The Dark Hour Haunted House has opened up for the season! This is one of my favorite haunted houses. They had completely redone the floor plan and also added a new Cryptid Museum! I am a huge fan of Cryptids. The family often plays this Top Trumps Cryptid deck with me. We have our Cryptids memorized! So I was happy to go check out this museum. My photos of the museum got washed out in blue due to the lighting – I have attempted to correct this. Just keep in mind I am not a professional photographer.
First up was a small room with Texas cryptids. There were plaques for most of them, and a nice statue of the Chupacabra, which was later proven to be coyotes with mange. I liked that the tour did not start with endless statues of Sasquatch.
Next up was one of my favorites, the Fresno Nightcrawlers. Notice the attempt to make them look mean. I am pretty sure walking pants are not vicious. There is actual footage of the Fresno Nightcrawlers, which makes these especially interesting. They have been spotted and filmed multiple times. Grainy video footage? Check.
The Casper Mountain Crawler looked extra special creepy, and it towered over me. Not the kind of cryptid I wound want to run into at night. Looks like a grey alien who took too much Ketamine.
Next up is the Moth Man, looking resplendent. It looked much better than my camera shows.
There were endless relatives of Bigfoot all over the place. This particular one was the Fouke Monster. He kinda looked like a repurposed Halloween butler statue. At least it wasn’t just a straight up generic Sasquatch. There were a number of these, including the Alabama White Thang which washed out blue and I could not correct the image.
No cryptid museum would be complete without these jerks. They are curious little perverts who are all born as smooth as Ken Dolls down there. I think that is why they are so obsessed with anal probing.
That’s about it! It’s a small museum, but I hope it will grow. There are about 20 exhibits so far. I didn’t waste much time on Sasquatch related cryptids since people are so familiar with them…
Oh, look! This Sasquatch statue wasn’t here when I came in. They must really be building up the museum fast!
It… It’s moving. NO! STEVE, NO! I DIDN’T MEAN IT, I LOVE SASQUATCHES! *glurk….
TPTB had to remove the next pictures as they would spoil our family friendly rating. Be sure and visit the Cryptid Museum in the Dark Hour complex at 701 Taylor Dr, Plano, Texas should you be passing through. It is open almost year-round.
This First is for STEVE SMITH.
I thought he looked pretty good. Shame the pictures were off. Still, I fed the content-beast with a post so that is something.
I think that is why they are so obsessed with anal probing.
Penn and Teller’s Bullshit! episode on aliens says it nasal probing.
Great pictures! Thanks RJ!
I had to get a nasal probe before a recent hospital procedure. 😠
Don’t know how many people are familiar with Pokemon, let alone enough to know about events and such. This is a mini-rant about how unethical and fucked Nintendo is.
So their latest Pokemon games, Scarlet and Violet (yes, they release two versions of the same game at full price and have for roughly 30 years) sold some 30 million copies. A big thing among fans of these games is to collect different colored versions of the Pokemon known as shinies. They are rare, though have become a lot easier to get over time. Not the main point. You used to be able to get all of these in game, but then Nintendo had the bright idea to “shiny lock” certain rare Pokemon and restrict them to events or their pay-for-play mobile game Pokemon Go.
Towards the end of Scarlet/Violet’s shelf left, they held a distribution for two of the rare Pokemon in the game in their shiny forms. This was marketed as for anyone who purchased the games. You just had to go the dying retailer that is Gamestop and get a code card to put into your game. They’ve done this before.
They advertised this event as lasting several weeks with the typical disclaimer of while supplies last. Getting these codes has never been particularly difficult during the events.
This time was different, though. They only sent some 50 cards to each Gamestop (a lot of people don’t even live near Gamestops). Some stores got more, some less, but it was restricted to a few dozen for a game that sold some 30 million copies. they also timed this release to coincide with their latest trading card game drop which has become notoriously prone to attracting scalpers. Combine this with your typical sketchy low wage employees and you ended up with a complete disaster.
Supplies ran out in most locations within a hour of opening. Again, this was an event that was advertised as lasting a few weeks. They said just stop into Gamestop between Sep 26th and October 16th or some shit and get your code.
Now, final point. Pokemon company frequently does releases into the game through various other means that don’t require you to go do anything in real life. They have multiple other means of distributing these Pokemon.
THese Pokemon won’t be available again like this for a few years at least, and will likely be available in Pokemon Go where players will basically have to pay to get them.
