Incredible Friday Night Fusion Jam: Tigran Hamasyan Quintet - VARDAVAR (Montreux Jazz Fest. 2014)

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A jaw-dropping performance of a wildly complex composition. Amazing stuff.

Tigran Hamasyan (piano,keyboard) tigranhamasyan.com
Areni Agbabian (vocal, keyboard) arenismiles.com
Charles Altura (guitar) charlesaltura.com
Sam Minaie (bass) samminaie.com
Arthur Hnatek (drums) arthurhnatek.com

Vardavar is an Armenian festival where people of social groups drench each other with water.

#TigranHamasyan #Vardavar #Վարդավառ

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210 comments
1
Barefoot Grin  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:32:41pm

Amazing. But I need relief from the guitar virtuosity after a couple of minutes. I need spaces.

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wrenchwench  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:41:04pm

re: #1 Barefoot Grin

Amazing. But I need relief from the guitar virtuosity after a couple of minutes. I need spaces.

Something Wrong With Everything

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ckkatz  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:49:18pm

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Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:49:52pm
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nines09  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:50:04pm

re: #2 wrenchwench

The Road Goes On Forever

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:50:44pm

re: #2 wrenchwench

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Video

I can and will complain about everything.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:54:25pm

When you lose Satan’s Tinkerbelle…

Kayleigh McEnany ignored Trump’s phone call after receiving J6 Committee subpoena: transcript

rawstory.com

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Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:55:49pm

re: #6 Barefoot Grin

I can and will complain about everything.

FREEZE PEACH!

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Joe Bacon  Dec 23, 2022 • 5:59:14pm

Oh No!

He Hath Risen From The Dead!

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Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:01:21pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:03:38pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

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It can be difficult to fill the shoes of a lame duck.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:04:03pm
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nines09  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:07:57pm

We did this once upon a time and far away….

Rodney Crowell ~ I Ain’t Living Long Like This

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Joe Bacon  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:09:45pm

No. No. No. No.

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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:14:46pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon

No. No. No. No.

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That’s from iFunny.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:20:34pm

MayoChup and MayoMust are not to be derided without being tasted.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:25:02pm

I haven’t read the January 6 report yet but apparently the blame for the plot is laid at Trump’s feet. But if there’s anything we know about Trump, it’s that he doesn’t know or understand the Constitution, our history, or our laws (except those that impact real estate transactions). So the question is, who is really responsible for orchestrating the coup?

Shiplord, I recall some reports that your cousin’s performance on Fox is what inspired him. She was on the Raffensperger phone call. So how much of a role did she play in this entire plot? Or was Eastman more of the puppet master pulling Trump’s strings?

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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:25:50pm

Skiing was glorious at Arapahoe Basin today. Took many first laps of the winter. The Spine, Main Street Pallavicini, East Avenue, Standard, Exhibition all the way to the bottom, Loafer in the Beavers. And I took skis and bindings (that I helped assemble) from the company I work for out for a whirl. And I used my personal lurk (we call ‘em a San Juan Stick) for the first time. It’s basically a big wooden stick with wood balls on the end that can be taken apart in the middle to be used as regular poles in a pinch, the wooden balls have a metal spike at the end.

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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:28:09pm

OK, images are not upside down anymore in #18. plz reload

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wrenchwench  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:30:22pm

re: #16 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

MayoChup and MayoMust are not to be derided without being tasted.

But we don’t have to taste the Pepchup?

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:31:52pm
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jeffreyw  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:31:57pm

re: #19 teleskiguy

OK, images are not upside down anymore in #18. plz reload

Thought you were in Australia, perhaps.

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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:34:42pm

re: #22 jeffreyw

Thought you were in Australia, perhaps.

They actually had a great winter this summer, lots of snow in Australia and New Zealand.

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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:35:51pm
THANK YOU CAPTAIN HINDSIGHT!!!
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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:37:09pm
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Dangerman  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:44:14pm

On that removal of the Suicide Prevention Feature…

Post hoc is becoming a cartoon villain at this point.
Evilness for no discernible benefit or reason.

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Dangerman  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:47:37pm

re: #26 Dangerman

and guy wants us to get behind his self driving vehicles

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wrenchwench  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:49:27pm

re: #27 Dangerman

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and guy wants us to get behind his self driving vehicles

Safer than in front.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:49:30pm
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Joe Bacon  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:49:42pm

re: #21 (((Archangel1)))

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Swasitkas are being spray painted in my neightborhood and that asshole has the audacity to shoot his mouth off about a “war on Xmas”…

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jeffreyw  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:49:53pm

George Takei
52 minutes ago

Critics say Elon Musk has been asleep at the wheel lately with Tesla, but he said not to worry because it’s a completely safe, self-driving company.

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nowherenorth2  Dec 23, 2022 • 6:57:14pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

Should be but won’t. She lives in her own echo chamber of blocking those that criticize.

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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:01:46pm

Read the article before you comment:

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jeffreyw  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:02:10pm

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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:02:15pm

Currently a balmy 20° F in a tributary to the Colorado River, west side of the Continental Divide. Still colder than (insert explicit metaphor) on the east side of the divide. I hugged the edge of the divide today skiing, and I could see in the sky just on the other side that the weather was quite different over there. It was in the upper 20s with light wind at Arapahoe Basin today, good skiing weather. I kind of overdressed.

