One more time, Still looking for that Meme that makes you spit coffee all over your screen. Evil, I know, knowing the price of some of the coffee you drink. Mwahahaha
Apparently otchek/otchig/ocek/ockqutchaun (which turned into woodchook, but actually meant a fisher cat), wuchak/wejak, and woodshaw were some of the Native American names, while groundhog and whistlepig are settler names.
The Shawnee word was kakwa. Lenape/Delaware was munhake.
Marmota monax is the scientific name. I didn’t know they were marmots.
So I guess if a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would make it into wood jam and marmot-ade.
We had a set of pear, apple, peach and plum trees for a bit less than a decade. Every year but two, the late hard freeze wiped out all the fruit but the apples.
One year the hailstorm did it. So we got multiple peaches, pears and plums one year.
I’ve heard of people around $TINY_TOWN raising fruit trees on the tableland (a hundred or so feet higher than us with a much better microclimate), but near the river, we don’t try fruit trees at all. We put vegetable seedlings in the raised bed garden the first week of June, and at least once that month, I have to cover all the beds with heavy plastic for the hard freeze. (Hint: intermountain West, elevation 4000+)
Our tomatoes go in a frost (and squirrel) proof greenhouse at the same time. Not heated, but we use water ballast (50 gallon drum, 24 gallon bottles along the south wall) and muck buckets for most of the plants.
Flyover Falls has some spots where fruit trees can grow–I don’t know about production.
Here in VA the Reader notes that what is normally the 2nd false spring is turning into a real one. We could still be fooled but the white dogwoods are in full bloom and the pink ones are starting.
Don’t have fruit trees because the cherries were gotten by the birds, or moldy before ripe. Dang Oregon rain. We’d get apples, but they never fully ripened before falling off the tree. Cut them open and could still see the clear sugar.
Our dogwoods, 3 pink, and one white, are budding out, but haven’t blossomed. Neither have the neighborhood ones we can see from the street. Don’t know why but ours flower much later than others on the street. The flowering plum has leaves out, some flowers starting to bud. Weather has been alternating from rain to spats of snow, and no moisture freezing. Got over 60 yesterday. Back to rain today, again.
Last year, our lilacs bloomed much like those in the midwest. That was the first time since we moved here in ’03. Some of the formerly unidentified bushes near the fences revealed themselves as lilacs. (Flyover Falls was a riot of lavender bushes; also a first that I can recall, though I’m supposed to be watching the road instead of the yards, so mileage may vary. :) )
We had a mix of snow/rain from a flyby storm this morning–really large, but it went from the coast at Oh Dark Thirty to long gone by 1PM. [Looks at radar.] Ontario (Oregon!) is going to get it in an hour. That was a fast mover.
We got a lot of wind, hail, pouring rain, sideways, then it got nasty. OTOH, no snow. Then it cleared up and blue sky. Hubby was 20 minutes north (golf). They got some early sprinkling, and wind, but nothing beyond that.
Noticed the Camellias are starting to bloom. They are beautiful but look splotchy when rained on.
California Lilacs love our area (evergreen with bright blue compound blooms, and blue pollen). Unfortunately they are hard to keep trimmed down. Not as invasive as the Scotch Broom (evergreen with bright yellow compound flowers and yellow pollen) in that they don’t spread. Had a couple we finally had to take out. One house along Irving had a fence of them 20′ high. They’ve taken them out.
We have two large lilac bushes that date to when the place was a lumber mill/box shook factory (shook==the flat panels for boxes). That mill was built in the early 1920s, and was a company town. Mill closed in 1950, and the buildings demolished (badly–we still get lots of trash/broken glass, plus all the rusted cans that were dumped into garbage pits) around 1970.
One is big–maybe 6′ in diameter, while the large one is more like 10′. Those run 8 to 10′ high, while the small volunteers are a couple feet, and are at least 20 years old. I suspect most of the offshoots are courtesy the local birds, since they cluster along the fence line. (Like how we get juniper seedlings below pine branches and other perching spots.)
When I lived in the midwest, we had a tree-like lilac with a well defined trunk. These have myriad shoots, and I’ve been reluctant to try to clean those out. Lots of small birds build nests in there, too. It’s fairly safe for them.
