It is clear to the Reader that Q needs to be carp-it-bombed. Since the B52s will still be in service then, we’ll load them with carp and let him have it.
U.S. Space Force announces B-52U upgrade to from the Pratt & Whitney TF88-P-17 turbo rocket engines to the newer matter-antimatter warp drive engines. Aviation News changing the nickname from BUFF to BUFTLF (Big Ugly Faster Than Light F’er.)
According to the ancient lore of the oilfields ‘red’ Adair and his Hellfighters were once called in to put out a well fire. He did, and sent them a bill for 1 million $. Some accountant in the bowels of Halliburton sent the bill back and asked for an itemized bill.
Then (supposedly true) of a journalist trying to get an interview with a rebel leader in the Thailand jungle. The journey included hiring an elephant (and driver). His expense account rejected the elephant transport. He resubmitted his expense account for the same amount (sans the elephant transport) with a note “Find the Elephant”.
Anyone remember the old animated movie “Wizards” when the good and bad wizard brothers finally face off at the end? The good wizard says he had “A magic trick mom showed we when you weren’t around”. Then pulls a Lugar out of his robes and hoses him.
25ºC is 77ºF. Sorry, no, that is not hot even without AC, speaking as someone who grew up in a house in an area that regularly gets over 100º that had ONE swamp cooler in the house and it wasn’t in my room.
Yeah, the cinderblock was probably good for 20º of cooling factor, but you get no sympathy from me, UK. I spent summers OUTSIDE in that heat.
I wonder sometimes if the modern Brits were somehow replaced en masse one long dark winter night and are not related to the ones who conquered and held the subcontinent and all those warmer bits of Africa and Asia.
It does get dangerous, but it’s not because it’s hot, it’s because their places are designed in an utterly psychotic manner that assumes everyone is going to be “out” if it’s just a bit hot.
So it’s almost 80 in the field, but then on the street it’s 85-90, and then inside it’s 90-95 before you have people or do anything, and they don’t believe in “cross drafts” either, and….
Well, it’s pretty lame of them to blame the weather for really bad design killing off old people. Even our houses that don’t have AC are almost never that bad; I’ve lived in exactly one cheap little apartment where that was an issue. (I ended up sitting in the doorway so we GOT a cross-draft, too.)
When my student apartment in Germany hit 110 F, I bailed and joined the others napping in the lounge/TV area. West facing glass door and window, no cross ventilation, no curtains, and the wind had gone calm under the high pressure ridge. The outside temp was 95. Yeah, rare and miserable. The university opened the library a little later than usual, so people could “work” in the 65 F space (8’ thick stone walls in an old border fortress). When the cold front slammed through two days later, the rejoicing could be heard from Paris to Krakow.
Most of the time? Low to mid 70s and mildly breezy, so very pleasant.
I just saw a Yoo Toob video of marble-sized hail in Paris after a multi-day heat wave. The next one was an earthquake in Israel. Must be the end of the world or sumpthin’. :-P
I hope the earthquake in Israel collapsed all the Ham-Ass terrorist tunnels.
Tomten: I need to pick up another gallon of milk, and a box of cookies at Market Basket.
British food: Been there, ate there, prefer eating in the U.S.
Dinosaur Extinction: Shared it with my oldest son and his girlfriend.
Okay, I got a chuckle out of the rabbi out of a hat.
Actually, I prefer Glen Livet to Jack Daniels.
Sig Sauer P365 is easily concealed and fits smaller hands better; although I be she doesn’t have a gun belt and holder inside that gi.
As for the idiot vet (and sadly, they do exist,) says a guy who was never jumped and beaten by a gang while walking on the road, who was never assaulted by some deranged stranger, and never subjected to a drive-by shooting. Make me and 2 million otherwise law-abiding, responsible, citizens felons by violating the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution and you’ll find out what FAFO really means.
