“THE STEVE SMITH SANCTION – A canal?! Reijner whowhat now?”

So much for hot tips…No RAPESQUATCH in Vondelpark, and Tante Zaan’s was STEVE SMITH free as well. Something just doesn’t add up. Well, I have one more place to check, nearby… heard some odd things might be going on down on Willemsparkweg. Close by, so it can’t hurt to look.

"No solicitors, no RAPESQUATCHES."
If STEVE SMITH were here, the Welcome mat would have something on it saying “WELCOME ALL WHO RAPED HERE IN HUMBLE HOME!”

@#$% – I am getting played. This is just like the last place. STEVE SMITH couldn’t just stroll into one of these pensions or apartments… and just how did he get past me at Schiphol? I mean there isn’t… OH NO!  Water… he came by water… SEA SMITH, DAMN YOU! Now I am worried – BOTH the SMITHS?!  There has to be a place down here…Ah!  Reijner Vinkelskade is right by here…That had to be where SEA SMITH dropped his cousin off. @#$%

Watery doom sure looks pleasant.
Curse you SEA SMITH! Right up the canal…

Too late. I am so screwed. Nothing for it but to run over to The Hague and wait for him. #$%& outsmarted by the SMITHS. I won’t be living this down any time soon.

TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR THE THRILLING CONCLUSION OF “THE STEVE SMITH SANCTION”

 

Comments

164 responses to ““THE STEVE SMITH SANCTION – A canal?! Reijner whowhat now?””

  1. Gustave Lytton

    *pours glass of oude genever and sits backs for the finale*

    1. SP

      I’m kind of afraid of what will happen to Swiss if Swiss finds STEVE SMITH! It may lose us our Family Friendly certification.

  2. No, the welcome mat would say, “AND BY WELCOME MEAN….”

  3. Count Potato

    “You know what’s unacceptable is the fact that over 150 kids under the age of 21 have died since the beginning of the school year in Chicago and you can’t name a single fucking one. #DanRyanShutdown”

    https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1015643850428309504

    Christ, what an asshole.

    1. How many of them were adults aged 18-20?

      1. BakedPenguin

        Yeah 18+ does not get the moniker “kid”. Also, this happened in a state where they already have the “common sense” gun restrictions this douche bag is pimping for.

        1. SoberPhobic

          Ignore that most of this is gang violence
          Ignore the 15% solve rate
          Ignore that no one in these neighborhoods is cooperating
          Ignore that the WOD is what makes these thugs money and violent

          1. BakedPenguin

            We should imprison 98% of teenagers as a matter of course. The fact that it’s an incredibly small percentage of them who commit violent crime doesn’t change the fact that it’s teens who commit most of the crimes in the US.

          2. BakedPenguin

            Sorry – “commit a plurality of crimes in the US.”

      2. Gustave Lytton

        If piglet wants to self identify as a child, I am more than happy to further ignore his babbling.

        1. slumbrew

          It’s “clown nose on, clown nose off” – he’s to be listened to because of his experience, but if you disagree with him you’re attacking a child.

    2. Dear Mr. Hogg,

      Profanity is the weapon of the witless, as the saying goes. Once you graduate high school, injecting profanity into a debate or conversation needlessly makes you look immature. Also, while being a hysterical, emotional wreck might feel good, it makes you look like, well, a hysterical, emotional wreck, not like someone who has good ideas.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        FUCK YOU IN THE NECK BILL!!!!

        I am not a hysterical emotional wreck and you will not steal my voice!

        ::runs sobbing from room::

      2. creech

        Has anyone told this to Nick Gillespie on TOS?

    3. Chafed

      Take it up with local government. I live half a continent away. No my fault and not my problem.

    4. AlmightyJB

      Andre, Jamal, Trevon, Willie, Darnell, Tyrone, DeShawn, Demetrious. I think that’s probably a good percentage of them.

