72 thoughts on “Better Late Than No Memes”

  2. That Poseidon washing Cerberus meme was silly.

    Hades should have thrown a stick into the sea telling Cerberus to “fetch”.

    While Cerberus is in the sea, Poseidon could use his control of sea water to wash Cerberus. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

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        1. What do you get when you mix Fauci’s Garin of Function research, Dire wolf genetic engineering, Norse and Greek Mythology? A gigantic, 3-headed, 8-legged, sabertooth cat big enough to ride if you could survive putting a saddle on it.

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          1. Riding any carnivorous animal into battle would be “interesting” as when their “blood is up” they might want to eat their riders and/or allies of their riders.

            But of course, it is “interesting” to attempt to ride felines.

            Oh Mike, dire wolves aren’t related to sabertooths.

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              1. Yep.

                Strangely, I didn’t remember that Stirling had co-written the first books in that series. Crazy me.

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  5. Dark chocolate – YES.

    Typos – alas yes.

    Cowliber? Um, does .22% count?

    I wonder if the lawyer who turned himself into a cat on the Z00m meeting reads that headline and feels better about how he achieved internet immortality.

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  8. I sent the antisocial reader to my daughter. I also want to read that colorblind-synethesia novel. Otherwise, I identified with way too many of those to feel comfortable this weekend and need to re-evaluate certain life decisions. Who am I kidding, that’s never going to happen.

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  9. The Reader knows exactly how an engineer can send a mathematician into a frenzy. In the middle of a complex number proof, save 20 steps by rotating the phase of a complex number and changing its sign to compensate. Don’t ask the Reader how he knows.

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  10. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

    – Samuel Butler

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    1. “Winston, if you were my husband, I should flavour your coffee with arsenic.”

      “Madam, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”

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  11. Another note. The Reader knew plenty of engineers who couldn’t code, including some who could out perform a microwave computer model on a chalkboard. It was a joy to watch.

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    1. One of the worst side effects of a calculator over a slide rule is with the latter you had to know where the decimal point fell.

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    1. Larry Correia FTW! Those psychos that MiniTru tries to spin as Ultra-Right-Wing White-Supremacist MAGANazi Trump-“worshippers” keep turning out to be Leftist/Socialist/”Islamist”-types with Pronouns. They must be frantic to find a virgin to sacrifice in hopes that this $#!+head pans out:

      But I have to disagree with Mr. Correia about one thing: political violence is neither a knob nor an off-on switch. It’s a START button. It doesn’t stop until all the fuel is burned.

      Don’t push it, kids.

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        2. Voter registration lists are a good means of first filter. Then select by those who are in the media supporting destructive ideology. After that, I would recommend sorting by distance/geographical location and plan you route accordingly. If you could tap into Fed Ex, Amazon, or another delivery service app that could make routing even easier. How you divvy the list up among your local committees of safety is up to you. And do we want to call them Committees of Safety, Friends of Liberty, or some other moniker? Right-wing death squads has such an old 20th century vibe and wouldn’t be quite accurate.

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            1. If–if not “when”–such poop hits the prop, I’d like to think people would be so selective. But when a 9-digit number of Peeved People finally snap, my money’s on at least half of them “looking for the keys under the next streetlight.”

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      2. Has anyone heard about the FSU shooting lately? Mister $#!+head seems to have fallen off the news cycle.

        https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/fsu-shooter-phoenix-ikners-alleged-social-media-profile-surfaces-with-anti-trump-claims-101744922834838.html

        Florida State University shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner’s alleged social media profiles surfaced soon after police officers identified him on Thursday.

        […]

        Meanwhile, screenshots of Ikner’s alleged social media profile surfaced on X. The FSU suspect had multiple time [sic] posted against President Donald Trump and was allegedly pro-Palestine.

        In a resurfaced FSU News article, a Phoenix Ikner has been identified as a political science major. Speaking about Trump’s election, he had said: “I think it’s a little too late, he’s [Trump] already going to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 and there’s not really much you can do unless you outright revolt, and I don’t think anyone wants that.”

        […] Officials are yet to confirm if these profiles were actually the FSU shooter’s. Hindustan Times cannot verify the authenticity of these claims.

        Virgins must be avoiding the Democrat Partei.

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  14. I wish the crew on that recent suborbital hop had had more distinctive uniforms, cause they kinda blend into most of the passengers.

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    1. The Reader was surprised that each one wasn’t at least a different color. Memes about whoever wore the red one would be epic.

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    1. The Reader assumes watching ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ is part of the week 3 program.

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  17. I have a fraternity brother, later a police lieutenant with SFPD, who likes his coffee ‘a la Eldridge Cleaver’ – black and bitter.

    That sort of is the MidWest, if you count the new state of Greenland.

