Good morning, and welcome to today’s edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Let’s get started.
Totally stole this and one of the pics from a Mark Steyn song of the week post from a couple of weeks ago. I grew up with an 8-track tape of this, though without the flamenco guitar music.
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Now for the hunks. I have to put Tom below the fold, so here’s birthday boy Nick Hendrix.
And here’s that pic of Tom Jones. At least there’s one hetero in the lineup this week.
Worth repeating the link for the Salt and Pepper Diner routine again.
Real redhead for Carin.
Definitely playing for the other team.
And finally, Star Trek Enterprise guy.
Y’all have a good day.
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Of all of the guest hosts covering for Rush, I appreciated Mark Steyn the most.
Is it Tom Jones Appreciation Day? If not there ought to be one.
My mom couldn’t stand Tom Jones, back in the day. Not because of the music, but because he would wear really tight pants and it seemed he made sure his package was on display. It looked like he stuffed a balled up sock down there.
I remember my neighbor blasting Tom Jones music on the weekend. I can’t tell if he liked it as a fan or it made him laugh. My parents weren’t as amused but tolerated it because they were otherwise nice neighbors.
Good morning. My avatar is the gay couple from The Last of Us.
Amazing interview. This guy, just incredible.
https://mansworldmag.online/in-conversation-with-douglass-mackey/
Which is post hoc wokery, since there was no gay couple in the game.
Also Joel was the hero, and Ellie was voiced by a woman, and was a child and thus her sexuality wasn’t up for debate. But Druckmann is a woke-for-attention asshole who pissed on that IP.
I just. Can’t. WTF is this dummy doing on SCOTUS??
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/18/ketanji-brown-jackson-concerned-first-amendment-hamstringing-the-government/
I really liked the show, never played the game. And the character who was a gay prepper was really good. The story line, independent of source material, was great.
But I see your point.
i can’t believe laura doesn’t believe in a living constitution
It’s the wedging it in after the fact that irritates me.
That and LOU2 decided Joel was the villain for not letting Ellie get vivisected and had a graphic tranny sex scene.
Oh, and Ellie’s gay by the way.
It’s like 30 minutes, but it’s thorough.
So glad I don’t watch TV.
My favorite was Walter Williams. I liked Mark Steyn too, but Walter was super.
Mark was funnier, but Walter was compelling.
Ketanji Brownji Jacksonji is a lifelong affirmative action grifter. My left nut is more qualified.
The three liberal justices are an affirmative action grifter, an admitted racist, and an androgynous rug muncher.
Oh, and Roberts. Make it three and a half.
Pray for the health and vigor of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Dogs usually don’t work too well with mama cows. When you’re driving them, there are always a few that turn around and try to fight the dogs. Then they start bellowing and more cows turn around to fight. Pain in the ass. With no calves, or older calves, dogs help quite a bit.
Ketanji Dumbitch Jackson was nominated by an illegitimate “President” and installed by a Senate shaped illegitimately by forces other than the will of the people. She shouldn’t be there. Probably 2 or 3 others shouldn’t either.
My favorite Rush replacement is Chris Matthews
Probably 2 or 3 others shouldn’t either.
Can we call Bush illegitimate now? Roberts, buh bye.
The senate approved them. Short of impeaching the shitty ones, I don’t see a constitutional remedy even if the facts come out and Biden gets an asterisk.
The fact that I’m even considering whether there is a constitutional remedy for Jumanji says I’m more qualified for her job than she is.
Given our “government” blithely ignores the Constitution when it sees fit (and makes constant end runs around it the rest of the time simply our of habit) says all you need to know.
Iceland once sacked EVERYBODY in government, banned them all from returning, and started over. They walked it back, which was a mistake. I think something like that is required if we’re ever going to unwind the unholy disaster in DC.
In the Constitution 2.0 we should abandon the concept of “lifetime appointments” for anyone, anywhere, ever. And that should be hard-wired and not subject to remedy by any future amendments. And of course term limits for everybody, everywhere, forever.
