94 thoughts on “Come To The Meme Side!”

      13. May the doctors, specialists, nurses, and assorted medical bloodsuckers and vivisectionists have all the skill, competence, steady hands, and caffeine that Himself can grant. May your body be ready for it, recovery swift and only half as painful as usual if that much at all, and may the wait times be as mercifully short or long as needed 9such as in the middle of a particularly good chapter).

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    1. You have to read IC adjacent stuff like a lawyer reviewing a contract, and one of the most important sections of any contract is the definitions:

      She said the CIA is not “part” of a “secret” “group” “running” the “world”.

      Please define terms.

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    1. If I had to do a single shot, let it be a Thompson Center pistol, with the .45 Colt/.410 shotshell barrel.

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      1. He was with the cav.

        And of course Patton was very good at riding and equestrian sports, but I don’t know if he ever rode at the lance. Maybe if he was stationed in Maryland, or if he did liaison stuff with the Mounties.

        Amusingly, one of the few WWII Army guys who was as good at equestrian stuff and shooting as Patton, was a guy that Patton despised. Eventually he realized that the guy was so good that he should support him a little, in the interest of, you know, winning the war and not getting US forces killed. But yeah, total personality clash between two guys who, on paper, should have been friends.

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        1. US Army cavalry doctrine was pretty much mounted infantry, with a few exceptions for frontier cavalry charges in the Indian Wars, from after the Recent Unpleasantness, and mounted infantry (fast moving, dismount to fight) worked pretty well as a nascent armor doctrine.

          The thing that held back US Armor doctrine development to basically officers writing papers about it was the very few actual tanks in service in the World War Halftime period.

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          1. As a gentleman named Artemus Ward put it:

            “Oh, tanks is tanks, and tanks is dear.

            There shall be no tanks this year.”

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        2. I’m not sure he rode with the saber, either, but he was awarded the title of Master of the Sword by the French Military Academy.

          He also submitted a saber design to the US Army just before WWI whose notable feature was “blood grooves”.

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    2. In one of his books, the Canadian author Farley Mowat sailing on his boat mentions how a leak depleted their supply of fresh dihydrogen monoxide. He noted that coffee brewed with neat rum is a drink of some authority.

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      1. The question is, does the door owner live in mortal fear of knocking anything over and making a loud crashing noise?

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  8. But but but…dihydrogen monoxide *IS* biodegradable! Plants take it and components found in the air to turn it into glucose.

    Which we then use, through the agency of bacteria, to create ethanol.

    Which we then piddle out into the urinal, going back to dihydrogen monoxide.

    It’s a circle of life.

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  11. Hey! I know that LinkedIn building!

    My last cubical job was a couple buildings down the block from that one, on the Shoreline side of the freeway in Mountain View, surrounded by Google buildings in every direction. All the buildings on our side of that street were the same style as that one, built out at the same time by one of the long gone Silicon Valley technology companies. Those big silvered windows were a pain in the summer for building cooling, and so facilities wanted to keep the blinds closed all the time on that south side, making the cubes there a bit of a cave. They are all about a block from the giant Google tent building.

    Memes are a small world.

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  13. The thing about Slotkin is more hilariously disturbing when you know that she was one of about five federal/IC Obama fan women who were frauded into the house in 2019.
    She is a former CIA analyst. It is not clear that she was particularly able at that.

    Wiki quotes her on a question that maybe gives some insight. Why were Republicans complaining about anti-Semitism? She concluded that it could not be for votes, because there are not enough Jews to be a sufficient fraction of voters. Her claim was that it was to appease Jewish donors, bundlers, etc. If that was her honest best guess, I figure she may have done analysis that gave the perceptions she wanted to have.

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    1. Any analyst who decides what they think and then looks through the data for anything to support that conclusion will always find something.

      Since the IC analysis side has always basically been classified academia, looking at how academic science works these days I am not at all surprised at an escapee from that asylum would end up looking like this one.

