(h/t db)
I was selecting my benefit options for 2023, as my Swiss Masters had just opened enrollment today. I noticed that my elevation from Fondue Stirrer to Rösti Wrangler has made it possible for me to afford an extra day of Alpenhorn lessons and a fancy new fondue set! I am grateful!
You know what else I am grateful for? The following (non-TPTB) people contributing posts for this week; Animal, RJ, Yusef, Hyperbole, PieInTheSky, DEG, ron73440 and Mojeaux.
Take a bow, contributors! I even have next week already partially set (that’s you, Lackadasical, Animal, CPRM and Hyperbole)!
So…. Links anyone?
- Huh. This doesn’t seem to be updated with the TEAM BLUE RELECTION CRISIS OF 2022… yet.
- There once was a plane in Nantucket…
- Will not go quietly.
- This may put a new spin on the ol’ Nigerian Prince scam.
A short but lively song.
The comment section is all yours.
CCP issues strongley worded letter of indignation in 3,2,1…..
As long as it is that, and not a fleet…
Not like we can do anything about it either.
I would say that such madness couldn’t happen, but here we are.
It isn’t like they might need to distract their populace from banking and housing internal crises and have shining examples of incompetence on the diplomatic and military fronts to persuade neighboring countries that taking sides against them and with us would be a bad idea or anything. Nope, all perfectly peachy…..
Don’t forget the COVID lockdowns and the incipient revolts against those.
I’m too lazy at the moment to go digging through the full history, but I’m a little surprised that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is billed as being there to offset “economic” issues.
I would have thought it was there for you know… strategic military operations (like the Navy… jet fuel for the Air Force, etc.). Like the bunkers at Pearl, just a lot bigger. Could be wrong, I’m sure.
You have to watch out for Nantucket disrupting the space-time continuum and whatnot, though…
Hopefully, Taiwan won’t go at all.
And knowing DC these days… Bruce is probably dead and some gay BIPOC has brought in to be the “TRUE BATMAN”. I can’t stand to look anymore.
So, Bruce Vilanch?
Swissy or whichever of TPTB might care to peruse it – I submitted a pitch for a post via the Leads/Submissions page yesterday (I believe,) and I have a draft complete with pictures ready for someone to review at their convenience should the idea pass muster.
Every idea passes muster.
Submit an article.
Shush, you. I spend all that time building them up, sending them Nice Notes(tm), and encouraging them.
I wrote an article over the weekend titled “What Does it Mean to be a Country?”. The intent was meant to kickoff discussion of what I’m guessing are many differing perspectives, but came off as rather depressing and I held off on submitting. Spoiler alert: divisions in the US run deep. Any interest or bleh?
Semi-spartan,
I want to read that.
#metoo
Alright, I’ll submit it. Thanks for the feedback.
I will read it!
Regarding your worries about being a depressing article; This week I wrote about escaping your FBI handler and making burger patties out of grifters. It goes with my apocalypse movie of the week. You were saying something about being depressing?
IT’S PEOPLE!!!!
I’ll look at that tomorrow. Thanks.
😁👍🏼
***Bows in return***
My name in lights!
/Takes deep bow
Just let me add to the tongue-bathing of contributors. I’m chronically (*cough*) behind and will get to your stuff. Thanks.
I’m self-cleaning. Like a cat. Or an oven.
Oven-cleaning cats, you’ll make a fortune!
“Workers at Nantucket’s airport on Friday alerted police to a flight that is scheduled to arrive Tuesday because it bore “many similarities” to the plane that brought dozens of migrants to the neighboring Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard last month, police said in a press release.”
Virtue signaling cargo cult.
Many similarities. It had two wings and an engine. Time to arm the missiles.
“Workers.”
Baggage handlers? Gate agents? Ticket Counter ppl? Who would know this? Who would have access to flight plans?
This screams FAA to me. I don’t know if TSA has access to that info.
But, if this turns out to be right, then that could be considered a form of indirect notification to the receiving jurisdictions.
Most likely the FBO that handles private aircraft. They will view the itinerary of planned flights (filed flight plans) for the next day to confirm staffing, and look for special VIPs. etc. I’m sure they saw “Vertol systems corp. ” and went, they don’t normally fly here, and that is the same company that they used for Martha’s Vineyard.
Follow up just says it’s the same company, but regular bizjet type travelers.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/details-emerge-charter-flight-suspected-180054791.html
I like how they called the authorities so they could stop these immigrants from entering their city. But only these, of course. Leave all those other poor immigrants out there alone.