Yep. Far be it from me to tell him “go buy a guy you twatwaffle.” But keep your dirty paws to yourself and off of me and mine. I’ve got cousins barely five foot nothing wringing wet that could ventilate a would-be grape-ist at ten yards with their concealed carry pieces. And good on those girls for being that well trained, says I.
Let some fool try and disarm the law abiding, peaceable citizens. We don’t take kindly to such that pamper violent criminals and punish the good and honest folk that actually work for a living.
I would be very confused by that bathroom meme, because I’ve known at least as many men as women who talked so much you couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
It is such a truism of general American culture that it was the subject of jokes in the 1940s, and has continued to be so right up to today. Something so generally known that it is a fixture of the culture’s humor for decades, and possibly even a century, is a part of that culture. Sniffing that it is not your personal experience is of importance mostly only to you.
Indeed, I’m tempted to say it’s even cross cultural, given that the opening sight gag in That Uncertain Feeling, a 1941 comedy directed by the German-born Ernst Lubitsch, hinges on a variation of the truism. If not cross-cultural, it was at least so widely known that an immigrant director opened a popular comedy with it, aimed at a mass audience.
Current commercial for a well known “personal injury law firm,” involves, “There’s someone in every group who knows the gossip,” and it shows one man having lunch with several of his female coworkers. Every time one of them begins something like, “Did you hear –?” he says, “That Dave and Lisa are getting a divorce? Yeah.”
The spot ends with all the women getting up in a group to “visit the ladies’ room,” together.
Personally, I’ve never been involved with a gossip fest in the john, but I’m not normal. And frankly, that’s fine.
I inherited two 4 week old kittens. I was supposed to get 8 week old trained barn cats, but their mother got run over by a car.
I have them in the kitchen, and several areas are blocked off so their Tinyness can’t get in. The area under the stove is blocked by a cardboard box, and you can imagine the consternation.
Met BIL & SIL for dinner the other night. As soon as we walked in the door I headed to the ladies room. Surprised when I went to wash my hands, the stall next to mine emerged my SIL. She also had no idea I had headed that way. We each took different routes through the restroom from the entry. Fan made talk impossible, too loud. Well I could have heard her, her voice carries (no not related to my mom). She’d never hear me. Outside the door we paused and contemplated whether we’d make the brothers think we had talked about them. Naw. First, wouldn’t believe us. Second, wouldn’t care.
Yes, I was confused by the bathroom meme, I suspect I talk twice as much as my wife does when we are just hanging out. Related, if I don’t talk she picks up her phone and starts to read a book, so, I’m not winning on that one.
Just to put out another angle to the Wine/Student Loan meme:
I still remember the podcast where Tim Pool pointed out that an 18-year-old could get a $50,000 loan for college … but if that same 18-year-old sought a $10,000 loan to start a business, it would be all but impossible.
A fox as supervisor/safety officer on a job site with rabbit and gopher workers. OK…
The fifth ought to be tequila, not Jack Daniels. And it’s weird for a fifth to identify as Number 7.
“my body is taking it badly” Too true. Far too true.
The autistic lesbian girlfriend must have been Tiresias, before he transitioned back to male.
Could have been worse. Picard might have decided that there was no threat and told the crew to go back to ‘lo alert.
Sea ducks don’t complain about lining up. They’re marine.
Need? Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, millions of women lived their whole lives without being able to vote, and millions of black men and women lived their whole lives as chattel slaves. That proves – proves – that women don’t “need” to vote and that blacks don’t “need” to be free. Right? Right?
“Air conditioned detached houses made of wood” Better than cottages made of mud. (Guess what traditional English wattle and daub is?)
They tried to destroy Trump. They failed to read their Nietzsche.
“To each according to their needs, comrade. And we of the nomenklatura are great men and women with great needs.”
I saw a lot of Europeans commenting on wood construction in the US when L.A. had the fires in January. “Why don’t they build in concrete or stone?” Uh… there’s this thing there called earthquakes, which flexible wood structures are really well-suited to and concrete and stone are not. (Yes, they use them in skyscrapers and infrastructure. Wanna guess how much more that costs than the already-insane housing prices, and how badly it can fail if you cut corners to keep costs down?)