It’s just a really shitty way to treat your fans, but Pokemon fans are stubborn and loyal. They’ll stick with this franchise no matter how much unethical shit they pull.
I have felt that Nintendo is becoming very Disney-like in the way they treat fans.
Gay.
Sorry. But yeah, I have zero knowledge or interest in any of that. Not when there’s a new Metroid Prime coming out soon.
Lol. You kill me.
+JUSTIN BAILEY
*tap tap tap*
No idea of any of that. d00d ur old
So, copypasta that whole thing into wordpress (there is a link to it up at the top…) and submit it.
Blammo! Content.
Excellent suggestion.
Link is only for previous submitters. The unwashed don’t have it.
You just taught me everything I know about Pokémon.
Okay. The Fresno Nightcrawler is gay and it’s shit’s fucked up. Come on Fresno, you can do better. Then again…
I found a patch of the Loveland Frogman in the gift shop and I REALLY wanted to post it with SugarFree’s rant – I just couldn’t find it in the posts.
I found it! “Monster Quest” by SugarFree:
https://www.glibertarians.com/2024/10/monster-quest/
Hey! I lived in the ‘No for few years, and, no they can’t.
Be careful. Chups-thingies are mean.
Chupa-thingies. Fat thumbs.
Assless chups?
I thought that the Grey’s liked assless attire.
チュパチュパ, チュッパチュッパ
adverb, と-adverb, suru verb
licking, sucking (mimetic word)
Chupachupa or chuppachuppa. Frequently used in hentai manga for fellatio sounds.
STEVE SMITH DRAGS TEETH!
Chulupa thingys.
Grande!
Also, Grey’s are sneaky.
Before you realize it, you’ve had an impactful encounter.
That’s some penetrating analysis.
STEVE SMITH LIKE ‘FINAL IMPACT‘.
How many times have you danced to that song?
Everyone knows that Remer, Minnesoda (Remer!, I hardly even know her!) is the home of Sasquatch.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/53443
I spent most of my summers a few miles away in Longville, Minnesoda.
Podunkville, home of our own FourScore is a few miles south.
No Calaveras County Monster? That’s what haunted my Boy Scout camp.
Not a feral snipe or two?
Snipes were even harder to find.
Wesley Snipe would like a word.
They did not have a Rubberado either. I am sure it will be added soon.
Giant Jumping Frog?
Woooohoooo! Happy Shutdown day!
How will we survive?
🎉🍾🍿
I still have to work.
I am out of the office until further notice due to the furlough/lapse in appropriations and, by direction will not be monitoring email”
1. Got my head shaved, #4. No, I’m not going to show you a pic. Feels FABULOUS. Looks horrific.
@robodruid No, I don’t want a mohawk because that requires care, and I’m just DONE taking care of my hair for a while. I need a break.
2. My dad and grandfather went to barber school. I don’t remember if I was born yet or not, but anyway, I was very young (3? 4?) and my dad would take me to his barbershop on Saturdays. The owner (Don Trosper; yes, I remember his name) was somewhat of a mentor to my dad. I loved going there because Don had a drawer full of Juicy Fruit gum and I could have as much as I wanted.
3. @UCS:
a. I don’t have white-coat hypertension. I’m chalking it up to stress and the fact that I don’t know how to relax and also, my mind goes a zillion miles a minute and also, I don’t sleep well. Never have.
b. I’m not convinced 120/80 or the new old-people leniency 130/90 has any basis in reality whatsoever. All that shit is gospel for 20 years, then it comes out WOOPS NO (see: eggs, fat, and sugar).
c. Every once in a while I have a panic attack so bad I think I’m having a heart attack. These happen at times of greater-than-normal stress. The last time was in March. They did the entire cardiac workup: EKG, troponins, CT, sonogram. Everything was perfectly wonderful.
d. Based on my risk factors (including my cholesterol numbers from June), he calculated that my 10-year probability of having a heart attack is 4.4%. Maybe higher if we take into account my family history.
e. I’m far more worried about my mental health than I am my heart.
f. Re the above, I take a lot of stimulants.
g. I expected to die at 50, so now it’s all gravy.
And he still wants to put me on BP meds. Nope.
4. I’m very happy about one set of physical requirements for combat positions. If a woman can’t do the job at the same level as a man, she shouldn’t be doing the job.
Corollary to #4, @kinnath, yes, I too miss men’s and women’s spaces. No, I don’t think it was right for women to invade men’s clubs (although I would’ve made an exception for Condoleeza Rice).
