54 thoughts on “Jingle Memes, Jingle Memes”

  2. Coffee. Oh so coffee. (OK, very black tea, as black as my music, as dark as my wardrobe.) And the Lady of the Sink. I might ste— borrow with attribution to show an English teacher colleague.

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      1. As the unmedicated ADHD guy who cannot have caffeine, people who knew me from back when compliment me on how I am keeping my temper these days.

        Recoil therapy, books, music, and cattish shenanigans. Really, having small furry persons that are absolutely your responsibility (even if officially Not My Cats) keeps things, well, not sane. But at least less “kill them all and let the deity of their choice sort them out.”

        Speaking of books, I need to write more. More often.

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          1. Medium tall, swarthy, dark haired and bearded? Eh, I can see how one might miss me. If we were even in the same room it was probably at a con and I was working in the background there. Did that a lot before I had to come back home and take care of the folks.

            If he’s unmedicated ADHD too, music and mild stimulation helps keep focus. And when that focus hits, the whole world falls away while you’re in the zone. Coming out of focus is like waking from a deep sleep, like where am I and what happened here? Why is there a cat on top of the fridgerator with barbecue sauce stuck to its tail and a solo cup stuck on its head?

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            1. And wife forbid, we should ever achieve Focus while she is shopping/napping/elsewhere, because Somebody Oughta Mind The Kids (all of whom have ADHD and two of whom are male, and one of those is nonverbal and two). So no opportunity to pursue Focus can really be availed of on many days.

              Dyaaaugh!

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              1. Yep. I already know I’d make a terrible husband and father. Mind the godkids? Sure, I can do that. Cat herding? I gotcha. But fatherhood?

                I leave such mighty tasks to others now. Good mothers, fathers everywhere toil and bear their burdens with honor and grace. For all that parents sometimes fail- and it does happen, we are human most of all- we get back up and shoulder to that wheel again.

                Raising a child is more a joy and a wonder as much as it is a task and a trial, if not more. Forgive yourself your foibles. Try every day to be the man your children believe you to be: as strong, wise, hard working, honest, and kindly as can be. Give them the example to aspire to, while sharing your weakness. How you overcome it brings them the inspiration to rise above their own woes in life.

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            3. I’m going to go to the basement and ask you why “Lane” as a pseudonym. So, there.
              Though he’s no longer bearded these days and is NOT swarthy. Ancestry aside he’s almost as white as my very white assistant.

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    2. I didn’t realize Fillion and Mike Rowe were friends…and for decades! Until I watched Rowe’s podcast last month with Nathan. Getting those 2 together for more shenanigans should be a life goal of millions

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  7. Ref. the Cowboys sniper’s nest meme, Gary Wolf’s Killerbowl might be worth a read (Wolf wrote it a couple of years before he wrote Who Censored Roger Rabbit?). In the Street Football League of Wolf’s dystopian world one player on each team played a position known as hidden safety. The hidden safety could line up anywhere in the playing field (several evacuated blocks of the home team’s downtown) and was armed with a sniper’s rifle and one bullet.

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    2. That’s fantastic.

      I feel obliged to link 17776, which speculates what would happen in the far future if humanity were immortal and had nothing to do but spend their time making up football variants. More ennui, but lots of creativity with what constitutes a football field or an endzone.

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  10. “where you will find me at parties”…

    Swap in an introverted teenage boy for the cat, and you get how my to-be wife found me, in a corner at a party in 1967. The young woman is even a passable representation of her at 18.

    I’m starting to hate spots on the inside of my glasses.

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      1. Then you haven’t missed much!

        But actually, I fell off checking after a few years with no updates. I’ve been meaning to go back and see if it’s started back up again. It sounds like she’s been busy getting the animated version off the ground.

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  15. Also, for those who haven’t yet heard the tale of Obi Wan Nairobi, check out Shawn Ryan Show #92. He “randomly” encounters what I firmly believe from his description is an Angel of the Lord on his way into town that day.

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  16. I do object to Mal’s beautiful speech being put over a scifi girl. An AI generated cutie sure, but the man, the legend, deserves to be remembered for that classic rallying cry.

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  17. The ‘Handmaids Tale’ meme:

    “I’m sorry Ma’am, if you’re looking for rape the Democrats are your best bet.”

    The Charcuterie Trump should be facing the other way, with a bit of ketchup around the ear.

    The Undocumented Democrats: one of my characters is from another world. When asked the difference between the parties: “The Democrats are run by greedy psychopathic narcissists. The Republicans are run by spineless toadies eager to curry favor with the Democrat psychopaths.”

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  18. the Mitsubishi one should read “From those wonderful folks who brought you Pearl Harbor”, though that phrase was supposedly coined for Panasonic.

    Back in 2000 when I was car shopping, the regional Mitsubishi radio ad was some guy yelling “Zero, Zero, Zero!”. (Zero down, zero interest, zero payments for 12 months). Those of us of a certain age or older did *not* hear it that way. I’d love to know who in marketing thought of that, and if they did it intentionally…

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    1. One wonders what the listener was supposed to think:

      • Beautifully engineered
      • Stylish lines
      • Great power to weight ratio
      • Gracefully maneuverable

      Of course, you’re not supposed to think: “Prone to burst into flames after only a few hits.”

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      1. The three strikes rule for starting fires by flint and steel. If you can’t get it in 3 strikes, you don’t know how to start a fire with flint and steel.

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  19. Kurt Schlicter pointed out Susan Collins is about as good as you’re going to get from Maine, so cut her some slack – if she goes we get a progressive Democrat who will be even worse.

    And she took a lot of abuse for one of Trump’s Supreme Court picks; don’t remember which one, but she and her staff were getting, “I hope you get raped,” messages up the wazoo and she refused to back down.

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  22. So, the copper merchant one? It’s a Ea-Nasir meme derivative I’m guessing? But what does the AI redhead have to do with it?

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  23. Apparently there’s a series of picture books called “Little People, Big Dreams” which is all about life stories of celebrities. Most of them are highly inappropriate celebrities. And they tell the kids about all kinds of age-inappropriate things in the celebrities’ lives, like affairs and bulimia.

    Weirder yet, there are two different versions of each book, and both are picture books that seem identical. But one is supposed to target toddlers, and the other K-1 grade kids.

    I mean, you could pick any kind of worthy person for biographical kids’ books.

    Another thing I saw was a new children’s picture book, allegedly authored by Madeleine L’Engle. Plot twist: She didn’t write anything in it. It’s basically estate-approved fanfic, inspired by one line in one of the books, and having no relationship to any L’Engle character or situation. The actual author/illustrator checks several boxes, as her bio is careful to tell us.

    It could be a good book, for all I know, but the authorship situation and marketing is…ugh.

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