108 thoughts on “Memes Alive Alive Oh!”

  1. Seriously, Europeans, you think we sleep like that? Trigger Discipline, dude! Maybe if you had a properly armed citizenry instead of a bunch of disarmed subjects, you’d know these things!

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    2. Remember, Europe is where you find police who are trained to “fire warning shots” — meaning rounds fired over the heads of the crowd, to land g-d knows where. None of Col. Cooper’s Four Laws are understood in that benighted region.

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  4. The “cultural rebellion” one reminds me of a quote I saved from here some time ago: “You can’t be a non-conformist without the proper uniform.” (attributed to Christopher Stasheff)

    The “two days” one brings to mind the beginning of Robertson Davies’s novel “Leaven of Malice”

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  5. The goose/toddler/Marxist Venn diagram has an obvious flaw. I mean, the first thing I took away from it was that Marxists do not poop, and that’s and obvious lie. It just happens that the poop comes from both ends, cuz they’re always talking poop.

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  7. Showed my beloved the President’s Day one and told him if we didn’t have to censor him, our puppet in church would say exactly the same thing. Once he stopped laughing, he agreed.

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  9. I’ve seen the “tell your cat” decal in the wild in my town. It makes me smile.

    Even though I never say that to any cat and only recently learned that was a thing.

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          1. All of our cats over the years were trained, excuse me, learned to respond to “Pspspspsps” for food and affectionate petting.

            On the other hand, we strongly discouraged our cats from getting up on the furniture, usually by a loud “HSSSSSSSSSSSST” and multiple squirts from the g*d-bottle.

            It says a great deal for the intelligence of cats that even if there were multiple cats sprawled around the room, only the cat on the sofa would respond to a HSSSSSSST, with a guilty leap to the floor. All the others would ignore us. ;-)

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      1. Yeah, trying to trill like a mother cat talking to her kittens is my go-to with strange cats.

        With my own cats, of course, “kitikitikiti” was the call to come.

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  11. As far as the nps unicor tweets, two thoughts. 1, when did they go to ok. 2. Giant horse with spike on head. I’d say Australia but is isn’t venemous.

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    1. Regarding the NPS bison example. It is true. Also applies to bull elk in rut, mama bears with cubs, wolf, …, NPS tourist invasions are a thing.

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      1. YES. Well, saw it from my window.
        Caveats: I had a fever at the time. Also, it was Manitou Springs, so I might have been under the influence of the cloud of pot that back then floated over the place.

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  12. The “haven’t found a soul mate” meme works the other way ’round, too. When you are the relatively simple, straightforward Liberty and Constitution type and everyone else is so full of complicateds they need a whole team of therapists and medications on the daily…

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  13. The creative process meme needs to be applied to an inverted bell curve. “This is tricky goes right on the first curve. “This sucks” follows close after. “I suck” is the bottom of the bell. The other two mirror the first two on the opposite side of the bell.

    This visualization shows you about how much work it takes to get from “I suck” to “this is awesome.” More or less. Sometimes I finish something at the “I suck” stage and the readers jump immediately ahead to the “awesome” stage.

    Which means the readers are weird, of course. Lovable weirdos though.

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    1. The reason Esperanto never took off is because English already is a mixture of all the other languages. English steals all the good words and ignores the crap, that is why there is an exception to every grammatical and spelling rule in English. I before E except after C, unless you are spelling these two thousand other words. Fight me.

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  15. #1 was prevented this morning by a charlie horse in my right calf. I woke so fast I scared the cats.
    further along.
    “Becoming a dad” – way back in 1986 I worked in a bicycle shop and “Getting Laid” was a valid excuse for being late or missing work.

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              2. The 1980s: More Fun than High School.

                Pretty low bar.

                A youngster, a young lady, asked me the other day what the clubbing was like when I got out of HS “back in the day.” I looked at her and noted “My degree is from the school of engineering, I successfully managed to graduate, and I worked my way through college, so I do not know what is this ‘clubbing’ thing of which you speak”.

                That said, it was certainly a much less fraught time than now, even with the USSR still there and thus with everyone in the media screeching on and on about how Ronald Reagan was going to cause global thermonuclear war by not being submissive to the Kremlin. Oh, and screeching about AIDS. And pollution. Acid rain. And overpopulation was still a screechable thing.

                I had a nice little car in the 80’s, a ‘72 240Z, bright orange.

                Yep. Better than HS.

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                1. FM said “I had a nice little car in the 80’s, a ‘72 240Z, bright orange”. I gad a ’74 Gold duster and as ’77 Cutlass. Clearly I was doing something wrong…

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                    1. Those were pre 1974 emissions Cutlassses mostly or with the larger (427?, that seems wrong like a Ford engine size), This had the standard anemic 350 (maybe 150 BHP) and a really awful slushbox of a 3 speed auto for pushing its 3800 lb+ mass about. It was a nightmare of a vehicle as many of the GM late 70s/early 80’s cars were. I got it with about 50K miles on it which was about late middle age for a GM vehicle at that time. It broke down constantly. The day my wife and I put the contract on our 1984 accord it broke down on the way home with a fuel pump issue. When we traded it in 4 weeks later (accords were a waiting list vehicle in 1984) the guy looked at us said, “Thats a real pretty car bet you’re sorry to be trading it in”. My wife and I laughed really hard at that…

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                    2. guy looked at us said, “Thats a real pretty car bet you’re sorry to be trading it in”. My wife and I laughed really hard at that…
                      ………………..

