Stanky Pork Jerky

by | Mar 2, 2020 | Food & Drink, Fun | 339 comments

This kind of pig.

 

So I was cruising through the deep freeze to see what was in there when I came across a six pound pork loin. I haven’t done jerky in a while, so it’s fate was set.

 

I used a Thai style jerky recipe that is very simple and yields my favorite piece of jerky. I’ve done this with beef and moose, but pork loin is my favorite.

To start with, I trimmed the loin and sliced it across grain into 1/4″ thick slices.

 

As I mentioned, this recipe is pretty easy. For every pound of meat, mix together:

2 tbsp Thai fish sauce

1 tbsp light, or dark soy sauce (I use half and half)

2 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp white pepper

1.1 gm Cure  #1

 

Put the meat in a ziplock bag big enough to hold it all. I used a 2 gallon bag for this batch. Whisk all your ingredients together, add to the bag, and mix thoroughly. Seal the bag and into the fridge overnight. Turn the bag over a couple of times.

 

The next morning, I spread the slices out on racks and into the smoker*. I’m going to start at 100 degrees for an hour with no smoke to dry the pork. Then I add wood, ramp up to 140 for two hours and then 160 for another two hours. Four hours of smoke are plenty.

*If you don’t have a smoker, no big deal. Oven drying will still deliver a quality product.

 

From here, I move the meat to a 160 degree oven to finish the drying. Between smoking and drying, the total time was about nine hours.

 

To finish things off, I put the jerky in a brown paper bag over night to deal with any residual moisture as it cools.

 

You know why jerky is so expensive? I started with six pounds of meat and finished with two pounds of jerky. But it’s worth it!

 

 

Thanks for looking!

 

About The Author

Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

339 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    I’m slobbering, that looks soooo tasty, might have try it, oven though,

    • Florida Man

      +1. Looks super delicious. One day I’ll get of my butt and buy a smoker.

      • Sean

        I don’t have the patience for one. 9 hours to make a snack? Pass.

  2. Sean

    I’d eat that.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        Seriously–no one is gonna riff on these??

        I am utterly disappoint.

  3. MikeS

    To finish things off, I put the jerky in a brown paper bag over night to deal with any residual moisture as it cools.

    In the fridge or room temp?

    This should work just fine for a food dehydrator, I assume?

    • Spudalicious

      Room temp and definitely.

  4. Florida Man

    Why do you call it “Stanky”?

    • A Leap at the Wheel

      Fish sauce…

      • Spudalicious

        ^^^^

      • Trigger Hippie

        I don’t even want to know.

        You had me all the way before, during, and after…but not the fish sauce.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Not.Clicking.

      • Rhywun

        I’ve tried to use it in my own cooking before. I think I’ll leave it to the professionals.

    • MikeS

      Because “Your Mom” was already taken.

      Also; ever smelled fish sauce? *shudders*

      • Florida Man

        So…is this for eatin’ or catchin’ catfish?

      • MikeS

        Haha. Now that you mention it, there must be some catfish bait recipes that use it. It is that damn bad.

      • juris imprudent

        Contestant on Chopped the other night used a LOT of fish sauce, and the judges were like OMG. Turns out she knew what she was doing and didn’t actually overdo it. I don’t think I’ve ever used more than 5 or 6 drops.

      • Invisible BEAM of the comment stream

        Fish sauce is pretty much a standard ingredient in my Bolognese sauce now, along with small amounts of Worcestershire, Marmite and virtually anything else (like anchovy paste or concentrated mushroom extract) I can use to pump up the umami in the sauce. People keep asking for the recipe, and when I tell them, none of them can believe it.

      • Mojeaux

        Worcestershire is what makes meatloaf delicious.

      • Francisco d'Anconia

        Worcestershire is what makes meatloaf delicious.

        Fixed

  5. A Leap at the Wheel

    Brown paper bag trick is smart.

  6. AlmightyJB

    That looks good. Thanks for sharing!

  7. straffinrun

    No smoker. No can do, eh?

    • MikeS

      Oven will work.

    • Not Adahn

      What was your kidling’s mystery orange reptile?

      • straffinrun

        Phlegm. She coughed up part of her curry.

      • Not Adahn

        See,

        You’re such an unreliable narrator that I can’t quite accept that, even though it fits the evidence.

        Well played.

      • straffinrun

        You wish you had a daughter that thought stuff like that was funny. The mosaic was a nice touch.

      • MikeS

        That’s honestly what it was? Haha. That kicks ass. And yes, the mosaic was a nice touch.

      • straffinrun

        Yep, And on Mama’s blanket no less.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        Oh, straff–not the bedding!

      • Not Adahn

        Now I’m thinking that’s NOT what is was, because I’ m not believing that a little Japanese girl would be so uncouth as to hawk up a loogie onto her comforter. Or that she could produce quite so much volume.