  4. Count Potato

    “Paul Manafort being held in solitary confinement, lawyers say

    Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who was sent to jail in June for allegedly tampering with witnesses in the special counsel investigation, is being held in solitary confinement in a Virginia prison cell for 23 hours a day, his lawyers said on Friday.

    Manafort, according to his lawyer, is being secluded because correctional officials “cannot otherwise guarantee his safety.”

    He was sent to jail on June 15 pending trial after pleading not guilty to charges filed by the special counsel, which alleged that he and his associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, of Moscow, obstructed justice in the Russia investigation.

    Manafort has asked a federal appeals court to order his release from custody pending his separate upcoming federal trials, the earliest of which starts in Virginia later in July.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/06/paul-manafort-being-held-in-solitary-confinement-lawyers-say.html

    Sounds cruel and unusual.

    1. mikey

      a) You can beat the rap, but you still gotta take the ride.
      b) The process is the punishment, or
      c)FYTW
      d) all of the above

  5. Count Potato

    “Feminism has destabilized the American family

    In 1970, three furious feminist tracts dominated the bestseller lists: Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics,” Germaine Greer’s “The Female Eunuch,” and Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex.” They, and others who comprised what was then called the “women’s lib” movement, fulminated against male dominance, endorsed sexual liberation and demanded that the nuclear family be smashed.”

    https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/feminism-has-destabilized-the-american-family/

    This is my surprised face.

    1. mikey

      Mona Charen? Isn’t she a Republican? What could she know?

  6. Looks like the hooligans are going to get a tired, injured team in the semis. 😡

    1. Raven Nation

      Glad Russia lost: it’s a small measure of justice for their interference that got Trump elected.

    2. Rhywun

      Good. We need a healthy team to take out France or Belgium.

      1. BakedPenguin

        Good luck with that. Not saying it’s not possible, just that I know how I’d be betting.

        (Which I wouldn’t in this tournament)

        1. Rhywun

          Oh well. I suppose I can console myself with the fact that one of France or Belgium won’t win.

          1. BakedPenguin
          2. BakedPenguin

            Sorry, douche move. I don’t know who you’re supporting.

            I’m just glad to see Brazil and Germany out, so someone (relatively) new can win. Despite the fact that I won $400 off Brazil winning in 2002.

          3. Rhywun

            Heh no prob. Of the teams that are left I suppose sure why not England. More importantly, anyone but France or Belgium.

  7. SoberPhobic

    Is there a SLEET SMITH?

    1. Pope Jimbo

      ::surreptitiously places hand over frostbit rectum::

      Um, no. Never heard of SLEET SMITH here in Minnesoda. There are no legends up here about a large beast that prowls the villages of fish houses on a frozen lake during the dark of a new moon, looking to check anglers for their licenses and by check licenses I mean …

      Nope. Nosirree.

  8. mexican sharpshooter

    We traced the call. STEVE SMITH is calling from inside the house…

    1. Chafed

      ?

    2. Spudalicious

      Awesome horror flick.

  9. Count Potato

    As it turns out, cocaine actually is a helluva drug.

    https://iammcafee.com/memewar.html

  10. mikey

    Just spent the afernoon doing one of those tasks that makes me question the wisdon of owning my own home – relpaced the leaking garbage disposal, 200 bucks and an afternoon under the sink later and we’re right back to where we were before my wife noticed the leak. Wish I could still drink

    1. Sean

      That sucks. Blame your wife. She’s the one that noticed the leak.

      1. I’d follow the “whoever smelt it, dealt it” system of assigning home repair but it would all get passed over to me anyway, so I might as well nip it in the bud.

        1. Sean

          I pick my battles with home repairs. Minor, easy stuff I’ll do and the rest goes to my contractor BIL.

    2. Fourscore

      Where is it leaking? Between the sink and disposal? Did you layer down a circle of plumber’s putty? Tighten the nut really, really tight?