Five gallons of roofing tar might run about $40. After all the inflation, that’s not too terrible. Feathers are cheap- free, in fact, considering how danged many geese invade the parks like so many illegal immigrants (Canadian geese are a plague).
Yeah, it’s more expensive than a good coil of rope. But, we’re trying to be merciful here. To set a higher standard. Well, maybe not too merciful, say, because hot roofing tar burns like heck. Not saying there aren’t any corrupt windbags that deserve it, mind…
It’s been more than fifty years since I last saw a Pepé Le Pew cartoon. I assume there are people here who have watched them more recently. Most of the ones I ever saw were in an actual movie theater before the main feature.
I kind of sympathize with both of them. But it is amusing when the cat gets the upper hand, which happens at least once. (Cat is drenched, so her accidental stripe washes off, while Pepe has his stripes covered in black paint, so she actually sees him and not the stripes. ) “No, madame,” he says as she starts staring at him, “no, you are mistaken, I-‘”
That cartoon ends with Pepe in panicked flight, with the cat bouncing along behind him.
There is a channel called Boomerang, which shows older Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry and so on. I think they still showing Pepe.
There comes a time when you want Wile to have himself a nice roasted roadrunner for dinner. Roadrunner always escapes, but in addition, is never frightened by the possibility, or relieved by the latest escape, or caught by his own scheme to escape.
I have the DVD collections (all 6 of them including the 6th with its scolding Whoopi Goldberg complaint about some of the Step and Fetch it sterotypes), yes the sterotypes were ugly and demeaning but also that is the culture of the time. Find some Amos and Andy recordings if you can. So I have access to all but a few that were utterly banned. Pepe is himself a stereotype with the Maurice Chevalier exaggerated French accent that would have been recognizable instantly to moviegoers of the late 40’s and early 50’s. And yes in some of the later ones he gets a bit of his own medicine as Dorthy notes which is amusing in itself. Even for his own period his behavior would be boorish, but that is part and parcel of the French Lothario stereotype he is portraying.
I know someone who uses the Pepe Le Pew cartoons as a less-painful way to talk about what sexual harassment is in the US/Canada/Europe, and why you don’t do that. She has the “fun” job of helping introduce foreign grad students to university life in the Midwest (not U-Wis Madison.)
Well, the Kentucky Derby went off today,a nd the favorite was a horse named Journalism. Journalism came in second….beaten by a horse named, Sovereignty.
There are a ton of SFX I can hear from an image or just thinking about them. Phasers, turbolasers, engine noises, lightsaber ignition and blade swinging, Gundam beam rifle.
SO, totally off topic question. Does anyone have a recommendation for an e-ink based reader that isn’t locked into Kindle but has good performance and can also act as a notebook, probably around 7 inches in size?
Not an e-Ink but Samsung works for both Amazon and Nook. You can adjust the background, ink, and light. I don’t have one anymore (they do wear out eventually). Had it a good 10 years before battery problems. Alternatively, I now use my Surface tablet, at home, even traveling when in the room in the evening (don’t airport, who knows there). Traveling – it is there, used for pulling dash cam video before overwrite, and picture backup. But at 10 – 11 inches it is a bit big for out and about reading. Out and about (waiting in line at pharmacy, etc.) I use my cell phone. Why Surface? Both my laptop and the Samsung 8″ died about the same time (battery), wanted one, costs to replace both dead devices more than getting Surface on sale.
SO, totally off topic question. Does anyone have a recommendation for an e-ink based reader that isn’t locked into Kindle but has good performance and can also act as a notebook, probably around 7 inches in size?
According To Hoyt 
Moo.
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The aardvark has new, grain-flavored bonbons.
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It is clear to the Reader that Q needs to be carp-it-bombed. Since the B52s will still be in service then, we’ll load them with carp and let him have it.