      • MikeS

        I’ m not believing that a little Japanese girl would be so uncouth

        Don’t sell her short, she’s half-American.

      • Not Adahn

        Maybe, but it’s rude to mention that.

      • straffinrun

        I’ve trained her well. From age three, when she was just a little girl riding in the child seat on the back of my bicycle, she would point at posters of politicians on the street and ask, “Papa, is he a liar and a thief, too?” True.

  8. AlmightyJB

    Hickory?

    • Spudalicious

      I used cherry for this batch. You want a little smoke flavor, but you don’t want to overpower the marinade.

      • AlmightyJB

        Cherry sounds good. I’ve used that on pork chops before.

  9. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Radio is playing some God-awful remake of Running Down A Dream with a breathy, whiny knockoff of the Indigo Girls.

    Nice jerky, Spud.

      • The Hyperbole

        Christmas music? you are wretched and spiteful.

      • Mojeaux

        ?

      • MikeS
      • Not Adahn

        God knows I hate being sincere on her, but…

        The actual best/most improved cover of all time

      • Not Adahn

        GodDAMN.

        I forgot about that one.

        Maybe you’re right. The final product is better, but the question becomes: does the improvement from the garbage Beatles original overcome the higher starting point of NIN?

        I can’t judge that because of my (relative) youth.

        Also because I had sex so many times to the Joe Cocker version with the costume mistress while waiting for my cue to go onstage during a production of Go Ask Alice

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think we need an article about that fling with the haberdashery wench.

      • Not Adahn

        Theater girls are easy. Details at 11:00.

        Also, rolled-up rugs for set-dressing make excellent fuck benches.

      • MikeS

        Good questions all. Your…umm…emotional attachment to it not withstanding; it says a lot that Trent Reznor said Johnny stole the song from him and now owns it (words to that effect).

        Now, all that might mean is he’s more humble than any of the Beatles, but still…

      • kinnath

        garbage Beatles original overcome the higher starting point of NIN?

        You got that backwards, you young whippersnapper.

      • Charles Easterly

        MikeS: “Are you sure?”

        I was impressed with Cash’s remake.
        I thought that the video of Cash singing the song was quite impressive.

      • MikeS

        The video does add another dimension to it, doesn’t it? Especially June standing at his side, already passed on by the time the video was released, and only a few months before Johnny died.

      • Rhywun

        It so does. I think you’ve arrived at the correct answer and we can lay this topic to rest now.

      • Not Adahn

        Neg, if for no other reason than using the NYO version. Seriously, the 1st trumpet should not be performing. Go listen from 0:45 1:15 if you don’t believe me.

        But also, overall, the reorchestration suffers in the interior movements, and also (and this is a controversial opinon) “The Great Gate of Kiev. “

      • Rhywun

        I will listen to this version when I get a chance. My go-to is from the 80s.

        But more importantly, the original – and TBH I’ve only listened to it 3 or 4 times – just doesn’t “do it” for me in the same way.

      • Not Adahn

        I was a violist for a couple of decades, and played (and loved) the orchestral version.

        But there’s something about the piano version on TGGoK where slamming/rolling those chords is just more dramatic for me than the orchestra continuing to blast away like they’ve been doing.

      • Rhywun

        There’s a video on YT of some dude playing the original – it’s mesmerizing how into it he gets. I’ll have to give it another chance. It’s one of my favorite classical works.

      • Rhywun

        Go listen from 0:45 1:15 if you don’t believe me.

        OMG you’re right

      • The Hyperbole

        If the criteria is most improved over the original then the only question is which Dylan cover wins, many will go with Jimi and Watchtower, I’d probably go with this but seriously the only reason anyone knows who Bob Dylan is s because other people covered his songs.

      • kinnath

        I had no idea that was Dylan cover.

      • The Hyperbole

        Yeah, I love KWS but that’s a second class Dlyan song to start with and Kenny doesn’t do anything special to elevate it. Fair to middling at best.

      • Mojeaux

        You win the thread.

      • MikeS

        You’re absolutely right, but so it this.

      • Charles Easterly

        “This one’s a huge improvement on the original.”

        This is one of the reasons I enjoy this “place” – in addition to political commentary, L(libertarian) ideas, recipes, and much more – I can learn about bands I might never have heard of otherwise.

        Thank you, Grumbles.

      • juris imprudent

        When a cover obliterates the original.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        Now, when you say “obliterates”, you are, in fact, saying that it shits the bed so hard that it affects the space/time continuum, and causes people to forget that the song even exists…right?

        ‘Cause….fuck.

      • Timeloose

        Cool. I never listened to the Rage version.

  10. Crusty Juggler

    Do you ever get on your knees and thank God that you have access to my dementia?

    You should.

    • Ted S.

      Is that from Exit to Eden?

