54 thoughts on “The Catcher In The memes”

  2. Laughing a lot on these. Love the “undocumented firearms,” one.

    My beloved was wincing at the therapy dog and the Afghan rape victim. Reminded us both of a hysterically funny scene in one of the Kildar books involving two old clansmen insulting one another about their sex lives.

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  3. Speaking of being right. Remember how I brought up a few years ago that concealing exculpatory evidence was SOP for our brave Good Guys in law enforcement / prosecution?

    Remember how our Stasi supporters mocked me for suggesting that?

    https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2025/05/31/lawsplaining-margot-cleveland-suggests-that-the-fbi-systematically-violated-defendants-rights-n2413608

    Got that? So they can use the Sentinel system to search for documents, and if it is merely labeled ‘Restricted Access’ then the hit will come back as indicating that there is a relevant hit, but the person cannot access the document. 

    But if it is ‘Prohibited Access,’ the document won’t register a hit in word searches. You don’t even know what you are not seeing.

    Every IT professional who helped implement this system, and anyone briefed on its existence and how to use it. should be prosecuted for aiding an abetting obstruction of justice, because no one with a functioning brain cell would not have realized they were aiding and abetting Brady / FOIA / 4th and 5th Amendment violations, and that was the only reason for having it.

    Implemented in 2012(?) 2013. Sooprise Sooprise.

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    1. Ah, the Feebs.

      True story: Back many years ago I was selected for a jury on a drug possession case (state-level)–even got appointed foreman. Evidence and bust had been gathered by one of those local-state-FBI “task forces” you see a lot. The defendant was an early-twenties black guy, nothing exceptional, minimal prior record, but had supposedly been caught with a fair bunch of crack in his dresser. Seemed pretty open-and-shut at first.

      Here’s where it all fell apart though. The FBI 302 form–i.e., the alleged confession–was not admitted. Why? No clue, it was excluded pre-trial, which is always a bad sign. The prosecutor was young and the defendant had picked up one of these flashy-suit Johnnie Cochran types…probably a race hustler always talking about how “his people” were oppressed, but let me tell you, if you were staring at 20 years, you’d WANT this dude and his flashy suits on your side no matter what race any of y’all were.

      He tore that case apart like Marshawn Lynch going full Beastquake on them. (Sportsball reference.) He made the crime lab guy admit that there was a break in the chain of custody on the drugs. He made the FBI agent admit that there was another, bigger, drug distributor that lived with the defendant and that HE was the one the FBI really wanted. He kept hammering on the fact that the Holy 302 Form was not admissible in evidence. He made the prosecutor look unprepared and the entire local PD look like amateurs.

      It took us about 30 minutes to find this guy not guilty and we were drawing it out in the jury room. I’ve never been so happy to hand a verdict to the bailiff.

      That’s when I knew that this wasn’t the FBI of Efram Zimbalist that I grew up watching on TV. (A Quinn Martin production.)

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  8. But…what if that huge black furry birdseed fan identifies as a squirrel?

    Actually, communism is perpetually a million murders away from utopia.

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    1. The last person to suggest to that fan that it was really a squirrel got disemboweled.

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  10. Thaaaanks. I will never look at ZZ Top in quite the same way.

    The writer meme and classical music, yes. Perhaps this shall be the year I inflict, er, introduce some students to “What’s Opera, Doc?” when we get to the Romantic movement. (That, and I saw the original Fantasia when it was rereleased in theaters.)

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    1. Looney Tunes definitely got me interested in classical music and Legend of Galactic Heroes rekindled it.

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    3. Once upon a time when I worked nights at a post office, Sundays were great – not much going on and I was almost alone on the dock. Asked the guy in charge those days/nights if I could bring in a tape of my own since the local Top 40 was… well… the alleged Top 40 and I heard that all week. He agreed. I brought in the tape… mix tape.

      “What’s on that?”

      “Oh, some Big Band swing, some cartoon music, some classical.”

      “Aw geeze, not classical.” (I suspect he feared opera…)

      The tape plays… gets to classical… from Looney Tunes.

      “Wait, that IS cartoon music!”

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    4. Fantasia 2000 has some good segments also. The Pines of Rome is not a favorite and the animation made no sense. But the Rhapsody in Blue segment was great and hearing James Earl Jones say, “…flamingos with yo-yos,” is a hoot.

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      1. We saw that in IMAX, and there was a small child who got completely creeped out by the opening abstract animation. (She did get soothed down enough for the rest of the movie, though.) I don’t blame her. If I were in the region of five years old, swarming bat-triangles to Beethoven would have freaked me out too.

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        1. At that, they realized this time that you had to have some plot line to it. The original, it was just abstraction in motion.

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    5. Fantasia 2000 has some good segments also. The Pines of Rome is not a favorite and the animation made no sense. But the Rhapsody in Blue segment was great and hearing James Earl Jones say, “…flamingos with yo-yos,” is a hoot.

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  12. “I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I’d get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn’t get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.”
    ― Patricia C. Wrede

    Applicability is left as an exercise for the student.

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  15. I’m afraid I’m missing the context for Anakin & Padme discussing Athens. Is it current events in Greece, something to do with another Athens (such as in Georgia) or is it supposed to be a comment on other aspects of Athens, such as the whole ‘Delian League turned Athenian Empire’ thing.

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    1. I believe it’s a reference to the “Battle of Athens, TN” in 1946, where a group of WWII vets decided they had gotten enough of the local corrupt politicians and did something about it.

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      1. When I reposted it, I made a comment about whistling “Rocky Top, TN”. By the way, ‘Rocky Top’ is the only state song to advocate the murder of federal law enforcement officials. Them hills got a lot of practice in Hating the Fed.

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  19. As long as the sausage in the Mafia pizzeria isn’t made from the long pork being ‘processed’ in the back room . . .

    Yet another reason Mafiosi like restaurants – Mafiosi like to eat too, restaurants are high cash flow operations so helpful in laundering ill-gotten funds, they’re good places to unload foodstuffs that ‘fall off the back of a truck’, and they usually have means to render inconvenient biological detritus untraceable . . .

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  21. How many people remember the Battle of Athens? You can bet the local (Athens TN) chamber of commerce doesn’t mention it.

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  23. The pizza meme hit hard. One time I got a haircut in a foreign country, a block away from my hotel. As I sat in the barber chair, I could see people in the back room counting stacks of money from tables onto shipping pallets. I just rolled my eyes and they smiled. After I paid, they said I was welcome back anytime.

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    1. Our favorite Chinese restaurant, when the kids were little, was always empty, and they had the BEST food. I used it as the basis for the hang out of the Great Sky Dragon in the Shifters’ series. :D

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      2. Bob’s right. (Shock! End is near!) I’m currently a bit sleep-deprived, so… I want to be sure I have at least a day to do any last-minute checks, and I will definitely have that day Thursday.

        (It just took me 3 tries to get the revised cover into KDP… it’s in now, but my nerves have abandoned me!)

        Current plan: Tuesday night, I’m planning to mark “private” any posts with from-the-book text so I don’t run into Amazon scraper problems. Then some checkovers, then hit the book in possibly Thursday night if the fates align (giving the paperback more time to get available) but definitely Friday morning.

        …Er, you may be amused that while I was at Day Job today, my bunnies handed me a blurb for the vampires and Mongols story. Going to neaten that up and hopefully post tomorrow….

        (Please, bunnies, take this as an honor and keep going!)

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  25. Every time I see a meme using stills from “Second Hna dLions” I think “I really need to get a DVD of that movie.

    And then I promptly forget all about it.

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