Another post of Some kind later

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

BUT quickly: Whichever one of you told me to put vicks in very unlikely places — no, not there. It would hurt.

Anyway– “you magnificent bastard, I read your book!” I am better. Still extremely far from well, but you know? I’m starting to maybe believe hypothetically I might be well again some day.

And speaking of magnificent bastards in the best way: To the Eternal Glory of the Infantry shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young.

Sorry, got up very late and the cats murdered one of my potted plants. I need to go clean the crime scene. See you later.

34 thoughts on “Another post of Some kind later”

  1. I am always delighted by that moment in “Patton,” in much the same way as John Wayne’s line reading of “Fill yer haaaaaand, you sonovabitch” in the OG “True Grit” always suffuses me with glee.

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  3. This would be off-topic on a normal post day, but since there isn’t really a topic today, I’ll ask this now.

    I’m trying to come up with examples of a particular trope, because TV Tropes oddly enough doesn’t have it. It’s the character who says, “I don’t believe in love at first sight” and is then immediately proven wrong. I’ve come up with three examples but I’d love to know if you all can think of more:

    1. In the first Ciaphas Cain novel, he mentions that he doesn’t believe in love at first sight but he can still remember every detail of when he first met (spoiler omitted). The books are written in non-chronological order so there are some books in which he’s engaged in a romantic relationship with someone other than (spoiler omitted), but if you pay attention you’ll notice that those happen before the first book. In every book after the first, he has a romantic relationship with (spoiler omitted) and nobody else.
    2. In Disney’s original Cinderella (I haven’t seen the live-action remake so I don’t know if they kept this moment), at one point the Grand Duke is telling the king “Your majesty, love at first sight only happens in fairy tales!” (Paraphrase, not direct quote). Meanwhile the king is watching his son fall in love-at-first-sight with the unknown girl at the ball.
    3. In Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown claims not to believe in love at first sight. Then he meets Clara.

    I’m sure there have to be plenty more examples of this trope, where the person who claims not to believe in love at first sight immediately falls in love at first sight (or, in some cases, sees someone else falling in love at first sight, such as in Cinderella). But I just haven’t read those books or seen those movies. Can you all give me any more examples of this trope happening?

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    1. Perhaps that is included in a more generic “I don’t believe it / now I do” trope.

      ex: Yoda moves the x-wing put of the swamp. Luke blurts and gets Yoda-ed.

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    2. While not immediate, there are at least two examples in Four Weddings & A Funeral. Then again, come to think, one of those is fairly immediate.

      Unlike you, I never expected “the thunderbolt.” I always just hoped that, that I’d meet some nice friendly girl, like the look of her, hope the look of me didn’t make her physically sick, then pop the question and, um, settle down and be happy. It worked for my parents. Well, apart from the divorce and all that.

      Later that scene…

      Golly! Thunderbolt city!

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  9. Good on ya, sister Sarah. May the good (health) times keep rollin’. For all of us. Every cranky old fellow and delicate lady. Every young buck and dame. Every fuzzball, feathery cheepalot, scaley friend, and all.

    Except the disease causing virii and bacteria. Screw those guys. I may be a normally even tempered dude, but I draw the line at diseases.

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      1. Eh. I’ll allow as how redemption is possible for all humankind. Just not particularly likely. As with most things, it requires work. That’s something that a lot of human beings act like they’re allergic to.

        In all honesty though, reducing total undue and meaningless human suffering is the goal. Yes, even the suffering of complete and utter loons. I’d say no suffering to them- with the caveat that it be no suffering they don’t bring on themselves, their own selves.

        That, it’d be churlish to deny them the opportunity for wisdom. It ain’t kind to deny someone with the mentality of a child the opportunity to learn from a nonlethal mistake, if they are at all capable of learning. And I do believe even the commies can learn.

        Some of the best Americans may well have been born of commie hellholes. That’s not to defend commie hellholes- that’s to the credit of those that learned the vile things that Communists are, and chose to do whatever they could to become free Americans.

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  12. But at least you’re not back in Portugal. Meanwhile, someone in Spain was claiming the power failure was due to….wait for it….climate change. (If I read it right, the idea was that temperature differences across the country set up an “oscillation,” in the power lines and there went the grid).

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      2. Temperature variations. Riiiiiight. Because they’re completely different from the temperature variations they get all year, every year, for as long as there have been electrical wires in Europe.

        It’s like they’re not even trying to be plausible any more.

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  13. At least the victim was a plant. One morning some years ago, I walked into the living room only to discover a decapitated mouse my dear sweet Kitten had proudly left. Disposing of it out the front door, I walked back, finding I was leaving bloody footprints from the scene of the crime.

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    1. Live baby bird. I did my best, but the poor thing died that night. I had go travel the next day and wound up sitting in the parking lot of a restaurant after lunch crying my eyes out.

      Booger (son’s name for her) was a mighty huntress before the Lord.

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  14. But at least you’re not back in Portugal. Meanwhile, someone in Spain was claiming the power failure was due to….wait for it….climate change. (If I read it right, the idea was that temperature differences across the country set up an “oscillation,” in the power lines and there went the grid).

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