      1. mikey

        All the joints were fine.
        It was coming from INSIDE the disposal!!

        1. Fourscore

          Disposal runs when you turn the water on? Manual switch? Seems strange. NIB I presume?

          Sorry, you’re on your own at this point

          1. mikey

            Disposal ran with the water on, but that wasn’t going to last long. It was dripping insde when I took it off – lucky it didn’t catch on fire.

        2. Not Adahn

          Did you check the thermostat?

        3. Rhywun

          Did you turn it off, wait 30 seconds, and turn it on again?

      2. Pope Jimbo

        Did you layer down a circle of plumber’s putty? Tighten the nut really, really tight?

        Are you talking about his garbage disposal, or him and his wife’s sex life?

        1. mikey

          No matter where the conversation starts it ends up here.

          One reason I keep coming back.

    3. Akira

      one of those tasks that makes me question the wisdon of owning my own home

      For me, that task was the leak in the main drainage line that required me to climb into my almost century-old crawlspace. Whatever entrance once existed had been boarded up and carpeted over ages ago, so I had to bust a hole in the limestone wall with a sledgehammer. I climbed in, and there’s only about one to two feet of vertical clearance. I found where the pipe was leaking, and there was a whole fucking jungle of spiderwebs around the thing. The water was apparently supporting life, which led to an entire ecosystem with golf-ball sized spiders as the apex predators. There must have been hundreds of fully grown black widows, brown recluses, and wolf spiders. I had to sweep the spiderwebs away with my hand (thankfully, I wore gloves) and pinpoint where the leak was. The pipe was actually halfway in the dirt, so I had to dig around it so that the plumbers would be able to access it. All the while, I’m frantically swatting spiders before they can crawl up my sleeve and bite me.

      1. Tres Cool

        That is precisely why, as I pointed out to Yufus yesterday, that as an HVAC person I would cherry-pick the rooftop/attic jobs. Fuck a crawlspace.

        1. Brasidas

          The house I’m buying had the evaporator condensation overflowing the drip pan for a few weeks. The attic job at some point added on a crawl space job. Soaked the ceilings, wall, and subfloor. Although the HVAC guy isn’t going to be replacing soaked subfloor.

          Glad I didn’t buy the place yet.

        2. Gustave Lytton

          Attic crawls can suck just as much as a crawlspace. Just about everything down there can be up there, along with enough concentrated heat to bring a smile to Colonel Saito’s face.

      2. SoberPhobic

        Fuck crawlspaces and double fuck spiders

        1. mikey

          My dad always had me do the crawlspace work. Claimed he was too big. Yeah, Dad.
          California so – earwigs!!! I hate fucking earwigs.

          1. mikey

            And aligator lizards. Those suckers are mean.

      3. Sean

        Yeah, that’s way past my line. I’ll swap out a ceiling fan or garbage disposal, but not that.

      4. Count Potato

        “There must have been hundreds of fully grown black widows, brown recluses, and wolf spiders.”

        I would have burned it down for the insurance money.

      5. Gilmore

        “There must have been hundreds of fully grown black widows, brown recluses, and wolf spiders. “

        I’d be busting out either a hose or air compressor or…. i don’t know, some sort of ‘area weapon’ at that point.

        Mankind didn’t rise to become the dominant species by NOT mass-murdering icky things when necessary

        1. Tres Cool

          In hindsight, I think my course of action if faced with that challenge would be to buy half a dozen bug-bombs, shut-off all pilot lights and open flames, toss em under there grenade style, and take the kids/wife/pets out for a leisurely picnic for 4-6 hours. Let it settle overnight, then commence work the next morning. Or as CP said, arson it and move.

    4. Mad Scientist

      You can live with a leaking disposal. But you can’t live with a wife who knows about the leaking disposal.

      1. mikey

        Wise words.

    5. trshmnstr

      How hasn’t this been linked yet??