The weird tree way down the street, which is either star magnolia or a fringe tree, is blooming like crazy. I don’t know how the cold snap and snow will affect it, but the snow during other springs doesn’t seem to have hurt it any.
I’m really sorry that the golden chain tree, down by the main road, got cut down when the house got sold; but honestly, I think it was probably the trees go or the house goes. Not a very large lot, not a very safe position for elderly trees. (Also I guess they’re poisonous.)
Daffodils are thinking about budding, and the tulips are sprouted and well above ground.
I’m pretty sure the crocuses did their thing last month, or even the month before. I was a little busy to notice.
My dad was clearly an optimist. We had a house that could see Long Island sound on the CT shoreline (mostly because we were on a 120′ tall hill the beach was a couple miles away). He planted 2 apricot trees, We averaged about 1/5 springs where the Apricots would get the fruit set without a frost in April and even then odds on the rest of April was so wet that any fruit that did set got moldy. I do remember a couple years we got SOME apricots and they were magnificent but that was a LOT of work for 2-3 small baskets of Apricots.
Apparently you _can_ do that sort of thing, but you need a walled garden for your orchard, or a warm arbor, or a greenhouse, to maximize heat/sunlight and cut the wind.
to decide if a tree is suitable. The CT shoreline is zone 7 and apricot trees are hardy zones 4-9. Thing is hardiness means the tree survives. Produces fruit is a whole ‘nother matter. Coastal CT is at the very upper edge of zone 7 (and I remember it as being Zone 5/6 as a kid but I think USDA changed the numbering in the 80’s). Hardiness is rated on the coldest expected day with zone 7 being 0 to -10 F, I do not remember ever seeing temps much below 0F that was very rare. As I said the fruit setting was affected by hard frosts post flowering. I suspect the rest of zone 7 (which runs down towards NJ/ Maryland and across VA/WV and heads out just south of that to the west) rarely gets frosts After April 1. It was a gamble. Dad’s attempts at figs were even worse as the female trees would grow, but the males wouldn’t, Of course even with that you’d have had to hand pollinate as I don’t think the usual pollinator (fig wasp) is native to Connecticut.
Here, the irises have been trying to come up since December.
Surprisingly, they’ve kept themselves at about 2 inches of foliage in the three months since then
But the tulips are starting to leaf out too, and I’m pretty sure that the crocuses and snowdrops are coming up.
Which, really, means just about nothing weather-wise – other than the corm and bulb plants just don’t care. I don’t think the buds on the trees have even started to swell…
Here the irises hang out above ground all year. So do the Oriental poppies, though they have a tendency to look like wilted lettuce all winter — no, I lie, they die back in the summer, after blooming.
Meanwhile, the daffodils under 1.5″ of snow (so far):
*”IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!”*
Those darn things have weathered worse than snow. Hailstorm mowed them down to the dirt a few years ago. Back they came inside of a week. They’ve survived the cat wars with everybloodything the same size or smaller. Getting compacted when the roofers came and rolled over everything. Toxic waste skunk dying on top of them.
Grape Hyacinths are worse. Propagate by duplicating bulbs, AND by a billion tiny, light weight, black, seeds. Horribly invasive. There is no “but I only wanted them in this section”. Horrible to get rid of too. Have to get rid of every single seed dropped, and dig out every tiny bulb. Even then covering with ground cloth won’t kill them out, bulb/seed will grow and find that cloth edge or overlap, and poke through those joints.
Naw. Not the little Grape Hyacinths. The plant doesn’t interfere with anything else growing. Not tall enough to get harvested with any crop, let alone automated wheat or corn crops. Root vegetables can easily separate from target vegetable. Just won’t stay where they are planted. Kind of like some herbs.
We bought a bag-o-bulbs one year at Costco and planted them along the garden fence. Probably there were 50 bulbs. Two grew, one died, but the survivor is tough. My best guess is that the local critters found the bulbs to be tasty. Had a similar problem when we tried fava beans, planting the seeds in the ground rather than starting indoors and planting seedlings. Lots of little holes where the seeds were.
