Burglar alarm doesnt have a siren or bell. It blasts on loudspeaker the Intruder playlist:
Key parts of Another one bites the dust
Intro and Key parts of Paint it black
key parts of Ride of the Valkyries, for brass
excerpts of various kill scene motifs from classic slasher franchise movies. (Lots)
interspersed throughout: various Ceasar Romero’s Joker laughter.
(Joker grin)
A relative, not noted for violence, ran a burglar out of their house with a Wakizashi. Screaming like a lunatic, they pursued the burglar -way- down their ‘hood street.
In subsequent years, not one theft, burglary, or even graffiti. Nada.
Brother from another mother of mine was laid up for a while, so he went and started doing the online work for a bit. Took calls for the IT department and suchlike, consulting, the whole bit. Kept him home for six months while he healed up.
Apparently some bright sparks from the ‘hood decided “Hey, that house looks like there’s nobody home. Truck hasn’t moved in ages. Let’s break in!”
This proved to be a classic Bad Idea.
Said two dummies were caught at their mommas house, one with shat britches, the other with skinned knees as he ran away from the half naked screaming lunatic that chased them screaming out of the house with a bared machete.
Instances of robbery dropped vee-ery quickly in that neighborhood thereafter. My bud told me he just grabbed the first thing handy. Fools were lucky it wasn’t the 12 gauge, otherwise they’d have been assuming room temp before the police showed up…
one of the ways that the public was convinced to fund the highway system is that paving companies would go out and pave a mile of highway on their own dime (out in the middle of nowhere, where they didn’t need extensive permitting), people would be driving along the dirt roads, then hit a mile of good pavement, then go back to dirt roads again. People then started lobbying in their nearby cities to get more paving done around the cities and on the major roads between cities
“Oooh, look, a plot twist! They’re very pretty and shiny, but *danger! danger!* If you don’t handle it *just roight* it’ll turn right back round and bite you, and make your readers angry!”
re: Springfield, OH. I don’t blame the Haitian immigrants that much, they come from a place where nobody has pets and any animals around are fair game for food.
I blame the feds who bring them in large numbers and plop them down to fend for themselves rather than spreading them out to hosts who will teach them the US culture (including, people keep animals as pets, you aren’t just allowed to catch and eat them)
But those people believe that US culture is evil and every other culture is better, so it’s not a surprise.
Also, historically, every time there has been a large influx is immigrants from one country and they form their own neighborhoods, it then takes several generations longer for them to integrate into the US than when they are spread out with a tiny number of immigrants in any one area.
As Sarah says, assimilation is hard, it’s easier for people from another culture to group together with others from the same (or similar) cultures, but that just creates more pain over the long term.
Case in point, from the Demented Dominion this week, @$$h0le$ stealing spawning salmon out of Bowmanville Creek here in Ontario.
If you take the spawning fish, and all the eggs, next year there will be no fish. And everybody knows that.
Bro was not from Haiti, and he was not a poor starving refugee fleeing death in the Turd World. He is an opportunistic pr1ck and a bad fisherman, out doing whatever he thinks he can get away with because it’s not HIS country, right?
your concerns are valid, but if nobody told him that there were regulations around fishing, how would he know? it’s not like you can lookup ‘are there laws against…’ for everything that you are going to do in a day.
If he’s from a place that had no fishing laws, why would he even think to look up if there are such laws?
This is why there are always significant problems when you have mass immigration of groups from one location that settle together in the US, but don’t when they are sponsored and have someone who knows the laws and customs to guide them when they arrive.
The Stargate series (er, the USAF’s Deep Radar experiments in Colorado) is pretty much set in this world with a secret project is sending teams offworld. Somehow the government keeps it secret and even manages to handle leaks competently. Though O’Neill was a bit skeptical about the fatal auto accident a reporter had.
All the sticks are gone from the yard, as fall cleaning is in full swing. Nastycat was very sad. He moped around the yard for a day. Then it happened. The dino-ing.
Nasty found a muddy, discarded plastic dinosaur from some back lot nearby and brought it home. And he loves the thing. It was stinky. It was absolutely foul (until I cleaned it up, so he wouldn’t get infections in his mouth). He plays with it. He chews on it. He eviscerates it with his back claws while chewing and grabbing it. And he even sleeps with it.
No other cats are allowed to touch the precious pink dino. Why is it pink? Himself only knows. And Nasty. But Nasty has found his one true love, his obsession. Other than the grease disposal behind the restaurant.
