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1.) bluecat - 01/05/2017
:-):-)
2.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
Do you have to burn your clothes after a session like that?

Nothing says good management like an endless supply of rats. Political joke in 3...2...1...


You know what the problem is with rat infestations? ---Rat bastards.
3.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
You know what would spice that video up?

Eva Shockey with her AirBow...:-)


She'd make the place smell like vanilla....Or at least look like it smelled like vanilla. :grin:
4.) bluecat - 01/05/2017
Your tax dollars at work...


On the funnier side, those guys were good chaps.
5.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
I thought the 50 Shades of Gray thing was...


wait for it...





A stroke of genius.
6.) DParker - 01/05/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46443]I thought the 50 Shades of Gray thing was...


wait for it...





A stroke of genius.[/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;mznsEcZlM2I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I[/video]
7.) bluecat - 01/05/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46443]I thought the 50 Shades of Gray thing was...


wait for it...





A stroke of genius.[/QUOTE]

What a novel idea.
8.) DParker - 01/05/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46445]What a novel idea.[/QUOTE]

Is it? Beats me.
9.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
LOL


Eight points between the two of you....Split them as you see fit...


:p
10.) bluecat - 01/05/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;46444][video=youtube;mznsEcZlM2I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I[/video][/QUOTE]

I'm thinking photochromic lenses might be of benefit.
11.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none, I can read the writing on the wall.

I'm trying to be extra good this year so Santa might have a shot at talking himself into bringing me some really good photochromed fishing glasses before I die.

I'm hoping photochromic lenses are better than they were back in the day when they first (?) came out and I had a really far-out pair, but I haven't had a chance to give any modern stuff a test run yet.
12.) bluecat - 01/05/2017
+ 3 for Simon reference.
13.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
Alright, three more points tonight and you have to cut me off, okay?

I'm trine to pace myself...
14.) DParker - 01/05/2017
Speaking of sunglasses....

Back in July I bought a pair of polarized reader SGs (with bifocals built into the lenses) via Amazon for $48 (I no longer spend real money on sunglasses, as every time I have I've invariably lost or destroyed them in short order). One of the selling points for me was the fact that the lenses are removable, allowing me to replace just them rather than the frames to when the inevitable came to pass...or so I assumed. Over the course of the next 5 months I managed to scratch and ding the lenses enough to make me want to replace them, but searching the vendor's website and the broader intertubez turned up no ability to acquire said replacements. So I sent a message to the vendor's customer support asking about how I might go about buying said replacement lenses from them and supplying my Amazon order # just so they could verify that I was in fact a customer. To my surprise, I received a very quick response explaining that they don't stock the lenses as a replacement part, so they'd just send me a whole new pair of glasses gratis...with no need to send my old ones back.

About a week later the replacement pair showed up, including a new case and lens cloth just as if I'd bought them. I was really impressed with this at first, until I gave it a moment's thought and realized how ridiculous their profit margin must be on these things if they can afford to just send out whole new complete products when they receive a question about buying replacement lenses.

So it just goes to show that you can't please some people no matter what.
15.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
LOL...

Until you get into the upper end makers and models, I don't think there's any money (cost) in the frame. And under $100 it's probably not worth stocking straight lenses for replacement vs. offering free or discounted complete replacement. People just throw stuff away in this brave new world we're in, unless they grew up in the Depression, or their parents did...LOL

I used to be a big fan and user of Gargoyles (mid-to-high two figures to mid 100's). They used to do a lens refinishing service which I think they gave up on. I think they still do a decent business in replacement lenses for some models.

But below that price point, I'm sure it's just easier for most vendors to send out complete spectacles. It's just a matter if they charge anything or not.
16.) DParker - 01/05/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46454]But below that price point, I'm sure it's just easier for most vendors to send out complete spectacles. [b]It's just a matter if they charge anything or not.[/b][/QUOTE]

Aye, there's the rub. I would have assumed they'd at least charge me enough to cover shipping + something to partially defray the amount that sending a whole new product package would cut into their margins. But the fact that they can skip that and send me the whole thing for free, no questions asked, tells me that said margin is larger than one might otherwise expect...even given Chinese slave labor.
17.) Swamp Fox - 01/05/2017
LOL...I'm sure you're right. Having used low-end glasses through mid-range and creeping up on to upper end, I've always been amazed/outraged/amused at how much money people are getting charged for mediocre or even poor quality.

Especially when people think they're getting some kind of a "performance lens" just because of the brand name. That's a real hoot unless you spend more than a few bucks, and are careful to choose what you need vs. assuming anything made by brand X is gonna be awesome for whatever you're doing.


BTW: If anyone has any comments about this general topic and wants to give me their two cents for perspective, which would help for a project I am working on, please shoot me a PM. Comments on quality, lens performance, lens color, durability, customer service,, etc. The whole shebang. Thx.
18.) bluecat - 01/06/2017
[URL=http://s990.photobucket.com/user/mx482/media/marital_zpsproha4jb.jpg.html][/URL]
19.) Swamp Fox - 01/06/2017
How do we know he actually "won"? It's less than 40 years later.

There's still time for her to get him back.

:shocked:


:shh:


LOL
20.) DParker - 01/06/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46465][URL=http://s990.photobucket.com/user/mx482/media/marital_zpsproha4jb.jpg.html][/URL][/QUOTE]

Pffffft. I'd sooner believe a combination Big Foot + Elvis sighting claim.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46470]How do we know he actually "won"? It's less than 40 years later.[/QUOTE]

Common Core math?
21.) bluecat - 01/06/2017
Swampy ran out of fangers and toeses.
22.) Swamp Fox - 01/06/2017
Jeez time flies.

Besides, if you remember '68-'78, you weren't there, man.
23.) DParker - 01/06/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46480]Jeez time flies.

Besides, if you remember '68-'78, you weren't there, man.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I was there, man...and it was groovy.

24.) Swamp Fox - 01/06/2017
Too bad our balls hadn't dropped yet...

Well, except for Billy....


I saw him lurking earlier and am kinda disappointed he didn't take the opportunity to set us whippersnappers straight if we're off about anything...



LOL :grin:
25.) bluecat - 01/09/2017
[QUOTE][B]FORD REVEALS NEW F-150; BRONCO IS BACK[/B]; ALL-NEW RANGER COMING TO NORTH AMERICA; COMPANY PRESENTS VISION FOR CITY OF TOMORROW
Ford reveals new, even tougher, smarter and more capable F-150, featuring segment-first technology, including Pre-Collision Assist with Pedestrian Detection and Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop-and-Go, embedded 4G LTE modem, SYNC 3 and B&O PLAY audio
All-new Ford Ranger midsize pickup truck will be reintroduced to the North American market in 2019
Rugged all-new Ford Bronco midsize SUV returns in 2020 as a global vehicle; both Bronco and Ranger to be built at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant
Ford-owned Chariot – the app-based, ride sharing service in San Francisco and Austin, Texas – will expand this year to eight cities, including at least one global city
Ford presents a vision for the “City of Tomorrow” to inspire innovation and assist cities in solving mobility challenges to help people move more easily today and in the future[/QUOTE]

[url]https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017/01/09/f-150-bronco-ranger-city-of-tomorrow.html[/url]

Swampy, you are way ahead of your time. I don't know if keeping the bell bottoms is a good idea though.
26.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2017
After watching this video, I'm really pumped...


To put a cap in the ass of whoever did this video...


LOL....


27.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2017
It looks like a 70's International Harvester, an 80's Isuzu Trooper and a mini-Hummer got together and drank a whole bottle of tequila and then played spin the bottle...

28.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2017
That video is from 2015 according to youtube, so I'm not sure anyone knows what the final product will look like, LOL
29.) bluecat - 01/09/2017
It does resemble on IH Scout in the front. Eew.
30.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2017
Based on what I've seen in some videos, that might be the best looking part I've seen so far, LOL.

There's a boxy Jeep that I think it also borrows from. One of the 4-door Wranglers, I think.

Speaking of screwing up body styles, I'm calling out Jeep. I haven't seen one that I've liked in several years, maybe more. (The little Wranglers excepted. Also at least one of the Rubicons, but I don't think they make those any more.)

As Trump would say: Sad.
31.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2017
I could get behind some of these designs.








You don't see many Raptors on the road for some reason, but I think that is one of the sharpest-looking trucks ever (at least the originals or early version that I know) so anything they borrow from that is probably a winner.
32.) DParker - 01/11/2017
It's always dangerous when my wife runs into the grocery store for something and leaves me in the car in the parking lot, because then I get bored, whip out the phone and peruse Amazon.com looking for stuff that I don't really need. Sunday was no exception, but at least I got off cheap...



It showed up today...though I got one on black. Apparently this was a real beer from a craft brewery in Indiana ([URL="http://www.sunkingbrewing.com/phone/index.html"]Sun King Brewing[/URL]). Sadly, they're no longer making it. Yes, that's right. This is an EX-beer.
33.) bluecat - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;46565]It's always dangerous when my wife runs into the grocery store for something and leaves me in the car in the parking lot, because then I get bored, whip out the phone and peruse Amazon.com looking for stuff that I don't really need. Sunday was no exception, but at least I got off cheap...



It showed up today...though I got one on black. Apparently this was a real beer from a craft brewery in Indiana ([URL="http://www.sunkingbrewing.com/phone/index.html"]Sun King Brewing[/URL]). Sadly, they're no longer making it. Yes, that's right. This is an EX-beer.[/QUOTE]

+ 5 :wink (a nod is as good as a wink to a blind man)
34.) bluecat - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46542]I could get behind some of these designs.










You don't see many Raptors on the road for some reason, but I think that is one of the sharpest-looking trucks ever (at least the originals or early version that I know) so anything they borrow from that is probably a winner.[/QUOTE]

Looks good (even for candyass red) but forgot the two rear doors...
35.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
Red isn't my favorite color, but Ford Red always has been one of them.





I've also always preferred two-door trucks and SUV's to four, aesthetically. Practically, they usually work for me, although sometimes they're a bit of a pain. I do sometimes these days have a higher need to carry passengers than I used to, so I'm keeping my eyes peeled for something I like for that.

In the meantime, I'm in the lead with the steed, and it's "Follow me."
36.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;46565]

Sadly, they're no longer making it. Yes, that's right. This is an EX-beer.[/QUOTE]


Then you should know about this:

A Christmas beer they call Brian, and one called Holy Grail...from the UK...

[url]https://www.blacksheepbrewery.com/blog/4070/witness-the-birth-of-the-the-christmas-beer-they-call-brian-a-very-naughty-pale-ale[/url]


Also, noticed this a few weeks ago...I want one!



37.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
Don't be afraid to click on the link and subscribe to their newsletter...I'm sure they have a perfectly reasonable policy concerning Spam.
38.) bluecat - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46570]Don't be afraid to click on the link and subscribe to their newsletter...I'm sure they have a perfectly reasonable policy concerning Spam.[/QUOTE]

+ 5 :-)
39.) DParker - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46569]Then you should know about this:

A Christmas beer they call Brian, and one called Holy Grail...from the UK...

[url]https://www.blacksheepbrewery.com/blog/4070/witness-the-birth-of-the-the-christmas-beer-they-call-brian-a-very-naughty-pale-ale[/url][/quote]

I've had the [I]Holy Grail[/I]. A pretty average ale. Not bad, but nothing memorable.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46569][/QUOTE]

Awesome lawn ornament. Beautiful plumage.
40.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
Here's something: Seems like Monty Python images on Yahoo are largely coded "with privacy" all of a sudden, especially Holy Grail and Dead Parrot images. Not so if you do a Google search (although I don't know how to actually see the address with them, vs. just copying it in preparation to paste).

I used to be able to pick up MP images on Yahoo very easily. Now it's a huge chore. I checked my display settings and everything seems okay, plus I've never changed them in the first place. I haven't checked for anything other than Python to see if this issue applies elsewhere as well.
41.) DParker - 01/11/2017
??

[URL="https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT9wYanZY6RkAYLNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=%22monty+python%22&fr=yfp-t&fr2=piv-web#id=7&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpixel.nymag.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fdaily%2Fvulture%2F2013%2F11%2F19%2F19-monty-python.jpg&action=close"]https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT9wYanZY6RkAYLNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=%22monty+python%22&fr=yfp-t&fr2=piv-web#id=7&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpixel.nymag.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fdaily%2Fvulture%2F2013%2F11%2F19%2F19-monty-python.jpg&action=close[/URL]
42.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
Try stuff like [B]Holy Grail bridgekeeper [/B]and [B]Monty Python bridge of death[/B], and let me know what you get.

When I click Properties I get "protocol with privacy" on those as well as other searches. Never had the issue so extensively before.
43.) bluecat - 01/11/2017
44.) bluecat - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46575]Try stuff like [B]Holy Grail bridgekeeper [/B]and [B]Monty Python bridge of death[/B], and let me know what you get.

