Octopus Overlords

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2023 12:54 pm**

Which one ya like? Im torn between the red charger and the pickup.

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2023 1:46 pm**

Local phone book 1952. Look at those numbers. One is even just the number 2 lol. Quick dialing.

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2023 1:56 pm**

These are pretty damn good.

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2023 2:28 pm**

I remember my phone number from when I was 12. EDgewood 58825. Only number I can remember except for my present one.

A long time ago I couldn't remember my home phone. I never called it.

Posted: **Sat May 27, 2023 5:33 pm**

This randomness has, indeed, been random.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2023 6:28 pm**

While tidying up the kitchen after fix'n sausage gravy and biscuits the thought "We're gonna need to get the Bill Shatner out of your mother" ran through my head. Odd. But it was random randomness so I'm posting it.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2023 6:49 pm**

Daehawk wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 1:56 pm These are pretty damn good.

Daehawk wrote: Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:25 am From some of the stuff you folks eat Id think you were pregnant.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2023 7:01 pm**

Daehawk wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 1:46 pm Local phone book 1952. Look at those numbers. One is even just the number 2 lol. Quick dialing.

"FREE DELIVERY" is in quotes and the page and B-G is on half a page.

dbt1949 wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 2:28 pm I remember my phone number from when I was 12. EDgewood 58825. Only number I can remember except for my present one.

A long time ago I couldn't remember my home phone. I never called it.

We still referred the my grandparents exchange as GL3 right up until they moved in the 90s and my parents still had pulse (rotary emulation) dialing right until they moved in 2000s.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2023 9:06 pm**

LordMortis wrote: Mon May 29, 2023 7:01 pm We still referred the my grandparents exchange as GL3 right up until they moved in the 90s and my parents still had pulse (rotary emulation) dialing right until they moved in 2000s.

Glendale. GL was Glendale. Ours started with CH5, and CH was Cherry.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2023 9:16 pm**

I still remember the Lincoln Carpet commercials.
Call NAtional 2 - 9000

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2023 11:42 pm**

When I was real little we could connect with just 5 number if it was a certain starting number. We had...

472-xxxx
476-xxxx
479-xxxx

The first two you had to dial the full number for it to work. But those with a 9 after the 47 could be called by dialing without the 47 prefix.
So..

479-xxxx became 9-xxxx.

A VERY long time ago when our numbers were shorter than I remember them being..we're talking like 1930s and 1940s here now....our local telephone service was hooked into some area wide network called Greensomething. So you dialed like G123 for a taxi or some crap. They had operators on the lines back then I think. Way before my time. Im 1970s and up lol.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2023 11:59 pm**

When ZIP codes were new, one could address a local letter to "City 5", where "City" meant "here" and 5 was the last digit of the code. Before ZIP, just writing "City" was enough.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2023 12:13 am**

This is the one that I remember from growing up near Philadelphia:

I have no comment on the ad in the thumbnail for this video.

WFIL 560 AM was an oldies station last I knew. I just checked and now they're "Philadelphia's Christian Radio".

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2023 7:13 pm**

My 16yo son is downstairs pan-searing shoulder of lamb for the family, and it is the best thing I have smelled in weeks. He has never cooked lamb before.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2023 7:14 pm**

Hrdina wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 12:13 am WFIL 560 AM was an oldies station last I knew. I just checked and now they're "Philadelphia's Christian Radio".

Oh, yeah. AM stations are cheap enough that they change identity every few years.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2023 8:18 pm**

Pretty awesome High School Senior Prank!

An entire 356,787 square-foot piece of property in Maryland — complete with a "nice spacious kitchen and dining room," a "private basketball court," and a "private study!!" went up for sale on Zillow last week for an unbelievable $42,067 — which breaks down to only 12 cents a square foot.

The listing seemed too good to be true, and then it got stranger, describing the property as a "nice half working jail" that was "built in 1792" and hilariously boasted of the property's "complementary trash scented air freshener and water issues!" noting that "all 15 bathrooms come with sewage issues!" Turns out the jail was actually Meade High School, built in 1977, and was listed by a group of the school's 12th-grade pranksters.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2023 8:20 pm**

Pyperkub wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 8:18 pm Pretty awesome High School Senior Prank!

An entire 356,787 square-foot piece of property in Maryland — complete with a "nice spacious kitchen and dining room," a "private basketball court," and a "private study!!" went up for sale on Zillow last week for an unbelievable $42,067 — which breaks down to only 12 cents a square foot.

The listing seemed too good to be true, and then it got stranger, describing the property as a "nice half working jail" that was "built in 1792" and hilariously boasted of the property's "complementary trash scented air freshener and water issues!" noting that "all 15 bathrooms come with sewage issues!" Turns out the jail was actually Meade High School, built in 1977, and was listed by a group of the school's 12th-grade pranksters.

I'm amazed that this kind of prank took this long to go viral.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2023 10:21 pm**

Are we sure it wasn't put up for sale for $42,069 Because that makes more sense than $42,067.

