75 The Korean gal is always a knockout.
That must be tough to do, even if that's your job.
Great photographer along with great looks and body make great photos, I suppose.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 06:16 PM (dWwl8)

76 A Nice day in south central Montana after a week of low 30s and snow flurries. Guess it's coming back tomorrow. Yay.
I had a pork chop sammich and a Guinness at Fiddler's Green, came back and took a nap.


Oy! GREEN! Green already!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 06:17 PM (4l77G)

77 >>>Did the US send a delgation to Philip's funeral? Don;t even recall a condolence message. <
>Dr. Jill sent a photo of her ass and a wreath made of rosemary and axle grease.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 17, 2021 06:18 PM (yOVXa)

78 I met a Bulgarian gal once. She was part of some student exchange thing my parents were assisting with. She was nice. Tall, pretty, funny. Black hair, dark eyes, decent figure. My Mom said she reminded her of the Mona Lisa. Of course I'm a nerd so I asked her how much of the Cold War she remembered. Not much it turned out. She was just a little kid in the 80s. 

Posted by: Puddleglum, future Tyrell Corp employee at April 17, 2021 06:18 PM (XZMrE)

79 I  hope someone is drunk, it would be a good excuse.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:18 PM (fjS2+)

80 Cicero #48 ...
Believe it started with Voltaire: "I've been buggered by a vulgar Bulgar." Yes?

Posted by: SecondCityLurker at April 17, 2021 06:18 PM (MEbkQ)

81 # 72
Bet the CDC employees own lots of stock in the companies that make those.....

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 06:19 PM (/x+Eb)

82 Nurse, my farmer's tan is coming along nicely despite the recent  cols spell.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:19 PM (Pm0A7)

83 My Korean gf there always is hawt.

I wish she'd do a session in shorts, with a t-shirt, sandals.  Fashion is invisible to me.  Everyday wear on a creature like that, um, yeah.

I think one time OM gave her name and I had to check her bikini photos for public safety or something.  

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:20 PM (OTzUX)

84 Why she chooses to dress like a pre-teen is a mystery
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I would make a comment about Hunter but it might be a little early and people might be eating dinner.

Posted by: dartist at April 17, 2021 06:20 PM (+ya+t)

85
I boiled it down to, Shut proles and take the shit we want to give you.

Posted by:Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 06:01 PM (8s6Nt)

Last time we had redistricting, some Dem gerrymandering genius redrew the lines so that most Oregon state congressional districts contained just enough Democrats to offset any potential GOP advantage, even in the rural counties. Which is why there state legislature is super-majority Democrat.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 06:21 PM (j6Wzw)

86 Ben Had, you know the rules . . .

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:21 PM (Xkiew)

87 But was Voltaire eating Bulgar wheat at the same time?
That is the question.

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 06:22 PM (/x+Eb)

88 Lady S ... surely someone from the Court of St. James. Even Biden couldn't overlook that one!

Posted by: SecondCityLurker at April 17, 2021 06:22 PM (MEbkQ)

89
Great photographer along with great looks and body make great photos, I suppose.

Posted by:naturalfakeat April 17, 2021 06:16 PM (dWwl

Plus, she's one of those women who looks great in anything she wears. Which is a great natural talent to have if you're a model.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 06:22 PM (j6Wzw)

90 There is no scientific research that proves the efficacy of masks. If fact, just the opposite which is why Fauxi et al never talk about it. If only there was a group of people whose job it was to ask such questions.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 06:22 PM (kTF2Z)

91 FenelonSpoke 
Getting a good seal is very difficult with a mask, even a N95 one.
We know about chemical masks,  and OBAs / SCBA masks.  Totally different thing, normally with a plastic transparent faceplate.  Those have a rubber seal at the edges of the mask.   Suck in and the face plate compresses against your face. 
Even the cheapie chemical masks without vision protection seal tight.  Well, as long as your beard is trimmed. 
Cloth, not so much. 

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:23 PM (u82oZ)

92 Believe Voltaire was tending his cabbage patch, IIRC

Posted by: SecondCityLurker at April 17, 2021 06:23 PM (MEbkQ)

93 In May 2020 CDC published a meta-study of research spanning 70 years which found that there was some measurable benefit (in terms of reducing influenza transmission) only for properly fitted/worn N95s, in a clinical context.  It wasn't dramatic.  Everything else?  Bupkis.  Meaningless.

You can't parody today's American institutions, they've achieved beyond-parody status.


Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:23 PM (OTzUX)

94 That 20s dress! Yowza!

Posted by: Funsize at April 17, 2021 06:24 PM (EiPf6)

95 I loved Bulgaria 

Posted by: CN at April 17, 2021 06:24 PM (ONvIw)

96 I like the blue one
blue pebbles in a blue stream


it's not weird



Posted by: DB- just DB at April 17, 2021 06:24 PM (iTXRQ)

97 Muse that may make it easier to undo the DEMS then....
Hmmm....
You got to think it before you can do it.....

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 06:25 PM (/x+Eb)

98

RI Red, you better plan a couple of extra days for the MoMe.  A friend is being over run with  feral  pigs. 

No one wants a picture of a red neck and  elbow to finger tip shot!

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:26 PM (Pm0A7)

99 Ten more minutes till ETA for the BBQ'd Beef Back Ribs and BBQ'd whole Chicken.  Pellet grill is doing it's usual great job.
Yum!
Think I'll make Stiletto Cocktails to go along with the grub.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 06:26 PM (dWwl8)

100 That first dress babe is Leslie Parrish. She first gained wide attention in her first starring role as Daisy Mae in the movie version of Li'l Abner (1959),

Among many other credits, Parrish appeared in guest starring roles on episodes of The Wild Wild West, My Three Sons, Family Affair, Batman, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Adam-12, and Star Trek.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 17, 2021 06:26 PM (ju2Fy)

101 OM Same here in WA state. We either have D's as our reps or the minority R's we do have are uselss deimwits.  Looking at Newhouse one of two congressional critters from here who voted to impeach president Trump a second, idiotic time. The state house has a permanent super majority of D's. I'd dearly love to see central and eastern WA break away from Olympia.   

Posted by: Winston GOPe not one dime, not one vote at April 17, 2021 06:27 PM (8s6Nt)

102

If not us, then who?

Posted by:RI Redat April 17, 2021 06:14 PM (Xkiew)

My kids roll their eyes when I tell them they're losing their freedoms and I've never seen it this bad. It hasn't really hit them yet. I'm afraid they're going to have to find out the hard way.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 06:27 PM (j6Wzw)

103 Yesterday, NH Gov. Sununu lifted his mask mandate. Today I went over to North Conway and 95% of people were masked up. Of course, 95% of people in North Conway are from Massachusetts. But it was still discouraging. You'd think people would be celebrating, burning their masks, bras, etc.  But no. Their shackles rest light upon them.

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:27 PM (Xkiew)

104 On further review ... only 30 at the actual funeral and mostly family and related royals it seems.

Posted by: SecondCityLurker at April 17, 2021 06:27 PM (MEbkQ)

105 rhomboid,  I'm on my second batch of  Limoncello with tequila.   Very smooth.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:28 PM (Pm0A7)

106 Other great thing about the match this morning.  No masks, not even a head-fake towards anything different than normal.  Online description of match details some elaborate ridiculous rules and procedures about masks.  Completely ignored in practice.  All of this stuff is done (the posting of extensive requirements) just for county eyes, of course, as all ranges have, well, a bullseye on them, in an existential sense.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:28 PM (OTzUX)

107 Ten more minutes till ETA for the BBQ'd Beef Back Ribs and BBQ'd whole Chicken.  Pellet grill is doing it's usual great job.
Yum!
Think I'll make Stiletto Cocktails to go along with the grub.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 06:26 PM (dWwl


A paragraph no Texan has ever uttered.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:28 PM (fjS2+)

108  rhomboid

Her name is Son Youn Ju.  She is  

OM's Korean modelGirlfriend.


