137 thoughts on “Saturday Meme Saturday”

  3. [blush] I am honored to see so many of the memes I’ve worked posted here.

    1. Society has been encouraging them to worship Baal, Ashteroth, and Molech, so why would even older gods be a problem?

    2. Oh, so that’s why…
      Turns out there’s not a fish face trend, I just had my Tinder location set to Innsmouth.

      2. Okay, how many of you have used Google Earth to try to find Innsmouth? Or just decided to drive around that area of Massachusetts looking for it?

        1. Haven’t done that, but now I know that Lori Lightfoot was born in Masillion Ohio, which is on the Ohio and Erie canal.

  7. I’m now really tempted to try Mussorgsky’s Baba Yaga segment from “Pictures at an Exhibition” with banjo and guitar.

  9. That brightened my day a little, so the posting is successful.

    And the answer is, a clock. Now you can take your time with the Popsicle, and not get a brain-freeze.

  10. #5 reminds me of the quote: “As thrilling as watching submarine races from shore” 😀

    Kamela is not an A.I.
    Kamela is N.S. — Natural Stupidity.

    2. So, that’s how my inlaws met. Her friend told her they were going to watch submarine races. NO REALLY. Well, she was really cute when young, so I can’t blame FIL.

  11. A mixed bag, as usual.

    The first would result in severe liver damage. For those who take it seriously…

    The one later down is useful information. However, after you drain the blood from your enemies, make sure to run a check for residual drugs. (Unless you’re just planning to make brownies.)

    1. That’s not how you make brownies, just saying, not that I would know, really FBI you don’t have to raid my house, he said as he gobbled down the brownies.

          1. Heh, I hope not.

            Possibly I made up the jelly donuts made of meat, but… there is bacon jelly and meat jelly, so making a dough that has meat mixed into it would not be impossible. Maybe you could do it with almond flour and such, and be keto.

  13. “take a shot every time someone takes a meme too seriously”
    But alcohol abuse is a serious problem!
    [ Ducks out the door before Sarah can throw chair at me. ]

    1. And the cost of ammunition is too d*mn high for the other one to be practicable, for those of us for whom it would be preferable.

  19. I don’t have an image to go with it:

    Voluntary debt peonage for an overpriced college education is an outrage, but

    Involuntary debt peonage to the government is fine.

    1. Bubba Yaga’s dancing double-wide.

      “If the house is rocking, don’t be knocking. “

    2. I never wanted to meet Baba Yaga but strangely I’d prefer to meet her than Bubba Yaga. [Crazy Grin]

          1. True this. Biscuits and pies are victuals of the heavens. Honey biscuits and a cold glass of milk were the preferred treats of my childhood.

            Bonus points if Bubba knows proper blackberry cobbler recipe. This is the hidden staple of Southern cooking. Apple pies are tasty, mind, but a good blackberry cobbler is what ovens were invented for. Or bloody well should have been.

            1. Blackberry cobbler is easy:
              1. Make blackberry pie.
              2. Drop it a couple of feet.
              :;

          2. Considering Bubba’s cousin, Baba, habits in cooking, I wonder just want the ingredients are for Bubba’s biscuits and pies. 😈

  24. I used to have an inner grumpy old sarcastic bastard that drinks too much and never gets enough sleep. Then I became him.

    No, not time travel. Just inevitability. Save for the drinking, did too much of that and now I can’t. That just adds extra grumpiness.

    As if 2020 part III needed any extra grumpiness anyway.

    1. I can still drink, just beer though, anything else and the viking comes out. That can be real ugly. So a toast to you got your six.

        1. Mike, some form of weak alcohol (look up small beer) was pretty much a part of every meal, just to avoid bad water.

            1. My parents’ renewal of vows — 50 — … it amounted to 4? bottles of wine and 2 bottles of hard alcohol by person at the party, but 20% were non-drinking kiddies.
              I did my part. I wasn’t drunk. It took all day, though.

            2. You’re right…. but as one of my high school buddies pointed out, livers also increase capacity by working out…..

          3. The purported reason the Mayflower stopped at Plymouth Rock and not continue on to Virginia was because they ran out of Beer. The Colonists didn’t trust the water on board.

      1. And good Madeira, just like good Port wine, is very tasty, but yes, very strong, even if you are used to it.

    1. Isn’t that true of all holodeck programs?

      Seriously, if I’d been Picard, I’d have shut down the holodeck after the first malfunction, declared it off-limits to all personnel after the second, and after the third, I’d have jettisoned it into deep space.

    2. Every time I see FICUS on TV, I want to shout “Computer! End Program!”

      Doesn’t accomplish much at home. Did get some strange looks at the airport.

  30. I’m sorry to have to inform you that Confutus (frequent commenter and former guest poster) has reached the end of his earthly trek and moved on to pursue his scholarship in a different state of existence.

