I’m starting this one a few hours after Super Tuesday (insert whichever joke you like), and it occurred to me that I wanted to try and see if I could provide a politics-free late-night post. On a libertarian-ish website. I’m already fatigued by all the flavors of proto-Communism floating around our country, as no one needs 37 types of Socialism. Now, you fellow Night Shift-ers—link and comment about whatevs. I’m gonna see what’s out there, in terms of “regular news”. Let’s get it on:
With friends like his…What better way to exact revenge for damaging your car, than by using it as a battering ram?
This was a favorite of mine when I was a wee lad. And, linking to it gets me wondering: What product is long gone that you miss? Doesn’t have to be food, nor does it have to be from your childhood. But, it seems that, as soon as you find something you dig, it eventually changes, or, goes away. Tell us your tale of star-crossed consumerism.
A good start? Pay attention to the ‘casual’ mention of the Free State Project.
Courtesy of Vhyrus, over on the glibs Discord.
My man, Raphael, delivering the goods, too.
To be fair, UPS often brings these feelings out. I’d also like to take this opportunity to let any concerned agency citizen know that I have fewer than 20,000 rounds of ammo. That you know of.
It’s an award. But, not and award-award. I dunno—something about the Duality Compartmentalization of Man…
I think I know who’s NOT getting hired by UPS any time soon. File this under “Chafed Bait”. On second thought….
Yeah-I’m going there. I was bound to link at some point, so there ya go. OK—fine: I’ll class it up for you!
Yeah, my March game is off to a weak start. I’m just trying to get to my upcoming vacay in April, as well as carve out some time of not being bombarded by even more media cheerleading for the Dems. I know, I know… Well, y’all get to it and let’s chat the night away.
Biggus Diggus! Howdy friend!
You made it out tonight! I was beginning to wonder if you’d gone into hibernation earlier in the week.
Working longer hours but I’ve been around. Tomorrow will be two bears wrastling in a pup-tent.
Sounds like an exciting porn shoot.
Not if you identify as the tent.
Yeeeesh. Straff will be proud of ya for that one.
*Cocks thumb and points index finger at Diggy*
Porn shoot confirmed.
We’re all proud.
He has a wife, you know.
You know what she’s called?
Incontinentia
Incontinentia Buttocks
So, so stoned when we saw that movie. We didn’t have room so a bunch of kids just piled into the back of the pickups and headed into town. Try that stunt even ten years later.
Back the truck into the spot and sit in lawn chairs in the back. Gawd, I miss drive-in theaters.
Also, my buddy and I went to the drive-in on a motorcycle. They wouldn’t let us in.
There used to be a Schlotzsky’s a few doors down from where I get my hair done, but now there are apparently none in Ohio at all. I miss that yummy bread. : (
I think they’re an Austin thing. And, I agree about the bread. But, trying to keep v\carbs low, and, too many f-ups on orders, and I tend to stay away.
Also, they appear to have stopped offering combos a few years ago. As in, they did for a long time. Then, one day, you had to order the items a la carte.
Austin dingbats…
Even more recently, the two Steak-n-Shakes closest to us shut down and put up big banners proclaiming “Franchising Opportunity” – which no one has taken them up on. : (
Hey Mrs. Robinson. How you doin”?
::looks over shoulder:: Who? Me? I’m doin’ fine, but I’ll have to toddle off to bed soon. Losing that hour, you know, and we’re in ET.
Merely a jest, Red! We’ll see you soon enough on these boards. Sleep tight and don’t let the creepy internet stalkers bite!
Yep. Also, less time = less funny.
Loved their sandwiches. Last one in NM (TLTG) is in Santa Fe. Usually drive past it to eat at someplace else. Gonna have to stop someday.
I used to get these frozen submarine sandwiches as a kid. They came in a 2-pack and there were also two little packets of mustard in the box. Had like 2 or 3 meats and a cheese on like a foot long submarine roll. You had to cook them in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes or something. Half the time they wouldn’t cook right, the meat and cheese would be burnt around the edges and still almost frozen in the middle. Actually come to think of if I don’t miss them at all, they were terrible.
“Skweeze-a-Snack”. Went well with Ritz crackers.