5. I made my tuna dip a leeeeeeeetle too hot.
6. @TOK re Stossel’s points, I’mma fisk:
b. Houses today are almost twice as big and are nicer.
They don’t need to be. I want there to be small apartments and houses that are not priced to the moon. Even the slums are expensive. I see this as a problem akin to cars: There’s nothing a poor person can afford, but you still gotta get to work. There’s inadequate public transportation and you can’t afford to move closer to work and you can’t even fix your own car because the parts either don’t exist or they’re expensive. The screws on the poor got tighter.
b. Cars weren’t as nice and didn’t last as long.
But you could afford a clunker and keep it running with a little ingenuity.
c.1. Not everyone went to college.
Why is this a bad thing? We’re hurting for tradesmen and college is not for everyone.
c.2. About half the workforce didn’t finish high school.
I bet most of them weren’t on the dole, though.
I have my own gripes about the now versus the then:
A. Sewing, gardening, canning, quilting, crocheting were things you did to save money. They were skills poor women had. Then it turned into a luxury hobby the second well-to-do women got intrigued. Not quite coincidentally, Walmart started selling disposable clothes, so the script flipped.
B. Homemade meals. See above. Yes, there are still cheap carbs around, but carbs are pretty much all bad for me.
C. I would NEVER have gotten my kids phones if the fucking schools didn’t require them to look shit up on. I don’t know if they do that now, but they did that when my kids were in school. Embarrassed? Don’t care. Bad grade? Go scream at teacher, then capitulate.
HOWEVER!!! You can pry my AC out of my cold, dead hands. I grew up without AC and it was miserable, especially the summer of 1980.
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Aside: I don’t know about anybody else, but I’d like Bro to submit some content because while his Firsting is impressive, I find his Deep Thoughts interesting. For instance, I didn’t have him pegged as a Pokemon dude, but it’s part of our culture, and as Breitbart said, politics is downstream, so to me, it’s relevant.
And what got me thinking about that was this tweet.
>>mental detritus now jettisoned<<
I’d take Condaleeza over Roger Goodell.
Totally get the hair thing. The missus has grown out her hair longer than she ever had it and regularly gets frustrated about various aspects of it. Before that she had me buzz her hair down. Not my favorite look, but wasn’t that bad either.
In Re 120/80 – When that’s been my number for decads, I figure it’s good for me. I don’t do anything special to maintain it and it doesn’t cause me any problems.
Every morning is a new beginning.
Get at it Glibs.
🌅🥯😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA
Thexe sequels are getting formulaic.
Good morning, Sean, U, homey, Ted’S., and Suthen, and good afternoon, Pie!
Morning, GT.
How goes things with you and 🐱👤😼?
Very well, thanks! As usual, Ninja Cat demanded lap time at an inopportune time/place when I got up but was evicted with minimal drama, and at least he didn’t try to climb my leg while I was pouring my coffee.
I hope your cold-like symptoms have subsided a bit since you’ve been up and around a while. 🤧 Other than that, how are you?
I stayed up late playing video games because “I’ve almost finished”. While I did finish the game, it meant I was going to bed at 1:30 am, which left me little time for sleep. I’ve made it to the office and am eating breakfast. I did pick up some cough drops and autism pills to deal with symptoms as they hit. (Okay, the bottle says ‘Tylenol’, but we know what’s what 😛)
Ninja cat! Ninja cat!
Friendly house pet Ninja cat.
Often times… he’s adored,
then he’ll end up — on the floor!
Look out… pounces from Ninja Cat!
Please don’t let me be coming down with a head cold. I’ve got some of the warning symptoms 🙁
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning!
I’m not looking forward to work today… have an annoying bi-weekly manager meeting (I so despise those… if I need something, I’ll email you. I expect the same. Stupid regular meetings just bug me).
This one might be extra fun because we had a Sprint Planning (stupid Agile crap) meeting yesterday — and we got yet another “Oh, the overall project we’re working on needs functionality A. We know nothing about it, the underlying mechanisms they think we can use to do it or how any of this works… but our team gets to figure out how to do it. Oh, and they want a doc on the approach this sprint.” (I may have misheard the last part — because by the end of the meeting they’d backed off on that scheduling… but that’s sure what I heard at the start of the meeting). Given this is about the third time we as a team have been jerked to “Go figure out this thing that you have no experience with and we want it tomorrow” type things… well, rant ensued.
