Meme-etic

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

*I’m going to rattle the tin cup. I’m doing my winter fundraiser. And while I mean to give free ice-cream every day, I haven’t recovered from Thanksgiving (I know… But hey.) Anyway, there’s a Give Send Go for the Winter Fundraiser and well, if you need anything else including the why and all, please go here. Tomorrow I hope to do a Christmas short story and another reading. We’ll see. I spent most of today sleeping. And now the memes!- SAH*

54 thoughts on “Meme-etic”

  2. Eh, Sam Elliot needs to be taken out of memes that espouse a conservative agenda. He exposed himself as a D.

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    1. That isn’t Sam Elliot pictured. It is a picture of a Sackett. Although Elliot did play the Sackett brother who fought for the confederacy, so you might have a point. Although while all democrats are idiots, not all democrats are idiots about the 2nd-admendment.

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      1. Yeah, I know. But that’s the default. To blazes with him. Well, not really. I’d rather be there by myself.

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    2. So including him in memes he disagrees with might make Sam have the Hollywood Sads?

      Maybe if he’s in enough badthink memes he’ll move to Jolly Old next door to Ellen.

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    2. I rather like the Alyssa Milano one. Have to start calling Volkswagens by the original name: Kdfwagen, AKA Kraft durch Freude Wagen. (Strength Through Joy, foreshadowing a certain failed candidate’s campaign slogan…)

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  7. Hey, now; it’s not just the men who want a little bit of land, a house, and a subterranean bunker. I cry discrimination! Except, I also want my house to have an attached tower built specifically to house my book collection with a room at the top from which I can survey my domain, and a greenhouse on the back. :D

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      1. Toss in a tastefully camouflaged hangar and runway, and a very nice kitchen to go with the book tower, and you’re me. (And maybe Dorothy, although I think she’d prefer the tower for other things, and the books on one level.)

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        1. Oh, like any of us could get our books to stick to merely needing one level!

          The library needs at least two levels, and the book ladder from Beauty & the Beast. Because I want that library.

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          2. Psh, I figured the nice kitchen was a given, and of course I would have bookshelves built into all available hallways and walls. If I had a mansion I would, of course, want a two-level library, but since I’m just one person, a reading nook on the second floor would do, with a bay window on the south-facing corner so I could curl up and read. You know, while we’re dreaming.

            And a dumbwaiter for hauling stuff from the attic to the kitchen, then down to the subterranean bunker, because who doesn’t need a dumbwaiter in their life?

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        2. Books will expand to fill the available space. Best to start on one level with plans to allow expansion, or start with a very small number of books.

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          1. Who in his, or her, or its, right mind would affirm “small number” as an appropriate modifier for “of books”? Unless you’re going hiking (or packing carry-on) and need to save weight/bulk, but that’s what a Kindle (and/or e-reader phone app) was invented for!

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          2. Please to remember that you must plan for the maximum amount of books, lest you design your foundation and floors to carry only the standard load for the average residence.

            Architects who forget that books have mass and weight and all of that will find the floors dipping under the load… eventually.

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    2. I want a castle with towers and a library and an enormous garden and about it a labyrinth of roses that will shift to contain any intruders. Who needs a bunker when they can’t get in?

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  8. The first Liberals also wanted to ban fire because of climate change. They blamed fire for the ending of the Ice Age. [Twisted Grin]

    Note, somewhere I read a short story by a SF author talked about the above. [Wink]

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  9. Still think Elon’s trolling MSNews is hilarious. Don’t think he should buy it. But he can troll all he wants. When asked “Why haven’t you bought it yet?”, his answer should be “Nah. Stock hasn’t dropped anywhere low enough. Don’t want to be accused of bailing them out.”

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    1. The Reader wants him to buy Dominion and open source their software. That would be more impactful than buying MSDNC.

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    2. Elon should absolutely buy MSDNC. And fire everybody. What he would be buying is the nationwide cable access. Dave Rubin already promised to license him The Rubin Report for a nickel a year, no strings attached.

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      1. And if he is, assuming he’s learned his lesson from buying Twister, he’ll keep his mouth shut except for jokes until it’s an absolutely completely done deal.