Going out to Adepticon in Schaumburg, IL with my grandsons for the weekend. Big-ass wargaming convention.
I’m not a wargamer but I do love painting figures. I’ve been painting historical miniatures my entire adult life. When they asked me to teach them to paint I said, “Heck yeah, I’ve got loads of unpainted figures we can do.”
They said, “No Grandpunk (that’s what they call me), not Napoleon stuff, we want to do Warhammer.” My response. “What the Hell is Warhammer?”
So they said it takes place in the 41st millennium. So I said, “Okay, but I’m not painting any robots, and nothing with scales or green skin. There have to be human faces.”
So I chose Sisters of Battle (or as some people say, Nuns With Guns”. They’re a fucking blast to paint.
Here’s a few I displayed at a recent local hobby shop thing.
I’ll be taking some to exhibit, and if they’re lucky, my grandsons will learn how to smoke cigars.
Excellently painted.
Technically the Space Marines are “human” but they are GMO supersoldiers in armor. I think Imperial Legion would have met your criteria though.
Part of the idea of lifetime appointments was to insulate the court from politics – the judges would not have to run for re-election.
I happen to agree with this. Are we stuck with some real stinkers? Yes, but that’s the price we paid for electing an affirmative action president and a geriatric shut-in.
I do plan to paint some Imperial Legion, but their uniforms are a bit *ahem* boring. It would be akin to painting WWII GIs.
I chose the Napoleonic Era way back when, because of the colorfulness and flamboyance of some of the regiments. That, and the wealth of documentation that allowed for really accurate depictions.
The problem with Sci-Fi is, who’s to say a particular color is correct, and how do you know when the green skin is the right shade.
Anyway, I feel really lucky that my grandsons want to spend time with me. I have them swearing, burping, and farting practically like pros. Their liberal biases require longer term influences.
LOL
Tony Bobulinski just called Jamie Raskin a liar to his face and in front of the entire Congressional Committee.
Raskin is a fucking disgrace and his constituents are assholes.
I have “Me & Bobby McGee” stuck in my head for some reason. No, not the Joplin version:
Never heard that version. Now I have Janis Joplin’s version in my head
Napoleonic miniatures battles…I remember when that was a bigger thing. Not that it was ever a HUGE thing, but it used to be bigger, with historical miniatures wargaming in general.
Which begat this thing called Chainmail…which added on a fantasy supplement…and things kinda went off from there…
And now half-orcs are racist.
What other half is the orc?
Isn’t a half-orc just an orc? Like Bark Obama is black, not half-black? Isn’t it racist to say half-black?
The victim pyramid just gets so confusing.
IIRC from AD&D, the “half” could be human or elf. The point was that the orc at the time was a full-blown “evil race” (born evil, a holdover from Tolkien, same as goblins and chromatic dragons and so on) and you couldn’t be one at all, so a mixed-‘race’ child from such a union was the compromise for players who wanted to RP that.
But yeah, it was the “what’s the other haaaa-aaaaalf you bigot?” that killed it. The idea that a world of multiple hominid species with interchangeable genitalia wouldn’t give it a try is nonsense unless it were literally a fruitless pursuit, and if that’s the case then genocidal tribalism would be the only sensible strategy.
I wouldn’t fuck an orc.
(Just want to be on record.)
MJ probably would, but I wouldn’t.
Based on Neanderthal admixture in those of European descent, there was at least some of that happening. No word on consent, though.
Which is kind of how I assumed most half-orcs happened.
I’m not saying orc=neanderthal, either. Just that that’s the closest real-world analogue, and we have a lot of evidence that it happened. In some cases it happened in two distinct periods to the same groups migrating first north, then south, then north again. The modern descendants of that group (hi!) have as much as 6% neanderthal DNA. But there aren’t any full-blooded neanderthals left at all.