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2023 7:39 pm**

Theres no sound.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:47 am**

Its almost 2am and I'm getting ready to go to bed and there's this bird up in the tree nearby singing his heart out like its the middle of the day. Dozens of different whistles. I'm not sure what he is up to.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 2:00 am**

Daehawk wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:47 am Its almost 2am and I'm getting ready to go to bed and there's this bird up in the tree nearby singing his heart out like its the middle of the day. Dozens of different whistles. I'm not sure what he is up to.

Some birds will become vocal at night to attract a mate or warn others of a potential threat. Or it could be confused by light pollution.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:18 am**

Rocket visited my house last night. I left the dog door open.I moved the dog food to my bedroom. I'm hoping he'll eat all that damned deer corn scattered all over the floor that he messed up last time he visited.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 11:04 am**

Daehawk wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:47 am Its almost 2am and I'm getting ready to go to bed and there's this bird up in the tree nearby singing his heart out like its the middle of the day. Dozens of different whistles. I'm not sure what he is up to.

Sounds like a mockingbird. They can go on and on and on.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 11:25 am**

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 2:50 pm**

Daehawk wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:47 am Its almost 2am and I'm getting ready to go to bed and there's this bird up in the tree nearby singing his heart out like its the middle of the day. Dozens of different whistles. I'm not sure what he is up to.

Nightingale

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:18 pm**

Daehawk wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:47 am Its almost 2am and I'm getting ready to go to bed and there's this bird up in the tree nearby singing his heart out like its the middle of the day. Dozens of different whistles. I'm not sure what he is up to.

it's the robins here that do that - they start at around 3:30AM in the springtime

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:25 pm**

hitbyambulance wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:18 pm
Daehawk wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 1:47 am Its almost 2am and I'm getting ready to go to bed and there's this bird up in the tree nearby singing his heart out like its the middle of the day. Dozens of different whistles. I'm not sure what he is up to.
it's the robins here that do that - they start at around 3:30AM in the springtime

There's a bird in my neighborhood that goes full-throated around 2 a.m. It's loud and melodious, but not as complex as a nightingale's. It's my sign that it's time to go to bed.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:29 pm**

dbt1949 wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:18 am Rocket visited my house last night. I left the dog door open.I moved the dog food to my bedroom. I'm hoping he'll eat all that damned deer corn scattered all over the floor that he messed up last time he visited.

I saw a racoon for the fiirst time in my life yesterday. I was in the kitchen and saw him walk to the back door. I went to it but he was gone. I didn't see him after walking out either. Like a magician just vanished. Was so cool. I hope theres more or he stays around.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:19 pm**

Daehawk wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:29 pm

I saw a racoon for the fiirst time in my life yesterday. I was in the kitchen and saw him walk to the back door. I went to it but he was gone. I didn't see him after walking out either. Like a magician just vanished. Was so cool. I hope theres more or he stays around.

Trust me, you don't really want to have raccoon visits. They can be vicious. Several years ago, we went camping with a group at a provincial park, and it was being overrun by raccoons. They were so used to people that they would wander into campsites and just steal food from coolers. From ours they got a loaf of bread and a number of things, and then as if it had eaten too much, got into my Dad's advil. And at night they would wander into the campsites when people were around the campfire.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:48 pm**

Fortunately Rocket avoids people. My dog doesn't seem to care.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:50 pm**

dbt1949 wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:48 pm Fortunately Rocket avoids people. My dog doesn't seem to care.

You know, they say once you've named it - you own it. I see a relationship building here. Can you maybe tame it and make a cool 80s show about how the two of you just barely get along?

Daehawk, you got my back on this one, right?

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:19 pm**

Don't make friends with trash pandas.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:22 pm**

Unagi wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:50 pm
dbt1949 wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:48 pm Fortunately Rocket avoids people. My dog doesn't seem to care.
You know, they say once you've named it - you own it. I see a relationship building here. Can you maybe tame it and make a cool 80s show about how the two of you just barely get along?

Daehawk, you got my back on this one, right?

Would watch.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:25 pm**

Kraken wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:19 pm Don't make friends with trash pandas.

It's like an American rule of thumb: the more something is like you - you should detest it. Raccoons and The French come to mind as fine examples.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:50 pm**

With the Arctic melting are we going to have to face the Blob once again?

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:53 pm**

No, but we'll have to deal with a number of Things.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:57 pm**

You're going to have to move to the Antarctic to get away from the bears.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:58 pm**

Blackhawk wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:53 pm No, but we'll have to deal with a number of Things.

Coming Soon

During a recent Q&A session at Texas Frightmare Weekend (via Creepy Catalog), horror icon John Carpenter revealed that he can’t answer any fan questions about his cult classic horror film The Thing, hinting that The Thing 2 may finally be happening in the near future.

“I have been sworn to secrecy, okay, because there may be, I don’t know if there will be, there may be a Thing 2,” Carpenter said.

Posted: **Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:59 pm**

Just had the biggest damned Brown Recluse jump on me and run across my chest I've ever seen. Thankfully he seemed to be in a hurry.

Posted: **Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:00 pm**

Also noticed some deer corn in the dog's water bowl so Rocket is doing things by the book.

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