When I click Properties I get "protocol with privacy" on those as well as other searches.[/QUOTE]

Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do that."

Doctor: "Don't do that."
45.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
LOL...

Go here.. then look at properties.

[url]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6815924042_2a267d7b67_z.jpg[/url]


8-9 out of 10 Python image searches on Yahooo are like that for me all of a sudden.

BTW, your smaller image didn't even pop up.
46.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
Test:

47.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
Huh...

I thought if an image said "with privacy" I wouldn't be able to grab it. But I just did with your pic, from your post (not from Yahoo).

Other pics "with privacy" I CAN'T grab. A lot of those seem to live on Pintarest or were posted on Twitter or Facebook, etc. so I kinda understand that. But absent those situation, I don't know what's going on...LOL
48.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46577]Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do that."

Doctor: "Don't do that."[/QUOTE]


"The doctor said you're going to die. "


[Snakebite joke...LOL]
49.) DParker - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46575]Try stuff like [B]Holy Grail bridgekeeper [/B]and [B]Monty Python bridge of death[/B], and let me know what you get.

When I click Properties I get "protocol with privacy" on those as well as other searches. Never had the issue so extensively before.[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure what you mean by clicking on Properties (but then again I'm a Chrome user), but here's what I get for "Holy grail bridgekeeper"...

[URL="https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEV0rjfXZYSMYAMJlXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Holy+Grail+bridgekeeper&fr=yfp-t&fr2=piv-web#id=2&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fusers.drew.edu%2Frflyr%2Fcsci4%2Fstop.jpg&action=close"]https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEV0rjfXZYSMYAMJlXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2Noc21lBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Holy+Grail+bridgekeeper&fr=yfp-t&fr2=piv-web#id=2&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fusers.drew.edu%2Frflyr%2Fcsci4%2Fstop.jpg&action=close[/URL]

...and "Monty Python bridge of death" (no quote around either though)...

[URL="https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB8pfmfXZY.G8AOT2JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZ29xY3ZzBHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRhY3RuA2NsawRiY2sDbnVsbARjc3JjcHZpZAN3RWlqMlRZNUxqSGpjeGNndEpmUTJRMEpOalF1TVFBQUFBQUtrWEE5BGZyA3lmcC10BGZyMgNzYS1ncARncHJpZANyZmMudHNUVVRmLlJ6TFBmVzNsbUxBBG10ZXN0aWQDbnVsbARuX3N1Z2cDNgRvcmlnaW4DaW1hZ2VzLnNlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMEcXN0cmwDMjgEcXVlcnkDTW9udHkgUHl0aG9uIGJyaWRnZSBvZiBkZWF0aAR0X3N0bXADMTQ4NDE2MDU5MQR2dGVzdGlkA251bGw-?gprid=rfc.tsTUTf.RzLPfW3lmLA&pvid=wEij2TY5LjHjcxcgtJfQ2Q0JNjQuMQAAAAAKkXA9&p=Monty+Python+bridge+of+death&fr=yfp-t&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt"]https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrB8pfmfXZY.G8AOT2JzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsZ29xY3ZzBHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--;_ylc=X1MDOTYwNjI4NTcEX3IDMgRhY3RuA2NsawRiY2sDbnVsbARjc3JjcHZpZAN3RWlqMlRZNUxqSGpjeGNndEpmUTJRMEpOalF1TVFBQUFBQUtrWEE5BGZyA3lmcC10BGZyMgNzYS1ncARncHJpZANyZmMudHNUVVRmLlJ6TFBmVzNsbUxBBG10ZXN0aWQDbnVsbARuX3N1Z2cDNgRvcmlnaW4DaW1hZ2VzLnNlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20EcG9zAzAEcHFzdHIDBHBxc3RybAMEcXN0cmwDMjgEcXVlcnkDTW9udHkgUHl0aG9uIGJyaWRnZSBvZiBkZWF0aAR0X3N0bXADMTQ4NDE2MDU5MQR2dGVzdGlkA251bGw-?gprid=rfc.tsTUTf.RzLPfW3lmLA&pvid=wEij2TY5LjHjcxcgtJfQ2Q0JNjQuMQAAAAAKkXA9&p=Monty+Python+bridge+of+death&fr=yfp-t&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt[/URL]
50.) DParker - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46580]Huh...

I thought if an image said "with privacy" I wouldn't be able to grab it. But I just did with your pic, from your post (not from Yahoo).

Other pics "with privacy" I CAN'T grab. A lot of those seem to live on Pintarest or were posted on Twitter or Facebook, etc. so I kinda understand that. But absent those situation, I don't know what's going on...LOL[/QUOTE]

It depends on the source. Some of the images you're seeing are the result of more than just your browser acting on a direct link to the image file (*.jpg, *.gif, *.png, etc), which causes problems.
51.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
On Yahoo, if you click on the image you then have an option to click on "Properties" to see all the dirt. Then you copy/paste the image address from that window to here.

I guess in the past when I've tried to display an image that said "with privacy," it failed here. So I got the idea that if it said "with privacy" it was a lost cause automatically.

Now that this has been debunked, apparently, I'm not sure how to tell ahead of time if an image address is going to fail here or not. I don't even know how to see the image address or "protocol" or anything else using Google, LOL. Whatever I'm using there (Chrome?... "Just plain Google"? --I have no idea---LOL) just gives you an option to "copy address" without actually displaying it to you or otherwise "describing" the image.
52.) bluecat - 01/11/2017


This is from your link Swampy, but I also use Chrome.
53.) DParker - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46585]This is from your link Swampy, but I also use Chrome.[/QUOTE]

We need to start a browser superiority clique and not mix with those IE/Edge rif-raff.

54.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
LOL....



55.) Swamp Fox - 01/11/2017
But seriously, I've never seen this percentage of pics marked "with privacy" as I've been seeing today...Monty Python or not.



Initially, I thought maybe the Python boys had suddenly gone nuts over copyright or sumpn...Which I doubt applies to this category of images anyway, but I suppose you can always find a lawyer who will argue against common sense.
56.) bluecat - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46588]but I suppose you can always find a lawyer who will argue against common sense.[/QUOTE]

No you can't.
57.) DParker - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46589]No you can't.[/QUOTE]

Yes you can.

58.) bluecat - 01/11/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;46586]We need to start a browser superiority clique and not mix with those IE/Edge rif-raff.

[/QUOTE]

IE users bite.
59.) bluecat - 01/19/2017
60.) DParker - 01/19/2017
61.) Swamp Fox - 01/19/2017
LOL...

We better not hear anything about fake news from those two (although I'm pretty sure they've both opened their pieholes about it already, without it registering on my radar).


I saw a brief clip of Woo-Woo throwing stupid questions at the HHS sect'y nominee yesterday. To compound the farce of her ongoing running dog and painted pony show, she likes to answer her own queries.

[QUOTE]"Can you promise me you won't cut a single dollar from ___ x_____ [insert Dem sacred cow here]?"

[[I]Attempt at answer on par with quality of the question...[/I]]

"I'll take that as a 'no'."


[/QUOTE]


But my favorite part was when the honorable suit from Rhode Island (Sheldon Whitehouse, D, naturally) was "grilling" the EPA nominee over "climate change" (whatever that meant to him at the moment) and thought he had a gotcha with a big poster board showing campaign contributors to the nominee's political career. It highlighted the ones which were involved in energy production.

Production from oil, coal and gas, that is; not hot air, cold breezes, or the healing rays of the sun.

You know, the dreaded fossil fuels. When he says it, though, it sounds like a bad thing.

But who doesn't like fossils?

Anyway, the poster board seemed like a big production, and signaled a major collaboration between his staff of 23-year-old interns and the local Kinko's, so I'm sure he was proud of it. He seemed like it anyway.

Paraphrasing here:

"You've taken a lot of money from fossil fuel companies."

"Yes, and I've sued a few of them, too."

"Name one you've sued up there. " Sheldon points to the board.

"ExxonMobil."

"Really!?" [Exact quote...LOL] "Well, my time has expired...."


Yes, really.

Really busted.



Tune in at 3:45 if you're not interested in the lead-up.

62.) DParker - 01/19/2017
LOL! Now [I]that[/I] was funny. I also liked how he stumbled around the rhetoric that has become so torturously euphemistic that he described the energy companies as entities that have been, "devoted to fighting climate change". Wait...what? Isn't that what you've been screaming for people to do all this time?
63.) Swamp Fox - 01/19/2017
Yeah, that pricked my ears yesterday too, but it slipped my mind ...LOL (Unsure footing in there, lately. :-))

Good catch.
64.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
Good stuff.
65.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
:grin:
66.) Swamp Fox - 01/20/2017
[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=3][B]Tasty.....[/B][/SIZE][/FONT]


67.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
Looks like they all just sucked on some lemons or they all have diaper rash.
68.) DParker - 01/20/2017
LOL! The dumbass commentators on ABC already trying to compare the speech to 1930s "screw the Jews" nationalism rhetoric.
69.) Swamp Fox - 01/20/2017
LOL...Freakin' hysterical...In both senses of the word.

I am stuck at my desk this afternoon but can have TV in the background---Should I watch liberal pity party or will it be triggering?


BC: I am going with diaper rash.


Here's a serious question: Are Dems still doing the stupid safety pin thing or did that backfire on them sufficiently?


70.) DParker - 01/20/2017
Beats me. I'm just surprised and disappointed by two things:

I'm surprised that Trump's speech didn't end up being the train wreck I was half expecting.

I'm disappointed that Hillary didn't show up drunk.
71.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
+ 5 for both of you.
72.) DParker - 01/20/2017
Well, the markets are up and I'm not seeing any fighter-bombers or attack choppers in the air. So far, so good.
73.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
The bonfires are a nice touch though, don't you think?
74.) Swamp Fox - 01/20/2017
LOL...You know, the protesters and rioters make a lot of noise in a mob, but you pull any 20 of them aside individually and maybe *one* of them will be able to string three coherent sentences together about why he's out there.

*****


I didn't see the speech, but I read it. Twice. How you get anything of 1930's Germany out of that, I have no idea.

Maybe if you know less than zero about 1930's Germany...

I'm guessing we'll soon start hearing from all the Journalism and Communications majors who haven't taken a history class since high school --where the topic probably hasn't been taught for 40 years, if it ever was--but who will suddenly be experts in that era's America First movement.


*****


There was a good shot of Michelle 0 and Bill Clinton in the stands after the speech. I realize their team got trounced, but they looked extra sour even so. I didn't see much of Hillary. Probably for the best that she wasn't drunk or Bill would have been in real trouble. You know he was checking out chicks up there.
75.) DParker - 01/20/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46750]Maybe if you know less than zero about 1930's Germany...[/quote]

Was it over when Trump bombed Pearl Harbor?

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46750]I didn't see much of Hillary. Probably for the best that she wasn't drunk or Bill would have been in real trouble. You know he was checking out chicks up there.[/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;F5mSkiSmrpg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5mSkiSmrpg[/video]
76.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
Good find DP.



Anyone know why they dubbed the sound of a redtail hawk as the bald eagle swoops down?
77.) Swamp Fox - 01/20/2017
LOL...

The body language...

Must be pretty rough around the dinner table nights. No influence to sell; stuck at home together with nothing to do. I heard Bill was thinking about applying for a sales position down at the local car dealership just to get out of the house a little.
78.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
Or the fact that they both recoil in horror as they witness something that not many get to see.

The nerve of that eagle to disturb their silence like that...
79.) Swamp Fox - 01/20/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46752]

Anyone know why they dubbed the sound of a redtail hawk as the bald eagle swoops down?[/QUOTE]


Because it's a Volkswagen off-road commercial?


:groan:


LOL
80.) DParker - 01/20/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46754]Or the fact that they both recoil in horror as they witness something that not many get to see.[/QUOTE]

That's exactly what struck me too when I first saw it a couple of nights ago. People who "love nature", but are shocked to learn that it's not a 1940s Disney feature-length animation.
81.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
LOL! +2 each
82.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;46753]LOL...

The body language...

Must be pretty rough around the dinner table nights. No influence to sell; stuck at home together with nothing to do. I heard Bill was thinking about applying for a sales position down at the local car dealership just to get out of the house a little.[/QUOTE]

Bill is in the moment on that one. Nodding, eyes glazed over. LOL!
83.) DParker - 01/20/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46758]Bill is in the moment on that one. Nodding, eyes glazed over. LOL![/QUOTE]

I read someone on another forum say, (and I'm paraphrasing here) "You know, if I was capable of setting my politics aside for an evening...Bill Clinton would be a blast to play poker and hang out with."

I really couldn't disagree with the sentiment.
84.) Swamp Fox - 01/20/2017
The sentiment is one thing, but I'd have to disagree on the facts.