Which is what you’d expect to happen in Greyhawk, or whatever, as time unfolded. Either miscegenation, or genocide.
I wouldn’t fuck a neanderthal either. No offense.
I like to think that I wouldn’t, but I know myself better than that. ‘Specially if she had robust hindquarters.
Which is probably part and parcel of having such a high admixture, come to think of it.
Somebody clearly did, since we seem to have some of their genes wandering around. At least two or three other related early human-types, as well. Apparently sticking it in strange goes way the fuck back with us.
Hmm, wonder if that accounts for why “uncanny valley” is a thing…I think I saw something where there were like nine different proto-human strains wandering around at once at some stage? And now it’s just us, biggest bastards of the bunch…
Well, we were also the most likely to stick it in strange and we organized better than the others.
Even if some of us did bang hobbits and orcs.
Good afternoon. Back took a long time to start to feel better! I think by tomorrow I should be able to start doing ab and back exercises. Did stretches today.
I am done being a weak worm.
for a while
Mrs C had a visit to the chiro today. Threw her back out yesterday bucking hay at the barn she helps out for. I’ve had to help her stand up a couple of times so far.
On another topic, I have a couple non-stick frying pans that are pining for the retirement home, an 8 inch and 10 inch and I’m pondering an upgrade. Anybody have any experience with that Hexclad stuff or Made In?
I just buy the cheap ones at Meijer and replace them every year. I’m probably slowly poisoning myself, but my food doesn’t stick.
This list made me laugh and I looked at a few but held off given my overflowing bookshelves
https://www.abebooks.com/books/weird/
Embarrassing Moments in German
I have this book.
This is the brand that we use that gets the most use
https://www.scanpan.com/cookware/categories/fry-pans.html
We have a couple of other non-sticks and a cast iron one too but they’re used less frequently
For Mare
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22786300490&searchurl=isbn%3D1841614017%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1
How to Avoid Huge Ships
I also have this book.
The Manga Guide to Calculus
THEY ARE STALKING MY PERSONAL LIBRARY.
How To Survive a Robot Uprising
GET OUT OF MY MIND!
I’ve heard of “How To Avoid Huge Ships” before, it’s been on a lot of Can-You-Believe-This-Shit lists over the years
I had it in my cart for years waiting for the paperback. I was overjoyed when it came.
Hope Mrs. Caruthers feels better soon, Leon.
Man, Irish pronunciations mean nothing to me. I just found out today that taoiseach is pronounced, tea-shuck. Get bent, Ireland. You could have used better letters for that shit, you sneaky bastards. Worse than French, you are.
Ceilidh = “Kayley”
lol
https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-goodness-my-guinness-insults-my-intelligence-st-patricks-day-fdd99d5a?st=6gbmvmhqn34dj5k&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Hopefully this works. It’s about pronouncing an Irish name and insulting Americans
Wolf starring Jack Nicholson, James Spader, and (peak!) Michelle Pfeiffer came out 30 years ago.
Had a Mexican customer go off today because all of our Spanish speaking associates were on lunch at the same time. It is/was BS. Most NM Hispanic associates refuse to translate for “Illegals.” We have 3 legal immigrants from Mexico that will translate. That’s it. 3.
I couldn’t hear the difference between the Irish and other ways of pronouncing her name either. Both sounded like ‘sersha.’
Mrs C bought a cane so she can get out of bed on her own. Zebra striped.
I sure hope I never need to borrow that shit.
My back had a little “event” on Monday, but its much better today. Everything got really tight during a lift- it wasn’t heavy, and I immediately stopped. I had to work that night which didn’t help.
I took yesterday off (working out) but I just ran 5 miles and it feels good. I’ll lay light on the weights for the next week.
Guys, we’re getting old. Thank God it’s happening on the internet and not in real life.
I have to get younger for Possum’s sake.
She doesn’t deserve to mourn me in her 30s.
If she’d stop bringing home respiratory infections I might actually get well enough to start exercising consistently.