      • Crusty Juggler

        No, it’s from MikeS’s most favorite fantasy.

        He has a vivid mind!

      • MikeS

        *clicks*

        *barfs*

        *shakes fist at Crusty*

        *barfs again*

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        *shakes fist at Crusty*

        Proof that CJ knows the erogenous zone like a champ.

  11. Crusty Juggler

    Why We Should Think Twice About Colonizing Space

    In other words, natural selection and cyborgization as humanity spreads throughout the cosmos will result in species diversification. At the same time, expanding across space will also result in ideological diversification. Space-hopping populations will create their own cultures, languages, governments, political institutions, religions, technologies, rituals, norms, worldviews, and so on. As a result, different species will find it increasingly difficult over time to understand each other’s motivations, intentions, behaviors, decisions, and so on. It could even make communication between species with alien languages almost impossible. Furthermore, some species might begin to wonder whether the proverbial “Other” is conscious. This matters because if a species Y cannot consciously experience pain, then another species X might not feel morally obligated to care about Y. After all, we don’t worry about kicking stones down the street because we don’t believe that rocks can feel pain. Thus, as I write in the paper, phylogenetic and ideological diversification will engender a situation in which many species will be “not merely aliens to each other but, more significantly, alienated from each other.”

    Jiminy creepers!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So… just like the ghetto

      • Trigger Hippie

        Or just the Tower of Babel parable with a science fiction sheen.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Afro
        Charlie
        Tower of Babel

      • Trigger Hippie

        Profit!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Oh, fuck it. Let’s take it to its logical conclusion.

        Roman Empire
        MTV
        God blinds the Singularity with SCIENCE

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not do something that man dreams of because something bad might happen? Fuck that.

      • Tonio

        Precautionary principle, Stinky!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Your avatar really makes me want to change back to my Randy Watson.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Whatever makes you happy, just let your soul glow.

      • Trigger Hippie

        *sigh*

        …….

      • Trigger Hippie

        Huh, keep getting a 504 bad gateway.

      • Not Adahn

        +1 “the royal dick is clean”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Is what that asshat describes necessarily bad?

    • Not Adahn

      Bah. Space colonization is impossible. Life in the universe only has a few hundred million years left. Maybe a single-digit billion.

      • mikey

        Eleven years here on earth.

      • Not Adahn

        Nah, the algae and lichens will survive until carbonate death. Prokaryotes will live millenia longer.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Exactly. And here we are, littered with breeders who sentenced their young offspring a short life. At least the gay gents, celibates, and people who can’t get laid group did our part to reduce future human suffering. You BREEDERS KILLED THE PLANET!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        +1 Nikki

    • Rhywun

      I think it’s equally likely that the discovery of any sort of practicable interstellar travel will bring instantaneous, or near enough, communication with it, and all those different species will be speaking English and following the Space Kardashians for “entertainment”.

      • juris imprudent

        My eye twitched so hard at Space Kardashians that I thought I might be having a small stroke.

  12. DEG

    That looks delicious.

    • Ted S.

      The Queasy, M.E. virus?

      • Crusty Juggler

        It’s murder, Sam!

    • gbob

      God damn cops in the area are chasing away people who go to take photos. Source: guy who got chased off. Fuckers.

      • Aus

        That’s a shame, I was just thinking that would make for great photos.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Have a beef on weck* and a pop** and stay warm, friend***!

        *if you don’t know what this means I pity your existence.
        ** lol pop it’s called a soda, weirdo.
        *** you are obviously cold and indoors, so send pasty nudes!

      • DEG

        Beef on Weck is delicious.

      • Not Adahn

        If I ever need to drive through/near Buffalo, I’m going to get one.

        It doesn’t seem to be a thing in Saratoga.

      • DEG

        All of mine I’ve had in central PA. I’ve not been in western NY.

      • Not Adahn

        Huh. Well then, I should look for more matches in PA.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        I had one long ago in Austin.

        Wasn’t impressed.

    • Mojeaux

      Holy shit. My house would collapse under that weight BEFORE it melted, never mind after.

    • Grumbletarian

      KLY-MUTT CHAYNJ!!

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Mom grew up in northern Maine and talked of houses that had doors on the second story so that people could get out of the house in extreme winter. Mom’s dad used to mention that, when clearing his driveway of snow, he would run out of room to throw the snow.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Having had work shoveling snow in the snow belt the latter is totally believable.

      • DEG

        Mom’s dad used to mention that, when clearing his driveway of snow, he would run out of room to throw the snow.

        That happened to me at an ex-girlfriend’s place.

        She lived in a suburb of Boston. That year Boston got lots and lots of snow. The storm in question dumped at least two feet, maybe three. I can’t remember clearly.

        I shoveled while she and her roommate relaxed inside. And I ran out of places to put the snow.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        I smiled that Hobbit described it as some legend from the days of yore and I thought, “Well, I call that ‘a Tuesday’.”

