63 thoughts on “Happy Little Memes

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    I was just thinking about Hillary and the Devil.

    Of course, Hillary lost her soul decades before she ran for the Presidency and the Devil would know that. 😉

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      1. Nah she had already sold her soul sometime in high school. Wanted to be wife of a guy who all young girls desired and became President of the US. Devil is still laughing his ass off about that especially as he had just made a deal with a guy from Arkansas who wanted to be president and get all the young girls… Just a warning deals made with the Devil or Djinn Never come out quite like you want them too :-).

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    1. Fr. Martial is like that. “Here’s what you need to know, here’s what needs to be done. Here’s the attaboy list. Any discussion?” If no, then we get the benediction and dismissal. If yes, we present possible other solutions or information for consideration, then we get the benediction and dismissal.

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    1. That one I got. Still trying to figure out the disco one.

      By popular demand, I’ll not find the U-tube rendition of “Disco Sucks”. :)

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        1. Waggles hand. I rather liked “Disco Inferno”, and suspect I still have an LP by Sylvester lurking in the shelves, but any disco exposure wore off some time in the early 1980s.

          Went country. Mostly. (Chuck Wagon and the Wheels did a good chunk of the soundtrack for my life in 1980-82. Lord help me.)

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            1. I went country and western for a while (Alabama, Ian Tyson, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys…) Now I’m classical, Sacred Harp, folk rock, symphonic metal, Ian Tyson… I’m Odd.

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            2. Mine is varied. Pick a genre (barring Disco–only on vinyl).

              Classical (Beethoven symphonies, both orchestral and piano transcriptions.)
              Show tunes (used to go to a community/semi-pro theater in San Jose. If we liked the show, I’d get the soundtrack.
              Classical-adjacent: (W. Carlos, Schickele’s P.D.Q. Bach, Anna Russell.)
              Movie soundtracks (a few)
              Prog rock. (ELP)
              Not-so prog rock. (Moody Blues)
              Hard to categorize: (Steeleye Span)
              Oddities: (Townshend’s LifeHouse Chronical, Dave Stewart/Barbara Gaskin, Dr. Demento)

              I don’t stick with a genre for too long, but the drive on market days is lengthy. Any vehicle has some of my own selected music. Don’t much care for radio/satellite selections.)

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            3. My collection is about 90% rock. Almost 17,000 tracks on 1,600 albums, from ABBA to Warren Zevon, 1960s to 2020s, and still adding more. I just bought another half dozen CDs making over 1,200 on physical disks.

              There are almost 600 tracks of Japanese rock, mostly from various animes. Angela, Yui Sakakibara, Yoko Takahashi and fripSide feature prominently.

              Mannheim Steamroller, Enya, some soundtracks and Babylon 5 music by Christopher Franke. ‘Voices Of Authority’ is 11 1/2 minutes of sheer awesome.

              A little country, more if you count the Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels and Molly Hatchet.

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              1. I bow in respect, or something. Rough count, I have 500 LPs (similar mix) and 450 or so CDs. My software doesn’t count tracks, and so far, only the CDs have been ripped. One album Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans by Pallette Swap Ninjas. They took Sgt Pepper and redid it. I know they’ve done others, but this one appealed. “Luke is in the Desert and Whining” is my favorite title.

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              2. We haven’t bought a CD in a decade. Early ’10s I ripped the ones we had to MP3. Haven’t bought a new CD since.

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                1. Most of the ones I’m buying are to fill in the holes in my collection. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Meat Loaf, Al Stewart, The Byrds and so on. ‘Modern’ stuff, not so much, just a few recent releases from old groups.

                  Once I’ve got something on actual, physical plastic I can listen to it as much as I want, in any way I want. Subscriptions? DRM? Bah! Sony can kiss my tookus.

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                  1. We use the free version of Spotify. Won’t pay for a subscription for Spotify or Satellite Radio. We know neither are 100% coverage. Very irritating when cutting in and out as we travel. Better than what happens when out of range of a station and then have to find a new one, but still irritating. Note, there are a lot of locations where both cell and satellite are not available, just in Oregon.

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                    1. I’ve preferred my own music in the vehicle for many years. When I was working/commuting, I’d have the radio on, but for longer trips (now including the 40 mile drive to town on market day), I want my own music.

                      Started off with a case of cassettes, then to mp3s ripped to CD-ROMs, now Songs-onna-stick.