Neighborcat looks upon the new addition to the yard with… Well, I won’t say contempt, because that would be too much. Not indifference. I’d say it’s more on the realm of sad acceptance. Neighborcat knows Nasty is not right in the head. But he’s part of the family, so nobody else gets to pick on him. Now if only the black fuzzball wasn’t so darned embarrassing.
Othercat and Neighborcat teamed up to hunt down the skunk that has been scarily taunting the neighbordogs. By all accounts it was a vicious battle. Neither one got directly sprayed, but there was a bit of whiffyness. Both got their baths to get the stink out, but that couldn’t dim the pride the two have for their hunt.
They tried to bring their kill to the back door, as is the usual practice but I stopped them at the property line and buried the mangy, bedraggled, stinky corpse. Both cats got their scritches, as it due, and then their bathtime. Those to will be insufferable for a week at least.
Doofus once again tried to drown himself in the chicken soup the other day. It’s an adventure cooking while trying to hold down a cat with one arm and check on the stew (it’s thicker than soup, and got lots of other good stuff in it. Carrots, potatoes, broccoli, peppers, onions, and lots and lots of chicken.
The orange fuzzmonster got his piece once the stew came off heat and promptly dropped into a comanap right on my feet when he finished. Doofus would eat chicken every day, for every meal forever if he could. That silly orange floofball doesn’t have an addiction- chicken is his purpose and goal in life. To eat, to nap, to snuggle- and to never ever have to go outside or meet any dogs, ever.
Fall and cooler weather will be here before too long. The back mudroom will be catterized with Neighborcat and Othercat most like once the nights get cold enough. Maybe this year Othercat will scare the kiddies off again when he pops out of the pumpkin like he did last year. He seems to get a kick out of ambushing the little ones- his human kitten people, as they are.
Life continues apace in the furry foursome’s little world. Fewer birbs will be snacked upon, more squirrely menaces will be noshed, and the population of mice, rats, moles, voles, and other small prey will plummet as Neighborcat and Othercat get their Autumn killing spree on.
No worries of politics or economics bother the feline tenants here. Our immigrants have mostly been those fleeing blue places, looking for safe harbor. Some of them bring pets along, like the wooly Chammoth that took up residence near my folks place. Picture a dog as big as a pony, only with fur that’s sticks out probably two feet from its burly body. He’s a big goofball and has been a tremendous hit with the neighbors down there.
May we all have the joy and contentment of such a silly monsterpup, and may there always be happy faces wherever we go, just as with him. The world may be a dangerous, vile, and untrustworthy place sometimes, but remember: there is beauty and sanctuary within it as well. No man is wholly evil who loves his pets so, no matter who he is. Best we treat ourselves and our fellow man better as we can, so that we may be worthy of the love our little fuzzy creatures do for us.
Miz Kitty has been very supportive during the last 24 hours of “seriously?”
She apparently saw the above meme, as she is backed up against me yet again, bashing me with her tail.
While online dealing with a vexing work problem, and someone’s repeated sub-optimum behavior, she did just about every trick and/or annoyance to get me to turn away from the pc and call that was clearly annoying me. Once I turn, she keeps repeating her “come here” trill, just out of reach, trying to get me all the way back to bed for pets, brush, and/or “I thump you”.
And of course, Miz Kitty brings me her toys to throw.
The DJT and Keanu one is pretty good except for whatever happened to whatever that is where Donald’s sighting stuff is supposed to be.
The odd thing is, subsequent AI art meme (the DJT as Rambo with critter friends emerging from the water one) renders the AR sighting stuff fine. Likely a different engine I suppose.
I just realized the Rambo one was not here but over at Powerline, and they have deployed special juju to keep me from just linking it, so go look over there…
The California in the 80’s blonde girl’s hair and clothes are correct, but the AI needs to do more training on CA license plates – the red script top is right, but the bottom was blank in the 80s, and the plate sequence in that period was 1,2 or 3, then three letters and three numbers, so 1 ABC 123.
And that car is some weird 70s Camaro-Vega unholy mutation. 1980 Camaros were more pointy nosed, then lost the grill completely in 1982 – here’s a 1980 Camaro Z28:
If you squint, you can almost convince yourself that the text at the bottom of the license plate was part of a dealer-specific plate surround. It’s easier if the glasses are in their case and the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. :)
Haitian probably in Haiti, cooking a cat and finishing off hair removal. Does not hide anything. It is from nine years ago. Do not watch if you have a cat.