      • Crusty Juggler

        Badge of honor?

        More like vag of honor, am I right, people?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        A badge of my imprisonment in a frozen hellscape.

      • slumbrew - double secret satan

        Indeed – that’s every decent snowfall here.

        Every time someone says “why don’t you get a snow blower?”, I have to explain that would only work if my neighbors are cool with me blowing it into one of their windows.

      • DEG

        It’s one of the reasons I bought a house with a yard. I have plenty of places to put snow.

      • The Last American Hero

        Do go on about the girl and the roommate. I’m sure there’s more to this story.

  13. Crusty Juggler

    Allen’s controversial memoir hits newsstands in April

    “The book is a comprehensive account of his life, both personal and professional, and describes his work in films, theater, television, nightclubs and print,” reads a statement from Grand Central noting that, “Allen also writes of his relationships with family, friends, and the loves of his life.”

    I can’t wait for a nebbishy detailed account of Diane Keaton’s quirky quim.

    • Not Adahn

      Quirky and almost totally uninhabited.

      Woody got to bang her twice at the most.

  14. Tres Cool

    Ya know, in ’08, during the presidential election, the woman I was dating (OG-1X-OG) went through my house when I wasnt home and hid firearms, golf-clubs, implements of destruction, cause warned I was going to go “Full Elvis” on my TV. She even ripped the plug wire out of my chainsaw.

    I’m older, kinda more mature, and Im less impulsive now. But if I see many more Bloomberg ads….

    • Crusty Juggler

      “Full Elvis”

      Fat in a jumpsuit in Hawaii?

      • Tres Cool

        ..passing out on the shitter after shot-gunning my TV, with a belt on and a DEA badge in my pocket.

        Duh.

    • Sean

      ?

      I’ve used the phrase “I’ll pistol whip the next mother fucker” at work. No drama yet.

      • Not Adahn

        No pressure, but I totally expect you to buy a Laugo Alien.

      • Sean

        The current price point offends my fiscal sensibilities. (See also BRNO 7.5)

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        Holy crap–a semi-decent used car, or a pistol….

        Both have their uses, but….DAMN.

      • The Last American Hero

        That’s because the office is a gun free workplace, so they know it’s an empty threat.

  15. Invisible BEAM of the comment stream

    I see you use Pearl River Bridge.

    Excellent, Grasshopper.

    • Tres Cool

      Flav w/o NWA is…..?

      • Trigger Hippie is mist and shadow

        NWA?

      • Tres Cool

        Basically.
        The answer I was seeking was ‘unemployed’

    • Not Adahn

      “Public Enemy loses it’s shit over Democrat primaries”

      … said literally nobody ever in any other timeline.

      • Trigger Hippie is mist and shadow

        What? You telling me they didn’t shill for Dukakis back in their prime? Unfathomable.

  16. Rhywun

    Today in “Can’t we all just get along? I guess not”:

    “I felt extremely disrespected when our band was told that we couldn’t march in the parade with rainbow stickers on our uniforms,” one student who asked to remain unidentified told the outlet. “It’s horribly homophobic and so disrespectful to the LGBTQ+ community.”

    Maybe the parade organizers “felt extremely disrespected” when you deliberately chose to provoke them. Just a thought.

    • Rhywun

      ugh

      • Ted S.

        Eh, fuck St. Patrick’s Day parades, anyway.

      • Not Adahn

        Parades, yes. The glorious abundance of corned beef EVERYTHING, oh hell nah.

        I’mma post my diner’s menu just to make you people jealous.

      • Rhywun

        Oh totally. I hate parades.

        Though at least the Norwegian Day parade that sails by my house every year is apolitical. It’s the politics that is the main reason I hate parades.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I knew it was going to be St Patrick’s.

      Didn’t they pull this same schtick before?

      • Rhywun

        This is a recurring theme every. single. year.

      • Not Adahn

        Why do woke gays have such a need to be involved with leprechauns?

      • creech

        Can the organizers point to even one time when St. Patrick had a date with a woman? NTTAWWT

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        He got rid of the other (trouser) snakes. Power move. Alpha AF.

    • Tres Cool

      Its that stuff that prompted me to post a comment up. While walking through the living room to the kitchen (where I was making jugsy lobster-stuffed ravioli), I heard a Bloomberg ad about how he was a “planner, a do-er, and save schools and health care”. Then despite having Shade45 on my bluetooth speaker in the kitchen, I could hear how “Michael Bloomberg has the history to face Trump.” It wasnt even 5 minutes late another commercial came on with a black woman essentially saying she “couldn’t get a loan (cause she was black) to start her business. But Bloom’s policies made it so, and now she’s upper middle class”.

