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Gotta love those primitive feline electrostatic generators. Without cat fur and sulfur balls we wouldn’t have the Van DeGraaff and we wouldn’t have xerography. The Haloid Company would not have existed, Xerox would not be a generic household name, and no one would have ever heard of Chester Carlson. Without him we wouldn’t have photocopiers, fax machines or laser printers. Without them we’d probably never have an alternative to crappy inkjet printers.
On top of all that, we wouldn’t have this electrically-charged edition of
The Overnight Open Thread.
Tags: .gif animation, cat fur, generator, Overnight Open Thread, static electricity
Interesting variant of the perpetual motion machine that drops a cat with a piece of buttered bread strapped to its back.
Tap tap, is this thing on?
Is that a DC or AC cat generator?
For Haysoos:
thanks Bunk for all you do
@ Bunk X:
That is one friggin chugging slapping bassman
@ song_and_dance_man:
It’s an Angus. That means it’s Australian, and not a European swallow.
And before you ask about Mr.Asbeiter, he’s got a motherboard of a headache and can’t remember his password.
next music thread, no embeds, just links with a description i think.
I’ve played with quite a few bassists who could slap, but not quite like that. Ouch
@ Bunk X:
Chess Records didn’t take a breath unless Dixon said so…the Chess brothers owe a lot to Dixon…maybe all of it..and the vid is very cool…Dixon was no hack, and deserved more exposure back then…just look at the list of blues classics he wrote
@ heysoos:
Lol. You’ve been an asset to DoD as well, at least after decompression.
@ coldwarrior:
Yes. Let’s just post lyrics.
AZfederalist wrote:
So you’re the one who QC’s the Angus cat generator.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh!
Takes some of the fun away! (Even though I wasn’t on that thread) Most times it takes a lot more embeds to slow a thread down.
Willie Dixon filtered the players that came thru Chess…like most companies at that time they literally had a bounty out for great players…guess what?…Dixon brought in Sonny Boy, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, even the Stones…it’s a hell of a story if your interested in music
@ coldwarrior:
Sorry, got carried away.
@ Bunk X:
Bunk, Bunk, Bunk! I have been looking for you! Seems I saw a picture on a OOT that looked familiar.
/but the really bad thing about it was someone wanted taken down!!! What a blow!
@ heysoos:
Just look at who recorded his songs. Willie Dixon was virtually unknown to the public, but he left a bigass mark. Bigger than Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf, or Led Zeppelin, or Aerosmith, or The Doors, or… etc.
coldwarrior wrote:
Here’s a really cool song from the 70′s.
http://www.littlegreenfootballz.commie/cheetos/orangegarb
@ Lily:
Maybe it’s because there were so many old, analog recordings.
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@ lobo91:
unclassifiable wrote:
dude, you posted the residents. i was waiting for some nash the slash after that one!
@ Lily:
Lily! I have been wandering aimlessly, and now you’re here. Please forgive me for my necessary absence from your loving embrace.
@ Bunk X:
LOL! Oh my!
@ coldwarrior:
CW …..we got to the keep the embeds! A new thread can always be opened up!
/yes I’m pleading.
Should we leave you two alone?
@ heysoos:
Yeah. Dixon was an anchor, not a sideman.
♠Bunk X wrote:
yes, there is a tree, a history, an anthology…Jimmy Page owes everything to Big Bill Broozny…it’s history and I’m attracted to it…Chess and Dixon are big dogs…really big dogs
@ coldwarrior:
When they performed Moisture live I started asking people “which one of you slipped me the acid”. The bad thing was no one did and the damn cocoon was torn open and all hell broke loose.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Naw…he’s pleading for his life.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown says 2012 victory due to Obama cult
Lily wrote:
ok.
unclassifiable wrote:
yep…residents.
@ coldwarrior:
gurlz
@ Rodan:
Yep I have to agree…never seen anything like it. It’s bad…is all I can say…obama is a bad president and for some reason too many people worship the fool.
@ Bob-Crotchit:
greatest pop song ever written.
heysoos wrote:
yep. whaddyagonnado?
coldwarrior wrote:
YEAH!!!!!
heysoos wrote:
LOL!!!