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Jiminey Cricket, no – Q got it right!
Carp is for closers.
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U.S. Space Force announces B-52U upgrade to from the Pratt & Whitney TF88-P-17 turbo rocket engines to the newer matter-antimatter warp drive engines. Aviation News changing the nickname from BUFF to BUFTLF (Big Ugly Faster Than Light F’er.)
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“Let the Memes Pass”.
“Eat more prunes”. [Crazy Grin]
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Shouldn’t that be “Eat more punnes”?
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That last took way too long.
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The ‘bathrooms’ meme: You’re only speechless because you’re not a woman. :-P
“You have ONE hostage. If you kill the hostage, what do you have?”
Saw a variation on the generator fix. CEO has knee joint replaced, gets bill for $50,000. Demands itemized bill from surgeon. Gets:
Vitalium and teflon knee joint: $5,000
Installation: $45,000
He paid without further argument.
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Hmm. Hostage shooter is obviously a Men in Black recruit.
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Or Keanu Reeves character in Speed
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According to the ancient lore of the oilfields ‘red’ Adair and his Hellfighters were once called in to put out a well fire. He did, and sent them a bill for 1 million $. Some accountant in the bowels of Halliburton sent the bill back and asked for an itemized bill.
He got this –
They paid the bill.
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Then (supposedly true) of a journalist trying to get an interview with a rebel leader in the Thailand jungle. The journey included hiring an elephant (and driver). His expense account rejected the elephant transport. He resubmitted his expense account for the same amount (sans the elephant transport) with a note “Find the Elephant”.
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The anime chick obviously practices gun fu.
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In fact, her style appears to be Glock Fu. :-D
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Fu-l around, find out.
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There is also the art based on the get-out-of-Dodge principal, Nike-do.
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My uncle was trained in using it when facing a Glock Fu practitioner.
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Since it’s fiction, it can be called a Glock-n-speil.
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Anyone remember the old animated movie “Wizards” when the good and bad wizard brothers finally face off at the end? The good wizard says he had “A magic trick mom showed we when you weren’t around”. Then pulls a Lugar out of his robes and hoses him.
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The rifle-converting Tomten are a sub group, the BrenTen.
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25ºC is 77ºF. Sorry, no, that is not hot even without AC, speaking as someone who grew up in a house in an area that regularly gets over 100º that had ONE swamp cooler in the house and it wasn’t in my room.
Yeah, the cinderblock was probably good for 20º of cooling factor, but you get no sympathy from me, UK. I spent summers OUTSIDE in that heat.
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Huh. WP doesn’t like the little degree symbol, but doesn’t bother to indicate that while you’re typing.
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The way to get a degree symbol ° is to use the HTML code: °
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in July and August, sometimes it doesn’t go DOWN to 77 F.
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It could be worse. While I live in an area that regularly gets over 100, it isn’t Redding—which can be over 100 for successive months.
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our temps are seldom over 100. But usually the heat doesn’t break until the 104th of July.
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I wonder sometimes if the modern Brits were somehow replaced en masse one long dark winter night and are not related to the ones who conquered and held the subcontinent and all those warmer bits of Africa and Asia.
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They may have held much of Africa and the Indian subcontinent, but they also died in droves (and whined a lot).
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It does get dangerous, but it’s not because it’s hot, it’s because their places are designed in an utterly psychotic manner that assumes everyone is going to be “out” if it’s just a bit hot.
So it’s almost 80 in the field, but then on the street it’s 85-90, and then inside it’s 90-95 before you have people or do anything, and they don’t believe in “cross drafts” either, and….
Well, it’s pretty lame of them to blame the weather for really bad design killing off old people. Even our houses that don’t have AC are almost never that bad; I’ve lived in exactly one cheap little apartment where that was an issue. (I ended up sitting in the doorway so we GOT a cross-draft, too.)