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Dangerman  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:05:28pm
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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:05:28pm

re: #27 Dangerman

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and guy wants us to get behind his self driving vehicles

I want self-driving cars. Not only do I not want to drive, but most people shouldn’t be driving. But the cars will either have to become sentient or we will need to give those cars their own area to drive in on roads where other cars don’t have access.

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Jay C  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:07:59pm

Just checked the current weather here in The Big Apple, and it’s a crisp 8 F, which is weird because I went out this morning when it was 42, and later in the afternoon when it was 31.
Brrr….

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:14:07pm

Unexpected Christmas gift in my mailbox: insurance company sent me two checks of $24 each.

Woot. Now I can party like it’s 2023 1923 1823!

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jeffreyw  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:15:53pm

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Dangerman  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:18:54pm
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Joe Bacon  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:21:58pm

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Dangerman  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:22:44pm
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:27:44pm

It’s no big deal and it’s not the kind of thing I’d want to get out there, but I just used my personal ice melt designed not to sting dogs’ feet to keep my neighbors safe for, like, tomorrow morning when they emerge to do like whatever even though I’ll be out with my dog because I’m about designing the experience.

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jeffreyw  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:33:32pm

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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:42:40pm

re: #43 Dangerman

Imagine the Saudis taking this over right when the major car companies release electric cars.

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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 7:58:08pm

re: #38 Jay C

Just checked the current weather here in The Big Apple, and it’s a crisp 8 F, which is weird because I went out this morning when it was 42, and later in the afternoon when it was 31.
Brrr….

I don’t care who you are, that kind of atmospheric temperature drop in a very short amount of time is discombobulating. I’ve experienced many myself.

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jaunte  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:00:23pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:01:14pm

re: #48 jaunte

Relatively speaking, I’m totally in LOL land.

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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:06:58pm

Me, today, at about 3:30 p.m. MST in the High Noon parking lot of Arapahoe Basin ski area in Colorado…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:21:21pm

It’s not supposed to be this damn cold in the South, y’all. 🥶

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retired cynic  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:34:19pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

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It’s not supposed to be this damn cold in the South, y’all. 🥶

It’s pushing it up here.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:36:56pm

Weather Channel’s latest for Los Angeles.

Hot Christmas—80

Lots of rain the next week which will continue on and off and projected to rain on the Rose Parade…

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Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:45:52pm

re: #48 jaunte

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:48:36pm

Trending at Twitter: #I-71

There was a multi-vehicle wreck.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 23, 2022 • 8:59:43pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

Tonight -3°F here. We’re in a warming trend; earlier it was -10°F.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:05:24pm

re: #36 Dangerman

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The fuck-weasel gimp never said a word when his maga Nazis paraded through the Capitol with Nazi Confederate rags.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:08:51pm

re: #54 Targetpractice

In the Boston area, snow falling, people sliding everywhere, someone will walk into a Dunks and say,

“Medium reg’lar iced, please!”

Guaranteed.
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Captain Ron  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:10:58pm

Today was 55F, currently 46. Warmer than recent nights, Daily highs have been 41-53. Tomorrow and Christmas will reach 61.

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Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:11:23pm

re: #36 Dangerman

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Then imagine how he’d feel if Pelosi and Schumer had orchestrated the appearance of a foreign leader to speak before Congress about how the White House’s policies were wrong and Congress needed to exercise foreign policy themselves by passing legislation that would totally upend the White House’s efforts to…say…negotiate a deal to ease sanctions in exchange for strict limits on domestic nuclear research as a check on possible nuclear weapon research?

I mean, surely Republicans would never do such a thing…right?///////////

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:14:13pm

BREAKING: Conservatives say three “Woke” spirits to blame for cancelling Ebenezer Scrooge!

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Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:21:30pm

re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg

BREAKING: Conservatives say three “Woke” spirits to blame for cancelling Ebenezer Scrooge!

BREAKING: Republicans announce investigation of prominent industrialist Ebenezer Scrooge, accuse him of collaborating with “socialists” after pressure campaign from suspected Antifa “spirits”

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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:22:00pm

re: #54 Targetpractice

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We don’t shut down if it’s 39. Quarter inch of snow, sure, mainly because it’s likely to turn into a quarter inch of ice. And here in the DFW area, because we have people from all over the country and world that believe that driving here is just like driving where they are from - and enough people that also think they can drive through water - that you get people that try to drive on then High Five, the 75-635 interchange with snow and ice.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:27:10pm

re: #43 Dangerman

A Rivian would meet our need for range out here in the middle nowhere, but the car is nearly five times the cost of my house. We will have to soldier on with our Smart or future internal combustion cars.

It seems for the near future anyway, electric cars are only going to be available to the very wealthy and useful only for people in cities.

2023 Rivian R1S and R1T Get Less Choice of Configuration, Better Range Numbers (Car & Driver, December 23, 2022)

The gutsy quad-motor configuration can no longer be paired with the biggest battery.

Domestic EV automaker Rivian has announced that it’s canceling one of the battery and drive motor configurations for the R1T pickup and R1S SUV. For the 2023 model year, buyers were finally going to have the option to spec their factory order with both the gutsy quad-motor setup and the biggest battery option: a 180.0-kWh unit dubbed the “Max” pack. The combination was certainly enticing, as the former was able to rocket us to 60 miles per hour in 3.0 seconds—the quickest pickup we’ve ever tested—and the latter promises more than 400 miles of range. Unfortunately, Riv has axed plans to produce such a combo, leaving quad-motor models to soldier on with the “Large” 135.0-kWh battery pack.

