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Mindful, "shebeen" is an old nickname for an Irish pub, usually the sort of unlicensed one that is in a person's home. -MPPPPPP

Thanks. I'd've asked the Chicago Irish Mrs, but she's wisely still shed this arctic morn.

Ricardo Montalban was KAHN. There had to be something to go with KAHN.
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet

Hey, now! Gran went for funny and generously left that requisite allusion to the commenters. You had your chance.

Also, Grampaw in Spy Kids.

Ricardo Montalbán (fine Corinthian leather)

IIRC, the line was rolling-r "rrrich Corinthian leather," but that memory cell is old and may be corrupted.

Bass! Bass! De plane! Dr plane!

Quiet, little one. I'm plotting Kirk's death.

Mindful, "shebeen" is an old nickname for an Irish pub, usually the sort of unlicensed one that is in a person's home. If I can find it, there's a poem called Shanahan's Ould Shebeen which makes the meaning clear.

Poppins: Funny stuff.

"Pat and Mike were walking down Broadway, having indulged in a morning's morning at the old shebeen...."

Noting that I may have forgotten more words than I remember, I don't recall previously encountering "shebeen." Obviously, by context, it means "church."* Wonder what might be its etymology.

*(As in church-key)

I tried to earn warn them...

Ice coating at least helps insulate the house!

hahaha. Dog an cats were anxious to get out, so I finally let them.

Opened the door, dog and 4/5ths of the felines race out.

Close the door. Count to three. Open the door. Two cats race back in. Others to demand in shortly.

I tried to earn them, but would they listen? Kids!

The news here is, cold. Also, ice.

Forecast for a pleasant Tday revised downward.

Speaking of old and obscure... kids no longer ask Daddy about the purpose of the foot switch left of the clutch. So much culture lost....

Did I leave an order last night for a thick coat of ice on everything this morning? I did not. Yet here it is.

Al Gore, Where Are You? (Gore as Toodles, Kerry as Muldoon)

Boy, I didn't make the top tens. I swear I'll work harder in the coming week to rectify that. I will post as many comments is it takes, full of quality content just like this.

Srsly, whew. I may appear to have the semblance of a life.

I found the hidden Cousin It in the Portrait of Family Royal!

A fox in all their trousers!

I think there should be a changing room post, a thread specifically created for the insurance action of dirty old sock-doffing. Which is what I'm doing here in public instead. Could go to just any old thread, but that doesn't follow the moron style guide, IIRC.

At some point uh you've had enough of weed ... uh... wheat and the... uh.... and bacon.

And if you like your active Sunday Morning Open Thread, you can keep your active Sunday Morning Open Thread. Nobody's trying to uh uh take that away from you. Trust me on this.

Now get away from the microphone. No, stupid, don't repeat that. Shut up, you idiot Uh.. uh-oh.

Electronic snooping, robots on the battlefield, electronic warfare drones, knockout games recorded for YouTube, bullying on Facebook and Twitter, flash mobs organized by social media, electronic brains and black boxes on cars, terrorists communicating by dark web and encoded images, on and on...

I was reading the other day about the big nuke test over the Pacific decades ago, what was the name of that, and how the EMP fried things in Hawaii. Like, transformers and telegraphs.

When that nuke war happens - or massive solar blast, whichever comes first - it will be very interesting to see what life without electronics is like. For all of us.

Got vacuum tubes?

$5 bread:

We've been meaning to start our victory garden for, oh, 20 years now. When I see the price of the green peppers, ordinary green peppers, well, I'd like to be on the supply-side.

How many Moron Points are subtracted from those who missed the Spaceballs quote?
Posted by: eman

Curse me for an uncultured poltroon, that one I have avoided so far.

HBD Dale Carnegie

About his father, desperate, broken and failing in finance, health, and spirit, contemplating suicide on a bridge at age 47:
"Years later, Father told me that's the only reason he didn't jump was because of my mother's deep, abiding, and joyous belief that if we loved God and kept His commandments everything would come out all right. Mother was right. Everything did come out all right in the end. Father lived 42 happy years longer, and died in 1941, at the age of 89.

-How To Stop Worrying and Start Living

#66 - 600 comments early... "Evil always wins because Good is dumb." - eman

Not always, but, yes "only necessary for good men to do nothing" means evil often wins the battles; it will, ultimately, lose the war, practically by definition: darkness ends at dawn.

Learning faith and goodness often makes people inordinately naive and gullible. Not for nothing did a very wise guy warn his followers should be as sharp as the wolves while being gentle as lambs. By "become as a little child," I expect that teacher - whose rapier wit delighted the commoners while confounding the 'wise' - did not mean, become dumb and forget everything you've learned about contrary human nature.

Enlightenment also often seems to suck the creative fire out of folks. Before, the anguish of lonely mortal tribulation; after, happy cosmic thoughts and puppies. Haven't come to the old rugged crossroads yet.

Reviewing previous paragraph filled with cell-truncated single-finger weariness, rates maybe a 4 on the Sven incomprehensibility scale?