The late great FOSTER BROOKS roasting DON RICKLES in 1974.

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Our @JoeKhalilTV was able to catch up with @JohnFetterman after @NewsNation confirmed he is going to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Trump.

Fetterman joked he wants to be appointed the “Pope of Greenland”. //

But Fetterman might have one problem with being Pope to Greenland. It's really cold there and I think he would have to wear long pants. So he might not get the appointment.

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That time Chris Farley, impersonating Newt Gingrich, came to congress to swear Gingrich in as the Speaker of the House.

What a great time in entertainment/politics when we could all laugh together.

3:53 PM · Jan 8, 2025

Retired Professor
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A big, big part of this was Fani's failure to take a cross-appeal, as well as her prior failure to even preserve a proper record in the trial court for later use on appeal. This underscores what I've been saying for months about how Fani is not a very good lawyer, among her many other shortcomings, such as lack of judgment, etc.

Nevertheless, this is a very good outcome, and further ensures we have heard the last of this sham proceeding, as far as its impact on President Trump is concerned. But I'm sure Fani will continue to waste taxpayer money (as well as costing all the defendants more attorneys fees) by dragging this matter up to the Georgia Supreme Court, just to try to cover her eponymous anatomical part.

I hope all the defendants sue her and Nathan Wade for all they're worth when this is over.

"Do you often like the tweets you don't agree with?" Kennedy asked.

"Those were not my words," Keys insisted.

"You can't make this cat walk backwards," Kennedy finally declared. //

Kennedy cuts through the palaver and gets down to the nitty gritty again in pointing out the difference between what witnesses say and what they do. He's not shy about holding their feet to the fire and exposing hypocrisy, and it's a great thing to see. //

Michael Piz
a day ago
My favorite Kennedy quote is "Kale tastes like I'd rather be fat.". //

Dennis
a day ago
Kennedy is the Mark Twain of today. One could literally write a book of quotes, funny and epic exchanges that man has had in the past decade alone

DailyLlama
That reminds me of "The Plan"
The Plan

In the beginning, there was a plan,

And then came the assumptions,

And the assumptions were without form,

And the plan without substance,

And the darkness was upon the face of the workers,

And they spoke among themselves saying,

"It is a crock of shit and it stinks."

And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said,

"It is a pile of dung, and we cannot live with the smell."

And the Supervisors went unto their Managers saying,

"It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong,

Such that none may abide by it."

And the Managers went unto their Directors saying,

"It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide by its strength."

And the Directors spoke among themselves saying to one another,

"It contains that which aids plants growth, and it is very strong."

And the Directors went to the Vice Presidents saying unto them,

"It promotes growth, and it is very powerful."

And the Vice Presidents went to the President, saying unto him,

"This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigour

Of the company With very powerful effects."

And the President looked upon the Plan

And saw that it was good,

And the Plan became Policy.

And this, my friend, is how shit happens. //

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/SNAFU-principle.html. //

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"organic factual compost"
Sheer genius, especially after the amuse gueule of "a light dusting of the chicken manure of sales", and "the dump truck of male bovine excrement" as main course.

Superb episode, once again

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “But synthetic stocks are more durable!” Sure, if you’re planning to drop your rifle off a cliff or leave it in the rain for a week, plastic might hold up better. But durability isn’t the end-all, be-all of a rifle’s value. Wooden rifles weren’t designed to survive a zombie apocalypse; they were made to connect the shooter to something deeper—the land, the tradition, the story. If your only concern is having a rifle that’s “indestructible,” you’re not looking for a rifle. You’re looking for a shovel.

Let’s not forget the charm of modularity—the argument that a modern rifle can be Frankenstein-ed into whatever you want it to be. Adjustable stocks, interchangeable grips, tactical rails galore. But let me ask you: Does a Lego set stir your soul? Because that’s what these modern contraptions are—a mishmash of parts with no heart, no spirit, and no connection to anything but your wallet. A wooden-stocked rifle, on the other hand, is a piece of art. It’s a singular creation, made with purpose and integrity. It’s not a platform; it’s a rifle.

In the end, the difference is simple: a wooden-stocked rifle has a soul. It’s a rifle in the truest sense of the word—a tool, yes, but also a companion, a legacy, and a reminder of what matters. A rifle without wood? It’s just another tool in your toolbox, wedged between the cordless drill and the crowbar. And if that’s what you want, fine. But don’t call it a rifle. Call it what it is: a plastic imposter.

It's April Fools' Day, which means... a long, ludicrous poem about screens!

