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Father saw a text on his daughter's cell phone from a boy asking her to send a bra pic.

This is how he handled it.

http://iotwreport.com/send-me-a-bra-pic/

Ricardo Kill: Nobody remember's wrg?

Sure, I do.

Just had nothing to contribute, answer-wise.

I was going to joke that zombie has a bigger problem - coming to the Horde for moral advice - but I can't.

It's always impressive how this rabble rises to such occasions. Even with differing answers, you get good reasoning for them, which won't make your decision for you, but surely helps in thinking things through.

Then, right back to booze and boobs, guns and bad puns.

OregonMuse: I resolve to hang out on AoSHQ all day long while drinking beer, and never change my underwear.

So, no lifestyle changes for you, eh?

Nip Sip: ...Grow up.

BwaW: Other people here do belong to facebook. You grow up.

Aaand, 2016 is off and running. (Hands out Snickers.)

Although Daddy taught me not to jump into a dogfight, may I suggest a small compromise? Bruce, since the short link you use gives no clue, it might be a courteous heads-up to note that it goes to Facebook, for those of us who don't.

Willowed at the end of the last thread, so, repeating in part:

FYI for those of y'all who forgot to set your black-eye peas to soak overnight, the quick-soak method:

Bring the peas and water to a boil, boil for about two minutes, cover tightly, turn off heat, and let soak for an hour.

Happy New Thread!

Maybe today, all that ice and snow from last year will melt away.

Milady is up! I told her, good, because the black-eye peas she put on to soak last night won't cook themselves.

Told her Grampa Jimbo says you only need to soak 'em 4 hours, not overnight. (Adding, yeah, but you gotta wait four hours with that method versus sleeping through it.)

Milady replies, well, there's always the quick-soak method: Bring the peas and water to a boil, boil for about two minutes, cover tightly, turn off heat, and let soak for an hour.

FYI for those of y'all who forgot to set 'em to soak overnight.

Happy New Year!

Not only are the polar bears doing fine, and have been all along, but, I read that, basically, where the icy habitat borders on the wooded, the polar bears can morph to brown, and back. In other words they adapt rather than die.

I searched my archives and didn't find a link, only my own comment on Ace of Spades - Ace has covered this frequently - and I was saying the same thing: "Not mutate, really, just like rabbits going white or brown - sidewise adaptation. That's where some polars 'disappear.' They're basically the same bear."

In my archive search, I also ran across these:

Polar Bears Doing Great - Breitbart, 2015 Mar 1

Healthy polar bear count confounds doomsayers - Globe & Mail, 2012 April 4, h/t Moonbattery

Arctic scientist under investigation - 2011 Jul 28, Yahoo/AP

Just five years ago, Charles Monnett was one of the scientists whose observation that several polar bears had drowned in the Arctic Ocean helped galvanize the global warming movement. Now, the wildlife biologist is on administrative leave and facing accusations of scientific misconduct. ... pending the results of an investigation into "integrity issues." A watchdog group believes it has to do with the 2006 journal article about the bear, but a source familiar with the investigation said late Thursday that placing Monnett on leave had nothing to with scientific integrity or the article.

Oklahoma had more earthquakes last year than all the rest of the continental US combined.

And we're off to a good start in the new year.

...magnitude ...4.2... centered five miles northeast of Edmond at 5:39 a.m. At one point, the city of Edmond reported 4,400 customers were without power following the earthquake.

Out-of-town son lives in Edmond. I'm betting he slept right through it. Again.

Thanks for the continuing WW2 diary, Seamus.

Thanks for ... most of ... the interesting links, Anna.

Good to see aussie on the monitor again.

Glad Skip's eye survived 2015.

Dave at Buffalo Roam: My family's tradition was to put a dime in the black-eyed peas. Whoever found it in their bowl got all the luck. Is that just a Texas thing?

Hate to break it to you, that's not even a Texas thing.

Sure hope the dime gets washed thoroughly beforehand. Eew.

Chi-Town Jerry: ...wtf is that? a bowl of beans..

Pappy O'Daniel: Never heard of a black-eyed pea tradition for New Years Day...

Mostly a S'uthron thing. Milady, native Chicagoan, her first new years in Oklahoma, was asked if we were having black-eye peas for luck for New Year's Day. She'd never heard of it. I don't think my mom was big on it. But Milady picked up on it immediately, and her delicious recipe is our annual tradition.

Pappy O'Daniel: Fergie... I'm so old that only means the Duchess of York to me.

Yeah, I had no idea who they're talking about, either. What's old got to do with it? Yeah, I'm in my ummpitieth decade, but it's just unfamiliarity with some corner of culture. Proudly, usually.

Morning, Glories!

Milady and I stayed up late, for us old poots. Drank egg nog and watched half of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," which I would say I hadn't seen since it was in theaters, re-release in 1963 says iMDB. Milady has never seen it.

Would've slept later this morning, but the year was calling me, saying, "get on with it!" Or, maybe it was that darn yeller cat.

Haven't had our black-eye peas yet today, but last thing Milady did last night was put 'em on to soak.

Good luck for everyone in 2016, and God bless y'all.

Happy New Year, most of you. :D

I made a prediction months ago about the 2016 Presidential election. I'm going to repeat it here, for the record (somewhat modified).

The Republicans will not nominate Trump. They will go with Jeb! (or, if Jeb! continues to be such a loser, Rubio a/k/a Jeb! Lite).

The Democrats won't go with Colonel Bernie Sanders, they'll stick with the Hillary beast (or, if she suffers some debilitating health problem, they'll bring in Biden).

Trump and Sanders will go outside their parties. This will make it a four-way race.

(Finally, regardless of who wins, Obama will declare some kind of emergency, negate the election results, and continue in his neverending term.)

Spectacular catastrophe.

You can take my forecast to Vegas.

Noting, I've never been right in either gambling or predictions.

Think I'm going to turn away from the thread and watch a little video with Milady until the year is done.

Don't burn the place down.

Okay, go ahead, do. Ace has it insured.

L, Elle: I don't have any profound, inspirational thoughts for tonight so I'll just rip off one from mindful webworker that was posted earlier today...

I'd feel flattered... except since I ripped it off from NVP, I don't think I get to.

♥

Mmmmm. Milady just brought in some maple-glazed salmon. I'd share a bite, but the USB port is in use....

I thought Schrodinger's Buzzion was both alive and dead until you opened the coffin.

Maet seems to be doing something different with YouTube embeds.

I run with javascript and plug-ins turned off. YouTubes show up as "something went wrong" but offer a link which I can copy and use to download.

But not here anymore. I just get a blank space where the embed should be. I have to turn on the spyware options, and hit "play" before I can even get the link.

Nowhere else. Just here.

Why, Maet, why do you hate me?

But, the cougar video was pretty funny.

Whoa! Look at all that content! No wonder the last thread was left to run on and on.

Just me & Milady celebrating quietly tonight. She's experimenting with a new eggnog recipe.

While it's chilling, she just told me, she's going to fry up some salmon.

Heard only two fireworks so far. But lots of sirens on the highway.

Happy New Year's, baby!