The garden does a lot better now that we have cats around. Semi-feral for the nearest neighbors, a litter of feral kittens came out a few years back. $SPOUSE is allergic to feline fur, so Kat-the-dog doesn’t have any kitteh friends.
Daffodils are garden flowers now, but they were wildflowers forever, back in Wales and the UK. If you see pics of the places they grow in Wales, it’s no wonder they laugh at deer and hailstorms.
Instead of ‘Spring forward, Fall back’, we do 1 hour ahead in the spring, and 23 hours forward in the fall, skipping the rest of a full day, getting a 4 day work week. (We’d have to redo leap years, too, but that’s fine – it’s another annoyance in need of change).
We could call the new fall routine, the Great Leap Forward.
Trying to find Canadian flag with swastika replacing maple leaf, all I can find is this, which in all truth is funnier. https://i.imgflip.com/8in6gx.jpg
Really not fair. US states started legalizing first. Although the feds haven’t yet. Interestingly enough can’t transport it into Canada for personal use (not that we’d try). Canadian side border guards more interested in catching that than anyone transporting personal weapons across the border (again, not that we’d try). But the emphasis questions sure have changed in the last few years. Fall 2019 we got the grilled on whether or not we had guns (if we had them at home why didn’t we have one with us? Because it is illegal?), Spring 2022, nothing. Fall 2019, barely anything on cannibals, Spring 2022, grilled.
That’s age restricted?!? Good grief. I use it in class without any content warning or anything. Heck, I use parts of that entire series, along with other things. Sheeeesh. Rolls eyes in Cat.
First, the election came along, so I had to cast my Senate vote so that we get a contest between a hypocritical, adulterous swine and the perjuring, treasonous moron who financed his campaign.
Then I saw this today. Sometimes arrogance is so clueless that I have to laugh. Biden was caught after the State of the Union speech saying, “I told him, Bibi — don’t repeat this — you and I are going to have a come to Jesus meeting.”
Worse, the comment I saw on this was critical but totally ignored the cluelessness of telling the Prime Minister of Israel that he was going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting’. Somebody call the Pope!
The Pope! My favorite current joke is that I doubt that the Pope is still Catholic, but I have it from reliable sources that bears still shit in the woods.
Sorry, I meant it was funny because Biden is famously Catholic, not Protestant. :) (That was sarcasm BTW). Ah well, as usual Tom Lehrer had it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhYqeGp_Do.
have it from reliable sources that bears still shit in the woods.
Seen the leavings. Black bears scat has berries, leaves, and twigs, in it. Grizzly bears have berries, leaves, twigs, and bells, and smells like pepper spray. There is a picture of grizzly squatting to leave a deposit out in the wild wild internet, somewhere.
“According to cat behavior experts, felines aren’t that hard to understand.”
PS: Did you know that Ctrl-A no longer selects all the text you just typed, but just the “block”? And selecting manually with the cursor doesn’t work either. It won’t stay highlighted.
According To Hoyt 
the other one they use is “I’m fine.”
LikeLike
“Do me a favor.”
OK, what did I screw up this time?
LikeLike
At least with that one, you’re probably about to get some big hints as to what you did wrong…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh yeah. :)
LikeLike
Only 40?
LikeLike
The in-joke on that one was it was the last of 40 I sent her this week.
LikeLiked by 1 person
And I got lost and didn’t put up some of those, including ones I really liked. Sigh.
LikeLiked by 1 person
You are never under any obligation to use even one. Put the ones you still like up next week. :D
LikeLike
I just get SO MANY.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Better than getting too few.
LikeLike
Still looking for that mean where you spit your coffee all over the screen, one day it will be mine….Mwahahahaha
LikeLiked by 1 person
One more time, Still looking for that Meme that makes you spit coffee all over your screen. Evil, I know, knowing the price of some of the coffee you drink. Mwahahaha
LikeLike
Save the extras for “No time, no guest post, have memes”?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Woodchuck “I lied”.
“Should the Government: Nope”
🙌🙌🙌😂😂😂
LikeLike
I don’t think that’s a woodchuck. It’s the groundhog who lied about spring.