@ Lily:
You’ll like this one. Some toe-tappin’ blues.
@ huckfunn:
How did you know I love Leon Russell??? Excellent!
@ coldwarrior:
Careless Whisper wasn’t bad either….
@ Rodan:
Willie does not worship at the altar of the one.
It’s strange but I think he thinks Obama is a cornball brother.
Lily wrote:
Wild guess. Good swampy bayou sound.
@ Lily:
those cats were the ultimate in pop. pure wonderfulness.
@ heysoos:
I think I mentioned this great tome before. Excellent reference with a lot of obscure stories.
@ Lily:
Whip me.
Beat me.
Call me Irma.
@ coldwarrior:
Lot’s of memories! Damn I was young back then.
The best pop songs were from the 70′s. I know—I was there.
@ Bunk X:
LOL! I forgive ya!
/all that whipping with my parasol …you would just like that.
@ Lily:
you’ll enjoy this vid
@ song_and_dance_man:
Oh indeed…amen yes they were!!!! Good music from the 70′s is all I can say!
@ huckfunn:
Oh yes…
Bunk X wrote:
irma????
@ coldwarrior:
Drive-In’s!!!!!!!! Oh yeah I remember those.
/damn I feel old! LOL!!!!!!! Good one CW!
@ Lily:
Forgive me? For what? I never did nothin’ wrong. I was frameduh.
Lily wrote:
they’ve been on the miata rotation for a couple of years now. much fun
more neon trees
@ coldwarrior:
I’m not so proud that I can’t volunteer to be The Sultry Bitch once in a while.
Bunk X wrote:
copy that!
@ coldwarrior:
The 80′s were lost on me. but there were some good songs. King Crimsons Elephant Talk The Clash Rock the Casbah and a bunch of others.
I really dig it when other people find a groove…some great music out there…and tomorrow is all about football…life is good
@ song_and_dance_man:
check out the older clash. seriously. combat rock is good and all but is the end for them. the other albums before that are fantastic.
@ Bunk X:
read it, I own it…I highly recommend Robert Palmer’s ‘Deep Blues’…it’s the bible all over again
I’m just happy that I got FIOS, an unused laptop and a brand new Compaq Presario PC for $195 just for doing something really stupid. Oh, don’t worry -- it was completely legal. I broke my motherboard.
Now all I need to do is re-install my stuff, re-tweak it, and rock out.
Here’s a great tune with some great pics of Duane Allman. He was a month short of his 25th birthday when he died. I’ve often wondered what he would have done over the past 40 years had he lived.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Man you can hear the influence on the Talking Heads in Elephant Talk.
@ huckfunn:
Shakes head.
Not sure.
It sure was hard to keep Southern guitar gawdz alive for long.
@ coldwarrior:
I saw them play at the Hollywood Paladium(really small venue for a band that big) for their Combat Rock tour. It was great. Until then I didn’t know much about them, but was surprised that I had heard so many of their songs that until then I didn’t recognize coming from them.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
the clash are my favorite band of all time.
@ Lily:
I remember sneaking into the drive-in. Me and Danny Rat were in the trunk of the car, and our friends thought it would be fun to leave us there while the motor was running to heat the car. We got serious headaches from CO poisoning.
The movie was “Flesh Gordon,” and even today, the thought of penisauruses make my head hurt.
unclassifiable wrote:
I can hear that. What is amazing about King Crimson is Robert Fripps guitar work and it is fabulous in that song. Take another listen to just the guitar work. The other thing about that song is the verses. Words with A, then B, then C and so on.
A little good night music…
Consider this a virtual hug to everyone:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=PPHtQn1t1n4
Black and white gravatars rule.
just kidding colored ones/
anyway I got to go. later all
unclassifiable wrote:
The sad truth.
Hope to hear from you regarding the NRA Convention in May.
@ huckfunn:
duane duane duane…a real talent lost there
coldwarrior wrote:
He did so much in such a short time. I still haven’t gotten over the loss.