(more)

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Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:27:58pm

re: #63 Belafon

We don’t shut down if it’s 39. Quarter inch of snow, sure, mainly because it’s likely to turn into a quarter inch of ice. And here in the DFW area, because we have people from all over the country and world that believe that driving here is just like driving where they are from - and enough people that also think they can drive through water - that you get people that try to drive on then High Five, the 75-635 interchange with snow and ice.

Yeah, same deal here in Hampton Roads, though in our case it has more to do with the state and city governments keeping enough money in the budget for a tiny fraction of the plow and salt-spreader fleet that we actually need when there’s any amount of snow heavier than a dusting. Which means private companies (or any guy with a pick-up and a plow blade) make a killing when we get those “Once in a decade” storms every other year because businesses across the region are desperate to clear their parking lots.

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JC1  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:41:17pm

re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg

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It’s not supposed to be this damn cold in the South, y’all. 🥶

Crazy. Picked a good time to be in Hawaii. Mid 70s right now.

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Cheechako  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:51:18pm

So, now most of the US is finding out how Alaskans live every winter. Right now, in Juneau, it’s 15F with a very light (dry) snow coming down. So far we’ve gotten about 3 inches. We are expecting 12-15 inches by the time this series of storms are over.

I am so enjoying all the weather comments from you-all down in the lower 48.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:51:40pm

What the fuck?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 23, 2022 • 9:55:13pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 23, 2022 • 10:01:59pm

The Onion, today, 4:11, super NSFW

Remember, Santa Claus is a pervert.

Ho, Ho, Ho! I Saw You Masturbating!

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piratedan  Dec 23, 2022 • 10:21:36pm

re: #68 DodgerFan1988

it makes perfect sense if you want to crash the stock and maybe take it private without any controls at all.

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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 10:23:15pm
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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 10:37:20pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 23, 2022 • 10:37:24pm

An eagle today.. Saturday

Click to Reveal

Wordle 553 2/6

⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

As Grunthos said, with the right start word — a 2 may be common

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gwangung  Dec 23, 2022 • 10:44:33pm

re: #73 Belafon

What. The. Hell?????

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Belafon  Dec 23, 2022 • 10:51:56pm

re: #75 gwangung

What. The. Hell?????

I’m both surprised and not surprised.

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Captain Ron  Dec 23, 2022 • 11:13:47pm

re: #67 Cheechako

It is nice to live in the state of LOL.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 23, 2022 • 11:15:01pm

re: #1 Barefoot Grin

Amazing. But I need relief from the guitar virtuosity after a couple of minutes. I need spaces.

(2:08)

Carol of the Bells | Solo Hammered Dulcimer | Acoustic Instrumental Holiday Music

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Captain Ron  Dec 23, 2022 • 11:51:42pm

I noticed pi’i used in Hawaiian music so I looked it up on google translate. it means ‘up’.

So I typed in another Hawaiian word I recalled from somewhere but wasn’t close to the correct spelling of the word I wanted, but it turned out to be serendipitous, ‘mahani’. The resultant translation blew my mind.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 24, 2022 • 12:02:23am

Big, if true:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2022 • 12:09:08am

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O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen) // DR Pigekoret (LIVE)





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Captain Ron  Dec 24, 2022 • 12:15:01am

YouTube

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2022 • 12:18:42am

Annuity rates had been inching downwards the past few weeks. But today (Saturday) they jumped up again.

What this means for the Lottery is that while sales estimates for today’s Powerball went up, the cash value went down.

BTW, Tuesday’s Megamillions is creeping into real money. The annuity value is $565M.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2022 • 12:25:42am

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Ella Fitzgerald - What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve [1960]




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Captain Ron  Dec 24, 2022 • 12:56:23am

I have a pic of the sun as my desktop and my wife commented, “that’s the sun right?”

“Yes.”

“A burning ball of hydrogen!”

“No a ball of hydrogen fusing into helium and releasing a whole lot of energy in the process.”

“I never knew that.”

me: facepalm

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TedStriker  Dec 24, 2022 • 1:38:51am

re: #9 Joe Bacon

Oh No!

He Hath Risen From The Dead!

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“What did you do, Ray?”

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Nyet  Dec 24, 2022 • 1:47:21am

Glass Onion is great and I kinda think it trashes Elmo.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2022 • 2:14:21am

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The Snowman for String Quartet and Narrator, Op. 612: II. Walking in the Air





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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 24, 2022 • 2:40:55am

re: #85 Captain Ron

I have a pic of the sun as my desktop and my wife commented, “that’s the sun right?”

“Yes.”

“A burning ball of hydrogen!”

“No a ball of hydrogen fusing into helium and releasing a whole lot of energy in the process.”

“I never knew that.”

me: facepalm

the state of science education in America

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2022 • 2:42:26am

Hey it’s warming up here in NW PA. When I got up it was showing as -2F. I just checked again and it has gone up to -1.

