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National Day on Prayer
Democrats on Iraq
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HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/4/5/1/f_treem_29b6a94.jpg

I DIED, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link

I was going to post yesterday that I could get a lovely shirt with a headline about a dead child

Very Butthole Surfers.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link

roffle

gabbneb, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link

there should be an all-pelican-and-grapefruit channel

gabbneb, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link

I DIED OTM. I await Obama's book about the experience.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Comment submitted to be read live on-air:

I, for one, would like to know the pelican's position on the gas tax holiday.

HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link

the audacity of trees

mookieproof, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link

if u dont care about pelicans then u are letting the terrists win.

ian, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link

the audacity of trees

That could seriously be a Pelican album title.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link

what are the pelican's flaws?

Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link

gets stuck in trees

I DIED, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link

how does an creature granted with the gift of flight get stuck in a tree? is it lazy?

kingfish, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link

an -> a

kingfish, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link

i think we all need to know what pelican's pastor thinks.

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/2457097242_ed0e27107c_o.jpg

UPDATE

HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link

The full context is super-roffly; look at the videos they decided not to lead with in favor of the pelican story:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2457097264_932e6aa5e3_o.jpg

HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link

By the time this is all done the bill is going to be huge.

DJ Mencap, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link

lolololol they are now showing Obama speaking about race and the economy, still under the headline "Pelican stuck in tree"

HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link

omgosh

Surmounter, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

bah, they fixed it

HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I can't imagine being the editor that said "let's go with the tree pelican over BABIES TOSSED OFF 50-FOOT TOWER FOR LUCK"

I DIED, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

lolololol they are now showing Obama speaking about race and the economy, still under the headline "Pelican stuck in tree"

NEW CAMPAIGN METAPHOR

I DIED, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Guys, it's contagious: as I'm typing this, the BBC (BBC 2 TV) have a graphologist analyzing this year's Snooker world championship quarter finalists' handwriting.

StanM, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Recuers?

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

baby tossing footage is mind-blowing

"no, no, no oh shit they're not really oh shit they are HEY THAT LOOKS LIKE FUN"

milo z, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

the bouncing, not the dropping

milo z, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

Which would you rather do this weekend?
Play "Grand Theft Auto IV" 8%
Watch "Iron Man" 15%
Both 4%
Neither 72%

James Mitchell, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link

lol, CNN.com didn't count on the silent "Not A Big Fucking Nerd" majority

HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Which would you rather do this weekend?
Get stuck in tree 8%
Drop babies for luck 15%
17 minutes, 4 seconds - no breathing 4%
Don't let a hospital kill you 72%

I DIED, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link

WHO RECUE ME FROM HOSPITAL DEATH?

Abbott, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

So is the pelican okay? PLZ let me know soon cause I gotta go camp out for Iron Man tix...

Viceroy, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Sign up for instant pelican updates on your phone and you'll not have to worry.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Opportunity!

Firefox can't find the server at www.treestrandedpelican.com

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link

I just searched for news on the pelican because I'm on the edge of my seat here. All I found was this thread.

ENBB, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Is SOMEONE chucking live fish up to it? Please, a firefighter helicopter needs to drop buckets of live fish over this tree.

Abbott, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Prosty the Spokesgland

Abbott, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Pelican Prosty

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link

the stranded spokesfowl

Abbott, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link

when's the news conference- i need a pelican brief

brownie, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link

how does an creature granted with the gift of flight get stuck in a tree? is it lazy?

-- kingfish, Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.alpacino.ws/img/ap_head.jpg

Fly, Pelican, Fly!

Oilyrags, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- Firefighters had to rescue a pelican that was dangling from a tree about 50 feet in the air Thursday.

The pelican was hanging upside down by its wing from some monofilament line in an Australian pine tree near the Dania Beach pier.

Beachgoer Sharon Schultz spotted the pelican Thursday morning.

"At first I thought he was dead, and I came and looked closer and he was struggling," Schultz said.

Schultz said she went to the pier for help and was told the bird had been hanging there since Tuesday. She was also told that a wildlife group had already come, but she was incensed by what she perceived to be a lack of sympathy for the animal.

"They said it was dead," Schultz said. "They weren't going to do nothing about it, so I called (Local) 10. I didn't know what else to do, and now everybody's here to get the bird out of the tree. That's all I wanted."

Hollywood firefighters used a ladder truck to rescue the bird. They snipped the wire and brought it down safely.

omar little, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.local10.com/2008/0501/16107543.jpg

omar little, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link

not so funny now, is it fuckers?

n/a, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link

dangling pelican vs dangling Reverend

Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link

poor poor pelican

cutty, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link

They could have leaned a little harder on the "psychos think it's cool to leave dead birds hanging from trees for days" angle.