I remember those mug-o-lunch commercials. What I miss is the space sticks or whatever they were passing off as astronaut food. I loved those things.
is? are? fuckit.
Well, the ice cream is still alive an’ kickin’. Could be the space sticks are around, too.
Space Food Sticks! I remember those! I liked them too.
I only liked that stuff because we never got it. Hell, I dug steak and kidney pie. Perogies and lasagna. God help us, blood pudding…
Lasagna is perfectly fine cold at 2am to help sustain a raw bender.
NTIWK…
If I recall, they were like a buck apiece back when a buck was serious change.
Gas was like 35 cents per gallon.
I use the cost of gas to gauge the amount of inflation/value of the dollar since I was a kid.
I worked as a gas jockey at a Chevron station that charged $0.359 for a gallon of gas. We used to laugh because you could buy it for $0.289 just down the street.
However, a 2020 dollar is worth about 10% of a 1967 dollar. I bought gas today at $1.879 per gallon which would be 18 cents back in the day. Incredible.
Yep. Yet another reason coal powered cars will struggle. Even with the taxes on gasoline much higher than in 1976, the price of gasoline has remain nearly constant in inflation adjusted dollars.
Okay, funny boy. We used to be able to buy 1/2 cent candy. Nigger-babies if I recollect.
Something something “You ain’t worth a plug nickel”…
Maybe that is why my mum rarely bought them.
Allo’ chums!
Yo!
Bonjour!
I don’t speak freaky deaky dutch!
Well Fuck off, Tulpa! Does that language resonate?
Frig off, Tulpa!
Tulp off Frigga!
Getting awfully Nordic around here…
Frika, please
I miss lead paint and lead paint.
It chipped rather nicely, didn’t it?
Tasty, like tic-tacs.
Used to have contests with me friends, see how much we could eat!
A dramatic reading of The Eye of Argon, possibly the worst fantasy novel ever written:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikM_Lh8Q0xo
Sounds like a Ted’S link…
It’s been quite a night of festivities and I am now endeavoring to eat ALL of the smoked fish dip!
Lest it go to waste. Endeavor to persevere.
I was introduced to smoked fish dip at the Half Shell Raw Bar in Key West back in the day. Saltines and Tabasco and you have some good snacking.
Saltines and pickled jalapenos here. If I could be arsed I’d dice some onion for it too, but I’m half drunk and lazy.
As long as you aren’t smoking the fish yourself…
Like…in a pipe?
If you know a better, more flavorful way to inhale fish smoke, I’d like to hear it!
S’ppose one could vaporize some fish oil…
The cat has set me free from couch arrest, so I’d best get to bed while the gettin’s good! Nighty night all!
Cat paralysis! It’s real!
My avatar boy has discovered the world of treats. When I get home he is standing at the door. 12 years old and just now…
– Keebler peanut-butter bar things
– Breyer’s coffee fudge ice cream
I probably wouldn’t eat either today but dayum
Those two commies double fudge brownie ice cream > than any Bryer’s
Those two commies were still unheard of in my state the last time I had the Breyers. But I would put it up against them any day.
Were the Keebler bars like the Little Debbie Nutty Bars? https://www.walmart.com/ip/Little-Debbie-Wafers-With-Peanut-Butter-Nutty-Bars-12ct/13847633
Nothing like that. More like a Twix but with peanut-butter flavored filling instead of caramel.
What about PB Twix? Do they come close, or, is this a case of the competition doing it better?
I’m not aware of such a thing. But if the quality is similar to regular Twix, I would have to say the Keebler’s would be noticeably better.
Plus, we’re talking 30 years ago so that’s 30 years fewer for the quality to go to shit.
Those Little Debby Nutty Bars were awesome. They sold them individually from the freezer in the little high school snack bar. They might’ve been just fifteen cents each, definitely not more than a quarter. You could last pretty long on the calories on one if you were short on cash that day, and you could take them apart into several frozen chocolate wafers, and really take your time eating them. Chocolate milks were just a nickel (obviously subsidized). This wasn’t forever ago, just 1978.
I seem to recall others doing the “bar split” technique. Seems familiar enough that I may have done it a looong time ago, too.