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When my student apartment in Germany hit 110 F, I bailed and joined the others napping in the lounge/TV area. West facing glass door and window, no cross ventilation, no curtains, and the wind had gone calm under the high pressure ridge. The outside temp was 95. Yeah, rare and miserable. The university opened the library a little later than usual, so people could “work” in the 65 F space (8’ thick stone walls in an old border fortress). When the cold front slammed through two days later, the rejoicing could be heard from Paris to Krakow.
Most of the time? Low to mid 70s and mildly breezy, so very pleasant.
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I just saw a Yoo Toob video of marble-sized hail in Paris after a multi-day heat wave. The next one was an earthquake in Israel. Must be the end of the world or sumpthin’. :-P
I hope the earthquake in Israel collapsed all the Ham-Ass terrorist tunnels.
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Yeah, Ham-Ass having building code inspectors does seem a bit of a stretch.
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Depends on how humid it is. In the seventies, the humidity does not go down inside owing to the increased heat, so that starts to get unpleasant.
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SFBS!
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Tomten: I need to pick up another gallon of milk, and a box of cookies at Market Basket.
British food: Been there, ate there, prefer eating in the U.S.
Dinosaur Extinction: Shared it with my oldest son and his girlfriend.
Okay, I got a chuckle out of the rabbi out of a hat.
Actually, I prefer Glen Livet to Jack Daniels.
Sig Sauer P365 is easily concealed and fits smaller hands better; although I be she doesn’t have a gun belt and holder inside that gi.
As for the idiot vet (and sadly, they do exist,) says a guy who was never jumped and beaten by a gang while walking on the road, who was never assaulted by some deranged stranger, and never subjected to a drive-by shooting. Make me and 2 million otherwise law-abiding, responsible, citizens felons by violating the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution and you’ll find out what FAFO really means.
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Friday Meme Thing – Granite Grok
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I would avoid honking too.
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Yep. Far be it from me to tell him “go buy a guy you twatwaffle.” But keep your dirty paws to yourself and off of me and mine. I’ve got cousins barely five foot nothing wringing wet that could ventilate a would-be grape-ist at ten yards with their concealed carry pieces. And good on those girls for being that well trained, says I.
Let some fool try and disarm the law abiding, peaceable citizens. We don’t take kindly to such that pamper violent criminals and punish the good and honest folk that actually work for a living.
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I would be very confused by that bathroom meme, because I’ve known at least as many men as women who talked so much you couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
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But I bet they don’t go to the bathroom in a flock in order to gossip.
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Shrugs. I’ve never gone to the bathroom in a group to gossip, and have never known anyone who did. Different culture, I guess.
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It is such a truism of general American culture that it was the subject of jokes in the 1940s, and has continued to be so right up to today. Something so generally known that it is a fixture of the culture’s humor for decades, and possibly even a century, is a part of that culture. Sniffing that it is not your personal experience is of importance mostly only to you.
Indeed, I’m tempted to say it’s even cross cultural, given that the opening sight gag in That Uncertain Feeling, a 1941 comedy directed by the German-born Ernst Lubitsch, hinges on a variation of the truism. If not cross-cultural, it was at least so widely known that an immigrant director opened a popular comedy with it, aimed at a mass audience.
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It is. In Europe we had jokes about women going to the bathroom in groups.
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Current commercial for a well known “personal injury law firm,” involves, “There’s someone in every group who knows the gossip,” and it shows one man having lunch with several of his female coworkers. Every time one of them begins something like, “Did you hear –?” he says, “That Dave and Lisa are getting a divorce? Yeah.”
The spot ends with all the women getting up in a group to “visit the ladies’ room,” together.
Personally, I’ve never been involved with a gossip fest in the john, but I’m not normal. And frankly, that’s fine.
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Same same.
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I inherited two 4 week old kittens. I was supposed to get 8 week old trained barn cats, but their mother got run over by a car.
I have them in the kitchen, and several areas are blocked off so their Tinyness can’t get in. The area under the stove is blocked by a cardboard box, and you can imagine the consternation.