LikeLike
Maybe he lied about being a groundhog, too. :-D
LikeLiked by 2 people
Woodchuck and groundhog are just different names for the same rodent.
LikeLike
Apparently otchek/otchig/ocek/ockqutchaun (which turned into woodchook, but actually meant a fisher cat), wuchak/wejak, and woodshaw were some of the Native American names, while groundhog and whistlepig are settler names.
The Shawnee word was kakwa. Lenape/Delaware was munhake.
Marmota monax is the scientific name. I didn’t know they were marmots.
So I guess if a woodchuck could chuck wood, it would make it into wood jam and marmot-ade.
Also I guess it would like Wojak memes.
LikeLike
And stop calling me Shirley
LikeLike
Not enough coffee.
LikeLike
☕☕
LikeLike
Ok, so the Metapause actually made me laugh.
LikeLike
Spring of deception. Check. It hit 24 F here last night/this morning. The Bradford pears are toast, as are some of the roses. Again.
The hawthorn is still sitting tight. It remembers April 2011.
LikeLiked by 1 person
We had a set of pear, apple, peach and plum trees for a bit less than a decade. Every year but two, the late hard freeze wiped out all the fruit but the apples.
One year the hailstorm did it. So we got multiple peaches, pears and plums one year.
LikeLike
I’ve heard of people around $TINY_TOWN raising fruit trees on the tableland (a hundred or so feet higher than us with a much better microclimate), but near the river, we don’t try fruit trees at all. We put vegetable seedlings in the raised bed garden the first week of June, and at least once that month, I have to cover all the beds with heavy plastic for the hard freeze. (Hint: intermountain West, elevation 4000+)
Our tomatoes go in a frost (and squirrel) proof greenhouse at the same time. Not heated, but we use water ballast (50 gallon drum, 24 gallon bottles along the south wall) and muck buckets for most of the plants.
Flyover Falls has some spots where fruit trees can grow–I don’t know about production.
LikeLike
Here in VA the Reader notes that what is normally the 2nd false spring is turning into a real one. We could still be fooled but the white dogwoods are in full bloom and the pink ones are starting.
LikeLike
Don’t have fruit trees because the cherries were gotten by the birds, or moldy before ripe. Dang Oregon rain. We’d get apples, but they never fully ripened before falling off the tree. Cut them open and could still see the clear sugar.
Our dogwoods, 3 pink, and one white, are budding out, but haven’t blossomed. Neither have the neighborhood ones we can see from the street. Don’t know why but ours flower much later than others on the street. The flowering plum has leaves out, some flowers starting to bud. Weather has been alternating from rain to spats of snow, and no moisture freezing. Got over 60 yesterday. Back to rain today, again.
LikeLike
Last year, our lilacs bloomed much like those in the midwest. That was the first time since we moved here in ’03. Some of the formerly unidentified bushes near the fences revealed themselves as lilacs. (Flyover Falls was a riot of lavender bushes; also a first that I can recall, though I’m supposed to be watching the road instead of the yards, so mileage may vary. :) )
We had a mix of snow/rain from a flyby storm this morning–really large, but it went from the coast at Oh Dark Thirty to long gone by 1PM. [Looks at radar.] Ontario (Oregon!) is going to get it in an hour. That was a fast mover.
LikeLike
We got a lot of wind, hail, pouring rain, sideways, then it got nasty. OTOH, no snow. Then it cleared up and blue sky. Hubby was 20 minutes north (golf). They got some early sprinkling, and wind, but nothing beyond that.
Noticed the Camellias are starting to bloom. They are beautiful but look splotchy when rained on.
California Lilacs love our area (evergreen with bright blue compound blooms, and blue pollen). Unfortunately they are hard to keep trimmed down. Not as invasive as the Scotch Broom (evergreen with bright yellow compound flowers and yellow pollen) in that they don’t spread. Had a couple we finally had to take out. One house along Irving had a fence of them 20′ high. They’ve taken them out.
LikeLiked by 1 person
We have two large lilac bushes that date to when the place was a lumber mill/box shook factory (shook==the flat panels for boxes). That mill was built in the early 1920s, and was a company town. Mill closed in 1950, and the buildings demolished (badly–we still get lots of trash/broken glass, plus all the rusted cans that were dumped into garbage pits) around 1970.
