55 minutes ago, Cygnia said:

But... what size would they be in Standard Giraffes?

George Santos will not serve on any committees.  However, Anthony Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky, and Kitara Ravache will.

2 hours ago, Trencher said:

You learn something new everyday! 

People like that don't.  Ever.

On 1/21/2023 at 12:12 AM, Michael Hopcroft said:

NT: More surprisingly useful things you can buy from Foxbat Industries (purveyors of fine comedic weaponry since last Tuesday!).

The Photonic Optical Waveform (POW) hologram generator, which makes visible sound effects for your next battle.  Because who doesn't want "POW!" and "BLAM!" and "KER-SPLAT!" visible for miles as you battle your arch-enemies?

NT: Unfortunate arch-enemies for your favorite heroes.  (For example, the Flash's new enemy, the Flasher.)

47 minutes ago, Starlord said:

Back in college, one of my classmates talked about wanting to get one of those powerful commercial aircraft lights and mounting it behind his car's front grille, with a switch inside to turn it on or off.  There's been a time or two when I wished I could do that.

40 minutes ago, Cygnia said:

I disagree with 2/3 of this.  IMO, all ducks are evil.  

41 minutes ago, Cancer said:

NT: Sights that really make the groundhog go back down his burrow and sleep for six weeks.

The latest news coverage.

19 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

A: What did you do to tick off all these cops?

Colored in the stripes on all those "thin blue line" flag stickers to turn them into LGBTQ+ flag stickers.

NT:  Inadvisable things to get your spouse / partner / significant other for Valentine's Day.

6 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

My American friends, may you find some comfort in seeing that the arrogance, ignorance, and spitefulness of the modern right-winger extends far beyond your borders.

I'm generally... well, not comforted but at least feel a bit less collectively stupid when I see similar things in other countries.  But not Canada.  I look at our friendly neighbors to the north like a little, smarter brother who learns from big brother's occasional idiotic mistakes and is better for it. 

3 hours ago, Pariah said:

 

Meh. I'm antitriskaidekaphobic. Today is the day I have to have final grades posted, that's all I know.

So what you're saying is, it's a bad-luck day for your students, not for you.

On 12/6/2022 at 1:05 PM, Old Man said:

Asteroid Launcher, an online app for planning I mean modeling potential asteroid impacts.  Purely hypothetically I'm sure.

So, is it possible there are alternate universes where all of the "Launch Asteroid" results actually happen?  In other words, did I just create a bunch of extinction-level events on alternate Earths?  (Still, it felt good to nuke Columbus, OH.)

My wife and I really enjoyed Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, to the point that one of my daughters recently commented, "Dean Cain is my Superman."

Welcome back, less-strange-than-Old-Man.

Given the slow pace of responses, let's cut this group at six, and someone can post a new team.  Death tribble, I nominate you!

1 hour ago, archer said:

2) On the other hand, if the Democrats wanted to eventually stop the Republican sideshow for some reason (like raising the debt ceiling this summer to save the government from default), it'd be interesting for them to do a "Draft Liz Cheney" thing.

 

As speaker, she wouldn't be onboard with endless meaningless investigations of pretend "crimes" nor would she be onboard with any "Impeach Biden" movement for no crime at all.

 

She'd be spending all her time trying to keep the Republican crazies in line and likely not have any time left over to promote a real Republican agenda of any sort (whether Trumpism or a more conventional Republicanism). And at worst, if she did manage to reign in their crazies and prevent them from recruiting more crazies to run for office in the 2024 election cycle, that'd only be good for the country in the long run. 

 

If the Democrats block voted for Cheney, they'd only need a couple of disgruntled Republicans to cross over and vote with them. 

 

It'd tie the Republican caucus in knots for the next two years while providing, perhaps, the chance for a couple of pieces of bipartisan legislation to pass like raising the debt ceiling (or getting rid of the whole concept of "a debt ceiling" altogether).

Part of me (okay, mainly the contrarian part) would really like to see the Democrats nominate and vote for her, if for no other reason than to watch all the MAGAT heads explode.  Think they could get a half dozen or so Republicans to vote for her?

On 1/2/2023 at 11:18 AM, Lord Liaden said:

 

"Ooohhh... what a party..."

"Coulda been the whiskey...  Might have been the gin...

Coulda been the three or four six-packs, look at the mess I'm in...

A man knocked on my door today asking for donations to the local swimming pool.   So I gave him a glass of water.

If money doesn't grow on trees, then why do banks have branches?

8 hours ago, DShomshak said:

We have spent two years trying to keep Covid out of the house to protect our frail and now bedridden mother. Vaccination, boosters, masking whenever we leave the house. Yesterday, my brother tested positive, with a second test for confirmation. We are now trying to keep my brother as far from our mother as possible, as much as possible, but we can't afford to, like, send him to a hotel for a week. I am terrified.

 

CORRECTION: I just thought of a way to get him out of the house for a week that's in our budget. I hope he agrees, and it's not too late to prevent contagion.

 

Dean Shomshak

C'mon, Dean, getting him arrested isn't a very nice solution.  (just kidding)  I hope all works out okay for your family and especially your mother.  Wishing you best of luck.

Given that (at least in my opinion) the GOP House members had no intention of actually doing their jobs, but instead just being obstructionist / perpetually try to impeach Biden / posture and pontificate without legislating... I'm not sure them being tied up indefinitely just trying to elect a Speaker of the House is all that much worse, or even all that different.

2 hours ago, Cygnia said:

House Republicans remove metal detectors from the Capitol

Maybe they mistakenly thought they were "mental defectors" and felt they would be redundant with a Republican majority.

The villain known as Tick Tock is a master gadgeteer, who has a legion of tiny wind-up robots to help him with his crimes - though a handful of them are dedicated to recording every utterance of their master and broadcasting it online.  (He also has a bit of a crush on Pretty as a Picture! and often dedicates a minion robot or two to record her as well.)

2 hours ago, Cygnia said:

Hubby picked up the Sentinels of the Multiverse card game that we're gonna crack open on Christmas Eve to play

That's a great game.  My daughter and son-in-law got me that a few Christmases back and we've had a blast playing it, both at home as well as at GenCon the last two years.  I have a pretty complete collection now (including most of the variant cards).  

17 minutes ago, Asperion said:

NT: Santa's reindeer go on strike on Christmas Eve.  Who fills the roll and how?

<Foxbat> This is the perfect use for the Incredible Centipedemobile!  </Foxbat>

On 12/18/2022 at 7:17 PM, Cygnia said:

Hey, man, don't have a cow!

8 hours ago, Pariah said:

To me, it's a foregone conclusion that the Republican Party, with its various factions, will eventually cannibalize itself. Could this be the beginning?

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene And Lauren Boebert Get Personal In Very Public Spat

 

I mean, could this actually be the beginning? Please?

5 hours ago, unclevlad said:

I dunno if we can say that, just on these two having a spat.  I mean, they're Bart Simpson and Bud Bundy, so it's rather hard to take them as representatives of the Republican Party.

3 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

I would say that sounds exactly like representatives of today's Republican Party.

I'd say that's insulting to Bart Simpson and Bud Bundy.  Each of them has way more intelligence than Greene and Boebert combined (not that that's saying much), and a lot more sense than a vast majority of today's GOP.