[🎶 we’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave … 🎶]

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 24, 2022 • 2:43:34am

re: #87 Nyet

Glass Onion is great and I kinda think it trashes Elmo.

looking forward to watching it

only just recently watched Knives Out

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2022 • 3:02:16am

re: #74 Hecuba’s daughter

An eagle today.. Saturday

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Took me to 4

Click to Reveal

Wordle 553 4/6

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🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜
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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2022 • 3:19:17am

A word of warning to lizards out there in the snowy tundra that is the western US:

They’re out there:

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Captain Ron  Dec 24, 2022 • 3:26:23am

re: #93 Targetpractice

Don’t blink.

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TarHellion  Dec 24, 2022 • 3:36:00am

Great way to mark a 55th birthday - with a beagle! A usual second guess given the board layout paid off.

Down to 5 degrees. Kept water dripping just to be safe. Gonna head to Outback in a few hours for an early birthday lunch with MrsTarH, my brother, and my dad.

Thanks again to Charles and everyone who help make this such a wonderful place. Now for the next 55 years!

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:08:43am
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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:11:43am
In December 2020, after then-Attorney General William Barr publicly refuted President Donald Trump’s claims that the election was rigged, White House staffers drafted a press release that would’ve called for the firing of anyone who disagreed with Trump’s claims,” CNN reports.

“The draft statement - which was never sent out, and hadn’t been revealed before Friday - was brought up during the January 6 committee’s deposition of Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.”

The whole thing was a chaotic shit show

Trump ran America like musk is running Twitter.
vice versa too

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:20:25am

re: #96 Dangerman

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Absolutely true.

People with a full brain, on the other hand, would make the opposite choice.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:25:34am

re: #97 Dangerman

I so love when Patsy Baloney pops up. I never don’t LMAO.

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:39:25am

accuweather says it’s 45
thermometer says 50

inside it’s 74. it’s normally 80
we are pansies. am i bad for wanting to turn on the heat?

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:42:27am

re: #97 Dangerman

The whole thing was a chaotic shit show

Trump ran America like musk is running Twitter.
vice versa too

it’s really amazing how many people were willing to throw away their reputations and careers for such an obvious, transparent fraud.

and wont vociferously denounce him even now

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:45:21am
Former President Donald Trump’s desire to deploy 10,000 active-duty troops to put down protests in June 2020 that he thought made him “look weak” later led top Pentagon officials to fear he might issue an “illegal order” to troops to help him remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, the House Jan. 6 committee concluded.

Trump’s willingness to misuse the military became acutely apparent after he demanded that then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley accompany him for a June 1, 2020, photo-op outside a church a block from the White House after police cleared Lafayette Square using tear gas and beatings.

Link

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TarHellion  Dec 24, 2022 • 4:49:08am

Looks like Duke Energy is showing around 500,000 customers without power across North Carolina. Our power is holding up, though there are spotty outages around us. Dad - about 20 miles away - has no power.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2022 • 5:31:04am

I was so…damned…close. I’d almost made it to Christmas without getting caught by “Last Christmas,” then my dad had to watch some damned AXS TV show about pop Christmas songs just so I could hear that damned song come on.

Darth Vader NO!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 24, 2022 • 5:35:39am

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 5:43:35am

@RebekahWriter

All the migrants Abbott relocated must be relieved to be in states with functional power grids tonight.
11:24 PM * Dec 22, 2022

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jeffreyw  Dec 24, 2022 • 5:45:06am

cranberry nut bread

Good morning!

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2022 • 6:01:22am

BREAKING: shooting at Nakatomi Plaza

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Thanos  Dec 24, 2022 • 6:04:20am

The bill was finalized over two years of debate across multiple congressional committees in what all sides are hailing as a model of bipartisanship.

ICYMI good news here

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jeffreyw  Dec 24, 2022 • 6:05:19am

re: #108 BigPapa

BREAKING: shooting at Nakatomi Plaza

“Welcome to the party!” - NRA spokesman

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Thanos  Dec 24, 2022 • 6:12:10am

That bill I just posted almost guarantees that the stock bond markets will surf higher in coming years due to new pools of money that have to be invested.

Also found this today , enjoy

Lake Street Dive - “Nick of Time” [Live from The Sultan Room] (Bonnie Raitt cover)

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Dave In Austin  Dec 24, 2022 • 6:17:45am

Jesse James lives in Driftwood Springs outside Austin. The man is a huge talent and probably a Nazi at heart. But the dude can build a motorcycle.
m.facebook.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 24, 2022 • 6:45:45am

Merry Christmas eve! Peta Pixel ran a Santa piece I just had to share.

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2022 • 6:52:09am

He cheated on Sandra Bullock, and he’s been rude about her since then. Fuck him.
hollywoodreporter.com

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Dr. Matt  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:00:10am

Deathsantis wins, and the state turns polar. 🙃

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:00:12am

Today’s Wordle was both irritating and symmetric…

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:05:24am

I thought the event at my brother’s house today might get cancelled due to snow. The weather cooperated and the streets are clear, but some of them got sick with a stomach bug last night, so the liberals have won the imaginary war on Christmas this time.

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jeffreyw  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:05:25am

That ’70s party. Momma told me not to come.

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:11:32am

Guess we know which of them won…

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:17:55am

Instead of “we’re havin’ a heat wave…” the Greater Philadelphia Area is in the freezer.
weather.gov

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ckkatz  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:18:41am

re: #102 Dangerman

Link

This is very true.

The June 2020 event caused a tremendous amount of concern in both the Department of Defense and in Congress that Trump might attempt to use the military to attack Congress.

