107 thoughts on “Sometimes a Meme is Just a Meme”

        1. ANFO is for dangerous right wing terrorizing terrorists.

          Fires are for peaceful demonstrators demonstrating peacefully against teh racisist hetero cis normative patriarchal capitalist oppressor.

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  4. Looks like Rocket isn’t quite sure of domestic life yet.

    The government offers security, their follow through sucks.

    How many of you pulled up the on-line translator and plugged in Horrible for English to Finnish?

    So, Hamas is setting up Planned Parenthood offices in Israel. Margaret Sanger would be so proud!

    The tea party meme following the Hamas-Planned Parenthood meme was a double entendre. Let’s just hope the cult of death doesn’t implement “f*****g” taxes, or it’ll drive the replacement rate even lower.

    I’m sitting here trying to remember the planet/episode that had the worse fatality rate for the landing party’s security members.

    Pinochet probably wished he’d been in a cartoon magical helicopter ride. He’d either have bounced, or pulled a Wiley E. and been fine in the next frame.

    Make sure it was a North Pole, and those danglies were frozen to it.

    First G-rated hen tie picture I’ve ever seen.

    Table support? I suppose there’s a first time for anything, and a last time too!

    You silly goose. If you want your body to glow after cracking like a glowstick, you have to shake it!

    Said only the inhabitants of Innsmouth.

    Those scarps are not for the fainting-goat-hearted.

    I don’t know any farmers who will sell you a goat for six dollars, even if you paid cash, much less a check.

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    1. Alex the chicken on Twitter uses a meme of a raccoon near some sort of instrument(a ruler?) With the comment, “Excuse me, but what the f*&$?”
      One of the very few “f” meme I enjoy.

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    2. How many of you pulled up the on-line translator and plugged in Horrible for English to Finnish?

      I did. I got “kamalaa,’ so it’s close.

      I’m sitting here trying to remember the planet/episode that had the worse fatality rate for the landing party’s security members.

      I’m wondering: What impact did redshirt life expectancy have on Starfleet recruiting? Was it a Starfleet-wide phenomenon, or was it commonly understood in the NCO ranks that one should avoid being on the same vessel as James T. Kirk?

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      1. It would be interesting to learn the life-expectancy of Enterprise Security Personnel in Landing Parties lead by somebody besides Kirk. :twisted:

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        1. I’ll bet you the Starfleet-era equivalent of a dollar and a quarter that somebody, buried deep within the Starfleet bureaucracy, did look into that issue. Since the results weren’t politically palatable, they were never released.

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      3. Scotty and Uhura did ok on landings.

        And that little fireball Yeoman Tamura on Eminiar (computer war planet).

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        1. I think he swiped that from Eric Flint (or vice versa) because it showed up in the original 1632 book as the battle cry of Gustavus Adolphus’ favorite cavalry unit.

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          1. battle cry of Gustavus Adolphus’ favorite cavalry unit.
            ……………….

            Same resource source?

            It is the battle cry of Finish cavalry. Havel has Finish heredity (as well as upper mid NE native). I recognize the phrase in 1632 (2000 Feb) books because of the Change (2004, or 1998 Island in the Sea of Time, which is really “first” but does not include Mike Havel) novels. Read Sea of Time before 1632, but don’t remember if I read Dies the Fire before 1632 or picked up the phrase discussing in 1632 re-read. Dies the Fire makes the phrase more memorable if only because the phrase is actually translated “Hack them down.”

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  5. “The body’s a temple, that’s what we’re told
    I’ve treated this one like an old honky-tonk
    Greasy cheeseburgers and cheap cigarettes
    One day they’ll get me if they ain’t got me yet”

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    1. Unfortunately, The Tolkienist was suffering from Debunker’s Syndrome, where the goal is to insist NO rather than to check out if a quote is reasonable and/or real.

      Quote Investigator did a much better job, which can be summarized as “Tolkien had that as one of his hobby horses and probably said it in about a dozen different ways, and a lot of folks have likewise interacted with it.”

      Which you would kind of expect from a college professor that’s at the very least the grandfather of all modern fantasy.

      Even if we didn’t literally have CS Lewis, one of his best friends, reporting a rhyming conversation, Tolkeinist went went way overboard.

      https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/29/escape/

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      1. Considering the number of versions Tolkien had of various events in his Middle Earth world, I see no problem with attributing the saying to him with the stipulation that isn’t verifiably verbatim.

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        1. I have a great problem with it, which is that Tolkien said it far better. The work of the master craftsman should be respected. You wouldn’t try to pass off your kid’s crayon copy of the Mona Lisa as the real thing, would you?

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    4. I still want Muppet Beauty and the Beast where the entire cast is muppets and the beast is Chris Hemsworth level of good looking until the curse breaks and he turns back into a muppet.

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      4. Right lets assume they go go with the Disney ending as the Mouse owns the Muppets now. As the beast is expiring (Mr. Hemsworth as the beast) Beauty professes her love and we have the magical transformation and the Beast becomes:
        A) Sweetums (Beauty TBD, as is Gaston)
        B) Gonzo (Beauty played by Camilla the Chicken although this presents dialogue issues as she doesn’t ever speak english, Gaston TBD)
        C) Kermit (With Miss Piggy as Beauty and Link Hogthrob from Pigs In Space for Gaston)

        Part of me likes C as it flows from much Muppet Movie Lore, and we get the spectacle of the kiss turning a prince into a frog. Also in C maybe we get Frank Oz singing some of Belle’s songs as Miss Piggy. Problem is both B and C telegraph who the beast really is.
        Sweetums is just so out there that he’s fun.