First of all, you'd never know where his cigars have been.

Just as important, people have forgotten or aren't aware what a nasty piece of work Bill Clinton was and is when the light gets shined on him. I'm not just talking about the lying and corruption. He has a mean streak that's not hard to see in numerous videos that I'm not inclined to pull up right now, because I'm savoring liberal tears too much today, and reminders of Bill are just a buzzkill.
85.) DParker - 01/20/2017
LOL! I'm not saying he's a good guy...just that I bet he'd be a party animal. You know, kind of like Darth Vader being a more fun and interesting character than Obi Wan.
86.) bluecat - 01/20/2017
It would be fine until Hillary came in and saw all the hookers and blow.
87.) Swamp Fox - 01/20/2017
1:45 PM today was a great moment in American history, as Barry "Brick" Obama went wheels-up from Joint Base Andrews and flew off toward the Left Coast, and one can only hope, into the sunset.


He could have left this way, with his head down as it should be, but that would be a blow to his ego and a missed opportunity to stick the American people with the bill for a massively expensive plane ride one more time:


88.) bluecat - 01/27/2017
Trump returns Churchill bust to the Oval Office



President Trump has returned a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, which had been removed by his predecessor in 2009.

Reporters first noticed that the bust had been placed back in the room on Friday, just as Trump was signing a series of executive orders at the Resolute desk.

Obama had moved the bust to the White House residence during his first few days in office and later installed separate busts of Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lincoln in its place.

A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed last week that Trump had personally asked if England would loan the bust of Churchill to the U.S. once he took office.





[url]http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-returns-churchill-bust-to-the-oval-office/article/2612541[/url]
89.) bluecat - 01/30/2017
Bill Clinton's State of the Union speech 1995.

In his remarks, Clinton said that Americans had a right to oppose illegal immigration. Illegal aliens take jobs from Americans and “impose burdens” on taxpayers by taking welfare benefits, he said.

“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country,” Clinton said during the speech. “The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.”

‘That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens,” he continued.

Clinton went on to assure Congress that in his forthcoming budget proposal he would “try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.”

We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.


[url]http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/04/ben-carson-bill-clintons-position-on-illegal-immigration-is-the-same-as-trumps-video/[/url]
90.) DParker - 01/30/2017
Everybody knows that Bill Clinton was a racist Republican neo-Nazi skin-head.
91.) bluecat - 01/30/2017
LOL! Yeah, the whole thing is just nuts.
92.) bluecat - 01/30/2017
And, I might add, got a standing 'O'.
93.) Swamp Fox - 01/30/2017
Slick Willy also used the slogan "Make America Great Again" quite a lot (I'm sure the video is out there) but never got any grief about it.

Of course, he was not the first to use it. Pretty sure he stole it from Reagan, who possibly stole it from someone before him.
94.) Swamp Fox - 01/30/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;46948]LOL! Yeah, the whole thing is just nuts.[/QUOTE]


It's psychotic and ignorant.

I'm just waiting for someone to say that from a major platform directly to the diaper pin crowd.
95.) DParker - 02/03/2017
"Fake news", indeed...

[URL="http://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnn-frets-trump-easing-pollution-regs-show-footage-epas-toxic-mine-spill"]CNN Frets Trump Easing Coal Regs., Show Footage of EPA's Toxic Mine Spill[/URL]
96.) DParker - 02/09/2017
Maxine Waters want to impeach Trump because Putin is invading.....Korea.

[video]https://youtu.be/XXPGPMTulDw[/video]
97.) Swamp Fox - 02/09/2017
LOL...

What are the chances that media momentum is building for the meme that Dem politicians are senile mental midgets?





[url]http://nypost.com/2017/02/07/nancy-pelosi-still-thinks-shes-fighting-against-president-bush/[/url]



Hey, Nancy! Nancy! Are you in there?


[url]http://www.visitingangels.com/[/url]
98.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
Does anyone watch the Curse of Oak Island series/documentary? I've been watching it now for a couple of years and it is so fascinating.
99.) Swamp Fox - 02/15/2017
I think I remember you've mentioned this before. Are they hunting treasure?

I'm looking for something to watch instead of Trump 24/7...LOL...Not sure if there is anything else on TV, though...
100.) DParker - 02/15/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;47165]Does anyone watch the Curse of Oak Island series/documentary?[/QUOTE]

No, but I come close every week because it's on right before my current favorite show, [i]Forged In Fire[/i].
101.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
I've been a big fan of [I]Forged In Fire[/I] as well and watch that too. They don't give those guys long to make their knives but they sure produce some nice stuff.

Especially the winners who have 5 days to make their weapon. Wow, some of those are fantastic. Damascus steel is quite stunning.
102.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47167]I think I remember you've mentioned this before. Are they hunting treasure?

I'm looking for something to watch instead of Trump 24/7...LOL...Not sure if there is anything else on TV, though...[/QUOTE]

Basically they are looking for a cache of gold and religious artifacts that are believed to be buried on Oak Island by the Knights Templar. One of the guys heading up the expedition first heard about it when he was eleven and has spent his whole life researching. He read about it in Readers Digest.
103.) Swamp Fox - 02/15/2017
I'll check on it.


Sometimes I feel like Vladimir Putin when he checks HuntingCountry and there's nothing going on.






So we check the tube and it's all just Must See Trump TV....


Then we just say "Screw it!" and go fishing...Except he goes in his Sitka Gear....


104.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47171]I'll check on it.


Sometimes I feel like Vladimir Putin when he checks HuntingCountry and there's nothing going on.




[/QUOTE]

"Hey Hey Hey, that Swamp Dog. He laugh me up good time."
105.) Swamp Fox - 02/15/2017





"I miss Obama and Hillary jokes on HuntingCountry, but Picture Caption and Joke of Day almost same as good..."
106.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
"It says 3 members and 26 guests, What is guest?"
107.) Swamp Fox - 02/15/2017
"Look...Swamp Fox have new private message...That is funny they think so..."
108.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
"Look at this! When man take bike to hunt in motherland we call him sissy man."
109.) Swamp Fox - 02/15/2017
"Please to connect Alexa of DParker to Russian woman weightlift TV until lift of sanctions..."
110.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
"Many of people of HuntingCountry seem not stable of mind. They puny and weak soft making the little sausages."
111.) Swamp Fox - 02/15/2017
"This Luv2bowhunt...I challenge him hunt Russia mountains...Not easy like private land in Ukraine..."
112.) bluecat - 02/15/2017
"I like to see Russian boar chasing the CrookedEye. He think again his deer mean like Russian whore. Heh, heh."
113.) DParker - 02/16/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47182]"Please to connect Alexa of DParker to Russian woman weightlift TV until lift of sanctions..."[/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;yJWQgcxeZ4Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJWQgcxeZ4Q[/video]
114.) bluecat - 02/16/2017
"Look at this! A talking about pets. bluecat weak like American baby."
115.) bluecat - 02/16/2017
Druryeslav brothers always come with big stag. What is so big deal that Americans shoot their little animals.
116.) Swamp Fox - 02/16/2017
LOL!
117.) bluecat - 02/16/2017
Druryeslav brothers always come with big Stags. Americans shoot little animals like so much big deal.
118.) Swamp Fox - 02/16/2017
119.) bluecat - 02/16/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47184]"This Luv2bowhunt...I challenge him hunt Russia mountains...Not easy like private land in Ukraine..."[/QUOTE]

+4 LMAO
120.) DParker - 02/16/2017
Well, I'll be damned. Today is apparently "Life Without Immigrants Day", so declared by....somebody....in which immigrants across the U.S. are supposed to "strike" (just not show up for work) to teach us all some sort of lesson about how we should stop complaining about [I]illegal[/I] immigration. In addition to nobody I know even noticing any impact at all, I walked around my entire office, where the staff is roughly 50% immigrants (legal...in fact our CEO is an immigrant) and told them they were all supposed to go home and be on strike. Without exception they told me, "Hey, I've got work to do, and a paycheck to collect...go away."

No social justice to be found here.
121.) Swamp Fox - 02/16/2017
LOL...Went right past me. Prolly have to be a member of the professional protester class to participate.

But just wait: Somebody will propose a national holiday for it sooner or later.

Comedienne Bonnie McFarlane the other night on the two holidays she hates the most:


[url]http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/blog/2017/02/14/pakistan-breaks-valentines-day[/url]
122.) Swamp Fox - 02/16/2017
123.) bluecat - 02/27/2017



I didn't know if I should post this here or in the Official Gun Control Thread.
124.) Swamp Fox - 02/27/2017
Let me narrow down the joke possibilities to the best 25 or so, and I'll be back after I consult my attorney and public relations department...LOL
125.) bluecat - 02/27/2017
Go ahead and shoot from the hip.
126.) bluecat - 02/28/2017


[Insert Comment Here]
127.) DParker - 02/28/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;47394]

[Insert Comment Here][/QUOTE]

It looks like Rapunzel could do with a shampoo and a little thinning.
128.) bluecat - 02/28/2017
We can't take carpeting back. Oh, sorry ma'am.
129.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2017
Ha! I was trying to come up with something involving refunds for shampoo and/or carpet cleaning equipment/solution, but wasn't coming up with anything pithy...

Down in the second tier I was dealing with defective brushes, barrrettes, and stuff that might attract animals...Still no luck...LOL
130.) bluecat - 02/28/2017
second tier, LOL!
131.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2017
I've found that jokes, like most things, fall into a hierarchy.


You've heard of the hierarchy of needs, right?


132.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2017
Here's one specifically for joke writers:


133.) bluecat - 02/28/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47405]I've found that jokes, like most things, fall into a hierarchy.


You've heard of the hierarchy of needs, right?


[/QUOTE]

+ 3 :wink
134.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2017
And one for preppers and those who dream of the zombie apocalypse:

135.) DParker - 02/28/2017
136.) Swamp Fox - 02/28/2017
:-)....Sad, but true...LOL
137.) bluecat - 03/01/2017
:laugh::laugh:
138.) bluecat - 03/03/2017
"Game over man!"

Too soon?
139.) DParker - 03/04/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;47455]"Game over man!"

Too soon?[/QUOTE]

I've already considered starting a petition demanding that the above quote be what appears on his grave stone. I mean...what could [I]possibly[/I] be more appropriate? I know it's what I'd want.

140.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;47456] I mean...what could [I]possibly[/I] be more appropriate?
[/QUOTE]


I'm thinking the other possibility is a paraphrase of the little girl in that scene: "They mostly come out of surgery...Mostly..."
141.) bluecat - 03/04/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47457]I'm thinking the other possibility is a paraphrase of the little girl in that scene: "They mostly come out of surgery...Mostly..."[/QUOTE]

Oh dude. + 6
142.) bluecat - 03/04/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;47456]I've already considered starting a petition demanding that the above quote be what appears on his grave stone. I mean...what could [I]possibly[/I] be more appropriate? I know it's what I'd want.

[/QUOTE]

I know right? LOL!
143.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;47460]Oh dude. + 6[/QUOTE]


It's a little dark, but I thought I'd go for it since this place needs shaking up...LOL


You all have my permission to make jokes about me when I bite the dust, so I figure that makes everything okay.


:shocked:



:dig:
144.) bluecat - 03/04/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47462]It's a little dark, but I thought I'd go for it since this place needs shaking up...LOL


You all have my permission to make jokes about me when I bite the dust, so I figure that makes everything okay.


:shocked:



:dig:[/QUOTE]
How bout now?
145.) Swamp Fox - 03/04/2017
No...That's why I specifically said "when I bite the dust" as opposed to something more broad, like "when I go" or "when I'm not around anymore."----LOL


Otherwise, I'd have to be on here 24/7 monitoring the abuse...:tap::wink
146.) bluecat - 03/08/2017
A tornado went over our house last night. I heard a sound that was like a freight train and ran downstairs. It blew the French doors open that were closed and locked. It took out a nice ash tree and did some other damage but overall we were pretty lucky. Lasted about 20 seconds. The tornado must have been elevated and not on the ground.
147.) DParker - 03/08/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;47509]A tornado went over our house last night. I heard a sound that was like a freight train and ran downstairs. It blew the French doors open that were closed and locked. It took out a nice ash tree and did some other damage but overall we were pretty lucky. Lasted about 20 seconds. The tornado must have been elevated and not on the ground.[/QUOTE]

I still remember that sound from last year, and suspect I always will. I'm glad to hear it skipped over you.
148.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2017
Sorry you lost your tree, but that's not important right now. :wink

Glad you're okay. Looking forward to seeing the new bows and arrows, and reading about the smoking adventure. Next spring or Fall of 2018, say. No rush, no pressure...LOL


[url]https://primitivebows.wordpress.com/articles/selecting-wood-for-bows/[/url]
149.) bluecat - 03/08/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47511]Sorry you lost your tree, but that's not important right now. :wink

Glad you're okay. Looking forward to seeing the new bows and arrows, and reading about the smoking adventure. Next spring or Fall of 2018, say. No rush, no pressure...LOL


[url]https://primitivebows.wordpress.com/articles/selecting-wood-for-bows/[/url][/QUOTE]

:wave:
150.) DParker - 03/08/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;47511]Sorry you lost your tree...[/QUOTE]

I couldn't help but read that in this guy's voice.