There were reports at the time that the Department of Defense (DOD) leadership was re-evaluating it’s plans and operating procedures to ensure that they would not be Trump’s pawns in a Coup d’Etat attempt.

There were also reports of close communication between both the DOD leadership and the Congressional leadership. This included direct discussions between the gang of 4 (Senate and House Majority and Minority leaders) and General Milley.

I understand that the Trump Administration made attempts to insert their supporters into the DOD between June and December 2020.

I personally believe that the above accounts for most of the DOD organizational inertia and delay in responding to the January 6th events.

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A Cranky One  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:18:57am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:19:42am

hi

It’s really quite amazing how people are dependent even on “simple” technology.

I’m sitting here typing on a computer using a worldwide network to transmit data.

At the same time, I am warming after going out in my yard for the second day to collect snow for drinking water because of my ruptured plumbing. The snow is dirty on top outside now, but underneath is still clean and fluffy. That said, to drink it we still need to boil it first.

Christmas Day the temperatures will go above freezing with a chance of rain, which will melt the snow and cut off my ability to collect snow for drinking water, so I’ll need to do that a lot today.

My car is still buried thanks to the church burying it when they cleared their parking area, so I can’t go into town and get bottled water.

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mmmirele  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:20:54am

Basically, Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bond is *pfffth* nothing. His parents put up their $4 million house. He signed a statement saying he’d pay $250MM if he didn’t show up in court. But he was basically let loose on a personal recognizance bond. Yeah, he has to wear an ankle bracelet, but I remember one of those FLDS dudes went on the run for over a year after removing his ankle bracelet with a lot of vegetable oil.

And then there’s this:

The rich are different…you or I robbed a bank, we wouldn’t even get cushy conditions, instead we’d be locked up. No wonder he wanted to come back to the USA.

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darthstar  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:21:46am

re: #108 BigPapa

BREAKING: shooting at Nakatomi Plaza

Watched that movie last night.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:22:39am

(1:05)

Comrade Carlson Reacts

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:24:37am

re: #118 jeffreyw

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Speaking of hot dogs, a thing that’s become a thing during Christmas’ as of late is to instead to make a cross cut on the ends of the Prinskorv (en: “Prince Sausage”) (staple Easter and Christmas dish in Scandinavia) is to halve them and make 1/8 cuts on the cut. Makes an octopus shape of the sausagse.

I know, even my culinary skills are getting infected by my manga and anime vice…

Merry [insert holiday here] to y’all :)

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Joe Bacon  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:28:52am

Mr. C getting ready for his big night!

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:29:30am

That was not what I expected for a Christmas Eve Wordle.

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:34:24am

re: #115 Dr. Matt

Deathsantis wins, and the state turns polar. 🙃

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And proud of it!

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Belafon  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:35:48am

re: #89 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My mom, who graduated in 68, would have gotten to the end of that statement from me and said “huh?”

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:35:56am

re: #118 jeffreyw

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No Malarkey!  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:38:37am

From a long thread about the J6 Report, a description of the terror campaign inspired by Trump very much in the tradition of the Klan terrorist activities to disenfranchise black citizens in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:38:38am

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hi

It’s really quite amazing how people are dependent even on “simple” technology.

I’m sitting here typing on a computer using a worldwide network to transmit data.

At the same time, I am warming after going out in my yard for the second day to collect snow for drinking water because of my ruptured plumbing. The snow is dirty on top outside now, but underneath is still clean and fluffy. That said, to drink it we still need to boil it first.

Christmas Day the temperatures will go above freezing with a chance of rain, which will melt the snow and cut off my ability to collect snow for drinking water, so I’ll need to do that a lot today.

My car is still buried thanks to the church burying it when they cleared their parking area, so I can’t go into town and get bottled water.

You are rock stars!

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:39:14am
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The Squire of Logos  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:40:01am

Good morning Lizards! Hello from the still damn cold frozen landscape that is NKY. Just got finished shoveling and clearing the sidewalk and steps. Not too bad out there, current temp 9F with the winds greatly abated. The only thing I could have used was a balaclava as my face was the only thing getting cold. Hope everyone is staying as warm as possible.

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:41:37am

re: #130 Dangerman

And proud of it!

That didn’t come out right.

I meant the jpeg

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Dr. Matt  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:49:25am

Sponge “Christmas Day”

YouTube

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A Cranky One  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:50:36am

My brother’s friend was visiting family and the dog ate their elf-on-a-shelf.

They replaced it with:

Snoop on the stoop

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:50:51am

re: #132 Dangerman

Should be illegal

Needz moar pineapple chunks.

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Belafon  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:52:05am

Heard this on the radio:

Santa Stole My Lady

(Audio only video)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:52:18am

re: #134 Dangerman

You are rock stars!

Well, you do what you gotta do.

I assume the people who lived here prior to the founding of the town pretty much did the same thing. At least we have central heat. Foraging for heating fuel in the early XX Century here would be tough since there are only trees along the river.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:55:02am

Western good morning!

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The Squire of Logos  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:56:33am

re: #101 Dangerman

it’s really amazing how many people were willing to throw away their reputations and careers for such an obvious, transparent fraud.

and wont vociferously denounce him even now

They say cocaine and heroin are addictive but I still think that power (political and other) and access to it are the most addictive things in the universe.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 24, 2022 • 7:58:26am

re: #118 jeffreyw

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Don’t know what it is, I don’t wanna see no more

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calochortus  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:02:12am

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hi

It’s really quite amazing how people are dependent even on “simple” technology.