      That literally was like 15 minutes.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Now she can afford a lawyer for that cousin who got unconstitutionally thrown against the wall and frisked before getting shipped off to Ryker’s.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Rude Jude or Whoo Kid?

      • Tres Cool

        Both. They make a great show.
        Even better is Judy and Ellis.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Listen, without rainbow stickers, how the hell are you supposed to find they pot of gold?

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        +1 “Special leprechaun flute”

        The flute player’s a motherfucker!!

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      University of Hawaii marching band circa 1985, hardest hit.

  17. Crusty Juggler

    Jeff Bezos’ $165M Home and Why New Moguls Love Old Hollywood Estates

    “When you get to this level, it’s not about the money or the price. It’s about the emotions and the statement you want to make,” says Jeff Hyland of Hilton & Hyland, who wrote about the Warner Estate in his book The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills. According to Hyland, the Warner Estate, built in the 1930s and created by architect Roland E. Coate, interior designer William Haines and landscape designer Florence Yoch, is one of the last remaining crown jewels. “There are only a handful of these class-A estates left, and what this tells me is that there’s a return to classicism being the ultimate aesthetic — not newness or flash.”

    That house is the tits, bro!

    • Mojeaux

      Weeeeeeee DAWGGIES!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Did the Beverly Hillbillies live in one of those?

      • Tres Cool

        +1 cement pond

      • mikey

        That’s see’ ment.

      • Mojeaux

        GMTA

      • Not Adahn

        If I owned that particular estate, I’d have the resources to have a gorgeous whore dressed as Ellie Mae on call.

    • Rhywun

      I swear I saw that foyer in an episode of Hart to Hart.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Stefanie Powers is an all-timer.

        So is Bobby Wags.

        So is Max…in his own way.

        Anyway, the second-best of these.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Also, one of the best examples of truly beautiful people and good-looking people.

      • Crusty Juggler

        This is the best.

        Listen, some of us spent our childhoods smoking True Blues with our blue blood grandmothers watching the tv reruns, so we appreciate certain things.

      • The Hyperbole

        Shot for shot recreations are parodies now?

      • Crusty Juggler

        You’re the Nikki of Glibs.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        That poor bastard Adam Scott…his career is going gonna crash after that.

        Paul Rudd, otoh, is poised for stardom!

      • MikeS

        That is my all-time favorite TV show theme and one of my favorites shows ever.

      • Rhywun

        Bravo! I love that show, in all its cheesy eighties splendor.

  18. Crusty Juggler

    Smoking Is at an All-Time Low, But Loosie Sales Are Only Getting Stronger

    In most cases, 50 cents per loosie was the norm, making the price per cigarette cheaper than if an individual bought a legal pack, often by around $3 per pack. As such, the majority of loosies are thought to be from these bootlegged, out-of-state packs of cigarettes — meaning, the state of New York misses out on the $4.35 they charge in tax revenue they could have procured had each of those loosies been a legal pack, and an additional $1.50 for those in New York City.

    Loosies should be legal because Negros buy them imo

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      It’s only the small gov argument progs will listen too. Disparate impact of their laws on vulnerable populations.

      Yeah, yeah I know. It’s bullshit and all that. But it’s the only argument I’ve found that makes them actually think. It disrupts the NPC programming, even if just for a second.

      • Rhywun

        Unless revenue is involved. Trust me, nobody in NYC is advancing a “disparate impact” argument about cigarettes. Well, nobody that matters.

    • MikeS

      Pretty certain he’s the sole reason I don’t like Steely Dan.

    • pistoffnick

      Blueprint blue is my second favorite color.

      • Below Sea Level Hell Centro

        It sure looks good on you.

  19. leon

    There’s a Twitter # war going on with “#ChooseWarren” and “#WarrenEndorseBernie”, and currently FiveThirtyEight has Bernie and Biden neck in neck for the nomination at 17% each

  20. Yusef drives a Kia

    I just listened to the Trump rally in Charlotte, the man is a Rock star, Comedian, Bombast, and spooky as fuck, too many “things” that remind me of certain, other people from history,

    • Mojeaux

      Also, he is going to win in a landslide.

      • MikeS

        You know what other bombastic politician also won in a landslide?

      • leon

        Sunny Bono?

      • The Hyperbole

        Sonny, and too soon, he was a musical genius and you should be ashamed of yourself. And it had nothing to do with a landslide, “Pine tree get out of my way”

      • The Hyperbole

        Shit…Pine tree “your in my way” not ‘get outta my way’

      • leon

        Meh, i always kinda imagined it had to do with an avalanche.

      • The Hyperbole

        While that is probably my preference, the shear arrogance of Trumpsters has got my schadenfreude needle moving towards the D’s pulling an upset. I got nothing to lose and the entertainment value, while not as theatrical as when Herself lost, would be something.

      • leon

        I’m excited because no mater who wins, minds are going to melt.