@ coldwarrior:
You ever hear the clip from “End Of The Century” where The Clash’s Joe Strummer talked about meeting The Ramones for the first time? Hilarious.
This isn’t it, but it’s cool. Jump to 4:00
http://youtu.be/i0J0KC_K34Y?t=4m
@ song_and_dance_man:
B&W. Word.
@ huckfunn:
I’m taking all three days off and I am looking to upgrade my membership to lifetime level.
I have parking downtown but it is a little walk from the convention center. I could drop off and pick up.
Sugar Land (where I live) has a few pretty good restraunts and the whole town is covered up with good places to eat.
We can coordinate a little more as it gets closer.
Bunk X wrote:
i heard it years ago. will have to rummage thru the innerwebz
@ unclassifiable:
They generally offer seriously discounted upgrades at the check-in counter. In Phoenix, it was $275.
snippet…
As Washington prepares for a political battle over the Obama White House’s proposals to curb gun violence after the Newtown, Conn., shootings, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the National Rifle Association is more popular than the entertainment industry.
Forty-one percent of adults see the NRA — the nation’s top gun lobby — in a positive light, while 34 percent view it in a negative light.
By comparison, just 24 percent have positive feelings about the entertainment industry, and 39 percent have negative ones.
The NRA’s fav/unfav score is virtually unchanged from its 41 percent-to-29 percent rating in the Jan. 2011 NBC/WSJ poll, nearly two years before the Newtown shootings.
“That seems to me to be a pretty remarkably stable figure,” says GOP pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.
But it’s a substantial improvement from the 1990s, when the NRA’s negative ratings outweighed its positive ones in the NBC/WSJ survey.
end snippet….
@ unclassifiable:
Sounds good. I think we’ve got Bordm, Calo, Dolphin, Lily and me, so far. Hope to pick up a few more.
I’ve got an 0800 appointment with my buddy and a Beechcraft Bonanza tomorrow. If my smart phone is smart enough, I’ll get a few pics to share with me Bloogs. G’nite.
@ coldwarrior:
You know maybe they should run the GOP.
Either that or change the name to the National Realist Association and just start a new party from there.
@ unclassifiable:
I am trying to find a decent yootoob video fro X but having a hard time (other than the Urg stuff).
@ huckfunn:
The bottom plane looks like a Curtis Jenny with the wrong markings. Top one may be a SPAD.
@ unclassifiable:
Lemme know what you’re looking for. I have all of them.
@ coldwarrior:
The 90′s stuff was when Wayne LaPierre echoed something that G. Gordon Liddy said which was, to wit, if a federal agent breaks down your door make sure you shoot them in the head.
I used to think that was terrible.
@ Bunk X:
Hungry Like the Wolf of course.
unclassifiable wrote:
sign me up!
unclassifiable wrote:
Who is X?
song_and_dance_man wrote:
i saw the Clash twice in LA during my wasted college years. First time at the Palladium for the London Calling tour, second time in some Santa Monica venue IIRC for “Sandinista”. Mikey Dread, a Jamaican dub artist opened for them on the Sandinista tour and I remember a lot to the young CA punks throwing large soda cups at him.
The London Calling concert was awesome. People were packed shoulder to shoulder, pogoing to the music.
Lily wrote:
X was a seminal LA Punk band lead by a female singer named Exene Cervenka.
unclassifiable wrote:
much has changed. the wise men are always years ahead of their time
@ Lily:
Here…..
@ The Osprey:
count me as very jealous.
Hey Zeus, I got de Moochelle Obama bloooz….
@ Lily:
Sounds like someone who wears a knitted animal cap on his head when its cold outside.
@ unclassifiable:
The Osprey wrote:
i have some of their vinyl over here next to the husker du and black flag and minutemen
@ The Osprey:
Darn….I was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off the mark then….let’s try again..
@ Lily:
A Southern California New Wave band.
Very simple songs and simple lyrics.
They are moonbats now but they all are.
What musicians don’t understand is once the art or ideas get out they are in the public domain and everyone owns them (sort of speak).
Funny, they want to get rid of both California senators because they voted for the Defense Department Re- appropriation act.
