“DONALD!”
“Wot inna bloody ‘ell is all this then?” the hat asked in his sleepy bedtime voice.
“DONALD!”
The hair groaned and stretched on his perch. “It’s fucking Elon.”
“DONALD!”
“What does it take for this guy to get a hint?” Donald asked, getting out of bed and pulling on his favorite ratty bathrobe. The hair shook his butt a few times and jumped on Donald’s back, quickly climbing up onto his head.
“DONALD!”
Donald opened the door to his veranda and looked down on the entrepreneur. “Quiet,” he said in a loud whisper, “You’re going to wake up the whole neighborhood!”
“I don’t care!’ Elon yelled back. He wobbled and slurred and seemed to barely be able to stand.
“He’s high,” the hair said.
“Upsies!” the hat said at Donald’s feet. Donald picked him up and cradled him in the crook of his arm.
“Are you HIGH right now?” Donald asked.
“Oh, yeah, he’s high. You can see his blown-out pupils from up here.
“I’ve been to visit the machine elves, Donald! They told me to… something.”
“I swear we revoked his ground privileges,” the hair said.
“Probably got the Secret Service high too,” the hat sniffed.
“You have to GO, Elon,” Donald said.
“Not until you hear me out,” Elon said. He hoisted a huge boombox over his head.
[Please press PLAY now for a richer, fuller Hat and Hair audio-visual experience]
“IT’S OUR SONG, DONALD!”
“Don’t you have, like, eleven or fifteen kids or something?” the hat yelled over the music.
“Where in the fuck did he get a boom box?” the hair asked. “Did he time travel to a 1986 Walmart?”
“Just leave, Elon,” Donald said loudly.
“Here comes the Praetorian Guard,” the hair said, watching figures in tacticool black racing toward the billionaire. The hat quacked, “Womp womp.”
“Fine,” Elon said, setting the boombox down. “Here’s all your stuff back!” and he threw Dark MAGA hat onto the White House lawn.
“Hey! What the fuck did I do?” the black hat asked, upside-down in the grass.
Aww. Poor Dark MAGA hat.
“Where in the fuck did he get a boom box?” the hair asked. “Did he time travel to a 1986 Walmart?”
hahaha
He invented a time machine just to buy one.
“Where in the fuck did he get a boom box?” the hair asked. “Did he time travel to a 1986 Walmart?”
Yard sale?
Now that I have a patio and a pool, I kinda wish I had a boom box.
Aww Drake. You can get your neighbors to hate you for much cheaper than that.
This is how we know you are old Drake. The “youths” of today just simply get a Bluetooth speaker. They are available in sizes ranging from barely able to reproduce sound above or below 1kHz to roughly the size of 3/4 ton pickup.
I wish I had my old one. It was this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134267900126
I think we’ll end up getting one, because Mrs. TOK has some old tapes she wants to listen to again.
Sensei:
The real fun is when you have a group of yutes who don’t understand that Bluetooth is open. Best way to get people to turn down their speakers? Change what’s playing on them.
@Mr Ilium – Exactly why I was going to suggest that the boom box was the better option.
I thought you had to trigger it to pair on the speaker for exactly that reason.
I still miss this one:
https://www.stereo2go.com/topic/giveimage.php?image_oid=298671126500003847.large
I bought it in Okinawa for around $300 American in 1990.
2 CD’s in a boombox and it had amazing sound with wall rattling bass.
My roommates and barrack neighbors hated it.
When I moved to Japan, I gave it to my mom and it was the pool room stereo for years.
Sensei:
Depends on the speaker. And it’s not like most people even give basic thoughts to security…
Holy crap that thing is a beast. Love it.
Our JBL Charge Bluetooth speaker is alternately connected to my laptop and to TT’s phone. If I’m out at Tranquility Base on a weekend morning streaming SiriusXM and TT wanders out with his phone’s Bluetooth on (for no reason) and clicks on a video, the poor speaker gets very confused.
Aiwa is reproducing theirs boombox, if you have a significant amount of money burning a hole in your pocket.
https://a.co/d/0mxhiAS
Nice. If only I have any CDs or tapes to put in it.
Love the “Acoustic Bass” label. Wouldn’t want to confuse it with a fish, I guess.
Big Balls lent it to him.
Reminds me of my poor Australian Shepard, Daisy.
She is currently in a cone of shame for a cut on her leg that she keeps licking.
Because of the cone, she has to rev up a few times before she can jump on the couch.