    After The Fall, don’t forget the Visions. I actually fell and hit my head the other night … Also includes grunting and holding onto furniture.

    PICNIC : Air Force maintenance documentation had a field ‘How Mal’, with a numeric code. They don’t much like it when you put in ‘Pilot Error’, but what else can you say when the reported problem is “IFF [Identify Friend or Foe transmitter] does not work in OFF position” ? They also don’t like it when a stateside National Guard unit reports “Battle damage”.

    I had two vinyl-disk sets of Beethoven’s Symphonies; if I wanted dark, gloomy Beethoven, I picked Berlin Symphony. If I wanted light, bouncy Beethoven, I picked Vienna (Karl Bohm, I think). (Gave my records to my daughter’s high school when I moved, and the 45 year old turntable; got an itunes version of the Berlin set, von Karajan)

    Also, blunderbusses with spring-loaded bayonets (h/t Matt Easton).

    OR secretary of state has provided a draft ballot title for our proposition to require in-person voting ad voter ID.

    Where’s the heat source for that still? “Don’t use no green or dead wood or they’ll catch you by your smoke.”

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        2. But using acronyms that aren’t words, like PEBKAC, the problem knows something is up. PICNIC implies IT might have found something else.

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  20. Totally OT, but does anyone else remember Leslie Fish’s, “Having Sex in a Zero-G Environment”? An article on two famous, ahem, females both wanting to the “first to have sex in space!” (Not with each other) turned up and a guy on my Twitter feed commented he’s sure either the Soviets or someone on the ISS has beaten them to it. I promptly heard Fish singing this, but I can’t find it on YouTube.

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    1. Somewhere long years back, I remember thinking of describing m/f humans in zero gravity – only in NASAspeak…”The rate of closure is 0.3 feet per second. The male docking adaptor is being deployed at this time….

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      1. Properly, though, one should credit Diana Gallagher.

        She and Mr. Wu broke up, and she moved to Florida.

        She ended up marrying Marty Burke, who was a folksinger first and a darned good filker second, as well as a notable member of the Dorsai Irregulars. They were very happy. He got very sick and disabled. She stuck with him. He died in 2011.

        She stayed in Florida, where other members of her family also lived, and passed away in 2021.

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  22. Ray Bradbury should have mentioned that nobody shuts those “Writers” in small rooms to stare at the walls; they do it all on their own. :-P

    Although staring at a blank sheet of paper (or, more recently, a blank screen) is also a popular pastime.

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  24. [video src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1906893486214811648/pu/vid/avc1/574x504/kqQORuFZdrkqyZbw.mp4" /]

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  25. Harry Turtledove once wrote a story about a science fiction author who time-traveled to plagiarize science fiction stories. (Checks) The story is “Hindsight.”

    Cows are approximately spherical. So are ball bearings. There’s even a formula for how close the approximation is. Anyway the bigger gap between idealized and reality is the “on a frictionless surface” part.

    If that high-voltage machine thing is outdoors but incapable of dealing with the water from a rainstorm, then your employer has worse problems.

    The cowlibur is either Holstein or one of the ACP (Automatic Cow Pistol) cartridges: .32 .38 .25 .380 or .45

    H&Kitty

    All taxes are evil, but taxes imposed for purposes other than raising revenue are especially evil.

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    1. Cows are approximately spherical.

      Topologically, cows are toroidal – the alimentary canal is a hole through the middle, similar to coffee cups and donuts.

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  26. Re the Florida lawyer’s pants fire –

    IIRC about the early 1970’s the UK chain Marks and Spenser lost a court case to a woman who had been burnt when her knickers caught alight at a restaurant.

    Around that time there was also some reporting on self igniting farts, with diphosphane suggested as the igniter

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  27. I stole the helicopter meme and posted it to the local FB group. I said it was from my friend Sarah Hoyt’s blog and gave the site address. I hope you don’t mind.

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      1. I am assuming “7.62” is the 7.62×51 NATO round, thus similar to .308, versus the 7.62×39 Soviet round.

        Folks linking belts for a GPMG might want such pile. Almost anyone I know would have a variety of calibers in a pile that size. That pile probably cost north of $250k if not $300k+. And how many “gunshops” would have that much in thousand round boxes?

        Plus, on -non-immigrant- visas…

        That is over 5000 pounds of ammo.

        Just not likely to be Boy Scout Day at a civilian GPMG competition.

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  29. I saw the comment about the helicopter meme and couldn’t remember one. So I looked back at the memes and finally found the one you mean – the one about circling the crazy lady’s house, right? It even appears twice! But there are a lot of clues like the kind of controls, the wing base outside the window, and the fact she has to circle – a helicopter can just hover – that she’s piloting a light plane. Maybe I should have started my comment with “akshually…”.

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