It leads me to believe they are probably Paulians now.
The Osprey wrote:
now THAT is just ghetto-fabulous!
@ Lily:
Exene Cervenka.
@ Calo:
Yep I think you are a right a deranged elf!
Hmm…I have enough United miles for a flight to Houston, and enough Hilton points for a hotel room downtown.
Maybe I can go.
@ The Osprey:
They are too well behaved and stylish to be punks IMHO.
@ Bunk X:
ahhh….soothing.
well played sir!
@ unclassifiable:
Sounds like you got their number!
coldwarrior wrote:
@ lobo91:
Ooooooh …. you need to go! I’ll probably be there for sure!
Calo, Huckfunn…a bunch of us!!! It will be fun.
@ lobo91:
Crap, I got pick up duty the day you arrive.
Let me know if ya need some help.
/The ever pleasant Calo
@ The Osprey:
i vaguely remember when franco died.
@ Bunk X:
Perfect!
@ Lily:
Dats dem and they are STILL touring!
They are older of course (weight gain, hair loss — probably a different drummer — the usual story) but 3 out of the 4 members are still together which is remarkable.
@ Calo:
Looks like I can get a room at the Embassy Suites. I think that’s just a couple of blocks from the convention center.
@ Calo:
I can help with that.
@ unclassifiable:
The early punk movement was not nasty, nor was it intended to be. It was a rebellion against the overproduced corporate crap that was flooding the airwaves, a back-to-the basics movement, back to garage rock, 3 chord stuff. Think rat rods vs. hot rods.
Then The Sex Pistols were invented, and they spoiled it all.
@ unclassifiable:
But don’t plan tonight. I am on my 2nd Black Russian contemplating the third and looking for more obscure music.
@ The Osprey:
Good one.
@ Bunk X:
I really thought The Ramones started it all but you have some people going all the way back to Mountain as far as its roots (damn big hippie that turned it up to 11 and did not give a single damn).
Bunk X wrote:
No, the top one does not have a long enough fuselage to be a SPAD and the fuselage tapers too extremely from the engine nacelle which is shorter and wider than a SPAD’s. It’s either a Nieuport or a Sopwith Camel. I was going to say the bottom one is a De Haviland, but the Italian roundel had me thinking it could be something else, unless it’s a DeHaviland in Italian colors…the Brits might have supplied them as the Italians were on the side of the Allies in WWI.
Calo wrote:
You say that as if that’s a bad thing.
unclassifiable wrote:
the mc5. they started it!
@ unclassifiable:
You work, I just eat bonbons and lurk about.
@ unclassifiable:
In the immortal words of someone who used to post here, I have had a beer. Check out The Horror Pops. You’re on your own from here on out.
@ unclassifiable:
A little song for everyone. And probably I’m off the mark.
@ AZfederalist:
@ unclassifiable:
And here is the strange thing. I was raised in the South so I had all the Southern usuals (Boots Randolph, Al Hurt, who was that clarinet player — I’ll try to remeber him, Buddy Holly, the Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynnard, SRV, ZZ Topp) as my background music. I was always fascinated with other stuff also. Now my taste is so scatter gun I just listen whatever floats my boat. I have Indian Sikh music that will knock your socks off it is so beautiful.
Anyone want to hear the greatest recording of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony ever recorded? I got it and maybe it is out there on the internet.
@ Bunk X:
she always reminds me of siouxsie
coldwarrior wrote:
There is a great BBC/Granada Spanish Civil War documentary on youtube I watched while I was bedridden lately recovering from that damn divertic abcess.
The part I found disturbingly fascinating was the run up to the war, which was marked by street demonstrations of both the right and the left, increasingly hostile political rhetoric on both sides leading to assassinations of public figures. It was the killing of the the conservative parliamentarian Calvo Sotelo by the left that lead to the final decision of Franco and the Generals to launch the uprising.
I should do a post and put together links to all the parts…it’s about 6 hours long but well worth watching.
@ The Osprey:
sounds like a marvelous saturday lecture series
Calo wrote:
I don’t believe that. You work hard! I admire you!