I was thinking about this. Voodoo practices animal sacrifice (including eating the sacrificed animal) under certain conditions and I understand that cats are a big part of that. Finding themselves trapped in a very foreign environment, with no way out, they might easily turn to their religion in an effort to change their circumstances.
According To Hoyt 
Oh -thank you-. I needed good laughs after the last 24 hours of (poop)show.
Grown men should -not- eat the whole dang pot of asshole soup.
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Toxic waste show. Comparing the last 24 hours to that which aids plant growth is a slander against the later.
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Strictly private life. No political connection.
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Burglar alarm doesnt have a siren or bell. It blasts on loudspeaker the Intruder playlist:
Key parts of Another one bites the dust
Intro and Key parts of Paint it black
key parts of Ride of the Valkyries, for brass
excerpts of various kill scene motifs from classic slasher franchise movies. (Lots)
interspersed throughout: various Ceasar Romero’s Joker laughter.
(Joker grin)
A relative, not noted for violence, ran a burglar out of their house with a Wakizashi. Screaming like a lunatic, they pursued the burglar -way- down their ‘hood street.
In subsequent years, not one theft, burglary, or even graffiti. Nada.
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‘I Am The Storm’ and ‘Showtime’ by Blue Öyster Cult :-D
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Bodies Drowning Pool
Chorus from March of Cambreadth
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Brother from another mother of mine was laid up for a while, so he went and started doing the online work for a bit. Took calls for the IT department and suchlike, consulting, the whole bit. Kept him home for six months while he healed up.
Apparently some bright sparks from the ‘hood decided “Hey, that house looks like there’s nobody home. Truck hasn’t moved in ages. Let’s break in!”
This proved to be a classic Bad Idea.
Said two dummies were caught at their mommas house, one with shat britches, the other with skinned knees as he ran away from the half naked screaming lunatic that chased them screaming out of the house with a bared machete.
Instances of robbery dropped vee-ery quickly in that neighborhood thereafter. My bud told me he just grabbed the first thing handy. Fools were lucky it wasn’t the 12 gauge, otherwise they’d have been assuming room temp before the police showed up…
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Love a good happy ending story…
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Jaws theme….
And then Darth Vader’s theme…
…time passes…
Found by archaeologists in 4,424 AD…
Archaeologist’s notes: “Somebody sure found out that day…”
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“Eat those tasty bugs, peasant! Cat is reserved for you betters!”
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That was put in as a new comment at the bottom, not a reply. WPDE
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It boogered mine up, to.
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re: random inspiration
one of the ways that the public was convinced to fund the highway system is that paving companies would go out and pave a mile of highway on their own dime (out in the middle of nowhere, where they didn’t need extensive permitting), people would be driving along the dirt roads, then hit a mile of good pavement, then go back to dirt roads again. People then started lobbying in their nearby cities to get more paving done around the cities and on the major roads between cities
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Or sometimes the paving company would be paid to build it by some group like the Lincoln Highway Association.
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Cats Love Liberals…. To Eat! [Crazy Grin]
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The Crocodile Hunter writer… xD
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I can neither confirm nor deny that I have done that.
Although my readers probably could, to be honest. *headdesk*
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Yeah. Let’s … just not go there, shall we.
But I am 100% with the otter at the top of the week’s list.
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I…. Uh. Am a Crocodile Hunter Writer.
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“Oooh, look, a plot twist! They’re very pretty and shiny, but *danger! danger!* If you don’t handle it *just roight* it’ll turn right back round and bite you, and make your readers angry!”
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I’m going to die from being stung by a subplot.
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You are forbidden to do any such thing. You can’t argue with me, I’m your editor. :P
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re: Springfield, OH. I don’t blame the Haitian immigrants that much, they come from a place where nobody has pets and any animals around are fair game for food.
I blame the feds who bring them in large numbers and plop them down to fend for themselves rather than spreading them out to hosts who will teach them the US culture (including, people keep animals as pets, you aren’t just allowed to catch and eat them)
But those people believe that US culture is evil and every other culture is better, so it’s not a surprise.
Also, historically, every time there has been a large influx is immigrants from one country and they form their own neighborhoods, it then takes several generations longer for them to integrate into the US than when they are spread out with a tiny number of immigrants in any one area.