        1. I find it worth noting that for years, in this contentious environment, he never had a protracted fight or even major disagreement with anyone here.
          He was one of the good ones.

    5. May his family and friends be blessed with the grace, strength, and fortitude necessary. And may his memory live on in those who knew him.

    1. I used to think that the term “tax cattle” made sense, then I remembered this proverb.

      Proverbs 12:10
      A righteous man regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

      We don’t even rise to the level of cattle in the eyes of the elites.

  33. Anyone catching the new Bud Lite commercials? Nope, didn’t bring back the Clydesdale’s. But did swing the pendulum the other way. Way, way, the other way. Wilderness themed. Two so far.

    “Leaves of three leave them be. Cans of six, take your pick.”
    “When confronted by a bear don’t run. Instead make lots of noise. Ssssssss” extended sound of opening a Bud Light can.

      1. I don’t drink beer and unless hilarious, the Clydesdales, or other animal involved, commercial, I don’t pay attention.

    2. The Clydesdales want their Bud Light back.

      An honest BL commercial would show amorous couples in small boats.

      (Grin)

      1. Didn’t say it will convince me to buy Bud Lite, or any beer. Just thought they were hilarious given what has gone before. Plus, pretty sure the commercials are meant to be mocking. Problem is those they are attempting to mock will be laughing with everyone else. The mocking will fail.

  34. Anyone else think that if Warner Bros were serious about being inclusive they would have hired Dylan Mulvaney to play Barbie?

  35. Comments over at Instapundit about the new movie Oppenheimer saw someone bring up a bit of anti-atomic bomb historical revisionism that I’ve seen cropping up recently. There’s yet another claim going around that the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t necessary. And the reason given this time is…

    The Soviet declaration of war against Japan.

    See, it wasn’t the fact that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had just been destroyed by one plane each, with massive casualties in each city from the bomb dropped on each of them. It wasn’t the fact that everyone knew that the Americans were going to invade (in fairness, the British would have landed troops as well, though they didn’t dominate Japanese concerns like the Americans did) in massive and ultimately overwhelming numbers, that the islands were completely cut-off from Japan’s various recent conquests (as well as places like Korea and Taiwan), that American B-29s were basically burning Japanese cities to the ground at will, and that the 8th Air Force was on the way from Europe (Okinawa was basically going to be turned into a giant air field) and was about to make what the B-29s had done until then look about as destructive as a well-run fireworks display, None of that had anything to do with why the Japanese surrendered (and in fairness, most of those didn’t enter the calculations; I’m posting those purely for comparison purposes).

    It was purely the fact that large numbers of Soviet tanks had crossed into Manchuria and the Soviets had managed to pull off a very clumsy invasion (it had apparently been hit or miss for a while early on) of a small Japanese island that caused the leadership of Japan to go ahead and surrender unconditionally.

    1. The Reader notes that it is that time of the year. We are 78 years past the end of WW II and every year without fail the left tries a new historical piece of BS to argue that the use of atomic weapons on Japan was unnecessary and uniquely evil.

      1. I suspect it’s largely paid Russian trolls pushing this theory at the moment, though I don’t expect it to stay that way for long.

    2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved tens of millions of lives because they screwed up the plans for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million, which most in the west have no idea about. (Order was going to go out to all Japanese from “the Emperor” to commit suicide, in order to shame America before the world. The people actually responsible for the plan were so caught short by the bombings that the Emperor actually learned about the plan and, well, we know what happened. It did not involve 75 million people offing themselves.)

      The Russian invasion of Manchuria had jack and shit to do with shaking up that plan.

      1. Glorification of Russia on one hand, and villainizing them (because of Ukraine) on the other.

        Given the amount of pro-Russian propaganda that’s been floating around lately – likely increased dramatically due to the current war – I suspect that this is something that the Russians have been claiming for a while, something that the Soviet leadership has been advocating since the end of the war. And I suspect that the individuals claiming it are largely paid Russian trolls.

        At least for now, anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised if the left takes up this mantra themselves once the Ukraine war ends, and it’s safe to once again start talking up the glory of Russia and the USSR.

        1. Actually, I do remember the “USSR defeated Japan!” stuff from when I was a wee little child. Since the USSR was a going concern at the time, that may have been a factor.

    5. They won the war in Europe — you can tell because they suffered the most casualties — and also the war against Japan without any casualties.

      Leftists!

  36. I’m worried about the durability of the undercarriage on that track-thing.
    Still want one, though. I can fix it! Just need a shop, land, tools, time…

    Holodeck – that would make too much sense for this reality. Maybe it’s multiplayer over several holodecks, which are communicating poorly, and at least one is malfunctioning. One of the clever bits of Seth McFarlane’s comedy Star Trek fanfic, otherwise known as The Orville season 1, was the Holodeck virus from a dodgy program.

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