151.) bluecat - 03/08/2017


camel toe back?
152.) bluecat - 03/09/2017


"Miss, our security camera didn't catch it but we suspect you've got some merchandise hidden on your person."
153.) bluecat - 03/09/2017
154.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;47515]I couldn't help but read that in this guy's voice.

[/QUOTE]

:-).....
155.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2017
Bluecat, I don't even want to know how that stuff happens...LOL
156.) DParker - 03/17/2017
It's now official. NOTHING is sacred.

[URL="http://fox6now.com/2017/03/17/monopoly-kicks-out-three-classic-game-tokens/"]http://fox6now.com/2017/03/17/monopoly-kicks-out-three-classic-game-tokens/[/URL]

157.) Swamp Fox - 03/17/2017
I like the comment that the wheelbarrow and the thimble might not be "resonate" with today's kids. Good luck in life, boys and girls. The boot was included in that comment but I especially don't get that one.

Hashtags and emojis? --Please, just shoot me now.
158.) bluecat - 03/17/2017
LOL! Did the iron survive? That's another one that most kids can't recognize.
159.) Swamp Fox - 03/17/2017
I saw somewhere the other day that some kids couldn't tell time on an "analog" clock. You know, a [B]real[/B] clock. :wink

I'm talking kids WAY past the big hand and the little hand thing.
160.) DParker - 03/17/2017
All the talk about things that don't resonate with today's kids...and yet the top hat remains.
161.) Swamp Fox - 03/18/2017
Good catch.

I wonder if anyone has ever suggested a blunderbuss.
162.) DParker - 03/29/2017
It looks like we dodged another bullet this morning. A storm front moved through and our emergency sirens went off just before 3am. We got some strong wind gusts up to ~70 mph, but no serious damage. Our power was knocked out until about 8:15am. However, just across the lake from us in Rockwall....



The National Weather System says no tornado formed, and this was the result of ~90 MPH straight-line wind gusts. Damn.
163.) bluecat - 03/29/2017
Glad you are okay. That looks pretty nasty. Not a pleasant way to spend the night.
164.) Swamp Fox - 03/29/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;48038]



[/QUOTE]


I went to school with that builder.
165.) Swamp Fox - 03/29/2017
Crookedeye knows the roofer...LOL
166.) bluecat - 04/12/2017




Did anyone notice this?
167.) DParker - 04/12/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;48273]



Did anyone notice this?[/QUOTE]

Are they both using coconuts?
168.) Swamp Fox - 04/12/2017
I always thought Patsy looked like Don Rickles.

Kaine is more like The Tin Man.
169.) bluecat - 04/12/2017
[url]http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2213-What-Dimension-is-This-The-Loony-Zone&p=42702&highlight=kaine#post42702[/url]
170.) Swamp Fox - 04/20/2017
LMAO...That thread's a hoot...I can't believe nothing's happened since the election to cause me to bump it up...LOL
171.) bluecat - 04/26/2017
[url]https://www.yahoo.com/news/isis-fighters-iraq-killed-wild-215348697.html[/url]


[QUOTE]Three militants loyal to the Islamic State group (ISIS) have been killed by wild boars as they planned to ambush Iraqi tribesmen opposed to the group, according to a local anti-ISIS leader.

At least eight ISIS fighters had reportedly taken cover among dense reeds in Iraq's al-Rashad region, about 55 miles southwest of Kirkuk, in preparation for a surprise attack on local anti-ISIS tribesman when a herd of wild boars attacked the jihadists on Sunday, killing three. The militants likely disturbed the notoriously short-tempered animals, said Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and head of the group of local tribesmen who took up arms after ISIS took control of the nearby town of Hawija.[/QUOTE]
172.) Swamp Fox - 04/26/2017
Never underestimate the power of bacon.
173.) Swamp Fox - 05/03/2017
Also, never over-estimate the power of manure.


[url]http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/05/01/border-patrol-agents-bust-hearse-full-weed/[/url]
174.) bluecat - 05/03/2017
When the dog alerted, I wonder if the driver said "oh - - - - !".
175.) bluecat - 05/17/2017
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- A man wielding a sword reportedly robbed a downtown Topeka bank Tuesday morning.

Authorities say the suspect held up the Bank of America, 700 SW Topeka Blvd., around 9:30 a.m. Police not say how much money he may have taken.

The suspect has been taken into custody and was taken to the Law Enforcement Center, Topeka police say.

Shortly before the robbery, an officer reported seeing a suspicious man carrying a sword near the 10th and Topeka intersection. Police have not confirmed if that was the same person.



Huzzah!
176.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2017
LOL...


"Stand and deliver!"
177.) DParker - 05/17/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;48935]TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- A man wielding a sword reportedly robbed a downtown Topeka bank Tuesday morning.

Authorities say the suspect held up the Bank of America, 700 SW Topeka Blvd., around 9:30 a.m. Police not say how much money he may have taken.

The suspect has been taken into custody and was taken to the Law Enforcement Center, Topeka police say.

Shortly before the robbery, an officer reported seeing a suspicious man carrying a sword near the 10th and Topeka intersection. Police have not confirmed if that was the same person.



Huzzah![/QUOTE]

Police have released this artist's sketch of the suspect:

178.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2017
[B]Investigating officer[/B]: So, tell us how it went down, and maybe the prosecutor will go easy on you.

[B]Bank robber[/B]: Well, as I passed over Tenth Street and Topeka, I came on Teller Farrell, and his money he was countin'. I first produced me pistol, and then produced me rapier, said "Stand and deliver, or the Devil he may take ya!"
179.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2017
Musical interlude:


[I]Musha ring dumma do dumma da... Whack fol de daddy-o... Whack fol de daddy-o... There's whiskey in the jar.[/I]
180.) bluecat - 05/17/2017
"Give me all your Lupines or I'll run ya through."
181.) bluecat - 05/17/2017
That happened about 3 blocks from where I'm typing. LOL!
182.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2017
Be careful on the way home tonight.....



183.) Swamp Fox - 05/17/2017
Was that too much of a buzzkill?

Here, let me try to make things right...


184.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;48937]Police have released this artist's sketch of the suspect:

[/QUOTE]

It's only a flesh wound.
185.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"I'll bite yer legs off!"


:grin:
186.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;48937]Police have released this artist's sketch of the suspect:

[/QUOTE]

"Hmm, first, I think I'll run the customers through if there are any. Then jump up on the counter and slash my way through the tellers, bankers and then work my way over to the loan officers. Once I've hacked through all that, I can cut through the part-timers, women, children and then finally on to new accounts, safety deposit attendants and then make quick work of the notaries. I've got something special planned for the notaries."
187.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"Even with just this stump, I think it's doable."


"When I get fitted for my hook, I'll have to remember to not rub my eye."


"This is going to put a damper on that thing I do with my girlfriend."
188.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
The counter-clockwise swirl is right out.
189.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
LOL...
190.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;48966]
"When I get fitted for my hook, I'll have to remember to not rub my eye."
[/QUOTE]

"However, no need to go to Ace hardware and get those meat tongs I've been wanting. So I've got that going for me, which is nice."
191.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"But I WANT to be a pirate!"


192.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;48937]Police have released this artist's sketch of the suspect:

[/QUOTE]

"Who would have thought that 'career day' in school would have taken me to where I am now."
193.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
"I wanted to be a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree."
194.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."
195.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"Now that you mention it, that typing class WAS kind of a waste."
196.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
"Who'd have thought that sword sharpening class I took in 7th grade would have come in so handy."
197.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"I do regret not being more careful, though."
198.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"My mom said don't run, but did I listen?"
199.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
"Ironic, that I'm a master swordsman but can't shave my face worth a crap."
200.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"Maybe I WON'T try those mail-order razors I saw on TV."


[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/well/family/are-men-with-beards-more-desirable.html[/url]
201.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
"I picked the wrong week to quit black tar heroin."
202.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
LMAO!
203.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;48980]"Maybe I WON'T try those mail-order razors I saw on TV."


[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/well/family/are-men-with-beards-more-desirable.html[/url][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Brazilians preferred bigger beards than Czechs.[/QUOTE]

That is really good to know.
204.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
You have to know these things when you're a king...
205.) bluecat - 05/18/2017
"I feel like if I buckle down and take that chef class from the community college, I can get a job at the Hibachi Grill and pull some chicks."
206.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"Butterfly shrimp?!? I LAUGH at butterfly shrimp!"
207.) Swamp Fox - 05/18/2017
"The only good thing to come out of this Turkish bodyguard gig is that I got a killer shish kebab recipe..."
208.) bluecat - 05/19/2017
"I'm not wearing any underwear."
209.) Swamp Fox - 05/19/2017
At some point in Brazil, I don't think a beard is gonna help...



[QUOTE]Brazilians preferred bigger beards than Czechs.

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/w...desirable.html[/url][/QUOTE]











[url]https://sg.news.yahoo.com/brazilian-mermaids-ride-quirky-fashion-wave-060034808.html[/url]
210.) DParker - 05/19/2017
"Sorry, Charlie."

Now...let me save this thread with some different Brazilian scenery.



211.) Swamp Fox - 05/19/2017
Hey, it was on my Yahoo page...Which kinda tells you why Yahoo hasn't been my homepage for a while...LOL


But your post is much appreciated... :) ...Who doesn't like feathers?
212.) bluecat - 05/19/2017
Now [B]those[/B] are smokin' breasts.
213.) bluecat - 09/27/2017


This made my funny wheel getickle.
214.) DParker - 09/27/2017
+1. TheYankeeMarshall videos are usually a hoot.
215.) Swamp Fox - 09/27/2017
LOL ...

I love the part where he talks about youtubers freaking out about seeing a barrel pointed at the camera ... If this were ArcheryTalk, I'd have to explain myself, but it's not, so I won't ...

I was watching a video the other day and the guy did the required safety check on camera and then further explained that there was "no ammunition anywhere in the room"; that is always my absolute favorite.

Anytime somebody says that or writes it by way of advice or assurance, I just immediately go into an internal fit of laughter, imagining ammunition flying over from a far corner and loading itself into the gun ... even busting down the locked door and entering from another room.
216.) Swamp Fox - 10/31/2017
Breaking News----



[B][SIZE=2]WOMEN CAN BE PSYCHOPATHS TOO—THEY'RE JUST BETTER AT HIDING THEIR TRUE NATURES[/SIZE][/B]


[url]www..com/female-psychopatnewsweekhs-subtle-dangerous-personality-696921[/url]





"This can't be good ..."



LOL
217.) bluecat - 11/01/2017
218.) Swamp Fox - 11/01/2017
LOL! --- I almost missed this!

+4
219.) DParker - 11/01/2017
[URL="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4807750/madagascar-plague-spreading-relatives-dancing-corpses-black-death-famadihana/"]DANCING WITH DEATH Madagascar plague is spreading because relatives are digging up their Black Death corpses and DANCING as part of ancient Famadihana ritual[/URL]

"Here's one -- nine pence."

"I'm not dead!"

"What?"

"Nothing -- here's your nine pence."

"I'm not dead!"

"Here -- he says he's not dead!"

"Yes, he is."

"I'm not!"

"He isn't."

"Well, he will be soon, he's very ill."

"I'm getting better!"
220.) bluecat - 11/01/2017
221.) Swamp Fox - 11/01/2017
I'm thinking there's at least one Monty Python or Fawlty Towers sketch that mentions Madagascar. Or am I just imagining that?
[QUOTE]
\t
NEW LEMUR SPECIES NAMED AFTER JOHN CLEESE
by Hans ten Cate
Sunday, 20 November 2005


Avahi cleesei weighs around a kilogram and eats leaves and buds. It is classified as "endangered" by the World Conservation Union. The lemur belongs to the wollmaki group, but is set apart from its nearest relation by its lighter fur colour and facial markings.

The media has been aflurry with reports that a new species of lemur, discovered in a remote part of Madagascar, has been named after John Cleese. The news was first reported in the 12 November 2005 issue of New Scientist magazine.

[...]

"I was really touched, and indeed, honoured when Urs Thalmann told me they would like to name the lemur after me," Cleese told a Swiss newspaper. "I'm absurdly fond of the little creatures, and if I had to show any of my programmes to St Peter, upon my arrival at the Pearly Gates, I think I would show him my documentary made about them in Madagascar.

[...]