                      I had to do an unexpected road trip from here to the Midwest 19 years ago, with only and AM/FM radio in the truck. Portions of the country (SE Oregon, Nevada and Wyoming are the worst) don’t have many stations, so it was a choice of one station, silence, or my own singing. ‘Twas a solo road trip, so not too many complaints about the last choice. :)

                      The only downside for physical CDs is my preference for artists with poor CD presence. One or two albums are on my wish list, but the only choice is “used”, and that’s $25 per disk. Hmm.

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              3. 38 Special? Lynyrd Skynyrd?

                BTW, maybe it’s from hearing a fragment of a sermon yesterday morning (before I heard), but is anyone getting Sennacherib vibes from the Iranian helicopter crash?

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                1. I know Mossad is going to be blamed (waiting for somebody to blame Trump #rollseyes), but it looks like enough intrigue has been going on over the Presidency and chances for someone (or someones, might be more than one, said an article) to be Khamenei’s successor.

                  Sort of like a Midsomer Murders mystery: Who isn’t a suspect?

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                  1. Sort of like a Midsomer Murders mystery: Who isn’t a suspect?

                    ………….

                    One person who isn’t a suspect: Biden – who doesn’t have the competency. His handlers? That would come under unintended consequences on something else they were pulling. Noticing that death lasted, something like less than one day of news cycle. And ….. back to President Trump’s NY dog & pony trail.

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                2. I’ve got 8 .38 Special CDs, four more on the want list. 7 Skynyrd CDs and 9 wanted. The only Moody Blues disk missing is Octave, which is in short supply and costs way too much. I did find all the Creedence Clearwater Revival disks.

                  I see a lot of CDs that are not available new and listed at $50 or more used, but ‘Discontinued by manufacturer’ shows as No.

                  Could be worse. The Sekirei anime set shows ONE used copy for $330. Also not discontinued.

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          1. Visiting the Knoxville area this afternoon, I was flipping through radio stations and stumbled across a Western music program. They were playing mix of Western blues, Western swing, and Western country. That was a sufficiently different program from what you hear on your normal rock or country station to be quite noticeable. It was fun. Alas, lost reception near the Sevierville exit off I-40.

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          1. Might have been appropriate for a wedding $SPOUSE was a bride’smaid for. The end of the reception had the bride and groom in a screaming match. It lasted a few years, somehow. (Bridezilla, and the groom was seriously off. Like “don’t go with him to Mexico” off…)

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            1. Lasted more than a decade. The only reason it did not last two is that the wife died of pancreatic cancer.

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    1. Set in a realm with Pooka’s six foot tall rabbits with razor sharp claws and teeth. Bronze armor and Titled, Flopsy Bunny’s Very Very Bad Day, or the How to Cook a Goblin army for dinner.

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    2. Oh, I have no doubt that you could write a sequel to “Flopsy Bunny’s Very Busy Day” that would be “a harrowing scream of rage at a broken world.” What would be almost impossible would be to write such a sequel that wouldn’t cause the reader to throw the book at the wall at Mach 1, not even caring that they were reading on their Kindle, go on the internet and leave reviews about how you’re an evil person who misled them about the contents of the book, and then blacklist you as a writer for the rest of this life and possibly future lives as well.

      The editor/agent is right here. You can write a book to appeal to the readers of “Flopsy Bunny’s Very Busy Day,” but those readers don’t want to hear about your existential angst. Or you can write about said angst, but if you do, for the love of Pete, do not try to market that to readers who want to hear more about the happy little bunny.

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      1. You know how Saturday morning cartoons can have a different effect once you grow up and get a little experience of the world? My take on it would be a subtle bit of background and double entendre that, while still engaging enough for children, would be thought provoking for the adults. Definitely a difficult task to thread that needle, providing both innocent joy and the primal outrage that comes from standing defiant against the gradual dystopianization (totally a word) of the world.

        But yes, you would probably anger a LOT of readers no matter what you did there. Truly though, with the genre twisting that we often do I would absolutely guarantee there is a market, however small, for absolutely bloody everything. I once did a review edit for a story that mixed horror and cute in nigh equal amounts. It more or less worked, and had a small core of devoted fans- but the key word there was “small.”

        Flopsy 2: Wrath of the Forgotten is not a story I’d write, though. I still have space zombies to deal with…

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      2. What? You don’t know the sequel to “Flopsy Bunny’s Very Busy Day” was The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Zounds!

