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t-bird #26: That's a young Bob Hope. Late 1700's, I assume?

Or Bob Hope. That's a good one.

Revere's face reminds me of some actor, a comic actor I think, but I can't figure out who. No, wait, I've got it. He looks like a young Orson Wells!

"The Rosebuds are coming! The Rosebuds are coming!"

(Deeper meaning if you think about what "rosebud" was. I won't.)

Gooooood morning, deplorable Rednex. In before Ace!

JAS #322: ...Until a female SJW experiences the pain of scrotum pinched by clothing, she will never understand "manslaining."... [Y'mean "mansPlaining," right?]

Wouldn't this be more applicable to "manspreading"?

(* Adjusts self in chair until comfortable *)

OregonMuse #122: Your computer doesn't update the time itself?

* long sigh *

Guess my (pre-caffeinated) attempt at humor was too subtle.

The joke (explained--zzzz) was that the computer & cell DID update for DST. Hence: "off" by my daylight-saving-luddite thinking.

geoffb5 #82: ...We have about 250 feet of bookshelf, some double deep, and still there are more than 60 boxes of books in the basement from the move 10 years ago that I'm too old/tired to deal with. And that's not to mention the records, cds, VHS tapes, laser-discs, dvds....

Don't have laser-discs, but do have just about every other medium including 8mm film, super8 vidtapes, tape drives, 3" and 5" floppies, 78rpm discs, and 8-tracks - and the move was over 20 years ago, but otherwise a description of our own "collection."

Along with tons of old family photos & documents, all waiting to be digitalized - in my spare time.

Of course, my desktop and laptop are both failing and so it may take a while... might be reduced to (gasp!) reading hardcopy again. Like, what're they called? Books?

31 Adorable Slang Terms for Sex From the Last 600 Years - "Arrive at the end of the sentimental journey"

Is that, like, a "happy ending?"

G'morning to alla y'all adorable deplorable bitterly clinging smart military literate types.

I awoke this morning to find that my cell and the computer were both off by an hour. Weird. Glad I have the non-electronic clocks to keep track of God's Real Time. You know, where the sun is at its zenith at Noon.

♫ Does anybody really knoooow what timeitis?

Did not read the whole thing because, do not care to load my brain up with all the details on lib rail fail.

When I was younger, a child who rode Disney's monorail when it was new, I envisioned automated (not necessarily mass) transportation as a great thing. Getting from here to there as easily as entering an address in the URL field on a browser. Drunkenly slurring "Home, Jeeves," and the car does the rest.

The disadvantages began gradually making themselves known, but, even though I truly enjoy manually navigating old roads, on long, long Interstate drives, I still sometimes could wish for automation so I could sleep, or web-browse.

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I did a 30-panel collage-cartoon, of sorts, exploring the ideas of mass- and automated-transport. When you have half a day to read it (thick going), you might (or might not) enjoy my illustrated musings:

Getting from Here to There
http://bit.ly/here2there-01

Guess I should've waited to take the dog on a short walk. Willow-ized. Well, replying anyway...

Aussie #283 ...a joint - rolled in a cone shape...
Must be an Aussie thing!

Ah, right. Not just an Aussie thing. Been there, did that "statute of limitations" decades ago.

As I recall, if not done right, the paper would burn down the side, dumping the smoldering contents. Usually into someone's lap.

Aussie: ...Funniest moment for me - sitting next to a bloke about my age , outside having a smoke, and he asked me if I'd like to share a cone!

Pondering... Nope, doesn't seem to be in my vocab.

Can we have an Aussie-American translation of "cone"? I'm assuming it's something other than "ice cream"?

Or is this one of those infamous AoS "if you don't know, don't ask" items?

Before the next thread is up, I just gotta say...

This may be the first time in months that I've actually been caught up to current on the morning threads.

Helps that the pace is kinda slow today, of course.

Okay, you can run the next thread now.

The Blind Faith album I had was the substitute, and the Beatles album (whichever) I got was not the chopped-up baby dolls cover.

My best friend's older brother got a copy of that Beatles album where the new cover had been pasted over the butcher one, and he was able to steam most of the second cover off.

Decades later, Milady and I inherited the Blind Faith chickie album from some relative's collection. (Still have both copies somewhere down in the catacombs.)

Then there was the late Beatles album I think they finally called Hey Jude but earlier had been released under a different name. (How can I not remember every bit of trivia I used to have at the tip o' me forebrain?) The copy I got had the 2nd name on the cover, but the first name on the LP label! Surely some kind of collector's item?

I didn't mean to kill the thread with my singing...!

Chupacabra #180: ...That was a weird time where jailbait was perfectly okay in rock...

Young girl, get outta my mind
My love for you is 'way outta line...

Younger girl
Keeps rollin' 'cross my mind.

Come back, when you grow up girl...
You're still living in a paper-doll world

grammie winger: ...March 11, 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released their first LP "Deja vu"....

(Haven't read all comments. Forgive any redundancy.)

This one had me scratching my head. I guess you mean CSN&Y's first album. CS&N had released their eponymous album the year before. (He said with the confidence of someone who checked Wikipedia.)

I remember distinctly where I was, driving along, the first time I heard "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." Who the heck are these guys, I wondered, rocketing to the top of the radio playlists like this!?!

Soon realized they were from other, familiar bands.

(Time magazine not long after had a full-page or maybe two-page spread tracking various rock "superstars" involvement in various bands.)

*slowly plowing through the comments from the top*

Muldoon #24: Can't believe nobody has said it yet, so I will
"Lawyer, lawyer, pants on fire"

Oh, thank you, Seamus. I was afraid I'd have to do that.

I read the headline as:

Smart phones, smart homes, now smart robbers

I was thinking of burglars cracking a smart home's defenses... imagine my surprise when the article popped up....

#GoodMorning

Re: The poster up top: Every time someone on here would say, "Good morning," someone else would reply, in effect, "What's so good about it?"

So I learned not to do that.

Goooooooood morning, anyway, deplorable clingers!!

Hey, howdy, AOP. Hope you're doing well.

It's lately and I'm tiredish, but lots on my mind. Too late to participate, really. Need to sleep and wake up fresh.

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
--John Steinbeck

Yeah, sure. Solutions by committee - notoriously unworkable.

"You can't make it all go away by closing your eyes.
,
,
,
You have to put your fingers in your ears, too."
--Guru Radd Dadd Upanishadd (Smythe)

"Forgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it."
--Mark Twain