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  14. I realize that these aren’t always topical, but that was a lot of DHMO meming. Was there an impetus, or did it just happen?

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      1. All the boohoo waterworks of late. Orangemanbad was a bad Orange man, boohoo! Hot girl in an ad was hot and white, boohoo! All our stolen money is being found out boohoo! We might get incarceratededed, boohoo! Muh ‘ehlegals are getting mostly peacefully departed, boohoo! Nobody cares about our freakouts anymore boohoo!

        Dem Dem’s got teh sadz. That’s enough waterworks to cause a tsunami. In other news…

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  15. American Eagle Jeans couldn’t have paid for all the advertising they’re getting, thanks to would-be activists. *Huge kitty smirk*

    By the way, does any recall where we put that case of plot-bunny repellant? I seem to have a bunch heading my way.

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    1. The case got moldy, ignited, and was contaminated with non-standard model particles. Nothing could be salvaged.

      The replacement case is on back order.

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    3. Ah. The case of “plot bunny repellent” was mistakenly mislabeled. That’s actually “plot bunny attractant- 4X as effective as having deadlines!” The manufacturer is very sorry for the mixup, but allows for no refunds.

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    4. I ran into this, reacted with “Biology wouldn’t let it work that way!” and am desperately fighting off wisps of ideas on taking every dino book out of the library to find a way it would work instead.

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      1. A few years ago, I read a book titled “Toolmaker’s Koan”.

        Among other things, our heroes from a “near-future Earth on the brink of Nuclear War” meet Intelligent Dinosaurs (whose world destroyed itself).

        They watch as the Dinos “cattle” have been released from “cold-sleep” and are amazed at the “herding animals” that the Intelligent Dinos use.

        The “cattle” were Triceratops and the “herding animals” were our “old friend” T-Rex with the Intelligent Dinos riding T-Rexs. [Grin]

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      2. There’s an alt-history fantasy that has cowboy equivalents riding hippos in the Mississippi, and the story fails my suspension of disbelief because I know how hippos “swim.” (They don’t. They run, bouncing off the bottom of the river.)

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        1. They’re also territorial as hell and the deadliest herbivore in Africa by body count (Crocs lead the carnivore count). Just going down to the river for water is hazardous even without drinking any…..

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    5. Nope, haven’t seen any, sorry. I’ve only got this mil-surp plot armor.

      It might be contaminated with something, though. Wearers report coming down with Main Character Syndrome.

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      1. Actually, the root for “artos” appears to be something like “harm, destruction” so it might have been cognate to “bear” not the root.

        Less fun for the meme, of course.

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    1. It is a meme.

      Long long backstory.

      Some sort of internet joke about going to space, and it turns out that everywhere is Ohio, or something.

      The commonly used meme is a later illustration of the joke, after the first one.

      I don’t recall much beyond that.

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  21. I showed that Dark Clippy meme to my coworkers earlier this week when it showed up on a Discord server, and one of them said, “But that’s the Clippy I WANT. When will Microsoft understand this?” (The Clippy he seeks is called…Copilot.)

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  22. I dunno, Nebraska has got a major river up the east side of the state. If you want to be really safe from tsunamis, I’d recommend North Dakota. :-P

    The tsunami hit the San Diego coast right on schedule.

    It was 6 inches high. I doubt anybody other than oceanographers noticed.

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    1. Oregon coast the specialists were out rescuing sea life that got caught up in the foot or so surge. One large-ish octopi for one (video on FB). Otherwise … nada.

      OTOH Hawaii seems to need to do a lot more planning. Grid lock. People had to abandon vehicles and go into high rises. Near as I can tell no damage other than hotel first floor and pools near the beach. Not much of a surge, but there was one.

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      1. Hawaii local officials who deigned to talk to the media were boasting about how they had just run an exercise so they knew what to do… but all those people were trapped in gridlock for the entire three hours pre-alert time that they had.