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      3. Beatrix Potter did write not one but two stories where Flopsy’s babies were in danger of being eaten.

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    1. I like the laser one too. Unfortunately our cats disagree. Put the laser dot on another cat, or the dog, or someone’s foot, the cats just glare at us. Anywhere else, they are tearing up whatever. Strangers in the house? They’d all be long gone hiding.

      I really like the one where the meme mocks disarming the border agents. When asked about the possibility one border agent just shrugs and states “All I need is my laser and my cat.” The cat: a bobcat, or cougar.

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  2. Always nice to see, especially since I scrounged up a whole five of them! I also figured I wasn’t the only one who thought Vigo the Carpathian when it came to King Charles’ portrait. :)

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  3. I’m not convinced that “I like feet” is any more of a kink than “I like boobs.” According to Heinlein’s Friday, “Bare feet are as provocative as bare breasts, although most people do not seem to know it.”

    So it may just be a case of “I will give you a name, and I will call you Ankle-biter.”

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    1. So weirdly enough, there’s an actual biological reason for foot fetishes. Turns out there’s a part of the brain that maps certain responses onto certain areas. Sexual organs are basically at one end of that brain part—and feet are the next area over.

      It’s a literal misplaced address.

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  4. Regarding Charles’ portrait, at this point I feel like the elites are just shoving it in our faces, daring us to point out the obvious so that they can laugh and call us crazy, conspiracy theorists, religious nuts, or some combination of all three.

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    1. Waiting for the owners of the Ghostbusters IP to file suit against that painter along the lines of the recent “song sounds like my song” lawsuits, since the only thing the Ghostbusters meme had to change was the face.

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  5. I always thought that reoccurring trope occasionally used in Batman stories where some citizens root for and support the Joker just because they were mad at how much Gotham sucked or whatever to be stupid, until I saw those pro-Hamas protests.

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  6. His name is Brian.

    His father is CEO of a thriving multi-million dollar manufacturing company.

    His IQ is twice the teacher’s.

    He prefers grilled steak, baked potatoes with butter and broccoli (with crumbled bacon on them.)

    The computer he built for himself at home blows the doors off that POS the school makes him work on.

    By the way, he’s already completed the assignment, and corrected 6 of the mistakes you made on it.

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  7. Hey Harari, if we humans are just “hackable animals” why don’t you just hack those Islamic animals into not being viciously genocidal monsters since they’ve obviously decided to take advantage of the West having weak-ass puppets in charge (you know the ones you and your WEF pals installed) to try and start WW3? They kinda want to rule the world too, and I don’t think they care about global warming, living in a pod and eating bugs.

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    1. P.S. They’re not too big on “owning nothing and being happy” either, they’re more into “slaughter the infidel and take his women and wealth as spoils”

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  8. Oh, hey, I found out something weird today.

    I bought this Chicken Soup with Ginseng (Bibigo brand) from the Korean grocery down the way, to fight my cold. I had no idea that these things are basically little cooked chickens plus soup plus rice.

    Well, it turns out that at least the commercial version is cooked so thoroughly that you can eat the bones. I mean, one crunch and they turn into bone meal. Tasty bone meal.

    The South Korean name is Samgyetang, and the idea is that you not only have ginseng in the soup, but a ton of garlic, jujube red dates, and other nourishing things. And then you eat it on the hottest days of the year, so that you “fight fire with fire” and feel cooler after sweating a lot.

    The commercial version I bought is a lot blander than that, but I think the ginseng did help my cold. (Although it was probably the chicken and rice, mostly.) Also I am pretty sure I have all the calcium I’ll need for a week.

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    1. Okay, the bones are just like normal chicken in a traditional stone bowl-cooked soup, but the commercial soup is cooked in a pressure cooker to make the bones soft.

      Also the chickens are supposed to be spring chickens, so they’re pretty small still in the summer, and have smaller bones.

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  9. Okay, the black cat one killed me (and is absolutely true)

    I have a quibble about the desert quadrology, though–that should be Jesus in the Americas NOT in Space :D

    (I know, I know, space is probably funnier, but it’s so inaccurate…)

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  10. “I have plants at home…” (stitches)

    This is any Farmer. Oh- wait, they don’t go to the doc in the first place.

    see youtube : Dr. Glaucomflecken – The Farmer Pain Scale. (WP is being pain about link)

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