Galtee Irish sausages are very hard to get in this country, even in the age of the internet. Irish breakfast sausages are completely different than Yank ones. The flavour and texture are loads different, it’s closer to a bockwurst.
Yank sausage…
Phrasing?
I hear ya–I asked about a Moon Mist ice cream connection a week or so ago (no takers, dammit). If it isn’t making it’s way out of Nova Scotia, how much more difficult is it to get Irish meat products across the pond?
There are some laws that block Irish meat products from entering. Their pork is not kosher here.
“Your pork is not kosher here!”
/Jewish mother chasing boyfriend out of the house
I avoid non kosher pork at all costs.
So you avoid pork?
Wait a second. No pork? I’m doing this Jewish thing all wrong. Next you’ll be telling me I can’t have shrimp.
^Made a funny. I larfed.
*rim shot*
This snake robot can climb trees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VLjDjXzTiU
Chafed bait indeed. I can now go to sleep with a smile on my face.
Wad shot, relaxation ensued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEAAybU5dBA
Candy cigarettes and bubble-gum cigars.
2-stroke dirtbikes with expansion chambers
70’s tits in movies
Surplus rifles in Sears catalogs.
Cheap lightbulbs.
Along those lines:
Toilets that will flush a full load the first time
Dishwashers and washing machines that actually cleaned
Gas cans that didn’t pour half of their contents all over whatever it was that you were trying to fill.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Confections-Candy-Cigarettes-Pack/dp/B000BXSRT2
https://www.amazon.com/Unknown-Bubble-Gum-Cigars/dp/B000NMCQG6
https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Pour-Gas-Can-Replacement-Spout/dp/B06WRRXG1X (makes your gas can work…)
https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Cascade-Phosphates-Professional-Fryer/dp/B00PT0324C (makes your dishwasher work…)
LED lightbulbs are less than $2 a unit now and last damn near forever.
Can confirm the Cascade Boil Out. That shit works.
That’s a great list! I’ll add waitresses on roller skates, Drive-in movies and station wagons. Bars that let you smoke and public places that let you drink.
Both lists are great. Yes, drive in movies I especially miss. We used to roll all kinds of people in the trunks of cars into them and party. Kegs of beer were sometimes tapped, and there were often a dozen or more of your friends around the lot. It was like a concert, but a movie was playing instead. Brilliant.
Drive-ins were such an integral part of our growing-up in the late 60’s. We’d cook up a batch of popcorn at home to save the cost of the concession stand and try to grab two speakers if the adjacent space was open.
Not to mention the vast opportunities for teen-aged lust. I got laid for the first time after a drive-in movie.
Teen age lust at the drive in was legendary. Really, what better place? You’re in a car with yourself and a girl alone or with friends and a movie happens to be playing in the background. My first time wasn’t at the drive ins, but I did get a blow job from my girlfriend at the time while my buddy was in the backseat getting the same from a girl we knew.
My Dad took us to this classic in our PJ’s, strictly for research https://youtu.be/gSYmJur0Npw
That’s an excellent drive in movie to attend. My most hilarious was with a drunk Irish uncle who bought a six pack of tall boys on the way over to see Beverly Hills Cop and swore more than Eddie did on the way over to see it with us three ten year olds.
My Aunt and Uncle used to take us to “classics” such as this https://youtu.be/hiJ6MvhFimE
And this https://youtu.be/wqv6PIH_ymY
Mmmm…that’s some good drive-in fodder, ri’chere.
Never seen either of those, but the second is definitely going on the list of movies playing in the background while I’m doing something else.
Yeah, I was giggling uncontrollably through the second link
I was taken to one by one or more cousins when I was about 5 or so. I think it was a double feature, but, all I can remember is that the movie I definitely saw parts of was “Sister”, with Margot Kidder.
Why the hell I was there, and why they were showing this 4 years or so after it was released, I have no idea.
“Walkabout” as a Saturday matinee when I was 5 or 6 years old. What the fuck.
I could never understand why Jenny and her kid brother didn’t go back the way they came, following the car tracks if necessary.
Only drive-in I ever attended was a double-feature of “Jaws” and “The Deep” when I was like 12 – very early 80s.