Urs Thalmann led the discovery of Cleese's woolly lemur in Madagascar
The small woolly Avahi cleesei has been classified as endangered by the World Conservation Union. Thalmann also told the New Scientist magazine that long legs are not the only attribute lemurs share with Cleese. "Woolly lemurs can't really walk - but they do enjoy silly jumps," he said.

The Science of Monty Python?

This is not the first time that a Python has been honored by a scientific finding in their name.

In 1985, two anthropologists, Meredith Smith and Michael Plane, discovered a fossil of a 15 million year-old python at a site near the Sleigh River in Queensland, Australia. They named the seemingly new genus of snake montypythonoides riversleighensis. The snake was later reclassified by Arnold Kluge in 1993 to be synonymous with morelia spilota, an Australian carpet python still in existence.

In 1997, an asteroid was named after Monty Python. Asteroid 13681, officially named Monty Python, was discovered 7 August 1997 by Miloš Tichý and Zdenek Moravec at Klet Observatory near Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic. The asteroid will make its next closest approach to Earth on 24 April 2006 (and will pass within nearly 1.87 Astronomical Units from Earth).

A series of asteroids have also been named after the individual members of Monty Python. In 1992 and 1993, an effort called the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets was undertaken to find previously undetected comets in the vicinity of Jupiter. They found thousands. The six asteroids in question were discovered on 17 and 21 March 1993 by Swedish astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. The asteroids were each named after the Pythons, in alphabetical order:

Grahamchapman - Asteroid 9617 (1993 FA5) - discovered 17 March 1993
Johncleese - Asteroid 9618 (1993 FQ8) - discovered 17 March 1993
Terrygilliam - Asteroid 9619 (1993 FS9) - discovered 17 March 1993
Ericidle - Asteroid 9620 (1993 FU13) - discovered 17 March 1993
Michaelpalin - Asteroid 9621 (1993 FT26) - discovered 21 March 1993
Terryjones - Asteroid 9622 (1993 FV26) - discovered 21 March 1993

[url]http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2005/llama300.html[/url]
[/QUOTE]
222.) Swamp Fox - 11/01/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;52871]I'm thinking there's at least one Monty Python or Fawlty Towers sketch that mentions Madagascar. Or am I just imagining that?[/QUOTE]


If we were talking about Sardinia, I'd have it knocked out cold ...
223.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2017

224.) DParker - 11/20/2017
LOL!
225.) bluecat - 11/20/2017
226.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2017
It never gets old ... LOL
227.) DParker - 11/20/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53234]It never gets old ... LOL[/QUOTE]

Well, it does...but there's a pill (actually, more than one) for that.
228.) Swamp Fox - 11/20/2017
SAD!


(+3)


LOL
229.) DParker - 11/20/2017
The latest left-wing pundit to be busted for sexual harassment? Charlie Rose.

[URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/eight-women-say-charlie-rose-sexually-harassed-them--with-nudity-groping-and-lewd-calls/2017/11/20/9b168de8-caec-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.324ad74c5134"]Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them — with nudity, groping and lewd calls[/URL]

[QUOTE]"I have learned a great deal as a result of these events..."[/QUOTE]

Because up until now, ol' Charlie somehow managed to make it to 75 years of age without realizing that groping, parading around naked in front of and making unwanted lewd phone calls to young women who are already work for you or who are trying to become an employee is....y'know....kinda' inappropriate. Who knew?
230.) bluecat - 11/20/2017
I bet his wife is helping him learn.
231.) bluecat - 11/20/2017
Nudity, groping and lewd calls? Sounds like Thanksgiving at the bluecat household.
232.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
LOL, BC ...


Following closely on the heels of self-described hack and well-known tool Glenn Thrush, so I think we're up to around two a day now ...


What are the chances that Piers Morgan has his stuff together when it comes to women, girls or young boys?


Google Piers Morgan + Church firearms + Big Macs or something like that to catch up, and prepare to be awestruck by the particularly deadly stupidity. :wink


Spoiler alert --- It goes sideways from here:




233.) DParker - 11/21/2017
That's what my son likes to call "pants-on-head stupid".
234.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
Like it. Prolly gonna steal it.
235.) bluecat - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53242]LOL, BC ...


Following closely on the heels of self-described hack and well-known tool Glenn Thrush, so I think we're up to around two a day now ...


What are the chances that Piers Morgan has his stuff together when it comes to women, girls or young boys?


Google Piers Morgan + Church firearms + Big Macs or something like that to catch up, and prepare to be awestruck by the particularly deadly stupidity. :wink


Spoiler alert --- It goes sideways from here:




[/QUOTE]

There is a lot of good stuff there. I think my favorite was "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
236.) bluecat - 11/21/2017


Charles Manson
237.) DParker - 11/21/2017
It's about time.
238.) DParker - 11/21/2017
Here's a two-for-one...a textbook example of when idiots collide, coupled with a great lesson in how NOT to handle confrontations. This happened 2 Sundays ago in Killeen, TX (about 30 miles north of Austin). First, the news story for background...

[URL="http://kdhnews.com/news/local/individual-in-sunday-shooting-related-to-kpd-employee/article_87023472-cbde-11e7-b02f-f755c62f1938.html"]http://kdhnews.com/news/local/individual-in-sunday-shooting-related-to-kpd-employee/article_87023472-cbde-11e7-b02f-f755c62f1938.html[/URL]

...and now a video of the incident (it's from LiveLeak, so I can't embed it).

[URL="https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=298_1511216541"]https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=298_1511216541[/URL]

More stupidity on both sides than you can shake a stick at. White t-shirt guy's troubles are over. Shotgun boy's problems are just getting started.
239.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53250]It's about time.[/QUOTE]


I had a scrapbook going of news clippings of the case when I was a kid. Don't ask me why. Looking back on it, it was a pretty grisly thing to be interested in. The only other thing I remember pasting in those old notebooks (black and white hard-covered "Composition" notebooks---Remember them?) was Minnesota Vikings stories and pics, and pictures of motorcycles, LOL.

It's kind of amazing that with Manson all tee'd up, California picks that moment to do away with the death penalty and the U.S. Supreme Court makes the state's successful referendum to reinstate a moot point. Not sure why there was a need to commute the sentence to life with the possibility of parole.

Not aware of procedural or due process issues with the trial that would interfere with letting the original sentence stand for a future "super-duper court-approved" execution. The only reason for such a move that I can think of is some requirement for the possibility of parole. That seems inappropriate after a just, clean death penalty has been handed down, particularly in this case.

Once Manson's death sentence was commuted, there was no way to reinstate it. I have to believe there's some legal eagle reason that has to be so, because that doesn't make a whole lot of sense on the face of it, either.

Other than taking Manson's word for it that living was harder than dying-- that he preferred to die-- the legal system failed the families, law enforcement and the justice system in this case.


[url]http://www.history.com/news/charles-manson-was-sentenced-to-death-why-wasnt-he-executed[/url]
240.) bluecat - 11/21/2017
:-):-)

When idiots collide...
241.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53251]Here's a two-for-one...a textbook example of when idiots collide, coupled with a great lesson in how NOT to handle confrontations. This happened 2 Sundays ago in Killeen, TX (about 30 miles north of Austin). First, the news story for background...

[URL="http://kdhnews.com/news/local/individual-in-sunday-shooting-related-to-kpd-employee/article_87023472-cbde-11e7-b02f-f755c62f1938.html"]http://kdhnews.com/news/local/individual-in-sunday-shooting-related-to-kpd-employee/article_87023472-cbde-11e7-b02f-f755c62f1938.html[/URL]

...and now a video of the incident (it's from LiveLeak, so I can't embed it).

[URL="https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=298_1511216541"]https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=298_1511216541[/URL]

More stupidity on both sides than you can shake a stick at. White t-shirt guy's troubles are over. Shotgun boy's problems are just getting started.[/QUOTE]


Excellent camera work after the shot. :bang:

Any idea about what it was all about?
242.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53251]Here's a two-for-one...a textbook example of when idiots collide, coupled with a great lesson in how NOT to handle confrontations. This happened 2 Sundays ago in Killeen, TX (about 30 miles north of Austin). First, the news story for background...

[URL="http://kdhnews.com/news/local/individual-in-sunday-shooting-related-to-kpd-employee/article_87023472-cbde-11e7-b02f-f755c62f1938.html"]http://kdhnews.com/news/local/individual-in-sunday-shooting-related-to-kpd-employee/article_87023472-cbde-11e7-b02f-f755c62f1938.html[/URL]

...and now a video of the incident (it's from LiveLeak, so I can't embed it).

[URL="https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=298_1511216541"]https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=298_1511216541[/URL]

More stupidity on both sides than you can shake a stick at. White t-shirt guy's troubles are over. Shotgun boy's problems are just getting started.[/QUOTE]


Excellent camera work after the shot. :bang:

Any idea about what it was all about?
243.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53253]:-):-)

When idiots collide...[/QUOTE]



I see your dumb turkeys (+4) and raise you whatever this is:


244.) DParker - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53254]Excellent camera work after the shot. :bang:

Any idea about what it was all about?[/QUOTE]

No more than what's in the news story I linked to. Whatever it was, I can't imagine that it justified any of the multiple layers of stupidity on display.
245.) DParker - 11/21/2017
Here you go, North Carolina tax-payers. This is what a quarter million of your hard-earned dollars buys you:

[URL="http://abc11.com/politics/durham-spends-$20000-on-new-logo/2678127/"]Durham spends $20,000 on new logo[/URL]

[URL="http://abc11.com/society/raleigh-residents-react-to-citys-pricey-new-logo/2624736/"]City leaders say Raleigh's new $226,000 logo worth it[/URL]

Because they totally couldn't have achieved the same...or better...results by setting up contests with, say, a $5K prize each for high school graphic arts students.

Gubmint.
246.) DParker - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53253]:-):-)

When idiots collide...[/QUOTE]

Needs more Yakkity Sax.
247.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53259]Needs more Yakkity Sax.[/QUOTE]

Also a cameraman or mount that can handle a small video camera. I thought it was going to sink completely out of the shot two or three times, LOL.
248.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53258]Here you go, North Carolina tax-payers. This is what a quarter million of your hard-earned dollars buys you:

[URL="http://abc11.com/politics/durham-spends-$20000-on-new-logo/2678127/"]Durham spends $20,000 on new logo[/URL]

[URL="http://abc11.com/society/raleigh-residents-react-to-citys-pricey-new-logo/2624736/"]City leaders say Raleigh's new $226,000 logo worth it[/URL]

Because they totally couldn't have achieved the same...or better...results by setting up contests with, say, a $5K prize each for high school graphic arts students.

Gubmint.[/QUOTE]



Amazing.

I can see why the Channell 11 site wants to reduce the number of articles which have a comments section. If you read what goes on in local government, you'd naturally want to post angry comments. It's like a reflex when you're hit in the knee with a hammer. Shifting comments to Facebook is a shickenchit move.


[QUOTE]It's the first of its kind for the capital city, which has never had a logo.[/QUOTE]



It's kind of like they've never had common sense or a budget, either.


My proposal is these stories be included in corporate recruiting and regional cheerleading materials for potential transplants. Not sure a quarter million taxpayer dollars for two crap logos will deter anyone trying to escape California, but it's worth a shot.
249.) bluecat - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53259]Needs more Yakkity Sax.[/QUOTE]

That would have been perfect. The two idiots squaring off reminded me of a couple of turkeys about to do some chest bumps. That was all I could find at the moment.
250.) DParker - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53263]I can see why the Channell 11 site wants to reduce the number of articles which have a comments section. If you read what goes on in local government, you'd naturally want to post angry comments. It's like a reflex when you're hit in the knee with a hammer. Shifting comments to Facebook is a shickenchit move.[/QUOTE]

I don't know what the deal is with the Durham story, but the Raleigh one has an active Disqus-powered comments section at the bottom.
251.) bluecat - 11/21/2017
[url]http://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/19/lois-lerner-holly-paz-want-testimony-sealed-perman/[/url]

Ms. Lerner and Holly Paz, her deputy at the IRS, filed documents in court Thursday saying tapes and transcripts of depositions they gave in a court case this year must remain sealed in perpetuity, or else they could spur an enraged public to retaliate.

:worlds_smallest_violin_icon
252.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
I read the Durham story first and saw their notice about phasing out comments sections, then didn't look when I read the Raleigh story. I'll put the uneven treatment down to incompetence and unwillingness to pay for staff rather than something as high-sounding as they describe.

I only have a surface idea of what Disqus is all about. I read that the comments sections were "shifting to Facebook." Why would one want to go to Facebook to comment when the story is right there on ... you know... the news site? They're complaining about moderating the news site, so they must be unable to moderate Facebook AND the news site? Seems like a FB comments section would be the stankier cessspool. Every FB-eligible comments section I can think of rolled quickly downhill after opening up to "FB." Maybe it's really Disqus I'm complaining about?