There once was a plane to Nantucket…
My husband is having his duebropals (he has 3 now!) over for the game tonight and pizza. I made cookies (magic cookie bars), but only because I want to clear out my pantry in preparation for GlibFit. XX will eat most of them. The rest I will freeze in preparation for Christmas.
I am grateful my husband finally has some friends IRL. He is a social person who has always wanted friends but had a hard time finding/making them. Now, in his mid-50s, all his friends (from church) are empty nesters, have independent wives, similar politics and theological philosophies, and have time to partake in male bonding rituals. It’s adorable.
That sounds totally wonderful, both for you and your guests.
Seconded.
If I didn’t know you, I’d think this was stoner code
LOL
“Magic cookie bars” is one of those on-the-can-label recipes (in this case, Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk) from the 1960s that every housewife in America has made for decades. Also apparentlycalled “7-layer bars” and “Hello Dollys.”
My wife makes those every Christmas.
My mom has a whole repertoire of Christmas cookies and treats she made, once upon a time. I would try, but my attempts at recreating memories have all gone down in flames.
We (dudes) have really dropped the ball on this stuff. There was a reason for the various social clubs back in the day and it wasn’t just getting out of the house.
My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. Even playing hockey with the same dudes for years isn’t really the same. It occurred to me that I mostly never saw them off the ice. No question about it that community is an important part of GlibFit and just overall well being.
Stoked for your dude. I’m glad you are so cool about it, too.
Well, I’m happy when he’s happy. My ability to make friends easily but refusal to do so used to be a source of great sorrow for him, when he wanted friends, but couldn’t make any. I still don’t want friends, and he still does, and I still don’t have any, but now he does. I’m more than cool with that.
… and I still don’t have any …
What are we, chopped liver? (I know, you mean IRL, but never forget we’re with you.)
Yes, I meant IRL (you know I love you all).
IRL friends … well, you have to BE a friend and I just don’t have it in me to do that anymore. My husband is my BFF and he gets most of my friend time.
I have had female besties over the years, but there’s always a falling out. One, was over politics and I was a right wing nut. The second was over politics and I was a dirty commie liberal. The last was a female bestie of 25 years and she came to stay with us when she was sick and homeless, but she and I fell out over my daughter and her influence on her. Also, I got tired of her making the same awful choices over and over and then whining about them.
Nowadays my leftover friend time is spent helping my mom and aunts.
See, that’s exactly why clubs make so much sense. A different mission, separate from your real life.
Politics (and especially COVID) can definitely strain a friendship.
Frankly, keeping up with Glibs can take up enough time that it’s hard to keep up other active friendships. Then there are the old friendships that are dormant, but easy to pick up if needed.
Sounds like the plot of I Love You Man.
empty nesters, Check
have independent wives, Check
similar politics Uh, no. None of them are libertarian
theological philosophies Uh no. None of them are atheists.
But it won’t stop us from drinking high-end red wines until the very early hours of the morning this weekend.
Widower,
Lonely, check
Free?,
Hell yes!
The dudebropals are a bit more conservative than we are.
Cribbage is OK then?
I know no one who plays cribbage…
Back in the late 80s, I had a cribbage game on my PC. I had to figure out the rules via playing it, as there was no description. I eventually got pretty good at it. And have no clue how to play any more. Than info has been lost to the recesses of the past 30 years.
It’s like riding a bike, I had a similar 20-30 year gap in play and picked it right back up after a hand or two.
We have a cribbage board laser-etched with a map of Lake of the Ozarks. Haven’t ever played cribbage on it… 🙄
But, oh, if that board could talk….
A plane full of migrants could be destined for Nantucket this week, according to officials on the upscale island.
Could, or could not. But some people seem to always treat “could” as “will.”
Were I in the Abbott & DeSantis circle of advisors, I’d keep telling my operatives to put out false info regarding migrant flights to blue cities (remember, the last one was supposedly going from the Florida panhandle to central Delaware near Biden’s beach house) until those local authorities, tired of chasing phantasms, begin to suspect that someone’s crying wolf.
In the meantime, I’d be planning a massive group of flights to all those tony blue enclaves, to all take place within hours of each other about a week before the election. Think of Curtis LeMay’s staff hunkering down on Tinian Island, deciding which Japanese cities would be reduced to ashes, only using economic migrants overwhelming the social services instead of incendiary bombs reducing the fire departments to impotence.