Which normally would be fine — except my manager apparently joined said meeting (to “observe”) mid-rant. I expect there’s a strong chance of “guidance” on being “a team player” and “open to new opportunities” or some such today. Blech.
Nothing about “Delivering a working product”?
Eventually, yeah — but even levels above us know the overall change to the product this supports is at least an year to do across multiple teams.
I’m sure they want a prototype of the change to be investigated by next sprint for this part of it, though.
I am so glad that since my boss was chosen to sit in The Big Chair, I don’t have to attend those “Level 10” meetings. It’s bad enough having to draft minutes from the Zoom recording of the monthly Board meeting and quarterly “Asset/Liability Management” meeting. 🙄
Not that I’m a big AI proponent — but pretty sure Zoom has an AI transcription feature for a while now to generate minutes for just such occasions, GT. Might be worth pitching as “I could be working on things that actually generate ROI versus this mundane automatable busy work”.
They still haven’t gotten a normal sized chair for that office?
Good morning all.
I see the Democrats are getting further and further off of the rails. Their Obama/Biden victories are being reversed. They seem to really be losing their shit over the Hegseth speech.
I guess the DOOMSHUTDOWNDOOM begins today. I just learned from Ayanna Pressley that firefighters and other emergency personnel will not be going to work. Millions will die.
Most firefighters are volunteer. Almost all are local. Those that are not work in places like military bases, which won’t be closing, etc.
But schools are closing because they can’t function without the Ed Department, right?
“Those selfless
groomersenlighteners already work at a personal loss to prevent your child from becoming afunctional member of societywrongthinker and will keep theindoctrinationeducational excellence centers open despite the apocalyptic tragedy”You say this like politicians don’t lie to sway the public into pressuring for things they want, UCS.
I know there wasn’t a turnip truck in your neighborhood recently….
Your turnips get trucks? We have to make do with training chipmunks to haul them on tiny sledges.
At least it keeps them from learning how to sing and being kidnapped to work in Dave Seville’s studio.
Why wouldn’t firefighters and other emergency personnel not be working? Those are all City/State functions, not federal.
“Government is government and if you shut down any of it you get NOTHING!”
I wouldn’t be surprised for some D mayor to shutdown local services. Remember, they are the types to close outdoor, unmanned memorials.
Any of you geezers remember the sitcom ‘One Day at a Time’?
I was listening to some protesters shouting something about workers over billionaires and happened to remember an episode of that show. The lead character, the mom, got a date with a ‘rich’ guy. They liked each other just fine and got along well but she chose not to develop a serious relationship with him because he was rich. His character was just fine, he was a nice guy but she did not gauge him by that, only by how much money he had. The show painted her as noble for reasons that were not explained.
“By heavens Lizzie, what a snob you are. Objecting to poor Mr. Darcy because of his wealth. The poor man can’t help it.”
See also: Pretty in Pink, really.
Except she did go with the rich guy in the end.
Not in the original ending, as I understand it. Which is why I think it still counts.
Test audiences hated that ending so they switched it.
More fun news…apparently Rosie O’Donnell’s therapist is sick of her shit. How insufferable does one have to be to….oh never mind. I expect at some point in the future the Irish will deport her back to us. Dammit.
How many sessions is a therapist supposed to do where the main takeaway is you need so stop obsessing over politics so much and the client doesn’t even try to do it? I think even AA will cut you loose if you keep coming to sessions piss drunk.
“You need to be locked away on a remote island sanatarium with no internet access.”
“Will that fix my problems?”
“No, but it’ll help everyone else.”
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 10/01:
*23/23 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 10/01:
*53/53 words (+12 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 969
I was disappointed we couldn’t form “yotta” honestly.
So it turns out that the general officer’s meeting was a scold session mostly but it was also a demonstration of power: “You’ll be at this place at this time and I’ll tell you why when I get there.”
Maybe the ones that get too huffy will just go ahead and retire and if they need to pad their retirement income they can sell all those medals they got for losing every damn war since WWII for scrap…it was kind of unseemly but they had it coming.
It’s a standard corporate power play, which will be followed by a purge and reorganization.
Excrement flows downhill.
“The colonel said…”
” Major Jones said…”
“The Old Man said…” A young captain but still the old man
“Sarge says…”
Yeah, they were summoned for a face to face ass-chewing. Which they needed because they need to understand that all the woke era bullshit stops now.