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AoS commenters method... go o/t immediately, pile on 100s of comments, leave threads a salted earth wasteland, churn on to next thread. It's organic and natcherel.

"... I would have been sitting on my porch with a baseball bat, or something else, and would have politely told authorities no you can't come in my home, and no I will not go inside.

"And then suffer the conseqencies."
-ExSnipe at April 28, 2013 10:38 AM

That's my thinking, too, but then, that's why I live where most of the neighbors think likewise instead of, say, Boston. And bb bats... at least.

"...10 lbs meth and 9 lbs coke. -Infidel
"Thats a lot." -Oldsailors Poet

Well, remember the rule of thumb re interdicted quantities: tippy tip of a big ol' iceberg.

"So, can I print a 3D printer with a 3D printer?" - Icedog at April 28, 2013 09:08 AM

How do you think we got started?

The post is coming into focus now.

Quit giving them ideas!

That post is still not making sense. Maybe I need something stronger than coffee.

"I am resigned to having Choom Boy as our punishment until he leaves in 2016...."

2016? You guys are cute. I'm not going anywhere. Not until I've made FDR's term look short. Here, have a toke. Relax and enjoy decades of glorious me me meeeeee.

Fed the pets, had a cup of coffee. Still can't figure out the post.

ONT crowd was too drunk to appreciate this, but I'm sure the classy morning crowd will. Went last night to see a performance by the civic ballet of La Bayadère (Act 3) among other pieces. It's supposed to be about murder and psychedelics and cool stuff like that, but all I saw them do was dance. I especially liked that one ballerina who looked like my daughter.
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Mixed shouts of Bravo and Yee-Haww. Gotta love an Oklahoma culturefest.

Maybe after another cup the post will come into focus.

wait. what?

don't get it

let me get some coffee...

The problem with grinding the coffee in the evening is that I want a cup and have to wait 'til morning.

Thanks for letting me hang out among such steamed company.

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Up to the 500's reading y'all's immortal verbiage.

BCochran1981, you're not fooling anybody socking that troll just to make yourself famous. You made the troll too lame to be believable. But your comebacks were worth it.

I used to know Chesterfield was a sofa. Google___ shows some mighty fancy Chesterfields.

As a kid, we still heard ice-box from the elders and used the term. I never saw a real one with ice delivery man until we were camping up in Washington.

"Fridge" was not short for "refrigerator"; it came from the popular brand "Frigidaire." Actual Internet-derived factoid.

And yeah I heard Hoovering too. (Also used in reference to what we now might call Fluking.) But I'm an armchair student of language, especially Anglo-American differences, due to, like, Beatles, the British Invasion, and maybe a high-school female English penpal. Who eventually dropped me after revealing she was years younger than she had claimed. Boot! Spanner! Lorry! Lift!

Bottom!

Things that, twenty years ago, I would not have thought I would find myself saying:

I really enjoyed tonight's performance by the civic ballet of La Bayadère (Act 3). It's supposed to be about murder and psychedelics and cool stuff like that, but all I saw them do was dance.

I especially liked that one ballerina who looked like my daughter.

The male guest artist sure had that anti-gravity chromosome - great hang time. You know why they give the male dancers solo bits in ballet? Because otherwise, they're just background, window dressing, and technical support. The guest ballerina was good, too. Never fell down once.

Well, hi-tone stuff is over. Fancy shoes kicked off. Unbuckling pants. Ready to look over tonight's ONT offerings.

(I know, I know, the new thread is up and the moron herd will be mooving on, but this is still the current open thread, until that one gets old, right?)

#PunishmentVsJustice

Okay, "cruel and unusual" is out. I'm for that. Our system is supposed to be about Justice, not vengeance. Even if the perp did commit rape and murder and attempted murder by shotgun, no drawing and quartering, no leaving the corpse to dangle from a rope in the town square (unsanitary). Vengeance is reserved to the Almighty Judges who know that which we cannot discern. Our mortal justice system should not be in the business of making the condemned suffer cruelly. Just eliminating the threat from our world, "letting God sort it out," as the saying goes.

Still, "pleasurable lethal cocktail" seems to be too far in the other direction, doesn't it?

"Wow!" the inmate exclaimed in a loud voice. "That is great. That is awesome! Thank you, warden! Thank you (expletive) warden!"

His head fell back on the pillow, and his neck twisted at an odd angle, with his mouth and eyes open.

c/o Drudge
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/26/
death-row-inmates-last-words-wow-that-is-great/2/

Well, buddy... you're welcome, I guess. Bye.

Just made a mess of cheese grits and fresh coffee--time for breakfast. Only thing missing is the bacon. -Hrothgar at April 27, 2013 08:38 AM

It's just not breakfast without bacon.
(My irresistible cue to post my short, silly vid in the nic link.)

It's just that anthropo. global effect is insignificant relative to everything else. It's science!

Posted by: mindful webworker in a white smock, serious you guys at April 27, 2013 08:51 AM (Ryac4)

Even using the bogus numbers from the UN the impact of man is so small it is smaller than the measurement uncertainties associated with the instrumentation.

But the real fact is actual measured temperatures have been decreasing since 1998. i.e. no warming at all, much less "man-caused".

It's science!

Posted by: mindful webworker in a white smock, serious you guys at April 27, 2013 08:51 AM (Ryac4)

Q: When does a true scientist know he should ignore any potential effect of the sun's activity on earth's temperature?
A: When he's writing NOAA grant proposals!

"There is no man caused global warming and never has been." -Vic

To be scientifically accurate, we do indeed cause temps to change, in everything we do, worldwide. It's just that anthropo. global effect is insignificant relative to everything else. It's science!

Posted by: mindful webworker for proof, muskets, and the Armageddon Way. at April 27, 2013 08:32 AM (0MVzQ)

Hmmm, "Way of Armageddon" sure has a subtle ring to it.

"On this day in 1974 supposedly 10,000 people marched on Washington calling for the impeachment of Nixon."

Can't do that nowadays. It's 'cause the pot is 20 times stronger than back then, they tell me, or there'd be all kinds of marches calling for the whatsitcalled of whoshisface.