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And MY consternation, at the lack of pictures.
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Same.
At least not on purpose.
Met BIL & SIL for dinner the other night. As soon as we walked in the door I headed to the ladies room. Surprised when I went to wash my hands, the stall next to mine emerged my SIL. She also had no idea I had headed that way. We each took different routes through the restroom from the entry. Fan made talk impossible, too loud. Well I could have heard her, her voice carries (no not related to my mom). She’d never hear me. Outside the door we paused and contemplated whether we’d make the brothers think we had talked about them. Naw. First, wouldn’t believe us. Second, wouldn’t care.
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Yes, I was confused by the bathroom meme, I suspect I talk twice as much as my wife does when we are just hanging out. Related, if I don’t talk she picks up her phone and starts to read a book, so, I’m not winning on that one.
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Just to put out another angle to the Wine/Student Loan meme:
I still remember the podcast where Tim Pool pointed out that an 18-year-old could get a $50,000 loan for college … but if that same 18-year-old sought a $10,000 loan to start a business, it would be all but impossible.
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Because, as I’ve been saying it’s a program for the government to give academia money. The students are incidental.
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Except as debt slaves, which the bureaucrats love.
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Also WTAH WP, why did we need Alpheus’s comment 20 times?
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The 26th comment had an additional line, about the debt slavery.
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Oh, shoot. sigh.
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A fox as supervisor/safety officer on a job site with rabbit and gopher workers. OK…
The fifth ought to be tequila, not Jack Daniels. And it’s weird for a fifth to identify as Number 7.
“my body is taking it badly” Too true. Far too true.
The autistic lesbian girlfriend must have been Tiresias, before he transitioned back to male.
Could have been worse. Picard might have decided that there was no threat and told the crew to go back to ‘lo alert.
Sea ducks don’t complain about lining up. They’re marine.
Need?
Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, millions of women lived their whole lives without being able to vote, and millions of black men and women lived their whole lives as chattel slaves. That proves – proves – that women don’t “need” to vote and that blacks don’t “need” to be free. Right? Right?
“Air conditioned detached houses made of wood” Better than cottages made of mud. (Guess what traditional English wattle and daub is?)
They tried to destroy Trump. They failed to read their Nietzsche.
“To each according to their needs, comrade. And we of the nomenklatura are great men and women with great needs.”
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“…and no abilities at all.”
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The 5th should have been the new “45/47 Bourbon”.
Where is the “Trump 2028” hat?
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I saw a lot of Europeans commenting on wood construction in the US when L.A. had the fires in January. “Why don’t they build in concrete or stone?” Uh… there’s this thing there called earthquakes, which flexible wood structures are really well-suited to and concrete and stone are not. (Yes, they use them in skyscrapers and infrastructure. Wanna guess how much more that costs than the already-insane housing prices, and how badly it can fail if you cut corners to keep costs down?)
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So, 26th time is the charm?
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Who can afford tar and feathers these days?
Rope is still cheap, though.
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Five gallons of roofing tar might run about $40. After all the inflation, that’s not too terrible. Feathers are cheap- free, in fact, considering how danged many geese invade the parks like so many illegal immigrants (Canadian geese are a plague).
Yeah, it’s more expensive than a good coil of rope. But, we’re trying to be merciful here. To set a higher standard. Well, maybe not too merciful, say, because hot roofing tar burns like heck. Not saying there aren’t any corrupt windbags that deserve it, mind…
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Pine tar. So as to not cause lethal burns.
Cite: https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/12/5-myths-tarring-feathering/
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It’s been more than fifty years since I last saw a Pepé Le Pew cartoon. I assume there are people here who have watched them more recently. Most of the ones I ever saw were in an actual movie theater before the main feature.
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They were still playing them on TV as of 30 years ago. not necessarily much since.
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Yup Pepe Le Pew essentially is viewed with the same jaundiced eyes as “Baby its Cold Outside”
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You’re supposed to sympathize with the cat and dislike Pepe le Pew.