An MD80 in Amherst. Another in Oberlin. A pair of 737s touch down in Burlington, while another lands in Bennington.
Damn, this could be a fun exercise! Call it Operation Walk the Walk. Better yet, give all the migrants a pillowcase, teach them to say “Trick or Treat” on the flights up, and call the whole thing Operation Halloween.
What an idea!
Send one downstate to the hippie-dippie enclave of Yellow Springs, and I could go shoot video of the ensuing hilarity and exploding heads.
Georgetown, DE and Sussex County, DE are Republican. Even Rehobeth Beach leans Republican.
Northern Delaware is apparently Puerto Rican (except for the duPont trust babies) so send them there.
Biden is from Scranton.
Though I looked up Hispanic populations in both Scranton, PA and Wilmington, DE. There was no break-out for Puerto Rican/non-Puerto Rican. Wilmington has more Hispanics than Scranton, but those are recent Census numbers. I doubt Scranton had anywhere near the current number of Hispanics when Biden was growing up.
I appreciate the shout out, but it’s The Hyperbole.
You forgot the “Ackchually…”
🙄
So I guess the Chiefs are the last to be sacrificed on the altar of woke, which is probably going to happen eventually, or some workaround. They said they wouldn’t rename Arrowhead Stadium, but now it’s “GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium,” emphasis on “GEHA Field.” 🙄
I’m intrigued at the prospect of Cleveland possibly facing Atlanta in the World Series, at which point fans of The Artists Formerly Known as The Indians all loudly protest, “Hey! How come THEY still get to be called the ‘Braves’???”
It has been posited at me that “Chiefs” and “Braves” are noble monikers and have never entered the lexicon as derogatory. (I’m looking for a specific, non-rare word for “insult” and I can’t and maybe I need to be tested for dementia.)
Aw, don’t get too epithet about it! 😁
Nope, not that one. I’m sure there’s another one, maybe starts with “i”? This is going to bug me all day.
Impugn? Thats the only one i could find that starts w i and is even close.
Disparaging?
pejorative
Wait until they start the Tomahawk Chop again…
Meanwhile any Indian garb/apparel is banned at Jacob’s Field (with the exception of Wahoo Indians garb).
We still do the Tomahawk chop, even though we’ve been asked not to many many times. Nobody’s giving that up.
Here, it’s the stadium names we don’t give up. It’s still the Jake, the Gund (or the Q), and the Muni.
Those could be slave or slave owner names. Can’t be too careful, maybe there’s a glossary of forbidden names?
The Q? That sounds problematic and insurrectiony.
LOL good luck with that.
Because of course it was.
From what I know, students at Haskell should be more concerned with the school going bankrupt.
It’s been 25 years, but the time has finally come.
That would be funny.
Great googly-moogly!
Anyone noticing more Internal Server Error?
“On October 12, 2018 Hunter Biden bought a .38 caliber pistol from a Delaware gun store. About two weeks later his lover and brother’s widow Hallie Biden found it ‘unlocked’ in his truck and threw it in a grocery store trash can. Its discovery sparked a police investigation.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11292765/Joe-Bidens-emotional-voicemail-Hunter-gun-purchase.html
It’s only been four years.
Biden’s son forgets his laptop at a repair shop.
Biden’s daughter leaves her diary behind when she moves apartments.
Biden’s daughter in-law throws an icky gun into a random garbage can.
These people are all retarded.
It would make a good comedy show.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
I guess I don’t follow politics much…Hunter was banging his dead brother’s widow?
Yep.
It certainly says something about her taste in men
I don’t have an issue with that. Brother’s dead.
Isn’t there something in the Bible about being obligated to marry your brother’s widow? Isn’t that what Henry XIII did with Catherine of Aragon and it ultimately was decided that it was improper for a Christian to do so?
Re the Bible, that’s a Levirate marriage.
As for Hank8 or subsequent Christian teachings, I don’t know.
Probably before he was dead too.
That, I have a problem with.
Yep.
And based on some of the stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, might have been banging a niece and/or cousin.
Ew.
TPTB – just submitted a post. The links are functional but homely, and I think the pics are a decent size, etc.; as ever a little editorial polish is appreciated.
Why in the hell does it take people so effing long to transact at a pharmacy?
I’ve been sitting in the car line for the last fifteen minutes with no movement at all. I guarantee that when I get up there it will take me two minutes tops.