She looks uncomfortable showing her thighs off.   She does have a good sense of style.  Even in this picture, when she is lamenting her lack of either birth control or a pistol with a caliber starting in 4.   

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:29 PM (u82oZ)

109 88: Unless one of the listed 30 attendees is also of the Court of St. James, as well as one of the more obscure relatives, looks like a no. Intriguing point you raised, so I checked the list. Can’t verify cross-affiliations without doing too much work for a Saturday evening!

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 06:29 PM (b88US)

110
I don’t think a US representative went to the funeral.
Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 06:16 PM (b88US)


They are back in the game of disrespecting our cousins, eh?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 17, 2021 06:29 PM (1ENjc)

111 Too late for the gardening thread, but the asshole that decided to mandate paper bags for yard waste disposal, and finally forced me to use them, is an asshole.  Fkn things tear, cost a fortune, and don't hold shit.  Go DIAF, earth-hugging asshole.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 17, 2021 06:30 PM (hvMi8)

112 A paragraph no Texan has ever uttered. 

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:28 PM (fjS2+)

And yet...one just did!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 06:30 PM (dWwl8)

113 touche

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:31 PM (fjS2+)

114 Finally got #1. There is a very hard limit to how many moves I can hold in my head: two. Mis Hum senses this, I believe.

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2021 06:31 PM (LTfVQ)

115 Ben Had, my first bottling of this season (with 100-proof vodka) is due for blending next week.  My records show that I usually give it from 55 to 65 days with the skins soaking in the vodka.  Already have the bag of sugar to make the simple syrup.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:31 PM (OTzUX)

116 Laboratories in US can't find Covid-19 in 1500 positive tests. Found influenza A and B instead.

https://tinyurl.com/3ryawbr2

Posted by: dartist at April 17, 2021 06:32 PM (+ya+t)

117 CO mask mandate extended until May, because of reasons

Posted by: DB- just DB at April 17, 2021 06:32 PM (iTXRQ)

118 I knew a Bulgarian woman in graduate school.  She was expert at manipulating men.   Got stories, watching her in action.  Fortunately, I escaped her clutches.  But she was stylish. 
Hard to generalize on a sample of one.  

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:32 PM (u82oZ)

119 LadyS ... likewise. I gave up after perusing pics of the attendees. But heck, Old Joe is probably still trying to send the Prince condolences by phone and wondering why he doesn't answer

Posted by: SecondCityLurker at April 17, 2021 06:32 PM (MEbkQ)

120 Drink Like Vikings.  I have  some 40 gallon paper bags that are tough as hell that I have no need for.  I'll gladly send you some.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:33 PM (Pm0A7)

121 Ben Had, my first bottling of this season (with 100-proof vodka) is due for blending next week.  My records show that I usually give it from 55 to 65 days with the skins soaking in the vodka.  Already have the bag of sugar to make the simple syrup.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:31 PM (OTzUX)


limoncello?

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:33 PM (fjS2+)

122
You can't parody today's American institutions, they've achieved beyond-parody status.
I would study history and think that such things as the debauchery of the ancient Romans and whatnot must surely be exaggerated because people would simply not live that way.  In the future, people will study our era and think think that society could not possibly degenerate so far so fast but we'll know better.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 17, 2021 06:34 PM (VVEnO)

123 Ben, I don't want to wish away my life, certainly not at 2X29 ++, but I am so looking forward to coming out to TX. Shootin' hogs, shootin' sh*t, checkin' out redneck tans, and keeping Bacon Wenchs busy.

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:34 PM (Xkiew)

124 Ack. Missed the Bonus Melania pic. Thanks for the heads up, Ben Had.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 17, 2021 06:35 PM (ju2Fy)

125 rhomboid,  I going to plan  to have  a batch ready for the MoMe but I will not be responsible for anyone's clothes  falling off.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:35 PM (Pm0A7)

126 In May 2020 CDC published a meta-study of research spanning 70 years which found that there was some measurable benefit (in terms of reducing influenza transmission) only for properly fitted/worn N95s, in a clinical context. It wasn't dramatic. Everything else? Bupkis. Meaningless.
We are talking about a government that has been weaponized against Western Civilization, where they lie all the time about pretty much everything and we are expected to believe them this time even when they feel absolutely no obligation to substantiate any of their claims.

I thought it was interesting, and it only makes more sense now when the GSA approached my company and asked us to help them determine public NPI compliance.   The contract was supposed to be granted in October of 2020 and run until September of 2021 with possible extensions.    That is, the contract would be awarded four months after the peak of CoViD, six months to build a working model, and then the remainder of the time gathering and reporting results.

Understand, this was a high-dollar contract that the former US government wanted to study and report on continued compliance  a year after the pandemic already ended.


It has never been about health.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2021 06:35 PM (lD3vL)

127 For her first public outing since having the Chinese coronavirus, Melania Trump chose a black Christian Dior dress with a wide lapel and thin leather belt as she headed to Nashville, Tennessee alongside President Trump.

Mrs. Trump paired the Dior frock with a pair of acetate black sunglasses, likely by Saint Laurent, and black patent leather Christian Louboutin stilettos.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 17, 2021 06:36 PM (ju2Fy)

128 olddog in mo 
Thank you for the ID of the top model.  She looks like a fun person to talk with. 

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:37 PM (u82oZ)

129 Yep, limoncello.  Using meyer lemons.  About 10 minutes from picking of fruit off the tree until skins (minus any pith) are put in vodka to soak for up to 2 months.  These lemons have so much flavor, I much prefer my own to the real thing (those mostly use Santa Theresa lemons).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:37 PM (OTzUX)

130   Peloton, the cult exercise company which is worth about $30B (wouldn't be worth that much to me), is in a bit of trouble over safety problems with one of it's treadmills:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9482811

  Objectively, I'd have to side with Peloton. What kind of parent is going to let a small toddler play around with a treadmill? Might as well let them play with your circular saw and other power tools. 
  But Peloton makes me sick as an example of ridiculous yuppie cultism excess and the stupidity of modern culture, so let 'em squirm. 

Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 17, 2021 06:37 PM (Mzdiz)

131 Son Youn Ju. Isn't that Ben Shapiro's radio show?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 17, 2021 06:38 PM (/aiGx)

132 olddog in mo 
Wait.  Melania had Covid as well as GEOTUS? 

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:39 PM (u82oZ)

133 Court of St James? Loved her in McMillan and Wife!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 17, 2021 06:39 PM (kTF2Z)

134 >>> Yesterday, NH Gov. Sununu lifted his mask mandate. Today I went over to North Conway and 95% of people were masked up. Of course, 95% of people in North Conway are from Massachusetts. But it was still discouraging. You'd think people would be celebrating, burning their masks, bras, etc.  But no. Their shackles rest light upon them.
I was grocery shopping in Nashua this AM. Trader Joe's had a new mask mandate sheet, but it was typed and not legible on the fly. Employees were masked so I just went with routine.

Posted by: fluffy at April 17, 2021 06:40 PM (UnQlg)

135 You're welcome, Salty. I found her quite attractive and had to look her up.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 17, 2021 06:40 PM (ju2Fy)

136 134 people are besotted by these masks, mistakenly believing they are alive because of that crap.

Posted by: CN at April 17, 2021 06:41 PM (ONvIw)

137 Anybody hear the new Faucism? Vaccinated individuals are now the most dangerous since they won't know they have the virus and then spread it. I could type and delete all day about fauci.

Posted by: InCali at April 17, 2021 06:41 PM (ov5G+)

138 Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2021 06:37 PM (OTzUX)
very cool. You know the product you have. I have seen some good stuff from the USA, I think one major brand is from Vermont or around those parts. Obviously they source their lemons from somewhere else.

I am biased towards the stuff I got in Calabria on the side of the road. They have lemons that are obviously raised for the zest, they are not normal lemons. My strong belief is Italy does not send their best limoncello here.  The stuff you can get on the side of the road pwons anything you can get in a liqour store. I tried a few batches myslef, but that was with piss poor rando super market lemons. I am no were near lemon country.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:42 PM (fjS2+)

139 I would study history and think that such things as the debauchery of the ancient Romans and whatnot must surely be exaggerated because people would simply not live that way. In the future, people will study our era and think think that society could not possibly degenerate so far so fast but we'll know better.