  11. BakedPenguin

    Apropos of nothing: dark chocolate (and I eat the 90% cocoa stuff) goes well paired with cashews.

    1. Chafed

      It goes well with every nut I’ve encountered.

      1. Including Michael Hihn?

    2. westernsloper

      Get out of my head. As I was relaxing in my palatial pool this afternoon I was knocking around the drunken thought of writing an article about dark chocolate and other stuff. I don’t have cashews though.

      1. BakedPenguin

        Do it. DO IT.

    3. AlmightyJB

      Good to know.

  12. Count Potato

    “7 Gender-Neutral Terms We Should All Be Using”

    https://www.bustle.com/p/7-gender-neutral-terms-we-should-all-be-using-9565996

    1. Tres Cool

      And here I was certain Mx was ‘motocross’.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        I just realized I’m at the “Get off my lawn” phase of my life.

        I don’t give a shit for the most part if some kid calls me Mr or not, but if some punk called me Mx, I would fucking lose it. Of course, I don’t even know what that would sound like, so maybe it has already happened and I just didn’t realize it.

        p.s. I have gotten more compliments from people because I raised all my kids to call any adult Mr or Mrs (until the adult told them to do otherwise). People are freaked out by the smallest bits of civility.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Profanity is the weapon of the witless, as the saying goes.

    Well, fuck.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I found where the pipe was leaking, and there was a whole fucking jungle of spiderwebs around the thing. The water was apparently supporting life, which led to an entire ecosystem with golf-ball sized spiders as the apex predators.

    EEK!

    1. l0b0t

      That gives me the agita just reading about it. I would have to fall back on the old reliable field expedient flame-thrower (a can of the extra long reach wasp/hornet spray and a Zippo).

  15. Count Potato

    “White nationalists kicked out of Louisville rally by Trump supporters and Proud Boys”

    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1015619258326319104

    1. Tres Cool

      Not relevant, but when did Gavin McInnes make the leap from quasi-tolerable righty to the completely insane Canadian Alex Jones/Glenn Beck hybrid ?

      The name “Proud Boys” just makes me think of the Blue Blazers in Buckaroo Banzai.

      1. slumbrew

        Proud Boys is such a cringeworthy name. It sounds like a “specialized” video series. NTTIATWWT.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Did I not already declare that it was the gayest gang name since the Chicago Gaylords?

          1. Pope Jimbo

            Why are you repeating yourself?

        2. AlmightyJB

          Makes me think of the Ducky Boys for some reason.

        3. Gustave Lytton

          Make me thing of this.

          1. AlmightyJB

            Damn, I’ve not heard that song forever.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      A special guest star is in that twitter thread’s comments…did you see him?

      1. Tres Cool

        Hihn?
        Wait…isnt the answer always Hitler?
        Look, Im really pretty stupid.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          The answer is DONDERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, who has really let his “piece of shit racist” flag fly since leaving the cradle of HnR.

          1. Rope Snake

            Is he the answer to your riddle from months ago?

      2. AlmightyJB

        Are you talking about Dondero?//

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I can dig it.

      3. I saw Just Say’n. Or did you have someone else in mind?

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I did not see him. I assume his twitter handle is different?

    3. AlmightyJB

      Racist at Trump rally cause scene / cnn.

  16. Came down with a horrible cold on Friday. So drinking as much as I can to take the agony away.

    Amazing how I crave sweet or spicy food when I’m sick like this.

    1. Count Potato

      I hope you are feeling better.

      For a cold? Sweet bad, spicy good.

      1. slumbrew

        Hot and sour soap is my go-to cold treatment

        1. slumbrew

          Er, soup

          1. woah – thought this was getting kinky

          2. Tres Cool

            Not if you add cilantro to your soup. It immediately becomes soap.

          3. SP

            High-five!

  17. Count Potato

    “Canada PM Justin Trudeau denies groping allegation

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied allegations that he groped a reporter at a festival in 2000.