Someone is insisting upon reading the entire patient insert. And asking questions about it.
Are they doing covid tests? Got stuck in a line and they were swabbing people out the window.
People still do those? I guess I thought some sanity had been restored
Mistakes, insurance/billing problems, things not ready yet.
Many years ago I was stuck in a drive-up at a bank. I finally got out of the car to see what was going on. There was a guy buying travelers checks at the drive-up window. He had to sign each one individually.
Then they should get out of the car and go inside.
And I should learn how to reply
Speaking of not threading, where’s Brooksie? Haven’t seen him lately.
Or Gilmore, or dozens of other people….
IIRC, Gilmore got a job where he can’tbe associated with us (sounded like he couldn’t be associated with anybody politically). Jarflax is on FB, but I have not said anything to him about coming back. Lots of Glibs are on Discord, with which I cannot keep up. Lots of others are on Twitter.
But yes, I am sad people have drifted away. Posts used to regularly get 500-600 comments. 😢
I thought it was episiarch who couldn’t be politically associated with anyone.
I only remember seeing his moniker at TOS, so I don’t know.
Has anybody heard from episiarch?
But that wouldn’t be as convenient!
Sometimes when I go through the credit union’s drive-through, I’m convinced one of the folks ahead of me is trying to close on their mortgage.
One might think that they were performing outpatient surgery through the window here.
Usually it’s the stupid rule where the pharmacist has to be the one to hand you the drugs, and they only have 1 pharmacist serving 4 windows and a drive thru
I never heard of that rule.
I’m sure it varies by state.
Fondue, you say?
Why thank you.
I am fondue of you too.
Glibs is kind of a melting pot, but for all our sakes — don’t be such a dip.
I don’t get the attraction of fondue. It doesn’t taste that great. The restaurants are expensive. It’s a total raclette.
I find it okay so long as you don’t go full 70’s.
You mean like with swingers’ party and a fromage a trois?
Mostly I meant the Elvis on velveeta paintings.
These puns are going to draw a sterno rebuke.
And if it gets bad enough, it’ll be vaya con queso for the worst offender.
The following (non-TPTB) people contributing posts for this week;
🙂
The local tourism board called the situation a “humanitarian crisis,” which had Republicans snickering as the Vineyard was deemed a sanctuary city and is a popular vacation spot of liberals.
Nantucket is another tiny island that attracts vacationers, tourists and the wealthy.
The only place in New England where I’ve seen a shot-out road sign was on Nantucket.
Nigeria, Albania, Brunei, Peru and Turkey were added to the existing list of 96 countries with which Switzerland exchanged bank account information.
Those Nigerian scam artists must be rolling in dough now.
“The Texas State Fair was not Decadent or Depraved.”
Starting on it tomorrow.
Except for the Texas v OU game
Yeah, those assholes rioted and broke windows on lower Greenville all the time back in the day. No matter who won.
ten years ago already
I’ll be discussing that! I got a nice picture of restored, evil face Tex.
I always loved that prewar civic concrete construction and the artwork. Fair Park is full of fabulous old buildings (built for the centennial of 1836?)…maybe WPA boondoggles. My son talks about the honor it was just to sit in the same locker rooms as Bob Hayes and Doak Walker much less play in the Cotton Bowl…the real concrete bastard back when it started New Years Day at 10am whether you were there or not, no need to look up the time.
Fort Worth’s north side has a lot of the same, especially Will Rogers and the Cowgirl HOF.
I will tell you all about the Masonic imagery in Fair Park.
Is there a Reverse Cowgirl HOF?
Details on my May invite are now in the forum under the meet-ups.
PSA:
Thermapen ONE on sale.
Screaming deal. This thing is money.
It certainly costs money. $100 for an instant read thermometer? I’ll stick with my $10 analog, which is probably $20 now — no batteries.
It’s worth it. I love mine.
Uh, not $100.
Point of the post.
Well, I mean when it’s not on sale.
Nice. Mine (different brand) takes four or five seconds.
Worst rectal thermometer ever…buyer beware.
Are you supposed to stick that between your frontal lobes?
Sure. Go for it. Free country and all that.
Definitely worth the money. Can instantly measure oil, oven, food, sugars, and cold as well. I’ve go through 3 cheapo Chinese knockoffs before getting this. Reliable, durable, and accurate.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1578691081381679105
Classy.
https://twitter.com/Hypedup0ncoffee/status/1579318768828047362
Totes not a cult.