Awwww. You missed out, being a little gaybo and all.
KTM still makes 2 stroke dirt bikes
I used to race moto-cross against the guys who could afford KTMs. The would usually kick my ass.
I have a 2003 300 EXC. Fun bike on the mountain single tracks. I keep the jetting a little fat to mellow it out when it gets on the pipe.
A former employee (now a friend) used to race on the pro circuit in motocross and supercross. Eventually he ended up on the KTM team. To make extra money, he would do whatever the organizers wanted. Eventually he ended up being one of the main guys building the tracks, both indoor and outdoor. He’s even helped build some of the X-games tracks and Olympic tracks. He’s an incredible operator. He even built a track on his land that was used in a motocross video. It’s pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN90evUhJgk
Dude, I got you covered.
candy cigarettes
bubble gum cigars
I actually had heard of that website before but why turn down an opportunity to whine on a website?
Still, point being that you can’t buy them at the local 7-11 because drugz r bad, mmkay?
FTR, I never really liked the candy cigs, too much like chalk. And never was a fan of bubble gun in general, much less bubble gum cigars.
Had a guy, many, many years ago hand out bubble gum cigars on the birth of his son.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
For a Libertarian hangout this place is awfully strict.
Don’t cross the Powers That Be. They can be quite salty. SP with rusty tin can lids, HM with links…
Ohhh, you got busted! Probably trying to sneak two links in one comment, huh?
I think my third day on the site HM gave me a cat-butt. I didn’t know and just said “Oh for heaven’s sake!” and all was forgiven. Mostly. HM still don’t like me…
He was offering, silly!
Presenting?
Oh, he’s too Alpha for that. Just appreciate the offer….
Flops on desk and everybody runs.
Flops too hard, and he’ll run…
What’d you do? I’ve been trying for years and can’t even manage a cow-butt. I’ve gotten a few narrow gazes and a bunch of STFULs but no cat-butts.
I was so new that the mohel hadn’t been called yet. I have no idea. Something cunte-ish, I presume.
Ah, that’s the problem. I’m far to likable to ever be considered “cunt-ish”
Nah, your cuntiness is so self-evident we don’t feel the need to mention it. :-p
I got a cat-butt once for asking for a hat-tip.
Can’t put more than 2 links in a post or it goes to mod immediately.
Rules are for joiners. Links are for winners!
fun fact: there were many species of giant tortoises. Most of them were eaten to extinction by hungry sailors.
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The Mascarene Islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues once harboured five species of giant tortoise, comprising two species occurring on Mauritius, another two on Rodrigues, and one on Réunion. The tortoises were unique to these islands and had gained a number of special adaptations in the absence of ground predators. They differed from any other giant tortoise species because of their modified jaws, reduced scales on the legs and shells averaging just 1mm thick. The shells of the giant tortoises were open-ended; the name Cylindraspis actually means cylinder-shaped. This was a specific adaptation in response to the lack of predators, where thick, heavily armored shells were no longer necessary.[citation needed]
Around the 16th century, with human arrival and the subsequent introduction of domestic animals, particularly pigs, the tortoises were rapidly[vague][citation needed] hunted to extinction. Unfortunately, the thin shells were of no protection against these new invaders; rats, cats and pigs devoured the eggs and young and thousands were collected alive for provisioning ships. Sometimes they were even hunted for their oil,[citation needed] which was very valuable around that time because it provided a cure for many ailments, including scurvy.
On Mauritius, the giant tortoise disappeared from the mainland by the end of the 17th century and the very last tortoises survived until the 1730s on the islets in the north. Around the late 1800s, large number of tortoises bones were discovered in the Mare aux Songes excavations.[citation needed] These resulted in the description of the two species of giant tortoise endemic to Mauritius, the saddle-backed Mauritius (Cylindraspis inepta) and the domed Mauritius (Cylindraspis triserrata).[21]
Today, the only remains from these five species are a number of fossil bones and shells, a few drawings of live animals, and one stuffed saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise in France’s National Museum of Natural History.[22][better source needed]
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Mr President, we cannot allow an oil filled, cylinder shaped, giant tortoise gap!