One is big–maybe 6′ in diameter, while the large one is more like 10′. Those run 8 to 10′ high, while the small volunteers are a couple feet, and are at least 20 years old. I suspect most of the offshoots are courtesy the local birds, since they cluster along the fence line. (Like how we get juniper seedlings below pine branches and other perching spots.)
When I lived in the midwest, we had a tree-like lilac with a well defined trunk. These have myriad shoots, and I’ve been reluctant to try to clean those out. Lots of small birds build nests in there, too. It’s fairly safe for them.
LikeLike
We had dandelions last weekend. Also snowdrops, but I noticed the dandelions first. Went hunting for the snowdrops.
This week, crocuses and dwarf iris.
LikeLike
Also daffodils. Sprouts in my neighborhood but flowering at least one other place in a nearby town.
LikeLike
The weird tree way down the street, which is either star magnolia or a fringe tree, is blooming like crazy. I don’t know how the cold snap and snow will affect it, but the snow during other springs doesn’t seem to have hurt it any.
I’m really sorry that the golden chain tree, down by the main road, got cut down when the house got sold; but honestly, I think it was probably the trees go or the house goes. Not a very large lot, not a very safe position for elderly trees. (Also I guess they’re poisonous.)
Daffodils are thinking about budding, and the tulips are sprouted and well above ground.
I’m pretty sure the crocuses did their thing last month, or even the month before. I was a little busy to notice.
LikeLike
Personally I think we’ve reached the pollening. At least, my sinuses think so.
LikeLike
My dad was clearly an optimist. We had a house that could see Long Island sound on the CT shoreline (mostly because we were on a 120′ tall hill the beach was a couple miles away). He planted 2 apricot trees, We averaged about 1/5 springs where the Apricots would get the fruit set without a frost in April and even then odds on the rest of April was so wet that any fruit that did set got moldy. I do remember a couple years we got SOME apricots and they were magnificent but that was a LOT of work for 2-3 small baskets of Apricots.
LikeLike
Apparently you _can_ do that sort of thing, but you need a walled garden for your orchard, or a warm arbor, or a greenhouse, to maximize heat/sunlight and cut the wind.
A lot of planning is involved.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Traditionally one looks at USDA hardiness maps like this
https://www.arborday.org/media/zones.cfm
to decide if a tree is suitable. The CT shoreline is zone 7 and apricot trees are hardy zones 4-9. Thing is hardiness means the tree survives. Produces fruit is a whole ‘nother matter. Coastal CT is at the very upper edge of zone 7 (and I remember it as being Zone 5/6 as a kid but I think USDA changed the numbering in the 80’s). Hardiness is rated on the coldest expected day with zone 7 being 0 to -10 F, I do not remember ever seeing temps much below 0F that was very rare. As I said the fruit setting was affected by hard frosts post flowering. I suspect the rest of zone 7 (which runs down towards NJ/ Maryland and across VA/WV and heads out just south of that to the west) rarely gets frosts After April 1. It was a gamble. Dad’s attempts at figs were even worse as the female trees would grow, but the males wouldn’t, Of course even with that you’d have had to hand pollinate as I don’t think the usual pollinator (fig wasp) is native to Connecticut.
LikeLike
Here, the irises have been trying to come up since December.
Surprisingly, they’ve kept themselves at about 2 inches of foliage in the three months since then
But the tulips are starting to leaf out too, and I’m pretty sure that the crocuses and snowdrops are coming up.
Which, really, means just about nothing weather-wise – other than the corm and bulb plants just don’t care. I don’t think the buds on the trees have even started to swell…
LikeLike
Here the irises hang out above ground all year. So do the Oriental poppies, though they have a tendency to look like wilted lettuce all winter — no, I lie, they die back in the summer, after blooming.
LikeLike
Meanwhile, the daffodils under 1.5″ of snow (so far):
*”IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!”*
Those darn things have weathered worse than snow. Hailstorm mowed them down to the dirt a few years ago. Back they came inside of a week. They’ve survived the cat wars with everybloodything the same size or smaller. Getting compacted when the roofers came and rolled over everything. Toxic waste skunk dying on top of them.