Posted by:Anonosaurus Wrecksat April 17, 2021 06:34 PM (VVEnO)


And I thought the same way when reading what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2021 06:42 PM (lD3vL)

140 Yes, Melania had it but wasn't hospitalized. Quarantined in the White House, Salty.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 17, 2021 06:42 PM (ju2Fy)

141 fluffy, I went with routine, too, which is no mask and a resting b*st*rd face. Usually effective.

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:43 PM (Xkiew)

142 InCali
Fauci has a bad track record. His policy decisions help kill 700,000 Americans with AIDS. He was promoted.  

He should be under the Cone of Silence at all times.  He is evil.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:44 PM (u82oZ)

143 Anybody hear the new Faucism? Vaccinated individuals are now the most dangerous since they won't know they have the virus and then spread it. I could type and delete all day about fauci.

Posted by:InCaliat April 17, 2021 06:41 PM (ov5G+)

Has anybody proven that the virus can be spread by asymptomatic carriers?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2021 06:44 PM (lD3vL)

144 Peloton, the cult exercise company which is worth about $30B (wouldn't be worth that much to me), is in a bit of trouble over safety problems with one of it's treadmills:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9482811

  Objectively, I'd have to side with Peloton. What kind of parent is going to let a small toddler play around with a treadmill? Might as well let them play with your circular saw and other power tools. 
  But Peloton makes me sick as an example of ridiculous yuppie cultism excess and the stupidity of modern culture, so let 'em squirm. 

Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 17, 2021 06:37 PM (Mzdiz)


let them fight. Ever here of getting bike and riding it somewhere?

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:45 PM (fjS2+)

145 olddog in mo
I did not know that.  Thanks again for educating me. 

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:45 PM (u82oZ)

146 Anybody hear the new Faucism? Vaccinated individuals are now the most dangerous since they won't know they have the virus and then spread it. I could type and delete all day about fauci. Posted by: InCali at April 17, 2021 06:41 PM (ov5G+)
-------------
Gosh, I wouldn't want to spread it so I guess I won't get the shot. That's just me looking out for everyone.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 06:45 PM (kTF2Z)

147 Anyway,  I  loved Arbanasi and loved visiting the Nativity Church. I bought lots of rose products, some cool old jewelry and generally liked Bulgaria, most of Eastern Europe generally 

Posted by: CN at April 17, 2021 06:45 PM (ONvIw)

148 This is outfvckingstanding... 

a US-PRC research team has created monkey/human chimeras using Human stem cells and Macaque monkey embryos and studied the abominations for 20 days. The ostensible purpose is about meeting the shortage of organs for transplant.

If we are lucky, Planet of the Apes. Unlucky who knows but do not rule out a virus.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 06:46 PM (XDC5a)

149 Beginning: ... f2x Nf3 Bxf3x
At that point, I see mate.  What am I missing?

Posted by: Greg Q at April 17, 2021 06:46 PM (1hJTO)

150 >>>Vaccinated individuals are now the most dangerous since they won't know they have the virus and then spread it. I could type and delete all day about fauci.<
>Dr. Fauci would like to give you the tip.  Just the tip.   Tenderly.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 17, 2021 06:47 PM (yOVXa)

151 I think one major brand is from Vermont or around those parts. Obviously they source their lemons from somewhere else.

it is New Hampshire. It is a decent limoncello if not great. It is cheaper than the Italian exports and certainly is as good as most of them.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:47 PM (fjS2+)

152    I saw that the other day about human-monkey chimera embryos. Abomination is indeed the word for that. 

Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 17, 2021 06:48 PM (Mzdiz)

153 Ben Had 
♫ ♬ Good afternoon! ♬ ♫
🥃
Did you get those hog invaders of your pasture?  

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:48 PM (u82oZ)

154 The infuriating man must know this rna stuff is crap if he's saying you can spread stupid covid after the vaccine.  The point of a vax is to not contract and spread not to decrease the damage and still spread it. Dr Wuhan seems a bit of a fraud

Posted by: CN at April 17, 2021 06:48 PM (ONvIw)

155 Ben Had, it's been a few years since hogs in TX. Last time, they were getting smart, only out at dawn and dusk. Still that way, or are they so successful they don't care?

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:49 PM (Xkiew)

156 Anybody hear the new Faucism? Vaccinated individuals are now the most dangerous since they won't know they have the virus and then spread it. I could type and delete all day about fauci. Posted by: InCali at April 17, 2021 06:41 PM (ov5G+)

sounds Faucist for sure.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:50 PM (fjS2+)

157 In the old days we cold have cut Fauci's head off....

Posted by: runner, Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink ! at April 17, 2021 06:50 PM (Q9SFr)

158 Oh, wait, I see:
Beginning:

... f2x
Qxe4 Qg1x
Rxg1 Rxg1 mate

Posted by: Greg Q at April 17, 2021 06:50 PM (1hJTO)

159 What kind of tucked under cuck toddler DOESN'T play with daddy's power tools? 

That's the real problem in America today... Sissy assed kids who grow into ten-fingered adult pussies, and use all those fancy digits to pull the lever for a Democrat. Sad!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2021 06:51 PM (Uh2oA)

160 Attention Citizens:
If you have had the COVID-19 vaccine you are now more dangerous than ever. Please do not leave your homes again until I give you a new update in the coming weeks.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci at April 17, 2021 06:52 PM (ZE5eB)

161
116Laboratories in US can't find Covid-19 in 1500 positive tests. Found influenza A and B instead.

That is just too weird (I looked at your link) for a Saturday afternoon.

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 06:52 PM (AHq56)

162 I saw Monkey Human Abomination open for GnR at Reunion Arena in 84.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 06:53 PM (kTF2Z)

163 The way I hear, Ben keeps bacon cooking all day to ward them off.

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 06:54 PM (Cxk7w)

164 Semi-serious question: has anyone made Lime Limoncello? Use limes instead of lemons? Shall I patent the idea or put it in the next cookbook?

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:56 PM (Xkiew)

165 My kids roll their eyes when I tell them they're losing their freedoms and I've never seen it this bad. It hasn't really hit them yet. I'm afraid they're going to have to find out the hard way.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 06:27 PM (j6Wzw)

What's wrong with all you adults?
Don't you remember?
When I was like 7 or 8, I walked to the liquor store by myself to buy candy.
It was normal to see a group of kids riding their bikes around with no adults.
Kids used to be able to, once they got home from school, go wherever the fuck the wanted with their friends for hours at a time with no adults anywhere near them.
Kids, for many good reasons, have been under a lockdown more severe than any you know, for like four decades.

Posted by: Stonn at April 17, 2021 06:56 PM (kTmsO)

166 Some people need to read The Island of Doctor Moreau and ponder the implications. Or watch Prometheus and realize they are that gray guy at the beginning.

"I have become the destroyer of worlds." - Dr, Robert Oppenheimer at Trinity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 06:56 PM (XDC5a)

167

NaCly,  I had a sighting and was going to give a day to get  them a little closer but they left.

RI Red,  still the same patterns.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:56 PM (Pm0A7)

168 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2021 06:51 PM (Uh2oA)
the man speaks the truth. These helicopter kids are not the types to become helicopter pilots.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:56 PM (fjS2+)

169 That is just too weird (I looked at your link) for a Saturday afternoon.
---------
I wonder if that's where this years flu cases are hiding.

Posted by: dartist at April 17, 2021 06:57 PM (+ya+t)

170 Nowhere in all the literature on COVID-19 Wuhan have I seen how much virus is needed to infect.  Nothing on a viral load factor listed by immune systems.
Just another tell.  I did not alter my routine at all, and did not wear a mask. Even went toe-to-toe with the School Board President to be exempt from her policies. 
4 tests, and nothing.  