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I kind of sympathize with both of them. But it is amusing when the cat gets the upper hand, which happens at least once. (Cat is drenched, so her accidental stripe washes off, while Pepe has his stripes covered in black paint, so she actually sees him and not the stripes. ) “No, madame,” he says as she starts staring at him, “no, you are mistaken, I-‘”
That cartoon ends with Pepe in panicked flight, with the cat bouncing along behind him.
There is a channel called Boomerang, which shows older Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry and so on. I think they still showing Pepe.
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Ah, solving the Roadrunner problem!
There comes a time when you want Wile to have himself a nice roasted roadrunner for dinner. Roadrunner always escapes, but in addition, is never frightened by the possibility, or relieved by the latest escape, or caught by his own scheme to escape.
Pepe has much the same problem in most cartoons.
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https://lastingquotes.com/quote-collections/pepe-le-pew-quotes/
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I have the DVD collections (all 6 of them including the 6th with its scolding Whoopi Goldberg complaint about some of the Step and Fetch it sterotypes), yes the sterotypes were ugly and demeaning but also that is the culture of the time. Find some Amos and Andy recordings if you can. So I have access to all but a few that were utterly banned. Pepe is himself a stereotype with the Maurice Chevalier exaggerated French accent that would have been recognizable instantly to moviegoers of the late 40’s and early 50’s. And yes in some of the later ones he gets a bit of his own medicine as Dorthy notes which is amusing in itself. Even for his own period his behavior would be boorish, but that is part and parcel of the French Lothario stereotype he is portraying.
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I know someone who uses the Pepe Le Pew cartoons as a less-painful way to talk about what sexual harassment is in the US/Canada/Europe, and why you don’t do that. She has the “fun” job of helping introduce foreign grad students to university life in the Midwest (not U-Wis Madison.)
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Don’t share hobbies so much that you weird out your cat.
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Well, the Kentucky Derby went off today,a nd the favorite was a horse named Journalism. Journalism came in second….beaten by a horse named, Sovereignty.
Himself’s sense of humor on display there.
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Oh, yeah!
Let’s hope it’s a preview of “Coming Attractions”.😉😁😁
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Oh yes, you can definitely hear the TIE fighters….
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There are a ton of SFX I can hear from an image or just thinking about them. Phasers, turbolasers, engine noises, lightsaber ignition and blade swinging, Gundam beam rifle.
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I guess the karate gal studied under the same school as this guy:
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Tried to post many times, no go. Maybe short works?
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Short works
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It completely ate one of mine yesterday which was not long at all – acted like it went, no complaints or “to mod with you!” But it never showed up.
WPDE.
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SO, totally off topic question. Does anyone have a recommendation for an e-ink based reader that isn’t locked into Kindle but has good performance and can also act as a notebook, probably around 7 inches in size?
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Not an e-Ink but Samsung works for both Amazon and Nook. You can adjust the background, ink, and light. I don’t have one anymore (they do wear out eventually). Had it a good 10 years before battery problems. Alternatively, I now use my Surface tablet, at home, even traveling when in the room in the evening (don’t airport, who knows there). Traveling – it is there, used for pulling dash cam video before overwrite, and picture backup. But at 10 – 11 inches it is a bit big for out and about reading. Out and about (waiting in line at pharmacy, etc.) I use my cell phone. Why Surface? Both my laptop and the Samsung 8″ died about the same time (battery), wanted one, costs to replace both dead devices more than getting Surface on sale.
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SO, totally off topic question. Does anyone have a recommendation for an e-ink based reader that isn’t locked into Kindle but has good performance and can also act as a notebook, probably around 7 inches in size?
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I love my ReMarkable, but it’s larger.
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Says a lot:
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Amazing, isn’t it?
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The real question is how many people from San Francisco and Oakland will make the swim across San Francisco Bay to get to Alcatraz?
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Not many. They honestly believe they have it good compared to the rest of us.
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