Because oh well this is my theme song….I have a lot of them too. 
@ Lily:
Does it make you happy?
Does it remind you of an emotional moment?
If it does then I’m happy too.
Let the people have their culture.
We need to take it from the government.
@ The Osprey:
Yes Yes good stuff.
This was the precursor to WWII.
unclassifiable wrote:
i was at the best beethoven 9th.
west berlin, 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IciKr8NUmKs
a perfect way to end the cold war; have a concert.
@ Lily:
OMG That is an earworm for me and I could never locate the band in my mind.
Thank you!
@ unclassifiable:
Every song reminds me of something…especially if I post it.
/I love music…it is like a diary of my past!
@ unclassifiable:
@ coldwarrior:
Incredible.
Very few things in life are as sweet in person than Classical music.
Recordings hardly do it justice.
If you don’t like classical music, go see the Nutcracker.
Close you eyes and forget the ballet. There are so much wonderful music packed into that one presentation.
@ unclassifiable:
The punk movement started in New York at CBGB’s. The proprietors issued a compilation album that included The Ramones, Television and other unsigned bands. Rough, yeah, but it sure beat listening to Emerson Lake & Palmer overproduced wannabes.
One of my college roommates had “Live at CBGB’s.” I wasn’t sure what to make of it, until I heard the Ramones’ “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker.” Those chord patterns hadn’t been used since the early 60s. I loved it.
@ Lily:
How is your recovery coming Lily?
As of this Monday, my retina is still down and attached. I only have to lay in one position half time now although I’m not going to push it and am spending more time than that. Still under orders to not engage in any activity for the next couple of weeks at least. Prayers are being answered, and for that I am grateful.
@ unclassifiable:
i got soooo lucky. the american minister for west berlin needed a driver and one more on security to go into the east…well…i’m it because i own a tux! my ex-father in law made sure i had my own tux for my wedding the year before.
neat how that stuff works.
@ unclassifiable:
And now I remember that clarinet player that my parents listened to that was part of my Southern background music.
Pete Fountain.
unclassifiable wrote:
I think that was just the surface level. To me it seems the precursor to all modern political conflict between the right and left. And the factional fighting within both sides was often just as vicious and deadly…especially on the left, like the Communists vs. Anarchists in Barcelona, where George Orwell narrowly escaped being “disappeared” in the Communist purge, and Andre Marty’s (he was a real Stalinist prick) purges of the International Brigade members who were insufficiently doctrinaire.
@ AZfederalist:
I started Cardio Rehab this week. I can’t do much of anything and I still hurt ….but I am coming along pretty good. I am moody a lot..but it is because of the surgery. I have to remind myself of that a lot. All my incisions have closed…and I look like I went on a date with Jack the Ripper! LOL! I tire easy…but I survived the worst part…the by-pass and for that I feel blessed. I’m still kicking and apparently God still wants me here on earth. I didn’t get scared till after I got home and every now and then I still feel like WOW…what the hell happened. I also still got a long way to go…but getting there! I am very lucky to say the least.
Ok folks decided against that 3rd Black Russian (discretion and all that). Thank you very much for the way back machine.
The nose is nearest the brain so I remember French bread on Canal St.
The eyes — well I have a vague memory of my uncle delivering me -- probably wrong but it may have been when I first opened them to the big wide world — he was laughing his ass off.
The ears are next so I remember Stevie Ray Vaughn on 6th Street.
The mouth is what makes me remember that shrimp pasta dish on Bonaire we shared on my 2nd honeymoon.
Touch, well a few loves gone by.
Later folks. Good night.
g’night yinz.
This for my blessings from God!
@ The Osprey:
Yeah! The bottom one is probably a DeHaviland (Moth?) with the box nose. The Curtis Jenny was a long boxy two-seat trainer. I hesitated to ID the top one as a Sopwith as that’s the one popularized by Charles Shultz, but I’ll go with Nieuport.
Note that I’m not axing Mr. Google.
@ Lily:
The ability to do more comes, one minute at a time.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, Lily.
I know, easier said than done.