      • Mojeaux

        I am forecasting, not cheerleading.

      • The Hyperbole

        Fair enough, but in my defense it’s hard to tell sometimes.

      • MikeS

        That’s true. It is hard to tell when you’re cheerleading or just being contrarian.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s hard to cheer lead when you hate everybody, and I am not a contrarian.

      • slumbrew - double secret satan

        Narrator: it’s always the latter.

      • MikeS

        You may hate everybody, but you hate one side more than the other. And you never let anyone forget that..while also never admitting to it.

      • The Hyperbole

        I may have a particular disdain for rednecks and/or hillbillies but that’s mostly a familiarity breeding contempt kinda thing. If I don’t adequately express my disgust with libs and commies it’s probably because there’s usually nothing to add after the rest of you opine, and I’ve never been keen on preaching to the choir.

      • Mojeaux

        One cannot say ONE WORD of defense of Donald Trump without being accused of being a Trumptard.

        One cannot say ONE WORD of criticism of Donald Trump without being accused of being a libtard.

        Therefore, I mostly say no words of Donald Trump.

        BUT! On TOS way back in the yonder days where there were 34,782 Republican candidates, I said “Trump won’t win. Hillary will lose.”

        John lost his shit.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        SHUT THE FUCK UP, NUANCETARD!

      • Mojeaux

        ?

      • The Hyperbole

        When you made that point the other day I was nodding in agreement and here I am falling down that very trap. Thank you for pointing it out. I’ll need to check myself in the future, like “whataboutism” it’s an easy rake to step on. Human nature being what it is.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        SHUT THE FUCK UP, COSMOTARD!

      • Don Escaped ORD

        if 338 – 200 is a landside, you might be onto something

    • Crusty Juggler

      Steve Martin?

    • Crusty Juggler

      David Bowie?

    • Crusty Juggler

      Ricky Gervais?

    • MikeS

      Crusty Juggler?

      • Crusty Juggler

        I’m not that spooky.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He does a pretty good Il Duce impression.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Exactly, uncanny really, but he’s good for the US so i’m good with him,

      • juris imprudent

        I’d shake my head at my idiot friends who’d say “Hitler”, because Mussolini is so much more apt.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Il Duce had Italy for 21 years, time to learn the pose, Trump’s expressions are so similar…

      • Chafed

        That was great. Where can I find the show?

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        “Extras” was an HBO thing here, as I recall. So, whichever services that carry it. I can’t say I’ve seen it for sure on anything other than, say, HBOGO, or, whatever the other HBO stream service is.

  21. straffinrun

    I realize their positions have changed radically over the years, but do you think you could match pics of Joe, Bernie and Mike to pictures of their erect cocks?

      • straffinrun

        Don’t be hasty. Think about it for a while.

    • Crusty Juggler

      Yes.

      • MikeS

        Don’t be whorey hasty. Think about it for a while.

      • straffinrun

        Crusty gets the blind taste test.

    • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

      their erect cocks

      Ah! Trick question. Brilliant, straff.

  22. Fourscore

    I picked up my venison maple breakfast sausage and teriyaki sticks at the local meat market today. Teriyaki sticks will be an hors d’oeuvres at Honey Harvest time, if I stop eating them.

    • Tres Cool

      Its just now March. How many did you buy ?

      • MikeS

        Right? I say we all descend on his place now.

      • Fourscore

        You’re supposed to come with your scuba gear this summer, help me look for something

      • MikeS

        Oh! That’s right! I really want to get away and maybe rent your cabin for a weekend. We’ll see.

      • Fourscore

        The price is always right

      • MikeS

        ??

      • Fourscore

        I had them made from my own deer, about 25 lbs of each. In 1 lb vacuum packs, now frozen.

    • Not Adahn

      If I can attend, I’ll bring some maple breakfast sausage from the local place here.

      • Fourscore

        Hope you can make it, although after you see the line up you might have second thoughts.

    • pistoffnick

      Did that guy regrow his fingers? When I met him he had duct taped a butcher knife to what was left of his hand, Also his wife tried to seduce my hunting partner.

      • pistoffnick

        Well maybe not “seduced”, but she noticed that his fly was open.

      • pistoffnick

        And she put her hand in his pants.

      • pistoffnick

        So, yeah, seduced.

      • MikeS

        go on…

      • pistoffnick

        Well, I mean her hand was bloodied with deer blood…

      • pistoffnick

        And the frictional coefficient between a dry hand and a bloodied hand is significant….

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        You had me at “hand was bloodied”.

        So please–continue.

      • slumbrew - double secret satan

        Deer Blood Handie was my band in high school.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        “Manhandle the man-handle”

        Funny AND fearsome, at the same time.

      • leon

        That isn’t the customary way to let someone know their fly is down?