I’m sitting here typing on a computer using a worldwide network to transmit data.

At the same time, I am warming after going out in my yard for the second day to collect snow for drinking water because of my ruptured plumbing. The snow is dirty on top outside now, but underneath is still clean and fluffy. That said, to drink it we still need to boil it first.

Christmas Day the temperatures will go above freezing with a chance of rain, which will melt the snow and cut off my ability to collect snow for drinking water, so I’ll need to do that a lot today.

My car is still buried thanks to the church burying it when they cleared their parking area, so I can’t go into town and get bottled water.

It’s just your water that’s out, right? Can’t you get some from a neighbor?

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:05:13am

re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, you do what you gotta do.

I assume the people who lived here prior to the founding of the town pretty much did the same thing. At least we have central heat. Foraging for heating fuel in the early XX Century here would be tough since there are only trees along the river.

couldn’t they spend the summer making fuel bricks out of grass?

And if they ambush a wagon train or two, the wagons and their contents contain plenty of wood. (but they weren’t cannibals. The dead settlers were used for pig food.)

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calochortus  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:08:54am

re: #147 sagehen

couldn’t they spend the summer making fuel bricks out of grass?

And if they ambush a wagon train or two, the wagons and their contents contain plenty of wood. (but they weren’t cannibals. The dead settlers were used for pig food.)

Dried cow (or buffalo, should you have any) dung.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:09:16am

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starter matched bigly today.

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A Cranky One  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:12:25am
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Dr. Matt  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:15:33am

But of course they did:

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:21:39am

re: #151 Dr. Matt

But of course they did:

He really, truly believes he won the election. At this point, there’s no other explanation. Other people around him may or may not believe it, but he is absolutely convinced, in his own mind, that he is the rightful President of the United States and that he is being deprived of his office, and the protections it would afford him, by fraud.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:32:30am

re: #143 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Western good morning!

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Hey I’m lichen that pic

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:38:30am

Lizard Poker League

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:39:31am

re: #118 jeffreyw

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Eek! This is not as bad as the tuna jello concoctions in the 50s but it’s close.
Adding insult to injury, vienna sausage prices are at a record high. I don’t include them in my emergency food stash, but my daughter does, apparently because her cats like them. I checked at the yokel (Weatherford) Walmart. Sure enough, their mystery meat house brand is 64 cents a can while the Armour product is 4.66 for a 6 can pack. This is an increase of about 62% in less than 2 years.


This probably has to do with the chicken drought, result of avian flu.
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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:39:47am

re: #80 Dr Lizardo

bbc.com

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jeffreyw  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:40:18am
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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:41:39am

re: #152 Dopamine Fish

He really, truly believes he won the election. At this point, there’s no other explanation. Other people around him may or may not believe it, but he is absolutely convinced, in his own mind, that he is the rightful President of the United States and that he is being deprived of his office, and the protections it would afford him, by fraud.

i dont think he believes it, though it may be a subtle difference
i think he’s forced to hold this position because his psyche will not permit him to admit defeat

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:43:37am

Grrrr- wordle stuff.
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:45:17am

Plastic shopping bags are an acceptable substitute for tissue paper in an emergency.

I will die on this hill.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:48:04am

re: #139 A Cranky One

My brother’s friend was visiting family and the dog ate their elf-on-a-shelf.

They replaced it with:
Snoop on the stoop

Proper way to treat the Elf
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:49:31am

re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter

I haven’t read the January 6 report yet but apparently the blame for the plot is laid at Trump’s feet. But if there’s anything we know about Trump, it’s that he doesn’t know or understand the Constitution, our history, or our laws (except those that impact real estate transactions). So the question is, who is really responsible for orchestrating the coup?

Shiplord, I recall some reports that your cousin’s performance on Fox is what inspired him. She was on the Raffensperger phone call. So how much of a role did she play in this entire plot? Or was Eastman more of the puppet master pulling Trump’s strings?

I think Eastman is the kingpin, but Cleta was eyeball deep in it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:57:51am

re: #151 Dr. Matt

Yeah, but there is no Trump ‘WH’.

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William Lewis  Dec 24, 2022 • 8:58:39am

re: #155 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Eek! This is not as bad as the tuna jello concoctions in the 50s but it’s close.
Adding insult to injury, vienna sausage prices are at a record high. I don’t include them in my emergency food stash, but my daughter does, apparently because her cats like them. I checked at the yokel (Weatherford) Walmart. Sure enough, their mystery meat house brand is 64 cents a can while the Armour product is 4.66 for a 6 can pack. This is an increase of about 62% in less than 2 years.

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This probably has to do with the chicken drought, result of avian flu.

My preferred canned protein for emergency stocks is kippers. Your daughter is welcome to keep the sausages :)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:00:44am

re: #164 William Lewis

My preferred canned protein for emergency stocks is kippers. Your daughter is welcome to keep the sausages :)

Sardines, in this house. Though I do love kippers.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:01:26am
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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:06:54am

re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg

Plastic shopping bags are an acceptable substitute for tissue paper in an emergency.

I will die on this hill.

thank you for blazing this trail so we dont have to

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:07:08am

In this house, it’s Spam, Viennas, and sardines. And corned beef.