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 06:58 PM (u82oZ)

171 fluffy, that sounds as bad as Northern VA. The mask "adherence” is incredible, a "good person” signal. I despair.  As for the human-monkey chimera embryo ‘research’- abomination is the right word. I’d best contemplate only the dress pron for now. Can’t take much more but it seems we’re going to...

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (b88US)

172 YD,  I have to tell you how much I love  "The Vanessa Report".

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (Pm0A7)

173 people are besotted by these masks, mistakenly believing they are alive because of that crap.

Posted by: CN at April 17, 2021 06:41 PM (ONvIw)

Masks are nothing more than a reversion to the talisman of the Dark Ages that were worn to ward off evil. And every bit as effective.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (2SdPm)

174 Semi-serious question: has anyone made Lime Limoncello? Use limes instead of lemons? Shall I patent the idea or put it in the next cookbook?

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:56 PM (Xkiew)


go for it. I saw a "peachello" at the liqour store the other day from an Italian company. Lime could be interesting, not sure how it would work out. It might be better as a mixer, but if you have very good fruit, why not give it a try?

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (fjS2+)

175 I'm not sure there if there is a bigger idiot on the planet than Fauci. 
Obviously a narcissist, certainly over-compensating for something, he absolutely wants nothing more than to feel important and all these interviews are simply ego-stroking for him. 
I'm important. I shall talk now. Behold, peasant, my brilliance. 
And then he says the most illogical, easily-debunked, dumbest shit ever to come out of a 'doctor's' pie hole. And the media adores him. 
Meanwhile, real doctors pointing out real statistics and provable medical information concerning COVID are banned, threatened and censored. 

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (i9ZF7)

176 Ben Had
Should we all bring ears of corn to the MoMeet, put them in the far field, and try some live fire?  

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 07:00 PM (u82oZ)

177 Your scientists were so concerned if they could, they never bothered to ask if they should.
Ian Malcom

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 07:00 PM (kTF2Z)

178 Yeah, Stonn. My folks would ring a cowbell at 6 pm to tell us to come home to eat. Pickup baseball after school with whomever. Walking through the neighborhood to the sandpit with my .22. Those days are gone.

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 07:00 PM (Xkiew)

179 Limoncello. I'm a bourbon guy, and I kind of hate sugar. So one day, my buddy's high-toned society girl gave me some of it, and I retched it up all over her billion dollar countertops. I'd have been embarrassed except that I hated her so I didn't care.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2021 07:01 PM (Uh2oA)

180 Should we all bring ears of corn to the MoMeet, put them in the far field, and try some live fire?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 07:00 PM (u82oZ)

When I first read that, I missed the "of corn" part and wondered if I needed to sharpen my machette.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at April 17, 2021 07:01 PM (2SdPm)

181 Dr. Mengele, Dr. Gobbles, Dr. Fauici....

Posted by: runner, Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink ! at April 17, 2021 07:02 PM (Q9SFr)

182 Stonn
We have very carefully transitioned from a high-trust society to a low trust society.  Entirely due to our Cadre's policies. 

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 07:02 PM (u82oZ)

183 fluffy, that sounds as bad as Northern VA. The mask "adherence” is incredible, a "good person” signal. I despair.  As for the human-monkey chimera embryo ‘research’- abomination is the right word. I’d best contemplate only the dress pron for now. Can’t take much more but it seems we’re going to...

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (b88US)


NOVA is a shell of itself. If the people who live there now, most who moved from other locales, had an inkling of what it was like back in the day, they would be shocked, triggered and calling the whole place "problematic".  Too sad, because there is blame to go around, a place doesn't go from a nice place to shit hole for no reason.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:03 PM (fjS2+)

184
 I'm not sure there if there is a bigger idiot on the planet than Fauci.
Dude . . .

Posted by: Pretend-ident Biden at April 17, 2021 07:03 PM (VVEnO)

185 Quint, the white peach Peachello is divine.  I also  cook pork medallions in it and they are to die for.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:04 PM (Pm0A7)

186 Wow, seems like the Fed Ex mass murder has gone down the memory hole.  Media not interested in it at all, and won't even tell us the perp's ethnicity.  Searching for it on Bing, brings up almost nothing...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 17, 2021 07:04 PM (oHd/0)

187 #142
Nackly Dog that's the truth.  His "business" partner in crime stole the the French researchers' work on SIDS as they called AIDS and then he published in the U.S. as his.  
That's what sources that know better than me claim.
At this point I'm ready to believe the African citizens who claimed our government CIA created AIDS....
...just as government Fauci funded this flu virus "research" in WUHAN.

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 07:04 PM (/x+Eb)

188 Wasn't Stonn T'Pring's boy toy while Spock boldly went?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 07:04 PM (XDC5a)

189 I live among stupid and they wear masks outside. 

Posted by: runner, Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink ! at April 17, 2021 07:05 PM (Q9SFr)

190 Limoncello. I'm a bourbon guy, and I kind of hate sugar. So one day, my buddy's high-toned society girl gave me some of it, and I retched it up all over her billion dollar countertops. I'd have been embarrassed except that I hated her so I didn't care.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2021 07:01 PM (Uh2oA)

I am a Scotch guy. I do like a very good limoncello, there is a time and place and they can be great at the end of a meal or start of a bender. I want to see these billion dollar counter tops though

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:06 PM (fjS2+)

191 I'm not sure there if there is a bigger idiot on the planet than Fauci.

Dude . . .

Posted by: Pretend-ident Biden at April 17, 2021 07:03 PM (VVEnO)

Move over, bitches.


Leftists everywhere who hang on every word that comes out of the mouth of Fauci and Biden.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at April 17, 2021 07:06 PM (2SdPm)

192 Out fucking side.  

Posted by: runner, Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink ! at April 17, 2021 07:06 PM (Q9SFr)

193 Quint, the white peach Peachello is divine.  I also  cook pork medallions in it and they are to die for.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:04 PM (Pm0A7)


basically all of that sound great!

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:07 PM (fjS2+)

194 Masks are nothing more than a reversion to the talisman of the Dark Ages that were worn to ward off evil. And every bit as effective. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (2SdPm)
Malocchio! (take 3 steps back, cross myself and finger my cornetti)

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 17, 2021 07:08 PM (R/m4+)

195 Bethesda is the same way. Masks everywhere. I never wear one outside and on my walk today, only spotted a few without. 75 "cases" in all of Montgomery Cty yesterday. What are the chances you will come in contact with someone who has tested positive? We don't even know if any of those people are sick.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:08 PM (sd8p8)

196 "what it [NOVA] was like back in the day" - it was a very, very different place in the 70's and early 80's.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 17, 2021 07:08 PM (KAi1n)

197 Those scientists trying to create a monkey human hybrid are evil. I don't think He is amused.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 07:08 PM (kTF2Z)

198 185 Quint, the white peach Peachello is divine.  I also  cook pork medallions in it and they are to die for.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:04 PM (Pm

Good thing Ms. Red has a tight leash on me. I'd show up on your doorstep asking to be adopted.

OK, now important stuff: Soak fruit rinds in vodka for two months. ... Profit?

Recipe, por favor?

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (Xkiew)

199 There are towns here on nice days now more are walking with masks on than not.

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (Cxk7w)

200 Stonn @ 165- When I was a kid (12 or so) my buddy and I would disappear for two or three days with a 2-man tent, a .22 rifle, a hatchet, and pocket knives. We carried a frying pan to cook whatever we got our hands on. His family (black) and mine (white) never worried about any mischief we might be up to, though they knew we stole a chicken here and there. Did I mention this was mid South Carolina in 1961?

Posted by: Eromero at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (0OP+5)

201 Romeo isn't that the shooter named Hole?
He was on the FBI list and had been called in for questioning before the shooting.
Clear the FBI is controlling them and then triggering them.

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (/x+Eb)

202   I have to tell you how much I love  "The Vanessa Report".

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (Pm0A7)


Me too, especially now that it's all good news. Probably in no small part due to the power of prayer from you and others around here. She is a beast. A machine. I introduced her to spaghetti with fried peppers and parmesan and sausage last night. We're doing bison tacos tonight. She also breaks stuff and marauds me constantly. I love it. She just keepings dusting all the sad-sack doctors' predictions and lives her life. 

