91 thoughts on “we’re Gonna Meme You Till Tomorrow”

      1. Marko Kloos once declared that “Egregiöüs Ümläüts” was going to be the name of his metal band. I don’t recall what inspired the eruption of frustration

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  2. OK this might get me banned or at the very least shunned by the vast majority here, I gotta admit I don’t particularly like cats.

    Shucky darn, I don’t even eat at Vietnamese Restaurants.

    But I must admit the, ‘Oh no it a bobby trap’ meme had me thinking (Even though I won’t say it out loud.) aw how cute and (out loud.) laughing for minutes!

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      2. Those were called Tom Swifties (after the original Tom Swifts, not the Tom Swift Jr I read as a kid).

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        2. I’ve an original hardcover of “Tom Swift and his Airship.” Read everyone of the Tom Swift Jr. books in middle school. Was my favorite series after Lord of the Rings, and before I picked up Larry Niven and his various tales of known space.

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          1. OK Mike that is just a little too creepy. Tom Swift Jr, was a favorite of mine 3-6th grade. Read LOTR 6th Grade, and found Niven and known space round about 7th grade. I never did find the original Tom Swift stuff until it started showing up in Project Gutenberg and it did’nt really hold my attention. Seems like we are siblings separated at birth :-) .

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              1. OK and the weird parallel universe continues. My 4th grade teacher (a man, VERY uncommon for C. 1968) read us the Hobbit because that was a VERY cold winter with low teens/high single digit (Fahrenheit) temperatures and brutal winds so they wouldn’t let us out for recess, and spring was cold and muddy. He also read us Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and started the sequel but weather got better early May…

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                1. LOL. Older brother from a different mother. Have to be, seeing as you’re Rigilian. With that Perception sense, Rigilians make some of the best postal inspectors for contraband. ;-)

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    3. The Reader won’t shun you. He is NOT a cat person, as any cat in his vicinity will testify.

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      1. Thats odd. Traditionally Cats flock to Non-Cat people. Likely because they know the Non-cat people are sometimes nervous about cats and the cats get a power thrill… I’m scaring this giant stupid smelly human Hah!

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        1. Cats do flock to the Reader even though he radiates annoyance. The Reader is not nervous about cats, he just wishes they’d be elsewhere. The 4 cats that reside with a friend of the Reader’s better half got the message after about 1 1/2 days.

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  3. When we had our first girl, I had a nefarious plan to get her interested in airplanes and flying stuff, so when she was old enough I could teach her how to be the RIO for two seaters.

    You find little plush airplanes, and birds and cuddly flying stuff.

    Turns out, she’s decided she likes bats.

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  4. I was laughing merrily until the bats. Guess who got a series of rabies shots this year? Me, that’s who.

    When two bats appear in your bedroom at 3 a.m. the great state of Maryland urges you strongly to get rabies shots.

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    2. Sad part is, bats are no more likely to have rabies than your average stray cat. Raccoons and skunks are a stronger rabies vector but it is the poor bat that gets maligned. :-(

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      1. The theory is that if you were sleeping, you wouldn’t know if they bit you. Fortunately, we were able to get them out and set them free.

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        1. sigh Neither do bats. Bats do not want to be near you, let alone close enough to get in your hair.

          We are far far more of a threat to them than they are to us. A bat will not deliberately harm a human. If they bite, is in fear not malice.

          Sadly, there is much misinformation about bats and they are unnecessarily maligned. They are a very important part of our eco-system.

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            1. Sorry, too many people honestly buy the “bats are dangerous” lie.

              My sister (and me to a lessor extent) has spent hundreds of hours trying to educate people about bats. Sometimes it’s hard to turn off the “bat defender mode”

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              1. I’ve explained to the kids that if a bat is letting you touch it, it’s probably dangerous.

                Which may be the logic for bats being crazy dangerous, because you often don’t even know they’re there unless they’re sick.

                (I love flappy mice)

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                1. “if a bat is letting you touch it, it’s probably dangerous.” That is sound logic.

                  The only reason I have been able to handle a bat was because that bat was an educator bat, and I knew the care taker.

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              2. If we had good locations here on our property we’d put up bat shelters. Neighbors have bird and squirrel (not intentionally, but that is what one neighbor put up) houses.

                Two type of houses that typically get made and put up, for scout Eagle projects are both bat shelters, and Wood Duck bird houses. Or were. Knew about both because involved in scouts when happening plus tended to hit the news. Especially bat shelters because bats are natural insect control. (Now not involved in scouting and avoid the local news blathering.)

                I know we have bats in the neighborhood. Neighbor cats found a bat and were playing with it (not good because cats don’t catch bats unless said bat is sick. Tested, not rabies. Cats in question fully rabies vaccinated, so just standard quarantine until verified. Neighbor ran daycare, so better cats found bat than the curious children.) We had a bat in the office. There were gaps in the roof, and attic, in the server closet. Poor thing was just seeking shelter for the day. It got plucked up, and evicted to the outdoors.

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  5. I had a bat visit my front door camera a couple weeks ago. There was a spider near the camera in the previous motion-detect clip, and then there wasn’t.

    Yay, bat!

    (No, I have no idea what species – just had the IR illumination, so no real color. ‘Small’ is the best I can do.)

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    1. If you’re in N. Amer. it was probably a Big Brown bat, they are the most common and average around 4″ in length. They also seem willing to come around humans a bit more.

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        2. I’ve been lucky enough to handle a Big Brown, and she fit in the palm of my hand. I have not seen a Little Brown in person. LBB have been devastated by White Nose Syndrome in our area. :-( My sister would be able to fill in more details, but the last I saw the LBB were listed as “Critical” in Virginia.

          Ohoo, if you can put up a bat house that would be great.

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    1. They should be detonated.

      Unless they’re offended by stuff that offends Conservative Christians. :wink:

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  9. The Chinese “anti-American propaganda” thing has been noted on The China Show multiple times. The PRC makes these posters designed to show the Americans as Imperialist war-mongers, but you just end up thinking, “Man, I wanna join up with those guys!”

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    1. That’s nothing, you should see the North Korean anti-American propaganda. It’s awesome, we look so cool and badass.

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    1. Drat. Forgot all about celebrating “Che Bar-b-que day”.

      Ah well. Every day is celebrate dead commies day.

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    1. Yeah and the launch tubes are in front of the sail, so not ours or the UK. Not sure where the French keep their launch tubes. Chinese look to be copies of the Russian/Soviet hardware so tubes in front of the sail.

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  21. Not so much a random “happy things” comment, but something I need to be reminded of as the forces against us push harder from this morning’s Epistle reading. Given I needed it perhaps some others do too. So, if I can be forgiven a spot of religion that I think is good secular advice, from Paul’s letter to Titus (3:9-11):

    “But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the laws; for they are unprofitable and useless. Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition, knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.”

    What really jumped about is the part about genealogies. While I suspect Paul had a narrower meaning than I read it, is it not an admonition against those who would divide by ethnicity instead of acts?

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    1. Your interpretation probably works better than Paul’s original, these days. “His ancestors were enslaved by yours!” “Dude, my ancestors were carried off by the Vikings and sold seven-hundred years before Columbus left for the New World. His were running East Africa. Stow it.”

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