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:08:01am

re: #152 Dopamine Fish

He really, truly believes he won the election. At this point, there’s no other explanation. Other people around him may or may not believe it, but he is absolutely convinced, in his own mind, that he is the rightful President of the United States and that he is being deprived of his office, and the protections it would afford him, by fraud.

No he doesn’t.

He’s just sticking to what Roy Cohn taught him; never admit anything, never concede, attack attack attack. He thinks if he just repeats something enough times, and forces enough other people to make the same claim, everyone who knows better will just give up in exhaustion.

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:11:35am

re: #164 William Lewis

My preferred canned protein for emergency stocks is kippers. Your daughter is welcome to keep the sausages :)

My canned protein is honey-roasted peanuts. I don’t want the kippers or sausages.

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Mattand  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:16:48am

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

hi

It’s really quite amazing how people are dependent even on “simple” technology.

I’m sitting here typing on a computer using a worldwide network to transmit data.

At the same time, I am warming after going out in my yard for the second day to collect snow for drinking water because of my ruptured plumbing. The snow is dirty on top outside now, but underneath is still clean and fluffy. That said, to drink it we still need to boil it first.

Christmas Day the temperatures will go above freezing with a chance of rain, which will melt the snow and cut off my ability to collect snow for drinking water, so I’ll need to do that a lot today.

My car is still buried thanks to the church burying it when they cleared their parking area, so I can’t go into town and get bottled water..

I’m glad you’re doing okay and wish you and the missus nothing but the best this Xmas and New Year’s.

The town you live in and your piece-of-shit neighbors, specifically the church next door?

Not so much.

Fuck everyone of them. I get so goddamned angry when I read this. They are literally putting your lives in danger, if not outright trying to kill you. I have a specific wish for the church itself, but I’m trying not to commit things like that to writing.

Please stay safe.

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:19:29am

Merry Christmas from my house to yours.

Ho, why is you here?
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Mattand  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:21:32am

re: #169 sagehen

No he doesn’t.

He’s just sticking to what Roy Cohn taught him; never admit anything, never concede, attack attack attack. He thinks if he just repeats something enough times, and forces enough other people to make the same claim, everyone who knows better will just give up in exhaustion.

It’s worked so far.

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:21:56am

re: #168 BigPapa

In this house, it’s Spam, Viennas, and sardines. And corned beef.

My husband, before we were married, lived to a large extent on canned tuna fish, Viennas, and for a big meal, a cheap tv dinner. Ate the tuna and the Viennas straight out of the can. I had to learn to cook in a HURRY!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:29:59am

re: #146 calochortus

It’s just your water that’s out, right? Can’t you get some from a neighbor?

I could. The people behind me left town prior to the blizzard, so I can’t get it from them. Across the street from me, the new people there won’t answer the door to my wife or me. Next to them, the house is for sale, and the house next to me is only used as seasonal quarters by a rancher.

I don’t think I can throw myself on the mercy of the church.

If I get desperate enough, I could go to the general store and lug water two blocks back but it would have to be in buckets or containers.

I’m probably going to call around today and see if I can find someone with a plow to come over and unbury my car.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:30:06am

re: #167 Dangerman

thank you for blazing this trail so we dont have to

As a runner you’ve certainly had to make an emergency stop and then finished your run with one sock.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:33:33am

re: #147 sagehen

couldn’t they spend the summer making fuel bricks out of grass?

And if they ambush a wagon train or two, the wagons and their contents contain plenty of wood. (but they weren’t cannibals. The dead settlers were used for pig food.)

Someone actually did a historical retrospective on that.

Keeping Warm (Nebraska Studies)

A variety of methods were used.

Keeping warm in the winter was a common problem for residents of the plains, and different groups had different solutions to the problem. For instance, John W. Hartman came to eastern Nebraska in 1890 and got to know some of the first generation of settlers. Hartman wrote,

“John Gilbert was a stage-driver working for the government… . The Pawnee were great friends to John Gilbert. Many of their tribe would come each fall to make Gilbert a visit. In one of their visits, Gilbert went down to the timber where they were camped and setting around a little fire. Gilbert got a lot of brush and logs to put on the fire. The Indian chief said:

‘White man damn fool — builds great big fire and have to get a long ways from it. Indian builds a little fire and sets around it.’ “

Most settlers built fires in stoves to heat their houses, but the homesteaders didn’t have the same fuel sources they had back east or in Europe. Wood was precious. Coal was expensive. So what did they use?

As with their building materials, they used what they found at hand. If you lived by a stream, you gather wood. Hay, straw and even sunflower stalks were used. And someone discovered that “chips” — that is, droppings from either cows or buffaloes that had dried in the sun — burned pretty well in the stoves. So, the chips were used for fuel. All you had to do was gather them up. Piles of chips up to 10-12 feet high might be built next to the sod house.

(more)

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darthstar  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:35:15am
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A Cranky One  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:45:18am

When you live in a 90+ year old house and it’s 2 degrees outside, you learn a few lessons.

One is a method to wake you up far faster than coffee.

It involves using a bidet connected to only a cold water line.

:-0

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:48:10am

re: #178 darthstar

Is there a #TPOLChallenge? *looks curiously*

Click to Reveal

Youtube Video

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:54:33am

Ms. Pie Overlord probably wouldn’t like this method of baking here in the early XX Century.

