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So, leaving this on the buffet.

http://bit.ly/chfrbacon
Posted by: mindful webworker at October 11, 2014 10:18 PM (U13jb)

THAT, my fellow Morons, is the American Dream.

So, leaving this on the buffet.

http://bit.ly/chfrbacon

Under ten, and I read the post (mostly) besides?

It's like I don't know you people anymore.

For some reason, when I saw this, I thought:

"Don't use green on the cover." -that apocryphal Stan Lee remark.

Enjoyed the insight into your techniques of combining covers, replacing Spidey for GL. I often wonder how you do them, especially on these complicated ones.

You suggested to some newcomer recently to check the archives. I think I my have come in before or shortly after B&B became MTU, and surfed backward some, but I realized I never went all the way back, so yesterday I did, and saw the earliest ones for the first time, and read how you got into this blog. :D

Finally, this should be in every establishment, don't you think?

http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/gun-discount-500x2...

RIP SNL funny gal Jan Hooks.

When Milady was young, her family and the Dunns were close neighbors, and the families still are close, even if time has driven these Chicago families in different directions. You don't lose affection for your oldest friends.

We loyally watched the seasons when Nora was on SNL. In fact, it's why we bought our first VCR. Nora may be uber-liberal (W Side Chicago upbringing like that which Milady had to grow out of) but she's funny, and she had a good run on SNL; however, she was severely underutilized. The Good Old Boys writers group (think: Franken) didn't think much of the women's funny ideas, so we heard. But occasionally, the ladies could sneak a skit past the boys. One of the recurring bits that Nora and Jan Hooks did was the over-the-top nightclub singers The Sweeny Sisters.

Here's the link for the TMZ article on Jan Hooks' death. The top photo is of the Sweeny Sisters. They also included a poor-quality but classic video of the Sweeny Sisters at home for Christmas, from the great episode that featured Bill (Capt Kirk) Shatner. The pair put a lot of work into their totally-nutty duets. Alas, the video seems to have been removed already. However, I tracked down another copy online. Watch it before it's removed, too? It's not YouTube, so I'm not going to try to embed it. Here's the link.
http://www.downvids.net/sweeney-sisters-bells-medley-hq--39061.html

Pete, I know you often mine Liberal Logic 101. Here’s a nugget you may’ve missed or just passed up.

Oops. Used square-brackets instead of angled in my previous comment. If anyone with the Power wants to change 'em, go ahead.

Over on Ace of Spades, with its primitive last-millennium software, the few HTML codes use bracket encoding instead of angle. You can tell Ace commenters by the way they leave square-bracket tags other places. I've even caught myself using them on my own posts on the website.

In 1967, the U.S. Coast Guard found a crate containing seven inflated yellow balloons floating off the coast of Florida. The crate was marked “made in U.S.S.R.” and was addressed to “The institute of mineral resources of Cuba.”

Why were the Soviets shipping seven balloons to Cuba? Why were the balloons inflated? How did the crate end up floating in the ocean? As far as I know, these questions remain unanswered.

Alex at Weird Universe – newspaper clipping at the link

When I was a boy my momma would send me down to a corner store with $1 and I’d come back with 5 potatoes, 2 loaves of bread, 3 bottles of milk, a hunk of cheese, a box of tea and 6 eggs.

You can’t do that now… Too many [darn] security cameras.

[A comment on "The Change In Cost Of Living Since 1938" by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge, 10/3/14, c/o Col. B. Bunny at Liberty's Torch.

I've been saving a few things since Pete announced (yesterday!) this thread was a-comin'.

To start with, c/o I don't recall some commenter somewhere I suppose

The Obamas of Do-it-Yourselfers: In a Fix
From the weird, to the wonderful, to the downright dangerous, these images show what happens when broken objects fall into the hands of the chronically lazy.

And when you're through marveling at those acts of genius, there's this:
These 38 Photos Show You Why Women Live Longer Than Men
Example #1 (if this works):

Who you callin' a nobody?

Oh, me?

Well, I suppose so…

That "pumpkin" pic... so wrong. In so many ways. Mostly by being here.

Bob's House> "Ryan didn't 'lose.' He won on the issues. But grinning like a cymbal-crashing monkey counts for more now."

Yes.

Nixon also won the debates, but grinning etc. as you said. (I remember my dad raging around the room, furious as he realized what TV was doing.)

♦

VP Showdown 2012
What I saw going on between the candidates
a photoshoppy webwork thing from 2012 Oct
http://bit.ly/vp2012d

It's been six years and people are still arguing about Sarah Palin. Even "The View" hires panelists for their POV on Palin.

MWW makes the point succinctly:

"I'd vote for her absolutely in a minute just because if she won, the
war is on, like electing Lincoln, and it starts with a million
Regressive heads exploding on election night.
"

Romney? RINO.
Ryan? RINO
HUCKABEE? DIABLO on the verge of being just D.
No. No. Hell, no.

Now, Sarah… ah, Sarah.

Can anyone really tell me how she was as a Governor before she started getting attacked to immobility Nixon-style?

I'd vote for her absolutely in a minute just because if she won, the war is on, like electing Lincoln, and it starts with a million Regressive heads exploding on election night.

From a practical standpoint, though, I'd like to know whether she'd pick good people and listen to them. One doesn't have to be the Smartest Man in the Room to be a wise administrator. Being the Humblest helps, though. There is only one person I know of in the field of candidates who openly swears to want to be of service to God. That doesn't make her qualified, by itself. But, in this current battle against the Worldwide Confederation of Liars, it would be nice to have someone battling in the name of the Spirit of Truth.

♦

Morning, Glories. #2, if you saw my late hello last thread. I saw the pix above and this tl;dr just burst through my keyboard. Now I'll go catch up on the thread, maybe even read the post…

Late to the late thread.

I don't see morning videos because of bandwidth and other reasons, but this morning's thread reminds me of a longstanding complaint of mine.

Why isn't there an AUDIO ONLY equivalent of YouTube for embedding and playing music cuts? Something where we can just listen, and don't have to also download some CPU- and bandwidth-sucking video?

/rant

Morning, such Glories as still be lurking on this ol' thread.

Nick from yesterday's earthquake seems appropriate. I'll keep it.

Fenelon: thanks for the M Jackson quote!!

Learning what works and what doesn’t here for graphics. Same as above, without the :large at the end.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bzd5wZYIgAA-jHQ.png

Doug Ross c/o Weasel Zippers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bzd5wZYIgAA-jHQ.png:large

Let me try that again. Feel free to delete the previous comment.

c/o some commenter on some blog somewhere today

https://ip727.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/rino1.jpg?w=677