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (Uh2oA)

203 Quint, I’m not a native here but I’ve met some fantastic people who grew up in this area. Not everyone who moved here has contributed to what’s happened, overall. But as a combined group, yes, we’re toast.  I want to go home. Of course, it’s changed too over the last 20 years, and is barely a shell of what it was.

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 07:10 PM (b88US)

204 Saw that monkey hybrid story. I have doubts God will have mercy on them. 

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:10 PM (Cxk7w)

205 Corner Stone
Fauci asked for the French to design the "Gain of Function" lab in Wuhan.
We funded part of it.   But the French plans were entirely built by the Chinese, without any oversight. Lots of places for shoddy construction and  graft.  
The NIH division under Fauci evaded contract reviews to send mony to Wuhan.  He could not do the research in the US or other 1st World countries, as it was deemed unethical.  
Yet the media is silent on all this.  

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 07:10 PM (u82oZ)

206 Hi Sharon!

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:11 PM (Pm0A7)

207 The point of the masks is to publicly show that when you're told to shut the fvck up and do as you're told, you happily do so.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 17, 2021 07:11 PM (KAi1n)

208 BREAKING NEWS: Meghan Markle has crashed Prince Philip's funeral by leaping on top of the casket, ripping off her black dress revealing a wild burlesque outfit underneath, performing a combination tap dance/striptease act, and loudly singing a song she wrote herself called "What About Me?"

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 17, 2021 05:40 PM (L2ZTs)

typical

Posted by: BignJames at April 17, 2021 07:11 PM (AwYPR)

209 188 Wasn't Stonn T'Pring's boy toy while Spock boldly went?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 07:04 PM (XDC5a)

Yes!

Posted by: Stonn at April 17, 2021 07:12 PM (kTmsO)

210 Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (Xkiew)
someone will give you a better one, at least more precise. But you soak the zest with no pith for a few months in high proof vodka. Then you mix in a simple syrup and wait. That is the general idea, you can probably find some recipes on the web. The key is getting good fruit with good zest.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:12 PM (fjS2+)

211 @116
As has been said, as nauseum, this entire plandemic is an op and Scam at every level of analysis.

Literally everything is a lie.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2021 07:12 PM (FVrDO)

212 Posted by: Eromero at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (0OP+5)
Hah I have the same story but Louisiana in 1973. 

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 07:13 PM (2DOZq)

213 {{Ben Had}} Hopefully going to the range this week to try out my new rifle.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:13 PM (sd8p8)

214 @208
So, The Aristocrats then?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2021 07:13 PM (FVrDO)

215 {{{Sharon(willow's apprentice)}}}
You are a blessing to all you hug. 

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 07:14 PM (u82oZ)

216 When I was a pre-teen in NOVA, we flew out of Dulles at least once a year to L.A. to visit family.  Back then, there was the Dulles access road and once you got on it from 495, there was, IIRC, one exit -- Dulles.  There was absolutely nothing else out there.  (Watch Diehard 2 sometime; it was even worse.)  I joked that we'd bring flares and pack a lunch in case we broke down because it'd be awhile before we ate again.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 17, 2021 07:14 PM (KAi1n)

217 Where do you store multiple cats? In a Cat Stax: https://is.gd/LMMiz3

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 17, 2021 07:14 PM (b8eqQ)

218 I went for a 5 mile walk today in a wooded park today. A couple of weeks ago the masked wearing people I saw were about 30%. Today I only saw one lone man, and then a family with 3 young children all masked up. Everyone else didn't wear masks. It is the kids wearing the masks that really bothers me the most. I can see where it might be kind of fun if they are going into a store, but outside, trying to get some exercise it just looks punishing. I can't stand it.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 17, 2021 07:14 PM (ZE5eB)

219 208BREAKING NEWS: Meghan Markle has crashed Prince Philip's funeral


No she didn't.  I watched most of it.  It was very impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCY4b6GGkb4

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:14 PM (AHq56)

220 QdpSteve, how many there died because of that?

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 07:15 PM (/x+Eb)

221 Phillip designed his own hearse ...

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:15 PM (AHq56)

222 193Quint, the white peach Peachello is divine.  I also  cook pork medallions in it and they are to die for.
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How is that made Ben Had? Is it similar to a Bellini where they grind up peaches or are they soaked in it like limoncello? I had a pre-mixed Bellini that was really good.

Posted by: dartist at April 17, 2021 07:15 PM (+ya+t)

223 "what it [NOVA] was like back in the day" - it was a very, very different place in the 70's and early 80's.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 17, 2021 07:08 PM (KAi1n)


for starters, it was moderate Repub, ala Stan Parris.  But more than that, it was pro America at every turn. You had military, serious government workers, Koreans, South Vietnamese. The place exuded freedom and prosperity when other areas were really dealing with issues. Even Texas was boom and bust during that time. But NoVA was a great place to live and a better place to grow up. That is what makes what happened to it so sad, the left worked very hard to screw that place up.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:16 PM (fjS2+)

224 All of us here in the Socially Distanced Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Choice and Wellness Clinic were just discussing this non-inclusive prattle you Deplorable people post and discuss every drned Saturday. We just can't even!!! when you talk about playing a game where the White Oppressors always get to move first!!!
And, the opposing side should be called BIPOC!!!!
And we all encourage you to all wear masks when you interact here like we do in our  Zoomba chats, because we are All In This Together!
Just saying.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein in Brattleboro Vermont at April 17, 2021 07:17 PM (8C7+r)

225 {{Salty}} Still thinking about a canoe trip?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:17 PM (sd8p8)

226 Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:14 PM (AHq56)
I'm a Nigerian prince.  I have a proposal for you. 

Posted by: Nigerian prince I swear at April 17, 2021 07:17 PM (2DOZq)

227 OK, then. Anything soaked in vodka for a few months should qualify. New hit: RI Red's Livercello.

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 07:18 PM (Xkiew)

228 Eromero,  frog giggin with my cousin  and cooking the frog legs  over a wood stove  in  white wine and garlic.  What an absolutely fun life I have had.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:19 PM (Pm0A7)

229 Good evening, horde!
Busy day.  I need to stop doing so much on weekends.  I have to go to work on Monday to rest.  Heh.
I almost bought a 50's era vintage dress today while I was thrift and antique shopping.  It was black with an abstract pink design that actually made me think '80s.  Collar, 3/4 inch covered buttons down the front of the bodice, 3/4 sleeves with pointy cuffs, and a full skirt.  Pretty sure it was my size.  I might go back and get it when I go see Mama tomorrow.
I like Kate's green dress, but would like the belt to go away.  I think it would be perfect without it.

Posted by: April at April 17, 2021 07:19 PM (OX9vb)

230 Fuck you, Mary.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 07:19 PM (kTF2Z)

231 I'm a Nigerian prince. I have a proposal for you.

Posted by: Nigerian prince I swear at April 17, 2021 07:17 PM (2DOZq)


Ok.  Send me your banking information ... or you could just post it here in the comments.


Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:19 PM (AHq56)

232 SFGoth, I remember that you were asking about meeting up with people from here, when you were in town some weeks ago. I wanted to invite you over, or for a walk in some cool places I know. Couldn’t post until the new format came into effect, so I missed the chance. If I can continue to get on the site, lurker husband and I would love to get together if/when you’re back here!

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 07:20 PM (b88US)

233 Mr. L and I are lifting our glasses of  single malt scotch to the late departed Prince Phillip.  He has the Ardbeg. I have the  Laphroaig.  The prince was the only Royal I really liked besides the Queen. The rest need to grow up.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at April 17, 2021 07:20 PM (Vf4Y7)

234 Didn't Big and Rich write a song about giggin frogs?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:22 PM (sd8p8)

235 Nigerian Prince?
Is that you Hunter?

Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 07:23 PM (/x+Eb)

236
{{Salty}} Still thinking about a canoe trip?