A shame either way.


Insert "That's not how it works" meme here if appropriate ... LOL
253.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53267][url]http://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/19/lois-lerner-holly-paz-want-testimony-sealed-perman/[/url]

Ms. Lerner and Holly Paz, her deputy at the IRS, filed documents in court Thursday saying tapes and transcripts of depositions they gave in a court case this year must remain sealed in perpetuity, or else they could spur an enraged public to retaliate.

:worlds_smallest_violin_icon[/QUOTE]



Democratic National Committee was broadcasting propaganda film calling Ted "Leave 'Em Moist and Breathless" Kennedy a champion of women's rights at presidential convention in 2012, and Dems only just now getting around to calling out Bill Clinton for rape and skirt-chasing, so what's the rush about a little abusive bureaucracy, perjury and obstruction of justice?

Give it a few decades.
254.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
Hang in 'til at least 40 seconds in if you can make it past the part where "the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."


255.) bluecat - 11/21/2017
I understand that time will oftentimes expand one's waistline but I just never understand how certain people's heads get so large over time.
256.) bluecat - 11/21/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53270]Hang in 'til at least 40 seconds in if you can make it past the part where "the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."


[/QUOTE]



For full effect play both videos, play turkey video with sound up and turn sound down on democraps.
257.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
LOL ...

Golden video editing opportunity there for the right person ....


LOL
258.) Swamp Fox - 11/21/2017
BC, you should play some of these at your Thanksgiving dinner ... LOL
259.) Swamp Fox - 12/06/2017

260.) DParker - 12/11/2017
Well, if you haven't already gotten your 2018 Rachel Dolezal calendar, it's too late now. Apparently they sold both of them:

[URL="http://racheldolezal.com/index.php/product/2018-calendar/"]2018 Calendar featuring photos of Rachel Dolezal by four portrait photographers & her own inspirational quotes. - SOLD OUT![/URL]



Best comment I've seen: "Is it in black and white?"
261.) bluecat - 12/11/2017
Can't a sister get some love?
262.) bluecat - 12/11/2017
Mario Batali steps away from business, TV show amid sexual misconduct allegations

[url]http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/11/media/mario-batali-sexual-misconduct-allegations/index.html[/url]


Are you as surprised as I am? I thought he was into dudes too.
263.) DParker - 12/11/2017
And liberals made fun of Mike Pence's "never be alone with a woman who isn't my wife" policy. It's sounding like some pretty damned sage advice now.
264.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53692]Well, if you haven't already gotten your 2018 Rachel Dolezal calendar, it's too late now. Apparently they sold both of them:


Best comment I've seen: "Is it in black and white?"[/QUOTE]


Shaun King approves.
265.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2017
Did you see where the ultra-relevant Barack Obama is going to make robocalls into Alabama in hopes of pulling out a Democrat victory in the special election? (Keep dreaming.)

I wonder why they don't get Hillary to climb aboard the pander-wagon?

She ain't noways tahrred ...


266.) DParker - 12/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53697]Shaun King approves.[/QUOTE]



267.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2017
LOL...The Straight Out one is a new one on me, I think ...LOL


[QUOTE=DParker;53696]And liberals made fun of Mike Pence's "never be alone with a woman who isn't my wife" policy. It's sounding like some pretty damned sage advice now.[/QUOTE]

I think I posted a link about this recently, but can't seem to find it right now. If I remember, it had some comedy value if you're running low.

In the meantime:


268.) DParker - 12/11/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53700]
[/QUOTE]

LOL!
269.) DParker - 12/11/2017
I like this one too...


270.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2017
He's very funny. I used to catch him on [I]Red Eye,[/I] which I really miss.
271.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2017

272.) DParker - 12/11/2017
He is now my first ever Twitter follow.
273.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2017
I'm up to 1999 on my DVR's [I]Complete South Park Collection[/I], so this came up the other night.

I can't shake the feeling that if they'd just substituted something like this when they eliminated dodgeball from the schools, instead of [I]Heather Has Two Mommies[/I], we wouldn't be in this mess.

But then again ...

(Maybe get rid of that annoying vocabulary class now, if we have to make another adjustment.)


274.) Swamp Fox - 12/11/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53706]He is now my first ever Twitter follow.[/QUOTE]


LOL ...You're welcome. :beer:
275.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=DParker;53692]Well, if you haven't already gotten your 2018 Rachel Dolezal calendar, it's too late now. Apparently they sold both of them:

[URL="http://racheldolezal.com/index.php/product/2018-calendar/"]2018 Calendar featuring photos of Rachel Dolezal by four portrait photographers & her own inspirational quotes. - SOLD OUT![/URL]



Best comment I've seen: "Is it in black and white?"[/QUOTE]

Looks like the pic got taken down. Flagged as tasteless porn? LOL!
276.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
I still see the pic.

She has the most clothes on that I've ever seen in a pin-up calendar, including my Women of Fur Trapping and Warm Winter Coats Calendar 2013 ...

I wonder what that means?

I'd love to have been in the room when somebody came up with this or pitched the idea ...

"How about an inspirational Rachel Dolezal calendar where she's lying around on various objects showing some shoulder? We'd need somebody from the greeting card industry to come up with some aphorisms, though ..."
277.) DParker - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53713]She has the most clothes on that I've ever seen in a pin-up calendar [/QUOTE]

I'll assume that's an expression of gratitude.
278.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
LOL! ... +3
279.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
Rachel's expose on the objectification of woman in 3..2..1..
280.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53719]Rachel's expose on the objectification of woman in 3..2..1..[/QUOTE]


Did you just assume [her] gender? :jd::bad:
281.) bluecat - 12/12/2017
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;53721]Did you just assume [her] gender? :jd::bad:[/QUOTE]

I should have put ...from a black man's perspective.
282.) Swamp Fox - 12/12/2017
You know what your problem is? You see a woman lolling around showing herself off and you immediately think about sex. What you should be thinking about is social justice, self-actualization and female empowerment.

I don't know how many times I have to explain this.
283.) bluecat - 12/21/2017
[url]https://www.ispot.tv/ad/w1QC/my-pillow-premium-best-sleep-of-your-life[/url]

Okay, this is really bugging me. You got two people side by side talking to Mike. Mike acts like they are 10 feet apart. Look at him going from person to person with his eyes. Ridiculous. Obviously when they filmed the commercial they told him to look back and forth to simulate addressing each person.

Someone needs to step in and put an end to all this nonsense.
284.) bluecat - 12/29/2017
62 users online right now...
285.) Swamp Fox - 12/29/2017
Shhh ... You just scared 14 of them away.
286.) bluecat - 12/29/2017
Bad breath?
287.) Swamp Fox - 12/29/2017
More likely your refusal to post cat videos ...
288.) bluecat - 12/29/2017
I've got one I've been saving. It's a little kitten playing in some yarn. Do you think that would bring them back?
289.) Swamp Fox - 12/29/2017
Not sure. I believe the trend is for cats jumping out of paper bags right now.
290.) bluecat - 12/29/2017
Dang it, I waited too long. I should have gone with my gut a year ago.
291.) bluecat - 12/29/2017
The ol' wiffle ball in the nuts doesn't go out of style does it?
292.) Swamp Fox - 12/29/2017
[QUOTE=bluecat;53974]Dang it, I waited too long. I should have gone with my gut a year ago.[/QUOTE]



These things are cyclical. Yarn will come back around eventually.
293.) bluecat - 12/29/2017
It's gotten so competitive. I remember when it was just people falling on ice or re-enacting wrestling moves in the living room. I can't keep up.
294.) Swamp Fox - 12/29/2017
You really have to bring your A-game if you want likes.





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295.) Swamp Fox - 12/29/2017

296.) bluecat - 01/09/2018


Saw this on Craig's List. Had to share.

LOL!
297.) Swamp Fox - 01/09/2018
LOL ...+5

:grin:
298.) DParker - 01/09/2018
My wife might read this, so I definitely didn't find that even the least bit funny. No sir, not me.
299.) bluecat - 01/10/2018
I wondered if that would be too soon for you DP. Ain't she cute? You know you like her.
300.) DParker - 01/10/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54159]I wondered if that would be too soon for you DP. Ain't she cute? You know you like her.[/QUOTE]

I was referring to the getting-rid-of-the-wife part. :wink
301.) bluecat - 01/10/2018
302.) DParker - 01/10/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54161][/QUOTE]

That guy is definitely triggered.
303.) bluecat - 01/10/2018
304.) Swamp Fox - 01/10/2018
LOL ...


You know, now that they're excited about getting Oprah to run, maybe they'll calm TF down and accept reality ... :omg:

LOL
305.) DParker - 01/10/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54164]LOL ...


You know, now that they're excited about getting Oprah to run, maybe they'll calm TF down and accept reality ... :omg:

LOL[/QUOTE]

This the woman who was just lauded for her #metoo empowerment speech at the Golden Globes (by the same crowd that openly defends...even celebrates...Roman "I like 'em under-aged and drugged-up" Polanski".

306.) Swamp Fox - 01/10/2018
Too lazy to do the meme:


"Hypocrisy! ... Hypocrisy everywhere!"
307.) Swamp Fox - 01/28/2018

308.) bluecat - 01/28/2018
The mint on the pillow seems to draw them back.
309.) bluecat - 02/02/2018


:-)
310.) DParker - 02/05/2018
311.) DParker - 02/13/2018
Journalism.

[URL="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-met-pfchangs-chicago-inc-20180212-story.html"]WLS-Ch.7 blames graphics 'mix-up' for confusion between P.F. Chang's and Pyeongchang[/URL]
312.) bluecat - 02/14/2018


So does that mean everyone is going to P.F. Chang's tonight?
313.) Swamp Fox - 02/15/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;54525]Journalism.

[URL="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-met-pfchangs-chicago-inc-20180212-story.html"]WLS-Ch.7 blames graphics 'mix-up' for confusion between P.F. Chang's and Pyeongchang[/URL][/QUOTE]



Can we blame it on dumb-as-shit under-35's and just be really honest?
314.) bluecat - 03/07/2018
Golden Globes viewership was down 19% and all the pundits can't figure out why. LOL! :cf:

I heard them theorizing this morning. Dipshits.
315.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2018
Today's Democratic Party, ladies and gentlemen:



316.) bluecat - 03/09/2018
My understanding of the situation is that once Trump got information that the money from safari's doesn't end up in conservation and the meat doesn't end up feeding the village people, I believe he put a moratorium on the importation of elephant mounts. Correct me if I'm wrong. Michael Savage was talking about it on his radio program a few days ago. I believe Michael even helped influence the decision.



Democrats have to hate and put down what they don't know or understand. That's what they do.

You are different, therefore, I hate you and am superior to you.
317.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2018
I wouldn't trust anything Michael Savage says on hunting, period. I haven't listened to him in years and I was never anywhere close to regular, but when "Michael Savage" and "hunting" are on the SAT, my answer is "bleeding heart."

The issue of big game hunting in Africa is complicated. Some countries do it right in regard to "sensitive" species, and others are apparently not so angelic.

I will try to find a few items to let you know where I'm coming from.

Also note that any threat to elephants is PRIMARILY coming from poaching, not regulated hunting, no matter how poorly administered.
318.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;54874]
You are different, therefore, I hate you and am superior to you.[/QUOTE]


Political disagreements become a question of morality.

"Not only do I disagree with you, but you are a bad person and morally corrupt."

Evil, even.
319.) DParker - 03/10/2018
"Literally"
320.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2018
"Literally complicit."


It's like they've discovered the word "complicit."
321.) bluecat - 03/10/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;54878]I wouldn't trust anything Michael Savage says on hunting, period. I haven't listened to him in years and I was never anywhere close to regular, but when "Michael Savage" and "hunting" are on the SAT, my answer is "bleeding heart."

The issue of big game hunting in Africa is complicated. Some countries do it right in regard to "sensitive" species, and others are apparently not so angelic.

I will try to find a few items to let you know where I'm coming from.

Also note that any threat to elephants is PRIMARILY coming from poaching, not regulated hunting, no matter how poorly administered.[/QUOTE]

Anybody you do like? Lol
322.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2018
Nah ... They're pretty much all pansy bastards ... :wink


If that opinion makes me a lonely boy, so be it ...



323.) DParker - 03/16/2018
Apparently someone cranked the dial on this Georgian (country, not state) ski lift to 11.

[video=youtube;ydL6dg4WJ7c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydL6dg4WJ7c[/video]
324.) bluecat - 03/16/2018


I think I know where the engineering came from.
325.) DParker - 03/16/2018
I think you're onto something there.
326.) Swamp Fox - 03/17/2018
I had some Hot Wheels track but I don't remember the houses. I remember a simple elevated down-ramp.