As Sarah says, assimilation is hard, it’s easier for people from another culture to group together with others from the same (or similar) cultures, but that just creates more pain over the long term.
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As I said in “International Cuisine.”
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“I don’t blame the Haitian immigrants that much…”
I do.
Case in point, from the Demented Dominion this week, @$$h0le$ stealing spawning salmon out of Bowmanville Creek here in Ontario.
If you take the spawning fish, and all the eggs, next year there will be no fish. And everybody knows that.
Bro was not from Haiti, and he was not a poor starving refugee fleeing death in the Turd World. He is an opportunistic pr1ck and a bad fisherman, out doing whatever he thinks he can get away with because it’s not HIS country, right?
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your concerns are valid, but if nobody told him that there were regulations around fishing, how would he know? it’s not like you can lookup ‘are there laws against…’ for everything that you are going to do in a day.
If he’s from a place that had no fishing laws, why would he even think to look up if there are such laws?
This is why there are always significant problems when you have mass immigration of groups from one location that settle together in the US, but don’t when they are sponsored and have someone who knows the laws and customs to guide them when they arrive.
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Don’t get the Stargate ones.
Like the, “Let them eat cats,” meme.
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Maybe something to do with this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
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Well, SpaceX has a building at Boca Chica (Starbase) labeled thusly:
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I don’t get it either, but if we’re going todo Stargate memes:
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The Stargate series (er, the USAF’s Deep Radar experiments in Colorado) is pretty much set in this world with a secret project is sending teams offworld. Somehow the government keeps it secret and even manages to handle leaks competently. Though O’Neill was a bit skeptical about the fatal auto accident a reporter had.
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Ha! New toy this morning. Today’s RobWords on YT talks about runes, and includes a link to an English-Alphabet to various rune systems transliterator.
If WP(DE!) will display them, an example is
https://valhyr.com/pages/rune-converter
Meme in Runes! It’s the Next Big Thing!
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To go with the runes …
https://img.freepik.com/premium-photo/viking-trump-fantasy-character-photo-ai-generated_980993-3648.jpg?w=2000
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Dang, let me try again:
https://tenor.com/embed.js
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Grrrrrr….
https://tenor.com/view/hercules-its-gonna-be-big-nudge-gif-14375360
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A bit hard to read (I think it’s using younger futhark; I can read and write ELDER futhark), but a cool thing nonetheless.
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The site offers 6 rune systems; I chose ‘anglo saxon futhark’ — in Elder that is rendered
I also like
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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My eyes! My eyes!
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Cat report:
All the sticks are gone from the yard, as fall cleaning is in full swing. Nastycat was very sad. He moped around the yard for a day. Then it happened. The dino-ing.
Nasty found a muddy, discarded plastic dinosaur from some back lot nearby and brought it home. And he loves the thing. It was stinky. It was absolutely foul (until I cleaned it up, so he wouldn’t get infections in his mouth). He plays with it. He chews on it. He eviscerates it with his back claws while chewing and grabbing it. And he even sleeps with it.
No other cats are allowed to touch the precious pink dino. Why is it pink? Himself only knows. And Nasty. But Nasty has found his one true love, his obsession. Other than the grease disposal behind the restaurant.
Neighborcat looks upon the new addition to the yard with… Well, I won’t say contempt, because that would be too much. Not indifference. I’d say it’s more on the realm of sad acceptance. Neighborcat knows Nasty is not right in the head. But he’s part of the family, so nobody else gets to pick on him. Now if only the black fuzzball wasn’t so darned embarrassing.
Othercat and Neighborcat teamed up to hunt down the skunk that has been scarily taunting the neighbordogs. By all accounts it was a vicious battle. Neither one got directly sprayed, but there was a bit of whiffyness. Both got their baths to get the stink out, but that couldn’t dim the pride the two have for their hunt.
They tried to bring their kill to the back door, as is the usual practice but I stopped them at the property line and buried the mangy, bedraggled, stinky corpse. Both cats got their scritches, as it due, and then their bathtime. Those to will be insufferable for a week at least.
Doofus once again tried to drown himself in the chicken soup the other day. It’s an adventure cooking while trying to hold down a cat with one arm and check on the stew (it’s thicker than soup, and got lots of other good stuff in it. Carrots, potatoes, broccoli, peppers, onions, and lots and lots of chicken.