I think those little yellow flowers are immortal.
LikeLike
Grape Hyacinths are worse. Propagate by duplicating bulbs, AND by a billion tiny, light weight, black, seeds. Horribly invasive. There is no “but I only wanted them in this section”. Horrible to get rid of too. Have to get rid of every single seed dropped, and dig out every tiny bulb. Even then covering with ground cloth won’t kill them out, bulb/seed will grow and find that cloth edge or overlap, and poke through those joints.
LikeLike
Hrmmm… would it qualify as a bioweapon if… deployed?
LikeLike
Naw. Not the little Grape Hyacinths. The plant doesn’t interfere with anything else growing. Not tall enough to get harvested with any crop, let alone automated wheat or corn crops. Root vegetables can easily separate from target vegetable. Just won’t stay where they are planted. Kind of like some herbs.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I remember the year my dwarf irises bloomed and withered under the snow. I never got to see them.
LikeLike
We bought a bag-o-bulbs one year at Costco and planted them along the garden fence. Probably there were 50 bulbs. Two grew, one died, but the survivor is tough. My best guess is that the local critters found the bulbs to be tasty. Had a similar problem when we tried fava beans, planting the seeds in the ground rather than starting indoors and planting seedlings. Lots of little holes where the seeds were.
The garden does a lot better now that we have cats around. Semi-feral for the nearest neighbors, a litter of feral kittens came out a few years back. $SPOUSE is allergic to feline fur, so Kat-the-dog doesn’t have any kitteh friends.
LikeLike
Daffodils are garden flowers now, but they were wildflowers forever, back in Wales and the UK. If you see pics of the places they grow in Wales, it’s no wonder they laugh at deer and hailstorms.
LikeLike
They forgot mud season.
LikeLike
Oh, and just to be clear, Llamagedon is one event in the Alpacalypse.
LikeLike
heretic 😎🤣🤣
LikeLike
on a pale llama…
and mirth followed with him….
LikeLike
Instead of ‘Spring forward, Fall back’, we do 1 hour ahead in the spring, and 23 hours forward in the fall, skipping the rest of a full day, getting a 4 day work week. (We’d have to redo leap years, too, but that’s fine – it’s another annoyance in need of change).
We could call the new fall routine, the Great Leap Forward.
LikeLike
The Reader thinks that is carpable.
LikeLike
Ok, I don’t know what Lysenkoism is either. Please tell me so I don’t have to look it up.
LikeLike
Rival theory to Darwin’s theory.
Roughly, changes to the adults’ body are inherited by the offspring.
According to this “theory” circumcised males should produce circumcised male children.
For some reason, the Soviets “liked” this idea.
LikeLike
They liked it so much they sent anyone in the biological sciences who did not publicly agree with Lysenko to the Gulags.
You know, “The Science Is Settled.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
Note, Lysenkoism was an offshoot of Lamarckism.
LikeLike
As a side note, epigenetic can be very Lamarckian. But Lysenko’s approach to improving crop yields simply did not work.
LikeLike
Oh; that guy. Heard of him.
LikeLike
The pollening is already here in Florida. I had to refill my windshield washer fluid yesterday.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Trying to find Canadian flag with swastika replacing maple leaf, all I can find is this, which in all truth is funnier.
https://i.imgflip.com/8in6gx.jpg
LikeLike
This one too
https://i.imgflip.com/8in729.jpg
LikeLike
LikeLike
Really not fair. US states started legalizing first. Although the feds haven’t yet. Interestingly enough can’t transport it into Canada for personal use (not that we’d try). Canadian side border guards more interested in catching that than anyone transporting personal weapons across the border (again, not that we’d try). But the emphasis questions sure have changed in the last few years. Fall 2019 we got the grilled on whether or not we had guns (if we had them at home why didn’t we have one with us? Because it is illegal?), Spring 2022, nothing. Fall 2019, barely anything on cannibals, Spring 2022, grilled.
LikeLike
I will admit it was cheap humor.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yep.