But Hot Wheels were boss.
327.) bluecat - 03/17/2018
The super charger were two wheels that propelled car forward.
328.) Swamp Fox - 03/17/2018
That's what I figured ... Technology ...
329.) bluecat - 03/17/2018
Where it gets exciting is hooking it up backward and sending the cars into a wheel of death. Ask me how I know.
330.) DParker - 03/17/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55000]The super charger were two wheels that propelled car forward.[/QUOTE]

They were also great for launching most anything else you could feed into them across the house.
331.) Swamp Fox - 03/24/2018
In case of home invasion, keep your wits about you and your priorities straight:



332.) DParker - 03/30/2018
"I am woman, hear me roar..."

[URL="http://www.wavy.com/news/first-rule-of-weekend-debate-championship-no-men-allowed/1088262274"]...that is, unless that would require me to compete intellectually with men, in which case I need a no-Y-chromosomes-allowed safe space.[/URL]
333.) bluecat - 03/30/2018
[QUOTE]UVM debate director Helen Morgan-Parmett says the tournament provides a safe space where "people feel they are debating other women, and their bodies aren't necessarily on display."[/QUOTE]

Yeah, well you're ugly! It's a little debating tip I picked up a long time ago. You're welcome.
334.) DParker - 03/30/2018
I spent two years on my high school debate team and traveled to a lot of competitions, and I somehow missed all the events where the women's bodies were on display. And this was the free-love '70s. Man...always a day late and a dollar short.
335.) bluecat - 03/30/2018
My high school basically was divided into two groups. Athletes and real men and the glee club, horse tack and knitting types.

I don't recall any groups where woman's bodies were on display either or I would have joined somehow. Even if it was just to be an oil boy.
336.) Swamp Fox - 03/31/2018
LOL ....


I've got news for these delicate flowers: Your bodies are on display unless you choose to wear potato sacks ... And even then ...



"I mean, if I went 'round sayin' my body was on display every time some moistened bint made googley eyes at me, they'd put me away!"
337.) bluecat - 03/31/2018
I'm getting the feeling we wouldn't want to see them anyway.
338.) Swamp Fox - 03/31/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55335]My high school basically was divided into two groups. Athletes and real men and the glee club, horse tack and knitting types.

I don't recall any groups where woman's bodies were on display either or I would have joined somehow. Even if it was just to be an oil boy.[/QUOTE]


Horse tack ... English or Western?


It would be amusing to witness high school girls in breeches OR Wranglers complain about their bodies being on display ...


I'm sure they have no idea what they're doing when they get dressed in the morning ...
339.) bluecat - 03/31/2018
Don't know, I was in the gym pumping iron.
340.) Swamp Fox - 03/31/2018
You poor bastard.

You could have been watching girls ride horses.


341.) DParker - 03/31/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55341]Don't know, I was in the gym pumping iron.[/QUOTE]

Was that when you started dreaming of becoming Gov of Cahleefournia?

342.) bluecat - 03/31/2018
+2 for the California dreaming reference.
+2 for the current events Arnold reference.
343.) Swamp Fox - 04/01/2018
Isn't there a joke or what would have been a meme back in the day about "I was in the gym pumping iron" ?



Anyhoo ...This is what I came up with:

#UnderratedBands


344.) bluecat - 04/01/2018
One of my favorites.
345.) DParker - 04/05/2018
[URL="https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-london-43639183"]78 year-old Southeast London man somehow gets the best of 1 of the 2 thugs who broke into his home...and he's arrested on suspicion of murder.[/URL]
346.) bluecat - 04/05/2018
If he'd used a screwdriver like his assailant?
347.) DParker - 04/05/2018
I'm betting he did...as in turning the punk's own weapon against him.
348.) Swamp Fox - 04/05/2018
One of my favorite things lately is watching British serfs blow hot ass gas out their mouths about the American Constitution ...
349.) Swamp Fox - 04/05/2018
Just an observation ...
350.) Swamp Fox - 04/06/2018
[ATTACH]577[/ATTACH] .....
351.) Swamp Fox - 04/06/2018
[ATTACH]578[/ATTACH] ....
352.) DParker - 04/11/2018
I have to keep reminding myself that I need to add, "Don't bring your pocketknife" to my UK trip packing checklist, so as to prevent myself from ending up in prison there.

[URL="http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/crime-court/hackney-gang-cop-stop-and-search-works-we-seized-hundreds-of-knives-last-year-1-5393588"]Hackney gang cop: Stop and search works – we seized hundreds of knives last year[/URL]

Note the terrifying weapons stockpile in the 4th photo. I count multiple pairs of scissors, Swiss Army knives (with corkscrews!)...but mostly ordinary kitchen implements. It's a wonder that there's anyone left alive over there.

Competing philosophies:

353.) bluecat - 04/11/2018
I noticed a "Wonderbar" in there. LOL, So how do they get nails out in England?
354.) DParker - 04/11/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55560]I noticed a "Wonderbar" in there. LOL, So how do they get nails out in England?[/QUOTE]

Nails are steel and pointy, and are therefor banned.

Yet another situation where this is called for.

[video=youtube;U90dnUbZMmM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90dnUbZMmM[/video]
355.) bluecat - 04/11/2018
I think I found a letter opener too. Where's Waldo?
356.) DParker - 04/11/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55562]I think I found a letter opener too. Where's Waldo?[/QUOTE]

357.) Swamp Fox - 04/11/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55560]I noticed a "Wonderbar" in there. LOL, So how do they get [B][COLOR="#008000"]Nialls[/COLOR][/B] out in England?[/QUOTE]




You keep sending British troops after them for 800 years, and think about if you can keep it up ... LOL
358.) Swamp Fox - 04/11/2018
[url]https://www.babynamesofireland.com/audio/niall.mp3[/url]




This, just because if I stay on that track, I will be taking y'all down a rabbit hole:


(Alex, can you fix the music thread? ---Thx.)



359.) Swamp Fox - 04/12/2018
Has anyone heard what the Tide Pod-eating, condom-snorting future leaders of the country and present leaders of the gun control movement think about British knife control?


[I]Slate[/I] had a piece recently wondering "why are American conservatives talking about British knife control?" [paraphrasing] ... I didn't read it to figure out if they were really clueless or if they were just posing a headline question.

Knowing Slate, I'm laying odds about 60-40.
360.) Swamp Fox - 04/12/2018
This is good, since Bluecat was talking about how he's picky about getting slurpies down at the 7-11:


[B]Why, as an Indian American, the Apu Simpsons Controversy Bothers Me[/B]


[url]https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/the-simpsons-apu-controversy-absurd-shallow/[/url]
361.) bluecat - 04/12/2018
I can't keep up with you Swampy.
362.) Swamp Fox - 04/12/2018
:-)

I got a lot of irons in the fire ...


I'm an idea man.


363.) bluecat - 04/12/2018
"Nice frame." Lol!
364.) Swamp Fox - 04/13/2018
365.) bluecat - 04/13/2018
We live in a ridiculous society.
366.) DParker - 04/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55581][/QUOTE]

Uh-oh...we're stuck in a meme loop....

[URL="http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2366-Official-2017-Odds-and-Sods-Thread&p=55559&viewfull=1#post55559"]http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2366-Official-2017-Odds-and-Sods-Thread&p=55559&viewfull=1#post55559[/URL]
367.) bluecat - 04/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55292]

Come at me, bro.

[/QUOTE]

lol!
368.) DParker - 04/13/2018
I'm not a religious man, nor am I even a big fan of Chick-fil-A (except for their breakfast chicken biscuits...those things are habit-forming)....but this makes me want to stop by one on the way home for dinner, just because:

[URL="https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/04/13/have-a-sandwich-the-new-yorker-loses-their-sht-over-chick-fil-as-christian-infiltration-of-nyc/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget"]‘HAVE A SANDWICH’! The New Yorker LOSES THEIR SH*T over Chick-fil-A’s Christian ‘infiltration’ of NYC[/URL]



(Shamelessly stolen from one of the responding tweets)
369.) Swamp Fox - 04/13/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;55584]Uh-oh...we're stuck in a meme loop....

[URL="http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2366-Official-2017-Odds-and-Sods-Thread&p=55559&viewfull=1#post55559"]http://forums.huntingcountry.com/forums/showthread.php?2366-Official-2017-Odds-and-Sods-Thread&p=55559&viewfull=1#post55559[/URL][/QUOTE]




If you posted that in Post 348, it's not showing on my end. The post ends [QUOTE]Competing philosophies: [/QUOTE] and that is followed by no text and no image.


Maybe Alex's hosting privileges should be suspended ....:-)



+4 for the meme if you got there first. :beer:
370.) DParker - 04/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55587]If you posted that in Post 348, it's not showing on my end. The post ends and that is followed by no text and no image.


Maybe Alex's hosting privileges should be suspended ....:-)



+4 for the meme if you got there first. :beer:[/QUOTE]

Yeah, something is seriously screwed up. It was actually post #362, but when I click the link it displays as post #348.

Damned Russians.
371.) Swamp Fox - 04/13/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;55586]‘HAVE A SANDWICH’! The New Yorker LOSES THEIR SH*T over Chick-fil-A’s Christian ‘infiltration’ of NYC[/URL]

[/QUOTE]



We're told that NYC is the cultural capital of the nation because of its diversity.

It has both kinds of people: bigots AND morons.







[B]They called 911 to report a tiger in New York City, but that wasn’t quite right
[/B]


[url]http://abcnews.go.com/US/called-911-report-tiger-york-city-wasnt/story?id=54422500[/url]
372.) Swamp Fox - 04/13/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55587]If you posted that in Post 348, it's not showing on my end. The post ends and that is followed by no text and no image.


Maybe Alex's hosting privileges should be suspended ....:-)



+4 for the meme if you got there first. :beer:[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;55588]Yeah, something is seriously screwed up. It was actually post #362, but when I click the link it displays as post #348.

Damned Russians.[/QUOTE]


LOL ...

After your Cheech and Chong post, it shows there is another page. When you try to go to it, it takes you to the top of the page you were just on.

It's like the last page is an illusion, man.
373.) DParker - 04/14/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55590]LOL ...

After your Cheech and Chong post, it shows there is another page. When you try to go to it, it takes you to the top of the page you were just on.

It's like the last page is an illusion, man.[/QUOTE]

I think posting a pic of St. Mattis twice on the same page was just too much badassness, and it tore an interdimensional hole in the fabric of cyberspace.
374.) DParker - 04/14/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55589][B]They called 911 to report a tiger in New York City, but that wasn’t quite right
[/B]


[url]http://abcnews.go.com/US/called-911-report-tiger-york-city-wasnt/story?id=54422500[/url][/QUOTE]

ROFLMAO!
375.) bluecat - 04/14/2018
The good news is that a perfectly healthy harmless animal was put down.
376.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2018




377.) bluecat - 04/14/2018
Damn, that is pretty cute.
378.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55596]The good news is that a perfectly healthy harmless animal was put down.[/QUOTE]

This is a problem with taking certain injured or orphaned animals like coons, foxes and coyotes to rehab centers. They will put them down automatically.

We had a situation here where Animal Control essentially raided a home and killed a pet raccoon because someone ratted its owner out for posts on social media.
379.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55598]Damn, that is pretty cute.[/QUOTE]


It's photoshopped, LOL, but the raccoon was mooching food on its hind legs. How can you resist?
380.) bluecat - 04/14/2018
Can't they test those animals for rabies?
381.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2018
I think the only test they trust is a brain test, which means killing the animal.

But they will kill a "vector species" animal that shows absolutely no signs as a matter of policy.

If you take a baby raccoon, fox, skunk or coyote to a shelter here, you are signing its death warrant. I know groundhogs are a vector species in some areas, but we don't have a lot here. Possums get a pass, I think, because my understanding is they are pretty rabies-resistant.
382.) bluecat - 04/14/2018
I had no idea.
383.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2018
I love it when Animal Control comes around and asks me ""Have you seen such and such animal?" and I go "Nope."


I don't feel bad about doing it, either, because they're worthless when something serious is going on as well.


384.) Swamp Fox - 04/14/2018



[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingoes_ate_my_baby[/url]
385.) bluecat - 04/15/2018
Didn't realize that there was some history beyond Seinfeld.
386.) Swamp Fox - 04/15/2018
Seinfeld is pretty referential. Chances are that if you google a situation, it will come up in real life (IRL as the dweebs say).
387.) bluecat - 04/17/2018
388.) Swamp Fox - 04/17/2018
I wonder if that kid knows he's still going to be a meme ten years from now?
389.) bluecat - 04/17/2018
390.) bluecat - 04/17/2018
391.) DParker - 04/17/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55660]I wonder if that kid knows he's still going to be a meme ten years from now?[/QUOTE]

And that's [I]all[/I] he'll be.
392.) bluecat - 04/18/2018
DP, did you see the new "Knife and Death" show? It came on after Forged in Fire. I watched for a little bit but thought it was kind of hokey. Seems they are trying to capitalize on one aspect of Forged in Fire which was the knife testing.