      • pistoffnick

        Another hunting partner had everything shipped to Wisconsin. In addition to the out-of-state license ($185) plus the processing ($250), plus the shipping($200), that was some expensive meat.

      • Fourscore

        Nick, I’m not sure which guy you mean but the owner-operator gives my youngest grand daughter (23 YO) extra attention when she is there with me. His wife, on the other hand, has a voice that drives me out the door.

        The store does have good meat and does a good job on the processing but not cheap.

  23. The Bearded Hobbit

    My daughter (D3) is having a daughter!

    (Slightly drunk at this point)

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yippee? I hope!

    • Crusty Juggler

      Thus the quest to name the child Dagny begins.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Dagny
        John
        Danny

      • Mojeaux

        Dominique or GTFO.

        Dagny chose the wrong dude.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Dominique or GTFO.

        I wish!

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        name the child Dagny

        Wha-? Oh…sorry.
        In my defense, it sounds somewhat similar.

    • Fourscore

      I learned today that my middle grand daughter is gonna get something in a few months. First Great for us and fortunately the only married one.

      Congrats to Hobbit for a job well done!

      • Tundra

        Congrats to you and Hobbit!

        Was this one of the lovely young ladies we met?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Was this one of the lovely young ladies we met?

        ?

        It was just the Mrs and me at Fourscore’s.

        And thanks to all!!

      • MikeS

        Congrats, G’Gramps!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Congratulations both!

    • DEG

      Congratulations!

    • straffinrun

      Congratulations!

  24. Tundra

    Dude, that’s been in the deep freeze for two years!!

    Nevertheless, thanks for the lesson!

    Gonna have to get me a smoker, I think…

  25. slumbrew - double secret satan

    Dang, didn’t realize they unpersoned Matthews right after the first commercial break – just, “this is my last night… … we’ll be back after this” and he’s gone.

    • Gender Traitor

      Seriously? Right in the middle of the show? That’s pretty creepy. And I suppose they acted as if nothing was different?

      • Gender Traitor

        So I guess it was Matthews’s idea. Geez, if he was going to do that, he should’ve gone all Network on ’em and gone out with a bang.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        I think that tingling interferes with his grip.

      • Chafed

        He drank the Flavor-Ade.

  26. slumbrew - double secret satan

    SNL is often a wasteland of comedy, but they throw up some gems, now and then.

    Favorite comment:

    THIS IS A COMPLETE MISREPRESENTATION. RTE1’s PRODUCTION VALUES AREN’T NEARLY THIS HIGH.

    • KSuellington

      Feck. Arse. Drink.

      Hilarious sketch, I dig Heder.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal
  27. DenverJ

    So… this afternoon, I went to the boys room to drop trou and readjust my knee brace, then had half dropped trou to tuck in my shirt.
    As I was there, with half-dropped pants in front of the mirror, two young girls came in. One is a girl with a boy’s haircut, but the obvious developing breasts of a young woman. The other didn’t even have short hair, and was obviously coached. The first went straight into a stall. The other, perhaps a year younger and with waist length hair, was looking for a stall next to the first. I asked her “what are you doing?” She replied, “waiting for a stall”. I told her “this is the boy’s room”. She replied “I am a boy”. I walked away, but said, outloud, “no, you’re not, and saying so doesn’t make it true.”
    I don’t know if she heard it, but little miss dyke haircut did, and started asking “did you just say…?” I ignored her and kept walking.
    What the fuck is wrong with a society that thinks it’s ok for little girls to walk into a space where a man has his pants down?

    • slumbrew - double secret satan

      You, of course, would be the monster if they reacted badly.

      • DenverJ

        A year ago, I knocked on the girls bathroom door, made sure it was empty, and put up a closed sign to fix a toilet. As I was walking out, an admin type wandered by and was shocked, asking, “was the room empty, were there any little girls in there?”
        But, it’s ok if they come into the boy’s room. It’s insane.

      • KSuellington

        “This afternoon in Denver a cis gendered middle aged male exposed himself to two transgendered two spirits and taunted them. Police are currently on the lookout for a tall, silver, metallic robot with a beer in its hand…”

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        Something something I, Roommate

    • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

      You’re gonna have to stop working at Target, bruh!

    • Mojeaux

      Possibility you could go to HR for hostile work environment?

    • Sean

      This could have been a much better story.

      ?

      *zips back up*

    • Chafed

      Sadly, homeowners aren’t allowed to own mini guns.

    • Chafed

      You know if the Jehovah’s Witnesses shared this kind of good news they just might get a convert.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        “Hello. I’m with the Sig’s Witness Church, and I would like to ask you if you considered the safety of your self, your family, and your property. If you were burglarized today, what would YOU use?”

      • Chafed

        Praise the Lord brother! Church of Sig. Church of Mossberg. We are all brothers.

      • Chafed

        Hallelujah!