Having a rescued cat that sheds constantly and has dandruff and refuses to leave my office isn’t helping either.
So that works out to:
1) kid bringing home the Disease of the Week of the Month
2) cat dandruff from sad kitty who’s real person died and left her alone
3) cat litter in same room because she won’t go past the asshole kitten in the hallway, and can barely walk anyhow
So I — much like St George of Floyd — cain’t breeve.
You guys are getting old. I’m a spring chicken
(but I think I’m older than both of you – I know I’m older than Leon, not positive about Lauraw)
Getting that early variant killed my gym habit for months, then the lockdown shit broke me. I had no one but the wife and kid, even my parents were all in on the bullshit, and we hadn’t had time to make friends over here yet.
Then there was the stolen election and the takeover by the Coven, and I just gave up. I have no hope for a better tomorrow and look forward to nothing. Hard to crank out a set of pushups. At least I’m not going through a full Kirkland bottle of whiskey every week anymore. Had to quit that when I started getting the labyrinthitis.
That’s a funny way to spell cirrhosis
I never checked my liver. I was dizzy all the time, though. I’d lay down and feel like I was flipping end over end, even when I’d been dry a few days.
Supplements, Leon.
I almost never get sick. Didn’t notice Covid, and my coworker for the last 2 years had a kid in daycare.
https://media2.giphy.com/media/Z9jhXJR21O2VG/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952vjasm7v7dawxo47etbpv0vot44itg5nclmgdzjok&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
Different kind of bracket
https://www.cato.org/2024-spending-madness
I take ’em. It’s not enough to overpower all the allergens, stale air, and constant new pathogens. My diet’s clean lately too (“dirtiest” I get is Ezekiel bread to make all the damned eggs palatable), and it’s not helping, at least not enough.
Possum was running a fever over 100 for most of a week with influenza B, for instance. I managed to only have a few days more sniffly than usual and just one day of needing a hat indoors because I couldn’t get warm, but then I went back to baseline of sitting at my desk from 8 to 5 and then being tired to do anything afterward.
Look into oil of oregano.
Okay, last meeting done. 8-8 today for evening deployment. Time to go wash dishes then faceplant.
I was wrong, it’s not zebra.
Leopard.
Had to hit the grocery store for Possum’s OJ.
The Dark Chocolate Medley Index is holding steady at $9.49, up from $5.49 in 2019.
How to Avoid Huge Ships
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Having been in a carrier squadron, I clearly failed to learn whatever is in this book.
This paper has been mailed to me :
Re back problems, I’m anticipating them tomorrow.
I found a free source of well-composted horse manure for my gardening efforts. The down side was that I had to shovel it by hand into my dump trailer. My back quit before the trailer was half full.
I took a nap from 4-5pm on a heating pad. We’ll see if that helps.
An article in that paper, carin …
“Crime is down across the country, FBI data shows”
Well, when you consider so many urban DA’s failing to press charges and certain property crimes not being even responded to, I’m not all that surprised.
No grazon on the horse hay?
“Independent” is a funny way to spell Trotskyist.
Just found out my Cleveland Brown cousin is in hospice. His son reached out to me. If you watched football in the 80/90 you saw him. Big Dawg in the dog pound.
I didn’t but I’m sorry for your cousin and his family, Oso.
Mr. Sunshine
I’m getting really tired of losing family. I’m not even being a vax asshole. My Tio had an AAA. Lost a kidney. He’s 91. His stent was leaking. He told me he couldn’t risk another surgery with the Albuquerque group. Surgery yesterday. He’s doing great. One of his daughters lives in PHX. My Padrinos are getting all of their healthcare in PHX. My Tio is a rocket scientist. OG. Kwaijalien atoll. Sic. He’s planning on selling his home and moving to PHX.
I had a night terror last night. Woman with hatchet. I’m screaming. Apparently, I was really screaming. 911. Dan made a joke about it. NGL how do you guys know what is real?
Durian eaters risk puking.
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