I won't be watching any future shows - too much genuflecting and pretending to be mystical knife whisperers while trying to slice a chicken hanging on a string.
393.) DParker - 04/18/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55665]DP, did you see the new "Knife and Death" show? It came on after Forged in Fire. I watched for a little bit but thought it was kind of hokey. Seems they are trying to capitalize on one aspect of Forged in Fire which was the knife testing.

I won't be watching any future shows - too much genuflecting and pretending to be mystical knife whisperers while trying to slice a chicken hanging on a string.[/QUOTE]

No, I didn't bother watching it....because the previews gave me exactly the same impression that you just described from the actual show. One of the things that I like most about [i]Forged in Fire[/i] is that they do a pretty good job of keeping that sort of goofy crap to a tolerable minimum. And even then, some of the goofiness is actually looked forward to (ie, "Eet weell keel").
394.) bluecat - 04/18/2018
Glad I wasn't the only one. The commentators were overly dramatic as they critiqued each cut. Ridiculous.
395.) DParker - 04/18/2018
One of the other things that I've come to enjoy about watching [I]FiF[/I] is that, now that I've watched for quite a while I've learned just enough to be able to spot when a contestant is making...or is about to make...one of the common mistakes (like quenching in water, time management errors, etc). It adds to the immersive quality, and provides you with little "Oh no!" bits of tension...along with giving you an even greater appreciation for their skill when they manage to recover from something like that.
396.) bluecat - 04/18/2018
I agree. It seems like the power hammer is pretty fast but people tend to pulverize their knives with it. The maker that forges with the hand hammer is more likely to not suffer a catastrophic setback.

You see this all the time too. "I'm not going to pin it. It should hold." Lol!

Love the show. Generally the maker that is humble is the one standing at the end.
397.) bluecat - 04/18/2018
Damascus is bad ass.
398.) Swamp Fox - 04/18/2018
On this show, does anyone ever say "like a hot knife through buttah?"


Bonus points if they say it in a New England accent ...
399.) bluecat - 04/18/2018
Okay, now we're just being silly.
400.) DParker - 04/18/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55669]You see this all the time too. "I'm not going to pin it. It should hold." Lol![/quote]

Oh, yeah...that one is always cringe-inducing.

[QUOTE=bluecat;55669]Love the show. Generally the maker that is humble is the one standing at the end.[/QUOTE]

It also keeps me humble when I see guys who are in better condition than me dropping from heat exhaustion.

[QUOTE=bluecat;55670]Damascus is bad ass.[/QUOTE]

Especially when it's being pummeled by a cruise missile barrage.

[QUOTE=bluecat;55672]Okay, now we're just being silly.[/QUOTE]

Quite right.

401.) bluecat - 04/18/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55659][/QUOTE]

Should have gotten double points for this. RIP R. Lee Ermey
402.) Swamp Fox - 04/18/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55672]Okay, now we're just being silly.[/QUOTE]


403.) Swamp Fox - 04/18/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;55661][/QUOTE]


He and his baby sister really stepped in it when they went for the armband idea ...
404.) Swamp Fox - 04/18/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55432]One of my favorite things lately is watching British serfs blow hot ass gas out their mouths about the American Constitution ...[/QUOTE]




I had a hard time finding that recent post about how much I enjoy hearing from Brits weighing in, but hopefully it was time well-spent, LOL ...




405.) bluecat - 04/18/2018
i.e. we can be violent without guns. So guns actually play little part in violence. I think he makes a good argument. Lol!
406.) Swamp Fox - 04/18/2018
You saw my post about the seven killed in the SC prison near Camp Swampy, prolly.

Talk about a gun-free zone ...


Check this out:

[QUOTE]The seven inmates killed in the fighting Sunday night and Monday morning at Lee Correctional Institution have been identified as:

[...]

Eddie Casey Jay Gaskins ...


Deputies responded to a home near Moncks Corner after the mother of Gaskins' two children called 911, according to the Berkeley Observer.

Gaskins, who showed up uninvited at the woman's home, threatened her with a shotgun. After the woman fled, Gaskins attempted to flood her home by clogging the drain and leaving the water running on full blast, according to the newspaper.

He had a long criminal history dating back to 2004 in Berkeley County, including more than two dozen arrests on charges such as domestic violence, burglary and possession of cocaine.

Gaskins lived in Bethera, an unincorporated community in Berkeley County. He had two sisters and four children, according to his cousin Cassandra Gaskins.

[B]"Eddie was an outgoing person who enjoyed country life. He loved hunting, fishing and his family ... He will definitely be missed by many," Cassandra said in a message to [I]The State[/I].[/B][/QUOTE]



LOL ... The others were sweet guys, too ...



[url]http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article208996129.html[/url]
407.) Swamp Fox - 04/19/2018
[QUOTE]People who know less about politics are more confident about their political knowledge, according to research published in the scientific journal Political Psychology. The new study found that this effect was exacerbated when partisan identities were activated.

“The Dunning-Kruger effect holds that individuals with little knowledge about a topic will be, paradoxically, the most confident that they know a lot about the topic. Knowledgeable individuals will also discount their [B]knowledgeability[/B],” explained study author Ian Anson, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

[url]http://www.psypost.org/2018/04/study-people-less-political-knowledge-think-know-lot-politics-51062[/url][/QUOTE]



Um, okay. You had me there for a minute, but then you lost me...
408.) DParker - 04/19/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55683]Um, okay. You had me there for a minute, but then you lost me...[/QUOTE]

I was skeptical as well, but as it turns out...

[URL="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/knowledgeability"]https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/knowledgeability[/URL]
409.) Swamp Fox - 04/19/2018
Yeah, it's in the on-line Urban Dictionary as well, LOL.

It's gibberish.
410.) Swamp Fox - 04/19/2018
"It is a humane way to do it ... I hear they go to sleep before they pass away."

From the video:


[url]https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/18/pizza-rat-1-mayor-de-blasio-0/[/url]




These are the people who think YOU'RE backwards ...




[QUOTE]Mayor de Blasio and workers from the Housing Authority were outwitted by the rodent during a press event at a Bushwick project when it triumphantly escaped their clutches as they attempted to demonstrate a new high-tech extermination technique.

Like a scene from “Tom and Jerry,” workers fruitlessly tried to stomp on the agile rodent when it scurried from a hole in which dry ice had been dropped in an effort to control the furry pests.

One worker even swung a shovel at the plucky rat in a comical whack-a-mole routine.

But no one could lay a hand on the tiny animal, which dodged all the would-be rat-slayers at the Bushwick Houses and scampered to safety at a playground on Humboldt Street.[/QUOTE]
411.) Swamp Fox - 04/19/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55683]Um, okay. You had me there for a minute, but then you lost me...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;55684]I was skeptical as well, but as it turns out...

[URL="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/knowledgeability"]https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/knowledgeability[/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55685]Yeah, it's in the on-line Urban Dictionary as well, LOL.

It's gibberish.[/QUOTE]



[I]The Rise And Fall Of The English Language[/I]



412.) DParker - 04/19/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55687][I]The Rise And Fall Of The English Language[/I]



[/QUOTE]

I wonder if she used this one weird trick.
413.) bluecat - 04/19/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;55688]In wonder if she used this one weird trick.[/QUOTE]



+4 lol!
414.) Swamp Fox - 04/19/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55687][I]The Rise And Fall Of The English Language[/I][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=DParker;55688]I wonder if she used this one weird trick.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=bluecat;55689]+4 lol![/QUOTE]



415.) DParker - 04/24/2018
Apparently it's not enough to infantilize those legal adult college students who want that treatment. Now it's necessary to force a cocoon of bubble wrap upon those who aren't afraid of their own shadows.

[URL="https://lancasteronline.com/news/national/penn-state-says-wilderness-is-too-risky-for-outdoors-clubs/article_48a0830f-0d5a-561c-bebb-9d2df18b3008.html"]Penn State says wilderness is too risky for outdoors clubs[/URL]
416.) bluecat - 04/24/2018
Nittany Lions are very dangerous. They can swaller people whole.
417.) DParker - 04/24/2018
I'm betting that the darkest, most remote forest/cave/shark-infested lagoon can't be nearly as dangerous as the athletic center men's shower at Penn State.
418.) bluecat - 04/24/2018
+ 5 at least
419.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;55763]I'm betting that the darkest, most remote forest/cave/shark-infested lagoon can't be nearly as dangerous as the athletic center men's shower at Penn State.[/QUOTE]


Well, they're right up front about the fact that they have a spelunking club ...
420.) DParker - 04/24/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;55768]Well, they're right up front about the fact that they have a spelunking club ...[/QUOTE]

LOL. Touché.
421.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2018
[QUOTE=DParker;55761]Apparently it's not enough to infantilize those legal adult college students who want that treatment. Now it's necessary to force a cocoon of bubble wrap upon those who aren't afraid of their own shadows.

[URL="https://lancasteronline.com/news/national/penn-state-says-wilderness-is-too-risky-for-outdoors-clubs/article_48a0830f-0d5a-561c-bebb-9d2df18b3008.html"]Penn State says wilderness is too risky for outdoors clubs[/URL][/QUOTE]



That's amazing. Penn State used to be a semi-respectable university. Yeah, sure, I could make some cheap jokes, and if I thought there was a chance Luv2 would read them, I would ... But this is absolutely moronic.


I imagine Penn State might have a Rod & Gun club, possibly even a Hunting club. I weep for them, if so.


I hope no one tells the Office of Risk Management about some of the stuff the School of Forest Resources deals with.
422.) Jon - 04/24/2018
PSU has a rifle club as well as a Trap and Skeet club, I'm guessing what comes next. I mean if hiking the brutal mountains of central Pa is so dangerous, imagine what those nasty guns could do to a fellah.
423.) Swamp Fox - 04/24/2018
LOL ...



The Tippy Canoe Club is right out!
424.) bluecat - 06/05/2018
[url]http://abc13.com/entertainment/miss-america-scraps-swimsuit-evening-gown-competitions/3563570/[/url]

[B]Miss America makeover: Organization scraps swimsuit, evening gown competitions[/B]

NEW YORK -- Goodbye beauty, hello brains - the Miss America pageant is getting a makeover.

Miss America has decided to cut its swimsuit competition, adding that it will no longer judge contestants based on their physical appearance.

"We are no longer a pageant," Gretchen Carlson, the chair of the Board of Trustees for the Miss America Organization, said Tuesday morning on Good Morning America. "We are a competition."





Great, that just leaves more time for tap dancing and the banjo performances. #MeThree
425.) DParker - 06/05/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56118]hello brains[/QUOTE]

ROFLMAO
426.) bluecat - 06/05/2018
I'd like to discuss this more but there's a really interesting thread on 40SW vs 357Sig starting up and I don't want to miss anything.

:pop:
427.) bluecat - 06/05/2018



Damn, she's fine...
428.) bluecat - 06/05/2018
#EnjoyYourCats
429.) DParker - 06/05/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56122]


Damn, she's fine...[/QUOTE]

I like big frontal lobes, and I cannot lie.
430.) bluecat - 06/05/2018
In a stunning turn of events, Gretchen Carlson is turning over her Mrs. America crown and simply wants to be called "human form X76C".






"Here it is, Carbon based life form organism."
431.) bluecat - 06/05/2018
She also strongly denies any tears of emotion and insists that the aqueous discharge emanating from orbital sockets was a visual acuity center malfunction. The lubrication solution reserve overflowed during the sensor breakdown. (in layman's terms, the check engine light had been on for a while and ignored)
432.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2018
[QUOTE=bluecat;56120]I'd like to discuss this more but there's a really interesting thread on 40SW vs 357Sig starting up and I don't want to miss anything.

:pop:[/QUOTE]



Plus the new Mathews looks really sweet ... LOL
433.) Swamp Fox - 06/06/2018
If you can't enjoy beautiful women in bikinis playing the ukelele, what can you enjoy?
434.) DParker - 06/06/2018
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;56128]If you can't enjoy beautiful women in bikinis playing the ukelele, what can you enjoy?[/QUOTE]

One out of three ain't bad. It ain't [I]good[/I] either....but it ain't bad.

[video=youtube;zcSlcNfThUA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA[/video]
435.) bluecat - 06/07/2018
She's pretty good.
436.) bluecat - 12/24/2019


This is even funnier than the last one I posted. Be sure and watch the outtakes too. I like a company that doesn't take itself too seriously.
437.) bluecat - 12/24/2019


This is even funnier than the last one I posted. Be sure and watch the outtakes too. I like a company that doesn't take itself too seriously.