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Quote from: paladin1991 on April 28, 2014, 08:47:36 PM
Hey!  I saw her first.  Maureen buy me a drink and I will tell you about the time I was the lap dance instructor for the Swedish Bikini Team.  It was Beirut, summer of '68 and I was attached to the Swedish Embassy under the title of pubic relations.

From the Any Good Jokes? thread.

 January 11, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 11, 1921.

Quote from: Oliver Kloseoff on May 24, 2012, 10:23:50 PM
I'm going to my Dale Earnhardt shrine right now.  Damn! Who stole my incense?

From the George Noory Sucks! -- The Definitive Compendium thread.

 January 10, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 10, 1921.

Quote from: Nboy on March 21, 2009, 07:50:40 AM
Really I do....

It is much easier to live under the shadow of nuclear annihilation rather than worrying that someone in one of your classes is going to flip out and blow everyone to hell, or that terrorists are going to fly something into something and blow everyone to hell, or that peanut butter will blow your insides to hell, or that Chinese capitalism will produce/own/consume everything to hell, or that some duck somewhere is going to fart on a pig and create a whole new strain of some ungodly disease we've never seen or heard of and send us all to hell. 

The age of terror sucks! Bring back the IRON CURTAIN!

And yes, I am fully aware of how awful it was in Russia before the cold war ended and I wouldn't necessarily wish that on anybody. Still, I miss the cold war.

From the I really miss the cold war.... thread.

From the Library of Congress.  The Pueblo Chieftain., January 09, 1921.

Quote from: magick727 on March 03, 2016, 01:12:55 AM
we were somewhere around barstow on the edge of the desert when the orbs began to appear.  I looked to my wife and kids..but there was no point in mentioning these orbs, I thought. Poor bastards will see them soon enough.

From the Midnight In The Desert With Heather Wade thread.

January 8, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 08, 1921.

Quote from: laserjock on November 06, 2013, 11:55:47 AM
Art, I'm the guy with the wife from Cebu.  Art, I see how the people in this thread act like apes and insult each other and get off on misery.  Art, don't read this forum, this site, you're better off ignoring it.  Yes, I too am upset by your choice, but I don't know everything that happened and I know you do care about your listeners and that you are a good family man.  Art, you don't need to come here, and you're better off not coming and reading, it will just make your crazy and miserable.  I've learned from my long time online (I was using internet before most the the "people" here even knew what it was), even on usenet and IRC men were brutes, they enjoy this sort of thing, it's a very sad reality, a sad commentary on the state of the human race, but it's the same behavior that has led to wars, men swinging their penises at each other.  Thankfully, you don't see women doing that here.
Art, however you do it, PLEASE come back to broadcasting.  God bless.

From the Art Bell Quits Dark Matter thread.

January 7, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 07, 1921.

Quote from: Caruthers612 on July 28, 2008, 12:51:10 AM
     Ok...Everyone remain calm. It happens. We all know it. It happened to me today. All day. The power went out early in the mornin', didn't come back up till midnight. And then...THEN...it seemed for a short while that...<gulp> something had happened to the internet connection, 'cause <AAA!!!!> it wouldn't connect.
     One had a number of options at such moments, of course. Lengthwise wristcutting with a rusty nail. A full bottle of rubbing alcohol right down the hatch. Looking at a picture of Tammy Fay Baker.
     How do you deal with the Disconnect Jitters? Me, I go right to the needle.
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Quote from: Liberace! on July 28, 2008, 02:28:00 AM
i usually sit down and breathe deeply in the nose and then out the mouth slowly.
sometimes i'll EVEN go outside.  can you believe that, in 2008?

From the D-D-D-Disconection...<shudder> thread.

January 6, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 06, 1921.

Quote from: Ciardelo on January 05, 2021, 06:12:26 AM
Yay! I'm glad they were found. They have quite a story to tell now I'll wager.

Taking exploratory balloon trips must have been all the rage back then.  A previous group of military men went down in a balloon but they crashed into a big lake during a storm.  I can't recall if any of their bodies were recovered but the balloon wreckage washed ashore and one of their carrier pigeons was found drowned.  I got them mixed up with the guys who went down in the woods.   

January 5, 1921.  Public Domaion

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 05, 1921.

Quote from: Lamont Cranston on December 12, 2015, 10:56:46 AM
I detected some guilt in Art's voice....after all, he up and quits, then the producer chick, Heather has this dude claiming he's from the future but can't figure out Skype.... of course in 2148 Skype will be built-in to our eyeballs so we will just blink to make a call. Dude was sitting there in his "secure location" blinking over and over again....

Meanwhile Art gets a pang of guilt for hanging little Heather out to flap in the wind, calls in and then can't resist taking over....

Most bizarre moment in Art Bell radio history.....

Note to self :Download for future use....

From the Art Bell cancels show for good thread.

January 4, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 04, 1921.

Quote from: kaleidoscope on June 29, 2009, 05:17:27 PM
Thanks. I always wondered if OxyClean worked. I admired his self-confidence and energy.
RIP, Billy, and as for Christian von Lahr, stay the hell away from Billy's spirit or get an eye full of orange oil.

From the Billy Mays thread.

January 3, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 03, 1921.

Quote from: K_Dubb on August 02, 2015, 02:10:27 PM
I don't think a debate would be all that entertaining.  For me, as SciFiAuthor has pointed out, Hoagie's mind lives in the Popular-Mechanics, Sci-Fi fantasy world of the fifties and I really enjoy taking my nightly trip back there with my bumbling guide.  The first Pluto marathon with the other Richards was great -- you could tell they didn't really buy any of his theories as fact, but that's beside the point.

What Hoagie is, is a modern-day myth-maker.  His ancient civilizations are deities for a scientific world.  In an earlier age he would have been a soothsayer or something.  Mythology, which the modern scientific world has abandoned, lives in the maybe-it's-true world of imagination beyond science and keeps the mind open and excited.

With science, the whole Pluto thing is going to look at a ball of frozen rock and chemicals on the edge of the solar system.  Cool, but with Hoagie it's a ball of frozen stuff which might also be something else...  Vastly more entertaining. and also more "true" in the sense that it explains why humans get excited about exploration beyond any practical, science-bound realities.  It's how we try to contact the gods.

From the Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread.

Quote from: Jamal Abanane on March 08, 2014, 04:45:47 PM
Just watched Ghostbusters to honour Mr. Ramis. Sorry, watched it the other day, last week - after he passed. One of my all time faves anyway. Just another reason to watch it,really. Man, I hate how time moves on and we age. I miss the old me and the old everyone else - or should I say the "young" me and the "young" everyone else...I'm only 37 but even I think...man things were just better then (15 or 20 yrs ago)

From The "I'm watching/just watched *movie title* thread....

January 1, 1921.  Public Domain

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., January 01, 1921.