 Does this river go to Aintree?

Posted by: DB- just DB at April 17, 2021 07:23 PM (iTXRQ)

237 even the Dems is NOVA were wonky bureaucrat types. They never had the rabid strain from the West Coast or Mid West. It was different. There was a freedom, a sense of letting people be what they wanted to be.  But today, it is like the worst of Commifornia and any other Leftist place. They really didn't take over until about five or six years ago. But they did take over, but good. And they don't give a damn about anyone else, in NOVA or VA writ large.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:23 PM (fjS2+)

238 Does this river go to Aintree?

Posted by: DB- just DB at April 17, 2021 07:23 PM (iTXRQ)

Do I hear a banjo?

Posted by: BignJames at April 17, 2021 07:24 PM (AwYPR)

239 Semi-serious question: has anyone made Lime Limoncello? Use limes instead of lemons? Shall I patent the idea or put it in the next cookbook?

Posted by: RI Red at April 17, 2021 06:56 PM (Xkiew)


go for it. I saw a "peachello" at the liqour store the other day from an Italian company. Lime could be interesting, not sure how it would work out. It might be better as a mixer, but if you have very good fruit, why not give it a try?

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 06:59 PM (fjS2+)

That's kind of a worldwide thing.  

The Japanese make umeshu in the Spring which is Japanese ume plums with I think black sugar and shochu though you could certainly use vodka.

The Limeys make Sloe Gin in the Spring which is sloe (plums) plus gin plus sugar.

So, anything goes I'd guess.

Make yourself world-famous with the first Squidcello!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 07:25 PM (dWwl8)

240 I'm not a big follower of the royals... I think Philip is the one who's cool, though, if memory serves. Like, he says off-color, unwoke, not-very-royal things and people cry about it and he's just all "yeah whatever" about it. 

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2021 07:25 PM (Uh2oA)

241 dartist,  I have  not tried to make the peachello even though we have a good crop of white peaches in this area.  I will work to rectify that so  that I may be able to tell you soon.  As of now I just buy it from the liquor store.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:25 PM (Pm0A7)

242 Aw, c'mon Duke. Mary's amusing.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:25 PM (sd8p8)

243 Didn't Big and Rich write a song about giggin frogs? Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:22 PM (sd8p
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Nah, that was Captain & Tennille. Maybe the Carpenters. I forget.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 07:26 PM (kTF2Z)

244   Philip was a Land Rover man. Reading about him the other day (and do look up his "gaffes" -- the man was a royal Archie Bunker and a riot), he had to stop driving his beloved Land Rovers. 
    Contrast this with how we treat our "royalty" (Mark Steyn has made this point often), the queen and Prince Philip did things like drive themselves and do normal things all the time. At one of their country estates, Philip and the queen would drive around the country. 
   They do have bodyguards around, basically local police, one of whom told tales of her hearing Philip yell to Her Majesty, "Where's my bloody keys?!" "Where you left them!", the queen would reply. 
   Anyway, Philip was driving around and pulled out of some side road onto main road right in front of another car, which smashed into him and rolled him over. Land Rover was totaled, but Philip was all right, as well as everyone in the other car. 
     Philip couldn't see because of glare (which becomes a real problem with elderly eyes). The queen and the local police chief had to have a talk with him, and get him to give up his keys. He reluctantly agreed. 

Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 17, 2021 07:27 PM (Mzdiz)

245 That's what she said
In the back of my truck bed
As I was gettin' buzzed on suds
Out on some back country road.
We where flying high
Fine as wine, having ourselves a big and rich time
And I was going, just about as far as she'd let me go.
But her evaluation
Of my cowboy reputation
Had me begging for salvation
All night long
So I took her out giggin frogs
Introduced her to my old bird dog
And sang her every Willie Nelson song I could think of

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:28 PM (sd8p8)

246 240  I think Philip is the one who's cool, though, if memory serves.


He served in the Royal Nave from 1939 - 1945 ... there's an interview with him on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5UNcFUNN4
He, very politely, destroyed the interviewer at every politically correct question.

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:28 PM (AHq56)

247 Quint,  I have the Pallini brand  peachello.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:29 PM (Pm0A7)

248 The prince was the only Royal I really liked besides the Queen. The rest need to grow up.

The Queen is really the last living link to another world, isn't she? WWII, the British Empire, a boisterous United States,

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2021 07:30 PM (lACLv)

249 Now I remember! It was John Denver who did the song about frog giggin. The Three Tenors did a cover of it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 07:30 PM (kTF2Z)

250 Mrs Leggy I think I'll have what your having also

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:30 PM (Cxk7w)

251 Frog gigging!  Man, that was fun.
At one point, the bayous in Houston were prime frog gigging territory.  Big fat and sassy bullfrogs everywhere.
Bless my Mom as long as I cut off the legs and skinned'ed she'd fry them up for dinner.  Absolutely delish!
When we lived in Corpus, we did flounder gigging, which was hella fun.  If more hit and miss.  And, of course, beware the stingrays cuz they look very similar.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 07:31 PM (dWwl8)

252 Quint, I’m not a native here but I’ve met some fantastic people who grew up in this area. Not everyone who moved here has contributed to what’s happened, overall. But as a combined group, yes, we’re toast.  I want to go home. Of course, it’s changed too over the last 20 years, and is barely a shell of what it was.

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 07:10 PM (b88US)


I am a Texan, but my family has long ties with VA.  Nothing wrong with being from somewhere else, that was the case with many if not most 40 years ago. But people went there for a purpose and for the most part, they seemed like patriots. That might be pie in the sky, but I can honestly say that is what I experienced. The place was successful, and in the end pro America. What has gone on there over the last decade is truly strange and abysmal. I don't blame you for wanting to go back home. For many, it is home and I feel badly for them. Someone wrecked one of the best parts of this country. And they did it by design.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:31 PM (fjS2+)

253 See 245.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:31 PM (sd8p8)

254 Never had frog legs, but I remember some of the boys in junior high talking about gigging frogs.  I was fascinated, but have never experienced the gigging or the eating of frogs.

Posted by: April at April 17, 2021 07:33 PM (OX9vb)

255 Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Yes. On the upper James River.  A three to seven hour tour.  
I'll send you the details soon.  Still working out our very complicated plans. 

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 07:34 PM (u82oZ)

256 I was fascinated, but have never experienced the gigging or the eating of frogs.

Posted by: April at April 17, 2021 07:33 PM (OX9vb)

It will be no surprise to you that it tastes similar to chicken.

A little lighter flavor, very very slightly fishy, but yeah, chicken.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (dWwl8)

257 In 4th grade ('76-'77), I had an exchange teacher from England.  She was a great teacher and '77 was QE-II's silver jubilee so we studied quite a bit.  Rather interesting year.  (Teach was attractive too.)

Posted by: SFGoth at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (KAi1n)

258 237: I’m sorry, but the takeover was completed prior to 5-6 years ago. And the "wonky, bureaucratic” types included both Democrats and Republicans. The military families went right along with it, too, for the most part. What happened in NoVa has been a bi-partisan project, and I’m not going to argue this point. When Terry McAuliffe was elected Governor, it was as if a great big, blinking sign was allowed to penetrate the heads of the dim. But everything was manifest for years beforehand. And McAuliffe will be Governor again.

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (b88US)

259 175I'm not sure there if there is a bigger idiot on the planet than Fauci.
========================
To me Fauci epitomizes the 'Chicken Little' scientist.  It use to be 'Dr' Man n of the global warming scam.
They use the same method:  crap model, which they feed crap data, which generates crap results that they use to proclaim their doom and gloom  prophecies to get fame and fortune. 