    The event in Creston, British Columbia, was held to raise money for an avalanche safety charity with which Mr Trudeau was involved.

    Days afterwards, an unsigned editorial appeared in a local paper accusing him of “groping” a young female reporter.

    The prime minister said he did not recall any “negative interactions” at the event.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44687654

    He should just come out as gay. It’s not like anyone would disbelieve him.

    1. AlmightyJB

      Free pass. I’m sure the derptards on the view will come out and say they wish he would group them.

  18. Count Potato

    “The mayor who wants a ‘sexy’ police force

    The town of Broummana in Lebanon has hired a group of young women as auxiliary police officers for the summer – and dressed them all in shorts.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-44738752/the-mayor-who-wants-a-sexy-police-force

    1. AlmightyJB

      That’s a policy I can behind. And on top of.

      1. Tres Cool

        #MeToo

    2. Rhywun

      I liked this story better when it was in Thailand. And it was men.

      1. AlmightyJB

        I thought all the men in Thailand were ladyboys?

        1. Rhywun

          No, thank God.

          1. AlmightyJB

            Lol

        2. Tres Cool

          Murry Head currently unavailable for comment.

          1. slumbrew

            It’s a drag, it’s a bore, it’s really such a pity…

          2. Tres Cool

            I’m sure Rhywun’s moves were among the purist.

          3. Rhywun

            I get all my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

          4. slumbrew

            Damn earworm

          5. Not Adahn

            HM version:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBu-ewMRhkA

            The camera is waaaaay too far back

          6. Count Potato

            It’s also not in time.

  19. Gilmore

    I have no interest in World Cup soccer, but i do think it would be kind of nice to see England vs. France.

    so i will reach out to god and say, “hey god, set up my preferred matchup”, because for some reason, those sorts of prayers seem more-often answered than less-sporting-related-stuff. I think my god is also a sports fan.

    1. Count Potato

      So longbows vs. artillery?

      1. AlmightyJB

        Not today. White flag vs White flag. Tomorrow maybe Green flags with a white star and crescent moon.

    2. whiz

      The oddsmaker are favoring that matchup.

  20. SP

    These posts make me want to visit Amsterdam. I am so envious of all the Jet Set Glibs!

    1. slumbrew

      If it makes you feel better, it’s utterly teeming in Hawaii right now. Hopefully it knocks off in time for the wedding in two hours.

  21. Count Potato

    “Tupac murder: Police close to making arrest, report says

    Friday, July 06, 2018 07:58AM
    LAS VEGAS —
    An arrest is close in the murder of Tupac Shakur, according to a Las Vegas television station.

    Las Vegas police, meanwhile, say that is not the case.

    The rapper was killed in his car on a Las Vegas street 21 years ago.”

    http://abc7chicago.com/3711167/

    What a shit clickbait headline.

    1. AlmightyJB

      Was it the same person who killed JonBenet?

      1. Count Potato

        They allow black people in Boulder?

      2. I thought they both committed suicide.

    2. Tres Cool

      Real name: Lesane Crooks.

      Heh.

  22. westernsloper

    Do you know who else was cursed right up the canal?

    1. AlmightyJB

      These euphemisms.

    2. Tres Cool

      Every breech baby ever?

  23. Sean

    Japanese beetles are trying to eat my habanero and jalapeno plants.
    ?

    1. Tres Cool

      +1 multiculturalism

    2. westernsloper

      My gardening this year consists of one lone basil plant since I was such a failure last year. Yes, I am a quitter. At least this year.

  24. SoberPhobic

    The bill would define lynching as “the willful act of murder by a collection of people assembled with the intention of committing an act of violence upon any person” and make it a hate crime.

    isn’t this already a crime?

    1. Tres Cool

      I’m certainly no legal scholar, but I think it would fall under “murder”, ‘accessory to murder’, or some other host of killing-people related charges already.

      Best to ask some glib thats been to an actual law school, tho.