  28. KSuellington

    I worked a job near a Costco today and needed a stock up so I went by. The place was seriously raided, I’ve never seen a Costco like this. Every single piece of chicken was gone, including the rotisserie ones. Very limited in all meat, there was easily 75 percent of the meat gone and all the eggs save a couple cracked thirty packs. The tp was completely gone, people have priorities. It wasn’t even close to Cuba, but gives you an idea of what will happen if panic sets in.

    • Tejicano

      Where was this?

      • KSuellington

        South San Francisco.

      • Tejicano

        Ah, Pacific rim so I guess there’s some reason for concern. But hoarding TP seems a bit silly.

      • mikey

        Our son just texted. Same thing in Vegas.

      • Tejicano

        With all the Chinese who blow through Vegas I can imagine them worrying a bit.

      • mikey

        Yeah. He and his Chinese wife may be largely responsible for the shortage of masks there They shiped several hundred of them to her family in China.

      • Tejicano

        I’m glad my Japanese wife and her family don’t believe in that face mask- lucky charm nonsense. I know it’s difficult to break people from that when that’s how they grew up but it’s ignorant to think those will protect you from getting infected.

    • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

      Whew! For a second, there, I thought he was gonna be hypocritical!

    • Chafed

      His lack of contact with voters is showing. Spend another half a billion Bloomers.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        You laugh, but, he got Judge Judy!!

        /authoritarian types do tend to seek each other out.

      • Chafed

        Exactly.

    • AlmightyJB

      I f’g hate that guy. Authoritarian POS.

    • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

      For good, or, for ill, it’s Flav that people think of when “Public Enemy” is mentioned. Yes, I can read minds….

      Well, at least, he’s usually the face and voice that get shown to us in media. Chuck D wasn’t head-lining that NYE party in New Jack City.

  29. Mojeaux

    Shit. Doing dishes and sliced two of my fingertips open on one of those onion chopper blade inserts. Reached my hand into the dark cave of the corner cabinet where the lazy Susan awaits one’s pleasure and swiped my fingers right over it. Hurts almost as much as a fucking paper cut.

    • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

      Susan awaits one’s pleasure

      Go o-

      sliced two of my fingertips open

      ???

    • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

      You get them taken care of?

      • Mojeaux

        Yeah, I’ve got them bandaged up but no thanks to XY TD, who made a mess of the First Aid kit so I had to go scrounging for stuff. ????

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        Well, good! And yeah–no reason for a messy FA kit, unless you were rescuing people from multi-car collision, or, earthquake.

      • Mojeaux

        Judging by the state of it, that is exactly what it was last used for.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        “Get upstairs, and CLEAN YOUR FIRST AID KIT!!!”

        /not funny….but, sorta.

      • Mojeaux

        I have dragged him out of bed in the middle of the night before. It is not pleasant for anyone and I don’t need the drama.

        Tomorrow when he gets hime from school, though…

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        To help you feel a touch bit better:

        Soon

  30. UnCivilServant

    I fell asleep with all the lights on. End result – I didn’t get any rest and woke up tired.

    • Sean

      How does that happen?

      Even when drunk, my body is programmed to get me to bed properly.

      • Lord Digby's Spirit Animal

        my body is programmed

        Rushya-Bot status: Confirmed.

      • AlmightyJB

        I think someone’s not drinking enough

      • UnCivilServant

        Easy I had no intent to go to sleep. I still had things to do around the house.

    • The Hyperbole

      Why did you have all the lights on? Seems wasteful to be honest.

      • UnCivilServant

        A: It’s not.

        B: It’s my money.

        C: I like to see.

      • Not Adahn

        To save energy, I just have an orphan with an LED flashlight follow me around.

    • Gender Traitor

      We were lucky to have lights at all by the time we went to bed last night. Our power went out twice yesterday, the first time for several hours during the day while I was at work. Mr. GT’s sleuthing around the neighborhood revealed that the power company apparently had to replace a pole. The power came back late afternoon but turned out only to be a temporary fix. As we were watching a show we’d recorded a week or so ago, the power went out again around 8:45ish and didn’t come back on for a couple of hours. Happily, I had enough “juice” in my Nook to finish reading OUS. (E-mail forthcoming)

      • UnCivilServant

        Good to know your power’s back. I look forward to your comments.

    • robc

      We have 1, I forget who it is.

      • Toxteth O’Grady

        Don?

      • Toxteth O’Grady

        or is he in Memphis?

    • Tundra

      Plisade and I.B. McGinty, I believe.

  31. Tejicano

    Less than 20 minutes to the next edition. Not enough time to start a new conversation but still here.

    • Trigger Hippie is mist and shadow

      I’m gassy this morning. Wanna riff on that?

      • Sean

        I’ll pass.

  32. Not Adahn

    8:01 and no lynx?