94 thoughts on “Now Is The Meme of Our Discontent”

  1. Nastycat is definitely a type three. His latest escapades have left evidence. He smells of french fries and onion rings, has a grease mowhawk, and had something blue all over his rear end. Proudly wearing the raiment of his escapades, he tried to snuggle.

    This did not go as he expected.

    He is currently hiding above the wardrobe, hissing and glaring and smelling faintly of lemons. Sometimes kitteh shampoo will do the trick. Others, you go straight to the dawn dishwashing liquid and follow up with baby shampoo.

    Doofus is gloating that he did not have to get wetterized. Now Nastycat hates him too. Later on he will come for snuggles like nothing happened. Until the next time. Nasty is pretty well grown up now, not the coltish little thing he was when he first came around. Still jumps right into trouble whenever he can.

    Neighborcat and Othercat are surprisingly tolerant of bathtime. Perhaps because neither one has gotten so foul they needed the degreaser treatment. I swear Neighborcat has gone to sleep on me wrapped up in his fresh from the dryer towel kitty burrito.

    The not-my-cats are strange.

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  4. Definitely one of your better ones and I’m not just saying that because one I took to Discord made it in. ;) I definitely got a laugh out of Ozzy and Pixar Raz0rfist!

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                1. Well, it’s far from the most famous rendition, which would either be the originally by Jelly Roll Morton, or the one by Satchmo. Both very worthwhile, but I tend to gravitate toward Woody Herman for some reason.

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                    4. I have been accused of (still) living in the 1940’s. My default “radio” stations are 1940’s, etc. And Satchmo, Jelly Roll, and Woody Herman are hardly obscure… so this is a bit bewildering to me. Makes me wonder what other gems I’ve yet to encounter.

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    1. To be fair, there’s a lot of competition for “worst” from the same company that made Avengers. I don’t watch them, so can’t name specifics, but one hears things.

      Not that I’m arguing, though. Avengers really is the worst.

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      1. sigh

        It’s a joke. The video is hilarious because it focuses on utter trivialities.

        Also, Endgame is better than it had any right to be. After that one, Marvel faceplanted hard, but up to then, they mostly had pretty good movies.

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      2. I actually like almost all the Marvel movies, but I haven’t seen Endgame and never will. Never followed the comics much, so I didn’t know what I was getting into with Infinity War. That movie, I hate. Turns out I hate the whole Thanos storyline, start to finish, especially the way the MCU did it. A sequel? Not going there.

        So if there’s a joke to be made about Endgame, I’m not going to get it either. (grin/sweat)

        If we’re being serious about what’s the worst? In a world where “critically acclaimed” crap like Adaptation, Death Becomes Her, The Last Emperor, and Mamma Mia exist, a mere Marvel flub doesn’t even register on the suck-o-meter. Those movies stole money from my pocket and time from my life, and everyone involved in making them owes me. /rant

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  8. I may have read too many Familiars books when the multiplying kit foxes had me wondering if Andre Lestrang is aware that Rodney has relatives?

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        1. I’ve got that on DVD! Along with Mars Attacks! and Spaced Invaders, they make a sort of unholy trinity.
          ———————————
          Captain: “Congratulations on our glorious victory! It…was a glorious victory, wasn’t it?”

          Pilot: “No, but if we think fast we might live to lie about it!”

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          1. The best thing I can say about Killer Klowns is that it is a movie that is utterly, totally, completely committed to its premise. Which is kind of admirable. (OK, also, it gave employment to some obscure actors that I like, too.)

            Mars Attacks is awful, with a few funny bits.

            And I have not seen Spaced Invaders since I was around 8.

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            1. All 3 movies are so bad they’re good. Although none of them reach the same heights (or depths) as Army Of Darkness.
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              “Good. Bad. I’m the guy with the gun.” BLAM!

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                2. I retain a soft spot in my heart for, “Buckaroo Banzai.” Ithelps I was living in New Jersey when the movie came out.
                  But really, I’ve missed most of the great cinematic dogs.

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                  1. Buckaroo Banzai is not a dog!!!! Odd, sure, cult, absolutely, but not a dog!

                    (it’s a really interesting movie as a writer, too, because its structure is so odd. The Bad Guy(s) disappears for like an hour from the plot.)

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              1. Independence Day and yes, they were parallel productions when Hollywood did tons of those. “That studio is doing an alien invasion flick, so we must, too.” Independence Day is garbage, too, but it’s more coherent, somewhat entertaining garbage.

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                1. Rewatch the entire move? Nah.

                  Catch certain scenes? Definitely.

                  “When do we attack?”, “We attack at dawn!”

                  “Tomorrow is the 4th of July!”

                  “I gotta get one of these!”

                  “In the words of my generation. Up. Yours!”

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                2. I dunno. I really, really enjoyed the early scenes where all the hippy-dippy peace activists are convinced the aliens must be Gentle, Peaceful People, and learn otherwise. Briefly.
                  fly.

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                  2. The Reader can’t imagine a movie today giving the ‘right’ people Darwin awards. For that alone, Independence Day is worth it.

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      2. 2019 came home from Thanksgiving and caught a really weird “cold”. So did whole family.

        Here I go again. This f-er is nasty. 103, 5 pounds down in 3 days despite guzzling fluids. Feel like i went 15 rounds in a Rocky movie.

        “No novel Chinese outbreak” “nothing to worry about” “how dare you slander the Central Kingdom!”

        F-ing chicom crud….

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        1. 2019 came home from Thanksgiving and caught a really weird “cold”.
          ……………….

          Same. Only rest family didn’t get it in 2019.

          2021 hit me after New Years. This time Christmas day dinner was canceled because son had it (sick 48 hours). Then dad got it (sick 48 hours). Neither had worse than a slight fever and tiredness. Me? I was damn sick. Very bad cold and flu symptoms (as in I might live?) for 10 – 12 days. Did not go to urgent care. They’d have thrown my ass in the hospital (for the statistics if nothing else). NyQuil for the win. As long as I could breath and sleep.

          F-ing chicom crud….
          …………….

          Yes. Agree.

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          3. I just got over a bug that gave me a noticeable fever and tiredness for about 48 hours, more or less. Wonder if the Vitamin D helped.

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  11. I really appreciated the bulldozer/towel meme, just because I’m glad somebody else has my sense of humor (and didn’t strain to be too obvious with the reference).

    Does it mark me out as the right kind of Odd that I keep a small towel next to my desk at all times? (They’re surprisingly useful at baseball games, too, especially in summer.)

    Republica restituendae.

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    2. Not at all. Back when I was flying full time, I carried a towel in my flight bag. It was amazing how often I ended up using it for something.

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    1. We do children’s message at church, even when we have no children. Today, I had to suggest to Avrim T. Dragon III that he suggest to the squirrels that they not sacrifice a pecan to influence the Almighty’s work with the college football selection committee. (I refrained from speculating aloud about how or if the squirrels would determine if the pecan was a virgin ).

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  19. Our Welsh Society has a Mari Lwyd that comes out for the annual Christmas Tea. The skull is a real one, donated by an old rancher IIRC.
    The tradition, not surprisingly, is an excuse for general carousing and imbibing of spirits.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd

    It’s not as strange as some other Welsh hobbies, like bog snorkeling.

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