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I fixed the link for the Keeping Warm article above.
Also here: nebraskastudies.org

As Charley O’Kieffe recalled:

“Here is the rundown of the operations that mother went through when making baking powder biscuits. … Stoke the stove, get out the flour sack, stoke the stove, wash your hands, mix the biscuit dough, stoke the stove, wash your hands, cut out the biscuits with the top of a baking powder can, stoke the stove, wash your hands, put the pan of biscuits in the oven, keep on stoking the stove until the biscuits are done (not forgetting to wash the hands before taking up the biscuits).” — From Western Story: The Recollections of Charley O’Kieffe, 1884-1898. Lincoln: U of N Press, 1960.

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:56:22am

re: #176 Barefoot Grin

As a runner you’ve certainly had to make an emergency stop and then finished your run with one sock.

oh ive been caught short and by surprise, yup.

cross off whatever that was for dinner before the next long run

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wrenchwench  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:59:26am

Beagle from the blue.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 553 2/6*

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was not expecting that.

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Dangerman  Dec 24, 2022 • 9:59:59am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Someone actually did a historical retrospective on that.

Keeping Warm (Nebraska Studies)

A variety of methods were used.

(more)

Will Penny (charlton heston) with joan hackett

catherine: What are we gonna do? Winter’s just hardly started.

will: Burn chips, I guess.

What’s chips?

Cow chips, buffalo chips. They make a hot fire, burn slow. You know.

No, I don’t know. What’s chips?

Well, chips are… Well, they’re… They’re just dried up…

Yeah?

Aw, hell.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:06:11am

re: #183 wrenchwench

Beagle from the blue.

That was pretty good. I got it in three. I managed to mess up with four correct letters.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 553 3/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:12:21am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I call bullshit. I mean, has anybody ever seen one in front of their face?

188
ckkatz  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:13:36am

Florida Lizards! Watch out for falling iguanas. (And stay out of trees ;)

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A Cranky One  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:14:37am

re: #187 BigPapa

I call bullshit. I mean, has anybody ever seen one in front of their face?

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wrenchwench  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:16:01am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(12:22)

[Embedded content]

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:16:54am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(12:22)

[Embedded content]

For those interested in the soundtrack to the video:

The Largest Black Hole – Soundtrack (2021)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:17:19am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:19:09am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:20:58am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just like Christmas, these assholes come around every year.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:21:39am
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A Cranky One  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:21:57am

Lizards viewing the food pron that gets posed here be like:

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:26:04am

Jeffrey’s food pics are at least 350 calories just looking at them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:26:44am
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ckkatz  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:29:46am

.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:32:08am

re: #199 ckkatz

Quite unorthodox.

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jeffreyw  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:33:07am

re: #197 BigPapa

Jeffrey’s food pics are at least 350 calories just looking at them.

Practice run for tomorrow’s big dinner:

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ckkatz  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:35:13am

re: #200 Eventual Carrion

Quite unorthodox.

There is apparently a lot of history behind that conflict.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:35:29am

re: #201 jeffreyw

Practice run for tomorrow’s big dinner:

[Embedded content]

I might have to make up some stuffing for tomorrow dinner. We are doing thick porkchops (in gravy), mashed taters, prob lima beans. I think adding stuffing could be in order.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:35:46am

oh

205
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:36:54am
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William Lewis  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:37:22am

Beautiful. But then I always loved our chickens and wish I lived in a place where I could keep a handful of exotic laying hens…

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:38:07am

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Betty MacDonald had a similar story about her daily chores in The Egg and I.

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William Lewis  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:38:10am

re: #200 Eventual Carrion

Quite unorthodox.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha! Wish I’d thought of that wisecrack.

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CleverToad  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:38:52am

It’s almost noon on Christmas Evesday —- the holiday officially starts with church at 7:30 for carols and candles, then home to open presents tonight. We always opened our presents on the Eve — my mom said it was because that’s what Norvegians do, but I think the family tradition probably started because her dad worked for the Anaconda Copper smelter in Great Falls, MT and he got off at midnight. Wottheheck, it means I don’t get up early on Christmas morning.

But I ain’t half-ready for the festivities yet, so I better sign off till Monday.
We’re at 44 degrees here in the Denver metro, highs in the 50’s & lows in the 20’s for the next few days, so our cold snap done snapped. Will have to go outside in a bit and see what damage got done.

Happy rest of Hanukkah to the Lizards celebrating

Blessed Christmas for the Christian Lizards

A gripeful Festivus for the ones so inclined

Happy time off for those what get any. Wincing sympathy for those who don’t.

Good times with family and friends for those who have the chance this year. An extra hug for the too many of us dealing with gaps in the circle, with sharp new losses and aching old ones in these dark days of the year. Wishing you comfort and sunlight as the days start to lengthen, connections to keep you afloat.

See you all on the other side of spiral ham and pumpkin pie and pecan pie and eggnog cheesecake! Well, on Monday, anyway, whether or not the baking turns out.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 24, 2022 • 10:59:53am

re: #171 Mattand

I’m glad you’re doing okay and wish you and the missus nothing but the best this Xmas and New Year’s.

The town you live in and your piece-of-shit neighbors, specifically the church next door?

Not so much.

Fuck everyone of them. I get so goddamned angry when I read this. They are literally putting your lives in danger, if not outright trying to kill you. I have a specific wish for the church itself, but I’m trying not to commit things like that to writing.

Please stay safe.

That was 100% my thought. 🤬🤬🤬


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