If they were so useful I wonder why nobody thought to breed them.
Turtles are relatively easy to see on the water when you are scanning the water for fish. They rest on the top of the water and float around looking for seaweed and often birds land on their shells.
Selectboard eh? When I was growing up is was Selectmen.
Right? And it was “Madam Chairman”, the “chairman” being a title, not a description.
“Chairperson”? Why not “Chairperchild” to keep it totally non-sexed.
::sounds long whistle blast::
Foul on BH, for infantilizing a political better!
+1 perchild who thinks that “herstory” is etymologically sound
Chairentity. Don’t want to be speciest.
Since we’re on a cheeseball movie theme tonight
I had a free pass to a local theater in the 80s and saw a lot of cheesy movies but never that one. Reminds me of this
Wouldn’t “Rape Ghost” be Patrick Swayze?
You’ll love this https://youtu.be/S0Q7Mq8OXaM
And this https://youtu.be/HvLdTFQ9RGU
Gotta love nutso Shelley Winters.
Bloody Mama
What’s the Matter With Helen
Or this
More music
https://youtu.be/4HhVVBweGx8
Gah! One to cleanse the palette https://youtu.be/kR5Ki6jjPaY
Every time I hear a Steely Dan song, I think about a HR VP I met several years ago who was a big fan. One of the most genuine and charismatic people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. He could lead a charge across a trench line.
Often wondered what it was about a man who you inspire you to run uphill into machine gun fire,
Then I met one.
Huh. Never met one yet. My loss, I suppose.
Edelkirsch reminds me of communion wine. Or Dubonet.
So strange to watch without a live crowd in the background.
https://youtu.be/zzOZQ8vnx_Y
Video unavailalble.
Boogie Time.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HotepJesus/status/1236013168402587648
You haven’t lived unless you were a spotty, sweaty 13 year old forced to dance to this https://youtu.be/RBAERlCCcn4
TPTB made us Disco Dance for Phys-ed credits. It was just as terrible as you can imagine. 75 boys lined up across the gym from 75 girls. “Pick your partner!” The rush commences and the poor kids that were left out? Fuck-em. Cruel.
Just like dodgeball!
Better than Dodgeball! With sweaty pits, pimples and the miasma of terror. Dance! Monkeys! I said DANCE!
Whitney Houston in the Rock and Roll HOF, but not Suzi Quatro. Interesting world.
Interesting dictionary, to say the least.
That ain’t right.
No. Stupid world. Suzi don’t belong.
So that’s how you caught a cat-assing!!
*Tips lid*
The same relatives that took me to those drive-in movies were big fans of Suzy.
Those were the days!!
I do believe my question about product nostalgia has been my most successful, to date. Well, if not, it’s gotta be a tie.
Oh, forgot mine. mcDLT. In styrofoam. Actually, all of fast food in styrofoam without microwaves.
I remember them. Not sure if I had one (I think so), but, the concept seems solid.
Did you stumble in?
#Foolishly
Suzy was cute but she doesn’t belong in the RRHOF. Whither Ram Jam?
Whoa oh, bam ba bam!
Some of her later stuff was more pop/country, but this is pretty standard R&R for the period.
https://youtu.be/xYoogY-UGio
You can certainly see why they wanted her for Happy Days. She could bring it, even if she did tone down/shift gears.
Allow me to offer up another: Orudis KT
OK–available via Rx…but, damned effective when it was OTC.
Uh oh. Diggy is a pusher.
No–a honey pushed it on me. I wonder what she takes now, considering all her pain issues…
/in the long ago
Whew!! That time, just a-flyin’ by!
Hello, late nighters.
I just read the links. The umbrella story is odd. Why are humans so quick to judge?
Suckage. Major suckage.
Maybe people generally feel so insecure that they love to see others fail.
There is that. And, I would suspect, an expectation of others having the worst motivations and/or being the worst. Gotta be ready to tilt at those windmills!
How are things coming along post-Dr’s visit?
Your best avatar by far (runs and hides behind Diggus’ skirts)
::looks at kilt::
Why, thank y-
Oh, right. ‘Tis very fetching, M’Lady.
Thanks. Amazing what being well will do for a gal.
