Memes Pro Populo

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Okay, the first is not exactly a meme. But you know, it’s important.

And now? Laissez les bon memes rouler!

121 thoughts on “Memes Pro Populo”

      1. I did. It didn’t work. I think it got autoflagged as spam cause it was so long?

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        1. I got this message:
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    2. Merrick Garland has proven by his running of the justice department that he did not deserve to be anywhere near the Supreme Court. He deserves to be burning in hell for his violation of his oath of office and betrayal of the American people, but only god can decide that not me, too bad for all of us.

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  6. Quoted the “we thought it would be easy” meme to a user in May when I was using my admin rights to install some program she’d requested for work and it turned out to be a bit more complex than expected.

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            2. Raises paw I do. I have used it in class on occasion. Blank stares ensue. My younger colleague didn’t get it either. SIGH

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            4. I recalled it. Supposedly that line (or close to it) almost made it in Bowl of Red to explain the not-me fading away and being replaced with Mr. NastyLion in one sequence…

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    1. The Brits totally copied us, but in the most British of ways. No guns or nothin’. I feel we are owed royalties, but can’t be bothered to deal with British paperwork, so it’s unlikely to ever be paid.

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  9. The whoopee cushion…. Laughed out loud. Dangit, what a great start to a Saturday.

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    1. Needs a capacitor in the cushion so you get a shock as well, I know, I’ll leave now.

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    2. I had to laugh quietly, but yes, between that and the “he’s a fed” song, it’s been a good start for the day.

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    3. In Florida, the electric chair was known as Old Sparky. Old Sparky with a whoopee cushion….sounds about right.

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  13. …never being able to throw anything away because you just know you’ll need it a week after you threw it away.

    Because that has happened to you before.

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    1. Looks at stash of metal in the shop/barn. Recalls using material squirreled away 20 years previously. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

      Yep.

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      1. I once showed up to work at a manufacturing (one-off sort of things, not assembly line) with a seemingly insanely long extension for a ratchet drive. “Who/Where the [HADES] will you ever use that?!” That afternoon, the same fella that said that asked to borrow it as he encountered a Use Case. Funny how that seems to happen, innit?

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        1. I had an 84 Ranger that pushed a lot of use cases. The only times I needed a crow’s foot wrench on my ratchet + long extension was to install the distributor. I don’t want to think about the engine swap.

          Ford was optimistic about how they stressed the pointless ignition system. I was optimistic about how rapidly the engine used oil and how often one should check the level. One learns, eventually. The 2.8 liter carburated V6 was an unfortunate choice…

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        2. There are no useless tools. :-P

          Sort of like Chesterton’s fence. Somebody needed that tool enough to design and make it. Just because you don’t know what it’s for…

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          1. Yes. It might only be needed once a year, but oh, how you needed it once a year! I was once asked about something in the shop in GA where I worked. “We only need it to do [thing] to [WWII radial engine]. And then we really, really need it.” I had seen it in use.

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            1. I am convinced that all serious mechanics have a weird crap drawer. The one with fasteners that don’t follow the standard rules, one-off tools that are perfect for ONE job and one job only, schematics that detail what really goes on in the black box of certain engines and electromechanical devices, the really good electrical tape, spare 10mm sockets, 25″ torque bars, and that one can of bearing grease from 1945.

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              1. Looks at SK torque wrench, the broken-but-barely-usable Craftsman it replaced, and the old-school bending-arm Craftsman that was the first. They’re in the drawer with the 1/2″ sockets and the few 3/4″ tools I need on occasion.

                The shop-made bearing puller is in another drawer. Made it for one application, but it’s done duty elsewhere. When the universal one doesn’t do the job, that one has saved the day.

                A friend had a ’75 Honda that are 10mm Craftsman sockets. After too many trips for lifetime warranty, he switched to Snapon. My first 10mm socket also got swapped, and I have a few redundant sets of sockets (and wrenches and other tools) in various sizes. (The 1/4″ speed wrench handle is really good for changing one of my lathe chucks. It spends far more time with the lathe tools than in the 3/8 & 1/4 drive drawer. Curiously, I only have one of them. :) )

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                1. Arggh “ate 10mm sockets”. 12 point bolts that fit an inherently weak socket design. No idea why it wasn’t a simple hex bolt. Shrugs.

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                  1. RCPete my experience is that you can never find the 10mm socket. Of course this seems to be the go to fastener for Japanese vehicles, even the stupid license plate is held on with 10 mm head screws. I suspect that somewhere there is a dimension with a planet covered with 10 mm sockets and unmatched socks.