To be clear, there really are 12 black dots in the image. But (most) people can’t see all 12 dots at the same time, which is driving people nuts.

"They think, 'It’s an existential crisis,'" says Derek Arnold, a vision scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia. "'How can I ever know what the truth is?'" But, he adds, scientists who study the visual system know that perception doesn’t always equal reality.

In this optical illusion, the black dot in the center of your vision should always appear. But the black dots around it seem to appear and disappear. That’s because humans have pretty bad peripheral vision. If you focus on a word in the center of this line you’ll probably see it clearly. But if you try to read the words at either end without moving your eyes, they most likely look blurry. As a result, the brain has to make its best guess about what’s most likely to be going on in the fuzzy periphery — and fill in the mental image accordingly.

""It’s an existential crisis.""

That means that when you’re staring at that black dot in the center of your field of view, your visual system is filling in what’s going on around it. And with this regular pattern of gray lines on a white background, the brain guesses that there’ll just be more of the same, missing the intermittent black dots.

"i am a peoples who wants to make money from binary foxes"

This is pure comedy gold. //

That Ken is giving "Grant" the FBI's phone number to call is almost as funny as the FBI having reviews on Yelp.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas broke his nearly seven-year silence during oral arguments last week, there was much speculation about what exactly he said. Just four cryptic words appeared in the court's unofficial transcript.
Now it can be told: It was nine words and apparently a joke.

Weminuche45
an hour ago
"Why Are Betting Odds So Telling?"

The odds are set with the intent of having an equal amount of money bet on both options. As money comes in, if more money in bets are placed on one side, the odds are adjusted to even it out. Why? Bec if even money is bet on both sides of all bets, the casino always wins, via the juice/fees. So the odds are set by what people are betting, not a prediction by the casino of what will happen.

People bet on things for all sorts of reasons, usually emotional reasons, and almost always lose money over the long term. Casinos operate pragmatically and flow with whatever the betters are betting and win over the long term regardless, without any need to make accurate predictions or know something other people don't.

It is an interesting datapoint though. We'll see... //

Lugger66 Robert A Hahn
2 hours ago edited
True but what I wanna know is why Trump is dropping like a rock in poly market. Literally at the pace it’s changing it’s gonna be inverted in 24 to 48 hours. //

Robert A Hahn Lugger66
5 minutes ago
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. . . . There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

-- Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

What is the greatest political ad of all time? It is the below. Ok, sure, it's a spoof of political ads, but it’s also a pallet cleanser. This ad is by fake candidate “Gil Fulbright.” It's old — but timeless. It’s a product of Frank Riley. If you don’t find this funny – sorry we can’t be friends.

The 20 most-commented-on tech support columns from On Call's first 500 instalments

Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly column in which we recount readers' reactions to the drudgery of digital duties. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "John Smith" who once worked for a very large bank. No doubt you've never met anyone with such an unusual name.

MAGA War Room @MAGAIncWarRoom
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TRUMP: "Do you know what I am doing next week? I AM GOING TO A MCDONALDS TO WORK!" Show more

9:59 PM · Oct 11, 2024 //

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Former President Donald Trump is expected to visit a McDonald’s Sunday in Pennsylvania and “work the fry cooker”, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. This comes up as Trump has repeatedly claimed Vice President Kamala Harris never actually worked at McDonald’s.
5:31 PM · Oct 15, 2024 //

Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley
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President Trump is going to work the fryer at McDonald’s for 10 minutes this weekend, which will be 10 minutes more than Kamala has ever worked there.

The most epic troll of all time 🐐
7:57 PM · Oct 15, 2024

An annual event involving dirt, beer and cash once again drew dozens of eager competitors to a ski resort in Maine on Saturday.

More than 30 couples competed in the North American Wife Carrying Championship, a 278-yard (254-meter) race during which contestants splash through water, leap over logs and trudge through mud — all while carrying their partner like a sack of potatoes.

Gorilla annoys sibling during a heavy rain shower.

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Don't put it in your pocket

Are we now going to discover that Hezbollah bought a batch of calculators from Brazil some months ago?

Ian JohnstonSilver badge

Re: Don't put it in your pocket

If they did, it's a bad move which might easily blow up in their faces.

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Re: Scientific Calculator

Scientific calculators use a body of tested and published algorithms to determine the answer.

Non-scientific calculators believe what they read in the Daily Mail and what someones sister's best-friends hairdresser's partner saw on Facebook

Andy NonSilver badge

Re: Scientific calculator:

1+2x3=7

Daily Mail calculator:

1+2x3=9

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