HI DERE, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link

rolling marine critters in distress thread:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003189_pf.html

White house to endangered whales - eat it, suckers!

Oilyrags, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link

More like pelican't, amirite?

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link

rolling marine critters in distress thread:

yeah that's not the title
if I wanted to hear about the fucking white house I wouldn't be looking at cnn.com now would I

El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link

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omar little, Thursday, 24 May 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link

one month passes...
three weeks pass...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/opinions/look-out-trump-china-is-stealing-africa-opinion-intl/index.html

renormalizing colonialism ... or maybe i guess just straight up admitting it never went out of style?

the late great, Friday, 10 August 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link

ten months pass...
one year passes...

try a butt one

brimstead, Thursday, 9 July 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link

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I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 July 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link

Client Marian Shelley, 33, recently had her first booty facial and called it “luxurious.”

shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 9 July 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link

Got rid of the bootyflakez

I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 July 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link

four months pass...

i still can't get this out of my head

TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 November 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link

is the maintenance visit for this butt facial, a couple of weeks later, called a rebuttal?

StanM, Saturday, 14 November 2020 07:52 (three years ago) link

hey let’s all be cool and try a butt one

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 14 November 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link

seven months pass...

Tentacles of Manhattan DA's Trump probe reach former bodyguard Calamari

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link

hah

wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

This is the lead story on the entertainment page today:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/entertainment/lizzo-chris-evans-trnd/index.html

Clearly wtf, but also how great would it be if Lizzo and Chris Evans actually did have a baby together?

Karl Havoc (DJP), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link

also I am still back on the booty facial

Karl Havoc (DJP), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link

imagining Project Pat's voice chanting

TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD
TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD
TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD
TRY A BUTT ONE INSTEAD

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link

that gets a well-earned groan

a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link

ten months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/LAmEzPN.jpg

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link

hard go out there for a deaf kitty

maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link

six months pass...

try a butt one

fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 07:06 (one year ago) link

guys i’ve tried so hard to get a facial in lockdown but i just can’t

so i’m going to try a butt one instead

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 January 2023 09:18 (one year ago) link

Is it… a buttial?

castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2023 09:27 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

big news on CNN.com

In the spotlight: Taylor Lautner makes rare comment about ex Taylor Swift that leaves his wife 'deceased'


CNN —

This is a true tale of Taylors, as actor Taylor Lautner’s wife, Taylor Dome, was all of us with her reaction to him spilling tea about that infamous Taylor Swift and Kanye West MTV VMAs moment.

In a video from their podcast “The Squeeze” posted Wednesday on Tik Tok, Dome asked Lautner, “If you could go back to one moment in your life, what moment would that be and what would you say to yourself?”

“Probably the 2009 VMAs, when I presented the award to Taylor and was unaware that the Kanye thing was not a skit,” he said, causing Dome to literally fall back in surprise and say, “I’m deceased.”

big if true

omar little, Friday, 3 February 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link

a tale of tres taylors

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link

should try a butt one that might bring her back to life

sanguisug boggy bogg (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 February 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link

I am DELIGHTED that this thread was bumped for this non-story, I have been laughing at it since I saw it

castanuts (DJP), Friday, 3 February 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link

you are all of us with your reaction to taylor dome's reaction to him spilling tea

omar little, Friday, 3 February 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link

one taylor i never knew existed, one taylor i forgot existed, and another taylor over there saying "whaddya want from me?"

omar little, Friday, 3 February 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link

Black to the bone, my home is your home
So welcome to the Taylordome

POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 4 February 2023 02:59 (one year ago) link

the version i read said “causing his Dome to fall back” … got a snicker out of that

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/02/entertainment/taylor-lautner-taylor-swift/index.html

the late great, Saturday, 4 February 2023 03:22 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Video: Here's how US presidents would look with a mullet

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 19 March 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

this CNN article now includes a link to where you can find more information about the felonies the shooter was charged with, and the link is to the article you're already reading:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/us/kansas-city-teen-shot-wrong-house/index.html

Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:22 (eleven months ago) link

three weeks pass...

way to humanize seditious conspirators in a hate group

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/proud-boys-trial-notes/index.html

formerly abanana (dat), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 00:16 (eleven months ago) link

ten months pass...

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6825580.1682689138!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/iceberg.jpg

A man from Dildo, N.L., has captured the attention of iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly shaped hunk — now popularly known as the "dickie berg" on social media — off the coast of Newfoundland.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/oddly-shaped-iceberg-nl-1.6825578

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2024 12:15 (one month ago) link

come on

Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:53 (one month ago) link

wahey. i can confirm, it's real

wanna buy some soap?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-dickie-berg-soap-1.6906735

maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:59 (one month ago) link


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