The orange fuzzmonster got his piece once the stew came off heat and promptly dropped into a comanap right on my feet when he finished. Doofus would eat chicken every day, for every meal forever if he could. That silly orange floofball doesn’t have an addiction- chicken is his purpose and goal in life. To eat, to nap, to snuggle- and to never ever have to go outside or meet any dogs, ever.
Fall and cooler weather will be here before too long. The back mudroom will be catterized with Neighborcat and Othercat most like once the nights get cold enough. Maybe this year Othercat will scare the kiddies off again when he pops out of the pumpkin like he did last year. He seems to get a kick out of ambushing the little ones- his human kitten people, as they are.
Life continues apace in the furry foursome’s little world. Fewer birbs will be snacked upon, more squirrely menaces will be noshed, and the population of mice, rats, moles, voles, and other small prey will plummet as Neighborcat and Othercat get their Autumn killing spree on.
No worries of politics or economics bother the feline tenants here. Our immigrants have mostly been those fleeing blue places, looking for safe harbor. Some of them bring pets along, like the wooly Chammoth that took up residence near my folks place. Picture a dog as big as a pony, only with fur that’s sticks out probably two feet from its burly body. He’s a big goofball and has been a tremendous hit with the neighbors down there.
May we all have the joy and contentment of such a silly monsterpup, and may there always be happy faces wherever we go, just as with him. The world may be a dangerous, vile, and untrustworthy place sometimes, but remember: there is beauty and sanctuary within it as well. No man is wholly evil who loves his pets so, no matter who he is. Best we treat ourselves and our fellow man better as we can, so that we may be worthy of the love our little fuzzy creatures do for us.
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Thank you for a cat report. That cheered me up.
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Indy totally would, if mean mommy would let him.
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Miz Kitty has been very supportive during the last 24 hours of “seriously?”
She apparently saw the above meme, as she is backed up against me yet again, bashing me with her tail.
While online dealing with a vexing work problem, and someone’s repeated sub-optimum behavior, she did just about every trick and/or annoyance to get me to turn away from the pc and call that was clearly annoying me. Once I turn, she keeps repeating her “come here” trill, just out of reach, trying to get me all the way back to bed for pets, brush, and/or “I thump you”.
And of course, Miz Kitty brings me her toys to throw.
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yeah, mine have been very good through the last month and a half of bureaucracy hell. ALMOST through now, but argh.
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The Marie Antoinette one may be the best one.
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Calling Kackling Kamela ‘two-faced’ falls far short of the reality. :-D
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yet there are people out there who will straight faced voice support for that witch
ignorance must be bliss
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“No-face” might be more appropriate.
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The DJT and Keanu one is pretty good except for whatever happened to whatever that is where Donald’s sighting stuff is supposed to be.
The odd thing is, subsequent AI art meme (the DJT as Rambo with critter friends emerging from the water one) renders the AR sighting stuff fine. Likely a different engine I suppose.
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I just realized the Rambo one was not here but over at Powerline, and they have deployed special juju to keep me from just linking it, so go look over there…
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The cat with glasses Trump is carrying is Catturd.
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SFBS
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The California in the 80’s blonde girl’s hair and clothes are correct, but the AI needs to do more training on CA license plates – the red script top is right, but the bottom was blank in the 80s, and the plate sequence in that period was 1,2 or 3, then three letters and three numbers, so 1 ABC 123.
And that car is some weird 70s Camaro-Vega unholy mutation. 1980 Camaros were more pointy nosed, then lost the grill completely in 1982 – here’s a 1980 Camaro Z28:
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If you squint, you can almost convince yourself that the text at the bottom of the license plate was part of a dealer-specific plate surround. It’s easier if the glasses are in their case and the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. :)
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My favorites were the Garfield and the John Wick.
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Blue Shirts are Safe!
*Players of X-COM: Enemy Within*:
*Big Sweat*
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Haitian probably in Haiti, cooking a cat and finishing off hair removal. Does not hide anything. It is from nine years ago. Do not watch if you have a cat.
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Or a dog.
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I was thinking about this. Voodoo practices animal sacrifice (including eating the sacrificed animal) under certain conditions and I understand that cats are a big part of that. Finding themselves trapped in a very foreign environment, with no way out, they might easily turn to their religion in an effort to change their circumstances.
Also, since cats are a delicacy in Haiti…
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