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          1. Except as noted The Mouse owns Jim Henson Productions lock, stock and barrel. They haven’t had an original idea that didn’t come out of Pixar for a long time and Pixar itself has gone lame and woke. Heaven help us they’d probably do something woke with it. Best to, in the words of one of their recent heroines, let it go…

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            1. Yeah, I really wish Disney didn’t own the Muppets. I’d love to see a rerelease of some of the older Muppet stuff like Hey, Cinderella and The Frog Prince.

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              2. There was one evening during the run of the Muppet Show (maybe nearer the release of the Muppet Movie?) where Kermit got to fill in for Johnny Carson as guest host on The Tonight Show. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem were the band and Fozzie Bear took Ed McMahons job. It was glorious with Frank Oz and Jim Henson just TOTALLY out of control. It was obviously recorded, but it skated way into PG13 and I think Sir Lew Grade (then producing the Muppet Show) may have squashed its availability a bit. It certainly appealed to my then teenage self.

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          1. Or use some pretty ingenue fo4r Belle (preferably who can sing) and who yet keeps Sweetums afterwards going off to live happily ever after, maybe making a comment that as the beast he was prettier than she was :-) . It’s kind of cute. Or better yet resurrect Wanda of Wayne and Wanda who were Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy analogs. Let Wayne be Gaston and voila. Of course Wayne and Wanda were only in like the first season of The Muppet Show so Wanda would essentially be some random girl muppet for all practical purposes.

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      1. Should have been titled “Its OK To Be Angry About Bourgeois Posers Pretending To Be Pseudo-Trotskyites As A Major Grift – Send Me More Money Fools”

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    2. Bernie: “Being a rich socialist and hating Eeevul Capitalism is not a contradiction, because I didn’t earn any of that money — I got it all from the government!”

      How appropriate that Bernie’s initials are BS. Reminds me of another famous Bernie…
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      They get no satisfaction out of being rich unless everybody else is poor. They feel diminished if other people are rich, too.

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      1. Bernie (Played by John Houseman CF Smith Barney adds from 1980’s). “I didn’t crassly earn any of my vast sums, I got it the old fashioned way through graft”.

        It’s a crying shame what Vermonthas become. It is a beautiful state with an traditionalist New England population that made the New Hampshire types look with their Live Free our die look like pale imitations (Think Green Mountain Boys). The state got taken over by all the hippie types moving there in the 70’s-90’s especially to Burlington and University of Vermont. 2020 had hordes of New York City and Boston types migrating during the Wu Flu and lots stayed. Burlington Metro is 214K people that’s a 1/3 of Vermonts population and with UVM undergrads (about 12K) and its liberalism was notorious even 40 years ago when my peers were looking at schools. With the state of Vermont’s population smaller than that of the city (proper) of Boston it won’t take much to bury the rest of the state residents votes.

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  22. With regards to wanting to be a goat: my favorite thing about playing “Spyro the Dragon” was going around gliding, head-butting enemies, and lighting things on fire.

    What more is there to happiness than this?

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    1. Ah, but did you crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women? :-P

      Of course, that assumes our enemies know what women are…

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          1. Yeah I can see it now. Conan wanders into an ale house and notices the dancers and serving wenches are somehow, well wrong, but he is not sure how. He is propositioned by one of side serving wenches, and although he’s seen prettier (way prettier) Conan has been out in the back end of nowhere fighting eldritch horrors and a little podunk village like this is unlikely to show much better and anyways fighting eldritch horrors pays poorly. As Conan gets a bit forward with his alleged wench he realizes precisely what was wrong. A scene much like that at Swamp Castle with Lancelot in “Monty Python and The Holy Grail” ensues and Conan thanks Crom that he had consumed much more of the ale and mead he had been provided. Exit Conan back to the Eldritch horrors as they are less horrifying. Admittedly Robert E. Howard would have said it far more eloquently (and wordily) than I did but I can’t see the story exceeding 2500 words, likely less than 1500. It would hardly earn Mr. Howard a decent lunch.

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              1. I’m afraid seeing Mr Howard never had to write it (thank Crom) we will never know. Although Conan might have made Lancelot look like a piker…

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                  1. To be fair, Conan takes any woman that gains his notice and is willing to be taken. :wink:

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                  2. Of course the Monty Python’s Lancelot saves Galahad (and himself) from the ladies at Castle Anthrax rather than letting nature take its course. But I was thinking more of Lancelot’s reflexive slaughter at Swamp Castle (Mk IV) .

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      3. Not in “Spyro the Dragon”. It was a kid’s game! Granted, a kid’s game with ducks that would sometimes moon you — in which case, ramming or flaming them was rather funny….

        Although, come to think of it, those ducks also sometimes ran away, so I guess you got to see some of your enemies driven before you as well ….

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  23. With regards to the “all I want to be is a goat” meme: my favorite thing about playing “Spyro the Dragon” was gliding, head-butting my enemies, and running around lighting things on fire.

    Is there more to happiness than this? I don’t see it!

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  24. I have the Fairy foxed twice over. I haven’t stepped foot inside a Starbuck’s in 15 years, and if I’m in a place where they ask me for ‘a name’ I usually give then George.

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  27. The ‘Pro-Palestinian Protests’ are disgusting. It’s like if they had pro-Nazi protests in September 1939, and anti-French protests in 1940.

    I mean, I can understand anti-French protests just on general principles, but not in 1940. :-P
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    Those who do not remember the lessons of history are doomed to repeat the mistakes. Those who do remember are doomed to watch everybody else repeat them.

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    1. “ I mean, I can understand anti-French protests just on general principles, but not in 1940. 😛”

      Have you read book 2 of my ‘Republic of Texas Navy’ series? 😁

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