Meme-ed Not Stirred

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Every week there is ONE meme that suddenly hits me and I can’t stop laughing. Last week was the sheep. This is this week’s.

You can fit so much computer in this baby!

105 thoughts on “Meme-ed Not Stirred”

  1. OK, I just laughed like a loon at the pain tolerance one.

    Our son took a day off and is trying to avoid severe weather (the last time, the tornado ripped part of the roof off the county courthouse where his girlfriend lives. She’s with him). He just told me he passed a Taco Bell with a rainbow flag. Mind you, his girlfriend likes Starbucks, but it’s a start.

    (We are officially in, “be safe out there,” and ,”it looks like it’s going to be nasty,” mode today).

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  2. If you do genealogy, you’ll probably run into old dates shown as “1740/1741”. That puzzled me for a long time. The reason is that the new year used to start in March, not January, so those two years reflect the old and the new version of “new year”.

    That is why we have September etc. — it indeed was the 7th month of the year until just a few centuries ago.

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    1. Wen Spencer’s “Harbinger” has an important, before dawn meeting sidetracked briefly by a discussion of why if September is the ninth month does ‘sept’ mean ‘seven.’

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      1. Jin Wong: “You have twin siblings. Six of them.”

        Even at the end of Storm Furies, he has still managed to avoid telling her that 4 of them are going to hatch from tengu eggs… :-P

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  3. On that last one: the fallacious assumption is that those who call themselves socialists have read any history — or anything at all, if you want to be cynical.

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    1. It’s not that I want to be cynical, I’ve just found that cynicism is a much closer match to reality than any other attitude. Especially over the last couple of decades.

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      1. When the evidence repeatedly leads you to acknowledge things become, as others might say, “cynical,” it becomes simply faster to go there first, and then test if the evidence matches the cynicism.

        We’re not getting any younger, and every bit of time saved is another bit of time for writing. Or reading, as it were.

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        1. There are those who advance the (fictional) Lord of the Flies against the real-life castaway boys who survived for 18 months by mutual aid. They are cynics.

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  5. That “the boss runs a loose ship” on – I see myself in it and… well, I’m resigned to the fact at this point.

    XD

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  7. BLM/Rainbow coffee shop – yep! And their coffee had gotten very bitter the last two times I was in there. Another reason to try a different local shop that has no politics.

    I got words yesterday. Nyah! :P

    Purim and the Ides of March … Hmmmmmmm.

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    1. Ah coding has reached story level. I’ve heard of AIs that manufacture excuses for not generating a story, or claim to have posted it somewhere it could not have accessed.

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  10. The 19th Amendment was passed, ratified and enacted by men. No women voted for it. They weren’t eligible to vote until after it was established as law.

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  12. Being a Flashman fan (to the point where I’m writing a long fan fiction where he is sent to Westeros just as things get interesting) I loved the Flashman meme. But the expression looks different. Explain?

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      3. It is also confusing the leftys, so there’s that too…

        They cannot grok it. Imagine a lefty meme storm on Barry. Yeah, nope.

        No humor on the Left. “It’s Not Funny!”

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      4. I adore the fact that, every few months, the Internet absolutely loses its mind over something ridiculous.

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  14. This seems like a good time to share my variation on a Dr. Seuss rhyme.

    In “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”, there is a page that goes like this:

    Bump, bump, bump!Did you ever ride a wump?We have a wump with just one hump.But we know a man named Mr. Gump.Mr. Gump has a seven-hump wump.So if you like to go bump bump,Just jump on the hump of the wump of Gump.

    I like to bounce my young kids on my lap while reciting that verse. It’s one of their favorites: the two-year-old often comes up to me saying “Bump bump bump!”

    Thing is, I’ve said that verse so much that I’ve ended up wanting to come up with variations just to keep it interesting. And recently, I came up with this:

    Bump, bump, bump!Did you ever ride a wump?We have a wump with just one hump.But we know a man named Mr. Trump.Mr. Trump has a seven-hump wump.(And let me tell you, this is the best wump. It’s an amazing wump.You won’t find a better wump anywhere in this whole great country!)So if you like to go bump bump,Just jump on the hump of the wump of Trump.

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    1. Let me try that again with fixed formatting. Pressing Shift+Enter produced new lines (without new paragraphs) in the WP editor preview, but it seems they got swallowed once it was posted.

      Original:

      Bump, bump, bump!

      Did you ever ride a wump?

      We have a wump with just one hump.

      But we know a man named Mr. Gump.

      Mr. Gump has a seven-hump wump.

      So if you like to go bump bump,

      Just jump on the hump of the wump of Gump.

      Modified:

      Bump, bump, bump!

      Did you ever ride a wump?

      We have a wump with just one hump.

      But we know a man named Mr. Trump.

      Mr. Trump has a seven-hump wump.

      (And let me tell you, this is the best wump. It’s an amazing wump.

      You won’t find a better wump anywhere in this whole great country!)

      So if you like to go bump bump,

      Just jump on the hump of the wump of Trump.

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  17. Thanks. Needed levity.

    Dic said, “You are going to a dermatologist, ASAP.”

    Oy. Did.

    Doc2: “These need to be removed today. Probably not bad. But now.” ( face, neck)

    Oy vey. Did.

    Sweating the lab report, due next week.

    So went to a Cowboy Action Shooting match today. Did ok, but seemed to be dragging for some reason. Distracted.

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    1. There were other Docs with other annoyances.