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (wJQbj)

260 I didn't see any frogs today but I did see a whole lot of turtles in a place, appropriately enough called "Turtle Pond." They were lined up lounging head to butt on every available floating tree branch. Not huge turtles but about mid-sized.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (ZE5eB)

261 At the price of chicken, why I the world would younger to eat frogs legs?

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (Cxk7w)

262 One of my first few memories is eating frog legs. Barbecued. 

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2021 07:36 PM (Uh2oA)

263 April,  they don't really taste like chicken!  I would recommend only having  them fresh and not breaded. 

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:37 PM (Pm0A7)

264 That's a freaking mess.
Type, read, post Type, read, post

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:37 PM (Cxk7w)

265  At the price of chicken, why I the world would younger to eat frogs legs?

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (Cxk7w)

Ah. Skip, my friend.  When the burning times come, you'll starve.

or eat your poodle.

Either or.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 07:38 PM (dWwl8)

266 Shock- learned one of the socialist I work with had told a coworker that because some people at the agency make more than him he doesn't do anything for the first 2 hours he is punched in for "fairness."
But sure, a country ruled by this type of person won't devolve into something that looks straight out of the middle ages but will flourish like something out of Star Trek.
That the manager hasn't figured this out is an indictment on them as well, as well as the person who put that manager in place.
I almost want to take a match to it and turn all this into the State that funds the program, just to watch the burning down of the whole thing.
*vent off*

Posted by: Bete at April 17, 2021 07:38 PM (Ojki1)

267 Solutions up.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 07:38 PM (j6Wzw)

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:38 PM (sd8p8)

269 I never went noodling but I did go alligator snapper turtle hunting.  I will never ever do that again.  What was I thinking. 

Posted by: Nigerian prince I swear at April 17, 2021 07:39 PM (2DOZq)

270 Off scam royalty sock

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 07:39 PM (2DOZq)

271 Even the "America First" wing of the GOP are fucking cowards. Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene scrapped the America First caucus under pressure from the worthless   Kevin McCarthy. What a useless party.

Posted by: Corona-kun at April 17, 2021 07:40 PM (OjTGt)

272 Very weird. Salty your reply showed up in my comment box and wouldn't go away til I erased it. Then everything was red.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:40 PM (sd8p8)

273 April,  they don't really taste like chicken!  I would recommend only having  them fresh and not breaded.  

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:37 PM (Pm0A7)

Huh?  Well, maybe cooked in wine.  But, chicken fried they taste very similar though not exactly like chicken.  And bleh on breading.  Just flour, salt, pepper and fry.

In any event, they're tasty.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 07:40 PM (dWwl8)

274 Mary, you go girl! *hic* *thud*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at April 17, 2021 07:41 PM (W4eKo)

275 Good solutions,  I still haven't figured out #2

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:42 PM (Cxk7w)

276 Try the frogs legs, they taste like chicken!
So does this fried chicken!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 07:42 PM (kTF2Z)

277 Hey, all, sorry to have missed out on the Pet Thread.  Glancing over it, I concluded that there were far too many sad and outrageous stories for me to take (and I'm a long-time cynic).  People who sent a dog to the pound because they wanted a puppy . . .  "It's a shame the things you see sometimes when you ain't got a gun."
It's been raining and drizzling here all day.  Tomorrow is supposed to be dry, and I need to wash my car.  Otherwise, it's been quiet.  Linda is coming over and I have 2-3 intriguing old movies on YooToob we can pick from.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 17, 2021 07:42 PM (lSpWa)

278 Stonn @ 165- When I was a kid (12 or so) my buddy and I would disappear for two or three days with a 2-man tent, a .22 rifle, a hatchet, and pocket knives. We carried a frying pan to cook whatever we got our hands on. His family (black) and mine (white) never worried about any mischief we might be up to, though they knew we stole a chicken here and there. Did I mention this was mid South Carolina in 1961?

Posted by: Eromero at April 17, 2021 07:09 PM (0OP+5)


a good childhood there.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:42 PM (fjS2+)

279 Philip got Mentioned in Dispatches for his role in the Battle of Cape Matapan that removed the Italian Navy from ever being a threat.

Admiral Cunningham had his battle line which included the battleship HMS Valiant close to within 3,000 yards of the obviously oblivious Italian cruisers Zara, Pola, and Fiume and engaged them in a night gun battle.

Philip was on a searchlight platform aboard HMS Valiant and despite Italian efforts to knock out the lights kept the Fascists ships pinned down in their glare.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 07:43 PM (XDC5a)

280 267Solutions up.
In the advanced problem you appear to have overlooked:

4. Qe6+ fxe6

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:43 PM (AHq56)

281 Pfft, you people and your childhood memories of yesteryear.

Sheesh, all I did was fish off the rocks, with my dad and a bunch of other kids and their dads, when the perch were running off the coast of CA. 

Then, during trout season, again, I, dad, a bunch of friends and their kids, well, we'd take off to the nearest river and spend the day fishing.

During the evenings, a bunch of us neighborhood kids would sometimes gather and play "Hide and Go Seek."

Shoot, we'd sometimes grab our bikes and fishing poles and head off fishing. We'd even bring home fish once in a while.

I feel like I was deprived, growing up, what with the lack of internet and whatnot.

HAHAHAHA

Not really.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at April 17, 2021 07:43 PM (2SdPm)

282

naturalfake, they are indeed tasty.

Recipe #1 in "The Burning Times Cookbook"

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:44 PM (Pm0A7)

283 We went frog gigging in Turlock, when we first moved there. Some were big enough to have good meat on the front legs too. 

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2021 07:44 PM (YynYJ)

284 Okay. Time to do something else. What that is I haven't figured out yet.  BBL, maybe. Have a good evening.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 17, 2021 07:45 PM (sd8p8)

285 Eromero,  frog giggin with my cousin  and cooking the frog legs  over a wood stove  in  white wine and garlic.  What an absolutely fun life I have had.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2021 07:19 PM (Pm0A7)


I gigged a few frogs in my day. Yeah, those were good times.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:47 PM (fjS2+)

286 The Army was a great place to learn what people ate from everywhere in the country. Frog giggin? Oh bullshit, what the hell it that? You guys eat that shit?, lol. Noodlin too. No fvcking way I'm sticking my arm in a tunnel under water waiting for a giant catfish to think my arm is bait.

Posted by: dartist at April 17, 2021 07:48 PM (+ya+t)

287 Sharon(willow's apprentice) 
Pixy Misa reported that the old blog is working. He is updating some software.  And we will have more stories of the blog travails to share when we return to 0.7.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 17, 2021 07:48 PM (u82oZ)

288 279 Philip was on a searchlight platform aboard HMS Valiant and despite Italian efforts to knock out the lights kept the Fascists ships pinned down in their glare.


That came up in the interview.  He said the searchlights were superfluous after the firing commenced.

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:48 PM (AHq56)

289 Old blog stole my comment ... ?

Posted by: Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:49 PM (AHq56)

290    Another funny one that happened at that royal country estate. The queen would regularly go for walks, and outside the gates. She'd have one bodyguard go around with her, and she'd go wherever the hell she wanted. 
   They were coming back to go in one of the gates, and encountered an American tourist couple taking pictures and such. There's a town nearby, and some hotels, and these country estates are a tourist attraction. 
   The queen was dressed like some normal little old lady, wearing a head scarf and shawl, and her bodyguard looked some regular old chap, perhaps her son or something. The queen struck up a conversation with the couple asking them where they were from and all that, and they had a nice little conversation. 
     The couple asked the queen if she lived around here, and she said yes, pretty close by. Then they asked her if she had ever seen the queen. The queen said, no she hadn't, but he has, pointing to her bodyguard.  They said their goodbyes, and the queen walked on back through the gate. 