An sarcastic pouting. (I know. Should have tagged it.)
LikeLike
Grilled cannibals?
LikeLike
O, Cannabis…
LikeLiked by 1 person
LikeLike
😁
LikeLike
LikeLiked by 1 person
to provide road kill for rednecks?
LikeLike
“Vot ees zee big joke!?”
“I’m sorry, I can only give you name, rank, and why did the chicken cross the road?”
“Zat ees not funny!”
LikeLiked by 2 people
I wish History would stop rhyming…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcAsIWfk_z4
LikeLike
That’s age restricted?!? Good grief. I use it in class without any content warning or anything. Heck, I use parts of that entire series, along with other things. Sheeeesh. Rolls eyes in Cat.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Probably restricted because it shows why we fought brutal peoples who hated America and our freedoms.
LikeLike
Dang it! Ayn Rand was a prophetess!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9HbQsTgrtk
LikeLike
Unfortunately, we currently are living in Ayn Rand’s world.
LikeLike
Weird, how right she was, for someone who was condemned for being wrong on everything in her own time.
LikeLike
With George Orwell and Aldous Huxley acting as subcontractors, advised by William Nolan.
LikeLike
Ira Levin, too. Everyone always forgets This Perfect Day.
LikeLike
The heck?!
Also, who are Wood and Wei?
LikeLike
Part of the fictional world of the book. To say more would be spoiler territory.
LikeLike
AND Kurt Vonnegut. Plus Robert A Heinlein, from *Orphans of the Sky*
LikeLike
I think I saw that Star Trek episode. Wasn’t the antagonist a childish guy named Trelane?
Also, the Hillary-Nikki blend was certainly artistic. Perhaps too much so, as I was contemplating where I put my emesis container.
LikeLike
The rocking enterprise was hilarious. At first I merely thought it was cool until I scrolled down a little….
And shouldn’t it be a well “bread” croisantasorus?
LikeLike
I thought that last one missed the pun too.
LikeLike
The therapist one. Ouch.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yeah. I know.
LikeLike
Memes? Who needs memes?
First, the election came along, so I had to cast my Senate vote so that we get a contest between a hypocritical, adulterous swine and the perjuring, treasonous moron who financed his campaign.
Then I saw this today. Sometimes arrogance is so clueless that I have to laugh. Biden was caught after the State of the Union speech saying, “I told him, Bibi — don’t repeat this — you and I are going to have a come to Jesus meeting.”
Worse, the comment I saw on this was critical but totally ignored the cluelessness of telling the Prime Minister of Israel that he was going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting’. Somebody call the Pope!
The Pope! My favorite current joke is that I doubt that the Pope is still Catholic, but I have it from reliable sources that bears still shit in the woods.
LikeLiked by 1 person
<senileJoe>C’mon, man! Everybody knows Jesus was a Jew!</senileJoe>
LikeLike
Sorry, I meant it was funny because Biden is famously Catholic, not Protestant. :) (That was sarcasm BTW). Ah well, as usual Tom Lehrer had it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhYqeGp_Do.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Let’s just say that on the Catholic membership question, Mr. Biden is way the hell out in Leftist field.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Seen the leavings. Black bears scat has berries, leaves, and twigs, in it. Grizzly bears have berries, leaves, twigs, and bells, and smells like pepper spray. There is a picture of grizzly squatting to leave a deposit out in the wild wild internet, somewhere.
LikeLike
No. The bear shit on my lawn in Colorado.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I am corrected.
LikeLike
‘Where does the bear shit?’
Anywhere he wants to!
LikeLike
As someone named after a fictional character, I think I would be very reluctant to name a child after a video game character.
Unless it was a very obscure video game.
LikeLiked by 1 person
HULU finally gets something right:
LikeLiked by 1 person
😂
LikeLike
And for another “throw our heads back and laugh” moment….. https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/what-your-cat-is-really-thinking-according-to-cat-behavior-experts-5602837
PS: Did you know that Ctrl-A no longer selects all the text you just typed, but just the “block”? And selecting manually with the cursor doesn’t work either. It won’t stay highlighted.
WPDE.
LikeLike