        The HPD in Honolulu said they had no plans to override traffic light timing, and no way to move any HPD officers to the intersections to manually direct traffic, no plans to shut down ocean-bound lanes, either on the freeway or surface streets, to make them all “go mauka” lanes to double the uphill throughput. And then they went on a public transit rant, “people should have just taken buses instead”, as if the buses were not stuck in the same traffic jams as the cars…

        They are really lucky it was not that large.

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        1. Hopefully the people and the hospitality managers LEARNED! Go High! This is not “flee to the hills”, it is “Go High in nearby buildings”. Naturally that depends on the wave forecast. Won’t matter going high in buildings that will be over topped or destroyed by the wave.

          The problem along most of the Oregon coast is there are few tall buildings (even the casino hotels aren’t super tall like you see in Hawaii or LA (massive, likely comes under “high enough”, of < 8 floors). There is absolute *expectation of vehicle gridlock. Expect to walk up them hills. Which is why there is a lot of attempting to fund structures for high rise parking. Bonus, needed for tourist parking at least half the year. While we don’t drive hwy 101 often, I have driven it recently last year and before between Newport and Astoria/Longview. Haven’t seen a lot of progress on parking structures going up (as in none visible).

          (*) For a lot of Oregon coast it is a long distance along hwy 101, which mostly follows directly on the coast line within Tsunami zone, before there is any road that heads east; most straight up along a river. There are signs along hwy 101, “Entering Tsunami Zone”, “Exiting Tsunami Zone”, repeat and rinse. Some of the Tsunami “safe” zones are not very long.

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          1. They had tourist hotels move everyone 4th floor or above.

            One major cruise line had an oopsie and evacuated staff and crew, abandoning a couple hundred passengers at their dockside terminal.

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      2. I know that Camp Meriwether has its ocean-bound Polar Bear Plunge on Wednesday. I’m assuming they either moved it or canceled it, because even without a tsunami, just small wave variance could make that stretch of beach dangerous. (There is NO swimming on that beach without a lot of pre-planning and the entire waterfront crew + extras to ring a safe area. Lots of riptides.)

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        1. Regarding Meriwether? I bet. BSA takes swimming seriously.

          Entirety of the Oregon coast has riptides. Drops off fast. It is freezing COLD.

          I grew up in Oregon. We went to the coast a lot. I have never, ever, not once, swam in any ocean, let alone the Pacific off the Oregon coast. Won’t wade in it anymore either. Did wade as a child, under “It’s not C C C C C O O O O L L L L D!” Seriously more beach fires with drift wood, than swimming. (The idiots who surf? At least they use insulated wet suits.)

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  23. ‘White Guilt’ is the most fiendish and effective war tactic ever devised. You don’t need bombs or bullets when you can convince a people to hate themselves to death.

    Yes, indeed. Now do ‘communicable AI despair’ and we’ll really be getting somewhere..

    (And, still not used to this newfangled “like button” thing — it’s almost as if Willie Pete wanted to copycat “We have always been at war with Eastasia” following decades of “We have never been at war with Eastasia.”)

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  25. The one about stealing memes and not finding them later is soooo me. I have a big folder of memes and other images I use on X and sometimes I find duplicates of memes because I took it one time, gave it a name, forgot it, saw the meme again, took it and saved it under a different name. *sigh*

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  27. Don’t see a way to comment in the promo thread, is here okay? Love the cover for Footprints and am getting that one.Also good to see the book sale for male readers being cross promoted here. Some good peeps running those sales.

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    1. Weird, I am trying to use my name (John Taloni) and even logged in that way. Why am I “generouskingdom1521559637” ? Seems like I am missing something obvious I need to do. Would any friendly boardsters want to help? Wouldn’t want to bother Sarah et al with little stuff like that when there’s books to write.

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      1. Oh. it does that to me, too. No. It’s wordpress. They’re weird. The only way I avoid getting a long string of numbers and some random name is commenting ONLY on the back panel.
        There is apparently a fix for this, but I’m nto techy enough to get it.

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