Posted by: publius, Rascally etc,etc at April 17, 2021 07:51 PM (Mzdiz)

291
In the advanced problem you appear to have overlooked:

4. Qe6+ fxe6

Posted by:Green Orange at April 17, 2021 07:43 PM (AHq56)

You're right. Sorry about that:
4.Qe6+ fxe6 5.Rxg7+ Kf5 (5...Kh5 6.Be2#) 6.g4+ hxg3 7.Bh3#

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 07:52 PM (j6Wzw)

292 Don't the French eat frog legs?
Must taste like chicken.
Is this true just as in the Blue Zone of the Sardinian mountains they use lard instead of butter.....
The French Pyrennees
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Posted by: Corner Stone at April 17, 2021 07:52 PM (/x+Eb)

293 When a turret from an Italian cruiser explosively launches skyward after a direct hit needing searchlights becomes a bit redundant. But he is also being wonderfully self-depreciating as he still stood there on an exposed platform so close to the Italians that rifle shots were a viable option to knock the lights out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 07:53 PM (XDC5a)

294

The Japanese make umeshu in the Spring which is Japanese ume plums with I think black sugar and shochu though you could certainly use vodka.

The Limeys make Sloe Gin in the Spring which is sloe (plums) plus gin plus sugar.


I love the Japanese "Plum wine"  the one you can find is called Choya. No way we can get sour plums like that.  Then again, I am sure some entrepreneur will scoff and show me I am wrong about that. But Choya is good stuff.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:53 PM (fjS2+)

295 Did you know someone posted dresses on this thread?

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:54 PM (Cxk7w)

296 Hey Skip! I'd be glad to share!

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at April 17, 2021 07:54 PM (Vf4Y7)

297 Biden solves border crisis by raising number of referees allowed. Guy is a genius. No wonder his poll numbers are so high.

Posted by: Only Context at April 17, 2021 07:54 PM (xEIoY)

298 Beijing eyes putting troops in Afghanistan once Bidet pulls out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 07:55 PM (XDC5a)

299 Movie Sign!

Posted by: Bete at April 17, 2021 07:56 PM (Ojki1)

300 Used to get frog legs in big boxes at the restaurant I worked at as a ute.
The boxes were labeled "Product of the Ganges".
I asked my boss, an old wop, what was the Ganges?
He said that's where the Indians shit and bathed.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 17, 2021 07:56 PM (R/m4+)

301 I will be sad Mrs Leggy when this bottle is gone

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2021 07:56 PM (Cxk7w)

302 I bought a bottle here, at my local grocery, that is the same stuff we brought back from Sorrento. Both are good. I'm no connoisseur though. Used to make my own until I lost my lemon tree in a freeze.

Posted by: Javems at April 17, 2021 07:57 PM (PHq7v)

303 You have lived until you go frog gigging and think it would be fun to gig a water moccasin. Live friggin action.

Posted by: Only Context at April 17, 2021 07:57 PM (xEIoY)

304 Frog gigging!  Man, that was fun.
At one point, the bayous in Houston were prime frog gigging territory.  Big fat and sassy bullfrogs everywhere.
Bless my Mom as long as I cut off the legs and skinned'ed she'd fry them up for dinner.  Absolutely delish!
When we lived in Corpus, we did flounder gigging, which was hella fun.  If more hit and miss.  And, of course, beware the stingrays cuz they look very similar.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2021 07:31 PM (dWwl


we would catch loads of speckled Trout at Redfish Bay, near Corpus. They turned on the lights and brought the shrimp in. The trout were soon to arrive and the fun started. It was probably one of the happiest times of my life.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 07:58 PM (fjS2+)

305 Limoncello that is.

Posted by: Javems at April 17, 2021 07:58 PM (PHq7v)

306 Beijing eyes putting troops in Afghanistan once Bidet pulls out. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 07:55 PM (XDC5a)
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They could t be that stupid, could they?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 08:00 PM (kTF2Z)

307 nood.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 17, 2021 08:04 PM (j6Wzw)

308 Stupid O/T question.
What is the rational behind the sudden spike in the number of new vehicle models with electrically applied parking brakes?
Only think I come up with is the ability to remotely apply the brakes if the vehicle is connected to the internet.
IOW, somebody take control of the parking brake remotely.

Posted by:Village Idiot's Apprenticeat April 17, 2021 05:53 PM (3D/fK)

I think that would let sensors in the car's computer hit the brakes for you if you are coming up on another car, or someone jumps out in front of your car.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 17, 2021 08:05 PM (eoQWY)

309 Fauci has a bad track record. His policy decisions help kill 700,000 Americans with AIDS. He was promoted.  

That because if you are in the Federal Leviathan, you fail upwards. As long as you help grow the Leviathan, you will be rewarded.

Posted by: Puddleglum, future Tyrell Corp employee at April 17, 2021 08:05 PM (XZMrE)

310 37: I’m sorry, but the takeover was completed prior to 5-6 years ago. And the "wonky, bureaucratic” types included both Democrats and Republicans. The military families went right along with it, too, for the most part. What happened in NoVa has been a bi-partisan project, and I’m not going to argue this point. When Terry McAuliffe was elected Governor, it was as if a great big, blinking sign was allowed to penetrate the heads of the dim. But everything was manifest for years beforehand. And McAuliffe will be Governor again.

Posted by: LadyS at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (b88US)


I can't disagree with this. I said someone is complicit. And it is true, the politicos were all big government statists, at least over the last couple of decades.  What is shocking is now the military of all entities is going along with the Wokeness. I am really at a loss for words. I just know it was a different place when I was growing up.

Posted by: Quint at April 17, 2021 08:06 PM (fjS2+)

311 I'm not sure there if there is a bigger idiot on the planet than Fauci.
========================
To me Fauci epitomizesthe 'Chicken Little' scientist. It use to be 'Dr' Man n of the global warming scam.
They use the same method: crap model, which they feed crap data, which generates crap results that they use to proclaim their doom and gloom prophecies to get fame and fortune.

Posted by:I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH!at April 17, 2021 07:35 PM (wJQbj)

You can add the COVID-19 modeler who generated the panic - someone got hold of his software and found it wouldn't give the same answer twice in a row.  I think it was the same guy who was found banging his mistress during the lockdown he forced, without her husband knowing.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 17, 2021 08:09 PM (eoQWY)

312 306 Beijing eyes putting troops in Afghanistan once Bidet pulls out. Posted by: Anna Puma at April 17, 2021 07:55 PM (XDC5a)
---------
They could t be that stupid, could they?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2021 08:00 PM (kTF2Z)

England in Afghanistan, 1800's - thousands of soldiers and civilians lost, nothing ever gained for the effort.
Russia 1970's - thousands of soldiers lost in Afghanistan, nothing ever gained for the effort.
US 2000's - thousands of soldiers lost in Afghanistan, nothing ever gained for the effort.
China - oh you go for it guys, you'll love it there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 17, 2021 08:09 PM (bxPTJ)

313 I would study history and think that such things as the debauchery of the ancient Romans and whatnot must surely be exaggerated because people would simply not live that way. In the future, people will study our era and think think that society could not possibly degenerate so far so fast but we'll know better.

Posted by:Anonosaurus Wrecksat April 17, 2021 06:34 PM (VVEnO)


And I thought the same way when reading what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah

Posted by:Reuben Hickat April 17, 2021 06:42 PM (lD3vL)

You have to keep in mind that anything you get from ancient sources is from the absolute elite writing about the absolute elite, and just in the capital city and tony vacation spots.  Aside from interactions of generals with their troops and underofficers like centurion, literally all you hear is about faction of elites bitching about faction 2.  It is pretty much twitter, but even more in a bubble.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 17, 2021 08:15 PM (eoQWY)

314 Re: Afghanistan. Alexander the Great had a lot of fun there as well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, in the Big Sky Country at April 17, 2021 08:16 PM (4l77G)

315 US 2000's - thousands of soldiers lost in Afghanistan, nothing ever gained for the effort. Those arms, drugs, and children aren't going to run themselves, you know...

Posted by: The CIA at April 17, 2021 08:17 PM (jKonp)

316 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 17, 2021 08:09 PM (bxPTJ)
About 1900 KIA.  
Though almost the same amount of US civilian contractor fatalities. 

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2021 08:20 PM (2DOZq)

317 My chess app found a different solution for problem q1.
1. ... Rxf1+ 2. Nxf1 f2+ 3. Qxe4 Qg1#

Posted by: Hoosier Native at April 17, 2021 09:15 PM (gMW/q)

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