@ Lily:
Glad to here you are getting better. I’m sure this is a real test of your patience.
@ Bunk X:
That is good not asking google….sometimes we have to…but I feel good when I don’t have to…good on you Bunk!
@ AZfederalist:
That should have been “hear”, not “here”
With that, goodnight all. The thread is crashing Safari whenever I try zooming and sometimes when I am scrolling through it.
@ Calo:
{{{Calo}}} you are my angel on this….you help me get through the tough parts. I can’t repay for all you have done to help me…you saved me by telling me to get to the doc! The nurse in you is still great and helping people! I can’t thank you enough! Thank you {{Calo}} you have helped me through some rough times. I only hope I can repay the favor.
A song for you: I got my second chance through you.
AZfederalist wrote:
AZ, somehow, I missed this.
Godspeed, and prayers for you tonight.
AZfederalist wrote:
Yes..but I am trying to be okay for my love ones so they don’t worry. Late at night ….well then it is scary.
@ coldwarrior:
Iggy Pop was a proto-punk, as was Richard Hell & The Voidoids.
@ AZfederalist:
And a speedy healing for you too AZ! God-speed!
@ Calo:
GMTA!!!!
@ Lily:
It’s late.
Goodnight, I’m toes up and humbled for now.
@ Calo:
Me too! Good-night and sleep well. Nite for me too!
Nite Bunk to you too!
@ Bunk X:
It’s a DeHaviland DH9A. Note the position of the propellor shaft relative to the rest of the radiator, and the fact that the rear gunner sits higher than the pilot in an almost turret like compartment. Now the only question is why the Italian green, white and red roundels and not Royal Airforce blue, white and red, but we are talking stoned hippie album cover artists here not aviation historians…
@ Lily:
Cardiac rehab took some work. Plenty of new stuff to learn, getting some strength back, things like that. I’ve been very bad lately about my workouts, but started yesterday with some of the exercise bands for upper body. Back to the exercise bike maybe on Monday- I’ll have to start off very slow and build up again.
Good luck, Lily & keep up with what they tell you!
Damn it’s almost midnight here. Good night all.
@ AZfederalist:
This is the second version of Aluminum Baseball Bat. The original included an animal hat, but it’s been memory-holed.
@ coldwarrior:
She reminds me of the missus.
@ unclassifiable:
Pete Fountain and Al Hirt had a face-off once. If I can find a link to the song I’ll post it.
@ Lily:
Mr. Google destroyed trivia games.
Then there’s Mr. Twitter…
@ Lily:
Wish you the best, and always keep the brasnappers at bay.
@ The Osprey:
I’m going to use that as an excuse for not recognizing it, that the DH9A wasn’t in use until the end of WWI, that it doesn’t wear familiar colors, and was apparently a piece of crap only good for dropping flaming bags of dogshit.
Sunday morning. I read the news, I check some normal sites, I check a few sites for “eesential supplies” and find them unavailable…
I don’t know about anybody else, but I am starting to get a very bad feeling about where this is all headed. Scenarios I would have dismissed as laugheable even only 5 years ago don’t seem quite so funny any more. I am not a happy camper today, I guess.
Mike C. wrote:
Yeah, the inmates are pretty firmly in charge of the asylum now and I’m not seeing any sign that that’ll be changing any time soon.
@ MacDuff:
I can see the GOP quislings pushing for Krispy Kristie in 2016 already.
And until they stop getting “their man,” we lose.
Mike C. wrote:
Powder Valley still has alliant 1200R, supposed to be a spherical version of 10X and good for .223 up to 55 grains.
@ Prebanned:
I don’t reload. Don’t have the time, space or knowledge. And it’s not just that 5.56 is gone (and 9 mm mostly so). .308 is gone, .30-06 is all but gone. Magazines of almost every description are not only gone, but my favorite vendors aren’t even taking backorders any more.
Maybe we’ll all be laughing about this a year from now. I hope so… Meanwhile, I’ll never order less than a thousand rounds of ammo again.
@ Bumr50:
The fact that the ‘only candidate’ who could beat Obama (both times) lost isn’t important, either.