Excellent! Very glad to hear it!
Forgot: No good deed goes unpunished.
TheSPlosive! Making copies..
I saw a show today on presidential transportation (Air Force one, marine one, the Besst, etc.
I didn’t know that in 1977 a car driven by a civilian collided broadside with the limo.?the driver, a young guy, looked into the car, saw Ford and thought “Oh shit.”
To be fair, a lot of people saw Ford, and thought, “Oh, shit!”
?
Wasn’t that the Doonesbury guy that treated him as invisible? I know he drew Bush as an actual shrub.
Not sure. But, Chevy Chase and SNL sure didn’t like him.
Chase’s on-set behavior makes him, IMO, the worst cast member ever.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds him insufferably smug.
Apparently, several cast-mates felt the same way. Anecdotal evidence suggests he loves pulling the “Do you know who I am?” card, even now.
He was an abusive asshole towards Terry Sweeney when he returned for the 10th anniversary season
Anecdotal evidence suggests he loves pulling the “Do you know who I am?” card, even now.
Does anybody know this man? He doesn’t seem to know who he is.
Hard to imagine Ford evoking any type of strong emotion.
There were plenty of “modern” D’s back then. The kind that shat on anything to the right of Mao.
He managed to generate a lot of strong emotions when he preemptively pardoned Nixon.
Some of us are still pissed.
Just goes to prove that everyone loves Bacon
Both of my boys try to say my name. “Merrow! Merrrrrowwww!” Not their fault that they can’t do D’s and L’s.
Hill Street Blues binge update – The return of Dennis Franz to the cast, in a different but eerily similar role than he previously portrayed, seems to have precipitated a subtle nosedive in show quality.
Pizza Man didn’t turn your chops?
WHY? HOW? To whom is that a romantic nickname?
Momma John’s??
Are you also branching out into Beverly Hills Buntz?
Gotta tap out. Work wont happen by itself tomorrow. They’re gunning for me but I wont give up without a fight. Happy trails, Glibs!
Give ’em Hell, Fes!
I will and I always do. Thanks, Diggus!
Praise be the forces that made Spring Break a ‘thing’! Hopefully, people will actually be taking advantage of it this week.
Spring break season stretches out over a long season it seems!
But it’s pretty quiet now at work so it’s ok by me.
Yes, it does seem to stretch out. Good to hear you’re catching a bit of a breather.
NYC school Spring Break is 2nd/3rd weeks of April this year. Our family trip to SiL’s in Miami Beach would, for the first time in years, not coincide with Passover. I was very much looking forward to arriving after all the drunken/muggled, crowded, stressful, fancy Seders are over. Now, I guess I’m not going at all. Sigh… the grass is always greener.
Too much chaos for you ? Sounds like something that would be fun ONCE.
I’m more of a sit quietly and know where the exits are kinda fellow. The unlocked doors and groups roaming the neighborhood, just walking in the house and sitting down at table set me on edge.
I took a nap this afternoon and now sleep eludes me. But I’m tired so I better found sheep.
Your eyes, in your latest avatar, look like you’re employing the mesmeric power to cloud men’s minds. Also, I’m glad to hear you’re on the mend.
Maybe this will help…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9segXdOHRw
“Count” sheep. What’s a found sheep? Geez.
And thanks on the avatar. They’re just green eyes. Nothing supernatural about them…that I’m aware of.
Paging Kim Carnes…
😉
I used to think that song was by ‘Eyes’ by Bette Davis, because I parsed it wrong when the little man in the radio said “Bette Davis Eyes”. Kinda fun to announce the artist and song title as part of the chorus, but the rappers seemed to be plenty happy tooting their own diamond-encrusted horns in such a fashion, so as a kid how the heck was I supposed to know?
I really hate DST.
—nothing follows—
#metoo
I would advocate here for having “BST” all the time, so the winters don’t seem so fucking dark and miserable (unless you keep farmer time). There’s nothing stopping farmers getting up at 3am to go about their farming business. You might say there’s nothing keeping me from doing same but given most people’s working day begins and ends in darkness for the better part of three months, I say to hell with GMT, and keep it pegged 1 hour forward all year round.