                      We had a ’94 Dodge Intrepid. Not that it broke mechanically. It had dang “Hit Me” signs all over it that we could not get rid of. I swear. Had two not at fault accidents within days of each other a little over 6 months of owning it. Seriously. Damage didn’t quite overlap each other. (Also why we use dash cameras now, although we got them for the scenic drive sections of our vacations.) It had 3 other, over the next 6 years, not at fault accidents, before we gave in and said “enough already”. Never had a single accident in any of the subsequent vehicles we’ve had. Prior to that in 15 years we’d only had 3 total, and the letourneau and great pumpkin incident (kids rolling pumpkin down steep hill, road turns, pumpkins don’t, pumpkin stops because of car), don’t count.

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                  2. If one was anywhere that roads were regularly salted those 240z front body rails rusted right the heck through. Heck, mine was a California car and it had rust spots down low between the rear wheel wells and the bottom of the doors.

                    The sheet metal on your Duster and Cutlass are probably still intact to this day.

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                  3. The Reader’s 75 Duster and his better half’s Olds 442 both had significant body rust when they went to their graves. The worst rust the Reader ever saw was on his 82 Toyota Celica. It went to the junkyard rusted through and through.

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                    1. Both the Duster and the Cutlass had major body and frame rust (I had actually had to replace one of the K frames at the front in the duster as it was coming apart and making steering very difficult). Worst rust I ever saw was a 70’s CVCC Honda Civic, I don’t think Japan uses Salt on its roads so they didn’t undercoat heavily originally. Floor boards were nearly gone and the panels looked like it had leprosy. Toughest cars I ever saw were SAAB 99 and 96 never saw any rust on one of those and they were tanks meant to survive collision with a moose.

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                    2. Any ’70s vehicle either one of us would have had in HS or college would have been “new”, so we had vehicles from ’50s and ’60s. Hubby had a ’58 (by the time we sold it mid ’80s, it was rusty more than a little bit), mine was a ’65, paint shot, but not rusted, when we sold in early ’80s. We owned a new to us (in ’80) used ’79 Toyota Celica. It’s back end got ran over by a log yard Letourneau (yes, hubby was parked where he was suppose to be). The company paid for it to be fixed (cost them $3500, car was only worth $2500 by then).

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          2. Yeah the Brahmandarins have all the vices of the Puritan fathers and none of the virtues. And the Puritan father’s virtues were damned slim.

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            1. Depends on which Puritans, and when. They were not the insufferable, arrogant kill-joys depicted by later writers. (Yes, there were a few who even the other Separatists looked at and said, “Joseph, thou shouldst get a life,” but not as many as Hawthorne et al imply.)

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              1. Fair enough TXRed. Though even within the Puritans the the square pegs like Roger Williams (Founder of Rhode Island) could go pretty weird. It is said that Williams got SO picky in his beliefs that by the end of his life he didn’t consider himself in communion with other Christians, even his Wife. And some of their descendents including my ancestors got weird wiggy ideas like Temperance and that Jesus NEVER consumed alcohol even though his first miracle was to create several hundred gallons of top notch vino, and considering that being a devout Jew he would have consumed wine as part of Passover among other Jewish Holidays. They are an interesting if strange group…

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  16. The “I have questions” one – guy had a remote starter so he started up his car ten minutes before getting in. So the light snow that was still falling melted when it hit the still-warm asphalt under where the car used to be parked, but did not melt when it hit the tire tracks. The footprints still being there can be explained by salt from the sidewalk still being on his shoes as he walked to the car. Note how his earlier footsteps are the most distinct, but his later footsteps as he gets closer to the car are fuzzier, because some of the salt had fallen off by that time so those footsteps are starting to get covered over by a dusting of the still-falling snow.

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              1. On that note, back in November we went out for pizza with a group of area fans that included both a recent Hugo winner, and a former Air Force intelligence guy.

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      2. Honestly, my first thought was “prank”, where you scrape out the outline of a car, then walk backwards in your own footprints. But who would bother when there’d be so little payoff?

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    3. Clearly it’s an auto elevator entrance to the batcave.

      Or maybe that flippy-upside-down car parking thing that Green Hornet had. ]]

      Yep:

      I like how he needs Bruce Lee to press the buttons.

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        1. Remember Simon The Jester did almost as much to bring down Mort the Wort as Mycroft did. And the Turnip in chief really hated the “I Did That” stickers.

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      1. No, though I’ve heard about it.

        But more importantly, the general topic has been in the video game news for a while now. For example, a couple of days ago in the comments here I mentioned Stellar Blade, an upcoming Korean game that has caught a lot of flak from the wokesters because of “unrealistic physical expectations for women” based on the protagonist.

        She’s literally based on the body of the 32 year-old model that they used to mo-cap her.

        ^.^;;

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        1. In one of the early scenes, Meryl Streep literally had her head on backwards.

          There was a meme here a couple of months ago, going on at some length about how Barbie does untold damage to little girls by setting unreasonable expectations.

          2nd image: “This is He-Man.”

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  25. Heh, thank you! My favorite was the woodland sprite. Also, I am getting rusty on Bollywood. 8-10 years ago, I would have recognized the image from “Democrats and Nikki Haley” as being from Bodyguard 2011 even though I’ve never actually watched it. Today had to scroll through the leading man’s filmography a ways to figure it out.

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  26. Re studying languages:

    I spent more than a year doing French lessons every night on DuoLingo. I often thought I would like to visit Paris in the springtime, and sit at an outdoor café for a few hours each day just enjoying the conversations around me.

    I figured if I could collect a nickel for every consonant that was not pronounced, in a week I could pay for my round-trip airfare, hotel bill, and all the croissants I could eat. ;-)

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