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  10. I am of the ‘eaters and nappers’ tribe; I saw a couple walkers and a jogger out in the morning, and frankly, I think that weird.

    Who (voluntarily) gets up in the morning?

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      1. “Voluntarily. You keep using that word….”

        Just ask Em, who visited during our engagement and was awoken by Fuzzy (my gravatar) sticking an extremely cold nose and then a tongue into her ear at o’dark-thirty….

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      2. I wake up at 3am. The Orange Fuzzmonster knows this. Every morning at four am, there will be breakfast.

        Every. Morning.

        My body also knows wake-up is 3 am. Even when my schedule is wonky, 3 bloody am is wakeup time. Been doing it for over twenty years now. Can’t seem to drop the habit.

        The meme of last week (“I want to wake up beside you… I get up at 3 am.”) is me. At four-fifteen or so, there will be a (dead thing) present from Neighborcat at the back door, awaiting his scritches. He gets his noms, and off he goes. Othercat comes by sometime later, as does Nastycat if he’s been out wandering. There is a routine, and the four felines have great respect for that routine.

        The Great Disruption, i.e. the flood not long past, did not break routine. The snow that collapsed power lines all over did not disrupt routine. The fire two houses over did not disrupt routine. The tornado that touched down near a mile off did not stop the routine. At this point, it would take a miracle. Aliens or something.

        I never thought I’d be a morning person in my twenties. White nights were a thing. Heck, night shift was a dream. I’d stay up just to watch the stars, reading by firelight. But today? Now? It’s just the way of the world. Fuzzballs will require their omnomnoms.

        …But I still miss caffeine. Lots.

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        1. I wake up at 3am. The Orange Fuzzmonster knows this. Every morning at four am, there will be breakfast.

          Hideous. I have trouble sleeping, and 3 AM is about when I can fall asleep.

          What I think needs to happen is you and your town need to move about 6 timezones East. 9 AM would still be ‘morning’.

          That’s pretty much the nice conceit used by Flint/Weber in their 1632 series etc.

          And, does anyone know either Flint or Weber? Many moons ago, there was a long thread on rec.org.sca about what it might be like if the SCA event “Pennsic” were moved onto the Salisbury Plain of southern England, in about 1200 AD, IIRC. I have long wondered if either or both of them was aware of that discussion.

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        2. We (by “we”, Tj, orange fuzz ball, and I) do not have a “time”. Be it bedtime, each sleep rotation bathroom break, which includes one for the dog, or final morning rise (if I’m lucky is 7 – 8-ish hours of combined sleep naps). Here is how it goes. “Oh mom is going to bed.” Come pat mom on head, cheek, and try to pull out an arm. (Me) Fine. Start scritches, continue until he lets me stop. Each of the above list. I’d say the only time this stops him is if another cat, this morning it was Freeway, had decided the middle portion between hubby and my pillow is their bed, which means Tj doesn’t have a place to plop. Dog prevents locating anywhere else in the middle section. Not that she takes up the space, just if one of the cats decides to stake a section in that area she will get up to go lay “against” (semi on) them. That is hilarious to watch. This morning he went to the side on the edge of the bed and did the routine. Anytime after 7 AM (Saturday morning it was 5 AM, just couldn’t get back to sleep), after 3 – 4 interruptions to getting back to sleep, I give up and get up. This morning made it “late”, 8:15 AM.

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        1. The bass riff in Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al” jumps to mind just as one out of many examples, but maybe it has to be a certain arbitrary number of bars long to count as a solo? Somebody call the AFM and get a ruling from the union…

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  15. A feline follow-up, in three-part harmony:

    Ooooo-oohhhhh, star of sparkle, star of flash

    Star to swat and watch it crash

    Hooman shouting, spray-gun spouting

    Kitties intend to smash.

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  16. A feline follow-up, in three-part harmony:

    Ooooo-oohhhhh, star of sparkle, star of flash

    Star to swat and watch it crash

    Hooman shouting, spray-gun spouting

    Kitties intend to smash.

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  17. Sam asking out Rosie is the highlight of the LotR movies for me. I can’t quite put it into words, but I’ve never wanted to cheer for a character more in my life.

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