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Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:57 pm

Welp Sunday is Easter again. The day Zombie Jesus rose to hide rabbit eggs for all the children.

Happy Easter all!!

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 2:43 pm

Oh, so it's on Sunday this year?

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 3:14 pm

And on the third day, Jesus nailed a painted egg to the cross. "Kids are really going to love this" he thought.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:09 pm

Jaymon wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 3:14 pm And on the third day, Jesus nailed a painted egg to the cross. "Kids are really going to love this" he thought.

I don't think the original easter eggs were nailed to the cross. I think they were just hidden in the corpse, right?

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:31 am

I want to get some reprint movie posters. I've got bare walls, but it's a fairly small apartment. Do you think the standard 24x36 is the way to go, or is it overkill and the smaller common 22x34 is sufficient? I mean that's a diagonal of 43" vs. 40". That's not nothing. I know it's also relevant where they're going to be placed. The larger size might be best centered on a section of wall, solo. Smaller ones might look good side-by-side.

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:50 am

Sudy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:31 am I want to get some reprint movie posters. I've got bare walls, but it's a fairly small apartment. Do you think the standard 24x36 is the way to go, or is it overkill and the smaller common 22x34 is sufficient? I mean that's a diagonal of 43" vs. 40". That's not nothing. I know it's also relevant where they're going to be placed. The larger size might be best centered on a section of wall, solo. Smaller ones might look good side-by-side.

This is the correct way to go:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 9:26 am

I have normal sized on my walls and bigger ones on the ceiling

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:07 pm

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:50 am
Sudy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:31 am I want to get some reprint movie posters. I've got bare walls, but it's a fairly small apartment. Do you think the standard 24x36 is the way to go, or is it overkill and the smaller common 22x34 is sufficient? I mean that's a diagonal of 43" vs. 40". That's not nothing. I know it's also relevant where they're going to be placed. The larger size might be best centered on a section of wall, solo. Smaller ones might look good side-by-side.
This is the correct way to go:

Are you trying to give Smoove nightmares?

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:53 pm

TheMix wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:07 pm
Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:50 am
Sudy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:31 am I want to get some reprint movie posters. I've got bare walls, but it's a fairly small apartment. Do you think the standard 24x36 is the way to go, or is it overkill and the smaller common 22x34 is sufficient? I mean that's a diagonal of 43" vs. 40". That's not nothing. I know it's also relevant where they're going to be placed. The larger size might be best centered on a section of wall, solo. Smaller ones might look good side-by-side.
This is the correct way to go:

Are you trying to give Smoove nightmares?

That's just the overlords' way of reminding Smoove to be penitent.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:21 pm

Wasn't that in one of the Indiana Jones movies?

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:32 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:21 pm Wasn't that in one of the Indiana Jones movies?

Yeah, that was in The Last Crusade. Only the penitent man will pass:

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:18 pm

I gave thought to subscribing to a newspaper. Then I found out they no longer have a comics section. So..........no newspaper for me. When did they drop the comics and how are those who wrote them making a living now?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:32 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:18 pm When did they drop the comics and how are those who wrote them making a living now?

Go Comics!

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Mon Apr 10, 2023 9:35 pm

A college friend took over a classic comic strip in the early 90s and had to stop after his doctor warned him he was working so much a heart attack was inevitable. He made no money back then, and I think it has only become worse.

Those drawing Magic art back then were making decent money selling original prints. Not sure if that’s still a lifeline, but Patreon is apparently great if you have a fan base.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Apr 10, 2023 9:53 pm

My mom was good friends with the guy who did Pogo. He must have died over 50 years ago.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:35 pm

Not bad not bad. Really sweet. Lingers too. Stays around. Sweet. 8/10

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:59 pm

Really sweet. Lingers too. Stays around. Sweet.

This makes it sound about as appealing as a kick in the groin. Overly sweet and stays around - blech. That alone is why I avoid most soft drinks.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 4:34 pm

It appeals to me.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 4:50 pm

It's like standing in a pool of perfume. After a while you don't notice how strong the perfume smells, because your nose gets used to it. And you don't notice that you can't smell anything else because your nose has compensated for the perfume, and everything else is too weak. And then you take a trip to the mountains, and after a few weeks you start to notice all of the smells again - the pine trees, the wildflowers, the rain. But then if you go back to the pool of perfume for a visit, it feels like someone punched you in the nose.

I found that when you start cutting sugar from your diet, you become way more sensitive to sweetness. Things that weren't sweet before start tasting sweet (like some fruits and vegetables), while things that are intended to be sweet become horribly overpowering. I've had plain water that actually tasted sweet, and I've had chocolate cake that was so sweet that the flavor was literally painful (which is weird to say.)

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:50 pm

In my olde age my tastes have changed. I mean literally. Water has a metallic flavor and sweets can get a little too sweet. I've read it's because of my diabetes.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:55 pm

How I know I'm getting old: They announce the name of the baseball team's manager and I get confused because I thought they were still a player. And then I look them online and they're 48.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 3:19 pm

So, I go into the kitchen this morning and the dogs water bowl is full of dirty water and a lot of dirt. Both his dry food and his wet food are gone. A bag of deer corn has been torn open and spread on the floor.
What a mess! <sigh>
Gonna have to seal his dog door shut. He hardly ever goes out anyways.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 5:01 pm

Raccoon, I assume? Or multiple?

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 5:02 pm

All I saw was the results but I assume so.

gbasden · Post by **gbasden** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:13 pm

What is deer corn? Like, literally corn you put out for deer?

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:55 pm

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:06 am

I went into the kitchen to close the dog door and lock it and my little visitor had already been there.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:28 am

Closing the dog door when the corn's already gone.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:04 am

Plenty left altho it is quite a mess on the floor.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:48 am

Something mauled my bag of flour in the pantry. I found it upside down on the floor with slashes in the plastic bag around it. I hope it was one of my cats because the other possibilities are too horrible to think about.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:07 am

I mean... you know it wasn't your cat.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:33 am

By allowing it to happen, the cat bears some degree of culpability.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Apr 14, 2023 3:57 pm

Vox

An explosion and fire at a dairy farm on Monday in the Texas panhandle has been called the deadliest cattle barn fire ever recorded: it left one worker in critical condition and killed 18,000 cows.
...
The Dimmitt fire, however, was unusual in its scale. Because the farm was enormous — with reportedly 19,000 cattle, it was among the biggest dairy farms in the country — it killed an order of magnitude more cows than are typically killed in fires, enough to fill 26 football fields, according to a USA Today analysis. For context, the largest number of cows killed in a single fire between 2018 and 2021 in the US was 548.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Apr 14, 2023 4:22 pm

57 raccoons are sitting in my back yard looking at my back door.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Fri Apr 14, 2023 4:30 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 4:22 pm 57 raccoons are sitting in my back yard looking at my back door.

That is an impressive number.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:15 pm

I heard about that giant dairy farm fire. Theres a video out theres with a title like cow screaming..I did not watch..wont watch. Sounds horrible. Those poor animals. Feel sad and sick for them.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Apr 14, 2023 5:19 pm

18,000 cows died. I have no wish to see or hear it.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:12 pm

Ahhhhh 1970's girls memories.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:13 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:12 pm Ahhhhh 1970's girls memories.

All of my memories of the 70s are as a boy.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:52 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:13 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:12 pm Ahhhhh 1970's girls memories.
All of my memories of the 70s are as a boy.

You didn't live!