Ron, it’s like Choose Your Own Adventure today. Here’s my reply from the last post:
The sequence was this: 4pm, 2 Dulcolax; 6pm, Miralax; 9pm, 2 Dulcolax; 7am, Miralax.
It didn’t do much until 3am, that was pretty bad. Then again at 9:00am, also pretty bad. But it never became “clear” like they wanted. They put me under, tried the scope, and realized they weren’t able to see anything. I actually liked being put under, that was quick and I remember nothing.
8-13 year old me loved those books.
I was/am such a nerd.
Hope everything comes out alright for your next attempt.
https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books
Sorry (not really) for the internet geekdom rabbit hole I’ve just opened up in front of you.
I loved those books too. When I was a kid we had a second-hand bookstore nearby, where you could trade in books for store credit. Mom would get romance novels, and I would get Choose Your Own Adventures. Then a few weeks later we’d go back, trade the books back in, and get more. What a great memory.
I. Loved. Those. Books.
Holy crap, they were the best things ever for 5th grade ZWAK.
Poor doggy. Hope she gets out of the cone soon.
Our twins (Shih-tzu + poodle mix) prefer to sit on the top/back part of the couch so they can look out the window and be on guard duty. If I’m sitting on the couch, they’ll think nothing of jumping up into my lap and power-jumping onto their perch atop the couch (probably using my nutsack as a launchpad for one of their back paws).
*shakes head at dogs on the furniture*
Never been allowed in my house. Of course, now they’re so old and arthritic it’s not an issue.
It’s the rom-com we deserve.
What horrors does SugarFree have planned for us next week?
“Upsies!” the hat said at Donald’s feet. Donald picked him up and cradled him in the crook of his arm.
Perfect.
That was my first LOL moment. 🙂
I’ve been to visit the machine elves, Donald!
They have the good stuff.
Now that I have a patio and a pool, I kinda wish I had a boom box.
I’d rather have the girl from Ferris Bueller decorating my pool.
Mia Sera is 57 now.
Shh…
I remember when that sounded old.
It feels old
Me too.
It still sounds old.
/56
Old is just a number, a big, big number. My kids are older than Mia.
*bings*
Still looks really good. I don’t think she’s had work done, either, which is a real plus.
Rhy:
It still sounds old, and I’ll be 74 in 2 weeks ;-\
Machine Elves for the win.
I learn all sorts of things on Glibs.
A site that may be useful for such research in the future.
Me too, I had never heard of “machine elves”, and now I have some new vocabulary.
I have seent them.
The original version of that song Torn
What the hell kind of woke nonsense is this, calling ghetto blasters “boom boxes”. Sheesh.
Maybe he’s really serious
Morgan Stanley analysts believe that Elon Musk’s recent public communication “campaign” regarding his clash with President Donald Trump is “likely part of a planned strategy by Elon to achieve a specific goal with his approach designed to bring maximum public attention to the issue.”
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The firm highlights that the “credit outlook and financial adequacy of the United States (budget deficit, national debt, etc) has elevated to a top priority for Tesla’s CEO.”
Morgan Stanley argues that for investors who thought Musk was “back’ to focus solely on Tesla… no longer focusing on political or policy-related issues, the two are very much inseparable.”
They point to a “Pattern recognition,” indicating that investors “may be, yet again, dismissing how far Mr. Musk is willing to go as well as the resiliency to withstand criticism and financial pain.”
Where will we charge our electric cars when the economy collapses?
Windmills for everyone!
Why do you hate birds?
We’ll draft MAGAts to pedal bicycles to power the electric cars!
Elon can tilt them!
Matt Bracken and Alex Jones talking about how the 2nd American Civil War just started. I wish they sounded more crazy and paranoid.
The media with definitely be looking for a Latino George Floyd (Jorge Fernando?).
https://banned.video/watch?id=68476de1c348ded51d7e17ef
I stand by the assertion that this is the maximum amount of agitation the left can muster. Now we wait for a catalyst to get the right involved.
I hope you’re right. I’m staying off FB but my wife is telling me the usual suspects are supporting this. So it’s not 100% fake, there are true believers who are cheering this on and might even join in. If Trump can arrest the organizers and cut off the funding, that will neuter it and the true believers will be pissing into the wind.
Where are the Hell’s Angels when we need them?
Probably a secret weapon
They are still in ‘Nam, 4×20. Doing the work that Americans wouldn’t.
Apparently they’re plotting nationwide protests for Saturday.
Summer of Love II is on.
Apparently they’re plotting nationwide protests for Saturday.
This is not going to end well for them, is it?