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              3. Same worksite, needed a tiny screwdriver I did not have. Fellow was stunned as I took the smallest one I had to a grinder and made the needed item out of. “But you ruined that one!” “I need what I just made – and I can get another for 89 cents. So?”

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      2. Re saving odd stuff:

        I put together a 4′ x 4′ raised garden bed and needed something to keep the neighbor cats from using it as – well, you know. So I went rummaging thru the boxes of mostly-forgotten odd-ball items in my craft room, and found two never-opened 6-foot-wide by 30-foot-long pale blue cotton fishnets, which have to be at least 30 years old and I can’t remember why I ever bought them in the first place.

        I sank 60″ fiberglass garden stakes at the outside corners, and wrapped one of the nets loosely around the bed. I used those little wire ornament hangers to hold the net in place by sticking one end into the top of the hollow stake, putting the small plastic cap on top to secure it, and catching a top loop of the net in the larger hook. It has worked perfectly.

        I picked my first ripe cherry tomatoes yesterday! ;-)

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        1. Hubby built me three 2′ wide by 8″ tall flower box. Added 6″ of good loam, planted bulbs, then topped with light chicken wire over, added another not quite 2″ of good loam. Point was to keep dog from digging up bulbs and chewing on them (also works for squirrels and raccoons). Side effect, cats also won’t dig into the loam (when dry they roll in it, yes, dig no).

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          1. Neat idea to put the wire on top of the bulbs!

            I tied 1/2” mesh plastic-coated hardware cloth to the bottoms of these 9” deep frames, to keep moles and gophers and critters from digging up into them. Not sure if it is really necessary but was suggested for the area. Based on the insane growth of the three zucchini plants, the mesh and the limestone-heavy soil underneath is no hindrance to roots. ;-)

            I set open-bottom cardboard boxes wrapped with plastic twine on the mesh and filled them to 12” deep for the two tomato plants so they don’t have to compete directly with the squashes. They seem to appreciate it. ;-)

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          2. We had to build chicken-wire cages to go in the ground around the tulips. Did I mention that DadRed detests squirrels with a white-hot passion?

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            1. Once bulbs are established in our lovely clay soil, they are difficult to dig up (ask how I know). I dug up over 2 x 12 square feet of them, still didn’t get all of them (me screaming). Kept some (went into the beds), gave away more, and sent out 3 huge yard debris cans for recycling. Some of the bulbs I dug up, and replanted can be pet toxic, which is why the caution.

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            2. A co worker with a major squirrel problem, and a local “no gunfire” ordinance discovered that high-power air rifles exist, including ones with integral suppressors.

              Neat toys.

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              1. Unfortunately, we also have a “no air or gas guns” ordinance, and I’m not good enough with a recurve bow on small targets. But they missed railguns; anyone know of a good source? (Heh, heh. ;-) )

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                  1. Same for an X-ray laser. Plus it’s a bit of overkill, and the required trigger is fairly tightly controlled. ;-)

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                    2. True. And while AFAIK both bomb-pumped and free-electron X-ray lasers apparently exist I suspect they’re still a bit pricey. :-)

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    2. You mean like two days ago being asked for a DVI to VGA adapter?

      Still have a set of Vax/VMS DSSI bus channel selector plugs, somewhere.

      Why, yes, I am usually the team scrounge, too.

      (Grin)

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      1. If you need PS-2 adapters, or IDE, floppy, VGA, serial, parallel, SCSI or Centronics cables, or analog audio/video cables, or… ;-)

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  14. I have a lot of sympathy with the run-on sentences one, but it would have been much better if he had put commas in the right places to set off the independent clauses.

    But, yes, I had a number of difficulties starting in elementary school and going up through grad school trying to explain to my teachers that “not the way you would have done it” isn’t the same as “wrong.”

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    1. “This is how I do it. This is why I do it this way. Now, I do not expect you to do it the same way, I’m just telling you the reasoning. As long as the results are good, do it however you like. And if you find a way to make it a even a little easier or more than a bit faster, please TELL me.”

      I almost never hear back on that, which is rather disappointing, really.

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      1. Their eyes tend to glaze over when I get out the flow chart diagram. It’s a serious diagnostic tool! It covers over 95% of common problems in one! It’s also around three pages long- but it works!

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        1. One job, about the first thing I did was make a checklist.
          I offered to another.
          “I don’t need a checklist.”
          That line is a CLUE. It means “I REALLY need a checklist.
          Yes, it showed. Very badly indeed.