      Can’t understand why I am …. distracted.

      (Grin)

      I got this. Tis only a flesh wound.

      the humor really helps.

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        1. From time to time I’ve gotten very good advice from a doc.
          From that other source? Not even once.

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          1. Well, Dr. Mengele, my family care “medical” “practitioner” who flogged the Covid-Clot-Shot is a good example of the Doc being a Dic.

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      2. Prayers up. If it’s any comfort my dad had at least four skin cancers removed over time and he lived tom92.

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  18. Leftists will never get the NASA one because they are so ignorant of history, they have no idea that NASA employed Nazis after WW2 in the rocket programs. They will declare it to be misinformation and then denounce the people who post the meme as supporting Nazis.

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    1. It’s really striking how the previously-actual-NAZIs brought over via PAPERCLIP ended up driving so many of the program elements and configuration decisions on Apollo that ended up being used. Sure, Von Braun and his kerle at Marshall preferred an Earth Orbit Rendezvous mission configuration rather than Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, right up until he changed his mind and endorsed LOR in June 1962. But on so many other bits they ran the table.

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      2. “♪♫…call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown–<br>’Eh, nazi-schmazi!’ <br> says Werner von Braun””

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        1. Drat. WP–which DE–seems to flip a coin to pick which commenting interface it gives you.<br> The simple one respects the <br> html “linebreak” tag. The “improved” one does not.

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          1. Forget it Jake, it’s WordPress.

            “‘In English and German, I know how to count down/And I’m learning Chinese!’ says Werner von Braun”

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      3. I believe there was a scene in “The Right Stuff” when someone realized that the German rocket scientists had never actually entered the US legally. They were bused from TX to just over the Mexican border, then walked back across the bridge to US Customs where they were processed in all legal and proper.

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  19. Sums up the entire “cashless society” push. So much of the Big Brother state has been implemented by convincing people that it is convenient for them, and into trading temporary convenience for serfdom.

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      1. Of course, you have to have something to buy.

        If DOGE is proving anything, it is that correlations like “If your sales in legal currency are X, then why are there Y value of goods moving through your business” are relatively easier for AI to sniff out. This is a major selling point for AI assisted data analytics currently, “spot the anomalies in your business model.”

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        1. So the inevitable AI IRS means endless audits for non-inventory businesses, consultants and writers and copyeditors and such?

          Woohoo!

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        2. Criminals tend to be hopelessly sanguine about not being caught. And to be sure, those who manage best will keep it all blackmarket.

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      1. I’ve noted before that Sears Roebuck & Co. basically was Amazon back in the day, but failed to realize their old non-storefront “mail order catalog” model was perfect for the internet, while Bezos, starting from books, did.

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        1. Growing up, we used Sears a lot, and I did a fair amount of business with them over the years. Generally didn’t use the catalog (modulo the Christmas “Wish Book”), but two of the Sears stores I used in Silicon Valley closed by the time we left in ’03.

          There was a third-party “Sears” store in Flyover Falls, though they built a bad reputation for flogging appliances. (“We’ll sell what’s convenient for us, regardless of what you want.”) K-mart took the load for a while until they folded (that building got bought by a regional farm & ranch store chain, and it’s quite successful.)

          J. C. Penney’s physical store closed in F-Falls before we moved in ’03, but had a catalog operation for a while. There’s a mall store over the Cascades in Medford, but I haven’t been there for over 20 years now.

          Amazon probably helped to kill off various catalog operations. I use a mail drop in town, and the sheer number of ‘zon packages is impressive.

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    2. That tells me what I didn’t know.

      I was aware of the “death” of Montgomery Wards but was not aware of the “death” of Sears. [Wink]

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      1. We were sorry to see the demise of Wards, S&H Green Stamps (got both end tables, but not the coffee table 😦), and Sears. Still can get “Kenmore”. Just “Kenmore” brand isn’t the same anymore.

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            1. Bring back Borders before the original owners sold it off. Later CEOs were experts in grocery stores, for example, and tried to treat bookstores the same way, but the original owners actually tested their prospective employees on book knowledge.

              (I didn’t work there under the original owners, but before the rot fully set in. Our store was pretty good until they decided to make every decision at the corporate level. I heard that the GM ended up working for the Chamber of Commerce, which shows that at least somebody appreciated his talents.)

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    4. For all its faults, Radio Shack usually allowed one to get something at least good/close enough to get by…. until the right proper parts from DigiKey arrived.

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  22. Definitely K-mart, best jeans I ever had came from there, comfortable and made me look less dumpy. I miss those jeans.

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  25. I can totally relate to the “new side project” one. This past week they have been lining up impatiently, just waiting their turns to interrupt, I swear!! ;-)

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    1. back in the days of the 5.25 inch floppy, Verbatim (I think) had a diskette sleeve that was cover with:

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    2. Because he was an IC asset, set up by them as a honeypot operator to generate kompromat, probably initially on foreigners but they were not going to avert their eyes when it caught powerful US persons.

      There are questions about his miraculous start in business and introductions to the powerful and famous for which the simplest answer is “He had help.”

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  28. a) who picked the “Halachos of March 15th” and where did you find it?

    b) I wonder how many people on this site understand it. I suspect many.

    c) the juxtaposition of “My wife makes the memes?” and the Flashman meme gives

    one much to think about.

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    2. On item C, I just looked more closely, and… What the heck is the spacesuit guy with the gun doing with his other hand and arm?

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