It seems that the organizers of this stuff haven’t internalized the “vibe shift” (to use the younger generation’s vernacular). Optics isn’t king anymore. A growing contingent is more than happy to see a few commies get their nuts crushed by a billy club, if not worse fates for these neerdowells.
Not a Civil War, we have to fight Mexico.
It may come to that. Their President seems completely owned by the cartels.
Remember the Alamo?
Yeah, Jan Hooks gave us a lecture on maize.
And what change occurred on January 20, 2009?
How the U.S. Government Borrows to Fund Its Massive Budget Shortfall
https://www.wsj.com/finance/federal-government-debt-deficit-charts-3289eff8?st=MS5qqo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
😠😡🤬
Oh, our first problem was masking the real, most substantive problem that needs solving? Well, you solved the first problem, so we’re closing the ticket, open a new one.
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has died.
At least we still have Lou Reed.
Stone,
Wilson,
They come in threes, who’s next?
Re: Stone – Had the pleasure of catching “TajMo” (Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’) live last night, and late in the show they segued into a rousing rendition of “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin.)” A great tribute.
Lying in bed?
RIP.
A tortured soul followed by dementia. Sad.
Brian and Biden could have been old buds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlmgmR4a4g
I am sure Biden thought they were.
“Ummm… Remember? when you were in the Beach Boys? That was awesome.” Biden would probably just nod along. “Yeah, Rehoboth, man.”
🎂 🥳 Two fat ladies for 4x!
Posted a tweet thread with pics. Need some tips with some of these transformers. Not sure if it’s the equipment or something else.
https://x.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/1932857649080480056?t=ylWAaZZjx4m-mXCpecOOVg&s=19
Do you have a multimeter? The one that is tripping breakers on every outlet is likely a dead short.
The others I’m not sure why on some and not other outlets they are tripping breakers. It’s possible they are partially shorted and drawing too much current for some circuits.
https://theorycircuit.com/power-circuits/step-down-transformer-guide/
Scroll down – see the windings around the core? Each side is going to have a certain amount of resistance. If the wires got too hot the windings will have melted together.
You have a short, find it.
Not sure if it’s the outlet…where i had tv/etc plugged in.
Like I said, the electrician used a multimeter on the outputs and confirmed they all had 110…not sure how to.check anything else in the box.
Also not sure why it wouldn’t above blown the installed (removable) fuses on the back..
Did you check resistance across the fuses?
No, didn’t pull them out when the electrician was here…this is just kicking my ass. Thinking about trying an alternate outlet in the living room too to see if that makes any difference (using one confirmed good transformer). May need to stop by housing office in the next few weeks to see if they can validate equipment they loan out for deployment.
WaPo headline: “See How the National Debt Grew to More Than $36 Trillion”
Out of control spending.
What did I win?
WaPo?
“Failure to raise taxes and interference from evil right wingers who want poor people to die so their rich buddies get richer.”
What did I win?
Retirement as a character in a post apocalyptic wasteland most likely.
Woohoo!
*fires up Fallout 4*
*flips over to FNV*
It has hookers and blackjack.
Past generations promising themselves entitlements to be paid by future generations?
Past generations promising themselves entitlements to be paid by future generations?
There’s your massive wealth transfer.
Lots of stories about Trump destroying democracy and all, but not so much about what apparently constitutes “free speech”.
Assault, theft and destruction of property from what I read is “free speech”.
Protesting is fine, but when you’re destroying and looting private property, and being funded by some outside source, then the gloves must come off and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law. What the Left is grumbling about is that they are being held accountable for their destruction and there isn’t any appetite for their bullshit.
Let’s not forget, actively impeding and assaulting law enforcement when they’re carrying out a lawful order.
Yeah.
Both Bass and Newsom have openly said that none of this would have happened if Trump weren’t trying to enforce federal immigration law.
What was it that Obama said? Oh, right. Elections have consequences. Enforcing immigration law is exactly he was elected.
I was meme-magicked into buying from Varusteleka.
Notes: The hat fits my enormous noggin, even though it’s only listed as XL. Apparently Finnish sizes run big. Also it has no annoying metal squatchee for the earpro to press into my scalp. Shipping from Finland takes about a week.
Cool-headed LA riot cop turns protester’s question back on him…with spectacular results
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14802485/LA-riot-cop-protester-question-spectacular-results.html
(UNinterested, DM, not dis–! Eh, forget it, Jake.)
/facepalm
Really?
They were totally peaceful before the ANG was called in!
New avatar!
🙂
Yeah, got over my 🖕 mood.