    2. AlmightyJB

      Good thing they’re on this. Thats right up there with banning bayonet lugs!

      1. kbolino

        I propose a rough idea for a new iron law:

        When a law seems unnecessary, it means the actual purpose differs from the stated purpose

        1. Rhywun

          Absolutely. The actual purpose of this one is to ferret out wrongthinkers and club them over the head.

    3. kbolino

      Reading between the lines, it looks like the goal might be to create a felony murder rule for “lynching”. You may not have held the metaphorical noose, you may not even have had any intent to cause harm yourself, but if you were with a group that did, you’re guilty too.

      In other words, taking what happened in Charlottesville as an example, the goal would be to throw everybody on the “wrong” side of the protest/riot into jail because one guy ran someone over with his car.

      1. Tres Cool

        Well, and that’s why I’d think current laws regarding “conspiracy to commit _____ ” would suffice. Although old laws, written by white guys, just aren’t signal-y enough for today.

        Also, I think, ‘hate crime’ is a specification/enhancement tacked-on to a current criminal charge, not a charge on its own.

        Again with the SLD- I only watch People’s Court, and 99% of that is for Marilyn Milian. I dont pay attention actual cases.

    4. Rhywun

      Of course. But it’s not a hate crime. And not supporting this “historic legislation” means you’re racist and evil. Or evil and racist.

  25. Tres Cool

    I’m just gonna guess that this ties in with this.

    1. AlmightyJB

      I remember that skit. Funny. WOD is stupid. Let the poor girl go. She has enough problems.

    2. Count Potato

      “The baggie contained three other baggies that held cocaine, meth, Ecstasy pills, marijuana, and synthetic cannabinoids. And three three Filipino fishermen still in their boat.”

  26. Spudalicious

    When the SMITHs get together, does one of them get raped by the other? Or do they take turns based on seniority?

    1. trshmnstr

      That’s what the phrase “rape and pillage” was invented for.

    2. AlmightyJB

      They probably spend the whole day trying to trick each other. Look out behind you! Pounce.

    3. Rhywun

      There’s a Morrissey joke in there somewhere that I’m too polite to formulate.

      1. Tres Cool

        The Queen Is Dead?

        Oh, nevermind.

  27. Sean

    We went to the range today to sight in and test our new ARs. I really like mine.

    Pic: https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/edWV6Uqm0XIAhdhHVYdOJD7XfCz3IEqmElbSrIm6k8N

      1. Mr Lizard

        I like the stock, but I don’t know how I feel about the ‘brick fluting’. It just seems like you’ll have to break out the tooth brush after that first dive in the mud.

        1. Sean

          If there’s a chance of diving in the mud, I’m grabbing an ak. This is a custom ar for range fun and a different look.

    1. Count Potato

      None of those links are working for me.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Very nice!

          1. Sean

            Thank you

        2. Spudalicious

          Wow. That looks evil.

        3. Count Potato

          That worked. How long is that barrel?

          1. Sean

            @20″ , but it’s been cut back a lil bit and recrowned.

  28. SP

    Just a heads-up. Today’s Audible Daily Deal is Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai.

    $1.95

    You’re welcome.

  29. Tres Cool

    “The bill would define lynching as “the willful act of murder by a collection of people assembled with the intention of committing an act of violence upon any person” and make it a hate crime.”

    So Im going to go ahead and assume neither Waco nor Ruby Ridge would qualify for an indictment of the gov’t ?

    Hey-Ohhhhhh!

    1. Spudalicious

      Because it was funny. I larfed.

    2. Mojeaux

      Yummy.

  30. Count Potato

    She looks good on vacation.

    https://www.instagram.com/kattimpf/

    1. Pope Jimbo

      Ugh. She is the moron that shows up on the 5th Column every so often? And is drunk and has a screechy voice?

      The only woman on the 5th Colum who has an even more annoying voice is Ben Dreyfuss.