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            1. Also anyone that works around heavy machinery, serious electricity (can we say “arc blast”?), or explosives, too.

              When you’ve got all three, that’s a sign to be very, very careful. Checklist? D*mn straight.

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              1. So, if someone is working on a mobile artillery piece, with a built in counter battery radar, they should rapidly learn how to make and use checklists?

                Asking for a friend.

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                1. I have an ongoing low-key Project that I am going Very Slowly on. Partly for economic reasons, but mainly that I can see AT LEAST three dangerous items in it. And the High Voltage scares me the least. BUT… Much Respect for High Voltage.

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                2. Absolutely! Checklist:
                  1) Is artillery piece loaded? If “Yes”:
                  2) Is radar in “Auto Engage” mode? If “Yes”:
                  3) Don ear protection and move away from breech.
                  4) Make popcorn and have a brewski.
                  :-)

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    2. I have a relative that needs to hear that one. Also, “just because you think I’m doing it wrong doesn’t mean it’s out of spite”.

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  15. Best submersible meme I’ve seen put a can of Bud Light in place of the sub. Sorry, don’t know if I could find it again.

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  16. What if the Ocean gate sub was the sub they used to destroy the pipe line and Biden and the CIA were just getting rid of the evidence. You laugh and say no way, then…….

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  20. We have had, on our den wall, for several years, a metal sign similar to Meme #3: Remember, as far as anyone knows, we are a nice, normal family.

    IIRC we picked it up in a Rocket Fizz store.

    *Commas out of respect to Zsuzsa (been there, said that, or similar).
    Is it weird to LIKE diagramming sentences as a middle-schooler?

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  21. “5 hungry cats and a dead body”

    Truth is Stranger than Fiction: a close relative leased a building for commercial purposes (details obscured to protect me from vengeful wrath), and asked the family to suggest names.
    Since the site had been the location of several barroom murders and (probably not at the same time — maybe) a ballet school upstairs, I suggested “Five Stiffs and a Diva.”
    They chose another entry, which has always disappointed me a little.

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  25. It is interesting to note, that in both of the case of the Bud Light and Target boycott’s, none of these ultra-woke, ultra rich liberals, used any of their own money to bail out both corporations. Both have lost billions in market value, and if they did spend a lot of money buying up their shares, and they still tanked. OMG!
    I don’t know enough to say if they did or did not, alas monetary issues are not my forte, but that they didn’t on the surface shows a disunity beyond what they are supposed to have. Could it be another crack in their wall?

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      2. My stupidly liberal borderline socialist is a real estate investor. He boasts that he always uses OPM, other people’s money. None of the risk, all the profit. He considers it a selling point.

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        1. My BIL, that was supposed to be. I blame autoincorrect, since it can’t argue in its own defense.

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      1. Man was loafing in a warehouse and a stranger comes up wanting to know why the first man was loafing.

        First Man: Who are you to tell me what to do.

        Stranger: I own this place!

        First Man: Do you know who I am?

        Stranger: Ah, no.

        First Man: Thank God!

        Then the first man heads away very fast. :twisted:

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        1. Reminds me of a tale about an Army exercise that was…not going well. In the midst of the pandemonium, somebody transmitted on the command channel:

          “Oh, we are so f*ked up today!”

          Seconds later came, “This is the General! Who sent that?”

          “General, we might be f*ked up, but we ain’t stupid!”

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      2. Or when Reagan visited a nursing home as President and met a lady who obviously didn’t recognize him:
        “Do you know who I am?”
        “No dear, but if you go to the nurses’ station I’m sure they can tell you.”
        He told that on himself.

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        1. I believe I saw a video of a speech in which he included that one.

          Now be honest; can you even imagine, in your wildest flights of fancy, Clinton (either one), Obama or Brandon saying anything like that?

          Me neither.

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  27. Not only laughed at the whoopie cushion, but immediately started thinking of ways to ‘improve’ it.

    …I’m going to the special hell, aren’t I?

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  28. I have a relative that needs to hear that one. Also, “just because you think I’m doing it wrong doesn’t mean it’s out of spite”.

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  29. You must post a way to find hopalong ginsberg. Perhaps a note when you post on instalaunch.

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  30. “Chairman Xi sends the entire might of the ChiCom Army to forcibly take two cats. What do you have now?”

    “Five cats and a rather large hole where Beijing used to be.”

    I do love math memes…

    (Mildly OT – been binging on L. G. Estrella lately. Had a wonderful dream the other night of a zombie kraken-hydra taking a swim up the Potomac…)

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