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Cana - it was one heck of a party, especially after they rolled out the better wine.

Okay, I'm here. Thanks for asking.

You will read every post Ace ever wrote. You will keep hitting "refresh" on Ace like a monkey on crack. You will click on all of Ace's ads. You will contribute to the Ace Hobo Hunting Fund.

What? You're already doing all that? Never mind.

The Most Shocking Forms Of Psychological Torture? You mean, like, a huge list of links in the ONT? Including one to Cracked? I ain't clickin' that!

Howdy, nightpeople!

Haven’t watched the show yet, but looking forward to it. Just wanted to note that the Popmodal link seems to be non-linky.

Best of health to you, Joe Dan.

My daughter is traveling with my Mom, staying in a hotel in Calif. Daughter texted me:

Did you know tv news is insane propaganda? Insane, useless propaganda?

I had to put a headphone in and read so i didn't get upset while gramma was watching the "news"

I replied, I have heard rumors about TV news, but don't know from personal experience. Political porn sites are disturbing.

Then I refreshed my understanding - I watched an ABC news report on Milo, "Twitter Troll Has No Regrets About Attacking Leslie Jones" - great googly mooglies was that a piece of political propaganda porn!! Appalling. Old USSR Pravda or NoKorea News-worthy level of BS.

I think this is the link:
https://youtu.be/jkrY6Ny7pMg

Morning, Glories! In before the art thread for a change.

I usually link to the morning news thread on my blogheapolinks (link in nic) and select three headlines as examples of Mis Hum's teasers.

Today I got the blog entry started and went to look at the list of headlines... um... list of headlines?

Mis Hum takes Labor Day seriously.

387 mindful webworker

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes:

"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

Suddenly, I realize it's been a long day and I'm dog tired.

The actual dog is outside barking and shows no signs of being tired at all.

So, gonna brush tooth and sack out. Play nice, folks, and remember, tomorrow is Monday in name only.

Late to this topic, but a couple months back, wasn't there something on here about the oldest known joke - and it was about farting? (Too tired to search it.)

Didn't realize I was about 100 comments behind!

Oh, home is a good place to be, I say.
If I could, I'd probably be here all day.

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Puddleglum: I've lived right next to a subway station for years... Doesn't bother me at all.

Always liked the scene in Blues Bros where they go to the apartment right by the El tracks. Initially insane-making noise as the trains pass by constantly, it becomes kind of soothing... kind of.

Out here at our place, the tracks are a little over a half mile away. Perfect for enjoying the whistling and rumbling, but not so loud and close as to be annoying.

kbdabear's Sunday Swimwear ...

Several of those outfits don't look like they'd actually work too well for, you know, swimming. Not that that matters.

And the very last one gave me a content warning. Wonder how that's calculated? Number of skin-tone pixels?

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If I hadn't'a read the content I coulda been, well, um, something like 14th.

Oh, the missed glory!

Although, as I've previously noted, I've been discouraged to talk here about one of my favorite tomes, I would be remiss in my duty to my fellow readers if, in a discussion of first lines, I did not convey this opening sentence of the Foreword of The Urantia Book:

IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia - that being the name of your world - there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity....

There in sum is the book's theme: an super-terrestrial messenger - even to the "naming" of our world (always thought Earth ((land, dirt)) a lousy name - all worlds are "Earth" to the inhabitants) -- and their intent to clarify and rectify our theological conceptual poverty.

This, and the subsequent several paragraphs expanding on this statement of purpose, will either repulse or intrigue the reader. In my case, the latter, due to both my truth-seeking and my science fiction fan impulses being pinged.

Elisabeth G. Wolfe #70: I can't believe I'm almost an hour late and nobody's mentioned...

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit....

If you hadn't I would've. Such a deceptively simple but intriguing beginning to one of the greatest adventures.

Book experience of the week:

Milady noticed that a stack of books on one shelf had spiraled* a bit, and we think that may have been from the earthquake yesterday morning. Silly, but she took a picture.

Spiraled: from bottom to top book, horizontal rotation counter-clockwise, each a couple of degrees more rotated than the one below it. I guess her picture might be worth at least those 22 words.

Good morning.

I had a long and detailed dream about living in a very small, isolated, impoverished town with a corrupt mayor and sheriff, where I somehow got myself elected vice-mayor and the mayor was out to get me. Then CNN rolled into town but I didn't know what they were reporting on. If I did, I thought, I might have had a good story to work up. Had everything except the main mystery. Dreams rarely seem as usably story-like once I wake up.

One thing about drinking at home at night...

you know how the evening is going to turn out.

Good night, Gracies.

redc1c4: ...doesn't help that the local building standards don't incorporate anti-seismic requirements, as they do here in Quake-land...

No kidding. They don't even build to withstand tornadoes, really.

Changing, gradually.

Years ago I read that if the Madrid quake happened today, most of downtown Chicago would be flattened. Best place to be was the Hancock, built on rolling caissons. I've been up 'top the Hancock when it was swaying just from the wind. Would be interesting to be there drinking while watching the city burn around you.

The whole lake shore is compacted sand, which would "liquify." Most buildings built on that would collapse, except maybe double-brick buildings (like the one we lived in) which would merely be uninhabitable. Utility lines destroyed, roads gone, gas lines burning. Fun stuff.

#twoweeks

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Mutilate Women for Egypt's "Sexually Weak" Men
BlazingCatFur

Egyptian member of parliament Elhamy Agina has encouraged women to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) to "reduce their sexual desires" to match that of Egypt's "sexually weak" men, Parlmany reported....

Not sure if that's a straight-up intended denigration of women, a sarcastic slap at Egyptian men, or what. Funny, though, FGM aside.